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Bringing 30 years of mega-scale agricultural production to cannabis
Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 05/11/2018 - 09:27
CFN Media Group, the leading agency and financial media network dedicated to the North American cannabis industry, announces publication of an article discussing Village Farms International Inc.'s entry into the Canadian cannabis market. Village Farms has a 30-year history in large -- some would say -- mega-scale hydroponics, 750 years of combined master grower experience, and 10.5 million sq. ft. of greenhouse capacity, located in both Canada and the United States.
In its new joint venture, the company will apply its years of experience to the rapidly growing cannabis industry in Canada with the potential to scale up to more than 300,000 kilograms of production per year. That production level could be reached by converting all of Village Farms™ existing 4.8 million square foot greenhouse complex in Delta, B.C., the largest single site greenhouse operation in Canada, to cannabis.
The Canadian cannabis industry is projected to reach C$9 billion or more in sales over the coming years, not counting ancillary products and services. With recreational legalization coming later this year, many analysts are projecting an initial -- and potentially protracted -- shortfall in supply, despite rising production, funded expansions, and yield improvements.
The problem is that many licensed producers are struggling to effectively scale up their operations as they had originally projected, learning that theres much more to it than building a greenhouse. The risks are great, as in many cases supply agreements have been signed and large amounts of cannabis have been promised.
Village Farms™ Pure Sunfarms Cannabis Project
Village Farms is one of the largest producers of premium-quality, greenhouse-grown tomatoes, bell peppers, and cucumbers in North America -- sold through the top grocers -- and consumed by you and me and everyone reading this. These vegetables are grown hydroponically in a glass-enclosed high-tech environment using sophisticated computer systems to control irrigation, fertilizers, carbon dioxide, light, temperature, ventilation, humidity, and other climatic factors, which leads to superior taste, quality and consistency.
Now, with its deep history of success in large-scale greenhouse operations, Village Farms is ideally positioned to capitalize on the rapidly growing cannabis industry in Canada. The company has established a joint venture with Emerald Health Therapeutics, a licensed producer under the ACMPR.
Under the agreement, Emerald contributed C$20 million in cash and Village Farms contributed an existing greenhouse with 1.1 million square feet of capacity to a new entity called Pure Sunfarms that will become a vertically-integrated, large-scale, low-cost supplier of high-quality cannabis.
Leveraging Village Farms tremendous operational know-how and Emerald Healths significant cannabis expertise, the Pure Sunfarms goal is to produce high quality cannabis for less than $1/gram at full production. Conservative estimates place full production levels at more than 75,000 kg/year for the initial 1.1 million square foot facility.
Pure Sunfarms received a cultivation license in March, 2018, for the initial 1.1 million square foot greenhouse. Until last November, the greenhouse was a fully operational tomato facility but it takes some retrofitting to make it optimized for year-round cannabis production and continuous harvesting.
The first 250,000 square foot retrofit is substantially completed. The rest of the 1.1 million square feet will be finished in stages throughout 2018 and is anticipated to be fully complete and operational by the end of the year. Pure Sunfarms has agreed to sell 40% of its production in 2018 and 2019 at a fixed price to Emerald Health, accounting for about 21,000 to 24,000 kilograms using current and conservative production estimates.
"Pure Sunfarms' agreement to supply Emerald with a portion of Pure Sunfarms' projected production provides a strong initial revenue stream for our shared joint venture, while allowing flexibility to capitalize on other sales opportunities as we continue discussions with multiple parties including provincial governments and other licensed producers," said Michael DeGiglio , Director, Pure Sunfarms, and CEO, Village Farms.
Village Farms Institutional Advantage
It is not easy to grow plants on a massive scale, and its just as difficult to run a company that does so. Village Farms has been doing this for decades and has learned many difficult lessons that other licensed producers are only beginning to encounter.
One major challenge -- and Village Farms CEO Mike DeGiglio would argue, the most important -- that is easy to overlook is that of staffing and managing the labor for such a large operation where the task is to grow living things that are susceptible to disease, stress and pests. To be sure, greenhouses are not widget factories with automated production lines. All kinds of headaches can arise as a producer ramps up from small-scale to large-scale production, and finding and training a reliable, knowledgeable workforce -- and keeping them -- is chief among them.
When Village Farms built its most recent greenhouse in Texas a few years ago, the company went through literally thousands of workers to establish a stable workforce, highlighting the difficulty of finding the right employees. The Pure Sunfarms facility comes stocked with just such an experienced, reliable workforce already in place, which should avoid some of the growing pains that other producers are likely to experience.
Another underestimated challenge is that of regulatory compliance and safety -- always of critical importance for any product ingested by people. Considering some of the widely documented pesticide related recalls in the cannabis industry, the fact that Village Farms has been safely producing food plants for 30 years without incident is reassuring. The companys VP of Food Safety and Regulatory Affairs, Dr. Michael Bledsoe, is a renowned expert and advocate for the research and registration of safe pesticides, sitting on the USDAs IR-4 Governing Board and often providing his expertise to Canadas counterpart, the PMC. He has also begun discussions with Canadas Pest Management Regulatory Agency to register Canadas first conventional fungicide for cannabis.
As the recreational marketing in Canada looms, the big question is how successful licensed producers will be at actually meeting their cultivation targets. Its easy to throw money at building a high-tech cultivation facility, but hiring employees, managing them effectively, and continuously harvesting massive quantities of high quality cannabis in full regulatory compliance is another matter. Many licensed producers have run small-scale operations, but havent proven their ability to efficiently scale up much larger.
Village Farms has a proven track record in this regard which could serve to de-risk its production and expansion plans. Factor in the likely commoditization of cannabis flower as the market matures and supply meets demand, and the companys long experience in producing high quality, low cost agricultural products looks even more attractive.
Possibilities Beyond Canada
Village Farms International Inc. represents a compelling investment opportunity in Canadas rapidly growing cannabis industry, offering more experience in large-scale agricultural production than any current competitor. There is also the potential for expansion into other markets as the global wave of legalization progresses.
In Texas, for instance, the company owns four facilities with a total of 5.7 million sq. ft. of growing space on 130 acres. If the U.S. legalizes cannabis on a federal level, the company is well positioned to expand into the U.S. market in a big way and generate additional value. Importantly, Village Farms U.S. properties are not part of the Canadian joint venture agreement and are free to be developed independently should the opportunity arise. To be clear, the company is not pursuing any U.S. cannabis business while the plant remains federally illegal.
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If you were born on March 31st you share a birthday with these famous people:
William Daniels is 92
Emmy Award-winning American actor of TV (George Feeny on Boy Meets World; St. Elsewhere; Knight Rider) and movies (The Graduate; The Blue Lagoon; All Night Long; Reds; Oh God!; Blind Date; Her Alibi; The Parallax View), born March 31, 1927. (William Daniels 1976 The Nancy Walker Show: ABC TV)
John Jakes is 87 (aka Jay Scotland)
American writer of fantasy, science fiction (Brak the Barbarian series; Master of the Dark Gate), and historical fiction novels (The Bastard and the Kent Family Chronicles; North and South trilogy; Homeland; The Texans Ride North; Johnny Havoc) born March 31, 1932. (John Jakes 1984 Photo: Bud Dunn)
Shirley Jones is 85
Academy Award-winning American singer-actress of stage, TV (Shirley Partridge on The Partridge Family; Shirley), movies (Oklahoma!; Carousel; The Music Man; April Love; Elmer Gantry; Gideon; The Courtship of Eddie’s Father; The Cheyenne Social Club), born March 31, 1934. (Shirley Jones 1959 Never Steal Anything Small Trailer)
Richard Chamberlain is 85 (nee George Richard Chamberlain)
American singer & actor of stage, TV (The Thorn Birds; Shōgun; Dr. Kildare; Brothers & Sisters) and movies (The Three Musketeers; The Towering Inferno; The Slipper and the Rose; Lady Caroline Lamb; King Solomon’s Mines) born March 31, 1934. (Richard Chamberlain 1964 Dr. Kildare Photo: MGM-TV)
Herb Alpert is 84 (aka Tito Alpert; Dore Alpert)
American Tony & Grammy Award-winning singer & trumpeter of Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (This Guy’s in Love with You; Casino Royale; Rise; The Lonely Bull; A Taste of Honey; Zorba the Greek; Diamonds), born March 31, 1935. (Herb Alpert 1968 This Guy’s in Love With You Screenshot)
Christopher Walken is 76 (nee Ronald Walken)
Academy Award-winning American film star (The Deer Hunter; The Dead Zone; Catch Me If You Can; Heaven’s Gate; True Romance; Blast from the Past; Sleepy Hollow; A View to a Kill; Pulp Fiction; Nick of Time; Biloxi Blues; Brainstorm) born March 31, 1943. (Christopher Walken Photo: Vanesser III)
Gabe Kaplan is 75 (nee Gabriel Weston Kaplan)
American professional poker player & commentator (High Stakes Poker), comedian & actor of TV (Welcome Back, Kotter; Lewis & Clark) and movies (Groucho; Fast Break; Tulips), and septuagenarian born March 31, 1945. (Gabe Kaplan 1976 Welcome Back, Kotter Photo: ABC TV)
Valerie Curtin is 75
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Rhea Perlman is 71
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Ed Marinaro is 68
Retired NFL football player (Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets, Seattle Seahawks), actor of TV (Officer Joe Coffey on Hill Street Blues; Mitch Margolis on Sisters; Laverne & Shirley; Falcon Crest; Coach Daniels on Blue Mountain State), and movies, born March 31, 1950. (Ed Marinaro 1982 Hill Street Blues Photo: NBC)
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Anne Marie Howard is 59
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William McNamara is 54
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Richard Kiley
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CSU President Set to Deliver His Final Fall Address…Ever
Todd Harding
CSU President Tony Frank will deliver his final Fall Address on Wednesday, October 3. The university community will gather at the Historic Oval at 11:15 a.m. with the Colorado State University Marching Band. Frank will begin his comments at 11:30 a.m. from the south end of the Oval. The Oval will be closed to all traffic at 11 a.m. sharp. A picnic will follow the president's address.
Over the weekend CSU announced that Dr. Frank plans to step aside in 2019. He has also has served in a dual role as chancellor of the CSU System since 2015 and will transition to a full-time role as chancellor of the three-campus system in July. The University’s governing board will launch a national search for a new university president.
In his address, Frank will offer highlights of the past year and discuss goals for the year ahead. A live stream will be available at 11:30 a.m. at http://source.colostate.edu/fall-address/.
CSU Picnic Menu
Pesto turkey sandwich on multi-grain flatbread
Turkey sandwich on gluten-free bread (gluten-free and dairy-free)
Gluten-free southwest black bean hummus wrap (gluten-free and dairy-free)
Whole wheat southwest black bean hummus wrap (vegan)
Assorted beverages from Coca-Cola, including Dasani water
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George Burke To Be Chairman Of Local Group
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Ann Arbor News, April 23, 1947
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Situation Reported To Be More Acute Here Than In Rest Of State
Formation of a committee of prominent citizens to combat the problem of care for the aged-a problem reportedly more acute in Ann Arbor than in any other city in Michigan-was announced today by Gladwin Lewis, executive secretary of the Council of Social Agencies.
The committee wilt operate under the chairmanship of George Burke, Ann Arbor attorney and member of the state civil service commission.
It is charged with studying physical and social needs of the aged population of Ann Arbor, surveying local resources available for care of the aged, and with recommending action to solve the problem.
Other members of the committee are Arthur Lehmann, local attorney and member of the county social welfare commission; Mrs. Robert C. Angell; Mrs. William Haber; Frederick C. Matthaei, prominent Michigan alumnus and president of the American Metal Products Co.; Marie Wanzeck Schneider, head nurse at St. Joseph's Mercy hospital; Mrs. Melinda Stevens, supervisor of the Bureau of Social Aid; Clark Tibbetts, director of the Institute for Human Adjustment; Francis W. Schilling, local attorney; Rev. Fred Cowin, retired pastor of the Memorial Christian church; Dr. Harry Towsley, assistant professor of. pediatrics and communicable diseases at the University, and Rev. C. W. Carpenter of the Second Baptist church. Report Released
What this group will face as it seeks to unravel the problem is outlined in a report, also released today, on “The Aging in Ann Arbor and Washtenaw county."
Prepared under Lewis' direction, the paper painted the following picture:
Washtenaw county has the largest percentage of population over 65 of any county in the state. In Ann Arbor, approximately nine per cent of the population is older than 65. The national average is 6.8 per cent.
In round figures, there are 3,000 persons older than 65. in Ann Arbor today. And by 1970 at least 14 per cent of population will be in that age group.
In this city, 405 persons received old age assistance during 1946. What they received (based on county-wide averages) averaged $34.30 a month.
Persons receiving social security payments numbered 855—and they! averaged $21.85 per person per month,
"Practically," the report declared, “what does this all mean? It means that some 1,904 persons have between $30 and $60 a month with which to pay rent, buy food, medicine and clothing and have some recreation.
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Darfurian Voices
By Jonathan Loeb
24 Hours for Darfur recently released “Darfurian Voices,” a report detailing the results of the first ever representative survey of Darfurian refugees’ opinions on peace, justice, and reconciliation. The US-based non-profit research organization spent four months in the 12 Darfurian refugee camps in eastern Chad, interviewing 1872 randomly-sampled civilians and 280 civil society and rebel leaders. The data gathered from the civilian sample is representative of the adult refugee population in Chad, and sheds light on important questions about participants’ specific beliefs about the root causes of the conflict, past peace negotiations and agreements for Darfur and southern Sudan, the nature and importance of justice in bringing about a sustainable peace, the possibility of reconciliation, land-related issues, democracy, power-sharing, and the national elections, and which actors, if any, best represent their views.
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Oscar H. Blayton 31 July, 2010 at 21:56
Dear Jonathan, Thank you for giving notice on “Darfurian Voices” released by “24 Hours for Darfur.” I have not yet read all of of the document, but I do have a question.
The U.S. Department of State is listed amongh the “funders and collaborating partners,” by 24 Hours for Darfur [and I assume this relates to the production of this document] and I was wondering if you could ellaborate on the involvement of the U.S. Government [through the State Dept.] in this project.
Jonathan Loeb 5 August, 2010 at 10:52
Dear Oscar,
One clarification: the US Department of State is listed as a source of funding and not as a collaborating partner. The later title would be a misrepresentation of its involvement.
Our research was piloted in Chad in May and June 2008. That trip was funded by individuals and private foundations.
After the pilot study we submitted an application for funding in response to the U.S. State Department’s public “request for proposals†from organizations conducting research on the groups affected by the Darfur conflict. We successfully obtained a grant through this process, which provided the vast majority of the funding for the primary field research component of our project.
The State Department’s involvement with respect to the content of the research was minimal. A few individuals provided some minor comments on a draft version of the survey questionnaire. A few others provided some advice related to the logistics of operating in eastern Chad. That is all.
Oscar H. Blayton 7 August, 2010 at 14:30
Dear Jonathan,
Thank you for the clarification in regard to the U.S. State Department’s involvement in this project.
As you wrote that “the vast majority of the finding for the primary field research component” of your project was provided by the State Department, would it be fair to say that this component of your project was “primarily” funded by the U.S. State Department?
david barsoum 10 August, 2010 at 07:57
can you please tell me how did you ascertain that all those in the 12 camps you mention are actually Sudanese refugees from Dar Fur and not displaced Chadians,who find it easy to get help as refugees in the camps?
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Should an Ivy League Business School Train Education Leaders? Why Not?
By Alex Spurrier
Leading a large school district is a complex endeavor. Your days are spent managing thousands of employees charged with educating tens or hundreds of thousands of students, overseeing budgets that can easily reach nine figures, and navigating a complex legal and political environment. It’s not unreasonable to think that given the skill set needed to tackle those challenges, a business school training could be a great complement to traditional education leadership pipelines — which usually involve experience as a teacher, principal, and central office administrator, accompanied by training at schools of education, before taking on the superintendent role.
In fact, Bellwether’s Eight Cities project includes several examples where leaders with business backgrounds have overseen reforms that led to better outcomes for kids, including Joel Klein in New York City, Michael Bennet in Denver, and Paymon Rouhanifard in Camden. (Our site also includes examples of districts led by superintendents with more traditional backgrounds as teachers and school administrators, like Henderson Lewis in New Orleans.)
But efforts to infuse business skills into the superintendent role are still met with fierce criticism. Take for example the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation,* which recently gave Yale’s School of Management $100 million to house the Foundation’s efforts to develop a pipeline of public school leaders. Diane Ravitch and like-minded folks on Twitter are describing this as another step towards the “privatization” of public education.
Edward P. Evans Hall, Yale School of Management, New Haven, CT. Via Wikimedia user Nick Allen.
Broad’s expansion and move to Yale is but the latest in an ongoing debate about the ideal skill sets for transformative district leaders. Should they be well-versed in pedagogical theory, curriculum design, and classroom management practices, or should their expertise be grounded in the leadership of large organizations and management of multi-million dollar budgets?
A better question would be: why should a large district have to choose? The Broad-Yale partnership could help strengthen public school leadership by adding new and complementary skill sets so that superintendents can benefit from the best of both worlds. Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Politics of Education, School Leadership, Talent and tagged eightcities, school districts, superintendent, The Broad Center, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, Yale School of Management on January 22, 2020 by Alex Spurrier.
Best of Bellwether 2019: Our Most-Read Publications and Posts
By Tanya Paperny
2019 was a busy year at Bellwether and across education in general, and we’re excited to round up our most-read blog posts and publications from the past 12 months. They cover a number of topics, including how school leaders can improve school culture (and reclaim their own time), how to improve the quality of early childhood education, and how to better bridge research and practice. This list also reflects your wide-ranging interests in the myriad issues that Bellwether experts work on across policy and practice.
For the top posts on our sister site TeacherPensions.org, click here.
We’re excited to bring you more insights in the new decade! To hear updates, you can sign up here to get our newsletter. Thanks for following our work.
Top Ten Blog Posts from Ahead of the Heard in 2019
1.) 3 Things Head Start Programs Can Do Right Now to Improve Their Practice
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This entry was posted in Accountability, Charter Schools, Early Childhood Education, Equity, Research, School Leadership, Student Data, Talent, Teacher Effectiveness and tagged 2019 on January 8, 2020 by Tanya Paperny.
My Slow-Motion Catholic School Epiphany
By Evan Coughenour
I am not Catholic and I have never worked in a Catholic school. I’d always known there are urban Catholic schools with a mission very similar to Bellwether’s, but the schools themselves were somewhat of a black box to me. I haven’t been for or against Catholic schools — just indifferent (or agnostic?). Knowing that Catholic schools are by far the largest group of private schools in the world, this felt like a miss.
However, I’ve been on a sort of Catholic school pilgrimage over the past two years. I’ve built a close relationship with Bellwether client Partnership Schools (PNYC), a nonprofit organization (somewhat akin to a CMO) that manages seven New York City Catholic schools in Harlem and the South Bronx. I’ve also worked with EdChoice and Brilla Public Charter Schools, and collaborated with colleagues who’ve written a whole lot about Catholic schools.
Photo by Paul Morse
As I learned more, a few things immediately surprised me about Catholic schools in general and PNYC’s schools in particular:
Many (sometimes most) kids who attend PNYC schools aren’t actually Catholic! The primary goal of urban Catholic schools isn’t to create little Catholics — it’s to serve those in need. As one PNYC team member put it (echoing what others have said): “We teach our kids because we are Catholic, not because they are.”
While connected to a massive international church (and sometimes an operator like PNYC), Catholic schools are strongly committed to local control because of the Catholic principle of subsidiarity, which suggests that decisions be made by the smallest, lowest, or least-centralized competent authority.
While PNYC schools are tuition-based, many of their students receive scholarships that significantly reduce or even eliminate the cost of attendance.
Few PNYC teachers are nuns (or have any formal connection to the church). Most teach for reasons similar to other teachers — a belief in the transformative power of education, a desire to serve, and a love of children. The key addition in the case of PNYC is the faith-based motivation that inspires many to choose Catholic schools over their charter or district-run peers.
PNYC’s teachers are unionized. While this is rare in the private school sector, there are actually a few different Catholic educator associations operating nationwide.
This entry was posted in Politics of Education, School Leadership, Talent and tagged Catholic education, Catholic schools, character education, Facilities, New York City, Partnership Schools, School Culture on December 19, 2019 by Evan Coughenour.
Leading an Autonomous School — and How That’s Different From Being a Traditional School Principal
By Tresha Ward
A handful of districts across the country are launching in-district autonomous schools, where schools remain part of the district but are granted some degree of autonomy, similar to what is typically granted to charter schools. As my colleague Mary Wells explained, there are a number of ingredients necessary for success in these schools, one of which is the leader in the building itself.
Leading an autonomous school is very different from a typical building principal role. As one San Antonio-based autonomous school leader Brian Sparks put it: “This role is not for everyone, and what made you a successful principal may not help you be a successful [autonomous school] leader.”
I’ve supported fourteen autonomous school leaders in four districts and have noticed that they typically have a few things in common:
Successful autonomous school leaders are driven by delivering better outcomes for their students. Maintaining a laser-like focus on this goal gives them courage to do things differently, such as creating year-round learning for their students or pushing their teams to leverage data to provide tailored support for students. Continue reading →
This entry was posted in Education Innovation, School Leadership, Talent and tagged #AutonomousSchools, San Antonio on December 18, 2019 by Tresha Ward.
Kentucky Has a New Governor. We Hope He’s Not a Jerk About Education Policy.
By Katrina Boone and Alex Spurrier
Although he took more than a week to concede, Kentucky’s 62nd governor, Republican Matt Bevin, will not serve a second term. Experts agree that his provocative and insulting style, particularly his comments about teachers, attributed to his loss. Most notoriously, Bevin called teachers “thugs” and blamed them for the sexual assault of children and the shooting of a seven-year-old girl, after teachers protested the legislature’s sneaky efforts to reform the state’s pension systems.
We are both Kentucky-based Bellwarians, and in the short conversation below, we discuss why Governor Bevin failed to advance education reforms in the state — and what Governor-elect and Democrat Andy Beshear might be able to accomplish given Kentucky’s Republican-dominated legislature.
Katrina: I think you and I have some diverging ideas and perspectives about politics in general, and even about some education policies. But is it safe to say that we both think Matt Bevin is, well, a bit of a jerk?
Alex: I think we definitely have some common ground there, although I’d be careful about calling him a jerk — he might label you with a nickname like “Kooky Katrina.” More seriously though, I think a big part of his legacy will be the policy wins he left on the table, due in large part to his incredibly abrasive approach to governing.
Katrina: You’re not wrong about that. I was a fan of some of his policy positions, especially much-needed pension reform and increased school choice. If he had a bit more goodwill and emotional intelligence, he might have been able to demonstrate how those policies could actually help teachers and students.
Alex: Yep, but because of his style, pension reform and school choice are likely off the table for the next four years. And while some may be satisfied with the status quo on those issues, there are a lot of teachers and thousands of students who could benefit from reform to teacher pensions and school choice policies.
Katrina: So where do you think Beshear has the opportunity to move the ball forward on education policy?
This entry was posted in Accountability, Politics of Education, School Choice, State Education Policy, Student Data, Talent, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Pensions and tagged Andy Beshear, Chad Aldeman, election, Kentucky, KYSTATS, Matt Bevin, Teacher Pensions on November 14, 2019 by Katrina Boone and Alex Spurrier.
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The Transatlantic slave trade
Fri May 21st 2010 by abagond
The Transatlantic slave trade (1501-1867), known by some in Texas as the Atlantic triangular trade, sold at least 12.5 million black Africans as slaves to work for white landowners on the other side of the ocean. Of these 1.8 million died at sea. Most of the rest were worked to death within seven years in the sugar cane fields of Brazil and the Caribbean.
The slave trade reached its height in the 1780s. A third of those sold were women. Towards the end a fourth were children!
Because the big money was in sugar only 4% came to the cotton and tobacco fields of North America. Three-fourths of those came from West Africa, the rest from what is now Congo, Angola and Mozambique.
While Europeans did catch some of their own slaves, they generally bought them from Africans. At first the Africans sold them prisoners of war but later as the market grew wars were fought to get slaves to sell.
A common white belief is that Africans “sold their own” as slaves. That is based on yet another common white belief: that Africa is a country. Africans did not sell their own: they sold their enemies. This became much easier to do once Europeans brought the gun to Africa and supplied a ready market for slaves.
Africans practised slavery long before the Europeans showed up, but the European kind was a different beast:
It was on a much vaster scale – millions, not thousands.
It was based on skin colour.
It was lifelong and fell upon one’s children too.
If you were caught you were put in chains and marched to a slave fort on the coast. Because you were on foot that could take months. About one in five – 3 million in all – died in these death marches.
Once at the fort you were put behind bars and there you waited for a slave ship and a good wind. That might take yet more months. And if the ship was not full it would spend weeks or months visiting yet other slave forts along the coast to fill up.
The Middle Passage:
It took as little as a month to get to Brazil, two months or more to get to North America.
Ships were packed so full that you had just enough room to lay down. Sometimes you did not even have enough room to roll over and lay on your side. It was dark and hot and airless and you lived in shit, piss, vomit and menstrual blood. The ship’s crew raped the women and girls. You had little to eat but even worse you had little to drink: fresh water was extremely limited on the high seas.
Disease was common. In the 1500s as many as half died on board. In the 1800s that dropped to 5%. Some who lived went mad.
So many slaves came that it was not until the 1840s and the Irish Potato Famine that more whites than blacks crossed the Atlantic.
Guinea Coast
descendants:
Afro-Latinos
Some numbers on Black Americans
moral arguments:
“Go back to Africa”
The slave trade was immoral
It took a month to get to Brazil, two months or more to get to North America.
It could take far longer, depending on what port the ship sailed from and where it went to. The two big slave trading ports in Brazil were Rio and Salvador. Slaves going from southern Africa to Rio could take months to get there, given prevailing winds and currents.
Recall that back in those days, unlike what that map would indicate, nobody sailed in straight lines: you had to follow the prevailing winds. In the South Atlantic, they run counter-clockwise. So a ship from Angola would probably sail north from the Tropic of Cancer, cross the Atlantic, and then have to sail back down to Rio in a big circle.
A long trip, any road.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 15:33:29 Mel
I guarantee there will be whites here saying: “that was so long ago. Why bring up the past?”
Y’know, that slave ship loading diagram is one of the most iconic images of the middle passage every produced in the west.
Does anyone know anything about its history or social conditions of production? I mean, what was it produced FOR? A court case? A “how to” manual for the slave trade? As an illustration of an ex-slave’s narrative…?
12 million is usually the conservative estimate, depending on what sources you utilise.
Whatever the figure?? It does not usually take into account the amounts killed in wars and the long march to the coasts.
And a very good point you make about ‘Africans selling their own’, which unfortunately based on ‘self-hate’ and a lack of knowledge of history.
There is also another side to this point. None of us should be surprised if a country would sell their own.
I think there was one other group that were sold and that was those at the bottom of the society.
There is nothing extraordinary about this except in this instance a person would be sold because of ‘status’ and not tribal identity, or a ‘prisoner of war’ – back then there was no such thing as a collective African identity.
And again African slavery of which I guess you can identify two influences:
1. Islamic slavery
2. indigeneous slavery.
Many commentators suggest that even though aspects of Islamic slavery was brutal. On the macro level, it was completely different to the process of ‘chattel slavery’ in the West.
If I may suggest that at some point, you could do a counterpart to this post and discuss the ‘East African Slave Trade’, on the East Coast of Africa, that took Africans to places in the Middle East, islands in the Indian oceans (??) etc.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 15:59:49 FG
Excellent summary, Abagond!
The map suggests that New World Afrodescendents searching for their roots should look more to West Africa than Egypt or the Swahili-speaking peoples.
That is if you do not believe people migrate FG.
And Swahili is for the East African Slave Trade
Perhaps you can create another post Abagond, because directly after the slave trade you see ‘New Imperialism’. This would all tie in nicely and be the logical sequence of event regarding the continent
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 16:44:56 Patricia Kayden
Very educational. Shows how strong Blacks are that 12.5 million slaves have become well over 100 million strong throughout the New World.
Also, while we know that “Africans sold their own” is a popular refrain, it must also be pointed out that there were Africans who openly opposed and fought against the enslavement of other Africans. That is often missed in the discussion — as it is made out that it was kind Europeans who put an end to the slave trade.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 16:45:04 realist
“The Transatlantic slave trade…known by some in Texas as the Atlantic triangular trade”
It’s like 1984. Sadly, the term will be used in textbooks around the country (not just Texas) unless people protest and/or write their congressperson demanding such nonsense not be taught to their children in standardized textbooks. Countless other garbage (including implicit evolution denial in sceince textbooks) will be forced upon the education of American children if we do not act.
“Africans did not sell their own: they sold their enemies.”
I agree with that statement completely. Moreover, transatlantic slavery is a disgusting legacy of western European civilization. It is remarkable, however, that during the period in discussion (1501-1867) western Europeans would not “sell their enemies” if the enemies in question were white. Black Subsaharan Africans, on the other hand, continue to sell other black people into slavery to this day. In Haiti, such a domestic slave trade exists and was recently documented in a New York Times blog piece. (http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/haitian-tradition-is-criticized-as-child-slavery/) The preceding link includes a gritty video documenting the lives of some child domestic slaves around Port-au-Prince.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 17:35:40 Y
Excellent, Abagond. It seems a lot of people focus so much on the slaves that made it to the New World that they forget about the millions that died along the way, and the horrendous conditions they lived in.
I know I would have died on board, or I would have killed myself…Definitely wouldnt have made it.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 17:53:36 Natasha W
But I wanted to point out that the map in the post is inaccurate. For instance, a substantial portion of slaves taken to the Southeastern areas of Georgia up through the South Carolina/North Carolina border were from Sierra Leone and Senegambia. And peoples captured from the Bight of Biafra were sent to the Virginia/Maryland area in large numbers. This is backed up by historical documents and genetic testing.
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 19:27:28 Dahoman X
Abagond wrote:
“While Europeans did catch some of their own slaves, they generally bought them from Africans.”
This was true only in the latter phase of the slave trade. During the first centuries of this “trade”, the slaves were caught through razzias by the european crews, as evidenced by numerous reports by white captains and traders.
The second phase saw the creation of forts and trading post along the coast, as well as the rise of african auxiliaries of the slave trade and the intervention of europeans in the politics of the african kingdoms.
One can’t understand the 3rd and last phase (the emergence of coastal african slaver kingdoms such as Danxome (Dahomey)) if one is not aware of this process.
Abagond, would you happen to read french? If so I might find you some links from an african forum I know where all the process is discussed.
“so much on the slaves that made it to the New World that they forget about the millions that died along the way, and the horrendous conditions they lived in”.
This is partly because of the lack of written documents. This is one of the major problems with history as a social science.
However, by the time the slaves were on land, I believe there were more historical accounts.
Here is one such account of the Middle Passage
Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Vessel: In the Mozambique Channel April and May, 1843
http://www.amazon.com/Fifty-Days-Board-Slave-Vessel-Mozambique/dp/0933121466#reader_0933121466
From my memory most of those in the Caribbean are from what would be Ghana and Nigeria (Benin).
Brazil – Congo
Slave Trade & African-American Ancestry
http://wysinger.homestead.com/mapofafricadiaspora.html
on Wed May 26th 2010 at 23:54:55 peanut
Yes, i hate that lie used to excuse european enslavement of africans. Europeans enslaved/ mistreated their own too. Look at how the slovak slaves were tortured and mistreated by their hungarian overlords…research Erzebet bathory to get a good picture of that. Furthermore, there were plenty of africans who tried to stop the sale of african slaves to europeans, such as Queen Nzinga.
I read a book about slavery in Antigua…its a sad thing and a brutal history.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 00:17:22 Jess
“The Transatlantic slave trade (1501-1867), known by some in Texas as the Atlantic triangular trade”
How is that bad? I learned it that way too. We were taught that both mean the same thing, not just in one way. If anything it gives you the whole picture of the trade.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 00:56:44 leigh204
It really saddens me that people could do such horrible things to each other. I cannot fathom what these slaves had to endure. The slave trade was evil and disgusting.
Europeans enslaved/ mistreated their own too.
Some people on this board will be surprised to learn that.
Of course, Peanut could just be reiterating the old “The Irish were slaves, too” myth, right…?
It really saddens me that people could do such horrible things to each other.
Ironically enough, just saw a trailer today which deals with immigration into the U.S. from a Brazilian point of view. We’ve just had a big debate on immigration here. Obviously enough to me, things haven’t changed much. Self-claimed anti-racist activists on this blog would happily see families torn apart and people shipped from one side of the planet to another in chains, kept for months in a time in dungeons awaiting transhipment, etc.
If people who claim to be anti-racist activists on this blog can look that sort of thing in the eye today and say “Fair go. It’s only right”, why would anyone presume that we’ve learned much of anything since 1750?
The targets of inhuman behavior shift around a bit, but it’s always there.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 03:50:18 AB
i would recomend an independent documentary called 500 years later. it tells the whole story. we watched most of it in my africa in cinema class. http://www.hulu.com/watch/93209/500-years-later
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 10:31:01 Hathor
After the importation of slaves became illegal, they were smuggled in through Louisiana for Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia cotton growing. Most of these slaves were from other parts of Africa. The slaves from parts of West Africa were chosen because they had the rice growing skills and a resistance to malaria which was pertinent to the rice growing colonies.
There were only certain African groups that captured slaves and considering the amount of that population, I don’t agree that Africans including Arabs did most of the slave catching.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 10:35:13 Mira
This is a good post. I knew about the numbers and the time needed to sail, but I didn’t know about the regions of Africa where the slaves came from. I used to think it was more of central Africa; I had no idea about slaves coming from Mozambique.
Now, speaking of slavery, I think people should once and for all understand how horrible slavery was, and just because “Africans” and Arabs and people in the antiquity did it, it’s not an excuse. First of all, it’s wrong. If it’s wrong to kill and enslave a man, you don’t get a pass if someone else did before you. Plus- and I don’t try to minimize suffering of slaves in antiquity or those enslaved by non-whites – but whites often see western civilization as the best, completely fair, respecting human rights, etc, etc- and they were the ones who did this. And last, but not the least, in most of the other forms of slavery, you were able to buy your freedom, and/or you were enslaved for a given period of time (3, 7 years). Also, if you were an educated individual, or a craftsman, or you had any special skills, you were able to continue practising your craft or become a tutor in someone’s family (so I guess your live was a little bit less horrible). Not here.
Now, I disagree about skin colour as an important difference: enslaving humans based on skin colour isn’t any better or worse than enslaving them based on religion, or ethnic group, or any other criteria.
But even if they were, Hathor, so what? It doesn’t change the fact whites were ones enslaving those people. They didn’t take them to America and free them.
But it is important to note that, in any case, “Africans” didn’t capture “their own”- they captured their enemies. Africa is not uniform. Hey, white Americans and Russians are whites, and yet, they were (are?) enemies. And you can even say most of the Arabs are whites (they are Caucasians) so someone could say whites are attacking “their own”.
I am old enough to remember how Black folks looked different depending upon where they were from. Even the accents were different.
Cheers Hathor,
Do you know where the other slaves were from, and would you like to say anything more on the matter??
Its funny, just as I was typing I remember a similar thing also happened in Jamaica, but I cannot remember any of the details where these Africans came from.
Anyhow suffice to say these ‘Africans’ also merged in with ‘other Jamaicans’ to become ‘Jamaicans’.
This is the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Alas-Kongo-Indentured-Immigration-1841-1865/dp/0801823080
“So what? It doesn’t change the fact whites were ones enslaving those people. They didn’t take them to America and free them
Indeed a very valid point.
There is another point to this but this time from the ‘slavers side’
Unfortunately leaving aside other political issues like prisoner of wars from other tribes, ‘pariahs of society’ who were to become slaves. This was a very lucrative business that any unscrupulous character could profit immensely from.
Well, I know there are some people who think whites have cruelty and a need to enslave others in their blood. But these things are not born with someone’s white skin; they are products of society, politics and other things that give them power. Indeed, there were whites who were enslaved/suffered by the hands or other whites and non-whites. And yes, there a non-whites who captured their enemies, and Arabs who enslaved people, etc etc.
But to use this argument to derail any discussion about this specific slavery is not a good thing, and it shows basic misunderstanding. So what if Egyptians, Greeks and Romans had slaves? In what way, exactly, does this make transatlantic slavery less horrible? Especially given the fact you were often able to free yourself in ancient slavery and you were often enslaved on a given period of time (3 years for example).
“But to use this argument to derail any discussion about this specific slavery is not a good thing, and it shows basic misunderstanding”
However, it is needed though, because if you look at ‘Western civilisation’ from a historical point of view. There is no remorse nor has there been regard to slavery, and in this sense the derailment (ie ‘red herring’) becomes all the more vital as a tool.
I best stop here because I can see myself heading towards reparation ha ha ha…
No but seriously, I stand by the above.
And with regard to my own comments:
“This was a very lucrative business that any unscrupulous character could profit immensely from”.
Even today – these are the only ones I can remember but there are many more – companies who were formed because of slavery
Tate & Lyle (sugar company)
And even today , such companies still continue to earn millions which otherwise would not have been possible without slavery
I said what I said, because I am so tired of the commentary being, but Black people did it too. These comments not only are made during a post about slavery, they are made even in the context of explaining the legacy slavery left or how it has psychologically effected Black people to this day. I am sure there will some comment here that will blame all slavery on Black people, as if it is only in Black’s DNA.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 15:19:14 Natasha W
Generally true, although I wouldn’t lump all of the Caribbean together because they don’t all have the same origins. For example, many that were brought to Jamaica were the Kongo, who reside in present-day Zaire, Congo, and Angola.
Not necessarily. There were plenty of those from present-day Ghana and Nigeria (mainly Yoruba and Ewe) that were sent to Brazil, as well as others.
No one knew exactly where they came from, but comparing pictures of people in my geography books, people that were from the cotton states looked more like thy came from what we would call the Congo. Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Virginia looked more like people from West Africa. Every now and then I would see people with features that looked as if they were from Kenya, like Thomas Mboya’s people. I had met several Kenyans when I was in high school. I know that there are several different groups in Kenya, that why I made a reference. My paternal grandfather looked much like he came from Ghana. He was only one generation out of slavery. But more than likely his ancestors came from Sierra Leone, because he might be called a Geechee.
I understand you. I didn’t reply to your comment to argue with you, but to agree with you.
Since this post is the one discussing the slave sources, I wanted to dismiss the whole “africans/arabs/whoever did it too!” argument before it started.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 17:25:51 Kwamla
Another great post by Abagond. which I commend.
Any time the full comprehension and realization of the transatlantic slave trade is made bare, then discussed.
It never fails to amaze me how justifiable it can be made to be seen if it can be argued or proved that Africans were also complicit in this too.
Lets “suppose” this was true. SO WHAT!!!!????
What does it say about the so called humanity of the Europeans? Where was the so called moral superiority?
The fact that they deemed this was OK for 500 years must surely say something about the mind of Europeans?
And perhaps someone can tell me where is the historical evidence of Africans or any other peoples of colour systematically brutalizing, dehumanizing and lawfully disregarding the lives of human beings in this way for 100’s of years?
There isn’t any!!! The closest being perhaps the Jews during the 2nd world war but guess what? Thats was Europeans again!!!!
Has anybody noticed a pattern here?
There’s pretty good information that
most of the primitive capital accumulation in Brazil came from slave-trading rather than mining or sugar-making.
With regards to the trans-atlantic slave trade, here’s some basic facts that people often forget about it that are really necessary:
1) It occurred roughly over a 400 year period and the locus of slaving moved several times during that period. Speaking very generally, it tended to move south and east as time went on.
2) Different European and African peoples were highly active in it at different periods.
3) Technologies of slave trading changed radically during the period.
4) Relatively speaking, what’s today the U.S. was a late-comer to the game. It thus got few slaves from the northern parts of Africa and those that it did get tended to be concentrated in places of early colonization such as the North Carolina seaboard.
So to say “such-and-such a region got slaves from such-and-so a point in Africa” is generally a simplification.
on Thu May 27th 2010 at 18:29:39 MerriMay
Agreed Kwamla,
The slave trade was truly tragic, I can’t begin to imagine what kind of depraved minds would pack their fellow human beings in such conditions, words fail me.
Blacks can commit a thousand crimes, it won’t in any way match the horror of what Europeans have done to them. Never!
Enslaving West Africa, colonizing the rest, the supine attitude of Europeans towards Africa makes me sick!
There is one aspect of the trade journey that is not mentioned here and was so horrific that Malcolm X suggested it had to be written out from nearly all the history books.
I had posted what he had to say on this matters on here – can’t quite remember where though)??
Seasoning Camps
“Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at seasoning camps found throughout the Caribbean.[54] Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however most slaves (destined for island or South American plantations) were likely to be put through this ordeal.
The enslaved people were tortured for the purpose of “breaking” them (like the practice of breaking horses) and conditioning them to their new lot in life.
Jamaica held one of the most notorious of these camps. All in all, 5 million Africans died in these camps reducing the final number of Africans to about 10 million.[54]”
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade
Took a long while to find the excerpt from Malcolm X:
“Our people weren’t brought right to this country. They were dropped off in the West Indian islands in the Caribbean…
Why?… This was the breaking-in grounds. They would break them in down there.
When they broke them in, they would bring the ones whose spirit had been broken on to America. They had all kinds of tactics for breaking them in. They bred fear into them, for one thing…
And this is why they took the role of the ‘slave maker’ out of history. It was so criminal that they don’t even dare to write about it…
I read in one book how the slave maker used to take a pregnant woman…and make her watch as her man would be tortured and put to death.
[Another] had trees that he planted in positions where he would bend them and tie them, and then tie the hand of a Black man to one, a hand to the other, and his legs to two more, and he’d cut the rope. And when he cut the rope, the tree would snap up and pull the arm of the [slave] right out of his socket, pull him up into four different parts.
I’ll show you books where you can read it, they write about it.
They used to take a Black woman who would be pregnant and tie her up by her toes, let her be hanging head down, and they would take the knife and cut her stomach open, let that Black unborn child fall out, and then stomp its head, in the ground.
I’ll show you books where they write about this… ‘Slave Trade by Spears; From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin; Negro Family in U.S by Frazier touches upon it…
‘Anti-slavery’ by Dwight Lowell Dummond…”
Malcolm X on Afro-American History, Pathfinder Press…
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 01:13:52 Menelik Charles
Malcolm X’ on Afro-American History is one of the greatest, most accessible, books I’ve ever read. It would make a fine introductory reader for any African-American (especially male) wishing uplift themselves out of mental slavery. Indeed, it should be required reading in all US prisons.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 02:57:23 Thaddeus
Don’t you mean “lupine”?
Re: seasoning camps. The Wiki sez that South American slaves were put through this:
Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at seasoning camps found throughout the Caribbean. Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however most slaves (destined for island or South American plantations) were likely to be put through this ordeal.
Sorry, I call bulls$t on that. South American slaves were not shipped to Carribean before being sent to Brazil – and let’s face it, 95% of South American slaves came through Brazil. Either Meltzer got it wrong or (more likely) the Wikidiot quoting him got it wrong.
My favorite source for this topic is Hugh Thomas’ The Slave Trade.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 03:50:26 Paisley
MerriMay: “Blacks can commit a thousand crimes, it won’t in any way match the horror of what Europeans have done to them. Never!”
I totally agree. And let’s not forget European/white atrocities against the Australian Aboriginals, the Maoris, the Tasmanians, the indigenous Americans, etcetera, etc., on and on, ad infinitum….
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 08:49:40 MerriMay
@ Thad
Supine still stands, don’t play professor with me, you’ll only fail.
I used the metaphorical ‘supine’ hand as in a ‘gimme gimme’ attitude to Africa.
Secondly, I meant it as an indifference, careless, lazy, negligent(insert other meanings of the word) attitude to Africa.
Here we go again,
Thad in his role as RR and No_Slappz…
The thought that Whites could be incredibly evil to Blacks pains him so much that he has to reject the contention.
What he attempts to do is clever – well not really -. He rejects the contention of ‘seasoning camps’ but remains strangely silence on the brutality devised by the slaveowners. Almost as if that part is at least true, but he does not have an argument, or anything by which he can knockk that idea down, otherwise he would.
As a lecturer one would expect him to draw on his expertise to critique it.
However, because he has probably have not heard this thing before (here read too arrogant or a ‘troll’ to admit it). He has to suggests that Meltzer has it wrong.
However, this creates its own problems. Since if Meltzer is wrong. Then Malcolm X is also wrong and the references that he cited would also be incorrect.
This is one of the problems that can occur when you are schooled (or here read fooled) in ‘eurocentricism’ and over-rely on authors who are steeped in that tradition.
I am not surprised taht a person like you would therefore use Hugh Thomas as your reference. As the Americans might say a Johnny-come-lately to the scene.
And here we go further, one more reference to add to the list, in addition to the ones quoted by Malcolm X:
“Seasoning was a process conducted during the Atlantic slave trade for the purpose of “breaking” slaves. The practice conditioned the African captives for their new lot in life, newly arrive black African captive would have to be trained into the daily rigors that await them in the Americas. This training was carried out on Plantations in the Caribbean such as Jamaica. Then the conditioned captives were taken to the American south to be worked as a slave.
Estimated mortality rates for this process vary from 7% to 50% with duration between one and four years.[1]
Most slaves destined for island or South American plantations were likely to be put through this ordeal, though slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process. Jamaica held one of the most notorious of these camps. [2]
The process of seasoning had a strong profit motive for example, as economists state the average price of adult male slaves in Jamaica in the 1770’s was 52% higher than “New Negroes” (Africans who came to a New World).[3]
1. Kiple, K.F. The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History, p. 65.
2. Meltzer, Milton. Slavery: A World History. Da Capo Press, 1993.
3. Trevor, B. and Morgan, K. The Dynamics of the Slave Market and Slave Purchasing Patterns in Jamaica, 1655-1788. The William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, Vol. 58, No. 1, New Perspectives on the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Jan., 2001), pp. 205-228
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasoning_(slave)
So what does this all mean??
In a nutshell, Thad is the ‘White liberal’ that Steve Biko warned about, and even Malcolm X also.
He is that ‘Great White Man’, do not worry about the other one (with that tag) who has taken up the ‘White Man’s Burden’ to teach the docile natives, their history and how best they should obtain their freedom also as part of the process, but yet at the same time maintaining the same White world order.
An ‘academic’ troll
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 10:45:37 Kwamla
Interesting to see how the trail of this discussion goes…
While comments from myself , MerriMay, Paisley, J, etc.. attempt to reflect on the culpability or responsibility of Europeans for behaving in this way…TIME AND TIME AGAIN!!!
Others seem preoccupied with establishing the precise statistics of which slaves came from or were sent where..??
Why is this so important ???
This is the level of reflection. As if it were some “tragic”, unintentional vast migration of peoples which took place so many years ago, and where the true facts or statistics have become obscured over time. But it happened… As did say the Roman civilization or the industrial revolution which took place over many years both of which had their ups and downs!!!
Again these tired old reflections refuse to examine or challenge the mind or motives of a people who would allow and STILL CONTINUE to allow such abhorrent behavior and practices to continue today.
It may not be so OVERT as in the case of industrialized fellow human slavery 200 years ago but that uncaring mentality still lingers on in the form of cruelty and disregard for peoples of colour, animals, the Earths environment etc…
This is not simply a question of apportioning blame, guilt or extracting apologies from any one race of people; or mounting an argument for reparations (another discussion) its about recognizing, acknowledging and owning up to collective PAST actions and behaviors.
Such honest, personal, DEEP opening up reflections become the guiding determinants for the way we wish FUTURE collective actions and behaviors to be seen and implemented.
What are the signs that such a global humanitarianism or Earth centered holistic approach is taking place today ???
I live in optimism …
I still like “lupine” better.
No, I don’t reject the notion of seasoning camps. I reject the statement of the Wiki you linked us to, which claims that South American slaves were sent through seasoning camps in the CARRIBEAN.
As for the brutality of the situation, that is evident.
Its not clear to me what you are saying here, or whether this is one of your mis-understandings??
It is being staed that some slaves taken from Africa went to the Caribbean so as to be ‘broken in like horses’ before they were then transported on to their final destination, so that they could become ‘good slaves’.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 12:36:04 Hathor
The discussion about where slaves come from actually dispels the myth that all Africans participated in the slave trade.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 12:57:57 abagond
According to the Wikipedia article only about one in six African city states and kingdoms that knew about the slave trade took part in it.
I remember reading be that some of the African rulers were oblivious to the extent of the horrors of the slave trade, in its early period. Since once the slaves were sold that was it and this may make some sort of sense in the context of what slavery as an institution in Africa being ‘different’ to ‘chattel slavery’.
However, much later the rulers became fully cognizant of what was taking place, and in some instance rulers were held to ransom by the Colonial powers to provide slaves.
This is also another feature rarely discussed on why/how the slaves were provided.
Thad you really are a character, even though my ancestors in South Africa, were not subject to slavery, but of a colonial sort- a separate thread I’ll concede, it still pains me greatly to read about what fellow blacks went through.
Interesting observation that J has made about you, your complete indifference to it, the complete absence of outrage on your part speaks volumes. The hell with your geographical trail of slaves because as usual you bulldoze over others’ very valid points.
I’m not saying tear you hair out but for goodness sake where is the respect for these people???
I suppose this qualifies as commiseration on your part:
Why do you constantly undermine the integrity of a subject as historically atrocious with your crap?? If you have nothing meaningful to add, just gag it.
Which leads to my second point.
You like ‘lupine’ better?? Cobblers!!! You take it upon yourself to correct things that don’t even warrant it??
Your arrogance is as usual insulting!! I don’t care what you like!
Regarding those specific sources in the Wiki, J, let’s go directly to them, shall we?
Kiple (The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History) does not mention the majority of South American bound slaves heading through Carribean seasoning camps. In fact, he barely mentions South America AT ALL in his book and when he does, it’s as a comparative pole for his main focus: the Carribean. When he mentions slaves bound for South America via Jamaica, he’s talking about the Guyanas and some northern spanish colonies. This trade was a drop in the bucket compared to that of the rest of South America.
So no, Kiple does not sustain the hypothesis that most slaves bound for South America were put through Carribean seasoning camps.
Let’s turn to Meltzer. Like most English-language historians of slavery, he barely mentions South America or Brazil. This, in fact, is one of the reasons one needs to temper these early authors with “Johnny-come-latelies” like Thomas, who understand that most slavery took place under the Portuguese and Spanish flags. Early English-language authors were far too willing to take the experience of British colonies as some sort of pan-Atlantic norm.
Meltzer does not mention most South American slaves IN GENERAL being shipped through Carribean seasoning camps, certainly not on page 65 and, as far as I can see, nowhere else in the book.
On to Trevor and Morgan. They do indeed mention slaves being transhipped to South America from Jamaica, but again, only to the northern tier of colonies, particularly British Guyana (which makes some sense).
None of these sources thus sustain the hypothesis that most South American bound slaves went through Carribean seasoning camps before being resold to South America. As I said, that appears to be a wiki error created by injudicious copy-pasting from other internet articles.
Metzler is not wrong, he’s just been poorly quoted: most of the ENGLISH trade did indeed go through Jamaica. The English, however, weren’t selling slaves to Brazil, the America’s largest consumer of slaves.
With regards to Thomas, why J thinks an author should be dismissed just because he’s written more recently on a topic is beyond me. In general, more recent books have BETTER data than older books.
Here’s what Thomas has to say on the subject of “seasoning” in a South American context:
The main ports for receiving slaves in South America were Rio (for the Portuguese) and Caratenga (for the Spanish – far less than Rio, however: 3000 slaves a year at its peak). In both ports, slaves were dumped into holding baracks on the outskirts of town, where they were left until a buyer came along. In Rio, slaves at this point were more often “fattened up” than sadistically beaten. This wasn’t because slave dealers were nice guys and humanitarians: the horrors of the middle passage left many Africans on death’s door and every dead slave was that much less profit.
Nevertheless, deaths in these barracks continued at an astounding rate. So bad that mass cemeteries needed to be dug near the Valongo, Rio’s slave trading street (and these were rediscovered during urban improvement projects in the 20th century). Thomas remarks that slave traders SHOULD have taken much better care of their “wares”, if the logic was simple capitalism. However, even more modern research by Brazilian scholars, shows that the care given to slaves in barracks depended quite a lot on the general economy of the time.
A booming economy would mean huge demand and quick turnover. Under these conditions, slaves would spend little time in the Valongo barracks and even the sickest would be picked up by desperate planters and miners. Traders didn’t care much about slave health in boom conditions: turnover was far more important.
When the economy slowed down, however, quality became more important and care could increase in order to increase the “shelf-life” of the slave. In a really bad economic downturn, however, the trader could simply decide that costs for maintaining the slaves alive could outweigh their possible sale value and simply let them die.
There was nothing approximating an organized “seasoning camp” on the Valongo, however, where slaves were systematically tortured to ensure obedience. Again, not because the Portuguese slave dealers were nice guys but because it was too much effort and cost. Why bother? The trader wasn’t a conscientous employee of the Great White Conspiracy to Subdue the Negro: he was an independent businessman, looking to make as much money as he could, as quick as he could by selling human flesh and souls. In Brazil, that meant “get ’em in and get ’em out” as quick as possible. Teaching the slaves obedience was not the Brazilian slave trader’s problem: it was the slave master’s problem.
Thomas has this to say about Jamaica as a transshipment point:
English ports were more brutal and less hygenic, but slaves brought to Jamaica for sale in Spanish America tended to be treated better than those sold elsewhere.
“Seasoning” was more often than not a general process which supposedly lasted a year or two and began with the slave barracks in African ports. Slaves would pass through two or three hands before getting to their final owners and, as they passed along, they’d be brutually treated as a matter of course. This was generally not because of some specific, thought-out plan to break the slaves’ will: it was the inevitable by-product of treating human beings as merchandise. Of course, ANY rebellion under these sorts of conditions was met with immediate and brutal violence, but again, not because this was some well-oiled, death-camp like machine, but precisely because it wasn’t. It was very often a poorly organized venture in which huges sums of money were being floated and could be won or lost on a throw of destiny’s dice. A plague sweeping through a cargo of slaves could bankrupt a dealer in one fell swoop. As Abolition inched closer and it became ever more clear that the trade from Africa would one day be stopped, traders began cramming their boats to the decks with slaves. The conditions for rebellion were, as one can well imagine, ripe and rebellion was the thing slave traders feared most, precisely because they didn’t have full control over their human cargo. It was a constant promise.
Now, I’m not as well acquainted with late-18th century British slavery as I am with the Brazilian varieties, but if there were a people who could have seriously contemplated the organization necessary for “seasoning camps”, it definitely would have been the British. That Enlightenment ethic could very well have produced some rationalist attempt to set up a camp where slaves’ wills were systematically broken. I’m willing to accept that as a hypothesis, given more proof than a Wikipedia article which misquotes an author.
What is definitely a fact, given the state of our knowledge on this issue, is that the vast majority of South American slaves did not pass through Jamaica or any other Carribean camp: they came through Rio and Salvador. And there is no indication that I’ve seen that anything like these camps operated here.
Note that this doesn’t mean that Brazilian slavery was not brutal.
Now, Kwamla asks “Why is this so important?”
Because this is the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the black presence in the Americas, the very history that black people have been deprived of. If you want history, you have to accept that it doesn’t always play out in accordance with your prejudices. If yopu want to know what happened back then, you have to really look at it.
As I mentioned in Abagond’s post on the Cherokee Trail of Tears, glossing one or another act of inhumanity as The Holocaust does not help us understand what happened. Slavery, like Indian reservations, had a complex history and had its OWN PARTICULAR coordinates of oppressions and brutalities. Imagining Dantesque slave seasoning camps where all slaves are systematically tortured to incur obedience leads us away from the REAL brutalities which occurred. As metaphor, the “death camp” has some explicatory power: as history, it confounds explanation and ends up creating myth.
And isn’t it one of black america’s complaints that too much of black history has been shrouded in myth?
Here’s one side effect mythologization produces:
Here in Rio (and in Salvador) we had an institution that was as bad or worse than the “seasoning camp”: the public slave prison, where masters could send unruly slaves to be tortured. Of course, if we’re going to get hung up on the myth of Brazilian slaves in Jamaican seasoning camps, we’ll never be able to discuss the REAL institutions which were used to break rebellious slaves, are we?
This returns to my wife’s article on the Black American Imperial Eye (https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/black-brazil-in-the-black-gringo-gaze/) : concentrating on the English-speaking transatlantic slavery and black experience as the norm creates a virtuality where (in this case) Jamaica becomes far more important than the Valongo, even though far many more black Americans’ ancestors (and J, please note that “America” does not mean the U.S. in this instance) came through the Valongo than through Kingston.
Brazilian black history is considered to be so secondary, so in fact inconcievable, that even to bring up the simple FACT that Brazilian slaves weren’t transhipped through Jamaica is enough to get one castigized as a violence-denying racist.
Again…you miss the point Hathor. It doesn’t really matter!!!
So what if they did? The point is what does it say about a specific group of people – Europeans – who unequivocally endorsed this mass trade of human beings??
So lets say most African nations actively played a part in capturing and selling slaves to Europeans does that make this any less of a de-humanizing act on the part of Europeans? Could it then be seen as just a bit of fair trade that got out of hand?
But of course then you would have to agree that if it had been the other way round. That is if African’s had discovered Europe they would have similarly entered in to deals with various European countries and started shipping white slaves back to Africa?
And if we could establish that the majority of European countries actively colluded with the African traders then this would have made things Ok. It would have been fair trade again? Both sides just as equally to blame as the other
One more historically example: Japan attacks the US in the battle of Pearl Harbour so the US drops the Atomic bomb on one of Japans major cites killing and injuring 100,000s of people. This was justified YES?. Because we can prove historically accurately here that Japan did attack the US destroying much equipment and many 100’s of US lives.
Or are you still not getting the point here?
Here’s where I think the misunderstanding is.
The wiki article J linked us to says this:
Most slaves destined for island or South American plantations were likely to be put through this ordeal…
Note: most slaves.
J interprets that to mean:
It is being staed that some slaves taken from Africa went to the Caribbean so as to be ‘broken in like horses’ before they were then transported on to their final destination…
Note: some slaves.
I have no objection to the idea that some slaves went through “seasoning camps” in Jamaica, beyond the fact that it would be interesting to see a primary source on this, rather than what appears to be a Wiki misquote of a secondary source cut and pasted from another internet source.
I DO object to what the Wiki quite clearly says, that most south-american bound slaves went through these Jamaican camps. That would only make sense in terms of the ENGLISH slave trade to South America, which was a small drop in a very large bucket.
MerriMay, “lupine” means “wolf-like”. It was not intended as a correction but as a bitter commentary. A commentary on the situation, not your grammar.
The hell with your geographical trail of slaves because as usual you bulldoze over others’ very valid points.
First of all, my making I point hardly prevents anyone else here from doing so.
Secondly, the only point I’m criticizing is the idea that the majority of South American slaves passed through Carribean seasoning camps. That is simply wrong. All points, of course, are valid but “valid” does not mean “correct”.
So no, I’m not preventing anyone’s opinion from being heard and no, I’m not “invalidating”.
Interesting observation that J has made about you, your complete indifference to it, the complete absence of outrage on your part speaks volumes.
So outrage is the measure of correct history, is it. MerryMay?
Look, right above me, right now as I type, a Military Police helicopter is flying towards Santo Amaro favela. It’s been buzzing the favela for an hour now and has twice exchanged automatic weapons fire with residents.
I have things right in front of me to get outraged over.
When I look at history, I look at it to try to see how we got to this situation HERE. I find that outrage doesn’t help much in that task. It doesn’t help the dead of two centuries ago and – more often than not – it blinds me to very important clues.
“Outrage” comes from a base feeling that one believes one already knows the truth. I know very few truths and most of the ones I thought I knew have not withstood the light of reason.
I believe that slavery was evil: that is a basic truth I hold to. I DO NOT believe – as most Americans seem to do – that having classified something as evil, I can now be on my merry and make believe whatever the hell I want about it. To me, if something is evil, it requires even GREATER attention and less presumption. And presumption is precisely what outrage generates.
Your mileage obviously varies. I respect that. Please respect my view as well.
It matters to me, when I see it being used to deflect the discussions.
What you say is not in dispute as far as I am concerned and I understand what you are saying.
I am not the kind of person who wants history rewritten in the pursuit of a racist agenda. When you have Black folks saying “Africans did it too” and Black folks have benefited from slavery, being an apologist for white privileged conservatives, I consider this to be a serious problem for Black folk.
Abagond started this post with a reference to the changes that the Texas board of education made for the criteria of their textbooks. Slavery is now a euphemism. Arizona has passed bill to forbid the schools from teaching any ethnic studies. Do you think that history now taught in Arizona will now be inclusive?
If this trend continues, it wont matter as you say, because there will nothing of slavery taught. Not even in the context of the constitution. The Texas BOE also is minimizing Thomas Jefferson and some other founders, base on their religious beliefs. So I can’t see the topic of 3/5ths ever coming up.
Do you think preteens are going to take upon themselves to become scholars?
You have a curious deposition towards taking most comments by others here on a personal level. This has resulted in you having to write copious responses to defend your apparent “sleights” at the hands of MerriMay, J and possible others.
If you could leave this aside for one moment as, again, I would say to you its not really that important in the context of what we are discussing here: The Transatlantic slave trade
Your major contribution appears to be:
“…the only point I’m criticizing is the idea that the majority of South American slaves passed through Carribean seasoning camps. That is simply wrong…”
Now maybe you have made others but lets just agree this is your main concern.
You have also commented: “I believe that slavery was evil”
Well that might be so but on the basis of what you’ve contributed to this discussion (without the divergence into defending personal attacks or insults) it s doesn’t really convey, to me, any real “FEELING” sense of this.
Its all too easy to get caught up in personal side issues we deem to be more important because the real issues we fear may be too debilitating or uncomfortable to bear.
You make some valid comments here in response.
The experience you describe in Texas is along similar lines to how The Transatlantic slave trade is taught in many other countries. I know this is true in the UK where I am based.
The basic assumption here is that the actual trade or traffic is played down, deemphasized or even as you report omitted altogether.
This were the Internet and blogs like this come in. At least if preteens want to find this sort of information they can. Years ago before the age of the Internet it all too easy to claim ignorance (unless of course you were scholarly enough to read books!!) This need no longer be the case.
Until of course Black/African peoples start re-writing their own histories in all areas of media. But isn’t this very blog evidence of that very same thing already happening?
I still do not understand your convoluted argument.
Since it appears you seem to support the contention in essence when you say:
“I DO object to what the Wiki quite clearly says, that MOST south-american bound slaves went through these Jamaican camps. =That would only make sense in terms of the ENGLISH slave trade to South America, which was a small drop in a very large bucket”.
Can you just clarify that the word MOST in capitals in the aforesaid is what this discussion is all about??
And if this is the case, can you this time provide any evidence?? Please note that if you cannot find any I will not use it either as an opportunity ‘to score points’ either, something which you are won’t to do
Just to say do not worry about the providing of evidence. I think I can sum up the problem of the discussion.
1. Wikipedia quote
“Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at seasoning camps FOUND THROUGHOUT THE CARIBBEAN. Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however most slaves (destined for island or South American plantations [including Guyana which is in South America my emphasis]) were likely to be put through this ordea”l.
2. Thad
I DO object to what the Wiki quite clearly says, that most south-american bound slaves went through these Jamaican camps
3. Please observe what the wiki quote states ‘FOUND THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE CaRIBBEAN’
Usually I would close with ‘I hope this clarifies’, but I doubt if this will be the case for you.
And finally with regard to your comment here Thad:
“Of course, if we’re going to get hung up on the myth of Brazilian slaves in Jamaican seasoning camps, we’ll never be able to discuss the REAL institutions which were used to break rebellious slaves, are we?”
You are the only one whohas reached this conclusion through your own faulty reasoning skills.
I think your faulty reasoning skills reveals your true guise as the ‘academic troll’ that you are.
And I stand by what I said previously : RR, No_Slappz and your good self serve the same purpose and function on a site like this.
on Fri May 28th 2010 at 17:33:53 EnSayn
It’s a shame we believe this story without thought. If we really think about it, this story makes no sense. We are talking about a story of people walking up to 500 miles, being placed on board ships and living in these conditions for a month or more and everyone commenting says nothing about this passage. Its as if this is taken for granted. People living in this condition would not need to be seasoned, they would already be broken. People living in these conditions for a month or more would soon die upon reaching the Americas from various ailments. People living in these conditions would be very hard to sell on the auction blocks, that is what they were being transported for. To be sold. Just think about this! We need to look at the amount of Black people already living in the Americas that were enslaved. We need to look at how long we were living in the Americas long before the birth of a Christopher Columbus. We need examine the truth and begin to dispel this yarn accepted as truth. To think that we came from Africa under such conditions is not a testament to our strength, its a testament of our acceptance of another fairytale and never thinking logic of this deeply rooted lie.
Well, let’s see. After I made an innocent play on words (“lupine” instead of “supine”) which, in fact, supported her point, MerriMay…
1) Told me to go to hell;
2) Said I could care less about slavery;
3) Said what I write is crap;
4) Told me to shut up;
5) And then (cherry on the top) called me arrogant.
I wouldn’t call that an “apparent slight”, Kwamla: I’d call that a serious of directed slights that were obviously intended to be taken on a personal level.
I’m not sure how you could read that differently.
That’s because I disagree with the general American opinion that feeling gives one extra validity, Kwamla. I’d rather go for precision in my history, thanks. I’ll leave the “feeling” to the likes of the Texas Board of Education.
Very simple, J: the Wiki article you cite says most South African-bound slaves headed through seasoning camps in the Carribean.
It is not a convoluted argument J. Not even close.
Here’s the quote:
Meltzer also states that 33% of Africans would have died in the first year at seasoning camps found throughout the Carribean. Many slaves shipped directly to North America bypassed this process; however most slaves destined for island or South American plantations were likely to be put through this ordea”l.
It seems very clear to me that, following basic rules of English grammar, the phrase “found throughout the Carribean” refers to the seasoning camps, not the slaves. The immediately following sentance then specifically says that slaves shipped to North American bypassed the camps while those shipped to south america didn’t.
The clear intent of the phrase is that most slaves bound for South America passed through the camps. Can’t get any clearer than that.
The problem is that this is only true in the context of English slave trading, which is of course Meltzer’s focus. The wiki article does not say that. It says “most slaves bound for South America” passed through the camps.
Not true. Most slaves bound for South America disn’t go through the Carribean and weren’t sold by the English.
EnSayn says:
People living in this condition would not need to be seasoned, they would already be broken.
Spot on. Slave suicide was one of the major worries of Brazilian planters, right up there with rebellion.
People living in these conditions for a month or more would soon die upon reaching the Americas from various ailments. People living in these conditions would be very hard to sell on the auction blocks, that is what they were being transported for. To be sold. Just think about this!
Mostly correct.
At least with regards to Brazilian slavery, if any thought at all was given to recently arrived slaves, it wasn’t to tie them up and whip them to break their spirits: it was to feed them, clean them and fatten them up a bit for the auction block.
That said, very little thought AT ALL was given to the slaves, especially in times of high market demand. So many of them DID die in the barracks upon reaching the Americas and were simply written off as a net loss.
but where is your evidence?? A question you like to ask of me so often (sic).
Either way, personally I do not have a problem with the quote.
In one of your responses earlier, the way you responded, it seemed to me that you had the book in front of you. Can you quote what Meltzer says on this very issue??
I would add also that I only introduced this point to enhance what Abagond had said here regarding the middle passage, especially as this part of history is not that well known.
What you have said here thus far has not changed or minimised this fact.
Whoa Whoa Thad
What is it with you and your inherent inability to understand the contextual sequence of what is written:
Let me clear this up. YOU imposed yourself on what I was saying, by seeming to agree with me at the same time being patronising by substitung a perfectly valid /applicable word(supine) and inserting your own as the better of the two(lupine). If that is not arrogant, show me what is!
Mind you, that wouldn’t make sense in the way that I intended, if you carry on that way, why don’t YOU compose your own narrative wherein you can do as you please with your text.
Do me a favor though. With the remaining 4 on your list I want you to quote me on where I told YOU specifically to shut up, go to hell, your writing is crap, and you don’t care about slavery.
When/if you’ve done so I will go on to illustrate to you, your continued lack of comprehension towards what I write.
*substituting*
but where is your evidence?? A question you like to ask of me so often
Evidence for what? That Brazil was the world’s largest slave importer? Or that Brazil didn’t import slaves through Jamaica?
If the second, how am I supposed to logically prove a negative?
Can you quote what Meltzer says on this very issue??
Nope. Back at home now and not at the Museum.
Yeah, and what I have said here thus far has also not proven that the Holocaust is a fake.
Because what I’ve said was not meant to prove that the holocaust is a fake, nor minimize the horrors of the middle passage. It was also not meant to prove that you are still beating your wife.
What I said was only meant to prove that the idea that most South American slaves were transhipped through Jamaican seasoning camps was bulls@#&. The wiki article you cite was dead wrong on that point.
I was AGREEING with your basic point by substituting an even more predatory adjective. Kindly take your tortured presumptions elsewhere.
I want you to quote me on where I told YOU specifically to shut up, go to hell, your writing is crap, and you don’t care about slavery.
1) “…just gag it”
2) “The hell with your geographical trail of slaves …”
3) [refering to my written opinons] “…your crap.”
4) “…the complete absence of outrage on your part speaks volumes.”
Now, considering that you have taken my innocent comment about “lupine” rather than “supine” Europeans to be a deadly arrogant insult, I can’t help but woner what you’d say if ANYONE said ANY of the above things to you.
For a woman who is oh-so-sensitive to perceived slights, you certainly have no problem at all insulting people.
If you’ve got something germaine to say about my points, go ahead, even if it’s rough. If it’s simply going to be more venting because you feel the need to virtually go off at someone, spare me.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 08:30:45 Kwamla
Ok. Thaddeus. I am going to put it to you that you make some valid points about:
.”..the idea that the majority of South American slaves passed through Carribean seasoning camps. That is simply wrong…”
And that perhaps in the process of making this point you’ve encountered some slight abuse. Examples of which you have “precisely” documented. But then perhaps this may also be valid for you to consider here. The attention to precision you so rigorously strive for, lets say virtuously and admirably, as a worthwhile scholarly pursuit leaves no room for the immense “human” or “emotional” consequences of the very subject we are discussing.
You yourself have commented:
This is a fair point and you of course are entitled to your own opinion. But you also conceded:
“…I believe that slavery was evil: that is a basic truth I hold to…”
Now for me there appears to be a “disconnection” between your explorations of this aspect of the trade and your rigorous assessment of the origins of Brazilian slavery
Its actual precisely this “disconnection” which I was attempting to convey in my own postings about the mentality (historically) of the European mind which in seeking to engage with cultures – not just peoples, but animals and the environment as well – reduces them to little more than components or numbers which can be “precisely” stacked or arranged according to the prevailing beliefs.
Maybe this is where perhaps categorizations of “arrogance” “uncaring” or even “racism” may appear.
For this reason the actual horrors and practices of the slave trade very rarely surface (except in discussions like these of course!!) but then these are exactly the issues that need to be discussed and come to terms with in dealings and interactions with all cultures.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 11:34:06 MerriMay
You know Thad you have a tendency to start a fire and cry foul when you get burned!
Most people just affirm ‘I agree’ etc, but you had to play the one-upmanship, and note the arrogance here.
”don’t you mean ‘lupine’ ”
which totally discredits what I’m trying to say. Are you a mind reader now? Why don’t you save that patronising for your classes. Even after I clarify and point out your wrongdoing you continue unperturbed
‘I still like lupine better’
It’s that bullheaded attitude that sticks in my craw, and why you continue to be at loggerheads with people…and hence derail.
Don’t piggyback off an idea and declare it your own as superior.
Now wrt:
1. That meant if nothing of substance is forthcoming except
diversionary tactics from the horror of what happened, then um yeah..gag the thought, not telling YOU to shut up!
2. that hardly means the hell with YOU Thad..was merely disagreeing with the point
3. Ah again, but you see YOUR crap is hardly YOU’RE(you are) crap Thad, so I reject that out of hand, there’s a difference between the two. Ad hominen it’s not.
4. Where did I say you don’t care, I said ‘speaks volumes’, now as to what those actually are, and you can decipher that and pin it down to ‘you don’t care’ well wake me up when you do!
Merri, I know you want a flamewar so you can baaaaaaw to Abagond about me and hopefully have me removed.
I’m not going to engage beyond restating my very simple position.
My “lupine” comment was meant to me an ironic and SUPPORTIVE commentary to your “supine” remark. In response, you fired back several very openly nasty comments at me.
Just imagine is someone – me for example – were to say to you “The hell with your crap regarding a ‘supine’ Europe. If you can’t contribute something relevant to the discussion, just gag it.”
I can imagine the MerriMay reaction to such a comment: immediate baaaaaaaw to the moderator that someone has launched a personal attack.
As I said to Kwamla above, it’s not your insults that bother me: it’s the hypocrisy.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 17:17:39 The Great White Man
I see the blame YT crew is out in full swing(The ocean must be in low tide…smh)
Look it was a horrible thing, but you must also accept the fact that Europeans are the ones who STOPPED IT!!!
You people only cry afoul when YT does it. The double standard here is downright pathetic….Arabs and Africans are doing it to this day!! but not a peep, YT does it and the victim mentality surfaces most tick…smh
We all know that non-white people hold us to a higher standard, because they all know the great things we’ve done for poor tribals, orphans, disaster relief, ect…..But please stop whining about the slave trade and only on YTs end of it…ok?
I’m sorry there will never be ANY REPERATIONS for AA, so please stop with the victim mentality, thank you.
You people only cry afoul when YT does it.
No one has even mentioned Yolanda Truman, TGWM. Please stay on topic.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 18:17:00 J
SW6,
Is this the item concerned??
Las Casas, Bartolomé de (1999), Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, London: Penguin, ISBN 978-0140445626 . Trans. Nigel Griffin.
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 18:29:25 FG
Here’s a pretty interesting documentary on the slave trade to Brazil.
So when you at the musuem next time can you quote us what is said in Meltzer’s book verbatim??
So we can all come to our own respective conclusion
I’m sorry there will never be ANY REPERATIONS for AA,
There seems to be an echo here (with it being unworkable)
Gulp!!
http://books.google.com/books?id=KnWJCk8gIfwC&dq=A+Short+Account+of+the+Destruction+of+the+Indies&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=yWEBTMj1MtaH4gbCgfXLDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCkQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false
on Sat May 29th 2010 at 20:32:41 zekjevets
Are you sure that’s it? I recently read the same book (albeit in Spanish), and it was mostly a repetitive look at the atrocities of the Europeans toward the indigenous peoples. Every chapter goes on about native people being killed, raped, burned, etc. Casas posited himself as being “charitable” towards the native peoples, though he was really just anti-Spanish government on behalf of the church, and didn’t really do anything concrete to stop the maltreatment of the indigenous, save a debate or two. I’ve only read the original though, so I don’t know what differences edited and translated versions have.
Abagond if I may, last I’ll say on this.
I’ve never asked Abagond to censor anyone, the same cannot be said for you.
Your mockery won’t work with me, you’d think your numerous feuds with people on this board would tell you something about your conduct, you remain clueless.
If you read back to how this started you’ll see a pattern with you.
You’re courting the moderator yourself by insinuating that I attacked you, yet Abagond hasn’t obliged, so I have not broken any rules. A commenter bit the dust recently for exactly this slick tactic. Nice try though. And you call me a hypocrite…smdh
And I suspect at some point in the distant future. A similar argument will be used, especially as it is already being discussed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/10175907.stm
This is vis-a-vis against the pretext of Africans selling each other
“A commenter bit the dust recently for exactly this slick tactic”
A t(h)ad true methinks
Except for No_Slappz, no censor requests here.
Kwamla, I wrote a long reply to you, but it didn’t show up after three tries, probably because the system thought a percentage symbol was a coding order or aomething.
It seems to be permanently stuck in moderation.
Abagond, can you see the comment? Or should I post it again?
Yeah, well, J, like I said on another post, I remain skeptical until someone can show me HOW it’s going to work. International law, which you’ve refered to on this topic, does not cover reparations by nations and, even if it did, would be ignored by the U.S.
So even if reparations would get its day in court in The Hague, and would by some miracle be adjuged favorably, all the U.S. has to do is thumb its nose at International Law, as it has repeatedly done in the past.
The only way to get the U.S. to give reparations would be to force it to do so. If the assorted black movements trying for reparations have THAT much power, why not just take the coutry’s government over instead?
So yeah, unless you or someone out there can show a pragmatic and logical road to reparations, I will continue to qualify reparations as a pipe dream and a waste of time.
@MerriMay,
you’d think your numerous feuds with people on this board would tell you something about your conduct
What it tells me, Merri, is that thinking outside the box isn’t popular among people who are used to thinking in terms of dogmas.
You’re courting the moderator yourself by insinuating that I attacked you…
Merri, what I said was very clear, it wasn’t an insinuation. What I said was this: you yourself would consider the comments you directed at me to be a personal attack, were they directed at you.
Nice try at starting a flame war, but this is really my last word on the topic.
Since this topic is slavery, and reparations can be tied somewhat therein.
I am afraid I do not understand your logic here.
If groups of people are entitled to make a claim under something which is in the law. If these people believe they can appeal to the conscience of the Government, and the Government will acquiese. Then why should they not do so??
The only possible way to find out if it is a ‘pipe dream’ or not is for these groups to make such a claim, and see what the outcome is.
No??????????????
on Sun May 30th 2010 at 18:08:52 Mira
I believe blacks should receive reparations, but I don’t think it would solve any problems. But then again, the point of reparations is not “solving problems”.
I agree with Thad that reparations might lead to bad attitudes among whites, because they would think they don’t own blacks anything anymore, or they would use reparations for more racism.
Still, that should not be the obstacle for reparations.
But the bigger question is: how to determine who’s going to get reparations, and who’s going to give reparations.
Correct. But reparations are a claim made under international law and (in spite of what right-wing conspiracy loonies think) THERE IS NO WORLD GOVERNMENT!
International law covers basically two things: issues all nations have more-or-less agreed upon (and even then, it covers them poorly) and post-war retributions.
So, yeah, reparations would be a good idea IF…
A) You could get the presumed criminal in this case (i.e. the U.S. government) to go along with the idea that it should pay out billions or trillions to the descendents of slavery, or…
B) You could beat the U.S. government into submission.
I think we can agree that if your strategy for change boils down to not only convincing your oppressors to empathize with you BUT ALSO get them to freely hand over billions, it’s not a very practical strategy.
And if you’ve got the power to BEAT the U.S., why not just take it over and screw reparations? No need to ask for a paycheck if you own the bank, is there?
My point has nothing to do with whether people have a right to appeal. They have a right to waste their time however they please.
My argument is that I’m not going along with this strategy until someone can show me how it has a chance in hell of working. I’d rather waste my time posting here or looking at The Huffington Post.
By that same logic, the only way you can find out that you can’t fly is to jump off a building while flapping your arms.
If the anti-racist movement was blessed with a surfeit of cash, time, energy and talented activists, I’d say “Whatever. Might as well go for it and it can’t hurt”.
The fact of the matter, J, is that we are facing a huge wave of racist reaction – the worst in decades – and time, money and energy is short on the ground.
That is why I think “reparations” is a useless game being played by people who should know better.
Or stoners.
Either way…
“I agree with Thad that reparations might lead to bad attitudes among whites, because they would think they don’t own blacks anything anymore, or they would use reparations for more racism”
This is a red herring and bears no relevance to international law – even if it is to have this impact.
I wasn’t talking about the law, or how to make reparations, I know nothing about the law. I just said, I believe blacks should receive reparations.
on Sun May 30th 2010 at 20:20:59 Jasmin
(I posted as zek earlier by accident–this is his computer.)
I wouldn’t know for sure–I read the book for a class in the spring semester and I’m pretty sure I sold it on Amazon, but I’m pretty sure the one I read didn’t say anything about slave labor at all–at that point the Spaniards were interested in taking the land and resources from the indigenous peoples, then returning to Spain (as “Indianos, meaning people who made their fortune in the New World). It was a while before people actually decided to stay and create colonies.
Per this link, Casas supported the importation of Africans, then later recanted and became an advocate for them, and it lists two books by him, but it’s Wikipedia (which I don’t count as a credible source) so who knows? 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas
I still am having problems understanding your reasoning in all of this.
1. Its not quite clear why you made reference to U.S being ‘criminals’. The issue of reparations would essentially be monetary – Its not a war trial of the US??
2. As for anti-racists and those fighting reparations there is a big gulf between the two, and that is why I made the connection between reparations and international law.
3. Its not also clear to me how you can reconcile reparations as an issue across the world and Blacks acting within the remit of the law to obtain it?? Surely you are not advocating that Blacks pick up guns and obtain the monetary that way??
4. As for people wasting their time, to use your own words. I am sure there were many who said that about Martin Luther King. In the real world of ‘politics liberation’ the only way to know if something politically is going to succeed or fail is to endeavour. There is absolutely no other way of knowing. Furthermore any fight for liberation is a piecemal journey, with many loses but also many victories. Thus ‘victories’ can be gained in other areas, even if the ultimate goal of repartion may not be completed.
5. Finally there appears an attempt here inadvertently or otherwise to deny Black people a fundamental right that all other oppressed nations have the right to ie make reparation claim. We always see this type of thing in the White Supremacy World. In the West they create ‘War trials’, to deal with those not followingthe status quo, whilst in South Africa they have a ‘Reconciliation Commission’.
I saw your comments Mira,
Thad’s comments were given as reason to why repartions should not be given and he made mention of White’s people reactions etc.
This is the red herring, which you quoted when citing Thad:
“I AGREE WITH THAD THAT REPARATIONS MIGHT LEAD TO BAD ATTITUDES AMONG WHITES, because they would think they don’t own blacks anything anymore”.
Furthermore this is not how racism, genocide etc or what I would call White Supremacy works. Its not a case of what or as the case Blacks may do, but rather what those endorsing White Supremacy have as their agenda.
I wanted to say that the question of reparations is not about “solving problems”; I do see them as war reparations.
I guess I was answering/posting my opinion on Thad’s comments on reparations. Unlike him, I think blacks should receive reparations, so that is the part of his post that I don’t agree with. But I do agree that reparations would not solve any racial issues/racism; but that is ok, because the point of reparations is not to solve problems, end racism or anything like that.
And yes, I am aware we’re going off topic… Sorry.
So you were partying with the family that long??
Glad to see that it all went very good!!
“Per this link, Casas supported the importation of Africans, then later recanted and became an advocate for them, and it lists two books..”
I did not open the link. From what I remember Le Casa could be viewed as a ‘liberal’.
He saw and felt the oppression of the indigenes. However, instead of calling an end to the system, he advocated to use replace the indigenes with African labour instead.
This is a Priest remember…
When he saw the brutality that slavery brought upon the Africans which he suggested – he became ambivelent again.
Just for clarification purposes.
No-one has suggested that reparations would solve any racial issues/racism.
It is only Thad, who brought forth this explanation as a reason in his argument as to why reparation should NOT be given.
Technically I’m still on vacation, but not with the family anymore, and yes it went very well. 🙂
Las Casas pretty much followed the path of most of the clergy in the New World (though for some reason he gets more recognition as a champion of human rights)–some felt pulled to defend the humanity of indigenous peoples, but inevitably the Church ended up on the side of the government because they got money out of the deal.
On a related note, I’d recommend the move “The Last Supper” (“La ultima cena”, with an accent on the “u”) to anyone interested in slavery outside of the US. It’s set on a sugar plantation in Cuba in the late 1700s and came out either a year after or a year before “Roots”–it fits with that (mini) trend of films exploring the atrocities/hypocrisy of slavery. I’m pretty sure you can find it (with English subtitles) online.
on Mon May 31st 2010 at 02:00:21 Thaddeus
Mira, please have the courtesy to correctly state my position.
I have said several times I think there should be reparations. My only question is how is this going to come about?
Why does “criminal” mean “war” to you in this context? The only mention of war is that, AFAIK, the only time international law has dealt with reparations against a nation is after one has LOST a war and the international legal process is in the hands of the victors. To wit, Germany after WWII. Reparations are also occasionally judged in trade and fishing disputes because both sides have an interest in keeping within a general international system which may someday rule in their favor.
But never, to my knowledge, has any international court rules that a country pay reparations for evil-doing and said country paid them without a war occurring.
Personally, I’d think blacks would have a much better chance that way – though still not a very good one. As for “acting within the remit of the law”, seeing as how international law does not deal with this issue, how is that going to occur? There IS no international law on this issue, J, so you can’t be acting in the remit of it.
Here’s an example: Durban conference calls for reparations. Pretty much every major power pulls out of Durban. How is this going to come in front of international courts, given that the countries who run that system are the same ones who won’t listen to the argument for reparations?
4. As for people wasting their time, to use your own words. I am sure there were many who said that about Martin Luther King.
Perhaps. But King had the U.S. Constitution to work with as well as the consciences of a good portion of white folks.
Segregation could actually be fought in the U.S. because there was a higher law: FEDERAL law. If there was an INTERNATIONAL law system actually backed up by force, then the reparations struggle might have a point. But you’ll recall that desegregation happened in many places in the U.S. south at bayonet point.
Law is useless without some police force to back it up. King played to the Federal government because he knew that was the only force that could slap the southern states in line. With the federal government on the side of desegregation, the racists would have to fold and this is indeed what happened.
Who are the reparations folks playing to? Who’s going to send bayonets to collect reparations?
Martians?
In the real world of ‘politics liberation’ the only way to know if something politically is going to succeed or fail is to endeavour.
Simply not true. There’s not a liberationist in the world who’ll say “Hey, waste your efforts on something that has absolutely zero chance of succeeding.” To use your King metaphor, it’s as if King decided to only work with, say, the Alabama and Mississippi state governments because, what the hell, anything could happen, right? Might as well start somewhere…
Any liberation strategist would agree: one needs to know how to pick one’s fights and attack where one can PLAUSIBLY achieve something. Great hopeless, romantic gestures are fine for movies, but they rarely get sh1$ done in real life.
Finally there appears an attempt here inadvertently or otherwise to deny Black people a fundamental right that all other oppressed nations have the right to ie make reparation claim.
J, no nation has that “right”. There is no “right” in international law besides might and that is a stone cold fact. Maybe 50 years from now, that will be different. But until you get a global police force of some kind, it’s utopian in the extreme to talk about “rights to reparations”.
Vietnam, for example, has a stone solid right to reparations for the damage it suffered at the hands of the U.S. As part of the 1973 peace treaty, the U.S. AGREED to pay reparations. It has broken that agreement for 37 years now and there’s not a damned thing Vietnam can do about it. Hell, they can’t even strip Henry Kissinger of his Nobel Peace Prize, let alone get their just reparations cash.
So how, exactly, do you propose “rights” in an international legal system that can’t safeguard them?
There ain’t no such animal.
We always see this type of thing in the White Supremacy World. In the West they create ‘War trials’, to deal with those not followingthe status quo, whilst in South Africa they have a ‘Reconciliation Commission’.
And that should tell you something basic: power, as Mao said, ultimately comes out of the barrel of a gun. If you don’t have a gun on your side, you can chant “reparations” until you’re blue in the face, but it ain’t gonna do you sh1$.
Now, the “gun” can be metaphorical, as it often was in the case of the U.S. Civil Rights movement, but it has to be there.
Where’s the gun that’s going to get you reparations from the U.S.?
Hey, maybe Serbia can do it! What do you say, Mira?
IIRC, in the late unpleasantness over Kosovo, Serbia managed to shoot down, like, three NATO planes, inflicting zero NATO aircrew casualties.
So that makes the loss ratio for that war something like 1,000 Serbian dead for every NATO bomb-armer who smashed his pinky with a torque wrench.
I wouldn’t place high hopes in recruiting Serbia as an effective ally against the U.S. in the international struggle for reparations, J – bastion of international human rights though the Serbs may be. [roll eyes]
on Mon May 31st 2010 at 02:52:37 J
Not sure whether much of what you say here is caught up in the world of language (semantics) or whether it applies correctly to the world.
I will stick with the former
“International law makes clear that victim groups have the right to remedies for harms done to them…In the past decade those engaged in these various struggles have begun to recognize their common cause and a global reparations movement has emerged”
http://asbarez.com/80547/the-global-reparations-movement-and-meaningful-resolution-of-the-armenian-genocide/
So we have come back full circle again:
For those who believe in the integrity of international law across the world. They have every right to follow that law that gives them redress.
A point I have already made.
Whether, they will get any redress??
This is a different matter – for them
However, the only way for these groups to know whether they can succeed or not with reparation is to engage in the struggle.
A point I also made previously.
J, I don’t know what apalls me the most: the fact that you link us to an Armenian genocide site as “proof” that reparations exist and work (even though the Armenians haven’t seen a penny), or the fact that you didn’t even read the post.
Said group’s pet legal PhD has this to say about reparations under international law (and remember, this is theory because no one has gained any yet):
International law makes clear that victim groups have the right to remedies for harms done to them. This applies to the Armenian Genocide for two reasons. First, the acts against Armenians were illegal under international law at the time of the genocide. Second, the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide applies retroactively. While the term “genocide” had not yet been coined when the 1915 Armenian Genocide was committed, the Convention subsumes relevant preexisting international laws and agreements, such as the 1899 and 1907 Hague Conventions. Since the genocide was illegal under those conventions, it remains illegal under the 1948 Convention. What is more, the current Turkish Republic, as successor state to the Ottoman Empire and as beneficiary of the wealth and land expropriations made through the 1915 genocide, is responsible for reparations.
Oh, OK. So reparations can only be charged for acts that were illegal at the time… That rules out slavery.
Guess we’ll go for a charge of genocide then, right?
Under this “law” (which is really just an international agreement), “genocide” means “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”?
Well, good luck proving “intent to destroy”. Vietnam’s got a better case AND an agreement for reparations and is still standing, hand held out.
EEEEEEEEEEEP!
Next contestant.
And the only way you can know whether you can survive a shot to the head from a .38 special is to go ahead and have someone shoot you, J.
Empiricism is no defense for stupid ideas which deductive reasoning should tell us are hopeless.
Here’s the deductive process again:
1) Ex-slaving nations control the legal system.
2) There is no higher authority to compel anyone to follow this system’s rulings.
3) If there were such an authority and it were on the side of reparations, much more could be done with such power than simple reparations.
4) Finally, international law, such as it exists, is written to SPECIFICALLY block out slavery as genocide.
Oh, and don’t forget that even if we can prove that slavery was genocide, it STILL wouldn’t qualify anyone for reparations, because genocide was only made illegal under this system in 1899.
So Armenians, Vietnamese, Bosnians, Sudanese… A whole slew of other peoples, up to and including the Jews, have been clear-cut victims of planned genocide according to the UN: not a dime have any of these people seen, as far as I am aware, in spite of the legality of their cases.
And yet you still think it’s a great and practical tactic to sue the U.S. under international law for a crime which was committed outside said law’s own understanding of the legitimate timeframe?
Riiiiiiiight….
And you have the balls to say “Well we can’t know ’til we try,” even though many other groups with much more “open and shut” cases have tried and got jack?
J, The Hague couldn’t even successfully convict Milosevic, but you SERIOUSLY think international law is the solution?
Riiiiiiiiiiiight…
You do this all the time Thad, you stae a position, and when it becomes untenable. You then shift your argument to a new position.
This is how the debate unfolded:
A commentator said:
“Let me get this straight. The American government apologized to the Japanese AND gave them 20,000 but reparations for 400 years of slavery and Jim Crow is off the table. WTF?
Not saying the Japanese American brothers and sisters did not deserve that and more, but what about AA? Why is it considered so unreasonable to do the same for us?”
And here are your replies thereafter:
1. But hell, let’s say that the U.S. goes nuts and decides to offer repatriations for all the descendants of the slaves. How’s that going to be done, first of all? By blood quantum? Because there are a lot of white people out there who are also slave descedents and you’d better believe they’ll come out of the woodwork if a handout is in the offering.
And here is the important quote from the same post
2. You SERIOUSLY want the U.S. to hand out 6 billion dollars and then say “That’s it, black people! We no longer are bound to think about racism because you’ve received your ‘I’m sorry’ cash”? You should present this idea to the far Republican right. They’d love it. A 6 billion dollar one-time settlement to never have to think about racial justice or affirmative action again would probably be considered a good buy.
3. Under international law, it would be very hard to argue reparations, period. In both the Italian/Libyan and U.S./ethnic Japanese cases, you have survivors alive today and some sort of clear-cut lineage regarding the crimes
4. Reparations is simply something that isn’t going to happen, outside the realm of science fiction
and in the same post
Reparations are a pipe dream. Literally. The kind of idea that gets into someone’s head after smoking too much and listening to a lot of Bob Marley.
When asked why did you use the above racist stereotype you go on to say:
5. Because “reparate” and “repatriate” often get mixed up in this sort of discussion.
With regard to reparartions being a global issue you wrote:
6. Good on them! You be sure to tell me when it gets beyond the radicals espousing to other radicals stage, when any non-black radical group starts seriously considering it, OK? Because I don’t see how you’re going to convince the U.S. to voluntarily hand over this sort of cash unless,
This time it not being a matter related to international law
7. Where’s that corpus regarding reparations for slavery or any other, similar, question?
In another post on the same point.
8. You’re going to have an impossible time proving either of those two points [ie genocide & slavery] under international law and leading them to reparations,
9. Summing up, I think reparations, while a wonderful idea in theory, is a complete stoner’s pipe dream in practice. To hold it out as any possible effective strategy for the improvement of black peoples’ lives in the real world is to believe that a dogmatic fantasy of a small group of militants is somehow going to convince the very people they are trying to punish to punish themselves
10. How would such an entity pay reparations and do you really think that any notional future superpower forcing such a situation would really care about the plight of black Americans? Even if said superpower were, say, Nigeria? Again, history indicates that they would not. They’d have their own agendas to worry about.
Back to reparations and smoking weed again:
11. Reparations is the kind of stupid idea that gets into a kid’s head after listening to Garveyist rhetoric while under the influence. Whether the kid in question is white or black, the idea that it is some sort of basis for real political activity is puerile
12. Now all we got to do is figure out how to collect it.
I know! We’ll get the white kids to listen to even MORE Bob Marley while stoned than usual. Then, once Garvey’s wise words have penetrated to the depths of their subconsciousness, they’ll be ready to vote black people all the money in the world.
Yeah, that’s the ticket!
Folks, here’s the bottom line, truly. All my thoughts on this matter can be boiled down to this one thing. All my thoughts on this matter can be boiled down to this one thing: HOW ARE REPARATIONS GOING TO BE ENFORCED?
This time a question to me
13. My question to you is simple and unitary: HOW is it going to happen under any conceivable circumstance, no matter how remote?
A first time admission
I know people are fighting for this (across the world my emphasis).
What I would like you to show me is any coherent vision of how reparations could possibly be enacted.
You recognize that saying “people are fighting for this” is not the same thing as showing how ANY of said people expect to achieve it?
Another response directed at me
14. so nice try at wiggling your way out of this one, J, but no go: you have no pragmatic plan for reparations. It’s simply a rhetorical and dogmatic position with you.
About what I’d expect from a Garvyite. Garvey was always big on crowd-pleasing smoke-and-mirrors rhetoric.
15. J, this is simply wrong. I know of NO case of reparations for inhuman conduct that were mandated in a court of international law.
This in response to what I said:
“the issue of reparations is something that is enshrined in international law. It is given to countries who have a legal basis for a claim of injustice etc, or when such a claim is made. Usually that case will have to be argued out in a court”.
Thad describing himself and expertise
16. I am not an expert in international law, but I HAVE read quite a lot about the Nuremburg trials, Eichmann’s trial, Native American treaty law, and several very famous reparations cases. Because of my work on the human trafficking issue, I also have a pretty good workman-like notion of how modern anti-slavery law works on an international level and how the international court in The Hague is set up.
Moreover, I have researched the reparations issue with the people here in Brazil who push it and several of the organizations who push it internationally.
So while I’m not an expert, my knowledge on this point goes far beyond a Wiki education.
So I’m not simply spouting racist nonsense when I tell you that international law, such as it exists, is not geared to take entire nations and races to court and ESPECIALLY isn’t geared to do that for crimes against humanity.
So this in essence is your position regarding the subject, and it shows the shifting of positions etc.
I think you have said it all here eloquently, and Mira did quote you accurately
Thad I used this link because it says what you have been denying for so long that charges of reparations cannot be brought because of misdeed/conduct committed by a country.
So on this point you are wrong. On a more fundamental level it aso reveals your lack of knowledge in international law, something which even you admit to yourself. Please see point 16.
Secondly, with regard to the issue of slavery, the law can be used ‘retroactively’, just as the link says. However, that will take us into the issue of when and how can the law be used ‘retrospectively?’ Again this is something you missed in the link and not being conversant with international law, by your own admission.
And still while we are on your role here on this blogas to be the disruptor/liberal/racist etc
There is one important thing which you said:
I had asked:
“Surely you are not advocating that Blacks pick up guns and obtain the monetary that way”??
“Personally, I’d think blacks would have a much better chance that way – though still not a very good one”
In the real world, this is exactly what happened with the Black Panthers. The state placed ‘agent provacauters’
within the group, to get the organisation to commits acts of violence that led to their ultimate demise – and people within the organisation’s death. In other words its a form of suicide but instigated by the powers that be
This is so common a strategy that it is used also in Britain, not so that people will die per se but to lead to the demise of radical groups – even to this day.
Very worrying that Thad should be willing to consider such a ‘strategy’ for Black people with regard to the issue of seeking reparations.
Sorry, J, that’s not true. In this case from the very beginning, I have made a point to say that I do not feel reparations bad, per se, but that they are a pipe-dream in terms of practicalities for SEVERAL different reasons.
I mean, which part of “Hey, if you can convince the U.S. government to seriously contemplate giving 6.000.000.000 dollars to black people as reparations for slavery, I’ll vote for it. Just don’t blame me for the likely results…”
It’s very easy to claim that someone is aying something that they are not by selectively cutting and pasting, J. That comment of mine came very erarly in the debate and it was repeated:
Summing up, I think reparations, while a wonderful idea in theory, is a complete stoner’s pipe dream in practice.
Liking the idea or not has nothing to do with it [my resistence to it], J: I’d just like you to show me where this is international law.
Folks, here’s the bottom line, truly. All my thoughts on this matter can be boiled down to this one thing: HOW ARE REPARATIONS GOING TO BE ENFORCED?
Hell, I’d like to see blacks get 6 trillion in reputations, if only because it’ll put another nail in the coffin of U.S. imperialist ambition.
I mean, just how often fo I have to repeat that the IDEA of reparations is not the problem, J, it’s the practical implementation? I’ve done this a half a dozen times now, and yet here you are, bald-facedly lying that I’ve somehow changed my position on this?
J, are you really that poor a reader or are you simply that manipulative a person? Because there’s no way in hell that this point could’ve somehow gotten by you unoticed if you were actually reading what I wrote.
Even your partial and very tendacious “summing up” of my points shows me sticking to one point and coming back to it again and again. Here it is, once again, repeated for the 100th time (or thereabouts):
Reparations are a pipe dream because here is no international legal or practical basis for them that could possibly be made to work.
And yes, J, I believe that your rhetoric about reparations is typical Garveyite boolshite. It is long on rhetoric and completely lacking anything that could be called a pragmatic plan. It SOUNDS good and for Garveyites like yourself, that’s all you need, isn’t it?
If that’s not the case, then show us a pragamatic outline of how reparations can be achieved. You have not done this, nor has any site you’ve linked us to done this. Nor does any site I have investigated on my own do this.
As far as I recall, I never said that charges couldn’t be brought. You enjoy paging through my old posts in search of contradictions, so knock yourself out.
Here’s my original comment on that:
Under international law, it would be very hard to argue reparations, period. In both the Italian/Libyan and U.S./ethnic Japanese cases, you have survivors alive today and some sort of clear-cut lineage regarding the crimes.
But note that NEITHER the U.S. nor Italian cases have anything to do with international law. Both countries voluntarily paid out those sums and asked for appologies from people who had been hurt by their acts in living memory.
I’m not aware of any area of international law (which is pretty vague) which can cover the U.S.-slavery case.
…and I stand by that original assessment. Nothing you’ve brought up has contradicted it. The Armenians aren’t getting cash: they’re having a HELL of a time arguing their point in court and in their case, they have a very clear lineage of the crime. Furthermore, the crime was conducted when genocide had already been outlawed.
To prove that black Americans are elligible for reparations because of genocide, you’d need to…
A) Prove that slavery was genocide in a legal and simply in a rhetorical sense (i.e. a conscious attempt to eliminate a people from the face of the earth);…
B) Prove that the genocide occurred under an operative form of international law which prohibitted it.
International law is clear on this point: a country can’t be guilty of a crime which occurred prior to the founding of the law. Seeing as how the earliest thing which could be understood as an international law or agreement against genocide was founded in 1899, then we’re pretty much SOL, aren’t we?
I suppose you could also try for reparations on the issue of slavery, but your going to run into the same problem again, I bet: international law won’t allow you to ask for reparations for something which wasn’t illegal under international law at the time.
So once again, J, the question isn’t and never has been “Can one bring charges for reparations in international court?”
The question is “Can said charges be made to work, in any way, shape or form?”
In other words, the question is “Do you have a case?”
The answer, as far as I can see, is no.
But people sue for sh17 all the time without having a case. You can bring charges up on anything you like. That was never at question. Whether or not those charges can be made to stick: THAT’S the question.
And J, no “we won’t know until we try” isn’t an answer unless the question is “How can we make money for lawyers?” Any ethical lawyer will tell you not to pursue a case unless you have some solid legal basis to do it. Sure, you can ignore the fact that you have a solid legal base, and charge away, but that’s not going to do you any good at all.
Its clear to see what was your original points. No amount of moving the ‘goalpost is going to change this fact:
I have quoted you at great lengths:
These were you initial comments.
As I said this is the ‘tactics’ you continue to use. When you are proved wrong on a point. You then go on to say, ‘I never said that’, ‘I never meant that’ etc. Or in this instance points 1 & 2 was not your starting point, but rather you begun your position at point 3 .
Let’s be honest here you are against reparations per se for Black people in America but you are attempting to utilse a ‘honest’ pretext to justify your position. And the one you are attempting to use is that you cannot see ‘how its going to work??’.
This in essence is what this dialogue is about.
on Tue Jun 1st 2010 at 00:16:33 Thaddeus
Nice try, J.
I’ll stand by what I originally said and note two things:
I’m not against reparations in theory, I think it’s never going to work in practice and that it’s thus a waste of time or a stoner’s pipedream.
I’ve been hammering out variations on this since we began our argument and I’ve not moved one jot from that position.
You can do all the creative cutting and pasting you like, but it doesn’t change that simple fact.
Nor does it change the fact thatm since we began the discussion, I’ve repeatedly challenged you to show us a pragmatic way in which reparations could be achieved, something you have yet to do.
Your entire argument regarding reparations to date can be summed up as follows:
“Friends, if we had some ham, we could have a ham sandwich, if we had some bread.”
on Tue Jun 1st 2010 at 00:22:00 FG
All this talk about reparations (i.e. cash handouts) is just a distraction from pursuing real solutions to the negative consequences of European colonialism. The focus should be on resolving the social problems experienced disproportionately by slave descendants and Native Americans so that they can catch up with whites. Why do so many minority families break up? Why do gaps in cognitive ability show up in minority kids at young ages? Why do so many minority kids get into crime and substance abuse? Determining the answers to these questions and formulating realistic policies based on them are key extricating ourselves from the racial quagmire.
on Tue Jun 1st 2010 at 00:59:14 MerriMay
Seriously, it’s like flogging a dead horse!! You’re spot on about those tactics though, it’s painfully obvious.
Merri, I seriously have better things to do than think up arcane strategies for trolling you and J.
on Tue Jun 1st 2010 at 10:34:57 J
Indeed Merrimay!!
What is even more ‘painful’ though is the influence that he and his partner (who is Black) has outside cyberspace iin the real world. With their anti-Black politics, and also – what must be assumed as the poor the level of education, if what has been shown on this blog, with the lack ability to reason, critical thinking etc. I dare to think how this all plays it out for the students but particularly the Black ones??
This is what is also painfully obvious!!
What you wrote her is a little confusing, can you kindly clarify??
When you say reparations is a ‘distraction’. Are you suggesting that those who are fighting reparations do not also want ‘social justice’ and parity within the US??
Nice ad hominems, J. I love you, too!
But here’s another question regarding reparations for slavery: do ALL descendents of slaves get them? What about white descendents of slaves? What about the white descendents of WHITE slaves?
It is no ad hminems – I just told it as I saw it.
If anyone is the master of ad hominems here then I am afraid not all the posters put together (since I have been here) would be able the amount you have spewed out.
I am not sure about your question on reparations either, unless it is another attempt to move the ‘proverbial goalpost’.
I think it is, be that as it may…
The law is clear, and it is usually ‘inclusive’ to all members.
Thus if Whites can formulate a claim, whether it be local or under international law, then they are within their right to make a reparation claim.
The law is also clear that you can’t claim for crimes that weren’t crimes at the time they were committed.
How do you propose to get around that particular part of international law, J?
If ‘they’ can argue and give reason as to why the law should be used retrospectively – since it can be applied thus.
For instance with regard to Black people. Western nations and individuals are benefitting from the ramifications of slavery even today. Africa as a continent find itself in its current position directly as a result of this event.
So it depends if those who are advocating reparation can show that the argment of people NOT being alive is ‘superfluous’ to the effects of the crime, especially as it is still impacting today.
And again whether this argument will be accepted or rejected and/or before a court, does not preclude groups attempting to make such a claim, if they believe they have a ‘good’ argument.
on Thu Jun 3rd 2010 at 17:11:00 Thaddeus
The law is quite clear: you can’t hold people culpable for things that are illegal by today’s standards but weren’t illegal then. Retroactivity has nothing to do with it.
And once again, the argument here was never about whether people CAN take a case to court: it’s about whether or not said activity is a waste of time and resources.
I say it is. I challenge you to show us how reparations could conceivably IN ANY WAY come about. You have studiously avoided doing so.
Given that, I think it’s quite safe to assume that reparations, for you, is a convenient dogma and not a practical strategy.
on Fri Jun 4th 2010 at 00:25:59 J
Someone somewhere else had made reference to Roots.
Now this film is not for the fainthearted. I have just found my own personal copy a second ago, by chance.
“American distributors felt that such scenes were too incendiary, and forced Jacopetti and Prosperi to remove more than thirteen minutes of footage explicitly concerned with racial politics for American and other Anglophone audiences”.
Goodbye Uncle Tom
xxx xxx xxx cert 30.
on Fri Jun 4th 2010 at 03:16:58 leigh204
^ @J:
I finished watching this just now and it was stomach turning. The rape/torture scenes…omigosh. Everything was disturbing and sickening.
on Thu Jul 15th 2010 at 14:35:50 Kwamla
Curious. I just decided to what this film. I was indeed shocked!!!
I had expected a semi- disturbing watered down version of what slavery was about. But I have to say I was truly surprised…
The background info you provided is also quite useful. And I can imagine why they might want to do this. I wonder what those omitted scenes would have looked like?
This film should be compulsory viewing in all educational establishments. Simply for the purpose of allowing ALL peoples – Black, white POC, Jews etc.. to re-connect with the horrors of the past most inhumane treatment of a people.
I say this because I believe most of the present traumas and conflicts today between Blacks and whites can be traced directly to this 500 year period of shielded history.
One of the beautiful touches is how the narrator, towards the end, plays out scenes from the past and contrasts these in the present (Not sure when this is).
It clearly shows how much of this conflict is still trapped in the psyches of all of this. So for me films like this are about releasing guilt and shame NOT about holding on or increasing them
Sadly, this view is obviously not shared by the American distributors.
Now I wonder if Thaddeous has watched the film and commented on it? Some how I doubt if it would make any difference to his presentation of views.
One last observation: I noticed at the end when the film attempted to show white people on the receiving end of the same brutal violence they inflicted on Black people.
Lets suppose all those people running around naked, brutalized and de-humanized had been white and the people carrying out these inhumane treatments as well as documenting the process had been Black. In other words Black people (Or any other peoples of colour) exchanged places with white people.
What would have been the affect on the white psyche?
And would the American distributors still have wanted to censor or make those cuts?
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on Thu Feb 9th 2012 at 05:28:56 Maurice L
Damn this was a good post. The comments are good as well.
on Sun Jul 8th 2012 at 15:58:23 rb
I think that this is abit racist
on Mon Aug 27th 2012 at 18:59:59 admin
Why have you not mentions ANYTHING at all about the Arab slave trade and the 150 million Africans enslaved by the Arabs, and the 50 million whites, asians and orientals enslaved and sold by Muslims? Why have you forgotten that Muslim sharia law and the mass conversion of Africans, is what brought and invented the slave trade and export of human beings to Africa over 1000 years before any Hispanic, Oriental, South American, European or American were even involved in slave trading?
And you have also omitted that African kings REFUSED to end the slave trade and blame the British for interfering into their god given right to sell slaves. You also mention nothing of blacks in America who were freed – yet kept their own black slaves, purchased and sold them like other slave owners. You also mention nothing that after Africans were converted to Islam, they felt they had the right to enslave people and willingly marketed, captured and sold their own people – making millions in profit from this trade with Muslims.
At present in 2012 there are only two continents that still sell and purchase slaves: Africa and the Middle East. The trade continues, although no one in the west purchase slaves anymore since the past 200 years or so.
Why are you not writing about African slavery of their own people – which solely happened due to Islamic sharia law, which supports slavery? Most of Africa is Muslim, due to mass conversion of Africans during the 14 centuries of Arab slave trade.
@ Admin
When I write a post I write the title first. Then I write 500 words about it. The title of this post is “The Transatlantic slave trade”, not “People other than Europeans who traded and owned black slaves”.
I have written about Africans and Arabs and slavery, not as history but as an argument white racists use to preserve their moral blindness, which seems to be what you are doing:
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2009/10/03/the-arab-trader-argument/
https://abagond.wordpress.com/2010/09/22/africans-sold-their-own-people-as-slaves/
At present in 2012 there are only two continents that still sell and purchase slaves: Africa and the Middle East.
I have news for you; when Ukrainian, Russian and other Eastern European pimps kidnap women and have them locked up in a house selling azz and not giving those women compensation of freedom….guess what…THAT’S SLAVERY.
Trans Atlantic reminents of slavery exists in Brazil, where they exploit workers to go long distances, stay in barricks situation, get room and board and work like dogs, but, there horrible salarie cant even pay the room and board, so , they cant even get out of the debt, they have to stay on as slave labor…this is more than once and they talk about it as slavery in the news , so that isnt my depiction…and these people are mostly brown and black people
We have all heard of that version with women and sex traficing, and, that is how it works with men, in labor camps…they cant pay off their room and board and transport debt
on Tue Aug 28th 2012 at 15:04:07 admin
We need to end the slave trade COMPLETELY no matter where in the world it is. Unfortunately when it comes to Islam, slavery is endorsed by the religion. This means they converted millions of Africans to Islam to become their co-partner in the export slavery business.
SomeGuy: everyone know’s that the sex slave trade, is slavery. Again 80% of the entire slave trade is managed by Muslims due to their religious laws, that see no crime in killing or enslaving other people. The rest is by Russian mafia gangs and other criminal organizations.
Today there are an estimated 27 million people living in slavery.
on Tue Aug 28th 2012 at 15:20:14 SomeGuy
Backpedaling.
Backpedaling? WHAT Backpedaling? There is no backpedaling about anything. You trivialize the origin of exported slave industry simple because you don’t bother to research it. Asia and the Middle East will not permit their history to be openly examined. 200 million slaves captured by Arabs and you spend pages and pages on hispanic, portugese, american and other slave history that were a drop in the ocean in comparison.
Blacks are the ones backpedaling right back into slavery, by converting to Islam! How dumb can people be? American prisons are full of blacks converting to Islam.
Go to youtube and listen to Simon Deng and other slaves who recently escaped slavery under Muslim law, after their countries were converted into Islamic societies. They imagined Islam would bring them good things to their countries. Instead after gaining political control, they quickly started enslaving people. You can buy black slaves for $10 in Sudan, Niger and other places that are MUSLIM societies.
on Tue Aug 28th 2012 at 18:29:39 abagond
This post is about the Transatlantic slave trade. You are not going to derail it with your rants about Muslims. If you want to talk about Arab or African slave owners and traders, then do so at the links I gave you (repeated below). That is the proper place to talk about that stuff – that is, if you are serious and not just about derailing this thread.
on Mon Oct 1st 2012 at 17:58:31 rj
A lot of people like to bring up free negro slave owners but none of them mention how those free negroes became free nor how they came to own slaves. If you’re going to talk about something, talk about the whole story,don’t talk about it half way
on Sun Jun 30th 2013 at 13:18:06 j2000scott
i wonder why the Holy Bible. recognized and did not condemn slavery.
here is my take: in Old Testament days 2000 b.c. to 400 b.c. slavery was
accepted. A practice of tribes capturing slaves included Egyptians owning Hebrews, Africans
owning Africans of different tribes, Apaches owning members of other tribes, etc.
No shame involved. A little similar to women of America in the 1850’s -1920 having few rights,
no voting rights. Normal in its time. Perhaps the law to love your fellow man as yourself
quickened, informed man of God’s Will, and put into motion an energy that will discredit
slavery as a moral practice. The issue of shame began with the Golden Rule tho it took years
to fully develop in man’s collective consciousness.
on Tue Aug 27th 2013 at 19:37:47 Anton
Thank you for this post. Yet it is horrifying. And yes, whites often think that Africa is a country.
on Thu Oct 3rd 2013 at 22:25:26 Queen Ciara-Adira
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on Tue Oct 22nd 2013 at 08:20:36 Dana
Ending the Slavery Blame-Game
By HENRY LOUIS GATES Jr.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/opinion/23gates.html?hp&_r=0
on Wed Dec 11th 2013 at 16:12:18 bethe37
Mel, I’m white and I have tears pouring down my face. Did I know all this stuff already? Yeah, but it sickens the heart to read it. How is it possible we live in a world so dark? Thank God change has come thru good men and women who sacrificed so much to bring change, but then… it’s still out there, that darkness. Human trafficing. We must abolish the ownership and abuse of other humans… it must be wiped off the face of the earth. I pray, before one more child is taken, change will come.
Love your fellow man, stop hating. We need each other.
on Sat Dec 28th 2013 at 10:14:09 EPILOGUE – THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH | there is no debt
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on Fri Oct 10th 2014 at 02:39:09 Sherilyn
I don’t believe that Africans started slavery long before the Europeans showed up . I believe that they did sold their own for commodities yes because of greed but this information is totally bias
on Fri Jun 12th 2015 at 20:05:02 Nancy Griffin
“A common white belief is that Africans “sold their own” as slaves. That is based on yet another common white belief: that Africa is a country. ”
Did you just make this up, or did you assume this? The truth is that some folks believe that slavery was strictly a white-vs-non-white issue, and the point being made by some is that it was not just whites buying-and-selling non-whites, that some of the non-whites participated as well, whatever their motives.
Some historians claim that Africans also mistaken assumed they were selling other Africans into servitude, not slavery, which was a common practice in Africa in the 1700s. I am not convinced of this, but some leading historians believe it is true.
Either way, I think your statement is your opinion, not fact.
Walter Rodney had some interesting thoughts on the slave trade as part of the process of Europe underdeveloping Africa…interesting book but not sure how seriously scholars of the slave trade take it
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on Sun Oct 4th 2015 at 19:22:00 EPGAH
Remember, savages–especially MOSLEMS–NEUTERED most their slaves, which is why it didn’t “fall upon the children”–what children?
For everyone else, if you could put two really expensive items together and have a third really expensive item free, you’d be a fool not to.
Savages (Before they were counted as human)
I’m sure if people found a way to make cars or money reproduce, they surely would.
BUT there are still two-legged puppy mills long after slavery, so what’s the excuse there?
Or are they continuing because slavery wasn’t ended in other countries?
on Sat Mar 26th 2016 at 16:06:36 Nicole cox
What was the aim of seasoning
on Sat Mar 26th 2016 at 18:51:31 Afrofem
@Nicole cox
The aim of seasoning was to break the will of formerly free people and replace it with the acceptance of servitude.
on Wed Mar 30th 2016 at 00:42:57 Mighty matty
stop Thaddeus.
on Wed Mar 30th 2016 at 00:52:42 Willy Wrangler
Thaddeus you need to stop with your novel jesus h christ
on Wed May 18th 2016 at 23:00:35 Foh
If there was limited food and water how did any of the slaves live forget half. No air how did they breathe? No space to even roll over which most were laying on their backs and were vomiting no reports of numerous deaths from choking. I can go on and on most importantly where are the North American slave ships? I’ll wait, not once in site and it doesn’t matter that they were wood this was just hundreds of years ago they would of survived. Basically my point is so far this sounds like a bunch of bullshit you know why? Because most black people were already here long before them stinking 13 colonies words of advice the only thing that matters is physical proof not documents because anyone can Doctor up fake paper work, don’t believe everything that’s told to you no matter who it comes from.
on Sat Oct 28th 2017 at 18:51:53 Tomism
“Many Jews look white but in essence are not white because they have Jewish blood…like people believe whites were behind the African Slave Trade, when it was actually jews. There were also white slaves, working next to black slaves… and black plantation owners, who owned white and black slaves. To afford the cargo, ships or pay the captains, set up the ports, took money, something most whites did not have back then….it took European Christian whites to end slavery, after fighting against the powerful jewish lobby to keep it going.” -Harold Wallace Rosenthal
Jews have successfully managed to shift the blame for enslaving Blacks away from the themselves to Whites instead and they’ve used this lie to guilt trip compassionate White people and to agitate Blacks against Whites.
Whites did not have the money to afford a slave, let alone a ship full…the ports, ships, cargo…the entire African Slave Trade was a jewish operation, from beginning to end.
Jews and the transatlantic slave trade forms part of the wider history involving Jews and slavery which involved not only Africans, but also Europeans (especially Slavs), Middle Easterners, Central Asians and others. Specifically in relation to the transatlantic slave trade, it deals with the transportation of Black Africans to the Americas. Jews owned many of the slave-ships and had a very prominent, even leading role in the whole scheme.
Jews also sold white people as slaves to the Americas. Where tribes in Africa would kidnap other tribes to sell them to slavery to Jews, the Jews would kidnap whites. The hundreds of thousands of whites who were kidnapped, chained, whipped and worked to death in the American colonies and during the Industrial Revolution is kept secret by the Zionist-controlled media.[1]
http://immigration-globalization.blogspot.com
it was European Whites that ended the African Slave Trade, not jews or the King of Nigeria, who both fought against the ending slavery in European courts to keep it alive. The Jews were expelled from Spain on August 2, 1492, and from Portugal in 1497. Many of these Jews emigrated to Holland, where they set up the Dutch West Indies Company to exploit the new world.
White slaves were what this country was founded upon, especially in the Tobacco regions. They were worked to death and very few made to the conclusion of the in-denturedom. It was only when they needed a new slave class, that they started using the blacks. “White Cargo”
Slavery was NOT abolished by Lincoln…
just the name was changed to sharecropper with over 5 million Southern whites and 3 million Southern blacks working on land stolen by Wall Street bankers.
White, black, Indian, Hispanic, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish Confederates valiantly stood as one in thousands of battles on land and sea. Afterwards, they attended Confederate Veterans’ reunions together and received pensions from Southern States.
Photos of black Confederate veterans may be seen in Alabama’s Archives in Scrapbook – 41st Reunion of United Confederate Veterans, Montgomery, June 2,3,4 and 5, 1931.” Lincoln did not claim slavery was a reason even in his Emancipation Proclamations on Sept. 22, 1862, and Jan. 1, 1863.
Moreover, Lincoln’s proclamations exempted a million slaves under his control from being freed (including General U.S. Grant’s four slaves) and offered the South three months to return to the Union (pay 40 percent sales tax) and keep their slaves. None did. Lincoln affirmed his only reason for issuing was: “as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said (tax) rebellion.”
By 1699, the number of free blacks prompted fears of a “Negro insurrection.” Virginia Colonial ordered the repatriation of freed blacks back to Africa. Many blacks sold themselves to white masters so they would not have to go to Africa. This was the first effort to gently repatriate free blacks back to Africa. The modern nations of Sierra Leone and Liberia both originated as colonies of repatriated former black slaves.
However, black slave owners continued to thrive in the United States.
By 1830 there were 3,775 black families living in the South who owned black slaves. By 1860 there were about 3,000 slaves owned by black households in the city of New Orleans alone.http://conservative-headlines.com/2012/03/americas-first-slave-owner-was-a-black-man/
Black Slave Owners and the Civil War
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooSTTxfriC8)
Dr. Tony Martin –
The Jewish Role in the African Slave Trade
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut7I75Q_-zA)
White Slaves of Black Masters
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfi1xHjFdgM)
on Sat Oct 28th 2017 at 19:26:51 satanforce
Let me guess. White Supremacist pretending to be Nation of Islam?
on Sun Oct 29th 2017 at 01:38:15 Afrofem
Everyone is responsible for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade except the people actually responsible for the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
European Christians and their descendants blaming everyone but themselves.
on Sun Dec 3rd 2017 at 09:54:38 tecneek
..even before that the moors, and the biblical Exodus..
Satan force, the JewISH are Khazar converts, and they in their own books documented how they orchestrated the slave trade, and owned slaves… They are the synagouge of satan, per King James Bible. Also, they believe in their Talmud, not the Torah. The Classic Talmud hates black people, and believe they were cursed to be ugly, and believe in sex with young kids.. It is all in their Talmud. THEY are JewISH alright, but not Hebrew Israelites.
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on Fri May 31st 2019 at 16:41:19 jefe
They claim that the ship that transported the last shipment of African slaves to the USA was identified in Mobile Bay. The article says that the last survivor died in 1937.
Remains of the Clotilda are discovered in southern Alabama
The remains of the last slave ship to arrive in America are found, near Africatown
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/05/30/remains-of-the-clotilda-are-discovered-in-southern-alabama
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NJ man admits beating friend to death with metal dumbbell
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PATERSON, NJ -- A northern New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter for beating his friend to death with a metal dumbbell.
The Record reports that 35-year-old Esteban Castillo, of Paterson, faces up to 15 years in state prison when he's sentenced Oct. 2.
Castillo said he hit 30-year-old William Vasconello several times in the head with a 25-pound metal dumbbell on Oct. 18, 2013, during a heated argument at Castillo's apartment on Martin Street. Authorities said the men were friends, but have not disclosed what they were arguing about.
Authorities said Vasconello's body was found two days after the killing. Castillo was arrested days afterward and initially was charged with murder and criminal weapons possession.
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Disney prepares to officially unveil plant-based menu
By Jessica De Nova
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The happiest place on Earth is adding more plant-based options to its menu.
Disneyland Resorts is preparing to officially announce its plant-based menu items in the spring of 2020.
The resort's Culinary Director, John State, said his team has been listening to their guests.
"We're inspired by their feedback, going back into the kitchen, working on creating, innovating and introducing new flavors that just happen to be plant-based. Plant-based is what our guests are looking for," State said.
State said his crew was looking to tell a story through food.
The items available before the official launch included al pastor marinated cauliflower tacos at Rancho del Zocalo Restaurante, cape gooseberries in the Rongo Salad at the Disneyland Hotel and bulgogi-style plant-based sausage in the Ronto-less Garden Wrap at Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge.
"It really ties into where the land is and what the characters are," State said.
State said his favorite were the potato flautas at Lamplight Lounge inside Disney California Adventure Park.
"This is actually a hidden gem. It's probably becoming the most popular dish on the menu," State said, right before breaking it down: "Crispy corn tortillas, filled with soft potatoes, topped with a plant-based chorizo, slightly spicy, serrano chili tomatillo salsa and then topped with a fragrant fresno-chile, escobiche-style salad with arugula."
Several resort guests were glad to hear there was more to choose from.
John South said he is 90% vegetarian and found it hard to stick to his diet while traveling.
"I'm ready to try some," South said.
Kat Walker said she had just been certified as a dietitian.
"The plant-based approach is kind of getting bigger in America which I think is great because it is a healthier option for our bodies. It has shown a lot more benefits like disease prevention and overall health. I think it's great that Disney is on board," Walker said.
Skye McGuffie was visiting with friends from Australia. The group said they were vegan and were excited to see the diet was growing in popularity in the United States.
"Super, super excited. There's quite a few Instagram accounts out there that follow around the specialized vegan options at Disney Resorts, so it sort of made life a lot easier now, especially because they're using a symbol on the menu and things like that," McGuffie said.
Staring in spring of 2020, all plant-based items on the resort's menu will be labeled with a leaf icon.
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Home Policy Issues Arbitration Under Attack
Improving Process Better than Uncertainty, Costly Litigation
Arbitration is an alternative forum to resolve disputes outside of civil court. There is no question that arbitration is more efficient and less costly for both parties, because the rules of evidence and procedure are less formal than in civil litigation, meaning the setting is less intimidating for individuals who may not be represented by legal counsel.
Both the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and California law favor the use of arbitration, and the FAA broadly protects against any state judicial or legislative effort to invalidate arbitration agreements.
Each year, special interests attack arbitration with legislation to prohibit the enforcement of arbitrated agreements. Trial attorneys and organized labor sponsor or support these measures for separate reasons.
The trial lawyers oppose the quicker and more efficient resolution of cases, which reduces the opportunity to generate attorney’s fees. Since arbitration agreements also contain class action waivers (meaning the claim must proceed individually rather than as a class of plaintiffs), the consumer attorneys generate fewer fees.
Even though organized labor widely utilizes mandatory arbitration clauses in collective bargaining agreements, it opposes extending this tool to private employers in a non-union setting.
The FAA was enacted in 1925, re-enacted in 1947, and precludes any limitation on arbitration. Since 1984, the U.S. Supreme Court has time and again explicitly declared that any state statute which seeks to ban, limit, preclude, discriminate against, or interfere with the use of arbitration agreements is preempted under the FAA.
As clarified by Justice Elena Kagan in a 2017 Supreme Court decision, Kindred Nursing Centers Ltd. Partnership v. Clark, the FAA not only enshrines the enforcement of existing arbitration agreements, but also protects against rules that interfere with how those agreements are made.
Policy Arguments Regarding Arbitration
Given the decade-long legislative debate over arbitration, the policy arguments have been fully aired. Here are the main charges against arbitration and the well-documented responses:
• Arbitration Denies Employees and Consumers Substantive Rights.
False. Opponents make this argument ad nauseum, substituting repetition for accuracy. Courts have repeatedly and consistently stated that an arbitration agreement which seeks to waive any substantive right (such as a right to equal pay, protection from discrimination or harassment, or exemption from a statute of limitations) is invalid and unenforceable.
• Arbitration Is Biased against Consumers and Employees.
False. Opponents of arbitration argue that the deck is stacked against plaintiffs, and employers are more likely to win. Studies on this issue are mixed, some suggesting employees/consumers do the same if not better in arbitration than they do in civil litigation, while others disagree. Often overlooked, however, is that individuals can have better access to arbitration than to civil litigation. Studies have consistently found that low-wage workers and minorities face a significant challenge in finding legal representation for civil litigation. Without arbitration, many individuals in disadvantaged groups would not have access to justice at all.
• Arbitrators are Paid by the Company and Are Therefore Biased.
False. California law requires any employer that requires arbitration as a condition of employment to pay for the arbitration. You can’t have it both ways—requiring employers to pay for the forum and then criticizing them for following the law. Also, each party in arbitration is given the same opportunity to pick the arbitrator after the arbitrator makes extensive disclosures regarding his or her background, unlike civil litigation, where a judge is assigned.
• Arbitration Does Not Have the Same Rules as Court.
True—but that’s a good thing. Arbitration is less formal than civil litigation, but this does not necessarily benefit or disfavor either party. An unrepresented party in arbitration may be able to more easily navigate those rules than complex statutory rules of evidence and civil procedure.
• Arbitration Cannot Be Appealed.
Sometimes true. Arbitration awards cannot be appealed on the same grounds as a court decision, but may be appealed for the following reasons:
– the award was procured by corruption, fraud, or other undue means;
– corruption by the arbitrator;
– if misconduct by the arbitrator substantially prejudiced the rights of the party;
– the arbitrator exceeded his/her powers and it affected the merits of the decision;
– the rights of the party were substantially prejudiced due to the arbitrator’s refusal to postpone a hearing or consider evidence; or
– the arbitrator failed to make a timely disclosure. The limited grounds for appeal ensure that arbitration is an efficient forum that provides a quicker and definitive resolution so that both parties are not stuck in civil litigation for years.
Legislative Attacks in 2019
Despite the strong federal preemption in this policy area, the 2019 Legislature will inevitably propose banning, limiting, or interfering with arbitration agreements. Given the political power of the arbitration opponents, these bills may pass the Legislature. If signed, such proposals will be challenged immediately and likely meet the same fate as previous attempts to limit arbitration.
For example, AB 2617 (Weber; D-San Diego) was signed into law in 2014 and prohibited mandatory arbitration agreements for certain civil rights violations. It was deemed unconstitutional and preempted in 2018 by Saheli v. White Memorial Medical Center.
CalChamber Position
Legislation seeking to limit, interfere with, or prohibit arbitration agreements violates federal law and is counterproductive to protecting the rights of consumers and employees. Rather than offering any useful protections or reforms, such legislation on the contrary creates uncertainty and ultimately costly litigation. Stakeholders should instead consider legislation that improves the arbitration process for all parties without running afoul of federal law.
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Live Inspired: an emotional return to Minneapolis
July 10, 2019 August 16, 2019 Categories all posts, Live Inspired, U.S.Minneapolis, Minnesota, Twin Cities2 Comments on Live Inspired: an emotional return to Minneapolis
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Last Wednesday, I landed in Minneapolis for the first time in a year.
And the first emotion I could identify upon my return to my adopted home of eight years was “weird.”
Obviously, I was more than excited to see friends and former colleagues, for a three-week summer stint on the precipice of returning to Central America.
But as the plane from Montréal, my previous stop, descended into the Twin Cities, I could only think of the last time I was in that air space.
It was June 28, 2018, and I was leaving everything I knew, bound for everything I didn’t. I was ready for this move, I thought. Weeks earlier, I had sold all my belongings — the things acquired over 32 years of life — left my job at the Star Tribune, said a tearful goodbye to the house that claimed so many memories, bid farewells to friends of a lifetime. I did so with so many dreams, with so much motivation. I’ve never felt regret.
But in that moment, in a left-side window seat in the back of the plane, I was struggling to breathe.
These are the things I haven’t talked about as much. By now, perhaps many of you know me as an intrepid nomad, wandering solo with confidence and with inspiration, to lesser travelled places of the world. But on that flight, I was struggling. As soon as I landed in my home town of Raleigh, to briefly see family before embarking to Mexico in what would be the first chapter of this ongoing journey of a lifetime, I checked myself into a hospital.
I thought I was having a heart attack.
In fact, it was the first panic attack of my life, my physiology reacting in a way my bold mind couldn’t even wrap itself around. Even if my brain couldn’t grasp the upheaval I was charging into, my body somehow knew.
Still, as I landed in my old stomping grounds, I hadn’t realized that the first moments of my homecoming would be so emotional, too. My friend Jill picked me up from the airport and brought me back to her home in Edina, where I stayed for my first several days in town. When we walked in, I saw Avery, her daughter — a baby, when I left, now a walking, talking, long, blonde-haired little girl who understandably had no clue who I was. Over the Fourth of July, I spent time with my friend Erin, who had gotten married when I was in Honduras.
Driving into the city, it was hard to miss all that had changed there, too. My old watering hole, Hola Arepa — where I had my first dinner back — had changed their menus, and their bar stools. A new restaurant sat at the corner of Lyndale and Lake, where Hasty Tasty, and before that Falafel King, once sat. Burger Jones had a new sign. New construction, new restaurants, were everywhere. As I drove up Lake St., toward the highway, I passed Lake Bde Maka Ska, the site of walks and jogs during all seasons, of picnics and friend reunions and fish tacos at the now defunct Tin Fish at water’s edge. Drifting past evidence of a life I once had, I stretched to see the expanse in the hazy dusk. Suddenly, again without understanding all of the whys, tears poured down my face.
This city, my old home, had changed — without me. But even more that, I had changed.
In the last year, I’ve become in many ways, a new person. Always adventurous, I have, necessarily become braver, bolder and better at listening to my gut. Always very independent, I’ve found that trait stretched far beyond any previous challenge — finding ways to be wholly responsible not just for my income and safety, but also my mental health and wellbeing in a new existence that lacks the support network I was also so accustomed to in my professional and personal life. I hope I’ve learned to listen better and feel more fully. As I’ve expanded my understanding of Central America, its social-economic realities and geo-political forces and the ways in which the U.S. has negatively contributed to all that, I’ve certainly become more deeply humbled.
As much as anything, I’ve realized, anew, just how much I value the things I sacrificed for this journey: the routine, the physical and emotional support, the professional guidance, the simplicity of life.
I cried that first evening, I realized later, because my body and heart were remembering what it felt like to feel secure, safe, at ease. I’m so happy with my new existence in so many ways. But driving past remnants of my old life unloaded the flood of all the emotions I miss: Stability. Normalcy. It was a time when my heart felt too empty of change and risk and personal growth, but oh so full of love.
A few days later, I drove by the house I said goodbye to a year ago; pushing my backpack into a cab then, and feeling the physical squeeze of my whole chest as we drove away.
It was gone. My old front walk was still there, but now it led to a deep construction pit lined by cranes and concrete blockades and caution tape. I had heard it was happening, but still, turning around the corner and seeing the cavity for myself made my jaw sink and my heart pound. The rose bushes, the peonies, the white brick interior, every scrap of hardwood we’d danced on late at night; it had all been cleared away — along with our neighbor’s house and the dry cleaner, making room for new neighborhood projects and condos.
The beautiful memories still lasted, and will, forever. But as I sat parked out front, down curb from the Hello Pizza I’d so often run over to for a slice, they felt so far away.
The house had changed, and I had, too.
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frank w allen (@FrankieWAllen) says:
Hate to see tear downs, I’ll never forget when traveling in Germany with my friend from Alsace Louis Wendling, looking at a falling down 16th century farmhouse, Louis said, ‘oh it’s way to old to tear down.
Oh Amelia! What touching words! They brought tears…
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Higher Biopsy Rate, Lower Yield with Screening Breast MRI Versus Mammography
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Pavankumar Tandra, MBBS Assistant Professor, Oncology Fred and Pamela Buffet Cancer Center Omaha, NE
Breast cancer impacts nearly 1.5 million annually in the world and causes a considerable number of cancer-related deaths among women. Annual screening mammography starting at age 40 is the standard of care for average-risk women. There is ample evidence to suggest that magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) will benefit women with high-risk breast cancer.
As described in this article, in an observational cohort study of 812,164 women from six breast cancer surveillance registries, published recently in JAMA Internal Medicine, the researchers evaluated the biopsy rates and yield of breast MRI screening in women with and without a personal history of breast cancer (PHBC) in the first 3 months of their screening. The lead author of the study, Diana S. Buist, PhD, MPH, concluded that the age-adjusted biopsy rates were nearly two times and six times higher with MRI compared with mammography alone in patients with PHBC (6.3 versus 2.2%) and without PHBC (10.5 versus 1.6%), respectively. These differences in the biopsy rates were not explained by breast cancer risk as the higher rates were observed across all risk groups. Screening with MRI did not lead to an increase in the yield of both DCIS and invasive cancer.
Commenting about the study, Dana Ataya, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, said, “Breast MRI is an 'incredible' tool that can detect cancers invisible on a mammogram, but that it comes at a price ... MRI finds additional invasive cancers that are invisible on a mammogram and that otherwise would have been missed."
It is essential to understand that the MRI is not yet a screening tool except in a high-risk population. What we found helpful in our practice is a thorough review of the prior imaging with a breast radiologist and then decide on supplemental MRI on a case-by-case basis. Communication with patients is essential about the added risk of biopsies with a low yield.
Full Critique
The biopsy rate is higher and the cancer yield is significantly lower in women with and without a personal history of breast cancer who undergo screening magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in addition to mammography compared with having mammography alone.
In the 90 days following screening, the age-adjusted core and surgical biopsy rates were double with the use of screening MRI compared with mammography alone in women with a personal history of breast cancer, and almost six times higher in women without a personal history of breast cancer, according to findings from an observational cohort study.
"Differences in core and surgical biopsy rates by imaging modality were not explained by breast cancer risk, because higher biopsy rates were observed across all risk groups following MRI compared with mammography," wrote Diana S. Buist, PhD, MPH, director of Research and Strategic Partnerships at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle, and colleagues in JAMA Internal Medicine.
The cancer yield for both ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and invasive cancer was also significantly lower in the cohort that underwent MRI.
For the study, the researchers used six Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium registries to determine biopsy intensity and yield in the 90 days following a screening examination among 812,164 women who underwent at least one screening digital mammogram or screening breast MRI between 2003 and 2013. In all, there were approximately two million imaging episodes. Biopsies were linked with an individual screening episode to ensure that biopsy intensity was based on the most invasive biopsy performed within the 90-day follow-up period.
The biopsy rate was higher following MRI than following mammography (6.3% versus 2.2%) in screening episodes in women with a personal history of breast cancer, and 10.5% versus 1.6%, respectively, in those without a personal history of breast cancer.
Among screening episodes in women with a personal history of breast cancer, 34.7% of core biopsies associated with a mammography episode resulted in a DCIS or invasive cancer diagnosis compared with 19.5% associated with an MRI episode. For surgical biopsies the percentage was higher, but the same comparative relationship held. Mammography compared with MRI had a higher yield of DCIS and invasive breast cancer and lower benign biopsy rates regardless of personal history of breast cancer.
For screening episodes in women without a personal history of breast cancer, overall DCIS and invasive cancer rates were lower than among episodes with a personal history of breast cancer, but the same comparative relationship between mammography and MRI was observed.
The age-adjusted core and surgical biopsy rates per 1,000 episodes were more than double following MRI compared with mammography (57.1 versus 23.6) in women with a personal history of breast cancer. The differences in rates were even larger in women without a personal history of breast cancer: 84.7 following MRI and 14.9 following mammography episodes.
High-risk benign lesions were more commonly identified following MRI compared with mammography, a finding that was not observed in propensity-matched sensitivity analysis, the researchers reported.
In contrast, DCIS and invasive yield was significantly higher following mammography compared with MRI episodes in women with a personal history of breast cancer: 404.6 (95% CI 381.2-428.8) versus 267.6 (95% CI 208.0-337.8) per 1,000 episodes; and nonsignificantly higher, but trending in the same direction, in women without a personal history of breast cancer: 279.3 (95% CI 274.2-284.4) versus 214.6 (95% CI 158.7-280.8).
The biopsy rates were approximately five-fold higher for MRI compared with mammography episodes across all risk groups.
"Further work is needed to identify women who will benefit from screening MRI to ensure an acceptable benefit-to-harm ratio," Buist and colleagues advised. "Women who undergo screening MRI should also be notified that their likelihood of undergoing a core or surgical breast biopsy is significantly higher than for women undergoing mammography alone, with a lower likelihood of clinically actionable findings."
Benefit of MRI Outweigh Risks in High-risk Women
Asked for her perspective, Dana Ataya, MD, of the Imaging Institute at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, said via email that the strength of breast MRI is its ability to detect breast cancers that are not visible on a mammogram. "The trade-off, as shown in this populations-based study, is that breast MRI has a decreased specificity compared to mammography, and biopsy was needed in 6-10% of breast MRIs to clarify a finding. This is in contrast to mammography alone, where biopsy was needed in only 1-2% of cases."
Ataya said that the study by Buist et al showcases what breast radiologists, breast surgeons, and medical breast specialists have understood and counseled patients on for years -- namely that breast MRI is an "incredible" tool that can detect cancers invisible on a mammogram, but that it comes at a price. For many women who are at an increased risk of developing breast cancer, however, the benefits of breast MRI (i.e., finding a breast cancer invisible on a mammogram) outweigh the risks of a negative biopsy.
"Nonetheless, a thorough discussion of the pros and cons of screening breast MRI needs to take place with a patient prior to obtaining a breast MRI," she wrote.
Although clear guidelines exist for screening breast MRI in high-risk women without a personal history of breast cancer, no similar published guidelines exist yet for women with a personal history of breast cancer. Most women with a personal history of breast cancer do not routinely undergo screening breast MRI: "With that said, breast specialists have long recognized that a personal history of breast cancer puts a woman at risk for developing breast cancer in the future, and further studies are needed in order to formulate similar guidelines for screening breast MRI in this population."
Ataya said that at present, the decision to supplement screening with breast MRI in women with a personal history of breast cancer is often nuanced, and may be driven by the individual patient, oncologist, or surgeon. "As a breast radiologist, I perform a thorough review of a patient's current and prior imaging, and if I notice that a mammogram did a poor job of detecting a woman's breast cancer -- either the woman presented with an interval breast cancer [one diagnosed within 12 months of a negative screening mammogram] or had a breast cancer that was difficult to see on mammography -- I communicate that to the patient's clinical team and recommend that breast MRI be considered as a supplemental screening tool."
Ataya's bottom line for practitioners and patients who read the study and ask why breast MRI should be performed if patients have higher biopsy rates and a lower yield: "The simple answer is that MRI finds additional invasive cancers that are invisible on a mammogram and that otherwise would have been missed. In many patients who are high risk, the benefits of finding a small, node-negative breast cancer outweigh the risks of a higher biopsy rate."
The study was supported by the National Cancer Institute's Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium.
Buist and colleagues reported having no conflicts of interest.
Ataya reported having nothing to disclose.
JAMA Internal Medicine
Source Reference: Buist DSM, et al "Breast biopsy intensity and findings following breast cancer screening in women with and without a personal history of breast cancer" JAMA Intern Med 2018; DOI:10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.8549.
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A Complaint about the Added Scene
By House BleuSpade, January 18, 2009 in Open Discussion (SPOILERS)
House BleuSpade
So I read the pilot synopsis posted over on Winter is Coming, and for the most part I thought it looked very promising, having done a very nice job of condensing down a massive amount of storytelling in a manageable way. There was one thing I had a problem with... though I am well aware this may stem from my own alternate character understanding... anyways:
The scene I have a problem with was the new one added in which Jaime is bringing Tyrion news of some sort (that they're going to Winterfell I believe) and finds him in a whore house. Now, let me explain why I think this creates a different outlook on Tyrion than the one in the books.
Tyrion has a reputation for being fond of whores. With a little bit of attention, however, it becomes clear that this reputation probably started with his father, who takes every opportunity to ridicule him about the Tysha incident. Throughout the three books Tyrion is in, Tyrion has slept with exactly ONE whore: Shae. Not once in the three books has he visited a whorehouse for the purpose of fucking, even going to great lengths to stay "faithful" to his paramour. When Tyrion hired Shae back in the war camp, he told her he expected more from her than just sex. He said something along the lines of "you'll laugh at my jokes, pour my wine, wash my clothes... etc. etc." Now, looking at the complex history and character of Tyrion, it seems to me it's obvious this reputation for being a whorefiend is a little misleading- Tyrion doesnt want a Whore, he wants a Wife, but since no woman is likely to be willing (and any who are would probably not be accepted by his father), he has to make due. Once he actually GETs a wife of course, she wants nothing to do with him, so he continues pretending with Shae.
So, am I crazy, or does anyone else feel this way?
Lady Blackfish
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Board Moderators
Hrmm, I think Tyrion did whore, it's just when he came to find Shae he thought she resembled Tysha enough. Am I misremembering?
If not, that's a pretty good point, but I don't think the main gist of Tyrion's arc -- that he wants a wife (aka, a real intimate partnership) and kind of deluded himself into thinking Shae was one -- is hurt much by it.
Just a nitpick cause Tyrion is my (2nd) favorite character.
feyrband
[quote name='House BleuSpade' post='1652863' date='Jan 18 2009, 01.39']Just a nitpick cause Tyrion is my (2nd) favorite character.[/quote]
i think he likes sex and knows he can only get it from a whore. he wasnt with any in the books but definately references himself having been with them. the reason he isnt with any others throughout the books its because hes either too damn busy or he has shae the whole time. and if you have shae, you don't need any other whores.
i'm much more bothered by the ned & jaime scene.
kungtotte
Location:Stockholm, Sweden
There are numerous mentions [i]by Tyrion[/i] of his whoring, and many of them are internal dialogue which makes it unlikely that he's lying about it. For example, when Bronn brings him Shae, Tyrion recalls that the man who used to sort out whores for him didn't always tell them what to expect and so forth. So, I think that scene is canon.
When Jaime jokes that Tyrion goes to the Wall because he wants to take the black, Tyroin says something like "it´d make whores from Casterly Rock to Dorne cry", so it´s established oficially, by his own mouth and very early on. Also, it seems to me that the whorehouse scene is set to establish the closeness between brothers and fuel some witty oneliners more than to show Tyrion´s habits.
There are several important themes in AGOT that are mentioned frequently but only in internal monologues. Jaime´s fondness of Tyrion is one (being his only nice quality at that point, it´s pretty strange and therefore relevant). Lannister´s backstory at the Rebellion is another. Jaime´s Kingslayer fame needs to be established pretty soon, but no man ever calls him that to his face in the novels (as long as he´s in position of power, anyway). Ned is the only character around that can get away with it (hence the Jaime/Ned conversation that wasn´t in the books, IMO).
Be ready for many more changes, by the way. They won´t take the scripts directly form the pages, you know. And it´s a good thing; what works on paper often does not work on screen.
Brude
Opportunistic Jackal
Location:Breukelen, Nieuw Amsterdam
Tyrion whores around a lot, it's well established in the books. Shae is not the normal situation for him, he convinced himself that she might actually be in love with him and so he's actually monogamous with her. It's very sad, he wants to be loved, maybe really was once loved with his former wife, but is now very damaged by all he's been through. To satisfy his needs he whores around as much as possible, but he's really just looking for a woman to love him.
The Anti-Targ
Level 20 Social Justice Mage, with melee ability
Location:New Zealand
[quote name='Wolf Rain' post='1653085' date='Jan 19 2009, 06.29']When Jaime jokes that Tyrion goes to the Wall because he wants to take the black, Tyroin says something like "it´d make whores from Casterly Rock to Dorne cry", so it´s established oficially, by his own mouth and very early on.[/quote]
That is a line spoken in jest, so it could be confirmation of his own past whoring ways, or merely a cynical quip about an undeserved repuation.
The internal dialogue mentioned above re Bronn's service as pimp in comparison to previous people who served in that capacity is more infomrative about Tyrion's true past.
The scene is a quick and easy way to establish a [negative] first impression about Tyrion which will, of course, be gradually subverted as the audience gets to know the him better.
I also think the extra Jaime / Ned scene is quite fine, as long as it is played right.
[quote name='The Anti-Targ' post='1654524' date='Jan 19 2009, 17.59']I also think the extra Jaime / Ned scene is quite fine, as long as it is played right.[/quote]
It's not a bad idea for the scene, but the dialogue...meh.
Knight of the Teabags
Location:Notts, UK
[quote name='Brude' post='1653107' date='Jan 18 2009, 18.09']Shae is not the normal situation for him, he convinced himself that she might actually be in love with him and so he's actually monogamous with her.[/quote]
Not sure even about that one, as I may have misremembered but wasn't Tyrion also having at least one Chataya's girls on the side - Alalaya her daughter? Alalaya was certainly involved enough with Tyrion that Cersai thought her worth kidnapping to use against him.
[quote name='Tom O'Sevens' post='1654633' date='Jan 19 2009, 19.44']Not sure even about that one, as I may have misremembered but wasn't Tyrion also having at least one Chataya's girls on the side - Alalaya her daughter? Alalaya was certainly involved enough with Tyrion that Cersai thought her worth kidnapping to use against him.[/quote]
No, he was pretending to see Alayaya, and I think she was was even very willing (flirtatious at the least), but he was not sleeping with her. He would sneak out of Alayaya's room and then to Shae's manse.
Paxter
Cricket Tragic
Location:Toronto, Canada
[quote name='Brude' post='1654874' date='Jan 20 2009, 14.12']No, he was pretending to see Alayaya, and I think she was was even very willing (flirtatious at the least), but he was not sleeping with her. He would sneak out of Alayaya's room and then to Shae's manse.[/quote]
Yes, Tyrion has been remarkably committed since he met Shae: he didn't even touch his wife (!) - let alone a prostitute.
[quote name='Paxter' post='1654890' date='Jan 20 2009, 00.41']Yes, Tyrion has been remarkably committed since he met Shae: he didn't even touch his wife (!) - let alone a prostitute.[/quote]
SPOILER: Yeah, but mostly that was...
...just out of a pretty strong sense of pity and sympathy for Sansa. He was quite ready to go at it on their wedding night, but once he realized how she was handling it he just couldn't go there.
Growing Stronger
i bit unrealated but i think Tyrion will die before the end..........
bonesmccoy
Tyrion's devotion to Shae always seemed to me like an exception to his general behaviour. I surmised that since he was no longer surrounded by his father or brother, he could play marriage all he wanted while acting as the Hand. Tywin even goes as far to explicitly tell him not to bring his whore (Shae) to the Red Keep, nor to visit any whores in King's Landing. Plus, now that I remember, near the end of ASOS, Tyrion wonders what the whore houses are like in the Free Cities, and mentions to himself that he's likely to spend a lot time in them.
So yea, Tyrion was a filthy boy.
Matarreyes
[quote name='The Anti-Targ' post='1654524' date='Jan 19 2009, 23.59']The scene is a quick and easy way to establish a [negative] first impression about Tyrion which will, of course, be gradually subverted as the audience gets to know the him better.[/quote]
Why on Earth negative? We live in a society liberal enough for whorehouses not to be taboo, and whoring not a filthy thing by definition. If done right, the scene can have the audience rolling on the floor with laughter: both characters involved have a gift for witty one-liners. It also can be the counterweight to the solemnity of Starks at Winterfell.
Oorag
Yeah, I don't see Tyrion's whoring as giving the audience an initially negative view of the character. Who would hold whoring against a dwarf? If anything, viewers will simply see it as par for the course at HBO. Sex and prostitution have all taken center stage in True Blood, Rome, Deadwood, Carnivale, and Sopranos.
As far as whether Tyrion's "relationship: with Shae was out of the ordinary for him, I think he always behaves that way with his prostitutes. In real life, it's called the "Girlfriend Experience" or "GFE" and it's very common. I used to search out porn and prostitution sites for a web filter company, and believe me, just about every prostitute on the web advertises the quality of her GFE. With Shae, the GFE was simply allowed to continue far longer than a simple trip to the brothel, and Shae was uncommonly convincing in her role.
[quote name='Matarreyes' post='1655955' date='Jan 21 2009, 13.02']Why on Earth negative? We live in a society liberal enough for whorehouses not to be taboo, and whoring not a filthy thing by definition. If done right, the scene can have the audience rolling on the floor with laughter: both characters involved have a gift for witty one-liners. It also can be the counterweight to the solemnity of Starks at Winterfell.[/quote]
[quote name='Oorag' post='1657175' date='Jan 22 2009, 09.23']Yeah, I don't see Tyrion's whoring as giving the audience an initially negative view of the character. Who would hold whoring against a dwarf? If anything, viewers will simply see it as par for the course at HBO. Sex and prostitution have all taken center stage in True Blood, Rome, Deadwood, Carnivale, and Sopranos.[/quote]
You are interpretting "negative" in a rather narrow and moralistic way. If I meant evil, morally bankrupt, shyphillitic little dwarf I would have said so.
You don't need to think whoring is immoral or wrong or evil or taboo to form a negative fist impression about someone who you first encounter lounging in a whorehouse. You can simply form the opinion that the person (particuarly when they are a member of the nobility) is merely someone who spends all his time, and family's money, on frivolity and does not take seriously his social responsibilities as a member of the nobility. A negative perception can merely be having low expectations of the person, or that the person is rather superficial, why bring questions of sexual morality into it?
It will all depend on how the scene is scripted and directed, but it seems an ideal way to make the audience think there is less to Tyrion than there really is (i.e. a negative first impression). An extra scene is unnecessary to establish Tyrion's whoring past, and people don't just throw scenes in [s]movies[/s] TV shows just for the hell of it.
[quote name='Brude']It's not a bad idea for the scene, but the dialogue...meh.[/quote]
I didn't read the script, just the bit saying there was an extra Jaime/Ned scene at Winterfell. If the script is bad and it doesn't come off well I hope the editing team will have the good sense to cut it out and leave it for the deleted scenes on the DVD.
freakinmayhew
None of the added scenes mentioned in the summary bothered me in the slightest. The only thing that did is that apparently they're cutting the part where Waymer Royce comes back as a wight. It's a great "Holy shit!" moment and is very cinematic if you ask me. It makes me wonder if they're deciding to cut the wights out completely or if they want to keep that secret until later on in the series.
[quote name='freakinmayhew' post='1658885' date='Jan 23 2009, 14.23']None of the added scenes mentioned in the summary bothered me in the slightest. The only thing that did is that apparently they're cutting the part where Waymer Royce comes back as a wight. It's a great "Holy shit!" moment and is very cinematic if you ask me. It makes me wonder if they're deciding to cut the wights out completely or if they want to keep that secret until later on in the series.[/quote]
I didn't realise they were getting to the wight scene in the pilot, must have missed that bit in the pilot script summary. Or have there been leaks about screenplays for subsequent episodes?
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Tag Archives: Wartburg Adult Care Community
Have A Great Father’s Day Weekend
What a wonderful weekend it will be in the 88th Assembly District. Our cities, towns and villages offer so much to make your Father’s Day weekend special. So stay close, support your local businesses and communities and enjoy the holiday. Happy Father’s Day to all the dads in the 88th.
The Junior League of Pelham’s membership committee will host a meeting for prospective new members who live in Pelham and Pelham Manor from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at the home of Tyson Stephens (1407 Roosevelt Avenue). Visit jlpelham.org for more information.
The Wartburg Adult Care Community of Mount Vernon will host its 4th annual gala in conjunction with its 150th anniversary at the Surf Club on the Sound (280 Davenport Avenue, New Rochelle). Visit wartburg.org for more information.
The Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (895 Shore Road, Pelham Bay Park) will host local historian Thomas X. Casey as he presents “Vintage Postcards of Pelham Bay and City Island” at 7:30 p.m. Visit bartowpellmansionmuseum.org for more information.
Postcards From Pelham Bay
The Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group for Survivors and Caregivers will hold a meeting at Burke Rehabilitation Center (785 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains) from 6:30-8 p.m. Visit burke.org for more information.
There will be a Veteran’s Service Agency VA Healthcare ID Sign-up at VSA (112 E. Post Road, Room 442, White Plains) from 11-3 p.m. Call 914-995-2145 for more information.
Beth El Synagogue Center (1324 North Avenue, New Rochelle) will host Shahar Sadeh, a scholar and practitioner, who will discuss “A Land of Milk and Honey? Environment, Sustainability and Peace” at 7:30 p.m. Visit bethelnr.org/milkandhoney for more information.
The Bronxville Women’s Club (135 Midland Avenue, Bronxville) will host its monthly Coffeehouse Performance at 8 p.m. The Renovators and Honor Finnegan are scheduled to perform. Visit bronxvillewomensclub.org for more information.
Honor Finnegan
Alvin & Friends Restaurant (14 Memorial Avenue, New Rochelle) will hold a Rum and Cigar Night from 6:30-9:30 p.m. There will be flights of rum from Rhum Clemente in Martinique and a seminar led by Krista Archer, a Clement North American’s Business Manager with an expertise on the rhum category. Visit alvinandfriendsrestaurant.com for more information.
The Hoff-Barthelson Music School will host a preview of its Preschool Music and Movement Program from 10 a.m.-noon at the Scarsdale Library (54 Olmstead Road, Scarsdale). Visit hbms.org for more information.
The New Rochelle Juneteenth Celebration will take place at the Hugh Doyle Senior Center (94 Davis Avenue) from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Caterer Esmerito Henriquez from Hubbard’s Cupboard will prepare lunch to go along with musical entertainment. Visit newrochelleny.com for more information.
The White Plains Historical Society will host “A Day in the Life of Colonial White Plains” from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Tibbits Park on South Broadway as part of the City’s centennial celebration. There will be a dramatic reading of the Declaration of Independence at noon by Master Storyteller Jonathan Kruk as it was read by Judge John Thomas in White Plains in July of 1776. Call 914-328-1776 for more information.
The Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (895 Shore Road, Pelham Bay Park) will host “New York Path Through History Day” from noon-4 p.m. There will be free guided tours at quarter past every hour. Visit bartowpellmansionmuseum.org for more information.
The Manor Club (1023 Esplanade, Pelham Manor) will host its Attic Treasure Tag Sale on Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Visit themanorclubofpelham.org for more information.
The White Plains Performing Arts Center will present “The Amazing Max”, a magic show with a mind of its own, at 2 p.m. Visit wppac.com for more information.
The Kevin Lee Bass Scholarship Fund will hold its annual fundraiser at Alvin & Friends Restaurant (14 Memorial Highway, New Rochelle) from 6-9 p.m. There will be live music and silent auction. Visit alvinandfriendsrestaurant.com for more information.
The Hoff-Barthelson Music School (25 School Lane, Scarsdale) will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its flute orchestra with a 1 p.m. concert. Visit hbms.org for more information.
ArtsWestchester (31 Mamaroneck Avenue, White Plains) will host a discussion with artist Marcy B. Freedman entitled “Offensive: Images of Women in Media” at 5 p.m. Visit artswestchester.org for more information.
Marcy Freedman
The BID Family Market Day will take place at the New Rochelle Library (1 Library Plaza, New Rochelle) at 11 a.m. Louis Miranda is scheduled to perform. Visit nrpl.org for more information.
The New Rochelle Council on the Arts will present “Music on the Move”, a series of pop-up concerts on the back of a flatbed truck from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. The truck will make stops at the Golden Horseshoe, Shoprite and Quaker Ridge Shopping Centers in Scarsdale and New Rochelle. Visit newrochellearts.org for more information.
Celebrate Father’s Day at The Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (895 Shore Road, Pelham Bay Park) with “Take Dad Out To The Ball Game 1864” from 1-3 p.m. The New York Mutuals will play a game under 1864 rules, using balls, bats and uniforms of the era. Visit bartowpellmansionmuseum.org for more information.
There will be a Father’s Day Family Concert at Turnure Park (26 Lake Street, White Plains) featuring The Showtime Dance Band at 7 p.m. Visit cityofwhiteplains.com for more information.
There will be a Father’s Day Celebration of Songs and Stories for Children at The Thomas Paine Cottage (20 Sicard Avenue, New Rochelle) from 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Visit newrochellearts.org for more information.
Alvin & Friends Restaurant (14 Memorial Highway, New Rochelle) will host an all-day Father’s Day Family Barbeque beginning at 11:30 a.m. Visit alvinandfriendsrestaurant.com for more information.
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Meats & Animal Products
Sannakji
These severed octopus tentacles wriggle on your plate.
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It’s a Saturday night in Seoul, and seafood lovers are prowling the stalls of the bustling, brightly lit Noryangjin Fish Market looking for dinner. Some might settle on sannakji, a traditional Korean dish, and take a bag of small, fresh octopus to the restaurants upstairs. As they wait for the chefs to slice up their meal, they sip soju, a Korean liquor made from distilled rice, wheat, or barley that pairs particularly well with raw seafood.
When the dish arrives, the severed octopus tentacles wriggle among crunchy sides of cucumbers, carrots, and pickled turnips. The diners deftly retrieve the moving meal with chopsticks, dip the pieces in sesame oil, and pop them into their mouths. The taste is chewy, salty, and fresh.
Sannakji appears on many menus as a meal or late-night snack in Korea. But restaurants abroad have been criticized for serving it. In the United States, for instance, animal rights activists argue that the still-moving octopus parts must be alive, making for a slow, painful death.
Whether or not the octopus is still alive is a matter of debate, which is also tied to our evolving understanding of octopus consciousness. Among humans, death occurs when heart, breathing, or brain functions cease. No one would suspect an amputated hand of being alive and feeling pain. These parameters, however, don’t exactly apply to the unique body and mind of an octopus. Their nervous systems are decentralized, for one: The majority of their neurons reside not in their brains, but in their tentacles. As Peter Godfrey-Smith, author of Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, writes, “It is not clear where the brain itself begins and ends. The octopus is suffused with nervousness; the body is not a separate thing that is controlled by the brain and nervous system.”
So although the octopus is technically dead after decapitation, some argue that its neuron-packed tentacles are still alive. They still respond to stimuli, recoiling from touch or suctioning to chopsticks. Some tasters feel a tight pull when the tentacles suction to their mouth or throat. So should you decide to eat sannakji, remember to swallow quickly.
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Sannakji is served throughout South Korea, as well as in Koreatowns in cities around the world. It pairs especially well with a glass or two of soju. The dish also goes by the slang of just "nakji." The Korean word for "four" is "sa," leading to some confusion.
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13-6 Noryangjin-dong, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, South Korea
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49-11 Roosevelt Ave , Queens, New York, 11377, United States
A plate of sannakji at this Korean restaurant in Queens, New York, costs about $30.
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Palermo, Italy
Santa Maria dello Spasimo
This skeletal, unfinished Gothic church once housed a miraculous masterpiece by Raphael.
The tree in the narthex. Simone D'Alessio/CC BY-SA 4.0
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Palermo’s roofless Santa Maria dello Spasimo is representative of the storied city itself—the church’s bare walls and skeletal arches summon a lost grandeur characteristic of the ancient capital’s decadent majesty. The unfinished church was one of the many victims of the 16th-century Ottoman raids on the Mediterranean coast. Building supplies intended for the Spasimo’s roof were diverted to be used as fortifications for the city’s walls, and, 500 years later, construction has still not resumed.
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The ghostly Gothic church was intended to accompany an Olivetan monastery in the early 16th century. The construction of the monastery complex was aided by a gift from a deceased Aragonese noblewoman, Eulalia Rosolmini, who was particularly enamored of the controversial worship of The Swoon of the Virgin.
The Swoon, or Fainting—Lo Spasimo in Italian—was said to befall Mary as she witnessed Christ’s suffering on the way to Calvary. Though this episode doesn’t occur in the canonical gospels (and is discouraged by Catholic authorities), it was a popular subject in many medieval art and writings.
In the 1510s, a painting of The Swoon by Renaissance master Raphael was commissioned as the church’s altarpiece. Tragically, the ship carrying the work was wrecked in a storm. The entire crew perished, and the cargo was lost, save for the single case carrying the painting. The lone luggage miraculously washed ashore in Genoa.
The now-blessed painting, called officially Christ Falling on the Way to Calvary but informally Lo Spasimo di Sicilia, was eventually brought to Santa Maria dello Spasimo, where it sat for a century. It’s now in the Prado in Madrid, conforming with modern tastes that govern the housing of artistic masterpieces in buildings with roofs.
By the end of the 16th century, the Olivetan monks must have given up hope that the church would ever be completed. It was first used as a performance space in 1582, and today still serves as a concert hall and event space.
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Low salivary cortisol levels and externalizing behavior problems in youth
Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff, Douglas A. Granger, Alan Booth, David Johnson
Research linking basal cortisol levels with internalizing and externalizing behavior problems in youths has yielded inconsistent results. We hypothesize that the high moment to moment variation in adrenocortical activity requires an analytical strategy that separates variance in cortisol levels attributable to "stable traitlike" versus "state or situationally specific" sources. Early morning saliva samples were obtained from 724 youths (M age = 13.5 years; range = 6-16 years in Year 1) on 2 successive days 1 year apart. Latent state-trait modeling revealed that 70% of the variance in cortisol levels could be attributed to statelike sources, and 28% to traitlike sources. For boys only, higher levels of externalizing problem behaviors were consistently associated with lower cortisol attributable to traitlike sources across 3 years of behavioral assessment. The inverse association between individual differences in cortisol and externalizing problem behavior has previously only been reported in studies of at-risk or clinical groups. The present findings suggest the relationship is a stable phenomenon that spans both normative and atypical child development. Studies are needed to reveal the biosocial mechanisms involved in the establishment and maintenance of this phenomenon, and to decipher whether individual differences in this hormone-behavior link confers risk or resilience.
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Shirtcliff, E. A., Granger, D. A., Booth, A., & Johnson, D. (2005). Low salivary cortisol levels and externalizing behavior problems in youth. Development and Psychopathology, 17(1), 167-184. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579405050091
Low salivary cortisol levels and externalizing behavior problems in youth. / Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A.; Granger, Douglas A.; Booth, Alan; Johnson, David.
In: Development and Psychopathology, Vol. 17, No. 1, 12.2005, p. 167-184.
Shirtcliff, EA, Granger, DA, Booth, A & Johnson, D 2005, 'Low salivary cortisol levels and externalizing behavior problems in youth', Development and Psychopathology, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 167-184. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579405050091
Shirtcliff EA, Granger DA, Booth A, Johnson D. Low salivary cortisol levels and externalizing behavior problems in youth. Development and Psychopathology. 2005 Dec;17(1):167-184. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579405050091
Shirtcliff, Elizabeth A. ; Granger, Douglas A. ; Booth, Alan ; Johnson, David. / Low salivary cortisol levels and externalizing behavior problems in youth. In: Development and Psychopathology. 2005 ; Vol. 17, No. 1. pp. 167-184.
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Exhibition: ‘Under the Mexican Sky: A Revolution in Modern Photography’ at the Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University
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Tags: A Revolution in Modern Photography, Academia San Carlos, accidental theater of the street, Anita Brenner, Anita Brenner and Tina Modotti, Arches Oaxaca, Bandolier Corn and Guitar, Bandolier Corn Sickle, Boy - Hidalgo, Boy - Uruapan, Bravo La Siesta de los Peregrinos, Brett Weston Tin Roofs Mexico, C. B. Waite, Calle Cuauhtemoctzin, Campesinos, Casa de Vecindad, Ceiling of the Church of Santiago, Charles Betts Waite, Charles Betts Waite The Iguana, Charrito pulquería mural, Church Cuapiaxtla, Church of Santiago Tupátaro, Cristo - Oaxaca, Cristo - Tlacochoaya - Oaxaca, Cristo with Thorns, Cristo with Thorns - Huexotla, Cuapiaxtla, Detail of stone frieze, Diego Rivera, Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs, Dr. Federico Marín, Dr. Federico Marín Jean Charlot and Tina Modotti, Edward Weston Anita, Edward Weston Arches Oaxaca, Edward Weston Casa de Vecindad, Edward Weston Ceiling of the Church of Santiago, Edward Weston Charrito pulquería mural, Edward Weston Detail of stone frieze, Edward Weston Dr. Federico Marín Jean Charlot and Tina Modotti, Edward Weston Excusado, Edward Weston Guadalajara Barranca de los Oblatos, Edward Weston Los Changos Vaciladores, Edward Weston Ollas de Oaxaca, Edward Weston Palma Bendita, Edward Weston Pear-Shaped Nude, Edward Weston Playful Monkeys, Edward Weston Rosa Covarrubias, Edward Weston Rosa Covarrubias in Tehuana dress, Edward Weston Stone lions in relief Oaxaca, Edward Weston Tarascan Pottery, Edward Weston The Daybooks, Edward Weston Two children with pulquería mural, Edward Weston Two clay pitchers, Elisa Kneeling, Excusado, Experiment in Related Form, Form follows function, Gateway - Hidalgo, Girl and Child - Toluca, Girl with Firewood, Graflex camera, Guadalajara Barranca de los Oblatos, Helen Levitt, Helen Levitt Mexico City, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Cartier-Bresson Calle Cuauhtemoctzin, Henri Cartier-Bresson Mexico, Henri Cartier-Bresson The Spider of Love, Henri Cartier-Bresson Two prostitutes, Hidalgo, Huexotla, immigrant photographers, international modernism, Jean Charlot, large-format view camera, Leica camera, Los Changos Vaciladores, Los Remedios, Man - Tenancingo, Man with Hoe - Los Remedios, manuel alvarez bravo, Manuel Álvarez Bravo Bravo La Siesta de los Peregrinos, Manuel Álvarez Bravo Girl with Firewood, Manuel Álvarez Bravo Niña con Leña, Manuel Álvarez Bravo Portrait of the Eternal, Manuel Álvarez Bravo Retrato de lo Eterno, Manuel Álvarez Bravo the siesta of the migrants, Mexican Folkways magazine, Mexican identity, Mexican life and landscape, Mexican muralism, Mexican muralism movement, Mexican photography, Mexico City, Michoacan, Miguel Covarrubias, Near Saltillo, Niña con Leña, Oaxaca, Ollas de Oaxaca, Palma Bendita, Palmer Museum of Art, paul strand, Paul Strand Boy, Paul Strand Boy - Hidalgo, Paul Strand Boy - Uruapan, Paul Strand Church Cuapiaxtla, Paul Strand Cristo, Paul Strand Cristo - Oaxaca, Paul Strand Cristo - Tlacochoaya - Oaxaca, Paul Strand Cristo with Thorns, Paul Strand Cristo with Thorns - Huexotla, Paul Strand Gateway, Paul Strand Gateway - Hidalgo, Paul Strand Girl and Child, Paul Strand Girl and Child - Toluca, Paul Strand Man, Paul Strand Man - Tenancingo, Paul Strand Man with Hoe, Paul Strand Near Saltillo, Paul Strand Plaza, Paul Strand Plaza - State of Puebla, Paul Strand Virgin, Paul Strand Virgin - San Felipe - Oaxaca, Pear-Shaped Nude, Playful Monkeys, Plaza - State of Puebla, political art, Portrait of the Eternal, pulquería, pulquería mural, pulquerías, Retrato de lo Eterno, Rosa Covarrubias, Rosa Covarrubias in Tehuana dress, Rosa Rolanda, Rufino Tamayo, ruins of Mitla, Stone lions in relief, Strand clouds, street photography, surface nationalism, Tarascan Pottery, Tenancingo, The Daybooks, The Iguana, the siesta of the migrants, The Spider of Love, Tin Roofs Mexico, tina modotti, Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, Tina Modotti Bandolier Corn and Guitar, Tina Modotti Bandolier Corn Sickle, Tina Modotti Campesinos, Tina Modotti Elisa Kneeling, Tina Modotti Experiment in Related Form, Tina Modotti Jean Charlot, Tina Modotti Women of Tehuantepec, Tina Modotti Workers Parade, Toluca, traditional Zapotec dress, Tupátaro, Two children with pulquería mural, Two clay pitchers, Two prostitutes, Under the Mexican Sky, Under the Mexican Sky: A Revolution in Modern Photography, Uruapan, Virgin - San Felipe - Oaxaca, Women of Tehuantepec, Workers Parade
Exhibition dates: 1st June – 28th July 2019
Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958)
Dr. Federico Marín, Jean Charlot, and Tina Modotti
Vintage gelatin silver print
7 ½ x 9 ¼ inches
Shown with Modotti are Federico Marín, who was Diego Rivera’s brother-in-law and physician, and Jean Charlot, who is here seen making a sketch on Tina’s back.
If there is one period and two countries that I love more than anything else in the history of medium, it is the avant-garde photography of the interwar years in France and the photography of Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s.
American, French and Italian photographers were drawn like bees to a honey pot to the blossoming artistic scene in Mexico City and the country in general. They soaked up the unique Mexican culture, its atmosphere of work, religion, beauty, death, poverty, and sensuality – its churches, religious icons, sculptures, festivals, pottery, and people – the land, the mountains and the inhabitants all photographed in this dazzling light. They photographed in an “international modernism” style (the supposed revolution in modern photography named in the title), expatriate photographers in a hospitable but impoverished land. But this was not their land, for this was not their country.
While Strand “modified his 5×7 Graflex camera, adding a special prism extension that enabled him to clandestinely shoot a subject at a 90° angle from the front of his camera”, surreptitiously making portraits as he had done in his New York subway portraits; while Weston documents the murals of Mexican culture at a distance, the clay pots as an abstract composition, and the traditional art and craft Tehuana dress as idealised icon; while Modotti comes closer with her political statements and constructed still life; it is only the Mexican artist Manuel Álvarez Bravo that steals my heart.
His work exudes the spirit of the country through its sensitivity and connection to the earth from which he was born. The light and form in Bravo La Siesta de los Peregrinos; the light and form in Retrato de lo Eterno. I have studied his work quite thoroughly. He is the blessed one. Through his music, he captures the light and life of Mexico, the spirit of the eternal, “the sunlight [as] a discreet veil that turns the shadows into velvet.” His work is the art of the People.
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Hands in the Water of the Mind
The water of the mind has filled with forms.
Come, come closer now, elusive as
an anemone or a jellyfish a criminal, a saint;
dip your hand in and pull from the tormented water
angles and profiles, an incessant music,
the murmur of the sky, the mouth of the earth,
the crown of the breeze, the rings of fire,
the bodies of the lynxes, the wings of the bat,
the glasses and the pillow, the brightness of hunger.
Many thankx to the Palmer Museum of Art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger version of the image.
In the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution (1910-20), expatriate photographers flocked to the blossoming artistic scene in Mexico City. Los Angelino Edward Weston reinvented his approach to the medium during three years there in the 1920s. In exploring the development of international modernism into the next decades, this exhibition features rare photographs by Italian Tina Modotti, New Yorkers Helen Levitt and Paul Strand, French master Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Mexico’s own Manuel Álvarez Bravo.
“For six months I worked at still photographs of Mexico, made about sixty platinum prints, completed and mounted them. Among other things I made a series of photographs in the churches, of the Christs and Madonnas, carved out of wood by the Indians. They are among the most extraordinary sculptures I have seen anywhere, and have apparently gone relatively unnoticed. These figures so alive with the intensity of the faith of those who made them. That is what interested me, the faith, even if it is not mine; a form of faith, to be sure, that is passing, that has to go. But the world needs a faith equally intense in something else, something more realistic, as I see it. Hence my impulse to photograph these things, and I think the photographs are pretty swell.”
“At first the brilliance of technique is commented on. Laymen say: What reality! How three-dimensional. Photographers say: What texture! What a scale of values! What print quality! This is a first reaction and the least significant one. All this virtuosity is at the service of what Strand has to express, the felt idea behind the photograph.”
Leo Hurwitz
“Popular Art is the art of the People. A popular painter is an artisan who, as in the Middle Ages, remains anonymous. His work needs no advertisement, as it is done for the people around him. The more pretentious artist craves to become famous, and it is characteristic of his work that it is bought for the name rather than for the work – a name that is built up by propaganda. Before the Conquest all art was of the people, and popular art has never ceased to exist in Mexico.”
Charles Betts Waite (American, 1861-1927)
The Iguana
In this playful study, the shadows dominate: the bowl of vittles atop the man’s shadow suggest a sombrero shielding a sleeping man’s face during an afternoon siesta.
[Waite] traveled to Mexico City and in May 1897 established a photography studio there, during the Porfirio Díaz government. He became part of Porfirian society, taking photographs of many in the ruler’s circle. He was among a group of expatriate photographers (such as Winfield Scott and fellow San Diegans Ralph Carmichael and Percy S. Cox) working in Mexico in the first decade of the 20th century. Waite traveled throughout Mexico, exploring archaeological sites and the countryside.
[Waite’s life] corresponds with that of adventurers, brave explorers with romantic spirits and materialistic outlooks, who toured the hitherto unknown world, discovering their riches and inventing paradises.” ~ Francisco Montellano, author of C. B. Waite, fotógrafo
His works were published in books, travel magazines, and on post cards, having contracted with the Sonora News Company. He also worked for several Mexican newspapers, and he documented United States scientific expeditions in Mexico. The images often included scenic Mexican images and the country’s native residents. Many of Waite’s photographs depict railroads, parks, archaeological sites, and business enterprises.
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Tina Modotti (Italian, 1896-1942)
Experiment in Related Form
This is one of only two known photomontages by Modotti, in which a single image of six wine glasses is enlarged and cropped and then superimposed onto itself.
Ollas de Oaxaca
Vintage palladium print
An olla is a clay pot or jar. Weston wrote that his first thought of Oaxaca “is always of the market, – and the market means first of all loza – crockery! I bought and bought – dishes, jars, jugettes, – of the dull black or grey-black ware, and of the deep green glaze ware… Very well do these people reproduce, make use of the essential quality of the material, – splendidly do they observe and utilise to advantage the very essence of a form. A race of born sculptors!”
Detail of stone frieze, ruins of Mitla, Oaxaca
“I was fascinated by the stone mosaics at Mitla, for besides a variation on the Greek fret, there was a unique pattern – oblique lines of dynamic force – flashes of stone lightning, which remain my strongest memory.” ~ Edward Weston, The Daybooks, vol. I.
Stone lions in relief, Oaxaca
Two clay pitchers
These studies of pre-Columbian and folk-art statuary and pottery, done for Anita Brenner’s Idols Behind Altars project, taught Weston the art of the table-top still life. As such, they were the direct precursor to the iconic shells, peppers, and cabbages that occupied him immediately upon his return to Los Angeles in December 1926.
Tarascan Pottery, Michoacán
The Tarascan people flourished from 1100 A.D. to 1530 A.D. After the Spanish Conquest, missionaries organised the Tarascan empire into a series of craft-oriented villages. Their artistic traditions survive today in the Lake Pátzcuaro region.
Anita Brenner and Tina Modotti remained friendly rivals in Mexico City’s close-knit artistic expatriate community throughout the 1920s. Their intertwined social life revolved around the French-Mexican painter Jean Charlot, who had been a principal assistant to Rivera. Charlot was Weston’s closest friend in Mexico as well as Brenner’s paramour and professional collaborator. In a diary entry in 1927, Brenner made a three-column table captioned “Actively Friends; Actively Enemies; and Actively Both.” Modotti’s name appears in the third column.
This sensitive Modotti portrait is inscribed by Charlot to Brenner, “You are bad tempered / I am worst tempered / Does that explain the sweet / Hours we passed together”
Elisa Kneeling
The power of Modotti’s portrait of her young chambermaid is due to the contrast between her beatific face and her coiled hands, which suggest a lifetime of hard manual labor.
Anita (“Pear-Shaped Nude”)
“I was shaving when A[nita] came, hardly expecting her on such a gloomy, drizzling day. I made excuses, having no desire, no ‘inspiration’ to work … but she took no hints, undressing while I reluctantly prepared my camera…. And then appeared to me the most exquisite lines, forms, volumes – and I accepted, – working easily, rapidly, surely…
Reviewing the new prints, I am seldom so happy as I am with the pear-like nude of A[nita]. I turn to it again and again. I could hug the print in sheer joy. It is one of my most perfect photographs.” ~ Edward Weston, The Daybooks, vol. I
Excusado
Gelatin silver print, 1930s
“‘Form follows function.’ Who said this I don’t know, but the writer spoke well! I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enamelled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. It might be suspicioned that I am in a cynical mood to approach such subject matter… My excitement was absolute aesthetic response to form… I was thrilled! – here was every sensuous curve of the ‘human form divine’ but minus imperfections.” ~ Edward Weston, The Daybooks, vol. I
Weston was particularly amused when his chambermaid placed a bouquet of flowers in the bowl, in a well-meaning effort to create a more fitting subject for her employer’s lens.
Casa de Vecindad
7 3/8 x 9 ½ inches
A casa de vecindad or “neighborhood house” was a community home or tenement. This one had once been “a fine old convent,” wrote Weston. “The light was made perfect by the collective noise of cats and dogs, children laughing and crying, women gabbling and vendors calling.”
Arches, Oaxaca
Guadalajara, Barranca de los Oblatos: Rocky Trail
Mexico City in the 1920s-30s was the scene of one of the great artistic flowerings of the twentieth century. Like Paris in the aftermath of World War I, Mexico City after the decade-long Mexican Revolution served as a magnet for international artists and photographers. Foremost among the expatriate photographers was the Los Angelino, Edward Weston, who embedded himself in the artistic milieu surrounding the muralist painters Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros. Weston reinvented his approach to picture-making during his three years in Mexico, 1923-26. The soft-focus painterliness that had characterised his studio portraiture in the ‘teens melted away under the brilliant Mexican sun, to be replaced by crystalline landscapes as well as evocative still life that prefigured his later shells and peppers. Meanwhile his paramour and protégée, the Italian silent film star Tina Modotti, created photographs that would place her in the pantheon of great photographers of the era. This exhibition features rare vintage Mexican masterworks by both Weston and Modotti from the 1920s, as well as stellar photographs from the 1930s by the New Yorker Paul Strand, the Frenchman Henri Cartier-Bresson, and by Mexico’s own self-taught master of the camera, Manuel Álvarez Bravo.
Already in the first two decades of the 20th century, immigrant photographers had played an outsize role in Mexican photography. German-born Hugo Brehme published picturesque views of Mexican life and landscape in local and international tourist magazines, including National Geographic. Brehme’s fellow German émigré, Carl Wilhelm (Guillermo) Kahlo, meticulously photographed Mexico’s colonial architecture; his daughter Frida would marry Diego Rivera and become a legendary painter and personality. A third talented immigrant photographer was the Californian C.B. Waite, who moved to Mexico City in 1897 and opened a photo studio. At their best, as in The Iguana from 1901, seen here, Waite’s genre studies prefigure by a quarter century the exotic Surrealism that would characterise the work of Modotti, Álvarez Bravo, and Cartier-Bresson.
In 1923, C.B. Waite left Mexico and retired to Glendale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Coincidentally, within a few months, Glendale’s leading photographer, Edward Weston, would make that same journey in the opposite direction. Weston sought to escape from the personal and professional distractions that he felt were deterring him from an aesthetic breakthrough. His love affair with Tina Modotti made him realise that he would never be a conventional husband. In August, 1923, Weston left the port of Los Angeles and sailed to Mexico on the S.S. Colima, accompanied by Modotti, who agreed to run his studio in exchange for photography lessons.
The Weston-Modotti home in Mexico City became a gathering place for writers, painters and photographers. This was the time of the Mexican Renaissance, a cultural movement that celebrated the country’s modern artists as well as its popular and indigenous arts. Under the presidency of Álvaro Obregón, the education minister José Vasconcelos sponsored an ambitious program of progressive public art, most notably the mural movement which was led by Diego Rivera, who was in all ways a larger-than-life character.
While Weston never second-guessed his decision to give up the steady income from studio portraiture, he and Tina faced constant money problems during their three years together in Mexico. Financial salvation came in the unlikely guise of a brash 19-year-old anthropology student, Anita Brenner. Born to a mercantile family with roots in both Texas and Mexico, Brenner befriended Weston and Modotti in Mexico City and hired them to furnish 400 photographs for her book, Idols Behind Altars. This was to be the first serious art-historical treatise on pre-Columbian art, Spanish Colonial architecture, and contemporary Mexican folk art. Weston and Modotti rose to the task with gusto, criss-crossing southern Mexico from Oaxaca to Guadalajara in search of prime examples of these genres.
Weston was first introduced to pulquerías, or working-class bars, by Diego Rivera, who was writing an article on pulquería mural painting for Mexican Folkways magazine. Weston was impressed by the vitality of these anonymous murals, writing:
“The aspiring young painters of Mexico should study the unaspiring paintings – popular themes – popular art – which adorn the humble pulquería… brave matadores at the kill – white veiled ladies, pensive beside moonlit waters – an exquisitely tender group of Indians … and all the pictured thoughts, nearest and dearest to the heart of the people.”
When Modotti left Mexico in 1930, she gifted her large-format view cameras to her close friend and protégé, Manuel Álvarez Bravo. With a seven-decade career, he is considered Mexico’s greatest photographer. “I was born in the city of Mexico, behind the Cathedral, in the place where the temples of the ancient Mexican gods must have been built, February fourth, 1902,” he wrote, invoking the magical realism that infuses his most iconic photographs. As a teenager he studied painting at the Academia San Carlos, the same art school that Rivera and Orozco had attended. “Interested since always in art, I committed the common error of believing that photography would be the easiest,” he confessed. In addition to Modotti, another important early mentor was the painter Rufino Tamayo, who counselled Álvarez Bravo against the “surface nationalism” of political art, such as that of Rivera, Orozco, or indeed Modotti herself: “Art is a way of expression that has to be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the texture of our lives and our experiences.” Tamayo’s words became Álvarez Bravo’s touchstones.
In 1934, Álvarez Bravo befriended the young painter-turned-photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, who had come to Mexico to spend the year photographing in the brilliant natural light not often found in his native Paris. At a technical level their approach to photography diverged: Álvarez Bravo, like Weston and Modotti, favoured traditional large-format view cameras, while Cartier-Bresson, the progenitor of the “decisive moment,” was an early proponent of the hand-held 35mm Leica camera. Yet their common interest in capturing the “accidental theater of the street” outweighed these differences. “Cartier-Bresson and I did not photograph together but we walked the same streets and photographed many of the same things,” Álvarez Bravo recalled. They exhibited together in 1935 in a show entitled Documentary and Anti-Graphic Photographs, first at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and then at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York. This seminal exhibit was the first time that “street photography” had been placed in a serious fine art setting. Reviewing that show, poet Langston Hughes wrote: “In a photograph by Cartier-Bresson, as in modern music, there is a clash of sunlight and shadow, while in Bravo, the sunlight is a discreet veil that turns the shadows into velvet.”
Text from the Palmer Museum of Art
Los Changos Vaciladores (Playful Monkeys), pulquería mural
Charrito, pulquería mural
Two children with pulquería mural
9 3/8 x 6 ¾ inches
Ceiling of the Church of Santiago, Tupátaro
“Few had seen this church of Tupátaro, far from tourist tracks. The ceiling was entirely lacquered, even the beams – a notable achievement in colour, design and craftsmanship. That was a hard day of work. Exposures were prolonged to even fifteen minutes with additional flash light, the while I must remain quite still upon a rickety balcony for fear of jarring the camera, which was real torture with more fleas biting and crawling than I ever knew could jump from a few square feet of space.” ~ Edward Weston, The Daybooks, vol. I
Brett Weston (American, 1911-1993)
Tin roofs, Mexico
Edward Weston’s son Brett joined him in his final year in Mexico. Brett was himself a child prodigy photographer, as evidenced by this sensitively balanced and exquisitely printed abstract masterwork, taken when he was fourteen years old.
Theodore Brett Weston (December 16, 1911, Los Angeles – January 22, 1993, Hawaii) was an American photographer. Van Deren Coke described Brett Weston as the “child genius of American photography.” He was the second of the four sons of photographer Edward Weston and Flora Chandler.
Weston began taking photographs in 1925, while living in Mexico with Tina Modotti and his father. He began showing his photographs with Edward Weston in 1927, was featured at the international exhibition at Film und Foto in Germany at age 17, and mounted his first one-man museum retrospective at age 21 at the De Young Museum in San Francisco in January, 1932.
Weston’s earliest images from the 1920s reflect his intuitive sophisticated sense of abstraction. He often flattened the plane, engaging in layered space, an artistic style more commonly seen among the Abstract Expressionists and more modern painters like David Hockney than other photographers. He began photographing the dunes at Oceano, California, in the early 1930s. This eventually became a favourite location of his father Edward and later shared with Brett’s third wife Dody Weston Thompson. Brett preferred the high gloss papers and ensuing sharp clarity of the gelatin silver photographic materials of the f64 Group rather than the platinum matte photographic papers common in the 1920s and encouraged Edward Weston to explore the new silver papers in his own work. Brett Weston was credited by photography historian Beaumont Newhall as the first photographer to make negative space the subject of a photograph. Donald Ross, a photographer close to both Westons, said that Brett never came after anyone. He was a true photographic equal and colleague to his father and “one should not be considered without the other.”
“Brett and I are always seeing the same kinds of things to do – we have the same kind of vision. Brett didn’t like this; naturally enough, he felt that even when he had done the thing first, the public would not know and he would be blamed for imitating me.” Edward Weston – Daybooks – May 24, 1930.
Rosa Covarrubias in Tehuana dress
Rosa and Miguel Covarrubias were early promoters of traditional Mexican art and craft; their extensive collection now resides at San Francisco’s Mexican Museum. This striking portrait of Rosa in traditional Zapotec dress was appropriated by Diego Rivera for his painting Tehuana Woman, 1929.
Born in Los Angeles, Rosa Rolanda was a dancer with the Marion Morgan dance troupe and the Ziegfeld Follies. She married the Mexican artist Miguel Covarrubias, who was the leading caricaturist of the jazz age. While Rosa and Miguel were accompanying Edward and Tina on one of their trips for Anita Brenner, they taught Rosa the basics of photography. Later, Man Ray would teach her his technique of cameraless photograms. With such tutelage, it is no surprise that Rosa became a gifted photographer in her own right.
Rosa Covarrubias
Palma Bendita
9 ½ x 7 3/8 inches
The branches of the palma bendita, or “blessed palm,” were believed to have been strewn on the road before Christ during his entry into Jerusalem and are blessed on Palm Sunday, an important Mexican holiday.
Campesinos (Workers’ Parade)
Modotti’s iconic Campesinos has the same formal structure – circular forms filling the picture frame – as Weston’s Olla Pots of Oaxaca made the same year. But Modotti’s picture adds a political dimension that Weston would by nature recoil from. Modotti’s increasingly fervent politicisation contributed to the dissolution of her relationship with Weston, who was fundamentally apolitical. Weston returned to Los Angeles at the end of 1926; Modotti would remain in Mexico another four years.
Bandolier, Corn, Sickle
8 ¾ x 7 ½ inches
This politically-charged still life, and its companion piece Bandolier, Corn and Guitar, were made the year Modotti formally joined Mexico’s Communist Party. At the time she was modelling for Diego Rivera, a fellow traveler. Modotti’s likeness appears in several of Rivera’s most famous Revolutionary murals; she would also be blamed for the break-up of his marriage to Lupe Marín.
Bandolier, Corn and Guitar
Women of Tehuantepec
9 x 7 ¼ inches
This is one of Modotti’s final masterworks. The following year she would be expelled from Mexico for sedition, due to her work on behalf of the Communist Party. She settled in Russia, giving up photography for relief work with International Red Aid. When the Spanish Civil War erupted in 1936, she joined the fray. She returned to Mexico under a pseudonym in 1939, and died of a heart attack three years later, at age 45, her life the stuff of legend.
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Mexican, 1902-2002)
La Siesta de los Peregrinos (the siesta of the migrants)
Manuel Álvarez Bravo (February 4, 1902 – October 19, 2002) was a Mexican artistic photographer and one of the most important figures in 20th century Latin American photography. He was born and raised in Mexico City. While he took art classes at the Academy of San Carlos, his photography is self-taught. His career spanned from the late 1920s to the 1990s with its artistic peak between the 1920s and 1950s. His hallmark as a photographer was to capture images of the ordinary but in ironic or Surrealistic ways. His early work was based on European influences, but he was soon influenced by the Mexican muralism movement and the general cultural and political push at the time to redefine Mexican identity. He rejected the picturesque, employing elements to avoid stereotyping. He had numerous exhibitions of his work, worked in the Mexican cinema and established Fondo Editorial de la Plástica Mexicana publishing house. He won numerous awards for his work, mostly after 1970. …
Álvarez Bravo’s photography career spanned from the late 1920s to the 1990s. It formed in the decades after the Mexican Revolution (1920s to 1950s) when there was significant creative output in the country, much of it sponsored by the government wanting to promote a new Mexican identity based on both modernity and the country’s indigenous past.
Although he was photographing in the late 1920s, he became a freelance photographer full-time in 1930, quitting his government job. That same year, Tina Modotti was deported from Mexico for political activities and she left Alvarez Bravo her camera and her job at Mexican Folkways magazine. For this publication, Alvarez Bravo began photographing the work of the Mexican muralists and other painters. During the rest of the 1930s, he established his career. He met photographer Paul Strand in 1933 on the set of the film “Redes”, and worked with him briefly. In 1938, he met French Surrealist artist André Breton, who promoted Alvaréz Bravo’s work in France, exhibiting it there. Later, Breton asked for a photograph for the cover of catalog for an exhibition in Mexico. Alvarez Bravo created “La buena fama durmiendo” (The good reputation sleeping), which Mexican censors rejected due to nudity. The photograph would be reproduced many times after that however.
Alvarez Bravo trained most of the next generation of photographers including Nacho López, Héctor García and Graciela Iturbide. From 1938 to 1939, he taught photography at the Escuela Central de Artes Plásticas, now the National School of Arts (UNAM). In the latter half of the 1960s he taught at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos.
Retrato de lo Eterno (Portrait of the Eternal)
Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908-2004)
The Spider of Love, Mexico City
Gelatin silver print c. 1960
6 ½ x 9 ¾ inches
“I was very lucky. I had only to push the door open. It was so voluptuous, so sensual. I couldn’t see their faces. It was miraculous – physical love in all its fullness. Tonio grabbed a lamp, and I took several shots. There was nothing obscene about it. I could never have got them to pose – a matter of decency.” ~ Cartier-Bresson
Calle Cuauhtemoctzin (two prostitutes), Mexico City
9 1/8 x 13 ¾ inches
Niña con Leña (Girl with Firewood)
Helen Levitt’s photographs of Mexico City, taken in 1941, are a notable exception to her otherwise exclusive focus on New York City during her long career (1930s through 1970s). But the principal subject matter of Levitt’s work was the same in both metropolises: the lives of children in working-class neighbourhoods. In this evocative image, the children’s play is undeterred by their poverty, which is evidenced by their bare feet, the dirt road, and the dilapidated buildings. Levitt studied with the noted photographer Walker Evans; her work was also influenced by the other artists in the present exhibition: like Cartier-Bresson, she favoured the hand-held Leica camera; like Paul Strand, she used a secret sideways lens that enabled her to photograph surreptitiously.
Levitt printed her Mexican photographs only after returning to New York, where they added to her blossoming reputation. Her first one-woman show at the Museum of Modern Art included sixteen photographs from Mexico, including a variant of this image (below).
Helen Levitt (American, 1913-2009)
7 ¼ x 9 5/8 inches
Paul Strand achieved early recognition as a protégé of Alfred Stieglitz, the New York photographer and gallerist. In 1917 Stieglitz devoted the final two issues of his Camera Work magazine to Strand’s high modernist photography, which was heavily influenced by avant garde artists such as Paul Cezanne and Pablo Picasso. Stieglitz praised Strand’s work as “brutally direct” and “devoid of all flim-flam.”
By 1932, when Strand drove his Model A Ford from Taos to Mexico, his style had evolved dramatically. Abstraction had given way to humanism, reflecting the influence of his high school photography teacher, the eminent social documentarian Lewis Hine. Strand was now concerned with how people lived, and especially with those aspects of life that “make a place what it is.” Mexico was a logical destination for Strand, whose political concern for the common man intersected with the proletarian goals of the Mexican Revolution.
Over the next several months Strand photographed people and places in rural small towns across southern Mexico, from Michoacán in the West to Oaxaca in the East, unconsciously retracing Edward Weston and Tina Modotti’s footsteps from the 1920s. Strand’s work in Mexico set the tone for the photographic journeys to out-of-the-way destinations in Europe and Africa that would occupy the rest of his long career.
For these Mexican portraits, Strand modified his 5×7 Graflex camera, adding a special prism extension that enabled him to clandestinely shoot a subject at a 90° angle from the front of his camera. The subjects of these portraits, absorbedly watching the Yankee photographer at work, were unaware that he was actually aiming his camera at them. Strand had pioneered this technique as a young photographer on the streets of New York.
Strand originally printed his Mexican photographs as platinum prints. The prints shown here are hand-pulled photogravures created for a 1940 portfolio Photographs of Mexico. In his introduction to the portfolio, Strand describes the prints as “a step forward in the art of reproduction processes,” attributing their quality to the production team’s combined two centuries of experience.
Paul Strand (American, 1890-1976)
Near Saltillo
Vintage photogravure
“When you leave the Texas border for about 70 miles – flat desert, it could still be Texas. Then suddenly appear the mountains of the North around Monterrey and Saltillo – amazing mountains. They are a continuation of the American spur – our Rockies I suppose – but how different – utterly fantastic shapes, like mountains in fairy books. And I never saw the forms within each individual mountain – defined – come right at you as those in the North.” ~ Paul Strand to painter John Marin
Gateway – Hidalgo
10 1/8 x 8 inches
“What have come to be known as ‘Strand clouds’ – heavy, lowering shapes holding rain and threat of storm – appear in a great many of his photographs. A friend of Strand’s remembers him cursing under his breath whenever fluffy, cottony cloud formations, which he referred to as ‘Johnson & Johnson,’ took over the sky; they never appear in his prints.” ~ Calvin Tomkins
Boy – Hidalgo
Man with Hoe – Los Remedios
6 ¼ x 5 inches
Plaza – State of Puebla
Church, Cuapiaxtla
Man – Tenancingo
Girl and Child – Toluca
Boy – Uruapan
10 1/8 x 8 1/8 inches
Cristo – Oaxaca
Cristo with Thorns – Huexotla
10 ¼ x 8 1/8 inches
Cristo – Tlacochoaya – Oaxaca
10 ¼ x 8 inches
Virgin – San Felipe – Oaxaca
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Investing in innovative technology to solve demand for naturally-grown shrimp products
by Administrador web|Published January 23, 2018 |1 comment
Transparency in food labels is set to emerge as one of the most significant food trends next year, as consumers become more conscientious about food safety. In the United States, trust is the primary factor that influences customers to buy products and what motivates companies to be more straightforward with their packaging.
In a 2016 study made by Label Insight, knowing where the food was sourced and how it was prepared is now part of people’s decision-making when it comes to purchasing what to eat.
Consumers value producers and manufacturers who are open about their business practices when it comes to food. labelinsight.com
Due to recent widespread scandals about food preparation, the call for natural, ethical and sustainable food has increased. For instance, Yorgo’s Foods Inc. and True North Seafood were recently involved in a massive recall of their respective products — the Greek-style food brands and Toppers Smoked Salmon Flakes — because of potential Listeria contamination. Imperial Caviar also issued a recall and a warning for its products due to the possible presence of dangerous bacteria called Clostridium botulinum.
During recalls, consumers who bought products were advised to return items to stores or discard them altogether. So far, no illnesses have been reported that directly link to the tainted products mentioned above, but the damage concerning public trust has already been done.
Demand for better quality
As the global per capita wealth around the world increases, many people are now willing to pay a higher price for a better quality of food — for meats, seafood and crops, among others. The question is: Will there be enough to meet this surge in demand?
Take shrimp, for instance. The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service reports that approximately nine billion pounds of shrimp are consumed around the world annually. About 1.8 billion of that is in the US alone. However, with this high demand also comes a limited capacity to supply.
Shrimp production has slowed worldwide. Resources and cultivation farms are dwindling due to unsustainable indoor aquaculture methods, overfishing and polluted waters. In the open water method, algal bloom and oil spills pose the biggest challenges.
In the US, 94 percent of shrimp is imported from abroad, especially from areas in Asia and Latin America. Unfortunately, chemicals and antibiotics are used to ensure that shipments will arrive “fresh.”
This only compounds the problem, as bacteria learned to adapt and resist these antibiotics. According to a Bloomberg article in 2016, these “superbugs” are now a reality. Dr Martin Blaser, a professor of microbiology and an infectious diseases physician at New York University Langone Medical Center, says, “People eating their shrimp cocktails and paella may be getting more than they bargained for… The penetration of antibiotics through the food chain is a big problem.”
For the shrimp industry, looking for new ways to raise shrimp — clean, natural, safe, and fresh — are more important now than ever before.
Seeking solutions through aquaculture
This is probably why many shrimp producers are turning to land-based aquaculture (LBA). A Cawthron Institute report describes LBA as “any type of aquaculture that takes place on land, be it for freshwater or marine species.”
One such technology uses ocean or river water which is directed to a land-based facility. It then goes to a containment area of tanks or ponds. The water can be a one-time flow-through or it can also be re-circulated, meaning it will be “recycled through a series of treatment steps and used again.”
While the interest for land-based aquaculture is increasing, translating that interest into investment dollars may be easier said than done. Not too many people see LBAs as a viable source of investment opportunity. Global Outlook for Aquaculture Leadership (GOAL) says that failed startups remain vivid in the memories of some investors which, in turn, breed doubt and has slowed investments into new technologies.
However, some experts remain hopeful. “A few successes will lead to an influx of investment, I think. But there’s still a big gap between investors and the mentality needed,” says Jamie Stein of Devonian Capital.
Tinicum’s Michael Donner, on the other hand, suggests that regulations must be relaxed in the US to attract investors. “You can see money flowing into aquaculture, but it’s happening in Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico — not in the US.”
Innovation in shrimp aquaculture
Agro-tech company and aquaculture innovator NaturalShrimp, Inc. (OTCMKTS:SHMP) may just be the game changer of the shrimp industry. The Company focuses on producing fresh shrimp the natural way through its patent-pending proprietary technology called Vibrio Suppression.
It has developed and tested the first commercially viable system for growing shrimp indoors using proprietary technologies in a facility that produces healthy, naturally grown shrimp without the use of antibiotics or toxic chemicals. Vibrio Suppression mimics the natural ocean environment so that the shrimp can reproduce at the optimal level. The facility is self-contained, which means that there are no disturbances from harsh weather, no diseases, and no pollutants. This technology can produce up to four times more shrimp within the same space as compared to other techniques.
Vibrio Suppression also eliminates the build-up of bacteria in indoor shrimp aquaculture. Without bacteria, the chances of many shrimp diseases are effectively eliminated.
NaturalShrimp’s controlled bio-secure environment monitors the living condition and health of the shrimp they grow, ensuring fresh harvest year round. naturalshrimp.com/enclosed-system
This method is likely to be more sustainable while yielding higher densities and more consistent production. The shrimp are of better quality overall, and their survival rates are higher without the use of chemicals, antibiotics or probiotics, which could potentially be considered contaminated or toxic. As a result, Vibrio Suppression technology is proving to be better than older aquaculture methods such as Biofloc.
Potential investors might take note that NaturalShrimp plans to build these environmentally green production facilities in major cities throughout the country, including New York, New Jersey area and Las Vegas. The Company intends to complete the first newly designed system at its production facility in La Coste, Texas, via its current capital raise and then construct a full scale operation at the same site.
Once finished, each US$3.6 million (AU$4.51 million), 24-tank system can produce six thousand pounds of fresh shrimp weekly and is expected to produce an internal return rate of 29 percent annually. Gross profit is projected to be US$1.2 million (AU$1.50 million).
NaturalShrimp is also working on several major international deals to grow and sell shrimp using its patent pending technology. The company has an established presence in Medina del Campo, Spain.
Dallas-based Executive Chef Michael Scott likened the NaturalShrimp product to sushi-grade Japanese sweet shrimp due to its purity and high quality. “That pretty much says it all,” states Chef Scott who has represented NaturalShrimp in various culinary presentations over the years.
Major commercial partners such as RGA Labs, Ability Engineering, F&T Water Solutions and the Trane Company, a division of Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) are working with NaturalShrimp to bring this new and innovative technology to the market in the second quarter of 2018.
Land-based aquaculture is growing, and the upside for a producer like NaturalShrimp appears to be tremendous. NaturalShrimp could be the most profitable and practical answer to the demand for environmentally friendly, clean, fresh shrimp for US and international consumers.
Source: http://www.ibtimes.com.au/investing-innovative-technology-solve-demand-naturally-grown-shrimp-products-1564106
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Greetings. The 1/23/18 article: “Investing in innovative technology to solve demand for naturally-grown shrimp products” was a great article. Beginning in June of 2018 Natural Shrimp Inc and F & T Water Solutions conducted a 6 – 7 month test of their Vibrio Suppression technology and on 12/25/2018 were awarded a patent for the technology mentioned in the 1/23/18 article. Are you planning on doing an updated artice on these innovative partner companies? Thank you!
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HANSARD 1803–2005 → 1980s → 1985 → July 1985 → 4 July 1985 → Commons Sitting → HOME DEPARTMENT
London (Policing)
HC Deb 04 July 1985 vol 82 cc515-7 515
§ 10. Mr. John Hunt
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recent meetings he has held with the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis to discuss the likely impact of cash limits on policing in London; and if he will make a statement.
§ 11. Mr. Peter Bruinvels
asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he last met the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis; and what matters were discussed.
§ Mr. Brittan
I last met the Commissioner on 1 July, when we discussed recent developments in relation to terrorism and the Metropolitan police cash limit.
§ Mr. Hunt
If, as we are told, the purpose of cash limits is to facilitate tax cuts in due course, will my right hon. and learned Friend take it from me that the great majority of my constituents would much prefer even more resources being devoted to the Metropolitan police and even better protection for their homes and families than a penny off the standard rate of income tax?
The purpose of cash limits is not what my hon. Friend said it was. It is to ensure that people live within their means, whatever those means are. The question of the level of resources that should be made available is a different matter. As the House will know, the level of resources made available to the Metropolitan police is higher than it has ever been, and rightly so.
§ Mr. Bruinvels
Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that when he last met the Commissioner he found that morale in the Metropolitan police was extremely high, despite the carping and anti-police behaviour of the GLC police committee, which spends £1 million a year knocking the police all the time? Is it not a fact that the achievements of the Metropolitan police against terrorism have come about solely as a result of the police supporting the Prevention of Terrorism. Act, a measure which the Labour party never seems to have supported?
My hon. Friend is entirely right, and I do not believe that the police are put off their job for a single moment by the activities and antics of the GLC, which we discussed at some length last Friday. I welcome again the opportunity to congratulate the Metropolitan police and all the other police forces involved on their successes of the last couple of weeks in the campaign against terrorism. The Prevention of Terrorism Act has an important role and I hope that when these matters come to be considered again the Opposition will come to a wiser conclusion than has been the case in the last couple of years.
§ Mr. Winnick
In view of the persistent abuse, racial and obscene remarks and disruption levelled at speakers at Hyde Park, and clearly organised by some members of the Young Conservative movement in Greater London— [Interruption.]—will Ministers, and particularly the Prime Minister, make it clear to those Conservative activists who have only contempt for free speech and fair play that they should not act like storm troopers?
The hon. Gentleman's observations are a classic example of diversionary tactics brought about by his dislike of the fact that the GLC has been exposed for what it is.
§ Mr. Ian Lloyd
My right hon. and learned Friend will of course be aware by now of the considerable concern caused by the enunciation by a chief inspector at Heathrow of the rather strange doctrine that a jocular remark has now become a criminal offence. Has this matter been discussed with the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, either previously or when my right hon. and learned Friend last met him?
I did not discuss this matter with the metropolitan Police Commissioner when I met him on 1 July, but I have to say to my hon. Friend and to the House that I do not think that jokes in relation to bombs and terrorism can or should be treated lightly.
Mr. John David Taylor
When the Home Secretary discussed terrorism with the Commissioner, did he discuss the bomb that was found recently in the Rubens hotel, and was the Commissioner able to advise the Home Secretary from which country the detonators and explosive came?
The answer to the first question is that I did discuss that bomb. The answer to the second question is that I cannot say anything further without being in breach of the sub judice rule.
§ Mr. Bill Walker
When my right hon. and learned Friend next meets the Commissioner, will he thank him and all those who took part in the recent operations, and will he draw to his attention the fact that the Strathclyde police were able to——
§ Mr. Speaker
Order. I give the hon. Gentleman a warning. The question concerns London.
Yes, Mr. Speaker. I refer to the police who were involved in all these operations. The point I am making is that the terrorists were arrested under powers contained in the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1980.
I think that my hon. Friend has in mind the fact that the Metropolitan police, in their recent operation, were working in co-operation with many other police forces. I would certainly be happy to specify in particular the Strathclyde force as one that played an extremely important part in the operation.
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It’s Pitch-burgh Time in the Strip District
Come join us for our final Pitch Party of 2019! DATE: Monday, October 21, 2019 TIME: 6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. PLACE: Kingfly Spirits, 2613 Smallman St, Pittsburgh, PA 15222 TICKETS: Eventbrite THIS IS A FREE EVENT Finding ways to increase the awesomeness of Pittsburgh never gets old! This month, we’re inviting four of our favorite recent applicants…
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DATE: Monday, June 18, 2018 TIME: 6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m. PLACE: Protohaven, 214 N Trenton Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15221 FREE TICKETS: Eventbrite Join Awesome Pittsburgh as we hear three passionate Pittsburghers pitch their maker projects to the Awesome Pittsburgh trustees, guest judges, and you! One winner will be awarded $1,000 to help carry out their vision. We’ll also…
Calling All Makers!
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When TEDxBrisbane first reached out to Attendify in 2016, one thing was clear: They wanted to support the dynamic connectivity of their vibrant community well beyond event day. While their ideas festival was already making a significant impact both locally and globally, they were still in need of a cost-effective and intuitive digital tool to amplify long-lasting attendee interactions. Enter the Attendify app.
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TEDxBrisbane does not take their tagline “Engineering Impact” lightly. The annual ideas festival, an independently organized and licensed TEDx event, showcases thought-provoking talks, demonstrations and performances in order to drive change both locally and globally. “The goal is to cover a wide range of subjects that foster learning, inspiration and wonder,” says the event’s Executive Director and Licensee Juanita Wheeler. “We want to provoke conversations that matter.”
Key to that mission is forming a deep connection between event attendees—a select group of individuals who are chosen for their ability to put the ideas gathered at TEDxBrisbane into action long after the festival is over. “We want ideas shared, connections made, and plans forged among audience members, speakers and the team that lead to an exciting change in the community,” Wheeler explains. “Our community is made up of people crazy enough to believe we can change the world, and we’re not kidding around.”
When Wheeler took over as director in 2016, one of her first agenda items was to move the event schedule from its printed format to a digital experience. “The reasons were multifaceted,” Wheeler says. “There was the environmental perspective, but we also thought that an organization founded around technology and design should be digitally savvy. It would also be great if doing so could save us money, although we figured a digital schedule would cost us more.” Finally, Wheeler’s team was looking for a solution that would not only help deliver a world-class TEDx event, but also contribute to the building of a “tribe of thinkers, doers and changemakers.”
Thus began their hunt for a mobile event app that fit the bill.
A mobile event app that doubles as a community-building tool
After researching a number of event app platforms—and even considering a custom-built solution—TEDxBrisbane decided to go with Attendify for their inaugural event app. “We’ve never regretted the decision,” Wheeler says.
At first, the event organizers were just happy the app fulfilled their initial requirements: They were able to kick their printed schedule to the curb for a digital agenda, the platform allowed them to gate access to event details so only attendees could participate, they could customize the interface with their brand’s look and feel, and it was easy to promote speaker bios and partners.
TEDxBrisbane’s event app using the Attendify platform
What’s more, the purchase price of the app was less than they were previously spending on a printed program. “As a community event that does not make a profit and works to make ticket prices as accessible as possible, we were thrilled at the price point,” Wheeler says.
But it wasn’t until the TEDxBrisbane team dug a little deeper into the Attendify app’s full functionality that they realized how it could amplify their work forging connections between members of their event community. “We were able to extract even greater value out of the platform once we embraced it as a community building tool,” Wheeler reports. Leveraging features like push notifications, the private social network and private messaging, her team began to take their attendee experience to an entirely new level.
Attendify is “an intentional part of our impact strategy”
Successful event ROI can be calculated in many ways. For the TEDxBrisbane team, Attendify’s app (and registration platform, which they later began using) became a critical influencer of attendee communication and culture. “The Attendify app—as an essential tool for building our community and keeping it connected—constitutes a very intentional part of our engineering impact strategy,” Wheeler explains.
Here are the top four ways the Attendify platform was a game changer:
Streamlining operations: Push Notifications (which organizers can use to proactively message attendees) were one of the event team’s favorite features. They used them to remind attendees about session start times, send out inspirational morning messages, and even nag folks to wear sunscreen. “I remember the first time we used it to get people into the sessions,” Wheeler says. “Without saying anything, people just looked at their phone and started making their way into the theater. It was like some type of miracle telepathic instruction.”
Boosting engagement: The app’s private social network allowed attendees to connect with each other and share moments that excited and inspired them. The TEDxBrisbane team leveraged the activity stream to answer attendee questions in real-time, and even prepped attendees about what to expect prior to event with helpful blog posts. The app’s adoption rate in 2018 was a whopping 99 percent, and attendees interacted with the app—including commenting, posting to the private social network, and sending private messages—more than 22k times (and counting)!
Capturing data: While the community loved connecting through the app’s private messaging feature, Wheeler also used it to personally solicit feedback from every single attendee. Even though the event has doubled in size since she took the helm in 2016, sending more than 600 individual messages is still worth it, Wheeler says. “TEDx runs a comprehensive anonymous feedback program. But complementing that with a personal message asking for authentic, real-time feedback results in valuable information we use to enhance our event.”
Post-event nurturing: TEDxBrisbane is committed to growing a community that extends and strengthens long after the event is over. While attendees also can connect via mainstream social media and other platforms, the dedicated TEDxBrisbane event app allows conversations, reflections and plans for action to continue post-event, and people who missed each other to reach out with ease. As a community-building tool, the app helps sustain engagement with both the TEDx community and TEDxBrisbane HQ, amplifying the event’s impact.
A sneak-peek at TEDxBrisbane’s future: The sky’s the limit
As the TEDxBrisbane enters its fourth year with Attendify, the event team is excited to explore using the app’s Real-time Polling function as a way to vote for the People’s Choice winner in their long-running One Minute Pitch Contest. The new Group Chat feature could be set up by event organizers to promote collaboration between different event “tribes” (i.e., those interested in specific topics like education, technology or humanity).
“The product is great, and the service and support is exemplary,” Wheeler says. “Our team and our community love it.”
As for Attendify, watching TEDxBrisbane curate a truly unique event experience has been an honor. We look forward to partnering with them as they continue to spread ideas, build their community and change the world.
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Howden School students have been sent home with the school now on lockdown due to an outbreak of the highly infectious disease that triggers vomiting and diarrhoea The school will not reopen until Thursday morning in an attempt to kill off the infection and stop it spreading Headteacher Mr Cannon penned a letter to parents to explain the “difficult” decision to shut for the next two days The letter said: “We have experienced and increase in the number of pupils suffering from vomiting and diarrhoea, consistent with the symptoms of the nororvirus, over the past few days “I have been advised by the Health Protection Unit that this is a mild illness caused by a virus, but that it is very infectious “As a consequence of the large number of students affected, we have made the difficult decision to close the school for the next two days, and will reopen at 8 40am on Thursday, November 28.” The letter continues: “If your child is affected, please ensure they are kept off school and do not return until 48 hours after the symptoms have stopped, to prevent further spread of the virus ” The school is located in East Riding of Yorkshire. Symptoms of norovirus begin 12 to 48 hours after exposure These also include nausea, a high temperature of 38C or above, a headache and aching arms and legs The NHS says on its website patients “should start to feel better in a day or two” It adds: Stay off school or work until the symptoms have stopped for 2 days. Also avoid visiting anyone in hospital during this time “This is when you’re most infectious.” The site also gives information on how easily the illness can spread It reads: “Norovirus can spread very easily. DON’T MISS: Cruise secrets: Never do this friendly gesture onboard [ANALYSIS]Norovirus vomiting bug sweeps UK: How to treat Norovirus? [ADVICE]Norovirus symptoms: Norovirus outbreak hits the UK [NEWS] “You can catch norovirus from close contact with someone with norovirus, touching surfaces or objects that have the virus on them, then touching your mouth and eating food that’s been prepared or handled by someone with norovirus ” It continues: “Washing your hands frequently with soap and water is the best way to stop it spreading “Alcohol hand gels don’t kill norovirus.” It also calls norovirus a seasonal illness Trending It says: “Norovirus, also called the ‘winter vomiting bug’, is a stomach bug that causes vomiting and diarrhoea “It can be very unpleasant, but usually goes away in about 2 days.”
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“Dodge is the only one of the big three American Muscle Makers left, while Camaro and Mustang have transformed into more of a sports car than muscle, Dodge with its Challenger and Charger series keeps the heritage of American cars alive. Dodge never caught up in the trend and still maintains its exclusivity away from any intentions of competing with others. The New Dodge Challenger is going to be all except V8, supercharged monster equipped with 700 Horsepower Engine”.
Dodge has always maintained a niche of its own in the car’s market of United States, nobody in today’s American auto sales market has maintained the tradition of American Muscle Cars longer than this company. While others like Mustang and Camaro have gone to become more of sports supercars, Dodge with its Challenger and Charger series have maintained their high-horsepower mammoths far from the competition. This could change soon as it has come to our understanding that Dodge plans to produce Electric Vehicles for its next generation of iconic Challenger series of classic cars.
For those who think that Muscle Cars are a thing of a past and the US Automotive industry has moved forward from the ancient technology still in use at Dodge, should see the last sales facts for Dodge. The sales of Dodge clearly shows that people are still digging the old-school cool cars as the auto sales of Dodge actually went up while for its closest rivals Camaro and Mustang, they were considerably down.
According to the known media news provider Detroit News, The new FCA Boss Mike Manley hinted that the things will be changing in the near future. According to him “The things will be changing in an Electric Way.” He also said that “The Reality of those platforms we are still using is that they need to move on. They can’t exist as you get into the middle-2020s. New technology is going to drive a load of weight out, so we can think of the powertrains in a different way. And we can use electrification to really supplement those vehicles.” He clearly signals towards a radical change when he says that “I think that electrification will certainly be part of the formula that says what is American muscle in the future. What it isn’t going to be is a V8, supercharged, 700-horsepower engine.”
Looking at other automakers in the same sector, this only becomes only evident with Ford said to have plans to roll out Mustang Hybrid version in 2020 and AI Oppenheiser the former Chief Engineer of Camaro moving to the Electric Division of the company indicating a radical change overall. Although it is quite difficult to digest and even heartbreaking for some of us Muscle Car lovers, this seems to be the newest trend in the industry.
It is no secret that no matter how silly it seems, we all love the Hellcat with its super powerful 707 horsepower engine and it is clearly not some but many because Dodge keeps on coming with newer, more powerful versions of the car and they keep emptying the car lots of the Dealerships year after year. Although the Redeye and the Demon might not be as cool cars as other super sports cars, they still are much more powerful, raw and clearly represent the iconic American spirit when it comes to cars.
As for the extent of electrification the new challenger is deemed to go is still unclear and Mike Manley is surely not giving the details any soon, though the main man does say one thing about the whole electrification thing that some Dodge fans are relieved about and that is him saying “Electrification clearly can’t be the dominant part in the car.” While this should provide the much-needed solace to those fearing for the disappearance of Gasoline Engines from this much loved iconic car range completely, we are still more interested in how that might work.
Though it is really crystal clear that Dodge is reluctant to stray from its original intent of muscle, and it wouldn’t even surprise us if Dodge is the last company to switch to 100% electric ways and we can’t see that happening anytime soon. All we can say for now is that the most probable outcome of all this electrical hype will end in Gas Engines being supplemented by 48-volt or plug-in hybrids will be the most probable first electrical transformation of the Dodge Challenger.
Apart from all the ruckus about Electrification what more will happen is that with electrification Dodge will finally be able to move past their ancient technology which is being used since the 2000s and has been derived from the Mercedes W210 as part of the platform that was developed way back in 1990s. Although considerable upgradations and updates have been made to the system since that time, it still remains as one of the oldest underpinnings sold in the US in the present day.
We’ll certainly be hearing more about the same in the coming year, but now the fact remains that the old 2019 Dodge Challenger is still on the market with its huge 700 Horsepower engine fuming power in every way possible. So let’s enjoy the power of iconic American Muscle cars while we still can and enjoy riding those Dodge cars until they are still the best Muscle Cars on the planet.
In the coming days there will be more and more speculations about 2020 and most probably the sales of the latest 2019 model will be propped up because if we believe Mr. Mike Manley’s words then this will be the last authentic American Muscle Car and people surely would like to have one of those before they are retired and said goodbye once and for all.
Though it is not happening anytime soon as the car is expected to be rolled out in mid-2020 and its still 2019, it’ll still be heartbreak for all the power folks who love the raw power of the muscle cars no matter when it is going to happen.
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All you’ve heard about Estonia is true
Steady row, far you'll go – Estonia kicks butt in the digital revolution and is a safe haven for founders hungry for success!
In this blog article I will give a short introduction to Estonia and why it’s the hub for up and coming startups. I will also discuss some flagship startups in the logistics field and give a hint to all of those struggling to find a way to found a startup. In the next article, I will give an overview and some highlights of the Latitude59 tech conference and the most engaging keynotes and discussions. The last article in this series will feature some startups and their founders who were at Latitude59: Luke Seelenbinder from Stadia Maps, Kunehito Nakahara from Souco, Merit Valdsalu from StandByMate and Juan Borras from Outvio.
Monetized skills and big bucks in Estonia
On the 24th – 25th of May, I visited my hometown Tallinn to take a glance at Estonia’s startup scene at its flagship startup and tech conference Latitude59 at Kultuurikatel aka Tallinn Creative Hub. The two days consisted of intense discussions and talks about digital security, AI, foundership, building 21st century companies and of course the mandatory tech conference pitch round.
Various startups had set up their booths to introduce newest digital and technological solutions such as augmented reality software development by Operose, service platform for seafarers by StandByMate and worldwide shipping without couriers by Outvio to highlight a few, the world’s fastest folding electric vehicle Stigo had their little bikes buzzing around the venue. No international conference in Estonia is possible without a display booth for the e-residency program and its advantages for internationals looking to found in Estonia. So what makes Estonia so interesting for founders and what gives edge to the tiny post-soviet country that made headlines in the tech and digital scene of the millenium?
Estonia, e-Estonia and the startup ecosystem
Estonia is a small country in Northern Europe, and it is mostly known for the Singing Festival, the large percentage of population who do not define as religious, digital services such as Skype and TransferWise, free public transportation, and genius technical and digital solutions for banking, taxes, voting, e-commerce, education and anything else you can think of, that makes you stand in a queue in Germany for at least a good half of your morning. Its citizens take pride in the velocity of business and bureaucracy in the 1.3 Million recently announced Scandinavian country on the coast of the Baltic sea.
The 0% income tax on retained or reinvested profits and innovative e-services makes Estonia especially attractive for startups.
95% of taxes can be declared online, with an average of 3 min per personal tax declaration. The registration and founding of a business in Estonia is simplified through the e-citizenship. Estonia ranks third in Europe with the highest number of startups per capita, on average 5 startups per 100k people. Startup trends are location services, engineering, electronics and hardware. If you are worried about competition, you should be, because there are some genius startups coming your way.
The 3 Enablers of Estonian success
If you got interested in getting something started in Estonia, head over here to learn some facts before moving to the unicorn land that sang its way to freedom in the late 80s. As a digital unicorn, standing out amongst the other Baltic states Latvia and Lithuania as the Baltic Tiger as the richest and best developed country amongst the three Baltic States. Before WW2, Estonia was developing in the same direction as was Finland and other Scandinavian countries, however due to the Soviet oppression, the development was put on hold. Hence the burning desire to catch up to its Scandinavian brothers and sisters, Estonia really hit the gas pedal in the early nineties and early 2000s and became a relevant player in the IT startup scene in Europe, having 3 enablers according Marlon Dumas, an engineering professor at the University of Tartu: being a small and therefore agile country, thinking internationally from the very core, and finding very simple solutions at small and micro companies to difficult problems and scaling the results.
As the startup field and development is overseeable, it is no wonder that Estonians also dedicate a considerable time developing and challenging digital security and democracy. The digital safety lab at the Tallinn University School of Digital Technologies mainly focuses on secure human behaviour in the modern digital world (e-safety) rather than technological risks (cyber security). It was only logical but also proper for e-Estonia’s flagship startup and tech conference Latitude59 to start off with an opening discussion about tech, democracy and the future. More about that in our next article.
Fields of gold and startup superheroes
Estonians call startups idufirma which translates to sprout company. And it makes sense – plant a seed in manure and it will sprout some serious goods. And Estonians are benefiting. According to a survey by Startup Estonia in 2017, around 4,300 people in Estonia were working in startups and Estonia is home to around 500 startups. These numbers alone are not particularly interesting. Let’s put it into perspective: around 270 Million Euros were invested in 2017 alone into those startups! It is clear at which level these startups are operating at. Moving money, verifying online identity and transportation of people at low cost are the two key business ideas from Estonia that really get the start up scene buzzing. The startup superhero TransferWise, offering currency logistics without the involvement of banks and currency exchange booths at fair prices, is the flagship startup when it comes to moving funds between currencies. It is not surprising that Estonians are responsible for this, as coming from such a small country, it is not only logical but necessary to function in international territories and currencies, and obviously not pay any fees. Let’s call it the Estonian way.
If something is free, make some money off of it
Of course cyber security at your digital identity level is of highest importance for Estonians, and the startup scene again provides. The crazy success story here is Veriff. They call themselves the new standard in identity verification and provide a service that can verify drivers licenses, passports and other forms of identification. The young founder Kaarel Kotkas phrased his idea very simply: it is very difficult to tell the difference between a fake and the real thing these days, and it is up to Veriff to make that task simple for businesses. At its core, Veriff fixes things that don’t work.
The other absolute Estonian favorite startup is Taxify, which has simplified the logistics of people. If you can drive and use a digital map, you qualify to become a Taxify driver. Cutting out the middle man, the taxi companies, Taxify provides avocation for drivers and a reliable service for customers. Even with free transportation in Tallinn for all registered citizens, it is not worth waiting for the free bus for 25 min if you could have a car there in 5 for a few Euros. Taxify disrupts the Tallinn public transportation service by following the simple rule of time-is-money. People don’t have the time for free slow transportation.
Estonians have thought of all the excuses
If you are still not convinced about the awesomeness that is Estonia, and think “I could never do that”, well you are out of excuses. You can get an Estonian Startup Visa if you are a non-EU startup founder and wish to be a part of the tigerland unicornia. To qualify for the Estonian Startup Visa, your business should be defined by an innovative and repeatable business model with great global growth potential, which contributes significantly to the development of the business environment in Estonia.
Too much too soon? Want a helping hand and a guiding light? Contact us at Beam! We have an Estonian in the team, she’ll blow some unicorn glitter on you, you’ll be fine.
Kristi Ruusna is the People Operations Manager at Beam. She grew up and got her higher education in the field of Theatre Studies in Estonia. After moving to Berlin, she changed fields and started her career in People Operations.
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In history past, the National Championships outcome determined many things, including a place on the national and world teams. However, these days it is just an important stepping stone. Ok, maybe a boulder that gets you halfway across the river sized stepping stone, but still, just a step. For today’s gymnast, the selection for a spot on the national and world stage is a journey rather than a result of one important competition. So for each gymnast, the weight of their performance at this competition on their chances for a spot on the national or world team, the size of step this competition is for them, depends on where they are at in their journey. Let’s take a look. (As we look all pics are from Christy Linder’s Facebook page… you’ll want to check it out!)
Just Stay on Course
Right now, there appear to be three ‘lock” positions on this year’s world championship team, Simone Biles, Gabby Doublas and Aly Raisman. Biles has absolutely nothing to prove. She could fall in the river (or on each event) multiple times, and it just wouldn’t matter. Her only job is to stay healthy and continuing on being one of the most amazing gymnasts in history. Douglas and Raisman don’t have a whole lot to prove either. At both Jesolo and Secret Classics they have shown that they are still able to hang with the best of the best, and are on track to be at the front of the pack come world team selection camp. Barring injury, these three seem to be locks for this year’s World Championship team, and they just need to stay on course to not just make the team, but most likely win more World Championship medals.
Simone Biles finishing vault at the P&G National Championships. Photo by Christy Linder.
Gabby Douglas flying high on bars at the P&G National Championships podium training. Photo by Christy Linder.
Aly Raisman is sharp on beam at the P&G National Championships podium training. Photo by Christy Linder.
Step it Up a Little Notch
The next three girls Maggie Nichols, Kyla Ross and Bailie Key seem to be the most likely to take the last three World Championship team spots. They are all strong all-arounders and could definitely contribute to the team on any event if needed. Nichols is probably the surprise leader of this group. Nichols is strong on all four events, and could easily lead off team USA in any one of them. Her super clean amanar vault makes her a huge addition to USA’s vault line-up, and the combination of the two factors make her very close to a lock on the team. However, she is still climbing the ranks and proving herself, so it will be key that she hits at this competition.
Ross and Key are both known for the same things- clean lines, clear heads and consistency. However, the issue for both is that they don’t bring in high enough scores to overcome the four mentioned above. While it is unlikely that any other girls will overtake them in the all-around, there are a handful of girls that can contribute higher scores on an individual event. For Ross to maintain her place as a bars and beam specialist, she will definitely need to show progress towards her newly upgraded bars routine. Both girls will need to score high and hit with consistency.
Maggie Nichols strutting her stuff at the P&G National Championships podium training. Photo by Christy Linder.
Kyla Ross showing what she is made of at the P&G National Championships podium training. Photo by Christy Linder.
Bailie Key on beam at the P&G National Championships podium training. Photo by Christy Linder.
Show Your Specialities
There are a few other girls who have an outside chance of making a worlds team because of one or two events if they are able to consistently and significantly outscore one of the girls above. Numerous combinations of the girls above could make a strong bars line-up for a worlds team, but it is not a sure thing that any of them would medal in an event finals. Madison Kocian, Ashton Locklear, Rachel Gowey and Brenna Dowell would all like to fill that gap. While each of them need to make a strong showing on at least one other event, it is CRUCIAL that they each hit a strong uneven bars routine. From Locklear, who placed fourth at last year’s uneven event finals at the World Championships but has been injured ever since, to Gowey and Kocian coming back from longer injuries, to Dowell making the switch back from NCAA, each gymnast has a rich resume and a strong ground to stand on, but a lot to prove.
Madison Kocian on bars. Podium training at P&G Championships, photo by Christy Linder.
Ashton Locklear on bars. Podium training at P&G Championships, photo by Christy Linder.
Rachel Gowey on bars. Podium training at P&G National Championships. Photo by Christy Linder.
Brenna Dowell on floor. Podium training at P&G National Championships. Photo by Christy Linder Sharp.
Alyssa Baumann was on last year’s world championship team as well, and is a standout on balance beam. While team USA will have a STRONG balance beam line up, again it is less likely for them to top the podium on this event. If Baumann can come in with one of the top beam routines, she might be able to make a case for her spot on the worlds team. However, this would be a VERY tall feat for her.
MyKayla Skinner was another member of last year’s world championship team, but if ever there was a year where you cannot rest on your laurels, it is this year. With Raisman and Nichols in the mix, Skinner has dropped a notch in her contributions on floor and vault. She will need to perform the routines of a lifetime on both events to show that she still has a place on the world team.
Step Up to the Plate
Amelia Hundley has mostly hit when it has counted, and has shown that she can come back and give it her all at the recent Pan American Games. Hundley is a strong all-arounder, and can definitely deliver on bars and floor. However, to keep pace with the other girls who could contribute either as an all-arounder, a bars specialist or a floor specialist, Hundley will have to deliver some of the best routines she has ever performed. As will Madison Desch. Desch was an alternate at the 2015 World Championships and was recently selected to compete at the Pan American Games. Looking like a lock for the all-around, Desch fell on beam and ended up second. While Desch is a strong gymnast, she just needs to show higher scores and more consistency than in the past.
Nia Dennis has been a gymnast that many have expected to top the podiums at this point in her career. Undeniably talented, Dennis could be in the mix. However, her consistency has always been an issue. A recent gym change could be what Dennis needed to move from talented but inconsistent to a contender. If Dennis wants a place on this year’s world team, she will have to reflect that in her competition.
Emily Schild is the picture of clean lines and technically perfect gymnastics. She has been stepping up to every challenge given to her this year, unfortunately, her scores are just not on par with the rest of the field. The same can be said of beautiful to watch Lauren Navvarro and Polina Shchennikova. Both round out the senior field with gymnastics you don’t want to miss, but often is.
By Stacie Fletcher • Posted in 2015 P&G Championships • Tagged 2015 P&G Championships, Aly Raisman, Bailie Key, Kyla Ross, Maggie Nichols, Simone Biles
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Other than the pyramids, two other sites, Naqa and Mussawarat, together make up the UNESCO archaeological sites of the Meroitic Empire. Naqa is one of the largest ruined ancient city centers in Sudan with the remains of two important temples, Temple of Apedemak and Temple of Amun. The Temple of Apedemak was dedicated to the Nubian lion-headed warrior god. It was believed that Apedemak brought victories and was the guardian of the deceased king and anyone who touched his grave would be cursed by Apedemak. Built in the 1st century AD, the Temple of Apedemak in Naqa is considered a classic example of Kushite architecture. On the gateway to the temple are reliefs depictig Natakamani and Amanitore exerting divine power over their prisoners with lions at their feet. Here you will see Natakamani and Amanitore portrayed with Nubian features of round heads and broad shoulders and especially Amanitore who was depicted with unusually wide hips. Amanitore was a warrior queen who co-ruled the empire with Natakamani though it is unclear whether she was his wife or his mother. The fact that the king and queen are equal in size in the bas relief shows that queens or candaces were important rulers ruling side by side with the king. Here on the gateway in particular, you can see Queen Amanitore wielding a sword which is usually carried by the king while King Natakamani holds a battle axe. On the sides and rear of the temple are reliefs depicting the king and queen making offerings to the gods Amun, Horus, Apedemak, Isis, Hathor, and Mut. A few meters away is a Roman kiosk with a combination of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman styles. The entrance is Egyptian topped by a lintel with a row of cobras while the columns have Corinthian capitals in the Roman style.
Kiosk and Temple of Apedemak in Naqa
Roman kiosk at Temple of Apedemak
This Roman kiosk has a combination of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman styles. The entrance is Egyptian topped by a sun disk and a lintel with a row of cobras while the columns have Corinthian capitals in the Roman style.
The entrance is Egyptian with the falcon wings of Horus and the sun disk of Ra topped by a lintel with a row of cobras.
Temple of Apedemak in Naqa
On the gateway to the temple are reliefs depicting King Natakamani and Queen Amanitore exerting divine power over their prisoners with lions at their feet.
Natakamani wielding a batter axe ready to kill his enemies
Queen Amanitore, said to be overweight, was depicted here with thick arms and unusually large hips. She wields a sword which normally is used by the king and she is depicted the same size as Natakamani which shows they ruled together as equals. In fact many of the Kushite queens or candaces were warriors and were buried with their swords.
At the feet of Natakamani is a lion devouring his enemies.
On the side of the entrance gateway is the war-god Apedemak portrayed as a snake with a lion’s head.
On the side of the temple are reliefs depicting the king and queen making offerings to the gods. From left to right are Anubis, Osiris, Amun of Napata, Horus, and Apedemak.
The king and queen with Nubian features of round heads, curly hair, and broad shoulders.
The king and queen making offerings to Apedemak, Horus, and Amun with the ram head.
Horus and Apedemak
On the rear wall of the temple is Apedemak depicted with 3 heads and 4 arms receiving offerings from the king on the right and the queen on the left.
This side wall depicts the king and queen making offerings to the goddesses: Isis, Nephthys, Hathor, Mut, and Nut.
Isis and her sister Nephthys
Not far from the Temple of Apedemak is the Temple of Amun in Naqa. Amun was one of the most important deities in Ancient Egypt and was believed to be self-created (without father or mother) and the king of all gods. A row of rams guard the Temple of Amun designed in Egyptian style with an outer courtyard, a hypostyle hall, and an inner sanctuary, similar to the Temple of Amun at Jebel Barkal and in Karnak in Egypt. Archaeologists have discovered a rare painted altar with the names of King Natakamani and his queen Amanitore written in hieroglyphs. In this altar room was also a stone stela of Queen Amanishakheto believed to have ruled before Natakmani. There is a sunken relief of the queen with the goddess who was the consort of Apedemak, the lion god.
Temple of Amun at Naqa with a row of rams leading to the temple similar to the Amun temples in Jebel Barkal and Karnak.
On the left is Amun of Karnak with a human head and on the right is Amun of Napata with a ram head.
Ram-headed Amun of Napata
Ram-headed Amun and the king
The Nile god Hapy
The Nile god Hapy with water pouring from the top of his head.
The replica of the main altar in the inner sanctuary
North of Naqa in the desert is Mussawarat which is another ancient settlement with a large Lion Temple and several other Temples. The Lion Temple is believed to be built around 230 BC by King Amekhamani and is a typical Meroitic one-roomed temple dedicated to the Kushite lion god Apedemak. It is dated to be about 200 years older than the Temple of Apedemak at Naqa. The walls inside the temple here have carvings of elephants and lions leading archaeologists to believe that there used to be many of them roaming the area in the past. The Lion Temple at Mussawarat is also an important testimony to the changes in religion from mostly Egyptian gods such as Amun to indigenous Kushite gods like Apedemak, Sebiumeker, and Arensunuphis which are depicted here for the first time. The Lion Temple was completely rebuilt and restored by the mission from Humboldt University in Berlin in the 1960s.
Lion Temple at Mussawarat
There is a relief of a crocodile with its mouth tied shut at the entrance of the temple.
Interior of the Lion Temple at Mussawarat
Relief depicting lions kept as pets.
Here you can see a lion sitting by the throne of the king.
On the back wall behind the altar are reliefs of elephants
Relief of an African elephant
On the side wall is the king, queen, and prince making offerings to gods (from left to right): Horus, Sebiumeker, Arensunuphis, Amun, and Apedemak.
Lion-headed war god Apedemak
Horus and Kushite indigenous gods, Arensnuphis (the Nubian god of war and hunting) and Sebiumeker (the Nubian god of fertility)
Horus and Arensnuphis
Arensnuphis the Nubian god of war and hunting wearing an armoured long kilt
The Nubian god of war and hunting, Arensnuphis, is the only god depicted wearing sandals
The giving of life represented by the ankh
Apedemak giving life to the king depicted by the ankh with the three bones of Osiris
Very close to the Lion Temple at Mussawarat is this beautiful watering hole where local herders bring their cattle and camels.
Also in Mussawarat is one of the largest building complexes found covering an area of about 45,000 m². The main structure remaining is the Great Enclosure built in the 3rd century BC with many columns, terraces, temples, and ramps for access by elephants all surrounded by walled courtyards. There are also sculptures of animals here in particular elephants. There is some debate about the purpose of the buildings with some suggesting it was an elephant training camp due to the discovery of elephant ramps and sculptures. Regardless of its purpose, it is widely believed that at least four Kushite queens lived here including Amanirenas, Amanishakheto, Nawidemak, and Amanitore.
The Great Enclosure at Mussawarat
Temple dedicated to the Nubian fertility god Sebiumeker
Snake relief guarding the entrance of the temple
Lion drawing on one of the low walls
Elephant sculpture
Another beautiful sunset
My adventure in the deserts of Sudan quickly came to an end and we have to head back to Khartoum through the spectacular desert surrounded by huge granite boulders. I thoroughly enjoyed playing Indiana Jones in this remote land rarely frequented by tourists. Next post will be on some other sights we visited in the capital of Khartoum before our departure. Stay tuned!
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Starry, starry night.
As the sun sinks towards the red dunes of the Simpson Desert, the first stars appear in the indigo, eastern sky. A group of people, bulky in winter coats, learn that these are the ‘alpha’ stars, the brightest in their respective constellations.
One by one, they peer into an enormous 11” Celestron telescope to see the stars up close. With the magnification, it’s easy to see that they’re different colours – some are red, others blue or yellow or white. With the darkness of the desert to the west and only the lights of a very small town to the east, Birdsville is the best place for a Star Show, and the Birdsville Star Show is one of the must-do activities in Birdsville.
Sandra McShane has an immense knowledge of the night sky. Her passion and understanding are evident as she speaks about the different constellations, explains ‘light years’ and points out the planets amongst the stars. She shows the group constellations that are invisible to the naked eye because they’re in a different galaxy and explains where the stars are and why they twinkle.
Staring upwards we see Scorpio, Sirius (Orion’s Dog), the Southern Cross and many more constellations with their own stories and history. Sandra knows when they were discovered and by whom and what each constellation meant to the ancients, those who relied upon the night sky for direction and prophesy.
Throughout the 45-minute session we see three satellites moving swiftly amongst the stars and it’s a competition to see who can spot them. We see a constellation called the ‘Jewel Box’, which is so called for its colourful array of stars. It’s one that is almost invisible to the naked eye but the telescope magnifies the stars and intensifies their colours. Sandra explains why the stars are different colours and what it means. There’s no question from the group throughout evening that she can’t answer.
Although we huddle together against the cold, looking forward to a warm meal at the pub, we’re sad that the session is over. Our minds are pulsing with new knowledge and we’re reflecting on the things we’ve seen – the ‘butterfly’ constellation and Saturn, its rings clearly visible around the planet itself. Saturn was so clear that it looked just like a textbook image.
Only in Birdsville, a tiny dot of light in an outback of darkness, are such wonders of the night sky revealed. We’re lucky that we have Sandra’s star show to guide us through the immense galaxy above. We’ll soon be in the desert, sleeping beneath the stars, and will be able to recognise Saturn, Orion and Alpha Centauri and appreciate all that the outback has to offer – even if it’s thousands of light years away.
Tags: Birdsville, Birdsville Star Show, outback, Sandra McShane
2012 Outback Snaps Competition
As the sun sets over red, windswept dunes, an eager photographer leans over her tripod to capture the moment. Simultaneously, a family in a 4WD is careening up the face of Big Red, the tallest sand dune in the Simpson Desert. An onlooker snaps a photo of them emerging from a cloud of red dust as they mount the crest. Across town, a group of motorbike riders are practicing for the following day’s gymkhana. With a camera in hand, they perform jumps and wheel stands, taking turns to ride and photograph.
The outback is a place of mesmerizing beauty, unique events and lifelong adventure. When this essence of the outback is captured on film, it should be celebrated and shared. Therefore the Birdsville Roadhouse, together with the Birdsville community, is launching the inaugural 2012 Outback Snaps photography competition.
Amongst the residents of Birdsville, there are some very talented amateur photographers. Their photos are displayed in the Wirrarri Information Centre, in an exhibition titled ‘On The Land’. These photographs are shared and enjoyed by the community and travellers alike and exemplify why us locals love the outback so much.
However, we know that amongst the thousands of travellers who we meet in Birdsville each year, there are so many who adore the area as much as we do. Whether you’re serious photographers, experienced bushies or holiday makers with a simple camera, we think that amongst you, there must be some fabulous photos of the outback, Birdsville and your memorable adventures.
Therefore, we are calling on everyone who has photographs of the Birdsville area, both local and those who have passed through, to submit them to our Outback Snaps competition.
There are three categories, monthly prizes and an overall winner that will be announced in December. Lorraine Kath, a photographer from Mt Leonard Station who was instrumental in founding the Birdsville Photography Group, will judge the competition. Her book, My Colours, is a beautifully presented gallery of award-winning photographic work that is available for purchase at numerous locations around Birdsville.
Lorraine’s interest in photography developed after the birth of her children, who she enjoyed photographing as they grew. Living on a cattle station further encouraged her to capture unique moments of life on the land on film.
She will be looking for photographs that capture the essence of the outback, preferably the channel country region, are well composed and fit into one of the three competition categories.
4WD Adventure – depicts the spirit of escaping to the outback in your 4WD. Photos can be of your vehicle, a sticky situation or a picturesque moment that you have only experienced because you have set out on a 4WD adventure.
Nature – it’s the landscape, wildlife and sunsets that make the outback, and in particular the channel country, so utterly charming. Any photo focusing on the beauty of the region can be entered in this category.
Action and Events – some of country’s most unique events are held in the outback, and there’s always some sort of action occurring in Birdsville and surrounds. This broad category draws together all images depicting unusual events and action-filled outback experiences.
To enter, email a maximum of five photos to competitions@birdsvilleroadhouse.com.au with a caption, your name, hometown and the category of your photo. We will then put them in the online competition gallery for viewing and will email winning entrants each month.
We look forward to seeing your photographs and displaying them for people to enjoy the spirit of the outback that you have captured.
Tags: 4WD, Birdsville, competitions, outback, photography
Birdsville – the busiest place in the world?!
A cartoonist called Lynn Johnston once said, “An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything”. So, we would like to repair our reputation as Birdsville’s best source of news by apologising for our absence on the Galah Session over the past few weeks, which is due to an incredibly busy month in Birdsville.
We’ve had interesting characters reach town after achieving amazing physical feats, we’ve competed in the Finke Desert Race in Alice Springs and have become an official sponsor of The Long Walk Home, Jenna Brook’s walk across the Simpson Desert.
It was Jenna’s walk that inspired German cyclist Walter Leven to dedicate his planned 6000-kilometre four-month-long outback ride to raising money for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. After weeks of communication, Walter and Jenna finally met in Birdsville and chatted about the RFDS, their training and the outback over a cuppa.
Walter Leven and Jenna Brook.
Shortly after Walter continued on his ride, Birdsville was graced with a visit from Merv Hughes, former Australian Cricketer, to promote the importance of men’s health.
The next day, a very healthy Owen Davies walked into town after a 994-kilometre journey following the Georgina River from Camooweal, far northwest Queensland. He had been travelling with his pack of nine goats for two months and reached Birdsville on the wettest day we’d had all year!
Merv Hughes with Councillor Jody Barr. Photo courtesy Diamantina Shire Council
The day after that, Dick and Pip Smith were in Birdsville visiting friends. They’re supporters of The Long Walk Home and caught up with Jenna at the pub before coming to the Birdsville Roadhouse to check on the progress of our Pro-Lite buggy.
Around this time, travellers James and Steph were stranded in town with a blown head gasket. Luckily, they loved the place and agreed to work at the Roadhouse when we took off for Finke, the greatest off-road race in the country. They’re still here and might be hanging around longer, yay!
Dick Smith and Jenna Brook. Photo courtesy The Long Walk Home
Later that week, a plane made an emergency landing 500 metres short of the Birdsville airstrip and our little town made the national news. Thankfully, no one was hurt and the plane was successfully recovered.
We were just about to leave for Finke when our supply truck got bogged on the Birdsville Track. The track was soft after a couple of days of heavy rain and driver Richard was forced to wait at Mungerannie Hotel until the track reopened and dried out. We finally received our supplies and the Krakka Koldee Racing team hit the road as soon as they were unpacked.
Emergency landing. Photo courtesy the Outback Loop
The Finke Desert Race is an annual 460-kilometre race from Alice Springs to the remote community of Finke and back, along the old Ghan line. This year, there were over 80 buggies and cars competing, as well as almost 600 motorbikes and quads. We were one of 8 Pro-Lite buggies in the race.
Unfortunately, though, a broken rear stub axle and engine problems forced us to withdraw from the race during prologue on the Saturday. We’re now working hard to get the buggy back into shape for the next race. Keep an eye out for Kelly’s Finke coverage in the next issue of Outback Magazine for more information on the race.
The Krakka Koldee driver and navigator team
While we were at Finke, the Birdsville Photography Group held an opening night for their ‘On The Land’ exhibition. Prizes were awarded for the best photographs and all attendees reported having a lovely evening. We saw the exhibition at the Wirrarri Information Centre on our return and were amazed by the high quality of all of the photos. It really is a visual reminder of why we love living in Birdsville.
On Friday, the Birdsville State School P&C committee held their monthly bingo night, which was enjoyed by all and next weekend the Birdsville Social Club is holding their annual horse and motorbike gymkhana. The Krakka Koldee Racing Team might even be demonstrating the speed of their ultra-reliable 1300cc Suzuki-powered buggy on the bike enduro track over the weekend.
Birdsville State School students and staff
Lastly, there’s only a week until Jenna Brook sets off on her ‘Long Walk Home’. As we’re now official sponsors, we can officially recommend that you donate to her walk, which supports the Royal Flying Doctor Service.
Phew, we’ve seen a lot of action in the past few weeks! Birdsville may be a small town, but life is certainly eventful.
Owen Davies in Birdsville. Keep an eye out for Kelly’s article about Owen in the next edition of Outback Magazine.
Categories: Birdsville Life, News
Tags: Birdsville, Dick Smith, events, Jenna Brook, Krakka Koldee Racing, Merv Hughes, news, Owen Davies, The Long Walk Home, Walter Leven
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The life of Isabella d'Este has never yet been written. After four hundred years, the greatest lady of the Renaissance still awaits her biographer. An unkind fate has pursued all the scholars, whether French, German, or Italian, who have hitherto attempted the task. Their labours have been hindered and interrupted, or their lives prematurely cut short by death. More than fifty years ago an interesting study on the famous Marchesa, from the pen of a Mantuan scholar, Carlo d'Arco, was published in the Archivio Storico Italiano (1845), based upon documents preserved in the Gonzaga Archives. In 1867, a distinguished Frenchman, M. Armand Baschet, wrote a remarkable essay on Isabella d'Este's relations with the great Venetian printer, Aldo Manuzio, but died before he could execute his intention of publishing a life of this princess. A mass of documents, which he had copied from the Mantuan Archives, remained in the hands of the late M. Charles Yriarte, who wrote several interesting chapters on Isabella d'Este's relations with the great painters of her age, in the Gazette des Beaux Arts, and was preparing a fuller and more complete work on the subject when he died. M. Firmin Didot, Dr. Janitschek, Dr. Iieumont, and Ferdinand Gregorovius have all in turn given us sketches of Isabella in their historical works, while deploring the absence of any biography which should do full justice to so attractive and important a figure. vi PREFACE
Meanwhile, Italian students have not been idle. Twenty years ago a learned Mantuan ecclesiastic, Canonico Willelmo Braghirolli, made a careful study of Isabella's correspondence with Giovanni Bellini and Perugino, and published many of the letters relating to these artists. But he too died before his time, leaving her life still unwritten. Other wellknown scholars, Ferrato, Bertolotti, Campori, Signor Vittore Cian, and Cavaliere Stefano Davari, the present Director of the Archivio Gonzaga, have turned their attention to different aspects of the theme, and have published studies on the Gonzaga princes, or on the scholars and artists attached to their court. Above all, Dr. Alessandro Luzio, the present Keeper of the State Archives of Mantua, and his former colleague, Signor Rodolfo Renier, have devoted years of patient and untiring labour to the examination of the vast mass of Isabella d'Este's correspondence, amounting to upwards of two thousand letters, which had been fortunately preserved. During the last fifteen years these indefatigable workers have published a whole series of interesting articles and pamphlets containing the results of their researches, as well as one valuable volume, in which the intercourse between the courts of Mantua and Urbino, in the lifetime of Isabella and her sister-in-law, Elisabetta Gonzaga, is fully described. In an essay which Signor Renier contributed to the Italia, fifteen years ago, he informed his readers that he and Dr. Luzio would shortly publish a monograph on the great Marchesa, but these distinguished scholars have as yet been unable to fulfil their promise, and the appearance of this important and long-expected work is still delayed.
Meanwhile, the following study, without pretendPREFACE vii
ing to be an exhaustive biography, may interest those of our readers who are already familiar with Isabella through the Life of her sister, Beatrice d'Este.1 The history of these two princesses was closely interwoven during the early days of their wedded life, and Isabella's visits to Milan, and her correspondence with Lodovico Sforza and his young wife naturally filled a large share of her time and thoughts. But these six brilliant years which made up the whole of Beatrice's married life formed only a brief episode in Isabella's long and eventful career. During the next forty years she played an important part in the history of her times, and made the little court of Mantua famous in the eyes of the whole civilised world. Her close relationship with the reigning families of Milan and Naples, of Ferrara and Urbino, and constant intercourse with Popes and monarchs made her position one of peculiar importance, while the wisdom and sagacity which she showed in political affairs commanded universal respect. Both during the lifetime of her husband and son she was repeatedly called upon to administer the government of the state, and showed a coolness and dexterity in the conduct of the most difficult negotiations that would have excited the admiration of Machiavelli himself. By her skilful diplomacy this able woman saved the little state of Mantua from falling a prey to the ambitious designs of Caesar Borgia, or the vengeance of two powerful French monarchs, Louis XII. and Francis I. At the same time she helped her brother, Duke Alfonso of Ferrara, to resist the furious assaults of Julius II.
1 Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, by Julia CartwrighU (Dent& Co., 1899-)
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Update 28th August
Marion McGovern, Enda Madden and Michelle Reynolds were €20 winners at the most recent Club Lotto draw which was held in the Wynne's Bar. The jackpot wasn’t won. It will be at €1,800 for the next draw on Saturday Sept 2nd which will be held in Mattimoe's Bar.
Well done to McGovern Directional Drilling Senior Team on their Senior Championship win over St Faithleachs at the weekend. They remain in contention for the knock out stages and face Padraig Pearses in Abbey Park in the final group game on Saturday 9 September.
Best wishes to clubman Karl Keenan and wife-to-be Eadion who are getting wedding this week.
LADIES FOOTBALL:
Intermediate ladies play Eire Og in the Championship play off on Sat 2nd Sept, details tbc.
U14s lost to a very strong Clann na nGael team in rd 2 of the Championship. Next match is against St. Dominics on Sunday 3rd Sept, at 6pm.
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Update 21st August
Michael and Sabrina Kearns, Christy Wynne and Mark Tracey were €20 winners at the most recent Club Lotto draw which was held in the Kate Lavin's. The jackpot wasn’t won. It will be at €1,700 for the next draw on Saturday Aug 26th which will be held in Wynne's Bar.
Well done to McGovern Directional Drilling sponsored seniors on their senior championship win over St. Brigid's last Saturday. (See match report). They now play St. Faithleach's in their next group game this Saturday Aug 26th, in Kilglass at 5:30pm.
Congratulations to senior team captain Roch Hanmore and his wife Lorna on the birth of their baby son, Bobby.
Well done to all our players who received their Leaving Cert results during the week.
UNDERAGE:
The U-16 were defeated by St. Dominics last week. They play Clan na Gael Tuesday evening August 22nd, in the Abbey Park at 7:30pm. Well done to the U-12's who defeated Clan na Gael last week. Their next game is against Roscommon Gaels Saturday August 26th, in the Abbey Park at 12noon. The U-14's play Roscommon Gaels this evening in the Abbey Park at 7:30pm.
Well done to the Minors on their win in the second round of the Championship. They play St.Brigids on Thursday August 24th, at 7pm in the Abbey Park.
U14s are away to Clann na nGael in the Championship on Sunday 27th at 6pm.
Intermediate Ladies play off against Eire Og is on 2nd Sept venue and time tbc.
Owen Garvin, Maeve McDonell and Conor Tivnan were €20 winners at the most recent Club Lotto draw which was held in the Patrick's Well. The jackpot wasn’t won. It will be at €1,600 for the next draw on Saturday Aug 19th which will be held in the Kate Lavin's.
Well done to the McGovern Directional Drilling sponsored senior team who have completed the league stages of the O'Gara Cup unbeaten. As a result they will play Division 1 League football in 2018.
They will be out again next Saturday evening, August 19th, when they play St. Brigid's in the senior championship in Castlerea at 5:30pm.
The U-14's play St. Ciaran's on Thursday August 17th, at 7:30pm in Fuerty. The U-16's play Clan na nGael on Sunday August 20th, at 12noon in Johnstown.
Well done to the Minors on their win in the first round of the Championship. They play Kilbride on Thurs at 7.30pm in the Abbey Park.
Congratulations to Shannon Gaels on winning the Sean Daly Memorial Cup final. It was a very competitive match with great football played by both teams. Thanks to Paddy and Monica Daly & family for presenting the cup.Thanks to the teams who took part and to all who were involved in hosting the competition. A special word of thanks to Aileen Daly for her assistance and to Tony Murphy for taking photos at the final.
Best of luck to all players who are representing Roscommon in the National Community Games Final next weekend.
Update 7th August
Maeve and Terry Rooney, Tommy Egan and John Mitchell were €20 winners at the most recent Club Lotto draw which was held in the Clarke's Bar. The jackpot wasn’t won. It will be at €1,500 for the next draw on Saturday Aug 12th which will be held in the Patrick's Well.
Best wishes to Cian, Enda and Donie today in Croke Park where they take on Mayo in the All Ireland quarter-final replay.
Sympathy of the club to the McGrath family on their recent bereavement.
Results: Division 3 Minor Championship Kilglass\St Barrys 2:10 Boyle 3:15.
The division 1 U-14 play Padraig Pearses in championship on Saturday 12th, at 7:00 pm in Woodmount. The division 1 U-16 play St. Dominic's on Sunday 13th, at 12:00 in Knockcrockery
LADIES FOOTBALL: Minor Ladies play their first Championship V's St.Marys in Tulsk on Thursday at 7pm.
Thanks to everyone who helped with hosting the Leitrim V's Longford Ladies Intermediate game.
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Comic Reviews The Week of 2/8/2017
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Comics Comic Reviews The Week of 2/8/2017
Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #14 Review
Writer: Robert Venditti / Artist: Rafa Sandoval / DC Comics
You gotta love Robert Venditti’s approach to Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps. Even in its slower issues, it still seems like he puts the pedal to the floor and doesn’t let up until the battle is over. This is easily the best a Green Lantern related book has been in quite a while. Can Venditti maintain such an impressive momentum?
Absolutely. Issue #14 jumps start a brand new story arc as Hal and Kyle team up to carry out a mission from the remaining Guardians of the Universe. Meanwhile, now that the Green Lantern Corps is back on the beat, John Stewart hands out new tasking orders as he figures out how things are going to work with the Sinestro Corps.
Even though Hal and Kyle’s story seems to get the lion’s share of the spotlight in this issue, the rest of the Corps’ panel time is no less entertaining. Seeing John hard charging, taking no crap off of snitches, and Guy Gardner basically being the white, bad haircut version of Carver from The Wire is worth its weight in gold. Venditti has these characters down at this point and he plays up the strengths enough to keep the story moving while still keeping us in the dark about some aspects of the plot.
Rafa Sandoval is back in effect for the artwork and has not missed a single step. I appreciate an artist that knows how to make every inch of space within the panel interesting. Even in the intimate moments with characters, the sense of scale at play in the book is so epic. Visually, the book never lets you forget the stakes these characters play for.
Bottom Line: Venditti understands what it takes to keep a reader turning the pages and, ultimately, coming back for new issues. This is top notch comic booking that any Green Lantern fan could get behind.
8.5 Giant Boxing Gloves out of 10
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Black Or White And A Hint Of Grey
Examining The Divergence of Perspective, While Exploring The Intersection of Opinion
Ahhhh, Haaaaa, Epiphany, Einstein, Mohammad!
Obama’s Farewell and the Current State of America
The Liberation of King James: A Ohio Legacy Solidified
Shameless Child Promotion(& Parent Hoods)
It’s Best To Wear That Latex, When It Comes To Practicing Safe Sex: In Georgia At Least!
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What more can I say?
Not much I add, life and its fruits are produced by labor,
Toil and the sweat of your brow!
I sit and I think, while basking in the glory of the Lord.
Nothing is promised but the promise of life everlasting with the Lord for the righteous and faithful few.
I ask, what more can I say?
I hesitate as I ponder, what more is there to say?
Ahhhh haaaaaa, epiphany, Einstein, Mohammad!
At last I come to clarity, sometimes it’s nothing more to say, yet show
How far will I go if I let life throw me to and fro
Ahhhh haaaaaa, ephipahny, Einstein, Mohammad!
I realize that life is a battle
Good and evil, two wolves, both dying of starvation
Which one you feeds determines your elevation
Or devaluation. Steady pacing,
Thoughts on top of thoughts, cloudiness
Which way should I go, which words should I say?
Mouth dry, tongue limp, I gulp unsure how to respond.
Ahhhh haaaaaa, ephiphany, Einstein, Mohammad!
Don’t say much, Enjoy the rush
Let people see who you are through
The lens they create, the brush they embrace
Perception isn’t reality, it’s just their mentality
I rest, pen down brain at ease
Step outside and enjoy the sweet summer breeze!
By Vance V. GodBold July 8, 2017 July 8, 2017 212 WordsLeave a comment
Delivered at the McCormick place Convention Center in Chicago, Illinois, 44th President of The United States of America, Barack Obama started his farewell address to the nation and city alike by first thanking the world for their words and show of support throughout his 2 terms of presidency. Transitioning and traveling down memory lane, he spoke of his coming to his adopted hometown of Chicago, Illinois in his early 20s searching for purpose and who he was and found himself in the shadows of closing steel mills with organized church groups. It is in that pursuit of purpose that he was shown the true power of faith. He worked hand in hand and side by side with humble, working class people in the face of struggle toward a common goal to get involved, engaged and demand change for the environments around them. Through this he tapped into the promise envisioned by our founding fathers of the great gift to chase individual dreams through sweat and toil while striving together to achieve common good. This he says, through the instrument of democracy, shows the capacity to change and make life better for the next generation.
This fabric is what lead patriots to choose republic over tyranny in the early onset of America as a nation. It is the same fabric that lead pioneers to track west in pursuit of expansion, slaves to brave makeshift railroad to freedom in the pursuit of something greater. It is that which pushed women to reach for ballot in the early 20th century in pursuit of gender equality, it told workers to organize for better wages, job conditions and benefits alike but finally it powered people across oceans and the Rio Grande to a free land the has boundless capacities for progression and growth.
Obama realizes a great fact and that is Democracy doesn’t require uniformity; instead, it requires a basic sense of solidarity. He goes on to say either we rise or fall as one. In citing that notion, he spoke of many of the victories we as a nation have accomplished together under his 8 year term, those victories are captured below and are things we all should be proud of:
Successes over 8-year term
Reversed Great Recession
Rebooted failing American auto industry
Unleashed longest stretch of job creation in American history
Shut down Iran nuclear program without firing s a shot
Ensure marriage equality for all citizens no matter sexual orientation
Provide healthcare to millions of people who were previously uninsured
With great successes also come viable threats that can’t be overlooked or treated as water under the bridge. In this light, Obama began to speak of his list of threats that if unattended may diminish the prospects of a prosperous future for generations to come:
Threats to Democracy
1. An unequal economic playing field for all citizens alike.
We must realize it wont grow unless we come to terms that everyone has economic opportunity
Unemployment rate is at a 10 year low
Healthcare cost are rising at slowest rate in history
Will support any healthcare plan that is demonstrably better than his
Not looking to score points or take credit, just wants it better and accessible for more people than it is not
Too many families in inner cities and rural counties are feeling the pain of top 1% amassing an unequal share of gain
Creates more cynicism and polarization of people in political parties
Stop laws that afford discrimination in housing, employment, education and in the criminal justice system.
Laws alone aren’t enough, hearts must change too
2. Post-racial America, meaning racism and social views didn’t just change in the 60s with the dismantling of Jim Crow.
Relations remain a potent and divisive element in our society
Consider a persons experience from their point of view (Atticus Fitch)
Every economic issue cant be framed as a inner city, undeserving person against a hardworking white middle class
Allowing wealthy to go further into their private enclave while those groups are left fighting for scrapes
We can’t be unwilling to invest in children of brown kids as they will represent a large share of American workforce
Minority groups voicing discontent isn’t just reverse racism
Practicing peaceful protest isn’t requesting special treatment but equal treatment that our founders promised
Same stereotypes said today were said about Irish, Italians or Polish
These folks embraced Creed and America was strengthened not made worst as some expected
3. Selective sorting of the facts; reality has a way of catching up to you. So ignoring or not facing the facts doesn’t make it go away, it merely postpones the inevitable.
Must stop retreating in our own bubbles surrounded by people that look and think like us, never challenging or accepting the facts around us
We become secure and only seek to legitimize our opinions, as the world is becoming a cookie cutter, individualistic society
Science and reason matter as we are talking past each other and not conceding when our opponent is making a valid point
4. Must remain vigilant against both external and internal terrorism aggressions while not being afraid.
Those targeting racial groups and placing dissent and tyranny into the machine with false propaganda, lies and stirring emotions towards extremes are threatening our order.
Fight against authoritarianism, chauvinism and fascism
We must avoid radicalization in places like Boston, Orlando, Ft. Hood and San Bernardino
5. Democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted. We have to stop saying some of us are more American than the other of us. We all share one ideal; citizenship in America!
Voting rates are the lowest of developed countries
Must instill and nurture trust in our structures and political/governmental bodies not constant discontent
Push them to common sense and not rigid extremes and stalemates
Must give our constitution power by participating and not solely relying on the piece of paper to work for us.
It is an contentious process but must be done
President George Washington said, “Self governing is the underpinning of our safety, prosperity and liberty.”
With jealous anxiety we must reject the first dawning of any effort to alienate and divide the fabric that makes us one
If something needs fixing participate in the change and don’t merely be the wagon with the squeaky wheel, complaining
Lace up your shoes and start organizing.
It is my hopes in condensing the final speech delivered by Obama to help its substance reach the hearts and minds of those that may have overlooked its content in light of other reasons whatever those may be. I found myself inspired, motivated and prepared to continue, to say the least, the perilous journey ahead with the writing of America’s next chapter. What are your some of your thoughts concerning the speech? And are you prepared to welcome our next President elect Donald Trump in 8 days?
By Vance V. GodBold January 13, 2017 1,146 WordsLeave a comment
June 19, 2016 was a remarkable day in sports and American history. First, it marked the 151st Anniversary of Juneteenth, a celebration commemorating the announcement of the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery in America–liberating the African American class of people. Along that same vein, Akron, Ohio native Lebron James, most notably dubbed ‘King James’ liberated faithful Ohioans from a 50 year drought of any professional sports team winning a major championship. James won his his 3rd NBA Title, helping the Cleveland Cavaliers defy odds by overcoming a 3-1 deficit en route to defeating defending champions, Golden State Warriors.
James described his feelings in a post game interview as extremely rewarding and a childhood dream come true. He remarked, “I don’t know what it is about the hard road but we take the hard road and I’m at peace knowing the man above always will see me through.”
Oftentimes we overlook that magnitude in which sports figures influence our life. 6 years ago when Lebron announced his decision to “take his talents to south beach,” Ohioans were outraged. Some displayed this anger by burning his jersey and sharing outlandish videos and photos showing their disgust with his decision. James clearly had a plan for his home state and was able to win 2 Championships with Miami; thus, elevating his talent and knowledge of the game, only to return to Cleveland and in his second year since the return take them to the promise land and walk away with the prize possession of a championship trophy in hand!
In doing so Lebron demonstrated a few lessons that tie into the next significance of June 19, 2016, which was also Father’s Day. Father’s play a huge role in the lives of children, but what does it mean to be a father and what subtle teachings are passed down to younger generations by great men? I argue with last nights performance James exhibited a few key elements that many father’s also display and share with their loved ones, those being:
The power of the mind/belief in yourself and what you can accomplish when you set your mind on it
How will come sometimes supersede skill, more importantly how skill and will ultimately benefit one another
The humility in humbling yourself along the way to silencing your critics
The drive and energy you get from performing that which you are most passionate about
As the 2015-2016 NBA season comes to a close, it is rightfully fitting that we all take a moment to ponder the synanamous nature of sports, life and the constant pursuit of greatness!
Happy Juneteenth, Happy Father’s Day and more importantly congratulations to the Cleveland Cavaliers, Lebron James and the entire state of Ohio!
By Vance V. GodBold June 20, 2016 446 WordsLeave a comment
The greatest thing about raising a child is you literally are watching a person learn how to be….well a person. Needless to say A LOT can change in 2 months… That’s how long it h…
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By Vance V. GodBold May 11, 2016 43 WordsLeave a comment
The Black & White:
Numbers tend to have an unique effect on the imagery they can potentially draw. With numbers one can fill in the blanks of an obscure picture and many times walk away from a situation with a firmer understanding of reality versus perception. This weekend the Center for Disease Control (CDC) released telling numbers that identified Atlanta, Georgia as a domestic hub of the viral, yet deadly disease known as Human Immunodeficiency Virus. YIKES!
Before we dive into the number deeply let’s put this all into perspective. Georgia, the 24th largest state in the United States in terms of land mass and the 9th most populous state, has a documented population of 10.21 million. These numbers are result of the 2010 census data. Atlanta, GA, the metropolitan mega-center of the southeastern region and the state’s capital boasts a population of 5.6 million! That’s right, half of the state’s population lives in the Atlanta region, but hear this: 1 in 51 Georgians now have or will contract the HIV disease-about 200,000 overall.
The Grey:
The bleakness of those numbers are important on so many levels but mainly because this happens to be The United States of America. What do I mean by that statement? We pride ourselves on being a domestic, civilized, sexually responsible nation; also, a healthy, medicinally conscious nation of people. I then am forced to ask: Why does a region, better yet city of mainly minorities have a HIV rate that rivals Zimbabwe, a country ravaged by HIV and one to this day lacking the infrastructure or technology to research and combat the HIV/Aids epidemic?
One can reason about these daunting numbers and offer numerous possibilities but nonetheless, this is a conversation and topic that cannot be overlooked as a passing, insignificant or trivial matter.
Maybe it’s massive amounts of unprotected sex. Maybe it’s protected sex but irresponsibility in getting tested for sexually transmitted diseases at least two or three times per year. Maybe it’s physician’s dropping the ball and not informing infected beings of the magnitude of their diagnosis. Maybe it’s individuals just not caring who they infect even if they know they ramifications. Or perhaps it’s a concentrated genocide to eradicate a group of people. No matter the reasoning or logic we land upon in identifying the issue, one thing remains true: something has to change by way of a meaningful solution and purposeful discussion!
By Vance V. GodBold May 9, 2016 401 Words2 Comments
The Legacy of Barack Obama And His Timely War on Mass Incarceration
The Black and White:
President Barack Hussein Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America catches a lot of heat and backlash for his involvement and stance concerning issues related to race and relations in America. His fiercest opponents go to great lengths outlining how his lack of public discourse and action oriented solutions regarding, most notably, criminal justice reform is without a shadow of a doubt in their opinion, lackluster. These opponents are not limited in their racial sphere, and often times than not his largest rivals are those of melanin skin tones. These opponents have come to firmly believe Obama can do more to help minority families and minority males in particular to realize a more promising future free of heavy encounters with law enforcement and incarceration behind bars.
Perhaps as an African American male President Obama could have or should have done more in expressing his sentiments for the effects of mass incarceration and the war on drugs in minority communities. But one point that maybe conveniently overlooked by the public camps that seek to illegitimize his legacy thus far is: Obama vowed to be President of the United Stated of America and not merely the Black United States of America. I can only imagine how tough it is maintaining balance in action taken towards the cause, while also displaying unbiased decision making for an entire country, especially one as diverse as ours.
The reality of the matter is that some critics only view the picture with hindering limitations as their frame of mind is captivated by sudden, yet typically temporary changes. I argue that Obama’s actions are systematic, well thought out and have a greater chance to stand the test of time.
Here are a few changes Obama has implemented while serving as Potus:
Yesterday he commuted the sentences of 58 federal inmates; 18 of which were previously serving life sentences.
To date, Obama has commuted the sentences of 308 inmates (this may be a drop in the bucket in perspective of the nearly 2.8 million inmates in federal and state holding facilities but…….
It is clear that Obama is concerned with mass incarceration and the effects the war on drugs has caused families (side note how do you have a war on drugs, usually wars are country against country). He has gone on record saying:”It just doesn’t make sense to require a nonviolent drug offender to serve 20 years, or in some cases, life, in prison.” He went on to add,
“An excessive punishment like that doesn’t fit the crime. It’s not serving taxpayers, and it’s not making us safer.”
Obama has appointed 2 Supreme Court justices to the court (Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.) One Supreme Court judgeship is still vacant and very well can be filled with an Obama nomination before his term ends. Remember Supreme Court Justices serve life terms and typically aren’t replaced until death.
Obama has nominated and had confirmed 324 judges by the U.S Senate. (These posts include the Supreme Court of the United States, the United States Courts of Appeals, district courts, and the United States Court of International Trade.
The number of nominations can increase before his term concludes because 57 nominations are still pending Senate approval.
Obama can possibly nominate 92 more judges to various posts on various court levels before his term ends as current holders retire and/or decide to move on with other engagements.
All of these things are important in the grander scheme of politics and creating a platform for change that can become generational and not as short as a Senator’s office term. Although Obama isn’t blowing the country away with daily conversations and actions, his work thus far speaks volumes to his understanding that the challenges we face as a nation can’t be fixed overnight with one decision. Instead, the solution will come from a top down approach that is catered to by President, Judge, State’s Attorney, Prosecutor, Defense, offender, victim, community members and all of the sort.
There is an old saying, “It takes a village to raise a child,” in this case, it will take a nation, bound together in commonality of cause to create the overarching changes we so desperately need!
By Vance V. GodBold May 6, 2016 707 WordsLeave a comment
Rest on Mrs. Afeni Shakur-Davis, Your Job Is Well Done!
WOW!!! Just a few weeks ago the music world was shaken with the untimely passing of one of music’s greatest gifts known as Prince. This morning another music legend in her own right passed away, that being the mother of the late, great rap superstar Tupac Shakur.
Although Afeni Shakur did not make music directly, she is most notably known for her business expertise regarding the distribution and marketing of her son, Tupac Shakur’s legacy. In the late 90s she challenged Suge Knight and Death Row records and won an appeal to exclusively own the rights and forward facing direction of Tupac’s legacy after his death on September 13, 1996.
Initial reports lead to the notion that Afeni Shakur passed away due to natural causes earlier this morning. Shakur was born Alice Faye Williams on January 10, 1947 in Lumberton, North Carolina. Being raised in the turbulent times and in the segregated south pushed Afeni to identify and support causes that celebrated black empowerment and black progression.
Tupac was once quoted saying “My momma used to always tell me, if you can’t find something to live for, then you better find something to die for.” Mrs. Afeni found her purpose in life and gave back to the community through the various organizations she intertwined herself with. Her involvement and imprint on this earth will be long felt as she was an adamant Black Panther, philanthropist and amazingly robust business women with the capacity to pinpoint and define goals. To say the least, she was a powerful force that had the rare ability to make things happen exactly how she wanted them to!
Afeni spearheaded an arts program for young youth named after her fallen rap legend son, Tupac Shakur. The Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation, a Georgia-based company provided a platform for youth to explore the arts and creatively express themselves utilizing the many mediums art offered. This was just one of many endeavors conquered by Afeni, she was also the brains behind the mother company that controlled all of Tupac’s music that was released post death named Amaru Entertainment. Afeni further exemplified her business skills as she ensured all proceed generated through album sales and the sales of the ‘Makaveli’ clothing brand were trickled into the Tupac Amaru Shakur Foundation.
In homage of Afeni Shakur and the magnetism she invoked on the world, this afternoon/evening take a moment to listen to “Dear Momma” by Tupac Shakur!!!
By Vance V. GodBold May 3, 2016 May 3, 2016 406 WordsLeave a comment
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Unique Games Redux
With spring quarter arriving, I will take a break from book writing on P v. NP and come back to blogging. I hit my goal of getting past the point of no return (about three draft chapters out of ten) but writing a book is a slow process.
I've been hearing a bit of buzz about a new algorithm from Arora, Barak and Steurer for unique games that I first saw in Luca's blog: Given a unique game where 1-δ fraction of the edges can be satisfied, you can in time 2npoly(δ) find a coloring that satisfies a constant fraction of edges.
Does this kill the unique games conjecture, that the unique games problem is NP-hard? Not yet. For every ε>0, there are NP-complete sets sitting in time 2nε. It's possible that there is some reduction from SAT to unique-games will have the property that to get a smaller δ requires an algorithm with a running time whose polynomial depends on δ.
But does it give evidence that unique games may now be false (right after Khot won the Waterman award)? Any improvement in the Arora-Barak-Steurer algorithm would yield a subexponential-time algorithm for NP if the unique games conjecture holds.
But in the end it could go the other way. If no one improves on the ABS algorithm in the next year or so, it will seem like we've hit a barrier right at the edge of where the UGC could still be true. Which will make us think that UGC could be true again and after a while, ought to be true.
As Nietzsche might have said, what doesn't kill the unique games conjecture will only make it stronger.
Posted by Lance Fortnow at 10:27 AM
you wrote that an instance with 1-delta satisfiable clauses can be solved in
2^{n^{poly{1/delta}}} time.
Shouldn't it be:
s^{n^{poly(delta)}} time?
oops, I meant:
2^{n^{poly(delta)}} time.
Lance Fortnow 11:15 AM, March 19, 2010
Right. Fixed.
Josh 11:31 AM, March 19, 2010
Even if Unique Games is not NP-complete, that does not kill all hope of its utility. As long as Unique Games is not in P, many of its consequences still essentially hold, although in a somewhat weakened form.
Anonymous 5:49 PM, March 19, 2010
Someone once to told that good conjectures are not those that lead to answers and proofs, but those which result in interesting developments (even when they are false, Hilbert program is an excellent example), and UGC does satisfy the condition.
Lots of people working on something does not make that thing "interesting".
The whole story and hype surrounding the UGC is a huge embarassment for TCS.
Even if the UGC is true.
Lance Fortnow's last line really summed it up beautifully.
Anonymous 9:41 AM, March 20, 2010
> The whole story and hype
> surrounding the UGC is a huge
> embarassment for TCS.
Why would it be an embarassment?
I really like the UGC and I don't see what's so bad about it.
It doesn't to you I am sure. But socially, to the community, I think that is a fairly accurate definition of interesting. Please enlighten us with a better one that applies not just in hindsight, if you don't like this one.
Please enlighten us with a better one that applies not just in hindsight, if you don't like this one.
If we knew how to define what is interesting, it would be an awful lot easier to make decisions about conference submissions and grant applications. What lots of people are working on is a decent first approximation to what's interesting, but it's hardly the end of the story, and it's perfectly reasonable to disagree in either direction.
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Pictures of 30 essays and 42 stamps in Machin Anniversary Prestige Stamp Book
Although most serious collectors of Machin definitive stamps will be aware of much of the background to the design, and the work that went on before the first stamps were issued in 1967, and the many developments that have taken place since then, the Prestige Stamp Book usefully brings all this together. The book has 12 non-stamp pages of text written by Richard West MBE, former editor of Stamp Magazine.
Page 1 shows Arnold Machin (the portrait used for the 2007 1st class stamps in the miniature sheet and smilers sheet), with sketches which included four different portraits.
Page 2 shows further designs based on photographs of the coinage head mould.
Page 3 introduces the new photograph by John Hedgecoe, from which followed a new plaster cast, giving rise to further essays.
Pages 4 and 5 show how the design was developed through to the final design
Subsequent pages show actual stamps as issued from June 1967, including the 7d and 8d with the value 'behind' the head - which looks really odd after 50 years! (Pages 6 and 7)
Decimalisation brought a new typeface for the figures of value and mostly new colours although the 5p and 9p retained their pre-decimal (1s and 1s9d) colours. (page 8)
Page 9 takes us through to the new larger photogravure high values, the first stamps printed outside the UK, and in lithography by Waddingtons and Questa.
Page 10 brings NVI, 1990 double-head, elliptical perforations and self-adhesive stamps.
The small recess-printed high values, Millenium 1st class, Airmail and PIP stamps are shown on page 11, while page 12 brings us up to date via the £1 ruby introduced for the 40th anniversary, the security stamps of 2006, Recorded Delivery stamps, the 1st class stamps for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and Longest Reign, and the change to Royal Mail Red. It is good to note that the gold security stamp has no year or source code. The Diamond Jubilee and LTROU stamps are copies of the actual stamps unlike so many of the illustrations used by Royal Mail elsewhere. These two have no security slits indicating that they were taken from the miniature sheets: the codes are not visible.
The inside back cover includes all the technical information including that the stamp panes are printed in gravure except for the pane of 4 x £1 gold foil stamps, "printed in lithography and foiled in gold" by International Security Printers. The outer covers show a selection of decimal and pre-decimal issued stamps in their original colours.
Labels: 2017 programme, Machin 50, machin definitive, prestige stamp booklet
Roy 25 May 2017 at 13:06
I just spent 10 minutes reading this piece (and the panes). A nice prestige booklet with lots to display when broken down. Can you post a pic of the Pane with 4 x gold foil £1 values in Litho?
marcooni 28 May 2017 at 12:27
Royal Mail should take a note out of your book on how to display stamps on their website, it would certainly increase sales. Even their large images are quite small and you can't even tell what stamps are real on their picture of the golden anniversary celebration stamp sheet.
Roger 29 May 2017 at 16:37
Interesting to see double stitching on part of the leaves
Ian - Norvic 30 May 2017 at 08:27
Another book in the pack was only half-stitched - would have been easier to separate!
One thing have only just noticed about the decimal values in the Perpetua font: they use a capital I instead of a figure 1, without exception! Before the values were "slimmed down", they also used a capital O instead of a figure 0 (e.g. the initial 10p (or IOp!) stamp.
Incidentally, does anyone know the rationale behind having two of the predecimal stamps with the value at the right? It seems bizarrely inconsistent for such a sleek and minimalist design.
GBStamps 13 June 2017 at 02:54
Douglas Muir's book, "A Timeless Classic" discusses the placement of the value. Machin actually preferred having the Queen's head centered on the stamp and the value at lower right. However, the Queen was shown both and preferred the value at lower left, with the head shifted slightly to the right. This would also leave more room for denominations of one shilling and above. However, PMG Short, who also preferred the value on the left, requested approval of a mix of positions to help his staff differentiate the values. The Queen's representative said it would be okay to have one or two denominations with the value on the right.
As for why this was discontinued, my guess is that it was determined that the consistency of all values on the left was desirable, and so that was done when the decimal versions were issued in 1971.
Got my issue today, I think that Royal Mail could have made a better job of it really, the Gold £1 is horrendous looks like a money off coupon , the perfect opportunity to give us collectors lots of new Machins missed. :-(
Ian - Norvic 5 June 2017 at 20:38
Some people would think that four or five - or 20+ for the specialist - would be quite enough. See http://blog.norphil.co.uk/2017/05/machin-anniversary-50th-anniversary.html
I really don't understand your 'money-off coupon' comment, and I'm sure the customers getting them on these packages will be pleased
https://twitter.com/ian_norvic/status/871698891690954752
machinmaniac 6 June 2017 at 09:12
Well, I agree that the Machin miniature sheet and the prestige book are both winners and that they have probably found a good balance of "new" stamps.
However my one reservation about this otherwise excellent issue is that £1 stamp. I feel that it is quite possibly the ugliest Machin ever issued. Certainly the only only rivals to come anywhere remotely close to winnning that unwanted award are the letterpress black 1st class Machin and the "invisible" white embossed 1st class Machin. (Both from the "Profile on Print" prestige book.)
Steve Martin 6 June 2017 at 14:46
I would have to agree about the £1 stamp. It does look a bit gimmicky to me, but that's a personal preference. I think it would have looked better printed in the 1st gold colour instead.
Apart from That, a great selection of machins to add to my collection. Can anyone say who printed them? I have seen them listed on a specialised dealers website as being Cartor in gravure. I thought it was the Walsall arm of ISP that printed in gravure and Cartor printed in litho, or am I mistaken?
Cheers, Steve.
Trelantis 6 June 2017 at 17:26
I can only say that what is printed on the inside back cover (above) agrees with what we were told by Royal Mail - as we would hope.
I understand that both Walsall and Cartor arms of ISP have both litho and gravure capacity, even though we have so far been told that Walsall work is gravure and Cartor litho.
Interesting Ian, I didn't know that (your 2nd paragraph). I've deleted my previous comment as I meant to say that the Machin panes definitely look gravure to me.
Sir_Loin 10 June 2017 at 18:47
The iradescent overprint appearance on the 1st and £1.00 Ruby suggests to me they were printed by Walsall. OK, it's not exactly scientific, but it looks the same as other gummed Walsall printings. That's how I'll be writing them up anyway.
Ian, thank you for the reply. I wasn't aware that Walsall and Cartor both had litho and gravure capability.
Trelantis, I looked at the PSB panes under a hand held microscope and they are printed in gravure. The phosphor bands look like they may have been applied using lithography.
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Dear Members of the Yeshiva University Community,
I want to share with you remarks I made to the Yeshiva University Board of Trustees yesterday evening.
It’s been a tremendously productive summer, culminating a period of two years of intense research, activity and motion moving us forward with excellence. Previously, you’ve received communications about our restructuring – with wonderful guidance from our advisors at Alvarez & Marsal, Attain and others; inspired leadership of our trustees and vice presidents across the teams, and proactive problem solving from faculty and administrators throughout both the Yeshiva and the University. We have just launched a Strategic Planning and Restructuring Implementation Team to carry the restructuring forward. Now we are moving from restructuring to an academic and operational turnaround.
Today I can announce that we just completed the formation of a joint venture between Yeshiva University and the Montefiore Health System for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, making this groundbreaking medical school an affiliate of both institutions. Montefiore assumes operational and financial responsibility at Einstein while YU’s commitment to medical education continues through our academic oversight, granting of medical degrees, supervision of Jewish traditions, and the preservation of the special relationship with YU and its students. This landmark agreement represents a major turning point and strengthens the foundation from which we can build on the unique mission and educational experience at Yeshiva, and continue implementing new programs and initiatives to broaden and deepen our reach. Please click here to learn more.
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TOWARDS LIFE-KNOWLEDGE
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WHO | Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA)
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Building global commitment to violence prevention
General Information about the World report on violence and health
The VPA approach
Definition and typology of violence
The ecological framework
Preventing violence: a guide to implementing the recommendations of the World report on violence and health
Selected Excerpts from the Reports
A profile of gangs
Policing and correctional approaches: expensive solutions to interpersonal violence
Collective Violence
THE EXTENT OF THE PROBLEM
THE CONSEQUENCES OF COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE
EXAMPLES OF THE DIRECT IMPACT ON HEALTH OF COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE
WHAT ARE THE RISK FACTORS FOR COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE?
WHAT CAN BE DONE TO PREVENT COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE?
Indicators of states at risk of collapse and internal conflict
Possible linkages between globalization, inequalities and conflict
R E C O M M E N D A T I O N S from the World report on violence and health
1. Create, implement and monitor a national action plan for violence prevention
2. Enhance capacity for collecting data on violence
3. Define priorities for, and support research on, the causes, consequences, costs and prevention of violence
4. Promote primary prevention responses
5. Strengthen responses for victims of violence
6. Integrate violence prevention into social and educational policies, and thereby promote gender and social equality
7. Increase collaboration and exchange of information on violence prevention
8. Promote and monitor adherence to international treaties, laws and other mechanisms to protect human rights
9. Seek practical, internationally agreed responses to the global drug trade and the global arms trade
Reproduced from: https://www.who.int/violenceprevention/en/
The Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA) is a network of WHO Member States, international agencies and civil society organizations working to prevent violence. VPA participants share an evidence-based public health approach that targets the risk factors leading to violence and promotes multi-sectoral cooperation. Participants are committed to implement the recommendations of the World report on violence and health.
Please find the full report here
Reproduced from: https://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/world_report/en/
To describe the magnitude and impact of violence throughout the world
To describe the key risk factors for violence
To summarize the types of intervention and policy responses that have been tried and what is known about their effectiveness
To make recommendations for action at local, national and international levels
The Report examines a broad spectrum of violence including child abuse and neglect by caregivers, youth violence, violence by intimate partners, sexual violence, elder abuse, suicide, and collective violence. One chapter is devoted to each of these seven topics. The Report also includes a statistical annex with country and regional data derived from the WHO Mortality and Morbidity Database and a list of resources for violence prevention.
Main messages
Violence is a major public health problem worldwide. Each year, millions of people die as the result of injuries due to violence. Many more survive their injuries, but live with a permanent disability. Violence is among the leading causes of death among people aged 15-44 years worldwide, accounting for 14% of deaths among males and 7% of deaths among females.
In addition to death and disability, violence contributes to a variety of other health consequences. These include depression, alcohol and substance abuse, smoking, eating and sleeping disorders, and HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Violence, however, is preventable – it is not an intractable social problem or an inevitable part of the human condition. The wide variation in violence among and within nations over time suggests that violence is the product of complex, yet modifiable social and environmental factors.
Violence results from interplay of individual, relationship, community, and societal factors. Some of the factors associated with violence include a history of early aggression, impulsiveness, harsh punitive discipline, poor monitoring and supervision of children, associating with delinquent peers, witnessing violence, drug trafficking, access to firearms, gender and income inequality, and norms that support violence as a way to resolve conflict.
Creating safe and healthy communities around the globe requires commitment on the part of multiple sectors at the international, national and community levels to document the problem; build the knowledge base; promote the design and testing of prevention programmes; and promote the dissemination of lessons learned.
A science-based public health approach focused on prevention may contribute to reducing violence. Public health officials have a very important role to play in this process. Through their vision and leadership, much can be done to establish national plans and policies for violence prevention, to help facilitate the collection of data to document and respond to the problem, to build important partnerships with other sectors, and to ensure an adequate commitment of resources to prevention efforts.
Reproduced from: https://www.who.int/violenceprevention/approach/en/
The perspective that VPA promotes revolves around three theoretical models: the typology of violence, the public health approach and the ecological framework. These models guide understanding, research and action for violence prevention. The typology is a tool to help organize thinking about the types of violence and the ways in which violence occurs. The public health approach offers practitioners, policy-makers and researchers a step-wise guide that can be applied to planning programmes, policies, and investigation. Finally, the ecological framework bridges these two models, giving a structure to understanding the contexts within which violence occurs and the interactions between risk factors in each of these contexts and between them. The ecological framework shows where and how to apply the public health approach and is useful for categorizing planned or existing interventions to help understand the mechanisms by which they might be working.
Reproduced from: https://www.who.int/violenceprevention/approach/definition/en/
VPA addresses the problem of violence as defined in the World report on violence and health (WRVH), namely:
“the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, that either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation.”
The WRVH also presents a typology of violence that, while not uniformly accepted, can be a useful way to understand the contexts in which violence occurs and the interactions between types of violence. This typology distinguishes four modes in which violence may be inflicted: physical; sexual; and psychological attack; and deprivation. It further divides the general definition of violence into three sub-types according to the victim-perpetrator relationship.
Self-directed violence refers to violence in which the perpetrator and the victim are the same individual and is subdivided into self-abuse and suicide.
Interpersonal violence refers to violence between individuals, and is subdivided into family and intimate partner violence and community violence. The former category includes child maltreatment; intimate partner violence; and elder abuse, while the latter is broken down into acquaintance and stranger violence and includes youth violence; assault by strangers; violence related to property crimes; and violence in workplaces and other institutions.
Collective violence refers to violence committed by larger groups of individuals and can be subdivided into social, political and economic violence.
Typology of interpersonal violence
Source: World report on violence and health p.7
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/42495/9241545615_eng.pdf
Reproduced from: https://www.who.int/violenceprevention/approach/public_health/en/
The principles of public health provide a useful framework for both continuing to investigate and understand the causes and consequences of violence and for preventing violence from occurring through primary prevention programmes, policy interventions and advocacy. The activities of VPA are guided by the scientifically-tested and proven principles and recommendations described in the World report on violence and health. This public health approach to violence prevention seeks to improve the health and safety of all individuals by addressing underlying risk factors that increase the likelihood that an individual will become a victim or a perpetrator of violence.
The approach consists of four steps:
To define the problem through the systematic collection of information about the magnitude, scope, characteristics and consequences of violence.
To establish why violence occurs using research to determine the causes and correlates of violence, the factors that increase or decrease the risk for violence, and the factors that could be modified through interventions.
To find out what works to prevent violence by designing, implementing and evaluating interventions.
To implement effective and promising interventions in a wide range of settings. The effects of these interventions on risk factors and the target outcome should be monitored, and their impact and cost-effectiveness should be evaluated.
By definition, public health aims to provide the maximum benefit for the largest number of people. Programmes for the primary prevention of violence based on the public health approach are designed to expose a broad segment of a population to prevention measures and to reduce and prevent violence at a population-level.
The steps of the public health approach
Reproduced from: https://www.who.int/violenceprevention/approach/ecology/en/
The ecological framework is based on evidence that no single factor can explain why some people or groups are at higher risk of interpersonal violence, while others are more protected from it. This framework views interpersonal violence as the outcome of interaction among many factors at four levels—the individual, the relationship, the community, and the societal.
At the individual level, personal history and biological factors influence how individuals behave and increase their likelihood of becoming a victim or a perpetrator of violence. Among these factors are being a victim of child maltreatment, psychological or personality disorders, alcohol and/or substance abuse and a history of behaving aggressively or having experienced abuse.
Personal relationships such as family, friends, intimate partners and peers may influence the risks of becoming a victim or perpetrator of violence. For example, having violent friends may influence whether a young person engages in or becomes a victim of violence.
Community contexts in which social relationships occur, such as schools, neighbourhoods and workplaces, also influence violence. Risk factors here may include the level of unemployment, population density, mobility and the existence of a local drug or gun trade.
Societal factors influence whether violence is encouraged or inhibited. These include economic and social policies that maintain socioeconomic inequalities between people, the availability of weapons, and social and cultural norms such as those around male dominance over women, parental dominance over children and cultural norms that endorse violence as an acceptable method to resolve conflicts.
The ecological framework treats the interaction between factors at the different levels with equal importance to the influence of factors within a single level. For example, longitudinal studies suggest that complications associated with pregnancy and delivery, perhaps because they lead to neurological damage and psychological or personality disorder, seem to predict violence in youth and young adulthood mainly when they occur in combination with other problems within the family, such as poor parenting practices. The ecological framework helps explain the result—violence later in life—as the interaction of an individual risk factor, the consequences of complications during birth, and a relationship risk factor, the experience of poor parenting. This framework is also useful to identify and cluster intervention strategies based on the ecological level in which they act. For example, home visitation interventions act in the relationship level to strengthen the bond between parent and child by supporting positive parenting practices.
The ecological framework: examples of risk factors at each level
Reproduced from: https://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/media/news/08_09_2004/en/
Preventing violence: a guide to implementing the recommendations of the World report on violence and health was published with the generous support of the Government of Belgium, and thanks to input from violence prevention practitioners worldwide. The document focuses upon the first six recommendations, namely:
Increasing the capacity for collecting data on violence.
Researching violence – its causes, consequences and prevention.
Promoting the primary prevention of violence.
Promoting gender and social equality and equity to prevent violence.
Strengthening care and support services for victims.
Bringing it all together – developing a national action plan of action.
The document provides conceptual, policy and practical suggestions on how to implement each of the six country-level activities, and promotes a multi-sectoral, data-driven and evidence-based approach. Should the resources for achieving certain aspects of the recommendations be lacking, the information contained in the guide will still be useful for planning purposes. Since plans usually precede actions (and are often used to generate the resources needed to implement actions), the guide will therefore be of use even in areas where violence prevention resources are currently scarce.
Source: World report on violence and health
Box 2.1 p.35
Youth gangs are found in all regions of the world. Although their size and nature may vary greatly — from mainly social grouping to organized criminal network — they all seem to answer a basic need to belong to a group and create a self-identity.
In the Western Cape region of South Africa, there are about 90 000 members of gangs, while in Guam, some 110 permanent gangs were recorded in 1993, around 30 of them hard-core gangs. In Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, four large criminal associations with numerous subgroups have been reported. There are an estimated 30 000–35 000 gang members in El Salvador and a similar number in Honduras, while in the United States, some 31 000 gangs were operating in 1996 in about 4800 cities and towns. In Europe, gangs exist to varying extents across the continent, and are particularly strong in those countries in economic transition such as the Russian Federation.
Gangs are primarily a male phenomenon, though in countries such as the United States, girls are forming their own gangs. Gang members can range in age from 7 to 35 years, but typically are in their teens or early twenties. They tend to come from economically deprived areas, and from low-income and working-class urban and suburban environments. Often, gang members may have dropped out of school and hold low-skilled or low-paying jobs. Many gangs in high-income and middle-income countries consist of people from ethnic or racial minorities who may be socially very marginalized.
Gangs are associated with violent behaviour. Studies have shown that as youths enter gangs they become more violent and engage in riskier, often illegal activities. In Guam, over 60% of all violent crime reported to the police is committed by young people, much of it related to activities of the island’s hard-core gangs. In Bremen, Germany, violence by gang members accounts for almost half of reported violent offences. In a longitudinal study of nearly 1000 youths in Rochester, NY, United States, some 30% of the sample were gang members, but they accounted for around 70% of self-reported violent crimes and 70% of drug dealing.
A complex interaction of factors leads young people to opt for gang life. Gangs seem to proliferate in places where the established social order has broken down and where alternative forms of shared cultural behaviour are lacking. Other socioeconomic, community and interpersonal factors that encourage young people to join gangs include:
— a lack of opportunity for social or economic mobility, within a society that aggressively promotes consumption;
— a decline locally in the enforcement of law and order;
— interrupted schooling, combined with low rates of pay for unskilled labour;
— a lack of guidance, supervision and support from parents and other family members;
— harsh physical punishment or victimization in the home;
— having peers who are already involved in a gang.
Actively addressing these underlying factors that encourage youth gangs to flourish, and providing safer, alternative cultural outlets for their prospective members, can help eliminate a significant proportion of violent crime committed by gangs or otherwise involving young people.
Source: Preventing violence: a guide to implementing the recommendations of the World report on violence and health.
Box 2. p. 7
https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/43014/9241592079.pdf
Policing will not reduce rates of victimization by:
Increasing budgets, even by large amounts. Instead, this will divert scarce financial resources away from public health and educational programmes that have been shown to significantly reduce crime and victimization;
Continuing the current policing models based upon patrols, response to calls for service, and investigation – all of which become less and less effective in reducing crime as fewer victims report to the police;
Using popular programmes such as neighbourhood watch, boot camps and drug resistance education, all of which have been shown to be ineffective in reducing crime and interpersonal violence (see Part 3, TABLE THREE).
Policing will reduce rates of victimization by:
Deploying police officers strategically and holding them accountable to target specific problems;
Adopting models for policing such as the Strategic Approaches to Community Safety, where joint police and university teams analyse the causes of violence, particularly for youth homicides;
Providing data and collaborating in multi-sectoral partnerships (for example, with schools, welfare and housing) that aim to tackle persistent offending by men who are high-risk because of dropping out of school or having dysfunctional families;
Targeting repeat victimization – where the same person or address is victimized more than once – through a combination of enforcement, situational crime prevention and social prevention;
Empowering victims to protect themselves, for instance by creating police stations where female victims of violence know they can talk to female police officers;
Holding young first offenders accountable through reparation to victims and ensuring they get assistance with life goals through counselling and school participation.
Correctional approaches will contribute to reduced crime and victimization through:
Investment in programmes that divert offenders from prison to community programmes that are adequately resourced and known to tackle successfully the causes of interpersonal violence and alcohol use;
Massive increases in the number of persons incarcerated, which can achieve decreases in crime rates for a very high cost – in the USA, increasing the incarceration rate by 250% from 1974 to 2004 is estimated to have decreased the crime rate by 35%, but at costs exceeding US$ 20 billion (enough to provide a job to every unemployed youth or child care for the poor, both of which have been shown to have a much larger impact on crime rates);
Investment in correctional programme models that have been shown to reduce recidivism. However, these models are few and reduce recidivism by only small proportions.
Source: https://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/world_report/factsheets/en/collectiveviolfacts.pdf
Collective violence receives a high degree of public attention. Violent conflicts between nations and groups, state and group terrorism, rape as a weapon of war, the movement of large numbers of people displaced from their homes, and gang warfare – all these occur on a daily basis in many parts of the world. The effects of these different types of event on health in terms of deaths, physical illness, disabilities and mental anguish are vast.
Collective violence may be defined as:
the instrumental use of violence by people who identify themselves as members of a group –whether this group is transitory or has a more permanent identity – against another group or set of individuals, in order to achieve political, economic or social objectives.
The 20th century was one of the most violent periods in human history. An estimated 191 million people lost their lives directly or indirectly as a result of conflict, and well over half of them were civilians.
In 2000, over 300 000 people died as a direct result of violent conflicts. Rates varied from less than 1 per 100 000 population in high-income countries to 6.2 per 100 000 in low and middle-income countries.
Worldwide, the highest rates of conflict-related deaths are found in Africa (32.0 per 100 000).
Besides the many thousands killed each year in violent conflicts, there are huge numbers who are physically injured as a result – including some who are permanently disabled or mutilated.
Torture and rape are also used to terrorize and undermine communities, although exact numbers of people subjected to these abuses are difficult to determine. Many people hide the trauma they have suffered and parties to a conflict often try to manipulate or conceal evidence of torture and rape.
The impact of violent conflicts on health can be very great in terms of mortality, morbidity and disability.
Increased mortality rates of civilians during violent conflicts are usually due to:
decreased access to food, leading to poor nutrition
increased risk of communicable diseases
diminished access to health services
reduced public health programmes
poor environmental conditions
psychosocial distress.
Infants and refugees are among the groups most vulnerable to disease and death in times of conflict. Increases in morbidity and mortality rates among these two groups can be dramatic.
The violence and cruelty of conflicts are associated with a range of psychological and behavioural problems, including depression and anxiety, suicidal behaviour, alcohol abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Conflicts disrupt trade and other business activities, and divert resources to defence from other vital services and sectors. They also have an impact on food production or distribution and displace thousands of people from their homes. Famine related to war, other armed conflicts or genocide is estimated to have killed 40 million people in the 20th century.
Health impact
Increased mortality • Deaths due to external causes, mainly related to weapons
• Deaths due to infectious diseases (such as measles, poliomyelitis, tetanus and malaria)
• Deaths due to noncommunicable diseases, as well as deaths otherwise avoidable through medical care (including asthma, diabetes and emergency surgery)
Increased morbidity • Injuries from external causes, such as those from weapons, mutilation, anti-personnel landmines, burns and poisoning
• Morbidity associated with other external causes, including sexual violence
• Infectious diseases:
– water-related (such as cholera, typhoid, dysentery due to Shigella spp.)
– vecor-borne (such as malaria and onchocerciasis)
– other communicable diseases (such as tuberculosis, acute repiratory infections, HIV infection and other sexually transmitted diseases)
• Reproductive health:
– a greater number of stillbirths and premature births, more cases of low birth weight and more delivery complications
– longer-term generic impact of exposure to chemicals and radiation
• Nutrition:
– acute and chronic malnutrition and a variety of deficiency disorders
• Mental health:
– anxiety
– depression
– post-traumatic stress disorder
– suicidal behaviour
Increased disability • Physical
• Psychological
The roots of violent conflict are generally deep and may be the result of long-standing tensions between groups. There are a number of factors that put states at risk of violent conflict. They include:
A lack of democratic processes and unequal access to power. The risk is especially high when power stems from ethnic or religious identity, and when leadership is repressive and disposed to the abuse of human rights.
Social inequality marked by grossly unequal distribution of, and access to, resources. Conflict is most likely in situations where the economy is in decline, thus exacerbating social inequalities and intensifying competition for resources.
Control by a single group of valuable natural resources, such as diamonds, oil, timber and drugs.
Rapid demographic change that outstrips the capacity of the state to provide essential services and job opportunities.
Many of these risk factors can be identified before overt collective violence takes place.
There are a number of measures that can be taken to prevent collective violence and – where it occurs – to lessen its impact.
Some of the general policies needed to reduce the potential for violent conflicts include:
Reducing poverty, both in absolute and relative terms, and ensuring that development assistance is targeted so as to make the greatest possible impact on poverty.
Reducing inequality between groups in society.
Reducing access to biological, chemical, nuclear and other weapons.
Ensuring the promotion and application of internationally agreed treaties, including those relating to human rights.
National governments can help prevent conflicts by upholding the spirit of the United Nations Chapter, which calls for the prevention of aggression and the promotion of peace and security. At a more detailed level, this involves adhering to international legal instruments, including the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Protocols.
Investing in health development can contribute to the prevention of violent conflict. A strong emphasis on social services can help maintain social cohesion and stability.
Early manifestations of situations that can lead to conflicts can often be detected in the health sector. Health care workers have a significant role to play in drawing attention to these signs and in calling for appropriate social and health interventions.
For more information, please visit: http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention, or e-mail: violenceprevention@who.int ©World Health Organization 2002. All rights reserved.
Table 8.1 p.220
Inequality . Widening social and economic inequalities --- especially those between, rather than within, distinct population groups
Rapidly changing demographic characteristics . High rates of infant mortality
. Rapid changes in population structure, including large-scale movements of refugees
. Excessively high population densities
. High levels of unemployment, particularly among large numbers of young people
. An insufficient supply of food or access to safe water
. Disputes over territory or environmental resources that are claimed by distinct ethnic groups
Lack of democratic processes . Violations of human rights
. Criminal behaviour by the state
. Corrupt governments
Political instability . Rapid changes in regimes
Ethnic composition of the ruling group sharply different from that of the population at large . Political and economic power exercised --- and differentially applied --- according to ethnic or religious identity
. Desecration of ethnic or religious symbols
Deterioration in public services . A significant decline in the scope and effectiveness of social safety nets designed to ensure minimum universal standards of service
Severe economic decline . Uneven economic development
. Grossly unequal gains or losses between different population groups or geographical areas resulting from large economic changes
. Massive economic transfers or losses over short periods of time
Cycles of violent revenge . A continued cycle of violence between rival groups
Figure 8.1 p.221
R E C O M M E N D A T I O N S
from the World report on violence and health
Reproduced from: https://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/violence/world_report/en/wrvhrecommendations.pdf
Given the huge, and often hidden, complexity behind violence it will take a wide range of actors to successfully implement violence-prevention programmes. From health professionals to community workers, from law enforcement officials to school authorities, from urban planners to media campaigners – violence prevention has to form many alliances and take various forms. Most important of all, tackling violence prevention requires political and financial commitment. The engagement of governments and other stakeholders at all levels of decision-making – local, national and international is also crucial to the success of any programme to prevent violence. Recognising violence and its effects may require a great deal of courage and fortitude as the many faces of violence go deep into the roots of families, societies and cultures. The message of the World report on violence and health is that this political commitment must be made and that change is possible. The following recommendations for preventing violence reflect the need for multi-sectoral and collaborative approaches:
National planning to prevent violence should be based on a consensus developed by a wide range of governmental and nongovernmental actors. It should include a timetable and evaluation mechanism, and enable collaboration between sectors that might contribute to preventing violence, such as the criminal justice, human rights, education, labour, health, and social welfare sectors. Many countries currently do not have a national plan nor a coordinating agency or department that deals with violence comprehensively. To date, for example, in many countries the response if mostly focused on law and order, with only limited strategic cooperation with other authorities to help reduce violence. Formulating and implementing a coherent and multidisciplinary national plan is the first critical step towards violence prevention.
Most acts and consequences of violence remain hidden and unreported. Consequently, there is insufficient data on which to form coherent policy responses. Reliable data on violence are crucial not only for setting priorities, guiding programme design and monitoring progress, but also for advocacy to help raise awareness about the issue. Without information, there is little pressure on anyone to acknowledge or respond to the problem. Data needs to be collected at various settings such as hospitals, police stations, community centres and other places where authorities come into contact with victims and perpetuators of violence. It is also equally important that this information be shared across agencies and that internationally accepted standards for data collection be adopted to enhance the comparability of data across these agencies and even between nations and cultures.
Al though there has been great progress in the understanding of violence and violence prevention, questions still remain. At the national and local level, research can be advanced by government policy, by direct involvement of government institutions, and by funding to academic institutions and independent researchers. Among many research priorities, there is a pressing need to develop or adapt, test and evaluate many more prevention programmes in both developing and developed countries. At the global level, issues calling for cross-national research include the relationship between violence and various aspects of globalization; risk and protective factors common to different cultures and societies; and promising prevention approaches applicable in a variety of contexts. Resources for conducting and evaluating this research are needed.
prenatal and perinatal health care for mothers, as well as preschool enrichment and social development programmes for children and adolescents;
training for good parenting practices and improved family functioning;
improvements to urban infrastructure, both physical and socioeconomic;
measures to reduce firearm injuries and improve firearm-related safety;
media campaigns to change attitudes, behaviour and social norms.
The first two interventions are important for reducing child abuse and neglect as well as violence perpetrated during adolescence and adulthood. The latter three can have significant impacts on several types of violence such as youth and collective violence or suicide.
National health systems as a whole should aim to provide high-quality care to victims of all types of violence, as well as the rehabilitation and support services needed to prevent further complications. Priorities include:
improvements to emergency response systems and the ability of the health care sector to treat and rehabilitate victims;
recognition of signs of violent incidents or ongoing violent situations, and referral of victims to appropriate agencies for follow-up and support;
ensuring that health, judicial, policing and social services avoid a renewed victimization of earlier victims, and that these services effectively deter perpetrators from reoffending;
social support, prevention programmes, and other services to protect families at risk of violence and reduce stress on caregivers;
incorporation of modules on violence prevention into the curricula for medical and nursing students.
Each of these responses can help minimize the impact of violence on individuals and families and the cost to health and social systems.
Much of violence has links with gender and social inequalities that place large sections of the population at increased risk. In many parts of the world, social protection policies and programmes are under considerable strain. Many countries have seen real wages fall, basic infrastructure deteriorate, and steady reductions in the quality and quantity of health, education and social services. Since such conditions are linked with increased risks for violence, governments should do their utmost to maintain social protection services, if necessary reordering the priorities in their national budgets.
Better working relations between international agencies, governments, researchers, networks and non-governmental organizations engaged in violence prevention are needed to achieve better sharing of knowledge, agreement on prevention goals and coordination of action. The contributions of advocacy groups – such as those concerned with violence against women or children, human rights abuses, abuse of the elderly and suicide – should also be recognized and encouraged through practical measures such as offering these groups official status at key international conferences and including them in official working groups.
Over the past half-century, national governments have signed a variety of international legal agreements that have direct relevance to violence and its prevention. They include the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and many others. While many countries have made progress in harmonizing national legislation with their international obligations and commitments, others have not. Where the obstacle is the scarcity of resources or information, the international community should do more to assist.
The global drug trade and the global arms trade are risk factors for different types of violence such as youth violence, suicide and collective violence, and are integral to violence in both developing and industrialized countries. A supply of gangs, guns and drugs in a locality is a potent mixture that strongly increases the likelihood of violence. Studies have shown particularly high rates of homicide and violence among youthful gang members involved in the trafficking of drugs and guns. Even modest progress on either front will contribute to reducing the amount and degree of violence suffered by millions of people.
Violence is not an intractable social problem or an inevitable part of the human condition. We can do much to address and prevent it. The world has not yet fully measured the size of the task and does not yet have all the tools to carry it out. But the global knowledge base is growing and much useful experience has already been gained which needs to be implemented.
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The Life-Ground of Value: A concept introduced by McMurtry (1998) which signifies the totality of conditions, natural and/or social, upon which any living thing or collection of living things depends for its existence.
The Life-Ground: the conditions of all life and substantive value.
Most simply expressed, all the conditions required to take your next breath. Axiologically understood, all the life support systems required for human life to reproduce or develop. The life-ground is to be distinguished from the concept of “the life-world” which refers to background beliefs.
The universal basis of all value, the maximal development of the capabilities of living things relative to their degree of organic and social complexity.
The totality of conditions presupposed by the life of individual living things; the basis of there being value and beings that can value.
While religions have featured the animating breath of life, they have attributed it to a transcendental creator so as to overlook its source in the creation itself–a kind of idolatry of man-made ideas.
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International women’s day | Women say ‘no more to daang matuwid’
Anne Marxze Umil March 9, 2016 daang matuwid, GABRIELA, International Women's Day, President Aquino
“Women will not hesitate to unite and smash a leadership that will make us suffer the same crooked governance as the current administration.”
MANILA — The streets here turned purple, as thousands of women from different sectors and communities came dressed in their color to commemorate the 108th International Women’s Day, on March 8.
Led by the broadest progressive Filipino women’s group, Gabriela, women along with their husbands and children, marched from Liwasang Bonifacio to Chino Roces bridge (former Mendiola bridge) near Malacañang Palace with their call: “Kababaihan makibaka para sa tunay na pagbabago! Ibasura ang bulok na gobyerno!”
This year’s big protest centered on President Aquino’s “six years of criminal neglect and rotten governance.” The groups also brought to the fore the women’s agenda in this year’s elections.
(Photo by D.Ayroso/Bulatlat.com)
The women decried worse conditions under Aquino’s “daang matuwid” (righteous path) where regular jobs are scarce, women are forced to leave the country seeking better paying jobs abroad only to end up in death row, farmers remain landless and social services like health are being privatized to the point that poor families cannot afford to seek medical treatment.
Joms Salvador, Gabriela secretary general said, women can no longer allow “rotten governance” in the so-called “daand matuwid.”
“Goodbye and good riddance! On Women’s Day, we issue a warning to those who aspire to lead the next administration: Women will not hesitate to unite and smash a leadership that will make us suffer the same crooked governance as the current administration,” Salvador said.
Six years of difficult life for women
The women’s group lambasted Aquino for scarcity of regular jobs in his six-year administration. A research by the Center for Women’s Resources said that since 2010, the number of those employed in permanent jobs gained merely four percent increase, while the seasonal or temporary workers posted a 16 percent increase, and those employed on a daily or weekly basis increased by 73 percent.
Nenita Gonzaga of Kilusang Mayo Uno women’s department said March 8 was a result of the resistance of women against the worse working conditions back in the day. Women workers walked out of their work area and demanded better pay, shorter working hours and voting rights.
“They fought for it and won. But what is the condition of women workers today? They still suffer from low wages that cannot support the family and contractualization is massive,” said Gonzaga.
Gabriela also highlighted the case of Mary Jane Veloso, who was sentenced to death in Indonesia. Her mother Celia Veloso lamented how the government neglected her daughter’s case.
“Because of a difficult life, Mary Jane went abroad to find a better paying job. Her only dream is to uplift our lives and her children. She never thought she would get into trouble,” Veloso said, speaking at the protest.
Veloso is still anxious as her daughter’s sentence was only postponed. “It has been one year since her death sentence was postponed. Please help us save Mary Jane. It has been six years that my innocent daughter Mary Jane has been languishing in jail. Wala pa ring linaw ang kanyang kaso,” (There has been no clarity in the case.) she said.
Meanwhile, Zen Soriano, Amihan chairperson said Aquino himself is a haciendero who has kept the farmers in the Philippines poor and landless.
“Landlord Aquino’s neglect of agriculture is the reason why our economy is stunted and farmers are going bankrupt,” said Soriano. She said under Aquino, lands in the Philippines are being offered to big and foreign capitalists. The “daang matuwid” of Aquino is baluktot (twisted) as he remains callous to the conditions of the majority of the population: the peasants.
She said the Filipinos would only be lifted from dire poverty if there is national industrialization and genuine agrarian reform, the two essential requirements to attain economic development.
“It has been proven in developed countries that they first implemented agrarian reform before they industrialized. This is where our country should head to – to develop agriculture and have genuine land reform, which will lead to national industrialization,” she said.
Holding Aquino accountable
Misty Lorin, Gabriela deputy secretary general, said they hold Aquino accountable for many issues hounding women, aside from lack of regular jobs that worsens the conditions of women and their families, they also hold Aquino accountable for criminal negligence of victims of typhoon Yolanda.
She said they also hold Aquino for the innocent lives that were lost during the Mamasapano encounter and for selling the sovereignty of the country by signing the Enhance Defense Cooperation Agreement.
“These are the crimes that we hold Aquino accountable for. We will not let another one of his kind to sit in power,” said Lorin.
Eleanor De Guzman, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) deputy secretary general, meanwhile, slammed Aquino for faithfully implementing neoliberal policies dictated by the imperialists. She said, in the time of worsening global economic crisis, the imperialist’s sole intention is further exploitation.
“It is not in the imperialists’ interest to develop our country. They are hindering agrarian reform, the establishment of industries that will give jobs and livelihood to the people and develop the economy,” said De Guzman.
“As long as the people in power are puppets of imperialists, we cannot expect genuine change,” said De Guzman. She said people must rely on their own strength to attain that change they aspire for.
Continue fighting
At Mendiola, women leaders “smashed” a 10-foot wall of boxes painted with the images of Aquino with Uncle Sam and Cabinet members, like former Interior Secretary and now Liberal Party presidential candidate Mar Roxas, Department of Social Welfare and Development Sec. Dinky Soliman, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz and Department of Budget and Management Secretary Butch Abad.
“Aquino, aalis ka na lang wala ka pang nagawa para sa mga kababaihan!” (Aquino, you’re about to leave, but you have done nothing for women) said 85-year old Lola Narcisa Claveria who spoke in the program in Mendiola.
Women, like Lola Claveria, vow to continue the struggle, no matter how long it takes.
Protests were also held in other regions marking International Women’s Day. Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan joined protests in Davao City where they highlighted peasant and indigenous women’s vulnerability to abuse and violations amid Aquino’s push for large scale mining concessions and development aggression in ancestral lands.
In Baguio City, Laguna, Albay, Bacolod, Iloilo and Cebu, protests highlighted the women’s agenda which called for job creation, industrialization and land reform and the accessibility of basic social services including healthcare, housing and education.
“The women’s agenda is a practical reversal of Aquino’s ‘daang matuwid,’ which hailed the policies of liberalization, deregulation and privatization. We say, no more of daang matuwid,” said Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Emmi De Jesus.
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Our society has set up some definite standards and norms which is in some way or the other controlling the lives of every individual of the society. These standards and societal norms decide whether an individual is perfect or not. Even famous celebrities have to face these norms and stereotypes set up by our society. Though these societal norms are sometimes convincing and unquestionable, they are not always relevant and felicitous.
Things nowadays are surely changing. No individual should be judged on the basis of how he/she looks. It is said that love is blind. Nothing matters in true love. Norms set by the society regarding a person’s appearance, weight, height, the difference in age, etc have nothing to do when two people are truly in love with each other.
In spite of these societal stereotypes, there are some celebrity couples who chose not to let society come their way and kept their promise in love. These couples fell in love and accepted each other regardless of all the imperfections and differences between them. And above all, they are happily married today.
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Moreover, he had great intellectual influence upon the politics of Imperial Germany, especially with Staten som livsform ; The State as a Life-form an earlier political-science book read by the society of Imperial Germany, for whom the concept of geopolitik acquired an ideological definition unlike the original, human-geography definition.
That vanquishing the Slavic and the Latin races was necessary, because "without war, inferior or decaying races would easily choke the growth of healthy, budding elements" of the German race—thus, the war for Lebensraum was a necessary means of defending Germany against cultural stagnation and business plan zum verlieben deutschland racial degeneracy of miscegenation.
The politician Adolf Hitler said that the National Socialist Nazi geopolitics of "inevitable expansion" would reverse overpopulation, provide natural resources, and uphold German national honor. The Nazi usages of the term Lebensraum were explicitly racist, to justify the mystical right of the "racially superior" Germanic peoples Herrenvolk to fulfil their cultural destiny at the expense of "racially inferior" peoples Untermenschensuch as the Slavs of Poland, Russia, Ukraine, and the other non—Germanic peoples of " the East ".
Lebensraum would be realised by way of ethnic cleansingthe forcible removal of the native Slavic and Jewish populations, and the subsequent repopulation of the border strip with ethnic-German colonists; likewise, the colonisations of Lithuania and Ukraine; yet military over-extension lost the war for Imperial Germany, and the Septemberprogramm went unrealised.
In Marchin effort to reform and modernise the Russian Empire — into a soviet republicthe Bolshevik government agreed to the strategically onerous, territorial cessions stipulated in the Treaty of Brest-Litovskand Russia yielded to Germany much of the arable land of European Russiathe Baltic governoratesBelarusUkraineand the Caucasus region.
As a casus belli for the business plan zum verlieben deutschland and colonisation of Polish territories as living-space and defensive-border for the Imperial German Reichthe Septemberprogramm derived from a foreign policy initially proposed by General Erich Ludendorffin At the moment of the November ceasefire in the West, newspaper maps of the military situation showed German troops in Finland, holding a line from the Finnish fjords near Narvadown through Pskov — Orsha — Mogilev and the area south of Kurskto the Don east of Rostov.
Germany had thus secured Ukraine. The Russian recognition of Ukraine's separation, exacted at Brest—Litovsk, represented the key element in German efforts to keep Russia perpetually subservient.
In addition, German troops held the Crimeaand were stationed, in smaller numbers, in Transcaucasia. Even the unoccupied "rump" Russia appeared—with the conclusion of the German—Soviet Supplementary Treaty, on 28 August —to be in firm, though indirect, dependency on the Reich.
Thus, Hitler's long-range aim, fixed in the s, of erecting a German Eastern Imperium on the ruins of the Soviet Union was not simply a vision emanating from an abstract wish. In the Eastern sphere, established inthis goal had a concrete point of departure.
The German Eastern Imperium had already been—if only for a short time—a reality. Germany and the Two World Wars [24] In the event, the Septemberprogramm documents "Lebensraum in the East" as philosophically integral to Germanic culture throughout the history of Germany; and that Lebensraum is not a racialist philosophy particular to the 20th century.
It is equally obvious that Lebensraum always appeared as one element in these blueprints. This was not an original idea of Hitler's. It was commonplace at the time. For that matter, plans for acquiring new territory were much aired in Germany during the First World War.
It used to be thought that these were the plans of a few crack-pot theorisers or of extremist organisations. Now we know better. Ina German professor [Fritz Fischer] reported the results of his investigations into German war aims. These were indeed a "blueprint for aggression", or, as the professor called them, "a grasp at world power": Belgium under German control, the French iron-fields annexed to Germany, and, what is more, Poland and Ukraine to be cleared of their inhabitants and resettled with Germans.
These plans were not merely the work of the German General Staff. Taylor, The Origins of the Second World War [28] Interwar propaganda[ edit ] In the national politics of the Weimar Republic —33the German Eugenicists took up the nationalist, political slogan of Volk ohne Raum, and matched it with the racial slogan Volk ohne Jugend a People without Youtha cultural proposition that ignored the declining German birth-rate since the s and contradicted the popular belief that the "German race" was a vigorous and growing people.
Despite each slogan political and racial being contradicted by the reality of such demographic facts, the nationalists' demands for Lebensraum proved to be ideologically valid politics in Weimar Germany.
Studies of the homeland focused on the lost colonies after the rebirth of sovereign Poland which was ratified by the Treaty of Versailles Volk ohne Raumas well as the "eternal Jewish threat" Der ewige Jude, Emphasis was put on the need for rearmament and the pseudoscience of superior races in the pursuit of " blood and soil ".
The Nazis, led by Adolf Hitler, demanded not only the geographic reversion of Germany's post-war borders to recuperate territory lost per the Treaty of Versaillesbut demanded the German conquest and colonisation of Eastern Europe whether or not those lands were German before Increase [of] our peasant population is the only effective defense against the influx of the Slav working-class masses from the East.
As six hundred years ago, the German peasant's destiny must be to preserve and increase the German people's patrimony in their holy mother earth battle against the Slav race.
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In Mein KampfHitler dedicated a full chapter titled "Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy", outlining the need for the new 'living space' for Germany. He claimed that achieving Lebensraum required political will, and that the National Socialist Movement ought to strive to expand population area for the German people, and acquire new sources of food as well.
Hitler rejected the restoration of the pre-war borders of Germany as an inadequate half-measure towards reducing purported national overpopulation.
And so, we National Socialists consciously draw a line beneath the foreign policy tendency of our pre—War period. We take up where we broke off six hundred years ago.
We stop the endless German movement to the south and west, and turn our gaze toward the land in the East. At long last, we break off the colonial and commercial policy of the pre—War period and shift to the soil policy of the future.
To further German population growth, Hitler rejected the ideas of birth control and emigration, arguing that such practices weakened the people and culture of Germany, and that military conquest was the only means for obtaining Lebensraum: The National Socialist Movement, on the contrary, will always let its foreign policy be determined by the necessity to secure the space necessary to the life of our Folk.
It knows no Germanising or Teutonisingas in the case of the national bourgeoisiebut only the spread of its own Folk. It will never see in the subjugated, so called Germanised, Czechs or Poles a national, let alone Folkish, strengthening, but only the racial weakening of our Folk.EDITORIAL PLAN FOR THE JANUARY/FEBRUARY ISSUE An even bigger and better readership.
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Calle: Syrym was established in 2007. How did you guys meet?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Jeffrey: Ron placed an ad looking for a singer, and I answered. It was simple, but it was also a stroke of luck, as things have really worked out well.
Calle: Who are your biggest influences?
Ron: Although I have played different instruments, I really started to get into Hard Rock in the late 70s...and that’s when I heard “Running with the Devil” for the first time...and there was no looking back. So I have to say Edward Van Halen , Randy Rhoads, George Lynch, all who ruled supreme during that era. Mixed in with that was the heavy influence of my Jazz guitar teacher, Bob Marshall.
Jeffrey: My influences are not where you might expect. I’m heavily influenced by artists such as Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Jackie Wilson, Billy Joel, Elton John, and Stokley Williams of Mint Condition, none of them considered very “rock.” But I also love singers like Jeff Scott Soto, Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy, Jeff Keith of Tesla, and Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance.
Calle: What got you into music in the first place?
Ron: Well, I was born into a musical family. My Dad actually made a record in the early 60s, before I was born, but then the Beatles hit and it was over for most up-and-coming American artists. My uncle plays a mean set of drums, and my Nana has a voice like an angel to this day! And she’s over 80!! I played in school band and started with the trumpet in 4th grade. That’s when I learned to read music. Then I started fooling around with the bass, and then my parents bought me an acoustic guitar. My dad showed me a few things, and the rest is history...
Jeffrey: I wanted to play the drums, so my parents said I could do so if I studied piano first. I did that—and I’m glad that I did—but, to this day, I’ve yet to learn how to play the drums. I was hooked, though, sitting down at the piano and writing songs. I still write songs that way, most of the time.
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Calle: How do you write the songs? Does each of you come up with ideas or do you all write together?
Jeffrey: For a majority of our songs, Ron writes the music and I write the lyrics and melodies. Usually, Ron will have basic tracks recorded, and I will write the lyrics over that. Then the song gets fleshed out from there.
Calle: Where do you find the inspiration for the songs?
Jeffrey: Some of the inspiration comes from personal experience, some from the experiences of others and, sometimes, it’s just something I happen to hear or see that triggers an idea.
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Calle: You released your first CD “Syrym” earlier this year. How has the response been from the critics and from the fans?
Jeffrey: So far, the response has been fantastic. We’re getting all sorts of online radio airplay, some great reviews, and fans have been e-mailing us and posting comments on Myspace about how much they’re enjoying the album. Two reviewers have included our album on their lists of the Top 20 Albums of 2008, which is really validating.
Calle: If you could name one song you wish you had written, what song would that be, and why?
Ron: “Imagine,” by John Lennon.
Jeffrey: “Secrets,” by Vain. The song is catchy as hell, with all sorts of attitude and a punky vibe. It’s a million miles-an-hour with great, energetic guitars, a driving rhythm section, that trademark Davy Vain melody and vocal. The whole album, “No Respect,” is one shot of adrenaline after another.
Calle: Ron - You and Jamey Pacheco were in the band Babylon A.D. back in the late 80s and 90s. The band had some success on radio and MTV. Why did the band break up?
Ron: We never really broke up. We still do dates here and there, but nothing to speak of...no touring or anything. Paralleling it to what happened to my Dad...for us it was Nirvana. When they hit, all the record companies wanted grunge, and we and many signed bands like us were over, done. Many have said if we came out four to five years earlier, we would have had greater success.
Calle: Babylon A.D. also had a song in the movie “Robocop 2.” If Syrym got the chance to write a title song for a big Hollywood movie, which movie would you like that to be?
Ron: Any...lol. Any exposure is good exposure. How about a smash hit bloody horror movie?
Jeffrey: Well, “Bring It On (Go Down Fighting)” was actually loosely based on the story behind the recent Vin Diesel movie, “Babylon A.D.” If I were going to write the title song to a movie that Syrym was going to record, it would have to be a blockbuster action flick or sci-fi adventure. Something along the lines of the next Batman movie, or the sequel to the Will Smith vehicle, “Independence Day.” A movie where, when you hear our song, it just pumps you up and energizes the mood of the movie.
Calle: You come from different backgrounds musically. With Syrym it seems like you are bringing back some of the music from the 80s and 90s. Do you miss those times?
Ron: Absolutely...big guitars, big drums...RIPPING LEADS!!! There are many bands out there that are doing just that, but are not hitting mainstream anymore. I am so sick of that EMO crap. It all sounds the same.
Jeffrey: To a certain degree, yes. That was the era when I really cut my teeth, musically. The bands from that time inspired me to want to make a name for myself in rock ‘n’ roll.
Calle: Syrym are based in Oakland, California. How would you describe the music scene there, and in the US in general?
Jeffrey: Back in the 80s, the music scene in Oakland, and the San Francisco Bay Area in general, was at its apex. There were so many good bands, many of which went unnoticed outside of this region. There were great concerts going on almost every night of the week. Bands like The Persuaders (Babylon A.D.), Vain, Kamikaze, Death Angel, Mr. Hyde, Kidd Blue, Roulette, Castle Blak—never a dull moment. Now, I would be hard-pressed to name even one band in the rock genre that’s drawing any kind of attention in the Bay Area, outside of what we’re doing now.
Calle: As Syrym, what bands have you played with or been on tour with?
Jeffrey: As Syrym, we’ve yet to play out with anyone. We expect that to change in the near future, though.
Calle: What’s the most fun experience you have had at a concert?
Ron: My greatest and most memorable gig was an outdoor festival in Milwaukee in ‘92...simply awesome seeing that monster crowd and all the screaming fans. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat.
Jeffrey: Playing a concert, or seeing one? Every aspect of playing a concert is a blast. In terms of seeing concerts, the best one I ever saw was David Lee Roth at the Cow Palace, back in 1988. Incredible showman and, of course, he had Steve Vai handling the guitar duties–one of my all-time favorites.
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Calle: Do you have any plans of touring Europe in the near future?
Jeffrey: There’s nothing scheduled at the moment, but never say never.
Calle: What can the fans expect when they go see Syrym live?
Ron: I would expect they would see the latest and greatest version of Babylon A.D. We were always known for a great live show, and I would expect no different here.
Jeffrey: It’ll be a kick-ass rock show, featuring some of the best musicians I’ve ever had the pleasure of hearing or playing with.
Calle: If you could put together your dream band, who would be in it?
Ron: Van Halen on guitar, Robert Plant on vocals, Terri Bozzio on drums, and Rudy Sarzo on bass.
Jeffrey: If we’re not counting Syrym, I’d have to say Scott Rockenfield of Queensryche on the drums, Steve Vai on lead guitar, Stevie Salas on rhythm guitar, Phillip Bynoe on bass, and Jeff Scott Soto on vocals. These aren’t all necessarily my favorite musicians on each instrument (although some are), but I think it would be an incredible collaboration.
Calle: How would you describe each member of the band in only three words?
James – Loud, Heavy, Pounding
Jeff – Versatile, Intelligent, Thoughtful
Rich – Versatile, tight, pro
Jeffrey:
Ron – kick-ass, devastating
Jamey – rock-solid, thundering
Rich – extraordinary, tight, positive
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Calle: What’s the best advice you can give to up-coming bands?
Ron: Work hard, practice and gig a ton, and strive for originality. No record company is going to sign a band that sounds like a thousand others. Also, they have to be hard-skinned and mentally tough. This business is not for pussies.
Jeffrey: Keep striving to attain your dreams.
And now some questions outside music:
Calle: What was the first CD/LP you ever purchased?
Ron: Van Halen I
Jeffrey: Billy Joel – 52nd Street
Calle: What’s the latest CD you bought?
Ron: Black Label Society – Mafia
Jeffrey: Shinedown – The Sound of Madness
Calle: What do you do when you’re not playing music? What’s your other interest?
Ron: I am opening a new recording studio. Check it out at http://www.hatrixmedia.com/. All clients, all types of music welcome! I’m a big soccer player (way before I played guitar).
Jeffrey: I’m a graphic designer, so I’m taking on clients for logo design, branding, and web design.
Calle: What’s your favorite drink?
Ron: I don’t drink anymore, but it was beer.
Jeffrey: I’m a simple man in that regard—a beer suits me just fine. My favorite is Negra Modelo, but I’m not overly picky.
Calle: Do any of you have another education?
Ron: I have two degrees in Electronic Engineering.
Jeffrey: I have a degree in Music Composition from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Calle: What do you guys know about Denmark?
Ron: I stopped there once on my way to a Swedish soccer tournament I played in. I would love to come back to Scandinavia. I had the best times of my life there, aside from touring and the birth of my son.
Jeffrey: Honestly, not all that much. But I’m willing to learn!
Calle: Any last words for the fans?
Ron: I hope you enjoy our sound, and there’s more to come! Rock will never die...
Jeffrey: To all our fans, thank you so much for your support. And if you haven’t heard Syrym before, give the new album a listen. You won’t be disappointed.
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I swear, I’m not obsessed with urine, but we do need to talk about P, and by that I mean, the element phosphorus. It’s been in the news lately, allegedly used as a chemical weapon against children and civilians in Syria.
The story of phosphorus begins, ironically, with urine. Urine was a well-used chemical in ancient days, staring possibly with the Romans. It’s s source of ammonia and phosphorus which can be used for cleaning, tanning leather, and fertilizing crops. It was used to make tooth whitener and gunpowder and in the dye industry.
It makes sense in a strange way, that urine, plentiful and golden, would be used in experiments and alchemist Henning Brand used it in his quest to create gold in his lab. In 1660 he boiled urine and heated it in a furnace with plenty of stirring. The 1,500 gallons of urine transformed not into gold, but into a glowing, waxy substance. Although he was not sure of a use for it, other chemists soon noted it could catch on fire and produced burns that were slow to heal.
Once something is discovered, it has to be used and even exploited. What does a good alchemist do with a new material? Makes it into a tonic. Phosphorous works in conjunction with calcium to form bones. It’s the backbone of DNA. We need phosphorus to live. Our bones, teeth, and brain contain much phosphorus. The tonics were various amounts of phosphorus in water, cod liver oil, and phosphorus salts in pills. Cures for tuberculosis and mental instability were reported. It was also known to be a poison in high doses and used as such for killing rats, spouses, unwanted children, and inducing abortion. It’s very soluble in alcohol and rum disguised its garlic smell and flavor. Symptoms of phosphorus poisoning include jaundice, vomiting, and thirst–common with liver failure. Phosphorus poisonings were popular through the 1950s. Phosphorus remains in the intestines and can be extracted during an autopsy and detected by its tell-tale glow.
Today the element in phosphate form (combined with oxygen) can be found in all sorts of products: chicken nuggets, hotdogs, processed and spreadable cheeses, instant puddings and sauces, refrigerated bakery products, and beverages. It occurs naturally in eggs, diary products, meat, and chocolate. I found it on the label of several products in my kitchen including kids’ cereal, evaporated milk, Velveeta mac and cheese, BelVita bars, canned clam chowder, and muffin mix from the Amish Store near Chariton. It’s used to adjust pH and enhance flavor.
Count Chocula, anyone?
Evaporated milk: Not just milk
Although miracle cures were reported, the efficacy of phosphate tonics was never proven in the past, but today, people consume too much phosphorus. The excess is damaging to our bones, kidneys, thyroid, and cardiovascular systems.
What about matches? Before the discovery of phosphorus, they were made of sulfur dipped sticks and were unreliable. The white phosphorus friction “strike anywhere” match was invented around 1830. It was a striking success thanks to a tip made from white phosphorus. The new matches were called congreves or more commonly lucifers. They were 20% white phosphorus, 30% potassium chlorate (an oxidant), 15% sulfur, 10% chalk, and 25% glue. Rumors were that battlefields were raided for bones of men and horses–a rich source of phosphorus. Match boxes were works of art. However, the toxicity of white phosphorus became horribly apparent. Workers in match factories began experiencing bone degradation and sores, especially in their jaws! The condition called Phossy jaw was understandably painful and irreversible. Click here to see and read more about phossy jaw. In the 1870, people ate matches to commit suicide. Lucifers caught on fire when stepped on. Archduchess Matilda might have burned to death due to a dropped match. Boxes of matches caught fire when shaken.
Heating white phosphorus converts it to red phosphorus. It’s much less toxic but can’t be ignited by striking anywhere. The red phosphorus is on the striking pad and the match head is a mixture of phosphates, ignitable materials, and wax.
Give humanity credit– the last use developed for white phosphorus was as a weapon. White phosphorus has been used in warfare only since WWI. It’s incendiary, meaning it catches on fire when it contacts air. (It must be stored under an air resistant material such as oil.) It creates billows of smoke. It burns. It burns to the bone. It’s poisonous. The disfiguring effects include lowered immunity and last long after the burns heal. Thus, it’s banned as a weapon. The trouble is, no one cares to enforce the ban.
Phosphorous is also used in fertilizers since it’s essential for plant growth. However, humans use way too much of it, causing algae growth in natural waters. Believe it or not, we are mining so much phosphorous for fertilizer that we are depleting natural sources. If we deplete our mineral sources, such as apatite, we might have to go back to grinding bones and urinating as sources of P.
White phosphorus hazards diamond–highly toxic and flammable.
What is Enriched Uranium?
On July 12, 2019 January 6, 2020 By Catherine HausteinIn chemistryLeave a comment
You many have heard of a consequence of the US dumping the Iran-nuclear deal. Iran has made enriched uranium.What is that and why should anyone care?
Uranium is a dense heavy metal that decays–meaning it’s radioactive and gives off particles and energy and transforms into a slightly lighter metal, thorium, which is also radioactive. It emits an alpha particle, the Mac truck of subatomic particles, which is also a helium nucleus. This is where earthly helium comes from! All forms of uranium are radioactive..but not the helium it emits. Don’t worry, your party balloons are safe. Uranium is unstable and thus radioactive. The word radioactive was coined by the Curies in 1898, with radio being related to ray as in a ray of light Many radioactive elements and nuclear reactions cause their surrounding to glow due to their energy. It’s slowly radioactive with all isotopes having long half-lives. It can be found in deposits across the globe.
Uranium can be made into a source of power when it undergoes fission. During fission, the core of the atom (the nucleus) is hit with a neutron and split into smaller pieces and new lighter elements are made. The lighter elements are more stable and the energy needed to hold the large unstable uranium together is released. The process is shown in the figure below. You can see that more neutrons fly out and if enough atoms of the right isotope of uranium are nearby, they split other uranium atoms. A chain reaction ensues and this keeps the energy release going. If the reaction is fast enough, a bomb is created.
Illustration showing a nuclear fission
Here’s the catch, not all forms of uranium undergo fission. Only the isotope with 92 protons and 143 neutrons in the nucleus, uranium 235 or U-235, is unstable enough to be broken in this fashion. And it’s not very plentiful. Only 0.7% of naturally occurring uranium is this isotope. And to allow for the chain reaction to occur, you need to concentrate this form of the metal. This is needed for both weapons grade and power reactor uranium but weapons grade uranium needs more concentration aka enrichment. This is not easy. Why does it take so much work? Chemical reactions occur with the outside of the atom–the electron cloud. This is an easy way to separate chemicals–by their different reactivities due to different electron clouds surrounding them.
All isotopes of uranium have the same cloud of 92 electrons. This means the isotopes have to be separated by mass. The uranium is reacted with fluoride and forms a gas, then is passed through a porous membrane which only lets the smaller 235 isotope through. Alternately, it might be centrifuged. There are a few other less efficient methods of enrichment. This process demands lots of energy. Monitoring the energy use of enrichment facilities is one way to watch to see if a country is working on producing weapons grade U-235.
What’s going on in Iran? They have used centrifuge technology to enrich uranium to a concentration of 4.5%. The allowed limit with the Nuclear Deal was 3.67%. However, it takes 90% enrichment to make a bomb because a bomb reaction must go faster with more U-235 atoms close to each other. Getting to this level is a huge challenge needing a high tech centrifuge. Yes, Iran can get there if the nuclear deal remains sour for years.
Right now, the world has a surplus of enriched uranium because of the many enrichment plants world wide. What country has a surplus of weapons grade uranium? The United States. Germany, the Netherlands, and Japan also have plenty of the stuff. Scientists worked hard to create the bomb. Some did it unknowingly and other suffered remorse at how it was used. Scientists approved the Nuclear Deal, they supported it, and scientific collaboration is suffering at its end.
1919: Yo-ho-ho
On January 6, 2019 By Catherine HausteinIn 1919, chemistry1 Comment
In many areas of the globe, before there was sugar on the table there was honey and/or maple syrup. Sugarcane was only found in New Guinea and Southeast Asia. A clever chemist in India figured out how to boil the canes and evaporate the liquid until the sucrose crystallized. This made it easy to transport and sell. Sugar made its way to Europe around 700 AD. It was an expensive luxury. It wasn’t until Europeans took over the Caribbean region in the 1600s and turned it into sugarcane plantations with slave labor that it became widely used in the North–as a food and fuel commodity.
image from https://spartacus-educational.com/USASsugar.htm
Molasses treacle in dish: 100 years ago, molasses was a commonly used sweeter
Sugar beets were made popular by Napoleon (early 1800s) but rapidly became more expensive than sugar from cane. In 1938, mechanical cane harvesters were developed in the United States, making sugar even cheaper to produce. Today, sugar is the world’s largest crop.
Molasses (called treacle in England) is the liquid left over after sugar cane is boiled and the sugar crystals and fiber removed, It’s the most nutritious part of the sugar plant, containing calcium, magnesium, iron, and vitamin B6. It can even de-frizz hair.
How to make molasses.
Recipes, including shoofly pie.
All of this tasty goodness is not why I am writing about molasses. One hundred years ago on January 15, a Boston accident released 2.3 million gallons of molasses across the city’s north side, home to mostly Irish and Italian families. Shorty after noon, the locals heard a crash and a wave of molasses engulfed the neighborhood. Twenty-one people and countless horses were killed. Buildings and a train trestle were destroyed. The cause: a faulty molasses storage tank.
One hundred years ago, molasses was a popular sweeter. People bought it by the gallon. It was used in baked beans, barbecue sauces, and gingerbread as it is today. It was the sweetener of choice for coffee, pancakes, and cornbread. It was added to collards and carrots. It was THE sweetener. However, the molasses in this incident wasn’t for cooking and baking. The company which owned the tank, Purity Distilling Company, was in the rum and alcohol business. Yo-ho-ho as they sang in Treasure Island. Yes, rum is basically fermented molasses. It wasn’t a great business to be in at the time, considering that Prohibition was ratified on January 16, 1919. The company had supplied industrial alcohol to the military for the war but now the war was over. Thus, Purity Distilling Company wasn’t too keen to repair their leaking molasses tank, painted brown to hide the drips. They needed to make as much rum as they could before it became illegal.
A few days prior, they had a fresh batch of molasses delivered from Puerto Rico. It was still warm as it sat in the thin steel tank. Possibly, it was already fermenting and producing alcohol and carbon dioxide. Molasses is a non-Newtonian fluid. It flows more easily under pressure (as does chocolate.) The molasses burst forth at a speed of about 35 mph. It crashed through buildings and knocked people and animals over. Then, as it cooled, it got sticky, trapping them like flies on fly paper. The combination made for the deadly spread of the molasses. All in all, it covered two city blocks. Click here for photos.
People stand by the busted molasses tank in 1919
The tragedy cost 100 million in today’s dollars. Although terrorism was blamed at first, the company was held responsible and fined. Residents of the neighborhood today claim they can smell the molasses on warm days. The tragedy is a reminder of why we need industrial safety regulations and is, in part, why we have them today.
Great video recounting the tragedy and adult and children’s books about the tragedy.
Mercurial Madness
On October 2, 2018 October 6, 2018 By Catherine HausteinIn chemistry, Uncategorized1 Comment
I didn’t read much about it in the local or state news but last December, a Mercury jug containing 5 kg (11 pounds) of the toxic metal was spilled in an Iowa bar.
If that isn’t bad enough, the mercury was gathered up and put in the basement of a rental house where kids found it and played with it in the sandbox.
Where does mercury come from? Why is it toxic and how bad is it?
Here are some facts about mercury:
Mercury is an element, meaning it can’t be broken into anything smaller. You can’t get rid of it by burning it up, for example.
In fact, you do not want to burn mercury. It is a metal but with very weak bonds between atoms. It has a low vapor pressure and heating it makes it into a gas. This gas is very toxic. It is easily absorbed into the lungs. It moves to the brain where it causes central nervous system poisoning. Mercury is toxic via all routes: ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact.
Mercury poisons by sticking to the sulfur in enzymes, causing them to unravel. What does this do? It harms many different enzymes–it interferes with ones that build your skeleton, it inhibits food digestion, it ruins nerve connections, and it causes hydrogen peroxide to build up in your blood.
Mercury can get into the air from burning coal and oil. Forty two percent of mercury in our air comes from coal burning. Since mercury is heavy and doesn’t change into anything else, this can be breathed in, and get into our water and soil.
Another source of mercury is gold mining and processing, especially in small scale operations.Peru is known for a high number of these. They rely on using a mercury amalgam to extract the gold.
Mercury is a dense metallic liquid. It was once known as quicksilver. The word mercurial means flighty or fast.
Can there be a much better name for a shoe than Mercurial Superfly? https://store.nike.com/
It’s about 14 x more dense than water, meaning that a gallon of mercury would weigh 113 pounds.
It has the symbol Hg meaning “liquid silver” or “hydroargyrum”.
Mercury is found as the ore cinnabar, chemical name mercury (II) sulfide, HgS. Most of mercury used today comes from mines in Spain or Italy.
It is commonly used in electrical switches and was once frequently used in thermometers and in dental fillings known as amalgams. An amalgam is a combination of mercury and other metals. It’s tough and easy to squeeze into small places. These are thought to be safe in adults and mercury not detected in breast milk of mothers who have mercury fillings.
Dental crowns do not contain mercury.
Mercury pollution has caused Minamata disease, a birth defect harming the skeleton and a pollution related disease. Click here for more about the people who were affected.
Many people think of the Mad Hatter when they think of mercury poisoning. Mercury was used in felt processing and hat-making from the 17th century up until 1941.
Mercury was used to treat syphilis up through the early 1900s.
A mercury salt with fluorescein, mercurochrome, is still used as an antiseptic in some places.
Mercury can exist in several forms: elemental (as found in the Iowa bar) , inorganic (cinnabar), and organic (the most toxic).
Mercury is water soluble. It builds up in fish and seafood–the larger the animal, the more mercury. This diagram shows that the elemental mercury becomes organic mercury and bioaccumulates in the food chain.
Imagine of mercury accumulation from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_in_fish#/media/File:MercuryFoodChain.svg
Fish contains more mercury than vaccines.
Mercury is in some vaccines in a small amount. Consider the alternative which is getting the flu.
Mercury is heavy and exists in the depths of the Earth. Besides mining and coal burning, volcanos release tons of vaporized mercury into the air, especially Pacific volcanos.
Mercury poisoning continues today. “Analysis of hair samples from 1044 women of reproductive age in 37 locations across 25 countries on 6 continents revealed that 42% of women sampled had mercury levels over the US EPA limit level of 1 ppm, above which brain damage, IQ loss, and kidney damage may occur. Additionally, 53% of the global sample exceeded the level 0.58 ppm of mercury, a level now associated with the onset of fetal neurological damage. Exposures were higher and more pervasive in communities near mercury gold mining, in the Pacific Islands, and in communities near industrial contamination.”
New laws will weaken our restrictions on mercury emissions. We will be dooming people to nervous system, skeletal, and blood disorders and putting poison in our oceans. Thes laws are a “major weakening’ of mercury rules. Folks, that’s madness!
Laughing Gas–a history
On September 13, 2018 September 13, 2018 By Catherine HausteinIn chemistry, marriage, science history, UncategorizedLeave a comment
Laughing Gas, nitrous oxide, was first created by Cornish chemist Humphry Davy in 1799…although some credit the reclusive Joeseph Priestly with this. In any case, it was Davy who brought laughing gas to the world and with it, won prestige.
Humphry Davy was born the son of a farmer and wood-worker. The athletic and garrulous Davy was not the best of students. He was, however, good at preparing remedies for a local doctor and even better at making explosions and gases intended to affect people’s health. Gases were created chemically and collected in silk or later, rubber bags and people took sucks of the bag while holding their nose to receive treatments. One use of gases Davy explored was as anesthetics. The only anesthetics in those days were alcohol and opium. Surgeons had to operate quickly–amputating limbs in a minute or two–three at most. The use of laughing gas as an anesthetic was slow to catch on– it wasn’t until 1844 that it became used by a dentist and not until the 1870s that use became routine. (The man who pioneered its use in dentistry later became deranged.)
Shunned as an anesthetic, the euphoric properties of nitrous oxide made it a popular party drug, sometimes administered in traveling entertainment tents bearing Davy’s picture. Davy called nitrous oxide inhalation “pleasurably thrilling.”Others have described it as “you’re all rubbery and relaxed and silly laughing usually. The rooms can seem to be collapsing and spinning but in a fun way with sort of swooshing wavy sounds.” The nitrous oxide promotion propelled Davy into fame–it was a fad that won him a prestigious appointment to the Royal Institution in 1801 at the young age of 22. In this capacity, he lectured and popularized science to the point that he was knighted at the age of 34 and later made a baronet.Davy also discovered ether and chloroform. Although he did help his assistant Michael Faraday achieve fame, Davy clung to his superiority as if he had been born into it.
In retrospect, nitrous oxide has some harsh side effects. It can suppress vitamin B12 uptake, destroy your body’s Vitamin B12, and cause brain damage if over-used. There have even been cases of paralysis and spinal degradation in frequent users. However, as anesthetics go, it is one of the safest. Perhaps this brain damage created his snobbish treatment of Michael Faraday later in life. Faraday attributed some of this to his high class wife, Lady Jane. (My Mom used the term”Lady Jane” to refer to a snotty attitude but it has taken new meaning these days).Lady Jane and her money can be thanked for numerous portraits of the handsome Davy in those pre-photography days. In any case, I digress.
This photo was taken from A History of Chemistry by F.J. Moore third edition 1939
Laughing gas is used today in dental offices where it eases the pain and anxiety that come with dental work. It’s used to aid the torment of childbirth and can create “giggly, happy women during birth.” It’s used as a whipped cream propellent and also as a recreational drug known as “whippet” and “Hippie Crack.” It can also be found in fumes from burning coal and is a greenhouse gas.
We now know that nitrous oxide keeps nerve impulses from reaching their target. It blocks the gap between the nerve endings. Ketamine acts in the same way. It also causes the release of opioid-like hormones and increases blood flow to the brain. It should be used infrequently. It hampers both male and female fertility. Indeed, neither Davy or his pupil Faraday had children.
Chemistry of pottery
On July 25, 2018 By Catherine HausteinIn chemistry, MichiganLeave a comment
When I was a kid, the street in front of me was torn up for reconstruction, and we neighborhood hoodlums dug in the exposed clay, a novelty for Iowans, and used it to make pots. We were engaging in some of the most basic chemistry, that is, allowing something to lose water and change its chemical structure. Most of chemistry is simply rearranging things and making pottery is no exception.
Clay begins as rocks which are dissolved by rain and water. The elements within are aluminum and silicon oxides that are held together with water. When the water is removed, the rocks reform as pottery. The most useful form of clay is kaolinite in which the aluminum and silicon oxides are in equal proportions.
Handling clay by throwing it on a wheel or pressing it together removes some of the water. With the water gone, the silicon and aluminum bond through the oxygens and not through wet hydrogen bonds. The new bonds are stronger. Firing the pot will drive off more water and change the chemical structure of the kaolinite from sheets to an amorphous glass.This process removes and locks out any water that might permeate the surface. Stoneware is fired at a higher temperature and contains less (no) water and is stronger than earthenware. Containing no water, it doesn’t heat up in the microwave.
Above: an earthenware bowl from Sunflower Pottery. http://www.sunflowerpottery.com/home.html
Glazes are made from quartz and corundum, colorless forms of silica and aluminum oxides. Transition metals which take on various colors depending on their oxidation state and bonding, are added for color, and once again, firing the glaze allows bonds to form.
Of course, none of these technicalities can describe the art that goes into making beautiful pottery. Most recently, I visited Pewabic Pottery in Detroit.
I decided I deserved a little treat. How do you like it?
One thing I love about pottery is that you can use it. It appeals to the practical side of me and the artistic side. Even the roughest of mornings can be brightened with the right tableware. And now, it’s time for breakfast.
Thank you to the Royal Society of Chemistry for this article
Cough, cough. Birds, pigs, people, and Influenza A
On February 11, 2018 February 12, 2018 By Catherine HausteinIn chemistry, plants and animals, science3 Comments
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If I had a vivid imagination, I could conjure up some sinister reason for cutting funds to the CDC and the NIH as our recent Congress has done and create a fiction from it. Perhaps a corrupt leader wanted to kill off the type of people he didn’t like and had secret vaccination programs for his followers. His enemies would become infected and die. One way to do that would be with Influenza A.
There are two main categories of Influenza viruses, A,B., and C. Type A viruses cause the most trouble and can be found in humans and animals, including whales, cats, horses, and other animals,notably birds and pigs. (Bats have their own special viruses.) Influenza B is uncomfortable to humans but not deadly. There is also a human C virus which is milder yet. Influenza A can be deadly.
Besides A and B viruses are then categorized by their H and N types of proteins that they have in their outer coatings. If you want to read more about that here is a great description. Let’s just say that it takes a match up of the right H and N to allow a virus to invade your cells, hijack them, create “baby” viruses, and pop the cells to release moe viruses. That is how we get the designations such as H1H1 (the deadly Swine flu) and H2N3 (this year’s virulent strain.) Both of these, and all Influenzas, are zoonoses–infections that can move between people and animals.
Many Type A viruses can creep between birds, human, and pigs. If you look at charts from the CDC (why are we underfunding them by the way?) you can see that birds are a significant reservoir of these viruses. Shore birds including geese are potent carriers but other types of domestic and wild birds also carry viruses. For example N3 viruses are associated with ducks.
Most Influenza A viruses originate in birds. However, not many of these are easily transmitted to people. They can be transmitted to pigs. Pigs are a common go-between for viruses. Pigs and humans can infect each other with influenza more easily than birds and humans can infect each other. Pig flu symptoms are much like human flu symptoms.
Domestic pigs get wild bird viruses when birds interact with water used for cleaning their housing facilities that sits on site in ponds. In my opinion, deregulation of such facilities is asking for a new flu to be created. However, the global flu pattern is that influenzas originate in Asia.
Therefore, pigs act as mixing vessels for bird flu which is hard for people to catch and pig flu which people can catch. They create new types of flu inside them–possibly in their snouts/respiratory tracts.
H1, H2, and H3 viruses are common during flu season and all can infect people, birds, and pigs. These viruses begin in birds, then infect pigs, where they mix, and then move on to people. There are several other diseases that can be transmitted between pigs and people. Sick pigs are a serious thing.There are even plans in the works for the government to begin an educational program for kids who handle pigs at state fairs.
And there are/were government funded scientists working on a universal flu vaccine, which we all want but is not profitable enough for big pharma to develop. That’s why we have to rely on public funds. Or if you have a sinister mind, the people who currently are in charge here in the United States do not want the common people to have this vaccine.
There is even a professor at Iowa State who is working on a universal vaccine that can be delivered via eating corn!
Another bit of good news is that UV light can kill airborne flu viruses. and these may soo be installed in hospitals and airports.
And a Japanese company has a drug that can keep the influenza virus from entering our cells, stopping it from multiplying within a day.
So before you vote, ask your politicians what they want to do with the meager bit of taxes they’ll be collecting. Do they want a Universal flu vaccine or something like a wall or a military parade? When you are laid low with the next flu epidemic or even pandemic, you probably aren’t going to care about all that stuff you accumulated. Consider your priorities.
Wrinkle creams–social panacea and or cover-up?
On December 27, 2017 December 27, 2017 By Catherine HausteinIn chemistry, genderLeave a comment
The other day I was in the grocery store and one of the employees went up to a grey haired woman and asked. “What can I help you with, young lady?” She gave him a surprised look and I had to hold myself back. What made him think that such a patronizing comment was welcome? It’s well known that older women are denigrated and rarely seen prime time. Once you can’t reproduce, you’re no good to men, only to children. Even young women dislike older women. Older and female? You might even be evil–with the exception of Hispanic culture. I suppose that’s why he thought he was doing her a favor, kind of like that boss I had who kissed all the women in a benevolent way.
My problem? I’ve sat on the sun far too long. I like to be warm. I want my skin to make my vitamin D–it’s better that way. But it’s like beer–no need for too much and I’m guilty of the “If a little is good, more is better” syndrome. Ultra-violet rays break down collagen and the loss of collagen and elastin proteins forms folds of skin known as wrinkles. This is most pronounced for Caucasians. But UV light isn’t the only thing that breaks down collagen--sugar and stress can do the same. Wind and smoking will also add wrinkles. So will lack of sleep–ask any parent.
As child, I thought my grandmother’s wrinkles were fascinating and beautiful. Then, society told me different. So that’s why I say, until the partriarcy falls, there’s no shame in trying out wrinkle creams.
What do you want from a skin cream? Here are some substances to consider:
Retinoids increase collagen production but take several months to work and can be irritating. The new skin is sensitive and thin so it can burn more easily, too. That’s why this product is recommended primarily for night use.
Vitamin C is an antioxidant and protects skin from UV exposure and can reduce wrinkles. It works by removing compounds that break down collagen. The beter way to get Vitamin C is to eat it rather than apply it.
Alpha hydroxy acids such as glycolic acid exfoliate the skin and may remove wrinkles but how they work is yet unknown.
Niacin amide (B3) can also stimulate collagen production and there is some indication that riboflavin (B2) may do the same. A vitamin B analog known as DMAE could increase skin firmness but formulations that don’t harm the skin have proven tricky. These studies are preliminary.
Peptides–pentapeptides in particular–can work to stimulate collagen production.
Alpha hydroxyl acids used in skin peels have been shown to decrease blotchiness and skin roughness.
Hyaluronic acid can be applied or injected and does a good job of attracting moisture to the skin and plumping out minor wrinkles. The effects aren’t long lasting but there are few side effects.
Vitamin E. Tests about this one are inconclusive. It probably works to protect the skin but not as well as Vitamin C.
Collagen is not absorbed through the skin so its application isn’t known to reduce wrinkles. However, it might do so when paired with riboflavin.
Q-10 is produced by the skin as an antioxidant and decreases with age so it makes sense that putting it on your skin will renew it. However, no studies have shown any benefit from applying it to skin.
Most botanicals have produced inconclusive results in the lab when rubbed on human skin or rabbit ears. Aloe vera might increase collagen production. Soy might help remove fine wrinkles according to studies done with people and with hairless mice. But soy has its drawbacks.
Moisturizers such as glycerin have shown mixed results. Some studies indicate that the skin becomes hydrated from them and others show that they act as a barrier to prevent dryness but do not increase skin hydration.
Here is a graphic highlighting the most effective substances.
One thing to remember is that looking young and feeling young are two different things. You can take a natural approach to protecting skin by eating plenty of fruits and vegetables and getting enough sleep and exercise. It doesn’t help to produce collagen if you have weak bones for it to cling to. In fact, your wrinkles may be a sign that your bones need attention.
A toss away line in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 went like this.
“You remind me of an old lady”
“Oh, you mean wise.”
But were there any old lady characters in the movie? No.
Older women are wise, powerful, intuitive, and opinionated–this is why they are feared by the patriarchy. Nowhere is this fear more evident than the United States today. Until we put an end to this nonsense, it never hurts to try out some skin products–because who wants to be wise and ignored or even worse, unjustly hated? However, keep in mind that your skin is an indicator of your overall well-being. Perhaps we dislike wrinkles because they are tattle-tales, telling the world of our sleepless nights and wild abandon or maybe that we had to work too hard. With that in mind, I wonder what the grocery store man should have said.
Age before beauty? It should be the case.
A holiday indicator
On December 18, 2017 December 18, 2017 By Catherine HausteinIn chemistry, plants and animals, UncategorizedLeave a comment
The colorful leaves of poinsettias are called bracts.
The bracts can be pH indicators.
To test this, I took a leaf from a stunning red poinsettia, shredded it, placed it in 20 milliliters ( 4 tsp, 1 tbsp) of rubbing alcohol, and heated it for 30 seconds, I separated it into three portions and put a splash of white vinegar in one (for the acid) and baking soda in the other to make it alkaline. I left the third untouched as a control. Here are the results:
Poinsettia leaves in acid, alkaline, and “control” solutions.
It isn’t as stunning as you would see with red cabbage but if you know anyone disappointed that they aren’t getting a chemistry set for the holidays, it’s a cheap thrill. At least for nerds like me.
Poinsettia plants originated in Mexico. They are named after the botanist who introduced them to the United States, Joel Robert Poinsettia. He dug up Mexican “weeds” growing along the side of the road and brought them back to South Carolina in the mid 1800s. Poinsettias are by far the most widely sold potted plant in the United States. The most popular colors are red, white, and pink in that order.
During the holiday season, give your poinsettia plenty of water and sun. Don’t let it sit in water. Move the pot out of the foil and onto a saucer or poke holes in the foil and let it drain into a saucer. They hate drafts and cold windows so protect yours and the blooms will last 6-8 weeks.
After the holidays, you can cut back on the watering and fertilizer and let it go dormant. Water if it gets droopy but no more. Resume fertilizing in late March. Put it outside during the summer and pinch the tips in August to encourage branching.
To get a poinsettia to reflower you have to keep it in total darkness for at least twelve hours and if you can keep it in the dark between 5 pm and 8 am. It will take a while. “Start this around October 1st and continue until color shows on the bracts; usually around early to mid-December. Any little exposure to light can prevent flowering. Covering the plant with a light-proof bag and placing it in a closet might work.”http://extension.illinois.edu/poinsettia/faq.cfm
They aren’t really poisonous but contain latex-like sap that can cause allergies and be irritating to pets. There’s no reason to avoid them and you can even experiment with them. Enjoy!
New food labeling, K?
On November 22, 2017 By Catherine HausteinIn chemistryLeave a comment
In 2018 you’ll see a new nutrient listed on your food label, the element potassium. Potassium is known to chemists by its symbol : K (not to be confused with Vitamin K which is something different.) Potassium is one of those weird elements with a symbol that doesn’t reflect its name in English. The name comes from the word potash because it is found in plant ashes. The Latin name for plant ashes is Kalium.
Potassium is vital to life. It regulates heart beat and muscle function. Thus, low potassium can cause muscle cramps, irregular heart beat, and fainting. Bruising and vein problems could be a symptom of low potassium. There are all sorts of reasons for these symptoms, of course, but your body struggling for potassium doesn’t need to be one of them. Potassium is also important for bone health.
On the periodic table potassium sits right below sodium. It’s sodium’s big sister and acts much like sodium in the body in that it is an electrolyte. However, we need much more potassium than sodium in our diets. We need 4,700 mg each day. You need less than half that amount of sodium. Too much sodium with too little potassium creates hypertension aka high blood pressure.
Before high-salt processed foods came about, getting more dietary potassium than sodium was easy. Potassium is an important mineral for plants. It is the K in the NPK ratio shown on fertilizer boxes. (The other letters are for nitrogen and phosphorus.) Plants need potassium and contain a lot of it. Therefore, a high plant diet provides enough potassium. Plants rich in potassium are found across the globe. You can find all sorts of lists of high potassium foods but here are some I’ll eat:
potatoes (K is much lower in potato chips by the way. Fries are a little better but oh, the grease and salt!)
soy/edamame
seaweed (I admit–I don’t much like this.)
It should be easy to get potassium so what’s the problem?
First of all, we need a lot so if you skimp on the vegetables and fruit, you might be lacking.
Second, it’s water soluble and can be flushed out with too much liquid–particularly alcohol. There is a phrase among health care professionals–“with booze, you loose.”
Additionally, salt (more specifically the sodium in salt) can displace it and cause more of it to be excreted. However, if you get enough potassium, salt is less dangerous to your health. Unfortunately, high salt foods will drive the potassium out of your system. It’s a tricky balance that can be thrown off with high sodium dishes. As the saying goes, the relationship is complicated.
So why isn’t potassium in more supplements? Can’t I get it from those? Supplements should be taken only with a doctor’s advice. Too much potassium is dangerous. Some people should not consume a lot of potassium. People with kidney or other health problems need to be on low potassium diets. Drugs can change potassium levels even if the drugs do not contain potassium. Medical professionals monitor patients who take potassium supplements. For these patients, the new label can serve as a warning on what to avoid. Additionally–it’s easier for your body to regulate your potassium balance if you get it from foods throughout the day rather than taking a walloping dose all at once.
Worried about potassium? Most people shouldn’t be. Watch those labels and eat the right foods. It will be O.K.
Foods will be labeled with potassium content beginning in 2018. You’d have to drink a lot of this eggnog to get your daily dose of potassium.
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Apple Unveils $329 iPad With Improved Display and Performance
By Sri Ravipati
Image Credit: Apple.
On Tuesday, Apple quietly released a slew of product updates that included a more affordable iPad device with an enhanced display.
Apple’s newest iPad model features a brighter display (2,048 x 1,536 resolution), with more than 3.1 million pixels designed to enhance the quality of photos and videos. As for construction, it will retain its 9.7-inch screen size, discrete glass panel and aluminum unibody enclosure.
With prices starting at $329, it is comparable to the iPad Air 2, which the company phased out from its line-up of tablets. It offers a swifter 64-bit A9 processor (compared to the iPad Air 2 which used an A8X chip). However, it still falls behind the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, with their A10 processors, in processing power.
The new model aso features:
1-pound weight for portability and durability;
10-hour battery life;
iOS 10;
WiFi and LTE;
8MP and FaceTime HD cameras;
More than 1.5 million apps available to use; and
Touch ID fingerprint sensor.
“New customers and anyone looking to upgrade will love this new iPad for use at home, in school and for work, with its gorgeous Retina display, our powerful A9 chip and access to the more than 1.3 million apps designed specifically for it,” said Philip Schiller, senior vice president of worldwide marketing for Apple, in a prepared statement.
The new iPad model will be available to order beginning March 24.
Sri Ravipati is Web producer for THE Journal and Campus Technology. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Games, Board Games, Fantasy Games,
Game Boy Color Games
Gaia Master
Gaia Master (ガイアマスター) is a fantasy board game developed by Capcom and released only in Japan. The original version, Gaia Master: Kamigami no Board Game (ガイアマスター ~神々のボードゲーム~, roughly "Gaia Master: Board Game of the Gods"), was released on the original PlayStation console on April 20, 2000.
GAIA MASTER Jiggar
It was later ported to the Dreamcast, under the title Gaia Master: Kessen! Seiki-ō Densetsu (ガイアマスター 決戦！世紀王伝説, "Gaia Master: Decisive Battle! Century King Legend"), on June 28, 2001 and later to the Game Boy Color, under the title Gaia Master Duel: Card Attackers (ガイアマスターDUEL カードアタッカーズ), on June 29, 2001. Promotional and character artwork was done by Kinu Nishimura.
As a willing participant in the game, a player chooses a hero from eight different characters including Jiggar the Treasure Hunter, who hunts for gems or Princess Tiara, she of the privileged class whose luck factor in the game awards her with bonus parcels of land.
Upon the throw of the dice, a player moves the allotted spaces on an expansive board broken up into squares. Landing on a property square opens up the option of purchasing it. Essentially, the player is joining the landlord class and may eventually build stores on his/her plots of land which doubles the rent other players have to pay if they land on it. Hoarding adjacent properties eventually helps to build up a mini-fiefdom which exacts payment from hapless opponents to build up the player's treasury.
Battles and events are also triggered when players land on certain squares, or when cards are thrown to ignite a fight. Capcom's monetary denomination is called Zenny, and it is present in games from Forgotten Worlds to Mega Man Legends. It also pays the rent in Gaia Master. At the end of the day, the player with the most Zenny wins.
Every one hundred years, a gnome known as Gaia Master and his floating kingdom appear in the sky. This entity regards man as mere pawns to be used in a board game akin to Parker Brothers' Monopoly. Apparently, medieval monopoly machinations make for much mirth.
Promotional artwork by Kinu Nishimura.
Jiggar the Treasure Hunter - He is still a young boy. He is looking for a magic elixir that can cure all disease. Standard Weapon - Bowie Knife.
Meg-Meg the Warrior - She used to work at a blacksmith making weapons and then became a great warrior. However, she is still looking for a boyfriend. Standard Weapon - Battle Axe.
Princess Tiara - She has led a secluded life under her father's protection until now. She doesn't really understand the ways of the world, but she has a kind and strong heart. She becomes an angel knight in battle. Standard Weapon - Rapier.
Galahad the Paladin - He is a famous knight that wanders the land fighting evil and helping people where he is needed. He is looking for a sovereign to guide him. Standard Weapon - Claymore.
Sinbad the Bandit - He is an unknown who came from the desert. He is looking for a suitable woman who seeks adventure like he does. Standard Weapon - Jyanbya.
Samurai Warrior Yasutsuna - Yasutsuna comes from the Eastern part of the world. He is a warrior with great honor and he is looking for another great warrior to battle. Standard Weapon - Katana.
Ninja Master Hayate - Hayate comes from the Eastern part of the world. He is a mysterious Ninja and silently crept into the Gaia Master world. Standard Weapon - Kunai.
Goliath the Rogue Priest - Goliath is barely a priest. He is very devoted to three things: money, women and beer. However, he still strives for perfection--to cultivate his physique. Standard Weapon - Mace.
Agathe the Witch - Agathe is not an evil witch. She is tired of cursing people and is very lonely. She often recalls her loneliness to herself. The last time that she ventured out into the world was the Great Council of the Witches. Standard Weapon - Gypsy Tower.
Songoku - Songoku is a famous Chinese fable character. He is a clever half-monkey that travelled with a Buddhist priest. Standard Weapon - Priest's Staff.
Dante - ???? Standard Weapon - Infinity Gun.
Dark - ???? Standard Weapon - Blacksword.
Variel - A tiny blue fairy. She is the player's guide in Story Mode. Standard Weapon - Pixie Knife.
Stages Edit
The game has seven stages in total:
City of the West Wind (西風の都)
Mirage Ruins (陽炎の遺跡)
Green Sanctuary (緑の聖域)
Bushido Castle (ブシドーキャッスル)
Ruined Country of the Ring (円環の廃墟の国)
Demon City Pandemonium (魔都パンデモニアム)
Tokyo 199X (東京199X)
Princess Tiara was originally planned to be in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom as a playable character, but wasn't included due to time constraints.[1]
Agathe appeared in Doctor Strange's ending in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
Meg-Meg
Yasutsuna
Variel
Japan Kessen!
Japan Duel: Card Attackers
↑ http://www.siliconera.com/2009/05/17/these-characters-didnt-make-the-tatsunoko-vs-capcom-cut/
Gaia Master: Kamigami no Board Game official site
Gaia Master: Kessen! Seiki-ō Densetsu official site
Gaia Master Duel: Card Attackers official site
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Home INT'L News World Sports Italy, Netherlands qualify for WC finals
Italy, Netherlands qualify for WC finals
By Steve Douglas ,AP
MANCHESTER, UK — Italy and the Netherlands became the first European teams to qualify for the 2014 World Cup but Germany’s passage to the finals in Brazil was delayed despite also winning on Tuesday.
Mario Balotelli’s 54th-minute penalty secured a 2-1 win for Italy over the Czech Republic to seal first place in Group B, while Robin van Persie’s second-half double in a 2-0 win at Andorra guaranteed the Dutch top spot in Group D.
Both countries qualified with two matches to spare, with the Azzurri qualifying for their 14th straight World Cup on the night goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon made a record-equaling 136th appearance for Italy.
Germany beat the Faeroe Islands 3-0 but still needs one more win for automatic qualification, with Sweden five points behind with two matches left after a 1-0 win in Kazakhstan.
England’s destiny is in its own hands after drawing 0-0 at Ukraine to stay top of Group H and Russia can also make the finals by winning its last two games after beating Israel 3-1 to topple Portugal in Group F.
France twice came from behind to defeat Belarus 4-2 and draw level with Group I leader Spain, which has a game in hand.
Elsewhere, Switzerland won 2-0 at Norway in Group E and needs just one victory from its last two games, against Albania away and Slovenia at home, to finish first. Bosnia-Herzegovina remained ahead of Greece on goal difference in Group G after coming from behind to beat Slovakia 2-1.
The top team from each of the nine European groups qualifies automatically for Brazil. The best eight runners-up go into playoffs in November and that is likely to include Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal, with Russia having two easy final games.
Spain wasn’t in part of the World Cup qualifying action but still played Tuesday, twice coming from behind to draw 2-2 with Chile in Geneva.
At halftime in their respective matches, Italy and the Dutch were on course to blow their chances of sealing qualification early but their star forwards came through for them when it mattered.
Three minutes after Giorgio Chiellini canceled out Libor Kozak’s opener for the Czechs in the 19th, Balotelli stepped up after being brought down in the area to coolly convert his penalty. The AC Milan striker had missed a string of great chances before maintaining his record of never missing a spot kick.
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Home RSS Feed IN AP News LEADING OFF: Springer back for Astros vs A's; Puig suspended
LEADING OFF: Springer back for Astros vs A's; Puig suspended
Houston Astros shortstop Carlos Correa (1) reacts with second baseman Yuli Gurriel (10) after fielding a ground ball by Colorado Rockies' Tony Wolters and throwing to first for the out during the ninth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2018, in Houston. The Astros won 12-1. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
A look at what’s happening around the majors today:
HOW THE WEST IS WON
All-Star outfielder George Springer is expected to come off the disabled list for the Houston Astros when the defending champions visit Oakland for the opener of a pivotal three-game series between AL West contenders. Last year’s World Series MVP has been sidelined with a sprained left thumb. Charlie Morton (12-3, 2.88 ERA) pitches for the banged-up Astros, who have a two-game lead in the division over the surprising Athletics. Edwin Jackson (4-2, 2.48) gets the ball for Oakland.
ON PUNISHMENT
Unless he appeals, Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig is scheduled to begin a two-game suspension when Los Angeles plays at Seattle in an interleague clash between playoff contenders. Puig also was fined Thursday by Major League Baseball for fighting and inciting a bench-clearing fracas against San Francisco. The penalties were announced two days after Puig took a swing at Giants catcher Nick Hundley, who also was fined. … MLB also suspended Marlins pitcher Jose Urena for six games and fined him an undisclosed amount for intentionally hitting Braves rookie Ronald Acuna Jr. with his first pitch Wednesday night. Unless appealed, Urena’s ban is slated to start Friday at Washington.
San Francisco turns to right-hander Casey Kelly to start in Cincinnati after placing standout rookie Dereck Rodriguez on the 10-day disabled list with a strained right hamstring. Kelly is the son of Reds bench coach Pat Kelly. Rodriguez, the son of Hall of Fame catcher Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez, is 6-1 with a 2.25 ERA in 14 outings this season. The Giants have gone 9-3 in his starts. He was injured during the scrum between the Giants and Dodgers on Tuesday night in Los Angeles. The team says he sustained a Grade 1 strain. Casey Kelly (0-1, 1.42 ERA) pitched five scoreless innings of relief Saturday against Pittsburgh in his first major league appearance since 2016, then took the loss Wednesday at Dodger Stadium.
CENTRAL SHOWDOWNS
Yadier Molina and the Cardinals host Milwaukee in a matchup of NL Central contenders chasing the first-place Cubs. Rookie right-hander Jack Flaherty (6-6, 3.22 ERA) starts for St. Louis, which had its eight-game winning streak snapped Thursday night with a 5-4 loss to Washington. Flaherty struck out a career-high 13 in his last start against the Brewers on June 22. Freddy Peralta (5-3, 4.47) goes for Milwaukee. … Cole Hamels looks to keep it going when the Cubs face Pittsburgh. Hamels is 2-0 with a 1.00 ERA since Chicago acquired him from Texas at the trade deadline. Trevor Williams (10-8, 3.66) starts for the Pirates.
MARQUEE MOUND MATCHUP
After setting a franchise record by scoring 24 runs Thursday in the first game of a doubleheader at Philadelphia, the Mets send Noah Syndergaard (8-2, 3.22 ERA) to the mound against Phillies ace Aaron Nola (13-3, 2.28). With the help of 11 unearned runs, New York became the first NL team since the 1933 New York Giants to score 15 runs in consecutive games. The Mets routed Baltimore 16-5 on Wednesday night. They also are the only team since 1900 to have a win and a loss by at least 20 runs in the same season.
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Imagine a world full of conflict, strife and power stuggle. Seems pretty much like the world we live in, huh? Well, that’s the same case too in Grenadier – Hohemi No Senshi. Basically, the dark side humans never did change throughout all these centuries. But of course, there are a few who still have hope in humanity and try to advocate peace throughout the land.
In this half hour 12 episode series, you’ll see that. Okay, maybe not so obvious but that’s the underlying principal of the series. Couple in with some comedy and adventure, and you’ve got another one of those gun slinging action. But beware a little because there is a little ecchi element in this series. Don’t worry. It won’t amount to hentai.
Foremost, you’ll notice that the ecchi element comes in the form of the beautiful and busty blonde-haired main female protagonist of the series, Rushuna Tendo. She is one of the 10 Heavenly Enlightened, supposedly to best warriors and bodyguards under the ruler of this world, Tenshi. Currently, she is on a dangerous journey to spread Tenshi’s teachings by taking away their will to fight by smiling or even getting naked! But that means she just hugs them in her bosoms! Theoratically, those perverted guys would feel ‘good’ and lose their will to fight, right? Yeah, in a nutshell, Rushuna is every perverts dream come true. She’s so lenient and would allow any guy to sleep on her breasts or hug her without getting mad. Of course, it just stops there and nothing further than that. So Bachi-Guu of Green Green, Saji of Iketeru Futari, Keita of Inukami and Yuji of Tonagura… You guys are in the wrong series! Hey, I also want a hug from Rushuna!
But the thing which amazes me most about Rushuna is her superb and amazing gun and shooting skills. Armed with only a six-shooter pistol, the way she reloads amuzes me very much. Here’s how she does it when she runs out of bullets. Firstly, she keep her bullets in her cleavage. Yes, right there. Then when it’s time to reload, she’ll flip her breasts and the exact number of bullets required will leap out of her cleavage into the air. Then in just one swing, all of the bullets will exactly fit into the chambers of her pistol and she’s ready to go. WOOOOW!!!! Ngam ngam ho! AMAZING!!! I couldn’t believe my eyes at first and watched this amusing part several times. Is this the advantage of having big bouncy breasts?
Then Rushuna has another superb skill. With her enemies having gatling/machine guns and guns that fire several rounds of bullets at rapid speed, she can evade and dodge them all by just spinning around as though she’s dancing! DOUBLE WOW!!! So precise! So terror! And then she can disarm them all in just one shot of bullet each missing exactly their vital points and make them pass out, thus not killing them. All this seems very exaggerating. But I like it lah. This girl should’ve got numerous offers for this kind of job if she ever exists in our world. So you see, it’s not the gun. It’s the skill.
Of course, Rushuna would try not to use violence to disarm her enemies at first. However, due to circumstances, she’ll eventually have to use her gun. And you won’t want to make her mad. That’s because she won’t give you her smile anymore and you know what that means. Also, Rushuna has a peculiar liking for taking baths. Yeah, she enjoys soaking herself in them. One reason as she quoted was that she gets all sweaty too fast and ends up dirtying her clothes. Uh-huh. She has no qualms of asking anybody of any gender to join her in a bath. And even in the next episode preview, she always asks viewers if they would like to join her in one too.
Anyway, back to the story. As seen in the first episode, another one of those struggles led by a mercenary samurai Yajiro Kojima AKA Rear Guard Tiger, who posses a very long samurai sword, leading a small band of warriors to launch an assault and rescue mission on a fort occupied by a large sized bandit Nagou. He has sezied a castle belonging to the rebel’s leader, Lord Kanetsugu, and taken him prisoner as well. What do you expect if it’s swords against high tech machine guns. You’d know the outright winner already. Thus, Yajiro calls for a retreat but Nagou’s men are going after him to eliminate all future threats.
As Yajiro escapes, he’s cornered by the enemy at the cliff and has no choice but to jump down. Below, he is shocked to find his face in the bosoms of Rushuna! His pursuers arrived but ‘Rushuna’ hid him well. I suppose those guys would like to join her too but they’ve got a more important mission and left. So Yajiro’s thankful for what Rushuna did and they both find out about each other’s mission and stuff.
Soon, Yajiro decides to try and penetrate the castle again but it seems Rushuna tags along, much to Yajiro’s dismay. Of course then Yajiro was awed by Rushuna’s magnificent display of gun shooting skills and manages to quell the threat even from long distance. And inside the castle, Rushuna even nicely asking Nagou to release the lord. Do you think a guy with a machine gun stuck to his left hand (though not much accuracy but at least it hits everything!) would listen to a nice girl? Nope. So another round of magnificent gun fight ensued. Must be shameful for a big guy to lose like that.
But Nagou ain’t giving up yet even though all his henchmen are down. He did a cowardly thing by taking along the lord as he escapes. He’s climbing up the hilly mountain when Rushuna shoots another long distance shots which made Nagou’s clothes come loose. WAH! Nagou then just dropped the lord and ran away in embarrassment covered only his loincloth. In the end everything ends well and Yajirou then decides to follow Rushuna on her travels. I guess this guy forsee that he could learn a thing or two with this gal.
The journey continues in episode 2 and 3 which starts off with the duo being attacked by some mob who mistakenly thinks that Rushuna is a wanted criminal. Well, close enough. At least the hair, but that demonic face? Anyway Rushuna manages to dispose them off. Soon she finds that the wanted criminal is that monster who’s been killing and causing terror in the kingdom of Tara. And so happen that they’ve just arrived there. Furthermore that monster in a hug armour suit appears and kills one of the mobs running away. The monster than attacks Rushuna and in the midst of the battle, Rushuna unmasks the monster and to her surprise to find a face of a child. Because Rushuna can’t kill a child (at least his child-like face), the monster attacks her causing her to fall off the cliff and into the stream below.
Later, Rushuna’s being found by a girl, Koto, who brings her back to the inn where she works. While Yajiro decides to help to earn money for their stay, Rushuna comes to and came downstairs to find some grub when she saw a pic of the child she recently battled. Koto tells her that child, Furon, is the king of this kingdom and everyone respects and loves him. Because of that, nobody would believe Rushuna when she says that the kid had attacked her.
Meanwhile, back at the palace, Furon is confiding with his aide, The Jester, who also look like an jester but an evil one. Yeah, you’ll figure that he’ll be the main baddie of the series. And he’s got this gun which reminded me like one of those weapon in the pc game Half-Life. So looks like Furon’s that monster too. He’s telling The Jester how he can’t kill Rushuna even though she saw his face. So The Jester decides to finish the job. What the? He can fly and disappear too? Meanwhile Rushuna’s having her usual bath at the inn when The Jester attacks her with his Half-Life gun. Wow it can create so many holes. Reminds you of a Swiss cheese. Good news is that Rushuna can dodge all his blasts. Bad news is, one of the blasts hit and injures Koto. The Jester than decides to lure Rushuna to the palace by taking Koto with him before disappearing. Darn. Now Rushuna’s really mad because he got an innocent Koto involved as she heads to the palace to settle this once and for all.
And of course some cool battle manoevres from Rushuna as she tries to reach Furon. Once she meets him, she tries to persuade him rather than using the gun. Well, not just yet. Then we hear Furon’s story as told by The Jester like how when the king of Tara died when Furon was really young. Since Furon wanted to protect his people and needed some kind of power to do so, The Jester gave him that armour suit in which because of some effect renders him to look like a young kid when he should be looking like a teen now. Yeah, you could say The Jester manipulated this kid for 10 years to get whatever he wants.
In addition to Rushuna’s normal bullets, she’s got a special chamber of bullets called High Explosive Piercing Bullet. Well, it’s supposed to pierce through that hard armour suit but it didn’t. Rushuna then concludes that maybe with all that thick armour, her words aren’t getting through Furon’s heart (or head. Hehe). So she shoot at the same spot multiple times which then suceeded in breaking the armour. Furon then turned into a teenager. Though he’s weak without the armour, he still refuses to listen to Rushuna. After some heart to heart talk like he’s not alone and the all important bosom embracing, Furon goes soft and soon realizes his mistake and cries on it. See, a woman’s breasts can do wonders! And that’s what I felt in Furon’s case rather than Rushuna’s words.
As for Yajiro, he arrived too late. Looks like Rushuna has taken care of stuffs. So everything ends well for the people of Tara with Furon realizing that he has the people’s strength and doesn’t need the armour or any strength boosting devices. As for The Jester, all those years he put into building up Furon for whatever reasons has been wasted. Disappointed? Of course. But he has to move on and find a new plan. Then this part I don’t get. Back at the capital, we see Tenshi not quite pleased with the news that Rushuna had defeated The Jester and foiled his plans. Hmm…
Another one of those ‘arrive in a new town and save the town people from an oppressive mob leader’ in episode 4. Yup, Rushuna and Yajiro seems to be doing some street entertainment to earn money for food but the town people doesn’t seem too fond of it. That’s because the baddie leader, the ruthless Master Enlightened doesn’t allow the people to smile or laugh except himself. Not even a bit. And if they did, he’ll not hesitate to kill them! Uh-huh, Master Enlightened looks like your typical bad guy and he has a bloody long nose, like as though he’s taken off from some cartoon show.
The usual, he sees Rushuna and Yajirou doing their performance and didn’t like it. The duo of course isn’t going to listen to him and stood up to him which made him mad and a gunfight ensues. In the end, machine gun vs six shooter pistol. Who wins? Yeah, just one bullet from Rushuna will do and send that Master Enlightened running away in shame. Though the town people are grateful and wants them to stay and help protect them from future baddies, Rushuna declined their offer and goes on preaching to them about smiles and other stuff which boosts their confidence.
But Yajiro doesn’t seem to like it when Rushuna mentions Tenshi’s name. Looks like he has some sort of bad experience in the past with her. He tells Rushuna that Tenshi’s the cause of this unrest in the first place but Rushuna disagrees. Before you know it, Master Enlightened and his croonies return to attack Rushuna but was again easily defeated. Why would that loser come back to attack Rushuna for a second time? That’s because, to Rushuna’s horror, she finds that Tenshi has placed a bounty on her head. Yeah, she’s a wanted criminal now. What’s going on?
In episode 5 and 6, Rushuna and Yajiro save a couple of girls being attacked by some male mobs. To show their gratitude, they invited them to stay at the inn called Peach Blossom Tower, where they worked too. Okay, so it’s not just an inn. It’s actually a red light district or rather pleasure house which serves men. There, they met a young girl, Mikan Kurenai who seems to be interested in Rushuna’s gun so much so that she wants to steal it. Yeah, it seems that she’s an orphan and her parents were killed by that mob’s leader, Tenma Ganzo, who refused to pay the gang some protection money. Thus, she harbours a deep grudge and wants revenge on him. Also, Rushuna tells Mikan why her gun feels heavy because of the ‘weight of life’ whenever she pulls the trigger. It makes sense since you’re responsible of taking somebody’s life when you pull the trigger.
Of course they also tried to hide the fact that they’re wanted criminals as they took some bath and change their clothes at the inn. Unfortunately, the owner of the inn, Touka Kurenai (no relation to Mikan. Just that she took Mikan under her care just like the other abandoned girls of the inn) knew of this already and proceeds to attack Rushuna. Furthermore, Touka is one of the 10 Heavenly Enlightened, so her skills are evenly matched with Rushuna’s. Wielding a staff with an exploding ball tied to a chain, Touka seems to be able to deflect each and every bullet that Rushuna shoots with precision. Just when Touka seems to have the upperhand, Rushuna notices that there’s something wrong with Touka and immediately stops to help her rather than finish her off. This prompts Touka to confirm that Rushuna’s still holding strong to Tenshi’s beliefs and her attack was just a test and hugs her. We also hear from Touka that she’s suffering from some weird illness and that not even her employees know and she wants Rushuna to keep it a secret.
Before things can settle down, Tenma and his mobs arrive at the inn and wants revenge on Rushuna for what she did earlier on. Some tough talk before Touka easily disposes them all. Well, if you look it from the current situation’s point of view, with all the wars going on, I guess setting up brothels to ‘make peace and love’ isn’t such a bad idea, isn’t it?Though Tenma and co ran away but you haven’t seen the last of them yet. That’s because Tenma, with the help of some invention master, Banmaru Zoushi, fires from a distance a large cannonball hurling towards the inn.
Everyone saw it coming from the distance. After some flashback from Mikan, she snaps and decides to get her revenge as she rushes out of the inn. Touka tried to stop her but was hurt when the cannonball smashed into the place. So Rushuna and Yajiro has to go look for her. Of course, Mikan’s no match for Tenma but luckily Rushuna arrives and saves the day. Just goes to show that that Tenma guy’s just a big bully. But Rushuna soon has to put up with Banmaru’s robot tank. The funny part was during the battle, Rushuna’s panties snapped and she got so embarrassed about it and told Banmaru to stop the fight for a while. Of course Banmaru’s thinking that it’s all just a ploy to catch him off guard. I wonder why would Rushuna get embarrassed with just that and not when other men grabs and rub their faces on her breasts. Ironic. Anyway, Rushuna’s out of bullets too.
Just her luck, Yajiro brings her some bullets (Rushuna asking him that he should brought her some panties…?!) and we see Mikan, the balloon user, using her balloon skills to help Rushuna foil Banmaru and his robot tank. Balloon skills? Well, you see, Mikan has an uncanny ability to use inflated balloons and turn it into any kind of shapes and sizes for whatever purpose. Yeah, reminds you like a circus performer. And don’t think about condoms, please. Nothing to do with it. Anyway, once the battle ended, some heart to heart talk between Rushuna and Mikan with the former saying the usual stuffs like revenge doesn’t get you anywhere, bla bla bla. Good thing is Mikan believes in her. Another good thing is that Tenma, Banmaru and co realizes their wrongdoings too and now helps Touka fix her inn.
So in episode 7, Mikan joins the duo on a trip to the capital. Yeah, it seems that Rushuna decided to go see Tenshi and seek some explanations on why she’s after her head. And looks like Tenshi is real serious in getting rid of Rushuna as she sends one of her 10 Heavenly Enlightened, Souma Sanzo AKA Blade Bard to stop her. Souma uses the sound of his accordian lodged in his armour suit to give off sound which causes Rushuna to lose her balance. But after some encouragement from Mikan, Rushuna calms herself and spots Souma’s weakness and uses her High Explosive Piercing Bullet to disarm Souma. Now that Souma’s unarmed, the trio then left. But it seems The Jester has his own plans and isn’t too fond of wanting Yajiro to travel with Rushuna. On top of that, The Jester kills Souma himself after the latter fails to do his job. Also we see something back at the capital that the current Tenshi may be a fake one and that the real one seems to be imprisoned somewhere. So things are making sense a little.
The fastest route to the capital is the most dangerous route. In episode 8, the trio have to scale a dangerous mountain top to reach the capital fast. Why is it so dangerous? That’s because of the very strong winds which can even send heavy rocks flying in the air, so much so it’s like a swirling projection. A rock was gonna squash Rushuna when some bespectacled spikey haired guy, Teppa Aizen saves her. This Teppa guy is an interesting one. Yeah, he’s a pervert! He loves rubbing his face on Rushuna’s breasts and Rushuna seems unperturbed.
We see a flashback and find out that Teppa’s actually Rushuna’s childhood friend and has a liking for woman’s bodies… Yeah, so young already a pervert. But he isn’t that bad. Furthermore, Teppa comes from a family who has created the Aizen Style Armour Cloth Skill. What’s that? The cloths and fabrics are fitted with special kind of metal and steel so much so that they can make the cloth soft as paper or as hard as iron at their will. Now that isn’t really possible in our world. Since Teppa’s dad was an ex-Heavenly Enlightened who protected Tenshi, there’s a burden and high expectation of him doing well and living up to it as well.
To cut things short, Teppa’s also one of the 10 Heavenly Enlightened and has orders to take out Rushuna, as Yajiro and Mikan found out too late (besides that stack of perverted girl photos). So another battle takes place. Teppa easily protects himself with his special cloth and as usual it seems Rushuna has no chance to defeat him. But in the end, Rushuna’s superb gun skills as defence managed to repel Teppa’s attack and defeat him. Since Teppa lost, he became discouraged that he has failed his dad and couldn’t live up to his expectations. Of course Rushuna comforts him and hugs him. I guess that’s what it takes to cheer Teppa up again. Though Rushuna asks Teppa to join them on their journey, Teppa declines and the trio then continued their trip. Just then The Jester appears and is gonna eliminate another Heavenly Enlightened failure when all of a sudden Teppa disappears. What the?! Can he do that? But The Jester thinks he’s dead and goes off too.
It’s Yajiro’s turn of flashback in episode 9. Yeah, it seems that scaling up this mountain has brought back some memories. Like how he and his comrades trudged along this mountain to counter some resistance but all of his comrades died because of the strong winds, making him the only survivor. But Yajiro soon spots his old comrade in the snow, Fuuka Shirato (because of her face mask, she looked like the assassin Freesia of Jubei Chan 2). Isn’t she supposed to be dead? At least that’s what Yajiro thought when he was unable to save her. But before Yajiro could get a clearer picture of what’s happening, Fuuka attacks him.
Meanwhile, Mikan inflated a warm bunny suit balloon for Rushuna to wear. So funny. She reminds me of that Pootan character from Cromartie High School. But she loves it! Weird girl. But Rushuna was soon attacked by Fuuka. And we learn that the reason why Fuuka’s still alive because of The Jester. Yeah, he used his armour suit just like in Furon’s case to keep her alive. Without it, she’ll die. Furthermore, Fuuka’s now also part of the Heavenly Enlightened and is sent to kill Rushuna. And it seems The Jester’s there too. Yeah, probably after a few failures from the previous Heavenly Enlightened, he wants to be there to make sure that this one does the job.
Yajiro, a little injured from Fuuka’s earlier attack, arrives to stop the fight between the 2 ladies. We hear that Fuuka’s doing this because she believed in Tenshi’s ideals (the fake Tenshi, that is) and after some more explanations from The Jester, Rushuna gets mad and shoots at him. But she missed and only managed to shoot off his mask. Yup, The Jester’s face and identity is revealed. Who is he? Yajiro and Fuuka recognizes him as their fomer rebel leader, Kaizan Doushi AKA Mountain Templar! And we hear his sick theory that the rebellion he led with Yajiro years ago was just some sick test to see who’s the strongest and that the rebellion was never intended. Yajiro’s really mad that the person he used to trust has turned out like this and all those innocent lives perished to his power crazy ex-boss was like nothing. Just to note that I’ll be referring to this Kaizan guy as The Jester still because it sounds much shorter. ;p
The Jester wants Yajiro to join him since he’s the stongest but of course Yajiro declines. With that, The Jester decides to kill them both since he has no use of them anymore. At least Fuuka too realized that she has been used and shields Yajiro from The Jester’s impending attack. But the blast caused them to hang on dearly on the edge of the cliffs. Just like deja vu, huh? And just like history repeating itself, Fuuka told Yajiro to fulfill his goal and lets go of his hand plunging to her death. Only this time, Fuuka really died. And if it weren’t for Mikan’s floating balloon, Yajiro would’ve plunged himself down to save her. Though Yajiro’s sad, but he’s more determined now. Finally, the capital is in sight.
In episode 10, while traversing a river, the trio got ambushed by another Heavenly Enlightened, Suirou. The trio may have a disadvantage because Suirou’s a water expert and the river is some sort his homeground. After blowing up the boat they’re riding in and dragging Rushuna underwater, Suirou seems to be winning until Mikan gives Rushuna some oxygen tank and with some special underwater bullets, she easily defeats Suirou. Now that has got to be the fastest battle with a Heavenly Enlightened ever. As usual as the trio continues their journey, Suirou just laze around floating on the water’s surface, thinking about his defeat when The Jester arrives and blasts him and sends Suirou to his watery grave.
Once they arrived at the capital, the trio are surprised to find Teppa there. Looks like he’s on their side now. I thought he didn’t want to join them. Oh well, must be for Rushuna’s… um… you know. Yajiro wants Teppa to distract Rushuna so that he could confront Tenshi himself. So I suppose this is Teppa’s chance of getting close to Rushuna as he took her to some bath house and then to dinner. Yeah, it’s so odd to see them dress so nicely. Meanwhile, Yajiro meets up with an old acquaintance and ex-rebel comrade (not from the mountain incident but a more recent one) Kasumi, as she takes him to a secret passage into the palace. Mikan tries to follow them but got lost in the sewer maze.
And during the journey into the palace, Yajiro guessed right that Kasumi too is on The Jester’s side from the way she said things. I mean, using a bamboo mat to hide her shotgun, isn’t that a little suspicious and obvious? Anyway, Yajiro manages to knock Kasumi unconscious and went to see Tenshi himself. At the same time, just when Teppa thought his ‘date’ with Rushuna is gonna be perfect, Rushuna realizes her mission to come to the capital, that is to see Tenshi. She apologizes to him and rushed to the palace. Yeah, you could say that he was ‘dumped’ but I suppose he’s not gonna let Rushuna go off that easy and accompanies her to the palace. At the palace gates, the guards recognizes her as the wanted criminal. But The Jester appears and welcomes her in and tells Rushuna that she has been given the title of Grenadier, the Annihilator Senshi. The highest title which a senshi can achieve, much to Rushuna’s horror. And since Teppa’s under some cloak, The Jester didn’t recognize him. What a blur guy.
So in episode 11, Rushuna unarms herself in order to meet Tenshi. I think this is part of The Jester’s ploy so that she won’t be able to use her superb gun skills whenever the need arises. Also, Yajiro got lost in the maze but accidentally found the chambers where the real Tenshi is being held. There she told Yajiro that about 3 years ago, The Jester confronted her and wanted to convince her of his ideals but was rejected. Because of that, The Jester replaces her with someone else. Meanwhile, Rushuna is seeking some explanations from the fake Tenshi in the palace garden and Rushuna’s still confused about her current method of uniting the kingdom because it conflicts with her previous teachings. But soon Rushuna knew she wasn’t the real Tenshi when the latter snapped a tree twig. Yeah, I guess that’s all it took. Because Rushuna believes the real Tenshi would never harm even a fly. She also realizes that the imposter is Setsuna Oumido. She is Rushuna’s ex-colleague and one of the Ten Heavenly Enlightened and underwent the same training as Rushuna. Because she’s trained to be Tenshi’s double, she got sick of it and decides to rule the world by taking over the capital with The Jester and imprisoned the real Tenshi.
So Setsuna orders her guards to take her down, crying wolf that Rushuna’s gonna attack her. But even without her gun, Rushuna can still dodge all those bullets. Teppa arrives in time to save Rushuna and returns her gun. Then outside the palace, this may seem a little exaggerated or illogical, but Touka arrives by riding a rocket!!! Yes, she’s even standing on it! Ah, just enough hands to take on the palace guards along with Mikan. Rushuna then asks The Jester where the real Tenshi is but he told her that she’s dead. But that isn’t so when Yajiro appears with the real Tenshi, surprising him. But Kasumi appears from behind and takes Tenshi as hostage. So while Rushuna and Yajiro chased after them, Touka and Mikan handled the palace guards.
The final episode 12 begins with Mikan deciding not to use any violence against those guards. So how she won? She threw up several balloons in the air and as the guards shoot it, lots of 4 days 3 nights free stay at the inn coupons fell. All those guards are so happy. And looks like Touka’s glad that Mikan has matured. Yajiro decides to take on The Jester himself and asks Rushuna to go on. So lots of those talk while fighting and when Touka decides to help Yajiro, the latter insists that he finish this one on his own, in which Touka agrees and steps back.
In the tower, Rushuna finds Tenshi but knows that this is Setsuna still in disguise. So some talk of how Setsuna tries to convince that she’s the real Tenshi but Rushuna just smiled and told her to stop her act and give up. Fed-up, Setsuna orders Kasumi (hidden behind some exit) to shoot her. But before Kasumi could properly aim, the real Tenshi pushes her and Kasumi missed but got roughly pushed back by her. Luckily, Teppa arrives and wraps Kasumi in his cloth. Then he said this ‘doomed’ line to her, "Once you’ve embraced my Armour Cloth, you can never get away again". With that, Kasumi instantly fell in love with him. Teppa’s gonna regret having said that later on. Rushuna then asks Teppa to take care of Tenshi as Teppa unties her as well.
Then this is the funny part. Setsuna asks Rushuna how did she still know that she’s the fake Tenshi after her acting was so perfect. Rushuna then says, it’s because her breasts are too big to be the real Tenshi’s. WOAH!!! The real Tenshi must be embarrassed as she covers hers with her little palms. HAHAHA! Well, actually that’s not what Rushuna really meant. She noticed something Setsuna’s hiding in her breasts. Yeah, Setsuna then took out a gun from there and points it at her. What the? She could hide a gun so perfectly there and the way I see it, there weren’t any odd looking shapes sticking out. And I’m not a pervert! So for the first time, we see Setsuna’s real face as she drops her disguise. Woah, another busty figure there.
Soon the 2 engage in some cool exciting gun battle manoeuvres. Yes, this part is really awesome. Setsuna can even do that breast flip bullet reloading thingy. And as Tenshi explains how those 2 underwent similar training to be her double and that they’re actually fighting a mirror image of themselves, the only thing which Rushuna has an advantage over Setsuna was the things she learned during her journey. And besides more of that reasoning talk, I like the choreographic fight scene whereby they shoot-dodge-punch-dodge action. It’s like so synchronized and yet so cool. So it ended when they pointed the gun at each other’s face. Setsuna says she doesn’t have any bullets left but after a slick move and the usual reloading, they’re back to that position again. But this time, Rushuna’s injured and drops slightly to her knees. Setsuna then realizes that this is the difference between them, that she has to guts to kill her and Tenshi. As Setsuna points the gun at Rushuna’s head, Rushuna still could tell her that ideal of taking away the enemies will to fight, angrying Setsuna.
Meanwhile Yajiro is having a tough time battling The Jester but he manages to cut his Half-Life weapon into 2 before the 2 crashed down onto another palace rooftop. But The Jester still isn’t giving up yet as he unsheathes his sword and contiunes fighting. Then Yajiro realizes Rushuna’s words when he wonders why his sword wasn’t able to defeat The Jester. Yeah, remember something having to be all ‘bare’. So Yajiro puts back his sword and hugs The Jester!!! Yes! That’s what he did! And they both went crashing down into the palace garden. I guess The Jester’s weaken not so much of the fall but the shock that Yajiro did to him. As Yajiro collapses after explaining it to him, it seems The Jester still wants to finish him off as he tries to reach for his gun. But Touka tells him off and destroys the gun. With that, The Jester faints.
So Rushuna did the same thing to Setsuna. First Rushuna drops many of her bullets from her cleavage then she flips the remaining ones into the air to distract Setsuna. And as quick as a lightning, Rushuna grabs and hugs Setsuna. But not only that, she even ripped the top portion of her dress! WAH!!!! Setsuna must be really shocked and embarrassed. And after a heart to heart talk, Rushuna collapses into Setusna’s arms because of her injuries. Since Setsuna realizes and admits that she had lost, she gives Rushuna a hug on her bosom. Awww… I ALSO WANT!!!
Yajiro then awakes to find himself in Rushuna’s bosoms and in the same bath too! And after a short chat, Rushuna thanks him for being around and hugs him on her bosom again. I guess Yajiro decides to sleep on it this time. Don’t complain. Touka, Tenshi and Mikan seems very pleased at the way things turned out. Meanwhile, Teppa is regretting because that Kasumi girl is sticking to him like a leech. And all the other girls there are jealous to see Teppa being ‘hogged by an old lady’. Kasumi even wraps themselves in his Armour Cloth and goes on bragging about that fate thingy. Yeah, she wants to be tied up with him in his Armour Cloth forever. Too bad Teppa, Rushuna can’t save you now.
Back at the palace, we see Rushuna telling Tenshi that she decides to continue her journey to calm the chaotic times while Touka decides to expand her Peach Blossom Tower and bring more smiles. Tenshi is impressed and believes that they can do it. Soon, Tenshi bestows Rushuna the title of Grenadier – Hohemi No Senshi (the smiling warrior), much to Rushuna’s delight. So Rushuna along with Yajiro and Mikan set off on another journey to spread Tenshi’s teachings.
Overall, I kinda like this anime. Not because of the perverted stuffs but because I find it amusing and funny whenever Rushuna reloads her gun and especially the final fight between her and Setsuna. By the way, I’m not too sure what happened to her or The Jester after that. Maybe they got arrested? Did they turn over a new leaf? But that isn’t important. More importantly, it ended well and good. I find the mid-intermission a little amusing because there’s a short Mexican or flamenco style guitar strumming then followed by several bullet shots. Well, nothing to it actually.
Though the drawing, art and animation are standard, I like the voice acting especially Rushuna’s. Since this is a short series, the character development is enough just to cover the main ones. Certain parts maybe far-fetched or ecchi but it isn’t so much that you’d feel awful about. Though there are 10 Heavenly Enlightened, not all were shown or even known. I can’t actually help wonder who the remaining ones are. Nothing to it actually. Also, the mid-intermission has that Mexican or Spanish flamenco guitar strumming followed by a few gunshots, which I find a little amusing.
I also thought that the way they show the in-show notices, messages or statements by making the entire screen black and then in kanji written in white. Furthermore, the writing is big enough and fits entirely into the whole screen. This is good in the sense that you don’t have to strain your eye unlike in other series to read such notices. Also, in this way, it makes viewers concentrate on it rather than being distracted by other on-screen distractions.
So the key issue of this series is that violence begets violence and that we should try and solve our problems more amicably. And DO NOT attempt to even think about trying out Rushuna’s amazing gun skills. Tempting, but that such manouevres can only happen in the anime world. Thank goodness it doesn’t in ours. So make peace and love and not war. Just like Rushuna’s classic line "If there’re many clumsy, perverted and fun people like you, the world would be a better place". How true to a certain extend. So just keep on smiling. That’ll be enough. See what a little smile can do. Service with a smile. :)
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The social media dance
On January 4, 2020 January 4, 2020 By broadsideblogIn aging, behavior, blogging, culture, life, Media, Technology, U.S.19 Comments
Let’s keep it civil!
I bet some of you remember life before Facebook, Reddit, Tumblr, Pinterest and Twitter.
It was a time of social interaction that was, de facto, personal. We spent time sitting with someone, or walking with them or dancing or fishing. Not sitting at a keyboard and staring into a screen.
So we’re basically talking to total strangers and trusting in their goodwill and intelligence to respond civilly and calmly.
These days, that feels like more of a gamble.
I do see a lot of good thanks to social media.
You, for example!
Knowing that people still find value here — after ten years! — is heartening indeed. I really value the conversations and insights and humor and global perspective you bring.
I enjoy Twitter and have also made new friends from it, meeting them face to face, people I really enjoyed after months of tweets-only.
But a few downsides are increasingly diminishing my pleasure in using social media, and competitiveness is the primary driver.
In my business, of journalism and coaching and writing non-fiction, the LOUDEST voices seem to win, There’s a tremendous amount of chest-thumping, crowing over enormous success. Frankly, even with decades of my own accomplishment, I find it intimidating and exhausting.
I also see, increasingly, a sort of competitive victimhood, with millennials and Gen X vying for the title of whose life is most miserable — and it’s all thanks to those greedy Boomers. (My generation, of course.)
There is no legitimate argument to deny the challenges these two co-horts face. There are many and they intersect: high student debt, low wages, intermittent work, climate change…
I read some of those threads on Twitter, where even the calmest and most reasonable objection or alternate point of view is blocked for being unkind and invalidating — when it’s an alternate view.
I don’t dare mention on Twitter that Boomers like me have weathered three recessions, each of which slowed our careers and damaged our incomes. Then the crash of ’08.
This “lalalalalalalalala I can’t hear you” equivalent online is a disaster.
There’s little point in “connecting” with an enormous global audience, potentially, only to whine and rage and stamp your feet insisting your life is the worst ever.
For you, it is.
I get that.
But until or unless we can cultivate modesty and empathy, compassion and a clear understanding that we each see the world through our own filters of age, race, income, education, political views, sexual preference, gender identity, cultural norms….it’s a dialogue of the deaf.
And here’s a powerful plea about how to better handle other’s bereavement and grief on social media.
Meeting social media contacts face to face
On November 1, 2018 By broadsideblogIn behavior, blogging, business, life, Media, Technology, urban life35 Comments
According to WordPress statistics, Broadside has more than 20,000 followers worldwide.
I’ve met only a handful of you face to face, in Paris, New York and in London.
In the past week, I sat down face to face with five men I previously knew only through social media — one from a writers’ listserv and the other four all met only through Twitter.
The meetings, of course, were purely professional for me — and for them — held in daylight in busy public spaces.
Viv is a super-talented writer, stand-up comedian and new friend — who followed me on Twitter from her home in London and hired me to coach her.
Every meeting went well and I learned about a new-to-me person and their world.
One is an African-American man who runs a thriving national program recruiting new professionals into radio work. Reassured by having a mutual NPR connection, we spoke on the phone a few years ago. He was wary, cool. Not unfriendly, but cautious.
We only see one another once a year or so when he comes to New York, but this time — our third — felt like old friends, with hugs and happiness at our chance to spend some time together and catch up.
Another is a man from my hometown, Toronto, who worked for years in my field of journalism, focused on financial news — but who I met through our frequent participation in multiple Twitterchats on travel, like #CultureTrav, #TravelSkills and #TRLT. Retired, he now travels the world, often on someone else’s dime, promoting cruise ships or hotels.
Another, decades younger than I, is a fellow member of a writers’ listserv who divides his time between his native Australia, Latin America and New York. Like me, he’s worked for both a broadsheet newspaper (like The New York Times) and a tabloid (like the New York Daily News.)
This amazing conference, Fireside, came to me through an email from a stranger — one of the best experiences of 2018
I met four of them in one day; the final one works in public relations in New York City, a field I hope to find more work in as a strategist.
And the fifth is a Florida man my age working on innovative ways to re-invigorate journalism; we met this week for coffee in my town while he and his wife were visiting.
Many people, I realize, are much happier remaining forever behind the screen, anonymous and safe, already too busy or overworked to add more to their plate.
As someone wholly self-employed, such enhanced and deeper connections can also lead me to paid work and new opportunities — a good personal meeting builds trust. My goal with social media is to connect intellectually, emotionally and professionally.
For me, social media is social, not just a place to scream and shout and rave.
I enjoy putting a face and character to a name, even if the person isn’t quite what I expected or would later consider as a close friend.
It does require a spirit of adventure and an open-ness to disappointment/delight. But working alone at home since 2006 can leave me lonely and isolated otherwise.
Have you met anyone face to face that you only first knew through social media?
How did it turn out?
From joyful community to fearful chaos
On October 18, 2014 By broadsideblogIn behavior, blogging, culture, life, women47 Comments
Only a few short weeks ago, I blogged here about a community I had found on-line, one filled with women of all ages and races and income levels, from Edmonton to Los Angeles to Dubai to Mississippi. It was secret, and had, at the outset, almost 600 members, many of whom weighed in daily to share their triumphs — (work, dating, family) — and tragedies, (dead or dying pets, work frustrations, break-ups.)
They are mostly women in their 20s, 30s and 40s, gay and straight, polyamorous or monogamous and many looking (with little success) for love. I was, being older than many of these women, astonished and often appalled by the intimacy of the many details they chose to share there, with women many of them had never met and never will, women whose character and morals and ethics they have no knowledge of or experience with.
The chickens soon came home to roost…
I was, naively, hopeful that this would be a place for fun, friendship, shared wisdom and a dozen of us living in New York met for brunch in early September and had a great time. The women were funny, lively, creative and I looked forward to seeing them again.
Not going to happen: I was kicked out this week.
It’s been a fascinating lesson in political correctness, tone policing and definitions of “derailment” — taking a comment thread off-message. I won’t bore you with all the details, but what a shitshow!
Talking about issues is important — but when are you over the line?
The group’s small handful of volunteer administrators decided I should be banned for insensitivity. Which is, of course, their right.
I do express my opinions vigorously.
But how amusing that women there could rant for hours about others’ being mean to them — yet turn in a flash on anyone they felt wasn’t being sufficiently sympathetic to their cause(s.)
It soon — why? –devolved into a rantfest. Women raged daily about their oppression and others’ privilege, swiftly chasing down, or simply banning, with no notice to the larger group of their actions or why they took them, those who dared to disagree with them or whose opinions were deemed…unwelcome.
One woman I liked very much was dismissed from the group for her allegedly racist remarks.
Then another — anonymously, of course — took a screen-shot of someone’s comment and sent it to her freelance employer, costing her paid work and a professional relationship. Members legitimately freaked out at such a creepy betrayal of their mutual trust.
But, really!
Why on earth would you even trust a bunch of people you do not know?
For a group of women so oppressed by patriarchy, it was too ironic that one of their own proved to be such a vicious and cowardly bitch.
Membership had dropped, rapidly, by more than 40 people last time I looked.
I’m glad to have made several new friends through the group and look forward to continuing those online relationships, several of whom I’ve also met, and enjoyed meeting, face to face.
But it’s been a powerful and instructive lesson in group-think, competitive victimhood and endless, endless draaaaaaaaama.
I’m well out of it, sorry to say.
Have you been a part of an on-line group like this?
How long did it last and how much did/do you enjoy it?
But what if they don’t “like” it?
On May 19, 2014 By broadsideblogIn aging, behavior, blogging, culture, domestic life, journalism, life, US, work25 Comments
From The New York Times about our addiction to being “liked” on social media:
Walking through an airport newsstand this year, I noticed a novelty. The covers of Inc., Fast Company and Time all had female executives on the covers: Sara Blakely, Angela Ahrendts and Janet L. Yellen. I quickly snapped a photo and sent out a tweet to my modest list of followers: “Women on the cover. Not just for girlie magazines anymore.”
Then I waited for the love. I checked the response before passing through security. Nothing. I glanced again while waiting for the plane. Still nothing. I looked again before we took off. Nobody cared. My little attempt to pass a lonely hour in an airport with some friendly interaction had turned into the opposite: a brutal cold shower of social isolation.
A few days later, I mentioned this story to my wife. “What a great tweet!” she said. She then retweeted it to her larger list of followers. Within seconds, it scored. Some Twitter bigwigs picked it up, and soon hundreds of people had passed it along, added their approval and otherwise joined in a virtual bra burning. Though I should be above such things, my wisp of loneliness was soon replaced with a gust of self-satisfaction. Look, I started a meme!
We are deep enough into the social-media era to begin to recognize certain patterns among its users. Foremost among them is a mass anxiety of approval seeking and popularity tracking that seems far more suited to a high school prom than a high-functioning society.
It’s interesting where this stuff ends up — one talented young photographer, a friend of ours working in Chicago (who has not even finished college) — was recently offered a full-time staff job by a major newspaper after editors kept seeing his excellent work on Instagram.
Here is his astonishing collection of photos of a train ride from Chicago to New Orleans in a recent New York Times travel section. Go, Alex!
Do you care if people “like” your posts on Instagram or Reddit or Facebook or Pinterest?
Do you get re-tweeted?
Or does “real life” still matter more (or as much) as approval on social media?
Oh, no! FOMO!
On December 21, 2013 By broadsideblogIn behavior, blogging, culture, entertainment, life, photography, Style, Technology27 Comments
Instagram in Instagram. Also: insomnia. (Photo credit: thatgrumguy)
Is your life (yet) dominated by FOMO — fear of missing out?
Funny/sad story from The New York Times about the insidious effects of Instagram:
For many urban creative professionals these days, it’s not unusual to scroll through one’s Instagram feed and feel suffocated by fabulousness:There’s one friend paddling in the surf at Positano under a fiery Italian sunset. Another is snapping away at a sweaty Thom Yorke from the third row at an Atoms for Peace concert in Austin. Yet another is sipping Champagne in Lufthansa business class en route to Frankfurt, while a fourth is huddling with friends over omakase at Masa.
Members of the Facebook generation are no strangers to the sensation of feeling a little left out when their friends post from that book party they weren’t invited to, or from someone’s latest transporting trip to the white sands of Tulum. Yet even for those familiar with the concept of social-media envy, Instagram — the highest achievement yet in
social-media voyeurism — presents a new form of torture.
I confess, I have yet to start using Twitter, Pinterest or Instagram. I’ve been enjoying photos snapped by a young pro photographer pal in Chicago on Instagram — but only when he posts them on Facebook as well.
Facebook is bad enough, thanks.
I have a few acquaintances or professional contacts whose updates are sufficiently envy-inducing as it is — the best-selling authors crowing about their latest Hollywood movie deals, a writer friend who boasts, almost daily, about the deluge of assignments landing, unbidden, in her lap, and a therapist who seems to spend all her time on vacation in places like Venice, Africa and Paris.
I love how every new iteration of status markers simply keeps evolving — from Chinese rank badges to the sedan chair to nose-thumbing via pixel. It seems as primal as breathing to show off how fantastic your life is.
Do you end up gnashing your teeth, (even just a little), at all the too-perfect photos of smiling babies, immaculate houses and glam vacation spots cluttering your feed(s)?
The unliked life: How long can you stay off of social media?
On November 4, 2013 November 4, 2013 By broadsideblogIn behavior, children, culture, domestic life, entertainment, family, journalism, life, love, Media, parenting, Technology56 Comments
I recently took a week-long break from blogging here, the longest since I started this in July 2009.
I got a lot done in real life, mostly work-related, with a few meetings with new contacts and possible clients.
It was an interesting experience to turn away from the putative gaze, and potential approval, of Broadside’s readers. I know that some bloggers like to post every day. I just don’t have that much to say.
More to the point, I try hard to maintain a balance between my life online and my life…in real life.
Social media is ubiquitous, and for some wholly addictive. We all like a hug, even if it’s virtual. We all like an ego-stroke, and getting dozens, or hundreds?
How can that be a bad thing?
I still prefer being liked in person — last week over half-price cocktails with my friend Pam, trading notes about high-end travel with a new client, wooing a local PR agency, hanging out with my husband.
English: Infographic on how Social Media are being used, and how everything is changed by them. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Here’s a fascinating/sad story from Bloomberg Businessweek about a camp created for adults who need to digitally de-tox:
It’s Digital Detox, a three-day retreat at Shambhalah Ranch in Northern California for people who feel addicted to their gadgets. For 72 hours, the 11 participants, who’ve paid from $595 for a twin bed to $1,400 for a suite, eat vegan food, practice yoga, swim in a nearby creek, take long walks in the woods, and keep a journal about being offline. (Typewriters are available for anyone not used to longhand.)
The ranch is two-and-a-half hours north of San Francisco, so most guests come from the Bay Area, although a few have flown in from Seattle and New York. They’re here for a variety of reasons—bad breakups, career
troubles—but there’s one thing everyone has in common: They’re driven to distraction by the Internet.
Isn’t everyone? Checking e-mail in the bathroom and sleeping with your cell phone by your bed are now
considered normal. According to the Pew Research Center, in 2007 only 58 percent of people used their phones to text; last year it was 80 percent. More than half of all cell phone users have smartphones,
giving them Internet access all the time. As a result, the number of hours Americans spend collectively online has almost doubled since 2010, according to ComScore (SCOR), a digital analytics company. Teens and twentysomethings are the most wired. In 2011, Diana Rehling and Wendy Bjorklund, communications professors at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota, surveyed their undergraduates and found that the average college student checks Facebook 20 times an hour.
Twenty times an hour?
This is just…sad.
There was a time when being with other people meant actually being in the same room — and that meant possibly having to walk, run, bike, fly, cab, drive or climb to access their companionship.
You know, make an effort.
We also used to live lives that we decided were intrinsically satisfying or they were not. We didn’t spend hours seeking the approval of thousands, possibly millions, of strangers — people who we’ll never meet or have coffee with or visit when they are in the hospital or attend their wedding or graduation.
There is genuine affection on-line, I know — but I wonder how many of us now do things now just to see how much they are “liked”.
Much as I enjoy social media, I’m old-fashioned enough to want to be in the same physical space as the people who “like” me and want to hear, first-hand, what I’m up to and how I really feel. There are many things I’ll never post here or on Facebook, where my “friends” include several high-level professional contacts for whom a brave, competent face remains key.
To me, face to face “liking” is truly intimate — like the seven-hour (!) meal at Spice Market that Niva and I shared when she came to New York and we finally put faces — and lots of laughter — to our names for the first time. (She writes the Riding Bitch blog.)
We had a blast.
It was much more fun than endlessly hitting a “like” button.
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Three sickening words: teens, bullying and suicide
On October 17, 2013 By broadsideblogIn behavior, children, Crime, culture, domestic life, education, life, news, parenting, Technology, US47 Comments
English: Bullying on IRFE in March 5, 2007, the first class day. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It’s shocking and depressing that so many young people, struggling with their sexuality, identity, self-confidence and future wonder how they’ll even survive the next few hours — bullied 24/7 by peers whose toxicity is relentless, vicious, heartless and widespread.
Yesterday’s New York Times carried two stories about the aftermath of teens who killed themselves after having been bullied, one about Joe Bell, the father of 15-year-old Jadin Bell,who committed suicide, who was struck and killed as he walked across the U.S. to draw awareness to the issue, the other about two girls, 12 and 14 (WTH?) arrested in Florida for their behavior after their bullying led to the suicide of Rebecca Ann Sedwick:
In Internet shorthand it began “Yes, ik” — I know — “I bullied Rebecca
nd she killed herself.” The writer concluded that she didn’t care, using
an obscenity to make the point and a heart as a perverse flourish. Five
weeks ago, Rebecca Ann Sedwick, a seventh grader in Lakeland in central
Florida, jumped to her death from an abandoned cement factory silo
after enduring a year, on and off, of face-to-face and online bullying.
The Facebook post, Sheriff Grady Judd of Polk County said, was so
offensive that he decided to move forward with the arrest immediately
rather than continue to gather evidence. With a probable cause affidavit
in hand, he sent his deputies Monday night to arrest two girls, calling
them the “primary harassers.” The first, a 14-year-old, is the one who
posted the comment Saturday, he said. The second is her friend, and
Rebecca’s former best friend, a 12-year-old.
Both were charged with aggravated stalking, a third-degree felony and will be processed through the juvenile court system.
What on earth is driving these wretched children to torment one another to death?
“As a child, I can remember sticks and stones can break your bones but
words will never hurt you,” the sheriff said. “Today, words stick
because they are printed and they are there forever.”
I’ve blogged about this before and will likely return to it because, as someone badly bullied in high school for three years, I’ve lived this firsthand. It was long before the Internet, so my bullying was only daily, public and within the physical confines of my Toronto high school.
I arrived at my school at 14, reeling from the sudden move into my father’s home after seven years with my mother; arriving halfway through the year into a group of people who had all grown up together in neighborhood schools and a girl both plagued with acne and intellectual confidence.
Bad combo.
I was nicknamed Doglin, barked at in the hallways and a dog biscuit was laid on my desk. Three boys spent a lot of time and energy making sure I was as miserable as they could possibly make me.
Thank heaven for dear friends, male and female, who kept me going. Thank heaven for winning awards for my writing, which buoyed my confidence. Thank heaven for a teen quiz show (then hosted by Jeopardy’s host Alex Trebek) which I competed on two years in a row, taking our school to the semi-finals.
But once bullied, scarred for life.
Here’s my USA Today essay about it.
If you have children you hope to protect from bullying, here’s a link to a free webinar being offered Thursday October 17 at 8pm EST, 5pm PT.
Have you — or you kids — been bullied?
Are you working to prevent teen bullying?
Vying for fame — with those who share your name
On October 14, 2013 By broadsideblogIn behavior, blogging, business, culture, Fashion, journalism, life, Media, urban life, women, work37 Comments
Those who aspire to fame — hell, visibility! — in their field need talent, hard work, education, connections, good luck, experience, opportunity.
They also need people to recognize and remember their name.
One reason movie stars change their names is to win an indelible place in the public imagination — would you rush as quickly to see a film by Allen Konigsberg (Woody Allen) or one starring Alphonso D’Abruzzo (Alan Alda)?
Your name is your brand.
Especially in an age of social media, when it might be read by (and re-tweeted to) thousands, if not millions of people.
For decades, very few girls or women, at least in my native Toronto and later in New York — and most importantly, in my work as a journalist — shared my first name. I’d never met another Caitlin Kelly.
Two highly-visible others share “my” name in the same elbows-out city — New York.
English: Bird’s eye panorama of Manhattan & New York City in 1873. This town ain’t big enough for all three of us! (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
And one of them is a writer for the New Yorker.
“Congrats! Saw your great piece” emails arrive in my in-box. For her. (For those of you beyond the U.S, a staff job at the New Yorker is, for many writers, the pinnacle of the profession, the sort of spot many ambitious writers deeply envy.)
My loving friends think I’m talented and know I live in New York so, hey, it must be me!
Then came the fawning, hand-wringing email from some fangirl who assumed I was the other CK, asking me for career advice.
This Caitlin Kelly is a designer of elegant, upscale swimwear, whose name I began seeing whenever a Google alert sent me to her work, not to mine. She’s also here in New York, much younger than I, as is the other CK.
She called me the other day and we finally learned a bit more about one another. I’d been curious, as her work is lovely.
She sounds like a hard-working talented woman. We — somewhat oddly for strangers sharing a name — spoke at length and fairly personally.
We haven’t met, yet, although it’s possible we will. There may be an interesting story to write about “my” doppelgangers: how often (if at all) are they confused with me? How does that feel for them?
I checked out a few of the 26 (!) other Caitlin Kelly’s in the New York area, ranging from a college librarian (who’s emailed me a few times over the years) to a VP at Chase Morgan.
Twenty-six of us?!
Time for a CK party, I think.
Do you have a name shared with someone (else) who’s well-known?
How has that played out for you?
Rejection to a writer is like blood to a surgeon
On April 5, 2013 By broadsideblogIn behavior, blogging, books, business, culture, education, journalism, life, Media, work50 Comments
It’s a normal, if messy, part of every working day. Every single person who hopes to earn a living as a writer needs to memorize it.
Courage is a muscle: use it or lose it.
If you never show/try to sell your work, how can you determine its wider appeal?
Yes, you will almost certainly be rejected. Possibly many times. Assume so!
Surely by now you’ve all heard how many times billionaire author J.K. Rowling was rejected when she first sent out “Harry Potter”?
Writer’s Stop (Photo credit: Stephh922)
Here’s a list of 11 others who had their butts kicked hard before they became best-sellers.
And here’s a great post of 25 things writers need to know about it from writer Chuck Wendig’s blog on the same subject:
2. Penmonkey Darwinism In Action
Rejection has value. It teaches us when our work or our skillset is not good enough and must be made better…Rejection refines us. Those who fall prey to its enervating soul-sucking tentacles are doomed. Those who persist past it are survivors. Best ask yourself the question: what kind of writer are you? The kind who survives? Or the kind who gets asphyxiated by the tentacles of woe?
3. This, Then, Is The Value Of The Gatekeeper
Hate the autocracy of the kept gates all you like, but the forge of rejection purifies us (provided it doesn’t burn us down to a fluffy pile of cinder). The writer learns so much from rejection about himself, his work, the market, the business. Even authors who choose to self-publish should, from time to time, submit themselves to the scraping talons and biting beaks of the raptors of rejection. Writers who have never experienced rejection are no different than children who get awards for everything they do: they have already found themselves tap-dancing at the top of the “I’m-So-Special” mountain, never having to climb through snow and karate chop leopards to get there.
I’ve added the bold and italics here…
Writer’s Block 1 (Photo credit: OkayCityNate)
So, my question to all of you is why you are so damn scared of being rejected? A few theories.
Because having your work rejected seems, for some of you, to really mean:
I have no talent
Entirely possible. OMG. Did she just say that! Yes, I did. Because, despite what your friends and sweetie and Mom have told you your whole life, maybe you are really just not very good at the thing you are absolutely determined you must be good at. (Or what? Or what? Then what happens?) Stop being a Special Snowflake, already!
I’m such a loser!
Maybe. Maybe not. If you are ever going to survive being a writer you must do this: find a way to separate you from your work. You are not your work. (Here’s a truly disgusting analogy: we all use the toilet and most of us excrete waste every day. It is a product of our bodies. But we do realize that it is not us.) In other words, being rejected may make you feel like shit. You, however, are not shit!
I just wasted all that $$$$$$$$$ on getting my MFA
Can’t help you with that one. I’ve avoided any formal post-graduate education because I’m too damn cheap. If you want to spend a ton of money developing your skills, great. But if you’re looking for serious financial ROI on an MFA, I’d say you’re a little out of touch with the marketplace.
The competition is way too big/famous/established
Here’s the thing we never say out loud. If you’re a total newbie, you’re not my competition! Nor am I yours. Your ego wants to think we’re equal, but we’re not. You will be paid less than I will. (Probably.) I’ve earned it, over decades of consistently good work. You’re still earning it.
If you write about science or babies or science fiction, you’re not my competitor, nor am I yours! I sometimes think of the writers’ marketplace the way an air traffic controller sees the thousands of planes in the air. They never (thank God!) collide. Because they are all on slightly different trajectories.
Stop freaking out about all the other writers out there. Just go be better than they are. (Maybe that means being better at going to a few select conferences and finding some people to help and advise you. Not just banging away all alone at your keyboard.)
I’m scared my email or phone call will be ignored
Bet on it! Count on it! You are not (just) a writer or artist. You’re are a salesperson, hoping to sell your work to people (agents, editors) who’ve quite possibly never heard of you and couldn’t care less if you ever succeed. Be prepared to be more persistent than you ever thought you might possibly ever have to be to get to the right/powerful people who will get your career going. Then double it. Now triple it.
I hate competing
Waaaaaaah! It’s a crowded marketplace. Go big or go home.
But I’m really scared
Of what? Seriously. Of what? Creative failure does not = terrifying medical diagnosis. CF does not = end of your marriage. CF does not = your dog/cat/guinea pig just died. (A friend of mine in London, a super-successful young photographer, is mourning the loss of her guinea pig.)
It is ultimately both self-defeating and self-indulgent to sit in the corner and be too scared to get into the game. We’re all scared, damn it!
Every freaking time I turn in a story I’m still scared the editor will: hate it, not pay me, never use me again and tell everyone s/he knows that I am an incompetent hack. Hey, it can happen.
Then I hit “send.”
I will never be good enough to sell my work
Maybe not. Or maybe so. Maybe you’re trying to sell to the wrong people, or at the wrong time. (i.e. your skills are not yet good enough to compete with all the other people doing that right now.)
It’s depressing being rejected all the time
Which is why God invented martinis, puppies and very good sex. You need to feel really happy at least 63.6 percent of the time in order to deal with the nasty reality of rejection. It hurts. It really does.
I hate my life and being rejected only makes it worse
This is the real problem. I guarantee it — if you are really happy with other aspects of your life, then the endless frustration of trying to sell your work will be annoying and tiring, but it won’t kill you or make you lie in a corner in the fetal position weeping. If it does, you are placing way too much emphasis on your work. Deal with that instead.
But my blog followers love me!
Of course they do, sweetie. Your work is free. It costs them zero social, political or financial capital to read and adore you. Now go find someone to lay their reputation on the line for you…
No one will ever know my name
Pshaw. Go do some volunteer work for a year or so. Join a faith community and show up. Join a committee. Sit on a board. There’s this narcissistic fantasy that Being A Writer means everyone knows you and cares deeply about you. They don’t! You’ll find much deeper satisfaction and happiness from being a valued member of a community of people who don’t give a shit how much copy you sold this week. Get over it.
No one will ever admire or respect me
I think this is a fundamental, unacknowledged and undiscussed part of why people are SO freaked out by rejection. Since when (really) is rejection 100 percent final? You’re reading the blog of someone who applied eight times to the Globe and Mail before being hired. Who interviewed three times at Newsweek and never got hired.
No one will ever know how great I could have become
This is such self-indulgent bullshit. You either want it more than anything, or you don’t.
united states currency eye- IMG_7364_web (Photo credit: kevindean)
I will starve to death and live under a bridge in a cardboard box
I doubt it. Get a day job and keep it as long as you have to. Or make the leap of faith (with six months’ expenses in the bank and no debt. And, ideally, no dependents.) Those of us who have leaped have little patience for the endless hand-wringers.
I have nothing new or fresh to offer
Really? Then why do you want to bother?
No one wants to work with me
EQ (emotional intelligence) is the new black. EQ is the new IQ. If you’ve grown up in the U.S. in an affluent community (and many of you did not), then being really smart is often deemed the most important thing you can be. Wrong! Being someone able to get along really well within seconds with a wide range of people who are very different from you is going to move your career along a lot faster and further than only hanging with people who drive the same car and went to the same college(s.)
No one wants to help me succeed
Really? What sort of person are you? A taker, giver or matcher? Are you a selfish little wretch who rarely, if ever, returns calls or emails? Who has yet to write (yes, really) a hand-written thank-you note on very good paper and sent it through the mail to someone who gave you an interview or mentored you? There’s an inverse relationship between how greedy you are and how much anyone is interested in helping you be even more greedy.
Everyone else is doing great!
As if! The effect of Facebook on millions of fragile egos — mine included — is to make us all feel Utterly Inadequate all the fucking time. Just don’t read all those perky, upbeat, how-great-my-life-is status updates!
Who actually posts: “I hate my agent. S/he never returns my calls. My book isn’t selling. I’m living on credit cards. I owe $10,000 to American Express and everyone is paying me late.” They should. Because that’s all too often the Glamorous Reality of being a writer.
Now go kick some butt, my dears!
On Writing and Giving Up (avajae.blogspot.com)
Writing Tips: How to Handle Rejection (shannonathompson.com)
On Writing: Feeling Rejected? (darsba.wordpress.com)
Published, Publishable, Crap (mrsfringe.wordpress.com)
On getting the gig: a long road travelled. (patricialeslieauthor.wordpress.com)
Making time for friendship
On March 19, 2013 By broadsideblogIn aging, behavior, children, culture, domestic life, family, love, men, women15 Comments
On Monday mornings, I sometimes go to a friend’s home and sit in her kitchen and we talk. She pours me a coffee, and cooks or putters or sits at the table with me.
How retro! So 1950s.
How lovely.
Temple of Friendship at 20, Rue Jacob (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
We’re very lucky. We both work from from home and can carve out time for face-to-face friendship.
I think it’s as essential as exercise and sleep, this sitting with someone who knows and loves you, or is getting to know you and and you’re peeling back the onion layers of who they are as well.
Friendship takes time.
And it takes face time, not just emails and Facebook updates or texts. I want to feel a fierce hug, enjoy a shared smile, provoke a loud laugh.
I’m now scheduling face time with a friend into every week, determined to strengthen my relationships with the women I’ve recently gotten to know — after decades living in my suburban town with few intimates.
Paris Exposition: Champ de Mars and Eiffel Tower, Paris, France, 1900 (Photo credit: Brooklyn Museum)
In the past few weeks, I’ve had some great moments with friends old and new. An Irish woman I met in 1982 in Paris — I was 25, on a journalism fellowship there for eight months with her — was visiting New York to make a radio documentary. Meeting up with her somewhat wrecked my work that day, but there was absolutely no question which was more important.
We picked up our conversation with the pleasure and intimacy of people who had seen each other a week before, when it might have been decades — we couldn’t remember. She looked amazing. We sat at the bar and ate hamburgers and it was sheer heaven to be with her again.
Because I never had kids, I lost my friends for a while when they were exhausted and spoken for, tending to the needs of their families. Now their nests are empty and they are hungrier for intimacy beyond their family circle.
Last week I sat with a new friend, who, like me, is trying to re-invent herself professionally. Being American, she’s sure that just a little effort will be enough. Being Canadian, I raise an eyebrow and ask: “Really?” She’s a helium balloon shooting for the ceiling, bursting with naive optimism and I’m the string, tugging her back to earth.
As soon as I sat down, she asked: “You look sad. What’s going on?”
You don’t get that from Facebook.
Do you make time to sit with your friends?
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APR 2011 Issue
In the winter of 1998, Garrett Scott was living in Oakland, working as a waiter and slowly putting together his first film about an unemployed plumber who stole a tank and rampaged across San Diego. Or rather, it was about California and the political economy of militarism. Or maybe it was about the media, drug addiction, insanity, and suburbia; or about America and deindustrialization.
Mostly it was a work in progress: a masterpiece yet to be, or a spectacular disaster, headed straight into a wall at high speed. Time would tell.
It was around then Garrett and I met. I had arranged a public lecture for Mike Davis at the college where I taught. Davis, of course, is the historian of Los Angeles and Southern Californian disasters. A large crowd of fans attended, among them a scraggly, squinty faced, blonde hipster named Garrett. He was dressed ’70s-vintage cowboy—jeans, checked shirt, big corduroy coat, wide furry collar—with a VHS trailer for his weird, unfinished film in hand.
There followed many a late night of conversation and drink. Sometimes I would crash out at Garrett’s spacious ground floor pad in Oakland, sleeping on a huge old couch next to his stand-up ashtray heaping with cigarette butts and spent matches. Garrett refused to empty the thing, joking that he wanted to shellac it; and so there the ashtray stood as some sort of death-art altar, part Duchamp readymade, part ad for the American Lung Association.
It was fitting to meet Garrett at a talk by Mike Davis, because Cul-de-Sac is heavily influenced by a time, a place, and a literature: The time was the 1990s, the place California, and the literature was the critical urbanism that revolved around the work of Davis, particularly his book City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. For Garrett, and many others of us, City of Quartz had an electrifying impact. Published just before the L.A. riots of 1991, the book read like prophesy. In Davis’s work the sunny palm-lined streets of Southern California were not pretty and mindless, but sinister and tragic sites of class struggle, racial oppression, and crypto-authoritarian state repression. The name, Cul-de-Sac, is even an oblique reference to “Fortress L.A.,” the most influential chapter in City of Quartz.
Central to this documentary—and the thing which compelled Garrett, who had no training as a filmmaker, to take up the camera—is the video footage of the rampaging tank, stolen and driven by Shawn Nelson on May 17, 1995. The images are eerie and tragicomic. We watch and wait as the huge tank cruises down the peaceful suburban San Diego streets of Clairemont, occasionally toppling traffic lights and crushing parked vehicles, while above it follows a low flying helicopter capturing it all on video. Also crucial is the footage from the appalling, home-invasion style “live news report” from Nelson’s home.
These two pieces of footage and Garrett’s use of them are a comment on the aesthetics of a particular moment in history. Starting in the 1990s, politics (which were increasingly repressive) and video technology (which was increasingly cheap and abundant) came together and gave rise to what you might call a “reality” or evidentiary aesthetic which is typified in this type of shaky, grainy, “raw” footage.
We are now very accustomed to this language of video vérité, but step back and you realize it is the visual by-product of a repressive society—born of the institutions and technologies of social control: the military, the police, private security, surveillance, the 24/7 cable news. Home video from the “innocent bystander” is also part of this language, once it is sucked up as evidence by the courts and the media’s court of public opinion. Cul-de-Sac uses this reality aesthetic but turns it back upon itself by digging beneath the drama of the image and into the political economic history of the situation.
Recall the historical context of this film and the moment when the reality aesthetic came to the fore. The decade began with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and then the collapse of the Soviet Union two years later. Suddenly, the world-defining political antagonism between capitalism and socialism was gone. Francis Fukuyama became a household name by touting “the end of history.” And America became the sole unchallenged superpower.
The apex of that power was Operation Desert Storm—the first American invasion of Iraq. And that war brought with it a new role for “raw” video as America watched the greenish-gray screens of smart bombs and attack planes, many of which were made in California in places like Clairemont, the setting of Cul-de-Sac. This flow of grainy footage helped launch the 24-hour news cycle. CNN, now a rather stale brand, was then quite cutting-edge and took the lead in broadcast TV with its round-the-clock live coverage of the U.S. invasion. At one level, the war made the network, and at another, the network made the war.
Meanwhile, back home the social landscape of places like Clairemont was increasingly defined by inequality and police repression. In the early 1990s an epidemic of crack cocaine addiction and the first round of methamphetamine mayhem were just peaking. This was joined by a tremendous buildup in police repression, prosecutorial power, surveillance, and a huge campaign of prison building. As with the Gulf War, the domestic wars on drugs, crime, immigrants, and the homeless were heavily mediated by video.
It was in this context that the notion of news and documentary started giving way to what we now know as Reality TV. The Fox reality show America’s Most Wanted premiered in late 1988 and its fraternal twin Cops came on the air a year later. The Jerry Springer Show debuted in September 1991. These and many other shows relied heavily on raw video or its concocted facsimiles.
This new aesthetic proliferated in part due a chain of public spectacles all caught on video and then endlessly looped: the police beating of African-American motorist Rodney King; the L.A. riots caused by the officers’ acquittal; O. J. Simpson’s weird, low-speed car chase across a Southern Californian landscape. Cul-de-Sac invokes all these events and their video residue. When we watch the tank smashing up cars, we are watching a genre that includes CNN’s Gulf War, Cops, Rodney King, the riots, O. J.’s farcical flight, etc.
The conceit of reality video of course is that it shows the truth. But Cul-de-Sac digs deeper into the actual lives of the people who knew Shawn Nelson as well as into the larger historical context. In that way, Cul-de-Sac shows how reality video and news spectacle are ideology that obscures and confuses rather than reveals or explains.
But I digress. Cul-de-Sac is much more than a comment on the media. Its more substantial elements are a soulful reading of the Southern California landscape and the underlying processes of militarism and economic boom and bust which produced it.
Garrett was a Californian—a product of that automobile-dominated geography of sprawl, freeways, detached homes, and distant beaches—and this film carries the combination of affection and loathing that only a native son could muster.
Garrett’s father was raised in Clairemont and is now a judge in San Diego, and his mother still lives in the area. Garrett was born in Munich, but he was raised in Coronado, an upper-middle class suburb on the northwest side of San Diego. Growing up near the beach, Garrett became an excellent swimmer, playing water polo in high school and then at U.C. Santa Barbara. He worked as a lifeguard and saved people from drowning. To his eternal credit, Garrett was extremely modest about that. I pried a few stories from him but only learned later the real scope of his service. (As much as I love his filmmaking—one has to admit that saving actual people’s lives has a noble practicality that entertaining and educating audiences with one’s movies or writing or painting or music can’t really beat.)
Garrett was blond, smoked cigarettes, drank, enjoyed the good life, yet had the extremely defined muscular physique of an athlete. Below his handsome but often sleepy and sort of battered face, he was seriously “ripped”—a true So-Cal dude.
But there was also something very dark and tormented about him. By the time he started working on Cul-de-Sac he had completed an M.F.A. in Creative Writing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I always thought that those couple of hard northern winters in a de-industrialized city gave Garrett some anti-Californian gravitas.
Whatever the case, Garrett was alienated from mainstream white San Diego’s world of sunshine, shopping, and status. In fact, that version of the rat race disgusted and infuriated him. His alienation gave him critical insight, humanity, and empathy. His empathy—not sympathy—shows through in the film in his interviews with Scott Nelson, Karen, the two Chucks, Fela, and even the Cop. The empathy operates not just at the level of Garrett—whom you catch glimpses of and can hear asking questions—being kind to Shawn Nelson’s circle of friends. But also because Garrett went beyond their specific and immediate conditions to explore the structural and historical aspects of their personal tragedies. He placed the small story of Clairemont into the larger story of American Empire.
Consider the numerous connections between Shawn’s personal distress and American militarism. He had learned to drive a tank in the army. His drug of choice, methamphetamine, was linked directly to U.S. war making in the Pacific. Like all of San Diego, the suburb of Clairemont depended upon industries—like General Dynamics, maker of the Tomahawk missile—that served the U.S. military. The withdrawal of these jobs, but not the drugs that make you work hard, leads to, well, building goldmines in the backyard.
Speaking of goldmines, in the film, notice Karen’s early mention of Shawn’s mineshaft, the 49ers, and “gold fever.” The Gold Rush is, of course, Anglo California’s origin myth. It was the state’s first great get-rich-quick, landscape-transforming, boom-and-bust. Cul-de-Sac uses that “tweeker” project, the mineshaft, to make larger comments about the economic logic of the California landscape. There is, after all, a direct line from the Gold Rush to the tank. After the gold boom there followed silver, timber, guano, railroads, agriculture, real estate, defense, and high-tech. But every capitalist boom has its bust. And every crash, its human casualties—people like Shawn Nelson.
If America were less fixated on how war, weaponry, and the political economy of Clairemont were different, if there were high-paying jobs for skilled tradesmen, would Shawn Nelson have been trapped in his drug-and rum-addled fantasy? One can never reduce individual biography to larger social structures, but it is also clear that individuals can never be abstracted from the larger patterns of history. Industries die, or move away, landscapes and local economies decline and collapse, and in that process some portion of the population is cast off as social wreckage, even in sunny San Diego.
Watching the film again in 2011, I am struck by how prescient it is in capturing a desperation and confusion that seems so particular to our current moment. Consider the familiar themes: foreclosure, unemployment, addiction, war, and the Tea-Party-style-left-meets-right paranoia and confusion of these downwardly mobile, latently rebellious members of the white working class.
Garrett’s success in weaving together the connections between individual biography, history, and larger social structures is part of what makes Cul-de-Sac a unique and brilliant film.
Like the landscape that produced him, Garrett burned bright and fast, and then crashed. In 2003, he moved to Brooklyn with his girlfriend, Rachael Rakes (now an editor of the Rail’s film section). Then he and Ian Olds, his collaborative partner, the editor of Cul-de-Sac, traveled to Iraq and made their second film Occupation: Dreamland, about the 82nd Airborne in Fallujah and the work of soldiering. I overlapped with them in Iraq and in a few ways got to help out a little and watch the making of another fine film.
By 2005, Garrett and Ian were planning to film together in Afghanistan. Garrett was also working on a project about San Francisco city politics in the 1970s, focused on Reverend Jim Jones and his poisoned Kool-Aid massacre in Guyana. And Occupation had been nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
To find out if they would win, Garrett and Ian headed out west. Ian went north to see his folks in Sebastopol and Garrett went south to visit his family in Coronado. They were to meet in Hollywood for the awards. Two days before the ceremony, Garrett went to swim in one of the local pools where he had trained as a kid and teenager. During his laps the lifeguard looked away for a second and then looked back. And all of the sudden Garrett was at the bottom of the pool. He had died of cardiac arrest brought on by a congenital heart fibrillation. He was 37. The next day, Occupation won its award. Ian accepted the prize, alone, and on Garrett’s behalf.
Garrett Scott’s Cul de Sac will be available from Icarus Films (www.icarusfilms.com) on April 19.
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Cancer Therapy: Preclinical
EML4-ALK Fusion Gene and Efficacy of an ALK Kinase Inhibitor in Lung Cancer
Jussi P. Koivunen, Craig Mermel, Kreshnik Zejnullahu, Carly Murphy, Eugene Lifshits, Alison J. Holmes, Hwan Geun Choi, Jhingook Kim, Derek Chiang, Roman Thomas, Jinseon Lee, William G. Richards, David J. Sugarbaker, Christopher Ducko, Neal Lindeman, J. Paul Marcoux, Jeffrey A. Engelman, Nathanael S. Gray, Charles Lee, Matthew Meyerson and Pasi A. Jänne
Jussi P. Koivunen
Craig Mermel
Kreshnik Zejnullahu
Carly Murphy
Eugene Lifshits
Alison J. Holmes
Hwan Geun Choi
Jhingook Kim
Derek Chiang
Roman Thomas
Jinseon Lee
William G. Richards
David J. Sugarbaker
Christopher Ducko
Neal Lindeman
J. Paul Marcoux
Jeffrey A. Engelman
Nathanael S. Gray
Matthew Meyerson
Pasi A. Jänne
DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-0168 Published July 2008
Purpose: The EML4-ALK fusion gene has been detected in ∼7% of Japanese non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC). We determined the frequency of EML4-ALK in Caucasian NSCLC and in NSCLC cell lines. We also determined whether TAE684, a specific ALK kinase inhibitor, would inhibit the growth of EML4-ALK-containing cell lines in vitro and in vivo.
Experimental Design: We screened 305 primary NSCLC [both U.S. (n = 138) and Korean (n = 167) patients] and 83 NSCLC cell lines using reverse transcription-PCR and by exon array analyses. We evaluated the efficacy of TAE684 against NSCLC cell lines in vitro and in vivo.
Results: We detected four different variants, including two novel variants, of EML4-ALK using reverse transcription-PCR in 8 of 305 tumors (3%) and 3 of 83 (3.6%) NSCLC cell lines. All EML4-ALK-containing tumors and cell lines were adenocarcinomas. EML4-ALK was detected more frequently in NSCLC patients who were never or light (<10 pack-years) cigarette smokers compared with current/former smokers (6% versus 1%; P = 0.049). TAE684 inhibited the growth of one of three (H3122) EML4-ALK-containing cell lines in vitro and in vivo, inhibited Akt phosphorylation, and caused apoptosis. In another EML4-ALK cell line, DFCI032, TAE684 was ineffective due to coactivation of epidermal growth factor receptor and ERBB2. The combination of TAE684 and CL-387,785 (epidermal growth factor receptor/ERBB2 kinase inhibitor) inhibited growth and Akt phosphorylation and led to apoptosis in the DFCI032 cell line.
Conclusions:EML4-ALK is found in the minority of NSCLC. ALK kinase inhibitors alone or in combination may nevertheless be clinically effective treatments for NSCLC patients whose tumors contain EML4-ALK.
non-small cell lung
EML4-ALK
kinase inhibitor
Anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) kinase was originally discovered from chromosomal translocations leading to the production of fusion proteins consisting of the COOH-terminal kinase domain of ALK and the NH2-terminal portions of different genes (1). Translocations of ALK have been identified in 40% to 60% of anaplastic lymphomas and in B-cell lymphomas, neuroblastomas, and myofibroblastic tumors (2). NPM is the most common fusion partner of ALK (80% of translocations), but at least six other fusion partners have been identified (2). In these fusion proteins, the NH2-terminal portion is responsible for protein oligomerization, which leads to constitutive activation of ALK kinase, and results in aberrant activation of downstream signaling targets including Akt, STAT3, and extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2; ref. 2).
The fusion of the ALK gene with echinoderm microtubule-associated protein-like 4 (EML4) has recently been detected in 6.7% (5 of 75) of Japanese non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC; ref. 3). ALK and EML4 are both located in the short arm of chromosome 2 separated by 12 Mb and are oriented in opposite 5′ to 3′ directions. Two different variants of EML4-ALK fusion gene have been characterized both involving exons 20 to 29 of ALK fused to exons 1 to 13 (variant 1) or exons 1 to 20 (variant 2) of EML4. Both variants of the EML4-ALK fusion gene were transforming in 3T3 cells and in Ba/F3 models (3).
Inhibitors of ALK kinase have been developed and examined in preclinical models. Proof-of-concept studies using short hairpin RNA knockdown of ALK in NPM-ALK-containing models led to growth inhibition and apoptosis and suggested that ALK inhibition may be a potentially effective therapeutic strategy (4). This has lead to the development and testing of small-molecule inhibitors of ALK. Initial studies have been done using less potent ALK inhibitors such as WHI-P154 (IC50, ∼5 μmol/L), pyridones (IC50 for staurosporine, 0.15-0.78 μmol/L), or HSP90 inhibitors (5). Subsequently, more potent and specific ALK inhibitors such as diaminopyrimidines or aminopyrimidines have been developed including TAE684 and PF02341066 (6–8). Both of these inhibitors have good bioavailability and inhibit ALK kinase activity and growth of NPM-ALK-positive lymphoma cells in the low nanomolar range (6–8). PF02341066 is an inhibitor of both MET and ALK presently in phase I clinical development. TAE684 is not currently under clinical development. Neither agent has been examined previously against EML4-ALK.
In the current study, we analyzed the frequency of the EML4-ALK fusion gene in NSCLC cell lines and tumors derived from U.S. and Korean NSCLC patients. In addition, we examined the efficacy of an ALK kinase inhibitor, TAE684, in NSCLC cell lines harboring the EML4-ALK inversion to determine if this would be a potentially effective therapeutic strategy for NSCLC patients whose tumors contain the EML4-ALK inversion (6).
Cell lines and tumors. NSCLC (n = 81) and mesothelioma (n = 2) cell lines were purchased from the American Type Culture Collection or were kind gifts from Drs. John D. Minna and Adi F. Gazdar (University of Texas Southwestern; Supplementary Table S1). DFCI024 and DFCI032 were established at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute from pleural effusions of treatment naive female NSCLC patients. The PC-9, A549, H3122, and H2228 cells were cultured in RPMI 1640 (Sigma) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum, 100 units/mL streptomycin, and 1 mmol/L sodium pyruvate. The DFCI032 cells were cultured in ACL-4 medium (Invitrogen) supplemented with 5% fetal bovine serum, 100 units/mL streptomycin, and 1 mmol/L sodium pyruvate.
NSCLC tumors (n = 305) were collected from surgical resections from patients with stages I to IIII NSCLC when sufficient material for RNA extraction was available. The majority of the specimens (n = 167) were collected at the Samsung Medical Center. Frozen tumor tissues were collected from 809 of 2,442 patients who underwent curative resection for NSCLC from November 1995 to February 2007 at the Samsung Medical Center. One or two pieces from the periphery of the tumor masses, avoiding necrotic regions, were immediately frozen at -80°C until retrieved. The medical records as well as H&E-stained slides of the specimen were reviewed by a single pathologist. Only frozen tumor tissues from adenocarcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma (according to the 2004 WHO histopathologic criteria) were included. Only frozen tumor tissues with a tumor cell content of more than 70% were used for further analysis. In addition, frozen tumor tissues of the following patients were excluded from the study: patients who had received preoperative neoadjuvant treatments, patients with double primary lung cancer, and patients who had undergone incomplete resections or who had not been subjected to mediastinal lymph node dissections. The selected frozen tumor tissues were used for the microdissection. Briefly, frozen tissues were lightly stained with H&E to improve visualization and the necrotic tumor tissues and intervening normal tissues were removed. Each of the microdissected tumor tissues with a tumor cell content of more than 90% was placed in 1 mL Easy Blue reagent of a commercially available RNA isolation kit (easy-spin Total RNA Extraction Kit; iNtRON Biotechnology) and immediately homogenized by vortexing, and the total RNA was extracted. The quantity and quality of RNA were analyzed using a spectrometer (Nanodrop Technologies) and Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer (Agilent RNA 6000 Nano Kit; Agilent Technologies), respectively. In the end, 167 frozen tissues with acceptable quality of RNA (RNA integrity number, >7.0) were used for the current studies. All patients provided written informed consent.
The tumors from Caucasian patients (n = 138) were collected at the Brigham and Women's Hospital between 1991 and 1997 and have been published previously (9, 10). Frozen samples of resected lung tumors were obtained within 30 min of resection and subdivided into 100 mg samples and snap frozen at -80 C. Each specimen was associated with an immediately adjacent sample embedded for histology in OCT medium and stored at -80 C. Frozen (6 μm) sections of embedded samples stained with H&E was used to confirm the postoperative pathologic diagnosis and to estimate the cellular composition of adjacent samples. All specimens underwent pathologic review by two pathologists. One hundred nine tumors obtained during the same period were excluded because they did not meet one or more of the eligibility criteria. Tissue samples were homogenized in Trizol (Life Technologies) and RNA was extracted and purified by using the RNeasy column purification kit (Qiagen). Denaturing formaldehyde gel electrophoresis followed by Northern blotting using a β-actin probe assessed RNA integrity. Samples were excluded if β-actin was not full-length. All patients provided written informed consent.
Cell line specimens were snap frozen and stored at -80C. RNA was extracted from tumors and cell lines using Trizol (Invitrogen), purified with RNeasy Mini Kit (Qiagen), and used for cDNA synthesis using the QuantiTect reverse transcription kit (Qiagen).
Exon array studies. To screen for ALK translocations, we used Affymetrix HuEx-1.0 Exon Array (Affymetrix) data that was generated previously from these cell lines.13 The HuEx-1.0 array was designed to contain probes mapping to every known and predicted exon in the human genome. We reasoned that translocations in the ALK gene would result in disparate levels of expression between exons 5′ and 3′ of the breakpoint, with the expression higher in the 3′ end (kinase domain). After performing array normalization and background correction for all probes, we restricted our analysis to the 104 probes uniquely mapping to the ALK gene (Refseq NM_004304). To correct for differences in probe response characteristics across the gene, for every sample, we divided each probe intensity value by the average probe intensity across the other wild-type specimens. For each cell line, we computed the location of the most likely breakpoint as the probe that gives the maximum deviation between average expression of 5′ and 3′ probe subsets. Significance levels for each inferred breakpoint were computed using a simple two-sided t test.
Reverse transcription-PCR and genotyping. For reverse transcription-PCR analysis of EML4-ALK, we used primer sequences (primer set 1) as described in ref. 3. The forward primer is located at exon 13 of EML4, whereas the reverse primer is located at exon 20 of ALK. To detect other potential EML4-ALK fusion products, we designed a second forward primer from exon 3 of EML4 (5′-taccagtgctgtctcaattgcagg- 3′) while using the same reverse primer as the primer set 1. PCR amplification was done using JumpStart Taq enzyme (Sigma) under the manufacturer's guidelines. The resulting PCR products were analyzed using agarose gel electrophoresis. Genotyping for KRAS, epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), HER2, BRAF, and PIK3CA was done using either a reverse transcription-PCR based or a genomic DNA-based SURVEYOR-WAVE mutation analysis (11) followed by sequencing of the positive specimens or by direct sequencing of the PCR products. Primer sequences and PCR conditions are available upon request.
Fluorescence in situ hybridization. Bacterial artificial chromosomes RP11-667I6 and RP11-100C1 (Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute) were used as probes for the EML4 and ALK genes, respectively. Bacterial artificial chromosome DNA was labeled with either spectrum red dUTP or spectrum green-11-dUTP by nick translation (Vysis) using manufacturer's recommended conditions. Slides for metaphase fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) from cell lines were prepared using standard cytogenetic methodologies. Paraffin-embedded slides were prepared as described previously in ref. 11. Probes were hybridized and washed according to standard FISH procedures (12).
Kinase inhibitors. TAE684 was synthesized according to published procedures (13). The structure of TAE684 was confirmed using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and 1H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance. The synthesized TAE684 was determined to be 98% pure by 1H nuclear magnetic resonance and 99% pure by liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry monitoring at 210 and 254 nm wavelengths (data not shown). CL-387,785 was purchased from Calbiochem. Erlotinib was purchased from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute pharmacy. All drugs were dissolved in DMSO, stored at -70°C, and diluted in fresh medium before use.
Cell proliferation and growth assays. Growth inhibition was assessed by MTS assay as described in ref. 11. NSCLC cells were exposed to drugs alone or in combination for 72 h. All experimental points were set up in 6 to 12 wells and repeated at least three times. The data were graphically displayed using GraphPad Prism version 3.00 for Windows (GraphPad Software).14 The curves were fitted using a nonlinear regression model with a sigmoidal dose response.
Antibodies and Western blotting. Cells were lysed in buffer containing proteinase inhibitors, and proteins separated by gel electrophoresis on 5% to 12% polyacrylamide gels selected depending on the target's molecular weight, transferred to polyvinylidene difluoride membranes, and detected by immunoblotting using an enhanced chemiluminescence system (Perkin-Elmer) as described previously (11). The receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) array was purchased from R&D Systems and used according to the manufacturer's recommended conditions. Anti-ALK, anti-phospho-ALK (Tyr1604), anti-phospho-Akt (Ser473), anti-Akt, anti-STAT3, anti-phospho-STAT3 (Tyr705), anti-PTEN, and anti–poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase antibodies were obtained from Cell Signaling Technology. Total ERK1/2 and phospho-ERK1/2 (pT185/pY187) antibodies were purchased from Biosource International. The anti-α-tubulin antibody was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich.
Fluorescence-activated cell sorting analysis. Cells were plated at a density of 0.5 to 2 × 105 per plate in 10 cm2 plates. Drugs were added to the medium after 24 h, and the cells were incubated for another 72 h, after which the cells were analyzed as described previously (14). Percent apoptosis was estimated from the sub-G1 cell fraction.
Xenograft studies. Nude mice (nu/nu; 6-8 weeks old; Charles River Laboratories) were used for in vivo studies and were cared for in accordance with the standards of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee under a protocol approved by the Animal Care and Use Committee of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Mice were anesthetized using a 2% isofluorane (Baxter) inhalation oxygen mixture. A suspension of 5 × 106 H3122 lung cancer cells (in 0.2 mL PBS) were inoculated s.c. into the lower right quadrant of the flank of each mouse. Mice were randomized to four treatment groups (n = 5 per group) once the mean tumor volume reached 500 to 600 mm3: vehicle (10% 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidinone/90% PEG-300) alone, erlotinib, and 10 and 25 mg/kg/d TAE684 orally (6). Erlotinib was administered at 100 mg/kg/d orally as described previously (11). Tumors were measured twice weekly using calipers, and volume was calculated using the formula: length × width2 × 0.52. Mice were monitored daily for body weight and general condition. The experiment was terminated when the mean size of either the treated or control groups reached 2,000 mm3.
Identification of EML4-ALK fusion genes in NSCLC cell lines. To rapidly screen our panel of 83 lung cancer cell lines (Supplementary Table S1) for potential ALK translocations, we used Affymetrix HuEx-1.0 mRNA exon arrays and focused on 104 unique probes covering the ALK gene. We identified two cell lines, H3122 and H2228, which had statistically significant (P < 0.001) breakpoints in the ALK gene (Fig. 1A ; Supplementary Fig. S1). Although our algorithm did not consider the location or direction of the breakpoint, the inferred ALK breakpoints in both samples were very near the conserved exon 20 breakpoint in the ALK gene, and in both samples, the expression was higher in the 3′ than the 5′ ends. Using reverse transcription-PCR, we were able to confirm the presence of the EML4-ALK fusion gene product in both H3122 and H2228 but not in any other of the 81 cell lines. In H3122, we detected variant 1 of EML4-ALK (Fig. 1B and C). In H2228, we detected a novel variant (named variant 3a hereafter) resulting from a fusion of exon 6 (codons 1-222) of EML4 with exon 20 (codons 1,058-1,621) of ALK (Fig. 1C; Supplementary Fig. S2). A second fusion gene (variant 3b) was also detected from this cell line and contains an additional 33-bp fragment derived from an alternatively spliced exon of EML4 (exon 6b; Fig. 1C; Supplementary Fig. S2) and is the predominant form in H2228 (data not shown). This alternatively spliced exon was not detected in any of the other fusion variants. As both H3122 and H2228 cell lines were established from female NSCLC patients with adenocarcinoma and H2228 is from a never-smoker, we screened for the presence of EML4-ALK in NSCLC cell lines with these clinical features that we have established at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. We identified two cell lines, DFCI024 and DFCI032, both derived from chemotherapy naive female never-smokers with adenocarcinoma. Both cell lines are wild-type for EGFR and KRAS. We detected variant 1 of the EML4-ALK fusion gene in the DFCI032 cell line and neither variant in DFCI024 (Fig. 1B). Overall, we detected the EML4-ALK fusion gene in 3 of 83 (3.6%) NSCLC cell lines. We further confirmed the presence of the EML4-ALK inversion using FISH (Supplementary Fig. S3) in these three cell lines (Fig. 2A-C ). In addition, we confirmed the presence of the EML4-ALK fusion in the original tumor specimen that gave rise to the DFCI032 cell line using interphase FISH (Fig. 2D).
EML4-ALK in NSCLC cell lines and tumors. A, detection of ALK fusion genes in lung cancer cell lines using exon arrays. In the screen of 83 lung cancer cell lines (81 of 83 NSCLC), exon arrays showed that H3122 and H2228 cell lines had significantly higher signal (log2 difference) for ALK probes 80 to 140 corresponding to exons 20 to 29 of ALK compared with other 81 cell lines. Probes were assigned into three categories based on their labeling intensity: nonresponsive probes (purple), low-intensity probes (blue), and high-intensity probes (black). Only high-intensity probes were used in breakpoint detection. B, reverse transcription-PCR detection of EML4-ALK fusion in NSCLC cell lines and tumors. Primer set 2 amplifies EML4-ALK fusion genes from H3122, H2228, and DFCI032 cell lines but not from A549 line. Primer sets 1 and 2 also detected EML4-ALK fusion from eight primary NSCLC. H3122, positive control; A549, negative control. C, schematic representation of the four different EML4-ALK variants in NSCLC.
Detection of EML4-ALK using FISH. A, PC-9 (EGFR del E746_A750) cell line. Signals for ALK (red dot) and EML4 (green dot) are seen separately. B, H2228 cell line. The fusion signal of EML4-ALK (arrow) is detected in a small extrachromosomal fragment (yellow). C, DFCI032 cell line. The EML4-ALK fusion signal (yellow; arrow) is heterozygous. Similar findings were observed for H3122 (data not shown). D, interphase FISH for EML4-ALK from the formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tumor specimen obtained from the pleura of the patient whose pleural effusion was used to establish the DFCI032 cell line in C. The tumor is heterozygous for the EML4-ALK fusion signal (yellow dot; arrow).
EML4-ALK fusion gene is detected in both Caucasian and Asian NSCLC. We screened NSCLC (n = 305) from patients of U.S. (n = 138) and Korean (n = 167) origin for the EML4-ALK fusion gene and detected its presence in 8 of 305 (3%) NSCLC (Table 1 ). Four tumors contained variant 3 (both variants 3a and 3b, with 3b being predominant), two contained variant 1, and two contained a novel variant (named variant 4 hereafter; Fig. 1B and C). In variant 4, exon 15 of EML4 is fused with exon 20 of ALK (EML4 codons 1-569 to 1,078-1,621 of ALK; Fig. 1C; Supplementary Fig. S2). Six of the EML4-ALK-containing tumors (6 of 167; 3.6%) were from Korean patients, whereas 2 of 138 (1.5%) were detected in NSCLC from U.S. patients. The frequency of EML4-ALK was higher in females (4%) versus males (2%). All eight of the EML4-ALK-containing tumors were adenocarcinomas. Furthermore, the fusion gene was detected significantly (P = 0.049; Table 1) more frequently in patients (6%; 4 of 69) with limited smoking history (<10 pack-years) compared with tumors from smokers (1%; 2 of 184). The tumor from one of the patients had a concurrent EGFR kinase domain mutation (del E746_A750) with the EML4-ALK fusion gene. None of the eight tumors contained a concurrent KRAS or BRAF mutation (data not shown).
Frequency of the EML4-ALK fusion gene in NSCLC tumors and its association with clinical, pathologic, and genetic factors
Inhibition of ALK kinase activity in EML4-ALK fusion gene in vitro and in vivo. To determine whether ALK kinase inhibitors may be therapeutically effective in EML4-ALK-containing NSCLC, we evaluated TAE684, a highly potent ALK kinase inhibitor (6). We found that TAE684 significantly inhibited the growth of only the H3122 cell line, whereas the other two EML4-ALK-containing cell lines, H2228 and DFCI032, were as resistant (IC50, 1-10 μmol/L) to the inhibitor as those containing an EGFR mutation (PC-9; del E746_A750) or a KRAS mutation (A549; G12S; Fig. 3A ). It should be noted that the IC50 for the H3122 cells is 10 nmol/L and that TAE684 exhibits its maximal effects in this responsive cell line at 100 nmol/L (Fig. 3A). At these low concentrations, TAE684 is highly selective for ALK; therefore, the observed response is not likely to be due to off-target effects (6). Conversely, the effects on the EGFR mutant PC-9 and KRAS mutant A549 cells, which are not ALK dependent for their growth, at concentrations >1 μmol/L are likely to be due to off-target effects; thus, we used 100 nmol/L TAE684 for subsequent studies. TAE684 (100 nmol/L) treatment led to significant apoptosis only in the H3122 cell line as detected by fluorescence-activated cell sorting (Fig. 3B) or by Western blotting for cleaved poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (Fig. 3C). No growth arrest or apoptosis was observed in the other cell lines following TAE684 treatment.
Effect of TAE684 on growth and signaling in EML4-ALK-containing NSCLC cell lines. A, NSCLC cells were treated with TAE-684 at the indicated concentrations, and viable cells were measured after 72 h of treatment. The percentage of viable cells is shown relative to untreated controls. A549 (KRAS G12S), PC-9 (EGFR del E746_A750), H2228 (EML4-ALK variant 3), H3122 (EML4-ALK variant 1), and DFCI032 (EML4-ALK variant 1). B, fluorescence-activated cell sorting analysis of sub-G1 fraction without treatment (left column) and after treatment with 0.1 μmol/L TAE684 for 72 h (right column). Significant apoptosis following TAE-684 treatment is only observed in the H3122 cell line. C, Western analysis of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase following treatment with 0.1 μmol/L TAE684 for 72 h. The 89-kDa cleaved poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase products is observed only in the H3122 cell line consistent with the effects of TAE-684 on cell growth in A. D, Western analysis following TAE684 treatment in wild-type and EML4-ALK-positive NSCLC cell lines. Total and phosphorylated ALK are only detected in EML4-ALK-positive cell lines (H3122, H2228, and DFCI032) but not in wild-type control (PC-9). In H3122 and DFCI032 cell lines, ALK-positive band migrates at ∼120 kDa corresponding to predicted molecular weight (117 kDa) of the variant 1 (arrow 1), whereas in H2228 the band migrates at ∼90 kDa, which also corresponds to the predicted molecular weight (90/91 kDa) of the variant 3 (arrow 3). ALK phosphorylation is completely inhibited following 0.1 μmol/L TAE684 treatment (6 h) in all the cell lines. Phosphorylation of Akt, STAT3, and ERK1/2 decreases in H3122 and H2228 cell lines with TAE684 but remain unchanged in DFCI032 and PC-9 lines. All the cell lines show presence of PTEN. α-Tubulin is used as a loading control.
To determine why the growth of only one of three of the EML4-ALK-containing cell lines was inhibited by TAE684, we examined its effects on phosphorylation of ALK and downstream signaling proteins (Fig. 3D). Following 100 nmol/L TAE684 treatment, complete inhibition of phosphorylated ALK was observed in all three of the EML4-ALK-positive cell lines (Fig. 3D). However, this was accompanied by substantial inhibition of Akt as well as ERK1/2 phosphorylation only in the H3122 cell line consistent with the effects on cell growth and apoptosis in this cell line (Fig. 3A-C). In contrast to Akt and ERK1/2, there was only a minimal decrease in STAT3 phosphorylation following TAE684 treatment in the H3122 cell line (Fig. 3D). In the H2228 cell line, there was some but not complete inhibition of Akt and ERK1/2 phosphorylation, whereas these were unchanged in the DFCI032 cell line (Fig. 3D).
We also examined the effects of TAE684 treatment on H3122 in vivo using a xenograft model. We compared the effects of TAE684 with the EGFR kinase inhibitor erlotinib, which did not inhibit the growth of H3122 cells in vitro (IC50 >10 μmol/L; data not shown). We used erlotinib because we detected EML4-ALK significantly more frequently in never or former light cigarette smokers with NSCLC (Table 1) and because erlotinib is frequently used in clinical trials in this same patient population (11, 15). Thus, we wished to determine the efficacy of erlotinib in EML4-ALK-containing NSCLC. We also explored the dosing of TAE684 by examining two different doses in the xenograft studies. As can be seen in Fig. 4 , both doses of TAE684 effectively inhibited the growth of H3122 xenografts. Both vehicle-treated and erlotinib-treated mice were all sacrificed following 2 weeks of treatment due to rapid tumor growth. These are consistent with the effects of erlotinib in vitro (data not shown). The higher dose of TAE-684 (25 mg/kg/d) more effectively inhibited tumor growth than the lower (10 mg/kg/d) dose (Fig. 4). The 25 mg/kg/d dose was associated with an initial shrinkage of established tumors followed by stabilization. All mice were sacrificed at day 53 of treatment.
TAE-684 effectively inhibits the growth of H3122 in vivo. Xenografts on H3122 in nu/nu mice were generated as described in Materials and Methods. Erlotinib and TAE-684 treatments were administered by oral gavage and tumors were measured three times weekly. The control and erlotinib-treated mice reached a median tumor size of 2,000 mm3 by 15 d of treatment and were sacrificed. In contrast, the median tumor size of mice treated with TAE684 at either 10 or 25 mg/kg/d did not reach 2,000 mm3 even after 53 days of treatment.
Coactivation of ERBB family members in an EML4-ALK-containing NSCLC. In the DFCI032 cell line, which contains the exact same EML4-ALK variant as H3122 (Fig. 1B), TAE684 completely inhibited ALK phosphorylation, but this was not accompanied by inhibition of growth or changes in phosphorylation of Akt or ERK1/2 (Fig. 3A and D). DFCI032 is not a heterogeneous cell line as by FISH we were able to detect EML4-ALK in 100% of the cells (data not shown). We also did not detect a concurrent mutation in the known oncogenes (EGFR, KRAS, BRAF, HER2, or PIK3CA) commonly mutated in NSCLC in the DFCI032 cell line (data not shown). Recent studies have shown that in some cancers multiple RTK can be coactivated (11, 16). Inhibition of only one of the coactivated kinases is insufficient to result in inhibition of growth or Akt phosphorylation (11, 16). To determine whether DFCI032 contained other activated kinases, we performed a screen using a phospho-RTK array comprising 42 RTK. As can be seen in Fig. 5A , the two most intense signals detected in this array were for phosphorylated EGFR and ERBB2. Low-level activation of other RTK were also observed, but the signals were substantially weaker than for EGFR and ERBB2 (Fig. 5A). ALK is not present on this array (data not shown). We next examined the effects of CL-387,785 (1 μmol/L), an irreversible EGFR and ERBB2 inhibitor, alone or in combination with TAE684 (100 nmol/L) in the DFCI032 cell line. The combination of CL,387,785 and TAE684, but not either agent alone, significantly inhibited the growth of DFCI032 cells and was associated with significant apoptosis (Fig. 5C and D). Furthermore, only the combination of TAE684 and CL-387,785 was associated inhibition of Akt and ERK1/2 phosphorylation (Fig. 5D). We also examined the combination of the EGFR inhibitor gefitinib (1 μmol/L) and TAE684 (100 nmol/L) and observed no effect on growth of DFCI032 cells (data not shown). These findings suggest that inhibition of both EGFR and ERBB2 along with ALK is necessary to effectively inhibit growth and induce apoptosis in the DFCI032 cell line.
Coactivation of EGFR and ERBB2 in DFCI032 cell line. A, a phospho-RTK array reveals that the DFCI032 cells contain strong activation of both EGFR and ERBB2. Cells were grown in medium and the cell lysates were hybridized to a phospho-RTK array. In the array, each RTK is spotted in duplicate. Hybridization signals at the corners serve as controls. B, combination of TAE684 and CL-387,785 effectively inhibits growth of DFCI032 cells. DFCI032 cells were treated with either CL-387,785 (1 μmol/L) alone, TAE684 (100 nmol/L) alone, or the two in combination for 72 h. Growth was assayed by MTS (see Materials and Methods). The combination of TAE684 and CL-387,785 led to significant inhibition of growth compared with untreated (P < 0.001, paired t test) or treatment with either agent alone (P < 0.001, paired t test for both comparisons, respectively). **, P < 0.001. C, combination of CL-387,785 and TAE-684 leads to significant apoptosis. Cells were treated as in B and apoptosis was estimated from sub-G1 fraction using fluorescence-activated cell sorting (Materials and Methods). The combination of CL-387,785 and TAE-684 led to significant increase in apoptosis compared with untreated (P < 0.05, paired t test) or treatment with either agent alone (P < 0.05, paired t test for both comparisons, respectively). *, P < 0.05. D, combination of CL-387,785 and TAE-684 leads to inhibition of Akt and ERK1/2 phosphorylation. Cells were treated as in B for 6 or 48 h. Cells were lysed and the indicated proteins were detected by immunoblotting. Only the combination of CL-387,785 and TAE-684 leads to significant down-regulation of Akt and ERK1/2 signaling and to apoptosis as measured by appearance of cleaved (89 kDa) poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase fragment.
The use of molecular targeted therapy in genetically defined subsets of cancer patients is emerging as an effective therapeutic strategy for many cancers (17–19). In lung cancer, for example, 10% to 30% of NSCLC contain activating mutations in the EGFR kinase domain and 60% to 80% of the patients with EGFR mutations obtain dramatic radiographic responses following treatment with the EGFR kinase inhibitors gefitinib or erlotinib (11, 19). Similarly, EGFR mutant NSCLC cell lines are exquisitely sensitive to gefitinib in vitro compared with EGFR wild-type cell lines and only EGFR mutant NSCLC cell lines undergo apoptosis following gefitinib treatment (14, 20, 21). Thus, it remains critical to identify subsets of lung cancer patients and to develop effective therapeutic strategies for such patients. As lung cancer is a very common cancer, the identification of even small subsets of lung cancer patients harboring specific genetic alterations will translate into a large cohort of patients.
In the present study, we characterized the frequency of the EML4-ALK inversion in NSCLC cell lines and primary tumors from NSCLC patients of different ethnic backgrounds. We detected the EML4-ALK fusion gene in 3% of NSCLC specimens, numerically more frequently from Korean than U.S. NSCLC patients, adenocarcinomas, and in patients with limited cigarette smoke exposure. Our study is the first example addressing the frequency of EML4-ALK in Caucasian NSCLC patients. Despite the low frequency of EML4-ALK in NSCLC, this represents more patients (∼5,000 annually in United States) than those diagnosed with anaplastic large cell lymphoma where ALK translocations have been detected previously (22, 23). We detected EML4-ALK significantly more frequently (Table 1) from NSCLC patients who were either never or former light (≤10 pack-years) cigarette smokers. This same clinical feature has also been shown to predict for presence of EGFR mutations (24). Thus, it is possible that NSCLC arising in never/former light smokers are genetically and biologically different from those arising in smokers and more likely to contain activated oncogenes. We detected four different variants of EML4-ALK (Fig. 1) containing virtually identical portions of ALK, comprising the entire kinase domain, with varying portions of EML4. These variants are similar to previously described translocations of ALK with other genes; all of which contain the cytoplasmic portion and entire tyrosine kinase domain of ALK (22). We also developed a FISH assay, which can be used to detect the EML4-ALK inversion from routine paraffin-embedded lung cancer clinical specimens. This will facilitate the identification of appropriate NSCLC patients for clinical studies of ALK kinase inhibitors.
One of the three cell lines with the EML4-ALK translocation (H3122) was also found to be exquisitely sensitive to TAE684 in vitro and in vivo (Figs. 3A and 4). In addition, TAE684 treatment was associated with significant apoptosis and down-regulation of Akt and ERK1/2 signaling (Fig. 3B-D). These findings suggest the phenomenon of oncogene addiction where ALK kinase solely controls the critical survival signaling pathways in this cell line (25). ALK inhibition leads to inhibition of all of these signaling pathways and subsequently to apoptosis. This is analogous to gefitinib treatment of EGFR mutant NSCLC and suggests that ALK kinase inhibitors alone may be effective therapies at least for some patients whose tumors contain EML4-ALK (14, 26). Interestingly, TAE-684 led to only a minimal decrease in STAT3 phosphorylation in H3122 despite causing apoptosis in this cell line (Fig. 3D). STAT3 has been shown to be critical to NPM-ALK-mediated lymphomagenesis and inhibition of STAT3 alone using a dominant-negative STAT3 is sufficient to induce apoptosis (27, 28). There may be signaling differences between NPM-ALK-containing and EML4-ALK-containing tumors or this may reflect differences between NSCLC and anaplastic large cell lymphoma. Further studies will be are necessary to determine the significance of STAT3 signaling in EML4-ALK-containing NSCLC.
Only one of three NSCLC cell lines (H3122) with EML4-ALK was sensitive to the ALK kinase inhibitor alone. The two other EML4-ALK-containing cell lines were either resistant to TAE684 alone (H2228) or required concomitant inhibition of EGFR and ERBB2 (DFCI032). These findings are quite different from EGFR mutant NSCLC cell lines where the majority are exquisitely sensitive to gefitinib or erlotinib in vitro and the growth inhibition is accompanied by apoptosis and significant inhibition of EGFR, ERK1/2, and Akt phosphorylation (14, 29, 30). These differences may be clinically significant and highlight the possibility that ALK inhibitors alone may only be effective in a subset of NSCLC patients with the EML4-ALK inversion. Our studies of DFCI032 suggest that it contains coactivation of both EGFR and ERBB2 as concomitant inhibition of ALK, EGFR, and ERBB2 is required to significantly effect growth, induce apoptosis, and inhibit Akt and ERK1/2 phosphorylation (Fig. 5). Thus, our findings provide one potential mechanism, activation of other RTK, by which resistance could emerge in NSCLC patients being treated with ALK inhibitors. In addition, these data suggest that, in some EML4-ALK-containing NSCLC, a combination therapeutic strategy may be necessary. Our findings are analogous to those found in subsets of glioblastoma multiforme and in MET-amplified gefitinib-resistant lung cancers where multiple kinases are coactivated and inhibition of one kinase alone is not sufficient to effect growth or lead to down-regulation of Akt (11, 16). In H2228, we did not detect coactivation of another kinase (data not shown). The lack of efficacy of TAE684 in our study in H2228 is similar with recent studies using an ALK-specific small interfering RNA, which also did not inhibit the growth of H2228 cells (31). It will continue to be important to study H2228 and other EML4-ALK-containing tumors to determine whether an ALK inhibitor alone or in combination with other kinase inhibitors will be necessary for growth inhibition and apoptosis.
J. Engelman (member of Hoffman-LaRoche advisory board) and N. Gray (former Novartis employee) received research grant from Novartis and M. Meyerson received a research grant from Novartis and consults for Novartis. The other authors disclosed no potential conflicts of interest.
↵13 R.K. Thomas, C.H. Mermel, D. Chiang, and M. Meyerson, unpublished results.
↵14 http://www.graphpad.com
Grant support: NIH grant 1RO1CA114465-01 and Hazel and Samuel Bellin Research Fund (P.A. Jänne), American Cancer Society grant RSG-06-102-01-CCE (P.A. Jänne and J.A. Engelman), and Finnish Medical Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation, and Academy of Finland (J.P. Koivunen). P.A. Jänne and M. Meyerson are part of a pending patent application on EGFR mutations.
Accepted March 19, 2008.
Received January 21, 2008.
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This statistic shows the levels of access two-year old children in the United Kingdom (UK) had to iPads in 2015, based on a survey of 2,000 parents and caregivers. 60.3 percent of two-year olds have some level of access to iPads, with 9.8 percent having one of their own.
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LONDON, Ohio — Under sunny skies for three days, visitors to the 56th annual Farm Science Review took a break from harvest to learn about the latest innovations in agriculture and to shade their faces beneath the brim of free foam hats shaped like ears of corn.
Farm Science Review, held Sept. 18-20, drew 108,074 visitors, who came to admire new machinery and learn about techniques and trends, test-drive all-terrain vehicles, and talk about soybean tariffs and taxes. Though it didn’t rain this year as it did during much of last year’s show, clear skies kept some farmers in the field harvesting.
Water coolers drained as the mercury rose each day of the farm show sponsored by the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES).
While farm income nationwide is projected to dip, plunging 50 percent in 2018 compared to the 2013 level, and soybean tariffs are squeezing out markets, there are always new tractors, combines and equipment to see that might offset any pessimism. The Review offered that plus a range of educational presentations to help growers weather tough financial times.
“As farmers and producers pay closer attention to their bottom lines this year, Farm Science Review was a good resource for them,” said Nick Zachrich, manager of the Review. “Along with showcasing the latest trends and technologies in agriculture, CFAES and other experts led sessions on profitability, trade, tariffs and the farm bill.”
This year’s show attracted 636 exhibitors in an area that was expanded by 20 acres.
At a show where farmers learned about reducing input costs, administering antibiotics to their livestock and marketing local foods, among other topics, avid gardeners gathered tips on growing fruit in their backyards, attracting hummingbirds and beekeeping.
“Visitors were able to experience everything from test-driving utility vehicles to seeing the latest equipment run in field demonstrations,” Zachrich said. “There was truly something here for everyone in agriculture to improve their operations.”
Among the new offerings at this year’s show were experts who taught beef quality assurance, a certification that’s increasingly becoming important for beef producers.
More combines spread across fields this year, harvesting corn 12 rows at a time in one of the many field demonstrations of cutting-edge equipment. Attendees at the show perused components of autonomous tractors and heard talks about farm estate planning and the effect climate change is having on agriculture.
Ron Bates, who raises cattle and pigs on his Sarahsville farm in eastern Ohio, hadn’t been to the Review since he was in high school nearly 20 years ago. This time he brought his two sons: Cyler, 11, and Casen, 2, both of whom were most intrigued by the cattle — not surprisingly — at one of the exhibits. Then they headed to the tractors, Bates said.
“It’s time for them to see farming and larger equipment.”
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Abu Dhabi’s IPIC to pursue 1MDB arbitration in London court
Abu Dhabi sovereign-wealth fund International Petroleum Investment Co. (IPIC) plans on pursuing arbitration in a London court for about $6.5bn it says it was owed as a result of a dispute with Malaysian state investment fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd. (1MDB).
The arbitration was a fallout of an earlier dispute that erupted in April 2016 when 1MDB reneged on key provisions of a $1bn loan agreement with IPIC, wherein IPIC was responsible for interest payments on some of its debt.
Later, IPIC said that it would only make those payments as an official guarantor on two 1MDB bonds and that it intended to pursue repayment from Malaysia’s Ministry of Finance.
A key point that could impact the arbitration is the exact status of a British Virgin Island based company called Aabar Investments PJS Ltd., which received more than $3.5bn in transfers from 1MDB over several years. These transactions were made as part of agreements struck between 1MDB and Aabar.
IPIC, however, says it did not receive any funds from 1MDB and has said that Aabar, which has a similar name to an IPIC investment company in Abu Dhabi called Aabar Investments PJS, wasn’t part of its corporate structure.
According to sources, 1MDB has argued in private negotiations between the companies that IPIC did indeed own the Aabar company in the British Virgin Islands.
Further, during its business interactions with IPIC in the past, 1MDB was provided with a certificate of incumbency showing the Aabar company in the British Virgin Islands was owned by Aabar Investments PJS.
The certificate, dated 13 April 2012, also listed Khadem Al Qubaisi, former managing director of IPIC, and Mohamed Badawy Al Husseiny, former CEO of Aabar, as directors of the British Virgin Islands-based Aabar.
That the company might have been owned by Aabar is a legal distinction and important for the dispute. But investigators in two countries believe it was created to siphon funds from 1MDB for other purposes.
Source: WSJ
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A Few Comments on the East of Eli Gig at The Cavern Club Liverpool and Visit to Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
By Tim Quinn • 6.11.18 •
Liver Bird presented to Create Change, CCO Chyler Leigh and CEO Nathan West.
BBC Radio Merseyside.
Dalek!
Create Change with Billy Butler of the BBC.
The Write Blend bookshop with Jayne Massey.
FAB 4000 magazine.
Leader of the FAB 4000, Jayne & her sidekick Witney.
MAG with Create Change.
Cavern Club.
Cavern stage.
East of Eli and Strangers Club on Cavern stage.
Audience at the Cavern.
Ruby Lounge Manchester.
Alder Hey children's hospital nurses and surgeon.
Letter from DC.
Rowan and Dad in Cavern dressing room.
Billy Butler (BBC Broadcaster): “They’re knockout! Fabulous! That’s why I’ve been playing them regularly on my show.”
Bill Heckle (Cavern Club owner): “Brilliant! When are they coming back?”
Alan Cowsill (Marvel Comics writer/editor): “It was a fantastic night. The most emotional and uplifting gig I’ve ever seen. You’re all doing amazing things…”
Chris Parks (Neurosurgeon Alder Hey Children’s Hospital): “Incredible show at the Cavern and Chyler and Nathan were wonderful with the children at the hospital.”
Jane England (Craniofacial Nurse Specialist Alder Hey): “The children in the ward got so much from Chyler and Nathan’s visit. They haven’t stopped talking about it.”
Indie Mae (Mother of Rowan LW): “Chyler and Nathan have such a wonderful energy and Rowan picked up on that for sure! The concerts were a wonderful achievement.”
Miss Liverpool 2018: “Dead boss that!”
Tim Quinn: “Chyler and Nathan have done so much for the children of Merseyside over the last two years. They are an inspiration and show we can all Create Change for the better in our community and across our planet. One word: Love.”
CHYLER AND NATHAN IN LIVERPOOL
What a week! About 2,000 miles beyond cool. Kicked off on Monday 21st May. Chyler and Nathan were motoring down from their gig the night before in Newcastle to meet me at a bookshop in a suburb of Liverpool. I was motoring in from Preston where I had been giving a talk to the Lady Flower Arrangers of the North West of England. I kid you not. How Rock & Roll am I? Don’t answer that. I reached Write Blend Bookshop in South Road, Waterloo, Liverpool 22 early at 5pm just as my mobile rang. It was Chyler to say they were speeding through Manchester and would be with me bang on the dot of 6. Time for a coffee at the World’s Greatest Book Shop. By 6 I was back out on the street ready to wave them in to a suitable car parking space. With a honking of horn, waving of hands and beaming smiles Chyler and Nathan pulled up at the kerb. Hugs, more hugs and then some more hugs. As we walked together to the bookshop a memory came flashing back from the 1950’s when I had walked this very street and bought my first DC comic book. Wouldn’t you know it, it was the origin of Supergirl. And now here I was walking down the same street with her sis!
We’d arranged the meet at the bookshop so I could interview the pair for a local TV station. I’d expected a fairly swift run through of their life and current projects but the interview took a fascinating turn 2 questions in. Stay tuned for the actual interview which I’ll be sharing soonish! A full couple of hours of extraordinary insights into this extraordinary couple. The film crew, Bob the bookshop owner, Liverpool Heartbeat’s Robin & Bren, and The FAB 4000’s leader Jayne Massey and Mum were all gripped by the revelations.
After the interview, Chyler and Nathan sang a couple of numbers just for Jayne. I have to say, the rest of us listened in too. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. So then I found out that the dynamic duo hadn’t eaten since the night before so I took them off for a swift pizza before they headed off to a hotel having to be up bright and early the following morning to collect their kids as they arrived at Manchester Airport.
By 10:50 the following morning, I was waiting outside BBC Radio Merseyside on a perfect early summer day. Chyler, Nathan and I were set to take to the airwaves at 11:20am on the Sean Styles show as a promotion for Thursday’s Cavern gigs. I was standing with Wonder Dad Craig LW, Pa of wee Rowan himself. Intros are made as Chyler and Nathan come running across the road and we head inside. While Nathan proudly shows his beautiful guitar to ace guitarist Craig, I wave Chyler towards the BBC’s pet Dalek in the entranceway. “Got to get a photo of you with the Dalek.” “Okay,” said Chyler, putting her arms round Skaro’s finest and planting a kiss on his eye stalk. “Erm…do you know about the Daleks?” I ask. “No,” sand Chyler. “Well they are based on the Nazis.” “OH!” Chyler immediately adopts a much more aggressive fisticuffs pose against Davros’s child.
The interview was fun as always. Sean’s a good egg. Chyler’s Red Red Robin went bob-bob-bobbin’ along very nicely and sounded particularly effective through my BBC headphones. Heading back out into the sunshine I realised that my American friends hadn’t really seen much of Liverpool in the daylight so Craig and I took them on a whistle stop tour down to the River Mersey and back for a few souvenir snaps for the West Family Album.
Spotting an old fashioned telephone box, I set up a pic with Chyler inside and Nathan waiting impatiently outside. Chyler soon regretted picking up the telephone as it didn’t look as if it had been cleaned since Victorian days.
On the Wednesday, I headed over to Manchester’s Ruby Lounge (thanks to Kirstie on wheels!) where I’d organised for the landmine clearing organisation, MAG, to turn up and shake their collecting buckets at the East of Eli concert. Both Chyler and Nathan had been won over by the work the MAG folk do all around our globe, saving lives every day. Lovely folk who got on well with Chyler, Nathan and the audience. Fabulous show, goes without saying. Boy, has that band developed since last I saw them exactly one year ago! Incredible performance, songwriting, spirit and connection to each and every member of that audience. Huge shout to Karoline who commandeered one of the MAG buckets and raised a very healthy amount.
Only one slight mar to the evening came when a jobsworth bouncer or venue manager was determined everyone would leave the building bang on 10:30pm. “Out! Out! Everyone out now!” Can’t beat a bit of British charm to welcome our American visitors. Kirstie and I head off leaving a still dripping wet Nathan ushering Chyler back to the hotel across Manchester’s tramways. Tomorrow was the Big Day down the Cavern Club, and I’ll write that up shortly…
Thursday 24th May 2018
2pm found us carrying East of Eli’s guitars, drums and merchandise down the 1,000 steps into the legendary Cavern Club. Already the fans were queueing up, creating a warm, friendly and excited atmosphere in the cellar of cellars. Jayne Massey, FAB 4000 inspiration, joined us in the Cavern Lounge for the sound check. She’d come complete in costume as designed by the FAB’s Russ Leach, but decided to leave guide dog Witney at home away from the hi-fi sounds.
The usual runaround backstage – drinks in dressing room fridge. More drinks in dressing room fridge. Guitar strings changed. Set list scribbled upon. Name check list for certain people in the audience. “Is the audience in?” “Yep!” “Let’s do it!” I walk out on the stage as MC for the night. Always a buzz to be on that particular stage but tonight is extra special. Looking down into the sea of happy, expectant faces I know we are all linked by our love for the band and the occasion. Intro over, the audience need little prompting to “take the roof off” with their appreciation as the band walk on stage. The acoustic set. Every song goes straight to the heart. I can think of no band I’ve ever seen that I can compare to East of Eli. They are unique. Nathan’s words hit young and old alike across the audience. The band performance is breathtaking. And the words between each song strike home and remain for life with everyone in that cellar. A lovely moment or three as Nathan thanks Jayne Massey for her inspiration to both him and Chyler. This is followed by a call out to Mr Chris Parks, the neurosurgeon from Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Chris did the amazing surgery on little Rowan LW a couple of months ago. Chris is in the audience with his kids. As soon as Nathan describes the work done by Chris, the audience erupts in applause and love. I could see that Mr Parks was quite overwhelmed by the response.
Beautiful number after beautiful number follow one after the other. Uplifting and all embracing. This is so much more than a concert. It is a true Love-In. I spot Billy Butler, BBC broadcaster, well in the groove at the back of the audience, a broad smile lighting up his face. Billy has seen it all in music since the start of his career at the Cavern Club back in Beatle days. “They’re knockout!” he says. Billy has been playing East of Eli on his show for over a year now. As the first show comes to an end, I take him backstage to meet Chyler and Nathan. Like minds meeting up. The photo says it all. 3 faces beaming like suns.
And now the race is on. We have the Meet & Greet to fit in between show 1 and show 2. Can it be done on time? Of course not! Chyler and Nathan take so much time with each Meeter and Greeter that they overrun into sound check time for the full band second show. Plans have to be made to finish off the Greeting after show 2. Bless ‘em, the fans take this alteration in their stride without a single “WTF?” I’d never realised there were so many nice people on this planet. And here they all were down in Liverpool’s Cavern Club awaiting show #2. By now the guest stars had arrived for the evening. Rowan’s Dad’s band, Strangers Club. Chyler and Nathan had invited them to play after hearing about Rowan’s surgery and, of course, checking them out on Youtube!
The full band show rocked the rafters as Chyler and Nathan moved and smoothed and electrified the audience, a sea of flushed, smiling faces. And Strangers Club gave the audience a taste of original Mersey Beat, winning them over with four stompers. As Nathan introduced little Rowan bopping away in the audience, every heart was stolen. I noticed the just crowned Miss Liverpool had joined the crowd, still wearing her sash. Her gleaming smile got ever bigger and more Pepsodenty with each number.
The show closed with East of Eli inviting Strangers Club back on stage for a full 2-band rip-roaring version of The Beatles classic, ‘I Saw Her Standing There’. That Chyler can certainly bop!
Of course, I couldn’t let Chyler and Nathan depart without giving them a sign of appreciation for the incredible work and kindness they have done for two years now on behalf of the children of Merseyside. Together with Robin Baynes of Liverpool Heartbeat I presented them with a symbol of the spirit of Liverpool, the legendary Liver Bird in statue form. I trust that bird will ensure they make many journeys back to Liverpool in the future. Chyler informed us that she has been wanting a pet for a long time!
Throughout the two concerts Nathan and Chyler had encouraged fans to be generous in their support of the FAB 4000 projects I’d created with Liverpool Heartbeat for disadvantaged Merseyside kids and the craniofacial ward at Alder Hey hospital. Were they generous? Need you ask? Any expectations we’d had were multiplied off the scale by the superb kindness of those two audiences. And then Nathan said he’d triple the amount. It’s Love I tell you! Oh, I must make mention of the kindness of DC Comics who sent over a huge box of super-hero merchandise to The FAB 4000 to hand over to the children at Alder Hey Hospital. Nathan had had the brilliant idea of suggesting to the audience at both shows that they might like to purchase each item to give as a present to the hospital children. Talk about a double-whammy!
Back out on the streets of Liverpool before midnight, it was nice to see so many very, very, very happy East of Eli t-shirt wearers heading off to to their hotels. The following day I would be joining the band as they headed for a special performance at Alder Hey hospital.
THE VISIT Friday 25th May 2018
I’ll be honest with you. I really didn’t think it would work. As you will be aware if you read the odd post here, inspired by little Rowan LW and working closely with FAB charity Liverpool Heartbeat, I’d mentioned to Chyler and Nathan the amazing life saving work done at Liverpool’s Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. Immediately they suggested helping raise money for the craniofacial fund via their gigs at the Cavern Club. All very good but then Nathan came up with the idea of also heading out to meet and play for the kids at the hospital. I honestly couldn’t see how this could work. I mean, the children at the hospital are either ill or in the process of recovering from a serious illness. Love Chyler and Nathan as much as I do, I wasn’t sure that the patients would be up for either a chat or a song. And, a lot of them might not even know who these funny accented people are!
HOW WRONG WAS I?!?
As soon as we arrived at the hospital it became obvious that every nurse and doctor were huge fans of Lexie Grey, the character Chyler had played to enormous success in the long running TV series ‘Grey’s Anatomy’. I’ve never seen so many excitedly flushed nurses and doctors as when Chyler took to the wards. And as for the children, it was as if their dearest and most loved family members had turned up when Chyler and Nathan sat at their bedsides and engaged them all in lengthy chats filled with many laughs and hugs.
The magical pair had brought the huge box of goodies kindly sent over by DC Comics to distribute to each child. These went over beautifully well, even with the diehard Marvel fan! Both Chyler and Nathan were bowled over by the atmosphere of the hospital and the general happiness of each patient. This is so true and Alder Hey is certainly a remarkable place thanks to the extraordinary work of all nurses, doctors and surgeons. It is also true that Chyler and Nathan should be bottled and made available on the NHS!
And so Europe beckoned, but not before losing passports. But that’s another story…
—T.Q.
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As Germany where he studied at Friedrich-Wilhelm III. In
As a historian, sociologist, political
activist, editor, novelist, and poet, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, W.E.B.
Du Bois for short, is regarded as the other “father” of the Harlem Renaissance.
Some may even say that if Langston Hughes captured the heart of the “New
Negro,” then Du Bois certainly captured the mind. Du Bois was born in Great
Barrington, Massachusetts to Mary Silvina Burghardt, a domestic worker, and
Alfred Du Bois, a barber and itinerant laborer. Du Bois received a classical,
college preparatory education in Great Barrington’s racially integrated high
school, from which, in June 1884, he became the first African-American
graduate. He contributed numerous articles to two reginal newspapers, the
Springfield Republican and the
black-owned New York Globe, then
edited by T. Thomas Fortune. Du Bois later enrolled in Fisk University, where
he came under the mentorship of principal Frank Hosmer. Hosmer encouraged his wide-ranging
reading and solicited scholarships for him. Fisk University offered a
continuation of his classical education and strong influences of teachers who
were heir to abolitionism. This also offered Du Bois an introduction to
southern American racism and African-American culture. This was highly visible
in his later writings.
Du Bois would go on to study at schools
such as Harvard, where he received a B.A. cum laude, an M.A and a Ph. D. and
between 1892 and 1894 travel to Germany where he studied at Friedrich-Wilhelm
III. In 1896, Du Bois was invited by the University of Pennsylvania to conduct
to study of the seventh ward in Philadelphia. After an estimated 835 hours of
door-to-door interviews in 2,5000 households, Du Bois completed the monumental
study, The Philadelphia Negro in
1899. This work reflected the two main elements of his intellectual engagement:
the scientific study of the so-called Negro Problem and the appropriate
political responses to it. Du Bois also acknowledged for the U.S. Bureau of
Labor the first of several studies of southern African-American households,
which was published as a bureau bulletin the following year under the title The Negroes of Farmville, Virginia: A Social
Study. Atlantic Monthly published an
essay entitled, “The Strivings of the Negro People,” which was a slightly
revised version of which later opened The
Souls of Black Folk (1903). These works framed Du Bois’s evolving
conceptualization of, organizational approach to, and political values and
obligations regarding the problem of race in America.
In 1910 Du Bois joined the NAACP as an
officer, as its only black board member, to edit its monthly magazine, the Crisis. The NAACP, better known as the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1909 and focused on things like
lynching, economic justice, civil rights, education, women’s suffrage. As the editor, Du Bois finally established
the journal of opinion that could serve as a platform that could reach a larger
audience of African Americans. In these series of issues, Du Bois rallied black
support for NAACP policies and programs and denounced white opposition to equal
rights. Thus, the journal established, simultaneously, a forum for multiple
expressions of and a well-defined representation and demonstration of black
intellectual and cultural life.
With his vantage as an NAACP officer, Du
Bois also furthered another compelling intellectual and political interest,
known as Pan-Africanism. He attended conferences that focused, in some way
shape or form, on the fate of African colonies in the postwar world, however
the political agendas of the earliest meetings were often compromised by the
ideological and political muddles of the representatives chosen to represent
the African colonies, i.e. Jamaican black nationalist Marcus Garvey.
World War I had a vast effect on Du Bois.
During the war, he wrote “Close Ranks,” a controversial editorial in the Crisis (July 1918), where he urged African
Americans to set aside their grievances momentarily and concentrate their
energies on the war efforts. Together, Du Bois and the NAACP fought for officer
training and equal treatment for black troops, led a silent protest arch down
Fifth Avenue in 1917 against racism, and in 1919 launched an investigation into
charges of discrimination against black troops in Europe. Needless to say, this
was during the era where Blacks in America were finding a new voice, the
emergence of the New-Negro.
Meanwhile, the harsh reality of the war
itself stimulated changes in Du Bois’s evolving analyses of racial issues and
phenomena. His piece, entitled Darkwater:
Voices with the Veil reflects many of those themes. Du Bois and the NAACP would eventually part
ways after growing opposition between him and fellow colleagues, especially
executive director Walter White. Du Bois contribution to the Harlem Renaissance
was that of a deeper intellectual look in that of the African-America. It fueled
the way people viewed blacks in a time of racial tension and the proper
approach to the racial conflicts that were taking place.
Black nationalist, Marcus Moziah Garvey was
born on August 17,1887 in St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica, was the son of stonemason. He
attended a local elementary school and read regularly on his own. However,
difficult family finances forced him into employment at an early age as a
printer’s apprentice. Three years later Garvey would move to Kingston where he
found work as a printer and became involved in local union activities. In 1907
Garvey took part in what would be an unsuccessful printers’ strike. However,
these early experiences groomed his journalistic skills and raised his
consciousness about the depressing conditions of the black working class in his
native land. Garvey did a few brief stints on short-lived radical newspapers in
Panama. In 1912, he moved to London, England to continue to work as printer. The
following years would prove to be crucial to Garvey way of thinking. While
studying at the University of London’s Birkbeck College. While there Garvey
took on the Booker T. Washington’s philosophy of black self-advancement in his
autobiographical Up from Slavery. Garvey
also got to meet Sudanese-Egyption who was working for African self-rile and
Egyptian independence, Duse Mohammed Ali. Duse Mohammed published a small
magazine, Africa Time and Orient Review where
he allowed Garvey to write and also introduced him to other Africans. By the
time Garvey left London, he was convinced that black worldwide would have to
fend for themselves if they were ever combat white racism and free the African
continent from European colonial rule.
In 1912, Garvey founded the Universal Negro
Improvement and Conservation Association and African Communities League, also
known as UNIA. It would also be the vehicle for Garvey’s efforts at racial
advancement the remainder of his life.
He initially started a trade school in Jamaica, however, things did not
go as planned. So in 1916, Garvey took his organization and cause to the center
of black revolution in Harlem, New York.
Over a period of time Garvey’s movement
gained strength in power and both numbers. It’s slogan “One Aim, One God, One
Destiny” drew attention, especially to Blacks that had served abroad and were
unhappy to come back to an America still saturated in racism. Harlem was
literally a goldmine for Garvey’s headquarters A pan-African movement was
already under way, emphasizing the liberation of the African continent and
black racial pride worldwide. Garvey used this along as with his weekly
newspaper the Negro World as his
mouthpiece, to his advantage.
By the early 1920s the UNIA anywhere
between two to six million members; accurate number is hard to obtain due to
poor record keeping. Meanwhile, the Negro
World had a circulation of some 50,000. Garvey had already been in talks
with the government of Liberia for a back-to-Africa colonization movement for
American Blacks. This would prove to be difficult. Garvey’s business
enterprises were his proudest achievements, however, the source of his undoing.
The biggest of Garvey’s enterprises was the Black Star Line, a steamship
company that was set to carry passengers and trade among Africa, the Caribbean
and the United States. This project would prove to yet another tragic loss for
Garvey. Between dishonest and possibly criminal practice and three aging and
overpriced vessels, The Black Star Line would go nowhere.
Garvey’s critics begun to question his
ethics, including Du Bois, whose goal countered with that of Garvey’s black
self-segregation. Things got even worse when Garvey openly associated with KKK
members, thousands of Blacks were outraged.
legacy that I side with the most would have to be that of W.E.B Du Bois.
Personally, I consider myself more an intellectual. I prefer the mind and how
works; how else are you supposed to understand people, let alone a whole race.
Quite frankly, Garvey’s methods would never bring about peace in the world.
Garvey was just running away from the racial problems being faced around the
world. It is ultimately impossible to fix a problem if you are going to
self-segregate yourself. You are essentially doing the same thing you are
accusing your oppressor of. Overall, I feel like Du Bois legacy does more for
the culture in a sense that we look at the real problems that Blacks faced; the
who, what, where of our racial problems and the response to it whether they
worked or not. Again, Garvey’s plan was just to run away from all of that and
start somewhere new. If Europeans took land from us before, regardless if we
all moved to a country together, do not you think the same thing would happen. Plus,
Garvey’s work ethics were flawed and unorganized.
When see how people view and stereotype African as
The planet, must think about profoundly their history as
Baseball very few Major League teams: between 1901 and
The W.E.B Dubois and shows the many effects and
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Capital Region sales tax revenue grows | The Daily Gazette
Capital Region sales tax revenue grows
Schenectady lags, but county officials think that's due to unusually good 2017
Stephen Williams
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Photographer: Gazette file photo
CAPITAL REGION -- Local counties did well last year in collecting sales tax revenue, though Schenectady County saw significantly less growth than its neighbors.
Schenectady County collected $101.6 million in sales tax revenue for 2018, but that was only $115,000 more than the year before, according to a report released by state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. That's a 0.01 percent growth rate; the regional average increase was 5.05 percent.
A year ago, however, the comptroller reported that Schenectacy County's sales tax revenue grew 7.66 percent, the most in the region.
County spokesman Joe McQueen said the county believes it saw an unusual spike in 2016-17 because of one-time purchases of construction materials and furnishings for the Rivers Casino & Resort and surrounding Mohawk Harbor development. He noted, however, that that was a guess, since the state doesn't share details about where sales tax originates within counties.
"As far as our budget, we're right on target with where we expect to be," McQueen said.
Year-to-year numbers can fluctuate for reasons apart from retail sales, including adjustments made by the state for past years, as actual receipts are matched against estimates. At this point, much of what the state paid in 2018 is based on estimates.
DiNapoli reported that, statewide, sales tax collections grew for the third year in a row, with total collections of $17.5 billion, up 5.3 percent.
“Local sales tax collections grew at a faster pace in 2018 than in recent years, boosting local revenues,” DiNapoli said in releasing the report on Monday. “Despite the good news, a slowdown in collection growth in the fourth quarter shows that sales tax revenue can be unpredictable. Local officials should keep a watchful eye on consumer spending and this revenue source and be prepared to react accordingly.”
Every region of the state, with the exception of the Finger Lakes, has experienced sales tax growth on an annual basis. The Finger Lakes region's sales tax growth slowed from 4.9 percent in 2017 to 3.7 percent in 2018, DiNapoli said.
The report said sales tax collections in the Mohawk Valley, which includes Fulton, Montgomery and Schoharie counties, grew 5.8 percent.
Of the 57 counties outside New York City, collections grew in 55. Collections were down only in Cayuga (-1.3 percent) and Madison (-0.7 percent) counties.
All but one of the cities with its own sales tax experienced an increase in year-over-year collections in 2018. Gloversville had the strongest growth (17.8 percent), but that doesn't necessarily reflect actual growth. The city's sales tax growth was 4.3 percent between 2016 and 2017.
"Most cities' total sales tax collections are relatively small, which means they are susceptible to great percentage variances, especially when factoring in technical adjustments," the report states.
DiNapoli noted that if proposed legislation to increase enforcement of sales tax collections for internet-based sales -- think Amazon -- is approved this year, it could bring millions in additional sales tax revenue to local governments.
Reach Daily Gazette reporter Stephen Williams at 518-395-3086, [email protected] or @gazettesteve on Twitter.
2018 Sales Tax Revenue:
Albany County: $275.1 million up 6.2 percent
Fulton County: $22.6 million up 9.45 percent
Montgomery Co. $30.8 million up 4.62 percent
Rensselaer Co. $88.4 million up 5.6 percent
Saratoga Co. $125.3 million up 4.8 percent
Schenectady Co. $101.6 million up 0.01 percent
Schoharie Co. $16.1 million up 3.9 percent
Cities that collect sales tax separately:
Gloversville $4.04 million up 17.8 percent
Johnstown $4.08 million up 7.7 percent
Saratoga Springs $12.7 million up 7.63 percent
Source: New York State Comptroller
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By Whitney Tilson
In the past two decades, I have learned some valuable investing lessons...
As some of you know, my journey to launch Empire Financial Research has been unique. In late 1998, I raised $1 million to launch my own hedge fund... without any formal training.
They say it's better to be lucky than good. I'd like to think I was a little of both. Over the next dozen years, I grew assets under management to $200 million, nearly tripling my investors' money in a flat market.
Toward the end, though, I made some key mistakes. I worried about another downturn, so I was too conservative with my portfolio... I took profits too quickly, held too much cash, and shorted too many stocks.
These kinds of missteps are incredibly common, but they destroy your profits over time. That's why I started Empire Financial Research – to share the lessons I've learned over the past few decades on Wall Street with individual investors like you.
So today, without further ado, I'm going to show you the four steps that individual investors can take to beat the market over the long run – including one that can help put you ahead of the pros...
The first step is the most important, and one that will sound familiar to longtime DailyWealth readers: effective portfolio management.
It was only through hard experience that I came to learn that stock-picking is only half the battle. The other 50% of investing is managing your portfolio, which can create or destroy as much value as the stocks you own.
To borrow a baseball analogy, your batting average matters a lot less than your slugging percentage. It's not how many of your picks are right... it's how much money you make when you're right versus how much you lose when you're wrong.
If you're sitting on a big winner that runs up 50% or 100%, trimming your position can stunt your returns tremendously. The opposite is true, too. When you hang on to your losers way too long – or worse yet, average down on your position – your losses can mount quickly.
It's critical to have the judgment, humility, and fortitude (which come from experience) to know when to let your winners run and cut your losses.
In October 2012, I had nearly 5% of my portfolio in video-streaming company Netflix (NFLX), right at its multiyear lows. And then it took off, becoming one of the greatest stocks of all time. But even though I had publicly predicted almost exactly what would happen, I only made about a tenth of what I should have – about $10 million on what could have been a $100 million winner. As the stock moved up, I kept selling and eventually exited far too early.
Had I simply gone away on a five-year vacation, I would have done far, far better – the stock is up almost 50 times since then!
It's also critical to give your investments enough time to let your thesis play out.
One of the biggest advantages individual investors have over professional money managers is the lack of short-term performance pressure.
Even the people who manage endowments and pension funds – which by definition have multidecade investing horizons – are evaluated on a short-term basis, sometimes even monthly. But sometimes, stocks can remain cheap for years before the tide turns.
It reminds me of something investing legend Warren Buffett once said...
All I want to do is hand in a scorecard when I come off the golf course. I don't want you following me around and watching me shank a three-iron on this hole and leave a putt short on the next one.
Meanwhile, 99% of the money in the world is managed by people who feel someone looking over their shoulders, ready to scold them for any mistake.
Sometimes stocks are cheap because they have no short-term catalyst to push shares higher. This means that they can languish for a while... But I don't try to anticipate when other investors' sentiment will change. It's not the end of the world if a cheap stock remains depressed for a while... as long as you have an appropriate investing horizon.
I'd argue the only money you should be investing in the stock market is money you don't need for three to five years. That sort of time frame gives you the patience to wait for high-quality stocks to go "on sale" and for your cheap stocks to start to move (assuming you're right that they're cheap!).
Next up is another core tenet of value investing: buying when the odds are in your favor.
In the value investing community, this goes hand-in-hand with what the father of value investing Benjamin Graham called "margin of safety."
Imagine you're driving a big truck over a bridge with a lot of other trucks on it that weigh a collective 49 tons. How would you feel if the bridge were engineered to hold only 50 tons?
When it comes to important things that your life – or financial future – depend on, you want to give yourself plenty of room to be wrong. Ideally, you want to consistently buy stocks where if you're right, you double your money (or more) in two to five years, and if you're wrong, you only lose a little.
That brings me to the last way you can put yourself in the position to beat the market: concentrating your portfolio in your best ideas.
Over the last half-century, a handful of folks figured out that Buffett is an investing genius, so they put their entire net worth into his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK). That has obviously worked out well for them, but I highly recommend against such extreme concentration.
I think most investors should own somewhere between 10 and 20 stocks. This provides reasonable diversification, yet also allows you to concentrate on your best ideas.
These days, it's becoming harder and harder to find stocks that the market has badly mispriced and undervalued... especially a decade into a complacent bull market like the one we're in today.
The idea that any one investor can have real, proprietary insights – what I call "variant perceptions" – across dozens of stocks is hard to imagine. But by focusing on a handful of situations where you have an edge over the market, you're likely to do far better than you would by owning dozens of stocks.
Whitney Tilson
Editor's note: After a career nailing big market moves on Wall Street, Whitney is doing something most hedge-fund managers never do... Last week, he sat down to discuss the powerful strategy he used to grow his hedge fund from $1 million to $200 million – and how this approach could help you make huge investment gains, starting this year. Watch a free replay of the event before it goes offline right here.
As Whitney says, he has learned some valuable investing lessons over nearly two decades of managing multiple hedge funds and mutual funds. Learn three more of his important tips here: Want to Beat the Market? Do These Three Things.
"For most of my time on Wall Street, I was an old-school value investor," Whitney writes. "But recently, I've changed – and improved – my approach to investing and how I pick stocks." Read more about his strategy here: How I Went From Being a Classic Value Investor to a 'Make Money' Investor.
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THIS ECONOMIC 'BELLWETHER' PAINTS A BULLISH PICTURE
Today, another manufacturing giant tells us the economy is strong…
As regular readers know, we like to use various sectors as economic bellwethers. When robotic vacuum cleaners and ski resorts are popular, we see that consumers feel financially comfortable. Similarly, if industrial manufacturers are racking up sales, it’s a clue that the gears of economic production are turning. Today’s company is an example of the latter trend…
Honeywell (HON) is a massive $125 billion conglomerate that supplies multiple industries, including manufacturing, aerospace, health care, and oil and gas production. In the most recent quarter, Honeywell enjoyed sales of nearly $9 billion and better-than-expected earnings. Best of all, organic revenue jumped in all four of the company’s business segments… a positive sign for the broader economy.
As today’s chart shows, HON shares have been on a tear… They’ve nearly doubled over the past five years, and they recently hit a new all-time high. As major businesses buy from suppliers like Honeywell, it’s a sign the economy is still thriving today…
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Parties, except BJP, demand single phase poll in Jharkhand
National, Politics October 17, 2019, 6:42 pm Daily World
Ranchi, Oct 17 : Political parties except the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party have demanded that the Assembly polls in the state should take place in a single phase.
The Election Commission (EC) team met leaders of different political parties in Ranchi on Thursday.
The BJP delegation led by Deepak Prakash, state party vice president, demanded that the polls should be conducted in five phases and the distance between two polling booths should not be more than 2 kms.
The ruling party also sought a strict vigil on Bangladeshi intruders in the state.
Meanwhile, the Congress, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), CPI and other parties pitched for a single phase Assembly poll.
“We have demanded that the Assembly polls should take place in a single phase such as is happening in a Maharashtra like big state,” JMM General Secretary Supriyo Bhattacharya told IANS.
He said we have also brought to the notice of the EC team that some government officials are working as BJP agents and their social media posts are favouring the ruling party.
Congress leader Alok Dubey, who was part of his party’s delegation, told IANS: “We raised the issue of misuse of district administration by the state government and demanded a single phase election”.
The Communist Party of India demanded that polling should be conducted through ballot papers.
The EC team is scheduled to meet state election officials, DGP, Chief Secretary, deputy commissioners and superintendents of police of all 24 districts of the state on Friday.
The EC is likely to announce the poll dates soon.
The term of the current Assembly will end on January 5.
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Tennessee 3-M Earplugs Lawsuit
January 8, 2020 •
As a trusted lawyer spearheading a Tennessee 3-M earplugs lawsuit, I’m giving a free legal consultation to any veteran who used 3-M earplugs and later suffered hearing loss.
I am a lawyer who has proudly served Tennessee for more than thirty years. I am also a veteran, which is why I am taking the Tennessee 3-M earplugs lawsuit very seriously.
3-M is a manufacturing company who sold over two million earplugs to the U.S. military between 2003 and 2015.
The earplugs, called Combat Arms™ Earplugs Version 2, are two-sided, with one side yellow and one side green. The military bought them to protect the hearing of American soldiers in war zones. But, according to a lawsuit filed by the U.S Government against 3-M, the company knew early on that their earplugs would fail. And they still let the sale close.
3-M chose profits over protection.
3-M is accused of choosing to make a profit while knowing their earplugs would fail the people wearing them for protection. Here is what 3-M allegedly knew about their defective earplugs but did not disclose to the military:
The two-sided earplugs, known as the Combat Arms™ Earplugs Version 2 (3M CAE.V2), were too short for proper insertion in the ears.
They could loosen over time, decreasing their effectiveness.
They could gradually lose all noise-cancellation performance.
Frankly, this outrages me. While our sons, daughters, mothers and fathers were in Iraq and Afghanistan fighting to protect us, 3-M left their hearing knowingly unprotected. This is why I am fighting so fiercely to get justice for our veterans by participating in a Tennessee 3-M earplugs lawsuit.
The case against 3-M is complicated.
Unfortunately, this is not a simple case. I wish our veterans could simply go to the VA office and state their case. But it doesn’t work like that. This litigation is against a company that made $31 Billion last year and has a lot of legal power to protect it, which is why you need an experienced lawyer on your side to win.
This is precisely why I’m fighting on behalf of veterans and spearheading a Tennessee 3-M earplugs lawsuit. Fortunately, I have fought many big cases like this in my career and won. And I am proud to stand up for those who sacrifice to serve our country by offering a free legal consultation to any veteran who used 3-M’s earplugs and now suffers from hearing loss or damage.
Darrell Castle & Associates can get you the justice you deserve.
Hearing loss, impairment, and tinnitus can be devastating. But you don’t have to fight this alone. Contact us online or call us at (901) 327-1212 for a completely free legal consultation, no strings attached.
We can help you if served in the military between 2003 and 2015 and used 3-M Combat Arms™ Earplugs Version 2 and later suffered hearing loss, impairment, or tinnitus.
When you call, we will ask you a few questions to get to know your case:
What base or country you were in when you used the earplugs?
Did you buy them yourself or were they issued to you?
What was your baseline hearing when you first entered the military, and what it was at discharge?
Most importantly, we want to know your compelling story. How has your hearing loss, impairment, or tinnitus changed the way you live? Are you unable to hear your baby’s voice or function without the help of a hearing aid?
If these conditions apply to you, don’t wait. Get in touch with us today to get expert legal advice from a team of lawyers TN trusts. It would be our honor to get you and your family the justice you deserve.
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The 19 Most Influential Grunge Musicians
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By: Tim Karan / Photo: Buda Mendes, Getty Images
Nobody ever set out to be a grunge icon -- at least nobody who actually became one.
In a musical genre defined by its lack of formal definition, the main prerequisite was to want nothing to do with it. But despite some musicians' best efforts, they became synonymous with grunge and hugely influential to subsequent artists.
Musicians like who? Glad you asked. Check out the gallery above to see who we think are the 19 Most Influential Grunge Musicians of all time. Don't agree with us? Did we miss someone? Let us know in the comments section below.
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With a sad heart I put the following down on paper. It is also a sort of happy place for me at the same time, if that makes sense? This is in a way, my personal au revoir to Roger. I hope you understand. It was an enormous privilege to call Roger a friend, a mate.
I said my farewell to Roger on the 26th June with Gilbert Peterson, the publisher and managing editor of this magazine, as we sat by Roger’s bed chatting. Roger’s brain as always was as sharp as a tack, and we had a few laughs. It was a wonderful, peaceful time.
I recall when Roger phoned, as I’m sure he did to a few friends, re his idea of having two Roger’s Way Out Parties. “Dave I can’t see the point of being in a box surrounded by friends recalling their times with me. I would rather be alive and listen to their stories, what do you think?” “Bloody great idea, Roger”. They were Historical Events in my humble opinion!
Roger Grace was a good bugger who loved ice cream! He was one of life’s true gentlemen. A humble guy with immense talent.
A family trip to Goat Island in 1958 triggered his serious interest in diving, photography and marine biology. He joined the Auckland Underwater Club and later, the university Underwater Club. Like many divers of that era he was into spearfishing and entered several spearfishing competitions, achieving a fourth place in the National competition at Whitianga in 1964. He learnt to scuba dive in
At the University of Auckland he gained a Bachelor of Science, a Masters in Zoology and a PhD on the animals and marine sediment at the entrance to Whangateau harbour. With these qualifications and knowledge he kick-started and sustained his amazing career and years of dedication to protect New Zealand’s marine environment. We published his first article for Dive New Zealand magazine in the Dec/Jan 2001 titled, Towards a Network of Reserves. He contributed over 50 plus articles to this magazine.
As the years thundered by my respect grew for Roger’s ethics and undiminishing environmental passion and his commitment to understanding this blue planet’s fragile ecosystem. God knows how many Environmental Impact Reports he wrote…
In the halcyon days of the massive Ocean Conferences in the 80s-90s Roger was a superb presenter. He was also a strong entrant in the battle to win the prestigious Oceans Photography Competition. Roger won Overall Best of Show in 1984, 1988 and 1991.
It was an absolute pleasure in 2009 to award him the Wyland Foundation/Dive New Zealand magazine Recognition Award – one person can make a difference. The small citation on the Award says: Roger Grace Environmentalist, Photographer, Writer, Researcher.
When presenting this award I listed just a few of his projects: Over 30 years of reef fish and crayfish monitoring in protected and non-protected areas.
Invited photographer and sometimes scientist on many international Greenpeace expeditions.
Study of impacts on benthos communities due to channel deepening and widening projects at Port of Tauranga, and effects of dumping sediment offshore.
Monitoring biological impacts of sand extraction in the Kaipara Harbour and Northland east coast.
Monitoring the effects of dredge spoil dumping by Ports of Auckland Ltd on rocky reef life in the Hauraki Gulf.
New Caledonia: With a team from Conservation International a survey of coral reef and lagoon fishes.
Guide to the Kermadec Islands for Jacques Cousteau on the Calypso.
Guide for National Geographic underwater photographer David Doubilet on two expeditions to New Zealand.
Habitat Mapping of Tawharanui marine park, Mimiwhangata marine park, Doubtless Bay, Motukaroro marine reserve, Whangarei – to name a few.
245 magazine articles with pictures on marine and conservation issues.
He has been recognised for his environmental work with:
Forest and Bird’s highest honour, the Old Blue Award, 2016.
Queen’s Service Medal for Public Service, 2005.
Mobil Environmental Award 1974.
Greenpeace was a big part of his life. His first campaign was aboard Rainbow Warrior II in 1990. This was the start of his 17-year commitment to the organisation. He was their top-side and underwater photographer. His understanding of the world’s environment was invaluable. His photos of marine life enmeshed in kilometres of drift netting in the Tasman Sea brought home to the public the indiscriminate carnage taking place off our coast by international fishing vessels.
As many of you know he made a huge commitment with his long-term crayfish monitoring at Tawharanui. (see pages 37 – 39 in this issue) This monitoring will continue with the support of Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust.
To his last breath, Roger never gave up his battle for the environment. Tony Enderby was good enough to send me his notes while sitting with Roger during his final days. Scott Macindoe, the legend who started Legasea, shared with me his recording/video when chatting with Roger a few days before Roger said farewell.
As he struggled to breathe he replied to Scott McIndoe’s question: “So, Roger, I’m keen to fulfil your wishes and help get your message out there. It’s a critically important message. Could you introduce me to Nick and Tony?”
Roger: “Yes. Hi [Dr] Nick [Shears], Tony [Enderby] and Terry Brailsford. I’m sitting here in my bed at the hospital in Warkworth with a wonderful man, Scott Macindoe. I’m sure you all know quite a bit about him already through his Legasea work. I believe the Legasea team does a wonderful job in pushing for sensible fishing rules and that with their work we may see much better fisheries management. Particularly in the Hauraki Gulf; it’s in a sorry state as you know. I’m only sad I couldn’t be around for seeing a much better result. But I’d like you three guys to make sure that fisheries management is hell of a lot better than it is now. And I hope my work so far can be carried on to create a much better environment including no-take reserves. We need a lot of them secure – secure so that they’re not frittered away.
“The current proposals for a couple of marine reserves around Hauturu [Little Barrier Island] are particularly valuable and I think if we can get those in place that’d be absolutely wonderful. I think it’s a great shame that we didn’t get the one out the back of Great Barrier Island. I think that would’ve by now, if it’d been put in place when it was supposed to, that one would’ve been absolutely wonderful. Just imagine it, snapper hooning around out the back of Arid Island [Rakitu Island]. Such a loss we didn’t get that. But with your help we’ll probably get there.”
l have only met a couple of people in my life that have unquestionably contributed to our enjoyment and understanding of our marine environment. They are the most humble, not seeking any form or recognition for their achievements, no ego BS, both loveable human beings, the late Kelly Tarlton (Kelly Tarlton’s Sea Life Aquarium) and Roger Grace.
Looking back, l wish l had recorded our phone conversations over such things as the Shifting Baseline, kina barrens and the failure of Fisheries Quota Management system. Maybe the CIA or the Russians have them!
Rest in peace, my friend.
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Bacterial meningitis is challenging to diagnose and to differentiate from viral meningitis, both clinically and through laboratory tests. A high index of suspicion is necessary, particularly in light of nonclassical and atypical presentations. By Dan Cass, BSc, MD, FRCPC
acterial meningitis is an uncommon, yet highly worrisome, diagnosis. It is a source of anxiety for patients and their physicians alike, representing a very high-risk situation: it is rare, but potentially lethal if missed. Even if recognized, the mortality rate for bacterial meningitis is 25%.1 The exact number of bacterial meningitis cases is difficult to establish due to inconsistenDr. Cass is assistant professor, division of emergency medicine, department of medicine, University of Toronto, and director of emergency services, St. Michaels Hospital, Toronto, Ontario. His areas of interest include inner-city health and cardiac arrest resuscitation.
cies in reporting and in the way that such statistics are kept by Health Canada and the Canadian Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC). The incidence is likely in the range of 2.5 to five cases per 100,000 people in the general population. This article will review the various presentations of bacterial meningitis, keys to its diagnosis, and the initial investigations and treatment necessary when the diagnosis is considered. Other types of meningitis, such as viral, fungal and non-infectious causes, will not be discussed in detail and will be mentioned only when they are of direct relevance to bacterial meningitis.
The good news is, despite changes in organisms and therapy, the clinical presentation of bacterial meningitis has changed little in our lifetimes.
The Canadian Journal of CME / November 2001 105
Early Recognition and Management of Meningitis
Despite changes in organisms and therapy, the clinical presentation of bacterial meningitis has changed little in our lifetimes. Fever is the most common presenting sign in all ages, and is present in over 85% of cases. The onset of bacterial meningitis is classically thought of as rapid and fulminant. The onset, however, is often more gradual and may occur over days. The diagnosis of bacterial meningitis begins with clinical suspicion and is confirmed with laboratory testing. Unfortunately for clinicians, there is no one test that is 100% sensitive and specific for its diagnosis. As technology improves and more rapid techniques are developed, polymerase chain reaction may play a greater role in the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis. While direct testing of cerebrospinal fluid is the most accurate way to confirm the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis, blood cultures can identify the causative organism in the majority of patients. Initial therapy for suspected bacterial meningitis is almost always empiric and is guided by a knowledge of the most likely organisms, as well as the incidence of antibiotic resistance in the local population. The most common organisms responsible for bacterial meningitis remain Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis and Hemophilus influenzae.
The bad news is, this means that meningitis is just as complex and elusive to clinically diagnose as ever before. Fever is the most common presenting sign in all ages and is present in over 85% of cases.2 Fortunately, fever is rarely the only sign or symptom of bacterial meningitis and is often accompanied by headache, vomiting, neck stiffness, altered mental status or seizures. It is important to recognize that the presenting signs and symptoms may vary greatly between adults and children (Table 1). Rash is frequently present, particularly in the case of meningicoccal infection. Classically, this rash is purpuric or petechial in nature and occurs in over half of adults with meningicoccal disease. However, about one-quarter of children with meningococcal infections develop a maculopapular rash that precedes the development of petechiae or purpura.2
106 The Canadian Journal of CME / November 2001
The onset of bacterial meningitis is classically thought of as rapid and fulminant. The onset, however, is commonly more gradual and may occur over days.1,3 Thus, it is not possible to reliably distinguish between bacterial and viral meningitis based on the clinical presentation alone. Since the presentation of bacterial meningitis is often not classical, it is important to maintain a high index of suspicion (Table 2). As meningitis is often spread hematogenously from a remote site, a search for associated sources of infection is important in any patient with suspected meningitis. For instance, the patient with pneumococcal meningitis may have a lobar pneumonia as the initial infectious source. While finding such foci may not alter the initial management significantly, it may offer a clue as to the causative organism.
Presenting Signs and Symptoms of Bacterial Meningitis
Symptom/Sign Fever Neck stiffness Vomiting Seizure Children 85% to 99% 60% to 80% 18% to 59% 20% to 30% Adults 92% to 99% 82% to 99% 52% 0% to 12%
Some patients are predisposed to developing ry testing. Unfortunately for clinicians, there is no meningitis and, therefore, are at greatly increased one test that is 100% sensitive and specific for its risk. The most obvious are those with an altered diagnosis. Thus, it is important to consider such immune status, such as patients with human investigations as CSF Gram stain and culture as immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or those under- confirmatory, rather then exclusionary. While going chemotherapy. Diabetes, alcoholism, cirrho- CSF findings in bacterial and viral meningitis generally differ (Table 3), as is the sis and many other chronic discase with the clinical presentation, eases also predispose some there are many exceptions to the people to meningitis. Patients classic pattern. who are either surgically or Many clinicians hesitate to inifunctionally asplenic are at tiate antibiotic therapy in patients increased risk of infection with with suspected meningitis for encapsulated organisms, such fear of altering the CSF characas pneumococcus and teristics and making the diagnosis meningococcus. Such patients less certain. There are two sound should be asked if they have For Good News reasons why all patients with susreceived vaccination against See Page 126 & 127 pected meningitis should receive these organisms, while recogantibiotic therapy without delay: nizing that vaccination is not a guarantee against infection. Recent neurosurgery 1. The risk of morbidity increases if therapy is delayed,3 and; or ears, nose and throat (ENT) surgery, head trauma with cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak and the 2. Initiating antibiotic therapy has little impact on the subsequent analysis of CSF. presence of a ventriculoperitoneal shunt all Following antibiotic therapy, elevation of CSF increase the risk of developing meningitis. white blood cells (WBCs) and protein, as well as Investigation a decrease in CSF glucose persist for up to three The diagnosis of bacterial meningitis begins with days.4 Even though the CSF culture may become clinical suspicion and is confirmed with laborato- negative within four hours of the first dose,4 other
Keys To Diagnosis of Bacterial Meningitis
Have high index of suspicion, as presentations often are not classical Look for associated foci of infection will often find source of hematogenous spread (e.g., lobar pneumonia in patients with Streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis) NB: Just because another cause of fever exists, this does not rule out meningitis. Ask about predisposing factors that increase likelihood, such as: - Altered immune status - Asplenic (surgical/functional) - Diabetes - Alcoholism/hepatitis/cirrhosis - Prior neurosurgery or ENT surgery/ ventriculoperitoneal shunt/CSF leak
ENT = ears, nose and throat; CSF = cerebrospinal fluid
patients ultimately diagnosed as having bacterial meningitis.1,2 This incidence is even lower in patients with post-neurosurgical meningitis and in patients with tuberculosis (TB) meningitis.2,4 The process of cytocentrifugation of CSF may improve the sensitivity of Gram staining, but is not done in all institutions and requires a larger volume (usually greater than 2 mL) of CSF. CSF Culture While CSF culture has long been considered the gold standard in the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis, such cultures are only positive about 80% of the time.1,4 Patients with partially-treated meningitis and those with atypical bacteria, such as Mycobacterium TB, often have negative or inconclusive culture results. Antigen Testing And Polymerase Chain Reaction Over the last 10 to 15 years, technologic advances have allowed for the detection of bacterial antigens and deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in CSF, even when the organisms themselves are nonviable and unable to be grown in culture. Bacterial antigen testing generally involves the use of latex agglutination tests for surface or capsular antigens from common pathogens in bacterial meningitis. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) involves the amplification of a small quantity of bacterial DNA found in a sample of CSF, which is then identified using nucleotide sequencing. Antigen testing is much more expensive than routine culture, and may result in significant false-positives. In one study of 1,268 samples undergoing bacterial antigen testing, only 57 (1.1%) were positive.5 Of these, 31 (54%) were false-positives, 22 (38%) were true-positives and four (7%) were indeterminate. None of the 22 true-positive results led to an alternation in therapy. PCR testing, while much more specific, similarly has not proven useful in altering therapy in
adjuncts to CSF examination for bacteria can still establish the diagnosis (see below). Computed Tomography Before Lumbar Puncture? Many clinicians are reluctant to perform a lumbar puncture (LP) without first obtaining a computed tomography (CT) scan to rule out mass lesions or evidence of increased intracranial pressure. A growing body of literature, however, supports the safety of LP without CT in the majority of patients with suspected meningitis. Nonetheless, a CT scan should be obtained in any patient with a decreased level of consciousness, focal neurologic signs or papilledema.1,2 CSF Gram Stain CSF Gram stain is positive in only 60% to 90% of
Typical CSF Findings In Meningitis
CSF Parameter Opening pressure (mm H2O) WBC count (WBC/mm3) Neutrophills (%) Glucose Protein Culture (% positive) Bacterial > 180 1,000 to 10,000 (may be < 100 in 10% of cases) > 80 < 2.2 mmol/L Increased 70% to 85% TB > 180 50 to 500 (may be lower or higher) Approximately 20 < 2.2 mmol/L Increased 52% to 83% Viral Often normal Usually < 300 (may be up to 1,000) < 20 (may have early neutrophillia) > 2.2 mmol/L Normal Approximately 50% (If viral culture requested)
Gram stain (% positive) 60% to 90%
37% to 87% (AFB smear) Negative
CSF = cerebrospinal fluid Adapted from: Zunt JR, Marra CM: Central nervous system infections Cerebral spinal fluid testing for the diagnosis of central nervous system infection. Neurol Clin 1999; 17(4):675-89.
many cases, largely due to a lack of availability and the fact that such testing can take several days to perform. These facts have led some authors to recommend that antigen testing be reserved for specific clinical circumstances. These include:1,2,4,6 Negative initial Gram stain and CSF culture; Partially-treated patients with negative CSF culture; and Gram stain consistent with meningococcus, as identification of the serotype may guide vaccination programs in the setting of an outbreak. As technology improves and more rapid techniques are developed, PCR may play a greater role in the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis. It has been suggested that PCR may be useful in establishing the diagnosis of viral meningitis in CSF culturenegative patients; therefore, shortening hospital stays and antibiotic therapy.2
Blood Cultures While direct testing of CSF is the most accurate way to confirm the diagnosis of bacterial meningitis, blood cultures can identify the causative organism in the majority of patients. This makes intuitive sense, as most cases of meningitis develop hematogenously. The ability of blood cultures to identify the bacteria varies with the organism involved: 80% with Streptococcus pneumoniae, 90% with Neisseria meningitidis and 94% with Hemophilus influenzae.4
Initial therapy for suspected bacterial meningitis is almost always empiric, and is guided by a knowledge of the most likely organisms and the incidence of antibiotic resistance in the local population. Two major shifts in pathogens have occurred in the last 10 years: the marked
Empiric Antibiotic Therapy In Suspected Bacterial Meningitis
Age/Clinical Condition < 3 months Organisms Listeria sp. Gram-negative enterics Less commonly: S. pneumoniae N. meningitidis H. influenza Children (> 6 weeks) S. pneumoniae N. meningitidis H. influenza (rare) Vancomycin plus cephalosporin (ceftriaxone or cefotaxime) *Plus vancomycin if incidence of penicillin-resistant S. pneumoniae is > 2%. Cephalosporin (ceftriaxone or cefotaxime) Cephalosporin (ceftriaxone or cefotaxime) *Plus ampicillin or vancomycin Empiric Antibiotic(s) Ampicillin plus cephalosporin (ceftriaxone or cefotaxime)
Adults (< 50 years)
S. pneumoniae N. meningitidis H. influenza
Adults > 50 years; alcoholic; co-morbidity
S. pneumoniae N. meningitidis H. influenza Listeria sp. Gram-negative enterics
Penicillin/cephalosporin-allergic
Chloramphenicol *Plus gentamycin if < 3 months or > 50 years
decrease in incidence of H. influenzae secondary to vaccination and the emergence of penicillinresistant S. pneumoniae. Early vaccines for H. influenzae Type B (HIB) first became available in 1986, and entered widespread use in Canada in the early 1990s. The result is a true success story of preventative medicine. According to the Canadian LCDC, the incidence of invasive HIB disease has decreased from
2.6/100,000 in 1988 to 0.2/100,000 in 1998.7 Over this same period, the incidence of invasive meningococcal disease also has decreased in incidence from 1.2/100,000 to 0.5/100,000. The reason for this decline is less clear, as vaccination against meningococcus is not routinely recommended.8 The incidence of pneumococcal and other bacterial meningitis has remained steady at between 0.3 and 0.5 cases per 100,000 people.7
While the incidence of HIB has plummeted, the incidence of penicillin resistance in strains of S. pneumoniae has risen dramatically. According to the Canadian Communicable Disease Report of May 1997, of 1,144 S. pneumoniae isolates tested in Ontario between 1987 and 1995, 43.1% showed an intermediate resistance to penicillin and 6.7% showed high levels of resistance.9 High-level resistance is generally associated with clinical resistance, although the relationship between in vitro and in vivo resistance is not always direct. Of even more concern is the fact that several of the penicillin-resistant isolates also showed resistance to other antibiotics.9 This alarming study serves as a reminder of the risks of inappropriate or indiscriminate use of antibiotics. Empiric Antibiotic Therapy Despite the changes outlined above, the most common organisms responsible for bacterial meningitis remain S. pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis and H. influenzae. All of these organisms (barring resistance, see below) are covered well by third-
generation cephalosporins, such as ceftriaxone or cefotaxime, which are first-line agents for empiric therapy (Table 4). (Note: cefuroxime, while generally effective against these bacteria, does not penetrate the CSF well and should not be used in the setting of suspected meningitis.) As well, the Canadian Paediatric Society recently published a recommendation that vancomycin be used in addition to a cephalosporin in all children older than six weeks.10 In infants less than three months of age, and in those patients over 50 years of age, or with chronic conditions such as alcoholism, the increased incidence of Listeria and Gram-negative bacilli necessitates the addition of ampicillin as a second agent. If the incidence of penicillin-resistant S. pneumoniae is > 2% in the local population, vancomycin and a cephalosporin should be used. In those patients with a true allergy to penicillin and/or cephalosporins, chloramphenicol is the drug of first choice. Gentamycin should be added for infants under three months and for those over 50 years of age.
Corticosteroids The use of steroids in bacterial meningitis is extremely controversial. While some studies have demonstrated that the early use of dexamethasone may reduce morbidity (especially hearing loss), the applicability of these studies to current practice is questionable for a number of reasons, which are outlined below. All of these studies have involved children. There have been no adult studies demonstrating usefulness of dexamethasone in bacterial meningitis. In these studies, H. influenzae was the predominant organism, which is no longer the case. The evidence for reduction of hearing loss pertains mostly to patients with H. influenzae meningitis. The evidence for this benefit with S. pneumoniae is only fair to moderate, and there is no evidence of benefit with other organisms. Penicillin- and cephalosporin-resistant S. pneumoniae was relatively uncommon at the time of these studies. Dexamethasone may decrease the CSF penetration of other antibiotics, such as vancomycin. The recent Canadian Paediatric Society statement neither recommends nor discourages the use of dexamethasone in children. It states only that: If usedthe first dose of dexamethasone should be given before the first dose of antibiotics or within one hour of the first dose of antibiotics for maximum benefit.10 There is currently no role for dexamethasone in adults with bacterial meningitis.
Initiate empiric antibiotic therapy immediately in any patient with suspected bacterial meningitis; Familiarize him/herself with the laboratory investigations and their accuracy available at his/her institution; Be aware of the incidence of antibiotic resistance in his/her local community; and Seek guidance early from infectious disease specialists, particularly in more complex patients and those with contraindications to first-line antibiotics. CME
Bacterial meningitis remains a disease associated with high morbidity and mortality. It often is challenging to diagnose and to differentiate from viral meningitis, both clinically and using laboratory tests. A high index of suspicion is necessary, particularly in light of nonclassical and atypical presentations. The clinician should:
References 1. Coyle PK: Overview of acute and chronic meningitis. Neurol Clinics 1999; 17(4):691-710. 2. Kaplan SL: Bacterial meningitis Clinical presentations, diagnosis, and prognostic factors of bacterial meningitis. Infect Dis Clin North Am 1999; 13(3):579-94. 3. Radetsky M: Duration of symptoms and outcome in bacterial meningitis: An analysis of causation and the implications of a delay in diagnosis. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1992; 11(9):698-701. 4. Zunt JR, Marra CM: Central nervous system infections Cerebral spinal fluid testing for the diagnosis of central nervous system infection. Neurol Clin 1999; 17(4):675-89. 5. Perkins MD, Mirrett S, Reller LB: Rapid bacterial antigen detection is not clinically useful. J Clin Microbiol 1995; 33(6):1486-91. 6. Markson S, Lewno MJ, Schutze GE: Clinical usefulness of cerebrospinal fluid bacterial antigen studies. J Pediatr 1994; 125(2):235-8. 7. Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Health Canada, 2000. http://cythera.ic.gc.ca/dsol/ndis/c_time_e.html 8. Canadian Immunization Guide. Fifth Edition. Health Canada, 1998, p. 126. 9. Penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae in Ontario, 1987-1995. Canadian Communicable Disease Report. May 1997; 23(9). 10. Infectious Disease and Immunization Committee, Canadian Paediatric Society: Therapy of suspected bacterial meningitis in Canadian children six weeks of age and older. Paediatrics and Child Health 2001; 6(3). www.cps.ca/english/statements/ID/ID01-01.htm
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We owe many thanks Jessie ABOUT THE AUTHOR THE MEI TEAM HOW WERE THESE HOW ARE THE SCORES CAN ONLY CITIES IN to STATES Sheffield, Sam Anderson, Finkel Cathryn Oakley is Legislative Counsel, The 2013 MEI is a project that CITIES CHOSEN? CALCULATED? WITH GOOD LAWS GET Limor GOOD and Jennifer Pike who jumped in when State and Advocacy at the Cities requires a significant breadth and SCORES? This year, theMunicipal cities rated are: the are rated on a scale of 0-100, we needed hands, and also to Rights Campaign Foundation. Inbased depth expertise to pull off, and Definitely not. extra The MEI was 50 Human state capitals, the 150 largest on of the citys laws, policies, the law fellows and to interns who helped addition conducting, managing, fortunately the team of people designed measure the cities in theto United States, the 3 and benefits, and services. There are who specifically out throughout process. Paul publishing Municipal Equality support this project is more than uplaws and policies the of the municipality, largest cities the or municipalities in Index, 100 standard points and 20 bonus has been anlaw indispensable she is responsible for assisting to the task.points are awarded for not Guequierre the state. While state might each state, the city home to the state points (bonus to and a voice of municipal and largest local legislators and advocates addfriend to a citys score, positive state states public university programming or actions that apply As ever, this project simply would not lawequality. Aisha Satterwhite has in enacting laws that further is not necessary for a city to been (including undergraduate and LGBT to some but not all cities). For more have been possible without Sarah a patient and helpful guide. Janice equality. She is a member of HRC score 100 points. 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She is a of happen. incredible design. increase the number ofgraduate cities rated. No. This is not a ranking of a citys research, compiled it into a draft George Mason University School of This year the sent MEI owes a particular atmosphere orBUT quality of life. It is WE scorecard, and it to the city for Law and Smith College. FINALLY, ESPECIALLY, DID YOU KNOW THAT ___ ISNT debt Cities of gratitude to opportunity Michael Porcello, an evaluation of the citys laws and review. had an to A CITY? THANK OUR PARTNERS AT THE Research Fellow Extraordinaire, who policies and an examination of how review the draft scorecard and offer Yes. A few of the places rated in EQUALITY FEDERATION. vital research, logistical, and inclusive city services of a LGBT anyprovided feedback prior to publication. the MEI are census-designated This partnership hasare been delight and moral support to the MEI 2013. The people. Some high-scoring cities places that are not incorporated as has brought real value to the project dramatic expansion of this project may not the feelstart. trulyIt welcoming all cities. In that case, we rated the local from has been a for particular would not have been possible without LGBT people, and some low-scoring government that actually serves that pleasure to work so closely with Ian him, and the MEI benefited greatly from cities may feel more census-designated place, which is Palmquist, and thewelcoming MEI owes a than real his months of hard work collecting, their policies might to reflect. usually the county. This is explained debt of gratitude Ian, A.J. Bockelman, managing and assessing thousands of further on page 16. Brandie Balken, Chuck Smith, Katie Belanger and Ted Martin for sharing their thoughtful advice about growing and improving the MEI. We thank those Equality Federation partners who shared their story in this publication. Pamela OLeary joined the MEI team The participation of so many state this year and jumped in right away leaders has made this project a much we are sent thankful her enthusiasm, Our team out for a letter by Themore feedback lasted several tool, robustwindow and useful educational dedication, and many hours email and certified mail hard in April to of months. Finally, cities were sent and a very special thanks goes out to work.and Hercity contribution was critical to their mayors managers notifying finalEquality scorecards and information every Federation member who the projects success andbeing we were glad about them that their cities were the 2014 MEI in the same provided feedbackplease see the to have her on followed board. by rated. The had letter was way. Equality Federation Institute facing page for the logos of groups a draft scorecard sent to the mayors state groups were able to that were also particularly engaged in and city managers in July also via review the scorecards and provide making the MEI a success this year. email and certified mail. feedback toforward the MEI We look toteam. working with you again next year for MEI 2014! pieces of data. We offer him a heartfelt acknowledgement of everything that he contributed to this project and we will miss him next year.
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12 14 16 17 26 Executive Summary 2013 MEI Scorecard City Selection Scoring Criteria Parts I - VI Acknowledging Context Not All Cities Are Created Equal Accounting for City Size Balancing State and Local Laws Understanding Restrictive State Law Effect of Enforcement and Lived Experience
What We Found
38 41 54 55 58 Summary of Results Table of 2013 Scores Take Action for Equality Changes to the MEI in 2014 Acknowledgements
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The message is clear. Equality isnt just for the coasts anymore. Real leadership is happening from Atlanta to Missoula to Salt Lake City and everywhere in between.
Between last years inaugural edition of the Municipal Equality Index and this years second installation, equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people has taken unprecedented steps forward. Whats more, this years MEI reveals that our progress this year didnt begin and end at the U.S. Supreme Courtit reached cities and towns in each and every state in this country. From Vicco, Kentucky to Coeur dAlene, Idaho to San Antonio, Texas, fairness and equality are surging ahead. In every corner of America, local governments are taking action, even where statewide protections are missing. For the first time, Southern cities are among those scoring 100 points on the MEI. This summers historic Supreme Court rulings underscored the fact that there are two Americas when it comes to LGBT issuesone America (mostly
on the coasts) where legal equality for LGBT people is nearly a reality, and another America where even the most basic statewide legal protections are non-existent. Yet the 2013 MEI reveals that, even in this second America, municipalities are leading a quiet pro-equality transformation. Forty-two percent of the 78 million people who live in MEI-rated cities have more comprehensive legal protections at the local level than they do at the state level. Ninety-four percent of those have local laws that are more inclusive of transgender and gender nonconforming people. As the MEI enters its third year, we want to continue this race to the top. We offer this edition as a blueprint for progressa roadmap for cities that are motivated by moral and economic imperatives to treat their LGBT citizens with the same dignity as everyone else. As HRC Foundation fights for equality everywhere, for everyone, we hope that
the MEI continues to inspire progress in cities across the countryuntil those two Americas are united under a single banner of fairness and equality. Finally, HRC Foundation offers a heartfelt thank you to our partners at the Equality Federation for their leadership and partnership on the MEI. This report is a testament to the important work that is going on in towns, cities, and states across the country, and HRC Foundation is committed to continuing to support these vital efforts until full equality reaches every person in every town in all 50 states.
CHAD GRIFFIN President Human Rights Campaign Foundation
Municipal victories arent simply making cities and counties more inclusive places to live, work, and build a family. Theyre also fueling the movement for equality in states across this nation.
This year marks the second edition of the Municipal Equality Index (MEI), and the Equality Federation is proud to partner with the Human Rights Campaign Foundation to release this critical report. In just one year, weve already seen significant advances toward equality in cities and counties in every corner of this nation. In communities across this country, advocates and activists are winning critical support at the municipal level for policies that truly improve the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. As you will see in the 2013 MEI report, weve seen incredible leadership from local lawmakersfrom enacting discrimination protections and recognizing domestic partners to providing training to government officials and ensuring that the LGBT community is always included.
Local leaders are taking important steps to provide LGBT people with the protections and security theyre denied by statewide and federal laws. And because of this leadership, many cities and counties are emerging as welcoming communities where LGBT people are treated with the dignity and respect theyve always deserved. In addition to providing real protections for LGBT people living our communities, local campaigns contribute significantly to movement building efforts in each state. They provide opportunities to engage in positive, productive public education. They strengthen the capacity of our movement organizations and expand the skills of our leaders. They build political momentum and create political allies.
In a year when weve seen historic victories at both the federal and state level, its easy to forget about these local wins. But while they may not have the far-reaching implications of a Supreme Court ruling or command the excitement of a bill signing, theyre worth celebrating. Every local win puts us one step closer to full and lasting equality in every state. Thank you to the local leaders, to the state-based LGBT advocacy organizations, to HRC Foundation and our national partners, and to the activists who worked so hard to bring about the advances detailed in this years Municipal Equality Index. Its because of you that we have much to celebrate. Sincerely,
REBECCA ISAACS Executive Director Equality Federation Institute
Enduring Growth for Cities is Driven by Diversity
Openness and tolerance are not just moral imperatives they are economic ones as well. A key indicator of that is openness to the LGBT community.
Jaime Hogge
Cities used to think they could generate jobs and economic growth by luring companies with huge tax abatements and other subsidies. But today, more and more we know that enduring growth for cities and for nations comes from an open, diverse, tolerant social environment that is appealing to a diverse range of creative and talented people. Nowadays, its not just people who relocate to be near businesses; businesses will move to take advantage of dense clusters of talent. The roughly 50 million members of the creative classthe scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs, researchers and academics, architects and designers, artists, entertainers and professionals in business, media, management, healthcare and lawcluster in cities that have competitive/collaborative ecosystems that inspire and stimulate innovation, and enabling infrastructures that allow their ideas to be brought swiftly and efficiently to market. The creative class cannot be bound by the social categories of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual
orientation and morethat we as a society have imposed on ourselves. Creativityand economic growth require diversity. Ive boiled it down to a formula I call the 3Ts of economic growth. Thriving, prosperous communities are strong across all 3 Tstechnology, talent and tolerance to prosper and thrive. Openness to the LGBT community is a key indicator of this kind of tolerance and openness. The research Ive conduced with Gary Gates of UCLAs Williams Institute has shown that embracing the LGBT community isnt just the morally right thing to do; it is an economic growth imperative. When a city is inclusive of LGBT people, it sends a signal that it is diverse and meritocratic, that it embraces differences of all kinds. This is a message that resonates with more than just LGBT people. The Fortune 500 has long recognized this, which is why 62 percent of them offer domestic partner benefits, 88 percent prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual
orientation, and 57 percent prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender identity. Offering these benefits and protections gives these companies an edge when it comes to attracting and retaining talented people, whether they are LGBT or not. The same applies to cities. The Municipal Equality Index offers an important benchmark for LGBT and straight people alike who are choosing where to locate, and for cities who understand the value of investing in equality.
RICHARD FLORIDA Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Torontos Rotman School of Management; Global Research Professor at New York University, and Senior Editor with The Atlantic
Why Cities Should Invest in Equality
Beyond the important issues of fairness and equality lies an additional reason for cities to take matters of equality seriously: it is good for business. Cities are in constant competition for residents, business, and employees: inclusiveness is an important factor that attracts all three. A growing body of research has shown that cities that have vibrant gay and lesbian communities have higher levels of income, life satisfaction, housing values, and emotional attachment to their community as well as higher concentrations of high-tech business. Richard Floridas fascinating work on this subject reveals a link between a citys inclusivity and its ability to attract top talent and innovative business. The Fortune 500 has long recognized that top talent is attracted to inclusiveness. In fact, the private sector has been using fair workplaces as a tool to recruit and retain top talent for years, because fair workplaces enhance an employers reputation, increase job satisfaction, and boost employee morale. Cities are subject to the same incentives for their employees, and must compete with the private sector in offering inclusive policies and benefits for their LGBT employees or risk losing their best employees to more inclusive employers. Cities would be well-advised to respond to the workplace considerations measured by the MEI, some of which are associated with minimal cost and pay dividends in productivity and retention. The competition to attract new business will only get more fierce as the disparity between the two Americasthe one America where states offer near-legal equality for LGBT people and the other where even the most basic state protections do not existcontinues to grow. Businesses will increasingly have to evaluate the legal landscape offered by a potential new location in their calculation of where to expand operations. In the America where state protections are weak, cities are under additional competitive pressure to institute municipal protections that make up for the deficiencies at the state level.
Businesses will increasingly have to evaluate the legal landscape offered by a potential new location in their calculation of where to expand operations.
CITIES RATED BY THE MEI
The Municipal Equality Index rates municipalities of varying sizes drawn from every state in the nation.
137 CITIES WITH A
POPULATION TOTAL OF 55,853,651
SAME 137 FROM 2012 PLUS MORE THAN DOUBLE THE NUMBER FOR A TOTAL OF 291 CITIES WITH A POPULATION TOTAL OF 77,851,822 +
Momentum for Municipal Equality
This year cities across the country, including in Idaho, Kentucky, Georgia, Montana, and Missouri, continued to prove that municipalities will act to support equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people even where states and the federal government have failed to do so. These cities reflect a movement that is happening at the local level across the country. The Municipal Equality Index demonstrates the ways that many cities canand do serve the LGBT people who live and work in those cities. The results of this years evaluation tell the story of the momentum of municipal equality In 2012 we rated 137 cities with a total population of 55,853,651; in 2013 we rated 291 cities with a population total of 77,851,822. 25 cities received perfect scores (100 points) in 2013; 11 did in 2012. Of cities that scored 100, 8 cities came from states without comprehensive relationship recognition and without statewide non-discrimination laws; 2 did in 2012.
10% scored over 25% scored over half scored over the average score 25% scored fewer than 3.5% scored fewer than
THE PRESENCE OF AN OPENLY LGBT ELECTED OR APPOINTED OFFICIAL IS CORRELATED TO HIGHER SCORES
Average Score Fully Inclusive Non-Discrimination Law City Employee Non-Discrimination Policy City Employee Domestic Partner Benefits
78 pts 77% 80% 94%
45 pts 48% 31% 7%
WITH OUT
MUNICIPALITIES ACT WHERE STATES HAVE NOT
Municipal law provides powerful protections, especially to transgender and gender non-conforming people. Of the 78 million people living in MEI rated cities, 33 million of these have more comprehensive municipal laws than state laws, and 31 million have gender identity or expression protections at the municipal level that they do not have on the state level.
CITIES WITH SAME-SEX COUPLES EXCELLED
Cities with high proportions of samesex couples tended to outperform other cities, regardless of city size; however, larger cities with a high proportion of same sex couples did exceptionally well.
3 Largest Cities In The State average 55
Same-Sex Couples average 80
LGBT LIAISONS
Cities that have LGBT liaisons in their police department significantly outperformed the national average. 95% of all 2013 cities with liaisons reported hate crimes statistics including sexual orientation motivated crimes to the FBI, and 72% of 2013 rated cities without liaisons reported.
150 Largest Cities average 59
When it comes to issues of equality, our nations cities are leading the charge because we know that prosperous cities gain great economic strength from celebrating and cultivating diversity.
At a time when partisanship too often trumps practical policy in our national and state legislative bodies, municipalities are leading the way on key issues that impact the day-today lives of most Americans. When it comes to issues of equality, our nations cities are leading the charge because we know that prosperous cities gain great economic strength from celebrating and cultivating diversity. In that regard, San Antonio is the new face of the American Dream. As the nations 7th largest city (as well as one of the fastest growing cities in the United States), San Antonio has taken important steps to ensure there are no secondclass citizens. This year we passed a wide-ranging ordinance that prohibited discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in housing, public accommodations, city contracting, and city employment. I am proud that this improved San Antonios MEI score from a 48 in 2012 to an 86 in 2013. By taking
this proactive approach, we have made it perfectly clear that San Antonio is a welcoming and inviting city that is ready to compete in the 21st century global economy. As with other civil rights struggles, the road to inclusion can be challenging, but history is the ultimate judge. I believe that the same principle applies to todays struggle for LGBT equality and it is my hope that generations to come will continue to build upon the progress that has been made to ensure equality under the law for every citizen.
JULIAN CASTRO Mayor
2013 MEI SCORECARD
CITY, STATE 1/2
2013 MUNICIPAL EQUALITY INDEX SCORECARD
I. Non-Discrimination Laws
This category evaluates whether discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is prohibited by the city, county, or state in areas of employment, housing, and public accommodations. Employment Housing Public Accommodations
STATE COUNTY CITY AVAILABLE
II. Relationship Recognition
Marriage, civil unions, and comprehensive domestic partnerships are matters of state policy; cities and counties have only the power to create domestic partner registries. Marriage Equality, Civil Unions, or Domestic Partnerships Municipal Domestic Partner Registry
SCORE BONUS Municipality was forced to stop
providing a domestic partner registry as a result of restrictive state law.
III. Municipality as Employer
By offering equivalent benefits and protections to LGBT employees, and by awarding contracts to fair-minded businesses, municipalities commit themselves to treating LGBT employees equally. Non-Discrimination in City Employment Domestic Partner Health Benefits Legal Dependent Benefits Equivalent Family Leave City Contractor Non-Discrimination Ordinance City Contractor Equal Benefits Ordinance
SCORE BONUS Grossing Up of Employee Benefits. BONUS Transgender-Inclusive
Healthcare Benefits.
+0 +0 +0 +3 +4 +2
BONUS Municipality is a Welcoming
Place to Work.
IV. Municipal Services
This section assesses the efforts of the city to ensure LGBT constituents are included in city services and programs. Human Rights Commission LGBT Liaison in the Mayors Office Enumerated Anti-Bullying School Policies
SCORE BONUS City provides services to particularly
vulnerable populations of the LGBT community.
V. Law Enforcement
Fair enforcement of the law includes responsible reporting of hate crimes and engaging with the LGBT community in a thoughtful and respectful way. LGBT Police Liaison or Task Force Reported 2011 Hate Crimes Statistics to the FBI
CITY AVAILABLE
VI. Relationship with the LGBT Community
This category measures the city leaderships commitment to fully include the LGBT community and to advocate for full equality. Leaderships Public Position on LGBT Equality Leaderships Pro-Equality Legislative or Policy Efforts
BONUS Openly LGBT elected or appointed municipal leaders. BONUS City engages with the LGBT community. BONUS Cities are pro-equality despite restrictive state law.
TOTAL SCORE 0 + TOTAL BONUS 0 =
Final Score 0
CANNOT EXCEED 100
PTS FOR SEXUAL ORIENTATION
PTS FOR GENDER IDENTITY
BONUS PTS for criteria not accessible to all cities at this time.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT CITY SELECTION, CRITERIA OR THE MEI SCORING SYSTEM, PLEASE REFER TO PAGE 17 OR VISIT HRC.ORG/MEI.
All cities rated were provided their scorecard in advance of publication and given the opportunity to submit revisions. For feedback regarding a particular citys scorecard, please email mei@hrc.org.
How Cities Were Selected for Rating
The 2013 Municipal Equality Index rates 291 municipalities, including the 50 state capitals, the three largest cities in each state, the 150 largest cities in the country, the cities home to the states largest public university (including graduate and undergraduate enrollment), and the 25 small, 25 midsize, and 25 large cities with the highest proportion of same-sex couples. These 75 cities with highest proportions of same-sex couples are drawn from an analysis of the 2010 census results by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, which identified the 25 large cities (population exceeding 250,000), 25 mid-size cities (population between 100,000 and 250,000), and 25 small cities (population below 100,000) with the highest proportion of same-sex couples. Some of these small cities are in fact unincorporated census-designated places. To be consistent we rated all 25 of these small cities, even the unincorporated census-designated places, based on the laws and policies of the local level of government applicable (the entity actually ratedfor the unincorporated places this is usually the countywill be clearly indicated). Significant overlap between these categories of cities brings the total number of cities rated in the 2013 MEI to 291. This is more than double the number of cities rated last year, and as the publication goes on the number of cities rated will continue to increase. criteria. Unlike the cities rated in the MEI, however, Washington, D.C. is a federal district. This means that it has powers and limitations so significantly different from the municipalities the MEI rates that the comparison would be unfair for example, no city rated by the MEI has the legal capacity to pass marriage equality, as Washington, D.C. did in 2009. While the District of Columbia is not a state, either, it is more properly compared to a state than it is to a city. For that reason, Washington, D.C. is included in HRC Foundations annual Equality From State to State report. More information on Washington, D.C.s laws and policies can be viewed on the maps of state laws located at www.hrc.org./resources/entry/maps-ofstate-laws-policies.
WHY ISNT WASHINGTON, D.C. RATED?
Washington, D.C. is not rated by the MEI, even though it has a high proportion of same-sex couples and fits into several of the city selection
IN EACH STATE
WITH HIGHEST PROPORTION
OF SAME-SEX COUPLES
MIDSIZE CITIES
LARGE CITIES
MILLION 50 STATE 78 PEOPLE 150 LARGEST CITIES
50 CITIES HOME TO EACH STATES LARGEST PUBLIC UNIVERSITY
SCORING CRITERIA
It should not be legal to deny someone the right to work, rent a home, or be served in a place of public accommodation because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity. This category evaluates whether discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is prohibited within the city in areas of employment, housing, and public accommodations. In each category, cities receive 3 points for prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and 3 points for prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender identity. All non-discrimination laws ought to be fully inclusive of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, and acknowledging sexual orientation-only protections as simply that does not imply they are sufficient; they are not.
THESE POINTS CAN COME FROM STATE LAW, COUNTY LAW, OR CITY LAW.
If the state or county has a comprehensive and inclusive nondiscrimination law that applies within the city limits, a city may conclude it is an inefficient use of resources to pass a local non-discrimination ordinance. So long as the protections of a state or county law apply within the city limits, the city will be marked as having such protections. If there is no state or county law, but the city has passed an ordinance of its own volition, the city will receive credit for those nondiscrimination protections. However, this section is capped at 18 points maximum; therefore, where laws exist at both the city and the state (or county) level, the city will not receive double (or triple) points.
MILLION PEOPLE
live in cities that cover
TRANS FOLKS
at the city level alone.
Its called an LGBT movement for a reason. We can and must advance equality at every level of our democracy until LGBT Montanans are treated the same as LGBT Washingtonians.
WHY THE MISSOULA REGISTRY MATTERS One of my proudest moments in my two years of service on the Missoula City Council came last June, when we voted unanimously to establish a domestic partnership registry. The unanimous part mattered, because it meant my 11 colleagues believe that my relationship is good enough that same-sex couples deserve the dignity of public recognition like any other couple. With that vote, my colleagues acknowledged that Montana law is unjust, and that the City of Missoula will do everything it can to be a safe, welcoming, and respectful place for all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. LETS BE HONEST, A DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP REGISTRY DOESNT SOUND VERY SEXY It doesnt carry as much weight as full marriage equality, or even civil unions at the state level. So why even bother doing it?
HERES WHY Its called an LGBT movement for a reason. We can and must advance equality at every level of our democracy until LGBT Montanans are treated the same as LGBT Washingtonians. Incremental and inadequate as a city registry may seem, it is an important step on the path to full equality, just as inclusive non-discrimination ordinances pave the way to statewide change. It shows the State of Montana that cities will do everything they can for LGBT people despite discriminatory laws. Municipal domestic partnership registries change state policies. Weve seen this in 58 other cities across 23 states, many which lacked any relationship recognition prior to the establishment of local registries. Municipal domestic partnership registries help same-sex partners get health insurance coverage,
as well as better treatment from first responders and hospitals. Registration doesnt replace the need for statewide mandates or an advanced medical directive (To make sure you have all your bases covered, see: http://www.hrc.org/resources/ entry/protecting-your-visitationdecision-making-rights). The wallet card offers proof for employers that want to do the right thing despite bad state law, and something that emergency and hospital personnel can point to in your time of need. NO ONE SHOULD SETTLE FOR MERE CITY-LEVEL DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIP RECOGNITION. Im certainly not going to. Thats why I hope you will join me in continuing to support local organizations working on non-discrimination ordinances across Montana, as well as the HRC, which wont rest until LGBT Americans are treated equally in all 50 states.
CAITLIN COPPLE Missoula City Council Member
Marriage equality, civil unions, and comprehensive domestic partnerships are matters of state policy. Cities and counties only have the power to create domestic partner registries or very limited domestic partnerships. These do not come with all the same benefits as state-level relationship recognition but they do offer some benefits, privileges, and protections to LGBT people seeking to have their relationships legally recognized. Because the MEI is an evaluation of municipalities, not states, and marriage is a state-level policy, this section is weighted so that an equal number of points are awarded for marriage and municipal domestic partner registries. This is a practical matter based on the scope of municipal power and is not a moral or legal valuation of municipal domestic partner rights being equivalent to marriage equality. Further, a city may have little incentive to create a domestic partner registry where the state recognizes same-sex relationships in a more comprehensive way. Therefore, a city will receive full credit on the basis of city, county, or state-level relationship recognition, if applicable. However, cities may not earn double points in this section for having domestic partner registries and statewide recognition. There are 2 bonus points available if a city had previously recognized same-sex relationships but was prohibited from continuing to do so by state law.
TOTAL CITIES
58% of cities
have relationship recognition.
This section is the most heavily weighted because almost every municipality has immediate control over its employment policies. More information on all of these criteria are available on the web on www.hrc.org/mei. Respect for LGBT employees is clearly demonstrated by the inclusiveness of these employment policies.
CITY OFFERS DOMESTIC PARTNER BENEFITS, LEGAL DEPENDENT BENEFITS, AND EQUIVALENT FAMILY LEAVE
Employees are extended certain benefits that are sometimes tied to marital status; this means employees in same-sex relationships are often not afforded equivalent employee benefits. Cities may rectify this by offering medical benefits to a domestic partner or same-sex spouse (4 points), by recognizing that the legal dependent of an employees same-sex partner or spouse is also a dependent of the employee and extending equivalent benefits (2 points); and ensuring that family leave policies recognize the true scope of an employees family (2 points).
CITY REQUIRES ITS CONTRACTORS TO OFFER EQUAL BENEFITS
An equal benefits ordinance requires a municipalitys contractors to offer equal health insurance and other benefits to their employees (4 points). This ensures that employees with same-sex spouses and employees with domestic partners receive the same compensation (salary and benefits) as do their heterosexual counterparts; it also ensures that the city does not unwittingly engage in or encourage discrimination by awarding bids to contractors who treat employees differently based on their sexual orientation. Cities may receive partial credit if they have no such ordinance but instead give preference to city contractors who offer equal benefits.
CITY PROHIBITS DISCRIMINATION IN CITY EMPLOYMENT
Cities can adopt internal hiring policies that prohibit employment discrimination (including hiring, promotions, termination, and compensation) on the basis of sexual orientation (5 points) and gender identity or expression (5 points). It is a fundamental principle of fairness that an employee should be judged not because of who he or she is, but based on his or her ability to perform the responsibilities of a position.
CITY REQUIRES ITS CONTRACTORS TO HAVE INCLUSIVE NONDISCRIMINATION POLICIES
Cities that take fair workplaces seriously also require city contractors to have inclusive non-discrimination policies. An equal opportunity ordinance, as these are sometimes known, requires city contractors to adopt non-discrimination policies that prohibit adverse employment actions on the basis of sexual orientation (2 points) and gender identity or expression (2 points).
5% of cities
rated offer trans-inclusive healthcare benefits.
BONUS POINTS: GROSSING UP OF EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Under federal law, until recently, the contribution made by an employer to an employees same-sex spouse or partners benefits was considered taxable income to the employee, where such a contribution made by the employer to an employees opposite-sex spouses benefits was not taxable income. The discrepancy in tax treatment created a tax penalty for employees who received domestic partner benefits; grossing up policies address this penalty by offsetting it (3 bonus points). While this federal law has been overturned with regard to legally married same-sex couples, it is still in place for couples in a civil union or domestic partnership and some states continue to have similar state tax policies. Because the need for this type of program is no longer universal, and because grossing up is a policy that is fairly new to the public sector, these points are bonus points.
surgery, and other medically necessary care. Cities should work with their insurance carriers or administrators to remove transgender exclusions from the group health insurance plans and ensure that at least one of the insurance options available to employees affirmatively states that it provides transgender-inclusive insurance coverage (4 bonus points). Because many cities rated in the MEI participate in public health exchanges that do not provide transgenderinclusive policy options, these points are bonus points in 2013; however, as there has been so much progress made in opening these exchanges, these points will be converted into standard points on the 2014 MEI and beyond. The nature of these points this year does not imply that transgender exclusions in health insurance policies are anything but unacceptable and discriminatory.
WORKPLACE POLICIES FOR CITY EMPLOYEES
Non-Discrimination Policies Inclusive of Non-Discrimination Policies Gender Orientation and Gender Identity Non-discrimination Policies on the Basis ofGender Sexual Orientation only Identity
Inclusive of Sexual Orientation and
No Non-discrimination Policies on the Basis of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
No Non-Discrimination Policies on the Basis of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity Non-Discrimination Policies on the Basis of Sexual Orientation Only
BONUS POINTS: MUNICIPALITY IS A WELCOMING PLACE TO WORK
This section measures whether the city is a welcoming workplace for LGBT employees as measured by the following: the city actively recruits LGBT employees, conducts LGBTinclusive diversity training, or has an LGBT employee affinity group (a total of 2 bonus points are awarded if any of these exist).
BONUS POINTS: TRANSGENDER-INCLUSIVE HEALTHCARE BENEFITS
Cities, like other employers, provide health benefits to their employees, but some employees routinely have critical and medically necessary treatment excluded from the healthcare options they are offered. Transgender employees are routinely denied healthcare coverage for gender-affirming care such as hormone replacement therapy, sex reassignment
Having these local laws helps us demonstrate, especially to state legislators representing these areas that these laws operate without any of the doomsday scenarios our opponents testify will happen if these laws get passed.
Equality Maryland has been working to add gender identity and expression to the state anti-discrimination laws since the early 2000s. As with many statewide LGBT legislative efforts, these laws often take many years to pass. Therefore, the strategy for passing a statewide law usually involves pursuing incremental steps and wins. In the case for statewide transgender laws this may mean passing local laws. These small steps serve two purposesfirst, they help people right now and second, the issue becomes more palatable to state legislators and the public. Additionally, it provides an opportunity for trans people and their allies to advocate, share their stories and witness elected officials support their efforts.
Local legislative campaigns keep our skills sharp, our community engaged, and build momentum and support for the statewide law. Part of our strategy in Maryland has involved passing local anti-discrimination laws for transgender people. We started in Baltimore City in 2002, followed by Montgomery County in 2007, Howard County in 2011 and Baltimore County in 2012. These jurisdictions comprise about 47% of the states population. Having these four local laws helps us demonstrate, especially to state legislators representing these areas, that other elected (local) officials are supportive and that these laws operate without any of the doomsday scenarios our opponents testify will happen if these laws gets passed.
CARRIE EVANS Executive Director
IV. Services and Programs
Census data shows that LGBT people live in virtually every city in the country, but not every city recognizes that their LGBT constituents can have different needs. This section assesses the efforts of the city to include LGBT constituents in city services and programs.
BONUS POINTS: SERVICES FOR VULNERABLE POPULATIONS
The MEI also evaluates city services that address segments of the LGBT population who are particularly vulnerable and may have specific and acute needs. While all people age, battle illness, struggle to fit in, and work hard to improve their lot in life, these struggles can be different and particularly difficult for LGBT people. Cities can address these challenges by offering servicesor supporting a third party provider of these services to LGBT youth, LGBT elderly, LGBT homeless people, or people who are HIV positive or living with AIDS (2 bonus points total if the city offers any one or more of these types of services).
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONS
Human Rights Commissions (7 points) do important work to identify and eliminate discrimination; even in jurisdictions where LGBT equality isnt explicitly a part of the commissions charter, these commissions investigate complaints, educate the city, and sometimes enforce nondiscrimination laws. Human Rights Commissions serve as important bridges between constituents and their city. Similarly, an LGBT liaison to the Mayors office (5 points) is responsible for looking at city policies and services through an LGBT lens and speaking up when a policy or service might exclude LGBT people. This position is also known to be a friendly ear to constituents who want to bring LGBT-related issues to the city government but are fearful they might be dismissed or misunderstood.
Have Bullying Protections on the Basis of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
ANTI-BULLYING POLICIES IN SCHOOLS
Finally, anti-bullying policies in schools are also included in the MEI. A state, county, or city may prohibit bullying on the basis of sexual orientation (3 points) and gender identity or expression (3 points). Credit will also be given if all school districts within city limits have such policies.
Have Policies on the Basis of Sexual Orientation Only
Have No Bullying Protections on the Basis of Sexual Orientation or Gender Identity
While all people age, battle illness, struggle to fit in, and work hard to improve their lot in life, these struggles can be different and particularly difficult for LGBT people.
The relationship between law enforcement and the LGBT community is often fraught with suspicion, misunderstanding, and fear. LGBT people are vulnerable to violence arising from bigotry and ignorance, and this danger is only exacerbated when police are perceived to be part of the problem. A police force can ensure safety for all by treating LGBT people with understanding and respect, remaining mindful of the LGBT communitys unique law enforcement concerns and engaging the community in a positive way.
LGBT POLICE LIAISON
An LGBT police liaison (8 points) can serve as an important bridge between the community and law enforcement. The liaison is an advocate for fair and respectful enforcement of the law as well as an officer that the community can rely upon to appropriately respond to sensitive issues.
REPORTING OF HATE CRIMES STATISTICS
Respectful and fair enforcement includes responsible reporting of hate crimes, including for hate crimes based on sexual orientation and gender identity, to the FBI (10 points). Such reporting demonstrates law enforcements attention to these crimes and ensures that the larger law enforcement community is able to accurately gauge the scope and responses to them.
of all cities with police liaisons reported hate crime statistics including sexual orientation to the FBI
LGBT people are vulnerable to violence arising from bigotry and ignorance, and this danger is only exacerbated when police are perceived to be part of the problem.
Leadership is an aspect of policy that is not fully captured by executive orders or the passage of legislation into law. When a mayor marches in a Pride parade, a city council dedicates a park to an LGBT civil rights leader, or a city paints its crosswalks in rainbow colors, it sends a message to LGBT people that they are a valued part of the community. At first glance, these actions may seem to be more symbol than substance; however, as HRC Foundation reported in its groundbreaking youth report in 2012, four in ten LGBT youth surveyed said the community in which they live is not accepting of LGBT people, and 60% of the youth surveyed said they heard negative messages about being LGBT from elected leaders. LGBT youth are twice as likely as their peers to say they will need to move from their hometown in order to feel accepted. When elected leaders speak out on matters of equality, their constituents do hearand it informs their constituents perception of safety, inclusion, and belonging. This category, therefore, measures the commitment of the city to include the LGBT community and to advocate for full equality.
LEADERSHIPS PRO-EQUALITY EFFORTS
The persistence of the city leadership in pursuing legislation or policies that further equality is rated (on a scale of 0 - 3 points). Note that even small or unsuccessful efforts are recognized in this category, and that these efforts may be heavily weighted if the citys political environment is not conducive to passing pro-equality legislation.
LEADERSHIPS PUBLIC POSITION ON EQUALITY
City leadership is rated (on a scale of 0 - 5 points) on its public statements on matters of equality, particularly where the city leadership pushes for equality in the face of substantial adversity. For example, a city would be awarded points if the city council passed a resolution in support of marriage equalitywhile this is not something the city can legislate, it is a powerful statement of the citys principles nonetheless.
THREE OPPORTUNITIES TO EARN BONUS POINTS:
First: for openly LGBT people holding elected or appointed office in the municipality (3 bonus points). Second: for direct engagement with LGBT constituents through participation in Pride or partnership with LGBT advocacy groups (2 bonus points). Third: for cities who do all they can in the face of state law that restricts their ability to pass LGBT-inclusive laws or policies (2 bonus points).
When elected leaders speak out on matters of equality, their constituents do hear and it informs their constituents perception of safety, inclusion, and belonging.
ACKNOWLEDGING CONTEXT
Not All Cities Are Created Equal
Some cities have the autonomy and wherewithal to pass inclusive laws and offer cutting-edge city services; other cities are hampered by severe state-imposed limitations on their ability to pass inclusive laws, or they have found that the small scope of their local government limits their capabilities. The MEI is designed to understand the unique situation of each city and is structured to reward the specific achievements of a local government. The efforts and achievements of each city can only be fairly judged within that citys context; while imposing a score may seem to strip a city of its context, the MEI honors the different situations from which the selected cities come in three major ways:
First, in addition to the 100 standard points for city laws and services, the MEI includes 20 bonus points. Bonus points are awarded for essential programs, protections, or benefits that are not attainable or are very difficult to attain for some cities; therefore, cities with the item are rewarded, but cities without it are not penalized. Bonus points can also provide some leeway for cities that face challenges in accomplishing the specific achievements the MEI measures, and they ensure that every city has the ability to improve its score for next year.
CONSIDERATION OF STATE LAW
Second, the MEI weights state and municipal law such that the effect of excellent or restrictive state law does not determine the citys ability to score well.
Third, it also rates the city leaderships public position on LGBT equality and gives credit for legislative efforts (even unsuccessful efforts), so if a city has outspoken advocates for equality who are unfortunately still in the minority, the city will still receive credit for the efforts it has made.
The efforts and achievements of each city can only be fairly judged within that citys context.
Fair Assessment Respects Legal Differences
The Municipal Equality Index is carefully designed to rate cities in detail while respecting that a number of factors may boost or inhibit a citys ability or incentives to adopt the laws and policies this project rates. Given the range of authority and incentives that cities have, and acknowledging that our effort to rate small cities as well as large cities exacerbates these challenges, the MEI had to wrestle with three major questions in its initial design.
How could the MEI fairly take state law into account, particularly as the disparity between states with pro-equality laws and states without pro-equality laws continues to grow?
What do MEI scores say about the atmosphere for LGBT people living and working in a particular place?
Even the most thoughtful survey of laws and policies cannot objectively assess the efficacy of enforcement and it certainly cannot encapsulate the lived experience of discrimination that many LGBT peopleeven those living in 100-point citiesface every day. Therefore, it is important to emphasize that the MEI is an evaluation of municipal laws and policies. It is not a rating of the best places for LGBT people to live, nor is it an evaluation of the adequacy or effectiveness of enforcement. It is not an encapsulation of what it feels like to be an LGBT person walking down the street. While some LGBT people may prefer to live in cities that respect and include them, there are undoubtedly many other factors that make a place a welcoming, inclusive place to live.
The answer is balance. The rating system would not be fair if cities were not able to score a 100 on the MEI without being in a state that had favorable state law. Allocating the points carefully to respect the dynamic relationship between state and local government was a must, and we concentrated on what the state law meant for the city being rated.
How could the MEI assess a list of cities as diverse as those selected while acknowledging that the smaller places rated may understandably have less capacity to engage on LGBT issues?
We addressed concerns about a small citys capacity to affect change by building flexibility into the scorecard through the use of bonus points and by providing multiple avenues toward earning points.
To be clear, the MEI specifically rates cities on their laws and policies while respecting the legal and political context the city operates within. It is not a measure of an LGBT persons lived experience in that city.
The MEI specifically rates cities on their laws and policies while respecting the legal and political context the city operates within.
CITIES LEAD WHERE STATES HAVE NOT
25 PERFECT SCORES
WITH NO SUPPORTIVE LAWS
PERFECT SCORES IN STATES
CITIES SURVEYED
I am proud to be mayor of the first deep Southern city to achieve a perfect score on the Municipal Equality Index.
I am proud to be mayor of the first deep Southern city to achieve a perfect score on the Municipal Equality Index. Atlantas diversity is part of what makes our city great. Residents, businesses, film producers, artists, college students- a large part of what brings them to Atlanta is the quality of people who live and work here. This city has a rich history of upholding human rights and providing equal opportunity to all people. Atlantas commitment to equality includes outlawing discrimination based upon a persons sexual orientation and gender identity. LGBT equality has been an important issue for me throughout my career. As a member of Georgias House of Representatives, I was the chief sponsor of Georgias first and only Hate Crimes Bill that protected LGBT individuals. As a State Senator, I led the effort to oppose a constitutional amendment banning
gay marriage. I consistently helped defeat state bills that would ban gay adoption. On the national level, I was a vocal advocate for the repeal of Dont Ask Dont Tell and for allowing LGBT individuals to serve openly in the military. My commitment to LGBT rights continues as Atlantas Mayor. In 2012, I expressed my support of marriage equality for same-sex couples; marriage is a fundamental right for all loving couples regardless of their sexual orientation. I recently appointed Robin Shahar as my Mayoral Advisor on LGBT issues. She will identify and provide counsel on areas of community concern, and will recommend strategies for advancing LGBT equality citywide. In July, I proudly signed a bill updating the Atlanta Code to ensure that all non-discrimination provisions include gender identity as a protected class. This September, I signed on as a co-chair of the national Mayors for the Freedom to Marry campaign.
Atlantas history of civil rights leadership is rooted in the belief that our diversity makes our city stronger. As a result, Atlanta is home to one of the largest and most vibrant LGBT communities in the country. As Mayor, I will continue my efforts to achieve equal protection and equal treatment of Atlantas LGBT residents, workers and visitors.
KASIM REED Mayor
Accounting for City Size
The MEI rates municipalities as small as Rehoboth Beach (population 1,373) and as large as New York City (8,336,700). Such a range in city size creates concerns about ensuring that the efforts of small cities are not diminished in comparison to the capabilities of large cities. Fairness dictates that the MEI not measure small cities against a standard only the metropolitan giants of the country can meet. The MEI is designed to ensure that small cities have the same ability to score well on the MEI as larger cities do. First, while some of the criteria might be more challenging for a small city to accomplish, none of the non-bonus criteria are prohibitive for small cities. Further, flexibility was built into the scoring system to acknowledge that a small city may accomplish the criteria in a slightly different manner: for example, an LGBT liaison may have many other duties, and a Human Rights Commission might be all-volunteer. Second, the MEI uses bonus points to ensure cities are not being held accountable for services that they simply are unable to provide. Points pertaining to a citys infrastructure are generally bonus points and there often are multiple paths to earning the same set of points. A city can earn Welcoming Workplace bonus points for LGBT-specific recruitment for city employment opportunities, but if the city is too small to actively recruit it can earn those same points either through an inclusive workplace diversity training or facilitating a Pride group for city employees. Having alternative paths to the same points and classifying some points as bonus accommodates the varying needs and capabilities of different sized cities. An analysis of the MEIs results shows these efforts to accommodate small cities worked: small cities were able to score comparably with the large cities. Last year the data clearly showed that a citys score was not well predicted by its size, and this years results show the same. In 2013, small cities (population under 100,000 people) boasted three perfect scores and four cities in the ninetieth percentile, with 42 percent of small cities scoring in the top half. Small cities averaged 53 points, narrowly beating the average of 52 points for medium sized cities (populations between 100,000 and 250,000), although both averaged less than large cities (more than 250,000 people) at 71 points. Small cities make up just over a third of all cities rated.
In 2013, small cities boasted 3 perfect scores and 4 cities in the 90th percentile.
CITY SIZE NOT PREDICTIVE OF MEI SCORE
MEI SCORES
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Balancing State and Local Laws
Cities are creations of the state. Cities are granted the power to govern by their states, and some states have multiple classes of cities that are invested with varying degrees of autonomy. Some cities are granted so much power that they have nearly complete independence, but other cities particularly smaller citiesare more limited in the scope of their city government. To be a worthwhile survey of cities across states the MEI must be respectful of how different cities are from one another. This is especially true when LGBT law is the subject being surveyed. Some cities operate under state law (known as the Dillons Rule) that severely limits the ability of municipalities to offer more generous protections than the state has chosen to offer. While this law isnt explicitly anti-LGBT, some states have used it to block municipalities from extending nondiscrimination and other protections to LGBT constituents and employees. Other states have passed laws that expressly prevent cities from adopting LGBT-inclusive laws or policies. On the other hand, many states have passed pro-equality legislation including marriage equality, nondiscrimination laws, and anti-bullying lawswhich may render similar protections at the local level duplicative. The MEI balances the influence of LGBT-inclusive state law by weighting state and local laws equally, and by not awarding double points to a city fortunate enough to have protections at both the state and local levels. If a state has a comprehensive and inclusive non-discrimination law, a city may not be incentivized to pass an ordinance extending duplicative protections, but it should still have those protections reflected in its score. Conversely, the city should be able to achieve a perfect score on the basis of municipal law aloneotherwise the MEI would not be a true evaluation of cities. The success of this balanced approach is demonstrated by a number of cities that were able to achieve perfect scores despite being in states that do not have pro-equality laws.
The city should be able to achieve a perfect score on the basis of municipal law alone.
HOW IT WORKS: ACKNOWLEDGING CONTEXT
MEI ALL-STARS
High Scores in States without Supportive State Law
89 NEW HOPE 100 PHOENIX 90 91 FORT WORTH 100 86 SAN ANTONIO 100 ATLANTA 86 EAST 88 LANSING ANN ARBOR 84 TALLAHASSEE 100 MISSOULA 100 KANSAS CITY 100 ST. LOUIS 89 TAMPA 90 COLUMBUS AUSTIN 83 CLEVELAND 100 85 DALLAS 91 NEW ORLEANS 100 PHILADELPHIA
CINCINNATI 87 SALT LAKE CITY
Understanding Restrictive State Law
Some states restrict their cities from passing inclusive laws either by passing specific legislation that prohibits cities from doing so or through application of the Dillons Rule (which prevents cities from providing broader nondiscrimination protections than those offered under state law) to LGBTinclusive legislation. An example of restrictive legislation is a Tennessee law that prohibits municipalities from passing nondiscrimination ordinances that affect private employees. Application of the Dillons Rule also prevents cities in Virginia from providing domestic partner benefits to LGBT city employees because the state does not grant those benefits to its employees. Because of these types of restrictions, not every city has the power to enact the types of legislation that the MEI measures. Cities with a dedication to equality that are in Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina, for example, will never be able to score as well as cities with comparable dedication to equality that exist in states without the restrictive laws. The MEI provides avenues for cities that are dedicated to equalityas some cities in Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee areto have that dedication reflected in their score despite restrictive state law. Bonus points are offered for testing the limits of these state restrictions, while standard points reflect city leadership advocating against the state restrictions. These bonus points help to level the playing field for restricted cities; however, a city with these state restrictions will find it extremely challengingand, in some cases, perhaps impossibleto score a 100 on the MEI. While this may initially appear to be at odds with the MEIs purpose of evaluating what cities do, the bottom line is that these vital protections dont exist for the folks who live and work in these cities. That these cities will face an uphill battle in earning points for certain criteria on the MEI is a reflection of the actual difficulties they face as a result of restrictive state law. Ameliorating the effect of a restrictive state law on the MEI score would be a dishonest representation of the protections that the city truly does offer. A final note on this subject: where a city has passed laws protecting LGBT people and continues to enforce those laws, even when those laws are arguably unenforceable but have not definitively been invalidated by case law or statute, the MEI gives the city credit for the law.
Not every city has the power to enact the types of legislation that the MEI measures.
Effect of Enforcement and Lived Experience
The MEI is an encapsulation of the best practices of inclusion followed by cities nationwide. It is a blueprint for positive change and an opportunity for cities to become aware of best practices in municipal equality. It is not a ranking of the friendliest cities in which to live. It neither attempts to quantify how respectfully cities enforce their laws, nor does it try to gauge the experience of an LGBT person interacting with the police or city hall. Fair and respectful implementation of the best practices described by the MEI is crucial if the policies are to have any meaning. Realistically, the MEI simply has no objective way of measuring the equality of enforcement. Even the most thoughtful survey of laws and policies cannot objectively assess the efficacy of enforcement and it certainly cannot encapsulate the lived experience of discrimination that many LGBT peopleeven those living in 100-point citiesface every day. The MEI can make some limited, blunt judgments about the existence of enforcement, if not its quality. For example, one of the harder questions the MEI faces is evaluating how seriously police departments take anti-LGBT related violence. While the MEI awards points to cities that report hate crimes statistics to the FBI, it does not evaluate whether the report made by the police department to the FBI is an accurate reflection of hate crimes, whether detectives competently collected evidence related to proving a hate-related motivation for the violence or whether the police department created a safe space for victims to come forward. Collecting and assessing such data in an objective, thorough way would be impossible. However, a city will not receive credit for reporting hate crimes if the city hasnt reported any hate crimes of any kind this year or for five previous years. The MEI deems this effectively non-reporting because the probability is very low that a city truly experienced zero hate crimes of any kind in five years. While this is a judgment call, it is the best measure the MEI has to determine if hate crimes are being taken seriously at the local level. A 100-point city, then, may have terrific policiesa well-trained police force, a police liaison, and consistent hate crimes reportingbut nevertheless have an atmosphere in which LGBT people have intense fear of tangling with the police department. This fear may be magnified for LGBT people of color or undocumented LGBT immigrants, and the MEI reflects discrimination against those populations in only a general way. On the other hand, a police department in a 40-point city could have none of these policies but have a reputation for fair and respectful enforcement. The MEI specifically rates cities on their laws and policies; it is not a measure of an LGBT persons lived experience in that city.
The MEI is not a measure of an LGBT persons lived experience in that city.
SUMMARY OF RESULTS
Success from Coast to Coast
The results of this years MEI prove that cities of all sizes in states across the country take matters of equality seriously. Of the 25 cities that scored 100 points, only six (24%) have populations of over a million people. Seven have populations of between a half million and a million people, and nine have populations of between one hundred thousand and five hundred thousand people. These cities and many more demonstrated that cities across the country have a commitment to LGBT equality that is unbridled by regionalism and not confined to the parts of the country many people assume are most LGBT-friendly. Overall, cities rated in the 2013 MEI averaged 57 points, which is down slightly from last years average score of 59 points. As cities rated in 2012 tended to improve their scores in 2013, this is explained by the addition of new cities in the MEI 2013. Generally, cities being rated for the first time in 2013 tended to perform worse than the cities rated in 2012; this is likely because the criteria used to select cities last year captured cities that were more likely to have already taken steps to make their laws and policies LGBT inclusive. The average score for the three largest cities in each state was 55 points; the average score for the 51-150 largest cities in the country was 53 points; and the average score for the cities home to the states largest public university was 61 points. These scores brought down the overall average of all participating cities. This comes despite the overall rise in scores being rated for the second year. Both of these trends are likely to persist in future editions of the MEI, and the improvement of cities from year to year should not be obscured by a decrease in the overall average score.
CITIES THAT DID PARTICULARLY WELL IN 2013 WERE CITIES CHOSEN FOR THEIR HIGH PROPORTION OF SAME-SEX COUPLES
These cities scored 80 points on average. For those cities that fell within multiple city selection criteria, the positive influence of same-sex couples was magnified: a city with a high proportion of same-sex couples averaged 88 points if it was also a state capital; 87 points if it was also one of the 150 largest cities; 95 points if it was also one of the three largest cities in the state; and 93 points if it was also a university city. None of the other combinations had this type of effect. Further, where three or more city selection criteria applied this effect was even more pronounced: where one of those three criteria was that the city is home to a high proportion of same-sex couples, the average score rose by over 25 points. These findings underscore an important point: When matters of equality come up, cities of all sizes in all parts of the country respond by adopting more inclusive laws and policies.
THREE 100-POINT CITIES HAVE POPULATIONS OF LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE.
One cityMissoula, Montanathat does so without the help of statewide relationship recognition or nondiscrimination laws. This highlights the momentum for municipal equality that has been sweeping through small cities across the country.
THIS MOMENTUM TOUCHES EVERY CORNER OF THE COUNTRY.
Cities in the West had the highest average score and consistently scored above 70 points; cities in the Great Lakes and New England regions followed closely behind; and cities in Mountain and Mid-Atlantic states came in above average. While cities in the Southeast, Southwest, and Plains states tended to come in below average, there were several notable scores in those regions: Saint Louis and Kansas City, Missouri both received perfect scores, as did Austin, Phoenix, and Atlanta. New Orleans and Fort Worth each scored 91 points, with Tucson scoring 90, Tampa 89, San Antonio 86, Dallas 85 and Tallahassee 84.
EQUALITY ACROSS AMERICA
Cities across the country have a commitment to LGBT equality that is unbridled by regionalism and not confined to the parts of the country many people assume are most LGBT friendly.
AVERAGE LARGE CITIES MEDIUM CITIES SMALL CITIES
FAIRNESS CAMPAIGN
Kentucky is a state of Fairness, and treating everyone with dignity and respect is just as much a rural value as an urban one.
From the hills of Appalachia to our commonwealths capital and beyond, Kentuckians are mobilizing around LGBTQ Fairness like never before! And who could have known it would be our rural coal country leading the way? Yet when the Appalachian town of Vicco, population 334, passed their Fairness ordinance this January making it the smallest city in America to ban LGBTQ discriminationit affirmed everything our Fairness Coalition has been hearing as weve worked across the commonwealth: Kentucky is a state of Fairness, and treating everyone with dignity and respect is just as much a rural value as an urban one. 83% of all registered Kentucky votersRepublicans, Democrats, and Independents alikesupport simple anti-discrimination protections in employment, housing, and pubic accommodations based on sexual orientation and gender identity, according to a recent poll. But just under 11% of our state legislators have signed on to support a statewide ban on discrimination, which is why we have endeavored
to build a groundswell of regional support through municipal Fairness campaigns. Since Viccos historic stepand its famed segment on The Colbert Reportthousands of local residents have become deeply involved in grassroots Fairness movements that span our entire commonwealth and work from a place of intersectional liberation, holding immigrants rights, anti-racism, trans rights, womens rights, and others as central to our
work for LGBTQ equality. When our states capital, Frankfort, became the fifth city in our commonwealth to outlaw LGBTQ discrimination this August, it became clear theres no turning back. Now two other Eastern Kentucky citiesMorehead and Bereaare making moves to become the next municipalities with Fairness, and it just keeps spreading!
CHRIS HARTMAN Director
Viccos Fairness Ordinance was featured on a segment of the Colbert Report entitled People Who Are Destroying AmericaJohnny Cummings.
The Colbert Report photo still courtesy of Comedy Central 2013 Comedy Partners. All rights reserved.
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Anchorage Fairbanks Juneau
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Fayetteville Fort Smith Little Rock North Little Rock
Anaheim Bakersfield Berkeley Brisbane Cathedral City Chula Vista Concord Fontana Fremont Fresno Garden Grove Glendale
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Guerneville (Sonoma County) Huntington Beach Irvine Lancaster Long Beach Los Angeles Modesto Moreno Valley Oakland Oceanside Ontario Oxnard Palm Springs Pasadena Rancho Cucamonga Rancho Mirage Richmond Riverside Sacramento San Bernadino San Diego San Francisco San Jose Santa Ana Santa Clarita Santa Rosa Signal Hill Stockton Vallejo West Hollywood
Aurora Boulder Colorado Springs Denver
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Bridgeport Hartford New Haven Storrs (Mansfield)
Dover Newark Rehoboth Beach Wilmington
Cape Coral Fort Lauderdale Hialeah Hollywood Jacksonville Miami Miami Shores Oakland Park Orlando Pembroke Pines Port Saint Lucie St. Petersburg Tallahassee Tampa Wilton Manors
Athens Atlanta Augusta-Richmond Avondale Estates Columbus Decatur North Druid Hills (DeKalb County)
SOUTH CAROLINA EQUALITY
The MEI has helped us build avenues of communication that remain open after the scoring process and allow us to work together to better address other LGBT related issues as they arise in the community.
The MEI has given us a tool in our conversations about municipal equality with South Carolina cities. It has provided an opportunity to sit down with City of Columbia and Charleston County leaders to discuss each scoring criteria, identify the steps that would need to be taken to secure a higher score in that area, and then determine which options were shorter term actions and which options were more longer term goals. Then we worked together to make them happen. Because the MEI gives a deadline for which to complete our efforts, it gives our partners an incentive to complete the projects in time to ensure the highest score for their cities. It is great to see hard work rewarded with higher scores.
As these elected officials look to run for reelection, some of the work that we have achieved together through the MEI has been a point of personal pride, which they have shared publicly to let LGBT voters know that they are working for them to make their cities and counties better places for equality. The MEI has helped us build avenues of communication that remain open after the scoring process and allow us to work together to better address other LGBT-related issues as they arise in the community. We hope more cities in South Carolina decide to take on the criteria of the MEI, even if they are not currently being scored.
RYAN WILSON Executive Director
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Hilo (Hawaii County) Honolulu Manoa (Honolulu) Pearl City (Honolulu)
Boise Meridian Nampa
Aurora Champaign Chicago Rockford Springfield
Bloomington Evansville Fort Wayne Indianapolis
Cedar Rapids Davenport Des Moines Iowa City
Kansas City Lawrence Overland Park Topeka Wichita
Bowling Green Frankfort Lexington Louisville
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Baton Rouge New Orleans Shreveport
Augusta Bangor Lewiston Orono Portland
Annapolis Baltimore College Park Frederick Rockville
Amherst Boston Cambridge Northampton Provincetown Springfield Worcester
Ann Arbor Detroit East Lansing Ferndale Grand Rapids Lansing Pleasant Ridge Warren
Minneapolis Rochester Saint Paul
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Gulfport Jackson Southaven Starkville
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Columbia Jefferson City Kansas City Springfield St. Louis
Billings Great Falls Helena Missoula
Bellevue Lincoln Omaha
Carson City Enterprise (Clark County) Henderson Las Vegas North Las Vegas Paradise (Clark County) Reno
Concord Durham Manchester Nashua
Asbury Park Jersey City Lambertville New Brunswick
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Newark Ocean Grove Paterson Trenton
Albuquerque Eldorado at Santa Fe (Santa Fe County) Las Cruces Rio Rancho Santa Fe
Albany Buffalo New York Northwest Harbor Rochester Yonkers
Charlotte Durham Fayetteville Greensboro Raleigh Winston-Salem
Bismarck Fargo Grand Forks
Akron Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Toledo
The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce stands for equality in the workplace because its good for business, and because equality is a value we honor and cherish.
The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce in 2013 publicly came out in support of local legislation in Philadelphia that incentivizes city businesses that voluntarily offer health care benefits to the life partners of their employees. The legislation, offered by City Councilman James Kenney, provides for a tax credit against local business taxes for those companies that elect to provide health coverage to their employees partners. The law passed Council and was signed by Mayor Michael Nutter earlier this yearthe first of its kind in the country. The Chamber of Commerce testified in support of the legislation for two reasons. First, we look favorably towards legislation that offers business a voluntary inducement to comply with the substantive matter at issue, in this case, providing health coverageas opposed to involuntary mandates, which we oppose.
Secondly, the Chamber has a long, strong history of supporting diversity and inclusion in the Philadelphia workplace. We have a Diversity and Inclusion Committee that regularly meets and promotes more diverse boards and executive positions in the Philadelphia workplace. We carefully survey our member companies on how they value diversity in their daily businesses, and, suggest best practices on how best to advance these values. Studies show that businesses that adopt and practice policies promoting a more diverse workplace are businesses that compete better, attract and retain higher quality workers, and thrive in the marketplace. The Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce stands for equality in the workplace because its good for business, and because equality is a value we honor and cherish.
JOE GRACE Director of Public Policy, Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
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Eugene Portland Salem
Allentown Harrisburg New Hope Philadelphia Pittsburgh State College (University Park)
Cranston Kingston (South Kingstown) Providence Warwick
Charleston Columbia North Charleston
Aberdeen Brookings Pierre Rapid City Sioux Falls
Chattanooga Knoxville Memphis Nashville
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Amarillo Arlington Austin Brownsville Corpus Christi Dallas El Paso Fort Worth Garland Grand Prairie Houston Irving Laredo Lubbock Plano San Antonio
Provo Salt Lake City West Valley City
Burlington Essex Montpelier South Burlington
Alexandria Arlington County Chesapeake Fairfax County Newport News Norfolk Richmond Virginia Beach
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Olympia Seattle Spokane Tacoma Vancouver Vashon (King County)
Charleston Huntington Morgantown Parkersburg
Green Bay Madison Milwaukee
Casper Cheyenne Laramie
EQUALITY OHIO
Somewhere in these processes, I fell in love with helping municipalities find their pathways to equality.
In 2005, I became the founding Executive Director of Equality Toledo. From our organizational inception, we worked with the University of Toledo to create a Domestic Partner benefits offering. This was followed by an effort to pass the first City Council-approved Domestic Partner Registry in Ohio. Somewhere in these processes, I fell in love with helping municipalities find their pathways to equality. In 2008, I accepted a position with Equality Ohio and have continued to assist municipalities in passing inclusive, forward moving ordinances. I have been able to act as a resource, offering advice, data and samples for local advocates. Occasionally, I have the opportunity to be more involved as I was with the registry process in Dayton, Ohio.
For years, I have tracked municipal LGBT legislative work across Ohio. Because of my experience assisting Ohio municipalities on their legislative journeys, I have been helping with the Human Rights Campaign Foundations Municipal Equality Index (MEI) for the last two years. Given the increasing level of exposure from the MEI, cities are working hard to improve their profiles. Its a growing trend, and LGBTfriendly cities are getting creative in how they compete to be more welcoming. This year I was able to consult with City of Toledo leaders to discuss the ways in which Toledo can be even more inclusive. I love being a part of growing equality and helping Ohios municipalities become the very best they can be.
KIM WELTER Deputy Director
TAKE ACTION FOR EQUALITY
Bring Equality to Your Hometown
The scoring rubric applied by the MEI is very specific, and a detailed, long-form scorecard for each city rated is available at www.hrc.org/mei. These scorecards make clear which categories resulted in an award of points to the municipality and which did not. Once you know which parts of the scorecard are areas of opportunity for improvement, you should begin investigating how your city can go about changing that policy. For help with this, please feel free to contact the Human Rights Campaign Foundation at mei@hrc.org or your local Equality Federation Institute member.
1. LEARN ABOUT YOUR CITYS CURRENT SCORE
The best place to begin is by examining the citys scorecard carefully. Only summaries of each citys scorecard are printed in this report; go online to www.hrc.org/mei to see the full-length, detailed scorecard for each city.
2. TAKE STOCK OF THE OPPORTUNITIES
No city scored every point available on the 2013 MEI. Every city assessed has an opportunity to do better in 2014, and identifying that opportunity for improvement is the second step.
3. SHARE AND EDUCATE
Use the MEI to start conversations with your city council representative, your neighbors, and your friends. Impress upon these people the opportunities youve identified for your city. For help doing this, contact HRC Foundation at mei@hrc.org and your local member of the Equality Federation.
4. MAKE EQUALITY HAPPEN
Work with your city leadership to turn opportunity into reality. See your score on the 2014 MEI improve. Repeat.
A detailed, long-form scorecard for each city rated is available at www.hrc.org/mei.
WHAT WE FOUND: TAKE ACTION FOR EQUALITY
CHANGES TO THE MEI IN 2014
New Point Distribution and Standards
The MEI 2014 will roll out an updated scoring system that will include a new point distribution and more rigorous standards. These updates reflect a changing legal landscape and the maturing of the project. Cities rated in 2013 were alerted to these changes during the 2013 evaluation process. There are two major ways in which the scoring for the MEI 2014 will be different from scoring in previous years. First, there will be some changes to the scorecard itself. Second, we will be holding cities to a higher, more specific standard in awarding points for all criteria. A revised scorecard for 2014 is reflected on the following page. It will continue to reflect 100 standard points and 20 bonus points.
UPDATES INCLUDE Transgender-inclusive healthcare benefits have been converted into standard points, reflecting the increased accessibility of these benefits by cities across the country.
Human Rights Commissions will be split into standard and bonus points to emphasize the importance of a commission having enforcement ability. Two categories are being condensed: pre-emption of DP registries will now be accounted for in Facing State Restrictions, and Engagement with the LGBT Community will now be folded into City Leadership. Services for Vulnerable Populations will be expanded to have each of the four components be worth two bonus points rather than two bonus points total. Other point allocations have also been tweaked.
The 2014 MEI will roll out an updated scoring system.
XX XX XX
x out of 18
By offering equivalent benefits and protections to LGBT employees, and by awarding contracts to fair-minded businesses, municipalities commit themselves to treating LGBT employees equally. Non-Discrimination in City Employment Domestic Partner Health Benefits Transgender-Inclusive Healthcare Benefits Legal Dependent Benefits Equivalent Family Leave City Contractor Non-Discrimination Ordinance City Contractor Equal Benefits Ordinance
XX X X X X XX X
SCORE BONUS Grossing Up of Employee Benefits BONUS Municipality is a Welcoming
Place to Work
+X +X +2 +2
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT CITY SELECTION, CRITERIA OR THE MEI SCORING SYSTEM, PLEASE VISIT HRC.ORG/MEI.
All cities rated were provided their scorecard in advance of publication and given the opportunity to submit revisions. For feedback regarding a particular citys scorecard, please email mei@hrc.org. 1
X X XX XX XX
SCORE BONUS Enforcement mechanism in Human
Rights Commission
+X +X +X +X +X +3 +2 +2 +2 +2
BONUS City provides services to LGBT youth BONUS City provides services to LGBT
BONUS City provides services to LGBT
BONUS City provides services to people
living with HIV/AIDS
BONUS Openly LGBT elected or appointed municipal leaders BONUS Cities are pro-equality despite restrictive state law
x out of 8
TOTAL SCORE XXX + TOTAL BONUS XX =
Final Score XXX
Cathryn Oakley is Legislative Counsel, State and Municipal Advocacy at the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. In addition to conducting, managing, and publishing the Municipal Equality Index, she is responsible for assisting state and local legislators and advocates in enacting laws that further LGBT equality. She is a member of HRC Foundations field team. Cathryn is a member of the Virginia bar and practiced family law before joining the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. She is a graduate of George Mason University School of Law and Smith College.
THE MEI TEAM
The 2013 MEI is a project that requires a significant breadth and depth of expertise to pull off, and fortunately the team of people who support this project is more than up to the task. As ever, this project simply would not have been possible without Sarah Warbelow and Whitney Lovell, each of whom dispensed truly incredible amounts of wisdom and supportnot to mention elbow greaseand are responsible for making this project actually happen. This year the MEI owes a particular debt of gratitude to Michael Porcello, Research Fellow Extraordinaire, who provided vital research, logistical, and moral support to the MEI 2013. The dramatic expansion of this project would not have been possible without him, and the MEI benefited greatly from his months of hard work collecting, managing and assessing thousands of pieces of data. We offer him a heartfelt acknowledgement of everything that he contributed to this project and we will miss him next year. Pamela OLeary joined the MEI team this year and jumped in right away we are thankful for her enthusiasm, dedication, and many hard hours of work. Her contribution was critical to the projects success and we were glad to have had her on board.
We owe many thanks to Jessie Sheffield, Sam Anderson, Limor Finkel and Jennifer Pike who jumped in when we needed extra hands, and also to the law fellows and interns who helped out throughout the process. Paul Guequierre has been an indispensable friend to and a voice of municipal equality. Aisha Satterwhite has been a patient and helpful guide. Janice Hughes and Bob Villaflor made sure everything was beautiful, informative and on time, and Soung Wiser and Caroline Brickell of The General Design Co. are responsible for the incredible design.
FINALLY, BUT ESPECIALLY, WE THANK OUR PARTNERS AT THE EQUALITY FEDERATION INSTITUTE.
This partnership has been a delight and has brought real value to the project from the start. It has been a particular pleasure to work so closely with Ian Palmquist, and the MEI owes a real debt of gratitude to Ian, A.J. Bockelman, Brandie Balken, Chuck Smith, Katie Belanger and Ted Martin for sharing their thoughtful advice about growing and improving the MEI. We thank those Equality Federation partners who shared their story in this publication. The participation of so many state leaders has made this project a much more robust and useful educational tool, and a very special thanks goes out to every Equality Federation member who provided feedbackplease see the facing page for the logos of groups that were particularly engaged in making the MEI a success this year. We look forward to working with you again next year for MEI 2014!
4 5 6 Letter from Chad Griffin, President of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation TheAMunicipal Equality Index would not have been possible without the valuable A Letter from Rebecca Isaacs, Executive Director of the Equality Federation Institute contributions made by state and local advocates. A particular thanks therefore goes Enduring Growth for Cities Is Driven by Diversity, by Richard Florida out to the following:
13 18 22 29 40 44 49 53 San Antonio, Texas by Mayor Julian Castro Missoula, Montana by City Councilmember Caitlin Copple Equality Maryland by Executive Director Carrie Evans Atlanta, Georgia by Mayor Kasim Reed Fairness Kentucky by Executive Director Chris Hartman South Carolina Equality by Executive Director Ryan Wilson Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce by Director of Public Policy Joe Grace Equality Ohio by Deputy Executive Director Kim Welter
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Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
A KISS BEFORE DYING
(director: Gerd Oswald; screenwriters: from book by Ira Levin/Lawrence Roman; cinematographer: Lucien Ballard; editor: George A. Gittens; cast: Robert Wagner (Budd Corliss), Joanne Woodward (Dorothy Kingship), Virginia Leith (Ellen Kingship), Mary Astor (Mrs. Corliss), George Macready (Leo Kingship), Jeffrey Hunter (Gordon Grant), Robert Quarry (Dwight Powell); Runtime: 94; United Artists; 1956)
“This psychological thriller is penned by Ira Levin, of “Rosemary’s Baby” fame…”
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
This psychological thriller is penned by Ira Levin, of “Rosemary’s Baby” fame, and produced by Robert L. Jacks, the son-in-law of Darryl F. Zanuck, the head of Twentieth Century- Fox, which allowed him to cast those under contract to Fox to star in it.
Budd Corliss (Robert Wagner) is an ambitious, gold digging, handsome, smooth talking 25-year-old student in the state university in a small California town. He is from a humble single-parent home and has met a very wealthy girl, Dorothy Kingship (Joanne Woodward), at the college, where they have a secret romance. When she tells him she is two months pregnant he becomes upset because he realizes her stern father (George Macready), whom he has not met as of yet, will never accept him under those conditions; and, he is fearful that if they got married without her father’s permission, she would lose her inheritance. Budd tries to put off the wedding plans, but Dorothy tells him she doesn’t care about the money or what her father thinks and will live with him anywhere.
Budd is not only a fast talker but he is treacherous, and plans Dorothy’s death to appear as a suicide. He tries to kill her with poisons he steals from the college lab, telling her they are vitamins given to him by a friend of his working in the pharmacy. But when Dorothy doesn’t take them, thinking they are meant to stop the pregnancy, Budd goes to plan B. He has already deceived her into writing a suicide note which he posted in a letter, and he now decides that they should go to the marriage bureau to get married. When the bureau is closed for a lunch break Budd talks Dorothy into going up to the roof, where he kisses her and then throws her off. Her death is listed by the police as a suicide.
A year later Budd has transferred to another state university town where Dorothy’s sister Ellen (Leith) lives with her father; and, he becomes engaged to her, without telling her he knew her sister. Ellen still doesn’t believe that her sister committed suicide, and she figures out that her sister was going to get married that day and not jump off the roof. She contacts a policeman, Gordon Grant (Hunter), about her suspicions that her sister was seriously seeing somebody on campus. Gordon was studying at the university at the time and knew Dorothy and decides to open up the case again, but not for two more days since Gordon is giving a lecture at a college in a different town.
Warning: spoiler to follow in the next two paragraphs.
Ellen can’t wait for Gordon, so she rushes back to the university Dorothy attended and gets the name of a student she dated there by the name of Dwight (Quarry). Dwight tells Ellen he doesn’t know whom Dorothy dated after him, but has his address from a party he was invited to. But Budd follows Dwight home when he goes to get the address for Ellen and after killing him, he makes his death look like a suicide.
This suspenseful story comes to a fitting climax as Gordon meets Budd in Ellen’s house and thinks he recognizes him from the university. Without any proof, Ellen fails to believe him. But the cop gets the proof he needs when a waitress says she remembers serving the couple on their dates. Ellen finds herself in danger when she confronts Budd after a car visit to her father’s plant in a remote mountainous location and tells him about her suspicions and learns the hard way that she is dealing with a maniac.
The story had a lot of holes including an inadequate explanation for Budd’s motivation for wanting Dorothy dead in the first place; but, it still played as a good nightmarish mystery yarn, with an icy Robert Wagner tremendous in a villain role for a change of pace from his usual good guy roles.
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33 Most Popular African Traditional Cuisine
June 21, 2017 In Life Trends
Over the years, African communities have developed and adopted specific recipes. Topify List present the most consumed traditional recipe in Africa, top local food in Africa: Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, South Africa and West Africa.
Researches shows that the foods we choose to eat—or not to eat—may increase our life span or the quality of our lives. Not a day goes by, it seems, without feature news stories about food and its impact on health. The message that we can reduce our chances of developing cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes, and other diseases by maintaining a healthy weight, decreasing the fat and calories in our diets, eating more vitaminand mineral-rich fruits and vegetables, and getting fit is becoming a familiar one.
Africa is of great deal of material and immaterial culture, therefore, food is of no exception. The ability to understand the dietary and lifestyle factors that are most likely to ensure a long, healthy life is widely embrace in Africa right from the primitive. And the good news is that we can incorporate these factors into our own lives without sacrificing taste or giving up the foods we enjoy, by discovering and eating tastier, nutritious fruits, vegetables, and whole grains.
This article on Topify provides a skosh List of Popular Traditional African Foods, and perhaps, at the end you will agree with us. Though, the list generated through research online, vox pops, and the author’s opinion as par the subject matter.
Most Popular African Local Food
Stews and Starches
It is difficult to know whether to call these dishes stews, soups, or sauces. Part of the confusion is that they are eaten with a starchy staple dish. Many Africans believe that the only real meal is one that combines a stew or sauce with a starch.
Stewing has probably been the most common cooking method in Africa for centuries. Traditional African kitchens are located apart from the living and sleeping quarters. In each a large pot or cauldron for making stews rests on three stones above a wood fire. These dishes are usually simple, made with only a few ingredients. Stews are usually thickened with African oil palm fruit or crushed peanuts, but other thickeners are also used: crushed seeds of Cucurbitaceae (gourds, melons, and pumpkins), known by the West African name, egusi, and called mbika in Central Africa; crushed seed kernels of the mangue sauvage (wild mango) fruit ( Irvingia gabonensis), called odika, dika,or etima;and okra, which is called ngumbo.
One distinguishing characteristic of African cooking is the use of edible leaves, which Americans call “greens.” Indeed, the greens of the southeastern United States—collard greens, kale, and mustard greens—have their roots in Africa. In French-speaking Africa these are commonly called “feuilles” (leaves). It is hard to overstate the amount and variety of greens consumed. Oftentimes greens are the main ingredient in the daily stew, cooked with only a little onion, hot pepper, meat, fish, or oil for flavoring. Some of the greens consumed in Africa are bitterleaf, waterleaf, cassava, okra, pumpkin, sorrel, sweet potato, and taro.
Another distinguishing characteristic of African cuisine is the use of red palm oil, obtained from the fruit of the African oil palm, Elaeis guineensis (not to be confused with the clear oil pressed from the hard kernel). Reddish and thick, it has a distinctive flavor for which there is no substitute. Women make red palm oil, or palm butter, at home by boiling and hand-squeezing fresh palm nuts. The oily pulp is cooked with chicken, onion, tomato, okra, garlic, or sorrel leaves, and chili pepper to produce a stew called moambé or poulet nyembwe (also gnemboue). Moambé is also made with other meats. This is one of many Central African dishes related to West African counterparts, in this case the West African palm oil chop, though the Central African versions tend to be simpler and made with fewer ingredients. Outside of Africa, canned palm soup base (also called sauce graine, noix de palme, or cream of palm fruit) can be used.
Peanuts are roasted and eaten as snacks, but they are used more interestingly in stews and sauces. The chickengroundnut stew—made from chicken, peanuts, tomato, onion, and chili pepper—is common especially in Central Africa, as it is throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Peanut sauces are served with roasted meats or fried fish, or boiled yams, sweet potatoes, or rice. Greens are cooked in groundnut sauce; meat, fish, or fowl can be added to produce a variety of stews.
An interesting cooking method in most part of Africa is steaming or grilling food wrapped in packets fashioned from the leaves of banana trees or other plants. This is an old cooking method, predating the use of iron, maybe even clay cooking pots. It is very practical when camping or traveling as it eliminates the need to carry pots, and the leaves can also be used as plates and bowls. Certain leaves are especially favored because they give a particular flavor to food. Kwanga, for example, is wrapped in leaf packets before its final steaming. Maboké (singular liboké, also called ajomba or jomba)—leaf-wrapped packets of meat or fish, with onion, tomato, maybe okra, seasoned with lemon juice or hot chili pepper—are grilled over hot coals or steamed in a pot. Crushed peanuts, or mbika, are sometimes included in the packets. Filling the leaf packets with mashed beans (such as black-eyed peas) and sautéed peppers, then steaming, produces koki (also called ekoki or gâteau de haricots).
Meat, Fish, and Fowl
Generally, people in Africa eat meat, fish, or fowl whenever possible. Every village has domesticated chickens (or guinea fowl) and goats. Wild game, viande de brousse or bushmeat, is very common: antelope, birds, buffalo, crocodiles, fish, monkeys, pangolins, wild boars, and many other species are hunted. Almost every type of wildlife—from insects to primates—is hunted and eaten in Africa, though individual ethnic groups have their own traditions regarding what is edible and what is not. Some will eat snake meat, for example, while others will not. There are many traditional beliefs concerning who should eat certain foods and who should not: for example, a certain food may be reserved for men because it is believed that women who eat it cannot become pregnant or will suffer other ill effects.Women in the Odzala region of the Congo Republic do not eat gorilla meat, fearing that doing so would cause their husbands to become as brutal as gorillas.
Beverages, Snacks, and Desserts
Bottled beer and soft drinks, sometimes unrefrigerated, are available throughout Central Africa. Traditional beverages include vin de palme or emu (palm wine), self-fermented palm tree sap. Beer is made from corn, millet, plantains, and sorghum. Cassava, yam, or plantain porridges are thinned with water to make breakfast beverages, weaning foods for infants, and nutritious drinks for convalescents. Coffee and tea are also popular beverages. Africans are great snackers. Vendors selling hot beignets (Frenchstyle doughnuts), fried plantain, grilled corn-on-the-cob, kola nuts, brochettes (shish kabobs), roasted peanuts, soft drinks, and various fruits are seen on urban streets and near bus and taxi stops and train depots.
Maize, sorghum, and millets
In the last quarter of the twentieth century, maize replaced sorghum as the most important cereal in East Africa. It is common to see people in urban areas fanning a charcoal fire in the streets and roasting fresh soft maize. Passersby buy this roasted maize (mahindi ya kuchoma) and eat it as they walk. Green maize is also boiled in water (amakhaye in Kisa), with or without the inner covers, and is salted and eaten just like roasted maize. Alternatively, fresh maize is removed from the cob and boiled fresh or when dry ( inete). Among the Somali, fresh maize (galeey) is fried in oil and taken as a snack. Dry maize is fried in sesame oil to make popcorn (salol), which is often served with coffee to men as they chew khat (miraa).
Githerri
A popular East African food is githeri. This is basically a boiled mixture of fresh or dry maize with seeds from beans, garden peas, lablab beans, groundnuts, cowpeas, and pigeon peas. Githeri may be consumed alone or mixed with leafy greens or stews, especially meat stew.
Ugali (sima)
Probably the most important food in East Africa is ugali or sima (asida in Arabic, kun in Dinka, kawunga in Baganda, akaro in Banyankore, buro in Banyoro). Ugali is a sticky, moist dish that is made by mixing flour from a starchy food (mainly cereal and usually maize, but it can also be sorghum, finger millet, pearl millet, wheat, and occasionally cassava, or a mixture of any of these) in hot water and cooking as one mixes the substance to a paste that varies in consistency from place to place. Ugali by itself has a mild taste. It is usually eaten with one’s fingers. It may be eaten with sour fermented milk, a vegetable stew (for example, beans, cowpeas, pigeon pea, green gram), meat stew, green vegetables, chicken, or fish. In the Lake Victoria region, fish is a common accompaniment. The combination of roasted meat (commonly known as nyama-choma) and ugaliis considered a delicacy in beer-drinking places. Ugali is very filling and is known for its ability to make people sleepy; hence it is good for the evenings.
Porridge (gruel)
Porridge (uji in Swahili) is a popular food in Africa. It is a healthy food, especially for children and breast-feeding mothers, as it is easy to digest and provides both water and energy in readiness for the day. However, tea has replaced porridge as a breakfast food in most parts of East Africa, which has further complicated the Challenge of malnutrition. Porridge is mainly made from cereals. Depending on the area, porridge may be thin or thick and may be flavored with sugar, salt, lemon, tamarind, baobab, coconut, cow ghee/butter, or milk. Probably the most delicious type of porridge is the fermented type, obusera obupuute (Kisa).
Rice (wali in East Africa)
Rice is an important dish for the Ethiopian, Asian, and Muslim communities in Africa. A common dish is wali usambara, which is rice prepared with coconut milk, salt, and a bit of oil. Biriani is a very spicy dish composed of rice (usually spiced) and spiced meat or chicken stews. Pilau is a spicy mixture of meat stew and rice that is popular both inland and in coastal areas. Spices in this dish include coriander, cardamom, cumin, pepper, cinnamon, cloves, onion, and garlic. Pilau is a popular dish in ceremonies all over the region.
Cheko (Ethiopia) is a type of spiced bread made from barley. Barley is also used to make a type of porridge known as baso. This is often flavored with honey, sugar, salt, and butter.
Teff (Eragrostis tef ), a type of cereal grass, is grown traditionally only in Ethiopia, particularly in the western region. Most teff is made into enjera (injera), a huge, flat, flabby, rather elastic, and slightly sour pancake that is eaten with spicy meat or vegetable stews such as doro watt (hot, spiced chicken curry), sega watt (lamb sauce), and key watt (hot, spiced beef sauce). One tears off pieces of the pancake and uses them to scoop or roll the stews. Enjera is a typical food in Ethiopian restaurants all over the region. The Somali type of enjera (canjeero) is usually made from a mixture of maize and wheat and is often flavored with garlic and iliki. Sugar and milk cream are usually added to breakfast enjera. Enjera may also be made from a mixture of rice and wheat.
Cassava is important at the coastal areas and among the Iteso and Luo of Lake Victoria basin and their relatives in Uganda, the Acholi, Langi, and Alur. Dry cassava can be roasted or boiled or eaten fresh. In the coastal region, fried cassava is flavored with lemon and powdered pepper and eaten with tea. Cassava is also deep-fried (mgazija wa kukalanga in Giriama). Cassava leaves (mchicha kisamvu) are used as a vegetable throughout the region.
Potato (English/Irish potato)
Potatoes are used to make a popular stew (called karanga in Kenya) of carrots, tomatoes, meat, and onions. These are usually served with ugali, chapati, or wali (rice). Chips, or french fries, are the most popular foods in fast-food kiosks and are usually served with pork or beef sausages. In Burundi, chips are also prepared from green bananas ( ibitoke) and sweet potatoes (ibijumbu).
Tannia and cocoyams or taro
Tannia (Xanthosoma sagittifolium, called Marumi in the Meru region of Tanzania) is commonly used in Uganda and parts of Tanzania, especially among the Chagga, Ameru, and Arusha peoples. The tubers may be cooked with meat, beans, and maize or boiled and eaten with tea. Cocoyams or taro (Colacasia esculenta), on the other hand, are widespread in the region and are commonly planted along water courses. The tubers are prepared in the same manner as tannia. Both tannia and cocoyams are popular breakfast foods.
In Africa yams ( Dioscorea) come in various types and include such varieties as the aerial yam or air potato, whose tubers are borne on the stems. Yams are prepared in the same ways as tannia and cocoyams.
Garri, Amala and Eba
Made from yam flower (Elubo), a popular staple food in West Africa consume with sauce, stew or soup. This food is in varieties as in colour, as a result of the flower used (cassava flower or yam flower) Eba on the other is produced from gary, garri or gari. It is quiet popular in nooks and crannies in Africa.
Bananas and plantains
Many varieties of bananas exist in Africa. Different varieties are used for brewing beer and cooking, and others are eaten when ripe, such as kisukari (Swahili) or igisukari (Burundi). Kisimiti and kibungara (found in the Mount Meru section of Tanzania) are varieties used to make traditional beers called banana and mbege. Also in Mount Meru, the soft varieties of bananas called Uganda and ng’ombe are preferred for meat and maize dishes. A cooked mixture of ndizi ng’ombe and maize meal, served with milk, is known as loshoro and is a favorite food for the Arusha. In Tanzania, mashed beans and bananas (kishumba) are often served as a wedding cake with dengelwa (local sugar cane beer). Green bananas (matooke) are the most important foods of the Baganda of Uganda. They are usually wrapped in banana leaves, steamed, and then mashed and eaten with a variety of steamed sauces usually containing groundnuts.
Ensete
Ensete (enset) is a bananalike plant ( Ensete edule) exploited in southern Ethiopia for its pseudo-stem and leaf midribs—a source of a starchy product that is the staple food of parts of Ethiopia. This starch is fermented in the ground for periods lasting weeks or months. It is made into several products, including kocho (bread) and bula (porridge). Kocho is usually eaten with kittifo (kitfo)—hand-minced beef mixed with butter and pepper and served raw or cooked. A major disadvantage of ensete is its low protein content.
Beans (kidney bean, common bean) and peas
In Rwanda and Burundi beans are eaten for breakfast, lunch, supper, and as a snack. They are cooked with starchy foods such as sweet potatoes, green bananas, cocoyams, and cassava, as well as leafy green and fruit vegetables. In coastal parts of Tanzania, beans ( maharage) are cooked in coconut milk (tui) and served with ugali. Among the Giriama of Kenya this stew is known as borohowa ya maharagwe.
Bambarra groundnuts
Bambara (Vigna subterranea) seeds are boiled with maize (usually after overnight soaking) to make a type of githeri ( amenjera ke tsimbande in Luhyia) usually eaten as a snack. These seeds are also fried like groundnuts.
The most popular type of fish (eja, samaki, rech) in Africa is the tilapia (mainly Oreochromis niloticus) or ngege. People along the shores of Lake Victoria often enjoy this dish with ugali. The large Nile perch ( Lates niloticus) is not as popular as talapia, but it provides large quantities of meat, which are usually made into fish balls. Another common fish is the small sardinelike fish ( Rastrineobola argentea) known by the names omena (Luo) and dagaa (Swahili). These cheap sources of protein are dried and sold in tins in most urban markets.
Meat (Bushmeat)
Meat (nyama, ring, eran-igbe) is used to prepare a variety of sauces and stews (mchuzi in Swahili and watt in Amharic). In Ethiopia, quanta is meat that is cut in long pieces, smeared with powdered pepper, salted, and dried by hanging it above the fireplace for five to seven days. This meat is used to make a hot stew, quanta watt, which is served with enjera or mixed with broken pieces of enjera and eaten as quanta firfir (Amharic) or sukume (Oromic). Among the Luo of Kenya, such dried meat is known as aliya and is made into a stew that is eaten with ugali. Among the Somali, dried meat ( otkac or nyirnyir) is usually prepared from camel meat ( hilib gel).
Most households in Africa raise chickens, which are usually prepared for guests. The various parts of the chicken hold significance in different regions. In western Kenya, for example, the tail part of the chicken is reserved for the male head of a family. Among the Kamba of Kenya, a gizzard is served to the most important person in a group of visitors, while among the Luhyia the gizzard ( imondo) is never shared. If two people did share it, it is believed they would always be in disagreement.
The nomadic tribes of Sudan make a type of cheese called kush-kush eaten with sorghum porridge. Camel herders put milk into a skin bag that is fastened to the saddle of a camel, and the milk (gariss) is allowed to ferment. This is a major source of food for the herders as they roam with their animals in remote areas.
A wide range of traditional and exotic fruits are consumed in Africa, usually as snacks. Mango, citrus fruits, banana, jackfruit, papaya, melons, guava, passion fruit, custard apple, and avocado pear are all common market fruits. Many of the traditional fruits are picked in the wild, such as baobab ( Adansonia digitata), wild custard apple, saba, carissa, dialium, flacourtia (Indian plum), marula, vangueria, tamarind, vitex, and jujube.
Although Eastern Africa is one of the largest producers of coffee, the beverage is not very popular except in its original home—Ethiopia. Among the Muslim communities of the coastal region, very strong coffee ( kahawa chungu) is served in small cups along the streets in the evenings and early in the morning. In Ethiopia, raw coffee (bun) is roasted on a pan until it turns brown. It is then spiced and ground into flour on a stone. The coffee is served in an earthenware kettle (jebena). Coffee-drinking is an important occasion in many communities in Ethiopia, Sudan, and Somalia. Among the Somali, coffee is served in small cups with date fruits or xalwa.
Tea has replaced porridge as the morning drink in many homes in East Africa. In many rural restaurants it is customary to serve tea as soon as one sits down. The common way of preparing tea in homes and in most restaurants is by boiling water and adding tea leaves and milk, all mixed together (chai ya maziwa). Tea without milk is popularly known as strungi (from “strong tea”) and as shaah biiges in Somali. The Maragoli and Taita of Kenya value tea highly.
Khat (also known as Abyssinia tea or miraa) is a popular stimulant in East Africa. The bark from fresh young shoots is peeled off and chewed. Khat is an important plant during wedding ceremonies among the Somali and Boran of Kenya and Ethiopia.
Spices/flavorings
Probably the most widespread item used for flavor is salt. In many traditional societies, salt is a filtrate of ashes from dry bean leaves, banana peels, water reeds, sorghum head, and normal ash. Most communities used samli or ghee to flavor food. In Tanzania and most coastal parts of the region, coconut milk is also used to flavor food. Grated coconut and water are squeezed in a woven bag to produce concentrated milk. In case you feel, this list is not complete, kindly use this comment section to add that sort of locally made African food that we didn’t list here.
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Helen Labdon is the wife of actor Greg Kinnear. Greg and Helen have three children. Their married life is soon to reach its second decade. Read on to know more about Helen Labdon.
Helen Labdon chose a career in writing after few years in glam modeling
Helen Labdon was born on 6 September 1969 in Bracknell, UK. She was a model, but she gave up modeling and switched to a career in writing. Labdon started modeling at the age of nineteen, her debut shoot was for Praline Magazine in 1989. In her career, she has also tried nude modeling.
The reasons of Helen turning away from modeling remains unknown. One of the speculations was Helen’s marriage with Greg Kinnear. Labdon has been writing for different magazine stories as of now. More than her career works, she has gained popularity as Greg Kinnear’s wife.
Helen Labdon's husband, Greg Kinnear, was her boyfriend of five years
Labdon and Kinnear first met as colleagues. Helen was serving as an executive assistant in one of Greg's movies. They got to know each other more from their workplace and eventually fell in love in the year 1994. Greg considers the year lucky as it was his debut year in acting and the year he met Helen.
Their love was officially labeled with marriage on on May 1, 1999, after five years of dating. The wedding ceremony took place among close friends and family. Helen was pregnant with her first child in the year 2001, but she ended up delivering a still infant.
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Helen is now a mother of three. She gave birth to her first daughter, Lily Kathryn, in September 2003. Her second daughter, Audrey Mae, was born in June 2006 and the youngest one is Kate Grace was born in 2009.
As she is a working mother, she stated that she craves for holidays and outings with her family. She is a family person and her husband has been praising her as his constant support time and again in different interviews.
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The properties of hydrogen chloride
Demonstration and class practical
This experiment involves preparing and looking at the properties of hydrogen chloride, especially the demonstration of its great solubility in water (fountain experiment), forming hydrochloric acid.
Preparation of hydrogen chloride gas on a large scale must be done as a demonstration by a teacher.
Investigating some of the properties of the solution of the gas in water – that is hydrochloric acid – can be done either as a part of the demonstration or as a class experiment, unless the demonstration is only being used to show the great solubility of gases like hydrogen chloride in water.
The demonstration of the fountain experiment should take about 15mins and the class investigation of properties of hydrochloric acid, about 20mins.
Eye protection (including goggles for generating and handling hydrogen chloride gas)
For the fountain demonstration (see diagram below), the teacher requires:
Access to a fume cupboard
Safety screens
Large round-bottomed flask (500–1000 cm3) (Note 1)
Bung to fit flask, with holes for a teat pipette (with detachable teat) and delivery tube as shown (Note 2)
Valve, consisting of a short length of rubber tubing and a Mohr’s clip
Glass trough or plastic bowl
Short lengths of rubber tubing
Clamp stands, bosses and clamps (Note 3)
Small glass funnel – to fit inside a 250 cm3 beaker
Beaker (250 cm3)
Conductivity testing apparatus (3 V DC supply, graphite electrodes in bung, leads and clips, torch bulb in holder)
For testing the properties of pre-prepared dilute hydrochloric acid, each group of students requires:
Test-tubes, 4
Test-tube rack
Plastic dropper pipettes
Concentrated sulfuric acid (CORROSIVE), 10 cm3
Sodium chloride, 30 g (Note 4)
Universal indicator solution
Dilute hydrochloric acid, 0.1 M
Sodium hydroxide solution, 0.1 M (IRRITANT)
Limewater (IRRITANT), fresh, a few cm3
Universal indicator solution (HIGHLY FLAMMABLE)
Universal indicator papers
Magnesium ribbon, 2 cm lengths
Small marble chips, a few
Work in a fume cupboard and wear goggles for generating and handling hydrogen chloride gas. Wear eye protection for testing the properties of dilute hydrochloric acid.
Hydrogen chloride gas, HCl(g) is generated (TOXIC, CORROSIVE) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard and CLEAPSS Recipe Book.
Concentrated sulfuric acid, H2SO4(aq) (CORROSIVE) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard.
Sodium chloride, NaCl(s) (or rock salt) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard.
Dilute hydrochloric acid, HCl(aq) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard and CLEAPSS Recipe Book.
Universal indicator solution (HIGHLY FLAMMABLE) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard and CLEAPSS Recipe Book.
Magnesium ribbon, Mg(s) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard.
Limewater, Ca(OH)2(aq), (treat as IRRITANT) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard and CLEAPSS Recipe Book.
Sodium hydroxide solution, NaOH(aq), (IRRITANT) - see CLEAPSS Hazcard and CLEAPSS Recipe Book.
1 The round-bottomed flask should be a thick-walled one made of borosilicate (Pyrex) glass and free of any flaws. The safety screens are necessary, because the sudden vacuum produced when the gas dissolves in water can cause the flask to implode.
2 The pipette inserted through the bung should have a removable rubber teat that can be easily attached once the apparatus is in place. It is important to check that the volume of water the teat bulb holds, when filled, is sufficient to ensure that drops of water emerge into the flask, when the teat is squeezed. It helps to fill the teat bulb with water beforehand, and place it upright in a small beaker ready to use.
The flask and the bung carrying the glass tubes should be dried in an oven at about 80 °C before the experiment.
3 It is very important to set up the necessary stand, bosses and clamps, safety screens and the empty trough/bowl in their correct positions on the bench in front of the class before the demonstration. Use the empty round-bottomed flask fitted with the bung and tubes (but no teat bulb on the pipette) to adjust the position of the clamps, so that the long tube and valve reaches almost to the bottom of the bowl. Make sure the flask will not topple over when it fills with water from the bowl. Do this by positioning the bowl on the base of the stand, or putting some extra weights on it.
4 Powdered rock salt can be used instead of reagent sodium chloride.
The set-up of the hydrogen chloride fountain demonstration can be seen here:
Preparing hydrogen chloride and demonstrating its solubility in water (Fountain experiment)
a Fill the bowl with tap water and add enough Universal indicator solution to make the colour clearly visible.
b Set up the hydrogen chloride gas generator in a fume cupboard. Remove the empty round-bottomed flask from its position on the bench set-up to the fume cupboard for filling. Clamp the flask in position near the gas generator.
c Purge the air out of the flask containing sodium chloride, by dripping about 1 cm3 of sulfuric acid onto the sodium chloride. A piece of damp Universal indicator or blue Litmus paper held near the end of the delivery tube turns red when hydrogen chloride starts to emerge from it.
d Position the delivery tube in the round-bottomed flask. Slowly fill the flask with hydrogen chloride, by dripping more sulfuric acid onto the sodium chloride in the gas generator. Test to see when it is full, by holding damp indicator paper near the mouth of the flask. Allow the gas to pass for a little longer, even if the indicator paper turns red.
e Stop the gas stream and remove the delivery tube from the round-bottomed flask. Refit the bung to the flask and clamp it in position over the bowl of water ready for the fountain demonstration. Ensure the valve at the end of the glass tube jet is well immersed in the water and the system is air tight.
f Carefully attach the bulb of the teat pipette filled with water to the pipette tube, without squeezing any water into the flask.
g Remove the clip from the valve. The water starts to rise slowly up the tube as the gas dissolves in it. To speed up this process, squeeze a few drops of water into the flask from the pipette.
h All the hydrogen chloride in the flask dissolves in the water drops from the pipette, creating a vacuum in the flask. Water is then sucked up at great speed from the bowl, creating a spectacular ‘fountain’ in the flask. The indicator in the water changes colour to red. The extent to which the flask fills with water depends on how much air was left in the flask. It can fill almost completely.
Properties of hydrochloric acid
If these experiments are only demonstrated, then hydrochloric acid prepared by bubbling hydrogen chloride from the generator can be used in a fume cupboard. This must be done using the method described below in steps a-c because of the great solubility of the gas. If students are to carry out tests on the properties, they should begin at step d, using pre-prepared dilute hydrochloric acid.
a Half fill a 250 cm3 beaker with distilled/deionised water. Connect the small funnel to the gas generator with a length of rubber tubing. Clamp it upside down in the beaker, so that the funnel rim is just below the surface of the water. See the diagram below:
b Bubble hydrogen chloride gas slowly through the funnel, by dripping sulfuric acid onto the sodium chloride. If the gas flow rate is too slow, the water level rises in the funnel and falls in the beaker – until bubbles of air are sucked into funnel. This stops the water rising further. If this happens, increase the gas flow rate.
c After one to two minutes raise the funnel from the beaker and stop the gas flow. Use the conductivity tester to test the conductivity of the solution in the beaker. The lamp should light, showing the presence of ions in solution. If not, bubble more hydrogen chloride through the water and test again.
d Fill three test test-tubes to a level of one-third with the hydrochloric acid prepared above or use dilute hydrochloric acid. Add a couple of drops of Universal indicator solution to one of the tubes. It turns red, indicating the presence of a strong acid.
e Add sodium hydroxide solution slowly to the same test-tube using a pipette. Shake to mix after each addition. Continue adding until the alkali neutralises the acid and the colour changes from red, through yellow-green, to purple.
f Add a strip of magnesium to a second test-tube of acid. It fizzes vigorously, giving off a colourless gas, and dissolves to give a colourless solution of magnesium chloride. The gas can be collected by holding an inverted test-tube over the reaction for a several seconds. Test for hydrogen by applying a flame to the mouth of the inverted tube. You should hear a squeaky pop should.
g Add a few marble chips to a third test-tube of acid. They fizz, giving off a colourless gas – carbon dioxide. The presence of this gas can be proved using the limewater test.
It advisable to try the fountain experiment before demonstrating it to a class, to make sure the flask can be successfully filled with HCl gas. Be careful not to disconnect the flask from the gas supply too soon, even if HCl can be detected at the outlet. Oven drying the glass apparatus beforehand improves the chances of success.
The solubility of hydrogen chloride in one volume of water at 0 °C and 1 atm is 506 volumes.
Page last updated April 2017
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The New York Times Op-Ed: Trump Worsens the Border Crisis
By Veronica Escobar
Ms. Escobar is a Democratic representative from Texas.
EL PASO — Over the last month, I have traveled in three congressional delegations to El Paso and southern New Mexico. We heard from federal law enforcement, toured detention centers and Border Patrol stations, and listened to human rights and legal advocates who have worked with migrants for decades.
Some of us even saw where Felipe Gómez Alonzo, an 8-year-old Guatemalan who recently died while in custody, and his father were apprehended.
Obviously, El Paso and its metropolitan area, including Ciudad Juárez, in Mexico, is just one point along a very long border. But everything we saw demonstrated why President Trump’s call for a wall is simplistic and misguided. While there is indeed a crisis on the border, it’s not the one the president describes — and, in fact, his “solution” will only make things worse.
The border runs for 2,000 miles. Some of it runs through impassable terrain, some alongside cities like El Paso. About 700 miles of it already has a wall. In other words, the border may look like one long, thin line on a map, but in reality it is much more complicated.
Nor are those arriving at the border the threatening mass of humanity Mr. Trump imagines. For one thing, there are a lot fewer people being apprehended — down 60 percent from a decade ago. And these days the majority are seeking asylum, their legal right. And while drugs do flow across the border, most of them come through ports of entry.
It’s not just Mr. Trump who fails to appreciate these facts; as I’ve come to learn as an El Pasoan and now a member of Congress, so does the Department of Homeland Security.
Despite receiving more money than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined, the department has not adapted to changes in migrating populations and patterns. Before giving it another penny, Congress must understand why.
Instead of developing a nuanced response to the facts on the ground, this administration has chosen incompetence and cruelty as its approach. The consequences are already apparent.
For example, one reason more migrants are coming across the border through the desert, then requesting asylum, may be that they are being unfairly rejected at official border crossings or being forced to languish in Mexico while their applications are being considered at a deliberately slow pace, a tactic called “metering.” Many choose not to wait, and make a desperate, risky choice — and some die as a result.
And because federal law enforcement agencies have failed to adapt to this changing population, agents are ill equipped to handle the asylum seekers once they do arrive.
Those agents are used to chasing after single Mexican men determined to evade capture. They are now dealing with Central American families, fleeing their countries and running to, not from, the agents. Some carry very small children; all are being crowded into small, inhumane cement cells for days at a time.
I am not blaming the agents. During one of our visits to an El Paso Sector station, agents were up front with us about how unprepared they were to care for the large groups of people they apprehended. They had to buy burritos from a vendor down the street, then warm hundreds of them in a single, small microwave that eventually burned out.
Then there was the mother who, in our presence, asked for a cup of water for her toddler, only to be told that the facility was out of cups. What a terrible situation for the mother, holding an exhausted, thirsty child in her arms. And what does that do to the agent who has to say no to her?
During flu season, agents in El Paso had to dispense medication to their charges. Imagine keeping track of dozens of prescriptions intended to be dispensed every few hours. And all of this was keeping agents from what they were trained to do: track and apprehend bad guys.
When I ask agents what they worry about most, I hear stories like this — not pleas for a wall. Other times they ask for better cellphone coverage and updated radios to use in rural areas. In urban areas with busy ports of entry, they ask for more personnel and newer equipment. There aren’t enough immigration judges, they don’t have enough independence, and the laws on the books don’t reflect modern realities.
The agents may not be to blame, but the agencies sure are. Local immigration activists said their main concern was inadequate communication from federal law enforcement, which left their organizations scrambling when the local Immigration Customs Enforcement office releases hundreds of migrants in need of temporary housing into the nighttime streets of El Paso.
When we talk about a crisis along the border, this is what it looks like: desperate families overwhelming agents who get little direction or support from their local offices, let alone Washington.
This year, Congress needs to investigate the inability of a well-funded agency to adapt, why supervisors ignored the alarms raised by their agents on the ground, how two children (Felipe Gómez and 7-year-old Jakelin Caal Maquin) died as a result, and how we best address the root causes of changed migration.
President Trump and his base won’t end their obsession with border security until there’s not a single undocumented crosser — an impossibility. For them, of course, this isn’t about border security; it’s about nationalism and isolationism. For the rest of us, it’s about finding a humane solution to a humanitarian challenge.
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Global Health Diplomacy 2.0: Diplomacy as An Answer to the Global Health Puzzles
Indonesia One Health University Network (INDOHUN)
BANDUNG, Indonesia, Aug. 31, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Global health is supposed to be a global concern rather than individual business. But in general, either the government or its people often forget to put the global health issues into consideration. Hence, the solution of global health issues is still being scattered puzzles. As a resort to arrange those puzzles, the second Global Health Diplomacy (GHD 2.0) training in Grand Bidakara Savoy Homann Hotel, Bandung, Indonesia was commenced on 25 August 2018.
The participants and speakers of Global Health Diplomacy 2.0
GHD applicants' enthusiasm was over the cloud. OH Technical Officer INDOHUN, Professor Agus Suwandono stated that from more than 140 applicants, only 40 of them were chosen as GHD 2.0 participants.
Prof. Agus appraised that GHD this year is more proportionally held than the previous one, due to the more systematic organizing process and longer preparation period. The previous GHD experience also notably contributes to the smooth organization of this program, including participants selection, speakers and trainers' selection, and event organization.
During the first two days of training, the participants of GHD 2.0 were given public lectures by international speakers related to global health governance, health system, global health negotiation, health policy framework, global health leadership, health innovation in strengthening global health system, health advocacy, and diplomacy practice.
Dr. Aidil Chandra Salim, an expert from Indonesia's National Agency of Narcotics, who is also one of the GHD 2.0 speakers, shows a huge support for the commencement of GHD training, although he has already retired from the Ministry of Foreign Affair, "I think this Global Health Diplomacy training is a good event that makes the participants ready to face the global health issues. This training program is enriched with not only global health issues, but also with diplomacy and other aspects of international issues."
One of the speakers, Dr. Remco van de Pas from Maastricht Centre for Global Health, University of Maastricht, Netherland and Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp - Belgium, states, "I think it's very relevant for the students from different, several backgrounds to understand one health, the process of policies being made, and how it is being done across sectors, across different people, and how it is being done."
It syncs with M. Chandra W. Yuda's, Director of ASEAN Political-Security cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, statement during an interview in GHD 2.0, that in facing global challenges countries have to work together to ensure peace, security and prosperity around the globe: "It need commitment from all countries to make it works."
Dr. van de Pas also appreciates the participants' active and interest attitude to engage in the GHD 2.0 activities. He also highlights the importance of innovation and practice learning for health diplomacy in global arena, "The participants are coming from different fields. In this training, they are learning about what it means to come up with new policies especially for international arena. Although many of them has studied abroad, how it is translated into international policies is on another scale."
The training is continued with multi-stage negotiation simulation (MSNS) in the rest of the raining period. In MSNS sessions, the participants acted as delegations from various ASEAN countries that have different agendas, problems, and situations. The scenario began from the health problems outbreaks in multiple countries. They had to analyze any possible challenges and opportunities to mitigate the outbreaks and prevent it from spreading in the community, where the participants also needed to discuss the funding system and countries' joint agreement to alleviate the particular problem.
During MSNS, the activities were divided into plenary session, and private meetings in community of whole (COW) or bilateral meetings. Delegates were also given situations where the press would give statements and interviews related to the issue, so that they will also be trained in giving statements in interviews, press conferences, and preparing press releases. Agnia Jolanda Putri, Medical Doctor by training from Center of Health Policy and Management at Gajah Mada University states her excitement of participating in the MSNS, "MSNS was a great experience because we, as secretariat have a chance to explore the nuance and know the system on how MSNS works. It was very interesting on how MSNS could elaborate every person in the forum to deliver their messages, representing their countries."
Artauli Tobing, Indonesia Ambassador to Vietnam (2004-2007), who monitored the course of MSNS sessions states that the GHD 2.0 participants shows a great potential to be Indonesia's future leaders. Not only because of their fluency in English, but also their adaptability into diplomatic mode that creates diplomatic nuance during the training.
About 90% of the participants understand very well on how to make statements, how to react in fluent English, even though in reality they sometimes use words that may be less diplomatic. This is understandable, because diplomacy is not something they usually do.
"The participants show a great progress over the sessions. Although they started the MSNS in an awkward manner, as the time went by, they got a hang of it!" Tobing added.
She also shows her admiration towards the participants' efforts, "During the OCW activities which discussed various draft resolutions, it was seen the efforts of each participant representing the ASEAN countries in maintaining their positions. The participants could also fluently express their views without reservation or pretense."
For the closing ceremony on 29 August 2018, Indonesia One Health University Network (INDOHUN) as GHD 2.0 organizer held a gala dinner, delegation inauguration, and an awarding night for the participants to celebrate the end of the training period. M. Chandra W. Yuda, as one of GHD 2.0 speakers advised the participants: "Enlarge your horizon, do your work, keep in touch, and learn from each other. You'll achieve what you dream for."
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A US court has ordered South Korea's Samsung Electronics pay $539m (£403m) in damages for copying features of Apple's original iPhone, writes BBC.
The jury's decision is the latest step in a long-running legal battle between the world's top smartphone makers.
It began in 2011 when Apple argued Samsung had infringed on some patents.
Apple was awarded $1.05bn in damages a year later but the rivals have fought over the final amount ever since.
In the latest court ruling, most of the damages payment - $533.3m - was awarded for infringing three Apple design patents. The remainder was for violating two patented functions.
In a statement, Apple said it was pleased that the members of the jury "agree that Samsung should pay for copying our products."
"This case has always been about more than money," the tech giant said, adding that it was important that it continued to protect the "hard work and innovation of so many people at Apple".
But Samsung said the decision "flies in the face" of the unanimous Supreme Court ruling in its favour on the way the design patent damages are calculated.
Samsung had argued that it should only have to pay $28m in damages - limiting the sum to profits directly related to the components or features covered by the patents.
Apple argued for a much bigger figure, calculated on the profits made from an entire iPhone.
"It is not a clear win for either firm because Apple had asked for $2.5bn in damages in its original claim", according to Kiranjeet Kaur, tech analyst at research firm IDC in Singapore.
And Ms Kaur added that the possibility of another appeal by Samsung "cannot be eliminated".
"It is clearly not the verdict Samsung wanted or expected, and apart from the damages it has to pay, it points out that indeed designs were copied," she said.
She added the ruling should serve as a warning to smaller players to be "more wary of overstepping [patents], especially in markets like the US".
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Why Japan’s Homeless are Different from North America’s (Part 1)
This. This is the image that has been stuck in my mind for years. Here I was below the massive towers of the Tokyo metropolitan government building and I came across this blue tarp with solar panels on it. This was quite a scene for me. That’s because back in Vancouver, where I lived most of my adult life, I was used to seeing scenes like this. Why were the visible homeless I encountered in Tokyo so different? Thus started my search into understanding why the homeless in Japan are different than the homeless in North America. Where I started to find answers was in the research work of professor Tom Gill. My name is Tom Gill, I’m from England. But I’ve lived in Japan for about 25 years and I’m a professor of Social Anthropology here at Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama Campus. There are a number of things about Japanese society which makes it a lot easier to deal with homelessness than in other industrialized countries. For a start, the level of drug abuse is much lower in Japan than a lot of other countries. It’s pretty difficult to get hold of hard drugs in Japan unless you know a Yakuza, a gangster who will supply you. And for the most part guys who become homeless in Japan don’t do drugs other than tobacco and alcohol. Yes, there are a substantial number of alcoholics in the Japanese homeless population. There are also a considerable number of compulsive gamblers and of course, even if you are getting Livelihood Protection Money, if you spend it all on alcohol or horse racing in the first couple of days of the month, you can still end up on the street. Another important factor is that Japan has a very conservative approach To treatment of mentally ill people, who are generally institutionalized. If you look at statistics for mental health in Japan, you are much more likely to be put away in an institution if you have a mental health problem. We never went through the processes that were called “mainstreaming” in America and “care in the community” in Britain which are both kind of code words for shutting down mental Hospitals and Letting mentally ill people out into society and Which might have seemed like a good idea and something- some liberal people did support that move but unfortunately there wasn’t the backup to follow what happened to these people after they were let out and a certain number of them ended up being on the streets, and that’s one of the reasons why you have a lot of people with mental health issues in the homeless population in many Industrialized countries. Then a third factor is that Japan has managed to keep out of wars and conflicts since the end of World War II. So as a result, traumatized war veterans, which are another large component particularly of the American homeless population- we don’t have that in Japan either. Where are homeless people? Urban parks, riverbanks, streets, station buildings, and other buildings. So the kind of archetypal situation where you’re walking along the street and you encounter a homeless person is a lot less likely to happen in Japan because a lot of them are not in that part of the urban space. Most of them do try to keep clean. One of the reasons why they tend to gather in parks is because they generally have public toilets and washrooms there which helps you to maintain a basic level of hygiene. On the question of begging: it’s true that very few homeless people in Japan beg. Far more likely, as a way of making a bit of money, is can recycling, and sometimes newspaper and magazine recycling, but that’s the main way for putting together a little bit of cash. Why they don’t beg? I think there are push factors and pull factors. Japanese are disinclined to beg. They’re also disinclined to give to beggars, and these two things go hand in hand. In countries with a strong Christian tradition, or indeed a strong Muslim, or Hindu tradition, giving to the Poor is deeply ingrained in the religion and the culture. There’s nothing quite like that in in Japan so People are less likely to give money to beggars. I mean, they’re not used to being begged off. It’s a “chicken-and-egg” situation, really. The fact that you know, it’s shameful to beg and you don’t want people to know that you’re homeless you don’t want people to know that you’re unable to look after yourself. Pride, shame. Yeah, these are also factors I’m sure you have many questions about homelessness in Japan and I did as well. It’s a very complex topic that touches on many parts of society. As such, this is just a single video as part of a bigger series about homelessness in Japan that I’ll be making, so stay tuned for that. I have to give special thanks to professor Tom Gill, who’s so knowledgeable and so generous with his time, so thank you for that! And a shout out to my patreon supporters who make It possible for me to make videos like this; videos that aren’t necessarily so popular and videos that do take time to research, so thank you for that and as always: Thanks for Watching! See you next time, Bye!
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100 thoughts on “Why Japan’s Homeless are Different from North America’s (Part 1)”
John Newman says:
Homogenous is the reason
Very simple
Very clear
sundiii99OWS says:
All problems can be eliminated by ending capitalism, wage slavery. When all people own all things worldwide, then we can eliminate money so no one will be homeless. Most money is just numbers in computers which makes it easy to do. But then all nations will need to quickly start building only Tower Cities connected to maglev Trains worldwide because that’s the only way we’ll be able to save the Earth.
Q Co says:
A woman came in the store and kicked me. French!
We want English!!! Not French. Violent Beggar.
ArcticoFolf says:
West Hastings clearly shows the drug abuse in Vancouver’s homeless population.
Friend of Tellus says:
Another planet, obviously.
The homeless in America are there to put pubic money in private pockets, through real estate scams and other bogus programs to "help".
reddyornot says:
In Florida FPL would fine you!
Mr Peco says:
Everything is simply just better in Japan.
Even the homeless are better 🤣
JAMKR K says:
interpretation. Can tell you just by looking at their homeless space that they are cleaner.
Rosalia Wijaya says:
Why Goverment not take care them ?😭😭😭
Wendy Bond says:
Very informative
Captcha Neon says:
People see the mental illness, the drug use and the drinking and they assume people are homeless for that reason and what you don’t understand or take into consideration is that even the most normal person can fall victim to any or all of those things after being on the street. It wears on you to be out in the elements, sleeping on unbearable materials and having no out. Also, most homeless do NOT have to spend any money they get on drugs especially because usually someone or multiple people are doing it with them.
Lynda Compton says:
My guess would be most American homeless are drug addicts and the Japanese are not
Marcus Engel says:
Interesting video, and surprising to hear input from an academic that wasn't charged with political language
Simon Shaninga says:
The Government in Japan takes care of its people.
piere de waaier says:
I was hanging near asakusa bridge homeless people. We talked and hand some drinks. One guy even showed me his camera collection. Good dudes. Sleep in shopping arcades at night.
tmnsoon says:
They never had communists dismantle their mental healthcare system in Japan, unlike the U.S. and most western countries.
VRStuff says:
Knew before I started it the main difference is institutionalization. Our homeless problem In American became extremely serious when we shut down the mental asylums. We need them back, just done with more oversight and proper care.
Thunder Bird says:
They are much better than people who forced to move Fukushima area without clean up nuclear waste . They are under radiation sickness …
I feel sorry for those who doesn’t have choices
Japanese government ( especially Abe ) is biggest lair in Japan
timothy chung says:
This is advance homelessness.
Robert Emerson says:
My deep respect for Japanese people and their culture made it very difficult to envision homeless people in Japan. They're such proud people but this professor touched around that topic by saying they're too proud to ask for help and others don't give money. That made a lot more sense to me.
Warrior says:
Japan locks up most of their mental illness we used to do that here in the states then we realized that they were being treated bad so we let them all go on the streets lol. Do we want to go back to locking them up?
Japan kept out of wars since world war two ,is because United states has a security agreement with Japan, which the United states does the fighting, same thing with south Korea. Which I think countries should fight their own wars keep the United states out of it. They are in violation of the constitution which says we are not to have a standing army only in times of war, which is on our turf not a foreign country.
Toon Link says:
Closing down institutions for the mentally ill was a horrible mistake. Just because horrible places like Willowbrook existed doesn't mean they were all like that.
Icy Blade says:
Less drugs, less homeless?
noooddle says:
I wouldn't call having a lower rate of dumping crazies on the street as "being behind".
Boofer T. Washington says:
Japan has no black gangs selling dope.
Pedro Ramos says:
They are smarter
John Joseph says:
I live in Vancouver haha hope it’s Vancouver CANADA
Kelly K•for privacy says:
Cleaning up one's own trash and not being a thief might have something to do with it.
ora et labora says:
Never trust any professor regardless of origin, their all self absorbed lunatics with knowledge that is virtually useless.
Ahmad Izzat Shahmier Alhamdulillah says:
This human must develop their own self, if not they still in trouble conditions and situations in this temporary world.
Chef Calvin says:
Not popular and takes a lot of time to research. Try making it more interesting to view and follow for the viewers. More visual graphics perhaps. And a different way of getting the information to the viewer in more than one way ie not just what the professor says. Try looking at it from just more than one angle. I agree with you, it's a bit too dry. Hope this helps better improve your future videos.
Rowan Sadasivan says:
there's something wrong with the guy filming these videos…… he always gets some British dude to explain japan
officeaddict33 says:
Great reason NOT to enlist in the military. They won't take care of you when you come back damaged.
Stratius Rex says:
You did a good job on this video
Cornelius Corker says:
Japan should not exist…death to the emperor
ME. Zhia Glasgow says:
How do europeans get authority n status in evry open society nda world???🤔… Sick.
MickeyGreenEyes213 says:
I found it interesting they make their money by collecting litter and recycling it. Why don't we have these machines in America? Seems like a 2 birds, 1 stone situation to me.
ed p says:
I recently visited Viet Nam. I did not see ANY homeless encampments there. I was looking for it. I traveled in the cities, the countryside, in the mountains. None. I suspect the reasons are similar. I got the impression that if you could work, you do. If you are mentally ill or are otherwise failing to take basic care of yourself, you are institutionalized.
Frank Lyons says:
Reason #433 : no negroes in Japan 🇯🇵
Seth Leoric says:
To be honest for me it's really weird seeing homeless people who aren't children and/or a mother with children
John Does says:
Okay the mental health hospitals or institutions were closed because lawyers in bad people were committing people that weren't crazy and using that institution to lock them up so they can get whatever they wanted they had power over land or money they had him locked up called crazy so they can take what they had it was a form of theft and the government's realize this was going on more and more so they decided to get rid of them discover witness season murder and lawyer for the killer cause of witness crazy and then he has a team of people go out and commit him to a mental hospital so his client could get off of murder is why they closed it down also the money issue above
Beautiful Disaster says:
Unnecessary talk
Justin Keely says:
I always find it funny how Canadian's will always call out USA problems. When Canada has issues its always North America, the collective "we". It's okay Canada you can have issues, everyone does.
YoBro says:
75% of homeless women have mental illness, while among women in homes the stat is 98%. Maybe more.
Dragon Slayer says:
Hold on just a freaking second! Theres homeless in Canada? All my news sources tell me its socialist Utopia!!!!!
Anarchist Zero says:
Homelessness is an industry in the USA: this land has tens of thousands of empty federal buildings and millions of empty houses. — nationalhomeless.org & planet.squat.net & #AdversePossession .
Charmaine Eaton says:
Jesus is the way the Truth and the life,Jesus is coming back very soon,dont be left behind,give your life to him now.
Ben Sama says:
Homeless people are usually vagrants so not many people in N. America want to interact with them
Super VolcanoExpert27 says:
Probably because there is less drug addiction.
NITISH S says:
I wish the Japanese system worked in India.
Kay Sav says:
I live in San Diego and most of the homeless here and terrible. They wash their privates in drinking fountains at public parks. They sleep infront of anywhere because they’re so strung out. I live in poverty so I see it everyday and I’m not blaming them for the way they’re trying to survive but cmon man… there’s no respect just a junkie mentality..
I don’t have a name says:
I’m a Japanese person living in San Francisco. I was surprised how homeless here is so different from homeless in Japan. I was never scared of being near homeless person in Japan. In fact I rarely found homeless people in Japan. In San Francisco, so many homeless people are using drugs on trains and on street. Quite scary.
alberto cassinelli says:
They are richer!
missy rabbit says:
we were in Japan and saw 2 elderly ladies tending to a garden under a bridge. My friend told me they were homeless, no living family. However, everything at their site was neat and clean, and the garden was thriving
Celeste Brusciano says:
I'm also from Vancouver!
Tom Meyers says:
Why Japan's Homeless are Different from North America's
"They have high IQs. They are not there due to low IQ"
Michael Gray says:
Yeah it's monolithic people help people who look like them
fordie 58 says:
You enlightened me. Japan and Homeless sounded like an oxymoron to me. Please keep teaching us. Thank you.
Go look at how bad California is getting with many issues, but specificly homelessness. Its because California is ran by a cesspool of liberal democrat morons, LOL. 😂😂😂 Those politicians are a joke, corrupt, and unAmerican P.O.S. They don't give a crap about anyone but themselves, and many people buy into their lies.
yes man says:
What..you mean a liberal solution actually made the problem worse? No, it's not possible.
fire5479 says:
The tents and bicycles are all made in America where as in America tents and bicycles are made in China.
Joy Santiago says:
I wonder why japan's government dont let the homeless people to live in stigmatised apartment building?
Old Gringo says:
I was in Japan in 1985 and i saw no homeless at all back then, but that was in their economic BOOM time.
Pablo Pablo says:
I think is that they not in drugs
philboytano says:
Japanese people are not really humans they are descendant of the Alien race from Mars.
Rei gee says:
There are homeless people in the US who meet all the criteria of "homeless japanese." They don't do drugs, keep clean, etc. We just don't know how to identify them because we're so used to what a homeless person should look and act like, that when we meet a more well rounded homeless person, we don't suspect they're homeless. I've met a small handful of people like that. And the only reason why I found out they were homeless was because 1. They either told me or 2. I "found out" about it through observations (I found one woman I had known for a while washing up in a public library and one man I found out was living in a man's shelter at a church). They all had jobs too. So yes, we have this homeless population too, but unlike in japan, we have the other homeless populations piling on top of them.
Pappa Whiskey says:
Brother, I know I'm late to this video, as it only just came up in my feed after viewing a half dozen or so other videos of yours in recent times. I wanted to tell you that I appreciate the broad variety of topics you cover, both positive and negative, about life in Japan. You often get some very interesting "guests", and offer some really great insights into Japan's current and historical culture. You also enunciate very well. Thank you for your efforts. I'm Australian, and I plan to visit Japan next year, 2020, for the first time. You, and a number of other youtube content makers, are helping me to map out a greater understanding of the Japanese, and will help me to arrive with a greater appreciation and understanding of their customs and traditions.
Baron Karza says:
No blacks to make things dangerous.
Jackamomo says:
1:17 So opiods and cocain have 0 negative health effects. Cannabis looks safer than tobacco too. Interesting…! So why do junkies always look like sh*t? Have we been lied to about drugs being dangerous?
Crazy Bunimama says:
Dignity and pride
Alexander Chambord says:
This is good content.
Rui Takeda says:
I had lived in Japan for 15 years, I could say that people are very friendly there, also dogs and cats are not afraid of humans
Annie Aviles says:
Yes, but Japan’s suicide rates are almost identical to the United States.
cahyowl says:
That's the tidiest garbage I have ever seen
Tu Dao Khue says:
I really apprecite your video, but sometimes i have trouble with language- no eng subtile :((( i hard to entirely understand
Vans Dy says:
Hmmm.. if I see homeless people I would prefer giving them a hot meal and water. Hopefully if I go to Japan, they won't be offended.
Bhaskar Param says:
Pantyhose Experience says:
I was hoping he was going to say, my name is Tom Gill and I live in the blue tarp shelter with the solar panels 0:44
That would have been great 🔥
gg Play a carry next time says:
Imagine organized crackheads
The difference between homeless in the USA especially in California and other countries is that the politicians who make policies worsen the situation. Homeless will go to jail in Japan if they pee or poop in the public.
Mona Jones says:
A “social anthropologist” lmao!!! Seriously? 😂😂😂😂
Hotsauce is Lethal says:
I would like to see US governments take notice of this video and begin to implement some of the lessons:
They need to bring back state funded institutions for mentally ill rather than allowing them to just roam the streets with no sort of guidance or help. They fall between the cracks and are forgotten until they die sadly.
There needs to be a multi-prong approach that tackles the main pillars of the problem. Addiction, mental health, labor, housing and nutrition should be addresses equally and simultaneously. Too little too late has always been the strategy instead, when there is no shortage of money OR resources in this country! It is absolutely a shame.
j batter Wayne workshop says:
Is this guy f**** kidding just because they have solar panels they're still living under a cart tarp unless underneath that car tarp is like some underground facility
John Powell says:
If you've ever worked with Japanese people (i did it for a whole 2 years) you can understand why…and it's 2 things…Pride and Work ethic…
These cats give everything they do, 1000% and never ask you for anything…
It's admirable, to be honest….
Hitech says:
See that Nancy
You keep giving and they will keep taking. Shut down the Demicrats and the homeless problem goes away.
BROOKIE BROOKE says:
I dont know why he keeps continuing to compare to America? England had hard drugs & really bad neighborhood. So dont forget where u come from…hes not Japanese.
youxkio says:
Here in Taiwan is very similar to that in the video. I only saw one person begging in 9 years, here in Taiwan.
Melvin Dorkus says:
Don't ask…..but honestly pigs raise pigs
Karen Hargis says:
People who are homeless are not heartless…..
Ladymadonna007 says:
I hope you are still clean.
QuiltingCrow says:
It would do Western society good in general if we still had the ability to feel things like pride, shame etc.
Itsjust_ My_lifestyle says:
Atleast the professor acknowledged that cigarettes & alcohol are drugs
midori says:
As a Japanese living in Los Angeles, it is true. I don’t want to give my money to beggars on the streets. I was raised this way by my parents back at Yokohama. I have no answer to why I don’t give money. I just follow what I was told growing up. Mind your own business, let them do what they want. Not a big deal.
Sky Ryder says:
If you haven't lost pride you've truly never been homeless.
Will Walker says:
They did shut down hospitals in the u.s. not all states but most states or cities have stopped years ago with treatment of mentally ill persons..most of the time mentally ill persons end up in the prison system instead of receiving the proper treatment they need.
Margo Hannah says:
Japan does not abandon the mentally ill to alleys like they do in Canada and the USA.
No drugs because no minority drug dealers, and death penalty carried out
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Rajani Palme Dutt
Dutt, Rajani Palme
Born June 19, 1896, in Cambridge. A figure in the British and international workers’ movement; historian and publicist.
Dutt was the son of an Indian physician. (His mother was Swedish.) In 1916 he served in the army but was sent to prison for an antiwar action. Dutt studied at Oxford University; in 1917 he was expelled for spreading Marxist propaganda, but he passed his examinations for the university degree as a special nonmatriculating student. From 1914 to 1920, Dutt was a member of the Independent Workers’ Party. He became a member of the British Communist Party when it was founded in 1920. In 1922 he became a member of the Central Committee (since 1943, on the Executive Committee) and the Politburo (since 1943, on the Political Committee of the Executive Committee) of the Communist Party. From 1943 to 1961, Dutt was vice-chairman of the Executive Committee of the Communist Party, and from 1961 to 1965 he was vice-president of the Communist Party. In 1921 he began editing the journal Labour Monthly. From 1922 to 1924 he edited the newspaper Workers Weekly, and from 1936 to 1938 he edited the newspaper Daily Worker. At the Seventh Congress of the Comintern (1935) he was elected a candidate member of that body’s Executive Committee.
Dutt is the author of many books and pamphlets on theoretical, political, historical, and economic questions. In his works he analyzes the crisis and disintegration of the colonial system, the specifics of the crisis of British imperialism, and the character of the national liberation movement in India and other countries. His works have facilitated the unmasking of the bourgeois and reformist concept of the historical development of the British Empire, Great Britain, and India, and particularly the theory of the “peaceful transformation” of the British Empire into a “commonwealth of independent and equal states” and the “voluntary” granting by Great Britain of independence to its colonies. In 1962, Dutt received an honorary doctorate in history from Moscow State University.
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Capitalism or Socialism in Britain? London, 1931
Life and Teachings of V. I. Lenin. New York, 1934.
World Politics 1918–1936. New York, 1936.
The Problem of India. New York, 1943.
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Fashizm i sotsialisticheskaia revoliutsiia. Moscow, 1935.
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In England he was inspired by noted Communist Philosopher and prolific writer Rajani Palme Dutt.
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'The people's movement of Kashmir', declared the British communist Rajani Palme Dutt in the summer of 1946, 'is the strongest and most militant of any Indian State ...
Rajani Palme Dutt's ringing endorsement of Sheikh Abdullah and the movement against autocracy in Kashmir both reflected and gave impetus to Indian communist activity in this out-of-the-way valley in the Himalayan foothills.
(28) It was arguably the biggest organised political mobilisation the Kashmir Valley had seen--and was the movement that won the attention and applause of Rajani Palme Dutt. The concept of the sovereignty of the people which had been part-expressed in the 'New Kashmir' document was more powerfully achieved on the streets.
The people's militia: communists and Kashmiri nationalism in the 1940s
La journaliste nous entraine dans les dedales de la salle de redaction du Daily Worker et fait revivre toute une gallerie de personnages: Harry Pollitt, Rajani Palme Dutt, les membres du Comite central, et surtout l'equipe du Daily Worker rassemblee autour de Johnny Campbell.
Death of Uncle Joe
According to Rajani Palme Dutt, manoeuvring for Mann to be elected to the top leadership group in 1935, he was: 'Our only ornament'.
'Our only ornament': Tom Mann and British communist 'hagiography'
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Tag Archives: The Byrds
New Album! Long Arms
Okay, not brand new, but a late 2010 indie is likely new to you.
Long Arms To Hold You is primarily the work of Richmond singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist James Menefee, who apparently did flesh it out in a band format using the moniker Long Arms. This debut album is an infectious swirl of Americana, folk and power pop; the songs are very well-written and the collaboration with producer Pedro Alda yielded an exquisite blend of instruments to support it.
Listen to these songs. Indie my ass.
Video: “Strung Out On You”
Judging by the lyrics, Menefee must have been pretty despondent at the time, because the lyrics are confessional and desperate – the dude is hurting. Yet the music is sweet, buoyant and happy, an odd juxtaposition that not many bands can pull off well.
Song like “Strung Out On You“, “Kiss The Bottle” and “So Long And Thanks For The Toothbrush” (that last title is brilliant!) are a tiptoe through the ashes of a break-up. I hear everything from The Byrds to The Jayhawks to The Old 97s in Menefee’s wanting vocals. “The Ballad Of Joni and James” is what “Livin’ On A Prayer” or “Jack And Diane” could have sounded like if Bon Jovi or John Mellencamp had spent any time writing the words.
Video: “Downtown Dreams”
This is a massive breath of fresh air and you need to hear this album.
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Blast From The Past: Wilco
Tangents are wonderful things…
While reading the Morgan Taylor interview the other day, I noticed that he’d opened a lot of shows for Wilco. That made me pull out Being There and Summerteeth; both those records sound perfect when Spring is trying to shake off the doldrums and give you a warm day or two. and despite my town setting its all time record for rain during the month of April, birds and buds and ants are telling me that little liar groundhog’s ruse is almost over.
In other words, my review of Summerteeth from 1999 in…
When asked about his plans for Wilco after Being There had caught people off guard, Jeff Tweedy hinted that the band would most likely take another unexpected turn and create “a twisted pop record“. Let it never be said that Tweedy is not a man of his word.
Once again self-produced by the band (Tweedy, Jay Bennett, John Stirratt and Ken Coomer), Summerteeth thrives on the juxtaposition of introspective, sometimes dense, lyrical wordplay fleshed out in a rainbow of musical style. There are several songs that will immediately strike the listener as upbeat, sing-along melodies, yet underneath lurk images of loneliness, confusion and unfulfilled dreams.
Video: “Candyfloss”
“Candyfloss” jumps out of the speakers with a bouncy, 60s pop calliope beat, yet Tweedy’s confessional says otherwise: “I’m the boy who looks excited/I’m the boy who’se gonna fall apart…I’m the boy who eats his heart out…” . Likewise, the opener, “Can’t Stand It” is a groove rocker but boasts a chorus that states “our dreams will never be answered again“.
“Via Chicago” is one of the few that matches sonic pulse with lyrical imagery. Slow and deliberate, the opening line is as disturbing as the distorted, feedback-laden guitar solo that cradles the fade-out: “Dreamed about killing you again last night / and it felt all right to me…”. Then – just as your heart and brain are splattered across the floor – “ELT (Every Little Thing)” rockets out of the speakers like the hit single it should be, a cousin to Bowie’s “Heroes” filtered through The Byrds. It’s another song of lost opportunity or maybe Fate’s warning, but which? Hopeful or hopeless? Tweedy’s deft pen leaves that open to your imagination, and depending upon your mood, it will be either.
Video: “ELT (Every Little Thing)”
The title track, like “Candyfloss” and “ELT“, will no doubt pump out of radios all summer long. No matter that the subject is denial about the rut that his life has become; the infectious refrain will have you singing along with the “ooh-ahh” background vocals (with lilting keyboards and chirping birds, no less) and have you daydreaming as well. “My Darling” and the stark “We’re Just Friends” echo Big Star circa Sister Lovers with a little Brian Wilson harmony thrown in, while “You Wake Up Feeling Old” is ironically finger-snapping pop.
The band must have gathered up every instrument in the studio and then some – bells, bird chirps, penny whistles, shakers, flutes, horns and tympani are sparingly but creatively used throughout the record. And as he promised, Tweedy has stripped down the band and reconstructed its direction, a move that will probably alienate some diehard Uncle Tupelo purists (assuming they aren’t already pissed off) but should thrill anyone with an open mind and a respect for the art of songwriting. Summerteeth is funky, soulful, rocking, heartbreaking, pensive and explosive – in short, a masterpiece.
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New Album! The Parties
Not quite brand new, but hopefully new to you..
Maybe it was the personnel turnover, maybe the effort to avoid the dreaded sophomore slump, but whatever the motivation, Coast Garde is a solid step forward for The Parties. Sounding at times like a merger between Let’s Active and The Three O’Clock, the jangle-pop, harmony-laden album also boasts some primal early Who and Stones DNA for muscle. It’s a great combination that grounds the more ethereal elements with substance, elevating what could be sing-along pop songs into something more substantial.
Video: The Parties “Much Better” (live)
“Can’t Seem To Get My Mind Off Of You” is so catchy it could make a bus full of strangers sing along in unison; it’s a sixties AM radio formula repurposed through a current filter. Ditto “The Target Smiles”, a piano pop melody that Paul McCartney would have likely slotted on an album circa Ram. And tell me “Leavin The Light On” wouldn’t have been a smash for The Hollies. But the most impressive bit is the three-part “Suite”, clocking in at over seven minutes and incorporating everything from Kinks references and Byrdsian chord changes to Stones horn riffs and Who-like anthemic flourishes.
Don’t misunderstand – this is way more ambitious than it is derivative, and it’s persistently listenable. If you like the references you’ll love the album.
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Top Ten Albums of 2010 – #8
If the overt visual homage to Jesus Of Cool didn’t tip you off that there’s some Nick Lowe influence here, one spin through this excellent debut disc will clearly prove that Edward O’Connell is a product of his influences. Had he Photoshopped Elvis Costello’s head on those shoulders instead of a paper bag, you’d have his two major ingredients clearly identified.
Pop guy influenced by Nick Lowe? Maybe that’s why I immediately thought of Walter Clevenger when I heard Our Little Secret. If like me you are pining for Clevenger to release another album, I implore you to grab this one, for it pushes all the same buttons (I bet you could play “With This Ring” to a Clevenger fan and fool him).
What separates O’Connell from most artists with melodic chops is strong lyrical songwriting. Gotta figure that a law student knows his way around a lexicon, and like Elvis Costello, there’s a lot going on in and between the lines. I was gobsmacked at just how good this album is wall-to-wall. The lyrical wordplay of “Acres of Diamonds”, “Happy Black” and “We Will Bury You” is at a level I would expect from a vet like John Hiatt. How could I never have even heard his name before when he drops this as his debut?
Jangly, chiming guitars. Massive hooks and choruses. Superior vocals. Organic warmth. A sound that recalls (in addition to the aforementioned geniuses) Tom Petty, The Byrds, Richard X. Heyman, Teenage Fanclub, Michael Carpenter and their ilk. As fulfilling on the tenth play as the first. Why he has a bag over his head like The Unknown Comic is beyond me; this is clearly a major pop release that deserves widespread attention.
Let’s not make this (ahem) Our Little Secret – spread the word far and wide. We just might have a major pop star on our hands.
Listen to clips at Amazon or CD BABY
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Blast From The Past: Liquor Giants
I guess writing about the closing of Not Lame sent me to the record racks for consolation. Grabbing a Liquor Giants disc is never a bad thing to do. Meaning to select Every Other Day At A Time, I accidentally grabbed the next disc in the rack, Something Special For The Kids. An audio Freudian slip? The latter disc was originally a series of hidden bonus tracks on some editions of EODAAT and was not released on its own until later that year.
When I wrote the review for TransAction Magazine in 1998, I couldn’t focus on the bonus tracks; it wasn’t a sure thing that they’d see the light of day. But it’s okay now! Hell, I love tributes and cover tunes, and Something Special For The Kids is loaded with them. Jeff Beck, The Move, The Turtles, Connie Francis (!), Dusty Springfield, Jeff Lynne…I’m sure they did it for fun and I’m glad they did.
And Every Other Day At A Time is no slouch either.
It’s almost Christmas! Go grab both of them.
Ward Dotson and company are at it again with perhaps their strongest effort to date. Calling to mind The Byrds, The Plimsouls, Big Star, The Kinks and several other similar influences, their Replacements-like “sloppy but tight” sound worms its way into your heart very quickly.
Although “What’s The New Mofo” won’t get airplay (thanks to the well-enunciated long version of “mofo“), ringing guitars and heartfelt harmonies songs like “Dearest Darling” “Kentucky Lounge” and “Caroline” deserve serious air time. The promo copy includes eleven covers as bonus tracks (to be released as a separate disc later this year) and is capped by a tremendous cover of Bowie’s “Boys Keep Swinging”.
Everybody loves a clown
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Mixtape: I’ll Be You
Back when I had that kind of time, I participated in a monthly tape swap, and for a time I had to dub these puppies in real speed. When we finally got to the CD stage and I could burn a disc at 2x I thought I was in heaven. What used to be a serious committment – the group was usually 35-40 people, so imagine the time and money involved – now can be done dirt cheap and at lightning speed. (I still participate in one of these groups twelve years running, although we’re down to one or two trades a year.)
I used to make the cassette art by hand; sometimes a drawing and other times a cut-and-paste job, then type and shrink the set list to fit on the inside flap and print them off on colored paper…cut them along the outline…fold and insert into the J-Card slot on every one. Like I said, I had that kind of time. If I find the original art for this one I’ll upload it someday, but I remember it was a variation on a Powerpoint silhouette image of a man holding a mirror.
I love tribute records, so this mixtape (from March 1997) was a tribute to tributes. It’s a great set and these covers are well worth seeking out. Now I have to find the actual tape, because just reading these names has me jazzed.
And I still miss Material Issue.
you be me for awhile and….I’LL BE YOU
Dance Dance Dance Manitoba’s Wild Kingdom (Handsome Dick and a couple of Dictators) pay homage to Brian Wilson
Pictures Of Lily The ‘oo, done with great passion by that great sideman Ian McLagan and the Bump Band
She’s Got Everything The Droogs, Aussies yet, service Mr.Davies’ classic well. Can’t believe there aren’t more great Kinks covers.
Time Has Come Today Willy (Mink) DeVille from last years fab “Loup Garou” record. This Chambers Brothers song still rules!
Pictures Of Matchstick Men Status Quo song covered by the pre-Cracker Lowery in the late, great Camper Van Beethoven. Respectful yet cool!
Charlot Choogle Would have picked a better T-Rex cover if I could have but Sky Blue nailed the Bolanisms better than anyone else did.
Sweet Hitchhiker The fabulous DM3 (wow, I’ve already been to Australia twice in seven songs!) absolutely rip this one up! Go Don!
Mr. Spaceman Miracle Legion from another spotty tribute disc. For all you who remember the Byrds as electric Dylan, try this instead.
I Can’t Let Go Still the best tribute disc ever made, eggBert’s “Sing Hollies In Reverse” featured wall to wall greatness like this Continental Drifters cut.
My Minds Eye Ah, the Small Faces. Northern Uproar did yeoman service on last year’s tribute. A must-have for all true pop fans!
S-L-U-T The Woods, America’s Rockpile, nail this Todd tune. I will not rest until the name Jack Cornell is known far and wide.
Handyman True Story: Frank thought they were cutting “Candyman” for a Sammy Davis tribute. Nah…he loves Otis Blackwell too!
Sweets For My Sweet Doc Pomus gets the Brian Wilson post-sandbox/Landry treatment. And Mike Love is an asshole.
Love Is All Around Christine Ohlman is recording again! If you remember Big Sound Records or Dusty Springfield, Trogg out with this!
And Your Bird Can Sing Weller and company grew tired of “The Jam is just aping The Who” rumors. So they aped the Beatles instead.
I’m Not In Love Chrissie and the Pretenders snapped out two covers for movies/TV – this 10cc track and “Angel In The Morning”
Town Without Pity Gene Pitney covered by Steppenwolf’s John Kay on heroin. Naah..it’s the wonderful Thin White Rope from “Spoor”
Daydream Believer The Monkees tribute is way cool, including this John Stewart song ably harmonized by Man Size Job? Who? Me neither.
Run To Me If there were any doubts that Material Issue could do it all, this will silence them. Haunting BeeGeeutiful song. RIP Jim.
Hard Luck Woman The Kiss tribute is pretty funny, and I gotta admit that when I realized this was THE Garth Brooks I almost had a seizure.
It’s The Little Things And you thought Sonny Bono couldn’t write hooks. He did work with Spector, y’know, so bow down for The Skeletons.
Listen To Her Heart Tom Petty as seen through the eyes of Truck Stop Love, produced at Ardent by some guy named Jody Stephens.
Don’t Want To Say Goodbye Last year the Raspberries tribute came out, chock full of great versions, few better than this homage by The Flashcubes.
Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, … Wow that’s a long title! Believe it or not, this is The Records from a free EP that came with the first run of their LP.
Build Me Up Buttercup David Johansen, post-Dolls and pre-Buster P. David always kicked ass live and paid props to great 60’s soul music.
When Something Is Wrong With My Baby Wow – Sam and Dave voiced by the immortal Herman Brood, who truly is a rock and roll junkie. Live track.
Back Of A Car When you hear this song now you wonder how Big Star wasn’t huge then. This is The Loud Family – same comment.
Earn Enough For Us Freedy Johnston does XTC (who appeared on their own tribute record in disguise!). Love the pedal steel!
No Matter What Closing the set with a song by “the next Beatles” (Badfinger) done by “the next Beatles” (The Knack). Oasis my ass.
As always, play loud, play often.
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Blast From The Past – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Awaiting their new release Mojo, I was reminiscing about the band’s earliest days. Those who have never enjoyed the tactile sensation of cracking the seal on a vinyl album and anticipating the first notes from the speakers might not get it, but when you held a twelve-inch album jacket in your hand, you were more likely to focus on the task at hand.
I’ve clicked as many MP3 and WAV files as the next guy, but they all look antiseptic. The smell of the record, the familiar label pattern and most importantly the art on the front cover would set the stage for the next fifteen or twenty minutes…before you had to get up and flip the thing over for side two (or as I liked to think of it, the home stretch).
And on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ first album, there was this leather jacketed punk with the thin blond hair staring me down with a smirk on his face. He didn’t look that tough, though – I could probably kick his ass if the rest of the band didn’t jump me – so subliminally my response was something along the lines of “prove it, buddy”.
And, of course, he did. “American Girl” still sounds as fresh as it did in 1979, and as someone who had spent many a night listening to cars on 441 “like waves crashing on a beach” it was right in my wheelhouse. Two years later, when You’re Gonna Get It proved there was no sophomore slump going on (“I Need To Know”, “Listen To her Heart”) I was dumfounded that the band was not immensely huge. Not that I didn’t have a large collection of albums that shoulda woulda coulda.
Video: “Listen To her Heart”
When Damn The Torpedoes came out, I was able to get an advance copy from a friend who was the local MCA Records college rep, and I was absolutely convinced it was going to be the record that finally broke these guys wide open. I was running a club at a University at the time, a place where Friday happy hours were huge, although we usually just piped in a local rock station for music. I was so convinced that one listen to “Here Comes My Girl” or “Refugee” or “Even The Losers” or “Don’t Do Me Like That” was going to blow their minds that I dubbed it onto cassette, brought my own tape deck in from home and wired it up.
Not me, not now.
The room was packed and I made a brief announcement; for a moment I felt like those AM jocks did when they were about to drop the latest single on their listening audience. Because here in my hands I held the perfect hybrid of The Rolling Stones and The Byrds, and in Petty’s voice and words you could feel the desperation of a man who had just watched his career almost get flushed down the toilet when his prior record label (Shelter Records) went bankrupt. I was about to do three hundred college kids a huge favor. I was going to change their lives. I was going to scoop the local rock station by three full days. This, indeed, would be one of those moments we’d remember forever.
Well, I was half right.
The record held up its part of the bargain, but the crowd just…didn’t…get it. The second song wasn’t even ten seconds old when people started yelling to play some Grateful Dead. The Grateful fucking Dead? What the hell was wrong with these idiots? I wasn’t that much older than the kids in the room, barely out of college myself, and the rule for Happy Hour was rock’n’roll, not trippy noodling. This was a town that was dominated by rock radio. I was crushed.
Of course, it wasn’t the first time I shook my head in disbelief as a great record fell on deaf ears, and it was far from the last (my annual submissions to the Village Voice Pazz&Jop poll look like alien transmissions). Lesson learned, again. But time would prove me right, as Damn The Torpedoes went on to become one of the biggest records of the year and the album that singlehandedly turned Tom Petty’s career around. I never anticipated he’d become actual rock royalty with such a critically acclaimed career, but I do know a great record when I hear it. Most of the time, anyway.
Hearing the recent Mudcrutch releases and the first sounds from Mojo, it sounds like Tom is looking fondly backwards as well. And that’s just fine by me.
Tom Petty website
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Braun To Play For Team USA In IIHF Championships
With his Sharks eliminated in the first round of the NHL playoffs Justin Braun has been named to US National team that will compete at the IIHF World Championships in Sweden and Finland. The US roster which features a lot of familiar names to UMass fans, like Jimmy Howard and Cam Atkinson, is almost entirely made up of former college players. All of Team USA’s games will be televised on NBC Sports beginning this Friday.
Jon Quick and the Kings grabbed a win in the first game of their second round matchup with the St Louis Blues. Quick made 28 saves and was outstanding at times according to TSN’s Bob McKenzie.
News came out that Adam Phillips went in for knee surgery this past week. While I don’t know the severity of it, if he was trying to play through knee problems all year it could explain a lot of the struggles he had this past season. Hopefully his recovery goes well and he’s ready to play come October.
So yesterday I was out in Amherst for the Spring Game at McGuirk Stadium. Coach Charley Molnar added an entertaining twist to the annual game by have the current squad play against a team of alumni. It was great to have the chance to watch players like Marcel Shipp don the maroon and white again. The current players have a lot of work to do as they make the leap to the FBS level and the MAC, but it’s an exciting time to be a UMass fan. I got to speak to Bob McGovern and Marc Bertrand for a while as they stopped by my tailgate and I just want to remind everyone to keep visiting their blog Maroon Musket to keep up with everything going on with UMass football.
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https://fearthetriangle.com/2012/04/29/braun-to-play-for-team-usa-in-iihf-championships/
Quick Named A Vezina Finalist
I had originally planned to post last night after the Bruins game but I wasn’t really in the mood after seeing the hopes of back to back Stanley Cup Champions dashed in the first round. At least us UMass/Bruin fans have a fallback team to root for through the rest of the playoffs in the Los Angeles Kings, who are backstopped by former Minuteman and Vezina Trophy finalist, Jon Quick. Puck Daddy makes the case as to why Quick should win the award. Also, thanks to a reader who passed along this excellent piece on Quick from Sportsnet, profiling how a gifted, but sleepy, goaltender from UMass is now one of the best and hardest working among his position in the NHL.
The Collegian has an article catching up on how T.J. Syner and Mike Marcou have been faring since the season ended.
Friend of FTT Ryan S Clark discusses UMass recruiting target Zach Doerring in this post from his Slightly Chilled blog. I originally posted about Doerring last month.
The hockey program announced that this year’s Pond Club Golf Tournament will take place June 11th. I’ll pass along registration and other information when it becomes available.
That’s it for now. With the Bruins season done I’ll likely be starting up some semi-regular columns exploring topics surrounding UMass hockey now. Coming up is an in-depth look at the freshman class and their performance this year. Keep checking back.
https://fearthetriangle.com/2012/04/26/quick-named-a-vezina-finalist/
Recruit Update
There are a lot more names on the list all of a sudden, but Kenny Gillespie is still the only player still playing.
Kenny Gillespie – RW – Omaha Lancers (USHL) – 2012 or 2013
35 GP / 5 G / 8 A / 13 Pts / 47 PIM / +1
Gillespie’s Lancers are tied at one game apiece with the Waterloo Black Hawks in the second round of the USHL playoffs. So far Gillespie is scoreless with a +1.
Mark Hamilton – D – Salisbury School Crimson Knights (NE Prep) – 2013
Hamilton was part of a solid defense for Salisbury. USHR ranked him as the 7th best junior during the year. Salisbury’s season ended in the first round of the prep championships.
Mike Iovanna – RW/C – Malden Catholic Lancers (MA High School) – 2013
Iovanna was named an All-Star for his efforts this season. He capped of the year by scoring the game winning goal in the Super 8 title game to give the Lancers back to back championships.
Casey Miller – C – Kimball Union (NE Prep) – 2014
Miller finished second on his team in goals, assists, and points as a junior. USHR ranked him as the 26th best among his class. His Wildcats won the New England prep championship for their level where Miller had a key takeaway and assist that led to the game winning goal. He’s due to return to KUA next fall.
Willy Smith – LW – Springfield Pics (EJHL/EmpJHL) – 2014
EJHL: 21 GP / 1 G / 1 A / 2 Pts / 28 PIM
Empire: 22 GP / 7 G / 18 A / 25 Pts / 24 PIM
Smith’s season is over as the Pics were eliminated in the Empire League playoffs. You can’t blame Smith though as he was the leading scorer for the Pics with a goal and three assists in the two playoff games.
K.J Tiefenwerth – C/W – Junior Bruins (EJHL) – 2012
Tiefenwerth had the third most points and sixth most goals in the EJHL this year as captain of the Junior Bruins. He had a couple goals, including a game winner in four playoff games.
Shane Walsh – LW – South Shore Kings (EJHL) – 2012
Dubuque (USHL): 23 GP / 5 G / 7 A / 12 Pts / 0 PIM / –8
South Shore (EJHL): 9 GP / 7 G / 6 A / 13 Pts / 4 PIM
Walsh’s Kings were eliminated by the New Hampshire Monarchs in the EJHL semifinals. Walsh had 2 goals in six playoff games. Next stop for him: Amherst.
UMass alum Jonathan Quick led the Kings to an opening round upset of the President’s Trophy winner Canucks. Quick bested former Boston College goaltender Cory Schneider in the first round and will take on another NCAA goaltender, Wisconsin’s Brian Elliot, next against the Blues. Elliot’s Blues eliminated Justin Braun and the San Jose Sharks in the first round.
This site has Quick as the 3rd best hockey player from the southern Connecticut area.
Before the Sharks lost out to the Blues they did call up Matt Irwin as one of the “Black Aces” on the practice squad. Irwin had a great season in the AHL, scoring 11 goals to go with 31 assists in 71 games. He was also selected to the AHL All-Star Game.
USCHO takes a look at some of the issues that may come up at this week’s coaches’ meetings. No word if Coach Cahoon, recovering from hip replacement, is well enough to attend in person.
https://fearthetriangle.com/2012/04/23/recruit-update-34/
Miscellaneousness
So for those loyal readers tuning in for the regular View From Section U feature usually run on Wednesdays, this isn’t it. I have lots of ideas for View From Section U material and plan to write the weekly column mostly regularly during the offseason while I can think of something to write about, but nothing tonight. Tonight I’m focused on watching Jon Quick potentially sweep the Vancouver Canucks out of the playoffs. I’d write tomorrow but I’ll be busy watching the Bruins. So no weekly column this week. I already have a topic for next week however. While I have been writing View From Section U on Wednesdays, likely going forward I’ll try to update the blog on Mondays and Thursdays, though I’ll post whenever there is major news like new recruits or that sort of thing. So continue to check back regularly.
There are a few things I’d like to pass along however.
First Mike Marcou has been released from his Amateur Tryout Agreement from the Oklahoma City Barons of the AHL. With their parent team, the Oilers, of course out of the playoffs (and somehow winning the draft lottery again) and sending all their available players down for the AHL playoffs, this isn’t a surprise. I would guess Marcou is back in Amherst finishing off his degree. Regardless, I’m sure he’ll have no problem getting a pro contract somewhere next fall. It seems that Marcou made a positive impression in his only two games in OKC as Neal Livingston, who blogs about the Barons, had a lot of positive things to say about him on Twitter.
Bruce Landon the GM of the Springfield Falcons had some nice praise for the work of Paul Dainton this past season.
For some reason it just hit me that when UMass and Bemidji State meet in the Ledyard Bank Classic at Dartmouth in December it’ll mean David Boehm will be facing his former team. Boehm didn’t exactly leave the school or his teammates on the best of circumstances so that’ll make for an interesting side story. Of course next year’s seniors Rocco Carzo, Kevin Czepiel, Eddie Olczyk, and Darren Rowe are the only current players who played with him.
UMass goaltending coach Mike Buckley was mentioned in this article regarding his contributions to a local girls under 12 team winning the national championship.
With the hockey stuff out the way I just want to send a sticktap towards some other UMass teams. The Gorillas of UMass lacrosse are sharing the top ranking in the country with Loyola, the highest ranking ever for the dominant New England lacrosse program. I’m very psyched to see them play in UMass football’s future home, Gillette Stadium, this weekend. Secondly, congrats to UMass baseball which is enjoying a resurgence right now and won the baseball Beanpot tonight with a win over Harvard. At the same time women’s lacrosse, led by the nation’s leading scorer in Katie Ferris, is currently ranked #9 in the country. What a great spring season for the Minutemen and Minutewomen around campus.
Lastly, I’ve taken the time to make sure everything is up to date here at Fear The Triangle. The recruiting page reflects all known commitments. I’ve updated the Road Trip page with all my various recommendations, with the Maine entry getting the most additions after an enjoyable trip to Orono this past season. The Beer The Triangle page chronicling my homebrewing hobby is reflective of my latest brews. Even the rinks on the About page shows every significant place I’ve ever watched hockey.
https://fearthetriangle.com/2012/04/18/miscellaneousness/
Recruit Update; Casey Miller Commits To UMass
Gillespie made the most out of the last regular season weekend for the Lancers, scoring the game winning goal in the last game of the season and adding an assist to go with it. Omaha has a bye in the first round.
Mark Hamilton – D – Salisbury School (NE Prep) – 2013
After complaining about the lack of recruits a couple months ago, they’re coming fast and furious now. Over the weekend UMass picked up a commitment from Casey Miller, a 5’8” 165lb center who played this past year for Kimball Union (same prep school where Steve Mastalerz played). Hockey is in the family for Casey. His father Paul played at BU when Toot Cahoon was an assistant coach there, winning a national championship his freshman year. His uncle Bob played at UNH and then went on to a pretty long pro career, including four seasons with the Bruins. He even spent a season in Springfield with the Indians (precursor to the Falcons).
Casey had 18 goals and 24 assists in 31 games in his junior season for the Wildcats, finishing second on the team in goal, assists, and total points. KUA won the the championship for their level of prep hockey with Miller forcing a turnover and assisting on the overtime game winner against Holderness for the title. He just had a solid performance in the recent Beantown Classic showcase event that may have helped him land the scholarship offer from UMass. According to USHR his hands and intelligence are his biggest assets, making up for his lack of size and quickness, and helped to consistently generate a lot of offense. USHR ranked him as the 26th best junior this past season (Mark Hamilton was ranked #7). The Billerica native will likely arrive in Amherst in 2014 after playing out his senior year at KUA and then a year in juniors.
So in case you missed it, Jon Quick and his Kings are on the verge of sweeping the President’s Trophy winning Canucks right out of the NHL Playoffs. Last night Quick shutout the Canucks 1-0, his second career playoff shutout in 15 games. In the last two games he’s made a total of 89 saves. ‘The Quick and the Near Dead’ is the headline in the Vancouver Sun. USA Today says he’s the #1 reason why Vancouver is on the brink of elimination. NHL.com cites Quick’s work ethic as why he has excelled. What amazes me is how active he is in the crease compared to his UMass days. He is constantly moving, trying to make sure he has the best positioning and a constant view of the puck.
Justin Braun in the playoffs with the Sharks got a nice left hand in against the St Louis Blues and then didn’t fare so well.
https://fearthetriangle.com/2012/04/16/recruit-update-casey-miller-commits-to-umass/
View From Section U: FTT UMail
Time for one last session of UMail before we completely move on to the offseason mindset. I have to say I think this semi-regular Q&A with readers is probably the best additions to the blog this past year. I hope you feel the same.
With that, let’s get started.
Liz From Greenfield asks so it seems that UMass is the only all Division I school in Hockey East to not have a women’s hockey program. We have the facilities to support both. So will it ever happen?
This is a great question and a topic I’ve come really close to writing an entire View From Section U about previously but there has always been something more pressing to address. Frankly, I am 100% in support for a varsity women’s hockey team playing in Hockey East for a number of reasons. First of all, as you mentioned, the school as the facilities, UMass has both a top notch hockey facility in the Mullins Center and practice facility. Honestly I’m ignorant as to whether the practice rink could be used for actual games, but at the very least I would think the various schedules of hockey and basketball could be juggled enough to get a women’s team the venue time they need. Secondly, the UMass women’s club hockey team has already established a tradition of excellence on campus. They are regularly among the top women’s club teams in the country and this past season ended up as the #3 team in the country. Thirdly,the team would automatically have a chance to play in Hockey East which is a quality league in terms of talent and more importantly fully one committed to women’s hockey. Now the trick is finding funding. I was hoping that UMass would be like UConn (wait, did I actually say that?) and fund the additional scholarships to go FBS football by adding the equivalent scholarships towards women’s hockey. That didn’t happen and instead the school is planning on adding scholarships to existing sports like rowing, track, and such. I consider that a missed opportunity. So therefore I’ll make a drastic suggestion and likely alienate a section of the UMass fanbase and advocate dropping women’s basketball in lieu of women’s hockey. I know women’s hoops has a long history but honestly attendance is nil and they haven’t had success in forever. Why not replace a mediocre to failing team in the so-so conference that is the Atlantic 10 for a hockey team playing in top notch Hockey East? UMass men’s hockey is the only sport at the school that says it plays in an elite conference in the country, why not double that number? I didn’t exactly answer your question Liz, because frankly I have no idea if it will happen. But hopefully I helped make the case for UMass women’s hockey.
Josh asks what is a realistic five year goal for the program?
That’s a tough one. Five years is a lifetime in sports, especially college where you’re turning over your roster every four years. Here’s what I see laid out before UMass though. Maybe it’s because I spent the last few weeks watching, either in person or on TV, every available NCAA tournament game, but I really think the tournament is where UMass should be next year. Yeah, they lose some good players to graduation, but on a college hockey roster three players isn’t much. And this past season they showed, when they wanted to, that they could play with anyone. So I would hope that next year they’re more consistent when they play all levels of teams and can play into contention for home ice in Hockey East and an NCAA berth. Now that’s what I think they’re capable of, not what I predict, because I’ve learned predicting UMass hockey results is impossible. A year after next they’ll still lose very little and I would think that should definitely set them up for hopefully what would be a repeat NCAA berth. When that senior class, now sophomores, graduate it’ll be interesting. At that point it comes down to recruiting. In the past couple days we’ve seen what I think are some quality recruiting additions but there is obviously a ton more work to be done to replace the huge sophomore class that is currently on the roster. After that is a crap shoot. If UMass does make the NCAAs in the next year or two they might drop back when the Pereiras and Shearys on the roster graduate, but who knows at that point. The toughest part is to leverage the season where they have success by bringing in top notch recruits. In the past that hasn’t happened and after 2004 and 2007 the team took a considerable step back from previous program highs.
John asks what type of season does the team need to have for Toot to keep his job?
Certainly an interesting question. First thing to keep in mind is that Toot’s contract ends following the season so if the school decides to go another direction there is no money owed to him. Like I touched on in the previous question, if it was up to me I would set the bar at home ice in Hockey East and an NCAA berth. Next year Toot will get to guide the team that he assembled through his own recruiting; an extremely talented to be junior class, plus two very good sophomore goaltenders. That group this past year already showed they can play with the best of them. Next year they have to do it consistently. To me that would translate to at least an NCAA at-large berth and I think, given the 5 year drought since UMass’ last tournament appearance, that should be the trigger to extend Toot. That said, and this is pure speculation, it would not completely surprise me if the powers that be have slightly lower expectations and, if Toot wants it, he gets an extension despite falling short of the NCAAs next year. Personally I think it should be NCAA or bust. Toot’s a great coach and I admire him a ton but I’ve been following this team a long time and just a single NCAA appearance in coming up on 20 years of play isn’t enough.
John also asked what happens first: UMass football wins a bowl game or UMass hockey wins a conference championship (either regular season or tournament)?
Honestly, I can see a Motor City Bowl or something similar in the future for UMass football before hockey can grab some kind of Hockey East title. The sort of recruiting that BC and BU are doing right now just makes it extremely tough to capture a league title over those guys. They’re absolutely stocking up on the best talent and they’re able to do it because they win titles and recruits will settle for being a third line forward on a champion versus a first line guy somewhere else. It all comes down to recruiting. Recruiting wise I think football is off to a great start. I’m not sure if they’ve won a ton of recruiting battles but as my buddies over at Maroon Musket have relayed, UMass has been battling top notch regional and national schools for recruits. In time I think charismatic coach Charley Molnar will win some of those battles and football will be competitive sooner rather than later.
Will asks what is your prediction for how the goalie situation plays out? Even if Kevin Boyle emerges as the #1, how much time do you predict Jeff Teglia or Steve Mastalerz to get?
I think the starting goaltender job will be completely up for grabs when the team takes the ice in early fall. Boyle definitely played the best down the stretch but not enough to claim the position for good. Both him and Mastalerz had huge games at different times in the season. The funny thing is if I talk to different people close to the program they’ll equally proclaim one or the other of freshman goaltenders to be the better of the two. Personally I’m not yet sure of who is better. Obviously Teglia is at a disadvantage since he played less games than the others. I still think he has the potential to be the guy for the Minutemen, but so far in his career things have not gone his way. But overall I think the initial competition will come down to Boyle and Mastalerz and whatever happens I hope someone emerges from those two relatively soon to start the season.
Carson says I gave my thoughts on potential lines for next year, I would love to hear yours, especially with Tiefenwerth in the mix now.
For those wondering Carson originally laid down his prospective lines in one of the season recap posts. They’re good but they’re top heavy with all the talent in the first line. I think Toot showed this past season that he didn’t want to put all the firepower on one line and I’m not sure if I’d argue with him given the results offensively overall. So in keeping with the mindset of having two impactful lines, here’s what I’ve sketched together at this ridiculously early moment in time:
Carzo-Gracel-Sheary
Pereira-Guzzo-Tiefenwerth
Kiley-DeAngelo-Power
Walsh-Czepiel-Tegeler
Hanley-Shea
Allen-Rowe/Busillo
Yevenko-Phillips
Boyle/Mastalerz
So there we are. Obviously if I wanted to have one all powerful line I would’ve put Pereira up with Gracel and Sheary, but I don’t think Toot will do that and honestly I think we saw this year why you don’t want to put all your scorers on just one line. It pained me to take Carzo off of the third line that played amazingly well together in the second half of the season, but I think his experience and leadership will do well on the first couple lines. That said, I think DeAngelo had a solid year and would fill in well between Pat Kiley and Troy Power. The fourth line is tough. Certainly Eddie Olczyk could be there as well as Zack LaRue, but I still like what I saw of Tegeler in the little we saw and think he may have the biggest upside of all current freshmen forwards.
Defense is a crapshoot. It’s impossible to try to matchup up pairings. I think Rowe and Busillo would be swapped out depending on the opponent and whether UMass is looking for more of an offensive or defensive presence. I thought both held their own in the past season in particular situations and deserve the chance to prove themselves. Obviously I’m not taking a stand at goaltender at this point.
So that’s it for this round of FTT UMail. Thank you to everyone for their questions. Certainly when I started this blog it wasn’t really my intention to just drone on and on about my thoughts of UMass hockey. By no means am I a hockey expert and I appreciate the regular input from readers. The FTT UMail segment is a chance to get commenters more front and center on the blog. I definitely appreciate everyone’s feedback. A bunch of commenters are personal friends and I’m glad for their contribution. At the same time there are fans that comment on an everyday basis like Will, Carson, George, and dozens of anonymous people among others that I don’t know personally and I am really grateful for what they share. Thanks to everyone for making this a place where I can share my thoughts but you bring your own opinion as well. Maybe someday we can plan to all meet up at the Hangar for some kind of FTT social to get to know each other.
Here are pictures and a video of former UMass star Greg Mauldin throwing out the first pitch at the Cleveland Indians game the other night.
Here is an interesting op-ed from a current Holy Cross player making the case for the Crusaders to join Hockey East. I don’t think he adequately addresses the arena issue (Hart is too small, DCU is a dump) but overall it’s a good read.
Apparently if UConn were Hockey East they would automatically have Mike Pereira and Mike Busillo on their roster. Something tells me those two would rather play in a hockey arena rather than a still warehouse filled with aluminum football bleachers surrounding bad ice, but who knows.
Again, please make sure to check back to FTT regularly. This may be the offseason but I’ve posted for the last four days in a row and will continue to do so as long as there is UMass news or commentary to share. The best way to keep up with FTT during the offseason is through the Twitter or Facebook pages.
https://fearthetriangle.com/2012/04/11/view-from-section-u-ftt-umail-2/
Iovanna & Hamilton Commit To UMass for 2013
Mike McMahon reported today that UMass has received commitments from forward Mike Iovanna and defenseman Mark Hamilton for the start of the 2013 season.
Iovanna was a junior this past season at Malden Catholic where he was on a line with Brendan Collier (committed to BU) and Ryan Fitzgerald (one time UMass target committed to BC). He had 15 goals and 27 assists for MC, but the biggest goal was his last of the season which gave the Lancers back to back Super Eight championships. Video of the goal and his coach’s comments can be found here. Here’s an article on the big goal. The Herald named him a 2011-12 All Star.
A roster from early this past season has him at 5’8″ and 160lbs. I spoke with UMass alum Jim Clark, writer of the Herald’s In The Slot blog covering Massachusetts High School hockey, and he had a lot of positive things to say about Iovanna. He said he’s a good all around player who does well at all parts of the game. It’s tough to project exactly what he’ll be able to do when he gets to UMass since he’s only a junior, but he was confident that Iovanna is of Hockey East caliber. Basically Iovanna is very talented but for the most part has been overshadowed by his linemates, both of whom are considered pretty elite prospects in the state.
Right now it looks like Iovanna will return to MC next year. It does not appear that any USHL teams hold his rights.
Joining Iovanna in the class of 2017 is defenseman Mark Hamilton. Hamilton is a native of Winthrop, Mass who played this past year for the Salisbury School in Connecticut. He was not listed in the final rankings for the 2012 NHL Draft but he was listed as a player to watch earlier in the process. He’s mentioned in this piece from NEHJ on the strength of the Salisbury defense. Hamilton is 6’3” 215lbs and had 2 goals and 7 assists this past season.
USHR had him ranked as the 7th best junior this past year, higher than Doyle Somerby than recently picked BU over the Minutemen as well as one time UMass target Anthony Florentino. The site touts him as being big, physical, and smart with the puck. Like Iovanna it does not appear that Hamilton has been drafted in the USHL, it’s likely he’ll return to Salisbury where UMass has had good luck with players previously, the last being Will Ortiz.
Just a reminder to get your questions in for tomorrow FTT UMail. You can leave your question as a comment to this post, email me, or post your question on the FTT Facebook Page. I’ll pick some of the more interesting questions and do my best to answer them.
https://fearthetriangle.com/2012/04/10/iovanna-hamilton-commit-to-umass-for-2013/
Recruit Update; Submit Your Questions for FTT UMail
Weekly update on Kenny Gillespie who is the only UMass recruit still playing.
Kenny Gillespie – RW – Omaha Lancers (USHL) – 2012
33 GP / 4 G / 7 A / 11 Pts / 47 PIM / 0
Gillespie continues to contribute as the Lancers finish off the regular season, getting an assist in each of his last two games. He has a good number of shots lately as well, 13 in his last 5 games.
EJHL: 43 GP / 30 G / 47 A / 77 Pts / 14 PIM
The more I think about it the more I believe Kenny Gillespie may not be coming to campus until 2013. I have not been able to confirm that as of yet, but it would make sense. First of all, Gillespie just turned 18 this past December and (whether you agree with the practice or not) in college hockey it’s very rare that players come to campus that young. It’s much more likely that he’d come in as a 19 year old. Secondly, he has had a tough time (perhaps due to his age/development) making much of an impact on the Lancers this year. I was told this was because Omaha is completely stacked with talent. Perhaps another year out the USHL where he’d have a chance to slide into a spot on the top two lines would be best for him. Again, this is pure speculation on my part. Although in doing some internet searching I did come across this old release saying he was bound for Amherst in 2013. I’ll do my best to confirm ASAP.
Speaking of recruits, the final rankings for the 2012 NHL Draft were released by NHL Central Scouting today. There are no UMass players or players committed to UMass on it. This means that it’s very likely that for the first time since the 1999-2000 season the Minuteman hockey team will be without any NHL draft picks on their roster when the season starts this fall. Now on one hand I already highlighted the fact that half of the Frozen Four participants, in the form of Union and Ferris State, had exactly zero NHL draft picks. But on the other hand this is a little concerning. UMass has done well when they’ve had a mix of NHL draft picks (Jon Quick, Justin Braun, Greg Mauldin, Stephen Werner) mixed in with non-draft picks (James Marcou, Thomas Pöck, Chris Capraro, Nick Kuiper). This will not be the case next year unless something surprising happens. Here are the Hockey East committed players that made the list. As you can see Providence, Northeastern, and Vermont, three teams UMass has been battling for positioning, all have players likely to be drafted.
One of the good things about not having a lot of NHL drafted players is you’re less likely to lose them. With BC’s season over it’s likely the BC Hockey Blog is reporting that star juniors Brian Dumoulin and Chris Kreider are on their way to the pros. Eagle senior forward Barry Almeida has also reportedly signed with the Washington Capitals where he’ll likely have a chance to play along side his cousin T.J. Syner in Hershey.
Here is a preview on Jon Quick and his Kings from NHL.com as they take on the #1 seed Canucks in the Western Conference playoffs. He’ll need to be at his best to take down Vancouver.
Justin Braun and the San Jose Sharks meanwhile are the 7th seed in the West and will take on second seed St Louis.
As captain of the Lake Erie Monsters former UMass forward Greg Mauldin threw out the first pitch before tonight’s Cleveland Indians game. I’ll try to post any video I find of the event. Greg tweeted earlier that he hoped he didn’t end up on Sportscenter’s Not Top 10.
Well, UMass has had their end of season banquet and the team is beginning to get back to finishing the school year. Meanwhile conference rival Boston College has been crowned champions in one of the more interesting collection of teams participating in the Frozen Four. I figure the best way to wrap up the season that was would be to have one more session of FTT UMail, where readers can send in their questions and I’ll answer them. Ask about anything; the season that was, thoughts on next season, road trip recaps from the past year, what type of beer I currently have fermenting in my laundry room. Whatever. I’ll likely be posting answers on Wednesday night, so before then you can leave your question as a comment to this post, email me, or post your question on the FTT Facebook Page. I’ll pick some of the more interesting questions and do my best to answer them. I hope there are some good ones!
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https://fearthetriangle.com/2012/04/09/recruit-update-submit-your-questions-for-ftt-umail/
I Want My Plate!
First off, a happy Easter and Passover to all the UMass fans out there.
Ok, here’s the deal, I need your help. Well, at least help from most of you. At the end of last week the Alumni Association launched the opportunity for Massachusetts residents to show their support of Your State U by driving around with this customized UMass license plate.
Now the UMAA tried a number of years ago to get a similar plate on the road but, due to a number of reasons, they were not able to get the minimum number of orders. One of the reasons was they chose to put a banner in Section U of the Mullins Center where a bunch of jerks decided to stand in front of during every hockey game. Anyway, I digress. So this previous effort flopped. That’s not going to happen this time. Or should I say I’m not going to let that happen this time. I want, no, need one of these license plates as I travel around New England supporting the Minutemen athletic teams. And I plan to leverage Fear The Triangle to my full advantage to get one. According to various website analytics sites I get about 900 regular visitors on a monthly basis from the state of Massachusetts. Given that and adjusting for some duplicates and people who may be too young to have cars etc., I figure I should be able to guarantee the Alumni Association at least 500 plate applications from my readership. That would go a long way toward the minimum needed for them to start production.
Listen, you’re not coming to this site, especially in the offseason, unless you’re a pretty hardcore UMass fan. What a better way to display your pride and loyalty for the school than with this plate that ultimately helps fund scholarships for the university. And at the same time you’ll be helping me personally, because I want one of these ASAP. So get on it and get your application in.
Stick tap to Jerry York and the Boston College Eagles for winning their 5th National Championship last night in Tampa. Was I rooting for the Eagles? No. But I respect what they were able to accomplish and at the very least am glad the sport’s ultimate prize resides in Hockey East, thus again proving that UMass plays in the most elite hockey conference in the country.
BC captain Tommy Cross credited UMass with helping getting the Eagles get ready for their championship run. Honestly, when you look at it UMass played BC tougher during their 19 game win streak than probably any other team. In the end UMass went 2-3-0 against the national champions, allowing the high flying Eagle offense a meager 2.2 goals per game.
Puck Daddy makes the case for Jon Quick winning the Vezina trophy. Quick finished the year going 35-21-13. He played in the 4th most games for goaltenders on the season. His 10 shutouts led the league, he was second in goals against average with 1.95, his .929 save percentage was good for 5th, and is pretty much the only reason the Kings made the playoffs.
Andrew Merritt of the New England Hockey Journal has his take on a potential leap by UConn to Hockey East.
https://fearthetriangle.com/2012/04/08/i-want-my-plate/
Alumni Update & Miscellaneous Notes
So while the Massachusetts hockey team has been done for weeks and Kenny Gillespie is the only committed recruit still playing, there are still plenty of UMass alumni out there who are still competing at some of the highest levels of hockey.
Most prominent would be Jon Quick who is leading the NHL in shutouts with 10, almost single handedly dragging the Kings into the playoffs, and whom at least one Hockey News writer thinks should be this year’s Vezina trophy winner. Quick’s own teammates concur.
Justin Braun out in San Jose continues to play solid defense as the Sharks battle for a playoff spot. He regularly plays 19 minutes a game and had a great night a couple weeks ago against the Avalanche where he registered an assist and went +3 for the game.
Lots of Minutemen in the AHL currently. Mike Marcou has played a couple games for the OKC Barons, not registering any points yet. His brother James sounds like he’s ready to go after missing the season with concussion and neck problems, but given the lateness of the season will start it up again next fall. Still, great to hear he’s on his way back. It’s tough to keep those Marcous down.
Congratulations to T.J. Syner who was named UMass Winter Scholar Athlete with swimming’s Michaela Butler. Syner is still doing well with the Hersey Bears of the AHL.
Matt Irwin, a defensemen mind you, is second on the Worcester Sharks in points this season. He has 10 goals and 29 assists in 65 games. A stellar season for the AHL All-Star.
Greg Mauldin has had another strong AHL season, scoring 16 goals for the Lake Erie Monsters in 55 games. Unfortunately he could not convert his good play into an NHL callup.
Mike Kostka has been part of history for the Norfolk Admirals who keep on winning. Kostka is +20 on the season for the Admirals who have won an astounding 23 in a row (and counting).
Former UMass defenseman David Leaderer was just called up to the Milwaukee Admirals of the AHL after a solid season with Cincinnati of the ECHL.
Chase Langeraap is finishing off his first full year in the ECHL, scoring 6 goals in 60 games for the South Carolina Stingrays.
Lots of players are having strong seasons overseas like Thomas Pöck in Sweden, guys like P.J. Fenton, Cory Quick, Chris Capraro, and Doug Kublin in Germany, and Nick Kuiper in Ireland.
Here’s a good site that has extensive coverage of where UMass alumni are currently playing.
Not all players are are getting accolades from playing, some are doing it off the ice. Scott Crowder was recently recognized by the university’s Isenberg School of Management for his contributions to the community. It doesn’t even mention his tremendous job in putting together an annual pond hockey tournament on Lake Winnipesaukee.
Also on the alumni front, I had the opportunity to talk to Alex Berry’s dad, Bob, at this past weekend’s Reverse Raffle. First of all Bob and his wife Shawn should be commended for their continued support of the Massachusetts hockey program, as displayed by their presence at the event. A lot of parents’ support of the team stops when their son stops playing or moves on to the pros, but that’s not the case with the Berrys, among others. Anyway, I’m glad to report that Alex continues to recover from the horrific injury he incurred while in training camp for the Portland Pirates. Who knows what exactly his future will bring but it’s great to hear he’s trending towards being back on the ice playing sometime in the future.
UMass recruit K.J. Tiefenwerth was named team MVP for the Boston Junior Bruins.
Far be it for me to come to the aide of Lowell, but it’s a joke that River Hawk coach Norm Bazin was not named Spencer Penrose Award winner for national coach of the year. Seriously. I’m speechless.
So tomorrow marks the semifinals of the Frozen Four. I did get two teams right from my original predictions. But with my winner out, much to my chagrin, I’m going to have to pick Boston College to beat Union for yet another title under the tutelage of Jerry York. I did realize something interesting today. The last time college hockey was played in Tampa was 2007. In that year the Lightning College Hockey Classic was played between UMass, Colorado College, RPI, and Notre Dame. Or, a team from Hockey East, the WCHA, ECAC, and CCHA. This weekend those same conferences have a representative again in Tampa. Of course Hockey East, in the form of UMass, took home the trophy in 2007 (seen above in the FTT header image). Will BC do the same? We’ll see.
UConn to Hockey East is a “done deal” according to….uh whoever this is. Also the governor of Connecticut, who likely has better things to worry about, thinks all games should be played in Hartford. Thus proving he’s an idiot. UConn playing all games in Hartford is akin to UMass playing all games in Springfield during the Triangle Era. It was bad enough as it was, can you imagine how much worse it could’ve been?
Lastly, I was extremely saddened to see the news that UMass softball coach Elaine Sortino is battling cancer. For those who are not familiar with Sortino her accomplishments in her 33 years at the helm of the Minutewomen are nothing short than legendary. She has built a softball powerhouse that’s able to compete with the national powers in the sport while heading at a regional flagship university where it snows for a good portion of the season. 22 Atlantic 10 titles, 20 NCAA regional appearances, 3 NCAA College Word Series. I, unfortunately, can’t say that I’ve had the chance to meet coach Sortino but I know enough of her strong reputation to know she’ll take on this challenge with the same determination she displays every day. Certainly the thoughts of myself and the rest of UMass nation are with her as she battles.
https://fearthetriangle.com/2012/04/04/alumni-update-miscellaneous-notes/
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by ethnic · June 26, 2010
Tomei in 2011, photo by Prphotos
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Ethnicity: Italian
Marisa Tomei is an American actress and producer. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for My Cousin Vinny (1992). Her brother, Adam Tomei, is also an actor.
Marisa is of Italian descent on both sides of her family. Her family is from Tuscany, Calabria, Campania, and Sicily. Marisa has Italian citizenship.
A DNA test whose results were displayed on the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2019) stated that Marisa’s genetic ancestry is:
*69.5% Italian
*3.4% Balkan
*2.0% Iberian
*14.6% Broadly Southern European
*3.3% Northwestern European
*3.4% Broadly European
*3.3% Middle Eastern
*0.5% Unmatched
Marisa’s paternal grandfather was Romeo Robert Tomei (the son of Lindoro Tomei and Faustina Maria/Marie Lucchesi). Romeo was born in New York. Lindoro was born in Ghivizzano, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy, the son of Nicolao Tomei and Angela Puccini. Faustina was born in Vitiana, Lucca, Tuscany, the daughter of Natale Lucchesi and Matilda Agostini.
Marisa’s paternal grandmother was Rita Albina Elvira Calvosa (the daughter of Demetrio Carlo/Charles “Albert” Calvosa and Maria/Mary Preziozi/Preziosi/Prezioso). Rita was born in New York, to Italian parents. Demetrio was born in San Demetrio, Calabria, and was the son of Raffaele Placido “Raphael” Calvosa and Serafina Aurora Corrado, whose own father, Don Carlo Maria Corrado, was a royal chancellor, in the government of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies. Maria was born in Napoli, Campania, and was the daughter of Sabino Preziosi/Prezioso and Filomena/Philomina Biondo/Biondi.
Marisa’s maternal grandfather was Armando Bianchi (the son of Francesco Leopoldo Bianchi and Adelaide Maria Angiola Canovaro). Armando was Italian, and was born in Rio nell’Elba, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. Francesco was born in Cecina, Livorno, the son of Dionisio Bianchi and Carmine Tacchini. Francesco was murdered when he was 26 years old. Adelaide was born in Elba, an island, part of the Province of Livorno, and was the daughter of Arturo Augusto Aurelio Canovaro and Marianna Taplaberro.
Marisa’s maternal grandmother was Maria/Mary D’Ignoti (the daughter of Giacomo “James” D’Ignoti). Maria was born in New York, to Sicilian parents, from Messina. Giacomo was the son of Antonino D’Ignoti and Buta Francesca. D’Ignoti, meaning “of the unknown,” was often the surname given to foundling children.
Sources: Genealogies of Marisa Tomei – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Family history of Marisa Tomei – http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.it
Marisa’s father on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Marisa’s paternal grandfather, Romeo Robert Tomei, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Romeo Robert Tomei on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Marisa’s paternal grandmother, Rita Albina Elvira Calvosa, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Death record of Marisa’s paternal grandmother, Rita Albina Elvira (Calvosa) Tomei – https://www.findagrave.com
Death record of Marisa’s paternal great-grandfather, Albert Charles Calvosa – https://familysearch.org
Marisa’s maternal grandparents, Armando Bianchi and Maria/Mary D’Ignoti, on the 1940 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
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Curious about ethnicity
passingtime85 says:
So is her distant relationship to Julianne Moore going to be mentioned?
Rita Calvosa on Census:
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MJRZ-6VX
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=31574421
Albert Calvosa was the son of Raffaele “Raphael” Calvosa and Serafina Corrado
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WRD-GN6
Maria Preziosi was the daughter of Sabino Preziosi and Philomina Biondi
Armando Bianchi and wife on a Census: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQ9L-MPY
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by Lil Vacha · June 12, 2013
Nolte in 2012, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Nicholas King Nolte
Place of Birth: Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Date of Birth: February 8, 1941
Ethnicity: German, English, Scottish, Northern Irish, Scots-Irish, Swiss-German
Nick Nolte is an American actor, producer, author, and model. He was selected People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” in 1992.
Nick is the son of Helen (King) and Franklin Arthur Nolte. He is married to Clytie Lane. He has two children, including actor Brawley Nolte (Brawley King Nolte), who co-starred in the film Ransom (1996).
Nick’s paternal grandfather was Arthur Esther/Ernest Nolte (the son of Ludwig Hermann/Herman Nolte and Augusta Ann Voges). Arthur was born in Iowa, where he was a farmer. Ludwig was born in Braunschweig, Germany, the son of Ernst Wilhelm/William Nolte and Engel Sophia Fischer. Augusta was born in Rostock, Germany.
Nick’s paternal grandmother was Helen May/Mae Menzie (the daughter of Franklin Pierce Menzie and Laura Ellen Stonebraker/Stonebrecker). Helen was born in Iowa. Franklin was the son of William M. Menzie, who was born in New York, to Scottish parents, and of Elizabeth M. Sprague, who was also born in New York. Laura was of German or part German descent, the daughter of David R. Stonebraker/Stonebrecker and Elloisa/Eloise/Eliza Ann Homes.
Nick’s maternal grandfather was Matthew Leander King (the son of John King and Anna Ross Caldwell). Nick’s grandfather Matthew was born in Iowa, and was a prominent engineer, who invented the hollow-tile silo and was a leader in early aviation. Nick’s great-grandfather John was born in Canada, the son of John King and Mary McAlpin, who were born in Scotland. Nick’s great-grandmother Anna was the daughter of Matthew Caldwell and Harriet Hoover; her ancestry included English, Scottish, Northern Irish, Scots-Irish, German, and Swiss-German.
Nick’s maternal grandmother was Lucy Millicent Massure (the daughter of Richard Henry Lee Massure and Phoebe/Phebe E. Duell). Lucy was born in Iowa. Richard was the son of John Massure and Mary Ann Ritchie/Richie/Richey/Richiel. Phoebe was the daughter of Joshua Duell and Abigail Borton/Barton.
Sources: Genealogies of Nick Nolte – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Nick’s father on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
History of Nick’s paternal grandfather, Arthur Esther/Ernest Nolte – http://genforum.genealogy.com
Nick’s paternal great-grandparents, Franklin Pierce Menzie and Laura Ellen Stonebraker/Stonebrecker, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Nick’s paternal great-great-grandparents, William M. Menzie and Elizabeth M. Sprague, on the 1880 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Nick’s paternal great-grandmother, Laura Ellen Stonebraker/Stonebrecker, on the 1860 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Genealogy of Nick’s maternal great-grandmother, Phoebe/Phebe E. Duell – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Interview with The Guardian newspaper – http://film.guardian.co.uk
Tags: EnglishGermanNorthern IrishPeople magazine's Sexiest Man AliveScots-IrishScottishSwissSwiss-German
Lil Vacha
Hello, everyone.! XD
LorenzoSpitaleri says:
you can just feel the skin cancer
Capricious says:
The stereotypical white man.
= german name of polish descent
most german names ending with e have prussian or polish background
krause, kruse, plentzke, nolte, rurke
homeless Nick
Nicole Eggert
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Open letter to the EU on CAP reform
The European Mammal Foundation has today (5/5/2019) joined with other European scientific and conservation organisations to call on the European Parliament to undertake a far-reaching reform of the Common Agriculture Policy. Our open letter can be found here.
Over the last few decades, the CAP has driven an intensification of agriculture including the simplification of landscapes, an increase in the use of pesticides and the destruction of semi-natural grasslands and uncultivated land. Together, these practices have had a very significant impact on wildlife. Invertebrate populations have been severely affected, leading to declines in farmland birds and mammals, which are still continuing today.Without a fundamental reform of the CAP, such negative trends will not only diminish nature in current EU member states but will also threaten the nature of candidate ones.
We call on the EU to undertake an ambitious and fundamental review of the CAP to ensure that it will deliver sustainable and diversified agriculture through spatially-targeted measures supporting smaller farms which carry out sustainable farming and maintain high nature value farmland. This can be achieved by truly aligning a future CAP with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs.
European Ornithologists Union
European Mammal Foundation
Societas Europaea Herpetologica
Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica
Butterfly Conservation Europe
European Bird Census Council
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MARK WEBBER JOINS STELLAR LINE UP AT IGNITION
MARK WEBBER JOINS STELLAR
LINE UP AT IGNITION
• ‘Aussie Grit’ to be guest of honour at Friday VIP evening
• Webber to drive Porsche power laps on IGNITION’s specially constructed street circuit
• Multiple GP winner to join David Coulthard, Jimmy McRae, Gordon Shedden and The Stig at Scottish motoring Festival
Mark Webber, the 2015 World Endurance Champion and winner of nine Grands Prix, is the latest special guest to join the line-up at Scotland’s brand new Festival of Motoring IGNITION. (Above). The three-day Festival runs from 5-7 August at Glasgow’s Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre.
Former Williams and Red Bull Racing driver and current Porsche factory WEC driver, Webber will be at the Festival on the opening day (Friday 5 August) where he will be meeting the crowds, signing autographs, and undertaking power laps around the specially constructed IGNITION street circuit, on roads snaking between the SECC and the nearby SSE Hydro Arena.
He will also be a guest of honour at the show’s VIP opening evening, a star-studded occasion open to all those purchasing premium plus and IGNITE Club tickets for Friday’s high octane action. Webber will be joining other motor sport personalities including two-time BTCC champion Gordon Shedden (below bottom left) and pro-drifter and Boyzone member Shane Lynch for exclusive on-stage interviews in the SECC’s Loch Suite plus what is certain to be a lively Q&A session with the audience.
Known by his Twitter handle @AussieGrit, Webber said: “I’m really looking forward to meeting the fans in Scotland. With the street circuit and other live action, IGNITION promises to be a fantastic new motoring event and it’ll be great to be a part of it.”
And with Le Mans taking place this weekend (18/19 June), Webber added: “We finished second there in the Porsche 919 Hybrid last year. If we can go one better this year, I will really be celebrating when I get to Glasgow.”
Paul Bush OBE, VisitScotland’s Director of Events, said: “We are delighted to support IGNITION through EventScotland’s International Programme on its first appearance in Scotland and are equally excited about the prospect of what’s shaping up to be a very entertaining festival programme.
“Over three days, IGNITION will provide an array of displays, performances and activities to electrify the crowds and the addition of fans-favourite Mark Webber to the already exciting line-up will prove to be very popular among motor sports lovers across the board.”
Joe Aitken, Head of Major Events at Glasgow City Marketing Bureau, added: “Today’s announcement that Mark Webber – one of the biggest names in world motorsport – will be joining an already stellar line-up of drivers and powering his way around the Glasgow street circuit as part of IGNITION will definitely excite fans and ticket-holders. With David Coulthard (below bottom right), Jimmy McRae, The Stig, Shane Lynch, Gordon Shedden the Top Gear Live Stunt Team – and now Mark – all confirmed, IGNITION is really revving up to be one of the standout highlights of Glasgow, and Scotland’s, major events calendar this year.
“Glasgow’s emergence as one of the world’s leading major events cities is thanks to our enviable portfolio and multi-million pound investment in new infrastructure – our award-winning SSE Hydro arena at the heart of our state-of-the-art SECC campus was built with events like IGNITION in mind.”
IGNITION Festival of Motoring promises three days of all action entertainment as well as hall after hall of new cars, classic cars, supercars and super bikes. Among the attractions will be a unique collection of iconic Grand Prix cars from Maserati, Lotus, Williams, Red Bull Racing, Benetton and BAR which, as well as being on static display, will be fired up at regular intervals for some power laps around the street circuit. Among those driving will be Mark Webber’s former team-mate, GP ace David Coulthard.
There will also be special displays paying tribute to Scotland’s world-beating motorsport heritage with Scottish motoring superstars to the fore. Alongside Coulthard, Jimmy McRae will be driving son Colin’s World Rally Championship winning Subaru.
And there’ll be more live action at the arena where displays will include regular performances by the Top Gear Live Stunt Team and a spectacular, tyre-burning drifting extravaganza from Lynch and other members of the crack Team Japspeed outfit.
As well as entry to Friday’s VIP evening entertainment, IGNITE Club ticket holders also benefit from all day access to the Festival, access to the IGNITE Grandstand, exclusive Paddock access, event showguide and light refreshments throughout the day.
For more information and to book advance tickets visit the show’s website:www.ignitionfestival.co.uk. The site has full details on all ticket types, as well as all the latest news and the show newsletter.
• IGNITION Festival of Motoring is staged by the team behind the globally successful Top Gear Live events, the London Classic Car Show, Top Gear Festivals and the Chris Evans-inspired CarFest North and South family shows.
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Painting Area Group Exhibition
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Group show featuring paintings by upper-level students in the Department of Visual Art & Art History.
Monday – Thursday, 9am-4:00pm
Categories: AMPD Visual Art and Art History Tags: exhibition Gales Gallery
Wavelengths: Group Exhibition
“Wavelengths” serves as a celebration of the achievements of our graduating painters of tomorrow. It is a coming together of a diverse array of artistic styles and sensibilities. Most of all, it is a clear illustration that though we may take our creative impulses in different directions, we are always on the same wavelength; that of innovation, expression, and community.
“Wavelengths” is running from January 22nd-30th in the Gales Gallery.
GALES GALLERY
Location: 105 Accolade West Building, York University
Wavelengths: Featured Artists
Emilie Lowe
Deanna Gisborne
Liz Tsui
Alicia Takach
Lin Zhu
Rui Cai
Liying Yang
Mello Fang
Sarah Kowalchuk
Alexandra McDougall
Deledda Wong
Yu Yin
Alexa Everest
Li Huang
Alissa Condotta
Cassandra Mostbacher
John Lawler
Sharon Massey
Miri Rozenvain
Cassandra Panaro
Olivia Bagnoli
Julian Gullone
Azka Batool
Kanisha Dabreo
World @ Midday: Amir Koushkani and Friends
AmirKoushkani is an ethnomusicologist, composer, performer, and instructor of traditional Persian stringed instruments Tar and Setar. Dr. Koushkani’s training in Persian music began in Iran, where he was introduced to traditional Persian themes, under the tutelage of Master Dariush Pirniakan.
Amir Koushkani holds a Master’s Degree in Western Musical Composition and he also received a PhD in Ethnomusicology at York University, with a dissertation on the history and theory of the Iranian musical transcription. With specializing in on a different aspect of Persian music, over the last three decades he composed widely for theatre, orchestra, and various musical ensembles. He has recently published a two-volume study on the “Persian Avaz” in collaboration with Master Mohammad-Reza Shajarian and Professor Rob Simms at York University.
Categories: AMPD Music Tags: AMPD Faculty Music
DisPerSion Relation #5 with guest Michael Palumbo
Dispersion Relation #5: Doug Van Nort with guest Michael Palumbo
In this on going series Doug Van Nort performs with curated and invited guests.
All are welcome to come and listen in this immersive sonic space. The lab door will remain open, and people are welcome to come in late or leave early during the show. (Please remove shoes before entering!)
The fifth event welcomes special guest Michael Palumbo.
All are welcome to come and listen in this immersive sonic space.
Categories: AMPD Computational Arts Digital Media Sensorium Tags: DisPersion Lab Performance
Disruptive Design Exhibition
A group show featuring digital fabrication by upper-level students in the Department of Visual Art & Art History.
[caption id="attachment_101722" align="aligncenter" width="800"] 3D Printing in Progress. Element of a sculpture by Andrew Sidsworth[/caption]
Categories: Makerspace Tags: exhibition Gales Gallery
Music @ Midday: Classical Instrumental Concert
The Music at Midday series presents a recital featuring student soloists in the classical performance program.
Admission is free. Everyone welcome.
Music @ Midday: Student Showcase
York University music students showcase their talent.
Free admission. Everyone welcome.
Categories: AMPD Music Tags: AMPD Music
Concerto Competition Winners in Concert with the York University Symphony Orchestra
Professor Mark Chambers conducts the York University Symphony Orchestra in a concert featuring 2017 Concerto Competition winners.
Christian Masucci-Facchini: Countertenor
Daniel Pasoff: Tenor Saxophone
Xingzhi Wang: Tenor
Admission: $15 | $10 for students & seniors.
Box Office: Purchase tickets online or phone 416-736-5888
Improv Soirée
An evening of improvisation in a participatory “open mic” set-up, hosted by the improve studios of Steve Koven.
Performers and observers welcome.
Sculpture and Drawing Area Exhibition
[caption id="attachment_101547" align="alignleft" width="480"] photo of the 2019 Sculpture and Drawing Area exhibition[/caption]
A group show featuring sculpture and drawings by upper-level students in the Department of Visual Art & Art History.
Faculty Jazz Performance with Jazz Artist-in-Residence Dave Douglas
DAVE DOUGLAS : 2020 OSCAR PETERSON JAZZ ARTIST- IN-RESIDENCE
Award winning trumpeter and composer, Dave Douglas, is the Department of Music’s 2020 Oscar Peterson Jazz Artist-in-Residence. During his residency, he will deliver masterclasses for instrumentalists as well as coach small jazz ensembles.
This jam session offers a unique opportunity to hear Douglas in performance with faculty members in the Department of Music’s jazz program. Admission is free.
DAVE DOUGLAS
Dave Douglas is a prolific trumpeter, composer, educator and entrepreneur from New York City known for the stylistic breadth of his work and for keeping a diverse set of ensembles and projects active simultaneously.
His unique contributions to improvised music have garnered distinguished recognition, including a Doris Duke Artist Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Aaron Copland award, and two Grammy Award nominations. Douglas’ career spans more than 50 unique original recordings as a leader and more than 500 published works. His current ensembles include: Dave Douglas Quintet; Sound Prints, a quintet co-led with saxophonist Joe Lovano; UPLIFT, a sextet including bassist Bill Laswell; Present Joys, a longstanding duo with pianist Uri Caine which recently added Andrew Cyrille as third member for a 2019 recording; High Risk, an electronic ensemble with Shigeto, Jonathan Maron, and Ian Chang; and the latest project, ENGAGE, a sextet with Jeff Parker, Tomeka Reid, Anna Webber, Nick Dunston, and Kate Gentile. Douglas is often engaged in special projects which include big bands, tributes, and multi-trumpet ensembles, such as Dizzy Atmosphere.
As a composer, Douglas has received commissions from a variety of organizations including the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Essen Philharmonie, The Library of Congress, Stanford University and most recently, Monash Art Ensemble, which premiered his chamber orchestra piece Fabliaux in March 2014. He is currently completing a new work for the chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound, which will premiere in May 2019.
Douglas has held several posts as an educator and programmer. From 2002 to 2012, he served as artistic director of the Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music at the Banff Centre in Canada. He is a co-founder and president of the Festival of New Trumpet Music, which celebrated its fifteenth anniversary in 2017. He is currently on the faculty at the Mannes School of Music and is a Guest Coach for the Juilliard Jazz Composer’s Ensemble. In 2016, he accepted a three-year appointment as the Artistic Director of the Bergamo Jazz Festival.
In 2005 Douglas founded Greenleaf Music, an umbrella company for his recordings, sheet music, podcast, as well as the music of other artists in the modern jazz idiom. Greenleaf Music has produced over 70 releases and will be celebrating its fifteenth anniversary in 2020.
“Dave Douglas is the unassuming king of independent jazz, a model of do-it-yourself moxie, initiative and artistic freedom.”
– Frank Alkyer, Publisher, Down Beat
Categories: AMPD Music Tags: AMPD artist in residence Faculty Music
Mar 2 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
An evening of improvisation in a participatory “open mic” set-up, hosted by the improve studios of Brian Katz.
Music @ Midday: Singing our Songs
Young artists from York University’s classical vocal performance program share the stage in a series of concerts featuring arias, art songs and ensemble pieces.
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FCDRT Mission
Our mission is to end needless euthanasia at shelters in the National Capital area by rescuing and finding suitable lifetime homes for our cats, promoting spaying and neutering, and educating the public on responsible pet ownership.
FCDRT Vision Statement
We provide adoption, rescue and education services by finding suitable lifetime homes for our cats and dogs, rescuing cats and dogs on death row at local shelters and educating the public on responsible pet ownership. We aspire to offer in-house spay and neuter services. We live by our core values of integrity in all our dealings; compassion for all life; respect for our cats and dogs, our constituents and each other; and teamwork. We are responsive to our donors, adopters, volunteers and the public. Our volunteers and staff are recognized for their responsibility, dedication, knowledge and helpful service. We provide these services for cats and dogs that would otherwise be euthanized, potential adopters, donors, local animal shelters, and our community.
Social Media Ambassadors are social media professionals, technology enthusiasts, networked individuals, and/or social media users who utilize their online communities to help promote Fancy Cats & Dogs Rescue Team mission and vision through the promotion of adoptable cats, fundraisers, adoption events and education.
Who Can Be a Social Media Ambassador?
The cream of the digital crop: Innovative users of digital technology who have shown leadership and creativity in their use of interactive tools to move their businesses and their clients’ businesses forward
Community leaders: Leaders who are passionate and committed and believe in the mission of Fancy Cats & Dogs Rescue Team.
Committed and passionate people: Everyday people who are comfortable utilizing social media networks to spread the mission of Fancy Cats & Dogs Rescue Team
Committed to Fancy Cats & Dogs Rescue Team’s mission
Able to dedicate two or more hours a week to promote Fancy Cats & Dogs Rescue Team online
Commit to raising funds via peer-to-peer fundraising, twice a year
Currently active on at least one social media site
Has at least 150 friends/followers on the social media site
18 years of age or older
Volunteer applicants who are accepted as Social Media Ambassadors will receive training, training materials, a Fancy Cats & Dogs Rescue Team shirt, and an official Fancy Cats & Dogs Rescue Team Social Media Ambassador badge for their sites.
Please complete the interest form. We will review your submission to determine whether you meet the criteria for our Social Media Ambassadors program.
SMA volunteers must have previous social media experience. We will offer support to you as you become a voice for the cause and Fancy Cats & Dogs Rescue Team's mission. If accepted, you agree to become a volunteer SMA for Fancy Cats & Dogs Rescue Team, but you are not a representative of the Rescue in any official way and will not represent yourself as such, provide medical or legal advice, or act in any official capacity outside of your volunteer role.
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New Releases: June 21st, 2016
DISAPPEARANCE AT DEVIL'S ROCK by Paul Tremblay
Elizabeth Sanderson receives the devastating news that her 13-year-old son, Tommy, has vanished without a trace. Josh and Luis, the friends who were the last to see Tommy before he disappeared, may not be telling the whole truth about that night in Borderland State Park, when they were supposedly hanging out at a landmark the local teens have renamed Devil’s Rock. Living in an all-too-real nightmare, Elizabeth is wholly unprepared for the strange series of events that follow. As the search grows more desperate, and the implications of what happened become more haunting and sinister, no one is prepared for the shocking truth about that night and Tommy’s disappearance at Devil’s Rock. Horror
THE MANDIBLES: A Family, 2029-2047 by Lionel Shriver
In 2029, the United States is engaged in a bloodless world war that will wipe out the savings of millions of American families. Overnight, on the international currency exchange, the “almighty dollar” plummets in value, to be replaced by a new global currency, the “bancor.” In retaliation, the president declares that America will default on its loans. What little remains to savers is rapidly eaten away by runaway inflation. The Mandibles have been counting on a sizable fortune filtering down when their 97-year-old patriarch dies. Once the inheritance turns to ash, each family member must contend with disappointment, but also the challenge of sheer survival. Fiction
A MILLION YEARS IN A DAY: A Curious History of Everyday Life from the Stone Age to the Phone Age by Greg Jenner
Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock? Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until our head hits our pillow at night, we all take part in rituals that are millennia old. Structured around one ordinary day, A MILLION YEARS IN A DAY reveals the astonishing origins and development of the daily practices we take for granted. In this entertaining romp through human history, Greg Jenner explores the gradual --- and often unexpected --- evolution of our daily routines. History
ROBERT LUDLUM'S THE BOURNE ENIGMA by Eric Van Lustbader
On the eve of Russian general Boris Karpov's wedding, Jason Bourne receives an enigmatic message from his old friend and fellow spymaster. In Moscow, what should be a joyous occasion turns bloody and lethal. Now Bourne is the only one who can decipher Karpov's cryptogram. He discovers that Karpov has betrayed his sovereign to warn Bourne of a crippling disaster about to be visited on the world. Bourne has only four days to discover the nature of the disaster and stop it. The trail Karpov has been following leads Bourne to Cairo and the doorstep of Ivan Borz, the elusive international arms dealer infamous for hiding behind a never-ending series of false identities. Thriller
VINEGAR GIRL by Anne Tyler
After years out in the academic wilderness, Dr. Battista is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There’s only one problem: His brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr, all would be lost. When Dr. Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he’s relying on his daughter, Kate, to help him. Kate is furious: this time he’s really asking too much. But will she be able to resist the two men’s touchingly ludicrous campaign to bring her around? Fiction
THE GAP OF TIME by Jeanette Winterson
In THE GAP OF TIME, Jeanette Winterson’s cover version of "The Winter's Tale" (one of Shakespeare’s “late plays”), we move from London, a city reeling after the 2008 financial crisis, to a storm-ravaged American city called New Bohemia. Her story is one of childhood friendship, money, status, technology and the elliptical nature of time; of the consuming power of jealousy on the one hand, and redemption and the enduring love of a lost child on the other. Fiction
KILLING MONICA by Candace Bushnell
Pandy "PJ" Wallis is a renowned writer whose novels about a young woman making her way in Manhattan have spawned a series of blockbuster films. After the success of the Monica books and movies, Pandy wants to attempt a historical novel based on her ancestor Lady Wallis. But Pandy's publishers and audience only want her to keep cranking out more Monica, as does her greedy husband. When her marriage crumbles and the boathouse of her family home in Connecticut goes up in flames, Pandy suddenly realizes she has an opportunity to reinvent herself. Fiction
LOVE MAY FAIL by Matthew Quick
Portia Kane is having a meltdown. After escaping her ritzy Florida life and her cheating pornographer husband, she finds herself back in South Jersey, a place that remains largely unchanged from the years of her unhappy youth. Lost and alone, looking to find the goodness in the world she believes still exists, Portia sets off to save herself by saving someone else --- a beloved high school English teacher who has retired after a traumatic incident. Fiction
UNDERMAJORDOMO MINOR by Patrick deWitt
Lucien (Lucy) Minor is the resident odd duck in the bucolic hamlet of Bury. Friendless and loveless, young and aimless, Lucy is a compulsive liar, a sickly weakling in a town famous for producing brutish giants. Then Lucy accepts employment assisting the Majordomo of the remote, foreboding Castle Von Aux. While tending to his new post as Undermajordomo, Lucy soon discovers that the place harbors many dark secrets, not least of which is the whereabouts of the castle’s master, Baron Von Aux. Fiction
2014: China Dolls by Lisa See
2013: Discussion Question: Do you read every book in a series?
2012: Mummies in Nineteenth Century America by S. J. Wolfe
2011: Fashionista Piranha will be on hiatus for a while…
2010: Maiden, Matron, Crone edited by Kerri Huges & Martin H. Greenberg
2009: An Edible History of Humanity by Tom Standage
2008: The Glimmer Palace by Beatrice Colin
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Jun 21, 2016 4:12PM PT
Adidas Announces The Signing Of Five Top NBA Prospects
By Peter Verry
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Nike may have signed the projected No. 1 overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft in Ben Simmons, but Adidas on Tuesday added five of the league’s most sought-after picks to its roster.
In a statement released by the brand today, the Germany-based label announced it has signed Brandon Ingram (Duke University) — who has also been mentioned as a possible No. 1 pick — as well as Jaylen Brown (University of California, Berkeley), Jamal Murray (University of Kentucky), Dragan Bender (Maccabi Tel Aviv of the Israeli Basketball Super League) and Kris Dunn (Providence College).
Adidas’ five new sponsored ballers.
CREDIT: Courtesy of Adidas
“Our playbook is simple — partner with the best players and use their insights to change the game and connect with young athletes,” Chris Grancio, GM of Adidas Global Basketball, said in a statement. “It’s no secret that at Adidas players have a voice to share ideas and insights that will create the best basketball gear in the world. We’re proud to welcome them to our family, and we look forward to getting started.”
Adidas said its latest crop of sponsored ballers would play a collaborative and instrumental role in providing performance insights to help build new footwear and apparel, and would also be featured in upcoming brand campaigns, activations and global tours.
The 2016 NBA Draft presented by State Farm is set to take place Thursday at 7 p.m. ET at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Tasman District Council ‘sharply rebuked’ for failing to hear its community’s river concerns
The Tasman District Council has been sharply criticised for its plan to allow even more water to be taken from the Motueka River, despite widespread community opposition.
The council has now approved the controversial proposal known as Plan Change 52 – and is now just waiting for a final signoff.
Fish & Game is aghast at the move, saying it flies in the face of community opposition and the process has been a “debacle.”
“The Motueka is a fabulous river treasured by locals who want to see its values properly managed.
“We have all been trying to work constructively with the Tasman District Council but it’s ignored the concerns of a huge section of the community,” says Fish & Game’s Nelson-Marlborough Regional Manager Rhys Barrier.
“It isn’t often that landowners, existing irrigators and Fish & Game staff are all on the same opposition page but that’s what Tasman District Council has managed to achieve with its short-sighted approach to water planning.
“One would have thought that after the historic Waimea Plains over-allocation of water, the Council would have learned to proceed with caution,” says Mr Barrier.
“As an affected party, Fish & Game is not opposed to further water allocation at higher flows, however the present low flow rationing regime for the Upper Motueka River is woefully inadequate.”
It is our view that good water planning should determine first and foremost a river’s low flow needs to adequately protect its values, before proceeding with any further water allocation.
While the low flow needs of the Motueka River below the Wangapeka confluence are well protected by a Water Conservation Order, the Upper Motueka River affected by Plan Change 52 is not protected for summer low flows by this Order, says Mr Barrier.
“This unprotected section of the river provides a vital link between the protected headwater spawning streams and mid-lower WCO-protected reaches of the Motueka River.
“It is critical the Council now protect it properly through its own planning processes.
While past concerns over unsustainable river engineering practices on the Upper Motueka have thankfully been resolved with Tasman District Council, low flow management is still a major outstanding issue of concern to Fish & Game that is failing to be addressed.
The Motueka River is famed around the world for its scenic beauty and trout fishing, and is one of only a handful of New Zealand waters to have been granted a Water Conservation Order – the equivalent of National Park status for a waterway.
The river is also recognised for providing valuable wildlife habitat, as well as having cultural, recreational and landscape importance.
“What we see now is a once trusted local authority, with good environmental integrity, sadly being hugely influenced by commercial pressure for water to the stage where we’ve basically lost confidence in them.
“Unfortunately, it's symptomatic of what’s happening in many rural councils right around New Zealand,” Mr Barrier says.
Rhys Barrier says Tasman District Council could learn how to properly assess a rivers ecological needs from its immediate neighbour, Nelson City Council.
“Unlike Tasman, Nelson City did such a good job in assessing and providing for the future ecological health of the Maitai River, that Fish & Game supported their application to re-consent the City’s water supply dam.”
Mr Barrier says the only solution to the unthinking exploitation and spoiling of rivers is for the Government to beef up the national policy statement on freshwater.
“It must set bottom lines for quality and flows that regional councils must comply with and indeed the public are crying out for better river management.”
“Until that happens, councils like Tasman are going to continue riding roughshod over their communities and squander one of our most precious assets,” Mr Barrier says.
“Our grandchildren will be appalled to look back in history and see how quickly we trashed our most precious natural asset for the sake of short term economic growth.”
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Exclusive: Lawmakers Redouble Push to Stop Trump From Going to War With Iran Lawmakers Redouble Push to Stop Trump Fro...
Lawmakers Redouble Push to Stop Trump From Going to War With Iran
The U.S. president’s maximum pressure campaign on Iran is creating strange bedfellows in Congress.
By Robbie Gramer
| August 5, 2019, 3:23 PM
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks about attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman that the United States blamed on Iran in Washington on June 13, 2019. Win McNamee/Getty Images
Twenty-eight lawmakers from both the Republican and Democratic parties are pushing legislation to ban the use of funds for military action against Iran without congressional authorization, according to an internal letter obtained by Foreign Policy. Similar legislation has failed before, but lawmakers are hoping they can fold this into a must-pass defense policy bill expected to be finalized in the fall.
“Bipartisan majorities in both chambers have spoken up to defend Congress’ constitutional authority over matters of war and peace,” the senators and members of congress wrote in the letter, addressed to the chairmen and ranking members of the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, which oversee the defense bill. “With regional tensions high, the risk of the U.S. entering into war with Iran without authorization remains acute.”
The letter represents the latest political battle to pare back the president’s ability to wage war without congressional authorization amid mounting fears that the Trump administration could stumble into a conflict with Iran. The new push sets up a potential showdown over Iran policy in Congress that will play out during negotiations over the final defense policy bill, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
In Washington’s hyperpartisan atmosphere, this campaign by some lawmakers to reassert Congress’s role in constitutional decisions over matters of war stands out as an anomaly.
It is championed by both prominent liberal Democratic critics of President Donald Trump, including New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall and California Rep. Ro Khanna, and staunch Republican Trump supporters, such as Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida. Opponents of such legislation, including Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, have argued it would restrict the president’s ability to quickly respond to threats from Iran.
“This is the most urgent national defense issue we are discussing in Congress, and its this rare issue where you have real bipartisan agreement and also very strange bedfellows from the farther right and farther left,” said one congressional aide.
Tensions between the United States and Iran flared up this summer, after two attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman in May and June. Washington blamed Iran for the attacks, while Tehran denies any involvement. Tehran then further ratcheted up tensions by seizing foreign tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic chokepoint through about one-fifth of the world’s oil flows.
In June, Trump ordered—then abruptly canceled at the last minute—a military strike against Iran, which many experts fear would turn into a regional firestorm. Despite that restraint, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have expressed concerns that the Trump administration is inching closer to a military confrontation with Iran, and they have been working for months through a raft of legislation and amendments to head off the possibility.
“We have no illusions about the potential threats that Iran may pose, or its destabilizing activities in the Middle East. These bipartisan amendments do not interfere with the United States Armed Forces’ ability to defend themselves,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter, sent to Senate and House Armed Services Committee leaders on Aug. 2. “But under our constitution, any war requires congressional authorization.”
It’s still unclear whether this amendment has more support than prior legislation, though attaching it to the NDAA would give it additional leverage, as the defense bill is considered must-pass legislation.
In June, the Senate rejected an Iran war powers amendment put forward by Udall and Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine—it got 50 votes and needed 60 to pass. A similar bill sponsored by Khanna and Gaetz passed the House by a vote of 251 to 170.
Robbie Gramer is a diplomacy and national security reporter at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @RobbieGramer
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A top Middle East diplomat’s confirmation has been blocked in the Senate as new Syria strikes loom.
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Head of Pentagon’s secret ‘UFO’ office sought to make evidence public
disclosure Head of Pentagon’s secret ‘UFO’ office sought to make evidence public
By Cosmo, December 17, 2017 in Aliens & UFOlogy
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/head-of-pentagons-secret-ufo-office-sought-to-make-evidence-public/2017/12/16/90bcb7cc-e2b2-11e7-8679-a9728984779c_story.html
Just before leaving his Defense Department job two months ago, intelligence officer Luis Elizondo quietly arranged to secure the release of three of the most unusual videos in the Pentagon’s secret vaults: raw footage from encounters between fighter jets and “anomalous aerial vehicles” — military jargon for UFOs.
The videos, all taken from cockpit cameras, show pilots struggling to lock their radars on oval-shaped vessels that, on screen, look vaguely like giant flying Tic Tacs. The strange aircraft — no claims are made about their possible origins or makeup — appear to hover briefly before sprinting away at speeds that elicit gasps and shouts from the pilots.
Elizondo, in an internal Pentagon memo requesting that the videos be cleared for public viewing, argued that the images could help educate pilots and improve aviation safety. But in interviews, he said his ultimate intention was to shed light on a little-known program Elizondo himself ran for seven years: a low-key Defense Department operation to collect and analyze reported UFO sightings.
What I think is most interesting about this is that pop culture has generally depicted two potential scenarios for extraterrestrial contact or the confirmed existence of unexplained phenomena:
1) They'll arrive in such a spectacular fashion that the world is immediately aware of them
2) The government is already aware and is covering up the evidence
The idea that someone with this knowledge could go public with it to shrugs all around doesn't fit in the conspiracy theory or blockbuster playbook, but it is pretty congruent with real life. It sounds like the research doesn't go much further than establishing reports as credible, at which point the question for some people becomes not "what are they?" but "why should we care or spend money on it?" As a country, we're not great at dealing with or preparing for things we can't see or quantify, or threats that aren't immediate.
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lol, the 3 vids released by the DoD is actually UAP, Unidentified Ariel Phenomenon, absolutely NOTHING nuts and bolts about it !
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I love this. I must have sent Trump a hundred tweets about alien disclosure. Are they really going to disclose, or is this a distraction from other events?
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Trump is a rebel that may use the secret as leverage against the cabal? Leo Zagami and Karen Hudes are both insiders that have come forward as a way to end the stranglehold the cabal has on the world. I kept quiet for fifty years for two reasons: No one would believe me and I did not want the grief from stupid people that surely would come out of the woodwork!
walt said:
Thanks to Q, we now know that all "conspiracy theories" are proven true. I will make a post about Q very soon. Feel free to share your thoughts with us because everything is believable now!
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【4K】Drone Footage| Visiting West Africa |Senegal Mauritania Mali
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【4K】Drone Footage | Visiting West Africa - SENEGAL 2019 ..:: Cinematic Aerial Film
The final 4K footage of my drone flights in Senegal (Ziguinchor); project finished & uploaded on 2019-05-03 by One Man Wolf Pack UltraHD Drone Footage.
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Media data: This drone video (3:14min playtime) is an extraction of my multipleGB Senegal 4K Drone Video Footage & Senegal Drone Pictures.
Senegal Drone Flight: Senegal is a country on Africas west coast with a rich French colonial heritage and many natural attractions. Dakar, the capital, features the ancient Médina district and esteemed Musée Théodore Monod, displaying African art. Dakar is also known for its nightlife, centered on native mbalax music. Saint-Louis, formerly the capital of French West Africa, has an old town with colonial architecture. Car-free Gorée Island is home to the House of Slaves museum and memorial. Lake Retba is known for its curious pink-hued water. Running down the coast to the Saloum Delta National Park biosphere reserve is the Petite Côte strip of beach resorts, and to the south, the seaside retreat of Cap Skirring. Senegals national parks include Niokolo-Koba, a savannah reserve sheltering hippos, elands and other wildlife, and Oiseaux du Djoudj, a wetlands sanctuary for flamingos, pelicans and migrating birds. [wikipedia // Google]
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Hello and good day OneManWolfPack. Thank you for posting this video and these pictures you have captured from West Africa. Great work and thank you for sharing these with us.
【4K】Drone Footage | Visiting West Africa - MAURITANIA 2019 ..:: Cinematic Aerial Film
The final 4K footage of my drone flights in Mauritania (Nouakchott); project finished & uploaded on 2019-05-03 by One Man Wolf Pack UltraHD Drone Footage.
Media data: This drone video (2:38min playtime) is an extraction of my multipleGB Mauritania 4K Drone Video Footage & Mauritania Drone Pictures. Footage and Photos on Sale.
Mauritania Drone Flight: Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in Northwest Africa. It is the eleventh largest sovereign state in Africa and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. The country derives its name from the ancient Berber kingdom of Mauretania, which existed from the 3rd century BCE into the 7th century CE in the far north of modern-day Morocco and Algeria. Approximately 90% of Mauritanias land is within the Sahara; consequently, the population is concentrated in the south, where precipitation is slightly higher. The capital and largest city is Nouakchott, located on the Atlantic coast, which is home to around one-third of the countrys 4.3 million people. The government was overthrown on 6 August 2008, in a military coup détat led by General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. On 16 April 2009, Aziz resigned from the military to run for president in the 19 July elections, which he won. [wikipedia // Google]
Among others, you will see following places by Drone (Keywords): Mauritania, Nouakchott, Capital, Africa, West Coast, West Africa, Africa Drone, West Africa Drone, Mauritania Drone, Ziguinchor Drone, Desert, Savannah, Palms, Trees, Nature
【4K】Drone Footage | Visiting West Africa - MALI 2019 ..:: Cinematic Aerial Film
The final 4K footage of my drone flights in Mali (Bamako); project finished & uploaded on 2019-05-03 by One Man Wolf Pack UltraHD Drone Footage.
Media data: This drone video (2:28min playtime) is an extraction of my multipleGB Mali 4K Drone Video Footage & Mali Drone Pictures. Footage and Photos on Sale.
Mali Drone Flight: Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa, a region geologically identified with the West African Craton. Mali is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of just over 1,240,000 square kilometres. The population of Mali is 18 million. 67% of its population was estimated to be under the age of 25 in 2017. Its capital is Bamako. The sovereign state of Mali consists of eight regions and its borders on the north reach deep into the middle of the Sahara Desert, while the countrys southern part, where the majority of inhabitants live, features the Niger and Senegal rivers. The countrys economy centers on agriculture and mining. Some of Malis prominent natural resources include gold, being the third largest producer of gold in the African continent, and salt. Present-day Mali was once part of three West African empires that controlled trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, and the Songhai Empire. During its golden age, there was a flourishing of mathematics, astronomy, literature, and art. [wikipedia // Google]
Among others, you will see following places by Drone (Keywords): Mali, Bamako, Capital, Africa, West Coast, West Africa, Africa Drone, West Africa Drone, Mali Drone, Bamako Drone, Desert, Savannah, Palms, Trees, Nature
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Differing views of a landscape: The Bears Ears battleground attracts a record crowd at a meeting in Bluff
Sonja Horoshko
A July 16 listening session in Bluff, Utah, with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell brought together two factions with diametrically opposed views on public lands management.
One group supports the Utah Public Lands Initiative Act, introduced by U.S. representatives Rob Bishop and Jason Chaffetz of Utah two days before Jewell arrived in San Juan County. Under that act, the area around Bears Ears would become a national conservation area with two separate parts.
The other group prefers a national monument proposal put forth by the Hopi, Navajo, Zuni, Ute Mountain Ute and Uintah Ute tribes as the Bear Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition.
The highly publicized meeting attracted an estimated 1,400 concerned citizens representing diverse interests.
The two sides met inside and outside the Bluff Community Center, turning it into a battleground for the secretary’s attention. Rows of brightly colored, handmade signs depicting clashing sentiments about the fate of Bears Ears were crammed onto fences and posts.
Dueling T-shirts were everywhere: brown ones representing monument opposition forces, blue ones indicating monument supporters. Zuni dancers, Navajo fry-bread stands, native cowboys on horseback, archaeologists, local tour guides and recreationalists sported the well-known Diné Bikeyah Bears Ears icon printed on a sky-blue shirt that said, “Protect Bears Ears. Hopi, Dine, Ute, Zuni.” The opposition shirts included the Navajo word “Dooda,” meaning “absolutely not.”
A long line snaked across an open field onto a dirt residential road and up toward a nearby rock face as people tried get one of the 500 seats inside the hall, or in the 400-seat overflow tent equipped with audio broadcast and coolers of bottled water.
Many entered the “lottery” for a chance to voice their opinions directly, while others filled out comment cards.
Early in the day it was clear that record numbers would attend. The session began at 1 p.m., but at 10:30 a.m., when the doors opened, all seats filled within minutes. The overflow tent filled just as quickly, while the last folks in line settled in side by side, elbow to elbow along the speckled patches of shade found under the sparse trees at the sides of adjoining roads to wait in 104-degree temperatures three hours more for Jewell to arrive.
The meeting took place mid-point in Jewell’s four-day tour of the rural southeastern Utah landscape, where she met with various communities and organizations and hiked with guides to rockart sites in Bears Ears to view damage caused by looters.
Later in July, she visited Grand Canyon National Park, leading to speculation that President Obama may also be considering creating the Greater Grand Canyon National Monument adjoining the park. Conservationists have called for a monument to protect the canyon’s views and watershed from uranium development and other threats.
But in much of Utah, the idea of any President’s being able to create a monument with a stroke of a pen, as Bill Clinton did in 1996 when he protected the Grand Staircase-Escalante area west of San Juan County, inflames residents.
Utah is the hub of a faction that seeks to gain control over federal public lands. Utah State Rep. Ken Ivory (R., District 47), a strong supporter of states’ rights, sponsored HB 148, the Utah Transfer of Public Lands Act, in 2012. It demands that the federal government turn federal lands back to the state of Utah.
The legislature passed the bill and Gov. Gary Herbert signed it, stating that it “is only the first step in a long process, but it is a step we must take.”
The St. George News quoted U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, a supporter of the bill: “Utahns can manage the lands in our state far better than any bureaucrat in Washington ever could.”
All three San Juan County commissioners are at the forefront of the anti-monument, anti-federal-lands movement. It has grown to include nearly all Utah elected officials – state, local and national – and a handful of Navajo supporters from Aneth Chapter in San Juan County. Aneth is the single chapter of seven Utah Navajo Nation chapters to rescind its support of the Inter-tribal Coalition’s national-monument proposal.
San Juan County Commissioner Rebecca Benally, elected in 2014, represents the 97 percent Navajo district located in the heart of the Aneth oil and gas field, where Resolute Oil, Navajo Nation Oil and Gas, and other energy companies create local job opportunities when the economy is thriving.
Benally even joined the opposition in loudly booing Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye during his public comments before Jewell in support of the Inter- tribal Coalition’s monument proposal.
By and large, however, tempers stayed under control, though the anti-monument forces did a lot of booing.
The only major outbreak by the pro-monument faction was a burst of sardonic laughter and boos when San Juan County Commissioner Bruce Adams spoke about his Mormon ancestors’ arrival in Utah as pioneers. “Nobody had really settled here before,” he said.
‘Misinformation’
Archaeology Southwest President and CEO Bill Doelle waited patiently in the hall prior to Jewell’s arrival, hoping his name would be drawn in the lottery. (It wasn’t.) He was prepared to represent the 1,300 members of his group, a Tucson- based nonprofit dedicated to protecting archaeological sites in the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest.
anti-monument signs in Bluff on July 16. Photo by Gail Binkly.
“The ongoing looting, grave robbing and vandalism in the Cedar Mesa and Bears Ears region has insulted Native American spirituality, marred the scientific record, and erased American history,” Doelle said later online. “In June 2016, more than 700 archaeologists signed a letter to President Barack Obama urging him to designate a Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, to use his authority to do so in order to protect historic landmarks, archaeological sites, and other objects of historic or scientific interest on lands owned or controlled by the federal government… to accomplish conservation goals in the public interest.”
At the Bluff session Doelle told the Free Press he valued the presence of diverse people with strong connections to the lands.
He also observed that it seemed impossible to tell if anyone on the dais agreed or disagreed with any speaker. (In addition to Jewell, officials were BLM Director Neil Kornze, National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis, Acting Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Larry Roberts, Undersecretary of Agriculture Robert Bonnie, and U.S. Forest Service Associate Chief Dan Jirón.) “The federal team up front at the dais listened carefully to everyone. Jewell was actually taking notes on every speaker. Every opinion was valued.
“The process was very well organized, but it distressed me to listen to so much misinformation about the restrictions people believe the monument will bring, especially to native people.”
It is a matter, he said, of reading the coalition’s proposal, which offers protection of traditional native uses such as collecting firewood.
President Obama has created six national monuments with ties to tribes and native practices. As in the Rio Grande Del Norte monument, designated in 2013 in New Mexico, each contains a management guarantee that assures tribal access consistent with the 1996 American Indian Religious Freedom Act, which states that nothing will enlarge or diminish the rights of any Indian tribe or pueblo.
At Rio Grande an additional clause in the monument proclamation pledged, “Nothing in this proclamation shall be construed to preclude the traditional collection of firewood and piñon nuts in the monument for personal non-commercial use consistent with the purposes of this proclamation.”
“The Bears Ears Inter-tribal Coalition is unique,” Doelle said. “It has never happened before that tribal leaders collaborate and request co-management of any federal land off-reservation.”
The monument proposal is posted on the coalition’s website. “The NCA [designation] supported by the congressional delegation [in the PLI] has been a much more closed process,” Doelle said.
‘The first to stop them’
Ron Eberling, who lived in Southwest Colorado for 30 years before moving to Blanding, stood in the community hall with the people wearing brown “Dooda Monument” shirts.
“I got involved with the Safari Club, four-wheeling and guiding people in the area in order to show them the beauty of the land,” he said. “I show them how to appreciate the land without destructive behavior. I know people come here mostly from Colorado and they are often the ones looking to get inside the ruins.
“Why do they want us out of there? It upsets me that they want us out of there,” Eberling said. “They accuse us of destroying the Native American ruins when, in fact, if we see someone doing that we’d be the first to stop them. I practice being a good host, a good neighbor and also work on search and rescue, and I sure would never harm my own back yard.”
From August 2016. Read similar stories about Bears Ears National Monument, Sally Jewell.
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Democracy flattened during the Mayfair demolition derby
One last kick at the Mayfair issue — a gentle one because I’m told the shabby old building might collapse on my foot.
This dismayed downtown councillor is absolutely gobsmacked that, a few hours before a majority of councillors eliminated all efforts to reconsider the subject, the city’s director of building expanded his demolition recommendation to include the neighbouring heritage structure at 156-158 King.
The oh-so-convenient move to ram the expanded and extremely questionable issue through council denied members of the public who care about inner-city heritage buildings any chance of commenting on the expanding demolition proposal.
So much for local democracy. And so much for the improved communication and transparency promised by the mayor and councillors as they begged for your votes at election time.
A few hours before Monday’s lengthy council session, the same matter was rushed through a special (token) meeting of the city’s Heritage Committee that members of the public also knew little about.
Heritage committee members recommended council take no action to remove the intent to designate 156-158 King and urged that a heritage-restoration expert be hired to suggest ways to save, not flatten, the threatened buildings.
Without requesting comments from Kitchener’s co-ordinator of heritage planning (no time for such awkward, unnecessary details), those recommendations were rapidly dismissed by a majority of councillors including Mayor Berry Vrbanovic.
So much for a new-era of mayoralty leadership. So much for any degree of respect offered heritage staff and a volunteer committee formed to advise council on heritage matters.
The mayor and six councillors also defeated an attempt I made to secure the site and defer the issue for two weeks so that a heritage expert could examine engineering reports and suggest ways to save the buildings.
Councillors and taxpayer delegates with engineering and architectural expertise who argued passionately to save the heritage buildings were subjected to repetitive lectures from their non-elected building director who insisted the sky was falling and the buildings could collapse at any moment.
No doubt those safety concerns didn’t apply to the cars parked at the rear of the Mayfair as he spoke to the heritage committee. No doubt that’s why I was able to walk among those cars and along King in front of the Mayfair (now finally fenced) as he sounded the safety alarms.
And no doubt that’s why heavy cement trucks have been rumbling in and out of the high-rise development being constructed immediately behind the Mayfair despite his warnings that the slightest vibration could bring down the former hotel.
Because safety was involved, he told council that if his demolition recommendations were rejected, he would have to take court action against his employer, the city.
Read it and weep.
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Bachelorette recap
Bachelorette Finale Recap: Who doesn’t cry their way through vacation?
Previously on the Bachelorette: Nearly an entire day of programming. Dez (...the girl), Drew (gel), Chris (tall), and Brooks (gel and tall) went to Antigua. Dez wanted Drew's body. She looked very skeptical about moving to Seattle with Chris. And then for 45 minutes, the Bachelorette producers cut the 7th Heaven soundtrack, and a nation watched as Brooks kicked Dez to the curb. Chris Harrison welcomes us to the LIVE "dramatic" conclusion of the Bachelorette. How Chris Harrison could know a live event will be dramatic is unclear. Anyway, things are pretty bleak at the outset. Chris Harrison informs us that when we last saw Dez, she was heartbroken, alone, crying at the end of a dock, and "virtually hopeless."
Bachelorette Recap: The shores of Antigua weep tonight
Previously on the Bachelorette: The Men Told All by lying on the floor in a formation that spelled out "I-N-A-N-E." Chris Harrison promised AN EMOTIONAL CONCLUSION. "I'm so excited to be staying here at the Verandah Resort in Antigua," Desiree announces, and I begin to weep gently, because I thought this week's episode was the final one. Well, it isn't.
Bachelorette Finale Pre-Game
Tonight, we will wake from living the dream real hard: It's the last Bachelorette night in America until 2014! Chris Harrison promised an EMOTIONAL CONCLUSION to these otherwise mildly to moderately dry proceedings. At some point, Dez will weep, "I just want to go home...to be honest." Let's run the table here. She has three options:
Bachelorette Recap: The Broken Recap
Previously on the Bachelorette: A chiropractor adjusted Desiree; Desiree operated a sno cone truck; Brooks stood up in a canoe; Drew and his father wore subtly matching purple shirts; Desiree sent Zak back to the oil rig. It's the Men Tell All week, and let me tell y'all this: There is not much telling. This is about five minutes of television stretched into two hours.
Bachelorette Recap: Show Me That Smile/Your Neck Again
Previously on the Bachelorette: Trapped on an island with five Bachelorette contestants and Desiree Harstock, the residents of Madeira hid indoors; the English language perished; Dez and Brooks sat in the clouds like they were in the dream sequences from Brazil; a federal prosecutor met his fate. Pour yourself a drink—there's a lot to cover this week and, what the hell, you've earned it. The Bachelorette returns stateside for the four family visits and the editing is lean. The setup here is we get a little, tease pre-game date to, I guess, loosen Dez up for the family dinners and parental interrogation.
Bachelorette Recap: I Wish There Were More Adjectives
Previously on the Bachelorette: There was a man named James and he may have dreamed of a party on a boat. Adults argued about this in Barcelona. With the amazing stakes magically higher than the incredible ever, the crew heads from Barcelona to Madeira. Despite the show sort of framing it like they just hopped on a yacht and popped over there—because, you know, Europe, it's all close together—Madeira is about 500 miles off the coast of Lisbon, and Lisbon is about 750 miles from Barcelona. One can only hope they took a boat.
Bachelorette Recap: Boat Party
Previously on the Bachelorette: I was in Florida. But, by process of elimination, I have determined that Ben and Mikey were cut. At some point James and Mikey spoke offscreen about what they would do if they were able to escape, and James supposedly said he could become the next Bachelor, or go on a boat party in Chicago. The Bachelorette has swept into Barcelona, which is denoted by the soundtrack's extra emphasis on Spanish guitar. (The Bachelorette always features dental office Spanish guitar. This is the music of amazing, magical love.)
The Wrong Reasons
So, bad news. There won't be any Bachelorette recap this week. I am in Florida (seen in the photo above) on vacation. I had originally planned, like usual, to chronicle the timeless yarn of a good woman and the one thing that will always fulfill her: pinning roses on men's chests like the autocratic villain in a dystopian novel. Unfortunately, dinner and some technological constraints intervened.
Bachelorette Recap: Embarrassment Part IV
Previously on the Bachelorette: Brooks broke his finger, a woman yelled, the looming specter of Disney's The Lone Ranger loomed, and Dez told an emotional guy that he didn't have to go home, but he also couldn't stay near her. Chris Harrison informs us we're leaving Southern California for New Jersey in the (what looks like) winter!
Bachelorette Recap: The Broken Finger
Previously on the Bachelorette: Desiree "Dez Bryant" Harstock actually took someone to a bridal boutique for a first date and humiliated her suitors, America, and, if you can believe it, Soulja Boy, by forcing everyone involved to participate in a rap video called "Right Reasons." It's week two or three (or 18, who knows), and Chris Harrison informs us there will be two group dates and one solo date.
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CAUGHT ON TAPE: World Leaders Marvel at Trump’s Stamina
Middling heads of state admire the length of POTUS's press conference in candid video
A group of world leaders representing the meager dregs of the old European empires were caught on video Tuesday evening discussing their admiration for President Donald J. Trump's legendary stamina.
Blackface Aficionado Justin Trudeau DESTROYED By Adorable Schoolgirl
'But did you paint your nose and your hands brown?'
Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is still struggling to contain the scandal that erupted after he admitted to wearing blackface and brownface costumes on multiple occasions in the past.
RACIST, EH? 19 Times Justin Trudeau Wore a Costume WITHOUT Blackface
The Canadian prime minister's racism scandal, explained
Canada prime minister Justin Trudeau is apologizing "profoundly" in response to revelations that he wore "blackface" or "brownface" or "face-darkening makeup," if you prefer, on at least three occasions in the past.
THANKS, OBAMA: America Humiliated as Injury-Ravaged Warriors Dethroned by CANADA
Defending champs fail to overcome 'Obama Curse'
America just lost to Canada. Take a moment to let that sink in. That really happened. The Toronto Raptors knocked off the defending champion Golden State Warriors in Game 6 of the NBA finals on Thursday. The national humiliation was compounded by the fact that the Raptors celebrated their victory on American soil at Oracle Arena in Oakland.
NATIONAL SHAME: Canadian Team Poised to Win NBA Finals After Obama Meddling
The Toronto Raptors, a Canadian basketball team, are just one win away from an NBA title after pulling off a second road upset of the defending champion Golden State Warriors. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pretty pleased with himself.
THE REAL COLLUSION: Obama Met Canadian Prime Minister Before American Team Suffered Injuries on His Watch
Curse? Or international conspiracy?
Former President Barack Obama shared a pint with Canadian Prime Minister Justine Trudeau just days before attending Game 2 of the NBA finals between the Golden State Warriors and the Toronto Raptors. The meeting raises a number of troubling questions about Obama's involvement in what has all the appearances of an international conspiracy to bolster Canadian interests at America's expense.
Trudeau Under Fire from Canada’s Indigenous Community
Canadian PM criticized for paying 'lip service' to sovereign rights of Native tribes
Prominent members of Canada's First Nations indigenous population took aim at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for paying "lip service" to their people's concerns about maintaining sovereign rights.
Trump Says Canadian PM Trudeau Is Seeking Trade Deal: ‘He Called Me, I Didn’t Call Him’
Is Justin Trudeau the Left’s Donald Trump?
Canada's groper-in-chief has a woman problem
Elizabeth Harrington
What if I told you there is a world leader with approval ratings in the low 40s, being dogged by allegations of an unwanted sexual advance, and his name is not Donald Trump?
Trudeau Addresses Allegation He Groped Female Reporter
Canadian PM: I 'respect the fact that someone else might have experienced' the events 'differently'
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addressed on Thursday a recently resurfaced report that he groped a reporter at an event 20 years ago.
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