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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 49
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 49
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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Asian American Press
Building Community Within Diversity
Overseas Voters Key to Taiwanese Presidential Election
by aanews
in International · Taiwanese
By Summer Chiang
SAN FRANCISCO (Jan. 13, 2012) — With just a day to go before Taiwanese vote for their country’s next leader on Jan. 14, polls show the two leading candidates running neck-and-neck. Which is why their parties are making a last bid attempt to lure overseas voters, including those in the Bay Area.
According to the English-language Taiwan News, incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou of the Beijing-friendly Kuomintang (KMT) leads his anti-unification Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) rival Tsai Ing-wen, with 38.8 percent of voters backing Ma and 37.8 percent in support of Tsai. A third candidate, James Soong of the People’s First Party (PFP), trails far behind.
“The KMT has arranged for buses to pick up overseas voters returning to southern and northern parts of Taiwan,” Zhong Weijun told the Bay Area-based Chinese-language news channel KTSF. “The buses will take them to join party rallies happening across Taiwan,” added Zhong, who directs the San Francisco offices of Kuo Ming Tang USA.
Not to be outdone, DPP organizers have also been working to tap into voter enthusiasm. Wang Longwei, Chairman of the Silicon Valley chapter of the DPP, says his staff have “been organizing overseas voters to return home for this upcoming election for seven years,” when the DDP last held power.
According to news reports, however, despite their best efforts the number of returnees from the Bay Area has declined by nearly half since the last election in 2008, when Ma swept into power with 56 percent of the vote. KTSF noted that this year just 4,672 Taiwanese have returned home to cast their ballots, compared to 9,132 four years ago. Analysts say there could still be a last minute surge, especially in such a tight race.
Ma’s popularity derived in large measure from an electorate eager to mend ties with Beijing after two presidencies – Lee Teng-hui and Chen Shui-bian – were defined by strong anti-China policies. Recognizing the two countries’ growing economic integration, and in particular China’s rising clout on the global stage, Taiwan’s 23 million voters saw reconciliation as key to their country’s economic vitality.
Ma’s pro-business, pro-China stance also makes him the favorite of leaders in Beijing, some of whom have warned that business relations will suffer if the next president fails to acknowledge Taiwan as a part of China, which is Taiwan’s largest trade partner. Two-way trade last year rose to $12.4 billion, while visitors from the mainland climbed 6 percent to 1.6 million.
Still, after four years, voters may be looking for a change. If elected, Tsai — who is chairwoman of the DPP — would be the country’s first female leader, a fact that is drawing female voters away from Ma in droves. She has also softened her party’s stance on China, promising to maintain friendly cross-strait relations.
Sacramento resident Liu Wenpen, the father of California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu, is one of the main DPP organizers in the state and an ardent backer of Tsai. He says he is dissatisfied with the KMT, which ruled the country from its founding in 1949 under state founder Sun Yat-sen.
“Tsai is Hakka,” Liu told KTSF, referring to the ethnic minority that immigrated to the island from the mainland and today comprise some 15 percent of the population. “She is also the first female presidential candidate,” he added. “If she wins the campaign, she will be able to give a strong voice to both of these two groups.”
In this tight race, such support may make a crucial difference in determining the winner.
A survey carried out by the Sing Tao Daily, one of the largest Chinese-language dailies in the United States, found that among the 900 respondents in Los Angeles’ Chinese community, some 72 percent said they supported Ma, while 23 percent backed Tsai. Interviewees, however, hailed from regions as far flung as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and countries in Southeast Asia. Among Taiwanese respondents only, more than 20 percent said they remained undecided.
One of the largest concentrations of overseas Taiwanese residents is in China itself. Taiwan’s China Times reported that the number of registered voters there has hit a record high as anxiety grows over the election’s outcome. Lin Qingfa, president of the Beijing Association of Taiwan-funded Enterprises (BATE), predicted that upwards of 200,000 Taiwanese may make the journey home to cast their votes.
“Returnees will be the key to the whole campaign,” said Lin.
But with so many streaming back, getting a flight home might be a problem.
According to KTSF, a return trip to Taiwan will cost travelers around $3000 to $4000, including airfare, hotel fees and daily expenses. All that assumes one can even secure a ticket, however, as this year’s election falls right around the Chinese Lunar New Year Holiday, when thousands return home to visit relatives and friends.
Taiwan-based China Airlines has been offering special “election discount” tickets, but says there just aren’t a sufficient number of seats available, reports KTSF.
For Concord resident Chen Zenming and his wife, such obstacles won’t be enough to keep them from returning home to help carry their candidate to victory. “China Air and Eva Air are the only two carriers that offer direct flights to Taiwan, but tickets have been sold out for weeks,” they told KTSF. “Our only choice is to fly to China and transfer from there, doubling our travel time.”
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FeaturesFunk/Soul/R&BHip Hop/Rap
Michael Franti and Spearhead Deliver Positive Vibes to the Wellmont Theater
By Jamie Huenefeld On Nov 12, 2019
The audience was told to hug a neighbor at least five times. Lyrics such as “They say that miracles are never ceasing / And every single soul needs a little release” were heard. This positive vibe radiated from Michael Franti and Spearhead, a hip hop-reggae-funk fusion band from California, as they performed at the Wellmont Theatre in Montclair, NJ last week. The band also brought awareness to social issues and sparked authentic human interactions in the Garden State.
Carl Young and Michael Franti
The band members include Michael Franti (guitar, vocals), Carl Young (bass), Manas Itiene (Drums), J. Bowman (guitar), Mike Blankenship (keyboards), and an unidentified female vocalist.
Gun violence statistics of every mass shooting in the USA scroll behind Michael Franti and Spearhead.
The positive message and awareness to social issues stood out in a meaningful way. Franti’s recent song “The Flower,” a tribute to victims of gun violence, featured a video with survivors and scrolling gun violence statistics. Songs like “Just Work Hard And Be Nice To People” and “Good To Be Alive Today” brought a positive message mixed with short jams.
Franti and an unidentified vocalist sing “Life Is Better With You”
Strong musical skills were displayed during a flawless switch from Lionel Ritchie’s “All Night Long” to “Life Is Better With You.” The band was joined by an unidentified guest vocalist for this sequence, which included the original video of “All Night Long” by Lionel Richie on an LED screen behind the band.
Franti was engaged with the entire audience, not just those in the front row. He sang two songs while on the floor, in the middle of the crowd. He also took a quick adventure to the balcony for a few verses. A myriad number of fans were brought on stage, including a couple who got engaged, and all the children on the floor during “Say Hey (I Love You).”
The band has a couple of tour dates left in 2019 and will be on tour with Kenny Chesney in 2020. Head over to their tour page for more details.
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Beth Schiffer Photo Auctions
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Giles Clarke
Giles Clarke was born in London in 1965 and began taking pictures seriously in Berlin in 1985 where he lived for three years. He worked as a camera assistant for Cintec Gmbh, a new production company that covered events for the BBC, SFB, ZDF amongst others. On his return to London in 1988, he worked as professional black and white photographic printer for many top London based fashion and advertising photographers and had continual work published in many of the leading magazines. In 1995, he moved to New York City where he began an intense year in the Richard Avedon studio working on such campaigns such as Versace, Hugo Boss and Calvin Klein. In 1997, he moved with his new wife to Los Angeles and began a new career for Channel 4 UK creating content and producing many television spots for the company. Interviews with artists such as Al Pacino, Salman Rushdie, Henry Fonda quickly cemented him in Hollywood where he remained till 2007. It was during this time, he collaborated with old friend Paul Oakenfold on his tour visuals and co produced with Paul the track ‘Nixon’s Spirit’ with the legendary Hunter S Thompson which appeared on the ‘Bunka’ album in 2001.
In 2007, he and his young family, moved back to NYC, where Giles continued a bi-coastal career directing viral advertising campaigns for clients such as Coldplay, Land Rover, Cadillac to name a few. He also began his serious work and dedication to activism starting with a 6 week stint in Bhopal, India where he filmed and photographed the victims of the Union Carbide gas tragedy that still continues to haunt the inhabitants of that city. He worked here in conjunction with the Bhopal Medical Appeal and continues to work very closely with this organization. Since September 2011, Giles has been heavily involved with documenting the ‘Occupy’ movement all over the world and recently won awards for his coverage of ‘Occupy Sandy’. His latest ‘After Sandy’ exhibit is the monthly featured on www.Socialdocumentary.net. Giles also recently arrived
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Britain to formally launch European Union exit on March 29
March 20, 2017 Written by Admin
Britain will formally begin Brexit by triggering Article 50 of the European Union’s (EU) Lisbon Treaty on March 29, officials said on Monday, nine months after Britain voted to leave the EU.
“We want the negotiations to start promptly,” Prime Minister Theresa May’s spokesperson said.
Britain’s envoy to Brussels, Tim Barrow, “has this morning informed the office of European Council President Donald Tusk of the United Kingdom’s intention to invoke Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty on March 29,” the Brexit ministry said in a statement.
Brexit minister David Davis was quoted as saying in the statement that Britons had approved a “historic decision” to leave the EU in the June 23 referendum.
“Next Wednesday, the government will deliver on that decision and formally start the process by triggering Article 50,” he said.
“We are on the threshold of the most important negotiation for this country for a generation.”
Read more: Brexit and the cattle problem
Britain voted by a 52% majority to leave the European Union, the first member state ever to do so.
The divorce process under Article 50 gives a two-year framework for negotiations.
May has said she wants to leave the European single market in order to be able to control immigration.
Read more: Markets ignore Tshwane violence over Brexit – for now
The European Commission is expected to provide an initial answer to Britain’s Article 50 notification within 48 hours but negotiations are not expected to start for several weeks or even months. – AFP
South Africa’s constitution is under attack
Banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller dies at 101
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Home Fleet Hamm About Chesil Geology Storms Pictures A to Z
Chesil Beach, the Fleet Lagoon and Hamm Beach are owned by multiple owners, each with their own access arrangements.
The southern end of Chesil Beach from Portland to the boundary stone at Wyke Regis is owned by the Crown Estate and is Crown Common land. It is generally open for all permitted activities at all times of the year. However, some areas may be closed during sensitive periods to protect wildlife e.g. the little tern colony at Ferrybridge.
The central section from the Wyke boundary stone to the Abbotsbury car park is owned by the Ilchester Estates and environmentally it is the most sensitive part of the beach. Because of this the slope of the beach facing into the Fleet is closed throughout the year to all access. The seaward slope is also closed every year from the 1st April to the 31st August to protect nesting birds.
The beach beyond Abbotsbury towards West Bay is owned by the National Trust and Crown Estate. Access is allowed all through the year. However, please observe advisory signs at the major access points.
Fleet Lagoon
The Fleet lagoon is owned by the Ilchester Estates and access to the water is limited to protect the special nature of the area. Visit the Reserve website for current access information.
Accessing Chesil Beach
Chesil beach is separated from the mainland for much of its length either by the Fleet Lagoon or by privately-owned land. The points at which it can be accessed are:
There is a small car park at Chiswell for access to the southern end of the beach. There is another small car park off Victoria Square which provides access to the beach at the northern end of Chiswell. There is a further very small car park opposite the entrance to the RYA Sailing Centre near the end of the flood-relief channel which provides access to Hamm Beach and Chesil Beach. Please do not park in the access road to the sailing centre.
There is a large car park adjacent to the Chesil Beach Visitors Centre at Ferrybridge. This is a pay-and-display car park. There is a walkway across to Chesil Beach and several walkways on the other side of the main road to access Hamm Beach.
Camp Road, Weymouth
There is on-road parking at the end of Camp Road opposite the Royal Engineers Bridging Camp which gives good views of Chesil Beach and access to the South-West Coast Path that runs along the Fleet foreshore.
There is a large car park adjacent to Chesil Beach at the end of the road to the tropical gardens. This is a paid car park during the summer. There is a wooden walkway to the top of the beach but this can get very slippery in the winter. Please do not park in the road beyond the mini-roundabout by the car park.
There is a car park right on the beach with footpaths running both ways along the beach. The car park is at the end of the road leaving the B3157 at Swyre opposite the pub.
Cogden Beach
There is a National Trust car park alongside the B3157 coast road with excellent views along the beach. There is then a 0.5km walk from there down to Chesil Beach.
Burton Hive Beach
There is a National Trust car park alongside the beach with cafe and toilets. Access is by a well-signed turning as you enter Burton Bradstock from the Weymouth direction.
There are a number of car parks in West Bay giving access to the northern end of Chesil Beach.
The only vehicular access to the Fleet Lagoon is at Ferrybridge at the point where it joins Portland Harbour. The South-West Coast Path runs along its shoreline from Ferrybridge to Langton Herring where it then turns inland to run along the ridge with good views across the lagoon and Chesil Beach. The path is diverted here to protect the sensitive environment of the upper Fleet and Abbotsbury Swannery. The coast path can also be accessed on foot from Charlestown, Fleet village and Langton Herring.
Hamm Beach
Hamm Beach is Crown Estate land and accessible right through the year. However, observe the signs on the beach which set out any restrictions that may apply.
Walking on Chesil Beach
If you want to walk Chesil between Abbotsbury and Ferrybridge please consult the guidance on the Chesil and Fleet reserve website. Also, bear in mind the following:
The walk is very challenging and entirely over loose pebbles. There is no escape route if you have to give up.
The Fleet side of the beach is closed to walkers right through the year. This is a very delicate environment and should not be disturbed
The seaward side of the beach from Wyke to Abbotsbury is also closed from 1st May to 31st August every year to protect ground-nesting birds. Therefore do no attempt this walk during this period.
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C. P. Lesley, Novelist
History, Fiction, and Publishing in the Internet Age
Bookshelf, Fall 2019
Yes, indeed, fall is here, and a new crop of books has arrived to keep my shelves nice and full. In addition to Sofia Grant’s Lies in White Dresses (on which more next week, when that interview posts), Talia Carner’s The Third Daughter (interview completed this week, not sure yet when it will go live on the New Books Network), and Georgie Blalock’s The Other Windsor Girl, scheduled for a written Q&A here in early November, I have the following titles lined up—all eventually destined for interviews, or so I hope.
Order is alphabetical, as we’re still working out details of the schedule. So far, I’ve had time to read only one. To find out which one, read on.
Like half the rest of the world, I discovered Tracy Chevalier through The Girl with the Pearl Earring. Loved the book, even more than the movie, and squealed with glee when her publicist wrote to me about her latest novel, A Single Thread, set in Britain in 1932. Here Violet Speedwell, one of the many women left alone by the Great War, chooses to move to Winchester rather than spend any more of her life caring for her embittered mother. There Violet becomes involved with a society of embroiderers associated with the cathedral. But as she settles in, the specter of a new war threatens, placing everything she has worked for at risk.
Yes, another Uhtred novel—no. 12, I believe. But really, can one ever have too much Uhtred? In Sword of Kings, King Edward (successor to Alfred the Great) is dying. Uhtred wants nothing more than to stay and guard Northumbria, his home and now the last outpost standing against the Saxon kings’ complete control of England. Apart from anything else, he’s getting on in years, and war doesn’t have the appeal to him that it did in his teens and twenties.
But once again, the oath he has sworn to Aethelstan calls Uhtred south and into the battle among the rival candidates for Edward’s throne.
Although its title, Bound in Flame, sounds like a bodice ripper, the cover images of Kathryne Kayne’s new novel redirect us to Hawai’i in 1906-9. There a young woman, Letty Lang, struggles to reconcile her love of animals, her campaign for female suffrage, a romantic relationship that she may have to protect from her own otherworldly powers, and a special tie to her native land, recently and forcibly annexed by the United States. The flames represent, more than anything else, the island’s many volcanoes—but perhaps also the fire of Lily’s own nature. This first volume in a new series about the ranching women of early twentieth-century Hawai’i, stands out for me because so few writers have chosen to tackle this subject in fiction.
I heard about Lara Prescott’s debut novel, The Secrets We Kept, on NPR Weekend Edition, during the author’s interview with Scott Simon, one of my heroes. When I saw it listed again on a list of most awaited fiction for the fall of 2019, I knew I had to follow up. Doctor Zhivago, the CIA in the United States and Russia, female typists working for the CIA? How could a historian of Russia resist? I’ll be talking to the author, I hope, sometime in December and January, after her hectic book tour calms down.
In January of this year, I featured The Black Ascot, by the ultra-productive mother-son team that publishes as Charles Todd, on this blog. I loved that book and was amazed to realize that it was no. 21 in a series I’d never heard of, never mind that the author(s) also had a second series centered on a World War I nurse named Bess Crawford, with ten books, and a couple of stand-alone novels as well. So when their publicist pitched me on Bess no. 11, A Cruel Deception, I knew I had to follow up. This is the one book I just finished, in advance of an interview in mid-October, and I really enjoyed it.
Here the war has ended, and Bess’s matron sends her to France to find out what has happened to the matron’s son. Bess assumes the worst, and she’s not far off track there, but the solution to the puzzle takes her in directions that are at once not anticipated at the beginning and completely in line with what we now know about the experience of soldiers stuck in the trenches for far too long.
Bess is smart and independent, empathic and caring, blunt when it counts and tactful when she needs to be—a heroine I want to learn more about, as soon as I shrink those book piles down to a reasonable size....
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The Black Power movement was prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s, emphasizing racial pride and the creation of black political and cultural institutions to nurture, promote and advance what was seen by proponents o… Stokely Carmichael stated that "the goal of black self-determination and black self-identity—Black Power—is recognition of the virtues in themselves as black people. While crushing its millions, it is also crushing itself. Black Power is often seen as a cultural revolution as much as a political revolution, with the goal of celebrating and emphasizing the distinctive group culture of African Americans to an American society that had previously been dominated by white artistic and cultural expressions. [66] Though many elements of the Black Arts movement are separate from the Black Power movement, many goals, themes, and activists overlapped. Though Black Power at the most basic level refers to a political movement, the psychological and cultural messages of the Black Power movement, though less tangible, have had perhaps a longer-lasting impact on American society than concrete political changes. Later that year, one of the most visible Black Power demonstrations took place at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City, where black athletes John Carlos and Tommie Smith raised black-gloved fists in the air on the medal podium. Notable activists in the Black Power Movement included Elaine Brown (the first Chairwoman of the Black Panther Party), Angela Davis (leader of the Communist Party USA), and Assata Shakur (a member of the Black Liberation Army). Many activists in the Black Power movement became active in related movements. They want rain without thunder and lightning. For instance, prominent nonviolent activist Fred Shuttlesworth of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (and a leader of the 1963 Birmingham campaign), had worked closely with an armed defense group that was led by Colonel Stone Johnson. See, for example, the sections on Jamaica and South Africa later in this article. Held in Gary, Indiana, a majorly black city, the convention included a diverse group of black activists, although it completely excluded whites. Writing in 1966, shortly after the March Against Fear, Rustin said that Black Power "not only lacks any real value for the civil rights movement, but [...] its propagation is positively harmful. This is our challenge at Gary and beyond, for a new Black politics demands new vision, new hope and new definitions of the possible. [43] Because the Black Power movement emphasized and explored a black identity, movement activists were forced to confront issues of gender and class as well. All Rights Reserved. Letter to an abolitionist associate (1857). Many women writers, such as Nikki Giovanni and Audre Lorde, contributed to the Black Arts Movement by exploring themes of black womanhood, love, urban struggle, and sexuality in their work. The Black Panthers in London, 1967–1972: A Diasporic Struggle Navigates the Black Atlantic. But for an increasing number of African Americans, particularly young black men and women, that strategy did not go far enough. Malcolm X also adopted Islam at this stage, whereas Black Power was not organized around any religious institution. Though the same social messages may no longer consciously influence individual hair or clothing styles in today's society, the Black Power movement was influential in diversifying standards of beauty and aesthetic choices. "[67] In addition to acting as highly visible and unifying representations of "blackness," the artistic products of the Black Power movement also utilized themes of black empowerment and liberation. Civil Rights leaders often proposed passive, non-violent tactics while the Black Power movement felt that, in the words of Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton, "a 'non-violent' approach to civil rights is an approach black people cannot afford and a luxury white people do not deserve." Working-class people of all colors must unite against the exploitative, oppressive ruling class. From left to right, Civil rights leaders Floyd B. McKissick, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Stokely Carmichael marching to encourage voter registration, 1966. In it, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) declared: This was the first time Black Power had been used as a political slogan. Malcolm was now open to voluntary racial integration as a long-term goal, but he still supported armed self-defense, self-reliance, and black nationalism; he became a simultaneous spokesman for the militant wing of the Civil Rights Movement and the non-separatist wing of the Black Power movement. But with the swiftness of an arrow, it rushes to the tomb. "Today's writers and performers," writes William L. Van Deburg, "recognize that they owe a great deal to Black Power's explosion of cultural orthodoxy.
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President Obama’s Call with the Prime Minister of India
by Matt Compton | Aug 9, 2012 | Monitor |
President Barack Obama talks on the phone with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India aboard Air Force One during a flight to Colorado, Aug. 8, 2012. The President called Prime Minister Singh to express condolences for victims of the attack at the gurdwara in Wisconsin, which took the lives of Indian nationals as well as Americans, and to convey the solidarity of the American people. Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, is seated at right. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
Yesterday morning, President Obama placed a call to Dr. Manmohan Singh, the prime minister of India.
The two leaders discussed the shooting at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and the President expressed his condolences for the senseless attack.
According to a readout of that conversation, "Prime Minister Singh expressed his gratitude for the many messages and gestures of support from the United States, and for the prompt reaction and heroism of the local police department."
To learn more about the call, check out the full readout here.
In the United States, the American flag remain at half-staff until sunset tomorrow to honor the victims of the shooting.
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Movie Review: X-Men First Class
August 3, 2011 / BlueInkAlchemist / 1 Comment
Uncanny X-Men was one of the first comic books I read when I was growing up. It introduced me to the colorful world of super-heroic abnormal people fighting to protect a world that hates and fears them. Being a scrawny geeky kid, the appeal was obvious. The first two movie adaptations did an admirable service to the long-running title and its characters, even if it seemed to be somewhat ashamed of the ways in which the characters dressed themselves. Last Stand and X-Men Origins Wolverine are best left unmentioned, especially since one of the feats X-Men First Class pulls off is rendering both of those movies superfluous, if not wiping them out of existence entirely.
First Class takes us back to the very groovy 1960s where a young Charles Xavier has just received his doctorate from Oxford and Erik Lensherr has begun a private search for the man who destroyed his family. While Charles is a child of privilege, Erik is a Holocaust survivor, but the two men are bound by their nature as mutants. Both of them want mutants to be free from persecution by normal humans, but Charles wishes to do this peacefully while Erik is convinced that human nature, being what it is, will leave mutants no alternative but to fight. They agree, however, that the dangerous mutants in control of the clandestine Hellfire Club must be stopped, and to do this they ally with the United States government to train some of the young mutants who struggle to control their powers. They are the first X-Men.
The first thing that may strike you about First Class is a pair of tonal shifts that really work in the narrative’s favor. Moving away from the dark visuals of the first two movies towards a more bright, diverse pallate helps capture the atmosphere of an earlier time, and harkens more honestly to the comic book roots of the material, as well as evoking memories of the Connery-era James Bond. At the same time, the story has grown more dark and mature. I won’t go into details because I don’t want to spoil any major turning points, but believe me when I say that the composition of this story has less to do with Saturday morning cartoons and more with classic tragedies crafted by the Greeks and Shakespeare.
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This isn’t to say that the writing in First Class even approaches that calibre. This is still a comic book movie and it’s not going to win any Oscars based on that premise alone. However, what the film gets right is something the unmentionable sequels got wrong. X-Men and X2 were similar to First Class in that their focus was more on characters than on spectacle. Granted, they spent a lot of their time on Wolverine, but that’s to be expected when you get a man like Hugh Jackman who completely inhabits a beloved character. It almost went unnoticed that Patrick Stewart did a very similar service to Professor X and Ian McKellan to Magneto. Watching the first two films now, you can see that these two veterans were hinting at a deep, rough and complicated friendship that stretched back for years, and now James McEvoy and Michael Fassbender bring the details of that friendship’s origin to life.
Prequels are often met with trepidation and suspicion, and rightly so. George Lucas proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that it’s very easy to screw up an established universe by trying to expand on what has come before. Bryan Singer and Matthew Vaughn, however, wisely keep to the essence of the characters and the bits of information scattered throughout the movie and comic storylines to tell the story of Charles and Erik in a way that’s less bombastic special effects reel and more subtle romance. More than anything, it captures the deep respect and admiration they have for one another and underscores the tragedy of the events that drive the emotional and philosophical chasm between them.
One of the best scenes in this film, and there’s zero action.
The downside to this powerful writing and these top-notch performances is that most of the rest of the events and players get overshadowed. Of the rest of the mutant cast, Jennifer Lawrence as a young Mystique and Nicholas Hoult as Beast are the only standouts while January Jones seems to have been told Emma Frost’s mutant powers are looking drool-worthy and a complete lack of ability to emote. The film also falls victim to some unfortunate tropes and is very concerned about driving home its civil rights message with lines like “Mutant and Proud!” and “They didn’t ask so I didn’t tell.” Now it might be the case that some anvils need to be dropped to make a point that might have been lost in the noise of those despicable sequels, but in contrast to the chemistry between the two leads it ends up feeling either unnecessary or just lazy. Tight storytelling does not belabor points like this. But it could be I’m just picking nits.
There’s more than enough good material, in spite of the shortcomings in story and some less dimensional characters, to make X-Men First Class worth recommending. It’s more than competent storytelling and while the characters take precedence over spectacle, I’m sure jaws will drop more than once over the course of the movie. It belongs on the same level as other recent Marvel movies such as Iron Man and Thor, the performances and chemistry of the leads comes close to that of the lead actors in The Dark Knight. It says a lot when a scene of two men in easychairs talking by a fireplace is every bit as electrifying as any of the action scenes in your movie. X-Men First Class is the X-Men movie fans have been waiting for every since the first sequel, and even if you’re not a fan, I think you’d enjoy it. Check it out and I doubt you’ll be disappointed. And yes, I know the comic book outfits looked silly, but First Class gives us a great compromise in the uniforms of the X-Men. It was really awesome, for me, to see an X-Men movie that looked like a damn X-Men movie and not some weird spin-off of Blade or the Matrix. Mutants are their own people, and they should be proud of that, even if it means wearing yellow and blue kevlar pressure suits instead of trendier black leather.
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FRIDAY, June 5, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Teens who donate blood are at significant risk for long-term iron deficiency, a new study warns.
The concern comes as 16- to 18-year-olds have emerged as one of the fastest-growing groups of blood donors nationwide. But this study of nearly 31,000 teens who gave blood more than once between 2016 and 2018 found that roughly one in 10 were already iron-deficient when they donated for the first time.
And a year later, one-third of the girls and about 15% of the boys still had low iron levels, according to the report published online June 5 in the journal Pediatrics.
"Blood loss of any kind is a common cause of iron deficiency in the U.S.," said lead author Dr. Ralph Vassallo. And "blood donation results in the loss of iron-containing red blood cells," he added. Vassallo is chief medical and scientific officer at Vitalant in Scottsdale, Ariz., a nonprofit that collects and distributes volunteer blood donations in 27 states.
The researchers pointed out that the teen donations occur against a backdrop of rapid growth, the start of menstruation for girls and less-healthy eating habits. All affect iron levels.
Dr. Alan Mast, chairman for blood research at the Versiti Blood Research Institute in Milwaukee, Wisc., wrote an editorial that accompanied the study findings.
Mast pointed out that menstruation contributes to iron loss among teen girls and women, but after several blood donations, males will also develop iron deficiency. Donors are not required have their iron levels tested.
The consequences of iron deficiency can be significant. The kind sometimes seen in blood donors of any age can undermine exercise performance, lead to lower infant birth weights, and trigger cravings for non-food items such as ice, clay or starch, according to Vassallo.
So U.S. blood centers recommend that all donors take low-dose (18 to 28 milligrams) iron for 60 days after donating "to quickly replace just the amount of iron lost during donation."
Vassallo said most teen donors could safely take low-dose iron indefinitely. Most fall short of the daily recommended 11 mg for boys and 15 mg for girls. Foods that are good sources of iron include fortified cereals, some beans, lean beef and liver, spinach, tofu and potatoes.
About 79% of girls and 75% of boys in the new study were first-time blood donors, the study authors noted.
The vast majority (96% of girls and 74% of boys) gave whole blood (WB), meaning the full gamut of red cells, white cells, platelets and plasma. Such donations lead to loss of about 250 mg of iron, according to study background notes.
A smaller number made "double red blood cell" (2RBC) donations, in which only red blood cells are collected. A 2RBC donation leads to loss of 425 mg of iron.
To help iron levels replenish, donors are required to wait 56 days between WB donations and 112 days between 2RBC blood draws.
But a year after their first WB donation, up to 40% of girls and 20% of boys had iron deficiency, the investigators found. This increased to about 50% of girls and 30% of boys who were red blood cell donors.
"This underscores the need for iron replacement in young donors," Vassallo said, noting that other research suggests that "time-limited, over-the-counter supplements" could reverse the trends.
But Mast suggested that a greater emphasis on adult donations may be a better way to go.
"Teenagers are still growing and developing neurocognitive function, which are developmental processes that require iron," he noted. "They also tend to have poor diets that may be low in iron." And girls are also adjusting to the start of their periods.
"Thus, teenagers have lower levels of iron stored in their body than adults, need more iron each day than adults, and are more susceptible to iron deficiency following blood donation than adults," Mast said.
And that, he added, is why he doesn't let his teenage daughter donate.
"Blood transfusion is a critical part of health care in the United States, and an adequate blood supply is essential," Mast said. But, he added, parents should learn about the iron-deficiency risk their children could face -- and having done so, step up and donate themselves.
"It would be wonderful if this happened more often, and we could decrease our reliance on teenagers for contributing to the blood supply," he said.
For more about blood donations and iron deficiency, visit the Stanford Blood Center.
SOURCES: Ralph Vassallo, MD, executive vice president, chief medical and scientific officer, Vitalant, Scottsdale, Ariz.; Alan Mast, MD, PhD, senior investigator and chairman for blood research, Versiti Blood Research Institute, Milwaukee, Wisc.; Pediatrics, June 5, 2020, online
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Stay-at-Home Orders Could Mean More Obese Kids: Study
MONDAY, June 1, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- As if the childhood obesity epidemic isn't bad enough, new research warns that over one million more American boys and girls stand to become obese if coronavirus-related school closures continue through the end of the year.
The culprit: a steep rise in sedentary behavior following the spring shutdown of school and afterschool sports and activities across all 50 states.
"If school closures continue to the end of 2020 -- due to unsubdued community transmission of COVID-19 -- the childhood obesity rate in the U.S. might further increase by 2.4%," said study author Ruopeng An. He's an assistant professor with the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
That translates into 1.27 million new childhood obesity cases by March 2021.
In the May 23 online edition of the Journal of Sport and Health Science, An stressed that childhood obesity is already a huge public health problem, affecting 13.7 million (nearly 19%) American kids aged 2 to 19 (according to 2017-2018 statistics).
In addition, even pre-COVID-19, less than one-quarter of kids were meeting exercise guidelines issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The agency advises that children get at least one hour of moderate-to-vigorous activity per day.
Will school closures make things even worse? To see, An ran a few possible scenarios through a complex computer simulation model.
The model relied on body mass index and obesity data collected in a 2011 study that tracked weight patterns among more than 15,500 children, from kindergarten through 5th grade.
Obesity trajectories were projected through March 2021 based on four possible scenarios. The first scenario assumed that school closures only lasted a couple of months, before being lifted in May. A second option projected that beyond the two-month lockdowns, physical activity levels would plunge 10% throughout the summer. A third possibility envisioned additional school closures through October. And a final scenario explored what would happen if schools stayed shut through December.
All four scenarios were then compared to typical pre-pandemic obesity trends, after factoring in the kids' preexisting activity and dietary habits.
An determined that just closing schools for two months -- already a done deal in most parts of the country -- will likely drive up childhood obesity by 0.64% by next March. That's over and above what would happen under normal circumstances.
Scenario two would trigger a nearly 1% increase in pediatric obesity, while scenario three would result in a 1.7% jump.
And if school shutdowns last through December, the result would be a 2.4% rise across both genders and all races. (The simulation predicted only a slightly higher risk for obesity among boys and among black and Hispanic children.)
But Lona Sandon -- program director in the department of clinical nutrition at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas -- is not convinced.
"I have to say, I am skeptical. Not that this should not be a concern, but we have seen a lot of models lately that simply have not panned out," she noted. "What evidence do we have to say that kids are not getting the same amount of physical activity that they did during a normal school day? They could actually be getting more activity while at home."
Still, she and An agreed that there is value in parents making a concerted effort to help their kids eat well and stay active for however long the pandemic lasts.
An, for one, advocated limiting screen time. And he suggested that parents promote -- and join in on -- as much activity and exercise as possible.
Sandon, meanwhile, advised establishing both a family eating plan and a daily exercise routine.
"Home recess if you will. Take a walk/bike ride every day after lunch or dinner. Strap on the roller blades or jump on the skateboard and head to the park. Do a push-up, sit-up, mountain climber, or jumping jack challenge. Aim to do more jumping jacks each day until you reach 100 or more. Walk the dog a few times a day," Sandon suggested.
But she cautioned parents against excessive food restriction or weight shaming. The goal, she said, is to "keep it fun."
There's more about children and weight management at the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
SOURCES: Ruopeng An, PhD, assistant professor, Brown School, Washington University, St. Louis, and fellow, American College of Epidemiology; Lona Sandon, PhD, RDN, LD, program director and associate professor, department of clinical nutrition, school of health professions, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; Journal of Sport and Health Science, May 23, 2020, online
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