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(Where's the) Rage against the Machine?
The University of Alabama's student government may have flip-flopped its way into the 21st century. In mid-April, UA's senate voted to adopt a resolution supporting the racial integration of the school's nearly all-white fraternities and sororities after killing a similar measure just a few weeks earlier.
On its face, this is a historic move. To alumna Jessica Patrick, it may very well be "a step in the right direction" toward greater diversity. Patrick—Jessica Thomas while at UA and now a an attorney in Nashville—was the subject of Bama Girl, a documentary that chronicled her 2005 campaign to become UA's first African American homecoming queen. (Along with other candidates of color, she lost.)
History, however, gives us ample reason for skepticism. Former governor George Wallace made his notorious stand in 1963 on the steps of the school's auditorium for the "southern way of life," known nowadays as "state-sanctioned racial discrimination," and against the enrollment of Vivian Malone and James Hood. More recently, UA has made national news for eruptions of old-school Dixie racism in the social sphere. The Crimson White, the school newspaper, ran an exposé in 2013 of the systematic exclusion of African Americans from prominent and powerful white fraternities and sororities.)
The recent resolution is a symbolic statement by students, not a plan of action that commits anyone to do anything, including the school's administration. But it is something, one might say. "It's only a step forward, but it is a step forward, and it should be encouraged," University of Alabama law professor Paul Horwitz said in an email.
The Root requested comment from the University President's office about the measure but received only a general statement asserting the university's commitment "to a welcoming and inclusive campus." University President Judy Bonner did speak out against the segregation of and discrimination by white Greeks last year after the Crimson White's 2013 investigation, which revealed that two high-achieving African American women had been rejected by 16 sororities. (The U.S. Justice Department found that situation so serious it assigned a U.S. Attorney to monitor the situation.)
Nathan James, a Crimson White columnist, sees the yes vote as a straight-up PR move. "It's clear from the previous vote where our senators' loyalties lie, and that hasn't changed because media pressure forced them to backpedal," he wrote in an email to The Root. The "pressure" James describes built up after national and international news media hammered student government's March 2014 decision to kill the first "diversity resolution."
Terence Lonam, a progressive activist on campus from the class of 2017, is similarly skeptical. "When the last SGA senate voted to kill the original integration resolution, which I think honestly represented the state of race relations in Greek life at Alabama, I was horrified but not shocked – the powers that control a large segment of my campus, namely the Machine, are stuck to traditions that have kept them in power with relative ease."
The Machine? Yes, "the Machine," a secret society with deep roots in the muck of Jim Crow whose members are chosen from 28 of the school's white Greek societies. The Machine has fought the move to integrate the Greeks through the immense—and stealthy—political power it wields in student government. A chapter of Theta Nu Epsilon, an umbrella organization of historically white Greeks founded in 1870, the Machine has operated and schemed at UA for a century. No surprise that it's kissing cousin to Yale's Skull & Bones.
So how does the Machine run? "UA's Greeks vote in a bloc," explains James, "they always elect representatives from a specific set of Greek organizations; these representatives, once elected, fight to preserve a segregated Greek system; students who run against Machine-backed candidates are frequently the targets of harassment and death threats; and elections featuring Greek candidates are frequently affected by voter fraud."
"Death threats" leaps off the page. So we asked James to substantiate that charge. He provided links to news stories, including one from CNN, in which students made credible claims of such threats and other forms of nefarious Machination. Some, like the CNN.com piece, are more than a decade old. Others are quite recent.
"The Machine shouldn't be overestimated, but the simple fact of its continued secretive status should be recognized as an obstacle to everything else the University of Alabama, its students and administration, want to achieve," said Horwitz.
He writes with some authority. His wife, Kelly, was defeated in a Tuscaloosa city—not UA campus—election for Board of Education by Cason Kirby, a 26-year-old recent UA law school grad and former SGA president, under dodgy circumstances. AL.com 's reporter on the UA beat, Melissa Brown, and others reported on emails sent to voting-age students by Machine-connected Greeks, pledging free booze and limo rides to the polls. (Kirby, a former member of Kappa Sigma, a frat identified in the Crimson White investigation as Machine-connected, did not return a phone call from The Root.)
Horwitz notes that grassroots opposition to Machine politics cannot be ignored. "Some of the most important moments on campus this year—complaints and marches about continued segregation, resistance against adults who were involved, disgust with corrupt voting-bloc tactics that spilled off campus this year and into the local school board elections—came about because of undergraduates, mostly in the sororities, who were disturbed by what they saw and heard and willing to put themselves on the line to do something about it."
So where does that leave us? With a student organization that has Alabama influence and national ties and clings tenaciously to inherited privilege and power. It may not be able intimidate and machinate with impunity as it did when it still had Jim Crow muscle, but it remains an influential and clandestine political bloc —members do not acknowledge the group's existence—at a public university with a long history of racial discrimination.
The Machine's power endures in large part because the UA's leaders, the adults in the administration, have chosen to remain silent about the group for decades upon decades. Their silence equals tacit approval. That tacit approval amounts to active support for a secret clan of hyperempowered and historically privileged youth to discriminate.
"The Machine is not all-powerful or all-important," Professor Horwitz wrote in a recent Crimson White op-ed. "But as long as it's around, every other problem will be that much more intractable. It needs to become a public, accountable group. Or it must be killed, forcefully and publicly."
God Sees All
Charles Byrd drove his front-end loader to the end of the gravel road. He cut the engine, hopped out of the cab, and nodded at me. "That's Maggie Walker's grave," Mr. Byrd said. I had just photographed the curved headstone without noticing who it honored, Maggie Lena Walker: savings bank founder, newspaper publisher, civic leader, Jim Crow battler, daughter of an enslaved woman.
Under my feet.
Mr. Byrd, a contractor, said he was heading to the mausoleum that Mr. Harris, who was working in another part of Evergreen Cemetery, had told him about. He took a narrow, grass footpath that looked promising into the trees.
Mr. Byrd shouted for me in barely a minute.
As you approach from the side, the crypt looks more stately than spooky. The part of the building that isn't obscured by leaves and branches appears solid. Tendrils of ivy creep down the walls from its roof. But as you swing around to the front, down a slight hill, you see tragedy head on—a huge, ragged hole has been punched through the cinderblock façade. I gather that the ugly gray bricks had been laid to cover an earlier desecration of the original door. The name carved into the stone at the top of the structure is "Braxton."
We stared into the hole at the exposed coffins.
"Why would somebody do something like this," Mr. Byrd said, not asking me, just saying.
I feel this whenever I document human ugliness: a surge of adrenalin and my news reporter's predatory hunger mashed up with disgust and anger. Sadness, too.
Rust had destroyed the finish of the casket directly in front of us. The fixtures were busted. The lid had been wrenched off. The two caskets to the right had been dragged off their shelves as far as they would come. The floor was heaped with shattered headstones, trash, a woman's wig. It seemed that the people who did this had plenty of time to destroy and despoil. We didn't know how awful the story was—the dead had been pulled from their caskets—until afterward, when we Googled our way to video a by KIDA Productions. (Scroll down to "Evergreen Cemetery: History in Ruins.")
Evergreen Cemetery is enormous. It's part of a patchwork of African American graveyards that covers acres of Richmond's east side, East End Cemetery among them. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of graves have been absorbed by the forest. They are invisible beneath the green and brown tangle. Volunteers from the Virginia Roots Cemetery Restoration Project, local colleges, professional landscapers, even the army's Fort Lee do regular cleanup operations. A local chapter of black fraternity Omega Psi Phi minds the plot where Walker and John Mitchell, Jr., editor of the Richmond Planet, are buried. But nature is very aggressive here, hard to fight with limited resources; the cemetery's owners made no provision for perpetual care, which led to its current state. And then there are the vandals. (Volunteer wrangler John Shuck tells us that "an issue" with the owners of Evergreen has ended cleanup efforts there. Volunteers are now working at East End. Here's a link to their Work Calendar for folks who want to pitch in.)
In red marker, someone has written on the center coffin, "God Sees All"; and at the rim of the hole, "Smile. Your [sic] On Camera." Perhaps a deterrent to further outrages. Perhaps not.
Virginia Valentine
The forecast promised clear skies on Friday the 14th, but it was hard to see how. We'd driven up to Richmond on a lark Thursday, only to discover that there's a magic line somewhere between here and there — the snow hadn't stuck for more than a few hours in Hampton, but Richmond was just peeking out from under a heavy wet blanket. Which is not to say the main roads weren't clear and buses weren't running — they were. But the Library of Virginia — the reason we'd come — was inexplicably closed. (Really, Richmond? Where's your "rebel" spirit now? Stashed away in all those monuments, I suspect!) Happily, Lamplighter was not. We spent the afternoon huddled over our laptops in the chilly porchlike part of the café as dense gray clouds gathered. At one point, there was a flash of lightning (which I somehow missed) and a huge clap of thunder (which I did not), and snow blobs, not flakes, began falling soon after. It was already starting to accumulate as I headed for the car, and by the time I'd circled back around to pick Brian up, it was coming down thick and fast.
I'm not sure how long it took us to get to Williamsburg (a journey of about 50 miles), but somewhere along the way the snow stopped and the rain started and the road was miraculously clear. The next morning, when I cracked the blinds in our bedroom, the church steeple across the street was glowing pink through the bare branches — sun! We emerged blinking into the unfamiliar glare and headed back up the highway to Williamsburg, hearts aflutter. No, not because it was Valentine's Day (Brian says, It was?), but because we were finally going to be allowed back on Camp Peary, a nearly impenetrable fortress, albeit one with a see-through fence. After much wrangling with the public affairs officer, Brian had been able to secure permission for us to visit again — for 30 minutes, with no cameras of any kind, and with a maximum of three other family members.
We had asked the three siblings pictured above — Lieutenant Palmer Jr., Ann Jones, and Dot Harrold — to join us, and we met at June's house after lunch at Pierce's Barbecue. Like Brian, they too are great-grandchildren of Mat and Julia Palmer; their grandfather was John Frank Palmer, Brian's great-uncle. Both Ann and Dot were born in what used to be known as Palmertown, which was swallowed by the U.S. Navy in the early 1940s. John Frank lived there, and so did Big Daddy, Brian's grandpa Lewis, along with other Palmer aunts and uncles. All were evicted when Camp Peary was built — collateral damage of the war effort and the defense of our great nation. The fading house you see in the picture below stood outside the perimeter of the new base and so narrowly escaped destruction, until a fire burnt
it down years later. A new, brick house was built in its place, where the youngest sister lives today.
Ann and Dot climbed into June's pickup truck, and we followed along behind. The entrance to Camp Peary is only about 10 minutes from June's house, just down Rochambeau Drive and across 64. I was more aware this time of the military trappings through the minivan window, and I couldn't help but notice the scary-looking automatic weapon lying on a bright blue pad on the ground. The cemetery we'd come to visit is tucked away in a wooded clearing next to a firing range; "operations" had apparently been under way when we got to the gate. These were stopped, obviously, before we were allowed anywhere near the place.
All was quiet when we arrived. Our minders stood back as the five of us entered the burial ground, which has been fenced in since our last visit (February 2012 for me; the summer of that year for Brian). In the two years that have elapsed, I have come to regard the people buried there as "our people." Mat Palmer has come to life in our minds (and before our eyes — there's a picture of him on the wall of Mt. Pilgrim Baptist church, which he helped build). He died in 1927, before Dot and Ann were born, but their daddy knew him, and they know of him. His wife, Julia Fox, has remained more elusive. According to marriage records, she was born in Gloucester County, just across the York River from where Camp Peary stands today. She was most likely a "contraband," one of the thousands of enslaved people who flocked to Union-held territory during the Civil War and in so doing emancipated themselves. Her parents and her two siblings appear in the 1865 Census of the Colored Population in York County, but she is nowhere to be found — she would have been about 10 years old at the time. Where was she?
I'm fairly certain now that she, too, is buried on Camp Peary, right beside her husband of nearly forty years. The gravestone is cruelly blank, which hadn't struck me two years ago. I don't think I even saw it. At that time, Mat and Julia had only just become real on paper — we had visited the York County Court House the day before and seen their marriage record, dated July 17, 1873 — and I didn't yet realize the turn our lives had taken. This time, though, I felt a bond between us and would have liked to sit and stay awhile.
Instead, we climbed back into the van and were driven the short distance to the exit. Rather than heading back to the library, we asked Ann, Dot, and June to show us where Palmertown used to be. Ann had told us you could still see the shadow of the road that ran through it, and sure enough, there it was on the other side of the fence, clearly visible through the trees at this time of year. It's called Samoa Road now (is that supposed to be a secret?). A little farther along, we came to their stomping grounds, to use Ann's words. That's Daddy's truck, they said, laughing and pointing at an old white Ford half buried in brush. And down the old driveway is the wooden garage, ramshackle now, and the remnants of a small barn where the cow and pigs were kept and the mailbox discarded. Keep going down the hill and you'll come to the swamp, where they played as children, swinging on vines across the water.
The stories started to burble up as they stood in the woods, remembering. The black snake coiled in the corner of the garage that spooked June as a boy. The thigh-high snow that came right before Dot was born. The aproned midwife, Mary Jones, whose house is still standing, over by where June lives now. These are the stories we hope to share before their outlines dim. —EHP
Expected news that's still devastating … Nelson Mandela dies.
Violence as a Way of Life
To be honest, I'd been secretly dreading seeing 12 Years a Slave, but I also knew I couldn't not see it. The last gruesomely violent movie I saw was Gangs of New York, which a friend of mine persuaded me to go to when we were living in Amsterdam way back in '02—I "watched" most of it with ears plugged and eyes narrowed to slits behind the shelter of my fingers. By the time we finally left the theater, I was clammy with sweat and cramped from having been bunched up in my seat for nearly three hours of torture. I've carefully avoided such films ever since, which is why I haven't seen No Country for Old Men or There Will Be Blood or Django Unchained. If I'm going to sit through something harrowing, there needs to be a damn good reason, and Daniel Day Lewis, for all his brilliance, isn't a good enough one for me!
Given the nature of what Brian and I are trying to do here in Virginia, I probably don't need to explain why I had to see 12 Years a Slave. I suppose you could argue that I've read enough about slavery at this point to be familiar with the relentless brutality—physical, psychological, emotional—upon which the entire system was predicated and without which it could not have persisted. But I'm not sure the written word can fully capture slavery's sickening violence, or the constant threat thereof. (I might make an exception for The Book of Night Women, by Jamaican writer Marlon James; a number of scenes from that novel have lodged in my brain and will not be ousted.) You cannot unsee the fear — and the life — in a person's eyes as the noose tightens, or the raw, bloody flesh of a person's back as she's whipped while bound to a post, or the terror and disbelief of a person who wakes to find himself in chains, or the disgust and despair in the eyes of a person who is raped and will be raped again, and again. I insist on the word person, because that is what 12 Years a Slave makes most painfully clear. These were people upon whom unspeakable violence was inflicted by other people. You knew that, of course, but I think it's possible not to really know until you see that violence (re)enacted before you.
I have yet to meet a white Southerner who openly romanticizes his or her "heritage," though evidence of nostalgia for an imagined/invented past is everywhere down here—it's as much a part of the landscape as magnolia trees and Golden Corrals. I wonder what neo-Confederates would make of 12 Years a Slave? I'll admit to fantasizing about force-screenings, though I suspect that 150-plus years of denial would not be so easily overcome. And honestly, I'm less concerned about the Stonewall Jackson acolytes (who are likely beyond hope) than those who don't give our history a second thought. If this film can reach them and shake loose some of the persistent Old South and "America the Beautiful" mythology, it might help open the road to understanding and, ultimately, acknowledgment of where we, the American people, come from.
Because, while indisputably beautiful, the landscape itself feels sinister, oppressive—the live oaks dripping with Spanish moss, the waterways snaking through dense, nearly impenetrable vegetation. The plantation houses, too, are stripped of their romance, despite their graceful balconies and sweeping staircases. Their picturesque presence in the Louisiana outback becomes ludicrous and obscene—and might even be laughable if not for the suffering and depravity that they both embody and engender. Their very existence—the "way of life" they represent—would not be possible were it not for the unending, backbreaking labor of the enslaved.
Which is another thing the film underscores (and not, I don't think, just because I'm primed for it after steeping myself in related reading for the past couple of years): Enslaved people built everything in sight; they did all the work, and were used up in the process. That was their raison d'être, of course, at least in the eyes of most whites. What's striking, once again, is that there is no acknowledgment of that work in the national narrative. And by acknowledgment, I don't mean thank-you (that would probably be too much to ask, even in this "postracial" day and age). I mean a statement of fact that enslaved African Americans carved much of this country out of the wilderness. You see it in 12 Years a Slave, as one white master or another lolls on the wraparound porch or inspects his field hands, pharaoh-like, from the comfort of his coach. True, the planter class was a tiny elite, which means the great mass of whites had to get their hands dirty too, but they were vastly outnumbered by enslaved blacks in many parts of the South. African Americans were the fuel, the engines, of the economy.
This inconvenient truth has not only been neglected or "forgotten," it has been vigorously denied. Just the other day, I came across this passage in Leon F. Litwack's brilliant, distressing book Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow: "'This is our country,' John Temple Graves, an Atlanta editor, told a University of Chicago audience [in 1903]. 'We made it. We molded it. We control it, and we always will. We have done great things. We have mighty things yet to do. The negro is an accident—an unwilling, a blameless, but an unwholesome, unwelcome, helpless, unassimilable element in our civilization. He is not made for our times.'" Yes, the charming Mr. Graves made this speech 110 years ago, but the language of rugged individualism—the language of white men, primarily—is still very much with us today. Remember how Romney, Ryan & Co. trotted out that "We built it" slogan late in last year's presidential campaign? Not only was that pat phrase born of phony indignation (whoever came up with it deliberately took President Obama's words out of context), it sharply limited the "we" to exclude all but the entrepreneurs among us, as if business owners existed in a vacuum. It's a "we" the rest of us have heard before—the "we" that takes all the credit for the toil of others.
Anyway, to get back to 12 Years a Slave, what has stuck with me, even more than the scenes of sadistic violence and forced intimacy (when, for instance, a raving Master Epps rests his arms on the shoulders of an enslaved woman who's hanging laundry on the line and leans his head against hers—the absolute power he wields over others' lives is clear in this gesture), is the endless unspooling of days of drudgery and hard labor. It's also the isolation in which that labor was performed, and in which most, if not all, of life was lived. That plantation in the back of beyond was your universe—cruel, stifling, (nearly) inescapable. Even if you did manage by some miracle to escape and make it all the way to "free" soil, you still weren't safe. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 ordered "all good citizens"—white people, obviously—to send African Americans back into bondage, no matter how far they might have fled or what horrors awaited them upon their return. This effectively made all of America a prison, not just the South, not just a particular plantation. And even free blacks were free only if they had the papers to prove it. The fragility of that freedom is heartbreakingly clear in the film. Solomon Northup's story makes the heartbreak somewhat easier to bear because we know from the start how it will end. But what of the people Solomon leaves behind when he's rescued from Epps? Those are the people who haunt me.
—Erin Hollaway Palmer
Juneteenth, African Burial Ground, New York City, June 19, 2013
Here's the piece I shot and wrote for Parade.com on the day of.


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Month: April 2017
What Do You Know About Laptops
How to Find Cheap Laptops
When it comes to looking for cheap laptops, you must keep in mind that when it means cheap such doesn't mean that it is poor quality laptops. You should be able to find some of the affordable but excellent quality laptops that are available out there so that you will be able to make such informed decision on your next purchase. When you are not thinking of using this for designing those heavy-duty graphics, then there are cheap laptops from different brands that you can find online and in the physical stores. You must put in a bit of extra effort in doing your research and get the best bargains out there.
When you like to have a cheap laptop, then you must ensure that you do the best research so that you will be able to find something which will last for a few months or years. Because of such reason, you must decide on the best price that you can afford and you must have to narrow your search from there. A great time for you to find that cheap laptop is by the showroom sales or the seasonal sales if the prices are slashed due to the new stocks that come in or owe to the seasonal cheer. You can find the refurbished or those secondhand laptops when you like affordable laptops but you must stay away from them unless they are providing that warranty or when they come from the reliable source. If you are not happy with any of such laptops online or offline, you must search for that easy payment scheme or the interest-free credit card payments to purchase laptop which is suited to you.
In finding cheap laptops, there are great models that offer excellent graphic performance and also a long battery life for an affordable cost. This is definitely sleek and also modern in design and there is a laptop that has Cool Sense technology. It has a great battery life when such is what you are searching for and the sound system is not bad too. There are other low-cost laptops that provide great performance. These laptops have bigger screens unlike the others in the same cost. It is worth to mention that this also has an above average battery life.
If the battery life is one of the important features which you are looking for, then you should add other models in the list of cheap laptops that you can buy in the market. Also, you can find other laptops from the other brands that are priced cheaply. There are important features that you must look into so that you will be able to find the right laptop to purchase that is suited to your budget as well.
The Driz Group Introduces Cybersecurity Incident Management Plan Initiative
(Ontario, Canada) With only 38% of global organizations being prepared to handle a sophisticated cyberattack, new practices and efforts are needed to secure sensitive information. It only takes minutes for a single data breach to compromise an entire organization. In a response to these rather shocking statistics, The Driz Group has launched an initiative to help more companies acquire and implement an effective cybersecurity incident management plan.
According to Steve Driz, president of the The Driz Group, "We want to become the trusted partner for all compliance, cybersecurity, and information security needs. Our goal is to provide information, as well as cybersecurity consulting, along with fully managed infrastructure and web application protection services. Our management plans are ideal for organizations and businesses of all sizes."
With the new cybersecurity incident management plan in place, companies have the tools and resources necessary to better mitigate the risks and recover faster from cybersecurity incidents. This helps reduce costs and better mitigate reputation damage, preventing catastrophic outcomes.
"If you think about the number of cybersecurity breaches that keep occurring, it is imperative that every organization has a complete incident management process. This should include a formal procedure and policy," Driz added. "Most of the organizations are also going to need a formal management plan to satisfy either client or specific legislative requirements."
Because too many organizations haven't developed or implemented formal management plans to date, The Driz Group created a formal playbook to help ensure businesses could manage the process necessary to recover from any type of cybersecurity incident.
With the comprehensive incident management policy and procedure in place, businesses can demonstrate they are taking risk management seriously. Once the policy is in place, businesses can position themselves over their competition by exerting confidence, which can help them win more business. Organizations with this management plan in place can also avoid expensive fines if something were to happen and won't be faulted as long as the documented process is in place and employees were familiar with it.
No individual or company owning digital assets is immune to cyber-attacks. The Driz Group has an entire process created to help prevent serious breaches and help businesses recover if they occur.
The staff at The Driz Group believes that employee education, strong and enforceable policies and a solid cybersecurity program along with detective and preventative controls at the key to success in all organizations trying to fight cybercrime. The company helps organizations of all sizes protect their sensitive data and minimize the potential of a breach.
Refer to: http://www.kltv.com/story/35236213/news…
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Overwhelmed by the Complexity of Resources? This May Help
The moment that you will be using an e-commerce fulfillment service, then they will be the one to make sure that the package that you will send will get to its exact location. Since they already have the exact experience with these things, they can now determine the exact time it when your package will be received. They will also be the one to inform the customers in advance. It is the importance of this factor that most people still do not know the value. By the time that the clients have already paid for the products that they want, then the next thing that they want is to have it right away. It is when delays happen that clients will be frustrated.
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When it comes to distribution and advertising, then it is these companies that you will be able to trust. The moment that you will hire them, then they will see to it that the next sale will happen and the packaging will also be better. By making sure that all of these things will be done, then you can be sure that the business that you have will be a success. Outsourcing some of the work that you have is also another thing that you need to think about. It is an e-commerce fulfillment service that will be able to give you these services the moment that you will be hiring them.…
Discovering The Truth About Services
The Importance of Finding a Good Auto Repair Shop There are times when you are driving your vehicle and you suddenly hear some noise which seem out of the ordinary. When this happens the first thing you do is think what the problem could be. Perhaps you will think back on the time you brought you car to the repair shop for repairs. You might be thinking of a thousand things upon hearing that sound, but only one thing is important and that is to bring your car to a repair shop as soon as possible. You should not take your chances on this car. The best action you can do is to call your auto repair shop and schedule for bringing it in. Neglecting to bring you car to an auto repair shop at the soonest time possible could make the problem larger and thus giving you are large repair bill. Make sure to look for a good repair facility so you can be sure about the results of the service. If you are looking for a good auto repair shop make sure that it is run and managed by a state certified mechanic. A car dealership or an independent facility are the places where you can bring your car for repair. If you don't want to waste your time looking for a good auto repair facility, consider recommendations of other. The time it takes to fix your car differs from facility to facility – some are quick to finish but others are slower. There are facilities where you have to leave your car and there are those that fix your car while you wait. There are many differences between repair shops. The charges for service may be different although they may all have the same credentials. When you find a repair shop that charges really cheap rate, don't put your trust immediately because it does not follow that they have good services and you might be greatly disappointed after. Make sure that the parts that they are using on your vehicle are new unless you have specified otherwise.
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It is very important that you are treated well in the auto repair facility that you will choose. It is important that you are treated equally with other customers whatever type of car you have or whatever problem it has. Their staff should promptly answer all your questions and problems. There should be signs that they appreciate your coming to their facility. If there are any delays or unexpected issues with your vehicle, they should give you notification as soon as possible. In every step of the way, a good auto repair facility communicates with their clients and charges them fair and competitive prices. They have exceptional quality in their work and they offer warranties with their work. A good auto repair facility makes their customers happy when the repair is done.A 10-Point Plan for Repairs (Without Being Overwhelmed)…
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The Attributes of a Top Rated Pest Control Company Insects and pests are a menace in our homes. They carry diseases, trigger allergies and cause damage to our property. Yet, there can be many pest management companies that may help us eradicate pests from our homes. The professionals in the pest management companies can help us to identify the pests that are plaguing us in our dwellings. They allow you as the owner to take preventative measures to make sure that your house will not have another infestation and can then eliminate those unwanted creatures. Nonetheless, you could find that there are very many pest management businesses and choosing one can be an arduous task. There are various ways to use to find the best but how do you know the top firm to engage? Below we will discuss the features of the highly reviewed local pest businesses. It's possible for you to classify pest control services that are distinct according to the services they provide. A top reviewed company, for the large part starts the treatment by inspecting your house so as to know the kind of pests and how serious the problem is. Depending on the outcome of the review, the tech from your pest management business will make a determination on the right pest management approach to use. The idea is that you should choose a pest control company that will use the best treatment methods that will not put you in harm's way and those that are environmentally friendly.
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Chinese Consumers Continue to Embrace Ethical Shopping: MasterCard Survey
May 21, 2012
Poverty/starvation funds the choice of beneficiary for Chinese donors
Beijing, 21 May 2012 – Chinese consumers are shopping with a conscience, according to the results of the latest MasterCard, survey on Ethical Spending. According to the research, the Chinese are generally willing to pay more for items that are environmentally friendly, based on fair trade principles, or where a percentage of the item cost was donated to a good cause.
The survey also found that across the Asia Pacific region, respondents in Southeast Asia - Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia - were most likely to spend more on ethical purchases; while respondents in New Zealand, Australia and Japan were least likely to do so.
This study is part of the annual Ethical Shopping Survey by MasterCard and was conducted both online and offline in 25 countries within Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa between 5 December 2011 and 6 February 2012. The report for China is based on 500 respondents who access the internet at least weekly. The data was weighted to the online population in each of those markets. Similar surveys were also carried out in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
88% of Chinese individuals bought items because they were based on fair trade principles, a slight increase from 86% in 2010. In addition, 72%, compared to 71% in 2010, bought items because they were environmentally friendly; while 60%, compared to 55% in 2010, made these purchases because a percentage of the sale was donated to a good cause.
Over 3 in 5 Chinese individuals, who bought items because of ethical reasons, purchased them online. Just over two-thirds of this group of shoppers did so because there are now more shopping choices available online than before, while almost half said they are more likely to receive discounts on online-purchased socially-responsible products that may be more expensive elsewhere. In general, the survey demonstrated that countries which tended to have higher Internet penetration and higher propensity to shop online overall also tended to be the ones that were most likely to do ethical shopping online. China ranked highly in this aspect, together with Korea and Thailand.
Overall, Chinese respondents were also more likely to purchase from a merchant if they were known for incorporating environmentally-conscious measures in their operations (75%), being socially-responsible (73%), and being financially responsible (66%).
"Increasingly, Chinese shoppers are becoming more knowledgeable and discerning, and have started to think harder about the impact that their purchase decisions have on society," said Ling Hai, Division President of Greater China for MasterCard Worldwide.
"They are also becoming more aware that by making moral choices about what they bring home in their shopping bags, they are making a difference to the communities they live in. Responsible shopping looks like it is here to stay."
The study also found that those between the ages of 25 to 34 years-old are more likely to make ethical purchases.
More Chinese support Poverty and Starvation Funds Than Before
In general, the degree of affinity that the Chinese have towards most social organizations is fairly similar to last year, with the exception of poverty and starvation alleviation funds, which increased from 21% in 2010 to 29% in 2011. Common charitable organizations the Chinese support include children's health and education funds (30%), local natural disaster relief funds (30%) and poverty and starvation alleviation funds (29%).
Across Greater China, affinity towards social organizations that deal with poverty/starvation appeared to be the strongest for respondents in Hong Kong, while affinity towards social organizations that deal with local natural disaster relief was the strongest for respondents in Taiwan.
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Officers from FAO participated in the activities, yesterday and today, of the Chilean Family Farming Week, organized by the Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario de Chile (INDAP) within the framework of the Expo Milan 2015 global fair.
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The activities, that took place during five days, aim to sensitize and revalue the rural world and rural culture as a source of national identity and belonging, promoting cultural expressions and highlighting its economic potential towards the improvement of the quality of life of Chilean farmers and to build-up of an inclusive and cohesive society.
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Yahoo oneSearch To Power Wireless Carrier Portals In Latin America
Even as attention has been focused on Google's 700 MHz spectrum bid and its Android mobile platform, Yahoo has been aggressively doing business development with mobile operators and handset makers around the world, in Asia, Europe, and now Latin America. This morning Yahoo announced that it had inked another major wireless distribution deal with America Movil. Under the deal, which spans 16 countries and roughly 143 million mobile subscribers in Latin America and the Caribbean, Yahoo's oneSearch "will be the default mobile search service on America Movil's wireless carriers' portals."
These global carrier (and OEM) relationships either mean Yahoo Go will be preloaded or oneSearch will be on the so-called "carrier deck." That arguably gives Yahoo more direct access to mobile consumers and reach than its main rivals. However, one of the outstanding questions is whether the carrier deck will continue to hold sway over consumers as they become more sophisticated about the mobile Internet.
At least in the U.S., preliminary data from an iCrossing survey conducted earlier this year indicated that consumers were pursuing the major search sites on mobile devices "off deck." However, Yahoo is one of those sites too.
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"I really like the Silverstone circuit," Perez said. "I have won there in Formula 3 and in GP2 and also last year my first Formula One race was good. I came seventh and this was actually my best race result in 2011. Back then it was a crazy race in difficult weather conditions with the track drying. I think our car will be good in Silverstone and I want to fight for another podium there."
Perez highlighted qualifying as a key area where he would need to improve to achieve a top three finish, having started the last two races in 15th place.
"In my view in Silverstone it is even more difficult to overtake than it was in Valencia, therefore qualifying is high priority on the job list. I need a better grid position than recently. I like the fast and fluid corners a lot, so this is a very enjoyable part of the track. The race in Silverstone is a special Grand Prix - because of the fans and the atmosphere and also for me personally. I lived in Oxford for three years and I have quite a few friends in England."


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Additional Reading: Fast Fact Overview of Cardiomyopathy
Cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle. It makes it harder for the heart to fill with blood and to pump blood. Cardiomyopathy is a major cause of heart failure. The condition can also cause abnormal heart rhythms. Cardiomyopathy can affect people of all ages and races.
There are two main types of cardiomyopathy:
- Primary cardiomyopathy – The patient does not have other cardiac conditions that lead to weakened heart muscle. In some cases, cardiomyopathies are inherited and may be passed down to other family members.
- Secondary cardiomyopathy – Caused by a medical condition (such as high blood pressure, valve disease, congenital heart disease or coronary artery disease).
Cardiomyopathy that is related to coronary artery disease (CAD) is referred to as ischemic. Whereas, cardiomyopathy that is not related to CAD is referred to as non-ischemic.
Non-ischemic forms of the condition can be inherited from family members. The most common non-ischemic forms of cardiomyopathy are :
- Dilated Cardiomyopathy
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
- Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia (ARVD)
- Source: Cleveland Clinic
Some of the more famous people who have died from cardiomyopathy are: singers Elvis Presley and, George Michael, actor, James Gandolfini, and basketball star Hank Gathers.


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Black Orpheus (1959)
Review #1,405
Director: Marcel Camus
Cast: Breno Mello, Marpesa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira
Plot: A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
Genre: Drama / Music
Awards: Won Palme d'Or (Cannes). Won 1 Oscar - Best Foreign Language Film
Runtime: 107min
Rating: Not rated (likely to be PG13 for some disturbing scenes and sexual references)
Source: Euro-London Films
IN RETROSPECT (Spoilers: NO)
"Play a song for me, please. Come on."
Black Orpheus came at a time when arthouse world cinema was finding niche audiences around the globe. No one could have predicted, however, the cultural phenomenon that exploded upon its release, especially making its mark on American and European audiences.
It won the Cannes Palme d'Or and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and suddenly Marcel Camus, a little-known French director, became an overnight sensation. It would become Camus' only identifiable work, his one-hit wonder in a career that turned out to be unimpressive.
What struck me most memorably about Black Orpheus is not its story, based on the tragic Greek tale of Orpheus and Eurydice (transplanted to mid-20th century Rio de Janeiro), but its sights and sounds. From start to end, nearly every minute is accompanied by diegetic percussion music, its audibility dependent on where the main characters are. In the thick of action, with Camus revolving his story and scenery around the Carnival, a city-wide street event of music, dance and performance, we become sucked into the hypnotic atmosphere, and grooving along with the rhythms.
The joyful and colourful movements are matched by an editing style that gives the film a sense of unlimited energy, as if it could persist forever even when the camera stops rolling. It's no surprise that the bossa nova and samba music on display here became immensely popular around the world because of the film's exposure.
We get overly dramatic performances that normally would stick out like a sore thumb, but not in Black Orpheus, which is already such a happening film; the performances which have a stage quality blend themselves seamlessly to the organically constructed mise-en-scene and choreography. Breno Mello share a lovely, even awkward chemistry, with Marpessa Dawn as the two leads (both passed away in 2008 within six weeks of each other), whose 'mythic' characters you would want to root for.
Camus' film does lose some of its energy and impetus towards its final act, though that is not my main pet peeve. What left me unsatisfied (but it's really my abnormal music bones cracking up) was that an absolutely beautiful song—Manhã De Carnaval—sung and strummed (on the guitar) by Orpheus during a mid-movie courtship, was never reprised in any form again in the later part of the film. BUMMER.
Verdict: There's so much rhythm and energy to this cultural touchstone, plus a tragic love story based on the Greek tale of Orpheus and Eurydice to boot, that you will find yourself grooving to the bossa nova music with varied emotions.
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There's so much rhythm and energy to this cultural touchstone, plus a tragic love story based on the Greek tale of Orpheus and Eurydice to boot, that you will find yourself grooving to the bossa nova music with varied emotions ~ 4*/A- [ Dir. Marcel Camus | 1959 | Brazil/France | Drama/Music | 107 mins | Not rated ] BLACK ORPHEUS / © Euro-London Films #blackorpheus #orpheus #eurydice #greek #brazil #riodejaneiro #music #bossanova #samba #criterioncollection #rhythm #carnival #culture #oscar #palmedor


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There is a terrible affliction that eats away at our lives, slow but deadly, like rust: inactivity. We try to spice up the utter tedium of our inactive lives with cheap entertainments and idle pastimes, like extra sauce on bland, chemical-based food, in an attempt to mask its foul taste.
Ketchup can make any food seem edible.
The same goes for life. People think it is essential to go to the cinema, shops and restaurants every week, and go abroad on holiday once a year, in order to feel like the masters of their own lives. And if they are lucky enough to get two holidays a year, then that is more than enough to hide the bitter taste of an existence that is withering away. An existence based on inactivity, parasitic on its own dreams and plans.
Alternatively, you could get regular hits of adrenalin, wavelets of extreme excitement so strong that you practically don't taste the bitterness and can ignore the fact that your abilities are going to waste, and feel superior to people who don't have the chance to experience the same escapism.
Some use quotes from great thinkers as a sort of primitive aspirin, as if by reproducing them on their social media they are partaking in wisdom. But in reality, this only communicates with other reproducers of wisdom…
Everything is fine, but nothing is good – this is the innermost condition of everybody who is a consumer of life. They devour it by dressing it up with whatever entertainment is available, yet somehow nothing comes from it. Some people think that the way out is through more of the same ("More ketchup, waiter!"), they earn more and spend more, but get no release; all their diversions still amount to nothing.
It is impossible to prosper if all you are doing is consuming life.
Prosperity, happiness, a wealth of emotions without crutches (including adrenalin-based ones) and, most importantly, savouring the taste of life, can only be achieved through creativity.
The purpose of the human race is to create, wherein everybody finds their own unique talents and gifts. Everyone has something to offer the world. Absolutely everyone. It is, if you like, our very essence.
If you are consciously creating, you can absolutely enjoy consumption as well, and savour the sumptuous flavours of a rich and vibrant life.
We were born to create; we are the children of the ultimate Creator.
Not exercising our true nature, we begin to rust and transform into miserable, dependent beings that cannot go one day without artificial injections of joy, instead of creating our own joy.
What will become of a bird with clipped wings? What will become of a fish without water? Take the lions and tigers in the zoo. They are captive. They cannot be what in essence they really are. They can't devour their spectators, though that would be completely in keeping with their natural instincts, while the spectators eat a cow every evening, calling it beef.
Go to the zoo and you will see that the animals' eyes are utterly lifeless because they have been deprived of their natural activities. Look in the mirror, and you will see the same thing – if you are yet to escape your mental cage and engage in conscious Action.
Do you really think that this caged lion will get the glint back in its eye if it gets more or better food? So why do you think that if you travel to every country in the world, or buy that car you've been dreaming of, or snowboard every day, you will get that glint in your eye? A lion would be only too happy to tear you to pieces and devour your flesh if you encountered it in the savannah, and yet it fills you with joy to see it in the wild (from a safe distance) on an African safari, if your trips and entertainments are a part of the Plan of Action, and not mere frivolous filler for the desperate emptiness inside.
The point of this story is not whether it is right or wrong to enjoy consuming a nice chocolate cake. All I am saying is that if someone ONLY ate chocolate cake, they would start to feel sick pretty soon and their vitality would diminish. If you are ONLY a consumer of life, the result will be the same.
Right now. It is already the same.
Free yourself from your cage and begin to create, in whatever way you like. Create with love and responsibility, investing all your strength into the process. Then consumption will also take on a new flavour.
Don't be afraid to use up all your stores of strength – it is the only way to replenish them.
This doesn't work in thought alone, but in practice. A person who gets down to business begins to invest their energy productively and, in so doing, shifts their life path closer towards authenticity than a person who spends their whole life searching, afraid that the path they are on "still isn't mine".
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Monday, 14 May 2018
Is Eddie Jones losing the plot?
There were various reasons for England's difficult Six Nations this year, which included injuries to key players, vast improvements by the opposition (especially Scotland and Ireland) and post-Lions fatigue, exacerbated by the players then being over-played by their clubs and then flogged to death in training by Jones.
Perhaps more importantly, though, Jones then selected poorly and prepared the team inadequately, with England being outthought and outfought for much of the championship, particularly around the breakdown.
And let's just say that Jones is correct and that a culture of selfishness has begun to develop within the England ranks. Whose fault, exactly, is that? Surely it's Eddie's job to fix the team's culture if there's a problem, and mouthing off in public - rather than dealing with it behind closed doors - hardly seems the best way to go about it.
When Jones was appointed various Aussies predicted that early success would give way to cracks appearing as the players grew tired of his methods.
I am beginning to wonder if they were right.
5 comments:
- Ben Chater said...
I came to these same conclusions during this years 6 nations. And heard the same things from Aussie mates I played with in Sydney at the beginning of his tenure. I think Jones should see out things until the WC but I'm not exactly confident!! After the WC I think Deam Richards shoul come in and set things up the same way he is doing things currently at Newcastle...
- 14 May 2018 at 22:36
- Badger Man said...
Nonsense. Think these criticisms are true, but some trust is needed here. We suddenly get revisionist and decide that the winning streak was a fluke, and that Jones was never as good as we thought.
Perhaps not a magician then, but a good coach guilty of trying to do too much with tired players. Have every faith that he can learn lessons, and that his competitive edge will force him to do so.
When is said and done the skill set of this English team relies on line dealing skills of the big boppers, and doubt that England can win the RWC without big Billy V and Many Tuilagi both being fit to provide that edge.
Happy he has chosen Cipriani, if as aragant has depicted in the press, I doubt that he would have humbled himself to that...
- 14 May 2018 at 22:46
- Ben Chater said...
You have your opinion and I have mine. As I say I hope I'm wrong about Jones as does the author of the article but unfortunately in sport normally when it gets to point where the writing on the wall begins to appear..........it's normally the beginning the of the end for that particular coach and team.....
- 15 May 2018 at 08:31
- TotalFlanker said...
I'm not suggesting for one minute that England's winning streak was a fluke. Jones did a great job of instilling clarity and a sense of purpose into the England squad which was rewarded with some excellent rugby and 2 seasons of fantastic results.
What Jones has been guilty of, it seems, is failing to move the team on after the initial 2 seasons. He had his chance following an exciting and innovative Argentina tour last summer but has stagnated this season.
I hope as you say that he can learn lessons but I am beginning to wonder...
- 15 May 2018 at 09:06
- Ben Chater said...
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Hello everyone and welcome once again to my blog.
Hope you are having a lovely day. Our weather here in Adelaide has been very kind to us the last few days. Hopefully it will continue for a little while before we head into our winter weather.
This is the third and final installment of my 2Crafty shares for May.
2Crafty Chipboard is a major sponsor at Off the Rails for the month of May and I was thrilled to be one of the Guest Designers. The Guest post went live on the 20th and HERE is the link if you'd like to take a look.
This is the mood board..
... and this is the card I created.
This is the mood board..
... and this is the card I created.
The papers are from Kaisercraft's Base Coat Mini Pad.
2Crafty Chipboard used
Hessian Patch Panel
Mini Word Set
The Bubble Clump was painted with a navy Blue acrylic paint and then inserted between the paper layers.
The Hessian Panel was simply swiped with a VersaMagic stamp pad in Midnight Black. I really adore this chippy. I love using it as a background for a flower cluster or, in this case, as the base for the Numbers Panel.
The Numbers Panel was first swiped with Versacolor stamp pads in black, red and light blue and then it was coated with Viva Clear Crackle paint. I'm afraid I got a bit impatient here and decided to dry it with a heat gun. Got a little too close in a couple of spots and ended up with a few bubbles but, overall, I love the effect. Very different from how it looks when left to dry naturally. After it was dry, and cooled off, I swiped it over again with the same stamp pads just to deepen the colour.
I usually decorate the inside of my cards with some strips of paper and, this time, I also added one of the words from the Mini Word Set.
It was coloured with VersaMagic Midnight Black and coated with Glossy Accents.
Well, I hope you like my card and that you have enjoyed all of my May shares. Hopefully I will see you next month for my very last 2Crafty post. It will be sad to leave and I will miss everyone on the Team, they have been a fantastic group to work with. Pop on over to the blog to see all the wonderful projects they have created. HERE is the link.
Thank you so much for visiting and do enjoy the rest of your day.
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