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Good day Austin:
I was there at the NRA annual meeting in Dallas Friday to hear Vice President Mike Pence and President Donald Trump, in that order, speak.
By the time Pence and Trump were finished I wondered how Trump would deliver the news to Pence that he was replacing him as his running mate in 2020 with Kanye West.
A tweet a/la Rex Tillerson would be the traditional way to go.
But who knows with what kind of flourish Trump will send Pence back home again to Indiana.
I figure, though, that Pence has been elected to office a bunch of times. He is vice president of the United States. His political antenna must be in good working order. So I've got to believe that he left Dallas knowing he was doomed.
In his introduction, Pence lavished praise on President Trump, going so far as describing Ronald Reagan as "my second favorite president."
I don't remember what if anything Trump had to say about Pence.
But I do remember what he had to say about Kanye West.
Kanye West must have some power because I doubled my African-American poll numbers. We went from 11 [percent] to 22 in one week. Thank you, Kanye. Thank you. When I saw the number, I said, 'That must be a mistake. How can that have happened?' Even the pollsters thought that must be a mistake.
From The Wrap:
Kanye West's total embrace of President Donald Trump may be starting to have real-world implications beyond Twitter.
According to the results of a Reuters weekly tracking poll released this week, support for the president among black men doubled from 11 percent, for the week ending April 22, to 22 percent, for the week ending April 29. The approval numbers are the highest Trump has enjoyed in the survey among black men all year.
The timing is noteworthy since the rapper began to go public with his pro-Trump views on April 21, first tweeting support for right-wing pundit Candace Own on April 21. Four days later, he proclaimed "love" for POTUS and his "dragon energy" — and posted a selfie in which he wore a MAGA hat.
Pence must know he's about to go the way of Henry Wallace and Nelson Rockefeller, vice presidents who got dumped by the presidents they served – FDR and Gerald Ford – for presumably more dependable and useful running mates, like Harry Truman and Bob Dole, and now, Kanye West.
At first, the idea sounds cracked.
But think about it.
There is simply no reason for Trump to hang on to Pence.
He served his purpose, such as it was, but he doesn't serve it any more.
It can be asked of Pence as it was of war – What is it (he) good for? And the answer is exactly the same: Absolutely nothing.
Pence, huh, yeah.
What is he good for?
Absolutely nothing
Pence, huh, yeah.
What is he good for?
Absolutely nothing
Say it again, y'all
Is there a single American voter, not named Pence, who is more likely to vote for Donald Trump for president because Mike Pence is on the ticket?
I don't think so.
Pence was added to the ticket to assure conservative, mostly evangelical Christian voters that Trump, the candidate from Sodom and Gomorrah, could be trusted, and to keep an eye on him.
But Trump, who carried the evangelical vote running against Ted Cruz, didn't turn out to need any vouching for.
Evangelical Christians seem, by and large, to love him.
And, ever since he's been president he has only solidified his standing with those voters.
Every odd and aberrant aspect of Trump, right down to having an affair with a porn star and paying her hush money, is simply evidence that God works in mysterious ways.
Trump is now so secure with his base, there is nothing I can think of that would shake it.
I guess there might be some white nationalist Never-Westers, who would balk at a Trump-West ticket as a betrayal. But not too many, and many times more voters might vote for Trump with the addition of Kanye than would depart on his account.
I mean, if you're Donald Trump, how can the draggin' energy of Mike Pence compete with the dragon energy he shares with fellow master of the universe Kanye West?
And if you think a Trump-West ticket is just too crazy, it is clearly less crazy than Trump getting elected in the first place, and to pick, in West, his brother in narcissism and branding, is the logical, inevitable outcome of Trump's presidency and politics.
And, have you heard Ultralight Beam?
I mean, President Obama's Amazing Grace in Charleston, S.C., was quite something.
But West is next level, and Obama's performance is precedent that there is no reason that Kanye couldn't continue to tour and perform as Veep.
As West raps in Ye vs. the People:
I know Obama was heaven sent
But ever since Trump won, it proved that I could be President.
Or vice president.
In any case, you think we're going to go through the Trump administration only to Return to Normalcy with Mike Pence, like Warren G. Harding after those chaotic Woodrow Wilson years?
Now, you might ask, will the Grand Old Party accept dumping Pence for West?
Here's the real-time thought process on that: No, of course, well …. Hell yeah!
Why wouldn't they?
Apart from those scattered party poopers like Sens. Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Jeff Flake of Arizona, and Neocon Czar William Kristol, most of the rest of the Republican Party and the conservative movement in America has thrown its lot with Trump, overlooking every shocking and bizarre permutation of his presidency in favor of an awed allegiance to what Jeff Roe, Ted Cruz's campaign manager for president and for re-electionto to the Senate, recently described in a New York Times op-ed, as the maddening brilliance as Trump.
If somehow Trump's choice of a black man as his running mate is the one thing Trump has done that they don't fall in line behind, well … they can't do that.
Vice does indeed do a comprehensive job of identifying the right-wing losers who suddenly love Kanye.
The only critique I would offer is that these right-wing losers won in 2016..
On Friday, Alex Jones snuck a little time at home before the start of his daughter's first birthday party to deconstruct what was going on with Kanye and Trump.
I don't pay attention to pop culture. I really should because that's where the brainwashing is going on. And I saw like the gay fish stuff, whatever, five years ago, but I listened to (Kanye's) music, and I'm thinking, this is some pretty good, relaxing rap. Every Kanye song is good, not great, some are great, but they're all good. Some music, like Metallica, Led Zeppelin – some's great, all of it's good. Kanye's in that class. That's my opinion.
But I'm not into celebrities. I've already seen it. I've already done it.
OK. Let's skip ahead.
Jones doesn't like what Snoop Dogg had to say about Kanye.
Snoop Dogg, Jones says, is like Urkel, and a fraud.
Kanye is real folks, Urkel is not.
You know why people love Trump so much? It's about the energy. He doesn't care what color you are.
Oh, if I even told you, they would go crazy with that.
Trump likes black people. He likes their energy, but I'm gonna leave it at that.
Then there's Dilbert cartoons Scott Adams, a leading Trumpologist and the author of Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter.
Scott Adams Tells You How Kanye West Showed the Way To The Golden Age
What follows are notes, not the complete text, of what is on this video:
Scott Adams:
We keep seeing things that don't seem possible based on our old way of thinking.
We're seeing more signs of the Golden Age …. when all the big stuff is going right, heading in the right direction … the tealization many of our problems are psychological, not physical.
A President Trump comes on the scene. One of the things that defines him more any … he doesn't see limits on what he can do. His marriage. What level he can rise to. How much money he can make. What he can say on Twitter.
"You can't do that. You can't say that."
Hold my Diet Coke. I am going to do this in front of you. I am going to give this nickname. I am going to insult this person.
And it all seems impossible. Until it works out.
The economy is blazing. North Korea is starting to go in the right direction. And if North Korea goes it will be the biggest signal of the Golden Age. It will be the biggest success in history that was a psychological problem that was solved by psychological means, short of war.
It feels like there's something big happening.
People are breaking out of their mental prisons, things that used to hold us back.
The best example of that recently … Yes we are going to the white board.
President Trump is not in a mental prison. He knows that history doesn't repeat itself. Where did he get that. Same place I did. Norman Vincent Peale and The Power of Positive Thinking.
Another mental prison – the problem has to be the solution.
With slavery, white people were the problem and white people were the solution.
Same with civil rights. White people are the problem and the solution.
But now you get to this "last mile fog," where things are much better but could be better still, and people don't agree what the problems are.
We are coming to the point where we are separating the problems from the solution.
And what I mean by that is you are sort of seeing the philosophy represented by Candace Owens.
And you can Google her if you're not familiar with her. She is a conservative African-American woman who has become a very important voice, because she represents a point of view that you don't see as much as you will in the future.
The conservative view ,which Candace holds, is that society has done what it can do, meaning that white people have done what they can do to make the laws as close as possible, to enforce the laws, and the last mile, no matter who causes the problem – doesn't matter whether white people are the cause or not the cause of the last-mile problem, they can't fix it. They can do what they can do but they're not really the solution.
So Candace's realization is the problem and the solution are disconnected.
Only the people who have the problem can fix it. Not the people who did cause it you think they caused it. Even if they wanted to, which they probably do.
Candace says we're in the Golden Age already, because the biggest problem is the way we think about the problem. If we think about it differently we can get to a better place.
What was the big news of the last week? Kanye West, who is famous for saying things like, "George Bush doesn't care about black people."
For getting on stage with Taylor Swift and making the statement that Beyoncé should have won and racism was probably part of the voting, somebody who has strong credentials for being an advocate for black people and against racism.
So Kanye probably has good credentials from that point of view, and what did he tweet? He tweeted, "I love the way Candace Owens thinks." Seven words. And he ripped a hole in reality with seven words.
Because Kanye is supposed to be over here. And Candace is supposed to be over here. And they are never supposed to say the other one said something right. That's not supposed to happen
But Kanye did it anyway. Kanye knows history doesn't repeat. He is not a prisoner of the mind. He knows the problem is not the solution. Whatever you want to say about Kanye's politics, and I don't even know what his preferred politics would be, I'm not even sure what party he would run for if he ran for president at this point.
Whatever else you want to say about him, and I don't know enough about his actual management skills or political ability, but he did something that you could rarely see. He actually just altered reality. He just made the entire conservative twittersphere go WRUMP.
What did I just see? Did I really see this?
Forget about if you think Candace has everything right or everything wrong. That's not the story. The story is that these two people that shouldn't be in the same conversation, and Kanye just changed that, in seven words. And he just freed a lot of people from a mental prison. Kanye unlocked a mental prison, and is bringing you to the Golden Age.
But then, of course, there was this contribution to the public dialogue from Kanye.
A little background
The big difference between a white liberal and white conservative is the liberal has some sense of guilt.
The best thing ever for some white conservatives is when some black people say they have absolutely nothing to be guilty about.
(Maybe it's Jewish thing, but I associate religion with guilt. Yet it seems for some, confessing sin and begging forgiveness is way better than feeling guilty about it.)
So, per Kanye, or at least the soundbite of Kanye, if slavery was a choice that slaves somehow accepted – who are white people to get all judgmental and say that black people made the wrong choice.
I am sure that a lot of people at the NRA annual meeting would have been pleased with the shorthand of what Kanye had to say.
Otherwise, they might have considered giving posthumous life memberships to John Brown and Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey who sought to use guns in the name of freedom..
Instead, here, in segments tweeted by NRA-TV, so you know they thought they were especially choice, are Trump superfans Diamond and Silk, dropping some really lame but crowd-pleasing lines of argument.
Kruse is a Princeton historian who is pretty active on Twitter.
In the meantime, Kanye and T.I. have put out Ye vs. the People (starring T.I. as the People), in which Kanye explains what he is up to with Trump and MAGA and is cross-examined by the rapper T.I., playing the part of the skeptical Kanye faithful.
It's at a far higher level than Diamonds and Silk.
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
I had for us
You turned my dreams into dust
KW: I know Obama was heaven sent
But ever since Trump won, it proved that I could be President
TI: Yeah, you can, at what cost though?
Don't that go against the teachings that Ye taught for?
KW: Yo, Tip, I hear your side and everybody talk, though
But ain't goin' against the grain everything I fought for?
TI: Prolly so, Ye, but where you tryna go with this?
It's some shit you just don't align with and don't go against
KW: You just readin' the headlines, you don't see the fine print
You on some choosin'side shit, I'm on some unified shit
TI: It's bigger than your selfish agenda
If your election ain't gon' stop police from murderin' niggas, then shit
KW: Bruh, I never ever stopped fightin' for the people
Actually, wearin' the hat'll show people that we equal
TI: You gotta see the vantage point of the people
What makes you feel equal makes them feel evil
KW: See that's the problem with this damn nation
All Blacks gotta be Democrats, man, we ain't made it off the plantation
TI: Fuck who you choose as your political party
You representin' dudes just seem crude and cold-hearted
With blatant disregard for the people who put you in position
Don't you feel an obligation to them?
KW: I feel a obligation to show people new ideas
And if you wanna hear 'em, there go two right here
Make America Great Again had a negative perception
I took it, wore it, rocked it, gave it a new direction
Added empathy, care and love and affection
And y'all simply questionin' my methods
TI: What you willin' to lose for the point to be proved?
This shit is stubborn, selfish, bullheaded, even for you
You wore a dusty-ass hat to represent the same views
As white supremacy, man, we expect better from you
All them times you sounded crazy, we defended you, homie
Not just to be let down when we depend on you, homie
That's why it's important to know what direction you're goin' now
'Cause everything that you built can be destroyed and torn down
KW: You think I ain't concerned about how I affect the past?
I mean, that hat stayed in my closet like 'bout a year and a half
Then one day I was like, "Fuck it, I'ma do me"
I was in the sunken place and then I found the new me
Not worried about some image that I gotta keep up
Lot of people agree with me, but they're too scared to speak up
TI: The greater good of the people is first
Have you considered all the damage and the people you hurt?
You had a bad idea, and you're makin' it worse
This shit's just as bad as Catholic preachers rapin' in church
KW: Y'all been leadin' with hate, see I just approach it different
Like a gang truce, the first Blood to shake the Crip's hand
I know everybody emotional
Is it better if I rap about crack? Huh? 'Cause it's cultural?
Or how about I'ma shoot you, or fuck your bitch?
Or how about all this Gucci, 'cause I'm fuckin' rich?
TI: You'll deal with God for the lack of respect
Startin' to make it seem like Donnie cut you a check
Now you toyin' with hot lava, better be careful with that
What's it mean to gain the world if you ain't standin' for shit?
Okay I gotta say it, Ye, you sound high as a bitch
Yeah, genocide and slavery, we should just try and forget
And all that free thought shit, find a better defense
But if Ye just stuck in his way, he can leave it at that
Fuck it
KW: Alright, Tip, we could be rappin' about this all day, man
Why don't we just cut the beat off and let the people talk.
Returning to Kevin Kruse, the Princeton historian, here is an extensive thread: Since @kanyewest's tweets have apparently made this topic unavoidable, some thoughts on the history of the parties' switch on civil rights.
First, it's important to note that, yes, the Democrats were indeed the party of slavery and, in the early 20th century, the party of segregation, too.
(There are some pundits who claim this is some secret they've uncovered, but it's long been front & center in any US history.)
Indeed, as @rauchway once noted, one could argue that *the* central story of twentieth-century American political history is basically the evolution of the Democratic Party from the party of Jim Crow to the party of civil rights.
At the start of the 20th century, the Democrats — dominated by white southern conservatives — were clearly the party of segregationists.
President Woodrow Wilson, for instance, instituted segregation in Washington and across the federal government. (See @EricSYellin's work.)
That said, both parties in this period had their share of racists in their ranks.
When the second KKK rose to power in the 1920s, it had a strong Democratic ties in some states; strong GOP ones elsewhere.
There's a meme purporting to show the 1924 Democratic convention was known as the "Klanbake" but — wait a second, you should sit down for this — that internet meme is not in fact historically accurate.
See @pashulman & @CleverTitleTK for a breakdown: washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-h…
This, then, was a period when the two parties' IDs were in flux.
Democrats still had a base of segregationists in the South, but increasingly some liberals in the North.
Republicans, liberal & even radical in Lincoln's era, had more conservatives joining, often in the West.
With the New Deal, FDR brought new big-government liberalism to the Democrats, but found sharp resistance from southern Dems on two issues: unions and civil rights.
(Among dozens and dozens of great books on this, see Ira Katznelson's Fear Itself:
'Fear Itself,' by Ira KatznelsonIra Katznelson examines how Franklin D. Roosevelt won approval for the New Deal, and at what cost.https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/books/review/fear-itself-by-ira-katznelson.html)
Importantly, despite some small gestures, FDR's brand of liberalism was purely focused on economic issues.
Though some in the administration (Eleanor Roosevelt, progressive Republican Harold Ickes, etc.) were racially liberal, the Democrats as a whole were not.
As Nancy Weiss Malkiel and others showed, African Americans began voting Democratic not because of the New Deal's record on race, but in spite of it.
Blacks stayed loyal to "the party of Lincoln" in 1932, but shifted in massive numbers to FDR in 1936. (~76% of northern blacks)
Over the next two decades, Democrats had an uneasy coalition that combined white southern conservatives and African Americans in the north, plus a growing number of white liberals.
This tension came to a head in the 1948 election, under the leadership of President Harry Truman.
Outraged at reports of black WWII vets being assaulted, Truman launched a presidential commission on civil rights in 1946-7.
Then — to the nation's shock — he pressed hard for all its recommendations, including protecting black voting rights and desegregating the military.
Liberal Democrats rallied around Truman's call, with then-Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey urging the 1948 DNC "to get out of the shadow of states' rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights."
After Humphrey's speech, the convention adopted a strong civil rights plank.
It was a turning point for the party, the first major fight on civil rights in which northern liberals beat back southern conservatives and took control of the party on race relations.
Famously, of course, Southern Democrats bolted the party in anger, forming the States Rights Democratic Party — "the Dixiecrats" — under the leadership of avowed segregationist Strom Thurmond.
Thurmond and the Dixiecrats took four Deep South states (notably, all places where local allies kicked Truman off the ballot) but Truman still won re-election that fall.
The Dixiecrats came back into the coalition, but increasingly saw that they were on the losing end of things.
The Democratic Party was still the only party in the South, where the Republicans — "the party of Lincoln" — were still reviled and, as a result, virtually non-existent.
In his classic 1949 study, the famous political scientist V.O. Key judged that the Republican Party in the South "scarcely deserves the name of party. It wavers somewhat between an esoteric cult on the order of a lodge and a conspiracy for plunder."
In fact, Republicans were so rare in the South that in the 1950s they told a story in East Texas about a sheriff who threw out the only two votes for a Republican candidate on the assumption that the candidate himself must have voted twice.
Both parties vied for the southern white vote during the 1950s, and thus took a fairly hands-off approach to civil rights.
Republican President Dwight Eisenhower and Illinois Gov. Adlai Stevenson, his Dem opponent in 1952 & 1956, both tried to duck the issue whenever possible. As president, Ike sympathized with southern whites.
After Brown v. Board, he said appointing Chief Justice Earl Warren had been "the biggest damfool mistake I ever made." He refused to urge compliance with Brown, allowing southern Democrats to wage "massive resistance" to it.
Eisenhower reluctantly intervened in Little Rock, but only belatedly, when Democratic Governor Orval Faubus's defiance of the Supreme Court — and, by extension, Eisenhower's own authority — got dangerously out of hand.
JFK was a lot like Ike on civil rights. He made symbolic efforts in the 1960 campaign, calling Coretta Scott King when MLK was in jail and winning key black votes in the North.
But until the Birmingham protests in 1963 he was generally reluctant to act, just as Ike had been.
In June 1963, after the Kennedy administration secured the desegregation of the University of Alabama — over the objections of Democratic Gov. George Wallace — JFK issued this stirring call for the legislation that would become the Civil Rights Act.
When JFK was assassinated, Lyndon B. Johnson didn't simply continue to push for the Civil Rights Act, but went further, making it even stronger than originally planned.
He signed it into law in July 1964 with Martin Luther King at his side:
Now, Republicans were pivotal in helping pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
It *was* a Democratic admin's bill, but Southern Dems in the Senate blocked it at every turn, so Democratic leaders reached out to Minority Leader Everett Dirksen to get GOP votes to help pass it.
Despite that GOP support for the Civil Rights Act, Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican presidential nominee, voted against it.
Personally, Goldwater wasn't a bigot. He opposed not integration itself, but federal intervention to achieve it.
For most Southern whites, however, the nuances of Goldwater's opposition to the Civil Rights Act didn't matter. All that mattered was that he stood against it, while LBJ stood for it.
Goldwater carried four Deep South states that fall, with segregationists rallying to the GOP.
Notably, Senator Strom Thurmond — the original Dixiecrat — bolted from the Democratic Party to join the ranks of the Republicans.
Importantly, he secured a rare deal with the GOP whereby he'd keep his seniority, and all the congressional power that came with it.
The Goldwater/Thurmond moment was transformative in how Americans understood the two parties on civil rights.
Until 1964, it seemed clear that Democrats were the party of economic liberalism and the GOP economic conservatism, but civil rights had been left out of the picture.
Indeed, as @edsall has noted, as late as 1962, polls asking which political party was "more likely to see to it that Negroes get fair treatment in jobs and housing" showed that Americans saw virtually no difference between Democrats and Republicans.
But in 1964, when asked the same question, 60% said Democrats were more in favor of fair jobs and housing for blacks; just 7% said Republicans.
Asked which party was more likely to support school integration in 1964, 56% pointed to Democrats while 7% did so for the Republicans. There was a stark change in popular perception about the two parties on civil rights.
But, that said, there was *not* an immediate, massive change in party affiliations for elected officials in Washington. The "realignment" that scholars write about didn't happen overnight.
Strom Thurmond's deal — in which he kept his seniority and thus, in the era of strong committee chairs, his real power — proved to be a one-off.
Most of the other old Dixiecrats in Congress didn't switch parties themselves, but oversaw a transition for the next generation.
Take former Senate Maj. Leader Trent Lott. He served as an aide to Rep. William Colmer (D-MS), head of the House Rules Committee.
When Colmer retired in 1972, he handpicked Lott to fill the seat — but told him to run as a Republican. He did & won.
Returning to Kruse's thread:
Or consider Jesse Helms. He'd grown up a southern Dem, getting his first taste of politics helping Democrat Willis Smith run a race-baiting campaign for a NC senate seat in 1950 (see the ad below).
When Helms ran on his own in 1972, though, like Lott, he ran as a Republican.
Ah yes, Jesse Helms.
From Jennifer Bendery at the Huffington Post, on September 14, 2013.
Ted Cruz: 'We Need 100 More Like Jesse Helms' In The Senate
WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Wednesday that the country would be better off if the Senate was full of people like Jesse Helms, the late senator who was ardently opposed to all kinds of civil rights measures and even tried to block the Senate from approving a federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.
During remarks at a Heritage Foundation event dubbed the "Jesse Helms Lecture Series," Cruz told a story of Helms receiving a $5,000 political donation from actor John Wayne, who apparently later told Helms he liked him because "you're that guy saying all those crazy things" and that there needed to be 100 more of him.
"It's every bit as true now as it was then," Cruz said. "We need 100 more like Jesse Helms in the U.S. Senate."
Helms, the conservative North Carolina Republican who served in the Senate for 30 years, was known for his efforts to stop progressive polices relating to gay rights, abortion and race. He opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which he referred to as "the single most dangerous piece of legislation ever introduced in the Congress." When the Senate acted in 1983 to create a federal holiday honoring King, Helms staged a 16-day filibuster to try to block it. He ultimately caved in exchange for action on a tobacco bill.
In 1988, Helms opposed the Kennedy-Hatch AIDS bill, stating that there "is not one single case of AIDS in this country that cannot be traced in origin to sodomy."
Helms passed away in 2008.
Cruz said the first political donation he ever made was to Helms — $10 — and praised the late senator for his outspokenness. If Helms were alive, Cruz said, he would be taking a more aggressive stance against "radical Islamist terrorism" than President Barack Obama has been taking.
"If Jesse Helms were still with us, he would not shy away from this fight," Cruz said.
Cruz spoke at the NRA meeting after Pence and Trump, Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Sen. John Cornyn.
The tone of the NRA meeting was angry and defiant, at once crowing about how gun owners have never enjoyed as many rights and privileges as they have today, thanks to the NRA, but also haranguing that gun rights have never been more imperiled and under siege.
In his column, Ken Herman, who I went to Dallas with, wrote:
The part I don't get about gun culture is the part that says I should have one to defend myself against my government. I feel no such need.
Well, that's easy for Ken to say.
He probably knew all along that the (Alex Jones fueled) conspiracy theory back in 2015 about the Jade Helm military exercises being a prelude to the Obama administration declaring martial law in Texas was really early evidence of beta testing by the Russians of a disinformation campaign in the United States.
But, the NRA, it seems is always on Jade Helm alert.
From Ken's column:
dStrategically placed throughout the convention center are big (really, really big) banners featuring the meeting's slogan — "A Show of Strength" — and a challenging, menacing, come-and-take-it oversized visage of NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre.
His welcome message in the program reminds NRA members, "Forces from the extreme left in the political class to anti-Second Amendment extremists in the academic community to the ever more aggressive, deceitful national media have joined together in a massive conspiracy to seize control of the U.S. House and Senate in the next election."
The goal of that cabal, he says, is nothing less than "to pervert our great nation into their European-style socialist utopia."
It made we wonder about staunch defenders of the Second Amendment who might not necessarily buy into the whole LaPierre agenda – there must more than a few of them – which seems to go well beyond defending the Second Amendment.
If not as stern of visage as LaPierre, Cruz was also combative in his remarks:
We understand the Second Amendment right is not about hunting," Sen. Cruz said. "It's not about target shooting. The Second Amendment is about the fundamental, God-given right each and every one of us has to defend our lives, to defend our homes, to defend our children, to defend our family, and when the Second Amendment says 'shall not be infringed' it means exactly that: shall not be infringed. That's what the men and women here are standing up and defending.
In 1776, 56 patriots affixed their names to the Declaration of Independence. Signed their lives, fortunes and sacred honors. When they made that commitment those were not empty words. Those were the words that launched a revolution, the greatest experiment in freedom that the world has ever known. Today, in this gathering, we are once again in the presence of patriots. From the minutemen at Lexington and Concord to civil rights leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, Americans have long understood that the right to keep and bear arms is fundamental for preserving our liberty. And the men and women here are committed to standing up for freedom..
Suffice it to say that Jesse Helms would not have thought to recruit Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, both of whom were assassinated with guns, nto the campaign against gun regulation. Nor, I suspect, would Jesse Helms have welcomed Kanye West to a national Republican ticket, as I'm sure Cruz, when the time comes, will.
Fourteen years ago, I covered Kanye West at a hip-hop political summit at Ohio State University.
Forty years after Freedom Summer and the murders of three young civil rights workers in Mississippi, there is a nascent effort to rouse a new generation to activism by transforming hip-hop from a cultural force into a political movement – to bring bling bling to the ballot box.
It was evident in early June at the celebrity-driven Hip-Hop Summit at Ohio State University, credited with adding some 10,000 new voters to the rolls. And it will be in further evidence beginning Wednesday at the three-day National Hip-Hop Political Convention in Newark, N.J., an issues-driven, grass-roots affair (delegates were required to register 50 new voters to be credentialed) that will try to define just what a hip-hop politics would look like.
"There's a phrase in hip-hop _ `show and prove,"' said James Bernard, 39, a pioneering figure in hip-hop journalism who is now devoted to political organizing. The field director for the Newark convention, Bernard has raised $1.4 million for the Hip-Hop Civic Engagement Project, a registration and get-out-the-vote drive that he will direct in 14 key states. "I think we are about to show and prove."
Freedom Summer flowered amid one of the most fertile periods of social change in American history. Black voting rights were secured, and the voting age was lowered to 18. But in 2000, nearly two-thirds of blacks ages 18 to 24 did not vote, and the turnout among young whites was hardly any better (especially considering how many young black males cannot vote because they are in prison or, once out, in states that deny ex-felons the vote).
Some rappers, like Kanye West, 26, who headlined the Ohio State summit, are pointedly mindful of both the legacy and burden of history for a generation more used to commemorating the black freedom struggle than advancing it.
West's father was a Black Panther. His mother is a professor of English at Chicago State University who, as he raps in "Never Let Me Down," was taken by her grandfather to a sit-in where "at the tender of six she was arrested."
"With that in my blood I was born to be different," he continues. "Now n—-s can't make it to ballots to choose leadership, but we can make it to Jacob and to the dealership." (Jacob is the jeweler designing West's line of diamond-studded Jesus pendants.)
In his own conversation with reporters at the summit, Damon Dash, co-chair of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network and CEO of Roc-A-Fella Records, the major label whose artists include West, admitted that political rap does not sell and that rappers have to slip wisdom into more commercial work.
"Sometimes it's not in our best interests to let people know how smart we are," Dash said.
"That says it all," observed Mark McPhail, a professor at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he is conducting a course on Freedom Summer on the very campus where civil rights volunteers were trained before being dispatched to Mississippi.
So, it appeared Kanye was using 400 years of slavery to sell an album by selling out his people.
As T.I., as the people, put it:
Startin' to make it seem like Donnie cut you a check
Now you toyin' with hot lava, better be careful with that
But, as West replies, Alright, Tip, we could be rappin' about this all day, man.
Why don't we just cut the beat off and let the people talk.
So maybe he is just getting the conversation going, per Scott Adams, to liberate some minds and usher in the Golden Age, though I suspect is has more to do with his own Golden Age.
For better or worse, it is world-class branding, something that Trump understands and at which Trump, like Kanye excels.
Think of the ratings potential.
A Trump-West inaugural in 2021 might actually draw the biggest crowd ever.
They are a perfect match.
Bye bye Pence.
Cleveland-based pastor Darrell Scott, who is an outside adviser to the president, told PEOPLE that the president had signed off on a series of meetings on race that will include athletes and artists.
"He is 100 percent for it," says Scott, who said he had spoken with Trump. "He was very enthusiastic about it."
He added: "It's not going to be a black-only event. It will be a melting pot."
Scott also confirmed that Kanye, who has shared his admiration for Trump, has been invited. Though the idea of the summits has been in play for a while, Kanye's recent controversial tweets may have sped up the process, Scott says.
Kaepernick, who Trump once vilified for his position to kneel during the national anthem, has also been asked to attend.
"Maybe he should find a country that works better for him," Trump said of Kaepernick last year, adding that players who kneel for the anthem should be fired.
According to Scott, who will be apart of the organizing team, invitations will also be extended to Jim Brown, Evander Holyfield, Herschel Walker and Mike Tyson.
Trump also plans to be in attendance, a move that Scott says will help people understand the president better.
"I want them to see and know the Donald Trump I know and they will say, 'This guy isn't who I've been lead to believe he is.


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If I'm having chips, they're never quite right unless they're completely soaked in vinegar with a sprinkling of salt. It's the absolute best. The trick is to always put the vinegar on first as this helps the salt to stick to the chips. Having chips without vinegar just never feels quite right to me.
I've never had potatoes cooked any other way with vinegar before. There's jacket potatoes, roast potatoes, fried potatoes, boiled potatoes, but unless they're specifically chips, it's not really seen as the 'done' thing to put vinegar on them. But today, I am here to change that, and introduce to you the ultimate side dish, salt and vinegar smashed potatoes.
If you haven't had smashed potatoes before, then I urge you to give these a go asap. They're soft and fluffy on the inside, and super crisp on the outside. Finished with a load of salt and vinegar, and some chopped chives or parsley if you're feeling fancy, and you'll never look at a simple potato the same way again. Also, it's quite fun actually smashing the potatoes.
If you're not a fan of vinegar, then ditch the vinegar and just cover in salt. Although really, these are so delicious that you should at least try one with vinegar. I like to think of these as grown up versions of salt and vinegar covered chips.
Enjoy, and make a few extra, because they'll be gone within minutes.
Vegan Salt & Vinegar Smashed Potatoes
Salt and vinegar smashed potatoes make the perfect simple side dish to any meal.
- 10 small potatoes, washed
- Malt vinegar
- Sea salt
- 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- Small handful parsley, chopped (optional)
- Step 1 Place your potatoes in a large saucepan of water
- Step 2 Bring to the boil
- Step 3 Whilst the potatoes are boiling, pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees fan
- Step 4 Boil the potatoes for 30 minutes, until the potatoes are soft
- Step 5 Once soft, drain and place on a large baking tray, spaced apart
- Step 6 Take a glass, and with the bottom of the glass on a potato, gently apply pressure to 'smash' the potato. Try not to smash so far that the potato breaks into pieces. You just want to break the potato
- Step 7 Repeat for all the potatoes
- Step 8 Drizzle with your olive oil
- Step 9 Place in the oven for 25 – 30 minutes, until the potatoes are golden and crispy
- Step 10 Remove from the oven, and whilst still warm, cover in vinegar and salt. Add as little or as much as you want, depending on your taste
- Step 11 Sprinkle with parsley if using
- Step 12 Serve!


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Adopted: April 22, 2009, Increased Schooling Pupil Assistance Authority, Maria I. Torres, Chairperson. He criticized the prevailing system of training tax deductions and credits as an amazing subsidy for higher-middle-class and rich families" that forces lower-earnings students to take out hefty schooling loans. Perhaps most strikingly, online enrollments continue to make up an increasing proportion of all enrollments in greater schooling, as seen within the chart below.
NEA college and workers thought of the answer on the latest NEA Higher Ed conference. Training opens your mind to raised understand the world around you and how things works. The plan is beneath means, and the college is awaiting remaining approval from the U.S. Department of Training to award federal scholar help for the scholars in this system.
The new coverage was announced in a joint letter from the Training Division and Justice Division to the University of Montana. The scholar assistance applications HESAA administers embrace the Federal Family Training Mortgage Program. The Sallie Mae survey comes amid a rising federal and state policy debate concerning the high value of higher schooling and the impact on middle- and low-income families.
Officers in any respect three establishments imagine a program based on what a scholar knows somewhat than seat time is the only approach to start clearing the logjam of time-pressed adults who want a postsecondary training. As we transfer ahead with bettering the tutorial system for those currently or about to enroll in increased schooling, you will need to not leave behind the tens of millions of People who nonetheless possess scholar debt.
The Greater Education Policy Commission and West Virginia Community and Technical Faculty System have joined forces on a statewide purpose to Double the Levels" produced annually in West Virginia by the yr 2025. The purpose of scholar loans needs to be to extend access to postsecondary schooling and invest in future economic progress—not to generate federal income.


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What is a panic attack? What happens to your body when you have a panic attack? And how can you overcome the problem? Dr Amanda White, leading Brisbane Psychologist, explains …
Panic can be conceptualised as an overwhelming sense of fear, a fear which is so sudden and powerful that it blocks logical reasoning. The cascade of thoughts and sensations associated with panic are biologically defined by activation of our sympathetic nervous system (SNS), also known as the fight or flight response, or an acute stress response.
A key part of SNS activation is the flood of such catecholamine hormones as adrenaline and noradrenaline. Catecholamine hormones prep the physical body for intense and immediate muscular activity, signs of this include:
- Accelerated heart rate & lung activity, leading to shallow breathing
- Pale or flushed skin, shaking & tingling sensations
- Stomach & upper-intestinal muscles inhibited – slowing or stopping digestion
- Blood vessels constrict, except blood vessels in muscles which dilate
- Nutrient release, e.g. fat & glucose, to feed muscular action
- Tears & salivation inhibited
- Pupil dilation with loss of peripheral vision (tunnel vision) & loss of hearing
- Bladder relaxes
- Erection inhibited
These physical sensations, as well as intense anxiety, are often reported during a panic attack. Panic attacks differ from other anxiety conditions because of their intense, periodic nature. A panic attack has sudden onset and escalates rapidly, typically reaching a peak within ten or so minutes. However, a panic attack may last much longer if the person experiencing it is unable to escape the source of threat. Experiencing a panic attack can be very stressful, so stressful some people report fearing they were having a heart attack, a nervous breakdown, or were about to die.
Some persons who find they have repeated attacks begin to experience anticipatory anxiety between attacks. This presentation is termed Panic Disorder.
So, what is the point of panic? Human beings have evolved to best respond to perceived threats through activation of the SNS. It's a survival mechanism. Historically, threats may have been dealt with most effectively by mobilising the physical system to either fight or flee the scene, a successful way to counteract predatory animals or a natural disaster. In modern society, however, threats can be far more wide ranging and not easily dealt with by an immediate physical response. Examples may be sitting in traffic, attending work meetings, or a social occasion.
Understandably, psychological treatments often focus on resetting the SNS through calming body sensations, generally by addressing hyperventilation through breathing exercises, and reassuring the mind. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is recognised as the most effective treatment for panic attacks and panic disorder. Meditation is also a considered a useful practice to increase wellbeing and create mental space from perceived threats. In some cases medication may also be appropriate, in this instance discuss with your treating medical doctor.
Author: Dr Amanda White, PhD, B Psych (Hons), B Beh Sc, DipH, MAPS.
Dr Amanda White is a highly experienced clinician and senior psychologist at M1 Psychology Loganholme. Her treatment programs are based on an eclectic approach, meaning evidence-based best practice is merged with the presentation and problem solving approach of each client.
To make an appointment with Dr Amanda White Psychologist, try Online Booking – Loganholme or call M1 Psychology (Loganholme) on (07) 3067 9129.


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Sisi He
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|University of Illinois
|Molecular & Integrative Physiology (MIP)
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Hi! My name is Sis He. I'm a PhD student at UIUC. I'm in Dr. Erik Nelson's lab, and my research focuses on the effects of cholesterol on ovarian cancer survival. Broadly speaking, I study the effects of diet and exercise on cancer survival. I love my research work, and I'm excited that I have the opportunity to contribute to the collaborate efforts of scientists in finding cancer cures. In my spare time, I enjoy running, cycling, swimming, sailing and trying out new activities. My favorite running distance is half-marathon, and my favorite cycling event is Full Moon Bike Ride to Sidney Dairy Barn for ice cream. I just learned and finished building a bike at the Bike Project. I'm very excited and looking forward to our cross-country bike ride next summer!
Personal Statement
As a PhD student, I study and research ovarian cancer, which is unfortunately a very deadly disease. Earlier this year, my department lost Prof. Anna Nardulli to ovarian cancer. Her lab is right next to mine, and she was a great mentor and an inspirational scientist to us. She reminded me the importance of my work, and I would like to do this ride in memory of her. Research is extremely important for discover better cancer treatments. Because of public support and fundraising efforts in the last few decades, we now have highly effective treatments and/or prevention methods for child leukemia, melanoma and cervical cancer. However, cancer is not just one disease, but a collection of many different diseases. To make all cancers curable, more money and resources are needed so scientist can continue to study and understand these diseases better. My fundraising goal is to raise $4,000 for cancer research before our ride next summer. Please support this goal and contribute. Without your support, we won't be able to make progress towards finding cures for cancers.


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As most schoolchildren are told from a young age, A stands for Apple; April, on the other hand, surely stands for the Apple Watch. The industry's most hotly-anticipated wearable has been preceded by months of speculation – could it sell as well as the iPad on its launch? Will it provide a natural fit for fashion editorials? Now, on the eve of its launch, keen industry-watchers are looking to Baselworld (the watch industry's international trade fair) for possible rivals. There, a crop of new announcements are proving themselves worthy contenders to the smart watch throne – one which, as we should remind ourselves, Apple hasn't ascended to quite yet.
Coming from the other side of the bridge where technology meets luxury fashion, TAG Heuer have announced their plans this week to release a smart watch by this Christmas. In a significant move against Apple's projected domination, the first smart watch from the world-famous Swiss watch brand will run on Google's Android operating system – on a processor, moreover, created by keen wearables power player Intel. You'll have to wait to find out more, though. At the Baselworld conference, chief executive Jean-Claude Biver told the crowd, "We don't want the competition to know what we are going to do."
Never easily dismissed, the irrepressible musician-turned-technologist will.i.am also announced a new partnership at Baselworld. KERING-owned Gucci, which recently changed hands from the Gianninis to Alessandro Michele, will also bring its timepieces into a new era through a collaboration with willi.i.am's range of wearables.
For those of you still convinced that Apple's the only brand that will get you telling the time more smartly, there's not long to wait: the official release date is slated for UK stores on 24 April, but you'll be able to order from the 10th. But if Baselworld is anything to go by, the smartwatch marketplace is about to get very interesting.
Writer: Claire Healy


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22 Jun 2015
Aaron Meyers
A scintillating and genuinely unique online portfolio from Aaron Meyers. Enter a world of Sony Trinitrons and meta zooming.
Related websites
Daniel Powell
Hang loose with Daniel Powell's contact page/homepage toy. Keep an eye out for this guy, he will certainly be making waves.
Jonathan Harris
Sometimes a small toy is all the embellishment a site needs. This is certainly true of internet artist Jonathan Harris' portfolio.
Tom Cavill
Changing background colours characterise the portfolio of digital product designer Tom Cavill—also check out the nice Easter egg when clicking on the logo.
Nice perspective zoom on this one-pager for Berlin-based design studio Codelux.
The Mobile Index
Mobext have started a glossary of words related to mobile technology, and decided to publish their ongoing mobile index in the form of this site. A clever reference to handheld communication using sign language.


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This month's reading list is a bit shorter than usual. I feel like I'm heading for a bit of a reading slump, so I want to take it easier on myself this month. I'm doing great in all my challenges, so I can afford a bit of a lighter reading month. Plus, I really don't know what I feel like reading at the moment, and I'm definitely a mood reader. And if I force myself to read something I'm not into right now, I will definitely trigger a slump. That said, there are some books I'd really like to get around to reading this month.
1. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien. This month, there is a very special holiday. And I'm not talking about St. Patrick's Day. March 25th is Tolkien Reading Day! So there is literally no better time to start my reread of The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Let me know in the comments if you're reading any of the LOTR books this month as well – I know there's a read along happening (#MiddleEarthMarch), but I'm not sure I want to commit to marathoning the series just yet.
2. The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng. This book is one of the reasons I like doing reading challenges. Because I never would have picked it up otherwise. It's actually highly acclaimed, and the winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize (as well as a finalist for the Man Booker), but I'd never heard of it until I had to find a book by a Southeast Asian author for the BookRiot Read Harder Challenge. It follows a Japanese wartime camp survivor after WWII, as she discovers the only Japanese garden in Malaya and its mysterious gardener.
3. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. I've decided to challenge myself by reading at least one nonfiction book a month – I want to, I just tend to chose fiction most of the time. Since I don't know if I have it in me to finish a 600+ page history book this month, I decided to pick one of my shorter nonfiction books, and I've been meaning to read this one for years. I love Jonathan Safran Foer's books, I like the idea behind this one, and I finally got myself a copy at the dollar bookstore back in January. Now I just need to read it.
I am also doing the Reading New England Challenge this year, and the suggestion for this month is… a book set in Maine. And, since Maine is home to none other than Mr. Stephen King, I thought it only fitting to read one of his books (set in Maine, of course). Also, the only other Maine book on my TBR – The Cider House Rules – is like a thousand pages, and I have enough big books to read this year. So, I'm going with:
4. Carrie by Stephen King. This is actually King's first published novel, and one of his books I haven't yet read. I'm not a crazy King fanatic, but I've read a fair amount of his books, and I already got a digital copy of this from the library. (It's also pretty short, which is a big selling point for me this month.)
And, finally, my TBR jar pick of the month is: an ARC (advance reader copy) or gifted novel. Surprisingly, I don't have very many gifted novels (and none that I can think of that I haven't already read). So I'm going to pick an ARC. And, since it's coming out this month (on the 15th), I will be reading:
5. An Unattractive Vampire by Jim McDoniel. Basically, this book is about an old-school, scary vampire who sets out to destroy the modern, pretty vampires (aka, the kind in Twilight) because he hates what they represent. I'm not a huge fan of vampire fiction, but I definitely favor the traditional, scary vampires over the moral, love-interest vampires. So I think this'll be a fun read.
I am also trying to finish A Brief History of Time this month (because I started it in September, and six months is way too long to be reading a 200-page book), and get further into War and Peace (I recently picked up a new, easier to understand translation). I'm most likely going to be reading the Our Shared Shelf book club pick this month – whatever it is – as well. So far, I've absolutely loved both books from Our Shared Shelf, so I think I'm pretty committed. I might also pick up some YA books this month. The Wrath and the Dawn, Fangirl, Glass Sword, and Siege and Storm are at the top of my list.
Let me know what you're planning on reading this month, and if you've read any of the books on my list (I'd love to hear your thoughts)!


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Latest BT complaint regarding business broadband.
Dear Sir
I have tried (unsuccessfully) to switch from a BT Business Broadband package to a BT Home Broadband package, roughly the two were the same cost but with the Home Package I would get the home hub and free evening/weekend calls. BT accepted my order gave me a switch over date which came and went with no switch. Spoke to the Business team they said speak to the Residential team, spoke to them and they said speak to the Business Team.
In the end I was told it was not actually possible to switch from one BT service to another and that my only option would be to cancel my BT service and switch it to another supplier, which I am duly in the process of doing for my broadband and phone sevice now. I cannot for one moment imagine a situation where I would advise one of my clients to switch to a competitors service, I would do everything I could to hold onto them and meet their requirements, but the BT staff appeared not to care one bit.


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Anime Publisher Funimation has Announced Two new Anime DVD/BD Releases
Funimation has posted on its site that it will be releasing two new anime on DVD/BD. The two anime are Hundred, and Taboo Tattoo. The link to Funimation's site can be found here. New Anime: Hundred Released Date: December 19, 2017 Taboo Tattoo Released Date: December 05, 2017


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Dates Are The Healthiest Fruit And Also A Natural Cure
Dates are undoubtedly one of the healthiest and most nutritious fruits known to mankind. Their nutritional profile is indeed impressive, as a 100-gram serving provides:
– Calories: 277
– Carbs: 75 grams
– Fiber: 7 grams
– Protein: 2 grams
– Potassium: 20% of the RDI
– Magnesium: 14% of the RDI
– Iron: 5% of the RDI
– Vitamin B6: 12% of the RDI
– Manganese: 15% of the RDI
– Copper: 18% of the RDI
Additionally, dates are an excellent source of antioxidants. Specifically, these are the most powerful, according to Healthline,
"Flavonoids: Flavonoids are powerful antioxidants that may help reduce inflammation and have been studied for their potential to reduce the risk of diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and certain types of cancer.
Carotenoids: Carotenoids are proven to promote heart health and may also reduce the risk of eye-related disorders, such as macular degeneration.
Phenolic acid: Known for its anti-inflammatory properties, phenolic acid may help lower the risk of cancer and heart disease"
Top Health Benefits of Dates
– Dates are packed with potassium, a nutrient which lowers the risk of stroke by up to 40 percent and improves overall function of the nervous system.
– The high phosphorus content improves brain function.
– Dates are high in calcium, a mineral which treats diarrhea.
– Dates contain zeaxanthin and lutein which improve vision and prevent age-related macular damage.
– Dates support weight loss by creating a feeling of fullness.
– Soak dates in goat milk, add honey and cardamom, and consume on daily basis to improve libido and sex life.
– Dates are extremely beneficial during pregnancy, relieve pain during the process of delivery, reduce bleeding, and prevent postpartum depression.
– Soak dates overnight and blend them in the morning. Use daily to improve heart health!
– Thanks to their high fiber content, dates improve digestive health and suppress appetite.
– As one of the best iron sources, dates are great in treating anemia.
– Dates are rich in magnesium, a mineral which lowers blood pressure levels.
– Last but not least, dates detoxify the body, boost the metabolism, treat constipation and improve function of the intestinal tract.
Five Ways to Eat Dates
– Stuff 'em: fills them with the "ideal mixture" of crushed walnuts, almonds and pistachios with a pinch of cinnamon and nutmeg.
– Drink 'em: Yvonne Maffei, founder of the My Halal Kitchen blog, combines dates and whole milk to produce a thick, creamy milkshake. Her two suggestions: use a strong blender, and serve it fresh. "It's an interesting and fun way to incorporate dates," she says.
– Bake 'em: In cookies, cakes, bread, pies, and cupcakes.
– Chop 'em: Chop or slice pitted dates and throw them into salads, on sandwiches or as garnish on pasta.
– Puree 'em: Date sauces can be served with any kind of meat, especially chicken or fish.


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Tito Cesar Marques de Almeida
UNIVALI-Universidade do Vale do Itajai, Brazil
Title: Dredging operations in a subtropical urban estuary: Effects on population structure of benthic macrofauna inhabiting river margins
Tito Almeida has completed his PhD at the age of 37 years from Federal University of Sao Carlos – Sao Paulo/ BRAZIL and postdoctoral studies from UNIVALI. He is Associated Professor of UNIVALI since 2001 and responsible for the Community Ecology Laboratory. He has published more than 26 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member Brazilian Journal of Environmental Technology.
Little is known about the effects of dredging activities upon indirectly affected areas like river margins. On an urbanized subtropical estuary in southern Brazil, benthic macrofauna was sampled throughout two dredging events on control and impacted areas. Granulometry and river discharge were also accessed. Univariate PERMANOVAs with five factors (Time, Area, Event, Station, Sector) were applied on Euclidean distance matrices of abundances for the most representative taxa (H. similis, H. australis, K. schubartii, N. fluviatilis, Polydora sp. = 91% total abundance) to test the null hypothesis of no differences in population densities upon dredging. Results evidenced small scale disturbances, indicating that dredging along with environmental variations affects studied populations; effects differ between the two margins and the resilience times range from 3 to 9 months. Greatest overall abundance was recorded during dredging operations, when river discharge readings showed the lowest values, indicating that dredging should be performed during periods of low river discharge.


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1. William Henshall m Margerie Gyll 2.. Thomas Henshall (?-c1631) m - Kendrick 3... John Henshall (1611-c1687) m Elizabeth - 4.... William Hinshaw (?-1699) m Elizabeth - 5..... Thomas Hinshaw (c1680-?) m Mary Marshall (c1685-?) 6...... Jacob Hinshaw (1710-1796) m Rebecca Mackey (c1716-1796) 7....... Thomas Hinshaw (c1749-1825) m Hannah Seasfield (c1745-1835) 8........ William Hinshaw (c1772-?) m Jane Hamm 9......... Thomas Hinshaw (1797-1869) m Elizabeth - (1809-1849) 10.......... George Washington Hinshaw (1822-1907) m Elizabeth Jane Robertson (1824-1893) 11........... Robert Tribble Henshaw (1863-1948) m Isabella Putman (1868-1952) 12............ Ernest Wann Henshaw (1904-1984) +Amanda Lou Swearengin (1907-1990) 13............. Hampton Henshaw (1923-1923) 1 13............. Edith Grace Henshaw (1925-2006) 2,3 13............. Lois Hampton Henshaw (1927-2009) 2,3 13............. Elsie Faye Henshaw (1931-2006) 2 13............. Ernest Jimmie Dean Henshaw (1936-2013) 2
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Born Dec 10 1904, Estillfork, Jackson County, Alabama.2,3,4,5,6
He married Amanda Lou Swearengin2,3,4,6,7 [Mandy Swearengin6,8], Feb 17 19232,3,4,6,7. Amanda, daughter of Albert David Swearengin & Wade Hampton (Bishop) Sanders2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10, was born Feb 25 19072,3,4,5,7,8,9,10, Estillfork, Jackson County, Alabama2,3,4,5,7,8,9,10 [Swaim, Jackson County, Alabama6]. Note that Ernest's sister Rosa married Amanda's brother, John David Swearengin.
Ernest and family were shown in the 1930 census (Apr 11 1930) Paint Rock Valley Road, Bishop Precinct, Jackson County, Alabama:3
Ernest Wann Henshaw was a truck farmer who grew fruits and vegetables. He sold his produce in Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama. He entered many contests at the county fair and won many ribbons. He was a kind and gentle soul. In his later years he suffered from Alzheimer's disease.6
Amanda was a very strong-willed woman and worked very hard. She used to roll her own cigarettes and chew snuff. She built a two-seater outhouse by herself and raised chickens and a huge garden. They used to pick polk salad and she would make a wonderful batter and fry it in her cast iron skillet on her wood stove. She never had an indoor bathroom or her very own running water, or air conditioning. She had to get her water from a well bucket. She would wash her clothes outside in a big black kettle and use a scrub board. She made her own lye soap. She used to trade with the peddler who made weekly visits. She'd trade her eggs for such things as sugar, cornmeal, kerosene, and coffee. She sewed her daughters' clothing from flower sacks. She had all her babies at home. She would get out of bed every morning at 4:30 a.m. and go to bed around 8:30 p.m. All the family would gather round the wood stove during cold winter evenings and talk about "old" times and laugh. She was a loving grandma who is missed very much. Amanda acquired diabetes in her later years and developed heart problems. After Ernest passed away, she moved in with her daughter, Faye.6
In 1984 Ernest was living in Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama.9
Ernest Wann Henshaw died Feb 15 19842,4,5,9, Skyline, Jackson County, Alabama2,4,5,9 [Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama6]; buried Henshaw Cemetery, Jackson County, Alabama2,4,5,9.
In 1990 Amanda was still living in/near Scottsboro, Alabama.9
Amanda died Oct 10 19902,9, Skyline, Jackson County, Alabama2,9 [Scottsboro, Jackson County, Alabama6]; buried Henshaw Cemetery, Jackson County, Alabama2,9. Amanda died in a hospital from a heart attack, with her family close by.6
Amanda's obituary was published in "The Daily Sentinel" on October 12, 1990:6
Amanda "Mandy" Henshaw, 83 of Baileytown, died Wednesday, October 10, 1990 at the Jackson County Hospital.
Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, October 13, 1990 at 2 p.m. from the Bostick Hill Methodist Church with the Rev. Robert Sims officiating.
Burial will be in Henshaw Cemetery.
Visitation will be Friday from 6-9 p.m. at the Scottsboro Funeral Home.
Surviving are three daughters, Edith Morris, of Skyline, Elsie Faye Bailey, of Baileytown, and Jimmie Dean Prince of Harvey, Ill; one son, Lois Henshaw of Baileytown; nine grandchildren; eleven great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
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Earth could be 'unrecognizable' by 2050, says researchers at US science conference
If the current trend of a growing population competing for scarcer resources continues, "we will not have a planet left that is recognizable by 2050," Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund said at a US conference on Sunday, reports the AFP.
The United Nations has predicted that the global population will hit nine billion by 2050. To feed that estimated population, "we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000," Clay said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The growing population and expected increase in income can contribute to the depletion of resources, according to experts. "People tend to (consume) more meat than they might have when they made less money," the AFP reports. "More people, more money, more consumption, but the same planet," Clay told the AFP.
Population experts called for support for family planning programs to help control the population growth especially in developing countries, reports the AFP. "For 20 years, there's been very little investment in family planning, but there's a return of interest now, partly because of the environmental factors like global warming and food prices," John Bongaarts of the Population Council said.
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CHICAGO - The No. 2-ranked UCLA men's tennis team suffered its first loss of the season Friday, dropping a 4-2 decision to No. 9 Virginia in the Quarterfinals of the USTA/ITA National Team Indoor Championships at Chicago's Mid-Town Tennis Club. The Bruins, who fall to 9-1 on the season, will take on No. 3 Florida in a consolation match on Saturday.
The Bruins started the day by claiming the doubles point with victories at the top two courts. UCLA's Benjamin Kohlloeffel and Luben Pampoulov upset No. 19 Nick Meythaler and Rylan Rizza, 8-3 at the No. 1 position. Following an 8-5 win by Virginia at the No. 3 spot, the Bruins clinched the point at court No. 2, where sixth-ranked Alberto Francis and Kris Kwinta defeated Somdev Devvarman and Treat Huey, 8-5.
The trouble for UCLA began prior to singles play when it was learned that Pampoulov, the Bruins No. 1 player, would not play due to a neck injury suffered before the team traveled to Chicago. With Pampoulov out, everyone was forced to move up a spot in the lineup.
The Cavaliers quickly capitalized, as Darrin Cohen defeated freshman Mathieu Dehaine, 6-3, 6-3 at court No. 6. UCLA answered back to take a 2-1 lead in the match when Kwinta posted a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Huey at court No. 5. That was the last point the Bruins would get however, as Virginia came back to take the next three matches in straight sets.
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Artist Phan Thao Nguyen: "I will spend part of the S$60,000 prize supporting children in Gia Lai"
Phan Thao Nguyen was having a cold and had to wear a light scarf around her neck all the time. That did not stop her from beaming at the National Museum of Singapore on Friday night 29/06, where she won the Grand Prize of 60,000 SGD of Signature Art Prize 2018.
Winning against more than 112 other nominated artworks from 46 countries & territories in the Asia – Pacific & South Asia, the small-stature artist, barely in her thirties, came into the spotlight with her work "Tropical Siesta" – a two-channel video installation with six oil paintings on x-ray film backing. The video artwork tells the imaginary story of a rural Vietnam through the eyes of children, based on the observations recorded by French Jesuit missionary Alexandre de Rhodes when he traveled across the country in the 17th century.
Phan Thao Nguyen is the very first female artist to win the Grand Prize in the decade-long history of the competition (since 2008).
Hanoi Grapevine had the pleasure to meet her for an interview in Singapore.
Where did the idea of making an artwork based on Alexandre de Rhodes' records come from? "Tropical Siesta", much like other works in your "Poetic Amnesia" project, creates a sensation of "mystery" in its theme – why is that?
"Tropical Siesta" […] is a quiet, deeply poetic artwork. Sensuously visual, the film pulls the viewer into its enigmatic world – a world governed entirely by children. Even as it explores a number of complex issues in Vietnamese history, the work feels fresh and very much alive. The artist, Phan Thao Nguyen, is a powerful, poignant storyteller. – Joyce Toh, Head of Content and Senior Curator, Singapore Art Museum
Actually, we Vietnamese tend to assume that Alexandre de Rhodes is the father of Romanized Vietnamese. We usually think that it is a must to find a character, make them into a monument, and let them become the hero or someone who could represent our many ideologies. However, during my research on Romanized Vietnamese, I learned that de Rhodes could not be consider the father of this script, as there were many before him, Francisco de Pina for example, and other Vietnamese missionaries who contributed to the complete Romanized Vietnamese script. Alexandre de Rhodes was the fortunate one because he wrote the "Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum" (Vietnamese-Portuguese-Latin dictionary) and "Cathechismvs in octo dies diuisus" (Catechisms in eight days), and those documents are the ones that remained, and thus we considered him the father of Romanized Vietnamese. Through these stories, we can make a connection to other events: when something occurs, we need to reassess to it see what is the truth, and each person, observing the issue through their own lenses, has a very different perspective from one another. That is why there is such an air of mystery in my work.
Are you religious? Why does this video bear the theme of missionary work, which is quite a spiritual topic?
The story in "Tropical Siesta" is not about religion, but my journey to understand the changes in Vietnam when shifting from the influence of Chinese culture – using chữ Hán (classical Chinese) and chữ Nôm (Vietnamese written in Chinese script) – to the influence of Western colonists – using Romanized Vietnamese. I didn't emphasize on Christianity in Vietnam but on the country itself in this transformation process.
In "Tropical Siesta", the children were asked to reenact several observations recorded by de Rhodes. Some scenes were quite "scary" – like the one where a girl in the yellow 'ao dai' lied in the water, her heavy makeup made her look much older; or the one where the kids lined up to go out and play with the ladder around their necks titled "Su trung phat" (The punishment). What do you say about the filming process of these images, and the contrast between the children's innocence and this rather "harsh" content?
Phan's work […] converges history, personal myth, and poetry. And the fact that she uses children transforms the piece into something beyond history, because we all know that children bring to anything a certain kind of honesty and sincerity. – Wong Hoy Cheong, artist & independent curator
In fact, the video's content is quite figurative, as it is a metaphor for my personal understanding of Vietnam – whose history and transformation process bear many ruptures and pains. It is not something people mention often, but the truth is comparing to other countries, Vietnam suffered immensely from wars, from colonialism, or even right now, from other social issues. You actually could not see this distress when filming with children, it is a sensation that you created during the editing process. The kids didn't feel like they were reenacting something really harsh, because in reality they loved to participate in a film this way. A lot of filming was actually just them playing around. But while editing the videos, I cut out these "playing" parts and kept the ones I needed. And so that sensation was made through the editing process.
So how did the editing process take place, can you share more with us on that?
I worked with a cameraman on the filming process. The music was composed by Nhung Nguyen in Hanoi. I edited the video myself and created the animated sections (in the video – interviewer).
How do you feel after your work went public – especially now that it is well-known to the Asian art community?
I feel really happy and also hope that the public will be even more welcoming towards contemporary art. Because to be honest, I think that this subject as well as the way it was portrayed will appear controversial to many. I worry that back in Vietnam, people will not agree with how I made it. But I also think that it's an artist's personal expression. An artist could not create much of a change nor influence, but I always hope that when [the artists] receive international recognition, they will be more openly accepted in Vietnam, especially on art programs of the government, of museums, or even on television…
What is your comment on the development of Vietnam's contemporary art scene at the moment?
Vietnamese contemporary art scene is in such an exciting and intriguing phase. It is very different from that of other developed countries, where there are advanced art education and many systems in place. Vietnam is in its transition stage from the socialist economy to free trade, but on the cultural side – not only [visual] arts but also literature, music, theater – are still facing suppression. These are changing, in a bottom-up manner, as artists are creating their own art, working with each other and organizing their own exhibitions and creating platforms separately from [the state's] orthodox museums. Their art are very original and exciting because the artists themselves want to create it. In Vietnam, there has yet to be an art market with art collectors to support the artists in order for them to make a living from their craft.
How do you plan to spend your 60,000 SGD prize? Have you any plan for future endeavors?
I haven't given it much thought, but one thing for sure is that I will spend part of the prize to found a supporting fund for children who helped me make this film in Gia Lai. They were living in the rural with unfavorable conditions, but all are such bright kids with tremendous potential. I do hope that I can support them in my ability so that they can go to school and follow the career of their choice.
Through your art practicing experience and the production process of "Tropical Siesta", what do you think about the power of visuals and videos in artistic expression? What is the difference between them and other conventional media such as paintings and sculptures?
"Tropical Siesta" actually includes both oil paintings and videos. I was trained as a painter, and so paintings to me are an accustomed medium still. The use of two-channel video is different in the way that moving images can convey the story well – while paintings are more about the feel of the medium. With "Tropical Siesta", I want to combine both elements, so that it is not just telling a story with its details and characters,… but also emphasizing on visual language and, at the same time, on storytelling, creating for myself as an artist and for the audience a diverse perspective unrestrained by any doctrine or convention.
Thank you!
Translated by Hanoi Grapevine
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Congratulations to the artist !
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But that national compassion fizzles away the minute the problem reaches our doorstep. When a group of desperate asylum seekers tries to reach the safety of our shores, we tend to unilaterally point them in the direction of Italy… or Libya, the hell they fled from in the first place.
When a merchant vessel approached Malta asking for help with a sick crew member in September, we refused to let it dock, fearing it was a case of Ebola.
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On Tuesday, Britain announced it would not support any future search-and-rescue operations aimed at preventing migrants from drowning in the Mediterranean.
Just hours earlier, it became known that Australia became the first developed country to shut its borders to citizens of countries hit by the Western African Ebola outbreak, a move that in effect stigmatizes healthy people and which would actually make it harder to fight the disease.
In 2014, the world went belly up. As a deadly disease once destined to the history books reared its ugly head, savage Islamic militants and wars have displaced millions.
Just think about it: the Syrian war is generating a refugee every 15 seconds! Never before in United Nations history have we had so many people picking up their belongings in search of safety.
Most of these people are not fleeing because they simply want a better job. They are running as they see their relatives killed, their homes set on fire, their lives destroyed.
Neighbouring countries to war-torn regions are stretched to the limit. Lebanon, a small country of four million people, is currently hosting a million Syrians.
And closer to home, more than 165,000 people tried to cross the Mediterranean this year. More than 2,500 have died in the attempt. Hundreds of others are missing.
Italy is about to pack up its expensive Mare Nostrum mission, which has saved 140,000 people.
It will be replaced by the EU's border agency, Frontex, which, once again, will concentrate on border control. In other words, irrespective of the thousands fleeing Libya and Egypt, we are once again building walls instead of saving lives. To put it bluntly, as European leaders cover their backside and engage in talks which lead to nowhere, we will see more asylum seekers die at sea.
Britain might never have been a major player in the Mediterranean humanitarian mission. But by trying to justify its act of despicable inhumanity on misguided claims that rescue missions might end up encouraging migrants to make the dangerous sea crossing is facetious.
Recent history has taught us that no amount of political posturing would convince desperate refugees to turn back. Do European leaders honestly think entire communities are going to be deterred from jumping on a boat by the fact there is no rescue service at sea? It's the equivalent of stopping to use your car because the government is saying it's dangerous to drive.
If Malta was being set ablaze by extremists, and my family was butchered, I would be the first to jump on that rickety luzzu to Sicily, irrespective of the dangerous sea conditions and the shark-infested waters.
What makes David Cameron's decision even more ill-judged is the fact that Britain was militarily involved in failed countries like Iraq and Libya. It is not enough to oust dictators, deposit tens of thousands of weapons and expect periphery countries like Italy, Greece and Malta to clean up the mess.
But then again, politics has little to do with humanity and in the UK the immigration debate's toxic nature continues being fuelled by the xenophobic tabloids.
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As it has done with refugees, the Australian political establishment is once again demonising and excluding some of the world's most impoverished and exploited people.
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Marshal Georgy Zhukov (right) conferring with commander of the troops of the Steppe Front, Army General Ivan Konev (center) and commander of the 53rd Army Ivan Managarov on the eve of the Battle for the Dnieper.
Location: Dnepr River, USSR
Date: September 1943
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