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When it comes to immigration, most Americans have no clue what they're talking about, a new Business Insider/SurveyMonkey poll has found.
We ran a poll that asked respondents — in this case, American workers in industries that are heavily dependent on either high-skill or low-skill workers — about their feelings about immigration reform.
SurveyMonkey, an online pollster, has enjoyed considerable success in meeting or exceeding the performance of traditional phone-based pollsters using their SurveyMonkey Audience feature.
One question we asked was "Over the past 3 - 5 years, what do you believe about the undocumented immigrant population in the United States?"
The survey of 1,018 respondents found that a whopping 66% of respondents — two in three — believe that the unauthorized immigrant population had increased somewhat or significantly over the past three to five years.
Only around 10% of respondents gave the correct answer: the unauthorized immigrant population had in fact decreased somewhat.
Experts agree that — primarily due to the recession — the undocumented immigrant population in the United States has decreased significantly since its peak in 2007.
This chart from the Pew Hispanic Center shows the estimates: While the U.S. immigrant population has continued to grow, the undocumented immigrant population has seen a marked decline from 12.0 million undocumented immigrants in 2007 to 11.1 million undocumented immigrants in 2011, a roughly 7.5% decrease.
The 22% of respondents who said the undocumented immigrant population has stayed the same can be forgiven as the population only declined a little over the last five years, and for the last three years it's been flat.
Still, since two out of every three respondents incorrectly believe that the unauthorized immigrant population is growing — when the electorate is by and large just plain wrong on the facts — it's easy to understand why immigration reform has been such a hard sell.
It's also easy to understand why members of Congress have been so eager to lard up the immigration bill with border security spending: They're pandering to an electorate that still thinks illegal immigration is rising.
Here are a few caveats for the data. The remainder of the survey — which we'll be releasing later this week — looks at the difference in views about immigration between high- and low- skill workers.
As a result, this survey wasn't sent out to the general population. Instead we targeted workers in 11 different industries: Agriculture, Automotive, Construction, Education, Finance, Food & Beverage, Health care, Manufacturing, Nonprofit, Telecommunications, and Energy.
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Our Real Estate Agency offers for sale in Fontane Bianche (Sicily) different solutions: pool villas, villas near the beach villas on the cliff, sea view villas.
Today the agency is proposed as a reference point for all the Italian and foreign clients interested in finding a villa for sale in this part of the coast of Sicily, thanks to a list of villas and different sized villas, villas in the style of ' 70.
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Crest Canyon, an open-space park within the city limits of San Diego, helps separate the woodsy City of Del Mar from the bustling sprawl of inland Del Mar and Carmel Valley to the east. The canyon, rather like a shallow bowl with an upturned lip on three sides, slopes down from Del Mar Heights Road on the south to San Dieguito Lagoon on the north. Native plants of the coastal-sage and chaparral variety carpet the canyon's floor and adjacent slopes, the result of efforts at restoring this formerly eroded canyon to a state resembling its original natural state. Young Torrey pines have been planted here over the years, and these relatively youthful saplings join the handful of century-old pines that thrive higher up on the slopes.
To reach the lower (northern) end of Crest Canyon, follow Jimmy Durante Boulevard to the intersection of San Dieguito Drive, just south of the bridge over the San Dieguito River and opposite the Del Mar Fairgrounds. Drive southeast on San Dieguito Drive and its continuation, Racetrack View Drive, for 0.7 mile to the trailhead on the right. Abundant curbside parking space is available in the immediate area.
Start off from the trailhead on a wide path that gently curves up the canyon's broad, sandy floor. Check out the creamy blossoms of the native buckwheat plants and the now-drying stems and aromatic, needle-like leaves of the California sagebrush shrubs.
About two-thirds of the way up the canyon (0.7 mile), the main path swings left and abruptly climbs via sturdy new steps and stairs to a secondary trailhead at the north end of Durango Drive. This little climb is worth it for the panoramic view of the entire canyon.
When it is time to return, go back down the stairs to the canyon bottom, and turn right on a narrow path paralleling the main path. That route takes you closer to the canyon's east slope and passes near some Torrey pines, which (you'll discover if you look close-up) exhibit long green needles in bundles of five.
On the drive back out along San Dieguito Drive, stop by the new San Dieguito Lagoon Overlook, on the right. There's a small space for parking, plus a restored section of an old bridge overlooking an arm of the lagoon. Exhibits detail the human history and natural history of the area. Another interesting diversion is the just-opened San Diego Lagoon interpretive boardwalk, which is a part of the in-progress Coast to Crest Trail. That trail will eventually stretch 55 miles into the mountains near Julian. The 1200-foot boardwalk starts just north of the Jimmy Durante Boulevard bridge over the San Dieguito River, and continues east.
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The US government posts an internal guide on how to deal with "spillage"—the common term for classified information accidentally getting onto an unclassified system. The guide, "National Instruction on Classified Information Spillage," explains how such errors should be assessed and reported. One step mentioned for more severe cases is: "Determine whether the incident should be referred to the Department of Justice for investigation and/or criminal prosecution." (The New York Times, 8/8/2015)
2008: The US government publishes rules for email storage.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) issues Bulletin 2008-05, which states that every government email system is supposed to "permit easy and timely retrieval," and all work emails are supposed to be permanently preserved. Additionally, in the case of a cabinet secretary, permanent records are to be sent to the department's Records Service Center "at the end of the Secretary's tenure or sooner if necessary" for safekeeping. (The Washington Post, 3/27/2016)
2008: A government warning will be ignored in the way Clinton's email server is set up and managed.
The federal government's US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), warns that exposed server ports are security risks. According to a 2015 Associated Press article, "It [says] remote-control programs should only be used in conjunction with encryption tunnels, such as secure VPN connections."
But according to records from late 2012, the private email server used by Clinton while secretary of state from 2009 to 2013 will have exposed server ports, and it will use remote-control programs without encryption tunnels. This will leave it more vulnerable to hacker attacks. (The Associated Press, 10/13/2015)


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More protection, less abuse -- that's the idea behind a proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency.
Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, joined other lawmakers from across the country, and renewed their call for legislation creating a federal Consumer Financial Protection Agency -- CFPA. Blumenthal believes this agency is critical to shielding consumers from financial industry abuses that led to economic crisis in the past.
"A new Consumer Financial Protection Agency is a critical cornerstone of financial reform. Our message to Congress: Seize this historic moment. Stand strong against Wall Street lobbyists, " Blumenthal said. "We need a Consumer Financial Protection Agency as a consumer watchdog and guardian to protect against abuses that led to reckless excessive risk taking and consumer deception, bringing our economy to the brink of collapse."
Blumenthal was one of the first officials to call for the creation of the CFPA last year when he testified before the Senate Banking Committee. On Tuesday, he was joined by attorney generals from Iowa, Illinois and Ohio.
"The new agency, a consumer financial guardian, promises to be a powerful watchdog and protector, and a partner of state attorneys general in fighting for our citizens. Together with extended state consumer protection authority, the agency marks a giant step toward restoring historic federal-state alliance in combating financial fraud and abuse, " Blumenthal urged.
The big obstacle is getting this consumer financial protection measure through the Senate. The creation of this independent agency, long considered a signature piece of the legislation offered by the Obama administration, is facing opposition from republicans on the senate banking commiteee.
The ranking republican on the committee, Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala, said he wants the regulator who protects consumers to also consider financial firms' health.
The Senate Banking Commitee chief, Sen. Christopher Dodd, (D), said Friday that he will push forward with legislation without Republican support.
Blumenthal is not mincing words about who's to blame for the financial meltdown. "Significant blame for the recent financial meltdown and the subsequent recession rests directly at the feet of the financial industry, whose reckless and abusive financial practices -- from predatory and subprime lending, to proliferation of dangerous investment vehicles, to exorbitant and exploding interest rates, to hidden terms and fees that banks hope consumer won't notice or fight -- have been allowed to go unchecked over the last 10 years, " Blumenthal said.
"To be effective, the new agency must have broad rule-making, investigative, supervisory, and enforcement authority. It must be empowered to investigate abusive consumer mortgages, credit cards and loans, and it must be able to prosecute companies that have misled or cheated consumers...," Blumenthal added.
Blumenthal didn't hesitate to take a shot at Wall Street -- urging lawmakers to act now while "Wall Street is returning to its big bonus ways.."
The Senate Banking committee plans to start amending and voting on a final regulatory reform package starting the week of Feb. 22.


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With the week drawing to a close, walk with us, dear reader, through the annals of Geekdom. In this edition of This Week on Geek we'll visit this week in 2004. Here are some of the top stories…
Blogging – survey says, "Not so hot"
According to some news from March '04, that whole "blogging" thing might not be that big of a deal. In fact, the post's author, Christopher R. Anderson, writes, "I don't get blogs, I just don't. I know they have their place, and can be entertaining, but the buzz is that they are the greatest thing since P2P networks." It seems horribly dated now, but back in 2004 the word "blog" had to be defined in the post and we had yet to see the growth of today's superblogs.
AMD's 90nm chips start production in April
AMD's 90nm rollout was one of the more exciting processor landmarks in the last few years. Their Winchester, Venus, and San Diego codenamed products were all highly anticipated and they came at a point when AMD was at, or at least near, the top of its game. They were competing with Intel's Prescott, which was about where Intel's heat problems with the P4 peaked and Intel realized that ever-increasing clock speeds were not the future.
Peter Rojas starts up another gadget blog
On March 4th Matt Miller reported that a gadget blog called "Engadget" had been started by the guy from Gizmodo. The post only had one comment, "10 hours and no comments?! I guess that news article about BLOGS being not such big news is ture [sic]."
Tables turned: HardOCP files lawsuit
Remember HardOCP's legendary lawsuit with Infinium Labs? It was a fascinating story back in the day and it is one of the things that cements HardOCP in the history of online tech coverage.
What could Apple possibly do to grow? The author writes, "I'd like to see it take its old 'Think Different' slogan to heart and aggressively move forward to break from the debated 3% marketshare of computers." It turns out that what it took for them to grow out their computer division was to not think differently though, and to move to Intel processors.
{ad}We hope you enjoyed this installment of This Week on Geek. We'll be back next Friday with more links to the Geek.com archives.


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Creating and editing maps with Excel
Process Navigator's Excel connector tool is used for creating and editing maps (in text form) by users. They can then be imported or exported to Process Navigator. There are minimum requirements that must be met before mapping can commence.
It must be saved in Excel format (xls or xlsx)
It must contain a Sheet named Process Elements and the sheet must contain:
Creating basic maps
We use the reference column, to uniquely to identify each shape. No outputs are used in Excel, so Predecessors are used to define the inputs. Entering a reference number in this field results in a connection being made between the shapes when imported. To link multiple inputs, enter references separated by a comma. Shape Master and Text columns correspond to the master on the stencil, and the text to displayed in the shape. This is sufficient to generate a map using Process Navigator. A sample minimum file is shown below.
Providing the mandatory columns have been completed, Process Navigator will import the file. The order of the rows is not important other than that the Node row is the start of the page, and every row beneath it is presumed to represent a shape on the same page. When the next Node row appears, this begins a new page.
Adding Properties
To start adding properties to aid reporting, (to show how long an Activity takes to perform or Risk analysis), add a column to the Process Elements sheet and name it Prop:Name, where Name is the name of the property. For example, in the sheet below, when the map is generated, the shape will have a property in it called 'Tested' and its value will be TRUE.
This value is then searchable in the Process Library and can be reported on. If a property is created in the Excel but is not in the properties file, when viewed in Visio, it will show as a user property. This is not a problem. To overcome this, add it to the Properties.xml file.
Adding standard Drill downs
Once the basic structure of the Excel interface has been created, you can add a drill down to a process. Add a further column named Drilldown and set it to Yes for any Activity that drills-down. There has to be a corresponding Node row with the same Text.
Adding Drill downs to an external file
Creating a drill-down to an external file is a little more involved, set the Drilldown column to Yes. Add a Hyperlink to the Activity corresponding to the intended target of the drill-down. If this file does not exist, it will be created on Import. Hyperlinks are optional extras, and because any given shape can contain 0, 1 or more hyperlinks, they are specified on a separate worksheet.
To illustrate, suppose a file contains a shape (an Activity called 'Perform an external drill down' with a reference of 17) that you want to drill down onto the external file. We will call this target file DrillDownTarget.vdx. Create the spreadsheet, name and save the file DrillDownSource. An example is shown below:Add a 2nd sheet to the file called Hyperlinks (if it does not already exist), as follows:
Source Reference must be a value that appears in the Reference column of the Process Elements sheet. The hyperlink Address is the name of the file to drill-down to. If this file does not exist, Process Navigator creates it when it performs the Excel Import.
Sub Address is the name of the page (sheet) within DrillDownTarget (leave blank to have Process Navigator automatically name it), and Description is the mouse over text.
Process Navigator will by design, create DrillDownSource and DrillDownTarget when you import from Excel. It automatically creates the drill-down from the Activity 'Perform an External Drill Down' to a page of the same name in the file DrillDownTarget.vdx.
To Import the process see HERE
Please note: If you connect two activities together in Excel, Process Navigator will give you a warning on input, connecting two deliverables together does not.
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Do you have a learning disability? Don't miss out on getting the very best healthcare
If you have a learning disability you can get extra support when visiting the doctor.
To get extra support and the very best healthcare you need to be on the learning disability register. Ask the receptionist at your doctor's surgery if you are on the register. If you are not on the register then ask for an appointment with your doctor.
Being on the doctor's learning disability register will help you get the best healthcare.
At the appointment tell your doctor you have a learning disability and would like to be added to the register. You can use this letter to tell your doctor you want to be added to the register.
Once you are on the register, ask your doctor if you can have a free health check every year. During this check your doctor will take a closer look at how you are doing – making sure you are healthy and stay healthy.
Your doctor can also talk to you about your Summary Care Record which is a short summary of your GP medical records. With your permission, other health and care staff can access your Summary Care Record so they know about the medicines you take and any allergies. This includes people who treat you in an emergency and in routine scheduled care (e.g. hospital appointments). Tell your doctor they can add more information to your record so you don't miss out.
A short video of people with a learning disability talking about annual health checks.
Care for someone with a learning disability?
Don't let them miss out. If you care for someone with a learning disability, they can get extra support when visiting their doctor – all you or they have to do is ask for their name to be added to the GP learning disability register.
You can help them do this by talking to their doctor's surgery or use this template letter. Complete this letter and give it to the doctor during their next appointment.
Once on the register they can speak to their doctor about having a free Health Check every year. There are lots of reasons why they should have their Annual Health Check if their doctor says they can have one, including:
- Not always knowing if they are unwell – the doctor can spot signs that you or the individual might miss
- Getting better treatment – for example new medication
- It offers an opportunity for them to talk to the doctor about anything worrying them
- The doctor can provide advice on lifestyle choices, such as diet
- They can have more control in their own health and body
Make sure the doctor gives them a health action plan after the health check – this includes goals for them and the doctor to work towards together.
Another way you can ensure they are getting the very best healthcare is by supporting them to give their doctor consent for their information to be shared.
With the individuals permission, or in some cases the carer or family members permission, the doctor can add additional information to the individuals Summary Care Record (SCR).
Everyone has a SCR – speak to the doctor about the individual giving consent for Additional Information (AI) to be stored, this can include details of their learning disability, any physical/sensory disability, communication needs, contact details of a carer or next of kin etc., allows all health professionals who care for them to know their latest needs and requirements.
You can find out more about getting extra support from your doctor if you have a learning disability on the mencap website – the voice of learning disability.
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At my company, a few months ago, we were in a situation to re-evaluate our cross-platform technologies. We had been using a commercial version of PhoneGap and through much soul-searching and research, decided to make the jump to Titanium. Thought I would take a few minutes and lay out my feelings on these two business app titans and what made us switch.
Strengths / Weaknesses.
PhoneGap is HTML5 interpreted by the mobile device's webkit. If you can write webpages, you can write apps in PhoneGap. If the target device can browse the web, it can probably run your PhoneGap app.
Strength. Deployment Scale.
PhoneGap's web-centric technology enables deployment across a plethora of hardware including iOS, Android, Blackberry, and Windows Mobile.
Weakness. Lacking "native" hardware and API access.
Because PhoneGap rides on top of webkit, it only has access to webkit's capabilities. This has a few downsides. First, native APIs are largely inaccessible (and rightfully so! native access would break the deployment scale strength of PhoneGap!). Because of this lack of access, native controls are not available. For example, the "slot machine" spinner on iOS does not exist in PhoneGap. It can be roughly emulated in some HTML5 equivalent. Native eye-candy drawing effects are not available. These all have to be mocked-up in HTML5 (JQuery). The other downer, of course, to a lack of native access is performance. No matter how you cut it, webpages are slow compared to a native application. Doing a fade effect or a smooth swipe in on PhoneGap is painful. It just doesn't feel right.
Titanium is a custom API layered on top of the native API of a discrete set of hardware. Currently, that hardware is limited to iOS, Android, and Blackberry (in beta). The Titanium API is accessed through Javascript that is interpretted at execution time. (No matter what you read elsewhere, Titanium DOES NOT create native code. Read up on Mono if you're interested in that.)
Strength. Native Access!
Because the Titanium API is written on top of the native platform API, Javascript accessing Titanium is, in turn, accessing the native capabilities of the platform. This is a HUGE boon for performance and visualization. Titanium apps can look and feel native with the reaction time you desire. The controls, effects, and power your users expect is at your disposal. Obviously, performance takes a hit being run-time interpretted vs compiled, but the difference is slight in a practical sense for most business apps.
Weakness. Deployment Scale.
Because Titanium's API is written on top of the native platform API, Titanium apps can only be built for platforms supported by the API. This is currently iOS, Android, and Blackberry.
Which is better?
Neither. What matters is : What do you want to do?
First off, cross platform development entails compromise. DO NOT go into any cross-platform development expecting to write once and magically build anywhere. You will be let down. Manage your expectations and find a path that works for your needs. In the end, you may discover native is really the choice for you.
If you are developing something that is really a webpage but in a mobile form-factor that you want to sell on the AppStore or Marketplace, or make available to the largest audience as possible with minimal customization, then PhoneGap is the choice. Building for multiple platforms is relatively simple. (check out PhoneGap's site for demos). Whereas, Titanium requires work to move from platform to platform: business logic can remain the same (a significant savings) but display work has to be tweaked per each platform. That is simply the tradeoff for a native look-n-feel.
If you are developing something that is intended for a finite set of hardware (Droid and iOS) AND you require a user experience (UX) that feels native, then forget PhoneGap and start researching Titanium. Titanium development is not as cross-platform as PhoneGap. Any use of the word "native" implies customization for a platform, but the end result is something much truer to a native look-n-feel while minimizing rework between platforms.
If you are developing a game, DO NOT CONSIDER EITHER ROUTE! There are development frameworks specifically for games. Unity is my favorite. It leverages several programming languages and builds NATIVE apps. If this is your interest, check out http://www.unity.com
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Who was relaxing and who was working?
For me, this year is going to be challenging. As you may recall, I started last year on a 450 triple but had a nasty get off between rounds 1 and 2 and had to change over to my 1000cc ZX–10R for Rounds 3 through 7. This means I have a fair amount of seat time on the 1000cc but virtually none on the 450cc bike.
This year we are shooting for the fence. I am racing both my 2011 MartianCraft sponsored ZX–10R and my new 2008 AgileBits sponsored R4. What is an R4 you ask? It is another triple based off of a 2008 Yamaha R6. EDR agreed to do the triple modification as well as tune her for me.
To make it even more interesting, we are expanding beyond AFM this year and will be hitting rounds with WERA, OMRRA and CVMA. This will increase the exposure for my fantastic sponsors as well as increase my experience on the track and expand my knowledge of different tracks and race organizations. It is going to be a challenging year.
Friday Practice
We arrived at the track Thursday night just in time to unpack and get some sleep. Considering we landed back in the United States at 1:00 am Thursday morning I was happy to have just made it. We quickly unpacked and headed to bed. Absolutely no time for jet lag.
Friday morning is my first introduction to my AgileBits R4. I started the build but handed her off to EDR at the end of January and had not seen her since. Friday morning will be the first time I throw a leg over her as a 450.
First couple of sessions were all about set up. Adjust the bars, move the brake lever, move up the shifter lever, etc.
The biggest change was the throttle. When I built her I put a stock throttle throw on her, expecting to slowly reduce the throw as I got comfortable with her. Being out of time for comfort I jumped immediately from the stock throttle (longest throttle) to the full race throttle (shortest). This made her throttle far more twitchy but I was able to get to WOT nearly instantly which is exactly what these 450 triples need.
By lunch I felt that she was dialed in enough to start working on lap times. I worked on my lines, pulled up what I remembered from the previous year and started sorting out gearing and reference points. By the end of the day I was close but not quite there. I was consistently exiting corners about 500 RPM below the power band. 500 RPM below on a 450 triple is dead in the water.
Normally in this situation I would just go up a tooth or two in the rear sprocket and call it done. However, I didn't have the right sprocket with me. I was at 45 and only had a 48 with me and not enough chain slack to go up three teeth. Fortunately EDR came through at the end of the day and gave me a 14 tooth front sprocket which would allow me to get the same relative ratio.
Saturday morning practice was the first opportunity to test the new ratio.
AFM Round 1 Saturday
The morning starts with practice until shortly after lunch and I put my head down in each practice to get my gearing and reference points down to muscle memory. By lunch I was feeling pretty good about how the bikes were feeling and was looking forward to the races in the afternoon.
Formula 40 Heavy
Saturday was the start of a long hard season. Because I am racing in two radically different classes I will have a number of back to back races. To add to the challenge, I will be doing bike swaps between those back to back races. Fun times!
My first race of the day was on my 2011 MartianCraft ZX–10R. As I gridded for the race I realized that I have had ZERO launch practice on her this year. I worked on the R4 but didn't do a single practice launch on the ZX–10R. This will be fun.
Green flag drops and I try to launch the 200 HP beast smoothly. Unfortunately my hands said 80HP R4 and slipped the clutch too much with the front wheel heading to the sky. To add to the chaos the traction control pulled it back down only to let it go to the sky again and again. I spent the entire trip to Turn 1 bouncing from one wheel to two wheels. Fortunately I got her settled down before the first turn and then it was time to start making up all the time I just lost.
While my first lap was rough, I got her smoothed down and started stalking the prey in front of me. A few passes later and I had the number three position in my sights. Sadly I ran out of laps and crossed the finish line in fourth place.
No time to be happy about the race. I need to use the cool down lap to get back to the pits and switch bikes before they close the gates for the next race!
I get back with time to spare, get on the R4 and BREATHE!
Collect my thoughts…
Time to go!
Formula 40 Light
Much larger grid for this race, probably largest race grid on Saturday. I am gridded about mid pack, lots of people in front of me, lots of people behind me.
As the green flag drops we all jammed into the first corner. 20+ bikes trying to fit in to the space of one. We all make it through clean and then on to the pinch point that is T2. I get caught behind a couple of slower riders who make me slow down below my power band for second gear. Crap! I am on the R4; need to pay attention to that stuff; and struggle to get out of T2 and back into the power band as I watched the leaders fade into the distance.
I got back up to speed and started working through the slower traffic. Winning feels great at the end of the race but passing the guy in front of you feels amazing right away!
As I worked through the traffic I started recognizing a few riders and realized that I was getting back up to the faster guys. As the crossed flags were shown I saw another 450 triple rider in front of me and started working my way towards him.
White flag dropped, last lap, the other triple is still in front of me but he is in reach. I had been stalking him for over a lap and I knew where to take him. Sunset, last corner before we go for the checkered flag was where it was going to play out.
Through riverside, fastest corner on the track.
Triple digits, on my knee, no other feeling like it…
Half way through riverside I check the corner worker just like I do on every lap.
Red Flag!
Green and Black Flag!
Those flags combined means rider down, hurt and oil on the track. I can't stand the bike up without going off track. If I "find" that liquid on the track I am going to be adding to the carnage. I hold my line and start scanning like mad.
Where is the oil…
Fortunately the wreck was two corners ahead and the liquid flag was a false alarm.
Once I saw the riders up and I was through the danger area I could let myself feel the disappointment. I won't be catching that rider today. The race is over.
AFM Round 1 Sunday
On Saturday I noticed that my AgileBits R4 was sliding the rear tire on several corner exits. Something I expect on the ZX–10R but not something I want or need on the R4. Time for a tire change and get some softer rubber on her.
CT Racing was able to come through for me first thing in the morning and I had new rubber on the rear rim and the tire mounted with plenty of time to spare for the first and only practice session. This session was all about scrubbing in the tire. Nothing else matters.
450 Superbike
This is one of the two most important races of the weekend for me. This is the race that my AgileBits R4 was built for. Last year we had maybe 8 bikes on the grid. This year we have over 20 bikes and a nice grid to work with. I was towards the back of the grid having not raced very much in the previous year. While waiting for the flag to drop I pictured turn 1 and how I was going to hit it from this standing start.
One board goes sideways and I watch for the twitch of the elbow. The elbow twitches and I start to release. By the time my brain has conveyed the instructions to my hands the green flag starts to drop.
I get a great launch and am on the rear tire of the bike in front of me. I see that another rider got an even better start and from two rows behind me is right next to me. Going to be an interesting T1…
We all make it through cleanly and we jostle for position going into the pinch at T2. I again got slowed way down but this time remembered to drop into first gear so that I could launch properly out of T2 and catch a few people flat footed as we head to T3.
Push a couple of other riders out of the way through T3 and T4 and then we are off to the races!
By the first lap things have settled down to reel in the racer in front of you, block the racer behind you. Now comes the time to be smooth, consistent and fast. Lap after lap I watch my signals at the wall and see it is pretty clear behind me and I work towards the racer in front of me. I get about three laps with no passing, just smooth, fast, consistent.
On lap 5 I come into the final corner, stand up the bike off my knee; pin the throttle; nothing.
No power.
I check the gauges, no errors.
Turn the bike off and on, start the bike, she starts, sputters and dies.
Then I get a fuel light!
I pull off before turn 1 and watch as the race finishes without me. My first DNF (Did Not Finish)
Open Production
My first two races on Sunday were supposed to be back to back. 450 Superbike followed immediately by Open Production.
Another bike switch.
Unfortunately with running out of fuel I must wait out in the dirt for every bike to get off the track. Then I must push my bike back across the track and back into the pits.
100 degrees and full race gear does not make it easy to push a 300+ pound bike across the track. By the time I got back to my pit crew (who were standing there with the ZX–10R ready to go) I had missed the warm up lap and the grid for the race. My first DNS (Did Not Start).
Open GP
Just about an hour later I get ready for my next race. My last race of the weekend on the MartianCraft ZX–10R. All fueled up (checked several times by everyone) and ready to go; I grid up for my exercise in reality. OpenGP grids some of the fastest riders in the AFM and it really is a lot of fun to be on the grid with them. I learn something every race from these masters of the craft.
Green flag drops and my launch might have actually been worse than Formula 40 Heavy. The only difference is that I got bumped (physically bumped) while trying to get the front wheel back onto the ground. Definitely need some practice on launching her.
This race proceeded smoothly without much drama and I crossed the finish line in 17th place while setting a new personal best on this bike at this track.
Ever improving…
Formula IV
Formula IV is a bit of catch all and it is not uncommon to see two strokes out on the grid next to SV650s, 450 triples and even some smaller bikes. It is a bit of a catch all. Of course that is part of the fun. You never know where your competitor's power band is.
The launch of this race went smoothly and I got a nice launch right on the flag and caught a few people right away. As we approached T1 another racer made an interesting line up the inside that disrupted a good chunk of the grid and caused a bit of an upset. Everyone got through ok but it definitely threw us off. With the upset at T1 it caused T2 to be a bit smoother and I got through it quickly in a full pack of bikes. The first two laps of the race were spent working through traffic and settling into pace.
Unfortunately after traffic I caught the tail of an interesting rider that proved to be extremely difficult to pass. I finally was able to get away from him on lap 4 and put my head down to finish the race. By that point the gap was too much and I was only able to pass one more rider before the checkered flag.
A good race and another personal best for me on a 450 at this track.
650 Production
My last race of the weekend and a new one on the calendar for the 450. AFM changed the rules on the 650 production class to allow a few other bikes and my 450 now qualifies. This is a much smaller grid than the Formula IV or 450 superbike as bikes must must meet production rules.
Another smooth launch and after the first lap I again found myself behind the same interesting rider. This time it took until lap 5 to get around him. I definitely need to work on my aggressive passing as that battle cost me a tremendous amount of time and I will wonder for a long time how well I would have done if I could only get by him faster.
Next Up…
If our schedule holds we will be traveling down to Chuckwalla in April to try our hand at the CVMA Race Club.
If we are unable to make that then we will be at Sonoma at the beginning of May for Round 2 of the AFM.
See you soon…


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I've called myself other titles, masking that my income comes from the life insurance industry. There are multiple reasons why my lifetime occupation became a semi-hidden secret. The industry itself went through the same kind of identity crisis.
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Why give your family a lump sum and have them blow it? Most insurance policies have options to pay out over time, but few people use them. It limits them to the terms of the insurance company. Thus, I came up with a simple system.
Over 4 million people moved their money from Wall Street Banks in 2010, according to Sara Ackerman, project coordinator for Move Your Money.
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The Wall Street Journal posted a story about Portfolio Recovery Associates, one of the nation's largest debt collectors, using the signature of a woman named Martha Kunkle, who died in 1995.
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Crawford's new book, Kentucky Footnotes, appears to be anthology of some his most interesting columns from his 29 years as an award-winning columnist. It's more than that.
Most of us want to be physically fit, but very few of us are. The same holds true with financial security. As my father (and many others) used to say, "A lot of people want to go to heaven but no one wants to die to get there."
The New York Times recently had a fascinating article about a car that Google is working on that can drive itself. I want one.
Liz Gilbert said of Italy, "In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, only artistic excellence is incorruptible." I have pondered her insight for weeks. I keep asking myself the essential question. Is the US headed the way of Italy?
You can see why bailouts fail. Wall Street and lottery winners have a common bond. They have access to easy money without restraints.
The phrase "double-dip recession" means little to most of us. To people on Main Street, it hasn't been been a "dip". We took a drop to the bottom two years ago and stayed there.
Right now, the top six "too big to fail" banks control about 70% of the wealth in America. Here's how we can all change that.
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Houston was able to find a stadium sponsor to replace Enron. A city as big as New York should be able to find a sponsor for the Mets' field that is not funded by the American taxpayers.
Don McNay has been on a book tour, promoting his book, Son of a Son of a Gambler: Winners, Losers, and What to Do When You Win the Lottery.
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The first week of May is Teacher Appreciation Week. One that I was glad to have was Dan Tieman. 34 years later, I still remember his teaching. It made an impact on my life.
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- Elvis Presley.
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Like much of America, I'm down on professional politicians. I'm tired of people getting in office to line their pockets, suck up to lobbyists and constantly run for re-election.
Reporting that Main Street was complicit in the financial meltdown is like blaming a murder victim for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Gary Rivlan notes in his book, Broke USA, "the working poor have become big business." You wouldn't think that poor people would be a growth market, but businesses make big money off people who live paycheck to paycheck.
Companies offering severance packages have generally sold the concept of lifetime employment concept. They are not places that fire employees without warning.
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CRISPR, and specifically Cas9 from S. pyogenes (SpCas9), is truly an exceptional genome engineering tool. It is easy to use, functional in most species, and has many applications (see a review of CRISPR applications here). That said, SpCas9 is not the only game in town, and other Cas proteins like SaCas9 and Cpf1 can circumvent the limitations associated with SpCas9. A novel protein, Cas13a (previously referred to as C2c2), has several unique properties that further expand the CRISPR toolbox. We'll cover how Cas13a was identified, the structure and function of Cas13a with a focus on what makes this molecule unique, and the various applications of Cas13a.


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Two Primark customers have found labels in their clothing containing messages that seem to come from the workers who made the clothing. It could also be an activist protest.
"I used to shop a lot at Primark"
The two labels, "forced to work exhausting hours" and "degrading sweatshop conditions", were discovered by two women, one early last week and the other one a few days later.
"I used to shop a lot at Primark but not so much now. The label has made me think about how my clothes are made", the customer (Rebecca Williams) told The Daily Mail.
When the first label turned up, some believed it was a factory worker who wanted to complain about Primark's manufacturing process, but with the second label turning up so fast and in the same store, it is believed to be an activist protest to complain about the working conditions in textile factories.
Alleged forced labour
A Primark in Belfast also found a jeans which contained a letter and a passport. The letter explained how the pants were made by prisoners who had to work 15 hours per day in forced labour.
Primark denies their clothing is made by forced labour and will research the letter and the labels. A spokesperson added that the chain's code of conduct explicitly states that working conditions have to be decent and that workers need to get fair wages.


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Weetabix Limited - Slavery and Human Trafficking Statement
1. Introduction
This statement is made by Weetabix Limited (Weetabix) for itself and its parent company, Westminster Acquisition Limited (WAL) (Weetabix and WAL, together defined as Group). It is a statement made in accordance with section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the MSA) and covers the financial year from 1 October 2017 to 30 September 2018 (the Financial Year).
Weetabix and WAL are companies that strive to do things in the right way and we recognise our responsibility to be aware of the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking within our own Group and supply chain.
2. Background
Our Northamptonshire production units currently export to over 80 countries around the world. We employ around 1,200 staff members internationally, with the majority based within the UK, undertaking a range of roles including marketing, sales, manufacturing, finance, IT, HR, strategy and export. We also have employees undertaking sales and marketing roles based in Spain, UAE, China, Ireland and Germany.
We use agency labour in our UK manufacturing areas, which is sourced through reputable recruitment agencies. We also have third party suppliers on site who provide contractors. We outsource certain services where specific expertise may be required and a number of non-key activities, such as engineer support, site maintenance and logistics are also outsourced. Appropriate right to work checks are conducted in partnership with those agencies.
All of the wheat for our core Weetabix biscuit range is grown within 50 miles from our Burton Latimer production units by our Grower Group, which is formed of around 160 farmers dedicated to best practice and responsible production.
Within our direct supply chain, there are 83 different raw material and co-managed vendor parties, and 44 packaging vendor parties. Our indirect supply chain currently consists of 720 active suppliers.
We have carried out a review of our direct supply chain and have concluded that the risks of modern slavery and human trafficking are low. However, we acknowledge that we must remain vigilant to the risks and ensure that our vendors understand and play their part in ensuring that modern slavery and human trafficking does not take place in our organisation or supply chains. This message is reiterated to our suppliers via our procurement teams in each supplier quarterly review.
To find out more about what we do, please go to https://www.weetabixfoodcompany.co.uk/
3. Relevant policies and contracts
To reinforce our commitment to combating slavery and trafficking, we have implemented the following policies, which set out our zero-tolerance approach to modern slavery, both within our own operations and our supply chain:
(a) We have in place a Responsible Sourcing Policy which applies to all our operations and those in our supply chain. This Policy makes specific reference to our zero-tolerance stance on modern slavery.
(b) We have published guidance to our employees through our internal Anti-Slavery Policy, which applies to all those working for us or on our behalf (and which includes contractors and agency workers).
(c) We have reviewed the steps we take when engaging with new vendors, contractors and business partners to ensure that they are aware of and will adhere to our Responsible Sourcing Policy and to assess the likelihood of slavery or trafficking existing in those organisations and what measures are already in place to combat those risks.
(d) We have reviewed our existing policies and have made amendments to recognise our obligations under the Act including our Whistleblowing Policy.
(e) Our supplier contracts contain comprehensive Anti-Slavery clauses.
(f) Our ultimate parent company has also launched our global Code of Conduct policy and which fits with our principles and values here at Weetabix. This Code provides support to our employees in making day to day ethical decisions in addition to the policies already in place.
4. Risk assessment processes
We have considered the risk of modern slavery in our own operations and we have concluded that, on the basis that we are a UK employer subject to UK employment protections and practices and already have well developed checks and balances within our business, we have a low risk of modern slavery occurring in our own operations.
Our suppliers which fall into the following categories are strongly encouraged to commit and adhere to the Weetabix Standards, which include a requirement to abide by the Ethical Trading Initiative base code and to be a member of Sedex:-
We have considered the risk of modern slavery occurring in our use of external labour via employment agencies and our direct suppliers. Given the organisations that we work with and the existing checks and balances that we apply in these areas, we have concluded that the risks of modern slavery are low in this area.
We have concluded that we would benefit from a higher degree of oversight in relation to our direct suppliers where the modern slavery risk is deemed higher and this is an area of focus that we have identified going forward into our next financial year.
5. Due diligence processes
In order to prevent slavery and trafficking in our business and supply chains, we are taking steps to update and improve our supplier due diligence process, particularly in the case of our direct suppliers and any supplier not subject to the Weetabix Standards. This includes integrating and acting upon the findings of our risk assessment processes described above and taking action to embed zero tolerance of modern slavery and trafficking. We are taking the following steps in relation to our supply chain:-
We review the responses from our suppliers to judge future actions and assess what further due diligence or other steps are required.
6. Training
To raise awareness of slavery and trafficking, and of our policies and procedures, we have developed an induction and continuous learning approach to training employees in this area using our compliance calendar. All compliance modules must be completed by each employee on an annual basis.
We have dedicated compliance modules covering key compliance areas, including Anti-slavery, Anti-bribery, Ethics and Code of Conduct which are compulsory courses for all staff.
7. Measuring effectiveness – performance indicators
In order to monitor the effectiveness of the steps we have taken to stop slavery and trafficking taking place in our business and supply chains, we will use the following performance indicators for the financial year ahead:
As referenced in this statement, we will monitor the need for further action to be taken and other key performance indicators to be implemented as we continue our risk assessment and due diligence activities and get responses from our key suppliers.
This statement has been approved by the Weetabix board of directors who will review and update it annually.
Signed on behalf of the Board of Directors by Sally Abbott
January 2019


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Today's question on the ebizQ SOA forum was inspired from Joe McKendrick's ZDnet blog posting where he refers to the classic SOA conundrum: Does good service-oriented architecture result from having a "service-oriented" focus and organization, or does SOA help lead to a more service-oriented organization?
We've all heard about questions that have no answer. To me this is an example of just the opposite - a question that answers itself!
The simple fact is that you need both - the service oriented organization (culture) and the service oriented architecture (technology); neither one is the master; and they form an iterative, virtuous circle.
So, which came first, the chicken or the egg?
* Originally posted in the ebizQ SOA Forum on December 1, 2010.


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- "These people are right. We've stood by and pretended nothing was wrong here for long enough!"
- ―Unidentified Herdessan rebel
The Battle of Herdessa was a preliminary battle in the Nagai invasion of 4 ABY.
- "We must be diplomats, even if our hosts are not."
- ―Mon Mothma briefs Princess Leia Organa
Following the Battle of Endor, the Rebellion was busy with diplomacy as they prepared to set up a new government with the Alliance of Free Planets. Traveling to several worlds, leaders such as Mon Mothma and Leia Organa ensured the citizens that their interests would be met under the new government.
These diplomatic missions eventually brought these two leaders to the planet Herdessa. The Alliance ambassadors were met with a less than friendly meeting after their arrival. Unknown to the Alliance, the Dark Lady Lumiya had allied with the leaders of the world as head of planetary security. In this position of power, Lumiya began to orchestrate a slaving operation, with members of the lower classes being shipped off world. This operation was being carried out in conjunction with another slaving operation on the planet Kashyyyk. The purpose of these concurrent slaving operations was to destabilize the Alliance's influence to pave the way for a Nagai invasion.
As diplomatic relations ensued on Herdessa with the planetary leaders, Brylin, Tof, and Gaza, a behind the scenes slaving operation continued as planned. With the support of Herdessan shocktroopers Lumiya prepared to raid the slums of the city. As negotiations soured, Leia excused herself from the meeting and came face to face with Lumiya dealing with a lower class citizen personally. Leia helped the woman escape and fled back to her hideout where she learned that the woman Suzu was the leader of the resistance against Lumiya and the corrupt Herdessan politicians. After realizing that the Herdessan leaders were aiding Lumiya in setting up the slaving operation, Leia agreed to pledge her support to Suzu and her comrades.
The battleEdit
- "Okay, remain calm, everyone, we prepared for this. Get to your stations and do the best you can!"
- ―Suzu
Almost immediately after Leia had pledged her support, she was thrust immediately into an open conflict between Lumiya's forces and the Herdessan Rebels. Personally leading a large group of Herdessan shocktroopers, Lumiya burst into the Rebel's base. Nearly all the Rebels were incapacitated by stun beams in the firefight, but Leia and Suzu were able to escape from the battle.
Realizing that the Rebels proved a potent threat at this point, Lumiya deployed a force of stormtroopers into the city to put down the Rebellion. After having taken the rebels captive, Lumiya found that Leia was still missing. Over a loudspeaker, Lumiya declared to the middle class citizens that they should evacuate their homes so that her forces could search their homes for the fugitive.
Mon Mothma, now a prisoner of the corrupt Herdessan government, tried to appeal to the people to throw off their oppressors, but the citizens were too terrorized to stop the proceedings. However, a small fight broke out between several of the lower class citizens. The Herdessan Rebel Finn was soon detained and Lumiya prepared to execute him. Luckily, Suzu and Leia created a diversion that delayed the execution and allowed Leia to ambush Lumiya's guards.
As Leia distracted the guards, Suzu released the rest of the prisoners and a final fight broke out between Lumiya's men and the now armed rebels. As the Rebels and the Imperial exchanged blaster fire, the remaining Herdessan citizens seized the opportunity to rise up against Lumiya and her corrupt allies. Attacking the Imperials from the rear, the Herdessan citizens quickly subdued their former oppressors, ending the battle.
- "Run back to your friends, little Leia…but you have worse things to worry about than stormtroopers. Before long, you and everyone you hold dear will learn just how 'pretty dangerous' a foe I can be."
- ―Lumiya
Although the Herdessan slaving ring was destroyed, Lumiya was able to escape from the battle, making her way back to her forces. The corrupt planetary leaders were overthrown and were most likely replaced by Suzu and Finn. Herdessa likely became a member of the Alliance of Free Planets after this incident.
Mon Mothma became concerned with the strength of the forces under Lumiya's control and spoke with Leia about discovering Lumiya's whereabouts and plans. Although plans to destabilize the Alliance with the introduction of a new slave trade had failed, Lumiya returned to the Nagai staging point on Kinooine where she prepared for the arrival of the main Nagai fleet. During the Skirmish on Kabray, Leia would put together Lumiya's allegiance to the Nagai in setting up the slave trade on Herdessa.
- Star Wars 88: Figurehead (First appearance)
- Star Wars 92: The Dream (Indirect mention only)
- Star Wars 95: No Zeltrons (Indirect mention only)
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, Vol. I ("Herdessa")
- The Forgotten War: The Nagai and the Tofs on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com and unavailable)
- The Essential Atlas
- Lumiya in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ Star Wars 83: Sweetheart Contract
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 The Forgotten War: The Nagai and the Tofs on Hyperspace (content removed from StarWars.com and unavailable)
- ↑ Star Wars 89: I'll See You in the Throne Room
- ↑ 4.00 4.01 4.02 4.03 4.04 4.05 4.06 4.07 4.08 4.09 4.10 4.11 4.12 4.13 4.14 4.15 4.16 4.17 4.18 4.19 Star Wars 88: Figurehead


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The movie moves, and James Baldwin moves in it. Sometimes he looks like a graceful queen, as he sits, poised, his back erect with grand indulgence or tolerance or love. His expressive hands cut through the air during this or that interview, speaking a wordless language of their own, as the former boy preacher from Harlem, small, dark, and compact, talks and talks about race, sounding like no one else on earth. It's Baldwin's voice—his luminescent words describing and analyzing dark matters—that ties together Raoul Peck's latest film, "I Am Not Your Negro," which is about many things, including the writer's relationship to racial politics and the fantastic yet undermining power of the cinema's racially defined images. One of the chief pleasures of the movie is watching Baldwin, who died in 1987, appear on talk shows and in public forums: he had an extraordinary physical presence, of a piece with his singular mind. We watch him because he saw us, wanted to see us.
Baldwin's prescient, pre-African-American-studies insights about the construct and the reality of whiteness are among many ideas that Peck zeroes in on in his swift-moving, multilayered, and appreciative film. (It's a wonderful introduction to Baldwin, if you've never read him.) "I Am Not Your Negro" is dominated by words, and by its director's interest in how language can support or contradict what we see. The script—which is culled primarily from Baldwin's writing and read by Samuel L. Jackson, without his usual bombast—outstrips Peck's images, in depth, mystery, and knowingness, but that is often a problem with sensational writing, especially if it wasn't written specifically for the screen. Our ear fixes on the sentences, and we don't allow the images to tell the story. But what if the words are the story?
"I Am Not Your Negro" more or less begins with the question of home. It's 1968. Baldwin is on "The Dick Cavett Show," and Cavett is trying to ask him if we should feel equal measures of hope and despair about race relations in America. As Cavett stumbles over how to phrase the question, Baldwin smiles his magnificent smile and says that, to tell the truth, he doesn't have much hope. His point is: What's going to happen to this country if it can't cope with the language of race, let alone race itself? Being correct doesn't inspire art, or the tension that contributes to the making of art. Then, as a blues tune plays, Peck, rather predictably, cuts to still photographs of recent demonstrations: blood and rage in Ferguson, Baltimore, and elsewhere. He is, appropriately, showing what has become of race relations in this country, but the result feels banal, a coda to an unfinishable story.
Cut to a black screen, then a typewritten message—an unpublished letter from Baldwin to his literary agent, Jay Acton. (Gloria Karefa-Smart, Baldwin's younger sister and his executor, gave Peck unprecedented access to her brother's work.) It's the summer of 1979, and Baldwin is working on a book that he does not want to write but knows he must write. Titled "Remember This House," it will tell the story of America through the lives of Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X, all of whom were Baldwin's friends, and whom he wrote about in his underrated 1972 book, "No Name in the Street." (One wonders why he chose to revisit the material—or why it wouldn't leave him alone.) As Peck shows us elevated train tracks in what appears to be a deserted city, Jackson reads the letter, which describes the work to come: "I am saying that a journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do, what you will find, or what you find will do to you." (The scene reminded me of Chantal Akerman's heart-stopping 1977 film, "News from Home," which shows tranquil shots of an emptied-out New York as the director reads letters from her mother, who is back home in Belgium.)
Baldwin, who moved to France in 1948, at the age of twenty-four, tells Acton how he knew when it was time for him to return home, a journey that led to his becoming friends with King and the other leaders: It was 1957, and he was in Paris. He saw, on the front page of a newspaper, a photograph of Dorothy Counts, the fifteen-year-old daughter of a professor of theology and philosophy and the first black student admitted to Harry Harding High School, in Charlotte, under the Pearsall Plan to Save Our Schools. Instituted in 1956, the Pearsall Plan was North Carolina's attempt to integrate public schools in a "moderate" way, after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, in 1954. For many blacks, its approach was just more of that Faulkner jazz about going "slow," which Baldwin took apart in his 1956 essay "Faulkner and Desegregation":
When Faulkner speaks . . . of "the middle of the road," he is simply speaking of the hope—which was always unrealistic and is now all but smashed—that the white southerner, with no coercion from the rest of the nation, will lift himself above his ancient, crippling bitterness and refuse to add to his already intolerable burden of blood-guiltiness. But this hope would seem to be absolutely dependent on a social and psychological stasis which simply does not exist.
Counts was harassed and stoned, and she withdrew from the school after four days. "Spit was hanging from the hem of Dorothy's dress," Baldwin reports a witness telling him. He writes to Acton, "Some one of us should have been there with her." Baldwin knew that he had to go to the South in order to understand not only what he came from—his mother, Emma Berdis Jones, was born in Maryland—but also those who could no longer allow themselves to be spat on, even if it meant risking death: the "niggers" who had done so much to define whiteness. (Some of the power of "I Am Not Your Negro" lies in the view it allows us of King, Malcolm, and Evers. It's incredible and horrifying to see them again, first moving and speaking in the real spaces of their lives, and then dead—martyrs to what use and what end? History ate those men while they were alive and continues to chew over their bones in death.)
But first, after nine years away, Baldwin went to New York, which, he confessed to Acton, he hadn't missed until he was back in Harlem. There, surrounded by the music, the conversation, and the style of the world that had given him so much and taken so much, he began to feel a different kind of exile, the way all returned expatriates do: he was at home, but he was no longer sure what home was.
At this juncture, Peck introduces a theme that was a steady yet disconcerting force in Baldwin's young life: movies. Moviegoing began as a family affair; Baldwin shared its pleasures with his mother or an aunt. (Baldwin's stepfather, a street preacher and a factory worker, forbade secular music in the house; presumably he considered movies similarly evil.) Then, when Baldwin was ten, he was taken up by a white schoolteacher, Orilla Miller—her students called her Bill—who, as he writes in his late masterpiece "The Devil Finds Work" (1976), which Peck draws on for the film-related segments of the movie, introduced the burgeoning artist to politics and aesthetics:
She gave me books to read and talked to me about the books, and about the world . . . and took me to see plays and films, plays and films to which no one else would have dreamed of taking a ten-year-old boy. I loved her, of course, and absolutely. . . . It is certainly partly because of her, who arrived in my terrifying life so soon, that I never really managed to hate white people.
At the movies, the seven-year-old Baldwin saw Joan Crawford and fell in love. (Later, at a grocery store, he saw a black woman who resembled Crawford and almost followed her home.) At ten, Baldwin was transfixed by the "tense intelligence" in Bette Davis's forehead and amazed by her "pop-eyes," which resembled his own and his mother's. Plus, "when she moved, she moved just like a nigger." Then, there were all those cowboys-and-Indians flicks, and it took the young Baldwin some time to realize that by rooting for the good guys—the white guys—he was rooting against himself.
"The Devil Finds Work" disappointed some of Baldwin's readers. The black writer and editor Orde Coombs deemed it more than a failure in his Times review: it was evidence of how the mighty Baldwin had fallen.
A decade ago, as an undergraduate, my colleagues and I spent hours poring over the works of James Baldwin. He seemed so sure-footed then, so certain in his vision of this country, that his lacerating words were like balm to the black students who were on a whirligig in search of their identities. . . . Now Baldwin has published a long essay . . . but the event does not call for rejoicing. In fact it brings forth not a little pain, for this work teems with a passion that is all reflex, and an anger that is unfocused and almost cynical. It is as if Baldwin were wound up and then let loose to attack the hypocritical core of this nation. And to what avail? None that I can see, for although the book purports to be an examination of the way American films distort reality, its eclecticism is so pervasive that all we are left with are peregrinations of the mind and ideas that jump around and contradict each other.
Coombs's frustration is, by necessity, personal. For years, Baldwin had purposefully styled himself as a representative of others, more of a "we" than an "I." But in "The Devil Finds Work" he tried something different: an amalgamation of essay, criticism, memoir, and plain old talk that presages so many of the delicious unclassifiable works by such subsequent writers as Renata Adler, John Keene, Sarah Manguso, Leslie Jamison, and Maggie Nelson.
In the book—which is divided into three parts, moving from his experience of Hollywood films to his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood to a more global take on blacks in movies—Baldwin cuts repeatedly from tenderness and hope, inspired by his beloved teacher Bill, to fierce rhetoric and a despair that centers on a question of faith: how can we believe in America's most powerful product if its vision misshapes or betrays some of its citizens? But it is the jumpiness and the contradictions of Baldwin's text that play so well in Peck's movie: film, too, often jumps around and contradicts itself—or reality.
One has the sense, in the sections of "I Am Not Your Negro" that are devoted to Baldwin's relationship to film, that Peck is stepping in to make the film that Baldwin couldn't make. From the beginning of his career, Baldwin longed to make movies. In the introduction to his 1955 landmark collection, "Notes of a Native Son," he wrote, "About my interests: I don't know if I have any, unless the morbid desire to own a sixteen-millimeter camera and make experimental movies can be so classified." To my knowledge, Baldwin never satisfied that desire (morbid, perhaps, because he knew of the herculean effort that goes into getting any movie made), but he never stopped yearning to be a filmmaker. Like a number of other significant twentieth-century authors—James Agee, Truman Capote, Susan Sontag, and his friend Norman Mailer—he knew that the page was not enough in the modern world; cinema was a powerful medium with many more "readers." What would his life as an artist have been like, and what would American cinema be like now, had it opened itself up to him?
Baldwin was drawn to Ingmar Bergman's films, because they were the work of a feeling thinker who mined his past—especially his troubled relationship with his authoritarian pastor father. In a 1960 Esquire profile of Bergman, Baldwin describes how, after an interview with the filmmaker, he got into his car and imagined a movie he might make about his own past. But Baldwin had neither Bergman's studio support nor his skin color. (We still live in a world where it's hard to cast black actors in mainstream films, because distributors say they can't sell movies with black actors overseas, and no one in Hollywood is embarrassed to admit this.)
Some Baldwin film projects: In 1955, Baldwin and his close friend the editor Sol Stein—who put together "Notes of a Native Son"—adapted his essay "Equal in Paris" for television. (The script was never produced, but it was included, in 2004, in "Native Sons," a helpful book that covers Baldwin's early days as a writer.) After that, Baldwin published what I consider a kind of screenplay: the text for Richard Avedon's 1964 book of civil-rights-themed photographs, "Nothing Personal." Baldwin and Avedon had worked together on their high-school newspaper and stayed in touch. The text begins with a scene drawn from the image world:
I used to distract myself, some mornings before I got out of bed, by pressing the television remote control gadget from one channel to another. This may be the only way to watch TV. I certainly saw some remarkable sights. Blondes and brunettes and possibly redheads—my screen was colorless—washing their hair, relentlessly smiling, teeth gleaming like the grillwork of automobiles, breasts firmly, chillingly encased—packaged, as it were—and brilliantly uplifted, forever, all sagging corrected, forever, all middle-aged bulge defeated, eyes as sensuous and mysterious as jelly beans.
Baldwin was able to create images while describing them. This can be a hazard when you're working on a commercial movie script: producers want a showcase for stars, not analysis through imagery. I'm sure that Baldwin's method didn't help "One Day, When I Was Lost," his unmade 1972 film adaptation of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X." Recalling the experience, Baldwin wrote, in "No Name on the Street," "This was a difficult assignment, since I had known Malcolm, after all, crossed swords with him, worked with him, and held him in that great esteem which is not easily distinguishable, if it is distinguishable, from love. (The Hollywood gig did not work out because I did not wish to be a party to a second assassination. . . .)" In "The Devil Finds Work," Baldwin describes how his collaborators tried to reduce his complex subject—the story of Malcolm X and the black-male fraternity he inspired—to a Hollywood formula, a kind of buddy road movie. He eventually walked away from the project, and twenty years later the subject was still considered so difficult to represent on film that Spike Lee had to fight for the right to do so: a white director, Norman Jewison, was originally chosen for the project. (Lee incorporated elements of Baldwin's script in his 1992 movie, "Malcolm X," but also did what Baldwin tried to avoid, stressing the buddy-film aspects of the story, at least in the beginning.)
Had Peck made his film longer—and he should have—he could have delved further into the ways that other black artists, like Lee, tend to put their own fingerprints on Baldwin. Because he has remained such a star in the firmament of black arts and letters, there is almost no way for an admirer not to vie with his legend. (Also little explored, here or elsewhere, is the extent to which King and Malcolm X tried to compete with his exquisite language: brilliant rhetoricians are always suspicious of other brilliant rhetoricians.) Peck himself doesn't compete with Baldwin—he loves him in a much less complicated way than Baldwin loved his own artistic fathers, such as Richard Wright. But that isn't always a good thing: reverence is less sexy than an Oedipal grudge.
As we listen to Baldwin's thoughts on the country's relationship to the images it has produced—images that tell us so much about how whiteness views itself—we watch Peck's beautifully chosen and edited clips of the young Joan Crawford and Sidney Poitier (Alexandra Strauss, the film's editor, has done a fine job) with a double consciousness: there's what we see and there's what Baldwin says about what he sees. Especially riveting is Baldwin's discussion of Poitier in "The Defiant Ones," a film that divided black and white audiences when it was released, in 1958. In "The Defiant Ones," Poitier plays an escaped black convict who is handcuffed to a racist white convict (Tony Curtis). Gradually, the two become friends, of a sort, and toward the end of the film Poitier's character sacrifices his own freedom to help Curtis's character. In "The Devil Finds Work," Baldwin points out that black audiences wanted Poitier's character to abandon his former tormentor, while white audiences thought that his loyalty was laudable.
Although Baldwin dealt with whiteness in many ways, among them his phenomenal 1961 Esquire piece about Mailer, "The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy," he never directly addressed the anguished ties between blacks and whites in his own life. Perhaps this was out of fear of proving Eldridge Cleaver's claim, in "Soul on Ice," that Baldwin was essentially a faggot to the white man, because of the circles he moved in. His first experience of kindness, outside his family, was with his white teacher Bill. Later, at DeWitt Clinton High School, in the Bronx, where some white boys mocked his teen-age evangelism, there were others, such as Avedon and the writer Emile Capouya, who defended him. Avedon once told me that, when they were in school, Baldwin had come to visit him at home and been instructed by the doorman to use the back entrance. When Avedon's mother let him in and asked why he hadn't come to the front door, Baldwin told her that this was where "the man" had sent him. Mrs. Avedon rang for the doorman and lambasted him.
It was Capouya who pushed Baldwin to leave the church, since he no longer believed in it. In "The Devil Finds Work," Baldwin recalls his friend's challenge:
To stay in the church merely because I was afraid of leaving it was unutterably far beneath me, and too despicable a cowardice for him to support in any friend of his. Therefore, on the coming Sunday, he would buy two tickets to a Broadway matinee and meet me on the steps of the 42nd Street Library, at two o'clock in the afternoon. He knew that I spent all day Sunday in church—the point, precisely, of the challenge. If I were not on the steps of the library (in the bookshelves of which so much of my trouble had begun!) then he would be ashamed of me and never speak to me again, and I would be ashamed of myself. . . . That was how I left the church. By leaving the church and letting white friends love him, Baldwin separated himself from his stepfather (the only father he had) and gained access to a kind of power that his stepfather would never know. He found other fathers. In his twenties, he began to write for Sol Levitas, at The New Leader; Randall Jarrell, at The Nation; and Philip Rahv, at The Partisan Review: white publications headed by white men. In the introduction to his collection "The Price of the Ticket," which was published in 1985—two years before his death, at the age of sixty-four—Baldwin recalls that time:
I had been to two black newspapers before I met these people and had simply been laughed out of the office: I was a shoeshine boy who had never been to college. I don't blame these people, God knows that I was an unlikely cub reporter: yet, I still remember how deeply I was hurt. . . . Therefore, though it may have cost [Sol] Levitas nothing to hurl a book at a black boy to see if he could read it and be articulate concerning what he had read, I took it as a vote of confidence and swore that I would give him my very best shot. And I loved him—the old man, as I sometimes called him (to his face) and I think—I know—that he was proud of me, and that he loved me, too.
Imagine if those words were read over the clip we see at the end of "I Am Not Your Negro," from a 1963 conversation with the black psychologist Kenneth Clark. In it, Baldwin smokes his ever-present Bette Davis cigarette and takes America to task for its wrongs and its failures. What if Baldwin had stopped generalizing about the black condition and gone deeper into the complications of black and white love? Isn't that one of the terrible fears this country was built on? The fear that white servants and black slaves might love and procreate and eventually outnumber and overpower their masters? But I can see now that I am trying to produce my own movie. That's the problem with love: you always want to remake it in your own image. ♦


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Apple, Walnut and Mixed Green Salad
Today we will be making something light, tasty and crunchy a simple salad made out of apples, radish, and walnut in a bed of mixed greens. I am not sure if this combination is a known recipe but to be honest during this week's theme I will try to just combine whatever flavourful combination I can think of and this is one of it. So head over to the recipe and let me know what you think of it?
- 1 salad bowl full of Mixed Greens
- 3 pcs small radish, thinly sliced
- 1 pc large red apple, cubed
- ⅔ cup Walnuts, cut in half
- 3 tbsp crumbled feta cheese
- 4 tbsp crispy fried bacon pieces
- vinaigrette
- oil from bacon
- Place all ingredients in a salad bowl except the feta cheese and bacon pieces.
- Add bacon oil and vinaigrette then toss lightly.
- Sprinkle feta cheese and bacon pieces on top then serve.