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Get this. Kris Allen just released his first single, "Live Like We're Dying" on Z100 New York! (Listen: HERE) The song just ended, the radio jockeys are interviewing Kris now. I'm going to be incomprehensible starting now because I'm so excited!
My thoughts on the song: It was AMAZING. It's the sort of stuff you want to listen to when you're down, feeling low or alone. The track is very fun, very uplifting and it just raises your spirit. You can't help but dance along with it (at least I did). It spreads a good message: live everyday like you're dying, capture every moment cause it's precious, and to love everyone around you. Also, I like that the song has a summer jam to it (even though summer is almost over) and the chorus is super upbeat. It's sort of like a rap, but you're actually singing. The whole vibe of the song is very Jason Mraz-ish, with lots of guitar playing in the background. If you're into Jason Mraz's smooth soulful tunes (read: "The Remedy", you'd have no problem with this one. Overall: great stuff. A+
ETA: The interview just ended! The DJs said that they had recorded the interview and will be posting it up soon, so check out the website, HERE.
ETA2: Going to be posting the download link soon!
ETA3: Download link posted below! Note: This is not in HQ. This is a ripped version from the radio station interview.
Download: HERE
ETA4: Lyrics to the song!
Sometimes we fall down, Can't get back up
We're hidin' behind skin that's too tough
How come we dont say I love you enough
Til its too late…. its not too late
Our hearts are hungry for a food that won't come
But we could make a feast from these crumbs
And we're all starin' down the barrel of a gun
So if your life flashed before you what would you wish you would have done
Gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we been given
If this is all we got then we gotta start thinkin'
If every second counts on the clock thats tickin'
Gotta live like we're dyin'
We only got 864 hundred seconds in a day
To turn it all around or to throw it all away
Gotta tell em that we love em while we got the chance to say
Live like we're dyin'
And if your plane fell out of the skies
Who would you call with your last goodbye
Should be so careful who we let fall out of our lives
Or when we long for absolution there'll be no one on the line
You never know a good thing til its gone
You never see a crash til its head on
Wny do we think we're right when we're dead wrong
You never know a good thing til its gone
Enjoy! Please leave comments! What are your thoughts on the song?


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When Is it OK to Text Your Doctor?
Sumathi Reddy joins Lunch Break to look at why doctors do or don't email and text with patients. Photo: Natasha Burgert.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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DALLAS -- The man credited with designing the famed blue star logo of the Dallas Cowboys has died.
The Cowboys say Jack Eskridge died Monday at a Valley Falls, Kan., hospital. The funeral for the 89-year-old former Cowboys equipment manager is scheduled for Saturday morning at Carson-Speaks Chapel in Independence, Mo.
According to the team website, Eskridge was one of coach Tom Landry's first hires in 1959, the year before the Cowboys' debut season. It was he who designed the white-bordered blue star used after the Cowboys began with a white star.
Eskridge remained with the Cowboys until 1973.
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Shattering two weeks of tenuous calm following Benazir Bhutto's assassination last month, a suicide bomber struck Thursday in the city of Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's heartland. The spread of violence to yet another city is likely to raise fresh doubts that security in Pakistan is conducive to elections – already delayed until Feb. 18 – that will bolster the country's political process.
Although suicide attackers have targeted Pakistan's other major cities, particularly Islamabad and Karachi, Thursday's bombing, which left 26 dead and 70 injured, was the first of its kind in Lahore, a previously quiet city of 7 million best known for its rich historical heritage and bustling social life.
Analysts warn against delaying the elections again, in spite of the violence. Only the free exercise of the national vote, however flawed and tinged with violence, can guide Pakistan toward greater political stability, they say.
As yet, Pakistan's elections are scheduled to go on. But Thursday's violence highlights the conundrum now facing the country.
Canceling elections, far from solving the country's security woes, could add to them, fomenting a violent backlash from the opposition, analysts say. But if elections do proceed, voter turnout could be low, with frightened citizens thinking twice about attending large political gatherings or visiting crowded polling stations. Low turnout will bolster President Pervez Musharraf's ruling party, which might otherwise face a formidable challenge from the opposition, some analysts say.
"If there's a serious security situation, many people will not come out. And if they don't come out for elections, that will play into the hands of the government," says Hasan Askari Rizvi, a political analyst in Lahore.
Targeting security forces
The main target of the attack appears to have been a contingent of police who were deployed outside Lahore's High Court, in the center of the city. If so, the attack is consistent with a growing campaign by militants to target government personnel and members of the security and armed forces. Some 800 people, most of them police or Army personnel, have been killed in suicide attacks this past year.
But the attacker may also have set his sights on another target: lawyers who had planned a demonstration against the Musharraf regime.
"This explosion was a couple of minutes before the lawyers were to come out for a procession in front of the Lahore High Court. Had they come out, there would have been more casualties. So maybe this was meant to scare them as well," says Mr. Rizvi.
Lawyers in Pakistan, who have been protesting for more than nine months against Musharraf's sacking of the country's Supreme Court justice, have become a symbol of democracy that militants may also have wanted to target. The answer remains unclear, and no militant groups have yet claimed responsibility for the attack.
Keeping the country on edge
But the intended message is clear, analysts say. The point of these attacks is to scare people away from the political process, from the public act of voting and listening to political campaigns, explains Aftab Ahmed Sherpao, Pakistan's former top antiterrorism official.
Mr. Sherpao, who is now running for a seat in the parliament, has himself twice been targeted by suicide bombers who struck as he was campaigning in public. In both cases, he narrowly escaped with his life, but dozens of bystanders were killed.
"What I think is that they didn't really want to attack me. If they wanted to get me, they easily could have. They wanted to attack the crowds. The same with Benazir Bhutto. What does a terrorist want? To terrorize people?" Sherpao said in a recent interview at his home in Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province, the region bordering Afghanistan where Pakistan's militants maintain their strongholds.
Others agreed that the latest attack appeared to be part of an attempt to destabilize the country. "This is a deliberate effort to show that there are problems everywhere. The terrorists are obviously spreading their attacks," says Shafqat Mahmood, a former senator and now a political analyst in Lahore.
But in spite of, or perhaps because of, the militants' suspected intent to keep the country on edge, the political process must move on, some analysts say. Even the prospect of more bloodshed and lopsided results is far more palatable, they say, than holding no elections at all.
"It will be very irresponsible to postpone the elections because if that is what the terrorists want, then we should not do it. The only way forward for us is through free and fair elections," says Mr. Mahmood.
• This story is a joint production of The Christian Science Monitor and Frontline/World.


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Sam Rosen
Sam Rosen, the recipient of the 2016 Foster Hewitt Memorial Award from the Hockey Hall of Fame, has been the play-by-play announcer for the New York Rangers on MSG Network since 1984. On June 14, 1994 his exclamation of "This one will last a lifetime!" joined the pantheon of famous play-by-play calls and will be celebrated forever by the nearly two million Rangers fans that tuned in that evening to watch the Rangers clinch the Stanley Cup for the first time in 54 years.
Rosen is also known for his trademark catchphrase "It's a power play goal!"
One of the most knowledgeable and thorough play-by-play personalities in hockey, Rosen has called games alongside some of the sport's greatest analysts. He worked with Hall-of-Famer Phil Esposito during his first full-time season in the booth and then joined former Rangers goaltender John "J.D." Davidson at the start of the 1986-87 season, forming a duo that would stay together for 20 years. He now shares the booth with Joe Micheletti, who joined him at the beginning of the 2006-07 season.
In addition to his duties with MSG, Rosen works as a play-by-play announcer for Fox's coverage of the NFL, a position he's held since 1997. Since 1996 he has also called the Stanley Cup Finals, the Eastern Conference Finals and the NHL All-Star Game on the NHL Radio Network.
Rosen began his sportscasting career in 1970 as a statistician for the Knicks Radio Network and as a newsman for WNAB-AM in Bridgeport, CT. In 1971 he moved to WICC-AM (Bridgeport), where he spent two years as a newsman while serving as weekend sportscaster for New Haven's Channel 8 (WTNH).
In September of 1973 he joined UPI Radio Network, where he worked until December 1980. Rosen was one of the first voices of ESPN, where he called play-by-play for a variety of sports, including hockey, boxing, table tennis, Australian Rules Football, college wrestling and college baseball from 1977 to 1988. He also called Jets and Giants preseason football for WPIX-TV and Cosmos soccer for WNEW-AM.
Rosen's tenure with MSG started on a freelance basis in 1977 before he was hired full-time in September of 1982. He began his hockey work as the studio host for Rangers' telecasts and as part-time play-by-play announcer on MSG Radio. The native of Ulm, Germany, who moved to Brooklyn, NY when he was two, has served as host for "The Mike Keenan Show," "The Herb Brooks Show," "Giants Journal" and Knicks basketball. Until 1993 Rosen called boxing on MSG Network and won the Sam Taub award for "Excellence in Boxing Broadcast Journalism" in 1989.
Rosen has helped lead the MSG Networks production team to several major and important awards, including the prestigious CableACE award for "Outstanding Live Event Coverage" in 1994. This award made MSG Networks the first regional cable network to ever capture the honor.
Rosen has been recognized with New York Emmy Award nominations in the category of "On-Camera Achievement: Sports" in 1993, 1994 and 2002. He was also a nominee for "On Camera Talent: Sports Play-by-Play" in 1999, 2004, 2006, 2010 and 2011.
Rosen lives in New City, NY with his wife Jill. He has two sons, Garett and Matthew, as well as two grandsons, Brendan and Michael.


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(Desperately) Looking for Arctic warmingMonday, May 3rd, 2010
by Paul Driessen and Dr. Willie Soon
Global warming alarmists have chosen the wrong part of the climate cycle to head north
First, American Ann Bancroft and Norwegian Liv Arnesen trekked off across the Arctic in the dead of the 2007 winter, "to raise awareness about global warming," by showcasing the wide expanses of open water they were certain they would encounter. Instead, icy blasts drove temperatures inside their tent to -58 F, while outside the nighttime air plunged to -103 F.
Open water is rare at those temperatures, the intrepid explorers discovered. Facing frostbite, amputated toes and even death, the two were airlifted out 18 miles into their 530-mile expedition.
Next winter it was British swimmer and ecologist Lewis Gordon Pugh, who planned to breast-stroke across open Arctic seas. Same story. Then fellow Brit Pen Hadow gave it a go, but it was another no-go. (more…)


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- New York Magazine cover story: How Not to Talk to your Kids
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Read about Carol Dweck in Malcolm Gladwell's
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I dont know where were headed, but we are making good time! Yogi Bera
One of the constant themes I encounter in my coaching practice is when clients come to me after pursuing a path of promise and discovering that the path was illusory. At least, after repeated experiences of sameness, they want to know how long to keep doing what they started and how to move forward. Typical examples of these themes include repeated promises of promotions that do not come through; no change in their status after chasing new certifications to enhance their skills or rsum; pursuing a new degree to enhance their station, etc.
This blog is about the concept of how increasing your sunk costs delude you into continuing on that path, when you suspect that the path is illusory. I am writing this blog to remind readers to alert themselves of this fallacy and to do something that will help them get back on track to meet their stated objectives.
Promotion promise: Most employees are looking for promotion after a few years in their role. They work hard and convince themselves by looking around that if Joe was promoted last year, after just doing little to deserve it I certainly deserve more than he did, since I work much harder and my contributions are much more valuable to the group. So, you march into your bosss office and ask him for what the timeline is for your next promotion. The boss reclines in his chair, throws his feet on the desk in front of him, folds his hands behind his head, and with a show of some ersatz concern on his face goes, Hmmm, lets see now: I just promoted Joe last year, so, for me to promote another team member in my group Ill have to wait two years OR have that person contribute something exceptional in this group so all my higher ups notice it. He pauses, scratching his chin, with a quizzicaleven enlightenedlook on his face prompting you to say something.
You jump in and volunteer for that long-pending infrastructure initiative that no one had time to work on. You say, OK, Ill give you my plan for that infrastructure project that never got off the ground and Ill complete that on my own time and you can use that as a proof point of my initiative and leadership contribution to put my promotion through, when the project is complete.
He now smiles and agrees for you to work on it with his full support. For the next 6-9 months you toil 16-hour days doing two jobs: pulling your regular duties and the new infrastructure project that you underestimated in its scope. Two moths before the next review cycle you complete the project, and everyone congratulates your boss for his heroism and leadership for coming through. He gets immediately promoted to Senior Director and is assigned to a larger organization, and you get a new boss from the outside. When you tell your new boss the history of this infrastructure project and what your just-promoted boss had promised you, he promptly responds, that infrastructure project is no longer my priority; I have other fish to fry. Let me get settled and get back to you!
You patiently wait and a few months later a new initiative is pushed down the organization to cut costs and head count. Your new boss reminds you that you are lucky that you were not on that RIF list. You breathe a sigh of relief.
Now you try to ingratiate yourself with your new boss and find yet another project to volunteer for the next round of APR with a hope for your promotion. You hunker down and start your 16-hour-day routine all over again. You reason that you have already figured out how to get these projects done (and help your boss get to their next level!), so you figure the next time is the charm, so you mislead yourself all over again. This is the sink-cost fallacy getting the best of you!
What you should do, instead: As soon as the old boss got promoted on the backs of your toil and success, you must update your rsum, showcase your leadership in getting things done that were outside your responsibility and market yourself at the next level in the open market.
Pursuing a new degree: B-schools often lure Mid-career professionals in pursuing an MBA degree to advance their careers. Most B-schools do such a good job of marketing their MBA degrees and summer programs that most see that as their ticket to top management positions. Although an MBA can be a helpful addition to ones rsum, often it is not a requirement for advancement in all cases. This is especially true in technology where most engineers and scientists are under the misguided notion that adding MBA to their educational credentials will open new doors for them for executive roles. Spending two or so years and budgeting your own savings (sometimes a few hundred thousand dollars even borrowed on student loan programs) to pursue a questionable degree is worth some serious thought.
Instead, showing leadership initiative at your current role, taking some meaningful business courses (finance, marketing, management) on line, and applying what you learn in these courses to advance your station and to build your rsum with specific accomplishments that show your leadership is a more effective way to go in the direction you desire. I am not advocating not going after business courses or even an MBA, but if your company deems that as a way for you to advance your skills and sponsors you to pursue such a degree without your putting out your own monies, then it is something worthwhile for you to pursue, because now your company is on the hook for doing something with you after your degree.
Taking selected courses, applying the knowledge to work differently in your current job, building your rsum with that message is a far more effective way to migrate to management ranks than blindly pursuing an MBA and realizing that it did not make any difference in your career.
Boondoggle projects: Many companies launch new projects with great fanfare. Even CEOs take special interest in such projects when someone has done a good job selling such ideas to top executives. Initially, star players are selected to chase such projects, but as things change new projects take their place, with the original team continuing its work as people become aware of their sunk costs and the burn rate. Someone needs to take charge of such boondoggles and cut the losses before wholesale cost cutting initiatives come down from the top. So, if you are involved in a project that has now become marginally useful or even sidelined, save your job and your career by proposing deep sixing such projects and getting on some more rsum-building tasks!
Sunk cost fallacy is a real threat to many careers and one must recognize their impact. If you are chasing such a fallacy to advance your own career become aware of what is going on and take some action to protect and save your career. Do it now!
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After getting his B.Tech. (Honors) from IIT-Bombay and Master's in electrical engineering(MSEE) from Stanford University, Dilip worked at various organizations, starting as an individual contributor and then progressing to head an engineering organization of a division of a high-tech company, with $2B in sales, in California's Silicon Valley. His current interest in coaching resulted from his career experiences spanning nearly four decades, at four very diverse organizations–and industries, including a major conglomerate in India, and from what it takes to re-invent oneself time and again, especially after a lay-off and with constraints that are beyond your control.
During the 45-plus years since his graduation, Dilip has reinvented himself time and again to explore new career horizons. When he left the corporate world, as head of engineering of a technology company, he started his own technology consulting business, helping high-tech and biotech companies streamline their product development processes. Dilip's third career was working as a marketing consultant helping Fortune-500 companies dramatically improve their sales, based on a novel concept. It is during this work that Dilip realized that the greatest challenge most corporations face is available leadership resources and effectiveness; too many followers looking up to rudderless leadership.
Dilip then decided to work with corporations helping them understand the leadership process and how to increase leadership effectiveness at every level. Soon afterwards, when the job-market tanked in Silicon Valley in 2001, Dilip changed his career track yet again and decided to work initially with many high-tech refugees, who wanted expert guidance in their reinvention and reemployment. Quickly, Dilip expanded his practice to help professionals from all walks of life.
Now in his fifth career, Dilip works with professionals in the Silicon Valley and around the world helping with reinvention to get their dream jobs or vocations. As a career counselor and life coach, Dilip's focus has been career transitions for professionals at all levels and engaging them in a purposeful pursuit. Working with them, he has developed many groundbreaking approaches to career transition that are now published in five books, his weekly blogs, and hundreds of articles. He has worked with those looking for a change in their careers–re-invention–and jobs at levels ranging from CEOs to hospital orderlies. He has developed numerous seminars and workshops to complement his individual coaching for helping others with making career and life transitions.
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1. continuous pain, as opposed to sharp pangs or twinges. An ache can be either dull and constant, as in some types of backache, or throbbing, as in some types of headache and toothache.
2. to suffer such pain.
A dull, poorly localized pain, usually of less than severe intensity.
abbreviation for acetylcholinesterase.
Etymology: OE, acan, to hurt
1 a pain characterized by persistence, dullness, and, usually, moderate intensity. An ache may be localized, such as a stomachache, headache, bone ache, or a general ache, as in the myalgia that accompanies a viral infection or a persistent fever.
2 to suffer from a dull, persistent pain of moderate intensity.
ACHEA gene on chromosome 7q22 that encodes acetylcholinesterase, which hydrolyses the neurotransmitter acetylcholine at neuromuscular junctions and brain cholinergic synapses, terminating signal transmission. It is also found on red blood cell membranes, where it constitutes the Yt blood group antigen.
Abbreviation for anticholinesterase; acetylcholinesterase.
A dull, generalized or localized pain, usually one of less than severe intensity.
acheA persistent dull pain.
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A dull, poorly localized pain, usually of less than severe intensity.
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1. continuous pain, as opposed to sharp pangs or twinges. An ache can be either dull and constant, as in some types of backache, or throbbing, as in some types of headache and toothache. An ache is a subjective sensation and its occurrence in animals is only assumed.
2. to suffer such pain.
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A. First of all, it is important to distinguish kidney ache from lower back ache. If you have ever suffered from kidney problems or infections, it might be advisable to see a doctor, and rule out an infection. However, if you are otherwise healthy, and have been experiencing back pain after you wake up, it is very much possible your pain is not from the kidneys, but from the muscles of your back. In this case, some exercise on a daily basis to help strengthen your lower back can very much ease the pain you're experiencing.
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COLUMBUS, Georgia - Hey, today is my cat's birthday. He is eleven today. I've had him for most of both his and my life. He's really nice, even though he attacks other cats. And people. He doesn't like people. Except me.
We've had him ever since he was about two or three months old. We got him after my mother got done serving her community service at the animal shelter. That's where she served most of her community service, anyway. She also did some of her probation at Habitat for Humanity and at the airport. That's right. Half of the people who work at the airport as security screeners are people serving time. How else do you think 9/11 could have ever happened?
My mother had to do something like 200 hours of probation along with going to weekly AA meetings after she got a DUI. Guess where she got the DUI at? In a Chuck E. Cheese parking lot. Seriously. We went there because it was my fifth birthday. As I played, she got extremely wasted. Who knew they even served alcohol at Chuck E Cheese? Well, apparently they do. Or at least did. That was the only time I ever went to Chuck E Cheese. And people wonder why I'm so fucked up in the head. My birthdays always suck.
So anyway, my cat is eleven today. He sleeps a lot. He likes sleeping in front of the air conditioner where it's nice and cool. He's an A/C hog. But I love him. He's the only one who ever listens.
So yeah... Um... His name is Romeo. Kinda from Romeo & Juliet. I didn't name him that. My alcoholic mother did. I wanted to name in Vincent, as in Vincent Van Gogh. Yeah, that crazy painter who goes around looking in people's windows whenever it rains.
He can tear people the fuck up. I'm serious. I took him to school for show-and-tell a few months after we got him. He scared the shit out of the little brats. He attacked three of them. Not bad, though. The little assholes still whined about it. They were little redneck kids. I cracked up laughing after he did that to them. You would've been laughing, too, if you had been there.
Oh, and I guess happy birthday to America, too. Nobody cares about you, though. Those fireworks are for my cat, not you.
- Mick Zock "America turns 232. Time to put this old pup down?" CNN, July 4, 2008
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The California Senate passed a bill September 6 that would make it legal for non-physician medical professionals such as midwives to perform abortions under a statewide training program. The measure now awaits Democratic Governor Jerry Brown's signature. (Gov. Brown pictured to the left of the state seal, Sen. Christine Kehoe to the right.)
According to LifeSiteNews.com, the bill (S.B. 623), introduced by Democratic State Senator Christine Kehoe, "extends a program run by the University of California at San Francisco [UCSF], in which nurse practitioners, midwives, and doctors' assistants are trained to perform abortions without any further training in medicine. Kehoe argues the bill is necessary because there aren't enough doctors performing abortions in California."
The Sacramento Bee reported that the bill extends a UCSF program, begun in 2007, that "evaluates the safety and effectiveness of allowing certain non-doctor medical providers to provide abortions.... The goal is to increase access to the procedure in parts of the state where doctors are scarce." Kehoe noted that the program is "an existing study that's been extended several times, [and] this is an additional extension. Otherwise the study would cease at the end of this month and the practitioners participating in the city would no longer be able to perform this procedure."
The Life Legal Defense Foundation (LLDF), a California-based pro-life group that has been pressuring the UCSF for its records on the controversial program, explained that the measure was hidden in an unrelated bill at the end of the state's legislative session after previous attempts to pass it had failed. "This bill was originally created to regulate boat paint," Dana Cody, LLDF's executive director, said of the bill carrying the abortion measure. "Now it's regulating and destroying human lives."
The Bee noted that several Republican lawmakers criticized the bill, hidden in the boat paint measure, as a last-minute "gut and amend" bill. "I don't understand the germaneness" of boat paint and training for abortions, confessed Republican State Senator Bob Dutton, one of the bill's opponents. "I'm questioning whether this is even appropriate to be brought up."
According to the Bee, Dutton's concern "prompted senate leaders to huddle for several minutes on the Senate floor. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg emerged to tell the upper house that it could vote on the amended bill because it had been through health committees in both houses and cleared the full Assembly."
But according to Focus on the Family's CitizenLink.com news site, "earlier this year, LLDF filed a formal request with UCSF for information about the program and the people taking part in it. The school has not released the information." Katie Short, LLDF's legal director, said that "there have been numerous attempts to resist records requests, leaving us wondering what they have to hide. It is important for Californians to find out what is being done in the training program — who are the abortionists conducting the training? How many women are being injured by these non-physician abortionists?"
Cody noted the obvious danger in which such a training program places women. "Abortion is not health care," Cody told CitizenLink. "Abortion injures women, and women deserve better."
The Sacramento Bee quoted an opposing legislator, Republican State Senator Doug La Malfa, as being troubled "by such a big push for something that could be such a grave health issue. We're going to have under-qualified people doing these things."
In a fact sheet on the program, LLDF recalled that two of the doctors who contributed to the training manual for the study were disciplined by the state after women under their care died during abortion procedures. "UCSF has publicly acknowledged Jesse James Joplin, M.D. and Mark Maltzer, M.D. for their contribution to its 'Early Abortion Training Workbook,' which was presumably used to train non-physicians to perform surgical abortions," the fact sheet read. "Joplin has been disciplined by the Medical Board of California for causing the death of a patient and for drug and alcohol abuse while working at Planned Parenthood sites. Dr. Mark Maltzer was successfully sued over the death of a young Latina woman, Diana Lopez. The Department of Health reviewed the incident and found Dr. Maltzer to be deficient in his care while Planned Parenthood 'failed to exercise oversight responsibility for ensuring the operation of the clinic.'"
The fact sheet also noted that rather than searching for nurses and other medical professionals from the general population for the program, "Planned Parenthood and UCSF recruited the non-physician trainees from existing Planned Parenthood employees or other 'women's health specialty' businesses. Thus, for the most part, the program simply paid to train current Planned Parenthood employees to perform surgical suction abortions."
Meanwhile, California's Catholic bishops observed that the "training" program has already cost the lives of thousands of pre-born babies. "With SB 623," lamented the bishops, "the sponsors and managers of that project will be 'rewarded' with more time and more money so they can … continue training yet more mid-level medical practitioners, who have already performed more than 8,000 abortions."


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Urban informality: transnational perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia
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The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trends. The contributions reveal that informal housing is no longer the domain of the urban poor; rather it is a significant zone of transactions for the middle-class and even transnational elites. Indeed, the book presents a rich view of 'urban informality' as a system of regulations and norms that governs the use of space and makes possible new forms of social and political power. The book is organized as a 'transnational' endeavor. It brings together three regional domains of research the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia that are rarely in conversation with one another. It also unsettles the hierarchy of development and underdevelopment by looking at some First World processes of informality through a Third World research lens.
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NEH Awards 39 Grants Totaling Nearly $1 Million to Historically Black, Hispanic-Serving and Tribal Higher Education Institutions
Federal humanities agency launches Extending the Reach Institutional Grant Program
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today unveiled its Extending the Reach Institutional Grants program by announcing grants totaling $977,000 to 39 historically black, Hispanic-serving and tribal colleges or universities. Of the grants, 16 went to historically black colleges or universities, 17 to Hispanic-serving institutions and six to tribal colleges or universities.
A full listing of the grants awarded by state is available as an Adobe Acrobat file here.
The institutions that received the NEH grants are located in 20 states, the District of Columbia and the territory of Puerto Rico. Projects include helping faculty members learn new subjects that will enrich the undergraduate curriculum, developing new degree programs, enhancing library collections and applying new technology to humanities programs.
"Through our Extending the Reach program, we are ensuring that the benefits of NEH funding reach Americans in all communities and walks of life," said NEH Chairman William R. Ferris. "Historically black, Hispanic-serving and tribal colleges and universities have rich traditions that need to be nurtured, developed and adapted to the needs of contemporary students. We at NEH are committed to supporting those efforts at these nationally significant institutions of higher education."
The Extending the Reach Institutional Grants program specifically seeks to increase the quantity and quality of humanities programs at the nation's 106 historically black, 282 Hispanic-serving and 32 tribal colleges and universities. The second deadline for the Extending the Reach Institutional Grants program is June 1, 2001. For information, contact the NEH Office of Challenge Grants at (202) 606-8309 or @email. Guidelines and application forms are available at http://www.neh.gov.


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May the blessings of Allah fill your life with pleasure and open all the doors of success now and always
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The word "Islam" is derived from the root "salama", it means to be at peace or to have security. Therefore, a Muslim is a person that surrenders, submits and obeys the laws of almighty God and through this submission; attains peace and security for themselves. Islam the Eternal Path to Peace
the more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be
Allah says in the Holy Quran: Chapter 16, Surah An-Nahl (The Bee) Ayat 125:
Invite to the way of your Lord with wisdom and excellent admonition and argue with people in the most gracious manner.
Your Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Way and who is Rightly guided.
"He who believes in Allah and the Day of Resurrection, do not let him harm his neighbor. And whosoever has faith in Allah and the Day of Judgement, let him speak only of what is good or else remain silent."
The company of a good friend is like an owner of musk; if you don't buy anything, you will get the smell of it.
The company of a bad friend is like the blacksmith's bellows; if you are not affected by its black dirt, you will be touched by its smoke. –Prophet Muhammed (saw)
I will tell you the distinguishing marks of a person for whom the fire of Hell has been made unlawful and who is a forbidden person for the Hellfire to consume:
He is a man who bears a sweet temper, tender heart and is soft-spoken. – Prophet Muhammed (saw)
Inscribed on the hilt of the Prophet's sword: 'Forgive him who wrongs you; join him who cuts you off; do good to him who does evil to you, and speak the truth although it be against yourself.'
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
Watch your words, they become actions.
Watch your actions, they become habits.
Watch your habits, they become character.
Watch your character, they become destiny.
Ilm (knowledge) without 'aql (intelligence) is like having shoes with no feet. And 'Aql without 'ilm is like having feet with no shoes. –Ali RAYour true friend is the one who participates in your efforts and for the sake of your gain, is prepared to suffer losses. –Ali RA
Allahummaftah lee hikmataka wan shur 'alaiyya rahmataka min khazaa ini rahmatika yaa arhama ar-raahimeen.
Translation: O Allah, bless us with wisdom and mercy, O Allah the most Merciful.
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It Is Him wrote:That's a really cool mix of stuff. The master lines setup throughout is a nice touch. And actually, those statues, I like 'em. I'm surprised that I do, but I like 'em... especially that shockwave. I need to get me one of those.
3.8TransAM wrote:lose the paper clips and IPod Nano on the shelves the G1'ers are on.
3.8TransAM wrote:Half of it is now piled in my closet and the rest is on one side of the room.
Repainting since it was a horrid lite brown(she picked it for his room not me)
So hopefully can finish that up t'row and get things put back into place and actually get to organizing it all over again.
Switching rooms sucks, so be forewarned if it happens to you. I gained about double the closet space but lost about 20% room size.
It always seems like to much crap when u have to move it all.
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I genuinely sympathise with you, the vast majority of my collection is still in storage at my parents as I've got absolutely no room to display them at mine.
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SCA Census 2010October, 2011
Greetings unto the Known World,
The Census Committee is proud to present the next releases of data from the SCA 2010 Census. The releases primarily focus on the questions around Peerage Options and Same Gender Consorts. There was a lot of data to analyze and we have aggregated the results in PowerPoint presentations with tables and charts, Excel spreadsheets, and Word documents of findings based on the data. These files can be downloaded below.
The Census Committee was very aware of the focus and importance of these particular questions and took every means possible to create a statistically accurate representation of the data. The data was reviewed and analyzed from many different angles. We would like to thank all of the individuals who took the time to express their opinions as well as the volunteers who took time from their busy lives to assist in processing and analyzing the data.
The Census Committee will continue to process the remaining Census data over the coming quarters in order to provide more detailed analyses and actionable insights and recommendations for society and kingdom officers, as well for as the general populace, relating to other topics measured by this survey. Data and findings will be released as they are finalized; please check back on this page.
If you have any questions or comments, requests or suggestions for special or specific analyses or future surveys, offers to help, or feedback about the SCA 2010 Census please send them to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Thank you,
Files Available for Download
Background - Why and how the Census was set up
Release 1: July, 2011
Thank you for the feedback on the released data. We have making corrections as they are reported to us and we are able to resolve them. Please keep the feedback coming.
Release 2: October, 2011
Key Findings - New Martial Peerage Options
Key Findings - Same-Gender Consorts
Data Cross tabulations (Excel spreadsheets)
Future Releases: Late Fall 2011 (est) and Early 2012 (est)
A special thanks goes to those folks who have assisted us in an advisory capacity including:
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Senator Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat, Won't Seek Another Term
(WASHINGTON) -- Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, the Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman, announced Thursday evening that he will not run for reelection in 2014.
Levin, 78, said the decision for him was "extremely difficult," but he decided with his wife that he could do a better job as a senator without campaigning.
"We decided that I can best serve my state and nation by concentrating in the next two years on the challenging issues before us that I am in a position to help address," Levin said. "In other words, by doing my job without the distraction of campaigning for reelection."
Levin, the senior Senator from Michigan, was first elected into the Senate in 1978.
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Residual Objects at the Border and Immigrant Trajectories
Material leftovers and abject residue are signs of the peculiar transformations . . . perversely, they show us that meaning has been made.
–Sophie Gee, Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth Century Imagination, p. 17
The photographs are a means of making "real" (or "more real") matters that the privileged or the merely safe might prefer to ignore.
–Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others, p. 7
Susan Harbage Page photographs objects found at the international border (objects trouvés), in the Rio Grande Valley, near Brownsville (USA) and Matamoros (Mexico). The photographs, part of her Border Project, depict no immigrants, only the dried out clothes that they left behind after making it across the river. The photographs do not depict guards either, but they show bullet casings and detention gloves that remain.
Harbage Page's photographs concentrate on the beginning that the border represents and are suggestive of the trajectories that immigrants followed afterwards. The residues depicted in these photographs speak tentatively of a successful journey into the United States but also reflect the fate of those for whom the crossing meant imprisonment and deportation. Photographs taken at the border hint at the lives that migrants started in the United States, or suggest journeys truncated by border enforcement violence.1
This essay offers an interpretation of the Border Project's intervention on the immigration public debate. By photographing the border area and the physical remnants of crossings that are not sanctioned by the law, the photographer highlights the institutions of coercion that characterize border control. The photographs offer a critical account of the danger and potential violence involved in the border crossing and, through that critique, suggest the need to come up with new imagined geographies of the border. By concentrating on the border, the photographer illuminates dimensions of this space that are hardly ever considered in a conversation that revolves around fortification, fencing, and security. The objects depicted can be identified as residues of border coercion—evidence that even tightly fenced borders offer, on closer inspection, unrounded edges, gaps, and traces. I suggest that the highlighting of these residues acts as a powerful sign of the unfinished status of even the most secured border, and by extension the possibility of changing the existing terms of the debate and ultimately the shape of the border and the options offered to migrants upon arrival.
Engaging with the space of the border through its openings and the residues of crossing and policing it disrupts the narrative of security that justifies an unending fencing. The fortification of the border is predicated on the dangers of the outside, justifying the extension of immigration policing within border spaces and into domestic areas.
The photographs do not portray the migrants; instead, they show objects such as single shoes that stayed behind, self-fashioned flotation devices, and identity cards. They do not impose identities on the migrants, but suggest their journeys and arrivals into the United States. They do not show encounters between Border Patrol officers and migrants, but they depict the rubber gloves and bullet casings. They do not follow immigrants into detention, but register the residue—detention bracelets and boxes with Department of Homeland Security tags. The objects are suggestive of the men and women who passed through the border; those who were detained, on the run, or abused in the United States; and those who sometimes returned across the border. Some of the items speak of the violence their owners went through, and their sight tells of pain and suffering produced by fortified borders.
The clothing and personal belongings are muddy, and sometimes need to be unearthed from layers of mud and dirt. This layering and the different stages of shredding and decomposition of the clothing suggest chronologies.
The photographs portray wet clothing left behind only a few hours before, as well as worn out pieces of clothing. The ground of the border is partly constituted through the accumulation of leftover clothes and personal objects and the repeated transit through the "safest" pathways. Immigrants who cross the river must change into dry clothes once they arrive on the northern side, to conceal the marks of their crossing. They carry a dry set of clothes in a sealed plastic bag, sometimes found empty and tied to the tires used as flotation devices. The actions of thousands of immigrants crossing the border are not inimical to the border but, through their passage, leave behind worn out paths and newly layered border geographies. Just as a fenced border constructs immigrants as dangerous trespassers, Harbage Page's depiction of a layered and complex border space humanizes them.
Objects found and photographed are often private and reveal the identity of border crossers. Some have actual identifying potential, as they contain the border crossers' DNA.
The portrayal of everyday objects makes migrants present. In contrast to prevalent images of immigrants as outlaws, the recognition of their journeys through the border and the difficulties involved are suggestive of their pain and open the possibility of a different kind of welcoming. The photographs change the framing of the border away from a security-maximizing stance and towards a depiction of immigrants as subjects. The conventional focus on the material strength of the fence and the inviolability of the border excludes immigrants as subjects of concern and of violence, preventing sympathy from those on the inside towards border crossers' journeys. The security obsession of the immigration debate makes immigrants' lives not grievable, not valuable. The photographed objects and the image of the border as a populated space and port of entry evoke humanity.2
The populated border conveyed by the photographs contrasts with images and acts of humiliation.The law SB1070 in Arizona and, before that, the procession of immigrants dressed in prisoner outfits paraded by Sheriff Arpaio on the streets of Phoenix, offer photo opportunities for the news media.3 The quantification of the "success" of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4 The tires dragged by Border Patrol vehicles shown in the next photograph are used to erase tracks and identify fresh footprints. The erasure of the traces of border crossing maintains the image of fortification while marking immigrants as trespassers.
The photographs of tagged Department of Homeland Security boxes represent the end of the immigrant journey. They single out the detritus of detention and deportation—traces of immigrants who have been denied spaces to live in the United States.
Personal belongings boxes labeled by the Department of Homeland Security still contain the information and pictures of the detainees and appear piled as trash in the street near the southern side of the Matamoros-Brownsville international bridge.5
Instead of focusing on immigrants detained, policed, fenced, and deported, Harbage Page shows the border as a populated space, whose shape is indebted to the people who pass through. The photographs suggest welcoming, represented in the small Guía del Migrante (Migrant Guide) prepared by Grupos de Protección al Migrante (Migrant's Protection Groups) and distributed in border towns, whose back cover can be seen below. The leaflet, found on the Mexican side, tells a story of hope for safe passage.
Clothes and objects left behind are as much traces of the identities of migrants as ID cards that non-Mexicans are keen to drop at the border to avoid being returned to more distant countries. This is the transition to a life of invisibility that the existing immigration regulations impose upon migrants without documents. Clothes left behind remind what the inauguration of immigrants' presence in this country involves. Wet clothes are discarded as immigrants mix with the overwhelmingly Mexican-American population of border towns. The items in the photographs represent first actions taken by border crossers to hide their identity, practices that will continue to characterize their lives as undocumented immigrants in the United States.
The violence involved in border control is narrated through its residues, bullet casings, and detention gloves. Department of Homeland security boxes grant new identities to migrants who were detained—preventing their legal entry for years to come, expediting their deportation if they were to enter again.
The photographic evidence of official coercion—bullet casings, gloves, and detention bracelets—disrupt the impressions of fortitude, inviolability, and certainty that the border fence presents.
The photographs question the assertion of territorial borders. Picturing these objects, tying them to narratives of the travelers who left them behind, and opposing them to the certainty of sovereign borders challenges the rules that seek to hide hesitancy, space for contestation, or room for debate.
The addition of a map produced by an immigrant that traces her family's trajectory adds to the welcoming stance of this project by incorporating immigrants as narrating subjects and by recognizing their journeys.6 According to the latest census data, among the top ten states in terms of growth in immigrant population between 2000 and 2009, eight were southern states.7 Even in terms of the absolute increase in foreign-born population, three out of the top ten states, excluding traditional destinations Texas and Florida, are southern: Georgia, Virginia, and North Carolina.8 The increase in the immigrant and—in particular—Latino population adds a new dimension to the troubled racial history of the South. These individuals fill the ranks of agricultural and construction workers and face discrimination, vulnerability in the workplace, and racially-targeted immigration enforcement.9
Museums and the Upsetting of the Narrative of the "Nation of Immigrants"
If we were to rely on museum collections, we might get an impression of a much richer level of material wealth than truly was the case. This is because most museums save the unusual and the valuable object, and individuals now and in the past consign commonplace objects to the dump.
–James Deetz, Small Things Forgotten: An Archeology of Early American Life
When the objects found at the border are re-photographed in the artist's studio their narratives are complicated by a new frame suggesting that the items now form parts of an exhibition. The stories they tell are neither confined to the past nor officially sanctioned. The objects contest the invisibility on which border coercion relies and challenge the discourse of fortification. In these images, Harbage Page chose background colors for their similarity to the palette that she encountered in her excursions in the Rio Grande Valley.
At the start of a decade that became characterized by anti-immigrant legislation, the Ellis Island Immigration Museum opened in 1990. Even as the museum celebrated the twelve million immigrants who went through its doors between 1892 and 1954, the US Congress passed restrictive immigration legislation and attached anti-immigrant provisions to crime, welfare, and anti-narcotics legislation.10 Ellis Island, as a space of memory, resulted from a complex interaction of actors and perspectives, including the Immigration History Society, the National Park Service, the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, as well as corporate actors in charge of the architecture, oral history recollection, and the catering and gift shop concession.11 In spite of the diverse interpretations of the narratives that the Ellis Island Immigration Museum puts forward, the immigration experience of Western Hemisphere migrants and, in particular, of Mexicans is only marginally acknowledged. Moreover, the identification of 1965 as the definitive end of unjust immigration regulation (through the abandonment of the national origin quotas) obscures the fact that the Hart-Celler Act is the same law that for the first time has limited immigration from Mexico and Latin America.12
Museums, and their inclusions and exclusions of artifacts, play a central role in the "production and legitimation of historical knowledges and social identities" and in the United States' narrative as a "nation of immigrants."13
Setting aside the question of whether the Ellis Island Immigration Museum is able to critically tackle issues of politically-motivated detention and deportation, or even the racism of popular culture in the early twentieth century, it fails to make explicit connections to the role of race, detention, and deportation in contemporary America. Its narrative carves in stone a "good immigrant" story, while evading critical awareness about the management of current immigration flows.14
Invoking the Ellis Island Immigration Museum vis-à-vis Harbage Page's photographs of the "residues of border control" highlights the connections between nostalgic narratives of a nation of immigrants and the disavowal of contemporary stories of immigration taking shape at the US–Mexico border. The re-staging of the objects picked up in the border interpelates museums and exhibitions that omit these stories. The bullet casings and detention bracelets tagged and photographed in the studio defy (and make retrospective) the inclusionary bent of the "nation of immigrants" narrative. The staging of these objects as if they belonged to an archive or a museum collection plays with the fact that these items would not be granted entry to these realms.15
In putting together the archive, the photographer asserts the importance of a marginal area and of seemingly marginal objects. The Border Project's mundane objects do not passively back up a rehearsed story but convey the continuous flow of individuals, the encounter between border crossers and Border Patrol officers, and the deployment of state power over this liminal space. The photographs and the physical archive prompt conversation that is about the present and imagined futures.
The Border Project insists that immigrant identity is continuously transformed through successful and truncated journeys, newcomers, and settlement. Resisted by the mechanisms of border coercion and fortification, immigrant identity is remade by the individuals who leave their traces along the border.
Susan Harbage Page's photographs are welcoming not only of the individuals who are evoked through personal objects, but also of new narratives of migration and newly acquired identities. Because these photographs are too closely intertwined with the present and convey urgency, they refuse to memorialize a tightly packaged story of immigration and nationalism. By showing the residues of border crossing and the traces of coercion, these photographs invite a rethinking of the ways immigration is discussed.
About the Authors
Susan Harbage Page is an instructor in the Department of Art and an affiliated faculty member in Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2004, she received her M.F.A. in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been displayed in over one hundred exhibitions, at venues including the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington DC and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Colorado. Susan's research has been supported in part by a faculty research grant from the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina (2007) and a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Grant (2010).
Inés Valdez will receive her PhD in Political Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the summer of 2011. She has been awarded a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship at the European University Institute in Italy. Her research, forthcoming in the journal Political Studies, examines questions of sovereignty, immigration and democratic theory.
The authors thank the editorial staff at Southern Spaces and anonymous reviewers for helpful criticism and guidance.
- 1. All photographs: Susan Harbage Page, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Copyright © 2009 and 2010. All rights reserved.
- 2. Judith Butler, Frames of War. When Is Life Grievable (London: Verso, 2009), 25.
- 3. Arizona Senate Bill 1070, signed into law on April 23, 2010, controversially makes it a misdemeanor to be an alien in Arizona without carrying registration documents and requires law enforcement officials to determine a person's immigration status if there is "reasonable suspicion" that the person is an "illegal alien." It also establishes penalties for harboring or transporting an undocumented immigrant and allows law enforcement to arrest any individual without warrant if they believe this person is "removable from the United States."
- 4. Spencer S. Hsu and Andrew Becker, "ICE Officials Set Quotas to Deport More Illegal Immigrants," The Washington Post, March 27, 2010.
- 5. The practice of formally detaining border crossers (as opposed to simply returning them across the border) has become more prevalent since the implementation of Operation Streamline in 2005. See ACLU and National Immigration Forum, "Operation Streamline Fact Sheet," (Washington, DC: National Immigration Forum, 2009).
- 6. The map traces the journeys into the United States of members of an adult ESL course Harbage Page taught with Lauren McGrail and Dani Moore called Project Focus. It was a collaboration between Voices and Casa Multicultural and was funded by the North Carolina Community College System and the Durham Arts Council, 2000. The image is a page from an alphabet book produced in class. The maps are Polaroid images of a large map in the classroom where each student marked their journey from their home country to Durham, North Carolina with string. The writing was done by Guillermina Flores Godinez.
- 7. Migration Policy Institute, "States Ranked by Percentage Change in the Foreign Born Population" Migration Policy Institute Data Hub (Migration Policy Institute, 2011). These figures explain why the South has been identified as one of the "new" immigration destinations, areas that, unlike California, Florida, New York, and Texas, were not traditional "immigrant states" until the last two decades. Jamie Winders refers to the US South as one of the "nontraditional" destinations for the Latino immigrant population, whose rates of growth have reached up to 500% in certain cities between 1990 and 2005. Jamie Winders, "Changing Politics of Race and Region: Latino Migration to the U.S. South," Progress in Human Geography 29, no. 6 (2005): 683-4. The 2010 census reflects this phenomenon, showing that those "areas that had been home to the most immigrants" show a flat growth in "foreign born population" while some rural and suburban areas with less than 5% of immigrant population in 2000 show increases of more than 60%. Sabrina Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff, "Immigrants Make Paths to Suburbia, Not Cities," in The New York Times (New York: 2010).
- 8. Migration Policy Institute, "States Ranked by Numeric Difference in the Foreign Born Population" Migration Policy Institute Data Hub (Migration Policy Institute, 2011). The Pew Hispanic Center 2010 census tabulations of growth in Hispanic population (i.e., not necessarily foreign born) show that South Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Mississippi figure among the top ten states. Immigrants from Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and South America constitute approximately 53% of the total foreign born population. In Georgia, Virginia, and North Carolina they make up 54.5%, 36.1%, and 57.3%, respectively. See Tables 3 and 13 in Pew Hispanic Center "Statistical Portrait of the Foreign Born Population in the United States, 2009" in Pew Hispanic Center February 17 (Pew Research Center, 2011).
- 9. Nicholas De Genova, "The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant "Illegality"," Latino Studies 2, no. 2 (2004), Guillermina Gina Núñez and Josiah McC. Heyman, "Entrapment Processes and Immigrant Communities in a Time of Heightened Border Vigilance," Human Organization 66, no. 4 (2007); Inés Valdez, "Sovereignty and the City: Raiding, Detaining, and Domestic Immigration Policing" (paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, April 3-5 2010); Mathew Coleman, "The "Local" Migration State: The Site Specific Devolution of Immigration Enforcement in the US South," Law & Policy forthcoming (2011).
- 10. Desmond King and Inés Valdez, "From Workers to Enemies. National Security, State Building and America's War on Illegal Immigrants," in Narrating Peoplehood in Plural Societies: The United States, Canada and Denmark in Historical Experience and Theoretical Perspective, ed. Michael Bøss (Aarhus: Aarhus Academic Press, 2011).
- 11. President Reagan launched the project of the museum on occasion of the centennial of the Statue of Liberty in 1986. He moved Ellis Island to the purview of the National Park Service, merged it with the Statue of Liberty and created a public-private partnership that was led by Lee Iacocca, himself the son of an immigrant and the American dream come true. Luke Desforges, "Front Doors to Freedom, Portal to the Past: History at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York," Social & Cultural Geography 5, no. 3 (2004).
- 12. De Genova, "The Legal Production of Mexican/Migrant 'Illegality.'", Judith Smith, "Celebrating Immigration History at Ellis Island," American Quarterly 44, no. 1 (1992): 85.
- 13. Desforges, "Front Doors to Freedom, Portal to the Past: History at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York," 437.
- 14. A wall with over 700,000 names (at the time of writing) exists in Ellis Island. Individuals or families can add their names for a fee of $150. Entries are received for all ports of entry and years of arrival, with the common element being the "celebration of American migration" (see the museum's site for the wall of honor). The opening of the "wall" to all immigrants is significant and worthy of praise, yet the story that is portrayed by the museum is still devoted to the earlier migratory wave, one restricted in time and not predominantly originating in the Western Hemisphere.
- 15. The photographs in fact represent the physical archive that is being created and kept by Harbage Page.


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