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Hi my friends. I've been meaning to write for awhile now, but I haven't been able to organize the right words … I wanted to write about my life after chemo, but before I could finish a draft it was time for surgery …
I'm a week out of surgery. The pain level varies from day to day, as does my fatigue. My spirits fluctuate as well. All things considered, I am largely relieved; they were able to get the rest of the cancer out, and I am currently cancer free. However, the impact of looking in the mirror for the first time was traumatic. I certainly feel that I've lost a great deal of femininity; but I'm grateful to be alive and to have lowered my chances of recurrence. I feel a bit like I've been gifted an expensive piece of jewelry … that I find hideous. Grateful for the thought and resources invested, but dreading the thought of wearing it in public.
As the healing continues, I am sure I will get used to my new appearance. For now, though, I try not to look too much. And when I do I keep reminding myself that this is what fighting looks like; what my life looks like. These are my battle scars, and I won the fight.
In the meantime, my sister is here helping me convalesce. She makes sure I get my medicine as scheduled; she feeds me and tends to my drains; and she provides quiet company for me … allowing me to converse as I wish and nap as I wish. We watch movies and tell stories. She makes us dinner and helps my son with his homework. She gives me a sense of peace knowing that Hubs doesn't have to do it all.
I was beginning to like my life after chemo, so the surgery feels like a setback. As I fall asleep each night, I think of all the things I'm going to get done the next day. And the next day rolls around and I find that I tire before I can complete a project. This is one of my biggest frustrations … having the desire and the creativity to work on a project only to have my body fail me.
My primary project is getting done slowly, between naps and games on the iPad. And I suppose I need to be content with that because I am healing from a major surgery. If you know me at all, though, you know that I hate when my body doesn't cooperate with my mind. It makes recovery a very mercurial process, as one minute I'm content to nap; and another I'm irritable because I cannot complete a task in one sitting. Even now, as I write this post (it's taken two different attempts so far), I find my eyes getting heavy.
On that note, I think I will say goodbye for now. Perhaps it is time for a nap. Please continue to comment and send well wishes. It boosts my sprits more than you know.


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Happy Birthday, "Plhis Suab"!
Plhis Suab is officially 1!
I recently came across a short video just days before the release of my album, Plhis Suab. I was smiling in the background, watching my little niece Scarlett, whose only way to express her excitement was to dance, squat, and kiss newly printed Plhis Suab posters on the ground.
Fast forward to July 2017.
Scarlett now speaks in full sentences, sings with Elsa and Moana, and can give "the eye" to her Niam Tais Pajnyiag for no reason. I can't believe how quickly the year has gone.
But I'm grateful. So grateful.
Because of Plhis Suab, I was able to do some things for the first time, hear empowering stories from you, and make some of the best music memories yet.
Today, I celebrate Plhis Suab's 1st birthday with a sweet trip down memory lane. Join me in this celebration & leave a comment below!
July 2016
After the official release in MN, I wrote you a love letter and tens of thousands of you responded with an outpour of love.
August 2016
At last! Plhis Suab became available on iTunes!
The "Plhis Suab: Track By Track" Video Series" was released, and I took you on a brief journey of each song in the new album.
October 2016
It had been some time since I played Plhis Suab at home, and I was grateful. In this #ArtistConfession, I shared why.
November 2016
The Plhis Suab: The Story video (above) was released, and you showed me so much love.
I also told you about how one fan influenced me to create Plhis Suab.
And then performed music from Plhis Suab for the first time. It became one of my most favorite performances ever.
December 2016
I created a little holiday gift just for you, featuring music from Plhis Suab!
It was also a first for me in Fresno; meeting fans at the Hmong New Year (left)!
January 2017
When one of my singing idols got a copy of my new album, I had to share it with you.
March 2017
I reminisced about how the font of my album title came to be.
Then after a month of casting, the Hluav Taws Music Video Cast Family (below) finally met and shot my first music video. The cast taught me so much. For example, there are angels among this earth, some you've yet to meet, who share the same vision as you and truly want to help you bring it to life.
April 2017
Plhis Suab gave me the chance to do my first ever keynote concert!
Hluav Taws was released as my first music video of an original song.
May 2017
My producer, Tchoua Xiong and I created a 15-minute mash-up with five original songs, including music highlights from Plhis Suab and then I performed in front of thousands at the Hmong Music Festival in Fresno, CA. This special set was a first for me!
June 2017
The Hluav Taws music video was showcased at the Qhia Dab Neeg Film Festival with Director Kong Lor in attendance!
July 2017
The journey continues.
Yes, indeed. I'm currently sowing seeds for what I want to bring into this world with Plhis Suab. There's still so much to share, and I look forward to harvest time. I hope you'll be there, waiting for me.
From your hugs to your stories, backstage and in front of my booth, thank you so much for your love and support this past year. I felt it deep and pure.
Until next time…
Dream BIG,


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Petrified women and children were buried alive in a mass slaughter by Islamic State extremists, it was claimed yesterday.
An estimated 500 Yazidis were murdered in the atrocity in Iraq, according to the country's human rights minister. He also said around 300 girls and women have been kidnapped as slaves by the terror group.
The outrages have piled pressure on the West to step up its actions against the jihadists who have besieged around 150,000 Yazidis in the Sinjar region of the country.
Desperate families on foot continued to flee for their lives at the weekend. Children and stricken adults were carried during the exodus in the searing heat.
The human rights minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said there was "striking evidence" – including photos – showing "indisputably that the gangs of the Islamic States have executed at least 500 Yazidis after seizing Sinjar".
He added: "Some of the victims, including women and children, were buried alive in scattered mass graves in and around Sinjar.
"In some of the images we have obtained there are lines of dead Yazidis who have been shot in the head while the Islamic State fighters cheer and wave their weapons over the corpses. This is a vicious atrocity."
He added: "We spoke to some of the Yazidis who fled from Sinjar. We have dozens of accounts and witness testimonies describing painful scenes of how Islamic State fighters arrived and took girls from their families by force to use them as slaves.
"The terrorist Islamic State has also taken at least 300 Yazidi women as slaves and locked some of them inside a police station in Sinjar and transferred others to the town of Tal Afar. We are afraid they will take them outside the country."
US forces yesterday unleashed a fresh wave of airstrikes against the extremists – also known as ISIS – near Erbil, the capital of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
The bombings, launched by drones and fighter jets, were aimed at protecting Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers trying to hold off the advance of the Islamist militants whose self-proclaimed caliphate stretches across a large swathe of Iraq.
US military commanders said the strikes destroyed armoured vehicles "indiscriminately" firing at Yazidis trapped on Mount Sinjar.
Britain has stepped up its humanitarian effort, dropping fresh supplies to the thousands in the mountains. UK officials believe up to 150,000 people could be stranded, with many of them facing starvation and dehydration.
But many have urged Britain to do much more. Lord Dannatt, the former head of the British Army, slammed David Cameron for going on holiday, adding that Parliament should be recalled so that further action could be authorised.
Lord Dannatt said: "From today the British should be joining the air strikes against Islamic State forces as they press towards Erbil.
Today's Iraqi operation takes place under a very different set of circumstances to the one proposed last August to bomb Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons capability. In the face of a crisis of this scale, with the potential for so much human misery, this is not the moment for decision-makers to be on holiday.
"Parliament needs to be recalled and the West needs to face up to its responsibilities. We must make sure that we do not come out of this wringing our hands at another genocide and saying 'next time, we must do better'. We are being put to the test, and history will be our judge."
The demand to recall Parliament was echoed by Labour MP Mike Gapes. He said: "I hope we can then, with Opposition support, achieve a massive vote for UK military intervention alongside our US and NATO partners to defend and protect our democratic and secular Kurdish friends and to stop the genocide of Christians, Yazidis and other minorities by ISIS in Iraq and Syria."
Downing Street has not ruled out supporting the US military offensive if there was a risk of genocide. But experts said Britain had little to offer beyond special forces and intelligence gathering.
A Whitehall insider said: "We have no aircraft carrier and no aircraft to put on a carrier." Senior Government officials yesterday held a meeting of the emergency Cobra committee to discuss the situation at which it was agreed to send
humanitarian advisers to the Erbil region.
The first UK aid drop took place on Saturday night with the RAF sending in 1,200 water containers and 240 solar lanterns which can be used to recharge mobile phones.
A No10 spokesman said: "We are working to step up these deliveries in the coming days.
"Meanwhile, we continue to engage with the US, Kurds, Turks and other international partners on how to get those trapped on the mountain to safety." He added: "The humanitarian situation remains deeply worrying and consequently this continues to be our priority."
It has been reported that 30,000 of the Yazidis may have escaped to Syria and then been escorted back into Iraqi Kurdistan by the Kurdish forces.
Peshmerga fighters have retaken two villages from the militants, according to a Kurdish military official. These reported triumphs in Makhmour and al-Gweir would be the first victories by the Kurdish troops against the extremists.
The president of Kurdish Iraq, Massoud Barzani, has called on the international community to send weapons to fight the militants.
The Iraqi government in Baghdad warned that the atrocities could not be stopped unless the world confronted the Islamic State threat.
Barack Obama said at the weekend the US air strikes could continue for months.
Mr Obama added it would take more than bombs to restore stability, and criticised Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shia-led government for failing to share power with Iraq's Sunni minority.
The US has removed some staff from its embassy in Baghdad and its consulate in Erbil, the State Department said yesterday.
The Yazidis are a sect of around 700,000 people in northern Iraq whose religion has taken elements from various faiths.
Leaders of the Islamic State have accused the Yazidis of being devil worshippers, and have ordered them to convert to Islam or face death.


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Theodore Melfi's HIDDEN FIGURES
A movie review by Dennis D. McDonald
By now most folks are probably familiar with the early-1960's story portrayed in this film: three black females are hired by the NASA Langley Research Center to support the engineering and mathematics efforts behind getting an American into orbit. Initially the women and their fellow black female "computers" are tasked with basic number crunching and data reduction. NASA management eventually – and somewhat grudgingly -- realizes they have some real calculating gems on hand.
One of the three women followed in the movie is a math prodigy (Taraji P. Henson), the second dreams of becoming an engineer (Janelle Monáe), and the third sees computer programming as the wave of the future (Octavia Spencer). The first is assigned to an all-male-engineering group, the second has legal Virginia roadblocks that must be overcome, and the third has to fight her way into management.
I'm sure the facts of history have been altered to make these three stories flow. I was, for example, hoping to see more slide rules and mechanical calculators in action, but alas, that was not to be. In addition, some of the technical details of the Mercury spacecraft as illustrated on screen are a bit dodgy. But it was exciting to see a room-filling IBM mainframe computer along with 80-column punch cards and mentions of FORTRAN.
Despite these lapses, we do see an amalgamation of late-1950s/early 1960s culture represented deftly and without a lot of philosophy or yelling: The U.S. vs. Soviet Union "Space Race;" rampant U.S. racism baked into both the culture and the law; and, institutional sexism that appears to have beaten back many of the gains made by women entering the U.S. workforce during World War II.
Thankfully, HIDDEN FIGURES does not heavy-handedly portray these women only as symbols of a "movement." Instead they are portrayed as intelligent professionals who are swimming against the tides both of their own culture and its arguments for accommodation, and of the cultures of their ancestors' past enslavement. Despite the historic and sometimes deadly events of the Civil Rights movement swirling around them, we never lose sight of them as individuals with families, hopes, and dreams.
The following are some of the other things I enjoyed seeing in HIDDEN FIGURES:
- Numbers are numbers. If you want to overcome gravity there's no getting around Newton by using guesses instead of facts.
- When you walked into a room full of engineers in the old days you would probably have been met by a sea of ties, white shirts, and white faces.
- Watching the struggle for education portrayed here one can't help but wonder: how many potential geniuses over the years have been stifled because they lacked the means, were female, or not white?
- There was a hell of a lot of trial and error in the early days of the space race. Things changed rapidly as boundaries were constantly being tested. How many errors arose because people didn't have access to the right information because they couldn't get it soon enough?
- Part of good leadership is seeing beyond the numbers and making sure the team sees beyond the numbers as well, as is stated early on by Kevin Costner's character.
We know about the eventual success of Glenn's orbital mission and the moments of fear caused by the heat shield problems. As portrayed in the film these elements of fact-based drama don't significantly advance the underlying story of the three women. They do reinforce awareness that they were there and they played a part in a major historical event. That's important.
It's good that this movie recovers and promotes the history and accomplishments of these women. As we leave the theater we are also left with the realization that there was a time not so very long ago here in the United States when there were "colored only" restrooms, "colored only" water fountains, and "colored only" public library book collections. The struggle continues.
Review copyright © 2017 by Dennis D. McDonald. A later version of this review was published by aNewDomain here.


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'Drug development: Through the barrier'
More and more, the importance of rare, lysosomal storage diseases (LSDs) is being recognised. The latest Nature | Outlook article, called 'Drug development: Through the barrier', highlights the great need for improved treatment, especially for small molecules which can cross the blood-brain barrier. For this reason, Orphazyme's paradigm-changing technology led by small molecule oral drug arimoclomol, which can reach the central nervous system, has been featured in the story (Nature Outlook article).
Arimoclomol works by stimulating stressed cells to produce the stress-response protein Heat Shock Protein 70 (HSP70), which in turn helps cells to correctly process accumulated waste products that have reached toxic levels. It looks promising as a treatment for a number of neurodegenerative disorders, since it can travers the blood-brain barrier. Orphazyme is currently testing arimoclomol in a clinical trial for the treatment of Niemann-Pick type C, an LSD which affects an estimated one in 100,000 newborns (see www.AIDNPC.com), as well as for other neurodegenerative diseases such as sporadic inclusion body myositis (sIBM) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS/Lou Gehrig's disease).
Orphazyme's Chief Scientific Officer Thomas Kirkegaard Jensen said, "The focus in Nature on our technology and lead clinical candidate, arimoclomol, as a novel therapeutic opportunity with wide ranging implications for the lysosomal diseases is a testament to the great work being done by Orphazyme's scientists and our world-leading academic collaborators."


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It's A Sweet Day For A Winter Wedding
Hey, if you can't beat the cold, celebrate it!
(Says the girl in Florida. :D)
Besides, sparkly ice and swirling snowflakes are PERFECT for a fairy tale wedding:
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The frosted branches and glittery "snow" on each tier is so pretty and delicate!
This one has the tiniest touches of gold to warm up the gray:
And that shadowbox effect with the trees? GENIUS.
Here's another woodsy design:
I like all the white-on-white texture, and the thistle-like greenery is perfect with the mountainscapes.
But if you prefer something with a lot more glitz to it:
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Sha-pow! GLITZ.
The flowers were inspired by British bluebells, and I'm so impressed by the filigree trim and tightly packed ruffles!
Now for something completely different:
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Chocolate!! Such a dramatic backdrop for those metallic snowflakes. And I think gold, copper, and chocolate is one of my new favorite color combos.
More impressive snowflakes, this time cascading down the side of the cake:
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And this icy beauty has the hint of an onion-domed castle on top:
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Plus check out the hand painted vignette! Mmmm. So dreamy.
More hand painting on one of today's most beautifully minimalistic designs:
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I am all about that blue-gray wood grain. Gah, so gorgeous!
You wouldn't usually think of gold and bronze for a winter cake, but wow:
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I like!
And finally, a glittering ice tower fit for Queen Elsa herself:
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When Disney's Imagineers brainstormed several years ago about what a larger Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom could include, the discussion turned to opportunities for character meet-and-greets — which had become as popular with younger guests as traditional rides.
Fantasyland, after all, is the heart of any Disney park, the place where beloved characters step out of animation cels and come to life.
"Our guests expect good classic attractions like Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion. At the same time no trip would be complete without going to meet Mickey and Minnie or your favorite princess," said Chris Beatty, an Imagineer.
"We thought, we really need to give these characters a home. You don't want to be walking down the path and just happen to run into them."
The outcome: Fantasyland will have four new venues specially designed for character meet-and-greets when the expansion is completed in 2014.
The largest part of the expansion opens Dec. 6, and among the new features is one from Beauty and the Beast that elevates a simple meet-and-greet into an attraction with classic Disney storytelling.
The team envisioned a setting in which an encounter with a character would be more personal — even magical, Beatty said, "like the ad you see on TV, a girl and Cinderella walking hand in hand through the castle. Or think of a little boy the first time he sees his favorite villain."
In Enchanted Tales with Belle, instead of meeting her out on a walkway, guests enter the cottage where she and her father live. They see Maurice's workshop with his tools and oddball creations as well as other features that are recognizable from the movie — the wishing well, the fireplace, a table, Belle's books, a teapot on a shelf.
Guests go through a magic mirror to Beast Castle, where a character from the movie, Madame Wardrobe, invites them to take a role in the tale Belle will tell — perhaps as a window or a footstool or a dog — and hands out cardboard cutouts that identify them. In the library, they meet Lumiere and Belle, take photos, and join in the storytelling as Belle recounts the Beauty and the Beast tale up to the night where they fall in love.
The experience "is just as powerful as a traditional ride. You are really there in the moment," Beatty said. "It's an incredible journey through Beauty and the Beast … and Belle is the icing on the cake."
In addition to Enchanted Tales with Belle, two other meet-and-greet sites are new in Fantasyland. At Pete's Silly Sideshow in Storybook Circus, which opened in October, Goofy, Donald, Daisy and Minnie are circus stars. At Ariel's Grotto, which has its grand opening on Dec. 6, the Little Mermaid, daughter of King Triton, will meet her subjects.
When Princess Fairytale Hall opens next year, Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Tiana, Rapunzel and other princesses will greet guests in the hall next to Cinderella Castle.
"The guest feedback we get is characters, characters, characters," said Rick Sylvain, a Disney spokesman. "People have such an emotional connection to our characters, whether it's Jack Sparrow or a princess."
The evidence: You can get a Fast Pass to meet Mickey or the princesses — temporarily sharing his space — at Town Square Theater on Main Street.
The Disney website lists about three dozen characters who appear regularly in the Orlando parks. That number doesn't include variations on the same character such as Sorcerer Mickey or Mickey the explorer (in Animal Kingdom) or Mickey in Halloween or Christmas garb.
"Meeting characters became this thing in the last 10 or 15 years. It went from 'I saw Mickey Mouse on Main Street' to 'I've got five or six characters I have to see and I want to see Belle in her blue outfit and Donald Duck in his sombrero,' " said Len Testa, co-author of the Unofficial Guides to Disney parks series. "For a lot of people they're as important as the rides."
That interest also shows up on the Unofficial Guides app for the parks. "After we put in all the rides, people asked us, 'What about the characters? You have to tell me how long I'll have to wait for Belle when she comes out.' [Character appearances] are the single most important thing people ask for. They want to know 'Where can I find Donald in his sombrero?' "
Doug Ingersoll, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Walt Disney Worl d, agreed with Beatty that Enchanted Tales with Belle takes character meet-and-greets to a new level. "What's exciting is that Disney is incorporating technology into the meet and greet experience." In the past, he said, they were simply played by characters. "Now it's a 3-D action scene that makes the experience come more to life."


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The Megabuilders of Queenston Park
Edmund Keeley
Acclaimed author Edmund Keeley's eighth novel opens in 21st-century Princeton, New Jersey, as the quaint college town faces mounting changes in its architectural and social landscape. Ambitious mega-builders roam the neighborhoods in search of modest post-war homes to tear down and replace with huge modular monstrosities.
Cassie and Nick Mandeville, nearing retirement, find themselves thrust into a battle with a father-and-son construction company that plans to erect an overgrown, high-end eyesore next door. As the Mandevilles try to save their neighborhood, they run headlong into an insensitive and possibly corrupt political system at the local level, a microcosm of the larger political scene during the Bush years.
What is the true value of real estate? How do we measure the stability, affection, and familial loyalty our homes nurture and shelter? Keeley explores all this–and more–with urgency and wit in "The Megabuilders of Queenston Park".
Edmund Leroy Keeley, author, translator, educator, critic, and administrator, was born in Damascus. Keeley was a Fulbright Scholar and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and went on to receive a Doctorate in Comparative Literature from Oxford University. Keeley spent his academic career at Princeton University, holding directorships in the Creative Arts Program, the Creative Writing and Theatre Program, and the Creative Writing Program. In addition, he served as president of the Modern Greek Studies Association, vice-president of the Poetry Society of America, and president of PEN American Center.


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Many have suggested that we use cost-per-mile rather than MPGe as the primary figure of merit for judging Progressive Insurance Automotive X PRIZE vehicles. That's appealing, since out-of-pocket costs are a primary concern of most consumers (although we hope they're also concerned about the costs to society of fuel-related energy consumption and emissions). But while cost-per-mile is appealing in principal, in practice there are disadvantages, including:
- The traditional (gasoline only) MPG is well understood by the public (and generalizing the concept via MPGe is a straightforward proposition), but studies have shown that translating MPG into cents/mile takes place in less than 5% of households.
- 100 MPGe is a meaningful, round number. It is hard to imagine too many headlines about 3 cents per mile.
- Cost-per-mile does not just depend on a vehicle's efficiency – it depends very much on when you buy fuel and where you buy fuel. That makes cost-per-mile figures problematic for consumers, and problematic as a means for comparing vehicle technology.
We chose MPGe because it makes sense as a generalization of the familiar MPG, and because we wanted an unambiguous, soundly-based, figure-of-merit that depends only on things the vehicle designer can control. We then supplemented MPGe with our second figure-of-merit, "wells-to-wheels" greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which addresses environmental and other concerns.
That said, during the competition we will publish numerous figures of merit in order educate consumers about many aspects of the competition vehicles, likely including:
- MPGe (also used for scoring)
- GHG emissions (also used for scoring)
- GPMe - gallons-per-mile energy equivalent (this is 1/MPGe)
- MPG - miles-per-gallon of liquid fuel, typically gasoline
- GPM - gallons-per-mile of liquid fuel, typically gasoline (this is 1/MPG)
- Amount of petroleum used (wells-to-wheels - i.e., including production and distribution)
- Amounts of all fuels used
- Fuel cost per mile (based on current national average prices)


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Nine private programs that were to offer free, city-financed prekindergarten this year will not open because of safety concerns or other issues, and 36 programs will not be ready to open on Thursday, the first day of school, New York City officials announced on Tuesday.
Extending free, full-day prekindergarten to all 4-year-olds was Mayor Bill de Blasio's signature campaign proposal and for him, much is riding on the program's success. The 45 programs cited on Tuesday by the city represent a small percentage of the roughly 1,100 private sites that are scheduled to open on Thursday.
Over 50,000 children have been signed up for full-day prekindergarten programs this year, an increase of 30,000 from last year. The city plans to add 20,000 more seats next year.
About two-thirds of the seats are in private programs, which have undergone rigorous inspections by fire and health officials and employees of the Education Department. The city had said that if sites still had serious health violations or other problems by now, they would not open, but Tuesday was the first time that the city said that some programs would not open at all.
The nine sites would have served 265 students. The Education Department was helping parents at those programs find other places to send their children and had re-enrolled 83 students so far.
"We made sure we had enough capacity in the system to address just this circumstance," said Richard R. Buery Jr., the deputy mayor for strategic policy initiatives, "because we knew that unfortunately not every site was going to be able to come online."
He did not specify why particular sites were not opening, but said the problems were related to health and safety, such as exposed wiring or the presence of rodents, or related to the financial soundness of the organization.
The 36 sites that will open late have about 900 students, and Mr. Buery said that most of those sites had already notified parents of the delay. He said that the delays were primarily the result of sites' not having finished construction or not having received their health department permits on time, and that most would open on Monday.
Parents from two of the programs that will not open at all — Rainbow Kiddie Academy and Rainbow Montessori Academy, both in the Bronx — said they were bewildered by the news and were scrambling to find other places to send their children or had decided not to send their children to prekindergarten at all.
Maria Ruiz, who had planned to send her daughter to Rainbow Kiddie Academy, said she received a phone call and an email from a city employee on Saturday telling her that the program would not be ready to open this year. The employee did not say why and suggested three other programs that she might consider. But of the other programs, one was already full, another charged a fee and the third was too far from her home.
Ms. Ruiz said she had been planning to enroll in college while her daughter attended prekindergarten. But now she was going to keep her daughter home.
"I'm pretty destroyed right now," she said.
Bruce Rivera, who had planned to send his son to Rainbow Montessori Academy, said he received the news that the program would not open by text message while he was away for Labor Day.
"My wife went crazy," he said. He said they called the number left in the text, but the person they reached "had no clue" why the program was not opening. He said he and his wife were heavily invested in their son's education and were devastated to have his prekindergarten enrollment threatened at the last minute.
Nilda Gibson, the executive director of Rainbow After School Program, which runs both prekindergarten programs, said she learned that her programs were not opening from her daughter, who had enrolled her own daughter in Rainbow Montessori Academy and received a call on Saturday from the city telling her to find another program.
Ms. Gibson said the city had not given her a clear explanation of why her sites could not open.
"They're telling the parents that we're not ready to open. That's not true; we are ready," she said, adding that she had bought new furniture and had hired teachers.
Ms. Gibson said her lawyer was trying to get answers from the city and had planned a meeting on Tuesday evening for parents.
"I'm assuming this is all a mistake and that it's going to be rectified," she said.


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Lego Star Wars Mural Project (from 2011) an oldie but goodie
"Do you even know what you're doing?"
-Sarah (sister of the recipient of the mural) as she watched me continue to paint over my many mistakes while working on this mural.
I was recently commissioned to do my first mural project for my good friend's son (8yrs). I asked him what he wanted and he said Lego Star Wars with "X-wings, the Death Star, and Podracers". As I heard his ideas, I was a bit bothered with the lack of Star Wars canonical agreement, but I figured that would be something for him to grapple with as he got older.
I asked him if wanted any characters like Yoda or Chewie, he said, "Really, I don't care about that I just want the ships". This was terrible news because to date I have never done any kind of "ship" drawings, and mostly I have stayed away from such things because they are VERY hard, full of details, and most terribly full of important perspective accuracy. (the last two i'm not known for)
Seeing as my friends were going to foot the bill for the paint, and I was stuck in America waiting on my Omani visa, I figured I had to give this a shot.
Over all it took me 6 days and almost 40 hours to finish. With a bunch of acrylic paint and a bit of room paint. Funny enough I finished it 4hr before I left the country to go back to Oman.
So here is a little progression I put together, and please forgive the bad panoramic patch job and funky lighting, this is hard to photograph.
The beginning- house paint.
After a day spent mostly getting angry wishing I had paid more attention to Bob Ross and trying to figure out how to paint a textured wall with a small brush….Answer: go to store and get a bigger brush.
After another day spent mad that I hadn't paid attention when I was taught perspective in high school. From this point on I have sworn off ever drawing another X-wing.
Finally finished. It was one of the most challenging art things I have ever done, and I totally loved it…when I wasn't cussing it.
An "action" shot of putting in the stars, but hopefully to give you some sort of perspective on the size of this thing.
In the end this is how I figured out (read: Amber's suggestion) how to put the drawings on the wall: butcher paper, painter's tape, white pastel pencil, and graphite transfer paper. I would draw them on butcher paper on the kitchen table, and then use graphite transfer paper to get it on the wall. Then I finished it with a white pastel pencil so I could see it to paint it.
Here are some details from the larger mural:
Note the exquisite bumpyness of the LEGO- Death Star.
This is the last guy that I finished just before I left the country. You just can't leave a little dude's Tatooine without a Tuskin Raider.
Hope you dig,
"This is what I thought I was going to see when I clicked on the link to see the Star Wars mural" -friend who sent me what she thought my painting would look like. Now I have some new aspirational goals 🙂


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The Possible Dream
Once you convey to children that they are too 'dumb' to learn, they will almost always prove you right, explains Jeff Howard of The Efficacy Institute.
(Not) Talking About Race in the Classroom
Ed. Magazine - October 1, 2004
In the spring of 1995, rumor had it that Columbus High School had made "The List." Everyone knew it existed; no one knew who was on it. What they did know was that a place on the list could get them all fired, but no one from the school district would talk specifically about why.


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Is There Really Anti-Christian Bias?
Are Christians a persecuted minority or just a bunch of whiners? The answer you get to that question depends on who you ask. In some cases the answer is that both are true. In other cases the reality is that Christians overreact to other people's dislike of their positions. However, according to sociologist George Yancey, there really is an anti-Christian bias in the United States, though it does not yet amount to persecution.
Both because of the question he picks up and the manner in which he answers it, Yancey's latest book may be one of the most significant popular level books published this year. This is a book that will be a helpful resource for many pastors and laypeople for years to come.
Summary and Analysis
Yancey's recent book from IVP Books is a popularized version of his co-authored academic tome, So Many Christians, So Few Lions. In Hostile Environment: Understanding and Responding to Anti-Christian Bias, he repackages the peer reviewed statistical research with careful analysis and thoughtful applications of the lessons learned. This is a book that pastors, professors, seminary students, and any Christian seeking to live and work in our culture should read.
A key term in Yancey's book is Christianophobia. Personally, I dislike the word because the "phobia" tag has been co-opted and misused for people that have rational objections to the position or behavior of a minority. Yancey, however, carefully defines the term and uses it consistently throughout; this makes his usage palatable. His chosen definition is that Christianophobia is "an irrational animosity towards or hatred of Christians, or Christianity in general." This definition seems fair. It captures what should be a fairly narrow slice of people that act irrationally negative toward Christians.
The research Yancey presents demonstrates that Christianophobia is not nearly as rare as we might hope. In fact, Yancey has showed that in academia in particular more than half of academics believe they are justified in rejecting Christians from tenure applications or simply not hiring Christians for academic positions to begin with. Yancey asks the pertinent and obvious question: Would it be OK to say you wouldn't hire another demographic category or deny them tenure because of their inclusion in that demographic? The answer right now, according to Yancey's research, is that most people refuse to consider that a valid question.
Yancey is not claiming there is an active conspiracy to ruin the lives of Christians: American Christians are not experiencing persecution like that of Christ-followers in other nations. Neither is he claiming that it is impossible for Christians to get jobs, earn a living, or be in some ways accepted in society. He is, however, claiming there is often an overt and acknowledged bias against Christians in society. He also argues that in general those who demonstrate Christianophobia view anti-Christian as acceptable. In other words, there are a number of people that just don't like Christians and they think that is perfectly fine.
Unlike some of the other societal biases, like anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, Christians in the West rarely have to fear for their physical safety. Yancey argues this is because "those who tend to have Christianophobia are in a better position to punish Christians in nonviolent ways because they possess more social power than those who tend to exhibit overt racism, Islamophobia or homophobia." This makes anti-Christian bias more difficult to track, yet the surveys Yancey conducted demonstrate it is a real thing and relatively widespread.
Yancey salts the chapters with comments excerpted from the surveys conducted as a part of one of his academic studies. He chose them because they were representative, not because they were the most extreme examples of anti-Christian bias. I won't quote them here, but the bile of them is rather telling. It is worth noting that the comments were from an anonymous survey, but that may eliminate some of the sugar coating that might otherwise exclude clear expression of opinions. The frankness of many of the comments is revealing, because it demonstrates an overt dislike of Christians that would be unacceptable for any other demographic.
Analysis and Conclusion
Hostile Environment is balanced in pointing out the inconsistencies in the Christian witness in the public square. Christianity is divided with many who claim the label being largely assimilated to the ethics of the culture. Or, on the other hand, many of those who are doctrinally orthodox are often shrill and inconsiderate when making their arguments. Sometimes the bias against Christians is deserved. However, Yancey points out, that bias goes much deeper than internal problems between self-described Christians can explain.
Toward the end of the book Yancey offers suggestions on how to remain a faithfully orthodox Christian and educate people about what that really means. He also provides some practical suggestions on how to deal with anti-Christian bias. These final two chapters are perhaps the most significant of the book, though not the most eye opening. There is room for further development and discussion on these topics, but Yancey does well to begin that discussion.
Yancey's book is a must-read. It appears that anti-Christian bias will remain a real thing and it is becoming even more politically acceptable to publically declare discriminatory beliefs against Christians and celebrate practicing such discrimination. If the Church is going to avoid capitulating doctrinal ground because of social pressure, we must think through how we are to live. If our children are going to learn how to be faithful in society, they must know something of the resistance to their beliefs.
Note: A gratis copy of this volume was provided by the publisher with no expectation of a positive review.


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well, tonight wasn't really the greatest night for dancing, but I think I rocked a third interview today... I'm so excited about that, and... Of course... My new set went live today! It's been a long crazy day, so I didn't have time earlier to do this properly.
New set, Roseau
Go pick your favorite photo! I loooove comments, and I'm honestly rather curious... How many of you are fans of this:
Or do you prefer this:
I want to be able to tally efficiently, (call me vain, ;) and I want to put my best features forward.... I want to show you all what you want to see from me!
You should also drop by and see Azera
She's hot and fun and awesome. I'm pretty sure I've heard the word "legendary" used to describe her. She shot Roseau and made me look better than I could have hoped for. It's totally all her fault.
For now,
Happy Easter. Enjoy 420. So you know, at 4:20 on 420 I had 420 hearts next to Roseau. Can I get 420 comments on 420 by 4:20 later today? Lol that would be sooooooo awesome in many ways. ;)
I miss you all so much... I really feel like this is the only place I don't have to put forward a face that isn't me... THIS is me.
I've reached a point in life where I've decided I will no longer omit pieces of myself in order to make you comfortable. And by you, I mean you: general judgmental public. Thank you to each and every one of you that is connected with me on this site... I admit I've become a lurker of late, but I've been so inwardly tangled up... I really do love you, SG. You started as a dream, now you're a way of life and a ray of hope in a dark world.
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An operation carried out in the Banchory area to tackle antisocial behaviour has resulted in the seizure of drugs, alcohol and vehicles.
The operation, run by local police, involved community officers, special constables and plain-clothes officers during the evenings of Friday, July 6, and Saturday, July 7.
Bicycle patrol officers and plain-clothes officers conducted checks around schools, the banks of the River Dee and areas where there have been antisocial behaviour issues reported.
On Friday, a 36 year-old woman was charged with the alleged possession of cannabis and will be reported to the procurator fiscal.
On Saturday, a 38 year-old man was issued with a Recorded Police Warning for possession of cannabis.
Multiple alcohol seizures were made from youths in the area, with a large quantity of alcohol seized and disposed of.
Additionally, three people were charged at the weekend for allegedly driving with no insurance, with two vehicles seized as a result. A 17 year-old man was also charged for allegedly driving while using a mobile phone, and will be reported to the procurator fiscal.
PC Georgia Baird, of the Community Policing Team, said: "I am pleased that the majority of people in Banchory enjoyed the first weekend of the summer holidays without trouble or incident, however it is disappointing that people were found with alcohol and drugs over the weekend.
"Large quantities of alcohol was seized from teenagers, which could have led to disastrous consequences had it been consumed. What is particularly worrying is that in some cases, it appears that parents had supplied this alcohol. Parents should be reminded that this is not only irresponsible, but unlawful.
"I would urge anyone with information about drug use, youth disorder or antisocial behaviour to contact police on 101 or anonymously to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111."


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Earlier this week, one of my former best friends called me a miserable, toxic, and disrespectful person – adding to a list that already included hateful, negative, unsupportive, and judgmental. Yikes. Rewind six-months, and I took the risk of commenting on her personal life to better understand something I was uncomfortable with. Obviously, this wasn't … Continue reading
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I'm always on the fence about Valentine's Day. On the one hand, it is a good grand gesture opportunity for those who want or need it. On the other hand, I don't think over-the-top displays of love and affection should be reserved for just one day. But I participate. And so does my husband. (I … Continue reading
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I wrote Find Your Inspiration almost two years ago, and it's still one of my favorite and most-read posts. And since inspiration has been surrounding me so much lately, I decided to give part II a go. My motivation has been up and down in the past month, sort of like my energy. But fortunately, inspiration … Continue reading


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In what seems to me an unfortunate conflation, the literature on women's empowerment frequently relies on the same characterization as pornography: "you have trouble defining it but you know it when you see it." If "empowerment" is hard to define, it is even harder to measure. This is a problem for researchers trying to establish a clear causal relationship between microfinance interventions and better outcomes for women.
In theory, microcredit could empower women through a number of different channels. For example, giving loans to women could increase their bargaining power within the family, and afford them greater control over household resources and decisions. The peer monitoring component of group-lending could provide protection against abuse, and deter domestic violence. Empirically, however, the picture is quite mixed.
This post looks at two studies, one from 1996 and one from 2010, which I suggest are representative of their times in terms of scope, ambition and rigor. Both find positive effects of a microfinance intervention on women's empowerment, but differ in intervention studied, study design, and approach to measurement.
Hashemi Schuler and Riley (1996) evaluate the effect of Grameen and BRAC microfinance programs on women's empowerment in rural Bangladesh. Much more than just handing out loans, these programs require participants to form groups, open savings accounts, and recite daily pledges that reach far beyond the financial sphere—for example, the women promise to limit the number of children they have, refuse to take or give dowries, disavow injustice, and reject child marriage. The methodology is ethnographic research, including participant observation and informal interviews, over a three-year time frame.
Moving 14 years forward, Ashraf, Karlan and Yin (2010) use a more rigorous study design to establish a possible causal impact of offering commitment savings accounts to people in the Philippines. People who accept these accounts agree not to withdraw money until a certain savings goal that they articulate in advance is reached, but there are no other components or requirements—the intervention here is much narrower in scope. The authors employed a randomized control trial, and conducted a detailed follow-up survey after one year.
I get the sense that Hashemi et al first thought deeply about the concept of empowerment and how it might manifest itself in rural Bangladesh, and then how those manifestations of power might be measured. The indicators the authors chose include a wide range of human behavior: contribution to family income, mobility, the ability to make small and large purchases, involvement in major decisions, relative freedom from domination by the family, political and legal awareness, and participation in public protests and political campaigning.
In the second study, female empowerment is defined much more narrowly. Rather than trying to capture the myriad, subtle ways empowerment might manifest itself among new savers, the authors choose a single indicator that could be precisely, quantitatively measured: decision-making power in the household. They do this first by asking account holders how buying decisions are made in the household, and second, by looking at the share of "female-oriented" durable consumer goods purchased (identified by researchers in the Philippines and focus groups as: washing machines, sewing machines, electric irons, kitchen appliances, air-conditioning units, fans and stoves).
Hashemi et al find positive, significant effects along all eight indicators of empowerment. Ashraf et al find positive, significant effects on female-driven buying decisions and the purchase of female-oriented consumer goods for one group of people in the study: married women who had below-median decision-making power in the household before the study. So moving from 1996 to 2010, we've gone from a very comprehensive program that finds sweeping effects using less rigorous research methods, to a very targeted intervention that finds precise effects on a sub-sample of the study population using a randomized control trial.
While these are just two of the many studies in this field, perhaps they can be taken as somewhat representative of their eras, in their ambition and rigor. I also can't help but think of them as adding to the case for the Stainless Steel Law of Evaluation: "The better designed the impact assessment of a social program, the more likely is the resulting estimate of net impact to be zero."
The first study does not allow us to eliminate the possibility that the women who participated in the loan programs were somehow different (more ambitious, more outgoing, or more "empowered" in the first place) than other women (as the authors admit)—or that the changes occurred for some other reason. It also doesn't help us see precisely what elements of the very broad intervention caused the changes that the researchers found—maybe it was the loans, or maybe it was the calisthenics, or maybe it was reciting the promise to "fight injustice" every morning, or maybe it was participating in a research study, or all of the above. Who knows? In any case, the study suggests that something quite fundamental, something that reaches into many aspects of daily life, has shifted for this group of women as a result of their involvement with the loan program.
None of this confusion is present in the second study. If there is a flaw, though, to my mind, it is that in reading such a well-crafted piece of research we may gloss over the fact that the study essentially equates the purchase of a very specific kind of consumer good (a sewing machine, an air conditioning unit) with "empowerment," a broad concept that - while notoriously hard to define - touches on what it means to have agency, exercise fundamental rights, and be human.


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I decided to do this mainly because this past year sucked sooooo badly that it's just a pleasure to see it fade in the rear-view mirror. Seriously. Good riddance, 2010.
This past year saw my confidence reach new lows, while my stress levels hit record highs. This was the year of my hitting the wall, writing-wise. Of finally concluding that only an act of Providence will result in my getting published.
I worked harder on my writing this past year than I ever have, and that's saying something since I was an award-winning journalist (writer and editor) for twenty-five years. I actually read more how-to-write-fiction books this past year than novels for the first time in my life. I study them like I'm aiming for a doctorate.
And yet, even as I worked so hard, I kept reading accounts of how the publishing industry is tanking. Two particularly frightening articles I've read in the past week (I'm not even going to link to them, to spare you the horror) came to the conclusion that the days of a debut author getting a first novel published are over.
I don't know if I buy that argument completely, but I do recognize that things are far different now than only a couple of years ago. And they are getting worse all the time.
I've spent a lot of money lately preparing to take my manuscript to NYC for the Writers Digest conference next month. And yet I sit here wondering if it's money wasted, money we could have used for things far more important than pitching my work to literary agents who likely aren't looking for new clients anyway. Things like food, for instance.
But it's done. I'm going. Too late to back out now.
So after considerable thought, I've decided on my 2011 New Year's resolution:
I'm going to pretend it's not really 2011.
That's right, I'm going to write like it's 1999!
I'm going to operate under the assumption that quality work can still get published the traditional way, despite the growing cacophony of naysayers.
I'm going to pitch that freaking novel like it's yesterday's bath water. I'm going to hand out business cards and network and all that stuff that used to work. Back in the day. Back in 1999.
I'm going to continue to read accounts of how Stephen King and J.K. Rowling got published despite all of their rejections. I'm going to pretend it can happen to me, too.
Call me a dreamer if you will. Call me naive.
And hopefully, before the year is out, you can also call me published!


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Dreams for the end of the world: my predictions for an already-aired episode of AMC's The Walking Dead.
Confession (easily implied from my title): I missed last night's episode of The Walking Dead.
Last week, a coworker and I said we'd make a list of everything that we thought was going to happen, email them to each other, and then circle back once the episode aired. Now I'm holding up that whole process (until I can rush home right after work and watch), but it does give me time to share my predictions with you, reader. So...enjoy:
If I don't think too hard about it, here are some possible scenarios I can come up with:
- People are going to die. It's a given. My guesses and potential scenarios:
- Merle – He will either go turncoat on the prison-ers and kill Darryl himself, or he will sacrifice himself for Darryl. Darryl may or may not end up dying anyway.
- Michonne – She could do several things. She may offer herself up to the Gov to save everyone else; he kills her then continues to bring it to the prison-ers, OR she could die for someone else inside the prison. Either way, if/when she goes, I think it will be sacrificially.
- Milton – He's getting too likeable for a Woodbury guy. I would've said he might actually START the killing spree at the prison as a way of proving his loyalty to the Gov, but that was two weeks ago. Last week, things changed for him.
- Beth – She really serves no purpose to the story except to look like Luna Lovegood, give flirty eyes to Rick and sing songs every now and then. She would be much more interesting if she just defected and went from flirting with Rick to flirting with the Governor. PLEASE LET THIS HAPPEN.
- The racist guy and/or his son that was with Tyreese. They are the worst.
- Hershel. I love him, but the man has one leg. I mean…
- Glenn or Maggie – to make the other one broody. If Glenn dies, I will be heartbroken. If Maggie dies…eh.
- I think I've already told you this, but I could easily see the Governor stealing Little Asskicker and/or Carl. By the middle of next season, the Stockholm Syndrome would set in.
- Rick will see Ghlori (ghost Lori) and wander off into the forest and miss the entire showdown at the prison, only to come back and find that people have been killed, but Tyreese saved the day (and Carl). Luckily, the sherriff's hat is stolen by Martinez and we don't have to watch Carl grow into it.
- I honestly don't think anything will happen with Rick, the Gov, or Tyreese, although I don't know where the series could go if they're all left standing.
- Andrea. Ugh. I'm sure she'll still be around at the end, because why not keep her around to cause more problems?
- I still think THE BEST would be if Milton bars entrance to the Gov when he gets back from the showdown. Also in my best-possible-case scenarios: If Morgan came and helped defend the prison (but, in true poetic justice, would probably have to die), if someone realized that Carl should have supervision, if we saw the Governor without his shirt on, if Merle either confirmed himself as a good guy or died (because I need relief to that tension).
Random comment: Except for Morgan's wife, why haven't we seen any of our "survivors" recognize a walker? Except for Michonne's potential family, of course. Unless this group of walkers have now made it up from Florida or something, law of averages would suggest they'd all know people. Also, except for Sofia, there've been no walkers Carl's age, and no "crawlers" (which, I admit, they may just not want to show on TV).
I want to know Glenn's back story.
Okay. One more death scenario:
Darryl dies to save Merle, proving his loyalty once and for all (but not being DISloyal to the prison-ers, of course, just showing the family bond). Merle "gets it" and dies saving someone…maybe Michonne? Maybe Glenn?...and so both Dixons are out of the game. This is a worst case scenario for me.
How'd I do? I'm not planning on checking this out until after I see the episode, so please feel free to share your thoughts about predictions-come-true (mine and your own), thoughts on last night's episode and predictions/hopes for the finale.
Viva los Dixons.


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As a young staffer on Capitol Hill in the 1970s, Barbara Lee worked on anti-apartheid legislation aimed at pushing U.S. companies to leave South Africa. Now a member of Congress, Lee is helping to craft another divestment campaign, this one designed to end mass killings in Sudan.
"Anyone who understands that genocide is morally wrong and reprehensible cannot help but get involved," said Lee, a Northern California Democrat. She has called on the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest state pension fund with $180 billion in assets, to rid itself of "blood money" invested in companies that do business in the war-torn African nation.
A strengthening movement to bring economic pressure to bear in Sudan got a lift this week when Illinois became the first state to pass a bill aimed at forcing public pension funds to shed investments in companies with business ties in the African nation. The state General Assembly passed the legislation Tuesday, sending it to Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich, a Democrat, whose office is reviewing it.
Several states, including California and Maryland, have considered similar legislation. Meanwhile, college campuses - a crucible of earlier economic protest movements - have organized to demand that their universities scour their portfolios of investments in companies that do business in Sudan.
Sudan is one of the poorest countries in the world. It is dependent on oil and drought-ravaged agriculture. About 130 multinational companies have business ties there, according to Conflict Securities Advisory Group, a private research firm in Washington. Most are based overseas because for the past eight years, U.S. corporations have been restricted by U.S. sanctions. Fewer than half have offices or factories in Sudan.
Critics dismiss divestment as an emotional response that could further destabilize the region and ultimately hurt oppressed populations by worsening their economic woes and depriving them of Western influences.
Moral imperative
To others, the Sudan push is a moral imperative, reminiscent of the divestiture that prodded South Africa to end its long policy of discrimination against blacks.
Since conflict broke out in western Sudan two years ago, tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced. Arab militias, called janjaweed, have targeted black African villagers in the Darfur region in scorched-earth fashion. The Sudanese government in Khartoum, which armed the militias to quash a rebellion, has been accused of perpetrating genocide.
Advocates of divestment argue that the Khartoum government is propped up by companies doing business in Sudan. Money inevitably flows to the power centers, they say, and pressuring companies to leave the country might persuade the government to help bring peace to Darfur.
"A ruthless police state is made more secure economically by virtue of these investments," said Eric Reeves, a Smith College professor who has taken leave to do research on Sudan. "I don't think the issue is ambiguous. Let's imagine a Swiss company in 1944 trading gas to Germany."
Earlier divestment drives have traced a similar course through college campuses and state capitols, though few have matched the scope of the corporate exodus from South Africa, where hundreds of U.S. companies did business.
The Sudan issue hasn't generated nonbinding shareholder resolutions of the kind that helped propel South Africa divestiture.
Myanmar also target
Activists have also taken aim at companies in Myanmar, formerly Burma, where the military junta has been criticized for human rights abuses. PepsiCo Inc. severed ties with a bottling plant there in the mid-1990s, and apparel makers such as Eddie Bauer Inc. also pulled out, but the oil company Unocal Corp. has resisted the pressure.
Another movement is trying to single out companies that supply weapons to Israel as a show of support for Palestinian statehood.
Often, the issues aren't as clear.
In Sudan, some early backers of divestment caution that doing so could jeopardize a fragile peace accord that Khartoum reached this year with rebels in southern Sudan, where millions have died in a civil war.
And investment managers say they are conflicted over whether they should play a role.
In the Sudan campaign, Lee, whose district includes Oakland and Berkeley, is joined by activists such as radio talk-show host Joe Madison, known as "the Black Eagle." Madison was arrested decades ago at a protest on the steps of the South African Embassy in Washington and again last year at the Sudanese Embassy down the street.
Religious groups are also involved, including the American Jewish Committee and Christian Solidarity International.
Sudan's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism has also spurred interest in divestment.
And Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's ice cream is lending a hand.
Among the companies doing business in Sudan are Schlumberger Ltd., an oilfield-services company based in New York and Paris that has about 150 Sudanese employees, and the French company Alcatel, which is upgrading a telecommunications system in Sudan.
Siemens AG, a German company, has up to $20 million in contracts in Sudan to build a power plant and for other infrastructure projects.
Spokeswoman Paula Davis said that the company has "a policy of constructive engagement" with Sudan and that its projects are "key components to improving living conditions."
'Very concerned'
"Obviously, we are very concerned about the situation there and watching it closely," she said.
Canada's Talisman Energy Inc. sold its oil and pipeline interests in Sudan in 2003 after years of protests from human-rights groups that said revenue from the project helped finance the country's civil war.
U.S. household-name products still make their way into Sudan indirectly. Gillette Co. said a small amount of its personal-care products is sold in Sudan through independent distributors, and Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. said its farm tires are sold there.
"If you were to buy a tire from us, you could sell it to anyone you want," Goodyear spokesman Keith Price said. "We don't have any ability to control third parties."
Companies say their business in Sudan is legal and can bring democratic ideals and jobs to a country where both are acutely needed.
"Divestment doesn't lead to any happier circumstances for the Sudanese," said William Reinsch, president of the National Foreign Trade Council, which represents hundreds of companies and promotes trade. "It makes people here feel better, but I don't think it does any good."
Institutional investors such as pension funds and universities often resist the pressure to divest, saying their primary focus is to maximize investment returns. They also argue that they have no way of independently verifying the research from Conflict Securities, a for-profit company that sells its list of companies in Sudan for $7,500.
"It puts us on a slippery slope because there are a lot of causes out there, and there are probably lots of reasons to divest, but that starts to narrow your universe of investments," said Brad Pacheco, a spokesman for the California pension fund. "And we don't have the resources to be CIA agents and discover whether a company is enabling genocide."
Nonetheless, the Sudan divestment push is making inroads.
Harvard University, which was slow to rid itself of investments in companies doing business in South Africa, has led the way in the academic world with regard to Sudan. Its $23 billion endowment agreed last month to sell its stake in PetroChina, a Chinese oil and gas company with operations in Sudan.
Student-led divestment campaigns have begun on campuses including Duke University in North Carolina and the University of Pennsylvania.
Legislators in a number of states, with South Africa legislation that was passed in more than 20 states as a blueprint, are considering Sudan bills. California's General Assembly passed a resolution urging that state's pension funds to use their influence as shareholders to lobby companies to avoid activities in Sudan that promote human-rights abuses.
Maryland legislation
In Maryland, Del. Salima S. Marriott introduced legislation during the recent General Assembly session to block investment of state funds in companies doing business in Sudan. The bill never got a committee vote. The Baltimore Democrat has vowed to reintroduce the bill next year.
"We probably don't have many legislators who were there during the South Africa divestiture, so it's going to require a lot of education," she said.
The Maryland State Retirement and Pension System has investments totaling $496 million in 26 companies doing business in Sudan, according to an analysis by Conflict Securities that broadly defines business ties. The pension system administers retirement and disability benefits for more than 250,000 state employees, teachers, police officers and legislators.
The state agency "doesn't have a definitive policy on the Sudan," said Joseph M. Coale, spokesman for the state pension system. "It has been discussed in the legislature, and as our governance policies are developed, I'm sure this is an issue that will get the board's attention."
The pressure for divestment in Sudan has been spurred by a campaign to persuade investment managers to sell investments in companies with ties to sponsors of terrorism. Sudan is on the State Department's list of countries that have repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism.
'Axis of evil'
The list also includes North Korea and Iran - which, along with Iraq, President Bush described in 2002 as an "axis of evil" - and Syria and Libya.
Spearheading the Sudan divestment campaign is Frank J. Gaffney Jr., head of the Center for Security Policy, a conservative think tank. He was a defense official in the administration of President Ronald Reagan, whose veto of legislation calling for sanctions against South Africa was overridden by Congress. Gaffney said he got involved in the Sudan divestment drive to protect the United States.
Gaffney has close ties to Conflict Securities and has been accused of helping the firm capitalize on terrorism fears.
Gaffney and Adam M. Pener of the advisory group dismiss those accusations and say they share a goal of full disclosure of what companies are doing in so-called rogue nations.
"I can't tell you how much of the revenue generated from business in those countries has passed through the governments to terrorists, but I can tell you some of it did, and even if it was a little bit, I think Maryland pensioners would want to know," Gaffney said. "Once they're aware of this, you'll see more people for divestment."
Progress noted
Activists say they have made as much progress in eight months on the Sudan divestment effort as the South Africa campaign made in years.
"When South Africa first started, it didn't explode onto the scene," said Madison, the radio personality. "People didn't even know how to pronounce 'apartheid.' People had no idea who Nelson Mandela was. It just took persistent protesting and organizing, and that's what it will take for Sudan."


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