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By Yanis Iqbal – Apr 27, 2021
April 9, 1976. The Syrian military intervened in Lebanon to fight against the National Movement (NM) and Palestinians. Kamal Jumblatt – the leader of the NM – was too radical for the liking of Damascus. With his anti-Zionist leanings, he could easily provoke Israel into invading Lebanon – increasing the strategic vulnerability of Syria. Thus, Hafez al-Assad – with the tacit consent of the US – proceeded to thwart any possibility of a leftist regime coming to power in Beirut. Tokenistic elections are held on May 16, 1976 under the watch of Syrian troops. Assad's favored candidate – Ilyas Sarkis – is made the president.
As was expected, heavy fighting erupted between Syrian invaders and the Palestine-NM forces. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin cynically observes: "Syria is currently in a state of war with al-Fatah. Its forces killed last week in Lebanon more al-Fatah elements than the Israeli army has killed in the last two years." On October 16, 1976, the six-nation Riyadh Summit was convened to put an end to the killings. Instead of demanding the withdrawal of the Syrian troops, the conference legitimized their military presence in Lebanon by making them a part of the peace-keeping Arab Deterrent Force (ADF).
A year later, the balance of forces changed in Lebanon as Israel launched Operation Litani in March 1978 to expand its control beyond the three Christian enclaves it already controlled through proxies like Major Sa'ad Haddad and Bashir Jumayil. Israel and Syria came head-to-head with the former shooting down Syrian helicopters carrying supply to their troops. This prompted the Syrians to deploy SAM-6 missiles in prepared dugouts. Sensing the power shifts, Sarkis drifted away from Damascus, protesting Syria's bombardment by offering his resignation, knowing Assad had no alternative to him. USA finally stepped in to defuse the crisis, sending Philip Habib to mediate. A ceasefire was agreed upon in July 1981.
Barely ten months after the ceasefire, on June 6, 1982, Israel – under the watch of USA – launched a massive land, sea and air invasion of Lebanon code-named "Operation Peace for Galilee". Ostensibly aimed at destroying Palestinian infrastructure, the attack dealt a humiliating defeat to the Syrian army. The Lebanese parliament – encircled by Israeli guns – was called on August 23 of the same year to elect a new President. Israel's own man – Jumayil – swiftly climbed the stairs of presidency. When Jumayil was assassinated on September 14, his elder brother, Amin Jumayil, was made the President. Meanwhile, Assad was busy mending his relations with the NM and Palestinians as the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat went to Jerusalem (November 1977) and on to Camp David (September 1978).
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Assad soon began arranging his pieces on the Lebanese chess board to score gains in the wider geo-political game against Israel. The parties of the NM and the Palestinian organizations in addition to the Amal movement under Nabih Birri, Rashid Karami and the leader of Zgharta, Suleiman Franjiyeh, rallied to Damascus to launch a counter-offensive under the banner of the National Salvation Front (NSF). This was founded on July 23, 1983 to re-establish the equilibrium disrupted by the Israeli invasion. A year later, Assad invited Amin to national reconciliation talks in Geneva, Switzerland. This ended in failure. However, Assad held many trump cards, prominent among which were military pressure on the Presidential Palace exerted by his allied Lebanese and Palestinian militias, keeping Amin in check, and the formidable range of kidnappings and executions manipulated by Hezbollah commandos.
On December 28, 1985, a tripartite agreement was signed in Damascus by the three leading militia chieftains, Walid Jumblatt – the son of Kamal Jumblatt, assassinated in March 1974 – Birri and Elie Hubayqa. Hubayqa had taken over the leadership of the Lebanese Forces (LF) – originally created by Jumayil – on September 9, 1985, in association with Samir Geagea, the northern militia leader who was named commander-in-chief of the LF. Hubayqa – who completed the break with Amin and the Phalange – had tried to wash his hands of the Sabra and Shatila massacres and executed an about-face, in the direction of Damascus where he was embraced and his public image restored.
In 1988, when Amin's six-year term expired, the Lebanese parliament – or its 73 surviving members, out of an original 99 – and the outside powers which traditionally influenced its choice, could not agree on his successor. The official state authorities fell apart. For the first time since the war began, there were now two governments. The army commander, General Michel Aoun, appointed by the outgoing president as "prime minister" of a provisional military council, moved into the presidential palace at Baabda, in East Beirut. He was not, of course, the president, but, in the eyes of a large and fervent following, overwhelmingly Christian but including a fair number of Muslims too, he effectively had the popular mandate to be one; and he withheld recognition from the two candidates – the first having been assassinated – whom parliament eventually did elect. In West Beirut, a rival administration, headed by the existing prime minister, Salim al-Hoss, continued to function, and appointed a rival army commander.
Aoun's command did not run very far – not even, in fact, inside that 20% of Lebanese territory that fell within Marounistan. There the LF militia, spearheaded by Geagea, held sway. It led an uneasy co-existence with the army. They did manage to cooperate when, from time to time, the Maronite territory came under Syrian attack. But their aims were different. Geagea and his militia were narrowly sectarian, and considered Marounistan an unsurpassable horizon. Aoun – a staunch Maronite, but a Lebanese nationalist too – wanted to use the army to establish a united Lebanon. For that the Syrians and the Israelis had to go; and in 1989 he began a "war of liberation" against the former.
It was a hapless enterprise, whose central characteristic was six more months of cross-city artillery duels, perhaps the heaviest Beirut had ever seen. The military campaign was interspersed with the far bloodier, full-scale war he also had to wage to wrest control of Marounistan from the LF. About 20% of his troops were Muslim, but essentially this was an intra-Christian contest. Its combatants were some 16,000 men of Aoun's army, with most of the tanks and heavy artillery America had supplied during its brief, disastrous presence in the country, pitted against the 10,000 men of the oldest, largest, well-organized, Israeli-assisted militia, with an artillery strength not significantly weaker than its adversary's. For Damascus, Aoun was a new Bashir Jumayil. He was unpredictable and had a cross-sectarian credibility that Jumayil had lacked. Even worse, there was Saddam Hussein's intrusion. The Iraqi dictator wanted to punish his Syrian rival for backing Iran in the Iran-Iraq war from 1980 to 1988. Saddam shipped heavy weaponry to both Aoun's brigades from August 1988.
In return for partnering with an American-led coalition against Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, Assad won carte blanche to re-jig the Lebanese plates according to his desires. At dawn on October 13, 1990, Syrian bombers struck the presidential palace; the Americans had secured a waiver of the Israelis' prohibition on any Syrian intrusion into Lebanese airspace – a right which, since 1976, they had reserved exclusively for themselves. Syrian military and infantry then invaded the Maronite heartland.
In October 1989, with the help of the US, and Saudi Arabia, the Arab League managed to assemble 58 of the country's deputies in Taif, a Saudi mountain resort, where, after three weeks of hospitality, they approved a Charter of National Reconciliation. This was the final version of earlier, abortive proposals for amending those two founding texts of the sectarian state, the verbal National Pact and the 1926 constitution itself. Like all of them, it aimed at a fairer balance of power between the different communities in Lebanon, premised mainly on a reduction in the Maronites' supremacy.
On the question of Lebanon's basic identity, it anchored the country more firmly in its Arab environment, with the formulation "Arab in character" of the National Pact being replaced by the new "Arab in belonging"; but at the same time, it stressed that Lebanon was the "final homeland for all its citizens" – implying that it would never be subject to incorporation into some larger Arab entity. Like the original constitution, it did postulate the abolition of political sectarianism as a final goal, but in the meantime, with its formal endorsement of modifications in existing practice, it effectively reinforced it for the foreseeable future.
Under these modifications, the presidency continued to be reserved for a Maronite, the premiership for a Sunni and the speakership of parliament for a Shiite. But the powers of the first were curtailed in favour of the prime minister and his cabinet, the speaker and his assembly. And in place of the existing 6:5 ratio in favour of the Christians, parliamentary seats were to be shared equally between them and the Muslims. One of the immediately operational provision of the Taif also called for the "dissolution of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias".
As is evident from a brief look at the Lebanese civil war, Syria played a regressive role by using the conflict's dynamics for its own benefits. In 1976, at the outset of the civil war, USA had given the green light for Syria's original military foray into Lebanon, at the Palestinians' expense; in 1983, deeming it a Soviet-backed, "radical" Arab state, it had sought to expel it; now, in another turn-about, it saw it once again as a stabilizer of its turbulent, small neighbor. Instead of pursuing a clear-headed, anti-imperialist policy, Assad's Syria used its own clout to undermine a strong, regional agenda against the Global North.
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Yanis Iqbal is an independent researcher and freelance writer based in Aligarh, India and can be contacted at email@example.com. His articles have been published in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Turkey and several countries of Latin America.
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Ash Liebs' 'How Not To Be Seen' at Red Brick.
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The work of Ash Lieb deals in the absurd. Opening at Red Brick Gallery on January 18th "How not to be seen" is an exhibit of the vast contrast of absurdity in the world around us. While one element of the exhibition deals with the laughter, nonsense and ridicule of absurd or surreal humour the other deals with the philosophical definition of absurdism regarding the conflict between pursuing the meaning of life and the inability to find it.
In "How not to be seen" (a reference to the absurd humour of Monty Python) almost every pop surrealist piece rests precisely between the size of a can of Campbell's soup and the size of any of Warhol's soup paintings for an exhibit where most pieces are sized about thirty centimetres each. Lieb, who works digitally using photographs, drawings and found objects, composes each image in minute exquisite detail upon a computer screen in a process the artist likens to a kind of digital finger-painting.
The digital imagery in "How not to be seen" has been created by Lieb over the past six years, commencing during the artist's university days when Lieb was fighting an aggressive cancer. Ash Lieb, who credits much of his creativity to cancer and madness, underwent surgery for a rare brain tumour in 2003 and 2007 whilst studying a Visual arts degree at Ballarat University. Every image in Lieb's latest exhibition has been made locally by the artist using a little piece of Ballarat in every artwork, including things that people might not take much notice of, such as the bush land views of Brown Hill, the street corners of Wendouree, or the many sunsets of Mount Helen and Buninyong. And so in "How not to be seen" Ash Lieb once again looks at the little things.
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Rolland L. Felio, 81, of Henderson, passed peacefully at home on September 18 with his family and loved ones by his side. He had been under the care of Hospice of Jefferson County. His funeral service will be at 11:30 am Saturday at the Congregational United Church of Christ, Pulaski, with Rev. James Tschudy officiating. Visitation is from 9:30 - 11:30 and will precede the funeral. Burial will be private in the South Richland Cemetery. Arrangements are with the Piddock Funeral Home, Inc., Adams.
"Rolly" was born October 18, 1935 in Plattsburg, son of Clifton and Dorothy (Macomber) Felio. Following his graduation from Keesville HighSchool, he attended Potsdam State Teachers College, Saint Lawrence University and Syracuse University, graduating with a master degree in music and earning his Administrative certificate. He began his thirty-seven year music teaching career that include five years at Oswego and later at Pulaski, where he retired after thirty-two years.
He married Rose Mary Hilton of Pulaski on July 14, 1962 in the Pulaski Baptist Church. The couple lived briefly in Watertown, before moving to Pulaski. Following his retirement, they moved to Henderson where they lived the rest of their married life.
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Rape, weapon of war in Eastern Congo
In the eastern part of The Democratic Republic of Congo, tens of thousands of women and young girls are being raped with impunity and extreme brutality by all sides in the conflict, civilians, militiamen, armed groups, foreign-armed groups and members of the Congolese Army.
In most cases, many men rape women at the same time, what is know as 'gang rape'. Not only are the women raped, but also their vaginas are mutilated with guns and sticks. In many cases, the women are raped in front of their children, their husbands, families and neighbors. This shows that rape is being used as a weapon of war to punish or dehumanize the women themselves, or to persecute the community to which they belong.
According to the United Nations, in the province of South Kivu local health centres report that an average of 40 women is raped daily, as a rule of thumb in such situations says the UN, for every rape that is reported, as many as 10 or 20 cases might be unreported. 14.200 women and young girls were registered as being raped between 2005 and 2007 in South Kivu. Complete statistics of the scale of rape in North Kivu do not exist. According to December 2007 United Nations figures, around 350 rape cases were reported every month in North Kivu.
Behind these alarming figures are individual women whose dignity, autonomy and health are constantly under threat. The consequences of rape are devastating; survivors regularly suffer from emotional disorders and mental health problems for the rest of their lives. They also have extensive damage to their reproductive system including miscarriages, infertility, difficult pregnancies, pain in their fallopian tubes, and, fistulas, causing leaking of urine and faces. Rape also increases their risk of contagion with HIV/AIDS, not to mention those who meet their death.
Likewise, there is such stigma associated with rape in Congo – where female virginity is prized and the husband of a rape survivor is considered shamed – that rape survivors are routinely shunned by husbands, parents and communities.
Legal assistance is rare and inadequate in Eastern Congo, where impunity for perpetrators of sexual violence remains a major issue.
Walter Astrada was born in 1974 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He started his career as a staff photographer at the local, La Nacion newspaper. After a formative trip through South America, he joined the Associated Press in Bolivia and later in Argentina, Paraguay and then the Dominican Republic.
From March 2005 until March 2006 Walter worked as a freelancer for Agence France Presse in the Dominican Republic and was represented and distributed by World Picture News. However, in March 2006 he moved to Spain from where he is working as a freelancer. During 2008 and 2009 he covered Eastern Africa out of Uganda. Currently he is based in Madrid, working on a long-term project about violence against women. Since February 2010 he is represented exclusively by Reportage by Getty Images.
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Plaintiff Lance Baird filed a class action lawsuit against Samsung asking them to restore YouTube access to Samsung TV's that were made in 2013 and before. Lance Baird states that owners of Samsung Smart TVs from 2013 and earlier lost their access to YouTube sometime in June 2017. He is asking that Samsung takes steps to restore YouTube in these TV's.
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Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin have decided to separate — or, in their words, "consciously uncouple." The Oscar-winning actress announced the sad news in a statement on her official website for her lifestyle brand Goop on Tuesday, March 25.
"It is with hearts full of sadness that we have decided to separate," the statement read. "We have been working hard for well over a year, some of it together, some of it separated, to see what might have been possible between us, and we have come to the conclusion that while we love each other very much we will remain separate."
"We are, however, and always will be a family, and in many ways we are closer than we have ever been," the Glee guest star, 41, said of her husband, 37, with whom she shares daughter Apple, 9, and son Moses, 7. "We are parents first and foremost, to two incredibly wonderful children and we ask for their and our space and privacy to be respected at this difficult time."
"We have always conducted our relationship privately," the statement continued, "and we hope that as we consciously uncouple and co-parent, we will be able to continue in the same manner."
Paltrow and the British Coldplay singer met in 2002 and were married the next year in Southern California. Since their December 2003 wedding, they've weathered more than a few storms, which the actress has talked openly about in interviews.
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My partner Francoise heard that her best friend was near to death, so I have taken her to the bus station in Bath to go on a quick day return to London. he is already unconscious and has not taken food or drink, which is one of the signs of impeding demise but we decided that although he may not recognise her consciously the power of her thought and her caring would in some way communicate with her.
I visited a new garden customer today, Reg, who told me that he was an amputee and could therefore not carry on with his gardening. He had thrombosis in his left leg accompanied by much pain and when the doctors advised him that they will have to have to remove the leg he was delighted. He told me that his wife had died two years ago and she did all the gardening. He has had the sense to ask a firm for a plastic lawn which actually looks quite lovely and all it needs is an occasional brush. He was quite happy for me to sit down and talk about the old days as many old people do because they have nothing to do apart from watch the TV.
It is very easy to be critical but he says that even with his artificial legs he can barely get around the bungalow never mind get out and about. He is part of an invisible army of people who need more contact. Because they don't go around demonstrating people forget about these previously hard-working souls who have just been left and abandoned. However, Reg gets good support from his family, including his grand-daughter, who comes and cleans and his daughter, who arranges for shopping deliveries from Tesco. Many people do not even have this.
Exciting days – I do love technology, though it has a downside. I have been tracking my Other Half on the National Express coach tracker coming back from London. All coaches are attached to the GPS system so you get a minute by minute update and I was able to see whether she had a chance of getting a local bus which was due to leave 5 min after the national coach arrived. I was able to give a commentary by text. eventually it arrived 22.52 and the bus was due to depart 22.55. She caught it. This meant I did not have to go and pick her up, which I wouldn't have minded doing. I wonder what they did in the days before any sort of technology, even the telephone. Perhaps they used their inherent psychic powers like we could all do we wanted to.


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Alex R. Bowers, Doris H. Apfelbaum, Eli Peli; Bioptic Telescopes Meet the Needs of Drivers with Moderate Visual Acuity Loss. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2005;46(1):66-74. https://doi.org/10.1167/iovs.04-0271.
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purpose. Visually impaired people are permitted to use bioptic telescopes for driving in many states in the United States. However, it has been suggested that the telescope is used only to meet the visual acuity criteria for licensure. In this study, a survey was used to establish the extent to which bioptic telescopes are used by and meet the driving needs of people with moderately reduced visual acuity.
methods. A cross-sectional survey of a convenience sample of 58 bioptic drivers was administered by telephone interview. Bioptic telescope usage patterns were quantified with questions designed specifically for the study. Driving patterns were quantified by use of the Driving Habits Questionnaire. Subjects were recruited from four sources across the United States to ensure a range of bioptic training and driving experience.
results. The majority (74%) rated the bioptic telescope as very helpful, and almost all (90%) would continue to use it for driving, even if it were not required for driving licensure; however, only 62% reported always wearing the bioptic when driving. Subjects had relatively unrestricted driving habits, driving a mean of 222 ± 211 miles per week, and 85% aged ≤65 years drove to work. With the exception of driving in rain, in bright sunlight, and at night, there was little difficulty with driving in a variety of situations, and levels of driving avoidance due to vision impairment were low (<10%).
conclusions. The bioptic telescope met the (self-reported) driving needs of the majority of visually impaired drivers in this survey and was found to be a useful aid for tasks requiring resolution of detail.
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The first block train from China arrived in Bremerhaven on Monday, April 13th. The container train started on March 30 in the Chinese city of Xi'an and went to Germany via Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Poland. RTSB GmbH operated the train in cooperation with the Belarusian state railway Belintertrans. The total transit time including handling, import and inspection was only 14 days.
The cooperation between RTSB and EUROGATE is based on a long-term cooperation that started with China traffic to Hamburg. The location in Bremerhaven offers the consignee a significant advantage because the logistics on site offer many options for handling and delivery to local end recipients or freight forwarders, for feeder deliveries to Northern and Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, but also intermodal solutions in German Inland and to Italy.
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Although American Idol is ending next year, it looks like Lee Daniels will be carrying on the tradition.
The Empire creator will be holding an international casting search for the main roles in his new musical drama, titled Star. The show is about an Atlanta girl group trying to make it big. According to Entertainment Weekly, there will be four main characters. Here's what Daniels is looking for:
STAR: "Character is a Caucasian female, 18 years old (actor must be 18 years of age or over). She's a tough chick with a badass attitude."
ALEXANDRA: "Character is an African-American female, about 20 (actor must be 18 years of age or over). She's an elegant yet classic beauty. Alexandra wants to put this material world behind her so she can make real, authentic music."
SIMONE: "Character is half African-American, half Caucasian, Star's younger sister, 16 years old (actor must be 18 years of age or over). Tragic and adorable."
COTTON: "Character is a half African-American and half Latina transgender woman with a stunning look, 20 (actor must be 18 years of age or over). She has an especially keen eye for fashion."
If you think you've got what it takes, take your chances here.
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20 Reasons Taraji P. Henson Is Our Favorite Girl In Hollywood (PHOTOS)
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1. Because that one eyebrow is ALWAYS on fleek.
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2. Because she's a Howard University woman.
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3. Because she's serving EVERYTHING on Fox's new hit show "Empire."
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4. Because we all have a little "Yvette" from "Baby Boy" in us. (And some of us have had a Jody in our lives too).
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5. Because somehow she manages to make every selfie on Instagram look like a full-fledged photoshoot.
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6. Because she's never afraid to take off the heels and just be a down chick.
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7. Because she's never hesitant to show love to other sisters in Hollywood.
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8. Because this reminds us of something we would do in the pool. Basically…we're all Taraji.
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9. Because she uses her celebrity for the causes that mean the most.
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10. That hair!
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11. Because her filmography is more diverse than people who've been in the game longer than her (and we must say…better).
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12. Because she rocked this patterned ensemble on the 'Gram and now we wish we had one.
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13. Because no matter the role, the time period, or the emotion, she's spot on.
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14. Did we mention the hair?
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15. All of these movies…ALL OF THEM.
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16. Because she got a chance to do this to Idris Elba. It's not fair, but that's our girl, so we're happy for her.
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17. Because she's always a little DMV (D.C., Maryland, Virginia) wherever she goes (even when she's rocking a NY hat).
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18. There goes that hair…
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19. Need we say more?
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20. And because she'll always be the relatable girl next door that we love. Never change, Taraji!
Find Your Inner Cookie: Lee Daniels To Hold International Casting Call For New Musical Drama was originally published on globalgrind.com
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The Chicago Sky's principal owner Michael Alter took time in his schedule to speak to Worldwidewest after the Sky prevented the Atlanta Dream from clinching the top seed in the Eastern Conference Sunday night. He became the principal owner of the Sky franchise in 2005. Alter is the President of the Alter Group, one of the country's largest private commercial real estate developers. He has expressed his commitment and dedication to encourage opportunities for young women in professional athletics. This was evident this off-season.
In December, Sparks owner Paula Madison effectively gave up control of the team and returned it to the league. There was speculation the franchise would be bought by the Golden State Warriors and moved to the Bay Area or perhaps fold if nothing materialized.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported an investment group led by Magic Johnson and Mark Walter, the people who have injected new life (and money) into the Dodgers. Walter, a graduate of the Northwestern University School of Law, lives in the Chicago area and was called by Sky owner Michael Alter about the Sparks' troubles to gauge interest in a possible purchase. That call eventually led to Walter, Johnson and their partners taking over the Sparks in February and keeping the WNBA viable in one of its most important markets.
Alter and I focused on his Sky team solely and other topics including how important the home win over Atlanta Sunday night was with the team aiming to clinch its second playoff berth in franchise history.
"Big win, with the playoffs ahead they are all big now, Atlanta is the best team in the East; obviously having Angel out made it a little easier. It's good to see how they struggled in the second quarter offensively and they stepped up in the end. We're starting to play better, having Elena back is a huge difference. It's good we are coming together at the right time and hopefully getting healthy again," Alter said.
On making the playoffs last season and expectations being higher…
"Coming off last year, we had that great year, we had everybody coming back for the most part, our expectations were quite high and I think rightfully so. No one expected these injuries, illnesses and absences. It has been a challenging year for the team. Some people don't realize we have a young team. Pokey has done a great job managing all that stuff, you don't realize how challenging that is to try to integrate all that. She has kept everyone positive. Hopefully now we are able to get some of that consistency and everyone getting used to each other. It's kind of like training camp has been going on all year round and finally coming to an end. We have a solid team right now and going forward. Hopefully we make the playoffs and when we get in we make a real run at it. There is no one we cannot compete with.
On WNBA superstar Elene Delle Donne…
"She is great. She is a fantastic player, a unique player of her size who can handle the ball and shoot with range. It just makes such a challenge for any team and it makes it so much easier for her teammates. Off the court she gets what this is all about, she gets her role in it. She is so open and willing to participate and to do what the team needs her to do, what the league needs her to do to help build not just the Sky, but everything in the WNBA," Alter stated.
Lastly, working with General Manager and Head Coach Pokey Chatman…
I am hands on, but I am very respectful of the fact that this is her team. That's why she is the GM also. She makes the decisions; I am there to help her talk about things. Ultimately it is her call. She is accountable for the decision she makes, I don't second-guess her. We have a great relationship and I have tremendous respect for her and what she had done. The players love her. We are very lucky to have her. I try to be a help when I can and not get in the way," Alter stated.


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I was hoping that in the last group of comments that showed up yesterday, I would find someone who guessed the exact weight of me, Binga and Boodie combined. But while some of you were close, none of you were closer than two readers who guessed the same number, which was within one ounce of the correct weight! So I will have to resort to my tie breaker.
First off, here is the answer: 29 pounds, 13 ounces.
My friends at Katnip Lounge guessed 29 pounds, 12 ounces! But a longtime reader of my blog, Charlotte, also known as BrucesMom, guessed 29.75 pounds, which works out to… 29 pounds, 12 ounces! Good job, you guys! But now you will have to do one more thing, and hopefully this will decide the winner.
Here is Boodie, waiting to be weighed:
I have already sent emails to both the Katnip Lounge crew and BrucesMom asking them to guess what Boodie weighs. The one that comes closest to Boodie's actual weight will win my new book and the cool Play-n-Squeak Bounce-n-Pounce cat toy! Hopefully they will send in their answers sometime today and I will be able to announce the winner tomorrow!


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Up the road from where I live in sunny Cheltenham is the lovely Red Cross book shop, I have to limit myself to one visit a month as I have a penchant for old books. I am buying my childhood back and also I am a sucker for lovely book covers.
So here is my latest score to assuage a habit that at least does not damage my health, (unless I become crushed by the rapidly growing piles of hard backs!!??)
This beautifully illustrated Brer Rabbit was a must have, how did he get away with being so naughty? Peaking in this photo is a lovely spotty book, Bird related (of course), Birds from the Hide, 1933 with sixty- three plates in photogravure. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogravure, before you ask!)
But look at this beauty, as an artist maker how could I leave this on the shelf?
From 1907 this book has made me come to terms with the fact that animals may have had the idea first and made it...nothing is new!!
I just love the headings although
some topics are a bit dubious.
Yes, there are a couple more books that I am not owning up to and for a change there are no Ladybird books in my latest binge buy.
But some will be put to good use as this lovely book was during Cheltenham Open Studios, display resources makes them all tax deductable.
and this little collection turned into Alice in Wonderland shelves at Select Showcase in October 2015.
This all makes me feel a little less guilty.


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Worker's Compensation in Maryland: The Fine Print
The general practice attorneys at Murnane & O'Neill examine the minute details of worker's compensation in Maryland.
In the state of Maryland, workplace injuries must occur under very specific circumstances in order for a worker to receive medical coverage. Specifically, the worker's compensation guidelines for the state require that the accident that caused the workplace injury must have occurred "out of" or "in the course of employment."
Further examination of these requirements requires definition of several key terms. According to the Maryland Worker's Compensation Act, an 'accident' is a sudden and improbable event that has unforeseen results. Although there are specific conditions that are covered under worker's compensation even if when not deemed the result of one particular accident, such as diseases caused by repeated exposure to occupational hazards, the former is the case for most workplace injuries.
Injuries that occur during the performance of a regular work task may be covered by worker's compensation. These injuries "arise out of the course of employment," according to the Maryland Worker's Compensation Act. Injuries, on the other hand, that occur at work or during a regular work task, but are not necessarily caused by a job duty or other known hazard, are considered to "arise in the course of employment."
If you are injured on the job, be sure to report it to your employer as soon as possible and seek legal representation. The state of Maryland allows injured workers to receive care from the medical professional of their choice. Once you have established your eligibility you will be able to receive reimbursement for any pre-compensable medical costs.
After you have reported your injury to your employer, you should file for worker's compensation. In order for your claim to be considered complete, you must also submit a form authorizing the release of your medical records. Your claim status will then be made available online.
If you qualify for worker's compensation, you may be eligible for any number of medical services, based on the classification of disability you are assigned. Any medical care your work injury requires will be covered under worker's compensation. You will be assigned one of the following disability qualifications:
- Temporary partial disability: This type of disability classification is assigned when you are temporarily unable to work full time or perform all the duties associated with your job. You will receive a portion of your salary while you are unable to work full time.
- Temporary total disability: Individuals who are classified under temporary total disability are temporarily unable to perform their job, and will receive two thirds of a week's wage not exceeding the average weekly wage for the state of Maryland.
- Permanent partial disability: If you are able to perform some of the duties associated with your job, but remain permanently disabled, you may be classified as permanently partially disabled. The monetary benefits awarded for this classification of disability vary based on the type of injury and the part of the body that sustained the injury.
- Permanent total disability: Disability applicants are classified under permanent total disability when they are no longer able to perform a job because of a permanently disabling injury. If you receive this classification, you are eligible to collect two thirds of a week's worth of your pay not exceeding the state weekly average.
If your worker's compensation claim is denied by the state of Maryland, you will be notified by a Notice of Dispute letter. If you feel your claim is valid despite the denial, you may schedule an appeal hearing.
If you feel your workplace is denying your worker's compensation without a valid explanation, you should seek legal representation. Insurance companies can be exceedingly difficult to communicate with, and an experienced attorney in worker's compensation defense can help protect you from being denied the medical coverage you deserve.
If you would like more information on worker's compensation defense or would like to seek representation for a worker's compensation claim dispute, call Murnane & O'Neill today.


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Salisbury, NC
Delivery Method
Addition 20,000 SF
Renovation 43,709 SF
RPA Design, PC
New Atlantic constructed a new long term care facility addition and performed renovations on 3 floors of the existing facility.
The exterior components of the addition include metal studs with brick veneer HardiePlank siding and a metal truss shingle roof system.
The interior includes residence, family, meditation, and game rooms.
The facility remained occupied during the phased renovation and included office renovations and a new atrium area with restaurants, barber shop, markets, recreation area, and theater for the residents.


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How are we going to cope with a 51% increase in people aged 65+ by 2030? How will we help and care for people with chronic disease? ( forecast to double in people over 65). How can we encourage and support healthy ageing? How can we reduce the blight of loneliness in our communities? How can we afford to pay for the increase in health & care provision?
These are all critical questions that need to be addressed otherwise we are facing social meltdown and healthcare breakdown.
The mental well-being of society is becoming an increasingly worrying issue facing us all. We don't seem to have grasped the fact that urgent action and new thinking is required on mental health provision.
The stats are pretty scary;
- 1 in 6 of us experience mental health problems every day
- 1 in 4 will experience mental health problems in our lifetime
- 850,000 are living with Dementia – set to double in the next 30 years
- Mental health issues cost the UK economy £105 bn every year
- The cost of mental health to the NHS is £21 bn a year and £30 bn to employers (stress related absence).
- The NHS is facing a £30bn shortfall in funding (Nuffield Trust)
- Only 5% of Local Authority budgets spent on Mental Health
- Local Authority funding will have fallen by £20bn (-43%) at the end of the austerity phase.
So to Summarise – More people will experience mental health problems, the costs to the NHS and the economy is set to rise and severely stretched resources will reach breaking point very soon.
Unless we start embracing new initiatives that improve the mental well-being of communities, we are facing a "social abyss" that will destroy the very fabric of society.


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Tagged: Blog, CSS, enfold, stylesheet, widget title
Hey All,
I'm looking to see if anyone can help me real quick. I'd like to alter the style (color and font) of the Widget Titles used in the side menu. At present I'm using the stock titles (like Categories, Meta, etc) and not creating custom names. I'd also like to ensure altering these titles does not affect the Widget Titles I'm using in my Footer (which are different widgets). Anyone know some quick CSS I can use to accomplish this?
Hey cameron329!
Please add following code to Quick CSS in Enfold theme options under General Styling tab and adjust as needed
.widgettitle { font-family: lato; color: red!important; }
Best regards,
Hey Yigit,
Thanks for the code, it does indeed work. Is there any way, however, to have this just apply to the widget titles in the Sidebar and NOT the Widget Titles in the footer section?
Thanks for the advice!
Sure, please change the code to following one
.sidebar .widgettitle { font-family: lato; color: red!important; }
Best regards,
Hey Yigit,
Awesome, thanks very much this is exactly what I needed.
Since we're on this topic, would you mind telling me the class name for the Titles of Blog Posts so I can adjust those settings as well.
Thanks for all your help!
Hey! :)
Please use following selector
.entry-content-wrapper .post-title { color: red; }
Perfect. Thanks so much for all your help!


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Privacy Policy
Who we are and our contact details
Rebound Technology Group Holdings LTD ("Rebound")
Registered Address: Rivergate House, Newbury Business Park, London Road, RG14 2PZ Newbury. UK Phone: +44 (0)1635 555999
This Privacy Notice explains how a company collects and uses your personal data and not the data relating to the organisation you may work with or for. Rebound Technology Group Holdings Ltd is a UK registered company. The regulatory supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner's Office ("ICO").
We have several companies within the Rebound Group. Some within the European Union ("EU") and some worldwide, all of which are part of Rebound Technology Group Holdings Ltd.
Understanding our Privacy Notice
For a full definition of the terms used in this Privacy Notice and your rights, you can refer to the ICO website (ico.org.uk).
When do we collect your personal information?
- When you talk with our teams on the telephone, via email, business card, or any other form of electronic data system.
- When you buy products or services from us.
- When you sell products or services to us.
- When you ask us for more information about a product or service, or contact us with a question or complaint.
- When you enter a competition/provide your details at a trade show in return for an entry/service
What personal data do we hold, why and where?
We hold personal data so that we can stay in touch with you whilst we trade with active contractual agreements we may have with you and the company you may represent. We will also retain personal details so that we may have reference to you should we trade again in the future.
We hold minimal amounts of personal data about you; your name and contact information, provided by you or the organisation you may work for. The lawful basis for holding this information is 'contract'.
This information is stored in our Global Trading system which is hosted in the EU.
Using your personal information
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
- Processing the goods and services you buy from us, and keeping you updated with your order progress.
- Processing the goods and services we buy from you.
- With your consent, offering goods and services we know you buy from us regularly and ongoing until you ask us to stop.
Sharing your personal information
How long do we keep your personal information?
We believe in building strong trading partnerships with you and the organisations you work with. We will hold your personal data whilst we continue working with your organisation and in archive thereafter or until you ask us to remove your personal data details from our records.
What if you want us to change details or don't want us to hold your personal contact details any longer?
You are of course very welcome to ask your sales or finance contact to remove, change or check the personal contact information about you held in our records.
If you have any concerns, complaints, queries or questions, about our Privacy Notice or the personal contact data we hold, you can email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
What if we change details within our Privacy Notice?
Should any significant changes be made to this Privacy Notice we post notification on our website.
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Savage Stripes Pocket T-Shirt
Regular price $28.99
Unit price per
Made from an old shirt found at the local thrift store. Thought the pattern was cool to make some pockets out of. Went home chopped it up, and added a woven label with the pick pocket logo. Limited numbers on this one. Get there while supplies last.
- Limited Numbers
- 100% cotton, carded ringspun jersey tee (*10% polyester on heather grey)
- Handmade pocket
- Pocket is sewn onto your choice of garment:
- white t-shirt
- black t-shirt
- heather grey t-shirt
- black crewneck sweatshirt
- Sizes S-2XL
- Pocket Faded: No
- Suggested garment: Black
- Pocket is subject to slight differences*
Skater owned & sewn in San Diego, CA
Want a more customized piece? Contact us and we'll get you setup with more sizes and options!


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38 mm, standard clips
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The COBRA® PRO STYLE is the strongest and world leading safety buckle made of aluminium. Thanks to its patented locking mechanism and high breaking strength it meets the highest safety requirements. In combination with a fitting webbing, the minimum guaranteed load capacity is 9 kN tensile strength and 18 kN in loop configuration.
This version of the COBRA® PRO STYLE is intended for 38 mm webbing width. The ergonomically designed brass clips of standard size support an ideal opening of the buckle. Thanks to the adjuster bar on the male part of the buckle, the webbing length can be adjusted individually. On the non-adjustable female part the webbing needs to be sewn in.
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I am definitely a creature of habit. At home in America, I eat dinner between 6:00-7:00 p.m. every day. If I am at school, I eat dinner between 5:00-5:30 to avoid longer lines at dining halls. Italy has a way of forcing me to reexamine these habits. Although I am free to prepare dinner whenever I want at home, restaurants operate on a different schedule. On Tuesday night this week, some friends and I were headed to TreeBar, a hip restaurant fairly close to my residence.
We left the residence around 7:30, a touch later than our anticipated time. I wanted to get back home in time to type up my art history notes while Michelangelo's works were still fresh in my mind from the day's lesson. Italian culture quickly put a stop to that goal.
When we arrived at TreeBar, I was thoroughly impressed. The décor is beautiful and the place is somehow homely and chic at the same time. TreeBar is not really a touristy restaurant; the menu items are all in Italian and the wait staff's English is limited. In my opinion, that is usually a sign of good food. In this case, I was definitely right.
Most restaurants serve dinner much later than in America. We thought leaving at 7:30 and arriving a little before 8 would be late enough, but that was not the case. We were a bit confused when we were seated at a table clearly marked for a reservation at 8:30. Were we going to have time to order and eat in just over half an hour? The answer was a definitive "no." Due to a bit of confusion and mild language barrier issues, we didn't order for two hours. Such is life in Italy. I consider it a welcome change and a great lesson in patience and relaxation.
All of the other patrons chatted calmly, sipping on glasses of wine and enjoying appetizers (given to us for free!) while we looked around for our waitress nervously, wondering if she forgot about us or if we were supposed to leave. Thankfully, one can only wait around anxiously for a limited amount of time so we relaxed and settled into conversation and people watching. Side note: I have never seen so many men with perfectly fitting suits. Remind me to see if tailors are cheaper here.
After we saw other people finally starting to order—again, two hours after we arrived—we ended up flagging down another waitress. She spoke English pretty well (though we did our best to fend for ourselves in Italian) and took our orders promptly.
The food was incredible. The only proof I have of that fact is that I wolfed it down too quickly to take a picture of it. Thankfully, my friends did not have my Pavlovian response to food being placed in front of them, so they took pictures of their meals rather than immediately stuffing their faces.
I highly recommend seeking out TreeBar. However, if you have art history notes to review like I did, do it beforehand.


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Half Caste explores the borderline between photographic reality and staged reality. The characters in Half Caste are about to play their part on stage; They are in a transitional phase between actor and character. The artist has played the actors role in previous work, but in Half Caste he poses as an actor waiting in his studio for instructions. In this series the artist focuses on his own identity as a subject for his pictures. The moment that De Beijer puts on his self made suit and blends into the environment, he transforms from person to character or from character to impersonator.
The series parallels to a world where it is custom to use real persons as fictional ones in storytelling; the movie industry. The actors in Half Caste get their legitimacy only when the camera is recording, the moment before and after they are just effigies made out of paper, clay, latex and textile.
The stages look like sets from the early cinema of directors like Dario Argento, Brian de Palma or Wes Craven. The set is under construction, ready to be populated by crew and actors. But in their unfinished nature they look banal, they disturb the illusion of the movie screen. It is a hostile environment that encapsulates the figures in their role. They can only await the instructions of the director.
Half Caste examines the physical boundaries of manipulation that Jasper de Beijer has been stretching for a long time. The mise en scene is placed within the documentary reality – the photographs suggest a look behind the scenes of an average workday on a movie set, a documentary reality which has itself been staged in the studio of the artist.


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On the second Monday of October 2014, Seattle became the third place in the United States to acknowledge Indigenous Peoples Day, a proposal that was originally made to the United Nations by the American Indian Movement in 1977. In the past four years, it has spread to over 70 places in the United States and has locally become a day to celebrate global Indigenous cultures.
We'll be celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day Monday, October 8th on KEXP by highlighting Indigenous musicians throughout The Afternoon Show with guest host Gabriel Teodros and on El Sonido with DJ Miss Ashley, in addition to special interviews like this one with Eileen Jimenez of Highline College's TRiO Program.
KEXP: Can you explain what the TRiO Program at Highline College is?
Eileen Jimenez: The TRiO Program is a federally funded program. Our main mission is to help low income and/or First-Generation college students persist and earn a bachelor's degree. So, we work here at Highline College with community college students so that they can transfer to a four-year institution.
How can people support the work that the true program does?
I think there is a lot of different kinds of support that we are looking for. Sometimes we need people who are in careers that our students want to go into. I'm a counselor, but I don't know what being an engineer is like. So, if people already have that career, it would be awesome for them to reach out to us and say "I want to be a mentor to a student," then we can connect them. A lot of times our students are the first in their family to go to college, so they don't always have people who are already professionals in the field that they want to be in. And sometimes we have networking events and things like that. Also, we have donors who donate money. We have one specific donor who makes it possible for us to give five scholarships to our students. So, sometimes people can help in monetary ways, as well. Yeah, there's just a lot of different kinds of ways that people can get involved.
That's wonderful, and hopefully, people will do that. We're talking about Indigenous communities here and celebrating them and acknowledging that Indigenous communities and Native Americans still exist. That it's not something of the past but people who are here, and they need pathways and access to success. What are the ways in which the TRiO Program is working with Native American or Indigenous communities?
All of our students mainly identify as low-income First-Generation college students, but in addition to that, a lot of our students have different intersecting identities so some of our students also identify as Indigenous students — and that's both Native Americans here to North America — and then also students who are Indigenous to what we know as Mexico. Sometimes, it's connecting them to each other, like a support group. We're also in the process of starting a three-part program that's called Indigenizing Spaces. So, we're collaborating with people here on campus and also the Indigenous Student Club to put on different events. When people think of Native Americans they think, "oh, it's just people who are native to what we know as North America, right." But I also have students who were really close to their Indigenous identity from Mexico or things like that. Sometimes it's [about] legitimizing their feelings and their connections to their families.
For the first event, we're going to have someone come to talk to students about plant medicine. The second event is going to be someone who will work with our students to learn about storytelling, music, drumming, and things like that. And then the third event is going to be someone who's going to teach our students how to bead because a lot of our students identify beading or all these other activities as a healing practice.
That's incredible. I don't know of another program — let alone a college — who has a program where they are intentionally focused on Indigenizing spaces to create a more welcoming inclusive culture. That definitely seems like culture work, whereas I think sometimes — especially now — people are so focused on diversifying spaces, but are not setting up those spaces to be culturally relevant or inclusive to the people that they want in those spaces. It's incredible that there is seemingly intention behind not just having a diverse community of people in a space, but how can we make this an inclusive community for those people?
Yeah, and also just helping our students understand that it's not like this rubric. Some of our students know Indigenous stories — like I, myself, identify as someone with an Indigenous family history — but I think sometimes we are so quick to be like, well, maybe there are intergroup differences, right? I don't know if when I was in college if I would have gone to an Indigenous student club, because I didn't want people to think like, "oh, she's not Indigenous enough" or "she's not Native American." So even myself, as a program manager, sometimes I struggle with, do I check Native American? What do I check in those boxes when you are filling out forms. I think that's one of the things we wanted to do with a series of events is opening it up to people and having people build community.
Just the idea of requiring people to fit into a mold in order to have access to higher education or to more money or to better jobs — and it sounds like the work that you're doing with TRiO is saying, here you can. There is access to these spaces and to better-paying jobs and education. And also we want you to stay connected to your culture because that's important. And I feel like especially right now there is this huge push to diversify spaces, but at what expense are we supporting people's identities and allowing them to be themselves in their workplaces? What are people leaving behind when they walk out the door to go to work or to go to school? How can we use music and art as a form of social justice?
I think, especially as an adult, I feel like I am learning how music is really different for everybody and that's ok. I remember being in seventh and eighth grade, and think like, well everybody else likes N*Sync and everybody else likes like pop music or listening to KISS FM which, in Southern California, is the big pop radio station. And then my mom loves Juan Gabriel. And [feeling like] it's not OK for me to show that I like this other kind of "weird" music. I have to mainstream my love for music and what it means to be me. In some ways — thinking about what you were saying — feeling like I had to be a molded mainstream person.
As an adult and as I'm working with students, [I'm] honoring what music means to them and really thinking, "well, Juan Gabriel is soothing because it reminds me of the beautiful memories I have with my mom or with my family." One of the things that I do with my undocumented students is, we have a support group and sometimes we'll just play music that means a lot to us and to our families. With our second event, we're going to do storytelling and drumming and chanting together. So, thinking about how we can be different but also be together.
That totally makes sense. We need spaces to be our authentic selves and so rarely — especially for people of color, for native and Indigenous folks — there are not those spaces. In order to have that, we have to create them ourselves. I think that's really powerful, especially as a young person when you're growing and you're experiencing college and may be experiencing a lot of things for the first time that you haven't had anyone else to talk to with about the college experience, let alone being a person of color or Indigenous person in those spaces.
And showing other people that it's OK to be your authentic self, you don't have to pretend to like this because you want to fit in, and you are valued for who you are. I know it sounds kind of cheesy, but when I think about that Disney movie Coco... I know it's like a really old simplistic way of looking at the Latino community, but I remember seeing the music on TV and I started crying, just thinking about how my life would've been different if I would have had a representation of my culture and my values on TV.
It probably would have made a very big difference in your life as a young person. There's this body of work that talks about symbolic annihilation and it's this study that people have done where when you don't see yourself represented in media as a child, the message that you are getting is that you do not matter. And it's really hard to undo that as an adult and to reframe that thinking when the world around you is constantly telling you that. And it's this way of symbolic annihilation of your identity. Yeah, it is very simplistic. And there are a lot of different identities within the Latinx culture and not just Coco but, yeah, I cried, too. And it connected to a really important piece in my heart, so I'm glad to know that wasn't just my experience.
Why does music matter to you?
I don't know if I have the words to explain it, but when I'm really sad, I'll put on Juan Gabriel because it reminds me of my mom. I was a French literature major in college, and I love listening to Edith Piaf and I love listening to French music. It just it helps me be who I am in all the different ways that I am who I am. It's such an overly simplistic question and I know there isn't an easy answer.
Is there anything else you want to share about TRiO? How can people get involved and support the work?
Especially with the political climate in the U.S. right now, I think we are trying to be really intentional with the work that we do with TRiO and helping students feel that they belong in college and that they have the support that they need. I sometimes feel frustrated with the capacity that we have right in TRiO. Like one of the things that we're trying to do is expand our services here at the college to serve undocumented students. And sometimes there isn't the funding that we need, not even to just buy dinner for the support group. Even 20 dollars a month would be awesome, so I could order pizza for those students. We've had students who will maybe get a flat tire, and now they can't go to work and they're the only person in their entire family who works. Or they can't come to school because they need to work so that they can [afford to] fix that flat tire. Little things like that really impact the grand scheme of things. As a community, if we had an emergency fund, if we had donors, or we had people to donate their time or things like that, I feel excited that the program could do more for our students.
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Conservative lawyer sues Chinese government over coronavirus outbreak
Washington — A conservative lawyer has filed a class-action lawsuit against China for the coronavirus pandemic, pushing an unsubstantiated claim that the Chinese government developed the virus as an illegal biological weapon to unleash on the world.
Lawyer Larry Klayman and his group Freedom Watch filed the complaint in federal court in Texas seeking at least $20 trillion from the Chinese government because of its "callous and reckless indifference and malicious acts."
Researchers and public health experts have repeatedly shot down the conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was man-made, with studies showing it originated as an animal virus that eventually jumped to humans. Nonetheless, the claim has gained traction on the right, with conservative media figures seizing upon it to advocate for a more aggressive U.S. posture toward China.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Klayman, Freedom Watch and Buzz Photos, a Texas company that specializes in high school sports photography. Klayman said the school closures and sports cancellations have led Buzz Photos to close and brought it to the brink of bankruptcy. According to the lawsuit, the company lost roughly $50,000 last weekend alone and has been forced to lay off workers.
"There is no reason why the American taxpayer should, contrary to the establishment in Washington, D.C., have to pay for the tremendous harm caused by the Chinese government," Klayman said in a statement. "The Chinese people are a good people, but their government is not and it must be made to pay dearly."
The lawsuit claims that this variation of the coronavirus was created by the Chinese government as a biological weapon and released by the Wuhan Institute of Virology, located in Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus outbreak originated.
"Although it appears that the COVID-19 virus was released at an unplanned, unexpected time, it was prepared and stockpiled as a biological weapon to be used against China's perceived enemies, including by not limited to the people of the United States," the complaint states.
A former federal prosecutor, Klayman founded conservative legal group Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch. He is representing George Zimmerman in a $100 million lawsuit against Trayvon Martin's family, prosecutors and others, and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi in a suit against longtime Trump ally Roger Stone.
While the coronavirus outbreak originated in China, it has since spread to more than 150 countries. In the U.S., the number of reported cases has topped 9,400 and the death toll is 152.
States and the federal government have taken steps designed to limit the number of new cases, including by closing schools, cancelling large gatherings and ordering restaurants, bars and theaters to shutter. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has also recommended gatherings be restricted to no more than 10 people.
To combat the economic effects of the coronavirus, President Trump signed into law earlier this month an $8.3 billion package to assist with the government's response. On Wednesday, he signed a coronavirus relief measure that provides free testing and paid leave for certain workers.
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are now working on a third package that could provide cash payments to Americans, small business loans and assistance to the airlines and other affected industries.
The Trump administration has sought to link the coronavirus to China, arguing the Chinese government covered up the outbreak and silenced doctors who tried to sound the alarm. Mr. Trump has called it the "Chinese virus" and Republican lawmakers have referred to it as the "Wuhan virus."
"China tried to say at one point — maybe they stopped now — that it was caused by American soldiers," Mr. Trump told reporters yesterday when asked why he calls the coronavirus the "Chinese virus." "That can't happen. It's not going to happen, not as long as I'm president. It comes from China."
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