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Dr. Georgia Ede – 'Our Descent into Madness: Modern Diets and the Global Mental Health Crisis'
Okay good afternoon everybody, and thank you very much rod and Jeff. for inviting me to talk
it's an honor to be here can everybody hear me? okay
little louder?
So I am at least financially unconflicted
Many people think of health when they think of health they think of physical health
However studies have shown conclusively that the head is part of the body
If you are crippled with panic attacks or have debilitating depression you are not healthy
If this gingerbread man were to describe himself as healthy we would call him delusional
So, I
am a psychiatrist
I've been a psychiatrist for 17 years for the past 12 years in college mental health for the first
Six or seven of those at Harvard and now at Smith College a women's college in Western, Massachusetts
And what we're noticing across the country in college mental health is really disturbing trend
You know the first year students 18 years old arriving on campus more and more of them each year arriving on campus
already taking 2, 3 4 psychiatric
students coming in for crisis visits every day panic attacks
self-injurious behaviors suicidal ideation
professors and Dean's walking students over on a regular basis worried about manic behavior or psychosis or
anorexia so what in the world is going on and
What does this mean about our future?
So it turns out the trend is actually global. It's not just about college mental health
And It's not just the United States
Now these numbers are likely underestimates because it's actually very challenging to count people with mental illness around the world
So about three hundred and twenty-two million people are estimated to have
Depression that's about the same number of people that live in the United States. That's up
18% in the roughly the past decade then now the number one cause of disability in the world
800,000 people die per year from suicide and that number, now the number 2 cause of death among young people worldwide
Anxiety disorders also up about 18 percent in the roughly the past decade and
Dementia the numbers are expected to triple by 2050
Why why is this happening? What is driving these trends and colleges and all around the world
Do we know anything about the root causes so is there anything we can do about this?
Or is this just how it's supposed to be
Well there are some theories that have been around a long time
About what causes these mental health problems the neurotransmitter deficit theory
Trauma and of course your mother
So what about this modern atrocity might this have a little of something to do with it
You know we have learned the hard way as many other speakers have just told you about
How dangerous this diet is this modern diet for our physical health so it stands to reason you know?
Why should the brain be any different? You know so if we could prevent?
Psychiatry from going the same way. That would be wonderful
psychiatry as a field is in its infancy nutritional psychiatry, so hopefully we can go in a different direction and
learn from others mistakes
But I believe that the decline in mental health around the world has a lot to do with the decline of
The in the quality of our diet over the past 75 years, and I think that's catching up with us
And I believe that it may be one of the primary driving factors behind many mental illnesses
So can we look to the Past to guide us going forward into the future
We do know that
Psychosis was exceedingly rare in traditional cultures compared to Western their Western westernized counterparts
So what is it about westernization?
Diet was one factor, but there of course were others. I believe diet was a very strong factor
And I hope to convince you of that today. I actually believe that there are two dietary patterns on the rise around the world
One because we are told it's healthy and the other despite the fact that we know very well. It is not healthy
The one we know is not healthy for us is the standard American diet or what? I'm gonna. Call the sad diet
this diet used to be called the Western diet, but it is now exported around the world and
And What distinguishes
the sad Western diet from other diets is
The presence of refined and processed carbohydrates and the presence of refined and processed fats
Not the presence of saturated fat meat or cholesterol
Refined and processed carbs up 32 percent
Calories from sweeteners around the world between 1962 and 2000 and refined and processed fats up 3 to 6 times
Around the world between 1985 and 2010
We know from epidemiological studies
Which is usually the first step in trying to understand?
What's going on that many mental health conditions are associated with the standard sort of sad Western diet?
But these are just associations. We don't know anything about causality. This is just a hypothesis
So what did the randomized control trials tell us so just sit back and relax?
And I'm gonna walk you through every randomized controlled trial there has been about diet and aggression
All two of them
Both of these studies were done in the past year and both in Australia
the SMILES trial and HELFIMED trial
these the researchers chose to compare a
modified Mediterranean diet with a the sad Western diet and they did find
That there was some modest improvement in depression symptoms in the people who switched to the Mediterranean diet
Now this is compared to the sad Western diet, so it doesn't necessarily mean that the Mediterranean diet is the best diet for the brain?
It just means that it's better, but of course. What diet isn't better than the standard diet
you know, but I do believe that there are many good things about the Mediterranean diet I
Define it for myself as a post agricultural whole foods diet
It's very low in processed foods low and refined oils low and refined carbohydrates
So we don't know although many people believe that it has something to do with magical
ingredients in the Mediterranean diet like olive oil or nuts or
That it is really
May have more to do with what's not in it rather than what is in it, so?
In terms of the
Signature ingredients in the standard American diet the sad diet. They really are the refined carbohydrates and the refined oils
So what do we know already about how those affect the brain? We actually know a lot?
both of those ingredients are very powerful promoters of
inflammation and oxidation
All of these mental health disorders are strongly linked to inflammation oxidation, just like so many other illnesses are
So the way sugar
causes inflammation and oxidation one way any way is that it floods your chemical pathways and
Overwhelms your natural internal antioxidants tilting your system too far towards oxidation and away from anti oxidation
the way that
Refined seed oils do this the way they cause inflammation is by competing with
anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acid particularly one called EPA so if you eat
Soybean oils for example which are very high in omega-6 linoleic acid
Then what you've done is you tilted the scales because these compete with each other
You're now tilting your whole system too far towards inflammation and too far away from healing
There have been many trials
attempting to use EPA supplements fish oil supplements and such in various mental health conditions
Unfortunately the results are rather unimpressive
except perhaps when it comes to delaying the onset of psychosis
most of these trials are underwhelming
There's another way a second way in which refined foods particularly
Carbohydrates destabilize brain chemistry, and that's through this invisible internal hormonal roller coaster
So when the average?
person probably not in this room
You know eat sugary meals three four five six times a day with flour sugar cereals juice etc
And so they get a nice big glucose spike
And they get a nice insulin spike on its tail and that brings the blood sugar back down, so what's the problem? the problem
Is that insulin is not just a blood sugar regulator?
Insulin is a powerful master hormone of growth that
Regulates lots of other hormones in the body including the sex hormones and the stress hormones
So what you get is as the blood sugar is coming down if it's coming down too quickly
The body will perceive that as an emergency and release stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline and these are your fight-or-flight
hormones particularly adrenaline and some people are quite sensitive to this to the release of these hormones and can experience some very uncomfortable symptoms
You know in between meals?
Panic attacks insomnia if it happens in the middle of the night
You know intense cravings for carbohydrates irritability
all kinds of things
So is it any wonder that these conditions are on the rise around the world if most people are eating this way now
And if you're wondering you know what's the degree of this of this problem?
Just take a look at what happens to teenage boys who drink sugar sweetened beverages compared to a sugar-free Cola drink?
That's their adrenaline level spiking to nearly five times its baseline about four or five hours later
So this is not subtle and for most people this is happening again. Three four five six times a day
Now the third way that
That the modern American diet
standard to diet is damaging the brain is through insulin resistance, so
We know that people with depression are a little bit more likely to have type 2 diabetes
Which is just an end-state form of insulin resistance?
we know that people with bipolar disorder schizophrenia are at very high risk compared to the average population of type 2 diabetes and
People with Alzheimer's disease a staggering 80% of them have either
insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes
But these are just associations, so this doesn't mean anything about
Causality we do have some interesting a few studies, which give us clues that perhaps insulin resistance inflammation
Etc are playing are more than just associated that they actually may be playing a role in how severe the some of the symptoms
some-somebody symptoms might be
So here is an interesting study about bipolar disorder took a group of people with bipolar disorder
tested them for insulin resistance and diabetes the rates were actually quite high and
They discovered that in people who with bipolar disorder who had insulin resistance or type-2 diabetes
They were more likely to have chronic symptoms
They were more likely to be rapid cycling, and they were less likely to respond to the mood stabiliser lithium
Now and that's very interesting is it's just that insulin resistance may actually playing a role in the in the disease process
With Alzheimer's disease
You know I said psychiatry is a field
nutritional second its infancy
Alzheimer's disease is a very mature field a
scientific field right now in terms of understanding how insulin resistance affects the brain
So we know many of us call
Alzheimer's disease type 3 diabetes and the reason for that is that it seems as though there gives multiple lines of high-quality
indicating that
Insulin resistance is not just associated with Alzheimer's insulin is resistant seems to be a primary driving force
causing most cases of garden-variety
Alzheimer's disease and this could be an entire talking of itself and it has been
But just a one key point is that insulin resistance the way it affects the brain is that the blood-brain barrier?
Itself becomes resistant to insulin not to glucose glucose can flow right in questions asked
Plenty of glucose gets into the brain even if you have type 2 diabetes
severe insulin resistance the problem is that insulin has a difficult time getting into the brain, and that's a problem because
The brain is an energy hog it needs a constant supply. It's an electrical organ
It's very busy
So it needs a constant supply of high-quality energy and it often prefers glucose but can also use ketones, so
you know if insulin can't get in to burn glucose insulin is actually required for cells to turn glucose into energy and
if you don't get out of insulin in the cells will begin to sputter and
Suffer energy deficits and this can be especially problematic for the hippocampus the memory center of the brain
Because then that's an especially active area that it's very sensitive to insulin deficits
We have some handful of interesting studies of these drugs called PPAR gamma agonists
And these are these are medications, which not only
reduce insulin resistance, they're called insulin sensitizers, but they also have
Anti-inflammatory properties so and these are not antidepressants
But if you give them to people with severe depression bipolar depression treatment-resistant depression
They actually seem to help which is very interesting and it's sort of proof of concept that inflammation and insulin resistance
Are playing a role again in
driving the disease process
It's all very early research
We also see that these medications can be helpful perhaps with psychosis and in cognitive deficits and early dementia
So when it comes to diet and mental health?
You know if insulin resistance is an issue well, how about a ketogenic diet we know that that helps with other other?
Insulin resistance related conditions. Well of course we have a wealth of information going back over a hundred years now
indicating that
ketogenic diets specially formulated low carbohydrate diets can be very
remarkably power powerfully healing in serious neurological conditions including epilepsy and so
Why should the brain be any different into this in terms of psychiatric disorders?
This dotted line that you see down the middle of the slide is the imaginary line between neurology and psychiatry
really doesn't exist
So what works for neurological conditions that would stand to reason that it should work for psychiatric conditions and there have been a
handful of case reports and
very very small preliminary studies
On this topic that you can read about more if you like
The other diet that I'm very worried about as a psychiatrist
That's on the rise around the world is the plant-based diet
the plant-based diets of vegan and vegetarian diets
These are really there's a movement afoot
This is a really
Germany takes the lead
44% of Germans now described himself as eating a low meat diet
That's up from 26%. Just three years ago and in the United States
there's been a 50% increase in vegetarians and vegans in the United States in the past ten years alone and
veganism in particular has increased to six percent of Americans
That's up 500% in the past three years, so
What's interesting if you look around the world is that there are actually 1.5 billion vegetarians estimated to live on the planet?
But the vast majority of them are not vegetarian by choice
They're vegetarian because they can't access nutritious animal foods
They're about 5% are by choice. I call it voluntary
tends to trend with affluence and education
So how can I stand here and tell you that I'm worried about this plant-based diet being unhealthy for the brain when we have actual
real-life clinical trials showing us
That plant-based diets can be helpful truly helpful in
Metabolic disorders such as obesity diabetes and heart disease. I can tell you that confidently because
They did not simply remove animal foods from these No
What they did was they removed almost all of the fat?
they manipulated multiple other lifestyle variables often stress smoking etc and
Lo and behold they removed the refined carbohydrates
So how in the world are we supposed to know? What is responsible for the benefits of these diets?
It may have had nothing to do with plant fullness or animal lessness
You know in given what we understand about how refined carbohydrates affect metabolism my money is on the sugar lessness
We don't yet have to the best of my knowledge
randomized controlled trials comparing a Whole Foods
Plant-based diet to a Whole Foods animal-based diet. That would be a fair fight, and I'd be very interested to see what that would show
So simply removing animal foods from the diet is an untested intervention
But what about mental health do we have any studies of
mental health and plant-based diets
Well, we have a few epidemiological studies. They're weak. They're mixed. They're poorly conducted
They often don't control for refined carbohydrates. That's just a problem that keeps happening and
And there aren't any meaningful clinical trials
We don't really have a lot to go on in that regard so
But I would argue that we don't need more studies
Because we already know so much about what the brain needs we know what it's made of we know how it operates
We've been studying it for a long time. We don't know everything about it of course
But we know what it's made of so one of the mistakes that keeps happening in nutritional research is that researchers will
Choose their pet diet and then test it out on people with various conditions and see what happens
and they're always comparing whatever their pet diet is to the sad Western diet and of course it's always going to do better and
Then they can say that their diet is great
So you know I I don't think we need any more studies in order to make scientifically sound
recommendations about
brain food
so when you study it that way when you pick your diet and apply it you're studying nutrition from the outside in I
Prefer to study it from the inside out
What does the brain need how do we get it there?
So you know when I was in psychiatry residency for four years of psychiatry residency
After medical school were not a word about diet in four years of course
you know I left with the impression that the brain was just a bag of neurotransmitters designed to be manipulated with medications and
And I did that for a while
Until I became interested nutrition and but of course the brain is so much more than that it's this beautiful sophisticated
Electrical Oregon lined with these special fats, and it's just amazing and if billions and billions of beautiful cells
And if everything isn't constructed properly. It's not going to work
It doesn't matter how many drugs you throw at it, or how well
neurotransmitters are working
So what is the brain made of let's start there so?
The brain is two thirds fat and a full 20% of that is this amazing
Essential omega-3 fatty acid called DHA
The brain has a lot of protein in it of course every organ needs protine to build you know essential
Neurotransmitters and the like the brain is loaded with cholesterol
20% of your body's cholesterol is housed in the brain and
that despite the fact that the rain only represents 2% of your body weight and
The brain again an energy hog needs a constant supply of glucose and ketones to keep it running and in order to
extract energy from those molecules it needs lots of vitamins and minerals to run those chemical reactions
I'd like to introduce you a little bit more to DHA
So DHA is a really incredible
molecule it's been
conserved over evolution for more than 500 million years in vertebrates
So vertebrates have used it as is for that length of time and you'll find it
enriched in all of these special places in the body from mitochondrial member –
and and even to the
photoreceptor in the retina, it's responsible for helping to maintain the integrity of the blood-brain barrier as well, so
interestingly DHA is really critical for the
Proper development of the frontal cortex in humans, and if that doesn't go well
Problems can ensue
So what is so special about this molecule?
Well it turns out that the configuration of it is has quantum mechanical properties and that just means that
And I'm not a physicist, but my understanding is that it interacts with electrons in a very special way
In a couple of important ways one is as
In the retina in the photoreceptor it can actually
transform sunlight into electricity and
In synapses and other places in the body it actually functions as a semiconductor
buffering electron flow
It's really quite amazing
So people much smarter than I am have hypothesized that without DHA
consciousness symbolic thinking intelligence impossible and
You know according to this research your DHA plays a unique and indispensable role in the neural signaling essential for higher intelligence
Here's the rub plant foods contain absolutely no DHA whatsoever
They contain ala which is an omega-3 fatty acid, but it is widely
That it is extremely difficult
If not impossible to transform ala from plant foods in the body into the DHA that the brain needs
This may help to explain why?
vegetarians and vegans have lower DHA levels than omnivores
Another powerful argument for including animal foods in the diet if you care about your brain is the micronutrient access argument
So here are some nutrients of interest
Actually every single nutrient that the body needs can be found in animal foods and what's more
in the most highly
bioavailable form possible
Compare that to plant foods, which not only are lacking
certain key nutrients such as b12 vitamin k2
EPA and DHA
But some of the forms of nutrients that they contain are harder for us to use iron for example
So the to make matters even worse
Plants also contain something animal foods. Do not contain
So anti nutrients are chemicals natural chemicals in plants that are there for their own purposes
But many of them interfere with our ability to utilize nutrients
Not only from the plant foods that we eat, but from the animal foods that we eat along with those plant foods
And I want to call your attention to a couple of them
you know
Soy, which is an
important staple protein food for people who choose a plant-based diet
Interferes with iodine of utilization and that can impact thyroid function and thyroid function is very important for the brain
And then the Greens beans nuts and seeds
Which are really important crucial elements of a plant-based diet because they do contain protein?
They are rich in phytic acid and phytic acid as a mineral magnet
That interferes with minerals like iron zinc calcium and magnesium
Why is this important?
it's important because again remember the brain needs more nutrients than many other parts of the body because of its activity and
And these nutrients are really key to brain function if you are deficient in these your brain may not be working
at top speed
So how how bad is this phytic acid problem? Here's an example?
If you eat zinc rich oysters with black beans you will absorb less than half of the same from those oysters
If you eat those same oysters with corn tortillas you absorb virtually none of the zinc from the oysters
so through robbing your brain of these minerals and
This may help to explain. Why vegans are more likely to be inadequate in zink than omnivores
Note that omnivores are also at risk because they do eat some of these seafoods
iron deficiency is rampant and
You know people think of iron deficiency
In women in particular people think of iron deficiency as a blood problem, but iron deficiency
If you have it you also have a brain problem
So it's another reason why I think that meat belongs in a healthy brain healthy diet
But it doesn't have to be red meat by meat I mean animal foods. It could be the meat of any animal
so for example
Duck is richer in iron than red meat and oysters even more so
and when it comes to
Iron and b12 oysters are a powerhouse, and if you're if you're looking for liver is as well. It's less palatable to many people
But if you're looking for DHA really seafood is where it's at and you know if you look at this chart
Salmon is included there, and it just kind of blows everybody else out of the water
The people that I'm most concerned about when it comes to low meat or plant-based diet in terms of accessing
critical brain nutrients are women
So because women are more likely to be culturally averse to eating meat and fat that
May help to explain why?
three-quarters of vegans are female in the United States
They're more likely to
Prioritize weight and appearance over health they're more likely to prioritize animal and planet health over their own personal health
for compassionate reasons and
This is not just a problem for the women that we care about in our lives
It is also a problem for the future
Generations because women literally feed the brains build the brains of the next generation through their food choices
What happens if you don't get enough DHA early in life these are again just associations we can't be sure but
children with autism are more likely to have lower levels of
DHA for example and omega-3 sub doesn't seem to help very much
The the critical window for obtaining DHA and in young life is the third trimester to age 2?
once that window closes if
We may not be able to undo a lot of that damage
With ADHD we know that children more likely to be obese or overweight twice as likely
Than their age match counterparts, but we don't know if there's a cause-and-effect relationship
There but we do know that they tend to be deficient in
Omega-3s particularly, DHA EPA and zinc and iron again zinc and iron much easier to get from animal foods than from plant foods
there's been some very interesting elimination diet studies with ADHD putting children on a
What looks mostly like a whole foods diet they threw in some margarine and some apple juice too, but just a few foods diet
And a little misguided
But they but these studies show remarkable results they're flawed they're flawed States
but there are quite a few of them, and they all point in the same direction and
So why not try that what would be the harm?
So which diet do I think offers the most hope for Humanity I?
For a pre-agricultural whole foods diet why?
Because it contains animal foods
Which are rich in nutrients so it maximizes your nutrient availability?
And it's lower in anti nutrients than a post agricultural Whole Foods
Diet which will like the Mediterranean diet
Which will be a contain a lot of grains and legumes which and the phytic acid and so forth?
So I think it's a I think it's an excellent diet and it it makes sense right?
I mean why should this be a radical suggestion I mean
I can't understand why people think this is such a strange idea
So what we're up against as we kind of wrap up here what we're up against when I try to
employ this in clinical practice is
It's not as easy as it sounds to get people to switch to this diet. We're up against something I call the psychology of subtraction
Which is nobody wants to take anything out of their diet? They just want to add things to it?
It feels better to do that
feels positive and empowering active
If you take something away that feels bad and negative and depriving
So you know one of my students said to me once?
But I you know she's how can I?
Fix how can I help myself my mental health my depression my anxiety without medication and their all-natural way, and I said well
Let's took a little take a look at trying to get that additional amount of sugar down in your diet
she looked at me like had three heads and
she said but but dr. Ede I deserved chocolate and
He was just dripping with addiction. You know nobody says about kale, so
It's a and you know the other problem we're up against is that as marketing
Nobody gets rich telling people to take things out of their diet believe me. I am proof positive of that and so
There's all this marketing superfoods and marketing supplements and people really thought in is it such an appealing it's such an appealing concept
So it's it's a hard sell
But again so I really do think that we have all the scientific information. We need to make a common-sense
Scientifically sound about what foods what dietary patterns would be better for the brain?
I don't think we need more studies to be able to begin to act is my point and it would be great to have more studies
But we can act now, I think we need a revolution you
Know in the way that women feed themselves in the way that parents feed their children the way that schools
Feed their students the way hospitals feed their patients and the way senior centers feed their residents. Thank you


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Come spend a day playing golf on Haile Plantation's championship golf course. Haile Plantation Golf and Country Club is located directly west of the University of Florida campus and features an 18-hole Gary Player signature golf course.To learn more about all that Haile Plantation Golf and Country Club please visit their website here.


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Magformers UK is proud to announce its first TV commercial. It was aired on October 17 on CiTV at 9.07 am.
Says David Kelly, Managing Director, Magformers UK: Magformers is a great toy, which is both fun and educational. We are delighted to showcase our Magformers brand through this really comprehensive TV campaign including SKY Kids UK & Ireland, CiTV and C5 Milkshake. The commercial will be viewed by over 2.5 million kids. Magformers was launched just over 1 year ago into the UK and Irish toy markets with incredible success, and already we are seeing some amazing results. Magfomers is available all over Britain, from Hamley's on Regent Street to a Toymaster store in the Isle of Man!
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A policeman who shot and killed a man of Ethiopian descent who ran at him with a knife in January has been cleared of wrongdoing, the Justice Ministry said Tuesday.
The killing of 24-year-old Yehuda Biadga sparked controversy and anger in his community, with many accusing police of a pattern of racism and abuse toward Ethiopian-Israelis. Biadga's death led to a mass protest in Tel Aviv.
He was killed in his hometown of Bat Yam after, police said, he charged at an officer with a knife. His family had called police after he threatened his parents with the weapon. Relatives said he had mental health problems.
When officers arrived at the scene and called on Biadga to drop the knife, he lunged at them, leading an officer to first shout at him in warning, then fire at him twice.
In a statement, the ministry said the Police Internal Investigations Department (PIID), with the approval of State Prosecutor Shai Nitzan, had found that the officer behaved properly during the incident.
It said the officer had opened fire due to feeling imminent danger to his life, and therefore his actions were deemed lawful. It also noted eyewitnesses had agreed that the officer was in real danger and had warned Biadga twice before shooting.
The ministry said claims that Biadga had been shot in the head or that he had been executed on the ground after being incapacitated had been carefully examined and found to be entirely false.
Despite its findings, the ministry said it had instructed police to review policy on handling suspects with possible mental health issues.
"This decision does not take away… from the massive tragedy experienced by the family of the deceased, or from the need for a broad review of events that led to the death of a young man who suffered from mental health difficulties," the ministry said.
It said Biadga's family had been notified of the findings.
The officer had been placed on leave when the investigation into his conduct was opened. There was no immediate word on if and when he would be reinstated.
Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has previously said he would work to ensure lessons were learned from the incident.
In the wake of the shooting, relatives had accused police of using excessive force.
"When a terrorist comes to carry out an attack they say 'Don't shoot' and if you do shoot, then at the legs. But when this is a citizen they shoot at his upper body — that isn't normal," Biadga's brother David said.
His brother-in-law Hagos Ubo said: "They shot a person in the head in the crosswalk. Why not shoot in the air? They immediately shoot at the head in order to kill."
Speaking to the Haaretz daily after the incident, a witness said the officer involved had only moments to open fire before the suspected attacker would have stabbed him.
"If the cop had waited another half a second he would have been stabbed with the knife," the witness, who was not named, said. "It was clear he had to shoot. He was in immediate life-threatening danger. The whole thing happened really quickly, and he didn't have time."
The case led thousands of Israelis to protest against alleged police brutality and rampant discrimination toward the Ethiopian-Israeli community at a demonstration in Tel Aviv.
Protesters had said an investigation by the PIID was not enough, and had demanded a higher-level commission of inquiry headed by a judge.
More than 135,000 Ethiopian Jews live in Israel, most of them having immigrated in two waves in 1984 and 1991. But many have struggled to integrate into Israeli society and there are lingering accusations of discrimination.


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The Newmarket School Board formed the Facilities Committee in June 2015 to consider comprehensive long term solutions for the District's facilities needs, including both the Jr./Sr. High School and the Elementary School. The Committee will work with an architect to develop possible solutions for recommendation to the School Board. Key to the process will be obtaining input from all stakeholders, including educators and the community.
The initial task of the Committee was to interview architects for a recommendation to the School Board. After an extensive vetting process, on October 1, 2015, the School Board approved the Facilities Committee's recommendation to retain Banwell Architects of Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Based on educational specifications arrived at through both internal review and recommendations of an independent consultant (Dr. Mark Joyce), the Banwell firm will analyze the existing facilities and recommend possible long term solutions. As any solution will involve choices, the Facilities Committee will seek input from educators and the public to arrive at a final recommendation to the School Board.
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"Diamonds, Silver, and Gold" is the title track from Jupitersong, the debut EP from alternative singer-songwriter, Uyoka. "Diamonds, Silver, and Gold" is an alternative rock song with haunting vocals that fans of Santigold can get behind. The track was produced by Sinima Beats, written by the artist herself, and is a bold introduction to her signature style.
Alternative singer-songwriter, Uyoka, is an artist of many faces. Her eclectic music style – brought to life by her captivating contralto vocals – fuses rock with elements from multiple music genres to create a style that is all her own. Her thought-provoking music resonates with listeners, who join her on a sonic journey into the world around her – and within her.
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Nothing is enough!
othing is enough!
No, though our all be spent--
Heart's extremest love,
Spirit's whole intent,
All that nerve can feel,
All that brain invent,--
Still beyond appeal
Will Divine Desire
Yet more excellent
Precious cost require
Of this mortal stuff,--
Never be content
Till ourselves be fire.
Nothing is enough!
Laurence Binyon
The rain was ending, and light
HE rain was ending, and light
Lifting the leaden skies.
It shone upon ceiling and floor
And dazzled a child's eyes.
Pale after fever, a captive
Apart from his schoolfellows,
He stood at the high room's window
With face to the pane pressed close,
And beheld an immense glory
Flooding with fire the drops
Spilled on miraculous leaves
Of the fresh green lime-tree tops.
Washed gravel glittered red
To a wall, and beyond it nine
Tall limes in the old inn yard
Rose over the tall inn sign.
And voices arose from beneath
Of boys from school set free,
Racing and chasing each other
With laughter and games and glee.
To the boy at the high room-window,
Gazing alone and apart,
There came a wish without reason,
A thought that shone through his heart.
I'll choose this moment and keep it,
He said to himself, for a vow,
To remember for ever and ever
As if it were always now.
Laurence Binyon
In the shadow of a broken house
N the shadow of a broken house,
Down a deserted street,
Propt walls, cold hearths, and phantom stairs,
And the silence of dead feet--
Locked wildly in one another's arms
I saw two lovers meet.
And over that hearthless house aghast
Rose from the mind's abyss
Lost stars and ruined, peering moons,
Worlds overshadowing this,--
Time's stony palace crumbled down
Before that instant kiss.
Laurence Binyon
In the high leaves of a walnut
N the high leaves of a walnut,
On the very topmost boughs,
A boy that climbed the branching bole
His cradled limbs would house.
On the airy bed that rocked him
Long, idle hours he'd lie
Alone with white clouds sailing
The warm blue of the sky.
I remember not what his dreams were;
But the scent of a leaf's enough
To house me higher than those high boughs
In a youth he knew not of,
In a light that no day brings now
But none can spoil or smutch,
A magic that I felt not then
And only now I touch.
Laurence Binyon
The House That Was
F the old house, only a few, crumbled
Courses of brick, smothered in nettle and dock,
Or a shaped stone lying mossy where it tumbled!
Sprawling bramble and saucy thistle mock
What once was fire-lit floor and private charm,
Whence, seen in a windowed picture, were hills fading
At night, and all was memory-coloured and warm,
And voices talked, secure of the wind's invading.
Of the old garden, only a stray shining
Of daffodil flames among April's Cuckoo-flowers
Or clustered aconite, mixt with weeds entwining!
But, dark and lofty, a royal cedar towers
By homelier thorns; and whether the rain drifts
Or sun scortches, he holds the downs in ken,
The western vales; his branchy tiers he lifts,
Older than many a generation of men.
Laurence Binyon
The Wood's Entry
O old is the wood, so old,
Old as Fear.
Wrinkled roots; great stems; hushed leaves;
No sound near.
Shadows retreat into shadow,
Deepening, crossed.
Burning light singles a low leaf, a bough,
Far within, lost.
Laurence Binyon
The Children Dancing
WAY, sad thoughts, and teasing
Perplexities, away!
Let other blood go freezing,
We will be wise and gay.
For here is all heart-easing,
An ecstasy at play.
The children dancing, dancing,
Light upon happy feet,
Both eye and heart entrancing
Mingle, escape, and meet;
Come joyous-eyed and advancing
Or floatingly retreat.
Now slow, now swifter treading
Their paces timed and true,
An instant poised, then threading
A maze of printless clue,
Their motions smoothly wedding
To melody anew,
They sway in chime, and scatter
In looping circles; they
Are Music's airy matter,
And their feet move, the way
The raindrops shine and patter
On tossing flowers in May.
As if those flowers were singing
For joy of the clean air,
As if you saw them springing
To dance the breeze, so fair
The lissom bodies swinging,
So light the flung-back hair.
And through the mind enchanted
A happy river goes
By its own young carol haunted
And bringing where it flows
What all in the world has wanted
And who in this world knows?
Laurence Binyon
ROSS, with protruding ears,
Sleek hair, brisk glance, fleshy and yet alert,
Red, full, and satisfied,
Cased in obtuseness confident not to be hurt,
He sits at a little table
In the crowded, congenial glare and noise, jingling
Coins in his pocket; sips
His glass, with hard eye impudently singling
A woman here and there:--
Women and men, they are all priced in his thought,
All commodities staked
In the market, sooner or later sold and bought.
"Were I he," you are thinking,
You with the dreamer's forehead and pure eyes,
"What should I lose?--All,
All that is worth the striving for, all my prize;
"All the truth of me, all
Life that is wonder, pity and fear, requiring
Utter joy, utter pain,
From the heart that the infinite hurts with deep desiring.
"Why is it I am not he?
Chance? The grace of God? The mystery's plan?
He, too, is human stuff,
A kneading of the old, brotherly slime of man.
"Am I a lover of men,
And turn abhorring as from fat slug or snake?
Lives obstinate in me too
Something the power of angels could not unmake?"
O self-questioner! None
Unlocks your answer. Steadily look, nor flinch.
This belongs to your kind,
And knows its aim, and fails not itself at a pinch.
It is here in the world and works,
Not done with yet.--Up, then, let the test be tried!
Dare your uttermost, be
Completely, and of your own, like him, be justified.
Laurence Binyon
The Tamarisk Hedge
KNOW that there are slumbrous woods beyond
On islands of white marges, where the tide
Floods upward, blue as a kingfisher's wing,
And sails, like wishes of a reverie,
Shine to the wind that fills them, far inland.
I know that there are harbours in the hills
Amid those verdurous, smooth bosom-folds,
Found by the idle sunbeams for their sleep.
But it contents me to see nothing more
Than liquid blue of the invisible wind
Flowing and glowing through the tamarisk
That waves upon this wild deserted bank;
And I lie warm on the short, sandy turf
Lulled in bright noise of the returning sea.
O plumy Tamarisk, tossing your green hair
In the wind's radient stream, as if I had lent
Your fibres all my senses of delight,
Why does it so enchant me to have nothing,
And drink long draughts of sky where nothing is,
And tremble to the glory of an hour
That passes out of nothing into nothing?
Laurence Binyon
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Seamless Migration of Customer Traffic to GCP
Apigee Edge enables you to quickly expose backend services as APIs. You do this by creating an API proxy that provides a facade for the backend service that you want to expose. The API proxy decouples your backend service implementation from the API that developers consume. This shields developers from future changes to your backend services. As you update backend services, developers, insulated from those changes, can continue to call the API uninterrupted.
In this lab you will learn how to leverage Apigee to transparently migrate application traffic from legacy backends to GCP-backed systems. If you have completed these labs Securely Expose a SOAP Service to REST via Apigee and App Modernization with Istio using Mixer to Apply Policies from the App Modernization with Apigee quest, you saw how Apigee can help put a modern facade on a legacy backend and how Apigee can add API management functionality when you decide to modernize parts of the backend on GKE/Istio based service mesh.
In this lab you will use Apigee to maintain business continuity which allows the app dev teams to migrate the application traffic across these backends. The rewind script in the Prerequisite instructions will recreate the backends created from previous labs for you. Through the process of migration/modernization, you will realize that the experience of the developers consuming the APIs does not change.
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The girl returned home with blood stains on her uniform and was reportedly crying. Her mother noticed her bleeding from the genital area. The girl told her mother about the assault and the parents rushed to the SSKM hospital, where doctors told the parents about the sexual assault.
A physical education teacher at the high-profile GD Birla Centre For Education in Ranikuthi allegedly lured the girl into the toilet where the sexual assault happened. Police said the incident took place on Thursday. The parents have registered an FIR with the Kolkata Police. Guardians are showing their protest in front of the school. The parents also alleged that the authorities are paying no attention to their complaint which prompted the local police to rush to the spot the control the situation.
Preliminary investigation revealed that one of the teachers allegedly lured the 4-year-old girl to the toilet and 'physically abused her'.
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Our next Messy Church is on Friday 12th May from 3:30pm - 5pm. Come and join in the fun at Messy Church. We use crafts and activities to explore Bible stories and share the love of God. There is no charge. This is a family event, so we encourage children to come along with an adult to share the fun. .


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In my various roles I have witnessed a wide range of reactions to the fallout from Treasurer Scott Morrison's decision to block both Chinese bidders for the lease and management of Ausgrid power distribution in NSW.
After the initial shock and confusion regarding the effective elimination of both bidding companies for national security reasons, attention has turned to the transparency in bidding, decision making and communication with participants.
It's fair to say that emotions and opinions range widely, but nearly all parties agree the process could have been managed and communicated much better.
These processes span 12 months, are hellishly expensive and distracting for bidders and vendor, in this case the NSW Government, which base its budget and infrastructure funding plans on the reasonable assumption of certainty of sales revenue and timely completion.
Concern over foreign ownership has been common In our post war history, firstly with the US, then Japan, and to a lesser extent Korea. It fades over time. But now China Inc. is the main focus and some key sectors stand out – electricity, telecommunications and agricultural land.
This is not pure xenophobia, nor is it pure populism and politically motivated. The contributing factors are many, the issues are complex and we don't have access to all the information.
Emotions have run high in both countries. Fortunately at government and diplomatic levels and in senior business circles, cool pragmatic heads will prevail because business is business and we have 44 years of solid foundations underpinning. Australia has developed a deep bilateral relationship with China since 1972.
It's our largest export trade market (AUD$82 billion in goods and another $10b in services in 2015) and Australia has received the second highest amount of Chinese direct investment (USD$80b accumulated) of any country recipient (behind USA) and Chinese tourist numbers (1.5 million) continue to increase more than 20 per cent per annum.
Australia is ranked among OECD countries as most dependent on China by country mile, with 33 per cent of our exports going there. It's logical for investment to follow trade. Chinese companies have been seriously investing here since 2006.
Last year, KPMG and University of Sydney's research reported record annual increases in Chinese investment to Australia of AUD$15b for the calendar year across 65 completed transactions. What stood out was the major shift in sector focus from mining, gas and power in the past decade towards real estate (45pc), renewable energy (20pc), healthcare (17pc) and to a much less extent agribusiness (3pc).
So the focus is not power, telecommunications or agribusiness.
Another major trend related to this is a very large shift from state owned enterprises to private Chinese companies investing. In 2015, 80pc of completed deals were from private investors - by number.
Chinese companies recognise the demand and potential profit opportunities to feed China and Asia's ever growing consumer populations with high-protein, safe, fresh food.
We await the national register of foreign ownership data to confirm the actual value and proportion of Chinese ownership. However at present we assume Chinese investment in Australian agribusiness is modest.
In 2015, KPMG data recorded only 12 large scale commercial agribusiness deals worth a total of AUD$375m. Much of this was in major dairy processors, but also several cattle and cotton stations in Queensland and NT.
These numbers don't include private individual sales under $5m and this total certainly doesn't reflect the amount of tyre-kicking and aborted deals that's been going on in the background.
The arduous sale process of iconic Kidman and Co continues but it has brought the issue of Chinese ownership of agricultural land and precious water to the public arena and it's clear the people have spoken against it - and the politicians are listening.
Many farmers and operators don't share this protectionist view as they want to grow or sell and they recognise the need for foreign investment. Many have negative perceptions of Chinese companies after frustrating dealings in the past.
Greenfield asset investment and ownership are two different and important matters for debate. We appear comfortable with green field agri investment in Northern Australian, new dairy, meat, grains and sugar processing infrastructure and regional infrastructure investment from Asia and China.
Australians recognise the importance of this investment but have reservations about outright ownership and control of large areas of freehold land, especially prime rural land with access to water. That's fair enough, it's consistent with other western countries and indeed in China, and perhaps it's time for foreign investment policies to adapt.
As we have seen on Ausgrid and Kidman - clarity of policy and certainty in process is paramount for attracting foreign investment. Also, we must be prepared to treat American, Kiwi, Japanese, Chinese, British investors equally in future dealings.
Assuming mandatory Foreign Investment Review Board limits for agricultural land remains at $15m for aggregated portfolios and $55m for agribusiness investments, there is an opportunity to debate further changes for agricultural land.
Consider this proposition. In prime agricultural food production zones perhaps our laws specify minority investment or leasehold zoning for all foreign companies for assets in excess of a certain land size holding (20,000 hectares perhaps).
Majority ownership and management could remain Australian, which may suit foreign companies in need strong local partners.
It provides greater clarity and consistency for all concerned going forward.
This will be practically challenging, and FIRB will always want to preserve its "national interest test" criteria, but China has developed prescriptive sector investment guidelines and we can too.
Doug Ferguson is national leader of Asia and International Markets, KPMG Australia, Asia Society Australia chairman and Australia China Business Council agribusiness committee leader.


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UW-Extension and the WI Department of Natural Resources brings you several tree planting workshops happening this fall. Community public works, park employees and others should be very excited about these informative workshops. The workshops consist of classroom instruction and outdoor demonstrations on planting techniques, tree species, post-plant maintenance and treatment, nursery stock inspection and more!
Ryan Rodefer (B.S. Urban Forestry) earned his ISA CTSP certification and now leads safety programs at Wachtel Tree Science Inc. He is involved with the Wisconsin Arborist Assocation providing trainings and speaking engagements.
Mary Pederson (B.S. Environmental Science, Forest Management) began her career at Wachtel in 2016. She specializes in tree care such as planting, pruning, tree health, etc. Pederson offers her knowledge of tree inventory, urban forest management and Emerald Ash Borer Response Plans.
There are several workshops available throughout the state of WI. The closest ones in Southeastern WI are Waukesha and Bristol. Refreshments and lunch are provided. The workshop brochures with detailed information including costs are listed below.
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I have the 3 grand-girls today and Kai. Kay and Kai are leaving for Virginia tomorrow so I wanted to do something special with them. First stop through was the eye docs so Kay and I could pick up our new shades. Then a quickie stop at Pat Cataan's for some adhesive (upcoming crop). Then to Chuck E. Cheese for lunch. My sweet Mom met us at Pat Cataan's and then joined us at Chuck E. Cheese. I AM SO HAPPY she did. My chance to get a photo of her with each of her Great Granddaughters.
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|Trying out the goods at Pat Cataan's
|Singing for tickets with Chuck E.
|Games! Glorious Games! Keep thy children Busy!
|Food! Glorious Food! and no clean up!
|Cammi, my happy girl!
|Winning the mother lode of tickets
|Jade, another happy girl
|My K and Kai. Gotta snap em when I can
|Ah, there's one. Hi Kai!
|The picture of concentration
|Nan and Jade
|Nan and Jade and Cam
|Nan and Cammi
|Nan and Kayla
|Like to take THAT home (oh, did I say that out loud?) Oops.
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Her doctor did not want to steal the family's thunder, but confirmations are now coming from Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' (D-CD8) office that the recovering Congresswoman did ask for toast with breakfast on Monday.
Politico story: http://politi.co/g9sZ2y
CBS News confirmed that Giffords can speak, less than one month after the attempted assassination attempt: http://bit.ly/h8LOIc
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Council Notes - August 19th, 2014
Shaw Presentation. Laurie Templeton of Shaw gave a presentation to Council on their plans for Shaw Go WiFi. Laurie explained that Shaw would like to install special Wifi access points in various locations around Edson where the public would gather. Some suggested locations include the Kinsmen Spray Park, Talisman Place, and Centennial Park. This would give locals and visitors access to free WiFi when connected and would work for both Shaw customers and those who are with other companies through a special log in process. Council supported the idea and has given direction to administration to work with Shaw on the project. This comes at no cost to the Town of Edson.
Traffic Fine Amendments. Council gave third and final reading to changes to Bylaw 1807 Schedule "A" to update traffic fines. The Town of Edson traffic bylaw penalties have not been changed in 19 years and these increases are meant to bring them in line with other communities.
CN Upgrades. Council has agreed to enter into an agreement with Canadian National Railway Company for improvements to the Wilmore Park CN crossing. The Town of Edson would be responsible for 12.5% of the project cost for a total of $31,387.50. This upgrade includes a new warning system that detects a train's speed and proximity to the crossing. The hope is the new system will reduce the time warnings signals are activated when the train is stopped nearby.
FCSS Agreement. Authorization has been given for Town Council to enter into a revised Family and Community Support Services Cost Sharing Agreement with Yellowhead County. This is the same deal that was signed in December of 2013 and simply clarifies the funding formula in the agreement. The new Agreement is effective January 1st, 2014 and expires December 31st, 2029.
Policing. Council accepted for information an invoice from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police "K" Division in the amount of $620,559.33 (GST Exempt) with respect to municipal policing costs for the period from April 1st to June 30th, 2014. The policing costs are already approved in the 2014 Budget.
Street Work. Council has approved an additional $350,000.00 to do a full road build on 5th Avenue from 42nd to 46th Street and 42nd Street between 4th to 6th Avenues to be funded by grants. Due to the depth of the work being done it was determined doing a complete build of the roads at this time would be beneficial and would save money in the long term.
Electrical Franchise Agreement. Council has given second and third reading to Bylaw 2141 to enter into a new ten year Electrical Franchise Agreement beginning January 1st, 2015. There is also an option to renew for two (2) five year extensions if both parties agree. The agreement begins with a franchise fee percentage of 5%, which is the same percentage that is currently in place. The Town of Edson has the option to increase the percentage annually by providing written notice to FortisAlberta Ltd. The franchise fee cap in the agreement is 20%, which is common for most agreements with municipalities in Alberta.
Underground Electrical Servicing. Council authorization has been given to bury lines and replace streetlight poles in the Central District at a cost of $314,638.50 plus GST. The funds will come from the Electrical Franchise Reserve. The linked map outlines the area where the work will take place.
Kinettes Toy Run. Approval has been given for the 2014 Toy Run Vehicle Convoy to be held on September 20th, 2014. A new route will be used for the Toy Run this year and RCMP approval has already been received.
Wastewater Treatment Plant Study. Council has approved an additional $230,000.00 to be funded from Infrastructure Reserve to complete a Pre-design Study by AECOM for the most feasible and cost effective design for a water treatment plant as required by Alberta Environment.
Offsite Levy. Council has given first reading to Bylaw 2147 which amends Schedule "B" and "C" of the Offsite Levy Bylaw. Each year the Town of Edson reviews the schedules and adjusts it based on current construction costs, projects added or removed from the bylaw and adjustments to the net developable area. A Public Hearing has been set for Tuesday, September 16th, 2014 at 7:30 P.M. in Council Chambers.
Subdivision. Council has approved the subdivision of a small area from the south east corner of a lot on 1st Avenue and 52nd Street, and the consolidation of this parcel of land to the existing Recycling Depot Lot. The subdivision will tidy up the area and make the lots square. The subdivision is subject to conditions laid out by the Engineering and Planning Committee.
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Last week, a new website was launched which establishes a marketplace whereby white people can pay reparations to "people of color" for their years of oppression. The site was started by Natasha Marin, a conceptual artist, who says that the website began as a social media experiment on Facebook on July 15, 2016. The about page of the website clarifies how people should utilize the site:
I invite People of Color to ask for what we need to feel better, be happier, be more productive by posting in this space. These may be both material and immaterial requests.
I invite people who identify as White to offer services or contributions to People of Color in need of time, energy, substantive care, and support.
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POC 1: I need a massage. This week.
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POC2: I need therapy. I can spend $10 a session.
White Person 2: [posts contact information to a therapist who they have made arrangements with.]
POC 3: I need groceries.
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POC 4: I'm too upset to make dinner. I live in Seattle.
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And last, but certainly not least, we have an example of a reparation request paid in full (well maybe, we haven't yet calculated the exact amount due per capita) to Andy who requested studio time to work on his album "White Boys" where he can "vent out my frustration on, well, white boys."


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Designed to Order Interdisciplinary workshop
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Science has now progressed to a stage where we may soon be able to redesign our own biology. Through understanding the componentry within our cells, it may be possible to rewrite our biological blueprint and design human cells with new functions, or even cells not seen in nature. This is the potential future of mammalian cell synthetic biology.
The event brought together a mix of scholars and stakeholders to consider the social goods that synthetic biology technologies should aspire to achieve, and the cross-disciplinary and governance practices and processes required to responsibly enable progress.
Synthetic biology is the design and construction of novel DNA based biological parts, devices, systems, machines and organisms to address needs in human health, the environment or agriculture. As such, future synthetic biology technologies have vast potential to solve globally significant problems.
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Building interdisciplinary teams, engaging with and being responsive to different point of views and thinking critically about what the pressing issues are that mammalian cell synthetic biology could and should address as the technology develops are all key to responsible progress in synthetic biology. The Designed to Order workshop is a sound first step in the right direction.
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|Jerome, on top of today's longest climb,
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After a two and a half hour drive, we got to Fukuroi City, grabbed breakfast from a convenience store, and were at the start on time for the 6AM "briefing" -- it was the same start area as for the January 9 Brevet I had joined.
The course this time was a bigger loop that extended much further into the mountains. All-in-all it was a very nice course, quickly entering the hills and only re-emerging into the more crowded cities again after 200 km, at dusk. As with the January route, there was a return leg along the sea into a headwind, but this time we headed all the way South to Omaegasaki, and only about 30 km was ridden facing directly into a stiff wind (and at that point Jerome was pulling me).
|At the turn-around point, Umegasaki, 170 kms into the ride (176 km for us)
|Looking North at the turn around point -- not much here, but at least we could look forward to a very fast 20 km, heading downhill, downriver and downwind as we retraced our steps.
|Only 130 km (for us 135 km) left to go. A short rest, then I'll need to put the shoes on and get back in the saddle.
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I stumbled across a Fox News article entitled, "Dear Taylor Swift, thanks for NOT telling me about your politics." I really need my news app on my phone to be more selective with what it suggests I read. The article was a defense of another article that was critical of Ms. Swift for her silence during the 2016 election. The author of this article holds the belief that we only need our celebrities to "entertain" us.
Here's the thing, in a world with less on the line, I too could get behind the idea of simply being "entertained" and not caring whether or not the person entertaining me is an amoral monster. Sadly, the time of simple amusement and joyful ignorance is over.
If Ms. Swift, for instance, believes that a Muslim-ban is acceptable, or leaving Puerto Ricans to whither on the vine in their time of need, or voted for politicians who do, I don't want my hard earned coins contributing to her personal enrichment.
If Ms. Swift, fort instance, used her vote in November 2016 to help a man in office who thinks it is acceptable to hunt for "elephant trophies," I don't want to offer her my support. This is a capitalist system and where our dollars go matters. As an aside, I may need to discuss the "elephant trophies" in another post. What is that? What type of boorish and barbaric people are into that? Oh, right, our President and his sons.
There is no shortage of issues happening in our country politically right now that I find objectionable at my very core. Not only do I want to know if my entertainers support or object to what is happening, but I want to know if my friends and family members do too.
If I had a relative who claims to love me, but objected to my marriage because it is with another man, I might have to re-think breaking bread with them over Thanksgiving. My marriage, the person I am spending my life with, is kind of a big deal. As a black man, surrounding myself around people who when they hear the phrase "Black Lives Matter" feel the need to reply with "Blue Lives Matter" just doesn't work with me. It's not an issue for me that I can shrug off and simply say, well let's agree to disagree. Black men are dying without justice ever being rendered. It's hard to shrug varying beliefs about that off as if we are discussing how one likes their steak prepared. By the way, it should not be well done – that's unacceptable.
So I want to know your politics. The time for pleasantries has past. I want to know the politics of just about everyone in my life, including those who entertain me.Personally, I like my entertainers liberal and outspoken like me, which I guess in Hollywood is not too difficult to find. And yes, it is Ms. Swift's right to remain silent on issues in such a contentious time, but it is also the right of people to give her the side-eye and object to her failure to use her platform to speak out on so many issues that effect a large swath of the American people.