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Heard about this 8 month old murder? I didn't either until a person who follows my blog commented on how out of control law enforcement has become lately. Problem is law enforcement has been out of control concerning those they take an oath to serve & protect, for centuries.
From THINK PROGRESS:
Cop Allegedly Said 'We Don't Have Time For This' Before Shooting Schizophrenic Teen To Death
Schizophrenic 18-year-old Keith Vidal was having an episode on Sunday when his parents called the police for assistance. Instead, an officer shot and killed their son right in front of them.
During Sunday's incident, Vidal had apparently picked up a small screwdriver — small enough that it couldn't have caused serious harm, his family says, but enough that they sought law enforcement assistance. Three different police departments' officers arrived at the scene. The first two were able to restrain Vidal and calm him down, according to Vidal's father. But then a third entered, and that's when he says things went sour.
He says the third officer tased Vidal, knocking the 90-poundteenager to the ground. The officer then allegedly stepped forward with a firearm and said, "we don't have time for this," before shooting the teen dead.
Southport Police Department, one of the three North Carolina agencies that responded to the call, has put one of its detectives on administrative leave in relation to the case, reports WECT. The department did not say whether the officer was the one who had fired the weapon. The other departments, Boiling Spring Lakes PD and the Brunswick County Sheriff's office, said that they have not put their responding officers on leave. The State Bureau of Investigation is looking into the incident.
Sadly, families often treat police officers as assistants in home disputes or conflicts. But law enforcement officials have a long history of turning heated situations deadly. Protocol for police who take out their guns is to aim for the head or chest, and that's exactly what the officer did in this case.
Too often, the mentally ill are on the other end of the barrel. Just last month, police fired 15-20 rounds at a schizophrenic man who they mistook for drunk, killing him. The month before that, in a similar incident to Vidal's, a mentally ill man carrying a shovel was gunned down by police after his mother called them for help calming him down.
"This is what's wrong with our mental health system," Vidal's mother, who was reportedly treated at the scene for an emotional breakdown, told reporters.
Two of the cops involved in the shooting have been cleared by an internal investigation. One officer, Southport Officer Bryon Vassey, remains on paid administrative leave.
Thank you THINK PROGRESS.
Police Shoot 13 year old mentally ill boy after being tased….
Published on Jan 9, 2014
Police Shoot 13 year old mentally ill boy after being tased, he was 5'3 100lbs and police could not handle him.WOW
From CNN:
Police group: Detective who fatally shot mentally ill teen acted justly.
By Greg Botelho and David Mattingly, CNN
Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina (CNN) — A North Carolina detective justifiably shot a schizophrenic 18-year-old because he believed another officer's life was in danger, a group representing police officers said, offering an account vastly different from that of the late teen's outraged family.
The North Carolina Police Benevolent Association laid out its version of what happened in Boiling Spring Lakes in a statement issued Wednesday, three days after Keith Vidal was killed.
The most salient part was its defense of a Southport police detective for shooting Vidal after, in its view, determining that the teenager posed a "deadly threat" to another officer. The professional organization represents both these officers but not a sheriff's deputy also at the scene.
"(The) detective … employed authorized law enforcement action to stop the continuing threat of deadly harm to (the officer) and others," the Police Benevolent Association concluded.
The Southport detective's lawyer, W. James Payne, has told CNN affiliate WWAY that once investigations into the shooting are complete, "All folks — everybody — will conclude that the officers acted appropriately."
Payne elaborated to CNN on Wednesday night, claiming that his client fired after Vidal made multiple attempts to stab the other officer with a screwdriver. The other officer was wearing a bulletproof vest and was not injured.
Wednesday's statements are the most detailed public defense yet of the law enforcement officers involved in Sunday's incident.
"We can say, based on our preliminary findings, that we are very confident that the officers did what they should have under state law," the law enforcement trade association's director, John Midgette, said Wednesday night. "It's a very tragic situation, but we do believe the officers."
Vidal's family has offered a starkly disparate view in its pleas this week for justice, as they see it, by holding the Southport detective directly responsible.
"My brother just needed help, and now he is dead," stepbrother Mark Ryan Wilsey said in an emotional video posted to CNN iReport.
Wilsey was not there when his stepbrother was shot but wanted to speak on behalf of his family, he said Wednesday.
"This officer who shot my son needs to be behind bars," said Vidal's mother, Mary Wilsey. "He needs to die the way my son died."
CNN first learned of the shooting through an iReport sent by a family friend.
According to Mark Ryan Wilsey, Vidal had schizophrenia and "was having an episode" when his father contacted police to subdue him so he could get help.
"He's not doing very good. You've got to get him someplace," a man who identified himself as Vidal's stepfather said on a 911 call, a copy of which was obtained by CNN affiliate WECT. "He wants to fight his mother. … She's scared to death of him right now."
The caller said that Vidal "won't take his medication" and his family has had "to put him in before, (and) he's getting real bad again."
Mark Ryan Wilsey said Wednesday that Boiling Spring Lakes police were familiar with Vidal, having gone to the family's house at least three times before.
And the family has no qualms with the first two law enforcement officers who responded — one from Boiling Spring Lakes police and the other a Brunswick County Sheriff's deputy — with the stepbrother saying they "did nothing wrong."
"All they did was taze my brother and try to get him into handcuffs so he couldn't harm himself," said Mark Ryan Wilsey, who wasn't at the scene but relayed his family's account. "They had the situation under control."
But the family says the situation unnecessarily took a turn for the worse when the Southport detective arrived.
Stepfather Mark Wilsey told WECT that Vidal had been tased and was pinned when one of the officers said, "We don't have time for this" and fired his gun.
Seventy seconds after the third officer arrived, WECT reported, citing police records, police radioed that the teenager had been shot in self-defense.
Boiling Spring Lakes police and the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office have both cleared their officers involved in the case after finding, in internal reviews, no evidence they'd violated policy or state law.
Southport police put its detective — the man the benevolent association says shot Vidal — on paid administrative leave, a step that Midgette said is standard for any officer involved in a fatal shooting. Police Chief Jerry Dove said Wednesday that the detective's record is spotless, adding that his department hasn't had an officer-involved shooting in about 20 years.
Asked about his detective's judgment in shooting an 18-year-old who his family said weighed about 100 pounds, Dove said, "Well, that's what I'm waiting for when I hear all the inquiries that are made."
Specifically, the State Bureau of Investigation and the chief prosecutor for the state's 13th Judicial District are both looking into the matter.
The North Carolina Police Benevolent Association said it "welcomes" these investigations, but at the same time that it "assigned local counsel" to look into the matter. Its director, Midgette, explained this investigation consisted of talking to two officers involved who are members of — and thus represented by — his association.
The group said that three officers from three agencies responded to Vidal's house "due to the dangerous nature of the call."
Vidal "failed to comply with repeated requests to surrender the deadly weapon," which the 911 caller said was a screwdriver, the Police Benevolent Association reported.
What the officers did next — such as using a Taser — were "authorized and necessary law enforcement procedures … to promote safety for everyone involved, including Vidal," the group added.
The detective fired after Vidal "made physical contact with the (Boiling Spring Lakes officer) using the hand holding the deadly weapon," the police association said in its statement.
"The officers present realized the immediate and deadly threat to (the officer's) life," said the group.
The pain and perhaps anger felt by Vidal's family is understandable. Yet Midgette said that it is important to understand too that the challenges faced by law enforcement, who sometimes have to decide, in a split second, whether they need to act to save their, one of their colleagues or someone else's life.
"Officers struggle every time they are put in a situation like this, because they are human beings, too," said the state benevolent association's leader. "It is always a tragedy, no matter how justified (the use of force) might be."
CNN's David Mattingly reported from North Carolina, and CNN's Greg Botelho reported and wrote this story from Atlanta. CNN's Christina Zdanowicz contributed to this report.
Thank you CNN.
From Atlanta Blackstar:
Man Who Made 911 Call That Led to John Crawford's Death Admits He Lied.
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John Crawford III was killed by Ohio police on Aug. 5 because they apparently thought the toy gun he had just purchased from the Wal-Mart in Beavercreek was real, but now the white man who called 911 to report Crawford has admitted he lied to police.
On the call, 24-year-old Ronald Ritchie, who was originally described as an "ex-Marine," described a black man walking around the store with the weapon. "He's, like, pointing it at people," Ritchie told the 911 operator. He also said he saw Crawford loading bullets into the supposed weapon.
But in an interview with The Guardian, Ritchie is retracting his story, saying, "at no point did he shoulder the rifle and point it at somebody." Though Ritchie stood by his statement that Crawford was "waving (the gun) around," attorney Michael Wright says the Wal-Mart surveillance video of the incident refutes that claim.
Wright, who is representing Crawford's family who was allowed to watch the surveillance video, said Crawford was facing away from the officers and probably didn't hear them because he was talking on the phone with his girlfriend, who was with his parents at the time.
The attorney said as Crawford leaned on the pellet gun like a cane, he was "shot on sight" in a "militaristic" response by police.
"He said he was at the video games playing videos, and he went over there by the toy section where the toy guns were," said his girlfriend LeeCee Johnson, the mother of his two children. "The next thing I know, he said, 'It's not real,' and the police start shooting, and they said, 'Get on the ground,' but he was already on the ground because they had shot him."
She said she and his parents heard him die because she put the phone on speaker mode.
"I could hear him just crying and screaming," Johnson said. "I feel like they shot him down like he was not even human."
Wright said it was "very improper" that police also let Ritchie watch the surveillance video because he said witness stories must be based solely on their personal recollections of an incident. The video has not been made public because Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine said it would be too inflammatory.
Wright said while no other customers appeared to pay much notice to Crawford and the BB gun, Ritchie said he and his wife felt threatened by Crawford, prompting him to call 911 with his exaggerated story. Ritchie also apparently lied about his Marine status. Apparently, he was expelled from the Marine Corps after just seven weeks because his enlistment was determined to be "fraudulent," though he claims it was the result of bad paperwork.
In the Guardian interview, Ritchie defended his 911 call by saying, "Even still, it's a gun in Wal-Mart, in a public place, inducing panic." Ironically, Ohio has an "open carry" law allowing people to carry a rifle in public.
During the chaos created by the police shooting of Crawford, a 37-year-old woman also died from heart failure.
Thank you Atlanta Blackstar.
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Requested move 2006[edit]
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requested move of Orange County (disambiguation) to Orange County
- support Tobias Conradi (Talk) 01:02, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
- support ProveIt (talk) 02:50, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
- support This makes perfect sense. That way no particular county can "hog" or "lay claim" to the name. Orange County, California is the most populous. Orange County, Florida is the #1 tourist destination in the world. Orange County, New York is home to Orange County Cycles – in the top-10 in internet searches.--Hokeman 03:05, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
- Support. Kafziel 17:54, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
Name change[edit]
My requested move of Orange County (disambiguation) to Orange County is complete, removing the tag today. -- ProveIt (talk) 16:37, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
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Actor Names for the movie[edit]
This was not a very popular movie with an easily confused title. They don't have to be linked but I think it IS necessary to specify which movie it is. -Mike Payne (T • C) 06:56, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
Orange County redirect[edit]
I am aware that this issue was decided back in 2006, HOWEVER, I would like to bring up the possibility of having Orange County redirect to Orange County, California and create a disambiguation page for the others. The above arguments, are indeed valid, but the most famous Orange County is the one in California. It's not even close. When traveling around the United States or abroad, I say I am from Orange County and people immediately know where I am from, no one asks "which one?" Also, if Orange County is to be lumped together with all other counties of the same name, then we should do the same for the many different cities and locales that go by Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, or even California (there is a California, Pennsylvania). Thank you for your feedback. --CASportsFan (talk) 06:35, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- What metric can we use to determine that the California county is the common usage? Will Beback talk 07:27, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- There is no definite metric other than one's common sense: when one says Los Angeles almost everyone realizes that that person is talking about Los Angeles, California not Los Ángeles, Argentina, Los Angeles, Texas, or Los Ángeles, Nicaragua. The same goes for London, if you are talking about the Canadian city, people generally have to qualify it with "Ontario" or "Canada." The name Orange County has become synonymous with Orange County, California thanks to the various television shows and the film. --CASportsFan (talk) 07:55, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- I have placed a move request on the Orange County, California talk page. To discuss, please go there so we can get a true consensus. --CASportsFan (talk) 07:59, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- But we're not moving that page, we'd be moving (or significantly editing) this page. Further, the watchers of the California page are more likely to favor that article. This page likely has a broader readership. Also, it's where the last discussion was held. Will Beback talk 08:16, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- Agreed, sorry for the confusion. --CASportsFan (talk) 08:25, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- I assume the proposal is really to make this page into a redirect, and move the existing contents to Orange County (disambiguation). I'm sympathetic to that, but I still think we need a more powerful argument than "common sense". While Google searches are useless for many conclusions, this is one area where Ghits can be persuasive. i note that many of the first 20 hits are for the California county, for example. Will Beback talk 08:23, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- I know this is a few years old, but I also really think this should redirect to Orange County, California. None of the other places even have half to population of the California county, let alone its Wikipedia traffic.WikiHogan654 (talk) 09:17, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
- But we're not moving that page, we'd be moving (or significantly editing) this page. Further, the watchers of the California page are more likely to favor that article. This page likely has a broader readership. Also, it's where the last discussion was held. Will Beback talk 08:16, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Requested Move 2011[edit]
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The result of the move request was: not moved. Dpmuk (talk) 13:29, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
Orange County → Orange County (disambiguation) — See Talk:Orange County, California. CASportsFan (talk) 08:02, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
Strongly Support. I would hope I would support it because I initiated it! Haha. Also, when doing a Google search for "Orange County" all but two links were concerned with Orange County, CA (the other two were government sites for Orange County, FL and Orange County, NY): Link. Also, when doing an image search, there are very few images of the counties on New York, Florida, Virginia, and Texas and when doing a Google Maps search for "Orange County," the map automatically goes to Orange County, California: Link. --CASportsFan (talk) 08:27, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- Keep disambiguation page. The rationale for Los Angeles occupying its spot (versus being at Los Angeles, California) is different than this- it's clearly more substantial than the other Los Angeleses, and this naming convention section gives more rationale. Orange County is different- there are Orange Counties that are within an order of magnitude of size and popularity to the California county. The naming of a TV show like Orange County Choppers shows that- it isn't "Orange County New York Choppers", after all. tedder (talk) 15:05, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- Keep as a disambiguation page Although I am a southern Californian myself, I think it would be inappropriate to turn "Orange County" into a redirect to "Orange County, California" - as if it was the "real" or "only" Orange County. There are more than a million residents in Orange County, Florida, and it is a major tourist destination; it would be just as logical to redirect "Orange County" to Orange County, Florida as to Orange County, California. Orange County, New York is no slouch, and there are five other Orange Counties in the United States. Disambiguation is the appropriate treatment for this term. --MelanieN (talk) 15:24, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- P.S. I think there should be a notice placed on the talk pages of all the other Orange County pages, to notify them of this discussion. Currently the only page which directs attention here is at Talk:Orange County, California which is likely to give a skewed result. --MelanieN (talk) 17:03, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- The reason Orange County, Florida is not as well known as Orange County, California, is the fact that people know that region of Florida by it's seat: Orlando, Florida. If one is going to Disney World, they fly to Orlando, if they are going to Disneyland, they fly into Orange County (or LAX, but that's beside the point). Although Orange County, California has larger or cities just as populous as Orlando, (Anaheim, Santa Ana, and Irvine), they are not known nationally like Orlando is and that is probably another reason why Orange County is usually synonymous with the California county. --CASportsFan (talk) 20:11, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- Don't be so sure. Yes, you can fly into the Orange County (California) airport, but that's not it's name; it's been John Wayne Airport since 1979. And on the other hand, the second largest convention center in the country is Orange County Convention Center, located in... Florida. The two counties are really pretty much on a par as far as notablitity goes. And I say that as a Californian. --MelanieN (talk) 03:11, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
- P.S. I think there should be a notice placed on the talk pages of all the other Orange County pages, to notify them of this discussion. Currently the only page which directs attention here is at Talk:Orange County, California which is likely to give a skewed result. --MelanieN (talk) 17:03, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
- Keep disambiguation page; the one in California probably is the most famous, but not enough more famous to be the primary topic. Powers T 01:53, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
- Keep disambiguation page The one in CA is not of enough national or international prominence. For example, most Texans outside of recent transplants will equate casual mention of "Orange County" with Orange County, Texas -- It's not like Paris vs Paris, Texas. I realize that this may boggle the minds of Californians, but really we aren't all thinking about you all the time. -Ben (talk) 10:45, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
- Aside from that not-so-subtle jab, if you look above you'll notice that Californians are generally opposed to the rename. tedder (talk) 12:50, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
- Sure -- meant all in fun, I assure you. A couple of more substantial points, though are that there exists a substantial population of the US who lives near one of the non-CA Orange Counties, for whom "Orange County" refers to the version in their own state. Another point is that (older?) people like myself who are unfamiliar with the recent "Orange County" media. -Ben (talk) 16:37, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
- Aside from that not-so-subtle jab, if you look above you'll notice that Californians are generally opposed to the rename. tedder (talk) 12:50, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
- Oppose There's one in New York... hence Orange County Choppers, which is not the same as the Real Housewives of Orange County. 184.108.40.206 (talk) 04:58, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
- Oppose. I supported disambiguation back in 2006, and I don't see that anything has changed. Google is Google, Wikipedia is Wikipedia. Kafziel Complaint Department: Please take a number 07:09, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
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Proposed move, redux[edit]
I see that there have been discussions before about whether Orange County should be moved to Orange County (disambiguation), and then redirected to Orange County, California. I hope this is not a touchy subject, but I had not seen the earlier discussions. The positions on the move all seem to be based on things like google searches (which are a helpful factor, see WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, but only one factor); and gut feels and "common sense," which aren't very persuasive.
I ran a few numbers, and I think they really call for the move; based on my review of these, it seems clear to me that all three quantitative measures I looked at point to the California county as the primary topic.
|Erroneous links to Orange County disambiguation page that should link to the indicated article
|Incoming links to article
|Article traffic (January 2011)
|Orange County, California
|Orange County, Florida
|Orange County, Indiana
|Orange County, New York
|Orange County, North Carolina
|Orange County, Texas
|Orange County, Vermont
|Orange County, Virginia
Erroneous links. At present (February 21, 2011), there are 22 articles that erroneously link to Orange County, where the editor who added the link apparently expected to link to a particular Orange County. In all but three of these instances (i.e. 86%), the desired target was the California county. There were 19 to the California county; 2 to the New York county; and 1 to the Virginia county; and none whatsoever to the other five counties. This shows that, in an overwhelming majority of the cases when an editor is including a reference to Orange County, he or she has the California county in mind. If the page were moved, readers of the article would be sent to the correct article when clicking on the link; readers of those 3 other articles would be sent to the wrong page, of course; but it would be topped with a hatnote indicating that "Orange County" redirects there, and there are other uses.
Incoming links. This is the first factor listed at WP:PRIMARYTOPIC: "Incoming wikilinks from Special:WhatLinksHere." At present (February 21, 2011), there are 5916 links to one or another of the Orange County articles. Almost half of them (45%) are to the article on the California county. The California county article has more links to it than the next four highest articles (New York, Florida, North Carolina, & Virginia) combined. this suggests to me, again, that the California county is the primary topic.
Article traffic. This is, I think, the best indicator of primary topic, as it shows directly what articles are being most accessed and most read. I checked traffic for January 2011, the most recent complete month, using the Wikipedia article traffic statistics tool. By this measure, a substantial majority (about 3/4) of page views of the articles were for the article on the California county; that is, the California article is accessed at a rate three times higher than all the other articles combined. This factor alone would make me conclude that the California county is the primary topic here; the other factors just make that even clearer.
It seems very obvious to me that, using objective quantitative measurements, Orange County, California is the primary topic here. All three measures I checked indicate that. I think numbers like this are a better mechanism than a feeling of what seems appropriate or seems to be "common sense". This is not a matter of Californians not appreciating or respecting other areas of the country. It's about having Wikipedia readers go promptly to the most appropriate article when searching for it, while still facilitating getting to similarly named articles in those fewer cases where the primary topic was not the desired one. TJRC (talk) 22:25, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
- You make a strong case. Will Beback talk 23:22, 21 February 2011 (UTC)


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In typical Maison Martin Margiela fashion, the house's latest fragrance offerring, called Replica, comes with a rather ambiguous branding message, which describes its new perfume trio as a "reproduction of familiar scents and moments of varying locations and periods." Selecting a vague time, place, or moment as the starting-off point for a flacon—let alone three of them—is kind of a tall order, which is no doubt why the brand tapped top nose Jacques Cavallier for the job, a Firmenich mainstay who created the fragrances with Marie Salamagne right before signing on as Louis Vuitton's exclusive, in-house perfumer last January. Cavallier is not one for nostalgia; "I prefer rediscovering scents that have become a part of us all," he says, which is presumably why each of these bottles contain not one name, but a date, a destination, and an aromatic description: Beach Walk, which is set in Calvi circa 1972, is a reminiscence over a spray of ocean, bergamot, and pink pepper on ylang-ylang, coconut milk, musk, and heliotrope caught in a sun-kissed, salty breeze; Funfair Evening recalls Santa Monica after dark in 1994, with music and neon lights and a carrousel of apple and caramel and marshmallow essences anchored by musk and amber ("sweeter notes need contrasts," Cavallier explains); and Flower Market, an ode to "a bouquet of raw textures" in Paris of last year, is an homage to crushed leaves, water in buckets, and dominants of freesia, rose, jasmine, and tuberose that mingle with a touch of moss. The fragrances are rolling out exclusively to various European locations in the weeks ahead, but if your summer plans do not include a jaunt across the pond, they're also being sold online at Colette and Selfridges starting this weekend—and both ship internationally. The Internet; what can't it do?—Tina Isaac
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This school year has started out like none other in recent memory. The fascination to quantify practically everything in education has now moved steadily into art education, as discussed in last week's interview with Jessica Hoffmann Davis. Here in New York and across the entire country art educators (well, all educators, actually) are being forced to administer pre-assessment tests that "establish a baseline" of "what students know and are able to do" at the beginning of a course. These same assessments are then given at the end of the course and compared to the pre-assessments in order to "measure growth" in student learning.
Now let's just say there wasn't any problem with measuring growth this way. Let's say that students spitting out what they "know" in a class session and trying to measure things through timed tests was actually better than student portfolio assessment built up over time. How can art educators face the current round of demands on the state and local levels and actually make this stuff useful?
If nothing else, this current obsession with testing and attaching numbers to everything that isn't nailed down allows teachers to take a hard look at their curriculum and ask about the specific things they would actually like to compare over time. It asks teachers to think about the big goals of the courses they teach and then issues the challenge of concisely putting questions and activities together that may come somewhere close to measuring what students learned.
For example, at the beginning and the end of a course teachers may ask their students:
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What I am trying to say is this: In the midst of putting your ducks in order and complying with the current round of demands related to assessment, it's important for contemporary art educators to do anything and everything possible to make this poorly structured situation a somewhat meaningful one. Let the assessments we create allow a glimpse into what we find essential learning because at least we, as art educators, still have control over what we define as the big, important goals for our courses. Most of us are still fortunate enough to not be in a position where someone in a suit is handing us a pacing guide that tells us what to teach on which date. And if that scenario ever gets close to reality, well, what can I say except I will probably see many of you in Albany and/or DC…
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These poets and their poems are incredible. This is proof that Black Women's stories need to be heard.
by beloved Michelle Denise Jackson :) honored to be on a list with so many people i love
I really believe that applying poetry, or language in general, to trauma is the ultimate act of reclaiming. Naming something gives you a sort of ownership over it (hey, colonialism did it all the time, haha), so choosing words that identify your experience makes it less of this looming unknown that has you at its mercy. It makes everything less 'something that happened to me' and more 'experience/story that belongs to me,' you know?
from the latest issue of AfroElle magazine! photo by Caits Meissner for Jellyfish Treasury, poem originally published in As/Us journal :)
Our Art Issue is packed with features on Rwanda change makers, poets you should know, an interview with vintage queen Linda Ruvarashe owner of Seventh Row store, plus interviews with folk singer Jennah Bell, illustrator Tracy Viverretta, Oshin, Venicia Guinot and talking books with Mbali Sikakana.
Featuring Alysia Harris, Safia Elhillo and Warsan Shire, among others.
had a lovely conversation with Jahan at Project Inkblot- read the full interview here!
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Carvens Lissaint , Zora Howard, and I will be performing at NYU BSU's Homecoming Poetry Event Sunday, Nov 10th 4:30pm-7pm in Kimmel Rm 914 :)
SAFIA ELHILLO was born into a family that loved words, so really, she had no choice but to fall in love with them herself. Sudanese, by way of Washington, DC, by way of Cairo, Egypt, Safia has been exposed to the many forms of spoken word, using those experiences to craft her own voice. We chatted with the 2011 Women of the World Poetry Slam finalist about coaching youth slam teams, the state of spoken word across the globe, and why her poem "Egypt" literally hit home.
To learn more about Safia's journey, take a look, then log on to Luxury Awaits and read the rest of the article.
If this week's episode of Verses and Flow were to be described with one word, that would be it. It's the best word, after a night of poets using the best of their vocabulary to express feelings for loved ones, whether they were painful, celebratory or longing. It's the best way to describe the performances by Chas Jackson, IN-Q and Safia Elhillo, who, along with the incredible Faith Evans, gave us their absolute best. Unconditionally.
Bay area native Chas Jackson led off the show, breaking hearts while breaking down his complicated relationship with a mother that made a few bad decisions. His poem, "I Will Accept The Charges," is a child's worst nightmare come true, as he explains: "There are two things in this world that should never happen. One, a parent should never have to bury their own child. Two, a child should never have to visit their parent behind bars."
Jackson, the former cast member of the EMMY-winning reality show "Black.White" expounded on a very different reality, stating that "it is unimaginable not knowing the next time you'll embrace. It is unbearable to communicate behind a glass barrier. It is unsightly to see your mother, hair braided in two French braids, dressed in a tan jumpsuit. " Yet, his love remains pure. "Mom, if you have forgotten everything I previously said to you," he makes clear, "always remember this: Though you did what they say you did, you are not who they say you are."
If that poem broke your heart, the poem that followed was designed to make it dance. Appearing for the second time on the Verses and Flow stage was Los Angeles native and show favorite IN-Q, whose poem "85," an ode to a love of a lifetime, was perfect in its pitch and performance. It's about a couple that's grown old together, and are better together. Blissful together.
"When I first saw her, I was totally in awe," the poem proclaimed. "She was classical, so I was like Yo, Yo, Ma. And that was all it took, a single look and I was shook. I fell for her like some loose shingles from a Spanish roof. And I'ma love her til she loses every last root…"
Those types of memories are literally something foreign to Safia Elhillo. The young poet, from Khartoum, Sudan, by way of Cairo, Egypt, by way of Washington, DC, remembered a time when all she could do was pray for loved ones that were a continent away. Her poem, "Egypt," was deep. In fact, according to the Slam NYU champion, "this is not a poem. This is my mother. My brother. I've spent my whole life experiencing bloodshed in theory, from a comfortable desk an ocean away without a face to put to the loss… An abstract mass of brown and bone and air that isn't abstract anymore. I don't know where my mother is. I don't know if my brother is alive."
The Egypt she never had to experience, a country where she would have spent "adolescence in a police state, women beaten in the street for wearing pants in public, and allowing their wild curls to creep out," is the same place that still causes her concern. It's that unconditional love and concern for family that fills her heart, even as Brooklyn, Jazz and boys fill her days.
A brilliant piece from a brilliant young artist.
Evans, lending the show her talents in between roles as executive producer of R&B Divas and its sister show R&B Divas: LA, singer (her new album should be ready by spring 2014), and her most important role as mother of three, gave two incredible performances ("Tears of Joy", "Mesmerized") to balance out an emotionally draining show.
We're halfway through Verses and Flow 3.0. What have been some of your favorite performances of the season thus far? Let us know on Twitter by using the hashtag #VersesandFlow. Next week, we're serving up some LA flair, some Louisiana spice, and a just the right amount of New York flavor. Also, a very welcome blast from the past. Six episodes done. Six more to come. Get. Ready.
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Issue 2 (Volume 2) of As/Us literary magazine is now available on Amazon! my poems, what i learned in the fire and susie knuckles in love are in there, and i am the giggliest and gratefulest :)
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An early morning coffee date, why don't we?
- Got to spend an entire weekend, 2.5 days and 3 nights, with my favorite boy. That's the most time we've spent together consecutively since our Europe adventures. It was much needed, especially as finals officially begin today.
- I have my first final at 1pm. I am not nearly prepared for it, nor the rest of my three finals taking place in the 48 hours after my first. Not exactly sure what all I've been doing the past 5 days because I feel like I've been studying…
- My first week of Central Park training was ABYSMAL. Abysmal, y'all. I worked out 3x, ran only 1 mile, bladitty blah. Gonna get some miles in today after my final, though. This semester, man. Its still killing me, even at the bitter end.
- I bought Starbucks for the first time in months because its finals and yes. Skinny vanilla lattes have never tasted so good as right now.
- This town is too small for this university. On second thought, my university [the buildings] is too small for this university [the student population]. There is NO WHERE to study because every library is literally bursting at the seams, along with every coffee shop. Thank goodness I got up early today, only way I grabbed a spot at Sbux. I usually go to local coffee shops but alas, there are no tables to be found at those this week. womp womp
- My managers took pity on my soon-to-be-homeless self (the theta house closes for break at noon on Thursday, not to reopen till the weekend before classes start in Jan) and just told me to work this schedule out (my Tues shift) and then I can be on my merry way home to work at the Fort Worth location! YAY! I is SO EXCITED to be home for a whole month, oh my goodness. A few days at turkey day were not enough.
Alright. Well, that was a whole lot of rambling about not super important things. Cause not a whole lot is happening around here. Promise I'm running today - promising myself more than anything, and putting it here to keep me accountable.
One last thought - please pray/send good vibes/wish upon stars that the ice in DFW goes away permanently so that I can actually go home Wednesday! The metroplex is still shut down as of today, and I'd really like to be able to sleep in my own bed sooner than later.
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Prince will now have full ownership and control over his master recordings after signing a new contract with his former label Warner Bros. Records.
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i've been frowning a lot lately, but not even under my own power.
a lot of times when i'm busy doing something, i'll catch myself without that usual bright glow in my eyes or with a smile pointed 90 degrees south.
shit, got me feeling vexed.
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— Wale
straight up, don't tell any women.
not because they're bad at it or anything, but i guess because they do it so differently than i would. some are overly forward, some are a little too desperate, & some just have no clue what to say to a girl
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do girls even like seeing dicks? or is there something i'm missing..
it turns out i can act any way i want to, but at the end of the day, i'm really just that same paranoid, emotional little boy that i always was.
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This person who could walk the line between being an expert who lives out these ideas in his or her daily life. Preferably we'd like to speak to someone who is a practicing Muslim and who grew up with a belief in the virtues and values of Ataturk's secular approach to democracy. Or maybe this person never felt like those two identities fit in Turkey… But now is hopeful that the two can coexist. How does the larger context play out in individual lives of the speaker and other Turks?
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Last week, Egyptians went to the polls to participate in the first presidential election since Mubarak's downfall in February 2011. Going forward, the new president, who will be elected in the second phase of elections in June, should look to examples from other countries that have undergone successful democratic transitions.
When asked what leader outside their own country they most admired, a recent poll from the University of Maryland found that 63 percent of Egyptians answered Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, indicating that Egyptians may be interested in learning from Turkey. Turkey can serve as a relevant model because it has successfully dealt with three key challenges facing Egypt — the relationship of the army to a civilian government, economic growth and fostering positive international relations.
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(l-r): Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (1838-1897), Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905), and Muhammad Rashid Rida (1865-1935)
On February 15, 2012, Abdulkarim Soroush, a visiting professor at The University of Chicago, delivered a thoughtful and enlightening talk about revival and reform in Islam. Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar writes in The New York Times, "Soroush has been described as a Muslim Luther, but unlike the Protestant reformer, he is no literalist about holy books." Robin Wright, a journalist who writes frequently about the Middle East, also describes him as "the Martin Luther of Islam," however she acknowledges that Soroush himself prefers to avoid comparison with Luther.
In the beginning of his talk, Dr. Soroush argued that Islam has not undergone a reformation similar to that of Protestantism. This contention is certainly debatable since a number of Muslim reformers cited the need to reform Islam as Christianity was reformed. Even Muhammad Iqbal, one of the Muslim reformers whose projects were discussed by Dr. Soroush, identified Protestant elements in Islamic reform: "We are today passing through a period similar to that of the Protestant revolution in Europe, and the lesson which the rise and outcome of Luther's movement teaches should not be lost on us."
Many scholars discuss how the idea of "Muslim Luther" or "Islamic Protestantism" emerges in the discourses of Muslim reformers, especially the Shi'i circle. Charles Kurzman and Michaelle Browers explore the historical usage of the Islamic-Protestant reformation analogy. Sukidi specifically traces the traveling idea of Islamic Protestantism to what he calls "Iranian Luthers," namely, Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Ali Shari'ati and Hashem Aghajari. This characterization is, of course, not without problems. Muslim reformers might follow patterns of religious reform similar to those of Christian reformers, yet they certainly found their own ways of dealing with their tradition. However, the analogy is not invalid, given that these Muslim reformers themselves expressed their admiration for Luther and other Christian reformers. Afghani, for instance, strongly believed that Islam needs a Luther and he might have seen himself as that Luther.
The Egyptian Muhammad 'Abduh's admiration for Protestant reformation is often overlooked by scholars. Undoubtedly, 'Abduh is the most influential Sunni scholar whose ideas of Islamic reform reached far beyond the theological divide and the Arab world. In his magnum opus, Risalat al-tawhid, 'Abduh argues that Christian reformation included "elements by no means unlike Islam." It would surprise no one that 'Abduh was so impressed by the way Christian reformers strove to break the entail of obscurantism, curb the authority of religious leaders, and keep them from exceeding the precept of religion. "They discovered," 'Abduh writes, "that liberty of thought and breadth of knowledge were means to faith and not its foe."
It is worthwhile that, unlike other Muslim reformers, 'Abduh brings the discussion deeper into theological issues. "The reforming groups in the West," he says, "brought their doctrines to a point closely in line with the dogma of Islam, with the exception of belief in the prophetic mission of Muhammad. Their religion was in all but name the religion of Muhammad; it differed only in the form of worship, not in the meaning or anything else."
Perhaps, it was his disciple, Rashid Rida, who pushed this idea further to argue that belief in the prophethood of Muhammad is not a sine qua non for salvation. Commenting on Qur'an 2:62, he rejects the idea that this verse implicitly stipulates belief in Muhammad. In his own words: "… there is no problem for not stipulating belief in the Prophet because the verse deals with God's treatment of each people and community who believe in a Prophet and a revelation particular to them. Their salvation (fawzuha) is certain whether they were Muslims, Jews, Christians, or Sabeans. God declares that salvation lies not in religious allegiance (al-jinsiyya al-diniyya) but in true belief which has control over self and in good deed."
Elsewhere, Rida emphasizes the need to combine "religious renewal and earthly renewal, the same way Europe has done with religious reformation and modernization." Rida's attitude toward other religions is more complex than is sometimes supposed and is beyond the scope of this article.
It is interesting that Muslim reformers like 'Abduh and Rida have no qualms dealing with the theological aspects of the nature of Christian reformation. While some Muslims might truly believe that Islam faces challenges similar to those faced by Christianity in Europe, 'Abduh simply asserts that "Many scholars in Western countries confess that Islam has been the greatest of their mentors in attaining their present position." Christian reformation is not alien to Muslim reformers, but one may still wonder why Muslim reformers envision their projects in light of Protestant reformation.
Mun'im Sirry is a PhD candidate in Islamic Studies at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is currently a Martin Marty Center Junior Fellow and a Harper Dissertation Fellow. His dissertation is entitled Reformist Muslim Approaches to the Polemics of the Qur'an against Other Religions.
This essay is reprinted with permission of Sightings from the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School.Comments


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This critical approach argues that the solution to the environmental crisis can only be concretely achieved by recognising its root cause as being foremost the issue of material interaction between classes in society, and not simply between society and nature in any structurally meaningful way. Based on a metaphysic of false dualism, ecological modernisation attributes a materiality of exchange value relations to issues of society, while simultaneously offering a non- material ontology to issues of nature. Thus ecomodernism serves asymmetrical relations of power whereby, as a polysemic policy discourse, it serves the material interests of those who have the power to impose abstract interpretations on the materiality of actual phenomena. The research of this dissertation is conducted by the critical evaluation of the empirical data from two exemplary Irish case studies. Discovery of the causal processes of the various public issues in the case studies and thereafter the revelation of the meaning structures under- pinning such causal processes, is a theoretically- driven task requiring analysis of those social practices found in the cognitive, cultural and structural constitutions respectively of actors, mediations and systems.Therefore, the imminent critique of the case study paradigms serves as a research strategy for comprehending Ireland's nature- society relations as influenced essentially by a systems (techno- corporatist) ecomodernist discourse. Moreover, the deconstruction of this systems ideological discourse serves not only to demonstrate how weak ecomodernism practically undermines its declared ecological objectives, but also indicates how such objectives intervene as systemic contradictions at the cultural heart of Ireland's late modernisation. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z The Barretstown experience Kearney, Peter James http://hdl.handle.net/10468/695 2013-11-04T14:24:13Z 2011-12-01T00:00:00Z The Barretstown experience Kearney, Peter James The thesis was prompted by a simple clinical observation. Seriously ill children returning from Barretstown Holiday Camp appeared changed. Barretstown 'magic' confuses the issue but indicates real and clinically evident transformations. The project sought to understand the experience and place it in a recognisable framework. The data was collected by interviews, observations as camp Paediatrician, memberships of the Child Advisory Committee and the Association's criteria assessment team, participation in volunteer training and visits to international camps. The research presents evidence that the concepts of rite of passage, graceful mimesis and salutogenesis clarify operative social processes. The passage stages of separation, transition and reaggregation can be identified. Passage rites reorder personal and social upsets to fresh arrangements that facilitate change. Interviews confirm the reordering impact of achievements in play activities. These are challenging experiences closely guided by their Masters of Ceremonies – the Caras. The Cara/camper relationship is crucial and compatible with Girard's theory of external mimesis. Visits to four camps confirm an inspirational process in contrast to a reported camp with a predetermined formative influence. 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The particular experience at the heart of this study is the phenomenon of conversion and the dynamics involved in the construction of that process. Establishing the axial age as the horizon from which the process of conversion emerged will be the main theme of the first part of the study. Identifying the 'birth' of conversion allows a deeper understanding of the historical dynamics that make up the process. From these fundamental dynamics a theoretical framework is constructed in order to analyse the conversion process. Applying this theoretical framework to a number of case-studies will be the central focus of this study. The transformative experiences of Saint Augustine, the fourteenth century nun Margaret Ebner, the communist revolutionary Karl Marx and the literary figure of Arthur Koestler will provide the material onto which the theoretical framework can be applied. 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