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A culture of abuse: How to avoid it before it's too late
By Grace Manthey
Note: this article was updated on April 9 to clarify Sara MacDonough's comments.
When Nicole Connery signed with Quinnipiac's women's ice hockey team for the 2012 season she didn't know the suffering she would endure for the next three years.
Coaches from her hometown of Newmarket, Ontario, warned her when she told them where she was going. They told her they had heard things.
"But I was like, a lot of coaches yell," Connery remembered.
Rick Seeley was Connery's coach at Quinnipiac until her junior year when the university fired him in April 2015 for verbal and physical abuse of his players. But according to student surveys originally reported by Q30 Television, students had been reporting incidents since 2009.
"It could have been avoided earlier if our surveys were read and understood," Connery said. "It's the only thing I don't understand of how those things were swept under the rug. I'll never understand that."
Every student athlete fills out a survey at the end of his or her season. After Connery's first year she said she wrote long and honest answers detailing the abuse. But after a while she figured no one seemed to be listening.
In her first survey, Connery described an incident where Seeley had the team run from the Mount Carmel campus to York Hill at 5 a.m. Afterward they had practice without an athletic trainer and a player tore a ligament in her knee.
After her sophomore year, Connery said since she didn't feel like administrators were listening to the surveys. She just wrote that Seeley, "probably shouldn't aim a slapshot at a player that did something wrong in practice."
A more public incident at an NCAA tournament loss against Harvard sparked the end of the abuse.
Seeley not only started swearing at his players, but also grabbed one by the facemask. Another coach had to pull Seeley off of the player.
"Not only did we all see the incident but my parents, other parents, parents on the other team, and players on the other team saw this incident and was horrified," said one player in her anonymous survey.
Former athletic director Jack McDonald, who was at Quinnipiac during the Seeley scandal, declined to comment on the incident.
The university hired Sarah Fraser in 2016, so she wasn't around for Seeley's firing. However, as the deputy director of athletics she is now one of the administrators who reads the athlete surveys.
Fraser is also the senior women administrator at Quinnipiac, a role designed to promote women within the school, according to the NCAA.
She said the student athlete surveys are anonymous because they allow student athletes to feel more comfortable being honest. While she said she feels strongly that they should stay that way, she also thinks the anonymity makes it hard for administrators to pinpoint problems.
"The challenge is not being able to follow up with somebody to get additional detail or verify how true something may be," said Fraser.
This challenge may be part of why physical, verbal and emotional abuse is widespread in high-level sport – and why it's been traditionally ignored. Players say that the culture demands that athletes tough it out for fear of retaliation or being seen as weak. So they don't usually speak up. This leads to a communication barrier between athletes and coaches that can leave abusive behavior hiding in plain sight.
In fact, nearly half of all current or former athletes have experienced some negative interaction with a coach, whether they felt like the coach was picking on them, or crossed a line, according to an online survey of 62 current or former high school and college athletes in the U.S.
It's a decades-long problem that has recently gotten the spotlight because players are starting to speak out.
Earlier this year, a Michigan court sentenced former USA Gymnastics (USAG) team doctor Larry Nassar on sexual assault charges. The statements from the hundreds of girls and women Nassar abused exposed the true abusive culture of USAG's desire to win more medals. Meanwhile, a book published back in 1995 explained the abusive culture of elite gymnastics, yet the governing body did nothing until gymnasts started speaking up.
But most athletes do not speak up, according to the online survey. One anonymous respondent said, "we are taught to put our heads down and deal with it." Many ignored negative interactions with their coaches. But that has consequences.
A study from 2008 found that emotional abuse, rather than verbal or physical, had the most negative effect on the well being of 14 elite, retired swimmers. The study defined emotional abuse as "sustained and repeated patterns of contact-free harmful interactions between an athlete and caregiver (coach) that resulted in emotional upset of the athlete."
Quinnipiac fired Seeley for verbal and physical abuse, but the surveys also show signs of emotional abuse.
"He even told a member of the team that she was in fact nothing to this team and that she was worthless," said one student athlete in a 2013 survey. "He told a girl … when she was ready to quit that if she goes home all she will be is a waitress and that she will have no life."
The study also found emotional abuse was the least studied form of abuse, especially in athletics. But it's one of the most common.
In another 2004 study, all interviewed athletes said their coach had abused them in some way. This resulted in them feeling worthless, lacking self confidence, depressed, humiliated or fearful.
The study went on to point out that these feelings lead to a "lack of belief in their own ability to perform," which ultimately ends up making them play worse.
Also, the "only the strong survive/no pain, no gain" attitude is a myth according to Celia Brackenridge, the director of the Centre for Youth Sport and Athlete Welfare at Brunel University in West London.
"This attitude reflects institutional intolerance for maltreating athletes and overlooks the longer term harm that can result for 'tough' training and coaching regimes," said Brackenridge in a 2010 keynote address at the "How Safe is Your Sport" conference.
Sara MacDonough, Quinnipiac University athletic trainer and mental health liaison said she couldn't comment on the women's ice hockey incident. But in general she thinks communication could be a way to foster a good relationship between athletes and coaches.
"If you can talk it out and understand where people are coming from and understand why they're doing what they're doing, then no one abuses their power and we can keep that check and balance in place," she said.
According to former student athlete Connery, communication wasn't always a solution for her. While her friends would go to other staff members to "let it out and cry," Connery said she had no one she felt like she could trust. She said Seeley gave the impression that if anyone talked it would get back to him and they would be punished.
"For me it was hard because I never let myself flush out those feelings, what I had was just bottled up," Connery said. "It's not good for your health and you end up numb. Communication was just non-existent for me."
Kelly Frassinelli, the field hockey coach and senior woman administrator at Southern Connecticut State University, said every school handles the role a little differently.
At Southern, Frassinelli's role as SWA can include sitting down with athletes and talking with them about athletic, academic or social problems. As the field hockey coach she has regular meetings with her players to check in. However, in addition to communication on the athlete's end, coaches must have a strong moral compass, Frassinelli said.
"I guess for me with all the stuff that's going on in the world I just, I've never tolerated that. I've never felt that you know that in a role of power … you should ever take advantage of that role," Frassinelli said.
She continued and said it might be easy to get lost in a moment, but that coaches have to remember there is life after sport.
"You have to stick by knowing that these are individuals you're trying to make better people so that when they leave here, they might not be an Olympic athlete, but they're going to be a good person," she said.
Frassinelli recognizes that conversations between athletes and coaches will not always be pleasant, like after a game when a player has made a mistake.
"That's where we encourage them to come talk to us," she said. "And I know it's hard for them sometimes but we're going to give the honest answer whether you like the answer or not. But we're going to try to communicate it."
The line between being a tough coach and an abusive one is sometimes blurry, according to Frassinelli. Avoiding it totally may be impossible, but the important part is the way potentially abusive behavior is managed, she said. Coaches, athletes and administrations must build enough trust to do that.
"I think about how often is there oversight, how often are athletic directors or even associate ADs watching the interactions that are happening with their coaching staff and their student athletes just to check, just to make sure," Frassinelli said.
Fraser, Quinnipiac's SWA, said she believes administrator involvement is vital to understanding the cultures of the programs they oversee.
"I think the role is knowing enough about the programs you're reading about going into the survey, so that most of what is said isn't a surprise," she said. "So if you're doing your job [as an administrator] there shouldn't be too many things there that you had no idea about because you're close enough to the coaches, you're close enough to the student athletes, you're close enough to the program from just being around."
However, Quinnipiac counselor Mary Pellitteri believes trust may be the wrong word to use when trying to avoid abusive behavior.
"Take trust and throw it right out the window,"Pellitteri said. "That's a word that is way overused in my opinion because it's something that has to be earned."
Pellitteri said athletes need to not only get to know their coaches, but also get over the possible embarrassment of speaking up if they feel wronged.
"We feel like, 'oh don't be such a fuddy duddy' or whatever, and that's when it gets more and more uncomfortable," she said. "So I think it's more about trusting yourself to be able to stand up for things."
However, as an athlete who has witnessed this behavior, Connery believes athletes sticking up for themselves can be a double-edged sword.
"They're a wuss if they [admit it bothers them] and then people pull the whole 'if you're at a high level, if you're a D1 athlete you need to be able to handle this,'" she said.
NCAA surveys mirror Connery's thoughts.
In the most recent Growth, Opportunities, Aspirations and Learning of Students in college or GOALS survey, about half of female respondents said they were "very comfortable" going to their captains with team problems. The percentage increased from freshmen to seniors.
However, when asked how comfortable they were talking to coaches about team problems, a higher percentage of student athletes selected "somewhat comfortable" or "somewhat uncomfortable."
When asked how comfortable they would be talking with administrators about problems on a team, over half were "somewhat uncomfortable" or "very uncomfortable" across all years.
It was Connery's captain, Morgan Fritz-Ward who faced discomfort and requested a meeting with administration. She and her team decided they were not going to let any more athletes suffer from their coach's behaviors.
And once Seeley was gone, Connery, in her senior season found her love for hockey again.
"The coaches let me be a little more like, free, the way that I am," said Connery. "And all the love poured in again."
While the new head ice hockey coach and assistant under Seeley, Cassandra Turner, was not someone the players felt like they could go to in their time of suffering, Connery found a way to enjoy her senior season.
"In order for you to do better you have to forgive," Connery said. "She's very good at communicating with people … She's very good at understanding people's minds. I trusted that she could do well, could teach us well, could be a good coach and everything."
MacDonough, the Quinnipiac trainer and mental health liaison, said that it's important for coaches to have a healthy line of communication between them and their athletes and to not let too many personal feelings get in the way.
"We have a duty to check those behaviors, check our emotions at the door. If our student athlete isn't performing well I do think that we have to hold them accountable and say 'hey you're slipping, what's going on,'" she said.
So while student athletes can sometimes feel like no one is listening, experts say there is a way of managing problems between athletes and coaches. Abuse in women's sports can be avoided with communication, accountability, respect and self esteem.
From Connery's point of view, "you've gotta really value yourself … and know what you deserve and the kind of way you should be treated … put that value up higher."
Reporter's note: In the interest of full disclosure, Grace Manthey is a student athlete at Quinnipiac on the Acrobatics and Tumbling team.


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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The morning didn't go quite as planned for a student at an Opa-locka charter high school as he ended up in cuffs in the back of a police cruiser.
Just before 8:30 a.m., two 18-year-old students at North Park High got into an argument in the parking lot in front of the school at 3400 NW 135th Street, according to Opa-locka police Chief James Dobson.
During the fight, one of the students pulled a knife and stabbed his classmate.
The injured student was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital where he was listed as stable.
His attacker was taken into custody by school security and held for the police who also confiscated his four-inch pocket knife.
North Park High is a fairly new charter school in the county and this is the first time there has been any trouble there.
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Grangetown completed their home fixtures in Mizuno Premier League 2 with a comfortable 53-38 victory over the division's bottom club Chester on Sunday.
It was Grangetown's eighth win from their nine home games, with the only defeat coming at the hands of a Hucclecote side which included several players from the Severn Stars Super League squad.
Hucclecote (from Gloucestershire) and Hertfordshire-based Turnford had been runaway leaders for virtually the whole campaign, but both have faltered recently – quite possibly due to players becoming unavailable due to Super League commitments. Grangetown, however, have maintained their run of fine form and with two games to be rearranged, they are closing in on the leading pair, who both have only one remaining fixture.
Although Grangetown will have to travel for those two outstanding games, their opponents (Chester on 8 April and Clan on 15 April) currently fill the division's bottom two places. Both teams will present a difficult challenge on their home court, but the simple equation is that two wins would guarantee Grangetown's promotion into Prem 1.
To be ranked amongst the country's top ten clubs would be a remarkable achievement, especially given the fact that Grangetown played in Prem 3 last season, after having been cruelly relegated through the 2015/16 post-season play-offs when no fewer than five of the squad were unavailable due to international call-ups.
A new-look 2016/17 squad containing a blend of experience and a number of young faces gelled extremely well, and the club earned promotion at the first time of asking, albeit by the narrowest of margins in an incredibly tense end to the season.
With an almost unchanged squad for 2017/18, the realistic aim would surely have been to consolidate a place in the competition's second tier, but after two defeats in their opening four games, Grangetown have suffered just one further reverse. They have arguably the fittest squad in the division – testament to an intense pre-season programme– and that strength, coupled with an unwavering determination has served the players well in a number of close games.
Katie Walton and Genevieve Slater are team mates at club and international level, and with Team Northumbria squad member Jenny Mrozik alongside the Ireland duo, Grangetown has a defence to rival any club in Prem 2.
Vicky Rees and Ria Small are two of the most experienced members of the squad, and both have led by example throughout the season. Both had fine games against Chester, with club captain Vicky rightly being named Player of the Match for an all-action performance (in attack but even more notably in defence) in the Centre role.
Abbie LeBrocq perhaps typifies Grangetown's development as much as any other player. Since her arrival at the start of last season, Abbie has grown so much in strength and confidence. She is a real presence in the attacking circle and her 100% shooting success in yesterday's brilliant opening quarter was another reflection of just how far she has progressed.
Harriet Baxter and Tasha Grylls have made telling contributions at Goal Attack, but the arrival of Ash Neal has made a very real difference. The Australian, who is an integral member of Team Northumbria's Super League squad, is a superb athlete – skilful, incredibly quick, but calm and assured under the net. She has fitted seamlessly into the squad, and her presence on court seems to have a positive impact on all the players around her.
Netball is very much a squad game, and although they have not been regulars in the starting seven, Kate Hill and Hannah Raine have done really well whenever they've had the opportunity, and another of Grangetown's seemingly endless conveyor belt of talented teenagers, Catherine Hewitt, gained some invaluable experience against Chester. Catherine is still only 15, but she showed no outward sign of nerves during an impressive fifteen minutes on court.
The result of Sunday's clash with Chester was never in doubt after Grangetown raced into a 10-3 lead after just seven minutes. That advantage had extended to 20-7 at the end of a ruthless opening period, but to their credit the visitors battled hard, and lost the remaining three quarters by a total of just two goals.
Chester played some excellent netball in patches, deservedly won the second quarter by four goals, but made a few too many unforced errors as they tried to find a way back into the game. They looked particularly strong at each end of the court, their Goal Shooter and Goal Keeper both having really strong games.
But it was Grangetown, superbly led by Vicky Rees, who claimed the points. Having gained such a big lead so early in proceedings, Head Coach Gel Williams was able to shuffle her pack and give the whole squad some time on court; and although unable to replicate the level of first-quarter dominance, this was still an impressive squad performance, as well as being ideal preparation for those two crucial remaining fixtures.
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Not all of them. Just a couple need to "grab some pine, Meat!®™" as Giants broadcaster and former pitching ace Mike Krukow is wont to yelp.
Baseball is business, I know, I know. Advertising has been around baseball since a baseball has been round.
We're a generation removed, I expect, from advertising splashed across jerseys, the way professional soccer does now.
Advertising pays the bills.
The Budweiser®™pitch right before the first pitch of a Giants radio broadcast, the one in which play-by-play guy Dave Flemming is contractually obligated to exhort, "Grab some Buds©®?" Clever! I never do — grab Buds™®© or buds — but I can't forget that slogan.
And every change of pitchers during the broadcast of a Giants game has come with the slogan all Giants could recite automatically: "When it's time for a change, think SpeeDee®™ Oil Change and Tuneup."
My really bad impersonation of living legend Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully is of him saying "Farmer John™® hot dogs!" one of my earliest baseball memories.
From long before the first pitch to the final out, sponsors rule, promoting the National Anthem, the possible fifth-inning grand slam, the seventh-inning stretch, the eighth-inning summary, and selected great plays, stolen bases, saves, big hits and fan foul-ball flubs.
Most advertising fits the grain and rhythm of baseball, even when it's aggravating, such as when Krukow, pitching Coors Light©®, must always say, in his strangely invented way, the slogan: "The World's Most Rrrrrrrrrrrr(r's rolling here)eeeefreshing beeeyur!®™©"
Or when Hall of Fame´™ play-by-play radio guy Jon Miller exaggerates his delight for the cheap beer and burgers he must promote, signaling his dislike for having to pitch the products at all.
I take these as part of the game. Most ads — and this is the discomfiting truth about advertising — are just so much white noise between innings. I don't really even hear them.
Two ads, though, stop me dead, and not in a good way.
- One is Sports Authority®™. It's not their commercials. They're fine, I suppose — I couldn't tell you what they're about, sports stuff probably.
It's the slogan I abhor: "All Things Sporting Good.®™"
( … )
What does that even mean?!
Four words clumped together have rarely proved so inane.
No one uses "sporting goods" anyway, except to describe those kinds of stores. Nor does anyone, under any circumstance, say "sporting good," singular. At all. Ever.
Perhaps "sporting" here is a verb, from the meaning "to wear or display." Perhaps it means, "all our merchandise symbolizes the active lifestyle of sports," or "The stuff you buy here conveys a sense of well-being and goodwill to all."
Perhaps not.
This is classic sloganeering by committee. It had better be, because if this is the work of a highly-compensated advertising firm, the apocalypse is already upon us.
More likely a bunch of Sports Authority®™ decision makers sat around a big table in their big board room.
"The kids these days (10 years ago) say, 'It's all good!' one of them probably said. "How about, 'It's all sporting good?"
The discussion went roundabout, erupting into argument and limp threats until, like your typical organizational mission statement, saying everything and nothing at once, this dumb slogan finally issued forth.
Why a slogan at all? Doesn't Sports Authority®™ kind of say it?
The fact that I'm worrying about the slogan defeats its purpose as a slogan. I'm so slowed down by it that now I bear ill will toward the store.
- The other grating ad is for the Dolan Law Firm — actual slogan, "The best lawyers we hope you'll never need™®" — a radio commercial that airs only during games. Since I began writing this post it has mushroomed into an awkward advertising campaign; make that mushroom cloud, complete with toxic fallout.
The original commercial was meant to leverage our collective love for baseball as analogy to tout the powerful benefit of hiring these lawyers.
Instead, it's a 30-second long passive-aggressive melodrama that vomits a little on the National Pastime.
It's a conversation, and you know how natural those sound in commercials! It could be principal attorney Christopher Dolan and his "daughter" had never met before taping. "Daughter" could be a 60-year-old voiceover guy.
(Imagine Wally Cox as Underdog as Christopher Dolan begins:) "Audrey has a question:"
"What does batting .300 mean?" Audrey asks.
— I'll stop here. This sounds like a teachable moment, daughter to father. Dad gets to explain baseball; he gets to say something like, "It means for every 10 times a batter comes up to the plate, he gets a hit three of those times. The best hitters usually hit about .300. One of the best there was, a man named Ted Williams, said the hitting a baseball was the hardest thing to do in sports."
But Christopher Dolan doesn't say that.
He says, his tone wheezy and dismissive, "That means they only get a hit one-third of the time."
"How come they get paid so much money for only hitting the ball one-third of the time," the daughter asks. Which, of course, is the first thing a little kid in this conversation is going to say.
— I'm stopping here again. Fair question! I'd answer, "They do make a lot of money, don't they? That's because a lot of people want to see them play, and they pay money for it. Maybe doctors and people who do important and useful things for other people should get paid that much, but that's not how the world works."
Christopher Dolan doesn't say that. He pauses for the briefest moment, and then, channeling his most petulant Wally Cox, says,
"I don't know, dear …"
He then quickly gets to the pitch, " … but at the Dolan Law Firm, we've been hitting over .900 for more than 20 years …"
The commercial ends with the daughter saying, "Go San Francisco, knock it out of the park!"
(… )
Again, what does that even mean? Hey, whole team (or whole city?), generic baseball phrase I just learned!
No no no no no! Sorry, dad and "daughter," you don't get it both ways. You don't get to poop on baseball and more than a century of statistical constancy for your own financial gain, and then try to kiss and make up with the game. And you don't get your "daughter" to clean up the mess with a hackneyed cheer for San Francisco.
This makes fine dinner-table talk. I think players make too much money — so do lawyers — but this is not the way to win the hearts of Giants fans who might need you to chase their ambulance.
A better commercial would be:
"Daddy, who's Willie Mays?"
"He's my favorite player (see? Winning hearts!), the best ever!"
"It says here he was an All-Star™® for 20 years."
"That's right dear, and that's how long we've been all-star attorneys for our clients!"
Harmless, hardly unique, but it would do the job: "We're lawyers, we like baseball, you like baseball, and in that convivial spirit, we want you to hire us."
Another Dolan commercial explains "we're all terribly excited" for the Giants' chances this season, in a way that doesn't sound excited at all.
Dolan Law Firm has apparently taken some heat for the first commercial, not for my problem with it, but about the math. The first two commercials have disappeared and two new have replaced them, the first a father-daughter spot explaining that getting a hit one-third of the time is a .333 average, not .300.
After which "Audrey" says, "What?! I don't understand that! That's confusing!"
Christopher Dolan follows: "So there you go, everybody. Please stop sending me emails. What's important is that the Orange and Black win." He sounds as if he really couldn't care less.
Dolan follows this with another game-only, cringe-worthy commercial in which he sounds peeved he can't say "Giants" in his paeans to the team, because as a legal expert he knows the team owns rights to the name. He says "Giants" several times but the word is bleeped just as he begins the soft "g" sound. He finishes with "make sure there is a giant win today." (See what he did there?)
(Here I will type, for the first and last time in my life, rofl.)
Fall will soon become winter. The Giants continue their improbable quest for a third World Series win in five years. Whatever happens, we will rethink and rest and heal over winter, and get ready to try again come spring, players and advertisers alike. Grab some buds.As his daughter might tell him, let it go, let it gooooooo.
We're all terribly excited.


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TAY NINH (VNS) — Five Vietnamese girls were returned to Viet Nam on Thursday by Cambodia's Ministry of Social Issues, Veterans and Adolescents.
Promised jobs selling coffee, the girls were instead sold to brothels in Cambodia, according to the police.
Cambodian police found the girls in October 2013, following which they were handed over to the Ministry of Social Issues, Veterans and Adolescents. Representatives from Viet Nam's Department of Immigration and Tay Ninh's Police Department met them at the Moc Bai International Border Gate in Tay Ninh on Thursday.— VNS


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Jane Harper is coming to AWF this year. I will miss her session as it clashes with mine but her debut novel is a top read. Now based in Melbourne, Jane has worked as a print journalist in both the UK (her first home) and Australia. The Dry won the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an an unpublished manuscript and was an international bestseller. Her second novel, Force of Nature, awaits me – I got it in the revitalised Paradox Books in Devonport this week.
This is what Ron Rash says on the back cover: 'The Dry is a marvelous novel that once begun is hard to put down, and once finished even harder to forget'.
Federal Agent Aaron Falk goes back to his small home town after the shocking murder of his childhood best friend and his family. He enters a spider's web of suspicion and recrimination that is sticky with revelation and side swerves. To be snared in a weblike plot, with no idea of how things will unfold, with writing that is both fluid and evocative, is utterly satisfying. On the one hand you get a thrilling story, but on the other hand, you move deep into the humanity of place. People struggle to survive; they mourn, they fight, they deceive, they aid and they love.
I read this book in one afternoon and for the rest of the day it stuck to everything I did. Highly recommended.
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Team Secret have acquired a Fortnite roster - and the team includes 13-year-old UK player Kyle "Mongraal" Jackson.
Mongraal, hailing from Sidcup, is one of four players in the roster which also includes Mats "Sak0ner" Sorum and Michael "VNHL" Gustad from Norway, and Domeniks "Domentos" Bunts from Latvia.
Team Secret said in an announcement video: "As the Fortnite tournament scene starts heating up, we are bringing the best that Europe has to offer."
Mongraal told ESPN: "I'm over the moon. I can't believe I've got this opportunity. I'm very excited to start playing at a professional level properly with Team Secret.
"It's like a dream come true."
Fortnite is of course the game of the moment. As we write this, a SuperData report has landed in our inbox titled: 'Fortnite earns $223m in March on all platforms, is largest free-to-play console game of all time.'
The game has overtaken fellow battle royale title PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in terms of revenue generated and monthly active users across all platforms. That's not to mention the first Fortnite esports scholarship and all that hype when Ninja played with Drake.
But it's still early days for Fortnite in the world of esports. There's just been a Fortnite tournament in Las Vegas (more on that in another article on Esports News UK coming soon), but we're yet to get a big esports announcement from developer Epic Games.
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"Our guess is that Epic Games is going to announce something and get behind the esports scene," Team Secret CEO John Yao told ESPN. "And so, before everybody else jumps in and all the good players get signed up, we wanted to make a preemptive strike."
"Fortnite is competitive, and I think there's a lot of room for it to be established on the scene."
While Fortnite has a 12 age rating, this could change for esports tournaments and Mongraal may be restricted.
Saying that, this age is not unusual as such: the UK has other young esports professionals including Vainglory player MrKcool, who was also 13 years old when he started playing in the big tournaments, and Rocket League player Scrub Killa who was 12 when he won his first esports tournament, according to Liquipedia.
It's great to see a new wave of talented homegrown players emerging and we can't wait to see how they perform and help put UK esports on the map in the coming years.
We'll leave you with a clip of Mongraal playing Fortnite on Twitch:


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Action Alert | The SOLID Summit Misses the Mark
Legal industry management consultancy Janders Dean is "gutted" by the gender imbalance of the speakers at Summit On Legal Innovation and Disruption (#SOLID17). 4 women speakers out of 29 doesn't seem so SOLID to us.
Conference newcomer #SOLID17 fails on speaker gender balance. #genderavenger #LegalIT @TheCowenGroup https://twitter.com/jandersdean/status/905858752317976578


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The Fitbit Zip usually uses a tri-axis accelerometer to record aerobic and simple steps. The Zip's screen illustrates calories, distance, and steps resets at midnight. In fact, this wireless activity tracker syncs with your account for every 15 minutes and acts as a lifesaver, especially if you don't have enough time to plug the device into your computer.
For additional information about your movement, this bite-sized, step-counter, in combination with the mobile application can also record the total number of calories you've consumed or burned. The recording capacity of this pedometer usually lasts for 30 days, and counts an indefinite number of steps at the same time.
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The most remarkable feature of the Fitbit Zip is it's free mobile application. You can get the most out of the Fitbit Zip's aspects if you have a 3rd generation or an iOS device with an NFC capable device. With a simple tap, you can sync in your stats to your phone.
Fitbit models are considered as the best pedometers, if you have a viable streak. You can match your progress with friends or contend against yourself. If in case, you're running behind, this fitness app calculates the total number of steps you need to take to achieve your goal.
Fitbit make an incomparable profile according to your age, weight, and height. This personal data assists the Fitbit Zip, calculates how many calories, steps you've taken, and you've need to burn each day. Everyone's body is quite different, the more custom-made a fitness tracker can be the better.
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The Zip characterized as a tiny, light-weight device (specifically weighing 0.28 ounces, or 8 grams), and with a smooth, glossy touch. You can effortlessly slip-up the Zip in your pocket and forget it's there. You can also set the Zip in the provided clip, and use it like a pedometer on your waistband. It is available in various tones such as black, blue, lime green, pink, and white.
The screen is so easy to read, but it does not light-up, so you're unable to check your steps in the dark. The Zip monitors have three simple metrics: steps engaged, calories burned, and distances walked. Contrast with its more exclusive counterpart the Fitbit One, the Zip does not monitor hours spent or floors climbed.
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Similar with all Fitbit devices, the Zip tries to inspire you to become more dynamic. With this device, you can notice silly or smiley faces that vary depending on how lively you've been. This app will also allow you to take several steps if you are closer to your everyday goal, which may provide you the extra push you may need.
You can connect with your friends who also have a Fitbit through this app or Fitbit account, and perceive how your activities compare to others, which may also inspire you to intensify the count of your steps. You can produce "badges" that reflect on your account when once you achieve the fitness milestones, such as a scheme for getting 50 "lifetime" miles.
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Positive and Negative Aspects of the Product
Positive Points
- The Bluetooth syncs wirelessly and routinely – The Fitbit Zip designs with a Bluetooth USB dongle that automatically plugs into your computer. It will upload spontaneously your latest activity and stats into the Fitbit app virtual dashboard.
- Fitbit App is improbable – Once you have started set-up your account, there are all types of parameters that you can measure and monitor. Some of the gauges on the dashboard calculate calories, distance, and steps.
- There is no off button – This will make sure that it counts every step you yield; and you won't even unintentionally turn it off. Plus, the battery will last 6 months accurately. So, you actually could forget about it and it would keep monitoring you.
Negative Points
- The battery is not rechargeable – Specifically, it uses a 3V-coin battery, which is simple to find. The Zip activity tracker will last 6 months, while the rechargeable batteries found in the other wireless trackers need to be charged every couple of days.
- It is not waterproof – Though this unit seems to be a waterproof still, it is water-resistant. It means that you could get it wet, but you should avoid it in more than 10 meters of water, or for a long period of time.
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I've think of the Fitbit device is one the best pedometers for a reason. Pedometers have been extensively comparable over their history on the market nowadays, so this could be an app that serves as a promoter and particular trainer, which is a revitalizing addition. You're daily activities become more motivating as you try to achieve your goal every day. Its look and the infinite step-counting feature are absolutely cool, and make every count of your steps accurately.


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"We do this, first of all, because it is right that we should. We do it also because helping some will increase the prosperity of all. Our fight against poverty will be an investment in the most valuable of our resources — the skills and strength of our people. It strikes at the causes, not just the consequences of poverty."
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jan. 8, 1964
It was in Lyndon Johnson's first State of the Union address 50 years ago today that he proposed the "War on Poverty."
The War on Poverty was, as NPR observes, a personal thing for Johnson. He had been vice president under one of the wealthiest men ever to serve as president, but he had been brought up in poverty. He had known — firsthand — the "constant moments of humiliation ... and insecurity" of penury.
As Susan Page writes in USA Today, what followed was an "historic rush of legislation" — Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, food stamps.
It was a noble idea — still is, really, this idea of eliminating poverty. It was filled with good intentions, but, after half a century (or, since the Economic Opportunity Act wasn't really enacted until August 1964, nearly half a century), it is appropriate to ask a few questions about this war.
Like, what is (or was) the definition of victory?
We ask that of any conventional war that is proposed because we know a lot of money will be spent on it, but I cannot recall hearing such a definition expressed by any of the politicians who supported the legislation. Trillions of dollars have been spent in this war, but the poverty rate appears to be virtually unchanged since the legislation's passage.
At the time that Johnson proposed the War on Poverty, the poverty rate was in decline, falling from more than 22% in 1959 to around 19% in 1964. In its first year of existence, the Economic Opportunity Act may have contributed to the further decline of the poverty rate to around 15%, but it has leveled off and remained in that range ever since. At times, it has been a little lower, at other times it has been a little higher, but it has been consistent.
If the objective of the War on Poverty was to eliminate poverty, it has failed.
Victory (of a sort) probably could have been declared in 1965, but, after all these years, with the poverty rate remaining roughly the same, it would be hard to say the War on Poverty has been a success. In fact, it would be difficult to argue with Ronald Reagan's assertion that poverty won.
Bill Clinton famously declared 18 years ago that the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 "end[ed] welfare as we know it."
From the perspective of 2014, it is clear that welfare "as we [knew] it" did end at that time, but the beast wasn't slain. Not really. A much larger beast emerged to take its place.
Which brings me to another question:
Did the War on Poverty succeed?
I'm inclined to say "no" because poverty has not been eliminated. Even if one was willing to accept the idea that poverty will always be with us, that the idea of eliminating it entirely was unrealistic and that partial elimination of poverty was an acceptable outcome, the War on Poverty still came up short because it created new, unexpected problems.
But, of course, victory was never defined.
It would be wise for us as a nation to ask ourselves some hard questions. I assume that most of us would like to see the ills of the world eliminated — but we need to act responsibly, honestly evaluate what has been done so we can have an idea what works and what doesn't and then focus on those areas where further progress can be made.
We can't continue to act as if there is an unending supply of money to throw at our problems, not with the economy still as shaky as it was when the current administration took over five years ago.
If any attention had been paid to encouraging job creation and putting Americans back to work, there might be more of a revenue reserve in the federal coffers, but unemployment has been permitted to languish unattended so the prudent thing to do is to recognize the economic limitations we face and make realistic, if modest, goals if we are going to entertain the idea of pursuing LBJ's dream in the 21st century.
As contradictory as it sounds, we have to remember that there was more prosperity in America when the War on Poverty was enacted than there is now. When the War on Poverty was signed into law, one income was usually enough to support a family; within a decade, most families needed two incomes just to get by, and the absence of parental supervision when the children got home from school caused new social problems.
Today, two incomes are seldom sufficient to support a family, and the pattern is perpetuated.
The experience with the War on Poverty — indeed, the entire welfare concept — showed us that, as much as we might wish it were otherwise, most things in life are not simple. Most things in life are, in fact, complex, and they deserve to be studied carefully — even exhaustively — before the government intervenes on a large scale.
The nature of unintended consequences being what it is, it simply isn't possible to avoid them entirely, but, when such a significant objective is undertaken, it is important to try to anticipate as many as possible and minimize them.
One need look no further than Obamacare's implementation to find ample cause for caution.
Stephanie Coontz writes at CNN.com that the work isn't done. Coontz says the War on Poverty was "abandoned" by the politicians in the 1980s and that more could have been done.
Perhaps she is right. But, like it or not, there are limits to what can be done in the absence of an economic boom.


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The first thing Newport Harbor High coach Rob Torribio did after Friday's Sunset League game against Los Alamitos was enthusiastically praise his players.
Teams want to win every game, but there are times when execution and effort in a loss can shine as brightly. That was the case against the Griffins, a team ranked No. 9 in the CIF-Southern Section Division IAA and No. 2 overall in the county.
The Sailors dictated play by putting a lid on Los Alamitos' star guard Eyassu Worku as much as possible. The UC Irvine-bound senior scored 19 points, but he had just five field goals, and four were scored in a three-minute burst of the second quarter.
Newport Harbor forced Los Alamitos to get production from Worku's teammates, who responded for a 52-45 win over the Sailors.
Charlie Stassel led the Sailors (20-6 overall, 5-3 in Sunset play) with 18 points, aided by Brandon Phillips (11) and Nate Harding (10).
The Sailors took a 16-9 first-quarter lead and scored the first eight points of the fourth quarter to draw within two points at 41-39.
"We thought we matched up well and tried to take Eyassu out of the game," Torribio said. "We did that, but they're the No. 2 team in the county for a reason. They won it on the shots we wanted them to take."
"We thought if we keyed on him it would force him to pass the ball, and it did," Stassel said. "It did and it didn't pay off."
In the second quarter, after Worku's 11-point explosion, Connor Laines and Pepe Garcia hit 3-pointers on the next two possessions to give Los Alamitos a 26-21 halftime lead.
The margin remained 10 at the start of the fourth when Newport Harbor opened with a 8-0 run and had the momentum in hand – only for it to slip away quickly.
After Garcia missed a shot, Newport was moving downcourt when the ball took a crooked bounce back to Garcia, who was trailing the play.
He didn't waste the moment, sinking a 3-pointer to shift the momentum back to Los Alamitos. Eyassu and Laines scored 3-pointers on the next two possessions to put the game away.
"We had a few games where the opponent has double- and triple-teamed Eyassu, so his teammates know they have step up at times like this," Los Alamitos coach Eddie Courtemarche said. "We've worked on it a lot in practice, and they accept the responsibility."
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Just as the first light greeted us through our bedroom's window, our children rushed into our room, filled with excitement.
We're nearing the end of our ten-day explore of the Blue Crane Route.
It's the perfect ending.
We're at 'Die Lapa', an adventure farm hidden in the mountains, just south of Somerset East.
It is beautiful.
A little village coming to life, far from the rush & noise of city life.
Wilna has hot coffee & warm breakfast ready.
Jannie, her husband was born on this land.
His grandfather walked in the river bed.
His father played amongst the trees & succulents.
What they do is share the amazing joy of farm life with anyone wiling to make the journey.
Since its inception schools & companies have come here to explore themselves as they explore nature.
I see a twinkle in Jannie's eyes.
The games he played as a child & the ones he dreamt of, all of them are here to share & taste & experience.
His manner with our children speak of a gentle soul.
A soul hungry to heal & make whole.
The city-slickers from Gauteng are off to neighboring land where they're developing a lodge.
What Jannie has created is not just another lodge.
It is a little bit of life in the heart of the Karoo.
Friends from Somerset East arrive.
Our number bolster.
We have teams to play paintball.
Jannie joins in.
Pippin & Theunsie fight like hardened soldiers.
We take the hits.
We give our share of hits.
We laugh exuberantly.
It fills the morning.
Over lunch we talk of the people who make their way to 'Die Lapa'.
Beautiful people received by beautiful people.
All of us discovering more as we push ourselves beyond our own limits – or what we thought was limits.
Pippin & Soffie & Theunsie, even Zuko, brave the high swing.
Touching the blue Karoo heavens before swinging wildly through the sky.
Soffie overcomes a fear.
Theunsie & Pippin too, although they show a braver front.
As we do when we grow up.
Hiding our fear.
Keeping quiet about it, instead of being honest & facing it.
Talking about it without worrying what others would say.
If only we could do that.
Be honest.
In our relationships.
About who we are.
About what we fear.
About what we hope & dream & reach for.
I dream of a life filled with my Zuko & children.
Into eternity.
Filled with wonderful people who make me & us more, as we make them more.
Encouraging each other.
Filling cracks & crevices.
Healing even, as we see each other's beauty.
And reflect it.
Jannie & Wilma's children join us.
They're little Wilmarie take Theunsie & Sophia & Wilhelmina horse-riding.
Later we do the obstacle course.
The weather changes.
Large cold drops splatter in the soft Karoo soil.
Jannie helps each child along.
Explaining the value of choosing adventure.
Of moving outside of your comfortable space.
'It is good to ask for help', he says.
'Nothing wrong with that, but ask exactly what you need, so others may know exactly how to come alongside you.'
'There is no shame in asking.'
'No one makes it without the help of others.'
How did we become so independent?
How did we come to believe that if I did not make it on my own I did not make it with dignity?
What is 'making it', after all?
Is it obscene wealth?
So that you can splash & splurge & spend as if there is no end.
Or is it deep relationship?
Who you were created to be?
All along?
Is it really connecting?
That is something else which have been brewing below the surface the past few days.
So many men's inability to be authentic & honest.
Always hiding behind a bravado.
Robbing their wives & children of a life in intimacy.
I'm glad to see Jannie embrace his Wilna.
It is real.
No show.
No show!
How do we get there?
To that place?
Perhaps a place like 'Die Lapa' will help us along?
Perhaps stepping outside the comfort of city life & doing together, something which we'd never consider doing – perhaps that takes us to this new place.
Of honesty.
And along with that a new new-found bravery.
I think that is the gift of Jannie & Wilna with 'Die Lapa'.
An opportunity to school boys & girls, to prefects & teachers, to families & friends & businesses, to get to that place.
It is a good place.
As we come into the village-hall at the centre of this little village, the warm fire is cooking supper.
The children head for the pool table.
The visitors from Gauteng are here as well.
Laughter is easy.
We talk.
Zuko boldly explains our eccentric life.
Homeschooling at the little wooden house on the not so little hill.
Traveling the Eastern Cape.
It doesn't sound like much in comparison to the lives of the rich & famous.
To us it is everything.
We connect for a moment, through the people.
We smile.
For it is good.
And we hope, as Jannie & Wilna share Jannie's boy-hood experiences, we may also share the joy of family life.
Of raising children, not to 'leave' for distant worlds, but to keep on sharing.
As equals.
Alongside each other.


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In May 2013, Yahoo acquired blogging site Tumblr for a reported $1.1 billion in cash. Almost one year later, we first heard about Yahoo's plan to poach some of YouTube's most popular personalities. Now, it's possible those two news items will be tied together. Business Insider is reporting that Yahoo is trying to get YouTube stars to set up their own video channels on Tumblr.
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As Business Insider explains, Yahoo's plan has been slowed by Susan Wojcicki's impressive work as YouTube's CEO. Since Wojcicki took over in February 2014, she has made it her mission to appease the homegrown YouTube community and make them happy. Now, YouTube's plan to fund programming from its top creators is clear, and it's hard to see the site's top stars bolting to a new home.
Still, utilizing Tumblr is the best play Yahoo has. Tumblr is the hippest, most youthful property Yahoo owns, and for online video stars looking to appease their teenage fans, being hip and youthful is a top priority. Now, we wait to see which YouTube stars–if any–bite on Yahoo's offer.
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Jeff Bezos buys the Washington Post and the media industry goes back to the future
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Jeff Bezos's acquisition of the Washington Post is another sign of how the mass media industry is shifting back to an earlier model — and if anyone can figure out how to make that model work in a digital age, it's probably Jeff Bezos.
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How to get started as a multimedia journalist
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I've now covered almost all of the 5 roles in an investigations team I posted about earlier this year – apart from the multimedia journalist role. So here's how to get started in that role.
Multimedia journalism is a pretty nebulous term. As a result, in my experience, when students try to adopt the role two main problems recur: 1) having a narrow assumption of what multimedia means (i.e. video) and 2) not being able to see the multimedia possibilities of your work.
Multimedia journalism is a very different beast to broadcast journalism. In broadcast journalism your role was comparatively simple: you had one medium to use, and a well-worn format to employ.
Put another way: in broadcast journalism the medium was imposed on the story; in multimedia journalism, the story imposes the medium.
Multimedia also has to deal with the style challenge I've written about previously:
"Not only must they be able to adapt their style for different types of reporting; not only must they be able to adapt for different brands; not only must they be able to adapt their style within different brands across multiple media; but they must also be able to adapt their style within a single medium, across multiple platforms: Twitter, Facebook, blogs, Flickr, YouTube, or anywhere else that their audiences gather."
With that in mind, then, here are 4 steps to get started in multimedia journalism:
Tool for journalists: Repost, for embedding articles
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Repost creates an embed code for a whole article, allowing you to embed it in the same way as you would a YouTube or Vimeo video
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I cani da Guardian dei giornali
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Cosa possono fare le grandi e piccole testate per trasformare il brand in un nuovo motore dell'editoria? La storia del Guardian e quel bar che ha cambiato il rapporto con i lettori
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Diana Emiko Tsuchida on Oral History and the Importance of Preserving the Stories of our Ancestors
Last year, I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, Code Switch (a podcast about race and identity), when I heard an episode that triggered something powerful in me. It was the story of a young Japanese American woman whose father and grandparents were sent to Tule Lake prison camp during World War II. She spoke of losing so much of her heritage before she was old enough to carefully collect the pieces. I immediately reached out to her, we went to lunch, and the rest, as they say, is history. We became fast friends and supporters of each other's work. I don't know many Japanese American women in my peer group who care this deeply about our heritage. Getting to know Diana has given me hope that we can create a community of other JA people working to reclaim the lost parts of our heritage.
Diana's story:
I'm fourth generation Japanese-American, Yonsei, originally from San Jose. I suppose my grandfather willed me into this work! He had no way of knowing it would happen, but his indignation and resistance to the treatment inside camp got somehow passed down to me and instilled this need to share camp stories and keep asking questions about it. I don't think I'll ever reach a point when I won't want to know what someone went through during WWII because I'm not sure the people who experienced it will ever fully heal.
I come from a mixed heritage household - my mom is Scottish/Irish and my dad is Japanese American, so he experienced camp as a young kid. I'm very close with him but I didn't really know my paternal grandparents well. I had a wonderful relationship with my grandmother but it was just very simple and surface, since we couldn't communicate in the same language. My grandfather passed when I was eight so I was way too young to know him.
About her grandfather...
My grandfather was pissed about the entire hysteria directed towards the Japanese-Americans during WWII. He was educated in Japan and so with little command of English, it was easy to see why he sympathized with Japan during the war and became resentful of the U.S. They took his business license away right after Pearl Harbor and I think that was the beginning of the end. Before he died, he was trying to write his life story and get it published. Somewhere along the way, we lost the manuscript. When I was old enough to understand, I wanted to pick up the pieces of this lost history. Since we now have grandkids in the picture (my nephews) it's super important to have something in tact for them to read and listen to, and know that this happened in their family.
On oral history...
Oral history is allowing someone to share their experience through their own recollection and voice. I think my first exposure to the power of oral history was when I studied Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State, where we practiced oral traditions as an alternative to mainstream histories. Often times oral history is one of few methods a marginalized or oppressed group can keep their own record. If I were to think about some of the earliest oral traditions in the United States, there are songs that were sung by enslaved peoples, which not only told stories but provided people with information about escape routes or other crucial pieces of knowledge.
On how to gently coax someone to share about a painful experience...
You never have to let them know that the painful things must come up - just ask them about relatively benign things in the beginning!
I think the most crucial thing is to meet them where they are - go to their home and I would suggest not video taping it. Make your baachan (grandma) or jiichan (grandfather) forget that it's being recorded and they may simply open up. If you can tell they're reluctant, really be sincere about why you want to hear their story... Is it for your own children someday? Are you really afraid in this era of Trump? Are you truly afraid of them passing without ever hearing their feelings about camp? I would show your cards first in order to get them to show theirs. I think a willingness to be vulnerable in wanting to know what happened is key. People pick up on that.
The other way to go is to have someone do this for you! I've found that people can't open up to their own family members, as strange as it seems. But sometimes if you get a neutral third party, some kind of wall gets broken down.
How to record your session...
I have an iPhone and will often use my Voice Memos, but recently I downloaded an app called Voice Recorder, which actually records at a higher quality. One crucial thing is it that you must talk in a quiet place. Since the phones are pretty great at picking up noise, they'll pick up everything in a cafe or restaurant if you do it there (beware the clanking of plates). I'd say to go to their home and record so that if they bring pictures out, they'll have access to them.
On how to find more information if your elders are gone...
I've set up a resource page on Tessaku to help guide people through this process. If you're looking for a connection to who may have known your grandparents or relatives, check the churches they attended, or go back to the elementary or high schools they went to. The National Archives allows you to order your relatives' WRA records and even though this is only a fraction of their story, it's a super fascinating one to see.
Diana's step-by-step guide to recording stories from your elders:
If I am asking about Japanese-American interment, I ask which camp they were held in so that I can get a sense of location and how far they were forced to move from their original homes. I also try to know their age at the time of camp, since that can really change the questions.
Request that they prep photos and old family pictures to share.
I have a list of general questions that I want to go over and usually ask. However, I often stray from that and let the storyteller take the conversation to where it wants to go. As a general rule, you want your questions to be open-ended, to allow someone to give you explanations or a lot of details about a certain memory. Try your best not to ask a question that only allows them to answer with a yes or no. And of course, just be willing to let them drive it!
Make sure there's enough room on your phone to record :)
Take a couple of recent photos of the storyteller so that people know who they are today.
On the importance of preserving the stories of our ancestors...
Everything around us is instantaneous and fast and always speeding up. But much like the food industry has taken a cue from this and gone the opposite way of slow food, thoughtful preparation, and getting back in touch with heritage, I think preserving stories can do the same thing. It's almost like the trend of DNA discovery. Instead of "what are you?", it's "who are you?" Who are your relatives, what kind of personalities and perspectives did you grow up with or not even know existed in your family?
Where to learn more about Japanese-American forced incarceration:
Densho is awesome. And they're always on top of the news and making links to the incarceration so I'd highly recommend going there for a one-stop resource. I'd also recommend visiting the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, where there's an actual barrack replica and tons of artifacts from camp. There are also some great films and documentaries - And Then They Came For Us and Relocation, Arkansas are really well done films.
What's next for Tessaku?
I'd love to take these interviews and put them into book form, or perhaps some kind of magazine series. Since the original Tessaku was a self-published magazine inside Tule Lake, I love the symbolic act of putting volumes of stories out again and paying homage to the people who wanted a self-determining resource. I'd also love to take Tessaku on the road! I am envisioning gatherings across the country that invite people from different cities to share their memories and stories, and embed some kind of artistic element into them whether through food, music or photography.
*Diana is also a featured speaker at TEDX Peace Plaza, which will be held in Japantown on Saturday, March 24th. I'll be there, cheering her on!
*She was also just interviewed on NBC Bay Area!
How can we support Tessaku?
Please read and share the stories, and follow me on Instagram at @tessakuproject! Any interaction with these interviews is wonderful. Because I'm a totally independent historian with no grant backers, if you're able to help in a monetary way that is even more amazing. I'm currently on Patreon and have a small group of patrons who support me every month with a donation of their choice - every little bit is extremely helpful in allowing me to travel and meet people and take time to publish the pieces.
Thanks so much for sharing your story with us, Diana!