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My latest New Ledger column is up. Good government types may want to take notice:
A favorite charge against George W. Bush was that when he was President, he would not suffer challenges and disputes from governmental watchdogs. The former President, we were assured, was ensconced in a bubble. People didn't have the chance to talk straight to him, and feared that even if they were able to, they would be punished by the likes of Dick Cheney or Karl Rove. Truth and the law–we were sorrowfully told–gave way to fear and the willingness to say anything that would cultivate the favor of the powers of the Bush Administration.
The election of Barack Obama was supposed to change all of this. At long last, we were supposed to have a President who welcomed challenges and disputatious opinions. During the Bush Administration, we were told that "dissent is the highest form of patriotism." With the Obama Administration promising to encourage dissent, the punditocracy rejoiced in the thought that at long last, the patriots were back in power.
But recently, events have conspired to show that the Obama Administration is not nearly as solicitous of dissent and disputation as it advertised itself as being. Far from it; the Administration has taken actions recently that cannot help but impose a chilling effect on those otherwise willing to call shenanigans on a given governmental practice. Instead of welcoming and encouraging dissent and criticism that could lead to the implementation of best practices in the Executive Branch, the Obama Administration has instead made it clear that those who speak out, run the risk of seeing their careers in government ruined.
Pass this along to your favorite good government type.


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Total Video Time: 67 minutes
In the last few modules, we've looked at the model of supply and demand to see how market determine prices and allocate goods, and what happens when the government intervenes. But a lot of the interesting stuff happens when we're talking about how markets change, either in response to a shift in the demand or supply curve or in response to some government program. And any time that happens, the size of the effects in the market depend on what the demand and supply curves actually look like.
The law of demand says that the demand curve slopes down, but it doesn't say whether the demand curve will be relatively steep or relatively flat; the law of supply says that the supply curve slopes up but also says nothing about how steep or flat the supply curve will be. The relative steepness or flatness of a curve is what we call "elasticity" — just another word for "sensitivity" or "responsiveness." We know that consumers respond to prices, but just how much do they respond to prices of specific goods?
Before I get into the videos, I do want to provide a few useful tips for you and explain why economists use this measure called elasticity.
Why elasticity?
If we are trying to describe what the demand curve for gasoline looks like, the obvious way to do it would be to try to determine the slope of the line. For example, we could determine that for every $1 increase in gas prices, the quantity of gasoline demanded decreases by 30 million gallons per day (a rough approximation based on current gas use). That would be useful to us.
The problem with looking at the slope of the line is that the information is limited to the US gasoline market. If we wanted to compare the demand for gasoline in the US to the demand for gasoline in Canada, it would get a little complicated. We have to convert dollars to Canadian dollars using some exchange rate. Canadians measure gasoline in liters, not gallons, so we have to convert for that too — and they probably spell it litres instead of liters, so that's even more annoying. And our analysis only holds for the gasoline market. We cannot apply anything we are learning to other markets.
The beneficial part of using elasticity is that it is unit-free. There are no dollars or gallons or liters or anything else. You just get a number — -0.4 in this case, based on your textbook's estimate of the price elasticity of demand for gasoline. This allows us to easily compare US demand with Canadian demand — just compare the two numbers. We can also compare different products easily.
We use elasticity instead of slope because it's so much more versatile. Regarding slope and elasticity at the principles level of economics, you need to understand two things:
1. On a linear demand curve, the elasticity actually changes as we move down along the curve. Elasticity = %dQ/%dP (where d = change). We can rewrite this as (dQ/Q)/(dP/P), which can be further rewritten as (dQ/dP)*(P/Q). Note that (dQ/dP) is how much Q changes when P changes, which is related to the slope of the demand curve — on a linear demand curve, that is fixed. But as we move down along the demand curve, we get lower P's and higher Q's, so our number gets smaller and smaller in size (closer to zero, since it's a negative number). Thus, demand becomes more inelastic as we move down along the demand curve.
2. Having said that, for most intents and purposes you can think of "inelastic demand" as having a relatively steep slope, and "elastic demand" as having a relatively flat slope. True, the elasticities change along a linear demand curve, but when you consider that a perfectly vertical demand curve has an elasticity of 0 (perfectly inelastic) and a perfectly flat demand curve has an elasticity of negative infinity (perfectly elastic), you can see that as you go from steeper to flatter, your demand curve becomes more elastic.
Also, don't worry about the constant elasticity of demand curve — the curved demand curve in your textbook. We're not going to deal with that at all. You do need to know the perfectly inelastic and elastic demand curves, but not the curved one.
You also need know that there are some goods that have easily determined elasticities. Gasoline and cigarettes have inelastic demand — you have estimates of this in the table in your text, and you know from experience that prices don't seem to affect people's consumption of these two goods that much. So from now on, whenever you're drawing the market for gasoline or cigarettes, you should be drawing your demand curve relatively steep. Land has inelastic supply — there's a fixed amount of it. So pay attention to the examples that your book uses so that instead of just memorizing numbers for elasticity, you get a feel for the kinds of goods that are inelastic/elastic in demand and/or supply.
Another tip: there are several elasticities of demand (price, income and cross-price). Any time I just talk about the "elasticity of demand" without specifying which one, I'm talking about the price elasticity of demand; that's the most important one for us.
Now at this point if you have not already watched the videos in the Asarta/Butters Library on this topic, you should. None of these videos will make much sense until you have done that. Once you've watched those videos and have a better understanding of what elasticity is and how it's calculated, come back and watch these videos.
Video 6.1: Elasticity and Price Fluctuations (14 min)
This video explains how the price elasticities of supply and demand help determine how much prices in a market will change when there is a shift in one of the curves, and why the prices of some goods fluctuation more than others.
Video 6.2: The War on Drugs (13 min)
This video explains how the inelasticity of the demand for drugs has played a predictable role in preventing our war on drugs (efforts to decrease supply) from being very effective. It then examines two alternative proposals to see how they would affect the quantity of drugs sold and the total revenue earned in the drug trade.
Video 6.3: College Subsidies (7 min)
This video explains how programs that provide funding for people to go to college have had little impact on the quantity of students attending college and have led to increases in tuition rates; both of these results are quite predictable, of course, if you understand the elasticity of supply for college.
Video 6.4: Rent Control (7 min)
This video explains how the effects on renters (and efficiency overall) from rent control change as supply becomes more elastic as time passes.
Video 6.5: Minimum Wages (7 min)
This video explains how the effects of a minimum wage depend on the elasticity of demand for labor. If demand is elastic enough (because firms have other options, like outsourcing), minimum wages can make workers overall worse off, not better.
Video 6.6: Taxes and Elasticity (19 min)
This video explains how the effects of a tax on the market depend on the elasticities of supply and demand. This has implications for how much tax revenue a tax will generate, and how that amount will likely decrease over time as consumers and producers find alternatives.
One key implication of this analysis is that taxes can either be a good source of revenue or a good way of getting people to stop using a good — but the government cannot determine this. This is based on the price elasticity of demand. If the good has inelastic demand, it's a good way of raising tax revenues but it is not really going to affect people's behavior much. If the good has elastic demand, you can get people to stop using the good by taxing it, but you're not going to collect much in revenues.

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Katie Bell, previously featured on Make Space, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, but is from Rockford, IL. She talks about her studio practice!
On process and collecting:
Gathering and collecting material is a very important part of my work. I am continually looking for stuff to use in my work. I try to bring in one new object to the studio everyday. This could be something really minor like a scrap of wood or something large like a bundle of countertop pieces. I have a pile of material in my studio in which most of the pieces originate from. I use this pile as my pallet. I think about the work as making paintings and the material becomes paint. The stuff I collect is building material; it is raw material like wood, vinyl, tile, linoleum, insulation, etc. Each piece I make initially starts with an interest in a specific material. I see the material as something to manipulate and transform into a painting language
In my work, I need to have multiple projects going on at the same time. I do not see the work as a series, but rather each piece as individual. The duration of the work is varied, some things happen very fast and others slow. It is important for me to have slow and fast projects going on at the same time to feel like the work is moving somewhere. The pace of the small paintings I make on plaster is slow. I can work on them in my lap, sitting on the floor over a few days or weeks.
The large wall installations and sculptures involve my whole body; they are very physical. The motions to make them are much faster than the small paintings. I use quick gestures, throwing things on the wall, climbing on a ladder, quickly layering different materials.
The small paintings take time, more careful decisions and a quieter, more intimate relationship to the form. Having both of these speeds happening in my studio at the same time, allows for choice in terms of what I feel like doing that day. The large pieces take a lot of energy and some days I don't have that, and would rather sit on the floor and hold something in my lap.
On materials and medium:
I started my work with an interest in painting. So, even though I use all sorts of materials I still think about them like paint on canvas. When I collect the various materials, I think about them in terms of color, texture, and surface. In my studio, I have a pile of materials. This pile is what forms the work and allows ideas to unravel. Most of my material I find and pick up off the street. Although, most of the material is found, I don't see it as coming from the garbage. The things that I choose are not garbage; they are unwanted raw materials.
Often the found material sparks an idea of what it should be paired with it, and then I am on look out for something specific. For example, I was recently on the search for the acrylic shell of a hot tub. This took me about two years to track the perfect one down, and now it is the base for a sculpture I am building. When I construct the installations, I try to think about the wall as one of the materials in the piece. Most of the works are attached directly to the wall in some way or use the wall as an active component. In this way, I try to think about all materials that way- that nothing is a given. Every material I use, including the type of wall it is on becomes part of how the piece functions.
On research processes:
Artists that I am thinking about right now are: Jessica Stockholder, Urs Fisher, Robert Gober, Robert Rauschenberg, David Altmejd, Phillip Guston, Rachel Harrison, David Hockney, Mika Rottenberg, Josh Smith, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Richard Artschwager, Tauba Auerbach, Janine Antoni, Peter Halley, Matisse, Jeff Koons, and Phoebe Washburn.
This list is all over the place. But these are people I think about. Maybe because when I see a piece of theirs I go back to my studio thinking, I need to do better. Many of these people I don't necessarily think about the physical objects they make, but rather the attitude of the work. I think about attitude a lot in the studio. How different pieces carry different attitudes, and how those attitudes relate to each other. What types of materials are embedded with an attitude, and how can I manipulate that.
On space and site:
My work has undergone a number of changes with my changing locations. In the past few years my location has changed dramatically. I grew up and went to undergrad in Illinois, mainly living in small to mid-size towns, then I moved to Providence, RI to go to graduate school, and now I currently live in Brooklyn, NY. The scenery around me has changed drastically in the last 4 years. Since my work is often site specific and uses found materials, the work I have been making in New York has been much different than in Rhode Island. I see New York as a challenge for my work because it is harder to transport things, harder to gather; more difficult to immediately get the materials I want. I have had to become more decisive in figuring out what the work needs. My gathering process previously was more meandering, I could browse and I knew where to find specific things. In New York I don't have time to browse, it's more of a grab-and-go pace. So with this I have had to make more plans and think through works ahead of time.
Most of my work includes the space it is made within. The wall installations are made directly on the wall, so the scale of the wall is crucial to the construction. When I am asked to move an installation to a different location for a show, I try to reinterpret that piece to fit the space. Sometime the scale or the direction of motion changes depending on the space. It may need to bend around a corner or expand onto the ceiling. To me, this is exciting. The work uses the wall and room as a source of inspiration and transformation. For the gallerist or curator this can sometimes be a bit nerve racking because they don't know exactly what will come of it. But I see it as a challenge and a way to make the work come alive all over again.


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Scholar & Feminist 41: Sustainabilities
In the forty-first year of BCRW's cornerstone conference, we are taking seriously the framework of sustainability to ask how we can sustain the material, financial, creative, cultural, spiritual, and communal resources necessary to maintain the vitality of our communities, movements, and critical feminist inquiries. The conference brings together feminist scholars, activists, artists and community members from various constituencies to address the obstacles we face–including biomedical models of health and wellness; anti-black police and state violence; and the far-reaching tentacles of neoliberalism shrinking public resources and expanding the prison industrial complex. Panelists will address the creative and courageous responses they have developed to sustain their work as activists, scholars and visionaries working toward housing justice, ending poverty and incarceration, and building feminist knowledge production as theory, research, teaching, and praxis. Visionary activist and thinker Reina Gossett will be the keynote speaker.
Image courtesy of Micah Bazant.
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Event Oval, The Diana Center
Reina Gossett
Event Oval, The Diana Center
Reina Gossett will discuss the uses of art, representation, and other creative strategies trans and gender nonconforming people are using while living and loving under the shadow of heightened violence.
Lunch is provided. Attendees are invited to bring their lunch to the afternoon sessions.
Fat Activism and Intersectionality at the Edges: Making Movements Sustainable
Naima Lowe, Jamal Lewis, Tara Shuai & Rebecca Weinberger
This panel brings together artists, activists, and thinkers who are working at the interstices of fat activism and intersectional feminism. They will discuss challenges to and strategies for refusing single-issue approaches, while showing how fat activism is already intersectional and central to left movement building. Panelists will discuss how fat activism is part of the broader struggle for bodily autonomy, how their work struggles to address questions of left political horizons and legitimate political aspirations, and how ending fatphobia is central to collective liberation.
Sustaining Harlem: Art, Community Activism and Black Women's Leadership
Pat Cruz, Thelma Golden, Virginia Johnson & Sade Lythcott
How have the arts served as an essential resource for sustaining Harlem's vibrant and diverse communities of color? How have the arts and arts organizations helped to shape and reshape Harlem's changing identity over time? How have Harlem's arts institutions served as a catalyst for activism and change throughout their long
history serving this community? This panel brings together four visionary black women, each of whom have made significant contributions to sustaining Harlem through their leadership in its signature arts institutions. Each will offer their perspectives on what it means to work collectively and collaboratively on the project of sustaining Harlem, the under-acknowledged role of black women, and the resources they draw on to sustain their work.
Resourcing and Resilience: Building Alternative Models to Sustain Our Movements
Gabriel Foster, Cara Page, Krystal Portalatin, Eva Turner & Tanya Walker
Very little money goes to LGBTQ organizations and even less goes to grassroots, social justice groups organizing around their experiences with racism, poverty and homelessness, transphobia, ableism, immigration, and incarceration. The combined legacies of white supremacy and capitalism and the limitations of the nonprofit industrial complex (NPIC) have shrunk what was already limited foundation funding for these organizations. What remains creates heavy administrative burdens for staff and members and pits communities into competition with one another. Taking the task of resourcing their movements into their own hands, the Trans Justice Funding Project (TFJP) and the Miss Major-Jay Toole Building for Social Justice (MMJT) Giving Circle have developed alternative models to build the long-term sustainability of their work and communities. Through mapping exercises, small group discussions, and report-backs, participants will unpack the history of the racial and gender wealth divide, share people of color giving traditions, redefine the value and worth of community resources beyond dollars, and explore the process of building and reclaiming alternatives.
Building Community Safety and Security
Ejeris Dixon, Elliott Fukui & Joo-Hyun Kang
State violence, security, and militarization are daily realities for lesbian, gay, bisexual, Two Spirit, transgender, gender nonconforming, and queer people of color. Presenters will share their experiences, tools, and resources for creating safety teams in community spaces. Through storytelling, small group discussions, role plays about common situations, and resource sharing, presenters will share tools created by Black, Indigenous, People of Color, queer/trans/Two Spirit, sex working, disabled/chronically ill, and poor and working class communities to create safer events, conferences, gatherings and neighborhoods without relying on 911 or the police, redefining "safety" and how we can create it.
Working at the Limits: State and Structural Violence
Tami Navarro (moderator), Alison Swartz, Deanna James & Charmaine Crawford
This panel features scholars and activists in conversation around the issues of sustaining community-centered scholarship and programs in the wake of drastically decreased funding, hostile political environments, and tenuous public-private partnerships. This session asks participants to consider how we sustain our communities in the midst of financial crisis and structural violence. Emerging from BCRW's Transnational Feminisms initiative, participants in this session work in areas around the globe, including South Africa, Barbados, and the US Virgin Islands.
Sustaining Community: Housing and Displacement in New York City
Gregory Jost, Daisy Gonzales & Ryan Hickey
Neoliberal economic and social restructuring combined with a recession lasting nearly a decade has led to the displacement and dismantling of communities of color in neighborhoods throughout New York City. The typical policy response of increasing affordable housing benefits the real estate industry and big business and fails the communities it is designed to serve. This workshop will discuss strategies for vulnerable communities to sustain themselves through the constant and persistent threat of displacement that is pervasive in New York City. This workshop was organized by Pamela Phillips.
Disability and Healing Justice: Making Our Lives Sustainable and Our Movements Liveable
Geleni Fontaine & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Join two visionary panelists for a hybrid panel-workshop as they discuss the connections between disability and healing justice. Participants will be invited to think through how disability and healing justice need to be central to the work of making all of our lives sustainable in the face of ableist and capitalist modes of organizing and belonging.
Queer Survival Economies: Invisible Lives, Targeted Bodies
Amber Hollibaugh (moderator), Yana Calou, Kate D'Adamo, Hamid Khan & Ola Osaze
Queer Survival Economies is a new initiative directed by Amber Hollibaugh and born out of the closure of Queers
for Economic Justice. Queer Survival Economies aims to prioritize LGBTQ low-income and immigrant worker issues at a time of increasing crisis because of the on-going recession and reshaping of the global market. Participants will discuss overlooked and often invisible economic justice issues at the intersections of class, race, gender, immigration, HIV/AIDS, non-traditional families and sexuality. The goal of this panel is to bring together and educate community members to be better able to build movement possibilities in the face of economic crises and queer marginalization.
Bridging the Generations: Carrying On…
Katherine Acey (moderator), Trishala Deb, Frances Kunreuther, Krystal Portalatin
This workshop features four activists and nonprofit leaders who span four generations and have diverse experiences working for social justice feminism. Panelists will share their stories, discuss myths and assumptions about each other's generations, and share strategies for building meaningful multi-generational relationships that sustain individuals, communities, and political movements for transformative social change. Audience members will be invited to participate in the conversation as an essential tool for "carrying on" the dialogue and generating ideas to propel us forward.
Event Oval, The Diana Center
Katherine Acey is a Senior Activist Fellow at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. Prior to BCRW, Acey was the Executive Director of GRIOT Circle, a people of color LGBTQ elders organization based in Brooklyn, N.Y. From 1987 to 2010 Acey served as the Executive Director of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice and holds the title of Executive Director Emeritus. Prior to Astraea, Acey served as the Associate Director of the North Star Fund in New York City. She helped create and shape the Women's Funding Network in the mid 1980s serving on its first board and as Board chair. She is a founding member and past board chair of Funders for LGBTQ Issues and has served as a board or advisory member to countless organizations including: Women in the Arts, the Center for Anti-Violence Education, New York Women Against Rape, MADRE, Women Make Movies and the International Network of Women's Funds. Acey is past chair of the National Executive Committee of the Palestine Solidarity Committee, and was a core member of the Arab Women's Gathering Organizing Committee. Acey serves on the Boards of Political Research Associates, Center for Constitutional Rights and the Advisory Board of Open Society's International Human Rights Initiative.
Charmaine Crawford is Head and Lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, Nita Barrow Unit, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. She completed her graduate work (M.A., PhD.) in the Women's Studies Programme at York University, Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include gender and sexuality in the Caribbean, transnational motherhood, Caribbean domestic workers, feminist pedagogy and post-colonial/queer/feminist theorizing. Some of her publications include "Feminist Pedagogy and Social Change: The Impact of the Caribbean Institute in Gender and Development" (forthcoming); "Sexually Undone: A Review of Sex and Citizen Interrogating the Caribbean" (2014); and "Who is Your Mama? Transnational Motherhood and African-Caribbean Women in the Diaspora" (2012).
Patricia Cruz began her term as Executive Director of Harlem Stage in 1998. Ms. Cruz is a member of the Board of Directors and is responsible for overseeing Board Development, long range planning, fundraising, and program development. The highlight of her tenure has been the renovation of the Gatehouse for use as Harlem Stage's new home. Cruz serves on the board of The Urban Assembly and the CalArts Board of Overseers. She is a past board member of The Andy Warhol Foundation. She is also past president of The New York Foundation for the Arts and ArtTable.
Trishala Deb is the Regional Director, Asia at the International Development Exchange. Trishala has worked at the intersection of a variety of issues, including immigrant and refugee rights, gender justice, anti-violence and militarization, community organizing based on sexual orientation and gender identity, and supporting the capacity building efforts of emerging grassroots organizations. Previously, she worked at Caring Across Generations, bringing together home care workers, consumers, and families. She also coordinated a program for immigrants at the Audre Lorde Project, a community organizing center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, Two Spirit, and trans people of color in New York City; and has worked with the Arcus Foundation and Public Interest Projects. Trishala was on the Advisory Board of the National Network of Immigrant and Refugee Rights, and worked with Migrant Rights International as well as the Steering Committee of Grassroots Global Justice to connect issues of migration, sustainable development, and economic justice with organizations in the Global South as well as the United States.
Ejeris Dixon is an organizer and advocate with 15 years of experience working in racial justice, LGBTQ, anti-violence, and economic justice movements. She is the former Deputy Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project, in charge of the Community Organizing and Public Advocacy Department, where she directed national, statewide, and local advocacy efforts on hate violence, domestic violence, and sexual violence. She is also the founding program coordinator of the Safe OUTside the System Collective at the Audre Lorde Project where she worked on creating community based strategies to address hate and police violence. She has been featured in multiple media outlets as a subject matter expert on violence as it impacts LGBTQ communities and communities of color, including the New York Times, Huffington Post, SPIN Magazine, CNN, the New Civil Rights Movement, the New York Post, NY1, and Citylimits. In 2012 the White House recognized her as both an Emerging LGBT Leader and selected her as a featured speaker on violence against Black LGBT communities. She received a Bachelor's Degree in African American Studies at Yale University and a Master's Degree in Public Policy and Nonprofit Management at New York University's Wagner School of Public Service.
Geleni Fontaine is a fat, queer, disabled and chronically ill Latinx transperson raised and living in Brooklyn, New York. Geleni is an acupuncturist and former registered nurse with a public health and HIV-counseling background. They are a cooperative member and practitioner at Third Root Community Health Center, a worker-run holistic health care center providing transformative, accessible, and empowering care to LGBTQ people, People of Color, and all communities in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Geleni is also self-defense teacher and a lifelong poet. As a healer living with chronic illness and pain, Geleni celebrates the intersections that inform their practice and nourish solidarity and interdependence with their communities.
Based in Brooklyn, NY, Gabriel Foster is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Trans Justice Funding Project. Prior to making his way east he worked in Seattle, WA with the American Friends Service Committee's GLBTQ Youth Program and the Northwest Network of bisexual, trans, lesbian, and gay survivors of abuse. Before arriving in New York, he worked at SPARK Reproductive Justice Now with LGBTQ youth of color and allies in Atlanta, GA; the Leeway Foundation, supporting women and trans people creating art for social change in Philadelphia, PA; and provided outreach for the Jonathan Lax Fund at the Bread and Roses Foundation in Philadelphia, PA. Gabriel is a former staff member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and a current board member for Funders for LGBT Issues as well as an ABFE Connecting Leader Fellow, class of 2015-2016. He loves dreaming big and is constantly amazed by pug memes!
Elliott Fukui is a trainer, facilitator, and community organizer with over 10 years of experience in social justice movement work. With Midwest roots and East coast seasoning, Elliott has been organizing both on national and local levels across many different issues and struggles, including reproductive justice, racial justice, economic justice, and gender justice. Currently, Elliott is the Director of Community Engagement with the Transgender Law Center, working to support Trans and Gender Non Conforming leaders, and build strong coalitions fighting Anti-Trans legislation and ballot initiatives. Prior to this, Elliott was the program coordinator of Trans Justice, a political organizing group led by and for Trans and Gender Nonconforming People of Color and a program of the Audre Lorde Project in New York City. He is also currently on the advisory board of the Icarus Project, a support network and education project by and for people who experience the world in ways that are often diagnosed as mental illness. Elliott believes Audre Lorde said it best when she said "there is no such thing as a single issue struggle, because we do not lead single issue lives." He works hard to build spaces with many communities that make room for all of our fabulous complexity and fierceness, and build our collective power. He also believes that we will win.
Thelma Golden is Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem where she began her career in 1987 before joining the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1988. After a decade at the Whitney, she returned to the Studio Museum in 2000 as Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs, and was named Director and Chief Curator in 2005. Golden was appointed to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House by President Obama in 2010, and in 2015 joined the Barack Obama Foundation's Board of Directors. She serves as the 2015–16 Chair of New York City's Cultural Institutions Group and was appointed to the Cultural Affairs Advisory Commission by Mayor Bill de Blasio. Golden is the recipient of the 2016 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. Born in St. Albans, Queens, Golden currently resides in Harlem.
Daisy Gonzales began at Community Voices Heard in 2015 as the Gail Aska Policy and Research Fellow and is now on staff as the Sustainable Communities Organizer focusing on the East Harlem Neighborhood Plan and Rezoning Process. Her family emigrated from Guatemala to South Gate, California in Los Angeles where she was raised. Daisy was first exposed to organizing in her hometown around issues of environmental justice and has since worked on various processes alongside low-income people of color, connecting urban planning, civic engagement, and organizing. Her experience includes working in Orange County, California with tenants on substandard housing and affordability issues, as well as making decision-making processes more inclusive. Daisy worked with the City of San Diego on the Barrio Logan Community Plan from 2008-2010 in a participatory process for updating land use and zoning regulations. She has a bachelor's degree in urban planning from the University of California, San Diego and is currently pursuing her master's degree in Urban Planning at CUNY-Hunter College.
Reina Gossett is an activist, writer, and artist and an Activist Fellow at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. As the membership director at the Sylvia Rivera Law Project from 2010 to 2014, Reina worked to lift the voice and power of trans and gender nonconforming people. Prior to joining the Sylvia Rivera Law Project Reina worked at Queers for Economic Justice where she directed the Welfare Organizing Projected and produced "A Fabulous Attitude: Low Income LGBTGNC People Surviving and Thriving on Love, Shelter, and Knowledge," a report documenting low-income LGBT New Yorkers surviving inequality and thriving despite enormous obstacles.
Ryan Hickey is the Housing Organizer at Picture the Homeless. Upon completion of his master's degree, he was accepted into a PhD program at the New School… but chose instead to pursue an organizing career with the hopes of helping build a radical grassroots housing campaign. Although much of his background is in organizing students, he has worked as a community organizer on many campaigns, including a living wage campaign with supermarket cleaners, and as an organizer for a report on the Tottenham Riots. There he further developed his understanding of how the police uphold racism and state power within society. Most recently, he worked as a researcher and campaigner on a campaign calling for the statutory regulation of private military and security companies.
A well-known activist, artist, public intellectual and community organizer, Amber Hollibaugh was a founding member and formerly the Executive Director of Queers for Economic Justice (QEJ). Prior to that position, she held the positions of Chief Officer of Elder & LBTI Women's Services at Howard Brown Health Center in Chicago, Senior Strategist for the National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce, and Director of National Initiatives at SAGE (Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders). Earlier in her tenure she was SAGE's Director of Education, Advocacy and Community Building. Before joining the staff of SAGE, she spent seven years at Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) as Founding Director of the Lesbian AIDS Project and subsequently as the National Director of Women's Services. She had also been the Director of Education for the New York City Commission on Human Rights, AIDS Division. Amber is currently on the board of CLAGS (the Center for Lesbian & Gay Studies) and on the editorial board ofGLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies.
She was a recipient of the Dr. Susan B. Love Award for Outstanding Achievement in Women's Health. She is the author of My Dangerous Desires: A Queer Girl Dreaming Her Way Home (Duke University Press) and the director and co-producer of The Heart of the Matter, a documentary film focusing on women's sexuality, denial and risk for HIV and AIDS. The film won the 1994 Sundance Film Festival Freedom of Expression award and premiered on PBS's prestigious POV film series. She emphasizes the importance of looking at an issue through different lenses as well as the complexity of the intersections of race, class, gender, age and sexuality.
Deanna James is the Executive Director of the St. Croix Foundation for Community Development, a 25-year-old operating foundation, which has been recognized as one of the most prominent civic organizations in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She has held a number of executive level positions at the Foundation during her 13-year tenure, overseeing general operations, grantmaking, and program development. She is also responsible for fiscal Sponsorship services for 50+ small non-profits, federally funded community-based programs and, grassroots initiatives, which operate under the Foundation's 501(c)3 umbrella., As a result of the Foundation's expansive programmatic wingspan, Deanna works intimately with almost every sector of the Virgin Islands community, including most local governmental agencies, a cadre of corporate partners as well as a host of civic organizations throughout the Territory. Deanna also serves on a number of public sector councils and advisory boards including the Children, Youth and Families Council, the Small Business Development Commission Board, and is a member of several national organizations including the Society for Human Resources Management, the Council on Foundations and Grantmakers for Education. Deanna is a native of the U.S. Virgin Islands and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Lehigh University as well as a Master of Arts degree in Communications from American University in Washington D.C. She is a certified Professional in Human Resources (PHR) and has held a number of positions in Public Relations and Human Resources in the Virgin Islands and on the U.S. mainland.
Virginia Johnson returns to Dance Theatre of Harlem as artistic director having been a founding member and principal dancer. Born in Washington, DC, Johnson graduated from the Academy of the Washington School of Ballet. She briefly attended the School of the Arts at New York University as a University Scholar before joining DTH in 1969. During her 28 years with the company she performed most of the repertoire, with principal roles in "Concerto Barocco," "Allegro Brillante," "Agon," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Fall River Legend," "Swan Lake," "Giselle," "Voluntaries," and "Les Biches," among others.
Gregory Jost is a Bronx-based researcher, organizer, and facilitator with expertise in affordable housing, the history of redlining, and strategies for community reinvestment. While at the University Neighborhood Housing Program, he created the Building Indicator Project to evaluate levels of physical and financial distress in more than 60,000 New York City apartment buildings. Gregory is a partner at Designing the WE, a facilitation and social impact design studio that believes we can redesign our systems to acknowledge that everyone has value to contribute. He is also a partner at LotInfo, which empowers communities by making data and mapping accessible. He is currently writing a book on race, real estate, and redlining.
Frances Kunreuther co-directs the Building Movement Project (www.buildingmovement.org), which works to strengthen U.S. nonprofits as sites of civic engagement and social change. She is co-author of two books, From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change (Cornell, 2006) and Working Across Generations: Defining the Future of Nonprofit Leadership (Jossey Bass, 2009). Frances was a senior fellow at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University for five years and is currently affiliated with the Research Center for Leadership and Action at NYU where she also teaches. In the 1990s, Frances headed the Hetrick-Martin Institute for LBGT youth and was awarded an Annie E. Casey Foundation Fellowship for this and her previous work with homeless youth and families, undocumented immigrants, crime victims, battered women, and substance users. She writes and presents frequently on issues related to nonprofits, leadership, and social change.
Jamal T. Lewis is a cultural worker and emerging multidisciplinary performance artist living in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, New York, hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. He/She received a Bachelor of Arts in Music with concentration in Vocal Performance from Morehouse College, and is currently a second-year graduate student in The School of Media Studies at The New School. Jamal's work interrogates and explores identity formation, ugliness, desire(ability), race, class, gender, and sexuality through a Black, queer, feminist, and abolitionist lens. He/She is currently working on his/her first documentary film, "No Fats, No Femmes," and is receiving submissions for his/her forthcoming varied anthology, Femme to Femme.
Naima Lowe's films, videos, performances and writings have been seen at the Athens International Film and Video Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive, The Knitting Factory, The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific Islander Experience, The Stella Elkins Tyler Gallery, The International Toy Theater Exhibition, and Judson Memorial Church. Naima has been recently working with letterpress printing, hand made 16mm film, and other forms of archaic producible visual media. Her 40-page, limited edition, looseleaf book Thirty-Nine (39) Questions for WHITE PEOPLE was shown at the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle from May-November 2013. Naima is currently a member of the faculty at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.
Born and raised in New York City, Sade Lythcott is the daughter of Dr. Barbara Ann Teer, founder of the National Black Theater (NBT) and legendary champion of African-American culture in New York. Following her mother's death in 2008, Sade was appointed CEO of the NBT. She is also co-chair of the Coalitions of Theaters of Color, which represents the oldest theaters of color in New York State. A graduate of New York University with a BA in art history, Sade lives in Harlem, NY. Prior to joining the NBT staff, she performed with several Off Broadway theater companies, including appearances as Gail in Ron Milner's "Urban Transition: Loose Blossom" at the New Federal Theater directed by Woodie King, Jr and as Dorothy Dandridge in "Dorothy Dandridge: Before, After & Now" directed by Dr. Barbara Ann Teer. In 2012 Lythcott wrote & produced the highly-acclaimed musical "A Time To Love," garnering 3 AUDELCO award nominations and the Key to Harlem for her excellence in the Arts. Sade is the recipient of the 2015 Black Theatre Network's LLH Legacy Award, 651 Arts Rising Star Award, Castillo Theatre progress on stage award. She is a contributing artist and cultural organizer for Arts in a Changing America.
Ola Osaze is a trans feminist of Edo and Yoruba descent who serves as the Development Senior Manager for Transgender Law Center in Oakland, CA. Ola has also been involved with the Audre Lorde Project, Uhuru Wazobia, Queers for Economic Justice and Sylvia Rivera Law Project. As a writer, Ola's work has been featured in Black Public Media, Black Girl Dangerous, Black Looks, Apogee, HOLAAfrica, Autostraddle, Trans Atlantic Times, and anthologies, including Yellow Medicine Review, Queer African Reader, and the soon to be released Outside the XY: Queer, Brown Masculinity.
Cara Page is a Black queer feminist cultural worker & organizer. She comes from a long ancestral legacy of organizers and cultural workers from the Southeast to the Northeast. For the past 20-plus years she has worked within the queer & trans liberation movement, reproductive justice movement, the racial and economic justice movements and the National People's Movement Assembly. She continues to organize, create cultural and political spaces that honor our leaders, movements, communal legacies, and mobilize transformative spaces for the safety and well-being of our communities. Cara is currently the Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project. She is also a co-founder and former Coordinator of the Kindred Collective, a southeastern network of healers, health practitioners and organizers seeking ways to respond to and intervene on state violence & generational trauma. She is the former National Director of the Committee on Women, Population & the Environment, and a proud member of Southerners on New Ground, Project South, and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a queer disabled femme writer, performance artist, and educator of Burgher/Tamil Sri Lankan and Irish/Roma ascent. The author of the Lambda Award-winning Love Cake, Dirty River, Bodymap, and Consensual Genocide and co-editor with Ching-In Chen and Jai Dulani of The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities, her writings on femme of color and Sri Lankan identities, survivorhood, healing, disability, and transformative justice have been widely published. She is the co-founder of Mangos With Chili, North America's touring queer and trans people of color cabaret, a lead artist with the disability justice incubator Sins Invalid, and co-founder of Toronto's Asian Arts Freedom School. In 2010 she was named one of the Feminist Press' 40 Feminists Under 40 Shaping the Future and is a 2013 Autostraddle Hot 105 member.
Krystal is a Queer Femme Latina, born and raised in New York City. As a youth she co-founded FIERCE and worked to fight against the impacts of gentrification and policing in the West Village. After graduating from the University of Hawaii at Manoa she worked in the areas of domestic violence, HIV/AIDS prevention, and youth development in Hawaii and San Diego. Longing for her political home, she returned to NYC in 2008 to work at FIERCE, where she held various staff roles, concluding her 7 years of service as a Co-Director. Currently, as an independent consultant, she supports grassroots groups one-on-one in various areas, including program development, organizational development, financial management, and fundraising. Outside of her commitment to social justice and work life, Krystal enjoys reading, cooking, and perfecting her winged eyeliner!
Tara has been active in feminist, LGBTQ, body liberation, women of color, and other justice-based movements for over a decade, and she brings both her passion for the work and her love of creating organizational systems and structures to her role at the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA). As Finance and Operations Director, Tara is excited to support NDWA's internal operations through creating robust financial, human resources, and administrative infrastructure. Prior to joining NDWA, Tara served as Deputy Director at the Third Wave Foundation, a feminist foundation that supports young women and transgender youth in justice movements, primarily in low income communities and communities of color. Before that, Tara also served as the Public Policy and Government Affairs assistant at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, where she supported a team doing state and federal policy work, as well as work around faith and aging. She is the former Board Co-Chair at NOLOSE, a fat and queer organization. She currently serves as the Board Treasurer for the Audre Lorde Project, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing center, focusing on the New York City area.
Alison Swartz is currently working on a PhD in Public Health at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Her PhD investigates the ways that youth coming of age in Khayelitsha (a township in Cape Town) navigate threats and opportunities to health and wellbeing. Alison has a background in social anthropology and environmental sciences. She completed a Masters in Public Health in 2012 also at UCT. Her research and publications have focused on community health workers in Khayelitsha and the synthesis of qualitative data for qualitative systematic reviews. She is employed as a lecturer in the Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences in the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at UCT. She teaches qualitative research methods on the Masters in Public Health programme. Previously, Alison has taught undergraduate medical students at UCT, and has worked in a range of capacities teaching and developing curricula for study abroad programmes with North American undergraduate students.
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|Mooney's Bay, Ottawa, ON
|Jun 22/17 12:00 AM - Jun 25/17 12:00 AM
LiVE 885 presents the Ottawa Dragon Boat festival! Taking place June 22nd to 25th at Mooney's Bay!
You know what feels awesome? Victory. Last year, our LiVE 88.5 team in the Ottawa Dragon Boat festival had a big audacious goal, and we crushed it. Our goal was to not finish dead last, and we nailed it! If team Boaty McBoatface can do it, we like your chances.
It's North America's largest Dragon Boating festival, with four days of killer music, a lot of teamwork, and hopefully winning!
Space is limited so organize your office, and friends to register before the Ottawa Dragon Boat festival sells out again.
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The Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival is in support of the Ottawa Youth Services Bureau, Tim Horton Children's Foundation and the Ottawa Dragon Boat Foundation Community Fund.
About the Festival: The Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival is a not for profit event founded in 1993. The organization held it's inaugural festival in 1994 with the assistance of the Hong Kong Canada Business Association. The first event lasted half a day with 25 teams participating. The Festival, which now boasts over 200 teams in competitive, corporate and community categories, is one of the hottest sporting and entertainment events in the Nation's Capital.


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Babodana to profit from step back in distance
BABODANA, who started this season by landing the Lincoln Handicap at Doncaster in March, can gain a first success in group three company in the Stan James Online Hungerford Stakes (2.50) at Newbury today.
He returned from a seven-week break with an eyecatching effort over a mile at Windsor on his penultimate start, quickening well to challenge a furlong out before fading into fifth behind Gateman, and again looked as though a drop to this trip would suit when a close fifth to Shot To Fame in this grade at Ascot last month.
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By Cat Perry
We live on our smartphones, but that's not necessarily bad for fit folks. Smartphones, apps, and widgets can help us get on our path to adventure if we know the best apps to download. With the Apple store having 1.2 million apps and Android boasting 1.8 million, you can bet that the following top apps will make your fit life better. Get stronger, team up, correct form, and more with these 4 best fitness apps of 2016 for cycling, running, mountain biking, and more.
- Strava Running and Cycling-adding competition and gaming like features to your running and cycling, this app is for the avid and combines distance, route maps, and speed tracked with leaderboards and achievements. Free. It's not just an app, it's a lifestyle. Strava strives to utilize the power of users generated fervor for sports to create a platform that motivates and challenges.
Other cycling apps:
- Cyclemeter - Riders love cyclemeter because it's been all about the metrics from the very beginning. The visual setup is very early internet in some ways as well, allowing you views as if you are a stock trader with multiple dark screens pinging out every second of your destinty. Tracking speed metrics in a line graph show your burst speed and descents as dramatic spikes. It's easy to use, but is only for iOS.
- Cateye - this avid cycling external tracker is like an app you can attache to your bike. Read more about this in the Best Fitness Trackers, Cycling.


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I am an experienced WordPress developer, with over 9 years professional experience developing WordPress websites. I have been a developer on more than 120 WordPress projects, and have been the lead or sole developer on more than 30 WordPress projects. My skills also include 14 years IT experience, 19 years of general web development, and 19 years of graphic design/prepress experience.
- Experienced WordPress developer with 9+ years of experience
- Expertise in building custom WordPress websites
- Expertise in developing WordPress themes according to WPTRT standards, either from the ground up, or utilizing a starter theme like Underscores
- Highly knowledgeable of WordPress APIs like Custom Post Types, Custom Taxonomies, Custom Fields, Shortcodes, Transient Caching, HTTP Transport API
- Extensive WP-CLI experience
- Experience in-taking, reviewing, and auditing WordPress websites utilizing both static analysis tools and manual code review
- Security-conscious, the go-to among my peers for performing security audits, investigating, debugging, documenting, and sanitizing infected sites
- Experience integrating WPMU Membership and S2Members for WordPress membership sites
- Experience integrating WooCommerce and Jigoshop for WordPress based e-commerce sites
- Experience with Gravity Forms, Formidable Pro, Ninja Forms, and Contact Form 7
- Experience with Advanced Custom Fields, and Pods Framework
- Experience developing for WordPress VIP clients
- Experienced with both PHPStorm and NetBeans IDEs
- Knowledge of both Subversion (SVN) and Git version control systems
- Experienced with Trac, familiar with Jira, for bug / issue tracking
- Knowledge of various flavors of Un*x / Linux, very comfortable in a terminal
- Seasoned LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) developer, comfortable installing and configuring server-side software and remote administration
- Experience developing WordPress plugins
- Experience working with MySQL databases
- Experienced with HTML markup and CSS styling
- Knowledge of Less CSS pre-processor
- Experience creating and managing email marketing with Constant Contact, Campaign Monitor, MailChimp, & PHPList
- Photoshop expertise
- Understanding of design principles
- Some experience with ExpressionEngine, Joomla, and ColdFusion
Employment History
The Nerdery
Title: WordPress Developer
Location: Bloomington, MN
Duration: 10/2012 – Present
Job Duties:
- Develop WordPress based websites for major brands and agencies
- Develop custom WordPress themes from the ground up
- Integrate HTML / CSS / JS from Front End Developers into custom WordPress themes
- Supplement FED styling with my own where necessary to complete custom WordPress themes
- Architect WordPress based solutions to client's needs
- Extensive WordPress backend development
- Provide Estimates of Effort to Solutions Engineers and Account Executives for WordPress projects
- Provide Scope of Work documents to Software Project Managers and Clients for WordPress projects
- Provide test plans to Quality Assurance Engineers post development and pre production deployment for WordPress projects
- Adhere to WordPress coding standards
- Perform static analysis and manual analysis, provide documentation and assesments for WordPress code intakes
- Perform security audits for WordPress based sites
- Sanitize and document infected / compromised WordPress websites
- Provide security roadmap planning and best practices to prevent WordPress intrusions and compromises
Echo Press (A Forum Communications Newspaper)
Title: Web Developer / IT Specialist
Location: Alexandria, MN
Duration: 04/2009 – 10/2012
Job Duties:
- Webmaster for both the EchoPress.com and TheOsakisReview.com websites
- Create internet ads for clients utilizing Photoshop & Flash, for use on Forum Communications sites.
- Create & monitor ad campaigns for clients utilizing AdJuggler, to deliver ads to the network of Forum Communications sites.
- Create & manage email marketing campaigns for clients, using Photoshop & hand coding.
- Create & maintain websites for clients utilizing PHP, CFML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript (jQuery), MySQL & MS SQL on LAMP stack servers & MS IIS servers. Implement WordPress and ExpressionEngine for Content Management. Provide support to clients as needed, act as liaison with their webhosts.
- Analyze traffic for client websites using Google Analytics, Google Webmaster Tools, & Bing Webmaster Tools on client websites to determine effectiveness of implemented search engine optimizations.
- Create & manage special content & "niche" publications for EchoPress.com.
- Analyze traffic, reader trending, & popular topics on EchoPress.com utilizing Google Analytics & Quantcast metrics.
- Maintain Echo Press social media presence on Facebook & Twitter, utilizing HootSuite, RSS feeds, & manual postings of content, poll questions, & conversation starters.
- Perform IT duties such as XServe administration & maintenance, backup procedures, Active Directory user management, hardware & software installations, upgrades, maintenance, & troubleshooting on both Mac & Windows platforms. Systems administrator for Apple Macintosh systems. Enforce IT security practices & policies.
- Provide support to online readers & subscribers to EchoPress.com.
- Assist print Design staff with my prepress & postal expertise when requested.
- Process lists, clean & format data with grep when requested.
- Create & maintain Echo's online discount gift certificate store, maintain inventory, process requests, run reports.
- Act as liaison between Forum IT & Echo regarding IT matters, & between Forum Interactive & Echo regarding online matters.
- Research technology challenges & suggest solutions to management.
Title: Web Developer / Designer
Location: Fargo, ND
Duration: 10/2008 – 01/2009
Job Duties:
- Web development for Shortprinter.com and clientele.
- Constant Contact email marketing development for Shortprinter.com and clientele.
- HTML, CSS, PHP, and JavaScript programming.
- MySQL and FileMaker Database administration for web and in-house use.
- XServe and Apache administration.
- IT duties including administering users and groups, remote software installs, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
Knight Printing
Title: Web Developer / Prepress Technician / IT Backup / Graphic Designer
Location: Fargo, ND
Duration: 04/2004 – 10/2008
Job Duties:
- PHP programming for extranet, intranet, and client fulfillment sites.
- HTML, CSS, and JavaScript programming for web development.
- Perl programming for processing customer provided data.
- AppleScript programming for automation and productivity of prepress department.
- MySQL and FileMaker Database administration for web and in-house use.
- Apache web server administrator.
- Responsible for all prepress work and automation for the Premier Student Agenda Summer Project in which Knight Printing produces in excess of 2,000,000 spiral bound student planners for 5,500 to 6,000 schools throughout the U.S. during a three-month period.
- Create and maintain the Knight Printing internet presence at knightprinting.com including programming the logic that drives the dynamic content in the client-only area, maintain security, fix bugs, administrate users and groups, and interface to the Xinet WebNative environment.
- Perform preflight and prepress duties
Knight Printing of Grand Forks / Century Creations Printing
Title: Graphics Department Head
Location: Grand Forks, ND
Duration: 09/2001 – 04/2004
Job Duties:
- Organize, coordinate and schedule graphics department activities for a wide range of commercial print, design, and service bureau projects for this commercial printer.
- Provide on-the-job training for graphics employees; evaluate and document individual performance.
- Work closely with sales to assess and meet customer specifications.
- Interface with upper management, lithography, press, and bindery departments to ensure efficient project turnarounds.
- Assisted Knight Printing with successful merger of Century Creations Printing, Inc., via software recommendations, hardware installation, procedure implementation and setup of graphics department.
Echelon Technologies
Title: Webmaster
Location: Grand Forks, ND
Duration: 12/2001 – 01/2003
Job Duties:
- Conceptualized and implemented website at the personal request of Echelon's CEO.
- Design work based on high-level meetings with Echelon management team to define the client's needs and the look and feel of company's flagship on internet.
- Maintained site content; redesigned graphical content and iconography based on client requests.
Lakes Area Recreation
Title: Independent Contract Webmaster
Location: Alexandria, MN
Duration: 03/2001 – 09/2001
Job Duties:
- Evaluated needs and wants of Director, division supervisors and organization in relation to website.
- Designed site from storyboard to finish with clean, concise and easy to navigate pages.
- Project completed ahead of schedule.
- Created stylized representational graphics and iconography; scanned, retouched and optimized photographs.
- Coded web pages and rollovers utilizing DreamWeaver and BBEdit.
Herald-Register Publishing Co.
Title: Lead Graphic Designer
Location: Grinnell, IA
Duration: 08/1999 – 09/2000
Job Duties:
- Designed majority of single color, two color, and full color advertising and promotional materials for twice weekly newspaper and weekly tabloid publications.
- Worked closely with sales and management teams to provide superior advertising design to local clientele.
- Cataloged and maintained advertising archives, font libraries, and stock art libraries.
- Managed and directed 3 ad designers.
Major: Web Design Program (Evening Classes)
School: North Dakota State College of Science (NDSCS-Fargo)
Location: Fargo, ND Extension
Degree: None, Completed 1 year of 2-year program, Paid for by employer
Completion Date: 09/2004 – 05/2005
Courses: HTML, CSS, Java, Perl, MySQL, Flash
Major: Communication Art & Design
School: Alexandria Technical & Community College
Location: Alexandria, MN
Degree: Two-Year Degree
Completion Date: 09/1996 – 05/1998
Courses: HTML, PhotoShop, QuarkXPress, FreeHand, Ad Design, Layout Design, Package Design, Logo Design, Storyboarding, Typography, Illustration, Color Theory, Life Drawing, Traditional Painting, Airbrushing, Pen and Ink
School: Jefferson Senior High School
Location: Alexandria, MN
Degree: Diploma
Completion Date: 05/1995
Courses: General high school studies with emphasis on art
Licenses/Certificates/Additional Training
Mailpiece Quality Control (MQC) Specialist
United States Postal Service
Volunteer Experience & Causes
Overnight Website Challenge — March 2013
Team — ';DROP TABLE
Non-profit — Phillips Neighborhood Clinic
Overnight Website Challenge — April 2014
Team — Raxacoricofallapatorius
Non-profit — Dispute Resolution Center
Professional Honors
- MN Newspaper Association 2011-2012 Better Newspaper Contest — 1st Place — Website for weekly papers with > 5,000 subscribers
- MN Newspaper Association 2010-2011 Better Newspaper Contest — 1st Place — Website for weekly papers with > 5,000 subscribers
- MN Newspaper Association 2009-2010 Better Newspaper Contest — 1st Place — Website for weekly papers with > 5,000 subscribers
- IA Newspaper Association 2000 Better Newspaper Contest — 1st Place — "Best of Class Advertising" for "Elect Byron Worley" Ad
- IA Newspaper Association 2000 Better Newspaper Contest — 1st Place — "Best Ad Featuring Miscellaneous" for "Elect Byron Worley" Ad
Collegiate Honors
- Achieved President's List 4/6 trimesters during college career
- Sno-Daze Design contest winner
- Member student intranet team
- Member Alex Tech Art Club (ATAC)
- Organized and promoted ATAC fund-raiser
- Maintained CAD Macintosh lab — installed software, performed upgrades at request of staff
- Runner up "Bite by Byte" Café logo design contest
- Student tutor for CAD
Additional Skills
For completeness, I have included skills revolving around print production and design. Though not often used, they do prove useful in both web development and IT capacities.
- Training in all areas and aspects of graphic arts
- Extensive experience with prepress production and graphic design
- Adept with Creo Prinergy Trap Editor, Scitex Full Auto Frame trapping, and traditional PostScript trapping
- Experienced with Creo Prinergy computer to plate, Scitex Dolev film output, and traditional paste-up
- Accomplished with QuarkXPress, Adobe PageMaker, InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, MacroMedia FreeHand, Adobe Streamline, Extensis Suitcase, MS Office and Open Office on both Macintosh and Windows platforms
- Qualified with Creo Prinergy Workshop, Scitex PS/M RIP, Xerox DocuColor 12 with Splash G630 RIP, XES ColorGrafx X2 wide format plotter with PosterShop RIP, and Indigo E-Print Pro Digital Press with onboard Indigo RIP
- Well-versed in AppleScript for automation and productivity
- Proficient with photo color correction, repair and retouching
- Skilled scanner operator


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James-Bates-Brannan-Groover-LLP is proud to announce that Marlina Rogers has joined the firm
November 11, 2017
JBBG announces the addition of attorney Marlina Anne Rogers to the firm's General Litigation practice group. Marlina's practice focuses on general civil litigation, employment law, premises liability, eminent domain, business law, insurance litigation and appellate litigation. She is passionate about providing superior client representation and brings experience from varied types of in-house counsel settings, both within the private and government sectors. Prior to joining James-Bates-Brannan-Groover-LLP, Marlina worked as an Associate Attorney at Harris & James, LLP where she gained experience in estate planning, business litigation, eminent domain, municipal law and healthcare law. Marlina earned her Juris Doctor with honors from the University Of Tulsa College Of Law in 2015 and her Bachelors of Arts, Communications from East Tennessee State University in 2012. James-Bates-Brannan-Groover-LLP is excited to have the experience, knowledge, values, and commitment that Marlina brings to the team. Marlina can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 478.749.9987.


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Our craft beers are brewed and bottled in our 1000l microbrewery in Carraroe, Co. Galway. All our craft beers contain only natural ingredients with no added chemicals. Our beers are all vegan friendly except for our stout which contains lactose.
Malted Barley
As an Irish craft brewery we are proud that most of the malted barley used in our beers is grown in Ireland. We source our Irish barley from Loughran Malts, Co Louth. www.malt.ie The Loughran Family Farm have grown barley for malting for generations and are now starting to supply their own malted barley to craft brewers.
Our hops on the other hand come from all over the globe, specially chosen for their flavour and aroma characteristics. Currently we use hops from England, Germany, America and New Zealand to provide a variety of flavours and options to our drinkers.


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The Rad Summer x No Bad Ideas collaboration snapbacks are finally available!
In May we began meeting with No Bad Ideas Clothing Company about forming a brand partnership between them and Rad Summer. From those talks, two projects were born: NBI presents Rad Summer Radio and the amazing hats you see above. Our goal was to create a hat that combined the slick visual design for which Rad Summer is known and the quality craftsmanship and innovation of No Bad Ideas. At first glance, the hat appears to be an ordinary black logo snapback, but flipped, it reveals the intricate paisley print under the bill and along the seems. Further inspection yields the discovery of secret stash pocket to whatever you choose. You can get your hands on this fall's most in-demand piece of headwear at our online store for the low price of $15!
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Three Year Preschool Class
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1-1-13 SSO_Scooby: BREAKING NEWS - Nijaifi calls for holding urgent meeting of Parliament to discuss the political crisis Baghdad. Speaker of Parliament, Nijaifi, called for holding an extra ordinary meeting of Parliament on Sunday, Jan. 6, to discuss current political crisis.
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1-1-13 Doc: We will end/start the year by answering several recent questions: Speaking of Cash-in stories what about Reno? Again these have proven time and time again as unfounded. When the CBI sets the rate it will go live in milliseconds around the globe. There are no special bank screens that show it to a select few. None of this is true and has been verified by banking officials.
Doesn't the budget have the RV rate built into it? Again this is another false story being circulated around the internet. You have to remember Iraq gets its revenue from oil and oil is traded in USD not dinar. Iraq has a steady flow of USD from its oil. The budget simply takes the USD from oil sales and converts to dinar at the current program rate. Iraq is not going to reveal rate changes in its budget prior to a RV
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. 1-1-13 John Glaser: The state structures built in Iraq by the US military occupation are now the depraved tools of repression. First among these tools is the US-trained and equipped Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF). By the time Washington was preparing to draw down forces in Iraq, writes Robert Tollast in The National Interest, "elements of ISOF were already being used as a private army by Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki."
And now, with Maliki having secured essentially dictatorial power in Iraq since the US withdrawal, not only is the continuing US support and training for Maliki's private army of sectarian thugs an essential tool in terrorizing innocent Iraqis, but it is bolstering al-Qaeda-linked groups and stoking sectarian tensions that could lead to civil war.
"Blame here can only go to Maliki," writes Tollast, who "controls ISOF through the Counter-terrorism Bureau, which has proved a useful tool for crushing dissent" and has been "implicated in the intimidation, arrest and even murder of Sunni politicians and opposition figures."
The Obama administration has kept largely quiet about Maliki's behavior, aside from about $2 billion in annual aid and tens of billions in military assistance. While this keeps the halls of power in Washington and the oil corporations happy, even the best case scenarios are damning, for Iraqi citizens as well as the geopolitics of the region.
"Maliki is heading towards an incredibly destructive dictatorship, and it looks to me as though the Obama administration is waving him across the finishing line," Toby Dodge, an Iraq expert at the London School of Economics said earlier this year.
"Meanwhile, the most likely outcomes, which are either dictatorship or civil war, would be catastrophic because Iraq sits between Iran and Syria."
According to Tollast, the strength of al-Qaeda in Iraq has doubled over the past year. Instead of carrying counter-terrorism – "essentially the art of increasing political legitimacy, isolating terrorists from their support base and then eliminating them" –
Maliki has been using his security forces in a way that undermines their political legitimacy and reinforces their support base. And as far as civil war goes: angered Kurds and Sunnis say their disenfranchisement has never been greater. This increases the chances more Iraqis will join the latent insurgency still underway there.
Lately, America really seems to have a knack for indirectly strengthening the terrorist groups they claim to fight against. And in their effort to continue propping up dictatorships throughout the Middle East, Washington is sowing deep resentment among the local populations, which ultimately feeds instability. And in the age of Arab uprisings against US-backed totalitarianism, Washington is plain old stupid to keep it up
12-31-12 Capt. Cliff: This is all confusing for me so many different opinions--all quite good and believable and explained for the reason why which one is the best! I totally understand Adams opinion of the low rate and cutting the costs of the CBI to bring the currency up to it's former value over time --that is how the CBI will make money and cut the RV debt--I think I got that part right.
But what is not taken into consideration here and I do not understand at all is this only concerns the CBI--if you now take into consideration what is needed to operate the GOI for the year---please forget the corruption part for a bit --then that low a rate will not do it--Feb 23 is the last date the GOI can borrow money to pick up the short fall and they will have to start repaying the loans they already have taken out --a dime won't do it --time frame with a low CBI rate won't do it.
Now some are going to say well they will get all those frozen funds, DFI, recovered Saddam's bank accounts and so forth will be available to them---well as I see it that is true to an extent but that is only if they are released from Chap 7 and there is no guarantee that this is going to be rubber stamped at the same time---what is guaranteed is there can be no release from Chap 7 releasing those funds to Iraq without an RV---if the conditions of Chap 7 are still not met even with an RV then they will not be released ! This is how my reading has made me look at this!
Quite possibly they could not be allowed to RV without meeting ALL conditions after all it might be a total IRAQI RV but without international support they could make the the rate 10.00 and still have a worthless currency-my reference is the artificial rate Saddam put on the value ,you know the bills with his picture on it!
I would like to see a balanced picture of what MAY, COULD happen rather from the CBI side or the GOI Side--IMO this is where the true picture lies both must work together for the good of the country. Sorry about being the devils advocate here but there is much more needed from the knowledgeable people here, then one opinion so diverse from the others---I guess I am just confused.
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Guys I'd really like to hear your comments on the John Glasel post...it could really be a key piece of information as it appears this could be a permanent holdup on the rv... imo.. what does it mean for the US oil corporations for instance to allow or encourage/financially support extremist groups knowingly/unknowingly the instability in the M.E. and Iraq ...doesnt that somehow bolster the petro dollar or maintain the status quo for oil prices..to stay artificially high I hope recaps keeps Glasel's post around for a future repost in the near future if this rv does not pop before the middle of the month or God forbid the end of January into February...March etc... this info has to be close to what may really be going on in line with my worst suspicions ..should this saga continue much deeper into January... where perhaps the wheels of sanity begin to fall off this ride for most people..at which point there can only be a sinister conclusion to all this that may have been choregraphed on both sides of the pond all along from the beginning...its not as though the US.. ptb/iraq havent had enough time to do this ..if not in the immediate future now this week ..no later than the end of next week.. then when if ever?? KEN
I have been in this investment for a little over a year and I'm always trying to stay positive but what keeps bothering me is when this RV'S, does Iraq have the funds to pay everyone? I hold less than a million dinar and my group has a little over 20 million total and if it rv's at $4, then thats $80 million just to us five. The USA is suppose to hold 3 trillion so that $12 trillion just to the US. Not counting the rest of the investors in the US and the ones around the world. I know Iraq is a wealthy country, but my question is are they that wealthy? Thank you.
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i could not agree more. I guess much of this has been in the back of our heads along but the false hope or misinfo from so called gurus keep your on the edge of your seat. One of the best post i have read in a long time
1/2/2013 09:21:47 pm
At last someone that I can understand and not jibberish. There are so many folk out there or on the net that are texting to be known with nothing to say........please just calm down!!!!!!!! This has real substance.
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