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RZA responds to U-God and clears Aftermath rumor
- 2004-03-02 19:38:53
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- 2004-03-02
Last night, RZA's international assistent and artist/producer Cilvaringz received a statement per email from RZA regarding the latest claims by Wu-Tang Clan member U-God as surfaced earlier on MTV (
Click here to read the original article
Furthermore he also commented on the rumors of Wu-Tang Clan joining Dr.Dre's Aftermath Records and Cappadonna's claims of mistreat by the clan which surfaced a couple of weeks ago.
Hereunder you will find the raw and uncut email directly from RZA. Please look past the grammatical mistakes, we did not change a word so that you may receive the full unedited message.
I can't believe u god would twist the truth like that and make himself look like he was mistreated by me or any wu member. As far as no wu tang lp. It is obvious with mentallities such as his existing how can a unified wutang campaign come about inclusive of all members. I the Rza will raise the flag when the time is right, and that's when all minds and will submit to one.
U godzilla has a distorted memory of the wu and his involvement. And for him to state that I dealt with seperation is blasphemous, for it was my focus on unity that made us strong and successful. I don't deal with seperation nor unrighteousness amongst my peers or my enemies. I deal with freedom justice and equality. Our life is a reflection of our own acts and deeds, who can a man blame besides himself for his personal mishap. Unless someone directly or indirectly inflict their will on you. The blame lies on self. Especially when you come in the name of god as in u god. I don't usally like commenting on family affairs because I believe it should remain internal. Yet due to the recent slander of my name by godzilla and cappa its only right that I clear away some of the fog of confusion and falsehood that they are advocating.
If we reflect back on history I recall ugod only having 4 bars on protect ya neck. He then had to serve some time incarcerated. Many people felt he should be cut from the team but I being the final voice insisted he remain. In the interim of that single to the release of the first album many homies, family members and fans felt ugod was a weak link, I was constantly being approach by people advocating this but I laughed it off because I had faith in him and love for him. I recall his skill level being far behind the other members because jail makes you stiff and less fluent. Just as it was when o d b first came home. Still I kept him in the rankings and made sure he ate a equal amount that the rest enjoyed even though he was barely present on the early product. So when he claims that he was pushed to the side or made a slave he is only frabricating lies and using a bias distorted form of our history.
The members who had solo projects had them because they were the ones who the public and the industry was feeling at the time. The deals were being offered for the more prominent members. Yet I informed u god that when the time comes he will get his shine just as everyone else because everyone gets their time to shine, but one must patient as well as persistent and determined. 50 cent is a prime example. As time went on he regained his flow and began to shine a little brighter but he also devlope an what some have called a grumpy attitude and that made him hard to deal with in some eyes. No one would offer him a recording deal. It wasn't until I put the money up my self from wutang records did he get a chance for a solo album. And my company spent well over 1 and half mil on him in advances and videos and promo. With more than half that going is his pocket. In fact his unrecoupement crippled my label. So where is the slavery at. Look at songs like chez chez la ghost and grav!
el pit those were attempts to put him out there more and build his shine. After that if he was ordained to have more success it wouldve shown thru.
I can write a book of truth on the ins and out of the wu family and people will truthfully see who head got lost in music. I have not built an illusionary ego from this music game. I travell around the world breaking bread with most famous artist to the basic homeless mc. And treat everyone with the respect they deserve.
If anyone has any questions, hit me up on the site www.wutangcorp.com.
And as far as the aftermath union.
The Rza and Dr dre. Both agree its a great idea creatively and historically and are now working out the business aspect. The idea originated with o d b and later brought to the table by the recording industry giant Jimmy Iovine.
This is my response to ugods statements. There is much more I can say but I rather say it in person to ugod and any other challenger of truth to what I manifested into this world of hip hop. You can forward this to mtv as well.
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On this, Darwin Day, evolution as a theory, as a science, as a subject for debate and discussion, is dead. And Stephen Green of Christian Voice is the one who killed it.
I quote "What is the evolutionary purpose, or what advantage is conveyed to the species, as a species, by the tuft on the head of the tufted duck? And if I am allowed a supplementary or two: If there is no advantage to the species, what is the tuft on the head of the tufted duck actually for and how and why did it evolve?"
You see, ever since Darwin and Wallace, the whole concept of evolution has teetered on the question why the tufted duck has a tuft on its head. No matter how many fossils you dig up, identify and date; no matter what you observe in nature; no matter what area of evolution you study; no matter what the experts are able to explain and provide evidence for. None of these things matter. Unless they can provide the definitive answer to the question that has eluded science ever since man started to ask questions, it is all for nought. It seems nobody can explain why the tufted duck has a tuft on its head, therefore evolution must be false.
All hail Stephen Green. All hail the tufted duck - the duck that proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that god exists.
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What is the evolutionary purpose of Stephen Green?
To increase the number of people who take rhetorical questions seriously.
Tufted ducks are cute. They probably have the tufts to attract some other tufted ducks.
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By D. Kevin McNeir
If you gauge vocal artistry solely on which singers you routinely hear on today's popular radio stations, you're doing yourself a real disservice, especially if channel surfing in your city hasn't exposed you to the dynamic talent and six-octave range of vocalist and musician Rachelle Ferrell.
Ferrell's vocal arsenal is in a word "amazing." In fact, few artists can match the awesome combination of God-given gifts that she possesses, particularly when considering her vocal range, phrasing and overall musicianship. Classically trained in violin and piano in her formative years, she first began singing when she was six years old.
Her album, "First Instrument," was released in 1990 in Japan – five years prior to its U.S. release, and remains one of the most outstanding examples of a vocalist taking jazz standards and making them their own. Her rendition of Sam Cooke's "You Send Me," Cole Porter's "What is This Thing Called Love," and Rodgers and Hart's "My Funny Valentine" illustrate her vast array of talents and why she has since captured the hearts and souls of jazz aficionados.
But jazz is not the only genre that this singer, who can "wail like Minnie Ripperton," has mastered. Prior to embarking on her solo career, she sang backup for the likes of Lou Rawls, Patti LaBelle, Vanessa Williams, George Duke, and this writer's personal favorite, Phyllis Hyman. With the release of her album in 1992 consisting of self-penned originals, including the heartfelt duet with Will Downing, "Nothing Has Ever Felt Like This," she began to build a solid base of U.S.-based, R&B fans. Still, you can't help but be impressed when you consider some of the jazz musicians with whom she's worked and recorded: trumpeter Terence Blanchard; bassists Stanley Clarke, Kenny Davis and Tyrone Brown; pianists Eddie Green, Gil Goldstein and Michel Petrucciani; drummer Doug Nally; and saxophonist Wayne Shorter.
This writer caught up with Ferrell after a performance that brought the crowd to its feet during her appearance at the recently-held Ninth Annual Jazz in the Gardens in Miami Gardens, Florida. As always, she was candid in her remarks and gracious with her time.
"I was ill last year and unable to perform so my prayer was that I would have the chance to return and make up for disappointing the fans," she said. "I just got out of the way so that the Creator could deal with all of the individual needs and raise the energy. It was everything that I expected and could have hoped for."
Revisiting the power of love
According to Ferrell, when she penned what would eventually become one of her most-requested songs, the above-mentioned duet with Downing, she never expected it to be so well received. And while she's understandably proud of its success, she notes that as the song took shape, she had one specific purpose in mind.
"I was in love then and I wanted the song to carry that message to others," she said. "It was a great period in my life."
Reflecting on her emergence as a respected vocalist and musician, she said, "I never envisioned myself as having the accoutrements to be a star but I had studied my craft and was confident that I had what was even more important – substance and form. The rest I left for God to develop."
Now, after a lengthy hiatus from recording, Ferrell says she is completing work on a project that will show just how much she has grown – both individually and as an artist.
"I'm in love again but this time it's more about being in love with life and, for the first time, about being in love with myself," she said. "It's been a long, hard journey but it's been wonderful too. We have to eventually realize that who we are is who we are. Where I go from here depends on where I'm called by God. I can't say where that will be but I can say that wherever the highest level of excellence is and wherever the greatest good can be done is the direction that I will follow."
As she embraces the joy that comes with loving one's self, Ferrell also notes that she hopes young, aspiring vocalists will realize that anything worth having, like a successful career in music, takes time and effort.
"We now live in a microwave age and many people expect life to follow in that instant, ready-made pattern," she said. "But to me it's just the opposite. For example, the voice consists of flesh and blood and so what we do to our body is what we do to our voice, and vice versa. It's essential that we grow and develop this precious instrument that God has given us. What comes after that is according to His will."
D. Kevin McNeir is an award-winning journalist who has worked with the Black press in Detroit, Grand Rapids, Atlanta and Chicago. For the past four years he served as the senior editor of The Miami Times.During his tenure, the paper was chosen twice (2011, 2013) as the nation's top Black newspaper by the NNPA. He currently resides in Virginia and is working on his first book, "Growing Up Motown." He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Hershey's Simple Pleasures Offer Low-Guilt Chocolate Enjoyment
Hershey, Pa.-based Hershey Co. launches Hershey's Simple Pleasures, creamy chocolates with a rich crème-filled center containing 30 percent less fat than average milk chocolates, and the first new brand from Hershey since 2007.
Available in three varieties — Milk Chocolate with Chocolate Crème, Dark Chocolate with Chocolate Crème, and Milk Chocolate with Vanilla Crème — they are individually wrapped for easy portion control in a 24-count, 5.6-oz. stand-up bag. Each serving size, which includes six pieces (each about the size of a quarter), has 180 calories with 22g of sugar, compared to a Hershey bar which has 210 calories and 24g of sugar.
According to a recent survey of 1,000 women conducted by The Hershey Co., 58 percent would love to savor their chocolate without guilt. Other findings include: Eating certain foods is the No. 1 source of guilt (58 percent), more than sleeping in (19 percent) or watching too much TV (28 percent); At least one in five women feel guilty about things they do for themselves, including shopping (24 percent) or pampering (22 percent). And by declaring independence from guilt, women would feel the sweet sensations of motivation (72 percent), energy (70 percent), excitement (65 percent) and empowerment (64 percent).
"We know people love chocolate and want to live a balanced lifestyle," says spokeswoman Anna Lingeris. "With Hershey's Simple Pleasures chocolates, our goal is to give chocolate lovers a reason to celebrate because they can finally have it all ... delicious chocolate they can feel great about loving."
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The U.S. Small Business Administration, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis will hold a series of free workshops on "Uniform Commercial Codes: Bringing Business to Indian Country."
The Uniform Commercial Codes workshops will help tribal affiliated organizations, tribal governments and Native American businesses understand how adopting a secured transaction code can increase economic development opportunities.
The workshops will demonstrate how to compete in the marketplace; identify roadblocks and solutions to secure---- business transactions in Indian Country; explain the significance of commercial laws to borrowers; and discuss why lenders must have the ability to secure loan transactions.
As sovereign nations, Native American tribes are free to adopt their own commercial codes, so tribal commercial laws can vary widely. Tribal commercial codes include business laws governing commercial transactions and financial services, but the differences among tribal codes and with the Uniform Commercial Codes that give legal structure to the rules outside tribal areas can complicate business dealings outside the tribe. These workshops will improve understanding of the Uniform Commercial Codes and lead to more efficient cross-border business activity.
The five one-day workshops, all free and open to the public, will be held from June to September 2012, and include the following cities (The location marked TBA will be updated online with the confirmed date):
Sacramento, California: June 5, 2012: 8:30am – 3:00pm
Seattle, Washington:June 7, 2012: 8:30am – 3:00pm
Phoenix, Arizona:June 12, 2012: 8:30am – 3:00pm
Bismarck, North Dakota: September 27, 2012: 8:30am – 3:30pm
Niagara, New York Date: TBA: 8:30am – 3:00pm
For additional information on the Uniform Commercial Codes workshops, including local area registration information, visit http://www.frbsf.org/community/resources/2012/0605-Uniform-Commercial-Codes-Bringing-Business-to-Indian-Country/index.html.
SBA also offers free online courses for starting a business, managing a business, financing a business, and contracting that includes a Native American Small Business Primer course offering strategies for business success. It is one of nearly 30 online tutorials offered by the SBA's Online Business Training at www.sba.gov/training.
For more information on SBA's programs and services, please visit www.sba.gov.
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Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.
Suarez enjoying Anfield life
Liverpool striker Luis Suarez has re-iterated his happiness at Anfield and admits he still has hopes of qualifying for the Champions League.
The Uruguay international is, however, keen to talk about his contract with the club either this summer or next. Suarez signed an improved deal, which runs until 2018, last August but he is reportedly a target for incoming Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola when the transfer window reopens.
Asked by Spanish radio station Marca if Liverpool should talk about his future in the summer, he said: "Yes, we should talk this June or the next one, in 2014. My contract ends in 2018."
He continued: "I'm very happy here and my family love the life here too.
"I want to enjoy being at this club where I, like all the kids, dreamed of playing and now I'm fulfilling that dream.
"I'm very pleased and very happy because Liverpool is growing.
"It's not the team that it once was as they have had a dip but now we have a new coach, who has a philosophy of the game with which the players are very happy.
"The only thing missing is to have more positive results so we can finish in a Champions League spot.
"We would like to qualify for the Champions League if possible.
"We are young and growing as a team and when the players mature, we will be stronger."


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Born in the dust-laden family garage with archaic samplers, Radio Shack mics, and broken record players, Mute Math have been noisily calculating their notes for the past few years. This electro-alt rock collaboration between longtime friends Paul Meany (vocals/keys), Darren King (drums), Greg Hill (guitar), and Roy Mitchell-Cardenas (bass) has crept up on the music scene with the onslaught of a worldwide fan-base driven to their website from countless video blogs and non-stop touring.
The four piece (originating from New Orleans) has scattered influences that are apparent without being obvious, and touch on everything from DJ shadow styled beats, moments of beauty and grandeur a la Bjork, and vocals that pay legitimate homage to Police-era Sting. When asked about this vast expanse of musical territory that we are asked to find them dwelling within, Meany replied, "I blame it on the past forty years of music." They act on the idea that their magic is to be found in the mixture of countless thoughts. Their live show thrives on this random energy too involving homemade instruments, live sampling, a junked-out keytar, and the kind of freak-outs that keep any given performance worth the price of admission.


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As a follow up to
Inferential Genealogy Study Group in 2nd Life – Muster Rolls
That post was about David Ridgely Howard, but it referred to a brother. Here is that information.
First and Second Maryland Infantry
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Pvt., Co. C(2nd), 1st Md. Inf. b. Baltimore 3/26/39. Att. St. James College & U of Va. Res. of Baltimore. Enl. Richmond 5/17/61. Ab. sick Strasburg 6/25-31/61. Ab. sick in camp near Centreville 10/29-31/61. Ab. on detached service at Haymarket 11-12/61. Discharged 6/23/52. Promoted Lt. Of Art. 6/24/62. Assigned as Acting Asst. Adjt General on staff of Col. T.S. Rhett, commanding the artillery defenses of Richmond 1862-63. Ord. Officer on Gen. Elzey's staff, 5-7/64. Asst. Adjutant General on Gen. Stevens staff 8/64. May have served on the staffs of Gen.'s Nicholls, Hays and B.T. Johnson 1864. NFR. Emigrated to Canada 1865. M.D., Baltimore. Served in Engineer Corps, Baltimore, postwar. Lawyer. Member, Army & Navy Society, Maryland Line Association. d. Oakland, Md. 1/31/16. Believed bur. in the Old St. Paul's Cem., Baltimore.
NFR: No further record
As with his brother, I have his Civil War records.
His venture to Canada wasn't very long, as he is in the 1870 Census with David.
No further along to the Parents, but the Family is taking shape.


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Welcome to a brand new type of active adventure. Welcome to the first ever outdoor escape game!
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My favorite Facebook post of the month came from Katherine McCommon, vice president of regional operations at Intelligent Lighting Design of Austin, Texas:
"Ever wonder how much exercise you can get setting up and striking an event lighting design at a facility like The Long Center? Yesterday, [colleague] Brian Dawson walked 34,954 steps, climbed 35 floors, traveled 13.76 miles, and burned 6000-plus calories. Wow! Forget a gym--design an event!"
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Palomar Health Debuts Hospital of the Future
At last week's iHT2 Health Summit at the New York Academy of Medicine, I had the pleasure of introducing Dr. Ben Kanter, chief medical information officer at Palomar Health, California's largest health district. During his presentation, Dr. Kanter discussed the new $1B, 11-story Palomar Health Medical Center in western Escondido which opened for patient care on August 19, 2012. Called the "Hospital of the Future" by healthcare pundits, the new Palomar facility integrates key technologies, such as EMR, video and collaboration solutions, into an environment that uses nature, light, and outdoor space which work together to promote healing.
During the design phase, Palomar's leadership team, including Dr. Kanter, worked closely with Cisco on the goal of creating a higher level of mobility and collaboration among clinicians, patients and their families. Cisco technologies currently in use include unified communications (video, WebEx, Wireless IP Phones) along with Unified Computing System, all tied together via a wired and wireless Cisco medical-grade network.
Dr. Ben Kanter, chief medical information officer at Palomar Health:
"The ability Cisco provides to tie everyone in the hospital together – patients, nurses, pharmacists, physicians, infection control, administrative teams – through a security optimized, mobile and video-enabled environment, will have significant, positive impact across the healthcare continuum. Now patients have greater freedoms within the hospital, without compromising their health, as they are observed both inside and outside of hospital walls. And the ability for our doctors to review patient information from a mobile device, and conference in a nurse and a specialist at the same time to discuss the case, will completely change patient care."
We invite you to learn more about Palomar Health and to watch a four-minute highlights video about the new medical center.
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A high-level government review committee has given its stamp of approval on a decision to block 306 accounts being used on micro-blogging site Twitter in the wake of communal violence in Assam's Kokrajhar district and largescale migration of people from the South.
These accounts, according to the review Committee, had the potential to inflame communal tension in the country and some morphed pictures were uploaded that had led to clashes in some parts of the country.
Secretary of Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) told the review committee comprising Cabinet Secretary Ajit Seth, Telecom Secretary R Chandrasekhar and Legal Affairs Secretary B A Agarwal that he had held a meeting with representatives of Google, Twitter and Facebook and asked them to provide details of the up-loaders of "objectionable" contents.
However, none of them provided any details, the DeitY was quoted as saying in the minutes of the meeting held recently in the Cabinet Secretariat.
The committee was reviewing the 310 Twitter and Facebook accounts that were blocked after the communal clashes in Kokrajhar in Assam.
Following these clashes, migration of Northeast residents was witnessed from Bengaralu, Pune, Hyderabad, Lucknow and Patna.
The government has been alleging some mischievous elements were using the social networking sites for fomenting communal tension and had also issued an advisory asking the websites to remove
"However, such inflammatory and harmful contents continued to appear on the social networking sites despite the advisory and the request made by DeitY," the meeting noted.
Cracking the whip, the DeitY had blocked 310 accounts on Twitter and other social networking sites last year and the committee had met to confirm the same order.
However, three twitter account holders and a website owner deposed before the committee and furnished written undertaking to remove the objectionable material after which they were taken off from the blocking list.
In case of other 306, the Committee said these do not merit any intervention and therefore they would remain blocked under section 69A of Information and Technology Act and Information Technology (Procedures and safeguards for Blocking of Access of Information by Public) Rules 2009.
According to Section 69A of IT act, the government can block or ban any such material available on the Internet which can be detrimental to the country's sovereignty, integrity and security.
The Information Technology (Procedures and safeguards for Blocking of Access of Information by Public) Rules 2009 lays down the procedures, guidelines for blocking of the website or information generated, transmitted via the Internet for the general public.
The rule makes provision for an officer not below the rank of Joint Secretary shall be designated by the central government for issuing a direction for blocking for access by the public any objectionable website.


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Brain Protection System
MIPS, which stands for Multi-directional Impact Protection System, is a patented...
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MIPS, which stands for Multi-directional Impact Protection System, is a patented brain protection system designed to reduce rotational motion from angled impacts that can cause strain in the brain.
MIPS mimics the brain's own protection system inside the skull by adding a low-friction layer between the head and helmet. A helmet with MIPS can absorb more rotational motion from an angled impact.
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MIPS was developed by some of the world's leading researchers in biomechanics and neuroscience at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.
Strain level images from lab tests where two identical helmets, one with MIPS and one without, tested at the same speed show a clear difference. The red that appears in the image below indicates more strain in the brain. A helmet with MIPS reduces the rotational motion transmitted to the brain.
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When you fall off your bike, rarely will you hit your head directly on top of your helmet. Generally, when your head impacts the ground it does so at an angle. When this happens, rotational motion occurs to the brain which could cause injury. Luckily, there is a membrane inside your skull that the brain slides along to reduce the rotational motion transmitted to the brain. MIPS uses a low-friction layer between the head and helmet similar to the membrane inside your skull, which in experimental and numerical tests has shown a reduction of rotational motion to the brain.
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Since 1996, research and tests have been performed to compare a helmet with MIPS to a conventional helmet. The results have shown it is possible to reduce the rotational motion transmitted to the brain by adding the MIPS.
At Liv, we are committed to providing cutting edge technologies and integration of enhanced protection with partners like MIPS. When you are zooming down a mountain pass, navigating technical off-road terrain or negotiating city traffic, you should be able to pedal in confidence knowing your helmet has you covered. Liv helmets with MIPS will never interfere with our helmet's comfort or design, so there are no sacrifices when it comes to style.
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Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Profile of the ASA President. . . Pushing Social Boundaries: Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
by Judith Lorber, Graduate School and Brooklyn College, City University of New York
In 1976, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein and Rose Laub Coser were in England organizing an international conference on women elites at King's College, Cambridge. Because they also shared a love of gourmet food, they thought they might also consider writing a cookbook – Fast, Easy, and Healthy Food for Women Revolutionaries. The pressures of assembling an international group of scholars to speak about women in elite occupations in Eastern and Western Europe and Israel interfered and they never got beyond the title. Instead they co-edited the papers for a book Access to Power: Cross-National Studies on Women and Elites, published in 1981. That glint of ironic humor is evident in Cynthia's slight smile in her 1955 senior yearbook picture at Antioch College; her revolutionary determination is also evident in her no-nonsense gaze.
In her essay for a book about her experiences at Antioch, Courses in Courage, Cynthia says that she learned that "knowledge for its own sake is good but requires probing questions and rigor in pursuing answers, and one must always be asking the question, knowledge for what?" Scholarship and political activism were to become the two prongs of her professional career.
Early Influences: Politics
As a student in college, and even before, Cynthia was aware of the processes that defined groups of people as "other." Her grandfather was an uneducated shoemaker in Poland at the time of Russian pogroms against Jews. The family emigrated to the United States in stages, and grew up in the back of their father's shop on the lower East Side of New York City.
Cynthia's father graduated from Stuyvesant High School and had one year of college, where he became a socialist. He outgrew some of his early idealism about the possibility of creating an egalitarian society, but he was an untiring worker in the reform wing of the Democratic Party until his death at the age of 91.
Cynthia participated in a Zionist youth group that subscribed to the socialist ideals of the Israeli kibbutz, which also had the idealistic goal (not always achieved) of gender equality. Cynthia's parents sent her to Antioch College in Ohio, a place known for its liberal politics. During slavery, it was a refuge on the Underground Railroad that sent runaway slaves to non-slave territories. Antioch was an early innovator in student participation in the running of the college and also had a co-op work program for students.
Politics was very much at the forefront during the early 1950s, when Senator Joseph McCarthy sent his supporters in the Ohio congress delegation to locate and harass left-leaning faculty members, some of whose careers were entirely destroyed. Being exposed to the consequences of labeling and categories, Cynthia became interested in the ways in which marks of status shape popular and social scientific thinking.
Her "progressive" education from grade school through college and her forward-looking family fostered her abilities, but once she graduated, she ran into the sexism of the fifties, which provided few professional opportunities for women. After spending several frustrating years in a dead-end job in a non-profit charitable organization whose executives were women volunteers, Cynthia put her skepticism to the task of figuring out why, despite these women's administrative abilities, they were regarded as lacking the capacity to run a business or a government. Looking for intellectual stimulation and a way out of her limited prospects, Cynthia went to the New School for Social Research at night and was encouraged by Henry Lennard, a pioneer in social interaction research, to go to Columbia University to get a Ph.D.
Early Influences: Scholarship
At Columbia, the sociological angle of vision, with its focus on trying to peel away ideological and "common sense" explanations for behavior, provided a framework for Cynthia to explore more systematically her discomfort with conventional explanations about women's abilities, decisions, and activities. Working as a research assistant for William J. (Si) Goode on a project documenting cross-national differences in family structure, she not only saw how much women's roles differed cross-culturally, but also the way similar rationales about women's "nature" were used to explain completely different behaviors. Robert Merton's classes in social theory and social structure suggested how individuals' choices are made within structural constraints, and his analysis of the dynamics of status and role-sets showed how individuals acquired their places in society according to normative prescriptions and exposure to both public and private social constraints.
With the help of Professor Goode, Cynthia received a grant from the Institute of Life Insurance for $1,000 to study the changing American family. In the course of assembling materials, she saw that women were rapidly entering the labor force, but were limited to jobs that were considered appropriate for women. These differed from country to country, but they were always viewed as "natural" choices. This rationale particularly kept women out of prestigious professions. The few who managed to get professional training and degrees were kept out of colleague networks, did not have mentors or sponsors, and received little acknowledgement of their productivity and creativity. As a result, they had flat rather than upwardly mobile careers.
Using Merton's theories of status sets and opportunity structures, Cynthia's dissertation analyzed the factors that contributed to professional women's inclusion and exclusion. She focused on women lawyers, who were rare and thus constituted a deviant case. They were survivors of a system that was generally hostile to women. Men leaders of all elite professions at the time were clear and vociferous about their antipathy towards women and imposed quotas on their admission to law school and medical school. Once out of school, gatekeepers who recruited lawyers from the largest to the smallest firms, in government work and in corporations, for the most part refused to hire women. (Remember that Sandra Day O'Connor was only offered work as a secretary.) Cynthia decided to examine a sample of the few who circumvented the prevalent gender discrimination.
Feminist Activism
While Cynthia was working on her dissertation, she met Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique, which attacked the prevailing sociological idea that the father-headed, wife-at-home family was the best for society. In 1966, Cynthia joined Friedan and other academic and professional women in the formation of the National Organization for Women in New York City. She was also active in several of the fledgling professional women's groups springing up in response to the women's movement, such as the Professional Women's Caucus and Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS).
As an activist and a scholar, Cynthia participated in various hearings on gender discrimination. She testified at the newly formed Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC), which was establishing guidelines to interpret Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. Her testimony dealt with the consequences of permitting "help wanted" advertisements in newspapers to be divided by gender. She continued to write and speak of the difficulties women faced as recruits to professions dominated by men and getting ahead in them without the benefit of networks, mentors, and sponsors.
Over the years, Cynthia served as a consultant to the White House under two administrations, and at the National Academy of Sciences on the Committee on Women's Employment. She was a consultant to the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and General Motors and with Kai Erikson, conducted a research project on the workplace culture at AT&T and its impact on attempts to change gender and racial occupational segregation. She was also an expert witness worked on the Citadel case, arguing for the inclusion of women in this elite military school.
A Non-stop Career
Cynthia's first book, Women's Place: Option and Limits on Professional Careers, published in 1971, was groundbreaking in that it located women's professional advancement in the structures of opportunities offered them, the organizational limits placed on their ambitions, and the recognition and reward of their accomplishments. In expanding the concepts of master status and social structures to include gender, her work made a crucial connection between traditional sociology and the emerging field of women's studies. Her second book, Women In Law, published in 1981, gave solid empirical evidence about how these processes shaped women lawyers' careers. She received the 1981 SCRIBE's Book Award and the Merit Award of the American Bar Association for Women In Law.
Cynthia's first post-graduate study was of Black professional women. Cynthia interviewed a snowball sample of Black women lawyers, doctors, and businesswomen about the factors that contributed to their unusual attainments in a doubly discriminatory society. The paper from this study, "Positive Effects of the Multiple Negative: Explaining the Success of Black Professional Women," was published in the American Journal of Sociology in 1973. The findings showed how these few African-American lawyers, doctors and business managers surmounted the odds and worked as professional achievers. Some found opportunity in the "protected settings" of government jobs and black institutions. And respondents in the study suggested that their two disadvantaged statuses cancelled each other out. In an attempt to fill equal opportunity goals on the cheap, an employer could claim double credit for having a woman and an African-American—who was the same person. As several Black women lawyers explained, they were "twofers." Thus, a very small number of gifted women managed to climb the career ladder in spite of, or perhaps because of, a set of twin prejudices and the changing ethos demanding that institutions diversify their workforces.
The studies of women in professional life led Cynthia to explore the dynamics of stereotyping in all spheres of society. Focusing on the social construction of boundaries—especially those that result in binary distinctions—Cynthia assessed a wide swath of social science studies and explored the underpinnings of what she called Deceptive Distinctions, the title of the book published in 1988.
In the 1990s, because of her experience in studying women lawyers, Cynthia was invited by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York's Committee on the Status of Women to conduct research that would shed light on why women's professional careers came to a halt in mid-stream. With the Committee's financial and professional support, Cynthia fielded a study of women's mobility in eight large private corporate law firms. This study found that women were no longer questioned about their intellectual competence as they had been in earlier years, but that men in power had questions about their image and interpersonal competence in the evaluation for partnership. Women were often out of the loop in the referral of clients from older men partners, which was the way associates were given the social capital to "make rain"—that is, to get business for the firm—a crucial element in evaluation for partnership. Women also faced the dual burden of an escalation of hours at work through new and higher levels of billable hours, and also greater pressure to be a hands-on mother. There was still the stereotype that women had a different "style" of relating to clients, even though both the women and men lawyers exhibited many different interpersonal styles and personalities. All these factors contributed to the well-known "glass ceiling" effect – women never reaching the top echelons of their professions. Women In Law was reissued in 1993 with an update on the glass ceiling in the legal profession.
In 1994, Cynthia was invited to confer with the vice-president of the Alfred Sloan Foundation, Hirsh Cohen, who thought that flexible and part-time work might stem the loss of trained and talented professional workers because of the pressures of time in their workplaces. Cynthia and her co-researchers, Carroll Seron, Robert Saute, and Bonnie Oglensky, found that less than three percent of lawyers in the firms they studied chose available part-time work schedules because those who did were seen as having less commitment and were given less important work to do. In short, lawyers who worked part-time (often working as long as most other workers' full-time schedules) suffered from stigmatization. Furthermore, part-time employment was usually granted only to women with children, and so the few men who attempted to take such schedules found themselves even more stigmatized than women, both at work and in their home communities. It was clear that norms at work and in the society supported the idea that women might legitimately work less than men at the same professional level, but they would pay for it by being bumped off an upward career track. The book published in 1999 from this research is The Part-time Paradox: Time Norms, Professional Life, Family and Gender.
Considering time as a construct and analyzing its social meaning is a further spin-off from the research Cynthia has conducted on gender issues in the law. Her current conceptual work integrates time with other indicators and considers the way it is used to maintain gender and other role and status distinctions. Time, she says, is a social control mechanism that maintains boundaries. Her latest paper, "Border Crossings: The Constraints of Time Norms in Transgressions of Gender and Professional Roles," published in 2004, examines how role transgressions are inhibited by time norms that order priorities for people in certain categories, such as mothers and doctors. It looks at the ways in which time ideologies (the professions as "greedy institutions") and gender ideologies (women as caretakers of the family) restrict social change.
Distinguished in So Many Ways
Cynthia has been Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center since 1990. Among the many places in the United States and internationally that she has been a visiting professor or scholar are the Russell Sage Foundation and the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Stanford and Columbia Law Schools. She was also a Guggenheim Fellow. Cynthia was president of the Eastern Sociological Society and chair of the ASA Occupations and Organizations, Culture, and Sex and Gender Sections. She has received numerous professional awards, among them, the ESS Merit Award, the ASA Jessie Bernard Award, and the first Sex and Gender Section award for distinguished contribution to gender scholarship. In her research and as a witness and contributor to rapid social changes that altered the rules by which individuals play out their lives, Cynthia has engaged in one long project documenting and analyzing the forces of discrimination—structural, cultural, and personal. If you compare her Antioch yearbook picture of 1955 with her 2005 presidential picture, you'll find that Cynthia still has that determined look in her eyes, but her broad smile conveys a sense of satisfaction at the accomplishments of the past thirty-five years.
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The boom in ethanol has been a key driver for the agricultural sector this year — but that may not be so much the case in the years ahead, says Pat Westhoff, program director of the Food and Agriculture Policy Institute (FAPRI) at the University of Missouri.
"The long-run outlook for ethanol and biodiesel depends to a large extent on what happens in the petroleum market, on what happens with government policy on biofuels, and what happens with development of other technologies, such as cellulosic ethanol," he told members of the Southern Cotton Ginners Association at their summer meeting at Baton Rouge, La.
A lot of research is under way on producing ethanol from cellulosic sources such as crop wastes, wood chips, and other materials, "and that could make a huge difference in what the industry will look like in years ahead," Westhoff says.
"We can't expect that we'll always have high corn prices just because there's a lot of ethanol demand. As we've seen this year, when it developed that the crop was bigger than anticipated, corn prices can fall. We've shaved more than $1 per bushel off the price in the last few weeks due to the large acreage."
FAPRI analysts "do expect that corn prices will remain high in front of us, with $3 the norm rather than the exception over the next 10 years — if we have average utilization and current tax policies remain in place."
Ethanol production "has really taken off over the last 12-18 months," Westhoff says, now at about 6 billion gallons, with plants being built that will add another 6 billion gallons.
Much of that has been encouraged as a result of a government tax credit of 51 cents per gallon to blenders through 2010, "and it's expected it will be extended beyond that." A blender's tax credit of $1 per gallon for biodiesel from virgin soybean oil only goes through 2008, but "we expect it will be extended, too."
Ethanol plants already in operation have been doing well, Westhoff says. Dry mill plants (which most are) racked up an "amazing" net return of $1.56 per gallon in 2005/06, which was enough to pay off a plant in two years.
"With that kind of return, it's not surprising there has been a lot of investment in ethanol plants."
While returns "continue to be pretty good for the current year," Westhoff says projections for next year indicate they "could be only one-third or less than those of 2005/06. Although there are still positive profits at current prices, (ethanol) is not quite the lucrative thing it appeared to be only a few months ago."
For the 2005/06 corn marketing year, he says, the average price per gallon of ethanol at Omaha, Neb., was $2.51 per gallon; for the current year, $2.22. " The Chicago Board of Trade December futures price yesterday was $1.84 per gallon, so the price has been trending downward in a pretty serious way."
FAPRI projections point to "a very dramatic increase in ethanol production" over the next two or three years, he says, "but unless we see much higher petroleum prices or a change in government policy, we don't see much additional expansion beyond that. Once the plants on the drawing board come online, that may be about it."
The U.S. has seen "a much larger shift to corn and soybeans and away from cotton than we'd anticipated earlier this year," Westhoff says. "We've seen a huge run-up in soybean oil prices over the last few months due to biodiesel.
"Because of their higher production costs, a lot of biodiesel plants are operating at very little, if any, profit margin, and that could get even more dicey if we were to see a drop in diesel prices in the years ahead."
Loss of government tax credits could see revenues decline for ethanol and biodiesel plants and an increase in price to the consumer, he says. "The net result would be a lot smaller industry." Ethanol production could drop by a third, "biodiesel production would pretty much dry up," and corn prices would decline, with more acres likely going back to cotton.
The Congress has approved a mandate for 15 billion gallons of biofuel use by 2015, with a further increase to 36 billion by 2022.
But, Westhoff notes, all the increase after 2015 is to come from cellulosic ethanol and other advanced biofuels.
"Under this scenario, corn prices on average would be higher than otherwise. Petroleum prices would make a big difference. If oil price hit $80 per barrel and stayed there, or went higher over the next 10 years, it would result in a very large ethanol industry."
Cotton will continue to be more dependent on government farm programs than corn, Westhoff says. "After the very large reduction in cotton acreage this year, I think we'll see a tiny uptick in 2008/09 and a sight pullback in corn.
"We're almost certain to see a continued decline in U.S. mill use of cotton, but the bright spot is that exports will increase. With more exports and a smaller crop, we'll see a significant drop in ending stocks this year. We're projecting an average price for 2007/08 of 54.5 cents per pound and 60.9 cents for 2008/09."
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Most farmers are intent on getting ready to plant corn this spring. But as you prepare, keep in mind that another very important aspect of the production process is the pollination period for corn. In fact, if you don't get good pollination, everything else you do will be wasted, says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie.
The easiest way to reduce pollination problems in any season is to lengthen the period during which your crop pollinates. By doing so, you reduce the chance that all your hybrids will be caught by a week of bad weather. A prolonged wet spell can be just as harmful as a week of hot, dry weather, for instance. During lengthy wet periods, corn tassels might fail to open and drop their pollen.
Diversifying the pollination window also makes scouting easier. You need to check each field at least once a week when the corn is pollinating. If you have 3,000 acres of corn all pollinating at the same time, getting through every field on schedule will be pretty difficult.
You can lengthen your pollination window by planting hybrids with different physiological maturity and different flowering dates. You need to know both, because two hybrids of the same physiological maturity might have different flowering dates. Your seed salesperson can provide flowering date information.
Although flowering and physiological maturity dates are important, always put yield first. While you probably already have your hybrids in hand, keep in mind it's best to choose high-yielding genetics first, and then select other characteristics. Pick hybrids that fit your soil type, fertility situation, disease pressure and insect problems. Finally, make sure you have a range of flowering dates.
You can also lengthen the pollination window by staggering your planting date. That's easier to do in areas such as the High Plains of Texas, where spring rain, frost and heat are less likely than in areas such as the northern Corn Belt where rain and frost can stall planting, and in the Mississippi Delta where heat is an issue.
Using both days to flowering and a staggered planting date is ideal. But if you have a short planting window, diversifying your flowering date might be your only option.
Resist the urge to plant all your corn as quickly as possible, unless you're forced to by weather. Many farmers are equipped to plant their entire corn crop in about seven days, and that's good. But try to spread those seven days throughout the optimum planting period.
Plan where and when you will plant each hybrid. Plant early-maturing hybrids first and later-maturing hybrids last. If you don't, all your corn will pollinate in the same window.
Even if planting season gets hectic, take time to document any changes to your plan. You will need to know which hybrids are in each field to effectively scout.
Based on your long-term weather averages, you can estimate when each hybrid will start to pollinate. Clear your schedule, or make sure an employee or crop consultant is available, to scout your fields during pollination.
Early-season growth determines when pollination occurs. Early-season scouting tells you where to scout for problems after pollination begins, so you can react in time to prevent yield loss.
Here are several other good reasons to scout.
The possibility of another dry season makes it even more important to scout your corn crop early and often. In 2012, we could tell by the second week of July that some fields were not going to pollinate at all. Ferrie says he wouldn't have thought that possible with today's genetics, but that's how bad the growing season was in some areas.
By making that discovery early, growers who had over-sold corn had time to react and buy back their contracts. Also, if you see a disaster looming, you can take photos to document that weather was the cause of poor pollination. The pictures will prove you did not fail to follow Best Management Practices by not applying an insecticide to prevent silk clipping.
It's a good idea to notify your insurance agent as soon as you see a problem developing. That becomes especially important if a problem is localized, rather than affecting an entire county.
Block out time for pollination scouting. Summer is a busy time, and the press of other activities sometimes causes farmers to neglect crop scouting just when it's most important, during pollination. Scouting during pollination lets you monitor silk-clipping insects, whose impact might be determined by varying plant maturity within a field.
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Today's news stories abound with accounts of men who do unspeakable things to women. Sadly, this is not a new phenomenon, nor will such events go away. But whether it's the sex charges leveled against Wikileaks front man Julian Assange, ABC News' Lara Logan assaulted amidst Egyptian revolution or domestic abuse by the likes of actor Mel Gibson or music stars like Chris Brown, these stories produce an increased undercurrent in victim-blaming and justification — even as such reactions compete with a greater groundswell of outrage.
There are any number of reasons for what I've come to think of as post-misogyny, where the effects of several waves of feminism have, for good and ill, produced a generation of men unsure and possibly ill-equipped to deal with women who are their professional and romantic equals. Further discussion of the net effects is beyond the scope of the column, but even surface consideration of them bears thinking about in the context of the writer who currently rules the crime fiction roost and the books — excellent or otherwise — that have emerged in this bestselling author's wake.
I speak, of course, of Stieg Larsson. No introductions are necessary for his now-iconic, soon-to-be-Fincherized-heroine Lisbeth Salander. As I've said elsewhere, the key to why the books have sold close to 50 million copies worldwide is that the hyperkinetic, Asperger-esque, quasi-sociopathic amalgam of archetypes that is Lisbeth leads the reader through teachable moment after teachable moment of violence against women until the culminating, and cathartic, trial sequence in "The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest" — and we, the readers, are redeemed by and are complicit with Lisbeth's resultant triumph.
Naturally the "Millennium Trilogy's" staggering success has instigated the expected avalanche of Scandinavian crime fiction stars in the making (Norway's Jo Nesbo and his excellent Harry Hole procedurals, to my mind, stand the best chance at prolonged success) and heroines who wear both strength and flaws somewhat obviously on their sleeves. A.J. Palladino, the fictional alter ego of Erin Brockovich in her just-released debut novel "Rock Bottom" (Vanguard: 260 pp., $25.95, co-written with C.J. Lyons), may have messed up success, but back in her West Virginia stomping ground, she is capable enough to stop toxic dumping — tied to the coal-mining method known as mountaintop removal — in its tracks. Palladino must do battle with the evil male hierarchy at the murderous heart of this ecological problem. (A second novel in this series, "Hot Water," is scheduled for the fall.)
What will appeal most to catharsis-seeking Salander fans are novels that tap into the deep well of righteous indignation that runs deep in Larsson's novels. Cara Hoffman's debut, "So Much Pretty," (Simon & Schuster: 287 pp., $25) doesn't appear to fit the bill, since its initial pages seem to present a missing girl aftermath narrative, one which figures in a host of recent literary-minded efforts by Stewart O'Nan, Hannah Pittard and Jennifer McMahon. But "So Much Pretty" is harder to pin down, trickier in its aims and delivers a skillful, psychologically acute tale of how violence affects a small town, its tentacles enmeshed so deeply into the collective fabric that it takes the thoughts and actions of one intelligent adolescent to shake things up and force everyone to examine their duplicitous complacency. To say more about Hoffman's constantly surprising story is to reveal too much, but the payoff is more than worth the slow-building suspense.
With "The Informationist" (Crown: 310 pp., $23), Taylor Stevens tells us what we're going to get, more or less, with the very first lines of her debut thriller: "This is where he would die." West Africa is not for the easily cowed, not when danger leaps out and threatens to squash even the toughest sorts. But for Vanessa Michael Munroe, who vacillates between first and middle name as the need arises, the region's never-ending spate of threats, while alarming and a reminder of a violence-filled past, won't deter her from her mission: track down what (or who) is necessary and get paid handsomely for doing so.
Munroe's currency is information, and the coolly calibrated way she handles rich clients desperate to find out what happened to missing daughters (yes, that trope incites the fast pace and violent action of this book too) and lethal drug lords alike makes her a heroine who gets under the reader's skin in the best possible way. Munroe has demons, potent ones at that. But multiple betrayals and a mounting body count transform her further into a stealthy, single-minded creature: Get the job done, no matter what. "I am a phantom," she tells one of her would-be vanquishers with quiet menace, "and if I must, I will hunt you down and destroy you."
One can't help but think that Munroe and Salander are lone wolves who, if they ever had a chance to meet, might discover they are really part of the same hunting pack. And as for Stevens, she writes with the confidence of one who knows she's hit on a winning series character who has the world at her beck and call — and, perhaps, a growing legion of fans too.
Weinman blogs about crime and mystery fiction at http://www.sarahweinman.com. "Dark Passages" appears monthly at latimes.com/books.


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March 20, 2014
This piece originally appeared in Rae's blog, Diva Living With AIDS.
As I strolled down Chicago's Magnificent Mile, I was feeling too good and looking too cute to do anything other than take full advantage of the great weather. Chicago's premiere shopping area was bustling with shoppers and sightseers, and I was one of them. Looking like a diva, from head to toe in my black and white pinstripe St. John's pantsuit.
My black Chanel pumps and matching Chanel shoulder bag set my ensemble off just right. My jewelry was perfect. The sun's reflection beamed out from the Pave diamonds in my ears. My three-carat diamond cross necklace, which was a gift from my sorority sister and friend, Allison Payne, draped perfectly around my neck. Catching a glimpse of myself in a store window, I was one poised woman. I felt alive. I felt totally in control. I was a power shopper in my element, and having a ball.
After hours of shopping, I glanced at my watch. It was really close to dinner time and skipping meals was a luxury I could not afford. I tore myself away and continued on to Houston's, my favorite restaurant. On the inside, Houston's was dark and cool, compared to the bright and sunny outdoors. The Maitre-d showed me to a booth, and as I sank down into its security, I gave God a silent "thank you" for the beautiful day. I thanked Him for the wonderful respite from this monstrous disease called AIDS, which was occupying my body. I hated all the ways AIDS tried to control and destroy me like an abusive lover, whose grasp I was not able to escape.
The steak was tender and juicy, cooked just right and the loaded potato was scrumptious. Somewhere between a forkful of steak and a bite of bread, I began to feel a somewhat familiar sensation. Something warm and liquid seemed to be easing its way out of my body. My first reaction was, "Oh no, this cannot be happening! Not here! Not now!" But as reality set in I realized that yes, it could be happening and probably was.
Still determined not to let anything ruin this day, I tried to gain control by flexing my anal muscles. I was bent on stopping it, but it was just as bent on continuing its course, right into my LaPerla panties. Slowly and cautiously, I stood up. It was then that I began to feel it drip down the leg of my St. John pants. That was the ultimate insult!
I started to the bathroom, determined not to panic. Diva Rule kicked in: "Beautiful people in beautiful clothes do not poop on themselves in public, and if they do, they remain in complete control of the situation."
As I pulled down my panties and sat on the toilet, I kept telling myself, "It's not as bad as you think it is." Even in my distress, I reminded myself that the diarrhea was tapering off as of a couple of weeks ago, so how terrible could it be now? I got the answer to that question when I finished using the toilet.
Sitting there, I proceeded to take my pants off. In no way was I prepared for what I saw. My pretty lace panties were completely saturated in shit that covered the entire center of my butt. My left leg was covered with it, from the top of my thigh right down into my beautiful black Chanel shoe. Needless to say, it had painted the entire inside of my St. John pants leg.
At that moment it became abundantly clear to me that AIDS does not care about designer clothes or respect the solitude found in a favorite eatery. Neither St. John nor Chanel could do a damn thing to protect me. Not even my diamond cross was able to ward off that sudden onslaught of diarrhea. The ugly truth was that AIDS had a complete and utter disregard for everyone, everything and every body. Finding myself unprotected once again, I sat there, and faced up to the fact that there was no protection in clothes, no matter how big the designer names, no matter how huge the price tags.
AIDS had ambushed me, literally from behind, my behind, and all I had to fight it with was a roll of toilet paper. I pulled some off and began to wipe myself. I wiped and I wiped, and the more I wiped, the more I spread the poop around without actually cleaning it off.
I realized that nothing less than water was going to get rid of this mess and that posed a real dilemma. This was a public bathroom with multiple stalls, and the only privacy I had was in a tiny stall with a toilet. The sink was on the other side of the room. I knew I couldn't walk out of that stall, leg covered in shit, wearing neither pants nor panties. And what was clearest of all was that this was one huge mess!
I sat for a moment trying to regain myself. I had to think this thing through. Looking to heaven, I whispered, "God, I know you're up there." And really, I did know He was up there, looking down on me. But just for a brief moment, maybe a split second, I felt abandoned. I felt unprotected.
I was almost ready to engage in a total pity party, but when I felt a lump in my throat and my eyes started to water, I put my foot down. I refused to let that tear emerge from my eye. Crying was not an option. This was my day. Maybe AIDS had ambushed me and tried to ruin my clothes, but I refused to let it ruin my day or my disposition. "Sorry, AIDS," I thought, "this is one battle you're not going to win."
It was the only solution possible under the circumstances, a toilet bath? Never heard of it? Neither had I.
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