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Great ape personhood
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Great ape personhood is a movement to extend personhood and some legal protections to the non-human members of the great ape family, Hominidae: chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans.[1][2][3]
Advocates include primatologists Jane Goodall and Dawn Prince-Hughes, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, philosophers Paola Cavalieri and Peter Singer, and legal scholar Steven Wise.[4][5][6][7]
On February 28, 2007, the parliament of the Balearic Islands, an autonomous community of Spain, passed the world's first legislation that would effectively grant legal personhood rights to all great apes.[8] The act sent ripples out of the region and across Spain, producing public support for the rights of great apes. On June 25, 2008 a parliamentary committee set forth resolutions urging Spain to grant the primates the rights to life and liberty. If approved "it will ban harmful experiments on apes and make keeping them for circuses, television commercials, or filming illegal under Spain's penal code."[9]
These precedents followed years of European legal efforts. In 1992, Switzerland amended its constitution to recognize animals as beings and not things.[10] However, in 1999 the Swiss constitution was completely rewritten. A decade later, Germany guaranteed rights to animals in a 2002 amendment to its constitution, becoming the first European Union member to do so.[10][11][12]
New Zealand created specific legal protections for five great ape species in 1999.[13] The use of any gorilla, chimpanzee, bonobo, or orangutan in research, testing or teaching being limited to only those activities intended to benefit the animal subject or its species. A New Zealand animal protection group later argued the restrictions conferred weak legal rights.[14]
Several European countries (including Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden) completely banned the use of great apes in animal testings.[15] Austria was the first country to ban experimentation on lesser apes. Under EU Directive 2010/63/EU, the entire European Union banned great ape experimentation in 2013.
Argentina granted a captive orangutan basic human rights, starting from late 2014.[16]
On April 20, 2015, Justice Barbara Jaffe of New York State Supreme Court ordered a writ of habeas corpus to two captive chimpanzees[17] but the next day the ruling was amended to strike the words "writ of habeas corpus".[18][19][20]
Well-known advocates include primatologist Jane Goodall, who was appointed a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations to fight the bushmeat trade and end ape extinction; Richard Dawkins, former Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University; Peter Singer, professor of philosophy at Princeton University; and attorney and former Harvard professor Steven Wise, founder and president of the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), whose aim is to work through U.S. common law on a state-by-state basis to achieve recognition of legal personhood for great apes and other self-aware, autonomous nonhuman animals; all advocate for great ape personhood.[4][21]
In December 2013, the NhRP filed three lawsuits on behalf of four chimpanzees being held in captivity in New York State, arguing that they should be recognized as legal persons with the fundamental right to bodily liberty (i.e. not to be held in captivity) and that they are entitled to common law writs of habeas corpus and should be immediately freed and moved to sanctuaries.[22] All three petitions for writs of habeas corpus were denied, allowing for the right to appeal. The NhRP is in the process of appealing all three decisions.[23]
Goodall's longitudinal studies revealed the social and family life of chimps to be very similar to that of human beings in some respects. She herself calls them individuals, and says they relate to her as an individual member of the clan. Laboratory studies of ape language ability began to reveal other human traits, as did genetics, and eventually three of the great apes were reclassified as hominids.
Other studies, such as one done by Beran & Evans,[24] indicate other qualities that humans share with non-human primates, namely the ability to self-control. In order for chimpanzees to control their impulsivity, they use self-distraction techniques similar to those that are used by children. Great apes also exhibited ability to plan as well as project "oneself into the future", known as the process of mental time travel. Such complicated tasks require self-awareness, which great apes appear to possess: "the capacity that contribute to the ability to delay gratification, since a self-aware individual may be able to imagine future states of the self".[25]
This, alongside the increasing risk of great ape extinction, had led the animal rights movement to put pressure on nations to recognize apes as having limited rights and being legal "persons." In response, the United Kingdom introduced a ban on research using great apes, although testing on other primates has not been limited.[26]
Writer and lecturer Thomas Rose makes the argument that granting legal rights afforded to humans to non-humans is nothing new. He points out that in the majority of the world, "corporations are recognized as legal persons and are granted many of the same rights humans enjoy, the right to sue, to vote and to freedom of speech."[8] Dawn Prince-Hughes has written that great apes meet the commonly accepted standards for personhood: "self-awareness; comprehension of past, present, and future; the ability to understand complex rules and their consequences on emotional levels; the ability to choose to risk those consequences, a capacity for empathy, and the ability to think abstractly."[27]
Gary Francione questions the concept of granting personhood on the basis of whether the animal in question is human-like (as some have argued for great apes), and clarifies that sentience is the sole characteristic an animal requires to have basic rights. Therefore, he asserts, other animals—including mice and rats—should also be granted such rights.[28]
Depending on the precise wording of any proposed or adopted declaration, personhood for the Great Apes may raise questions concerning protections and obligations under national and international laws, such as:
- Articles 7–29 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- The 1954 Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons and 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness regarding nationality and citizenship for persons
- Provisions 4 & 5 of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child
- ^ Bhagwat, S. B. Foundation of Geology. Global Vision, 2009, pp. 232–235:
- "The Hominidae form a taxonomic family, including four extant genera: humans, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans."
- ^ Groves, Colin P. "Great Apes: The Conflict of Gene-Pools, Conservation and Personhood" in Emily Rousham, Leonard Freedman, and Rayma Pervan. Perspectives in Human Biology: Humans in the Australasian Region. World Scientific, 1996, p. 31:
- "The recognition that we as a species are not phylogenetically separated from other animals, but are nested within the primate group known as the Great Apes, is no longer controversial. Goodman (1963) proposed on this basis to include the great apes (orang utan, gorilla and chimpanzee) in the family Hominidate, a view revived by Groves (1986) and increasingly adopted since then. Increasingly, too, the vernacular term 'Great Apes' has come to be used as a pure synonym for Hominidae, so that humans are also 'Great Apes.' The only remaining systemic controversy seems to be whether chimpanzees and gorillas together form the sister-group of humans, or chimpanzees and humans together constitute the sister-group of gorillas."
- ^ Karcher, Karen. "The Great Ape Project" in Marc Bekoff (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare. Greenwood, 2009, pp. 185–187:
- "The Great Ape Project (GAP) seeks to extend the scope of three basic moral principles to all members of what the GAP founders call the five great ape species (humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans)."
- ^ a b Goodall, Jane in Paola Cavalieri & Peter Singer (eds.) The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity. St Martin's Griffin, 1994.
- ^ Dawkins, Richard. "Gaps in the Mind" Archived April 19, 2016, at the Wayback Machine in Paola Cavalieri & Peter Singer (eds.) The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity. St Martin's Griffin, 1994.
- ^ Cavalieri, Paola & Singer, Peter (eds.) The Great Ape Project: Equality Beyond Humanity. St Martin's Griffin, 1994.
- ^ Motavalli, Jim. "Rights from Wrongs. A Movement to Grant Legal Protection to Animals is Gathering Force", E Magazine, March/April 2003.
- ^ a b Thomas Rose (2 August 2007). "Going ape over human rights". CBC News. Archived from the original on 2010-02-03. Retrieved 26 June 2008.
- ^ "Spanish parliament to extend rights to apes". Reuters. 25 June 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-11.
- ^ a b "Germany guarantees animal rights in constitution". Associated Press. 2002-05-18. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
- ^ "Germany guarantees animal rights". CNN. 21 June 2002. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
- ^ Kate Connolly (2002-06-22). "German animals given legal rights". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-06-26.[dead link]
- ^ "Animal Welfare Act 1999 No 142 (as at 08 September 2018), Public Act 85 Restrictions on use of non-human hominids – New Zealand Legislation". legislation.govt.nz. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
- ^ "A STEP AT A TIME: NEW ZEALAND'S PROGRESS TOWARD HOMINID RIGHTS" BY ROWAN TAYLOR Archived July 28, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2013-07-31.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ Giménez, Emiliano (January 4, 2015). "Argentine orangutan granted unprecedented legal rights". edition.cnn.com. CNN Espanol. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
- ^ "Judge Recognizes Two Chimpanzees as Legal Persons, Grants them Writ of Habeas Corpus". nonhumanrightsproject.org. Nonhuman Rights Project. April 20, 2015. Archived from the original on September 9, 2016. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
- ^ "Judge Barbara Jaffe's amended court order" (PDF). iapps.courts.state.ny.us. New York Supreme Court. April 21, 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 30, 2015. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
- ^ "Judge Orders Stony Brook University to Defend Its Custody of 2 Chimps". www.nytimes.com. New York Times. April 21, 2015. Retrieved April 21, 2015.
- ^ David Kravets Ars Technica (8/3/2015) No habeas corpus; chimps are lab "property": "Animals, including chimpanzees," judge rules, "are considered property."
- ^ "Nonhuman Rights Project".
- ^ Charles Siebert (23 April 2014). "Should a Chimp Be Able to Sue Its Owner?". New York Times Magazine.
- ^ Robert Gavin (3 October 2014). "Appeals panel to weigh personhood for chimpanzee". Times Union.
- ^ Beran MJ; Evans TA (2006). "Maintenance of delay of gratification by four chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): the effects of delayed reward visibility, experimenter presence, and extended delay intervals". Behavioural Processes. 73 (3): 315–24. doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2006.07.005. PMID 16978800.
- ^ Heilbronner, S. Platt, M., L. (4 December 2007). "Animal Cognition: Time Flies When Chimps Are Having Fun". doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.10.012. Cite journal requires
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- ^ Alok Jha (2005-12-05). "RSPCA outrage as experiments on animals rise to 2.85m". The Guardian. Retrieved 2008-06-26.
- ^ Prince-Hughes, Dawn (1987). Songs of the Gorilla Nation. Harmony. p. 138. ISBN 1-4000-5058-8.
- ^ Francione, Gary (2006). "The Great Ape Project: Not so Great". Retrieved 2010-03-22. Cite journal requires
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Alicia de Larrocha, the diminutive Spanish pianist esteemed for her elegant Mozart performances and regarded as an incomparable interpreter of Albéniz, Granados, Mompou and other Spanish composers, died on Friday evening in a hospital in Barcelona. She was 86.
Her death was confirmed by Gregor Benko, a piano historian, record producer and family friend. He said she had been in declining health since breaking her hip two years ago.
In a career that began when she was a child she made her concert debut at 5, and her first recording at 9 Ms. de Larrocha cultivated a poetic interpretive style in which gracefulness was prized over technical flashiness or grand, temperamental gestures. But her approach, combined with her small stature she was only 4-foot-9 was deceptive: early in her career she played all the big Romantic concertos, including those of Liszt and Rachmaninoff, and she could produce a surprisingly large, beautifully sculptured sound.
Even so, it was in music that demanded focus, compactness and subtle coloristic breadth that Ms. de Larrocha excelled. Her Mozart performances, as well as her readings of Bach and Scarlatti, were so carefully detailed and light in texture that even as public taste shifted toward the more scholarly interpretations of period-instrument specialists, Ms. de Larrocha's readings retained their allure. She was closely associated with the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, where she first performed in 1971. Her appearances remained among the festival's hottest tickets until her final performance there in 2003.
Her approach to Mozart also served her well in larger works, like the Beethoven concertos. When she belatedly recorded the full cycle, with Riccardo Chailly and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, in 1986, her performance was notable for the devotional serenity she brought to the slow movements and her fleet but dignified renderings of the Allegros. But even there she retained a touch from a former age: instead of playing Beethoven's own cadenzas in the Fourth Concerto, she played those of the composer Carl Reinecke, because those were the only ones available to her as a student in the 1930s.
Ms. de Larrocha's most enduring contribution, however, was her championship of Spanish composers. Although Arthur Rubinstein played some of this repertory, few other pianists outside Spain did, and none with Ms. de Larrocha's flair. She made enduring recordings of Albéniz's "Iberia" and Granados's "Goyescas," and helped ease those works into the standard piano canon. She also made a powerful case for the piano music of Joaquín Turina, a composer otherwise known mostly for the guitar music he wrote for Andrés Segovia, and she almost single-handedly built a following for Federico Mompou, a Catalan composer of quietly shimmering, poetic works.
Although she was often regarded as partial to Granados her mother and an aunt were among his piano students, but he died before Ms. de Larrocha was born she refused to cite a favorite.
"I don't believe there is a 'best' of anything in this life," she said in a 1978 interview with Contemporary Keyboard. "I would say, though, that Granados was one of the great Spanish composers, and that, in my opinion, he was the only one that captured the real Romantic flavor. His style was aristocratic, elegant and poetic completely different from Falla and Albéniz. To me, each of them is a different world. Falla was the one who really captured the spirit of the Gypsy music. And Albéniz, I think was more international than the others. Even though his music is Spanish in flavor, his style is completely Impressionistic."
Alicia de Larrocha y de la Calle was born in Barcelona on May 23, 1923, to Eduardo de Larrocha and Maria Teresa de la Calle. Although her mother gave up any ambition of a performing career when she married, Ms. de Larrocha's aunt was a piano teacher at the Academia Marshall, a school founded by the pianist Frank Marshall, who was also a Granados student.
Ms. de Larrocha began to demand piano lessons when she was 3, after visiting her aunt as she taught students. At the keyboard on her own, Ms. de Larrocha imitated what she had seen her aunt's students do, and impressed her aunt sufficiently that she took Ms. de Larrocha to Marshall. He was less encouraging. He said it was too early to start lessons, and suggested that Ms. de Larrocha be kept away from the piano. Ms. de Larrocha said that once her aunt locked the instrument, she banged her head on the floor until Marshall relented and began to teach her.
She made progress quickly. At 5 she made her concert debut, performing works by Bach and Mozart at the 1929 International Exhibition in Barcelona. She made her orchestral debut with a Mozart concerto in Madrid when she was 11.
Happenstance led to her first recordings, when she was 9. She was taken to a recording studio to watch the great Spanish mezzo-soprano Conchita Supervia at work, and the singer invited Ms. de Larrocha to record something. She played two Chopin works, a nocturne and a waltz.
Mr. Benko has written of these recordings that "it is uncanny to note that this 9-year-old demonstrates all the elements of Chopin's style tone, color, legato phrasing and singing line by means of finger technique alone, since we know Alicia's legs were barely long enough to reach the pedals."
When Marshall, Ms. de Larrocha's only teacher, left Spain in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War he was, Ms. de Larrocha said, a target of the Loyalists the young pianist continued her studies on her own. She resumed working with Marshall after he returned in 1939, and she took over the direction of Marshall's academy after he died in 1959. Her co-director was the pianist Juan Torra, whom she married in 1958. Mr. Torra died in 1982. They had two children, a son, Juan, and a daughter, Alicia, who survive her.
Ms. de Larrocha confined her performances mostly to Spain until 1947, when she undertook a European tour that included recitals in Paris, Geneva and Brussels. She made her American debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1955, performing Mozart's Concerto in A (K. 488) and Falla's "Nights in the Gardens of Spain." That same year she had her New York recital debut at Town Hall. Her program, which included Beethoven's large Sonata in A flat (Op. 110), Schumann's "Carnaval" and works by Carlos Surinach, Granados and Albéniz, quickly established her strengths.
Reviewing the concert in The New York Times, Harold C. Schonberg wrote of her Spanish set that "she had a way of idiomatically shaping a musical phrase that cannot be taught a sudden dynamic shift, a note instinctively accented, a touch of the pedal, an application of rubato. Her rhythm was extraordinarily flexible. Obviously this music is in the pianist's blood. She invested it with a degree of life and imagination that not many pianists before the public today could begin to duplicate."
Yet Ms. de Larrocha was a reluctant star. She returned to Spain; taught at the Marshall academy; made a series of exquisite recordings for the Spanish Hispavox label, which were later licensed for release by Vox and other American companies; and played occasional recitals in Europe. She returned to the United States after Herbert Breslin, a concert manager, heard her Hispavox recording of "Iberia" and brought her back for performances in 1965, including her first appearance with the New York Philharmonic.
Mr. Breslin also built her recording career, getting Ms. de Larrocha signed to an international recording contract with the British Decca label. For Decca she remade the Spanish works that she had recorded for Hispavox, and added many others, as well as a great deal of Mozart and albums of Bach, Franck, Ravel and Rachmaninoff. She recorded for Decca until 1990, when she took a new look at her repertory for BMG Classics.
"There are two kinds of repertory Alicia plays," Mr. Breslin said in 1978. "Things she plays extremely well, and things she plays better than anyone else. But what I think makes her a phenomenon is that she doesn't give the impression of being a great personality. She's cool as a cucumber. Onstage, she doesn't even like to look at the audience. So what the public is responding to is something in the music."
After 1965, Ms. de Larrocha visited the United States regularly, and continued making annual recital, concerto and, occasionally, chamber music appearances, until her retirement in 2003. She was, as always, self-conscious about her size. In the mid-1990s she complained that she was shrinking: by 1995 her height was only 4-foot-5, and where her small hand had been able to reach the interval of a 10th in her heyday, she was by then able to reach only a 9th, which limited her repertory somewhat.
But over all her technique never failed her, nor did her sense of color, especially in the twin pillars of her repertory, Spanish music and Mozart. She continued to earn glowing reviews.
When she played her final Carnegie Hall performance the chamber version of Mozart's Concerto No. 12 in A (K. 414), with the Tokyo String Quartet, in November 2002 The New York Times reported that, "The small details the trills and turns that adorn the score as well as the more expansive pianism in the cadenzas and the glowing Andante, had considerable energy behind them."
The review continued: "Her performance had the bright, light quality that she brought to her playing in the '70s, when her appearances at the Mostly Mozart Festival were among the highlights of New York summers. If anything, her approach to Mozart on Monday was more fluid, more carefully nuanced than it was then."


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New industry recognised estate agency qualifications launched by Hunters
British property firm Hunters has developed a formally recognised estate agency qualification for its own network of branches in what is believed to be the first of its kind within the industry.
The qualification combines all elements of estate agency and uniquely also includes how the training is applied. The firm says that this means the training modules incorporate checks via Hunters own software to ensure excellence of execution at branch level.
The training is endorsed by both the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) and The Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA).
Covering sales and lettings, the new Hunters National Qualification comprises three levels which are dependent on the candidate's role, knowledge and experience. Divided into HNQ Award Sales and HNQ Award Lettings, HNQ Certificate Sales and HNQ Certificate Lettings and HNQ Diploma Sales and HNQ Diploma Lettings, the new programme will look to train all members of the team from administrators through to business owners.
Entry level one has been designed to cover aspects such as lead generation, viewings and general law. Once level one qualification has been attained candidates have the opportunity to continue their learning process by enrolling onto level two and ultimately three, ensuring Hunters staff are continually supported throughout their career progression.
Training comprises of a mix of teaching styles to include classroom training and e-learning, meaning all concepts work to link the candidate's theoretical knowledge with active participation and training in practice, making the qualification an invaluable tool.
The new initiative, which is open to all new Hunters estate agent employees and existing staff, offers a recognised qualification at each stage and provides candidates with the opportunity to apply for professional membership of ARLA or the NLEA.
Launched early this year, the Hunters National Qualification has already seen a successful candidate complete the HNQ Award Sales for Ryan Almond from Hunters in Horsforth, Leeds.
'I'm really proud to have been the first person to complete one of the qualifications, it's given me much more confidence in my role as negotiator and I'm looking forward to being able to progress to the next level of training,' he said.
His manager, franchise partner at Hunters Horsforth, Jonny Malkinson, explained that the Hunters National Qualification is great for his business as it aids staff development and ensures that agents have up to date knowledge of important legislation and practices within the industry.
'This in turn will allow us to deliver excellent service to our customers and really helps us to stand apart from our competitors. We want to be the first branch across the Hunters network to have all our staff complete one of the new qualifications,' he added.
Meanwhile, Glynis Frew, managing director of Hunters Property Group, said the business has always been committed to raising standards within the industry through bespoke training programmes and its staff Training Academy has grown from strength to strength since it was first established in 2006.
'We are now delighted to be able to announce the launch of our very own Hunters National Qualification, which is endorsed by both the NAEA and ARLA. There are still far too many stories in the media about rogue estate agents; we aim to set industry standards by ensuring all our staff are trained to their best ability, which we hope our peers will follow,' she added.
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Its services cover residential sales, lettings, buy to let and investment, residential block management, land and new homes, franchising and other property related services.


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Maya is a total dork. And boy do we love us some dorks.
This girl is nearly the valedictorian of her grade school and she receives a full scholarship to college. She spends most of her Saturdays in the library, and at five years old, she falls in love with Shakespeare the way other girls would be obsessed with, um, Barbies. Oh yeah, and to complete the stereotype, she is tall and skinny with no curves whatsoever. All she needs are some glasses and she'd be a bonafide Poindexter.
But beneath this dorky exterior is… more dorkiness. Just check out the list of "Allusions"—this girl never stops reading. At every moment, it seems that she has a book in her hand that perfectly explains her mood. For Maya, books are a refuge from life.
No one can deny that Maya's life is the pits: she grows up black in the racist South with a strict Christian grandmother, she is raped at the age of eight, and she thinks she is hideous while everyone else in her family seems to have jumped straight out of the pages of Vogue. There are few things that are consistent in her life, but books and their importance persist from the first chapters to the last.
Young Maya almost feels like her life is part of a story. Remember the scene where Mr. Taylor tells the family about his dead wife (Chapter 22)? That could come straight out of Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." Maya patches the holes in her life with literature, too. When Momma goes in to talk to Dr. Lincoln, Maya imagines a scene that could fit right in with the adventure comics and stories that she reads:
With just an edge of her disgust showing, Momma slung him back in his dentist's chair. "Sorry is as sorry does, and you're about the sorriest dentist I ever laid my eyes on." (24.34)
Of course, she finds out later that what she imagined was far from the truth, but her version creates a nicer view of reality than the real world does.
As she gets older, Maya doesn't use books just as a refuge from the world—she uses them to understand it better. Mrs. Flowers and her "lessons in living" (Chapter 15) help change Maya from just a bookworm into an author and a poet. This is a girl who reads everything from the heroes of the Harlem Renaissance to the Sunday comics to The Rubáiyát.
Angelou takes great pains to let us see how each piece of literature contributed to transforming Maya the girl into Angelou, the world-renowned author. And it's no wonder Caged Bird is so darn good. It was written by someone with a whole lot of experience with literature.
Maya is also super emo. Look up insecure in the dictionary, and there she is with an afrohawk.
To make matters worse, Maya constantly compares herself to her brother. While she has gap teeth, small eyes, dry skin, and kinky hair, Bailey Jr. is perfect and wonderful in every way:
When I was described by our playmates as being s*** color, he was lauded for his velvet-black skin. His hair fell down in black curls, and my head was covered with black steel wool. (4.9)
Hmph. As if having a beautiful brother isn't enough, turns out Maya's father is also beautiful. And guess what? He makes fun of her lack of refinement. Then there's her mother, who's like Aphrodite and Marilyn Monroe and Rihanna all rolled up in one. Maya figures that's why she got rid of her kids:
I knew immediately why she had sent me away. She was too beautiful to have children. I had never seen a woman as pretty as she who was called 'Mother.' (9.15)
Imagine being surrounded by all of that, and feeling like you lost at the genetic Wheel-of-Fortune.
Her family life doesn't help matters. Maya and Bailey Jr. were sent away from their parents when they were three and four years old. They wonder what they did wrong that their parents wouldn't want them anymore. Their insecurity grows when they find out that their parents were living in the mythical land of California while they suffered in Arkansas. Talk about being rejected.
Bottom line: Maya doesn't feel loved. Even when she asks Momma—the woman who raised her—if she loves her, Momma answers, "God is love. Just worry about whether you're being a good girl, then He will love you" (9.6). Not a great confidence booster for our little Maya.
These insecurities make it tough for Maya to meet people. Other students make fun of her appearance and call her stuck up and arrogant. In the whole book, Maya only has one friend, Louise Kendricks.
But by the end of the novel, Maya builds some self-confidence. With the help of Momma, Mrs. Flowers, Miss Kirwin, and Daddy Clidell, she cobbles together the parents that she never had. Then, in the supportive atmosphere of the junkyard where she was homeless, she stops critiquing herself so much and becomes more independent. We know she's on her way to confidence when she mercilessly campaigns to become the first-ever black conductorette (Chapter 34).
Even though she becomes pregnant because of her rampant insecurity, becoming a mother is a big step for Maya in finally finding love and acceptance. Her son is hers alone, and she loves him intensely. Although at first she has the same old fears of not being good enough, her mother shows her that she is good enough—without even trying:
Mother whispered, "See, you don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking."
She turned out the light and I patted my son's body lightly and went back to sleep. (36.32-33)
It seems that Maya becomes the mother that she never had, and she gives her son the love that she never felt.
Tender-hearted. This phrase is used to describe Maya six times in the novel, but what exactly does it mean? To get us started, here's list of words that are used when people talk about Maya being "tender-hearted": sad, sensitive, crying, moody, withdrawn, worry, sick, delicate health.
Hmmm, seems like tender-hearted might be a nice way of calling someone "depressed." When Maya moves back to Stamps after her rape in St. Louis, she explains:
Then, too, I was well known for being "tender-hearted." Southern N****es used that term to mean sensitive and tended to look upon a person with that affliction as being a little sick or in delicate health. So I was not so much forgiven as I was understood. (14.26)
Although we could shrug this off as part of her image as the "sensitive artist," that would clash with most of the tone of the novel. This is a funny book, right? Even though so many horrible things happen, Maya almost always seems amused. But remember, this is the tone of an adult Maya looking back at her life. Maybe all of that humor is a way to protect the Maya in the novel from all the sadness that author Maya knows she is feeling.
Okay, it's time for the really sad stuff. We'll just go ahead and lay it out there: Maya is raped by her mother's boyfriend when she is only eight years old—so young that she was "sure that any minute […] the Green Hornet would bust in the door and save me" (12.6). The rape seeps into the rest of the novel with consequences that last a lifetime—Maya's lifetime.
When Mr. Freeman first molests Maya, the biggest thing she seems to take away from it is not that he abused her, but that he held her. She feels loved and she misses the connection she felt with this man: "I began to feel lonely for Mr. Freeman and the encasement of his big arms" (11.25). This is not unusual for child sexual abuse victims. Maya desires that love so much that she vies for Mr. Freeman's attention, sitting in his lap and hoping for a hug.
When Mr. Freeman is found dead, Maya assumes that her lies killed him—this leads her to her vow of silence:
Just my breath, carrying my words out, might poison people and they'd curl up and die like the black fat slugs that only pretended. (13.31)
Considering that writing is an author's life, the muteness of a future poet is like death. And sure enough, Maya doesn't speak until Mrs. Flowers teaches her that words have the power to communicate and create, not destroy.
Maya doesn't talk very much about how she deals with the rape, but there is one tiny little allusion that might shed some light on her thoughts. Maya mentions that she memorized The Rape of Lucrece (which, by the way, is super-long—impressive!) by her main squeeze Shakespeare before her graduation from eighth grade (23.44). The poem talks about the rape of Lucretia, a mythical Roman woman who was known for her chastity. After her rape, she makes the men in her family get revenge and then commits suicide.
Let's take a look at this poem. The way we see it, there are two important things to notice: (1) Shakespeare forgives Lucretia in the poem. (2) The poem mentions Philomela, a woman who was raped and whose tongue was cut out so that she couldn't tell anyone what had happened.
Now that your schooling in Shakespeare and ancient mythology is over, what does it all mean? Well, we're not quite sure. Maybe Maya has finally forgiven herself for the rape. Maybe she realizes that she doesn't want to be silent anymore. And as we know from Caged Bird, Maya is anything but silent.
Since titles have to mean something (check out "What's Up With the Title?" for more on that), we're going to say that Maya herself is the famous caged bird. You know, the one that sings. This is a girl who is caged—or trapped—by the big three: racism, sexism, and classism. And what's worse, she's super-aware of it all:
If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult. (Prologue.11-12)
With all of these things caging her, why does she sing? Why does she keep going, and why does she write this book? Well, in Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem, the caged bird sings a prayer of hope. So maybe this is Maya's prayer.


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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
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Now you know where I've been for the past few weeks! I've been having anxiety over the fact that these should have gone out weeks ago, but April 1 is still pretty reasonable - especially since our save the dates went out so long ago. Oh, and good thing we took that photo before I went in to the post office! For some reason, I thought the PO didn't close until 3 on Saturdays, so imagine my surprise when I walked in at 2 to see everything all locked up. I was not happy. The future mister saved the day when he went back in to check their hours for Monday and discovered that there was another post office open until 3! We were greeted by a very unhappy postal worker who gave us a hard time (about wanting stamps that added up to $0.81 and the fact that we had something bulky-a wax seal-in our envelopes), but we were able get everything stamped and shoved on their merry way right as she was closing up. What a huge weight off my shoulders!
If I ever again plan a huge party and want to make 130 invitations by hand, by myself, someone please remind me what a stupid idea it is. (They do look pretty, though!)
Keep your eyes out for the big reveal sometime next week!
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I literally cannot wait to see these! So excited! Yay for mailing them! xxxReplyDelete
Yay! Congrats on getting them out!! Can't wait to see pics!!ReplyDelete
Way to go, but bummer about the disgruntled worker! Some people want to strip the joy from everything!ReplyDelete
We were also met with a grumpy postal worker! So exciting that the invites are in the mail! I know that must be a huge weight lifted, now you get to look forward the RSVP's!ReplyDelete
Congratulations! I know that's a huge relief to get them all out. I can't wait to see them! I think every single postal worker I've dealt with in the process has been disgruntled. It seems to just come with the territory.ReplyDelete
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It is a repeated question since the beginning of this year when the markets started to price on close ending of the Fed's tightening cycle. It was a good reason to start buying the Gold which has no yield to represent to who owns it, while UST yields were going down with lower interest rate outlook in US.
The Gold could gather higher momentum later as a safe haven by the growing geopolitical concerns about US-Iran conflicts, after new attacks on Oil tanks coming from the oil rich Arabian Gulf area, While US-China trade dispute is still affecting negatively on the global economic expansion and its demand for commodities and energy.
In the same time, GBP is still suffering from the miserable political case in UK which can lead to Hard Brexit specially, If the most favorable person to Trump in UK Boris Johnson is to lead of the Conservative Party.
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While the Brexit extension to next Oct. 31 can drive the UK economy to longer stalling and lower confidence in business spending waiting for certainty.
Anyway, this miserable stance should end to something certain about Brexit this year and BOE is looking closer to have interest rate cutting by the end of it to boost confidence and stimulate economy, amid the current lower inflation pressure and the sake for meeting the supply building up at a closer point to avert economic deterioration in UK.
While the single currency is still negatively impacted also by the uncertainty about Brexit and in the same time EU is facing lower inflation levels and slower economic growth can make the ECB in no rush to raise rate.
ECB President Mario Draghi's confirmed during the press conference following the broad members meeting on that the economy is still tilting to the downside and it's not expected to raise rates before the first half of 2020 to avoid joining this current Fed's tightening cycle which is looking about to end by coming soon cutting can be next July.
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Collins has pled not-guilty and said through his lawyers that he was not responsible for the shot that hit him in the leg, nor the shot that killed McPhatter. Rappers T.I., Maino, and Uncle Murda, have all been cleared of any involvement in the incident. Heckstall's legal team announced plans to file suit against all responsible parties, starting with Irving Plaza owner, Live Nation.
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Yes, this living space has a putting green too! You have to put the boys somewhere! The Shriver property, a rustic-modern outdoor space. It exudes ample breathing room with its minimalist décor and available space. It feels quiet and inviting. These insightful and décor savvy homeowners collaborated with our design team to promote their view-point. A modern-rustic interior theme extends into a distinguished outdoor room finish.
Landscape Utopia
This Small Backyard Landscape Design is a perfect paradise that doesn't exist, but which we all dream of anyway. And in this landscape utopia, the Grove Property is a dream paradise in an outdoor living space. Imagine yourself escaping into it's calming presence.
Want to Improve your luxury outdoor living space . . .
Not One, Not Two, But 3 Sided – Fireplace!
Oh not you didn't! Yep, they did! A 3-sided Fireplace that reaches into the sky. A masterpiece. The Carey property homeowners love a 'Beer & Burgers' life so they turned a corner of their huge backyard into a pub-style luxury living space. Fun for all!
Put a Sport Court In It!
And so they did! No Worries, right? The Hildago's collaborated with the Paradise Restored Design Team for a much-needed Facelift. They left their landscape worries behind to find outdoor living contentment. The Hidalgo Property is an ooh-ahh transformation. See the basketball court where a huge tree use to stand. The firepit area is amazing as well and is the perfect spectators viewpoint. Enjoy!
View of Portland, Poolside – Pick Me!
Is a pool your favorite spot in a backyard? Or would you rather join family and friends around the fireplace or firepit. Late night soak in the spa? Candlelight dinner for two? Or gather with guests around the circular grill. . . fondue anyone? Perhaps a beer at the bar while taking in the game or grab a closer proximity to the TV under the gazebo. Landscape luxury in the Bissell property.
Nothing Coy About these Koi
Put on your countryside personality and get ready for cozy as this landscape will bathe you in down-home peaceful. The rustic landscape design is filled with 'get-your-calm-on' ambiance as you luxuriate in all the details! Mr. Stocker loves his koi pond and spends many a morning talking to his fish before his farm-life day unfolds.
Wait a minute . . . how did you say we could get one of these outdoor living spaces?
"It takes time 'With a little help from your friends' (Thx Joe Cocker) Get in touch with us!
Luxury – A Condition of Abundance or Great Ease
This luxury living space is filled with lounge patios, fire features, outdoor dining and kitchen areas, and numerous gathering spaces. A natural waterfall beginning at the in-ground spa – flows under the viewpoint bar w/step over walkway – to spill down the hillside.
The lower gazebo in the Reser Property is most homeowners answer to everything outdoor living. It's an amazing space. Plenty of room for game days, the living room is spacious with fireplace wall to get cozy around. The bar island in the kitchen area is roomy with plenty of counter space. The pizza oven is deluxe and could easily feed a crowd. You'll love this landscape . . .
Fish on Land?
Ever wonder what other peoples' backyards looks like? We drive through many neighborhoods and see the impressive curb appeal – but we are not privy to a backyard view. And the McFee Property is a luxury Backyard Paradise! Well hold onto your car seats everyone, we are about to show you a jaw-dropping backyard you can't imagine is hiding behind the backyard fence!
Watch this property in a quick video…. close your mouths…. I know, it's spectacular isn't it?
Simply the Best . . . (Thx Tina Turner)
We love all the luxury living spaces we've shown off to you today . . . however, our last landscape is the definition of luxury. Kimberlie Ct is an Outdoor Living Paradise. Take your time and view the many destinations spaces the landscape offers. With much satisfaction, this landscape masterpiece is one of our all time favorites.
That's a Wrap! 10 Luxury Outdoor Living Spaces – Over & Out!
Well there you have it. We know you enjoyed pouring over these outdoor spaces. Thanks for joining us.
Get Outside Portland! Kim Thibodeau, Exterior Design Services
Landscape Blogger, Swim Nut!
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Clinical Trials Are Critical in High-Risk Melanoma
Clinical trials are a crucial aspect in deciding therapies for patient populations with high-risk melanoma.
BY Ariela Katz
PUBLISHED June 30, 2017
The best option for patients with higher-risk melanoma is to receive effective adjuvant therapy to reduce their chances of recurrence. However, health care professionals have not yet perfected the science of which agents to provide certain patient populations.
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, Anna C. Pavlick, DO, associate professor of hematology and medical oncology and medical director of the Clinical Trials Office at the Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Medical Center, discussed adjuvant therapy for patients with high-risk melanoma.
"I reviewed the historical data looking at interferon as the only adjuvant we had for many years, and now we have the checkpoint inhibitor ipilimumab (Yervoy) that has been approved to be given in the adjuvant setting for stage 3 patients," Pavlick said in an interview during the meeting.
Pavlick emphasized the importance of clinical trials, adding that increased participation in clinical trials will bring effective change in what treating physicians can offer patients, as well as coming to a better understanding on what are the best options to treat high-risk melanoma.
You lectured on the utility of interferon in the adjuvant setting for melanoma treatment. How often is this therapy used toay?
There are very isolated groups throughout the United States that believe that data. If looking at the East coast and West coast regions of the country, we are "non-interferon believers." However, the middle of the country is still using interferon. If you talk to an oncologist on the East coast, we would say that we don't really use it. I would never say "never;" however, I haven't administered it to patients in the past three to five years. I would rather put patients on a clinical trial and look for something much more promising with less toxicity — with the hope that it will impact their survival — when I know that interferon with its toxicity is not going to impact their survival.
What trends are we seeing in ongoing clinical trials, and what types of patients would be best for each type of trial?
Depending upon a patient's stage of disease, the earlier-stage high-risk patients — like those with 2b, 2c and 3a disease — are those who may be interested in a vaccine trial. We look at different peptides that may be able to immunize patients to decrease their risk of recurrence. We don't know if a certain peptide is going to benefit the patients. However, most vaccines have very minimal toxicities, they're tolerable, and patients can come in and receive the vaccine and then go to work afterward since they are not sick. We are hoping that we are able to find one that may be able to help them.
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The way we give combination immunotherapy is usually 3 mg/kg of Yervoy with 1 mg/kg of Opdivo (nivolumab) during a patient's induction. What we have done is flipped the doses, so we are giving 1 mg/kg of Yervoy and 3 mg/kg of Opdivo. The toxic drug in that combination is the Yervoy, but we also think it's really important to stimulate those T cells to generate a better immune response. We want the patients to get Yervoy se doses, we will be able to get the same great responses with the standard doses but with a lot less toxicity.
What determines how long you administer adjuvant therapy to your patients?
If the patients are going to participate in a research study, the length of treatment is dictated in the protocol. If you're participating in a vaccine study, some vaccine studies run six months, and some run a year. Most adjuvant studies don't run more than one year, even with the inhibitors it's the same thing. The trial studying Yervoy and interferon versus pembrolizumab has treatment over one year. Then, you watch.
Were there any recent adjuvant data in melanoma presented at the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting?
What was presented at ASCO that we all found intriguing was a study comparing 3 mg/kg to 10 mg/kg of Yervoy, because the 10 mg/kg dose is what is approved for the adjuvant setting, but the 3 mg/kg dose is what is approved for patients with metastatic disease. We know that 10 mg/kg gives a lot of toxicity — more than the 3 mg/kg — and so we put those two doses in a head-to-head comparison.
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You don't know what you're missing if you've never owned a Himalayan salt lamp. It's like having an open window – a softly glowing natural source of fresh, clean air in your home.
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Study: Uber, Lyft drivers earn well below Seattle minimum wage
Even after some back and forth about the methods used, a recent academic report showed that Uber, Lyft and other on-demand ride-hailing drivers earn less than Seattle's $15 minimum wage.
Drivers, however, aren't subject to minimum wage laws because they operate as independent contractors.
The report, published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, initially found that drivers averaged $3.37 from driving after accounting for expenses. On Monday, though, lead author Stephen Zoepf, executive director of the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford University, tweeted a statement revising that figure upward to $8.55 or $10 per hour before taxes.
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That survey collected data from 1,100 drivers around the country and found Uber drivers earned an average of $15.68 per hour, without accounting for vehicle maintenance, depreciation and fuel costs.
Uber said in an analysis last September that Seattle drivers averaged $19 to $21 per hour before expenses, and in another analysis by Hall, he found that expenses ranged from $2.94 to $6.46 per hour. By that estimate, Seattle drivers could take home between $12.54 and $18.06 per hour, according to Uber.
In Zoepf's response Monday, he said Hall's criticism was legitimate; the survey questions he pointed to were worded in a way that they could have been misinterpreted by respondents, Zoepf wrote on Twitter. He said he would be conducting a thorough review of the working paper over the next few weeks.
In an emailed statement, Uber thanked Zoepf for acknowledging his errors, while a statement from Lyft put the whole report into question over the sudden change.
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The study also found that driver turnover is incredibly high -- from 50 to 96 percent -- a factor that could be worsened if wage figures are dismally lower than previously touted.
In recent years, Uber paid $20 million to settle a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission over the company's claims about earnings and vehicle financing. Uber at one time advertised that drivers could earn $90,000 a year in New York and $74,000 in San Francisco, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.
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I think it is hard to remember that everyone can get sick not just your heart baby. Wednesday night my dad had a stroke so I spent all day yesterday at the hospital with him. Thank God it was a minor one, but he hasn't been feeling well for a long time. He has went to Urgent Care time and time again, seen his regular doctor, and even went to the ER and they all misdiagnosed him :( His left side is weak, but he is starting to improve. Along with his minor stroke he has shingles and was having a very bad asthma attack. I think he has been battling asthma now for awhile since he has had this constant cough and it has been hard for him to breathe. I just kept thinking yesterday that I can't handle loosing my Dad especially with Raygen having major open heart surgery in August. I know that may sound selfish, but my dad is our rock. He is just an amazing man and I love him so much. I think we are pretty close. We usually talk about 5 times a day and we don't go more then a day without seeing each other and the same with my mom. The world goes on even if I get caught up in my own and other people get sick. I am not the only one with stress in my life and sometimes it is important to be reminded of that and also be reminded to enjoy the here and now. My dad is probably going into rehab in a few days to help regain strength in his left side and then home. I can not wait till he is home.
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I slept like a rock last night...how 'about you?
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Our event of the day is the final day of the Dell Technologies Championship at TPC Boston in Norton. This is the second of four PGA Tour playoffs. Following today's action, the top seventy players will progress to the BMW Championship next week. This will then get whittled down to the top thirty golfers, who will battle it out at the Tour Championship to be crowned the winner of the FedEX Cup.
Mexican Abraham Ancer currently, and somewhat surprisingly, leads the field, sitting at 13 under par. However, he has numerous players breathing down his neck. Bryson DeChambeau hit a stunning 63 in the third round to pull himself into contention. The young American is just one shot behind Ancer. Englishman Tyrrell Hatton also shot 63, the lowest score of his PGA Tour career, on Saturday. The 26-year-old, going for his first PGA title, is currently joint second on 12 below par. Compatriot Justin Rose, who had led after the first two days of action, is a further shot behind. The world number 4 is level with Australian Cameron Smith. Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy, two of the great golfers of their generation, have both blown hot and cold this year. However, they showed flashes of their brilliance yesterday as Spieth hit 68 and McIlroy 66. The pair both sit on 9 below par. Tiger Woods recovered from his 72 in round one by hitting a strong 66 and a 68 to leave himself 7 under par. The golfing great is the only man to be crowned FedEX Cup champion on more than one occasion. A solid final round will put him in a healthy position going into the BMW Championship. With FedEX Cup glory getting tantalisingly closer, and the added incentive of $1.6 million for today's winner, there's everything to play for going into the final round.
Honourable mentions around the globe go to day 8 at the US Open. Today will see more last 16 action. Maria Sharapova impressively overcame tenth seed Jeļena Ostapenko to set up a clash with Carla Suárez Navarro of Spain. Last year's beaten finalist Maddison Keys will play twenty-ninth seed Dominika Cibulková. In the men's draw, five-time US Open winner Roger Federer is up against the unseeded John Millman, whilst double US Open champion Novak Djokovic plays João Sousa from Portugal. Elsewhere in the States, a multitude of MLB fixtures are taking place as the playoffs draw ever closer. The Oakland Athletics and the New York Yankees play their first match in a three game series at the Oakland Alameda Coliseum. The second stage of the Tour of Britain begins in Cranbrook and finishes in the picturesque Devonshire town of Barnstaple.
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