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6 Ways Divorce Therapy Can Change You For The Better
If divorce and co-parenting woes are making you so overwhelmed that you're struggling to function at home and at work, divorce therapy can help. Here's how. Read more
If divorce and co-parenting woes are making you so overwhelmed that you're struggling to function at home and at work, divorce therapy can help. Here's how. Read more
Has something significant recently changed your financial circumstances, such as a drastic and involuntary reduction in your income? Or, have you recently learned that your ex-spouse has gotten a substantial raise or a much higher-paying job? These types of situations can lead a person paying alimony, now more commonly known as spousal support, to wonder if they're now paying too much. And, if you do believe that you should have your spousal support reduced, how do you go about getting that reduction approved by a judge? Read more
Did you know that in order to file for and be granted a divorce, you must tell the court your reason(s) for wanting the divorce? These reasons are known as "grounds for divorce" and there are several grounds upon which you can base your complaint. The most common ground cited by divorcing spouses in New Jersey is "irreconcilable differences." What does this term mean — and how do you know if it's the right grounds for your divorce? Read more
If you're thinking about, or have decided to get marriage counseling, good for you! Here are five top tips to help you make the most out of marriage counseling and get your relationship headed in the right direction. Read more
When one spouse develops a chronic disease, it's almost as if a third party has entered the marriage. Serious illness changes the couple's normal dynamic. Both spouses have to reorganize around this uninvited guest who forces them to change the way they work, run the household, have sex, spend their free time, and communicate. Read more
Have you been served with divorce papers? The steps you take next can make or break your future and there's no room for error. Just for guys, here are the most common mistakes men make when going through a divorce — with tips on how you can avoid them!
Alimony is financial support that is given by one spouse to another in a divorce. How much spousal support is paid and for how long depends on several factors including length of the marriage and the income of both spouses. If you find yourself in the midst of a divorce and know that you will need some financial assistance from your soon to be ex, here are some tips to help you successfully negotiate the support that you deserve. Read more
If your 50-year-old husband wakes up one morning and tells you life has passed him by, you may have visions of him zooming off in a red Porsche with a new partner half his age. Don't panic! Your husband's midlife crisis doesn't necessarily mean you're headed for divorce court. How he chooses to handle it is up to him, but there are things you can do to support him and keep your marriage in tact. (Dealing with a wife's midlife crisis? Read our companion blog: 7 Tips for Surviving Your Wife's Midlife Crisis!) Read more
If your wife is over 35 and seems dissatisfied with her life — and you — she may be going through that common affliction of middle age: a midlife crisis. Read on to learn the signs and symptoms of a mid-life crisis, and what you can do to give your spouse the support and space she needs to figure things out.
In our world where so many things are instantly available at our fingertips, divorcing couples increasingly want to know how to minimize the time it takes to complete the process — without sacrificing the quality of their settlement. The easiest way to get a quick divorce? For many couples, the answer is divorce mediation. Mediating a divorce can save time — and big bonus — it can also save considerable amounts of money.
Here's how the process works. Read more
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NICOLAS BERNIER: frequencies (synthetic variations)
2014 Prizewinner of the FETA Sound Art Prize, selected by Master Judge Maggie Payne, from over 35 submissions from 8 countries in the Americas.
About frequencies (synthetic variations)
100 aleatoric sound and light fragments generating three-dimensional patterns by superimposing 100 transparent laser cut acrylic panels. Taking the quantum —the smallest measurable value of energy— as his conceptual basis, the whole explore the metaphorical relationships between basic quantum physics principles applied to the audiovisual creative process: particles, probabilities, wave/particle duality and discontinuity. Structured around these notions, the audio-visual composition stems from 100 sound and light fragments that develop themselves organically, generating an ever expending but yet disruptive form in time and space.
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The Los Angeles Lakers are 14-54, riding a three-game losing streak and sporting the second-worst record in the NBA. And even when the Lakers should utilize their practices to work on improving as a unit over the remaining couple of weeks, players like Roy Hibbert and Lou Williams are using that time to horse around.
Somewhere, Kobe Bryant was watching this all go down like...
Then, things nearly got out of hand when Hibbert accidentally jabbed Williams in the face.
Let's check in on Kobe.
It turned out to only be a very light jab on Lou's chin and—wait, wait, what was that, Kobe?
You can never make Kobe happy.
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Top 3 Things You Can Do to Support Local Mountain Biking
If you're reading this you have at least a passing interest in Central Ohio Mountain Biking. Maybe cycling in general, but probably like us, you share a passion for dirt. Not just dirt but flying through tight, twisty single track setting up your line to smoke the next trail obstacle. Maybe you just love being in the woods and the stillness of a quiet morning when you seemingly have the trails to yourself. Either way, you're one of us.
One of the advantages of being part of a non-profit our size is that we have the opportunity to engage with different stake-holders in the cycling community. From metro-parks & land managers to bike shops and other cycling organizations in the greater Columbus area, COMBO regularly engages with others to enhance riding opportunities for everyone. We usually ask some variation of, "What do you need from us? How can we help?" We contribute resources; time, effort, sweat (sometimes a little blood... hopefully just a little) and lend visibility to those things that can add to the cycling community.
Now it's our turn to ask for help. I'll turn the questions outward; What do we need from you? How can you help? Hopefully you'll keep reading and consider the following as part of our Spring Membership Drive.
1.) Join COMBO an IMBA Chapter.
For roughly the cost of a knobby tire, you can take one of the most important steps to supporting local mountain biking in Ohio. To be clear, though, it's not about the money. Numbers matter when we're fighting to secure resources and demonstrate the support for natural trails in our region. Joining COMBO lends your voice to the effort. Click HERE to join!
Spring Membership Drive!
Join COMBO & you'll be entered to win a great bike! The SCOTT Genius 750 boasts a super light 6061 custom butted alloy frame. The series comes fully equipped with a Rock Shox Monarch RL Air shock and a Rock Shox Sektor TK Solo Air fork with Lockout, and performance selected Syncros components. *Lawyer dudes say this has to be here... RULES & REGULATIONS.
Join COMBO during the Spring Membership drive & also be entered to win 2 VIP tickets for Burning Can on Friday, July 17.
Here's what a VIP ticket will include:
- Two VIP tickets plus a guided ride with theBike Farm
- Priority camping on July 17 & 18
- Access to VIP Brewer's Party in the REEB Ranch barn during the Friday night concert – includes beer and dinner
- Trolley trip on Saturday morning to Oskar Blues Brewery
- Opportunity to create a unique specialty cask with an Oskar Blues brewer
- Private tour of Oskar Blues Brewery with a brewer
- Private tasting of Oskar Blues beer with a brewer
- Entrance to the Burning Can Beer Festival
2.) Get Involved
Once you've joined, the next key step is to Get Involved. A great way to get involved in a way that directly impacts everyone right at the heart of what we do it to show up at a Trail Work Day. We're fortunate to have some amazing trail builders with years of experience. But that's not what makes the trails special. It's the average rider who's passionate about mountain biking who can work the business end of a rake or shovel. If you're good with a chainsaw, we should meet! Love gardening? You'll love trail building.
There are many other ways to get involved. There are Grant-Writing teams, project management groups, event planners, marketing groups, photographers & bloggers, gift-wrappers during the holidays, etc. The opportunities to volunteer your time & efforts are countless. Getting involved is, in many ways, more important than joining. COMBO is in a phase of growth where we're building organizational capacity. Many hands make light work and we'd be excited to help find a way for you to get involved. Click HERE to get Involved!
3.) Donate.
We have some very generous donors. Let me begin this section by saying, Thank You! Without your support, we wouldn't have the tools to build trails. We wouldn't have the ability to have a cook-out at the Summer Solstice event or Comboween. We wouldn't be able to re-build kiosks or generate grants or do any of the other things we do to build and maintain local mountain bike trails. Organizations need money to survive.
In early 2014, we voted as a Chapter to join IMBA. This was one of those defining moments as an organization where you choose a new path. Looking back, it was a great decision. We enjoy more support than we've ever had before. We have more members than ever before. But part of that decision involves a membership dues revenue split with IMBA. Donating directly to COMBO ensure that those dollars go directly toward supporting local trails.
From a purely financial perspective, the best thing you can do is "Join AND Donate" directly to COMBO. Although we appreciate those who join at a higher membership level, that additional money above the basic membership level gets split with IMBA. Joining at the basic level and donating $20, $50, $100 directly to COMBO results in that money being used solely for local support. Click HERE to Donate.
Thank You for Your Support.
With your help, COMBO is excited to support local mountain biking for everyone in the greater Columbus area. We're right on the cusp of a lot of exciting things happening for local riders but it's only made possible through the efforts of all the amazing volunteers who bring these opportunities to life. Without Trails, Where Would You Ride? And more importantly, without you, there would be no trails!
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BLOG: The Clean Jeans Project
SOURCE Jeans was created with the mission to create the world's first chemical free, all-natural pair of blue jeans. For us, that means understanding at the deepest level what goes into the process of producing blue jeans. It means connecting with the materials every step of the way. And for the founder, that meant trying to do it ourselves.
So we decided to try to make a pair of jeans, from start to finish, the old fashioned way. With organic cotton, fermented indigo dye baths, a table loom, and a lot of patience and determination. This is the story of the Clean Jeans Project.
Check out our finished piece of handwoven denim. Beautiful blue, naturally dyed indigo yarns, and a luxurious drape that doesn't come from machine-woven denim. While this piece isn't going to necessarily feel like jeans, it sure is gorgeous.
After months of running the shuttle back and forth, we've finally finished our five yards of handwoven denim. Take a look at the results as we take the piece off the loom.
We go step by step to show you how to weave a 3x1 twill on a four harness table loom. The loom is warped with hand-dyed indigo yarns, and the weft is organic cotton natural tone yarn. Turns out, it's pretty monotonous, once you get the hang of it. Just be careful not to break any of the warp yarns!


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By Paul Candy
Regardless of what cables I used with the MK3, the difference between stock hiFace and MK3 was so huge as to make it difficult hearing any similarities between the two. With the MK3 playback was bigger, bolder and more dramatic but also smoother, less aggressive and edgy. High strings had a sweeter more singing tone. Percussion had a bit more snap and impact. Textures were more fleshed out and vibrant. The sense of forward momentum and relaxed ease that had so impressed me with the Calyx was clearly evident too. The soundstage opened up in depth and width with a greater sense of space, focus and definition between vocal and instrumental images. Overall balance and flow was more analogue-like which in my experience suggests excellent jitter reduction/rejection...........
But as with all things audio, food, wine or any vice, once you have a taste of the good stuff, it's difficult to settle for less. The JKSPDIF MK3 is most definitely the good/better stuff and an excellent option for anyone wanting to play music from a computer who is unwilling to replace an existing premium DAC for an USB-enabled converter. After spending several weeks with the JKSPDIF MK3, I frankly could care less if a DAC had USB or not. With this little gizmo it's a non-issue. My advice? Buy the best DAC you can afford and if it doesn't do USB, don't fret. The JKSPDIF MK3 has your back.
Audio Ramblings - a Plethora of USB Converters from Blue Circle, Audiophilleo, Halide Designs, M2Tech, JKMods, Stello, with a bit on Cardas and Black Cat
by Dave Clark
Going the battery route clearly alters the sound in terms of becoming warmer and richer, with an overall more organic and 'substantial' sound while still retaining all the positives of the stock M2Tech. You still the 'tinkle' but with more decay and air… the 'tinkle-ness' now sits more 'among the group' as opposed to standing out from the crowd. The Upgraded M2Tech presents music with a greater sense of density and heft… reminds me of other battery-powered devices.........
Now what you have is actually an M2Tech HiFace with all the benefits (24/192), but the computer still needs the driver installed meaning that it works just like a stock HiFace, except it is now sitting in a box… a plastic box that now needs a male A to female A USB cable. You might be able to plug it directly to your computer if everything lines-up just right, in my case it doesn't. So a generic USB cable to the rescue. All things considered this is clearly a step-up over that from the stock M2Tech, which suggests that getting better power to the right circuits/parts is just as important as getting the bits from A to B. Yeah, nice indeed and not for a lot more money though it is a simply plastic box so no points for being glitzy and fancy. Big deal so it is not eye-candy, but it does address some of the perceived faults of the stock unit. It is less aggressive and in a way, more organic. Gee, who would have thought that power noise and whatnot would be such an issue? But yeah that is exactly what noise can sound like… a bit more aggressiveness, more perceived resolution via etch caused by there being more grain that is riding along with the music. Take that away and you actually hear more while hearing less: more music and less fatigue and whatever. Of course I am only speculating here that by going the battery route over 100% USB power is removing or mitigating to some degree noise or whatever that is mucking up the sound in terms of the stock unit having more this or that… or less whatever. Which is not to say that the stock M2Tech is not good, yeah, it is quite amazing for what it is and for what it does, but at $150 obviously trade-offs and compromises had to be made… so as good as it is, going with a $140 upgrade in terms of how the device receives power moves the M2Tech up quite a few meaningful notches on the musical scale. Highly recommended.
MK1 Boxed M2Tech hiFace Evo USB To S/PDIF Converter
Plus the Halide Design Bridge and John Kenny Mk1 boxed hiFace.
The review of the modified Hiface has arrived http://enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/1110/m2tech_hiface_evo_dac.htm
It compares the M2tech Evo & the Halide Bridge to the JKHiface. Remember this is the MK1 version that is being reviewed so the battery comments don't apply & are somewhat incorrect for the MK1 anyway! Extract from conclusion:
John Kenny Mk1 boxed hiFacePros:
Best sound of the three provided inline RF attenuators are used to get the level down to standards.
Lowest initial cost.
JOHN KENNY MODIFIED HiFace
A review of the MK2 Hiface has just been published in StereoMojo. An extract from the conclusion "The Mk1 modded HiFace didn't just give good performance for PC based sound - it gave good performance, period. I was lucky enough for John to also loan me a Mk1 again with the Mk2 so I could directly compare one to the other. Well, when I tried the Mk1, I remembered quite well the original sound - clear highs, tight lows and a really good clarity. I listened like that for a few days. Then I swapped in the Mk2. Now I could see why John was excited about the new mods: yes, there is a definite improvement with the Mk2. So what changed? Well, the space and resolution around individual instruments and singers was improved, which led to a much better appreciation of the soundstage. Better depth, width and height were readily apparent. I could detect no downsides to this: there was no trace of any kind of glare or harshness, listening fatigue never set it."
A glowing review of the MK2 Hiface has just been published in Digital Audio Review, an Australian review site. An extract from the conclusion reads "The improvements from some affordable hifi upgrades are so obvious, so plain that it is easy to explain them as such. John Kenny's second round in the ring with modifying the M2Tech Hiface is one such product. If you're a dedicated computer audiophile - with either a Windows PC or a Mac as transport - you NEED this device. Live with it for only a few hours and it renders the standard USB output as dead from the neck down. As evidenced by my own experimenting with a variety of DACs, your mileage will indeed vary, but I struggled to find a DAC that didn't justify the asking price. I thought about tagging this battery-powered Hiface as "highly recommended" but it's better than that - instead, I have to go with "essential". Got computer? Get this."
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Thursday, July 12, 2012
Banned in LA
Another which was reopening after carrying Modern art decades earlier, but now turned into contempt art as there isn't much else in LA, told me to go to Frisco or Portland. I don't fit in here. No shit.
LA is for the nouveau riche, agents, studio heads and real estate robber barons..
The third was LA Artcore in fall 2008. Lydia Takeshita, the founder and head, immediately bought several photos I had, and put me down for a two man show of "untrained' artists in May of 2010. She vehemently promised me and showed me where she had me scheduled. As I don't care for much they show at either of their two sites, in front of MoCA and at the Brewery, I hadn't gone in a year. I looked at their 2010 schedule to contact about what works to bring, and was told I wasn't scheduled and we had been replaced by two Asian girls with rice paper works. How stereotypical and original is that.
In other words, I have been banned in LA.
Thank you, I cant think of much better cred than that.
Can you think of anything more hypocritical? But then it is the Academic/Museo/Gallery complex of investment for the nouveau riche and their parties. Political Correctness is its cover and muzzle. We can't have the search for Truth creep into the "discussion" now can we. I have been banned for blogging my opposition to the soulless, sexless, sensually and mentally deprived artscene. Where frontin pseudo intellectual nonsense and voyuerism of games, toys and therapy is the goal. Decadence.
The product of the Age of Meism and Excess.
That age is over.
"It is time to put aside childish things". St Paul and some guy named Obama.
3 comments:
- Todd Wilkins said...
It is a true shame that the citizens of Los Angeles have been deprived of your bountiful artistic talents Donald. Having perused your website and seen the generosity of spirit and deep understanding of the human condition inherent in your work it, is regrettable that you have been banned from exhibiting such masterful work at LA Artcore and been told to seek out venues in "Frisco" rather than in your hometown of Los Angeles. Goddamn those robber barons and nouveau riche Hollywood d-bags who prop up this elitist artscene.
I am a huge fan of your non-sensical, drunken spewings on the comment boards of nearly every art related article on the Los Angeles Times and other websites and fuck all those who say otherwise. You are the real deal my friend! One piece of advice would be to spend far less time venting your anger about the state of your career as an artist and your inability to accept the past 80 years of artistic achievements on the computer and perhaps finding a paying job as a Sarah Palin-like art-world rabble rouser. Based on your self-trained, comprehensive knowledge of Art History and fluency in Latin you are obviously the right man for the job.
Semper Ubi Sub Ubi Mon Frer!!
- July 25, 2012 at 5:13 PM
- Donald Frazell said...
If you knew any Latin, or obviously history, you would know where the phrase comes from. But, pseudo intellectuals always have their panties in a bunch. At leas you have the juevos to post a name, credit. Your girly friends dont.
Glad you enjoy Modern art, no decadent influences of the mothers of neoAcademcism like Duchamp, Picabia, Dali and Balthus here.
All virile, men and women. worshiping what we call God.
Purpose and Meaning, you dont seem to have any. What a shame.
See you on the blogosphere, or perhaps, Frisco. But I think we travel in different circles. I am in the real world, you the inbred insular and miniscule selfabsorbed artscene.
Good luck with that.
And brush up on your history, and drawing, sense of color and humanity, while you are at it.
- July 26, 2012 at 10:06 AM
- Donald Frazell said...
Oh, my bad. I googled you and you dont seem to exist. Nevermind.
- July 26, 2012 at 10:08 AM


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Sunday, November 20, 2011
More Shawl Pins
Here are a couple more shawl pins. These were made with a texture sheet and then coated with mica powders. Quite elegant, if I do say so myself.
Posted by Cynthia Blanton at 8:22 PM 1 comments
Labels: mica powder, polymer clay, shawl pin, wearable art
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Shawl Pins
I've been making a bunch of shawl and/or scarf pins lately. Here are some examples:
|Denim complete with "stitching"
Posted by Cynthia Blanton at 1:10 PM 2 comments
Labels: copper, polymer clay, shawl pin, wearable art
Monday, November 14, 2011
Spray Box
I've been using Preserve Your Memories II (PYMII) to seal objects covered in mica powder but the fumes are intolerable. It's usually too windy to spray outside where I live and today it is pouring rain, so I had to devise a way to spray inside without suffocating myself. My solution is a spray box, shown below. I took a large cardboard box and cut two holes in the side. Then, using good old duct tape, I attached two long rubber gloves through the holes. It is sort of like the containers scientists use to handle dangerous substances. Then I put a piece of clear plexiglass on top of the box so I can see what I'm doing. I lift the top, put the objects to be sprayed in the box, lower the top, insert my hands into the gloves and spray. It's not completely air tight, but it reduces the fumes to a tolerable level. I think I will put some cling wrap on the underside of the plexiglass, so if it gets coated in spray eventually, I can just change the cling wrap.
|Inside of the box
Posted by Cynthia Blanton at 3:39 PM 4 comments
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
My first etching project
Some folks from my clay guild got together for a class on etching copper taught by Elaine Kennedy, who did a great job of introducing us to the technique. During class I just experimented with various resists, but after I got home, I tried to do something for real. This is a copper shawl pin etched with figures modeled after petroglyphs.
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Labels: copper, etching, shawl pin, wearable art
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It is very pathetic to see the top-seeded female tennis player, Caroline Wozniacki, to take retirement from her semi-final match against Caroline Wozniacki at the Family Circle Cup in
Caroline Wozniacki suffered the injury while she slid for a drop shot and her foot caught on the clay surface. She was trailing by 4-2 in the first set. She made her return after undergoing treatment. But she could not stay longer. After Zvonareva took the control of the match 5-2, Wozniacki retired after a double faulted at 15-15.
Final match will be played between Zvonareva and Samantha Stosur. Samantha Stosur defeated Daniela Hantuchova, 6-3, 7-6 (2).
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Live a day in the food of a woman from a Quechua family in the Andes, following what she might have for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
A Day in Her Food fact: A woman living in hunger in the Andes will not experience much variety in her food options. For example, lunch is nearly always potato-based, and taken in the fields while herding sheep.
Ingredients for the day (for one person):
6 potatoes
170g cracked wheat, or bulgur wheat if it's easier to find
1 ½ carrots
1 corn on the cob
Half a tablespoon of chopped onion
Half a tablespoon chopped tomato
A few mint leaves
Vegetable oil
To drink on the challenge: Water throughout the day (no tea, coffee or other drinks)
Potato stew with boiled wheat
A simple dish to start her day
2 potatoes, chopped into cubes
Half a tablespoon of chopped onion
Half a tablespoon of chopped tomato
90g of cracked wheat or bulgur wheat
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- Lightly fry the onion and tomato in vegetable oil.
- When soft, add the chopped potato and mix.
- Add around a cup to a cup and a half of water – enough for the potato to boil.
- Add salt to taste.
- In a separate saucepan boil 90g of cracked wheat/bulgur wheat as per packet instructions.
- Add salt to taste.
- Once the potatoes and wheat are cooked, serve together.
Fried potatoes with grated carrot
Lunch is usually potato-based and would be taken in the fields, while herding sheep
2 potatoes, chopped into cubes
1 carrot, grated
Vegetable oil
- In a pan fry the potatoes in enough oil that they are half submerged.
- Keep stirring, flipping potatoes over so they cook evenly and don't stick to the pan.
- Once potatoes are fried, drain the oil from the pan.
- Add the grated carrot to the potatoes, and on low heat combine thoroughly.
- When carrot is heated through, remove from heat, and serve.
Wheat and potato soup with mint, and corn on the cob
Potato again...
80g cracked wheat or bulgur wheat
Half a carrot, chopped
2 potatoes, chopped into cubes
A few mint leaves, chopped
1 corn on the cob
- In a saucepan, mix the cracked wheat/bulgur wheat with the chopped potatoes and 2 cups of wáter.
- Boil per wheat packet instructions.
- Before the potatoes are completely cooked, add the chopped carrot and salt to taste.
- In another pan, boil the corn on the cob.
- When wheat, carrots and potato are cooked, take soup/stew off the heat and serve with chopped fresh mint on top, and the corn on the cob at the side.


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A routine daily flag-lowering ceremony at an Indian-Pakistani border crossing became a show of strength and patriotism Saturday on the Pakistani side thanks to simmering tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
A routine daily flag-lowering ceremony at an Indian-Pakistani border crossing became a show of strength and patriotism Saturday on the Pakistani side thanks to simmering tensions between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
Thousands of Pakistanis thronged the border town of Wagha to watch their soldiers lower the flag. The ceremony takes place daily and features a formal set of handshakes between Indian and Pakistani soldiers. Very few people attended from the Indian side.
Saturday's ceremony took on extra meaning because of an ongoing dispute between India and Pakistan over the contested territory of Kashmir. Both countries claim the Himalayan territory in its entirety and are separated by the heavily guarded Line of Control.
Since 2003, a cease-fire has largely held despite regular small-scale skirmishes. Each side routinely blames the other for starting any violence and insists they are only retaliating.
India blamed Pakistani-supported Kashmir-based militants for a deadly Sept. 18 assault on a base in Indian-controlled Kashmir that killed 17 Indian soldiers.
On Sept. 29, the Indian military claimed to have carried out a "surgical strike" across the Kashmir border that destroyed what it called a "terrorist launching pad" used by Kashmir-based militants. Two Pakistani soldiers were killed in that barrage.
The latest spike in tensions has spilled over into a cultural and political stand-off. The Indian Motion Picture Artists Association announced it would ban Pakistani actors from Bollywood movies and several large Pakistani cinema chains announced they would stop showing Indian movies.
Saturday's ceremony began with the march of two female border guards. Then a Pakistani Sikh soldier shook hands with his Indian counterpart; the soldier also shook his fist aggressively at the Indian soldier as the Pakistani crowd clapped in approval.
Among those who travelled to witness the ceremony Saturday was 70-year-old Mohammad Ahsan, who said he came from southern port city of Karachi.
"I am so happy that I saw today's parade and flag lowering ceremony. The way our soldiers sprint and march is a rare experience of my life," he said, as his daughters and others chanted, "long live Pakistan."
Anam Fatima, 17, said she came to Wagha along with her classmates and teachers to boost the morale of Pakistani soldiers.
"I did not know that our soldiers are so handsome, tall and brave and I saw them today closely and God willing no one can defeat our brave nation," she said.
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Product Description
KCNC's VB1 brake levers are meticulously CNC machined and designed to have a minimal amount material in order to achieve the lowest possible weight. This design compromises no functionality, however. Locking lever reach adjusters and barrel adjusters are included, and the levers provide an ample perch for two or three fingers. The bar clamp and lever pivot are combined in clever fashion using a chainring bolt-style assembly, resulting in a clean look.
KCNC's brake levers are compatible with both linear pull cantilever brakes (V-brakes) and mechanical, cable actuated disc brakes. These levers are compatible with standard mountain brake cables and 5 mm brake housing.
To mount the VB1 levers to your handlebars, all that is required is a 4 mm hex wrench. Standard cabling and brake adjustment tools will also be needed for proper setup.
Product Specifications
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|Lever End to Pivot
|92 mm
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Move over pumpkin pie! Fluffy pumpkin cupcakes are moist and flavorful thanks to brown butter and a light, sweet buttercream frosting infused with cinnamon.
Okay, y'all…it's time for me to face the music. November is drawing to a close and this is going to be my last pumpkin recipe of the season (*sniff*)! Now that doesn't mean that I'm going to stop baking with pumpkin, just sharing it. After all, pumpkin is about to be overshadowed by peppermint and eggnog and Christmas cookies, and that's okay…because I am finally feeling ready.
You may have noticed that my recipes tend to stick with the current season rather than jumping too far ahead to futuristic upcoming holidays. That might make me a bad blogger, but I just can't bring myself to think about Christmas until I'm past Turkey Day! I have a lot of admiration for the bloggers who give us plenty of time to plan ahead by posting pumpkin recipes in July and Christmas recipes in October, and sometimes I wish that I, too, could get in the spirit of the various holidays that far in advance. But mark my words…the day after Thanksgiving, I'll be decorating my tree and hitting publish on my first Christmas post of the season! Just not a day sooner. 😉
Anywho, these here pumpkin cupcakes are a perfect way to get ready for Thanksgiving and bid adieu to fall. I love what brown butter does for my baking, and these little beauties are no exception. Brown butter has such a deep, caramelized, almost nutty flavor, which ends up being a perfect complement to the pumpkin. And the frosting? Sweet, whipped buttercream is enhanced with spicy cinnamon. What sounds better on a pumpkin cupcake than that?
Move over pumpkin pie! Fluffy pumpkin cupcakes are moist and flavorful thanks to brown butter and a light, sweet buttercream frosting infused with cinnamon.
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 (16 ounce) box powdered sugar (approximately 4 cups)
- 1/4 cup milk (or slightly more, if necessary), at room temperature
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- Make brown butter by slicing butter into pieces and melting it in a large, heavy-bottomed pot or skillet set over medium-low heat. Stir as butter melts and foams. Continue to monitor and stir as the foam subsides and the butter begins to turn golden, with dark specks forming at the bottom of the pan. When the butter smells nutty and is golden brown in color, remove from heat and pour into a bowl to cool, allowing any sediment at the bottom of the pan to remain behind.
- Preheat the oven to 350°F and line cupcake pans with paper liners. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. In a large bowl, mix together cooled brown butter, sugars, eggs, pumpkin, and vanilla. Blend in dry ingredients until smooth and incorporated, but do not overbeat.
- Scoop batter into lined cupcake pan, dividing evenly between the 24 cups (each liner should be about 2/3 full). Bake for 18 to 22 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a cupcake comes out clean. Allow cupcakes to cool in the pan for a couple of minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
- In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat butter until smooth. Slowly blend in powdered sugar, alternating with milk. Add vanilla, salt, and cinnamon and beat on high until light and fluffy. Frost cupcakes once they are completely cool and top with a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar, if desired.
This recipe was originally shared as a contributor post over at A to Zebra Celebrations.
More yummy pumpkin treats…
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Whole Wheat Pumpkin Spice Waffles {Dairy-Free}
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Web Browser Security Comparison and their Issues..
The very first thing we do, when there is requirement of any information, is open any search browser and start searching. There are various browsers having their own distinctive properties and features. Web browsers are considered to be the most important piece of software for computer. The world is more complex than it was in 2010, so there is a need of secure browsers. Here we are going to discuss about those search browsers that have made a large user base and are constantly moving ahead enabling smooth web experience.
Internet browsing has now become an essential part of our daily lives. Thats why, it is so very much important to choose the right web browser among all. Here we are with little comparison about them along with the reasons why they are best and popularly used these days.
Generally we evaluate search browsers on the following criteria:
- Web browsers should load faster and must be compatible with every popular and commonly used operating system
- As browsers are very important, it should provide convenient and practical features that make out surfing more easier and fast.
- Web browsers must be compatible with all the versions of Windows and Mac operating system
- It should have user friendly interface and must be offering all the best possible features.
- Web browsers should be easy to use as one can find all the important and required tools without making any effort.
- Peacekeeper benchmark and Browsermark are best way to check the capability of any web browser.
- Memory Consumption, speedy startup solves half of the problem. You have to make sure that once your browser clicked, it will not going to gum up your machine and degrade its speed.
Internet Explorer (IE)
Internet Explorer, the greatest and best web browsers, well before Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. It has kept itself up to dated by launching its new versions. Although, it has led to a decrease in its market share due to competition but, it is still one among widely used search browsers. IE 8 allows a much smoother and better tab experience and also facilitates user to open several tabs simultaneously. It comes loaded with privacy features like SmartScreen Filter and inPrivate Browsing. IE 8 takes less time as compared to IE in loading any page. In addition, it is compatible with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 operating system.
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Firefox is an excellent search browser, surpassing the previous IE and even upgraded with best and amazing features. Mozilla Firefox come with easy shortcut keys which made the browsing session more easier as compared to that of IE. One window tabbing mode has made life much easier for all the Internet surfers. It provide ability to spell check, restore session, smooth scrolling, bookmarking, password manager and many more. In terms of providing protection or security, Mozilla scores the highest in comparison with other commonly used web browsers. This browser help you in protecting your confidential and personal data including all your banking and personal details. It is available for all Windows XP, Vista, Linux and Mac OS. In addition, its add-ons feature provide you freedom to upgrade your web browser and help you in spreading out the whole world. Mozilla Firefox is the only browser not to hybridize its address bar and web searches.
Google Chrome:
Google Chrome is considered as the second best web browser. It is very commonly used due to its simplicity and easy to use interface. It is secure and fast as well comes with interesting features that attracts number of users. Chrome comes with the enhanced Tab features which has made the browsing to a higher level in the organized way. It ensures high level of security and sends warning alerts to indicate or show the presence of suspicious act. This amazing browser assure user to secure them from virus, malware and other phishing sites. It is very faster and enables a speedy experience. Google Chrome support or compatible with Windows XP, Vista and Mac. Hence, it lack in vectoring and HTML5 bit-mapping.
Safari is a product of Apple that have gained popularity and instant recognition especially among the Mac users. It contains all the necessary features along with additional some new features usually offered by commonly used other web browsers. It offers excellent features for Mac users and is very easy to use. Safari provide security against malware, viruses, private browsing and from phishing sites. Its speed is fas as it takes less time in loading any page. What's more, it is compatible only with Mac operating system.
Opera is an Internet suite that comes with various useful in-built tools but it still acquires a small market share. Opera 11 is its latest version. It is easy to use and provide tabs function enabling user to customize according to their requirement. Like other web browsers, it help in securing their personal data and information as well offers protection from phishing virus, spyware and unsafe pop ups. It is a faster browser but shows compatibility issues with some websites. Opera is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, Mac OS X as well Linux too.
Source: http://www.farotech.com/the-war-of-the-browsers-which-browser-is-best
Well, this is our best effort in making you familiar with the best among all the web browsers. Here you will get to know detailed info about all the popular browsers. You will find it easy to select the best among all these five web browsers. There are many other browsers you can opt but above mentioned browsers are best from our research. Now, among all these popular browsers, you can select the one according to your need and requirement.


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Featured Breakouts
Design for All: Creative Placemaking and Inclusive Space
Miriam Chion, David John Attyah, Roberto Bedoya, Victor Pineda
By: Rhonda Itaoui
'Design for All: Creative Placemaking and Inclusive Space' provided a unique opportunity to critique the socio-spatial aspects of belonging, and explore methods for cultivating spaces of enhanced inclusivity in everyday urban places. The workshop encouraged the interactive participation of workshop attendees, who were asked to label one of four portraits of urban spaces around the room with various statements from a sticker sheet such as "monumental," "active," "vibrant," etc. Once participants had completed the labelling of their selected portrait, they took seats in proximity to their selected urban space portrait and engage in the presentations of four panelists. Miriam Chion opened the session with an informative overview of 'Urban Vitality' as a necessary solution to urbanization by creating more inclusive spaces that consider the people, activities, and networks within the community.
Robert Bedoya encouraged a deeper critique of the politicized nature of belonging and unbelonging in these places to enable creative placemaking. In drawing on the human capacity as "place-makers." Bedoya framed our neighborhoods as sites for the collective, rather than the privatized 'we'—which he said is essential to advancing belonging in an equitable world.
In addition to considering the politicized nature of belonging, Victor Piñeda highlighted the way that inclusive spaces must reflect a balance of the city's historical memories while at the same time respond to ongoing cultural shifts to ensure the continuity, vibrancy, and relevance of a place for its community.
Public art was cited as a strategy for creative placemaking among attendees, and critiqued by David Attah who advocated for 'socially engaged' public art that should not only reflect and engage with local civic processes, but also encourage the participation of the local community and its various stakeholders. In advocating for art that treats its audience as "subjective," he asserted the need for a more inclusive public art-making process that is ethical, self-critical, and most importantly, participatory for its local community.
Following these panelist presentations, each table group was provided with one of the following four "creative placemaking solutions": engaging people with food, cultural remembrance, farmer's markets, and muraling. Each group applied their chosen solution to the pictured urban space, and brainstorm ways to incorporate that element in the urban space in an inclusive and engaging way. The presentation of group brainstorms sparked discussions around power and privilege in decision-making, the incorporation of socially engaged public art, shifting land-use practices, community-building activities, and native recognition in creative placemaking.
In addition, feedback on proposed creative placemaking solutions like street art and farmers markets encouraged critique of community participation, agency, and empowerment in the placemaking process. Overall, the session highlighted the dialectic relationship between place and belonging. Indeed, creating inclusive places requires the building of a narrative that brings people together, accounts for the broader community's past, current and future needs while encouraging community participation in all stages of the creative place-making process.
photo by Eric Arnold, see more photos on our Facebook page.
Refugees, Borders, and Placelessness
Saskia Sassen, Nunu Kidane, Leena Odeh, Abraham Ramirez, Nadia Barhoum
By: Affiong Faith Ibok
A common theme among the speakers in the panel "Refugees, Borders, Placelessness" was a need for greater collective understanding of what causes of migration. During her presentation, renowned globalization scholar Saskia Sassen asked the audience "Why do people migrate?" Sassen expressed that a "racialized analysis" of migration exists because the political classes have failed to educate the "suffering classes." She stressed that, while the refugee population is growing, migrants are a minority and that "migrations happen inside systems."
UC Berkeley Ph.D candidate Abraham Ramirez's presentation approached migration from a historical perspective. He talked about how the physical expulsion of a population always follows an epistemic expulsion. In order to justify colonization, colonists must first delegitimize indigenous peoples' knowledge creation. In order to discuss migration, Ramirez states that people have to understand the history of stripping populations of their humanity to justify colonization. If that is ignored, people will continue to look to solutions in the very same systems that constructed the problems. Instead of looking towards the nation-state for solutions, Ramirez argued we need to look at the communities that have resisted for centuries.
Organizer Leena Odeh's presentation went on to challenge the rhetorical use of the term "refugee crisis." According to Odeh, the term "refugee crisis" implies that this situation is natural, instead of the result of geopolitical attacks. Furthermore, Odeh argued that refugees' existences are politicized while the issues that affect them are decontextualized.
The final panelist, Nunu Kidane of Priority African Network, centered her presentation on controlling and expanding the narratives for migrants. Migrants are made secondary to their own narratives, she said, and people's perceptions of migrants are controlled by the images they see. The narratives of migrants are complex, she said, but migrants are often characterized as victims or perpetrators of violence.
At the end of the breakout session audience members were invited to join in a Q&A session. One audience member asked if the panelists could expand on the idea of refugees "Othering" each other. Ramirez answered that communities of color who are not colonized subjects are attracted to whiteness because of the false promises it offers. He asked, "How can we convince people to not reproduce these systems?" He told a story about traveling to Spain and finding out that being Mexican in Spain was different than being Mexican in the United States. While he did not experience discrimination, people of other ethnicities did. Instead of accepting this new privilege, Ramirez rejected it. He used this anecdote to express how important it is for communities to not reproduce oppression. Fundamentally, he said, communities of color must resist the temptation to "Other" each other.
Racial Anxiety, Increasing Diversity, and Politics of Fear of the Other
Dowell Myers, Olivia Araiza, Sean McElwee, john a. powell, Shakil Choudhury
By: Juan Sebastian Arias
Studies have shown that increased racial diversity leads to increased racial anxiety, a trend that will only continue as the country grows more diverse. In framing this breakout panel on racial anxiety, Haas Institute Director john a. powell explained that anxiety can be hard to define, but essentially consists of an acute sense of loss of self. As people perceive change coming to them that they cannot control, they feel an increased sense of 'racial anxiety,' or an anxiety of the Other. Yet anxiety itself is not bad. If mediated positively, anxiety can lead to bridging ties and empathy between groups. But if mediated negatively, it can lead to breaking ties, where others are seen as threats or competitors in a zero-sum calculus. Racial anxiety is fundamentally widespread and can even be found in communities of color.
Panelist Sean McElwee, Policy Analyst at Demos, connected racial anxiety to the role of racism in determining the 2016 US presidential election. He presented data showing that a backlash to rising diversity drove Donald Trump's support. In the 2016 election, 11 percent of Obama voters switched to Trump, while only 5 percent of Romney voters switched to Clinton. Survey data identified racial attitudes as the most important factor in predicting this switch, with the strongest predictor of a switch to Trump among those with higher racial anxiety. On the flip side, he found no evidence that indicators of economic hardship made voters more likely to support Trump – which provides counter evidence to the population notion that working class anxiety led people to support Trump. Looking forward, McElwee concluded that we'll see greater political polarization along racial attitudes and that we will need to bring new voters into the electorate for better chances in future elections.
Dowell Myers, demography and urban planning professor at the USC School of Policy, offered one way to mediate racial anxieties with a new narrative that helps older white voters see the great benefits in diversity. By focusing on the challenges our country will face as the number of people over 65 grows much faster than that of people who are in prime working age, he argued that investing in all youth, especially youth of color, is one of the only solutions. We don't have enough youth to support the rising numbers of retirees, so we will need to really support the best outcomes for the entire future workforce. Otherwise, drastic changes will be needed to sustain the current retirement system. This is just an example of how to change the narrative we tell out of pending demographic shifts to support racial equity.
Lastly, educator and consultant Shakil Choudhury spoke about the importance of emotional awareness and literacy among the social justice movement. He emphasized the role of emotions as invisible yet controlling drivers for our behaviors and decisions. With respect to our emotions related to other, we tend to have empathy for those most like us. In contrast, we also have anxiety and fear recorded in the amygdala which are then triggered by others. This tendency to dehumanize others is loaded in our brains and is something we need to mindfully work against, Shakil said. He called on activists to make activist spaces irresistibly humanizing, so that people will be drawn to the social justice movement, instead of feeling pushed out. He named four activist traps to avoid: poor self-care that leads to burnout, despair from going beyond critical to cynical, simplification of theory into truth, and the dehumanizing of allies and opponents.
Strategic Narrative and Practices for Belonging
Ian Haney López, Sabrina Smith, Troy Jackson, Ifeoma Ike, Gerald Lenoir, Olivia Araiza
By: John Paraskevopoulos
The speakers on the Strategic Narratives panel focused their discussion on strategies and frames for advancing a strategic narrative capable of mobilizing actors around issues of racial justice and inclusivity in the United States. Berkeley Professor Ian Haney López started off by noting the difference between narrative and branding, and describing the current fissure in the Left between the "class" left and the "equality" left, whose narratives have become mutually exclusive. Professor López suggested that the new progressive narrative must bridge its "class" and "equality" rift and avoid negative frames, opting instead for a more positive vision: demanding that government help everyone, that we should view undue concentrations of wealth and power as opportunities for emancipation, and that trust in each other should be prioritized.
Ifeoma Ike, an organizer from Brooklyn, spoke about the need not to rush aligning movements, at the risk of fracturing extant efforts and groups, and not trying to help marginalized communities, but work with them. Similarly, Ifeoma described the need to work with white Americans and groups, and not to think that white America is intellectually unable to contribute to a progressive movement.
On a similar note, Troy Jackson, an organizer and pastor from Ohio, spoke about building empathetic bridges in faith communities where politics and race are often avoided as subjects of discussion. He noted that the very large constituency of evangelical groups in middle America are often written off as politically and socially conservative, and thus excluded from progressive organizing efforts and left outside of strategic visions and narratives as stakeholders.
Sabrina Smith, a California-based organizer, described the results of her group's use of social-values polling in organizing and framing policy agendas and ballot proposals, which have shown for her that the vast majority of Californians want to be left out of other people's problems and feel that government should simply be efficient, not expansive or inclusive. Smith highlighted the need to locate openings in this middle constituency, and in framing progressive agendas and strategic narratives such that they lead with values and remain aspirational.
Together, the speakers all touched on the importance of using aspirational values and frames to unite constituencies, on the importance of connecting government to people's lives, and on the need to work with differing constituencies, including segments of white Americans experiencing the racial and economic anxieties that fueled Trump's election, in order to construct a meaningful strategic narrative for today's progressive movement.
Two memorable questions included one about how social justice is often funded on a charitable basis, and a provocative question about whether or not we can incorporate lessons from the last 10,000 years of human civilization into a strategic narrative about the next 10,000. Troy Jackson responded to the question about charity by referencing the parable of the Good Samaritan. He ceded that the good Samaritan is great, but why is the road to Jericho so dangerous? In other words, charity is wonderful, but our society needs structural reforms—good Samaritans and charity are only temporary redress for deeper-seated problems.
Mobilize. Politicize. Organize.
Rev. Kevin Sauls, Jonathan Smucker, Alva Martinez, Sean Burns
By: Hossein Ayazi
The panel "Mobilize. Politicize. Organize." brought together four individuals whose experience organizing prior to and in the midst of the first 100 days of Trump's presidency afforded them keen insight into effective strategies for political action during politically urgent times.
The panelists, Reverend Kelvin Sauls, Jonathan Smucker, Alva Martinez, and Sean Burns, were asked to address critical questions, such as: What is the value and necessity of resistance? What are its limits? How do we transform resistance into a demand for transformative, long term change? What is at risk, if we fail to do so? How can we use this moment to work towards healing longstanding divides between communities and to break down silos between issue areas? Session attendees also used the panel theme to pose other significant questions, including those related to how we can create an increasingly more inclusive "we" in organizing?
The central questions, comments, and responses from the speakers were that we need to push ourselves to think beyond a single axis of struggle for a more inclusive "we," and to work beyond envisioning electoral bodies and legislative measures as the means and ends of discrete struggles. More specifically, and in conversation with 40+ attendees, the panelists drew several conclusions: effective organizing, mobilizing, and politicizing is nonlinear; it requires us showing up fully to our work and sharing our own stories and personal experiences; it requires having those experiences heard and acknowledged; it requires envisioning measures beyond strictly political parties and legislative measures, while at the same time remaining in constructive tension with established bodies; and that what will help drive us through this work is faith in the future, faith in our potential, faith in one another, faith in our ancestors, faith in a higher being, and faith in our ability to transform at the intersection of multiple struggles.
Particularly striking was the middle ground between the notion that "we shouldn't do anything electoral, don't engage the Democratic Party" and that of "you shouldn't criticize the Democratic Party" posed as a means of addressing the current situation. Also of great interest was the recommended move from finding "common ground" to "higher ground"—where, at the intersection of multiple peoples, struggles, and stories, people themselves are being transformed by realizing what their privileges are and know when they need to step aside so that others can lead.
Noticing a gap in the types of difference addressed, one attendee shared their experience with multi-generational organizing, where older folks had used their experience in earlier struggles (e.g., those during the Civil Rights era) to frame the political struggle in which they were presently taking part. The result was a mis-assessment of the of the problems at hand as well as the most effective methods of addressing them. The panel responded by agreeing that it is the youth that should be leading—"we are not just the future, we are the present."
Ultimately, the conversation brought many different people from many different backgrounds—racial, ethnic, economic, generational, religious, and political—yet the goals were the same: to share strategies and build an effective movement against a political party and government entirely unrepresentative of the vast majority of people and their concerns, despite skillfully deploying rhetoric that suggests otherwise. There was no one takeaway, no one solution posed, but rather a conversation about how we can come together across difference.
Creating Another World That is Possible: Youth Advancing Belonging
Clarence Ford, Hatem Mohtaseb, Ruben Elias, Kristian Kim, Tania Pulido, Ruben Canedo
By: Kimberly Rubens
The "Youth Advance Belonging" panel aimed to define and expand on the theme of inter-generational leadership, specifically engaging with the question of how can elders engage youth in civic leadership? The panel brought together youth leaders from different movements working to challenge structures, systems, and institutions that historically and systematically exclude marginalized communities. Panelists explored how youth have been able to identify the failures of these inherited structures, systems, and institutions in ways that have been generative and created space to build practices and spaces of belonging.
Ruben E. Canedo, CE3 Research and Mobilization Coordinator at UC Berkeley, served as the panel's moderator and opened the session with a moving quote from writer Arundhati Roy: "…She is on her way. I can hear her breathing." Canedo said this quote reflected his efforts to facilitate a wide-ranging discussion on inviting youth into social justice movements.
Canedo began the discussion by asking the panelists to share their thoughts on the importance of intergenerational leadership. Panelist Tania Pulido, a Community Health Coordinator, said that intergenerational leadership is the only way things can forward. "I find a lot of wisdom by seeking elders," she said, noting that she is helping put on a play about 1940s Richmond and is particularly interested in what a Renaissance looks like today and how it's connected to what came before. "I also see myself as the bridge to call youth and elders out when they say 'out of pocket' things," she added.
Each of the youth featured on the panel had an opportunity to discuss the healthy and unhealthy ways in which they are pulled in as the next generation of leaders. Kristian Kim, a member of the Undergraduate Worker's Union at UC Berkeley, criticized the notion of students attending the "best" public university. "I feel a bit objectified, [it] gets to the "youths'" head - being told that you go to the number one university in the world. This idea of "number one" is a very imperial view of the world," she said. "It also lends itself to this rootlessness and hopelessness because I can go anywhere or do anything. While it may not be what I do forever, but organizing at Berkeley is what I can do now."
Before Canedo moved to small group discussion portion of the panel, he asked each of the panelists to share something to Stop and Start doing. The discussants shared:
Clarence Ford: Stop being combative listeners, start being active listeners.
Tania Pulido: Stop assuming, start speaking from lived experiences.
Kristian Kim: Start believing someone the first time they share who they are.
Hatem Mohtaseb: Stop pushing away people who want to organize and who don't say politically correct things, but start listening and bring people to your side. Also, take your time building relationships.
Throughout the panel, Canedo attempted to "disrupt this bi-directional space" by providing time for honest reflection from both the panelists and audience members. The second half of the panel was devoted to four small group discussion, with a panelist assigned to each. In this space, audience members were invited to reflect and share on their lived experiences in intergenerational leadership. The main takeaways were to pass the baton, hold space for others, and that it is healthy to be honest and vulnerable.
Revealing and Resisting Global Demagoguery
Larry Rosenthal, Sarah Kendzior, Stephen Menendian
By: Darren Arquero
How can we recognize and resist demagogic forces in the United States and beyond?
Demagogue ("demos", the people, and "agogos," leader) is defined as a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than by using rational argument.
This topic animated the conversation during the May 1 breakout session "Revealing and Resisting Global Demagoguery," a workshop that spoke to the rise of demagoguery on a global scale, as well as the continuing desecration of constitutional norms and laws that followed in the wake of the 2016 election of Donald Trump. Led by the Haas Institute's Stephen Menendian, the intimate panel featured insights from Lawrence Rosenthal, Chair and Lead Researcher of UC Berkeley's Center for Right-Wing Studies, and journalist Sarah Kendzior, an expert on authoritarian states and US politics.
All three panelists emphasized the need to understand how the success of Donald Trump fits into a larger global phenomenon of political leaders appealing to ethnic, religious, and nationalistic identities, which Rosenthal highlighted as beginning domestically with the Tea Party movement in 2009.
Kendzior added that a similar phenomenon could be found across the Atlantic, arguing that the UK's Brexit vote was an appeal to national identity following the massive refugee and migrant crisis from the Middle East and North Africa in 2015. From India, Hungary, and Turkey to the Philippines, Russia, and the (failed) attempt of the National Front at capturing the presidency in France, the rise of illiberal democracies points to the strategic use of the "Other" that sits at the heart of populist movements.
Rosenthal elaborated this point further in the context of the United States, stressing how the rise of the Tea Party and subsequently the alt-right fed off the antipathy and distrust that working class whites had toward political and financial elites—hence the popularity of Trump's slogan, "Draining the swamp."
Moreover, Kendzior's astute reading of the stepping down of national security Michael Flynn and her (correct) prediction of the firing of James Comey demonstrates how Trump's actions are part of the "standard power play" of authoritarian leaders as they consolidate power at the nation-state level. As demagogues across the world stroke anxieties of demographic change by tapping into economic dislocations and engaging in "dog whistle" politics—such as Trump's comments on Mexican "rapists" and "radical Islamic terrorism"—Menendian advocated the need to design and implement policies that build inclusivity into the fabric of our societies.
Strategic Questioning
Shakti Butler
By: Lauren Alexander
The Strategic Questioning breakout session led by conference emcee Shakti Butler aimed to demonstrate how framing questions and conversations differently can empower new questions, release blocks to fresh ideas, facilitate people's own responses to change, and create answers that may not be immediately known. The session, which drew extensively from the article, "Strategic Questioning for Social Justice," by Fran Peavy, demonstrated how strategic questioning opens both parties to a new point of view, allows ideas to shift and take into account new information and possibilities.
Butler began by unpacking the idea of passive versus active communication using "school" as an analogy. In school, we are taught that getting the right answer first is the way to demonstrate worthiness as students. Peavy calls this "static communication" and argues this type of communication can be deeply passive. Instead, Butler urged participants to create an "undulating ocean of exchange," whereby both parties give and receive information. However, she acknowledges that getting to this point can be difficult because we don't know how to cross the chasm that we so often face in conversation.
To explore further his idea of strategic questioning, Butler urged participants to get into groups of three and think of some of their own central questions that brought them to this conference. Some of the questions offered by participants included: How do we move forward with anti-racism work in an environment that represses it?; How can Black women and nurturers build bridges without becoming the bridge that is trot upon?; Why should I see reaching out to another community as abandoning my own?
In each of the groups one person presented their question while a second individual served as the respondent who questioned the first in an attempt to gain a fuller understanding of what was being asked. The third person in the group observed and helped provide insight once the conversation was over.
After each round, each individual was asked to reflect on how the role they just played was like for them, guided by questions from Butler, including:
"When you were the one asking questions, who found that their question shifted?"
"Who got new ideas from listening?"
"When you were observer, how many people wanted to jump in?
Butler discussed how this approach to communication has the potential to move people's opinions and how critical it is to think about one's audience—they should be engaged in a way that doesn't exhaust them.
Following this discussion, Butler briefly reviewed types of questions. She broke them down into first level questions—framing questions, observation questions, and analysis questions—and second level questions. Second level questions include visioning questions—how would you know whether your work is successful, as well as change questions, which focus on strategy to achieving that vision.
The ultimately takeaway of this workshop was that people can be empowered when they have the chance to think out loud you and try out new ideas—and in the process that person can take ownership and gain confidence. An authentic conversation can open new avenues and create opportunities for change for everyone involved.
Disablement and Decarceration: Defining Disability Justice in an Age of Mass Incarceration
Talila Lewis, Eduardo Vega, Claudia Center, Tamisha Walker, Stephen Rosenbaum
By: Erica Browne
The panel presentation began with information on law, disability justice, and creative ways to use the law to move towards justice. Panelists presented statistical information about the disproportionate adverse health, mental health, and punishment outcomes experienced by people with disabilities. Panelists Talila Lewis of Rochester Institute of Technology and Claudia Center of the ACLU emphasized that any conversation about race and class oppression must also talk about disability-based oppression, and how race/ability/class-based oppression permeates our institutions, societies, laws, and practices. The panelists then moved into a "grounding" on the meaning and significance of disability justice, emphasizing that language is rich and important, and that we must name things as they are: disability justice instead of disability law; criminal legal system instead of criminal justice system; love and support instead of treatment; and prison, instead of correctional facility. Panelists discussed how the disability rights framework has unintentionally set up a system of diagnoses and abling that promotes a culture of compliance and does not ensure that people are supported in the ways necessary.
Eduardo Vega of Dignity Recovery Action! International, then presented mental health advocacy as the space where social justice and health issues intersect and where the work of disability justice is also situated. Panelists emphasized that diagnoses have the power to potentially change the course of someone's life, arguing that people are assigned to deterministic categories through the process of diagnosis. Such categories serve to systematically disempower individuals and their life opportunities.
The panel presentation concluded with a discussion on positive changes to address these challenges, including resourcing our communities to address the needs of the most vulnerable, needy, and disadvantaged. With this approach, we would not rely on the incarceration system to provide the support and actions necessary to actively lift up all corners of society. This alternative acknowledges that we cannot ask a system that was not designed to serve us, to serve us. In many cases. people are incarcerated because society does not have the resources to support or care for those with the greatest needs. For example, young people are often labelled as "emotionally disturbed"; in fact, many have actually been exposed to trauma, poverty, or prison, and need and deserve even greater support.
Building a Transformational Women's Movement: Feminism at Crossroads
Vanessa Daniels, Malika Redmond, Kim Tran, Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, Darren Arquero
By: John Paraskevopoulos
The Transformational Feminism panel opened with a discussion of what feminism means to each of the speakers. Kim Tran, a doctoral candidate in the UC Berkeley Department of Ethnic Studies and Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies, said that feminism entails emancipation from all forms of oppression, a point agreed upon by all speakers. Vanessa Daniels of the Groundswell Fund added that it means creating a world in which everyone can be his or her whole self, such that we can be a whole society.
Women cannot be whole people until they are free and equal in every regard, and men cannot be whole until they replace patriarchy with feminist consciousness (in the same way, she added, that white people cannot be whole until they replace white supremacy with racial justice.) Within this rubric, however, there has been fracture, including the parallel feminisms of women of color and white liberal feminism. Moreover, Tran said that while many people agree with the project of ending all forms of oppression, the majority of these people don't feel that this is a Feminist project, or identify as Feminists otherwise. This poses an obstacle for those working to build a transformational Feminism, as they must raise awareness about its goals and relevance to the lives of many people around the world.
Malika Redmond of Women Engaged stressed that however new our present-day struggles may feel, they are part of a much longer historical struggle. On that note, Tran added that we must address the issue of intergenerational violence among men and women and especially among colonized and formerly colonized people because of how deeply such forms of structural violence run and are perpetuated. With regards to structural violence, Kat Gutierrez of UC Berkeley discussed the pervasive complicity of academia surrounding issues of sexual violence on college campuses.
Gutierrez offered deeper insights into what transformational feminism means, arguing that the movement's future cannot be seen as simply a reversal of the white male power hierarchy, and that representational politics must be avoided. She shared the story of a white dairy farmer from Fresno County who mortgaged his farm and equipment in 1972 in order to pay Angela Davis' $100,000 bail—an example of what a transformed society might look like: one in which white men with resources are willing to put everything they own at risk for women of color. This was connected to the larger idea that a transformed and progressive world must be willing to inclusively share its power and resources.


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Facebook Video Chat/
There has been a lot of talk these past few days about Facebook video chat which is a great new feature coming to the social networking service. If you would like to learn more you can check out their blog. There have also been a ton of articles comparing Facebook video chat with the new, currently invite only, Google+ service and more specifically a feature called Hangouts which is essentially group video chat. Regardless if Google+ is successful or not, Google Apps customers should expect to see group video chat rolled into the Business, Government and Education editions of the service in the coming months.
At Umzuzu we have been using video chat as a critical part of our communications for more than 2 years. The response to Facebook's announcement has reminded us how spoiled we are compared to many other companies. Our customers, especially those with a geographically dispersed workforce, also rely heavily on the service.
Gmail's video chat feature is available across every edition of the service so regardless if it's calling a loved one while you are on a business trip or a weekly sales meeting, video chat is available. We literally can't imagine doing business without this ability. There's just something innately "human" about face to face communication.
It's also worth mentioning that you can voice chat as well as place and receive calls to mobile phones and landlines within the U.S.


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Our client was moving just around the corner but had some large furniture that needed to be moved into her new place. Her old place was in the back down a long and narrow walkway and meant it would be a long haul by hand to get the furniture to our trainers. So in two trips we had it all moved and moved in two and a half hours at a cost of $200.


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For many of us, work is like a second home to us. How we spend 40+ hours of our week can either greatly enhance or inhibit us on our Journey to Happiness.
When changes outside of our control happen at work, it can have a long lasting effect on us on a physical and emotional level. Layoffs, changes in management, reorgs, and people conflicts are stress triggers that can hurt a company's performance and devastate its people. These changes can take their toll on everyone involved: leaders, managers, employees and even families if we bring our work stress home at the end of the day. Even under normal circumstances, 80% of people say they feel stress on the job with nearly half saying they need help in learning how to manage stress (The American Institute for Stress).
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My Mom and Aunt are charter members of the Thimble and Thread Quilt Guild in St. Louis; which is, I believe one of the largest in the state. This weekend is their Quilt Show and I went to check things out. I'm still sorting through the photos I took and will be creating a separate blogpost highlighting alot of the quilts that I saw.
Shout-out!! to all of my fellow STLMQG members that I saw at yesterday's show.
Today's post is about the goodies that I took home from the event:
Isn't this a cute way to fold a FQ?
This is a composition book cover that one of the T&Thread members makes.
My Aunt told me about these and thought I'd like one.
When I pulled this one out, she excitedly said everyone told her that was the one I would have selected.
I picked up all of these magazines for a cheap price of 50 cents apiece.
I got REALLY excited at the Quilter's Home (on the right) because I had been wanting a copy of that one.
Now my Sister and I went to Hobby Lobby on Kirkwood Rd/Lindbergh Blvd. yesterday afternoon and normally I don't look at the fabric; yet after hearing some of my fellow STLMQG members have good experiences there, I checked it out.
Look what I found...
I got SO SUPER excited when I found this print. I didn't bother to look at who the designer was, I just knew that I had to have some...and by some, I mean ALOT. When I put the bolt on the cutting table that is when I saw that it belonged to Alexander Henry and was called "sew now ! sew wow!"
If finding the fabric wasn't cool enough, all of their cotton fabric was 30% off...so I picked this up for $7 a yard. When I showed my Sister, she said. "That is like YOU in fabric form, you better get alot of it."
{{{Raising Right Hand}}} I shall never underestimate Hobby Lobby again.


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'AN EXCELLENT CONSECRATION', is the welcome remark made by the considerable number of Brethren who attended the first meeting of The Court of Brunne, No. 113 on Saturday 10th October 2015.
This being the tenth and final Court to be Consecrated in The Province of Lindsey, it was of huge importance to everyone concerned, in particular to our Provincial Grand Master, R. W. Bro. Raymond Norman Dinning, GCSM, and all of the Brethren who took office for the Ceremony.
The Grand Master, M. W. Bro. Paul Weldon Johnston, PGHCh, GCSM, and our Assistant Grand Master, R. W. Bro. Dr. Christopher Wilson Guy Ansell, GCh, GCSM, were also present, along with numerous Grand and Provincial Officers, and Brethren from the Province of Lindsey and several adjoining Provinces.
So, the day began early, with the sun shining and a late summer day in prospect. The Masonic Centre was soon full, with all chairs in the Court occupied.
The RWPGM entered the Court exactly on 10 a.m. and Proceeded to open the Provincial Grand Court. The PGM then invited V. W. Bro. William Henry Carlyon, KSM, PGSwdB, Deputy Grand Master, to take the Chair and conduct the Ceremony of Instruction of the Founders.
W. Bro. Matthew Bainbridge in turn took the Chair and opened a Board of Installed Masters to conduct the Ceremony of Installing those Brethren subject to Special Progression…..following this, a very welcome 'break' was announced, giving all of the assembled Brethren the opportunity to step outside and cool off.
Upon returning to the Temple, the Provincial Grand Court was re-convened. The Grand Master, M. W. Bro. Paul Weldon Johnston, PGHCh, GCSM, the Assistant Grand Master, R. W. Bro. Dr. Christopher Wilson Guy Ansell, GCh, GCSM, and The Past Deputy Grand Master, R. W. Bro. David Buxton, GCh, GCSM, were received into Provincial Grand Court.
The PGM then called on the Provincial Grand Prior, R. W. & Em. Bro. Canon Ronald Calderwood Black, KSM, for Prayer.
Then followed the dedication of the new Court of Brunne, No. 113 by the PGM in his customary, friendly and relaxed manner.
The Provincial Grand Master then closed Provincial Grand Court.
The Installing Officer, W. Bro. Tom Urwin, KSM, DepGSwdB, ProvGSec. Assumed the Chair and opened the new Court, Installing W. Bro. Jacob Johannis Geelhoed, PPrGBB (Province of Mercia) as Primus Master of The Court of Brunne, No. 113.
The Grand Master then 'entrusted' the Worshipful Master with the Warrant of the Court, and 'obliged' him to observe the Nine and Nineteen Charges, which he also presented to the Master.
The first Officers of the Court were appointed and invested, and the By-Laws approved.
The assembled Brethren then retired to the dining room to enjoy a wonderful and very welcome meal.
It could be said that this new and very important Court AT Bourne, was 'born' and heartily welcomed by the Members of the Province, into what our Provincial Grand Master describes as 'a unique group of Brethren……..THE FAMILY OF LINDSEY'.
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At Verona
At Verona
by Oscar Wilde
HOW steep the stairs within Kings' houses are
For exile-wearied feet as mine to tread,
And O how salt and bitter is the bread
Which falls from this Hound's table,—better far
That I had died in the red ways of war,
Or that the gate of Florence bare my head,
Than to live thus, by all things comraded
Which seek the essence of my soul to mar.
"Curse God and die: what better hope than this?
He hath forgotten thee in all the bliss
Of his gold city, and eternal day"—
Nay peace: behind my prison's blinded bars
I do possess what none can take away,
My love, and all the glory of the stars.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2009
DC Officially Gets its Convention Center Hotel
Labels: Convention Center, hotel, Marriott, Mayor Adrian Fenty, Quadrangle Development, Washington DC
Washington DC Mayor Adrian Fenty will hold a very public ceremony this evening to officially ink the legislation that will kick-start, finally, the District's Convention Center Hotel. In a 5:30pm ceremony, the Mayor will sign the New Convention Center Hotel Amendments Act of 2009, granting authority to spend $182m in TIF funds and $35m in bonds to go toward the construction, operation, and maintenance of an 1160-room, 14-story hotel opposite the lonely Convention Center.
Technically, the bill amends the Washington Convention Center Authority Act of 1994 to further fund the Washington Convention and Sports Authority (WCSA), which will own the hotel, and instructs the WCSA to contract Quadrangle Development to get it built, and with Marriott to operate the new hotel. The Act authorizes Tax Increment Financing (TIF) and the issuance of bonds, to fund up to $206m in construction and operational costs. The remainder will be paid for by private developers. Funds derived from bonds and TIFs will go solely toward hotel expenses, and not into DC's General Fund.
The District government has actively conspired to get the new beds as a rebuttal to National Harbor, which hosts a larger convention center and five, count 'em, five hotels surrounding it. Not to mention that a nice river runs by it. But back to DC, where the massive hotel will serve the convention center, and ensure the success of the convention center. Of course, it was the convention center itself that was supposed defibrillate the moribund Shaw neighborhood and spark development of the area, expectations that many of the convention center's original backers feel have not been met. Officials have maintained that construction could start as early as October, with about a three-year time frame for completion.
Plans for the hotel went through many iterations before today, beginning with an even more ambitious plan that would have stretched the hotel over L Street and onto the next block for more than 1400 rooms. The city had also pursued a public-financed option that would have committed the Authority to picking up the $530,000,000 tab in full. The current version incorporates the historic American Federation of Labor Building (pictured) into the Marriott, which will otherwise overtake a swath of surface parking lots. The hotel will become the third largest in DC, and fourth largest in the region. The largest, at 2000 rooms, remains the Gaylord, at National Harbor.
7 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Any word on the L Street side that was once part of the development plans? Hard to believe that they are still sitting empty.
- Brandon Green on Aug 12, 2009, 4:57:00 PM said...
Great news, but any idea when it will open?
- Anonymous said...
The convention center at National Harbor is not larger than DC's convention center. The thing that's larger at National Harbor is the 2,000 room hotel.
The 2.3 million square foot Walter E. Washington Convention Center has 941,000 square feet of function space.
The Gaylord Convention Center has 470,000 square feet of function space.
If you count the number of meetings and conventions held in DC's hotels such as the Omni Shoreham (100,000 square feet of meeting space and a 17,000 square foot ballroom) or the Washington Marriott Wardman Park (195,000 square feet of event space) or the Hilton Washington (110,000 square feet) or the DC Armory (118,000 square feet) or the Renaissance Hotel which is down the street from the convention center (65,000 square feet), they equal to an amount larger than that of the Gaylord complex without even including the numbers for the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
In addition, the new Marriott Convention Hotel will include 100,000 square feet of meeting space that will be directly connected to the Washington Convention Center (aka expansion since it will be WCAA controlled).
And, another internal expansion, creating more meeting and convention space:
In summary, DC's convention and meeting space capacity is more than several times the amount that the Gaylord complex will ever have.
- Shaw Rez on Aug 13, 2009, 10:35:00 AM said...
Anon -- re: L Street, Marriott plans to build two smaller hotels across L Street from the large convention center headquarters Marriott Marquis hotel. The last word I heard was that the hotels would be a Courtyard by Marriott and a Residence Inn and that Marriott had to wait on execution of plans on the mega-hotel before breaking ground on these. These two smaller hotels will build upon currently boarded up vacant properties and will feature street level retail on Ninth, so the area around the CC will be a fabulous convention center district soon.
Brandon - 2013.
- Anonymous said...
Hey Shaw-Rez, thanks for the update on the L Street side of the development. Three years constructions...yikes! It'll be so nice when done though!
- Anonymous said...
This is great news.
That national harbor is a waste anyways. Who wants to have a convention way out there? What would guests do when not in the convention? Go tour PG county? Yeah right.
- MFlav said...
I am a DC resident, so anything (affordable) we can do to keep conventions here is great. However, in defense of National Harbor (I was just there for a conference), for a two or three day conference, the restarants and bars surrounding it leave it wth enough things to do.