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Data sources
Tracking California's Agricultural Pesticide Mapping Tool uses 1991-2016 data from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation's (CDPR) Pesticide Use Reporting (PUR) program. Under this program, all agricultural pesticide use must be reported monthly to county agricultural commissioners, who in turn report the data to CDPR.
The Agricultural Pesticide Mapping Tool only displays agricultural pesticide applications. The PUR includes applications by licensed pest control operators for agricultural and nonagricultural applications. The primary exceptions to pesticide reporting are consumer home-and-garden, most industrial uses, and institutional uses. Customized data reports can be generated through CDPR's California Pesticide Information Portal (CalPIP).
Definition of Pesticide Categories
For the Agricultural Pesticide Mapping Tool, Tracking California selected and grouped pesticides into categories based on known health effects or regulatory status. Many pesticides may belong to more than one category. The selection criteria are described below. These pesticide categories were last updated May of 2018, and can be downloaded here.
Carcinogens include: (1) active ingredients in the CDPR database that are "Known," "Probable," or "Likely" to be carcinogenic in humans, based on evaluations by the Health Effects Division of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Office of Pesticide Programs (i.e.,U.S. EPA Category A, B1, or B2); and (2) chemicals "known to the State of California to cause cancer" under Proposition 65. There are differing weights of evidence for specific chemicals that summarize researchers" confidence that they, in fact, can cause cancer in humans. This list includes "Likely" or "Probable" carcinogens, for which the evidence is relatively strong for their cancer-causing potential.
Cholinesterase Inhibitors
Sources from U.S. EPA, CDPR, or the World Health Organization (WHO) provided the basis for inclusion in the cholinesterase inhibitor category.
Endocrine Disruptors
There is no conclusive list of endocrine disruptors, and classification as such will vary based on ongoing research. The tool incorporates pesticides classified as endocrine disruptors by staff scientists based on existing evidence from the U.S. EPA and the European Commission, and will be periodically updated. These updates may result in some chemicals being added, while others may be removed. The European Commission's Directorate-General for the Environment has established a list to prioritize further review of suspected endocrine disruptors, and more information is also available from the U.S. EPA.
Pesticides classified as fumigants include chemicals used in a gaseous form and identified by CDPR or U.S. EPA as volatile substances or substances which degrade to volatile active substances.
These compounds share a common mode of action that affects the central nervous system of insects. The compounds included in this list of neonicotinoids are those which are currently under review by the U.S. EPA.
Reproductive and Developmental Toxicants
Reproductive and developmental toxicants were selected from CDPR's list of pesticide active ingredients that have been identified through Proposition 65 as chemicals known to the State of California to cause reproductive or developmental toxicity.
Toxic Air Contaminants
The chemicals classified as toxic air contaminants are chemicals in the CDPR database that are also listed as California Toxic Air Contaminants (TACs) or U.S. EPA Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs). Additional information on the designation of TACs and HAPs is available from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the U.S. EPA.
According to CDPR's Summary of Pesticide Use Report Data - 2015,
"The pounds of pesticides used and the number of applications are not necessarily accurate indicators of pesticide risk. There are reduced-risk pesticides that require higher use rates or more applications than many conventional pesticides but have little environmental or human health risk due to their mode of action, toxicity, and selectivity to the targeted pest.
"In addition, it should be noted that the pounds of pesticides used and the number of applications are not necessarily accurate indicators of the extent of pesticide use or, conversely, the extent of use of reduced-risk pest management methods. For example, farmers may make a number of small-scale "spot" applications targeted at problem areas rather than one treatment of a large area. They may replace a more toxic pesticide used at one pound per acre with a less hazardous compound that must be applied at several pounds per acre. Either of these scenarios could increase the number of applications or amount used, respectively, without indicating an increased reliance on pesticides."
Suggested Citation
Please use the following citation when using mapping results in reports or other materials: Tracking California. Agricultural Pesticide Mapping Tool. Data from California Department of Pesticide Regulation Pesticide Use Report Database, 1991-2016. 2018. Online at www.trackingcalifornia.org/pesticides/pesticide-mapping-tool.


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Most Brutal Death Metal BandsThis is a list of Death Metal bands based on their brutal sounds, heavy guitar riffs, harsh guttural vocals and deep death growls.
The Top Ten Most Brutal Death Metal Bands
They are the gods of brutality. I don't want to hear any bull about cannibal corpse being "mainstream." They are not even close to being mainstream. If they were mainstream they would be mention in the same sentence as popular pop acts, but they're not. Cannibal corpse is more popular than probably any other death metal band ever, but that doesn't make them mainstream because death metal is underground to being with. Some people might try to pretend they are mainstream to make them less brutal, but even if they were it wouldn't make them any less brutal, just more popular. They are the heaviest, most brutal death metal band of all time.
Keep on make a most number 1 in death metal music history. Get on hammer smashed.. Haha
You are number 1 and you always will be
I love Cannibal Corpse! Their heaviness and their violent content really brings death metal to life. They have so many violent song names such as I Blood, Meathook Sodomy, Messed With A Knife and Entrails Ripped From A Virgin's. SO BRUTAL! I'm not praising actual murder, but I really like how poetic their lyrics are and how addictive their riffs are. I'm really disappointed that Chris Barnes left the band, but I also really like Corpsegrinder as well. They've been banned in many countries due to their lyrical content and their album cover artwork. Butchered At Birth and Tomb of the Mutilated are their best albums!
For me no one like Nile. Brutal, but different than other Death Metal bands. They creates great atmosphere... Like ancient tomb
They do brutality right. When they're fast it rips your face off. When they're slow it feels like the hammer of the gods on your spine. Absolute best Brutal Death Metal.
Nile is a band that may not be what people immediately think of when they think brutal death metal, but they have some of the fastest and most brutal songs out there.
Still as technically brutal as ever in 2016. Caught them in London this week and the show was outstanding! Great atmospheric death metal, neck break speed and flawless.
One of my favorites in this genre of music the guitars kicks you in the ass and the songs are well composes and produced cool choice of lyrics and and singing style awesome choice for songs they just keep getting better every album they sound so good live they crush the competition they are metal gods in this genre all hail mighty behemoth
Behemoth's demigod and evangelion make cannibal corpse's butchered at birth and tomb of the mutilated sound like a boy band so much brutality in behemoth
What... Behemoth On 13... It must be on top man... Come on... Where you'll find more devilry in songs... And each time I listen their music... Gives me chills... Wo... Like a horror movie...
How is Behemoth not even in the top ten? Or better yet, why aren't they number one? We're talking about BRUTAL. And Behemoth turns your ears into dust and you'll still enjoy it. Get Cannibal Corpse out of here.
If this is a list on BRUTAL death a which is a different genera then death metal and devourment helped create it and get it better known with the amazing albums molesting the decapitated and butcher the weak so these bands that are just death metal shouldn't be on a list of brutal death bands.
How is this not at the top? Most brutal band I've ever heard.
This band is FAR more brutal than Bloodbath, Nile and Cryptopsy. They're not even that guttural compared to this guy's growls. These guys are WAY heavier. Plus, just look them up on iTunes and compare the song names and lyrics to the other bands. There's no comparison. "Babykiller" and "Molesting the Decapitated" by Devourment make "Eaten" by Bloodbath look and sound like a lullaby.
Postmortal Coprophagia by Devourment makes Hammer Smashed Face by CC sound like your angry little sister.
BLOODBATH this band is just like the name of it BRUTAL the most brutal band ever with those guitars bass and drums it not done the main reason for BLOODBATHs brutality is the vocalist named MIKAEL AKERFELDT this guy is the best growler ever his voice is awesome brutal and with lyrics brutality is seen, from songs like EATEN, SOUL EVISERATION, SO YOU DIE and much more BLOODBATH deserves to be number 1 on this list...
I love Bloodbath. They are indeed brutal, but definitely not the most brutal.
My absolute favorite band. Bloodbath have a dark ambiance mixed with good and heavy groove. Taking from bands like entombed and dismember. I wish these guys would come across north america, sadly they seem to only play in the Netherlands.
Has the best growls and vocals
Mikael Akerfeldt sounds like the devil himself. Enough said.
"None so vile" is maybe the best brutal death metal album ever!
One of Cryptopsy's earliest albums, Blasphemy Made Flesh, is extremely loud, fast as hell, and downright heavy and insane, and that was just when they first started! They're other albums continue to amaze with incredible sound and brutality. These guys will never dissapoint if you're in the mood for the slams!
Blasphemy Made Flesh and None So Vile are hands down two of the best Death Metal albums ever recorded. A true showcase of the severity of the Canadian Metal scene.
Some of the most brutal music ever crafted. Insane vocals, intense guitars, chaotic drumming, and heavy bass. A recipe for brutality.
Dying Fetus brings technical death metal into brutality cannot compete with cannibal corpse but definitely a close second in my opinion has the crazy lyrics, wild ass sweep arpeggios, and still those caveman riffs all together creating dying fetus cannot wait for there new album, gonna be hard for them to follow up reign supreme but they managed with purification through violence still my favorite album theyve made
Brutal As all HELL, just go listen to Subjected To a Beating.
Maybe the biggest influence on brutal death metal besides, cannibal and suffocation. Should be ranked much higher
Killing on adrenaline. Enough said
I had been constantly in the search of some serious brutality until I came across this band, and I knew I had struck gold. I mean its not that CC is not good enough, but I personally favour Suffocation
Suffocation, great death metal band, their first album was genius, same with a lot of their others.
Should be #1, or at least higher than Cannibal Corpse. Cannibal Corpse is very overrated.
Number 8? are you joking. Suffocation crushes and has been for more than 25 years despite numerous lineup changes. Band deserves more respect and has earned the top spot
Brutal, blasphemous and satanic. That right there should say it all. Guttoral vocals and super fast tremolo guitarwork... Going strong for twenty five years as of 2013. Soldiering past bans and extreme controversy and censoring while laughing at it all the way... What's NOT to like?
Are you kidding me. Deicide should be there in top 3 at least.
I love Deicide and think they are heavier than cannibal corpse which happens to be my second favorite band.
Badass death metal band. They shouldn't be this low .
Meshuggah aren't really death metal, but they're still one of the heaviest and most brutal bands ever. Their song Corridor of Chameleons will make you want to smash everything in the same room
Dude Meshuggah is the most brutal out there! Should be on top!
Bleed. Great song, great beat and great music video.
One of the heaviest bands out there, but they aren't Death Metal. The vocalist doesn't use death growls. I'd call them Progressive Groove Metal/Djent
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Day 69 is full of collateral bloody damage, CC is what everyone says and they're the Nickelback of death metal (too generic, sold out).
This band records their music in hell, death and gore
One best metal band
The masters of metal
I think some of the comments and votes are based on or too greatly influenced by people's favorite band(s) instead of the question at hand which is "who is the most brutal? " Although what is more brutal to one wouldn't be to another. There are several bands on this list I like better than Brain Drill, though I think Brain Drill are by far the most brutal. They are savagely intense, loud, insanely fast, super technical and spastically aggressive. There might be a few bands that come close but not quite touch them and whilst not being a whole new level up in the genera they have definitely raised the bar some.
What are they even? I can't wrap my head around their riffs. They all sound like solos except the bass is playing the exact same thing! They are completely insane.
Good Cybergrind
They should be in the top tens! Their two albums are more brutal then half the bands in the top tens.
They are so brutal but also catchy, its amazing
These guys absolutely slam. Doesn't get much more brutal than this
The kings of brutal death/slam, holy these guys are incredible.
It's deathcore, not death metal. Still amazing!
Listen through somatic defilement and then tell me they don't belong on this list.
For God's sake this is core not brutal
There are two kinds of people, those who love whitechapel and those who never listened to deathcore
You guys have not listened to vader yet?
Where is Luke Skywalker when you need him?
I liked their reining blood cover
Luke, I am your father...
I have yet to find any bands more brutal or violent than them. I mean come on, all of their songs are about raping woman and babies. What's more brutal than that?
The fact they are #21 on this list makes all the people who voted look retarded
Most bone crushing, heart stopping, completely insane death metal band I can find. These guys set a new standard for the whole metal genre. If you havnt heard about or listened to this band yet you are missing out!
They have the most brutal drummer I've ever seen, if you're a metal head definitely check out the song crusher.
One of the most brutal bands, Cannibal Corpse is easy listenning
Pure demonic bile for humankind. Their recent albums (The Harvest Floor, Monolith Of Inhumanity, The Anthropocene Extinction) are apocalyptically heavy. Dangerously fast and insanely technical, they are more than just a vegetarian grind core; they are black metal, progressive metal, death metal, tech death, and overall, they are brutal!
A very very very heavy band, enough said
Nothing is more brutal than it!
My favorite song my them is smothered because of that beginning where it says "Forecast calls for destruction tonight, death tomorrow and Armageddon by the weekend, this could be the end of life as we know it"
All these people who are not voting for these guys just haven't heard them, they are relentless!
Good band, especially their 2006 album Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead.
Dude check these guys out- if you've never heard them, you don't know what brutal is.
Origin is pure death!
Technical enough. But not consistent with their song writing. The drummer is insane..effing machine
Intensity, brutality &f full agression played at high speed with incredible technical skill...this band must be in a top position
I feel that 'the Bleeding' and 'Maximum Violence', are my 2 most memorable death metal albums, of al time. Chris Barnes just provides something that strikes a nerve, with me.
Best death metal band overall. Each album is consistently bone crushing good. No bad albums. Yet!
A gateway band for many metalheads who are looking into entering the passages of death metal. Maximum violence did the trick to me when I was a teenager...Chris Barnes needs his due credit, come what may
They should be number 1 come on people have you even listened to them
A real good death metal band from Sweden
They're amazing but I wouldn't say brutal enough to be top 10.
*&$(*@)! @* WHO PUT AURTHOHIN ON HERE AND VOTED FOR THEM? It's not even death metal in the slightest sense! They're a Bangladeshi hard rock band, and they have no qualities that are even remotely similar to any death metal. Certainly they don't belong above Amon Amarth.
I like both their albums but I got to say katalepsy needs top 10 and guttural secrete should be on the list like what are they?
The heaviest band ever
It must be at number 1
Listen to
Gore conspiracy
Cold flesh citadel
Their two newest albums are the HEAVIEST thing I have EVER heard. Cannibal corpse is EXTREMELY heavy, but even THEY are not THIS HEAVY!
Canadian band of absolute brutality. 22? What!
One of the most influential bands of all time, Cannibal Corpse were influenced by this band.
One of the pioneers of death metal! M/
These guys are insane the vocalist does pig squeals it's nasty. But the instruments are really good and these guys are really underrated.
How many other bands do you know that can have one of the most brutal songs in history and call it "A Quiet Day"
Best death metal band ever.
Technically they're progressive metal.
One of the most brutal bands on this list. Definitely deserves to be number 1
Vulvodynia? Aborted? Kraanium? Pft, this is real slamming brutal death metal
Very underrated band. As far as straight up, crushing musicianship and brutality, they are my go to.
Incredibly underrated. A consistent and relentless death metal band. Honour, Valor, and Pride!
Underrated but amazing! Listen to All That Remains, that's easily one of their best.
Slow, but riffs are as brutal as anything out there. Napalm in slo mo
Hate those bands who try to much I love the pure brutal death when they just wrote the lyrics and don t care about anything else, but Death s first 3 albums are pure Death and better and more brutal than most of the bands, not the most brutal but definitely top 5, plus the greatest band ever in my opinion at least
Who ever said the genre is named after death needs to do some research. Agreed death is amazing but this is also a list for brutal and death isn't really brutal
It's really sad to see Death here at this position. It should be at number 1. Chuck deserves more than this.. He was a true musician and a real gentleman in all aspects. The band is not active anymore for obvious reasons, but human, symbolic are perhaps that takes death metal to a whole new level of song writing and musicianship. It is not a coincidence that Chuck is not with us anymore..greatness usually comes at a great price..
Death may be the best band on here, but to be honest, they're not that brutal in comparison to others.
This is the pure definition of brutal. Growling guttural vocals and almost minute long insane bass drops. Simply amazing slam.
That is my favorite slam brutal death band
Symphonic extreme metal... This is so brutal I got in a few fights as it came on my ipod during my workouts. My first 350lb bench was achieved to the Violation... Give it a listen!
Violation violates violating viola
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VIOLATION for V for VfLeshgod ApocaLypse
Disgorge u.s.a.
Definitely among the most brutal. They hold it down musically as well.
That's the must for aggressive and speed death metal, all the brutal death metal is here!
Hey man, bloody hard list haha! They are all unique, but I love BDM and all things heavy! Great stuff
Incredibly fast, really accurate and damn brutal. They are untouchable.
Sickening gore to match the likes of the groundbreaking bands that brought guttural and slam to the mouths of metal heads everywhere. Fans of disgorge (mex) devourment and visceral trail already know what others will soon learn. They brimg to light issuez that face humanity like incontinence, Youll never look at a vagina the same
Brutal, gorey, Slam Death Metal
THIS IS THE MOST BRUTAL BAND EVER! PERIOD. Just look at their album cover "Post Abortion Slut "... Most evil, gruesome, downright twisted and brutal band EVER.
One of the best brutal death metal bands I've heard in a long time, ain't very popular but they are way too underrated, these guys deserve more credit
I bought their album regicide expecting it to be something different from what I expected... its very good
Most brutal technical Death metal band. Listen to - Sedition through scorn
One of the best bands ever
Thy Art Is Murder isn't even a brutal death metal band, they're deathcore. Shouldn't technically be here.
Try and imagine an Australian version of Whitechapel yup that's Thy Art is Murder for ya
Also, Thy Art is Murder is way better and more brutal than Whitechapel
Thy Art Is Murder is completely deathcore.
Best band ever
Morbid are pioneers of the dark ambience death metal and fast shred, almost hard to support heavy riffs! Morbid Angel - Gateway to annihilation
Great old school death metal
Dark, Deep, Atmospheric, Destructive and powerful Death metal! (Not include their new album illud Diluvium...)
It doesn't get more brutal than this
Yeah hail the most evil death metal bands there ever was
So blasphemous and brutal best album in my opinion is blasphemy all the way
The growls come from the depth of hell.
Kyle from Incantation has a mustache
-Seth Putnam 1997
Awesome best grind band ever, no one is capable of taking their throne!
How are they not on here? Should be top 3 easily
Because they have one good song. Recycled trash by old men who can't give up as they have no other choice. Tragedy really.
This British band is grindcore, not brutal death metal.
And not Death Metal? Split hairs much? Back in my day there were only a few genres, now it's gone crazy. You kids don't know shiz!
No other band is more brutal than The Berzerker. It makes cannibal corpse look like one direction
Pure meaning of brutal
The Berzerker is the heaviest band ever just listen to Eye for an Eye,No One Wins and Forever and tell me that any of the above bands is heavier!
Cannibal corpse wannabes (LOL)
If you're a fan of Suffocation, you would love this band.
Mick Thomson out of slipknot likes them
And he knows what to listen to
Really brutal band. If you're a true death metal fan you know. can't believe they got zero votes
Symphonies of sickness is pure brutality
Carcass is awesome
Goddamnit! Needs to be higher
Insane Japanese Technical Brutal Death Metal. Just wow. Furious.
What? When I clicked on this list I expected them to be number 1.. Just listen to "Higher Coward". Has the most pounding, brutal guitar and vocals you will ever hear.
Better than Suffocation and Cannibal Corpse
I thought this was a most Brutal list. How can Defeated Sanity be behind Cannibal Corpse or Bloodbath? And where is Abysmal Torment on this list?
This band literally lives to make brutal music. I expected them to be number one, to be honest.
Defeated Sanity is god-like brutal they have always been on Their game and each album is heavy, diabolical
Brilliant, Fast and Brutal. One of the most insane bands created on this planet.
Song titles like "Gargling Infected Semen" and musicianship on songs like "The Local Flavour" separate these guys from your average slam/brutal death metal band.
They r really good
It's experimental death metal like opeth.
Just listen to their song guti the fanale, nikristo 2


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It's very important for people to know that there are two powerful treatments for OCD. One is medication, but the other one is cognitive behavioral therapy, and the data we have is that it's as effective, if not more effective, for OCD. So for women who don't want to take medication, there's an alternative treatment, which is just, if not more powerful.
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Helen Blair Simpson, M.D., Ph.D., an expert on obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), is an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, New York City, where she directs the Anxiety Disorders Clinic and OCD Research Program at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She was a member of the work group that developed the first "Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Patients With OCD" for the American Psychiatric Association.
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Some new old color slides of the Raleigh Fire Department have surfaced. They're dated October 1990 and are part of a series that was scanned and shown a couple years ago. They show stations and apparatus, plus a few surprises, such as this sparse lower-level of the Keeter Training Center. That facility was but eight years old at the time. Nice vintage shop pictures as well. Particularly good memories for myself and my academy-mates, who had graduated the summer of the year before. (Was assigned to Station 5 at this time, and rode the new Engine 5 shown in the set.) Alas, most of the shots are overexposed. They've been corrected to the best of this schlep's ability. See the photos.
Brings back some memories Mike. Emil Burris and Fred Noble are on the two poles at #1 (B-Shift). Burris was a new boy and Fred (as with us) were only "1 year old" new boys! I was at #1 on A-Shift during that time and was so relieved when the 1990 academy graduated – the "newboy stigma" was passed to another group (whew!).
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The History of Education Society welcomes a post by Joe Hopkinson. Joe is a Heritage Consortium PhD Candidate at The University of Huddersfield researching 'The Experiences of Commonwealth Immigrants at School in the Industrial North, 1960-1980'. He was the winner of the Royal Historical Society Postgraduate Public History Prize 2018. You can view his award-winning documentary film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=81&v=dcebaTMspUk.
Britain was a multi-ethnic society prior to the introduction of mass education in 1870. Irish, Jewish, Black, South and East Asian communities were already well-established in certain British areas. Multicultural education only emerged however during the 1960s and 1970s when 'coloured immigrant' pupils suddenly became a concern for education authorities due to mass migration from the Commonwealth.
Families from nations such as India, Pakistan, and the Caribbean Islands arrived in large numbers to 'beat the ban' created by the Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962. Their arrival was so unexpected that certain schools developed super-diverse pupil roles before any multicultural teaching philosophies had been developed. New pupils would enrol sporadically throughout the school year; one or two might arrive over a fortnight, but sometimes a class or two of students could arrive in one school en masse. As their parents generally came to work in Britain's declining manufacturing industries they tended to initially settle in inner areas of certain towns and cities. This meant that a small amount of schools quickly developed large numbers of pupils from different Commonwealth nations before receiving any resources or directions on how to teach them.
Most educators were entirely ignorant of the newcomers' cultures and had to use their own initiative to teach and communicate. In the case of non-Anglophone children from places like Pakistan and India teachers often had to resort to miming or drawing pictures. Part of the problem was that few English people had any experience in teaching English as a Second Language (E2L). At Spring Grove Primary School in Huddersfield for example they initially relied upon a Swedish woman who was the only staff member with any experience learning to speak the English language. There were no books available, except for a small number that had been used to teach English in a colonial context, so teachers had to swiftly create their own E2L programmes and learning materials. A 'do it yourself' attitude towards teaching Commonwealth newcomers developed and continued throughout the first two decades of multicultural education.
Government directives on teaching 'coloured immigrants' were few and far between at first, and their initial stance was that immigrants should just assimilate into British society. By the 1970s their rhetoric had evolved to promoting multiculturalism but the government did little to actually facilitate this through education policy. In 1965 the Department of Education and Science, the antecedent of today's Department for Education, recommended that Local Education Authorities disperse coloured immigrant pupils via bus to avoid them making up more than a third of any school's pupil role. This was essentially the only national government directive on multicultural education until the Race Relations Act 1976 which prohibited racial discrimination in schools. Multicultural education therefore came about primarily through the actions of individuals and local groups as opposed to through any central direction.
It is important to note that racial prejudice towards 'coloured immigrant' pupils also emerged without direction. One could argue that the government officially sanctioned racism when it began inhibiting 'coloured immigration' through the Commonwealth Immigrants Acts, or introducing discriminatory practises such as bussing, but as Randall Hansen notes it would be inaccurate to say that 'a liberal, xenophile public was talked into racism by elite duplicity' (Hansen, 2000). White people across the country exhibited shocking prejudice towards immigrants, and this manifested itself in a variety of ways in schools. Immigrant children were frequently segregated by the usage of dispersal bussing, reception centres, and special language training units because these programmes often involved using classrooms outside of the school in buildings such as the local church or working men's club. Furthermore, teachers were likely to have low expectations of their 'coloured' pupils. Enoch Gay who arrived in Huddersfield from Grenada in the 1960s noted that 'they didn't seem to expect Black people to be academic'. Because of this many Black and Asian pupils during this period were denied the chance to achieve their full educational potential. Moreover, it was revealed in the early 1970s that Black and Asian pupils were scandalously over-represented in schools for the educationally subnormal (Coard, 1971). Immigrant students also suffered at the hands of their classmates. Many white children shunned the newcomers, and the 1960s and 1970s were infamous for 'Paki-bashing', and racially motivated violence in general. One man from Bradford for instance described enduring 'Paki-bashing days at the end of school term'. (Umbreen Ali, Lancashire Telegraph, 29 June 2016).
Many people today assume that racism no longer is a prominent feature of the British education system, but this is disputed by a number of authors (Gillborn, 2001; Tomlinson, 2005). Things have undoubtedly improved, but as Paul Ward states 'a narrative of a progressive acceptance of immigrants and their descendants as Britons would be untenable…[i]n no way should the persistent racism of some British people be underestimated' (Ward, 2004). It is therefore important that public history projects engage with the experiences of the first generations of Commonwealth pupils to counter discourses which downplay or ignore historic and ongoing instances of racial discrimination. Their voices and memories form an important part of our recent multicultural heritage, and highlighting them is beneficial for everyone.
Joe Hopkinson, University of Huddersfield. Contact: [email protected].


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American Sniper is a matter-of-fact war film to a fault, lacking any central point.
I've got a serious question to ask -- and it's not really a super-uplifting question, so I feel kind of bad about posing one damn day after Christmas, but... release dates are release dates. Anyway, my question is... has it been long enough, yet?
And yes, given the subject matter, I'm talking about 9/11 and its aftermath: Has it been long enough? Not to "forget," not to be "numb," not to be "cynical" or snarky or dismissive or push it into the background of one's mind or anything like that. Has it been long enough that it's no longer blasphemy or even overly-controversial to look at a piece of art grounded in real-life events spinning directly out of the aftermath of that fateful day -- the wars, the politics, the cultural changes, the new perspectives, a new generation of American war veterans, everything else... and admit it if said piece of art kind of sucks?
Well, I hope so -- because American Sniper kind of sucks. Sorry Clint.
What sucks more than movie, though, is the way the cultural and emotional deck seems to be stacked against saying so. Not necessarily by design -- whatever director Clint Eastwood's real-life ideological eccentricities, he's nobody's propagandist -- but by simple circumstance. Here's a movie about a guy who's life story and tragic death read like a TVTropes page of Patriotic Movie Hero long before anyone considered making a film about it, played so earnestly that one can't help but feel some level of consternation about recognizing how little in the film works. The film is so matter-of-fact and devoid of nuance or thematic depth in its presentation of the late Chris Kyle... how can you pan it without seeming to unintentionally pan the life it's based on?
If you were unfamiliar with his story, Chris Kyle was a former rodeo champ who signed up for the Navy SEALs in his mid-20s and wound up as a sniper in the Iraq War. He eventually racked up a succession of important kills, life-saving rescues and impressive long-range shots as to establish himself as the most lethal sniper in U.S. History and, however briefly, the entire world. Retiring from combat in 2009, he transitioned into a new role as a counselor to fellow veterans suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder... an endeavor which ended in tragic irony when he was murdered by an unstable fellow veteran he had invited to a gun range for stress counseling.
And now that I've told you those facts and/or invited you to just read the autobiography that the film was based on... there's basically no reason for you to watch American Sniper, because that's all the film offers: A succession of events that happened to and around Chris Kyle, presented matter-of-factly and assembled into the generic beats and rhythms of an action movie. He makes friends, loses friends, makes shots, loses shots, encounters enemies, clashes with rivals, argues with his wife about his constant re-enlistments, retires and dies offscreen... with the film not even attempting to offer a coherent perspective on the man, the meaning of his life or even a discernible viewpoint on either the 9/11 tragedy or the wars that came out of it.
That kind of "just the facts" boilerplate is vintage Eastwood -- the calling-card of a filmmaker who eschews over-visualized compositions or flowery introspections at the screenplay level. And a lot of the time it serves him well. But here, presented with a story so sadly typical of modern war narratives and a protagonist so inscrutably "arch" in terms of onscreen presence it makes the proceedings feel empty rather than clean and clear.
Now, I understand the instinct that says that Chris Kyle's story is a fairly straightforward one. That, by all accounts, he was a guy who genuinely believed in the basic moral good of using his exceptional marksmanship to protect his fellow soldiers from harm and that he apparently was not one for being especially introspective or critical when it came to the righteousness or lack thereof of the U.S. military response to 9/11 up to and including the Iraq War. And that projecting some kind of exploratory meaning, message or "point" that he's not alive to opine on or respond to is in some way disrespectful. I understand that... I just don't agree.
Here's the thing: I think a largely context-free, uncritical, "just the facts" film about Chris Kyle could easily be an interesting record -- as a documentary. But the only documentary footage in American Sniper comes during the end credits, and it's footage of his memorial service. Everything else is a cinematic recreation, which means that however true the history is, it's still to a degree a fictionalization. That's not Chris Kyle, it's Bradley Cooper. This isn't real war footage, it's sets and costumes and special effects. And since a film inevitably has to make decisions regarding which events to depict and which events not to in the name of dramatic license to create a cinematic narrative... well, then it's ceased to be about "facts" and has instead become about story -- and stories generally have to have a point.
And American Sniper doesn't really have a point. Or even much on its mind, which is just bizarre considering the weight of the setting and subject matter. Is it pro-war? Anti-war? Ambiguous? It doesn't really seem to know or care. It zeroes-in -- out of all the action Kyle saw -- on his obsession with taking down a terrorist maniac who tortures children with a power-drill, keeps a bakery full of human body-parts and in general acts so cartoonishly evil he should've pledged COBRA instead of Al Qaeda... but despite giving Kyle a super-villain to fight stops short of making him a super-hero.. But it's also reluctant to allow any hint to creep in that the war isn't the most noble endeavor in history, even as Kyle grapples with PTSD and torments his long-suffering wife by obsessively re-enlisting. Even a running B-story about his rivalry with an equally-superhuman sniper on the enemy side is profoundly underdeveloped, coming and going without much structure.
And even if the film was. "just" about Chris Kyle, it doesn't have anything to say about him either. It offers no opinion, perspective or even exploration of his psyche, his viewpoint, even just his feelings about the extraordinary life he wound up living. American Sniper let me spend two hours and ten minutes with its lead character, and the closest thing I could discern to an "arc" in his story is that his father gave him a stern talking-to at breakfast once when he was a kid... and because of that he somehow gained nigh-superhuman sniper powers.
I'm aware that some folks will see this as me being upset that the film doesn't take an "anti-war" political stance, but the plain fact is that the film hasn't got a coherent political reach in any direction. And it's bizarre that this movie about the true story of a guy who in archetype and in deeds resembled a quintessential All-American Hero has less on its mind about war, terrorism and the lives of veterans... than the made-up story about the funnybook hero who actually WEARS an American Flag.


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Yesterday's rain-induced lack of action produced a new Centre Court hero - former US President Bill Clinton. From his seat in the Royal Box, he showed he knows as much about sport and 'Henmania' as about the intracies of the Middle East or Northern Ireland.
Clinton's impromptu interview with BBC sports journalist Gary Richardson, which boomed out loud and clear over Centre Court and helped entertain millions of viewers waiting patiently at home for play to begin, stole the show.
Heaven knows why he did it. Did the All England Club ask the recently-retired most powerful man in the world to do his bit to keep spirits up? Or had the crafty Richardson just caught him unawares?
Whatever the explanation, Clinton seemed happy to answer questions on any subject, even the dismal weather. 'It has to rain some time. The last two times I've been here, there's been nothing but sunshine,' he said.
As the drizzle continued, the ex-President revealed he used to play a bit of tennis himself. 'I was not good. I was slow, and inaccurate, though I liked it very much', he joked. Behind him Baroness Blackstone, a Government Minister, tried to pretend that nothing unusual was going on.
The sodden crowd, most sheltering beneath umbrellas, clearly enjoyed this unscheduled entertainment. Clinton soon had them on his side by talking up Tim Henman's chances of winning the men's title. 'If he plays with the same mental state with which he won the previous match, I think he will win.
'Tim's come a very long way in this tournament. I think his heart and mind seem to be in the right place. Of course he'd like to bring home the title, not just for himself and his own career, but for the rest of you.'
He praised Wimbledon - 'the greatest tournament in the world' - and won more applause, something Henman hopes to hear a lot of today, and again tomorrow.


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Dr L : You've become quite the advocate for mind-body medicine. Was there a major turning point that left you questioning the conventional approach to medicine? When I was working with sick patients from the inner city of Chicago, it made sense that they weren't healthy. They ate poorly, smoked, drank, and never exercised. But then I took a job at an integrative medicine practice in posh Marin County, where my patients religiously followed organic, vegan diets, worked out with personal trainers, got 8 hours of sleep every night, took their vitamins, and spent a fortune on the best health care money can buy - and they were still sick. It got me wondering, what if there's more to health than what they taught me in medical school?


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Look closely at 19th-century photos of the city streets and you'll see the ancestors of today's neon and LED signs there in the sepia. Long before electric lamps, gas-lit signs peppered the nighttime streets of New York and elsewhere. They came in various forms: some were basically just gas lamps with lettering or symbols painted on their glass globes. Others were more sophisticated, using perforated sheet metal housings that presaged the eventual form of modern electric signs.
A gas sign, from a catalogue of gaslight fixtures issued by Mitchell, Vance & Co., c. 1876. (NYPL)
Vexingly, not one single surviving example of a gas-lit sign seems to have survived to the present (at least I couldn't find any - there must be one somewhere). Even Tod Swormstedt at the American Sign Museum couldn't put his finger on one. But with some digging, I managed to turn up a few odds and ends that give a sense for what they were like.
Simple gas signs were ordinary gas lamps with letters or symbols painted on their glass globes. From the Mitchell, Vance & Co. catalog. (NYPL)
Sifting through back issues of Signs of the Times magazine, I ran across two descriptions of gas-lit signs. "As a rule they were of box construction, with the gas jets inside," recalled E.A. Mills of the New York Edision Co. in 1922. "The sides of the box were usually studded with vari-colored glass jewels outlining the letters. These signs were usually found outside of drug stores, oyster houses, etc."
A gaslight sign on Washington Square West, 1894. (NYU)
Mills also described a less common gas sign typology that must have been a sight to behold. "This sign was made up of copper tubing bent in the shape of letters, and drilled at regular intervals, and the gas pressure so regulated that only a tiny flame was emitted." These tended to be used indoors, he wrote, as they were "readily extinguished by every slight breeze. . . . The result was very striking, even though the sign was more or less of a fire risk." One example of this type of sign reportedly survived as late as the 1950s at the Arion Singing Society in Irvington, NJ, but was reportedly scrapped in 1953, leaving us to wonder what they might have looked like.
The Hotel Cadillac, at Broadway and 43rd Street. (MCNY)
In historic photographs, gas signs can usually be distinguished from electric signs by a telltale vent at the top that allowed exhaust from the gas jets to escape the metal housing. Based on the photographic record, their most common varietal seems to have been the "pedestal" sign, that would have been mounted atop a columnar stanchion by the curb, much like the old-timey sidewalk clocks that can still be found around town today.
Gaslight signs of the "pedestal" variety turn up most often in history photographs, as attested to by these turn-of-the-century scenes on Jorolemyn St in Brooklyn (top), 14th Street (middle) and Broadway (below). (Younger, "Old Bkln in Early Photographs," top; Avery, middle; MCNY, below)
Gas-lit signs could be procured from purveyors of gaslight fixtures, which included them in their catalogs, or from sign shops. Fitted with incredibly clever (and incredibly well-named) devices called "gaswinkers," the signs could even be made to flash on-and-off.
Ads for gaswinkers appeared in Signs of the Times magazine into the 20th century. (ST Media Group, used with permission)
Gaslight was a true phenomenon of the 19th century, first coming to New York in 1824 (CHECK THIS). Though it was a revelation in its day, gaslight had many shortcomings: gaslamps posed a constant fire menace, they filled indoor spaces with heat and the smell of their exhaust, and coated walls and ceilings with a grimy residue. Edison's incandescent lamp made its debut in 1879 and began building New York's electrical grid in 1882, paving the way for gaslight's hasty demise in the decades that followed.
The Opal Sign Co., a maker of "Electric and Gas Signs," once occupied this storefront at 1366 Broadway. (Avery)
Evidence suggests that gaslit signs continued to be made into the first decade of the 20th century before finally yielding the streets to electric signs once and for all. One imagines that some old gas signs must have been converted for electric lamps. Their role in the development of all illuminated signs that followed them was hugely important: these are the true ancestors of neon. Yet the gaslight signs are entirely forgotten today, a fixture of the nineteenth century city lost to the winds.
• Signs of the Times magazine, June 1922
• "Gas-Lit Sign In The News," Signs of the Times, Sept 1953
• Via Buzzfeed: 35 Really Unfortunate Neon Sign Fails. When will my tributes to bygone sign companies and gaswinkers go as viral as this has? Thanks to Joey F. and Christian R. for the link.
• Signs of the Times magazine, June 1922
• "Gas-Lit Sign In The News," Signs of the Times, Sept 1953
• Via Buzzfeed: 35 Really Unfortunate Neon Sign Fails. When will my tributes to bygone sign companies and gaswinkers go as viral as this has? Thanks to Joey F. and Christian R. for the link.
• March 14, 2013, at the Type Director's Club
• March 21, 2013, at the Friends of the UES Historic Districts
• April 10, 2013, at Landmark West (details forthcoming)
• July 22, 2013, at the NYPL / Mid-Manhattan Branch


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[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Wawa, Calgary, Mexico City, Tirana, Hong Kong
- Vice shares the photographs taken by Cheyenne Jackson of the declining, aging, northern Ontario town of Wawa. What future does it have?
- At MacLean's, Jason Markusoff looks at the diminishing support for the 2026 Olympics in Calgary. Is there any case for this?
- Guardian Cities reports on the Via Verde, the vertical gardens attached to the pillars of the Mexico City freeway system. Are they merely cosmetic?
- The continued efforts of the civic authorities in the Albanian capital of Tirana to improve life in this growing city are the subject of this Guardian Cities article.
- This SCMP article makes a compelling argument that the distinctiveness of Hong Kong, as a city not wholly of China, is inexorably declining.
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Lawrence Heights, waterfront, Distillery District, Chinatown
- Christopher Hume at the Toronto Star notes how the ongoing attempt to revitalize Lawrence Heights will try to plug that neighbourhood back into the wider city of Toronto.
- Urban Toronto notes efforts by condo designers to make the Sugar Beach towers suitable for families.
- Ontario Place would be a perfect place for a swimming pier, wouldn't it? CBC reports.
- Daily Hive notes that the Distillery District will soon house the Collège Boreal.
- blogTO notes a classic Chinatown building on Spadina Avenue that has been given a terrible makeover.
[PHOTO] Four photos from the Dufferin Grove vigil
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We are now a one house family again!
We traveled this past weekend back to Small Town home. The main reason was to close on the sale of our house there. We also used the time to visit with friends we had not seen this past year.
How do you know someone is your friend? Usually one of the following two apply:
- they stop by (somewhat) unannounced for a visit and stay an hour or two, or three
- they let you in their house when you stop by (somewhat) unannounced for a visit and let you stay for an hour or two, or three.
The one visit I thought we had pre-planned was the one that actually didn't work out. We showed up, but they didn't. All the others where set up as such – "Hey, we are going to be in town this weekend.", then we stopped by to see if they were home and visited. Even when it was around supper time or already 7 pm.
Thank you, Friends, for continuing to extend your generosity.
Something I got out of every visit, beyond the reminder that friendships do not have to be based on seeing someone constantly, is that we all have had things happen this past year which have been struggles and blessings. Not one person said, "I went to work, I came home, I mowed the grass… everything is exactly as it was a year ago, there were no unusual events or struggles." Everyone did say something different, no two struggles or unusual events were the same, but everyone had something(s) happen.
We drove in to town on Saturday, changed the furnace filter, turned on the heat, made sure all the toilets worked, turned on the refrigerator, carried in our bags, and inflated the air mattress. Then set out to visit friends.
We picked up supper and brought it back for a picnic meal on the kitchen floor – the house had NO furniture.
Sunday morning Jack was up earlier than George or my husband, which seemed to make a shower a good idea. And it was. Except we found out quickly that we had forgotten to turn on the water heater the day before.
Oh, the things you take for granted each day.
A trip to the grocery store resulted in a lighter (gas heater), paper plates and napkins, an extra roll of toilet paper (just in case the one left in the house ran out!), and cream cheese. A stop by McDonald's filled the coffee request. Back at the house we, and YouTube, lit the water heater then proceeded with a breakfast of coffee, hot cocoa, beagles and cream cheese, again on the floor of the kitchen, while the water warmed up. Breakfast hit the spot.
By the time it was the adults turn for a shower we had to actually use some cold water to make the water temperature tolerable.
After replacing batteries in a few smoke detectors, fixing a door which wouldn't stay shut…work at this house never seems to end…we headed out for lunch in Big Town. We went to a restaurant where we frequented every Sunday after church for years. Pure nostalgia, as it is a chain restaurant you can find in most towns.
While in Big Town, after a few wrong turns delaying us, we saw a friend of ours crossing the street. We pulled over to offer a ride (this friend walks assisted, which can make getting places difficult), say hi, and extend an invite to lunch. As it turned out, this friend wasn't feeling well and was headed home to rest. But it was a nice chance encounter.
More visiting with friends, a frustrating miscommunication, then supper of leftovers and a few premade items from the grocery store.
Monday we got up at our normal times, loaded the vehicle back up, cleaned up the house, fixed a fan (the codes had somehow changed between it and the remote – work is never done), and said final goodbyes to the house.
We had a couple hours till closing which we planned to fill with a delicious breakfast out. It did not disappoint. Added perk, no wait for a seat on a cold Monday morning.
Not all of us were as hungry as usual, which meant yummy leftovers!
We headed out to our closing destination, found ourselves checking in about 20 early, so took a walk. While out strolling a few blocks around our location, a former classmate of my husband's saw us. He wasn't able to chat with us, but did connect with my husband via text.
Closing went smoothly. A blessing in more ways than one – our attorney had been down south, headed back with his family via Atlanta airport. While they did not get stuck in the airport, their flight had been delayed. He found a different way back, arriving just in time.
Papers were signed. Hands were shaken. Informal details given. Ways parted.
We are no longer home owners in this particular state!
Being that it is a small-ish, rural-ish town, as well as winter time, cold, right before holidays…we thought for sure nothing would happen till spring. When this reasonable offer came in, we were shocked. It was at a time where things had been a bit rough (see "everyone had something this year" above). This was one of two large pieces of good news which came in the same week after months on quiet. Proof that you can not always make things happen in your timing.
So, that is what we have been up to these past few days. Perhaps not the typical pre-christmas activities, but one that was a huge gift and blessing. We have said, "Thank you, God." many times through the process.
Wherever you find yourself this week, look for ways to be a friend, as well as enjoy those you already have. It doesn't have to be anything grand, or require a pristine house. Sometimes it is the small gestures which mean the most at that moment. (Thank you for letting us borrow your step ladder!)