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CNN.com hangs Ghanaian youth on bad reporting by motherboard.tv
Posted by hollatainment in Local media - TV, Press, Social Networking on April 17, 2011
CNN.com Editor's note: The staff at CNN.com has been intrigued by the journalism of Vice, an independent media company and Web site based in Brooklyn, New York. Motherboard.tv is Vice's site devoted to the overlap between culture and technology. The reports, which are being produced solely by Vice, reflect a very transparent approach to journalism, where viewers are taken along on every step of the reporting process. We believe this unique approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers.
The Background
On 5th April, 2010, an article hit the internet and got the attention of most Ghanaians. The link to Motherboard.tv website was the first that made the rounds and was soundly trashed by most Ghanaians who saw the untruths in the supposed research article. But things soon came to a head when the article showed up on CNN.com on 6th April, 2010 15.30GMT. Before long the story had been twittered and retweeted, the reports read over and again.
At this point most of us were fuming and crying blue murder and uttering expletives behind close doors at the injustice of it all. Didn't CNN.com see the comments posted by Ghanaians showing their disgust at the inaccuracies and outright lies they found in the article at the time they decided to give it global prominence by featuring it?
Well, the Editor's note above the motherboard.tv article (Inside the criminal world of Ghana's e-mail scam gangs) sheds some light on how this situation has come to be and why most people are questioning the editorial policy and agenda of CNN.com. Did it cross the editor's mind that use of figures like 99% to 1% point to [fallacy of] generalization which is a sign of questionable research methodology? or no research at all? Did he care to google to see our presidential palace?
CNN.com's stance
How an editor would make a decision to give an article about the youth of Ghana and Ghanaian society such prominence just because "the staff at CNN.com has been intrigued by the journalism of Vice…" also intrigues me; beats me that thoroughness and honesty was put aside in this case in favour of curiosity and fascination. Is it a coincidence that another definition of intrigue is: make secret plans to do something illicit or detrimental to someone? Does the proximity between the dates of publishing on the respective sites indicate a planned thing? For the conspiracy theorists and linguistics among us, let us ponder this together.
By featuring this article on CNN.com the editor has endorsed Thomas Morton (aka Baby Balls) and his media company and lent them CNN's credibility if not in all past and future articles, at least in this particular one. To wit, CNN.com is telling us that 'we would have come to same conclusion if we undertook a research on Sakawa in Ghana'. But in the same breathe the editor manages to insert a caveat (The reports, which are being solely produced by Vice…) distancing CNN.com from any future questioning of the accuracy of the content of Vice's Motherboard.tv report. Same device is employed again in the note (We believe this unique approach is worthy of sharing with our CNN.com readers) where the Editor endorses the methodology but not the article explicitly. Now isn't that interesting? One has to leave a wriggle room when things come to a head. Nice job!
When African culture and social structures are viewed and reported through the lens of a young man (Thomas Morton) whose expertise some years back was reporting on sex, drugs and rock music and not done with honest research but with misrepresentations, you bet some of us will show our displeasure.
The Journalist, Thomas Morton
I did a little research about Thomas Morton but didn't get much by way of his academic background but got interesting facts like his sobriquet, Baby Balls; because he happens to be a vertically challenged man who lives on the edge and challenges the status quo of investigative journalism. He did a report on pollution of the sea and his video report was noted to be laden with so many expletives that his point couldn't be carried across to the intended student audience. I'll only say that he's an interesting fellow with a background in investigating sex, drugs and rock music. Please check for yourself if you care.
Thomas has used unrelated imagery to make his point.
It is interesting to see Thomas dancing with a fetish priest in a possible sakawa ritual? Is that the evidence he has as proof of an underground economy rife with mysticism and sacrifices and blood rituals? I can offer without being there that what he partook of is a mini-durbar or some other traditional occasion. I can assure him that the priests who work in this cyber-juju industry have a cruel air to them and don't dance for public viewing and no, they don't dance with white men because they're undertaking some research.
It is sad that Thomas will misrepresent a traditional cultural event as a blood ritual for sakawa purposes. This is a betrayal of the trust of the elders who gave him the opportunity to experience first hand the rich cultural practices and heritage in Ghana. You can't expect better from someone who wanted to get his video out anyhow, with cooked up evidence or not.
I can see an internet cafe from a thousand miles and that picture of a man clicking away at a pc is not one of an internet cafe; it is someone's office. Internet cafes are crammed places whether in Ghana or in the States. What has a birds-eye view of a sprawling slum, refuse dump and a trotro station somewhere in Accra got to do with anything, if not to create in the minds of his audience a bleak economic situation that in his assertion can and is leading Ghanaian youth to take up Sakawa full-time.
It is very easy for Thomas to attribute his perceived pervasive sakawa practice among Ghanaian youth to corruption among the elite without providing any evidence. As Graham Knight noted,"distortions, exaggerations and untruths come easy when reporting Africa because they build upon a set of common themes [entrenched in western media] in which certain stereotypes are taken for granted".
On my behalf and on behalf of other bloggers and Ghanaian youth who feel globally humiliated because of CNN.com editor's gross neglect of journalistic ethics of due diligence and fair and objective reporting, I request that
1. Mr. Thomas Morton's report be taken off CNN.com if blogposts condemning his report will not be given same prominence or,
2. Blogposts from Ghana or by Ghanaians condemning Mr. Thomas Morton's report be allowed to run alongside it and,
3. CNN.com (CNN BackStory team) sponsors a project with the soon to be registered Ghanablogging community to undertake a thorough research into the sakawa phenomenon.
In conclusion I will say that there are more aspiring footballers in Ghana than there will ever be sakawa-money hungry boys because our professional footballers plying their trade in Europe are better role models and have more money. Oh Mr. Morton wouldn't know that because he is not a fan of football, my bad, soccer!
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This Blog!
Posted by hollatainment in Social Networking, troski, trotro on November 8, 2010
This Blog is run by me but can do with some guest contributors or a co-blogger.
This Blog is about trotros and public transportation but it has the right to stray every now and then.
This Blog is not licensed but if it were it'd be under Creative Commons.
This Blog is a product of Open Source writing and editing tools and hosted on an Open Source blogging portal.
This Blog is an avenue to let some of my creative juices flow, document my thoughts and try to capture the moment in words and pictures.
This Blog is meant for my consumption but I love you tagging along, your comments and will love a blog post suggestion from you.
This Blog is supposed to highlight how public transport can be fun, infuriating, counter-productive to Ghana's development and even deadly.
This Blog is about users of public transportation: the driver and his mate, the passengers, the other road users and how they all interact.
This Blog is subject to change in focus because it is an extension of the owner's ever-changing mind.
This Blog should be cut a slack sometimes, errors are solely the writer's!
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Pierre S.D. – Thousands of wheels and thousands of watts of horsepower make up one of South Dakota's most powerful events. People come from across the nation to participate in Huron's Wheel Jam, a celebration of cars, semi-trucks, and motorcycles.
Located at the South Dakota Fairgrounds in Huron, Wheel Jam is a haven for vehicle enthusiasts. The three day event will take place June 3-5, 2011. Attendees will enjoy a dynamic engine semi-truck brake competition, classic car showcase, motorcycle burn-out, vehicle parade, car audio competition, and at night a semi-truck light show. Wheel Jam concludes with an award ceremony for the different competitions throughout the event.
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quote:Giving breathing room to a religious ideology that is shaped by the norms of 18th century Arabia rather than 21st century America[or any other nation] can only eviscerate a liberal democratic society.
quote: Why not say "religious freedom" instead of "secularism"? Could it be that "secularism" is opposed to "religious freedom"?
quote: maybe now the french know who the world is dealing with
quote: but the amazing thing is that religious zealots want to behead somebody for it
quote:Let's not forget that their experience with religion is different from ours and has shaped how they approach it.
quote:The causes of the French Revolution are complicated, so complicated that a debate still rages among historians regarding origins, causes and results. In general, the real causes of the Revolution must be located in the rigid social structure of French society during the ancien regime. As it had been for centuries, French society was divided into three Estates or Orders. The First Estate consisted of the clergy and the Second Estate the nobility. Together, these two Estates accounted for approximately 500,000 individuals. At the bottom of this hierarchy was the vast Third Estate which basically meant everybody else, or about 25 million people. This social structure was based on custom and tradition, but more important, it was also based on inequalities which were sanctioned by the force of law. So, we must look at these three Estates more carefully.The First EstateThe Clergy From the outset, the clergy was established as a privileged Estate. The French Catholic Church maintained a wide scope of powers - it literally constituted a state within a state and it had sustained this position for more than 800 years. The clergy was divided into the lower and upper clergy. Members of the lower clergy were usually humble, poorly-paid and overworked village priests. As a group, they resented the wealth and arrogance of the upper clergy. The bishops and abbots filled the ranks of the upper clergy, men who regarded their office as a way of securing a larger income and the landed property that went with it. Most of the upper clergy sold their offices to subordinates, kept the revenue, and lived in Paris or at the seat of royal government at Versailles. Well, what did the clergy do? Or, I suppose, a better way of framing the question is this: what were they supposed to be doing? Their responsibilities included: the registration of births, marriages and deaths; they collected the tithe (usually 10%); they censored books; served as moral police; operated schools and hospitals; and distributed relief to the poor. They also owned 10-15% of all the land in France. This land, of course, was all held tax-free.
quote:The Civil Constitution of the Clergy In July of 1790, the Assembly passed the Civil Constitution of the Clergy. The effect of this legislation was to bring the constitution of ecclesiastical authority under the same principles governing the restructuring of government: authority is given by the people to protect their rights and property. The Civil Constitution legislated that all ecclesiastical offices would be elected offices and all people within those offices would be directly under the control of the civil government. The Church would only barely be subject to Rome; instead, it would become a French institution whose policy and direction would be subject to French, not Roman, interests. In many ways, the Catholic Church was the source of pent-up hatred throughout France. There's no question that the upper officials of the church were hopelessly corrupt; they were all nobility, most held several offices at once, few cared about the regions under their charge, and they bled the peasantry dry in order to support their extravagant lifestyles. However, the secularization of the church in the Civil Constitution was perhaps one of the most powerful weapons that the Assembly could hand to the counter-revolutionary forces in France. Breaking off from Rome and demanding that clergy be subject to the people went against centuries of culture and world view in France; while the radical revolutionaries of 1792 believed that such habits of thought could be disposed of overnight, the respect for the church and its authorities was deeply ingrained in the character of the country and proved impossible to overcome.
quote:The French inheritance system of primogeniture meant that nearly all French fortunes would pass largely in a single line, through the eldest son. Hence, it became very common for second sons to join the clergy. Although some great churchmen came out of this system, much of the higher clergy continued to live the lives of aristocrats, enjoying the wealth derived from church lands and tithes and, in some cases, paying little or no attention to their churchly duties. The ostentatious wealth of the higher clergy was, no doubt, partly responsible for the widespread anticlericalism in France, dating back as far as the Middle Ages, and was certainly responsible for the element of class resentment within the anticlericalism of many peasants and wage-earners.
quote:Nevertheless, they remain both a Christian and a doctor, because they know that their belief is more that following a set of traditions.
quote:I'm answering your question out of politeness, Pete. I honestly don't care much for getting into a conversation with you. I kind of regard you as something of a crap slinger and would just as soon ignore you as anything else.
quote:So the French are united in their desire to stamp out every trace of religion in public schools? That's something to be proud of? Why not say "religious freedom" instead of "secularism"? Could it be that "secularism" is opposed to "religious freedom"?
quote:Just so long as the government can have the kids to itself during school time...
quote:You know, I'm starting to understand those Europeans who were saddened at 9/11 but at the same time thought the U.S. had it coming.
quote:See, even in the totalitarian dictatorship that we live in here in the US (according to some), we don't infringe on rights like that.
quote:there are schools forbidding make-up or jewels for girls and earrings or shorts for boys. In the "good ol' days" long hair or t-shirts from "Judas Priest" were forbidden in a lot of schools.
quote:Nor is the hijab a good symbol for freedom. Throughout the Islamic world the hijab is often something girls and women wear because they're forced to - a symbol of restriction and intimidation, not freedom. Millions of women worldwide are daily threatened - and substantial numbers even assaulted, maimed, or killed - for refusing to wear whatever the local male authorities decide they should be wearing.In countries such as Saudi Arabia, special religious patrols beat, insult, and arrest women who aren't covered according to their stringent specifications. In Pakistan, Kashmir, and Afghanistan, hundreds of women have been blinded or maimed when acid was thrown on their unveiled faces by male fanatics who considered them improperly dressed. In post-Taliban Afghanistan, women have been raped for daring to think they could now go without theburqa.In March 2002, 15 Saudi girls ran for their lives when their school caught fire, without wasting precious time to first wrap themselves in their abayas (black robes that are mandatory female attire). Better dead than bare-headed, the religious police decided, and forced the girls back into the burning building and fiery deaths.
quote:Multiculturalism and religious freedom are NOT infallible, and in order to survive, free democratic societies will have no choice but to seriously curtail these concepts.
quote:"Neither the Quaran, nor the hadith [the sayings of the prophet Muhammad] require women to wear a head scarf," says Gammal Banna, the Egyptian author
quote:Hey, Bob Jones forbids racially mixed couples on their campus! Nobody in the US is particularly worried about that!
quote:Dude, you must not be aware with the concept of a public school. In France it means a school funded by the state and NON-religious.
quote: Why do you think that France opposes the admission of Turkey to the EU? Religion. They want the EU to be a Christians only club.
quote:against (...) *sincere* Christians
quote:In any case, it was too odd for European media too, to report on its demise.
quote:Come to think of it, if you want the Turks so bad to part of some economic bloc, they are more like you than us anyway, so why don't you take them in NAFTA?
quote:The FBI/CIA can read your mail, medical records bank statements under the guise of national security, without proper motivation.
quote:No, they're only against extremist lunatic fringe Christians.
quote:And if you really think that all American soldiers in Viet Nam were convicted you're even more naive or criminally neglicent than I thougth
quote:You don't seriously expect me to defend Hitler, now do you?
quote:About genocide: conservative estimates say that about 30 million Indians died during colonization.
quote:you think that Jews are still being rounded up and deported. What's more you think the majority of Europeans want this
quote:Nope. It would have been honest if he hadn't said that he was being polite. Since he said that he was being polite, his post was neither polite nor honest. It also wasn't relevant, but since he didn't claim that he was being relevant, I didn't call him on it.
quote:I watched an interview with the leader of one of the more progressive Islamic groups in America the other day. The interviewer was curious as to why American Muslims had been so silent about terrorism. The Islamic leader basically stated that although the Muslims in America mostly disagreed with the methods being used by terrorists, they ultimately agreed with the goals.
quote:So, what other than a instrument of repression and control is this headscarf?I dunno, women who want to wear it, for other reasons than to avoid endless ostracizing from the males, are as weird as Americans who vote to be spied on and taxed to benefit the rich.
quote: Pete: Do you know Christian doctors who are forced BY LAW to work on Sundays?
quote: Pete: However, I can think of NO circumstances where the law might be justified in requiring someone to act contrary to their religion.
quote: tshow: Christianity was much like Islam until it went through the renaissance. The only hope for some kind of peace in the world during this century is for Islam to go through its own renaissance.
quote: tshaw: I donât see this happening any time soon, mostly because we are too politically correct to dare to demand it.


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Big news for the Delaware GOP, which has suffered through a lot of bad news in the last couple years: Lt. Gov. candidate Sher Valenzuela has earned a speaking role at the Republican National Convention in Tampa next week.
That's according to Valenzuela's campaign and the Delaware Republican Party. Republicans aren't yet sharing details, including what day she'll speak in Tampa and on what topic, though Valenzuela's remarks are sure to focus on her own small business background. Valenzuela's story is impressive – she founded an upholstery manufacturing business with her husband in their garage to pay for their son's autism treatments. The business, First State Manufacturing, has grown over the years and is now an anchor in Milford.
"The fact that the Republican National Committee (RNC) is recognizing Sher Valenzuela as someone the RNC sees as a viable candidate with an important message for voters further confirms her electability in Delaware," said John Sigler, chairman of the Delaware GOP. "Sher will make an outstanding Lieutenant Governor and I see her speech as one of many great moments in a long public service career in Delaware. This state, the Republican Party and the voters of Delaware will be exceedingly proud when Sher takes center stage here in Tampa."


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Logan Men Qualify for Nationals for First Time in Twenty Years with Win
March 7, 2015
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INA – The John A. Logan College men's basketball team overcame a seven-point halftime deficit (38-31) Friday night to defeat Kaskaskia 73-70 in the semifinal round of the District Tournament hosted by Rend Lake College.
The win improves the Volunteers' record to 26-6 on the season and propels them into the championship game of the District at 7 p.m. Saturday against the nation's top-ranked and undefeated Vincennes, Ind. Trailblazers. The win also locks up a trip to the national tournament in Hutchinson, Kan. for the Vols as two teams automatically qualify for Nationals out of District 16.
Logan's national appearance is its first in 20 years and only the second such appearance in school history.
The winning basket came with 13 seconds left in the game when sophomore guard Connor Wheeler of Du Quoin drained a 3-pointer from the left corner as the shot clock was about to expire. Justin King's long-range three to tie the game just missed the mark as the final buzzer sounded.
"I got a great pass from Tae (Martavian Payne) and got a good look. Thank God, it went in," Wheeler said. "We didn't want to let this one slip away. We have worked too hard and come too far to fall short. That's what makes going to Nationals so special."
Vols head coach Kyle Smithpeters was relieved.
"I'm just glad Connor hit that shot," he said. "Things weren't going our way tonight for the most part. We weren't very good at times, but we kept fighting. We were resilient. And I am very proud of the kids. We didn't quit. We came up with some big plays when we had to have them. Give Kaskaskia credit. They played a great game against us."
While it was Wheeler who knocked down the game-winning shot, it was the 1-2 punch of center Russell Woods and shooting guard Martavian Payne that carried Logan on this night.
Woods had a game-high 25 points and yanked down 12 rebounds. Payne accounted for 24 points, including four triples, and added six rebounds.
"Both of those guys really came up big," Smithpeters said. "We needed those kind of games from them and they delivered."
Payne said ever so modestly that he was just glad to contribute.
"I just knew that we had to keep on pushing, even when we were down by 10 in the first half. I had faith in my teammates that we would come back, and we did."
Woods was overjoyed with the Vols' win and accomplishment of qualifying for Nationals.
"That's been our goal. Now, we want to go out and beat Vincennes. We owe them one…in fact, we owe them two."
Yet another sophomore, A.J. Riley, was again solid in a reserve role, scoring eight points and grabbing eight rebounds. Wheeler totaled seven. Sophomores Jordan Martin and Jeremiah Jackson each netted three. Freshman Tamas Bruce also had three and brought down eight rebounds.
As a team, the Vols converted 26-of-70 shots from the field and 6-of-22 from long range. They were 15-of-25 from the free-throw line.


text: As the end of the year nears closer, it seems we still have quite a few impressive hardcore releases to look forward to, including this excellent split between hardcore warriors Spine and The Repos. Each band rips through 4 tracks of some of their best material laid to tape yet as well as closing out each of their sides with a cover of the other band. Spine continues to impress with the same punishing brand of fast hardcore that they displayed on their excellent demo and "Subhuman" release. They are quickly becoming one of the most vicious bands out right now and this new material has me even more anxious to hear their forthcoming LP dropping on Youth Attack next year. The Repos have always been an awesome band their side of the split proves that is still very much the case. Their furious punk energy is a great counterbalance to Spine's more straightforward hardcore approach, and as such this split begs to be put on repeat indefinitely. Put simply: Any fan of sincere punk and hardcore owes it to themselves to give this split from two great bands a listen ASAP, and thanks to Bad Teeth Recordings, you can download a copy to hear right now from the link below, as well as check out another link to order a physical copy of the split, so enjoy and pick one up if you dig it, which is almost certain.


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I first learned to read nutrition labels when I was old enough to read (or sometime in elementary school), if sugar was one of the first 3 ingredients it wasn't going in the shopping cart. I started paying attention to the numbers over ingredient list around 5th grade…when I was first introduced to carb counting. Gushers, Goldfish, Chewy granola bars, Rice Krispies treats, Dunkaroos – give me a kids snack from the 90s and I can probably tell you the carbs, serving size…..and calories.
I'm still learning how to deal with a sweet tooth & cravings. Growing up I walked a fine line of restriction when it came to food. Forced to eat when I didn't want to, not being able to eat when I did. Trading one thing for another, making compromises, testing what I could get away with, trying to fit in but knowing early on that I knew better than most grownups. Control. It's a funny thing.
I kept loose food journals…of all sizes. Not necessarily diligent in keeping a proper record didn't hide the fact that the information constantly consumed my thoughts. Is that what stock brokers feel like ? Planning their next move, debating risk & rewards, watching for the next big trend.
It was high school that calories became constantly counted. Again, never fully diligent in writing it down but constantly consuming my thoughts – providing fear, anxiousness and guilt. Not enough to cause drastic actions and under the guise of basic nutrition it led to binging of sorts more than anything, yo-yoing between guilt, rebellion and force.
I love my iPhone, yes one might call me dependent. It has apps! Apps that record your blood-sugars on the go, that can count your calories, give you nutrition information instantly…it's endless! I've tried the looseit! app and it's great.
But here's why I had to let it go:
It was a battle. One low blood-sugar could ruin my entire day. And it would make me feel defeated. An unplanned granola bar could put me 120-200 calories past my daily allocation, 60 calories could be stolen by an unwanted juice-box. It was another reminder of restriction. Like the times when I wanted a snack and couldn't have the carbs.
Or the times when my blood-sugars were normal or even high yet I wanted a snack by choice – the guilt of eating when I didn't have to.
In adapting to a crazy work schedule, frequent meals at the office, NYC dining and the world of Healthy Living Blogs, I discovered both spectrums of "whole foods." After struggling with the vulnerability of "open" food from restaurant ordering, I finally connected with the various mind sets of wholesome eating.
Growing up with a health nut father I learned early on about honey vs white sugar or the benefits of whole grains. But growing up in the 90s where I had buyers choice at my moms it was all about the pre measured & pre packaged snacks – my dad's kitchen would throw me off and scared me.
Restriction is a difficult thing. If you don't know what you're missing you may be ok but once that door of temptation opens you become vulnerable. It goes hand in hand with food. As much as I try to control food, often through restriction, it strongly controls me. My health, my decisions, my actions.
So in letting go of the obsessive calculations, I'm aiming to focus on the things that I can enjoy – and truly enjoying them. Seeing food as an experience rather than a controller.
And where does that leave me now? I still hate grocery shopping, am constantly picking up packages to look at nutrition labels and read the latest news. Energy bars, granola bars and protein bars still make up a large part of my diet. But that may equally have something to do with my lack of cooking.
I'll never be able to let go of planning, knowing and calculating – but now I'm trying to manage it in a more wholistic approach.
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The D in Drake stands for Dope. Drake is bomb, and I'm in head over heels in love with his character and music. Cannot wait for the release of his new album, Nothing Was The Same, but there's one thing I'm upset about is that he may never work with Chris Brown due to their disagreement, I think a track with the two of them would be so dam fly, I could cry! Lol.
Drake has recently covered GQ for the second time round, with an insightful cover story titled 'How To Drake It In America,' that's pretty genius. Drizzy reveals all, answering some of the questions most of us would like to ask him, especially about the Chris Breezy ish..
On refusing to sleep around
You know the way fighters don't f-ck before the fight? Sometimes I feel like I'm so focused on training my body and getting my mind right to create this album that sex isn't one of my main priorities. If someone is around that I know and trust, I'm down. But I'm not going to end up with some stranger at this party.
On love
[Will Smith said] It's not about wanting anymore, you need that person. Hearing that, I don't know if I've ever felt that way…I've made a lot of music about love being the only thing I'm missing. I think this is the first album I've made saying, 'I'm okay, I'm enjoying it right now.' Maybe this is my time to grind it out, make a run for it, and add some memories with my boys.
On the Chris Brown drama
I hear he has everything he could want now. I don't want my name to be synonymous with that guy's name. I really don't. I wish we could sit down just like you and me are right now, and talk it out man-to-man. But that's not going to happen. I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down. If I think about it too much, I feel it wrapping around my foot, like I get a feeling it could end really badly…Like, it gets really dark..


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The Breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. Rumi
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live." – Mortimer Adler
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
― Henri J.M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude
It doesn't matter.
Ours is not a caravan of despair.
Come, even if you have broken your vow a thousand times
Come, yet again, come, come
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"In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices."
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
A.S. Roche
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening. If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning. It is not so much a matter of escaping from one's suffering, though it may seem to be so. It is a longing for home, for a memory of the mother, for new metaphors for life. It leads home. Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.
― Hermann Hesse, Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte
Ashanti Proverb
"Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences."
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
– Miriam Beard
Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes To Town, Someone Leaves Town, 2005
"A woman once described a friend of hers as being such a keen listener that even the trees leaned toward her, as if they were speaking their innermost secrets into her listening ears. Over the years I've envisioned that woman's silence, a hearing full and open enough that the world told her its stories. The green leaves turned toward her, whispering tales of soft breezes and the murmurs of leaf against leaf."
― Linda Hogan, Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World
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Peggy Guggenheim
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; dream of it; think of it; live on that idea. Let the brain, the body, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, and this is the way great spiritual giants are produced."
― Swami Vivekananda, Vedanta Philosophy: Lectures by the Swami Vivekananda on Raja Yoga Also Pantanjali's Yoga Aphorisms, with Commentaries, and Glossary of Sa
Erma Bombeck
"For the first time the magnitude of what he had undertaken came home to him. How could you communicate with the future? It was of its nature impossible. Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him: or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless."
― George Orwell, 1984
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
"I'm not stupid. I know exactly what's going on, and I'm not fighting it. If I have to go through this, I will glean from it any small benefit I can receive. I will not fight this. Bring it on. Bring on the cure. Bring on the fucking happy. I'm committed."
Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls
Mike Murdock
The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way."
Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
"The Antiquity of Proverbs: Fifty Familiar Proverbs and Folk Sayings with Annotations and Lists …"
Did St. Francis really preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
Rebecca West
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"Curiosities in Proverbs: A Collection of Unusual Adages, Maxims, Aphorisms, Phrases and Other …"
A man found a snake. Although it was frozen, he recognised it as a poisonous snake. He picked the poor thing up and took it home to revive it. He placed the snake in front of the fire to thaw. Once thawed, he bent down to give it a nice little saucer of milk. The snake lifted its head and bit the good man. As the man lay dying he asked the snake, "How could you do this to me after all I have done for you?" As the snake slid out the door, it turned to the good man and said, "Stop your whingeing. You knew I was a poisonous snake when you picked me up. What else did you expect me to do?!" (Respect, Aug 1996)
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"A classified collection of Tamil proverbs"
Al buen entendedor, pocas palabras bastan.
To a good listener, few words are enough (understanding comes easy).
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Planning to read The Imaginary, but missed the first book in the series? Now's the time to get caught up!
Until Tuesday (2/28), The Mirror Stage is on sale on Amazon for $0.99. With The Imaginary releasing on Tuesday, as well, you can get caught up on The Imago Trilogy story before diving into Book #2.


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Shanghai, China
About Shanghai:
Shanghai is a modern city with traditional Chinese flavors. In Chinese culture, Shanghai-style culture is a regional culture that have risen in modern times, which represents the culture of modern times of Shanghai. The essence and spirit of this culture can be reflected in the buildings and imagesof modern times.
The western-style buildings along the Bund and the skyscrapers in Pudong add radiance to each other; The hymns of the Cathedral in Xujiahui and the curling up of incense smoke from the Jade Buddha Temple exist in harmony; Seniors playing Majong under arcade and kids playing football in the alleys form an idle picture in the metropolitan; the Shanghai Opera and local Farce Comedies of Shanghai in little theatres run in parallel with symphonies and ballets held in grand theatres; the local cuisine of Shanghai, the Cantonese style of Tea in Hang Fa Lau, and the French cuisine in Red House Restaurant are served for gourmets from all over the world; the teahouse in Shanghai Old Street and the bars along the Hengshan Road are frequented by people from east and west.
In the city ranking of 2014 published by Foreign Policy USA, Shanghai China ranks number 18th.


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You're in the cloud.. what should you do next?
So, you've managed to get the key decision makers on-board with migrating to the cloud. You're excited and envisioning how much simpler tech life will be. You know the cloud will do more than save the company money. The cloud will enable your business to be fast, agile and innovative.
Many businesses realize too late that the hard was not getting the cloud – it's using it. From not sizing bandwidth needs to assuming the cloud is secure just because someone else is handling it, the failure to define the cloud can take a serious toll on operations.
These four strategies will make your cloud experience the best one yet:
Use server-less computing.
Server-less computing still requires server (all cloud computing does). Server-less computing hides server management from the operators. It is a cloud-computing execution model that allocates resources based on demand.
Also known as function as a service, server-less computing breaks up applications into individual functions which are performed as individual tasks; these tasks can be scaled to any limit, as needed. This allows your company to pay for exactly what it needs and not waste valuable resources. Server-less computing allows for faster time to market, incredible scalability and reduced costs.
Use data de-duplication
Companies that rely on a high number of redundant operations deal with managing server space and bandwidth. Traditionally, every time a new version of a file is created, both versions are stored, resulting in wasted storage.
Data de-duplication gets around this storage efficiency problem by storing only unique pieces of information instead of the whole group of files. For example, if the same 1MB file has been sent as an attachment 100 times over email, your backup will need 100MB of space to save them all. With de-duplication, your system will store only one instance of the file and point back to it for every other instance, reducing the total demand to just 1MB.
Data de-duplication can be performed on the client side or server side and can reduce storage space requirements by 80 percent. Storing and transferring less data over a network means greater security, as your disaster recovery can cover data that was previously not stored. Sending less data to backup also means less cooling will be required, which reduces a company's carbon footprint.
Use SaaS Business Intelligence
While most companies will be tempted to have their own set of data-analytics tools in-house, cloud analytics tools can help you do everything your own hosted software can, without any of the drawbacks.
The cloud-based analytics solution offers substantial benefits over on-premise analytics. First, you don't have to bother with a data center, upgrade and patching. All maintenance is handled by the service provider. These programs are also pay-as-you-go eliminating hefty start up costs.
Cloud-based business intelligence systems can automate everything from data discovery to report generation. Greater data security, more configurable options and enhanced agility are all points squarely in favor of using a SaaS BI.
Use a multi-cloud architecture
Since clouds are not an all-or-nothing sort of affair, companies can go for different services and technologies depending on their budgets or requirements. In the past, a multi-cloud strategy was used to avoid redundancy and vendor lock-ins.
Today, however, companies opt for a multi-cloud approach to help them accomplish their business goals. By using a multi-cloud approach, you can distribute your resources across the different service providers that best suit your needs. Certain cloud providers might provide better data warehousing while another might have a more efficient sales-support setup. Your developers might also prefer the virtual environment of one cloud service. A multi-cloud approach can also help you scale effortlessly in the future.
Cloud computing is all about scaling hardware and software to the tasks at hand; so it's best not to think of it as a start-all, be-all. Keeping your options open will help you not only to cut costs, but add or subtract services as — and when — they are needed. Datasmith can help you create a comprehensive cloud strategy for your business. Contact one of our business experts today to see how the cloud can transform your business.


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RICHMOND, Va. (CNS) — Legislators proposed recommendations Tuesday to expand Virginia's mental health services — including "right-sizing" the state hospital system, altering law enforcement training procedures and providing correctional facilities access to health records.
A General Assembly subcommittee will push legislation requiring the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to "right-size" the state hospital system by ensuring the appropriate number, capacity and locations of state hospitals. The legislation seeks to improve the current state hospital model and increase access to hospital beds across Virginia.
As of 2017, Virginia had less than 1,500 hospital beds spread across nine state mental health hospitals, according to DBHDS. The hospitals also consistently operate at peak occupancy, which is nearly 15 percent above the 85 percent occupancy rate considered safe for both patients and staff, according to the same report.
"Access remains an issue," said Paula Margolis, senior health policy analyst for the Joint Commission on Health Care, a research group created by the General Assembly. "Temporary detention order process remains an issue, with how there's not enough hospital beds for people. [The legislative panel is] restructuring the system so that people are better served."
The Joint Subcommittee to Study Mental Health Services in the Commonwealth in the 21st Century focuses on the delivery of all mental health services — short-term, long-term and emergency — to all Virginians.
"There's somewhat of a stigma built up around mental health that prevents people from getting care," said Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Bath, chairman of the subcommittee. "It's important that mental health issues [are] given the same dignity as physical health issues."
Deeds has a personal connection to the issue. In 2013, Deeds took his son, Austin "Gus" Deeds, to a hospital for a mental health evaluation, but the young man was released because no psychiatric beds were available. Less than 24 hours later, Gus stabbed his father multiple times and then committed suicide. Deeds later said the system failed his son.
Last year, Deeds sponsored legislation that requires schools to teach about the importance of mental health in ninth and 10th grades.
During the legislative session that begins Wednesday, the subcommittee will seek approval of legislation that updates training standards for law enforcement personnel to include mental health sensitivity and awareness.
From 2012-17, Virginia saw an 18 percent increase in the number of people with mental illnesses imprisoned in local jails, according to a 2017 report by the Virginia Compensation Board. The inclusion of sensitivity and awareness training is specifically focused on people experiencing behavioral health issues or substance abuse crises.
"We've got to build a system of care," Deeds said, "so that people no matter where they are in Virginia have access to the services they need."
The subcommittee also hopes to amend state law so that correctional facilities can obtain patient mental health records when needed without requiring consent.
Other legislative recommendations for 2019 include:
• Expand "telehealth" — ways of providing health care via technology
• Support the University of Virginia in developing a clinical fellowship in telepsychiatry
• Ask the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services to explore treatment options for people in mental health crisis who have complex medical needs
• Fund a pilot program for a psychiatric emergency center


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Jackie Evancho presented by Angelina Arts Alliance
Name: Jackie Evancho presented by Angelina Arts Alliance
Date: February 1, 2019
Time: 7:30 PM - 9:35 PM CST
Event Description:
A worldwide sensation when she was only ten years old, Jackie Evancho is moving past the exuberant promise of a child prodigy vocalist, toward maturity as a singer, as a creative artist and as a young woman. Fresh from her spotlight performance of the National Anthem at the Presidential inauguration in January, she seizes the moment with the release of Two Hearts, her long-awaited new album released through a partnership with Portrait/Sony Masterworks. The album not only features popular hits both old and new, and classical crossover Italian songs, but also Jackie's emerging gifts as a collaborative songwriter. A career that began with a little girl's fascination with the film soundtrack of The Phantom of the Opera has become an evolving and enduring musical phenomenon. Since she first dazzled American television audiences at the age of 10 – gaining global recognition with her stunning debut on NBC's America's Got Talent – Jackie Evancho has released a string of platinum and gold albums, with sales of over 2.5 million in the US. Along the way, she has also made history – the youngest solo platinum artist … the youngest Top 5 debut artist ever in the U.K. … the youngest person to give solo concert at Lincoln Center … the highest-ranking debut artist of 2010. All six of Jackie's albums have hit No. 1 on the Billboard Classical chart. The magnitude of her success led Billboard twice (in 2010 and 2012) to include Jackie on its list of "music movers-and-shakers under the age of 21." Two Hearts features a wide variety of classic and popular songs including Lucio Dalla's immortal "Caruso"; the beautiful "Attessa," based on the Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana; Enya's "May It Be" from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and Taylor Swift's "Safe and Sound," all reimagined in Jackie's unique style. Also included are her 2016 single "Apocalypse" and four songs she co-wrote – "The Haunting," "Wonderland," "Sane" and "Pedestal."


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…is snow that can only occur when it's really hot outside, you might just be a Warmist
The blog of the day is And Rightly So!, with a post about being comfortably dependent.
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I see that she is in a pool of melted snow.
Ever been to a ski resort and have a hot young single chick in a teeny bikini hop in with you?
Me neither. And now that I'm old enough to afford nice resorts, my knees are too old to ski.
Ann Angel is from Pennsylvania so she knows something about cold weather and snow.
What's the chance that Jerry Brown would outlaw hot tubs in California. They're a huge energy waster and carbon source. And they already outlawed fireplaces in new homes, so why not hot tubs? Naaah, never happen.
Brrrrr she's hot.
Be careful JG. He just might in order to force limit the energy use so those windmills can keep up with the increasing energy demand.
Oh, and I'd bet it was the hot tub that caused that snow.
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Chris was born in Chicago, Illinois, and completed his BA in Secondary Education at Northeastern Illinois University in the same city. Following receipt of his degree, Chris was a substitute teacher in the Chicago School System for six months. It seemed that a promising career in education lay ahead.
Then insurance came into Chris' life as a career option. Starting with Allstate as an Adjuster Trainee, he advanced to Property Adjuster before moving to an independent adjusting company in the same capacity. After a year in this position, Chris formed his own company to do fire remodeling and restoration. He was lured back to insurance and became a Home Office Property Claims Supervisor with Warner Insurance. It took only three years for Chris to be promoted to Southeast Regional Claim Manager of Florida. This was followed six years later by another venture in entrepreneurship as Chris and his wife opened Quality Adjustments, a firm that would continue on for thirty years and which merged with Voelpel Claims last year.
At this point you may be wondering about Chris' interest in education. Clearly, insurance is a career that emphasizes – requires – continuing education. Chris combined his insurance and education interests by regular attendance at Property Loss Managers Conferences (1983 and 1986 through 2001), National Association of Independent Adjusters National Conferences (eight conferences between 1987 and 2013), Florida Advisory Council on Arson Prevention Conferences (1986 through 2001) as well as other regional conferences. Significant additional educational milestones were the attainment of a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation in 1983 and a Master of Sciences in Insurance and Risk Management from LaSalle University in 1998.
What about becoming an educator? This never stopped being one of Chris' goals and, over the years, he has been involved in a research project "Can Arson and Fraud be Defeated" which won a CPCU National Research Award. Since 1983 Chris has taught 22 CPCU courses on a variety of topics, five Associate in Claims courses, five Associate in Underwriting courses, and six General Principles of Insurance courses. Chris has also made 14 seminar presentations and received a Professional Leadership Scroll for his ongoing contributions to education.
Chris is an active member of the National and Central Florida Chapter of the Society of CPCU and served as Chapter President for the 2005-2006 year. He has been a member of the Orlando Claims Association since 1985, the Florida Advisory Committee on Arson Prevention (FACAP) since 1986, and a member of the National Association of Independent Adjusters (NAIIA) since 1987.
Chris Eirich is truly an exemplary prototype for the blending of insurance and education.


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Autumn 2018- We will be joining in the Guy Fawkes celebrations at the Trinity Centre, on Sunday 4th November. More details to follow soon!
If you are interested in booking the orchestra to perform at your event, please contact Stella Quinlivan on 0117 9145479 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Previous Gigs:
Saturday 21st July 2018- Bristol Harbour Festival, Main Stage.
Saturday 30th June 2018 – Private Wedding, Clevedon, Somerset
Sunday 24th June 2018 –Celebrating Sanctuary, Queens Square, Bristol.
Sunday 22nd April 2018 – Festival of Sound, Main Stage, Colston Hall, Bristol
September 2017 – Colston Hall 150th Birthday Celebrations, The Lantern, Colston Hall.
Tuesday 20 June 2017. Bristol Reggae Orchestra performed at the Watershed in Bristol in the evening as part of an international conference to showcase inspirational practice, policy and the latest research in culture and arts in health and wellbeing. The conference discussed the role of arts and creativity in healing, care and wellbeing across the life course. More details on the conference website.
Sunday 11th Dec 2016. Bristol Reggae Orchestra opened the Regional Youth Music Awards (RYMA) which was a fabulous event celebrating the talents of local youth performers.
Friday 21st Oct 2016, CD Launch in the Colston Hall Foyer, Bristol. It was great to see so many people at this performance where Bristol Reggae Orchestra launched its new CD, 'From the heart of St Paul's, Bristol'. The culmination of six years' work, the eight track CD includes pieces by orchestra members and features over 40 musicians drawn from a wide range of backgrounds playing reggae classics, original orchestral works and innovative fusions such as Persian reggae, developed with refugee musicians from the Lorraine Ayensu Refugee Arts (LARA) project. We sold lots of CD's and a portion of the funds raised will go towards supporting refugee-related organisations.
Monday 20th June 2016. Performance for refugee week at St. Georges, Bristol, featuring our long-time friends: Iranian singer Bahman Salashour, and local reggae singers, Dallas and Sauda Kyalambuka. You can find details on this face book page and can even book tickets at the venue booking office.
Friday 24th June 2016. Performance at the Blue Sky Festival at the Pound Arts Centre in Corsham. We performed with the "Blue Sky Children's choir" who are 100 strong and drawn from 6 local schools. More details at the festival website.
4th April 2016. Performance/Workshop with trombonist Hannabiell.Venue: Malcolm X Centre, St. Pauls, Bristol. (free to residents of St Pauls).
29 Oct – 21 Nov 2015.We enjoyed performing (twice!) as part of the current Bristol Sanctum project. This was an arts project by Theaster Gates, a USA based artist, in which a temporary performance structure was built in the remains of Temple Church, Temple Street, Bristol. There was continuous performance throughout the project from many different performers.
Sun 13th June 2015: Refugee Rights Weekend, Queens Square, Bristol.
Fri 5th June 2015: Circomedia, Bristol. .
Saturday 14th Feb 2015 at Circomedia, Bristol. 'Circomedia gig/Im in the mood for Ska' recording on Youtube
Sunday 30th Nov 2014 at St. George's, Bristol. An afternoon performance where Bristol Reggae Orchestra performed the world premiere of "Edgelands" by Scottish composer Kim Moore, along with reggae standards and their own material. Performers included Bristol Reggae Orchestra, friends from Bristol Refugee Rights (Bahman Salashour and Danny Vincent), guest singer Melanie Marshall, local dancer Carol Sherman, and children from three local schools (Bannerman Road Community Academy, Cabot Primary School and St Barnabas CEVC Primary) led by local singing leader Laurie Stewart. This event was the culmination of a year's collaboration with Kim Moore as part of Making Music's "Adopt a Composer" project. The scheme is run in partnership with Sound and Music, in association with BBC Radio 3, and funded by PRS For Music Foundation.
Friday 8th Aug 2014 at the Trinity Arts Centre, Bristol. A wonderful evening was had by reggae/jazz fans with Bristol Reggae Orchestra supporting the fabulous Jazz Jamaica with special guest Myrna Hague and surprise guest appearance by local legend James Morton.
Friday 18th July 2014 at the Bristol Harbour Festival. A gorgeous sunny evening in Queens Square – contributions from local singers Souda and Sion, Bahman Salashour from Iran, and a welcome return for Chas Rodgers.
Saturday 5th July 2014 at the St. Paul's Carnival, Bristol. A roasting hot day and great atmosphere made this a special occasion as always. Performances included a mixture of classics and reggae style songs from Iran and Sudan.
Friday 20th June 2014 at The Station, Silver Street, Bristol.
LARA (Lorraine Ayensu Refugee Arts fund) presented a return performance by BRO supported by a young Iranian band based in Bristol and a group of drummers from Gambia. A lovely evening with exciting drumming and dancing followed by reggae/ska favourites and new tunes from band members. Well received were performances from singers Souda and Sion, including improvised rap, and the sweet and mellow "A Better Man" from band member Rebecca Scott.
Tickets £10 in advance from Bristol Ticket shop / £12 on the door. Music starts at 8pm.
Salisbury Arts Centre – Sat 18th Jan 2014
A wonderful evening thanks to a warm and lively audience and a fab venue (Salisbury Journal review). We look forward to revisiting.
Cardiff – 19th Oct in the Wales Millenium Centre – as part of Black History Month. Performance included new music created by orchestra members plus classics given a reggae twist with Bristol based vocalists Sauda Kyalambuka (Tan Teddy Caribbean folk-song group) and Chaz Rodgers (Motown and Barry White specialist, originating from South Carolina, USA).
Cardiff (Gwanwyn Festival – finale – 25th May) – a lunchtime performance on the Glanfa stage in the Wales Millenium Centre. Some reggae favourites and classics with singer Richard Williams and a second performance of new favourites with Iranian singer Bahman Salashour accompanied by Danny Vincent. (images in the Gallery).
The Station, Bristol (20th April 2013) – in association with Bristol Refugee Rights with much appreciated funding raised for LARA (Lorraine Ayensu Refugee Arts). A varied and lively night with a wonderful audience and performances from Long Sho Tibetan singers, Bristol Reggae Orchestra featuring Gary Crosby on double-bass, and with new music written and performed in collaboration with Iranian singer Bahman Salahshour and accordion player Danny Vincent. The spontaneous post-gig session was an added bonus – thanks to all the musicians who stepped in and kept us dancing till late (images in the Gallery).
Just before Christmas, Bristol Reggae Orchestra appeared at the Marine Theatre, right on the sea-front at Lyme Regis to a packed and appreciative audience – what a venue – what a night. http://www.marinetheatre.com/221212reggae.htm
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His students call him "Prof," and in the classroom James D. Hoff looks like any other English professor, circulating among the undergraduates and urging them to recite, savor and interrogate the texts of writers as varied as James Baldwin, Stephen Crane and the Beat poets.
He is sandy-haired and bearded, with a passion for modern American poetry, and in many ways he is living his dream. He has published essays on Ezra Pound and Laura Riding and is able to forget his worries amid the joys of helping young people discover the power of literature.
But his anxieties always come back. At night, he sometimes lies sleepless in the dark, wondering how long he will be able to afford the academic life.
He is not a professor. He is an adjunct lecturer, holding an increasingly common and precarious position that offers him no job security, no health benefits and no assured pathway to full-time university employment.
Nearly 18 months after being awarded a Ph.D. in English, Mr. Hoff has yet to find a full-time job. He cobbles together a living, struggling to line up courses to teach at different colleges around the city. If he is lucky, he lands four classes a semester, a full-time workload that pays about $24,000 a year.
This semester, only three classes came through.
"Scared," Mr. Hoff said, describing his emotions when he learned he would have a $3,000 hole in his budget. He is 42 years old, with a wife, a toddler and mounting credit card debt.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has turned the spotlight on the issue of income inequality in this city. We know about the struggles of low-wage workers without college degrees, the widening gap between rich and poor and the erosion of job security in corporate America.
But seismic shifts have shaken the academy, too, creating a society of haves and have-nots, outsiders and insiders, among instructors.
"This is my life; this is what I love to do," Mr. Hoff said of his teaching, writing and research. "But for me, being an adjunct is like constantly being on the precipice of economic crisis."
From 1993 to 2011, the percentage of faculty members without tenure surged nationally from 57 percent to 70 percent, according to the American Association of University Professors, a research and advocacy group. Of those faculty members, a vast majority are adjunct professors like Mr. Hoff.
At the City University of New York, where Mr. Hoff worked as an adjunct while earning his Ph.D., part-time adjuncts now account for 62 percent of the 18,600 instructors, according to the Professional Staff Congress, the union that represents the faculty and staff at CUNY. Research groups, officials and others point to shrinking endowments and declining state funding as a cause for the reliance on cheaper, part-time staff.
CUNY, which has also experienced soaring enrollment, has provided $10 million to support health benefits for adjuncts, and supports a program to move about 200 adjuncts into full-time jobs. Adjuncts say that much more is needed.
Many assume that adjuncts are working professionals, who teach a course or two on the side. But with the decline in tenure-track positions, a growing number are scholars like Mr. Hoff, who cannot find full-time university work.
They are increasingly restive, prodding universities over late pay and classes that are canceled at the last minute. Adjuncts say they are typically excluded from university governance and decision-making regarding the classes that they teach. And there are smaller indignities that grate, like being denied keys to the supply cabinets or access to offices after hours.
"They feel a lack of dignity, a lack of respect, a lack of visibility," said Barbara Bowen, the president of the Professional Staff Congress at CUNY, who said her union would demand increased job security for adjuncts in coming contract negotiations.
Adjuncts also struggle to make ends meet. Mr. Hoff, who is teaching this semester at Manhattan College and the Fashion Institute of Technology, recently moved with his family from Manhattan to the Bronx to find a cheaper apartment. He and his wife, who works for an academic journal, cannot afford to buy a home or start a college fund for their 22-month-old daughter.
Every day, Mr. Hoff reviews the recent email updates about new job openings in his inbox. He no longer focuses solely on tenure-track jobs, searching for anything full time, anything permanent, positions at community colleges, or university presses, anything that would allow him to teach and pursue an intellectual life.
Mr. Hoff was the first in his family to go to college. As a young man, he dreamed of becoming a poet and a scholar. He still clings to those aspirations, at least for now.
"Come talk to me in five years," he said. "I may feel differently then."


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Discrete (Granular) Logics: A New (Natural) Notion of Continuity, with a Complete Description Of All Continuous Granular Logics
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In most knowledge-based systems, the experts' uncertainty is described by a real number from the interval [0,1] (this number is called subjective probability, degree of certainty, etc.). However, experts usually use a small finite set of words to describe their degree of unecratinty; thus, to adequately describe the expert's optinion, it is desirable to use a finite (granular) logic. If all we know about the expert's opinion on two statements A and B is this expert's degrees of certainty d(A) and d(B) in these two statements, and the user asks a query "A and B?", then we need to estimate the degree d(A and B) based on the given values d(A) and d(B). In this paper, we formalize the natural demand that gradual changes in d(A) and d(B) must lead to gradual changes in our estimate for d(A and B) (we called it continuity). We show that the only continuous "and"-operation is min(a,b). Likewise, the only continuous "or"-operation is max(a,b), the only continuous "not"-operation corresponds to f(a)=1-a, etc


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By Erica Scharrón
Worshiping beings who are essentially giant children with superpowers can't be good for anyone's health, and just like people have their glaring flaws, so do the gods. In that vein, here is a list of the Top Seven Most Despicable Olympian Gods for your convenience. (Since this list is gods-only, I can't throw Agamemnon on here, but oh well; also, we'll be sticking strictly to the Olympian Gods that are most well-known for simplicity's sake.)
- Poseidon
Our friend Poseidon here isn't so much despicable as he is ridiculously moody and destructive. Seriously, Poseidon needs to chill–just don't tell him that, he would probably get mad. Do you want to know what happens when the earthquake-triggering god of the sea throws a temper tantrum that you can literally feel on the Richter Scale? Yikes.
- Ares
Like Poseidon, Ares is the kind of guy who isn't quite on the despicable level, but he's getting there. Other than being overly-aggressive without merit and a sore loser, he's also a massive coward. Antagonistic until the end, Ares is a classic personification of the phrase, "You can dish it out, but you can't take it."
- Hades
Despite being the god of the Underworld, Hades isn't really that despicable of a dude most days, but he still has a boatload of attitude problems. He fits the Chaotic Neutral archetype pretty well, as he's not really good or evil, but is definitely a drama-starter (or a literal life-ruiner). It depends on his mood, I guess.
- Aphrodite
No matter how beautiful you are, it's still pretty despicable to torment innocent mortal girls when people say that said girls are prettier than you. (Seriously, Psyche did nothing wrong.) At least she's not forcing people to fall in love with men who aren't their husbands…oh, wait. Honestly Paris, you had to have known that Helen was married; why did you agree to that?
- Hera
Admittedly, if my "loving" husband messed around as much as Zeus did, I would behave pretty despicably, too. Despite constantly being cheated on, however, Hera needs to stop punishing all the poor women who Zeus sleeps with (often in disguise, mind you) and start giving her husband a piece of her mind instead.
- Apollo
Arbitrarily giving people the gift of prophecy even when they don't want it? Check. Being super petty by helping otherwise useless soldiers? (I'm looking at you, Paris.) Check. Pressuring a priestess into sleeping with you and then cursing her when she doesn't? Dude. Despicable as all get-out. Don't even talk to me.
- Zeus
This guy is the worst. More than anyone else, Zeus is the absolute epitome of despicable. No one else has screwed over more people, ruined more lives, and caused more far-reaching problems than freaking Zeus.


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DOJ Flips Out That Evidence Gathered Via FISA Orders Might Be Made Available To Defendants
from the of-course-they-do deptLast summer, we wrote about the case of Adel Daoud, an American teenager who was caught in one of the FBI's home grown plots. Even before the whole Snowden situation broke, late in 2012 when the Senate was "debating" (and I use that term loosely) the renewal of the FISA Amendments Act (which created Section 702, the key piece of the PRISM program), Senator Dianne Feinstein strongly fought for the renewal... using Daoud's case as an example of where Section 702 was a key component in stopping terrorism -- saying that it was necessary in "a plot to bomb a downtown Chicago bar." That describes the Daoud case, if by "plot" you mean Daoud and a bunch of undercover FBI agents creating a plan that was never actually going to happen.
Feinstein's admission that the FISA Amendments Act was used in the Daoud case took his lawyers by surprise, since none of the evidence they'd been shown involved that. His lawyers then asked for access to the evidence that was obtained via the FAA. After the Snowden revelations (including how information obtained via FISA is often "laundered" to various law enforcement agencies to keep it out of court), his lawyers got even more aggressive. While their initial shot failed, in January, Judge Sharon Coleman decided that, assuming (as claimed) Daoud's lawyer had security clearance, he should be able to see the FISA related materials. As she noted:
While this Court is mindful of the fact that no court has ever allowed disclosure of FISA materials to the defense, in this case, the Court finds that the disclosure may be necessary. This finding is not made lightly, and follows a thorough and careful review of the FISA application and related materials. The Court finds however that an accurate determination of the legality of the surveillance is best made in this case as part of an adversarial proceeding. The adversarial process is the bedrock of effective assistance of counsel protected by the Sixth Amendment.... Indeed, though this Court is capable of making such a determination, the adversarial process is integral to safeguarding the rights of all citizens, including those charged with a crime. "The right to the effective assistance of counsel is thus the right of the accused to require the prosecution's case to survive the crucible of meaningful adversarial testing."It won't take a psychic to guess what happened next. A few days ago, the DOJ appealed this order explaining a theoretical parade of horrors that might happen if a lawyer with security clearance were given access to the evidence against his client.
But a court's preference for the adversarial process—a circumstance that exists in all litigation—cannot serve as a basis for declaring that disclosure of FISA materials is "necessary to make an accurate determination of the legality of the surveillance" under the statute. Congress envisioned that FISA litigation be handled ex parte, in camera, with disclosure the rare exception.... Yet the district court's reasoning would turn that regime on its head. A court could always say that an adversarial proceeding would be the "best" way to determine the legality of the FISA collection. To compel disclosure on that basis would trivialize FISA's necessity standard and work a sea change in FISA litigation.Right. How dare anyone think that it might be reasonable or sensible for courts to make sure that lawyers representing clients who were involved in plots created by the FBI actually get to see the secret evidence that the FBI got via a FISA court order? Why, due process might break out! And we're the US government. Can't have that!
Furthermore, the DOJ is positive that the courts simply don't understand the security issues, and the judge shouldn't worry about such things, because the smart people in the executive branch can decide for themselves which classified surveillance efforts are appropriate to reveal:
The district court also misjudged the damage to national security that could result from disclosing the FISA applications and orders, even to cleared defense counsel under a protective order, as substantiated by declarations from the Attorney General of the United States and the Acting Assistant Director of the FBI for Counterterrorism. A "need-to-know" must exist before classified information may be disclosed, even to those who possess a security clearance, and that essential prerequisite is present only where disclosure to defense counsel is "necessary" for a court to adjudicate the legality of the FISA collection.This all seems... completely bogus. But what makes it especially bogus is that after it came out that the Solicitor General, Donald Verrilli made false statements to the Supreme Court about whether or not defendants in such cases would be told about evidence collected via the FISA process, the DOJ promised that it would start letting defendants know when the FISA process was used in the investigation. Yet, what the DOJ's response here shows, is that even when that's the case, the DOJ will do everything possible to keep the details of what was done via FISA (and whether or not it was legal or appropriate) out of the case.
When viewed under the correct "necessity" standard, nothing about the challenged FISA collection justifies the district court's outlier decision. As the classified record makes clear, the ex parte process that the statute provides readily permits an accurate determination that the FISA collection was lawful, and the defendant's allegations to the contrary are unfounded. A court reviewing the applications would have no difficulty determining that they established probable cause to believe the target was an agent of a foreign power and that a significant purpose of the collection was to obtain foreign intelligence information.
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Rouge Louboutin bottle so I decided to do my nails to match. I started with Rouge Louboutin and then added a sponged gradient in Zoya Willa. Super easy and super sexy!
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Parish offers hope, help to struggling couples
A couple walks into a Catholic church. They have been living together for three years and came to have their child baptized. After learning about their living situation, the priest encourages them to enter into a sacramental marriage. All is well for a while, but the arrival of two more children and the stress of coming from different cultures takes its hold. Soon he leaves her and she is left alone to raise the children with little money. Once again she turns to the church.
The story is true and comes via St. Stephen church in South Minneapolis. It is, however, a story that is unfortunately repeated in our parishes on almost a daily basis.
In many cases the woman is referred to public housing and public assistance. When referred to social service agencies, her immediate needs may be provided for but the outside services don't treat the whole person and the family. St. Stephen's saw that what this woman needed was prayers, someone to listen to her, a community to help her and to recognize her own dignity in God's eyes.
Finding hope
St. Stephen's is made up of 90 percent Latinos. First and second generation immigrants bring their own unique cultures, and their frequent clash with American culture often leaves families in shambles.
"Economic and social pressures on immigrants put an enormous strain on a marriage," St. Stephen's website states. "There is no faith-based Spanish speaking marriage counseling in the archdiocese. Latino couples suffer from: Lack of communication, sexual misinformation, and violence suffered when they were children, financial strains, male dominance, lack of knowledge of the faith, loneliness, isolation, manipulation, abortions, addictions and lack of time together. But there is hope."
Father Joseph Williams, pastor of St. Stephen's, recognized this problem and knew that what was needed was a comprehensive center. Instead of a band-aid approach, the whole person, whole families and whole community needed healing, guidance and hope. Just referring someone to government agencies doesn't work.
"The secular and government agencies lacked the element of faith and may even encourage contraception, abortion, cohabitation and divorce," said Viviana Sotro, director of St. Stephen's Sagrada Familia family services center.
Wing and a prayer
With a little more than an idea, a plan was formed. The building that had once been the rectory became vacant. Deacon Luis Rubi, assigned to St. Stephen's, orchestrated a plan for providing a center for family services.
Through Deacon Rubi's connections at Holy Family Church in St. Louis Park, a partnership of committees was formed. Latino and Anglo experts planned, side by side, the remodeling of the old rectory and the services it would offer.
A chance meeting between Father Williams and Sotro a year ago solidified a director for the center. She came with experience in Argentina in marriage work and natural family planning, and she and her husband continued their volunteer work when they moved to Minneapolis.
There are two main areas of services the center provides: pregnancy services and family services.
Pregnancy services include pregnancy and limited ultrasound testing, STD testing and medical referrals. There is counseling for pregnant women, husbands, boyfriends, families and friends to accept the pregnancy and the new life that has entered the world as well as social services referrals where necessary and connections with resources that are available in the community. "All of our programs are offered in a culturally specific way," Sotro said.
Family services includes couple-to-couple mentoring and counseling. The Matrimonios Compañeros Program uses trained volunteer couples to offer support to others who are struggling in their marriages. Seventy-five couples have participated in this program already.
Another program is called Te Escucho and literally means "I Listen to You." This service brings caring volunteers who spend time with people experiencing transition in their lives. The purpose of the outreach is to listen, not to solve problems but to be a sympathetic ear.
"Sometimes, people are lonely and confused when experiencing a new culture," said Sotro. More than 200 have participated in the culturally sensitive parenting programs. Natural family planning classes and theology of the body education are available for families, young adults and others.
A group effort
As Catholics, we are called to do more than anonymously give to the organizations that care for those in need; we are called to step up and take care of our communities.
With three abortion centers in the area, the center has a goal to assist pregnant women in accepting new life. A group of Knights of Columbus took the initiative to assist this effort by purchasing an ultrasound machine for the center.
As part of a nationwide KC project to provide ultrasounds to pregnancy resource centers, Pat Rickert — respect for life chair for the Bloomington Knights of Columbus — helped with this initiative.
"This was an effort of 10 councils in our area," Rickert said. "To come together for this common cause was a real accomplishment."
Planning started in May 2012. The Knights took the lead and a fundraising fiesta dinner at St. Stephen's was held last October. Mexican food, Mass, speakers and even a Mariachi band brought two cultures together. "Enough money was raised to secure the ultrasound and additional funding is being used to secure medical staff," Rickert said. "We are continuing our efforts to assist with this outreach program."
"We have received help from many places and we are working together," Sotro added. "All of the work at the center has been completed by St. Stephen's parishioners." Sotro said.
Professionals and laborers transformed the old rectory into beautiful office space for services. "Donations are always needed, but the greatest need right now is for bilingual medical staff," she added noting that people can volunteer weekly, monthly or periodically.
Because of the care and inspiration of the Sagrada Familia, the true story of the couple at the beginning of this column has a happy ending.
The wife became involved with the church, joined a prayer group and participated in one of the mission retreats. Her husband showed up at the same retreat unexpectedly.
"I felt God's call to come back to my family," he told Sotro. The wife shared that she had been praying for her husband since he left. He now knows why he felt the call to return. On the night of reconciliation both publically shared their story and he asked for forgiveness, and she forgave.
A family once broken is now reunited. Social service agencies can't provide this kind of help. It is the work of the Church. It is our work.
An open house and blessing of the center is set for Sept. 8. All are welcome; it is part of St. Stephen's parish festival.
The Sagrada Familia Apostolate is located on 2211 Clinton Ave. S., Minneapolis MN 55404. Viviana can be reached at (612) 392-2421. Find out more about the center and how you can get involved or donate at http://www.ss-mpls.org/sagrada-familia-services.
Wilson is respect life coordinator for the archdiocesan Office of Marriage, Family and Life.
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Why Did Tom Noonan Leave IBM ISS?
Tom Noonan successfully sold his former company Internet Security Systems (ISS) to IBM for $1.3 billion in 2006.
Some 18 months after the acquisition closed, he left the company and this year officially took the helm of energy management startup JouleX.
I recently met up with Noonan to talk with him about JouleX, but I also managed to squeeze in a short conversation about his time at ISS and why he left IBM. While it's not uncommon for founders to leave their companies after being acquired, I'm always curious to dig a little deeper and find out how the acquisition and integration actually happened.
Check out the clip from my interview with Noonan, for all the details:


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