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Trump is counting on Americans not watching and being too stupid to understand impeachment: Ex-White house aide
Filed under: Criminal, Fascism, News, Political, Questions, Reason — Scottie @ 07:07
During a panel discussion about the recent decision by Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to hide much of the impeachment from the American people. It flies in the face of Republicans saying they wanted to follow the "Clinton model" of impeachment.
"They are counting on people not paying attention," he said. "Today, they simultaneously argued two separate constitutional theories that are opposite. The president saying, 'The Second Amendment is a strict constructionist argument that the framers knew what they were doing when they put the Second Amendment in.' And then the lawyers go up to The Hill and say, 'The framers didn't really know what America would be like 200 years later.' So, it's the exact opposite argument."
He went on to say that they also say that Trump can't be indicted for a crime, but then claimed Trump also couldn't be investigated for a crime. Now, Trump's team is arguing that given everything, "the president can't be removed unless he's committed a crime." All of the comments conflict with each other.
"How would we know if he's committed a crime if we've never gone to court or he can't be investigated?" asked Lockhart. "It's this circular logic that you'd think, if people were paying attention, that would collapse onto itself. They're counting on us not watching and not understanding."
Year over year, inflation-adjusted wages rose 0% in 2019. 51% of workers got no raises
Filed under: Economics, News, Political, Questions, Reason — Scottie @ 06:10
This is not a great economy. This is horrible and creating a serf class, a permanent working class who have nothing but hardship and labor then die early while the wealthy enjoy long lives of privilege. Hugs
https://saywhat-politics.tumblr.com/post/190375271058/year-over-year-inflation-adjusted-wages-rose-0
All too rarely do we hear these days about two of most troublesome chronic problems—the number of rotten jobs and the percentage of low-wage jobs, with the Brookings Institution putting the latter at 44%.
One example was released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics last Tuesday, a report on real average earnings. "Real" as in adjusted for inflation. Most of the time we only hear in the media about changes in nominal wages, their face value. That fails to tell a key part of the story. As every minimum-wage earner knows, $7.25 in 2020 is not worth what it was in 2009, the last time the federal government reset the minimum. Inflation has since knocked down its buying power to $6.09.
For all employees, real average hourly earnings fell 0.1% from November to December 2019, seasonally adjusted, according to the bureau.That result came from a rise of 0.1% in average hourly earnings plus a rise of 0.2% in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U). In addition, real average weekly earnings fell by 0.1% over the month because the average workweek didn't change.
The year-over-year tally shows a bigger hurt. Real average hourly earnings rose 0.6%, seasonally adjusted, from December 2018 to December 2019. But those earnings have to be placed against the 0.6% fall in the average workweek. In other words, as the BLS puts it, this "resulted in essentially no change in real average weekly earnings over this period."
Or more succinctly: wages were flat in 2019. And the situation is actually worse because including the gains of the top 10%-20% of earners skews the average upward.
Bankrate's Financial Security Poll for December puts some flesh on that skew: 51% of American workers received no raise in 2019. That's about 82 million people. In 2018, 62% got no raise—99 million workers.
In Historic Shift, Second Largest Physicians Group in US Has New Prescription: It's Medicare for All
Filed under: Economics, Health, News, Political, Questions, Reason — Scottie @ 05:23
https://saywhat-politics.tumblr.com/post/190378855278/in-historic-shift-second-largest-physicians-group
Although the United States leads the world in health care spending, it fares far worse than its peers on coverage and most dimensions of value. Cost and coverage are intertwined. Many Americans cannot afford health insurance, and even those with insurance face substantial cost-related barriers to care. Employer-sponsored insurance is less prevalent and more expensive than in the past, and in response, deductibles have grown and benefits have been cut. The long-term solvency of U.S. public insurance programs is a perennial concern. The United States spends far more on healthcare administration than peer countries. Administrative barriers divert time from patient care and frustrate patients, clinicians, and policymakers. Major changes are needed to a system that costs too much, leaves too many behind, and delivers too little.
The ACP's detailed review of the current for-profit system—even with some of the improvements resulting from the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—found that "too many Americans are uninsured or underinsured" and that current spending is "high and unsustainable"—especially as other developed nations show their ability to achieve better or similar outcomes for less while offering universal, government-guaranteed coverage to all.
While acknowledging that a transition to Medicare for All could be "highly disruptive" to the healthcare system, the ACP said "single-payer financing approach could achieve [its] vision of a system where everyone will have coverage for and access to the care they need, at a cost they and the country can afford. It also could achieve our vision of a system where spending will have been redirected from health care administration to funding coverage, research, public health, and interventions to address social determinants of health."
Medicare for All, the paper continued, could also "achieve other key policy objectives, including portability, lower administrative costs and complexity, lower premiums and cost sharing, lower overall health care system costs, better access to care, and better health outcomes, depending on how it is designed and implemented."
According to an op-ed by Woolhandler and Himmelstein, also published in the Annals alongside the ACP's new position paper, "Achieving universal coverage would be costlier under the "public choice" model the ACP co-endorses along with single payer."
Unlike a public-private mix of coverage that the public option would represent, the pair write, a single-payer Medicare for All would allow hospitals and doctors to "save billions on billing-related costs" each year, and those savings could be re-purposed "to expand care" to millions for less cost than the status quo.
More information at the link above. The times they are a changin. Hugs
… you live in a police state
Filed under: Bigotry, Cartoons, Criminal, Fascism, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Race, Reason — Scottie @ 05:09
https://cthulhulovesewe.tumblr.com/post/190379255701/tactical-necromancy-closet-keys
They will vote, shouldn't you?
Filed under: Bigotry, Cartoons, Criminal, Fascism, Hate, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Race, Reason — Scottie @ 05:08
https://cthulhulovesewe.tumblr.com/post/190379364411/wilwheaton-marrengo-murica-are-you-ready-to
Filed under: Cartoons, Education, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Reason — Scottie @ 05:03
https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/190379607802
What part of well-regulated do they not understand
Filed under: Cartoons, Criminal, Fascism, Gun Control, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Reason — Scottie @ 04:55
What part of well-regulated do they not understand?
You would think these elite gun rights activists would be fairly well versed in laws of the state they are in. At a minimum the laws that are considered Class 6 felonies. Code of Virginia 18.2-422
It shall be unlawful for any person over 16 years of age to, with the intent to conceal his identity, wear any mask, hood or other device whereby a substantial portion of the face is hidden or covered so as to conceal the identity of the wearer, to be or appear in any public place, or upon any private property in this …
… White House cannot produce a single witness or document to disprove the central allegations
Filed under: Cartoons, Criminal, Fascism, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Reason — Scottie @ 04:51
In sum, after arguing for months that all these people were lying, the White House cannot produce a single witness or document to disprove the central allegations.
Taxpayers subsidize police settlements. We pay for their cruelty and murder
Filed under: Bigotry, Cartoons, Criminal, Economics, Fascism, Hate, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Race, Reason — Scottie @ 04:49
When taxpayer funds are used to pay fines and damage awards there is no penalty for the one who did the wrong action or crime. There is no incentive to change their ways if it doesn't cost them anything and they can push the cost off on others. Hugs
getinvolvedyoulivehere:
Make this law and watch how fast things change!
#PoliceThePolice #PTP
Taxpayers subsidize police settlements. We pay for their cruelty and murder.
Source: getinvolvedyoulivehere
Also MLK was assassinated by a racist with a gun
Filed under: Bigotry, Cartoons, Criminal, Gun Control, Hate, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Race, Reason — Scottie @ 04:41
The fragility of conservative whiteness.
It would be great if this happened
"I was paid to have that opinion. Now I'm paid to have this one."
Class warfare is nothing new
Filed under: Cartoons, Criminal, Economics, Fascism, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Reason — Scottie @ 04:37
Class warfare is nothing new. #MLKDay2020
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Daily morning cartoon / meme roundup: Different worlds apart
Filed under: Bigotry, Cartoons, Children, Criminal, Fascism, Homosexual, LGBTQ, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Race — Scottie @ 04:14
Steve Benson for January 20, 2020 | https://t.co/BDMO3zY5zL https://t.co/uxwioQir3F via @GoComics
— Scottiestoybox (@Scottiestoybox) January 21, 2020
Clay Bennett for January 20, 2020 | https://t.co/BDMO3zY5zL https://t.co/PWNXcbpANl via @GoComics
John Deering for January 21, 2020 | https://t.co/BDMO3zY5zL https://t.co/biEnz9nVip via @GoComics
Tom Toles for January 21, 2020 | https://t.co/BDMO3zY5zL https://t.co/grjOW9chQg via @GoComics
Making China great
Filed under: Cartoons, Economics, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Reason — Scottie @ 06:47
If tRump had not been born wealthy
Filed under: Cartoons, Economics, Funny Stuff, Memes, News, Political, Questions, Reason — Scottie @ 06:46
Latest approval ratings for vulnerable GOP senators are some serious bad news for them
Filed under: News, Political, Questions, Reason — Scottie @ 06:36
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/18/1912175/-Latest-approval-ratings-for-vulnerable-GOP-senators-are-some-serious-bad-news
No, this was not a trick question. It's nakedly obvious that the five Republicans are all in negative territory, while the two Democrats are positive, according the Morning Consult polling in the final three months of 2019. Note that Sens. Martha McSally of Arizona and Susan Collins of Maine have dropped the most since the previous quarter, while Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina is the only Republican who improved his standing.
Schiff accuses NSA, CIA of withholding documents on Ukraine
Filed under: Criminal, Education, Fascism, News, Political, Questions, Reason — Scottie @ 06:26
tRump has created a government of one for the benefit of himself. He has short circuited all attempts to have a functioning government, to have the system set up by the history of our country. He has minimized the Congress with the idea of getting rid of it. He has replaced civil servants with his own henchmen. He uses his own private people to do the government functions because the actions are illegal. He has done his best to create an authoritarian one person one party government such as china has. Be worried people. Hugs
"They appear to be succumbing to pressure from the administration," Rep. Adam Schiff said Sunday on ABC's "This Week.″ Schiff was selected by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as the lead impeachment manager for Trump's Senate trial.
Schiff, D-Calif., contended that the National Security Agency "in particular is withholding what are potentially relevant documents to our oversight responsibilities on Ukraine, but also withholding documents potentially relevant that the senators might want to see during the trial. That is deeply concerning." He also said "there are signs that the CIA may be on the same tragic course."
Democrats have previously criticized the State Department for withholding relevant documents to the impeachment inquiry. In the weeks since Trump was impeached, Democrats have sought to focus on new evidence about Trump's effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals and are pushing the Senate to consider new documents and testimony, such as from former national security adviser John Bolton.
During the ABC interview, Schiff was asked about a Politico report that said intelligence officials were pushing the House and Senate Intelligence committees to drop the public portion of an annual briefing on world security threats following last year's session in which Trump lashed out over the assessments on North Korea, Iran and the Islamic State.
The request was reportedly being made in a bid to avoid a repeat in which intelligence officials might publicly disagree with Trump on the security risks.
"The intelligence community is reluctant to have an open hearing, something that we had done every year prior to the Trump administration, because they're worried about angering the president," he said.
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Spiders X 2018
By Lauren Megaw
Read time - 3 mins
The Spider Awards are established as Ireland's premier digital technology awards, 2018 marked their 23rd year recognising and celebrating excellence and innovation across Ireland's digital industry.
This year the Spiders joined the renowned 'Dublin Tech Summit' family and rebranded as 'Spiders X'.
Sponsors – 'Best in Education & eLearning'
We were delighted to be sponsoring the 'Best in Education & eLearning' category, which is awarded to a platform or project which innovatively uses existing or new information technologies to enhance online learning, further an education mission online, communicate the need of education or provide informational material to current or prospective students.
This year's winner was Setanta College for their 'World Rugby e-learning' project, which delivers a range of online rugby conditioning programmes for coaches worldwide. To date 35,000 participants around the world have enrolled in their World Rugby e-learning programmes.
Zesty's Head of Business Development, Tara Leathem presenting the 'Best in Education & eLearning' Award to Setanta College.
Making the Shortlist
We travelled to the RDS Concert Hall for the Awards night. Delighted be shortlisted in two highly competitive categories – 'Large Agency of the Year' and 'Best in Travel, Tourism & Sport' for our work with Fáilte Ireland on our 'www.meetinireland.com' project.
Meet in Ireland – Fáilte Ireland
We were nothing short of ecstatic to win the 'Best in Travel, Tourism & Sport' Award for our 'Meet in Ireland' website project with Fáilte Ireland.
Zesty have been a trusted website design and delivery partner for Fáilte Ireland since 2010, throughout our long-standing relationship we have delivered award winning projects including 'VisitDublin.com' and 'WildAtlanticWay.com'.
We have extensive experience within the Tourism industry and we pride ourselves on producing best in class Tourism and Destination websites for our clients.
The 'Meet in Ireland' project involved the delivery a new website which would act as Ireland's shop window for international meeting planners. It would be the primary tool in promoting Ireland's MICE (Meeting, Incentive, Conference and Corporate Events) reputation as a knowledge economy and used to developed business tourism destination awareness for overseas users.
Meet in Ireland's Success
Since launch the website has delivered exceptional results for the Fáilte Ireland team. Delivering opportunities and conversions far superseding expectations.
The site itself has experienced 75% increase in visits – an impressive uplift which demonstrates the improvement of Meet in Ireland's website offering. There has been a 64% increase in users, all of which are new users to the site, this is significant as attracting new visitors was a key objective of the project.
A big thank you to the Meet in Ireland team for their collaboration on the project, their team's commitment and knowledge has been central to the project's success, the website has delivered 80 opportunities worth in excess of €35m to date, less than a year since launch.
"Zesty has successfully delivered on our objective to build a best-in-class website for Ireland's business tourism offering."
Daragh Anglim, Head of Marketing & Digital, Fáilte Ireland
Read our 'Meet in Ireland' case study here.
Published by Lauren Megaw 11/12/2018
My first month at Zesty: Niamh
Welcome to Zesty: Stephen

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Fairmount Park Master Signage
With an astonishing 9,200 acres, 63 neighborhood parks, and a crowded events calendar, the Fairmount Park system is a wonderful resource for Philadelphians and visitors. Cloud Gehshan Associates developed a wayfinding and sign system that extends throughout the park, from the quietest trails through the heart of the city and on to the Delaware waterfront.
Cloud Gehshan Associates
Read more about Fairmount Park Master Signage
Home Depot Design Center
The Home Depot Design Center is the next-generation store concept by the venerable big-box retailer. In this innovative concept, the second-largest retailer in the world aimed to shed its unrefined warehouse image, suitable for contractors and hard-core do-it-yourselfers, in favor of a more polished look to attract a younger, urban demographic with a "do-it-for-me" mentality and a need for complete design solutions.
Read more about Home Depot Design Center
Manchester Civil Justice Centre Signage
The Manchester Civil Justice Centre is the largest civil court built in England in the last 100 years. The landmark 14-story building, part of a large city-center redevelopment project, was designed by Australian architects Denton Corker Marshall following an international design competition. It opened in October 2007 and achieved an "excellent" rating from the Building Research Establishment Assessment Method (BREEAM) system, similar to LEED.
Emerystudio
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2013 Airports and Transportation Follow up Webinar
Join us for a follow up discussion based on the conversations and content shared at the recent Airports Workshop in Phoenix, AZ.
SEGD offers a special rate for Students, but in order to take advantage of it, you will need to call SEGD at: 202-638-5555.
For more information or to purchase the proceedings from this workshop contact SEGD
Read more about 2013 Airports and Transportation Follow up Webinar
Deborah Sussman
1991 SEGD Fellow
Deborah Sussman 1931 - 2014
Deborah Sussman is recognized as a pioneer in environmental graphic design. She is internationally renowned for creating arresting visual imagery and designing its highly imaginative applications for architectural and public spaces. Her passion for the marriage of graphics and the built environment, fueled by her early career at the Eames Office, has led to collaborations with planners, architects, and clients.
Gold Arrow Award, SEGD Fellow, Deborah Sussman, SP&Co., Exhibition
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Wayfinding | The Americas | Campuses
Join us for the next eg conversations webinar focusing on two new campus wayfinding projects situated on the east and west coasts of North America respectfully. Joining us for the conversation will be the design teams who are planning, designing, and making these new information experiences possible.
Please be ready with:
- College or University
- Mailing address
- Phone number
- Email address
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Westside Children's Center
Merit Award, Lot with a Little
The designers sough to create a child-focused, friendly, easy-to-understand environmental graphic design program that remained consistent with the identity that they previously established – the identity consists of five children's hands of different shades arranged to form a star-like shape. They used handprints from children involved in Westside Children's Center programs as the centerpiece of the system. The primary focus was to design everything with the child in mind as well as adhere to necessary code requirements.
Lane + Lane Inc. Design Office
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Crate & Barrel World Headquarters Signage
The headquarters building of Crate & Barrel is a sleek, modernist structure designed by Perkins and Will and located within a landscaped campus-like setting. The comprehensive exterior and interior graphics and wayfinding system ranged from monumental site identification signs to room identification signs and workstation nameplates. The interior sign program constituted a large part of the overall wayfinding system.
Calori & Vanden-Eynden/Design Consultants
Read more about Crate & Barrel World Headquarters Signage
Johns Hopkins i-Site Information Kiosk
This network of twelve computerized kiosks creates one-stop wayfinding centers for visitors. The i-Sites integrate existing leading-edge technology with customized components and software. A psychologist worked with the design team on the user interface; redundancy (where users are offered more than one way to get information) was key to the design, which was extensively field-tested. Although high-tech, the low-profile units are designed to fit into a campus where the traditional architecture and park-like grounds are paramount.
Read more about Johns Hopkins i-Site Information Kiosk
Salt Lake City Public Library
The building's architecture was designed to make the most of the stunning natural environment with walls of glass providing views of the nearby Wasatch Mountains and a rooftop garden providing 360-degree views of the Salt Lake Valley.
Read more about Salt Lake City Public Library
Junior Environmental Graphic Designer
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50 MHz (6m) WSPR
Last seen: 56 sec ago
Stations in Australia are trying very hard to do the best they can on the 50 MHz band on WSPR. But, it becomes very difficult and disheartening, when they are transmitting to no one.
Many more stations are required in parts of the northern hemisphere, such as North America, Canada, etc and also from all over Europe.
It would appear that the VK stations are very die hard 6m supporters and many give it a go every day. But the response from other countries is very poor. We really need operators with larger 6m stations in these countries to be looking our way during the appropriate time frames, especially now that we are approaching the Equinox. Its the larger stations that will obviously show the band openings first and others will then follow.
Im not sure why it is that 6m doesn't have the following that it does in Australia, but hopefully some more will have a look our way soon.
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Deep sea mining: discovery of 6 new species in unexplored hydro-thermal vents
Wednesday, January 04, 2017 by: David Gutierrez
Tags: deep sea mining, mining
(Natural News) (NaturalNews) Six new animal species have been identified living near hot springs nearly two miles beneath the surface of the ocean, according to a paper published by researchers from the University of Southampton and the Natural History Museum in London and Newcastle, and published in the journal Scientific Reports.
Unfortunately, the poorly studied home of these newly discovered species is already slated for deep ocean mining.
The case highlights the great threat to ocean life posed by the up-and-coming industry of sea floor mining, the scientists warn.
Greenpeace has previously warned that though there are between 500,000 and 5 million unidentified marine species, the coming boom in deep sea mining places these creatures at risk of extinction before they can even be named.
Magnet for ocean life
The previously unknown animals were identified by a deep-diving remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that researchers were using to explore a region of the Indian Ocean known as Longqi (meaning "dragon's breath") about 1,200 miles southeast of Madagascar. The area explored is about the size of a football field and lies 9,200 feet (2,800 m) below the surface. It contains more than a dozen vent chimneys, mineral spires that rise as much as two stories from the ocean floor and eject hot fluid.
Deep sea hydrothermal vents are incredibly nutrient rich compared with the surrounding ocean. Thus, vent chimneys attract ocean animals from all around, to feed off the chimneys and off the animals that feed off the chimneys.
In addition to the six new species, the researchers also discovered a species of scaleworm known to live near Antarctic vents, and a species of ragworm known to live near Pacific vents 6,200 miles away. These discoveries show that vent animals are spread much more widely across the planet that scientists had previously realized.
Unfortunately, the Longqi area is also known to be rich in deposits of copper and gold, and has already been earmarked for mining.
"We can be certain that the new species we've found also live elsewhere in the southwest Indian Ocean, as they will have migrated here from other sites, but at the moment no-one really knows where, or how well-connected their populations are with those at Longqi," lead researcher Jon Copley said.
"Our results highlight the need to explore other hydrothermal vents in the southwest Indian Ocean and investigate the connectivity of their populations, before any impacts from mineral exploration activities and future deep-sea mining can be assessed."
Protection urgently needed
Scientists and environmentalists have been warning for some time that the deep sea is in need of protection from rampant mining and other industrial exploitation. The deep ocean plays important roles in many key functions for life on our planet, such as temperature regulation and gas cycling, and also provides habitat for millions of species that form the base of the planet's food web. Yet only 3 percent of the oceans have any form of legal protection, and only 1 percent of the high seas. This makes the oceans that support all life some of the least protected parts of the planet.
More than 400,000 square miles of ocean floor have already been earmarked for mining by more than 16 countries. In a 2014 article in the journal Science, a group of ocean scientists warned that this industry could cause irreversible devastation if strong regulations are not put in place now.
They point to the fact that deep-sea trawling has already caused major damage to about one-fifth of the planet's continental slope, perhaps irreversibly.
And a patchwork of international regulations means that even areas protected against trawling may not be protected against mining, and vice-versa.
The researchers highlighted other threats to deep sea life, including oil and gas development, land-based pollution and waste disposal. They note that vast segments of the ocean have already become a de facto dumping ground for toxic chemicals, sewage and radioactive waste.
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Remarks by Dr. Bernard Bailyn
Remarks by Dr. Bernard Bailyn Mrs. Clinton, Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is a great honor and privilege to inaugurate this series of Millennium Lectures, part of the broad and extraordinarily imaginative program of millennium events that has been planned. But I have to say, inaugurating a lecture series can be a risky business. I recall the miserable fate of one of your predecessors, Mr. President, John Quincy Adams, who while Senator from Massachusetts inaugurated Harvard's Boylston Lectures on Rhetoric and Oratory a series, I should say, that despite Adams has survived and continues to this day. The future President feared that when published, his effort would be "handled without mercy by critics on both sides of the [Atlantic]." He need not have worried about the British critics: they ignored his performance completely. But he was right about critics on this side, one of whom said that what Adams wrote was no doubt admirable, but that unfortunately it lacked a few particulars namely "truth and precision of expression," and it also lacked "grace and propriety in the use of words." Nor did Adams' production improve with age. Seventy five years later, the literary critic Thomas Wentworth Higginson wrote that anyone who managed to read the thing through would find "a record of repetition, of verbiage, surprising you by the number of words that it takes him to say a simple thing."
Now, one must learn from history, and so, avoiding your predecessor's blunders, Mr. President, I will be brief and go straight to the point. Which is: that in our public life we Americans, though we are often described as a young nation, with a shallow history, in fact live remarkably close to our past, and I mean the deeper past, reaching back 400 years to the first settlements of Europeans on mainland North America and 200 years to the founding of the nation.
Two hundred years ago John Adams was President. He was the first to live in this house, and the events of his lifetime have, I believe, an extraordinary relevance to our lives as we approach the 21st century.
But it is remarkable that this should be so. When Adams was President, transportation and communication were essentially the same as they had been at the time of the first millennium. Washington D.C. was a rustic wasteland: a muddy, disease ridden collection of rubbish heaps, tree stumps, bogs, marshes, and rows of bleak wooden houses hastily thrown together. Hogs rooted in the refuse and wandered around the one unfinished hotel. The carriages of diplomats in full regalia got stuck axle-deep in mud; and the secretary of state recorded success in trapping a 2-foot snake at the foot of his staircase.
Of course there were plans for splendid urban vistas and monumental buildings, but of the latter the only two in evidence when Adams was President were the half built Capitol and the White House. All there was of the Capitol were the flimsily built Senate and House buildings, with nothing in between except a boardwalk. The House chamber had a glass-domed ceiling that leaked, but this was better than the Senate chamber's ceiling which collapsed in a heap, just missing the vice-president's chair.
As for the White House when the Adamses moved in (Abigail Adams got lost in the Maryland woods trying to find the place) only 5 of the 30 rooms had plastered walls, there were no stairs to the second floor, and the only place she could find to hang out the family washing was what she called "the great unfinished audience room" - which is, I believe, the room we are now in. What has this sad clutter of workmen's shanties, tree stumps, privies, stagnant pools, and muddy cow paths to do with us? More important, how can we possibly relate to a pre-industrial world whose social and economic problems were utterly different from ours and whose social policies, insofar as they had any, if implemented now would create chaos. They knew about special interests and about social and political fanaticisms - their politics was as fiercely partisan as ours, at times even more vicious and remorseless - but they had no idea how powerfully public opinion in a modern democracy can be manipulated, especially by instruments of communication they could not have conceived of. Much of their thinking about politics in large republics was based on assumptions about geographical distance and its calming and dissipating effect on political passions, but we live at a time when distance is obliterated and scattered forces can coalesce by instantaneous communication with intensifying effect. The instruments of coercive force that they knew, that is the machinery of physical and legal intimidation, were far weaker than ours, and the ways of escaping from the agencies of public power more numerous.
Yet, despite all these differences, and more, that separate us from our past, we remain remarkably close to it. We constantly invoke the views of historical figures Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln and not just ritualistically. They seem to be part of our present political discourse, as, say, the views of Pitt or Burke are not for the British, or Robespierre or Condorcet are not for the French. Our entire public life centers on an 18th-century constitution, and while it has been amended repeatedly, and expanded and revised by judicial interpretation, it remains structurally what it was when it was written over 200 years ago: an artful complex of bounded powers. Even the commentaries on the Constitution that were written in the far distant days of its controversial adoption, seem to lie at the heart of our own current thought.
There is no more remarkable telescoping of past and present than the continuing relevance of the Federalist papers. These 85 essays were thrown together in great haste in the fierce struggle over ratification of the Constitution in New York. At the feverish height of the debate, when it seemed certain that New York would refuse to ratify the Constitution, the Federalist authors were frantically writing and publishing 1,000 words a day, copying helterskelter from what they had written before, chopping up longer essays into smaller bits to meet newspaper publication deadlines, which came up, at first twice a week, then four times a week.
That desperate struggle took place 210 years ago. Yet we study every phrase of these essays for meanings relevant to our present public life. The Supreme Court refers to their authority repeatedly 34 times between 1981 and 1985 in decisions that affect the lives of every American in the late 20th century. There is now a concordance of the Federalist papers - something one associates with the Bible and the works of Shakespeare - in which every use of every word in the papers is listed out to enable readers to grasp every verbal nuance in what these 18th-century politicians wrote in haste and desperation.
But it is not only the political and constitutional past that is close to us. We struggle with the residue of slavery and racism that appeared at the dawn of our history as a people. And the force of Puritanism and evangelical Protestantism, which appeared here 350 years ago, is still with us, despite the religious complexity of our world.
We are not merely products of our history - every nation is that - we are steeped in it, consciously or unconsciously, remarkably close to it in everyday life, and draw from our history some understanding of the essentials - the essences - of our public life as a nation, and of what we carry forward into the future.
We have had, from the beginning, and have now - it is a profound legacy of our deeper past - a strange combination of a belief, a faith, in government, and a fear of power. Both, in the earliest years, were woven together - entwined - in the fabric of our public life, and they have remained there ever since, a source of strength, protection, and political controversy.
The combination seems almost immemorial. Jefferson despite his deep involvements in farming, technology, science, scholarship, architecture, and trade served in state and national governments for 33 years; he wrote a constitution for his own state of Virginia and a manual of parliamentary practice; he worried over every word of the federal Constitution when it appeared; and he advised the French revolutionaries on the exact terms of governmental reform that would serve that nation best. In his tour of Europe he wrote vividly of what a difference government makes in people's lives. What lay at the heart of Europe's miseries, he wrote, are "vices in the form of government."
It is difficult to conceive [he wrote of the French] how so good a people, with so good a king, so well disposed rulers in general, so genial a climate, so fertile a soil, should be rendered so ineffectual for producing human happiness by one single curse, that of a bad form of government. But it is a fact.
He and his leading contemporaries struggled to find the right form of government and devoted their lives to serving in government, convinced that government is a powerful force for good, a creative force that would provide for justice, secure peace and good order, stimulate the society's enterprise in agriculture, commerce, and industry, and encourage learning, technology, and the arts. People in every city, town, and hamlet pitched into the great controversy over ratifying the federal Constitution - 1500 served in the 12 conventions. The constitution that John Adams wrote for Massachusetts was submitted to all of the state's small towns and villages for ratification. Two thirds of them 181 communities, some mere hamlets responded with comments. Small groups of farmers, meeting in churches, parlors, barns, and backwoods crossroads, argued about technical clauses of the constitution and sent on their conclusions to Boston, convinced that their welfare depended on the precise terms of the government they were adopting, and that it was their duty to participate.
And yet at the same time they were convinced that power - which is the essence of government - could destroy them.
For while they thought of government - self-government in proper form - as a necessary, benevolent, and creative force, and knew perfectly well that government means power, they feared the uses and misuses of power. They wrote of their fear of power continuously, eloquently, elaborately. They believed that the dangers of embedded power in anyone's hands heroes' or villains' were the same, and they struggled to express their fears. The writings of Adams' generation are crowded with metaphors, similes, and tropes of every kind to express their fear of the corruptions of established power.
The love of power, they wrote again and again, its gleaming but corrosive satisfactions, are rooted elementally in the human heart and will eventually corrupt every public institution, unless people of good will and integrity resist and unless the forces within government are so pitched against each other, so poised to confront each other, that excesses in the use of power are challenged and contained before they become insuperable.
It was in response to their fear of power that they demanded the explicit protection of human rights, and they struggled, for the first time in recorded history, not merely to state this in general terms but to specify what these rights - all these rights - are.
There is no more important passage in American history, and in the history of the modern liberal state, than the groping, fumbling efforts of Adams' generation to make the protection of rights effective in ordinary people's lives. The issue was felt to be necessary but was found to be extremely difficult even to understand. At first, in many of the state constitutions, written immediately after Independence, they simply stated the general, abstract proposition that all inalienable rights should be preserved and protected; but when it came to particulars, to defining what these rights were, they found themselves at sea. What precisely are the human rights that must be protected? Some seemed obvious, but many were not, and turned out to be whatever happened to occur to the authors of the constitutions when they were writing. The newly written states' constitutions contain, in all, 75 inalienable rights, and some of them seem rather strange. In Pennsylvania one apparently God-given human right was the right to hunt on unclaimed land. A consensus did develop on a certain core of substantive and procedural rights, but there were no clear boundaries, and definitions differed.
When the federal Constitution was written the wisest minds in America decided that there should be no national Bill of Rights, not merely because most of the state constitutions already contained some such protections, but, as Madison (who would later write the federal Bill of Rights) said, "There is a great reason to fear that a positive declaration of some of the most essential rights could not be obtained in the requisite latitude." In other words, the enumeration of rights by the federal government, the mere listing of them and defining them, would necessarily limit their scope. "The rights of conscience in particular [he said], if submitted to public definition, would be narrowed more than they are likely ever to be by an assumed power." The right solution, he and others then felt, was what is implied in the present 9th Amendment: that, in addition to the rights specified by the states, there is a universe of rights, possessed by the people latent rights, still to be evoked and enacted into law.
But was this workable? In any given situation, someone would have to decide whether the rights that were claimed were valid, and that would leave the existence of rights to the mercy of personal and political opinion, and no one would be safe. Some rights a core body of rights protected against the powers of the federal government would have to be specified, and the residue somehow protected in general terms. This is the compromise that we have inherited from them and that we live with, and struggle with, and benefit from, every day of our lives: in the first eight amendments of the Constitution, a carefully worded list of specific rights protected from encroachment by the federal government, together with the belief that there are not only rights protected by the states but a reservoir of other, unenumerated rights that the people retain, which in time may be enacted into law.
They were not anticipating our struggles over judicial activism. They were saying that the world changes - that rights, like law itself, should never be fixed, frozen, that new dangers and new needs will emerge, and that to respond to these dangers and needs, rights must be newly specified to protect the individual's integrity and inherent dignity.
So, despite all the differences that separate our world from the 18th century, we are contemporaries of Adams in venerating government but fearing power, and in protecting rights that can never be finally defined or limited in number.
But we are contemporaries of our deeper past in an even more complex and profound way.
John Adams, after his tumultuous presidency, retired to Quincy, Massachusetts, where, amidst his books, family, and friends, he spent his last 25 years contemplating the accomplishments and failures of his own public life and the life of his remarkable generation. The town of Quincy was a tranquil, civilized, provincial community, but it was part of a larger world that was violent and half-developed, a world that had known brutality and savage inequalities from its earliest years.
The barbarousness of relations between the settling Europeans and the native peoples at the start of Euro-American life is agonizing to recall - it is hard, even for us who are familiar with genocide, to believe.
In the earliest years the English and Dutch sent over to America what contemporaries called "hammerours"- well-equipped, battle-tested shock troops from the Low Countries' wars - to deal with the Indians, who, deprived of their lands and fearful that their entire way of life would be destroyed, had attacked the European communities again and again, at times with merciless fury, hoping to obliterate the encroaching force. In fierce encounters that involved butchery of men, women, and children, incineration of entire inhabited villages, and indiscriminate destruction of crops and animals the coastal natives were defeated: killed or displaced, their culture shattered, their remnants fleeing to other, more remote groups, to form strange motley communities deeper inland.
And at the same time the labor force was supplemented, in some places entirely supplied, by Africans, whose condition of servitude, within a single generation, reached a point of absolute debasement. When Adams assumed the Presidency the native population, which had been further brutalized in the Revolutionary war, had been driven back across the Appalachians, in places confined to reservations. And twenty percent of the entire American population was enslaved.
And Adams' world was otherwise a mixed population of differing statuses, privileges, and powers. A third of Pennsylvania's population were Germans, some naturalized with full political and legal privileges, some not; and they were of several religious confessions, some legally recognized, some not. New York's population was derived from a mixture of English, Dutch, Walloons, Germans, Scandinavians, and French - 18 languages, and religions as different as Catholicism and Anabaptism, were reported there in the early years. And there were Scots and Irish - Protestant and Catholic - of different legal statuses, scattered throughout the land.
It was this tri-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic, half-civil, half-barbarous society, whose social and political relations were dominated by severe inequalities, that encountered, in the founding years of the republic, the benign and universalist principles of the Enlightenment and of Anglo-American radical reform. The United States has lived - and we live now - with the results of that encounter.
The great goals of enlightened reform in America were set out most vividly by Jefferson. He was, let it be said, a fallible man, and he was a pragmatic, opportunistic politician, who feared power in others but used it deftly himself. But he was also the Revolution's true poet, its deepest conscience, and its most brilliant expositor. His was the most eloquent voice of America's Revolutionary ideology, as he proclaimed - in the face of these brutal realities - the principles of equality before the law, of absolute freedom of conscience, of responsible self-government, of the need for universal diffusion of knowledge and access to education, and for freedom from poverty and the fear of poverty.
It was a strange encounter. The distance between these glittering ideals and the sordid realities of Jefferson's world was vast. Slavery brutalized new thousands every year and poisoning the moral foundation of the nation as the Enlightenment ideals took root. On the frontiers the barbarous, almost genocidal race wars continued. In the new republic, religious fanaticism led to deadly riots against peaceful dissidents. Poverty increased in the cities as the first post-Revolutionary waves of immigrants appeared, creating new kinds of ethnic discrimination and a new population of illiterates. Exploited immigrant workmen became riotous - troops were assembled to subdue them. And emancipation, when it came, was followed by savage race violence, while less lethal inhumanity dominated the lives of the laboring poor.
How were these miseries to be reconciled with the Revolution's soaring aspirations? Most of the new nation's leaders were social conservatives, and realists; they had not designed a social revolution. But the nation was committed to the ideals of enlightened reform and could not escape their pressure. Gradually, ambiguously, the force of these beliefs began to impinge on the sordid reality.
In Adams' last years, slavery still existed, but the slave trade was gone, slavery was abolished in the Old Northwest and was gradually being eliminated in the northeast. Beyond that, the institution of slavery, which had rarely been seen as a problem before the Revolution, had become the overwhelming problem of American life. Illiteracy had increased, but while only 9 colleges had been chartered before the Revolution, 500 were created between then and the Civil War, and along with them innumerable academies and community schools. Religious intolerance had lost the force of law; church establishments had been abolished, and Jefferson's great Statute of Religious Freedom, which had been enacted only after a decade of bitter controversy, had become the standard by which success in establishing freedom of conscience could be measured.
When Jefferson and Adams died, both on the 4th of July fifty years after Independence, none of the goals of the American Enlightenment, of the Revolution's transforming radicalism, had been reached. But a basic force had been created in American life: the propulsion within a pluralistic, tumultuous, abrasive, and ruthlessly ambitious society to approach the fulfillment of historic ideals.
The gap between the real and the ideal remains, far narrower than in Adams' and Jefferson's time, but still achingly wide. We are still a multi-ethnic, materialistic, ambitious, impatient, and volatile people, but in our finest moments we are also, I believe, the most idealistic nation on earth. We are riven by differences, discrimination, and animosities, but, instinctively responding to ideals set out in our deeper past, we reach for reconciliation.
A spark was struck two centuries ago which lights the way for us still.
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1. "But behind each player sttod a line of ghosts unable to win. Eve. Ashputtel. Marilyn Monroe. rapunzel slashing wildly at her hair. Bessie Smith unloved and down and out. Bluebeard's wives, Henry VIII's, Snow White cursing the day she left the seven dwarves, Diana, Princess of Wales. The Sheepish Beast came in with a tray of schnapps at the end of the game and we stood for the toast -"fay wray"- then tossed our fiery drinks to the back of our crimson throats. Bad girls. Serious ladies. Mourning our dead."
Author: Carol Ann Duffy
2. "Since the day that our forefather and mother were exiled out of the garden of Eden, we've been lost, trying to get back in, trying to find oneness with each other and the Lord, trying to find communion, our way home. We've been trying to be found. The truth is that without Christ, we are utterly alone, and our attempts to fill our hours with goodies or texting or work or even ministry are simply futile attempts to assure ourselves that things aren't so bad after all. But at the end of the day, in the middle of the night, and at the end of our lives, without the love and work of Jesus Christ, the God-man, we are alone and we know it—and it terrifies us. Every one of us is standing on that darkened stage, condemned, lost and wandering, needing to be found."
Author: Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
3. "Some say their world's will end with fire, some say with ice. From what I've tasted with desire I hold with those who favor fire. My world may not be ending, even though it feels like it. I do know this however, what doesn't kill you only mke you stronger."
Author: Genesis
4. "If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one."
Author: Gerry Cooney
5. "When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds – like those horses that are equally good for saddle and carriage, the worst kind, that can neither jump a ditch nor pull a plow."
Author: Gustave Flaubert
6. "Know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. (stands, leans against a wall, looking out into the distance) It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going, because they were holding on to something."
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
7. "Despair, or folly?' said Gandalf. 'It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. It is wisdom to recognize necessity, when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope. Well, let folly be our cloak, a veil before the eyes of the Enemy!"
8. "I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are.It's like in the great stories, Mister Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer."
9. "If the veil could be parted and we could see the world of spirit, we would likely discover many among them our ancestors anxiously praying and hoping their day of deliverance would come…. Their hearts are turned toward their children on who their hopes rely for deliverance from theprison house."
Author: Joseph Fielding Smith
10. "It just wasn't supposed to end like this." She looks at me with red-rimmed eyes and yellow skin. Colors should be a good thing, but now, they're marks, omens of bad tidings. "I was supposed to grow up, go to college, get a job," she continues in that gut-clenching croak. "Meet my dream guy, marry, have k-kids. You were going to live next door and we would grow old in the same nursing home. Chuck oatmeal at each other and watch soap operas all day in our rocking chairs. That was my daydream. My perfect life. I don't want to keep asking myself why until the end, but … " A lone tear trails down her sunken cheek. This time I don't reach out to wipe the water away; I let it go. Down, down, until it drips off the side of her jaw. This is humanity. This is life and death in one room."
Author: Kelsey Sutton
11. "We all have bad things inside us, and we all choose either to give in to those bad things or to fight them."
Author: Kristin Cast
12. "...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news."
Author: M.F.K. Fisher
13. "I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold"
Author: Mahmoud Darwish
14. "I hate to mention it, but bad things happen to people occasionally-awful things that cause people to end up lonely or hurt or sad-or sometimes even dead. Maybe something awful has happened to you. I'm sorry about that, and if we were having an actual conversation I might even convince you of my empathy. I'd like to imagine a world where there is nothing but happiness and purring, but I'm not sure there'd be much to cheer about if every day were nothing but sunshine and success. I suppose you can never know the good if you've never been visited by the bad."
Author: Obert Skye
15. "Borderline means you're one of those girls……who walk around wearing long sleeves in the summer because you've carved up your forearms over your boyfriend. You make pathetic suicidal gestures and write bad poetry about them, listen to Ani DiFranco albums on endless repeat, end up in the emergency room for overdoses, scare off boyfriends by insisting they tell you that they love you five hundred times a day and hacking into their email to make sure they're not lying, have a police record for shoplifting, and your tooth enamel is eroded from purging. You've had five addresses and eight jobs in three years, your friends are avoiding your phone calls, you're questioning your sexuality, and the credit card companies are after you. It took a lot of years to admit that I was exactly that girl, and that the diagnostic criteria for the disorder were essentially an outline of my life."
Author: Stacy Pershall
16. "The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally."
Author: William Ivey Long
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Man who was recovered from water at Salford Quays has died
Emergency services were scrambled to Ontario Basin, near to Capital Quays, at 5.50pm on Friday following a number of 999 calls
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Witnesses reported a man entering the water and failing to resurface
A man recovered from a stretch of water at Salford Quays has died, police have confirmed.
Emergency services were scrambled to Ontario Basin, near to Capital Quays, at 5.50pm on Friday following a number of 999 calls.
Witnesses reported a man entering the water and failing to resurface.
Paramedics attended the scene alongside specialist fire service units and trained divers. Images from the scene also revealed rescue boats in the water as a search operation was launched.
Police confirmed a short while later that the man was taken from the water and rushed to hospital.
Emergency services at Ontario Basin in Salford Quays
A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police confirmed he was pronounced dead in hospital.
The man was aged in his 40s but hasn't been named.
The tragedy is not being treated as suspicious and the man's next of kin were being informed, a GMP spokesman said.
The incident also forced the cancellation of a number of Metrolink services, with no services operating between Eccles via MediaCity to Deansgate until the incident ended.


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Black, Greek, and Lesbian: One Black Woman's Story on Being Out as a Sorority Girl
by Aleta in Activist Interviews, Coming Out, Interviews, Race, Culture, and Ethnicity, Sex & Sexuality with 3 Comments
Historically Black Colleges were founded in the early 20th Century to educate, support and empower the Black community during a time when education was legally, socially, and financially exclusive and unequal.
Within these institutions, as a way of further empowering students, creating tight knit support networks, and providing valuable professional mentorship opportunities, a number of Black Greek organizations also emerged.
Where images in the media rarely, if ever, include those of LGBT women (or people) of color, within sororities and fraternities, I hoped to further explore this world by speaking directly with a sorority sister about her experience being a Black lesbian.
Mercedes, an openly queer, comfortable, and confident member of Sigma Gamma Rho — who also made it known she identified as a lesbian prior to pledging — graciously allowed us to interview her on her experiences within Black Greek life.
How have members of your chapter responded to learning about your sexual orientation?
My chapter was very accepting. I knew a few members before I became Greek and they knew I was a lesbian so from what I could tell that wasn't a problem.
How have other Greeks on your campus responded?
To my surprise it wasn't a big deal. Especially with my sands (people who became Greek the same semester as I) I wasn't any different. To me I didn't make it a big deal because in all honestly it isn't. I'm a lesbian, yes. And? How does that make me any less qualified to be a part of an organization? I didn't hide it and I think that is what was respected. I also never cared what the campus thought. I heard some rumors that some people were wondering why they let me in and if I was going to adjust to be a "woman" in an organization. Those people were ignored by me and it never bothered me.
Have other chapters of your sorority responded?
Not really, but every Chapter I have been to in the midwest has had at least one gay member.
How do other LGBTQ people respond to your membership in a Divine Nine organization?
They want to know if it's hard because of who I am. Again, for me it's not a big deal because this is who I am. I've been this way my whole life so I'm pretty comfortable with it. It's not an accessory or a trait I have. It's not my lifestyle or a choice I made. It's my life. It's me. And once people understand that then they can stop making such a big deal about it.
What is important to you about these two aspects of your identity? Do you see them as separate or interlinked?
The most important thing about being a lesbian to me is that I never want to forget how hard it is. I make it seem easy because I don't value the negative opinions of others but it wasn't easy when I was younger. Especially coming out to my friends so its important to me that I remember that and that I try and help others who aren't as free flowing in nature as I. As far as Sigma, it's important that I always remain about the community. So with that I interlink all of who I am. Sigma, Homosexuality and Acting. I actually have done a program with my chapter for the past two semesters called 15 under 25 about all of the LGBT youth that have been beaten/murdered under the age of 25. We won program of the year for that, which was really awesome!
What would you tell a person who's queer and considering pledging, or in a Greek org and considering coming out?
Whew, that's a tough one. I wish I could say always be yourself and do it no matter what, but I can't. Every chapter is not like Delta Rho and every Campus is not like U of I. Most importantly, not every org is like Sigma Gamma Rho. Most orgs are only accepting of people up until a certain point. Especially with the gay issue. A lot of people are scared to confront it because of popularity. They don't want to lose potential members because one of their sorors or frat brothers is gay.
My advice to Greeks is, anyone who doesn't want to be a part of your org because you have a gay member is a coward and shouldn't be Greek in the first place. Secondly, what kind of person are you if popularity is your concern? So I guess I would just say to anyone interested in becoming Greek and they are LGBT, is to look into it. See who the people are. Get to know them and if you feel good about it, go for it! If you're Greek and in the closet, come out. It's rather simple. You made a bond right? To always have your bros/sis' back no matter what? Trust them enough be who you are. If some of them change then you know who your real friends/bros/sis' are. It's simple.
What is your perception of Black Greek Sororities? Where did you get these perceptions from? Do you know of any other gay black Greek organizations that are effectively addressing homophobia within Greek culture?
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Thank you for writing about this subject. While I'm not a woman of color, I am a lesbian, and I pledged a sorority (Alpha Chi Omega) – but I wasn't out at the time. Now as an alumna, I would like to be involved, but there seems to be no support or community in my sorority (though odds would suggest that we're out there somewhere). For years now, I've wondered what our hidden sisters' experiences were being Greek and being out – but I've never seen anything written nor have I seen anyone interviewed about it. (and forget about searching Google for sororities and lesbians – it's painfully obvious the type of results one gets.) So thanks again for providing a sliver of insight!
So proud of this!!!! greek life and queer representation are hardly ever talked about. having known qpoc and also black sororities, this makes me so happy! Go Delta Rho!
Great topic! As a graduate of an HBCU, I never met any out Greeks on campus, and I often wondered if some felt pressure from their organizations to remain silent (until graduation). In my opinion, if a org. is not accepting of your whole self, is that really a group you'd like join? S/o to Delta Rho for being accepting and inclusive!


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Your Weekend Burst with Sweetness, Thanks to This Performance of Delicious Proportions
The Kimmel Center brings world-renowned musicians, Broadway shows, and arts events to the greater Philadelphia region, and on Saturday, November 17th, Roald Dahl's amazing tale of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will become Philadelphia's golden ticket! It's the perfect recipe for a delectable treat: songs from the original film, including "Pure Imagination," "The Candy Man," and "I've Got a Golden Ticket," alongside a toe-tapping and ear-tickling new score from the songwriters of Hairspray.
Willy Wonka is opening his marvelous and mysterious chocolate factory to a lucky few. That includes Charlie Bucket, whose bland life is about to burst with color and confection beyond his wildest dreams.
He and four other golden ticket winners will embark on a mesmerizing joyride through a world of pure imagination.
Kimmel Center Inc.'s mission is to operate a world-class performing arts center that engages and serves a broad audience from throughout the Greater Philadelphia region. Now is your chance to experience the wonders of Wonka like never before—get ready for Oompa-Loompas, incredible inventions, the great glass elevator, and more, more, more at this everlasting showstopper!
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Best Hybrid Cars: Top 10 List 2012-2013
Hybrid vehicles are popular, especially when gas prices are high. Using a combination of an electric motor (one or more) and an internal combustion engine is what makes a vehicle a Hybrid.
Do not confuse hybrid from electric vehicles. Electric cars are run 100% by an electricity power source. Those who purchase a hybrid may be eligible for tax credits which help bring the price down. We rank the cars base on MPG, price, and reliability.
Best Hybrid Cars in the United States:
1. Toyota Prius c: 53 City/46 Hwy (50 Avg.), Base Price: $18,950.
The Prius c has a 9.5 gallon fuel tank and a 1.5L 4-cylinder hybrid engine with a price tag below most competitions. Available in four trims, not only does the Prius provide exceptional technology, it also gives you confidence and comfort when driving. The hybrid engine of the Prius c is able to seamlessly transition from the electric motor to the engine. This allows for maximized used of your fuel. At a higher price, you can also get the best selling Prius or the Prius V.
2. Honda Civic Hybrid: 44 City/44 Hwy (44 Avg.), Base Price: $24,050.
The Civic Hybrid has a 13.2 gallon fuel tank and a 1.5L 4-cylinder hybrid engine that produces 110 HP. The Civic Hybrid continues to be competitive in the compact category. Not only does this Honda Civic give you good fuel economy, it gives you a comfortable ride as well. The 4-door has been given a coupe body style in addition to the spacious interior.
3. Lexus CT 200h: 43 City/40 Hwy (40 Avg.), Base Price: $29,120.
The CT 200h has a 11.9 gallon fuel tank and a 1.8L 4-cylinder hybrid engine that produces 134 HP. This offering from Lexus for the hybrid market is a 4-door luxury hatchback that comes at an attractive price. It has sporty handling and a very impressive fuel economy. The cabin is driver friendly and comes with excellent ergonomic styling.
4. Honda Insight: 41 City/44 Hwy (42 Avg.), Base Price: $18,500.
The Insight has a 10.6 gallon fuel tank and a 1.3L 4-cylinder hybrid engine produces 98 HP. The Insight is available in 4 trims that include the base model, the LX, EX, and the EX w/ navigation. This 4-door hatchback is low-priced for a hybrid. Some have complained about certain features on the Insight.
5. Toyota Camry Hybrid: 43 City/39 Hwy (41 Avg.), Base Price: $25,900.
The Camry Hybrid has a 17.0 gallon fuel tank and a 2.5L 4-cylinder hybrid engine produces 200 HP. This family sedan is now available with a hybrid engine. It not only gives you great fuel economy, but add to that quick acceleration, attractive easy to use high tech features, and great safety scores. The XLE trim comes with backup a camera and HomeLink universal transceiver; the acceleration moves this hybrid from 0 to 60 mph in 7.4 seconds, which isn't bad for a hybrid.
6. Ford Fusion Hybrid: 41 City/36 Hwy (39 Avg.), Base Price: $28,775.
The Fusion Hybrid has a 17.5 gallon fuel tank with a range of 717 mpg city/ 630 hwy; it comes with a 2.5L Atkinson 4-cylinder hybrid engine. Labeled as mid-sized family sedan, the Fusion Hybrid gives you a comfortable ride and spacious interior. This hybrid from Ford gives you good fuel economy and a gauge cluster specific to this model. An E-CVT transmission works together with the hybrid Atkinson engine.
7. Lincoln MKZ Hybrid: 41 City/36 Hwy (39 Avg.), Base Price: $34,755.
The MKZ Hybrid has a 17.5 gallon fuel tank and a 2.5L 4-cylinder hybrid DOHC engine that produces 156 HP. The starting price of the MKZ Hybrid is the same as the MKZ's gas model. The difference begins there. Standard features on the hybrid edition of the MKZ comes Bridge of Weir TM leather trimmed seating to go with the wood trim. The instrument panel comes with the SmartGauge TM that helps you drive the vehicle with greater efficiency. You get all that along with the interior luxury that Lincolns have been known for.
8. Chevrolet Volt: Hybrid motor: 35 City/40 Hwy (37 Avg.);
Electric motor: 95 City/93 Hwy (94 Avg.), Base Price: $39,145.
The Volt is a electric/hybrid car with a 9.3 gallon fuel tank and a 1.4L 4-cylinder hybrid engine that produces 83 HP; and an electric motor that creates 149 HP and 273 lb-ft of torque. The EPA range on the Volt electric motor is 35 miles. Seen as the most fuel efficient hybrid in the market these days, the Chevy Volt is the most expensive car in its class. Your monthly fuel expenses will definitely go down. You can avail of tax credits which you may be eligible for, doing so will bring your cost on the Volt down.
9. Hyundai Sonata Hybrid: 35 City/40 Hwy (37 Avg.), Price: $25,850.
The Sonata Hybrid has a 17.2 gallon fuel tank and a 2.4L 4-cylinder hybrid engine that produces a combined 206 HP. The cabin provides a comfortable ride to go with its good looking features. Hyundai provides you with a safe ride to go with a lengthy warranty. Improvements are on the way to help enhance the powertrain.
10. Kia Optima Hybrid: 35 City/40 Hwy (36 Avg.), Base Price: $25,700. The Optima Hybrid has a 17.2 gallon fuel tank and a 2.4L 4-cylinder full parallel hybrid engine that produces 206 HP. This hybrid from Kia can go from 0 to 60 in 8.4 seconds which is fairly quick for a hybrid. The Optima Hybrid comes standard with a SiriusXM audio system to go with BlueTooth wireless technology and USB input jacks. Other options include a Microsoft powered Infotainment System, Infinity/Sirius XM audio system, and a rear camera display to name a few.


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Jody Brimacombe
What people are searching for about Conservative leader Erin O'Toole
Erin O'Toole has been officially selected as the new Conservative party leader, and plenty of people are now understandably digging for information about him. What does O'Toole's slogan, "Take Back Canada," actually mean? What qualifications does he have for the job?
Here's what you need to know based on what people are currently turning to Google to search for.
Where was Erin O'Toole born?
Erin O'Toole was born in Montreal in 1973, but he was raised in Bowmanville and Port Perry, Ontario as the oldest of five children, per his official website.
What is Erin O'Toole's history?
In 1991, O'Toole became an officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), eventually becoming an air navigator and captain who served for 12 years.
After serving, O'Toole switched his focus to law, graduating from Dalhousie University in Halifax. He spent five years as in-house counsel to a large consumer products company in Ontario.
It wasn't until 2012 that O'Toole entered politics, becoming an MP for Durham, Ontario. In the Conservative government, he served as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade before his appointment to cabinet as Canada's Minister of Veterans Affairs.
A post shared by Erin O'Toole (@erinotoolemp) on Oct 20, 2016 at 9:13am PDT
What are Erin O'Toole's policies?
O'Toole is vowing to ease tensions in Western Canada, immediately speaking with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about western alienation (or, as it's colloquially known, #wexit).
He's also pledging to build a more inclusive country under his "Take Back Canada" platform.
"I believe that whether you are Black, white, brown or from any race or creed, whether you are LGBT or straight, whether you are an Indigenous Canadian or have joined the Canadian family three weeks ago or three generations ago...you are an important part of Canada and you have a home in the Conservative Party of Canada," he said in a Tuesday press conference.
O'Toole has been one of the strongest critics against the Liberal government's WE Charity debacle, calling it Trudeau's "worst corruption scandal" in a Tweet.
When it comes to the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB), O'Toole isn't a supporter; he's vowed to "wind down" most emergency benefit programs, citing the $343-billion federal deficit, per CTV News.
He says that he would consider extending Employment Insurance, and he plans to expand the Canada Child Benefit.
Historically, O'Toole has been against assisted suicide, supported defunding the CBC and supported ownership of legal firearms.
It's time to grow our team. Are you with me? 👍 pic.twitter.com/CAv5gPqLLb
— Erin O'Toole (@ErinOTooleMP) August 24, 2020
What was Erin O'Toole's acceptance speech like?
O'Toole called it an "honour" to become the next Conservative party leader during his acceptance speech on Monday.
He thanked Leslyn Lewis, Derek Sloan, Peter MacKay, Andrew Scheer and his wife Jill, and his own family for supporting him.
"Most of all, thank you to the tens of thousands of Canadians from coast to coast to coast who voted for me," he said.
"You put your faith in me to lead this historic party and I am honoured and humbled. I promise you, I will not let you down."
Is Erin O'Toole a social conservative?
O'Toole says that he's a "true blue Tory," and he identifies with many social conservative policies.
He's pro-choice, for example. In the past, he's said that he will march in Pride parades and voted in favour of a 2013 transgender rights bill, per Maclean's.
Similarly, O'Toole supports women's rights and religious rights.
However, several of O'Toole's policies would be considered more right-wing in nature, including gun ownership, tax reform and making it illegal to block transportation infrastructure (which would have had a major impact on the Wet'suwet'en blockades that took place in February).
Does Erin O'Toole have a family and/or wife?
O'Toole has a wife, Rebecca, a Nova Scotia resident who he met while studying law at Dalhousie University.
The pair have two children: a daughter, Mollie, and their son Jack. The family also owns a "spunky yellow Labrador Retriever," according to O'Toole's website.
We did it!!!! #teamotooleforthewin #cpcldr pic.twitter.com/2EMoSc2bZT
— Rebecca O'Toole (@RebeccaOToole1) August 24, 2020
How old is Erin O'Toole?
The Conservative Party Leader was born in 1973, and he turned 47 in January 2020.
How tall is Erin O'Toole?
Yup, this is really a frequently searched question. Nobody really knows the answer, but he looks to be about six inches shorter than former Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer, who is reportedly six feet four inches.
Joined my friend @PLawrence2019 to welcome our leader @AndrewScheer to Cobourg for a quick stop to rally the troops pic.twitter.com/K8Lugsy0o8
What religion does Erin O'Toole practice?
O'Toole identifies as a Christian, although he has said in the past that he will champion religious freedom in Canada.


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Optimizing the Cancer Control, Repair & Reversal Code: a precondition to Optimal Longevity
« …si j'avais un cancer, je n'irai jamais dans un centre anticancéreux classique. Seules les victimes du cancer qui vivent loin de ces centres ont une chance. » "If i had a cancer, i would never to to a conventional anti cancer center. Only cancer victims who live far from these centers have a chance". (Source) Pr Georges Mathé (famous contemporary French oncologist
For the ACR Institute, there is no question that integrative oncology's modalities and clinics are much better than conventional oncology clinics. The well known Professor Georges Mathé (oncologist) used to say: "Si j'avais une tumeur, je n'irais pas dans un centre anticancéreux » (Le Monde, 4 mai 1998) ("If i had a tumor, i would not go to an anticancer center") (Source). Among a few other French oncologists who have questioned the very legitimacy of conventional oncology's thinking and modalities, I'm invoking Georges Mathé because he was recognized in the US as a cancer, stem cell and bone transplant pioneer in that he proved as early as 1963 that cancer was curable via the immune system. He also demonstrated that stem cells could both heal radiation damage and fight cancer. Dr. Joseph H. Antin, chief of stem cell transplantation at the famous Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, summed up Mathé's work: "It was quite a leap of scientific genius. He's one of the original innovators. Much of what we have accomplished can be linked back in a fairly direct way to the work that he did in the 1950s and '60s." ("Dr. Georges Mathé, Transplant Pioneer, Dies at 88". New York Times, Source).
Notwithstanding their nuisance, cancer cells have mastered the art of longevity since their "innate evolutionarily-based intelligence" has tweaked its genome to produce a continuous fresh supply of telomerase enzymes thanks to which they can divide endlessly and remain forever "strong" and "young". In this Presentation, we will unmask cancer's intrinsic weaknesses and explain a few of its underlying mechanisms. But between cancer as a biological reality and conventional oncology as a system of deleterious dogmas, the central problem lies with Conventional Oncology.We will thus discuss the limits of conventional oncology in relation to the strengths of holistic cancer protocols.
From 1991 to the 2018, published studies, including in the Lancet Journal, have proven beyond any reasonable doubt that systemic cytotoxic chemo-blasting more often than not doesn't durably save lives of those who have "solid" cancers. The five year survival rates for liquid canccers (e.g. lymphomas and, inter alia, leukemias) are much better, but these malignancies often come back with a vengeance after the five-year period and-or have toxic effects that seriously affect the patient's ability to reach a healthy 120 years of lifespan. Worse, the evidence shows that with conventional chemotherapy, cancer patients' demise tends to be accelerated. While radiation and cytotoxic chemo do shrink tumors, there are no published studies the H.M. Institute is aware of that show a positive correlation between tumor shrinkage and significant long-term survivability. Thus, the emerging reality (for the last 40 to 50 years) is that most of these conventional medical interventions will weaken what can restore the patient's "élan vital" (i.e., a notion from Prof. Henri Bergson which include the immune, digestive, microbiota, endocannabinoid and neurological systems) while fueling what metastasizes cancer, in particular, the microscopic circulating tumor and stem cells that most conventional oncologists still refuse to inform the patient about, in violation of medmal law and ethics. Even most of conventional oncology's more recent targeted monoclonal antibodies, signaling inhibitors, genetic interventions and immunotherapeutics have toxic side effects that can be avoided with alternative and holistic oncology. Many of these targeted therapies including immunotherapeutics have been hyped misleadingly as new cancer "cure-alls". While it is true that a small percentage of cancers go away with immunotherapeutics, these effects are usually not long lasting, autoimmunity can be triggered, the modalities are very expensive and the outcome of holistic oncology's cases tend to be much better, provided the patient is compliant with a holistic lifestyle and restorative protocols.


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Gemma Cairney: This is what 30 looks like
Katie O'Malley
To celebrate International Women's Day on 8 March, Stylist speaks to BBC Radio 1 and TV presenter Gemma Cairney about what life is like for a 30-year-old woman in Britain
Tell us about yourself in 100 words
I live in a mind melt of different situations, through my work and social life — I wouldn't have it any other way. I love different sorts of people, their stories, all the different facets, that make them, them. This is entwined with how I am compelled to tell many of these stories and have ended up being a broadcaster after originally going to drama school and working in fashion for a bit. I love most things in my life. I feel it's important to try and live life through adventure, colour and love.
What are the greatest challenges you face?
Feeling overwhelmed and a bit manic. I'm sensitive and think loads — it's probably what I love and hate the most about myself. It means I have lots of ideas and put pressure on myself to action them all. This can make life very busy so organisation can sometimes be crazy. I also worry and always want everyone around me to be okay.
How would you define happiness?
A pink sunset - one of the reasons I moved to the seaside in Margate.
What is your biggest ambition?
To always look after myself and create a joyous environment in my home. To remain brave when it comes to the work I undertake and continue working on projects with people that spark imagination, challenge or incite a damn good time — be that a radio show filled with music or produceing a specialist documentary. And to write a book I am happy with!
Is this where you saw yourself at 30?
I kind of never thought that far ahead. Whenever I did, I imagined a life of struggle — I'm not sure why — but when I look back, I feel like I was subliminally bracing myself for it. So I'm pleasantly surprised that things are going alright.
What do you wish you could tell every woman?
That they can do anything beyond their wildest dreams.
It all ending. I guess this is death, right?
What is your most prized possession?
My Terry de Havilland shoes, that he made me for my birthday last year. They are called the 'Drippy Candle' shoes and are a collaboration with another extraordinarily minded designer I know called Mary Benson. They are so beautiful and mean so much because I love that man — a cobbler in his 70's still creating after 50 years of making. They are more than shoes — they encapsulate a spirit of disco. And my house by the sea — I'm in love with that too!
Do you think women are equal to men, and why?
No, because we are still focussing too much on gender. If we all just gave ourselves a break, knowing that we could all be everything, we'd feel relieved and more equal.
What are you most proud of in your life?
My friends and some of the places I've visited on the planet.
What do you hope for in 10 years?
Generally, for the world to be more of a hopeful place to grow up in. Personally, to just be having a nice time, in a house filled with lots of yummy food, conversation and dancing from time to time.
What woman has inspired you - and why?
There are so many. My best friend [Beth] springs to mind right now. I see her nearly every day because we often work together too. We laugh too much.
What do you eat as a treat?
A lamb madras and mushroom rice.
Katie O'Malley is the editorial assistant at Stylist magazine. When she's not writing features about everything, from Suffragettes to fashion designers' desks, she writes the Elsewhere page and contributes to Scoop and 5 Minute Philosopher. She also has a weakness for cheese, monochrome everything and films…all films.