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The great B.C. festivals road trip: 10 events that are worth the drive
Francois Marchand, Vancouver Sun 07.05.2013
The event's 2013 launch party will feature music by Vancouver rockers Yukon Blonde and Toronto electro-pop rising star Diamond Rings.BONNY MAKAREWICZ / PNG
Keloha! July 5-7 | Kelowna keloha.com Kelowna's hip weekend bash is the perfect excuse for hipsters to dust off their Ray-Bans. With two stages featuring psych rockers MGMT, duo Matt & Kim, Canadian blue collar champs Arkells, rapper Shad, Brooklyn buzz duo Cults and Victoria's sizzling slide guitar rockers Current Swell, among many others, Keloha offers a tall cool glass of good times for the whole family. Some tickets for the main event and passes for the after-parties are still available at keloha.com. If you really want to splurge, go for the Platinum Pass, which gives you VIP access and priority entrance.Dario Ayala / The Gazette
Vancouver Island MusicFestJuly 12-14 | Courtenayislandmusicfest.comCall it a little taste of everything for the discerning, mature listener, with performances by Mary Chapin Carpenter & Marc Cohn, Kris Kristofferson, John Hiatt and his Combo, Kiran Ahluwalia, and guitar heroes James Burton, Albert Lee, Amos Garrett and David Wilcox. So whether you walk, ride, carpool or fly-in — as the festival's website says — the Island MusicFest offers an idyllic retreat in the heart of nature with great music for everyone. Got your tickets already? Good, because it's completely sold out.Steve Bosch / Vancouver Sun
Fusion Festival July 20-21 | Surrey surrey.ca/fusionfestival A free event as much about culture and food as it is about arts and music, Surrey's Fusion Festival is the place to sample a tastes from all over the globe. That said, it's the music that often stands out, with over 100,000 fans making their way to Holland Park last year. On the pop side this year: Rapper k-os, Vancouver indie faves The Zolas, bluesman Jim Byrnes, and acclaimed singer-songwriter Stephen Fearing. On the world side: the Ukrainian Prairie Band, Vancouver Korean Arts Society Drummers and Shannon's Highland Dancers, among others.Bruce Stotesbury / Victoria Times Colonist
Pender Harbour Jazz FestivalSept. 20-22 | Pender Harbourpenderharbourmusic.caBid summer adieu the same way Vancouver ushered it in: With a blast of cool jazz. The Pender Harbour Jazz Festival promises to blow its way into the fall with performances by Cory Weeds and jazz/blues pianist great Harold Mabern (whose pedigree includes performing with Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderly), Dal Richards and his orchestra, Gypsy jazz group Van Django, and duelling guitarists Bill Coon and Oliver Gannon, among many others. A little taste of jazz on the Sunshine Coast might just be what you need before coming home to the rainy season.Mark van Manen / Vancouver Sun
Victoria Symphony SplashAug. 4 | Victoriavictoriasymphony.caClassical music is what floats your boat? Perfect, because that's exactly what many will be doing when they drop anchor in Victoria on Aug. 4 for one the largest annual classical music events in North America, with 40,000 in attendance to see the Victoria Symphony Orchestra perform a concert from a floating stage in Victoria's Inner Harbour. Suggested donation this year is five dollars, which gives you a souvenir Splash Button and supports the symphony. And what better way to top things off than with the 1812 Overture and the Splash's signature fireworks?ADRIAN LAM / TIMES COLONIST
Salmon Arm Blues & Roots FestivalAug. 16-18 | Salmon Armrootsandblues.caA stellar lineup that includes Bruce Cockburn, Daniel Lanois, Cam Penner, City and Colour, Shakura S'Aida and a variety of eclectic indie acts ranging from Vancouver DJ Skratch Bastid to beach bums Watasun makes this year's Salmon Arm Blues & Roots festival a must-see event. Now in its 21st year, the festival is set on an 18-acre park in the heart of Salmon Arm and features six stages during daytime and two stages running simultaneously at night. The site also features a global food village with western and ethnic delights, an artisan village and more.
Squamish Valley Music FestivalAug. 8-10 | Squamishsquamishfestival.comFormerly Live at Squamish, the Squamish Valley Music Festival is in its fourth year hosting some of the best indie talents and a few of the biggest names on the touring circuit. This year — featuring Vampire Weekend, Queens of the Stone Age, Dan Mangan, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Band of Horses, Jurassic 5 and more — may be the last we consider Squamish a mid-sized fest, as its announced expansion will nearly double its capacity in 2014, jumping from 19,000 to 35,000. Regardless of its capacity, when the sun shines on the Squamish fest, it's a little taste of paradise.ANDREW COWIE / AFP/Getty Images
Sunshine Music FestivalAug. 31 — Sept. 1 | Powell Riversunshinemusicfest.comIf there is a festival that bears its name well, it's the Sunshine Music Festival. The last gasp before the back to school and post-Labour Day blues set in, the festival features an array of beach-worthy acts including feel-good rocker Vince Vaccaro, indie folk up-and-comers Good For Grapes, acoustic roots trio The Sweet Lowdown and Juno-winning singer-songwriter Murray Porter. So bust out the lawn chairs, the summer hats and the sunglasses (one last time?) and head down to Palm Beach in Powell River for some good times on the waterfront. / PROVINCE
Mission Folk Music FestivalJuly 25-28 | Missionmissionfolkmusicfestival.caThe sibling to Vancouver's own famous Folk Music Festival, Mission's celebration of all things rootsy and folky will feature a wide range of smaller folk names like so-called "sons of Mumford & Sons" The Archers, named B.C.'s best teen band in 2012, playing alongside veterans like David Francey, Mary Gauthier, Lynn Miles and Juno-winning Latin band Locarno. The festival's site itself is often the star of the event, featuring a pristine view of the Fraser Valley and Fraser River and, on a clear day, a spectacular look at Mount Baker in Washington State.
ShambhalaAug. 7-12 | Salmoshambhalamusicfestival.comSet on a private farm in Salmo since 1998, the Shambhala festival features six stages filled with up-and-coming electronic artists from all over the world. As the festival's website says, "Shambhala is a celebration of music, art and life," and the 10,000 fans that attend every year are some of the most — ahem — colourful you'll meet. This year's top acts include rappers People Under The Stairs, champion DJ A-Trak, dubstep favourites Excision and Datsik, and other electro acts like Zen Mechanics, Mat The Alien and more.Terry Richardson
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If you're a fan of festivals, Vancouver is the place to be in the summer.
Each weekend offers its fair share of sun-splashed music and arts-related wonders, and it's almost impossible to take it all in without having to make some really tough choices.
That said, there is always that itch to get away from it all that makes you want to hit the pavement or the ferry, running off to some remote corner of the province, away from the tall glass condo towers of False Creek.
So where do you go when you just have to give that itch a scratch, and what far-flung locale can you run off to and still get a little taste of a summer fest?
No matter what kind of music you dig, there's a way that leads to it, and we've concocted a little B.C. festivals road map of 10 events that will enable you — should you decide to put the pedal to the metal — to enjoy a bit of everything all summer long, all across B.C.
So grab those crayons and let's go off on an adventure ...
Keloha!
July 5-7 | Kelowna
keloha.com
Kelowna's hip weekend bash is the perfect excuse for hipsters to dust off their Ray-Bans. With two stages featuring psych rockers MGMT, duo Matt & Kim, Canadian blue collar champs Arkells, rapper Shad, Brooklyn buzz duo Cults and Victoria's sizzling slide guitar rockers Current Swell, among many others, Keloha offers a tall cool glass of good times for the whole family. Some tickets for the main event and passes for the after-parties are still available at keloha.com. If you really want to splurge, go for the Platinum Pass, which gives you VIP access and priority entrance.
Vancouver Island MusicFest
July 12-14 | Courtenay
islandmusicfest.com
Call it a little taste of everything for the discerning, mature listener, with performances by Mary Chapin Carpenter & Marc Cohn, Kris Kristofferson, John Hiatt and his Combo, Kiran Ahluwalia, and guitar heroes James Burton, Albert Lee, Amos Garrett and David Wilcox. So whether you walk, ride, carpool or fly-in — as the festival's website says — the Island MusicFest offers an idyllic retreat in the heart of nature with great music for everyone. Got your tickets already? Good, because it's completely sold out.
Fusion Festival
July 20-21 | Surrey
surrey.ca/fusionfestival
A free event as much about culture and food as it is about arts and music, Surrey's Fusion Festival is the place to sample a tastes from all over the globe. That said, it's the music that often stands out, with over 100,000 fans making their way to Holland Park last year. On the pop side this year: Rapper k-os, Vancouver indie faves The Zolas, bluesman Jim Byrnes, and acclaimed singer-songwriter Stephen Fearing. On the world side: the Ukrainian Prairie Band, Vancouver Korean Arts Society Drummers and Shannon's Highland Dancers, among others.
Mission Folk Music Festival
July 25-28 | Mission
missionfolkmusicfestival.ca
The sibling to Vancouver's own famous Folk Music Festival, Mission's celebration of all things rootsy and folky will feature a wide range of smaller folk names like so-called "sons of Mumford & Sons" The Archers, named B.C.'s best teen band in 2012, playing alongside veterans like David Francey, Mary Gauthier, Lynn Miles and Juno-winning Latin band Locarno. The festival's site itself is often the star of the event, featuring a pristine view of the Fraser Valley and Fraser River and, on a clear day, a spectacular look at Mount Baker in Washington State.
Victoria Symphony Splash
Aug. 4 | Victoria
victoriasymphony.ca
Classical music is what floats your boat? Perfect, because that's exactly what many will be doing when they drop anchor in Victoria on Aug. 4 for one the largest annual classical music events in North America, with 40,000 in attendance to see the Victoria Symphony Orchestra perform a concert from a floating stage in Victoria's Inner Harbour. Suggested donation this year is five dollars, which gives you a souvenir Splash Button and supports the symphony. And what better way to top things off than with the 1812 Overture and the Splash's signature fireworks?
Aug. 7-12 | Salmo
shambhalamusicfestival.com
Set on a private farm in Salmo since 1998, the Shambhala festival features six stages filled with up-and-coming electronic artists from all over the world. As the festival's website says, "Shambhala is a celebration of music, art and life," and the 10,000 fans that attend every year are some of the most — ahem — colourful you'll meet. This year's top acts include rappers People Under The Stairs, champion DJ A-Trak, dubstep favourites Excision and Datsik, and other electro acts like Zen Mechanics, Mat The Alien and more.
Squamish Valley Music Festival
Aug. 8-10 | Squamish
squamishfestival.com
Formerly Live at Squamish, the Squamish Valley Music Festival is in its fourth year hosting some of the best indie talents and a few of the biggest names on the touring circuit. This year — featuring Vampire Weekend, Queens of the Stone Age, Dan Mangan, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Band of Horses, Jurassic 5 and more — may be the last we consider Squamish a mid-sized fest, as its announced expansion will nearly double its capacity in 2014, jumping from 19,000 to 35,000. Regardless of its capacity, when the sun shines on the Squamish fest, it's a little taste of paradise.
Salmon Arm Blues & Roots Festival
Aug. 16-18 | Salmon Arm
rootsandblues.ca
A stellar lineup that includes Bruce Cockburn, Daniel Lanois, Cam Penner, City and Colour, Shakura S'Aida and a variety of eclectic indie acts ranging from Vancouver DJ Skratch Bastid to beach bums Watasun makes this year's Salmon Arm Blues & Roots festival a must-see event. Now in its 21st year, the festival is set on an 18-acre park in the heart of Salmon Arm and features six stages during daytime and two stages running simultaneously at night. The site also features a global food village with western and ethnic delights, an artisan village and more.
Sunshine Music Festival
Aug. 31 — Sept. 1 | Powell River
sunshinemusicfest.com
If there is a festival that bears its name well, it's the Sunshine Music Festival. The last gasp before the back to school and post-Labour Day blues set in, the festival features an array of beach-worthy acts including feel-good rocker Vince Vaccaro, indie folk up-and-comers Good For Grapes, acoustic roots trio The Sweet Lowdown and Juno-winning singer-songwriter Murray Porter. So bust out the lawn chairs, the summer hats and the sunglasses (one last time?) and head down to Palm Beach in Powell River for some good times on the waterfront.
Pender Harbour Jazz Festival
Sept. 20-22 | Pender Harbour
penderharbourmusic.ca
Bid summer adieu the same way Vancouver ushered it in: With a blast of cool jazz. The Pender Harbour Jazz Festival promises to blow its way into the fall with performances by Cory Weeds and jazz/blues pianist great Harold Mabern (whose pedigree includes performing with Miles Davis and Cannonball Adderly), Dal Richards and his orchestra, Gypsy jazz group Van Django, and duelling guitarists Bill Coon and Oliver Gannon, among many others. A little taste of jazz on the Sunshine Coast might just be what you need before coming home to the rainy season.
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VI Congreso de Novela y Cine Negro Universidad de Salamanca
The sixth edition of the Congreso de Novela y Cine Negro University of Salamanca will take place this year from the 27th to the 30th of April.
The University of Salamanca, located in the town of Salamanca, west of Madrid and close to Portugal, is the oldest university in Spain and one of the oldest in Europe.
The university was founded as a "General School of the kingdom" by Alfonso IX King of Leon, in 1218. On the basis of a papal bull by Alexander IV in 1225, the school obtained the title of University, the first in Europe. (The older Spanish "Estudio general de Palencia", which soon disappeared, never received the title of University). This foundation did not last and the university was refounded by Alfonso's son, St. Ferdinand III King of Castile and Leon, in 1243.
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A new study from McMaster and York universities has found that poor muscle health may be a complication of Type 1 diabetes, even among active 20-somethings.
The research team analyzed muscle biopsies of young adults with and without Type 1 diabetes who exceed Diabetes Canada's recommended weekly levels for physical activity.
These changes could result in reduced metabolism, greater difficulty controlling blood glucose and, if left unchecked, an accelerated rate of developing disability. The study findings add poor muscle health to the list of better known complications of Type 1 diabetes, including nerve damage, heart disease and kidney disorders.
With regular aerobic exercise, the amount of mitochondria in muscle increases, thereby helping muscle cells to use more glucose and become more efficient. Given this new data, Perry added that their study suggests current guidelines for Type 1 diabetics may also need to be revised.
The paper was published today in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. The study may be found online.
The team included researchers at York University, the University of Windsor and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases as well as McMaster's departments of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Pediatrics and Kinesiology. Both Hawke and Perry are on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology.
The study was funded in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the James H. Cummings Foundation.


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In 2013, the NAACP and Gilead Sciences committed to significantly scale up an initiative, The Black Church and HIV: The Social Justice Imperative, designed to enlist faith leaders as change agents to address the disproportionately severe impact of HIV on African Americans. For generations, the NAACP and Black faith leaders have been a catalyst for change on critical social issues including voting rights and employment opportunities. This initiative applies that tradition of social justice advocacy to the HIV epidemic, one of the most pressing health issues facing the Black community today with nearly 50% of all new infections occurring among African Americans. The initiative will train nearly 3,000 Black faith leaders, who serve congregations in 30 U.S. cities that comprise roughly two-thirds of the nation's HIV epidemic, to harness the power of current and future faith leaders to turn the tide on HIV in the Black community.
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Three years after The Black Church and HIV Initiative pilot program began, the demand for the initiative's programming outweighs the organizational capacity available to implement it. The NAACP and Gilead pledge to scale up The Black Church and HIV initiative over a five-year period to reach 30 cities that make up nearly two-thirds of the nation's HIV epidemic. With the goal of changing the way HIV is viewed and approached in the Black community, the initiative will establish a national network of Black faith leaders, religious institutions and community members committed to making systemic cultural and behavioral change in the communities hit hardest by HIV.
Three core elements comprise the initiative: (1) training pastors, (2) securing formal endorsements from denominational leadership and (3) facilitating the integration of HIV-focused coursework into required seminary curricula. These activities are designed to help shape views about HIV for current and future faith leaders, both at the local level and at a national leadership level. In each of these settings, the initiative will provide Church leaders the skills, information and support they need to transform HIV/AIDS from a polarizing and stigmatizing issue into a social justice priority for the Black community.
As more faith leaders preach to their congregations about the epidemic and its impact on the community, it will signal to parishioners the importance of becoming part of an effective response to the disease. By enabling this change in perception, more African Americans will feel supported to get tested, know their HIV status, access care and treatment if they are diagnosed with the virus and support fellow community members to do so as well.
This effort is intentionally designed to be different than a typical public education campaign, by structuring it as an organic grassroots movement that can be scaled up to make a sustained impact based on work in communities by local Church leaders, the support and endorsement of leadership from the denominations of the Black Church, and training of future faith leaders (today's seminarians).
The NAACP and Gilead will partner for the next five years (2014 through 2018) to carry out a nationwide series of in-person and online trainings about HIV as a social justice issue with faith leaders; further enlist the support and engagement of the executive leadership of at least seven of the nine denominations in the Black Church; and facilitate the integration of HIV as a social justice issue into the core curricula of predominantly African American theological seminaries.
Local Faith Leader Trainings:
Through the end of 2018, the NAACP will conduct 45 trainings across the 30 cities with the heaviest burden of HIV infection among African Americans, training at least 25 local faith leaders at each event. All 30 cities were selected based on new HIV diagnoses data from CDC. The pilot phase includes local trainings in 12 cities: Atlanta, GA; Baltimore, MD; Chicago, IL; Detroit, MI; Houston, TX; Jackson, MS; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; New Orleans, LA; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; and Washington, DC. The scale-up phase will include additional trainings in these original cities, as well as new trainings in Baton Rouge, LA; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; Columbus, OH; Dallas, TX; Ft. Lauderdale, FL; Jacksonville, FL; Las Vegas, NV; Memphis, TN; Nashville, TN; Newark, NJ; Oakland, CA; Orlando, FL; Phoenix, AZ; San Antonio, TX; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; and Tampa, FL.
Training hosts will be selected based on each church's location, the degree of local civic engagement and the level of interest of church leadership. Following each training, NAACP staff will consistently reach out to all participating faith leaders about the actions they are taking to educate their congregants about HIV and provide them with access to local and online HIV resources. The NAACP will also identify and train faith leaders who demonstrate exceptional interest and ability to carry out the initiative's goals to become Black Church and HIV Ambassadors. These Ambassadors will mentor fellow faith leaders on HIV in the Black Church to extend the reach of the initiative. In addition, a field force of NAACP local leadership and volunteers will be developed and mobilized to assist NAACP national staff on the ground in identifying strong training hosts and otherwise furthering the initiative. Finally, the NAACP will carry out web-based trainings to reach local faith leaders in rural areas who might otherwise have difficulty reaching in-person trainings.
Denominational Leadership Engagement:
By the end of 2018, the NAACP will have helped secure formal resolutions from seven of nine historically Black denominations to engage pastors in advocacy about the HIV crisis among African Americans. The process for denominations to adopt formal resolutions is three-pronged, beginning with the commitment from the denominational leadership to participate in the initiative, which was received in the pilot phase. Next, the NAACP will offer in-person seminars and online trainings for the leadership of these denominations to engage the Bishops in the importance of integrating HIV into Black Church messaging. The goal of this engagement is for at least one Bishop from each denomination to make a directive at their regional/national Annual Conference, where the initiative is endorsed and participating pastors are encouraged to integrate HIV as a social justice issue into Church priorities. Once a Bishop has made a directive at an Annual Conference, the directive may be sent to a resolution committee for consideration. The NAACP will work closely with the engaged Bishops to ensure the directives are submitted to the resolution committees by the end of 2015. Resolutions must go to the resolution committee prior to being placed on the ballot at the denominations' General Conferences, which typically occur every four years, with the next General Conferences slated for 2016. The ultimate goal is for a formal resolution on HIV as a social justice issue to be adopted at the General Conferences for each of the seven denominations.
Seminary Curricula Integration:
Through 2018, the NAACP will engage with the 10 predominantly African American theological seminaries to integrate HIV as a social justice issue into required curricula, using The Black Church and HIV training manual as the basis for development of seminary curricula. The goal is to secure integration of The Black Church and HIV initiative training materials in the curricula of at least five of the seminaries by the end of 2016 in order to reach at least 1,500 seminary-trained faith leaders by 2018. To achieve this goal, NAACP staff will host guest lectures at the 10 seminaries, and work closely with seminary leadership to develop a required course that teaches future faith leaders about the severe and disparate impact of HIV on the Black community, and how to engage a congregation in the fight against HIV from a social justice perspective.
By the end of 2014, the NAACP will have trained three new full-time staff members dedicated to The Black Church and HIV initiative, with the goal of providing training for two additional team members by the end of 2015. To support the increased scale of the initiative, management training will be provided for the NAACP health program leadership. The team will also be responsible for leveraging the power of the 500,000 member organization to mobilize in support of the initiative.
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The initiative is currently supported with the communications and media support of a public relations firm in addition to the NAACP's own communications team. An annual communications plan will be developed to support key milestones and successes. The NAACP staff will utilize and train faith leaders to employ social media, including MySpace, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and mobile texting to engage youth and extend the reach of the initiative. Additionally, by the end of 2014, NAACP will expand TheBlackChurchAndHIV.org offerings to provide online guides, sample presentations and videos to enable greater capacity for faith leaders nationwide to reduce stigma and engage their congregations in the fight against HIV.
HIV has been transformed from a death sentence into a chronic illness over the past 15 years. The epidemic in the developing world continues to receive the bulk of media attention given the devastating effects that high HIV prevalence has on many communities in resource-limited countries. In the United States, the media's focus on the domestic epidemic has waned even as new HIV infections continue unabated: according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 50,000 cases occur each year, and an estimated 18 percent of people with HIV - or approximately 200,000 individuals - are unaware that they have the disease. In fact, in some urban communities in the United States, HIV prevalence is on par with rates of the disease observed in some countries in Africa.
The Black community in the U.S. is on the front lines of this battle. More than any other racial or ethnic group in the U.S., African Americans bear the greatest burden of HIV. According to CDC data, if Black America were its own country, it would rank 16th in the world for new HIV infections; of the 1.1 million people living with HIV in the U.S., almost half (510,000) are Black; and in 2010, the rate of new HIV infections among African Americans was almost eight times higher than among whites. Further, CDC data shows that Black Americans with HIV are least likely to be diagnosed, linked to health care, retained in care, prescribed life-saving antiretroviral therapy or to achieve viral suppression.
For more than 200 years, the Black Church has advocated for social justice, broadly defined as the equitable distribution of resources, opportunities and responsibilities throughout society. This advocacy has been instrumental in energizing multiple social movements, including those to end slavery, expand educational opportunities, fight for employment rights and increase voter registration. In light of the opportunities Black faith leaders have as trusted conveners and educators of the community, these leaders can be a powerful force for change with respect to the HIV epidemic. Their concerted efforts to share the knowledge and tools that exist today to support HIV prevention, treatment and care can enable the estimated 20 million African Americans who attend church weekly to end HIV stigma and begin to view the disease as a critical social justice issue facing their communities.
Given the prominent role of the faith leaders in the Black community and the potential for changing the course of the epidemic if Black faith leaders engage in the fight against HIV, in 2010, the NAACP, with support from Gilead Sciences, launched a pilot initiative titled The Black Church and HIV: The Social Justice Imperative. The purpose of the initiative is to help reverse the severe and disparate impact of HIV on African Americans by empowering pastors with the knowledge and support to preach to their congregations about HIV. As the nation's oldest and largest civil rights organization, the NAACP is a natural leader to take on this battle against HIV. Born out of the Niagara Movement and its deep connection to the Black faith community, the NAACP has always had a central focus on social justice advocacy. Gilead Sciences, a research-based biopharmaceutical company, has a demonstrated commitment to science, research and innovation in the fight against HIV.
The pilot initiative involved conducting focus groups in 12 highly impacted cities to research how Black Church leaders respond to HIV in their communities, and resulted in the development of HIV educational materials designed for use by faith leaders on the ground. The overwhelmingly positive response to the pilot phase of this initiative is the impetus for the development of the commitment to scale up the initiative and expand its reach. To date, the potential for churches to impact the future of the epidemic has not been fully realized. Church leaders have cited barriers to preaching from the pulpit about HIV that include myths and misperceptions about the virus, a lack of information on local resources for testing and treatment, personal beliefs about sexual orientation and fear of losing either congregants or their denominational affiliation. However, there is evidence that faith leaders are able to overcome these barriers through an approach that reconciles the Black Church's historical social justice mission with its doctrinal commitments.
The Black Church & HIV: The Social Justice Imperative is seeking financial and technical resources to support the scale-up of the initiative across the United States. These resources will help fund a range of activities, in particular the three cornerstones of the initiative: (1) training pastors, (2) securing formal endorsements from denominational leadership and (3) facilitating the integration of HIV-focused coursework into required seminary curricula. Resources will also be used to increase the Initiative's staffing and managerial capacity, as well as for marketing support and media outreach activities to raise community awareness of the initiative and its importance for public health.
The Black Church & HIV: the Social Justice Imperative initiative has completed more than 25 percent of its Commitment faith leader trainings, and reached more than 800 people, nearly 600 of which are faith leaders, with educational efforts about HIV as a social justice issue. Over the past year, six faith leader trainings were conducted, educating about 100 faith leaders in the fight against HIV and enabling each city to continue its HIV advocacy work. The Black Church & HIV Activity Manual and Pastoral Brief were integrated into core courses at two seminaries, and 70 seminarians were trained in 2015. In May 2015, the NAACP hosted a denominational leadership roundtable during the Leadership 500 Summit to solicit support for the faith leader trainings, seminary integration and denominational engagement efforts. Increasing its national presence in 2015, the initiative launched a new website to increase its reach and ability to engage the faith community in the fight against HIV; highlighted the initiative during the opening plenary of the NAACP National Convention; presented a Commitment update onstage during the CGI Annual Meeting opening plenary with President Clinton; and hosted a seminar workshop at the U.S. Conference on AIDS in Washington DC.
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View the performance schedule for the 17th Annual Barbados Jazz Festival which begins on January 11th and lasts until january 17th, 2010.
Barbados Jazz Festival 2010 Performance Schedule:
Monday January 11th, 2010
Artists: Etienne Charles and Joe Lovano
Venue: Sunbury Plantation House, St. Philip.
Tickets: $80.00.
Sunbury Plantation House is over 300 years old, steeped in history, featuring mahogany antiques, old prints and a unique collection of horse-drawn carriages. This is the only great house, with all rooms available for viewing.
Artists: Toni Norville and Shane Forrester
Venue: Heritage Park / The Rum Factory, St. Philip
Tickets: $50.00
Heritage Park at the Foursquare Rum Refinery is a showcase for Barbadian skills and talent. It features an Art Gallery, an Amphitheatre and an array of shops with exclusively locally-made products
Wednesday January 13th, 2010
Artist: Smokey Robinson
Venue: Garfield Sobers Complex, St. Michael
Tickets: $180.00
The Sir Garfield Sobers Sports Complex (the Complex), which is situated in Wildey, St. Michael, was opened as a sporting facility in November 1992. The Construction of the Complex was part of a strategic initiative by the Government of Barbados to promote sports tourism.
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Thursday January 14th, 2010
Artist: Elio Villafranka presents: Cuban Classics
Venue: Dinner Set: The Crane Resort & Residences, St. Philip
Dinner Set attendees please note that there will be a pre-dinner cocktail reception commencing at 7:00pm. Drinks will be available for purchase at the bar during the evenings' performance.
The Crane Resort & Residences lounge on the spectacular powder-soft, pink sand, caressed by the rays of the Caribbean sun and fanned by gentle Trade Winds, and you will understand why The Crane Resort is regarded by those that know us as one of the most beautiful places anywhere in the world.
Friday January 15th, 2010
Artist: Lalah Hathaway
Venue: Ilaro Court, St. Michael
'Ilaro Court – St. Michael' was designed and built 81 years ago by Lady Gilbert Carter, an accomplished American artist whose husband was Governor of Barbados from 1904 to 1911. This gracious mansion successfully combines Edwardian, Italian, and Caribbean features into a distinctive and individualistic whole. It boasts the first swimming pool in Barbados and a large, park-like garden with gazebo, fishpond and orchid house.
Saturday January 16th, 2010
Artists: Robin Thicke, Tizer with Lao Tizer featuring Karen Briggs and Bwakore
Venue: Farley Hill National Park, St. Peter
Time: 12:00 noon
One of the main highlights of this festival is the two-day open-air concert held at Farley Hill National Park with breathtaking scenery, set in the grounds of the once regal Farley Hill house. The film 'Island in the Sun' was filmed there in 1965, sadly later on that year the house was destroyed by fire.
Artists: Babyface, Warren Hill, Marisa Lindsay, Arturo Tappin and Alex M.
Season Tickets: $520.00
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Q: Priority/interaction between overflow and overflow-x/overflow-y I want to set overflow (or both overflow-x and overflow-y) to a certain value (hidden) for general objects (*) and override overflow-x (to visible) for particular objects (foo) without changing overflow-y.
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When I check it in Google Chrome developer's tool, for foo objects, both the specifications
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Then, it seems that overflow: visible (from foo) is overriding overflow: hidden (from *), as I intended, but then, overflow-y for foo is also set to visible, which I do not want.
Is it the case that overflow specification has priority over overflow-x and overflow-y? If not, what is going on?

Edit Maybe things are more complicated than I first thought. Setting overflow-x to visible gets rid of a horizontal scroll bar, which decreases the height of the object, and that might be interfering.

Edit Looks like there is a hint in an answer to this question and this question. Particularly, it seems that by W3C specification, when either overflow-x or overflow-y is set to visible and the other is set to something else, the visible is turned into auto. It is a strange specification.

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Q: Sufficiency of Sample Mean for Laplace Distribution I recently started reading about sufficient statistics. I have the following questions:
1) Is sample mean a sufficient statistic for Laplace Distribution (aka Double Exponential) if we already know the scale parameter?
2) If not, is this also related to the fact that it is not an efficient estimator of the mean/location?
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For example sample median with known scale parameter is sufficient and efficient.
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A: For on observation, the Laplace pdf is
$$f_X(x) = \dfrac 1 {2b} \exp(-\dfrac {|x-\mu|} b)$$
For multiple iid observations, the pdf is
$$f_\boldsymbol X(\boldsymbol x) = \dfrac 1 {(2b)^n} \exp(- \dfrac 1 b \sum_{i=1}^n {|x_i-\mu|})$$
The easiest way to determine what statistics are sufficient for $\boldsymbol X$ is to try to use the Factorization Theorem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufficient_statistic#Fisher.E2.80.93Neyman_factorization_theorem). However, if you start to work with this expression, you'll see that the absolute values in the sum make it impossible to do any simplification/factorization.
To answer your first question, the sample mean is not a sufficient statistic (event if $b$ is known). However, if $\mu$ is known, then $\sum_{i=1}^n |x_i-\mu|$ is a sufficient statistic for $b$. But $\mu$ will almost never be known unless it's assumed to be zero.
As for your second question, I don't believe there are any theorems which directly state for some conditions, inefficiency implies insufficiency or vice-versa. However, there are theorems which connect sufficient statistics to maximum likelihood estimators and MLEs are asymptotically efficient under certain regularity conditions. So in that sense, I suppose you could view the insufficiency and inefficiency of the sample mean as related results.

A: The sample median is the maximum likelihood estimator of the mean if the scale is known, but it is not the sufficient statistics. I agree that the order statistics is the sufficient statistics. This can be seen using the factorization theorem and examining the dependence of the RN derivative, upon the examination of the absolute values therein, on the data across all mu values.


Joe Caponigro has stepped down as the head coach of the Lynn English High School baseball team but his connection to the school and its former players is still strong.
In fact, Caponigro has several Bulldogs baseball alumni on his roster for the Swampscott Sox in the North Shore Baseball League. The team won its tenth game of the season Sunday against the Manchester Marlins and loom as a strong contender for the championship.
To a man, the former English players say that Joe Caponigro advanced their love of the game, taught them lessons on and off the field that they still carry with them, and feel honored to be continuing their player-coach relationship for the successful Swampscott Sox ballclub.
Richie Arias, who played four seasons (2006-9) at English, said that Caponigro has been a coach and a mentor to him.
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Tottenham has offered to Real Madrid signing of Christian Eriksen
One of the pending chapters that Real Madrid has to close in terms of possible reinforcements is the midfield. With the first choice of Paul Pogba pending the meeting that will maintain the French with the leaders of Manchester United on his return from vacation, the Madridista entity keeps moving looking for alternatives. Donny Van de Beek is today the most feasible option as long as the operation does not go beyond 50 million euros. The Christian Eriksen seemed discarded, but the direct offer of Tottenham has reactivated a possibility that seemed dormant. So much so that one of the Danish player's lawyers is scheduled to travel this week to Madrid to see first-hand the intention of the leaders madridistas regarding the future of their represented. Martin Schoots has a date with the white dome once he has reiterated to Daniel Levy his desire not to renew for Tottenham and to seek life away from London.
The contacts of the player's environment with the Real Madrid entity go back two years ago, but the refusal of Tottenham to negotiate last summer or, rather, to do it over 150 million euros, stopped the understanding that seemed to exist. In the last months the dialogue reappeared, but it was stuck a month ago before the clear decision of Zinedine Zidane to sign Pogba. Now there are two factors that are playing in the Danish backstage. On the one hand the official offer of the English club and on the other the refusal of Manchester United to negotiate the possible departure of the French. Right now, only a position of strength of the world champion could propitiate again a negotiation to achieve the signing of Pogba. There is no other. In the case of Van de Beek, he began to see it as a future option and the market is placing him as an alternative rather than a valid one as long as the price does not go beyond 50 million. *
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Local rockers Flowers to Hide count the likes of The Stooges, The Jesus & Mary Chain, T. Rex, The Afghan Whigs, 13th Floor Elevators, The Pink Fairies, Ride, Primal Scream, and The Church among their influences, but the modern Britrock often outweighs the garage influences. Their music is edgy, raw — guitar-heavy with the right amounts of emotion and onstage cockiness. The band's new song, "Space City" (available on their MySpace page) is amazing — especially the wild guitars and jaded lyrics — and "Here Comes The Tide" is almost too catchy for its own good. Be sure to give their stuff a listen.
Flowers to Hide play live in Houston twice this week — the band opens an early show for The Warlocks on Thursday night at The Proletariat (9 p.m.). On Saturday night, the band plays with Southern Backtones and Slovak Republic at Rudyard's.
I recently sent the members of Flowers to Hide — Stephen Anderson (vocals, rhythm guitar), Jonathan Espeche (lead guitar), Jason LeBaron (drums), and Michael Waller (bass guitar) — a series of questions for Houston Calling. They were kind enough to take time out of their recording/mixing sessions to answer them.
HC: What's the story of Flowers to Hide?
JE: Stephen was playing guitar with Slovak Girl (now Slovak Republic) in 2000 and left because he wanted to do pursue his own thing. I was 16 and had dropped out of high school around the same time after having a nervous breakdown, I was in a really bad place mentally and starting a band was the only thing I wanted to do with my life.
One sleepless night at 2am or so in September of 2000, I was flipping through the radio and happened upon Jeffrey Thames' Sound Awake show on KPFT. Stephen was on the show that night to do an acoustic set. He did two or three really cool blissed-out shoegazer songs a la Slowdive and I was blown away, not just by the music but by the fact that there was someone else in this town making the kind of music I wanted to make. It was the exact type of thing I wanted to be involved with. On air he mentioned that he was wanting to start a band. I said to myself, "Man, I've gotta get in touch with this guy," and sent him an e-mail. We started talking on the phone and became best friends pretty much instantly discussing our favorite bands and what sort of direction we wanted our band to go in. We then got together in early 2001 and started writing songs together in the spare room of his house in Spring, TX. Being 6 years older than me Stephen was kind of a mentor to me, showing me a lot of great bands I hadn't yet heard.
The next person to join the band was our drummer, Jason. Stephen and him were working together at the time and Stephen asked him if he wanted to be in the band. Jason is a very laid-back and easy person to work with, not to mention a great drummer, so it was the right match to balance out Stephen's nervous energy and my perfectionism. So the three of us began fleshing out some of our first songs together. We needed the final piece of the puzzle, a bass player. Stephen was working with this cool skinny hippy/vegan kid who was leaving for New Zealand. It didn't work out for him over there and so Mike, back in town, showed up on the doorstep one night asking if we still needed a bass player.
So in April of 2001, F2H was fully formed. We played our first show later that year in September, still very green, at Java Jazz in Spring, TX. Since then we've continued to hone our songwriting skills and played a ton of live shows. We are really starting to come into our own now. We have a strong chemistry together as a band, we're all good friends. We don't have careers or families or anything like that, everyone is focused on the band and getting where we want it to go. We all have a very working-class background and nothing has ever come easy for us. We've outlasted most of the local bands that were around back then and will continue to do so. We're not hobbyists.
HC: I think your music (and your band's name) gives off a good sense of some of the bands you guys are undoubtedly fans of — The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Stooges, My Bloody Valentine, early Verve. What do you consider to be your primary influences? How do you guys approach the songwriting process?
JE: You're on the right track as far as influences go. We have a very wide range of influences but our sound is rooted somewhere in the realms of shoegazer, psychedelia, 70's glam, proto-punk. It'd be hard to pin any one tag on us because every song comes from a different place and takes on a shape of its own.
As for the songwriting process goes…Usually I will have a guitar riff or a whole song and I'll present it to the band and it will progress from there. Other times Stephen will have a riff and he'll show it to me and I'll add parts and we'll build it up from there, or he'll have a whole song and we'll work out the arrangement with the band. There's no set rule for how we work on songs. Stephen and I make for a pretty strong songwriting team, we kind of make up for each other's weaknesses.
HC: Stephen, I know you work at The Proletariat and sometimes at Cactus, and in doing so get to see a lot of the bands that Houston has to offer. What do you think of the local music scene? Do you have ideas to make it better, get more people out to shows, etc.? How have you as a band tried to overcome the sometimes difficult task of getting people out to your shows?
SA: It's seems lately that there's been a lot of talk of this. Ultimately it is up to the bands to get people to the shows. They need to promote, which is something we weren't very good at. We decided a while back not to align ourselves with any crowd and instead play for anyone. Many of the Houston bands seem to be happy just playing to their friends or the same crowd. We won't be satisfied playing for the same 10 friends forever. Terms like "success" and "making it" are heresy in the Houston indie crowd. They don't want to reach out. There needs to be a feeling of togetherness.
When there isn't a scene the bands must create one. There's a feeling of competitiveness in Houston more than anything. Bands you play with always want the best slots for themselves, nobody wants to help anybody out.You play a show with some bands and they'll pack their gear and take off without even watching a song of yours.
It's tough, Wednesdays at the Proletariat are typically local band nights but you also have the Boys and Girls club over at 1415 which seems to be a place where all the scenesters go. For some reason kids would rather go dance the "Blue Monday" every week and their only goal is to get fucked up and get laid. Hell, you can do that at rock show…I have. It's all about the party…you know, everybody wearing a Velvet Underground shirt and dancing to the Geto Boys in hip huggers with fannypacks and faux hawks? Sorry went on a bit of a tangent there. While working last night I read the Houston Press article on band suicide, which to me seemed to be all about Michael Haaga. Now I have heard his record and it's quite good but he isn't the only guy in town. The article did seem to point the finger at the Chronicle and the Buzz, but I don't recall any articles in the Press that really touch on up and coming bands that aren't JNL ordained. I'd like to see John Nova Lomax go to more shows and write about them good or bad.
JE: In all honesty, I'm interested in making it on a much larger scale than Houston. I don't feel a responsibility to build up a scene here. If one could exist it would already. We're not looking to this town to bring us success. It doesn't owe us anything and vice versa.
Read the rest of the interview with Flowers to Hide below.
HC: We once talked about "image" and music — and how the two often go hand-in-hand. For good or bad, the look a band projects often has a lot to do with the fans the band may attract (especially among younger audiences). There's a question here somewhere…what do you think about fashion and music and correlation between the two? Do you think stage presence is important? It seems to me sometimes that British bands often put more effort in a particular look than American bands — Agree? Disagree? Care?
SA: I Agree. First off I think in high school kids start trying to find out who or what they are. Their identity coincides with their music most of the time. It's been that way since the fifties and probably before that too. People need that feeling of belonging to something. Music is a release for the bands and the audience, entertainment thru escape. When I was a freshman in high school I was really into the cure, U2, and R.E.M. and I dressed like a total dork. By my junior and senior years ('95-'96) I was a total Britpop and shoegaze kid, an anglophile whose style mimicked that of the bands I read about in the NME etc. It's much the same today for kids as it was for me and I understand that. I was into the stylish bands like Suede and Pulp to the introspective bands like Radiohead and the Verve. Looking back it was my own subculture that made me stand out in my large suburban school. Most of my friends were into punk rock and pot and somehow we managed to coalesce. Some of them had bands but not to the extent of what I see and hear about now. Everybody has a band now and with sites like MySpace they become gods to their classmates.
So what I am trying to say is yes image is important. The way you appear on stage and the way you perform are an important part of how you are perceived as a band. When you are playing to a bar crowd at midnight it's not always important that you played your tightest set. Now, I don't mean play carelessly, but if you look like you believe in what you are doing people are going to believe in you. One thing I have noticed with our recent gigs is that the more animated we are on stage the better the reaction. It took me a long time to get comfortable with that.
HC: What I have heard of the new music is great — how is work on the new EP progressing? Where do you guys record?
JE: We're going to be releasing a limited 2 song single for the timebeing while we continue tracking more songs, then we will most likely release an expanded EP with more songs. We're recording with Joe Omelchuck at RBI Recordings and have been getting great results. He's a really fun person to work with. He gets as excited as we do about the music.
HC: You guys will be opening for The Warlocks at their Houston show. I assume you're big fans of the band. I have seen them a couple of times here — missed the last show at Walter's though. Did you catch the last Brian Jonestown Massacre show here — what did you think of that spectacle? I was disappointed in the fact that, inevitably, half of the people were there because of Dig! (which is good for the band) but I hated seeing Anton (in my opinion) feel like he had to basically play a role for this new crowd. I think I might crumble under the success/hassles/pressures — what about you? I liked Innaway a lot though — great album.
SA: Yes, we are really excited to be playing with the warlocks. The first time Jonathan, Michael and I saw them left a big impression with us. As for Anton and the Mary Jane's gig I can't say I was disappointed. I have seen the BJM several times and it can be hit or miss. He lost his voice the night before and he could've cancelled but he tried to play and couldn't sing. So instead they jammed these two 20-minute feedback drenched drones and the real fans stayed to listen. To be honest, I was more disappointed in the new Dandy's album — complete poo!
JE: The first couple times I saw the Warlocks I was really blown away by their wall of sound. The last time at Walter's I was pretty underwhelmed and left with the impression that what we do is as good or better. As far as success/hassles/pressures goes, I would welcome it all. I'm at my best when there is something at stake.
HC: If you could have any band cover any of your songs, what would it be? What's the best concert you guys have seen in Houston?
No answer.
HC: How do you feel the internet has helped up-and-coming bands? Are you for or against digital music? Are you guys fans of iPods or no? I know some musicians love then, some hate them, and some are just slaves to vinyl.
JE: Places like MySpace are a great place to promote your music, but it's also a spam-filled wasteland. Everyone is clamoring to get noticed. It kind of lowers the bar for quality because anyone can put up their music and, regardless of quality, add 10,000 people to their friends list. There's so much noise going on that perhaps it makes it harder for a quality act to get noticed. Then again, when everyone is copying everyone else and starting a screamo band, it may just make it that much easier for people doing something different to stand out.
Digital music is a great innovation, iPods are great, we just can't afford them. For a music obsessive like myself the concept of having that much music in such a small convenient place is a dream come true. On the down side, it has made things into more of a singles driven market. They'll be trying to churn out as many one hit wonders as they can for the benefit of iTunes. The younger generation today is very different from that of 10-15 years ago. Much more fickle and ADD than ever before. You wonder if music and bands really mean anything to them anymore. It's become commodity, the equivalent of aural wallpaper, life-style music. One song to the next, dispose of when the next new thing comes along.
There are bands and albums that define a certain time in my life. There were bands that I believed in. Bands you could depend on to make consistently make amazing music. You wonder if the same thing can exist in this environment.
By my estimation, hip-hop/rap is the disco/hair metal of today. Not to say that some people within that genre aren't doing something with merit. But by and large — a pretty disposable genre of music. I think rock'n'roll will always have a place, it may not be the focus like it was in the past, but hip-hop/rap/pop can't and never will come close to the power and energy of a great rock band performing in its prime. Mainstream music has for the most part always been dominated by fluff and fodder for the marketplace, going back to the 50's. And like always there will be people and bands with something interesting and meaningful to offer musically. The cream will rise, but shit floats too…and there's a lot of it.
HC: What's next for Flowers to Hide? Are you guys trying to branch out of Houston to get your music heard in other places? I noticed your MySpace website has quite a bit of traffic — have you been getting good feedback from you music outside the city? You're opening for The Living Things in March, right? That'll be another good one…
JE: We're going to continue recording and will most likely go on tour. We've discussed the possiblity of moving the\ band elsewhere. We seem to get really good feedback from England and other parts of the US, pretty much anywhere that isn't Houston. We're pretty sure that if we were from London the NME would love us. The response in Houston is generally apathy and indifference. It takes the rest of the world to show Houston what is cool. And yes, we're opening for the Living Things March 22nd @ Walter's on Washington.
HC: What are you guys listening to these days? Do you have any bands or CDs that you'd recommend?
JE: I've been listening to a lot of obscure 60's/70's psych-rock lately. One band I've recently discovered and been blown away by is the Pink Fairies. Their first record, Neverneverland is one of the best albums I've ever heard and has been a big inspiration to me lately.
Thanks to Jonathan and Stephen from Flowers to Hide for taking the time to answer these questions. Visit the band online at www.myspace.com/flowerstohide.
Be sure to check out the band live this Thursday night at The Proletariat (opening for The Warlocks) and on Saturday night at Rudyard's (opening for Southern Backtones). Check back for more information about the band's EP later this year.
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1 Nick // Feb 21, 2006 at 9:59 pm
"By my estimation, hip-hop/rap is the disco/hair metal of today. Not to say that some people within that genre aren't doing something with merit. But by and large — a pretty disposable genre of music. I think rock'n'roll will always have a place, it may not be the focus like it was in the past, but hip-hop/rap/pop can't and never will come close to the power and energy of a great rock band performing in its prime."
For some reason, that quote really rubs me the wrong way. It seems almost a condescending attitude towards a legitimate artform and thriving culture that the speaker obviously has no real connection to. Kind of a Eurocentric sentiment if you ask me (yes, I know African American pioneers paved the way for rock n' roll as we know it today, but still). Calling hip-hop a disposable genre of music displays an ignorance of the struggle and conditions that birthed some of the most revolutionary records ever made, reaching back to the late 70's…including racism, civil unrest, and economic inequality. THOSE are rock n' roll values – 'fuck tha police' isn't too far off from 'stickin' it to the man.' Hip-hop as an artform is heavily influential of even other genres of music – countless rockers have cited hip-hop artists as their influences.
Need something challenging and inspirational? Look no further than the beats of the late, legendary producer Jay Dee, who left us two weeks ago. Or what Stones Throw Records is doing. I don't need to mention The Roots, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, or creative geniuses like Kanye West, DJ Premier, and Dr. Dre with crossover appeal. Even if it's only hardcore/gangster rap that you can't get with, don't quickly dismiss it as garbage. There's something going on in that world that speaks to so many people who have been through similar conditions, and YES, there is creative genius and real talent that goes into the making of that music as well. We even have some living legends in our hometown – Scarface is a fucking genius. I can understand maybe ridiculing The Black Eyed Peas or 50 Cent for cashing in on MTV hoopla and making inane records with vapid content, but don't dismiss an entire culture and genre of music just because you can't largely identify with it. Yes, the Golden Era may be over, but there are still plenty of innovators and pioneers in the hip-hop world as there were in the 80's. Trying to compare entire genres of music on artistic merit is an exercise in futility…there is no standard or litmus test by which one can make a comparison. And I don't know why anyone would want to, because attempting to make a conjecture on it just reveals one's biases.
2 DAC // Feb 22, 2006 at 6:50 pm
I see your point — although he did say that some hip-hop artists are doing something of merit.
I appreciate the comments.
(and I like aspects of both disco and hair metal…)
3 stephen anderson // Feb 24, 2006 at 3:28 pm
we are actually fans of some of the artist/bands you mentioned. i love groups like the roots, outkast, digable planets, and even some 8 Ball and MJG. i think what jonathan was getting at was the domination of rap and hip on channels like MTV by bands that no more than manufactured one hit wonders. i love it when bands blur genres and challenge their audiance much like what the beastie boys did 15 years ago. most hip hop is cookie cutter much like most rock, indie, and hot topic music. something needs to happen to the music industry on a whole.
stephen anderson vocalist/guitarist for flowers to hide
kanye ruins a really great curtis mayfield tune and lyrically he's pretty stale.
Thanks for clarifying. Yeah, I agree – Kanye isn't really doing anything lyrically but he's not a bad producer. His work pre-rap career was solid. Jon Brion didn't have anything bad to say about him either.
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Lübbenau: Brandenburg's Marvel in the Spree Forest
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From Berlin, racing down the Autobahn some 80 kilometers (50 miles) will take the sophisticated tourist to Lübbenau, one of Brandenburg's many picturesque spots. Down here it is all about channels, boats and pickles.
Lübbenau dates back to the year 1301. Scripts from back then mention it as a castle. In the past 700 years, it has been converted to a beautiful tourist destination. The historic center of this town with around 16,000 inhabitants is surrounded by nice gardens and little channels.
From Industrial Town to Tourist Haven
Located in a large park, Lübbenau Palace was completed in 1820. Graf zu Lynar, an officer in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht, lived here. A plaque on the palace commemorates him because of his role in the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20th, 1944, for which he was executed on September 29th of the same year.
Numerous Jews lived in Lübbenau and the Niederlausitz region it belongs to. Many of them were murdered in Nazi Germany's concentration camps. Others managed to flee to what was Palestine back then, or elsewhere in the world. Sylvia Kolley did a lot of research on Jews from the region and listed many names on a website dedicated to them (in German).
In the GDR, the communist leadership turned Lübbenau into an industrial town and erected some of those typical apartment blocks found all over Eastern Europe. After Germany's reunification, tourism became the core of what the town offered. Because of its quietude and nature, Lübbenau is an official resort.
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The palace, which was refurbished some 15 years ago, accommodates an expensive hotel today. Part of the building was just renovated again. The Orangerie, a side building which was used to accommodate sensitive plants in winter, is now a café and restaurant.
Pickles from Lübbenau are famous in Germany and abroad. The town reminds visitors of its specialty with pride and even sells them at the tourist information office in the town center.
Other than that, it is all about boat rides through Lübbenau's little channels and the rivers in the region. Boat rental places on site offer it all. They have kayaks, canoes and similar rowing boats for one to five passengers. Those can be rented by the hour or for big tours lasting several days. Some rentals in Lübbenau even offer kayak tours to Berlin.
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Lots of gondola-style tubs with tables provide more lazy visitors with the opportunity of drinking while a capable gondola captain moves the boat through the channels. Getting drunk, or at least tipsy, on the water is not a problem in Lübbenau. At least is wasn't before the Corona crisis hit.
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Scottish Chambers of Commerce respond to extension of lockdown measures to the end of February
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Following the announcement of the extension of current lockdown measures in Scotland to at least the end of February, Dr Liz Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Chambers of Commerce, said:
"It will come as little surprise to Scottish businesses that restrictions will be in place for at least the rest of the month. Many will be disappointed that non-essential shops will remain closed, not least because of the immense investment the sector has made so they are safe for employees and customers.
"We continue to urge the Scottish Government, local authorities and agencies to speed up the release of vital business support funds. This is essential to provide cashflow support to businesses that have been forced to close. Ultimately, the best route to support the economy is to re-open. That's why we urgently need an economic roadmap to recovery, that outlines clear conditions and timelines for reopening sectors of the economy if we are to protect businesses and jobs."


Insider trading activities (stock purchases, sales, and option exercises) reported by insiders of Goosehead Insurance, Inc. (GSHD) since 2005 are illustrated in Table 1 and Table 2. Table 1 shows the monthly insider trading data of Goosehead Insurance, Inc. since year 2005. Table 2 shows the detailed insider transactions of Goosehead Insurance, Inc. since 2005. The reporting company's ticker symbol is GSHD. The reporting company's CIK number is 1726978.
The total value of stock buying since 2005 is $36,038.
The total value of stock sales since 2005 is $79,205,130.
Table 1. Monthly summaries of insider stock purchases, sales, and option exercises for Goosehead Insurance, Inc. (GSHD).
Insider trading activities including stock purchases, stock sales, and option exercises of GSHD listed in the above tables cannot be completely guaranteed as to their accuracy. For more insider trading information of Goosehead Insurance, Inc. (symbol GSHD, CIK number 1726978) see the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) website.


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Root Out Hatred
The shooting in two mosques at Christchurch, New Zealand on March 15 that resulted in the death of 49 innocent persons is the symptom of an alarming epidemic that is being spread all over the world, the epidemic of hatred. Responding to the appalling incident, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, "This is one of New Zealand's darkest days; this is a well planned terrorist attack." In a message widely circulated in the media she said, "We are a proud nation of more than 200 ethnicities, 160 languages. And amongst that diversity we share common values. And the one that we place the currency on right now is our compassion and support for the community of those directly affected by this tragedy. And secondly, the strongest possible condemnation of the ideology of the people who did this. You may have chosen us – we utterly reject and condemn you."
The main culprit behind the horrific crime is 28 year old Australian, Brenton Tarrant, a white supremacist. From his Facebook post it is evident that the killer was motivated by racism, Islamophobia and hatred against immigrants. The brutal shootings were previewed on an infamous internet message board and then graphically live-streamed on Facebook. A 74 page manifesto, found by authorities after it was posted online, was filled with anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim ideas. The purpose of live-streaming the act of terror is to terrorise people and to inspire those attracted to such violent ideas.
The Chronicle editorial board in its comment on March 15 under the title, "How the New Zealand mass shootings are America's responsibility, too" wrote that the gunman was inspired by various aspects of the xenophobic and destructive climate in the United States as well. According to the Chronicle the murderer praised US President Donald Trump as "a symbol of renewed white identity and common purpose" and Anders Breivik, the Norwegian white supremacist who murdered 77 people in Norway in 2011. The dossier stated objections to immigration and multiculturalism, and decries the "decaying" culture of the white, European, Western world.
The Chronicle editorial expressed serious concern on the ease with which his attack spread across the social media platform. "The failure of social media giants to make a serious and concerted effort against hate on their platforms isn't just disappointing — increasingly, it's deadly," the editorial added.
The response of the people of New Zealand to the horror was consoling and reassuring. In the streets around the Al Noor mosque, where at least 41 people died, New Zealanders have left flowers and messages of support for the victims and their families. "We all are one, we all are with you," one heart-shaped card said. "This is not New Zealand," another large message read. "The hatred has spread everywhere, so the time has come to stop this and treat everyone as a human being." "No one is born with their choice in religion. We don't choose religion; God puts us in that religion."
New Zealand Prime Minister was not only quick to dub the attack as an act of terrorism, but also she visited a Christchurch refugee centre to deliver a message of unity to the country's Islamic community. "You were quick to mention this is not the New Zealand that you know. I want to reaffirm that today. This is not New Zealand," she told Muslim leaders. She also assured the people that there would be change in the gun laws.
It is also encouraging to note that the members of the Security Council condemned in the strongest terms the heinous and cowardly terrorist attack. The Security Council reaffirmed that terrorism in all its forms and manifestations constitutes one of the most serious threats to international peace and security.
It is a frightening phenomenon that in nation after nation a growing number of people are voting for leaders who stoke hatred against minorities and other oppressed groups, advocate exclusionary nationalism and belligerent militarism against other nations. The right wing political parties who advocate hatred against minorities and migrants are increasing their political support base in many countries. Fighting global terrorism is one of their stated priorities. It is a contradiction that these political parties and leaders promise to root out terrorism and at the same time they encourage hatred and revenge against certain groups by their provocative statements and hate filled actions. In fact hatred is the root cause of terrorism.
In India the Bharatiya Janata Party under the leadership of Narendra Modi came to power promising Sabka Saat Sabka Vikas (With the support of all development of all). But many studies show that there was phenomenal increase in hate crimes against certain religious and caste groups during the Modi regime. According to the data furnished by the Home Ministry itself, there has been a 28% increase in the instances of communal violence between 2014 and 2017. In 2015, 751 incidents of hate crime were reported. Prime Minister Narendra Modi was quick to condemn the terror attack in New Zealand. He tweeted, "hatred and violence have no place in diverse and democratic countries". But the same Prime Minister kept mum at home when violence was unleashed on the Muslims by the Hindu extremist groups in the name of cow and love jihad.
"Various reports by the media show that ever since PM Narendra Modi assumed power, there has been a sharp increase in the religious hate crimes in the country. According to the data put together by Hate Crime Watch, 274 incidents of hate crimes were reported between 2009 and 2018, and 59 per cent of the victims in these incidents were Muslims, while 57 per cent of the perpetrators were Hindus. Twenty-eight per cent of these incidents were in the name of cow protection, and 90 per cent of these religious hate crimes since 2009 have occurred after Modi led the BJP came to power at the Centre in 2014". (Modi's Bharat and Development of Hindutva in NEWS CLICK on December 2018)
When the government of India announced that 300 terrorists and trainees were killed in the surgical strike at the terrorist training camp in Balakot in Pakistan some organizations in India celebrated it as India's victory and a kind of hysteria was noticed among the people who entertain hatred against Pakistan and Muslims. While it is to be appreciated that the armed forces performed their duty effectively, there is no reason for celebration when human beings are killed.
The preamble to the Constitution of UNESCO declares that "since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that defences of peace must be constructed." History is a witness to the fact that hatred and the desire to take revenge is one of the most important reasons for war. Terrorism is a kind of war in a limited space and innocent people are the victims of terrorism. Therefore the urgent need today is to cleanse human minds of hatred and revenge. It is very unfortunate that some organizations wedded to exclusivist ideologies pollute the minds of children with prejudice and hatred against certain communities. India is not an exception to this dangerous and disastrous phenomenon.
Along with campaign to root out hatred and revenge from the minds of human beings at all levels, special attention is to be paid to the education of children and young people. They are to be taught about the need for accepting and appreciating differences in race, religion, language and culture and respect all human being irrespective of gender, colour, national or ethnic or religious identities. Another core value the children have to imbibe is forgiveness and reconciliation.
Universal Solidarity Movement (USM), Indore in its one week Enlightened Leadership Training for High School students focuses on two core values along with competence building of the participants. These two core values are pluralism and forgiveness. One of the Five Paths of Self Transformation promoted by USM is praying daily for peace and forgiveness. During the sessions the students are shown illustrious examples of forgiveness. Sonia Gandhi's request to the President of India to commute the death sentence of Nalini, one of the four convicted for the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi, to life imprisonment is an excellent example for forgiveness. Her argument was that no child should be orphaned by an act of the state. Another example is the act unconditional forgiveness by Gladys Stains, the wife Graham Stains, an Australian missionary who along with two of their children were burnt to death in a jeep by some Hindu extremist groups while they were sleeping.
Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jn. and Nelson Mandela are shining examples of unconditional forgiveness. All of them were highly influenced by Jesus' teaching on unconditional forgiveness. Gandhiji literally practiced what Jesus taught, "Love your enemies". He opposed tooth and nail the policies of British government, but he had no iota of hatred towards British people. Unfortunately, many young minds are polluted by social media against Mahatma Gandhi. He is presented by certain fanatic groups as a villain who was responsible for the partition of India. During the one week training the students are shown the movie 'Gandhi' produced by Richard Attenborough with commentary, followed by discussion. At the end of the training the students admit that 'Gandhi' was the most influencing on their lives out of the five movies shown to them during the seven days' training. The core values they imbibed from Mahatma Gandhi are non-violence, truthfulness, readiness to forgive and commitment to pluralism.
Promotion of Gandhian values is one of the best means to root out hatred and revenge from the minds of people. In response to the appeal made by USM in the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi and Kasturba many schools have shown the movie 'Gandhi' to the students and motivated students to buy and read the autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, My Experiments with Truth.
Forgiveness and reconciliation along with pluralism (acceptance, appreciation and celebration of differences) have the power to change the atmosphere of hatred and revenge into peace and harmony and that is the need of the hour. If all peace loving people, especially religious leaders and teachers, focus on promoting these core values, terrorism can be rooted out, peace can be established and this world will be a better place to live.
"Peace is reverence for life.
Peace is the most precious possession of humanity.
Peace is more than the end of armed conflict.
Peace is a mode of behaviour.
Peace is a deep-rooted commitment to the principles of liberty, justice, equality and solidarity among all human beings.
Peace is also a harmonious partnership of humankind with the environment.
Today, on the eve of the twenty-first century, peace is within our reach".
Yamoussoukro Declaration of UNESCO
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(Published on 25th March 2019, Volume XXXI, Issue 13)
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This past summer, in the city of Kilkenny in West Cork, Ireland, poems by five poets previously published in elixir-journal.org, were displayed along a poetry trail that wove through the city as part of the Kilkenny Arts Festival Fringe.
Created by Paddy Hanon, the large and beautifully designed posters featuring poems by Lynn Ascrizzi, Youngin Sondra SuengJa Doe, Michael Fitzgerald, Sandra Lynn Hutchison, and Valerie Senyk, appeared at various points along the trail. Ascrizzi's "The Red Tree," Doe's "Facing the Buddha," Fitzgerald's "The Uses of Art" and "Song of the Planet," Hutchison's "Hejira" (from the long poem "Celestial Navigations"), and Senyk's "Pilgrim Poem" were the poems chosen by Anton Floyd, curator of the Poetry Trail, which was sponsored by the Irish Bahá'í Summer School arts' team and approved and set into motion by the Local Spiritual Assembly of Kilkenny.
Two sets of posters were printed, one set for the Kilkenny Poetry Trail, and the other for display on the campus of the Irish Bahá'í summer school. Once the Fringe festival and the summer school ended, posters were sold, with proceeds going to the Bahá'í Fund. Some of the posters now adorn the walls of the Norwegian Haziratu'l-Quds in Oslo.
Collected by editor Anton Floyd, the poems displayed along the Kilkenny Poetry Trail were published in an anthology of work entitled Point by Point, which appeared in the summer of 2018 and is available through the Irish Bahá'í Bookstore. The poets included in the anthology range from well known figures such as Tahirih and Robert Hayden to established contemporary poets and poets who are just emerging, all united in drawing upon a common source of inspiration: the spirit of the Bahá'í revelation. Poems by two of the e*lix*ir poets were translated into Irish by Seosamh Watson. A review of the volume appears in the "Looking Back on Books" section of this issue.
Anton Floyd is to be commended for his work in promoting the art of poetry within the Bahá'í community and for bringing the fine work of these five e*lix*ir poets to the Kilkenny Poetry Trail and the Irish Bahá'í Summer School.
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40 years ago today on January 22, 1973 the Supreme Court ruling in Roe vs. Wade legalized abortion in all 50 States. It is estimated that 55 million abortions have been legally performed in the United States since that time.
People walk past the U.S. Capitol during the second March for Life in 1975 in Washington.


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