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Muffs, Visqueen
by Bob Mehr
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If you want to make the case for the continuing artistic viability of pop punk, this old-school/new-school pairing is Exhibit A. Headliners the Muffs emerge from a self-imposed hiatus with their first new album since 1999's stellar Alert Today, Alive Tomorrow. Leader Kim Shattuck engineered nearly all the tracks for Really Really Happy (Five Foot Two) in her kitchen, and while the disc doesn't pack the same sonic punch as the band's three classic major-label records from the mid-90s, Shattuck's snarling riffs, melodic savvy, and guttersnipe lyrics are as potent as ever. Seattle's Visqueen, meanwhile, has frequently been tagged as Puget Sound's answer to the Muffs: it's another hard-rocking coed three-piece, featuring Kim Warnick, former front woman of the legendary Fastbacks and as close to an opposite number as Shattuck has anywhere. Here, however, Warnick is in support mode, providing harmony vocals and buzz-saw bass behind singer-guitarist Rachel Flotard, a pint-size, redheaded spitfire whose raw, rasping voice manages to taunt and seduce in equal measure. On its 2003 debut, King Me, Visqueen reclaimed the pop-punk concept from the post-Blink 182 hordes with a 27-minute assault of sugar-rush choruses and razor-wire riffage. The band's second treatise on garage bubblegum, the brand-new Sunset on Dateland (Blue Disguise), sounds even better than the first; thanks to producer Phil Ek (who did the Shins' latest, as well as some of the Muffs' earliest) and mixer Adam Kasper (Foo Fighters, Weezer), the CD retains every decibel of Visqueen's room-rattling live sound. Telenovela and Crimson Sweet open. Wednesday 29, 9 PM, Subterranean Cafe & Cabaret, 2011 W. North, 773-278-6600 or 800-594-8499, $10 in advance, $12 day of show. The Muffs also play a free in-store earlier in the evening: 5 PM, Tower Records, 2301 N. Clark, 773-477-5994.
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): photo/Kristen Shattuck.
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Home ᐳ News ᐳ Mexico's Cartels Corner the Chinese Market for Illegal Wildlife
Mexican cartels have taken to swapping illegally sourced wildlife for drug precursors from Chinese traders
Mexico's Cartels Corner the Chinese Market for Illegal Wildlife
CHINA AND CRIME / 14 APR 2022 BY SCOTT MISTLER-FERGUSON EN
The full threat posed to Mexico's biodiversity by both Mexican and Chinese organized crime networks has been revealed in a new report, which shows how unsustainable quantities of Mexico's marine and terrestrial wildlife are being poached.
This investigation by the Brookings Institution shows how a vast range of animals are ensnared in the wildlife trade and how this environmental crime feeds into other illicit economies.
Here, InSight Crime breaks down key takeaways from the report.
Big Profits in Illegal Wildlife Trade
China's demand for Mexico's wildlife is principally for use in food and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). On land, this means lizards, turtles, jungle cats, macaws, parrots, toucans and other birds are all fair game. Yet aquatic life is even more valuable as everything from sea cucumbers, jellyfish and shark fins can be commercialized with a significant mark-up in price between the two countries.
Sea cucumber, for example, can gain 70 times the profit in Hong Kong that it does for Mexican fishermen. Similarly, a kilogram of totoaba bladder, a supreme delicacy in China, goes for $5,000 in Mexico but $60,000 in China.
In numerous cases, overfishing proliferates to the point where species risk extinction in just a matter of years, oftentimes as a result of bycatch from fishermen using illegal fishnets. The practice has driven dwindling shark populations in Mexico on top of the near-extinction of the vaquita porpoise.
SEE ALSO: Latin America's Bustling Trade in Seahorses to China
Modus Operandi - Building a Command Economy
Facilitating each step of the supply chain is organized crime. The report found that the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (Jalisco Nueva Generación - CJNG), Mexico's two largest criminal threats, also prop up the illegal fishing trade in the country. The Sinaloa Cartel is particularly involved, in Baja California Sur and its stronghold of Sinaloa along the Pacific Coast and the southeastern state of Yucatán on the Caribbean coast.
According to the report's author, Vanda Felbab-Brown, the Sinaloa Cartel has been particularly adept at co-opting fishing communities through a series of steps.
First, extortion fees are demanded from illegal and legal fishermen alike. Once the cartel establishes greater control over a specific community, they demand that all catch be sold to them, at a price of their choosing.
Felbab-Brown highlighted how the cartels have managed to insert themselves in every stage of the supply chain. "The narcos also force restaurants to source fish from them," she wrote, adding, "criminal groups prohibit the restaurants from buying fish from their criminal rivals or independent legal seafood sellers, seeking to create a monopoly at the restaurant-supplier interface." The cartels employ similar tactics with processing plants, forcing them to exclusively buy fish from the criminal groups.
These two are not alone. The report named the Gulf Cartel (Cartel del Golfo - CDG) as the main player in illegal fishing along much of the Gulf of Mexico while a dedicated network of Chinese traffickers and Mexican middlemen, known as the "Dragon Cartel," engages in large-scale totoaba poaching in Baja California.
The Chinese Component
Whereas legal and illegal Chinese traders used to work directly with Mexican fishing cooperatives, criminal groups have wedged themselves between the two, making themselves unavoidable brokers in the fish trade.
As interlocutors though, their presence in China is limited. InSight Crime spoke to Felbab-Brown about the links between the two spheres of organized crime, who noted the key differences between Chinese and Mexican crime groups.
"The Chinese organized crime market tends to have a high level of specialization," stated Felbab-Brown. Those involved in the illegal wildlife trade are a variety of family clans, legal businesses and brokers meeting with the Mexicans, often outside of Asia."
SEE ALSO: How China Fuels Wildlife Trafficking in Latin America
Nothing in a Vacuum
The Illegal extraction of Mexican wildlife increasingly goes hand in hand with other illegal ventures in the country.
The author identified a worrying trend in which cartels will swap illegally captured wildlife, especially higher-value marine life, for chemical precursors for drug production. "More and more in Mexico, totoaba [swim bladder], other marine and terrestrial products and timber are used by the cartels to pay for precursors necessary to manufacture illicit drugs."
The practice has been seen previously with South African gangs trading poached abalone, a high-priced marine snail, for chemical precursors for methamphetamine from Chinese networks.
While it is unknown the frequency of chemical precursors for wildlife swaps, this is a way for cartels to avoid the hassle of laundering illicit profits through more traditional means.
According to Felbab-Brown, cartels have also been known to harmonize oil theft with the illegal fishing industry. Both the Sinaloa and Gulf Cartels resell stolen fuel to large and small fishermen in coastal states, she said.
CHINA AND CRIME ILLEGAL FISHING JALISCO CARTEL MEXICO SINALOA CARTEL WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING
CHINA AND CRIME
JALISCO CARTEL
WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING
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Guyana claims some 42,800 square nautical miles of ocean. Enforcement capabilities extend to just a fraction of the country's waters.
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The software and solutions from CA Technologies help agencies thrive in the application economy by delivering the means to deploy, monitor, and secure their applications and infrastructure.
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CA Technologies is one of the world's leading providers of information technology management software and systems. Our systems help organizations plan, develop, manage, and secure applications and IT infrastructure that increase productivity and enhance competitiveness in their businesses. We do this across a wide range of environments, such as mainframe, distributed, cloud, and mobile.
CA Technologies software and systems have been powering innovation for more than 35 years. Founded in 1976, we have approximately 11,500 employees in more than 45 countries helping organizations thrive in a world where every business is in the software business.
Digital transformation is the process of shifting from traditional structures, processes, and systems to new, digital operations to meet the needs of today's highly connected, fast moving, and digitally-enabled world. Core to this transformation is the ability to be agile and adapt quickly in a changing environment. Agencies can no longer wait 12-18 months to deliver an application to their customers because by then the market has shifted— and that's what we're looking to do in the Intelligence Community. The world is constantly shifting. Look at the Arab Spring and how quickly it arose. Industry didn't necessarily have the software ready or tool sets available for analysts to manipulate open-source intelligence and overlay it onto classified intelligence. Now, we're helping analysts develop new software in hours instead of months and years. Digital transformation is turning an old process into an agile one to help organizations react much faster to world change.
Our core technology capabilities support areas of security, agile management, and DevOps helping organizations plan, develop, deploy, manage, and secure applications and IT infrastructure. We work with the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community as well as some of the most powerful companies in the world, including more than half of the Global Fortune 500 companies and the largest 25 federal agencies.
One product we offer specific to the GEOINT space is CA API Gateway, which helps bring together multiple sources of data or intelligence into a single format for sharing. For example, if an organization has a satellite image or other type of data they want to overlay, our solution helps convert it to an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)-standard format for display. Additionally, CA Live API Creator helps generate APIs automatically from databases, allowing organizations to accelerate the availability of data for all types of applications.
CA is committed to research and development. We encourage our industry partners to visit our CA Labs website. We're doing research in architecture and software engineering, business management, security management, software development, the cloud, and more.
There are many capabilities that differentiate CA from other vendors. One key item is our understanding of the Intelligence Community and the direction in which it's headed. For instance, we understand programs of record cannot take 12-18 months to get features and functionality out there. We know you have to be agile and move quickly. And we don't just talk about agile—we adopted the approach as a company to better and more quickly navigate market shifts. It allows us to use best practices to drive the transformation of how we do business and how the market is doing business.
We have coaches available to help people navigate the agile processes as well as the tools to back it up in our agile management and DevOps portfolios. The suite helps agencies accelerate the development process and support application performance. We understand the digital transformation process, not just from the technology and tools perspective, but also from the people and process perspective.
Does CA Technologies have any recent news or announcements?
This year, CA acquired privileged identity management solutions provider Xceedium. The proxy-based, gateway approach from Xceedium provides privileged access control over cloud, on-premise, virtualized, and hybrid IT environments, helping protect the systems driving the application economy. In November, we announced a new version of CA Privileged Access Manager (the former Xceedium product) specifically supporting privileged user access to dynamic VMware NSX environments.
Additionally, we've acquired Rally Software Development Corp., an agile development software and services provider. Rally's acquisition is a significant milestone in CA's strategy to help customers thrive in the application economy.


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There are currently two versions, single and multi-player live dealer baccarat where some include side bet bonuses.
Playing the game is very simple. You need to place a bet in the specific betting spot following which the dealer will deal he player and banker hand. All winning bets are paid out instantly and betting will resume for the next hand.
The objective of the game is to get a hand with a value as close to 9 as possible.
Numbered cards from 2 to 9 retain their face value.
When a hand totals 10 or more, 10 is subtracted from the total to determine the point value. So if your hand total is 15 your actual point value is 10.
Here is how a game of live dealer baccarat typically pans out.
Once you enter the live dealer casino's lobby simply click on the live dealer baccarat section.
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It would be wise to understand the player's Third Card rule.
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The dealer can draw the Player a third card if the Player has a hand value of 5 or less.
A third card cannot be drawn if the player has a hand value of 6 or more. The banker must stand.
If the total of the Banker's first two cards is 2 or less, he can draw a third card.
The Banker can draw a third card if the total points are 3 but only if the player's third card is not an 8.
The Banker must stand if the total points of the first two cards is 7.
4. What are the odds like in live dealer baccarat?
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Hold handle bars. Step one foot on lower foot pedal, and one foot on higher foot pedal, making both feet level with each other. Adjust handles to chin height. Turn machine on.
Push one foot pedal down and pull down same-side handle bar, allowing opposite foot pedal and handle bar to rise. Alternate movement on opposite side and repeat.
On hydraulic models turn speed knob towards "step faster" before beginning. If the seat is used the exercise would be non-weight bearing. Intensity can be altered by resistance and speed. Also known as Versa Climber.


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Q: How to read strings until end of input, with reading lines until \n is found in C? I would like to read strings in while loop, until end of input, but I dont know how.
For example, input is:
Car
Black car
White car

First, I want to scanf 'car' and save it in array.
Then, I want to scanf 'Black car' and put it into aray, and so on.
 while (scanf("%[^\n]", s)>0)

This reads only one line, but when I use this code:
 while(scanf("%s", s) > 0)

It reads one word after another, so there will be no 'Black car', but 'black' and 'car'.
Do you have any idea to make this two conditions together?
And, I have  got two nodes in linked list: first is 'White car' and second is 'Car black'. I want to sort it in alphabetical order. I want to get into array1 the first letter of 'White car', which is 'W' and into array 2 the first letter of 'Car black', which is 'C'. But when I printf array1, it print'W', but when I want to print array2, it writes 'CW'? When I printf one->name, it print 'White Car' and when I printf two->name, it print 'Car black'.
void sort(Car**head){
Car*one;
Car*two;
Car*temp;
one= *head;
two= one->next;

int compare;
char array1[1]={0};
char array2[1]={0};

while(one->next){
    compare= 0;
    strncpy(array1, one->name, 1);
    strncpy(array2, two->name, 1);

    printf("Array1: %s\n", array1);
    printf("Array2: %s\n", array2);

    printf("One name: %s\n", one->name);
    printf("Two name: %s\n", two->name);

    compare= strcmp(one->name, two->name);
    if(compare<0){
        temp = one;
        one = two;
        two= temp;
    }
    one = one->next;
    two = two->next;
}

}

A: Use the standard C function fgets. For example
char s[N];
while ( fgets( s, sizeof( s ), stdin ) != NULL && s[0] != '\n' )
{
    //...
}

Where N is some integral value.
Here is a demonstrative program
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void)
{
    enum { N = 100 };
    char s[N];

    while ( fgets( s, sizeof( s ), stdin ) != NULL && s[0] != '\n' )
    {
        s[ strcspn( s, "\n" ) ] = '\0';
        puts( s );
    }

    return 0;
}

if to enter
Car
Black car
White car

and after the last input press one more Enter then the output will be
Car
Black car
White car

This statement
s[ strcspn( s, "\n" ) ] = '\0';

is used to exclude the new line character '\n' from the entered string. This character can be appended to the entered string by the function fgets.

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Lord of the Rings: The Card Game - The City of Corsairs (engl.)
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Lord of the Rings: The Card Game - The City of Corsairs (engl.) is backordered. Depending on when the product is reprinted it may take weeks / months to arrive.
"Looking thither they cried in dismay; for black against the glittering stream they beheld a fleet borne up on the wind: dromunds, and ships of great draught with many oars, and with black sails bellying in the breeze."
–J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
After a long journey and many surprises, several of Middle-earth's greatest heroes arrived at the city of Dol Amroth, only to find it under siege by a fleet of Corsairs. Taking up their arms once more, the heroes joined Dol Amroth's defense and helped to win the day. Their work, however, was not yet complete…
Fantasy Flight Games is proud to announce the upcoming release of The City of Corsairs, the thrilling conclusion to the Dream-chaser cycle of Adventure Packs for The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game!
With its new scenario, The City of Corsairs grants your heroes the opportunity to board the Dream-chaser one last time, set sail for the lands of Umbar, and conclude your business with the Corsairs once and for all. But will you truly be ready for the dangers that await you? Featuring not one, but two new encounter sets, The City of Corsairschallenges you to navigate Umbar's coastal waters and battle past Corsair Ships before you set foot on land to pursue the Númenorean artifact that was stolen from you. Don't expect this task to be easy, though! In their lands, the Corsairs you'll face are deadlier than ever, and the Númenorean artifact grants them a strange and corrupting power.
Fortunately, in The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game, you never have to travel alone. Not only does the game allow you to adventure with up to as many as three of your friends, but it also allows you to fill your deck with numerous allies and as many as three heroes. And these include some of the noblest and most notable names in The Lord of the Rings, such as Prince Imrahil (The City of Corsairs, 138), who offers you his support in The City of Corsairs.
Prince Imrahil and the Support of Gondor
Without a doubt, the arrival of a new Tactics version of Prince Imrahil is one of the highlights of The City of Corsairs. He bears the same two Willpower, three Attack Strength, two Defense Strength, and four Hit Points as the Leadership version from A Journey to Rhosgobel. He also retains the same eleven Threat Cost. However, as Prince Imrahil moves from inspiring Leader to Tactical commander, he trades his self-readying Response ability in favor of a new Combat Action:
"Spend 1 resource from Prince Imrahil's resource pool to search the top 5 cards of your deck for an ally who shares at least 1 Trait with him, and put that ally into play. Shuffle your deck. At the end of the phase, if that ally is still in play, shuffle it into your deck. (Limit once per round.)"
Although it's limited to the Combat phase and can only target allies that share at least one of his three Traits, Prince Imrahil's ability functions in most other ways like a built-in Sneak Attack (Core Set, 23), making it fantastically ripe for exploration. The fact that Imrahil's ability is restricted to allies that bear one of his three Traits actually does less to limit your exploration than to get it started. After all, a quick survey of the allies released in products up through The Thing in the Depths reveals six Noble allies, thirty-two Gondor allies, and thirty Warriorallies. There exists, of course, some overlap between these traits so that you're not looking at 72 different allies, but the fact remains that Imrahil can target a tremendously varied array of allies, an array that only grows larger with The City of Corsairs and its three new Gondor allies.
Of course, if you're paying for Imrahil's ability each round, you're going to want to get as much impact per use as possible. To that end, you might want to dig up allies with abilities that trigger when they enter play, such asMablung (The Land of Shadow, 5) or Envoy of Pelargir (Heirs of Númenor, 18). Alternatively, you can find efficiency with allies who grant you more than mere defense or attack strength, such as Legolas (Treason of Saruman, 5) and his card draw. However, you certainly don't need "enters play" or Response abilities on all your allies to make great use of Imrahil's ability. One Tactics resource is a small price to pay to gain immediate access to powerhouse allies likeGlorfindel (Flight of the Stormcaller, 6) or Beorn (Core Set, 31), who can immediately swing a perilous Combat phase in your favor.
All told, Prince Imrahil's ability promises to sit at the heart of some of the most exciting new decks from the Dream-chaser cycle, especially when you consider that he can be paired with Tactics Théoden (The Morgul Vale, 134) andÉowyn (The Flame of the West, 2) in a deck that can charge full-speed forward in the Quest phase for eleven Willpower and still have a means to defend against any enemy that shows its face. And, in addition to all of this, The City of Corsairs also introduces the Prince of Dol Amroth Title (The City of Corsairs, 146), which grants Imrahil the Outlands Trait, expanding your options for allies and deckbuilding even further!
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Кларак () насеље је и општина у јужној Француској у региону Миди Пирене, у департману Горњи Пиринеји која припада префектури Тарб.

По подацима из 2011. године у општини је живело 171 становника, а густина насељености је износила 26,89 становника/-{km²}-. Општина се простире на површини од 6,36 -{km²}-. Налази се на средњој надморској висини од 264 метара (максималној 485 -{m}-, а минималној 235 -{m}-).

Демографија

График промене броја становника у току последњих година

Види још
 Списак општина у департману Горњи Пиринеји

Референце

Спољашње везе
 База података: -{Insee}-
 Clarac на страници Националног географског института Француске
 Clarac на страници организације -{INSEE}-
 Најближа насеља (километража, правац и координате)
 Положај места Clarac на мапи Француске (са основним подацима о месту)
 План насеља Clarac на мапи (-{Mapquest}-)

Департман Горњи Пиринеји у Француској
Википројект географија/Насеља у Француској


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Drawing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, to cope with future challenges for people and for the EU
ESU Video Conference
On 19 January 2021, the European Seniors' Union (ESU) organized its first video conference of the new year. It was an honor that President Emeritus of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, first full-time president of the EU Council (2009-2014), was willing to participate as our keynote speaker concerning: 'Drawing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, to cope with future challenges for people, for the EU'. As the German temporary Presidency of the EU just came to an end, two speakers complemented Mr. Van Rompuy's speech: Dr. Hardy Ostry, director of the Europe office of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) in Brussels and Mr. Rolf Berend, former Member of the European Parliament (1990-2009), President of the Senioren-Union of the CDU in Thüringen and member of the Executive Committee of the ESU.
2021: A year of recovery and hope
ESU-president An Hermans introduced the theme, looking ahead to 2021 as 'a year of recovery and hope'. She was referring to Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said in her last New Year's address to the nation as German Chancellor that 2020 was "by far the most difficult year of her 15-year leadership". The COVID-19 pandemic caused in 2020 a health crisis, followed by an economic and social crisis and a cascade of challenges, affecting all areas of society, everything and everyone. President Hermans reminded that throughout the whole pandemic period -starting in March since the WHO declared that we were facing a global health crisis- the seniors' associations in the ESU-network kept in touch through many ways: the Newsletter, Facebook, videoconferences… "The year 2020 turned out completely unexpectedly for our societies, for governments, for the EU. When Ursula von der Leyen, as the new President of the European Commission, presented at the end of 2019 the strategic priorities for 2019-2024, no one could have foreseen that the EU and the Member States would face a pandemic that would affect all the set priorities. In the near future, however, the EU will have to face these 'headline ambitions' again:
A European Green Deal;
An economy that works for people;
A Europe fit for the digital age;
Protecting our European way of life;
A stronger Europe in the world;
A new push for European democracy.
And we, European citizens, expect the EU and Member States' governments to realize these ambitions, but first of all we have to cope with COVID-19, becoming 'the challenge of the century', demanding a common multi-sector recovery program from the EU and all Member States." An Hermans said.
What does all this mean for the future of the EU?
How will the corona pandemic overshadow that future?
What lessons should be learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and the results of the policies developed to deal with the pandemic?
Answers to these and more questions would follow in the video meeting.
Drawing lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, to cope with future challenges for people, for the EU
Herman Van Rompuy gave an analysis of the current problem areas ahead of us: clear, concrete and based on factual data, in line with his years of experience as an economist and politician and his firm belief in the necessity of European integration. He formulated answers and perspectives on the following questions:
What can we learn from the COVID-19 crisis? A return to 'normal' or to a 'new normal'?
How has the EU reacted to the crisis? How can the EU and Member States improve their policies to fight more effectively together for citizens' health?
What can be done to recalibrate the EU's role in a changing geopolitical world in order to strengthen its capacity to act in line with its interests and values?
You can find Herman Van Rompuy's lecture here.
Gemeinsam, Europa wieder stark machen
Since Germany had the presidency of the EU Council from July to December 2020 and given the changes in the CDU party in Germany, after Angela Merkel's leadership for 15 years, the ESU also invited Mr. Hardy Ostry and Mr. Rolf Berend. Furthermore political developments in the CDU could have consequences not only in Germany but also at European level. During the first-ever splendid digital 'Election-Congress-event ' on 14-15 January, Armin Laschet -currently the prime minister of Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia region- was chosen to be the new CDU-chairman. These were all reasons to look back and evaluate the German Presidency of the Council, and in the meantime to look forward and explore new perspectives that are important for the future of Europe, including Germany's role in the future.
"Most important is the togetherness of the 26 Member States. The governments stood in front of very difficult decisions. But… they did it, together. The recovery will be a joint European process." Mr. Ostry stated.
For more information on the German Presidency please check their website, for more information on KAS, click here.
The EU in search of 'strategic autonomy' to respond to new challenges…
During the past decade, Europe has faced many challenges: the global financial and economic crisis, the migration crisis, Brexit, the need to act decisively on climate change, new rules to create a more safer 'digital space'… and most recently, a pandemic that brought us in an unprecedented global health crisis. More than ever in a globalized world we experience interdependence, but instead of uniting around common solutions, great powers, and often even EU Member States, compete with each other.
But, in recent times, we also learnt, and we knew it already for a long time: 'in Europe we can only recover together; in Europe we need to act together'. This is a very important idea for the future. Herman Van Rompuy highlighted: "For the EU, one should not underestimate the trend of European sovereignty or 'strategic autonomy', a concept mentioned in the European Council conclusions of December 2020. We have to become less dependent on other countries or other geopolitical actors. The word 'strategic autonomy' applies to all domains. It's about much more than defence. It relates to the digital, our strategic sectors, the international role of the euro, the City of London, energy, irregular migration, food, pharmaceuticals etc. In our European language we like to talk about 'a common destiny'. But if the EU is so dependent on others in so many domains it has no longer its 'destiny' in its own hands…(…) Brexit or not, the European caravan is moving on, as I have tried to show you. It is not just about survival but about deepening that unique project of cooperation. By the way, in today's world with the interdependence in terms of trade, migration, health, climate and security, cooperation is inevitable. In our view, the Union is indispensable for its 450 million citizens, for defending and promoting our interests and our values, indispensable also for world stability and progress."
The ESU is created to stimulate and promote active senior citizenship. This first videoconference of 2021 brought a lot of up to date information, for which we thank our expert speakers, Herman Van Rompuy, Hardy Ostry and Rolf Berend, and the interpreters, simultaneously transmitting the speeches in German, English or Spanish. Moreover the conference also created a basic attitude of trust and confidence and the firm conviction that it is worth to stand for Europe, in the future, as we did in previous decades. It is a starting point for further meetings and activities in the coming months.
Europe's future: demographic challenges and opportunities for a strong recovery
'Let's be guardians of an ethical dimension of politics'
Our ESU was welcomed in Cyprus
the ESU president and secretary general were invited to cyprus for talks on the occasion of the UNIDOP, digitalisation and much more
1st October: United Nations International Day of Older Persons: 'Digital Equity for All Ages'
A message from our president on the occasion of the 1st of October: United Nations International Day of Older Persons (UNIDOP): 'Digital Equity for All Ages'
A quarter of a century of active senior citizenship: we are grateful & celebrate
25th anniversary of the ESU - ESU-Madrid-Congress 23-25 September 2021
ESU Extraordinary Congress
Amendments to the ESU Statutes and Rules of Procedure.
'Building the future together'
Seniors focussing on EU's political priorities: ESU-Madrid-Congress 23-25 September 2021
Online meeting Executive Committee about the upcoming ESU-Congress in Madrid
Some inspiring echoes from our member organisations of the past year
Overview of the Country Reports at the Executive Committee on 3 July at our Summer Academy
2021 Summer Academy
Online edition of ESU Summer Academy presenting most recent information about EU policies relating to the EU challenges for the future and to age & ageing
A European Health Union in the making? - Ensuring EU solidarity for a better healthcare for all
ESU-video Conference 20 April 2021, 11h00-12h30
Launch of the 2020 Annual Report
For ESU too, 2020 was an unforeseen year, our annual report gives an overview of how we learned from this abnormal year and tried to overcome the obstacles.
Older persons and digital inclusion in today's information society
ESU-statement
The era of digitalization: from communication highways to disinformation and infodemic. Opportunities and potential risks
ESU Video Conference 23 March
Videomeeting with Mrs Dubravka Šuica, Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of Democracy and Demography.


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Stacked on Her Office Shelf: Stewardship and AIDS Archives
Still from Grandma's Legacy, Bebashi (scroll to bottom of page for video)
Over the last 5 years, academic, writer, and videomaker Alexandra Juhasz and writer and organizer Theodore Kerr have enjoyed a public conversation project around changes within the AIDS media ecosystem. In the text below, they build upon two previous conversations where they discussed movies like The Dallas Buyers Club, How to Survive a Plague and the HBO remake of The Normal Heart to explore how and why media about AIDS has only relatively recently begun to take up space in public after a long silence. Previously, they reflected upon how a good deal of what is currently being made, seen, and talked about stays rather narrow in its focus, looking at stories of the epidemic's impact on primarily white, middle class, often gay men and their communities. Here, looking at their own past work and how this conditions what they as researchers, scholars and activists look for and want to save, Juhasz and Kerr begin to consider what might be needed so that many inheritances of AIDS could be salvaged, shepherded, and mothered into a legacy of plenty.
"You know how it is when people die? Folks always be putting words in your mouth. This way, if I don't say it on tape, I ain't say it baby." These words are spoken by an actress in Grandma's Legacy, a video where she is playing a soon-to-be-grandmother living with HIV. The tape is most likely from the mid-1980s and was created by Bebashi, an AIDS Service Organization in Philadelphia. Our uncertainty about most of the details of the tape's provenance, despite several attempts to research it, demonstrates what will be a recurring question in this discussion about the patrimony of AIDS history: who is authorized and empowered to pass on what to whom? We will consider what might be needed to keep all of our valuable inheritances live. This seems critical, given that, while saving people's lives in the present was a primary concern for the making of AIDS tapes, some of the impetus to make activist videos in the first decade of the crisis was also to claim a well-deserved place in what would become history, especially given that this was a time of so much loss.
Taking the Bebashi tape at face value, one of Grandma's legacies is a bridge to a neglected past via a VHS dub of a DIY-educational video project. In it, she speaks proudly and publicly from her time, and yet somehow she has been quieted in today's making of AIDS activist history.
In the tape, she discusses with her daughter the reason they are making a videotape about AIDS (in what is the final chapter of a series of short video vignettes that focus on the impact of domestic violence, poverty, drugs, and HIV/AIDS on black women); the daughter is recording her mother's life story for "the sake of posterity." The grandmother does not believe that she will live long enough to share her life story with her grandchildren, one of which is soon on its way. We see the grandmother primarily through the camera, the eye of her daughter. Occasionally, when the grandmother expresses doubt about telling her story on tape, we get a shot from a different perspective and see the two women sitting across from each other—the camera now acting as bridge between generations: the daughter and mother in the tape; the activist, feminist, womanist of color legacy of AIDS; and Ted and Alex (and you, the reader), the seeking viewers of today.
Grandma's Legacy is one example of the numerous activist videos made in the US during the early response to HIV. Taking up new and affordable camcorder technology to create culturally specific tapes regarding the AIDS crisis, these tapes by and for the communities most impacted by AIDS, then and now—people of color, women, trans people, and people living in poverty—would be played wherever there were VHS players and monitors: in churches, multi-purpose rooms, on cable access and mainstream television. Made for diverse audiences, they shared a commitment to foster more realistic depictions of and informed discussion about HIV/AIDS. This tape-based method of community organizing and video activism within the early stages of the North American AIDS movement has largely been lost as have many of the tapes themselves. However, they exist as testaments to what we now call "intersectional" strategies, and they are waiting to be recalled by and re-gifted to a present that seems to have misplaced and could very much use this legacy.
This summer was the first time Ted had seen Grandma's Legacy. It was one of many viewings for Alex. The video was pulled from Juhasz's personal archive of AIDS tapes, which Kerr and she watched together at her home. Some of the tapes were digitized in 2015, as she prepared to move from California where she had lived, taught, and written for 20 years, back to NYC where she had begun her career writing about/making AIDS tapes while participating in early AIDS activism. Juhasz had amassed her archive initially as research for her dissertation that would become her book AIDS TV: Identity, Community and Alternative Video (Duke University Press, 1995). Stacked on her office shelves in their original VHS format, most of the tapes had gone largely unseen since she had first made or acquired, viewed, and written about them in the late 1980s. The act of re/viewing and the lessons they provide for activism and media making today organizes the conversation below.
In previous conversations Juhasz and Kerr have identified, discussed and refined a timeline of an AIDS media ecology that begins with a highly active period of AIDS media making and dissemination (1986-1996); followed by the Second Silence (1996-2008), a period of reduced creation, dissemination and attention to AIDS related media; to the present moment, the AIDS Crisis Revisitation, marked by a notable increase in the production and dissemination of AIDS related media that looks back at the early days of the known AIDS epidemic often using video footage from the past (mid 2000s-ongoing).
Films like Dallas Buyers Club (2013, Jean-Marc Vallée), How to Survive a Plague (2012, David France), United in Anger (2012, Jim Hubbard), We Were Here (2011, David Weissman) Sex Positive (2008, Daryl Wein), Larry Kramer in Love and Anger (2015, Jean Carlomusto), Back on Board (2015, Cheryl Furjanic) and The Normal Heart (2014, Ryan Murphy), to name only a few, have been widely seen, earned awards, and captured the minds and imagination of a cross section of communities. They have brought together those who lived through the early days of the crisis and those who, generations later, are inspired by and interested in how communities responded to a plague that was being ignored by the government and other powerful players in public health, medicine, and mainstream media.
Films from the AIDS Crisis Revisitation are inspiring and enable discussion of a chapter of American social movement history that is little told in more formal educational settings. Yet, as we and others have noted, there is a troubling sameness around who and what is being historicized.[1] These media offerings primarily center on the stories of white, middle class, often gay, cisgender men. In the films, these men are depicted as the dominant, and sometime only demographic of people living with HIV, as well as those largely responsible for fighting against public apathy and governmental neglect. However, AIDS activism might be understood to be successful at this earlier time precisely because multiple communities and constituencies suffered and also struggled to achieve both discrete and shared activist goals. For example in How to Survive a Plague, we see a small group of mainly white gay men who fight to secure life saving medication. But Revisitation films rarely show the many other constituencies within ACT UP, as well as other activist groups, who developed their own appropriate tactics to reach other goals. For example: too little known is the story of how women living with HIV in prison were foundational in the fight to have the definition of AIDS changed in the US to include them, a reality that came to pass in 1993. Where is the movie of that story?[2] Missing is the story of Other Countries, the ongoing writing collective of black gay men, who in the early days of the crisis came together to write about what was happening to them and the people they loved in the face of the epidemic. Missing is the story of Latino activists who worked to get meds for people across the Americas during the early days of an epidemic that knows no borders.
Lost within the Revisitation is the fact that AIDS activism grew out of the rich traditions of the civil rights, gay rights, and women's health movements. The North American AIDS activist and not-for-profit landscape was much more diverse, fertile and complex than the current revisitation lets on.[3] At the time, a rich amalgam of local AIDS organizations targeting particular communities, as is true now, developed and enacted a range of tactics that reflected their constituencies and concerns. The footage and narratives that reflect this diversity of AIDS-related realities have not been brought fully forward to the present, rather what we often find before us looks like a patrimony: a circulation of images and ideas primarily focused on white gay men.
Which is not to say that gay white men did not suffer and die from HIV in numbers both criminal and devastating and are not still deeply impacted by the disease. They were and they are. But, they are not alone and never have been. Currently in the US, around 1 in 4 people living with HIV are women,[4] and as the Center for Disease Control reports, "Blacks/African Americans have the most severe burden of HIV of all racial/ethnic groups in the United States."[5] As of 2014, "44% (19,540) of estimated new HIV diagnoses in the United States were among African Americans, who comprise 12% of the US population."[6] And these numbers don't show the populations that fall out of statistics. For example, only recently have trans women and men been counted at all. Rather, for most of the crisis they have been recognized as either cis men or cis women. Advocates argue that this disappears the reality of folks while also providing inaccurate insight into people's health and well-being,[7] and instead reflects embedded and outdated ideas of gender, identity, risk and prevention.
It is here where different stewards of video activism and the AIDS archive can help to make a break into history, revealing more complex and diverse narratives and strategies than those that are otherwise more readily available, be it through the Revisitation, statistics, or the many other ways in which legacies are saved and passed on. In reviewing Juhasz's tapes, we found that in contrast to the urgent yet narrow view of history being expressed via the Revisitation, the past is filled with video work largely ignored, video that was created by and featuring a diversity of makers and communities. In the discussion below, we work together to begin to respond to the questions: how did we get here and what else is there to save, see and pass on?
Ted: Coming up in Edmonton, Alberta, in the late 1980s and 1990s as I did, where it seemed like no one was talking about AIDS at all, I can't fully convey to you the overwhelming feelings raised by going into your archive and seeing the enormity of what had actually been created and what I had never seen. I think for people of my generation and younger there is a sense that the educational and cultural inheritance we received around HIV/AIDS lead us to feast on scraps. We took what we could from whatever we could get our hands on, which was primarily prevention posters, memories of our own encounters with mass media, and stories from elders, primarily rooted in a pre-1996 reality. To have known and had access to a more diverse array of AIDS activist video would have blown me away and most likely changed the trajectory of how I came to understand HIV/AIDS. At the very least, I would have been more secure in my awareness that not only was AIDS not over but that it impacted folks beyond the gay male community.
Alex: A hard thing being an aging activist is determining when it is appropriate to share stories and strategies from the past. On a personal level, although I lived and worked in the past, I am now part of present-day struggles. Looking backwards is often detrimental to attending to the most important tasks at hand. But, as critically, people working in the present often see the ideas, tactics, and troubles of the past as dated, tiresome, or overstated. There are multiple reads of and needs for the past that are live in any multi-generational activist community.
Furthermore, many things that were common sense for one period or generation within a larger activist history stay common sense for those who experienced or developed them but lose this familiarity for people who enter the movement later. For instance, the fact that there was a huge body of unimaginably diverse videotapes that were made by and for the AIDS activist movement, in its stunning complexity, and that for a time these were shared and then used in a variety of activist contexts—from the most remembered and visible activity of taping and sharing street-based activism, to the less remembered forms of what we called "trigger tapes," (videos like Grandma's Legacy that were made to be stopped and discussed), or PSAs, informational videos, and artist's tapes—this feels like something I just know. It wouldn't dawn on me that I would need to share this history with you, Ted. More so, the fundamental knowledge that AIDS is a crisis experienced disproportionately by poor communities of color, half of whom are women, is simply a known known for me. I wouldn't think: I need to share that "from the past." Finally, I wrote my dissertation about these ideas and tapes, which were developed in lively dialogue within a rich, active, and large community of thinkers, artists and activists, and so I guess I thought I had said it already, as had many of my peers. Why would I need to say it again? And, I hope that you don't take this personally, Ted, but I did know that you had actually read my book! So how come these ideas didn't pass forward to you? How come it hadn't stuck that this archive was as huge, and rich, and multiple, and just plain amazing as I testified to at the time?
The answer, obviously, is not that you are a poor reader, or I hope, that I am an unconvincing writer or videomaker. Instead, we must consider how the range of activist practices and the many possible archives that (might) hold them create the broader frameworks that produce, sanction, maintain and pass on institutional and cultural memory and knowledge. Of course my AIDS TV, and many similar and linked interventions by scholars and writers and activists, testified to the rich complexity and common-sense knowledge of that time, but the stewards of the AIDS archive—the cultural institutions and their workers that were deemed or deemed themselves responsible for saving this history—reflected primarily one section of this community (itself internally complex and varied): the gay white men with the most access to capital and other forms of cultural sanction.
If gay white men and their institutions are the stewards of the AIDS archive—which is what we are suggesting here—of course what is shelved, highlighted, searched for, found, and re-seen will primarily reflect this point of view, an important but partial one. We merely ask: what do other archives hold? What do we find when we read all of Corpus, a journal that came out of AIDS Project Los Angeles created primarily by LGBTQ youth of color? Or look at the history of Gay Men of African Descent? What picture of AIDS activist history and media making would emerge from them? And then, we found an obvious strategy to begin to answer these questions! I had such an archive: small, partial, dated, to be sure. But I had to re-do old work again (that is, screening these tapes and providing a context in which they made sense) to show these videos to you! And it was such a wonder to me, re-watching many of the tapes with you for this project, and then choosing the seven works we would focus on for a larger piece of writing on movement media, that you did not know, could not imagine, somehow had not learned about the amazing images and strategies that we had struggled so hard to invent, mobilize and save. You, a person who had made this your goal! Where had we/I gone wrong? How do we fix this?
Ted: I understand that, as someone who was part of the response to AIDS while it was first unfolding and unraveling all around you in a city with a variant ecosystem of community responses, your very definition of the crisis and the response was and continues to be intersectional and complex. And that, in turn, impacts how you encounter someone like me in this work, and your thoughts and feelings around how AIDS is being memorialized and what is being lost and forgotten as history is being remembered, translated, and cherry-picked. My experience is very different. The only obvious things you and I have in common when it comes to HIV is that we are both negative, white, and deeply embedded in community, meaning our lives are lived among friends, lovers and fellow activists who are living with HIV and/or are deeply impacted by the ongoing crisis.
I often come back to this idea that I am working through a cultural inheritance of AIDS, what we are calling its patrimony. Of course I have read your book, but it took me time to find it, and even then I was reading it through what I knew. The first fifteen years of my involvement with HIV/AIDS was cutting through both the silence and the mainstream ideas around HIV/AIDS as seen in "Special AIDS episodes" of sitcoms, almost always featuring young white men who were implicitly or explicitly gay and who were always tragically dying. And it was not just prime time. On talk shows, the nightly news, and in magazines, white gay men were always pictured as central to the AIDS story, even when it was about women, babies, or "Africa." Even in the process of moving the story of AIDS away from gay white men, their centrality was reestablished.
Alex: I have to intervene here, Ted, with a sad but telling utterance … duh! What you see as a revelation today is exactly what we knew and showed then: that we had to wrestle the narrative to include women; that women's experiences of HIV were different from gay men's; and that a feminist, womanist of color, and what would become called, thanks in part to our work, "queer" critique of dominant representation would be our visual and organizational templates. These strategies were rife across the early AIDS activist landscape, to be quickly lost it seems, except for in my memory (and that of my peers), on my office shelves, and in my book and scores of scholarly articles.
Ted: I guess that is why it seems so important to me to get to the bottom of this stewardship of AIDS archives for me. Because growing up, even in the rare moments that white gay men were not the implicit or explicit focus, my mind had already been trained to read gay into AIDS. As a young gay man it felt nearly mandatory for me to consider HIV—if not outright fear—as part of my identity creation and patrimonial legacy. So what had been, I thought, a personal experience and limitation is actually now structural in terms of the way that the history of how both gay white men and AIDS have been represented in the mainstream. We see this with the allure How To Survive a Plague has. For gay men, and LGBTQ folks in general, the footage of young queer people fighting the system and having a major win is intoxicating. While no such AIDS films existed when I was growing up (or rather, I had no access to the legions of AIDS activist videos that did exist), gay history books and, soon enough, the internet circulated images like Silence = Death and General Idea's Imagevirus. These became seminal to how I could consider being in the world as a gay man. Volunteering and then working at the local AIDS service organization was about wanting to be part of what I saw: the queer creative effective response to make the world better, through AIDS activism.
Alex: Ted, I think the unpacking you are doing is valuable. But we have to be careful here. As recent conversations with our friend—artist and activist Pato Hebert—have shown us, when we speak so much of gay white men—even when we are working to destabilize the space they/you take up in this conversation and how that came to be—we end up not speaking about black gay men, gay men of color, straight men and other people who may defy easy classification. Even in this conversation it seems that whiteness, man-ness, and gayness have become rigid and too tied together. "Gay," as an identity and an organizing principle in the ongoing response to HIV/AIDS in the USA and around the world, has been a vital position of strength, solidarity, and resources and can be claimed by any number of people from various backgrounds and life experiences.
My political project has always been to work inside communities to make visible the stories of the most-impacted and yet somehow still least-seen perspectives within AIDS (women, but also poor people, people of color, children, parents, drug users, prostitutes) because I have always understood AIDS to manifest and magnify the larger structural and institutional deficiencies of our society that deny some people equal access to health, education, dignity, safety, and even civil rights. However I remain (self) aware of the role of white people (like us), (gay) men (like you), and those of us who are privileged due to education, class, or other forms of cultural capital in the broader movement. "Intersectionality" is not simply about forefronting the experiences and points of view of people who are shut out of dominant, monocultural depictions of reality and history but also about understanding that there is really no monoculture to begin with: that the dominant position itself, if understood with care and complexity, can and does inspire alliances, as well as more nuanced understandings of the allegiances, motivations, connections and differences which build, sustain and sometimes topple movements.
Ted: Totally. And eventually I got out of the myopic way of viewing HIV/AIDS. My world-view changed because of what I was exposed to, working primarily with women (of color, queer, and First Nation), two spirit men, and a few older white gay guys. From them I received an education in critical race theory, indigenous ideas around community and overall, feminist approaches to public health. They helped me not loose sight of the role of sexuality in the story of HIV/AIDS, nor my own experiences as a person in the world. I remember one time at a public talk about HIV that turned homophobic, my friend and colleague Lynn and I sprung into action, countering lies being told. We began by asking the speakers to clarify some of the more egregious things they said to ensure that we were hearing them correctly, then we took over the space, turning it into a teach-in around the social determinants of health. When a woman from the audience said that she did not know any gay people, I swiftly corrected her saying something to the effect, " You do now. Me." In the car home that night I felt high and told Lynn as much. She said that feeling was the best of what can happen when we allow the personal to be political.
As I came to find out, no matter how hard I try to keep ideas of "gay" and HIV/AIDS separate, there is a meaningful connection between them. Finding the balance is really important. After years of thinking about HIV almost solely though a gay lens, I then went too far the other way. I became nearly intolerant when hearing HIV history related almost solely through the lens of "gay men." I had to learn to think about my sexuality in both personal and political ways.
Alex: It's interesting to hear this from you here because what drew me to you was precisely your enthusiasm, energy, and optimism, particularly in relation to what had always been core to my AIDS activist work that centered the experiences of women, people of color and lesbians. You were cutting a new space for this (old) work, and that was so invigorating.
Ted: My cynicism cracked in early 2016, when I was given a tour of the Schwules Museum in Berlin. A longtime volunteer explained to me the evolution of their collection. It started by acquiring with the gay experience in mind, then evolved to consider lesbian, bisexual, and eventually the trans experience. But from the beginning of the known AIDS crisis, the museum collected everything on the subject regardless of identity markers, and as a result, they have a cohesive HIV archive. It was clear, in his telling, that the museum's trajectory was an emblem of pride. Not only was he proud to be a volunteer with the Museum, he specifically wanted to impress upon me the deep and vast AIDS-related holdings that they had. In talking about this, a word came up: stewardship. The museum was acting as a steward of an expansive and complex AIDS history, one that early on recognized that the crisis impacted all kinds of folks and an implicit understanding that AIDS was a gay concern. Within the belly of burden was also the notion of responsibility to represent AIDS not just as it impacted gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans folks, but everyone. Having this interaction freed me from the near intolerance I was often facing, and instead gave me a bird's eye view on how we could see the AIDS archives within the gay domain being constructed, and what could come of this choreography of history.
In months since, I have come to learn that a lot of AIDS-heavy archives live within LGBT-focused archives. In Norway, for example, Norge-HIV recently donated all their papers to the nation's LGBTQ archive in Bergen. And closer to home, even your own records at the New York Public Library's large holdings of HIV related papers and artifacts is part of the Gay and Lesbian Collections. Similarly, StoryCorps, which arguably began when the founder interviewed his straight neighbors living with HIV on the Lower East Side about their lives, has an initiative to collect stories about HIV but this too lives under their LGBTQ initiative.
I am excited about your tapes because they open up the possibility to see HIV/AIDS both through an LGBTQ lens, but also beyond and with other lens. Or maybe to put it more productively, I want to wrestle with something you tackle in AIDS TV.[8] Early tapes about AIDS were important, vital, and effective because they worked to challenge dominant depictions of reality that looked little like the day-to-day lives that people experienced in relation to HIV/AIDS and other things. Decades later, a lot of those day-to-day experiences have not been pulled forward into our historical remembering. And that is a shame, because on top of communities and situations not being represented within much of the current AIDS Crisis Revisitation, further lost is the already ineffable. I am thinking now of 2 questions Pato brought to our attention. His friend, Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, a sociologist whose groundbreaking work focused on queer Latina/o oral histories, asked: "How do we put into words experiences that are so meaningful or so painful they can't be spoken? What language do we use to remember things that, historically, are outside language?"[9]
When we watch a tape like Grandma's Legacy, we are not only seeing a black woman living with HIV (although the importance of that cannot be understated), we are seeing expression, concern, movement, embodied by the actresses, caught on videotape, that are specific to a place, time and experience: Philadelphia, late 80s, a black woman with her family in search of support. We know what history looks like if only those with most access save, pass on and then retell it. By putting Grandma's Legacy back into circulation we take one small step, with many others, to begin to make this history more complete. There are more stories, more realities, more experiences of living with HIV than we will ever be able to share. But that does not mean we should not try. The only thing worse than knowing what has been lost to history is not knowing what has been lost to history.
Words by Horacio N. Roque Ramírez (1969-2015); Photo by Pato Hebert; Poster by Edições Aurora / Publication Studio SP. Courtesy of Pato Hebert.
[1] Most notably, in his essay "How to Survive…" for Women Studies Quarterly, Jih-Fei Cheng writes about how recent films primarily depict "AIDS activism through the lens of white male heroes," resulting in women and queers of color being "marginal in these films," and appearing "only in order to go missing by the narrative's end." Similarly, in his essay "Under the Rainbow" for The New Inquiry, Tyrone Power writes about how the revisited histories "appear in memory as decidedly white and middle-class."
[2] That tape is in Juhasz's small private archive. Debra Levine and Catherine Saalfield's I'm You, You're Me: Women Surviving Prison, Living with AIDS (1992). See this and more tapes discussed in Saalfield's Annotated Videography in AIDS TV.
[3] See: Alexandra Juhasz, "Forgetting ACT UP," Quarterly Journal of Speech, 98 (2012): 69-74.
[4] "HIV Among Women," Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Accessed August 22, 2016, http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/gender/women/
[5] "HIV Among African Americans," Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Accessed August 22, 2016, http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/racialethnic/africanamericans/
[7] W.O. Bockting et al, "Transgender HIV prevention: A qualitative needs assessment," AIDS Care, 10 (1998): 505 - 525; "HIV Among Transgender People," Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Accessed August 22, 2016, http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/gender/transgender/
[8] In a passage quoting Claire Johnston, Juhasz is interested in the role of self-representation in the work of social justice. AIDS TV (Durham: Duke University Press, 1995), 79.
[9] The questions are from the essay, "Sharing Queer Authorities: Collaborating for Transgender Latina and Gay Historical Meanings" which appears in Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History, eds. Nan Alamilla Boyd and Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, Oxford University Press; 1 edition (February 17, 2012) Pato Hebert shared Horacio Roque Ramírez's work during (Re)sent(i)ment, a community dialogue that occurred at Casaro do Belvedere in Sao Paulo as part of Cidade Queer, a collaboration between Lanchonete.org and Musagetes. Hebert first encountered this particular quote in Alamilla Boyd's remembrance of Roque Ramírez. Edições Aurora / Publication Studio SP heard the quote during the (Re)sent(i)ment event and translated Roque Ramírez's insights into Portuguese and then designed and disseminated two posters. The posters were created for Ataque!, a community house ball held outside Praça des Artes in Sao Paulo on September 10, 2016.
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By Allison Romano published 4 June 05
After running KUSA Denver and four other Gannett-owned TV stations for six years, local-TV veteran Roger Ogden is being given oversight of the company's entire fleet. When current station-group chief Craig Dubow moves up to become Gannett's president/CEO next month (replacing Doug McCorkindale, who will remain as chairman), Ogden will become president/CEO of the 21-station Gannett Broadcasting Division. He spoke with B&C's Allison Romano about his plans to expand the company's existing TV business and cultivate new revenue streams.
With a soft national spot market, how are Gannett stations trying to stimulate ad sales?
You don't give up on national advertisers, but developing local businesses who are not traditional TV advertisers is critical. For example, you can aggregate potential advertisers. We have a multiplatform program with 30 to 50 dentists. It gets people thinking about dentistry, and then they choose the dentist.
We have also started daytime programs in several markets, including Denver, Sacramento, Calif., Phoenix and Atlanta that are advertising-driven. It is not the answer, but it is one more product we can offer. And the Internet has opened up a new category. We get viewers' attention with a spot on TV, but the real payoff is to send them to the Web to get more detail.
Stations are testing new services with video-on-demand, cellphone services, broadband and multicasting. Where will you focus Gannett's resources?
We have strong, established brands for local news and information, and now we have to develop those brands across the emerging platforms everyone is talking about.
We'll do a little bit of everything. I am really engaged in the interactive world and the Internet and broadband delivery. In the past, what we produce has largely been limited because we've only had a single or maybe two distribution channels. But in tomorrow's world, those constraints will no longer be there. We could target information geographically or by demographic. The important thing is to continue to experiment in our markets, figure out what holds the most promise and then make those bets.
How are your stations developing their digital broadcasting capabilities?
All 10 of our NBC stations are committed to Weather Plus, and we like what we see. Our Knoxville, Tenn., station has had a second channel for several years with a little original programming and some repurposed product.
Other non-NBC stations, like Grand Rapids, are doing hybrid weather and local news. The whole idea is to experiment, figure out what has a marketplace and what the viewer interest is, and then take what we learn and export it to other markets.
You are experimenting with local programming at a few of your stations. Will you develop it throughout the group?
Locally produced programs are a big part of our future. Access magazine shows are coming back en vogue, and we have daytime programs in four markets that are largely commercially driven. But I don't know that we can carry the concept too far. It is one more piece of the puzzle in attracting people who have ad dollars to spend.
What new product are you itching to try?
I am a big fan of local magazine shows. My first GM job [at KCNC Denver] came in the early stages of PM Magazine. I always thought there was a lot of wisdom in the format. You make them locally, and you could make them efficiently.
But access was the only daypart available. Now we have secondary channels, duopolies and the Internet. There are no longer the same constraints as before. What were the reasons you couldn't maintain it? It had a lot to do with distribution. What was not entirely doable 15-20 years ago, we have to revisit.


Harare - Zimbabweans should brace for the introduction of a new currency, if revelations by opposition member Tendai Biti and socialite Ace Lumumba are to be taken seriously.
In a tweet that has sent citizens into confusion, former finance minister during the inclusive era, has warned people to brace for the forthcoming currency introduction.
"The regime will this week introduce a new Zimbabwe currency not backed by any #reserves & without the context of structural reforms which a prerequisite of currency reform.
"That move is pure undiluted #insanity. An unbanked currency is just the #bond note by another name," said the opposition leader.
Biti's revelations comes after the current finance minister Mthuli Ncube has hinted the introduction of the new currency to replace the surrogate bond notes.
"Over time, we will move back to a domestic currency, but that requires certain steps like fiscal consolidation around government expenditure and on the revenue front. There is no time frame, but we need these things to happen sooner than later," he said.
The minister however cautioned that some steps need to be taken to achieve it.
"We need certain triggers such as that we need to have a full momentary policy committee that is working and be able to move to a market-based allocation of foreign exchange.
"So that those who are exporting are able to have their accounts in foreign currency and keep those as their receipts and build those blocks of reserves."
Lumumba has added weight to the rumours.
"I can confirm its true! New local currency on the way, there is a condition of securing reserves in place but I can confirm to you.
"It's coming. Prepare yourself, don't panic. At best they will delay, most likely not. Let's wait for official comms."
However, Lumumba has said the government is working on securing reserves to back the currency. The controversial character once spoke of an impending coup that toppled Robert Mugabe, via a military backed ouster.
Forty eight hours later, Mugabe was relegated from power and replaced by his disposed deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa.
The news has ignited a flurry of statements from the sate to deny the news.
"Govt has noted with concern falsehoods coming from some political quarters claiming that Zimbabwe will issue new currency next week.
"This needs to be dismissed with the contempt it deserves. This has no base in fact or reality. It's unfounded Fake News," the ministry of information tweeted.
Not to be outdone, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) also added their statement.
"The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe would like to urge members of the public to dismiss, with utmost contempt, claims being circulated on social media regarding the introduction of a new Zimbab we currency. The country shall continue to use the multi-currency system."
"The regime has been caught with pants down. It is a fact that a new currency has been printed & that negotiations are taking place now with major holders of cash.
"It is fact that Cabinet has approved new currency despite paternity fight between John (RBZ Governor) & Mutuvi (Mthuli Ncube). Now please deny this."


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The Training Campaign aboard the Amerigo Vespucci represents a key element in cadet professional development, passing on the Italian Navy's core values of love for the sea, ethics, loyalty and honor. The 'most beautiful ship in the world' set sail from the Italian Naval Base in La Spezia on April 19th


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History of Sparwood
It began with a whistle stop
Prior to 1900, there was a railroad stop in the region known as Sparwood, which was so named because of the trees from this area being shipped to the Coast for manufacturing spars for ocean vessels.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, coal development in our region resulted in the creation of three small communities known as Michel, Natal and Sparwood, respectively. The former two communities were in the immediate area of the coal mines and the latter, Sparwood, was a few miles removed.
By 1966, the Village of Natal and the settlement of Michel had become adversely affected by coal dust. The Village of Natal, in cooperation with the Provincial and Federal Governments, entered into an Urban Renewal and Land Assembly program, which eventually resulted in the townspeople of Natal and Michel moving to Sparwood.
Sparwood has a storied collection of tales and events all shaped by the coal industry, and the strength of the community is still proudly founded on the coal for which it all began.
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