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12 Girls Created a Solar-Powered Tent to Tackle Homelessness
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They didn't know how to sew. They didn't know how to code. They didn't know how to solder. And they had never used a 3-D printer before. But 12 girls at San Fernando High School taught themselves all these skills — and more — to create a solar-powered tent for homeless people.
It's a feat of scientific ingenuity that shows how much potential is squandered every day when girls aren't encouraged to pursue STEM careers as much as boys traditionally have been. And it shows the astonishing imaginative reach of young people.
The girls had been invited by a teacher to come up with a science project to participate in the Lemelson-MIT Program, a highly competitive science fair for high schoolers. Most of them weren't friends beforehand. But they all had common backgrounds and when they got together they knew they wanted to do something about the rising problem of homelessness in San Fernando, according to a profile in Mashable. Homelessness grew by 36% in the San Fernando Valley last year and many of the girls witness the suffering caused by this daily.
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"Because we live here, we see it growing constantly," Maggie Mejia, a student on the team, told Mashable. "If your parents miss X amount of bills, you can fall into homelessness, too."
Read More: San Francisco Gets $100 Million to Fight Homelessness
They tossed around ideas such as tackling pollution and water quality, but ultimately agreed that creating tents with power sources was the best solution.
Then DIY Girls, a nonprofit dedicated to unlocking the scientific potential of girls, began guiding them through the process of applying for grants.
After receiving a $10,000 grant from the Lemelson-MIT Program, the team got to work figuring out how to create a solar-powered tent and what that means exactly.
Starting from scratch was a struggle, but the team depended on early insights from DIY girls and soon realized that tutorials could be found online.
Read More: The Gender Gap in STEM Classes is Finally Closing, Study Finds
They learned how to sew, code, operate 3-D printers, and more through youtube videos, Google searches, and other platforms.
Working hard! #soldering #coding #prototype
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"You're learning new things you've never even heard of or even thought of," Chelly Chavez, a student on the team who learned coding languages for the tent's technical aspects, told Mashable.
A hashtag was developed that captured their enterprising spirit: #wegetitdone.
Soon a prototype was developed and after working for a year, the team has a finished product that they'll present at MIT in a competition with 14 other teams.
They were able to raise the funds for traveling to MIT through a Go Fund Me.
Fulfilling more test plans. The friction test and durability test. Featuring @imnotpapaya
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The solar-powered tent has button-powered lights, USB ports, and a sanitizing UVC light. It features insulated fabric and has a safety locking system. Taking into account the vagrant experiences of most homeless people, the tent even collapses into a backpack that can be rolled around or worn with straps.
Read More: 32 Posters of Badass Women in Science to Inspire Girls Today
For the entire team, the experience has been transformative. Many will be the first in their families to go to college. They learned valuable skills. And all of them will be challenging a status quo that routinely denies STEM opportunities to women.
"Me and her, we're the only two junior girls in our AP calculus class, which has way more guys than girls," Paola Valtierra told Mashable. "But we're gonna change that."
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There are old adages that state, "you get what you pay for," "nothing comes free," and "if it is too good to be true, it probably is." Advertising is a great form of art and everyone realizes that everything promised in an advertisement may slightly be exaggerated or even misleading. Have you ever compared those cheeseburger photos in the ads – that they spend hours primping on to make them look just perfect – to the cheeseburger that get placed on the tray just before they call your number? Not even close. At what point of exaggeration do you begin to question whether the company behind the misleading ads are shady or untrustworthy.
In the language of business it seems that much of the advertising focuses on how a certain program of language learning is so easy that it borders to being unbelievable or it crosses the line. Learning a new language without even trying seems to be the gist of many ads. The secret of the brain is revealed and this program or that program allows the language to just magically evolve from a few exercises with no memorization of pesky verbs and nouns and sentence structure, or any rules or exceptions to the rules, it will just... happen. If you send us your money we will send you the knowledge. In a few short hours, shazaam... you can begin to negotiate international trade agreements without the use of an interpreter.
The truth is that language learning does take time and effort. While shortcuts would be nice, the brain can only develop the skills by learning when to say what and how to make the sentence structure align, so that it resembles a language and not a series of pre-learned phrases that work only as lines in some pre-staged play. You are not learning lines for a movie; you are learning to speak and understand a dynamic language that works in the fluid situations which make up life.
So, next time you are listening to an ad that promises amazing things and kicking yourself for not having spent 10 hours to become fluent in French years ago think the product they are selling is snake-oil and it does not work. If you want to learn French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, etc., it will take time but it can be a great enjoyable journey that introduces you to great classmates and other individuals that are also on the road to self-improvement (rather than quick gratification).


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Following years of growing apart, Harold Lee (Cho) and Kumar Patel (Penn) have replaced each other with new friends and are preparing for their respective Yuletide celebrations. But when a mysterious package mistakenly arrives at Kumar's door on Christmas Eve, his attempt to redirect it to Harold's house ends with the "high grade" contents-and Harold's father-in-law's prize Christmas tree-going up in smoke. With his in-laws out of the house for the day, Harold decides to cover his tracks, rather than come clean. Reluctantly embarking on another ill-advised journey with Kumar through New York City, their search for the perfect replacement tree takes them through party heaven-and almost blows Christmas Eve sky high.


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By 2011, nearly one person out of every six living in the United States will be of Hispanic/Latino origin (Selig Center Multicultural Economy Report, 2006). The Hispanic community in the largest minority in the USA and the fastest growing, it is also one with a high incidence of preventable diseases such as Diabetes, periodontitis, colorectal cancer and HIV. Obesity and teen age pregnancy are significantly more prevalent in Hispanic/Latino population as well. Rate of vaccination is also below that of the majority of the population. Addressing their health care makes good public health and economic sense. Reasons for this discrepancies are many and varied, so different and varied approaches will be needed. In the Hispanic/Latino culture health care is most commonly sought after when symptoms appear, and in may cases only when those symptoms cause the individual's incapacitation. Working through discomfort is considered the norm, dwelling on discomfort or mild pain is seen as weakness and seeking medical attention when not ill, such as preventive care, is almost unheard of, unless it is required by one's employer. Culturally engaging in premarital sex is frowned upon for girls, though not so much for males, abstinence may be the only birth control ever discussed at home, for fear of implying consent. This significantly increments the danger of teen age pregnancy, abortion is rejected, mostly for moral and religious reasons, thus the high rate of teen age birth.
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The Latino culture takes a more monistic approach to the mind-body problem. This may affect the ways in which depression is experienced and expressed. For example, studies have found that Latinos are more likely to express psychological distress in somatic terms such as lack of energy, sleep disturbances, and body aches (Martinez Tyson, Castaneda, Porter, Quiroz, & Carrion, 2011). Additionally, studies find that Latinos are more likely to take a holistic approach to healing as evidenced by the
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The Hispanic/Latino community has been known to be underrepresented on college campuses, both at the community college and four-year university level. Factors such as low-income households, poor or harsh living conditions, under-educated parents, cultural and family commitments, and unfamiliarity with the college process, all serve as unfortunate barriers that keep Hispanic/Latino students from reaching the goal of attaining college degrees. Although these barriers keep many students from succeeding
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Latinos currently make up the largest and fasting growing minority group in the United States. In 2010 the Latino populations reached 18.8 million (Krogstad & Lopez, 2014). Since than the Latino population has continued to grow at a faster rate than the immigrant population. Yet with the increase in this minority group there still continues to be a lack of research when it comes to child abuse, especially child sexual abuse (CSA). Research has shown that Latino children have a higher rate of referrals
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A business plan acts as a road-map; it attempts to provide a pathway for the business to take in order to retain its competitiveness, maintain its structure and, most importantly, lends it an exoskeleton to plan its success on.
We all learn how to make business plans in any management-orientated course, but it is important to provide a structure to your business plan. Let's explore that structure stage by stage.
First things first; every business plan needs a to-the-point background. A background lends the reader a summary of what your business proposition is about and what planners intend to achieve by setting their businesses in motion.
Mission – What is the purpose of your business proposition?
Long-range vision – Where will we be in 5 years' time?
Goals – What are your business goals and rationale?
Start-up summary – What is the bottom line cost?
Once the background is provided, we can move on to providing a more in-depth look at the services that can be offered via the implementation of the business proposition.
Adding a Market Analysis Summary is essential at this stage. This summary must include relevant segmentation by geography and by business area. Also, it is valuable to incorporate a Target Market Strategy where the creator of the plan should consider both private listed/unlisted, public and private-public partnership (PPP) sectors for formulating this strategy.
The next stage involves a look at the competition that a particular business proposition might encounter in its core as well as peripheral offerings. A Competitor Assessment is not only about examining potential competitors' offerings but also a look at the strengths and weaknesses of current and potential competitors. This analysis provides both an offensive and defensive strategic context to identify opportunities and threats.
Next up, a detailed look at the business' strategy moving forward is necessary.
What is the 'Focus' of your business?
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The Marketing Strategy is one of the most important stages in formulating a good business plan. A good marketing combines the best elements of the organisation's strengths with a solid understanding of what the marketplace is all about.
Providing a timeline portrays the planning that has gone into your business idea; it symbolises diligence and conveys thoroughness on the planner's part. These can be put forward as key milestones in a business plan.
Do you know who will play what role in your business? How many employees/collaborators would you need and what do you have in mind for them to perform as part of your business? A brief overview of the key personnel in your business plan always makes for a good addition.
A business plan without a financial plan is an incomplete plan. No business can take-off, never mind survive, without a solid financial plan. This is a key step in ensuring that your business proposition comes across as viable with a tangible opportunity for it to run without descending into financial doldrums.
The key number in a financial plan is the forecasted profit, the profit margin you expect to achieve within a stipulated period of time running your business.
Finally, a list of key statistics and spreadsheets go a long-way in assessing the viability of your business in the long run.
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Jim and Barbara: The Definition of 'In This Together' - Husband and Wife Face Lung Cancer
"We're so blessed the doctors caught our cancer early on." - Jim and Barbara Eschenheimer
Jim and Barbara Eschenheimer, married for 56 years, have been side by side since they were 15. Over the years, they have done everything together: graduated high school, tied the knot, bought their first home, and raised a family.
For all they have shared, they never dreamed of sharing a cancer diagnosis.
Jim and Barbara believe they would be dead without Saint Luke's early lung cancer screening.
The 78-year-old husband and wife praise Jonathan Gendel, MD, Saint Luke's Primary Care-Blue Springs physician, who insisted they be screened prior to having any symptoms.
"The phenomenal thing is that this guy did something before anyone asked him to," said Jim. "We are marveled by Dr. Gendel, who got the ball rolling. He is our real hero!"
Knowing the Eschenheimers had a history of smoking, Dr. Gendel urged them to have their lungs checked while they still qualified for a free screening through Medicare.
"Jim and Barbara are a delightful couple who enjoy each other's company a great deal!" said Dr. Gendel. "I advocated for them to get CT chest screenings because they both had smoked for greater than 30 pack years. They were in their mid-seventies and had multiple underlying conditions."
Dr. Gendel scheduled them to see the multidisciplinary team at Saint Luke's Frank and Evangeline Thompson Thoracic Center, which is one of the region's most renowned centers specializing in a wide range of thoracic diseases.
With a PET scan and low-dose computed tomography (LDCT), a small spot of stage I cancer was discovered in Barbara's right lung, and a near-identical twin in Jim's left.
"When someone tells you that you have cancer, at first you're scared, but you don't want to sit around and wait," said Barbara. "You want it out now, and they took immediate action."
Two days later, Barbara had her nodule resected by cardiothoracic surgeon John Russell Davis, MD using the Da Vinci Surgical System, which articulates every movement of the surgeon's hands to enable greater precision and steadiness.
"The Da Vinci allows us to perform the best possible cancer surgery without a large open incision and perform rather advanced resections that cannot be done through VATS surgery," said Dr. Davis. "With three surgeons participating in thoracic surgery at Saint Luke's, we have the most experience of any institution in our region, from Chicago to the coast."
Barbara's surgery was a success, and during her five-day recovery at the hospital, Jim was by her side every second, as Barbara was by his when Jim's nodule was extracted a few months later by cardiothoracic surgeon Jessica K Heimes, MD.
"We aren't surprised that we have the same disease, at the same time, in the same part of our body," said Jim. "We do everything together and have been for more than 63 years. We are a package, two for one!"
Jim and Barbara even combine their appointments, so they can be together when they see their doctors.
"Today, both Jim and Barbara are lung disease-free," said Dr. Gendel. "As a practitioner, their case re-enforces the need for aggressive, appropriate screening, and realizes the better outcomes of early diagnosis."
"We're so blessed the doctors caught our cancer early on," said the Eschenheimers. "Don't wait around for cancer until it's too late. Be proactive and get screened now. You have nothing to lose but time, and you don't want to waste that."
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A Dog Named Freedom: A California Dog Rescue Tale
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Dog Files Fan, Julie Hendrickson sent in this powerful, dog rescue story about a dog in need and how it changed her life. Enjoy!
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Freedom the German Shepherd resting up after treatment.
I joined the Navy Nurse Corps in 1991 after graduating from Georgetown University. Several years after starting my Naval career, I became an active volunteer in animal rescue, rehab and re-homing with different organizations at every duty station. A little over 10 years ago, I became deeply discouraged by what I witnessed to be a consistent disregard for animal life observing that abandonment and neglect appeared more widespread than the actions of those who valued and cared for animals. I struggled with options to stay involved without "burning" out.
I deployed in 2003 and returned troubled but with an even deeper reverence for all life. At the duty stations to follow, animals in need "found" me, as several of my co-workers and friends began to say. I witnessed "rescued" animals helping other "rescued" animals. I unwittingly taught neighborhood kids about connecting and caring for animals so that they sought out my help for their own or others they found. My "off-duty" work with animals was taking more personal time and resources but creating some amazing experiences with individual people and animals. The thought of creating another place for people to drop off their animals made me shudder…but what could I do?
Julie served as a Navy Nurse Corps Officer for 22 years.
Considering Freedom
The large body laid on the outside lane of the 110 West with cars passing by. I scanned the area as I approached and spotted a safe place to pull over in between the highway and an off-ramp. "Maybe I can pull her body over", I thought, and then…the body moved. I waved my left arm franticly out the window as I slowed toward her hoping drivers would wonder enough about me to stay away. It worked! I stopped, jumped out and scooped her up. I found myself thanking God she was hit hard enough that she was unable to move. She was foaming at the mouth and weak. One of her front paws was hanging and deformed. For the first time, I used my i-phone as a smartphone and I found my way to a nearby Emergency Vet.
Bud, found with a chain grown into his neck as a pup, is now 10 yrs old and has been an "uncle" for many dogs, like Freedom, who have needed support and comfort.
I was in LA going through trauma refresher training preparing for my next military deployment as a nurse. I had never been to LA but the training was a good distraction from my troubled personal life. I looked forward to deploying and helping others but where was this work with animals going? I was finding them faster than homes and it seemed more people were giving up animals than adopting them across the nation. Was I really making a difference? …but I could not turn away from her suffering. In that moment, I knew I could help her…and that faith helped me to consider a freedom I hadn't felt in awhile.
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." -Viktor Frankl
Freedom was a great mama to her pups (Freedom and Sam).
Healing Freedom
The Vet said Freedom's first 24 hours would be critical to her recovery. Her injuries showed she had been struck in the chest. Both of her lungs were bruised and she was working hard to breathe…even with oxygen. There was little to be done but support her with oxygen and other meds for relaxation and comfort…and then wait and watch. After the first 24 hours, we discovered she was pregnant but there was no telling if any of the pups would survive. She still needed the support of oxygen and was not eating.
I named her Freedom because she inspired me to consider a freedom I had taken for granted. I chose to get involved, hope for her healing and share her story with others. Reaching out to others for help was healing as well. A couple people donated to her care, another came to visit and encourage her, others helped network for a foster home and many offered their prayers and other support. Reaching out to others mostly on-line and observing the response to Freedom's story also started the restoration of my faith in community.
Sam is the shyest of the pups but warms up readily with a game of fetch!
"All social change comes from the passion of individuals." – Margaret Mead
Freedom's complete recovery took almost a year. Within 4 weeks of her injury, she had 11 puppies. 7 of the 11 survived. She was watched over by both human and canine foster moms. Her canine foster was an old shepherd female who rested quietly with her before birth and then watched over her and the pups from a short distance. Freedom sought her out for safety and comfort until she had the pups; it was an amazing sight.
It was 2-3 months before it looked like the use of her front paw would return and even then it took several months for her to regain normal strength. She was a nurturing mom to the pups but the most difficult recovery was that of her faith and trust in people.
Mom's (Freedom) got dibs… and is gentle but firm about it.
Rescuing Freedom gave me the opportunity to honor my freedom, Freedom's life and, ultimately, the lives of 11 other animals. It could have been anyone but her injury and abandonment gave me a fresh look at an opportunity to choose my response and to act with compassion regardless of a lack of personal support to do so in that moment. I have done a great deal of official and unofficial animal rescue over the years. Finding Freedom came at a most inconvenient time for me but a pivotal time for both of us!
Honoring Freedom
"For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another." -Galatians 5:13
Just before I deployed, we started a facebook page for Freedom to get her story out and set up adoptions. At first, several families had expressed interest but, when I returned from deployment, only a couple homes had come through. I struggled with their training and care enlisting the help of caregivers with my salary. I was discouraged and once again thrown into thoughts of the droves of animals who are abandoned and in need of homes. The only place I knew well was my place as a military nurse. How could I possibly make a difference?
Freedom checking on young Nala.
How difficult it is to truly accept and honor our freedom. The daily grind threatens to erode it when we turn away from it for too long. As a military nurse, I have served to preserve freedom and to care for our guardians of freedom…but the freedom I mention cannot be preserved or taken away…only forsaken or accepted by individual(s). My first step in accepting that freedom once again was to file for retirement and make another leap of faith in God, myself and community.
In May of this year, We Are Guardians(W.A.G.) was formed as a non-profit in the state of California and has recently filed for 501(c)3 status. WAG's mission is to promote the human-animal bond through a community-based approach that frames our (human and animal) relationship as Guardians for each other. We plan to take a strategic and collaborative approach with communities to heal the human-animal bond in addition to rescuing and placing animals. Please join We Are Guardians (W.A.G.) in honoring Freedom and the opportunity that her rescue represents for all of us as Guardians. "Like" us on face book as We Are Guardians(W.A.G.) or contact us at [email protected]l.com. We are building our website at www.wag-healing.org.
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The "Death" of indie comics?
The Topps Company announced today that WizKids will immediately cease operations and discontinue its product lines.
Upon notifying our partners, Topps will immediately pursue strategic alternatives so that viable brands and properties, including HeroClix, can continue without noticeable disruption. To that end, WizKids will continue supporting Buy it By the Brick redemptions for Arkham Asylum, and the December Organized Play events for HeroClix.
The countdown has begun and gaming enthusiasts all across the country are planning their annual trek to Indianapolis in anticipation of what gamers everywhere know to be as The Best Four Days in Gaming. With 91,000 turnstile attendees, Gen Con Indy is understandably the place where consumers and the industry come together to see and play all that is gaming. For the sixth year in a row, the event will be held at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, taking place August 14 through 17.
Nominees for the 34th Origins Awards Announced!
The Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design (AAGAD) and the Game Manufacturers Association (GAMA) proudly announce the nominees in all categories for the 34th Origins Awards.
Game retailer attendees at last week's GAMA Trade Show in Las Vegas reviewed the list and selected the finalists in each award category. From those finalists, attendees at the Origins Game Fair and members of the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design will select the ultimate winners of the 34th Origins Awards.
This year's winners will be announced during the Origins Awards ceremony at the Origins Game Fair in Columbus, Ohio, on Saturday, June 28, at 8:00 p.m.


Walking in Place 1: New Orleans is the first in a series of standalone books by Los Angeles-based photographer Mike Slack, each taking in a different city, town or geographical locale. In this volume, Slack records various points of reference on a five day meander through The Big Easy, creating an inner travelogue both meditative and playful. Driven by an almost unconscious process of seeing, recording and cumulation, his gaze settles on architectural details, local flora, street ephemera, and the curious neighbourhood cats that cross his path. Led by his keen eye for street-side formalism, and a canny sensitivity to the poetics of light and tonality — and their unlikely urban iterations and combinations — Slack has crafted another telling contribution to what has emerged as a genuinely unique photographic language. The book itself assumes the form of an elegant, pocket-sized paperback — a non-linear, non-verbal journal for the perpetual wanderer. Signed by the artist.


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Q: Animate each row insertion separately Swift Im inserting new section (insertSections) as well as new rows inside it (insertRowsAtIndexPaths). I'm using those two functions for the sake of withRowAnimation parameter.
With the help of stack community i've been able to override the in-built animation and make it longer - with the following trick in the cellForRowAtIndexPaths
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i'm saving every indexPath.row for every section into an array of NSMutableIndexSets and removing it after the effect was applied.
Animation works, but all of the cells are inserted at once. I want this animation to apply for every new inserted cell separately. Unfortunately, even for loop (mentioned in the code) didn't help me to solve this issue.
Any insights are greatly appreciated.
UPDATE
Added the code for insertRowsAtIndexPaths and insertSections wrapped in a function
func insertData(){

// step 1 - appending the array

my2darray.append(dataarray[option1]!)

// step 2 -generating a range of IndexPaths for the appended array values

     let insertedIndexPathRange = 0..<self.dataarray[self.option1]!.count + 1
     self.insertedIndexPaths = insertedIndexPathRange.map { NSIndexPath(forRow: $0, inSection: self.my2darray.count - 1) }

// step 3 - appending our NSMutableIndexSet with current indexes

     var update2 = NSMutableIndexSet ()

    for indexPathMe in insertedIndexPathRange{
        update2.addIndex(indexPathMe)
    }
    storedarraysofindexes += [update2]

// step 4 - inserting sections as well as rows

    self.tableView1.beginUpdates()
    self.tableView1.insertSections(NSIndexSet(index: self.my2darray.count - 1), withRowAnimation: .Fade)
    self.tableView1.insertRowsAtIndexPaths(insertedIndexPaths, withRowAnimation: .Fade)
    self.tableView1.endUpdates()
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When i enter this Forest, my heart beats slower, and i feel at home, at peace.
Awesome capture. Got my vote.
Great image!! Love the tones and comp!
this is beautiful!! Your forest is like the ocean is to me. Great shot!
Great image, is this HDR? It is fantastic!
I can understand the feeling....so serene!
One of the more beautiful pictures I've seen here. I can actually feel this. Great work. Great one for "house"
This shot is so magical......it resonates with a life of its own....shimmering with a unique lifeforce.......I love this work!
Love this shot and I agree - I feel grounded when I'm in the forest.
Nice color and tone.. very peaceful.. beautiful work!


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This is the tenth in a series of blog posts about recovering from the Gulf oil spill and from oil dependency overall. The first introduces the series.
Cleaning up the spill and restoring the Gulf ecosystem, habitat and fisheries.
Expediting a shift by the energy industry in the Gulf – and everywhere – into cleaner sources.
Cutting demand for oil and so reducing the pressure for drilling in extreme areas such as deep waters of the ocean – the best and perhaps only good way to reduce the risk of this kind of catastrophe occurring again.
Today I want to write a bit about the first of these steps, the clean-up process. It's a huge project, theoretically funded by BP and supervised by the federal government, and at this moment delayed by the presence of Hurricane Alex in the Gulf.
As I've scanned news of the Gulf clean-up, I've learned a bit about the key role being played by the Oiled Wildlife Care Network. The OWCN has partnered with NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service and the US Fish and Wildlife Service to help lead efforts to care for oil-affected wildlife in the Gulf. Based in California, the OWCN is recognized internationally as a leader in saving wildlife from the effects of oil spills. Information at the OWCN website tells me that offering the best care for oiled wildlife takes more than showing up at a spill and scrubbing down turtles and birds. In news coverage, we see the actual response efforts, but the OWCN must also train and drill personnel to ensure rapid deployment when disasters strike; research methods for wildlife care to improve medical therapies used during oiled wildlife rehab; and share information and resources about effects of oil on wildlife and their habitat.
This is critical work, and I paid even more attention when I saw that the OWCN is administered by the Wildlife Health Center at University of California at Davis – my alma mater. Under the umbrella of UCD's world-class School of Veterinary Medicine, the Wildlife Health Center not only oversees the OWCN but also runs a range of other programs to support wildlife health and rescue.
When I began this series of posts, I promised to donate $2 per completed post to some sort of recovery effort. BP is paying for the actual Gulf cleanup, but the Wildlife Health Center does accept donations to help support preparation for spills and other programs. Until we're off oil, we need well-prepared organizations to do this. So I've decided to give my $2 per post to the UCD Wildlife Health Center. If you'd like to join me with a pledge – anywhere from 10 cents per post on up – please email me or leave a comment below. Thanks!
This is the eighth in a series of blog posts about recovering from the Gulf oil spill and from oil dependency overall. The first introduces the series.
In today's news from the Gulf, oil has now washed up on a major Mississippi tourist beach near Biloxi, forcing evacuations; trackers expect Tropical Storm Alex to become a hurricane and affect the spread of oil, even without crossing the spill zone; and high seas from Alex have already delayed BP's plans to attempt capturing more oil this week.
There's more in-depth information on Alex and other potential hurricanes, including expected effects on the Gulf oil slick, at the excellent Weather Underground blog, or WunderBlog, written by Jeff Masters. A WunderBlog post from earlier today reported that winds and currents resulting from Alex will likely "push oil to the west and northwest onto portions of the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama coasts …. Oil will also move westward along the central Louisiana coast towards the Texas border." In other words, there's still a mess spreading out from the shattered Deepwater Horizon well, and there's a long way to go to clean it up.
This is a wonderful example of what we can do as individuals and as households. Forty percent is a significant number. This story also reminds me of a book written years ago to encourage use of electric cars, Why Wait for Detroit? It's an apt title, given that Detroit's handling of electric car manufacture is summed up in the movie, Who Killed the Electric Car? When it comes to getting off oil, we might need a book with a similar title, maybe Don't Wait for D.C. I'm glad to see more pressure on Congress for energy and climate legislation – we definitely need it – but I'm not counting on the federal government to act as quickly or extensively as necessary. We also need plenty of personal action to truly clean up our energy act.
If you've read Divorce Your Car! you know I believe that personal action can be a big source of societal change. I'm grateful to the commenter cited above for providing another good example of how much difference personal action can make.
This is the sixth in a series of blog posts about recovering from the Gulf oil spill and from oil dependency overall. The first introduces the series.
Does the Gulf spill mean it's time for a carbon tax? I bring this issue up after reading Jason Henderson's essay on Streetsblog San Francisco, "The Moral Imperative of the BP Oil Spill: Drive 20 Percent Less." Henderson, a Louisiana native who now teaches at San Francisco State University, argues first that a moratorium on offshore oil drilling in the Gulf is imperative, and second, that we need to cut driving by 20 percent to offset the oil otherwise produced by idled Gulf rigs.
To support this reduction in driving, Henderson calls for a World-War-II-scale effort to encourage personal driving responsibility, increase federal transit funding, improve bicycle facilities, and encourage entrepreneurial jitney services to fill travel niches poorly served by bikes or transit -- all fine ideas.
One reader who commented on Henderson's essay suggested that a carbon tax be part of the package, and I agree. Such a tax would be an appropriate way to fund the changes Henderson suggests. I've long supported some sort of carbon or increased fuel tax, and would like to see such a tax be phased in with increases over time.
Why do we need this? Because it will likely take far more than BP's $20 billion to really make things right again in the Gulf. And because even though BP might have been criminally negligent, they're out there drilling in the first place because there's so much demand for oil. It's appropriate, then, that we all contribute to Gulf recovery with some sort of tax on the oil that's causing the problem. And it's also appropriate for that tax to be used to change the conditions that led to the problem in the first place. In other words, that it be used to help get us all off oil.
Support job training to help oil workers from the Gulf, as well as workers from other hard-hit areas such as Detroit, shift into cleaner, greener jobs.
Support incentives for renewable energy development including biofuels, solar and wind.
Expand programs that reduce oil and auto dependence such as Safe Routes to Schools and others.
Of course, a carbon tax would also reduce demand for gasoline, encouraging people to drive less and more efficiently; encourage energy conservation overall, further reducing the demand for petroleum and fossil fuels; and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, something else we need to do if we hope to have a human-friendly atmosphere much past the 21st century.
The idea of any sort of new tax affecting gasoline – be it a carbon tax, a BTU tax, or whatever – is politically charged and a tough sell. One hopes, however, that this might change if we fully acknowledge the moral imperative of helping the hard-hit Gulf region both recover and transition away from oil, and if we understand that doing so will help us all.
This is the fifth in a series of blog posts about recovering from the Gulf oil spill and from oil dependency overall. The first introduces the series.
Let's say you're sickened and dismayed by the Gulf oil spill and want to do something about it. You've been watching images of oiled pelicans, of slicks killing marshland, of unemployed anglers and Gulf residents in shock and fury. You can't believe the inability of both BP and the federal government to contain this spill after more than two months. Maybe you're one of the many who tune in to the live feed of the Gulf spill each day. It's devastating, and you wish you could do something, but you feel helpless.
I'm guessing many of us have felt these things – I know I have – and so as I write here, part of what I want to communicate, as well as remind myself, is this: We are not helpless. Maybe we can't dive under the sea to plug the spewing Deepwater Horizon well, but there is much we can do to stem the demand for oil that is the ultimate cause of this disaster, to help those suffering as a result of this spill, and to advocate change.
Petroleum products are such a part of our lives that it's hard sometimes to see how to stop using them (in fact, I first drafted this post with a petroleum product, a plastic pen filled with petroleum-based ink, and decided as I was writing that I must look for a source of pens made without petrochemicals; know of any?). As I hope I began to show in my posts of the last few days, though, there are ways to cut back, ways that can both help us withdraw from our oil addiction and, in the long run, help the people of the Gulf.
We can make a difference both with personal action and with political action. In the first few of my planned 30-posts-in-30-days I've touched on personal actions that can make a difference, and in future posts I'll cover more. As far as political actions go, there seem to be a swelling number out there now which address the crisis in the Gulf. One I discovered yesterday is Hands Across the Sand, a show of support for cleaner energy instead of offshore drilling. Hands Across the Sand started in Florida and since the Gulf spill, has grown into an international movement. There's a Hands Across the Sand event tomorrow, June 26th, at 12 noon; the website lists locations around the U.S. and the world. I'm inviting others to join me in supporting this where I live near Lake Superior.
For political action, I also believe in the power of the pen, the power of writing. I believe in it partly because, since writing Divorce Your Car!, I have had the honor of being approached by several people who've said, "Your book changed my life." But you don't have to write a whole book for writing to work this way. Even small bits of writing can do it. Just sending postcards to the Prez or to our Reps in Congress saying something like "Please help the Gulf economy shift to cleaner energy" will help that point of view get counted. It might not bring immediate action, but it can add up to a tipping point. Writing does make a difference, and it can make a difference with the Gulf oil spill as well as with getting us off oil.
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts about recovering from the Gulf oil spill and from oil dependency overall. The first introduces the series.
Yesterday's post on cargo bikes touched on some creative ways to haul feight without fossil fuel. Bike trailers provide yet another means of moving goods via human power. I like bike trailers for their versatility. They come in a variety of designs, you can take them on and off a bike as needed, and you can stow stuff in them just as you might toss things into the trunk of a car.
Bike trailers are astonishingly adaptable. I've known people who have hauled canoes on them for camping trips, as well as people who use them to carry their pets (and children!). A few landscape services use bike trailers to haul their tools to jobs, and some of the services that use cargo bikes also use trailers to expand their hauling capacity.
My own bike trailer (pictured above left) is pretty basic but serves nicely for things like grocery shopping, hauling books to the library, or doing several errands at a time. I generally use it if I have to carry more than will fit on my bike rack or in panniers. It's not fancy but I've had it for years and it suits my needs. The collapsible feature means it's not as sturdy as other trailers, but it's darn easy to store.
The heavy-duty trailers built by Bikes at Work occupy the other end of the quality spectrum. If cargo bikes can be likened to pickup trucks, then Bikes at Work trailers can turn a standard bicycle into a semi. You can see where I got this idea from the photo below.
Each of the two Bikes at Work trailers above can haul a load up to 300 pounds. When the company was founded, its services included hauling recyclables in Ames, Iowa (last I heard, that service had split off into a separate organization). Bikes at Work also maintains an impressive Carfree Information section on its website, a great go-to source for anyone wanting to get off oil.
I'll close today's post with a mention of another bike trailer I own. This one goes with my Bike Friday folding bike, and it's a suitcase trailer. The bike itself folds and disassembles to fit into the suitcase for easy transport on a train or bus (or plane, for those who fly with them). When the bike is re-assembled ( a process that takes just a few minutes, if you're good at it) the suitcase hooks on to the bike's rear hub and can carry your other luggage.
This Bike Friday suitcase trailer is plenty big for the two duffel bags I used when I set off on several car-free book tours after writing Divorce Your Car! This set-up enabled me to transition easily from train to bus to bike travel as I journeyed literally thousands of miles without using a car. My goal in doing this echoed the reason I wrote the book: to demonstrate how many great alternatives we have to petroleum-based car travel.
This is the third in a series of blog posts about recovering from the Gulf oil spill and from oil dependency overall. The first introduces the series.
More bad news today from the Gulf of Mexico as removal of a collection cap again allowed oil to gush unrestricted from BP's Deepwater Horizon well. And so the graphic display of oil-dependence dangers continues. Recovering from oil addiction takes on further urgency if we acknowledge, as Alaska writer Charles Wohlforth points out, that total clean-up from large oil spills is just not possible. In a superb essay for Seed Magazine, Wohlforth notes that less than 10% of the crude spilled two decades ago by the Exxon Valdez was ever recovered. Even as we gape in horror at the current larger spill disaster in the Gulf, significant oil still remains along the shores of Prince William Sound.
The pix compiled by Alan and urban planner Alyse Nelson inspired me to set down a few of my own experiences with cargo bikes. I first learned about hauling by bike when the cycle delivery company Pedal Express formed in Berkeley, California in the early 1990s. Still in business, the service will deliver up to 500 pounds and uses a fleet of bikes that includes the one pictured below. The Pedal Express website also includes a scrapbook of PedX cargo bikes carrying some really big loads.
I have used Pedal Express on a few occasions to deliver birthday presents to folks living within their service area. I've done this from Michigan by purchasing presents by phone from Berkeley or Oakland stores, then arranging for Pedal Express to deliver.
I got further experience with human-powered hauling when my household owned a cargo trike. Though it ultimately proved to be more than we needed, this beautiful recumbent trike was both fun and a good teaching tool as it garnered admiration from people who saw it. Custom-built by Lightfoot Cycles of Montana, this "ice trike" could navigate snow and ice as it carried cargo, an important feature for our long winters. Lightfoot, by the way, also makes cycles for people with disabilities and special needs, including hand-cycles.
When I wrote Divorce Your Car! I mentioned BikeCartAge, a Victoria, BC, bicycle delivery service that used this slogan: "Is there anything we can't deliver by bicycle? Not much!" It applies to cargo bikes overall, which you'll see when you check out Alan Durning's stellar photo compilation (did I mention you should take a look at his post?). I particularly like the "pub bike" built for Portland, Oregon's Hopworks by Metrofiets and designed to deliver beer and pizza, complete with bike-mounted kegs and a serving bar.
Note: I'm not sure whether these services still operate, but I'm checking. Stay tuned.
Obviously, cargo bikes alone won't get us off oil. Rather, they offer this take-home message: cycling technology can do much more than most of us realize. If we take greater advantage of these capabilities as part of an integrated strategy, they can indeed aid our recovery from oil addiction. And I agree with Alan: simply glimpsing what's possible can be a first step.
The more adventurous among us might go on from there to have our own cargo bikes, but even those who don't can support their use by patronizing services which use them. If you know of more such services, please share links or contact info in the comment section below. Thanks!
How can we heal from the devastating Gulf oil spill, and from our crippling dependence on fossil fuels? A pledge to count the ways ….
I've just returned from a six-week sojourn to California. I rode Amtrak there and back, visited family and friends, took a break from writing and blogging, and all through the trip, followed news of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster with the sort of horrified helplessness I'm sure many of us feel as we watch BP's ruptured well spew petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico.
Eleven men went down in flames as this debacle began. Now more than two months into the spill, scores of birds and animals have died in oil, beaches in at least four states have been fouled, the entire Gulf seafood industry is at risk, and we still have another two months to go before the Deepwater Horizon's geyser of toxic crude can be fully stopped.
The Gulf of Mexico and the human and non-human lives that depend on its ecosystem are casualties of our addiction to oil. This spill is nothing if not a wake-up call about the dangers of that addiction.
It's not just this worst-in-U.S.-history ecotastrophe that compels us to end oil dependence. As headlines astound us with the quantity of crude pouring into the Gulf, the gallons of petroleum products that consistently flush, leak, or spill into streams and seas also poison the planet. In her fine book Asphalt Nation, Jane Holtz Kay wrote of the spills that occur at all stages of our oil use, from drilling to driving, as she pointed out: "The whole system is a leaky vessel." As of the 1990s, when Kay wrote this book, an estimated quarter-billion gallons of oil regularly escaped into the environment each year just in the U.S.
Is this the future for the Gulf Coast, and for the globe – a future we are now watching unfold before our eyes as we view live video of Deepwater Horizon's dark and ongoing underseas gusher?
It doesn't have to be. The good news: there is a tremendous amount we can do to turn away from fossil fuels, to recover from oil dependence and pursue paths to cleaner energy. Based on prior research and writing on this topic, I believe that we can all help to do this now, today, in our own lives, in ways large and small. We can all help in recovering from the Gulf spill and in recovering from our crippling addiction to oil.
1) I pledge to write a blog post every day for the next thirty days about actions and policies that can move us down a path to cleaner energy, help us recover from the Gulf spill, and/or help us recover from oil addiction. I'm counting this post as the first of these thirty.
2) I pledge to pursue the personal oil-use-reducing actions I will write about, and describe my experiences in my posts.
3) I pledge to donate $2 per post to non-profits working on cleaner energy and spill recovery, and invite you to join me by pledging to donate anywhere from 10 cents on up per post I write over the next 30 days. In a future post, I'll give details about how to do this.
Many of my posts will be here on this "Divorce Your Car!" blog – appropriately enough, since so much of the oil we use gets consumed by driving. Some posts might be on other blogs, but I'll link to those here and make this site "pledge central." Besides pledging to contribute, I invite you to read and comment on these posts, tell your friends, and reduce your own oil use by trying out the personal actions I'll describe.


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Position will require individual to work at a fast pace and stand for up to approximately 8 hours a day operating a machine using hands and arms in a repetitive manner. The ideal candidate will be able to set up various machines independently that meet industry standards or the mechanical ability to learn the process. This individual must be able to produce good quality work and sufficient output and have the mechanical ability to perform preventative maintenance.
Position requires medium physical activity and repetitive motion, lifting up to 25 lbs. regularly, bending and stooping and constant use of hand and eye coordination. The successful candidate will have an eye for quality paying careful attention to small details as different mailings have similar characteristics but different components.
EDUCATION: High School education or equivalent. Workers must be able to read ruler accurately, read addresses and zip codes and perform simple math. Communicate well with fellow workers and neatness required.


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Diversity and Speech Part 30: The Strange Odyssey of Racial Sports Metaphors – by Carlos Cortés
May 10, 2022 Dr. Carlos E. Cortés Leave a comment
Woke people don't stereotype, right? And, of course, white men can't jump. Hm. Consider the following.
For relaxation, my wife Laurel and I attend a bi-weekly creative writing workshop. For a recent assignment, our instructor Jo Scott-Coe asked us to write about chocolate. Each of the other participants wrote about food. Not me. For whatever reason, Jo's assignment triggered thoughts of former National Basketball Association guard Jason Williams.
A short, scrawny West Virginian, Williams was drafted in 1998 by the NBA Sacramento Kings, where he soon earned the nickname White Chocolate. Why? Because although Williams was White, he played Black. Meaning lots of swag, between-the-legs dribbling, and no-look, behind-the-back passes. According to Wikipedia, Williams became White Chocolate courtesy of a Kings' media relations assistant named Stephanie Shepard. It stuck because Williams awed competitors and viewers with his crowd-pleasing style, which resulted in lots of spectacular assists as well as lots of unnecessary turnovers.
The fact that writers and announcers felt comfortable referring to Williams as White Chocolate did not come as a great surprise. After all, racial thinking has long inhabited the sports world and racialized metaphors erupt constantly in sports journalism. Particularly when it comes to basketball, racial language is often and openly used to categorize playing styles.
Consider an April 2, 1973, Sports Illustrated article entitled "Boston's Perpetual Motion Machine." The article, which focused on Boston Celtic center David Cowens, begins like this.
"A White Center is the pro basketball term for a specific sort of very tall man. He isn't nimble. He isn't quick. He can't jump over a candlestick. Besides, he is likely to be heavy in the rear, slow afoot and better at blocking hats than shots. Over the past 15 years virtually all Caucasian pivotmen have fallen into this category, even though the phrase has lost its racial connotation and has been applied to a few big black men as well."
"Dave Cowens' skin is fair, pasty when he relaxes . . . . Cowens is nimble, he is quick, he can jump over candelabra and maybe the moon . . . . 24-year-old Dave Cowens is the first great white Black Center."
This in-your-face use of racial stereotyping as a metaphor for basketball styles has even made it into movies. No other sport can boast a movie title like the 1992 Wesley Snipes-Woody Harrelson classic, White Men Can't Jump.
This brings us back to Jason Williams, whose media-hyped visibility overshadowed his less-than-awesome sports achievements. But he did play on the 2006 NBA champion Miami Heat. And included among his admirers are such all-time great African American ballplayers as Shaquille O'Neal, Dwyane Wade, and Isiah Thomas.
Moreover, Williams' spectacular floor play has given White Chocolate a continuing online presence through oft-replayed video clips. Although he retired in 2011 with modest basketball statistics, there are still internet sites dedicated to White Chocolate's greatest plays and he still receives attention from sports columnists. For example, a 2020 headline exuded "LeBron James Gets Hyped After Watching Sick Jason Williams Mixtape." One of the NBA's most widely-viewed game video clips features Williams passing the ball behind his back with his left hand and then ricocheting it off his right elbow into the hands of a player to his left.
Which brings me to contemporary wokeness. With heightened intergroup sensitivities, concerns about microaggressions, and opposition to ethnic stereotyping, would sport writers still refer categorically to White and Black Centers? Would they still employ racially-stereotypical labels like White Chocolate? And could they still make a movie like White Men Can't Jump?
True, things have changed. Today people are more wary when talking about diversity. They often avoid using evidence-based group generalizations out of abject terror of being accused of stereotyping. As a diversity consultant, I have to work harder to make the case that it's O.K. to draw constructively upon cultural generalizations as long as you apply them flexibly and use them with nuance. After all, recognizing group patterns is essential to developing intercultural capacities and addressing such issues as health equity.
So what about the media? Well, in contemporary coverage of the UCLA women's gymnastics team some writers employ the term "inclusive" in referring to the unique style adopted by some of its African American gymnasts. And they are making a new version of White Men Can't Jump. Will this be a remake for the woke generation? It will be fascinating to compare the two versions, as it is to compare the 1961 and 2021 film interpretations of West Side Story.
I guess ethnic stereotyping is bad . . . except when it isn't.
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Dr. Carlos E. Cortés
ADR ADVISOR Carlos E. Cortés is a retired history professor who has been a diversity speaker, educator, trainer, and consultant for forty-five years.His books include: The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity (2000); his memoir, Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before Its Time (2012); and a book of poetry, Fourth Quarter: Reflections of a Cranky Old Man (2016), which received honorable mention for the best book of poetry inthe 2017 International Latino Book Awards.
He also edited the four-volume Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia (2013).
Latest posts by Dr. Carlos E. Cortés (see all)
Diversity and SpeechPart 34: Revisiting Privilege – by Carlos E. Cortés - January 3, 2023
Diversity and Speech Part 32: Language Tensions of Speech and Social Justice – by Carlos E. Cortés - November 16, 2022
From Conditional to Equitable Inclusion: Inclusivity for a Stronger Nation – by Carlos Cortés - October 17, 2022
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The Sunday Times: Ferguson is burning as Mississippi did. In 50 years we haven't learnt
Photo: Katleen Vanacker
The slaughter of innocents cries out for justice. That is precisely what happened on Monday, when a terrible race crime finally received closure. Although the murder must never be forgotten, Americans can now feel some satisfaction that the proper recognition has taken place. As President Barack Obama said: "We must continue to fight for the ideals of equality and justice for which they gave their lives."
No, I have not lost my mind. All this did happen. But, as you may have guessed, I am not referring to the announcement in Ferguson, Missouri, that no charges would be brought against the white policeman who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager. I'm talking about an event that took place 50 years ago in Neshoba County, Mississippi, when three civil rights workers — two white and one black, named Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney — were killed by the Ku Klux Klan. At the White House the three men were posthumously given the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in America.
The reason I'm linking Ferguson with Mississippi Burning (as the event is known) is not the piquancy of having the two events on the same day — although it cannot be ignored — but that there is a clarity that comes with historical perspective.
Lord knows, this is something we need in order to heal the growing racial divide in America. Instead, we have the unedifying sight of cops reaching for guns, protesters for Molotov cocktails and pundits for statistics. Whatever the motives of each constituency, the net result is an inflamed situation in which more energy is spent on "blamestorming" than on finding solutions.
What does the history of Mississippi Burning tell us that we cannot learn from statistics about America — such as that, in 2012, 9.7% of white people but 27.2% of black people were living below the poverty threshold of $23,492 for a family of four? Actually, a great deal, particularly about the historical relationship between black communities and the white establishment.
For all but the past 50 years of American history the race riot was an exclusively white phenomenon — a weapon used by poor urban whites to terrorise even poorer blacks. Beginning in the early 19th century, black communities would be periodically devastated, their businesses destroyed and homes burnt.
One of the earliest race riots took place in 1829 in Cincinnati, Ohio: a mob of 300 whites drove out half of the 2,000-strong black population. In 1863, during the Civil War, the New York draft riots lasted for four days as a largely working-class Irish mob vented its fury at the army conscription system by going on the rampage against the free blacks of the city. The death toll was over 100 and included 12 black men who were lynched.
Missouri never witnessed the extreme violence that consumed New York, but between 1894 and 1906 the state suffered a cluster of race riots that resulted in at least eight lynchings and the near-eradication of black communities from four towns.
Mark Twain, who came from Missouri, was so disgusted that in 1901 he wrote an essay called The United States of Lyncherdom. That was the year of 130 lynchings: five of them white, the rest black. Twain's views were so out of step with the country that the essay did not appear until 1923, 13 years after his death.
Even after the Second World War whites continued to victimise black communities with impunity. Lynching was still in practice, too, albeit vastly reduced. The last recorded lynching was that of Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney in 1964 — by then, 3,445 blacks had died that way since 1882. The Mississippi Burning case reflected the terrible truth about almost all the lynchings — those in charge of protecting civil order were complicit in the crime. No one was convicted for the Neshoba murders (although seven were convicted for civil rights violations, including the county's deputy sheriff) until Edgar Killen, a Baptist preacher, was given a 60-year prison sentence for manslaughter in 2005.
The pivotal year in terms of racial violence was 1964. This was when the race riot changed from being a tool of oppression to an expression of protest.There were at least eight that year, a number that seemed extraordinary until the 159 separate outbreaks in 1967. It was in response to the escalating racial violence that President Lyndon Johnson commissioned the civic study known as the Kerner report. The authors' conclusion was stark: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal… To pursue our present course will involve the continuing polarisation of the American community and, ultimately, the destruction of basic democratic values."
In their view, the chief target of the riots was not white people per se, but "symbols of white American society, authority and property", since these represented their oppression. The authors also noted that black people were living in neighbourhoods with substandard housing, poor amenities, anarchic schools and high levels of violence: "Crime, drug addiction, dependency on welfare and bitterness and resentment against society in general and white society in particular are the result." The "unfulfilled expectations aroused by the great judicial and legislative victories of the civil rights movement" were also fuelling the protesters' anger.
What's so striking about these quotations is how easily they could be applied to Ferguson today. The root causes of black protest and the raw deal meted out to black communities were clearly identified in 1968 and have not changed markedly.
What makes this worse is that the Kerner report itself quoted the foremost black psychologist of the day, Kenneth B Clark, as essentially saying the same thing about the previous 50 years: "It is as if I were reading the report of the investigating committee on the Harlem riot of '35."
It took 50 years for Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney to receive their due. There aren't another 50 years to waste while successive governments dither over how to address racial injustice. We have right now and not much time afterwards.
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Behemoth are proud to present In Absentia Dei as Blu Ray, Vinyl and CD for the first time. The ground-breaking immersive livestream spectacular which first broadcast in September 2020 from Poland offered fans a much welcomed escape during the height of the pandemic. The event was said to set a new standard for streaming events in the future and this was something Behemoth set out to achieve from the start, Nergal explains:
"In Absentia Dei was a massive challenge and a huge risk, but it was a great artistic and commercial success. The response was absolutely brilliant - we made a statement with this performance and set the bar high. I hope that we can continue to raise the bar with the projects to come!"
Produced by Grupa 13, In Absentia Dei was presented as a show of four parts within the ancient walls of an ancient and abandoned church in rural Poland. The show was woven with high-production theatrics and even a hellish flames emanating from all parts of the sacred building.
"I think this was by far the most challenging and rewarding project for the band and the entire crew so far." Says director Darek Szermanowicz. "We wanted to make something completely different. We wanted to create a unique, original, and spectacular experience instead of another 'live stream.'' That's why we decided to mix cinematic scenes with live performances and mindblowing location to make it feel for the viewers like they are there at the same time.
We knew we are in the middle of very struggling times, and we have to manage a massive production in the middle of the pandemic with all of the restrictions, safety rules, and regulations. We did it, we made it, and I think this show is one of the most important milestones for the whole industry."
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