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Most can't face the truth
Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Hillary Explains."
Eric Zuesse has a column at ICH which notes:
America used to be a democracy, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt ruled, and to a decreasing extent afterwards, until around 1980, when inequality of wealth soared in America, and the billionaires increasingly took over. But now it's so much a dictatorship that even the last of the democratic U.S. Presidents, Jimmy Carter, recently blurted out that «it's just an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery».
The American public don't yet recognize what that means, because their 'news' media pretend, even today, there still remains a big Democratic-Republican Party split. Americans thus are now choosing between one criminal gang and another, and still think that they're choosing 'their' government. It still is government over them, but no longer government by them. And they accept it because they've been deceived.
Way too many people refuse to believe the truth.
Take this truth told by Jill Stein:
Dr. Jill Stein @DrJillStein 4h4 hours ago
We can't take a candidate seriously on a pledge to fight climate change if they accept millions from Big Oil & push fracking all over the .
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That's so true, it should be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.
But most people can't face the truth.
Tuesday, September 20, 2016. Chaos and violence continue, 2008 comes back for Hillary Clinton as her aid Sidney Blumenthal is exposed as the one whispering Barack Obama was born in Kenya, Barack meets with Hayder al-Abadi, Seth MacFarlane tries to tell America how to vote, and much more.
In 2000, even Democrats were outraged by the way Karl Rove smeared John McCain with lies (see Richard Gooding's "The Trashing of John McCain," VANITY FAIR).
Now it's learned that, in 2008, to help his longtime enabler Hillary Clinton, Sidney Blumenthal (a MEDIA MATTERS 'scholar') was spreading the lie that Barack Obama was born in Kenya.
As Rebecca's "things get worse for sidney blumenthal," Ruth's "Sidney Blumenthal spread lie that Pres. Obama was born in Kenya" and Kat's "Let's hope Sidney Blumenthal doesn't really beat his wife" note, former MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS DC bureau chief James Asher and Larry Johnson (NO QUARTER) have both come forward to insist that Blumenthal spread the lie to them while insisting it was true.
When will Hillary Clinton rebuke Blumenthal?
Or does she have no interest in healing the divisive wounds of campaign 2008?
The polls would suggest that she could use every vote she can get.
So why has she failed to rebuke Blumenthal?
Oh, that's right, she doesn't make mistakes.
Or, at least, won't admit to them until years and years after the fact.
Also living it up in the land of fantasy, Hayder al-Abadi and Barack Obama. The two met at Lotte New York Palace Hotel -- as Mama Cass Elliot said at Monterey, "Shhh, no rumors." The White House issued the following transcript:
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Let me begin by just commenting on the events that have unfolded today. This morning, I talked about the fact that there was a person of interest that the FBI and law enforcement had identified with respect to the bombs that had been planted in the New York and New Jersey area. As everybody is now aware, that individual has been apprehended.
And I just want to start by commenting on the extraordinary work and coordination that's taken place between the FBI and local enforcement. For us to be able to apprehend a suspect in just a little over 24 hours after an event takes place like this, it is outstanding police work, outstanding law enforcement work.
I, in particular, want to give a heartfelt thanks to the New Jersey police officers who were able to apprehend this individual. I had a chance to talk to them briefly before I came down to my meetings here. They are going to be fine. They have sustained some modest injuries, but ones that they'll rapidly recover from. They were in good spirits. And I communicated to them how appreciative the American people were, as well as people in the region. It's just one more reminder of the extraordinary skill and sacrifice and courage of our law enforcement officers and what they put on the line every single day to make sure that we are safe.
Beyond that, obviously information is still unfolding about what might have motivated the suspect. I'm going to leave it to the FBI and local law enforcement authorities to discuss those details with you. I will also comment on the fact that, with respect to the Minnesota stabbings that occurred, I had a chance to talk to the off-duty police officer there who undoubtedly saved a lot of lives and prevented further injury because of his quick and effective action. And I told him that, once again, the American people were appreciative of his work and his heroism.
Now, one of the challenges that we face is -- in addition to being an open society in which individuals who are disturbed in some fashion can carry out violence against the American people -- the big danger we have right now is, is that we have an organization in ISIL that is actively trying to radicalize and promote extremism of this sort. In addition, they are directly carrying out and planning constant attacks not only overseas, but within Iraq and within Syria.
And so it is with great appreciation that I welcome Prime Minister Abadi here, along with his delegation. Thanks to the sacrifices of the Iraqi people and the Iraqi armed forces, since I last met with him face-to-face a year ago, we have significant progress in rolling back ISIL. They have now lost over half of the populated territory that they had gained and were still maintaining as recently as last year. And what we've seen now is just steady progress as the Iraqi security forces have gained more confidence as they have coordinated with the 67-member coalition against ISIL.
And now, what we have been discussing and what we're focusing on is to go right at the heart of the ISIL operations in Mosul. Now, this is going to be a challenging battle. Mosul is a large city, and ISIL has embedded itself deeply within that city. But because of the prepositioning of forces, because of the cooperation between the coalition and the Iraqi security forces, because of the cooperation and courage of the Kurdish Peshmerga, we feel confident that we will be in a position to move forward fairly rapidly.
Now, it will be a tough fight. And once it is initiated, one of the things that we discussed is the importance of not just driving ISIL out of Mosul but making sure that the population there that invariably is going to be displaced and will have suffered, and is going to be looking for warmth and food and water and shelter, that we are prepared to help provide rapid humanitarian assistance, and that we can rebuild the city in a way that assures not only ISIL does not come back, but extremist ideologies born out of desperation do not return.
And so a lot of our work today has been focused on making sure that that happens. I am very grateful that Prime Minister Abadi has consistently operated in a way that indicates his commitment to an inclusive Iraq that treats everybody fairly, respects human rights. And the work that we're doing with the Iraqi government will adhere to those principles, not just in the Mosul campaign, but beyond.
But this is going to be hard. This is going to be challenging and will require resources. We're going to be asking Congress to step up in support of this effort, and we're going to be asking other countries to step up in support of this effort.
And my thanks go out not only to the Iraqi forces that have borne the brunt of the progress that's been made inside of Iraq, as well as the Kurdish Peshmerga, but also obviously our outstanding men and women in uniform. Although they are not on the front lines of the fight and not involved directly in combat, it's still a dangerous area to operate. And I think Prime Minister Abadi would be the first to say that our men and women from all branches of our armed forces have operated with incredible effectiveness and courage in providing the training and the assistance that has allowed us to make these gains.
So, hopefully, by the end of this year, we will have seen further progress with respect to Mosul, and that we will continue to see further progress with respect to economic and political stabilization inside of Iraq.
Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for your good work, and thank you to all the members of your team for the excellent work that they've done, as well.
PRIME MINISTER ABADI: Thank you, Mr. President. I think [the Islamic State] is a huge threat -- a terrorist threat to the whole world, not only for Iraq. Two years ago, we had been battling [the Islamic State] to take back Baghdad. Today, we are battling [the Islamic State] in the last stronghold in Mosul. And we hope within the next few months we're going to kick [the Islamic State] out of Mosul, and we'll deliver a huge blow to what [the Islamic State] believes in. This is very important to remove this terrorist organization and to crush it. It's a very dangerous organization. It has a very dangerous ideology. It has very dangerous instruments and means of recruiting young people. It has a huge influence in the Internet and other social media. So they must be crushed on the ground, and our heroic fighters are doing that.
Of course, the support which has been given to Iraqis by the United States and other coalition partners is very important for us in terms of training, logistical support, providing air cover to our fighters on the ground, and of course preventing [the Islamic State] from having more recruits and more financial support. This is very important. I think our next challenge is how we stop these terrorists from recruiting other young people from all over the world. I think we have listed something like 100 countries where these terrorists are coming from. Some of them are not probably disadvantaged; probably some of them are from middle-class families, some of them from families who are well off. So I think this a huge challenge for all of us -- how we can stamp out this terrorism, which is probably affecting the whole world, and not only for Iraq.
The damage in Iraq is huge due to [the Islamic State]. But the liberation of the areas, bringing refugees back to these liberated areas is a huge reward not only for these refugees, but for every one of us. This is my job, to bring all the Iraqis together, to treat all the Iraqis the same in Iraq. Now we don't have first-class and second-class citizens in Iraq. All Iraqis are first-class citizens, regardless of their affiliation, regardless of their religion, regardless of their sect, regardless of their ethnic origin. We treat Iraqis the same. I hope everybody in Iraq will do the same.
There are new challenges in Iraq. [The Islamic State] has caused a lot of damage in the relationship between communities. They have killed Yezidis, they have killed Shia, they have killed Christians, they have killed Sunnis, as well. So they have even caused divisions between the same tribe in the same area. So it's a huge task, I think, on our shoulder.
We believe in reconciliation. Mr. President, I called for national reconciliation in the day after liberation of Fallujah. And I still believe in reconciliation of the country. People have to live together. But, of course, those who have committed crimes, they have to be punished. But we have to be very careful in bringing the law. We have to follow the rule of law. And we're entitled to do that. And I think we have been managing well in the areas which have been liberated. There are excesses, which are unacceptable to us. And we are prepared, and we have the resolve to stamp them out. And we are doing this exactly.
Thank you very much for the support that was given to Iraq. And Iraq, of course, is fighting on behalf of all the world to defeat [the Islamic State], and we will do it soon. Thank you.
Two dopes who should be tested for doping.
Hayder's done nothing.
Flapped his gums, that's about it.
Nouri al-Malki made it possible for the Islamic State to flourish in Iraq by persecuting Sunnis. One of the things he'd done was bombed Falluja daily -- bombed the residential neighborhoods in Falluja. Shortly after become prime minister, in September of 2016, Hayder held a press conference announcing these bombings -- legally defined War Crimes -- were stopping.
And the next day . . .
. . . the bombings . . .
. . . continued.
Hayder's a liar or someone everyone blows off.
And to speak of the 'courage' of the security forces?
Mosul's been held for over two years now.
Some courage.
And the Islamic State will not be defeated in Iraq -- or driven out -- until you stop the persecution of the Sunnis.
Stop that and the ISIL has every reason to go elsewhere.
To the US?
The US government will probably have to stop bombing Muslim countries to keep the Islamic State out. In other words, they won't keep the Islamic State out because whether it's a Democrat or a Republican in the Oval Office, we keep seeing one Muslim country after another bombed.
But stopping the Islamic State does not appear to be the goal (certainly not with the US government using them in Syria and Libya). And with no clearly defined goals, don't expect things to improve in Iraq. Daniel L. Davis (POLITICO) observes:
Despite that fearful prospect, what concerned me most was is what Yassin said about what could happen after the liberation of Mosul. This is going to be a "coalition" offensive—but the coalition isn't one of different countries. Everyone involved is Iraqi, but they consist of the fractious, mutually mistrustful constituents—Kurdish Peshmerga, Shia militias, the mixed-sectarian bag that is the Iraqi army—of a country that could still easily fall into civil war again after ISIS is defeated. Yassin said one of his major concerns is that binding political agreements won't be in place prior to the fighting, and if there aren't clearly articulated limits and responsibilities for each of the attacking forces, it's not hard to imagine Sunni militias butting heads with Shia militias during the fighting, potentially coming to blows with each other.
The result could be an Aleppo-style quagmire.
And there is little in place right now to prevent that. Thanks to the continuing weakness and corruption of the Iraqi government, there is presently no central command authority for the operation to recapture Mosul. Thus, while optimistic press releases coming from U.S. military and government sources give the impression that the looming battle of Mosul "is the end game in Iraq," the truth is far different. Rather than marking the end of the war in Iraq, the fall of Mosul— if it even happens—is likely to mark the beginning of the next nasty conflict.
Who is Josh Lederman?
Either AP's hiring comedy writers or Josh is the hardest worker in the bordello.
Monday morning, he insisted, "Increasingly, and not without irony, Iraq has become the bright spot in Obama's campaign against the Islamic State group, though profound challenges remain."
The War Crimes and persecution of the Sunni people apparently do not matter.
#IRAQ شمرية العراق @moonnor27 4h4 hours ago
Iraqi Sunni civilians burned tortured and killed by shia militias backed by Iran in IRAQ #warcrimes @DonJohnstonLC
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It's a bright spot!
Of blood apparently.
He goes on to quote Ben Rhodes (Barack's deupty on national security) insisting, "We've always believed that progress on the battlefield needs to be accompanied by continued political progress among Iraq's different communities."
Have you always believed it, Ben?
Because the White House has bombed Iraq every day since August 2014.
But you've done nothing to make demands on the Iraqi government to become inclusive.
And with cash and weapons being handed over, the White House was in the position to make demands.
They were also in the position to infuse Iraq with a diplomatic surge but they chose not to do that as well.
Instead, they stood by as Sunnis were persecuted, targeted and slaughtered.
For AP, this is what 'success' looks like.
ICRCVerified account @ICRC 2h2 hours ago
1 in 10 children is displaced in #Iraq. They live in camps like this one near Fallujah. #UN4RefugeesMigrants
Moving over to the topic of whistle-blower Ed Snowden, the film SNOWDEN is now in theaters.
Snowden Movie @SnowdenTheMovie Sep 16
See @hitRECordJoe & @ShaileneWoodley in @TheOliverStone's #SnowdenMovie, NOW PLAYING. Tix: http://bit.ly/SnowdenTickets
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Edward Snowden and Oliver Stone
Snowden Movie @SnowdenTheMovie 13h13 hours ago
Immerse yourself in the captivating story of #SnowdenMovie, with @hitRECordJoe & @ShaileneWoodley, NOW PLAYING. Tix: http://bit.ly/SnowdenTickets
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Oliver Stone and Edward Snowden
.@CBSPhilly praises @TheOliverStone's cinematic achievements in #SnowdenMovie:
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Snowden Movie Retweeted
TWScene @TWScene 15h15 hours ago
Movie review: 'Snowden' is best Oliver Stone film in years http://ow.ly/ixhg304lTZO
Only @TheOliverStone could make this thriller. See #SnowdenMovie, w/ @hitRECordJoe & @ShaileneWoodley, NOW PLAYING. http://bit.ly/SnowdenTickets
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Oliver Stone, Edward Snowden and Owen Gleiberman
The Upcoming @The_Upcoming 21h21 hours ago
#tiff We reviewed Snowden: engrossing and masterfully told ★★★★★ http://www.theupcoming.co.uk/2016/09/12/toronto-film-festival-2016-snowden-review/ … @SnowdenTheMovie
The Oliver Stone directed film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Ed Snowden. Ava and my piece at THIRD went up early this morning "MEDIA: Fred Kaplan and other Scurrilous Whores."
Two things. 1) Why is it up? We're not waiting any longer. We wrote this on Sunday and THIRD's still not ready to publish. We need to note Ed in snapshots, we need this up now and THIRD's audience is more likely to go to the movies during the week than on the weekend so it needs to be up now. 2) We're not critiquing the film. It's a good film, it's riveting, we say that in our piece. But this is about media and it's about how films with messages that institutions don't like get attacked.
Amnesty International notes:
Edward Snowden is a hero not a traitor
He stood up for our rights, prompting a global debate on mass surveillance that changed the world – yet he faces decades in prison for it.
When Edward Snowden shared US intelligence documents with journalists in June 2013, he revealed the shocking extent of global mass surveillance. He showed how governments were secretly scooping up huge chunks of our personal communications, including private emails, phone locations, web histories and so much more. All without our consent.
His courage changed the world. He sparked a global debate, changing laws and helping to protect our privacy. Edward Snowden is a human rights hero, yet he faces decades in prison under charges that treat him like a spy who sold secrets to enemies of the USA.
Please sign our petition, which we have launched in partnership with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Pardon Snowden campaign.
Tell President Obama to pardon Edward Snowden, a whistleblower who acted solely in the public interest.
Dear President Obama
When Edward Snowden shared US intelligence documents with journalists in 2013, he did so because he believed that the government and citizens of his country – and the world – needed to confront the truth. That truth was the existence of a global mass surveillance system deployed by governments to spy on our personal communications, including private emails, phone locations, web histories and more.
In choosing to share this information, Edward Snowden prompted a global debate, changing laws and helping to protect our privacy. For the first time in nearly 40 years, the USA passed laws to restrict government surveillance. Globally, technology companies including Apple and WhatsApp, are now doing more to protect our personal information.
None of this would have happened without Edward Snowden. Former US Attorney General Eric Holder admitted that Snowden "performed a public service". Even you, Mr President, have said that this debate about surveillance "will make us stronger". And yet, Edward Snowden still faces decades in prison under laws that equate whistleblowing in the public interest with selling secrets to enemies of the USA.
I am confident that history will remember Edward Snowden for the reforms he helped bring about. But there is no need to wait for history's judgement.
President Obama, I call on you to pardon Edward Snowden, a whistleblower who acted solely in the public interest.
Sadly, not everyone's supporting Ed Snowden.
Joseph Gordon-LevittVerified account @hitRECordJoe Sep 18
So @WashingtonPost won a Pulitzer Prize for publishing info @Snowden provided, but now they won't stand up for him?
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Jill Stein does see Ed Snowden as a whistle-blower. She's the Green Party's presidential candidate.
Dr. Jill Stein @DrJillStein 12h12 hours ago
Dr. Jill Stein Retweeted Seth MacFarlane
Remember: voting for "lesser evil" has gotten you the worst 2 candidates ever. Stop blaming people who are resisting this downward spiral.
Dr. Jill Stein added,
Seth MacFarlane @SethMacFarlane
Remember: This November you can help elect President Donald Trump just by voting for Gary Johnson or Jill Stein! Happy Election Year!
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Poor Seth. It's exactly that kind of thinking that makes FAMILY GUY the longest running animated program on Fox never to win an Emmy. Oh, well, it's only been on for 15 seasons -- maybe someday, eh, Seth?
If Hillary Clinton can't get enough votes, that's on her.
If she doesn't earn your vote, that's on her.
Your vote is no one's vote but your own.
You can vote or not vote.
If you vote, you can vote for whomever you want.
No one else owns your vote.
If the electoral college chooses to award the election to someone other than Hillary, that's on her.
And if Seth's so damn worried about voting, he should be calling for an amendment to abolish the electoral college.
You know why that call's not being made by the Republican and Democratic parties, right? It lets them take states like California, New York and Texas for granted. They don't have to run real campaigns.
We don't have one-person, one-vote in this country. We vote in elections and then the electoral college votes for us.
Seth's not worried about that.
But he does want to lie and tell you a vote for Gary Johnson or Jill Stein is a vote for Donald Trump.
No, it's not.
A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for Donald Trump.
A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for Hillary Clinton.
A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Jill Stein.
A vote for Gary Johnson is a vote for Gary Johnson.
A vote for Jerry White is a vote for Jerry White.
A vote for Gloria La Riva is a vote for Gloria La Riva.
When you leave the issue of legalizing pot, you leave the only political issue Seth understands.
Vote for who you want.
(Or don't vote.)
Just don't take marching orders from Seth. He's so dated and boring that even the rumors that he's gay have died (not unlike his career -- Fox learned the hard way it couldn't build a night around Seth's programs). And at some point, he will have to deal with the charges of racism.
If you are voting for Hillary, be proud of your vote. But listen to someone like Cher.
Cher @cher 13h13 hours ago
Oct so busy Going back out 4 Hillary,Going 2Canada 2speak about our animal-rescue Charity. Then announcement,LA & Round-Table Discussion NY
Seth likes to pretend he's down with Hillary but no one twisted his arm into doing an episode of FAMILY GUY where he called Bill Clinton a pig f**ker, or have we all forgotten that?
That's about Seth's level when it comes to politics.
So if you're a proud Hillary supporter, good for you. But listen to someone with a lot more wisdom -- Cher and not Seth.
What does WSWS have against Snowden?
WTF Sarah McLachlan?
Hillary lied again
The whores rush to defend her
Hillary's health problems
Donna The Cowardly Lesbian
If he were African-American, he'd be looking at 10...
Hillary wants you to "read the reports"
Jill Stein puts it on the line
Time to take a test on Hillary
Worth considering


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Entries for eco-innovation competition close Sunday night
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Anyone with a bold concept for a product or service with the power to improve environmental outcomes is being urged to submit it for the 2019 C-Prize challenge, before entries close midnight Sunday 8 December.
The entry submission needs to come from a team of at least two people but the criteria leaves the door open to a wide range of entrants – businesses, iwi groups, novice or established entrepreneurs, designers, researchers, scientists, engineers and even students with ambitious ideas for technology-based products or solutions.
"With this year's C-Prize challenge we're looking for smart new ideas that use different technologies to address climate change, bring about clean water or enable smarter resource use," says Richard Quin, Energy and Environment Group Manager at Callaghan Innovation. "We want to see people's plans for products or processes that apply technology in new ways and show thinking that's bold and original."
Richard Quin - Callaghan Innovation
Callaghan Innovation, New Zealand's innovation agency, launched C-Prize in 2015 with a challenge focused on honing drone technology for new industry applications and in 2017 the challenge was to develop novel wearable technology to enhance people's performance and wellbeing.
Up to ten of the teams that enter the C-Prize 2019 challenge will be selected to take part in a series of workshops in 2020, where they will be given R&D support and business advice to progress their product or services concept and develop the prototype.
The ten finalist teams will also each receive $10,000 cash to support their project and the opportunity to vie for the grand prize of $100,000 cash and $50,000 in support and services to help them progress their concept through to commercialisation.
"Being selected as a C-Prize finalist and participating in the C-Prize programme is valuable because that's when you get mentored by the best of the best. We introduce finalists to our Callaghan Innovation experts and our partners across the innovation ecosystem to educate and inform them about what it's going to take to realise their idea. Our aspiration is that all 10 teams come out of that process with the potential to go on and become thriving New Zealand enterprises."
Dotterel Technologies had its origins in the 2015 C-Prize challenge and its noise reduction and audio enablement technology is now used in New Zealand and offshore.
"The exposure and connections the finalists forge are invaluable but even before they reach that stage the chance to get their idea in front of C-Prize's highly-respected panel of judges is a real opportunity," says Quin.
Judges looking for real-world potential
The C-Prize 2019 judges are: Juliet Gerrard – Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor; Anne Haira – Deputy Secretary Partnerships and Customers, Ministry for the Environment; Brett Holland – GM Innovation Services, Creative HQ; Arama Kukutai – Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Finistere Ventures; Conrad Lendrum – Group Manager Advanced Materials, Callaghan Innovation; Sean Molloy – Co-Founder and CEO, Avertana; and Suse Reynolds – Executive Director, Angel Association New Zealand.
Prime Minister's Chief Science Advisor Juliet Gerrard says she's hoping to see a strong applicant pool for this year's C-Prize challenge and real depth of thinking on how to get their ideas to scale.
"Only when rolled out commercially will these ideas be able to make a genuine difference," says Gerrard. "Hopefully C-Prize provides an impetus for more science and technology to escape the laboratory and start to make a difference in the environment."
Juliet Gerrard - PM Chief Science Advisor
Ministry for the Environment's Anne Haira says she's really excited by the focus of this year's challenge on environmental innovation that helps restore our land, climate, soil, water and nutrient systems.
"In New Zealand we need environmental innovation to not only help us address some of our toughest environmental challenges but also to help us grow, develop and remain competitive."
Another of this year's judges, Avertana CEO Sean Molloy, is highly aware of the opportunities that environmental innovation can offer. Avertana's technology recovers 'stranded resources' – valuable mineral and chemical raw materials – from industrial waste, which can then be used in products like paint and building materials.
"The technology is based on the principles of designing out waste and pollution – not only consuming waste, but also avoiding the waste produced in making the products it substitutes," says Molloy.
Molloy says he wants to see this year's C-Prize entrants utilising the principles of designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems. But, he adds, the priority is a viable solution that meets a real market need.
"First and foremost, [it has to be] solutions to problems that people or industry actually have, that will deliver a compelling financial return. The private market will not finance anything that doesn't."
When developing their solution, Molloy says the C-Prize teams need to consider the lifecycle assessment of their solution compared to existing solutions.
"We don't want to be simply moving the problem somewhere else. A good test is, does it provide less than a 50% improvement? The commercialisation path almost always erodes the savings as more definition is created. If there isn't a big enough saving at the beginning, there may be none left at the end."
There are over 100 entries currently in the C-Prize pipeline, including sustainable building materials, reimagined fashion, alternative fuel and energy sources, home energy systems, methane and carbon dioxide solutions, transport apps, plastic alternatives, eco pesticides, education platforms, corporate decision making tools and smart pest control.
Sean Molloy - Avertana founder
C-Prize 2019 FAQs
Answers to some frequently asked questions about C-Prize 2019.
C-Prize 2019 terms and conditions of entry
Terms and conditions for C-Prize 2019
Juliet Gerrard - What does worldleading environmental innovation look like?
As the entry deadline approaches, we asked Juliet Gerrard, the PM's Chief Science Advisor and C-Prize judge, what she hopes to see from challenge entrants.
C-Prize 2019 challenging NZ innovators to tackle environmental problems
Devising a tech-based solution with the power to slow or reverse negative human impacts on climate is one of the challenges being set for New Zealand innovators in this year's C-Prize competition.

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Massage Research ~ How CCRI Prepares Students to participate in a research project and how students find the courage!
Massage Research is still in it's infancy.To standardize a research project has many challenges when it's main component is a hands-on technique. The students in the C.C.R.I. Therapeutic Massage program are learning all of these obstacle and finding the courage to overcome them in their course: Foundation of Evidence Based Outcomes in Therapeutic Massage.
Students, also, create their own research project. From hypothesis, to performing hands on techniques, to outcome, to presentation, they have to do it all. Our own intern, Cassie Ruggien, is creating just one of these research projects right here at Body-WiseTherapeutics.
Her Hypothesis? "Does Therapeutic Massage Decrease Pain in Clients with Chronic Back Pain?" She will be performing a routine one hour massage on each client, using the same techniqes and spending the same amount of time on each body part. Twenty minutes will be spend on the back and neck. Clients will fill out health history form as well as information on a pain scale. Post treatment, they will fill out a survey and again report in on pain scale.
She will then take all the data and prepare a presentation for faculty and local massage therapists. This is often the first presentation a student makes. I've been present for many of these student talks and, I know, it takes courage (and they find this with lots of support from teachers and intern supervisors) not only to complete the project but to get up and present the date and come up with a conclusion!!
Cassie is now accepting applications for participation in this study.Requirements to be in this study include being 18 years of age or older and have had chronic back pain for 3 months or more. Call us if you qualify and would like to participate!!!


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Toys "R" Us landlords are not exactly overwhelmed by demand for some of the locations the liquidating chain is preparing to abandon.
Of 140 store leases that hit the auction block last week, just 50 received winning bids, the New York Post reported. Thirty of them were from the landlords themselves, some of whom scooped up their own properties for $5,000 to $10,000.
Up next is an auction round involving 700 Toys "R" Us stores.
A Toys "R" Us landlord in West Hartford, Connecticut, got its store back for as little as $4,978, the Post reported, citing court papers. The toy chain drew just over $37 million in the auction.
Some of the stores did fetch impressive amounts.
Furniture store chain Raymour & Flanigan agreed to pay $1.3 million to take over a Toys "R" Us store in Paramus, New Jersey. And the sale of a property in Emeryville, California, that is owned by Toys "R" Us attracted a bid of $15.6 million from Benderson, a real estate development firm.
"Each store is different; each landlord is different," bankruptcy attorney David Pollack of Ballard Spahr, who represents 15 Toys 'R' Us landlords, told FOX Business. "You have to look at each individual property. I think Toys "R" Us was relatively happy with auction."
The toy chain hadn't returned a request for comment from FOX Business at the time of publication.


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Reymerlyn Martin
Insider Monkey• June 14, 2019
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Is Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ:LRCX) the right investment to pursue these days? Investors who are in the know are in a pessimistic mood. The number of long hedge fund positions were cut by 4 lately. Our calculations also showed that LRCX isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds. LRCX was in 32 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of the first quarter of 2019. There were 36 hedge funds in our database with LRCX positions at the end of the previous quarter.
Why do we pay any attention at all to hedge fund sentiment? Our research has shown that hedge funds' large-cap stock picks indeed failed to beat the market between 1999 and 2016. However, we were able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that outperformed the market by 40 percentage points since May 2014 through May 30, 2019 (see the details here). We were also able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that'll significantly underperform the market. We have been tracking and sharing the list of these stocks since February 2017 and they lost 30.9% through May 30, 2019. That's why we believe hedge fund sentiment is an extremely useful indicator that investors should pay attention to.
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We're going to take a glance at the latest hedge fund action encompassing Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ:LRCX).
How have hedgies been trading Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ:LRCX)?
At the end of the first quarter, a total of 32 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey held long positions in this stock, a change of -11% from the previous quarter. The graph below displays the number of hedge funds with bullish position in LRCX over the last 15 quarters. With hedgies' sentiment swirling, there exists a select group of key hedge fund managers who were boosting their stakes meaningfully (or already accumulated large positions).
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More specifically, AQR Capital Management was the largest shareholder of Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ:LRCX), with a stake worth $232.5 million reported as of the end of March. Trailing AQR Capital Management was RGM Capital, which amassed a stake valued at $116.5 million. Adage Capital Management, Soroban Capital Partners, and Citadel Investment Group were also very fond of the stock, giving the stock large weights in their portfolios.
Because Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ:LRCX) has faced bearish sentiment from the entirety of the hedge funds we track, it's easy to see that there exists a select few funds that slashed their entire stakes by the end of the third quarter. Interestingly, Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Associates dumped the biggest position of all the hedgies monitored by Insider Monkey, worth about $21.6 million in stock, and Dmitry Balyasny's Balyasny Asset Management was right behind this move, as the fund said goodbye to about $16 million worth. These transactions are intriguing to say the least, as aggregate hedge fund interest dropped by 4 funds by the end of the third quarter.
Let's now review hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ:LRCX). We will take a look at TE Connectivity Ltd. (NYSE:TEL), Consolidated Edison, Inc. (NYSE:ED), PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (NYSE:TLK), and Atlassian Corporation Plc (NASDAQ:TEAM). This group of stocks' market valuations are closest to LRCX's market valuation.
[table] Ticker, No of HFs with positions, Total Value of HF Positions (x1000), Change in HF Position TEL,26,1246747,1 ED,23,1182957,0 TLK,9,134035,3 TEAM,36,1618697,2 Average,23.5,1045609,1.5 [/table]
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As you can see these stocks had an average of 23.5 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $1046 million. That figure was $1021 million in LRCX's case. Atlassian Corporation Plc (NASDAQ:TEAM) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (NYSE:TLK) is the least popular one with only 9 bullish hedge fund positions. Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ:LRCX) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. Our calculations showed that top 20 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 1.9% in Q2 through May 30th and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by more than 3 percentage points. Hedge funds were also right about betting on LRCX, though not to the same extent, as the stock returned -0.2% during the same time frame and outperformed the market as well.
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What Is "White Culture"?
When Martin Luther King Jr called for a world in which people were not judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character, he didn't mean that we wouldn't see the color of their skin – or that we'd pretend not to. I'm not sure he knew all the details of how it would work, but I don't think he'd have wanted people's identities erased, who they are rendered invisible.
His primary task up until he died 50 years ago last April was addressing overt racism. Today we know we must also address subtle cultural matters. It may once have counted as progress to treat minority cultures the same. But we must do more than that. We must respect and honor and stand ready to adapt to the ways cultures are different. And for those of us in the dominant white culture, that means recognizing our own culture, recognizing that it, too, has its place in the family of things – alongside, not arching over, all other cultures.
The four heroes of the TV show the good place are a multicultural lot. Eleanor is a white woman from a dysfunctional lower-class family in Arizona. Tahani is an Asian British woman from a dysfunctional upper-class family. Chidi is a native-French-speaking black man, born in Nigeria, raised in Senegal, who became a moral philosophy professor in Australia. Jason is a Hispanic young man from the youth, drug, petty-crime, and dance culture of Jacksonville, Florida.
A few episodes ago on "The Good Place," our four heroes find themselves in a place called Janet's void, one of the features of which is that they all find themselves in identical Janet bodies – all played by the actress D'arcy Carden.
Chidi-Janet: "This is nuts. We're in a void, in the body of a white lady."
[The other characters remind him that Janet is not a lady. Janet appears female – and the pronoun "she" is used for her, but she is actually an unsexed humanoid machine.]
Jason-Janet: "But we are white, though. Let's all say white people things. Billy Joel. I found it on etsy. There was nowhere to park. Did you refill the Brita?"
I mention this because sometimes, for those of us who are white, our white culture is invisible to us. We notice other people's culture, but we tend to think of ourselves as not having one. Other people are shaped in one way or another by their culture, while WE are left free to live our lives by pure common sense.
We also think of ourselves as not speaking with an accent. For instance, if someone sounds to your ear as if American English is their first language, and they tell you that English is their second language, you might be tempted say, "Your English is great. You have no accent." I could have very easily said that 15 years ago – and maybe I did. But I've since learned that there's no such thing as having no accent. If I felt a need to comment on it at all, it would be better to say, "Your accent sounds to me just like mine."
There is no unaccented English. You could train yourself in another accent, but you would not so much be "dropping your accent" as trading one accent for a different one. We all have an accent. We notice other people's accents, but we don't notice our own.
It's the same with culture. Noticing and remembering our own culture is a crucial step in recognizing just how deep culture goes for all humans. It's especially hard for white people to see their white culture because white is the dominant culture. Nonhispanic whites are currently 61% of the US population – a clear majority. Moreover, for much of the last century or so, the nonhispanic white population has been much more dominant. From 1900 until 1950, the percent of the US population that was nonhispanic whites stayed level at 87%.
Whiteness remains the majority, and we have a long history of it being an even higher majority – and that history as well as the current majority ensconces whiteness as the US norm. So white folk see themselves not as a culture, but simply as "normal."
The very fact that we call ourselves "white" – as in blank, without color – reinforces the impression. Colorlessness implicitly connotes culturelessness. But, of course, whiteness is not cultureless.
The other challenge to recognizing our white culture is that it really is pretty amorphous. Attempts to identify white culture often point to features that are, indeed, more common among whites than among nonwhites – but that fail to characterize even a majority of whites. For instance, the Jason character mentioned Billy Joel, etsy, and Britas. Most of the fans at a Billy Joel concert, perhaps, are white – (I guess, I haven't been to one) but most whites have never been to one. Users of etsy and Britas may be mostly white, but most whites don't use etsy, and most don't use Britas.
White people eat more vegetables and dairy. US Department of Agriculture data indicates that white Americans eat 16 pounds more vegetables at home per year than nonwhite Americans, and that for every pound of dairy consumed by the average black American at home, White Americans eat 1.75 pounds.
Whites are higher on alcohol consumption. Almost a third of nonhispanic whites had a heavy-drinking day in the last year. Only 24% of Hispanics did, and only 16% of black Americans did.
There are still lots of whites who don't eat very many vegetables, and two-thirds of whites did not have a heavy-drinking day in the last year.
According to the American Time Use Survey, white people average over 3.5 hours per year attending museums or the performing arts – well above non-white averages. A report from the National Endowment of the Arts found that white Americans were twice as likely as black or Hispanic Americans to have done at least one arts activity in the past year – including "jazz, classical music, opera, musical and non-musical plays, ballet, and visits to an art museum or gallery." So if you go to a Pat Matheny concert, that's an arts activity, because that's jazz. But if you go to a Tina Turner concert – or, for that matter, a Billy Joel concert -- that's not within the NEA definition of an arts activity.
So, these are things that nonhispanic whites do more than blacks or Asians or Hispanics – but even so they tend to characterize less than half of white people. Most whites haven't been to the opera, or had a heavy drinking day in the last year, or regularly consume kale. A disproportionate percentage of golfers are white, but most white people haven't been out on the links in the last year.
To make the point at the extreme, it turns out that the whitest surname in the US is Yoder. 98.1 percent of all people named Yoder are white. Though the overwhelming majority of Yoders (over 98 percent!) are white – the overwhelming majority of whites (well over 98 percent) are not Yoders. So identifying things that are more common among whites than nonwhites doesn't tell us about white culture generally.
If our own culture seems invisible to us, this is partly because whiteness is the majority, we have a long history of it being a greater majority, it's dominant, and because humans are built to notice other people's accents and cultures while overlooking our own. But it's also because white culture really is amorphous. One of the side effects of the amorphousness of white culture is what we might call the Rachel Dolezal effect. Having a more clear and definite culture to identify with can start to look attractive. Rachel Dolezal a few years ago became famous for her attempts to pass as black. Back in the 1930s, jazz musician Mezz Mezzrow declared himself a voluntary negro after marrying a black woman and selling marijuana. What Rachel Dolezal did was unusual because of her age and professional and leadership status. It's fairly normal for white adolescents to "take on what they perceived to be the characteristics of another race while exploring their identities." Anita Thomas, professor of counseling psychology, says,
"For white [American] youth, who are disconnected from European heritage or legacy, it often feels like whiteness as a concept is empty."
Last summer I sent away a saliva sample for DNA testing. I was not surprised with the results that my ancestry is almost entirely British and Swiss-German – but, yeah, I was a little disappointed. I know that's kinda laughable – this spectacle of middle-aged white guys hoping they have some portion of nonwhite ethnicity in their DNA – and being so proud of it if they do. There's a part of us that wants to belong, and white isn't just invisible because it's dominant, and the majority, and because we aren't self-aware – it's also invisible because it is amorphous. Amorphousness is weak on belonging.
Rachel Dolezal and Mezz Mezzrow represent one response to the urge to belong to a more definite cultural identity. At the opposite extreme are the white nationalists, trying to make whiteness a more definite thing, worthy of defending and promoting against perceived and largely fabricated threats.
Mona Chalabi writes, "If the 'somethingness' of white culture is never quite pinned down, it remains both 'nothing, really' and 'well, everything'."
Psychologist Mikhail Lyubansky suggests that "this wish – to be rid of whiteness – is at the very core of white culture." People with a strong cultural identity will typically be happy to talk about it at the slightest encouragement. However, Lyubansky notes, "White people don't want to talk about their whiteness."
In some ways there are certainly multiple white cultures – just as there are multiple black cultures and multiple Asian cultures and multiple Hispanic cultures and multiple indigenous cultures. If you cut it particularly fine, in some sense, each of us is a culture of one. So it would be tempting to abandon the idea of trying to say anything about white culture at all.
But we can learn something from the ways that our institutional cultures have been frustrating to people of minority cultures. Consider these cultural differences in the way businesses and governments and organizations at all levels function, make decisions, and allocate and protect power. On each of the 13 spectra below, the left end of the spectrum represents "white culture" -- not because all whites prefer those cultural practices but because (a) the left-end cultural practices tend to sustain the power of powerful groups; (b) members of powerful groups learn to be good at these cultural practices that sustain their power; and (c) in particular, historically, the left sides of the spectra have preserved the power, control, and privilege of people of European descent.
1. Perfectionism------------------------Appreciation
little appreciation expressed for the work that others are doing;
appreciation that is expressed usually directed to those who get most of the credit anyway
more common is to point out either how the person or work is inadequate -- or to talk to others about the inadequacies of a person or their work without ever talking directly to them;
mistakes are seen as personal, i.e. they reflect badly on the person making them;
making a mistake is confused with being a mistake, doing wrong with being wrong
little time, energy, or money is put into reflection or identifying lessons learned that can improve practice -- little or no learning from mistakes;
tendency to identify what's wrong; little ability to identify, name, and appreciate what's right
taking time to make sure that people's work and efforts are appreciated;
expecting that everyone will make mistakes and those mistakes offer opportunities for learning;
recognizing that mistakes sometimes lead to positive results;
separating the person from the mistake;
speaking to the things that went well before offering criticism;
asking people to offer specific suggestions for how to do things differently when offering criticism
2. Greater Urgency------------------------Less Urgency
Greater Urgency
chronic sense of urgency that makes it difficult to take time to be inclusive, encourage democratic and/or thoughtful decision-making, think long-term, or consider consequences;
sacrificing potential allies for quick or highly visible results – often sacrificing interests of communities of color in order to win victories for white people (seen as default or norm community);
funding proposals promise, and funders who expect, too much work for too little money;
Less Urgency
realistic workplans;
leadership which understands that things take longer than anyone expects;
discussion and planning for what it means to set goals of inclusivity and diversity, particularly in terms of time;
learn from past experience how long things take;
write realistic funding proposals with realistic time frames;
clarity about identifying and responding to pressures of urgency when they arise
3. Defensiveness------------------------Nondefensiveness
Defensiveness
the organizational structure is set up and much energy spent trying to prevent abuse and protect power as it exists rather than to facilitate the best out of each person or to clarify who has power and how they are expected to use it
because of either/or thinking (see below), criticism of those with power is viewed as threatening and inappropriate (or rude)
people respond to new or challenging ideas with defensiveness, making it very difficult to raise these ideas
a lot of energy in the organization is spent trying to make sure that people's feelings aren't getting hurt or working around defensive people
the defensiveness of people in power creates an oppressive culture
Nondefensiveness
understanding that structure cannot in and of itself facilitate or prevent abuse;
understanding the link between defensiveness and fear (of losing power, losing face, losing comfort, losing privilege);
naming defensiveness as a problem when it is one;
giving people credit for being able to handle more than one thought;
discussing ways defensiveness or resistance to new ideas gets in the way of the mission
4. Quantity Over Quality------------------------Quality over Quantity
all resources of organization are directed toward producing measurable goals
things that can be measured are more highly valued than things that cannot: numbers of people attending a meeting, newsletter circulation, money spent are valued more than quality of relationships, democratic decision-making, ability to constructively deal with conflict;
little or no value is attached to process; if it can't be measured, it has no value
there is discomfort with emotion and feeling;
there is no understanding that when there is a conflict between content (the agenda of the meeting) and process (people's need to be heard or engaged), process will prevail – otherwise, the decisions made at the meeting will be undermined and/or disregarded.
process or quality goals are included in planning;
the organization has a values statement expressing its valuation of diverse work styles;
the values statement is used and referenced in day-to-day work;
ways to measure process goals (such as inclusivity) are sought;
there is recognition of times when one needs to get off the agenda in order to address concerns of process or feelings.
5. Fixation on Written Word------------------------Less Dependence on Written Word
Fixation on Written Word
if it's not in a memo, it doesn't exist;
the organization does not value other ways information gets shared
those with strong documentation and writing skills are more highly valued, even in organizations where ability to relate to others is key to the mission
Unwillingness to analyze how people inside and outside the organization get and share information or to reflect carefully on which things truly need to be written down
the belief there is one right way to do things and once people are introduced to the right way, they will see the light and adopt it – and if they don't, there is something wrong with them
Less Dependence on Written Word
work to recognize the contributions and skills that every person brings to the organization – such as the ability to build relationships with those who are important to the organization's mission
accept that there are many ways to get to the same goal;
work on developing the ability to notice when people do things differently and how those different ways might improve your approach;
look for the tendency for a group or a person to keep pushing the same point over and over out of a belief that there is only one right way and then name it;
when working with communities from a different culture than yours or your organization's, be clear that you have some learning to do about the community; never assume that you or your organization know what's best for the community in isolation from meaningful relationships with that community
6. Paternalism------------------------Inclusion
decision-making is unclear to those without power – though they know well the impact of those decisions;
those with power make decisions for and in the interests of those without power -- often without steps to understand their viewpoint or experience;
everyone knows and understands who makes what decisions in the organization;
everyone knows and understands their level of responsibility and authority in the organization;
people who are affected by decisions are included in the decision-making
7. Either/Or Thinking------------------------Both/And Thinking
Either/Or
things are either/or, good/bad, right/wrong, with us/against us;
closely linked to perfectionism in making it difficult to learn from mistakes or accommodate conflict
complex realities are oversimplified (e.g., "Poverty is simply a result of poor education")
time and encouragement to consider alternatives is denied -- particularly alternatives that may require more time or resources
Both/And
notice when people use "either/or" language and push to come up with more than two alternatives;
notice when people are simplifying complex issues, particularly when the stakes seem high or an urgent decision needs to be made;
slow it down and encourage people to deeper analysis;
when people are faced with an urgent decision, take a break and give people some breathing room to think creatively;
avoid making decisions under extreme pressure.
8. Power Hoarding------------------------Power Sharing
Power Hoarding
little, if any, value around sharing power;
power seen as limited: only so much to go around;
those with power feel threatened when anyone suggests changes in how things should be done in the organization, feel suggestions for change are a reflection on their leadership;
those with power don't see themselves as hoarding power or as feeling threatened
those with power assume they have the best interests of the organization at heart and assume those wanting change are ill-informed, emotional, inexperienced
Power Sharing
include power sharing in your organization's values statement;
discuss what good leadership looks like and make sure people understand that a good leader develops the power and skills of others;
understand that change is inevitable and challenges to your leadership can be healthy and productive;
make sure the organization is focused on the mission
9. Conflict Fear------------------------Conflict Appreciation
Fear of Conflict
people in power fear conflict and try to ignore it or run from it;
when someone raises an issue that causes discomfort, the response is to blame the person for raising the issue;
emphasis on being polite; equation of raising difficult issues with being impolite, rude, or out of line
Appreciation of Conflict
role play ways to handle conflict before conflict happens;
distinguish between being impolite and raising hard issues;
don't require those who raise hard issues to raise them in "acceptable ways," especially if you are using the ways in which issues are raised as an excuse not to address the issues being raised;
once a conflict is resolved, take the opportunity to revisit it and see how it might have been handled differently
10. Individualism------------------------Collaboration
little experience or comfort working as part of a team;
people in organization believe they are responsible for solving problems alone;
accountability, if any, goes up and down, not sideways to peers or to clients/customers.
desire for individual recognition and credit leads to isolation;
little time or resources devoted to developing cooperation skills;
valuation on getting things done on one's own leads to lack of accountability;
little or no ability to delegate work to others
Values statement affirms value of teamwork;
the organization works toward shared goals and people understand that working together improves performance;
evaluations emphasize ability to work in a team, and delegate to others;
credit is given to all those who participate in an effort, not just the leaders;
groups rather than individuals are held accountable;
create a culture where people bring problems to the group;
use staff meetings as a place to solve problems, not just a place to report activities.
11. Goals blinkered and short-term------------------------Goals include process and long-term
Goals Blinkered and Short-Term
conception of "progress" focused on expansion (more staff, larger budgets, more customers/clients)
focus on size rather than how well people are served – or whether the people served are the people that most need it
Goals Include Process and Long-Term
create Seventh Generation thinking by asking how the actions of the group now will affect people seven generations from now;
cost/benefit analyses includes all the costs – including costs in morale, costs in credibility, costs in the use of resources;
planning should include process goals, goals about how one wants to work, not just what one wants to do.
12. Objectivity------------------------Shifting Consensus
the belief that there is such a thing as being objective, and that emotions are inherently destructive, irrational, and should not play a role in decision-making or group process;
invalidating people who show emotion;
requiring people to think in a linear fashion and ignoring or invalidating those who think in other ways;
impatience with any thinking that does not appear "logical" to those with power.
Shifting Consensus
realize that everybody has a world view that affects the way they understand things – including you;
push yourself to sit with discomfort when people are expressing themselves in ways not familiar to you;
assume that everybody has a valid point and your job is to understand what that point is
13. Right to Comfort------------------------Appreciation of Discomfort
Right to Comfort
those with power assume a right to emotional and psychological comfort;
those who cause discomfort are scapegoated;
individual acts of unfairness against white people are equated with systemic racism which daily targets people of color
Appreciation of Discomfort
welcome discomfort as the root of all growth and learning; deepen political analysis of racism and oppression so you have a strong understanding of how your personal experience and feelings fit into a larger picture
don't take anything personally
Adapted from Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun, "Dismantling Racism: A Workbook for Social Change Groups" (2001) -- HERE
By Rev. Meredith Garmon at January 20, 2019
What a nice, White sermon.
Where do I get off, to say such an offensive thing?
I am only the daughter, of many generations; you do not get this!
Of Aaron and Sara Burcell, who took these preposterously White names, because they feared they would not survive the next massacre.
I survived. And yet, I am not White, as they wished I would be.
I am sorry to miss sunday. Good things are happen at uu
Rev. Meredith Garmon
Minister, Community Unitarian Universalist Congregation
468 Rosedale Ave
cucwp.org
What Is Liberal Religion?
What Religion is About
Unitarian Universalists believe . . . that your religion isn't about what you believe. So what is religion about?
1. Religion is about the way you live: the ethics and values that guide your life.
2. Religion is about community: the people with whom you choose to join in faith community, and the rituals, songs, and stories that affirm and strengthen community connection.
3. Religion is about experience: the moments of transcendence, awe, mystery, wonder, beauty, interconnection and oneness.
A faith congregation, liberal or conservative, aims to bring these three very different things together in such a way that each one reinforces the other two.
The Five Smooth Stones of Liberalism
What, then, makes religion liberal? James Luther Adams (1901-1996) identified these "five smooth stones":
1. Openness to New Truth. "Religious liberalism depends first on the principle that revelation is continuous. Meaning has not been finally captured. Nothing is complete, and thus nothing is exempt from criticism." Our religious tradition is a living tradition because we are always learning.
2. Freedom. "All relations between persons ought ideally to rest on mutual, free consent and not on coercion." We freely choose congregational relationship and spiritual practice. We deny infallibility and resist hierarchical authority.
3. Justice. We are morally obligated to direct our "effort toward the establishment of a just and loving community. It is this which makes the role of the prophet central and indispensable in liberalism."
4. Institution Building. Religious liberals "deny the immaculate conception of virtue and affirm the necessity of social incarnation....Justice is an exercise of just and lawful institutional power." Institution building involves the messiness of claiming our power amid conflicting perspectives and needs, rather than the purity of ahistorical, decontextualized ideals.
5. Hope. "The resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism."
(For Adams's full text, see HERE. For Liberal Faith, see HERE.)
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A Natural and Religious History of Compassion (5)
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AntiBarbies (4)
Attain the Good You Will Not Attain (3)
Beatnik Celebration (4)
Behind the Kitchen Door (4)
Bless the World (3)
Blessed Affliction (4)
BLM & UU (3)
Borders/Boundaries (2)
Boxes Too Small (4)
Broken Open (4)
Brueggemann (1)
Church! Huh! What Is It Good For? (3)
Congregation-Based Community Organizing (1)
Corruption of Our Democracy (3)
Cultural Diversity (3)
Daring Democracy (3)
Democracy and the Meaning of Life (4)
Desertless Life (3)
Desiring Music (3)
Direct Experience of Transcending Mystery and Wonder (3)
Diremption Redemption (4)
Discovering America (3)
Easter and Transformation (2)
Ecospiritual (13)
Environmental Racism (5)
Evil & Sociopathy (4)
Evil and Hope (2)
Expanding the Circle (4)
Faith Like a Chalice (4)
Father Earth (5)
Feminist Theology (4)
Ferlinghetti (3)
Fire of Commitment (2)
Flower Communion (1)
Foolishness and Salvation (3)
Friends Along the Path (4)
God the Adjective (3)
God the Verb (3)
Going Home (1)
Going Into Labor (3)
Gratitude and Its Expression (4)
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Spirituality (9)
Instead of Guilt (4)
Intercultural Sensitivity (5)
Interdependent Web of Covenant (3)
Jesus Zombies and the Half-Way House of Reason (3)
Job and Transcendence (3)
Just Mercy (4)
Let Go . . . Or Not (3)
Liberal Entitlement (4)
Living Your Faith (3)
Love and Desire (3)
Making Friends with Death (4)
Meadow For Metaphor (5)
Mercy Sakes! (3)
Mercy v. Justice (4)
Mindfulness Fad (3)
ministry & metanoia (5)
Mission: Possible (5)
Moral Psychology (3)
Myth of Scarcity (5)
Newsletter Column (13)
Nikki Giovanni (3)
Nonviolent Social Change (3)
On Being a UU Buddhist (3)
One Hundred Years from Now (3)
Poetry Celebration (14)
Reclaiming Prophetic Witness (4)
Respond to Whose Love? (4)
Service to Transform (5)
Shadow's Gift (1)
Spirit of Truth (4)
spiritual bypass (2)
Spirituality of Evolution (3)
Thanksgiving Truth (1)
The American Idea (3)
The Blues (3)
The Fourth P (1)
The Future Will Judge Us (3)
The Gift to be Simple (3)
The Half-Won Blessing (5)
The Meaning of Membership (4)
The Paradox of Generosity (3)
The Prophetic (2)
The Spiritual Practice of Generosity (4)
The Third Reconstruction (3)
Theology of Money (3)
There Is No God and She Is Always with You (3)
There's Something About Mary (3)
Things Get Difficult (1)
Timshel: Thou Mayest (3)
Truth Who Needs It (3)
Truth? (3)
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UU Buddhism (3)
Vocation: Who Are You? (5)
Wandering (3)
War Peace and Remembering (2)
Welcome to Liberal Religion (4)
Welcome to Resistance (3)
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What Is Blessing? (2)
What Is Liberal Religion? (5)
What Other People Think (3)
Who Are These People? (3)
Who's In Charge Here? (4)
Why Is There Awe (6)
Why Not Evil? (4)
Wonder of Wonders (3)
Yay! Death! (3)
God is Not One
Simplicity and Belonging
Complexity is Good. So is Simplicity.
Owning and Being Owned
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Falling in Love? Or Standing in Love?
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Most Intimate
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Realities of White Privilege
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Whose Jesus?
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The skin I produced for PA was more than similar to JJ's and I now realize that my actions and decisions were wrong.
JJ's skin and my skin are different. Thats now become obvious as all similarities between the two have been eliminated.
But most importantly, JJ and I have have an agreement and understanding where we are both satisfied and the problem resolved.
like them as you know by now! Should be posted soon. Longhorn is back, and better than ever people :-).


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Which People's War? National Identity and Citizenship in Britain, 1939-1945
Title Which People's War? National Identity and Citizenship in Britain, 1939-1945
Authors Rose, Sonya O.
Publisher Oxford University Press
City, Country Oxford; New York
Which People's War? examines how national belonging, or British national identity, was envisaged in the public culture of the World War II home front. Using materials from newspapers, magazines, films, novels, diaries, letters, and all sorts of public documents, it explores such questions as: who was included as 'British' and what did it mean to be British? How did the British describe themselves as a singular people, and what were the consequences of those depictions? It also examines the several meanings of citizenship elaborated in various discussions concerning the British nation at war. This investigation of the powerful constructions of national identity and understandings of citizenship circulating in Britain during the Second World War exposes their multiple and contradictory consequences at the time. It reveals the fragility of any singular conception of 'Britishness' even during a war that involved the total mobilization of the country's citizenry and cost 400,000 British civilian lives.
Short Title Which People's War?
Reprint Edition 2006
19.	"Total Warfare", Gender and the Home/Front in Europe during the First and Second World War (Grayzel)
21.	History and Memory of Military Women and Female Soldiers in the Age of World Wars (Hagemann)
27.	Gendering the Memories of War and the Holocaust in Europe and the United States
War & Nation/Nation-building
1940s - present
Second World War (1939-45)


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The day of this photoshoot it wasn't quite raining but it drizzled all day long, which to me is a good enough excuse for wearing a rainy day outfit. I've always said that on rainy days like this, we should step up our looks by wearing fun combinations that will bring a bit of sunshine to our dull days. Mixing patterns or wearing color are some ways that we can create a fun rainy-day look. As you can see in this look, I applied both combinations just because rainy days inspire me to be a tad more creative.
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BitTorrent Tracking Site Mininova Considers Appeal After Losing Court Case
By: Brian Prince | August 26, 2009
Mininova, an alternative to BitTorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay, loses a key legal battle as a Dutch court rules that the Mininova site will face fines if it does not take action to remove links pointing to copyrighted material from its servers.
As The Pirate Bay fights to stay online, one of its chief rivals has also fallen into the sights of the authorities.
A civil court ordered Dutch Website Mininova to remove all files on its servers that point to copyrighted works within three months or face fines. Mininova rivals The Pirate Bay as an Internet BitTorrent indexing and tracking site, and like its competitor has been at the center of controversy over the distribution of copyrighted material.
Following a separate court order, ISP Black Internet cut service to The Pirate Bay Aug. 24 in the face of possible fines. However, two days later The Pirate Bay found its way back online. Despite the controversy, the operators of The Pirate Bay say they are not backing down.
"Even though large parts of Internets and many old and famous trackers have fallen or may fall into the grip of the IFPI and all the odious apparatus of MPAA rule, we shall not flag or fail," said a The Pirate Bay blog post.
In its ruling, the Utrecht District Court took the side of Stichting BREIN, a Dutch organization representing various copyright-holder groups. The court accused Mininova of both promoting the violation of copyrights and profiting from said activity due to advertising on the site.
In a statement, Mininova founder Erik Dubbelboer said he was disappointed in the court's decision.
"We are obviously not satisfied with this ruling," Dubbelboer said. "The result of this ruling for Mininova is that we have to reevaluate our business operations. At this time, we cannot determine what this will actually entail or imply. We will have to examine the verdict thoroughly first. We are considering [whether] to appeal this judgment."
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Of Course! Kevin Feige Basically Confirms 'Black Panther 2' Is Happening
Stronger than a shield made of vibranium were the chances of Marvel green lighting a Black Panther sequel. So why beat around the bush? Of course there will be one, and in an interview with EW, Marvel Studios prez Kevin Feige confirms they've already been talking about it...
"One of the favorite pastimes at Marvel Studios is sitting around on a Part One and talking and dreaming about what we would do in a Part Two. There have been plenty of those conversations as we were putting together the first 'Black Panther.' We have ideas and a pretty solid direction on where we want to head with the second one."
It's rare that Marvel makes a movie that doesn't have sequels. To the best of my knowledge the only one is Hulk, and there are all sorts of legal reasons for that. So this was a no-brainer whether Black Panther was a mega hit or not.
The question is how does Marvel make the best use of the many amazing characters introduced in Black Panther, in particular the Dora Milaje and Shuri. We know they'll be seen next in Avengers: Infinity War, but what about solo movies and spinoffs? Might that happen some day?
"I think there's lots of potential. It's a balance between leaving people wanting more and then giving them too much, but I would watch a movie about any of those characters you just named. I think Shuri's astounding, and you'll see much more of her in our universe. Okoye, I think I'd watch three action films just Okoye. I'm not saying we're doing that, but I'm saying that we're intrigued by them."
Chances are Black Panther 2 was somewhere in the group of new Marvel release dates announced last week. For now, look out for T'Challa, Shuri, Okoye, and more when Infinity War drops on April 27th.


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Great for bell work, settling down after recess, word work, homework, or any time you have a few extra minutes. Print a pack for the entire month and use the cute covers provided, or just print a few as you need them.
These practice pages are made for students who already know how to form each letter, but need practice with sizing, spacing, and neatness.