I've been playing around with this recipe for months. I 've been perfecting it; holding out for that key ingredient. Finally, I'm sharing the recipe – which now has evolved to include collagen powder.
You probably already know how much I love to get my daily dose of collagen from home made bone broth. Well, my more recent 'cheats way' of getting it is through a non-gelling form, known as collagen hydrolysate. It's got all the healthy, cell nurturing benefits of gelatin without the bother of boiling bone for hours! You can read more about gelatin here. It's so easy.
I now try to incorporate this powerful superfood into all sorts of home baking. These muffins are just one possibility. You can add collagen hydrolysate to just about anything at all.
Collagen powder has absolutely no flavour, so these coconut, macadamia & sesame muffins will work perfectly and taste great with or without. If you skip the collagen powder, simply use a little less coconut milk.
Line a muffin-baking tray with paper muffin liners.
Melt the coconut oil in a small saucepan then add the raisins to soften.
Grind the nuts and seeds in a food processor then pour in the oil and all the ingredients and process until a smooth, grainy batter.
Spoon the batter into the prepared muffin trays and bake for 20 minutes.
Store the muffins airtight for up to one week.
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module Main (main) where

import System.Environment (getArgs, getProgName)
import System.Exit (exitWith, ExitCode(ExitSuccess))
import System.IO (stderr, hPutStrLn)
import System.Console.GetOpt (getOpt, usageInfo, OptDescr(Option), ArgDescr(ReqArg, NoArg), ArgOrder(Permute))
import Web.Twitter (updateStatus, updateStatusWithAttr, StatusAttr(..), uploadImage, uploadImageWithAttr, ImageAttr(..))
import Web.Twitter.OAuth (readToken)

version :: String
version = "0.1"

-- command line options
data Options = Options { tokenFile :: String
                       , image :: Maybe String
                       , coord :: Maybe (Double, Double)
                       , status :: String }

-- command line defaults
defaultOpts :: Options
defaultOpts = Options { tokenFile = error "no token file given..."
                      , image = Nothing
                      , coord = Nothing
                      , status = ""
                      }

-- given a position "43.0,-119.67", parse the option
getCoordinate :: String -> Options -> IO Options
getCoordinate latlon opt =
   return opt { coord = Just (lat, lon) }
      where
         lat = read (fst coord') :: Double
         lon = read (drop 1 $ snd coord') :: Double
         coord' = break (==',') latlon

-- command line description
-- this format is kinda bone headed:
--   [Option short [long] (property setter-function hint) description]
options :: [ OptDescr (Options -> IO Options) ]
options =
   [ Option "t" ["tokenFile"]
         (ReqArg (\arg opt -> return opt { tokenFile = arg }) "FILE")
         "file where the oauth token is saved"

   , Option "i" ["image"]
         (ReqArg (\arg opt -> return opt { image = Just arg }) "FILE")
         "image to be uploaded"

   , Option "s" ["status"]
         (ReqArg (\arg opt -> return opt { status = arg }) "MESSAGE")
         "status tweet to be posted"

   , Option "c" ["coord"]
         (ReqArg getCoordinate "lat,lon")
         "coordinates for this tweet"

   , Option "h" ["help"]
         (NoArg $ \_ ->
            do
               prg <- getProgName
               hPutStrLn stderr $ usageInfo prg options
               exitWith ExitSuccess)
         "display help"

   , Option "v" ["version"]
         (NoArg $ \_ ->
            do
               me <- getProgName
               hPutStrLn stderr $ me ++ " version " ++ version
               exitWith ExitSuccess)
         "display version"
   ]

main :: IO ()
main =
   do
      args <- getArgs

      -- call getOpt, ignoring errors
      let (actions, _, _) = getOpt Permute options args

      -- process the defaults with those actions
      opts <- foldl (>>=) (return defaultOpts) actions

      do
         token  <- readToken (tokenFile opts)
         let tweet = status opts
         new <- case (coord opts, image opts)
                of (Nothing,     Just imagePath) -> uploadImage token tweet imagePath
                   (Just latlon, Just imagePath) -> uploadImageWithAttr token tweet imagePath
                                                      [ ImageDisplayCoords
                                                      , ImageLatLon (fst latlon) (snd latlon) ]
                   (Just latlon, Nothing)        -> updateStatusWithAttr token tweet
                                                      [ StatusDisplayCoords
                                                      , StatusLatLon (fst latlon) (snd latlon) ]
                   (Nothing, Nothing)            -> updateStatus token tweet

         print new

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It is now known that an object Yes particle – by minimum mass having cannot never achieved the speed of light, since this increases in geometric progression with speed, and just before reaching the speed of light would be infinite mass. Acceleration occurs through super-conductive magnets and simultaneously match bursts through the inside of the ducts. It is easier that they collide two bullets fired from the ground and the Moon two atoms in the Hadron, they collide Hadrons are all via smaller.-electrical energy needed for magnets reaches 147 k/amps. for which you need a power cord which is found in a regime of 260 degrees to be able to withstand such intensity, will get similar temperature thanks to the dangerous gas helium. -260 K is the lowest temperature known, being the deep space, or absolute zero. Everything is synchronized by 150 computers connected together as if one only were, for an operation that lasts a few nano-segundos. A person who embrace the duct would be killed by radiations emitted during operation almost instantly.
By which quarks! A Microbe deposited in one page of paper has no perception of the 3rd dimension – or known – you will only see and be known in the flat horizontal longitudinal and transversely, the dimension height for him does not exist. Human being knows, sees and experiences in four dimensions if we count the time – in the Hadron Collider, the consequence of the clash of them generates a new particle, Quark, remember that in the universe nothing is created or destroyed, is transformed! This particle has a property, and it has been recently demonstrated, with collision, go scattered in all directions, until here everything is normal, but there are some that change of material dimension, disappear, that do not disintegrate, acquiring another State of matter. In search of the divine particle. Now the concern of the brains are, in as develop the zero moment of the universe, dark matter not the dark side, as I heard yesterday, and black holes are only step – from the dear Quark traced far let carry seeking the first particle of the universe, scientists have already dubbed it as: the particle's divine, which is the Bosson of Higs and get to all the bottom of quantum mechanics. I remember the novel Dune that that civilization wise manipulate space to travel enormous distances, folding space. Perhaps this utopia can become a reality, we do not know when or where at the moment will only keep dreaming.


Making college affordable, restful, and culturally relevant; the cupping comforts of secondary scholarship; Adam becomes a costumed mascot and buys a new koch; how many greeting cards does it take to change (or not change) Los Altos?; Playing Marco Polo with immigrant labor; sweet corn, fresh from the tank; Leopold Bloom, Herman Blume, and the subtler hermeneutics of dysentery; abrupt Chinese c*nsorship; Merlin gets talk-blocked by a blogless Belizean zookeeper; Kraftwerk speak through a vocoder about "Das Futur"; the suspicious motions of Ad Hoc Tai Chi; still no cream for senioritis; and Scott offers East Arcadia State's surviving TAs an urgent drum solo.
Submitted by 12steppes on Thu, 2009-03-26 15:18.
Submitted by wrongstar on Wed, 2009-04-01 15:22.
Submitted by secretsquirrel on Thu, 2009-03-26 16:03.
You guys ever try Vachinese food? It's not great, man. You're always left picking pieces out of your teeth and for some reason you can't buy it 5 days of the month.
Submitted by zombo09 on Mon, 2009-08-24 21:21.
Submitted by Enrico on Thu, 2009-03-26 21:38.
Atlantic Starr? Really? That is so 7th grade. With slow-dancing.
Submitted by Nathaniel on Thu, 2009-03-26 22:53.
I was wondering, is the 2nd monsters of podcasting scheduled to be released?
Submitted by oversized_head_kid on Fri, 2009-03-27 05:04.
Totally true about the made in italy tag. The main city for this is Prato, it's where most of Gucci, Prada and all that stuff is made. Apparently there are more that 3000 illegal factories being run in Prato (so they say). It's kindof a sore point with italians, especially people who live in Prato - but the truth of the matter is enforcement of laws - or lack of it.
Submitted by Compass.Rosie on Fri, 2009-03-27 06:35.
Argh! When I try the Direct Download link, I get an empty file, 0 bytes.
Submitted by hotdogsladies on Fri, 2009-03-27 07:12.
Sorry about the problems with links to this eppo. Daddy is on it.
I think (hope?) I've fixed the podcast feed, but will monitor it for boogers.
Submitted by Compass.Rosie on Fri, 2009-03-27 08:38.
Submitted by Prepoceros on Fri, 2009-03-27 17:56.
The mascot for East Arcadia Elementary in rural NC (presumably a feeder school for EA State) appears to be a plastic jaguar.
Submitted by bobrobertrobertson on Sun, 2009-03-29 00:35.
East Arcadia State continues to ignore the needs of the Sacks-Minnelli community. The student health center refuses to provide treatment or counseling for those who suffer from this tragic disease.
All we ask for is Cabaret sheet music and some cream. Everytime we ask for help, they only refer us to the performing arts department.
I call on the YLNT talent to stand with the Sacks-Minnelli community against this tyranny.
Submitted by utubish on Sun, 2009-03-29 06:19.
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Submitted by nicolefrancine on Mon, 2009-03-30 10:44.
This Monday morning had a huge suckage factor due to me staying up way too late last night watching "Kitchen Nightmares" which is awesome because I've finally found someone who cusses more than I do.
Anyway, I had a headache but finally hearing another podcast really helped. That and some green tea that has supposed magical qualities.
Submitted by suomirpc on Thu, 2009-04-02 13:28.
Am I just tired and missed the joke?
Submitted by philnelson on Fri, 2009-04-03 10:08.
The joke is that well-off white people are afraid of black people. Are you from mars?
Submitted by remini on Thu, 2009-05-28 11:13.
Submitted by colinmorris on Tue, 2009-04-07 16:04.
Not to gang up on you, but I have to agree that whatever red flag was raised by this joke is clearly martian.
loop on a chain store?
Submitted by jblood on Tue, 2009-04-07 19:11.
Submitted by amandafrench on Thu, 2009-04-30 10:28.
Hey, sorry to be off topic, but I'm at my wit's end fruitlessly searching around the web for something by Merlin I know I remember reading a few months ago — please, please help me find it if you can.
It's an e-mail from a clueless marketer / PR flack asking the You Look Nice Today crew (if I recall correctly) to blog about their "software as a service" product. There was a whole correspondence in which Merlin wrote her back, very sincerely, indicating total compliance but asking for (among other things) permission to post the e-mail. Hilarious snarkery ensued.
Where IS that? I've looked on 43folders.com, merlinmann.com, youlooknicetoday.com, yourmonkeycalled.com. I've googled till my fingers are blue and I can't dig it up. Help help help? Please? I NEED it. For research. Yes. Research.
Never mind. Found it. On Flickr.
Any tape of Seattle or Portland shows?
Submitted by Resilient.Rabbit on Mon, 2009-05-04 12:55.
Just curious whether you are planning to post any recordings you might have from your recent groundbreaking tour of the Pacific Northwest.
Submitted by zakwithoutac on Mon, 2009-05-04 22:15.
My understanding is they won't be returning "till Ed Bagley Jr. flies". Which, actually may have happened with travel the way it is these days. Someone could empirically prove that and send an email with a .png to one message board or another and we could get some new episodes.
Submitted by MtL on Fri, 2009-08-21 08:09.
Merlin's favring prompted me to come back and post what popped into my head back when I first listened to this episode.
I was listening to it on a "Smart Playlist" of new podcasts, and because it was the only item, it looped back on itself.
And… I didn't realize that's what happened, I thought that it had been edited into a cycle. I had found the first few minutes particularly confusing, and they made more sense on second listening. I thought that it was an intentional loop back. Nope, it wasn't. But it worked awesome for me.


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Britain and Hong Kong
No panderers, please: this issue's black and white
Time for Britain to rediscover its moral compass and confront China over Hong Kong
LeadersJul 19th 2014 edition
ON JULY 15th Hong Kong's leader, Leung Chun-ying, presented a report to China's leaders in Beijing on how to reform the territory's electoral system. In it he suggested that most Hong Kongers were perfectly happy with a system under which a rigged committee of worthies weeds out anyone the mainland does not like, and did not want greater political freedom. The report angered many in the former British colony, who complain that China no longer respects the unique formula of "one country, two systems" under which Hong Kong is supposed to be governed and believe its actions so far suggest it will not keep its promise to allow universal suffrage in the election of the territory's leader by 2017. Amid the uproar, however, one voice has been notably silent: that of Britain.
In 1984 Margaret Thatcher signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration with a Chinese leader, Zhao Ziyang. The document laid the groundwork for Hong Kong's Basic Law, its post-handover constitution. For several years after Britain handed over power in 1997, China adhered scrupulously to the Basic Law. This week, amid growing concerns for Hong Kong's autonomy, two senior Hong Kong politicians, Martin Lee Chu-ming and Anson Chan Fang On-sang, visited London hoping to meet David Cameron. They succeeded only in seeing Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, who told them that Britain "will not shy away from defending the principle of one country, two systems". Yet that is precisely what Britain is doing.
As China has become more powerful, it has exerted increasing influence in Hong Kong—over the electoral process, by leaning on editors to tone down criticism of China (see article), and through its pressure on religious groups, such as Falun Gong, that are banned on the mainland. A white paper written by the central government and published in June declared that Hong Kong's autonomy was in the gift of Beijing. It also called on the territory's judiciary to recognise that it has a duty to "be patriotic"—ie, mindful of China's national interests—a contradiction of Hong Kong's common-law English system and a threat to judicial independence.
A right royal welcome
The week after the white paper was issued, China's prime minister, Li Keqiang, was being feted on a state visit to Britain. He got an audience with the queen—a privilege normally reserved for heads of state. The trip was billed as a rapprochement after a period in which China had kept Britain in the cold. Two years ago, Britain's prime minister, David Cameron, met the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, whom Beijing labels a "splittist". As a result, China shunned British leaders and businessmen. Signalling that China was willing to put the past behind it, Mr Li signed deals worth £14 billion ($24 billion). Nobody needed to spell out what from now on would be the terms of the relationship: deals would flow, but only for as long as Britain kept its nose out of Chinese affairs.
The consequences of that pact are now becoming clear. This month the British foreign secretary issued the latest of his twice-yearly reports on Hong Kong. He noted that some in Hong Kong had said that the white paper threatened the city's autonomy. But it did not contain a word of criticism for the document itself, nor for the government in Beijing.
That is bad for Hong Kong. Its role as a global financial centre is based upon the freedom of its press, the independence of its judiciary and the rule of law. Hong Kong's citizens risk seeing the autonomy guaranteed by the Basic Law eroded.
For British firms, the price of confronting China could be high. But in terms of the country's broader interests, failing to do so would be costlier. Countries that renege on treaty commitments lose credibility. Moreover, Britain's outsize diplomatic clout derives from its values as a democracy and its ability as a permanent member of the Security Council to galvanise coalitions. Its behaviour over Hong Kong suggests that either or both of those sources of strength are failing, for it seems unwilling to use its clout to defend its values.
Britain alone might not curb China's behaviour. But other countries, including America, are alarmed at Chinese bullying in neighbouring seas and distant continents. If Britain were willing to stand by Hong Kong's liberties, they would be prepared to do so too. If Britain kow-tows to China, why should they bother?
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline "No panderers, please: this issue's black and white"
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White War Song, Viet Nam, "19" and Jews
Posted bykkkaraoke	 January 28, 2012 Leave a comment on White War Song, Viet Nam, "19" and Jews
I accidentally turned to an '80's radio station on my Grace 10,000 internet radio station receiver. (the youtube version is longer and is seems like it is from Germany if you read the header on it.)
The song that was playing was "19". It jarred me so that my soul wanted to get out of my White skin for I couldn't bear anymore pain in what I'm realizing about our White race. The song was bout the (White) Viet Vet of age 19. And the "destruction" of him, White men in their "prime." It is one way for Jews to screw the white women, when Jews have war that blows off the White man's balls, as happened to my husband's one testicle. And I have his words for the hospital records to prove it.
One thing I noticed in the videos is that blacks were "in charge" often as the DI, or office jobs getting the White men thru. Now, even if we "stop" war, so our black and brown slaves can be "spared the suffering" the damage done to the White man and race for these 2,000 years, will not bring us into where we might have been if we had just lived naturally like natives who are getting jobs and businesses faster than we. They are not damaged. Jews have crippled an entire species. And then try to "rescue" us when Jews made the problems we are suffering today.
When you watch video, don't get into "oh well there were blacks there too." That is a Jewish trick and Jewish jingle and Jewish psychological warfare against our own survival. Our minds shouldn't be defending other races and religions other than our own which we are leaving to die while taking up "verbal battles" to still defend Jews as Whites did in World War II, Whites verbally still defending blacks, browns, and now Muslim women, while I as a good white woman rot in this f'n chair.
It didn't work for a "multi-cultural society" in Rome, nor did it in Egypt, where in the hell did we get the ideas shoved down our mind's throat that in order to be "good" we need to be "multi-cultural?" It has suppressed our own White intellect, white finances, white being, white spirituality. And increased our "debt" and our total reliance on other races, especially Jews, for our thinking, our being able to feed ourselves, with browns as farmers, and soon to be black farmers when they turn Africa into the new "breadbasket." Oh yes, there were "reasons" why Jews brought down our South African White farmers: BIG TAKEOVER, not just of virgin fertile land, but of the diamonds and gold, etc. This way Jews knock off and kill the presence of the "middle man." More $$$ for Jews and their imps.
I think that Jews had planned a 'double whammy' against Whites. First, kill off, degrade, emasculate, de-limb, neuter, replace, bomb, grenade, fill with bullets and lead, the….. White Man. Leave the White women and children to become "slaves" as I had to just to survive. Second….. while the Jews successfully accomplished this…. replace the White laws with Civil Rights for Jews to TAKEOVER and not be able to even think or pray anymore, let alone debate or take action to save ourselves. Civil Rights? For Jews. Civil Rights? For Blacks. Civil Rights? For Reds. Civil Rights? For 1/2 breed Mulattos who now run the country and replaced families like the White Russian Czar, Czarina, 5 kids and spiritual healer. Civil Rights? For browns and their sex's and babies for us Whites to pay for. There are only "UN-Civil Rights for Whites," which has turned us into slaves in our own home.
I sobbed bitterly when I watched this. My only consolation, is that I took it on "Myself" to make my husband a hero. I did it in 1968, I do it today. I get no appreciation for it in return. In fact, I get utter rejection and hatred towards me most of the time. How could a race, once Christian, abiding by laws of love, turn on their own is beyond me. Even as far back as 1985, White men were trying to tell the world in song, music, the horrors of war, the most "inhumane" way to day.
Think also, that our White men were not just fighting a battle, the Jews were directing both sides. The White men were being sent to places where the Viet Cong was already waiting for them, not to "battle" but to slaughter and massacre our White men. And while the Jews had our men enslaved in the epitome of suffering, the Jews then proceeded to go to war on the White Man psychological warfare with a Revolution against Whites that took over our country, churches, schools, government, media. And we thought Hitler was a madman for trying to stop them? That was 1945, now 67 years later, we are only that much deeper towards White Death, not closer for survival. The Mormons know! Their boys are trained with guns by age 6. Their White women are canning vegetables to survive in case of a Takeover in this country. Most Mormons are in good shape now. But that is only temporary. For even they are being replaced and how are they going to feed their big families and protect them as happened to those people of White Europe, killed off in starvation, murder, torture, being buried alive as Katyn Polish Massacre by Jew Commies.
The words below by Paul Hardcastle talk of "de-struction." It wasn't destroying the Chinese in Viet Nam, it was to destroy the White Veteran, the White man. Break him down, break his will, his spirituality. While at the same time, raising the level of every species on the planet, including amoebae.
And if you think it broke down the White man, think of what it did to his wife, like me, or his children. And how about when I went for "help" to the Jewish psychiatrist, Dr. Rejtman, Hispanic "immigrant" from Columbia, in 1977, and instead of getting help for my husband, this Jew doctor was ensnaring my own White husband against me. The doctor tried to rape me "again," even though he swore he was "cured" from his first rape 9 years before. He goes to rape me again after another hospitalization. And he had already had a "secret meeting" with my husband probably telling him if I exhibit certain "bizarre" behavior, to call the Jew doctor and "he would put me away." And when I went to run out of the office, and the doctor still came after me to kiss me and try to get me hot, he ran back to desk and offered me a white piece of paper with a prescription on it that was the 'sure cure for depression!' I ran out right to the Tri-City Mental Health Clinic where the yellow female Chinese doctor told me not to take that medicine; it would have made me sicker. "This" was the help for the Viet Nam Veteran and his "good" White Wife and 2 White sons with genius mentality. God will never forgive this country for what it did to me and mine. If God is "life" He doesn't condone, promote, encourage death and destruction of its own people, especially the "good."
Here's lyrics and song below:
Note the "reward" for trying to save the yellow Viet Namese from Jew Commies. White Veterans arrested, homeless, drugged up, bums of society, tormented. The "bravest" Whites of our species, and Jews smashed them from mountains of strength, courage, creativeness, into gravel even sand! Who has smashed them into gravel and sand for 2,000 years. Jesus Christ would never ever call that a religion that would allow a race to be annihilated especially since we served him for 2 millenniums.
I just know my husband's buddy, the Jew, Art Kaschmer, got a gravy job in Alabama, learned office work, had several successful bars and nut shops near Rush and also across from Wrigley Field, and he did not suffer a bit, no broken heads, or blown of testicle like my White husband and father of my 2 White sons whose ancestry was from the Mayflower Ship, 1620. He is now a millionaire and so are his 2 sons. I can tell you one thing, that God did. This Jew had "No" children of his own. He married a White woman and adopted "Her' children. Perhaps this is a sign of the end of the Jewish race. And remember also, it seems, according to "Nose" that my husband's girl friend who sent him a "Dear John" letter while he thought he was battling for "her" freedom and rights, this same girl was apparently screwing this Jewish friend. So white men get blown up, and Jews screw their White women and boys back home! WHAT A HYPOCRISY, FILTH AND SHAME FOR THIS COUNTRY, RACE, AND WORLD.
And to think we again went to war for 10 years for "Muslim Brown Rights!" While Whites haven't got a single White right to stand on. We are just as crippled as my husband's friend, The Nose, Greg Simon, who came back in a wheel chair and died at age 37! A nice guy, a good White man.
How come no one tries to stop the Middle East Wars, of if "I" go to stop it and go to conference "No More Wars for Israel," my car engine suddenly blows up on my way, and the 3 day conference is shut down by Marriott Hotel!
Remember Hitler's words: The Whites are the only "creative" people. The rest are "destructive." But the Jews and their imps have driven us mad, insane, taken away or stolen and made compound interest on our creative ideas and inventions….. and forced us to be NOT CREATIVE… BUT AGENTS OF 'DESTRUCTION.'
Song: "19"- Paul Hardcastle
(White Veteran).. "and then we came back & people said, "what happened to those guys over there?" There's gotta be something wrong there. We did what we had to do. There's gotta me something wrong somewhere and people wanted us to be ashamed of what it made us. They had no idea what it meant, 5 to 10 years from now. All we wanted to do was…. come home. WHY? ALL WE WANTED TO DO WAS COME HOME. What did we do it for? All we wanted to do was COME HOME. (My own comment: Whites have no more "home." This country belongs to Jews, blacks, reds, browns, who have divided it up as the soldiers that watched over Jesus' hanging by Jews, divided up his white garment, robbing his corpse practically, as Jews robbed my Daddy's ancestors in Galicia Poland.)
Announcer: "This is the story of men who are victims of war. They fought the longest war in American history. They all saw heavy combat in Viet Nam, although they were all decorated for heroism, none of them received a heroes welcome.
(Battle cries in background, bullets, grenades, orders to kill.)
19, 19, 19, 19, 19,
(White Veteran) "You see a lot of destruction, you see a lot of buildings being burned and people being killed. You shoot into bushes and screams and you know people who have been hit and when you see someone get hit with high velocity steel and a jack of rounds designed by people to kill other people. There is no more obscene way to die.
Announcer: Hundreds of thousands of (mostly all White men) who saw heavy combat have been arrested since they came back from Viet Nam discharge. Their arrest rate is almost "twice" that of non-Veterans of men the same age. There are no accurate figures of how many of these men have been incarcerated, but the Veteran's Administration Study concludes that the greater the Vet's exposure to combat the more chance his being arrested or convicted.
This is one legacy of the Viet Nam war
(I'm sorry I have to stop and weep. It hits my nerve of my very being. Let me try to stop the tears so I can see the computer screen for now it looks like a screen blurred by a Niagara Falls of tears. And I don't want to type anymore. If I'm typing for nothing, I don't want to add white salt to my white wounds.) You haven't lived in a hose with a Viet White Vet. You haven't had sex with him, been supported by him, loved, cared and protected by him, when no one else in the entire world, not even my parents, or siblings, or church, cared if I lived or die. In fact there were elements that wanted me dead. Not the damned evil Jewess, but me, a good White woman.)
Sigh… Deep breathe, prayer, and continue….
(White Veteran) THEY HAD VC (Viet Cong) that were over 12 feet tall. (My Comment: I think this really needs to be investigated. For where are they hiding such men as we breed dwarfs.) They captured the 25th infantry with a bag full of rocks. (My comment: just as today we fight these Arabs who have rocks, and Jews loaded with a minimum of 200 Nuclear Warheads, the inventors of the evil atom bomb, and germ warfare like white phosphorus sprayed on humans to show us whites just how brazen the Jews can be and get away with it, and how hopeless we are to do anything about it.) Everybody went after Ho Chi Mein with bayonets. This was the baddest news I've ever seen in my entire life.
(Girl Singers)
Nininini Nineteen, 19, Ni-nineteen 19
Destruction De-De-De-De-Destruction
(White young 19 year old Veteran) I looked at this guy, asked him what to do. He'd been hit right below his eye (by yellow Chinese Jew led Commies) The side of his face was blown away.
(My Comment: I sadly remember that I too dated a Christian Scientist, Steve Waller, a handsome English Aryan, who the yellows led by Jews, blew away not only his blue eye, his side of his face, but his skull! Holland doctors gave him reconstructive surgery. But if we didn't allow Jews to send us to war, we wouldn't need Jew doctors for their surgeries, like Jew Dr. Frankensteins.)
(White young 19 year old Vet con'd) He wasn't falling, just standing. He kind of half turned and fell. And then we came back home and everyone wants to know "What happened to those guys?" "There's got to be something there." We did what we had to do. And people wanted us to be ashamed of what it (the war and warmongers) made us. They had no idea what it meant to be in Viet Nam. All we wanted to do was come home.
(my comment) Remember, remember, remember, it was the USA government and their Jew Masters that forced by law, imprisonment, the DRAFT, that made it mandatory for our White men to go there. Either that or run to Canada who "accepted" the draft dodgers with open arms. While today Canada puts in prison anyone who tries to defend White people, or expose the Jews, or tries to write letters on computers complaining of all the other races we are being drowned with robbing our very life, soul, and wallet….
(White vet)… all we wanted to do was come home…. all we wanted to do was come home… all we wanted to do was come home….. (my comment: America is "Not" the home of the White Race or even Christianity which has turned into a branch of the new jew religion of world domination denomination.)
(White 19 year old Vet) Was it worth it? (Ask yourself: was the 10 year Iraq war worth it for Jews? These Middle East Revolution hoaxes to get to Iran and put under Jewish thumb? Was it worth our White trillions of tax dollars, while our White children are not only rotting alive, but are not even being born, a self-genocide induced in us.)
None of them received a heroes welcome, none of them, none of them
Nenene Nenene None of them, none of them, none of them (etc…)
None of them received a hero's welcome
White Viet Vet 19 year old: Then we came back and everyone wants to know "What happened to those guys over there?" "There's gotta to be something wrong somewhere." We did what we had to do. And people wanted us to be ashamed of what it made us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAQWUWMJxg8&feature=related
Here's another version below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byCCmBwRjGw
In 1965, Viet Nam just seemed like another foreign war. But it wasn't.
It was different in many ways, as so were those that did the fighting.
In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was 26…
In Vietnam he was 19.
In inininininin Vietnam he was 19.
(TV announcer's voice)
The shooting and fighting of the past two weeks continued today
25 miles west of Saigon
I really wasn't sure what was going on (Vet's Voice)
In Vietnam the combat soldier typically served a twelve month tour of duty but
was exposed to hostile fire almost everyday
Ninininininininininin 19 nininininninin 19
Hundreds of Thousands of men who saw heavy combat in Vietnam were arrested
since discharge
Their arrest rate is almost twice that of non-veterans of the same age.
There are no accurate figures of how many of these men have been incarcerated.
But, a Veterans Administration study concludes that the greater of Vets
exposure to combat could more likely affect his chances of being arrested or
convicted.
This is one legacy of the Vietnam War
(Singing Girls)
All those who remember the war
They won't forget what they've seen..
Destruction of men in their prime
whose average was 19
Dedededededede-Destruction
War, War
Dededede-Destruction, wa-wa-War, wa-War, War
(Intermittently, the announcer says "Saigon, Saigon. Purple Heart, Purple Heart, Purple Heart.")
After World War II the Men came home together on troop ships, but the Vietnam
Vet often arrived home within 48 hours of jungle combat
Perhaps the most dramatic difference between World War II and Vietnam was
coming home.. .none of them received a hero's welcome
According to a Veteran's Administration study
Half of the Vietnam combat veterans suffered from what Psychiatrists call
Post-Traumatic-Stress-Disorder
Many vets complain of alienation, rage, or guilt
Some succumb to suicidal thoughts
Eight to Ten years after coming home almost eight-hundred-thousand men are
still fighting the Vietnam War
Nininininininininin Nineteen, 19, Ni-nineteen 19
(Soldiers Voice)
When we came back it was different.. Everybody wants to know "How'd it
happened to those guys over there
There's gotta be something wrong somewhere
We did what we had to do
People wanted us to be ashamed of what it made us
Dad had no idea what he went to fight and he is now
All we want to do is come home
What did we do it for
(my comment: Home? You mean USA, The United Semites of America? The other races have carved our land up and divided it as the soldiers divided up Jesus' garments as the Jews hung him, only instead of a noose, a cross with nails. The other races have carved up our white, divide and conquer, husband/wife, male/female, parent/child, sister/brother, coworker, white neighbors, white church members, white schools, white minds, bodies, worse than when the Aztecs cut out the human hearts of their victims. The very heart of the White race is gone.
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The Boston Phoenix
Displaced anger
Is Rita Hester's murder being eclipsed by the transgender community's grammatical agenda?
Cityscape by Sarah McNaught
Rita Hester's friends have different perceptions of what the 34-year-old was like, but they all agree on one thing: "The girl could dance!" Hester, they recall, was an incredible entertainer whose dance shows at Jacques Cabaret four years ago are still talked about. Glossy black waist-length braids. Voluptuous candy-apple-red lips and eyelashes so long they could almost create a breeze. Hester was six foot two and weighed about 200 pounds, but her friends say she was as agile as a tiny dancer. And she lit up a room with her warm, boisterous greetings.
"I remember watching her do this strip show at Jacques where she would spin and spin, picking up so much speed that you could hardly notice that with each turn another article of clothing came off, until she stopped spinning and there she stood in a bra and thong panties. She got banned from dancing there because they said her show was too risqué," remembers Jessica Piper, who used to meet up with Hester on weekend nights to go dancing or check out local bands. "As flamboyant as she was, she had her act together. She lived her life her way, and she was totally in control of it."
That is, until November 28, when Hester was savagely murdered in her own apartment shortly after returning home from playing pool at one of her favorite Brighton hangouts. There are no suspects; there were no signs of forced entry, and nothing was missing from her apartment. Members of the local transgender community believe that the victim's sexual identity contributed to her murder. Hester was a transsexual who had had breast implants but no genital surgery. She was born William Hester but lived as a woman for almost two decades.
Understandably, the transgender community is in an uproar over the stabbing death. Yet the public protest has not focused mainly on the brutality of Hester's murder, or even on the failure of bystanders to intervene despite police reports that neighbors heard a ruckus. Instead, as soon as three days after Hester's death, activists launched a full-blown campaign denouncing the way the media handled the victim's sexual identity.
On December 1, a meeting was held at the Arlington Street Church to protest the media coverage, and letters demanding an apology continue to stream in to the daily newspapers. Because of what activists call the "infuriatingly disrespectful coverage," a protest will be held outside the Boston Herald at 4 p.m. on December 18.
"We're fed up," explains Ethan Hershman, a transgender activist who spoke vehemently at the December 1 meeting. "There is a definite lack of energy put forth by the media to find out how individuals in the transgender community should be referred to. The fact is, they [the media] just don't give a crap."
Hershman adds that groups such as blacks, the homeless, and Native Americans are referred to in the terms they prefer, and the transgender community shouldn't be any different.
Indeed, the Boston Globe and the Herald have been put under the political-correctness microscope for what critics call their misrepresentation of Hester. The Globe referred to her as "a man who sported long braids and preferred women's clothes" and a "party-thrower" who "led a double life"; the Herald called her a "transvestite" and "a large man who lived as a woman." Even the prominent local gay newspaper Bay Windows called Hester "a gay man" in its December 3 issue. Most recently, Channel 5 has been criticized for its coverage of a December 4 vigil at Allston's Model Café, in which reporters referred to Hester as a transvestite. According to members of the transgender community, such characterizations are way off base when it comes to describing someone like Hester.
"Identity is the key issue here," says Daviko Marcel, executive director of the Transgender Education Network. "Her identity is the cause of her death." Although there is no evidence proving that Hester was murdered because of her sexual identity, as Marcel and many others believe, the police are not ruling it out. (It is also possible that the murder was a domestic dispute or a trick gone bad; Hester worked as an escort.) Marcel concedes that the community's focus in the crime's aftermath should be on solving the murder. But, he emphasizes, "The use of the proper pronoun is very important because it establishes what the person's self-perception is."
A gender glossary
The following list of terms contains information provided to trainees at the Transgender Education Network. "These are just general terms," says the network's executive director, Daviko Marcel. "By no means do they attempt to express the entire continuum of gender expression and presentation."
Gender identity: The sex an individual feels he or she belongs to and wishes to be identified as a member of.
Transgender community: A loose association of people who expand binary gender norms (male/female or masculine/feminine) in a variety of ways. Central to this community is the acceptance of the individual's free right to express gender identity, sexual orientation, and gender variance.
Transsexual: An individual whose gender identity is not congruent with his or her anatomical sex. This incongruity can lead individuals to pursue various types of sex-reconstruction surgery. But for many reasons, including the cost of such operations and the limited access to them, many transsexuals have great difficulty obtaining surgery or decide not to have surgery at all.
Transvestite: An individual who expresses aspects of his or her gender identity by wearing clothing that is culturally identified with the opposite gender. Transvestites do not necessarily experience a disassociation between their gender and their sex; transvestism is not an anatomically based incongruity. Rather, it is an expression of gender (masculine or feminine) through clothing.
Cross-dresser: Another term for a transvestite.
Intersex: A mixed sexual physiology, in which aspects of both male and female anatomy are present at birth.
Transgenderist: An individual who lives as a member of the opposite sex all or part of the time. Transgenderists are not interested in sex-reconstruction surgery. Some may seek hormones or other cosmetic or surgical procedures.
Androgyne: An individual who presents both or neither of the culturally constructed gender signifiers (masculine and feminine).
Sexual orientation: A term that indicates whether an individual is attracted to members of the same sex, the opposite sex, or both. One can be transgendered and be either heterosexual, bisexual, or homosexual.
Transgender, Marcel explains, is an umbrella term used to describe a man living as a woman or a woman living as a man. But transvestites and transsexuals, he says, are very different from one another, and a person in either group may or may not be gay (see "A Gender Glossary," right).
"For instance, RuPaul has no intention of having a [sex-change] operation," says Marcel. "He would tell you he doesn't feel like a woman. He's an entertainer."
Hannah Doress, founder of the promotions firm Hanarchy Now, has led the crusade for proper representation of Hester's identity, sending out daily e-mail messages to people on her firm's mailing list reporting the latest on the murder and decrying the "troubling media coverage."
"The recent media coverage is creating a climate of extreme misunderstanding of transsexuals," says Doress. "I'm not transsexual. This isn't a personal crusade. Rita's identity is being disrespected. Her murder was a hate crime, and that hate comes out of all the prejudices society has about transgender people. And those prejudices often come from the perception mass media creates of these people."
Some of Hester's friends see things differently. How she is referred to, they say, isn't as important as the unsolved murder and the fear it has created within the transgender community. Hester's death was the fourth local murder involving a transgender victim in as many years, and the flap over the media's loose use of he and she, they say, misses the point.
Evian Waters, a 27-year-old "illusionist" -- female impersonator -- living in Allston, had been a close friend of Hester's since Hester moved to Boston from Connecticut in 1988. "She was like my big sister," says Waters, who spoke to Hester on the phone just two hours before the fatal attack.
"I MC a show at Chaps every Wednesday, and twice a month she was my guest," explains Waters. "She was an incredible dancer, and she had a beautiful voice, too." The Friday night before Hester died, she accompanied Waters to Jacques Cabaret and the Kells -- a bar where, Waters says, everyone knew Hester as "the princess of Allston."
"We came back here to my house, ate pizza, watched a video, and played Jenga," remembers Waters. "And we made plans to go to Silhouettes [a Brighton bar] on Saturday night to play pool." But on Saturday afternoon, Hester called Waters to change plans. Hester wanted to play pool earlier because she had made plans to watch television with another friend that night.
"She decided to go to Silhouettes alone," Waters says, his voice dropping to a near whisper. "I decided to stay home and make dinner." Some say Hester had an altercation with a man at the bar who followed her out when she left. And still others report that Hester went from Silhouettes to the Kells before going home. According to neighbors, two men were seen coming out the back door of Hester's apartment later that night. The only thing that is certain is that at or around 6:15 p.m., according to police, Hester was stabbed 25 times and left to die in a pool of blood.
"Out of respect, [the media] should have identified her properly," says Waters. "But I don't care about the press. That's not the issue. The real issue is that she's dead, and where is her killer?"
Jeff Epperly, the editor of Bay Windows, says that he, too, believes the main issue is that someone was brutally murdered. "If we were writing a feature piece, we would go with [the gender identification] the subject wanted," explains Epperly. "But this is the news, and we have to deal with the facts. And the fact, according to police records, is that the victim was biologically a man."
Epperly adds that in some cases when he has asked transgender individuals to identify their sex, they can't. "In fact, they say categories aren't important," he says. "So this whole thing is very puzzling to me."
"The media coverage is a very small issue," agrees Zola, a drag queen who works at Chaps and met Hester in the mid-'80s. They worked together as singers and often discussed Hester's trips to Greece and Germany, where she performed. "The fact that she was murdered is the most important issue," says Zola. "[How she is identified] shouldn't be the concern right now. It should be an afterthought."
What's really missing, says Zola, is the celebration of Rita Hester as a person who made the choice to live as a woman even if it contributed to her death. That celebration is now in the works. On December 13, a benefit to help Hester's family pay for funeral expenses is being hosted by Jacques Cabaret, with bands such as Tree, the Deniros, and the Legend of Jesse Christos scheduled to play. Evian Waters, Thirsty Burlington, Crystal Crawford, and Norell Gardner will perform drag acts.
"She loved music and dancing and, unlike many transsexuals, she wasn't afraid to go to straight bars and clubs to have fun," recalls Brenda Wynne, who was supposed to see Hester the night of the murder. "Everything she did and everything she wore was extravagantly wonderful, and no newspaper can take that away if we don't let them."
Sarah McNaught can be reached at smcnaught[a]phx.com.
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Tourists hanging out at Cloud Gate (the Bean) in Chicago, Illinois.
Vocal Coach, judge and TV presenter Carrie Grant appears at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
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Vocal Coach, judge and TV presenter David Grant appears at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
A Grant Avenue street sign in the Chinatown district of San Francisco, California.
Cottonwood, Grant Marsh Wildlife Management Area, Montana.
Grant Avenue in the Chinatown district of San Francisco, California, USA.
A view of Chinese lanterns and the Peking Bazaar on Grant Avenue in Chinatown San Francisco.
The Columbus Monument in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union Army, circa 1860.
The spectacular Buckingham Fountain at night, in summer, in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois.
Grant House, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Vancouver National Historic Reserve, Washington.
Buckingham fountain in Grant Park in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Vocal Coaches, judges and TV presenters David and Carrie Grant appear at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
Grant House with interpretive board, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Vancouver National Historic Reserve, Washington.
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Exclusive: EU to agree new sanctions regime for chemical attacks
FILE PHOTO: Bags containing protective clothing are seen after Inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) left after visiting the scene of the nerve agent attack on former Russian agent Sergei Skripal, in Salisbury, Britain March 21, 2018. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/File Photo
By Robin Emmott
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union envoys are set to agree a new mechanism to punish chemical weapons' attacks by targeting people blamed for using banned munitions regardless of their nationality, diplomats said.
The legal regime, based on a French proposal to combat what Paris and London say is the repeated use of chemical weapons by Russia and Syria, would allow the EU to impose sanctions more quickly on specific individuals anywhere in the world, freezing their assets in the bloc and banning them from entry.
Ambassadors from the EU's 28 governments are expected to approve the regime at their weekly meeting on Wednesday, without debate.
The EU already has sanctions lists for Syria and Russia, but under the current system individuals must be added to special country lists. These are complex to negotiate and difficult to expand because some EU governments are reluctant to criticize close partners, particularly Moscow.
"This is significant because we will be able to add names without a big, sensitive debate," said one senior EU diplomat involved in the negotiations. "We can try to uphold certain rights rather than just issuing statements."
Banned two decades ago under an international treaty, the rising use of nerve agents has alarmed Western governments.
Recent cases include the assassination of the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in 2017 and the attempted murder of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal in March.
EU diplomats say the new chemical weapons regime could be followed up by a similar mechanism for human rights violations, similar to the United States' Global Magnitsky Act, which allows Washington to sanction individuals for abuses or corruption.
The regime, due to be given a final stamp of approval by EU foreign ministers on Oct. 15, will still need the support of all EU governments for names to be added, according to a preparatory paper seen by Reuters.
It was not immediately clear if Britain would propose to add two Russians accused of poisoning Skripal and his daughter.
But diplomats say it is a possibility as Britain has been unable to convince other EU countries to back new sanctions on Russia over the case.
Britain has charged two Russian men, identified as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, with attempting to murder Skripal and his daughter Yulia by spraying a chemical weapon on Skripal's front door in the English city of Salisbury.
France pushed the EU sanctions regime in part because the United Nations Security Council has been deadlocked over how to set up an independent inquiry for chemical attacks in Syria.
Russia rejected a joint draft resolution by Britain, France and the United States earlier this year.
(Reporting by Robin Emmott, editing by Ed Osmond)
Posted on September 24, 2018 By Reuters News Agency
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Q: Sqlalchemy-Marshmallow - Nested field not displaying any data I was having no problem using nested fields in my flask app when using marshmallow-sqlalchemy with Flask-SQLAlchemy. Now that I've switched from Flask-SQLAlchemy to just SQLAlchemy (for a few irrelevant reasons), my nested fields are no longer displaying any data. I feel as though this may have something to do with SQLAlchemy Session not being passed into the nested fields.
My project looks like the following:
engine = create_engine(config.SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI, echo=True)
Session = orm.scoped_session(orm.sessionmaker())
Session.configure(bind=engine)
Base = declarative_base(bind=engine)

class PodcastModel(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'podcasts'

    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    name = db.Column(db.String(100))
    host = db.Column(db.String(80))
    episodes = relationship(EpisodeModel, backref='episode', lazy='dynamic')

    @classmethod
    def dump(cls, podcast):
        podcast_schema = PodcastSchemaNested()
        podcast_output = podcast_schema.dump(podcast).data
        return podcast_output

class EpisodeModel(Base):
    __tablename__ = 'episodes'

    id = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    name = db.Column(db.String(200))
    length = db.Column(db.Float(precision=2))
    podcast_id = db.Column(db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('podcasts.id', ondelete='CASCADE'))

class BaseSchema(ModelSchema):
    class Meta:
        sqla_session = Session
        ordered = True

class PodcastSchemaNested(BaseSchema):
    id = fields.Integer()
    name = fields.Str()
    host = fields.Str()
    episodes = fields.Nested('EpisodeSchema', many=True)

class EpisodeSchema(BaseSchema):
    id = fields.Integer()
    name = fields.Str()
    length = fields.Float()

And the json output is the following:
{
"id": 1,
"name": "Podcast Name",
"host": "Podcast Host",
"episodes": [

]
}

I've been struggling on this issue for several hours now and any input as to why the nested fields aren't displaying any data would be hugely appreciated. Thank you!

A: I don't have super recent experience with SQLAlchemy, but maybe check all your serialising/dump methods to make sure everything knows how to write itself. It's not clear to me that Episodes can.
Otherwise, here's where I'd start:

*

*Does your database exist?

*Does your config still point to it correctly?

*Did you run all the database setup?

*Did everything get added and committed to your session?

*Is it only the episode list that isn't being filled?

*Should you be getting only one podcast listing?

*Is there a typo in the file that contains the episode data
or the podcast data?

*Should some of the requirements (pip installs) change without
flask (watch for capitalisation)?

*Did you get the latest sqlalchemy? Have you checked the changelog (it does some joins differently etc)
My very old examples have
Base = declarative_base()
Base.metadata.bind=engine

Is metadata relevant?
(I came here via your upwork post and I was curious - not sure if it is any help at all to unstick you). Good luck.

A: I ended up getting the nested fields to work by changing my db file from the above to -
from common import config
import sqlalchemy as db
from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
from sqlalchemy.orm import scoped_session, sessionmaker, relationship, backref

engine = db.create_engine(config.SQLALCHEMY_DATABASE_URI, echo=True)
session = scoped_session(sessionmaker(bind=engine))
Base = declarative_base()

And on my model methods, where I access and query the db, instead of -
@classmethod
def find_by_name(cls, name):
    session = Session()
    episode = session.query(cls).filter_by(name=name).first()
    session.close()
    return episode

I instead don't create a new session and then close it, but rather used the scoped session which is being imported.
from common.db.base import Base, session

@classmethod
def find_by_name(cls, name):
    episode = session.query(cls).filter_by(name=name).first()
    return episode

However, I am still unsure if this is going to cause some issues due to this not being the proper way to handle sessions... Gotta continue reading the docs.

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In communities across the country, heartbreaking events like those in Ferguson, Baltimore, and beyond reflect complex and interrelated social disparities. Income inequality, a lack of affordable housing, and the criminal justice crisis, among other issues, all contribute to a lack of opportunity in disadvantaged communities. The opportunity gap cuts across multiple racial and ethnic lines—and our own diverse Southern California region is far from immune to its profound effects.
Now, in the face of these challenges, the philanthropic sector has a real opportunity to be a game-changer. That's why SCG's 2015 Annual Conference will focus on the theme, "Closing the Opportunity Gap." Join us to explore how lasting impact on these issues can emerge from cross-sector collaboration, innovative funding practices, advocacy for systems change, and many other bold and proven strategies.
SCG's membership has experienced tremendous growth in the past year, and the conference will bring together our diverse philanthropic community to learn, connect, and take action. We'll also have plenty of opportunities for networking, including a special gathering for corporate funders. Ultimately, this conference is designed to inspire new conversations about what grantmakers of all stripes can do to give Southern California communities a renewed chance to thrive.
Please join us on Wednesday, October 28th for a day full of insight, information, and inspiration with local and national leaders, as well as 500 of your grantmaking peers.
#SCG2015 #CloseTheGap
DRAFT AGENDA (Times and sessions subject to change)
8:30 - 9:45 Check-in and Early Bird Networking Reception
Breakfast Sessions (Advance registration required - no additional cost)
Leveraging Strategic Corporate Collaboration to Address the Drought
Inland Southern California: Regional Challenges, But Ripe for Investment
Life After Grants: Ensuring the Work Continues After the Last Check is Written
Sustainable Development Goals: A Global Framework for Addressing Poverty, Inequality, and the Environment
Opening Keynote: Unlock Your Personal and Professional Potential - Kute Blackson (@KuteBlackson)
Morning Plenary: Systemic Change to Improve the Lives of Disadvantaged Populations: A Life Course Approach - Arnold Chandler, Principal, Forward Change
12:00 - 2:00 Luncheon, Members Meeting and Panel Discussion: Leaders Take on the Opportunity Gap in Southern California
2:00 – 2:20 Break
2:20 - 3:45 Super Sessions
The Education Continuum: Supporting Learners from Cradle to Career
Rethinking the Criminal Justice System
Beyond Traditional Grantmaking: New Ways to Invest in Communities
4:00 - 5:30 Afternoon Plenary: Reclaiming the American Dream - Hedrick Smith, Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist (@HedrickSmith1) and John Hope Bryant (@JohnHopeBryant), Founder and CEO, Operation HOPE, Inc.
5:30 – 7:00 Evening Jazz Reception
EARLY BIRD NETWORKING RECEPTION
Jump start your morning with an optional networking reception to meet new and veteran SCG members! You'll connect with other funders who are addressing similar challenges and who are equally committed to our region. SCG continues to grow and now has more than 270 member organizations, so you have a whole new set of colleagues to get to know!
BREAKFAST SESSIONS
Get more bang for your buck at these optional pre-conference breakfast breakouts. Advance registration is required for pre-conference sessions - at no additional cost. Each of these sessions includes a complimentary hot breakfast.
Leveraging Strategic Collaboration to Address the Drought (For corporate grantmakers only)
Bringing a corporation's full assets to bear on a problem, including expertise, knowledge, influence, and dollars, can lead to far greater impact on social issues than charitable giving alone. In this interactive session, we'll explore the ways that Southern California corporate grantmakers can employ a range of corporate engagement strategies and collaborate with one another to address a critical issue facing the region: the drought. We'll also explore the different motivations for corporate social engagement, including supporting the local community, engaging key stakeholders, growing sales, and collaborating for systems change. FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm, will draw on its experience working with businesses for more than a decade to increase the impact of corporate social engagement. Participants will leave the session with a clearer understanding of how each organization's work – independently and collectively – could contribute to mitigating the drought. Note: This session is only open to attendees from corporate foundations, corporate giving programs, and related corporate departments.
Lalitha Vaidyanathan, Managing Director, FSG
Philippe Sion, Director, FSG
Known for affordable housing and economic struggles, this vast region of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties is experiencing explosive population growth. Its people experience serious challenges related to health, education, and economic survival. Yet the opportunity for philanthropy to make significant positive change is immense. Grantmakers from the region invite you to join this roundtable discussion to learn about promising collaborations and organizations, to share thoughts and experiences about funding in Inland Southern California communities, and to think together how to make change for the better.
Moderated by: Amy Dominguez-Arms, Vice President for Programs, The James Irvine Foundation
Greg Bradbard, President and CEO, Inland Empire United Way
Celia Cudiamat, Executive Vice President of Programs, The Community Foundation Serving the Counties of Riverside and San Bernardino
Margarita Luna, Program Manager, The California Endowment
Life After Grants: Ensuring the Work Continues After the Last Check is Written - All funders want lasting impact, but systemic change requires strategic investments in cultural influence. In this session, a non-profit partner and leaders of the soon-to-sunset Orfalea Foundation describe how two of their largest multi-year initiatives designed long-term continuity into their day-to-day activities.
Moderated by: Dean Zatkowsky, Communications Manager, Orfalea Foundation
Kathleen de Chadenèdes, Director, Orfalea Foundation School Food Initiative
Adrianna Foss, Director, Orfalea Foundation Early Childhood Education
Sustainable Development Goals: A Global Framework for Addressing Poverty, Inequality, and the Environment - Last month, leaders from 193 countries formally adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs--a set of global goals intended to end poverty, combat inequality, and protect the planet. The SDGs, which are universal and will apply to all countries, cover 17 key areas of development, including hunger, health, education, economic growth, and climate change, among many others. In the past, the philanthropic and civil society sectors were absent in terms of planning and implementation. Now that the UN and governments are encouraging all sectors to join the effort, it's critical that we in philanthropy are part of the global framework to bring the world, including the U.S., onto a more prosperous and sustainable path by 2030. Join us to learn about specific opportunities in the months ahead from an interactive panel discussion with experts representing philanthropy, civil society, and public policy.
Moderated by Lauren Bradford, Manager, Global Partnerships, Foundation Center
Edmund Cain, Vice President, Grant Programs, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Kennedy Odede, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Shining Hope for Communities
Anthony Pipa, Special Coordinator for the Post 2015 Development Agenda, United States Department of State
Jessica Posner Odede, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Shining Hope for Communities
OPENING KEYNOTE - UNLOCK YOUR PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL POTENTIAL
Before we officially get started with the conference, we have a special session to get you energized and inspired!
Sometimes our day-to-day tasks distract us from the central questions in our work and life. How can we as philanthropy professionals better navigate between the sometimes stressful reality of "what is" and the bright possibility of "what could be?" Kute Blackson will help us creatively and effectively pursue our goals while staying true to the values that originally drew us to the sector. Together we will go on a journey of personal and professional discovery: helping identify ways to maintain your integrity and authenticity in both work and life, and revealing how to develop yourself as a focused and trustworthy leader.
Kute Blackson
Kute Blackson is an utterly unique thought leader in the world of human potential. Unlike those who promise to simply help people "get" what they want, Blackson's life work instead reveals to people what they have to give, by liberating who they are most truly and deeply. The child of a Japanese mother and Ghanaian father, his multicultural upbringing in London and on four different continents defies all stereotypes. His electrifying presentations are sought after by major companies that are seeking to redefine their paradigm of success and inspire greatness in their employees and leaders.
MORNING PLENARY - SYSTEMIC CHANGE TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF DISADVANTAGED POPULATIONS: A LIFE COURSE APPROACH
What are the systemic hurdles that confront people in disadvantaged communities? How do we help break the intergenerational cycle of barriers that keeps young people in these communities from succeeding? In this session, social change strategist Arnold Chandler will share eye-opening insights into the dynamics and consequences of an intergenerational opportunity gap that has worsened over the past forty years. Through a survey of economic, criminal justice, family, and socio-ecological changes in the U.S., we'll learn how race, gender, and place intersect to drive disparate life outcomes for disadvantaged children and young adults. Chandler will also share a visual "Life Course Framework" to help funders explore how their work connects to one another and to broad strategies for improving the lives of disadvantaged populations in our region and beyond.
Arnold L. Chandler
Principal, Forward Change
Arnold L. Chandler is an advocate, researcher, trainer and social change strategist who for more than 13 years has helped nonprofits and foundations develop evidence-informed strategies to advance programs and policies focused on social and economic equity. He is the co-founder of Forward Change Consulting based in Oakland, California. Recently, he served as a Senior Research Associate at the Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law. Before that he was a research analyst working to reform the Oakland Police Department as part of a federal lawsuit settled in 2001. Previously, he was a researcher and policy strategist at PolicyLink for six years. Chandler has authored several important policy analyses and studies in the social justice field and has advised nonprofit organizations on the use of Internet tools for supporting advocacy and social change efforts.
LUNCHTIME PANEL DISCUSSION - LEADERS TAKE ON THE OPPORTUNITY GAP IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Increasingly, our middle-class and low-income community members feel that their future aspirations are limited—that they won't be able to achieve the SoCal version of the "American Dream" which drew so many of us here in the first place. And for too many, that fear is becoming reality. The gap between what people earn and what it costs to live here is widening, eroding both our economy and our civil society. Fortunately, it's counterbalanced by a real and resilient California mindset. Southern California is a place of innovation, solutions, creativity… and collaboration. In this panel discussion, local leaders will share their perspectives on how the opportunity gap is impacting our communities, our workforces, and our families. Drawing on their experiences, they'll provide insight into what we as a region can do about it—particularly around housing affordability, wages, workforce preparedness, and income security—and how philanthropy can partner with government, the corporate sector, organized labor, community organizations, and other key stakeholders to close the opportunity gap.
Moderated by Cinny Kennard
Executive Director, Annenberg Foundation
Dennis Arriola
President and CEO, SoCalGas
Laphonza Butler
President, SEIU United Long Term Care Workers' Union
Dr. Robert Garcia
Mayor, City of Long Beach
Mercedes Marquez
Founder and President, Marquez Community Strategy and former Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development
John Yamamoto
Regional Counsel and Vice President, Kaiser Permanente
SUPER SESSIONS
OPTION ONE - The Education Continuum: Supporting Learners from Cradle to Career
Research shows that a quality education is one of the main drivers of an individual's future opportunities, and that students who fall behind are more likely to drop out of high school and fall into poverty as adults. In this session, education leaders will discuss the value of a cohesive education system that supports learners from "cradle to career," beginning with early childhood education, progressing in K-12, and continuing through college and workforce training curricula. We'll explore innovative school system reforms that promote student achievement and college/career readiness as well as strategies that enable disadvantaged students to have greater opportunity to attend and succeed in college. Furthermore, we'll hear about how the business community is working to place business hiring needs at the center of local workforce training to ensure young adults are prepared with the skills employers are seeking. Because one in seven jobs in the LA region is in the creative economy, we will specifically highlight arts education and preparing students for the arts as a career path.
Moderated by David Rattray
Senior Vice President, Education & Workforce Development, LA Chamber of Commerce
Kim Belshe
Executive Director, First 5 LA
Malissa Feruzzi Shriver
Executive Director,Turnaround Arts: California
Michele Siqueiros
President, LA Office, The Campaign for College Opportunity
Christopher Steinhauser
Superintendent, Long Beach Unified School District
Jeffery Wallace
President, LeadersUp
OPTION TWO - Rethinking the Criminal Justice System
The criminal justice system is intrinsically connected to economic development, education, employment, housing, and the arts—all factors that keep our neighborhoods safe and healthy. In this session, local and state experts will discuss how we can manage the criminal justice system more responsibly, including how to divert youth and adults whose circumstances have made them vulnerable away from prison and into community-based programs and support networks. Additionally, the panel will address implementation of Proposition 47, the Safe Neighborhood and Schools Act, which allows California residents who have been convicted of nonviolent offenses to change their felonies to misdemeanors. Doing so will provide access to jobs, educational loans, and housing assistance previously unavailable to them. Together, we'll identify practical solutions to keep people out of prison and to help those in prison prepare to return home to safe and healthy communities.
Moderated by Julio Marcial
Program Director, The California Wellness Foundation
Jessica Ellis
Executive Director, Centinela Youth Services
Alex M. Johnson
Executive Director, Children's Defense Fund – California
Jorja Leap
Adjunct Professor, UCLA and Executive Director, Health and Social Justice Partnership
Jessica Martinez
Member, The Anti-Recidivism Coalition and InsideOUT Writers
Benjamin Torres
President & CEO, Community Development Technologies Center
OPTION THREE - Beyond Traditional Grantmaking: New Ways to Invest in Communities
Grantmakers operate at the crossroads of many different sectors, so it's critical for us to understand the growing variety of investment tools in our toolbox to impact under-resourced communities. In this breakout, panelists will share emerging models of philanthropy that go beyond traditional grantmaking, allowing them to pursue impact goals in new and innovative ways. Join us to explore examples of promising funding strategies, including impact investing, mission-related investing, and program-related investing.
Moderated by Jessica LaBarbera
Director, California Market, Nonprofit Finance Fund
Christina Altmayer
Executive Director, Children & Families Commission of Orange County
Christy Chin
Managing Partner, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Sandra Hernandez
President and CEO, California Health Care Foundation
Eric Weaver
Founder and CEO, Opportunity Fund
CEO, Hutton Parker Foundation
AFTERNOON PLENARY - RECLAIMING THE AMERICAN DREAM
How can Southern California make both economic and social equity gains so that more people can realize the American Dream? Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith will draw on his decades of experience reporting on global and national issues to lead a conversation on countering our society's growing opportunity gap.
Following his remarks, Smith will engage in a fascinating dialogue with John Hope Bryant, one of the world's most prominent business and philanthropic leaders working at the forefront of financial dignity issues for current and future generations.
Hedrick Smith
Author, Who Stole the American Dream?
Hedrick Smith is a best-selling author, Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and editor, and an Emmy award-winning producer/correspondent, who has established himself over the past 50 years of his career as one of America's most distinguished journalists. In 26 years with The New York Times, he has covered Martin Luther King Jr and the civil rights struggle, the Vietnam War, the Middle East, the Cold War, and six American presidents and their administrations. In 1971, as Chief Diplomatic Correspondent, he was a member of the Pulitzer Prize-winning team that produced the Pentagon Papers series. In 1974, he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting from Russia and Eastern Europe.
Smith has also created 26 PBS specials and mini-series on such varied topics as terrorism, Wall Street, education reform, health care, the environment, the arts, and national political issues. His book The Russians, based on his years as New York Times Moscow Bureau Chief from 1971-74, was a Number 1 American best-seller. Another of his books, The Power Game: How Washington Works, was also a major best-seller. Smith's most recent work, Who Stole the American Dream? has been lauded for its adept analysis of political and economic trends and changes in the United States over the past 40 years.
John Hope Bryant
Creator, Bryant Group Ventures and Founder/CEO, Operation HOPE, Inc.
John Hope Bryant is an entrepreneur, businessman, author, thought leader, and philanthropist, as well as and the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE, Inc. and Bryant Group Ventures. Through Operation HOPE and its partners, Bryant is responsible for more than $2 billion of private capital supporting low-wealth home ownership, small businesses, entrepreneurship and community development investments in under-served communities across the U.S. The organization operates on-the-ground partnerships in more than 300 U.S. cities, South Africa, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and has served more than 1.5 million clients. With his book, How The Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding The Path to the Middle Class, Bryant became the only best-selling author on economics in the world today who happens to also be African-American. In 2014, he was appointed by President Obama to serve on his new U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans. Bryant has co-founded a variety of other organizations and initiatives including Wikia-HOPE Global Money Initiative, Gallup-HOPE Index, Global Dignity, The New Leaders organization (Los Angeles) and Just Brothers (Atlanta).
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Sarah Adolphson
Foundation Director, William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
Fred Ali
President and CEO, Weingart Foundation
Edmund Cain
Vice President, Grant Programs, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Ron Gallo
President and CEO, Santa Barbara Foundation
Linda Garcia
Vice President, Program and Grants, Ventura County Community Foundation
Shane Goldsmith
President and CEO, Liberty Hill Foundation
Nike Irvin
Vice President, Programs, California Community Foundation
Stephanie Levin
Director of Special Initiatives and Board Liaison, Annenberg Foundation
Jonathan Lorenzo Yorba
President and CEO, The Community Foundation Serving the Counties of Riverside & San Bernardino
Joe Lumarda
Senior Vice President and Investment Counselor, Capital Group Companies
Antonio Manning
Senior Relationship Manager, Corporate Responsibility, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Julio Marcial
Milinda Martin
Vice President, Community Investment, Time Warner Cable
Joan McCarthy
Senior Manager, Los Angeles Community Engagement, The Walt Disney Company
Claire Peeps
Executive Director, The Durfee Foundation
Jeanne Phillips
AARP Foundation Director Campaign & Field Development, AARP California
Dan Pingaro
Executive Director, Laguna Beach Community Foundation
Tara Roth
President, Goldhirsh Foundation
Mitchell Singer
Director, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Beatriz Solìs
Director, Healthy Communities South, The California Endowment
Roop Sumal
Director, Philanthropic Services, Entertainment Industry Foundation
Laura Zucker
Executive Director, Los Angeles County Arts Commission


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Google's Lunar XPrize competition will come down to 500-metre moon race between two robots
Ben Lovejoy
- Feb. 25th 2015 5:12 am PT
@benlovejoy
The two competing lunar robots, Astrobotic top, Hakuto bottom
Google's Lunar XPrize competition, to be the first team to take a robot to the moon, looks like it will come down to a head-to-head race between two competing robots–one American, one Japanese.
While five teams were awarded prizes for achieving key milestones along the way to the final goal, two of the robots appear set to get there first, jointly commissioning the same SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to carry them to the moon in the second half of 2016, with a race across the lunar surface determining the winner …
The winner will be the first robot to travel 500 metres across the surface of the moon and to transmit HD video and images back to Earth.
Pittsburgh-based Astrobotic said that it welcomes a Nascar-style race with Japanese competitors Hakuto.
"Astrobotic is thrilled to welcome HAKUTO aboard our first mission," said John Thornton, CEO of Astrobotic Technology Inc. "We envision a 'NASCAR on the Moon' scenario, where competing teams land together, and countries can cheer on their team to the finish line."
Google Lunar XPrize technical director Andrew Barton said that the company welcomed the news, and that "this joint venture is an excellent example of how humanity's commercial and economic interests will expand into space in the coming years."
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Polesia
Guardian reveals proper risk assessments lacking for E40 waterway
23. December 2020 by Save Polesia
An article released in the Guardian today highlights the serious lack of proper risk assessments for the proposed E40 waterway. As yet, a strategic environmental assessment has not been undertaken for the 2000km-long, mega-infrastructure project spanning Poland, Belarus and Ukraine. Despite this, dredging as part of its construction has already been launched in Ukraine's Chernobyl exclusion zone. While in Poland the construction of the Siarzewo Dam on the Vistula – one of more than 13 planned as part of the E40 waterway construction – appears to be moving forward.
Dredging of Pripyat river in Ukraine completed
Satellite imagery shows that dredging along the Pripyat – one of the last free-flowing rivers in Europe – has taken place at at least seven locations within the Chernobyl exclusion zone since July this year. The purpose of the dredging works was to deepen the river beds to a navigable depth of 1.6 metres and width of 35 metres. Five of these sites lie within 10kms of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. The International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) recommends leaving contaminated sediments undisturbed. This year's dredging disregarded these recommendations and also broke the Law in Ukraine by carrying out this work without an appropriate Environmental Impact Assessment.
High resolution satellite images show the regular course of the Pripyat River (left) on July 6th, 2020. While the image from the same location on August 25th, 2020 (right) shows a high amount of sediment stirred up in the river, appearing as brighter patches due to higher light reflection, indicating that dredging took place at this site. Images courtesy of Planet Labs
Plans for E40 waterway moving forward in Poland
The Polish government also seems to be moving forward with plans for the construction of the Siarzewo dam on the Vistula. This is one of 13 to 15 dams that would need to be constructed along the river to make the E40 waterway passable for larger vessels. In addition, the country has launched a second feasibility study to reassess the waterway's route through Poland.
The Polish and Belarussian parts of the E40 waterway would be the most expensive, with estimates for the cost of the entire programme at more than €13 billion. Experts suggest that significant financial risks are involved, with a major underestimation of cost in the E40 waterway's 2015 feasibility study.
Catastrophic impacts on biodiversity
If the E40 waterway plans go ahead, it would impact 60 internationally important wildlife sites and would have a catastrophic impact on biodiversity. One and a half million migratory birds visit Polesia each year, the area is a crucial stopover and feeding ground for these migrants. Polesia is also an important breeding ground for endangered species like the Greater Spotted Eagle and Aquatic Warbler, and harbours healthy populations of large mammals like lynx, bison and wolves.
Proper risk assessments lacking for the planned E40 waterway. Has the 2000km-long, mega-infrastructure project spanning Poland, Belarus and Ukraine been properly thought through? #Stop_E40 #savePolesia
*Top image is an aerial photo of the Pripyat River and its surrounding floodplain meadows, wetlands and oxbow lakes. © Daniel Rosengren
Read the full Guardian article here.
Read the previous Guardian article on Polesia (published in March 2020) here.
Find out more about Polesia and read our factsheet 'About Polesia – A unique wilderness of global importance'
Learn more about the threats from the E40 waterway and read our factsheet 'Polesia under threat – How a new waterway could destroy Polesia's natural environment'
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