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GEOCHEMICAL MODELING OF THE SNC METEORITES: A COMPARISON WITH TERRESTRIAL DIVERGENT MAGMATISM
Diego Orosco Ramos
Vinicius Matte
Rótulo Magmatic, evolution, martian, meteorites, ophiolite, mass, balance
A modern consensus is that Mars follows the single plate tectonic or stagnant-lid model, however, some lines of evidence disagrees, and make a case for a much more active planet. Recently it was proposed the idea of an mantle overturn from a gravitational instability in Marss the early days, which would significantly deform the lithosphere, making it prone to spreading ridges. Until a successful sample return mission, the best samples from Mars are the martian meteorite collection, composed of crustal rocks ejected by meteorite impact. Given their compositional compatibility with the terrestrial oceanic crustal sequence, the meteorites compose an interesting opportunity to look for evidence of this environment on Mars. Since a comparison between fresh rocks from terrestrial oceanic ridges and the violently shocked meteorites is susceptible to errors, we used ophiolites as an analog. This study compares the SNC meteorites with two representations of ophiolitic belts on Earth using geochemical modeling with trace elements in the Petromodeler® spreadsheet program, in an attempt to look for evidence of divergent magmatism on Mars. All the available numerical data on whole-rock geochemistry of the meteorites were compiled from the Martian meteorite compendium and from the literature. The ophiolitic belts chosen were the mafic-ultramafic Caribbean ophiolite complex, Colombia, and the Oman ophiolite. In order to search for a compatibility between settings, one must fist put the meteorites in order. This was attained using the following criteria: silica content, modal mineralogical composition, anorthite content, and dominant petrographic texture, generating a stratigraphic pile very similar to an expected oceanic crust. The results for the trace element modeling used La vs. Co and Co vs. Cr, representing light rare earth elements and transitional metals, respectively. The results show a very clear pattern for the different settings: a melting followed by a crystalization trend demonstrating the compatibility of the comparison, in which the meteorites follow not only the same stratigraphic order but also the crystallization one. A remaining point that needs to be met is the explanation of how this type of magmatism happened on Mars. The mantle overturn hypothesis doesnt explain the mantle temperature and the crystalization age of the martian meteorites, but it can be satisfied if the ridge is thought of as an inherited structure from the younger planetary days of mantle overturn. The magma generation must then be explained independently from lithospheric movements and rely solely on mantle interactions. On this context, delamination as a theoretical tectonic processes is a good fit and is majorly proposed for the stagnant lid model. It is known that the eclogite lithology can at least experimentally be achieved on Mars which in this case would mean that the main source of the meteorites magmatism would be pyroxenitic. Using the FC3MS parameter, it can be shown a clear direct positive correlation which indicates that the samples derive almost exclusively from a pyroxenitic origin. With geochemical modeling it was also possible to demonstrate a possible geotectonic evolution for the samples and demonstrates that within set parameters, all can be thought in terms of melting from a single type lithology but with different melting proportions. The few that doesnt comply with the trend were modeled as a mixing between the enriched and depleted sources. When one considers the divergent tectonic setting, every new magma batch ascent would display a slightly newer age than the previous, that is, the older meteorites are the most distant from the hypothetical martian ridge, and the youngest ones are the closest. Many articles have proposed a complete guide for the description and classification of ophiolites. Based on these, the samples are compatible with ophiolites not related to subduction and associated with mantle plumes. In conclusion, it is suggested that the martian meteorites are derived from the melting of a eclogite source after delamination, whose magma met a fossil spreading ridge from the early days of planetary formation with a mantle overturn.
OROSCO RAMOS, D.; MATTE, V. GEOCHEMICAL MODELING OF THE SNC METEORITES: A COMPARISON WITH TERRESTRIAL DIVERGENT MAGMATISM. Anais do Salão Internacional de Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão, v. 2, n. 14, 23 nov. 2022.


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Long-term weather forecast
September weather forecast and climate
Lamia, Greece
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Weather in September
Average temperature in September
Average rainfall in September
Average daylight in September
September, the first month of the autumn, in Lamia, is still a warm month, with average temperature varying between 28.5°C (83.3°F) and 16.2°C (61.2°F).
In September, the average high-temperature marginally drops, from a hot 31.6°C (88.9°F) in August, to a moderately hot 28.5°C (83.3°F). In September, the average low-temperature is 16.2°C (61.2°F).
The month with the least rainfall is September when 17.4mm (0.7") of precipitation is typically aggregated.
The average length of the day in September in Lamia, Greece, is 12.4h.
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What is the temperature in September in Lamia?
The average high-temperature, in September, in Lamia, is 28.5°C (83.3°F), while the average low-temperature is 16.2°C (61.2°F).
How much does it rain in Lamia in September?
During September, Lamia regularly aggregates up to 17.4mm (0.7") of precipitation.
What is the driest month in Lamia?
How many hours of daylight does Lamia have in September?
In September, the average length of the day is 12.4h.
Average high temperature in September: 28.5°C
The warmest month (with the highest average high temperature) is July (32.3°C).
The month with the lowest average high temperature is January (11.6°C).
Average low temperature in September: 16.2°C
The month with the highest average low temperature is July (19.7°C).
The coldest month (with the lowest average low temperature) is January (3.5°C).
Average rainfall in September: 17.4mm
The wettest month (with the highest rainfall) is December (73.3mm).
The driest month (with the lowest rainfall) is September (17.4mm).
Average daylight in September: 12.4h
The month with the longest days is June (Average daylight: 14.9h).
The month with shortest days is December (Average daylight: 9.5h).
Weather Atlas: Lamia, Greece - September weather forecast and climate information. September weather forecast for Lamia, Greece. September, the first month of the autumn, is also a moderately hot month, with temperature in the range of an average high of 28.5°C (83.3°F) and an average low of 16.2°C (61.2°F). [4925]

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To district or not to district
Posted on November 27, 2020 by Frank Gruber
The three Santa Monica City Council incumbents who were defeated in the recent election opposed district elections for the council and supported the City's defense against the lawsuit to bring district elections to Santa Monica. According to an article in the Lookout, their replacements, who include Oscar de la Torre, one of the original plaintiffs in the lawsuit, support district elections. That raises the question whether there might now be four votes on the council to abandon the defense against the lawsuit and agree to a settlement that would include district elections.
To give a brief procedural history, the plaintiffs, who brought their suit under the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) in early 2018, won in trial court, and the judge ordered district elections that included a Pico Neighborhood district (see map). The City appealed, and the decision was overturned. The plaintiffs have now appealed to the California Supreme Court and briefs are scheduled to be filed in December.
The Pico district ordered by the trial judge.
I hope the City Council does not settle, as I don't believe district elections would increase the political power of Latinx residents and other historical minorities in Santa Monica.
As I wrote in 2018 not long after the litigation had begun, "usually I'm in favor of district voting, so long as there isn't gerrymandering, not only because it can diversify who is elected, but also because it's easier for candidates to run in smaller districts." But what I wrote then to explain why I didn't believe districts would be a good idea in Santa Monica still holds:
"Why [not]? Because those same council members who get elected over and over are so paranoid about not being reelected, that they try to please anyone who votes, and that includes, for all of them, residents of the Pico Neighborhood. In that sense, the neighborhood is well represented. And, if you include the school board and the college board along with the council, we have a good record of electing minorities. As a result, I don't see the logic for the lawsuit, although if districting comes, it would make it less expensive and easier for new candidates to run, which would be a good thing in and of itself."
Moreover, since I wrote that, in the course of the litigation, it has become apparent that because of the demographics and housing patterns of Santa Monica districting here won't, or can't, solve the problems that the CVRA was enacted to solve. It has also become apparent, ironically, that the current system does not prevent members of historic minorities from winning election. Not only did De la Torre win election, but Christine Parra, who is Latina, did also. Meanwhile, Kristin McCowan, who is African-American, won in the election (albeit one that was uncontested) for the balance of former Council Member Greg Morena's term. (McCowan had been appointed this summer to replace Morena).
Using districts to remedy voting discrimination against minority populations works in jurisdictions where residential segregation is extreme and where the majority population has used at-large elections, or other means, to dilute minority voting power. Santa Monica does have a history of residential segregation. As a result of that history, few African-American and Latinx residents live north of Santa Monica Boulevard (and to a lesser extent south of Pico Boulevard). However, reflecting the relatively low percentage of historic minority residents in Santa Monica (about 16% of Santa Monica residents are Latinx, 10% Asian, and 5% Black), a lot of Anglos also live south of Santa Monica Boulevard, including in the Pico Neighborhood.
As a result, in the course of the litigation it proved impossible to create a district map by which a majority of Latinx residents could be grouped in one or more districts that were even substantially Latinx. The best district the plaintiffs came up with would be about 30% Latinx, but a majority of the city's Latinx residents would still live outside the district.
There was a lot of discussion in the Court of Appeal ruling about whether a non-majority Latinx district could be a suitable remedy under the CVRA for discrimination against minority voters, and the plaintiffs have appealed on the grounds that it should not be necessary under the CVRA to have a majority-minority district. To me, however, that discussion skips the primary question; namely, what happens to the voting power of the majority of Latinx residents not included in the "Latinx district"?
The plaintiff's remedy, districts, would put a lot, but not a majority, of Latinx residents in a district where they theoretically would have more power and representation in one election every four years. Meanwhile a majority of Latinx residents (along with all other voters in the city) would lose the right every two years to vote for four or three council members. How would that increase Latinx voting power? A minority of Latinx voters would trade the right to vote for all council members for a somewhat better chance of electing a Latinx candidate in one district, but the majority of Latinx voters would lose the right to vote for all council members while getting nothing in return.
Meanwhile, five or six council members would be elected from districts with very few or nearly no Latinx or African-American voters. What would that do to the political power of historic minorities in Santa Monica? On a national level it has been recognized for some time that the creation in the South of districts that enabled the election of African-Americans, while necessary given the historic realities of Jim Crow and the post-Reconstruction denial of the right to vote, has also led to gerrymandering ("packing and cracking") that has isolated Black political power and enabled right-wing dominance.
There are arguments in favor of districts that are unconnected to the voting rights of historic minorities. I have friends who believe that they would be better represented by having a representative from their own neighborhoods. They believe district representatives would be more accessible and responsive. As I wrote in 2018, it's easier to run for office in a small district. Certainly, at some point jurisdictions get so big that the only viable structure is to have representatives from districts.
But there are downsides. Think of the City of Los Angeles, where each council member rules his or her fiefdom (each of which has nearly three times the population of Santa Monica), and any action at the City Council level, including every major development, requires horse trading among the council members. It's been almost impossible to have citywide planning.
If a jurisdiction has districts, the public needs an elected strong executive so that someone represents everyone, as a whole. Perhaps Santa Monica is big enough for an elected mayor, and as I wrote recently, there is an accountability problem with the city manager system, but that's a major political issue all by itself. (I want to mention in fairness to De la Torre that he himself has recognized this issue and the need for an elected mayor if we go to districts.)
I hope that before the new council members vote to settle the lawsuit, they reflect on whether they were elected to take away the right of all Santa Monicans, including a majority of Latinx residents, to vote for all seven seats on the City Council.
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Flyers of all ages and skill levels will have the opportunity to compete in various disciplines. We hope to encourage, with the addition of 2-Way FS Rookie, participation from beginners who are new to, but very interested in competing.
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In 2013, France's highest court upheld a ruling that Scientology, in that country at least, is a fraud. And key to that court decision, as well as the one it upheld, was an anti-cult organization named UNADFI that had acted as a plaintiff in both trials and had made sure judges heard damaging information about the American organization.
Now, Scientology has managed to get a bit of revenge. Although its status as a fraud is unchanged, Scientology learned that fines levied against UNADFI will be upheld as the same high court has ruled that the anti-cult group never should have been a part of those trials.
The Cour de Cassation rejected a bid by UNADFI to overturn an appeal court ruling that it had taken part in the trial when it knew it had no standing as plaintiff.
Throughout the trial, Scientology's lawyers had protested that UNADFI had no right to a voice in court as their statutes did not qualify them for plaintiff status. But at both the original trial and the trial on appeal, the court reserved its decision on the question until the end of proceedings before accepting Scientology's arguments. That meant that UNADFI's lawyer, Olivier Morice, was able to put his knowledge of Scientology to good use during the trial, before those rulings were delivered.
Morice played a key role in both the original 2009 trial and the 2013 appeal that led to the conviction of the church for organized fraud here. He used his knowledge of Scientology texts to cross-examine defense witnesses to great effect, frequently clashing with the defense lawyers protesting his presence.
The January 12 ruling by the Cour de Cassation vindicates Scientology's protests and confirms the fines imposed by the lower court in November 2015. The appeal court convicted the association of having abused the justice system and ordered it to pay the three plaintiffs 3,000 euros each. All three of the plaintiffs — two individuals and one Scientology association — were among those convicted of organized fraud in the earlier trials.
Eric Roux, Scientology's president in France, welcomed the judgment in a statement posted on his website. "This is an important decision, not just for the Church of Scientology — which thus sees the supreme court confirm the fact that UNADFI has been the source of an influence which was as undue as it was illegal in the trial in question — but for justice in general, as from now on one will have to think twice before illegitimately and in bad faith making oneself a plaintiff in a trial," he wrote.
One commentator has already raised the question as to whether this ruling meant that Scientology could try to use this ruling to overturn its fraud convictions. Under French law it is possible to ask the Cour de Cassation to ask for a revision of a conviction, but this only happens in exceptional circumstances.
Eric Roux, contacted by this website, could not say if Scientology would attempt any such action. But Maître Olivier Morice was quick to dismiss the possibility.
"There is no risk that this decision will lead the Church of Scientology to review its trial to the extent that it is completely independent," he told the Bunker.
The convictions of two Scientology organizations for organized fraud was itself confirmed by the Cour de Cassation in October 2014. Five Scientologists were also convicted on a range of charges, but it was significant for being the first time the movement itself had been convicted in France. A second such conviction could open the way to the movement being dissolved.
In 2014, the European Court of Human Rights dismissed Scientology's bid to challenge the French fraud convictions there. The same court has on several occasions ruled in favor of Scientology, notably in cases it has brought against Russia.
UNADFI has now changed its statutes to meet the requirements of plaintiff status, so there is every chance of seeing it represented at future trials involving Scientology.
Well, New Zealand, you have your own Ideal Org now. We'll check back with you in a few months to see if it becomes an empty shell like the others, populated only by these freaky dolls.
Oh my, they're really claiming "thousands"….


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Going to have to work for peace
Peace is not the absence of war,
it is the absence of the rumors of war and the panic for war and the preparations for war.
it is the absence of the threats of war and the rumors of war and the preparations for war.
There'll be no freedom without peace.
— Gil Scott-Heron, "Work for Peace" (2001)
Author Daniel HarperPosted on August 10, 2022 August 20, 2022 Categories Musical arts, Social justiceTags Gil Scott-Heron, peaceLeave a comment on Going to have to work for peace
Not only climate change
The BBC reports that toxic chemicals in the environment are just as big a threat as climate change:
"Chemical pollution has officially crossed "a planetary boundary", threatening the Earth's systems just as climate change and habitat loss are known to do. A recent study by scientists from Sweden, the UK, Canada, Denmark and Switzerland highlights the urgent need to turn off the tap at source. Many toxic chemicals, known as persistent organic pollutants, or POPs, don't easily degrade. They can linger in the environment and inside us – mostly in our blood and fatty tissues – for many years."
A couple of years ago, I heard a talk by Dr. Stuart Weiss, a field biologist in the San Francisco Bay Area. He identified five major threats to the life-supporting systems of planet Earth:
1. Global climate change
2. Land use change (including deforestation and habitat destruction)
3. Invasive organisms
4. Toxication (including solids, like plastics, as well as chemicals)
5. Overpopulation
I would add one more — nuclear war — for a total of six major threats to earth's life-supporting systems.
Upper middle class Americans have focused on climate change as the major environmental threat. But even if we solve the climate change problem, any combination of the other five threats would also lead to a "great extinction." This is why having everyone buy an electric car is not going to fix looming environmental disaster. My guess is that major systemic change is needed, probably involving replacing capitalism with an economic system that is not a-moral (or immoral).
Author Daniel HarperPosted on May 13, 2022 January 23, 2023 Categories Social justiceTags global climate change, invasive species, land use change, nuclear war, overpopulation, toxication
Phone privacy and abortions
Now that Roe v. Wade is likely to fall, we all have to think carefully about electronic privacy and abortion. Big Tech is already tracking everything you do. The data they steal from you can easily be used to find out whether you (for biological females) or your partner (for biological males) is pregnant.
The Digital Defense Fund (DDF) has created a "Guide to Abortion Privacy" showing how to maintain your reproductive privacy. The DDF guide is focused on phone privacy, but similar principles apply to computer privacy; make sure your laptop is as secure as your phone.
DDF also provides a poster and an infographic about abortion privacy. DDF appears to give permission to repost these graphics freely, so I'll include the infographic below. (Image alt text can be found here.)
Digital Defense Fund infographic "How your phone documents your abortion experience"
Actually, anyone wanting to maintain online privacy should study these guides. We live in a world where increasingly individual behavior is subject to outside control. Big Tech wants to control your behavior as a consumer. The Religious Right want to control your religion, gender, sexual orientation, and pregnancy. Big Business wants to control your ability to organize for better working conditions. And so on…. If you want to retain some small amount of control over your life, you need to do whatever you can to maintain your online privacy.
Author Daniel HarperPosted on May 7, 2022 Categories Political culture, Social justiceTags abortion, online privacy
Transgracial
"Transgracial" — that's not a typographical error. Rebecca Tuvel, professor of philosophy at Rhodes College in Memphis, explores the implications of a "transgracial," or combined transgender and transracial identity, in a post to the American Philosophy Association (APA) "Black Issues in Philosophy" blog. In this post, Tuvel argues that transracial identity is analogous to transgender identity, where "analogous to" doesn't mean "identical to." When she first published these ideas in 2017, apparently some people were outraged. But I think Tuvel's proposed analogy is less interesting than an essay she refers to written by Ronnie Gladden, who presents as a black man but who identifies as a white woman.
This essay, published in 2015 in Queer Cats Journal of LGBTQ Studies is titled "TRANSgressive Talk: An Introduction to the Meaning of Transgracial Identity." The author, at that time a doctoral student in education at Northern Kentucky University, identifies their names as both Ronnie Gladden and Rachael Greenberg, so I'll refer to them as Gladden/Greenberg. (For reference, it appears in 2021 that they identify simply as Ronnie Gladden.) In 2015, Gladden/Greenberg began their essay by saying:
"My confrontation with my internalized racial unrest, along with a growing awareness of my authentic gender identity, has been prompted, in part, by two socio-political shifts: 1) the escalating tensions belying the 'Black Lives Matter' movement, and 2) the increased visibility of transgender individuals in a myriad of public spaces. Increasingly, I feel an urgency to be forthcoming about my true identity in an era where transparency is not just encouraged; it is demanded. In spite of presenting as outwardly black and male — by and large I view myself as white and female…."
Gladden/Greenberg writes about an intersectional identity that I hadn't thought about before. They describe tensions in their life that I wouldn't have thought about. At the same time, claiming a transracial identity in the U.S. today may not seem possible, given the way we understand race in our society. But a 2014 article in Georgetown Law Journal by Camille Gear Rich, Gould School of Law at USC, titled "Elective Race: Recognizing Race Discrimination in the Era of Racial Self-Identification", referred to in Tuvel's blog post, may help to think further about the question of transracial identities. In this article, Rich writes:
"[W]e are in a key moment of discursive and ideological transition, an era in which the model of elective race is ascending, poised to become one of the dominant frameworks for understanding race in the United States. Because we are in a period of transition, many Americans still are wedded to fairly traditional attitudes about race. For these Americans, race is still an objective, easily ascertainable fact determined by the process of involuntary racial ascription — how one's physical traits are racially categorized by third parties. The elective-race framework will challenge these Americans to recognize other ways in which people experience race, including acts of voluntary affiliation as well as selective and conditional affiliations."
Rich acknowledges that this new elective model of race poses distinct challenges: "The elective-race framework rejects claims about the obdurate, all-encompassing nature of white privilege and the need for racial passing" (p. 1506). Rich isn't denying that white privilege is real, but at the same time different individuals may navigate white privilege in different ways. Rich also points out that "neither lay understandings nor institutional understandings of elective race are fully developed"; I'm finding Rich's article to be an excellent resource as I develop my own understanding of elective race.
Given that a significant number of people — let's say, a growing number of people — accept the evolving concept of elective race, it should be no surprise to find people who identify as living at the intersection of transracial and transgender identities. I imagine that will be a difficult intersection at which to live. I wonder how Unitarian Universalism (and other religions, for that matter) will respond to the persons living at that intersection.
Author Daniel HarperPosted on August 26, 2021 Categories Pop Culture, Social justiceTags gender, race, race and religion, transgenderLeave a comment on Transgracial
Paul Gilroy is a professor at University College London, and director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism there. He's four years older than I am, and though in many ways we're quite different it turns out we share a perception of today's anti-racism work:
"Anti-racism has changed since Gilroy's youth, its edge blunted. For much of the 20th century, being against racism meant being for a radically different political and economic settlement, such as socialism or communism. Today it can mean little more than doing what Gilroy mockingly calls 'McKinsey multiculturalism': keeping unjust societies as they are, except with a few 'black and brown bodies' in the corporate boardrooms. ('I'm not very interested in decolonising the 1%' he [says].) What is left is a more individualistic anti-racist culture, which is keen on checking privilege and affirming the validity of other people's experiences, but has trouble creating durable institutions or political programmes." — "The Last Humanist," Yohann Koshy, The Guardian, August 5, 2021.
One reason I continue to call myself an "unrepentant Marxist" is that capitalism has proved unable to change racist systems in the U.S. (Indeed, from a historical perspective it's arguable that capitalism initially thrived due to the way it exploited nonwhite labor, e.g., chattel slavery in the U.S.) I recognize that my view represents a tiny minority in the United States, or indeed in Unitarian Universalist circles, and that I may very well be wrong. However, if capitalism was able to solve the problem of racism in the U.S., I would think it would have done so many years ago. And it's hard to see how a system built on inequality, as capitalism has always been, could somehow magically create racial equality. While Marxism may be the wrong answer, it's no less wrong than capitalism.
Where does that leave us? As Paul Gilroy points out, we're left with an "individualistic anti-racist culture" which does not seriously address unjust societies.
Author Daniel HarperPosted on August 5, 2021 December 23, 2022 Categories Social justiceTags Marxism, Paul Gilroy, racism5 Comments on Generational divide
Reforming police, 1969
In July, 1969, Jules Siegel interviewed several Black Panthers for an article he was writing. The Panthers he spoke to talked quite a bit about a topic that has been very much in the news over the past year — reforming the police. Field Marshal "D.C." [Donald Cox] of the Black Panthers laid out the fundamental problem:
"It has been called police brutality. It's a matter of educating people to the fact that yes, it's brutal, but the term for it is fascism. Black people already know, because they've lived under fascist terror ever since we've been in this country. Fascism is the police running amok in the black community."
"Poison," a field lieutenant from the Chicago Black Panthers, outlined the Panthers' solution — community control of police:
"Lots of people don't understand what community control means. It means giving the people a voice. Right now they have no voice because it is a centralist form of government. Community control of the police doesn't mean that the community would take over the present pig [i.e., police] department. It means that people will have people from within that community policing that community. If one of these police would commit a crime against the people, he [sic] would have to come home at night. It's a hard thing to go home if you've committed a crime against your own people. Before you commit that crime, you begin to think."
It's also important to note that Field Marshal D.C. asserted that the fascism of the police was not rooted in race and racism per se:
"It's in the interest of the power structure to propagate the idea that it's a race struggle rather than a class struggle. As long as they can keep people divided into ethnic groups, the masses are not going to join together to form a united front against the exploiter who is oppressing everyone."
In short, the Panthers saw that the real problem was not the police, but the power structure that the police represented.
The Black Panthers had many problems, including rampant sexism. But I still find much of their vision for society compelling. They saw that U.S. capitalism was upheld by a form of fascism, and that police brutality was one manifestation of that fascism. They wanted to wrest social control away from "the oppressor," and put that control back in the hands of the people. And they combined grand theory with practical action: by July, 1969, the Panthers' "Breakfast for Children" program was feeding 50,000 children a week across the U.S. In spite of their flaws, theirs was a grand vision for a more just and egalitarian society. This vision provides a necessary context for their proposals for police reform.
A screen grab from a National Archives video of the Black Panthers, c. 1966-1969, showing Party leader Kathleen Cleaver (?) speaking at Hutton Memorial Park, Oakland.
Notes: Interview excerpts from "The Black Panthers" by Jules Siegel, from his book Record (San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books/Rolling Stone, 1972). More about the Black Panther Party at the National Archives, including vintage video footage, and brief biographies of prominent women Panthers.
Author Daniel HarperPosted on June 21, 2021 June 21, 2021 Categories Social justiceTags Black Panther Party, classism, racismLeave a comment on Reforming police, 1969
Black Wall Streets
The centennial of the destruction of Tulsa's Greenwood district, known as "Black Wall Street," has got me thinking about other Black Wall Streets that once existed in the U.S. — places where black entrepreneurs could find success more easily, places where African Americans could accumulate wealth. What happened to them?
Richmond, Virginia, had Jackson Ward, another Black Wall Street, a locus for black-owned businesses. In the 1950s, urban renewal — a turnpike cut through the middle of the neighborhood — was a major factor in destroying Jackson Ward as an economic center.
The Hayti neighborhood of Durham, North Carolina, is considered a Black Wall Street. Although much of the financial growth was driven by a couple of large black-owned businesses, the neighborhood launched a significant number of African Americans into the middle class. In the 1960s, it was destroyed by an urban renewal scheme.
The Fifteenth Ward of Syracuse, N.Y., was a Black Wall Street. Guess what killed off the Fifteenth Ward? If you guessed "urban renewal," you guessed correctly.
What killed these Black Wall Streets? White mob violence (with the connivance of local government and even the National Guard) in Tulsa — government-decreed urban renewal in Richmond and Durham. The methods might have changed, but the outcome was the same, thus demonstrating yet again that capitalism in the U.S. gives preference to certain classes of people, while blocking others from achieving wealth through entrepreneurship.
In a number of places, local groups are starting their own initiatives to promote black entrepreneurship. I did quick Web search and turned up Black Wall Street organizations in St. Louis, Mo., Asheville, N.C., and Kalamazoo, Mich. There are other organizations that don't use the "Black Wall Street" name, but promote a similar ethic, such as Black-Owned Brooklyn.
Many of us are skeptical of capitalism these days; there's a growing suspicion that systemic racism may actually be a core part of capitalism's feature set. Nevertheless, capitalism and entrepreneurship are just about the only way to get into the middle class these days. That being the case, maybe the best way to memorialize the demise of Tulsa's Black Wall Street is to do business with local black-owned businesses.
Except that Amazon has eviscerated local retail business, Big Tech is degrading local businesses into the gig economy, banking and insurance and manufacturing are dominated by huge multinational white-owned companies which have destroyed local businesses…the methods keep changing, but somehow many African Americans still find themselves shut out of the middle class. As Mariahdessa Ekere Tallie puts it in her poem "Global Warming Blues":
seem like for Big Men's living
little folks has got to die.
Author Daniel HarperPosted on June 1, 2021 Categories Social justiceLeave a comment on Black Wall Streets
Why some white people need to worry about U.S. policing
I recently finished reading Howard Zinn's memoir You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. In the chapter "Growing Up Class Conscious," Zinn talks about going to his first political demonstration in Times Square, New York City, when he was in his late teens:
"In the midst of the crowd, banners were unfurled, and people, perhaps a thousand or more, formed into lines carrying banners and signs and chanting slogans about peace and justice and a dozen other causes of the day. I was exciting. And non-threatening…."
Except that expressing such political ideas was not exactly non-threatening to the powers-that-be:
"We heard the sound of sirens and I thought there must be a fire somewhere, and accident of some kind. But then I heard screams and saw hundreds of policemen, mounted on horses and on foot, charging into the lines of marchers, smashing people with their clubs. I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear."
Zinn quickly learned that the freedom to assemble and demonstrate without fear is not actually a right for working class whites:
"As I absorbed all this, as my thoughts raced, all in a few seconds, I was spun around by a very large man, who seized my shoulder and hit me very hard. I only saw him as a blur. I didn't know if it was a club or a fist or a blackjack, but I was knocked unconscious."
This was a key moment in Zinn's political awakening:
"Those young Communist on the block [where Zinn lived] were right! The state and its police were not neutral referees in a society of contending interests. They were on the side of the rich and powerful."
U.S. Communists were wrong about a number of things, including the Soviet Union, but they were absolutely right about the police and the state. No wonder Communism was made functionally illegal in the U.S. during the 1950s, just a few years after Zinn's political awakening.
We're seeing this play out in Congress right now. The people who stormed the Capitol on January 6 did so at the behest of the rich and powerful. The Democrats in the House of Representatives have proposed a bipartisan inquiry into the storming of the Capitol, but the majority of Republicans in the House voted against it. (Not that I trust the Democrats to institute an objective inquiry — they too are the rich and powerful, and their goal is mostly to score political points off their equally rich and powerful rivals.) My liberal and progressive friends like to say: if the people who stormed the Capitol had been black, they would have been stopped pretty quickly. But it's equally true that if the people who stormed the Capitol had been working class whites, or homeless people, or Communists, they would have been stopped just as quickly.
If you're an upper middle class white person — these days, that means a white person with a college degree — you probably don't have worry about police. But three quarters of white people in the U.S. are not upper middle class. True, they don't have to worry about policing in the same way as non-white people — but as Howard Zinn discovered in the late 1940s, the police are most definitely not on their side.
One final, obvious, point: the problem does not lie with individual police officers. The police officers I've know, and know, are courageous, kind, and dedicated public servants. The rich and powerful would love for us to believe that the problem can be solved by disciplining individual police officers. But the problem can only be solved when the state no longer protects the rich and powerful at the expense of non-white and working class people.
Author Daniel HarperPosted on May 21, 2021 May 22, 2021 Categories Political culture, Social justiceTags Howard ZinnLeave a comment on Why some white people need to worry about U.S. policing
A divided nation
The United States is divided so badly that it's hard to believe. My liberal and progressive friends blame it all on the Republicans. Not surprisingly, the conservatives blame it all on the liberals. No one seems to listen to anyone but the people they agree with any more.
I've been blaming this unhealthy division on social media. But in his new book How Rights Went Wrong, Jamal Greene, professor of law at Columbia Law School, argues that the U.S. Supreme Court, and lower courts, are also to blame:
"…The job of the courts in a pluralistic democracy isn't to please their base. It's to work to resolve conflicts, to ratchet them down rather than up. Courts should be reminding us of what we have in common. They should be granting just enough constitutional leverage on each side that we have no choice but to sit down across from each other at the table, to look each other in the eye, and to speak to each other…." How Rights Went Wrong: : Why Our Obsession with Rights Is Tearing America Apart (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021), p. 163
Instead, Supreme Court decisions have become a zero-sum game, with clear winners and clear losers. Rather than trying to work people we disagree with, to find some common ground, we just want to eliminate them. As a result, progressives now hope that some of the conservative justices on the Supreme Court will die so Joe Biden can appoint some more progressive justices. Conversely, conservatives hope that the conservative justices can live another four years.
Unitarian Universalist congregations are supposed to support the democratic process in our congregations, and in society at large. But these days, most Unitarian Universalists have unthinkingly bought into the anti-democratic notion that Supreme Court decisions are a zero-sum game. Maybe it's time for us Unitarian Universalists to reflect seriously on Jamal Greene's thoughts — maybe we need to stop hoping that conservative Supreme Court justices will die, and start thinking about how to strengthen democracy.
Author Daniel HarperPosted on May 17, 2021 Categories Political culture, Social justiceTags seven principlesLeave a comment on A divided nation
Anti-racism failure in a liberal college
My Philadelphia cousin sent me a link to an article from The Philadelphia Inquirer he thought I might find interesting: "Haverford College students launched a strike last fall after a racial reckoning. The impact still lingers":
"In 1972 … [Haverford's] Black Student League announced a boycott of campus activities over institutional racism. … Fast forward nearly 50 years: A 2018-19 campus report found that Black and Latino students at Haverford were less likely to feel they had meaningful social interactions on campus and that their academics were well-supported."
That's the college where I took my undergraduate degree in 1983. Reading this article makes it look like one thing hasn't changed since 1983: the student body is still overwhelmingly white. Another hasn't changed: in spite of its woke rhetoric, Haverford College still hasn't confronted the systemic racism that was painfully obvious decades ago ago when I was a student.
Sadly, this is probably true of many of the so-called elite liberal arts colleges. As Haverford student Rasaaq Shittu put it in an op-ed piece published in The Inquirer back in July: "Primarily white, outwardly liberal institutions like Haverford have such a long history of talking the talk without living up to it." Which is another thing that hasn't changed since my day. No wonder non-white students called for a two-week student strike last fall to protest the systemic racism at Haverford.
However, one thing that has changed since my day is the cost of an education at one of these elite liberal arts colleges. Today's students at Haverford pay an astonishing $75,000 per year for tuition, room, and board. When I was there, the inflation-adjusted cost was about $17,000 per year, so the inflation-adjusted cost has quadrupled. Thus while I completely agree with the goals of the student strike, I did not agree with one of the strike strategies. The strike organizers asked students to miss two weeks of class, and also to stop eating at the dining center for two weeks, and also to stop working at their campus jobs. If that strike had happened in my day, I wonder if I could have afforded to participate.
And maybe this reveals that another thing has not changed since my time as a student in an elite liberal arts college: as elite institutions, these colleges are pervaded with both racism and classism. Compare the Haverford strike with the Black Panthers, who provided both food and shelter for people in their organization. Or compare the Haverford strike with unions which build up a strike fund so they can give financial assistance to striking workers. This lack of awareness on the part of strike organizers about the financial realities of less affluent students demonstrates the enduring classism of elite liberal arts colleges like Haverford College. Since all oppressions are linked (as we used to say back in my radical days), we should not be surprised that an institution pervaded by unacknowledged racism is also pervaded by unacknowledged classism.
One conclusion: For those of you looking for a college to attend, be wary of elite liberal arts colleges. Very wary. Instead, try looking at community colleges and state university systems, where you can often get excellent teaching (from professors with degrees from excellent graduate schools), in company with a far more diverse student body (from whom you will learn more than from a heterogenous student body), for a hell of a lot less money.
And I will freely admit my bias: My older sister, who is an excellent teacher (I've observed her in the classroom and her pedagogical skills are superior to any of my Haverford professors), teaches in a branch campus of Indiana University. Well, maybe that's not bias, maybe that's just first-hand information.
Author Daniel HarperPosted on April 26, 2021 August 19, 2021 Categories Social justiceTags racism1 Comment on Anti-racism failure in a liberal college


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Q: How can i detect a collision to add score? When my player touches the object, it should add score but does not go. I put this code on the tree. Thanks!
public class LifeTree : MonoBehaviour
{
    private int contador=0;
    private ScoreData _scoreData;

    private void OnCollisionExit(Collision other)
    {
        if (CompareTag("Player") & contador < 4)
        {
            _scoreData.score = _scoreData.score+5;
            Debug.Log("Tree");
            contador++;
        }
    }
}

A: So first make sure a rigidbody is attached so a collision can be recognized.
void OnCollisionEnter(Collision col)
{
  if(col.gameObject.tag == "Player" && contador < 4)
  {
    //detects if the player hit the tree
  }
}

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What's five blocks long, super-corporate, and unsure of what it is? Why, Taste of Charlotte, of course!
Seriously, talk about squandered potential. This could be a celebration of the amazing cultural and gastronomic diversity Charlotte has to offer - a showcase for our local cheese, beer, culinary twists and originality - instead, it's a long, narrow corridor of corporate food-land with the occasional local restaurant thrown in for, you know, charm. It seemed like half the booths were chains. This was my first time, and at 20 bucks for coins (2 beers and three dishes worth) plus 10 for parking, it'll probly be my last.
And, lo and behold, spinach dip was everywhere. The pile I had from Village Tavern was good, but being given the distinction of yummiest bite of the day at a food festival this yawn-worthy can't mean much.
Of course, Woodlands and Namaste were there, and a pal tried the Veg Platter, which was tasty (some sort of Saag - not sure if there were any chickpeas, but the naan and rice were good, curry spicy and awesome) but since we were looking for new stuffs to nosh, not places we already know and love, twas a bit disappointing.
Overall, I'm left with some questions: were booths super-expensive to rent, thus the small presence of mom n pops? Are we TRYING to look boring to out of towners (in a city known for its banks and finance "scene" we really don't need any more help in this department)? I mean, seriously, the AARP mobile health van at the end was probably the coolest thing here, since you could walk in and get all sorts of health info, fo fwee.


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IWC Schaffhausen, News
E-Retail on IWC.com?
IWC Schaffhausen's Chief Marketing Officer, Ms. Franziska Gsell tells Revolution all about the brand's plans to conquer e-commerce in 2017 like no other watch brand has ever dared. by - Sumit Nag
"We've now even installed, in our Schaffhausen headquarters, a content room," says Ms. Franziska Gsell, Chief Marketing Officer of IWC watches. "Pinning up our content plans for the entire year and across all our markets helps us to keep an eye on everything."
But it is what is necessary in order to deliver a clear, consistent and coherent message across multiple channels, in multiple localities to an audience, which is as varied as the sheer number of Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors. Okay, apparently, there are no more than 40 varieties of Ben & Jerry's flavors out in the market at any one given time, but you get the pint — I mean, point.
IWC Schaffhausen was probably one of the very first names in the watch industry to have taken on the online sphere with such great intention, paired with intense conviction — that this is the way to the future. But the brand's sensitivity towards the need to be culturally relevant is not something of a fresh revelation.
From the 1986 movie, Top Gun to the highly-acclaimed Netflix original, House of Cards of recent days, IWC's game book for intelligent visibility will soon become the instructional manual for future marketers in the watchmaking industry, if it hasn't already.
Today, it can be said with a great amount of confidence that IWC's visibility and audibility across multiple online and social media channels is unquestionable. It's come to a point where even if all the brand does is scratch the surface, it creates a crater on the ground.
And just late last year, in 2016, IWC took yet another leap that had many scratching their heads. This was, of course, the brand's foray into e-commerce in partnership with e-retail sites, Net-a-Porter and Mr Porter. As we stand here and now, a quarter into 2017, IWC Schaffhausen stands to testify that yet again the game plan in play has worked out remarkably.
2017 started off for IWC, at SIHH, with the launch of the refreshed Da Vinci collection. A redesign that harkens back to the look of the 1980s Da Vinci that had a great amount of success. Particularly, there was a Da Vinci that was created then for women that did excellently for IWC. This was, of course, the Da Vinci – Lady Chronograph, Ref. 3735 released in 1988. It was, in fact, such a successful piece that IWC has gone on record to say that it became one of their best sellers.
So, because the 2017 collection is based on the success of the 1980s Da Vinci design, it was also natural that part of the drive for this collection would be women. But there is yet another reason why it is of incredible foresight that IWC should focus on the ladies in this season.
The truth of the matter is that the watch industry has seen better days in the last two decades. However, when all the numbers are gathered and made sense of, what is curious is that it is the women who are, in fact, increasingly more supportive of watchmaking than ever before. Simply put, it's the ladies who are spending and, therefore, it is necessary to create with them in mind; to communicate with them in mind.
It is as such that when the 2017 Da Vinci collection was launched, the first retail outlet to receive the new watches was Net-a-Porter. Even more impressive is that Net-a-Porter was already offering watches such as the Da Vinci Automatic 36 and Automatic Moon Phase 36, as early as February of 2017.
And how has the entire e-commerce strategy, and the drive towards women, panned out for IWC? "We've been surprised by just how many women are buying IWC watches on our e-retail channels. Of the watches we have sold across the gender groups, we're really happy about the success. Roughly, 50% of those purchases are made by women," explains Ms. Gsell.
Now, that's just plain impressive. "It gives us the ground to say that we had the strategy and the communication right from the start. The brand is ready for this new era of retail and so are the IWC customers," says Ms. Gsell.
So, now that we know the brand is in the right direction. What is then the next step forward? The answer according, to Ms. Gsell, is: "Our step forward is that we capitalize on this traction and being e-retailing through www.IWC.com. This is a logical extension of our customer service portfolio, and a perfect complement to our exising distribution network with trusted retail partners and IWC boutiques. The aim is to create an omnichannel distribution model, and e-retail is an integral part of this.
We already have run an exercise of receiving pre-orders for the 2017 Da Vinci Collection on www.IWC.com, but that was in a secure timeframe of two weeks. Now, as of June 2017, we will offer a full e-retail experience on our website.
We'll start with the US and then we will extend this offering to more of our markets over the course of the next years."
IWC Schaffhausen, News, Reviews
Introducing the IWC Pilot's Watch Chronograph TOPGUN Edition "SFTI"
"We have a place up in Montana, if you know where that is. It's on an island on the lake. My brother had told me earlier to keep an eye towards the sky on a particular day. When he came, he came zooming through the sky in the cockpit of his by - Sumit Nag
IWC Schaffhausen, News, Videos
IWC Donates Prototype Spitfire Timezoner to Covid-19 Solidarity Auction
IWC Schaffhausen has donated the prototype Spitfire Timezoner for Revolution x The Rake Covid-19 Solidarity Auction that has been there since Pre-SIHH, SIHH, the take-off, signing of the Silver Spitfire, the stopover in Santa Monica and the landing by - Revolution
IWC Schaffhausen, News, W&W 2020
How IWC is Innovating During the COVID-19 Pandemic
They say necessity is the mother of all invention. In watchmaking, that has historically been very true. The world right now is facing a global pandemic, something that has resulted in a lockdown across numerous continents for months. Even with by - Darren Ho
Laurent Ferrier, News
Available Now: Laurent Ferrier Steel Galet Micro-Rotor Salmon Dial for Revolution (1-of-1)
The first thing I would like to do is wish everyone a Happy New Year. As a prelude of our plan to offer amazing unique timepieces for sale at our Revolution Watch Bar, in Singapore here's an opportunity to own a very cool, one-of-a-kind Laurent by - Wei Koh
News, Reviews, Watchfinder & Co
Available In The Shop: The Tudor Black Bay Bronze "Bucherer" Edition


In general, I am a very positive person – some might even go so far as to say I am sometimes insufferably so. My favourite self-descriptive words are brigillant, a made up word combining great and brilliant, or supercallifragilisticexpealidocious (Mary Poppins) but even the most positive person has moments of self doubt, moments of being less than optimum, moments of being down but thankfully, those moments don't last too long, and I do everything that I can to shorten them. For me, there are a number of things that I can do to recharge my batteries and regain my positivity, and over the years I've really refined them.
First and most importantly, I have had to learn to accept that it's okay not to feel 100% all the time. Multiple sclerosis has a negative impact on everyone it touches to a greater or lesser extent but it is how one handles the diagnosis that has the biggest influence on the future. To the same extent, it's important to realize that acceptance is not the same as resignation. MS is often referred to as a "snowflake" disease; the variety of signs and symptoms and the inability to predict its course make for a great degree of uncertainty, and for most uncertainty breeds insecurity and fear which breeds negativity. Over the years, I have found several tools that have helped me fight negativity and stay on top of my game.
• Exercise: Even though I don't do it a ton, I have found that exercising helps me stay positive and strong. I always find that 'when I least feel like exercising is when I need it most'. Exercising needs a large degree of concentration; lack of concentration leads to mistakes which in turn may lead to injury and while concentrating on the exercises MS is relegated, at least temporarily, to the back seat.
• Staying occupied: I fight my negativity by keeping myself occupied; I read novels, I love word games and I blog. I only started writing in 2014 and I find it cathartic and rewarding.
In my fight with negativity I believe that it is vitally import to be honest with myself, to face any problem head on, and to not bury my head in the sand. If a resolution is to be found I will find it and if not then I must take the acceptance route and come to terms with the new reality. MS brings 'new realities' frequently, and learning to live with them is perhaps the biggest challenge of all.


"saving the world with slash"
Five crazy women, quirky academics, writers, lovers of Smallville (in spite of itself) who get together weekly for potluck and fannish conversations.
We are otherwise known as The Smallville Gang.
Lacey's husband came home one day and presented her and the visiting privatetentacle with a note that said "sticky man. press". We immediately said, "That's a great name!" Hubby dutifully turned the paper over to reveal the rest of the note: "Please check the sticky man. press" - Mr. McBain is a pilot. The note was asking him to check the manifold pressure gauge on the plane because it was sticking.
But he knew what we'd think. Therefore, since he enabled, we can legitimately claim "this is all his fault".


Books destigmatizing diversity give us a chance to catch prejudice before it begins.
All kids form generalizations – we need to lump things into abstract groups so our brains don't go dizzy with detail. The trouble is that we group humans according to what they look like. So, when we fail to explicitly discuss diversity with our children, they create their own stereotypes.
Unless we expose children to stories featuring people of different races, abilities, sizes, and genders, we will miss the messed-up theories they come up with on their own.
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When my son voices these theories, I have a chance to discuss where his ideas came from – and help him reconsider if they're true.
By reading books featuring diverse protagonists, I've been able to discuss generalizations they've picked up from school and the media (and even from us).
Actually – people with dark skin did NOT do something bad to deserve slavery.
Actually – men can be teachers.
Actually – mommies are not 'better' at parenting.
Actually – straight hair is not 'fancier' or prettier than curly hair.
Of the thousands of books we read each year, few feature anything other than white, non-disabled boys and their moms (dads are rarely featured unless they're coming home from work). Books celebrating diversity are becoming more common – but they're still rare.
That's why, when a member of the Books for Littles Facebook group told us about a new book she had published, I was so excited to talk to her.
Let curiosity be greater than your fear.
I have a friend who wears a hijab and I was thinking about how it must feel to be her; how most of the looks she gets come from a place of curiosity.
This book is a tool for guardians and teachers to explain why people look different before children make mistakes in public. I included tips to explain to children how best to approach a person in a respectful way, or how it can be rude to stare, or what not to do (like pet a service dog).
I want more than anything to make a difference in the world. We can work together to spread kindness and love. The first step to doing that is by gently and lovingly teaching the next generation how to face the world.
So my friend who wears a hijab became the first page and then it snowballed from there. I used Facebook to search for volunteers who typically get curious looks when they go out in public. They loved getting a chance to explain their differences to children as well as the general population.
This book is technically a children's book but so many adults have learned from this experience – including myself. Going into this project I knew what a cochlear implant was, but I never knew how it worked or how it is implanted. So I learned something!
I have had many people come up to me to thank me for giving a voice to the voiceless. They say that they have been waiting for a book like this, that shows life the way it is, without sugar-coating it with flashy cartoons or talking down to children.
Since 'The People You May See' has been independently published, many libraries and schools aren't authorized to add this gem to the stacks. Donate a copy to your local library, school, or tiny library today.
Video audio: Up-beat music, no spoken language.
Video visuals: Lisa Koehler wears a light green knit cap and holds the book for us to see. She silently flips through each page to show us illustrations. Most spreads feature a single image with a paragraph of text on the opposite page. Images are mostly grayscale drawings with occasional coloring for effect. Text is illegible because of video quality. At the end, Lisa smiles and blows a kiss to the viewer.
"Just got The People You May See this weekend, and have enjoyed reading it with my kids.
One thing I noted, and thought I should share, is that I don't think the reference to 'drag' (as in 'drag queen') coming from Shakespeare's English (DRessed as A Girl) is correct. . .
And I think it comes from the image/sound of a long dress dragging behind a male actor. But I need to do some more research to be sure!


The settlement with state attorneys general over mortgage servicing issues provides an estimated $1.2 million for Pennsylvanians.
Ocwen Financial Corp. has closed its previously announced $360 million acquisition of South Jersey mortgage company PHH Corp. The deal, announced Feb. 27, ends a rocky post-recession road for PHH, which delisted its stock from the New York Stock Exchange and becomes an Ocwen subsidiary. In 2017, the combined company originated more than $3 billion of residential mortgage loans including reverse mortgages. In conjunction with the closing, former PHH CEO Glen Messina has become president and CEO of the combined company.
The deal, announced in February, combines two mortgage companies that had been struggling with financial and regulatory issues in recent years.
Moody's Investors Service ("Moody's") has assigned PHH Mortgage Corporation (PHH) a servicer quality assessment of SQ3 as a Primary Servicer of Prime, Subprime, Second Lien residential mortgage loans and as a Special Servicer. The assessment is based on the company's average collection, loss mitigation and foreclosure and REO timeline management, above average loan administration and below average servicing stability. PHH Corporation, through its subsidiary PHH Mortgage, is one of the largest sub-servicers of residential mortgages in the United States.
Moody's Investors Service, ("Moody's") revised the outlooks for Ocwen Financial Corporation and Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC to stable from negative, and affirmed Ocwen Financial Corporation's Caa1 corporate family rating and Caa2 senior unsecured rating, as well as Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC's B3 senior secured bank credit facility rating and Caa2 senior secured rating. Ocwen Loan Servicing LLC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ocwen Financial Corporation (together "Ocwen").
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said in a statement Thursday evening that he would be selling all of his equity holdings and buying Treasury securities with the proceeds. "As a high level public official, you have an affirmative duty to protect the public trust and serve as a model of ethical behavior.


As the year concludes, and the new one begins, I'm reminded of my primary goal in life: to inspire and be inspired. It is in this spirit that I share this moment of inspiration with you all.
May the New Year find and keep you inspired!


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Does Carole Radziwill Miss Aviva Drescher?
The 'RHONY' star dishes on the departure of her former frenemy.
With Real Housewives of New York City making its triumphant return tonight, there's one cast member who won't be coming along for the ride: Aviva Drescher.
There's no doubt that the Housewife brought the drama last season. Between #BookGate and the infamous leg-throw, it's safe to say not returning to the show may be for the best. So it should be no surprise that former cast mate and frenemy Carole Radziwill agrees.
"I think the audience is relieved," she shares with E! News. "I think it's probably best for her not to be on television. She doesn't do herself any favors. I'm sure in her real life, off camera, she's doing well."
Describing last season as "toxic," Carole shares that after everything she went through, she almost considered not returning herself. "I felt like last year, last season was really unpleasant and honestly, I thought about it. Like 'I can't do this again. These women are just not like me and we don't have anything in common. I can't go through this again,'" she admits. "I went through all of that in my head, but I didn't want that feeling to be the final feeling…I didn't want to end on this very dark note, so that was one piece of it."
Now that she's back though, she knows she made the right decision. "I'm glad I did, I had a really good time this season," she says. "It was fun, even though there was drama and silliness and tears."
Tears that even she herself shed. "There are a lot of women, first of all, and there's a lot of emotion. A lot of crying—even I cried!" she laughs. "Emotions ran really deep and it was real. But then there were really fun times, too."
Where Are the RHONY Ladies Post-Season 6?


Youth of Savai'i reaped the benefits of the seeds sown at the Samoa National Youth Council run market held last week at the Apita O Pisaga Hall, reflecting the theme "The road to 2030: Eradicating poverty and achieving sustainable production or consumption".
Youth displayed their wares for the business and local community on the market day, including food products created using new recipes learnt during the previous day's workshop, of guacamole, eggplant pineapple salsa and pickled cucumber.
Other products displayed and on offer during the market day included carved wooden traditional outrigger canoes, cow leather belts, stencils and printing services, fresh produce, and lava lavas.
Kennon Kincaid, Political Economic Officer on behalf of the U.S. Embassy Charge de Affaires, Angelina Wilkinson, made the keynote speech at the opening of the market day, which was fully supported and funded by the United States of America Embassy Small Grants Program.
During his speech, he indicated his eagerness to explore the market, meet the youth, hear from them about their experiences, learning and hopes for their future.
Some of Samoa National Youth Council's strategic goals are creating income-earning opportunities and employment for youth, and building the capacity of youth through innovative and responsible programs. The two-day workshop and market provided an excellent opportunity to do this.
Youth benefited from the workshop and market objectives, in that it provided an important opportunity for Savai'i youth to have an enhanced awareness and understanding social entrepreneurship, to be up-skilled in the cultural and creative industries, have strengthened engagement in small business initiatives, and for mentoring and knowledge sharing with the private sector.


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