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Democrats seek to spend billions on welfare for Afghan evacuees (but nothing on protecting the border)
Democrats are looking to spend billions in taxpayer money to ensure that newly arrived Afghans have access to welfare, housing assistance and medical services.
House Democrats recently published their plan to fund a number of federal agencies, including making sure that Afghans arriving in the U.S. on humanitarian parole are given the same public benefits typically reserved to those on refugee status.
The plan would specifically give "resettlement assistance, entitlement programs and other benefits" to the tens of thousands of Afghans on parole. This would open the scope of who would be eligible for such benefits to include those who may arrive in the U.S. after September 2022, such as spouses or children of newly arrived Afghans.
The plan will use around $21.5 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide them with medical support, screening, and other public health-related activities.
Another $1.7 billion will go to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). This will be used for grants or contracts with qualified nonprofit organizations to provide culturally and linguistically appropriate services such as wrap-around services during temporary housing and after resettlement, housing assistance, medical assistance, legal assistance, and case management assistance.
President Joe Biden said that he hopes to resettle around 95,000 Afghans across the U.S. over the next year. In a 21-day period from August to September, he already brought over 48,000 into the U.S. for resettlement.
States learning how many evacuees they are taking in
The Biden administration began notifying governors and state refugee coordinators about the number of evacuees their states will receive from the first group of nearly 37,000 arrivals.
California is projected to take in the most number of evacuees at more than 5,200 people.
Alabama and Mississippi are each set to welcome ten, while Hawaii, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming, and the District of Columbia are not expected to resettle anyone from the first group.
The administration requested funding from Congress to help resettle 65,000 Afghans in the U.S. by the end of the month, and 95,000 by September 2022. Biden also tapped the former governor of his home state in Delaware to temporarily serve as his point person on resettling evacuees in the nation.
States with a historically large number of Afghans who resettled in the U.S. in the last 20 years, such as California, Maryland, Texas and Virginia, are again welcoming disproportionate numbers of evacuees — these areas also have the most expensive housing markets in the country.
Oklahoma, on the other hand, had resettled a relatively small number of Afghans in the past and is slated to resettle 1,800 arrivals.
Many of the new evacuees requested to be resettled in the aforementioned states because they already have family and close friends living nearby. Resettlement agencies also have a large presence and capacity in these areas.
The State Department is resettling evacuees based on the advice of local affiliates of nine national resettlement agencies that the government is working with. Officials said that evacuees have been advised that other parts of the country, including those with plentiful job openings and cheaper housing, could be good places to resettle in. (Related: Botched withdrawal traps 10,000 Americans in Afghanistan: Biden admits he can't do anything about it.)
Resettlement process
The Afghan evacuees will go through a coordinated process from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where they will be vetted before being admitted. Every evacuee that goes in the U.S. also goes through health screening. Those who are 12 and older have been required to get COVID-19 vaccinations as a term for their humanitarian parolee status.
The process is not without complications.
U.S.-bound flights for evacuees who had been staying in third-world country processing sites were halted after measles cases were discovered among several Afghans who recently arrived on U.S. soil.
Evacuees are also not yet eligible for food stamps, cash assistance through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, Medicaid, or other traditional refugee services funded through the HHS.
Afghan evacuees are slated to receive $1,225 each to help with rent, furniture, food and a small amount of pocket money. Biden also called on Congress to take action and ensure that the recent arrivals have access to the same benefits as refugees.
Read more about the fall of Afghanistan and the efforts of the U.S. government to support evacuees at Collapse.news.
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Hidden on page 1,647 of Biden's huge spending bill is a plan allowing illegals to get billions of dollars
More than half of Border Patrol agents could be fired for refusing covid jabs, leaving border wide open to endless invasion
"Height of insanity": Biden is ripped to shreds after word leaks that his administration wants to pay illegal aliens $450k for breaking into the USA
As Biden builds a wall around his beach house but not the border, media fall silent
Insane: Biden regime "in talks" to pay illegal immigrant families "separated" during Trump admin $450,000 EACH in taxpayer funds
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Video: White House admits to secretly trafficking planes full of illegal children from border in middle of the night
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Illegal immigration skyrockets under Biden to third-highest level in 97 years
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott makes good on border security threat, authorizes state National Guard to make arrests of illegal aliens in historic first
Democrats' massive $3.5T "budget reconciliation" bill includes mass amnesty for illegals, which is why they are allowing border to remain wide open
Open borders policies are really just are a child trafficking operation run by Democrats
Steel Truth: Americans now doing something about the country's dire situation – Brighteon.TV
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says border situation worsening into "a firing war" as cartel members take shots at National Guard, law enforcement
Biden released more than 16,000 covid-positive illegals into U.S., says ICE
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La MLS Reserve Division 2011 fue la 5ª edición de la MLS Reserve League, torneo de reservas de la Major League Soccer en los Estados Unidos y Canadá. Empezó el 20 de marzo y concluyó el 16 de octubre. Esta competencia se vuelve a disputar después de tres años.

Cambios
 La MLS Reserve Division fue nombrado como nombre oficial "MLS Reserve League".
 Los clubes de la MLS se le permitirá a los jugadores de la academia y los jugadores a prueba en partidos de reserva.
 Con los nuevos equipos de expansión se jugó a 18 equipos y se dividieron en tres divisiones:

Posiciones

División del Este

División Central y Montaña

División del Oeste

 Ganador.
 Segundo lugar.
 Tercer lugar.

Goleadores

Referencias

Véase también
 MLS Reserve Division
 Major League Soccer
 Major League Soccer 2011

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Q: Using Tensorflow for workload distribution My code looks like:
import tensorflow as tf

N = 16, num_ckfs = 5
init_variances = tf.placeholder(tf.float64, shape=[ num_ckfs, N],name='inital_variances')

init_states = tf.placeholder(tf.float64, shape=[num_ckfs, N], name='init_states')

#some more code

predicted_state =  prior_state_expanded + kalman_gain * diff_expanded

error_covariance = sum_cov_cholesky + tf.batch_matmul(kg , kalman_gain, adj_x=True)

projected_output = tf.batch_matmul(predicted_state,input_vectors_extra, adj_y=True)

session = tf.Session()

# read data from input file

init_var = [10 for i in range(N)]
init_var_ckfs = [init_var for i in range(num_ckfs)]

init_state = [0 for i in range(N)]
init_state_ckfs = [init_state for i in range(num_ckfs)]

for timestep in range(10):

   out= session.run([projected_output, predicted_state, error_covariance], {init_variances:init_var_ckfs,     init_states:init_state_ckfs })
   init_state_ckfs = np.array([i.tolist()[0] for i in out[1]])
   init_var_ckfs = np.array([i.diagonal().tolist() for i in out[2]])

This code is for running a Cubature Kalman Filter(CKF) in a batched mode. For example:
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means that this code will run 5 CKFs in parallel. Now, what I would like to do is to distribute the workload to multiple nodes depending upon the value of num_ckfs. For example, if I pass num_ckfs as an argument to the code, and it is set to 20,000, then I would distribute the workload to 4 nodes running 5000 each.
I would like to do this using the distributed version of Tensorflow. Can someone please give me some hints on how this could be achieved? Ideally, I should have to execute the code on a single node and it should then get distributed to as many nodes as defined in
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Not a single monastery or monastic has transferred to the schismatics—Ukrainian Abbess Seraphima
Moscow, February 10, 2020
Abbess Seraphima (Shevchik). Photo: spzh.news The monastic community in Ukraine is determined to maintain unity with its Mother—the Russian Orthodox Church, according to Mother Seraphima (Shevchik), abbess of the Convent of the Archangel Michael in Odessa and head of the Ukrainian Church's Synodal Department of Church and Culture.
Speaking with the portal Monastic Bulletin while in Moscow on Church business, Mother Seraphima noted that while a small number of parishes of the canonical Ukrainian Church have willingly transferred to the schismatic "Orthodox Church of Ukraine," there has been no such interest among the thriving monastic community.
Asked if it's difficult to live in a monastery of the canonical Church in Ukraine, Mother Seraphima stated that, "We live in peace, thanking the Lord for His great mercies, because each of us, who are monastics of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, knows perfectly well that our foundation is unshakable. The Church was created By the Lord Himself. He is its Head and no one else! Not the Patriarch of Constantinople, as one of the Phanariots said."
It must also be noted that "not a single monastery of the Ukrainian Church has transferred to the new structure—the OCU," the abbess said.
"And we have not even heard that any of the monastics have expressed such a desire," she added.
"If in the parishes of Western Ukraine there were cases when some part of the parishioners expressed such a desire, then in the monasteries there was nothing like this, including in monasteries in Western Ukraine. In Volhynia, Rivne, and the Lvov region, which are probably the most problematic areas, the inhabitants unanimously support His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia and pray for their primate," Mother Seraphima noted.
"This shows that the monastic community in Ukraine is determined to maintain unity with its mother, the Russian Orthodox Church," she added.
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Yesterday, January 22, the Sixth Court of Appeal ordered the State Migration Service of Ukraine in the Volyn Oblast to return Ukrainian citizenship to His Grace Bishop Gideon (Kharon) of Makarov, the abbot of the Tithes Monastery in Kiev. Metropolitan Onuphry: Fear not! We are in the Church created by Christ Metropolitan Onuphry: Fear not! We are in the Church created by Christ
"Do not be afraid, for we live in the true faith, in the Church founded by Christ, not by men. As long as the words of the preaching of the Gospel continue to sound forth from the pulpit of our churches, as long as our lives are in accordance with the commandments of God, our Church will be Christ's," His Beatitude exhorted.
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Would you please send Mother Seraphima my prayers and highest regards and beg her prayers for my family and myself?
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Hepatitis C virus uniquely requires the liver specific microRNA-122 for replication,
By Ryan Stephens in Main February 12, 2018
Hepatitis C virus uniquely requires the liver specific microRNA-122 for replication, yet global effects on endogenous miRNA targets during infection are unexplored. and hepatocellular carcinoma (Yamane et al., 2013). The long ORF of the ~9.6kb HCV genome encodes a polyprotein processed into ten proteins and is flanked by critical structured untranslated regions (UTRs). Unique to this virus is a dependence on the liver specific microRNA-122 (miR-122) (Jopling et al., 2005). Whereas miRNAs typically interact with the 3UTRs of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) to promote mRNA destabilization and/or translational repression (Bartel, 2009), the binding of miR-122 to two binding sites (seed site S1 and S2) in the 5UTR of HCV genomic RNA is critical for viral replication (Jopling et al., 2008; Machlin et al., 2011) by moderately stimulating viral protein translation (Henke et al., 2008) and, in concert with Argonaute (Ago), by stabilizing and protecting the uncapped HCV RNA genome from degradation (Li et al., 2013b; Sedano and Sarnow, 2014; Shimakami et al., 2012). As the predominant miRNA in the liver, miR-122 has multiple roles to regulate lipid metabolism (Esau et al., 2006), iron homeostasis (Castoldi et al., 2011), and circadian rhythms (Gatfield et al., 2009). MiR-122 knockout studies have revealed potent anti-inflammatory and anti-tumorigenic functions (Hsu et al., 2012; Tsai et al., 2012). Antagonizing miR-122 as an HCV therapeutic is a novel strategy (Lanford et al., 2010) with the first-in-class inhibitor, miravirsen/SPC3649, currently in phase II clinical studies (Janssen et al., 2013). Studies of miRNA action during virus infections have been enhanced with the advent of high-throughput methods to elucidate genome-wide miRNA:mRNA interaction networks biochemically. Such methods (Chi et al., 2009; Hafner et al., 2010), broadly relying on cross-linking and immunoprecipitation (CLIP) of RNA bound to protein, have been applied to latent Kaposis sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) GNF 5837 supplier (Haecker et al., 2012) and Epstein Barr virus (EBV) infections to uncover miRNA regulatory networks involved in promoting viral latency (Skalsky et al., 2012) and regulating cellular apoptosis (Riley et al., 2012). In the current study, we elucidated global miRNA:target interaction maps during HCV infection on host and viral RNA. We observed Ago engagement at the HCV 5UTR miR-122 sites, describe replication-dependent argonaute binding throughout viral genomic RNA, and provide evidence of miR-122 binding on an HCV resistant to miR-122 antagonism. On the host transcriptome, our results revealed GNF 5837 supplier globally reduced Ago binding and specific de-repression of miR-122 targets upon virus infection. This surprising systems-level observation suggests that HCV RNA functionally sequesters miR-122, and exhibits a miRNA sponge effect analogous to roles proposed for competing endogenous RNAs (ceRNA) (Salmena et al., 2011). Taken together, our results establish an RNA virus as a specific and indirect regulator of miRNA activity in the cell. Results Argonaute HiTS-CLIP of HCV infected Rabbit Polyclonal to MTLR cells To study miRNA interactions during HCV infection, we either electroporated RNA or infected Huh-7.5 hepatoma cells with J6/JFH1-Clone2 HCV and after 48C72 hrs, when most cells were infected, performed Ago CLIP and RNA-seq measurements (Figure S1ACC). Ago-CLIP was performed using linker ligation as previously described (Figure S1DCF) (Moore et al., 2014). Alignment statistics for CLIP datasets presented in this paper are summarized in Tables S2CS5. Due to known linker ligation biases in the preparation of small RNA libraries (Zhuang et al., 2012), we used polyG tailing (adapted from (Ingolia et al., 2009)) to determine miRNA abundance profiles (Figure S1G), and found that miR-122 at ~4.9% is the seventh most abundant miRNA (Figure S1H and Table S1). This correlated with previous data on miR-122 abundance in these cells (Figure S1ICJ). No systematic bias from linker ligation was observed on mRNA targets due to the relative heterogeneity of RNAseA cleavage in creating mRNA Ago footprints (Figure S1KCL). For subsequent analysis on mRNA-CLIP clusters, we focused on searching the top 50 seed families derived from poly-G CLIP studies, which constituted over 97% of miRNA identified in Huh-7.5 cells. An Ago binding map of HCV RNA confirms extensive miR-122 engagement To define a small RNA interaction map on HCV and human mRNA, CLIP reads were GNF 5837 supplier mapped onto the HCV and human genomes. Among the 1C2% of CLIP reads mapping to HCV, Ago binding sites were identified by clustering overlapping reads and identifying statistically significant peaks above a uniformly distributed GNF 5837 supplier background (Darnell et al., 2011; Licatalosi et al., 2012). We observed major peaks in the 5UTR, E1, E2, NS5A and NS5B regions of the genome (Figure 1A, top panel). 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Warren — Musings —05.29.2020 07:41 AM
Things I can do because I am white
[From Michael Maynard.]
I have privilege as a white person because I can do all of these things without thinking twice about it.
I can go birding (#ChristianCooper).
I can go jogging (#AmaudArbery).
I can relax in the comfort of my own home (#BothamJean and #AtatianaJefferson).
I can ask for help after being in a car crash (#JonathanFerrell and #RenishaMcBride).
I can have a cellphone (#StephonClark).
I can leave a party to get to safety (#JordanEdwards).
I can play loud music (#JordanDavis).
I can sell CD's (#AltonSterling).
I can sleep (#AiyanaJones)
I can walk from the corner store (#MikeBrown).
I can play cops and robbers (#TamirRice).
I can go to church (#Charleston9).
I can walk home with Skittles (#TrayvonMartin).
I can hold a hair brush while leaving my own bachelor party (#SeanBell).
I can party on New Years (#OscarGrant).
I can get a normal traffic ticket (#SandraBland).
I can lawfully carry a weapon (#PhilandoCastile).
I can break down on a public road with car problems (#CoreyJones).
I can shop at Walmart (#JohnCrawford) .
I can have a disabled vehicle (#TerrenceCrutcher).
I can read a book in my own car (#KeithScott).
I can be a 10yr old walking with our grandfather (#CliffordGlover).
I can decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese).
I can ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans).
I can cash a check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood).
I can take out my wallet (#AmadouDiallo).
I can run (#WalterScott).
I can breathe (#EricGarner).
I can live (#FreddieGray)
I CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING MURDERED. (#GeorgeFloyd)
Educate yourself.
You can also join a gang of other white guys, put on hawaiian shirts, heavily arm yourselves, storm a legislature, threaten elected officials and not be bothered.
We need to do a Canadian version, but concerning our historically poor treatment of Indigenous Canadians.
Not that I intend to denigrate or downplay what is happening south of our border.
Steve T says:
I am watching with interest how wrapped up we Canadians are getting in this U.S. story.
It is, of course, tragic evidence of an underlying problem that exists in many places. However, there are equally problematic injustices here in Canada that have resulted in deaths.
Specifically, our revolving-door justice system that allows convicted murderers and major felons to be released after very short stints in jail, or to avoid jail time altogether for various flaky reasons. Here in Manitoba, there have been at least two examples within the past year where these criminals have been released and killed someone else in a very short time thereafter.
Why are these domestic injustices not as galvanizing as those occurring south of the border?
Equally problematic? Not even close.
Ronald O'Dowd says:
Let's get down to brass tacks: are these cops allegedly an accurate reflection of the undercurrents of their own society? You bet they are. Racism in 2020 has gone from an art to a perfected science. And most people on juries don't fucking care.
Greatest country on the face of the Earth? Not even remotely.
Fred from BC says:
I don't care for this type of race-baiting. It's not helpful, at all.
(especially if you're going to include known thugs like Brown and Martin in there; the news media at first tried to portray them both as gentle souls and innocent victims, remember? But then the real truth came out…)
Neither is shooting first and asking questions later — for all the others listed, with Brown and Martin excepted if the so-called real truth is entirely accurate, which it may or may not be.
Cops who act like that, with their training, are the ultimate cowards in society. And juries who pat them on the back are even worse.
"Neither is shooting first and asking questions later "
Ironically, it is the Democrats and Liberals who are most responsible for that. First because these shootings almost always occur in Democrat-run and controlled cities, where Democrats hire and train their own police force. Remember when being a police officer was a dangerous job and the people who chose it as a career were willing to put their lives on the line to protect the public? Well, that has now been changed to doing everything possible to protect the lives of the police even if it puts the public at risk. They are TRAINED to shoot to kill if anyone makes a move that could be considered the least bit suspicious (like reaching into a pocket, for example). The left wing did this to themselves with their hearts-and-flowers approach to crime and criminals, whom they consider to be "victims" of society or some such tripe. Right-wingers consider the people who are being robbed, beaten or murdered to be the *real* victims.
"for all the others listed, with Brown and Martin excepted if the so-called real truth is entirely accurate, which it may or may not be."
Yeah, I didn't check any others once I saw Brown and Martin in the list.
Agreed, but like I said above…that's *how* they are trained, and those are the people who trained them who are now sitting in judgment of them. I know there are always bad apples who slip through the cracks despite the extensive testing and screening during the recruitment process, but for the most part the police are not thugs and cowards.
For the record, twice as many whites are killed by American police as blacks, three times more blacks are killed by black officers than whites, and police officers in general are 18.5 times more likely to be shot by blacks than they are to shoot a black person.
I especially appreciate your last paragraph as it adds considerable perspective, but I reject both the standard left and right boilerplate as totally incorrect. In other words, all cops are bad, corrupt, gun-happy, etc. (many on the Left) and it's only a few bad apples across various police departments (many on the Right).
In fact, for the problem to be THIS BAD, it logically flows that there are a hell of a lot improperly trained or psychologically flawed cops out there but they don't represent the majority of police officers.
As for party labelling training, that's solely a political argument. Is it not the chiefs' responsibility to intervene with mayors and councils to make sure that police training is all that it can be to protect lives of all residents??? Surely, chiefs are across the board impeccably qualified to do that?
I'm going to go with improper training due to rampant Political Correctness, and I have to question, with all due respect, just how bad the problem really is given the hundreds of thousands ( if not millions ) of police interactions with black citizens every year.
"Is it not the chiefs' responsibility to intervene with mayors and councils to make sure that police training is all that it can be to protect lives of all residents???"
You'd think that, right? And in a perfect world, you'd be correct.
The reality though is that the police chiefs are politicians first and police officers second: they serve solely at the pleasure of their respective mayors, and consequently do exactly what they are told.
And I imagine some are also pension coasters.
Typical right wing apologist tactics. Find a rare exception (if in fact true) and rant about it, discounting the vast majority of incidents.
Fred:
If we are carefully scrutinizing the list to pick out the exception, then are we paying attention to the majority?
The African-American community is hurting.
And how can they be otherwise when a man's life is taken from him because of the mere suspicion of a $20 forgery?
Over the weekend Christianity Today published a beautiful tribute to George Floyd, referencing the hardships he faced and overcame early in his life and outlining his involvement and contributions to the Christian peacemaker movement. The Atlanta-Journal Constitution has also published a story sharing the ups and downs he faced throughout his life.
He was not a thug. He did not deserve to die. He deserved to be treated with the same dignity and respect as every other human being.
If we're going back so many years to make the list, are we acknowledging reality, or merely exploiting rare tragedies for political gain? Does anyone stop to think about the sheer number of police interactions with black people that must occur *every day* in a country of 335+ million people? If the police are as racist as many would have you believe, why aren't we reading about these incidents *every day*, then?
As for George Floyd, the media seem to be doing their usual fine job of downplaying the facts in order to make for a more sensational story. This guy was a 6'7″, 200+ pounds bar bouncer who reportedly WORKED WITH the guy who killed him. They therefore knew each other both personally and professionally…who says this wasn't a personal grudge gone wrong? He also was struggling, laying down and refusing to get into the police car after his arrest for passing counterfeit money. Oh, and the club that they both worked at is rumored to be a front for laundering money, too. None of this condones or excuses his death, but why are so many pertinent details being left out by the news media?
Let's not forget that the "gentle giant" Michael Brown was first reported to have been shot in the back while running away with his hands in the air, when in fact he was actually leaning through the open window of a police car *punching an officer in the face* repeatedly when he was shot.
I believe NOTHING that the news media reports anymore until I have confirmed it through multiple sources. I just can't.
Agreed. The question is, WHY was he killed? Simple racism doesn't make sense here, sorry.
Fred wrote: "If the police are as racist as many would have you believe, why aren't we reading about these incidents *every day*, then?"
Because, sadly, this is much more "normal" that many of us would like to admit. I suspect the reason Floyd's death has captured people's imagination is due to a unique set of social circumstances:
1 – The video seem so obvious that even other police felt compelled to denounce publicly the actions of the police recorded. Typically, the police response will be: "The incident is under investigation. Let's wait and see what facts emerge/ what the investigation concludes."
2 – The issue of police-on-black violence was already in the general consciousness because of the shooting of Mr Arbery by a retired police officer in Georgia while jogging.
3 – Coronavirus social isolation means a lot more people had a lot more time to pause and reflect upon Mr Floyd's killing.
4 – Immediately following Mr Floyd's killing, a popular African-American journalist with an internationally renown cable news network, is arrested on air for carrying out his journalistic duties, while carrying out his journalistic duties, despite having identified himself and his press crendentials to police, and having been more than polite and accomodating to the arresting officers. His white colleague is not arrested and is free to continue reporting.
5 – Several other incidents of police-on-civilian violence are videotaped or reported. Victims include a young child, the elderly, three black officials elected to higher office (congressional representative, state representative, state senator), journalists while carrying out their duties, average people relaxing on their front porch (This last incident, caught on tape, drew a very angry response from one America's most respected recently retired generals who had overseen peacemaking operations in Bosnia.)
6 – As this controvery is erupting, the president, during an election year, publishes a tweet quoting the justification of a notorious segregationist police chief from the 1960's as to why the latter used violence to crack down on the Civil Rights movement.
The "perfect storm" of the above-mentioned circumstances and incidents is why I believe this issue has suddently exploded in the popular conscience.
Now as to why we are not reading about these incidents *every day*, here is where a bit more reading has shocked me, as well as many other conservatives and Republicans with whom I associate regularly. *JUST BECAUSE I DON'T READ ABOUT IT EVERY DAY DOES NOT MEAN IT IS NOT HAPPENING EVERY DAY.*
Al Jazeera, who along with the British dailies has provided some of the more comprehensive and non-partisan coverage of this issue (I find them much more reliable than CNN or Fox News) has published the following interactive map reporting where African-Americans have died at the hands of law enforcement over the past five years:
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2020/05/mapping-police-killings-black-americans-200531105741757.html
Thanks, Mark.
Action film star, American patriot, and former Republican governor Arnold Schwazenegger has also written a very thoughtful reflection on Mr Floyd's death and America's reaction to it, that I highly recommend. It was published this week by The Atlantic Magazine:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/arnold-schwarzenegger-america-needs-do-better/612442/?fbclid=IwAR0opraon6e2zAO6pxX8oplf7Lt_gDgvKDDZCiIV2fJzuHrbx3LGdFn9vI8
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For the Medieval fair in Leksand I came up with a quick and totally inaccurate wulsthaube, and for Tuna Ting I wanted something a lot better. I ordered some fine linen and started working on it.
My main source was the great tutorial by Katafalk on how she made her wulsthaube. There are some differences though. One is that instead of wool I used poly batting for the wulst itself. I also made my wulsthaube while it was on my headform, and when it was time for me to fit it to my head, with my hair, it was too small so I had to add an extra band to the haube.
I was a bit worried that my wulsthaube wasn't as neat and even as Katafalk's, but after having looked around for photos of other people's wulsthauben I decided that it was god enough. While working on it, and being frustrated that it didn't fit I also started thinking about if I should skip it and ask if I could just use my mother's headwear for her folk costume.
My mother, brother-in-law and me at Midsummer.
My mother is wearing the costume from Vingåker, and I think it's pretty obvious that the headwear is a survivor from the 16th Century. The shape was formalized in 1674 when it was seen as old fashioned but it was decided that there were to be no changes to the costume. My mother's headwear is built up from wool covered straw and a lot more expensive than my linen.
Still I ended up really satisfied with my wulsthaube.
On top of the wulsthaube you add a veil. Katafalk calls this her "steuchlein" while Genoveva at http://germanrenaissance.net/ calls the whole headwear, including the wulsthaube and veil, a "steuchlein" and calls the veil a "schleier". I haven't taken the time to get fully ino the terminology but if you are searching the web for more information it can be a good thing to be aware of the different terms.
For my veil I didn't use the Katafalk "Steuchlein" pattern, but instead I started out with a piece of 100x150 cm of very fine linen. That was too bulky though when I tried to wrap it around the wulsthaube so I cut it in half and ended up with a veil that was 50x150 cm. As a bonus I now have two veils, if I just hem the other half of the fabric.
In order to find out how to wear the veil I pretty much followed this video tutorial.
I put the veil on assymetrically.
Then I twisted the rest of the veil and wrapped it round the head, and fastened it with a pin.
I also made a hat to wear on top of it all.
I followed the tutorial from Handcrafted history, but I used millinery wire to form the shape, and it was too weak. It ended up smaller than I had hoped, and it was quite flimsy and the brim buckled. I also had some serious problems keeping it on my head. I'm thinking that I need to pin it to the wulsthaube and not just rely on the ribbons that I had fastened to it and tied around the wulsthaube.
I wore the wulsthaube and veil the whole weekend and I loved it. I have grown up hearing how uncomfortable my mother's folk costume headwear is, and I was worried that this would be the same. I had also ended the Leksand medieval fair with a big headache.It was totally the opposite. Coming from 18th Century costumes it was so comfortable to just put the wulsthaube on and wrap the veil around it, I could even do it without a mirror. With my hair in braids and a wulstaube and veil made of fine linen my head stayed really cool. Saturday was a really hot day, but I had no hair in the neck, and in fact the only problem was that I ended up with a sunburn in my neck and top of the back. I need to make a shift with a higher collar until next summer.
I'm now so inspired to really get into 16th Century sewing, but that will have to wait until next year. Now it's time for me to turn my attention to some cosplay projects for NärCon, end of July, and Stockholm Comic-Con in September.


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Talking about diversity and representations of blackness can be frought terrain, even now when we are seeing so many more Black men and women in key roles in front of, and behind, the camera.
I thought about this immediately when I read Michael B. Jordan's recent GQ article. I knew immediately after reading it that it would cause a stir. And not just because of the ongoing internet outrage phenomenon – though that's certainly a part of it – but because most of us have insufficient language for describing the desire for fuller representations of blackness in art and entertainment.
Particularly when we fall for the trap that white supremacy presents us:
"I want to be part of that movement that blurs the line between white and black," and tells me this: "I told my team after I finished Chronicle [the successful low-budget sci-fi movie that first partnered him with Fantastic Four director Josh Trank] that I only want to go out for roles that were written for white characters. Me playing the role will make it what it is."
…Perhaps a more accurate way of putting it is that he would like the same breadth of opportunities as the white actors he takes as career models. The two he has mentioned most often are Leonardo DiCaprio and Ryan Gosling. "They made smart choices," he says. "They played people, not being 'a white actor playing a person,' them playing a person. When I play a person or profession, it's black this, black that. It's obvious that I'm black, but why do I have to be labeled as that?" And the best way to guarantee himself a better path, he says, is to be involved when the material is conceived: "Instead of taking something conceptually written for a black guy, I want the stuff that was written for a guy." (emphasis added)
The emphasis I've added really gets to the central problem with Jordan's point of view – it is rooted in the false notion that white people get to play "raceless" roles.
Posted on September 28th, 2015 - Filed under Culture,Film
Tags :: black actor, Black actress, black characters, black culture, black history, black representation, blackness, Constance Wu, ethnic whiteness, Leonardo DiCaprio, Michael B. Jordan, Ryan Gosling, whiteness
I don't have a long preamble for this. This list is just my way of trying to pull together a lot of disparate pop culture moments that struck me in some profound way during the year. I think the more you engage with pop culture the more it can feel like you're always having the same conversations, with the same people, in the same way. So when something disrupts that monotony, frustrates the dominant ways we think and talk about our relationship to one another, I think it's important.
Here are the 13 moments this year that made me sit up and look at the world just a little bit differently.
Posted on December 31st, 2013 - Filed under Best of 2013,Culture,Film,Music,Television
Tags :: 12 Years A Slave, Arrow, Baggage Claim, Beyonce, Breeze, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Doris, Earl Sweatshirt, Fruitvale Station, Funkmaster Flex, GQ, Hot 97, Huck, Jenifer Lewis, Kickstarter, Lost Girl, Lupita Nyong'o, Man of Steel, Mister Cee, Oscar Grant, Ryan Coogler, Scandal, Spike Lee, The Best Man Holiday, The Originals, The Vampire Diaries, Veronica Mars
The Cruel Racism of the Real World
Quvenzhané Wallis was the butt of a deeply sexist, racist inappropriate joke by whoever is tweeting for The Onion last night (which I will not link to or describe because it's ugly).
And what upsets me so much about it is that this beautiful little nine-year-old black girl had to get a lesson in just what it means to be a black girl in a white supremacist patriarchal country at the exact time that she's being honored for her artistry. In fact "upsets" is too bland a word for what I feel. It's anger. A profound sadness.
But the sad, maddening truth of this moment is that it is not surprising. Black people, girls and women especially, are never safe from the random omnipotence of anti-black sentiment that infects this nation, but I had hoped that maybe this poised, thoughtful, remarkably self-possessed beautiful little girl would have this one night.
But she didn't. The Onion tweeter took that from her. Violently. Cruelly. Unconsciously, it seems.
Welcome to America.
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Posted on February 25th, 2013 - Filed under Culture,Current Affairs,Film
Tags :: Oscars, patriarchy, Quvenzhané Wallis, racism, sexism, The Onion, white supremacist capitalist patriarchy
Telling Our Own Stories, Black People
Khalil Kain, late of the brilliant television show Girlfriends, has a fascinating interview on Ebony.com promoting his new role in the classic 1970s Negro Ensemble Company play, The Great MacDaddy.
I was struck most by this exchange:
EBONY: How do you feel about Black theater and Black film right now? Do you feel like it's growing?
KK: What African-American film? What African-American theater? I just watched Streetcar Named Desire on Broadway and Daphne Rubin-Vega, Nicole Ari Parker, Wood Harris, these are people that I know personally, ripped it, it was all good. I love the production, but it's still Tennessee Williams. It's still not ours. So now, as opposed to Blackface, it's Black folks up there doing White work. And I love the opportunity to kind of do a classic piece like that, but at the same time there is a whole bunch of stuff that we already have. Can we do some of that? Paul Carter Harrison is the man. He's one of those old heads that we have to tap into, because he has so much knowledge. That's one of the reasons I took the job; the chance to sit next to the man and get up in his head for a little bit and see what I can take away. That's how it use to go down. We use to learn from our elders, and we don't do that anymore. I think it's a huge mistake.
EBONY: Why do you think everybody should go see The Great MacDaddy?
KK: The play is hugely relevant and its part of African-American history. I don't want to even get into culture because, really, what is our culture as African-Americans? This young man I met in the street, probably in his late 20s, asked me, "So you're doing plays? Why you doing plays?" And I'm like, "You need to come check it out." He's like, "Why would I go?" And I was like, "To get some culture up in you! What does culture mean to you?" He was like, "Culture is annoying." I was like, "Wow, how do you define where you come from?" He was like, "I know who I am." I didn't want to ask. I was just like, "alright bro." That's where we're at now.
I think what Kain is getting at here is really quite remarkable because I don't feel like we hear enough Black artists articulating forthrightly – Paul Carter Harrison is the man – that to do our own shit is valuable in and of itself. And that we lose something when we don't.
Posted on December 4th, 2012 - Filed under Culture,Film,Television
Tags :: African-American culture, African-American film, African-American history, African-American plays, African-American theater, black culture, black history, black plays, Broadway, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Girlfriends, Khalil Kain, Nelson George, Nicole Ari Parker, Paul Carter Harrison, Tennessee Williams, Wood Harris
Lupe Fiasco and the Radical Messiness of Black Male Feeling
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I wonder if people – black people especially – really appreciate how beautiful it is to live at a time when black men are allowing themselves to feel so openly, to be emotional in public.
Lupe Fiasco articulates something that black men have been saying for a long time: that black men are dying, killing themselves and each other, that we live in a society where black male life is disposable. And he's eloquent on the substance of what you see in this clip.
But what is truly remarkable is that he lets himself feel something more than just frustration and anger at the plight of black men. This is a display of profound, deep sadness. It's love. Pure. Messy.
It takes Lupe Fiasco a minute to find the words. Those precious, awkward moments before he starts to find the words are wonderous, awe-inspiring, and deeply affecting.
And yet, when I watched this I was uncomfortable because I still don't really know how to respond. This is not my vernacular. My reference is the 90s' cold, hard grip on "keepin it real," even as I never felt fully a part of that. My language is 2pac's righteous indignation and anger, even it left me in so many ways illiterate.
I struggle with deep emotion. Still.
Artists like Drake, J. Cole, Frank Ocean, Kanye West and others are playing in space that is quite new. And while I think they often confuse narcissism for reflection and miss the mark in communicating what they are genuinely feeling, I appreciate so very much that the range of emotion that black men can feel publicly – and be successful and lauded – is so much broader now than it has been in the past.
Millennials have so many more colors to play with than previous generations allowed themselves. We should celebrate that.
Posted on July 28th, 2012 - Filed under Culture,Music,Self-reflection
Tags :: 2pac, 90s hip hop, black men, crying, Drake, emotional, emotions, feelings, Frank Ocean, J. Cole, Kanye West, keepin it real, Lupe Fiasco, millennials, MTV, Sway, Tupac Shakur


The two BLESS designers have been working together on transdisciplinary projects since 1997. Their products are a fusion of fashion and art, design and architecture, business and social practice. They see design as a way of life: "What we do results from the situation we live in." The products are richly detailed, they collage different materials, patterns and colours, purposes and themes. BLESS' goal is to create light-hearted, homely and inspiring situations in the form of objects, clothing and interior design.
The design duo has addressed the topic of the everyday workplace in a number of projects. For the participatory installation BLESS N° 56 Worker's Delight, the Vitra Design Museum Gallery is turned into an experimental workplace. The objects and pieces of furniture created for this project provide us with unexpected ways to move while completing everyday office chores and to restructure our days spent in front of the screen.
BLESS' workdays, like those of a majority of the population, are dominated by deskwork – seated and in front of a screen. In 2015, for example, more than 50 percent of all jobholders in Germany were employed in the service sector as office workers.
The industrial revolution at the beginning of the twentieth century and later the shift to a knowledge-based economy beginning in the 1960s brought about a dramatic increase in office-based work. This, in turn, sparked a constant innovation drive in the areas of new technologies and furniture in an attempt to increase productivity along with improving workers' health and well-being. Using manuals, advice booklets, and new workspace norms, as well as technoid office furniture and appliances, an ergonomic workplace is created. Resulting from this are new parameters and behavioural patterns that would not exist naturally and that create completely new needs for the office worker to adapt to.
As early as 1838, the French writer Honoré de Balzac described the office as a 'clerk's shell'. Office worker and office space enter into a union in which the space most often dominates the person, either in the ecotope of the cubicle or in freely organised open-plan offices with communication islands, rest areas, and non-territorial work stations, as seen, for example, in the idealised office worlds of the IT and high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. In most cases, however, the office worker is locked in place at his desk, free-willed but at the same time trained.
BLESS is not concerned with optimising or improving productivity – the driving force at the heart of the history of office ergonomics. The project Worker's Delight deconstructs these mechanisms. Punching a message at the 'Workoutcomputer', our work effort cannot be measured by any norm. In an unaccustomedly physical way, we are made aware of the usual, regulated way in which we slouch in front of our screens, with an ergonomically calculated and DIN-normed resolution and refresh rate, working over several hours without functional failure of our bodies to master the visual task set before us (cf. Schmidt, Die Ordnung des Büros, 2008).
The 'Arbeitssportgeräte' by BLESS articulate their bewilderment at the prevalent aesthetics of ergonomic furniture and home exercise equipment, which appear as alien objects in the home or office. Through familiar materials normally used in living spaces, they overcome this discrepancy. The bemusing and often humorous 'equipment' that results proves how liberating it can be take a more light-hearted and relaxed approach to one's own performance.
Worker's Delight embodies BLESS' search for an everyday rhythm of concentration and relaxation, in which bodily exertion, productivity and leisure can be experienced and responsibly self-regulated in our normal interaction with our designed environment – and without the need for fitness apps or exercise regimens.
Worker's Delight is a promising place; it emanates a warm atmosphere and inspires us to work in concentration, changing our body posture in between. BLESS thus develops an exceptional perspective on office work, which they juxtapose with the supposedly free and flexible work environment of today to fuel the debate on aspects such as an internalised strive for increased efficiency in employees or the often derided workplace health promotion.
Visitors are invited to use any of the installations in the exhibition space. For some of the objects, user instructions can be found on the exhibits' labels.


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Morgan appears and reveals himself as Ares. He tells Diana that although he has subtly given humans ideas and inspirations, using Ludendorff and Maru as pawns in the process, it is ultimately their decision to resort to violence as they are inherently corrupt. When Diana attempts to kill Ares with the "Godkiller" sword, he destroys it, then reveals to Diana that she herself is the "Godkiller", as the daughter of Zeus and Hippolyta. He fails to persuade Diana to help him destroy mankind in order to restore paradise on Earth. While the two battle, Steve's team destroys Maru's laboratory. Steve hijacks and pilots the bomber carrying the poison to a safe altitude and detonates it, sacrificing himself. Ares attempts to direct Diana's rage and grief at Steve's death by convincing her to kill Maru, but the memories of her experiences with Steve cause her to realize that humans have good within them. She spares Maru and redirects Ares's lightning into him, killing him for good. Later, the team celebrates the end of the war. In the present day, Diana sends an email to Bruce Wayne thanking him for the photographic plate of her and Steve and continues to fight and give on the world's behalf, understanding that only love can truly save the world.
After the 2011 relaunch, Diana gained new powers. These new abilities, which included superhuman speed, durability, immortality, accelerated healing, and even flight came in addition to her previous attributed Olympian strength. She is now considered to be stronger than Hercules. In addition to her weaponry, Diana's bracelets can now create an thunderous explosion when she clashes them together. These new abilities are attributed to being the daughter of Hippolyta and Zeus. Her powers are now considered nearly unmeasurable if she goes without her Bracelets of Submission, which keep her powers in check. She uses these powers in battle against the goddess Artemis and quickly renders her unconscious with ease with a series of carefully positioned counterattacks. While using her godly strength, her outfit and accoutrements lit up and her eyes glowed like her father's.[184][188][better source needed][189]
"Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women' s strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman."
She also had an array of mental and psychic abilities, as corresponding to Marston's interest in parapsychology and metaphysics. Such an array included ESP, astral projection, telepathy (with or without the Mental Radio), mental control over the electricity in her body, the Amazonian ability to turn brain energy into muscle power, etc.[172] Wonder Woman first became immune to electric shocks after having her spirit stripped from her atoms by Dr. Psycho's Electro Atomizer; it was also discovered that she was unable to send a mental radio message without her body.[173]


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Political Cartooning Is Changing. You Just Have to Know Where to Look
The great tradition of political cartooning needs to adapt to the digital age if it is to compete against internet memes and the rapid circulation of information. In a notoriously exclusive and often reactionary industry, many of these changes are long overdue. Words by Ravi Ghosh
Patrick Blower, On Your Marks, originally printed in The Daily Telegraph
In a recent edition of the Spectator, resident cartoonist Nick Newman penned a cri de cœur for his profession, asking "Why does no one want to be a cartoonist any more?" The short essay addressed what he sees as the dwindling pool of new talent within cartooning—especially that of the political variety, traditionally found in Anglo-American magazines and newspapers. His reasons for this downward turn were, largely, self-evident: opportunities have narrowed; pay rates are static; digitalisation and social media are more lucrative platforms for content-sharing.
Newman also chose to include a cheap shot towards the young cartoonists to whom he was ostensibly attempting to appeal, writing that a fear of failure is deterring emerging artists from considering the profession. "Rejection is a way of life for even seasoned cartoonists," he writes, "and today's snowflakes can't cope with it." Newman then grudgingly recounts the story of a young hopeful giving up cartooning after being twice rejected from the Spectator. Perhaps he (in cartooning, it nearly always is a "he") couldn't find an encouraging mentor to nurture his aspirations.
"Cartooning has remained relatively unresponsive to the multiple revolutions within digital content, news and current affairs commentary"
Rather than take aim at the young, Newman might have considered why the tradition of political cartooning is so uniquely unsuited to the times we currently live in. With its reliance on caricature, accentuation and often narrow political subject matter, the form has remained relatively unresponsive to the multiple revolutions within digital content, news and current affairs commentary. Instead it clutches to tropes that have remained relatively unchanged for hundreds of years, and does little to demystify or widen the inner circles of what is a notoriously exclusive and non-diverse industry.
Newman longingly cites the twentieth-century giants of the craft: David Low, Sidney Strube and Percy Fearon. But if one is to look not backwards but forwards, it is possible to find the quality and creativity that is often mourned by traditionalists does exist within cartooning. While these mainly deviate from the mourned artistic and circulation models of the past, they are of no less value.
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Like any other art form, political cartooning is subject to public taste, and in the face of changing times, it has the choice to either evolve or die. But unlike most other art forms, it is in the unenviable position of having risen to prominence via a now particularly unstable medium: print media. The coronavirus pandemic—which has caused several UK newspapers to record print sale drops of nearly 40 percent—has done little to help decades-long downward trends in circulation. It's a similar story for magazines and periodicals, particularly older publications that enjoyed healthy print readerships throughout the twentieth century—though Private Eye, a key player in the UK's cartooning landscape, is a steady and resilient outlier.
If the components of print newspapers are to be considered in terms of their suitability for digitalisation, cartoons rank somewhere close to the bottom. They may have the ability to capture a singular moment more effectively than text, but they score lowly in terms of interactive potential. Users are not interested in debating them in comment sections, and although they are often shared on social media (George Osborne, former Conservative Chancellor and editor-in-chief of the Evening Standard, is fond of his paper's often limp efforts), they rarely go viral or convert a casual browser into a subscriber.
Contrast this with digital news stories, which are all now updated several times a day; live-blogs which are the highest trafficking items on many websites; and multimedia storytelling like video and podcasting—now heavily financed to reach new readers, sometimes at the expense of original photography and illustration. Often buried in the opinion pages alongside other digitally unfriendly formats—editorials, diary and notebook columns—cartoons are uniquely inflexible, despite their symbolic impact and biting political partiality.
Ella Baron, Face Mask, originally printed in TLS
An update, if not an overhaul, of the fundamental artistic elements of cartooning could be a way to achieve the necessary cut-through to new audiences. Ella Baron, an artist at the TLS, brings a complexity to the form which is rarely seen within the broadsheet tradition. Her work often contains mystical, ethereal elements which allow her to tackle more than one subject simultaneously, and she avoids outright metaphor in favour of detail and universality. Balancing colour and black and white together, she also pairs lengthy captions or quotations to her images, breaking the golden rule of textual brevity which so defined twentieth-century cartooning. One image shows a Black woman seated in a full library, the sun beaming through a rooftop window onto her knee as she writes; a Toni Morrison quotation is pasted in capitals to her right: "I stood at the border, stood at the edge and claimed it as central…and let the rest of the world move over to where I was." The work empowers, rather than diminishes, its subject.
"Artists are now working across a variety of media to supplement cartooning work, another reason for the supposed lack of talent in the pipelines"
Artists are also now working across a variety of media to supplement cartooning work, another reason for the supposed lack of talent in the pipelines. Henny Beaumont, whose cartoons have appeared in the Guardian and Canary, works as an illustrator, writer and graphic novelist alongside political cartooning. The age of the cartoonist on a seemingly interminable newspaper contract is well and truly over—artists are now increasingly monetising their own work through the internet and as freelancers.
One such artist is Alex Norris, a young cartoonist who uses Instagram to self-publish, and who Newman would likely consider to be a "snowflake," for his short-lived foray into more traditional forms of cartooning. Interviewed on the BBC's Newsnight for a feature on Newman's essay, Norris articulated what many emerging artists are thinking: "There's a lot more energy and excitement around a job on the internet," he explained, citing the intimidating "old guard" of newspaper cartooning as a dissuading factor—a difficult circle to break into, even if it were a desirable place to be.
Patrick Blower, Coronavirus After Warhol, originally printed in The Daily Telegraph
Norris was no doubt referring to a cartooning establishment which is notoriously male and white-dominated. The Guardian cartoonist Martin Rowson and several others boycotted the 2018 Political Cartoon of the Year Awards in opposition to the composition and sneering culture of the industry. In response to criticisms over a lack of diversity in the profession following the event, the organiser Tim Benson claimed that the current roster of long-serving male cartoonists "don't employ themselves," and that "women seem to be genuinely disinterested in political cartooning…and those who are, clearly do not have the talent or the temperament to compete with those on national newspapers."
"Memes are able to intersect and move through various iterations for as long as they can speak to a particular phenomenon or group of people"
Commenting on Yvette Cooper's speech on the night, Benson said that the Labour MP "ruined it at the end by virtue signalling on the subject of there not being enough female political cartoonists employed in the national press." In a meandering blogpost on the state of cartooning, which addressed Mark Knight 2019's image of tennis players Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka—an image widely accused of drawing on racist stereotypes—Benson bemoaned the supposed censorship of cartoonists wishing to depict non-white ethics groups, a school of thought that has grown awkwardly since the Charlie Hebdo cartoon and shooting in 2015: "If black people, or any other ethnic group, have to be treated differently from white people, is that not, in itself, a form of inverted racism?" he asked unironically. You get the idea.
A common argument about cartooning, and political comedy in general, is that the times we live in are too remarkable, or too absurd, to be satirised. This is a simplification. The reality is that the rules of signification have altered to suit the digital era. Consider internet memes: most rely on their amendability to stay relevant for long periods of time. Unlike cartoons, they are not a succession of discrete gags by a chosen individual but a snapshot of several jokes, trends or formats. Memes are able to intersect and move through various iterations for as long as they can speak to a particular phenomenon or group of people.
Political cartoons, in their traditional form, are static; their urgency diminishes over the 24 hour period until they become yesterday's news. This is the reality that Newman misses. The future of cartooning lies in an update to the form, more open networks within the industry, and a greater embrace of the internet as a commercial and artistic tool. The answer is not further lamentation.
Issue 44 - Art and Optimism in Cataclysmic Times
In our autumn 2020 issue, we speak with numerous artists about their experiences of optimism, utopia and euphoria, and delve into the mindset that is required simply to create in the first place. We meet four artists and one collective who explore optimism and pessimism directly within their practices, often blurring the line between the two.
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The event is commonly known as the "CAT-ference", where CAT stands for Cities After Transition.
The literature on divided/contested cities has expanded rapidly during the past decade, with a handful of iconic sites presiding over the long list of cities wounded by conflict, violence or general unrest. Some of the well-known cases are located within CAT's traditional area of purview – for example, the post-Yugoslav cities of Mostar, Sarajevo and Mitrovica, which have come to symbolize urban ethno-national conflict and violence.
- Post-conflict urbanism: pacification, re-integration or dis-integration?
If a sufficient number of quality papers are brought together, a journal theme issue would be a possibility for future publication.
Please send titles and abstracts to Michael Gentile no later than 9 April 2019.
Deadline for online registration at the conference is 15 April.
Please contact Michael Gentile if you have any questions.


Like many baby boomers, we too wanted to change the world!
It all began in 2006 when watching the news was like viewing a doom and gloom explosion of negative images bombarding our large LCD TV screen as it innocently hung on our living room wall. At times it was so bad that we actually longed for the weather casters to begin their "enthusiastic speech" about the day's climatic events. Unfortunately, hearing about a roaring hurricane 500 miles out at sea, believe it or not, was better than hearing about our down hardened daily world and local news events! Enough was enough!
We acknowledged the fact, that much of today's media sensationalizes negative events and disproportionally reports this information, rather than focus on news that is both positive and uplifting. This negative veil may also exist in our home or workplace environment when we fail to receive the encouragement or support that will motivate us to strive for excellence and success in our lives.
Like everyone else, we too were desperate for change. We longed to read about the good things that were happening in the world. Success stories, big or small, that would put a smile on our faces, and help us escape to a better place!


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Sixers Game 1: A Loss For Both Teams
April 29th, 2012 by Sam Shipley | Comments Off on Sixers Game 1: A Loss For Both Teams | Filed in Basketball, General, Sixers
The Philadelphia 76ers dropped game 1 of the first round playoff series against the Chicago Bulls 103-91, but that wasn't the only loss. Reigning MVP Derrick Rose tore his ACL on a drive to the basket late in 4th quarter today and is out for the rest of the playoffs. Rose finished with 23 points, 9 assists, and 9 rebounds; but should Rose have really been in the game with the Bulls up 12 with just 1:20 left to play? Some will argue that he was in because of a triple double in sight, however getting a triple double is not that important especially in Derrick's circumstances. Rose missed 27 games this season due to injuries, and he was just finally starting to get healthy. The playoffs are a long and grueling stretch of games so why not rest your MVP and only superstar for the possible championship run. When asked why Rose was in the game at that point, Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said that "Philly was making a run". Along with Roses' 23 points, Rip Hamiliton had 19, and Luol Deng dropped 17 for the Bulls.
Elton Brand was one of the few bright spots for the Sixers today as he scored 19 points, grabbed 7 rebounds, and blocked 4 shots. Jrue Holiday finished with 16 points, Thad Young had 13, and Chicago native Evan Turner finished the game with 12 points along with a lot of boo's from the opposing crowd. Evan Turner is kind of a villain in Chicago right now after saying that the Bulls would be a better match-up for the Sixers considering that Miami is a "tougher team". Turner and Rose already have a rivalry of their own dating back to their high school days, and that carried over into today's game as well. Halfway through the 3rd quarter Turner and Boozer got tangled up after a foul, and Rose came and immediately started clapping in Turner's face. There were multiple fouls called including a technical on Rose.
The Sixers just couldn't sustain any momentum, every time they would close the gap to 5 or 6 the Bulls would come right back and stretch the lead out to 10 or 12 again. Everything seemed to be falling for Chicago as they hit timely shot after timely shot, including a dagger 3 pointer by former Sixer Kyle Korver late in the 3rd quarter after the Sixers cut a 16 point deficit to 8 and seemed to be making a big run. After that 3 pointer the game just seemed to never get back into reach.
If the Sixers are going to steal game 2 in Chicago, they are going to need better play from two of their top players. Andre Iguodala and Lou Williams had a combined 20 points on 4 of 17 shooting. The 3 point defense and offense will also have to improve. The Bulls shot 6-14 from 3, while the Sixers shot just 1-9 from down town.
This series has a different outlook on it now for sure with Derrick Rose out, but the Bulls weren't the best team in the East for no reason either. They are a very deep team and have a lot of players who can score. The Sixers will need to do their best on both sides of the basketball if they want a shot of pulling off the upset in game 2 and the series. With that being said, I will surely take my chances with Derrick Rose on the sideline. Game 2 is Tuesday at 8 P.M. on TNT.
Tags: Bulls, Derrick Rose, Lou Williams, playoffs, Sam Shipley, Sixers
And The Eagles Pick….
April 27th, 2012 by Mike H. | Comments Off on And The Eagles Pick…. | Filed in Eagles, Football
The Philadelphia Eagles traded up to the 12th pick in the first round of the NFL draft by sending their 14th, 114th, and 172nd picks of the 2012 draft to the Seattle Seahawks. With that pick the Eagles selected defensive tackle Fletcher Cox out of Mississippi State. Cox was coveted by defensive line coach Jim Washburn. In his college career, Cox had 114 tackles, 24.5 of which were for a loss, but just 8.5 sacks. He does however have five career blocked kicks.
Tags: 2012 Draft, Eagles, Fletcher Cox
Phils Tie the Series in AZ
April 25th, 2012 by AmyMac | Comments Off on Phils Tie the Series in AZ | Filed in Baseball, General, Phillies
By Amy McGinnis
During the top of the fourth inning last night, I said, "I have visions of this game being scoreless and going into extras." As soon as I finished my sentence, Hunter Pence hit a homerun, which led to Justin Upton doing his best impression of a bratty three-year-old. Immediately after Pence knocked in two runs, Laynce Nix followed suit, and it was a 4-0 ballgame. In the 7th, Pete Orr ripped a bases-clearing triple to right field, and in the 8th, Victorino had a solo shot. Eight runs last night. Eight.
Well, what was different last night? Was it the change in the lineup that did it? That might be part of it; Galvis needed a break, and Orr answered the call well. I wouldn't credit the win to it, though. It seems to me that when it comes to assembling a lineup, Charlie Manuel throws it against a wall to see what sticks. If it's successful, fans think he's a genius. If it fails, then we hear from Chris Wheeler about how Charlie took a chance. In any event, yes, the offense was alive last night. Momentum traveled from hitter to hitter. Hell, Laynce Nix went 3-3. Here's the thing: I don't think offense was working harder last night; I think they were working smarter.
We've all seen the trainwreck games when our lineup swings at anything, hacks away at the first pitch, swings for the fences, and goes nowhere. Last night, we were able to see a little situational hitting. Do not misunderstand; I love watching the Phils hit homeruns, and last night, it sure as hell helped. It seemed as though our offense got the memo, though: When you are at bat, you do what is best to give the team a better chance at scoring runs. If it means a sac bunt or a sac fly to advance runners, so be it.
Obviously, we wouldn't have gotten very far last night if it weren't for a solid outing from Vance Worley. He let up just one run (I'll get to the other four in a minute). All of his strikeouts were looking, because that's how Vance Worley rolls. Unfortunately, that means a high pitch count. I wanted him to get through six innings; he did just that.
That, kids, is when Jose Contreras took the mound and tried his best to take a shit all over Worley's hard work. Contreras pitched 2/3 of the 7th inning, seeing five batters, and all of a sudden, the D-backs tacked on three runs. Thankfully, Bastardo was able to secure the last out and get us the hell out of that inning. Qualls let up a solo homerun to Jason Kubel in the 8th, but it pissed him off, so he struck out the side. As for the 9th inning, Papelbon did what Papelbon does, and he shut it down. A win for the Phils, a W for Worley, a save (his sixth) for Papelbon, and we all lived happily ever after. Until this afternoon, anyway, when my man Cole takes on Trevor Cahill. The following would be my pre-game speech to the players: Offense, use your heads. Cole, shut this down. Bullpen, I hope to God I don't lay eyes on you. And … go Phils.
Tags: Amy McGinnis, Jose Conteras, Laynce Nix, Pete Orr, Phillies, Vance Worley
Phillies Beat Reporters Full Of Glitter And Unicorns
April 25th, 2012 by Mike H. | 27 Comments | Filed in Baseball, General, MLB, Phillies, TalkSportsPhilly
Misinformation passes for reputable reporting?I hate to bring up sore subjects, but a few weeks ago, when Johnny G and Mikey Miss were having their little tiff, Missanelli pointed out that people such as your TSP contributors only wrote things to cause trouble and to see if something would stick to create a name for ourselves. I'd like to point out that sites like TSP are a great alternative to get honest opinions as it is becoming clearer that the majority of "reputable" sources for reporting information is clearly tickling the testicles of the Phillies front office.
Yesterday, Ruben Amaro released an update on Ryan Howard's injury. He used the following statements.
It really has improved. The wound itself has gotten smaller, and we just want to get it over the hump so he can start his activities down in Clearwater.
Because the Achilles is healed, and all this time waiting for the wound to heal over — the residual effect is that we're going to try to be aggressive with him when he can start baseball activities.
We'll see when he starts what he's able to do, what he's not able to do.
Tags: 97.5 The Fanatic Mike Missanelli, bad information, Johnny G vs Mike Missanelli, Michael Haftman, Mike Missanelli, Mike Missinelli, Mike Missinelli vs TalkSportsPhilly, Philly Sports Battles, Philly Sports Controversy, Philly Sports Missinelli, Philly Sports News, Ryan Howard, Sports MisInformation, TalkSportsPhilly, The Fanatic 97.5 vs TalkSportsPhilly, Todd Zolecki, TSP Radio
Report: Lou Williams To Opt Out Of His Contract After The Season.
April 24th, 2012 by Sam Shipley | 1 Comment | Filed in Basketball, General, Sixers
Is Lou gone at the end of the season??
Louis Williams has been a big part of the Sixers for the last two seasons, but we may not see "Sweet Lou" in a Sixer uniform after this season is over. According to multiple reports, Lou is going to opt out of his current contract and go test the waters of free agency. Williams is averaging a team high 15.0 points per game off the bench this season, and for the second straight year is in talks for the "Sixth Man of The Year Award".
It would be sad to see Lou go, but I think it is better for the teams two young guards Jrue Holiday and Evan Turner. It would give Evan more minutes and Jrue would be the true point guard of the team instead of switching to that 1-2 combo guard when Lou comes into the game. The Sixers as a team however, would take a hit when it comes to their bench production. Lou is regarded as one of the leagues best bench players and is arguably the only Sixer who can create his own shot. He has been the Sixers "go to guy" this year as he has taken all the big shots, and is always in the game in crucial moments.
Another thing that Lou does is helping be the mediator between the young players and coach Doug Collins. The young guys don't know how to approach Doug sometimes, and they also feel like Doug is lashing out on them at critical points which kills their confidence. Lou will go to Collins and let him know how some of the young guys are feeling and will go back and talk to the young guys 1 on 1.
Lou's leadership in that aspect will surely be missed, and as Elton Brand and maybe even Andre Iguodala could be on their ways out-of-town where the Sixers will receive that leadership in the locker room is a big question. Would Jrue Holiday, the teams starting point guard take that role and be the floor general? Or would we see a player like Thad Young finally receive an increased role and leadership responsibility? Only time will tell.
Tags: contract, Evan Turner, Jrue Holiday, Lou Williams, Sixers
Phillies Notes: Injury Updates, Gonzalez, Nix
April 24th, 2012 by Mike H. | Comments Off on Phillies Notes: Injury Updates, Gonzalez, Nix | Filed in Baseball, Phillies
Injury Updates!
The Phillies were embarrassed at the hands of the Arizona Diamondbacks last night in a 9-5 loss. A game that was a lot worse than the final score appeared. The bright spot on the night wasn't a rally in the ninth against a pitcher whose season ERA started in the 20s, but that Chase Utley joined the team for early batting practice. So let's look at a couple of potential points of interest:
While a rehab assignment is still not in sight, Utley did take batting practice and some light fielding before Monday's shellacking in Arizona
Hunter Pence was out of the line up with a hurt shoulder that he injured diving for a ball in the series finale in San Diego. He is considered day-to-day.
Despite the check up, there was no news on the status of Ryan Howard. As we have found out with the Phillies, no news is bad news.
Super Agent Scott Boras was recently quoted that free agent reliever Mike Gonzalez has been throwing bullpen sessions and "should sign in the next ten days". While not previously connected with the Phillies, Gonzalez should be on their radar. While the "Cobra Commander" has not been effective in the American League over the past two seasons, Gonzalez holds a career 2.57 ERA and a 110:43 K:BB ratio in seven seasons in the National League.
With fellow lefty Antonio Bastardo and Michael Stutes both being ineffective/possibly injured, Gonzalez could be a welcomed addition to the bullpen.
Through 17 games, Laynce Nix has played in just nine games and has only started four of those nine games due to the play of Juan Pierre. Originally signed to platoon with John Mayberry Jr., Nix's two-year deal is starting to look even more like inefficient spending than originally thought.
Tags: Antonio Bastardo, Chase Utley, Hunter Pence, john mayberry jr., Juan Pierre, Laynce Nix, Michael Stutes, Mike Gonzalez, Phillies Notes, Ryan Howard
Thanks Claude!
April 24th, 2012 by Christian | 2 Comments | Filed in Flyers, General, Hockey
Kudos to Claude Giroux for stepping up in Game 6 to propel the Flyers to a 5-1 win over the Penguins and move on to the next round of the playoffs. When I saw Giroux break his stick on the ice after the Flyers Game 5 loss, I thought Wow – this guy actually gives a shit!!
Watch the video below of his goal to open the game and his crunching check on Sydney Crosby in the game's opening moments. Giroux set the tone and his team followed his lead. Coach Peter Laviolette said after the game that Giroux asked him for the first shift. Way to listen to your player, Peter!
Tags: Broad Street Bullies, Flyers, Giroux hit on Crosby, Penguins
"Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up."
— Red Auerbach


Saebyeol Oreum (oreum means "small volcanic cone" in Jeju dialect) forms small peaks beneath its highest peak's north-west and north-east sides. It has a horseshoe-shaped crater spreading above its western flank and a small horseshoe-shaped crater on the northern side. When viewed from the northwest, the clear curving ridge of the crater unfolds smoothly. Saebyeol Oreum is named after its resemblance to the morning star which brightens alone in the evening sky.
The peaceful looking field on the oreum is actually the site where fierce battles took place between General Choi Yeong's forces and Mongolian forces at the end of the Goryeo Dynasty (918~1392). Since 2000, the Jeju Jeongwol Daeboreum Fire Festival has been held every year on the oreum to pray for health, longevity and an abundant harvest of the year. It has become a popular tourist attraction for domestic and foreign visitors alike, Idalbong Peak is located in its north-western vicinity.