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Early Drama at Oxford
Latin Drama in Renaissance Europe
Performing Dido
Three Laws
Grobiana's Nuptials Film
3L Film
Performing Dido Film
Narcissus – Film
Archipropheta English & Latin
Dido – William Gager (trans. Elizabeth Sandis)
Grobiana's Nuptialls
Supposes (Performance Text)
The EDOX research team
All members of the team contribute to core features of the EDOX project and are very happy to receive general enquiries. If, however, you have specific queries about any particular aspects of our work, please feel free to contact members of the team according to their special interests (outlined below):
PLAYS IN ENGLISH
Prof. Elisabeth Dutton, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
elisabeth.dutton@unifr.ch
Research interests: Medieval and Early Modern English Drama; research through performance; playing spaces and stage directions. For details of my publications, and directing credits, please see http://lettres.unifr.ch/fr/langues-litteratures/anglais/staff/prof-elisabeth-dutton.html
Dr James McBain, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
james.mcbain@unifr.ch
Early Modern drama, particularly Early Tudor material; Literature and Law; portable knowledge in the Renaissance; links between education and literature. Current projects, alongside EDOX, include a monograph on Early Tudor Drama and Law and a collected edition of John Heywood's poems. I am currently also a Research Associate at St Catherine's College, Oxford.
PLAYS IN LATIN
Stephanie Allen, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
stephanie.allen@unifr.ch
Special interests include early modern drama, rhetoric, classical reception, and the relationships between English and continental poetics. I am currently working towards a PhD on rhetoric in academic drama, and translating Latin plays for EDOX.
Elizabeth Sandis, Merton College, Oxford
elizabeth.sandis@merton.ox.ac.uk
Special interests: Greek tragedy; Roman comedy; Classical reception; Early Modern poetry and theatre; university drama; English and Latin manuscripts.
Doctoral research focus: Academic drama at Christ Church and St John's College, Oxford in the seventeenth century.
FILM AND PERFORMANCE
Prof. Maria Sachiko Cecire, Bard College, New York
mcecire@bard.edu
Research interests include media studies, medieval literature and its reception, children's culture, and cultural studies. Maria's films include the EDOX documentaries, and she is the founding director of the Experimental Humanities concentration at Bard. She co-hosts In Theory podcasts, "using theory to explain our world, from pop culture to politics to our personal lives", which can be found at http://www.intheory.us/ or on iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/episodes-in-theory-podcast/id1002004049?mt=2. Details of publications and projects can be found at http://maria.cecire.org
Dr Jenny Sager, University of Nottingham jenny.Sager@nottingham.ac.uk
I specialise in the aesthetics of spectacle in early modern drama. I am interested in all aspects of early modern drama, especially in Robert Greene, Shakespeare, performance and film studies.
Dr Liv Robinson
olivia.robinson@bnc.ox.ac.uk
Liv Robinson works on translation between French and English in the late Middle Ages; she is especially interested in connections, exchanges and comparisons between medieval English- and French-language plays. These include the spaces in which they were performed, the practicalities of their performance then and now, including costume and props, and their individual manuscript contexts. She has published on drama in the medieval convent, with a particular focus on reading French convent drama alongside cycle plays. She has been designer and wardrobe supervisor for many of EDOX's productions, and regularly directs her students in public performances of medieval drama; for her 2015 performance of 'Everyman', see: https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/about-brasenose/news/1470-student-blog-drama-for-everyman.Liv has been designer and wardrobe supervisor for many of EDOX's productions. For a full list of research and publications, see https://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/about-brasenose/academic-staff/404-dr-liv-robinson
Tamara Haddad
t.n.haddad@kent.ac.uk
Research interests include late medieval and early modern English drama, performance space and staging practices. Tamara has been involved in many EDOX productions as a designer and stage manager.
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Is Aspirin The Long Sought After Anti-Aging Pill?
December 19, 2010: by Bill Sardi
A professor of medicine says "aspirin is, by a long way, the most amazing drug in the world." He was responding to a recent study published in The Lancet, a British medical journal, which found the 20-year risk of death was reduced by about 10 percent for prostate cancer, 30 percent for lung cancer, 40 percent for colorectal or bowel cancer and 60 percent for esophageal cancer among those taking aspirin.
Aspirin protected against gastrointestinal cancer the most, particularly for cancer in the upper versus the lower gastric tract. When data from eight studies were pooled, researchers found that cancer deaths among those who took aspirin in doses as low as 75 milligrams a day were 34 percent lower after five years. There was no increase in benefit at doses of aspirin greater than 75 mg daily.
Furthermore, while there has been hesitancy to use aspirin because of bleeding gastric ulcers offsets its ability to prevent strokes and heart attack, now doctors say "the reductions in deaths due to several common cancers will now alter this balance for many people."
One doctor suggests healthy people could start taking a small 75 mg dose of aspirin every day from the age of about 40 or 45 and continue doing so until they reached around 70 to 75, when the risk of the aspirin causing stomach bleeding rises.
Aspirin as anti-aging pill
Is aspirin the long-sought after anti-aging pill? Indeed, a few years ago researchers nominated aspirin as "a means to extending life span." In fact, the mechanism by which aspirin promotes longevity may be its ability to induce iron loss (bleeding). This is another confirmation of the over-mineralization theory of aging.
Even among centenarians who are at elevated risk for aspirin-induced bleeding gastric ulcers, a typical 250 mg dose of aspirin yielded a survival curve of 2.4 years compared to 1.7 years for non-aspirin users. 11890610
The other side of the aspirin tablet
Before the public runs to the medicine cabinet for an aspirin tablet, however, there is more to say about aspirin therapy.
In the 1970s researchers fed various drugs including aspirin and acetaminophen (Tylenol®) to laboratory mice at varying doses, but aspirin did not extend life span.
Patients taking aspirin for prevention of disease, when made aware of the risk of hemorrhage, claim they are "just taking a baby aspirin." But the accumulated risk for gastric ulcers among baby aspirin users is still around 10%.
Additionally, aspirin-induced gastric ulcers may be under-reported. Many aspirin-induced gastric ulcers are not detected during the passage of an endoscope because doctors advise their patients to cease taking aspirin days before their exam.
Another word of caution still needs to be said about aspirin since it increases the risk for brain hemorrhage even though it prevents clotting strokes. An elevated risk for brain hemorrhage has been reported among Alzheimer's patients taking aspirin.
Another aspirin hazard exists among the many patients with advanced retinal disease (neovascular macular degeneration). Retinal hemorrhages were nearly doubled among retinal disease patients taking aspirin or other anti-clotting drugs. Nearly 8 in 10 of these patients taking two anti-clotting drugs experienced retinal hemorrhages. Yikes!
Furthermore, researchers tend to compare the risk for gastric bleeding against the benefits of reduce heart attack, but fail to mention other aspirin-induced side effects, such as aspirin-induced asthma, nasal polyps, and sinus inflammation.
Will aspirin prevent your health attack?
Of course, that aspirin statistically reduces the risk for death from a heart attack and cancer is one thing, but will it work reliably to prevent YOUR heart attack? About half of the people succumbing to a sudden mortal heart attack were taking aspirin on the day of their demise. Researchers think this problem is dose related. Baby aspirin (81 mg) is too low a dose, and standard aspirin tablets (325 mg) induce hemorrhages.
Dr. Marie Lordkipanidzé, at the Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham (UK), attempts to explain "why an aspirin a day may no longer keeps the doctor away" for everyone who swallows one of these pills on a daily basis.
Dr. Lordkipanidzé writes: "While it is true in most cases that an aspirin a day keeps the doctor away, it would also appear that not all patients benefit from the drug to the same extent as others." She says this is due to the fact that in up to 25% of patients, platelets recover their ability to aggregate (clump) within 24 hours of the last aspirin dose, thus potentially leaving patients unprotected against clotting events at the end of the dosing interval. Patients who rapidly make new blood platelets may experience less benefit from aspirin therapy. Two-a-day dosing would remedy this problem, but compliance would likely decline.
Another issue with aspirin is that among patients at high-risk for heart troubles, it is often combined with Plavix (clopidogrel) which significantly increases the risk for hemorrhage. High-risk heart patients taking aspirin and Plavix cannot be lumped into the healthy population that takes aspirin for prevention of heart attacks.
For those heart patients who are simply too frightened to back away from aspirin and Plavix, a recent study shows the co-provision of lecithin (phosphatidlycholine) with aspirin and/or Plavix will allay gastric ulcers, cutting the risk by more than half.
Resveratrol as an aspirin alternative
Not only has the red wine molecule resveratrol (rez-vair-ah-trawl) been shown to turn mortal heart attacks into non-mortal heart attacks in laboratory animals, it exhibits many of the same anti-inflammatory, pain-relieving, anti-clotting qualities of aspirin. In fact, resveratrol was found to inhibit blood clotting among high-risk cardiac patients when aspirin didn't. In one study, resveratrol was found to exhibit superior anti-inflammatory action to aspirin and ibuprofen.
Clearly, resveratrol has a much longer half-life than aspirin (9 hours compared to 30 minutes) and turns mortal heart attacks into non-mortal heart attacks by release of protective chemicals (adenosine, heme oxygenase) prior to the event. It is sad to realize modern medicine is not rushing to put resveratrol to a greater test as an aspirin replacement. – © 2010 Bill Sardi, ResveratrolNews.com Not for posting on other websites.
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DETROIT (AP) - Four players from Detroit's "Russian Five" will be on hand when Red Wings alumni take on alumni from the Toronto Maple Leafs the day before the Winter Classic.
Viacheslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov, Vladimir Konstantinov and Sergei Fedorov will participate in the festivities Dec. 31 at Comerica Park in Detroit. The next day, the current Red Wings and Maple Leafs are scheduled to play at Michigan Stadium.
Gary Leeman, Russ Courtnall, Bill Derlago, Bob McGill, Vincent Damphousse and Dave Ellett are joining the alumni day representing the Maple Leafs.


Building owners in New York City who install green rooftops will now receive a significant tax credit under a bill that passed the state legislature on June 25.
Owners who install green rooftops on at least 50 percent of available rooftop space can apply for a one-year property tax credit of up to $100,000. The credit would be equal to $4.50 per square-foot of roof area that is planted with vegetation, or approximately 25 percent of the typical costs associated with the materials, labor, installation, and design of the green roof.
The legislation was championed by the Storm Water Infrastructure Matters Coalition, comprised of more than 50 city, state, and national organizations dedicated to ensuring fishable and swimmable waters around New York through natural, sustainable stormwater management practices.
"This tax abatement will act as an economic stimulus by creating living wage green-collar jobs that are pathways out of poverty," said Rob Crauderueff, director of Sustainable Policy at Sustainable South Bronx and chair of the Storm Water Infrastructure Matters policy committee.
"Green rooftops can save New York City residents more than $5 million in energy cooling costs, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and reduce overflows of raw sewage by easing pressure on the city's overburdened sewer system -- which will help to achieve swimmable and fishable waterways in neighborhoods throughout New York City," said Larry Levine, attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council's.
Green roofs also address New York's environmental justice problems, explained Kate Zidar, senior environmental planner of Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice. "Green roofs reduce costly environmental burdens, such as poor air quality and sewage treatment processing, in communities throughout New York City, especially environmental justice communities that host more than their share of environmental burdens."


Is South County Tween Nicole Westbrook the New Rebecca Black?
Update: PETA, of which 90% is just a team dedicated to taking anything that trends on Twitter and figuring out how it can be protested (naked, ideally), has set its (humane) sights on our friend Nicole. They're going to deliver her a Tofurkey, which is a torture no human should endure. The full story (complete with alterante "It's Thanksgiving" lyrics) is on our sister blog, Gut Check.
Remember Rebecca Black? She is the California teenager whose parents paid for their daughter to perform a song called "Friday" in a now-infamous YouTube music video. Black became internet famous overnight, mostly because everyone agreed that it was the worst song they'd ever heard. Black says she cried a lot over this and was tormented to the point where she left her middle school. She even reportedly received death threats.
That has not deterred the folks behind Black's failsess/succailure from offering the same service to other families. Now, a girl from South County appears to be achieving the same result with a new single called "It's Thanksgiving."
Meet Nicole Westbrook, a very pretty 12 year old from Oakville (who now lives in L.A. though her extended family is still in Missouri) who is the latest aspiring artiste to work with Patrice Wilson, the songwriter and producer behind "Friday." Wilson has found a niche for himself producing videos for teenagers dreaming of internet fame with a company called PMW Live. We've reached out to Westbrook's team and are hoping to find out exactly how the partnership was forged. The website advertises open audition days in Miami, but it looks like you can also book an appointment.
As is clear from the comments and the likes/dislikes, Westbrook is getting almost the exact same treatment that Black got right off the bat. She's also gotten over 5 million views in less than a week, which is on pace with Black's video.
Rather than slobbering at the haterade trough, we're actually fascinated by this process. When the internet universally rose up and dumped all over Rebecca Black, surely it was humiliating. However, the video is approaching 43 million views. Black is now a household name, released a few other songs, and cameoed in a Katy Perry video. Not bad for 15 years old -- but was it worth it?
The Blacks told interviewers that the viral spread of the video and the vitriol it inspired shocked them. Do Wilson's new clients, who presumably know the tale, figure they can just handle the backlash? In at least one interview with Good Morning America, Westbrook seems terrifyingly confident for a 12 year old, saying she doesn't care what critics think.
So, a week after the video's release, is Westbrook -- as Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, VH1, USA TODAY, Jezebel say -- truly heir apparent to Black's empire of haters? Let's consider this in "It's Thanksgiving"'s lexicon.
Reasons to be grateful: Here are some reasons Westbrook could get off easier than Black. Westbrook seems more natural in front of the camera, which helps. To our untrained ear, she doesn't sound like she's been Autotuned into oblivion, so she may actually have a nice voice. Because she's 12, and adorable, and singing about her favorite holiday -- as opposed to a teenager crooning about wanting to "parrrrt-eee" -- this could parlay into a squeaky clean gig on the Disney Channel or Nickelodeon.


I really enjoyed reading this book, not least due to the fact that Lauren Graham is one of my favourite actresses :) The plot is easy going and lively, and the path and different hurdles Franny has to overcome seems just like taken out of reality. I also enjoyed that the book was set back in the mid 90s, that gives you a chance to think back to times without mobile phones etc. The only weird thing for me was in fact how the story ended... So my rating has turned out to be 4 stars of 5.


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From The Street Smart Naturalist: Spring is Nigh
I am big fan of spring. I love the unpredictable weather, the reemergence of plants and beasts, the frisson of reproductive potential and have long enjoyed watching for signs of the vernal world. Recently, I have been inspired by an unlikely source: George Orwell. (I plan on writing about him in the future so won't say much now.) In a splendid little essay titled "Some Thoughts on the Common Toad," he wrote (in April 1946):
The point is that the pleasures of spring are available to everybody, and cost nothing. Even in the most sordid street the coming of spring will register itself by some sign or other, if it is only a brighter blue between the chimney pots or the vivid green of an elder sprouting on a blitzed site. Indeed it is remarkable how Nature goes on existing unofficially, as it were, in the very heart of London.
Orwell then asks if it's "wicked to take pleasure in spring," considering the challenges of the world, which were certainly epic and severe in post–World War II London, and sadly still are now. Shouldn't people be more focused on more serious issues than whether a toad appears and pursues his or her life? He categorically rejects those who hold such a view and offers a wonderful sentiment:
I think that by retaining one's childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and—to return to my first instance—toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable, and that by preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship.
Here then are a few observations reaffirming the beauty, resiliency, and healing power of spring, in my fair city of Seattle.
Varied thrush – Graham Gerdeman, Macauley Library.
Varied thrush (Ixoreus naevius) – For the past few weeks, I have been thrilling to the trilling of varied thrushes. These orange-necked, black-bibbed cousins of robins typically start calling at dawn in a haunting, monotone whistle suffused with the mysteries of a mountain forest. Summer residents of higher elevation, they migrate down to hang out with we lowland dwellers from late fall to spring. Oddly, this year is the first that I have noticed varied thrushes in spring—they typically visit our yard in autumn—so it has been an exquisite joy to hear them. The trilling notes feel not only like a rejoicing of spring but also a call to turn one's thoughts to the mountains.
Crocus (Crocus sp.) – Found in hundreds of locations around the city, these lovely irises are one of the first to provide a nourishment of early season color. With a name derived from the Greek term for saffron, crocuses come in scores of species and originally grew from Portugal to western China. Horticulturists have cultivated about thirty varieties of which five are considered to be commercially important. The best known, saffron (Crocus sativus), comes from the three thread-like stigmas, between 5,000 and 12,500 of which produce an ounce of the fragrant spice. Cultivated by Egyptians and Romans, saffron reached China in the seventh century, and by the fourteenth, it had permeated England, France, and Germany. By the way, you can grow C. sativus in Seattle, though you will more likely encounter one of the many cultivars heralding spring in yards across the city.
Camas, Charles Knowles, Wikipedia.
Camas (Camassia quamash) – Many years ago when we bought our house, I planted a few camas bulbs. Since then, they have spread across our yard, emerging in spring like green signposts of the bounty to come. I am not the first to encourage the growth of these edible roots. For generations, Indigenous people of Puget Sound burnt the prairies south of Tacoma around Nisqually and Fort Lewis and on islands in Puget Sound to foster camas growth, which they harvested in spring. One had to be careful though. As botanist David Douglas noted in April 1825 about camas bulbs: "assuredly they produce flatulence: when in the Indian hut I was almost blown out by strength of wind." In contrast, botanist William Fraser Tolmie of the Hudson's Bay Company wrote of the "rich and level prairies . . . [their] surface enamelled with a profusion of blue flowered kamass." Our camas certainly don't compare, but I still rejoice when the flowers blossom and blue ponds of shimmering light grace our yard.
Red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) – Noisy, territorial, and garnished by vivid red epaulettes, red-winged blackbirds have been out chattering of late with their distinctive konk-la-ree calls. They are denizen of watery locales, such as Green Lake, the Center for Urban Horticulture, and Echo Lake, where males flaunt their garish shoulder patches as a sign of territoriality. Studies have shown that if the birds intend to fight and protect their turf, they will display their badge of red, but if they are merely "visiting" or "testing" a new territory, they may not display and wait to see what the present owner does. Perhaps we could take a lesson. Be patient and sport red epaulettes but only flare them when necessary. Otherwise, chill out.
David B. Williams is a naturalist, author, and educator. His many books include the award-winning Too High and Too Steep: Reshaping Seattle's Topography, Seattle Walks: Discovering History and Nature in the City, and most recently Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound. Subscribe to Street Smart Naturalist: Explorations of the Urban Kind.
This entry was posted in Guest Post, Nature on April 20, 2022 by UWP Publicity.


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Beginner's Guide to Traditional Archery by Brian J. Sorrells, 2004-07
Voices of Qi: An Introductory Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine by Alex Holland, 2000-01-27
Traditional Aran Knitting by Shelagh Hollingworth, 2006-02-01
The Williamsburg Cookbook: Traditional and Contemporary Recipes by Letha Booth, 1971-05-01
Stone Houses: Traditional Homes of Pennsylvania's Bucks County and Brandywine Valley by Margaret Bye Richie, Gregory D. Huber, et all 2005-05-03
Material Obsession: Modern Quilts with Traditional Roots by Sarah Fielke, Kathy Doughty, 2009-03-01
Traditional Bowhunting for Whitetails by Brian Sorrells, 2006-07-20
Out of Poverty: What Works When Traditional Approaches Fail (BK Currents (Paperback)) by Paul Polak, 2009-09-01
Essentials of Tibetan Traditional Medicine by Thinley Gyatso, Chris Hakim, 2010-03-16
Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice by Juliette Aristides, 2006-10-13
Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Part 1 (Traditional Character) Workbook (Chinese Edition) by Tao-Chung Yao, 2008-10-13
Classical Painting Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice by Juliette Aristides, 2008-04-01
Miller's Traditional English Christmas/an Inspirational & Practical Guide to Enjoying the Christmas Season by Judith Miller, Martin Miller, 1994-10
Traditional Taekwondo: Core Techniques, History and Philosophy by Doug Cook, 2006-05-25
English Folk And Traditional Music On The Internet
A guide to Internet resources (Websites, Newsgroups, discussion lists, etc) on English folk music (Traditional music, song and dance in England).
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/martin.nail/Folkmus.htm
Extractions: Contents My folk club etc pages This is a guide to Internet resources relating to English folk music. A fuller statement of the aims and scope of these pages is on another page. Comments and suggestions - especially about useful resources I have overlooked - to me martin.nail@ukonline.co.uk ), please. A good starting point, with many links to English as well as world music, is Folk Roots Folk and Roots , and Folking.com . A comparable site based in Germany is FolkWorld . FolkWorld's Entertainment/Music/Genres/Folk_and_Traditional/ The BBC Radio 2 Folk and Acoustic site contains information about the folk scene in the UK: news, reviews, tours, artists, folk clubs, etc, and of course a site for the Mike Harding Show The main Internet newsgroup for discussion of English folk music is uk.music.folk . As with other Usenet newsgroups, Google (formerly Deja.com) maintains an
Austrian Folk Dancing
Traditional Austrian folk dancing and related material about dance, music, costumes, crafts and Austria.
http://www.fff.at/fff/dance/
The Online Guide To Traditional Games
The Online Guide to Traditional Games. The Online Guide to Traditional Games History and Useful Information -. This site has moved to www.tradgames.org.uk.
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/james.masters/TraditionalGames/
Aaronc - African Religions
A short overview of the many Traditional Religions practiced among people of differing cultural, linguistic, and ethnic groups; gives names for the supreme deity in many African languages; part of a larger site on polytheism.
http://jpdawson.com/modrelg/relafri.html
Extractions: African Traditional Religions The Bushmen and Hottentots live in southern Africa and were the original inhabitants of the land when the first Europeans arrived at the Cape. Today the true Bushmen (Khoisan) are restricted to the Kalahari Desert and Namibia. Modern Bushmen pray to celestial spirits and tell myths and legends about them. They pay special attention to the moon, which comes into their speculations about the origins of death, a common African preoccupation. The Hottentots have largely become Christian and most of their ancient religious beliefs have disappeared, so much so that it was once thought that they had no former religion. Their ancient gods appear to have been a mingling of natural forces and ancestral spirits. In the sub-Saharan and forest areas there are small groups of Hamites (Caucasians, related to Europeans) such as the Fulani of Nigeria, but they are Muslims like the major Hamite groups of North Africa and the Tuaregs of the Sahara. A vast majority of Africans south of the Sahara are Negroes, and they generally have a belief in a supreme being, though their conception of his role in daily life differs according to localities. Despite the universality of belief in a supreme being in Africa regular worship is not generally given to him. There are no great temples or organized cults for him in most places, though there are a few exceptions. Yet despite this absence of formal worship and temples over most of Africa, the supreme being (or God) is a reality to many people. He is transcendent and there is a popular myth, told from West African to the Upper Nile, which says that he or the sky his dwelling place was once much nearer to the earth.
The Inside Bow By TK Steingass. Boy Scouts of America Hunting Badge of Merit (News). Compton Traditional Bowhunters New Release (News).
http://www.tradbow.com/
Introduction To Japanese Traditional Art - And Related Links
Theater arts, fine arts and literature, with links.
http://www.kanzaki.com/jinfo/jart.html
Extractions: Help and Status info Japan Music Internet ... Computer The Web KANZAKI presents an introduction to Japanese traditional arts and literature, based on Japan: A Pocket Guide, 1996 Edition by Foreign Press Center. Following pages have concise explanation of each field of art as well as several links to related sites. Traditional Performing Atrs in Japan Chronological introduction to Japan's literature. Links include Man'yoshu, Genji monogatari and Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (100 Poems by 100 Poets) And some other links to Japanese art related sites which may be of your interest (this section is still preliminary) ... The Official Sumo Homepage by Nihon Sumo Kyokai World Wide Sumo Web List Jumping point to the world Sumo , the Japanese traditional wrestling which has more than 1,000 years' history.
Traditional Jazz (Dixieland)
Dixieland Jazz, Traditional jazz, Dixieland music, trad jazz, hot jazz, Dixieland festival, Dixieland band. Traditional Jazz (Dixieland).
http://kquick.best.vwh.net/dixie.html
Affirmation Of Saint Louis
The definitive document that de facto created the Traditional Anglican Communion and to which its membership subscribe. It also forms the basic statement of several closely related groups.
http://www.episcopalnet.org/TRACTS/AffirmationOfStLouis.html
Extractions: The Continuation Of Anglicanism We affirm that the Church of our fathers, sustained by the most Holy Trinity, lives yet, and that we, being moved by the Holy Spirit to walk only in that way, are determined to continue in the Catholic Faith, Apostolic Order, Orthodox Worship and Evangelical Witness of the traditional Anglican Church, doing all things necessary for the continuance of the same. We are upheld and strengthened in this determination by the knowledge that many provinces and dioceses of the Anglican Communion have continued steadfast in the same Faith, Order, Worship and Witness, and that they continue to confine ordination to the priesthood and the episcopate to males. We rejoice in these facts and we affirm our solidarity with these provinces and dioceses. Dissolution Of Anglican, Episcopal Church Structure We affirm that the Anglican Church of Canada and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, by their unlawful attempts to alter Faith, Order and Morality (especially in their General Synod of 1975 and General Convention of 1976), have departed from Christ's One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. The Need To Continue Order In The Church We affirm that all former ecclesiastical governments, being fundamentally impaired by the schismatic acts of lawless Councils, are of no effect among us, and that we must now reorder such godly discipline as will strengthen us in the continuation of our common life and witness.
Traditional Boats & Tall Ships - Tallship.co.uk
Traditional Boats and Tall Ships is an allcolour magazine that deals with all aspects of the present-day world of tall ships and sail training.
http://www.tallship.co.uk/
Swiss supplier of yew long bow, celtic and laminated wooden bows. Includes history, product range and order form. francais/english
http://mypage.bluewin.ch/bfontannaz
TRADITIONAL CROSSROADS
svigals, taksim, tanburi cemil bey, tatyos efendi, tcro, tekbilek, theodosii spassov trio, thrace, tobacco songs of old havana, Traditional, crossroads, tsircus
http://www.traditionalcrossroads.com/
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Q: Why isn't my SysTick_Handler() being called in my LPCxpresso C++ Project? I have created a C++ project for an LPC1227 using LPCExpresso 6.1.0.  The project, up until now, builds and runs fine.  I have not made any changes to cr_startup_lpc12xx.cpp.
I would like to add a SysTick_Handler().  In my main.cpp I have added a method:
void SysTick_Handler(void)
{
    timerCounter++;  // these variables are all declared globally in main.cpp
    timer_10ms_tick = true;
    if ((timerCounter % 10) == 0)  //every 100ms
    {
        timer_100ms_tick = true;
    }
    if ((timerCounter % 100) == 0)  //every 1000ms
    {
        timer_1000ms_tick = true;
    }
}

I have also add the following line in my main() method:
SysTick_Config(12000000/100);

When I run my code via debug, the interrupt is firing, but it is getting stuck in the default SysTick_Handler() that is inside of cr_startup_lpc12xx.cpp (which is just an infinite while loop).   If I delete the default SysTick_Handler from cr_startup_lpc12xx.cpp, my program hard faults.
I have looked at the Blinky example (which is C, not C++) and it adds a new handler into main.cpp without deleting the handler from the startup file.
Can anyone suggest why my overriding handler is not being called?  Is this a C++ difference?

A: From https://rowley.zendesk.com/entries/20986562-LPC1114-IRQ-Handlers-in-C-work-in-C-do-not-work

You need to declare your interrupt handler as a C function otherwise
  the function will not override the default handler.
So for example you could do something like the following to make the
  declaration work in both C or C++:

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

void irq_handler();

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

I assume changing irq_handler() in the code above to your SysTick_Handler code will then work. e.g.
extern "C" {
    void SysTick_Handler(void)
    {
        timerCounter++;  // these variables are all declared globally in main.cpp
        timer_10ms_tick = true;
        if ((timerCounter % 10) == 0)  //every 100ms
        {
            timer_100ms_tick = true;
        }
        if ((timerCounter % 100) == 0)  //every 1000ms
        {
            timer_1000ms_tick = true;
        }
    }
}

A: I don't know if this is true of C++, but in C the default handler must be declared as a weak function in the default declarations. This allows another declaration to override the original one, so your custom handler should not have the weak attribute.

A: I had exactly the same problem once. Yes it is C++ vs C difference. Looks like the maintainers of LPC support libraries did not care for C++ developers. Full answer is here Bug in Keil ARM compiler with interrupt handlers and C++?

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Tales of Xillia Co-Op Review
Review 8/19/2013 at 9:00 AM by Tally Callahan
Get those gels and Demon Fangs ready - it's go time!
Tales of Xillia, the latest Tales game released in the West, has been eagerly anticipated by JRPG fans due to its critical acclaim in the East. Does it live up to all the hype? Let's take a look.
One of the eye-catching cities of Tales of Xillia
The game follows the story of two protagonists: Jude Mathis, a serious and kind-hearted medical student, and Milla Maxwell, powerful commander of all the spirits in the world (and a spirit herself currently in human form). For the first time in a Tales game (as far as I'm aware), players get to choose which protagonist to follow, Jude or Milla. While something around 90% of the game is the same regardless of who is picked, at certain times in the story Milla and Jude are separated, and the player is treated to cutscenes and gameplay that is character-specific. When Jude and Milla reconvene, there's usually some hint of what happened to the other in their time apart, but players won't get the whole picture.
Rieze Maxia (the world in which the characters live) is composed of an ecological bond between spirits and humans where both produce resources for health and prosperity for the other. Much of the game's story revolves around Milla's mission to protect the spirits and Jude is caught up in a series of unfortunate events and ends up joining her on her quest to save the world. They're joined by a colorful cast of characters, which eventually brings the playable roster up to six. I can't really say too much about the plot without spoiling it, but Xillia also greatly revolves around the relationships between the characters and the character's pasts.
Combat Screen - where all the fighting happens!
If you've played a Tales game before, you'll probably know basically what to expect from the gameplay. Player one controls navigation through the world and interaction with NPCs and shops. The real-time battles can support up to four players (locally only) with the remaining characters controlled by the AI. The battles are triggered either when players run into visible enemies out in the field or by a story event. The name of the combat system this time around is the Dual Raid Linear Motion Battle System, which is quite a mouthful and not nearly as intimidating as it sounds. Free movement around the field of battle (towards and away the screen in addition to left and right) is again supported, as it has been since Tales of the Abyss. Players can also not only switch to any non-player controlled characters at will, but also swap in benched characters while they're in combat, some very nice options to add to the flexibility of battle. Xillia sees the return of TP (mana, basically) in addition to AC (I think of these as action points), and surprisingly the two synergize pretty well.
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Elderly Man Tries To Put His Hand In A Lady's Private Part In A BRT Bus.
Facebook User, Damilola Oduolowu shared a shocking story of an elderly man who tried to "finger" a lady in a commercial Bus.
'No No' for me because it stinks and that's where you find all sorts of things.The naturally loudspeaker voiced self-acclaimed marketers who sell herbal mixtures that cure tens of diseases won't just allow you rest. All the drama of this life happen on the TATA bus, sometimes formerly called 'Ise Oluwa' bus.That's why I always prefer the Red BRT whenever i cannot queue for the Blue one. Of course with the mindset that i would be in traffic for about 2hours. Most times it is always the same time you spend queueing for the Blue one so what's the point wasting my energy to queue for that long.So this morning, i decided to board the Red one. This is assumed and expected to be saner than the drama stage called TATA. No advert, No babalawo, No preaching and so on.I took my seat as the ticketer/conductor called in passengers. We moved and gradually approached the massive standstill traffic.Few minutes later, we all on the bus started hearing slaps in sequence, accompanied with a female voice. We all looked to the direction of the latest drama. Honestly, i thought i had seen it all before.It was from about 3 seats behind me. A man who was sitting beside a good looking chic was being slapped by her angrily. His guilt look was like that of a child who was caught stealing meat from a pot.Ha! Surprisingly, we tried to understand the reason why this lady kept slapping the poor older man.
He was trying to finger me, mad man! He slid his two fingers into my skirt! She said (in Yoruba language).
Words failed me.The man received almost a hundred of slaps as passengers (mostly guys) close to the seat registered their annoyance on his face. He was pushed away and punished to join standing passengers.With a disdainful look, everyone started to discuss the issue.
(Both in Yoruba and English) That's a bad attitude! He is a disgrace to men! Maybe he is not normal!
And the argument took another shape when some said; 'He must have been seduced into acting that way, check out what the lady is wearing'.It went worse when someone said the man might be a ritualist, a baddo.Ermmmm…. Really? Okay, let me just keep hearing the arguments cos i won't judge anyone. Could this be agro? I asked myself, laughing as i chatted to a friend about it on WhatsApp.Soon, slaps resumed on the man. His eyes turned red already and he was looking like he's going to die. I had to advise him; bros just go down and enter another bus if you don't want a coma.If someone told me this story, i wouldn't have believed. What could this be? I don't understand at all.And one question remains accurately unanswered in my mind, Is this 'Agro', Seduction or Lunacy?


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Update on this tsunami debris post from last week. According to Reuters, NOAA has located a Japanese fishing boat drifting off the coast of western Canada, which it identifies as the "first" sign of tsunami debris from Japan. Of course, if NOAA followed Curt Ebbesmeyer's beachcombers' network, it would know that other debris has likely already arrived in the form of fishing floats. NOAA is now revising its prediction for debris arrival based on the profile of the debris — how high it sits in the water, which makes it move faster — exactly the modeling that Ebbesmeyer conducted using OSCURS. NOAA modeling now concurs with his — debris should be arriving, well, now.
Washaway Beach, WA, which has has been losing 100 feet of coast per year for a century, is known for the massive logs and driftwood tossed up by the area's strong circular current. That means plastic, too. I picked up these bits on the approach to the beach, a few hundred yards from the shore.
Versions of the pastel green cylinder near the bottom center were everywhere. It may be an oyster spacer. There are many oyster farms on this coast. The orange tag next door is from a crab pot that belonged to the fishing vessel MISS EMILY. All crab pot tags have to have a fishing vessel name and a phone number. This one has area code 360, which covers lots of Washington state. I'll call and try to find out when and where it was lost. A number of these tags from Washington and Oregon wash up on Noni's beach in Hawaii.
When I came over the rise to the tide line, I knew I had to stop collecting plastic. There was just too much. Instead I took some pictures. We did remove the large foam chunks that may be tsunami debris, and the plastic garbage can.
Notice the tiny bits of microplastic.
Foam packed inside tire, with beach grass.
Jen dragged a net up above the tideline (our dog Quincy thought that was exciting).
Once we got to Grayland on the Washington coast, we checked out the 76 sign view out the motel window and headed directly for the beach, despite the freezing rain.
This is an extremely rural, undeveloped area. But right away I started picking up plastic, including these strange chunks of large-cell polystyrene foam.
That night at the local elementary school, the oceanographer Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer gave a presentation on tsunami debris. Ebbesmeyer is the reason I met Noni in the first place. I read about her in his book Flotsametrics, and asked him by email to put me in touch with her when I found out I was going to Hawaii last year. Ebbesmeyer has used the OSCURS computer model to predict when tsunami debris from Japan will start arriving on the West Coast. OSCURS, the Ocean Current Surface Simulator, was developed by Ebbesmeyer's colleague Jim Ingraham. They have used it to very accurately track the travels of everything from rubber duckies to hockey gloves.
Ebbesmeyer's predictions differ from NOAA's because Ebbesmeyer accounts for the varying profiles of different pieces of debris, which travel faster or slower depending on how high they sit in the water. Ebbesmeyer's model predicts that Japanese fishing buoys, which sit high, should be arriving on the West Coast now. "We're dealing with fast flotsam," he said. And, indeed, community members brought in samples of each of the types of fishing buoys Ebbesmeyer identified in photos of debris from the tsunami, including cylindrical buoys made of large-celled polystyrene foam like the stuff we found on the beach.
I stopped collecting plastic after the first day in Grayland. There was just too much of it, and that polystyrene foam was everywhere. I took pictures, though. Photo essay post coming soon.
This weekend Jen and I traveled to Grayland on the coast of Washington to see my friend Noni from Hawaii. She and her husband Ron took us to Junk Beach on the Big Island last March, cementing my plastic obsession. Noni comes every year for the Beachcombers Fun Fair and then the Driftwood Fair a few weeks later.
I decided to continue the plastic catalog on the trip. In Elma, WA, we stopped to walk Quincy in an empty lot across from the Olympic View Grange Hall 774. In the field I found this Star Wars valentine with, I just noticed, "From: Ethan" at the top in black marker. So this post is dedicated to Ethan.
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Hot poetry week in Portland!
Wow, what a week for poetry in stumptown!
Saturday, March 10, the Switch series I curate with Jeremy Davis and Paul Maziar hosts Oregon Book Award finalist Alicia Cohen and Brooklyn, New York, poet and Litmus Press founder E. Tracy Grinnell, with music from the ladies of Axton Kincaid and art by Julie Costanzo, 7 p.m. 109 SE Salmon St.
On Sunday, March 11, Powell's on Hawthorne hosts Julian T. Brolaski of Brooklyn, New York, and Judith Goldman, temporarily of Portland. Each has a fabulous new book out, 4 p.m., 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Thursday, March 15, a big group of poets is reading works they wrote as if they were "works by others." Readers include Donald Dunbar, Sam Lohmann, Jerry Harp, Lindsay Allison Ruoff, Robert Duncan Gray, Alex Behr, Emily Kendal Frey, David Knowles, Joseph Mains, B.T. Shaw, Amy Bernstein, 6 p.m., Place Gallery, 700 SW 5th Ave.
And to round out your week of poetry bliss, on Friday, March 16, the Bad Blood Reading Series hosts CA Conrad of Philadelphia, who also has a new book out, with James Gendron of Portland, doors at 7:30, reading at 8:30, 417 SE 11th Ave.
And I probably missed some. Go reading curators of Portland!
Once I've been collecting items for a while I'll conduct a formal inventory, but I suspect that among the most common items will be the three I found today: straw, packing peanut, soda fountain lid.
Each is an invention of the 1960s and 70s, though straws as a tool for drinking are apparently ancient. The plastic lid has a byzantine history of forms, styles and patents (the Wikipedia entry for the Sweetheart cup company has been blocked for "Investigation of potential copyright issue.") Dow Chemical came up with the Styrofoam packing peanut in 1965. It is mostly air, a kind of packaging known as "void-fill." One author estimated that enough packing peanuts are produced each year to cover Manhattan in three inches of void-fill snow.


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Varietal Compositon : 52% Cabernet Sauvignon, 26% Merlot, 12% Malbec, 8% Syrah, and 2% Petit Verdot.
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The team has announced that Austin Cindric, Chase Briscoe and Ty Majeski will share the No. 60 Ford as part of a development program designed to give the drivers more experience in the Xfinity series.
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In professional wrestling, a rib is a prank played on a wrestler, or backstage employee of a wrestling promotion, by another wrestler.  Ribs may be practiced as a form of stress relief from the grueling schedule of traveling, experiencing the physical exertion of wrestling, and sleeping in a different town most nights.  The largest wrestling company, WWE, are reported to require their wrestlers to perform 4 nights per week, so the backstage environment can become tense and in need of the relief that could be found in ribbing.

Examples of Ribs
Ribs are not necessarily strictly good natured.  Scott Hall cites wrestlers including Mr. Fuji, "Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig, and X-Pac as having defecated in another wrestler's bag or belongings.  The situation involving X-Pac has become very well known amongst wrestling fans.  He defecated in Sable's bag, ostensibly because she was poorly liked backstage.  Hall further states that the same prank was pulled on Alundra Blayze and Sunny and Skip.  There is also an enduring legend that Mr. Fuji once cooked another wrestler's dog and served it to him to eat, though the story may be apocryphal. Roddy Piper claimed in an interview that the unnamed wrestler had taken work from Fuji, while Hulk Hogan recalled, on Eric Bischoff's podcast, that Tor Kamata was the victim of the rib, and that his pet cat was cooked, not his dog.  Mr. Fuji was notorious for his mean-spirited ribs, as he has been alleged to have slipped laxatives into other wrestlers' drinks, nailed and glued their clothes to the ceiling, cancelled their flights, removed the engine from Bobby Eaton's car, and many others. Jules Strongbow allegedly got his revenge on Mr. Fuji.  He had heard that Mr. Fuji was very ticklish, so he tickled Fuji's feet to the point that he (Fuji) was in pain.

Some ribs do not pertain to one particular prank, as such.  For example, the ring name of wrestlers Simon Dean and Virgil were considered ribs. Simon Dean's name came from "Dean Simon," which is the real name of fellow professional wrestler Dean Malenko.  As for Virgil, he was ribbed by being given the first name of Virgil Runnels, better known by his ring name, Dusty Rhodes, as Rhodes worked for a variety of promotions that tried to compete against the WWE.  When Virgil left WWE and went to wrestle in WCW, executives got their revenge by giving him the ring name "Vincent" and making him "Head of Security," as a reference to WWE owner and CEO Vince McMahon.

As with any type of prank, ribs do not always go as planned.  When Don Jardine arrived in the Florida wrestling territory, his new colleagues decided to pull a rib on him that they referred to as "The Mabel."  The plan was to have a female convince Jardine that she was romantically/sexually interested in him, but that she had a jealous husband. She would then invite Jardine to her house, allegedly surreptitiously. One of the other wrestlers would then pretend to be the jealous husband and scare Jardine off with a shotgun.  Jardine had the last laugh, though, when he was able to wrestle the gun away from the "husband" and began assaulting him and destroying the house instead. Another was Vince McMahon decided to rib Mark Henry by having a match with Sin Cara. When Henry discovers that nobody was there, he went on complete meltdown backstage and almost qutting WWE.

Some wrestlers have made it through their whole career without being the victim of a rib, such as WWE Hall of Famer Trish Stratus. Although the examples cited largely occurred in the last century, ribbing is a wrestling tradition that continues.  Prior to their WrestleMania 36 boneyard match, The Undertaker attempted to pull a rib on AJ Styles.  Undertaker told Vince McMahon that he would participate in the match, but asked McMahon to call Styles and lie to him, claiming that the Undertaker had decided to wrestle someone else at Wrestlemania.  William Regal is another wrestler who experienced a more recent rib - during his entrance at the November 8, 2011 edition of WWE Superstars, Regal's original music in the WWE was played instead of his current theme.  The song played was Regal's "Real Man's Man" theme, a theme he used when portraying a different character: "Real Man's Man" Steven Regal.

Owen Hart

In the WWE, Owen Hart was well-known for the various ribs he pulled on other WWE employees, so much so that a book has been written on the subject.  Hart often called wrestler's hotel phone number at any hour of the night, claiming to be an employee at the hotel's front desk.  He would tell the wrestler that their credit card had been denied, and the wrestler would often emerge from their room and proceed to let out their anger on the front desk employee, who had no idea what the wrestler was talking about.  Jim Ross reports that Owen would call him and impersonate his father, wrestling promoter Stu Hart, in an effort to trick Ross into believing he was speaking with Stu. Ross was also the victim of another of Owen's ribs: it had been revealed that one of the wrestlers had been using cocaine, and it was Jim Ross's job, as Head of Talent Relations in the WWE at that time, to issue an appropriate punishment.  That day, Ross spotted Owen with white powder around his nose, in an effort to fool Ross into thinking it was cocaine.  It was actually powdered sugar from a donut. Owen also performed a rib on aforementioned notorious ribber Mr. Fuji, in which he put on a fake voice and called Fuji's hotel room, calling him a variety of names and curse words, ending in telling Fuji to come to the lobby, where the "unknown caller" would be waiting to "kick (Fuji's) ass."  When Fuji made it to the lobby, in the middle of the night and dressed in a kimono, he was confused, as only Owen was there, who questioned Fuji as to what he was doing roaming the hotel at that hour.

Not all of Owen's pranks were friendly.  In a shoot interview, Owen's brother Bret Hart recalled issues they had with George "The Animal" Steele when he was an agent for the WWE.  Steele would allegedly charge wrestlers for being late, even by only a couple of minutes.  When this happened to Owen and Bret, they stole Steele's expensive watch and threw it into a river. Owen Hart's malicious "ribs" against George Steele continued when he pushed Steele down the steps of a bus.  James Romero, in his "Owen Hart: King of Pranks", asserts that Owen forced another driver to lose control of their car at high speed as a rib.

See also
 Prank
 Glossary of professional wrestling terms

References

Practical jokes
Professional wrestling slang

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Native Americans' 50 years of struggle
March 27, 2017 by Marcus Henderson
The San Quentin Native American community is celebrating 50 years of campaigning to protect and preserve their culture.
Plans are underway to have another of the Native American Spiritual Group's Pow Wows later this year. The Pow Wow is only one part of a larger set of activities, which includes honoring elders and traveling the "Red Road," a spiritual and cultural journey to recovery and reconnection back to their traditional ways.
"The Red Road is a lifetime commitment to learn and teach our ceremonial ways," said Hector Frank Heredia, Native American chaplain and spiritual advisor. "It's a humble path; it's a spiritual crave, a hunger to get in touch with Mother-Earth."
There are more than 200 Native Americans housed in San Quentin with at least a dozen on Death Row. Most California tribes are known as Bear clans but these Natives are from various tribes and clans.
Historically Native culture has faced bans on traditional dancing, drumming, speaking their Native languages and wearing long hair.
"Most Native inmates come from a predominately Catholic or Protestant background," said Heredia. "Even those who came from reservations don't know the rituals."
For some Native Americans, San Quentin has become their first reintegration into their cultural identity throughout the years.
In 1976, San Quentin became the first prison in the nation to set up a sweat lodge with the passing of the Freedom of Religion Act for prisoners.
"Archie Fire Lame-Deer from the Lakota Sioux tribe was sent by elders to light the ceremony fire," said Heredia.
The fire keeper is a sacred position. He begins the spiritual purification ceremony by placing the rocks in order, saying the prayers and lighting the fire.
From that day to this, the Native inmate community is sweating for eternal cleansing.
The Death Row Natives do not take part in the sweat lodge, because the grounds are on the Lower Yard for general population, but they can participate in the sacred pipe ceremony in their yard area.
"It's about re-educating our people, so they can see first-hand the traditions," Heredia added. "It's for them to get well and to identify as human beings with something hundreds of years old, but new to them."
Even after the opening of the sweat lodge the Natives still struggled for office space. In 1978, the San Quentin American Indians Cultural Group (AICG) converted their cells into satellite offices after the administration rejected giving them office space. The group executive body, composed of Eddie Dreamer, Pete Dominguez and Wally Gorbet, adapted to the situation and performed clerical work, coordinated programs and stored materials in their cell offices. These men helped pave the way for a future office, a converted supply closet; which is currently in San Quentin Central Plaza with all other faith groups.
"It's about re-educating our people, so they can see first-hand the traditions"
In 1967, the American Indian Cultural Group (AICG) held its first Pow Wow with outside sponsor Adam Nordwall Sr. leading the ceremony. Nordwall was a leader of Indian Affairs throughout the U.S. He was a congressional candidate for California's 8th District. Nordwall was concerned about his people both inside and outside of prison.
In 1968, the second Pow Wow was dedicated to Sen. Robert Kennedy, after his death. There were 60 Indians, 43 being inmates in full ceremonial dress representing 20 tribes, celebrating the life and support of Kennedy to their causes.
"O Great Spirit, I pray thee be good to our dear friend, an unforgettable warrior Robert Kennedy, toward the great pine trees, north cold wind, treat him kindly," a part of the prayer read.
Ethel Kennedy, Robert's wife, wrote to the group and thanked them for their condolence.
In the Pow Wows of 1970 and 71, in honor of their women, Amelia Jane Clark was crowned AICG Princess.
"I will do my best to truly represent you in all things," said Clark, reported the SQ News in 1971.
They also held the Best Dancer Award, which Michael Jackson, Chairman of the United Bay Council of San Leandro, won twice during these same years.
In 1980, Edward Dreamer became the first Indian to hold a San Quentin boxing championship. He won the lightweight trophy, and at San Quentin's 12th Annual Pow Wow he donated it to the American Indian Movement for Freedom Survival School. Dreamer donated the trophy to the school for assisting the AICG and providing Christmas packages to less fortune Indian inmates, reported the SQ News in November 1980.
In 1993, Don L. Coyhis from the Mohican tribe founded the White Bison 12-step program called the "Red Road to Wellbriety," a combination of wellness and sobriety. To combat the high rate of alcoholism and trauma in the Native communities, the program takes the 12-steps of Alcoholics and Narcotics Anonymous and places the steps in the Native traditional circle.
San Quentin's Native Americans still practice the traditions and program of Wellbriety.
"It's about spiritual, physical and emotional health," said Greg "White Eagle" Coates, the current ceremonial dancer. "That is true Wellbriety. It comes in the context that healthy people cannot grow in diseased minds and bodies; there is no sovereignty without sobriety, Wellbriety. I thank Coyhis and the elders for their visions."
Among Coyhis' visions was Wellbriety's sacred medicine wheel, which is called the Hoop of 100 Eagle Feathers, used for finding the four corners of healing, hope, unity and forgiveness.
The number four carries deep significance for the Native culture. Their medicine wheel represents the four directions. The pow wow drum is sometimes played in the rhythm of four to imitate the heartbeat of life. Different tribal communities have various fundamentals of fours that direct their lives. The four seasons govern time and the four elements build all life.
In 2016, the San Quentin Natives were the first ones to pay tribute to Manuel Elias Limones, a Native World War II Air Force gunner. They awarded him a traditional Beaded Metal of Honor. Limones was set to receive the Silver Medal of Honor, but after facing so much discrimination throughout his years of service; he felt it was best to receive honor from this community.
"It was a chance for them to honor an elder for doing something good for the country and representing our people in the face of discrimination," Heredia added.
Veteran and Native inmate Ron Self also was recognized with the Beaded Metal of Honor for his service in the Marines.
For 2017, the Native community is honoring The Friendship House American Indian Healing Center in San Francisco and the Intertribal Friendship House in Oakland for their contribution and donations to their incarcerated brothers.
The Center has donated traditional sacramental foods like salmon, squash, corn and fried bread for the San Quentin annual Pow Wows.
The Center was founded to serve the needs of American Indian people relocated from reservations to the San Francisco Bay Area. Both houses have been working for the American Indians since the 1950s.
The 2017 Pow Wow is planned for the spring season, which is the Native New Year, when the bear wakes up. These celebrations typically are centered on the four seasons, but prison policy only allows for two events a year and the second one likely will be planned for the winter, which is the time of giving thanks.
With the national attention focused on the Standing Rock, N.D. oil pipeline protests, the Native community offers their prayers.
"Our elders said women will step forward and begin to lead, to bring our nations and families back in balance," said "White Eagle" Coates. "As well, we will see young people with old spirits and sound like the elders when they talk."
Heredia added, "It was an historical moment—water affects everybody," referring to the Standing Rock movement. "For the first time it bought hundreds of tribes and the world together, you saw veterans, priests and rabbis coming together."
But inside the walls of San Quentin, for at least five decades, prisoners who claim to be Native Americans have sought to preserve their identity and use it to inspire other prisoners to get their lives together.
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By Trebor Scholz
Across the state of Illinois, Family Child Care Providers are organizing to improve their working conditions. Thanks to the work of SEIU-HCII, these workers — over 95% of whom are women and disproportionately women of color — now collectively bargain with the state of Illinois to improve the terms and rates of government subsidies provided to low-income parents who need childcare. By providing quality in-home care, Family Child Care Providers fill a critical community need. Their small businesses often emerge in child care deserts where it is difficult to find high-quality and reliable care, and tend to serve predominantly marginalized and low-income families. Through union organizing, workers have not just found their political voice; they have raised the profile of this critical work.
Through union-organizing, Family Child Care Providers have been able to respond to precarious employment. Many workers make a very low net income, averaging $14,999 per year. Without an organization to help manage the day-to-day operations of their work, care providers incur higher costs for running their business. They struggle with inconsistent enrollment of children under their care too. An estimated 68% of care providers have vacancies in their centers, meaning they are not optimizing the amount of income they could be generating, even as parents struggle to find quality care. Meanwhile, states are increasing training, educational, and licensing requirements, making it more burdensome and costly for workers to continue providing services. Many workers are burning out and closing their businesses — there has been an 18% decline in family child care homes over the last 5 years. Delays in payments from the state and changing eligibility requirements result in financial insecurity for workers. The SEIU-HCII has helped workers respond to these many challenges over the last several years. Family Child Care Providers have been making progress in combatting this precariousness and thinking through how to improve their working conditions.
In late 2016, the SEIU-HCII took the next step with workers by strategizing on how to improve basic business operations. By partnering with the ICA Group, Family Child Care Providers have now begun to think through how they can deliver higher-quality child care through a cooperative structure. So while unions have provided organizing power, and non-profits like Carina Care have improved training and technological support for workers, the cooperative experts at ICA are helping providers reorganize into a worker-owned, democratically governed co-operative structure. Earlier this year, care providers formed a steering committee to lead the development and planning of the cooperative. And within the next several weeks, workers hope to legally incorporate as the CoRise Cooperative.
The key to forming a successful cooperative lies in addressing care providers' basic business needs. These revolve around three areas. First, care providers need a marketing and outreach platform that can engage users and facilitate the scheduling of child care between parents and providers easily and efficiently. That is, workers need a labor platform to help deliver their services. Second, the cooperators themselves need an internal platform that allows them to administer and automate activities, so they can focus the majority of their time on providing high-quality child care. And finally, care providers need a platform to improve their processes with the state, to ensure they receive state subsidy payments on time and with minimal disruption.
After planning for the cooperative began, care providers and the ICA group engaged the team working on the Platform Co-op Development Kit to help think through these challenges. After conversations this summer, Trebor Scholz, Jutta Treviranus and the CoRise care providers agreed a collaboration to build an open source labor platform — serving now just Illinois care providers, but cooperative child care providers around the globe — would meet a critical need. As Dave Hammer of the ICA Group notes, "We like the idea of a platform co-op because we see an improved labor platform not only as a way to reduce cost and increase pay for workers, but equally as important, as a way to improve the quality of child care that CoRise can provide." See a photo of workers in an initial co-design session below:
Over the next several months, team members from the Platform Cooperativism Consortium and the Inclusive Design Research Centre will work with care providers to refine their online platform needs, and think through worker governance issues. Co-design sessions have already begun, and will continue into the fall as CoRise establishes itself and refines its membership structure and payment plans. Through this work, child care providers are making headway in building a cooperative, but also towards lifting up and making clear the essential service they provide for neighbors, friends, and family. Through a cooperative business, workers can offer a stronger network of child care services and collectively improve their pay, quality of care, and business operations. Their cooperative therefore results in both economic and social benefits, providing dignified employment.
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24 Hours in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Above photo: Old San Juan has many places like Plaza de Armas, a great spot to sit and relax.
Story and photos by Rebecca Holland
Rebecca Holland is a freelance travel and food writer based in Chicago. You can find her on Instagram.
If your time is limited, here are the must-see stops during your visit.
You could spend a week in Puerto Rico's capital visiting landmarks and relaxing on the beaches, but sometimes 24 hours is all you have. Whether you're stopping for a day on a cruise or flying into San Juan before heading to Vieques or Rincón, here are some highlights to help you plan a memorable day in the city.
Start your morning with breakfast at Caficultura. Fresh juices — I recommend the sour Puerto Rican cherry — "tropical" French toast with pineapple, and other unique takes on breakfast standards fill the menu at this bustling cafe in Old San Juan. It's popular and a bit touristy, but that's because it's good. Try to go early if you can.
Next, spend an hour or two wandering Old San Juan. The colorful streets of the National Historic Landmark District are photogenic, and you'll want to pop into some of the shops and galleries if you have time. While you're in the area, stop at the Museo del Mar ($5 admission), a small but interesting museum detailing Puerto Rico's maritime history. Did you know that in 1797 the British invaded Puerto Rico? Ask the museum staff to tell you the full story — they're knowledgeable, and it's a fascinating tale.
If you're getting hot, Senor Paleta makes all-natural ice pops and is on the way to your next stop. Strawberry and chocolate brownie are staff favorites.
Ice cream stands are everywhere in Old San Juan, and you'll be grateful when it's hot.
Santa María Magdalena de Pazzis Cemetery in Old San Juan
No visit to San Juan is complete without a visit to the Castillo de San Cristobal, even if you've been before. You don't have to go in the fort, but you should stop for views of the foamy, deep blue waters below and overgrown cliffs along the coast. Exit the fort and walk through the gate, then follow the Paseo del Morro trail along the perimeter of San Juan. You'll see dozens of iguanas — they're everywhere and huge — and find yourself at a viewpoint overlooking crashing waves on one side, and the lovely San Juan cemetery with its raised white stone graves on the other.
By now you probably need a break, so head back into town for a drink at El Batey, Puerto Rico's oldest bar and supposedly one of Hemingway's favorites. Inside, check out the notes visitors have scrawled on the walls over the years.
Old San Juan's buildings look like they're from another era.
The colorful streets of Old San Juan
Now, you have a decision to make. It's getting close to dinner time, and you need to choose where you want to spend your one night. You have two options, depending on the time of the week and if you want to get out of Old San Juan:
If it's a weeknight, grab a casual dinner at El Jibarito in Old San Juan, where locals and tourists gather together for authentic, no-frills Puerto Rican food like fried mofongo (plantains mashed with garlic, salt and various added ingredients). Then, head to La Factoria, one of San Juan's coolest bars. The speckled walls and dim vintage lighting don't look like much, but the bartenders make incredible cocktails including Puerto Rican-inspired old-fashioneds and Moscow Mules, and of course classic mojitos. The four-room bar has one room for cocktails and chatting, one that feels more like a quiet lounge and serves wine, one that's more of a restaurant than a bar and one for dancing. If you don't know how to salsa, someone will probably try to teach you. Just go with it.
However, if it's a weekend, you should head to the Santurce neighborhood. This is where Puerto Ricans hang out, as every taxi driver, restaurant owner and random person I met made sure to inform me. Get dinner at Cueva del Mar. My local host assured me it would be the best meal I had in Puerto Rico, and she was right. The fish tacos have a delicate, lightly seasoned batter and the seafood mofongo was stuffed with perfectly cooked crab, lobster, calamari and more. Then move on to the Plaza del Mercado de Santurce, where Puerto Ricans of all ages gather for raucous nights of drinking and dancing in the street to live music. (Saturdays are especially lively.) There are plenty of bars and food stands too. If you're still hungry, try the alcapurrias at Alcapurria Quema.
Before leaving San Juan the next morning, grab some pastries on your way to the airport at Kasalta, a Spanish bakery in Santurce, where President Obama stopped on his tour of Puerto Rico. You can't go wrong whether you're craving sweet chocolate breads or savory ham and cheese turnovers.
Sweets from Kasalta, a Spanish bakery in the Santurce neighborhood of San Juan.
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A trip to El Yunque National Forest can teach tourists about resiliency and the importance of preservation.
Day Trips from San Juan, Puerto Rico
See more of the island's natural beauty at Rincón, Culebra and Vieques.