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CCTV Nation
Turns out that once you have security cameras in this country, it suddenly becomes hard to imagine life without them.
They do however engender a certain sort of paranoia about the nature of one's fellow citizens.
For example, some individuals in this village appear to wander around on some sort of loop, rather like in The Truman Show. You can practically set your watch by them. Indeed, a worrying number of the people in the catchment zone of our cameras tend to resemble in their motions certain non-human characters in computer games. Or what I used to refer to as 'bots', before the term acquired a Russian connotation. (V has specifically compared them to some of the walking figures in Grand Theft Auto, Vice City.)
One easily-recognisable character used to pass at more or less the same time every morning at an almost absurdly fast walking pace, sporting an oversize black wig and a thick grey sweater (no matter the season). We nicknamed him 'Sinibaldi'.
About once a month something truly bizarre is captured: e.g. a few days ago someone drove round the corner at full speed and tossed a tiny kitten out of the window.
In previous months we've seen a woman, possibly a working girl, defecating before consuming her own faeces, closely observed by the man at the wheel of the car she'd just got down from.
Another time there was an all-night orgy going on inside a PNC patrol car parked right in front of our house.
I've uploaded the footage of all the above-mentioned incidents to Youtube: unlisted of course!
Anyway, it's always kind of amusing to scrutinise certain known dodgy characters taking the kind of evasive action that reflects an ignorance of both wide angle lenses and night vision technology.
Our newest neighbour opposite has recently installed a set of cameras along the length of his wall, which are obviously rather more fancy and sophisticated than ours.
So now pretty much everyone in the immediate area has security of this sort except, rather ironically, the one household that could most do with it.
Another nearby household is taking it to a whole different level with a drone, which has repeatedly invaded our airspace.
As for the kitten, we've adopted him. He's an extraordinarily sweet and sociable little thing.
Expecting a different result...
The United States has a long and infamous record of dicking around in the internal affairs of the hemisphere's less powerful countries.
Most of these interventions have worked out along the lines of La Rancherita's grenade attack on that bus in Guatemala City last week.
Mexico, however, retains the dubious distinction of being the one Latin American nation that has been most triumphantly crapped on by its northern neighbour.
Here John Bolton wants us to believe he's inadvertently doing a Baldetti...
Green Book (2018)
I had flashes back to Planes, Trains and Automobiles; here, but in a good way I think.
The director is one of the Farrelly brothers, so this might be characterised as a super-woke take on Dumb and Dumber, along the lines of Dumb and Prodigiouser (...although tragically pretentious).
The brother of the passenger has apparently observed that the driver wasn't his friend, but his employee. That remark made me think of some of my mother's 'employees'.
The fact that Dr Shirley was estranged from his brother was duly emphasised in the movie.
The Girl In The Spider's Web (2018)
Jean Baudrillard almost certainly never made use of the term 'soft re-boot', but he might as well have done, as it accurately encapsulates our present society's almost pathological need to hyper re-hash all the 'ideals' that circulate within it.
What he did say was this: "We live amid the interminable reproduction of ideals, phantasies, images and dreams which are now behind us, yet which we must continue to reproduce in a sort of inescapable indifference."
It's odd that Lisbeth Salander should already be 'behind us' after little more than a decade, but so it is, as here she's been flicked from her spoon into a chirmol that's part (or sub-) Bond, part Bourne and part Bron/Broen.
Like Daniel Craig's 007 in The Quantum of Solace, Claire Foy's Salander is the right protagonist in the wrong material.
As for Sverrir Gudnason's Blomkvist, he's the archetypally superfluous man here.
Ever since Einstein theoretical physicists have made the point that there is 'nothing' outside the cosmos.
Indeed, Carlo Rovelli makes the point explicitly in his latest book The Order of Time — that there's no point in asking what exists outside of space and time, by which he is possibly really stating something rather tautological: that there is no space and time outside of space and time.
And when one delves into the nitty-gritty of the theory he most closely adheres to — Loop Quantum Gravity — one discovers that there isn't really any space or time inside either, as both are relative phenomena that manifest themselves subjectively as a result of the networked behaviour of particles.
It's not an atheistic position per se, failing to fully deter the religiously-minded, as they tend not to be looking for the Divine within space and time. And rather than agreeing that there is nothing on the outside, they'd be more inclined to assert it is where one would find everything — a perfect, absolute, first cause.
This is actually a key point that Richard Dawkins doesn't seem to get. It strikes me that it reveals how — perhaps counter-intuitively — the biological sciences are not the ideal stick with which to whack religion, because their perspective on our predicament is essentially internal to the system. (Hence all that nonsense about giant spaghetti monsters.)
Theoretical physics on the other hand is poking ever closer to metaphysics, and often in ways which parallel religious perspectives. The Big Bang for example can be spun to resemble a moment of 'creation'.
The pantheism/monism of Baruch Spinoza is another way of spinning the problem.
Like many modern scientists, he believed it would be a total waste of time to talk of transcendent realms outside the cosmos, to hold out for eternal spiritual stuff to counteract contingent material stuff.
Spinoza instead thought of the cosmos itself as the absolute, as a kind of God, albeit an indifferent one. For him the absolute and the contingent, time and eternity are all part of the same system, but it is our human condition to only experience the bits, not the whole.
However, there's another way of addressing contemporary theoretical physics which is significantly more encouraging for unbelievers. In this view the hidden, fundamental reality is not perfect order, but perfect disorder such that everything we experience is a pattern that has somehow emerged from chaos and is steadily returning to it.
One can insist that evolution is directionless and purposeless, as it most assuredly is, but the fact remains that it is bucking the more universal trend towards ever greater disorder.
Cobarde
Corbyn's 'all options are on the table' equivocations have similar roots to the cowardly calculation that led David Cameron to propose the referendum in the first place - an unwillingness to campaign with the familiar message of class-based tribalism when there is a real danger of his base being subjected to a flank attack by populist irregulars...
Entangled Party-cles
Both of Britain's main parties are in a sort of quantum state of equivocation right now and it is the particular nature of their leadership at this crucial time that is largely preventing them from returning to a more usefully determined condition. Corbyn has in mind that May should materialise into a properly dead cat by ruling out No Deal. She of course prefers to remain in the superimposed state that was rejected by unprecedented numbers yesterday. In turn Theresa would like Jeremy to manifest as a dead cat by opting for the No Brexit position most of his party members appear to favour...but of course he knows that he cannot do that without simultaneously collapsing her into the sort of live cat that would recognised as the only leader still standing up for Brexit and the large swathes of the embittered working classes that Corbyn himself aspires to represent. May's indeterminacy is at least partly naïve. She seems to believe it is the best way to deliver on the 'solemn promise' she made to the British people, even if almost nobody else does. Corbyn's indeterminacy is of an altogether more cynical nature. May is also not recognising that 'The British People' is not a constant in this equation either. Since the referendum roughly 1.8m individuals have ceased to belong to that variable and a similar number have attained voting age. Do politicians need to honour promises to the deceased? How different the whole situation might be if this rather rare pair of entangled particles were both absent, along with at least some of the uncertainty they bring with them...
Low-lying Letterboxes
Somewhat surreal experience first thing today when I turned on BBC Parliament. Minutes before the No Confidence motion and a key debate in what is becoming the political crisis of a lifetime, a new law proposing a ban on 'low level letterboxes' was being put forward.
I'm all in favour of protecting postmen's extremities and making things a bit harder for would-be mail-pilferers, but...
Click-bait
V has been getting more than usually paranoid about social media recently as we are being bombarded with Facebook ads for the well-known restaurant in the capital owned by our newest neighbour.
Meanwhile, I have been quietly satisfied with the way he has been spending his money on us, albeit inadvertently, though one of these ads did entice me to get up and make a spaghetti alfredo, when I wasn't feeling especially hungry...
A Guatemalan friend of my wife was recently unfairly criticised on one of the local (largely ex-pats) classifieds groups in the manner that threatened to go viral on social media.
He requested to join the group so that he could answer these criticisms, but was denied, having been informed rather curtly that it was a 'closed group'. So he has decided to sue them for defamation, and in this I have to congratulate him.
Handily, Guatemala has a fairly draconian provision in the penal code against calumny (section 164), with those found guilty facing prison terms of between two and five years. This should focus a few minds.
In the past twelve months I too have twice been the victim of some pretty cack-handed attempts to defame me, though not in digital format. My would-be detractors both had in mind to use Guatemala's equally draconian laws designed to protect women from male aggression.
In the first instance, my neighbour's not-so-smart spouse was put up to take me to court for having insulted her using what she described in the police report as obscene language. Fortunately I had the stamp in my passport showing that I was not even in the country on the day she called the cops.
The judge duly declared her to be in contempt of court and she was also informed that she was lucky to have avoided the sort of counter-prosecution that would have resulted in a custodial sentence. It was joyful to behold how pale and flabbergasted her lawyer became upon learning that she had been lied to by her client and friend.
A couple of months later my dog and I were attacked and hurt by a loose pit bull owned by other residents of the village. When they refused to accept responsibility, I made a police report and their initial defence — recorded by the microphones in the courtroom — was that I had attacked a pregnant woman in the aftermath of the attack, thereby causing her to be rushed to hospital for a premature birth.
Luckily for them, they changed lawyer and tack for the final audiencia, as I had security camera evidence showing how they had called up the pregnant woman and how she then arrived on scene some thirty minutes AFTER I had departed. (I also know the date her baby was actually born, as she told the world on social media. Duh!)
I don't think I would have hesitated to sue for defamation in this case. And if I ever get a sense that the damaging lie is still being spread around the village, I may still do so — especially as the CCTV footage strongly suggested that the pit bull was deliberately provoked into attack by the pregnant girl's mother.
A further testament to the somewhat heavy-handed nature of the newish 'femicide' laws in Guatemala (I've heard some in the legal profession here complaining that they have been funded by and largely foisted on the country by foreign NGOs) is that another resident of the village recently had a restraining order placed on him by his own neighbour before he had had any opportunity to appear in court to defend himself. He had to bring his own case against her, which he won, but the six month prohibition against interactions with her remained in place.
Anyway, in the previous case I shook hands with my neighbour's wife in the courtroom on the understanding that we would both try to keep the peace in future, but I may now review this 'treaty', as her husband clearly has no intention of honouring it, and they are now in breach of both the law against defamation AND that protecting women, as he has since repeatedly insulted my own wife (using suitably obscene language) in front of multiple witnesses...and cameras.
That said, the due process of legal satisfaction in La Antigua is notoriously painful, with lawyers and judges seemingly working in tandem to string things along and to then deliver inconclusive rapprochements between all parties.
My experiences in 2018 have nevertheless been enlightening and I have acquired a new legal representative — himself a former judge — who I feel will be a better guide through this minefield, if ever I have the need to traverse it again.
Truculent Folly
Some of the grand historical barriers mentioned here had what is generally known as 'practical value'.
Trump may be the last person alive that thinks his wall would have it...at least amongst those coming at the issue from a (supposedly) informed position.
All those strange birds that used to whisper in his ear about beautiful walls, travel bans and the like, have since flown the nest.
They surely knew that the wall would primarily be a symbolic act of defiance against the pressures of globalisation. The Donald apparently doesn't.
Britain's watery Brexit 'wall' features much of the same awkward disconnect between practical and symbolic value.
And its construction remains beset with some quite serious inconveniences — such as as fact that our 'island nation' actually consists of one island plus a sizeable chunk of another one.
Brits have been left asking how much they are prepared to pay for symbolic satisfaction, though the older generation do appear more inclined to dismiss the question, having discerned that it won't be them picking up the tab for their momentary exultation.
And in said tab there lies another distinction between Trump's truculent folly and ours — there's no way to suggest that the people on the other side are the ones that are going to pay for it.
Those Heir-bnb Shutes
Welcome Home is a bit of B Movie mediocrity is set in Todi, a gorgeous Umbrian town that V and I had the pleasure to visit in January 2002, shortly after the fateful introduction of euro banknotes. (An acute taste of the chronic pain to follow.)
In a more abstract sense it is set in the liminal space between Wop-o-philia and Wop-o-phobia.
The screenwriter clearly influenced by the particular paranoia peddled by those articles about Airbnb host-voyeurs, though perhaps not by the associated plugs for handy apps that largely deal with the problem.
This movie is deeply silly. There's a rabbit stew scene that is practically on the plane of self-parody. The female interest is 100% a male interest.
Yet the final 20 minutes or so up the levels of silliness to a point that almost redeems all that came before.
Anti-colados
Yesterday a member of the local ex-pats group on FB wondered out loud why there were native Guatemalans colados therein.
The comment stream was soon disabled.
An obsession with the protection of purity is a key part of the American mindset. I've written (ranted?) here before how the puritan origins of the USA still inform its politics quite dramatically.
Whether we're talking walls to keep outsiders out, McCarthyist purges - on both the left and the right - #metoo, no-platforming and so on, the neuroses of self-purification persist.
These amorphous, pitchfork wielding, context unaware, puritanical mobs have gone digital and have thus spread beyond the borders of the US in a way that no wall, however beautiful, can prevent.
The contagion has reached British politics undoubtedly. Our barrier wall will be Brexit and the end it promises to the free movement of foreign contaminants.
Yet perhaps this is not so new or indeed alien. If you trace back some of the more educated leavers' obsession with parliamentary sovereignty in historical terms, you eventually reach the 1650s and the English civil wars, an era when puritanical mobs were very much de rigeur.
This did not bring me joy....
Netflix has clearly stumbled upon the idea for one of the worst television programmes ever made. It's so bad that for the first ten minutes or so of episode one I was convinced it had to be on of those satirical fly-on-the wall documentaries.
The format is derivative — resembling in its essence Dog Whisperer — that show where the patronising bloke from Culiacán enters the homes of annoying people ostensibly to sort out their unruly pets, but ultimately managing to resolve at least some of their #firstworldproblems along the way.
In 'Marie Kondo' for pets read houses, houses owned by even more annoying people and frankly not all that untidy by global standards. One senses that the whole set-up is offensive, racist even, but it's not clear whether it's middle-class, white America or the Japanese that are being most savagely mocked.
It reminded me of what Ben Elton used to say about the Ferrero Rocher ad (Ambassador's party): that it was impossible to take the piss out of it because all the piss had been pre-removed in the making of it.
This is a Frankenstein's monster of a movie in so many ways.
First the most obvious: it's about a man of science who via an unorthodox experiment chooses to defy nature and mortality.
I say man of science, because while Keanu's character Will Foster has plenty of bizarre technology at his disposal, the screenplay is noticeably almost entirely science-free.
Then there's the fact that it consists of several not-entirely-compatible plot premises seemingly sown together.
At the start the movie seems to be about a man in a medical facility in Puerto Rico attempting to transfer the conscious minds of dead soldiers into a robot. As quick as a flash however, it's suddenly about a bereaved man cloning his dead family in order to create synthetic replicas that may or may not think and act like the originals.
This conceit surely has the most potential and Replicas may well be a textbook example of an enticing premise made lastingly toxic by one epicly-bad implementation.
Should we have expected any less from the people who brought us London Has Fallen and The Day After Tomorrow? (Not to mention 'From the producers of...')
The lameness of the last thirty minutes or so can best be explained by suggesting an alternative final act of Mary Shelley's masterpiece in which the doctor and his creature have to escape from an assortment of incompetent goons dispatched to kill them by Frankenstein's boss, and for reasons which remain largely opaque to say the least.
And yet, it was vaguely entertaining. The Keanu effect again, perhaps.


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In this weeks bangbus update were out doing what we do best and today I bring my homie Brandon once again with us and he is excited to come back on the prowl with the crew. On to the action, we spot this little cutie walking by us and I kid you not this guy (brandon) jumps and tells me to go after her I mean I can't really say anything because I liked what I was seing. We get close enough to start off and she was quite a character didn't shy off the camera or anything so right there and then I knew we struck gold so right away I threw the gauntlet at her and she didn't even blink and came with us In the bus this girl is a wild thing and my boy took full advantage of her wild ways lol..You guys will love this update,Stay tuned!


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Brief ReportPolicy Brief
A Small Percentage of Family Physicians Report Time Devoted to Research
Jennifer R. Voorhees, Imam M. Xierali, Andrew W. Bazemore, Robert L. Phillips, Carlos R. Jaén and James C. Puffer
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine January 2013, 26 (1) 7-8; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2013.01.120125
Jennifer R. Voorhees
From Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA (JRV); Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), Washington, DC (IMX); the Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington, DC (AWB, RLP); and the American Board of Family Medicine, Lexington, KY (CRJ, JCP).
Imam M. Xierali
Andrew W. Bazemore
Robert L. Phillips
Carlos R. Jaén
James C. Puffer
Despite calls by family medicine organizations to build research capacity within the discipline, few family physicians report research activity. Policy that supports efforts in family medicine research and increases awareness of opportunities for primary care research in the practice setting is essential for family medicine to expand its scholarly foundations.
For decades, family medicine professional organizations have called for increasing the discipline's capacity for research and scholarly work.1,2 There is widespread recognition of the need for relevant research in the primary care setting to improve patient and population outcomes, and family physicians are uniquely poised to conduct such research because they provide the largest volume of health care of any single specialty (nearly 250 million patient visits annually).3 Despite this acute awareness and need, research remains a particular challenge to the profession, and family physicians are minimally involved with the National Institutes Health compared with other specialties.4,5
Of American Board of Family Medicine Maintenance of Certification Examination candidates from 2007 to 2009 (n = 28,505), 4.9% reported spending any time on research, with 3.9% spending ≤10% of their time, 0.7% spending >10% but <50%, and 0.3% spending >50% of their time on research (Figure 1). Urban family physicians were more likely to do research compared with rural physicians (5.4% vs 2.8%, respectively). Men were more likely to report any research activity (5.3% vs 4.3%), but women who performed research were more likely than men to report devoting >10% of their time (27% vs 18%). Thirty-one percent of full-time faculty and 8% of part-time faculty members participated in research, compared with 2.5% of nonfaculty members. Participation was relatively equal across ages.
Percentage of family physicians reporting time devoted to research in 2007–2009.
The effort to promote translation of research into primary care requires more family physicians to be trained as researchers and translators. Family medicine organizations should renew support to build research capacity and push family physicians to incorporate scholarly activity into their practice behavior through targeted continuing medical education/maintenance of certification activities and through assistance with federally mandated quality improvement initiatives. Research advocates and governmental organizations, particularly the National Institutes of Health, should increase the funds available to support a primary care research agenda to enable broader participation of family physicians dedicating sufficient time to important research endeavors.
Funding: Support was provided by the American Board of Family Medicine, which contracts annually for health policy/health services research conducted by the Robert Graham Center for studies related to maintenance of certification and quality.
The paper was submitted for publication while Dr. Xierali was at the American Academy of Family Physicians. He is currently Manager for Public Health and Diversity Data Initiatives at the Association of American Medical Colleges.
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Ebell MH,
Ewigman BG,
Green LA
. Involving all family physicians and family medicine faculty members in the use and generation of new knowledge. Fam Med 2000;32:480–90.
What does it mean to build research capacity? Fam Med 2002;34:678–84.
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Beatty PC,
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. National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2007 summary. Natl Health Stat Report 2010;(27):1–32.
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. Off the roadmap? Family medicine's grant funding and committee representation at NIH. Ann Fam Med 2008;6:534–42.
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. The physician-scientist career pipeline in 2005: build it, and they will come. JAMA 2005;294:1343–51.
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1968 - 1970 - Tutorial Assistant, Faculty of Law University of East Africa.
1971 - 1974 - Taught Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Dar es Salaam.
1975 - 1976 - Taught Banking Law at the Institute of Finance Management, Dar es Salaam.
1976 May 1977 Worked in various capacities at the Tanzania Legal Corporation, subsequently heading the Corporation as Chief Corporation Counsel from 1986. This was a Public Organisation charged with the responsibility of providing legal services to all Public Corporations in Tanzania.
May 1977 - Was appointed a Judge of the High Court of Tanzania.
February 2003 - Was appointed a Justice of the Court of Appeal of Tanzania.
November 2006 - Was appointed a Judge of the East African Court of Justice.
July 2008, - Was appointed Judge, Appellate Division and Vice -President of EACJ.
November 2008 to 25th June 2014 - President of the East African Court of Justice.
May 2014, Associate Member, Tanzania Institute of Arbitrators.


Software implementations are a lot like Mad Libs. Just as Mad Libs provides the framework of a story that the players need to complete, the software license provides a framework of a solution that the project team needs to complete. The difference is that success with an implementation is measured by the ROI of meeting business requirements, which is considerably less silly (although arguably more rewarding) than the story produced by a Mad Lib.


Discussion in 'pH' started by dahly, Sep 20, 2005.
Apparently, my tap water Ph is high. When I had my water tested last night, the Ph was 8.4. I had done a water change in the morning, and did treat it with "Aqua Plus." Is there another water conditioner that is good at reducing Ph too? The guy's at the store (who have the same water as I do) were not very concerned. I did look at the stores "wood" but it is large and not inexpensive. I don't want to dump additional chemicals into the tank unless absolutely necessary. Any suggestions or comments?
Exactly why are you wanting to lower your ph? Most fish can be acclimated to just about any ph. If your fish are not uncomfortable I wouldn't worry about it. I have tanks with wood, some with limestone, and some without either and theres not enough difference in ph to bother.
Thanks Carol. I'll take your word on it. The fish are energenic and happy. They (two, one of each) do seem to like it better with the light off. So I haven't been keeping the light on more than 3-4 hours most days.
I lowered my pH by using Reverse Osmosis water, as recommended by my local pet store. When I first had my tank set up, my pH was also quite high, I guess from my tap water. I lowered it over several weeks by using some RO water and some tap water when I did water changes. Ever since then, it's been perfect. At the time I didn't know that it would probably be ok to leave it where it was.
Update: I've done nothing to the tank, tested it, 0,0,10 and pH was 7.8. Apparently it lowered its pH naturally. I went to the Fish store and they had the Panda Cory's I've wanted. Now four are tooling around the tank, joing in on the fun.
I'm with Butterfly on not messing with the ph. However, if the ph is 8.4 when it comes out of the tap, and then goes down to 7.8 within 24 hours, that's a big jump in ph, and could really hurt your fish. What's happening is your water "gasses out" once it's poured from the tap. That's not a bad thing, but it's not good for the fish. Try doing a controlled test by testing some water straight from the tap, and then setting out a bowl of water for 24 hours. After 24 hours, check the ph again, and see how much of a difference there is. If the difference is more than a couple of tenths difference, you should probably age your water before adding it to your tank when you do water changes. All that is is you put your tap water in a bucket or barrell and add a powerhead or air stone for circulation at least a day before you plan on using it so everything has gassed out before you add it to the tank.
The pH reading of 8.4 was Monday, 7.8 was Thursday. With a 29 gallon tank it is easy enough to set aside 8-9 gallons 24-48 hours before adding it to the tank as part of a water exchange. Thanks for all your help! You, Butterfly and all the other make this sight great for a "Newbie" like me.
Thanks Dahly, I keep a 25 Gal. plastic tub full of water in my guest bathroom tub. that way I always have water ready for changes or when I need water that is tank ready. I use much less dechlor that way also.
I think my water gasses out or whatever you call it because my tap water is fairly alkaline but my tank water is slightly acidic.
Today, two of my new Panda Cory's died. One at noon and the second at 7:00pm. I was still under the 48 hour warrantee when I returned the first one. I took a water sample too; 0, 0, 10, but the water was VERY hard 300+ and the pH was 8.4. The Cory's didn't have a chance. I bought a piece of driftwood, to help control the water chemistry, and put it immediately into the tank. When we returned from dinner, I found the second struggling, then die. I took him back to the store too. I bought 5 gallons of Reverse Osmosis water to further help the water chemistry and save my fish. They said that changing just 5 gallons of my 29 shouldn't decrease the pH too fast and kill the fish. I hope not. I did ask, since they have the same water conditions at this nearby store, why I wasn't told about how hard it would be to keep tetra's and Cory Panda's. ??? Their answer basically was, that the fish I have are hardy (except the Cory's) and if I slowly add to the tank (four Cory's were too much) they would/could acclimate and thrive. I'm a bit put out with them but blame myself for going too fast, and perhaps not asking the right or enough questions. My existing Cory's seem ok. The White Skirts are terrific but two of the three Silver Tips seem a little stressed. I hope the water change and drift wood help them to thrive. I would guess the stores water test on Thursday was flat out wrong. Slow and steady will win the race. And it's not a race, it's a delicate hobby. Update: A third cory died overnight Sunday and one silver tip doesn't look too good. The rest look great!
The water will be fine, I don't put a bubble stone in mine either. Just remember to dechlorinate the water you use to warm it with. or warm some of the water you have set out and you won't have to dechlor it. Glad to hear the fishies are well.
Sounds like your on the right track to me.
When I let my water set for 24 hours I do not dechlorinate it. If you do anyway no harm done. Sorry to hear about the pandas, they are really sensitive. How much does the ph change when you use the ro water? How are your other fish doing?
If you have chloramines in your tap water, you will still have to use the dechlor. You can check with your local utilities about that.
The water I sat over night had a pH of 8, and hardness of 250. Straight from the tap it is 8.4 and 300+. My tank tested at ammonia 3.0 (due to dead fish in tank for a couple of hours, possible over feeding too) nitrites and nitrates at .25, pH of 8, and hardness of 250- 300. The store suggested a partial water change and gravel vac last night, 5 gallons, which I did. The drift wood I added Saturday had discolored the water, as it should, I guess. The fish seem fine, except for one Silver Tip, who is doing a little better. I'll change 5 gallons weekly for a while. But no new fish for 2-3 weeks at least, longer if the chemistry isn't good. Then just two hardy ones (Skirt Tetra's) at a time. Thanks for your help when I yell.
Check your ammonia level again. A 5 gallon water change in a 29 isn't all that much and 3.0 is a toxic ammonia level. Let us know what it is. And don't beat yourself up on this. I have heard that panda corys are harder to keep than other corys so once you get your water conditions under control, you can try again.
I will check the water again tonight. I have another 5 gallons that have now sat for two days so I may do another change. I got this off "Badmans Tropical"
Change enough of the water to reduce ammonia levels to 1-2 ppm for freshwater or below 1 ppm for saltwater. If that means changing more than a third of the water, be sure the water you add is the same temperature, salinity, hardness and pH of the tank water. It is also okay to do multiple smaller water changes for a few days. Aerate, and make sure pH is at or below 7.0 for freshwater tanks. In addition to or instead of changing water, you can also add a dose of AmQuel to give fish immediate relief. Find out why ammonia is present and correct the problem.


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Golden Bears break records and set new PSAC qualifying marks
By thekeystonenews on February 20, 2018
By Gregory Brower
School records were being broken left and right in Staten Island on Feb. 9. Senior Steve Maine would end up to break the school record for the mile run, and Jhaloni Johnson for the 200-meter run. Johnson would then name him PSAC Track Athlete of the Week.
The previously standing record for the mile was set by Ryan Reich, with a time of 4:16.82 back in 2011. That record stood for seven years until Steven Maine managed to claim the title, earning a time of 4:16.09 last Friday. Impressively enough, this is Maine's second time breaking a school record, after smashing the 3000m earlier this year.
Jhaloni Johnson – Photo courtesy of Rafalene Costanza
Jhaloni Johnson broke a long-standing school record in the 200m run. The record, initially set in 2000, was smashed with a time of 21.72 seconds. This is Johnson's second school record to be broken this season, with some help from other Golden Bears in the 4x100m relay earlier on in the season. His finish in the 200m earns him a third-ranked spot in the PSAC, as well as eighth in the region, and 34th place in Division II. Johnson was also recognized by the conference office as the PSAC Track Athlete of the Week, due to his outstanding performance this week. Along with this honor, his name was inscribed on the record board in Keystone Hall.
Brandon Raguz, another senior, managed seventh place for Kutztown in the pole vault event, clearing 15-9, which is also an NCAA provisional mark.
In a career-best performance in the 800m, junior Jared Luckanitz finished 13th with a time of 1:55.44. This time would solidify a spot as the 5th best time for this event in school history. Freshman Cameron Christopher followed close behind, placing 21st in this event, with a time of 1:58.61.
Another career-best was earned for the Golden Bears, as AJ Kilpatrick led his team in the 3000m. He earned a new PSAC time of 8:51.75, earning him 18th for this event. This time also stood for a 10th best time in school history. Following closely behind, Chris Coates also set a career-best in this event, with a time of 8:57.13.
C.J. Lindsay Jr., senior, earned a performance in the top five in the 200m, earning the second spot in the top five to represent Kutztown. He earned a time of 22.61. Austin Cory finished sixth in the 400m, posting existing PSAC marks along with John Ismen.
Season bests were earned off the track as well, with the Golden Bears shot put team. Abdul Saad cleared 44-2.50, and EJ Umoh cleared 40-8.75, both earning personal bests.
For the weight throw event, Junior Mike Campione led the team, finishing 14th with 49-7.75.
In the women's portion of the event, Ashley Stewart, Stephanie Bresadola and Anecia Alexaki all posted new marks. Stewart placed eighth in the 400m, earning a time of 58.42. Finishing with a time of 5:15.51, Bresadola was just short of a personal best for her mile. Alexaki, one of the pole vaulters for Kutztown, cleared a season-best 3.5m (11-5.75), which has ranked her 3rd in Kutztown history for pole vaulters.
Meghan Forsythe earned a time of 59.31 in the 400m, posting existing PSAC qualifying marks. Junior Joanne Mason finished with a time of 9.41 in the 60m hurdles event, and Kate Seegert cleared 3.20m (10-6.00) in the pole vault.
Also, for the women, Becca Hemingway cleared 1.55m (5-1.00) in the high jump on Friday. Kelly Groth, sophomore, just barely missed a qualifying mark in the 200m, with a time of 26.55. Ally Tama also fell a bit short of her qualifying mark in the 400m, with a time of 1:02.27, missing the mark of 1:01.00.
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Mr. Ribbit
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Updated Aug 3, 2022
Tags angst fluff girlgroup shinee snsd taeny taeyeon tiffany rivalry girlsgeneration girlxgirl enemiestolovers wlw lawyers
Foreword 1 Page 0 2 Struggle 3 Mr. Ribbit 4 Winning, But At What Cost 5 Obsession 6 It's a Date! 7 Jihoon 8 Leo to the Rescue 9 Will You, Won't You? 10 Will You Be My Girlfriend 11 Birthday 12 Taeyeon's Mistake 13 Hayeon and Leo 14 The Kang problem 15 Consequences 16 [TW] Secrets 17 Reconciliation
"No way!" Jinki gasped.
"Did someone rig the points?" Yuri's mouth widened.
"Oh wow" Hyoyeon's eyes widened and she crossed her arms in shock.
"As we can see it's the end of the 3rd week, and the current and official points are.. Taeyeon with 7 points. And Tiffany, the new reigning champion, with 13 points!" Sooyoung clapped. "Whoa, in 1 week, you went from 2 to 13! That's crazy!"
"Well, a new mall opened up and there were special sales in nearly every store. People went crazy and I took my chance" Tiffany smirked.
"Loser, do you have anything to say about this?" Taemin chuckled and teased Taeyeon.
"Yah! I was on vacation the entire week! It's a miracle I even got those few cases done while I was away with the family!" Taeyeon defended herself. "But i'm back now, and dry season is over. Tiffany, take a picture of the scoreboard, because this'll be the last time you lead" she smirked.
"Oh really? Because i'm leading by 6 points, and I have 2 people coming in today for interrogation, and I already know they'll be confessing, so i'm gonna be 8 points ahead by tonight. And we only have a week left till the competition ends. So how on earth are you going to surpass me? Hm?" Tiffany smirked.
"You'll see" Taeyeon took her keys from the table.
"Where are you going?" Tiffany furrowed her eyebrows.
"To be a detective. Hyo, Key, cover for me if the boss comes?" Taeyeon smiled.
"Of course" Hyoyeon nodded.
"You got it" Key smiled.
"Thanks guys" Taeyeon smiled and walked out the building.
"Wha- That's absolutely not fair!" Tiffany's eyes widened. "I can't get cases that way!"
"Figure it out!" Taeyeon called from the door, as she walked into the elevator and left.
"Well of course she's gonna gain more points this way! She's going out to do detective works!" Tiffany complained.
"You know what, because this is getting interesting, i'll give you permission to go on detective duty with Sooyoung. But only after you finish all your assistant work for the week because we actually need those done" Minho stated.
Tiffany groaned. "It's gonna take me so long to finish these"
"Well Taeyeon missed a whole week, so you had a 7 day advantage. Now you can miss a few days doing assistant work since you're behind on it anyways. And it's only fair" Minho shrugged. "Now get to work if you wanna do detective work earlier" He chuckled and went back to his office.
"Whenever you're done with your work, just let me know and i'll take you with me" Sooyoung smiled.
"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney, if you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you" Taeyeon stated, as she handcuffed the criminal who was assaulting another man.
"This is your third arrest of the day, you need to relax" Taemin chuckled
"Nah, I need to catch up. I can't let Tiffany beat me. Now that I got those 3 arrests, she's only leading by 3 points" Taeyeon stated, as she put the criminal in the back of Taemin's car.
"Actually, Tiffany did say she has 2 more people coming in today, so she's leading by 5 points" Taemin chuckled.
"Shut up" Taeyeon chuckled. "I took a week long vacation and within 4 hours, i'm already slowly catching up. By the end of the day, I can surpass her" She stretched her back. "Anyways, you go take this to the precinct and take the paper work to the firm so I can finalize it later. I'll go to the next location and meet you there" She said, as she walked to her car and drove to the next location.
On her way to the next location, she noticed a shady man walking towards a group of preteen girls in school uniforms. Probably walking home from school. She quickly parked the car on the side of the road and got out, taking her gun from the car door storage compartment. She hid it in her pocket and walked fast so she was walking in front of the girls.
The man walked towards the girls and immediately grabbed the smallest one. All the girls gasped and started screaming. The man started running.
Before he could run past Taeyeon, she immediately grabbed his arm and twisted it.
"Oh !" He groaned and dropped the girl.
"Go to your friends kid" Taeyeon said, as she grabbed his other arm and twisted it too.
"What the hell are you doing, who do you think you are??" The man snapped, as she was bodied down by Taeyeon.
"I'm detective Kim. And you have the right to remain silent. Anything you say or do will-" She was cut off.
"-Yeah, yeah whatever. Let me ing go " He spat near her foot.
"Oh you're going to regret that" She was about to get the last handcuffs from her belt, but the man kicked her in the stomach and ran towards the girls again, all of whom were too busy reassuring their friend who was nearly kidnapped. They didn't notice the man running towards them again.
"" Taeyeon groaned and held her stomach. She slowly got up, but was too late. The man was holding another one of the girls, with a gun to her head.
"STOP PLEASE NO LET ME GO" The girl started crying.
Taeyeon gritted her teeth and quickly pressed a beeper that was in her pocket, before standing up. "Let her ing go"
"How about you let me go or I pull the trigger" He snapped.
'What do I do? I can't let him go with her. But I can't do anything or he'll pull the trigger... I can't get my gun out my pocket either. One wrong move and he'll shoot her...' She sighed. She didn't have back up either, so she was stuck. Until...
"LET HER GO" One of the preteen girls shouted and stabbed the man on his thigh with her scissors.
"OUCH" The man groaned in pain and dropped the girl. Taeyeon's eyes widened as she feared for the girls safety. She ran towards them and quickly kicked the mans gun away. "Girls, go to to my car. It's open. Get in and STAY in" She snapped. All the girls nodded and ran to her car.
"And you" She put her gun on his head. "One ing wrong move and i'll shoot. Now get the up" She pulled him up and took her handcuffs, successfully cuffing him this time. "You will be charged for attempted abducting, threatening to shoot an innocent child, and assaulting a detective" She spat. "Back up is coming right now. Have fun in jail then hell, " She dragged him to her car, unlocked it and got another pair of handcuffs to handcuff him to one of the apartments stairway rails.
She carefully picked up his gun and put it in a ziplock bag that she had in her car.
"Hey, you girls alright?" She looked at the 5 scared and shivering girls crowded at the back of her car.
"I-I-I wanna g-go home" The girl who the man threatened to shoot said, as she sniffled.
"I know sweetheart, and i'm gonna take you all home" Taeyeon half smiled. "Here" She pulled out a blanket she had in the trunk of her car, that she had for this exact situation, and gave it to the girls. "But I can't take you right this second, because I can't leave that criminal here alone. We have to take him to jail so he doesn't hurt anyone else, okay? But don't worry, you're safe with me" She reassured them. "Here, all of you have some water" She gave then water bottles.
"And you" She looked at the girl who stabbed the man. The girl looked up at Taeyeon, terrified, thinking she was going to jail for stabbing him.
"I-I-I d-don't want t-to go-go to j-jail" she sniffled. "I-I ju-just wanted to h-help m-my friend" She stuttered.
"Hey, you're not going to jail sweetheart" Taeyeon pat her shoulder to calmed her down. "You were very brave for what you did, and you did save your friend" The older woman smiled. "But, that was very, very dangerous. He could have hurt you, and your friend. Hopefully there isn't a next time, but next time, don't so that okay? Let the detectives handle it" She stated.
The girl frowned, nodded and looked down in shame.
"Hey, don't be sad. It worked out this time" Taeyeon ruffled her hair. "Anyways, can you all give me your parents numbers so I can call them and let them know what happened and that I will be driving you home?"
And she did. As she waited for back up, she called all their parents and told them what happened.
Once Taemin arrived, he put the man in the back of the car and walked towards Taeyeon. "Hey, I came as fast as I could. Are you okay?? I nearly missed the beeper beeping because the in the back of my car would not shut up" He said, as he looked Taeyeon up and down for any injuries.
"He did kick me real good in the stomach, but other than that, i'm good. I just gotta take these girls home" She nodded her head towards the back of her car.
"Yo, you go to the hospital and check for any broken ribs or something, i'll take them home" Taemin attempted to help.
"I appreciate that dude, but after the incident, I don't think a strange man should be driving them alone anywhere. And I promised to get them home safe" Taeyeon smiled. "Trust me, i'm good. I'll see you back at the firm later. I don't think I can do any detective work today. So can you please get someone else to do them?" She asked, as she got in the car slowly, so she doesn't trigger the pain in her stomach.
"Yeah, I will. Call if you need anything" He smiled.
"Okay girls, let's take you home" Taeyeon half smiled.
"The hero that saved the day!" Sooyoung announced and clapped, as Taeyeon walked in.
"Yah, shut up, it's my job" Taeyeon groaned, as she limped to her chair. She slowly sat down and groaned, clutching her stomach.
"Taeyeon, did you not go to the hospital?" Taemin looked at her, slightly frustrated and angry.
"Taemin, i'm fine. But i'll get it checked out at the firms infirmary in a bit. I just drove to 5 different homes to drop off those little girls, and had to re-explain what happened to their family. I just want to rest for a minute" Taeyeon said, as she leaned back on her chair.
"Tae, you don't seem okay.." Hyoyeon looked at her friend. "You may have broken bones, please go to the infirmary now before it gets worse" The blonde said, as she stood up and walked towards Taeyeon. "C'mon, i'll help you get there"
" man" Taeyeon groaned as she got up. "He had spiky shoes. He kicked me real bad" She let the blonde girl help her up and lead her to the firms infirmary.
"Well you're gonna love who's gonna nurse you back to health" Hyoyeon chuckled and walked into the infirmary.
"Oh hey Hyoy-oh.." Tiffany looked at the girl. "What happened to you?"
"You're a doctor??" Taeyeon groaned.
"I'm not a licensed doctor, but I do have some experience..." Tiffany looked at the older girl, who was now carefully sitting on the bed.
"Well great, because Taeyeon was just kicked in the stomach and needs to be checked" Hyoyeon chuckled. "Well, have fun" She walked out to leave the two girls alone.
"You were kicked??" Tiffany's eyes widened and she started getting her stuff.
"Yeah" Taeyeon shrugged.
"Why? What happened?" Tiffany looked at the older girl. "Also, uhm.. T-Take off your shirt so I can see.. The-.. Uhm.. The injury" She stuttered.
Taeyeon stood up slowly and carefully took her shirt off, groaning throughout the entire process. "" she sat back down. "This tried kidnapping some preteen girls who were going back home from school. I tried cuffing him but he kicked me and took held another one of the girls at gunpoint" Taeyeon explained.
Tiffany could barely catch what the girl said because she was too busy staring at her chest. Once she realized what she was doing, she shook her head, gulped and walked towards Taeyeon. "Uhm, that's awful.. Are the girls alright? They must've been so shook up- Oh my god your stomach" her eyes widened.
"Excuse me?" Taeyeon furrowed her eyebrows and looked down at her chest. She had a huge bruise on her stomach.
"A-Are you sure nothing is broken, because-" Tiffany was cut off.
"-I've had broken bones before. I had 3 broken ribs. They hurt like . You couldn't miss the sharp pain it caused. This is no broken rib. It doesn't hurt that much. Just the bruising area hurts" Taeyeon stated.
"Uh-Uhm.. Okay, w-well i'll help heal the bruise. Uhm... Can I-.. Do I have permission to touch you...?" Tiffany asked cautiously, not wanting to cross any boundaries.
"Yeah, just heal this because I already feel like throwing up" Taeyeon said, as she groaned.
"O-Okay, well i'm gonna disinfect the cuts, stop the bleeding then put some cream on the bruise and ice it up... Then you'll need to rest. Don't move suddenly or a lot. Just keep icing it" Tiffany said, as she got to work.
There was a few minutes of awkward silence. Taeyeon found this embarrassing. She did not want Tiffany nursing her back to health.
"So are the girls okay?" Tiffany made small talk.
"Yeah, I took them home safe and had to explain to their families what happened" Taeyeon stated.
"What about the man? He better go to jail.."
"Oh he will. He threatened to shoot a child, ne
2 Struggle
3 Mr. Ribbit
4 Winning, But At What Cost
5 Obsession
6 It's a Date!
7 Jihoon
8 Leo to the Rescue
9 Will You, Won't You?
10 Will You Be My Girlfriend
11 Birthday
12 Taeyeon's Mistake
13 Hayeon and Leo
14 The Kang problem
15 Consequences
16 [TW] Secrets
17 Reconciliation
Eternal Soul
You Make Me Happy – Part 4 [Finale]
You Make Me Happy - Part 3


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Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
Some Obamaphiles bristle at the idea that he should be thought of principally as a black president-assessed in a segregated category of one. Yet race has been essential to his career, as well as to his finest oratory. The emergency remarks he made, in 2008, after the circulation of radical comments by his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, anticipated his address on the 50th anniversary of the Selma march. In both he advanced a dialectical view of history that transmuted racial traumas into occasions for collective progress, the landmarks of black liberation into milestones in America's pursuit of perfection. If the story of race is America's story, his trailblazing role in it must rank among his most lasting contributions.
"A reflection on Barack Obama's presidency," The Economist, December 24, 2016. http://www.economist.com/news/christmas-specials/21712062-barack-obamas-presidency-lurched-between-idealism-and-acrimony-some-his.
A Real Negro Girl: Fredi Washington and the Politics of Performance during the New Negro Renaissance.
Posted in Biography, History, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Statements, United States, Women on 2019-08-28 00:26Z by Steven
Grant number: HB-263199-19
Grantee: Laurie Avant Woodard, Assistant Professor of History
CUNY Research Foundation, City College (New York, New York)
Grant Period: 2019-09-01 through 2020-08-31
$60,000 USD (approved), $60,000 USD (awarded)
Research and writing a biography of Fredi Washington (1903-1994), a civil rights activist and a performing artist active in the Harlem Renaissance.
Focusing upon the life and career of performing artist and civil rights activist Fredi Washington, this project places an African American female performing artist at the center of the narrative of the New Negro Renaissance; illuminates the vital influence of performing artists on the movement; and demonstrates the ways in which Washington and the New Negro Renaissance are central components of the long civil rights narrative and our understanding of the African American quest for civil and human rights. The manuscript will consist of six chapters and a prologue and epilogue.
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Nella Larsen's Etiquette Lesson: Small Talk, Racial Passing, and the Novel of Manners
Posted in Articles, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, Passing, United States on 2019-02-04 15:19Z by Steven
Novel: A Forum on Fiction
Volume 51, Issue 1 (2018-05-01)
DOI: 10.1215/00295132-4357365
Matthew Krumholtz
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
This essay explores how novelists of the Harlem Renaissance deploy small talk to disrupt racial identification. Nella Larsen's Passing (1929) serves as a case study showing that small talk magnifies a strange intimacy between passing narratives and etiquette manuals in the early twentieth century. While critics have tended to view small talk under the rubric of gossip, writers of the Harlem Renaissance call attention to the way that small talk enables racial passing by keeping dialogue on neutral and impersonal grounds. Nella Larsen makes peculiarly pronounced use of small talk, which emerges in her fiction as a self-accenting style of racial embodiment and a bold revision to the American novel of manners and to early twentieth-century etiquette manuals. Drawing on sociolinguistics and microsociology, this essay argues that Larsen unsettles the cultural tendency to equate passing with self-denial, converting small talk to an equivocal medium for passing that, paradoxically, makes audible a protest against racial segregation and social regulation.
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Tags: Harlem Renaissance, Matthew Krumholtz, microsociology, Nella Larsen, Novel: A Forum on Fiction, racial segregation, sociolinguistics
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Creative Producer, Passing by Indigo Griffiths
Posted in Arts, Law, Media Archive, Passing, United Kingdom, Wanted/Research Requests/Call for Papers on 2018-03-24 20:26Z by Steven
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Closes: 2018-03-26
Salary: Paid (£10k-15k pro rata)
Artform: Theater
Contact: Gemma Aked-Priestley and Indigo Griffiths
Chicago. 1941. Joey, John and Eliza are siblings but their lives are about to take different paths. Joey is embracing the New Negro Movement, John is breaking barriers at college and Eliza is preparing to pass as white. In a world where everything is determined by race, what can you gain by concealing who you are, and more importantly what can you lose?
Passing is a new play by Indigo Griffiths exposing the controversial practice of "racial passing" – the use of skin colour as social currency.
In August 2017 the project undertook Arts Council funded R&D at the Nuffield Southampton Theatres, culminating in an industry sharing at The Bunker. A rehearsed reading will take place on Wednesday 14th March in collaboration with Women@RADA: https://www.rada.ac.uk/whats-on/playreadings
The Creative Producer will lead a fundraising campaign, support budgeting, marketing, the formation of the creative team and be involved with all aspects of the production. Fee is funding dependant but will be in line with ITC recommended rates. Creative meetings will begin in May 2018 for a Spring 2019 production.
Gemma's directing credits include Gracie (Finborough Theatre) Grimm: An Untold Tale (Underbelly, Edinburgh Festival) and Tender Napalm (Karamel Club). She is the Assistant Director for The Mono Box. Assistant Direction includes Sam Hodges on the world premiere of Howard Brenton's The Shadow Factory (Nuffield Southampton Theatres) and Daniel Goldman on Thebes Land (Arcola). She is the recipient of bursaries from the Mayflower Theatre, Barker-Mill Foundation and JMK Trust.
Indigo's Writing credits include The Mulatto Girl (Nuffield Theatre Lab) and Passing (The Bunker/The Pleasance). She is a member of the Papatango Writers Course 2017-18 and in 2018 completed An Introduction to Screenwriting course (University of East Anglia). Indigo's focus is on exploring unheard female voices and the mixed-race narrative. She is currently working on a trilogy of plays that explore mixed race heritage (Passing, The Mulatto Girl and The Island.)
Please send a CV and short letter of interest to Gemma.aked-priestley@hotmail.co.uk/ indigo.griffiths@hotmail.co.uk.
Tags: Arts Council, Arts Council England, England, Gemma Aked-Priestley, Harlem Renaissance, Indigo Griffiths, London, New Negro Movement
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Archibald Motley Jr. and Racial Reinvention: The Old Negro in New Negro Art
Posted in Books, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, Monographs, United States on 2017-09-06 04:20Z by Steven
8 color photographs, 34 black & white photographs
Phoebe Wolfskill, Assistant Professor
Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies
Indiana University, Bloomington
The painter's struggle at the crossroads of artistic expression and social progress
An essential African American artist of his era, Archibald Motley Jr. created paintings of black Chicago that aligned him with the revisionist aims of the New Negro Renaissance. Yet Motley's approach to constructing a New Negro–a dignified figure both accomplished and worthy of respect–reflected the challenges faced by African American artists working on the project of racial reinvention and uplift.
Phoebe Wolfskill demonstrates how Motley's art embodied the tenuous nature of the Black Renaissance and the wide range of ideas that structured it. Focusing on key works in Motley's oeuvre, Wolfskill reveals the artist's complexity and the variety of influences that informed his work. Motley's paintings suggest that the racist, problematic image of the Old Negro was not a relic of the past but an influence that pervaded the Black Renaissance. Exploring Motley in relation to works by notable black and non-black contemporaries, Wolfskill reinterprets Motley's oeuvre as part of a broad effort to define American cultural identity through race, class, gender, religion, and regional affiliation…
Tags: Archibald Motley, Archibald Motley Jr., Chicago, Harlem Renaissance, Illinois, New Negro Renaissance, Phoebe Wolfskill, University of Illinois Press
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The Signifyin(g) Saint: Encoding Homoerotic Intimacy in Black Harlem
Posted in Articles, Arts, Caribbean/Latin America, Gay & Lesbian, History, Latino Studies, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, Religion on 2017-03-15 01:36Z by Steven
Black Perspectives
James Padilioni Jr, Ph.D Candidate and Teaching Fellow in American Studies (Africana-affiliated)
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
On June 25, 1942, Edward Atkinson arrived at 101 Central Park West to sit for a photo shoot in the home studio of Carl Van Vechten. Van Vechten, author of the infamous 1926 novel Nigger Heaven, was a white patron of the Harlem Renaissance and amateur photographer who took hundreds of photographs of Black Harlem's who's who such as Paul Robeson, Billie Holiday, and James Weldon Johnson. Atkinson, an off-Broadway actor no stranger to playing a role, transformed himself into Martin de Porres (1579-1639), a Peruvian friar who became the first Afro-American saint when the Vatican canonized him in 1962 as the patron of social justice. I trace Martin's iconography and ritual performances across Black communities in Latin and Anglo America to reveal the historical relations of power that structure and materialize the networks harnessed by Black peoples to mobilize resources in their varied yet persistent efforts to create meaningful lives out of the fragments of the Middle Passage…
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Tags: Black Perspectives, Carl Van Vechten, Edward Atkinson, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, James Padilioni Jr, Martin de Porres, Martin de Porres Velázquez, New York City
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The Forgotten Work of Jessie Redmon Fauset
Posted in Articles, Biography, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, United States, Women on 2017-02-20 01:52Z by Steven
Morgan Jerkins
Among the events that helped to crystallize what would come to be known as the Harlem Renaissance was a dinner, in March, 1924, at the Civic Club, on West 12th Street. The idea for the dinner was initially hatched by Charles Spurgeon Johnson, the editor of Opportunity, a journal published by the National Urban League and, under Johnson, one of the leading outlets for young black writers. Johnson planned to invite twenty guests—a mix of white editors and publishers as well as black intellectuals and literary critics—to honor Jessie Redmon Fauset and the publication of "There Is Confusion," her début novel, about a black middle-class family's struggle for social equality. But when Johnson ran the idea by the writer and philosopher Alain Locke, who he hoped would serve as master of ceremonies, Locke said that the dinner should celebrate black writers in general, rather than just one in particular. So the purpose of the event changed, and the list of invitees grew; among those who ultimately attended were Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Bennett, Langston Hughes, and W. E. B. Du Bois. That evening, attendees listened to a series of salutations, an address by Locke, and presentations by several black men. At the end of the dinner, Locke—who had praised "There Is Confusion" as what "the Negro intelligentsia has been clamoring for"—introduced Fauset. But though she was a guest of honor, she evidently felt like an afterthought. Years later, in 1933, she would write a scathing letter to Locke (who had just reviewed her most recent novel, about which he had some misgivings), declaring that he, with "consummate cleverness," had managed, on that evening in 1924, to "keep speech and comment away from the person for whom the occasion was meant"—that is to say, her…
…"Initially, Fauset's work was dismissed as sentimental and Victorian, primarily because she dealt with 'women's issues,' centering on the marriage plot," Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, said. Fauset's second novel, "Plum Bun," is probably her best, and it received the most attention when it was published, with reviews in The New Republic, the New York Times, and Saturday Review. Like "There Is Confusion," it is a story about middle-class respectability. It centers on a mixed-race young woman named Angela Murray, who grows up in a posh black neighborhood in Philadelphia where each house looks just the same. All the residents know their neighbors' names, and everyone goes to church on Sundays. Young women train to be teachers and young men do the same or strive to become post-office workers. Angela, tired of this bourgeois world, wants to become a famous painter, and believes that the only way to do so is to abandon her family, move to New York City, and pass for white. In New York, she meets a poor artist who falls in love with her and a wealthy white man she hopes to marry. At one point, she sees her sister at the train station in New York and pretends not to recognize her, so that she can keep up the charade that she is white. Later, however, in order to support a fellow art student, a black woman, she reveals her true identity. In a conversation with her sister, Angela says, "When I begin to delve into it, the matter of blood seems nothing compared with individuality, character, living. The truth of the matter is, the whole business was just making me fagged to death . . . You can't fight and create at the same time."…
Tags: Harlem Renaissance, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Morgan Jerkins, New Yorker, The New Yorker
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Here, There, and In Between: Travel as Metaphor in Mixed Race Narratives of the Harlem Renaissance
Posted in Dissertations, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, United States on 2014-12-11 00:23Z by Steven
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Colin Enriquez
Created to comment on Antebellum and Reconstruction literature, the tragic mulatto concept is habitually applied to eras beyond the 19th century. The tragic mulatto has become an end rather than a means to questioning racist and abolitionist agendas. Rejecting the pathetic and self-destructive traits inscribed by the tragic label, this dissertation uses geographic, cultural, and racial boundary crossing to theorize a rereading of mixed race characters in Harlem Renaissance literature. Focusing on train, automobile, and boat travel, the study analyzes the relationship between the character, transportation, and technology whereby the notion of race is questioned. Furthermore, the dissertation divides travel into departure, interstitial, and arrival phases. With the ability to extend perception and experience, media is also interpreted here as transportation. Using figurative and literal travel, the selected narratives move between localities to allegorize 20th mixed race subjectivity. Socially ambiguous and anonymous, interstitial moments suspend the normative performance of race and enable the selected authors' investigations of race binarism. After the introduction establishes a theoretical frame composed of transnational and migration studies methods, the ensuing chapters demonstrate the interpretive function of travel in Jean Toomer's Cane, Nella Larsen's Quicksand, and Walter White's Flight. This reading is aided by the connection between modernism and mixed race identity as expounded upon in the works of Robert E. Park, Mark Whalan, Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Jeanne Scheper. However, it differs from these in its assertion of travel as an interpretive mode for mixed race literature as a tradition.
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Tags: Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, Colin Enriquez, Harlem Renaissance, Jean Toomer, Jeanne Scheper, Mark Whalan, Nella Larsen, Robert E. Park, Robert Ezra Park, University of Massachusetts, Walter White
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Another layer of blackness: theorizing race, ethnicity, and identity in the U.S. black public sphere
Posted in Barack Obama, Dissertations, Media Archive, United States on 2014-10-24 18:13Z by Steven
Patrick B. Oray
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in American Studies in the Graduate College of The University of Iowa
While many studies of U.S. immigration highlight the diversity within other racial and ethnic groups, scholarly attention to the significance of ethnicity among black people in this country is still sorely underdeveloped. This dissertation project explores how black identities are constructed not only through the prism of race in the U.S. context, but also through other social dynamics that operate "in the shadow of race," such as differences in class, color, country of origin, and circumstances of migration. Instead of a singular black identity fueled by our political discourses and popular culture, my project treats "blackness" as a floating signifier that is constructed both within the racial organization of the U.S. nation-state and among the peoples of the black diaspora within its borders. In short, blackness is a matter that has become national, international, and transnational in scope.
Ethnicity and its implications for how we think about black identity and group representation in U.S. society is the other "layer of blackness" this dissertation addresses. The formation and reshaping of American identity among various immigrant groups have historically involved complicated relationships between race and ethnicity, two concepts scholars have used to articulate group identities in the U.S. The history of U.S. racial and ethnic relations reveals the complicated processes through which some social groups have been able to establish their place in the American mainstream by adapting to the cultural and institutional norms established by mainstream white society. Non-white immigrant groups have been forced to find their American identities on the margins of U.S. society because of their purported inability or unwillingness to assimilate to established cultural and institutional norms. Sometimes this alienation from the American mainstream takes on a purely racial dimension. At other times, the prejudices of U.S. society are directed at particular ethnic groups.
But in spite of the status ascribed to them, these immigrants have also proven to be empowered agents in their implicit and explicit critiques of the U.S.'s social order. Historically, non-white immigrants in the U.S. have demonstrated the power to question, disrupt, and resist cultural and institutional forms of discrimination even as they are incorporated into them.
My interrogation of black ethnic identity and what it brings to bear on how we define blackness in the U.S. begins by asking what cultural capital black immigrants bring with them in their sojourn to America rather than assuming what is lost in the process of their incorporation into U.S. race relations. Patterns of immigration, return migration and circular migration that have come to characterize the experience of many foreign-born blacks in the U.S., as well as the circulation of ideas, culture, and history between sending and receiving countries are all issues germane to the process of black immigrant incorporation and black ethnic identity in the U.S. As such, the argument I proffer in my dissertation project is this: because of the myriad processes at play in formulating black racial and ethnic identities in America (i.e., historically established structures of race as well as an unprecedented surge in foreign-born black migration this country)-how we define blackness in the U.S. context is more fruitfully theorized as a matter that is at once national, international, and transnational in scope. It is at the nexus of these fronts that the historical and cultural constructions of blackness are currently defined among the diversity of black people in the U.S.
I. BLACK LIKE WHOM?: AN INTRODUCTION TO RACE, CLASS, AND ETHNICITY IN THE UNITED STATES BLACK PUBLIC SPHERE
1.1 Ethnicity as "Another Layer of Blackness"
1.2 Theorizing the U.S. Black Public Sphere
1.3 Uncovering an Ethnic Layer of Blackness in the U.S. Black Public Sphere
II. "NO BOOTBLACK HAITIANS:" BLACK COSMOPOLITAN CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE U.S. OCCUPATION OF HAITI (1915-1934)
2.1 The Roots of Black Cosmopolitan Consciousness in the U.S.: The African-American Press Response to the Occupation
2.2 Cosmopolitanism and the U.S. Black Public Sphere: The Occupation, The New Negro Movement, and the Harlem Renaissance
2.3 The Limits of Cosmopolitanism in the U.S. Black Public Sphere
III. SOMEWHERE BETWEEN "BROTHERS" AND "OTHERS" (REPRISE): AFRICAN-AMERICANS, BLACK IMMIGRANTS, AND THE POLITICS OF PLACE
3.1 African Americans and the Transformation of the "Chocolate City" of Oakland, California
3.2 "Challenges to "Umoja" (Unity): The Close Encounters of Black Americans and Black Immigrants in Oakland
3.3 The "Blues City" Finds a New Identity"
IV. RACE AND REPRESENTATIONS OF BLACKNESS IN THE ERA OF OBAMA
4.1 Obama's Presidential Conceit: A "Black Man" Who is Also "Everyman"
4.2 "Articulate, Bright, and Clean": Barack Obama and the Melodrama of Blackness in Campaign '08
4.3 Obama Walks the Tightrope Between "Race" and "Nation"
V. CONCLUSION: W(H)ITHER THE BLACK PUBLIC SPHERE?: RACE, ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY IN THE ERA OF OBAMA
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Tags: California, Haiti, Harlem Renaissance, Oakland, Patrick B. Oray, Patrick Oray, University of Iowa
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Uptown Girls
Posted in Articles, Book/Video Reviews, History, Media Archive, United States, Women on 2013-09-25 21:11Z by Steven
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Martha A. Sandweiss, Professor of History
Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance, by Carla Kaplan Illustrated. 505 pp. Harper.
Time hasn't been kind to the white women who participated in the Harlem Renaissance. As philanthropists and activists, authors and patrons, they sought a place for themselves in that remarkable outpouring of African-American art during the 1920s and '30s. Some, constrained by social expectations, effaced the records of their work. Others made it difficult for historians to treat them with much seriousness. What, after all, can we do with someone like Nancy Cunard, a British steamship heiress raised on a remote English estate, who felt no shame in proclaiming "I speak as if I were a Negro myself"?
"Miss Anne" — the dismissive collective name given to white women — makes bit appearances in the literature of the era as a dilettante or imperious patron; later, she's depicted as a thrill-seeking "slummer." Always, she lurks in the shadows of her male counterparts in scholarly studies of the movement. But she was there, encouraging writers, underwriting cultural institutions, supporting progressive political causes. And many leading Harlem Renaissance figures — including Langston Hughes, Alain Locke and Nella Larsen — had reason to be grateful to her. At least for a while. Like everything else about Miss Anne, those relationships got complicated…
…The book is full of fresh discoveries. Kaplan learns that Lillian Wood, author of the radical 1920s anti-lynching novel "Let My People Go," was actually white, not black, as other scholars have imagined…
…But the focus of the book remains squarely on the larger issues of racial identity raised by Miss Anne's deep personal identification with African-American life. Miss Anne wanted to suggest that race was a constructed ideal, yet she stumbled over the internal contradictions of her impulses. She fought against racial essentialism and the perverse logic of America's one-drop rule, which proclaimed that even a trace of African heritage made one black, but she also celebrated the seeming vitality and distinctiveness of black culture. Josephine Cogdell Schuyler wrote in her diary the night before her wedding: "To my mind, the white race, the Anglo-Saxon especially, is spiritually depleted. America must mate with the Negro to save herself." In a similar expression of romantic racialism, the philanthropist Charlotte Osgood Mason lauded "the creative impulse throbbing in the African race." As Kaplan suggests, white men could sometimes get away with ideas like this; a dose of black culture offered a useful inoculation against the debilitating sterility of the industrial world. But white women who sought an intimate connection with African-American life were seen as traitors to the race, even sexual deviants.
What was race anyway? That's the big question Miss Anne's actions raised. If race was simply a myth or fiction, could one reimagine racial identity as something based on affiliation rather than blood? Some of the writers of the Harlem Renaissance asked much the same thing. In Nella Larsen's "Passing" and James Weldon Johnson's "Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," for example, light-skinned protagonists of African-American heritage successfully pass as white, demonstrating that racial identity could hinge on voluntary association and careful self-presentation. Their radical acts blur the color line and expose the absurdity of the one-drop rule. Approaching the color line from the other side, Miss Anne reframed the issues. If race wasn't determined by biology, why couldn't a white woman feel black? Why couldn't she repudiate her own culture to embrace another?…
Tags: Carla Kaplan, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, Martha A. Sandweiss, Martha Sandweiss, New York Times, The New York Times
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Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance
Posted in Biography, Books, History, Media Archive, Monographs, United States, Women on 2013-09-25 03:06Z by Steven
Trimsize: 6 x 9
Hardcover ISBN: 9780060882389; ISBN10: 0060882387
eBook ISBN: 9780062199126; ISBN10: 0062199129
Carla Kaplan, Stanton W. and Elisabeth K. Davis Distinguished Professor of American Literature
Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
New York City in the Jazz Age was host to a pulsating artistic and social revolution. Uptown, an unprecedented explosion in black music, literature, dance, and art sparked the Harlem Renaissance. While the history of this African-American awakening has been widely explored, one chapter remains untold: the story of a group of women collectively dubbed "Miss Anne."
Sexualized and sensationalized in the mainstream press—portrayed as monstrous or insane—Miss Anne was sometimes derided within her chosen community of Harlem as well. While it was socially acceptable for white men to head uptown for "exotic" dancers and "hot" jazz, white women who were enthralled by life on West 125th Street took chances. Miss Anne in Harlem introduces these women—many from New York's wealthiest social echelons—who became patrons of, and romantic participants in, the Harlem Renaissance. They include Barnard College founder Annie Nathan Meyer, Texas heiress Josephine Cogdell Schuyler, British activist Nancy Cunard, philanthropist Charlotte Osgood Mason, educator Lillian E. Wood, and novelist Fannie Hurst—all women of accomplishment and renown in their day. Yet their contributions as hostesses, editors, activists, patrons, writers, friends, and lovers often went unacknowledged and have been lost to history until now.
In a vibrant blend of social history and biography, award-winning writer Carla Kaplan offers a joint portrait of six iconoclastic women who risked ostracism to follow their inclinations—and raised hot-button issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality in the bargain. Returning Miss Anne to her rightful place in the interracial history of the Harlem Renaissance, Kaplan's formidable work remaps the landscape of the 1920s, alters our perception of this historical moment, and brings Miss Anne to vivid life.
Tags: Annie Nathan Meyer, Carla Kaplan, Charlotte Osgood Mason, Fannie Hurst, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, HarperCollins Publishers, Josephine Cogdell Schuyler, Lillian E. Wood, Nancy Cunard, New York, New York City
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