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Woah! iOS 7 adoption beat iOS 6
In China, for instance, the new operating system has struggled to take off. But adoption has been far quicker in the United States.
The new operating system appears to have inspired a bit of a love/hate response from consumers and the press. It's the largest visual overhaul since Apple first introduced the iPhone in 2007. The updates include a personable male voice from Siri, icon tweaking and polishing, and a new built-in flashlight.
It looks like Apple proved its design won over its customers.


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TIS Coordinator (RN) – Wurli Wurlinjang – Katherine
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Short Term Accommodation Allowance
Why Wurli Wurlinjang Health Service?
Wurli is an Aboriginal Community Controlled organisation delivering primary and clinical health care services to the Aboriginal people in Katherine and surrounding communities. Wurli prides itself on delivering a range of health services to the community in a style and manner that makes clients feel welcome and comfortable.
Competitive annual salary of $122,630 – $132,060
6 weeks annual leave plus leave loading
Training and career development opportunities including study leave provisions
Salary packaging arrangements
Continuous CPD opportunities
What's the role?
Identifying and developing a Tackling Indigenous Smoking action plan for the organisation
Managing the Tackling Indigenous Smoking activities within appropriate guidelines, timelines and budget and coordinating Tackling Indigenous Smoking activities across the organisation
Taking a lead role in improving Wurli's engagement with indigenous youth, with particular emphasis on Tackling Indigenous Smoking
Participating in committees, working groups both internal and external and health professional groups to support the integration of Tackling Indigenous Smoking as core business for the service
Developing and building partnerships with key stakeholders including Katherine communities and community agencies to ensure Tackling Indigenous Smoking programs are effective and culturally responsive.
Is the role right for you?
AHPRA Registration as a Registered Nurse, a non-smoker and a minimum of 5 years' Health Promotions or Public Health experience, preferably with starting a new program from the ground up
Relevant Tertiary Qualification in Health Promotion or Public Health
Sound knowledge and understanding of Indigenous societies and culture, including issues affecting Indigenous people in contemporary Australian Society and knowledge of Katherine and surrounding communities.
A high level of communication skills and a demonstrated willingness and ability to represent the organisation externally, including managing and developing essential stakeholder relationships and partnerships
Current Ochre Card, Criminal History Check, First Aid Certificate and NT Drivers Licence
What's it like living in Katherine?
With a population of around 11,000, Katherine is a modern, thriving regional centre. The population of the region is just over 24,000 people, of which 60% identify as Indigenous. Located 314 km from Darwin and 1180 km from Alice Springs, the town is situated on the banks of the Katherine River. Katherine has a sub-tropical climate, with distinct wet and dry seasons. The Katherine region also boasts magnificent Aboriginal rock art, Nitmiluk (Katherine Gorge) National Park, the Cutta Cutta Caves Nature Park and Elsey National Park. Historically, Katherine has always been important. To the local Aborigines, it was the point where the traditional lands of the Dagoman, Jawoyn, and Wardaman met, and consequently, the river and the nearby gorge were popular meeting places.
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12th Golden Raspberry Awards
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Award for worst cinematic under-achievements in 1991
Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, California
Worst Picture
Most awards
Most nominations
Cool as Ice (7)
The 12th Golden Raspberry Awards were held on March 29, 1992, at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel to recognize the worst the movie industry had to offer in 1991. The list of nominees follows, with recipients marked in bold.
Winner (in bold)[1]
Kevin Costner, Worst Actor winner.
Sean Young, Worst Actress and Worst Supporting Actress winner.
Dan Aykroyd, Worst Supporting Actor winner.
Daniel Waters, Worst Screenplay co-winner.
Bruce Willis, Worst Screenplay co-winner.
Vanilla Ice, Worst New Star winner.
MC Hammer, Worst Original Song co-winner.
Worst Picture Hudson Hawk (TriStar)
Cool as Ice (Universal)
Dice Rules (Seven Arts/20th Century Fox)
Nothing but Trouble (Warner Bros.)
Return to the Blue Lagoon (Columbia)
Worst Actor Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as Robin Hood
Andrew Dice Clay in Dice Rules as Himself
Sylvester Stallone in Oscar as Angelo "Snaps" Provolone
Vanilla Ice in Cool as Ice as Johnny Van Owen
Bruce Willis in Hudson Hawk as Eddie "Hudson Hawk" Hawkins
Worst Actress Sean Young (as the twin who survives) in A Kiss Before Dying as Ellen Carlsson
Kim Basinger in The Marrying Man as Vicki Anderson
Sally Field in Not Without My Daughter as Betty Mahmoody
Madonna (as herself) in Madonna: Truth or Dare
Demi Moore in The Butcher's Wife and Nothing but Trouble as Marina Lemke and Diane Lightson (respectively)
Worst Supporting Actor Dan Aykroyd in Nothing but Trouble as Shire Alvin Valkenheiser/Bobo
Richard E. Grant in Hudson Hawk as Darwin Mayflower
Anthony Quinn in Mobsters as Don Giuseppe Masseria
Christian Slater in Mobsters and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as Lucky Luciano and Will Scarlet (respectively)
John Travolta in Shout as Jack Cabe
Worst Supporting Actress Sean Young (as the twin who's murdered) in A Kiss Before Dying as Dorothy Carlsson
Sandra Bernhard in Hudson Hawk as Minerva Mayflower
John Candy (in drag) in Nothing but Trouble as Eldona
Julia Roberts in Hook as Tinker Bell
Marisa Tomei in Oscar as Lisa Provolone
Worst Director Michael Lehmann for Hudson Hawk
Dan Aykroyd for Nothing but Trouble
William A. Graham for Return to the Blue Lagoon
David Kellogg for Cool as Ice
John Landis for Oscar
Worst Screenplay Hudson Hawk, screenplay by Steven E. de Souza and Daniel Waters, story by Bruce Willis and Robert Kraft
Cool as Ice, written by David Stenn
Dice Rules, concert material written by Andrew Dice Clay; "A Day in the Life" written by Lenny Schulman, story by Clay
Nothing but Trouble, screenplay by Dan Aykroyd, story by Peter Aykroyd
Return to the Blue Lagoon, screenplay by Leslie Stevens, based on the novel "The Garden of God" by Henry De Vere Stacpoole
Worst New Star Vanilla Ice in Cool as Ice as Johnny Van Owen
Brian Bosworth in Stone Cold as Joe Huff/John Stone
Milla Jovovich in Return to the Blue Lagoon as Lilli
Brian Krause in Return to the Blue Lagoon as Richard
Kristin Minter in Cool as Ice as Kathy Winslow
Worst Original Song "Addams Groove" from The Addams Family, written by MC Hammer and Felton C. Pilate II
"Cool as Ice" from Cool as Ice, written by Vanilla Ice, Gail King, and "Princess"
"Why Was I Born (Freddy's Dead)" from Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, written by Iggy Pop and Whitehorn
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Posted on November 7, 2013	by Harrison Barnes	in Ad Agencies, Government, Products	with No Comments on Smoked Out
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Smoking continues to take a devastating toll on the American public.
While there has been a decline through tobacco taxes and smoking bans, the adult smoking rate has stalled at about 20 percent in recent years. Secretary of Health and Human Resources Kathleen Sebelius, said, "When we look back on just a few decades to the days of smoking on airplanes and elevators, it can be easy to focus on how far we've come".
However, the hard truth is that the adult smoking rate hasn't really budged since 2003.
The government is now, in a graphic nationwide campaign aiming to shock smokers into quitting. In the sometimes-gruesome stories of people damaged by tobacco products, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is pushing its first and by far it's largest, at $54 million, national advertising campaign. The spots, which begin Monday and will air for at least 12 weeks, will hopefully persuade as many as 50,000 Americans to stop smoking.
The campaign, consisting of billboards and print, radio and TV ads, show people whose smoking resulted in heart surgery, a tracheotomy, lost limbs or paralysis. Earlier research that aggressive anti-smoking campaigns using hard-hitting images sometimes led to decreases in smoking is now being applied to jolt a weary public that has been listening to government warnings about the dangers of smoking for nearly 50 years.
"There is an urgent need for this media campaign," Matthew Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said in a statement.
One of the print ads featuring Shawn Wright from Washington state shows the 50-year-old shaving, his razor moving down toward a red gaping hole at the base of his neck that he uses to speak and breathe. Shawn Wright had a tracheotomy after being diagnosed with head and neck cancer four years ago.
The advertising firm, Arnold Worldwide, found Wright and about a dozen others who developed cancer or other health problems after smoking for the ads.
CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden said in a telephone interview, "This is incredibly important. It's not every day we release something that will save thousands of lives".
Federal health agencies have gradually embraced graphic anti-smoking imagery, and last year Food and Drug Administration approved nine images to be displayed on cigarette packages.
Expert say that previous waves of anti-smoking ads have been hugely successful, including those that aired in the late 1960s and the American Legacy Foundation's "Truth" ads from the early 2000s.
Glenn Leshner, a University of Missouri researcher who has studied the effectiveness of anti-smoking ads, says the idea is to create an image so striking that smokers and would-be smokers will think of it whenever they have an urge to buy a pack of cigarettes. However, he also found that some ads are so disturbing that people reacted by turning away from the message rather than listening. The ads would need to shock viewers into paying attention while encouraging people that quitting is possible, he said.
The CDC campaign includes information on a national quit line and offers advice on how to kick the habit, CDC officials said.
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Trump's Deportation Machine
If his transition team is any indication, Trump will pursue a policy of mass deportation to drive a wedge between workers.
By David L. Wilson, Jacobin
Like so much about the incoming administration, president-elect Donald Trump's intentions for undocumented immigrants remain unclear. But he seems likely to go forward with a substantial program of "getting them out of our country."
In his first major post-election interview, Trump announced that he plans to deport two or even three million immigrants "here illegally," "people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers." In reality, as Vox's Dara Lind explains, there simply aren't two or three million undocumented immigrants with criminal records, much less gang members and drug dealers.
The people Trump would expel would mostly be residents with green cards who arrived as children and ended up with criminal convictions, immigrants who returned here to reunite with loved ones despite a prior deportation, and, more likely than not, thousands of undocumented workers swept up in raids, like the restaurant employees arrested recently in Buffalo.[...]
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/12/trump-undocumented-immigration-ice-sessions/
Correction: The article states that "[t]he last general to head the immigration enforcement apparatus was Joseph Swing." The last general in this position was Leonard Chapman, who was Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization from 1973 to 1977.
Labels: deportation, enforcement, organizing, politics
Hundreds of Students Report Bullying, Threats and Attacks in Weeks After the Election
In the three days after the election, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) received more than 200 reports of hate-based harassment and intimidation.
By Victoria Law, Truthout
Tayz Enriquez, a senior at a high school in Greeley, Colorado, convinced herself that the day after the 2016 election would be a normal one. But that morning, as she walked through the school's hallways, she heard students asking others, "You're still here?"
"To be fair, I'm not sure if they were joking," she told Truthout. "But it's still not OK to say." None of the comments were directed at Enriquez, whose parents are originally from Mexico, but she felt the tension in the air. Then came the last class of the day. Enriquez was already in her seat when another student, a white boy, walked in and loudly said, "Trump 2016! Build the wall!"[...]
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/38561-hundreds-of-students-report-bullying-threats-and-attacks-in-weeks-after-the-election
Labels: racism, youth
Cities Vow to Fight Trump on Immigration, Even if They Lose Millions
By Jennifer Median and Jess Bigwood, New York Times
LOS ANGELES — Here in Los Angeles, where nearly half of the city's residents are Latino, Mayor Eric Garcetti has vowed to do everything he can to fight widespread deportations of illegal immigrants.
In New York, with a large and diverse Latino population, Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged not to cooperate with immigration agents. And Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago has declared that it "will always be a sanctuary city."
Across the nation, officials in sanctuary cities are gearing up to oppose President-elect Donald J. Trump if he follows through on a campaign promise to deport millions of illegal immigrants. They are promising to maintain their policies of limiting local law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration agents.
In doing so, municipal officials risk losing millions of dollars in federal assistance for their cities that helps pay for services like fighting crime and running homeless shelters.[...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/us/cities-vow-to-fight-trump-on-immigration-even-if-they-lose-millions.html
Labels: deportation, detention, enforcement, politics
Resisting Donald Trump: Getting prepared to fight immigration raids and deportations
Organizers say now is the time to prepare for resistance
Sarah Lazare, Alternet via Salon.com
After the election, we've been asking folks to prepare," Armando Carmona, spokesperson for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, told AlterNet over the phone from Los Angeles. "We don't want to get stuck in fear, but we need to be prepared, and be prepared for the worst."
Carmona is one of many organizers across the country reeling from the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, following his campaign of racist incitement against immigrants, refugees, Muslims and the Black Lives Matter movement. Already, Trump has appointed white nationalist Steve Bannon as chief White House strategist. Jeff Sessions, who was determined too racist to serve as a federal judge under the Reagan administration, is Trump's choice for attorney general. Retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, a war hawk who says he is "open" to torture, is Trump's designate for national security adviser. The anti-immigrant hardliner Kris Kobach is just one of Trump's alarming picks to lead his transition team.
While it is difficult to predict what this bevy of right appointees will do once they take the White House in January, undocumented people — or people merely perceived to be undocumented — have reason to be concerned.[...]
http://www.salon.com/2016/11/27/resisting-donald-trump-getting-prepared-to-fight-immigration-raids-and-deportations_partner/
Labels: deportation, organizing, politics, sanctuary
The Limits of Sanctuary Cities
By Alex Kotlowitz, The New Yorker
At a news conference last week, Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, tried to reassure undocumented immigrants living in the city. "To all those who are, after Tuesday's election, very nervous and filled with anxiety, you are safe in Chicago," he said. On the campaign trail, Donald Trump had consistently promised to deport immigrants living in this country illegally, but Emanuel, along with other big-city mayors, including Bill de Blasio, in New York, asserted that their cities—so-called sanctuary cities—would remain safe havens against federal deportation actions. As Emanuel went on to declare, "Chicago has in the past been a sanctuary city.... It always will be a sanctuary city."
What these mayors didn't say, however, was how their municipalities would be able to prevent the federal government from exerting its authority—and what they mean by the term "sanctuary city."
The American movement to provide sanctuary to undocumented immigrants dates back thirty-four years, to the Southside Presbyterian Church in Tucson, Arizona, where the Reverend John Fife announced that his church would protect refugees fleeing the civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala.[...]
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-limits-of-sanctuary-cities
Labels: deportation, detention, enforcement, sanctuary
To resist a Trump presidency, ask: "What would the abolitionists do?"
Trump has vowed to deport millions of undocumented immigrants.... What would the abolitionists do? They would gather in huge numbers every time federal agents came for a Hispanic honors student. They would compel those agents to use force if they wanted to proceed.
By Linda Hirshman, Washington Post
In the days since the election, there have been many calls for anti-Trump forces to remain resolute in their resistance. "If the presidency of Donald Trump inspires anything, it should be a fierce spirit of opposition," Leon Wieseltier wrote last weekend in these pages. "The proper response is steely resolve to wage the fight of our lives," Jonathan Chait wrote in New York magazine.
But what can anti-Trump liberals and progressives actually do? With his party in control of the White House and Congress, and with Trump about to tip the balance of the Supreme Court, it's easy to despair over how little leverage the Democrats seem to have.
One episode from history reveals reasons to hope.[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/to-resist-a-trump-presidency-ask-what-would-the-abolitionists-do/2016/11/18/2615a136-a767-11e6-8fc0-7be8f848c492_story.html
Labels: deportation, organizing, politics
Trump's Ideas Man for Hard-Line Immigration Policy
For more than a decade, Kris Kobach has been the G.O.P.'s anointed ideas man for hard-line immigration policies. Now he's advising Donald Trump.
By Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker
During Mitt Romney's campaign for President, in 2012, he claimed that he could solve the political conundrum of immigration reform by getting undocumented immigrants to "self-deport" from the United States en masse. He was roundly mocked for the idea. Why would millions of people voluntarily leave a country they'd long considered home? His suggestion, though, was hardly a flub—it was meant to be a serious threat. For Kris Kobach, the adviser who sold Romney on the concept, the eventuality of widespread self-deportation was entirely feasible. The government simply had to make life so unrelentingly difficult for immigrants that they'd have no other choice.
Kobach, who has been the Kansas secretary of state since 2011, is advising President-elect Donald Trump during the transition, and he appears to be a candidate for a top post in the incoming Administration.[...]
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trumps-ideas-man-for-hard-line-immigration-policy
Labels: crime, deportation, detention, enforcement, local enforcement, politics
Immigrant Communities Brace for Trump
Donald Trump promised to deport two million "criminal illegal immigrants" in his first 100 days in office. Immigrants and their allies are already organizing, protesting, and defending "sanctuary cities."
David Bacon, American Prospect
The state of Nebraska went red on Election Day, voting for Donald Trump and the Republican ticket, but working-class Omaha, Nebraska's largest city, went blue, voting for Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. Clinton won urban Omaha—Douglas County—by 3,000 votes, but lost the city's electoral vote. In 2010, redistricting had joined Omaha to the wealthier suburbs of Sarpy County, delivering Trump a 12,000-vote advantage this year. Incumbent Democratic House member Brad Ashford lost his seat to Republican Don Bacon on November 8 for the same reason.
Nevertheless, all 18 precincts of Ward 4 voted against Trump by a two-to-one margin, thanks to years of patient organizing by the immigrant Mexican community of South Omaha. African American North Omaha voted solidly against Trump as well. The Omaha results highlight both the achievements of years of organizing in U.S. immigrant communities, as well as the vulnerability of those same communities under a Trump administration.
"We have built institutions in which immigrants are winning power in the middle of a corporate culture," says Sergio Sosa, director of Nebraska's Heartland Workers Center. He describes a 20-year history of community and workplace organizing. "We resisted immigration raids in meatpacking plants under the Clinton and Bush administrations, and mounted marches and demonstrations for immigration reform. For eight years, we've fought deportations under President Obama, while building a precinct-by-precinct power base."[...]
http://prospect.org/article/immigrant-communities-brace-trump
Why Private Prison Stocks Are Soaring
Investors are betting on Trump's promise to incarcerate and deport millions, and big changes may be coming to America's prison towns, says Carl Takei of the ACLU.
By George Josephy, CityLab
Among the big winners buoyed by Donald Trump's victory? The private prison industry. Shares of CoreCivic (formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America) and GEO Group, the two biggest players in the business, jumped 43 and 21 percent, respectively, the day after the election.
Over the last week, their fortunes have continued to rise as Trump's recent public statements affirm his aggressive deportation plans. In an interview broadcast on CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday, Trump insisted he would remove two to three million immigrants upon taking office, incarcerating many in the process. "What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records," Trump told correspondent Lesley Stahl. "We are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate."
Trump's win comes at a crucial time for the prison business.[...]
http://www.citylab.com/crime/2016/11/why-private-prison-stocks-are-soaring/507626/
Labels: deportation, detention, economic impact, enforcement
Over 350 Faculty Members Urge Support for Undocumented Students
By Mia C. Karr, Harvard Crimson
More than 350 faculty members signed a letter Wednesday urging University President Drew G. Faust and other Harvard administrators to protect undocumented students in the wake of Donald Trump's election as president of the United States.
The letter—published in The Crimson and co-authored by Fine Arts and African and African American Studies Professor Suzanne P. Blier, English Professor Stephen L. Burt '93, and History and African and African American Studies Professor Walter Johnson—argues that the University has an obligation to protect students to the best of its ability and uphold its stated ideals of diversity.[...]
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/11/18/harvard-faculty-undocumented-students/
Labels: deportation, detention, organizing, youth
What Trump's Presidency Will Mean for the Dreamers
The Obama Administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has granted reprieves to many undocumented immigrants. The Trump Administration could end the program.
By Francisco Goldman, The New Yorker
In November, 2014, when news stories about Donald Trump, if he was in the news at all, made him seem nothing more than a buffoon, President Obama issued a series of executive actions on immigration. One of them expanded the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or daca, which allowed immigrants brought to the U.S. as children—often referred to as "Dreamers"—to apply for work permits and temporary protection against deportation. dapa, another new program, offered the same assurances to undocumented immigrant parents whose children were U.S. citizens or permanent residents. Some five million immigrants might have benefitted, but the programs were put on hold in May, 2015, by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld an injunction issued by a judge in Texas. After the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, organizations and immigrants remained in a state of suspense.
For the New York Immigration Coalition, prepping immigrants to apply for daca or dapa was a priority, both before and after the injunction. One afternoon in the spring of 2015, while the Supreme Court was still undecided as to the fate of the executive orders, I dropped by Junior High School 162, in Bushwick, where Betsy Plum, the director of special projects at the Immigration Coalition, and some of her young colleagues, along with other immigration attorneys, activists, and representatives from foreign consulates, had organized a day of outreach to the local immigrant community. That morning, Plum told me, the line had stretched down the sidewalk.[...]
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-trumps-presidency-will-mean-for-the-dreamers
Labels: deportation, DREAM Act, politics
Otra Vuelta del Planeta/As the World Turns…
Otra Vuelta del Planeta
Después de los ataques terroristas del 11 de Septiembre de 2001, casi la nación entera se hallaba sumergida en una onda de temor e ira. Se buscaba a Osama bin Laten pero como lo podían ubicar, se lanzaron ataques en contra de los inmigrantes mexicanos. Pocos días antes del "9-11", activistas del movimiento pro derechos inmigrantes pretendían viajar a Washington para celebrar la aprobación de una ley de reforma migratoria. Después de los ataques aquel proyecto de ley murió en el Congreso. Se unieron demócratas y republicanos tras el proyecto de sacar a los indocumentados del país.
En aquel momento no nos dimos por vencidos y tampoco debemos hacerlo ahora. Presentamos nuestras familias a la nación. Dimos nuestro testimonio en audiencias de gobiernos municipales, de condados, de estados y ante el Congreso federal. Tuvimos platicas con los sindicatos y con las iglesias. Nos organizamos y íbamos marchando juntos con millones de latinos, con o sin papeles. En Chicago empezamos el movimiento de santuario de nuevo. Nos movilizamos para elegir al presidente Obama bajo la promesa de una reforma migratoria durante sus primeros 100 días en la casa blanca.
Cuando Obama incumplió su promesa, marchábamos otra vez, hasta el punto nos concedió el programa DACA para los soñadores, justamente antes de su reelección.[...]
We have been here before – only there is something different now
After 9/11 in 2001 almost the entire nation was living in fear and anger. They were looking for Bin Ladin but they couldn't find him so they directed their anger at the Mexican immigrant. Only a few days before 9/11 immigration activists were preparing to go the Washington DC to celebrate the passage of a reform law. After 9/11 that legislation died in the Congress. Democrats and Republicans were joined at the hip, intent on driving immigrants from the nation.
We didn't give up then – and we shouldn't give up now. We brought our families before the nation. We testified in local city councils, county board, state legislatures and before the U.S. Congress. We talked with the unions and the churches. We organized ourselves – and we marched with millions of Latinos – both with and without papers. In Chicago we began the sanctuary movement again. We mobilized and elected President Obama on the promise of immigration reform in the first 100 days.
When President Obama broke his promise we marched and rallied again – until right before his second election the President gave us DACA for the Dreamers.[...]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sanctuarymovement/E0R7z7N2jzw
Owner Was Target, but Restaurant Workers Are Swept Up in Immigration Raids
By Liz Robbins, New York Times
BUFFALO — Immigration enforcement agents were supposed to be targeting the restaurant owner. But Antonio Ramos Salazar, a cook, was the one with guns pointed at his head.
One morning last month the officers burst through the back door at La Divina, a no-frills Mexican market and taco counter in suburban Buffalo, capping a two-year investigation into the labor practices of the restaurant's owner, Sergio Mucino. According to the authorities, Mr. Mucino, 42, a legal permanent resident from Mexico City, along with two associates, had been harboring undocumented workers in homes around Buffalo, transporting them to jobs at his restaurants and paying them off the books.
Mr. Mucino was arrested at his home on Oct. 18. But two dozen of his workers were swept up in simultaneous raids that morning at all four of his restaurants.[...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/nyregion/immigration-workplace-raids-buffalo.html
Labels: detention, enforcement, labor, raids
US starts sending people back to Haiti again after pausing deportation flights during Hurricane Matthew
The Department of Homeland Security temporarily suspended the deportation program on 12 October but started again on 3 November
By Rachael Revesz, The Independent
The US is about to begin amping up its program to deport Haitians shortly after a cholera outbreak and Hurricane Matthew ravaged the country.
The Department of Homeland Security has scheduled two flights per week to deport around 60 people back to Haiti every seven days.
The deportation program was temporarily suspended on 12 October while one of the poorest countries in the world was dealing with the immediate after effect of Hurricane Matthew, which killed more than 1,000 people and put thousands of pregnant women at risk, wiping out hospitals, infrastructure, crops and livestock.[...]
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-deportations-homeland-security-haiti-hurricane-matthew-flights-immigrants-a7408426.html
Labels: deportation
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You Fools! You forgot about planes! We always forget about planes!
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Labels: border, enforcement, politics
In GOP Country, a Small Labor Organization Offers a Model for Fighting Trumpism
The Workers' Project in Indiana has been uniting undocumented immigrants with white union workers since long before Trump hit the campaign trail.
By Sarah Jaffe, The Nation
Ten years ago, before Donald Trump made anti-immigrant scapegoating into popular politics, a group of organizers in Fort Wayne, Indiana, were trying to figure out how to bridge the divide between white workers and undocumented Latino workers.
Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) had hired a construction company that used some union labor and some non-union, undocumented workers to helm an expansion project. The unions involved reached out for help to the Workers' Project, at the time an initiative of the Northeast Indiana Central Labor Council (CLC), to represent workers who weren't formally members of the council's member unions. The unions had planned a campaign under the banner of "Local Jobs for Local People," but Workers' Project co-founders Tom Lewandowski, at the time president of the CLC, and Mike Lauer, director of the Indiana/Kentucky/Ohio Regional Council of Carpenters, argued against this framing—it would contribute to xenophobia, to us-against-them thinking. Instead, Lewandowski says, "Our operational theme for this campaign was going to be, 'If they're getting fucked, we're getting fucked.'"[...]
https://www.thenation.com/article/in-gop-country-a-small-labor-organization-offers-a-model-for-fighting-trumpism/
Labels: labor, organizing
After Trump win, New Yorkers volunteer to aid fearful commuters
Anti-Trump Protesters in New York. Photo: Marty Goodman
By Alexandra King, CNN
(CNN)After President-elect Donald Trump's election win, and amid fears of heightened bigotry and hate crimes, a Brooklyn woman has set up an online form where citizens can volunteer to accompany vulnerable commuters who are worried about being harassed on their way to school or work.
Kayla Santosuosso, the deputy director of the Arab American Association of New York, created the online signup sheet on Thursday evening, after being contacted about a Muslim woman in Harlem who, in the two days since the election, had twice been harassed and threatened on her train journey to college.
"I got a direct message from someone in my network asking me if I knew somebody who could help accompany her," Santosuosso said.
"She had notified the police but she was still facing the prospect of having to go to school in the morning on her own and she was scared."
Santosuosso immediately wrote a public Facebook post to see if anyone was available to help.[...]
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/13/us/new-york-commuter-volunteers/index.html
Labels: anti-immigrant groups, crime, organizing, racism
Donald Trump promises to deport 3 million "illegal immigrant criminals." That's literally impossible.
To deport as many immigrants as he wants to, he's going to have to scoop up a lot of people who aren't criminals at all.
By Dara Lind, Vox
If you take President-elect Donald Trump at his word, according to what he told 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl in his first interview since the election, the overwhelming majority of unauthorized immigrants in the US have nothing to fear from his administration.
"What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers," he told Stahl. Most unauthorized immigrants don't have criminal records. If the Trump administration actually limited its deportation efforts to convicted criminals, it would be more lenient than the Obama administration has ever been.
The problem is that the president-elect doesn't understand that. He told Stahl that there are "probably 2 million, it could even be 3 million" unauthorized immigrants with criminal records in the US — and that he wanted to deport all of them.
The Trump administration isn't going to be able to deport 2 or 3 million "criminal illegal immigrants," because there simply aren't that many people who fit the description.[...]
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/14/13623004/trump-deport-million-immigrants
Labels: crime, deportation, enforcement, politics
Undocumented Immigrants Fear Mass Deportation Under President Trump
Donald Trump's aggressive anti-immigrant rhetoric throughout his campaign has caused anxiety and fear within Latino families in Florida who fear they'll be torn apart.
Leticia Miranda, BuzzFeed News
HOMESTEAD, Florida — Maria Perez has not found the right words to soothe her 12-year-old son's fear of what will become of their family with Donald Trump as president.
"He thinks, 'Why does Donald Trump want to get rid of all immigrants?'" she told BuzzFeed News. "'What does that mean?'"
Perez, a 30-year old undocumented Guatemalan immigrant, believes Trump has fueled a war against immigrants throughout his presidential campaign which has only stoked fear in the community and her children.
"People can kill you," said Perez, who left Guatemala in 2003 because of the country's widespread violence and limited jobs. "Why? Because of the example of Donald Trump. That's how I feel because now they can can look at you and see you are an immigrant and kill you."
One of Trump's most effective campaign promises was to crack down on illegal immigration and build up President Obama's deportation strategy. But through the campaign that plan was drowned out by Trump's calls to have Mexico pay for a wall along the border and his describing of immigrants as "criminals" and "rapists."[...]
http://www.steinershow.org/podcasts/bad-moon-rising-how-the-weather-underground-beat-the-fbi-and-lost-the-revolution/
Labels: deportation, family ties, politics, raids
Matt y Favianna, Presente Action
Tragically, Donald J. Trump is the president-elect of the United States of America.1 As we watched state after state turn red, we could not escape the realization that the country was taking a sharp turn for the worst.
To be clear, we're under attack and we're scared for our families and loved ones. And we know we must resist, and change the culture that allowed Trump to rise to power.
The stakes have never been higher. We have work to do and we need to be powerful enough to organize and refuse to support Trump's regime and its heinous agenda.
Pledge to resist Trump, defend those who will be targeted by his hate, and please ask your friends and family to do the same because no one should go it alone.
Our nation faces one of the greatest threats we've ever known. Trump represents a clear and present danger for our communities that must be confronted urgently. If left unchecked, Trump will continue to create a hostile and dangerous environment for all immigrants, Muslims, Latinxs, Asians, Native Americans, women and Black Americans—an environment which will result in tragedy.
Join the resistance.
For those building a movement for social justice, the real question is not what went wrong in the election, but what do we do now? In the face of a government that will force deportations, engage in rabid sexism, cultivate overt appeals to white nationalism and enforce brutal crackdowns on protesters, we have a duty and responsibility to act, to build, and to resist hate, fear, and violence. Planning, discussions, and details will come soon, in the meantime, we will not share your information.
We call on you to pledge to resist the agenda Trump promises his supporters — fascism, racism, sexism, xenophobia, and hate.
Thank you for all you do and ¡adelante!
– Matt, Favianna, Oscar, Erick, Reetu, Erica and the Presente.org team.
P.S. Can you donate $5 to support our work? We rely on contributions from people like you to see campaigns like this through.
1. "Donald Trump Is Elected President in Stunning Repudiation of the Establishment." The New York Times. Nov. 9, 2016.
Donald Trump warns that 650 million immigrants could come to the U.S. in a week. Let's do the math!
By Philip Bump, The Washington Post
Twice on Sunday, Donald Trump told audiences at rallies that electing Hillary Clinton risked a truly spectacular shift in the composition of the United States.
"When you're working for Hillary, she wants to let people just pour in. You could have 650 million people pour in and we do nothing about it," Trump said. "Think of it. That's what could happen. You triple the size of our country in a week."
Well, no. For a lot of reasons.
Before we get into the important question of the mechanics of having 650 million people roll up to enter the United States, an exercise that will hopefully make clear just how hyperbolic this particular schmear of hyperbole happens to be, let's stop and consider the comment. Donald Trump uses hyperbole the way some politicians use touching voter anecdotes — to reinforce a broader political point. He says completely outrageous and completely untrue things because he feels as though they bolster his broader point: Immigrants are risky. Is it true? Not the point. The point is oh no, immigrants.[...]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/31/donald-trump-warns-that-650-million-immigrants-could-come-to-the-u-s-in-a-week-lets-do-the-math/
Melania Trump modeled in U.S. prior to getting work visa
Cartoon by Lalo Alcaraz, http://laloalcaraz.com/
WASHINGTON — Melania Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs in the United States worth $20,056 that occurred in the seven weeks before she had legal permission to work in the country, according to detailed accounting ledgers, contracts and related documents from 20 years ago provided to The Associated Press.
The details of Mrs. Trump's early paid modeling work in the U.S. emerged in the final days of a bitter presidential campaign in which her husband, Donald Trump, has taken a hard line on immigration laws and those who violate them. Trump has proposed broader use of the government's E-verify system allowing employers to check whether job applicants are authorized to work. He has noted that federal law prohibits illegally paying immigrants.
Mrs. Trump, who received a green card in March 2001 and became a U.S. citizen in 2006, has always maintained that she arrived in the country legally and never violated the terms of her immigration status. During the presidential campaign, she has cited her story to defend her husband's hard line on immigration.[...]
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/melania-trump-modeling-visa-jobs-230774
Labels: legal status, politics
Migrant justice activists occupy Hillary Clinton campaign office, demand end to raids and deportations
A group of 20 immigration rights activists spent the night in Hillary Clinton's Pittsburgh campaign office
By Ben Norton, Salon
A group of 20 migrant justice activists occupied Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Pittsburgh on Thursday night, demanding that the Democratic presidential nominee call for an end to record-breaking deportations and raids.
The activists, who call themselves #Buffalo25, brought sleeping bags and spent the night in the office. A spokesperson told Salon on Friday morning that they are still occupying the office.
#Buffalo25 is a campaign created by the immigrant rights group Movimiento Cosecha in order to bring national attention to recent ICE raids in Buffalo, New York.[...]
http://www.salon.com/2016/11/04/migrant-justice-activists-occupy-hillary-clinton-campaign-office-demand-end-to-raids-and-deportations/
Labels: detention, organizing, politics, raids
Is Trump an Aberration? The Dark History of the "Nation of Immigrants"
The policies he's promoting are, in an eerie way, a logical continuation of centuries of policymaking that sought to create a country of white people.
By Aviva Chomsky, TomDispatch.com
September 13, 2016.
Liberal Americans like to think of Donald Trump as an aberration and believe that his idea of building a great wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent immigrants from entering the country goes against American values. After all, as Hillary Clinton says, "We are a nation of immigrants." In certain ways, in terms of the grim history of this country, they couldn't be more wrong.
Donald Trump may differ from other contemporary politicians in so openly stating his antipathy to immigrants of a certain sort. (He's actually urged the opening of the country to more European immigrants.) Democrats like Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton sound so much less hateful and so much more tolerant. But the policies Trump is advocating, including that well-publicized wall and mass deportations, are really nothing new. They are the very policies initiated by Bill Clinton in the 1990s and -- from border militarization to mass deportations -- enthusiastically promoted by Barack Obama. The president is, in fact, responsible for raising such deportations to levels previously unknown in American history.
And were you to take a long look back into that very history, you would find that Trump's open appeal to white fears of a future non-white majority, and his support of immigration policies aimed at racial whitening, are really nothing new either.[...]
http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176185/
Labels: legal status, politics, racism
Why unions embraced immigrants – and why it matters for Donald Trump
In his speech on immigration, the Republican presidential candidate echoed hardline stances once voiced by unions. But decades of union campaigns have drawn immigrants and minority voters into their fold.
By David Iaconangelo, Christian Science Monitor
After seeming to debut a more forgiving stance on immigration last week, Donald Trump arrived in Phoenix on Wednesday brandishing a resolutely hardline plan, warning of an undocumented criminal menace and promising deportations on an unprecedented scale.
"We will begin moving them out Day One. As soon as I take office. Day One. In joint operation with local, state, and federal law enforcement," he said, according to transcripts.
As he has in the past, Mr. Trump tied his promise to carry out deportations to anti-globalist economic ideas. But he also drew a direct line between the fortunes of the country's native-born laborers and the presence of undocumented immigrants – a connection he has rarely made in his remarks on the topic.[...]
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2016/0902/Why-unions-embraced-immigrants-and-why-it-matters-for-Donald-Trump
No Other Way Than to Struggle: The Farmworker-Led Boycott of Driscoll's Berries
By Felimon Piñeda, interviewed by David Bacon, Truthout
Felimon Piñeda is vice president of Familias Unidas por la Justicia, the independent farm workers union in Washington State. He was one of the original strikers when the union was organized in 2013. The union, together with the union of striking farm workers in Baja California, Mexico, has organized a boycott of Driscoll's Berries, the world's largest berry company. They demand that Driscoll's take responsibility for the conditions and violations of labor rights by the growers whose berries they sell. Piñeda describes the life of a farm worker producing Driscoll's berries, and his own history that brought him into the fields of Washington State. He told his story to David Bacon during an interview in Linden, Washington.
Our town in Oaxaca is Jicaral Coicoyan de las Flores. We speak Mixteco Bajo. I am 33 years old, but I left at a very young age. In 1996 I got to San Quintin [in Baja California] with my older brother. After four nights in Punta Colonet, we found a place to stay in a camp. There were a lot of cabins for people and we stayed there for six months. We planned to go back to Oaxaca afterwards, but when we'd been there for six months we had no money. We were all working -- me, my sister, my older brother and his wife and two kids -- but we'd all pick tomatoes and cucumbers just to have something to eat. There was no bathroom then. People would go to the bathroom out in the tomatoes and chiles. The children too.[...]
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37429-no-other-way-than-to-struggle-the-farmworker-led-boycott-of-driscoll-s-berries
Neighbors Question Cuba Migration Policy
"Encouraged by the U.S. 'wet foot, dry foot' policy, Cuban migrants often become victims of trafficking, sexual exploitation and violence.... It is time for the United States to change its outdated policy for Cuban migrants, which is undermining regular and safe migration in our continent."
Editorial, New York Times
Nine Latin American governments this week called on the United States to end its preferential immigration policy for Cubans, calling it "discriminatory" and a boon to human smuggling networks in the region.
In a rare public letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, the foreign ministers of Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Peru requested a high-level meeting to discuss a policy that they said is fueling the "disorderly, irregular and unsafe" migration of Cubans through their countries.[...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/31/opinion/neighbors-question-cuba-migration-policy.html
Labels: refugees
La Confusión Calculada de Trump/Trump's Calculated Confusion
La Confusión Calculada de Trump
No Sr. Trump, no somos tontos.
El hecho de que la mayoría de los votantes latinos no apoyan a Trump, sino que se oponen a él, ha producido una reacción de su parte de rodear su 'plan migratorio" en una neblina de confusión. Con esto piensa confundir, no a los latinos, sino a los votantes republicanos no extremistas de raza blanca quienes se han opuesto a su plan de deportación masiva. Este hecho es un tributo a nuestro movimiento que ha ganado los corazones de la mayoría de los ciudadanos norteamericanos, a causa de nuestro esfuerzo de mantener unificadas a nuestras familias.
Esta "neblina migratoria" de Trump no es otra cosa que el mismo mecanismo de la derecha republicana ha empleado para estancar todo progreso en el Congreso. La diferencia es que si Trump fuera el presidente, los resultados serían desastrosos.[...]
Trump's Calculated Confusion
No Mr. Trump. We are not Stupid!
Trump's lack of support – indeed his opposition – by Latino voters is driving him to surround his "immigration plan" in a fog of confusion. His target is not Latinos – it is white moderate Republican voters who opposed his mass deportation plan. That is a tribute to our movement which has won the hearts of the majority of U.S. citizens with our effort to keep our families together.
Trump's "immigration fog" is really the same stall that right wing Republicans have been using in Congress. The difference is that if Trump were President the results would be disastrous.[...]
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sanctuarymovement/rl468APdgFw
Labels: border, deportation, enforcement, politics
Being a Mexican Migrant Worker and Female, a Recipe for Double Discrimination
During the 2015 financial year - which runs from October 2014 to September 2015 – the United States government issued a total of 108,144 H2A visas and 69,684 H2B visas. Male Mexican workers benefitted from 94 per cent of the H2A visas and 74 per cent from the H2B visas.
By Emilio Godoy, Equal Times
"I want to go back but they won't let me. When I called the employer, they told me the quota had already been filled," forty-five year old Leonor Rodríguez, from Ixtacuixtla (in the state of Tlaxcala, some 11 kilometres south of Mexico City), tells Equal Times. This Mexican woman is not able to work in Canada. Each time she submits an application for the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), established by Canada and Mexico in 1974, she is denied a place.
On 2 February, Rodríguez went to the National Employment Service of Tlaxcala to request a place on the SAWP. An employee informed her that she couldn't work in Canada, because "there were no requests for women" and that, if she wanted, he would put her "on reserve in case any places for women came up".
A single mother with five children, she had worked under the SAWP between 2005 and 2011 in greenhouse floriculture and strawberry growing in the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Alberta and British Colombia.[...]
http://www.equaltimes.org/being-a-mexican-migrant-worker-and#.V90fIPkrLIV
Labels: guest worker programs, labor, women's rights
22 Migrant Women Held in Pennsylvania Start a Hunger Strike to Protest Detention
On Wednesday Ms. Alberto and 21 other women who call themselves "Madres Berks," or "Berks Mothers," restarted a hunger strike they had conducted for 16 days in August.
Margarita Alberto cannot forget the tantrum her 6-year-old son threw several months ago. One afternoon he started shouting that he wanted to leave the Pennsylvania immigration detention center for families, where they have been held since Oct. 28, 2015, "He said, 'It's your fault that we're here, your fault!'" Ms. Alberto said.
And then, she recalled, he tightened the lanyard holding his ID card around his neck, threatening to choke himself if they didn't get out.
Ms. Alberto and her son, migrants from El Salvador seeking asylum in the United States, are still detained, along with 65 other women and children at the Berks County Residential Center in Leesport, Pa., about 70 miles northwest of Philadelphia.[...]
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/nyregion/22-migrant-women-held-in-pennsylvania-start-a-hunger-strike-to-protest-detention.html
Labels: detention, family ties, organizing, refugees, youth
Harvard. Debate Briefs on Immigration. 1898-1908
[This blog posting shows how little the immigration "debate" has changed in the last century.--TPOI]
By Irwin Collier, Economics in the Rearview Mirror
A few posts ago I provided a short selection from Harvard Professor Thomas Nixon Carver's autobiography that reminded me of the current Republican U.S. Presidential candidate's immigration policy. I must still have had Donald Trump on the mind when I stumbled upon a book of model debate briefs for issues of the late 19th/early 20th century. One might want to first watch the speech Donald Trump gave on immigration policy last night (August 31, 2016) in Phoenix, Arizona and then examine the debate briefs below for the following three resolutions:
Resolved, That immigration should be further restricted by law.
Resolved, That a high tax should be laid on all immigrants to the United States.
Resolved, That the policy excluding Chinese laborers from the United States should be maintained and rigorously enforced.
Zombie ideas are everywhere.
Briefs for Debate on Current Political, Economic, and Social Topics.
W. Du Bois Brookings, A.B. of the Harvard Law School
Ralph Curtis Ringwalt, A.B.
Assistant in Rhetoric in Columbia University
With an introduction by Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D.
Professor of Harvard University.
[From the Preface:]
"The basis of the work has been a collection of some two hundred briefs prepared during the past ten years by students in Harvard University, under the direction of instructors. Of these briefs the most useful and interesting have been selected; the material has been carefully worked over, and the bibliographies enlarged and verified….
…" the brief is a steady training in the most difficult part of reasoning; in putting together things that belong together; in discovering connections and relations; in subordinating the less important matters. The making of a brief is an intellectual exercise like the study of a disease by a physician, of a case by a lawyer, of a sermon by a minister, of a financial report by a president of a corporation. It is a bit of the practical work of life.[...]
Read the full blog post:
http://www.irwincollier.com/harvard-debate-briefs-on-immigration-1898-1908/
Labels: anti-immigrant groups, politics, racism
What Donald Trump Knew About Undocumented Workers at His Signature Tower
He has long denied knowingly using undocumented workers to demolish the building that would be replaced with Trump Tower
By Massimo Calabresi, Time
In the summer of 1980, Donald Trump faced a big problem. For six months, undocumented Polish laborers had been clearing the future site of Trump Tower, his signature real estate project on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, where he now lives, maintains his private offices and hosts his presidential campaign.
The men were putting in 12-hour shifts with inadequate safety equipment at subpar wages that their contractor paid sporadically, if at all. A lawyer for many of the Poles demanded that the workers be paid or else he would serve Trump with a lien on the property. One Polish worker even went to Trump's office to ask him for money in person, according to sworn testimony and a deposition filed under oath in a court case.
For help, Trump turned to Daniel Sullivan, a 6-ft. 5-in., 285-lb. labor consultant, FBI informant and future officer of the Teamsters Union. "Donald told me he had difficulties …," Sullivan later testified in the case. "That he had some illegal Polish employees on the job."
Sullivan had been helping Trump negotiate a casino deal in New Jersey at the time, and he testified that he was shocked by Trump's admission. "I think you are nuts," Sullivan testified that he told Trump. "You are here negotiating a lease in Atlantic City for a casino license and you are telling me you have got illegal employees on the job."[...]
http://time.com/4465744/donald-trump-undocumented-workers/
Labels: labor, legal status, politics
On Immigration Policy, Partisan Differences but Also Some Common Ground
Relatively few express negative views of undocumented immigrants
By Pew Research Center
The public is divided over many aspects of U.S. immigration policy. However, when asked about the priorities for policy toward illegal immigration, more Americans say better border security and a path to citizenship should be given equal priority than favor either approach individually.
The new national survey, conducted August 9-16 among 2,010 adults, also finds that a large majority (76%) says that undocumented immigrants are as hard-working and honest as U.S. citizens, while 67% say they are no more likely than citizens to commit serious crimes. The survey also finds continued public opposition to building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border: 61% oppose this proposal, which is little changed from earlier this year.
Overall, 29% of the public prioritizes "creating a way for immigrants already here illegally to become citizens if they meet certain requirements," while (24%) say the focus should be on "better border security and stronger enforcement of immigration laws." However, when given the option, a 45% plurality does say that both should be given equal priority.[...]
http://www.people-press.org/2016/08/25/on-immigration-policy-partisan-differences-but-also-some-common-ground/
Labels: deportation, legal status, politics
As the Private Immigrant Detention Business Persists, Families Fight Back
Moussa's family was one of thousands torn apart by policies like the detention quota, which is a federal policy that mandates that 34,000 spaces for immigrant detainees be maintained every day.... [P]rivate prison companies -- which run 62 percent of ICE detention facilities -- receive millions of dollars in federal funds as a result.
By Mich P. Gonzalez, Truthout
Moussa came to the United States nine years ago seeking asylum. He lost his asylum case, but while appealing the decision, he fell in love with Victoria. The two were married and have three beautiful children together. Moussa also adopted Victoria's two children from a prior relationship. When Victoria filed for a family petition on his behalf in April 2015, they thought their immigration struggles were finally over. Sadly, they had just begun.
The last time I wrote about Moussa, he was sitting in a detention center in New Orleans and his family was praying that immigration authorities would exercise their discretion to stop his deportation and release him. At that time, Moussa was enduring his 10th month of incarceration. The following afternoon, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) denied Moussa's request without informing his family or his attorneys at the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).
Three days later, ICE forcibly attempted to put Moussa on a plane to Chad. That Monday morning, June 27, 2016, Moussa called his advocates at AFSC to tell the story of his near-deportation. His voice was cracked and muffled over the phone as he explained how he was woken up gruffly at dawn, shackled at his ankles and handcuffed. How he was transported by van to an airport in Houston, where four ICE officers attempted to force him onto a plane without explanation. How he cried out for help and resisted permanent separation from his family by refusing to walk. How the officers aggressively attempted to strap him into a wheelchair and how he refused to sit still. How his deportation officer punched him in the neck with a closed fist and told him to "stop screaming like a pregnant woman."[...]
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/37328-as-the-private-immigrant-detention-business-persists-families-fight-back
Labels: deportation, detention, family ties, refugees
Don't deport my husband: Petition to Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, and Representative Lee Zeldin
Update, September 10, 2016: I am so happy to announce that Rony is no longer being detained in Texas. He is home with Ava and Teddy and I, his wife, in NY. We are enjoying each moment, grateful for all of the support and prayers and stories we have received. It is beyond wonderful to be together again after eight long months. Thank you everybody!!! XOXO Rony, Kristina, Ava and Teddy.
[This petition had 25,207 signatures as of September 6, 2016.]
Petition by Kristina Granados
East Setauket, New York
My husband, Rony, lost most of his male relatives to the drug cartels in Honduras. Rony's father owned land that he would not hand over, so his family was brutally murdered. My husband came to the US looking for a safer life but is currently in deportation proceedings that would send him back to the extortion and violence he fled.
Our daughter, Ava Lily, is about to turn one -- and as she starts taking her first steps, Rony is sitting in a detention center in Texas. He has been an amazing father to his disabled step-son and he is a hardworking man who supported us with his landscaping business. The consequence of sending him back to Honduras and the murderous drug cartels will likely be his demise -- leaving me a widow and his children without a father.
Rony has other family here who sought asylum in the US after hurricane Mitch hit Honduras in 1998. They've remained a big part of our lives and we all want him safely with us.
In cases where there are extenuating circumstances, immigration officers can pardon a detainee under prosecutorial discretion. Please join me in asking Immigration and Customs Enforcement to grant prosecutorial discretion to Rony Francisco Granados Hernandez based on the extortion and murder of his family.
Please help Rony return to his loving family. Thank you for your support.
Sign the petition:
https://www.change.org/p/don-t-deport-my-husband
Labels: deportation, family ties, refugees, root causes
390 Human Rights, Social Justice, Faith-Based, Labor, and Immigrant Rights Groups are Calling for an International Convergence at the U.S./Mexico Border from October 7-10, 2016
Activists will gather at the border in the lead-up to the November elections, to highlight U.S. foreign policy as one of the root causes of migration, and to stage protests and nonviolent direct action against racism, xenophobia and U.S. militarization at home and abroad.
Contact: Hendrik Voss, 202-425-5128, hvoss@soaw.org
Olmeca, 323-646-2762, olmeca@soaw.org
Eduardo García, 484-663-1163, eduardo@soaw.org
María Luisa Rosal, 202-710-2343, marialuisa@soaw.org
Nogales, AZ – Thousands of activists throughout the United States and Mexico will gather on both sides of the border since the School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch) is moving its annual vigil to the line between Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora from October 7-10, 2016.
After holding an annual vigil at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, for 26 years, SOA Watch and partner groups, based on broad-based grassroots power, will push back against militarization of the border, against criminalization of migrants and refugees, and to name the root causes of migration. SOA Watch and the endorsing organizations will stand on the side of mutual aid and solidarity, and build power for a culture shift.
Communities are being targeted for assassination and state repression throughout the Americas by U.S. trained military and police forces. People from Latin America continue to be forced to flee from U.S. trained repressive security forces, only to be confronted with a militarized border, racist laws, and xenophobic rhetoric in this election cycle. Black and Brown bodies in the U.S. continue to be targeted, systematically imprisoned and killed in the same way. We can no longer separate the issues and today we say enough! We cannot look at immigration reform without looking at its root cause. We cannot discuss police brutality or the prison industrial complex in the U.S. without discussing its root purpose. State violence is used to exert control and oppress our communities in order to maintain an exploitative racist system that benefits the few. Today we say enough!
The convergence will include workshops and events on both sides of the U.S./ Mexico border, as well as art, music, and resistance. We invite you to join us. To learn more about why SOA Watch is moving from the gates of Fort Benning to the border, visit SOAW.org/border
Original in English:
http://www.soaw.org/border/325-human-rights-social-justice-faith-based-labor-and-immigrant-rights-groups-are-calling-for-an-international-convergence-at-the-u-s-mexico-border-from-october-7-10-2016/#release
Lea en español:
http://www.soaw.org/border/325-organizaciones-de-defensa-de-derechos-humanos-y-de-migrantes-de-justicia-social-religiosos-y-laborales-hacen-un-llamado-a-una-convergencia-internacional-en-la-frontera-entre-mexico-y-eeuu-los-d/#distribucion
Labels: border, enforcement, organizing, politics, racism, root causes
Latino immigrants are unnoticed casualties of US 'war on terror' – study
By Alan Yuhas, The Guardian
The war on terror has inordinately affected Latino immigrants for the last 15 years, according to two sociologists who say Donald Trump has simply made explicit fears that long linked linked terrorism with anxieties about migrants and Muslims.
In a research paper presented on Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in Seattle, Luís Romero and Amina Zarrugh, sociologists at the University of Texas at Austin, argued that since the attacks of September 11 2001, the US has increasingly merged terrorism and immigration in official policy and the daily work of its government agencies.
"Trump is articulating, in its most explicit terms, a connection that's been insinuated and elaborated perhaps less colorfully and less explicitly, but that's been going on for quite some time," Zarrugh said. "The American public has been primed for these connections for at least a decade."
She and Romero pored over 15 years' worth of speeches and government documents to chart the merger and its effect on Latinos. Months after the attack, congressmen started warning of "porous borders", and years of false claims and alarming ads about terrorist activity at or near the border followed.[...]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/21/latino-immigrants-us-war-on-terror-study
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No Need to Build The Donald's Wall, It's Built
Trump's America Already Exists on the Border
By Todd Miller, TomDispatch
At the federal courthouse, Ignacio Sarabia asks the magistrate judge, Jacqueline Rateau, if he can explain why he crossed the international boundary between the two countries without authorization. He has already pleaded guilty to the federal misdemeanor commonly known as "illegal entry" and is about to receive a prison sentence. On either side of him are eight men in the same predicament, all still sunburned, all in the same ripped, soiled clothes they were wearing when arrested in the Arizona desert by agents of the U.S. Border Patrol.
Once again, the zero tolerance border enforcement program known as Operation Streamline has unfolded just as it always does here in Tucson, Arizona. Close to 60 people have already approached the judge in groups of seven or eight, their heads bowed submissively, their bodies weighed down by shackles and chains around wrists, waists, and ankles. The judge has handed out the requisite prison sentences in quick succession -- 180 days, 60 days, 90 days, 30 days.
On and on it goes, day-in, day-out. Like so many meals served in fast-food restaurants, 750,000 prison sentences of this sort have been handed down since Operation Streamline was launched in 2005.[...]
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176179/tomgram:_todd_miller,_the_great_mexican_wall_deception/
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That's why at 91, she's dedicated herself to hand painting her neighbor's homes – and eventually transforming homes in the little village of Louka into one of the most stunning works of art.
Agnes used to be an agricultural worker, but she has retired a little over 30 years ago and she has been painting houses by hand since then. She said that she has learned this skill from a late friend named Manakova, who used to do the same for free. Manakova taught her. Agnes humbly said that she is merely continuing what Manakova has started.
Mostly inspired by floral designs and having ultramarine shades, the hand-painted works of Agnes are truly intricate, refined, and breathtaking.
The houses in the village of Louka are commonly Moravian, and a Moravian house's spare, white walls go perfectly well with Agnes' detailed work. It is said that one of the spots in the village she particularly likes painting is the village chapel. She spends 10 days just to beautify it during the month of May.
Since she has been doing this for 30 years, the grandma said that her age is already starting to make hand painting houses a little more challenging. Because of this, her hobby of updating her past work is only being done during the summer.
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Discussion in 'Pop & Justice' started by LPMA, Nov 19, 2019.
Felp
Felp, May 6, 2021
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Troylovesmusic
LondonParisRome said: ↑
What makes people think they got along that well when they were all in the band together? From watching their old interviews, I always got the impression Jesy wasn't necessarily easy to be around. She's volatile, unpredictable and the other girls seemed to be stepping on egg shells around her. Yes, she brought the most personality and energy (on her on days) but they never convinced me that they all liked each other and were best of friends.
I mean Jesy would have her moments where it was quite clear something was off but for the most part in interviews you could easily tell that there was a genuine bond and friendship between all four of them . This interview alone proves that.
Troylovesmusic, May 6, 2021
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maverick_79
V3RYP05H said: ↑
If society saw pop groups as coworkers instead of best friends, I feel like this kind of gossip wouldn't be so prevalent.
I tend to agree, but when part of the marketing of the group is how close they all are of course there's going to be gossip when they split. I mean I make no pretence that I tolerate my coworkers at work and want nothing to do with them once I leave the office.
maverick_79, May 6, 2021
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timothy_b
It's a very far stretch to pretend that they never seemed that close to begin with. I mean, no matter if they intended to marketing wise or not they literally radiated bffs during interviews, appearances, live shows etc.
timothy_b, May 6, 2021
scottdisick94, shindymindy and Lately like this.
Felp said: ↑
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowb...Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1620249361
I can't believe this accounts for "journalism".
breakaway, May 6, 2021
Electivirer
JustCrizz said: ↑
I wonder if Perrie saying they've shot music videos is in relation to Heartbreak Anthem and the Anne Marie collab, or just Heartbreak Anthem and Confetti.
Electivirer, May 6, 2021
PopCrushed
If y'all watched Jesy's documentary, you'll see that her relationship with the girls wasn't always positive. When they were in the studio recording for Bounce Back, Jesy kept beating herself down because she thought her verse wasn't good enough even though the girls and StarGate said that it was; she ended up recording several takes before she was happy with her performance. Jade (or Perrie), if I recall correctly, said that Jesy's not easy to work with because she's always worried about not being good enough and doesn't have the same expectations as them when it comes to their work.
Their working relationship, understandably, would become strained over time because they're four individuals with different personalities. It wouldn't have been easy for the girls to have always compromised for Jesy's perfectionism and image issues. Likewise, it was unfair for Jesy to guilt-trip herself for being miserable around three girls who were probably living their best life during promotional cycles. My view of their relationship is that they were simply co-workers who became great friends, but as time went on, it also became toxic.
It's understandable that Jesy would want to distance herself from the girls because she'd be triggered by what happened and what could've been had she stayed. As a fan, I'm sad about it because I've seen their relationship evolve over the years, but I'm also hopeful that there's a reconciliation down the line.
PopCrushed, May 6, 2021
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An Insider
Just chiming in as a casual, getting sold on the idea of these heavily marketed, media trained corporate funded groups was exactly what I was scared of before getting into certain groups (well, I'm in deep shit now ddd).
In general, I feel what keeps friendships going even after co-workers/classmates part ways is actually having a lot of common interests outside of work, and when a lot of the memories of said job aren't that good at the moment... well. That said, the girls look like mostly positive, well adjusted individuals and I can't see them to be the types to let a huge part of their lives stay tainted after a little distance.
An Insider, May 6, 2021
chromatica
Troylovesmusic said: ↑
This interview is very old. I think it's pretty clear things started to really fall apart around Bounce Back.
chromatica, May 6, 2021
chromatica said: ↑
I could probably find interviews/appearances from around that time as well where there just as harmonious with each other ...
jawow_
The thread title change seems a bit over dramatic... Tamisha, is that you?
jawow_, May 6, 2021
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Scream at the title change!
This thread title change when stats about their singles, sales, private lives and promo are posted daily here is...
Neon Green likes this.
I'm going based off of what the girls said and other behind-the-scenes tidbits.
eccentricsimply Staff Member
Yeah let's keep the title cute xx
eccentricsimply, May 6, 2021
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That doesn't mean they weren't getting on though ? We'll agree to disagree cause I feel like this will potentially go round in circles .
Nah, they were always close. Bounce Back era; Perrie and Jesy sharing hotel room after a show and being completely chill and funny. The bit at the 13:00 mark when they accidentally turn on the front camera sends me dddd
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superloves
I have my opinions but I think ultimately things are just very raw at the moment so there's probably a bit of awkwardness between them right now. I'm sure in time it will subside.
superloves, May 6, 2021
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Oh I'm sorry, I just posted because usually The Sun is pretty accurate with the girls. I honestly feel like their team feeds them the news as they have exclusive on them 99% of the time (weren't them the first ones to spill Confetti as a single and details of the video?).
I just don't know why their team feeds the s*n, I just don't get why they'd stoop so low to leak thinks and sell stories all the time. Like, with Confetti video the girls seemed excited to say there was a surprise in the video but it was already out they were going to be men in the video. I just don't get it! They don't need articles from such gossip papers to succeed. Their management, pr whoever is doing it needs to get with the times and realise selling stories is not needed in this day and age!
kingbm, May 6, 2021
Felp likes this.
Electivirer said: ↑
It's not as black and white as this though. Things can "begin to take a turn" but you can also continue to get along with certain coworkers or have good days.
Jesy was all smiles onstage but is in interviews talking about how miserable she was an a 4.5/10 confidence level. Chirpy interviews or social media clips doesn't mean things were great. They could still have been having a great time and doing well as a team, that doesn't mean there wasn't some additional tension and the "beginning of the end" behind the scenes.


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Home POP CULTURE Eternals Will Span Over 7,000 Years and Introduce The Deviants
Eternals Will Span Over 7,000 Years and Introduce The Deviants
Following today's Marvel panel at CCXP, Kevin Feige swung by the studio of our friends at Omelete to talk about the studio's upcoming slate. Since CCXP got the first look at Eternals footage, the subject of Chloe Zhao's movie came up. For those who don't know, Zhao has said that although the lead characters are immortal, the film will explore what it means to be human. Angelina Jolie will star as Thena alongside Gemma Chan as Sersei, Kit Harrington as Dane Whitman, Richard Madden as Ikaris, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo, Lauren Ridloff as Makkari, Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos, Salma Hayek as Ajak, Lia McHugh as Sprite, and Don Lee as Gilgamesh.
The comics backstory is a bit complicated, but here's the Wikipedia rundown:
When the Celestials visited Earth five million years ago and performed genetic experiments on early proto-humanity, they created two divergent races: the long-lived Eternals, and the genetically unstable and monstrously grotesque Deviants. These experiments also led to the capacity for super-powered mutations in humans. They also performed this experiment on other planets (such as the Kree and Skrull homeworlds) with similar results.
Despite looking human, Eternals are much more long-lived (but were not originally fully immortal) and that kept them from having much contact with their human cousins. Eternals have a low birth rate; they can interbreed with humans but the result is always a normal human (although Joey Athena, son of Thena and a normal human seems to have become an Eternal with long lived properties and powers). Despite this, the Eternals have in general protected the human race, especially from the Deviants, with whom they've always had an enmity. The Eternals also developed advanced technology.
Image via Marvel Comics
Speaking to Omelete, Feige said that Eternals will take place over 7,000 years as the characters go to different periods in time, which is a smart move. If you have a movie named "Eternals", you probably don't want it to span a weekend, but to show why these characters are unique in the MCU.
While we knew that the Celestials would be in Eternals—and in fact, we glimpsed the severed head of a celestial, Knowhere, in Guardians of the Galaxy, Feige says we will see them in Eternals "in their full, true, enormous power." He also revealed that The Deviants will be introduced in Eternals, but will look very different than their comics counterpart. Here's a description of the Deviants from Wikipedia:
They are an offshoot of the evolutionary process that created sentient life on Earth instigated by the alien Celestials, and wage war against their counterparts, the Eternals. According to the account of one Deviant in the 2006 mini-series, the Deviants were created as a delicacy to be consumed en masse by Celestials at periodic intervals once they multiplied sufficiently; however, the veracity of this has yet to be proven.
While the Eternals possess godlike power and are generally physically beautiful (by human standards), the Deviants (who sometimes refer to themselves as 'the changing people') are for the most part hideous (again, by human standards), with each member of their race possessing some random physical and/or cosmetic mutation that is by Celestial design never repeated within the sub-species. Extremely mutated or deformed Deviants are referred to as "mutates" and some of the monsters of myth and legend have in fact been identified as Deviant mutates. Some of these mutations can provide superhuman abilities, but their powers are usually not as great as those of the Eternals.
However, despite the introduction of Celestials and Deviants, Feige emphasized that Eternals is really about introducing these ten new characters to the MCU.
Eternals opens November 6, 2020.
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Indotestudo elongata, la tortue à tête jaune, est une espèce de Tortues terrestres de la famille des Testudinidae.

Habitat et répartition
La tortue à tête jaune vit dans les forêts à feuillage caduc et dans la jungle (dans la savane), environnements au climat chaud et sec. Cette espèce se rencontre en Inde dans les États du Bihar, du Meghalaya, du Bengale-Occidental et de l'Uttar Pradesh ; au Népal, au Bangladesh, en Birmanie, en Thaïlande, au Cambodge, au Laos, au Viêt Nam, en Malaisie péninsulaire et au Guangxi en Chine.

Description

Cette tortue terrestre a une carapace allongée. Elle est de couleur jaune-marron, tirant sur le brun-vert-olive sur la carapace, celle-ci ayant des taches plus sombres.

Elle atteint jusqu'à 33 centimètres de long pour un poids d'environ , les femelles étant en général plus grandes que les mâles.

La tortue à tête jaune mange des fruits et des charognes.

Elle est active surtout le matin et au coucher du soleil. Elle n'aime pas s'exposer directement au soleil mais elle peut cependant supporter des températures très élevées.

En période de sécheresse, elle se terre sous une litière de feuilles.

Reproduction
La tortue à tête jaune devient plus active au début de la saison des pluies en juin, au début de la saison des amours, et sa tête jaune ou crème devient alors rose vif autour des narines et des yeux. La ponte survient entre juin et octobre. Elle dépose de 1 à 7 œufs. L'incubation dure de 96 à 165 jours. À la naissance, les bébés tortues mesurent de 3 à 5 cm et pèsent de 17 à 27 g.

Publication originale
 Blyth, 1854 "1853" : Notices and descriptions of various reptiles, new or little-known. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, ,  (texte intégral).

Liens externes

Notes et références

Tortue (nom scientifique)
Testudinidae

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| top point scorer = (78 points)
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| venue = Sixways Stadium, Worcester
| attendance2 = 8,100
| champions = Harlequins
| count = 3
| runner-up = Sale Sharks
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| previous year = 2011–12
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The 2012–13 LV Cup (styled as the LV= Cup) is the 42nd season of England's national rugby union cup competition, and the eighth to follow the Anglo-Welsh format.

The competition consists of the four Welsh Pro12 teams and the 12 English Premiership clubs arranged into pools consisting of three English and one Welsh team. English clubs have been allocated to the pools depending on their finish in the 2011-12 Aviva Premiership. Welsh regions have been allocated to the pools to avoid repeating fixtures from the Heineken and Amlin Challenge cups where possible. Teams are guaranteed two home and two away pool matches, with teams in Pools 1 and 4 playing each other and teams in Pools 2 and 3 playing each other, with the top team from each pool qualifying for the semi finals. The competition will take place during the Autumn Internationals window and during the Six Nations thus allowing teams to develop their squad players.

Leicester Tigers are defending champions this season after claiming the cup with a 26–14 victory over Northampton Saints in the final at Sixways Stadium in Worcester. It was the seventh victory for Leicester Tigers (a record) in the competition, and the second since the current Anglo-Welsh format was adopted in 2005.

Pool stages

Points system
The points scoring system for the pool stages will be as follows:
4 points for a win
2 points for a draw
1 bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match (TB)
1 bonus point for a loss by seven points or less (LB)

Pool 1 v Pool 4

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Pool 2 v Pool 3

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Knock–out stage

Qualification criteria
The top teams from each pool qualify for the knockout stages. The pool winners will be decided by the following criteria:
1. The pool winner will be the club with the highest number of match points in each pool. The pool winners will be ranked 1 to 4 by reference to the number of match points earned in the pools.
2. If two or more clubs in the same pool end the pool stage equal on match points, then the order in which they have finished will be determined by:
i. the greater number of matches won by the club and
ii. if the number of matches won is equal, the club with the greater total number of tries scored and
iii. if the total number of tries scored is equal, the club with the greater points difference (points scored for, less points scored against) and
iv. if the points difference is equal, the club with the fewer number of red cards and
v. if the number of red cards is the same, by the toss a coin.

Each of the four qualifying clubs shall be ranked as above and shall play each other as follows:
Semi-final 1 – 1st ranked club v 4th ranked club
Semi-final 2 – 2nd ranked club v 3rd ranked club
The first club listed in each of the semi-final matches shall be the home club.

Semi-finals

Final

 Harlequins gain a place in the 2013–14 Heineken Cup by winning this competition.

Top scorers

Top points scorers

Top try scorers

See also
2012–13 English Premiership (rugby union)
2012–13 Pro 12

External links

 Anglo Welsh Cup on Premiership Rugby website
 Tables
 Fixtures and results
 Anglo Welsh Cup website

References

2012–13 in Welsh rugby union
2012–13 English Premiership (rugby union)
2012-13
2012–13 rugby union tournaments for clubs


Unfortunately, I must work, this Friday. That said, gaming is still on! Andreas will be there around 1:00 p.m. and all are welcome to arrive anytime. You will have to feed and entertain yourselves, but I figure you've all matured so much over the last year that you can handle it, right? I knew you could! I'm so proud of you all!
Re: Gaming to start Friday afternoon!
Yes, and yes!! I look forward to seeing you guys.
Yes, the game is on. I wont be able to bring a bag of minis this time so I will have to borrow an army to smack down Josh with.
See you all Saturday evening.
For those of you who are planning to use I-95 S to get here, I would suggest using I-295 S (in New Jersey), waiting until you reach the Walt Whitman Bridge (I-76 W) to cross into Pihlly. I-95 S has been a parking lot, lately - especially around rush hour.
Have fun everyone! Kill some bugs for me!
Unfortunately, circumstances prevent me from attending this year. I will definitely miss the gaming and camaraderie.
You were, all, missed. Hopefully, next Talamania sees us all in a better position to attend.
As always, thanks for your hospitality Dave. Great event.
Are there any piccies? I do like piccies!
Again, I brought the camera and never used it. Sigh. Hopefully someone snapped some pics. There was much gaming.
I do not believe that there were any pictures taken this time around. Perhaps once many of us get our figs for the new game, we'll post pics.
Seriously, though, gaming was forefront, this year, and everyone has become so comfortable with each other and our crowd that it just never came up. Apparently, the novelty has worn off. We'll have to spice it up in the future!
Perhaps, dress as your favorite Warzone persona, next year?


On Thursday, August 22, I was one of four speakers that gave a 20 minute talk during the Department of Mathematics and Statistics Teaching Showcase at Northern Arizona University. My talk was titled "An Introduction to Inquiry-Based Learning" and was intended to be a "high altitude" view of IBL and to inspire dialogue. I was impressed with the turn out. I think there were roughly 40 people in attendance, from graduate students to tenured faculty and even some administrators. Here are the slides for my talk.
If you take a look at the slides, you'll see that I mention some recent research about the effectiveness of IBL by Sandra Laursen, et. al. During my talk, I provided a two-page summary of this research, which you can grab here (PDF).
After about 15 minutes, I transitioned into an exercise whose purpose was to get the audience thinking about appropriate ways to engage in dialogue with students in an IBL class. I provided the participants with the handout located here that contains a dialogue between three students that are working together on exploring the notions of convergence and divergence of series. After the dialogue, five possible responses for the instructor are provided. I invited the participants to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each possible response. It is clear that some responses are better than others, but all of the responses listed intentionally have some weaknesses. We were able to spend a couple of minutes having audience members share their thoughts. It would have been better to spend more time on this exercise. I wish I could take credit for the exercise, but I borrowed it from the folks over at Discovering the Art of Mathematics.
If you want to know more about IBL, check out my What the Heck is IBL? blog post over on Math Ed Matters.


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