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Monroe Louisiana
Downtown Monroe, which sits on the opposite side of the Ouachita River from West Monroe
Looking out over the water at Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge
A helicopter exhibit outside the Chennault Aviation & Military Museum
Delicious seafood gumbo served in a cast iron pot
Two men fishing at Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge
A woman shows off vintage Coca Cola bottles at the Biedenharn Museum
Something Special Antiques and Fine Gifts, one of many shops in Antique Alley
Wine tasting at Landry Vineyards
Monroe (MLU)
All the smells, tastes and sights of the South in one place
Home of the Robertson family, stars of A&E's hit show Duck Dynasty, Monroe-West Monroe is the place to discover, eat and shop in Northeast Louisiana. With over 100 locally owned and flavored restaurants, abundant shopping, and unique experiences and attractions, Monroe-West Monroe is just the place for your next holiday.
Follow the Beards around town with the Duck Commander Hometown Tour, and visit the locations featured on the show. The Biedenharn Museum & Gardens showcases the family home of Joseph Biedenharn, the first bottler of Coca-Cola, as well as beautiful gardens, the Bible Museum, and Coke Museum. High-flying adventure can be found at the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum as you discover the world famous General Claire Chennault, his Flying Tigers, how Delta Airlines got its start, and more. Discover natural beauty at Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge with a walk over the bayou, a visit to the wildlife photo blind, or a trip around the lake in a canoe. Relax and enjoy the picturesque views of Landry Vineyards in West Monroe. Sample their wines in the tasting room or dance the afternoon away at one of their popular outdoor concerts on the hillside.
Hungry? Monroe's food is full of traditional Southern comfort that is good for the soul. There are over 100 distinct, locally owned restaurants, each offering a mouth-watering taste of true North Louisiana cuisine. Choose from menus offering fried chicken, smothered pork chops, black-eyed peas, Catfish DeSiard, gumbo, po-boys, sweet potatoes, hot water cornbread, homemade cakes, pies and more. Whether dining on the water or at a plate lunch diner, you are sure to be satisfied.
Need a bit of retail therapy? Take a stroll through Antique Alley, "a shopaholic's delight." You'll find blocks of unique antique stores and trendy boutiques in beautiful downtown West Monroe, offering home decor, jewelry, clothing, antiques, art and more.
Continue your shopping adventure at Pecanland Mall, North Louisiana's largest shopping mall, or one of the many chic boutiques located throughout Monroe-West Monroe offering the latest in clothing, accessories, home décor and more.
In 1925, the world's first aerial crop dusting organization, Huff Daland Dusters, was formed in Monroe. That company later became Delta Airlines.
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package edu.isi.wubble.jgn.sheep;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.List;

import com.jme.bounding.BoundingBox;
import com.jme.math.Vector3f;
import com.jme.renderer.ColorRGBA;
import com.jme.scene.Node;
import com.jme.scene.Spatial;
import com.jme.scene.shape.Box;
import com.jme.util.export.binary.BinaryImporter;
import com.jme.util.resource.ResourceLocatorTool;

import edu.isi.wubble.Constants;
import edu.isi.wubble.jgn.sheep.entity.BarrierEntity;
import edu.isi.wubble.jgn.sheep.entity.EndZone;
import edu.isi.wubble.jgn.sheep.entity.SEntity;
import edu.isi.wubble.jgn.sheep.entity.Garden;
import edu.isi.wubble.jgn.sheep.entity.ModelEntity;

public class Arena {
	int _xSize;
	int _ySize;
	int _zSize;
	SheepPhysicsState _sps;

	public Arena(SheepPhysicsState s, int x, int y, int z) {
		_xSize = x;
		_ySize = y;
		_zSize = z;
		_sps = s;
		System.out.println("Created arena, sizes (x y z) --> (" + _xSize + ", " + _ySize + "," + _zSize + ")");

		buildFloor();
		buildWalls();
		buildEndzones(8);
		buildGardens(10, 6);
		createArena();
	}

	public void createArena() {
		try {
			Node sheepArena = (Node) BinaryImporter.getInstance().load(
					ResourceLocatorTool.locateResource(ResourceLocatorTool.TYPE_MODEL, "sheep-physics.jme"));

			List<Spatial> children = sheepArena.getChildren();
			int index = 0;
			while (children.size() > 0) {
				Spatial s = children.remove(0);
				s.setModelBound(new BoundingBox());
				s.updateModelBound();
				ModelEntity e = new ModelEntity("modelEntity_" + index, s);
				index++;
			}

		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}

		_sps.getRootNode().updateRenderState();
	}

	// Build the walls: sizes are the entire x,y,z.
	// ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	protected void buildFloor() {
		//Spatial vis = buildWorldBox(new Vector3f(0, -0.5f, 0), _xSize, 1, _zSize, "floor");
		//Utils.setColor(vis, ColorRGBA.darkGray);

		BarrierEntity be = new BarrierEntity("floor", new Vector3f(0, -0.5f, 0), _xSize, 1, _zSize);
		be._vis.setCullMode(Box.CULL_NEVER);
		be.setColor(ColorRGBA.gray);

		//be.getNode().setMaterial(Material.GLASS);

		// There is a roof now.
		SEntity roof = new BarrierEntity("roof", new Vector3f(0, _ySize + 0.5f, 0), _xSize, 1, _zSize);
	}

	// ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	protected void buildGardens(int length, int width) {
		int halfWidth = width / 2;

		Vector3f redCenter = new Vector3f(_xSize/2 - halfWidth, 0, 0);
		Vector3f blueCenter = new Vector3f(halfWidth - _xSize/2, 0, 0);

		// FIXME: These 0 and 1 need to be defined as constants somewhere.
		SEntity blueGarden= new Garden("blueGarden", 0, blueCenter, width, .5f, length);
		blueGarden.setColor(new ColorRGBA(0, 0, 1, 0.5f));

		SEntity redGarden = new Garden("redGarden", 1, redCenter, width, .5f, length);
		redGarden.setColor(new ColorRGBA(1, 0, 0, 0.5f));
	}

	// ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	protected void buildEndzones(int endZSize) {
		int halfZ = _zSize / 2;
		// int endZoneSize = endZSize;

		System.out.println("Building endzones!");

		int zCenterRed = halfZ - (endZSize / 2);
		int zCenterBlue  = (endZSize / 2) - halfZ;

		Vector3f redCenter  = new Vector3f(0, 0.5f, zCenterRed);
		Vector3f blueCenter = new Vector3f(0, 0.5f, zCenterBlue);
		_sps.getGameMechanics().setCenters(redCenter, blueCenter);

		SEntity pRed = new EndZone("redZone", Constants.RED_TEAM, new Vector3f(redCenter), _xSize, 1, endZSize);
		pRed.setColor(new ColorRGBA(1, 0, 0, 0.3f));

		SEntity pBlue = new EndZone("blueZone", Constants.BLUE_TEAM, new Vector3f(blueCenter), _xSize, 1, endZSize);
		pBlue.setColor(new ColorRGBA(0, 0, 1, 0.3f));
	}

	// Build the walls: sizes are the entire x,y,z.
	// ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
	protected void buildWalls() {
		int halfX = _xSize / 2;
		int halfZ = _zSize / 2;

		new BarrierEntity("farWall", new Vector3f(0, _ySize/2, halfZ), _xSize, _ySize, 1);
		//buildWorldBox(new Vector3f(0, _ySize/2, halfZ), _xSize, _ySize, 1, "farWall");

		//buildWorldBox(new Vector3f(0, _ySize/2, -halfZ), _xSize, _ySize, 1, "nearWall");
		new BarrierEntity("nearWall", new Vector3f(0, _ySize/2, -halfZ), _xSize, _ySize, 1);

		//buildWorldBox(new Vector3f(-halfX, _ySize/2, 0), 1, _ySize, _zSize, "leftWall");
		new BarrierEntity("leftWall", new Vector3f(-halfX, _ySize/2, 0), 1, _ySize, _zSize);

		//buildWorldBox(new Vector3f(halfX, _ySize/2, 0), 1, _ySize, _zSize, "rightWall");
		new BarrierEntity("rightWall", new Vector3f(halfX, _ySize/2, 0), 1, _ySize, _zSize);
	}
}

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If you've seen street addresses in use as domains or have some good examples, feel free to let me know by posting a comment.
I've read an article that registering street domains is becoming trend and GoDaddy reported huge increase in demand for such domains. I went and registered StreetDomain.co to create website as GoDaddy affiliate. Unfortunatelly I just don't have time for that.
@PCF, I like your thinking on that one. It would be great to show some examples on that site that support the use of Street Domains.


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Walking in Empty: A Conversation with Poet Juan Felipe Herrera
Crystal AC Salas
Juan Felipe Herrera / © UC Riverside / Courtesy of Blue Flower Arts
For the 44th Annual Writers Week, the University of California, Riverside department of Creative Writing, in partnership with the LA Review of Books, honored three US Poets Laureate with Lifetime Achievement Awards: Rita Dove (1993–95), Juan Felipe Herrera (2015–16), and Joy Harjo (2019–current). As part of honoring these poetry luminaries, three visionaries representing barrier breakage in their page, stage, and community work, Crystal AC Salas, third-year MFA student at UCR, interviewed each laureate over phone and Zoom in commemoration of this occasion.
To celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of National Poetry Month, in the second of this series of three conversations, Juan Felipe Herrera discusses his role as poet laureate, the creative abilities of children and young people, and the importance of true connection in poetry.
Crystal AC Salas: Who would you say are your ancestors in your legacy of poet as ambassador, community organizer, and activist? How are these ancestors present in your work with the public?
Juan Felipe Herrera: I would say, to begin, it would have to be my parents, since all we did was just be together—the three of us traveling on the migrant trail. That was a very closed, even though Big Sky, yet closed-on-the-outside-of-everything world. Maybe except for when we went to buy groceries, we were in Grocery Society world. But otherwise, we were on the other side of the highway at the edge of the city. I was just going from here to there at a very early age.
All that close contact and storytelling—my mother, really, consciously, wanted to be my teacher. And that involved a lot of talk and conversations about who my family was. She had an old album that was passed on from my grandmother, Juanita, who used to receive all the photos from our parents and grandparents and keep them all in an album. And then, my mother inherited all of these photos. It was one of those five-and-dime-store albums with a red plastic leather-like cover with the black felt paper inside and the brownie photos. All photos from the late 1800s of my grandmother, my great-grandmother, and my grandfather. It started there and then it just moved on up . . . to the 1930s, '40s, '50s, and that's kind of where it ends.
Each photo had a story, and she'd open it up and tell me, "Oh mira, this! This is tú abuelita Juanita! And she was very stern. And she didn't want me to go to school after the third grade because she caught me stealing candy!" These were heavy stories. And then [my mother] she would point to another and say, "And this is me, I wanted to be a dancer." She'd pull out whatever she could find to look like a gypsy dancer. And she did look like one—I think that's really who she was. "And yet," she said, "I wasn't allowed to. I wasn't allowed to go to join the local barrio theater."
The vaudeville-style theaters were coming out in the 1930s in El Paso–Juarez. They were the big thing as of 1930 because the big radio stations were installed in the late 1920s in Juarez–El Paso. So, all of a sudden there were auditions for whoever wanted to be involved. She wanted to do that with all her heart, body, and soul, but she was held back because she was a woman. And that's it. A big, old line was drawn. That was her story. And it really got to me. So then, in a way, I waged a struggle. I waged a little war with myself and with society. I was going to get up there, one way or another, and somehow, along the way, I was going to bring her into the stories.
My father, too, but my father was always traveling—traveling fathers—he would be out for a year, a long time. But he had stories to tell. Or just observations. When we're children we observe everything. When we're teenagers, we feel and hear and listen. Even though we don't look like it, we're taking it all in. So, I took everything in. And then there's others—the 1950s and '60s we went from Elvis Presley to Jimi Hendrix. 1956 to 1968—that's a lot of crazy, beautiful, wild music! I would listen to all of it all the time.
And the social movements—that's kind of a collective ancestor. As students, we were all involved. It was either the Campesino movement, the LatinX movement, the Chicano movement, the gay rights movement, the women's liberation movement, the American Indian Movement, and then the global student movements, throughout Latin America and the world. You could just flip a coin and find a movement!
Salas: What was your understanding of the US poet laureate position prior to your appointment, and how did this evolve over your term? Furthermore, could you speak to your process of approaching your central project of your laureateship? What surprised you to learn about the accessibility of resources for poetry programming?
Herrera: I didn't research the position much beforehand. I just felt good about it, and I knew that I was going to represent everyone in the United States, and I was going to promote literature and poetry, and my natural inclination is always to reach out to our communities of color and Latinas, Latinos, and children. That's just what I had going in, that was in my heart, and I was just gonna let it work out! That's what has usually been my whole life experience going into a new space—not knowing what it is and then discovering it and moving through it.
When I was there the first time, I got an important visit. The Library of Congress has various divisions—the African American division, the Hispanic division, as it's called, the Asian division, the Folklife Center, the Rare Books division, and the Princeton photographs division and on and on. . . . They all have librarians and they're divisions, but they're really microlibraries that collect those materials and have collected them through time. So, the head librarian of the Hispanic division comes walking in with a couple of our staff librarians as well, and she walks right up to me, she comes through the door, and there I am in this elegant office with antique furniture—emerald green and windows toward the big lawn, the Mall, and other buildings in the area. And she says, very softly and slowly, with teary eyes: "We've been waiting for you."
That was a big ol' bell that she hit, you know? Well, I don't think it was me, Juan Felipe Herrera, but it was just this moment of having a Latino be the poet laureate of the United States and that it was time to come together.
I found out that the Hispanic division has a lot of beautiful resources, materials, recordings, photographs, and ancient books. One thing I got to see was a special edition of one of Lorca's chapbooks, España en el corazón. It was made out of the uniforms of soldiers. They had wanted to give him a gift, so they tore up some of their clothes. They mashed it and made paper pulp out of it, and they made the pages and then imprinted the letters of these poems and folded it into a nice cover. They gave it to him because he had served some time with them and supported the cause against Franco.
If you're at the biggest cafeteria in the world, where you've never been, and when you've been hungry all your life, you're going to create some projects!
I did four or five projects because, well, if you're at the biggest cafeteria in the world, where you've never been, and when you've been hungry all your life, you're going to create some projects! The first one was Casa de Colores, which was for everybody. I wanted everyone to publish poetry. I wanted for their voices to be heard in whatever manner they wanted to write, what they wanted to write, and whatever language they wanted to write without any editor that's going to say: "This is no good" or "It's not worthy. You have to go to the university for fifty years and then we'll look at your poetry!" I wanted that to happen, so then we put out a call. Casa de Colores contained "La Familia," which was this project of occasional themes, and people would submit poetry regarding that theme, like "Community" and a number of other themes that I presented to the nation. Many poems came in. Some of them were from adult education classrooms. And some were in Spanish, a little in German, a little in Italian, a little in Portuguese. So that was "La Familia"—it was a continuous scroll. And then another thing about Casa de Colores was "El Jardin," which had presentations that I did about the Library of Congress itself with the head librarian.
Next, I did The Technicolor Adventures of Catalina Neon. This was for second-graders to write, to inspire them to work with a teacher and librarian to give me ideas and writing for this story that was blank and going to be called The Technicolor Adventures of Catalina Neon and Her Puppy Tortilla. They sent a lot of stuff, and then I would tweak it around. And it turned out to be a wild story!
And then the workshops with migrant women, migrant students, and teachers who teach migrant students—that was the most moving. Their stories had to do with ICE, had to do with parents, had to do with dropping out of school, even though they were straight-A students because they had to go to work, because their parents didn't want to get caught, and they wanted to protect the family and get some income. Migrant women came to the readings on a couple of occasions and, you know, they were in estilos cómodos like at home, like en nuestras casas; they weren't all "dooded-up." I mean, why, right? It's a poetry reading!
They didn't say much. Because it was new for them, too, most likely. So, I had a chance to speak with them—to me, it was like it was a code language—I said: "Cómo están y cómo están las cosas?" And that meant: "What's going on in your life and what's happening in your community?" Because it was tough times. And they would say, "Allá le vamos" (We're surviving). And that was enough to say a lot right there. We didn't have to get into a deep conversation. And what also said it all was that they were there. I mean, why come to a poetry reading? But they came. I learned from everyone that came to the readings.
Salas: After Amanda Gorman's riveting performance at the presidential inauguration, many folks seemed shocked that such a young person could write and perform with such powerful articulation. Personally, as someone who works with youth, while I was in awe of her performance, I was not at all surprised by the keenness of vision that has arrived at her young age. What were some of your favorite insights to arise about the potential of poetry that came from working with children and younger poets?
Children and younger poets, they have such a wide lens.
Herrera: Children and younger poets, they have such a wide lens. On the road, as laureate, I had a group of second- and third-graders. And I said: "Let's talk about some things you're interested in, shall we? Let's solve some world problems. . . . Would you like to do that?" And they'd say, "Yeah! We wanna solve some world problems!" And I'd say, "Great! What kind of world problems do you wanna solve?" And then they gave me a list, and it was a serious list; it wasn't how to make candy or anything! They put some big stuff up on the board.
So, I said, "Let's put that aside. Now how about a shape or something so we can put those world problems inside. You know, like a circle but not a circle. You guys come up with a shape and we'll go at it." And a second-grader, a little tiny, microscopic second-grader, she raises her hand and I say, "Yes? What shape should I put up there?" She says: "An infinity-sided cube!" So, I had the chalk in my hand and I go: "Wow . . . you know what, okay. Tell you what, let's have you do it!" Cause I knew they were going to be able to do it. In my head, it was kind of like an Einstein Cube. Remember that? Zero volume, each side had zero volume, yet it was a cube? That's what her idea sounded like to me.
So, they came up and they decided to go boys first and girls second. They decided to split themselves. Boys went over here, and girls went over there. And then the girls did these sea anemone shapes, crisscrossing into each other, and I said, "Wow! Jeez, that's incredible!" And the boys just did little triangles and rectangles—one day males will advance! And they began to put up the kind of problems they wanted to solve, and then they selected one [from the list]. And they did! And they came up with amazing results! And I said, "You did it! This is great!"
I enjoy working with children, seeing how they think and how flexible their minds are, how open and creative they are. And youth as well. They jump up and do spoken-word, and they're incredible. It's always a whole new thing. It's reality, rhythm, and joy at the same time. The rhythms are incredible, and the lines are not an issue. The reality is, you know, the hard realities, the tough realities people rarely write about or know how to write about. The language is very direct, which is great. And the joy is there and the performance and bringing it out and getting all that electrical response from the audience. There is a lot of bravery and courage involved. I look to them [the youth] as teachers. I think of Amanda Gorman as having presented a new model of writing. Because it was so magnetic. We all loved what she said, and how she said it. It was like drinking a glass of water. A glass of clear, clear, clear water.
I think of Amanda Gorman as having presented a new model of writing.
Salas: We are in a time of renewed investment in activism, where we are also hopefully asking about the ethics of these gestures and our positionalities in offering service in ways that are sensitive to and even desired by the communities we seek to uplift. As a literary activist and ambassador, how do you stay checked in with that concern? What questions do you ask yourself?
Herrera: I'm such a traveler—since I was a child moving from one place to another place. I feel a lot for everyone; I believe in everyone finding happiness and being accepted and acknowledged with respect at the core. There's other things—there's food. There's clothes, of course, and there's house, and there's having everything everyone else has. I want everyone to have that. But, on a deeper level, I want everyone not to suffer. I want to help. I want to solve. I want to participate in ending that suffering, especially with people that I know. I know I may not know their name, but I know them. Even though times have changed since I was a child, time has stood still. Remember I said I lived outside the main road on the edge of town, by the open fields? And because you're in a trailer, you're kind of just occupying a little space there. To live like that is to stop there, and maybe you stay there for a little while, I don't know—maybe two, three, four weeks—and then you move on. So, life is hard. So, with that vision and that cause, I don't really feel like I'm intruding. I'm not like, "Oh, hey, hey! Everybody needs to learn English."
I just meet people with open arms. I meet people openly; I don't meet people to do something. I don't meet people to ask for something. I don't meet people to instill something. I don't meet people to agree with me in any manner whatsoever. So that's the key: to be sincere and to be as extremely open as you can, because everyone has a different point of view. But that's what guides me: kindness. And wanting to be totally, totally available to people, especially Indigenous Latinos, Latinas, and Méxicano/as, Centroamericano/as, Latin American, African American—everybody!
I know some people have been on the outside like I've been. And that's all, you know. I keep ideology and doctrine outside of my relationship with human beings.
I keep ideology and doctrine outside of my relationship with human beings.
Salas: The concept of a public mandate for an arts ambassador on a county, state, and/or national level has always fascinated me within our nation—it's a notable contrast in a culture in which to be an American artist is to constantly have the societal legitimacy of one's artmaking under siege. Furthermore, to be a BIPOC artist is often to endure the added complexity of the dominant culture's dismissal of one's personhood and lived experience alongside their art. So, the national and institutional endorsement of a poet as a necessary ambassador within the republic has always made me curious about both the joys and the precarities of the post. How did/do you reconcile the promise of this post within the devaluation of arts and humanities within our racist and capitalistic culture?
Herrera: You get some funny questions as poet laureate sometimes . . . sometimes they're kind of cruddy questions. Once—I think it was in an art museum—a gentlemen who was part of the museum, I think, came up to me and asked me: "Can you name any Victorian poets?"
So, I was kind of put to the test, like in my head: "Maybe you're not good enough to be a poet laureate?" You meet a little bit of everything, so you gotta listen to it and reflect on it. It's part of the prism of the nation. You know, not all of them are Chicanas wearing a liberation button! Not all of them are doing spoken-word! Or, like César Vallejo-ish poetry by a Latino. And on, right? So, we learn quite a bit, if we're open.
We have to be open. Once, after a reading, a young man, a student at an alternative high school, he was last in the room, came in with his teacher and another student. And I noticed that they weren't going to be able to afford the fifteen-dollar book. So I said, "It's okay! It's on me!" So they both got a book, Notes on the Assemblage. And I signed it for him. As I gave it to him, before he turned around to take off, he said, "You just write about your people. You don't write for us." I said, "Okay. Well, I'm a civil rights poet, you know, I write for everyone." He said, "No, no, you don't, no you don't. You got some homework." And then he took off.
So, you know, you've got to think about it. I thought about it. I don't remember writing a poem for white people, even though it was in there. And that's a question mark. We do leave people out of our community, out of our literary audience community, out of our book community, out of our poetry community. Just the way we speak creates a demarcation. Just the words we use create a demarcation. The status of the language creates a demarcation. So that's something to think about. I began to think about that—even though I do include everyone, I wonder if it's not coming through. Maybe we don't care about that. Or maybe we do. It's important to care. It's important to be open. So that's what I walked out with.
We've got to sit back and look at it, because we put ourselves up there. We're the ones who have the pen and put it on, put it down, hold the keyboard. And we're the ones who have the mind and all these classes we've taken and all these books we have at home. And someone challenges us and then we already have this really high position, even though we don't feel it and don't really think of it, but it really is quite a position. Good old-fashioned poet-poet without the MFA, without the workshops, good old-fashioned poet-poet still has an elevated position. All of a sudden, you've got to prove yourself. Because you have this elevated position. It's even tougher. So, it's good to open up, to experiment.
All of a sudden, you've got to prove yourself. Because you have this elevated position.
Salas: What have been your observations about the role of poetry and its role in the community consciousness when the nature of public space has changed so drastically? What are your hopes for the role of poetic community engagement as the nation returns not to "normal" but resumes in a time of reckoning with the grief and post-trauma of its most recent events?
Herrera: In Austin, Texas, I did a workshop for Méxicanas who had crossed the border and made it to Austin and survived. They had come from central Mexico and northern Mexico and just walked, scrambled through, jumped under the wire and somehow got across. And now, here they were, learning how to use computers and learning how to write.
At this workshop, they created this little table, una mesa. And then on top of the table, a smaller table. It looked almost like an altar. And it had a mantel, a table cover, and on top, photo albums of their children and postcards and little letters. There was a lot of love there, in all the photographs of the families. That album was really like their poetry book. It had photographs and dedications, and the years go by, and a new baby, and another little poetic postcard, and they really valued it. And then, on top of the smaller table, they had flowers. In my mind, I call it the mesa familiar, the family table. Everything there was a kind of poem: the table, the mesa, where we all gather with our abuelitas. There was el mantel, which we know, a mantel isn't just a table cover, it's a special thing. And then the album, the most important thing, and the photos of the children, and growing up, little rhymes and riddles. It wasn't like: "Ladies and Gentleman, this is my book, it's called Consciousness and the Oblique Light of Time." But it was a poetry presentation.
There's a lot more change to come. We have to walk in empty if we really are poets.
Because if we really wanted to present something to our community . . . will our book really connect or would it be this table with a mantel and altarcito, with the album, the family pictures, writings, and postcards? Which one would truly connect?
I think we need to be open to the changes that are taking place. And of course, the viruses and what's happening to families, all that is just churning us upside down and sideways. We have to walk in empty. This is a time when we lay our ideas of poetry down and then see what new poetry grows out of us. This is a time where what we usually do . . . it's over. Because everything literally has changed. We don't have what we used to have. The genre has to be dismantled.
Yeah, I wish I could ride a horse downtown. But there's no horses anymore to be ridden. There's just cars. And even the cars are getting crazy—trucks are too big, and people should change from gasoline anyway. I think we have to lay everything down and walk in with an empty satchel, an empty mind, and empty hands. No pens, no nothing, no paper, even the devices. So that we can receive and be part of the new rain, the new thunder, the tectonic shift. It just started. There's a lot more change to come. We have to walk in empty if we really are poets.
Editorial note: US Poets Laureate Joy Harjo, Juan Felipe Herrera, and Rita Dove were honored with the 2021 LA Review of Books (LARB) – UCR Department of Creative Writing Lifetime Achievement Award during the closing event of the 44th annual UCR Writers Week, which was held virtually February 13 and 16–19. The yearly festival is free and open to the public. For more information regarding the event schedule, featured writers, and postevent recordings, please visit the Writers Week website You can read the first in the series, Salas's conversation with Rita Dove, here.
Author's note: Crystal AC Salas is grateful to the poets laureate for their graciousness of time and wisdom and Professors Allison Hedge Coke and Sara Borjas, as well as her colleague Abbie Reese, for their guidance and assistance on this project.
Juan Felipe Herrera was the twenty-first Poet Laureate of the United States (2015–16) and was the first Latino to hold the position. From 2012 to 2014, Herrera served as California State Poet Laureate. Herrera's many collections of poetry include Every Day We Get More Illegal; Notes on the Assemblage; Senegal Taxi; Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems, a recipient of the PEN/Beyond Margins Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments, 1971–2007. He is also the author of Crashboomlove: A Novel in Verse, which received the Americas Award. His books of prose for children include SkateFate; Calling the Doves, which won the Ezra Jack Keats Award; Upside Down Boy, which was adapted into a musical for young audiences in New York City; and Cinnamon Girl: Letters Found inside a Cereal Box. His book Jabberwalking, a children's book focused on turning your wonder at the world around you into weird, wild, incandescent poetry, came out in 2018. Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth.
Crystal AC Salas is a Chicanx poet, essayist, educator, and community organizer. Her work has appeared in Northwest Review, [PANK] Magazine, PCC Inscape, Chaparral Poetry, the Acentos Review, and others. She is currently pursuing her MFA at UC Riverside. She is a founding member of the BreakBread Literacy Project, which works alongside youth to elevate the voices of young creatives under twenty-five, and serves as poetry editor for their quarterly publication, BreakBread Magazine.
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General Harris is a retired United States Air Force Reserve Lieutenant General who last served as the Inspector General of the Air Force. She previously served as the Assistant Vice Chief of Staff and Director, Air Staff, Headquarters United States Air Force and prior as 22nd Air Force Commander (US Air Force Reserve) at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, GA. Harris made history becoming the first African American woman to command an Air Force operational flying squadron, wing and numbered Air Force and served as the first woman Inspector General of the Air Force. Harris is an experienced pilot with over 10,000 flight hours safely transporting passengers and cargo worldwide for United Airlines (NASDAQ: UAL) and was a pilot for nearly 30 years before retiring from the company in 2020.
Harris serves as a director of The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA), an independent director/trustee, BlackRock Fixed-Income Mutual Funds, and is a member of the board of councilors for Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, the board of directors for Direct Relief and a trustee of the Falcon Foundation, United States Air Force Academy.
On June 30, 2021, KULR shared its breakthrough recycling and prototype battery transportation solutions with industry and government leaders at the 11th Annual Battery Safety Summit.
From the news: KULR recently received two US Department of Transportation (DoT) special permits for the transport of recycled batteries and prototype lithium batteries up to 2.1 kilowatt-hour (kWh). When shipping lithium batteries up to 2.1 KWh, the special permit allows exceptions from shipping papers and employee safety training. The special permit authorizes these exceptions based on using KULR's specially designed thermally protective packaging which incorporates the Company's patented Thermal Runaway Shield (TRS) technology. KULR's special permits mark an important development for the Company as it continues to secure logistical partners for air, maritime, and ground cargo transportation of lithium batteries.
From the news: The Thermal Runaway Shield (TRS), has been shown in multiple tests to prevent or minimize the dangerous fires and explosions that can occur after a lithium-ion cell enters into a thermal runaway event. KULR's TRS technology was selected by NASA to transport to and store batteries aboard the International Space Station.
Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) has been, for quite some time, one of the few EV companies in town but that is changing as new entrants to market compete. Safety is becoming a larger factor. The regulatory risk in Tesla's largest market, the US, has heightened considerably given a series of mishaps regarding the safety of Tesla's EV batteries.
A recent article chronicles the tangible rise in concern from the regulatory agencies, culminating with the new 'souped-up' Plaid Model.
"Unlike '19 and '20, Tesla is far from the only EV in town, be it Boston, Beijing, or Barcelona. There is significant potential for a valuation derating due to sliding market share, particularly from Tesla's main growth vector, China."
The company is expected to publish its Q2 2021 results after the markets close on Monday, July 26. The EV company has already provided delivery figures for the quarter, noting that it sold a record 201,250 vehicles, a sequential increase of 9% and a year-over-year increase of about 130%.
The Company plans to open up its network of superchargers to other electric vehicles later this year, CEO Elon Musk said recently on Twitter.
Enovix Corporation (NASDAQ GS:ENVX), the leader in the design and manufacture of next generation 3D Silicon™ Lithium-ion batteries, recently announced a contract award with General Technical Services under DOTC-17-01-INIT1218 Advanced Power Systems Technologies with the Department of Defense to demonstrate safe and efficient advanced lithium-ion battery technology to the U.S. Army. This contract was awarded in conjunction with Inventus Power, a leading provider of advanced battery and power systems that specializes in the design and manufacture of Li-ion battery packs, smart chargers, and efficient power supplies. The application for the Enovix batteries is the WarFighter centralized power source, used to power worn and carried equipment within the soldier ensemble. Enovix believes that the total U.S. wearable military battery market is approximately $350M annually based on currently established military programs.
"President Biden's recent executive order calls for a comprehensive review of US supply chains to identify vulnerabilities and risks, and lithium-ion batteries are imperative to our military and national security," said Cam Dales, General Manager and Chief Commercial Officer at Enovix. "In addition to our demonstrated product performance and ability to manufacture at scale, we understand that the Department of Defense greatly values our ability to produce our advanced lithium-ion batteries in the U.S. in order to secure the supply chain for mission-critical power sources to power the most advanced defense force in history."
From the news: US soldiers carry more than 60 pounds of gear including more than 15 pounds of batteries to power critical equipment—from weapons to newer technologies using smartphones, tablets, and GPS—and traditionally those batteries have been developed and sourced internationally. Since 2011, the US Army has been provided with slim and light batteries that can last through a three-day mission, solving two issues that soldiers were previously faced with: carrying too much weight and having an efficient power source.
Kandi Technologies Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: KNDI), another player in the battery space, recently announced the expansion of its battery cell business with the acquisition of a leading cell producer in Jiangxi Province, China. Kandi is a leader in electric vehicles and associated parts, including the cell business of subsidiary Ankao and the intelligent battery exchange system, so this acquisition is a natural fit to its vertical integration strategy. The company to be acquired, Jiangxi Province Huiyi New Energy Co., Ltd., produces approximately 90 million 18650 lithium-ion rechargeable cells annually. The cells have a variety of applications, especially in consumer products. Kandi intends to further grow its cell business by using the newly acquired technology to address many new applications, eventually including EV battery packs.
Mr. Hu Xiaoming, Chairman and CEO of Kandi commented, "With the rapid growth of new forms of electric propulsion mobility, the battery industry is literally in its infancy. Whether it is classic pure-EV automobiles, recreational products like hoverboards, or the air transportation of the future, eVTOLS, the need for powerful, safe, and reliable battery storage will grow exponentially over the coming decades. Kandi already has significant expertise in electric propulsion, so this acquisition is the first step to take our expertise and market presence to the next level. Jiangxi Huiyi is already a high volume, profitable producer. Under Kandi's ownership, we intend to grow volume and market share by leveraging their technology to address many emerging applications."
CNBC recently reported on some of the recent vehicle fires from the Chevy Bolt EV and Telsa Plaid, saying, "The fire is the most recent to highlight an ongoing concern of automakers and vehicle safety watch dogs as companies release an influx of new electric vehicles in the coming years. Automakers have continually touted the environmental benefits of EVs, however, the lithium-ion batteries that power the vehicles can be dangerous and result in significant chemical fires if something goes wrong."
With so many new electric vehicles, devices and yes...now spaceships all coming down the industrial pipeline at breakneck speed, battery developers are realizing the need to up their game with regards to innovation and efficiency. Safety can no longer take a backseat to speed to market as the number of EV's coming to market raises serious concerns.
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As the IPO market warms, Accolade targets billion-dollar debut – TechCrunch
As the IPO market heats up, one offering slipped beneath our radar. This morning, then, we'll catch up on Accolade's initial public offering and what its proposed pricing may tell us about the state of the IPO market.
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Catching everyone back up, Accolade sells its service to employers who in turn offer it to their employees; the company's tech provides a portal for individuals to "better understand, navigate and utilize the health care system and their workplace benefits," Accolade states in its S-1 filings.
The firm goes on to point out that the U.S. health care system is complex, which puts "significant strain on consumers." Correct. Its solution? To help "consumers make better, data-driven health care and benefits-related decisions" through its service by selling a "platform to support and influence consumer decision-making that is built on a foundation of mission-driven people and purpose-built technology."
Regardless of that verbiage, Accolade's business has proven sufficiently attractive to allow the firm to file to go public in late February, around when Procore filed. Both companies delayed their offerings, but Procore raised more private capital, a $150 million round that values it at around $5 billion. Accolade, to our knowledge, did not raise more funds. So, its IPO is back on and today we have its pricing interval.
Let's unpack its pricing range, write some notes on its recent financial results and try to figure out how ambitious Accolade is being in terms of its expected valuation as it counts down to trading publicly.
Accolade's S-1/A
According to Accolade's June 24th S-1/A, the company expects a $19 to $21 per-share IPO price range. The company intends to sell 8.75 million shares in its debut, not counting a 1,312,500 share greenshoe option offered to its underwriters. Discounting the extra shares, Accolade would raise between $166.3 million to $183.8 million in its debut; inclusive of greenshoe shares, the total fundraise grows to a range of $191.2 million to $211.3 million.


Everyone has spirit guides. They're around you all the time, wanting to help.
How much spirit guides can help you depends on how strong your relationship is with them.
At even the most basic connection, spirit guides are helping steer your path, even if you're not aware of it.
Stronger relationships mean you're able to sense messages from them, though perhaps not always understand them.
Deeper than that, you're able to interpret messages most of the time, which is great because now you're able to ask them for guidance.
At the deepest level, spirit guides return personal power to you and help you reclaim that power.
Even if you're not quite sure you're ready to dive in that deep, you can start connecting with your spirit guides right now.
Follow these five simple steps to start feeling their presence. And don't forget to snag my free download to take these five steps even further!
Connecting with spirit guides requires some faith.
Open your heart to the possibility that it can happen – that your spirit guides are around you and do want to help.
Even if you don't feel any different or sense your guides right away, trust that it will happen.
This is another aspect of opening your heart and having faith the connection will happen.
Now that you believe your spirit guides are trying to connect with you, say thank you.
The fact that you're not getting any sense of them yet doesn't mean they're not there.
Be grateful to them for their love and support.
You need to quiet your mind and body to notice them, especially at the beginning.
Connecting with your spirit guides is like any other relationship.
It takes time and care to nurture and grow it to the point where you both understand each other clearly most of the time.
Stick with it. Your spirit guides will never give up on you. Don't give up on them.


There's a simple reason even the smallest small business needs a digital presence with the basics — including their locations, hours, services and prices, unless they change too regularly. It's because, even if digital sales are growing faster than physical sales, shoppers have more technology at their disposal, in more places, than ever before. That means smartphones and tablets. According to Nielsen, 65 percent of Americans in 2015 used smartphones to research retail and service-based locations before departing their homes. That number has almost certainly only increased since then.
Where would Uber be without a smartphone app? What about Amazon's famous barcode scanner for window shopping in Best Buy? Then, there are companies like Sheetz, Starbucks and Domino's, which have turned mobile ordering into an art form, and even online retailers like Touch of Modern and MassDrop, which are entirely Internet-community-driven.
Being "mobile-driven" clearly has many different forms. It can complement your face-to-face services, or it can, in some cases, replace it entirely for digiphiles who prefer to do their window shopping in a browser. But ignoring the Internet entirely is like blacking out the windows of a Main Street storefront. You'll have people asking questions about your hesitation, but you're not going to be making many sales that way. Becoming more invested in your digital channels means competing more convincingly with your business rivals. Depending on how well you plan and roll out your digital presence, you might even be able to punch above your weight when it comes to siphoning off fans and customers from better-established brands. More on that in a moment.
The great fallacy at the heart of Dunder Mifflin's business strategy was assuming their B2B customers would always be willing to sacrifice some of the cost savings and the convenience of ordering from big-box stores if it meant receiving customer service from regional experts.
Believe it or not, this isn't to say your small business can't have it both ways. If anything, small businesses are in a much better position than huge chains like Macy's, K-Mart, Toys R Us and J.C. Penney, which were all too bloated and too overextended to react appropriately to the changes happening in how people make purchases these days.
Small businesses can provide the intimate, tactile showroom floor experience of a chain like Sears or Best Buy and couple it with the polished digital presence of a much larger retailer. With each iteration, mobile-first programming languages like Swift and HTML5 get more manageable to work with, meaning small businesses can get a lot of bang for their buck when it comes to web apps, mobile apps and digital shopping and service portals.
When it comes to keeping inventories around, lean manufacturing presents business owners with a paradox: How can you provide a variety of products — with customization options, ideally — and still run your operation light and lean? One answer lies in the way physical and digital storefronts complement each other.
"Do you have this in my size?" "Do you make this in stainless steel?" "What about purple?" These are questions customers will have easy answers to when they find a product in your store they admire, but you don't carry a variant listed online, or vice versa. Customers can see the whole breadth of your offerings online, while viewing a representative selection of styles and materials when they visit your store.
Customizability enters the equation almost seamlessly. Some garage door makers already let homeowners upload photos of their homes to "test run" new door designs against their architecture. Some clothing retailers offer fun tools for matching or designing the perfect outfit for the next adventure or night on the town.
There are also the matters of order ahead/pickup later, self-checkout in retail stores, the advent of entirely cashierless stores and mobile-first payment options like Apple Pay and Google Wallet, which customers can use online or at a physical point of sale. One thing we know for sure is that digital technologies have only provided us with more options and more convenience — for both business owners and customer communities alike.


Use our guide to compare Konka's range of feature phones and find the best one to match your budget.
Konka is a Chinese firm that makes a whole lot more than phones, including digital signage, TVs and refrigerators for its local domestic market.
Konka's phones are primarily budget devices, designed to deliver basic performance and features at a low price point.
Konka – a trading name of the Konka Group and originally Shenzhen Konka Electronic Group Co – has a history that goes back some 30 years. In the Australian market it's a very small player pitching directly at the affordable end of the budget spectrum.
Which is to say that Konka's phones are quite cheap, and deliberately so. Within that kind of thinking it's common to see compromises across the board to meet a price point, but it's well worth knowing what those compromises mean for your usage of a device.
Everyone's needs are different and one budget phone that features a better camera than another may mean nothing to you, while another that uses a flip format for feature phone differentiation could become a must-buy prospect. We've run through Konka's offerings and what they'll mean for you to make your comparison more meaningful.
Konka offers phones that qualify as smartphones running the Android operating system, as well as more simple models in the feature phone space for those who crave an easier existence.
Between those two approaches you'll find large differences in storage needs, simply because a basic feature phone will typically only use storage for contacts (which are tiny anyway) or very simple photos, whereas a smartphone can use space for photos, music and apps to whatever extent you'd care to push them.
That being said, Konka's phones are very rudimentary in terms of what they offer in storage. Even for its Android phones, expect no more than 16GB of onboard storage, not all of which will be available to you as an end user. MicroSD expansion can take that further, but again (and in common with many budget handsets) you're not going to be able to put the largest microSD expansion cards into your Konka smartphone.
On the Android smartphone side, Konka's phones have displays that are entirely typical of the budget space, tending towards the low end. You're typically faced with 5 inch displays at 720p resolution, which is less than you'll find with many budget models.
On the feature phone side, large screens were never a key selling point and you'll be looking more at devices with around a 2.3 inch screen size.
If there's one thing you can say about Konka's phones, it's that they're very affordable indeed. As such, you're going to be looking in the price range of between $80 and $150 or thereabouts, making them a decent match for those on a tight budget, or even as an emergency replacement or spare phone if your day-to-day handset has to go in for repairs.
Price is a key leveller for Konka, but it's not alone in this space. You should also consider handsets from the likes of Alcatel, Aspera, Kogan, ZTE and Nokia, to name but a few.
Most budget handsets have retained a standard headphone jack even as it's gone out of style in the premium space and Konka's phones are no exception, with wired headphone support a standard feature.
Very cheap phones such as those offered by Konka aren't usually rife with additional security features. For the Android handsets you're looking essentially at PIN/passcode locking to secure your phone, but if you need more, you'll have to look for specific encryption or VPN apps to lock down your usage and content.
The specifications for Konka's phones released to date make for sobering reading, even within the constrained smartphone space, with low megapixel counts and very simple feature sets for shooting stills or video. There's a certain style to cheap camera sensors that may have artistic appeal to some people, but not everybody. The first feature that gets compromised with cheap phones is camera quality and that's the case with Konka's phones. Don't expect much, in other words.
Konka's phones cover the standard network bands for Australia's mobile networks, with a range of support for 2G, 3G and in selected models 4G connectivity, although it doesn't publish category speeds for any of its handsets. That's not unusual within this price bracket and it shouldn't be expected that you'll get anything but ordinary network performance out of its Android handsets. Data throughput is much less of an issue for feature phone users, but you should still be able to hook up to both 3G and 4G networks, bearing in mind that any phone that only advertises 2G compatibility is essentially useless in Australia now.
We're yet to see budget manufacturers adopt wireless charging to any large scale extent, so it's not a surprise that Konka's phones don't support it. That's also true of fast charging standards, although the classic situation where budget phones often have small batteries applies. You're not likely to wait too long to power them up when needed in any case.
Of course for feature phones your charge is likely to last a number of days rather than a number of hours.
Battery life on budget phones is all too often a mix of low-power processors pitched against smaller battery capacities, because both factors help keep the costs of a given handset low.
For Konka's Android phones, you're typically looking at around 2,200mAh for its smartphone devices, which is on the lower side even for a budget handset. Even with a low-power processor, it's more likely that you'll need to charge it every day to keep it running.
While its feature phone products include much smaller batteries, the lesser requirements of a feature phone – typically just calls and texts – means that you should be able to eke out multi-day battery life with few issues unless you're a very prolific text addict.
Budget phones so rarely have any kind of IP-rated water resistance features, so much so that it's a pleasant surprise when they do have that kind of offering.
Konka's phones to date haven't listed any kind of IP-tested water resistance for its smartphones or feature phones sold in Australia. What does that mean in practical terms? It means that while very small quantities of water (eg sweat, a drop of rain) shouldn't be an issue per se, there's no guarantee and immersion would almost certainly be fatal for the internal components of the phone.
Like many budget phones, the other aspect where you most definitely get what you pay for is in predicted phone performance. While the mid-range of phones has come forward in leaps and bounds to provide much of what the majority of users want, budget phones are still very much in the slow lane when it comes to performance. With mediocre processors and low RAM counts, expect slow performance out of your Konka phone. Budget often does mean slow, but Konka's particular recipes make them hard to recommend if you're fussed about getting the most out of your buying dollar in smartphone performance terms.
Looking for a Konka phone on a plan?
It's becoming increasingly rare to see budget phones on contract terms and that makes sense both for telcos and you, the end consumer. There's not much point tying yourself to a 2 year contract for a sub-$100 phone, after all. You're much better off grabbing the Konka handset of your choice and matching it up with a SIM-only prepaid plan.
Which Vodafone phone is right for you?
We've rounded up the key considerations to help you find the Vodafone phone that best suits your needs.


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FCA Suit Says Accountant Was Negligent : Thrift Seeks $200 Million in Federal Court Action
By JANE APPLEGATE
Financial Corp. of America filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking $200 million in damages from the accounting firm of Arthur Andersen & Co.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, alleges that Andersen was "negligent in its performance" of duties for FCA between 1974 and 1984.
The suit alleges that Andersen failed to tell FCA's senior management that there "were significant problems in FCA's system of internal controls and record-keeping . . . or serious problems in the amount of FCA's loan loss reserve."
Andersen officials could not be reached for comment.
FCA alleges the problems caused by Andersen's failure to alert management prompted several Securities and Exchange Commission inquiries.
The SEC later required FCA to restate its profits in 1984, the suit alleges. In response to the government inquiries and profit and loss restatements, depositors withdrew $6.3 billion from FCA during August and September, 1984, according to the suit. Federal regulators also forced former FCA chairman Charles Knapp to resign.
FCA also alleges that Andersen is to blame for a class-action suit filed against it by stockholders. FCA recently agreed to settle the suit for $32 million.
At one time, FCA was one of the fastest-growing thrifts in the country, growing in assets from $1.8 billion in 1980 to $6.6 billion in 1984.


Home ParentingBecoming Mom	Got Milk?
Got milk, and Got a big ol' baby. Did anybody mention that yet? Your big baby ;-)?
Welcome home Updyke family, welcome home.
That first car ride was pretty surreal for us. There's no place like home, huh?
Home!!!! Let us know if you need anything from Target, Babies R Us or the Liquor store! Congrats and welcome little Oscar!
Hooray for milk. Hooray for home. Hooray for argyle socks!


Mohan was called in the industry as the 'silver jubilee hero' in the 1980s for almost all movies featuring the actor witnessed a fantastic run. His nick name in popular circles is 'Mic' Mohan owing to the fact that he performed a stage musician and all of his movies had a scene in which he performed with a hand-held a microphone in his hand. He holds the record in the industry for giving 25 silver jubilee hits, a feat not matched by many industry greats. However, Mohan disappeared from the filmdom by the late 1980s following a series of flops. Although his debut was "kokila", a Kannada film directed by veteran Balu Mahendra, his first Tamil appearance was Moodu Pani (a guest role). This was followed by Nenjathai Killaadhey, a masterpiece of director Mahendran, which started the short yet a full scale peak career of Mohan, which lasted almost 8 years. Nenjathai Killaadhey ran for a year and won best cinematography national award for Balu Mahendra, after which his films began to be either silver jubilee or over 200 days most of the time.