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Atlanta Teen Artists Share Visuals From LAA's "Portraying the Immigrant Experience" Art Contest and Exhibit
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Earlier this fall VOX ATL had the honor of speaking with a group of Atlanta teen artists who participated in the Latin American Association's annual "Portraying the Immigrant Experience" art contest. In a round table discussion, the group shared the inspiration behind their submissions as well as some of the highlights and challenges of creating their pieces. Read below to not only see the artwork for yourself, but also hear them tell you the stories behind it.
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VOX ATL asks, is this your first time participating in an art contest like this? Why did you enter and what are you looking forward to the most?
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"White Washed" by Daniela Dock (1st Place winner!)
"The reason for the outlet was because that is something common here in the US so that's why I chose it as the setting for the painting. I set it up so that each "store" would have something to do with what some people want to change about immigrants and me personally. I will admit it was difficult to draw this all from scratch but I'm happy with the way it turned out in the end.
Last thing I wanted to add to this piece were the people. Originally I wanted to have myself pictured in the painting but instead I decided to depict my culture; Mexican women with the traditional dresses found in different states."
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"The Skull River" by Isaac Rodriguez
"It was June 2019 when a picture of the corpses of a father and his daughter in the Rio Grande became viral across all media. I'm pretty sure that we all know the details about this tragedy, so I'm not going to explain it. However, I'm going to ask you something: Is there anyone talking about this today? No, they just forgot about it, along with a bunch of other tragedies."
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"Struggle" by Jade Moore
"My piece describes what immigration: the laws and societal standpoint look like. You see a separation of the smiling face of our current president: Donald J. Trump. His face separates to show the pain in the background of the 'borders' build to keep immigrants out. The way they look out onto the land beyond the gate, and dream of a better life. I choose a smiling reference of him because he's so happy despite the choices he has made, that hurt millions of people. Those immigrants you see in the background, are exactly as they are portrayed: nameless, faceless, and yet they can die simply for just wanting a better life in the U.S. than they have."
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"The Bloom We Won't See" by Luis Badillo (3rd Place winner!)
"'The Bloom We Won't See' is meant to illustrate the beauty in which we as a society are represented through the use of symbolic imagery such as the birds, flowers and butterflies being depicted. Our world is represented in a new way. America.In my painting the immigrant society is represented through the flowers. Vibrant and colorful use of reds, yellows, purples and greens flowers in which they grow with one another with a purpose. A purpose to serve to the next in power. Almost like a food chain, these help feed the next animal in line."
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"Dreams, Nightmares and Nostalgia" by Maria J.
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"ICE" by Kimberly P.
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Migration Experience by Susana Meza
"What I am trying to represent in this artwork, is the effort, hard work and experience that immigrants have to face for new opportunities. Each way has their own difficulties and unpleasant events, but, according to my experience, it is worth it. The colorful left path, represents legal immigration, an easy path with a few difficulties. On the other hand, the painful right path, represents illegal immigration. with more difficulties and grievous obstacles. Despite of the different situations, both have the same goal, a better life full of new opportunities."
Thank you to the Latin American Association and the teens who shared their stories with us.
Also, special shoutout to this year's winners, who also win scholarship prizes (first place: $2,500 / second place: $1,500 / third place: $1,000 to reimburse academic expenses once winners are admitted to a technical, two-year or four-year postsecondary educational institution.
First Place: Daniela Dock (Allatoona High School, 12th)
Second Place: Sophia Sobrino (Campbell High School, 12th)
Third Place: Luis Badillo (Marietta High School, 12th)
Isaak Ojeda (Union Grove High School, 12th)
Debanhi Romero (Lakeside High School, 11th)
Outstanding Essay:
Adriana Cantor, with "El vuelo del inmigrante"
Sri Harshitha Varanasi (South Forsyth High School, 9th), with "My Life as an Indian Immigrant"
#YAR: How One Atlanta Teen Is Advocating for Immigration Rights
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"I always try to ensure that I'm raising the voices of others through my activism," says Paideia senior Emma Schwartz, "Rather than speaking on their behalf."	Read on
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"United We Stand": We Are One and There Is Strength in Numbers
Wheeler High School junior Ashleigh Ewald shares an inspiring speech with her thoughts on immigration in America and how we should accept it.	Read on
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Privatized Immigration Detention Reveals That Capitalism Has Gone Too Far [OPINION]
The undoing of privatized immigration detention can't be solved with a simple call to action. We must hold companies and politicans accountable.	Read on
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The American Dream: Fact or Fiction?
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The American Dream: sought by many and achieved by few.
This video strives to qualify the definition of the American Dream and demonstrate the variety of beliefs relating to the dream, some of which define it as equal economic opportunity. The equal chance for success and to achieve the American Dream is one that society advocates. However, this video explores the reality and unfortunate truth to our current circumstance. With mayoral interviews and discussions with educational board members, we examine the fallacy behind a key foundation of the United States and provide potential solutions to our current situation.
This documentary was created by Michael Fu, Avinash Palliyil, and Kamen Iliev; tenth-grade students attending Walton High School. All children of 1st generation immigrants, the trio wanted to learn about the American Dream their own parents strive to achieve.
VOX ATL Visits the 'Portraying the Undocumented Experience' Art Contest [VIDEO]
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On Friday, Sept. 28 I walked through the doors of the Latin American Association and was met with an array of alluring artwork and the sound of a smooth saxophone. The night's event, "Portraying the Undocumented Experience" art contest, invited high school students to submit their work relating to the challenges and emotions that undocumented immigrants in America may go through. Artists of all skill levels were present.
Ferin Abdulla, an art teacher at Cross Keys High School (which is demographically composed of a high percentage of immigrant and Hispanic students), told VOX ATL, "The undocumented experience, in addition to any experience that discusses immigrants in the melting pot that is America, is important. It always has been, and this is finally a time where we are providing a space and a platform for young artists to share that voice."
Abdulla added, "So, the value of it comes in because sometimes our artists feel very alone in their experience and this provides them with a platform where they feel like they can meet like-minded people and also explore something that is very so close to their identity."
Throughout the night I was lucky enough for many of the teens and professional artists present to be able to share their personal stories with me.
Arantza Peña Popo, a 17-year-old artist who won first prize with her piece in the contest, said, "I try to display this minimalistic kind of artwork with these two houses and it kind of demonstrates how in both places where immigrants try to find some kind of refuge they seem to be rejected."
"For example," she stated, "a lot of immigrants and refugees, their places of origin, they have war, or maybe there's a lot of criminals or gangs and through that destruction, you know, they are being rejected and pushed out of their homes. And when they try to find some kind of refuge here in the United States they also feel that kind of destruction and that violence put towards them in a place where they are trying to, you know, find peace."
"Mi Casa No Es Su Casa" by Arantza Peña Popo
Arantza was born in Colombia and then moved to Costa Rica before immigrating to the United States. She explained how her views towards art have evolved.
"Early in high school I kind of believed that artwork, like that the highest kind of artwork was the one with the best technical ability. You know, the one that's most photorealistic, but now as I'm going through my stages and like seeing different kinds of art, I've learned that it's more about the concept and about the message."
She continued, "You know, how you're kind of filling up space and also creating accessibility for the general public through your artwork, and that's helped me create a stronger message and create stronger artwork in general."
A similar message to Arantza's was shared by Pedro Fuertes, a professional artist who specializes in what he describes to be "surrealist abstraction." Graciela Núñez Bedoya translated during Pedro's interview and relayed the message, "His paintings have a lot of meanings, 50 percent of the work he does on them and that the other 50 percent depends on what the people see in them. So it's kind of like when he's working on them and then presents them to the public then they can start forming their own ideas of what they see in the paintings."
"Portrait of the Mother" by Pedro Fuertes
Untitled Piece by Pedro Fuertes
Emily Grace Guess was another one of the artists I was able to speak to that night. Her piece, "Land of the Free," won second place. She claims that through her piece she "wanted to convey what someone would feel when experiencing being undocumented in America, and feeling that they're unwanted. I wanted to convey that it's like a real problem and that people need to look."
Emily shared that she personally hasn't had to deal with these problems but that she has had family and friends who have.
"I can say that it's scary and that it's really hard because they are on the edge of losing everything and having to move somewhere they really don't want to be," she said.
"Land of the Free" by Emily Grace Guess
David Holloman, the third-place winner of the contest, is one example of showing his own story through his artwork. His piece depicted a family divided. When creating the piece, he drew inspiration from his own life by reflecting on his parents' divorce. When drawing his piece, he tried to use his own hardships to emotionally connect with undocumented immigrants and how both of them may have to learn to make their way without a matriarch present to guide them in life or simply trying to go through the process of college admissions alone.
"As artists, we try to give those a voice by visually giving them that sense of awareness and to show them physically that we are here and that we stand for them, and that's really strong," he said. "If they [artists] have that privilege they should at least use that privilege to give to someone else because someone needs it more than you."
Untitled piece by David Holloman
The mention of college admissions was heavily present throughout the night with many of the people I spoke to. One of the winners, Maria Balderas, was willing to share her story.
"I was in a very dark place because I was a senior. I didn't know what to do. I had no options because all of my options were shut down," she said. "I guess because my parents weren't involved, and I wasn't informed, because you know teachers don't come up to you and say, 'Hey are you illegal or not so I can tell you some information?' At first, I was like 'let me join the Army,' because they pay for college, but I can't join the Army. So that was one thing shut down. So then I was like 'okay I'm going to try to go to college;' oh, I have to pay as an international student which is four times as much as a regular person. And then it's shut down after shut down."
Balderas recounted that one of her teachers seemed to be sexist. One day he came up to her and said, "You should be a welder." Of course, she was surprised at how blunt this man was being. She didn't want to be a welder. Why did he feel that he had any say in what Maria wanted to do with her life?
Balderas continued with her story: "They would tell me 'everybody gets into art school. It's not worth it. You'll get in and then nothing will happen, it's no big deal. That's nothing.' So I was like 'wow.' They were just shutting me down, and then I would cry. Every time at school I would cry, I would go home and cry. I would just push my friends away because I was so envious of them.
"My friend, she's also Hispanic, but she was born here and she got to go to college. She's paying way less; she qualifies for scholarships that I don't. I would just see all these happy people, and I was right here, depressed, feeling everything. When I tell you it's a very bad feeling, it's like your heart is sinking and sinking and sinking."
Eventually, Maria was able to open up to her mom and one of her teachers about everything. Her teacher was super supportive and talked to Maria about all of her options and what she could do, even offering to adopt her. In the end, he helped Maria to secure a paid internship where she is still working today. This can only leave one wondering what Maria would have done if she didn't have that line of support.
Another artist, Graciela Núñez Bedoya, that spoke at an artist panel later in the night also expressed how one teacher got her on the path that lead to her career.
"It wasn't until high school when a teacher saw that I could draw the figure very well and she went through her own storage and gave me some oil paints, and that was my first time painting with oils and I fell in love with that," she said. "Going to the point of immigrants not having the opportunity to go to school when they want to go to school, that happened to me. As soon as I graduated high school I saw my entire class go to school and graduate, and I kinda felt left behind because I didn't have my residency yet. So applying to school wasn't feasible [for] me because I would have had to pay as a foreign student, which is double, even triple the money of what a resident would have to pay for school. So, having said that, I became a citizen in 2014, and so after many years after I graduated high school I finally got to go to Georgia State [University] and just took advantage of college education. After working in the service industry for many years as a server, I definitely knew I wanted to be a painter."
Activist. Woman. Mother. by Graciela Núñez Bedoya
As exemplified throughout the night showcasing the undocumented experience, art can be powerful. Stanley Bermudez, the artist leading the panel discussion, opened with the statement: "Art is a window to view topics and things in a different way." When later sharing his personal experience, this statement took on a whole new meaning.
"When I came to the United States 34 years ago, I did not speak any English. One of the counselors at the community college suggested to me — I started taking English as a second language, maybe nine months of it but I still didn't speak a lot — he said to me, take drawing, take painting, take sculpture because that's a visual language. You'll be hearing the English, you don't necessarily have to speak it but you'll be hearing it all the time. So, I'm assuming that maybe creating artwork is a good way of listening to the language but also helping you communicate. I mean, you can draw how you feel and show it to somebody, leave me alone or I want to know you."
Bermudez was compelled to share his story after a few words from Domingo Rodriguez-Perez, whose piece won runner's up in the night's contest. Now 16, Domingo moved to the United States when he was 10 years old along with his mother and sister. He talked about how when he started school it was very challenging because he didn't understand what his teachers were telling him. Art became his outlet.
"I felt alone," he said. "Art shows how I feel and just me, my mom, my sister, and little brother. Art shows different emotions."
Fall of the False Revolution: Heroine by Carlos Solís
Carlos Solís, another professional artist in attendance of the night's event, also touched on conveyance through art.
"Through the arts, you can communicate," he said. "I've been trying to do that for a long time and it's getting better, but we have to do a better job and art is a good bridge to do that."
He also explained that is exactly what the showcase was meant to do.
"We selected a very good group of Latino artists, as you can see, and we are out there," he added. "We are showing different places, we are doing several shows, and one of the reasons we are doing this is just to communicate, to get together, and to break stereotypes."
Skipping forward in the night, I was returning to the gallery after shooting a video interview in the hall. A man came up to me and put his hand on my shoulder and asked, "Tu hablas español?" and I, using almost all of the knowledge I have gained from my three years in public school foreign language classes replied, "Lo siento, no." He then said, "come with me" and proceeded to quickly lead me to six different paintings, stopping at each one to say, "look at this one."
At the sixth painting, we stopped and he said, "In my opinion, she's [Catalina Gómez-Beuth] the best. It's that gaze." He said while motioning to the nearest painting, "I wish I could afford it, but the new owner is right there." The man then walked away. I have no idea who he was, but because of him, I knew I had to find Catalina to speak to her.
"Finding Another Muse" by Catalina Gómez-Beuth
When I did meet Catalina she told me, "What I celebrate in my art is the diversity we have in this country. I see that it's a blast in this country because I grew up in a country (Colombia) where I just had the opportunity to share with the people that were born in my city. So for me when I came here and I had the possibility to have the whole world around me, it's something that is very special."
I also found out that she did put a lot of thought into the 'gaze' the stranger I had met before mentioned.
"I put a special care on the eyes because I think that's the connection," Catalina said. "The eyes are what can talk [for] you and can tell the feelings and stories… Another thing that I emphasize in my art is that all the skin colors are in different shades of grey because I want to avoid the conversation about colored skin, so it doesn't change the purpose of what I'm doing. I want people to get connected with the expressions and with the feeling with every single subject in my artwork that I have."
I found this very interesting, mostly because of something that Maria Balderas had mentioned earlier.
"It wasn't until 2016 when I started realizing and feeling the experience that people talk about," she said. "That's when you see that if you talk Spanish in a certain place you can get yelled at, you can sense the stares. That's when you realize there's more injustice toward people of color, not just immigrants, not just Hispanics, but people of color. People who are different, you know, different sexualities, just if you are different from the basic stereotype of a perfect American."
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In July the Sekretariat für Geister, Archivpolitiken und Lücken (Secretariat for Ghosts, Archival Politics and Gaps – SKGAL) will present the project SPUKEN IM ARCHIV!/HAUTINGS IN THE ARCHIVE! through a series of performative screenings:
SPACE I: Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen
Weiherburggasse 13/12
Tuesday, July 5, 2016, 7 pm
SPACE II: FÜNFZIGZWANZIG
Residenzplatz 10
Wednesday, July 6, 2016, 6:30 pm
Ort III: [esc] medien kunst labor
Bürgergasse 5
Friday, July 8, 2016, 9 pm
Ort IV: das weisse haus
Hegelgasse 14
Tuesday, July 12, 2016, 7 pm
HAUNTINGS IN THE ARCHIVE! is a film and research project by SKGAL which deals critically with the hi/herstory/ies and archive of the Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ).
SKGAL is a working group of the VBKÖ, an institution that was founded in 1910 as one of the first organizations in Europe that represented the interests of women artists. While the feminist origins of the association provide an impressive and important point of reference – and this includes contemporary perspectives – the hi/herstory/ies of the association are ambivalent: In 1938 the VBKÖ committed to cooperation with the National Socialist regime. Furthermore, over the several decades following 1945, it did not break away from its everyday routines and personnel which stemmed from National Socialist period. A radical change in the direction of the subject matter and content finally took place in the late 1990s through a clear generational shift of the VBKÖ's board. Hand-in-hand with the new direction, the VBKÖ established its archive in 2004 and began its involvement in the contemporary feminist art context of Vienna.
In this context, SKGAL asks how hi/herstory/ies can/could be written in a self-organized women's artist association. Moreover, how can an association which now fosters contemporary feminist artistic agendas establish a vital connection between historical debates and contemporary queer, feminist art productions? And how can it do so with artistic means?
Through the performative screenings, HAUNTINGS IN THE ARCHIVE!, SKGAL invites you to follow the ghosts of the VBKÖ, and to join them in reconsidering the material in the archive of the association in order to challenge it through debates and interpretations. For this project SKGAL will appropriate historical images and textual material from the archive, it will indicate gaps, reclassify material, and bring about a variety of connections. In the project, ghosts haunt places, voices and images, and they show strategies as well as the power of hi/herstory/ies. Along with the ghosts, SKGAL aims to contradict the unequivocal consolidations of history and will thereby attempt to update the hi/herstory/ies in the archive in order to shift views on its material. This way it is possible for the archivist Sabine Harik, who compiled the archive of the VBKÖ, the philosophers Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, the feminist artists network INTAKT, the art historian Julie M. Johnson, the cultural scientist Kate Eichhorn and the artist VALIE EXPORT to come together in order to challenge the hi/herstory/ies of an old association for women artists!
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two working kidneys are just perfect.
it's friendship that has a fee.
is it the heart, or some deep gorge!
and they feed the heart (these illusions).
it doesn't even look twice before falling (for someone).
more than the person, its shadow is thirsty.
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In 1950, Volkswagen introduced the Transporter. Based on the iconic Beetle, the 'T1' Transporter became a revolutionary force in leisure vehicles, and by its sixth generation had sold over 12 million units worldwide – cementing its place as the best-selling van in history.
Other manufacturers saw the immense success of Transporter and moved into the 'leisure van' segment, including MercedesBenz, Ford and Toyota. Today, personal use equates to 10% of van sales in the UK, with the other 90% being bought by businesses. Drivers are increasingly looking for versatile vehicles which are capable of doing multiple jobs; from carrying children on the school-run, transporting mountain bikes on the weekend, to being nimble around the city centre.
So if all three of those, and more, are a necessity in your next vehicle then a van is where you might be looking, but what about the humble estate car?
Estate cars were first introduced in the United States in the early 1910's, when coachbuilders converted traditional cars into 'station wagons' using wood boxes, but by the 1950's these were replaced by manufacturers with an all-steel construction, with some popular models in the UK including the Ford Cortina, Hillman Husky and Morris 1100, which paved the way for the estate car known today. Over the last several decades, however, sales of estate cars have fallen as drivers opt for SUV's, crossovers and vans.
As the name aptly suggests, estate cars were designed for driving between the city and estates (or country homes, as they're now known). In theory, this meant transporting a lot of luggage, whilst providing a luxurious cabin for passengers. In modern Britain, the purpose of estate cars has gone mostly unchanged – they're often bought by families with luggage and sports equipment, but with an Airbnb as the destination rather than a palatial second home.
Just as Volkswagen transformed the leisure van, the brand also has a large foothold in the estate segment, with the well-regarded Passat. The Passat is consistently one of the best-reviewed and best-selling cars on the market, with strong residual values and reliability. And just as other manufacturers wanted in on the Transporter action, they've also strived to build a worthy competitor to the Passat, with varying degrees of success.
The Ford Mondeo and Vauxhall Insignia sit at a relatively similar price to the Passat, whilst the BMW 3-Series and Mercedes C-Class amplify the provenance of luxurious cabins. One of the greatest benefits to estate cars is their similarities to hatchback and saloon equivalents. From the front two seats, they're indistinguishable and not too different to drive, but open the large liftgate boot and there's often over 600 litres of space, with the three back seats still up.
As reported, some drivers have flocked towards SUV's as a replacement, and models such as the Nissan Qashqai and Volkswagen Tiguan are now some of the best-selling cars in the UK, of any body type. But although the higher ride height is considered advantageous for driving and adds an edge of prestige, loading heavy items into the boot is considerably harder. Not forgetting to mention that the roof rack is almost unreachable by most.
But for some car buyers, the shape of the boot in estates and SUV's doesn't suit their cargo, which could be tall or bulky. That's where vans found, and continue to find, their niche. They are designed and built specifically to carry things, and they do it really well.
In addition to the Transporter, the Mercedes V-Class and Vauxhall Vivaro are the perfect leisure van. The cabins are refined and have every bit of equipment you'd find in their car counterparts, but in the back there's enough space for bikes, watersport kit, or additional passengers in the double-cab models.
Vans, by nature, are therefore the best way to move things from A-B and are increasingly quite enjoyable to drive. They just might not have as pleasant ride-comfort as an SUV or the fuel-efficiency of an estate.
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Q: Registering a VB6 Interop DLL with Castle.Windsor I'm converting a C# solution to use Castle.Windsor. One of the dependencies of some of my components is a VB6 developed DLL which is referenced currently via Interop.
How can I register this with Castle.Windsor successfully?
Before:
private AeroSuspCalc.SuspControl _suspControl;
_suspControl = new AeroSuspCalc.SuspControl();

This works just fine. However, if I register like this:
container.Register(Component
                   .For<AeroSuspCalc.SuspControl>()
                   .ImplementedBy<AeroSuspCalc.SuspControl>());

The services count is incremented by one, and the debug suggests it's fully resolved. However when I next register a component which depends on this, the debug suggests it cannot be resolved.
Some dependencies of this component could not be statically resolved.
'AeroSusp.VB6.SuspControl' is waiting for the following dependencies:
- Service 'AeroSuspCalc.SuspControl' which was not registered.
And indeed once I try and use the component:
Can't create component 'AeroSusp.VB6.SuspControl' as it has dependencies to be satisfied.
'AeroSusp.VB6.SuspControl' is waiting for the following dependencies:
- Service 'AeroSuspCalc.SuspControl' which was not registered.
Googling this hasn't helped much!

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In July 1983, the most savage communal riots in Sri Lanka's history erupted. Conservative government estimates put the death toll at 400-- mostly Tamils. At least 150,000 Tamil fled the island. The riots began in retaliation for an ambush of an army patrol in the north that left thirteen Sinhalese soldiers dead. The army was reputed to have killed sixty Tamil civilians in Jaffna, but most of the violence occurred in Colombo, where Sinhalese mobs looked for Tamil shops to destroy. More than any previous ethnic riot on the island, the 1983 riots were marked by their highly organized mob violence. Sinhalese rioters in Colombo used voter lists containing home addresses to make precise attacks on the Tamil community. From Colombo, the anti-Tamil violence fanned out to the entire island. The psychological effects of this violence on Sri Lanka's complex and divided society were still being assessed in the late 1980s. Nevertheless, in the aftermath of the communal rioting, a selfevident truth was that the island's history, and the complexity of its society, had a portentous message for the present: Sinhalese and Tamil Sri Lankans were fated by history and geography to coexist in close proximity. This coexistence could be discordant or amicable, and examples of both could be drawn from Sri Lanka's history. It was a message, however, whose meaning was forgotten as the ethnic communities were drawn increasingly into a vortex of rancor and violence that made the restoration of harmony a persistently elusive goal for the Sri Lankan government.
Informative general histories of Sri Lanka include K.M. de Silva's A History of Sri Lanka, E.F.C. Ludowyk's A Short History of Ceylon, Zeylanicus's Ceylon, S. Arasaratnam's Ceylon, and Chandra Richard de Silva's Sri Lanka: A History. Source books on medieval history are Wilhelm Geiger's translations of the Pali chronicles, the Mahavamsa and Culavamsa, and the comprehensive The Early History of Ceylon by G.C. Mendis. Highly informative for the study of modern political events and ethnic disturbances are S.J. Tambiah's Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide, and the Dismantling of Democracy, A. Jeyaratnam Wilson's Politics in Sri Lanka, and Government and Politics in South Asia by Craig Baxter, Yogendra K. Malik, Charles H. Kennedy, and Robert C. Oberst. (For further information and complete citations, see Sri Lanka - Bibliography.)
Data as of October 1988
Sri Lanka - TABLE OF CONTENTS
Sri Lanka - Introduction
Chapter 1. Historical Setting
Sri Lanka - ORIGINS
Sri Lanka - Ancient Legends and Chronicles
Sri Lanka - Buddhist Chronicles
Sri Lanka - The Impact of Buddhism
Sri Lanka - THE CLASSICAL AGE, 200 B.C.-A.D. 1200
Sri Lanka - Early Settlements
Sri Lanka - Rise of Sinhalese and Tamil Ethnic Awareness
Sri Lanka - DECLINE OF THE SINHALESE KINGDOM, 1200-1500
Sri Lanka - Sinhalese Migration to the South
Sri Lanka - A Weakened State: Invasion, Disease, and Social Instability
Sri Lanka - EUROPEAN ENCROACHMENT AND DOMINANCE, 1500-1948
Sri Lanka - The Portuguese
Sri Lanka - The Dutch
Sri Lanka - The British
Sri Lanka - Early Contacts
Sri Lanka - The British Replace the Dutch
Sri Lanka - Modernization and Reform
Sri Lanka - The Colebrooke-Cameron Reforms
Sri Lanka - Economic Innovations
Sri Lanka - Rise of the Sri Lankan Middle Class
Sri Lanka - Buddhist Revivalism
Sri Lanka - Constitutional Reform
Sri Lanka - World War I
Sri Lanka - The Donoughmore Commission
Sri Lanka - Growth of Leftist Parties
Sri Lanka - World War II and the Transition to Independence
Sri Lanka - INDEPENDENCE
Sri Lanka - Divisions in the Body Politic
Sri Lanka - United National Party "Majority" Rule, 1948-56
Sri Lanka - Emergence of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party
Sri Lanka - Tamil Politics
Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka Freedom Party Rule, 1956-65
Sri Lanka - Legislation and Communal Agitation
Sri Lanka - Populist Economic Policies
Sri Lanka - United National Party Interlude
Sri Lanka - Return of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party
Sri Lanka - The United National Party Regains Power, 1965-70
Sri Lanka - United Front Rule and Emerging Violence, 1970-77
Sri Lanka - The United National Party Returns to Power
Sri Lanka - Election of 1977 and More Violence
Sri Lanka - Constitution of 1978
Sri Lanka - The Riots of 1981
Sri Lanka - Presidential Election of 1982
Sri Lanka - The Riots of July 1983
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'Hacks': Donna Brazile Says Top Clinton Aides Were Sexist Towards Her
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Adelle Nazarian
Former interim Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile said she experienced sexism from Hillary Clinton's top male aides and that it prompted her to tell them to put their "dicks out on the table and see who's got the bigger one, because "I know mine is bigger than all of yours,'" during a conference call, according to her upcoming book Hacks.
"You know, this does not feel like a negotiation to me," Brazile reportedly writes in her book about the incident, according to the Huffington Post. "This feels like power and control. Gentlemen, let's just put our dicks out on the table and see who's got the bigger one, because I know mine is bigger than all of yours."
The book reportedly says all of Former Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook's top aides were men: "The young men that surrounded Robby Mook ― and they were all men in his inner circle ― had mastered a cool and removed style of politics." However, the Huffington Post notes that Mook's chief of staff, campaign chief operating officer, communications director, and rapid response director were women.
The book also details how Brazile created an emergency plan to replace Clinton with then-Vice President Joe Biden after her deteriorating health condition came to light. Clinton fainted during a 9/11 memorial, reportedly due to pneumonia.
Hacks also revealed how the Democratic Party rigged the nomination to provide Clinton with more access and clout than Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in exchange for fundraising assistance to help raise the Democratic Party out of debt. Former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz oversaw this.
Mook reportedly shot back at Brazile's suggestion that the headquarters was run by a boys' club and that it was less accepting of female leadership. During an interview with CNN's "New Day" Monday morning saying, "We certainly don't recognize the campaign she describes. We also don't recall some of the events she said happened."
We don't recognize a lot of the situations and certainly the tone and tenor of the campaign. This was a hard-working group of wonderful people. She claims that the leadership of the campaign was all male. I'll tell that you is absolutely false. It's demeaning to our communications director, our digital director, our political director, our chief operating officer, my own chief of staff. Women were integral to the leadership of our campaign.
Hacks is set to be released on Tuesday.
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Chicago 1930 (also known as Chicago 1930: The Prohibition) is a 2003 video game developed by Spellbound Entertainment.

The game is based in the American city of Chicago in the 1930s, an era heavily associated with gangsters. The RPG style game allows players to choose to be the mafia, headed by Don Carmine Falcone, or a special unit of the police, headed by Edward Nash.

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Cover Photo: Pam Worth and Alexandra Besso of Spoken Boutique are stronger together.
Gallery: 1. Marianne Barker and Maddy Zanetti, Impressions of Saratoga on Broadway.
2. Lifestyles of Saratoga owner Heidi Owen West and Margie Rotchford.
3. The Pink Paddock on Broadway.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Small business owners opened their doors to in-store customers and hair stylists their salons for the first time in more than two months as part of the Capital Region's phase two reopening plan on June 3. Outdoor dining returned one day later.
"We opened at 9 o'clock and we already had someone waiting at the door," said Maddy Zanetti, at Impressions of Saratoga. "We've been open the whole time for curbside, delivery and shipping but today is the first time of customers in the store." A table cradling bottles of hand sanitizer and disposable gloves and masks sat near the entryway door.
"People are thrilled to be out," added Marianne Barker. "I do think people who are leery are going to stay home for a while yet, but people know we're pretty careful, we've been open about what we're doing and the steps we're taking."
Kimberly Burton opened the doors to her Pink Paddock shop at 11 a.m. "It's been three months. Three very long months," she said with emphasis, celebrating the 15th year of the Broadway shop that's been fitted with hand sanitizing stations, plastic protective shields at the register counter and posted to inform customers of in-store capacity regulations. "I think people are anxious to get out of the house, to shop, to try on some new clothes," she said gesturing toward the dressing rooms, which are disinfected between customer uses.
Phase Two reopening allows for in-store retail sales, hair salons and barbershops, and office-based work, in addition to real estate services, commercial building management, vehicle sales, leases, and rentals, and retail rental, repair, and cleaning. Outdoor dining was added to the list on the afternoon of June 3.
"We're already booked for the next three weeks," said Yvette Ruddy, a hairstylist at Remarkable Finish on Broadway, where a digital thermometer rests at the entryway and customer chairs have been placed at a safe distance from one another. The employees have all been tested for the COVID-19 virus before ensuring they could return to work, she said.
An array of state guidelines and restrictions accompany reopening plans for both workforce employees and customers, with presence being limited to no more than 50% of the maximum occupancy for a particular area, as set by the certificate of occupancy. Employers are also recommended to adjust workplace hours to limit in-person presence to necessary staff only, as well as maintaining six feet of separation from others and wearing an acceptable face covering.
"What we have done with this COVID virus is really an amazing accomplishment, and it was all done by the people of this state. They did it, 19 million people did what they never did before. They responded with a level of determination and discipline that I was amazed with frankly," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said this week. "Remember where we were: we had 800 people die in one day. We had the worst situation in the United States of America. At one point we had the worst situation on the globe. And now we're reopening in less than 50 days. We went from an internationally terrible situation to where we're talking about reopening."
To date, more than 105,000 U.S. residents have died during the past three months due to COVID-19. More than 38 million Americans have filed unemployment claims over the span of nine weeks. Whether the worst has passed or a so-called "second wave" returns - as some in the medical community have suggested – remains an unknown.
"I'm delighted to see our retailers open again. And as we are getting caught up in our reopening details and stores are focusing on their safety plans - and we have riots going on and protests going on, It's easy to lose track that there still is a virus present in our community," cautioned Saratoga Springs Public Safety Commissioner Robin Dalton.
In Saratoga County, there have been 495 confirmed cases of COVID-19 this year, 56 specifically being Saratoga Springs residents. Sixteen people have died, and 6 people are currently hospitalized. Approximately 2,500 residents have been isolated or quarantined at some point.
"We all need to keep our eye on the ball here and realize there still is a virus present, it's still in our community and we need to be really vigilant as we continue these reopening phases, so we can get to phase three, so we can get to phase four and we can get back to some kind of normalcy," Dalton said.
Gov. Cuomo's NY Pause order went into effect March 22, and the city of Saratoga Springs and the greater Capital District Region were cleared by the state to begin the phase 1 re-opening of the local economy beginning Wednesday, May 20.
There are four reopening phases in all, and an up-to 14-day incubation period between phases to ensure that infection rates and hospitalizations are maintained at a manageable level. Phase Three – which includes indoor dining at restaurants, is currently slated for its reopening phase June 17; Phase Four, which focuses on Arts/ Entertainment / Recreation, and Education, including libraries, will potentially hit its reopening mark July 1.
On May 28, Cuomo signed an Executive Order authorizing businesses the ability to deny entry to those who do not wear masks or face-coverings. "The store owner has a right to protect themselves (and) the other patrons in that store," he said. A subsequent announcement states summer day camps statewide can open on June 29. A decision on sleep-away camps will be made in the coming weeks.
Malls - specifically any indoor common portions of retail shopping malls with 100,000 or more square feet of retail space available for lease, remain closed. However, stores located within shopping malls, which have their own external entrances open to the public, separate from the general mall entrance may open.
Also remaining closed are: large gathering event and concert venues, gyms, fitness centers, Video lottery and casino gaming facilities, movie theaters - except drive-in theaters - and places of public amusement, such as amusement parks, water parks, children's play centers, bowling alleys, and other locations where groups of people may gather.
Alternate Projects Planned to Replace Cancelled Beekman Street Art Fair
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The 8th annual Beekman Street Art Fair (BSAF) scheduled for Sunday, June 14, 2020 has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. However, fair goers will still get to browse and purchase a variety of fine art and craft.
The Fair is coordinated by members of the non-profit Saratoga Springs Arts District Inc. Project managers are working with grantor Saratoga Arts to use the funds awarded for the fair on some alternate events later in the summer that will follow city and state guidelines for public safety.
The first event planned is an online auction featuring the work of artists who would have participated in this year's fair. The auction goes live on June 7 and runs for two weeks. It may be accessed through the Beekman Street Arts District website at SaratogaArtDistrict.com.
The project team is also planning to host three late summer Second Sunday Pop-Up Art events on the lawns, porches, and interiors of the Arts District shops. If deemed safe to do so, these would be held on the second Sundays of each month - July 12, Aug. 9, and Sept. 13.
"When we realized it would be unlikely that we could hold our family friendly event, we started brainstorming some alternate venues to showcase our visual artists," fair project manager Susan Rivers said in a statement.
The Beekman Street Art Fair alternate projects feature the creation of a virtual art show via an on-line auction, and potentially mini pop up art events later in the summer. "Since we will not be able to hold the traditional fair which brings in thousands of guests, we look forward to engaging with the community in innovative ways," Rivers said.
For more information, go to: www.saratogaartdistrict.com.
Northshire Bookstore Presents: Live Virtual Events Programs through June
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Northshire Bookstore, which sites stores in Saratoga Springs and Manchester Center, Vermont, is taking its motto of building community one book at a time to heart in this time of pandemic.
Northshire hosts a series of virtual community gatherings for book lovers anchored around a standing Thursday 5 p.m. Northshire Live virtual event, with weekly authors and guests via Zoom. All events are password protected. Information on how to access each event is available at northshire.com. Beginning in June, all Northshire Live events will be ticketed - most on a "pay-what-you-can" basis.
The month kicks off with two events this week.
• Tuesday, June 2 at 7 p.m.
Chris Bohjalian presenting The Red Lotus - in conversation with Rebecca Makkai. Beloved Vermont author and dear friend of the bookstore Chris Bohjalian will discuss his latest, The Red Lotus, a global thriller set amidst the adrenaline-fueled world of the emergency room. In this special ticketed virtual event, Chris will be joined by Rebecca Makkai--the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed novel The Great Believers. Go to: www.northshire.com/event/northshire-live-chris-bohjalian
• Thursday, June 4 at 5 p.m.
Amy Meyerson, author of The Imperfects, and Alli Frank and Asha Youmans, coauthors of Tiny Imperfections. Meyerson is the author of the Northshire staff favorites The Bookshop of Yesterdays and The Imperfects, and Alli Frank & Asha Youmans are co-authors of the delightful debut comedy Tiny Imperfections. This event is ticketed on a pay-what-you-can basis. Go to: www.northshire.com/event/northshire-live-guest-authors-amy-meyerson-alli-frank-and-asha-youmans
Additional events in June include live author events featuring acclaimed science journalist and New York Times bestselling author Wendy Williams, internationally acclaimed Dominican American writer Julia Alvarez - in conversation with Northshire co-founder Barbara Morrow, the annual James Joyce Bloomsday celebration on June 16, and many other events.
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Preparing for Phase 2
SARATOGA SPRINGS — A continued adherence to social distancing and face-covering guidelines have reduced the COVID-19 infection and hospitalization rate significantly across the Capital Region during the past few weeks, and as such, businesses in the Spa City and the surrounding communities are preparing to potentially enter the Phase 2 reopening of their establishments next week.
"It's working," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said this week, referring to New Yorkers across the state reducing the curve of the virus infection.
Cuomo's NY Pause order went into effect March 22, and the city of Saratoga Springs and the greater Capital District Region were cleared by the state to begin the phase 1 re-opening of the local economy beginning Wednesday, May 20.
There are four reopening phases in all, and an up-to 14-day incubation period between phases to ensure that infection rates and hospitalizations are maintained at a manageable level.
And while the state has yet to release Phase 2 reopening guideline, or give the OK to cycle into the next phase, there is a general belief that that the region will meet the metrics required and be able to reopen for Phase 2 at the expiration of the 14-day incubation period on Wednesday, June 3.
Phase Two reopening allows for the following: Professional Services (including hair salons and stylists among them); Retail; Administrative Support; Real Estate / Rental & Leasing. Social distancing, face coverings and limited occupancy requirements will remain in place.
WHAT IS REQUIRED OF BUSINESSES
Every business is required to develop a written safety plan outlining how its workplace will prevent the spread of COVID-19. Businesses may develop their own safety plan or use the template below provided by the state. To download that state created Safety Plan Template, go to: governor.ny.gov/sites/governor.ny.gov/files/atoms/files/NYS_BusinessReopeningSafetyPlanTemplate.pdf.
A copy of the plan must be retained on business premises at all times and be made available to the NYS Department of Health (DOH) or local health or safety authorities in the event of an inspection.
One key factor in reducing the spread of the virus is, when discovering someone has been infected with the virus, tracing that person's previously known whereabouts and with whom they had come into contact. According to the CDC, the goal is to trace and monitor contacts of infected people, notify them of their exposure and support the quarantine of contacts to prevent additional transmission.
"We've done that from day one in Saratoga County and that's how we flatten the curve, how we were able to reopen, and how we'll be able to stay open," Cathy Medick, Department of Health Director of Patient Services said during a forum the county hosted May 27.
Additional questions were raised during the forum regarding the topic.
Q: How do big box stores like Walmart, Target, etc. Do tracing? Is that any different than small businesses?
A. Cathy Medick, Department of Health Director of Patient Services: "No. As far as their employees go, they have to keep track of all the employees that are on for a shift and it's their responsibility to have it as part of their safety plan. We have worked with bigger businesses and places that have had positive cases. Many of them had used their security cameras or their Frequent Shopper cards to identify people who may have come into contact. We do realize it would be impossible to write down every single customer that comes into the store, so, that's the main difference there."
Q. How is our privacy protected, and what type of information is to be given to a contact tracer?
A. Medick: "Under Public Health Law, HIPPA is skewed a bit. As a Public Health entity, we have the right to collect information to protect the health of the greater public."
Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce President Todd Shimkus, a panelist at the forum, was also asked about the topic.
Q. What happens to a business owner if contact tracers track a cluster back to their business – and, what is the extent of that liability?
A. Todd Shimkus: "One of things businesses need to do as part of their safety plan is to figure out how they are going to manage contact tracing should somebody from the county show up at their business a day later, or at any point in time and say: 'OK, you had a customer who was here three days ago, we need to make sure we notify you, your employees and anyone else who might have been here.' So, every business as part of your plan, you have to have some way of recording who was in your store, your business or workplace every day, so in case there is contact tracing going forward you can contact those people who were there. It's part of your responsibility as part of your safety plan.
"The second is liability. This is a much bigger challenge. The liability provisions in terms of insurance and the law do not cover COVID-19.
"That means you at the very least, have to comply with the existing law which goes back to having a safety plan. Making sure that safety plan uses all the right protocols: that your employees are following it, that your customers are following it, so that you don't have any issues that cause you liability concerns."
The NYS Forward Safety Plan Template regarding the issue, directs that customers may be "encouraged" to provide their information, but are "not mandated to do so."
That specific segment reads: "Maintain a continuous log of every person, including workers and visitors, who may have close contact with other individuals at the work site or area; excluding deliveries that are performed with appropriate PPE or through contactless means; excluding customers, who may be encouraged to provide contact information to be logged but are not mandated to do so."
Additionally, "Which employee(s) will be in charge of maintaining a log of each person that enters the site (excluding customers and deliveries that are performed with appropriate PPE or through contactless means), and where will the log be kept?"
Again, while a Safety Plan is required, the state informs that a business may use the NYS Forward Safety Plan Template to fulfill the requirement, or may develop its own Safety Plan.
An official announcement regarding the OK for the second phase of reopening is anticipated soon, as Friday marks 14 days since a handful of regions in the state began phase one. And in what may ease any confusion, the state is also expected to release detailed updates regarding Phase Two plans. For the most current update, go to: forward.ny.gov.
City Looks at Potential Layoffs, Furloughs and Expense Cuts on Tuesday Night
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The city may take several cost-cutting actions during its Tuesday, May 19 meeting as it looks for ways to fill an anticipated absence of revenue sources due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
City Finance Commissioner Michele Madigan estimated the city may lose $14 to $16 million in revenue in 2020 - nearly one-third its $48.7 million operating budget. Furloughs, deferred raises, retirements, and layoffs are all on the table.
"In the face of the absence of federal assistance coupled with revenue losses – all of our revenues pretty much - jurisdictions across the state are moving ahead with layoffs and furloughs," Madigan said, during the council's last meeting, earlier this month. "It is critical that we significantly reduce our spending now."
Furloughs are preferable to layoffs, Madigan said, as they would provide immediate expense reductions as well as allowing those furloughed the ability to collect state unemployment funding as well as maintain their city-provided benefits. While 33 city employees are "available" for retirement, however, at retirement they would be due compensatory time, sick time and overtime pay.
"Many of our employees have reduced duties during our stay-at-home period while the city still pays them as if they were working a 100% schedule," she said. "The more people we furlough now – and it will be difficult - the fewer we will need to consider laying off later in the year."
Through the first quarter of 2020, the city announced it had collected just over $9.1 million (or 57%) in property taxes, but by the March 31 reporting date had not received many larger revenue streams. Those include: sales tax figures (March collections are distributed to the city in April and May), VLT Aid (paid in June), Hotel Occupancy Tax (April), Water and Sewer Revenues (May 15 due date) as well as other sources paid later in the year. The city is annually paid NYRA Admissions Tax for hosting the summer meet, but that funding outcome is not known for 2020 should NYRA decide to run at Saratoga while not admitting ticket-paying fans.
Every county in every region of the state saw a large drop in local sales tax collections in April, according to a report announced by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli on May 12. Social distancing protocols were established with the "New York State on PAUSE" initiative, which has shuttered non-essential businesses and offices since March 22.
Of all regions in the state, the greater Capital District had the most severe decline – down 28.8 percent and totaling $42.6 million - down from $59.9 million exactly one year earlier.
Saratoga County was down from $10 million to $7.4 million overall, and tax collections in Saratoga Springs specifically dropped from $900,000 in April 2019 to $700,000 in April 2020, according to the report, which rounds figures in millions of dollars.
To compensate for a potential $14 million to $16 million revenue shortfall in Saratoga Springs in 2020, the council is contemplating the use of approximately $4.5 million of the city's unassigned and unrestricted fund balance, Madigan said, as well as "$1 million from the re-assignment of various assignments, $2.4 million in a budget note due to be paid back at the end of 2021, and $4 million in departmental expense reductions." Those measures total $11.9 million, leaving a projected revenue shortfall of $2.1 to $4.1 million.
Earlier this month, the City Council approved a series of budget transfer resolutions to fund the last stage of renovations at City Hall, which has been closed since an August 2018 lightning strike caused substantial damage to the 19th century structure. Shortly after the closure of City Hall, the city relocated most of its operations to the Vanderbilt Avenue recreation facility.
Approximately $567,000 is required to complete the renovation of the building.
To that point, the City Council unanimously approved moving $167,000 from the building reserve fund, $151,000 that had been targeted for the Saratoga Arts building, and more than $188,000 of the $200,000 it had previously approved for Recreation Department Skate Park improvements at East Side Rec. Last week, the city announced the cancellation of Recreation Department summer events and camps.
Changing Hands Historic Barber Shop Gets New Owner
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The iconic Larry's Barbershop has welcomed a new owner, Hayden Sias, who has plans to renovate the inside.
"The place is an icon. Larry's Barbershop has been in town for 50 years…I learned from him. Basically I'm trying to bring in today's look but still keep the old flair," Sias said.
Despite having some big shoes to fill, Sias hasn't been in the barbershop business for his whole life. He previously owned a trucking company and has a background as a professional musician. Both jobs called for a lot of travelling and he found himself growing tired from it. In response, he sold his company. Sias added his sister has been a hairdresser her whole life, and it inspired him.
"I love my job. I don't think I really intended being a barber originally, it never really crossed my mind, but it feels amazing. This is an amazing opportunity," Sias said.
The historic barbershop is seeing a re-model as Sias hopes to completely redesign the look of the shop. However, he doesn't want to lose the history of the place.
Sias added: "this is a center hub, it's a piece of history. Where I am [Larry's barbershop] this is an institution. This shop has been here for 50 years. I have been lucky to learn from Larry and then carry on some of the traditions of the art itself. I'm finally able to have an opportunity to grow the business myself. It's a once in a lifetime scenario."
Sias is currently renovating the interior of the shop to grow the business. He aims to attract a younger audience in addition to the regulars who have been visiting the barbershop for years. He hopes that by adding some personal touches to the place will help bridge the gap between the two generations.
"I took the interior and made it a combination of my personal tastes, some of the things that surround me," Sias said. "But I didn't want to lose the old school flair. It's a combinations of the things that are going to make me happy and bring it into a modern world."
Larry's Barber Shop is located at 74 Washington St. in Saratoga. The classic old time barbershop has welcomed generation of barbers. Sias hopes to finish construction this week.
Although renovations finish this week, Sias is keeping safety at the front of his mind for the new design. Even though it's just a haircut for most people, Sias noticed that others enjoy that personal contact and he can really connect to customers. He knows the new normal will be different for a while, but Sias will ensure safety and understanding as soon as his doors open.
"I'm going to do everything I can do to keep the safety of the customer in mind. I want people to be comfortable in addition to knowing and understanding," Sias said.
Tick Tock: Preparing to Enter Phase 1
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Robin Dalton surveyed the all-important region's chart of metrics. There are seven metrics in all and once all seven are satisfied, Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County and the seven other counties that flank it may begin a phased reopening of their businesses.
Number of tests that will be conducted on residents: check. Contact tracers: check. Hospital beds and ICU beds available: check, and check.
"I think we're getting close," says the city's Public Safety Commissioner, who alongside Fire Department Chief Joe Dolan and Chief Aaron Dyer, Police Chief Shane Crooks and Chief John Catone, Deputy Public Safety Commissioner Eileen Finneran, and Risk and Safety Manager Marilyn Rivers comprise the City of Saratoga Springs COVID-19 Task Force.
The group is, among other things, putting the finishing touches on safety guideline protocols and procedures for businesses in Saratoga Springs.
"I think it's really important for businesses to think about a plan of what things will look like when they open," she says. "Soup-to-nuts we're trying to make it as easy as possible for businesses to reopen without having to seek out additional guidelines from anywhere else." The list of protocols will be made available during the next few days, with copies distributed to city businesses and available for download on the city's website.
"Recovery will look different in every business, because you have unique situations. You have to accommodate social distancing, mask-wearing, hand-sanitizers. Every business will look different," Todd Shimkus, president of the Saratoga County Chamber of Commerce, said during a Facebook Live event forum hosted by Saratoga County on May 13.
Before it may start its phased re-opening however, the region as a whole must hit on all its metrics. The tallies change daily, but at this point in mid-May, it has not reached acceptable grades regarding declines in hospitalizations and patient deaths in hospitals.
The seven-metric standard for reopening were established based on guidance from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, the U.S. Department of State, and other public health experts.
New York State is separated into 10 geographical regions each comprised of a half-dozen or so counties. Saratoga is located in an eight-county "Capital Region" sector which stretches from Columbia County to Warren County. This week, four of the ten regions announced they had met all seven metrics. They include: the Finger Lakes Region, Mohawk Valley, Southern Tier and the North Country – which begins north and west of Warren County and stretches to the Canadian border.
NY ON PAUSE
Two months ago, an Executive Order signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's put New York State on PAUSE. The plan went into effect March 22 and put social distancing measures in place, closed non-essential businesses, and limited public gatherings in an effort to minimize the spread of COVID-19. Those efforts to "flatten the curve" were successful. After peaking in late March and into early April, the charted rate of infections, hospitalizations and number of deaths slowly began to decline.
The governor's daily public briefings have showcased the graphs and tracked the trends.
May 8: "We have the beast on the run. We haven't killed the beast – but we're ahead of it. The hospitalization rate is coming down, the death rate is coming down, so that's all good news and I feel that – for the first time in this engagement – we are actually ahead of the virus. We have the virus on the run because we have been smart, because we have been disciplined."
May 10: "We're right about where we were March 19, when we went into the abyss of the COVID virus…from my point-of-view, we're on the other side of the mountain. All the arrows are pointed in the right direction.""
May 11: "It's an exciting new phase. We're all anxious to get back to work. We want to do it smartly. We want to do it intelligently, but we want to do it. That's what this week is going to be all about."
AFTER REOPENING, STAYING OPEN
One key component after reopening is having a keen eye on potential rising infection rates, and a steady hand to slow that rise.
"Watch for infections," Cuomo said. "The local region has a Control Room and a Circuit Breaker: If You see those dials going into the red zone – if you closely watch the dials you won't have to turn the valve off – you would just have to slow the valve a little bit. You can't overwhelm your hospitals. It depends upon how smart you are with your openings."
The person in Saratoga charged with having that keen eye and steady hand is County Administrator Spencer Hellwig - who was named to Gov. Cuomo's Regional Control Room team for the Capital District alongside leaders from other counties in the region. It is his responsibility to watch the dials and "slow the valve," before the numbers spike to a point where everything must shut down.
"When you hit all seven metrics that doesn't mean: OK, we're done. Monitor every day. That's the regional responsibility. Look at those numbers every day. See what's happening with those numbers every day and respond to those numbers. That's the responsibility of every county. That has to be watched every day and you have to calibrate your level of activity every day," Cuomo said May 13. "If people get cavalier, cocky, if they get arrogant, we'll be right back in the same situation."
Striking the perfect balance of "reopening" the economy while maintaining the safety of public health is key. "That is the struggle, constantly weighing these two things," Dalton says. "Both have to win. We can't have a loser. The economy has to do well, and people have to stay alive and healthy."
Businesses in each region will re-open in phases. Re-opening refers to non-essential businesses, essential businesses that are open will remain open. The breakdown of industries in each phase: Phase One - Construction, Manufacturing, Retail – Curbside Pickup, Wholesale Trade, Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting; Phase Two - Professional Services, Retail. Administrative Support, Real Estate / Rental & Leasing; Phase Three - Restaurants / Food Services; Phase Four - Arts / Entertainment / Recreation and Education. Regions aside, drive-In movies have been deemed able to reopen by the governor. Malta Drive-In, located on Route 9, is slated to open their season Friday, May 22 with new protocols and guidelines.
There is a recommended 14 day wait in between the opening of phases. "Fourteen days is a preliminary estimate," Cuomo said May 12. "Why 14 days? You got infected, the virus manifests. If you get seriously ill, you end up in a hospital. That takes about 14 days. But, you can watch it all along. If those rates are staying low, can you accelerate the 14 days? Theoretically yes. If you're testing isn't moving (in a negative direction), then you could say: we're in good shape, less accelerate."
On May 12, Saratoga County Board of Supervisors Chairman Preston Allen announced the creation of a reopening advisory group tasked with guiding the county's reopening efforts. The group will focus on CDC guidelines in a phased-in approach for businesses and necessary health precautions related to the county and coordinate these efforts with the other seven counties that comprise the Capital District region.
The advisory group is made up of supervisors Jack Lawler, Ed Kinowski, Eric Connolly, Tom Richardson, Kevin Tollisen, Dan Pemrick, and Matt Veitch; Saratoga County Sheriff Michael Zurlo; County Public Health Services Director Cathi Duncan, Stewart's Shops President Gary Dake, county Chamber President Todd Shimkus, and Charles V. Wait, President and CEO, Adirondack Trust Co.
"The County has selected this diverse group to navigate the complicated reopening process, Supervisor Preston Allen said in a statement. "While we all recognize that the economy must open back up soon, we cannot do this hastily or without regard for the serious public health concerns. This group will be thoughtful and pragmatic, with the best interests of county residents serving as a guiding principle."
On May 12, Saratoga Springs extended its State of Emergency for another 30 days, until June 12. The order allows the city the ability of its emergency management committee to make decisions regarding how it responds to the virus in the city and is a critical component of following ICS (Incident Command Systems) forms, as well as ensuring FEMA guidelines are being followed.
"We're doing this in a way so that we're documenting every single thing we're doing in the hope that we're getting reimbursed after the fact, but it also gives us the freedom to react as a city, as opposed to whatever the state's doing, if for some reason our numbers suddenly go up," Dalton said.
"I would implore people to follow the rules, because if we have a group of businesses that just open up out of their own self-interests, it is going to have a dramatically negative effect on our area," Dalton says. "We all need to be working for the collective good."
There are two different types of tests; a nasal swab test determines whether a person currently has the COVID-19 virus. An antibody test – which is a blood test – seeks to identify whether a person previously had the virus.
Currently, just two venues located in Saratoga County where testing is conducted – there are additional resources in Warren and Albany counties - and the criteria for testing in either case is for persons symptomatic or who have had exposure to a positive case.
Saratoga Hospital conducts the swab test at a tent located at the Alfred Z. Solomon Emergency Center on Myrtle Street. Appointment and referral from physician or local health department is required. Contact your doctor for assessment. Providers may call to set up appointment. Go to: www.saratogahospital.org/covid19.
Well Now Urgent Care on Route 9 in Clifton Park offers both tests. No appointment is needed. Testing is covered in full for patients that carry insurance as part of the CARES Act. For self-pay patients, testing costs $150 for the molecular (PCR) test and $100 for the antibody test, in addition to a charge for the base visit. Go to: wellnow.com/covid-19.
Plans Underway at East Side Rec
SARATOGA SPRINGS — Despite the coronavirus pandemic, The Great Outdoors Project, a 15.6 million dollar proposal for renovations to all eight schools in the Saratoga Springs City School District (SSCSD), Gavin Park, East Side Recreation, and West Side Recreation parks has commenced.
The East Side Rec construction began recently and is expected to last until November.
New features will include: baseball field including turf infield, renovated stadium seating and building, new field house, new maintenance storage building, new entrance and pathways, new fitness trail, new lighting at tennis and basketball courts, replacing basketball hoops, repaving and recoating basketball courts, new basketball fencing, repaving and recoating tennis courts, new signage and wayfinding, new pickleball courts, and new picnic areas and pavilion.
Director of Facilities and Operations of SSCSD John Thuener said that $6.5 million of the budget is going toward the East Side Rec project and that renovations should be complete by November 2020. In addition, West Side Rec capital improvements should be completed in June and totaled $800,000.
Saratoga Race Course: To Open, Or Not To Open - Here's What They're Saying
SARATOGA SPRINGS — First, the money. In 2019, $2.1 billion was wagered on 2,000 races at Saratoga, Aqueduct and Belmont, according to the New York Racing Association.
The Saratoga meet (40 days) delivered the largest return of gambled money - $147 million wagered at the track, and a $705 million all-source handle – meaning many more dollars were spent on Saratoga races at off-track betting sites across the globe, than were at the actual track. Other 2019 betting dollars: Belmont Spring & Summer – 48 days, $525 million all-source handle; Belmont Fall – 37 days, $275 million; Aqueduct – 25 days Fall, $205 million.
What they are saying about Saratoga:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo: You can't open an attraction that could bring people from across the state to that attraction and overwhelm a region. We have time to decide first of all, but I don't think you can open Saratoga Race Course (slated July 16) and the State Fair (Syracuse – slated Aug. 21) unless we can open all large-scale attractions statewide. Density is not our friend...How do you do sit six feet apart at the racetrack?
New York Racing Association plans to open at Belmont first, then Saratoga - Closing to spectators and reducing employees and support staff to only those who are required under the rules of racing.
Assemblywoman Carrie Woerner, 113th Assembly District: move forward planning to hold this year's race meet. Potential "opportunities including but not limited to social distancing, limited viewership, and personal protective equipment."
Elsie Stefanik, 21st Congressional District: explore options for the racecourse to reopen for the meet with updated operations based on public health recommendations. Protect public health but also ensure the meet moves forward in a modified capacity to protect the public's health.
Board of Directors of the Adirondack Trust Company: give NYRA time to draw up careful plans—subject to state approval—that would allow a limited number of fans to attend racing consistent with safety protocols. Examples: limiting the number of seats and/or entry tickets sold, marking and monitoring designated viewing areas to ensure proper social distancing, plexiglass screens, mandatory temperature checks and masks, changes in backstretch housing and strong protections for workers, strictly enforced.
Salvation Army Drive-Thru Food Pantry
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Salvation Army of Saratoga Springs held a Drive-Thru Food Pantry on Tuesday May 5, at the Knights of Columbus and Pine Grove Community Church, located at 50 Pine St. in Saratoga Springs. Volunteers from across the county joined the effort to provide access to nutritious food for 300 families.
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