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How Artists Can Help Us Conceive of New Flags and Monuments for the US
by Ben Valentine June 29, 2015 July 1, 2015
From top to bottom: the Mississippi state flag, the third flag of the Confederacy, and the Confederate flag (photo by Ron Cogswell, via Flickr)
All flags bear the stain of conquest. We plant our flags over the dead to declare our newly claimed land or laws more valuable, an act declaring the deaths as less so, or worth it. I can't think of one politically significant flag that does not have blood at the base of its pole. Today we are discussing the Confederate flag and monuments around it, a flag which grows out of bad blood, or rather, blood that came out on the wrong side of history.
Atlantic correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates rightfully shows that the Confederate flag is the flag of Dylann Roof. It is a flag founded on the belief that the US is a chosen land for chosen people — Caucasians — who have every right to conquer and murder any other race for their benefit.
Now we can, and should, ask: What about the relationship of the US flag to Native Americans? What about all the monuments to Christopher Columbus? What about the slaveholding members of our forefathers? The list goes on.
The United States was built on the deaths of millions of Native Americans. Their blood is there deep down, fertilizing every state of our country's pillaged land. If the Confederate flag embodies the enslavement and murder of Africans and African Americans for the benefit of whites, then the US flag must also stand for the murder and displacement of Native Americans. It's bad blood that we've managed to ignore even more thoroughly.
There's bad blood in most of our public monuments and flags, which doesn't mean we shouldn't or can't work to change them. Maybe it means it will take a longer time than we would hope, and that we need to have intensely honest and likely difficult conversations about these flags, one by one. It might also mean we need new flags and monuments.
Fred Wilson, "Metalwork 1793–1880" (1992) (image courtesy the Maryland Historical Society) (click to enlarge)
There are a number of artists whose work and experience with public space can provide meaningful lessons for this discussion. One is Fred Wilson, a forefather of institutional critique and master of digging through our muddy past and forcing us to look, saying: 'This is here. What are we going to do about it now?' Wilson's perhaps most famous work, "Metalwork 1793–1880" (1992), simply places slave shackles next to lustrous silver vessels from the same region and time. He connects the dots between artifacts of power in a way that punches us right in the gut.
More recently, Wilson's proposed public monument for Indianapolis, "E Pluribus Unum," sought to reconstitute the one African American depicted out of all of Indianapolis's many public works — an ex-slave — into a more powerful and uplifting figure, while also calling attention to the problems latent (or absent) in the existing works. The downcast slave was scanned and made into a confident man, holding a flag comprised of the flags of every African nation. Wilson uses an honest version of Indiana's history to look toward a brighter future: one where African Americans are no longer burdened by racism stemming from their prior enslavement.
Many in the Indianapolis community, especially African Americans, rejected Wilson's proposal. Following the outcry, the public statue was never realized. Who am I to say they were wrong? Many felt that reusing the only image that represented themselves — that of a destitute ex-slave — further shackled them to a past of which they hoped to be free.
Marc Swanson's "Fits and Starts" (2005) being removed, documented in 'Fits and Stars: A Deer Diary' (screenshot by the author for Hyperallergic)
I recall Marc Swanson's public sculpture "Fits and Starts" (2005), which was vandalized and nearly destroyed on DePauw's campus in Greencastle, IN, the state of my childhood, after surviving a year on view in a public space in Brooklyn, New York. Many students felt that the rhinestone-encrusted, prancing deer was "gay." The piece was moved indoors to prevent its continued or likely complete destruction. What began as a public artwork ended as a hidden-away monument to hate.
Coates writes that we must take the Confederate flag down: "Put it in a museum. Inscribe beneath it the years 1861–2015. Move forward." In this case I agree. An encyclopedic museum is precisely the grounds on which a Confederate flag can and should fly: in a space of historical reflection and contextual consideration of our past.
Swanson's deer, on the other hand, should have been kept outside, on permanent display, so that its shattered remains could've become a highly visible scar to the oft-ignored homophobia of that community. If the cruelty done to Swanson's work had been made visible, it could have been a healthy step toward confronting the issue. Maybe, years later, after a lot of discussion and education, the deer could've been safely reinstalled. Maybe there is a way to make a new flag, as Wilson proposed, out of the old. The same, however, cannot be said for the Confederate flag.
How do we move forward without being blindsided by the past? What is our responsibility today to bear witness to the past, in public space? While hiding Swanson's sculpture from public view allowed the student body to ignore its latent oppression, Wilson tied his monument so inexorably to the past that it didn't address the realities of the present.
Antony Gormley, "One & Other" (2009) (image via Wikipedia)
Antony Gormley's Fourth Plinth Commission for London's Trafalgar Square, "One & Other," (2009) is a perfect example of drawing on the past to create a space full of opportunity, complexity, and promise. Gormley orchestrated 2,400 people to individually stand on the plinth over the course of 100 consecutive days, all day long. Gormley writes:
The idea is very simple. Through putting a person onto the plinth, the body becomes a metaphor, a symbol. In the context of Trafalgar Square with its military, valedictory and male historical statues, this elevation of everyday life to the position formerly occupied by monumental art allows us to reflect on the diversity, vulnerability and particularity of the individual in contemporary society. It's about people coming together to do something extraordinary and unpredictable. It could be tragic but it could also be funny.
This was a monument for people — in all their flaws and likely some bad blood — and for their uniqueness. The monument had no conquest, no hierarchies to it. This was a flag for all of us because it was, in fact, an anti-monument, an honest work made for today's world.
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Tagged: Antony Gormley, Confederate flag, Essays, Flags, Fred Wilson, Marc Swanson, Monuments, Racism
Ben Valentine
Ben Valentine is an independent writer living in Cambodia. Ben has written and spoken on art and culture for SXSW, Salon, SFAQ, the Los Angeles Review of Books, YBCA, ACLU, de Young Museum, and the Museum... More by Ben Valentine
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Harper says:
"Now we can, and should, ask: What about the relationship of the US flag to Native Americans?"
That would be a good one to ask the Cherokee who fought for the Confederates and scalped the heads of dead Union soldiers. They lived in the East. The ones in the West you could ask about the Trail of Tears for which they hold Abraham Lincoln responsible. They got fucked during Reconstruction worse than those southern "racists".
"All flags bear the stain of conquest. We plant our flags over the dead to declare our newly claimed land or laws more valuable, an act declaring the deaths as less so, or worth it"
That's silly, and why say "we"? Does the Cherokee Confederate flag represent conquest, or does it represent defiance of it? Lots of flags are born of anti-colonialism, as was the Confederate flag. Not everyone wanted, or wants, land.
The Navajo never sought land in their wars. They killed just to watch other Native American neighbors die, a cycle of pure vengence that you don't see now because Europeans overtook them (and put them on a reservations).
If all this seems fucked up, it's because it is. You won't read about it in The Atlantic's moralizing cartoons of US and southern history, with fake villans and heros. This article's link to that article is an example the feedback loop of perpetuated ignorance journalists often create when citing each other as authoritative.
sraw says:
Flags not only "bear the stain of conquest", they are guarantors of future conflict and death. All flags are supremacist and divisive inherently, even the rainbow for the LGBT community. It's a very short distance between pride and oppression, and using that fist raised in celebration to beat on somebody. If we want to cut through all the semantic acrobatics rationalizing continued strife and actually change a human future which is doomed, or at least assuredly filled with mass murder if we continue on the same path, we had better realize it.
Black Messiah says:
"All flags are supremacist and divisive inherently, even the rainbow for the LGBT community. It's a very short distance between pride and oppression, and using that fist raised in celebration to beat on somebody"
I Agree..some of the most racist white people I know are white homosexuals!! ..go figure???
Yes, all issues cross all ways, and homosexuals who are right wing are puzzling too. One would think being discriminated against would indicate one would not do so to others, especially in this case – cooperating with those who tend to hate you, but many of we humans seem not to work that way. Some of us seem to have to pass on the abuse and oppression administered to us, maybe in part because we live in a culture in which everything, given the right excuse and a pandering, slavering media, seems to be tolerated. Also, some sort of "other" to oppress seems to be necessary for weak individuals to have an identity, which in a screwed up, brainwashed society is most of us. And perhaps in a perverse psychological sense, right wing gays are the other side of the coin to the preacher/demagogue types who rail publicly against what they spin as anti-biblical sin while privately abusing children, or some such truly sick behavior.
B. Blackman says:
I hear you .. what it tells me is that race trumps even there "GAYNESS" a few years ago white wealthy homos in San Francisco was demonstrate in wearing there birkenstock yelling N….ger at passerbys because blacks voted in large numbers against some proposition they disagreed with. Black people aint got nothing in common with white gays.. been black is not an aberration… we dont have a melanin deficiency or some thing unnatural about us as human beings.. .. Never could understand why people equate the black man struggles with gay people struggles. Hell Gay slave owners used to have grand ole time buying a black child and take him home and raping him to their perversion content, they had and have all the benefits and privileges of white skin. The previous Chair of the RepubliKKKan Party was a secret homo and no one knew about it. RACE trumps every thing in AmeriKKKa…its the Home of the depraved!!! and Sodom and Gomorrah all wrapped up in one
Hrag Vartanian says:
The term homosexual (or gay) was invented after slavery ended so there were no gay slave owners. I'm sorry to read how anti-gay you are.
"The Navajo never sought land in their wars. They killed just to watch other Native American neighbors die, a cycle of pure vengence that you don't see now because Europeans overtook them (and put them on a reservation)."
You mean the way European Neanderthals killed and lynched black people just to watch them die???… too bad we could not put Europeans on Reservations eh? ..the world would be a better place for sure!!
Are you talking about the black people taken from their African tribes by other black people in African tribes and sold to white Europeans?
LOL.. Black people selling Black people to Neanderthal savages from Europe is just the white man's lame propaganda to deflect blame to others for his crimes against humanity and genocide. Satanic – subhuman Neanderthals and psychopaths always blame their victims. the Rapists always seek to rationalize his conduct by blaming his victim(s). Oh she was wearing a short skirt, she was giving me the eye, she really wanted it.
That's the narrative you white sickos want to perpetuate, that black people sold black people to us so its OK. Yeah there was a few African's who played footsies with the devil, but most of them had there family held hostage by the white devils on the coast – they were forced to go into the interior to capture their brothers and sisters or THEIR family would be sold into slavery. Yeah we had a few TOMS!!!.. like Clarence Thomas and Tim Scott and Jason Riley of Wall Street Journal who have sold their soul to the devil, but to suggest that black people sold black people to the white savage from the caves of Europe, is to engage in historical revisionism that only today's "Confederate Flag has nothing to do with slavery" wacko birds can match.
Keep wacking off-bud…. if it makes YOU feel good!!.
Type "Atlantic Slave Trade" into Google and read something.
No more troll food. Bye.
What BS. This is about your own sense of superiority and false idea that you would have done things differently. How little people understand history and people.
NO BS here.. there are differences between the black man and white man. recent genomic sequencing has documented that European-Caucazoids have up to 10% Neanderthal DNA and black Africans are 100% Homo Sapiens. What does that mean? it means that Caucasians are not even fully human, they are in-fact subhuman and part beasts… its in your DNA to be the way you are, you are hardwired to be subhuman. Actually it was Black Homo Sapiens ( Humans 2.0) who came out of Africa and created Caucazoids Humans by engaging in bestiality sex I guess with the Neanderthals they came across in Europe. I guess after traversing 4,000 miles by foot and with- no women around – the brothaz would have effed a snake if they could have got down low enough. Yeah so we are different, the black man is a martial race and is no angel when it comes to war, but we have never engaged in the systematic genocide and wiping out of other races for hundreds of years and written books and manipulated science and scientific data to prove superiority and justification for wiping them out. We built the pyramids and has created Judaism and Christianity and had great empires but we never engaged in such conduct. Yes there was slavery before ..but nothing like commercialization of slavery like the Atlantic Slave Trade and the genocide of the North American first nations the pure evil and scale of it is unknown to the human race. Only a subhuman race could have perpetrate and continue to perpetrate these crime against humanity.. Yeah we would have done things diferently. The blackman was in North America before the Mayans and Aztecs.. Google the OLMECS of the Gulf Coasts, I know white folks dont like history and would prefer His-Story!, but the facts are there for those who want to learn the REAL Truth, not your LIES! . The black OLMECS fitted in with the other peoples of the Americas they did not seek to slaughter them and put a bounty on there scalps wiping out 70 million of them in few short years. Yeah we are different and we would have done things differently…. the white man has to examine him self and white culture and his genetic pre-dispositions for violence and treachery that makes him do the satanic and evil things that he has done and continue to do to others. Read the Book the "Iceman Inheritance" for some insights into your subhuman behaviour and tendencies. No false ideas or self- delusions here my friend!.. just straight talk and honest conversation!


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Looks like another spectacular BBC Earth offering. They are pretty much peerless as far as these documentary series go.
I'll be watching for info on a stateside release.
And in response to my own post...coming to BD in North America April 26.
"BBC Video, in conjunction with Warner Home Video, has announced Human Planet for Blu-ray release on April 26, two days after premiering on Discovery Channel. This three-disc BD edition will offer the original BBC broadcast version with over three hours of footage not seen on US television.
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Will I be able to reimage this computer an unlimited number of times on the same set of hardware, not transferring to another box or changing hardware?

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Verdict: Not much talking at all this episode and I loved it! You had 5 matches this episode.
Drew McIntyre will be interviewed next week.
Ember Moon will get a chance to qualify for the NXT Women's Championship next week.
Outside interference stopped Cross from winning this match. The shocker was that the interference did not come from the other half of Team Iconic, but came from Mae Young Classic Qualifier Taynara Conti!
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If there's one thing that guaranteed Instagram likes all year thus far, it's hair accessories. Whether giant padded headbands or cutesy diamanté clips, the enthusiasm for this outfit add-on shows no sign of slowing down for autumn/winter and the accompanying party season. We were particularly enamoured with the most outré options, like Simone Rocha's crystal tiaras or Alessandra Rich's marabou halos.
Drawing helps to form design solutions. Designers take notes and sketches whilst on trips from television, films, whilst shopping or researching, from books, galleries, etc. Sketching is an important part of understanding the human form and basic form of dress pattern. Sketchbook is a meaning of practicing the skills of drawing. It develops your illustration and fashion awareness. It is a visual diary of places, events, ideas, patterns, textures, form and colour. Drawing is a presentation of both design and illustration.
In this stage designer create a brand name or logo. The philosophy and identity of a range can be continued into promotional activities such as branding and styling. To promoting and marketing fashion goods it is very important. Normally the branding would be a graphic designer's job. It is the interesting use of the language or words can produce visual effects, such as, iMac (Internet ready Macintosh computer), O2 (mobile phone provider), FCUK (French Connection United Kingdom).
These boys Abu-Jani and Sandeep Khosla, as a duo are legendary in the fashion-circuit and earned success, hype, fame and attention. They were the first and the foremost to exhibit their work at Harrods, the UK luxury store. Though they lack in pro training, yet their designs are exclusive, distinctive and remarkable. All the time, they travel to the distant and remote areas in quest of the hidden-styles that are yet to be exposed. This creative coalition exudes talent and attitude!
India, a diverse nation though, has no typical or standard dressing style now a days. With the diversification of dressing-style, the style mavens have created a variety in dressing styles. Now people even wear shalwar qameez, sarees, churidars, kurtis, frocks, gowns, long shirts, trousers, jeans, capris, puffed sleeves, deep necks, in fact there is a fusion of western and eastern culture! In India fashion is put forward by the film-industry. In this day and age , Bollywood is considered a trend setter of Indian-fashion that revamp the top Bollywood celebrities. These mavens have not only fascinated Indian public but have also grabbed the attention of the world towards it.
Gabrielle"Coco" Bonheur Chanel is probably the most reputable fashion designer of all time. She is a very exceptional, hard-working woman who has managed to found the famous Chanel brand. The key things she tries to convey in her designs are simplicity, practicality and elegance. Coco is one of the most influential figure of the 20th century. Her ideas are very modernistic and brave, and her models are still the benchmark in simplicity and elegance.
Thomas Burberry was born in 1835 in Brockham Green, Surrey. Burberry opened his own small clothing outfitters in Basingstoke in 1857. At that time Basingstoke was a small country town. Nowadays, the Burberry Group is a leading global fashion brand which now sells womenswear, menswear, non-apparel and children's wear. It is famous for its iconic trademarked check design and British heritage branding.
Basically for the ones who do not want to be dressed like a woman. They do not abide by the usual norms of what a woman should wear. To put it lightly, they prefer black over pink. Most of their clothing are a bit baggy and focuses more on graphic T-Shirts and Shirts from the boy's selection. They do not prefer light colors and frills or laces. It can ask so be described as simple and modern. A boyish look is what they prefer over the classy, elegant looks.
Yamamoto was born in Yokohama, Japan on October 3, 1943. He studied law at Keio University and graduated in 1966 with a law degree. He continued his studies on fashion design at the famous Bunkafukuso Gakuin, a fashion institute in Tokyo. Yamamoto blends the exotic and powerful designs of traditional Japanese dress with Western daywear, and achieves a unique, abstract style. He is an uncompromising, nontraditional designer. Yamamoto drapes and wraps the body in unstructured, loose, voluminous garments, similar in style and philosophy to those of Rei Kawakubo. Many of his clothes have additional flaps, pockets and straps.
Christian Louboutin was born in France in 1963. He was expelled from school at age 16 and started working for the brilliant shoe designer Charles Jourdan two years later. In the early 1990s, Louboutin launched his own line of women's shoes. He added his legendary red soles in 1993. The Louboutin brand is one of our favorites and his wonderful and unique shoes are all we want.
As we all know, it is very hard to decide who are the best of the best in the fashion world. Since tastes are not comparable we decided to do a tribute to the most iconic and unique genius in fashion of all time. Since we couldn't choose from our favorite top designers we organized them in alphabetical order. We hope you find our KOKET selection interesting and creative. This fashion designers conquered their place in the fashion world and we hope to conquer your heart with our KOKET choices, because love happens
Wanderer enlivened looks meets the spectacular fly set styling, and you have gypset, described by striking examples, orientalism and richness of bohemianism. It is one of the greatest design incline for ladies this year, and is absolutely wearable. It is a fun and charming voyage line, starting in the '70s. Zest up your normal work and night closet with a dash of shading and exoticism. Layered tunics with Aladdin pants, oriental-roused embellishments and intense botanical examples, will energize the look.
Another India's old hand and expert designer, from New-Delhi and designs both for men and women! His outfits are worn by Bollywood-actresses and has been in the field since 1980's. He was given a title of "India's-Master-Of-Fabric-And-Fantasy", in 1996 by Time magazine. He has quite perfect sense of creativity & each of his invention is crafed to excellence. He did his graduation from St. Stephen College of NewDelhi with a first class(hons.) degree in history and created his first traditional line for men back in 1990. His client celebrities include Pamela Anderson, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Cambell, Anna Koirnikova nd Uma Thurman and most of his fashion-shows are done in Singapore, NewYork, India and Paris and also is the brand-ambassador of Omega-watches since 2001.
Fashion design is the art of applying design, aesthetics and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories. It is influenced by cultural and social attitudes, and has varied over time and place. Fashion designers work in a number of ways in designing clothing and accessories such as bracelets and necklaces. Because of the time required to bring a garment onto the market, designers must at times anticipate changes to consumer tastes.
Purple isn't for everyone, but it certainly made a bold splash across the runways of A/W 19. Major names stood behind the regal hue, including Dries Van Noten and Comme des Garçons. Many of the purple-centric outfits you'll come across featuring a spectrum head from to toe, with different shades thrown in for good measure—but IRL, we predict this shade will become more of an accent to darker winter wardrobes, so feel free to translate this into your own closet alongside black, white, navy and brown.
Colour is a basic consideration in the fashion design process. In most cases color is the first element that is noticed about a design and has a huge impact in how that garment is perceived. Different forecasting companies research and develop new and existing colour palettes from many sources like yarn technologists, international fabric fairs, leather suppliers, trimming merchants etc. some fashion magazine give inspirational colour guideline for fashion design.
The people who prefer this are the ones who require everything at best quality. Nothing satisfies them if it is not worth the trouble. They often look for styles that make a statement on the quality, polished manner and culture. Most of them are the ones who are from higher status and are also in a way related to how a businesswoman would dress up. Sophisticated can be characterized as businesswoman minus the formal look. Culture and luxury mean the most to the people who choose this style of fashion.


Dell is going through some hard times right now, as it changes its business model from a corporate, low-cost focus to a consumer, high-experience focus. Lots of better design coming. But one thing Dell shouldn't lose is its ability to make a laptop that can fly in the hold half-way around the world without any protection and rev right up on landing. That's pretty cool design.


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Democrats already calling on Paul Ryan to take action on paid family leave
Updated: 7:10 PM CDT Oct 26, 2015
Kent Wainscott
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote for the next house speaker, and already, Democrats are pushing U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan to take action.They're using Ryan's own words as their rallying cry.VIDEO: Democrats urge Paul Ryan to address paid family leave legislation"If I can truly be a unifying figure, then I will gladly serve," Ryan said last week.When he reluctantly agreed to run for speaker of the House, one of the conditions he laid out was being able to spend weekends with his family, instead of on fundraising trips."I cannot, and I will not, give up my family time," Ryan said.Those few words from one of the most powerful Republicans in Washington triggered an outcry among many Democrats, who claim Ryan wants his family time, but hasn't supported paid family leave legislation for workers."If you're demanding this, then we are demanding it, too," said Tamika Vukovic, who supports paid family leave.The Democratic National Committee brought that fight to Wisconsin, to Ryan's home district, and gathered Democrats in Racine to call on the likely future House speaker to make the issue a priority."We urge him to bring Paid Family Leave to a vote on the floor as his first act as speaker," DNC Midwest Press Secretary TJ Helmstetter said."As speaker of the House, Paul Ryan demands family time. All parents deserve family time," 1st Congressional District voter Kelly Gallaher said.A spokesman told WISN 12 News that Ryan is currently a co-sponsoring a separate bill to "help people achieve a healthier work-life balance and maintain current employee workplace protections in law."If Ryan does become speaker of the House later this week, this is likely not the last time that Democrats will bring issues important to them to the forefront here in the 1st District, trying to hit Ryan where he lives, WISN 12 News political reporter Kent Wainscott said. Ryan does have a paid family leave policy in place for his own staff but has not supported efforts to make that mandatory for all employers.Ryan is expected to be elected speaker of the House on Thursday. WISN 12 News' Patrick Paolantonio will be in Washington, D.C., for the vote. Watch for his live reports starting Wednesday night.
RACINE, Wis. —
This week, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote for the next house speaker, and already, Democrats are pushing U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan to take action.
They're using Ryan's own words as their rallying cry.
VIDEO: Democrats urge Paul Ryan to address paid family leave legislation
"If I can truly be a unifying figure, then I will gladly serve," Ryan said last week.
When he reluctantly agreed to run for speaker of the House, one of the conditions he laid out was being able to spend weekends with his family, instead of on fundraising trips.
"I cannot, and I will not, give up my family time," Ryan said.
Those few words from one of the most powerful Republicans in Washington triggered an outcry among many Democrats, who claim Ryan wants his family time, but hasn't supported paid family leave legislation for workers.
"If you're demanding this, then we are demanding it, too," said Tamika Vukovic, who supports paid family leave.
The Democratic National Committee brought that fight to Wisconsin, to Ryan's home district, and gathered Democrats in Racine to call on the likely future House speaker to make the issue a priority.
"We urge him to bring Paid Family Leave to a vote on the floor as his first act as speaker," DNC Midwest Press Secretary TJ Helmstetter said.
"As speaker of the House, Paul Ryan demands family time. All parents deserve family time," 1st Congressional District voter Kelly Gallaher said.
A spokesman told WISN 12 News that Ryan is currently a co-sponsoring a separate bill to "help people achieve a healthier work-life balance and maintain current employee workplace protections in law."
If Ryan does become speaker of the House later this week, this is likely not the last time that Democrats will bring issues important to them to the forefront here in the 1st District, trying to hit Ryan where he lives, WISN 12 News political reporter Kent Wainscott said.
Ryan does have a paid family leave policy in place for his own staff but has not supported efforts to make that mandatory for all employers.
Ryan is expected to be elected speaker of the House on Thursday. WISN 12 News' Patrick Paolantonio will be in Washington, D.C., for the vote. Watch for his live reports starting Wednesday night.


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St Matthew's is the church on the High Street, right in the middle of all the shops, with Woolworths just across the road. Our mission statement is summed up in the phrase Serving God, Supporting the Community — and that's why this site exists.
It isn't complete yet, of course. It won't be complete until you're part of it. You can leave a message and provide new information through the online Visitors' Book or even create your own page for the site using PageBuilder — and there's a People Page waiting for you to tell the world about yourself.
Please note that all Visitors' Book entries and new pages are reviewed before being added: any entry that is considered unsuitable for whatever reason will be declined.
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Deborah King continues her series responding to the challenges of Climate Change.


It may not be ideal for any one but it is time to start thinking about the best way to ideal with an under water property in Las Vegas, Nevada. Real estate values in Las Vegas have caused thousands of people hardship. The stress of having a mortgage worth $200,000 on a home that is now valued at $90,000 is hard to handle. There are many options to be considered with a short sale (getting bank to take less than you owe on your mortgage as payment in full) is becoming more popular.
People are realizing that a bright future free from outrageous debt is more important than paying back the bank. People are realizing their families future will be dictated by how they dispose of their current debt. it took a few years but people now understand that a mortgage is a risk for both bank and borrower. Banks willingly take real estate as collateral after a hired professional is used to appraise the real estate. The banks thought property values would hold just as much as the rest of us or they would not have given out the loans. It was not the home owners fault property vales dropped in Las Vegas, Nevada. As more people begin to see the reality of the situation they are becoming less and less hypnotized by the media and bank propaganda. They now are looking for ways to take back their lives and not be beholden to debt the banks were happily giving out backed by real estate.
The best and least painful option is often becoming a short sale.


A couple of months ago, I was eating lunch with someone I used to attend church with. He asked me what I do to "train up my children in the ways of the Lord." Yes that's a very churchy way to ask that question but I still got the point.
That was a really hard question for me to answer. I immediately started thinking about specific times where I sit down with my kids and talk about God and how to live like Jesus. There aren't any. We don't have a set rhythm where we all sit down and talk about living like Jesus. Yet Brenda, of her own volition, regularly talks to her baby brother about Jesus. She regularly talks about God with me and Jen. She applies biblical teaching to life situations. God is working in Brenda's life and I can see her responding by the way she acts and talks about God.
We don't have a "family devotional time" (although every night Jen reads a Bible story to Brenda and I pray with her before she goes to sleep). We simply live out our faith and talk to Brenda about what we're doing and why we do it. We talk about living like Jesus when we sit at home and when we walk along the road, when we lie down and when we get up (Deut. 6:7).
In my opinion, that's what the "missional/incarnational" life is all about. It's about living like Jesus and then when the time is right, explaining why we do what we do. It starts at home. The first people to whom God has sent us is our family. We share the Jesus life with them and then together we share it with our neighbors, our city, and the world.
What about you? What are you doing to be missional at home?


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Polly Draper
Polly Carey Draper is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. Draper received several awards, including a Writers Guild of America Award, and is noted for speaking in a \"trademark throaty voice.\" She first gained recognition for her role in the ABC primetime television drama Thirtysomething.\nDraper co-starred in her screenwriting debut The Tic Code and Off-Broadway in her play Getting Into Heaven. In mid-2004, she also wrote her directing debut The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie and created and produced the Nickelodeon musical comedy series The Naked Brothers Band —portraying her sons Nat and Alex Wolff—which won her a WGA for Children's Script: Long Form or Special.


Use a stepladder or a roller with an extension handle to paint the ceiling and ask for help if you have large areas to paint.
When painting a ceiling, always paint toward the narrower side of the room so sections you paint over will still be damp.
1. Start in the corner and paint the borders of the ceiling with a brush.
4. Smooth out the unpainted portion in the direction of the painted portion.
5. Proceed in the same way with the other sections.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace yetAnotherGenericDeserAttempt.Contracts
{
    class ContractResolver
    {
        private Dictionary<Type, BencodeContract> contractCache;

        private static Type[] primitives = new[]
        {
            typeof(bool),
            //typeof(char),
            //typeof(sbyte),
            typeof(byte),
            typeof(byte[]),
            typeof(short),
            //typeof(ushort),
            typeof(int),
            //typeof(uint),
            typeof(long),
            //typeof(ulong),
            typeof(float),
            typeof(double),
            typeof(decimal),
            //typeof(DateTime),
            typeof(string)
        };

        public ContractResolver()
        {
            this.contractCache = new Dictionary<Type, BencodeContract>();
        }

        public BencodeContract ResolveContract(Type t)
        {
            // TODO: threadsafe
            if (!this.contractCache.TryGetValue(t, out var resolvedContract))
            {
                resolvedContract = this.CreateContract(t);
                this.contractCache[t] = resolvedContract;
            }

            return resolvedContract;
        }

        private BencodeContract CreateContract(Type t)
        {
            if (IsPrimitiveType(t))
            {
                return CreatePrimitiveContract(t);
            }

            return null;
        }

        private BencodePrimitiveContract CreatePrimitiveContract(Type objectType)
        {
            var contract = new BencodePrimitiveContract(objectType);
            return contract;
        }

        private bool IsPrimitiveType(Type t)
        {
            return primitives.Contains(t);
        }
    }
}

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Earth's climate continues to confound scientists. Following a 30-year trend of warming, global temperatures have flatlined since 2001 despite rising greenhouse gas concentrations, and a heat surplus that should have cranked up the planetary thermostat.
Wow. And people wonder why I am not buying the whole global warming thing.
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There is additional collaborative data that supports the issue that the load of CO2 is adding to the climate. I can't answer your specific questions on Global Warming well enough to show you that your conclusion is wrong and here is the reason.
It has taken me nearly ten years to fully digest the objections of Intelligent Design and Creationism well enough to sufficiently defend evolution. I did this by going to the source of study, people who actually work in the field.
The way that I see it, the approach of the global warming "skeptics" in using rhetorical tricks and casting false doubt that look persuasive on the surface are the same tricks used by the creationists. Once a person spends sufficient time examining them, one sees how wrong they are.
Given that, I would rather go to a climatologist to learn what it happening to the earth's climate than to take a quote and conclude that it is bunk. Sometimes, it is okay to ask an expert when you have questions.


The opinions expressed by your physicians will make or break your Social Security claim. That is why it is crucial that your doctor understand the extent of your restrictions and limitations. If your doctor does not believe that you are disabled, you will almost never be approved for benefits. That is because the written medical record is always used by the Administrative Law Judge to determine whether or not your disability is severe enough to qualify you for benefits.
We do not advocate shopping for doctors who will give a more lenient disability opinion; however, it is crucial that you treat with a doctor who believes that your complaints are genuine.
Getting your doctor to document your restrictions and disabilities in writing can be difficult. Doctors go to medical school to try to help people get better. Their job is not to provide written proof for lawyers or judges. That is why it takes persistence in order to get your physicians opinions in writing for purposes of litigation.
At our offices, we make every effort to secure necessary medical records and statements in support of your claim even if this takes more than one attempt. Should you have an inquiry regarding a Social Security matter, we would be happy to speak with you.


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Standard shipping is parcel and letter mail.
The time depends on the place of delivery.
Courier are available only to a few countries. Delivery time is 3-6 days.


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Q: Run Pool inside process I am new to multiprocessing in Python. I have some classes each representing some task to be done. A small snippet of class structure is shown below
class TaskA():
    parallel_limit = 2       # Max number of process in Pool
    time_limit = 1           # Denotes time taken to perform some operation
    queue_name = 'read_here' # RabbitMQ queue to provide data for consumption

    # Starts a pool of processes listening on queue
    def start_process_pool(self):
        pool = multiprocessing.Pool(processes=self.parallel_limit)
        for i in range(0, self.parallel_limit):
            pool.apply_async(self.consume)

        try:
            while True:
                continue
        except KeyboardInterrupt:
            print(' [*] Exiting...')
            pool.terminate()
            pool.join()

    # Reads from queue and performs some operation
    def consume(self):
        connection = pika.BlockingConnection(pika.ConnectionParameters(host='localhost'))
        channel = connection.channel()

        channel.queue_declare(queue=self.queue_name, durable=True)
        channel.basic_consume(queue=self.queue_name, on_message_callback=self.perform_operation, auto_ack=True)

        print(' [*] Waiting for messages. To exit press CTRL+C')
        channel.start_consuming()

    # Performing some operation
    def perform_operation(self, ch, method, properties, body):
        print(" [x] %r received %r" % (multiprocessing.current_process(), body,))
        time.sleep(self.time_limit)
        ch.basic_ack(delivery_tag=method.delivery_tag)

I am able to run this task in Pool. Problem arises when I have multiple Tasks and I need to run each one of them in pool. I am thinking to fork a process for each task and then start pool of process from that, but am unable to figure out how to do it. Any contribution will be of much help.


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Rudolf Kunz (* 28. November 1856 in Regensberg; † 1. Dezember 1930 in Lugano) war ein Schweizer Offizier.

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Rudolf Kunz war Sohn des gleichnamigen Rechtsagenten und Gastwirts und der Dorothea geborene Krauer. Er studierte Architektur an der ETH Zürich und der Technischen Hochschule Stuttgart, wo er Mitglied des Corps Rhenania wurde. Nach dem Studium trat er in die Schweizer Armee ein. 1884 wurde er zum Instruktionsoffizier ernannt. 1905 wurde er zum Oberst befördert und zum Artilleriechef des 3. Armeekorps ernannt. 1913 erfolgte seine Ernennung zum Waffenchef der Artillerie. Mit Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs wurde er zum Divisionär befördert und zugleich zum Artilleriechef der Armee ernannt. Nach Kriegsende war er weiterhin Waffenchef der Artillerie. Aus dieser Position trat er 1919 in den Ruhestand ein. Er war verheiratet mit Margaretha Speich.

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Gov Reassures On Infrastructural Dev
The Rivers State Governor, Chief Nyesom Wike has reiterated that the present administration under his watch was committed to a holistic development of the state.
Wike stated this during the Synod Thanksgiving Service of the fifth Synod of St. Peters Anglican Church, Yeghe in Gokana Local Government Area.
The governor, who spoke through his Deputy, Dr. Ipalibo Harry Banigo said he strongly believes that the resources of the state should be used for the benefit of Rivers people and not the other way round.
He said when the present administration came on board, it was shocked to discover that valuable assets of the state had been sold off in a dubious manner by the immediate past government and the monies frittered away.
"It grieved us to discover that our assets have been sold. We set up a judicial commission that indicted some persons but up till now, the All Progressives Congress-led Federal Government that says it is anti-corruption failed in its role to demonstrate the spirit of anti-corruption by bringing the perpetrators of this act to book", he said.
The governor wondered why election matters would stimulate so much acrimony in Rivers State.
In the build up to the re-run election in December, 2016, some people were caught printing INEC ballot papers, Wike said, adding that the matter was taken over by the police to Zone 6, Calabar.
He expressed frustration that up till now, the matter has been swept under the carpet by the powers that be.
Wike said he believes in the unity of Nigeria but insisted that within that unity justice, equity and fairness should prevail.
"We believe Rivers State, which is known as the Treasure Base of the Nation should be allowed to control its God-given resources. In other nations of the world they develop because they control their resources and pay the requisite tax to the Federal Government. We have a terrain that requires intensive development, and that takes money, so, all we are asking for is justice, fairness and equity", Wike stressed.
The governor, who reiterated his administration's commitment to the things of God, disclosed that Rivers was the only state of the federation that has built and handed over an Ecumenical Centre to Christians.
Rotary Tasks Motorists On Traffic Rules
Wike Alerts Int' I Community On Police, INEC's Rigging Technique
Usokun, An Integral Part Of My Administration – DELGA Chairman
The Chairman of Degema Local Government Area, Hon. Michael John Williams, has assured the people of Usokun, in Degema Local Government Area, that their community is an integral part of his administration, and would be carried along in all programmes and activities of the Government.
The Council Boss gave the assurance, when he played host to the Usokun Council of Chiefs, who paid him a courtesy call at the Council's Secretariat, recently.
He dismissed claims that the people were grossly marginalized in the Council, disclosing that several members of the community were given appointments as aides in his administration.
The Council Boss further recalled that he had recently disclosed to the community the administration's plan to undertake the completion of their Corpers' Lodge, and also embark on a new project for them in the coming months, as part of his administration's pledge of executing projects in all communities of the LGA.
In employment into the Civil Service, the Council Boss noted that the administration was not employing at the moment, but that employment would be equitable to all communities, if the government was recruiting.
While assuring that no community in Degema LGA would be neglected by his administration, the Mayor of Kalabari urged them to remain peaceful, law-abiding and continue to contribute positively towards the development of the LGA.
Responding, the Onu Onya Ekein of Usokun, HRH King Charles Sunday, Ugu VII, commended the Council Chairman for his forthrightness and accessibility, noting that Hon. Williams' administration was the first to invite the Usokun Council of Chiefs and engage them on developmental issues.
He prayed God to continue to protect the Council Chairman and imbue him with more wisdom to pilot the Council to enviable heights.
Earlier, Secretary of the Usokun Council of Chiefs, Chief Omubo Bob-Jeck, had in his address, bemoaned an alleged gross marginalization of the Usokun people in the affairs of the Council.
He particularly decried an alleged neglect of the Usokun people in employment by the Council, political appointments, and projects execution, praying the Council Boss to use his good office to address their plight.
By: Theresa Fredrick & Charity Amiso
Community Lauds Buhari For Signing PIA Into Law
The members of the Oha in Council, an apex body of Ubima community in Rivers, have commended President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) into law.
Chairman of Ogbakor Ubima, in Ikwere Local Government Area in Rivers, Mr Emma Amad, made the commendation recently in a briefing with journalists in Port Harcourt.
Amadi, also a member of the Board, Host Community Development Trust (HCDT), inaugurated by an indigenous oil company in Rivers, said the implementation of the law would enhance peace and development for stakeholders.
The Tide's source reports that All Grace Energy Limited (AGEL), operating in the Oil Mining Lease (OML17), on January 20, inaugurated a seven-member board of the HCDT.
They were expected to work with the company on implementation of the PIA law.
Amadi said the inauguration of the board of trustees by AGEL would also enhance the development of the host community.
He said with the law, the community would be conscious of the security aspect of the community where the company operates because they were now stakeholders, unlike what obtained in the past.
"I commend All Grace Energy Limited for their efforts on the process of implementing the PIA law on remittance of three per cent yearly Operational Expenditure (OPEX) as stipulated by the Act to host communities.
"Before now, what we have is Memorandum of understanding (MOU), which is an agreement between the company and the host community which any of the party can go to court if the agreement is bridged.
"Now, it has become a law which the parties must obey.
"I can tell you that the passing of PIA Act which oil companies are to implement is a welcome development.
"This is because if the company bridges the law, we can confidently go to court and enforce that law; so, we thank President Muhammadu Buhari," he said.
Similarly, Mr Dandyson Onigah, the Chairman of the Board of HCDT, said it was a dawn of a new era where there would not be bickerings between oil companies and their host community.
According to him, with the stipulations of the PIA, the community can make plans toward sustainable development, knowing that there are funds for that purpose.
Onigah said that the board would work with the company to ensure peace for the company to operate freely to achieve its mandate.
The Executive Director, Corporate Affairs and Development, AGEL, Prof. Adeola Adenikinju, reassured of the company's commitment to the development of its host community in compliance with the PIA.
Adenikinju noted that the inauguration of the seven-member board would provide a unique opportunity to begin a new era in the development of the community.
According to him, since the signing of the PIA in 2021, the company has ensured commitment to advancing understanding of the act, with regard to establishment of the HCDT.
Adenikinju said that compliance with the PIA would deepen the existing mutual relationship and trust-building between the company and the host community.
According to him,the PIA contains relevant provisions which form the basis of strong governance and management structure for the host communities' development trust.
A group in the Niger Delta, Patriotic Forum of Niger Delta (PAFOND), has pledged its support to the new management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
This was contained in a press release made available to news men in Port Harcourt.
According to the group,"we are committed to ensure our people work towards a common focus of peace, unity, and progress of the region, and, by extension, with the vision of the Act that establishes the NDDC as an intervention body", it said.
The group, however, expressed concern over the behaviours of one of the aids to the Managing Director, who failed to carry out the instructions of his principal during its visit to the Commission on the 5th of January 2023.
The release, jointly siged by the groups National Chairman, Owoh Udoh, National Secretary, Pastor Richard Monday, and Chairman, Elders Forum, Chief Francis Briggs, said the behaviour of the aid (name with held ) left many people stranded.
According to the group, the said aid only attended to the ijaw group and left others stranded.
"Of course, a lot of people were totally stranded, but we took our fate because we believe as a group that there's is always another day.
"We want to strongly advise, sir, that in subsequent events, a more responsible individual should be given such duty so as to reduce tension or suspicion from other ethnic groups who may feel marginalized on the schemes of things", the group said.
The group, however, commended the MD for his stance on issues bothering on the region so far, pledging support for any effort by the Commission to reposition the region.
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Misconceptions of teaching inside
Welcome to the second edition of College Inside, a biweekly newsletter about the future of postsecondary education in prisons. My name is Charlotte West and I'm a new national reporter with Open Campus.
Misconceptions, rules, and the power of self-discovery
Even before I started covering college programs in prisons, one of my favorite podcasts was Ear Hustle, which focuses on life inside San Quentin State Prison in the Bay Area. When I found out that Nigel Poor, one of the co-producers of Ear Hustle first got involved with San Quentin as a volunteer professor, I reached out to talk about her experience teaching in prison.
In addition to her work with Ear Hustle, Poor is a visual artist and photography professor at California State University-Sacramento. She started teaching a history of photography class with the Prison University Project, now known as Mount Tamalpais College, at San Quentin in 2011.
Poor says that the stories she heard from the men inside San Quentin inspired her to think about how to do artistic projects inside and she began to volunteer with the prison's media lab. All of that eventually led to her collaboration on Ear Hustle. She co-hosts the podcast with Earlonne Woods and Rahsaan "New York" Thomas.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Read the full interview here.
Q. You mentioned that your conversation with the Prison University Project director Jody Lewin helped you feel prepared to teach in prison. What do you think are some of the misconceptions that people might have about prison education?
A. I think people have misconceptions, first of all, that they're going to go into this really angry space where people aren't educated. And that you're going to be a remedial teacher getting people up to speed because they don't know how to read and they don't have basic math skills. And at least at San Quentin, that was not the case. I went into a classroom that was full of people that were really excited to learn and eager to learn. I had students that had master's degrees. And I had students that had gotten GEDs and had very little formal education but were really prepared to dig in and work hard.
I had to be careful to not go back to my students at Sac State and say, 'My students in prison work so much harder than you.' I never get an excuse about why they couldn't do something. I found very hard-working, rigorous students.
I think that there's more nuanced things like people going into prison thinking they're going to save people. There are complex relationships, and you're going in as a professional to do a job, which is to teach. You're not going in as a therapist or savior. You bring that respect and expectation to the classroom that you would bring to any other classroom.
Q. Were there any rules about what class material you could or couldn't use? We have this idea of academic freedom on college campuses, but I would imagine that there might be some different rules that you as a faculty member have to follow when teaching in prison.
A. This is what I would tell people: You can have the most radical ideas you want. And you can think that you need to tear prisons down. But when you go into work in a prison, you have to respect the rules that are there. Because you can have all the passion to politically change things, but you always walk out the gate. You can leave behind a shitstorm and cause a lot of problems.
You have to figure out for yourself how to work within a system that you may not respect or respond to, but you have to remember that you always walk out the gate. And I think some people can go on without really thinking about how much trouble you can get other people in if you don't think through your passions and your ideas.
That being said, I went in pretty naive. I thought, 'Oh, I'm just going to teach the class I teach at Sac State, I'm going to bring in my PowerPoints on my computer. And I'm going to show all the work that I show.' And then first thing, Jody was like, 'No, of course not, you're not bringing a computer in. You're going to be using a television to show your PowerPoints.'
And then [I was told by] the prison that I couldn't show any nudes, no pictures of children, no pictures of violence, drug use or emotionally complex imagery. And I was like, 'What the hell am I going to teach?' That is what photography is, it's about looking at complex issues. The only thing that would be left would be landscape imagery.
But then Jody set up an opportunity for me to meet with the assistant warden to show them what I was going to teach. And so we met and had like a three hour meeting. And I went through a lot of the images that I was going to show and we had a great conversation. And they gave me permission to bring in most of the images, except some images of children.
What that taught me was the really deep importance of conversation and understanding the world that you're walking into. And that even if you disagree with people, they're not the enemy. You can have conversations, and you can come to an understanding. The administration at the prison needed to understand what I was going to show and they needed to feel that they had some control over it. At first, I was upset, but I realized having this conversation opened it up.
Q. Education is a theme that comes up tangentially in many Ear Hustle episodes. I was recently listening to Catch a Kite 6. When you asked about their proudest moments, Sam Lewis talked about earning his degree and Reggie Thorpe shared how he felt when he found out he was the only African American at San Quentin who had taken Calculus II. Why was that such a big deal for them?
A. I think because it's about self-discovery and realizing your own talents and your own power. For people inside or outside prison, when you realize you can do something that you thought you couldn't do, it is such a great feeling. It's exhilarating. And like Reggie talking about doing calculus, that sounds so frightening to me. And I can imagine when he realized he was good at it and he could help other people, it was like he could all of a sudden see himself in a different way as a leader and someone who could teach, not as someone who's been incarcerated for a long time. I'm sure he's gone through a lot of periods where he felt unseen and unworthy. And so I think education tells you are worthy of something. And that's just an essential human need. I think that just shows you your own self-worth when you can help bring other people along.
So what's happening with Pell?
Last week, the Education Department's higher ed committee wrapped up its "negotiated rulemaking", aka "negreg", process for Pell restoration. Some of the key issues focused on what metrics will be used to determine whether a program meets "the best interest of students" and if programs can be offered in fields such as nursing where there are sometimes restrictions on occupational licensing for people who have convictions. Here are some of the highlights of the conversation:
The 2020 law passed by Congress that lifted the ban on Pell for prisoners gives state corrections departments and the federal Bureau of Prisons the final authority on which prison education programs can be offered in their facilities.
Several members of the prison ed subcommittee were concerned about this provision. "The DOC is not an educational institution, yet they are able to make all of the educational decisions," says Terrence S. McTier, director of the Prison Education Project at Washington University in St. Louis.
Bradley Custer, a senior policy analyst for Higher Education at American Progress who live tweeted the process, says that a department of corrections can't be forced to approve a prison education program. State higher ed agencies need to work together with departments of corrections to ensure access for students.
"Colleges will have to do some nudging and relationship building with their local prisons and state DOCs," he says.
BIG concessions to appease the accreditor (and these changes are good). And now we have CONSENSUS on prison education regulations! 🎉🎉🎉 #negreg #PellYes
— Bradley Custer (@BradleyDeanC) December 10, 2021
What the requirement means in practice is that incarcerated students can only participate in prison education programs that have been approved by the department of corrections in their state or the Bureau of Prisons for federal facilities. For example, a student in Iowa wouldn't be able to apply for Pell and enroll in a program in Colorado unless that program had been approved by the Iowa Department of Corrections.
"Any college that thinks it can easily expand into many states with an online or correspondence course program is first going to have to go through the full prison education approval process in each state," Custer says.
While full Pell expansion in July 2023 will greatly expand the number of prison education programs in the United States, incarcerated students in some locations, particularly in rural areas, might still face significant challenges in terms of access to higher ed.
McTier acknowledged that one of the ideas behind the provision was to prevent programs from taking advantage of students. "One of the good things that the Department of Ed is trying to make sure doesn't happen is where predatory programs come in just so they can get the Pell dollars, and then just mislead the student on this path that doesn't lead to anywhere," McTier says.
The Education Department also clarified that only nonprofit public and private colleges are eligible to receive Pell funding for prison education programs.
As a result of the subcommittee conversations, there is now language in the draft text (which you can find here) that corrections departments should be advised by a group of relevant stakeholders, which include representatives of currently and formerly incarcerated students, colleges and universities and accrediting agencies.
California in focus
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This week, around 3,000 incarcerated college students at seven California prisons will be receiving laptops that they will be able to take back to their cells to work on their homework. The laptops are not connected to the Internet, but students will be able to upload assignments and interact with their professors via Canvas, a learning management software program, via a secure network.
The first group of students to receive devices are enrolled in face-to-face associate's and bachelor's degree granting programs, says Brant Choate, director of the Division of Rehabilitative Programs for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
"We now have dozens of college faculty that we're working with to get their courses converted," Choate says.
The department plans to issue another 12,000 laptops to all incarcerated students at its 35 adult facilities in both face-to-face and correspondence programs next year. Students in literacy programs and those who are participating in substance abuse treatment programs are slated to receive devices in 2023. "At the end of the day, it'll be some 37,000 laptops," Choate says.
There will always be some students who are only able to access education via correspondence classes, Choate notes. But the goal is that for most students, correspondence courses will supplement face-to-face instruction. If a local college can't find a faculty member to teach a specific class, then students might take a correspondence course instead.
Choate says safety and security concerns about issuing laptops to incarcerated students are overblown. "What you hear from somebody on the custody side is that [students] are going to hide drugs in them, or they're going to turn them into weapons," he says. "If they're gonna hide drugs, they're gonna hide it somewhere. You don't need a laptop. And if they do, then we'll take it away from them."
Students enrolled in face-to-face programs at Folsom, Mule Creek, Valley State, Central California Women's Facility, California Rehabilitation Center, RJ Donovan and Lancaster prisons will be the first to receive laptops for college classes starting in January.
Choate says the tech rollout has been bolstered by a new law signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom in October that prioritizes education programs that provide face-to-face, classroom based instruction and that allow students use their credits towards degrees. The bill also amends state law to recognize full-time studies as full-time work or training. It also stipulates that only nonprofit, regionally accredited institutions are allowed to provide higher education in California prisons.
The new legislation also encourages prison officials not to transfer students who are in the middle of college programs, Choate says.
A new study, "The Effects of College in Prison and Policy," drawing on 20 years of data from the liberal arts program Bard Prison Initiative, was published earlier this month in Justice Quarterly. The report is "the largest study published to-date of a single college-in-prison program." The study found that participation in the Bard program substantially reduces recidivism and that there is a close correlation between greater levels of participation and even lower rates of recidivism. The authors argue that although prison education programs should be judged by more expansive measures than recidivism, understanding recidivism also helps us understand to what extent education can help address the underlying causes of recidivism.
The Journal of Higher Education in Prison published its first volume earlier this year. It's the only open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes exclusively on topics and issues affecting the field of higher education in prison. The journal is accepting submissions until March 1, 2022 for its second volume on the question: What are the possibilities and limitations of teaching and learning in prison spaces? For more information on receiving a copy of the journal or how to send a submission, email jhep@higheredinprison.org or write to:
In "An Education While Incarcerated", Hua Hsu profiles Eddy Zheng, an immigrant from China who was incarcerated at San Quentin at age 16, for The New Yorker. Hsu first met Zheng in 1998 as Berkeley undergraduate volunteering in San Quentin through the Prison University Project, which granted college credit through Patten College:
"Most of us were middle-class kids walking into a prison for the first time. We couldn't wear blue (the color of the inmates' uniforms), but the searches of our backpacks and jackets were perfunctory. The inmates took college-level courses, and we talked them through their assigned readings about due process, Emma Goldman, the bicameral system. We told them about innovations in pizza and computing. They taught us about Stevie Wonder, the power of poetry, the bus systems of Los Angeles, the importance of looking someone in the eye when you spoke to him. We never asked what any of them had done to end up in prison."
As part of the New York Times' "It's Never Too Late" series, Chris Colin interviews Devon Simmons, who served 15 years in prison after being incarcerated as a teenager. Colin writes that since he was released in 2014, Simmons has "made it his mission to remake not just his own life, but to change the educational and career opportunities afforded to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people, and the way society thinks about that population in the first place."
In Wyoming, rehabilitation involves wild horses. For Deseret News, Lauren Steele writes about the Wyoming Honor Farm, a minimum security prison located near the small town of Riverton, Wyoming. In 1931, "the farm started as an experiment. What if 30 inmates with marked good behavior were allowed to leave high-security facilities to maintain a working farm — complete with beef cattle, swine, poultry, crops, dairy and butchering operations? …
Over the years, the farm grew. In 1985, a new dormitory was built to accommodate 40 inmates. That expanded to three more dorms and more than 200 inmates some years. A vocational education shop was built, land was leased from the state to graze cattle and an education center was established. The Wyoming Department of Corrections wanted the farm to be a place where inmates could change the course of their lives. And it just might be working. According to the corrections department, the Wyoming Honor Farm has one of the lowest recidivism rates in the nation."
Thanks for reading. With this newsletter I'm hoping to build a community of people who care deeply about these issues. I want to hear what you think is missing in the conversation about prison education. Please share this newsletter with others who might be interested. They can subscribe here. (And we are working on figuring out print distribution for folks inside!)
Please reach out if you have story ideas or just want to share your experience with prison education programs as a student or educator. Right now, I'm especially interested in speaking with anyone who has had their education interrupted by a prison transfer or a facility being shut down, as well as learning more about the intersection of correctional industries and vocational training programs. I'm also looking to talk to people who have pursued graduate degrees while incarcerated, as well as those who have inspired their children to pursue higher ed. You can always reach me at charlotte@opencampusmedia.org or on Twitter at @szarlotka.
In the last issue, I asked: What is one thing would you change about how college in prison works? Timothy Pauley, who is incarcerated in Washington State, wrote:
"The one thing I would change is to stop dumbing it down. Keep the level of academic rigor the same as out there. Then the degrees will have value. This can easily be accomplished for little or no cost. Using graduates to help properly prepare people for college is the key, in my opinion.
"A lot of guys will complete the program and want to remain involved. This is a good way to keep them engaged while preparing those entering the program. if the program excludes long term prisoners, as some often do, this [also] needs to change. Those students are the foundation of your support network. They pay dividends far in excess of the resources expended to educate them."
Heather Lavelle, who is incarcerated in Pennsylvania, shared the following:
"I'd make it that we could take courses online like the rest of the world is doing. Having access to professors and other learners is an important part of the process that we totally miss out on."
This week, I'd like to ask: What metrics should we use to measure the value of a prison education program?
I'll be taking a break over the holidays, so you can expect the next issue of College Inside in your inbox on January 12th. For something to look forward to, I'll just say that I'm really excited that we'll be publishing our first story by an incarcerated journalist.
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Southend United: Daniel Bentley offers 'derisory' - Phil Brown
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Daniel Bentley helped Southend win promotion out of League Two via the play-offs last season
Southend United manager Phil Brown says offers made for goalkeeper Daniel Bentley have been "derisory".
The 22-year-old broke a club record with 12 consecutive home clean sheets last season.
"The offers have been derisory to say the least, the enquiries have not, but we haven't had concrete bids from those conversations," Brown told BBC Essex.
"We have from QPR but it was insignificant. It was knocked back in no uncertain terms."
Bentley helped Southend win promotion to League One via the play-offs last term, with the keeper's save from Wycombe's Sam Wood in a penalty shootout at Wembley sending Brown's side up.
He also won both the supporters' and players' player of the year awards for 2014-15.
"I don't think the bids are going to go away and his career is well and truly off and running," said Brown.
"All you can do is give advice. Do you recommend he goes to sit on his backside in the Premier League and wait for a top-class goalkeeper? Before you know it he's 26 and played no more games.
"At this moment in time, he's on the right path."
Joe Pigott scored seven times on loan with Southend last season, including one at Wembley to send their play-off final against Wycombe to extra-time
Brown added he was keen to sign another striker, and says they are looking at options including Crawley's Izale McLeod and Charlton's Joe Pigott - who scored at Wembley while on loan with the Shrimpers last season.
"Conversations have been ongoing with players, agents and clubs," said Brown. "There are two or three clubs interested in Izale McLeod and one of them has put in a substantial bid on the table for him.
"If you look at his record, he's played at a higher level and scored goals, so it would be a significant signing if we can get our hands on him.
"And obviously the Joe Pigott situation has been ongoing over the last four weeks, to which we had a little bit of a guided message with Charlton on Wednesday that could make it important we get him in before Saturday."
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