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Just by going off of the 404 series, and 30k. Who do you guys think are some of Ontario's underhandicapped players?. Heres my list.
1:Tyler Nearing is a 6. Could be a 7 no problem.
2:Mike Patrowicz is a 7. Could easily be an 8. He seems to get into the money all the time and has been doing well lately. Hes beaten all the top players in Ontario many times over.
3: Dan Doerner was an 8 and now is a 9. Just thought I would mention him hehe.
4: Jeff Robson is a 5. I have not seen him play in a long time but im sure he could be a 6 now.
5: Brittany Bryant is a 5!!!!! lol. She has been doing very well lately I think she could still do well as a 6.
6: Dennis Rhoodes is a 7. This guy is very SOLID. Has the best safety game in Ontario (just my opinion.). Could be an 8 easily.
7:Elio that came second in 30k finals. I beleive this guy is a 7 correct?.
8: George Cornelius seems to get into the cash all the time,and does very well.
These are the players that first come to my mind if someone ask's me "Who do you think are underhandicapped?". I am not trying to start anything Im just bored, and was curious as to what players you guys think are underhandicapped.
People like being under-handicapped, surprised?
I have to agree with #s 1, 2, 4 and 5. I play as a 5 pretty much everywhere, Im very inconsistant but sometimes I play semi-decent. What happens when I do that and finally win a couple matches? I am INSTANTLY bumped up.
How about writing up a list of the biggest jerks? whiners?
If you had someone that knew how the players played but wasnt buddy buddy with them, I guarantee you would see a LOT of players handicaps go up for these tournaments.
I wouldnt say you are under handicapped probably on the high side of a 6 but if you were bumped, I wouldnt be surprised.
A complainer list or whiners list would be to large to fit on here lol. There is probably 2 guys on that list I mentioned that complain/whine a shitload. But im not gona mention names, there not hard to pick out if you play them in tournaments lol.
Interesting list! I would agree in most cases but the thing is at least the level they are allows them to compete with the top guys.
The problem as I see it is that the 9's and 10's win the majority of tournaments still.
The fact that these players are considered low I think means other players should move down rather than up. I think it's great that a guy like Mike P can give those 10's a run for their money but still the best he has placed is second. I would like to see other people give the 10's a tough match!!!
Just my opinion, and I know there are whiners out there but lets not get into a list of names and player bashing please.
Ya I wouldn't want to make that list anyways. Ya the 10's usually win anyways, it is tough. Maybe they should go to 11 in the next 404?. Something does have to be done with the 10's :(. Lets kick them all out!!!, or make them play opposite handed lol. I dunno I don't really care for the handicap system anyways.
If it were up to me I would just have it that everyone races to the same amount but the lower ranked players pay less to enter into the tournament than the higher ranked ones.
Sometimes Ive noticed, the better you play, the more you whine. ha!
Someone gave me bad "REP" for this topic LOL. I must of hit a nerv with one of the players on that list or something haha.
Does anyone have any ideas about how to handicap tournaments? There are lots of systems out there but lets see if anyone has any new ideas!!
I play as a 6 there, Im not too sure exactly how it works, low to high but one time I was a six so every time I just say Im a six.
Maybe I should be like........ a negative 11, with my previous results!
your a good 6 give yourself more credit.
I have no idea about the handicap system you have there....so how good or consistent is a 7/8? can they break and run multiple times consistently.
There is a big jump in skill from 7 to 8. A 6 and 7 play relatively the same. An 8 will run out when given the chance 80% of the time in my opinion. There are very few 8's because usually there 9's or 10's anyways. If someone is an 8 they are sometimes a favorite for the tournament because they can play the same speed as a 9 or 10. Very stealthy like lol.
This is why there are very few 8's. I can only think of a handful.
To make it alittle easier to understand. An 8 would give Johnny Morra/Jason Klatt (wich are 10's) a good run for there money, if not win. A 6/7 would rarely win this match. Even if a 6/7 is playing there best, not missing a ball, they will still make minor mistakes in safeties, position errors etc.. wich will cost them the match.
Hes not complaining, and I wouldn't either if I had his skill with his handicap. It's like stealing candy from a baby lol. Well it's not that bad, but you get the idea.
6..........I was playing a bit with Keith on table 1, and then Mike Patrowicz later on. Ah your the guy that I almost nailed with the cueball eh?.


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Gulf Livestock 1: Japan Coast Guard suspends search for missing ship with 43 sailors, 5,800 cows aboard
(CNN)The search for the crew of a cargo ship that went missing during Typhoon Maysak was suspended Saturday due to bad weather, according to Japan's Coast Guard.
The Gulf Livestock 1, with 43 crew members and almost 6,000 cows onboard, went missing near southern Japan on Wednesday. The area in the East China Sea was being battered by the powerful typhoon, equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane with winds of at least 130 mph, at the time the ship went missing.Rescue operations were suspended Saturday noon local time, and a second storm — powerful Typhoon Haishun — is expected to slam the area on Sunday. Restarting the mission will depend on weather conditions.
On Friday a man was found floating in a life raft two kilometers from Kodakara Island — only the third person to be found. The man, a 30-year-old Filipino named Jay-Nel Rosals, was found on Friday afternoon two kilometers (1.2 miles) from Kodakara Island, the Coast Guard said. He was taken to a hospital, and is alive, walking and talking, it added. Read More A lone Filipino sailor was rescued late Wednesday, after more than half a day in the water. He was in good condition, the Coast Guard said.Another crew member was found floating unconscious on Friday morning near Japan's Amami Oshima island, about midway between Okinawa and Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island. He was taken to a hospital, according to a Coast Guard statement sent to CNN, but a later statement from the Coast Guard said that he had died.
The man was found on Friday afternoon two kilometers (1.2 miles) from Japan's Kodakara Island.Just after 4 p.m. local time on Friday — around the same time that Rosals was located — rescuers found an empty lifeboat further out to sea, at around four kilometers east of Kodakara Island. Japan's Coast Guard also said that they found some oil spillage around 150 kilometers from Amami Oshima Island.The Coast Guard also found a body of a cow near Amami Oshima island on Friday.
The Japan Coast Guard also located an empty life raft on Friday.The 133.6-meter-long (438 foot) ship, crewed by 39 Filipinos, two New Zealanders and two Australians, was sailing from Napier, New Zealand, to Tangshan, China, according to the authorities in Japan, New Zealand and Australia.The Panamanian-flagged ship left New Zealand on August 14 with a cargo of more than 5,800 cows, according to New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.The second storm in the region, Typhoon Haishen, is expected to strengthen to the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane by the end of the week. It's expected to threaten Kyushu on Sunday, and potentially affect the Korean Peninsula Monday.
File photo of Gulf Livestock 1 in 2016. The cargo vessel was formerly called Rahmeh before 2019.Japan's meteorological agency is warning that the storm could be the third biggest to hit the country since records began almost 70 years ago.A New Zealand animal rights group said the Gulf Livestock 1 incident illustrates why the export of live animals should not be permitted.
"These cows should never have been at sea. To make matters worse they're likely all pregnant," said Marianne Macdonald, campaigns manager for animal rights group SAFE NZ."This is a real crisis, and our thoughts are with the families of the 43 crew who are missing with the ship. But questions remain, including why this trade is allowed to continue," Macdonald said in a statement.
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Billionaire Tom Steyer -- making up for lost time -- dwarfs other 2020 contenders in ad spending
Critics say he's used his wealth to buy more ads, giving an unfair advantage.
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Who is Tom Steyer?The Democrat is a billionaire and liberal activist who led an effort to impeach President Donald Trump through the group NeedtoImpeach.Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images
Since lacing up his running shoes for the 2020 race less than a month ago, billionaire, liberal activist Tom Steyer has outpaced every single other candidate in his campaign ad blitz -- scrambling to make up for lost time as he competes with rivals who are months ahead of him.
The California hedge fund mogul believes his populist message, and perhaps more importantly $100 million of his own money, could pave his way to Pennsylvania Avenue, as most of the candidates in the crowded Democratic primary pivot towards grassroots support.
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Steyer has been blanketing airways and social media platforms in key states with advertisements targeting President Donald Trump and introducing himself to the American people. He's spent more than $10 million on television and online ads in the first month of his campaign, according to television and online ad data.
He has to -- the deadline to qualify for the third Democratic debate in September is swiftly approaching and there's a high threshold for unique donors to qualify and candidates have to hit 2% in at least four recognized polls.
That means grabbing the attention and imagination of a huge swath of voters in a short period, if he wants his own podium on the stage. And Steyer has not been coy about his needs -- in most of his online ads, Steyer is expressly asking donors to contribute $1 so that he can meet the donor count requirement and make it to the upcoming debate.
His opponents have made similar appeals and have a number have complained that spending money to help generate donors to meet the debate stage threshold is problematic.
"We're kidding ourselves if we're calling a $10 million purchase of 130,000 donors a demonstration of grassroots support," Montana governor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Steve Bullock said Tuesday in a statement.
Bullock, who has made getting money out of politics a central part of his campaign, also says the DNC donor requirement "may have been added with the right intentions" but has now "created a situation in which billionaires can buy their way onto the debate stage, and campaigns are forced to spend millions on digital ads chasing one dollar donors — not talking directly to voters."
Bullock has not yet made the September stage. He made the July debate after narrowly missing the first debate in June.
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Democratic candidate for United States President Businessman Tom Steyer, addresses a group of voters at the Weare Town Library in Weare, New Hampshire, July 31, 2019.
Democratic candidate for United States President Businessman Tom Steyer, addresses a group of voters at the Weare Town Library in Weare, New Hampshire, July 31, 2019.CJ Gunther/EPA-EFE/REX
Steyer's campaign rejects the criticism saying that fewer than half of his donations come from advertising.
Still, with his massive, self-funded war chest, Steyer has been topping every other 2020 White House hopefuls' weekly social media ad spending -- even President Donald Trump -- since launching his campaign last month. And in those four weeks, he's nearly spent as much as Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., have spent in online ads in the past half year.
With a focus on the digital space this year, few of the top 2020 candidates have spent on television ads, so far. But Steyer has already spent millions to get his message out on the airwaves, dwarfing two of his Democratic contenders who have been spending the most aggressively since earlier this year: former Rep. John Delaney, D-Md., and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is the only other candidate to run ads, but they were limited to a handful of commercials on cable last month.
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In just one week -- around the second Democratic debate and leading up to the Iowa State Fair -- Steyer spent more than $1 million on television ads and another $1 million on Facebook ads. He's especially pooled those hefty sums in the early primary states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina -- along with national cable time on MSNBC and CNN. His latest ad titled, "Trump is a Fraud" was specifically time to air in between CNN's Democratic debate in Detroit, campaign spokesman Alberto Lammers told ABC News.
And in the wake of the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Steyer -- in one of his latest television ads -- has called for Congress to cancel its August recess and hold oversight hearings. In the ad, he accuses the president of dividing the country with his immigration policies and racially charged comments.
"The ad calling on Speaker (Nancy) Pelosi to cancel the congressional recess is performing really well -- people are really responding to that -- and that really reflects on Congress," Lammers told ABC News.
Democratic presidential candidate, businessman Tom Steyer shakes a hand during a campaign event, July 30, 2019, at the Waterworks Cafe in Manchester, N.H.
Democratic presidential candidate, businessman Tom Steyer shakes a hand during a campaign event, July 30, 2019, at the Waterworks Cafe in Manchester, N.H.Elise Amendola/AP Photo
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While Trump and the Republican Party's massive fundraising advantage looms over the 2020 Democratic field, Steyer has positioned himself as the man to beat the president.
Before tossing his hat in the ring, he poured hundreds of millions of his own money into electing Democrats garnering support for Trump's impeachment. In 2018, through his two political organizations, Need to Impeach and NextGen America, he spent $74 million in the midterm elections with the goal of electing progressive candidates across the country.
The liberal megadonor has stepped down from his outside political ventures since declaring his candidacy last month, but has pledged to still commit to the $50 million he promised for Need to Impeach this year. And the super PAC has continued to be active on social media, diligently promoting Steyer's message calling for the impeachment of Trump in a host of Facebook ads -- as recently as last week -- featuring special counsel Robert Mueller's congressional testimony from last month.
ABC News' Cheyenne Haslett contributed to this report.


A chance meeting with an American expat whose family is in the seed business leads to a behind-the-scenes tour of an organic vegetable farm in Korat province.
When I moved to Thailand a bit more than six years ago, organic produce was a rare sight. The more western-oriented supermarkets would have small sections – one or two shelves in a single refrigerated display case – featuring lonely looking organic vegetables, often flown in from foreign shores.
Today when I visit the produce section of the market, the organic selection makes up as much as about one-tenth of the available real estate. Many of the organic items are grown in Thailand, although imports are still present. The range of organic produce is wider, too: apples to arugula, okra to onions.
I am pleased that organic produce is gaining traction in the Thai market. I am also confused, though, at the number of "near" or "faux" organic products being sold. With labels like "pesticide safe", "hygienic", and "INSERT LABEL HERE" and no clear oversight and regulation, I am never sure just what I can safely eat.
Curious and confused, I took advantage of my recent introduction to Tim Chung, an American who is now living in Thailand to help manage his family's organic farm and fresh vegetable operations. Tim extended an invitation to visit Adams Organic's farm in Pak Thong Chai in Nakhon Ratchasima province – about a three-hour drive from Bangkok.
This is one of Adams Organic's two locations. They also work with more than 20 organic rice farmers in Yasothon province in Thailand's northeastern Isaan region, to grow organic vegetables in the dry and cool seasons. This works out well because rice does not grow efficiently during those seasons and vegetable production generally dips during the rainy season, which is prime rice-growing time.
Adams Organic started in 2009 as an offshoot of a commercial organic seed producer, AEL, whose roots stretch back more than four decades. According to Tim, they saw a growing demand in Thailand for fresh organic produce so started experimenting with the idea. They now produce about six tons of vegetables each month for retail sale.
The Pak Thong Chai farm is about 30 rai (or 12 acres). The farm grows a variety of organic vegetables, including tomatoes, zucchini, salad greens, melons, squash, cucumber, eggplant, garlic, and shallots. Some of these are grown in open fields and others are grown in net houses.
Net houses are similar to green houses except the sheeting is permeable so its effect is more to keep the insects and other pests out than to regulate the temperature. In addition, the very fine mesh of the netting provides protection from predators (including insects) that would eat crops and potentially carry unwanted diseases. Along with some additional dark sheeting, the nets provide a bit of relief from the strong sunlight and regular rain showers.
To enter the net houses, you step in a box of ground limestone. This helps reduce the risk of soil-borne disease being brought in. There are also sprayers for hand sanitizer. The two sets of double net curtains help restrict the entry of insects.
Another organic pest control methods is the placement of sticky yellow flags, which attract the insects and then trap them once they land.
Additionally, inside the net houses you find plastic containers of sulfur powder. As the sun heats the sulfur, it gives off a gas that repels certain insects and also discourages the growth of microbes and fungus. Despite all those efforts – a testament to how abundant the ranks of insects are – there were still some insects inside the net house, but none that were causing a significant problem to the crops.
An interesting side effect of these efforts to minimize insects is that pollination of the plants has to be done by hand.
In addition to not using pesticides, growing organic also means that you cannot use herbicides. The farm has several techniques to minimize the number of weeds, which are harmful to the crops because they compete for water and nourishment.
Before planting, the freshly plowed fields are covered with black plastic sheeting. In colder climates this would be done to help warm the soil and wake it for a late winter or early spring planting. Here in Thailand, the black plastic super-heats the soil, killing off many of the seeds of other plants that may be in the soil already.
Seedlings of the desired crop are planted in holes cut into the plastic. As the crops grow, the plastic sheeting minimizes the number of competing weeds by cutting off any sunlight to them. Hand-weeding is also necessary while the crops are young. As the crops grow older, though, grasses and less-invasive weeds are allowed to grow side-by-side with the crops.
To conserve water, a drip irrigation system is used. This ensures that the plants receive a regular supply of water that is focused on the area immediately around the plant, reducing waste.
As I learned during the visit, farming is a cyclical practice: the nutrients that you take from the ground must be replaced. In conventional farming, this is done with petroleum-based chemical fertilizers. With organic farming, the cycle is sustained in a variety of ways. For example, fields are planted in a rotating basis to ensure that soil quality is not diminished. For example, fields that grow tomatoes might then be plated with zucchini and then allowed to lie fallow before tomatoes are planted again. Different plants take and return different nutrients to the soil, one reason that the industrial agricultural practice of planting huge expanses with a single crop season after season, so called "mono-crops," is so damaging.
Additionally, the farm makes its own compost from trimmings and the remnants of plants after the fruits and vegetables are harvested. These trimmings are allowed to ferment and be biodegraded in plastic barrels before being worked back into the fields with organic steer manure. They are in the process of constructing a vermiculture – worm-based – composting system, too.
One of the challenges when growing organic is keeping your fields from being contaminated from outside sources. To counter this, Adams Organic maintains an awareness of what is grown on neighboring farms and ensure that their fields are set back sufficiently from the property borders to maintain the organic quality of their produce.
Our final stop on the tour was the packing house, a small warehouse that includes sanitary processing rooms and a chiller room. Produce is picked almost every day and the workers inspect, trim, and package the vegetables. The packaged vegetables are then stored in the chiller room before being delivered three times a week to Bangkok-area stores by refrigerated truck.
Their produce is available at ten locations of Tops supermarkets, several Foodland locations, and four Gourmet Marketplace locations (associated with the Mall Group). They also have a retail storefront on Soi Saladaeng and they are working towards a CSA or Community Supported Agriculture program where you pay a subscription rate and receive weekly deliveries of the freshest produce.
One of my big questions about organic food in Thailand is the extent to which it is reliably organic. On our trip, we were joined by a US FDA (Food and Drug Administration) certified inspector. Adams Organic is regularly inspected not only by US-licensed inspectors, but also inspectors for the European Union, Japan, and Korea. The inspections occur not because their food is currently exported (all of it is sold within Thailand) but because their original and primary business is growing organic seeds, which are exported for sale.
Tim explained that it is difficult to give a general statement about organic providers in Thailand. The only way to be completely certain is to have your own chemical test kit and test different brands to see for yourself. Of course, that isn't practicable. Most organic brands use a variety of farmers to provide their produce. The key, he explained, is to have good quality control to ensure all the products are grown by farmers who strictly follow organic practices.
While the market for organics is expanding, the retail price for organics is relatively low compared to Singapore and Hong Kong. This is good news for Thai consumers but creates a challenge for organic farmers. The retail operation is not yet profitable for Adams Organic, but they see this as a long-term project. Proper positioning now will give them the opportunity to develop the market and build a sustainable, profitable business in sustainable, healthy produce.
Many thanks to Tim and the folks at Adams Organic for letting me take a behind-the-scenes look and share it with you. From left to right: Flerida, Tim, me, Ken, and Chow.
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An interesting field trip, Chris! It almost feels like a step back in time. Thanks for sharing!
I, too, thank you for showing us the many techniques they use.
Interesting video. What is organic steer manure? Isn't all manure organic?
Interesting. I read the entire post.
Yes, thanks for sharing the techniques. Lot of work for healthy food.
Thanks for sharing this. I look out more for regional rather than organic because the term "organic" often leaves room for interpretation as you also pointed out. By going after regional produce I hope to contribute at least to less transportation. Back home I always wondered why we had to have apples from Argentina when we grow apples in Styria. And sometimes the apples from Argentina were as expensive or slightly cheaper than the ones produced locally. That always made me wonder.
Your tour made the operation seem well run, and tended to with care. Lovely setting. With organic and locally grown, at least we have a better chance of eating food that is good for us.
i feel like i'm on a field trip back in school hahaha. it was very educational and interesting, though! crop rotation is very important, but i just thought of something. i plant herbs in my container garden, and some of them are perennial so i don't replant them or move them around. i guess that eventually will deplete the soil, especially in a container… any suggestions for how to get around that problem, or do i have to pull up my perennials and move them every year?
Impressive operation! I've never fully understood the differences in the terms… Thaks for taking us along on the tour!
That sounds like a really fun and educational visit! Very appropriate post for earth day. :)I found your comment about the regulation of the word "organic" interesting. I heard an urban myth about a grocery store in Toronto that said a worker at the store was spraying the organic vegetables to keep bugs away. I often wonder how organic our organic food really is…?
This is a great post Chris. But unless I buy my produce from people I know in the farmer's market, I don't buy from the large chain grocery stores. So many times I have read that the 'organic' produce are fake and labeled wrong. I would rather grow my own.
I just did a weeding job with a lady who was Obsessive compulsive. Sometimes the organic part loses to asthetics.I am glad someone had the time to more fully explain the process of growing foods organically and have shown some of the problems of trying to be organic.I am sure maybe someone will borrow the ideas that you have presented.————————————–As a side note the weedkiller Roundup is losing its effectiveness. The weeds are becoming immune to this herbicide and the new Roundup that is coming out will contain some of the same stuff as "Agent Orange" the powerful weed/plant killer that causes birth defects later in humans.
Oh, I'm glad to see they are finally selling organic produce now. How about fruits? The veggies look so fresh, they'll make a good medly of salad dish!
organic produce is getting more popularity in indonesia too since about a decade ago, but the popularity is growing slow and the price range for such product is just too steep for the majority of the population to enjoy. an education on the understanding of what constitutes "organic" also greatly needed around here, as most have not a clue. let's hope we get to a point in life where ALL fresh produce will be typically organic and anything less will be frown upon.
@Inciteful - Thanks for the recommendation; I tried to be very cognizant of the article's length, editing wherever possible.@LostSock21 - That depends on what the steer eats (organic versus conventional food) and whether it is treated with hormones or not. Strictly organic manure would have only organic inputs and no hormones.@beowulf222 - That's a good point, Nick. There is definitely a problem with organic farming sometimes being done in a monocrop sort of way and also with organic items (as well as conventional ones) being transported thousands of miles for sale, undoing some of the benefits achieved by growing organic. You have to balance all of these consideration when trying to calculate the impact of the foods you choose.@CurryPuffy - The trip to the farm definitely whetted my appetite for a big, green salad.@PPhilip - Thanks for your comments. We're seeing the same thing with Roundup as we are with the overuse of antibiotics – eventually, pests develop resistence and the chemicals/drugs lose their effectiveness. @ZSA_MD - @brooklyn2028 - Generally, I have a pretty high level of trust in the US FDA's (and their Canadian counterpart's) oversight, even though they are not perfect. In the US and Canada, if something says "organic," it seems reasonably certain that it is. Although, as Nick pointed out in his comments, there are other factors such as how locally a product is grown, that should be taken into consideration when assessing the impact of what we buy.@kunhuo42 - Have a compost pile and work in the compost each season!@an_OM_aly - While I didn't spend hours and hours investigating each aspect of their operation, their willingness to open their doors to me and my camera gives me confidence that the folks at Adams Organic are sincere in their commitment to organic, sustainable produce.@slmret - @nov_way - @Fatcat723 - @agmhkg - @armnatmom - @murisopsis - I'm glad you found the tour interesting. Thanks for your comments.
I'm always conflicted between buying something locally grown and organic veggies or fruits that are imported. They are typically more expensive but if there is something locally grown and organic, I will give it a try.
Do you know where you can buy Adam's organic seeds in Thailand?


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Home Daily Turtle Hollow Earth Revealed (Black History at Mammoth Cave)
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Hollow Earth Revealed (Black History at Mammoth Cave)
NPS Park Ranger, Jerry Bransford, as he led a walk entitled The Enslaved Leaders of Mammoth Cave, on February 27, 2016 as part of the celebration of Black History Month. He donned period clothing and reenacted in character the persona of his great great grandfather Materson Bransford who served as a guide in Mammoth Cave, first as a slave in 1838, and later as a free man after the Civil War. He explains the rich heritage, contributions, and legacy of the many enslaved guides who served at Mammoth Cave during the early to mid 1800's. The walk took place along the 3/4 mile long Heritage Trail beginning at the Visitors Center and ending at the Old Guides Cemetery.
Second generation cave guide Henry Bransford.
The pair of stones before us bore the names of Alice Bransford, a beloved wife and mother, and her husband, Henry Bransford. Henry had been Alice's spouse for more than two decades. He fathered their six children, and not all were quite grown when he died. He had timbered wood before walking the few miles up the ridge to his guiding job at Mammoth Cave, only to walk back in the early evening and work crops long after dark by lantern light. He worked so hard and so long that a heart attack took him from his family when he was only 45 years old.
Henry's carefully etched stone had been purchased by Alice and their children and placed there to honor his memory. The inscription they selected described their husband and father in what they must have believed to be the most loving and definitive way:
"Henry Bransford, Guide"
With but three words is the sum of a man's life remembered.
From Making Their Mark – The Signature of Slavery at Mammoth Cave – by Joy Medley Lyons
African Americans played a vital role in the development of cave tour routes and the visitor experience throughout the 19th and early 20th century. The first black guides were slaves and through their efforts opened up the golden age of cave exploration for Mammoth Cave. Their discoveries and story continues to live on within the avenues and guided tours of the cave today. While each slave guide eventually saw their freedom, their life was fraught with hardship in a time where the country was divided on their place in society. During their life they may have never realized the importance of their existence. However, today they are not viewed as slaves or lower class citizens. They are legends.
Stephen Bishop was one of the first slave guides at Mammoth Cave.
Stephen Bishop was unquestionably one of the greatest explorers Mammoth Cave has ever known. He was in his late teens when he was brought to Mammoth Cave in 1838. He learned the toured routes from white guides Joe Shackelford and Archibald Miller Jr. However, Stephen Bishop ventured beyond the toured areas and discovered many miles of the Mammoth Cave no eye had ever seen. The gateway for modern exploration of the cave could be attributed to Stephen's crossing of a deep vertical shaft known as the Bottomless Pit. The areas he discovered beyond the Bottomless Pit can still be viewed by visitors today. Places such as Fat Man's Misery, Cleaveland Avenue and Mammoth Dome are among the most notable.
Stephen was a showman and visitors wrote of his speech and singing voice. Perhaps visitor Bayard Taylor described what today's perception of Stephen Bishop was when he wrote,
"He is a slight, graceful, and very handsome mulatto of about thirty-five years of age, with perfectly chiselled features, a keen, dark eye and glossy hair, and mustache. He is the model of a guide – quick, daring, enthusiastic, persevering, with a lively appreciation of the wonders he shows, and a degree of intelligence unusual in one of his class…I think no one can travel under his guidance without being interested in the man, and associating him in memory with the realm over which he is chief ruler."
Stephen gained his freedom in 1856, but sadly died at the age of 37 the next year in 1857 leaving behind his wife Charlotte and son Thomas. His cause of death still remains a mystery today. While we will never experience a first hand tour from Stephen, he can still be visited at the Old Guide's Cemetery at Mammoth Cave National Park.
Former slave and guide at Mammoth Cave – Mat Bransford
Materson Bransford was the son of the affluent Tennessean Thomas Bransford and a slave woman. He began guiding at Mammoth Cave in the year 1838, and ultimately became the property of his own half-brother after the death of his father. Mat married a slave girl named Parthena and in time was able to build a small home for themselves and the four children that were born to them in slavery. As time passed the children grew and to Parthena's owner became marketable. Despite his best efforts Mat was powerless to stop his wife's owner from selling three of their four children into the very institution of slavery to which they were bound.
Surprisingly, some abolitionists of the day did not regard such an act as horrendous. In the early 1860's Mat guided abolitionist John Fowler Rusling through Mammoth Cave. Upon hearing of the ordeal Rusling remarked, "I don't suppose you missed these children much? You colored people never do they say." Upon hearing such hurtful words, the heartbroken Mat was quick to inform him differently. After emancipation, Mat remained at the cave for the rest of his life. No doubt his eyes often gazed toward the old dusty road bed where his oldest children were last seen, hoping someday to see them return
Former slave and cave guide Nick Bransford.
Like both Stephen Bishop and Mat Bransford, Nick Bransford (no known blood relation) was leased and brought to Mammoth Cave in 1838. However, Nick was not the showman that Stephen Bishop or Mat was. Descriptions of Nick as a guide do not exist until after Stephen Bishop's death. Perhaps he was not a regular guide until this time. A visitor named F.J. Stevenson visited Mammoth Cave in 1863 and wrote the following regarding Nick,
"On presentation his Majesty proved to be an interesting black man, considerably past middle age…a short, broad strong man…quiet but steady eyes, grave in his demeanor, and concise in his conversation."
Despite Nick being a man of few words, he nonetheless still embodied the connection guides have to the cave and visitors as Stevenson writes,
"…seemed thoroughly imbued with the spirit of the place in which he had spent the greater portion of his time for 17 years. He was as grave and taciturn as some cave-keeping anchorite. During our inward progress, he had carefully pointed out every place and object of interest…If I paused or made a misstep, he instantly looked around."
As a slave his monetary value was $800 which was substantially more than other slaves listed on the inventory. According to tradition, Nick purchased his freedom by selling eyeless fish to visitors who were intrigued by the unique creatures. Beyond his role as a guide, Nick was also a husband who married Stephen Bishop's widow Charlotte. He was a caring giving man who donated the land for the Mammoth Cave School where his grandchildren learned to read and write. This quiet soul was also a spiritual man and was one of the first deacons of the Pleasant Union Baptist Church that used to stand in the park.
Nick continued to work at Mammoth Cave until he died in 1895 – giving over a half-century of his life to the guiding profession. His exact gravesite is unknown, but is in all likelihood shrouded in the woods of the Flint Ridge.
Guide Ed Bishop circa 1905
Ed Bishop began guiding at Mammoth Cave in 1886. For nearly the next three decades Ed was an integral part of the guide force. Among his greatest achievements was in guiding a German cartographer named Max Kämper through Mammoth Cave. For eight months Ed and Max visited all of the known sections of Mammoth Cave and discovered many new areas. The fruits of their labor produced a map representing approximately 35 miles of cave passages. A place known as Bishop's Pit (on the Violet City Lantern route), named in Ed's honor, is one of the areas Ed and Max discovered in 1908.
Ed's knowledge of the cave seemed to be the cornerstone for exploration as well as a point of learning for guides. The following was written in George Morrison's New Entrance Guide Book concerning Ed:
"The real guide was Ed Bishop. He instructed Hunt how to reach the New Discovery from the Cathedral Dome route and Hunt instructed Bob Lively, but during 1916 and 1917 it was necessary to wait for Bishop, to make the trip."
Ed eventually moved to Indiana and died in Indianapolis. He was brought back to Kentucky and buried in an unmarked grave next to his first wife Josie and daughter Chancey. In 2010 Mammoth Cave guides, along with many others, had donated enough money to purchase and set a head stone for Ed and Josie Bishop, as well as one for their baby girl, Chancey. Today Ed rests beneath a large cedar tree just a few miles from the cave he knew so well.
Ed Hawkins, former cave guide and laborer at the Mammoth Cave Estate.
Ed Hawkins was not exclusively a guide. Ed was a laborer for the privately owned Mammoth Cave Estate. While Ed did guide tours, many of his other tasks took him away from the cave. Odd jobs such as small structural repairs, chopping wood and plucking chickens were among other labor Ed performed. Black employees during the early 20th century had certain demands of them. Only blacks were porters and waiters, while whites were clerks and managers. Ed Hawkins had to cancel his plans for a planned cave exploration trip because one of the managers needed him to peel potatoes. No doubt, his ability and familiarity with the cave would have been better served in exploration.
In 1907 Ed co-discovered a monumental series of shafts known as Cathedral Domes with fellow guide Will Bransford and visitor Benjamin Franklin Einbigler. The avenue leading to this impressive series of domes is was named Hawkins' Pass in his honor. Visitors are still able to view these large shafts on the Wild Cave Tour.
A unique trait of Ed is how recognizable he is in photographs. He secured his clothes with large blanket pins. Tradition says that his hands were so large he could clean a chicken of its feathers in just two swipes. With such large hands manipulating small buttons may have been too tedious a task.
After more than half a decade at the Western State Hospital in Hopkinsville, Kentucky Ed passed away in 1936 due to myocarditis and a contributing factor of senility. He resides today in an unmarked grave at the hospital cemetery.
Mammoth Cave guide Will Garvin.
One may argue that most of Will Garvin's life was spent in public service. Beginning first with his country then as a Mammoth Cave guide. While never a slave at Mammoth Cave he certainly played a role in the institution of slavery as he mustered in as a private for Company M 12th Heavy Artillery U.S. Colored Troop at Bowling Green, Kentucky during the Civil War. Following the war, Will Garvin eventually settled in Edmonson County, Kentucky where he was only one of six black Civil War veterans and soon began guiding in Mammoth Cave. He married Hannah, the daughter of Nick Bransford and Charlotte and lived just a short distance from the cave's entrance. Will Garvin is most widely known in Mammoth Cave lore for discovering an area known as the Corkscrew. This maze through collapsed rubble linked the upper levels of the cave system to the lower levels near the water table. It provided an exit for the cave where the visitor would have to do very little retracing of steps. Additionally, Will is the first person known to have experienced the optical illusion known as the Statue of Martha Washington. As he was exiting the cave he saw the spectral silhouette of a woman appear down the passage. Upon further examination it was merely the reflection of light from an approaching tour casting light upon the bends of the cave avenue. On occasion the Statue of Martha Washington can be seen on certain tours of the Historic section.
Some have given Will Garvin credit for the discovery of Colossal Caverns. This cave was operated by the L&N Railroad and opened to the public. In 1972 this system was found to connect to the Mammoth Cave system. Today Colossal Caverns is one of hundreds of caves protected within Mammoth Cave National Park.
Will passed away in the early 1900's. His wife Hannah ultimately filed for and received a veteran's widow pension in 1906.
Third generation Mammoth Cave guide Matt Bransford.
Matt Bransford was the grandson of the slave guide Mat Bransford of the Stephen Bishop era. Matt filled a certain niche that other guides had never done before. He owned and operated a hotel out of his own home. Despite the ending of the civil war blacks were still not welcome in many establishments. Among guides, segregation was nearly non-existent. However, outside of Mammoth Cave black visitors were often the victims of such a practice. In fact operators of the Mammoth Cave Hotel were all too aware of visitors' expectations when it came to sharing social settings with African Americans. Blacks were not allowed to be on the same tours with whites much less stay in the same hotel. Matt traveled to larger cities to appeal to the African American community to visit the world famous Mammoth Cave. Matt led Special tours so African Americans could experience the renowned Mammoth Cave. Matt and his wife, Zemmie, provided lodging and meals for black visitors at their home called the Bransford Resort. It was the first time in Mammoth Cave history the African American community could experience the same comforts and fascination of the cave white visitors had experienced for over a century.
Today Matt and his wife Zemmie rest in a cemetery located in Glasgow, Kentucky. Their headstone no doubt represents their affection for each other. It is a simple stone in the shape of two hearts bonded together.
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KU AD Jeff Long expects hiring process for Hudy replacement to move quickly
By Matt Tait
Photo by Nick Krug
Kansas head coach Bill Self watches as the players rapidly shuffle across the court during Boot Camp in the practice gym on Friday, Sept. 23, 2016 just after 6 a.m.
The process to replace two longtime Kansas Athletics sports performance employees is underway and KU Athletic Director Jeff Long hopes to have at least one hire made in the next two weeks.
Former Kansas basketball strength coach Andrea Hudy and former KU football trainer Murphy Grant, who served recently as KU's Associate Athletic Director for sports medicine, both started new jobs this week at Texas and Wake Forest, respectively.
Their departures left the Kansas athletic department with vacancies in key positions and also opened the door for the first significant hirings under the new Kansas Team Health model.
First launched in May, the Kansas Team Health partnership between KU, LMH Health and The University of Kansas Health System employees roughly 40 former members of the KU athletic department in the area of sports performance who now report to medical professionals.
Hiring within the new model introduces a few new steps, but Long said the process of finding candidates has not changed.
"Coach Self is identifying prospects, Kansas Athletics is identifying prospects and then we'll do as we always do, vet candidates, and then we'll have a recommendation," Long told the Journal-World on Wednesday. "We'll recommend that they hire this person and they'll hire this person."
Long classified the communication between KU and Kansas Team Health as a "collaborative conversation" and said KTH would play a supporting role in the hirings, checking resumes and backgrounds of potential candidates as names surface.
Asked if he thought he could have done more to retain Hudy, Long said, "It wasn't that kind of a situation. She was letting us know she was accepting the position (at Texas)."
Long said KU basketball coach Bill Self has taken the lead role in the search to replace Hudy.
"We are getting lots of people interested in the position," he said. "They're calling me, they're calling Coach Self, they're calling the other strength and conditioning coaches on our staff. So, as you would expect, there is lots of interest in this position already, and that's from college, that's from NBA, that's from many different areas. This is a coveted job. To work with Bill Self and to work with one of the top one, two, three basketball programs in the country; it's a prime job."
While Long, Self and others are fielding calls from interested parties, Kansas Team Health is fulfilling its role simultaneously, checking credentials, training history and references to expedite the process.
"It's happening as we build the pool," Long said of the vetting done by Kansas Team Health. "It is really a fluid process."
Long also said current KU strength and conditioning staff members would play a role in finding a replacement for Hudy when candidates were brought in for on-campus interviews.
"Because it's the University of Kansas and Kansas Athletics, we'll have a quality pool of people that want to be part of this," Long said. "It is the model of the future and people are going to want to know, 'How does Kansas do it?'"
Given the relatively new nature of the Kansas Team Health model, it's possible that the uncertainty about its structure could prove to be an obstacle in KU's search.
"It absolutely could," Long said. "You fear the unknown, right? But I think those that are really students of their profession, they won't have those questions. I think they see this coming and, for many, I think it'll be, 'Hey, this is a great opportunity to get in this new model.'"
Employees of Kansas Team Health are paid by Kansas Team Health, which functions as a third-party organization that provides a service to KU for a fee.
Long said contracts within the model are rare but do exist and were addressed on a case by case basis.
"Obviously, we want to move quickly, just because we're beginning the academic year, so it won't be a long, drawn out process," Long said before offering a reaction to the recent departures which came roughly three weeks apart.
"Things change," he said. "People get opportunities and in the big picture, in this profession, you expect people to move. I wish we still had Coach Hudy, I wish we had Murphy because they're valuable team members. Nobody should paint this as a picture of us not wanting either of them here."
When reached this week by the Journal-World, Hudy, who started her new job with the Longhorns on Monday, referred back to her initial statement about her departure.
"I have had the most amazing experience during my time as a Jayhawk," she said in a statement last week. "And (I) will always be grateful for the people I had the opportunity to work alongside."
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Brett McCabe 1 year, 5 months ago
Good idea, bad idea. It doesn't matter. This isn't football, we aren't trying to bulk the team up. No amount of work really changes the vertical leap, or the lateral quickness or the overall speed. Those are genetically provided. Kind of like Dok's perpetual state of being out of shape - funny how the Hudyphytes don't mention that too much.
Just another day in the overly dramatic basketball program's refusal to run cleanly and efficiently.
Glen Miller 1 year, 4 months ago
You can't be that brain dead, but judging by many of your comments in the past........
Len Shaffer 1 year, 4 months ago
Glen, that's an insult to people who are brain dead ...
Steve Zimmerman 1 year, 4 months ago
No amount of work really changes the vertical leap, or the lateral quickness or the overall speed. Those are genetically provided. True, only after all training efforts have been exhausted. We need strength & conditioning coach like Hudy, but at the same time, we need coach that can exploit kids' fast-twitch muscle (thanks Shannon for educating me). Coach who can work with the kids early on (freshmen) to shape our team as bouncy team. Coach who can make our kids tapping on the floor the whole game. Big guys like Dok, have tendency to have sticky feet. But with proper training, diet, he can improve his vertical leap.
Eric TheCapn 1 year, 4 months ago
Some 6'0" dudes can dunk; some can't even get close. That's mostly NOT about genetics but rather work: i.e. strength and conditioning. Speed is also mostly the result of work. You could be born to two Olympic but weigh 300 pounds and/or never run... you won't be fast. And we DO need to bulk up the team every year. String-bean freshman get bigger and eventually go from getting bossed around to being the bosses in a physical game.
Shannon Gustafson 1 year, 4 months ago
While the generalities are true, you're giving too much credit to the work side of the equation. For example, while the 300 lb child of Olympians will not be fast by world class standards, he will be much faster than the average 300lb man. This is a fast twitch/slow twitch genetic "gift" that no amount of training or "work" can overcome. If you're a slow twitch guy, you can be the hardest working person on the planet but you'll still only be as good as a fast twitch person who doesn't work all that hard at all. It's the same reason my couch potato 37 year old body still has a vertical that would put me in the 70th percentile of kids I played basketball with in high school (who were all training MUCH harder than I am now since I'm not training at all). It's also the reason Dedric Lawson after training as an elite athlete his entire life still doesn't have a vertical higher than me (and again, I'm 37 and a couch potato compared to him).
Training (aka "work") can take you from a crap to decent athlete, or from ok to good, but it will never take you from crap to elite unless you're obese at the starting point (which means you're only crap because of your weight, not your genetics).
Trolls gonna troll.
Another large part of the job is to prevent injuries, particularly injuries like pulled/strained muscles, sprained ankles, and even to some extent ligament issues that can be minimized by proper training. Obviously there isn't much you can do for an injury like Dok's wrists.
Hudy can be replaced and it's possible we'll never see a difference. It's also possible we'll see a difference, or some of the players will have a hard time buying in to a new way of training. Regardless, it's a big loss and the hiring of her replacement is not a trivial matter. It's similar to when Roy left. We lost one of the best in the profession and we happened to nail it and hire another great one. It's just as easy (or actually easier) to replace a legend with a turd and next thing you know you're Indiana after Knight left or UCLA after Wooden left or UNC after Dean left (before they got Roy) or Kentucky after Pitino left (before they got Cal), etc.
Bill Pitcher 1 year, 5 months ago
Might want to think about Kansas Team Administration, i.e., outsourcing the AD administration to, I don't know, Apple.
Ray Winger 1 year, 4 months ago
Good Idea, more beurocracy, less accountability. less authority.
Dirk Medema 1 year, 5 months ago
There's the ray of sunshine.
No one improves.
Now that's gotta be funny.
Robert Brock 1 year, 4 months ago
The S&C coach is important. For example, the Morris dudes showed up in lousy shape - they couldn't dunk - and improved their strength, flexibility, and ability to run exponentially. The state of Kansas may be screwing up things rather than helping. Wouldn't be the first time.
Jeff Coffman 1 year, 4 months ago
Fixing Long's quote from: This is a coveted job. To work with Bill Self and to work with one of the top one, two, three basketball programs in the country; it's a prime job
This is a coveted job. To work with Bill Self and to work with the top basketball program in the country; it's a prime job.
I'm sure there was just added filler on accident.
Brian Babcock 1 year, 4 months ago
Thank you Matt for explaining how this all works. Interesting.
Suzi Marshall 1 year, 4 months ago
Would Reed be seriously considered for this job or would he be considered too inexperienced? Reed could be hired for KU Basketball and Football could hire a big time Athletic Trainer for both Football and to over see Reed, if the inexperience thing is a problem.
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Charles Parker, Jr.—called Charlie Parker or, simply, "Bird"— was a jazz alto saxophonist whose bebop virtuosity and extraordinary improvisatorial imagination made him a legend. As a performer, composer, and bandleader, Parker was the single most important exponent of the bebop style of the 1940s and 1950s. If his career was legendary for its genius, his fate as a doomed heroin addict was also an icon of the world of jazz. He is widely regarded as the greatest jazz instrumentalist of all time.


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LeadersDec 18th 2021 edition
Asset prices
What doesn't kill the bull market only makes it stranger
IN THE "Society of the Spectacle", published in the 1960s, Guy Debord, a leading theorist in a group of provocateurs known as the Situationists, depicts a culture in thrall to mass media where appearance is more important than fact and representation is preferred to reality. It is an unsettling book and not one that finance types would normally reach for. But after a strange year, the idea of the markets as spectacle has an appealing logic. A Debordian might say that their primary role is no longer capital allocation, or even enrichment, but entertainment. How else to make sense of stock prices driven haywire by social-media mobs or celebrities selling shares in shell companies?
A reckoning feels due. And as 2021 draws to a close, markets seem nervy. Speculative assets, such as bitcoin, are down from their peaks. Even habitual bulls agree that 2022 will be difficult. On December 15th the Federal Reserve talked tough on inflation and signalled that it would end its asset purchases by mid-March and then start raising rates.
Yet there is an even more troubling possibility: that investors conquer their nerves and bid prices of stocks still higher. America's stockmarket has proved surprisingly resilient. The economy has had a banner year, fuelled by a $1.9trn fiscal-stimulus package and an indulgent Fed. The S&P index of leading companies rose by 25% in the year to December 15th. It is around 40% higher than it was before the pandemic took hold in February 2020—and few thought then that stock prices were unduly low.
The bull market has kept going in spite of some big challenges. China's tech backlash and property-market troubles seem only to have reinforced the desire to own American shares. And although inflation in America is at its highest for decades, that has not hurt the profits of big listed firms. Indeed, bumper earnings have helped lift share prices in 2021.
Take a longer view, though, and shares look terrifyingly expensive. A valuation measure popularised by Robert Shiller of Yale University puts the United States stockmarket on almost 40 times its earnings adjusted for the business cycle. Crypto-currencies have moved from the investment fringes to the mainstream. America has seen a rush of initial public offerings, often a signal that a bull market is coming to an end. So is the growing presence of retail investors. New smartphone apps and low-cost exchange-traded funds and brokerages that cater to small investors have opened up access to financial markets—including to derivatives, which small investors use in huge numbers to gamble on rising stocks.
Perhaps investors are sobering up. Already the blank-cheque-company craze has ebbed, with less-frothy prices and a slower pace of launches. Speculative shares have taken a beating, too: witness the 40% fall in the value of ARK's flagship exchange-traded fund, which invests in fledgling technology companies.
And yet, despite all this, it is easy to imagine the bull market powering through 2022 with renewed vigour. One reason is that risk-free interest rates remain near all-time lows. The yield on a ten-year inflation-protected Treasury bond is around -1%, roughly where it started 2021. The negative real returns on bonds and cash help push investors into riskier assets, such as shares and private-market vehicles, including buy-out funds, direct lending and venture capital. Perhaps the Fed will raise interest rates dramatically in the coming years. But nothing like that is priced into bond markets.
A second prop for bulls is the buy-the-dip reflex that has become wired into markets. Experience has taught investors to see a fall in prices as a chance to buy more assets at a better price. In February-March 2020 the S&P 500 fell by a third in a matter of weeks; it then suddenly revived and kept going up. Swift action by the Fed helped keep finance flowing to companies at the pandemic's onset. But in acting this way, it gave extra credence to the idea that it would always put a floor under asset prices.
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Big tests lie ahead. It is easy to forget the sell-offs in 1998-99 as the dotcom bubble inflated. Likewise the coming months may witness market declines that seem to signal disaster, only for a revival to boost prices to even more worrying levels. The market's performance has its own logic. "Real life is materially invaded by the contemplation of the spectacle and ends up absorbing it and aligning itself with it," wrote Debord. Well, quite. However strange things look now, they could get stranger. ■
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline "Situation normal: all bid up"
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Dr. Edward Mamary Leads Photovoice Project
Dr. Edward Mamary, a Health Science and Recreation professor, was recently a Principal Investigator on a project entitled "Living in an Unfinished America: Shared Experiences of Discrimination and Resilience by Arab, Muslim & Sikh Americans." Spurred by a series of anti-Arab and anti -Muslim advertisements placed on San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency vehicles (and upheld in other jurisdictions as legal under the First Amendment), the project was sponsored by the City and County of San Francisco Human Rights Commission, with support from the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency and the San Francisco Department of Public Health.
The project used a participatory action research methodology called "Photovoice," to explore the lived experience of those coping with Islamophobia and anti-Arab prejudice. The Arab American, Muslim, and Sikh participants came from a wide range of backgrounds in terms of age, race/ethnicity, religion, and language. Using photography and narrative, participants shared their experiences with prejudice and discrimination. They also revealed how they met these challenges with resilience, cultural pride, and self-determination.
Defending My Son
A Palestinian American woman used Photovoice to share her experience with prejudice and discrimination with a picture of her son.
This is my son. His name was Osama. I chose a picture of his school to show with his picture. After 9/11, many people at his school (students, teachers, and staff) tormented him. One teacher in particular continually called him Osama Bin Laden. He had nothing to do with his name and we had nothing to do with what happened on 9/11. They made it like it was his fault. He was 20 years old when he got shot. They said it was mistaken identity, but he got shot because he's a Middle Easterner, because he had Arabic writing on his car. And they tried to make it seem like he just was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Every time I pass that school, I wish I could see if someone needs help or is being discriminated against. I would want them to know that nothing is wrong with them. I joined this project because of my son. He is not alive to defend himself. I raised my kids to defend themselves. I was raised to stand up for what I believe in and for my religion—how to behave, how to act, how to respect, how to love.
—Fayza, Palestinian American Muslim woman
Tying Turbans
A Sikh American man used photovoice to describe how he overcame discrimination with the help of his parents and wearing his turban proudly.
Here is an older Sikh man tying a turban on one of my good friends. This captures a very special moment from our culture, when a Sikh dad or father-like figure ties a turban on his son or daughter. It is like slowly tying valuable cultural ideals into each and every fold of the fabric. It helps the younger generation understand who they are and helps them define their identity. This photo reminded me of the time my dad tied a turban on me as a teen. I didn't like it, especially because I got called racist slurs at school. After that experience, I went on to eighth grade and cut my hair. I didn't feel good about myself. My parents would tell me stories of how the Sikh Gurus sacrificed their whole families so Sikhs can wear their turbans like crowns and practice their faith proudly and fearlessly. In eleventh grade, I started growing my hair again and started tying a turban. I feel connected to my roots now and every layer of my turban helps me stand tall in a crowd, proud to be a Sikh.
—Harkanwar, Sikh American man
The photos and narratives were exhibited at public events at the San Francisco City Hall Rotunda in April 2015, and at the Women's Building in August 2015, providing an opportunity for dialogue with policy members, educators, health care providers, and the community at large.
Poster for the exhibition of Photovoice held on August 12, 2015 in San Francisco, California.
Community partners on the project included the Asian Law Caucus, the Council on American Islamic Relations, the Arab Cultural and Community Center, the Islamic Network Group, the Sikh Coalition, the San Francisco Department of Public Health, and the San Francisco District Attorney's Office. A second Photovoice project on anti-semitism is underway, with the first exhibit to debut in early spring. Along with Dr. Lynne Andonian, an Occupational Therapy associate professor, Dr. Mamary will be presenting a workshop session on Photovoice at the College of Applied Sciences and Arts' Center for Applied Research on Human Services (CARHS) Brown Bag event in spring 2016.
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Accepting Applications for Faculty Led Programs Summer 2016
Get culture, get credit! The College of Applied Sciences and Arts' Nutrition, Food Science and Packaging (NuFS) department are offering three different Faculty Led Programs (FLP) for summer 2016. Applications are being accepted now. This is a great opportunity for students to experience Hong Kong, Taiwan, or Puerto Rico all while earning 3-6 San José State University (SJSU) credits.
FLPs are short-term summer opportunities for students to travel abroad in order to study or participate in a service learning experience. SJSU faculty members organize this program to different parts of the world every summer. Scholarship opportunities are available throughout the year.
FLP to Hong Kong, June 12 – 25, 2016 offers students 6 GE units:
NuFS 144i – Food Culture – Consuming Passions
NuFS 135i – Health Issues in a Multicultural Society
Example of activities:
Food exploration and food tasting adventures
Walking tours of Hong Kong's diverse neighborhoods; learn about its colonial history and modern-day Chinese influence
Explore Hong Kong's mega shopping culture
Learn about & experience traditional Chinese medicine
Join a host family for a home-cooked meal
Kasuen Mauldin, NuFS professor, and Van Ta, Health Science and Recreation associate professor, will co-lead the Hong Kong trip. For more information about Mauldin, Ta and the Hong Kong program visit FLP Hong Kong.
FLP to Taiwan, June 13 – 23, 2016 offers students 3 GE units:
NuFS 115i – Issues in Food Toxicology
Visit agricultural institute
Learn tea production and tea culture
Visit food processing factories in Taiwan
Experiencing Taiwanese culture
Irene Chou, NuFS profressor, will lead the Taiwan trip. For more information about Chou and the Taiwan program visit FLP Taiwan.
FLP to Puerto Rico, June 14 – 28, offers 6 GE units:
NuFS 144i – Food and Culture: Consuming Passions
NuFS 139i – Hunger and Environmental Nutrition
Examples of activities:
El Yunque National Rainforest
Arecibo National Observatory
Bioluminescent Bay experience
Local open air markets
Organic coffee plantation tour
Artisanal cheese making
Deepa Singamsetti, NuFS lecturer, will lead the Puerto Rico trip. For more information about Singamesetti and the Puerto Rico program visit FLP Puerto Rico.
Find out what other FLP programs are offered by the College of Applied Sciences and Arts and apply today!
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5th Annual CHAMP Senior Wellness Fair
CHAMP Senior Wellness Fair 2015
The Timpany Center hosted the annual Senior Wellness Fair on October 24, 2015. The fair brought in over 500 attendees, with many students from San José State University's (SJSU) College of Applied Sciences and Arts (CASA) volunteering to interact with the population.
The Senior Wellness Fair is a partnership between SJSU's Center for Healthy Aging in Multicultural Populations (CHAMP), the Santa Clara County Department of Aging and Adult Services and the Timpany Center, now in its fifth year. CHAMP is an interdisciplinary effort that includes faculty from the School of Social Work, The Valley Foundation School of Nursing, Nutrition and Food Science, Kinesiology, Occupational Therapy as well as the departments of Psychology and Communicative Disorders and Sciences.
Sadhna Diwan, School of Social Work professor and director of CHAMP, said the fair offers SJSU students an opportunity to practice their communication skills, learn how to engage seniors in screenings and health education, and learn about the role of multiple disciplines and the array of community services available to promote wellness and healthy aging.
Students from the School of Social Work interacted with seniors using a poster board displaying facial expressions to identify mood change and depression. The students handed out community resource sheets and gave recommendations on how to seek help if some seniors are experiencing a low mood change.
Social Work graduate students volunteer at the Senior Wellness Fair on Oct. 24, 2015.
Naomi Gomez, a social work graduate student, said she and her fellow students were there to educate seniors on mood changes that lead into depression in the aging population. "We are offering seniors today different support systems and referrals to help lift their moods or if they know of someone they can pass this useful information to," said Gomez.
Don Tran, a public health graduate student, greeted seniors with his fellow students and provided body mass index screenings and blood pressure testing. Tran is working with the Pathways to American Indian and Alaska Native (PAAW) to introduce a diabetes prevention program. Tran said that the fair provides an opportunity to seek out potential participants to take part in the program that will provide participants with gym memberships, walking shoes, healthy meals and more.
"We are focused on improving health for American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander and all indigenous heritage population of Santa Clara County," Tran said while handing out information packets to participants during the fair.
The Nutrition, Food Science and Packaging (NuFS) students provided information on food insecurities and healthy hydration methods. Kristian Ghazal, NuFS graduate student, said she volunteered to encourage seniors to buy local foods and where they can use CalFresh EBT cards.
Ghazal presented each visitor with an informational poster that highlighted healthy food options during each season of the year and reasons why the community should buy foods from local farmers. "Everyone attending the fair today should know where and how to get fresh foods from local farmers," said Ghazal as she talked about the importance of seniors needing to maintain a healthy diet and supporting local farmers.
Kristian Ghazal, student volunteer, holds informational poster about local farmers and healthy seasonal foods.
Susan Ross, Health Science and Recreation lecturer, and undergraduate students offered leisure interest screenings. Lovegifty Dudero, HSR undergraduate student, said she used the screening to talk with seniors about what they like to do on their free time. The results of the assessment identifies strengths and weaknesses of leisure activities such as physical, outdoor, mechanical, artistic, service, social, cultural and reading activities.
"From the results we can provide different leisure activities to help improve their weaknesses," Dudero said, after finishing an assessment.
Lovegifty Dudero, student volunteer, administering a leisure screening with Senior Wellness Fair participant.
"Learning is one of the most life giving things a person can do," said Ross, as she explained the goal of the student volunteers to teach people how to gain more novelty using the leisure screening. Other activities from NuFS included aging myths and aroma therapy.
An additional amount of students from SJSU volunteered their time to assist with various tasks at the fair. Desiree Barton, Daniela Zea and Chantelle Patel, School of Journalism and Mass Communications (JMC) undergraduate students, volunteered to take pictures of the event and interview seniors who attend.
"One of the most resourceful things for them is that everything is in one place and the free flu shots," said Patel, after interviewing senior participants.
The JMC students plan to use the pictures and video interviews to create a video for CHAMP to spread awareness of the Senior Wellness Fair.
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The School of Journalism and Mass Communications Present the William Randolph Hearst Award to Sara Sidner
Sara Sidner, CNN National and International Correspondent, was honored by the faculty and students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications (JMC) with the prestigious William Randolph Hearst Award for excellence in professional journalism on October 13, 2015.
William Randolph Hearst Award Medal.
Sara Sidner Sidner was describing the scene in and around Moammar Gadhafi's seized compound.
Sara Sidner reporting live on television.
As a national and global news reporter, Sidner has reported on a wide range of subjects from international terrorism, race riots and protests in America, to business moves, and social and cultural issues making headlines. She has experienced first-hand the dangers journalists face in war torn regions including Libya, Egypt, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. In the Middle East, Sidner was part of the CNN team that won the top broadcast news honor, the Peabody Award, for CNN's coverage of the Arab Spring. She's also covered major breaking news in Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Taiwan.
Sara Sidner reporting live about Syria.
Sara Sidner, CNN Correspondent.
Now based in Los Angeles, California for CNN Sidner just returned from covering the tragic community college shooting incident in Oregon this fall. She also led and continues to follow up on the network's coverage in Ferguson, Missouri where protests continued for months after an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a white police officer. While reporting on live television during the weeks of rioting, Sidner was pelted in the head by a rock thrown by a protester angry about national media coverage. At one time, Sidner was also a local reporter and news anchor for KTVU Channel 2 in the Bay Area.
Sara Sidner speaks with JMC students.
JMC round table discussion with Sara Sidner.
JMC faculty invited Sidner to speak to as many students and classes as possible while on campus, and discuss in candid terms the real world challenges journalists face every day around the nation and across the world. She started her day by joining a small group of JMC students in the Dwight Bentel Hall television studio for a round table discussion about issues that interested them. She later visited three large lecture classes with a focus on media and society, law and ethics in media, and diversity and life experiences reported in the media. Students were amazed by Sidner's warm personality, free flowing candor and passion for journalism.
Hearst Award Luncheon for Sara Sidner at Flames Eatery in San José, California.
JMC faculty takes a group photo with Sara Sidner during the Hearst Award Luncheon at Flames Eatery in San José, California.
JMC faculty hosted the annual Hearst Award Foundation luncheon at Flames Restaurant. Campus officials and many of Sidner's local media friends and former co-workers were invited to join the celebration. Among the guests in attendance were Dr. Mary Schutten, Dean, College of Applied Sciences and Arts (CASA); Dr. Pamela Richardson, Associate Dean, CASA; Sonia Wright, CASA Development Director; Dr. Dennis Wilcox, former JMC School Director; Sal Pizarro, JMC School graduate. Columnist for the San Jose Mercury News included Rita Williams, Retired Bay Area KTVU 2 Reporter; Lloyd La Cuesta, JMC School graduate and Retired KTVU 2 South Bay Bureau Chief; Rigo Chacon, Retired ABC 7 South Bay Bureau Chief; Kiet Do and Devin Fehely, KPIX 5 Reporters; Egan Schulz, JMC School graduate and Silicon Valley media executive; Keith Sanders, SJSU Video Producer/Hearst Event Video Production.
JMC students having a question and answer discussion about Sara Sidner's career.
Sara Sidner leading a discussion with JMC students about journalism.
Before the later afternoon Hearst Award ceremony, Sara Sider led some heartfelt discussions with journalism students in the convergence newsroom in Dwight Bentel Hall. Later she would tell JMC School Director, Professor Bob Rucker that the students in all the classes did their research very well, learned as much as they could about her career in advance, and asked very impressive questions.
Sara Sidner and the William Randolph Hearst Award.
Sara Sidner giving speech during the award ceremony.
Attendees listening to Sara Sidner's presentation during the award ceremony.
This very special day concluded with the William Randolph Hearst Award ceremony at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. Nearly 150 people attended the 90 minute presentation that included a powerful address by Sidner. At one point the guest of honor welled up with tears and paused as she was telling how painful it can be telling the personal stories of people devastated by wars, natural disasters and political corruption.
Sara Sidner gathers with guests after the award ceremony.
Sidner and her husband Tim stayed late to shake hands and thank all who came to hear her speak at San José State University. She promised to come back, and plans to stay in touch with the JMC School. She invited students looking for a mentor about careers in journalism to contact her.
Photos included are from CNN, Google, JMC School student Randy Vazquez, and JMC School director, Bob Rucker.
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San José State University Nursing Student Unveils Peace Pole
Peace Pole monument created by nursing student, Navpreet Kaur.
San José State University (SJSU) nursing student, Navpreet Kaur, unveiled a Peace Pole on campus between Clark Hall and Tower Hall during the first week of Legacy Month on October 12, 2015. This is only one of three that have been placed on a California State University campus.
The Peace Pole has "May Peace Prevail On Earth" written in 12 different languages – English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Japanese, Hindi, French, Portuguese, Tagalog, and Persian. Kaur wanted to reflect the top twelve languages spoken in the Santa Clara County.
Navpreet Kaur (left), Dr. Kathy Abriam-Yago, Director of the School of Nursing (middle), and LooLoo Amante, 2015-16 Associated Students President (right), unveiling the Peace Pole.
"It has all these languages on a single platform that have their individual identity, background, or a story. Yet, what brings them together is the fact that they have the same meaning," said Kaur.
Kaur proposed the idea to place the Peace Pole on SJSU's campus to promote inclusiveness on campus. With the help of Associated Students to fund the project and support from The Valley Foundation School of Nursing, the monument came to life. Kaur was inspired by San José City College's Peace Pole and said she wanted to represent the diversity of SJSU.
"I really wanted to do something for our community that would help our (SJSU) students feel more connected to one another on a deeper level."
Navpreet Kaur takes photograph with Nursing faculty members.
The SJSU community now has a place that can demonstrate the effort towards being more accepting of others no matter the differences. "The Peace Pole is a very small step of many to come in promoting inclusiveness," said Kaur while explaining how everyone has what it takes to make a positive difference on campus.
The Peace Pole will carry Kaur's legacy into the future of SJSU. It will serve as a reminder to the SJSU community to stand united in peace, social justice and diversity.
The Valley Foundation School of Nursing faculty and students with the Peace Pole .
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During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.
Rating: 7.2/10 (116,201 voted)
Stars: Elle Fanning, Amanda Michalka, Kyle Chandler
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth - something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
Joel Courtney - Joe Lamb
Jessica Tuck - Mrs. Kaznyk
Joel McKinnon Miller - Mr. Kaznyk
Ryan Lee - Cary
Zach Mills - Preston
Riley Griffiths - Charles Kaznyk
Gabriel Basso - Martin
Kyle Chandler - Jackson Lamb
Ron Eldard - Louis Dainard
Amanda Michalka - Jen Kaznyk (as AJ Michalka)
Andrew Miller - Kaznyk Twin #1
Jakob Miller - Kaznyk Twin #2
Jade Griffiths - Benji Kaznyk
Britt Flatmo - Peg Kaznyk
Elle Fanning - Alice Dainard
Taglines: It Arrives
Official Website: Official site [France] | Official site [South Korea] |
Release Date: 10 June 2011
Filming Locations: DeStefano's, Follansbee, West Virginia, USA
Opening Weekend: $35,451,168 (USA) (12 June 2011) (3379 Screens)
Gross: $259,713,319 (Worldwide) (29 September 2011)
The famous bicycle from Steven Spielberg's movie E.T. can be seen as a part of metal junk that is being attached to the water tower in one of the final scenes.
Anachronisms: The version of Rock'Em Sock'Em Robots shown in Joe's bedroom is a much later box that was available when the toy was reissued after 2000, and was not available in 1979.
Mrs. Kaznyk: I'm so worried for that boy.
Mr. Kaznyk: Joe's gonna be okay.
Mrs. Kaznyk: She was everything to him.
Mr. Kaznyk: Jack's gonna step up. He's a good man.
Mrs. Kaznyk: But he's never had to be a father before. I don't think he understands Joe.Guys, I have never had a teacher aim a gun at me!
Elements cobbled together from other Spielberg films ***spoilers
Super 8, derivative and disappointing at its best, can be summarized using elements from the other sci-fi/thrillers that Spielberg either directed, produced, or exec-produced.
Some annoying kids find a map (Goonies) – including a fat kid who likes to eat (Goonies) – and they come up against the military which is trying to track down an alien on the loose (E.T.).
The creature has created issues for the townsfolk who express concern at a meeting with the sheriff (Jaws) and they eventually have to evacuate because of a made-up disaster (Close Encounters).
The alien, who is a really a spider (Arachnaphobia) that has been collecting items so that he can get home (E.T.), has the ability to make a psychic connection with humans (Close Encounters). One of the kids has a seemingly useless obsession that winds up helping to save the day in a climactic sequence (fireworks here and inventions in the Goonies) however the creature is much too smart to fall for such a trick (Jaws - "he's either very smart or very stupid"). An old guy, who is an expert on this creature (Jaws) winds up dying while the army shoots through the town and tanks roll (War of the Worlds).
Then the characters put the story together in one long expositional scene and we are not really sure how they figured it all out (Minority Report). It seems the monster is really a misunderstood good guy (Goonies) who makes a connection with our hero (ET, Close Encounters) and then flies home (E.T), but not before a lot of missing people are returned (Close Encounters) and lots of appliances fly around (Poltergeist).


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Q: How do I describe the analytic completion to the algebraic closure of $\mathbb{F}_2$? Is it possible?
I'm using the algebra generated by the set $\{0, 1^r\}$ for all fractions $r$ as my representation of the algebraic closure to $\mathbb{F}_2$.  I can't seem to find a metric on it.
What I've tried:
If I define $x^0 = 0$ (I know, odd, but not impossible), then I can find a "Newton's Method" on the polynomials over the algebraic closure of $\mathbb{F}_2$.  With this choice, NM converges for many polynomials, such as $x^2 + x + 1$.  However, I still don't have a general theory of convergence, and my choice $x^0 = 0$ seems like it should be unnecessary.

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01 Day excursion in Al Alamein including visits as mentioned in the program and including entrance fees and all taxes.
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