Apple blossoms were blooming in Lunenburg last Thursday, which means they're past their prime in the Annapolis Valley already. The Apple Blossom Festival will apparently be blossom-less. Usually the organizers hit the blossoms right on with their timing, but this year it is generally agreed that spring is 2 to 3 weeks ahead of schedule.
Not that we're complaining … this is my favourite time of year, when the leaves burst forth. If it's part of a long-term trend, however, it could be very disruptive to the natural balance of blooming and birthing, migration and munching, which governs the ongoing survival of many animals and plants.
Spring is early across Canada, not just in Nova Scotia, or so I hear. Is spring early where you live? Leave a comment below.


Macpaw, the creators of Clean My Mac 3, Gemini 2, and the architects of [Setapp have created an iOS only app to deal with pruning your Photos library, Gemini Photos.
Photos works in several ways. Foremost, Gemini Photos focuses on quality snaps by suggesting to you what it believes to be the best photos.
It will help you sort your library and remove your unwanted photos with ease.
First, the app scans your library and sorts your photos into three groups: Similar, Clutter, and Other. Similar and Other are broken down into four subgroups: Similar, Screenshots, Notes, and Blurred.
The simplest method of dealing with a select photo, is to swipe up if you want to keep it, swipe down if you want to toss it. Or you can click the box on the photo's lower right, designating it for the bin.
If you're feeling really draconian and want to regain space on your iOS device's hard drive, you can always delete your photo library with a single click.
If your sadistic, you can manually go through your entire library, click the boxes on the photos you'd like to jettison, and simply hit delete.
The function of Gemini Photos is to aid you in choosing which photos to keep by making suggestions. Say that you have a bunch of similar photos, it will suggest what it believes to be the best of the lot. If you agree, it has already marked that photo for saving and the rest for deletion at the click of a button.
If you don't agree with the app's selection, you can choose the one you wish to keep by tapping the box to undelete the photo you fancy and tapping the box of the one that you prefer deleted.
The only problem that I did find with the app's choices was regarding blurred photos. It tended to see animal fur and clouds as blurry objects. But all I had to do is ignore its recommendations and leave them in place.
And that is the main beauty of how this app functions. It scans your library for offenders quickly but you still have the final say.
Monthly Subscription – $2.99 per month – gives you unlimited access to removing Similar Photos.
Annual Subscription – $11.99 per year – gives you unlimited access to removing Similar Photos.
One Time Purchase – $14.99 offers you unlimited access to removing Similar Photos.
I don't take a lot of snaps. Never events and such. I usually shoot things that I find interesting to look at. Things that tickle your eyes or tickle your brain. So, this made culling through my collection much easier.
If you have a multitude of photos and you want to keep your collection from growing out of control, then take a test drive.


A massage therapist can have many labels, including touch therapist, body specialist or massage therapist; but regardless of the label you prefer, you too want to be known by this very important term: professional.
If you are new in your career, you will no doubt see that the secret of a noteworthy career is the best sequence of valuable skills and equipment. You know you have the talents. But to build a loyal and consistent clientele and a perfect reputation it is necessary to have the best equipment. Your massage table in particular is your foundation in business: it's your office, your desk and your treatment area all brought together in one solution – so what you choose will make the difference. Here are the essential essential elements that every new masseur should invest.
* Have all the features you need for the types of assistance you could give. "Subscribing" to the detriment of the price will cost you even more in the long run: you will probably end up buying more tables or paying more to access it.
* Have the types of comfort features that will help your customers forget that they are also on a table! The best massage tables, even portable, make comfort a top priority in their composition.
* Ergonomic features that make your job as smooth and comfortable as possible. Keep in mind your height, skills and other factors when you select a table and enjoy a long and painless career.
* They are the safest on the market. The construction must be robust, robust, durable and thoroughly tested for customers of all shapes and sizes in a wide range of therapeutic settings. To ensure you get a safe product, buy only from manufacturers with a reputation for perfection in the industry.
Quality massage oils and creams: lubricants are an essential component of the equipment stock of all massagers. Be sure to maintain a selection of organic and hypoallergenic products for customers who are susceptible to certain ingredients or prefer more natural products.
Clean and comfortable towels: every massage should be a little corner of paradise; and nothing says luxury for customers like to enjoy fresh, comfortable and warm linen. Buy good quality towels and sheets that will last for more washes and do not forget to invest in a reliable heating cabinet.
The Little Extras: a CD player, fascinating and relaxing music, scented and odorless candles and other little extras add a final touch and will be greatly appreciated by your growing clientele.
Do not forget: success comes from combining your talent with the right supplies.


There are small problems homeowners have to deal with such as replacing appliances, but then there are enormous responsibilities like restoring damage to a home after a tragic fire or after the growth of mold.It should go without saying that ignoring the damage caused by fire, smoke and mold can be very dangerous, but just to make it crystal clear we're going to list a few reasons why you shouldn't drag your feet on restoring your home.
Any areas where a fire was put out using water will need to be cleaned as soon as possible to avoid mold growth which can begin in as little as 48 hours.
After a fire, it should be obvious that the overall structure of a home is in danger, but the smoke damage itself is also something to consider. Other than discoloration of household objects, smoke can get into your ducts and vents.
Removing affected material and eliminating moisture sources is the only way to recreate a healthy environment.
If putting out a fire wasn't the cause of mold, it's due to another source of moisture. It's important to know that mold grows quickly in dark, damp places such as basements, attics, and crawl spaces.


MGM Resorts International continues its partnership with Art Basel in Hong Kong, an art show running from March 29 to 31, through its multifaceted arts program MGM Resorts Art & Culture.
MGM Resorts Art & Culture will host the MGM Resorts Lounge in the Art Basel Collectors Lounge, in addition to presenting special events on-site at Art Basel in Hong Kong and at MGM COTAI in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. The events highlight MGM Resorts' engagement with art institutions around the world.
MGM Resorts Art & Culture continues its support of the Encounters sector of the Art Basel show in Hong Kong. Titled "Still We Rise," Encounters will consist of 12 institutional-scale installations, with eight works premiering at this year's show.
Additionally, MGM COTAI will host its second annual "Transforming Art with Technology" symposium on Sunday, March 24. The recently completed, large-scale Spectacle installation at MGM COTAI is the world's largest concentrated area of interconnected LED screens. It displays digital content from around the world and will be the basis of a discussion on innovation and art.
Royal Academy of Arts Artistic Director Tim Marlow will moderate a discussion on the complex role of technology in the artistic process and how it affects the future of digital media. Panelists include Michael Govan, CEO and Wallis Annenberg director at LACMA; Jeffrey Shaw, chair professor of media art at City University of Hong Kong; Bas van Beek, a multi-disciplinary contemporary artist from the Netherlands; and contemporary artist Yang Yongliang.
MGM Resorts Art & Culture will also celebrate its partnership with LACMA and UCCA at a private party on Thursday, March 28. Titled "The Endless Voyage of the Grand Nomad," the event will be hosted by Princess Alia Al-Senussi and Dino Sadhwani at The Mills, a revitalization project of formerly defunct cotton-spinning mills. Guests will embark on an exciting adventure through different realms in a maritime exploration.


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EP 111: Congressman Bruce Westerman (R-AR)
Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow - October 12, 2020
In Episode 111 of District of Conservation, Gabriella spoke to Congressman Bruce Westerman (R-AR) of Arkansas' 4th Congressional District. They chatted about the history of forest management in the US, how to manage wildfires, the congressman's legislative priorities, his love of duck hunting, why free market environmentalism is the future, and more.
Here's Westerman's Bio: U.S. Rep. Bruce Westerman is a Hot Springs native currently serving his third term as representative from the Fourth District of Arkansas, having first been elected in 2014. Westerman serves on the Committee on Natural Resources and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, where he is Ranking Member of the Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee. Westerman also serves on the Minority Whip Team under the leadership of House Minority Whip Steve Scalise.
Prior to serving in Congress, Westerman was elected to two terms in the Arkansas General Assembly, where he was the state's first Republican House Majority Leader since Reconstruction following the 2013 GOP takeover of the Arkansas House of Representatives.
An engineer and forester by trade, Westerman worked for 22 years at Mid-South Engineering in Hot Springs. He was named Engineer of the Year by the Arkansas Society of Professional Engineers in 2013.
A 1990 graduate of the University of Arkansas with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Westerman was a four-year walk-on member of the Razorback football team. He was awarded the Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2005 and the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2012. Westerman is also a graduate of Yale University, earning a Master of Forestry degree in 2001.
Westerman lives in Hot Springs with his wife, Sharon, and their four children. He enjoys hunting and fishing.
Follow the Congressman on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. Visit his Congressional website or check out his re-election website.
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Dell Announces Private Cloud Built on OpenStack
by Mark Hachman December 12, 2012 4 min read
DellOpenStackPrivate cloudpublic cloudvmware
Michael Dell gives his keynote at the Dell World conference in Austin, Texas.
Michael Dell, CEO of his eponymous company, used his keynote at this year's Dell World conference in Austin, Texas to unveil a technical preview of its private cloud.
Other announcements included a partnership with FireEye, over secure customer services, and improvements to support structure such as SupportAssist technology for enterprise platforms. On the consumer side of things, Dell revealed an 18-inch all-in-one Windows 8 PC with a pop-out display that transforms it into a portable workstation.
Dell didn't actually disclose when the company's private cloud, dubbed Dell Cloud Dedicated Service, would hit its general-release milestone. For those wishing to participate, however, Dell has invited interested parties to email OStechnicalpreview@dell.com for more information.
"We provide the backbone to some of the largest cloud service providers in the world, and we're more than happy to help you build out your own cloud environment for customers who want to do that themselves," Dell told the audience. "But we also have infrastructure and services for customers who want us to architect deploy and run it for them."
He added: "We can scale our your private cloud, we can do it quickly and easily, and we can link it to the Dell cloud, as an extension of your own environment. In this way you enjoy the best of both world, with a hybrid deployment: seamless, really secure, and fully compatible."
Dell's private cloud will be based on the open-source OpenStack, an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platform developed by Rackspace and NASA that launched in 2010. Dell released a statement supporting the open nature of OpenStack: "While Dell will continue to offer outstanding overall solutions for any type of cloud that customers want to run, the company believes the open and compatible nature of OpenStack allows customers to take advantage of hybrid capabilities to move workloads between private and public clouds.
Michael Dell did not disclose the reasoning behind the decision. Back in 2011, his company announced that VMware technology would provide the foundation for its first public cloud. VMware also sits behind the Dell Cloud Dedicated Service, which delivers managed private cloud IaaS.
Dell is not alone in delivering a private cloud, obviously. Rivals include Amazon and enterprise software giant Oracle, which also announced a private cloud in October. Dell will likely disclose more details about its private cloud plans as the Dell World conference rolls on.
A blurb shown just before Dell's entrance on stage demonstrated how Dell has evolved beyond a seller of PCs, with an increasing focus on software and services.
New announcements in those areas include Dell SecureWorks now managing the FireEye Malware Protection System (MPS) family of appliances, which protect against so-called "spear phishing" and other Web-based attacks.
Dell also announced new SupportAssist technology with proactive support for Dell PowerEdge servers, PowerVault storage arrays and PowerConnect switches. SupportAssist enables remote monitoring, automatic case creation and data collection, as well as proactive parts dispatch with customer consent.
On top of that, Dell has launched a new Storage Consulting Accelerators service, which includes performing an automated data collection process, business-needs assessment, and gap analysis. Dell ProSupport, which simplifies support with one contract, one support team and one point of accountability, is extending its global multivendor capabilities to cover Apple products.
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Mark Hachman
Mark Hachman is a freelance editor at Slashdot Media. Previously, he served as the West Coast news editor for PC Magazine/PCMag.com, where he covered components, new technology, and the larger Web 2.0 companies such as Facebook and Google. Before that, he worked for eWEEK, TechWeb, and ExtremeTech, which he helped launch.


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Measuring Interaction in Workplaces
Sailer K, Koutsolampros P, Austwick M, Varoudis T, Hudson-Smith A
London Heidelberg New York Dordrecht
Human Computer Interaction series
Dalton NS,Schnädelbach H,Wiberg M,Varoudis T
Architecture and interaction: Human Computer Interaction in space and place
Interaction, Workplace Environment, Space Syntax, Human computer interaction, Office building, Face-to-face, Visualisation
http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319300269
Full Text URL:
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1478287/
Kerstin Sailer
Bartlett School of Architecture
140 Hampstead Road
NW1 2BX
Interactions in the workplace have long been studied by the architectural research community, however, in the past, the majority of those contributions focused on single case studies. Drawing on a much larger empirical sample of 27 offices, this chapter aims at establishing a baseline of understanding how the physical structure of office buildings shapes human behaviours of interaction. This may form a foundation for the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community to investigate the impact of embedded computer technology on human behaviours inside buildings. Methods of data collection included an analysis of floor plans with Space Syntax techniques and direct observations of space usage patterns. Exploring this data, different patterns emerged: interactions appeared unevenly distributed in space; interaction rates as well as preferences for locations varied by industry; spatial configuration appeared to create affordances for interaction, since unplanned interactions outside of meeting rooms tended to cluster in more visually connected areas of the office; in addition, seven different micro-behaviours of interaction were identified, each of them driven by affordances in both the built environment and the presence of other people; last but not least, locations for interactions showed clear time-space routines. The chapter closes with interpretations of the results, reflecting on the problem of predictability and how these insights could be useful for evidence-based design, but also the HCI community. It also gives an outlook on future developments regarding the constant logging of human behaviours in offices with emerging technologies.
Prof Andy Hudson-Smith
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
Dr Kerstin Sailer
Dr Tasos Varoudis


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This month, I'm jumping around on topics a bit but that's because I have three very interesting articles I want to discuss.
I'm sure most runners have experienced it. On a day you don't run, your temper is a little shorter, maybe even a lot. I know I've experienced this.
Is there something behind this? Yes, research has already shown that. However, what is the connection?
In broad strokes: moods tend to be longer-lasting, they are less strongly associated with an immediate trigger, and there's nothing you can measure in the brain that reveals them. In contrast, emotions are shorter, are a response to a specific triggering event, and are linked with consistent and measurable patterns of brain activity.
As for what exercise does, it seems to improve your mood but not your emotion. So you might get upset when something happens whether you run or not but, if I understand this correctly, you'll be better able to get over it and keep a positive mood overall.
If you've been running for a while, then taken some time off before returning, you've most likely experienced what we often call muscle memory.
In short, it's easier to regain fitness than it was to gain it the first time. But why?
Well, Alex Hutchinson has some answers.
In short, when you work out, you structurally change your muscle cells. They produce more nuclei and more mitochondria. When you stop exercising, the mitochondria go away but the nuclei don't. And the nuclei contain the information on how to produce mitochondria. So your muscles can more readily produce mitochondria next time you begin exercising.
Remember, while this means that regaining fitness is easier than it was to gain fitness the first time around, it's even better to not lose it in the first place. Keep going consistently. That said, if you do take some time off, know that the fitness will be easier to get the second time than it was the first. And now we know a little bit of why that is the case.
Finally, it seems like I'm constantly ripping on sugary drinks. Well, in my opinion, they have earned my wrath but here I go again: sugary drinks are tied to a shorter life span.
They make it hard to manage your weight. They have numerous negative health effects, from diabetes to heart disease and cancer. They have no health benefits. Yet they are ubiquitous in modern society. While I don't think it's the end of the world to have an occasional sugary drink, it's hard to argue with the quote above that the optimal intake is zero.
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The 11-screen 54,997 square-foot "Ovation" cinema will feature a "dine-in" experience complete with a full bar, reserve luxury seating and wait staff that will give movie-goers table service at every seat as well as in the lobby.
Citizens of Lawrenceville can also look forward to an impressive 70-foot digital screen exclusive to Carmike Cinemas and kiosks in the lobby for easy ticket purchasing.
Pending permitting approvals from the county, construction is projected to begin late summer to early fall. Expect the new theater to open summer 2016.
Surrounding the theater in the shopping center will be a Jim 'N Nick's Bar-B-Q, Hobby Lobby, Gander Mtn. outdoors store and a Lazboy furniture store with room to spare for future developments not yet in the works.
"We're excited to bring our 'dine-in' concepts for the people of Gwinnett County and Lawrenceville to enjoy," said Tom Wilkinson, Director of Real Estate and Development at Carmike Cinemas.


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Media concealed agent's CIA capacity at US request
February 23, 2011 by intelNews Leave a comment
Raymond Davis
Several American news outlets withheld information about the CIA capacity of a US citizen who was arrested in Pakistan last month after killing two men. Raymond Allen Davis (note: this may not be his real name), who holds a United States diplomatic passport, was detained in Lahore on January 25, after using an unregistered Glock semi-automatic pistol to shoot dead two men, who he says tried to assault him. There has been intense speculation about Davis' professional capacity, with many observers suspecting he works in intelligence. His CIA role was confirmed earlier this week by British newspaper The Guardian, which cited officials in Pakistan and the US in revealing that Davis, 36, is "beyond a shadow of a doubt" an employee of the CIA. Shortly after that revelation, three US-based news outlets, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and the Associated Press, confirmed Davis' CIA credentials, saying that they had been aware of them for weeks. The Times and the Post both suggested that they decided to consciously suppress Davis' CIA role after the Obama administration told them that not doing so would endanger the CIA operative's life. The Associated Press said it knew about Davis's CIA capacity almost "immediately after the shootings", and that it planned to reveal it when "he was out of harm's way". But all three outlets said that the US government dropped its request for secrecy immediately after The Guardian went ahead with its story. Speaking to Yahoo News, the British newspaper's deputy editor, Ian Katz, said that the US government made to The Guardian "similar representations […] to those received by US media", but that the paper refused to comply, arguing that Davis's captors were already aware of his CIA capacity. Meanwhile, anonymous intelligence sources have voiced concern about Davis' fate and some are even urging the White House to bribe the Pakistani government to release him, or even organize a raid to rescue him. Watch this space for updates.
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Today in Old Radio History...
April 30, 1945: Jack Bailey opens his show on Mutual with 'How would you like to queen for a day?'
April 30, 1945: Jack Bailey, host of the Mutual, delivered on this day the opening line, "How would you like to be queen for a day!" for the first time. The first Queen for a Day was Mrs. Evelyn Lane.
A regular radio game show host, Bailey became famous for his Queen for a Day line. The show was a big hit and was eventually transferred to television until 1964.
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April 28: Happy Birthday, Joseph Dunninger
April 28: Happy Birthday, Joseph Dunninger!
That's "The Amazing Dunninger" to you! He was a mentalist--or mind reader--who did some of his best reading on the radio on his 1943-44 radio show, Dunninger, The Master Mentalist. He explained his abilities as being "60 percent mind reading, 10 percent psychology, 10 percent hypnosis, 15 percent self-hypnosis, and 5 percent magic, all of which adds up to 100 percent entertainment."
Let's also note that Joseph Dunninger appeared on a show called The Ghost Hours in 1929, de-bunking rival mentalists. He was a confrontational fellow, challenging any mentalist to do through supernatural means what he, Dunninger did through natural means. He also had a standing, hefty cash reward for anyone who could prove he used shills or conspirators in his acts.
Dunninger also contributed the influential book The Encyclopedia of Magic. If he were alive today, you could think a happy birthday wish and he'd get it.
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April 27: Happy Birthday, Ned Wever
A happy birthday goes out to talented voice actor Ned Wever, born on this day in 1899.
One of the mainstays in the career of Wever was his regular appearances on The Adventures of Superman, which ran from 1940-1951. Ned Wever played Jor-L, Superman's original father, as well as various bad guys.
He also earned his paycheck for a few years on (remember this one?) the soap opera Betty and Bob. This was a serial about a businessman who fell in love with his secretary, the two of them embarking on a romance. Its episode titles didn't mind giving out spoilers: "Evelyn Purposely Encounters Bob," "Margaret Jameson Has Hit a Girl With a Car," and "Evelyn Decides Not to Marry Sam." One guesses these titles were not announced or published prior to the broadcast.
Ned Wever appeared on episodes of Big Sister, Cavalcade of America, Bulldog Drummond, X-Minus One, and Dick Tracy.
It's important to note that he was also a lyricist of such Golden Age hits as "Sing a New Song," "I Can't Resist You," and "Sweet Stranger."
Labels: Adventures of Superman, Betty and Bob, Big Sister, Bulldog Drummond, Cavalcade of America, Dick Tracy, Ned Wever, X-Minus One
April 25, 1938: The Start of the Drama Series 'Your Family and Mine'
April 25, 1938: The first show of Your Family and Mine series aired today.
Your Family and Mine was a radio drama series aired on radio from 1938-1940. It was created by Lilian Laugerty, who also created the successful daytime series Big Sister, which was aired for 16 years (1936-1952). Your Family and Mine features the story of the Wilbur family, and the unexpected changes that happened in the lives of its family members. It starred Lucille Ball, Robert Adams, Frank Lovejoy, William Adams, and Templeton Fox.
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April 24, 1955: X Minus One' First Broadcast
April 24, 1955: The radio science fiction show X Minus One made its first appearance on NBC.
The show began as an adaptation of Dimension X, broadcast by NBC. It soon took on a life of its own. X Minus One got its name from the countdown at the beginning of each show: "X minus five, four, three..."
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April 22, 1946: A famous radio morning show was entertained by Hi, Jinx
April 22, 1946: Hi, Jinx was an entertaining morning show introduced by Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg upon their arrival at WEAF in New York City.
The couple was commonly known as "Tex and Jinx," and the pair helped to revolutionize the concept of the talk show. They continued their productions into early television as well.
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April 21, 1949: The Brain and the Mustache
April 21, 1949: Famous star Groucho Marx received the coveted George Foster Peabody Award for Broadcasting, becoming the first winner of this award. Groucho Marx hosted You Bet Your Life.
Like the Nobel Prize, the George Forster Peabody Award is considered as one, if not the most prestigious achievement in the field of electronic media. With the goal of rewarding people or programs showing "principle of excellence in quality rather than popularity," the prize was set to be awarded to people, organizations, networks, or individuals that had proven their commitment to commendable public service.
Groucho Marx, a man famous for his mustache, was given this award for being the "Dean of all wise-crackers in this country" because of his witty way of hosting the successful quiz TV show You Bet Your Life.
You Bet Your Life ran for nine years on the radio, had a television remake, and was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1988.
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April 17, 1935: 'Lights Out' first nationwide broadcast on NBC
April 17, 1935: The ultimate horror show, Lights Out, was aired for the first time on this day, attracting many listeners.
Preceding other mystery series such as Suspense and Inner Sanctum was the radio program Lights Out, which aired on NBC from 1934 to 1947 before it finally received TV adaptation.
The idea for the show actually came from the American writer-producer Willis Cooper, who realized that doing a mystery show instead of airing music during late night would catch the interest of listeners at those times. Instead of broadcasting it as a series, the network made it a crime and mystery anthology. It began as a 15 minute show every Wednesday on a local network of NBC, but it was eventually expanded to a 30 minute session due to its success. When the show was discontinued in January 1935, the network received many requests to bring it back. Three months later, in April, the show aired again and was broadcast nationwide.
Cooper served as the show's writer until 1936, before Arch Oboler replaced him.
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April 12: Happy Birthday, Ann Miller
Today we commemorate the birth on this day in 1920 of charming and lovely screen actress Ann Miller. No flash in the pan or overnight success, Miller paid her dues and toiled for years before becoming a major film star.
She is reputed to have been discovered by Lucille Ball during a nightclub song and dance act, and went on to spectacular musical roles in such films as "Small Town Girl," "On The Town," and "Kiss Me Kate."
The versatile performer made a few, memorable radio appearances. Many of these were on the shows devoted to entertaining the WWII troops, including G.I. Journal and Command Performance. In 1940, she appeared in Forecast a series highlighting notable people from a particular state. Her episode took a look at Texas's Sam Houston.
Happy birthday, Ann Miller!
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April 11: Happy Birthday, Lou Holtz
How does a radio comedian end up as a bigtime college football coach? Well, the Lou Holtz of our world and the one who coached the Notre Dame Fighting Irish are two different people.
Radio's Lou Holtz was born on this day in 1893 in Beverly Hills. He started touring the Vaudeville circuit in his teens and became one of the genre's big stars. In the 20's, he developed one of his signature character, Sam Lapidus.
Not long after, he began making appearances on the top radio programs of the day, such as The Rudy Vallee Show and The Paul Whiteman Show. From there it was a chance to host his own show, The Lou Holtz Laugh Club. This was a little niblet of a show, just three minutes in length, but packed with comedic stories and jokes told by Lou himself and his guests.
After his retirement, Holtz was able to participate in a real-life laugh club by hanging out at L.A.'s Hillcrest Country Club with comedy legends like The Marx Brothers and George Burns. Meeting adjourned!
Labels: George Burns, Lou Holtz, Marx Brothers, Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Paul Whiteman Show, Rudy Vallee Show, Sam Lapidus
April 8, Happy Birthday: Tito Guizar
Guizar was a classically-trained Mexican singer who starred with Roy Rogers and Bob Hope in Hollywood films. His acting and singing career spanned an astonishing seventy years. He's probably best known for his song "Alla en el Rancho Grande," the title song from a 1936 film.
His radio appearances were on Duffy's Tavern, Hello Americans, Its Time to Smile, Mail Call, and Quiz Kids.
His appearance on Duffy's Tavern had him singing "La Feria De Las Flores," just before Talullah Bankhead read from Boris Voitekhov's "The Last Days of Sevastopol." You just can't find radio like this anymore, folks!
Labels: Alla en el Rancho Grande, Bob Hope, Duffy's Tavern, Guizar, Hello Americans, Hollywood, Its Time to Smile, La Feria De Las Flores, Mail Call, Quiz Kids, Roy Rogers, Talullah Bankhead
April 6, 1942: 'We Love and Learn' premiered on CBS
April 6, 1942: We Love and Learn, a serial that featured Frank Lovejoy, premiered on CBS radio and the program continued on the air until 1951.
We Love and Learn was a radio soap opera written and produced by Don Becker. The show ran for 15 years under three different titles:
As the Twig Is Bent (1941-1942)
We Love and Learn (1942-1944 & 1948-1951)
The Story of Ruby Valentine (1955-1956).
Frank Lovejoy appeared during the 1942 run as the lead character Andrea Reynolds' husband. Andrea Reynolds was portrayed by two different actresses, Joan Banks and Louise Fitch who started mid-1944.
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April 5: Happy Birthday, Gregory Peck
Lux Radio Theatre and Suspense gave Peck a chance to shine in productions of "The Yearling," "Gentleman's Agreement," and "Murder Through the Looking Glass." He also appeared in a rendering of Anna Karenina on Screen Guild Theater.
Peck was born in La Jolla, CA, and schooled first at St. John's Military Academy and then at the University of California, Berkeley. Without really knowing why, the English major took a role in a stage production of Moby Dick, and a promising career was born. Happy Birthday, Gregory Peck!
Labels: Anna Karenina, Gentleman's Agreement, Gregory Peck, Lux Radio Theatre, Moby Dick, Murder Through the Looking Glass, Screen Guild Theater, Suspense, The Yearling
April 4, 1938: The Debut of Kate Smith's First Noontime Talk show
April 4, 1938: Kate Smith started her debut on a new noontime talk show after 7 years she sang on the airwaves.
Even when she was a kid, Kate Smith already love to dance and sing. She used to perform on theaters and nightclubs before she was discovered by Ted Collins in 1930. Collins was Columbia Records' Vice President who became Smith's partner and manager. He put her on a radio show in 1931 where she experience a huge success. Seven years later, due to the popularity of her radio show, she was also given another one, a day daytime talk show entitled Kate Smith Speaks-- a news and gossip radio program.
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North Port takes district junior title
By JIM BROCKMAN Correspondent
The Junior League (ages 12-14) District 16 championship game was finally played Thursday night after being delayed by rain and wet conditions for nine days.
The wait proved to be worth every minute for a team of all-stars from North Port.
Left-hander Nick Lyle tossed a four-hit shutout to lift North Port to a 6-0 victory over Sarasota at the Buck O'Neil Complex at Twin Lakes Park.
The district title puts North Port in the Section 6 Junior League Tournament, which begins today at Sam Fleishman Park in Fort Myers. North Port's first game in the sectional tournament is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
"We had a great defense playing behind me," Lyle said. "Everyone on the team really helped a lot. That's really all a pitcher can ask for."
Lyle's teammates could not ask for more from their pitcher either.
North Port jumped on top by manufacturing a pair of runs in the bottom of the first inning without the benefit of a hit.
Catcher Tyler Mason led off with a walk, stole second and moved to third on a wild pitch. He scored North Port's first run on a fielder's choice on a ground ball hit by J.P Dougherty. Dougherty eventually stole third and scored on a throwing error.
No more runs would be scored until North Port erupted for four runs to put the game away in the bottom of the sixth.
Joey Kinker led off the inning with his second single of the game. After moving to second on a balk, Kyle Quinn crushed a pitch to the base of the wall in left field for an RBI double and a 3-0 lead.
Dillon Garrett added a bunt single and C.K. Poulos delivered an RBI single in the sixth.
Left-hander Nick Dezzi went the distance for Sarasota, which got singles from Scott Douglas, Joey Arnold, Nathan Hernandez and Garret Podolan off Lyle.
North Port won't be the only team playing in Fort Myers this weekend.
Sarasota American (ages 11-12) also won their District 16 championship. Sarasota American is also scheduled to play its first game today at 7:30 p.m. at Sam Fleishman Park.
A third area team will qualify for the sectional when Sarasota faces North Port for the Senior League (ages 14-16) District 16 title Saturday morning at Butler Park in North Port.


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Commentary July 17, 2015
The Fort of Hungary
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A picture is taken on July 18, 2015 shows the first completed elements of the 150 meter-long metal fence at the Hungarian-Serbian border nearby Morahalom village. Defense Minister Csaba Hende said that 900 people would work simultaneously to install the fence which is planned to be 4 meters (13 feet) high along the 175-kilometer (109-mile) border between Hungary and Serbia.
Erkki Bahovski
This week, Hungary started building a wall on its border with Serbia to better fight illegal immigration. The four-metre wall is to be built on the 175-kilometre border at eight locations which are the most popular among immigrants according to the Hungarian government.
Before we start discussing the ethical and historical aspects of the decision of Hungary, it must be said that Hungary has not invented the problem of immigration. This year, 80,000 immigrants have arrived in Hungary, although many of them have moved on to Germany or Sweden. But last year, about 43,000 immigrants arrived in Hungary, thus, the growth has almost doubled within half a year. The immigrants are mostly from countries torn by war: Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq.
Last year, the European Union celebrated the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The symbolic end to the Cold War arrived on 9 November 1989, when people rushed over the wall which had divided Berlin for more than a quarter of a century. However, the fact that there were leaks in the Berlin Wall even before that is not so widely known. Namely, Hungary had opened its borders in the late spring of 1989 so that East Germans could reach West Germany through Austria. The decision of Hungary to open the border to the Western world actually made the fall of the Berlin Wall inevitable.
But now, Hungary is a country that erects new walls in Europe. In 25 years, the situation in Europe has changed drastically. We might even say that only 10 years ago, when the European Union enlarged greatly, the idea of walls would have been inappropriate. But already then, the world lived in the shadow of the outcome of 9/11 and the Iraq War of 2003. By 2015, the mostly failed revolutions in the Arab countries and the expansion of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant also have to be considered. The number of refugees has multiplied in a couple of years.
The difference from 1989 naturally also derives from the fact that East Germans went to their fellow Germans in the West and integrated successfully. Despite its difficulties, the reunification of the Germanies, did not cause so much tension as do Muslim communities in Western society. Also, the later resettlement from East Europe to West Europe has been a less painful process.
In some ways, Hungary's decision to erect a wall seems to work against the country's policy up till now. Hungary has actively supported the Hungarians who live outside the country's borders. As we know, Hungary lost two thirds of its territory after World War I and 3.3 million Hungarians found that they were living outside of Hungary. About a quarter of a million Hungarians live in Serbia and there is no doubt that the wall to be built and the probably more strict border control also makes it more difficult for Hungarians in Serbia to communicate with Hungary. But it seems that the risk of immigrants outweighs other aspects.
First and foremost, Hungary's decision to erect a wall means that solidarity is fading away in Europe. Countries individually deal with problems that could definitely be better addressed on the European level. The Hungarian wall does not stop the flow of immigrants to Europe but will affect adversely the already negative reputation of Budapest. It is also worth remembering that after the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was crushed by Soviet tanks, Europe received hundreds of thousands of Hungarian refugees. 20,000 of them reached Yugoslavia, a part of which is now current Serbia. The history is repeating itself, but upside down and as a farce.
The text was aired on the European news of Retro FM on 17 July 2015.
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Chart Report: The Hobbit takes over at the UK box office
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After an almost never ending saga of setbacks and 9 years after The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, director Peter Jackson takes his vision of J. R. R. Tolkien The Hobbit to the top of the box office.
Maybe because of the slightly less than favorable reviews are the reason but The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey debuts this week with a less than expected £11,601,538, still excellent but for best opening weekends that gross places it only at 33, between Pirates of the Caribbean 4 and 2, still an excellent gross but I don't think it will have a dominance over the box office like Skyfall has.
The Hobbit was nearly the only film released this week, but Disney did release Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings which landed at 5 with £528,82
Falling to number 2 this week is Rise of the Guardians which grossed £1,250,469 over the weekend.
A year ago Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows took the top spot with £3,827,697 on it's debut weekend knocking Arthur Christmas into third.
Five years ago The Golden Compass was still at the top with £3,002,951 while Enchanted entered at number 2 with £2,547,975.
Ten years ago Bond was still the top film with a weekend gross of £2,220,351 taking it's total to £27,078,158 while the top film was Like Mike at 4 with £246,169.
US Box Office Analysis 3 - 5 January 2020: The Rise Of Skywalker remains at the top while The Grudge remake is the top new film at 4
Military Wives is given a 12A age rating in the UK for infrequent strong language, moderate sex references


I was in heaven visiting Bill Shea at his Route 66 Gas Station Museum in Springfield, Illinois. The museum consists of a porcelain panel "icebox" station and an all metal station building moved there from a nearby site. Bill is a delightful guy to talk to, with a wealth of experiences. Enjoy the pics. That Champion air compressor is a thing of beauty and still works. In the image with two old guys, I'm on the left and Bill is on the right.
Private collection of gas station and Route 66 memorabilia by a lifetime local Texaco dealer. $2 admission. Open Wed-Fri & until Noon on Sat. I-55 exit north Bus Rte 55, then right on Grand, left on 9th. 2075 Peoria Rd., Springfield, Illinois. See map link below.
Also visit Unique Car Dealer Building in Springfield.


Super Fireman is controlled by using the mouse and the keyboard. Click on units to select them, then click where you want them to move or take action. You may also use the 1 key to select the helicopter and the 2 key to select the firetruck. The arrow keys (or WASD keys) are used to scroll the map.
Super Fireman is a real-time strategy game where you must save lives rather than destroying enemy armies. This helicopter game features decent graphics, epic music, and numerous upgrades to keep your equipment effective at fighting fires and saving lives!
Each mission of Super Fireman has its own objectives and time limits. Most objectives involve putting out fires and getting a minimum number of people into hospitals. There is a total of fifteen levels in this real-time strategy game. These missions can probably be completed in less than two hours by most gamers, but if you do not have the time to finish the game in one session, you can continue from where you left off the next time that you play.
Super Fireman begins with a tutorial. If this is your first time playing the game, I advise you to play through it to learn the basics of the game. Those of you that insist upon skipping the tutorials or want a basic overview of the controls should at least read the remainder of this paragraph. The mouse is the primary control device and is used to interact with the shop interface, select units, and issue orders. Select your helicopter, firetrucks, or bystanders by clicking on them or clicking and dragging a box around them; move selected units by clicking on where you want them to go. You may also use the 1 and 2 number keys to select your helicopter and firetruck respectively. Finally, the arrow keys or WASD keys are used to pan the camera, which is useful for situational awareness in this RTS game.
It is easy to play Super Fireman as a helicopter game since the helicopter is your most versatile unit, but try not to rely upon it exclusively. The helicopter can traverse the entire stage without being slowed by terrain, but it has limited fuel and will have to land occasionally to refill its fuel tanks. Firetrucks are slowed by terrain and need to refill their water tanks at fire hydrants, but they can still be incredibly useful in fighting fires (especially when upgraded), so do not discount them. You are also allowed to have up to four firetrucks while you can only field one chopper. Use all of your assets in conjunction to fight fires just as you would use combined forces to battle enemies.
Super Fireman takes the tried-and-true real-time strategy game frame and gives it a non-violent twist. Although you may not be fighting enemies and conquering the world, you can still test your tactical prowess saving lives in this firefighting game!


December Storms Online Survey – Did you loose your electricity supply?
On 23 and 24 December 2013, our electricity distribution network in the South East and the East of England was affected by severe weather conditions, affecting power supplies to about 300,000 households. Although in most cases, engineers were able to restore supplies quickly, the extensive damage caused to the network by high winds and floods left some customers without power over the Christmas period.
Your feedback is valuable to us and we would like to understand more about your experience in the December storms. We welcome suggestions on what we can do better to improve communication and make the electricity network more resilient in the future.
We have created a short online survey which we encourage you to complete. To access the survey, please go to http://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/internet/en/have-your-say/ Then scroll down the page and click on 'Complete a Survey'.
Please feel free to send the link to anyone in UK Power Networks' geographical footprint who may have been affected by the storms .
This online survey forms part of the series of consultations we hold to collect views from customers and wider stakeholders on their experience during the storms.
Our stakeholders have a say in what we do and we take all feedback very seriously.
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Well I figured since my car loan is about to be paid off I should prolly start one of these since the mods will start happening.
I bought the car at the end of summer last year, 2003 Evo VIII with 85,000 miles. I was originally looking for something cleaner and less miles but the price was right and it's a DD, meaning everyday… snow, rain, whatever, except when I take the bike. I was pleased with the mods that the previous owner did as well as his attitude towards maintenance. I bought the car with an exedy twin disk, 3" TB exhaust, 10.5 hot side, LC1 wideband, small battery kit, hotchkis springs, manual boost controller, and a tune.
The bad about the car: The tune was messed up, at WOT it would break up really bad at 5500rpm. The roof has some pretty serious dents in it right in front of the sun roof. Apparently the owner, 2 owners before me, had the hood pop open on him while he was driving. And it came with stock rims and winter tires on it, again I bought it at the end of summer so I had to do something about that.
In the mean time I also painted my headlight housings, bought and tinted some evo 9 tails, tinted side markers, bought a ebay polyurethane front lip (after I destroyed the stock one), seibon carbon fiber hood.
I have also been tuning it myself, since it's a daily and I can log every day. Since I got my tune sorted out I took it down to R/T tuning's dyno day and put down 322 hp/329 tq, which I am happy with.
As of right now I have energy suspension master bushing kit and whiteline roll center kit sitting in my garage to go in this weekend. I also have some hella super tones and some short route IC piping. Not sure I'll get it all done but my tie-rod end is shot so definitely gotta do the suspension stuff.
In the near future I plan on some drag racing, maybe a HDPE or autoX. Install some cams and springs. Maybe some new wheels and upgraded sway bars. Possibly a bigger stock frame turbo (FP Green or BBK).
Long term I would love to have a big turbo, 3586 or similar and a built block like a long rod 4G64.
The car is pretty much always changing so hopefully I keep this updated.
Last edited by PAdutch; 01-26-2012 at 10:52 AM.
Ill reserve is this for some more of my crappy pics. Thanks for browsing.
Nice progress, I'll continue to check in for updates.
HTA Green, MR bilsteins, Swift specR springs, and a few other supporting mods would make this a killer daily/drag/autoX/hpde car.
Do you have a E85 station near you?
I wish I had an E85 station close . Im really thinking about a set-up like your saying for a while until i get the urge to make some big power.
That black is gonna be fun. Man if I had the 2.4 sitting around I dont know if I could leave it alone . I think I recognize your avatar from the Bartonsville red robin meet thread, Ive been meaning to make it up there.
Yeah I love that picture. I noticed the site is down, I wonder what he's up to haha. He had a couple of good shots of my car.
Well the other weekend I put in some energy suspension bushings and a whiteline roll center kit. The feel, turn in and body roll, are much improved. Very happy with the mod. This is the second car I have energy suspension bushings on and for the price theyre hard to beat.
Minor update but I feel like I need to do a better job of updating this.
While I was at it I finally finished my poly mounts which included the differntial mount bushings and the rear sway bar bushings.
I also bought some new rims and tires for the summer: Enkie RP01 17 x 9 and put some 255 Hankook V12s.
Im approaching 120k so the 60k service needs to be done. Im debating on putting in cams at the sametime.
I got a new camera so hopefully I keep this updated with more and better pics. Pics to come of the diff install and rims.
One of the cleanest evo's on TST? I'd say so.
Well she's clean when she's not dirty, if that makes any sense haha.
How does the car feel with the diff redone?
Well its not much of a difference on the street but I can tell a little if I push it. If you get on the gas when cornering it seems to come around better.
I am getting a little chatter at low speed hard turns. I put some friction modifier in and it seemed to help but I also think the Amsoil fluid isn't the best.
Just now found your member journal. Looks good, man.
I have the Energy Suspension master bushing kit waiting to go on. Did your car squeak more after the install? I've heard the red bushings are a b**ch so I went with the black ones.
If I had to vote, I think you'd be most satisfied with the Red, if you choose to go stock frame.


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In Pursuit of Justice
Reparations and the Lessons of Haiti
Edna Bonhomme
"I think Haiti is a place that suffers so much from neglect that people only want to hear about it when it's extreme. And that's why they end up knowing about it." —Edwidge Danticat
The Reparations Debate Today
The issue of reparations has long been a demand of the descendants of enslaved people. Lately, the question has re-emerged as a topic of vigorous debate on the left and in more mainstream political circles. H.R. 40, a bill calling for investigation into the practical realities of reparations, has sparked new urgency around reparations, as well as with respect to specific reforms that could be enacted in its name. After initially opposing the bill, Bernie Sanders recently reversed course and now supports it. This was mostly the result of pressure from the reparations movement and left-wing supporters of his campaign, including from the Democratic Socialists of America's Afrosocialist caucus.1Brianha Gray, "Bernie Asks the Right Question on Reparations: What Does it Mean?" The Intercept, February 26, 2019, https://theintercept.com/2019/02/26/reparations-bernie-sanders/.
In 2014, Ta-Nehisi Coates argued in The Atlantic that the call for reparations encompasses more than simple compound interest on the never realized promise of "40 acres and a mule." He identifies the failures of twentieth-century policy and practice in the private sector housing market and discriminatory policies of federal housing programs that have exacerbated racial inequality in homeownership.2Ta-Nehisi Coates, "The Case for Reparations," The Atlantic, June 2014, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/. All of this widened the wealth disparities of African Americans both before and after the end of formal Jim Crow segregation.
On the socialist left, several positions have been staked out. First, a position argued by Cedric Johnson claims that demands for reparations are not "political," implying that they are impractical and divisive to an emerging cross-racial class politics oriented toward "universal" demands.3Cedric Johnson, "Reparations Isn't a Political Demand," Jacobin, March 7, 2016, https://jacobinmag.com/2016/03/cedric-johnson-brian-jones-ta-nehisi-coates-reparations. This seems to assume that remediation cannot challenge structural racism. In response to Johnson's argument, Black American socialist and writer Brian Jones offers that the call for reparations is, on the contrary, one that can build support for class politics and even general public investment in health care and education.4Brian Jones, "The Socialist Case for Reparations, Jacobin," March 1, 2016, https://jacobinmag.com/2016/03/reparations-ta-nehisi-coates-cedric-johnson-bernie-sanders. A third position is advanced by the author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who argues that reparations cannot be reduced to mere policy prescription, but also represent a way of "not forgetting" the foundational role of slavery in the accumulation of wealth and arrangements of class in former slaves societies in the Americas.5Keeanga-Yamahatta Taylor, "The Consequences of Forgetting," Jacobin, May 7, 2019, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/05/reparations-slavery-racism-united-states-foundation.
Beyond the left, a new and disparate campaign of supporters of reparations made up of a coalition of nominal Black nationalists has inserted itself forcefully into the debate about redress. This campaign is rumored to be funded by the Koch brothers. These advocates call themselves "American Descendants of Slaves" (ADOS)6Farah Stockman, "'We're Self-Interested': The Growing Identity Debate in Black America," The New York Times, November 13, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/us/slavery-black-immigrants-ados.html. and have organized explicitly as a xenophobic force pushing to distinguish among the descendants of enslaved people in the Americas. They argue that Black people of Caribbean or Latin American origin, even where their ancestors suffered under chattel slavery, should not benefit from any program of reparations in the United States of America. They argue that even Black US citizens who are descendants of Caribbean or Latin American slavery should, instead, rely on reparations from their "own" countries.
Haiti's singular history as the first free Black republic … provides the most illustrative frame for understanding the need for and possibilities of a modern, internationalist, transformative politics of reparations…
While each of these approaches to the current debate on reparations differ significantly from one another and in their value to any politics of radical transformation, they share a limited focus on the United States and miss the full significance of internationalism to reparations and to broader horizons of Black liberation. Haiti's singular history as the first free Black republic, born of revolution against New World slavery and its history of neocolonial subjugation ever since, provides the most illustrative frame for understanding the need for and possibilities of a modern, internationalist, transformative politics of reparations, and one which can combat the most reactionary and cynical misuses and abuses of the legacy, history, and potential of this demand.
Reparations and Black Liberation
Popular understandings of the reparations debate in the United States are mistakenly limited by two factors. First, reparations are assumed to be repayment for the historical injustice of slavery alone. Second, they disconnect Black liberation struggles from Pan-African and Pan-American efforts to hold the beneficiaries of anti-Black oppression accountable for their unearned gains, regardless of national boundaries. Here as in all cases, borders serve the interests of the ruling class. When the United Nations, the World Health Organization, and the International Monetary Fund work hand in hand with the United States and European powers to extract wealth from Black people and communities already scarred by the history of slavery, we do ourselves a disservice by assuming that nation-states can pay for historical and ongoing injustice. Black liberation struggles that are internationalist in scope better match the reality we face today, and that we have always faced at the hands of colonial powers importing chattel slavery to the West.
Understanding the international dimension of reparations invites us to seriously parse out what histories people are contesting and how strategies diverge. The history the reparations struggle presents poses a strategic question about what it would take to recognize the legacy of slavery and to begin to correct the horrors of this violent institution. Black American poverty is not a random occurrence but is always historically produced and often by design – as seen in anti-Black discrimination in education, housing, and labor markets. Reparations is a political project that holds political entities that benefitted from mass suffering accountable for their actions.
Reparations Movements
The reparations movement was ignited by Pan-Africanists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and revitalized for an American audience during the civil rights movement when a large segment of the African American population was still reeling from Jim Crow segregation in the South and similarly debilitating forms of racial segregation in the North. Some organizations involved sought to tie the demand for reparations to the struggles of Black people in the United States and internationally.
Founded in 1919, the Pan-African Congress called for the League of Nations to have an "anticolonial" commitment after the Treaty of Versailles, advocating for the protection of people on the African continent. The Pan-African Federation, distinct from the Pan-African Congress, was formed in 1944 and hoped to establish a new global labor alliance dedicated to building socialism and reanimating the dormant pan-Africanist movement. The Federation called for a genuine international alliance of workers that could challenge racism. Through the Universal Negro Improvement Association, Marcus Garvey and others looked to international bodies to recognize the exploitation of Black people in the Americas as well as on the African continent. Following the integration of the US military and the exclusion of Black soldiers from the welfare provisions of the G.I. Bill, Black women, such as Audley "Queen Mother" Moore, founder of the Committee for Reparations for the Descendants of Slaves, were integral to the reparations movement in the United States, popularizing the struggle for much of the twentieth century.7Ashley Farmer, "The Black Woman Who Launched the Modern Fight for Reparations," The Washington Post, June 24, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/24/black-woman-who-launched-modern-fight-reparations/. Moore and other Black nationalist leaders petitioned the United States on behalf of reparations for African Americans in 1959 and 1962.
Though not always at the center of popular accounts of the reparations movement, internationalism has been at the core of Black abolition, decolonization, and reparations. Ta-Nehisi Coates' We Were Eight Years In Power documents the internationalism of African Americans during the civil rights movement. Coates writes, "As Malcolm traveled to Africa and the Middle East, as he debated at Oxford and Harvard, he encountered a torrent of new ideas, new ways of thinking that batted him back and forth."8Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power. An American Tragedy (New York: Random House, 2017), 100. What one gathers is that internationalism – something that Malcolm X and the Black Panther Party began to put into action – allowed the space for radicals to move beyond borders imposed upon them and to imagine the global dynamics of social struggle.
More recently, in 2014, fifteen Caribbean countries revitalized the reparations movement by presenting their grievances to European countries. Among their demands was material support to compensate impoverished countries for stolen wealth.9Ed Pilkington, "Caribbean Nations Prepare Demand for Slavery Reparations," The Guardian, March 9, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/09/caribbean-nations-demand-slavery-reparations. In addition, they demanded that European countries fund programs that would allow for deeper cultural connections and travel between the Caribbean and African continent. As the Black Agenda Report detailed in October 2019, the Caribbean reparations movement is about comprehensive justice, rather than a once-off monetary handout. The thirteen-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Reparations Commission established a ten-point plan to mandate that European governments and businesses acknowledge and make amends for slavery.10Caricom, "Ten Point Reparations Plans," http://caricomreparations.org/caricom/caricoms-10-point-reparation-plan. These efforts range from targeting institutions, businesses, associations, and governments that continue to plunder Black communities. They include demands for direct payment from former colonial European powers who continue to influence the political landscape of the Caribbean. The University of Glasgow has begun institutionalizing Caribbean reparations through its public health and development projects.11Jamaica Observer, "Glasgow-UWI Reparations Project," January 12, 2020, http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/career-education/Glasgow-UWI_reparation_project_begins?profile=0. Committing £20 billion, they will cooperate with universities in the Caribbean to implement reparation programs over the next twenty years.
Far from an idiosyncratic outlier on one half of a small island in the Caribbean, Haiti is exemplary of the history of the internationalism of the Black liberation struggle, and of the continued oppression reparations ought to address across the hemisphere. Caribbean and Latin American anti-slavery movements demonstrate a complex and ongoing struggle for Black liberation and political amends that includes and transcends reparations, and which remain relevant to any attempt to repair the historical and ongoing subjugation of Haitians and all the descendants of enslaved people. The Trinidadian Marxist scholar C.L.R. James described the power of the Haitian Revolution as a source of historical novelty and significance in The Black Jacobins. He wrote:
The transformation of slaves, trembling in hundreds before a single white man, into a people able to organize themselves and defeat the most powerful European nations of their day, is one of the great epics of revolutionary struggle and achievement.12C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), ix.
The island of Hispaniola, which was originally inhabited by the Arawak people, whose indigenous and communal society sustained itself through fishing and farming, has a complicated history with occupation and resistance. Yet the events in Haiti speak to a broader crisis of European settler colonialism, initiated by the arrival of Christopher Columbus and other Europeans to the Americas, eventually contributing to the near elimination of many indigenous populations. By the mid-seventeenth century, the Spanish government ceded the territory to France, who renamed their portion of the island "Saint-Domingue." It was at this point that they systemized the chattel slavery of Africans. However, that system was overturned when the slaves rose up at the end of the eighteenth century and overthrew their masters in the revolution of 1791-1804.
The insurrection of Black slaves in Saint-Domingue altered the course of chattel slavery in the Americas. As Laurent Dubois documents in Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution, Haitian leaders such as Alexandre Pétion and Henri Christophe provided ideological, material, and financial support to South American anti-colonial figures such as Simón Bolívar to carry out campaigns against Spanish colonial rule.13Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005), 303. Black struggle has and continues to underwrite universal struggles for emancipation even when other nations leave them in the dust. In 1815, Pétion provided Bolívar with 4000 muskets, 15,000 pounds of powder, lead, a printing press, and former slaves who had fought in the Haitian Revolution. This was not merely coincidental or for moral reasons. Pétion knew that for slavery to be abolished in Haiti it would need to be abolished elsewhere. Without the internationalization of the Haitian Revolution – a movement that was predicated on the abolition of slavery – decolonization in the rest of the Americas would have been slower and more arduous.
The internationalism of the Haitian Revolution tells us two things: first, that liberation is not an isolated event that can be quarantined to an island; and second, that oppression and, conversely, liberation, are grounded in historically produced material actions.
The internationalism of the Haitian Revolution tells us two things: first, that liberation is not an isolated event that can be quarantined to an island; and second, that oppression and, conversely, liberation, are grounded in historically produced material actions. In Haiti, as in the United States, the abolition of slavery so ignited the ire of those who benefited from a slavery-dependent economy that other methods of repression and low-cost labor-reproduction were established as both punishment and insurance of the continued supremacy of White settlers. Far from historical relics, policies that actively prevent the full participation and flourishing of the descendants of enslaved people are alive and well today. In Haiti, as in the United States, these policies include the imposition of inescapable debt, the denial of healthcare, and direct state violence.
Perpetual Debt
In 1825, under the threat of reinvasion, the French government attempted to forestall Haiti's political sovereignty and demanded that the newly liberated country pay former French plantation owners for their loss of "property" before it would recognize Haitian independence. The government of Haiti and its citizens paid $22 billion (in today's terms) to France by the time payments ceased in 2010. The perversity of Haiti paying for its freedom and not receiving reparations is part of a broader historical injustice where the country's majority, descendants of slaves, have failed to receive material amends.
In 2003, Haiti's then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide requested that France pay Haiti over $21 billion in reparations.14Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, "A call for $21 billion from France aims to lift Haiti's bicentennial blues," January 4, 2004, The Boston Globe, http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/01/04/reparation_day/. Thus far, Haitians have received nothing. Aristide's electoral victories in 1990 and 2000 have been coupled with paramilitary coups d'état in 1991 and 2004, leading to his exile. Peter Hallward suggests that Aristide's proclamations for restitution and the redistribution of wealth are part of the reason for ongoing intervention by Haitian paramilitaries, Haitian elites, and foreign forces.15Peter Hallward, Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment (New York: Verso Books, 2007).
Neo-Colonial Health Interventions
Since April 2010, nearly one million Haitians have been infected with the cholera epidemic, and 10,000 have died. According to the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), "Due to massive flooding and its impact on water and sanitation infrastructure, cholera cases are expected to surge after Hurricane Matthew and through the normal rainy season until the start of 2017."16As quoted by Catherin Thorbecke and Gillian Mohney, "Surge in Cholera Cases Feared in Haiti in Aftermath of Hurricane Matthew," ABC News, October 7, 2016. Prior to October 2010, there had been no reported incidents of cholera in Haiti in nearly a century, according to the U.N. World Health Organization.17World Health Organization, "Cholera in Haiti," October 26, 2010, https://www.who.int/csr/don/2010_10_26/en/. An expert panel of epidemiologists and microbiologists appointed by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon concluded that UN peacekeeping troops from Nepal imported cholera to Haiti and contaminated the river tributary next to their base through a faulty sanitation system.18Jonathan Katz, "UN Admits Role in Cholera Epidemic in Haiti," The New York Times, August 17, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/world/americas/united-nations-haiti-cholera.html. The cholera epidemic and the U.N. military occupation are a modern iteration of imperialism, which requires up-to-date mechanisms for retribution for Haitians suffering from the epidemic.
In 2017, the U.N., under the direction of Ban Ki-moon, provided a $400 million voluntary trust to Haiti. However, only a sliver of the funds was used to tackle cholera. The remainder covered salaries and administrative costs that mostly benefited non-Haitian staff. The Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti petitioned the United Nations, seeking a remedy for the damages associated with the spread of cholera. Their petition was dismissed. Even though these facts are widely recognized to be true, U.N. accountability is absent in a system where uneven development and colonial power reign supreme.
In addition, postcolonial governments have implemented austerity under pressure from multilateral financial institutions, resulting in the steady dismantling of public health services. The 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the country's deficient sanitation system made it difficult to manage the disease when UN forces introduced cholera. This epidemic has become a twenty-first century travesty in Haiti not because there is no cure for the illness but because financial deficit, military occupation, and environmental disaster have weakened the medical infrastructure necessary to tackle this contagious disease.
Neoliberal Military Intervention
Since the nineteenth century, the United States, under the banner of the Monroe Doctrine, has intervened in Haitian politics, often at the expense of Haitian political autonomy. US troops occupied Haiti outright several times – including under Woodrow Wilson in 1915, and under Bill Clinton in the 1990s. The US government used its influence with the Duvalier family, Haiti's dictators for most of the second half of the twentieth century, to shape the Haitian economy in the interests of U.S. corporate interests. Under the Clinton administration, the 1994 "Operation Uphold Democracy" involved the forced entry of the US military into Haiti, leading directly to the death of at least ten Haitians.19Philippe de Girard, Clinton in Haiti: The 1994 US Invasion of Haiti (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004),127
International military intervention has been tied together with the neoliberal agenda promoted by the US and its allies, and ordinary Haitians have paid a terrible price. This involved trade agreements that wrecked Haitian agriculture, structural adjustment programs that allowed US multinationals to exploit Haitian workers, and "coercive legislation and policing tactics (anti-picketing rules, for example) to disperse or repress collective forms of opposition to corporate power."20David Harvey, Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 77. Backed by the US., Haiti's elites, from François Duvalier to Michel Martelly, have gone out of their way to ensure that Haiti's minimum wage remains abysmally low – an effort Hillary Clinton personally spearheaded as Secretary of State under the Obama Administration. As revealed by the Haiti WikiLeaks cables, Clinton prioritized sending 10,000 troops to the country over any humanitarian aid.21Ansel Herz, "WikiLeaks Haiti: The Earthquake Cables," The Nation, June 15, 2011, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/wikileaks-haiti-earthquake-cables/. In another WikiLeaks document, she blocked a proposal that would have raised the minimum wage in Haiti from 24 cents an hour to 62 cents an hour, or $5 per day.22Telesur, "Haitian Workers Fight for Minimum Wage Suppressed by Clinton's Stte Department, Telesur, May 22, 2017, https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Haitians-Workers-Fight-for-Higher-Minimum-Wage-Suppressed-by-Clintons-State-Department-20170522-0037.html. These political interventions highlight the ways that the United States government's policy toward Haiti centers "security" over relief, international market opportunities over local development, and stagnant wages over economic empowerment.
The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) commenced in 2004 following the U.S.-backed coup that overthrew Arisitide, who was democratically elected. The purported mission of the MINUSTAH occupation was to provide "peace and security," but its troops have been implicated in repressing grassroots political movements, sexually assaulting Haitian women and children, and spreading cholera. The occupation continues under the banner of the United Nations, with Brazil, Chile, and Nepal playing a central role. The U.N. has justified the occupation with claims that Haiti is subjected to "political volatility, institutional fragility and economic stagnation."23Jacqueline Charlers, "UN sets stage for end of peacekeeping in Haiti. A worried Dominican Republic objects," Miami Herald, April 12, 2019, https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article229164759.html.
Reparations Today
Debt, the denial of healthcare, and death at the hands of the purveyors of state violence are issues that undeniably affect the descendants of enslaved people far beyond the borders of Haiti, and parallel issues of inequality are not difficult to discern in the United States. The reparations debate must be seen as part of a broader international discussion about how the past can be remedied through financial, social, and political transformation. The political arc that it has yielded speaks to a growing struggle for Black liberation. Haiti is one of many cases where people are both inspired by mass action and sober about the reality of ongoing defeat.
Slavery is not merely a remnant of a racist past but continues to haunt African descendants. Haiti is being punished for its liberation and the example it set for enslaved and oppressed people all over the world. Ongoing tragedies, from foreign military occupation to U.S.-imposed wage stagnation, show that reparations must be comprehensive. If we want to do justice to an obscured history and provide concrete solutions so that we may be free, that means finding those volcanic eruptions of struggle from below – not just on US soil but on an international scale. Borders sully international resistance, and capitalism's ability to conquer and divide has metastasized oppression especially among refugees, transgender people, and those living under war. There are deeper aspects of reparations that could be addressed. Its proponents invite us to imagine a situation where Black people are able to dream and create a new world through the arts, sciences, and beyond – as presented, for example, in Felwine Sarr's illuminating text Afrotopia.24Felwine Sarr, Afrotopia (Paris: Éditions Philippe Rey, 2016). When reparations are put into practice, it will be about remembering the past and, in so doing, beginning to envisage a world in which everyone can be free.
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1 Brianha Gray, "Bernie Asks the Right Question on Reparations: What Does it Mean?" The Intercept, February 26, 2019, https://theintercept.com/2019/02/26/reparations-bernie-sanders/.
2 Ta-Nehisi Coates, "The Case for Reparations," The Atlantic, June 2014, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/.
3 Cedric Johnson, "Reparations Isn't a Political Demand," Jacobin, March 7, 2016, https://jacobinmag.com/2016/03/cedric-johnson-brian-jones-ta-nehisi-coates-reparations.
4 Brian Jones, "The Socialist Case for Reparations, Jacobin," March 1, 2016, https://jacobinmag.com/2016/03/reparations-ta-nehisi-coates-cedric-johnson-bernie-sanders.
5 Keeanga-Yamahatta Taylor, "The Consequences of Forgetting," Jacobin, May 7, 2019, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/05/reparations-slavery-racism-united-states-foundation.
6 Farah Stockman, "'We're Self-Interested': The Growing Identity Debate in Black America," The New York Times, November 13, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/us/slavery-black-immigrants-ados.html.
7 Ashley Farmer, "The Black Woman Who Launched the Modern Fight for Reparations," The Washington Post, June 24, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/06/24/black-woman-who-launched-modern-fight-reparations/.
8 Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power. An American Tragedy (New York: Random House, 2017), 100.
9 Ed Pilkington, "Caribbean Nations Prepare Demand for Slavery Reparations," The Guardian, March 9, 2014, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/09/caribbean-nations-demand-slavery-reparations.
10 Caricom, "Ten Point Reparations Plans," http://caricomreparations.org/caricom/caricoms-10-point-reparation-plan.
11 Jamaica Observer, "Glasgow-UWI Reparations Project," January 12, 2020, http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/career-education/Glasgow-UWI_reparation_project_begins?profile=0.
12 C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), ix.
13 Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2005), 303.
14 Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, "A call for $21 billion from France aims to lift Haiti's bicentennial blues," January 4, 2004, The Boston Globe, http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/01/04/reparation_day/.
15 Peter Hallward, Damming the Flood: Haiti and the Politics of Containment (New York: Verso Books, 2007).
16 As quoted by Catherin Thorbecke and Gillian Mohney, "Surge in Cholera Cases Feared in Haiti in Aftermath of Hurricane Matthew," ABC News, October 7, 2016.
17 World Health Organization, "Cholera in Haiti," October 26, 2010, https://www.who.int/csr/don/2010_10_26/en/.
18 Jonathan Katz, "UN Admits Role in Cholera Epidemic in Haiti," The New York Times, August 17, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/world/americas/united-nations-haiti-cholera.html.
19 Philippe de Girard, Clinton in Haiti: The 1994 US Invasion of Haiti (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004),127
20 David Harvey, Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), 77.
21 Ansel Herz, "WikiLeaks Haiti: The Earthquake Cables," The Nation, June 15, 2011, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/wikileaks-haiti-earthquake-cables/.
22 Telesur, "Haitian Workers Fight for Minimum Wage Suppressed by Clinton's Stte Department, Telesur, May 22, 2017, https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Haitians-Workers-Fight-for-Higher-Minimum-Wage-Suppressed-by-Clintons-State-Department-20170522-0037.html.
23 Jacqueline Charlers, "UN sets stage for end of peacekeeping in Haiti. A worried Dominican Republic objects," Miami Herald, April 12, 2019, https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/haiti/article229164759.html.
24 Felwine Sarr, Afrotopia (Paris: Éditions Philippe Rey, 2016).
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We simply cannot afford another Manchester United performance as we had to sit there and witness last Sunday. We cannot afford to carry anyone on that pitch this evening and anyone off their game should be replaced as quickly as possible as this game as MASSIVE.
If anything, with all the praise Tottenham have received this week, Chelsea arguably head into the game as underdogs because of our recent league record. Having reduced the gap to Chelsea to just four points, many believe that Tottenham come into the game on the crest of a wave and will beat Chelsea which could also have significance in the title race.
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So what of Antonio Conte's team this evening? We know that Gary Cahill has been hospitalised this week for two days and will miss out on this one with the focus being on Southampton on Tuesday night. As for his replacement? John Terry was being touted to start the game but, after the managers press conference yesterday with subsequent press reports that followed, it seems that Nathan Ake will get the nod to play alongside David Luiz and Cesar Azpilicueta. Is that a bold or smart move? I am not so sure if I am honest as I said today is a time for big game players.
I expect Antonio Conte to make at least three changes this afternoon. Marcos Alonso will come back into the side at left wing-back, Nathan Ake in for Gary Cahill and Willian in for Pedro. The question remains as whether or not Conte will decide to start Cesc Fabregas in place of Nemanja Matic which I believe would be a mistake.
Chelsea MUST stop Christian Eriksen and Deli Alli so Matic has to start to provide additional protection to our back three which will be needed this afternoon. The obvious concern is the aerial threat that Alli poses which was demonstrated at White Hart Lane earlier in the season. On both occasions, he pulled onto the back post and up against Cesar Azpilicueta who is not the tallest and scored twice. The fact that Eriksen had the time and space to look up and play those balls into the box wasn't acceptable on that day and we must ensure there is no repeat performance today.
As for Chelsea? I am hoping that it's been a painful week for the players and they all realise just how badly they played last weekend. I am looking for an immediate reaction from the side with the likes of Eden Hazard and Diego Costa putting the levels of performance we have been used to throughout the season.
What an opportunity this is for Chelsea to answer alot of critics, to shut people up and make a real statement for the title run-in with victory over Tottenham this afternoon. A defeat is unthinkable BUT a win would hammer home our dominance in the League.
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