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St. Vincent Talks New Album and Why She Wore a "Bikini" on Her Guitar World Cover
By Brad Angle
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The following excerpt is from the February 2017 issue of (opens in new tab)Guitar World (opens in new tab).
Annie Clark is officially one step ahead of us. We've always suspected as much, but this fact was confirmed the moment she emerged from hair and makeup for her inaugural Guitar World (opens in new tab) cover shoot holding a guitar...and wearing a dress that featured a print of a bikini body, just like the kind you'd find hanging in the window of a kitschy beach shop.
Now, a little background may be in order: For years, Guitar World (opens in new tab) published a one-off magazine, a buyer's guide that featured—you guessed it—models posing with musical equipment. That mag may no longer be in production, but the internet remembers all and provided Clark with some ripe source material for her cover concept.
"I did a quick Google search of women on the cover, and all I really saw was girls in bikinis holding guitars like they've never held a guitar before," says Clark. "I started thinking about that and just wanted to make my own absurdist comment on it. I couldn't really let it slide without poking a bit of fun and taking the piss a little!"
Clark's sly comment on the magazine—literally on the cover of the magazine—is definitely a kick-ass meta move. But her disruption of the status quo doesn't stop there. Performing as the enigmatic, experimental St. Vincent, she has become what might best be described as a postmodern guitar hero, and for the last decade has been subtly injecting some truly exciting guitar playing into the pop music landscape.
In broad strokes, the music of St. Vincent—heard on her five studio albums—is an expertly crafted blend of art rock, indie, jazz and progressive pop. Clark constructs songs in which haunting melodies, syncopated rhythms and dissonant chord progressions set the stage for her insightful observations of life in the digital age, which she delivers in a detached, yet surprisingly vulnerable, singing style.
Clark is an exacting songwriter whose deft guitar playing is put on display only when it's in support of the song. But when the song calls for it—often at the most unexpected times—she can unleash a torrent of heavy grooving two-handed tapping or the kind of searing effect-laden solo that will send shivers up your spine. And for as cool and complex as her songs can be, Clark's approach is also imbued with an endearing playfulness. So it's not surprising that Dweezil Zappa has said young listeners looking for a pathway into his late father Frank's quirky, far-out catalog should listen to St. Vincent.
Clark draws from an aptly diverse range of influences—from Robert Fripp, Steely Dan and Marc Ribot to Nick Cave, Nirvana and Dimebag Darrell—without mimicking any of them. Instead she's created an inventive, sophisticated approach to contemporary guitar playing and composition and achieved what might be the principal goal for all guitar players: she's found a unique voice. Like all noble pursuits, it took time (and a lot of woodshedding) to develop her style. That work began three decades ago under the wide-open Texas sky.
Annie Clark was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1982, but grew up outside of Dallas, Texas, which is where she first discovered her innate connection to the guitar.
"Guitar was one of those things, those callings," she says. "It just hit me. I would draw guitars, and make guitars, when I was five years old. I was completely obsessed with the shape. I loved it. I was in love with it even before I started to play it."
When she eventually picked up a guitar in her teens, Clark consumed a steady musical diet of grunge, rock and metal, as well as some jazz courtesy of her uncle, guitarist Tuck Andress of husband and wife jazz duo Tuck & Patti. The Andresses played a significant role in the young guitarist's upbringing. Initially they offered her a sneak peek into the life of a touring musician when they brought her on for a stint as a roadie, and later, when she approached high-school graduation, they strongly urged her to further her musical education at the university level.
Clark recalls, "I remember very pointedly Tuck and Patti called and said, 'She needs to be a musician. She should go to Berklee and get additional training.' "
She heeded their advice, and headed to Boston to begin coursework at the Berklee College of Music. Clark spent three years dutifully studying theory and performance at Berklee, but ultimately grew tired of the curriculum and dropped out. Following a brief layover in New York where she failed to gain traction in the music scene, the crestfallen guitarist made her way back to Texas.
"Since I was a five-year-old kid I knew I was going to play music. I was just going to do it," she says. "So when I had to move back home after dropping out of college it was depression that I had never felt in my life. Like, Oh, I'm a failure. This was not part of the plan."
But her disillusionment was short lived. Not long after she returned to Texas, a friend who played with Dallas-based orchestral psych-pop group the Polyphonic Spree mentioned they were expanding their ranks, and got Clark an audition. She landed the gig, and was soon whisked away into the life of a touring musician.
"I was on tour in Europe for a month, opening for Brian Wilson at the Hollywood Bowl, working in Pachyderm [Studios] where Nirvana recorded, and at Steve Albini's place in Chicago," she recalls. "I was in it. I was in the game, you know?"
The Polyphonic gig provided the jumpstart that Clark's career needed, and kicked off a decade of an entirely different musical schooling on the road, which first saw her supporting indie artist Sufjan Stevens before she transitioned into near non-stop world touring as St. Vincent. In the last few years, Clark has surfaced all across the pop culture landscape: fronting the surviving members of Nirvana at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, performing with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, making a rocking guest appearance at a Taylor Swift gig, covering "The Star-Spangled Banner" for an NFL promo spot, cutting a record with Eighties art punk David Byrne, performing at the behest of David Lynch at the director's Festival of Disruption and appearing onstage at the Grammys to collect the Best Alternative Album award for 2014's St. Vincent.
In 2015 she also found the time to conceive and develop a signature guitar, which debuted as the Ernie Ball Music Man St. Vincent model at the 2016 NAMM tradeshow. The St. Vincent six-string—which boasts a unique, asymmetrical body shape, custom St. Vincent Music Man Modern tremolo, all-rosewood neck and three DiMarzio custom mini humbuckers—has become one of the brand's best-selling guitars, and has inspired a who's-who of taste-making artists, including Beck, Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and Taylor Swift, to request St. Vincent models from Ernie Ball.
The success of the launch, coupled with the personal connection she's developed with the Ernie Ball team, has Clark excited to explore future gear collaborations with the company. "Well, Sterling [Ball] is like my third father," she says, with a laugh, of the company's CEO. "They're a family company and they've made me part of the family. So as far as I'm concerned I'm a lifer."
But at the moment Clark's primary focus is on completing the follow-up to St. Vincent. The process for recording the new as-yet-untitled album (which is due for release this spring) has been more drawn out than past efforts, but has produced what she describes as a "real sea change" in her sound.
"I've been able to step back and reflect and not just be in the tour, record, tour, record cycle that I've been in for about 10 years," says Clark. "I think it'll be the deepest, boldest work I've ever done. I feel the playing field is really open for creative people to do whatever you want, and that risk will be rewarded—especially now that we have such high stakes from a political and geo-political standpoint. The personal is political and therefore the political can't help but influence the art. And only music that has something pretty real to say is gonna cut the mustard."
For the following interview, we meet Clark at the Ivory on Sunset, a small restaurant discretely tucked beneath the chic Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood. Over a beer and a cappuccino ("My perfect combination. I don't like drug drugs, so coffee's my best upper."), the guitarist reflects on the roads she's traveled and reveals where she's headed in 2017.
First things first, I gotta ask: How was that recent gig at David Lynch's Festival of Disruption? That looked like a wild night.
I wanted to do something particularly special, a new kind of performance piece, as pretentious as that sounds. [laughs] I had these dancers who I've worked with before, and they dressed as weird blonde twins and did this postmodern version of the Blue Velvet scene with Dennis Hopper and Isabella Rossellini, the one with the oxygen mask. It was so fun!
Lynch's work, both musical and cinematic, speaks to left-of-center thinkers. You grew up in Dallas, which is pretty conservative. Was it a struggle to find likeminded musical weirdos?
Music has always been the key. I was really shy and nervous growing up. But I had like a "put me in coach" mentality with music. The thing that's so great about it is that you meet all manner of different people playing music. The first band I played in was a metal band with junior high guys.
Oh nice. What kind of stuff were you playing?
It was Maiden, Megadeth, Metallica, Rage [Against the Machine] and AC/DC covers, and I played an iridescent purple Ibanez bass. Because when you're 13 there's a circle of people who all play music…but no one wants to play bass! [laughs] Everyone wants to be the lead guitar player. But I just wanted to play.
To read the rest of our interview with St. Vincent, pick up the February 2017 issue of Guitar World now. (opens in new tab)
Brad Angle
Brad is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor and video producer. He is the former content director of Revolver magazine and executive editor of Guitar World. His work has appeared in Vice, Guitar Aficionado, Inked and more. He's also a die-hard Les Paul player who wishes he never sold his 1987 Marshall Silver Jubilee half stack.
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E-commerce giant Alibaba is partnering with Argentina to bring the South American country's foods and wines to China.
In June, at the third G20 Sherpa meeting held in the city of Xiamen, China, representatives of the world's twenty leading economies unanimously approved the Argentine presidency of the Group for the year 2018. This outstanding recognition, which will be officially announced by the leaders at the next G20 Summit, is a cause for pride for Argentina and encourages the country to continue working actively with each of the members of the Group in the search for concrete solutions to the challenges posed by the global agenda.
Argentina attaches great importance to the G20, which it considers the main forum for international economic and financial coordination and which has become increasingly important in dealing with various policy issues with global impact. Argentina also deems it a suitable forum for the promotion of initiatives in accordance with the interests of the country. G20 members represent 85% of the Gross World Product, two thirds of the global population and 80% of international trade. Thus, the G20 is in an exceptional position to face global challenges through more effective policy cooperation and the promotion of concrete actions that have an impact on its Member Countries and on the other international stakeholders. To its decision-making capacity, which was tried and tested during the 2008 economic and financial crisis, the G20 adds its effective leadership and the adoption and subsequent implementation of decisions on matters of global importance.
The leaders gathered at the G20 Summit discuss and adopt decisions aimed at strengthening the global economy, improving financial regulation and promoting concrete actions regarding the most urgent issues on the global agenda. Internally, the G20 is made up of working groups that discuss and coordinate policies and actions in relation to a wide array of issues, including, for example, the working group on Energy Sustainability and its work on the promotion of renewable energies; the working group on Development, which main goal is the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development; and finally, the working group on Employment, which has promoted measures relating to labour market insertion and the improvement of the well-being of the population.
The promotion of transparency and the fight against corruption are also part of the agenda of the G20 with a specific working group in charge of organizing its work on the basis of a biannual action plan. Various initiatives having a clear impact on the matter have been promoted, such as measures aimed at achieving transparency by making it increasingly harder for the proceeds of corruption to be concealed and for the perpetrators of those offences, to find shelter.
The G20 also deals with trade as a driving force of the global economy, working to strengthening the multilateral trade system with the World Trade Organization (WT). Likewise, it works on the relation and complementarity of Regional Trade Agreements with the WTO system, the increase in global trade, and the integration of SMEs and lower-income countries into global value chains.
Finally, with respect to agriculture, an area that is especially sensitive for Argentina's interests, the G20 has endeavoured throughout the years to promote a more prominent role for the sector on the global agenda. The achievement of more efficient production is encouraged in order to reduce hunger in the world, combating poverty and generating quality employment within the sector. For Argentina, in terms of agriculture, the G20 is an ideal forum to showcase its productive potential with a view to its insertion into international markets.
In light of the importance of the G20 in the international system and of its ability to promote measures that produce substantive changes at a global level, the presidency to be held by Argentina in 2018 is one of the key political and diplomatic challenges in the country's recent history.


Many people want to age well without investing in wellness. Just doesn't happen. Aging well involves lifelong commitment. The commitment? Awareness. Awareness of growth and awareness of decline. Both states exist simultaneously and they present us with daily treasures and possibilities.
There are three key steps to maintaining health throughout the aging process. The first step is proper breathing, When we breathe properly, we bring possibilities to our existence. We are aware of the next two steps, but perhaps we don't realize their key-ness. They are love of oneself and connection to others.
The last six blog posts have extolled the value of proper breathing.—breathing that is full and varied, breathing that is enlivened through movement and exercise, breathing that is contented, and breathing that is joined with others. The first step towards aging well is breathing well.
There are several blog posts about self-love which you can find in the category titled "Self-love". The more we care for our needs, the more we can give to others and to the world in which we live. Loving oneself is not a selfish thing; it is natural and necessary for maintaining good health throughout the aging process.
There are several blog posts about connections which you can find in the category titled "Connections". "Togetherness is vital for normal human development." – from my upcoming book, Awaiting Light—Understanding the Development of the Soul. People are designed to connect to other people, to nature, and to the other inhabitants of the world.
There are no magic bullets for aging well. There are no super foods or super exercises. There is simply living life with awareness—awareness of one's surroundings and awareness of one's place in them. Mistakes get made along the lifepath. If they are not too serious then their impact is not too seriously felt.
Move a lot—take breaks, walk, dance, skip, etc.
Pay attention to the activities that pull your attention so that you know the things that you naturally enjoy. Then make time to do them.
Spend time with family and friends. We need them when we are up and when we are down. And they need us too.
Work with a smile on your face and gratitude in your heart!
These are the things that Spiritual Presence wants us to know. These things help lead us through life in a fulfilling way. These things bring awareness, possibilities, and vitality!


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The 9/11 Era To End As US Combat Forces To Leave Iraq By 2021 End
July 30, 2021 August 5, 2021 Politics Global, Politics USA 0
President Joe Biden has decided to formally conclude the US combat mission in Iraq by the end of the year, another step toward winding down the two prolonged military engagements that began in the years following the September 11 terror attacks. Biden told reporters in the Oval Office alongside Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi that the US mission in Iraq will shift. "I think things are going well. Our role in Iraq will be … to be available to continue to train, to assist, to help, and to deal with ISIS — as it arrives. But we're not going to be, by the end of the year, in a combat mission," the President later said.
"We support strengthening Iraq's democracy and we're anxious to make sure the election goes forward in October," Biden added alongside the politically embattled prime minister. "And we're also committed to our security cooperation, our shared fight against ISIS. It's critical for the stability of the region and our counter-terrorism cooperation will continue, even as we shift to this new phase we're going to be talking about." Unlike Biden's decision to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan, the end of the combat mission comes at Iraq's urging. The country is caught in a balancing act between anti-American factions in the country, Iranian-backed militias and the stabilizing presence of the American military.
It will also not result in the withdrawal of US troops from the country, as has happened in Afghanistan. There are currently 2,500 US troops in Iraq, and officials declined to say how that number would change following Monday's announcement. The US and Iraq are expected to announce the US mission will fully shift to an advisory role by year's end — meaning some of the changes to the current levels could come on paper only. Still, the two decisions are the best illustrations of Biden's effort to shift American foreign policy away from decisions made nearly two decades ago. Instead, he wants to focus on threats from China, where a top American diplomat traveled this week for a tense set of meetings.
American troops and their coalition allies first invaded Iraq in 2003 on the premise the government led by Saddam Hussein had developed weapons of mass destruction. The weapons were never found. Biden voted to authorize force against Iraq as a senator, and even joined then-President George W. Bush in the White House East Room when he signed the resolution. He later criticized how the Bush administration handled the war. Then-President Barack Obama announced a withdrawal of troops from the country in 2011. But they returned in 2014 to help combat Islamic State terrorists. Biden was largely responsible for the Iraq portfolio as vice president, traveling to the country at multiple points and engaging its various political factions.
His own son Beau served as a reservist in the country before his death from brain cancer in 2015. Biden has said he suspects that exposure to toxins produced in military waste burn bits led to his son's condition. Ahead of the first meeting between the two leaders, their governments held technical talks on Thursday and Friday as part of the strategic dialogue between the two countries. As part of Monday's meeting, Biden will stress continued diplomatic and humanitarian support for Iraq, including a plan to provide the country 500,000 doses of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine.
The shift away from the combat mission is not a major adjustment for the US presence in the region, which already focuses much of its effort on advising and assisting the Iraqi military. In recent months, US troops in Iraq have been targeted by Iranian drone strikes, prompting back-and-forth retaliatory action. The tensions were dramatically escalated when then-President Donald Trump ordered a strike killing QasemSoleimani, Iran's top commander, during a visit to a Baghdad airport. While not marking a significant change in troop levels, the symbolic shift away from Iraq is still a notable one for the President. In defending his decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, Biden has repeatedly said it is time to focus on threats from today and not from 20 years ago.
Like in Afghanistan, the results of the 18-year US presence in Iraq are mixed. "Nobody is going to declare 'mission accomplished,'" a senior administration official said, a reference to the enormous banner unfurled behind Bush on the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier when he declared combat operations in Iraq over three months after US troops first entered the country. "The goal is the enduring defeat of ISIS," the official said. "We recognize you have to keep pressure on these networks as they seek to reconstitute, but the role for US forces and coalition forces can very much recede, you know, deep into the background where we are training, advising, sharing intelligence, helping with logistics."
For the US president, the announcement marks the end of another war that began under former President George W Bush. This year he said US troops would leave Afghanistan. Speaking at the White House, Biden told his Iraqi counterpart "our counter-terrorism co-operation will continue even as we shift to this new phase." Kadhimi responded: "Today our relationship is stronger than ever. Our co-operation is for the economy, the environment, health, education, culture and more." He has insisted no foreign combat troops are needed in Iraq.
US-led forces invaded Iraq in 2003 to overthrow President Saddam Hussein and eliminate weapons of mass destruction that turned out not to exist. Then President George W Bush promised a "free and peaceful Iraq", but it was engulfed by a bloody sectarian insurgency. US combat troops eventually withdrew in 2011. However, they returned at the request of the Iraqi government three years later, when IS militants overran large parts of the country.
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New federal money will help, but decisions closer to home must pave the way.
The current reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, signed into law this year by President Bush as the "No Child Left Behind" Act of 2001, is further evidence that teacher quality has emerged as a top federal education priority. The teacher shortage and the teacher-quality crisis grew steadily through the latter half of the 1990s, fueled in part by state and federal class-size-reduction initiatives and teacher retirements. The need for a rapid increase in the number of teachers has led to the employment of many people who are poorly prepared to teach. A disproportionate number of these less experienced teachers are employed in high-poverty schools, and poor students have a much higher probability of getting a weak teacher.
The proportions of the problem are outlined in a recent report by the California Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning. It shows that 14 percent of California's teaching force in the 2000-01 school year was not fully prepared to teach, meaning that the teachers were uncredentialed. These underprepared teachers are not distributed evenly throughout schools. On average, schools serving high numbers of minority and poor students have more than 20 percent underprepared teachers, whereas the school-level average is 12.5 percent. Moreover, schools that rank the worst academically have the highest percentages of underprepared teachers.
The data from William L. Sanders and others tell us that teacher quality is the single most important school-related factor in student achievement. In one large study, equally able 5th grade students with the bad luck to have had weak teachers three years in a row scored at the 29th percentile, while those who had three strong teachers scored at the 83rd percentile. And the work of Harvard University's Richard Elmore tells us what every urban superintendent knows: Even well-designed systemic reforms fail in schools that lack the "internal capacity" to bring about reform. The key to internal capacity is the talent and energy of veteran teachers who, along with the principal, provide essential coaching and leadership.
We cannot expect the new ESEA to take the place of large state and local programs and budget efforts. Therefore, we should think of new federal aid as yeast, not as dough.
President Bush recognizes the difference a good teacher makes, and in his State of the Union Address, he made known his "goal for America: a quality teacher in every classroom." The importance of teacher quality has not been lost on Congress, either. The new ESEA calls for a "highly qualified" teacher to be in every classroom by 2005. Title II of the legislation—Preparing, Training, and Recruiting Quality Teachers and Principals—devotes $2.85 billion for the purpose of improving student achievement by raising teacher quality. This amount is only 1 percent of what the nation pays its teachers, so it must be used strategically. We cannot expect the ESEA to take the place of sustained and large state and local programs and budget efforts. Therefore, we should think of Title II as yeast, not as dough.
Education leaders, policymakers, and educators need to develop a strategic plan for reforms that enhance teacher quality. Local and state schools chiefs and policy boards must act quickly and resolutely to allocate the funds in effective ways, or they will go into the same old, tired programs that are not making a difference today.
Establish master- and mentor-teacher leadership roles for veteran teachers who have distinguished themselves in the classroom.
Create performance-award systems that confer bonuses based on value-added student achievement and professional practices.
Establish "scarce category" salary supplements for shortage areas such as math, science, and special education.
Using the leadership and example of master and mentor teachers, foster professional learning communities, especially in the most challenged schools.
Provide entry- level incentives and fast-track advancement opportunities for the most able recruits from college or from other careers.
Seventy percent of state funding in Title II is new money (ranging from $252,000 in Nebraska to $6.4 million in California).
Approximately $75 million of Title I, Part A, funds can be used for state academic-achievement awards that provide financial rewards to schools and teachers that close the achievement gap (ranging from $115,000 in Mississippi to $13.4 million in California).
Some $235 million can be used for comprehensive school reform (ranging from $479,000 in Vermont to $30 million in California).
There has been an 18 percent increase in Title I grants to LEAs, or local education authorities.
Title II provides $2.7 billion in new funding for teacher-quality initiatives.
A total of $328 million is available in Title V, Part A: Innovative Programs.
Challenges are ahead for state and local decisionmakers. Even with the 18 percent increase in ESEA funding, the federal share of total education funding remains at about 7 percent. Many of these funds may already be committed to other programs. How can states encourage local decisionmakers to use their funds for new and unconventional programs when budgets are tight?
'New money' will make it possible to continue to fund old, effective programs while simultaneously implementing new ones.
One option is to look to the "new money" that has been appropriated. This money will make it possible from a budget standpoint to continue to fund old, effective programs while simultaneously implementing new ones. Another way for states to help bring about change is to create incentives, such as matching programs. The state can use its Title II funds to match local education authorities' allocations from their Title II funds.
Many agree with the U.S. Department of Education's claim that the No Child Left Behind Act is "the most sweeping reform of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act since ESEA was enacted in 1965." But words on paper, in and of themselves, are not what produce all-encompassing change; it is up to state and local education leaders. What they decide to do with these new opportunities can make a difference for the quality of America's teachers.
Lewis C. Solmon, an economist and a former dean of education at the University of California, Los Angeles, is currently the senior vice president of the Milken Family Foundation in Santa Monica, Calif., and the director of the foundation's Teacher Advancement Program. Kimberly Firetag is a research associate at the foundation.
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This document was created to provide Bay Area stakeholders with a planning guide and a Concept of Operations (CONOPS) template for planning a Large Special Event (LSE). It is intended to serve as a bridge between the high level intent and planning elements of a LSE and the specific technical requirements and documentation required for a LSE CONOPS.
This document provides detailed information on how to conduct the planning effort for a LSE, discusses planning considerations that are unique to a LSE, and offers a number of recommended planning tools. The companion CONOPS Template is an editable Word document intended to serve as the basis for a local jurisdiction's actual LSE CONOPS. This template also prompts the user to incorporate and modify information as needed to ensure the CONOPS is scaled and appropriate for that specific LSE.
Both the Planning Guide and the CONOPS Template are intended for senior public safety and emergency management planners to guide the overall LSE preparedness effort. First responders should reference the tactical plans and procedures that this larger effort will produce.


If we had to pick a "typical Republican voter," he or she would be an upper-income resident of a poor state, and the "typical Democratic voter" would conversely be a lower-income resident of a rich state. But these are more subtle concepts, not directly readable off the red-blue map—and, in any case, we would argue that given the diversity among supporters of either party, choosing typical members is misleading.
The only racist organization I ever belonged to was the AFL-CIO building trades (laborers), and all of the trades used their halls as organizing and operational centers for the Democratic Party.
Until at least the 80s blacks were limited to the laborors union. Now blacks can be operating engineers and sometimes plumbers but I have never seen a black master electrician or pipefitter. There may be a few.
The only (high skill) entry point is the apprenticeship program, which is rife with nepotism and racism.
The UAW has always been much more enlightened on race, although their skilled trade jobs are largely held by whites.
In all this hoopla over racism in the south, I find it disturbing that these kids are treated as civil rights martyrs when they are all clearly guilty of assault and battery. Doesn't the victim deserve justice, even if he is white?
Ronald Reagan has always been seen as this benevolent old man with a down-home practical side. But he was the one who cynically began in earnest the cultivation of the attitudes we see resulting today in the racist behavior of students in Louisiana. Slavery, an abomination of the human spirit, lead to war which led to the greatest divisions in this country that we feel today. To encourage a continuation of the effects of that horrific situation for political purposes should automatically disqualify Reagan for any consideration as a great President, let alone a decent human being.
Worse than the politicization of racism, his policies effectively ended the attempt to bring one whole segment of our society to parity with everone else, after denying them freedom, education, voting rights and human dignity for 300 years.
When racism is not only condoned or overlooked but also used for political purposes by the President of the United States and subsequent Republican Presidents, Senators and Representatives, how can we possibly imagine that our children will act differently?
Interesting, though not entirely surprising observation. Also wanted to congratualate you on your op ed, which is a great piece. I grew up in Oklahoma in the 50s & 60s and attended segregated schools for the first 6 years. In college in the 70s I participated in various civil rights actions (I am white). America is definitely a better place today than it was when I was growing up, not just for ethnic minorities, but also for women, GLBT people, and other oppressed minorities. Despite that there is still a long way to go. I teach a college course on race and ethnicity and students are consistently astounded by the disparities (which really are appalling)between whites and everyone else in America (based on census and other government data). The problem, however, is not confined to the South. I spent 12 years in Chicago in the 1980s and 1990s and still believe it is the most racist place I have ever lived. Your are also absolutely right about the significance of the clearly racist GOP "Southern Strategy." I really think that this, along with growing complacency among antiracists (especially whites) in this country, is at the heart of the disturbing rise in public racism we have seen in the last 20 years or so (another hidden legacy of Reagan).
I am a 67 year olf white banker from what is now the suburbs of Atlanta (it was farming country when I was born) and I could not agree with you more. I have always been a Democrat (voted for JFK in 1960 and every Democrat since). I am considered an oddity, if not a weirdo, amongst my colleagues in banking and in the town I live in. Racism is alive and well in Georgia among all white income levels. It is not as bad as it was when I was young. But it is still bad.
Paul, your column "politics in black and white" was absolutely correct. I am a middle-aged southern white male, a veteran, and a lawyer. Because of this, I have been expected to be one of the "good ol boys" by many of my fellow white southerners. At least intially, before I express my liberal views. As a result, I have heard people say things about minorities that would utterly astound you.
I live in Houston, but I had a lot of business in Louisianna before and after Katrina. The hositility towards blacks that I heard DURING THE STORM and in the days after from white lawyers, seemingly educated people, was amazing. If anyone tries to tell you that the white people in New Orleans don't want to keep the blacks away, just direct them to me. I have heard it from numerous white people in LA that that is was they want.
In spite of this, I do believe that racial views here in Houston have gotten much better in the last 30 years, especially among the young. It is not uncommon today at all for white kids and black kids to be good friends, something that simply did not happen when I was a kid. It may seem like a small step to people outside the south, but it is a big step down here.
The article started off very promising – talking about how bad racism is in the South. It turned out to be an article on how racism will affect presidential elections, instead of what can be done about it.
I enjoyed your column today (Wed. Sept 24). I think is right on point. In it you mentioned how the Republicans have also snubbed the Hispanics. I think they do so at their own peril.
You may want to look at his studies at //www.houstonareasurvey.org.
Here we have the spectacle of Krugman failing Econ 101. As Steve Sailer has shows Standard of Living by State, there is nothing wrong with Kansas. Adjusted for the local cost of living, Kansas has a considerably higher standard of living (7th in the nation) than New York (37th), New Jersey (21st), or Connecticut (15th). Let's not even mention dark blue California (47th).
The real question isn't why people in Kansas support the Republicans, but why New York and California still support the Democrats, given how poor these states have become under Democratic rule.
It's not surprising that an author like Thomas Frank (or Larry Bartels) can't get his facts right. However, a professional economist should be able to. Notably the American people don't have this problem. They are leaving the New York and California by the millions.
You'd think by now I'd get over it – the tendency to write and speak about the "South" and then focus on only one part of it, the Deep South. Too many times to count I have read sweeping generalizations about my region, followed by examples from the five or six Deep South states. The "South" – if such a thing exists – stretches from the DC suburbs to New Mexico, from the Cincinnati suburbs to Key West. We in Tennessee have a Democratic governor, a Democratic majroity of our Congressional delegation, and until last year, both houses of the state legislature were Democratic controlled. (The Republicans won the Senate by a single member.)It is not and never will be a solidly Republican state. And most of Tennessee outside Memphis is not racially polarized in its voting. In Nashville, where blacks make up only 25% of the population, blacks are routinly elected to city-wide office. (Our most recnet vice-mayor, a black, was elected last time without opposition.) If you want to write about Sourth Carolina, or Georgia, or Mississippi, fine. But please. The South is much more than the Deep South.
Completely agree with the comments above that there is no such thing as a homogenous "South" or even a "Deep South". Most "northerners" don't think of themselves as belonging to some homogenous regional group either.
I lived in the Atlanta suburbs during 1983-96, and I was also surprised and even shocked to see people making racist statements so openly – even store clerks who didn't know me from Adam would use the N word when talking to me.
However, I have to object to the assertion in this column that this is a primarily "southern problem" or that it is "much worse in the south". This is a national problem, which is just as bad in northern cities and rural areas as it is in the South (see above comment about AFL-CIO being a racist organization).
The main difference I observed between north and south is just a matter of manners. What I observed is that there is less inhibition about making racist remarks openly in the "south". Just because the attitudes are not verbalized as often in the "north" doesn't mean that the attitudes are less widespread.
In fact, to me this whole "it's much worth in the South" attitude is a text book example of regional prejudice and chauvinism.
Great column today, and a very interesting point.
I'm wondering if there's another voter correlation to investigate — residential density and voting patterns. I'm guessing that as residential density increases beyond a certain point, the percentage of Democratic votes increases — no matter the income. For example, Connecticut has been a relatively rich state for decades, but hasn't it become more reliably Democratic only in the last 20 years, as it has continued to grow and become a little more dense in its development?
I am a somewhat upper class, white liberal from Mississippi, so my voting patterns are obviously not the subject of your recent Op-Ed piece and subsequent blog. Still, I was shocked at how blatantly your blog post contradicted the theme of your article, namely that Southern Whites staunch support of the Republican party has less to do with moral issues such as religion, and more to do with old fashion racism. Your blog post seems to indicate that affluent, white Southerners (or as you call them, rich white trash) vote Republican because it is in their own self-interest, i.e. low taxes. But according to your article, white Southern Republicans vote GOP because they are racist. Which is it?
The answer, of course, might well be both. But I would caution you to be careful when labeling a large majority of white Southerners racists simply because they (unfortunately) turn out in large numbers for Republican candidates. While it is true that forty years ago the "switch" to the Republican Party was fueled by a civil rights movement backlash, I know very few affluent Mississippians in my age group (30-40) who I would consider to be racists.
Of course, I don't consider W to be a racist simply because he spoke at Bob Jones University, as you apparently do. I guess that type of thinking on your part led you to use the Jena 6 as a metaphor. Could it be that the boys were prosecuted because a serious crime was committed? Nah, got to be racism. Could it be that rich Southern Whites vote Republican for the same reason as the rest of the country club set? Nah, got to be racism.
It's obvious that the Bush administration has no pro civil rights agenda, and they couldn't care less about racism. This attitude trickles down through out the country, and then there is no real enforcement of civil rights laws or hate crimes laws. The U.S. Attorney for the Jena area seems to have a non-chalent attitude toward any possibility of any hate crimes being being done there, or any bodies civil rights being violated. This Bush appointed U.S. Attorney was interviewed several times by the media. He said for example that the three nooses were not a hate crime because of the back ground of the three boys who hung them there. He had other excuses for not asking other qeustions or investigating anything else that happened. If the U.S. Attorney will not get involved in enforcing federal law, there is very little that can be done. The next step would be to try to get Attorney General involved. What are the odds of that happening?
I'm about as Southern as one can get. Born and raised ("raised right" I might add) in the Deep South. Please continue trying to " get away with" what needs to be said. You come as close as anyone from the North can come to understanding (and explaining) the contradiction that is the South. At least in 800 words or less.
Speaking of contradictions, your readers might want to ponder on Lyndon Johnson a moment. He was once "poor", always "white" and many thought he was "trash." Yet he — the first U.S. President from the South since before the Civil War — signed the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. He did so knowing full well that it would cost the Democratic party the South for years to come. Even Southerners can't explain all the contradictions in that one.
Keep up the good fight. At least a few "Bubbas" are listening. Don't be surprised if one of them stands up and does the right thing one day. It'll probably be for the wrong reasons but it'll still be right.
While I can understand the discomfort of people like Mitch, who are both proud Southerners and in no way racist, I think they're a bit too quick to discount the very real fact that the region retains significant racial problems.
Besides, that's not the real story here: the real story is exactly what Prof. Krugman pointed out, which is that there is a correlation between being (relatively) wealthy, southern, and Republican. Ray claims that it's because of wealth; well, no, it can't just be wealth, because wealthy people in rich states aren't overwhelmingly Republican. (A neat explanation for the "rich Democrat" meme that I'm deeply grateful for. Others might claim it's because of southern culture; well, no, it clearly isn't just that, or wealth wouldn't have an impact on Southern voting at all.
It is, apparently, that there is something quite possibly toxic about the combination of having a lot of money and being Southern. Whether it's because those with enough money to (I suppose) have the luxury of not voting their pocketbooks tend to vote their identity, and that identity is racist on some level, I cannot say; but it IS an issue that needs to be examined.
Even if it makes some people uncomfortable.
Obviously, I'm not the first to note that the blog post isn't simply an expansion of the column–it's in great measure a contradiction of it, and deserves more than the cyberequivalent of a back-of-the-book endnote. But there are also some historical problems with the notion that race is the be-all-and-end-all of southern Republicanism. The oft-cited claim that LBJ "knew" he was converting the white South to Republicanism by signing the VRA ignores the fact that the rock-solid Republicanism of so many better-off southern whites took some time to actually develop. If it was simply a reaction to civil rights, the original southern strategy would have been more of a success than it was; in fact, it was mostly a failure through the 1970s. And even though there was a great Republican surge between 1980 and the mid-1990s, the partisan balance has stabilized since then, with Democrats by no means out of it even among whites. It's simply a more complicated story than the Schallers of the world would like us to think–race has to do with it, but so does the rise of the Religious Right, and the fact that much of the white southern middle class got there fairly recently. That story is starting to be written, by people like Matthew Lassiter, Joseph Crespino, etc.–which is why trotting out the old cliches about white southern perfidy [as the print column does, and I suspect not just because of word limits–surely it hasn't escaped you that far more people will read the print column than this blog] is such a disappointment. Race hasn't gone away in the South; but it hasn't gone away elsewhere either, and displacing the problem on white southerners is [as it has always been] an evasion.
It's too bad that your catalyst for this column was an outcry in defense of kids who beat the tar out an innocent boy. If there's no better racial protest option in the whole country, then we must have reached harmony among the races. Obviously, as the column points out, we haven't, so then our priorities must be out of harmony. I could support the kids if they'd chopped down the tree and been punished disproportionately. Instead, thugs have been elevated to hero status, which does no good to anyone, least of all them.
Mr. Krugman's post doesn't say that poor southerners would cancel out the rich southerner effect because (I assume here) that rich in this context means relatively rich. The middle class or a large part of it would count as "rich". In the south, that tends to break more along racial lines.
As a native of Louisiana, I know middle income families frequently vote Republican because of issues like abortion, supporting the military and the perceived godlessness of the Democrats. Honestly, I've found that sounding authoritarian is the most important thing for a politician in Louisiana. Blanco could only win gubenatorial race because she faced a non-white.
1) The Census Burea's website. Just look at town's in the south. Places like Jena, Louisiana.
2) Check out this map from Wikipedia. Then remember that many of your political elites are still white in the South. How can that be given the demographics?
Are these kids in Jena considered thugs because they chose to defend themselves against some white kids? White kids in the get in trouble, and the police serve the community by shrugging it off as adolescent behavior. Yet when some black kids do the same thing they are labeled criminals. There is too much injustice here.
Racism is an ugly fact in this day and time in America but it is very alive and very a part of the fabric of this country. But it is significant due to the disparity of incomes. MLK always thought if poor blacks, whites ( I include Hispanics, Asians, Caribbean, and other) who are join together as progressives, his dream would come true.
As stated above, Ronald Reagan was the beginning of the atrocity of instilling racist behaviors into the culture we see today.
It will be a great day when they pay for the injustices created with the Reagan administration, followed by Senior Bush, Bill Clinton(his welfare reform is creating disparities between how young black men and white men are treated in the justice system) and of course Bush, Jr.
Hillary will not change the course of the racist element, for if you visit Arkansas it is one of the most divided, racist states in the union. For the Clintons to have lived there, governed there for the decade plus years, behaviors there are no better than the behaviors in Louisiana.
John Edwards, Barack Obama, Kuccinich, even Chris Dodd will have presidencies not marred by racism. The Republicans on the other hand have one candidate, Ron Paul who just may not bear the racist behavior of the rest.
Hopefully we will see a change in the next election to change the racist behavior of all.
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The Newnew Left and the Principle of Hierarchical Coincidence
Crispin Sartwell
There's one breathtaking theoretical and practical problem with classical socialism.
Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders seem to represent a new and more radical leftism in mainstream electoral politics: a resurgent socialism, particularly among young people. The Trump disaster is liable to keep this movement energized and expanding, perhaps to places like the White House and 10 Downing Street. It's a fresh cultural phenomenon. But it represents an amazingly old-fashioned politics, well symbolized by these old guys who came by their ideals in the 1960s.
The classical socialism of people like Corbyn and Sanders had been developed, in detail, by the middle of the 19th century. It was designed as a response to the rise of rapacious industrial capitalism, and it specifically proposed to rein in capital by vast expansions of state power, or the annexation of more and more resources, powers, segments of the culture by government. Since then, the left's been largely impervious to intellectual development, though the identity politics of the moment is not itself entailed by classical socialism. Indeed, centralizing race, gender, and orientation is incompatible with the exclusive emphasis on class in figures such as Marx, and I don't think anyone has reconciled these, despite many semi-sincere attempts. The concrete proposals amount to increased state control of many or even all segments of human life, from cradle to grave.
I think you're going to need some new ideas, because there's one breathtaking theoretical and practical problem with classical socialism. It proceeds in massive unawareness of a fundamental principle in political theory and political reality, which I call the principle of hierarchical coincidence (PHC): the idea that, in more or less every case and in the long run, political and economic hierarchies tend to coincide. Economic power leads to political power; political power leads to economic power.
This can run in either direction, and is surely among the most obvious of phenomena through all of political history, seen in everything from wars of economic expansion to regulatory capture. There may be the occasional example of a non-wealthy political leader—Gandhi, for example. But in establishing a new political hierarchy, Gandhi also helped establish the shape of India's current economic hierarchy, driven in part by his Congress Party.
As a rough general principle, we all know PHC to be true. If you ran into a white supremacist polity, for example, in which people of color were wealthier overall than whites, you'd be extremely surprised, I hope. For this reason, and for the most part and in the long run, ever-increasing state power as recommended in socialism will tend to increase rather than ameliorate economic inequality. And though governments do sometimes and to some extent reduce economic inequality, they do so in a situation in which the seemingly intractable political/economic structure is largely produced, held in place, and enforced by these governments themselves. The structure of economic inequality rests to a large extent on political and police power, and certainly couldn't be maintained without it.
This is the incoherence at the heart of classical socialism: that intensifying political power, at least of a certain kind, will in the long run reduce economic inequality. But if you start "nationalizing" or "socializing" various segments of the economy—that is, if you give these powers to the state—you don't move toward an egalitarian paradise, you simply create a new ascendant class. This isn't a mere theory. Consider China: the Communist Party tried to annihilate every other center of political or economic power, and now Chinese political and economic hierarchies coincide almost perfectly. That's a pretty good definition of "totalitarianism."
The right of the moment isn't doing any better than the left on this, though the position is less internally incoherent. Note that the former just put the CEO of Exxon-Mobil in charge of American diplomacy. But, on the other hand, the right isn't pretending that the purpose of the whole thing is human equality. Still, when Exxon runs the world, you're not going to be free. I'm not sure that rule by the Chinese communist party and rule by Exxon are different, and I'm not sure, as a practical matter, that Rex Tillerson's and Bernie Sanders' Americas would look all that different. The basic differences are rhetorical. And the rhetoric makes no sense.
That's what socialism actually proposes, insofar as it proposes simply to collapse economic and political power with a good conscience: to make it explicit and a matter of principle that the people who control the prison system and the power to tax, the military and the surveillance state, should also supervise more or less every exchange made in the whole society, that the government should be your source of food, housing, education, art. Once it does all these things, the political/economic hierarchy is implacable, seemingly permanent, a baseline condition of life, intensifying through the generations, irresistible.
The first thing to do is ditch various fictions and fantasies about government: that its actions are the actions of all of us together, or that the will of the political leadership is the will of the people as a whole. Rather, a government is an actual group of people (along with inanimate objects: office buildings and hard drives, weapons and internment facilities). Those who are in a position to control or deflect the power of the government have the political power; those who are not do not. The former, as a group and as individuals, will annex more and more of the economic resources of the society. Then the monopoly of violence on which state power rests will coincide perfectly with the structure of economic hierarchy; the power of the gun will be identical to the power of cash money, and resistance will be futile.
That isn't what people like Jeremy Corbyn and Bernie Sanders think they want. It's not what they say they're proposing. But it is what they are proposing. And in general, if today's young leftists actually intend to reduce inequality of any sort in the long run, they're going to have to finally get out of the 19th century and try generating some ideas.
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Great analysis. But the question remains: where do we go from here? Even if young Leftists come to recognize the inexorable totalitarian momentum of their political allegiances, what can we actually do to effect real political change? Your guess is as good as mine.


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Chris Nolan's Tenet cracks $200 million globally; Mulan nears $40M
Christopher Nolan's Tenet has crossed $200 million globally, with the bulk of box office receipts coming from markets outside of the United States. Per Variety, the film's domestic debut of $20 million was somewhat inflated due to preview showings and the long Labor Day weekend. The international total (from countries that have a better grip on the spread of COVID-19) stands at $177.5 million, while the worldwide tally clocks in at $207 million.
In reality, the time-inverting spy-fi blockbuster only made $9 million in U.S. sales between the traditional Friday to Sunday bracket. Warner Bros. is reportedly not releasing daily gross numbers, so as not to have Tenet be classified as a financial failure. Other studios (like Sony Pictures, for instance) don't plan on releasing any major projects into theaters as the health crisis continues to prevent large gatherings. Despite the fact that 65-75% of theaters have reopened in America, many moviegoers don't feel comfortable returning to them yet, even with certain safety measures in place. It also doesn't help that crucial exhibitor markets in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco are still closed.
Disney is seeing some appreciable returns for its live-action Mulan remake in markets where Disney+ is not available. The film, which can be accessed by streaming subscribers for a premium fee of $29.99, has brought in $37.6 million worldwide. The Mouse House plans to make the film free for Disney+ subscribers in early December. Its release last weekend prompted nearly 70% of downloads of the service.
Lastly, The New Mutants (also released by Disney) is still struggling at the box office with an additional $2.1 million in domestic ticket sales, bringing the at-home cache to $15.3 million. Abroad, it added another $3.6 million for a global haul of $29 million. While the X-Men horror project from writer-director Josh Boone doesn't need to make a fortune in order to recoup production costs (it cost less than $100 million to make), the less-than-favorable reviews probably aren't driving sales. The long-delayed movie currently holds a 33% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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In some parts of the world (Bangladesh, Thailand, China) arsenic is found in levels up to 500 μg/L (WHO recommended limit = 0.05 μg/L) in drinking water taken from deep-bore wells. This has resulted in a large increase in cancer rates (especially skin cancer) and peripheral vascular disease causing gangrene.
Some non-Western traditional medicines may contain large quantities of arsenic and can be accessed over the internet, mainly from India.
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Great Britain declared the entire North Sea a military zone as of November 5, 1914, imposing a blockade of Germany with nets, mines, and ships from Scotland across the northern end of the North Sea, and at the mouth of the English Channel. Germany's response depended on its submarine fleet.
On maneuvers in the North Sea when the Archduke was assassinated, the British fleet remained. Much of the fleet was in Portsmouth on Britain's south coast, but transferred through the Straits of Dover to Scapa Flow on the Scottish North Sea coast the night of July 29. The movement put the Fleet on the high seas, less subject to German submarines and mines, and in a position to control the North Sea.
On August 1, after receiving word that Germany had declared war on Russia, English Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey told the French Ambassador that Britain would not allow the German fleet into the English Channel. Grey reported to Parliament that the Germans, who had already invaded Luxemburg and delivered their ultimatum to Belgium, were willing to comply with Britain's demand.
Great Britain declared the entire North Sea a military zone as of November 5, 1914. It was well-positioned to impose a blockade of Germany with nets, mines, and ships from Scotland across the northern end of the North Sea, and at the mouth of the English Channel. Other Allied points of control included Gibraltar, Suez, and locations off Barcelona, Spain and Genoa, Italy.
By international law, ships intercepted under the blockade were to be inspected on the high seas. The Allies argued this put them at risk from submarines and instead diverted them to port, contrary to law. When some neutral ships were sunk by German mines, Britain deployed mines, then argued diversions would allow it to provide safe passage to ships along the coast of Britain.
Britain's blockade became increasingly restrictive as neutral ships were stopped and boarded, originally for military supplies, but increasingly for anything that could have a military use.
The blockade put the Allies at odds with neutral nations including the United States. Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden could trade directly or across the Baltic, and were also transit points for other nations.


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In the aftermath of the Newtown tragedy, Richard Louv was asked to speak in that community about the healing power of the natural world. This column is drawn from those remarks.
in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be . . .
I come into the peace of wild things . . .
Berry found peace by going to "where the wood drake/rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds…" As a boy, I found peace in the woods behind a suburban tract, when life at home became too difficult, too loud, too much. I found it sitting beside a creek, holding as still as I could, waiting for the leopard frogs to reappear, like ghosts.
If we're lucky, these places remain available in our hearts. A psychiatrist who works with children with the symptoms of ADHD related how he sometimes slides into mild depressions. "I grew up fly-fishing in Michigan, and that was how I found peace as a child," he said. "So, when I begin to feel depressed, I use self-hypnosis to go there again, to call up those memories." He calls them "meadow memories." We can create new meadow memories. Tina Kafka, a San Diego teacher, described the impact of a new school garden: "The garden has been much more than simply planting vegetables and taking care of them … When we go to the garden as a class at the end of the day, there is a strong feeling of shared joy and peace no matter howhard the day has been.
In these times of Sandy Hook and Columbine, such talk of meadow memories and the peace of wildness may seem beside the point. Or frivolous. Erring on the side of fear seems to make more sense.
But ongoing research suggests just how restorative those memories can be, how vital they are to a child's or an adult's resilience. As I've reported elsewhere, earlier studies have suggested a variety of benefits, among them: children who spend time in natural areas show reduced symptoms of ADHD; people who live in proximity to more natural areas produce less cortisol, a stress hormone. And parks with the highest biodiversity offer the most psychological benefits to human beings.
Many other studies point in the same direction, and a new pilot study, published in The British Journal of Sports Medicine, takes science another small step. Researchers in Edinburgh, Scotland used portable EEGs, connected to backpack computers, to measure the brain waves of young adults as they walked through three environments: a pedestrian-friendly historical urban district with light car traffic, a commercial district with high traffic, and a park-like setting. Guess which environment calmed the walkers.
In so many ways, however, society seems to be walking backwards — trusting only the electronic or pharmaceutical fix. Just this morning, The New York Times reported that "nearly one in five high school age boys in the United States" has received a medical diagnosis of ADHD, fueling growing concern that the diagnosis and its medications "are overused in American children." Why the rise? Over-diagnosis? Or an actual increase in symptoms, which may be due to any number of causes, from the neurological to radical changes in childhood?
The path through the woods is not the only route to mindfulness. And nature experience is no panacea. But our kids deserve a break. So do we. To create meadow memories that can last a lifetime, we can start by taking our children and grandchildren on a hike. We can help plant school gardens, rethink the environments of our neighborhoods, prescribe nature, and much more. Even as we debate gun control and a hundred other issues, we can create a more peaceful life for our children — and at least for a while rest in the grace of the world. We can do this.
Richard Louv is chairman emeritus of the Children & Nature Network and author of VITAMIN N, THE NATURE PRINCIPLE, and LAST CHILD IN THE WOODS: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder.
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We can do this. Nature can help us do this. Thanks for the re-minder Rich.
Thank you for this wise and beautiful piece! You make such an important point that not only our children, but we parents and grandparents, need to practice mindfulness – full presence – to the loved one we are with, to the natural world of which we are a part, and to that part of ourselves that yearns to slow down, to breathe, and to create our own meadow memories. It's never too late!
Awesome! I hope every parent and teacher across the world reads this. I am all in favor of keeping students safe, but "as safe as necessary" not "as safe as possible".
What a lovely essay. I bet you all have read Undoing Perpetual Stress, an amazing book I just accidentally unearthed during a move. The struggle I have is that my 2 sisters and my mother never got the fortitude and respite from nature that my father and I did. I don't know if nature has the same effect on everyone.
This is one of the most meaningful messages I have ever received. So genuine and deep. Thank you. My commitment to connecting children with nature has definitely been reaffirmed.
Note: I am a Nature Based Learning and Development Consultant/Advocate. Currently working with Office of Head Start to encourage Head Start and Early Head Start programs to naturalize their outdoor play environments for the purpose of connecting children with nature. We're talking about over one million children birth to five years of age!! Also, doing a bit of work with Robin Moore and Nilda Cosco (landscape architects) at The Natural Learning Initiative at NC State U., Raleigh, NC.
Wonderful to hear you talking about something that's close to all of our hearts.
Nature is a wonderful thing and both children and parents should realise it's there for all of us, all of the time.
I agree, Richard. While the parental instinct to protect has been shaped by culture, that still-deeper human instinct to connect with and trust Nature is what we have to listen to in order to heal.
I am so glad that you are pioneering this very simple concept that we are human beings, a very natural part of this world. If you take that one part of the equation for happy and healthy away, there are bound to be affects. Our M.D.'s, doctors of medicine, can't make a pill to replace nature.
I grew up in the Rocky Mountains with a stream out my back door. I left to go do life for 25 years, became depressed and lost focus on my dreams. Now I am fortunate enough to be back at my childhood home and have found happiness and my focus again. I'm starting a non-profit fly fishing a riparian education center for the local children and couldn't be more excited and back into life.
Thank you again for your work that reminds us that Mother Nature knows best!
A few weeks ago, I posed a question on LinkedIn in the Sustainability professionals group in response to my blog "I was a free-range kid." I asked the question, "I wonder how many sustainability professionals were free-range kids?" The responses are still coming in! People are sharing their stories about connecting with nature. They believe it shaped their commitment to sustainability.


So before we begin, there was originally supposed to be a review of "The Day of the Doctor" placed between this review and the last review, but after watching it, I was so impressed with it that I realized all I would have to say would be to gush over how much I loved it, and since I would NOT spoil the ending anyway, I figured there wasn't much point.
So have a review of the newest MLP episode instead.
As a purely comedic episode, there really wasn't much to it, plot-wise; basically the writers just threw the Mane 6 together into a big dark creepy castle and let each of their respective personalities bounce off each other. But this is where the excellent characterization for these characters shows best, because you can totally do that with the Mane 6 and get away with it...usually with hilarious results, because their characters are so diverse, one will go one way, the other another, and eventually find themselves comedically getting back together again. And this more comedic episode was highly welcomed for me. It's felt like its been awhile since we had an episode where the ponies could all just relax and be silly like this for a change, and it was episodes like that in the first season that was what helped me get hooked on the show in the first place (otherwise, I probably would've stopped watching LONG before I reached the end of season one, and would've missed out on the great stuff that came afterwards, comedic or not). And this episode delivers, too, I was rolling on the floor laughing at some of these scenes, so much so that it quickly became no secret to everyone else in the house what it was that I was watching (and I used to be so good at watching these episodes without them finding out about it!).
Anyway, something else I was ecstatic to see in this episode; a storyarc. I mean, I already knew they were going to do it. The box was evidence enough of that, but I figured that when the show's crew said "storyarc," they meant "introduce something and then let it fall off a cliff for a few episodes before randomly popping back up again right at the last moment" like they've done in past seasons. At the very least, I was thinking another deal like the Grand Galloping Gala storyarc back in season one, where it was just sporadically mentioned every few episodes and then utterly absent in all the rest.
But not so here, because right off the bat, the episode IMMEDIATELY following the episode where they first introduce it, they bring up that box again! I mean, sure, they don't really make any new breakthroughs on it, and it really only serves as a plot device to get Twilight in the Princesses' old castle...but they mentioned it! THAT'S the important thing here. They could very well be SERIOUS about a storyarc this season, and ITS ABOUT TIME too! If there's ONE thing MLP has needed to make it better since the beginning, it was storyarcs. Heck, Laura Faust knew this, and tried to fit that in when starting the show, but Hasbro said "no."
Well, I guess Hasbro's wised up since then. Congrats, Hasbro, you get a gold star!
-- "Hey you guys! Did you know I can totally play the organ? Because I didn't!"
...but there are a few others things I'd like to bring up instead.
Like, for example, the various secret switches and such in that dusty old castle. The episode pretty much confirms in teh dialogue that Celestia and Luna stuck all of those into the castle for the fun of it. So to all of you bronies that think of Celestia and Luna as serious-all-the-time ponies, guess what? Apparently princess-work gets a little dull after awhile, because even they need some fun every now and then.
But more importantly, this gives me thought; if this old castle is riddled with all of these secrets and such...does this mean the newer castle in Canterlot is the same way?
If so, then those poor stuffy Canterlotian nobles that have to navigate it on a regular basis...I can only imagine what THEY think of that.
Speaking of castles, I'm starting to get curious about this old castle of Celestia and Luna's...actually that's a lie because I was already curious well beforehand...but since it seems going back and filling in some of the "blanks" of Equestria's past, especially in regards to the princesses, I have to wonder if the crew plan to reveal other little tidbits about this castle later on. Like, why IS this castle why out in Everfree, so remote, isolated, and away from the rest of pony civilization? And why abandon it? Too many bad memories for Celestia after the Nightmare Moon incident? If so, it seems like she's gotten over it now that Luna's back, because she seems quite frank about it now.
Which leads to another thought...since Twilight's a princess now, it stands to reason that she's entitled to a castle of her own now. Since she's obviously not going to want to go far from Ponyville though...does that mean there's the possibility of the gang fixing up and moving into the old castle out in Everfree, since it IS so close to Ponyville?
Just thinking outside the box, there, dunno if that's true or not.
Prediction: writing in the diary is going to be the new friendship reports.
Actually, it makes perfect sense to do that, and if I'm perfectly honest, I like the idea of writing in the diary much better anyway. The problem with the friendship reports was that they were very narrow in scope, and pretty much banked entirely on the show operating the same way all throughout it's whole run. So when the show shifted in new directions, as we've recently seen it do, it was hard to take the friendship reports with, because they no longer fit within the specific demands of the show. This was making itself apparent as far back as season two, so much so that I predicted fairly early on that eventually they would have to be retired in the end. So the diary is ultimately the better idea, because unlike the friendship reports, its much more open ended and not so restricted. The diary will be able to flex and bend with the show, and not be eliminated so easily from the show's needs. That, and writing in a diary feels so much more natural and achieves basically the same purpose, so much so that they probably should've done it from the beginning.
So all in all, a fun new episode, with a few new elements for us to chew on as the show continues to make tracks in a new direction...yet largely remain the same show I first started watching.


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Black Country Communion @ High Voltage 24/07/2011
Black Country Communion are a fairly new group, but are a "supergroup"- Joe Bonamassa, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham & Derek Sherinian. This is a band that has a lot ot live up to based on the careers of the individual members. As a new band they're at a disadvantage to bands like Thunder or Thin Lizzy who have plenty of crowd pleasing hits to include in their set. Black Country Communion only have two albums of material to work with.
The sound is definitely very 1970s Rock - the unmistakable vocals of Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple) certainly help give that 70's feel but there's more to it than that - its the overall feel of the combination of the music and the vocals.
The show is closed with a Joe Bonamassa song (The Ballad of John Henry) followed by the highlight of their set for most people - a cover of Deep Purple's "Burn".
Although this was my first time listening to Black Country Communion, based on their performance at High Voltage its not going to be the last time - I'll certainly be checking out their albums and hope to see them perform live again.
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Jakob Kopp (* 13. November 1871 in Imst; † 9. Mai 1960 in Innsbruck) war ein österreichischer Zeichner und Mundartdichter, der im Dialekt des Tiroler Oberlandes schrieb und während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus aktiv nationalsozialistische Propaganda betrieb.

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Jakob Kopp war, wie auch sein Bruder Hermann Kopp (1863–1912), Teil einer Bewegung von Mundartdichtern in Imst rund um Karl von Lutterotti. Zahlreiche seiner Gedichte wurden vertont, unter anderem von Josef Pöll.

Im Alter von 16 Jahren zog Kopp nach Innsbruck, um dort in einer Glasmalerei zu arbeiten.

Wirken in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
Bereits in den 1930er Jahren, als die NSDAP in Österreich noch verboten war, trat er der Partei bei.

Während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus schrieb Kopp nationalsozialistische Propaganda: 1938 etwa den Text zum sogenannten Anschlusslied über den "Anschluss" Österreichs an das Deutsche Reich mit dem Refrain "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer"; für die Musik zeichnete Leo Eiter verantwortlich. Von Kopp stammt auch das antisemitische Gedicht Tiroler Volkssturm 1944, das von Josef Eduard Ploner als Volkslied umgesetzt wurde und Eingang in dessen 1942 veröffentlichtes propagandistisches Liederbuch im Auftrag des Gauleiters Franz Hofer fand.

Laut der Leiterin des Museums im Ballhaus Imst, Sabine Schuchter, "trat Kopp ungebrochen für den Führer ein und war offenkundig ein glühender Judenhasser". "Sehr wenige haben zu diesem Zeitpunkt (1944) noch zum letzten Aufgebot aufgerufen, nur die letzten Fanatischen, und Jakob Kopp war einer von ihnen", so Schuchter. Auch  laut dem Kustos des Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Roland Sila, ist eine nationalsozialistische und antisemitische Haltung durch Kopps Jubelgedichte kurze Zeit nach dem "Anschluss" deutlich sichtbar. Franz Gratl, Kustos des Musikarchivs des Ferdinandeums merkte zudem an, "bei (...) Kopp (...) sei sehr deutlich, dass sie von sich aus das NS-Regime übereifrig unterstützten, keinesfalls seien die Werke Auftragswerke gewesen oder gar unter Druck entstanden."

Anerkennung und Aufarbeitung
1976 wurde die Jakob-Kopp-Straße in Imst nach dem Dichter benannt. Bereits 2005 wurde über die Umbenennung der Straße diskutiert. Ende 2020, durch einen Beitrag des Bloggers Markus Wilhelm, flammte die Diskussion erneut auf und der nunmehrige Bürgermeister Stefan Weirather versprach die Beauftragung eines Historikers und eine Aufarbeitung.

Werke
 Von der Imschterhuemet. Gedichte in Oberländer u. Oetztaler Mundart. Hötting bei Innsbruck 1934.
 Zwischen Zirl und Kopfstoa. Gedichte in Tiroler Mundart. Innsbruck 1948.
 Derhuam. Gedichte in Oberländer Mundart. Imst 1986. (auch mit Beiträgen von Karl Jais und Martha Schatz).

Weblinks
 Eintrag im Lexikon Literatur Tirol des Brenner-Archivs

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Mitglied der Reichsschrifttumskammer
Person der NS-Propaganda
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Literatur (Österreich)
Literatur (20. Jahrhundert)
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Künstler (Imst)
Geboren 1871
Gestorben 1960
Österreicher
NSDAP-Mitglied
Mann

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Headache and migraine are unfortunately one of the most common wellbeing complaints that I come across in my practise.
As with any physical health or wellbeing concern, it is important to get to the underlying cause in order to prevent constant reoccurrence. If we just keep taking painkillers we are ignoring the message that our body is sending us about something that needs to be dealt with on all levels - physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
In this video I discuss how to determine the root causes of headache and migraine as well as how to go about managing and treating the problem in a holistic way so that you can reduce the frequency and severity - and perhaps even prevent - future episodes.
I talk about things that you can do from all aspects of Evenstar 5 Star Wellbeing - Food, Movement, Sleep, Surroundings and Being.
If you'd prefer to read the full text of this Blog, rather than watching the video, it was published by Sivana East.
Reiki healing is a wonderful way to treat underlying causes - even when you don't know what they are - as well as physical pain. Feel free to book in for a Relax & Heal session with me to support you to deal with Headache or Migraine.
Arwen Bardsley is a wellbeing practitioner who delves into the broader and deeper levels of health and wellbeing and is the founder of Evenstar Wellbeing. She explores how science and nature are always at work in alternative health and wellbeing. Arwen specialises in looking at underlying causes (including metaphysical anatomy and epigenetics), preventative health and energetic balance on all levels. With a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Melbourne and Reiki Master qualifications, Arwen focuses on helping people to improve their health with restorative energy balance.


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Dendrimers as an Effective Nanocarrier in Cardiovascular Disease
Author(s): Avinash Gothwal, Prashant Kesharwani, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201. Umesh Gupta, Iliyas Khan, Mohd Cairul Iqbal Mohd Amin, Sanjeev Banerjee, Arun K. Iyer
Journal Name: Current Pharmaceutical Design
Volume 21 , Issue 30 , 2015
DOI : 10.2174/1381612820666150827094341
In the last two decades, dendrimers have proven their capabilities in drug delivery, physical stabilization of the drug, solubility enhancement of the poorly soluble drugs and gene delivery. Several key features of dendrimers such as excellent control over molecular structure, nanoscopic size, availability of multiple functional groups at the periphery and narrow polydispersity index distinguish them as a superior choice over available polymers. The diversity of bio-actives loaded in dendrimers due to covalent and non-covalent interactions, such as hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic interaction contribute to the physical forces for binding of bioactives. The key advantage of drug-loaded dendrimers is the delayed and sustained-release of bioactives because of the encapsulation of the drug in the hydrophobic cavities of the dendrimer that acts as a sink to retain the drug molecules for extended duration. Because of these features researchers are particularly excited about the potential application of dendrimers as a versatile carrier for drug delivery. Collectively, this review focuses on detailed note on the delivery and improved solubility of poorly soluble anti-cardiovascular bioactives, nitric oxide (NO) donor for anti-thrombosis, gene delivery and delivery of receptor agonists for cardio-protective action of the receptors using dendrimers.
Keywords: Dendrimer, cardiovascular disease, nitric oxide donor, thrombosis, adenosine receptors.
Title:Dendrimers as an Effective Nanocarrier in Cardiovascular Disease
VOLUME: 21	ISSUE: 30
Author(s):Avinash Gothwal, Prashant Kesharwani, Umesh Gupta, Iliyas Khan, Mohd Cairul Iqbal Mohd Amin, Sanjeev Banerjee and Arun K. Iyer
Affiliation:Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201.
Keywords:Dendrimer, cardiovascular disease, nitric oxide donor, thrombosis, adenosine receptors.
Abstract:In the last two decades, dendrimers have proven their capabilities in drug delivery, physical stabilization of the drug, solubility enhancement of the poorly soluble drugs and gene delivery. Several key features of dendrimers such as excellent control over molecular structure, nanoscopic size, availability of multiple functional groups at the periphery and narrow polydispersity index distinguish them as a superior choice over available polymers. The diversity of bio-actives loaded in dendrimers due to covalent and non-covalent interactions, such as hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic interaction contribute to the physical forces for binding of bioactives. The key advantage of drug-loaded dendrimers is the delayed and sustained-release of bioactives because of the encapsulation of the drug in the hydrophobic cavities of the dendrimer that acts as a sink to retain the drug molecules for extended duration. Because of these features researchers are particularly excited about the potential application of dendrimers as a versatile carrier for drug delivery. Collectively, this review focuses on detailed note on the delivery and improved solubility of poorly soluble anti-cardiovascular bioactives, nitric oxide (NO) donor for anti-thrombosis, gene delivery and delivery of receptor agonists for cardio-protective action of the receptors using dendrimers.
Avinash Gothwal, Prashant Kesharwani, Umesh Gupta, Iliyas Khan, Mohd Cairul Iqbal Mohd Amin, Sanjeev Banerjee and Arun K. Iyer, "Dendrimers as an Effective Nanocarrier in Cardiovascular Disease", Current Pharmaceutical Design (2015) 21: 4519. https://doi.org/10.2174/1381612820666150827094341
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Authorities aggressively seek 19-year-old's killer
On behalf of The Law Office of Massey McClusky McClusky & Fuchs | Dec 19, 2014 | Violent Crimes
Memphis residents are used to hearing frequent crime reports about their area. It's no secret that the Memphis area has quite a bit of crime. The ultimate violent crime is murder. A person who is facing murder charges may feel like everyone is against them. The public and prosecutors have little tolerance for those who commit murder, and those who are convicted can face a long prison sentence.
A 19-year-old girl was recently found near Courtland, Mississippi where she was apparently doused with accelerant and her car was set on fire while she was inside. She was discovered badly burned and sent to Regional Medical Center in Memphis where she later died. Investigators are "leaving no stone unturned" in their investigation into this homicide and are working round-the-clock. They have been reviewing her cell phone records, cameras, and talking to potential witnesses.
In such a heinous murder case, the public and the media may want to blame the first person who comes along. An individual who is accused of a high-profile murder can face an uphill battle. The defendant in such a case needs someone on his or her side to help tell his or her side of the story. A legal professional skilled in criminal law can help these defendants. He or she can conduct an independent investigation into the crime, bring in expert witnesses, and negotiate with the prosecution. A defendant only gets one chance to hear the words "not guilty," so they need to do whatever it takes to create a strong defense.
A murder conviction can change a person's life forever. A lifetime in prison or even the death penalty can easily result if the defendant doesn't have a strong defense. It is therefore important that everyone gets the chance to tell their side of the story and be innocent until proven guilty.
Source: WREG.com, "Investigators: No one is in custody for death of Jessica Chambers", Ashley Crockett and Mike Suriani, Dec. 9, 2014
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