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Latinxs Must Show Up For Haitian Migrants
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Haiti Aided Latin American Independence Movements; Latinxs Are Returning The Favor With Silence & Broken Promises
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In 1815, Spain's defeat of Simón Bolívar's revolutionary army in Venezuela nearly extinguished the dream of independence in South America. After the loss, Bolívar sought political asylum in the only free republic in Latin America: Haiti. At the time, Haiti was a safe harbor for revolutionaries and formerly enslaved Africans. Although the republic made promises to colonial powers that it would not intervene in freedom and independence struggles, Haiti continued to support rebellions, intercepted ships carrying enslaved people, and freed its human cargo. For Haiti, colonialism and slavery anywhere posed a threat to the republic's own independence and humanity.
Thus, when a defeated Bolívar landed in Port-au-Prince, President Alexandre Pétion understood the significance of the man who led the liberation movement. Pétion offered Bolívar 1,000 rifles, ammunition, and other supplies; he also provided hundreds of Haitian sailors and soldiers who had fought in the Haitian Revolutionary War. The offering came with one condition: Bolívar had to abolish slavery in South America when he founded a new republic; Bolívar agreed. He and his army once again took on Spain — returning to Haiti a second time for assistance — and triumphantly declared Venezuela an independent country in 1821. After later defeating Spain across South America, Bolívar declared himself president of Gran Colombia (present-day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador), Peru, and Bolivia.
Foreshadowing Latin America's present relationship to Haiti, Bolívar broke his promise to Pétion. Rather than wholly abolishing slavery, Bolívar sought to maintain Latin America's racial and class heirarchy so that white elites like himself would not fall to a "pardocracia," a so-called mulatto takeover. Having seen what it meant for Black people to be truly free in Haiti, when his own Black and Indigenous generals launched a coup against his growing authoritarianism in 1828, Bolívar complained bitterly that they had the audacity to "… want absolute equality." As a warning to South America's Black and brown population, he had the mixed-race leader of the coup, José Padilla, executed.
Nearly two centuries later, many of these nations have been as openly hostile to Haitian immigrants as they are to their own Black Latinx populations. "[Latin] America owes Haiti its independence. … The Haitian Revolution offered a model for a successful insurrection against a colonial power," Tatiana Flores, Ph.D., an art historian and professor in the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, told Refinery29. For instance, the Haitian Revolution and its Declaration of Independence stated that "we must take any hope of re-enslaving us away from the inhuman government. … In the end, we must live independent or die;" this allowed the Black and brown majority of the Americas to see their humanity recognized and offered a model for an equitable society.
From 1791 to 1821, the success of the Haitian Revolution sparked a series of rebellions by enslaved people in Santo Domingo, present-day Dominican Republic, which shares an island with Haiti. According to Dominican historian Quisqueya Lora Hugi, these movements had "bigger objectives, such as the overthrow of colonial rule, ... the implantation of racial equality, or the union with Haiti."
Haiti responded to the cries for freedom from the enslaved people of Santo Domingo twice. In 1801, following a major rebellion on the Boca de Nigua sugar plantation, Toussaint L'Ouverture, the architect of the Haitian Revolution, chose that site to announce the abolition of slavery in Santo Dominigo. But freedom was short-lived; France later captured L'Ouverture and took over Santo Domingo in a strategic effort to recapture Haiti long after the revolution had been won.
Like Bolívar, Dominican rebels appealed to Haitian rulers for arms and support as they attempted to overthrow colonial rule and unify with Haiti. With the support of the Black majority, Haiti's president Jean-Pierre Boyer abolished slavery and proclaimed Dominican emancipation for a second time on February 9, 1822. Hispaniola became the only independent nation in the Caribbean and the only region in the Americas where slavery was abolished.
But 22 years later, after the unification period with Haiti ended, the white elite re-annexed Santo Domingo to Spain. Black Dominican rebels understood the implicit threat of re-enslavement and again implored Haiti for its support in overthrowing Spanish rule. Defying threats from Spain, Haiti supplied the Dominican rebels with arms, fighters, and safe harbor. Dominicans, with the help of their Haitian allies, defeated the Spanish in 1865. Today, however, Haitians face the most extreme human rights abuses in the Dominican Republic; in the neighboring country, many people of Haitian descent are trapped in a form of indentured servitude on sugar plantations, while their descendants are stripped of their citizenship.
This cycle of Latin American nations running to Haiti for assistance and then turning their backs on the country has continued throughout history. When Mexico gained its independence, it, too, understood that its sovereignty would remain endangered as long as Spain continued to maintain a slave colony in Cuba. As such, in 1830, Mexico clandestinely approached Haitian President Jean-Pierre Boyer for help staging an invasion of Cuba to undermine Spanish authority in the region. Although the plan was never executed, Mexico sought Haitian assistance because the Caribbean nation had consistently supported the liberation of its neighbors. Today, Mexico has become a willing foot soldier in the U.S.' xenophobic policies toward migrants, including Haitian asylum-seekers. News reports and videos on social media show the Mexican National Guard and far-right groups violently attacking Haitian migrants on the southern border.
Presently, Haitians are suffering the worst abuses and, even more painfully, a piercing silence, by the people the country has helped most. The same Latinx organizations that rightfully rallied when migrant children were held in cages and separated from their parents have mostly been quiet as a new border crisis unfolds, one where U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers have whipped and corralled Haitian migrants collecting food and water for their children. The same nations that came to Haiti to support their liberation now actively undermine Haitian sovereignty.
Foreshadowing this betrayal, Haitian Founding Father Jean-Jacques Dessalines' "I Have Avenged America" speech echoes Latin America's treatment of Haitians: "You have placed it upon your hearts, that you may become (like your natural enemies) cruel and merciless."
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Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me Movie
By Chris Nashawaty
Updated July 05, 2013 at 04:00 AM EDT
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
The not-quite-rise-and-fall story of the '70s rock band Big Star seems custom-made for a documentary. All of the elements are there: a boy-wonder genius in Alex Chilton; his sensitive and troubled singer/songwriter partner Chris Bell; and a critics' darling reputation that never quite translated into record sales. But Drew DeNicola and Olivia Mori's heartfelt tribute to the criminally overlooked band best known for the theme song of That '70s Show ("In the Street") only captures a fraction of the band's lightning-in-a-bottle magic.
By the time Big Star formed in Memphis in 1971, Chilton (the band's singer and guitarist) already had gold records on his wall, having cranked out hits like 1967's "The Letter" with his prior band, The Box Tops. Along with Bell (guitars), Andy Hummell (bass), and Jody Stephens (drums), Chilton created a blend of brash, hard-charging garage rock and tuneful, melancholy acoustic gems. Rock writers in their earphone-wearing cocoons of connoisseur good taste were knocked out. But, as would happen with the band time and time again over the course of the decade, the public didn't follow. Maybe it was Big Star's ironically presumptuous name (well, it was thought to be ironic—they actually named themselves after a local grocery store). Maybe it was their lack of Zepplin-esque, big-arena theatrics. Or maybe it was just plain-old snake-bitten bad luck. Either way, Big Star never managed to find the audience they deserved.
After the commercial failure of 1972's underground classic, #1 Record (an album that remains as jaw-droppingly great today as it was 40 years ago), Bell was devastated. He went back into the studio and erased the tapes, nearly killed himself with pills, and dropped out of the band. Chilton managed to keep the band afloat through the sheer force of his will, spearheading 1974's equally dynamite Radio City. But that too was plagued by troubles with their label and commercial indifference. Over and over again, the surviving band members (Bell died in 1978; Chilton in 2010), their promoters, producers, not to mention a smattering of critics and musicians like Chris Stamey and REM's Mike Mills weigh in about a band toiling in obscurity that couldn't catch a break. All of this doesn't necessarily add up to a tragedy, but it is a shame. If Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me leads even one person to listen to Big Star for the first time, this movie will have done a great service. B
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Well over a century old, the Evangelical Covenant Church is somewhat unique among denominations in the evangelical traditions in that it maintains a good deal of theological freedom in the context of a larger, conservative, biblical theology. And that isn't all. Each Covenant church is itself unique from all others. True, ours is a growing fellowship of many hundreds of churches in the U.S. and Canada. Though small as some denominations go, it nonetheless maintains a very fruitful world missions program in a number of countries around the world.
Church historian Martin E. Marty has described the Evangelical Covenant Church as "the most ecumenical, distinctively evangelical denomination in the United States." And each church in this family of faith has a character of its own.
Yet certain things could probably be said of all Covenant congregations. If you're interested in theology, we are a people who believe in the authority and truth of the Bible; in the saving grace and lordship of Jesus Christ; in the contemporary work of the Holy Spirit; in the importance of new life in Christ for all men and women, boys and girls; in Christian freedom; in the unity of all believers in Christ; in the privilege of ministering to others' needs; in the joy of bringing this good news to others.
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Finally, don't overlook what's in our name! The Evangelical Covenant Church asks people to live out its name-to preach, teach, and live the good news of Jesus Christ and to covenant with other believers for growth, friendship, hope, encouragement and accountability-all of which help to connect and build us up.
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Wisconsin – U.S. state located in the north-central United States and part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Upper Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is Madison, and its largest city is Milwaukee. In the 1890s, farmers in Wisconsin shifted from wheat to dairy production in order to make more sustainable and profitable use of their land.
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Disorderly Politics
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"Social Justice" in Film
I am actually pissed off, guys. I am so . . . *strangled noise*
So what's going on? Germany had yet another terrorist attack. MTV made some racist/sexist video about things "white guys" should do for New Years. Trump is still the president elect, I think . . . But what totally relevant thing am I pissed off about, you ask?
Just look at this shit. Look at it. And, even worse, I became aware of this article because one of my Facebook friends shared it and was super excited about this "amazing development."
Fuck this. Here's my reply.
In an incredibly bold move, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts announced last week that, beginning in 2019, works that do not demonstrate inclusivity in their production practices will no longer be eligible for the Outstanding British Film or Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer awards at the annual BAFTAs, often considered the U.K. equivalent of the Oscars.
What the fuck?! What?! Why?
Eligible projects must showcase this in two of the following ways, as the BBC reported: On-screen characters and themes, senior roles and crew, industry training and career progression, and audience access and appeal to underrepresented audiences. BAFTA will also remove the requirement that newly admitted voters be recommended by two existing members.
I don't care about the second part about newly admitted voters not needing recommendations. That just seems like a way to counter the nepotism that actually is a thing in the film industry. That being said, the first part is ridiculous and is going to be vastly, vastly counterproductive to the assumed goal of helping minorities. This will not help.
As my friend said the second I told him about this development: Tokens, I summon you!!!!!! Way to help out minorities by utterly tokenizing them and making them just a another thing to be checked off of a list in order to get enough funding, right alongside getting the producer's friend's niece a speaking role for a few thousand more dollars. We got the finances. We got the sound guys. We got the token black dude whose going to get "co-assistant director" written next to his ethnic-sounding name so that people know we gave a colored an important-sounding job, even though everyone knows co-assistant directors hardly do more than bring you coffee. We got the caterers to make that coffee. . . and we're good to go!
Let's actually look at those requirements, though:
On-screen characters and themes. What does this mean? Do they have to be the main characters, or do side characters count? Going off of this logic, the deplored-for-white-washing Avatar: The Last Airbender would totally pass the test of racial inclusivity. That movie had plenty of non-white people. More recently, Doctor Strange and Ghost in the Shell would totally pass as well. Those are some super racially diverse pan-Asian settings. Something tells me that those films wouldn't count, though. I'm not even sure what "themes" even refers to. So can a movie not be "inclusive" enough and still be up for an award as long as its theme is "racism is bad?" Is that how this is going to work? Seeing as how the last "racism is bad" movie that came out that focused on non-POC characters got lambasted by SJWs for daring to tell a story about how racism was bad with a white main character, something tells me that "theme" will not be enough of an excuse.
This is the UK we're talking about here, so would a film about poor Polish immigrants trying to make it in the council estates not count because Polish people are still the dreaded white *dun dun duuuuun*? Do films about economic disparities not count? Modern leftists have never really cared about class, so I can only assume that a film about dirt poor white people wouldn't meet the mark. How about a film about a white Muslim? And not to be "that guy" or anything, but what about Jewish people? The Jews are a very over represented demographic in the movie making business–among directors, actors, writers, executives, producers, you name it. So do the Jews still count as a minority that needs to be pandered to here, or are there just too many of them in the bizz for them to be "ethnic enough?" I don't want to ask this question, but if you're going to make everything about race/ethnicity, we're going to have to decide how oppressed we think the Jews are eventually.
And what about movies where the entire cast is one race? I hate to break it to you, but a film only having black people in it does not make that film diverse. That casting is just as monotone and "non-inclusive" as a movie with an all-white cast is. Tyler Perry movies are just as "diverse" as fucking Friends. Something tells me, though, that those films aren't going to get booted out of the running for a BAFTA for not having enough Asians in the cast line-up though. What a surprise that double-standard will be.
What does "inclusivity" even mean? What counts here? Can I just throw in a "racism is bad" theme as an afterthought and have that be okay? Can I just pull a Clerks and have random, irrelevant black people just pop in sometimes to add a little color? Can I have the top-billed actor be a POC but then totally ignore them in the actual movie? Can the POC "main character" be a Nick Carroway-style character who is totally irrelevant to the plot and themes and narrative in every way but still technically the "main character?" Does that still count? This point is super vague, is what I'm trying to impress.
Next . . .
Senior roles and crew. Once again, where do the Jews fall here? It's a very relevant question if you're going to focus on race/ethnicity as a marker of worthiness. Do we care about the Jews? Is Spielberg oppressed enough for his movies to be worth your time? This point is also incredibly vague. What counts as a "senior role?" This, like many other SJW complaints about representation in film, comes across as them caring about surface-level "impressive" jobs and nothing else. How about editors? Do you care about editors? Sound designers? Make-up artists? Costume designers? Cinematographers? You say you care about "crew," but as the "Oscars So White" and Viola Davis controversies have shown, SJWs really do not seem to care about anyone other than main actors and directors.
So, what you want is POC directors, I'm guessing? What about the guy who directed Birdman? He has an ethnic name and pale skin. Where does he stand here? Does he contribute to "diversity"? What if a POC director makes a movie totally unrelated to race that doesn't fit the rest of the requirements at all? Are you still going to boot them out of the running for a BAFTA? Or are you going to do some half-assed back pedaling about how "It's okay for a POC director to not meet all of the qualifications we give to white directors because reasons."? Having different standards for people based off of skin tone is great and not racist, shut up.
Industry training and career progression. Once again, that assistant co-director title has your name all over it, Tyrone! We're paying you in experience.
Audience access and appeal to underrepresented audiences. What does this meeeeeeeeeeeeeannnnnnn?! Seriously, what does this mean? So if a movie doesn't get a wide enough release, it's not going to be eligible for a BAFTA now? How does that work? Don't you think that that's just going to screw indie directors over more than anything else? And if enough black people don't go to the theaters to see it, it won't be eligible either? Since when did the fucking BAFTA's care about what audiences actually go see? The original point of awards like the BAFTA and the Oscar was to guard against the idea that popularity was commensurate with merit.
I also don't know what "appeal" means. This seems like another thinly veiled way of saying "less white people," but making the (probably wrong) assumption that it means anything else: how are you going to quantify this with anything resembling consistency? What is appeal? Are you going to have a flow chart or a Vinn diagram charting all the possible ways a film could appeal to the coloreds? If you're going to make this a rule, that rule needs to be consistently applied, and if it's going to be consistently applied, it's going to need concrete qualifications. What are they, then?
"Hmm, the main character's skin tone is pale, which is a mark against them, obviously, but its soundtrack features a lot of 90s rap songs, so there's that!" At that point, wouldn't that just encourage egregious amounts of stereotyping in the film industry about "what black people like" and so on and so forth? At the very least, it would encourage more focus groups and test audiences, two things infamous for fucking ruining movies and turning them into lowest common denominator, middle of the road, mediocre garbage all in the name of "making what the audience wants." Making this part of the rubric for what deserves an award would be an awful idea even if it wasn't unnecessarily race-centric.
These "qualifications" are vague at best and very likely to be abused and/or inconsistently applied in a show of bias/nepotism at worst. These will not help. They will not.
Back in 2014, the British Film Institute established similar standards for projects seeking National Lottery funding in an effort to improve representation within the filmmaking industry.
This is very angering to me. Good thing I don't live in the UK. All of these attempts to "improve representation" have always come across as unbelievably patronizing and condescending to me. Holding a gun to someone's head and telling them to cast a black person in their film is not going to make them more partial to black people. It's probably going to do the exact opposite and lead to them seeing black people as props necessary to get the show on the road, people who are only there because an outside force said they needed to be not because they deserved to be there. Congratulations?
BAFTA's decision is particularly striking, however, when you hold it up against its American counterpart, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, which, of course, faced an embarrassing PR backlash with the #OscarsSoWhite campaign this year.
If by "embarrassing," you mean "totally nonsensical because minorities are actually over represented among Oscar winners when you take into account the population makeup of the country," then yes. It was embarrassing.
Not long after the Oscar nominations revealed, for the second year in a row, a slate of all-white acting nominees, the academy announced that it was changing its membership rules in an effort to address the issue. This included shortening members' voting statuses to 10 years (able to reactivated so long as they remain active within the industry) and adding three more governors' seats filled by people from underrepresented groups.
Once again, I have no real complaint with swapping out the Oscar judges more. Your taste in movies is tired and stereotypical! But guess what? "Tired and stereotypical" also applies to the new, "diverse" people who are apparently only there because they look the right way, which isn't insulting in the slightest, I assure you. Oh really, the movie about how racism is bad is nominated for an Oscar? Oh brave wonders! Who would've thunk that such a drastic turn in the Oscars' taste in movies would have happened by simply switching out the judges!?
But that change was nowhere near as radical as BAFTA's, which directly addresses the bigger and more pressing concern for representation, from acting to directing to executive opportunities, and everything in between.
It's almost like the Oscars cared about preserving some level of artistic freedom that the Brits couldn't give two shits about or something.
Stating, point blank, that you cannot even think about receiving these accolades from one of film's most prestigious institutions unless you make an effort to bring in a wider variety of collaborators is to light a much-needed fire under the filmmakers' butts.
This person is clearly not an artist. If they were, they would realize how fucking insulting this is. Under your new "ground-breaking, much-needed" standards, some of the best films of the last decade would not have received their well-deserved accolades because they dared to have too many white people involved in their making. Artistic collaboration is not about fucking skin tone. It is about working with the people who understand what you want to do. It is about working with the people who you work well with and who will help you make the best product. And if those people do not happen to have a higher level of melanin in their skin, that is fucking irrelevant to how well they work with you.
Diversity is fine. It's great. If you want to have it, go right on ahead! The things I make are "diverse." But punishing something for not being diverse is stupid and pointless. That would be like me, as an atheist and a writer who tends to write nonreligoius characters just by default, going up to an Oscar bait movie and saying, "If you don't have an atheist in this movie and depict that atheist well, then you are just a piece of mediocre shit that doesn't deserve any attention. Fuck you and your lack of representation for me and the things I personally like!" Diversity isn't a prerequisite for quality or merit. You don't need diversity to be good. It's just one of those things that you can have, that could conceivably add to something's quality if done well (or detract from the quality if done poorly) just like every single other aspect of making a piece of entertainment.
It won't solve every issue overnight—surely somewhere out there there's a filmmaker, or a funder, who really, truly doesn't care about awards—but it's a step in the right direction.
I love how "film makers who don't care about awards" used to be lauded by these people because they made movies that the "white awards" paid no mind to. But as soon as they're on the award givers' side, then people who don't care about awards are a bunch of losers and phonies. Not caring about awards is fine. As I have shown multiple times throughout this very post, I think these film award systems are very flawed and tend to rely more on who you know than anything else. That being said, it is still nice to receive credit for a job well done in an often thankless artistic medium. And "a job well done" is not something determined by how you or your crew look.
Holding someone's funding and/or chances to reach a wider audience hostage all in some attempt to punish them for not being "diverse enough" is incredibly selfish and entitled. As though everything that is made must be made for you and you specifically otherwise it doesn't have a right to be acknowledged. And this is coming from somebody who is a minority who wants to make movies that coincidentally fit your fucking stupid, arbitrary criteria for what kind of movies "deserve" accolades and recognition. But since I disagree with you about the necessariness of this quota, maybe the films I make wouldn't be up to snuff, I can only assume.
As we've seen countless times, counting on people in power to do the right thing while letting them go unchecked does not lead to progress, and even hinders it.
You aren't going after the dreaded "people in power" with this. You're going after filmmakers, people who are actually the ones fighting against the "people in power" at every fucking turn to make something resembling the movie they actually want to make. I fucking love this. These arbitrary rules about how "diverse" a film must be in order to be recognized–its actual quality and merit not mattering in the slightest–are being enforced on up-and-coming filmmakers above anyone else, the filmmakers with hardly any say whatsoever in regards to the politics-laden world of film. And yet, somehow, the ones imposing those rules on them are the ones who have no power. But I get it, you are the victim here! Even when you are overtly the one telling everyone else what to do, under threat of punishment, you are the victim here! Of course.
Many people will undoubtedly find this move to be blasphemous, leaning on the tired crutch of "artistic freedom" to label BAFTA as intrusive. They can live and die by that sword if they'd like, but they'll only be proving that they're not quite as creative or imaginative as they claim to be.
Fuck this writer. Seriously. Fuck them. "Oh, waaah. My artistic freedom! Boo hoo!"
You are the same kind of person who went to Japanese film directors in the 1930s and told them that if their films didn't "promote a love a Japan," than they weren't going to get funding or license to show it anywhere. You are the same kind of person who said that movies with gay sex scenes were too obscene to be given an official rating, therefore relegating them to obscure video releases with almost no hope of reaching a larger audience. You are the same kind of person who says that foreign films should not be allowed in the country because they don't promote your country's values. You are the same kind of person who gave funding to filmmakers only if they made racist propagandizing films and blacklisted them if they refused. You are the same kind of person who wanted cursing taken out of films to protect the children.
You just have a different "greater good" that you're fighting for by telling actual artists what they should and should not be able to do. Oh, but it's okay. You're not forcing them to do anything. You're just telling them that it's a nice future as an established filmmaker they got there, and that it would be a shame if something were to happen to it. You are blameless. You are doing "the right thing."
Fuck you. And you sit there and stupidly wonder why there's a rising sentiment that there's a war on white people? It's shit like this. It's stuff like this saying that white people will be penalized . . . for existing the way they do, because we don't want them anymore and they should be replaced with someone "better," someone "more representative," because they represent nothing but awful, negative things.
You're not helping. You're not helping anything.
Merry fucking Christmas, guys.
December 21, 2016 Nicole	bafta, bafta inclusivity, diversity in media, diversity quotas in film, diversity quotas in movies, diversity requirements in film
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talksaboutstuff says:
Slate just made a correction stating that not being a diverse film doesn't omit one from all the awards, just the outstanding british film award. Still is a pretty confusing and stupid move on their part though.
Whoops, sorry about the last comment, didn't know you were reading the edited version. I apoligize.
Brianna says:
No prob! This is only placed on the Best Film and Best Upcoming Director/Writer/etc. I believe. That being said, I don't think that distinction matters much. Up and coming filmmakers certainly aren't "in power," and they are the ones being directly targeted by this, which actually makes my point even better.
Wouldn't this descision actually stop minorities, because I think most minority directors and actors want to make normal films, thus defeating the purpose of this idea.
I have a handful of friends in film school now who are ecstatic about this essentially "because diversity," but they're the same people who went into film school with the intention of race/gender/etc. being topics they already wanted to make films about (which seems like this incentive is kind of superfluous, making this more a matter of "Why doesn't everyone want to make the movies that *I* want to make?" more than anything else). People like me, POC or otherwise, who are more interested in genre films and/or blockbusters couldn't care less about faux-diversity and will, as I pointed out, treat this like a check to be marked off. Granted, this is the American film industry, but I can't imagine the UK industry is overwhelmingly different.
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Yo Trivia: Since returning from the DL, he is hitting .308 with 8 HRs & 19 RBIs (20 games).
Quotes: Terry Collins: If he's getting hot, he's getting hot at the right time, This is a big stretch for us. He wants to win, I can tell you that. This guy wants to win"
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Captain Nazi
(1940s version)
1930s/40s
Children's Content
Master Marksman
Master Pugilist
Nationality (German)
War (genre)
Golden Age Stuff
Fawcett Comics material
Game System: DC Heroes/BoH, MnM 3rd edition/DC Adventures
Captain Nazi is one of the traditional enemies of Captain Marvel (Billy Batson).
He appeared in 1941, which also explains the goofy name. It made sense back then, especially in a disposable comic book chiefly aimed at children and in the context of wartime propaganda.
Captain Nazi has changed over the decades as Captain Marvel did. So we ended up doing a guide to Captains Nazi to avoid any confusion – you should check it out.
I couldn't read at least one appearance (Captain Marvel, Jr. #19) during research.
Other Aliases: The world's worst villain.
Group Affiliation: Third Reich, Monster Society of Evil.
Base Of Operations: Wartime Germany.
Height: 6'4" (1.93m). Weight: 227 lbs. (98 Kg.).
Eyes: Blue. Hair: Blond.
On paper, Captain Nazi is very powerful. He has :
Super-strength.
Super-durability.
Master spy training.
Super-reflexes.
Great agility.
But in practice, opponents of the Marvels seldom could threaten them in one-on-one combat. And like the rest, Nazi was usually easily disposed of. He's mighty, but the Marvels are way mightier.
Nazi also has a tendency to use ordinary weapons such as his sidearm, or nearby grenades, or thrown axes… Obviously these aren't going to have an effect on his opponents. Perhaps he hopes to score a super-lucky shot while staying at a range from his overwhelming opponents.
Round one – fight !
Thus, a fight with Captain Marvel (or Captain Marvel, Jr.) usually consists of Marvel punching Nazi once, dazing him and sending him flying.
(In DC Heroes RPG terms, Marvel hits with his full STR and only needs a handful of Hero Points on his EV to ensure a Stun.)
Nazi then has to escape if he can, the blow having made it obvious that he can't go toe-to-toe against Marvel.
If Nazi manages to punch a Marvel it will probably have no effect. In fact a Marvel (particularly Freddy) might choose to just stand there and take the blow (perhaps with a few Hero pointsDC Heroes RPG concept expressing narrative importance/immunity toward RV) with no effect, to demonstrate American superiority.
It would seem that heroes not as massively powerful as Captain Marvel or Captain Marvel, Jr. cannot hurt Captain Nazi.
Thus, these lesser luminaries need to stay on the defensive against him — though this is not entirely clear from the material.
This is why Nazi has high stats. Based on the fights with the Marvels alone, Nazi's stats could be way lower. Since his numbers don't quite matter.
I hate these guys
Captain Nazi primarily acts as an assassin, mass murderer and saboteur. Rather than, say, running in and wrecking random factories with his bare hands.
He's often disguised. In fact he's able to impersonate specific persons well enough that it takes a super-hero to spot him.
He also often relies on demolitions.
The stories can't seem to decide whether he's a stupid buffoon or a cunning spy. Sometimes he's both at once. But he has a respectable range of skills. Nazi would have been a serious problem for the American war effort if not for Captain Marvel, Jr. and Captain Marvel.
A recurrent story element is that Captain Nazi is thrown into prison or contained in a structure from which he can obviously escape with but a punch. Yet nobody, up to and including Captain Marvel, Jr., ever realises that. Heroes and authorities always inexplicably assume that Captain Nazi cannot possibly escape when all that's holding him is mere steel and masonry.
Fly, my pretties
In his last appearances, Captain Nazi uses a gas that allows him to fly at a slightly lower speed than Captain Marvel, Jr..
Still, that is speed enough to cross the Atlantic under his own power within at most a few hours.
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Captain Nazi was a regular villain during Captain Marvel and Captain Marvel, Jr.'s wartime adventures. He appears a short time before the Pearl Harbor attack and the American declaration of war (in late 1941). He continues to frequently turn up until early 1944.
Captain Nazi was featured in simple, propaganda-laden stories. He's a costumed saboteur to be forever routed by the Marvels. It's a mix between war movies and an episode of Looney Tunes pitting Tweety against Sylvester.
As far as I know he stopped appearing after 1944, though I could easily have missed some stories due to a lack of a definitive Fawcett index.
Demobilised
In the early 1950s, the sales of super-heroes stories started collapsing. Furthermore, Fawcett Publications (Captain Marvel's publisher) lost a case against National Comics (Superman's publisher). That forced Fawcett to stop publishing Captain Marvel stories.
There would be attempts to reboot Captain Marvel, since he had been so popular. Those were conducted by DC Comics (the successor of National Comics).
New versions of Captain Nazi were introduced during each such attempted Captain Marvel relaunch, gradually modernising and developing the concept.
As with many Golden Age foes of Captain Marvel, Captain Nazi was a cardboard figure. He didn't have a civilian name, a background or even an origin sequence. These would come later, during attempts to relaunch Captain Marvel stories.
Adolf Hitler just unveiled Captain Nazi to his command staff one day. After Nazi gave a brief demonstration of his might, he was sent to the US to challenge and publicly defeat selected American crime-fighters :
Captain Marvel.
Bulletman.
Spy Smasher.
Minute-Man.
Believing in the direct approach, Captain Nazi soon swung over Times Square, causing a panic. He hit a few bystanders and challenged Bulletman.
Nazi then started a one-man blitzkrieg of sabotage and terror in the New York area.
For freedom and democracy !
Two heroes — Bulletman and Captain Marvel — responded, teaming up for the first time. Captain Nazi did manage to do a fair bit of damage and killed many civilians, though he tended to retreat whenever the heroes would confront him.
After many murders and acts of sabotage, Marvel finally caught the slippery Nazi fair and square. He punched him into next week.
Landing in the bay, the stunned Nazi was fished out by two well-meaning fishermen in a rowboat. The Nazi thanked them by killing the older fisherman and fatally wounding the man's grandson. Captain Marvel narrowly saved the kid's life, but the youth was crippled for life and was not expected to survive for long.
Marvel saved his life by taking him to the wizard Shazam. The elder turned the teenager into a new super-hero — Captain Marvel, Jr..
Captain Nazi continued to operate in the US (and occasionally Britain). He worked along with Fifth Columnists . Nazi also occasionally allied with American villains, traitors, mad scientists and the like.
He was always stopped by Captain Marvel or Captain Marvel, Jr. – the latter being his most frequent opponent. But he often left a trail of bodies and destruction before he was stopped.
Captain Nazi discovered early on that there existed a connection between Freddy Freeman and Captain Marvel, Jr.. Yet it never occurred to him — as was the style of the day — that they were the same person. He would often have Freddy captured, though, knowing that Captain Marvel, Jr. would soon come to the rescue.
It's a gas
In early 1943, Hitler had Nazi inhale a gas invented by Henri Gaigne, a captive scientist from Vichy France .
The gas could confer the power of flight, though only an enhanced subject such as Nazi could use it.
After Captain Nazi demonstrated that the gas worked, Hitler personally shot Gaigne dead. From that time onward Nazi enjoyed the power of flight whenever he breathed the gas.
The Great Society of Evil of the Universe
In the spring of 1943, Captain Nazi was contacted over the radio by the alien Mister Mind, about whom he apparently had already heard. Mind wanted to open a chapter of his 'universal society of evil' on Earth. He saw the Axis powers as his natural allies.
Mind told Nazi that he would reward the Axis countries if they won the war. The Captain then joined what would soon become the Monster Society of Evil. Though he was an early recruit, Nazi's documented stay with the MSoE was brief.
Nazis love false flags
In the summer of 1943, Captain Nazi launched one of his most memorable and public plans. He pretended to defect to the US. He even brought lists of Nazi spies in America to prove that he was on the level.
This was of course a trap. But both Captain Marvel, Jr. and key military leaders only pretended to go along with the charade.
When Captain Nazi fed false information to US intelligence to clear the way for a German invasion of the US (!), the Americans were expecting this. Thus, Nazi forces fell into an ambush.
The caption in the first panel where Nazi appears describes him as "a rather handsome man […] his powerful and dynamic face marked with a Heidelberg duelling scar."
Heidelberg is a German university. It was known in the US due to press articles about students proudly bearing facial scars from sabre duels.
Later depictions of Captain Nazi occasionally drop the handsome bit and give him a contorted, villainous face. As to the scar it has a marked tendency to vanish (hence the lack of an Appearance Drawback in our game stats).
Once he gains the power of flight via the Gaigne gas, Nazi occasionally sports a pale green cape with a red swastika.
Captain Nazi is a slippery saboteur and murderer. He always comes up with villainous schemes to cripple America and enhance the Nazi war machine.
He's your typical wartime propaganda Evil Ruthless Dastardly Enemy Of Freedom, prone to melodramatic threats. Though he doesn't have a moustache to twirl.
Nazi is often depicted as a tin soldier and a bully. He'll strut and act sophisticated and domineering, but will quickly fold when faced by a Marvel. Likewise, he is not too hard to Interrogate if captured by somebody stronger than he is.
It is also common for Nazi to remorselessly kill people who helped him. Or to slaughter defenceless people whilst laughing an evil laugh. But that doesn't hide the fact that he's a devious coward.
He has, of course, no problem with sacrificing other Nazi agents, provided that it allows him to strike back at Captain Marvel, Jr..
Acrobatics: 08, Animal handling (Riding): 05, Artist (Actor): 05, Artist (Painter): 03, Gadgetry: 05, Military science (Cartography, Demolition, Field command): 06, Thief (Stealth, Security systems): 06, Vehicles (Air, Land, Water): 07, Weaponry: 09
Language (German).
Nazi Germany (High), Underworld (Low), Fifth Column (High), Other Axis powers (Low).
Saboteur, killer.
FLIGHT GAS [BODY 00, Flight: 09, Note: this gas can only be used by a superhumanly strong and/or robust person, though there's no further data about this limitation].
By exposing himself to this gas, Captain Nazi gains the Power of Flight for roughly 60 minutes, at which point he must inhale another dose if he wants to keep flying. Re-exposing himself to the gas immediately restores the Flight Power, which cannot be Recovered otherwise. Nazi usually carries a small inhaler with more doses.
Note that Nazi only gets ahold of this gas in January, 1943 — which is quite late in his career, as far as I can tell.
"Luger" P08 Pistol [BODY 03, Projectile weapon: 04, Ammo: 08, R#03] kept in his belt holster.
Disguise kit hidden in his costume.
As usual, this is a *post-Crisis scale* version of the character.
The first three incarnations of Captain Nazi (1940s, 1970s and 1980s versions) are impossible to stat up accurately. The material is simply not there to base analysis on. These writeups thus rely on educated guesses, and use the numbers in World at War to get a sense of scale when necessary.
When fighting the Marvels, Nazi is aware he can't afford to spend HPs on both AV and EV. Usually he boosts his AV a bit – giving him good chances to land an actual blow, but not much of a chance to actually having an effect. Captain Nazi really should spent some time understanding how the Action Table and the Result Table work.
Conversely, Nazi will not normally spend HPs against ordinary super-heroes such as Bulletman. He keeeps his HPs to stay conscious and escape when he runs into a Marvel, or is caught in a "certain death" situation.
This HPs conservation policy explains why he's not as redoubtable as he should be. But also how he always comes back and often easily escapes.
Dexterity check
The DEX in this entry is benchmarked against the traditional DEX for Captain Marvel since 2nd edition — 14.
Did Captain Marvel really have a DEX of 14 during the 1940s ? Barring some extensive research I'm not going to carry out in the foreseeable future (if only because these microfiches can be so dang hard to read), the answer is "probably, but I don't know for sure".
Reasoning with a 14 has advantages :
It's official. .And thus is shared as a starting point by everybody.
It meets the necessity of laying down a key value. Since in most cases you can only bench characters against Captain Marvel – there's no other data, leaving you with a chicken-and-egg situation.
It jibes reasonably well with some Golden Age conventions.
It's not falsified within the stories.
Captain Nazi (1940s) — Averaged PL15
Super ● 14 points ● Descriptor: Unrevealed
– Six Ranks of Impervious for both Fortitude and Toughness.
– Leaping 2.
Devices:
Gaigne flying gas ● 7 points (Removable) ● Descriptor: The awesome power of French science!
Flight 8, Limited (one hour of power per inhalation)
Combat Advantages:
Close Attack 5, Defensive Attack, Ranged Attack 5.
Benefit 3 (Millionaire (Reich backing)), Benefit 1 (Extensive contacts among Axis powers), Benefit 1 (Extensive backing by Axis fifth columns), Equipment 2, Language (German)
Acrobatics 6 (+11), Close combat (Unarmed) 5 (+20), Deception 6 (+8), Expertise (Horseriding) 4 (+7), Expertise (Painting) 3 (+6), Expertise (Soldier) 8 (+11), Insight 3 (+4), Perception 4 (+5), Persuasion 3 (+5), Ranged combat (Infantry weapons) 5 (+15), Stealth 4 (+9), Technology 7 (+10), Vehicles 5 (+10).
Light pistol Ranged ballistic Damage 3 ● 6 points
Hidden disguise kit ● 1 point
Offence:
Initiative +5
Unarmed +20, Close, Damage 14
Pistol +15, Ranged, Damage 3
Defence:
Fortitude 13
Parry 16
Toughness 13
Will 04
Power hungry
Powers Levels:
Trade-off areas. Attack/Effect PL 17, Dodge/Toughness PL 15, Parry/Toughness PL 15, Fort/Will PL 14.
Points total 198. Abilities 106, Defences 20, Skills 32, Powers 14, Devices 7, Advantages 19. Equiv. PL 14.
See the DCH DEX discussion above for the humongous Golden Age Offence/Defence bonuses.
Source of Character: Fawcett comics.
Helper(s): Peter Piispanen, Chris Cottingham, Darci.
Writeup completed on the 28th of December, 2010.
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Everyone knows Eric Crouch, who won last year's Heisman Trophy as the quarterback at the University of Nebraska.
Few know Zach Duval, the man behind Eric Crouch's successful career at Nebraska. As a trainer who relocated to Greeley, Duval essen-tially makes athletes excel through hard work and correct science in exercise.
He was an assistant strength coach at Nebraska for the past seven years. Now Duval and Robby Butler, who came with Duval from Nebraska, run The Training Ground athletic performance center located in Greeley, on the grounds of Work Out West.
The ultimate goal of the program is to build the same kind of athletic success that Husker strength has brought to the University of Nebraska. The program is also training 23 of UNC's football players and trying to help them adjust to the step up to Division I-AA.
"At Nebraska we didn't necessarily recruit the level of athletes that the Miamis and Florida States of the world get, but we got the maximum potential out of all of our athletes, and the results are in the national championships," said Duval, pointing to former Nebraska All-American Trev Albert, who left Lincoln with an added 12-inches on his vertical leap.
Duval understands that athleticism is the key to maximizing potential in every sport so that is where his program puts its main focus.
"I know that if I can increase a kid's vertical leap, and 40-yard dash time, and add lean muscle mass. I am giving a coach a great athlete to make better at their sport," Duval said.
The Training Ground puts athletes through the same weight training and speed workouts that the University of Nebraska uses.
"As far as intensity the program is exactly the same here as if we drove to Lincoln and worked out with the team there," Duval said. "Where we do tone it down a bit is in terms of the weight used."Using less weight and doing things right seems to be the key to establishing the foundation needed for athletic success.
"Here we work on doing everything right with the perfect technique, where at school we pretty much just try to lift as much weight as we can and look cool," said Greeley Central linebacker Derrick Vergera, who will be a senior this fall.
"By teaching these kids the right form now, coaches aren't going to have to take them steps back and re-learn things when they get to college," Duval said.
"Although we use less weights, we get stronger and we get stronger in the right ways," said Greeley Central graduate and program assistant coach Gabe Parra, who is using the program's workouts to help him attempt to walk-on the football team at Colorado State University.
Although the program has been running in Greeley for only a month, participants in it already can feel gains they never imagined before letting Duval take over their workouts.
"Its really fun to see the results," said Greeley West junior Taryn Hemmings. "I feel stronger, faster and more agile."
Athletes in the program hope to get a leg up on the rest of the competition.
"I feel myself improving. It will set kids in this program apart from other kids come the season," Vergera said.
The program does focus on more than just the workouts to improve its athletes.
"We sit down and give every kid a food shopping list of foods that will help performance. We teach how to alter carbohydrates relative to the activity," Duval said.
EAS is also a sponsor of the program and provides every camper with a protein shake after every workout.Although Duval enjoys seeing his athletes leave camp with newfound muscles and abilities, he finds his greatest reward in building something else: confidence.
"A lot of the kids come in with their heads down and then they leave here with their heads up," Duval said. "This program helps these kids learn they can make it athletically with the right work ethic and training."


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Employable Me is a Canadian television documentary series, which features job-seekers determined to show that having a physical disability or neurological condition shouldn't make them unemployable.

Based on a British series which aired on BBC Two, the Canadian series is produced by Thomas Howe and Associates. It premiered August 11, 2017 on AMI-TV, and November 2, 2017 on TVOntario.

The series was renewed for a second season which aired in 2018, and for a third season which aired in 2019.

Employable Me won MIPCOM's Diversify TV's Excellence Award for representation of disability: non-scripted, in Cannes on October 17, 2017, and the Rockie Award at the 2018 Banff World Media Festival. The show has received three Canadian Screen Award nominations for Best Factual Series, at the 6th Canadian Screen Awards in 2018 the 7th Canadian Screen Awards in 2019 and the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.

See also
 Employable Me (Australian TV series)

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Television shows about disability
2010s Canadian documentary television series
2017 Canadian television series debuts
TVO original programming

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Profiles & Features March 26, 2020
By Jennifer Larson, contributor
Respiratory Therapist Traveler Switches Gears During Coronavirus Crisis
La Shune' Pradia-Hargrove was excited about her second travel job as a respiratory therapist with Club Staffing.
In mid-March she was assigned to the sleep lab at a hospital in Northern California. After completing orientation, she took her first weekend shift, caring for four patients.
But that weekend was her last one in the sleep lab. As the coronavirus crisis worsened in California, hospital leaders made the decision to temporarily close down the sleep lab and focus all resources on more urgent concerns.
On the way to work, La Shune' got a phone call from her lab manager, informing her about the news. It was then that her lab manager threw her a curve ball. She asked La Shune' if she might be willing to pitch in and help out in the emergency department.
La Shune' was momentarily shocked. She hadn't worked in an emergency department setting in a dozen years. But she quickly regained her composure. She knew she could give breathing treatments and help out in a number of other ways.
"I said, you know what? I'll do it!" says La Shune', and she headed for the ED.
Life in the ED for an RT
When she arrived at the emergency department, her lab supervisor introduced her to the ED supervisor. A quick tour later, La Shune' easily found ways that she could be useful.
The ED was busy that night. Some of the patients who came in were under investigation for possible exposure to the coronavirus (COVID-19), and the nurses were swamped with work. La Shune' jumped into high gear. As the night wore on, she ran blood samples up to the lab, got prescriptions for patients, escorted patients to radiology for x-rays and CT scans, and helped out wherever she was needed.
"Anything they needed, I was there," she says. "I did not feel my feet the next morning when I left. I had been on my feet the entire night. I did not sit down once."
She returned again the next night for more of the same.
"I think we're all just doing what we can to pitch in," she says. "And that's what I love to see: people stepping up when we need them."
Previous disaster response experience helps her stay calm
One might wonder how someone can be so calm, so unflappable, so ready to serve during a crisis. Some of it's just La Shune'''s personality. She's just the kind of person who jumps into help.
"I have always been that caregiver, ever since I was young," she says. "I probably get that from my mom."
La Shune''s experience as a frontline caregiver in a large hospital in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005 helped prepare her for this current crisis, too. Imagine spending seven days in a large, acute-care hospital, with no electricity, no way in or out, with no way to contact her husband, trying to care for frightened patients. La Shune' did it. She made it through.
La Shune' brushes off compliments for her generosity in being willing to work in the ED during a time of crisis, even though that's not what she originally signed up for.
"All I did was go to work. I showed up and went to work," she says.
But La Shune' plans to keep showing up in the ED for as long as they need her. She doesn't know exactly what's going to happen–nobody does, she says–but she can use her abilities to help make other people feel better. Her specific experience as a respiratory therapist is very likely to come in handy very soon.
"I think I'm probably where I'm supposed to be right now," she says.
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10 Reasons to Thank a Nurse
It's been another challenging year in health care, with ups and downs in COVID cases, staffing shortages and stressful working environments. Health care leaders and public health officials continue to debate the best way to move forward, while providers are left to soldier on and make the best of their situation.
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The vast majority of nurses report feeling stress on the job; see what causes nurse stress and the best ways to reduce it and improve self-care.
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Emergency Nursing in 2021: What Has Changed, What Hasn't
Emergency departments are busier again, creating demand for ER nurses. See what's new for emergency nurses in 2021, with insights from ENA's president.
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Nurses have a long history of serving in the military. See 10 surprising facts about their service and how it's changed over the years.


Dancing with your baby snuggled close to you provides the kind of rhythmic motion and comforting contact that infants like. In baby dancing, style is as important as getting the steps right. Here are some tips that can make dancing with your baby more comforting and more fun.
Cling to your little partner in whatever position works and is safe for their age. Try the neck nestle, warm fuzzy, colic carries, shoulder drape, forward-facing hold, elbow rest, hip carry or shoulder ride. During the first three to four months be sure to support your partner's wobbly, weighty head.
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How fast to dance? Remember, while in the womb your baby was used to the rhythm of your pulse, usually around 60 to 70 beats per minute. Try to rock and swing to this rhythm when dancing with your baby, approximately one beat per second, "one and a two and a…" The volume, tempo and type of music may change with your baby's mood, and yours. Baby's womb environment is actually quite loud, so don't be surprised if your baby prefers louder music!
Select a dance that you like, one that suits your mood and energy level, lest the dancer wear out before the fusser. One rainy night Lauren, our youngest, could not give herself up to sleep. Martha wracked her brain for what to do next when inspiration came from the weather. She started singing "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (from the old movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) and did a very jazzy dance step to match the jazzy tune. Lauren soon forgot she was resisting, relaxed into the fun, and nodded off before long. This winning tune got replayed and danced for many a night thereafter. Martha looked forward to it as a fun way to lull Lauren into dreamland.
To keep your arms from wearing out before your legs while dancing with your baby, nestle baby in a sling as you dance.
Some babies love to breastfeed in the sling while you dance. Your movement plus baby's sucking is a winning combination for settling even the most upset baby.
Babies usually prefer dancing with mother, after all, she's the dance partner baby came to know even before birth. It's as if baby says to the mother, "I like your style." This also explains why some fathers get frustrated when they try to cut in, offering some relief to worn-out dancer mom. Sometimes babies vehemently protest this change in partners, and father hands baby back to mother saying, "You take her, I give up." Yet many high-need babies like a change in routine and welcome dad's different holds and steps. And don't forget to invite grandmother to the dance. She has patient and experienced arms and can probably show baby some pretty fancy stepping from her days as a baby dancer.


Home Blog Posts Can I Get Hair Loss Treatment At The NHS?
Unfortunately, there is no trichologist on the National Health Service and therefore no treatment for hair loss on the NHS at present. The patient may be lucky to have blood tests carried out to eliminate the possibility of deficiencies. However, this is only a small minority of the cases as they are not always needed. Other patients are referred to a Dermatologist, who in most cases have little specific experience within the world of hair loss.
Hair loss can be a temporary condition that self-corrects however in most cases the hair loss will need either further investigation or perhaps clinical treatment. This highly emotive and for some reason rather taboo subject is far more than merely a cosmetic concern for the sufferer.
Contrary to belief, male pattern hair loss and female pattern hair loss (Androgen Dependant Alopecia) can be treated as the thinning can in many conditions can be slowed and a cosmetically acceptable level of regrowth achieved also. This area is my specialism.
We all lose some hair each day as part of our normal hair growth cycle. However, what happens if more hairs are noticed in the brush or wash than usual? For some people, this may be no more than minor "blip" that may self-correct. In the cases where this does not happen, who do you approach?
Trichology is the science of the hair and scalp, the Institute of Trichologists was founded in 1902. Members of this governing body are designated with an associate or member status and must adhere to a strict code of ethics and practice.
The consultant trichologist, like me, is able to diagnose, advise and in most cases treat scalp conditions including persistent dandruff to the more inflammatory ones such as eczema and psoriasis.
Most women will experience hair loss at some point in their lives. This can reflect influencing factors such as hair loss after pregnancy, other hormone changes, the effects of medication, nutritional deficiencies, and general health.
During your consultation, a thorough examination of the hair and scalp will be carried out and will also involve questions regarding your past and present medical history, lifestyle, diet, family history and medication. Occasionally a blood test will be required, and these can be obtained through the clinic privately or the patient's own GP. All these factors will be considered to help make a correct diagnosis of the condition.
However, there appears to be a significant rise in the numbers of patients attending trichological practices with concerns over thinning hair. The most common diagnosis is male or female pattern hair loss (Androgenic Alopecia). This is a gradual hereditary hair thinning, influenced even in women by the sensitivity to normal levels of circulating male hormones (androgens).
There has been a substantial advance in the treatment and management of this type of hair loss. This will be explained to the patient in the trichological practice, which may involve both clinical and home treatment. So if you are suffering from any form of trichological condition including out of condition hair, contact a locally qualified trichologist today for advice.
You can also read this blog post on the same topic published earlier.
If you feel that you would like to invest your time in having a consultation, please either call or complete the inquiry form and I shall reply to you shortly.


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NEW YORK (AP) St. John's marked its return to the Top 25 with an efficient performance that showed exactly why the Red Storm are ranked for the first time in nearly four years.
D'Angelo Harrison scored 26 points, Phil Greene IV had 16 and No. 24 St. John's beat Fairleigh Dickinson 74-52 on Wednesday night.
Sir'Dominic Pointer added 12 points on 6-of-6 shooting and Chris Obekpa had 10 points and 12 rebounds for the Red Storm (7-1) in their first game as a ranked team since 2011. St. John's returned to the Top 25 this week after a 12-point victory at Syracuse last Saturday.
''We are glad to get the `W.' Coming off of the Syracuse victory in the Carrier Dome, we were uncertain how the team was going to respond. There were clearly some aspects of play we need to improve upon even though we won by 22,'' St. John's coach Steve Lavin said.
Obekpa also had six of the Red Storm's 11 blocked six shots. Harrison grabbed six rebounds and made all eight of his free throws.
Playing on campus at Carnesecca Arena, St. John's opened a 39-25 halftime lead and outrebounded FDU 35-24.
Mustafaa Jones had 18 points for the Knights (3-5). Xavier Harris added 13 points and eight rebounds.
St. John's shot 56.9 percent from the field and held Fairleigh Dickinson to 37.3 percent, including 4 of 14 from 3-point range.
Harrison was 8 of 14 from the field and Greene shot 7 for 15, making a pair of 3-pointers.
The Knights went 10 for 21 (47.6 percent) from the free throw line.
Fairleigh Dickinson: Home against Delaware on Dec. 20.
St. John's: Home against Fordham at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.


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Under-fire Chelsea Coach, Graham Potter has expressed his frustration after another defeat against Fulham on Thursday.
The visitors lost 2-1 to Fulham at the Craven Cottage thanks to goals from Willian Vinicius.
The Blues have now won just two out of their last 10 games in all competitions.
"It's really frustrating and incredibly challenging. I feel for the supporters. We're disappointed to lose tonight.
I thought it was a relatively even game in the first half and we had a couple of good chances. I think the basics we can do better in terms of our defending and some of our football actions.
"But at the same time, we get back in the game and then the red card…it's where we're at at the moment in terms of things that can happen to us.
New signing, Joao Felix was sent off in the second half, while Denis Zakaria limped off to compound Potter's woes.
"We lost Denis beforehand as well and were just adjusting with Jorginho and then Joao – who was having a fantastic impact on the game and you could see his quality – to lose him and to lose him for three matches is really disappointing."
Potter refused to blame Kepa for Fulham's second goal.
"I never like to speak about individuals when we lose. I think the goal itself is a frustrating one from our perspective because I didn't think they were putting us under too much pressure even though they had an extra man. So felt like a soft goal to concede and that is something we have to do better with."
Chelsea will be back in Premier League duties at home against Crystal Palace on Sunday.
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Today's post is a little different for my mainly bookish blog but with the reopening of the newly refurbished Cake in a Jar, which I consider to be one of THE best snacks while reading I knew I had to help spread the word and the lovely owner Georgina has agreed to let me pepper her with questions about her business as we talk vegan cakes, running your own business and designing cakes.
Originally derived from the concept of army wives sending cakes in jars to their husbands while stationed overseas, in 2013 Georgina created Cake in a Jar and took that idea and refined it into the masterpiece that it is today. At Cake in a jar, all cakes are vegan-friendly, 100% plant-based and cruelty-free, not to mention everyone is baked fresh to order and can be delivered right to your door in secure but fully recyclable packaging. Cake in a jar has evolved over the years, I first discovered this wonderful company at London Film and Comic Con and make sure to pay them a visit if they're at a convention I'm attending as it turns out, cakes in jars are a perfect food to easily eat and keep your energy up and eat cleanly at a con! In July 2018 Georgina decided to transition the business to entirely plant-based meant learning how to make her yummy cakes in a completely new way and as someone who has now tried Cake in a Jar before and after I can tell you this amazing woman is a cake magician because they taste even better, there are a peanut butter, oreo and chocolate flavour and if that isn't the best thing ever I don't know what is.
How did the idea for Cake in a Jar come about?
It was a solution to me branching out nationwide, I was racking my brains trying to think of a way to ship cake in the post without compromising it. I didn't want to just be limited to the locality of Croydon. I was already having a go at a little baking business of my own after I had my son. I began receiving messages from people all over the country asking for cakes that I just couldn't get to them. It took a solid year of development but eventually, I created a finished product I was happy with.
I love being able to maintain a stable family life and run my own business at the same time. I still get to do the school run, pop to the shops and all sorts… as long as I plan properly!
I also really like being able to listen to whatever music I like while I work. My previous jobs were quite restrictive in that sense (call centre and retail) so I totally appreciate the beauty of listening to a new album, start to finish.
What made you decide to take Cake in a Jar to conventions?
I was already at conventions selling cupcakes but noticed that it was becoming quite a saturated market. As my business developed and changed directions I decided to mirror that at conventions too, I just thought it was probably worth a try!
You've recently rebranded and are now creating new vegan-friendly cakes, what led you to make this decision and how have you found changing your recipes to include plant-based ingredients?
I had been Pescatarian and then Vegetarian a few years prior but I began seeing more vegan related posts on my personal Social Media feeds. I also discovered I had developed Lactose Intolerance in my late 20s (much to my dismay, I really loved drinking lattes at the time.) I was hearing a lot about this Veganuary stuff and thought that because I pretty much only needed to give up eggs to make the leap so, why not? Probably one of the best decisions I've ever made.
When January had ended I had learned so much that I was just oblivious to before. Although I couldn't consume dairy myself I also didn't want to profit from the industry anymore, same goes for eggs too. I made a pretty drastic and purely emotion-led decision to close the site indefinitely until I could rebrand myself to a business that I was proud of.
It took me so much longer than I anticipated! Turns out Vegan baking is pretty challenging and I had to teach myself a whole new method of cookery once again. However, the rewards of my non-vegan family and friends eating the new and improved versions, saying that they 'couldn't tell the difference' made it all worth it in an instant.
What is your favourite cake to eat?
Funnily enough, I don't actually have much of a sweet tooth anymore. My fave is probably the Lemon Burst as I love the balance of the citrusy zing against the rich decadent frosting ❤ Spiced cakes are also a fave of mine, carrot cake, ginger cake etc.
Your cakes always look absolutely beautiful with all their layers and frosting, I especially loved the alternating layers and a tantalising splodge of peanut butter and the sprinkling of nuts on top of the Peanut Butter, Oreo and Chocolate cake. Do you have a design process? If so could you tell me a little about it?
Haha actually… I'm sure probably no one has noticed but I do have a touch of OCD. This has manifested itself into my baking; I have a thing about the number five, the noise volume has to be in multiples of five, items have to be (if possible) grouped in this number too. When I shop for ingredients, I have to buy at least 5 of each item at least!
What is Cake in a Jar up to at the moment and can you tell us what we can expect in the coming year?
Lemon Zest and Rosemary infused sponge with a Blackcurrant curd and Elderflower frosting.
I'm planning to release 3 flavours (hopefully) by the end of the month that will be available until the end of May so be sure to keep up to date with me on Social Media to find out when the new collection goes live!
After meticulously perfecting recipes, the new website and packaging Cake in a Jar reopened this week so make sure to check out the website here with all the new flavours now for sale!


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