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Tina Dunkley: A Treasure Trove of Narratives at Her Fingertips
By Shantay Robinson for Black Art in America
Tina Maria Dunkley in her studio. By Jerry Siegel
Tina Dunkley's life in the arts, as she puts it, "is an issue of DNA." "I was really born into an incubator relative to family members being creative and making things all the time." Although her parents were not artists, her mother was a hairdresser and seamstress and her father was a Merchant Marine, her aunts and uncles were always making things and she was usually in tow. So, she didn't think it was unusual. Dunkley's grandfather, John Dunkley, whose exhibition received a positive review in The New York Times, is one of Jamaica's nationally celebrated artists. His exhibition John Dunkley: Neither Day nor Night will be on view at the American Folk Museum in New York City from October 30 to February 24, 2019, at the same time that Tina Dunkley's exhibition, Sanctuary for the Internal Enemy: An Ancestral Odyssey will be on view at the Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba House from January 16 to March 16, 2019.
When in elementary school, Dunkley would visit the Brooklyn Museum to take painting courses. Then in junior high school, she took printmaking at Pratt. But visual art wasn't her first love. She wanted to dance. When in junior high school, Katherine Dunham, the renowned African American dancer for whom a technique is named, visited her school and left two provisionary scholarships. Dunkley recalls, "During the summer it was six days a week that I danced at her school on 42nd St. in Manhattan. Two years later, the next thing I knew they put me in Aida. [Dunham] had choreographed a section of Aida for the Metropolitan Opera and I was in there dancing for the last season of the old Met before it closed." If she had been aware of the High School for Performing Arts, she would have auditioned. Instead, she attended the High School of Music and Art. But she's not regretful, "Everything works out the way it's supposed to because I came [to Atlanta], discovered Atlanta University's Art Collection, and just went down that rabbit hole for thirty years."
Dunkley attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania before transferring to School of Visual Art in New York City. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and four months after, moved to Atlanta to attend Atlanta University. She enrolled in the African American Studies program, and her interest was in the curriculum of the African Diaspora. Quite serendipitously the funding dried up for the department, but because she was on scholarship she was able to continue to study. What happened when she was writing her graduate thesis altered the course of black art history. She encountered a collection of artworks by black artists in the basement of the school's library that had served the university and its surrounding areas for thirty years but hadn't been shown for about ten.
In 1931, Hale Woodruff who had been working and living in Europe was invited by the president of Atlanta University to teach art. While there, Woodruff started the collection in 1942, through annual national juried exhibitions that ran until 1970. Discovering the collection in 1978, Dunkley wrote about it for her master's thesis and then asked if she could be the curator for the collection. And from 1980 to 1987, that's what she did until the university got into some financial trouble, and her position was one of the first things to go. On retainer, Dunkley was still able to serve as the steward of artworks that were getting loan requests to be placed in exhibitions because she made the case that no one else on staff was familiar with the collection. After her leave from Atlanta University, Dunkley moved on to Georgia State University Art Gallery at School of Art and Design, (now the Ernest Welch School of Art and Design) under the direction of Larry Walker. During the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Dunkley produced a project for the Olympics that profiled the Atlanta University Center and the King Center, which helped to obtain a couple million dollars to rehouse the permanent collection in a new University Gallery, now the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum. The president of the university asked that she return to oversee the renovation.
While a student at SVA, Dunkley had no idea the artworks found in Atlanta University's collection existed. She states, "So, here I am in the early 70s at SVA, and I'm listening to an art history professor teach, Art Since 1945, and there's no mention of any artists of color and then I end up down south and there's this magnificent trove of incredible work by African American artists that these museums and curators know virtually nothing about." Dunkley had worked with the artworks of many of these master artists as Director of Clark Atlanta University Collection. In reflection she mentions Charles White, Augusta Savage, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, and Hale Woodruff. When asked if there is a particular artist who inspires her, Dunkley is apprehensive. She says, "I feel cautious when I answer that question," as many artists historical, as well as contemporary, move her in their own way. On her discovery of these artists, she says, "I was chasing information, something that I believed existed. And not only did it exist; it existed in astonishing and monumental form. So, we can now observe how it's just gotten bigger from there with our postmodern artists. God let's not even go there."
While working diligently to maintain her career, Dunkley was also a caregiver to her parents. When her mother passed in 2005, she had her last solo show, although in the years between then and now, she's been a part of several group shows. Though she worked as an art administrator, she never really left her practice behind. Retiring from Clark Atlanta University Art Museum in 2015, allowed her to return whole-heartedly to her artwork. She considers herself a multimedia artist, but she was trained in and has a degree in painting and sculpture. As an undergraduate, she was big into abstraction. But when she moved to Atlanta her work became figurative. Engaging with the people pulled her in the direction of figuration because she was so moved by their narratives. These narratives about people she would encounter became a recurring theme in her work. "Anytime I learn of an amazing story, I'm compelled to respond to it," she says.
Dunkley received a Kellogg Fellowship for international development in the early 90s where she taught painting and design to marginalized communities of youth in Brazil who were looking for sustainable projects from which they could gain skills to generate income. The fellowship lasted two and half years for which she travelled between Brazil and the United States. Dunkley is inspired by narratives that are uncommon, as she recalls a story told to her during the time she spent in Brazil of how a church was built for and by enslaved Afro-Brazilians. As a conduit or vehicle, the universe allows her to communicate information by listening, interpreting, and transmitting that intelligence.
When her uncle, the last person from her mother's generation passed, Dunkley returned to Trinidad, where her family migrated to the United States from. What she found out would change her perception about her heritage. She found her own uncommon personal narrative. Between 1815 and 1816 a group of runaway slaves were faced with the opportunity to move to the Southern region of Trinidad for helping the British navigate the American terrain during the War of 1812. About 800 of them chose to relocate to the island. They described themselves as Merikins, a creolization of the name American. To put this in perspective, Dunkley's ancestors were enslaved Africans in America who would migrate to Trinidad and then returned to America, the land they helped build as free men and women. These beautiful, bold, and brave people were able to free themselves from the confines of slavery to create a lineage of descendants in freedom. When we hear about the Maroons living in the mountains in Jamaica or the Quilombolas in the hinterlands of Brazil, we respect them for that bravery. To realize they are your ancestors is buoyant. This little-known story spurred Dunkley to write The Merikens, a book for middle-school aged children about her family's heritage. She's dedicated her latest exhibition Sanctuary for the Internal Enemy: An Ancestral Odyssey to them. She's responding to their/her narrative.
Had Dunkley not moved to Atlanta, she would never have discovered the art in the basement of Atlanta University's library. She credits the city with allowing her to use her skill set. Because of the cultural programs put forth by Mayor Maynard Jackson, she was able to work at a Neighborhood Art Center. She worked all over the state with the Georgia Council of the Arts for four years teaching. And she worked with the Olympics to profile historical sites. Dunkley's is an amazing narrative. It's one that may be told for years to come. Her upbringing in the arts through the bloodline of a nation's celebrated artist, her discovery of a treasure trove of artworks by important historical African American artists, and the realization of her ancestry should be the matter of lore. She says, "When I think about how I hated the subject of history in elementary school and high school, unaware that it was because it was erroneous, omitting the roles of African Americans in the "making of America", and their participation in all of the wars, I was so astounded to discover my family's role in the War of 1812. It's mind boggling to me."
Above: Tina Dunkley, Arktype Sustenance series: Blessed is the Fruit of Free Labor. Serigraph, 2015
Click here to read the article at BlackArtinAmerica.com


WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. (January 16, 2018) –New York State Senate candidate Sarmad Khojasteh (R) today announced his campaign has broken a fundraising record for a New York State Senate candidate in District 37 by raising more than $125,000 for the January 16 filing.
Sarmad filed paperwork with the New York State Board of Elections officially declaring his candidacy on December 4, 2017. This is the most ever raised by a first-time candidate in this district over a six-week period.
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For many of us, consent remains a murky concept. However, at its core, its definition is as black and white as any other; the only difference is that we don't teach it that way.
By Jac McCarty, Boulder High School
Consent. It's an idea that, more often than not, adheres to the time-tested saying of 'you know it when you see it.'
Many cases are clear-cut. Black and white. A woman saying no. Powder slipped into a drink. Other times, it's a bit more nebulous. Times where lines start to blur and individuals are left wondering if there's a difference between saying 'no' and not explicitly saying 'yes.' This distinction is in many ways encapsulated by the recent allegations against Boulder High senior Curran English.
Police first arrested English on Dec. 6, after a fellow student accused him of sexually assaulting her in her mother's car. In a police-monitored phone call (as detailed by The Daily Camera in Dec. 2019), English reportedly said about the incident in question: "If you told me to stop, you know I would've."
This situation is of a sort that begs the question: what is consent?
According to Lindsey Breslin, a sexual assault hotline supervisor at Moving to End Sexual Assault (MESA), the answer is a bit more involved than most people might think. "There's several different components to consent […] People have to be capable of understanding the nature of the sexual activity. What that's going to be. Consent has to be freely given, which means [that] someone's not been pressured, not being manipulated, coerced or physically forced to give consent."
Breslin says consent is also inherently reversible. "I could agree to some sexual activity right now and in 10 minutes, I could change my mind and say I no longer want to engage."
Perhaps most relevant to the case at hand, however, is the concept of enthusiasm. "Consent," says Breslin, "is not the absence of a no."
A large part of understanding consent, she says, lies within reading the other person's body language. "Sometimes people, when they're experiencing a sexual assault—they might freeze, their body language might change. And people have to pay attention to other people's body language and stop what they're doing and say, 'Hey, are you okay? Are you still wanting to do this?'"
The surest sign that you have consent, at least according to Breslin, is the presence of a "positive yes" to questions like this one.
While the definition of consent is often said to be nebulous, according to a round of surveys conducted on Boulder High students, there is, in fact, a mutually understood meaning. When interviewed, nearly all answers defined consent with this concept of a "positive yes." Said one senior, who chose to remain anonymous, consent is "[g]etting verbal permission from someone to continue what you are doing."
However, while students may know the theory of consent through mandatory middle and high school health classes and social media osmosis, sexual assault allegations like those surrounding BVSD students like Curran English and Aidan Atkinson have made it clear that this theory may not always hold up in practice.
Clearly, something needs to change about the way we learn about consent, whether it's through additional reinforcement in later high school classes or through mandatory seminars. At its core, consent is not a "shade of gray" issue; it's only interpreted that way. As a community, we need to start talking about this. As a community, we need to make clear the many layers surrounding consent, so that it can be perceived as the black-and-white issue that it really is.
And Boulder High is taking steps.
Our administration has recently been in communication with Peers Building Justice (PBJ), a partnership between MESA and Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence (SPAN). While PBJ has most commonly performed educational services for us in the context of Health classes, Dr. Hill informed the school in a mass email that "we will be increasing our work with MESA to expand this educational opportunity beyond the health class."
PBJ representatives are set to make an appearance sometime this month, but further educational seminars beyond the Health classroom have yet to be scheduled.
National Sexual Assault Hotline: 1-800-656-4673
Safe2Tell Hotline: 1-877-542-7233
Moving to End Sexual Assault Hotline: 303-443-7300
This story was originally published on The Owl on January 25, 2020.
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Robert Luke Martin is an internationally recognized conductor, organist, orchestrator, and concert producer who strives to create exciting programming that introduces new audiences to the concert hall.
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Robert has received degrees from Houghton College (B.Mus. in Organ), Queen's University Belfast (MA in Arts Management), and the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University Long Beach (M.Mus. in Instrumental Conducting), and has studied with Dr. Judy Congdon (organ), Gary Stith, John Carnahan, Dr. Jermie Arnold, and Dr. Donald Brinegar (conducting).


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How Overtime Rules Would Benefit Millennials
By Sunny Frothingham August 24, 2015, 9:05 am
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Across the country, Americans of all ages have been left behind. Even as the economy grows and costs of living rise, workers face erratic schedules, long hours, and stagnant wages. Millennials in particular started to look for jobs in a recovering economy, which left them with even fewer options to demand fair pay and reasonable schedules. Workers' rights have eroded over decades, culminating in huge barriers to financial security for Millennials currently paying off debt, launching their careers, and starting families.
Strengthening overtime pay rules—to provide qualified workers time-and-a-half pay for any hours over 40 worked in one week—is one important way to reaffirm worker's rights to fair pay and reasonable hours. Currently, salaried workers are not guaranteed overtime pay unless they make less than $23,660 per year. If the overtime salary threshold had kept up with inflation since 1975, it would be more than $52,000 today.
On June 30, the U.S. Department of Labor proposed a new rule that would raise the salary threshold to $50,440. This rule is especially important for Millennial workers: 4.7 million of them would directly benefit from it.
Reforming the overtime rule is an important step toward ensuring that workers are earning pay for all the hours that they work, as well as offering the Millennial generation basic opportunities to reach and build up the middle class. The public has until September 4 to submit comment letters to the Department of Labor. Help make sure that the United States has an economy that works for everyone by submitting your comment in support of overtime reform at FixOvertime.org.
Millennial economic statistics
Employment. Sixty-five percent of young adults are employed, down from 69 percent among the same age group in 1980.
Unemployment rate. While the national unemployment rate hit 5.3 percent in June—its lowest rate in seven years—unemployment was more than 12 percent among 16-to 24-year-olds and 5.6 percent among 25- to 34-year-olds in that same month.
Student debt. Seventy-one percent of students who graduated college in 2015 have student debt, whereas 20 years ago, the majority of students did not take out any loans. In addition, the average debt of a student borrower in the class of 2015 is slightly more than $35,000, making it the most indebted class ever. Even when adjusted for inflation, the amount of debt per borrower has doubled since the early 1990s.
Poverty. One in five Millennials are living in poverty today, up from one in seven among the same age group in 1980.
Parenting. In 2014, more than 20 million Millennials were parents, and this number is likely to increase over the next decade.
Basic facts of overtime reform
Strengthening overtime protections is one of several policies that could put more money in the pockets of hardworking Millennials striving for economic stability and could help create an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy few.
The current rules only guarantee overtime for salaried workers who earn less than $23,660 per year. In 1975, more than 60 percent of salaried workers were guaranteed overtime pay. Today, only 8 percent are.
The proposed reform would allow workers with modest salaries to be paid for all the hours that they work. The proposed rule would raise the overtime salary threshold to $50,440, or $970 per week.
Overtime reform and Millennial workers
The proposed rule—while important for people of all ages—will especially affect salaried workers under age 35, who are more likely to have salaries that fall below the new threshold. In 2013, 70 percent of 16- to 24-year-olds with full-time salaries in exempt roles earned less than the proposed threshold of $50,440.
In 2013, 41 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds with full-time salaries in exempt roles earned less than the proposed threshold of $50,440.
The overtime salary threshold currently covers 2 million Millennials. Raising the threshold to $50,440 would directly benefit an additional 4.7 million Millennials, bringing the total number of Millennials covered by the new overtime salary threshold to 6.7 million.
Millennials represent 28 percent of the total salaried workforce but 35.2 percent of the workers who would benefit from the increased salary threshold under the proposed rule.
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The martyrdom mindset: What leads people to decide to become suicide terrorists?
The first suicide bomb attack was carried out in Russia in 1881. What has since led so many people to this horrifying form of terrorism?
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Among the multitude of videos uploaded to the internet in the early years of the war in Syria, it is hard to forget the smiling face of Abdul Waheed Majeed, pictured chatting with his friends before calmly climbing into the cab of an armour-plated lorry.
Forty minutes later, the home-made film picks up the Mad Max-style adapted vehicle trundling along the main road, heading straight for the front gates of Aleppo prison where hundreds of opponents of the Assad regime are being held.
Bullets bounce off the truck's armour as the guards suddenly realise Majeed's true intention. But their efforts are to no avail. A few seconds later a huge explosion rocks the landscape and the prison walls are breached, allowing dozens of jihadi prisoners to escape.
In Crawley, West Sussex, where Abdul Waheed Majeed, a 41-year-old father of three, had lived before leaving to join Isis, his family was inconsolable. Why did this peaceful father, son and brother leave his home in 2014 to become the first British suicide bomber in the Syrian conflict?
Perhaps only Majeed will ever be able to answer this question.
Abdul Waheed Majid
Roots beyond Islamic extremism
The appalling death toll in victims of suicide attacks across the Middle East has forged an indelible link between Islamist terrorism and weaponised self-sacrifice.
Last year there were nearly 300 suicide attacks killing almost 3,000 people and injuring 5,000 more. A total of 505 terrorists, including 84 women, participated in these car bombs, shootings and stabbings. More than half were carried out by Isis, in Syria, Iraq and Egypt.
Sri Lanka attacks: Islamic extremists, with international links, blamed as 290 confirmed dead
Nine Islamist suicide bombers, eight men and one woman – all well-educated and from wealthy families – are thought to have carried out the attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday that killed at least 253 people.
The association between the suicide attack and conflicts in the Middle East seems to have been with us forever. Yet the story of the suicide bomber did not begin in the Middle East. Nor are its origins tied to the Islamic faith.
From St Petersburg to London
The world's first suicide bomber was a Russian revolutionary named Ignaty Grinevitsky. He was a member of the People's Will, a terrorist organisation which had tried and failed on many occasions to assassinate Tsar Alexander II, the leader of Imperial Russia.
On 13 March 1881 Grinevitsky and his fellow revolutionaries were determined to finish the job.
The assassination of Alexander II of Russia on March 13, 1881
The night before the attack, Grinevitsky wrote a martyrdom letter, carefully setting out his motives for his actions. It read: "Alexander II must die. He will die, and with him, we, his enemies, his executioners, shall die too… How many more sacrifices will our unhappy country ask of its sons before it is liberated? It is my lot to die young, I shall not see our victory, I shall not live one day, one hour in the bright season of our triumph, but I believe that with my death I shall do all that it is my duty to do, and no one in the world can demand more of me."
The next day, as the Tsar's carriage approached a street corner near the Catherine Canal, St Petersburg, one of the three attackers threw their bombs. But the explosions failed to penetrate the carriage, leaving Alexander unharmed.
It was only when the Tsar left the safety of the carriage to check on two of his wounded Cossack guards that Grinevitsky made his move, running forwards he launched his bomb, killing Alexander outright and leaving Grinevitsky fatally wounded.
Fast forward to 7 July 2005, when four British al-Qaeda bombers attacked the London transport system killing 52 people and injuring 700 more. The group's leader, Mohammad Sidique Khan, a 30-year-old classroom assistant and father from Beeston, killed six people when he detonated his suicide bomb on a Tube train near Edgware Road.
Suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan, from Dewsbury in West Yorkshire (Getty Images)
He too left a message for posterity. In his martyrdom he called himself a "soldier" who was waging a war against the West, adding the exhortation: "Our words are dead until we give them life with our blood."
History has looked far more kindly on Grinevitsky and the Russian assassins than it has on Khan and his cell of suicide bombers. While Grinevitsky is often described as a revolutionary who gave his life for the future of the socialist state, Khan is a cold-blooded terrorist serving a warped Islamist ideology.
But if we are to be consistent, and not give political validity to those who kill for a perceived greater cause, we must be careful to denounce all suicide attacks as acts of terrorism.
Fast facts: suicide attacks
Assessing the death toll of victims of suicide bombers since the days of the Tsars, author Iain Overton calculates that 250,000 people have been killed or injured – more than all the casualties in the Battle of Gettysburg, or the first day of the Somme, or the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945.
The modern phenomenon of suicide bombing is considered to have begun during the Lebanese civil war. One attacker killed 307 people, including US and French military personnel, when he drove a truck into a barracks in 1983.
The ringleader of the six Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka, Zahran Hashim, a radical preacher who had pledged allegiance to Isis in a video, died in a blast at the Shangri-La hotel in Colombo. The Sri Lankan authorities have blamed National Thowheed Jamath, a local Islamist extremist group, for the attacks.
Sri Lanka is no stranger to deadly suicide attacks. In 1996, almost 100 people were killed by an explosion at Colombo Central Bank, in an operation carried out by the separatist Tamil Tigers group.
Many 'causes', one belief
In Iain Overton's new book, The Price of Paradise, the author traces a narrative from the first Russian suicide bombers to the industrial martyrdom units of Isis. Overton explores the emergence of the suicide attacker as a weapon of war. He describes how Japanese kamikaze – "divine wind" – suicide pilots flew their Zero fighters into the hulls of Allied shipping in the Pacific.
But he also notes that human suicide bombers were active in the region well before the kamikaze units. In fact, it was the Chinese, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937 to 1945, who sent soldiers with grenades packed into their metal breastplates against the better-armed Japanese armies.
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Neither was the tactic confined to Japanese and Chinese combatants. "Less well known," says Overton, "is the fact that some Allied troops also undertook suicide missions during the Second World War."
Indeed, it turns out that the first suicide pilot of the Pacific campaign was not Japanese at all, but a British flier who deliberately crashed his damaged aircraft into a Japanese transport ship off the Malaya coast.
In June 1941, during the German invasion of Russia, Soviet commanders also ordered their pilots to crash their planes into those of the Luftwaffe. One of these Soviet suicide pilots was a female pilot named Yekaterina Zelenko who brought down a Messerschmitt 109 by diving her slower fighter on to it from above. On 5 May 1990, the USSR's final leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, belatedly awarded her the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Overton shows that even after the Second World War inferior forces called on their soldiers to make the ultimate sacrifice, whether employed in the suicide units of the Viet Cong or the killing fields of Sri Lanka. Towards the end of the 20th century, terrorist groups tried to evoke the struggle of war to legitimise the actions of the suicide bombers. As we have seen, al-Qaeda and Isis brainwashed thousands of recruits, like Khan and Majeed, to sacrifice their lives in the name of their warped interpretation of the Islamic faith.
Overton has identified a common thread which he says runs through nearly all suicide bombers' justifications – "that for others to live in this better world to come, a sacrifice is required". And he has gone further than most to understand the motivations of the modern-day suicide bomber. He even met one – or rather a bomber who had failed to blow himself up.
The interior of St. Anthony's Shrine is pictured in Colombo following a series of bomb blasts on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
A sudden realisation
In 2002, Palestinian teenager Murad Tawalbeh decided to carry out a suicide bomb attack after his friend was killed by an Israeli military sniper. He had been protesting with the teenager at an Israeli checkpoint on the West Bank when his friend was fatally shot in the chest. According to Overton, Tawalbeh's decision was a culmination of a long road of frustration in which he had been worn down by the oppression of the Israeli state.
Most of all, he told Overton, he was deeply affected by a picture of a dead baby Palestinian girl who had been killed during an Israeli attack.
One day in 2002, Tawalbeh, 19 at the time, put on his best T-shirt, kissed his family goodbye as they slept, and slipped out into the pre-dawn to meet his brother, a well-known Palestinian fighter. His brother helped him put on the suicide vest – a bulky brown contraption with a tube made of iron – crying and kissing him as he did so, says Overton.
He then took a taxi to Haifa and walked into the town's marketplace where he intended to detonate his bomb. But among the early morning commuters and shoppers, his attention was drawn to a mother and her child, a baby similar to one in the picture he carried with him.
"I started thinking," he told Overton. "I am here to stop the killing of babies, so I couldn't imagine myself killing another baby." He immediately left the market and discarded his suicide vest in wasteland, but was soon picked up by Israeli security forces who found him around the town without a permit. They linked him to the bomb and he was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. He was released in 2008.
Overton has also spent time with some of the survivors of the recent carnage. Their stories are moving and direct testimony of the pointless damage done to innocent lives.
"They share their stories in different ways," he says. "Some feel guilty, knowing that they survive while others fell. Some rock nervously in the telling; others talk with calm, steady voices as if they weren't even there. They speak of their children waiting for them at home; of parents nervously texting to ask where they are; of the noise of the ringing mobile phones of the dead never to be answered."
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There are so many tricks you can try out with your interior. But, among so many approaches, there are quite a few that can be wrong. Sometimes, you might use a design that seems great on paper but when you implement it on your apartment or house, it creates a completely unwanted effect.
This is especially common nowadays when modern design reigns supreme. A lot of homeowners are still sticking to classic solutions while trying to pull off a modern décor. Because of this, they tend to add a lot of details that have no place in such an environment.
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If you're thinking what kind of a sectional to get, make sure to buy something that goes around. What do I mean by that?
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Getting the right, big pieces is always the hardest thing when it comes to living room decoration. As you can see, there are several rules you need to follow but in general, it is rather simplistic.
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Plastic stuff in oceans versus "climate change"
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I think the growing accumulation of plastic stuff in our water, including the Pacific Ocean, is a more urgent problem than climate change. While we could do something to reverse the daily accumulation, stopping climate change is far more difficult.
Summary: Cleaning up our water is more serious, yet more doable.
This article is what prompted this thread: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar..._rid=883646351
The greater number of laws . . . , the more thieves . . . there will be. ---- Lao-Tzu
[T]he truth I'm after and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance -— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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Why on Earth would anyone frame such things as alternatives? That's absurd.
Originally posted by Truthseeker View Post
I think the growing accumulation of plastic stuff in our water, including the Pacific Ocean, is a more urgent problem than climate change.
It certainly is a more urgent problem considering that it's a problem that actually exists, unlike climate change which only exists in computer models using "adjusted" data ("garbage in, garbage out" as the saying goes).
Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
Here we go again. This is just wrong, in every way. It's way way way out of touch with the science, with the data, with the measurements, with basic statistics, with just about everything. The fact is that climate change and global warming is measured, modeled, predicted in advance, and thoroughly well attested science.
All your link does is present graphically the hiatus -- or "faux pause" -- in which measured global temperature increase runs to the low bound of model runs over the last decade and a half. This nonsense was statistical incompetence even when written. (Yes, I know who wrote it. A real climate scientist, but in over his head as to a mismatch between his professional focus and the subject matter of that blog post; and a way out maverick on this and other areas of science.) That blog post is going to look increasing silly even to novice onlookers as time goes by
In brief, you are looking at short term decadal scale variations, which don't have any long term trend. It's a bad failure of comprehension of models to think that they even could predict that kind of decade to decade track of when things speed up or slow down. I've felt for a while now it would be worth having a basic information thread on what climate models do -- how they work, what they can predict, and what they can't predict. They CAN and DO predict that warming will speed up and slow down when measured on small scales like Spencer does; they cannot and do not predict which decades will be the speed up and which will be the slow down.
Recently (a year ago or so) we had someone here on TheologyWeb touting the idea of and end to warming or even coming cooling; I made a little bet that this year (which was then 2014) would actually set a new record high. It did. There was a fair bit of luck in that prediction; but I was willing to propose the bet because there were good indications that the short term downturn was begin the reverse for (the next) upturn. (Not from models, not from extrapolation of the trend, but from data and measurements of other aspects of the climate system beyond only temperature.) The present measured indications of an upturn are now only getting stronger (El Nino is here at last) and so it's looking quite likely that 2015 is going to be another new hottest year, by a good sized margin. We'll see. (There will be of course be more speed ups and slow downs in the future and it's not really predictable when they'll arrive; but the immediate indications are for another upswing.)
We see, and expect, short term untrended decadal scale chaotic variation over the top of the strong warming going on throughout. You can make this distinction best by looking at ocean heat content over the same period, which is much less subject to short term variation, and which shows that yes indeed the planet is still heating up strongly since mid twentieth century and up to the present -- including the last twenty years.
Most crucially, the idea that climate change is only something showing up in models is way over the top absurd.
Cheers -- sylas
Originally posted by sylas View Post
The fact is that climate change and global warming is measured, modeled, predicted in advance, and thoroughly well attested science.
No, it's really not. Almost every model and prediction has been not just wrong but wildly wrong. Remember when the alarmists were telling us that snow would be something that our children and grand children would only read about in books? Remember how none of them predicted that we would see colder and snowier winters? How about predictions of more frequent and more severe hurricanes? That didn't happend, did it? And did any of those models predict the nearly 2-decade long pause in the rise of global temperatures? They didn't? And now they're at a loss to explain why it's happening? Imagine that.
Even global warming hucksters have trouble keeping their people in line once they've left the "plantation".
Source: Breitbart
A former NASA scientist has described global warming as "nonsense", dismissing the theory of man-made climate change as "an unsubstantiated hypothesis" and saying that it is "absolutely stupid" to blame the recent UK floods on human activity.
Professor Les Woodcock, who has had a long and distinguished academic career, also said there is "no reproducible evidence" that carbon dioxide levels have increased over the past century, and blamed the green movement for inflicting economic damage on ordinary people.
Professor Woodcock is Emeritus Professor of Chemical Thermodynamics at the University of Manchester and has authored over 70 academic papers for a wide range of scientific journals. He received his PhD from the University of London, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a recipient of a Max Planck Society Visiting Fellowship, and a founding editor the journal Molecular Simulation. (h/t Climate Depot)
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2014...g-is-nonsense/
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Source: Washington Times
Ex-Greenpeacer Patrick Moore questions climate change, challenges liberals
"I describe the climate change movement as a combination of an extreme political ideology and a religious cult all rolled into one," said Mr. Moore. "It's a very, very dangerous social phenomenon. It causes them to think they have the right to dictate what we do."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...esti/?page=all
I don't have time right now to dig up others, but there's a long list of scientists who have changed their tune once their paycheck no longer depended on propping up the climate change agenda.
Seriously, trying to convince someone that man caused climate change isn't happening is like trying to convince someone that the earth isn't flat, or that the moon isn't made of cheese. I just shake my head, because it's an argument I really shouldn't have to make. I'm getting to the point where I just want to laugh and move on, except that every proposed solution, like most liberal "solutions", is socially and economically devastating.
Originally posted by sylas
I made a little bet that this year (which was then 2014) would actually set a new record high. It did.
Sure... but only after NASA "adjusted" the data to remove 1934 from the top spot.
https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/...the-year-2000/
thoroughly well attested science.
Not sure what that means exactly. But only after two decades more temperature data might we have a chance to say that the science is halfway confirmed.
I think you are more a cheerleader than a sober and honest scientist. "Way over the top absurd"--well!
To add some clarity, climate change as a natural, harmless cycling of the earth's temperatures is certainly real. In the past, the earth has cycled hotter than present, and it has cycled colder than present. There's no reason to be alarmed. It's just what the earth does.
What's not real is catastrophic, anthropogenic climate change that can only be stopped by checking off every box on a liberal's social agenda "to do" list.
1) It's not that I totally reject the hypothesis that man's activities has a role in climate change.
2) Perhaps Sylas is not seeing the epochal shift to solar power from CO2-gushing power that is ongoing despite current low fossil-fuel prices. We are doing something to reduce man's role (though whether that will be enough is not foreseeable).
Yttrium
Location: Western USA
Faith: N/A
The problem with cleaning up the debris in the oceans is mainly that it can be costly, and countries have higher priorities for money spending. We also have to find other places to dump the stuff, or recycle it. Or maybe we could spray plastic eating bacteria... Well, it may be a while before we make any progress.
As for global warming, I think the environmentalists are probably right that humans are hurrying it along. But I don't really care. MUhahaHAhaha! I look forward to shifting climate patterns and rising ocean levels.
Middle-of-the-road swing voter. Feel free to sway my opinion.
This is timely. Just posted today:
Source: Breitbart UK
Dr. Christopher Essex
Climate, as the scientific field we know today, is very young. It was cobbled together from pieces of a number of established fields and elevated into the limelight only very recently as science goes. It was particularly vulnerable to antirational inroads because there was no core body of scientific knowledge, like say physics or chemistry have. Before the great climate fervor, the term "climate science" was virtually unheard of. Instead, climatology was a tranquil, narrow, and descriptive area, with little funding and few practitioners. Today's version, climate science, is driven as much by trumped up public fears as traditional scientific objectives. I have heard many times that what we scientists should work on "depends on what policymakers want."
The fields and methodologies of climate science are a disjointed collection that few have anything approaching a universal command of, let alone a universal command from which to form a knowledgable consensus. Is climate research the gathering and description of data? Is it statistical time series analysis? Is it meteorology extended by supercomputers? Is it molecular spectroscopy? Is it oceanography, glaciology, geology, thermodynamics, physics, orbital mechanics, computer science, survey research, economics, biology, dynamical systems theory, solar physics, or much more? It is easy to say "all of the above," but specialists in these subfields often wonder privately what the other specialties are actually there for. For example, "do we really need complex models when greenhouses are so simple?" Or, "We modelers can help paleontologists more than they can help us." There are many such examples.
The shared vision of this collection of fields, as they stand, has simply not been academic for the most part. Its identity is inextricably bound to the climate fervor itself, which is created and fanned by politicians and media through relentless promotion, torrents of funding, and the punishing of nonconforming scientists. It is unclear what defines climate science as a whole academically, let alone what climate is in and of itself. No, we don't even have a coherent, physically based, definition for climate, let alone climate change. That is not because we can't recognize change, but we do not know what parts of the endless, ongoing ubiquitous change actually count. This is as deep a problem as there is in modern science. All we have are ad hoc definitions guarded from scientific criticism by ignorant followers of Eris. Those followers call this settled science.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015...s-so-damn-bad/
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Originally posted by Yttrium View Post
The problem with cleaning up the debris in the oceans is mainly that it can be costly, and countries have higher priorities for money spending.
Cleaning up all the plastic is unfeasible, just as clearing all the human-generated CO2 is unfeasible. But it would seem that cutting down on irresponsible plastic disposal is more feasible than cutting down CO2 emissions to the levels recommended by the relevant bodies.
Originally posted by Paprika View Post
Well, that's true. But even if we manage to make progress on that, we have to convince other countries to do it too. China and India, for example, are going to be using more and more plastic in the coming years, and they have very large populations.
But even if we manage to make progress on that, we have to convince other countries to do it too. China
Though there have been some commendable efforts in your country, you should really sort out your own house first, and worry about others' later.
The Chinese government is banning production and distribution of the thinnest plastic bags in a bid to curb the white pollution that is taking over the countryside. The bags are also banned from all forms of public transportation and "scenic locations." The move may save as much as 37 million barrels of oil currently used to produce the plastic totes, according to China Trade News. Already, the nation's largest producer of such thin plastic bags, Huaqiang, has shut down its operations.
The effort comes amid growing environmental awareness among the Chinese people and mimics similar efforts in countries like Bangladesh and Ireland as well as the city of San Francisco, though efforts to replicate that ban in other U.S. municipalities have foundered in the face of opposition from plastic manufacturers.
A blanket ban has been imposed on the sale, storage and use of plastic bags in the Indian capital, Delhi. The penalty for violation of the law is a fine of up to 100,000 rupees ($1,807; £1,133) or five years in jail.
The government says the bags are a "grave threat to the environment if not managed properly" and has carried out awareness campaigns in the city.
Yes, of course. Um...
*hides today's plastic grocery bags*
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I know I'm a little late to the party, but I just wanted to say how much I appreciate sylas' contribution. He is always reasonable and his posts are grounded in his own considerable expertise. Unlike me, he doesn't rise to the bait of personal provocation. I admire and respect him, and always read his posts thoroughly.
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December 30, 2022 James Boone Tips
Gift-giving is an art that not everyone is able to do right. What does it mean to give something meaningful and beautiful? First of all, you should know the individual taste of the recipient of the gift, and then make sure that he really needs the item or service that you are giving as a gift. And it's really easy to give perfume, clothes, a fashion accessory or some chocolate. But it becomes difficult when the gift invades a person's intimacy and individuality. In particular, you should be careful if you decide to give something that is related to the sexuality of the person receiving the gift.
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From the very beginning, we will emphasize that in order to give something so intimate, the person needs to be close enough to you or you know them well. That is why we have selected the following tips that would help you understand the complexity of this case and be able to make a better decision yourself in the future:
1 1. Don't give a Secret Santa toy at work
2 2. Give this kind of gift only if you know the person well
3 3. Buy only from verified sellers
4 4. Make sure the person prefers sex toys
5 5. The biggest Do's and Don'ts
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1. Don't give a Secret Santa toy at work
New Year's gifts at work should be chosen to taste and not violate anyone's privacy. Even if you are close enough to the person receiving your gift, it would be really awkward for them to open it in front of all their colleagues. If you want something like that, it's better to give it privately, instead of bringing such a gift to work.
This includes not only classic sex toys but also condoms and similar items for safe sex. When you are at work, you must stick to taste and principles and not put anyone in an uncomfortable situation, not even yourself. And we can say that it can be quite unpleasant if such a thing happens, especially when you work in large companies.
2. Give this kind of gift only if you know the person well
Some people never talk openly about their sexual desires and fetishes. That's why we shouldn't draw conclusions ourselves, nor should we buy toys without knowing if they really want them. Avoid buying sex toys for your friends who are shy on the subject and never talk openly about their desires.
Don't try to force an answer out of them, or pressure them into accepting something they're not comfortable with. There's really no need for it, and it's not worth jeopardizing a friendship or making someone uncomfortable for days after the event.
3. Buy only from verified sellers
There are many sex toys on the market that are sold at different prices. Sometimes the price is high and sometimes too low for what you get. So then, how do you know you've made the right choice?
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Although the topic is quite complex, there are actually verified sellers of sex toys. These are licensed sex shops, as well as verified online sellers that also offer services such as delivery directly to the recipient of the gift.
What you get is a guarantee of quality. Why is that important? Very often, cheap toys are made of toxic materials. Knowing the conditions in which they are used, we would say that it is really inconvenient to cause such a health problem to someone because you saved money. In fact, be prepared to spend a higher amount if it means you will get a guaranteed top-quality product.
4. Make sure the person prefers sex toys
If you are friends with the recipient of the gift, then it is easy to make sure that they really want something like that. You can even talk openly and tell them what you have in mind for their gift.
What is important is that if they refuse a sex toy as a gift, respect their attitude, even if you think they will need it. Ultimately, you are not the one to decide what someone needs from their sex life, even if that person is your partner.
Always act with respect for other people's privacy, as it is something that many do not feel comfortable sharing with others. If you notice that the person is against your gift idea, it would be good to accept it and opt for something safer, instead of jeopardizing the mutual relationship.
5. The biggest Do's and Don'ts
When giving a sex toy, as we said, make sure the person wants it. If there is a need, discuss it beforehand and decide based on your attitude. And of course, be discreet when giving gifts, especially if you're doing it in a group of friends. Never present such toys in front of work colleagues and family.
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Also, don't give sex toys to people you don't know well. Don't do it even if you like the person and don't know how to approach them. And most importantly, if you are gifting your partner, try to match their wishes and kinks, not yours. After all, the gift is meant for the recipient. But if you have agreed, then you should find yourself in between, that is, choose gifts that satisfy the wishes of both partners.
As you can see for yourself, these tips are quite basic and the only goal is not to invade someone's intimacy, where there is no space for you, nor to put someone in an indecent position.
What you need to do is to ensure that that person really prefers this type of gift. In any other case, it can damage the relationship between you and even bring you to a state of ending a relationship or friendship.
But we believe that if you follow these tips you will not make such a mistake. So be smart and don't let yourself get embarrassed just because you thought someone needed a sex toy.
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3Doodler Celebrates First Birthday
NEW YORK, February 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --
World's first 3D printing pen ships to Kickstarter backers early
3Doodler, the world's first 3D drawing pen, celebrates the one year anniversary of launching their award winning Kickstarter by delivering to all of their backers a month early and revealing a new video showing the 3Doodler in action.
3Doodler raised over $2.3 million and became one of the most successful Kickstarter projects of all time, and since then has launched an exciting line of accessories and announced their worldwide retail plans. To mark the anniversary of their launch, 3Doodler has created a brand new video illustrating the innovative pen drawing in mid-air
Throughout their incredible year they have also found time to nurture their Community Site, an online community of creators who are on hand to offer inspiration, give feedback and provide support to other Doodlers, including a huge array of stencils and user submitted 3Doodles.
Peter Dilworth, Co-Founder of 3Doodler explains, 'It's difficult for Kickstarters to deliver on time. Predicting manufacturing and production timescales can be tricky for any product. We're absolutely thrilled to announce that we are not only early in our deliveries, but have launched our accessories range and started rolling 3Doodlers to stores worldwide. We cannot thank our community of backers enough for their support so early on in the 3Doodler journey and for their continued support today. The past year has been quite a wild ride and we know the next year will be just as exciting.'
High-resolution screenshots, logos and headshots can be found here
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About the 3Doodler
http://www.the3doodler.com
The 3Doodler is the world's first 3D printing pen, having quickly become Kickstarters most popular 3D consumer printing device and the third highest funded technology project on Kickstarter.
Designed by WobbleWorks, Inc., an emerging consumer electronics and robotics company with big ideas, the 3Doodler has been created to be compact and easy to use, you simply plug the 3Doodler into a power socket and start drawing anything in 3D within minutes. Whether freestyle 3D sketching, or tracing shapes from templates to make larger architectural structures, anything is possible.
Note: the plastic extruded from 3Doodler is safe to touch once it has left the pen, but the pen itself has a metal tip that can reach 240C.
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