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Africanus, Leo
Justin J. Corfield
"Leo Africanus," (1488 or 1490–c. 1554), whose proper name is al-Hassan ibn Muhammad al-Wizzaa al-Fasi, is best known for his book on Africa, which was published in 1550 and which gave a great insight in early modern Europe into the world view of Africans. It remained, for many years, one of the major published sources on west-central Africa, and brought the city of Timbuktu to the attention of Europeans. His work also led to great tales being told of Timbuktu, a place of wealth but more importantly of remoteness, in a similar manner to Shangri La, which represented remoteness and spirituality, and El Dorado, a place of unimaginable wealth.
Leo Africanus was born in the kingdom of Granada, but his wealthy family had to leave the city when it was conquered by the armies of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella in 1492 They moved to Fez ...
Allen, Anthony D.
Miles M. Jackson
explorer and businessman, was born a slave in German Flats, New York. He was owned by the Dougal family and spent his youth in Schenectady. It is very likely his mother was a slave (New York did not abolish slavery until 1827); his father was a freeman and a mariner. Following the death of his master, he was purchased by another owner. After gaining his freedom in 1796, Allen arrived in Boston in 1800 and went to sea just as his father had done. Indeed, many African Americans living in Boston had ties to the maritime industry in some way. Like other black mariners, Allen faced the risk of reenslavement when he traveled to Southern ports. Once he was saved from imprisonment by one of the ship's owners, who paid $300 for his release.
Allen's years at sea between 1800 and 1810 provided him with unique experiences ...
Brown, Clara
Maria Elena Raymond
former slave, western pioneer, church founder, businesswoman, and philanthropist, was born in Gallatin, Tennessee—some sources offer a birth date of 1800—and at the age of three was sold with her mother to a planter in Virginia. There, at the age of eighteen, she married a slave named Richard and had several children. When her owner, Ambrose Smith, died in 1835Clara and her children were auctioned off to different slaveholders. Her daughter Margaret was sold to a slaveholder in Kentucky and reportedly died a few years later. Clara lost contact with her son Richard, who was sold repeatedly. Another daughter, Eliza Jane, was sold to a James Covington, also in Kentucky.Clara was sold again at auction, this time to a Kentucky slaveholder named George Brown a merchant and for the next two decades served the Brown family as a house slave During this ...
Cadamosto, Alvis da
His father, Giovanni da Ca' da Mosto, and mother, Giovanna Querini, married in 1428, and the couple had four sons and two daughters. Cadamosto came from a Venetian family of some standing. His reason for renown is that he was the first European to sail from Portugal to West Africa and back, to write a long travel narrative of his maritime voyages. He also described the Islamic West African kingdoms he visited during the the 1450s. Cadamosto wrote his narrative many years after the voyages to West Africa, and there is evidence that later historical events where incorporated into his narrative—a process historians call "feedback." Thus, Cadamosto's dates and chronology have been called into question by scholars. However, the Venetian must be taken seriously because he presented some of the first eye-witness descriptions of West Africa and Portuguese voyages to the tropics during the fifteenth century.
Since the Middle ...
Caesar, John
Jonathan Brennan
African Seminole Black Seminole leader warrior and interpreter was born in the mid eighteenth century and joined the Seminole nation in Florida one of the many groups of African Seminole Indians who fought to maintain an autonomous and independent nation There are few written records to reveal the early life histories of the many escaped Africans and American Indians in the maroon communities across the Americas and Caesar s life proves no exception By the time his exploits were recorded in U S military records Caesar was well acculturated to Seminole life and politics and thus he had probably been a longtime member of the Seminole nation His work as an interpreter between Native Seminoles and the U S military however reveals his early upbringing among English speaking Americans He grew up in a time of intense conflict between the Seminoles and European colonists and had become a seasoned war ...
Caillié, René-Auguste
French traveler and travel writer who explored West Africa, was born in 1799 in Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon in the Deux-Sèvres region of France. His family was extremely poor. Caillié's father had been banished to work as a prisoner rowing on government boats before he was born. His mother died very young. According to his later account of his travels in West Africa, Caillié had dreamed of reaching the fabled trade center of Timbuktu on the banks of the Niger River since he was a child. Whether or not this actually was the case, Caillié did manage to reach the Senegalese town of Saint Louis in 1815 He stayed there for several months and tried to join an English expedition up the Gambia River This project did not work out He then spent some time working on the French Caribbean colony of Guadeloupe but soon returned to Senegal He came back to ...
Frisby, Herbert
Elizabeth P. Stewart
Arctic explorer, science teacher, and newspaper correspondent, was born Herbert Milton Frisby in South Baltimore, the oldest of the seven children of Ida Frisby (née Henry) and Joseph S. Frisby, a keeper of grain tallies in the port of Baltimore. Born into poverty, young Herbert Frisby worked his way through school by selling peanuts, working as a butler, and playing jazz piano. He graduated from Baltimore Colored High School in 1908 and earned his BA in Liberal Arts from Howard University in 1912. He received an MA in Education from Columbia University in 1936. Frisby married Annie Russell in 1919; they had one son, H. Russell Frisby Sr.
As a sixth-grader Frisby was inspired by the accomplishments of the explorer Matthew Henson, the first African American to reach the North Pole in 1909 with Admiral Robert E. Peary. When Henson ...
Hasanayn, Ahmad Muhammad
James Jankowski
Egyptian politician, athlete, and explorer, was born in Bulaq on 31 October 1889. He was the son of Shaykh Muhammad Hasanayn of al-Azhar and the grandson of Admiral Ahmad Pasha Mazhar Hasanayn. Hasanayn received his early education in Cairo, then at Balliol College, Oxford. A skilled fencer, in 1920 he captained the Egyptian team at the Olympic Games in Brussels. In the early 1920s, he was commissioned by King Fuʾad to explore Egypt's Western Desert. The Lost Oases (1925) is his own account of his expedition of 1923 on which he traveled from Egypt's Mediterranean coast through the Libyan Desert, discovering the "lost" oases of Arkenu and Ouenat, and for which he received the Founder's Medal of Britain's Royal Geographical Society. In the hope of establishing a long-distance flight record, in 1929 he learned to fly; plagued by malfunctioning aircraft, he eventually abandoned the effort.
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Scottish explorer and geographer of Africa, was born in Edinburgh in 1844. Alexander Keith Johnston was the son of the eminent geographer and cartographer of the same name, who had established the highly respected engraving and mapmaking firm of W. & A. K. Johnston with his brother William. Although the young Keith was educated at prestigious schools in the Scottish capital, he was also tutored carefully by his father, and learned those European languages in which significant geographical material was published. Like his father, Keith's interest extended well beyond conventional cartography, and he made important contributions to oceanography, hydrology, and global climatic influences. Both were influential figures in the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), itself the most important national institution in the promotion of worldwide discovery and the development of the nineteenth-century British Empire, not least in Africa.
After a period as superintendent of drawing and engraving at the prestigious ...
Leo Africanus
Elizabeth Heath
The son of a wealthy family, Leo Africanus was born in Spain but moved to Fès, Morocco, as a child. There he was educated and later employed by his uncle as a clerk. Africanus's first trip to the western Sudan, around 1512, was part of a diplomatic and commercial mission to the Songhai Empire led by his uncle on behalf of the rulers of Fès. During this trip Africanus traveled extensively throughout the region and visited its major trading cities, including Tombouctou, Djenné, Gao, and Sijilmasa. He recorded his observations on all of the region's major states: the Songhai and Mali empires, the Hausa States and Bornu, as well as the Bulala state occupying the former Kanem empire. This trip provided much of the research for his later publications.
Between 1516 and 1518 Africanus made several trips to Egypt and possibly a trip to Constantinople. In 1518 during ...
Raage, Ugaas
Said M. Mohamed
poet, warrior, and political leader, was born in the early nineteenth century at Sasabane, now in the disputed Ogaden region of Ethiopia, the son of a powerful traditional Ugaas (Sultan) of the Ogaden clan. As a boy, besides tending camels, Raage joined a peripatetic Islamic school (xer) and gave evidence of his literary talent by sending his father coded messages in Somali called "hal xidhaale."
Sometimes called the father of Somali poetry, Raage is said to have been the first poet who composed the opening lines hooyaalayeey hooyalaayey hooyalaaye hooyeey so typical of Somali classical poetry His poetry won the admiration of every Somali and quickly spread throughout Somali speaking territories He composed a wide range of poems poetry of love and lamentation poetry about power and poems of advice The rich imagery sophisticated alliteration and artful use of Somali words were hallmarks of his poems By ...
Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
Sir Henry Morton Stanley was born John Rowlands in Denbigh, Wales. Beginning his career as a journalist, Stanley first traveled to Africa in 1869 on assignment for the New York Herald. The newspaper dispatched Stanley to find David Livingstone, a Scottish missionary who had gone to explore Africa and subsequently disappeared from the public eye. Traveling from Zanzibar into the interior of east Africa, Stanley finally met the ailing Livingstone at Ujiji, a town on Lake Tanganyika, on November 10, 1871. Stanley is said to have greeted Livingstone with the famous remark, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" After Livingstone was nursed back to health, they explored the northern end of Lake Tanganyika. Stanley returned to Europe in 1872 but was sent back to West Africa the following year to report on the British campaign against the Asante.
In 1874 the New York Herald and London Daily ...
Wainwright, Jacob
Roy Bridges
whose parentage and date of birth are unknown, was a freed slave of Yao origin who produced a remarkable record of the African initiative to return David Livingstone's body to the coast in 1873. Until recently, Wainwright's achievement has been overlooked and his character unfairly condemned.
Taken from near Lake Malawi to the coast for transport perhaps to Arabia, Wainwright was rescued by the British Navy's anti–slave trade patrol in 1866. British policy was to transfer freed slaves to Christian missionaries, and Wainwright came into the care of the Anglican Church Missionary Society at Sharanpur School at Nasik, near Mumbai in India. Converted to Christianity and given a new name and an elementary education, he was soon able to write and speak clear, coherent English.
In 1871 increasing worries about the fate of Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone 1813 1873 led the Royal Geographical Society to ...


Auto locksmithing is a specialist area. Very different to standard locksmithing, it involves the use of high-tec equipment and requires an understanding of programming and auto electronics. ALEX is the first independent dedicated show of it kind in the UK. Leading suppliers to the auto locks industry will be showcasing the very latest equipment and technology.
East Midlands Conference Centre is a purpose built exhibition and conference centre with ample free parking and great facilities. The on-site bar and kitchens provide good food and drink at affordable prices. It has easy access from the motorway and the city of Nottingham has a great variety of restaurants and nightlife.
The show dates are 26th and 27th October doors open 09.00 both days. Saturday closes at 17.30 and 15.30 on Sunday.
LASM FULL subscribers are entitled to a 25% discount off the demo prices and they have all been sent a code to use at the checkout - new subscribers need to e-mail for their code.


Unfortunately, due to rain of monsoon proportions, we had to postpone the fun day that was planned for this weekend. Full credit to Rachael, who was up and about making calls at 6am on the day of this event!
Meanwhile, we hope to see you all at the ride out on the 11th of August at Scone.
The CSHPC Fun Day kicks off tomorrow at Strathallan. We are expecting 29 ponies, and have 55 bodies booked in for lunch.
The weather forecast is looking a little bit soggy (to say the least!) so if you are coming, make sure that you pack wet weather gear. Hopefully, it will be kind to us!
We look forward to seeing you all, it is sure to be great fun regardless of the weather.
If for any reason you are unable to take your slot, please ensure that you drop Rachael a line on rach.e.stewart@gmail.com . This way we can accommodate any gaps into timings.
The CSHPC Committee had a very constructive meeting last night.
We are very excited about our upcoming events, kicking off with the Fun Day this weekend at Strathallan. This day is now fully booked, we are expecting 29 ponies to participate in mock showing, dressage, working hunter and Le Trec.
In August, we have a ride out at Scone Palace. Currently there is still space at this event, but members are advised to book their space ASAP in order to ensure a place. The route starts at Blairhall farm and will go through Scone Estate, taking in beautiful old parkland and alongside the River Tay.
September will see our annual show, schedules are available for this event now. September will also see a cross country training day, and one day event at Kirkton Farm.
Full details are available for these events on the website. If you have any queries please don't hesitate to drop us a line via the contacts page.
A huge well done to everybody who competed at the HPS breed show this week. A number of our members had great results, none more so than Alice Page and Trowan Monty, who took the HOYS ticket.
I hope you are all recovered from your exertions at the breed show yesterday. Just a reminder that on Sunday 28th of July CSHPC is having a members 'have a go day' at Strathallan.
The idea of this day is to give members the chance to bring their ponies out and try something new. It will be ideal for young ponies needing a nice first outing too.
You will have the chance to have a bash at le trec, working hunter, a ridden showing class, and dressage....without the pressure of being at a show. You can choose to do certain things...or everything if you fancy.
An equine weigh bridge will be in attendance, so it is an ideal chance to have your pony weighed.
A BBQ lunch will be available too, so lets hope this good weather holds out!
For more information, please contact Rachael at rach.e.stewart@gmail.com .
CSHPC is going strong, we currently have more than 80 members!
This week, we sent out a mailing to all of the members on our membership database. This included information on the events which we have upcoming.
If you have not received this email, and think that you should be included on this list, please email Membership Secretary Gemma Thomson at gemmathomsons@hotmail.com . Some people have paid, but not provided membership forms. If we have not had a form, then chances are you will have been missed off.
Annual Show Schedule now out!
Please see CSHPC Dates - Schedules and Forms for the schedule and entry form.
Preston Park, Auchterarder, PH3 1NP (By kind invitation of Mr & Mrs S. Robertson).
Come and enjoy a very sociable evening with a BBQ and plenty of Highland Pony chatter in beautiful Scottish setting. The evening will be raising funds for the Equine Grass Sickness fund.
food, drinks and have a good time.
Suggested donation of £5 per person to include Salad, Sweets and a donation to EGSF.
RSVP by Fri 12th July for catering.
Schedules for our annual show on Sunday 1st September at Strathallan Castle will be out in the next week or so. All memebrs will receive one via email; if you are not a member (and whay not?!) please contact Jill on jillvasey@hotmail.com to receive one.
The next Hamish Cameron lessons are on the 20th of July. These will be held by kind permission of the Page family at Pitkeithly Wells (Bridge of Earn).
Please note these training dates are strictly members only so if you are interested in coming along, please send in a membership form ASAP! To book your place please contact Rachael Stewart via email at; rach.e.stewart@gmail.com.
Please note that due to previous no shows, places will not be confirmed until payment has been received in full. Sorry!
Pictured are Sophie and Cola, previous attendees of Hamish lessons. As you can see, the flatwork sessions have really helped out with their jumping too!


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76ers 130, Bucks 95: With plenty on the line, the Bucks flop into the postseason
With playoff seeding and a first-round pick hanging in the balance, the Bucks put forth an atrocious display Wednesday night.
76ers 130, Bucks 95: With plenty on the line, the Bucks flop into the postseason With playoff seeding and a first-round pick hanging in the balance, the Bucks put forth an atrocious display Wednesday night. Check out this story on jsonline.com: https://jsonl.in/2GQ1Dyp
, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Published 9:31 p.m. CT April 11, 2018 | Updated 7:56 a.m. CT April 12, 2018
Photos: 76ers 130, Bucks 95
Jabari Parker and the rest of the Bucks probably wanted to hide their faces during the first half when they were embarrassed by the 76ers on Wednesday night. Chris Szagola, Associated Press
Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo drives to the basket past a fallen Eric Bledsoe during the first half on Wednesday. Chris Szagola, Associated Press
Dario Saric (9) and his 76ers teammates did a lot of celebrating in the first half when they outscored a listless Bucks squad by 36 points. Chris Szagola, Associated Press
Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo loses control of the ball while trying to drive against a trio of 76ers defenders on Wednesday night. Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports
76ers guard Ben Simmons gets past Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo for a layin during the first quarter. Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports
Bucks center Tyler Zeller shoots against 76ers forward Richaun Holmes during the second quarter on Wednesday night. Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports
Giannis Antetokounmpo and his Bucks teammates couldn't find any answers against the 76ers on Wednesday night. Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports
76ers guard Markelle Fultz passes while being defended by the Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo on Wednesday night. Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports
Jabari Parker of the Bucks tries to disrupt 76ers forward Dario Saric as he passes off to a teammate on Wednesday night. Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports
Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo loses control of the ball while being fouled by 76ers guard Ben Simmons during the first quarter Wednesday night.(Photo: Bill Streicher / USA TODAY Sports)
PHILADELPHIA - The Milwaukee Bucks saved their worst for last.
With playoff seeding and a first-round draft pick hanging in the balance, the Bucks put forth an atrocious display at the Wells Fargo Center on Wednesday night, falling 130-95, to the Philadelphia 76ers. The 35-point margin represents Milwaukee's biggest blowout loss of the season.
"We didn't finish strong and we didn't play well and that's very disappointing," Bucks coach Joe Prunty said. "Hopefully it's a learning lesson for us."
The 76ers played without all-star Joel Embiid (fractured orbital bone) and sharpshooter J.J. Redick, who was scratched from the starting lineup due to back tightness moments before the game.
Shortly after the Bucks-76ers game finished, the playoff situation began to come into focus. With their win, the 76ers were locked into the No. 3 seed. A loss by the Washington Wizards against the Orlando Magic cemented the Wizards into the eighth spot in the Eastern Conference.
BOX SCORE: 76ers 130, Bucks 95
NBA: Live scoreboard, box scores, standings, statistics
Then, with players in the Bucks locker room watching on their phones, the Miami Heat battled the Toronto Raptors in overtime. With a Heat win, the Bucks would head to Boston to play the Celtics in the playoffs. With a Heat loss, the Bucks would be right back in Philadelphia this weekend.
Miami took control late to earn a 116-109 victory, tying the Bucks for sixth at 44-38 in the process. Due to the tiebreaker, the Heat jumped to the No. 6 seed and the Bucks moved to No. 7 for a date with the Celtics.
That series will begin at noon Sunday at TD Garden in Boston, with the first game in Milwaukee scheduled for Friday, April 20.
BUCKS-CELTICS: Full series schedule
No one in the locker room seemed upset with that turn of events, with one player saying, "Way to go, Miami."
While Milwaukee's playoff situation was no secret to the players or coaches heading into Wednesday's game, each of them agreed it had no influence on their approach. They weren't trying to lose and get a lower seed — they just got smoked.
"We had to approach it like a regular game because us winning could put us in a position or us losing could have put us in a position," center John Henson said. "We didn't come out and play well but that's the outcome. We've got to play Boston, seventh seed, and go from there. ...
"I feel OK. You want to be the highest seed possible because hypothetically that means that's the easier route. We're seventh. We were eighth for a long time and got up a spot, so can't complain."
With Miami's victory, the Bucks will need to wait to find out if they will keep their first-round draft pick or if it will convey to the Phoenix Suns from the Eric Bledsoe-Greg Monroe trade. The NBA will soon conduct a tiebreaker to see which team — the Bucks or Heat — will pick 16th in the draft and which will pick 17th. If the Bucks slot into the 16th pick, that selection will go to Phoenix. If they slot into the 17th pick, Milwaukee will delay having to send it away for at least a year.
As for the specifics of Wednesday's game in Philadelphia — if it wasn't clear from the score — the contest was never close.
The 76ers scored 46 points while making 8 of 11 three-pointers in the first quarter alone and didn't let up, finishing the half with an 80-44 lead.The 46 points were the most scored against the Bucks in a quarter all season and the 80 were the most by an opposing team in half against Milwaukee.
The Bucks were listless and defense-averse and forced things on offense from the beginning. That combination will generally hurt a team, especially against the hottest team in the NBA. Philadelphia became the first team to close the regular season with 16 straight wins.
With less than five minutes left in the second quarter, the Bucks had as many turnovers as field goals (10). At that same time, the 76ers had already made 11 three-pointers and owned a 70-29 lead, their largest advantage of the night.
"Defensively you can start with not getting back, you can start with not contesting threes, cutters — losing vision on cutters — the list is pretty long," Prunty said when asked about the issues in the first quarter and half. "Offensively we needed to move the ball a little bit better. ... Didn't really execute all the little things."
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Milwaukee's starters, who all subbed out with 6 minutes 36 seconds left in the third quarter, couldn't get anything going during their time on the court. Only Tony Snell returned to the lost cause
Giannis Antetokounmpo had 10 points on 5 of 14 shooting and 10 rebounds in 22 minutes but also committed five turnovers. Bledsoe made both of his shots and had six points but picked up two early fouls and there was never really any point to getting him back in the game. Khris Middleton finished with four points on 2 of 8 shooting.
"Obviously we didn't put much effort into the game," said Antetokounmpo, who mentioned that his right ankle, which kept him out of the past two games, is feeling great now. "They were able to get the lead and after that, it was just bad. ... Just stepped on the floor and we didn't play the right way. We got out of our system and that's why they were able to get a lead and win."
Jabari Parker, who got extended playing time off the bench with the game out of hand for so long, put up 25 points on 9 of 15 shooting. In just his second game back from injury, Malcolm Brogdon chipped in 13 points on 5 of 10 shooting in 18 minutes, including making his first 3 three-pointers.
None of those efforts was anywhere close to good enough as the 76ers had six players score in double figures, led by Justin Anderson with 25 points and Dario Saric with 24.
The 76ers also got a triple-double from one of their rookies, but it wasn't the one you'd expect. No. 1 overall pick Markelle Fultz put up his first career triple-double with 13 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds, drawing chants of his name that filled the arena. Rookie of the year contender Ben Simmons finished with four points, seven assists, six rebounds and two blocks in 22 minutes.
As poorly-played and embarrassing as Wednesday's loss might have been for the Bucks, it's not a contest they'll dwell on for long since it has no bearing on how things will go for them in the playoffs. At most, it will be something they'll try to use as motivation as they try to win the franchise's first playoff series since 2001.
"Just got to shake it off," Antetokounmpo said. "The regular season is over. It's playoff time now and we've got to go there and try to advance. ...
"You lose by 30, 40 it leaves a bitter taste in your mouth. Got to go back, get better, work on your game and hopefully when the time is right in the playoff time you can bring your A-game."
BEHIND THE BOX SCORE
Gang's all here: With Matthew Dellavedova activated for his first game since Feb. 4 and Antetokounmpo back in the lineup after missing the past two games, the Bucks had their whole roster healthy for the first time all season.
"We would have loved to have had more time to work it in terms of more games than just one or two, but that's not where we are," Prunty said. "We need to take advantage of that opportunity to see what it looks like."
Considering Parker went down with a torn left ACL on the same day Middleton made his season debut following a torn left hamstring last season, it's actually been much longer since the Bucks have been whole.
The last time the team had its whole roster healthy was Nov. 27, 2015, against the Orlando Magic. Interestingly enough, Prunty was also the coach that night as head coach Jason Kidd missed that game while serving a suspension.
Ironman: When the ball was tipped Wednesday night, Middleton officially started all 82 games this season. He's the only Bucks player to appear in every game and the first since Monta Ellis in 2012-'13 to start all 82 games in a campaign.
Middleton ended the season ranked second in the NBA in total minutes at 2,982. Only LeBron James (3,026) played more.
"It's cool, man," Middleton said. "First off, it's a blessing to be able to be out here for 82 games straight and start 82 games. Since I was a kid I always wanted to play, never took it for granted. To be up there with LeBron in minutes is pretty cool knowing how he takes care of his body in his 15th year — and he's still doing it. For me, it was a goal of mine coming off of injury. I'm glad I was able to play a full 82 healthy."
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Smile-a-while: The king holds court
Synopsis: If it's sheer dissembling that you enjoy, Chris Matthews is still a best bet.
Commentary by Chris Matthews, Deborah Orin
Hardball, MSNBC, 8/6/01
Mr. Bush and Congress
Editorial, The New York Times, 8/4/01
Al, Again
When you're a full-time dissembler like TV's Chris Matthews, you have to keep spinnin' them yarns. And so the millionaire pundit performed some invention on his creative cable show Monday night. The New York Post's Deborah Orin spoke in praise of vacationing Bush. "You think, 'Well, gee, not much is happening,'" she said. "And then you look at what he's actually done, and it's actually a pretty impressive series of legislative accomplishments."
That set the stage for the King of Invention. As usual, he was up to his task:
MATTHEWS (8/6): When is The New York Times going to agree with what you just said?
It was a perfect softball, right down the middle–and stated with real indignation! Orin eyed Matthews' big, fat pitch. And she slammed it right out of the park:
ORIN: Never. I mean, it's in–it's actually sort of fascinating to read The New York Times because I think it's inconceivable for The New York Times to acknowledge–even if you don't like the victory Bush won on the Patient Bill of Rights, at least acknowledge it was a victory. "We don't like that victory, but it was a victory." But The New York Times, I think it's sort of blinded by its hate for Bush.
Just a typical day for the King and his Court. And maybe you chuckled, much as we did, because maybe you had actually seen what the Times had already said on this subject. Two days earlier, the Times had said this:
THE NEW YORK TIMES (8/4): You don't have to agree with Vice President Dick Cheney's claim that President Bush's first six months in office were among "the most remarkable in any administration" to acknowledge that Mr. Bush has done surprisingly well in his dealings with a divided and sometimes difficult Congress.
Wouldn't you know it! The Times had already said exactly what the King and his Court said it "never" would do. "[E]ven Mr. Bush's opponents would have to acknowledge he is on a winning streak, however flawed the legislative results," the Times said. "He has shown far more skill in handling Congress than many people expected." And the hate-filled Times explicitly complimented Bush's skill on that bill of rights. "On the energy bill, he helped build winning coalitions in both industry and organized labor," the paper said. "He did the same thing on patients' rights, using personal diplomacy to produce a measure closer to his liking than the Senate bill."
So the New York Times had already said the things that it "never" would say. But then, are you really surprised by this comic moment? By open dissembling to please misled viewers? Dissembling remains the key stock in trade of Matthews' long-running cable gong show. We hope his money is spending real good, because Matthews earns his check at the expense of America's precious, jointly-held public discourse.
But we know what you're surely saying. You're saying, "Maybe Matthews and Orin hadn't read what the Times said on the subject." But it's not as if Matthews doesn't read the ed page. Indeed, in that very same roundtable, he quoted a Times editorial written on Sunday, August 5. And once again, he showed the skills that make his show an insult to the transcendent values children read about in civics textbooks.
This time, the subject was Al Gore. As per the unvarying rules of Hardball, loud, forced snickering pervaded the discussion. After a series of mindless comments about why Gore had grown a beard on vacation, Matthews began to speculate about his pending return to the public debate:
MATTHEWS (8/6): Oh! He's on sabbatical! He's on sabbatical. Who is going to be the first smarmy, fawning journalist to write the following phrase: "Al Gore is back. He's tanned. He's comfortable in his skin now." Who is going to write that first? Is that going to–where is that going to be? The New Republic? Just guessing. Lawrence [O'Donnell], The New Republic will do that one?
O'Donnell, understanding the scripting, suggested it might be the New York Times. And his host stepped in with the goods:
MATTHEWS (8/6): Well, let's look at the Times–one of the likely suspects. The New York Times editorialized on Gore today [sic]. "Mr. Gore is sorely needed as a voice on behalf of the issues he championed in 2000. The Democrats have missed having a leader in the national debate over the Bush policies, particularly in foreign affairs and the environment. And if Mr. Gore decides to opt for being a sort of elder statesman rather than a presidential hopeful, he will never have to hear another critique of his wardrobe." Boy, the–talk about phony journalism.
Let's take that invitation. What was the point of Matthews' quote? The Times was fawning about Gore. But Matthews was rather selective in his excerpt. He quoted paragraph eight of an 8-paragraph piece. But what follows is some of the "phony journalism" he forgot to include in his tirade. As we start, the Times is referring to Gore's public silence over the past six months:
THE NEW YORK TIMES (8/5): (pgh 5) Some Democrats were furious at the silence from the top. Others are still so angry about the loss of the White House that they don't have room for additional ire. It is probably fair to say that a sizable chunk of his party would be perfectly happy if Mr. Gore stayed out of sight indefinitely. He is, after all, the man who wrested defeat out of the longest economic boom in American history, the champion debater who managed to go 1 for 3 against George W. Bush.
(6) Mr. Gore's fans point out that Richard Nixon rebuilt his political career after narrowly losing a race he should have won against John F. Kennedy. (It is a measure of Mr. Gore's luck that even his friends wind up comparing him to people like Mr. Nixon. And that 500,000-vote winning margin in the popular vote will mean a lifetime of being lumped with fellow Electoral College victims Samuel Tilden and Grover Cleveland.)
(7) Obviously, Mr. Gore has a right to leap back into the presidential sweepstakes and take his chances. The number of invitations he gets to campaign for Democratic candidates in high-profile races over the next year will be one indication of how good his standing in the party is, and his success or failure as a drawing card may indicate something about the public's It could be a tough comeback. There are plenty of other people, including virtually every Democrat in the Senate, who think they could have run a better race last year and are ready to try to prove it.
In short, this editorial was hardly a pander to Gore. But Hardball is built on constant dissembling. And helpful hacks like Orin and O'Donnell know their role on the gruesome program–to keep hitting the softballs over the fence, to keep the deceptions alive.
We've long since stopped making the obvious point–that NBC disgraces itself by leaving this show on the air. So let's just say this: if it's sheer dissembling that you enjoy, Hardball is still a great evening. Its host is a loathsome historical type–the loudmouth beast that has always stalked democracy. We'd love to know what he tells his kids about his assault on their dearest inheritance.
Next: When Gore grew a beard without asking permission, leading imbeciles leaped into action.
In search of a talker's great pique: Maybe The King was upset with a couple of jibes the Times had aimed at his vacuous court. Let's revisit that paragraph 8:
THE NEW YORK TIMES (8/5): But Mr. Gore is sorely needed as a voice on behalf of the issues he championed in 2000. The Democrats have missed having a leader in the national debate over the Bush policies, particularly in foreign affairs and the environment. And if Mr. Gore decides to opt for being a sort of elder statesman rather than a presidential hopeful, he will never have to hear another critique of his wardrobe. [End of editorial]
On Monday night, Matthews and his simpering crew were upset about Gore's deeply troubling beard. But they spent the better part of the two prior years yakking about the hopeful's wardrobe. We wonder what the loathsome host tells his children about such idiot fare. But on Monday, we may have seen how Great Kings react when their emptiness is even gently chided.
Got a new sen-sa-shun: Adding to Monday's general merriment was a visit from Lisa DePaulo, who shared her latest apparent embellishment of the Chandra Levy story. The apparent reinvention began right away:
MATTHEWS: Well, let's talk about the deal that this young woman, this 24-year-old woman, had with this congressman. It's been well-reported by your piece and elsewhere that the deal was absolute silence, the code of omerta, like in the mob. Nobody talks. Did she ever break that deal?
DEPAULO: She did. She broke it at the very end. In fact, there were several things that were happening that I would consider crisis moments at the very end. One was that she just lost her job and suddenly had no plans. The other was that she started telling people, which we know–now know from people like Anne Marie Smith that, that was the cardinal sin. And the third was that his wife came to town–town at a time that she was pressuring him to leave her and–and make a commitment to her.
MATTHEWS: Why are those facts critical, the fact that she was leaving her job, the fact that she had begun to talk about her relationship with the congressman. Why are those facts critical to what happened to her?
DEPAULO: Because all of this starts happening in the last week or two of April, she disappears on May 1, and I think that's an awful lot of coincidences to be happening at the same time to a woman who suddenly vanishes off the face of the earth.
If reinvention of facts is your favorite thing, DePaulo almost never disappoints. Throughout this appearance, she asserted that Levy began to break the code of silence "at the very end" of the affair, "in the last week or two of April." This makes her exciting speculations work better, but has little connection to reported facts. Take the Washington Post's July 6 and 8 stories on its interview with Levy's aunt, Linda Zamsky. According to these articles, Levy–who showed up in Washington on October 23–named Condit as her lover over Thanksgiving weekend! How much faster could she have blabbed? Meanwhile, when DePaulo appeared on Larry King last Thursday night, she reviewed Levy's discussions of Condit with her friend, Sven Jones:
DEPAULO (8/2): It was interesting. What was so striking to me about Sven was, I thought the only person she had confided in the end was her Aunt Linda, and in fact in these crucial months, she was also talking to him almost every day. These crucial weeks, these crucial months, and what struck me was what he remembered, what he divulged was so consistent with what Linda Zamsky had said.
From DePaulo's various comments on King, one would think that Levy had long discussed Condit by name with Jones as well. And here she was on Friday's The Edge:
PAULA ZAHN (8/3): Let me put up on the screen now something that Sven Jones also told you that you've included in this article. He said, "I tried to tell her that if you push a man like that too hard, he's going to feel as if he's lost some self-control. If you really want to hook this guy, you should lay low and let him feel like he's making the decisions."
DEPAULO: That's right. And–
ZAHN: So Sven was guiding her throughout the last couple of months of this relationship?
DEPAULO: Oh, yeah, that's right. But Chandra was beyond laying low
It didn't sound like the name was withheld. But by Monday, DePaulo was pushing "she only revealed his name at the very end." Here, in her Hardball appearance, she seems to dissemble again. Note her initial non-denial denial:
MATTHEWS (8/6): Did she ever use the congressman's name to Sven Jones or anyone else and say, "This is the guy I'm having to deal with?" Did she ever use the name or did they have to put it together?
DEPAULO: They put it together, but it was interesting. With each person–and Linda Zamsky, very similar to Sven, started with, you know, "I'm, it's a powerful man." Then it was, "married, powerful man." Then it was "married, powerful congressman." And pretty soon–you know, "Gary" did not come out in the first conversations with any of these people.
MATTHEWS: Well, did it ever come out?
DEPAULO: Yes.
MATTHEWS: OK.
DEPAULO: At the end.
"They put it together" seems to be simply false. In the Post, Levy's aunt describes how Levy simply blurted out Condit's name at Thanksgiving. But then, "at the end" is simply false too, if the detailed Post stories were accurate.
In a rational world, the host would have asked DePaulo to explain the apparent contradictions. But on cable, spinning Chandra is an imperative, a key part of the new tabloid culture. No clarifications were ever sought, and DePaulo's improved story, right or wrong, went forward, exciting the masses.
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TORONTO - Ontario's opposition parties are applying pressure to get a Liberal operative under criminal investigation removed from his job as the head of a police services board.
The Ontario Provincial Police are investigating allegations that the Liberals offered a would-be Sudbury, Ont., byelection candidate a job or appointment to step aside for their preferred candidate.
The investigation is focusing on Premier Kathleen Wynne's deputy chief of staff, Pat Sorbara, and Gerry Lougheed, who is the chair of Sudbury's police services board.
The board voted to keep Lougheed in his position, but the Progressive Conservatives and the NDP have asked Community Safety Minister Yasir Naqvi to step in and remove Lougheed while he's under investigation.
Naqvi says he doesn't have the power to do so under the Police Services Act, but the matter could be dealt with by the Ontario Civilian Police Commission.
The NDP say Naqvi does have the authority to direct the commission to take action, and the Tories have written to the commission asking them to look into it.
The Liberals have denied criminal wrongdoing, saying they made no specific offer but were trying to keep Andrew Olivier — who was their candidate in the June general election — involved in the party.
Lougheed has told local media in Sudbury that he does not have the authority to offer jobs and "at no time'' did he promise Olivier a job or appointment if he stepped aside.


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One of Nigeria's biggest music export Dapo Oyebanjo aka D'banj has been out of the entertainment radar for a while now.
Are you wondering what's up with the man D'banj? Oh well, here's a little scoop for you. News has it that the singer has decided to shift base from Nigeria all the way to the US.
According to Potpourri On Point, the entertainer and businessman has relocated to Atlanta, capital of Georgia United States. The scoop was given out from reliable sources close to D'banj.
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'It's not a lie' is ready to be formally released as all production is done and an accompanying video has already been shot somewhere in ATL.
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They were staging a sit-in. All four of them, sitting there and staring intently at me, What is she going to do?
He shook his head no. He had in fact said neither Fish nor even Chicken. But there were all four cats gathered by their dishes and staring fixedly at me. They do that every now and then – instead or one or two cats reminding some random person that the kibble dishes are getting empty, all four of them will gather round and complain at me, specifically. The woman who can read enough feline body language to know that the congregation is requesting goodies from the pop-top cans. Manna from Mama. Apparently the usual dry kibble gets boring, and they want "chicken slices in gravy" or some such thing.
Except for tonight. Spot isn't having any of it. He's not swarming around my ankles and meowing, but rather sitting on a dining chair and staring at me with his great, golden eyes. The goody from the pop-top can doesn't appeal. He probably smelled the bag of grilled salmon take-out that hubby had brought home and popped in the refrigerator. Spot prefers "real" fish to the processed glop from the tin; he used to catch his own meals at a lake. In fact, the past few times I've cooked fish he has waited for and requested the leftovers, which he's welcome to because fish doesn't reheat well.
It only took a few meals for Spot to learn what I meant when I asked him, "Hey, Spot! Fish?" Spot's a smart cat; it took less than half a dozen repetitions ("trials" as they are known in training parlance) for him to associate hearing the human word "Fish" with the generalised concept of sushi tuna, grilled salmon or poached tilapia for him to eat. Those trials didn't even happen in the same hour or the same day.
Now, teaching Spot to learn the word "fish" did not involve any rigorous training sessions. I merely caught his attention by saying his name, then set down a dish containing some various leftovers while saying, "Fish!" It's simple associative learning. Granted, food is a good reinforcement, and he was already aware that some of the things people say are directed to him and are meant to inform him of something.
He also knows that when I say, "Water's boiling," this means that he needs to get off my lap so I can get up and make a cup of tea, and that I'll return in a minute to make a lap for him again. That's actually much more complex; for all he knows, the syllables "Water's boiling," really mean, "Get up". But he's also observed that when I say "Water's boiling," instead of something like, "Okay, I gotta get up now," or "Time to make dinner," that I am going to return to my chair shortly, and that if he hangs around he gets to curl up with me again. Sometimes he stands on the chair cushion, rather than laying down on it, because he knows I'm likely to come back and sit down. That's a more complex chain of events; he's not only associated a spoken word with an action for him to do, but he's also observing my behavioural patterns so he can choose his next course of action.
But for all of his high level of feline intelligence, he's still limited in what he can learn. Especially compared to a human child.
If you use food as a familiar, desireable food reinforcement, how many trials do you think it will take for a human child to learn to associate a word or two with an action? For example, "sit down" or "stand up".
"Sit down," I'd repeat, this time placing my hands on his shoulders to gently guide him into the chair. Eyes still averted, he allowed me to ease him down.
"Good boy!" I'd squeeze an M&M between his pursed lips for his efforts, recording a "P" to indicate that I 'd had to manually prompt him for his second trial.
"Sit down," I'd repeat 27 more times, alternating between M&M's, chocolate chips, hugs and tickles, recording each discrete trial.
Then I'd begin with 30 trials of "stand up," "turn around", and other "one-step" commands before moving on to teaching Jake to "do this" as I manually prompted him 30 times to drop a block in a bucket.
After each of the 30 trials, we'd take a structured play break.
It took a total of 150 trials over three weeks to teach Jake to sit down, 180 trials over three weeks to teach Jake to stand up, and 2,100 trials over 10 weeks to teach Jake to look at us when we called his name.
The child was two years old. There were people doing this with him for forty hours a week, month after month.
Different children learn in different ways, and on their own different time schedules. Some skills take longer than others. I was eight years old before I learned to tie my shoelaces; I had to acquire the fine-motor dexterity to manipulate the laces and maintain the right tension, and be able to remember and follow the sequence of steps. I compensated for my lack of shoelace tying by wearing buckle shoes during my first three years of school. In the grand scheme of all things scholastic, it wasn't a big deal. It was a big deal for my parents and I do remember spending a lot of frustrated days sitting around fighting with the laces on my sneakers (trainers). Every now and then some adult would sit down with me and show me how they tied shoelaces. Thankfully, my third-grade teacher's method of direction was different enough that the process finally made sense.
But when an instructional method requires 150 or 180 repeated trials for the child to learn to associate a word with an activity they already know how to do … that really seems like it's the wrong teaching approach for the child.
Maybe parents are too fearful of another four-letter F-word, Fail. They are afraid that without endless hours of intensive, repetitious work (and mounds of data sheets to show for it), that their children will fail to learn and grow. Amazingly, children do learn and grow. I'm not saying that additional instructional is not sometimes necessary, but rather than given these kinds of results, such an approach does not seem to be the best method.
Applied Behavioural Analysis is neither a good nor a bad thing unto itself. But any good teaching naturally uses behavioural observation and analysis. And if those observations show that someone has not learned something after a considerable number of tries, then the instructor needs to analyse where in the teaching process the breakdown is occurring, and to consider what other means might be more efficacious.
i thought that a certain autistic loved one didn't hang up their shirts on the hangers (and when attempted, didn't do it correctly) because "no le da la p*ta gana" (there's another 4-letter word for ya) but then i was told by another autistic friend, whose intellect i totally respect, that "buttoning shirts is really hard." so… that was an eye-opener.
i guess i have my automatic motions programmed for hanging shirts, but loved one doesn't… yet.
I forgot to add that it wasn't just "CAT" there were about 15 words like that that if I spelled them the kid could tell me what they were. I was amazed. Xe learned the ABC's really early and colors and shapes and so forth, because that's what I thought moms were supposed to do. Teach their kids lots of cool stuff, and I thought that kids were supposed to enjoy learning for the joy of learning, and my kids did.
I'm not sure if I'll ever understand ABA, it sounds like torture to me. Temple Grandin was explaining that breaking down a task like putting shoes on might be the worst thing for an autistic kid. Some like to learn by doing the task in one unbroken movement.
Really, couldn't that time have been spent with that child in a more productive way? It's just scary to think about, to me. I spent a gajillion hours of "early intervention" with my kid, xe could tell me what "C-A-T" spelled at 2 years old, I'd say, "C-a-t" and xe'd say, "cat." It wasn't really reading, but it was fun. The kid could really read at 3 years and a half, not because xe taught xyrself but because I spent a lot of fun time teaching xyr (xem?). None of it involved extrinsic rewards, and there wasn't much in the way of saccharine sweet 'OOOOH AREN'T YOU SMART???" stuff either.


When I am working the art takes over and I am lost in it. I do not feel personally responsible for what I make. When the art is good there is a visual energy there, and excitement which I enjoy and also enjoy sharing with the viewer. In the final analysis I believe art is God's apology for the horrors of life. The aesthetic experience communicated to the viewer by the artist through the work is the ultimate aim of any work of art and is also something I personally do not feel I am capable of creating on my own. Something else is in control when I am creating and it is good.
All flags that represent nations become almost sacred symbols of places and peope. The yellow background with three straight horizontal red stripes first became the symbol of the Republic of Vietnam (commonly known as South Vietnam) in 1954. The three stripes represent North, Central and South Vietnam. The life of this flag was short lived through the terrible days of the Vietnam War until it was surrendered on April 30, 1975 and abolished by the North Vietnamese.
This painting is based on the Republic of Vietnam flag design. It expresses the violence of a specific nation during a specific time, and represents the artist's emotional response to the experience of having been a part of the sad history of that country. The faintly visible charcoal lines on the right side, now covered with paint, indicate the boundaries of what should be the three straight lines on the flag. In the red paint you may see burning tree lines, exploding napalm, reflections of combat on the water of rivers or rice paddies, or blurred puddles of human blood spilt by the incredible number of victims of that war.


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How to stay centered while falling in love, despite the inner chaos you feel.
Posted March 20, 2012 | Reviewed by Lybi Ma
The early stages of falling in love can be summarized into three feelings: euphoria, personal endangerment, and exhaustion due to the first two.
The euphoric feeling of falling in love is biological and hormone-based.
Falling in love creates vulnerability and disrupts routine, which can makes one feel personally endangered.
One should not rush to seal the relationship just to ease the anxiety of falling in love. Instead, it's best to accept the feeling.
There's nothing quite as exhilarating as the early stages of a romantic relationship. Just the thought that you may have found your one-and-only can be so thrilling. But, the early stages of falling in love can be as frustrating as they are wonderful. Your new love life may consume your energy, focus, and time to the point where everything else going on in your life may feel like a rude intrusion. You can't stop thinking about your lover. You get up and go to sleep obsessing about the relationship and what your future will look like together.
To some of you, this reaction to love may seem overboard. But many of you know firsthand how falling in love can turn you into an obsessed, needy, and insecure person for a time. You don't have to have emotional issues from the past to feel this way—although if you do, this stage will be particularly difficult.
Remember, the saying is not staying balanced in love, it is falling in love. If you are in the early stages of falling in love right now, and you feel a little crazy, don't worry: You kind of are. You are under the influence of hormones that are making you feel, all at once, euphoric, endangered, and exhausted. Let's call these the Three Es of falling in love.
Researcher Donatella Marazziti of the University of Pisa, Italy helps us to understand the euphoria we feel in the early stages of romantic love. She says it is more than two hearts igniting when people fall in love; their hormones ignite as well. The nerve transmitters adrenaline and phenylethylamine, or PEA (also present in chocolate) increase when two people are attracted to each other and put them in emotional overdrive. Additionally, the relaxation, feel-good hormone serotonin lowers, causing you to obsess about your lover and consistently reflect back on the romantic times spent with him or her.
Falling in love produces a biological state that is a similar high to being on cocaine. More interestingly, Marazziti discovered that falling in love also alters testosterone levels in men and women. This is the male sex hormone that makes men hunters and gatherers and more able than women to be sexual without an emotional commitment. Increased testosterone levels in women during the early stages of romantic love make them more sexual and aggressive. Decreased testosterone levels in men make them more emotional and receptive at this time.
This finding makes me smile. I have heard more than one man say through the years, "What happened to her sex drive? When we first went out, she was sexually wild. I couldn't keep up with her. She tricked me." If you have felt this way about a female lover, now you know that it was her hormones that made her into a girl gone wild.
Endangerment
Why can love's early stages make you feel personally endangered as well? First, the euphoria you feel can disorganize you. You are adding a dating relationship to your normal, busy routine. Your normal responsibilities at work and home may fall to the wayside as you put more energy into solidifying your love relationship. This can make you more anxious.
Also, loving asks you to lower your defenses and loosen up your personal boundaries so that you can merge your needs and desires with those of your lover. This process can be threatening and make you feel unsafe.
Nonetheless, this is the making of a strong, healthy relationship attachment. It takes time to trust each other and to know that this attachment will not hurt you. No wonder we can feel anxious and unsafe when we first fall in love. There's much to gain, and to lose. The fear you feel is palpable. You may unconsciously create emotional issues and dramas to give voice, and make tangible, the endangerment you feel.
With all of the hormone changes and fears going on inside of you, it is no wonder you may feel exhausted in the early stages of falling in love. I've heard several people say that they can't wait until the honeymoon period is over so that they can get some rest. It's no wonder that some people may rush to seal the relationship deal, just to put an end to these uncomfortable feelings.
Hardy individuals arm themselves with knowledge. They approach new experiences as a chance to learn something new about themselves (the hardy attitude of challenge), and learn what they can to cope effectively with stressful situations (the hardy attitude of control).
Indeed, the early stages of falling in love are stressful. The following recommendations can help you to navigate the falling in love stage more smoothly, so that you can treasure this very special time in your life.
Enjoy the high, but don't lose yourself in it.
Keep your schedule, no matter how much you want to throw it over.
Acknowledge you are under the influence of some powerful hormones.
Get the nutrition, rest, and relaxation that you need to stay physically, emotionally, and mentally sound.
When concerns and fears come into your mind about your lover, ask yourself if you are just trying to discharge the anxiety that you feel about the unknown, so that you can stop a personal drama in its track.
Don't rush to seal the relationship just because you can't stand the anxiety of having to go through the stages of falling in love. Accept your anxiety and learn to work with it.
Research shows that falling in love also makes you more creative. So work out that anxiety and fear through some creative activities.
Don't lower your defenses, personal boundaries, and expectations to the extent that you are denying what you really desire and need. This never works out well. You want to build an authentic relationship attachment, rather than one based on fantasy alone.
Deborah Khoshaba, Psy.D., is a Clinical Psychologist and Director of Training and Development for the Hardiness Institute, Inc., Irvine, California, since 1989.
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Q: material angular sidenav trigger resize I'm using angular 8 and material theme. Following https://material.angular.io/components/sidenav/overview
I'm generating the content inside <mat-sidenav> </mat-sidenav> dynamically by user input.
When I toggle the status, it automatically resizes the content. For example, when I first opened it is like this.

When I change the content inside the sidenav to a longer content, It DOES NOT resizes.

Maybe I can trigger it by opening and closing the sidenav. Is there a function to trigger resize?
In the docs I see

@Input()
    autosize: boolean
  Whether to automatically resize the container whenever the size of any of its drawers changes. Use at your own risk! Enabling this option can cause layout thrashing by measuring the drawers on every change detection cycle. Can be configured globally via the MAT_DRAWER_DEFAULT_AUTOSIZE token.

I don't want to use autosize.
note:
setTimeout(() => this.isOpen = false, 0);
setTimeout(() => this.isOpen = true, 1);

works fine expect for focusing on the menu button.

A: The trick is to set autosize to true when you know you are going to change the size of the sidenav and turn it off once the resizing is complete.

autosize: boolean = false;

doSomethingToChangeSidenavWidth() {
  // do something...
  // ...then
  this.autosize = true;
  setTimeout(() => this.autosize = false, 1);
}
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Segregation, in deed
tags: African Americans, segregation, teaching
1940s era Seattle neighborhood
In a story that could be played out in cities and suburbs across the country, for those who care to look, homeowners in the Charlotte, North Carolina neighborhood of Myers Park are discovering that the deeds to their properties contain what are known as "restrictive covenants," language specifying to whom the property can be sold and how it can be used. Such restrictive covenants often included provisions used to discriminate against all manner of racial and ethnic groups, most commonly African Americans but also Asians, Latinos, and Jews. Legally unenforceable for more than six decades, they have generally faded into the municipal woodwork, seen only by recording clerks and real estate lawyers and rarely by property owners themselves. That changed in Myers Park when the neighborhood homeowners' association posted a sample deed on its website, intending to remind residents of deeded restrictions on aesthetic concerns, such as fences, but instead drawing a complaint by the local NAACP and an investigation by the city.
Racially restrictive covenants came into being as a private method of maintaining racial separation after the U.S. Supreme Court declared local residential segregation ordinances illegal in 1917 (Buchanan v. Warley). In 1926, the Supreme Court upheld the legality of such private agreements in its ruling on Corrigan v. Buckley, which stood until 1948, when the court ruled in Shelley v. Kraemer that while individuals could enter into such contracts, courts could not enforce them. That left thirty years worth of legalized racial discrimination that facilitated the discriminatory allocation of public resources and hampered the accumulation of wealth among non-whites.
Example of a racially restrictive covenant from Seattle
In an interesting and highly teachable project on this subject, the Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project at the University of Washington has put together a set of online resources titled Segregated Seattle. Along with explanations of how racially restrictive covenants worked and maps showing residential segregation between 1920 and 2000, they have assembled a database of examples of restrictive covenants from King County dating from the 1920s into the 1940s. These examples could be powerful teaching tools, both in their specificity—the lists of every possible race excluded from ownership and residency, the exceptions for resident domestic servants of those restricted races—and in the boilerplate legal-ese that signals their ordinary place in the era's real estate transactions. And of course, the northwestern location reminds us all that legalized racial discrimination was never merely a southern story.


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Hockey is back in Yaroslavl
11 October 2011, 17:55 News
Amid the international outpouring of grief and shock following the Yaroslavl air disaster last month, it was easy to forget the impact of this global hockey tragedy on the local sporting community in the Russian city. Hockey in general, and Loko in particular, form a big part of the modern identity of this 1,000-year-old settlement on the banks of the Volga – and many of those killed on Sep. 7 were local lads living the dream of donning their home team's uniform.
The return of hockey to the town, one month after the crash, was a relatively low-key affair. With the senior team still gearing up for a VHL campaign due to start in December, it was the youth squad which took centre stage as the sport made an emotional return to the ice.
Lokomotiv's directors did not wish to see the club's home at Arena 2000 used until the traditional 40-day mourning period was complete. The modern stadium will remain closed until Sunday's memorial service, so the first home games in the Molodyozhnaya Liga were shifted to the 800-capacity training rink, Torpedo. And while the emphasis was on "business as usual" for the visits of Beliye Medvedi from Chelyabinsk and Omskiye Yastreby, there were plenty of hints of a city still in shock and pain over the events of one month ago.
Even on the way to the game, the reminders of the disaster were clearly visible, posters on lamp-posts bearing the simple message: "Pomnim, Lyubim, Skorbim" (We remember, we love, we mourn). In front of the arena the Lokomotiv club flag flutters proudly, but trails black streamers; on the office door a typed A4 poem adorned with a black ribbon remembers the "real men who played hockey", evoking one of Russia's favorite sporting songs.
The Loko youth team was also touched by the tragedy: six young players had been included in the ill-fated squad to go to Minsk at the start of the season, and all those involved in the squad had lost friends and colleagues. For those left to play on, returning home after a series of away games brought additional pressure. Maxim Zyuzyakin (pictured), the captain of Loko, told journalists: "We are carrying a lot of expectation, we are the only hockey team in Yaroslavl now. We cannot think about anything except hockey, we owe it to the people who believe in us."
Zyuzyakin also pointed to the level of support the youth team had enjoyed in the town, and that was clear among the crowds who came to the matches on Friday and Sunday. The opening game against Beliye Medvedi drew a crowd so large that the arena's staff was struggling to get everyone safely into the building; by Sunday the numbers had eased slightly but the emotion was scarcely any less. "It's a strange feeling," Zhenya told me. "Nothing can ever replace what we have lost here, but it's good to see a team from Yaroslavl back on the ice."
He also supported the club's decision not to cobble together a new roster in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy. All the KHL's teams had offered to release players to Lokomotiv to keep the team in the league, but the club management opted to wait and rebuild slowly. "It's the right thing to do," Zhenya added. "This way, we're creating a real Yaroslavl team again. It's our city, our club and I think the fans want to feel that the players represent us. Bringing in people from outside, it's a nice gesture, but this way is closer to the city."
On the ice, the team is still feeling its way back to top form – understandably given the highly emotional circumstances surrounding them. Against Beliye Medvedi – a team Loko's youngsters have never beaten – the game went to an epic shoot-out before the visitors won after sharing 16 penalties. Two days later against Omskiye Yastreby there was no hint of a sympathy vote from the opposition.
From the start, Yastreby were on the front foot and deservedly took the lead on 08:24. Although Loko rallied, they could not find a way past impressive visiting goaltender Eduard Reizvikh – who made 40 saves – and ended up losing 2-0. But the result mattered less than the fact that hockey is back in town: modern sport rarely has time for old ideals, but for once it truly was the taking part that counted.
Andy Potts, special to khl.ru


I wanted to start by thanking UNECE for the opportunity to share my thoughts on this important work they have undertaken.
My engagement in the Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) discussion has been mostly through the Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSP) window. There has been some confusion between the role that MSPs might play, PPPs should play and Voluntary Initiatives (VI) might contribute to the delivery of the SDGs.
My work on MSPs has been since their initial inception through the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in 2002. I would share with you that the same conversation around the need for Principles and Guidelines is happening around the MSP discussions in New York as it is here in Geneva on PPPs. The recent academic research on the MSPs that were launched at WSSD or just afterwards is that around 70% of them failed either completely or in some significant ways. With the recognition at the UN that for partnerships the UN is engaged in there is a need for a more robust sort of accountability because if it fails it impacts on the UN brand.
At the last discussion on MSPs in April this year a number of governments including Denmark and Switzerland suggested that only companies that are members of the Global Compact should be listed in partnerships on the UN web site. This is because the UNGC does have a form of due diligence. According to their Deputy Director Gavin Power the UNGC have delisted over 6000 companies who have not compiled with the UNGC listing requirements. Clearly, they should not have any recognition on a UN web site. On the issue of partnerships, the Secretary General will be making some recommendations in his report in December which is why the UN GA resolution on partnerships has been put off to next year.
First, I would like to say that the UNECE document is right to point out that para 48 of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda does call for guiding principles for PPPs. There is a need for the Finance for Development Forum to develop some principles with all member states. This might be one of the recommendations that comes out of the Secretary General's Sustainable Finance Summit to be held next September. The second general comment is that it is always problematic for UNECE lead the way on an issue. We saw this with the Aarhaus process on P10 where it took to Rio+20 for another region to follow suit. Perhaps if a global convention had been negotiated then those principles would be integrated into many more countries legal frameworks.
Third, it is clear that ODA which would amount to around $320 billion if every country gave what they should and domestic mobilization as it is at the moment cannot reach the figures required to implement the SDGs $3-$5 trillion so we will need private sector finance. The challenge is finding the best financing method for public services in infrastructure. Prioritizing domestic resources to provide efficient and accountable public services, with long-term concessional and non-concessional finance should perhaps be the first place to go.
Fourth, I believe that PPPs should result in improved outcomes for end users and citizens, through improved service quality, accessibility and PPPs should be consistent with and support long term sustainable development of the public. They should be in line with the sustainable development goals and human rights principles. Now looking at the UNECE draft principles.
The paper – suggests that many PPPs are working well. The question would be for who. And even the World Bank would question that in private. Stakeholders are much more critical. The Civil Society Manifesto signed by 151 national, regional and international civil society organisations, trade unions and citizens' organisations from 45 countries says: "The experience of PPPs has been overwhelmingly negative and very few PPPs have delivered results in the public interest." This is a deep difference of opinion which this process will need to bridge.
Having said that I do like the idea of using the city as a focus or a laboratory. In the PPP hierarchy I am less convinced that PPPs should be used for global public good areas like health, education.
The idea of developing standard PPP contracts is a very good one. As is a model PPP law. While companies have huge experience of negotiating PPPs local, sub national and even national governments do not. Standardizing these will help a lot and will make it easier to monitor and hold them accountable. I also like the idea of an inter-Ministerial committee. In Australia as reported in the civil society manifesto "an Independent Commission against Corruption found that politicians unlawfully influenced a decision on a water PPP so that AUS$60m of state money was siphoned off to a minister, his family, and associates." That might not have happened if there has been other Ministers involved. The present Uranium One issue in the USA will turn out to not be a Hilary Clinton issue as Shep Smith from Fox News point out this last week nine different US government departments were involved so the chance that someone could benefit (Clinton Foundation) from this was very little.
Principle 3 on Capacity building is critical. The issue of capacity building is even more needed at the level of the city or the city within a region. If you add that the possibility of a PPP in low or even middle-income countries then the chances of those local or sub national authorities having the right staff with the right experience to be able to review PPPs is highly unlikely. This is what Communitas found when discussing it for the Habitat III process. Though it Is great for the World Bank to have a PPP lab it would be much better if it was independent from the Bank as the Bank is engaged in PPPs and therefore can't be seen as neutral in this. It might be better place for developing countries within UNCTAD.
For low income countries or countries in conflict zones there is a zero chance of gaining the funds for a PPP. Maurice Strong before Rio+20 advocated an Earth Fund at either the IFC or World Bank that would insure such PPPs to enable those countries to be able to access the funds. This might be worth looking at again.
This isn't Value for People or Money. With low interest rates particularly in Europe this could have been financed much cheaper by just borrowing.
The need for a full life cycle impact is critical to ensure that the right questions are asked but also that the FULL cost of services and impacts are clear.
A prerequisite for companies to tender for a PPP s they should have to annual publish their environment, social and governance reports and have a sustainable development strategy. It might be worth considering the idea that they adhere to the Ruggie Principles on Human Rights, are a Global Compact member or at least not having been delisted. These external requirements would give more accountability.
We live in perhaps the most insure world since the 1960s and what we need is inspiring leadership that understands the risks and challenges ahead. The SDGs and the Paris Climate Agreement showed the intergovernmental process at its best. We now have to deliver these agreements – this is the last best chance for humanity if we want to create a just, equitable, fair and sustainable planet – as opposed to a fortress world.