TUESDAY, Sept. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Men who pack on excess pounds as young adults are at heightened risk of developing prostate cancer, although the risk varies by ethnic group, researchers from the University of Hawaii report.
Obesity is a risk factor for many common cancers, including colorectal cancer and breast cancer in postmenopausal women. However, whether obesity plays a role in prostate cancer risk has been unclear, researchers say.
The new study finds that "body mass in both younger and older adulthood, and weight gain between these periods of life, may influence prostate cancer risk," said study author Brenda Y. Hernandez, an assistant professor at the Cancer Research Center of Hawaii.
The report is published in the September online issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
For the study, Hernandez's team looked at the relationship between weight and prostate cancer in a multiethnic population including blacks, Japanese, Hispanics, Native Hawaiians and whites, all of whom who participated in a long-term study called the Multiethnic Cohort.
The researchers collected data on almost 84,000 men who participated in the study. In all, more than 5,500 men were diagnosed with prostate cancer. Men who were overweight or obese at 21 had a lower risk of localized and low-grade prostate cancer, the researchers found.
When men put on weight seemed to matter, as did race and ethnicity. For example, "higher weight in older adulthood was associated with increased risk of prostate cancer among white and Native Hawaiian men and a decreased risk of prostate cancer among Japanese men," Hernandez said.
And excessive weight gain in young adulthood increased the risk of advanced and high-grade prostate cancers (the more dangerous kind) for white men, the report found. For black men, excessive weight gain as a young adult upped risks for less hazardous, localized and low-grade forms of the disease.
Genes and lifestyle may account for these differences in risk, Hernandez speculated. "The relationship of certain characteristics, such as body size, with cancer risk may vary across ethnic groups due to the combined influence of both genes and lifestyle," she said. "This study underscores the importance of investigating cancer etiology in diverse populations."
Victoria Stevens, strategic director of laboratory services at the American Cancer Society, said the study shows there are differences in ethnic groups, but these differences are not straightfoward.
"Their findings aren't definitive," Stevens said. "They are just not clear-cut, you don't see a simple linear relationship."
"The paper is very suggestive, but it is not clear in prostate cancer whether weight gain is as important" as it is for other malignancies, she said. "Exactly what that risk is, we still don't know."


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Born and raised in Jersey City, K.O Styles releases his latest music video titled "Today".
"Today" is inspired by a real-life situation that K.O Styles went through where he needed money, and he created and produced the song all himself. He even directed the video with the help of his cameraman, making creative decisions himself. On screen, he brings to life the sometimes painful reality of everyday life in a ghetto, where youth resort to drug dealing to make money. The "Today" video is dark, but it's also here to bring light and spread a message. K.O Styles says about the video, "It's also speaking to someone who doesn't have a voice to say these type of things – not everybody can admit to not having something, so I just thought I would be the person to display that."

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Looking back on 2016, we wanted to highlight some key events that we could accomplish. Aside from selling over 500 homes, we could give Christmas to 9 families, brought lunch to a local police station, took 200 plus clients to a Cubs game, and gave Orphan of the Storm, dogs 122 beds.
Being able to give kids what they needed to make that Christmas unforgettable was very moving. We collected food and gave toys and clothes to families in our area. For the Kite Team, Christmas was very special.
got to see the Cubs win this past season! We got to be a part of history by being able to witness one of many games that the Cubs won this past season. Meeting with our past clients was very rewarding because of the bond that we form with them over the course of their home selling and buying process, but most of the team only communicates with them on the phone. Getting to put a face to a name is something that was much needed.
This summer we also gave every single one of the dogs at Orphans of the Storm, a no-kill shelter in Riverwoods, a bed. They were in heaven. Absolute heaven. We got to play with a lot of the dogs and love them and giving them a soft cozy bed to lay their head was such a great experience. We were so happy that they are not sleeping on hard concrete anymore.
Also, in the summer we had the opportunity to sandwiches to the hard working Officers, Detectives, and Staff of the Zion Police Department. We wanted to show our appreciation for the people who risk their lives every day to protect us. It was an incredible experience to meet the people who serve and protect.
In 2017, we hope to touch more lives and create more memories for our partners, clients, and furry friends. As a team, we make serving others a big part of what we do.


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Posted: Feb 19, 2017
WORCESTER – Senior Tim Petri (Eksjö, Sweden) had a record-breaking day while sophomore Jack Bauer (Cumberland, RI) was named the NEWMAC Men's Co-Swimmer of the Year as the 2017 NEWMAC Swimming & Diving Championships came to a close Sunday night. Petri broke his 200-yard breaststroke mark twice to help WPI finish third as a team.
MIT won its ninth consecutive title with 1,462 points and were joined in the top three by Coast Guard (1,099) and WPI (1,022). Wheaton took fourth (614) followed by Springfield (391), Babson (309) and Clark (221).
Petri clocked a B cut time of 2:03.41 in his morning swim and followed it up with a second-place 2:03.24 in the prime time race. Freshman Dave Chen (East Lyme, CT) was also in the A final and placed fifth (2:05.53). Senior Andrew Kelleher (Poughquag, NY) won the consolation final in a time of 2:06.75 and was followed by sophomore Alex Gallant (Lakeville, MA) in 13th (2:09.68) and junior Sam Carley (Trumbull, CT) in 18th (2:12.22).
Senior Andrew Bauer (Cumberland, RI) earned silver in the 100-yard freestyle with a B cut time of 45.44. Junior Karim Elsayed (Cairo, Egypt) and senior Frederick Burgwardt (Mendon, NY) also took part in the championship final and handed in fifth- and eighth-place times of 46.70 and 47.51. The B final saw sophomore Jean Philippe Miralda (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) touch the wall fifth (47.51) and freshman Matthew Scherrer (Wellesley, MA) finish ninth (48.75). The Bauers, Elsayed and Burgwardt collaborated to deliver a runner up and B cut time of 3:02.73 in the 400-yard freestyle relay while the quartet of Kelleher, Petri, Gallant and Miralda came home third in the B final with a 3:11.41.
Senior Seth MacDonald (Sherrill, NY) took fourth in the 200-yard butterfly and achieved a B cut with a time of 1:52.46. Senior Matt Houghton (Berkley, MA) touched the wall first in the consolation with a 1:58.10 as freshman Michael McCarthy (Long Beach, NY) narrowly missed a sub-two minute time with a 2:00.10 to finish 16th.
The 1,650-yard freestyle included freshman Markus Zimmermann (Sammamish, WA) and sophomore Roberto Esquivel (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) in the top 10 with fifth- and eighth-place times of 16:40.93 and 16:45.19. Junior James Macfarlane (Ijamsville, MD) and Carley chipped in with the 11th- and 12th place times of 17:23.12 and 17:30.84.
Senior Matt Houghton (Berkley, MA) took fifth in the 200-yard backstroke (1:52.93) as freshmen Jehu De la Rosa (The Woodlands, TX) and Josh Driscoll (Haverhill, MA) were second (1:55.67) and third (1:56.28) in the consolation. They were followed by classmate Alex Duffield (Brookfield, CT) in 18th (2:00.96).
The 2017 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships will be conducted March 15-18 at the CISD Natatorium in Shenandoah, Texas. Prior to that, qualified divers will head to MIT Friday and Saturday for the NCAA Division III Diving Regional while swimmers await the first round of invites set to be revealed 5pm Wednesday on NCAA.com. The final list is slated for 8pm on Monday, February 27, also on NCAA.com.
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Mazes, Threads, and COVID-19
On September 28, 2020 September 29, 2020 By antipodeanodyssey1In Children's Culture, Children's Literature, Classical Antiquity, Classical Myth, Classical Reception, Graphic Novels, Illustration, labyrinth, labyrinths, myth, myths, polish creator, UncategorizedLeave a comment
It was Anna Mik, PhD student at the University of Warsaw, who introduced me to the work of Polish artist Jan Bajtlik, whose magnificent book of mazes presents the myths of ancient Greece as a set of intriguing mazes. Everyone in the myths is in a maze of a different kind–Odysseus, Heracles, Atalanta, Zeus–they're all there. Maze as story, story as maze, life as maze. Here, Anna discusses the role of the maze, the thread, and life in the time of COVID as a labyrinth that we are all finding our ways through–Elizabeth Hale
A journey through a labyrinth can be a dreadful experience. It might have been a true horror for Theseus walking through Dedalus's maze with the anticipation of meeting the Minotaur just around the corner. For the Minotaur, on the other side, the labyrinth was a prison, where he waited for the human offerings and ultimately was killed by the mythical hero. For Ariadne who gave Theseus a thread leading him towards the safe exit after killing her brother, the labyrinth was a mysterious and confusing space, where love and fear were accumulated and made her feel conflicted.
The mythical maze was never only an architectural wonder. It was also a metaphor of danger, coming of age, uncertainty, a struggle between death and life. It survived the centuries in stories, visual depictions and artistic visions. And even though it is so familiar to us, this motif does not cease to surprise us to this day. Even if we live in an era of postmodernism, often perceived as a maze itself.
There are multiple examples of famous labyrinths in popular culture. Thousands of years after the Minotaur (allegedly) was slain, in the 1986 film Labyrinth, 16-year-old Sarah travels through the labyrinth. Trapped inside the world of her fantasies, she walks thorough paths representing her troubling adolescence. (she meets a lot of weird creatures on her way, paths change their courses, sometimes they are even upside-down) In J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the titled protagonist has to face the horror of a maze in the Triwizard Tournament.
"The towering hedges cast black shadows across the path, and, whether because they were so tall and thick, or because they had been enchanted, they sound of the surrounding crowd was silenced the moment they entered the maze. Harry felt almost as though he was underwater again." p. 539
In both of these works, mazes are not 'stable' and easy to pass through – they constantly change and surprise heroes and heroines with new turns and creatures living in it. They play with characters' imagination, push their boundries, and distort cognitive perception. Thus, it rises up the question – is there anything good about the labyrinth at all?
Bajtlik's solution: Greek Myths and Mazes
One Polish artist gives hope that there is something more to the ancient maze than horror and anxiety. Jan Bajtlik's Greek Myths and Mazes (English translation, Walker Studio, 2019) was published in Poland in 2018 under a slightly different title: Nić Ariadny. Mity i labirynty [Ariadne's Thread: Myths and Labyrinths]. It is a large format book in which double-page spreads present different stories from Greek myth: each one a different labyrinth leading a reader through various myths, locations, and ancient Greek phenomena. In such a manner, Greek Myths and Mazes is a great example of an interactive book for children, encouraged by the author to get through the maze, which has been marked with an entrance and an exit, and follow stories along the way. The pages are also an artistic showcase, as Bajtlik has conveyed complex and multi-layer stories through equally rich illustrations.
Odysseus's Labyrinth–Jan Batlik (by permission of the artist)
However, what seems to be the most imperative, is the implication that each element of the ancient world is a labyrinth in itself, with all the unexpected turns, monsters waiting just around the corner, and the big uncertainty – will the hero or the heroine find their way out and fulfil their journey? The story of Odysseus would be a great example of such a labyrinth, through which the hero travels for 10 years, uncertain of his fate and gods' favours. He does not know what waits ahead of him, he meets dead ends and turns leading him to monsters, he loses his crew on the way. Nonetheless, he thrives, bearing in his heart and mind the image of the exit – his beloved home, Ithaca.
Jan Bajtlik works with the labyrinth as a cognitive tool that allows the child to read the myth not linearly, as in a 'classic' text. The path leads the reader in all different ways, allowing them to immerse in the story. They might get the wrong turn, walk through the danger, or take a dangerous route from which it will no longer be possible to withdraw (as in Hephaestus' forge). The mythical labyrinth may also surprise the traveller with a beautiful view, a funny picture or, finally, a happy ending (as on Aeaea, Circe's island)
All things considered, a feature that would seem the most vital is book's metaphorical aspect. Being lost in a maze, just like being lost in a myth, perfectly reflects the shape of human existence, its impermanence, complexity, horror, and beauty. The book can affect the reader, not only a child, in an unusual way, especially during the 2020 lockdown. Isolation, danger, uncertainty, fear of the unknown – all these elements connect the world of ancient labyrinth and COVID-19 reality. If the ancient mazes have been able to gives any kind of hope, just like Jan Bajtlik, they would certainly give us a way out. Then again, only if Ariadne was there to bestow upon us an invaluable thread. This may lead us to finding in ourselves Ariadne, ready to help us find a solution to the most dreadful situation. Being an Ariadne would mean being hopeful, despite the hopeless reality.
What's in a title? From Ariadne's Thread to Greek Myths and Mazes
As I have mentioned earlier, the English version of Bajtlik's book was published in 2019 under a slightly different title from its Polish original. It made me wonder – does this change make any difference in book's reception? After all, it seems that "Ariadne's Thread"puts a certain kind of emphasis on the role of the heroine in Theseus' success. Without the thread provided by Minos' daughter, the young hero would probably not get out of the maze. What is more, the thread marks the path through a labyrinth thanks to which a hero does not make a mistake of taking the same wrong turn twice. Within the narrative structure of Bajtlik's story, the thread plays a vital role as well. Thus, it is a shame that neither Ariadne nor her thread appear in the English title.
Nonetheless, Bajtlik's Greek and Myths were translated also to Spanish, Catalan, French, German – in all of these editions "Ariadne's thread" has been maintained in the title on the cover. Let's read it as a good sign. There is a great hope for the Ariadne's Thread to get us through these uncertain times. After all, nowadays, it is accurate to consider reality being just another maze.
–Anna Mik
On April 6, 2020 April 6, 2020 By antipodeanodyssey1In covid-19, Education, games, labyrinth, myths, narnia, treehouseLeave a comment
During the COVID-19 crisis, we're all at home rather more than usual. Miriam Riverlea writes about how myths and literature are helping her young family think about time at home…
While we're self-isolating, I've been helping Milo, my seven year old son, learn how to tell the time. He's got a handle of the basics, but is still struggling with the concept that the numbers on the clock face mean different things whether it is the long or short hand that is pointing to them. And the arcane term 'o'clock' remains a mystery to him.
Perhaps part of his struggle is that time itself seems to be moving at a different rate as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds. With nowhere to be but at home, the minutes and hours move quite slowly, but the days are passing by at breakneck speed. What day is it again? we ask each other, and, did that happen yesterday, or was it the day before?
A treehouse fit for an odyssey!
This is family time, in a way we've never really experienced before, freed of the usual routines of work and school and other social outlets. Amid the anxiety and the uncertainty, I'm trying to keep positive and count our blessings. There's much to be thankful for – glorious autumn weather, a big backyard (with a brilliant treehouse), siblings to play with, and unlike so many across the world, job security and good health, at least for the moment.
Books are offering a welcome escape from the grim reality of the daily news. We've been working our way through CS Lewis' Narnia books in nightly instalments. We've had lots of conversations about the logistics of time travel, the possibility of multiple universes, and the relationship between primary and secondary time. And I've been reflecting on a different kind of time travel as I read aloud from a battered copy of the first three books in the series, which I've had since I was eight. It's a real treat to share the stories that I loved as a child with my own children.
And while we are all appreciating its fantasy elements, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe also seems relevant at the moment for its representation of sibling dynamics. Having adjusted to life at home, my three children are (mostly!) enjoying each other's company. But a story that foregrounds the lessons of loyalty, forgiveness, and courage is a valuable reminder of the importance of taking care of each other at this challenging time.
Leo's Labyrinth
Alongside books, jigsaw puzzles and board games, we've had fun making mazes for each other. Jan Bajtlik's Greek Myths and Mazes (2019) is providing plenty of inspiration.
Jan Bajtlik's Greek Myths and Mazes
I've got an idea for getting the kids to make comic strips featuring mythical characters in unlikely modern settings (the Minotaur goes to the supermarket?), and as the weather gets colder, we might attempt some simple weaving on cardboard looms. And with no clear sense of when normal life will return, maybe we'll finally get around to making this model of the Parthenon out of marshmallows and gingerbread. If so, I promise to share our creation in another post for this blog!
–Miriam Riverlea


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A total of 34 acres located in the heart of luxury retail and entertainment development at IH-10 and La Cantera Pkwy. Some tenants include Realty SA, MADabolic , La Panaderia, Wax in the City, and Amerisleep.
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Totaling at 42 acres of retail space available, this project is located at the hub of Georgetown at Hwy 29 & IH-35. Wolf Crossing is near St. David's Hospital, historic downtown square, and Southwestern University. This project includes 4 multi-tenant buildings, 1 build to suit Goodwill building, and 6 ground lease pads.
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Located at 5214 E 5th Street in East Austin, Texas, this development is a planned 60,000 SF office space with onsite parking. The site has convenient access to E. 5th Street, Cesar Chavez, Airport Blvd, and Hwy 183.
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Located off of Beltway 8 & Westheimer Rd in Houston, this project is a 100% climatized, Class-A Self-Storage building. The building is 5 stories at 35,000 SF each floor, totaling +/-175,000 SF.
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This project is located at 4215 South Lamar Blvd in South Austin on approximately 3.8 acres. The project is a +/- 320 unit Class A 5-Story multi-family wrap project. The building has 240,000 Net Rentable SF, and will offer some of the highest end amenities offered in the market.
Far West Multi-Family
This project is located at 3525 Far West in Northwest Austin on approximately 3.9 acres. The site will be developed for a future multi-family wrap project. The site is properly zoned for a multi-family mixed-use project.
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Located at 17280 RM 620 RD at CSW's the Point at 620 property, this project is the second multi-tenant retail building developed by CSW. The 6,800 SF multi-tenant building has an agreed to lease with Sherwin Williams, and a drive-thru suite available for lease.
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EIB supports Grupo Antolin's innovation investments with a EUR 100m loan
Grupo Antolin Chairman Ernesto Antolin and EIB Vice-President Emma Navarro
The agreement will help the company to implement its RDI strategy to develop new solutions for vehicle interiors
The investments will be made in Spain, Germany and France and will make it possible to create highly skilled jobs
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a EUR 100m loan with Grupo Antolin to finance its RDI strategy. The EIB support will enable the multinational company to develop innovative solutions for automotive interiors giving it a competitive edge and helping to design safer vehicles that are also more comfortable, environmentally friendly and technologically advanced.
The agreement signed in Madrid today by EIB Vice-President Emma Navarro and Grupo Antolin Chairman Ernesto Antolin is supported by the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), the central pillar of the Investment Plan for Europe (commonly known as the Juncker Plan).
The EIB-financed investments will be made in Grupo Antolin's innovation centres in Spain, Germany and France and will contribute to developing the company's global competitiveness. Grupo Antolin's European RDI strategy from this year until 2020 has a budget of almost EUR 220m and aims to lead the transformation the sector is currently undergoing with connected, self-driving and electric cars, together with industry 4.0. The agreement will strengthen the European automotive industry's capacity for innovation, contributing to the development of new patents. Grupo Antolin's projects are related to natural materials research, future mobility via new vehicle interior concepts and designs, advanced manufacturing and the integration of electronic and lighting functions into automotive components.
The loan is backed by the Investment Plan for Europe, which enables the EIB to finance projects that have a higher risk profile owing to their structure or nature. The EIB financing will ensure that the projects will be implemented within the established time frames (i.e. between 2018 and 2020) and will provide the resources needed to maintain current employment positions and continue creating high quality jobs. Grupo Antolin has almost 1 000 engineers in Europe, including around 350 in Spain.
At the signing ceremony today in Madrid, EIB Vice-President Emma Navarro highlighted how "this agreement will enable the EIB to help foster innovation at Grupo Antolin, a major Spanish multinational in the European automotive industry. As the EU bank, we are pleased to support a project fostering innovation investment in a key sector for the European economy, while also promoting highly skilled employment."
European Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation Carlos Moedas made the following comment on the agreement: "Investment in research and innovation is investment in the future of Europe. The EUR 100m EIB Juncker Plan loan signed today will enable Grupo Antolin to develop innovative products to improve its competitiveness in Europe. I am pleased that the European Union is supporting a highly innovative project in a traditional sector such as automotive. It is vital that our businesses receive the financial assistance they need for their RDI activities.""As people will be spending a lot of time in the car of the future, its interior will include new functionalities and solutions. Grupo Antolin endeavours to be the key partner of vehicle manufacturers in developing the interiors of their future cars. The key to this is innovation, something that we will continue to strengthen with the EIB's support," said Grupo Antolin Chairman Ernesto Antolin.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the long-term lending institution of the European Union owned by its Member States. It makes long-term finance available for sound investment in order to contribute towards EU policy objectives.
The Investment Plan for Europe, known as the Juncker Plan, is one of the European Commission's top priorities. It focuses on boosting investment to generate jobs and growth by making smarter use of financial resources, removing obstacles to investment, and providing visibility and technical assistance to investment projects.
The European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) is the main pillar of the Juncker Plan and provides first loss guarantees, enabling the EIB to invest in more projects that often come with greater risks. EFSI has already yielded tangible results. The projects and agreements approved for financing under EFSI are expected to mobilise more than EUR 284bn in investment and support some 611 000 SMEs in the 28 Member States.
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Labour Commissioner Bro-Mathew Shingwadja ordered the construction company Standtoll Properties cc, which is owned by northern-based businessman Ben Zaaruka, to pay close to N$300 000 to former and current employees. The workers were underpaid while working at mass housing construction sites contracted to Standtoll Properties in Oshakati.
The Labour Court agreed with the workers who approached the court with grievances of being paid wages below the minimum wage stipulated by the Labour Act.
"The respondent Standtoll Properties cc has committed an act of unfair labour practice, in that it unilaterally changed the minimum wage of labourers in contravention of the collective agreement prevailing in the construction industry of Namibia. Therefore, the full total amount due and payable is N$281 494.94," reads the court papers.
Zaaruka confirmed to the court that his employees were paid a minimum wage lower than that stipulated by the Labour Act, but argued that the employees were trainees and had not reached the required productivity level as stated in the Labour Act.
The court challenge was brought by 181 employees of Standtoll Properties, through the Namibia Building Workers Union (Nabwu) secretary general Victor Hamunyela.
Initially Nabwu demanded that Standtoll Properties pay about N$507 000, which according to the union is owed to all 181 workers who had been paid below the minimum wage. However, Shingwadja only ruled in favour of 90 employees. The other 91 employees were found not to have sufficient evidence they were underpaid.
Last year, 181 workers, including bricklayers, general workers and welders took Standtoll Properties to the Labour Court, after the conciliation efforts between their union and employer failed.
The workers claimed they were employed on a fixed term contract since March 2014 to construct houses at Ekuku, a project under the national mass housing scheme.
The applicants claimed that Standtoll Properties had not been paying them in accordance with the gazetted minimum wage.
Israel Shikalepo, former employee of Standtoll Properties, who is now unemployed, testified in court that initially he was promised a wage of N$20.80 per hour, which was later reduced to N$14.50 per hour.
"The witness testified that when he inquired as to why he was paid less he was told that he was not qualified for that amount as the productivity levels were not achieved. He further averred that Mr Zaaruka told him that he (Zaaruka) was not concerned with paper qualifications but the actual productivity levels," reads court documents.
Fillemon Naitwa who testified in Standtoll Properties' favour, told the court that he had 45 bricklayers for Standtoll Properties. Naitwa claimed to have worked for Zaaruka for the past 15 years and his hourly rate stood at N$15.50.
"We are very happy that a ruling was made that Zaaruka was underpaying the employees under a ploy of under-productivity and we do appreciate the labour commissioner's efforts to recognise that the treatment toward these employees was not good and they were underpaid. But Shingwadja made an error when he ruled in favour of only 90 employees and his basis was that there was no evidence led for the other employees," said Hamunyela.


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Q: UICollectionView: One Row or Column I want to use UICollectionView to display a horizontal scrollable list of thumbnails, however, I want this to be a single row. On another view, I'm displaying the thumbnails in a UICollectionView but this one scrolls vertically and it's in a single column.
Currently, the way I'm doing this is by changing the size of the collection view to only be big enough for one item so it autowraps and works, but now I'm dealing with variable sized items so it doesn't work anymore.
How do you make a UICollectionView display one row or column?

A: There isn't a real reason to subclass if you can trust the type cast.
((UICollectionViewFlowLayout *)self.collectionView.collectionViewLayout).minimumLineSpacing = 1000.0f;

If you have your collectionView loaded from a nib you could also play around with the parameters in the Attributes and Size Inspectors.
Same goes for scroll direction.

A: In iOS 13, thanks to UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout, this is trivial, because you can specify the number of cells per column in a horizontal layout, or the number of cells per row in a vertical layout. Here's a simple example for a single horizontally scrolling, vertically centered row of cells:
func layout() -> UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout {
    let itemSize = NSCollectionLayoutSize(
        widthDimension: .fractionalWidth(1),
        heightDimension: .fractionalHeight(1))
    let item = NSCollectionLayoutItem(layoutSize: itemSize)
    let groupSize = NSCollectionLayoutSize(
        widthDimension: .absolute(75),
        heightDimension: .absolute(75))
    let group = NSCollectionLayoutGroup.vertical(
        layoutSize: groupSize, subitem: item, count: 1) // *
    group.edgeSpacing = NSCollectionLayoutEdgeSpacing(
        leading: nil, top: .flexible(0),
        trailing: nil, bottom: .flexible(0))
    let section = NSCollectionLayoutSection(group: group)
    section.interGroupSpacing = 65
    let config = UICollectionViewCompositionalLayoutConfiguration()
    config.scrollDirection = .horizontal
    let layout = UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout(
        section: section, configuration:config)
    return layout
}

Set your collection view's collectionViewLayout to the output of that function call and you're all set.

A: When you init your UICollectionView pass the following UICollectionViewFlowLayout in the init parameter.
Note: You do not need to create a subclass of UICollectionViewFlowLayout
var collectionViewFlowControl = UICollectionViewFlowLayout()
collectionViewFlowControl.scrollDirection = UICollectionViewScrollDirection.Horizontal

For 0 px Cell Spacing:
collectionViewFlowControl.minimumInteritemSpacing = 0;
collectionViewFlowControl.minimumLineSpacing = 0;

collectionView = UICollectionView(frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.frame.size.width, 120), collectionViewLayout: collectionViewFlowControl)

A: For Swift 3
let flowLayout = UICollectionViewFlowLayout()
flowLayout.itemSize = CGSize(width: UIScreen.main.bounds.width/2-10, height: 190)
flowLayout.sectionInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 5, 0, 5)
flowLayout.scrollDirection = UICollectionViewScrollDirection.horizontal
flowLayout.minimumInteritemSpacing = 0.0
self.gCollectionView.collectionViewLayout = flowLayout

A: I am guessing you are using the built in Flow Layout.
However, for your case, you should make a custom UICollectionView Layout.
Make it subclass of UICollectionViewFlowLayout and add this code in the init method:
- (id)init {
    if ((self = [super init])) {
        self.scrollDirection = UICollectionViewScrollDirectionHorizontal;
        self.minimumLineSpacing = 10000.0f;
    }
    return self;
}

The minimumLineSpacing is the key to making it have one line here.
I hope this helps!

A: I wanted one column, left aligned and the other answers didn't help me.
So here is my very simple solution for one column, left aligned:
class GCOneColumnLeftAlignedFlowLayout: UICollectionViewFlowLayout {
    override func layoutAttributesForElements(in rect: CGRect) -> [UICollectionViewLayoutAttributes]? {
        let attributes = super.layoutAttributesForElements(in: rect)

        var y: CGFloat = sectionInset.top
        attributes?.forEach { layoutAttribute in
            layoutAttribute.frame.origin.x = sectionInset.left
            layoutAttribute.frame.origin.y = y
            y = y + layoutAttribute.frame.height + minimumLineSpacing
        }

        return attributes
    }
}

you also should set something like
estimatedItemSize = CGSize(width: 120, height: 40)

Don't forget to remove the line
minimumLineSpacing = big number

From the other solutions.
Hope this is helpful because it's a completely different approach compared to the other answers.

A: This worked for me to get a single row of cells regardless of the height of the CollectionView. Set the Min spacing for cells to 1000

A: I found that setting the minimumLineSpacing just made my scroll area really big and that setting the minimumInteritemSpacing=big accomplished keeping the items in one scrolling row or column, centered in the middle of the collectionview.

A: I think the documentation is the best :
minimumLineSpacingForSectionAt:
For a vertically scrolling grid, this value represents the minimum spacing between successive rows. For a horizontally scrolling grid, this value represents the minimum spacing between successive columns. This spacing is not applied to the space between the header and the first line or between the last line and the footer.
minimumInteritemSpacingForSectionAt:
For a vertically scrolling grid, this value represents the minimum spacing between items in the same row. For a horizontally scrolling grid, this value represents the minimum spacing between items in the same column. This spacing is used to compute how many items can fit in a single line, but after the number of items is determined, the actual spacing may possibly be adjusted upward.
So if your scrollDirection is horizontal, you need to set minimumInteritemSpacingForSectionAt to CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude and if your scrollDirection is vertical, you need to set minimumLineSpacingForSectionAt to CGFloat.greatestFiniteMagnitude for getting one row collectionView

A:  UICollectionViewFlowLayout *layout=[[UICollectionViewFlowLayout alloc] init];
 [layout setScrollDirection:UICollectionViewScrollDirectionHorizontal];

 layout.minimumInteritemSpacing = 0;
 layout.minimumLineSpacing = 0;

 blendEffectCollectionView=[[UICollectionView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 95, 320, 60) collectionViewLayout:layout];
 [blendEffectCollectionView setDataSource:self];
 [blendEffectCollectionView setDelegate:self];
 [blendEffectCollectionView registerClass:[BlendModeCell class] forCellWithReuseIdentifier:@"cellIdentifier"];
 [blendEffectCollectionView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];

 [bottomActivityView addSubview:blendEffectCollectionView];

A: 2022, for anyone using TVOS
Thanks to the great answer from @matt we know how to do this now.
I found two insurmountable problems in TVOS project.

*

*There's basically a bug where it inserts a large left content inset for some reason. The only way to get rid of it is to override safeAreaInsets.

*Separate issue: Strangely if you just set the layout "inline" in the view controller as in the accepted answer from @matt, there's a bug or misbehaviour where the scroll does not start properly on the left, but in a random central position.  (Even worse if you have many of the collection views on the screen, they all behave erraticlly.) Miraculously if you subclass instead, for some reason that fixes it (I guess due to the bringup order somehow).
Hence
class TightCollectionView: UICollectionView {
    override var safeAreaInsets: UIEdgeInsets {
        get {
            return UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 0, bottom: 0, right: 0)
        }
        set {
        }
    }

and then ...
    func layout() -> UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout {
        let itemSize = NSCollectionLayoutSize(widthDimension: .absolute(500), heightDimension: .absolute(300))
        let item = NSCollectionLayoutItem(layoutSize: itemSize)

        let groupSize = NSCollectionLayoutSize(widthDimension: .absolute(500), heightDimension: .absolute(300))
        let group = NSCollectionLayoutGroup.vertical(layoutSize: groupSize, subitem: item, count: 1) // one count for single row

        group.edgeSpacing = NSCollectionLayoutEdgeSpacing(leading: .fixed(0), top: .fixed(0), trailing: .fixed(0), bottom: .fixed(0))

        let section = NSCollectionLayoutSection(group: group)
        section.interGroupSpacing = 20

        let config = UICollectionViewCompositionalLayoutConfiguration()
        config.scrollDirection = .horizontal

        let layout = UICollectionViewCompositionalLayout(section: section, configuration:config)
        return layout
    }

and thus ...
    var bringup: Bool = true // I hate doing this but there's no really solid alternative in UIKit, thanks Apple

    override func layoutSubviews() {
        if bringup {
            collectionViewLayout = layout()
            bringup = false
        }
        super.layoutSubviews()
    }
}

Footnote - note that code like this:
        // section.contentInsetsReference = .none
        // config.contentInsetsReference = .none

Seemingly does nothing at all on TVOS. I fiddled with it for hours.
Footnote
.absolute(500)

I could really only get solid results on all gen. of TVOS by just setting everything absolutely in the compositional layout.  For now (2022!) it just seems too flakey otherwise.

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The 2002 Atlantic 10 men's basketball tournament was played from March 6 to March 9, 2002. The tournament was played at The Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  The winner was named champion of the Atlantic 10 Conference and received an automatic bid to the 2002 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. Xavier University won the tournament and got the conference's only bid to the NCAA Tournament. Dayton, Richmond, Temple, Saint Joseph's and St. Bonaventure received bids to the 2002 National Invitation Tournament. David West of Xavier was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Future NBA players Rasual Butler of La Salle and Romain Sato and Lionel Chalmers, both of Xavier, were among those joining West on the All-Championship Team.

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October 21, 2012 · by Bronlynn	· in Interviews.	·
It occurred to me a while ago that I'm surrounded by really talented and creative people. That's where I came up with the idea of showcasing them on my blog. The other day I got a chance to sit down and talk to Fly Guy Joey. He's the owner of Revolutionary Insanity Films. I've worked closely with this up-and-coming film director/cinematographer on a wide range of projects. Most of the time it's graphic design related, but I have helped out with some filming and video editing every now and again.
Without further adieu. Meet Fly Guy Joey.
FGJ: I'm a 26-year-old budding film director and cinematographer from Northeast Ohio.
What is Revolutionary Insanity Films?
FGJ: RIF is my baby. A filmmaker's dream that I can share with the world.
Where did you come up with the name Revolutionary Insanity?
FGJ: It came out of the black power movement. Just how revolutionary leaders like Malcolm X and Marcus Garvey can seem quite insane to those opposing them. I feel like I'm working to help change the filming industry.
What made you go into filming?
FGJ: I've always loved film. The ability to tell a story without using words is something special.
How long have you been working in films?
FGJ: It's been about 6 years. I started messing around with film with my roommate, Ricky, when I was a freshman at Kent State University. Nothing special was ever made. We were just two young jesters clowning around, but I guess that's how you learn, right? You take your parent's camcorder and play around with shooting angles and learn to do cuts in Windows Movie Maker.
What equipment are you using now?
FGJ: I have a Sony NEX-VG10 which I do the majority of my filming on. I also have a Go Pro and sometimes use a Canon T2i. For editing and sound I use Final Cut Pro and Logic on an iMac.
What is your most recent project?
FGJ: My most recent projects would be "Shutter" and "Broken."
How long have you been working on this project?
FGJ: I've been working on "Shutter" for about 6 months now. It's almost complete. There are just a few scenes left that need to be filmed and chopped. Hopefully by the end of November this project will be complete. "Shutter" was a great learning experience for me and really helped me grow as a filmmaker.
My other project "Broken" is a more recent development. It's been an idea kicking around in my head for a while now. I want to make something unique; something that pushes me as filmmaker to evolve. I want to break the standard formula for making a film. That's why I named this project "Broken" and the fact that the main protagonist will be broken physically and emotionally. I think this is going to be a fantastic experience for me and the people involved in this project. "Broken" will define where RIF and Fly Guy Joey are headed.
What is your favorite project you have done?
FGJ: My favorite project so far would have to be "Square Shooters." It's one of the first projects where I actually got to work with a wide range of people and film in a new environment. I think the video turned out great for the skill level I was at during its creation. I go back to the video and I see a lot of improvement that can be made but in the end it was a fun project to do.
What is your ideal style that you would like to work in?
FGJ: I think a Sci-Fi Noir style is where I would like to end up in the future. Or maybe something in fantasy. Right now I really don't know.
What have you learned from your earlier projects?
FGJ: Preparation is the key to success. I've had projects where we've tried to freestyle it and they came out awful. So yeah, preparation matters.
In what area do you believe you need to grow?
FGJ: I think I need to do a lot of focusing on sound design and recording audio. I feel once I mastered these areas I'll be ready to do a feature film.
Who is your greatest influence and why?
FGJ: Quentin Tarrantino and Robert Rodriguez. It all starts with 2 little films called "Desporado" and "From Dusk Til Dawn." When I was a kid these films were my favorites and still maintain a high spot on my list. While other kids were going crazy over "The Lion King" and "Aladdin", I wanted more Tarantino and Rodriguez. "Pulp Fiction", "Reservoir Dogs", and "Once Upon A Time In Mexico." I love those movies.
Recently, I've been heavily influenced by Christopher Nolan. I love his emo Batman and the realism in his films. I like how he wants to keep you guessing throughout the feature and blow your mind at the end.
Where do you come up with your ideas?
FGJ: Ideas come from everywhere; pictures, news, life, experiences. For instance, I was just at my job looking at a package of glitter and was wondering how I could implement it into a film and be unique about it. This is how I came up with the idea for "Broken." That I wanted to make something different.
Where do you see your company going in the future?
FGJ: I see RIF becoming an Internet TV channel where other filmmakers come together to create content. Just a place where an artist can get their project green lit by showing their passion for it.
What other things do you do?
FGJ: I read a lot of comic books and do some photography here and there.
Where can we find you?
Team Revo Twitter
Fly Guy Joey Twitter
With over 20 videos on his youtube channel and currently in the process of creating his personal blog, Fly Guy Joey is definitely someone who you should keep an eye out for. If you have any questions or comments about this interview just put it in the comments.
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Q: is it possible to undo jquery .html()? I have a div with a lot of stuff inside and using jquery I do
$("#section1").html('my new html stuff');

is it possible to undo this operation? just to avoid to put all the html in a variable an then do .html() again...
thanks

A: There's no built-in "undo" operation in JavaScript (or any language that I know of).  What you can do is preserve the previous state in a variable:
var previousState = $("#section1").html();
$("#section1").html('my new html stuff');

Now previousState holds what was in #section1 before you replaced it.  If you want to revert it, you can:
$("#section1").html(previousState);

just to avoid to put all the html in a variable an then do .html() again

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Snake dangers while hunting in the desert?
I plan to start doing some hunting in the greater southern Nevada Mojave desert (say within a 2 hour drive of Las Vegas).
I know that while hiking, there is some "safety" from snakes because you are alerting them to your presence with your steps and things like that. But what about when you are hunting and movement and silence are important? What are some of the precautions I should take from snakes while I'm sitting in a blind? I plan on hunting coyote from a turkey chair, so I will be pretty close to the ground. I've never seen one in the wild, but I've heard that the green mojave rattlesnake can be relatively aggressive. Any thoughts on this?
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Unknown CoderUnknown Coder
As you specifically mentioned Southern Nevada Mojave Desert, if you come across a snake and considering the worst case its a venomous snake, then its very likely to be a Rattlesnake or a Side Winder or an Adder.
The best way to avoid trouble with venomous reptiles is to be aware of your surroundings and observe some rules for your own safety. Most bites result from deliberate harassment of reptiles.
If you are sitting in a blind and may not make much movement, at least you should select a place to sit in a blind considering the potential habitats for these snakes and other species as well.
Do not pick a blind spot very near to a Bush, Cacti or a pile of stones.
Determine safety from a distance before placing hands or feet atop or among rocks or crevices
They are all members of the Viperidae family, the pit vipers. There is reason why they are called pit vipers, all these snakes have a pair of pits that help them get the heat signatures and even the fractions of temperature changes within a few feet distance. There is also a Jacobson's Organ, which perceives the chemical data received by flipping of their tongue every now and then. (Not exactly the smell, but chemical data is perceived as smell, that said, Snakes can't sniff, literally!). The data from these two Vomeronasal Organs together is what the snake use to estimate the distance between it and the prey.
Additional minute details of how it happens, which you can afford to skip reading as its not necessarily important in here with this answer: When the tongue is flicked out into the air, receptors on the tongue pick up minuscule chemical particles, which are perceived as scent. When the tongue is retracted into its sheath, the tips of the tongue fit neatly into the Jacobson's organ, sending the chemical information that has been gathered through the organ and to the brain, where the information is quickly processed and analyzed so that the snake can act promptly on it.
The point is:
If you follow safety instructions (probably issued by authority there who know the snake better than I do) and are very careful about picking the place such that your best bet is avoiding their area of interest/habitat, you should not come across one.
Now, you checked the place, confirmed that there is no snake, you sit in a blind for hours. Does the safety followed earlier makes sure that no snakes comes there? Of course, it can't be guaranteed. But, with the kind of sensing organs they have and their typical behavior says that, they'll see you before you see them. And, they are more on the defensive side than being on the curious side of an animal.
But, God forbid, if at all a rattlesnake comes around you, its likely that unless you are paying very close attention towards it, you won't see it since it camouflages itself so well, but you will hear it. Pay attention to the typical rattle noise, just as you hear it, take a careful look around, avoid panicked rapid movements and slowly get away from it at least a 15 feet, let it pass, do not try killing it or messing with it.
I've never been hunting so this sitting in a blind scenario did make me think about how could you avoid them. In case if you have a companion, use the other person as a dedicated spotter who can spot snakes and other potential threats more carefully and frequently than you will, You can keep your eye peeled for the thing you are hunting, while your spotter ensures that nothing comes closer. Though the risk is there with Side Winders since they are so small and perfectly camouflaged with the land.
Check with the local authority for details about the area of prominence, where the are spotted more frequently, their meeting seasons, etc. Avoid their mating season. During the mating season, and just before the season of hibernation, they tend to travel more distance than they usually do, and obviously are far more aggressive than they normally are. If I were you, I'd definitely avoid that season.
On a lighter note, irrelevant to this question: Its not only a snake than can cause you trouble there, spiders? Scorpions?
Have a safe one!
WedaPashiWedaPashi
Great answer, thank you! Also, indeed, I hadn't really considered other things such as the brown recluse spider. I'll have to think about that. Also, you make a good point about rocks. My plan is to set up around rocks because it makes blinds easier to build. So I will have to pay special attention to the rocks I choose. – Unknown Coder Sep 8 '14 at 14:43
Good answer, +1. How come a guy from India knows so much about the Mojave desert? Have you visited there? – Olin Lathrop Aug 25 '15 at 21:35
@OlinLathrop: Thanks Olin. No, I haven't been there, but I have studies Rattlesnakes very keenly over the years. The Viperdae snakes that are found in India (Russell's Viper, Bamboo-Pit Viper and Saw-Scaled Viper) inhibit almost same properties apart from that Iconic Rattle at the tail. Rest of the habits, habitats are almost same. I come across those snakes at least once a week. I had been a part of the local animal rescue team half a decade ago, so I have had experiences with Viper snakes. – WedaPashi Aug 26 '15 at 4:46
...*studied.... – WedaPashi Aug 27 '15 at 8:21
I'm no herpetologist, but in my experience, snakes are in the "you don't bug me, I won't bug you" category. If you're sitting in a blind and are still, you aren't likely to surprise them. Surprising a snake or making it feel endangered is what causes most bites. If you're still, they'll tend to just pass by without bothering you, and will likely detect you well before you detect them.
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It would be unusual for a snake to attack a stationary person. I suppose it's possible that a snake might approach you or your shelter to try to get warm, and you could then surprise them after they had already settled down near you.
I'm guessing there is no coyote season in Nevada, so you could be doing it any time of year. If it's the winter, snakes are likely to be hibernating. I suppose in the early spring, when snakes are coming out of hibernation and actively searching for food, might be the most likely time to encounter a snake if you are stationary.
I've spent plenty of time out in the Mojave desert, and the vast majority of the snakes I've seen have not been venomous. I've never had a snake do anything other than 1) nothing or 2) try to get away from me, usually by moving just far enough away that it felt safe.
I agree that scorpions might be a bigger concern. Desert recluses and black widows are obviously dangerous, but unlikely to move to you after you're already set up and stationary - you're more likely to encounter them when you are setting up or taking down your blind, assuming you're setting up on or next to a rock pile.
nifenife
I agree that a stationary person is very unlikely to be bitten by a snake. Snakes bite people because they feel threatened. A sitting person that they slithered up on wouldn't be very threatening. The highest danger in the desert is yahoos with guns, especially after having downed a sixpack. I've spent significant time in the Mojave Desert of AZ. While I've only seen snakes at a distance and running away, I've had a bullets fly by my me close enough to hear the whistling noise. The yahoos were shooting randomly and didn't know I was there. – Olin Lathrop Aug 25 '15 at 21:41
@Olin: Glad that you didn't get shot. I don't understand these yahoos. Who are they? – WedaPashi Aug 27 '15 at 8:24
@Weda: Yahoos is a name for the type of people who get rowdy and have little regard for anyone else or nature. When you find them outdoors, they won't be far from a beer cooler and the pickup truck they drove to get there. Favorite pastimes are downing beer, making a lot of noise, driving the pickup over whatever they can to flatten it, and shooting off guns. Especially after a few beers, they're not particular about what they shoot at. Go to Arizona and you'll see most every road sign, cactus, and jack rabbit has bullet holes. – Olin Lathrop Aug 28 '15 at 13:14
@OlinLathrop: Oh, seriously? And government doesn't do anything about them? – WedaPashi Aug 28 '15 at 13:43
@WedaPashi: how's the government going to patrol several hundred square miles of remote desert? – Michael Martinez Aug 28 '15 at 17:40
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Hey white southerners, let's talk about our Confederate heritage
The people of Durham removed their Confederate monument last night. I stand in support, so it seems fitting to share this commentary from a couple years ago with my fellow white people again.
For many of us — white people born and raised in the South and descended from southern families with long histories in this land — recent conversations resulting from Dylann Roof's act of fatally racist terrorism in Charleston have been difficult. Specifically, given Roof's self-admitted affinity for the Confederacy and its symbols, much debate has turned to the Confederate battle flag, other Confederate symbols and the history and meaning of the southern rebellion. The debate has provoked quick responses of defense or middling excuse-making from people like us.
I understand this response. In the past, I've had the similar kinds of responses. I know the debates seem personal, eliciting feelings we're perhaps not used to addressing and causing us to confront emotions and certain uncomfortable facts about our families we're not accustomed to having questioned.
And, maybe, other people don't understand why it's so emotional. Why something that happened so long ago could seem so personal. "The Civil War ended 150 years ago," you'll hear others exclaim. "Get over it, already," they'll add.
But, still, you have difficulty setting aside personal biases and confronting the truth.
You see, us white southerners, we're special. If your family is anything like mine, and odds are many of yours are, it goes a little something like this:
You're born into a big family, with a long history in the South. Your elders — grandparents or great-grandparents or aunts or uncles — fill family reunions and holidays with stories of family members long gone. Family history and genealogy are forefront. Legends and folk stories of family members are passed down from generation to generation. You might be able to trace at least one line of your family prior to the Revolution and at least one ancestor served in the Continental Army. Military service in your family continued into the next century, and one of your forefathers, if not more than one, fought for the Confederacy. You know where they're buried. You've seen their Confederate tombstone. Heck, someone in your family might have even arranged to have a formal Confederate tombstone commissioned by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (yes, they still do this).
You've been taught your entire life to be proud of your family heritage and history. "Heritage not hate" is more than a Facebook meme; you've heard it all your life. All those folk stories and legends told you that your great-grandparents were heroes — gallant knights who rode off to war to defend their families and their homes against an angry invading force during the great "War Between the States." You grew up whistling "Dixie," damning Sherman's March to the Sea and all the great troubles caused by the "War of Northern Aggression," commemorated in songs like "The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down." You defended the Confederate battle flag and maybe even flew it in your youth.
And, because of this history and your youth and your family and because of all the times you've studied your genealogy and read your forefathers' names and wills and letters and visited their graves, you begin to see yourself in them. You begin to think you know them. That they have some sort of real impact on your life today, as if they're here with you now.
Then someone comes along and calls them white supremacists, racists, rebels and traitors. Then a tragedy happens and people lose their lives and others compare this terrorist to your ancestors.
And you shut down. Because that's not the kind of story you heard growing up. That's not the vision of the valiant hero of the "Lost Cause" you thought you knew. That's not the "accurate" portrayal of men who simply sought to protect their families, keep them fed and keep them safe, you tell yourself.
But — as hard as it is to hear it, as much as no one wants to see their family heritage turned over into a collective history of hate, treason and violence — every bit of this criticism is true.
Not only is it true, it's criticism we must embrace. We must throw off our Lost Cause-colored glasses and see our histories for what they are. We must acknowledge and admit the realities of the pain, suffering, death and despair it caused millions of human souls.
My family is not immune. My seventh-great-grandfather Thomas Comer owned more than a dozen slaves at the time of his death in 1793 or 1794 in Halifax County, Va. I share a common ancestor with a second branch of the same family that would eventually produce Braxton Bragg Comer, the Progressive-era governor of Alabama from 1907-1911 and a U.S. senator who supported rabidly racist Redeemer Democrats, exploited black labor in the convict lease system and was connected to some 25 deaths of black convicts working for his economic self-interests. My fifth-great-grandfather in another line of the family produced eight sons — each serving for the Virginia infantry during the Civil War. One died in a Union prison camp, and the other seven, according to family lore documented in an old newspaper, "heard the last gun of the war, were nearly starved at the surrender at Appomattox, heard Lee's farewell address, turned their faces to their loved Dixie and started their steps homeward."
These people — these men in my family — they did not fight for freedom and honor. They did not create businesses to benefit the economic spirits of all people. They did not create legal policies or political campaigns that sought equality and reconciliation.
Instead, they fought for slavery. Instead, they created businesses whose very livelihood traded in the very real lives and bodies of other people. Instead, they created legal policies and political campaigns that — after slavery was abolished — enabled "slavery by another name" and denied black citizens their full and equal station among the citizens of this nation and world.
This is the truth. An ugly, uncomfortable one, but truth nonetheless. And if we ever have any hope of moving this nation toward racial reconciliation, white people like me, like you and like so many others will have to acknowledge this past. We'll have to stop whitewashing reality. We'll have to quit treating traitors and white supremacists as heroes, even if they're among our own family trees. We'll have to look deeply inward and ask ourselves tough questions.
Do we really want to be associated with this history of hate and racism? Is this something we really want to celebrate as pride and heritage?
My answer is a resounding no.
Because we have a choice and though we cannot change history, other choices are before us:
We can cast off old family heroes and choose them anew — heroes like my grandfather, who decried the evils of the Ku Klux Klan instead of encouraging their violence like B.B. Comer is once thought to have done. A hero who had a sense of shame and regret when telling me about distant cousins who were, even nearly 150 years after the end of the Civil War, still members of the Ku Klux Klan. A hero who, when integration became the law of the land, taught his daughters to treat all their fellow classmates with respect and began to challenge his own views, remaining loyal lifelong to a Democratic Party increasingly more tolerant, more equal, more steadfastly and firmly committed to the ideals of equality and justice for all.
Additionally, we can choose to take our "Lost Cause" mythology, celebrations of hate and slavery and symbols of treason and violence like the Confederate battle flag and relegate them to history, not the present. Put them in museums. Put them in your family's historical files. Move Confederate monuments to cemeteries.
But, most importantly, we can choose to turn to our black neighbors and friends — many of them descendants of the very people our families once owned and fought to keep in chains. We can choose to hear their words, their stories, their emotions and feelings and all the things we've failed to hear over decades and centuries of making sure we were the ones who had singular, ultimate, God-like control over their lives and minds.
This choice is ours and ours alone. This responsibility lies with us, because people like us — people whose blood flows through our very veins — first set up these systems of slavery, disenfranchisement, convict leasing and other institutional ills under which others have suffered and we have benefited. We'll have to make this choice and work hand-in-hand with the people our forefathers once sought to silence. Together, we'll ensure the mistakes our ancestors made are never repeated. Together, we'll put America on the path upon which we first started when other heroes — people like my seventh-great-grandfather, Michael Easter II, and perhaps someone else in your family — took up their duty to fight for a nation founded on the self-evident truth that all men, including ultimately black men and women and everyone in between, are created equal.
That's the kind of heritage I want. That's the kind of heritage we should choose. That's the kind of heritage we can create for our descendants. Starting today, tomorrow and every day after.
Tagged: American Civil War, Charlottesville VA, Confederate Flag, Confederate heritage, Confederate monuments, Confederate soldiers, family heritage, white southerners


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