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It's not because he wasn't born here, but because he was born while black
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White supremacists, a.k.a. "birthers," seem to believe that they're going to undo the will of the majority of American voters — again — by going after President Barack Obama, whose legitimate birth certificate from the state of Hawaii is shown above. I say to the birthers: Over this white man's dead body will you once again subvert the will of the majority of the American voters like you did with George W. Bush.
As I have written recently, I hate it when people cry racism without apparent good cause, but I cannot think of any reason other than racism that some wingnuts are obsessed over whether or not President Barack Obama meets the constitutional requirements of nativity for a U.S. president.
First of all, many if not most of the "birthers" — who assert that Obama legally cannot be president because he doesn't meet the U.S. Constitution's nativity requirements — think that it would be Awesome! if Austrian-born Repugnican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger could be U.S. president (you don't have to be a natural-born citizen to be California governor). Some of these wingnuts even have called for the U.S. Constitution to be changed — so that Schwarzenegger specifically can run for president.
And where in the fuck were the "birthers" when the BushCheneyCorp blatantly stole the White House in late 2000, even though Democrat Al Gore had won the popular vote by more than half a million votes and even though he won the pivotal state of Florida as well? Where was the sanctity of the office of president to the "birthers" then?
No, you see, the "problem" is that George W. Bush and Schwarzenegger are white men, and Barack Obama was BWB — born while black.
It's good enough for me that the same 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court that ignored the will of the majority of American voters and installed George W. Bush (instead of the victor, Al Gore) into the White House in late 2000 has refused to hear the "birthers'" "legal" "arguments" that Obama legally can't be president. Like the U.S. Supreme Court would have passed up another chance to pick a Repugnican "president" over the will of the majority of the American voters!
But this nails the birthers' coffin shut for me (from The Associated Press):
Honolulu – State officials in Hawaii [today] said they have once again checked and confirmed that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen, and therefore meets a key constitutional requirement for being president.
They hoped to stem a recent surge in the number of inquiries about Obama's birthplace.
"I … have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying [that] Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen," Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said in a brief statement. "I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago."
So-called "birthers" — who claim Obama is ineligible to be president because, they argue, he was actually born outside the United States — have grown more vocal recently on blogs and television news shows.
Fukino issued a similar press release Oct. 31, but was prompted to speak out again because of the renewed attention on Obama's beginnings. Hawaii's Health Department has been flooded in recent weeks with questions from individuals and several national TV news networks asking for proof that Obama was indeed born in Hawaii.
"They just keep asking over and over and over again," Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo said.
The Constitution states that a person must be a "natural-born citizen" to be eligible for the presidency. Birthers contend that Obama's birth certificate is a fake, and many say he was actually born in Kenya, his father's homeland. They've challenged his citizenship in court….
And they've lost in court. No court of law, all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, has found for the "birthers."
It's sad, sick and pathetic. So anathema to these white supremacists is a non-white president that they maintain, against all available evidence and in the midst of the fact that every court of law shoots down their bullshit claims, that Barack Obama isn't legitimately president.
They use the birth certificate "issue" as their "argument" because they can't just come right out and say that their main problem with Obama is that he's black.
These motherfuckers apparently want another fucking civil war on their hands, challenging the legitimacy of President Barack Obama — who, whether you like him or not, was elected fairly and squarely by a clear majority of the American people — when their own fucking last "president," George W. Bush, was the most illegitimate "president" in U.S. history, first "elected" and then "re"-"elected" under the dark clouds of election fraud. (But he was white, you see, so that was perfectly OK.)
I say that we blue staters give that civil war to the "birthers" — and that we finish the job this time.
P.S. I forgot to mention that of course the presidential campaign of Billary Clinton or John McCainosaurus would have seized upon the Obama nativity issue were there any substance to it.
You think that Billary didn't want the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination? You think that the Repugnicans didn't want to keep the White House?
You don't think that between Team Billary and Team McCainosaurus, every Obamastone was overturned?
So that's three strikes against the "birthers'" bullshit conspiracy theory (in no certain order): the U.S. Supreme Court refused to get involved in the matter; Obama of course was fully investigated by the Clinton and the McCainosaurus campaigns; and the Hawaii state government says (repeatedly) that Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961.
Even the evilly insane Ann Cunter says that the "birthers" are full of shit.
Case absofuckinglutely closed.
Tagged as "birthers", Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama, birth certificate, born while black, Civil War, conspiracy theorists, conspiracy theory, crackpots, cranks, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hawaii, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Racism, U.S. Supreme Court, white supremacists, wingnuts
Go out whining
Repugnican Sarah Palin-Quayle gives a fake laugh and bows her head in fake piety yesterday at the annual governor's picnic in Fairbanks. Maybe she is praying that she escapes the innumerable ethics probes and legal bills that have plagued her during her truncated governorship of one of the nation's reddest and least-populous states. Yesterday was Palin-Quayle's last day as governor of Alaska, but for her to slither back under the rock from which she came probably is too much to hope for.
Good riddance, Sarah Palin-Quayle.
Oh, just kidding. I know that, like Jason Voorhees or Freddy Krueger or some other nightmare, you'll be back.
But it's funny (not ha ha funny) how Palin-Quayle demonstrates how unpresidential she is while trying to make the argument to the contrary.
I mean, do we want a president who whines at every turn about her or his "mistreatment"?
For her failures Palin-Quayle blames the media, blames a supposed national pornographic interest in her white-trash family that I've never witnessed, blames even "starlets" (although she has wanted to be one herself), and she even (I think — her thinking is disordered) surreally claims that to criticize her somehow is to attack our troops.
Palin-Quayle is just a power-hungry beauty-pageant dingbat who wraps herself in the American flag and in the Shroud of Turin. She has to wrap herself in something, has to align herself with someone else's achievements, because she's never accomplished anything on her own in her whopping two and a half years as governor of one of the nation's least populous, most backasswards states.
Perhaps there is some hope for the United States of America, though, that the majority of voters in November stopped the possibility of Palin-Quayle ever becoming — Oh. My. God. — president.
Whatever her future endeavors, I fully expect Palin-Quayle to continue with her "victimization" shtick, which will guarantee that governor of one of the most podunk states in the nation is the highest political office that she'll ever get.
Tagged as Sarah Palin
Al and Jesse, get right on it!
The caption for this AP photo reads: "Los Angeles Lakers [player] Rick Fox … holds his arms up in the air as he pretends to be arrested by 'Star Wars' stormtroopers at [the] Comic-Con International 2009 convention … in San Diego [yesterday]…."
Hmmm… Good fun or racial profiling?
After all, the arresting officers are white.
For laughs, Fox should have told the stormtroopers, "You don't know who you're messing with!" — which is what Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. reportedly told the white cop who arrested him…
Tagged as Comic-Con International, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Los Angeles Lakers, racial profiling, Rick Fox, San Diego
Obama's almost-apology re Gatesgate
President Barack Obama gives a half-assed apology today for having stoked the flames of interracial strife with stupid comments that he made at the end of a press conference on Wednesday.
I was happy to watch the video in which President Barack Obama admitted today that by inserting himself into Gatesgate — I refer, of course, to the black Harvard professor who cried "racism" when a white police officer responded to a call that the professor's house in Cambridge, Mass., was being burglarized — he only inflamed, rather than illuminated, the controversial situation.
However, Obama not only did not apologize for his largest error, but he didn't even mention it. And his biggest error is that he sided with black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s account without being able to know whose account of the incident is the most accurate: Gates' or white Sgt. James Crowley's.
Obama's biggest error when he shot his mouth off on Wednesday was not that he didn't "calibrate" his words correctly, and nor was it his biggest error (as he today seemed to have suggested, probably incorrectly, that his critics have alleged) that as president he shouldn't have chimed in on Gatesgate. (Obama correctly stated today that racism is a national issue, not a local issue.)
Again, Obama's biggest error is that he spoke out of his ass, and George W. Bush notwithstanding, the president of the United States should not speak out of his or her ass.
The more information that comes to light about Gatesgate, the more it looks like Gates cried wolf and that his deck of race cards needs to be confiscated from him (but probably not by a white person).
This, for instance, from The Associated Press today:
Cambridge, Mass. – A black police officer who was at Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s home when the black Harvard scholar was arrested says he fully supports how his white fellow officer handled the situation.
Sgt. Leon Lashley says Gates was probably tired and surprised when Sgt. James Crowley demanded identification from him as officers investigated a report of a burglary. Lashley says Gates' reaction to Crowley was "a little bit stranger than it should have been."
Asked if Gates should have been arrested, Lashley said supported Crowley "100 percent."
Gates has said he was the victim of racial profiling.
President Barack Obama says the officers "acted stupidly." Lashley called Obama's remark "unfortunate" and said he should be allowed to take it back.
Lashley is pictured in the foreground of this now-famous news photo (taken by Gates' neighbor) of Gates' arrest:
A picture says a thousand words; the handcuffed Gates appears to be out of control and Lashley doesn't appear to be concerned that this is an episode of police brutality being perpetrated against a member of his own race.
Of course, the race-baiters out there like Gates and Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson probably regard Lashley as just an Uncle Tom; those who so rabidly want to see racism where it doesn't exist cannot be persuaded otherwise.
All of this said, I want to make it clear that I agree with Obama's statement in his half-assed apology of today that blacks historically have had reason to fear mistreatment by white male cops and that therefore such fear at least to some extent is understandable.
However, we have to take each allegation of racism in the present on a case-by-case basis; historical precedent cannot be used as a determinant as to whether a present-day allegation of racism is valid or not.
And finally, yes, let me be the first to state that racism is alive and well in the United States of America — although, it seems to me, its incidence is largely based upon geographic location. I can see white male cops in the South being institutionally racist more than I can see white male cops in Cambridge, Mass., being institutionally racist, for example.
If you're one of those fucktards who thinks that racism doesn't exist in the United States anymore, take a look at this Associated Press news video of a clash between white supremacist assholes (that's redundant) and black Americans in Paris, Texas that happened just this past Tuesday.
In the video, white supremacist dipshits (again, redundant), among other things (such as to give the Nazi salute and to display the Nazi and Confederate flags), tell black Americans to "go back to Africa."
Uh, one, all of us human beings came from Africa, and two, it's not like Africans came to America voluntarily, on holiday on cruise ships, is it?
White supremacists, who appear to be lacking or perhaps possessing extra chromosomes, make me embarrassed to be a white male, and I apologize to all black Americans that such white retards still exist. (And I thank Goddess that at least I'm gay…)
Oh, well; although Obama fucked this one up, at least he got the nation talking about race issues, which needs to be an ongoing national dialog.
Tagged as Cambridge, Gates, Gatesgate, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Massachusetts, Obama, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Racism, Sgt. James Crowley, Sgt. Leon Lashley
Next to 'I love you,' 'I don't know' is the best three-word sentence of all
OK, so I probably have been guilty of this myself to some degree, but there is an epidemic in the nation of individuals asserting statements of truth even after they have acknowledged that they don't know all of the facts.
There is this from The Associated Press today:
NATICK, Mass. – A white police sergeant who arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. said [today] he's disappointed President Barack Obama said officers acted "stupidly," despite acknowledging he didn't know all the facts.
Sgt. James Crowley responded to Gates' home near Harvard University last week to investigate a report of a burglary and demanded Gates show him identification. Police say Gates at first refused and accused the officer of racism.
Gates was charged with disorderly conduct. The charge was dropped Tuesday, and Gates has since demanded an apology from Crowley.
Obama was asked about the arrest of Gates, who is his friend, at the end of a nationally televised news conference on health care [last] night.
"I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry," Obama said. "Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And number three — what I think we know separate and apart from this incident — is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that's just a fact."
In radio interviews [this] morning, Crowley maintained he had done nothing wrong in arresting Gates.
"I support the president of the United States 110 percent. I think he was way off base wading into a local issue without knowing all the facts as he himself stated before he made that comment," Crowley told WBZ-AM….
I don't watch corporately owned and operated television, since it's mostly just corporate brainwashing, but I happened to catch the end of Obama's press conference at a friend's house last night, and I was flabbergasted that Obama indeed first admitted that he didn't know what happened between Gates and Crowley but then proceeded to assert that Gates indeed had produced his identification to Crowley as Crowley had asked him to do.
Fact is, this is a he-said, he-said situation. Gates says he produced identification when he was asked for it. The cops say that Gates refused to produce identification. While I tend to suspect that Gates indeed refused to show ID, at least initially, because he wanted to make the whole thing into a "racist" incident, I wasn't there, so I can't say for sure what happened; I can't say who is telling the truth and who apparently is prevaricating.
When asked about Gatesgate last night, Obama should have simply stated that he wasn't there, so he can't take sides. That he took a side, Gates' side, was irresponsible. It was piss-poor leadership on Obama's part and only could serve to further stoke the flames of interracial hatred, the flames that Gates and Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and their ilk seem to want to stoke.
Remaining neutral in the Gates case wouldn't have been pussy of Obama — it would have been wise, given his admitted lack of knowledge of the facts.
And then there is Rachel Maddow. I love Rachel. She perhaps is my favorite lesbian on the planet.
But I was astounded to hear Maddow, in a clip that I recently watched on the Internet, state that of course every statement that Bowe Bergdahl, the 23-year-old American soldier being held captive by the Taliban, made in the half-hour video that the Taliban recently released was coerced.
Fact is, we just can't know what is in Bowe Bergdahl's head. Yes, it's certainly possible that everything that he said in the half-hour Taliban video, with the probable exception of the sentiments that he expressed for his family at home and his wish to go home, were coerced to at least some degree.
However, I don't rule out that he truly believes at least some, or maybe even most of, the statements that he made. (I at least find it at least a little hard to believe that Bergdahl truly is as interested in finding out more about Islam as he states he is in the video.)
Hopefully Bergdahl will make it home safely and we will find out from him what is in his head.
Until then, each of us needs to humble herself or himself and acknowledge:
Those are three refreshing, liberating words that we just don't hear enough.
Tagged as Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, Bergdahl, Bowe Bergdahl, Bowe R. Bergdahl, Bowe Robert Bergdahl, Crowley, crying wolf, Gates, Gatesgate, Harvard University, Henry Louis Gates Jr., humility, I don't know, James Crowley, Jesse Jackson, Maddow, Obama, opportunism, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Rachel Maddow, Sgt. James Crowley, Taliban
Racial profiling or yet another media op for Al Sharpton and/or Jesse Jackson?
In this photo taken by a neighbor of his, Henry Louis Gates Jr., the director of Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research, is arrested at his home in Cambridge, Mass., on July 16. Police say they were responding to a call of a break-in at Gates' home, while Gates reports that his front door was stuck and that he had problems opening it. Police say that Gates was uncooperative with them (to put it mildly) and that they arrested him for disorderly conduct.
So a famous black scholar apparently was arrested when he was uncooperative with police who were responding to a call that his house was being burglarized by a couple of black men. (Gates says that his front door was stuck shut and that he asked a driver to help him get it open.)
Was it racial profiling or not?
Gates says it was.
Now, I'm a white guy. If my front door were stuck and I had to force my way into my own house, and someone had called the cops to report that he or she had seen someone breaking into my house, I might not be happy to see the cops arrive; after all, I'm no burglar and it's my own house.
But you know, I probably would cooperate with the cops, realizing (duh!) that if they'd received a report of a break-in and found me inside, they wouldn't know whether I were the rightful occupant of the home or whether I were a burglar. I wouldn't attribute it to my race.
If I refused to cooperate with the cops, yelling at them and demanding to see their identification and calling them names, as Gates reportedly did, I would expect to be arrested.
Of course, the cops can't win, can they? If they had ignored the call that Gates' home was being broken into, wouldn't they also have been labeled as racist?: Those racist cops just let the black guy's house get burglarized!
"It never would have happened [to a white person] — imagine a white professor, a distinguished white professor at Harvard, walking around with a cane, going into his own house, being harassed or stopped by the police. It would never happen," Gates huffed.
The cops "harassed" Gates? Asking him to show identification because they've been called to a possible burglary at his home is "harassment"?
I don't know Gates, but my guess is that he's a perpetual "victim," looking to pull the race card out at every fucking opportunity.
People who cry wolf, like Gates appears to have done, make it more difficult for actual victims of racial profiling and other forms of racism and discrimination.
P.S. Of course Al Sharpton has injected himself into this; it's what he does: "victimhood" by proxy. But more interestingly, the Boston Herald's website gives more details of Gates' arrest:
A witness, 40-year-old Lucia Whalen of Malden, had alerted the cops that a man was "wedging his shoulder into the front door" at Gates' house "as to pry the door open," police reported.
A law enforcement source said Gates apparently had locked himself out. When Sgt. James Crowley arrived, he said Gates already was inside. But when he was asked to provide identification, Gates allegedly snapped, "No, I will not!"
Police said Gates' front-porch tirade about racism "alarmed" passers-by drawn to the uproar outside his Cambridge home.
As Crowley tried to question him, police said Gates bellowed, "This is what happens to black men in America!"
Crowley claimed in his report he tried to calm Gates, but wrote that Gates "shouted, 'You don't know who [you're] messing with!"
After calling Crowley "a racist," according to police reports, the professor was charged with disorderly conduct and released for a $40 fee….
The 58-year-old Gates sounds like a real piece of work. Clearly, baby-boomer assholism crosses racial lines.
Tagged as Al Sharpton, baby-boomer assholism, Harvard University, Henry Louis Gates Jr., police, race card, racial profiling, Racism, victim mentality
LOVIN' the teaser for Michael Moore's new anti-corporate documentary
Michael Moore's new film is called "Capitalism: A Love Story," and it's set to be released on Oct. 2.
It's so "socialist!" and I'm so there.
Tagged as "Capitalism: A Love Story", capitalism, documentary, Michael Moore, Socialism


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Joan Tully
"Sheba! "Sheba! Come on, girl." Jane's voice cut through the silence of the long avenue that led through the woods. Her cheeks glowed red in the autumn air, and her dark hair brushed the leafy ground as she flung her arms around the dog's neck.
"Good girl," she praised, rubbing Sheba's silky coat. "Good girl." Jane's green eyes sparkled with energy and she longed to walk further, but she knew she had to get back to her flat and her list of enquiries.
Somewhere among the trees a branch snapped. Jane looked uneasily around her. She had been coming to this country estate for months now, at the same time every Saturday, giving both herself and her dog much-needed exercise. This wasn't the first time she had felt she was being watched. She shivered.
"Come on, girl, let's go home," she whispered. She raced the dog back along the track, glancing nervously to either side as she ran. As soon as they were both in the car, she slammed the door shut and started the engine, but sat for a while, watching for any sign of movement around her. Sheba jumped about on the back seat and barked. Seeing nothing, Jane decided maybe she had watched too many detective stories on the television, and she relaxed a little.
"Alright, girl. Let's go." She forced a laugh and drove off slowly, grit and dried leaves crunching beneath the wheels. At the wrought iron gates she stopped before turning left into the lane which would take her most of the way home. A queue of cars blocked her way for some distance ahead of her.
"What now?" she groaned. She chided herself for staying out so long. Her birth certificate lay waiting on the coffee table, and she knew she had a long and difficult letter to write. If there was no reply this time, then perhaps she should just get on with her life. She was startled from her thoughts by a sudden movement to her left. A horse appeared between the trees and came to a halt at the side of the road. Through her low car window Jane could just see a pair of man's riding boots. She pushed herself back into her seat, her instinct telling her to be cautious.
As the horse squeezed between her car and the one in front, the rider bent forward in his saddle and, looking her full in the face, tipped his cap with his crop. Shocked by his sudden appearance, Jane's heart pounded until she thought it would burst, and she fumbled with the door lock. But the horse simply crossed the road and, entering the field opposite, continued on down the hill. With the high thicket hedge between them, Jane too moved slowly down towards the roadworks and the traffic-control sign. Reaching it before her, however, the horse rider shouted something to the youngster directing the traffic and, just as Jane was about to pull over and drive passed, the 'GO' sign was swiftly turned to 'STOP'.
Jane's nervousness increased as she glanced sideways out of the window. The huntsman's eyes met hers; he was motionless, looking over the hedge straight at her. His face was slightly tanned and middle-aged, his dark hair greying at the temples. He smiled an uncertain smile, then cantered off down the bridle path.
Her hands shaking, Jane slid into first gear and drove passed the workmen. Increasing her speed, she overtook the horse and cheered triumphantly. But her relief was short-lived, for in her mirror she saw the hunter break into a gallop after her. She pressed the accelerator hard to the floor; there was a sickening 'bang' as a tractor pulled out right in front of her.
"Jane! Jane!" A muffled voice echoed round her throbbing head as a hand gently stroked the side of her face.
Jane's arm lashed out as she tried to scramble up. "Leave me alone," she shouted "I won't go with you; I won't...."
"It's alright, Jane." She could feel hands gently restraining her. "You've been in an accident. The ambulance is here. You're safe with us."
Jane's eyes shifted warily from the paramedic, who knelt beside her, to the riding boots. In her confused mind she was three years old again, surrounded by a sea of hounds, all yelping and sniffing at her until she could bear it no longer. She screamed, and two strong arms reached down and lifted her high in the air. "You're safe now," a soft brown voice said, as a young man kissed her on the forehead, then set her astride his horse.
"It's o.k. You're o.k." The paramedic's arms held her firmly. Jane's eyes drifted up from the boots standing in front of her, to the owner's face. He smiled warmly, his green eyes reassuring. For the first time in years she felt part of something ... someone. "Was this love?" she wondered. After years of surviving on her own, first in a children's home and then in a bed-sit, she didn't know; but tears of relief trickled down her face.
A dog barked somewhere behind her. "Sheba," she cried feebly, "where's Sheba?" A large, warm tongue licked her cheek and Jane clung to the only family she knew.
"Let's get you to hospital." The paramedic motioned to her colleague to bring the stretcher.
"But what about Sheba?" There was a note of panic in Jane's voice. "I can't just leave her."
"I could look after her for you, Jane," the soft brown voice offered.
"But who are you? And how do you know my name?" Jane's pulse began to race again.
"Yes, Sir;" a young policeman cut in, struggling to restrain the dog; "Just how do you know her name?"
"I can explain...." Jane heard the voice reply. Then everything went black.
When Jane came to she was surrounded by curtains. A hand held her lightly by the wrist.
"Go away and leave me alone!" Jane wrenched her arm away. "I'm not staying here; I won't"
"It's alright," a woman's voice came through the haze. "You're in hospital. You're safe now."
Jane looked up vaguely. Slowly it all came back to her and she allowed her aching head to sink into the soft pillows.
"We want to keep you in overnight for observation," the nurse explained. "We're just waiting to see if there's a bed. I'll go and ask the doctor if you can have a drink." She disappeared through the gap in the curtains.
"Can I see her?"
Jane thought she recognised the man's voice in the corridor.
"I'm not sure, Sir; are you family?"
"Yes," the soft brown voice replied, "I'm family. I'm her father."

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Fall Out Boy are evolving, but is this new era a step in the right direction?
American pop-punk/ rock band Fall Out Boy have long been heralded as emo kings for the brilliance that is their earlier albums. Songs that are complex, full of metaphors that resonate with an audience that are growing up, discovering themselves and struggling to meet people's expectations are just some of the things on offer in 'From Under The Cork Tree', 'Take This To You Grave' and 'Infinity on High'.
But after the change in direction that came with 'Folie a Deux', a lengthy hiatus, and their two newest albums are they, to borrow lyrics from their own song, 'growing up or just going down?'
Today they announced an upcoming headline tour, a new album and released a new song entitled 'Young and Menace' and I'll be honest with you all- I don't like it. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all for bands evolving. In fact, seeing bands grow over time and change their music styling slightly is one of my favourite things because then their songs and albums become a journey that we, the people listening to, get to take with them.
But there's something about this new song that I cannot like. Or, actually, several somethings. For a band known for being lyrically gifted, it seems odd to me that the newer songs are so repetitive and almost bland. The depth that we used to see in their songs is barely there, and I doubt I'm the only one to have noticed it. From the genius that we used to associate with the bands lyrics and the way they refused to be rigid in their composition, to the less organic almost formulaic progression that we've been given on their latest records, something has been lost. And that something might just be their artistic integrity. (Is that harsh? Maybe it's a little harsh.)
To make sense of why I think this song is a bit of a let-down I'm going to deconstruct it a little. The first thing is, obviously, the lyrics. I'll give them this- they aren't as bad as some of the ones on their previous album (Favourite Record springs to mind) but they still seem to be tailored and manufactured to make the song do well commercially. There's the introductory verse which is frankly the best part of the entire song, other than the end. Then there's a bridge which is simple, a chorus which is made worse only by the Alvin and the Chipmunk-esque vocals, and the second verse which just sort of … exists.
The second reason why I just can't seem to get behind the song is that it seems like a waste. All four members of the band are brilliant musicians, and this new sound is painfully artificial. It really doesn't showcase their skill. Andy Hurley is a phenomenal drummer but that's not showcased to the full extent. The guitar is there but the complexity isn't. Patrick Stump has a great vocal range and yet they've played around with it and ruined the experience of hearing him hit the high notes, or the feeling of goose bumps when his voice is low and smooth.
But lastly, the reason I don't like the sound is because if I didn't know it was them I wouldn't recognise it. And whilst other bands change up their sound – Paramore, All Time Low, Panic! At The Disco to name a few- they all retain some core part of their identity in the music. Hayley Williams and her vocals are distinct, Rian Dawson's drumming and Alex Gaskarth's voice, Brendon Urie and the unmistakable self-assurance he infuses into each lyric. Each band or artist has something to make them stand out and I think that's what's missing from this song.
(That was supposed to be lastly but a little addendum – I think the reason this song evoked such a strong reaction was that this – this changing of sounds, this sell out style, this manufacturing of music? – is happening more often with bands from the same era. And a lot of us just want it to stop.)
Don't let my view dissuade you though. Listen to the song and when 'M A N I A' is released give that a listen too. Make up your own mind and maybe leave a comment or a tweet telling us what you think.
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The Mothers Earth Experiment release debut single 'Cool Down Mama'
New Found Glory – 'Makes Me Sick'
BeccaKnight April 29, 2017
I definitely have mixed feelings about this song. On the one hand, yay new FOB music! And the sound of it is good… but not great. And I agree about the chorus lyrics being 'alvin and the chipmunk'-y lmao. I personally don't mind a *bit* of that, but this is too much imo. It'll probably grow on me if I let it tho, so will more than likely be getting the album, it'll be interesting to see what they do with the other songs.
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Untold Distress – the impact of Covid19 on the epilepsy bereaved
New research led by SUDEP Action has found that bereaved people experienced an increased intensity of grief symptoms during the pandemic, when lockdown measures were in place. Grief symptoms experienced included distressing flashbacks and memories of the person who died, and greater feelings of guilt surrounding the death. The research has been published in the medical journal 'Epilepsy and Behaviour'.
The research was conducted by SUDEP Action with the involvement of the Epilepsy Deaths Register Steering Group. Qualitative and quantitative data was gathered from 285 participants. The work was initiated during the early stages of the pandemic by SUDEP Action due to concerns received anecdotally via the charity's support lines. It looked at four key areas, most significantly, how the pandemic (and subsequent lockdown) impacted upon those bereaved by epilepsy and how these experiences were affected by recency of death. Additionally, the research sought to understand how these experiences could be understood in terms of contributory factors and how well supported bereaved people felt during the pandemic.
The research found:
An increased intensity of grief symptoms experienced by bereaved people during the pandemic when lockdown measures were in place.
Grief symptoms experienced included 'distressing flashbacks to the time of death', 'distressing memories of the person who died' and 'more feelings of guilt around the death'.
In many cases, the prominence of reports relating to 'sudden deaths' caused by Covid19 in the media led to much anguish, as did restrictions stopping people from commemorating and recognising key dates relating to loved ones.
All of these experiences occurred in people, irrespective of the date of death. Comparable responses were provided by bereaved people who had experienced a death over a decade prior to Covid restrictions as well as those who had suffered a more recent loss.
At a time when these support needs were heightened, bereaved people found that this disruption adversely impacted upon many of the support networks and structures that they had built up to help them manage their grief. This at the very time that, for many, they were most needed.
Overall, the research highlights that in times of significant disruption, health professionals and patient organisations must react quickly in order to fulfil their role of helping people access the support they need. Ignoring the impact of Covid19 and the response-measures on the mental health of those bereaved by epilepsy now, will also have long-term consequences.
Ben Donovan, SUDEP Action Special Projects Coordinator, who led on the research, said: "Importantly, and uniquely, this research raises the collective voice of those bereaved by epilepsy and of their experiences during the pandemic. The widespread level of exacerbated grief symptoms experienced needs to be recognised. The research shows us that bereavement is unpredictable, of variable intensity over time and 'lived with' rather than 'recovered from'. It is critical that those bereaved by an epilepsy-related death are always able to receive the support they need in times of relative calm or a national pandemic, and everything in-between."
Jane Hanna, SUDEP Action CEO, added: "The burden of epilepsy deaths can only truly be understood by those with lived experience. This unique research on the burden of harm on the bereaved is strong evidence to further NHS RightCare's recommendation that after a death, bereaved families are signposted to SUDEP Action as a first port of call for bespoke support and links with services are available to the suddenly bereaved."
Read the full report here
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Rockets vs. Celtics game thread
In their final game before the All-Star break, the Houston Rockets will look to end their two-game losing streak tonight against the Boston Celtics.
By Coty M. Davis Feb 11, 2020, 8:09pm CST
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Houston Rockets (33-20) vs. Boston Celtics (37-15), Feb. 11, 2020, 8:30 p.m. CDT
Location: Toyota Center, Houston, TX
TV: TNT, AT&T Sports Southwest
Radio: KBME 790 AM/KEYH 850 AM (Spanish)/KNTE 101.7 FM (Spanish)/Streaming on Rockets App
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Projected Starting Lineups
Rockets: Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Danuel House Jr., Robert Covington, P.J. Tucker
Celtics: Kemba Walker, Jaylen Brown, Gordon Hayward, Jayson Tatum, Daniel Theis
Coming into tonight's game, the Houston Rockets are hoping to end a two-game losing streak during their interconference match against the Boston Celtics.
This will be the first meeting of the season between the Rockets and the Celtics, as Houston won their two-game regular-season series in 2019 with James Harden averaging 43.5 points while shooting 44% from the field.
After coming away victorious in a one-point win over the Thunder on Sunday, the Celtics are currently on a five-game winning streak with the third-best record in the Eastern Conference (37-15). Third-year forward and first-time All-Star, Jayson Tatum, is leading the team in scoring averaging a career-best 22.2 points per game.
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Netflix May Have Found The Equation For The Most Popular Heist Movie Ever
Kimberly RicciTwitterFilm/TV Editor
Move over, Heat, Reservoir Dogs, The Usual Suspects, The Town, Layer Cake, and Baby Driver. You all might be excellent heist films, but you're about to be displaced in popularity because The Duke has arrived on the scene. Regé-Jean Page, who portrayed Simon Basset in the first season of Bridgerton (before leaving the show and upsetting fans), is entering heist-land. He's moving onto other horizons including Dungeons & Dragons and The Gray Man and The Sandman on Audible. That's not all, though.
The Wrap has details on the so-far vague untitled heist movie that will be directed by Noah Hawley (FX's Legion and Fargo), who's also writing with Netflix teaming up with the Russo Brothers' ABGO production company. The Wrap has the scant details thus far:
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but it will be a heist thriller based on an original idea from Hawley.
"AGBO was originally founded to allow us to collaborate with artists we greatly respect and admire," AGBO's Mike Larocca said in a statement. "We are very happy to continue to fulfill that pledge by supporting this new film from Noah Hawley and Regé-Jean Page."
The Russos + Page + Hawley = one winning equation. That's pretty much all that's known at this time, but it sounds like more than enough? 8 billion clicks for The Duke.
(Via The Wrap)
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Mother/Infant Opioid Substance Use Treatment and Recovery Effort
The Mother/Infant Opioid and Substance use Treatment and Recovery Effort (MOSTaRE) purpose is to work with providers, hospitals, and other stakeholders to improve identification, clinical care, and coordinated treatment/support for pregnant and parenting individuals with opioid use disorder and their infants through a family-centered care approach.
The MOSTaRE Initiative will emphasize family-centered care that maintains the dyad and will address treatment and prevention of substance exposure during and after pregnancy for both mother and infant.
Team Membership (includes both infant/perinatal arms)
Infant Team Members include: NICU, general pediatric or family practice provider, community treatment and support partners, women with lived experience
Perinatal Team Members include: prenatal, delivery, and postpartum providers; treatment and community support members, women with lived experience
Perinatal
To increase the recognition, diagnosis, and treatment of Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) in the perinatal population in order to improve perinatal and postpartum outcomes. Use education, trauma-informed care, medication-assisted treatment (MAT), where appropriate, collaboration across healthcare providers, and encourage engagement in additional support services.
Through increased identification and treatment of substance-exposed infants through improved screening, increased adoption of nonpharmacologic methods, and Eat-Sleep-Console practices that promote the maintenance of dyad, i.e., the mom and babe bond – the length of stay for infants diagnosed with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) will be reduced by 1 day among participating sites within 12 months.
Educate patients, the community, clinicians, and staff about Substance and Opioid Use Disorders (SUD/OUD) and reduce the stigma associated.
Screen for use disorders with a validated screening tool
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5Ps (currently undergoing validation)
SURP-Pz
Promote trauma-informed care model
Ask permission before screening
Screen universally
Urine toxicology is not recommended as a screening test
Follow screening with brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT)
Educate on mandating reporting; maintaining transparency for patients and supplying them with available resources
Partner with patients by referring those identified as having a SUD/OUD to treatment, including the collaboration of care and coordination across all care systems for the patient.
Utilize medication-assisted therapy where appropriate. MAT is the standard of care for OUD
Early referral and collaboration with social services, focusing on creating a care team rather than strictly reporting patients.
Provide equitable and culturally competent care. Acknowledge and address the impact of social determinants of health (transportation/food security/housing/safety/environment)
Standardize in hospital caregiver/infant-focused care as well as comprehensive discharge planning measures. Plan for, anticipate, and ensure appropriate postpartum care and treatment, emphasizing the importance of the "4th Trimester."
Create pain management protocols minimizing the use of opioid pain medications
Establish early postpartum follow-up with OB provider and treatment, family planning measures, and naloxone distribution.
Coordinate with infant outpatient providers, where possible.
Consider early outpatient follow-up for patients with SUDs, within 2 days of hospital discharge.
Proactively plan for pain management during the postpartum period, specifically around surgical deliveries.
Discuss and establish family planning goals.
Educate and screen for postpartum depression
Establish, where possible, peer recovery and/or other public health support for new caregivers.
Foster the breastfeeding relationship, where appropriate, offering support post-discharge.
Acknowledge the risk for lapse and relapse- create a safety plan
Improve identification and assessment of substance-exposed infants
Standardized assessment of substance-exposed neonates postpartum
Universally screen all infants for symptoms that could be related to substance exposure and test when appropriate
Promote the integration of Eat-Sleep-Console treatment methods with a focus on non-pharmacologic care for substance-exposed infants and reduced separation of dyad during hospitalization
Reduce the length of hospitalization and NICU admissions of substance-exposed infants
Reduce infant admission to NICU and provide NAS treatment in a regular inpatient setting or at home
Optimize the hospital environment to maintain the dyad for NAS treatment including reducing lighting, noise, and stimulation through waking and handling
Reduce medication exposure
Provide safe, coordinated discharge that maintains dyad when possible
Education for staff and families on the family-centered care protocol emphasizes keeping caregiver(s) and infants together. This includes promoting non-pharmacologic strategies to care for the infant. This includes encouraging and promoting breastfeeding when appropriate. Encourage Eat, Sleep, Console practices for neonatal withdrawal.
Understand Child Protective Services' role and their current protocols as a means to minimize the punitive approach.
Provide training to staff in family-centered care, stigma and bias recognition and education, and trauma-informed care
Coordinate with perinatal healthcare providers (outpatient, SUD treatment, peer recovery support, social work, etc.)
Make referrals to family home visiting prior to discharge
Alcohol Use and Co-Use of Other Substances Among Pregnancy
Alcohol & Drug Abuse Prevention Programs
Curated Library about Opioid Use for Decision-makers
Directory of Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment Programs for Parents with Children
Hennepin Healthcare Project ECHO
Integrated Opioid and Addiction Care ECHO Series
Mandatory Reporting legislative update
MHA Perinatal Substance Use Roadmap
Opioid Overdose Prevention
Opioid help and recovery resources
Pew Charitable Trusts Fact Sheet: Medication-assisted treatment
Prevention, Education, and Practice for Non-Prescribing Providers
Reducing Stigma Surrounding Substance Use Disorders
Recovery-friendly Family-centered Pediatrics
Tribal Nations Opioid Summit
Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Rate
American Indian Family Center
Avivo
Drug & Alcohol Rehabs in Minnesota
Gateway Recovery
Hope House of Itasca County, Inc.
Meeker-McLeod-Sibley CHS
Minnesota Suboxone Providers & Doctors
Perspectives, Inc.
Ramsey County Social Services
Recovering Hope Treatment Center
RS Eden
St. Cloud Hospital/CentraCare Health
Wayside Recovery Center
Wellcome Manor Family Services
Adrienne Richardson
Health Partners
MD, Ob/GYN | MOSTaRE Co-Chair
Alina Kraynak
No bio at this time.
Anne Walaszek
MNPQC Executive Branch
Anne Walaszek, MPH (Anishinaabe) is the Maternal and Child Health Quality Improvement Specialist in the Women and Infant Health Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health. In her role, she leads two quality improvement grants, the Perinatal Quality Collaborative and the Communities Collaborating to Prevent Girls Opioid Abuse. Ms. Walaszek has experience working at a national non-profit addressing cancer inequities within American Indian and Alaska Native communities. In this role, she provided leadership for a clinic and community health approach to develop and implement culturally tailored evidence-based interventions to effectively build capacity in health systems across Indian Country. Her public health experience reflects grant writing, program development, research and data management throughout her experiences at the Minnesota Department of Health Diabetes Program, Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota, and SAMHSA for their Child, Adolescent and Family Branch. She is a 2017 recipient of the Lou Fuller Award for Distinguished Service in Eliminating Health Disparities.
Cresta Jones
MHealth Fairview
Dr. Jones is a maternal-fetal medicine and addiction, medicine physician. She obtained her degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin and completed both her residency in obstetrics and gynecology and her fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.
Heather Bell
Corporate Medical Director for MEnD Correctional Care and MEnD Recovery Services
Heather has been in full-spectrum family medicine with obstetrics since the start of her career in a rural critical access hospital. She has also been caring for patients with opioid use disorder, with MAT, for 4 years and became dual boarded in addiction medicine in early 2020. She has co-facilitated ProjectECHO and has provided technical assistance for mentorship of communities throughout MN through MDH for nearly 3 years as well.
Ed.D., Hospital & Health Care Consultant, Contractor, and Advisor to Improvers and Learners.
Lila Page
MPO/MNPQC Program Coordinator
Lila is a marketing professional with a Bachelor's degree focused in Communications and Public Health from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She has 3+ years of marketing & communications experience with a demonstrated history of working in the healthcare, software, and technology industry.
Susan Boehm
MPO Executive Director/Treasurer, MNPQC Co-Director
Susan has been a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Women's Health for over 30 years. She has a long history with MPO as a volunteer, conference presenter, planning committee member, and has served on the Board of Directors. She is currently the MPO Executive Director and Co-Director of the Minnesota Perinatal Quality Collaborative (MNPQC).
She enjoys the outdoors, hiking and kayaking, and loves the solitude of their cabin in the Boundary Waters.
Alison Newton
DNP Student, University of Minnesota
Bea Bowles
Bea is a masters prepared nurse, with an emphasis in Leadership and has been working in healthcare since she was a teenager. In addition to LTC, she has worked in ortho/neuro, surgical, public health, home care, obstetrics, pediatrics, teaching (NDSCS and NDSU –go Bison!), and most recently learning the special care nursery world. She is blessed with an amazing leadership team and a wonderful team of staff to serve. After 22 years of living in Fargo, she relocated to Bemidji; she loves her new location and looks forward to serving the patients in their hospital as well as her community. She has been married for 21 years and has three children, 1 dog, and one snake.
Brian Grahan
Hennepin Health
Courtney H
No information provided
Daniela White
Women's Recovery Services initiative at DHS
Deb Peters
Lead Neonatal Nurse Practitioner in Duluth, MN for the past 25 years.
Erin Plummer
Erin is a neonatologist at Children's Minnesota. She completed her pediatric residency and neonatology fellowship at the University of Minnesota. Dr Plummer specializes in neonatal critical care at Children's Minnesota. She is originally from Ohio and attended medical school at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine in Dayton, OH. She completed her residency and fellowship at the University of Minnesota Medical Center. Her clinical interests include nutrition, growth, and neurodevelopmental outcomes in premature and critically ill infants. She is passionate about caring for infants hospitalized in the NICU and building relationships with their families. Dr Plummer is involved in the education of neonatal fellows, pediatrics residents, family practice residents and medical students. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two children.
Erin Morris
Erin Morris is a Neonatal-Perinatal medicine fellow at the University of Minnesota. Her research interests include nutrition and neurodevelopment of infants in the NICU and specifically of those with prenatal drug exposures. She is currently involved in a QI project through the University of Minnesota involving the implementation of the Eat, Sleep, Console treatment for infants with prenatal opioid exposures.
Frances Prekker
Jenny Hall-Lande
Ph.D, MN-ADDM
Kari Rabie
Native American Community Clinic
As a physician serving the Native American Community in Minneapolis, Dr Rabie is passionate about addressing the significant health disparities that impact Native Americans in Minnesota. To address these disparities she became buprenorphine waivered, and pursued specialty in Addiction Medicine. She is also passionate about educating the next generation of physicians to provide care to the Native Community in the context of community medicine. She provides care using the lens of harm reduction.
Kelcee Kociemba
Kelcee currently works in a private practice setting with special training in maternal mental health specifically perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
She also works in Adult Mental Health as a county case manager, previously working in child protection as well. She has a variety of experiences within rural communities.
Kurt Devine
CHI St. Gabriel's Health
Dr. Kurt Devine has been a full-spectrum family medicine physician for more than 26 years. He is also a boarded Addiction Medicine physician. As a practicing physician in rural Minnesota, he has faced many unique challenges caring for patients in the primary care setting amid evolving care delivery models demanding forward-thinking and creative strategies for change. As opioid use and its attributing issues became increasingly apparent, he became more engaged and involved with the local community task force assembled to address concerns of opioid use and dependency within the county. His leadership has enabled grant funding to be put to practical use, demonstrating positive outcomes both financially and from a patient care perspective. During this time, Dr. DeVine added buprenorphine to his primary care practice, to improve rural access to treatment for opioid use disorder. Through legislative funding and grant procurement, Dr. DeVine and his colleague Dr. Heather Bell initiated Minnesota's first ECHO to reduce and monitor opioid prescribing in a rural clinic setting.
Laura Newton
Megan Warfield-Kimball
Benefit Policy Specialist at Minnesota Department of Human Services
Phillip Rauk
Dr Rauk lead quality for Fairview System in OB for 10 years and serves at MHA as lead of their Perinatal Committee. He is the Vice Chair of Quality and Safety Department and an OB GYN at University of Minnesota.
Rachel Cooper
Rachel is an Mpls native who went to South High School. Undergrad at New York University, Master's in Bioethics at Columbia University, Medical School at the U of MN, Pediatrics Residency at the University of WI in Madison. Currently working as a Peds Hospitalist, covering Newborn Nursery, Special Care Nursery, Peds Floors, and Peds Consults in Bemidji, MN at Sanford Bemidji Medical Center. Special interests include health equity, pediatric and adult bioethics/conflict resolution/decisionmaking, pediatric hospice, and palliative care. Previous work as an EMT, Spanish, and French medical interpreter.
Sarah Riedel
Tri-County Health Care
RN, BSN, IBCLC, CPST
Sarah is the OB Supervisor of a critical access hospital in Midwestern Minnesota. She has been married to her husband Nathan for 26 years. They live on a farm with beef cattle and pigs, and have 3 children- Daniel is 22, Megan is 17, and Abby is 15. Sarah has worked at TCHC for 26 years, first as a CNA, then LPN, then RN, BSN, IBCLC, and finally OB Supervisor.
Samantha Sommerness
University of Minnesota School of Nursing
Shelly Mahowald
Shelly recently celebrated her 30 year anniversary in nursing, most of those years focusing on moms and infants. Recently, finishing a nurse practitioner program and started in the Medication Assisted Therapy clinic working with clients working through substance use disorders. She will lend experiential expertise to the MNPQC in the areas of perinatal safety around the education of staff and providers through simulation.
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Memorable quotes from Season One of Grassroots
We're celebrating a successful first season of Plant With Purpose's Grassroots Podcast! While we're on a little break right now, feel free to go back and listen to any of our past episodes here! And if you're not totally sure where to start, here are a few quotes from our
Worthwhile questions to ask about the things around us
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Is This Sustainable or Is This Just Marketing?
Over the past decade, clothing giant H&M has received much criticism for the company's environmental impact and the working conditions of its manufacturers. After the fatal collapse of a factory in Bangladesh killed 1138 workers in 2013, H&M became
The environment and human health
In many ways, the effects that the environment has on human health seem a little obvious. Still, there is a variety of different ways to think about their relationship that all underscore its importance. Here are some of those ways.
Biodiversity helps support resilience and nutrition.
A lack of biodiversity
The Roots of Everything
Downstream problems have upstream solutions.
Plant With Purpose's model of international development evolved from a series of discoveries.
First: We discovered that if we wanted to help people improve their lives, we needed to improve their environment, because both were so deeply connected. Second: We saw that helping people out
Even though they won't benefit me now.
One principle of sustainability is doing things with benefits that go beyond your lifetime.
In one of his most famous poems, "Manifesto", Wendell Berry suggests doing things that we will not live to see the benefit of:
Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias.
Say that your main crop is the
One Planet, Many Neighbors
July 11 marks World Population Day, a day marked to raise awareness of issues related to world population. Though this is not the most well known commemoration, its relationship to the environment makes it worth exploring further.
So, what is World Population Day and where did it come from?
Here's how to listen to and support the Grassroots Podcast
The Grassroots Podcast is officially live! As of July 2, Plant With Purpose's premiere podcast is finally live. Whether you get your podcasts on Spotify, Apple, Google, Overcast, Breaker, Anchor, Pocket Casts, or RadioPublic, you'll be able to listen to our new show for free! We are committed to amplifying […]
The impact of climate change and degradation is not felt evenly.
Environmental degradation is a cruel phenomenon. It has the harshest effect on people who already suffer a great deal: the world's poor. Especially the rural poor. While most common images of poverty depict something urban, poverty is mostly rural.
There's no shortage of problems in the world to solve.
As a student, Philippe Lazaro knew he wanted to apply his international interests to help solve some of these problems, but getting started was a journey in and of itself.
A slew of internships and volunteer opportunities took him around
Introducing the Plant With Purpose GrassRoots Podcast!
Here's fun news- we're launching a podcast!
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The show will
A better environment benefits all
Rio Garza once suffered from the environmental conditions that plague many rural communities around the world.
Problems like deforestation, poverty, and soil erosion create difficult lives for people living in rural areas around the world. This is the reason why rural poverty remains a challenge to eradicate, even though the
Humility: What it is, What it isn't
Humility is an increasingly underappreciated value in today's culture. In a world where personal branding, hyperbole, and debate are highly visible, humility seems to be a forgotten art. In spite of this, there is something truly refreshing about being in the presence of somebody who is sincerely and genuinely humble.
Shoulder to Shoulder: The importance of solidarity
Solidarity is an act of hope.
Solidarity means moving in the direction of pain in the world, standing with those who are suffering and taking up their cause as if it were your own. Doing so is both an act of hope and an imitation of Christ.
Vitor Westhelle once
The Power of Investing in Mothers
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Seven biodiversity hotspots you should know
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You might guess by the name that it's a place on earth where biodiversity is either abundant or threatened. In fact, both are correct. To be a biodiversity hotspot, a location must meet two criteria:
You cannot find half a percent
Everyday Restoration
Restoration happens through everyday decisions
At a glance, environmental restoration looks like a very large undertaking—and that's true, in part. Threats to the health of the planet have reached an urgent, global scale. But the magnitude of the challenge should not distract us from this simple reality:
How long does environmental restoration take?
Plant With Purpose is deeply committed to environmental restoration. This dream is shared among our partners in eight different countries. Jah Cho envisions future generations being able to reap the benefit of a restored forests. Isaias imagines that his community of Ojo de Agua as a rejuvenated, green landscape.
What Purpose Partners do different
Purpose Partners are more than just donors. They're believers.
If you want to know what keeps our work going, look no further than our Purpose Partner community. Our support from these monthly donors means that every month, rural communities plant forests. Mothers in Tanzania, Burundi, and the DRC open small
Your generosity in 798 villages
The 2018 Annual Report is Here
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The Annual Report includes updates on our program activities, finances, and impact across our eight partnering countries.
But that's not all.
Our Annual Report is just
Empowering women across the globe
Integrating sustainability and development provides many benefits to female farmers
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Take, for example, women's empowerment. Gender based inequality may
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You probably already know more about these kinds of trees than you realize.
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Plant With Purpose is launching in Ethiopia
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We are extremely excited to announce that this year we will begin working with families and communities in rural Ethiopia.
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Ross Boone: a Picture of the Invisible
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The Opposite of Poverty
The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. It's justice.
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Trees and Christmas are signposts towards Hope
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Six hopeful stories about the environment in 2018
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Those stories are important, and it's important to heed their warnings, but
Matthew Sleeth: What trees teach us about resurrection
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Trees are found all throughout Scripture
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A STORYteller's notes
A couple weeks ago, our team had the opportunity to go to STORY Gathering in Nashville, Tennessee. As far as the conference goes, it's so unlike other conferences that it's a bit hard to describe. In short, it's a place for people who believe that a well-told story can change
The reason we love Purpose Partners
Purpose Partners make our world go around
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Purpose Partners are the reason:
John Mark McMillan on Caring for Creation
John Mark McMillan: Creation care is an act of love
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The Need for Trees
People need trees, and trees need people.
What would happen without trees? In many parts of the world, people would suffer greatly.
Trees fix soil with vital nutrients. Trees fix beneficial nutrients in the earth which enables other plants to grow, including vegetables and crops needed to feed people and
The Eye of Water
It started with a different vision.
About twenty years ago, a visit to the community of Ojo de Agua, "the eye of water" in Mexico's Mixteca region would have looked quite different. The steep hillside would have been brown and dry.
For years, the people of Ojo de Agua relied
The art of taking a deeper look
Noticing is a spiritual act
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All throughout scripture, we're encouraged to engage the world with a profound set of gratitude and wonder at
Fighting environmental injustice from California to Guatemala
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Want to live more sustainably? It takes patience and persistence.
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Rubin: Pay raise package done the wrong way
By Genevieve DiNatale |
PUBLISHED: February 3, 2017 at 12:00 am | UPDATED: November 17, 2018 at 12:00 am
A Democratic strategist who worked under former Gov. Deval Patrick said the state legislature's recently passed pay raise package comes at the "wrong time" and is "the wrong way to do this."
"I think it was the wrong time to do this and the wrong way to do this and there may be repercussions for the Massachusetts state legislature that they weren't anticipating down the road," said Doug Rubin, Patrick's former chief of staff and the founding partner of Northwind Strategies.
The state legislature quickly overrode Republican Gov. Charlie Baker's veto yesterday passing the pay package, which is expected to cost the state a total of $18 million dollars in the first year as it increases the salary of some of the state's top legislative leaders by as much as 50 percent.
Rubin also questioned the speed at which the bill was passed, despite the governor's veto and an added exemption that was included into the legislation that would make its repeal nearly impossible.
"This was moved very quickly in three weeks and they included a little known exemption to include judiciary pay increases so it would be harder for citizens to repeal it on the ballot in 2018," Rubin said on Boston Herald Radio's "Morning Meeting" show.
Rubin suggested that the pay increase may even be an impediment to implementing the millionnaire's tax down the line.
"With something like this, I think it makes it a lot harder to happen."
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Q: Link of Nokia X Android Playstore Can anyone post me the link of NOKIA X Android play store .As in this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miwRfkQvISQ video they say as google playstore is different from Nokia X Android playstore
Thanks

A: Here is the Nokia's Publish Store.

Nokia X apps are distributed through the Nokia Store, a popular and
  powerful store that delivers more than 14 million downloads per day
  and growing, and supports operator billing in more than 60 markets.
You can publish your app in Nokia Store with Nokia Publish Tool
  through an easy publishing flow.

A: You can publish your Nokia X apps to Nokia store with the steps mentioned. As mentioned in the 2nd step, you are required to have use Nokia Publish tool but for accessing this tool and uploading app, you must be a publisher.

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So I've got about 1 and 3/4 years til the MDS so right now I am in the process of identifying suitable events to compete in over that period of time to prepare for the MDS. On August 6th I hope to take part in the Round The Rock Ultra Marathon here in Jersey (website www.roundtherock.co.uk) I am just getting into the zone with my training, having done the London Marathon in April then resting for 3 weeks after that, and then taking part in the Jersey half marathon in May, my focus is now on intensive cliff path running to prepare for the ultra marathon around the island, taking in various off-road terrain, sweeping cliff paths, golden sands and long flat sections.. This is my first foray into the Ultra world and a considerable step up from marathon distance. I have decided to employ a walk run strategy for this particular race. There is a 12 hour cut-off so haste is required, however I am pretty confident in finishing within that time if all goes ok..
Last Sunday I took part in a 5km Race, which is the first in a series of trail races here in Jersey. The weather was atrocious but still there was a good turn out of 60 or so people.. The course was hard with lots of uphill, but was very enjoyable, and I came in a credible 14th, which I was pleased with. I then did an 8 mile cliff path run, with lots of lactic acid in my legs and in driving rain and wind. It was a hard day but I am pleased that i got through the 8 miler, a definite confidence booster..
Next up is a 17 mile training run on Sunday, again taking in cliff-paths and flat. This will be a true test and if I complete this satisfactorily I will know I am in good shape for August. This is Jersey's first ultra marathon so will be a great event to be part of.


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Congratulations to all of the Nonesuch nominees for the 64th Grammy Awards: The Black Keys' Delta Kream for Best Contemporary Blues Album; Rhiannon Giddens' They're Calling Me Home with Francesco Turrisi for Best Folk Album and Best American Roots Song, for the track "Avalon"; Spike Lee's film of David Byrne's American Utopia on Broadway for Best Music Film; Louis Andriessen's The only one and Caroline Shaw's Narrow Sea for Best Contemporary Classical Composition; k.d. lang and Tracy Young's "Constant Craving (Fashionably Late Remix)" for Best Remixed Recording; and Mike Elizondo for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, for work including Lake Street Dive's Obviously. You can hear all the nominated works here.
k.d. lang and Tracy Young Release "Constant Craving (Fashionably Late Remix)" on Nonesuch Records
k.d. lang and producer Tracy Young release "Constant Craving (Fashionably Late Remix)" on Nonesuch Records today. It's the first-ever official remix of lang's 1993 Grammy-winning hit and follows the recent release of makeover, a new collection of classic dance remixes from the era. You can watch the new remix video, featuring paper dolls designed by a fan, Katja Virtanen, here. "When 'Constant Craving' was the single, my team wanted to do a remix of it, and I was feeling protective and said 'No, I don't want to touch it," lang recalls. "When we were putting together makeover, we realized we didn't have a 'Constant Craving' remix! And that was why." Young says: "The song continues to resonate through generations, and it speaks about the struggles of life and the resiliency of the human spirit—an inspirational message that is so needed right now." Young will debut the remix in her headlining DJ sets at Miami Pride and Orlando Pride in the coming weeks.
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Four-time Grammy Award winner and eight-time Juno Award winner k.d. lang releases her first-ever career retrospective, Recollection, 25 years after the release of her debut recording. This two-disc version features 22 of lang's most beloved recordings including an all-new interpretation of the Leonard Cohen classic "Hallelujah," which has become a moving highlight of her live performances; the Guardian calls her rendition "mesmerising: she reaches into the air, plucking the tiniest note from within her huge range, bends double, before throwing her head back and unleashing her pitch-perfect roar."
Recollection comes on the heels of lang's critically acclaimed 2008 Nonesuch release, Watershed, hailed by Rolling Stone as "first-rate singer-songwriter music" and Interview magazine as lang's "biggest album yet." The record debuted in Billboard's Top Ten upon its release and marked lang's first time assuming the role of producer in addition to writer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist.
Referred to as "the greatest female singer in the whole world" by fellow Canadian Michael Bublé, lang has had a distinguished 25-year career. In addition to a fruitful collaboration with Tony Bennett, she has performed alongside musical luminaries including Roy Orbison, Bonnie Raitt, Elton John, and Loretta Lynn. She sang at the closing ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and has contributed music to the soundtracks of several films including Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, and Happy Feet. In addition to her music career, lang has also appeared in a number of films including Salmonberries, The Black Dahlia, and Eye of the Beholder. In 1996, lang received Canada's highest civilian honor, the Order of Canada.
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 Self cleaning hot water boiler in public swimming pool.
A hot water boiler is used to heat up drinking water and also store it. Often they are directly connected to the central heating. These boilers tend to have problems with limescale, especially when the temperature is high.
Additionally these boilers start to corrode after some years. That's the reason why new boilers often are made from stainless steel. If Merus Rings are installed at the water inlet, limescale and rust is solved in the water and can't settle anymore. It will be flushed out with the water.
There is one factor which can reduce the effect of the water treatment. This is the electrical field which is emitted by the heating spiral. If this field is too strong not the whole incrustation can be solved but nevertheless the new formation of deposits is reduced significantly.
Where we are currently working in the "Südbad" – the public swimming pool with sauna – are the hot water boilers. The storage capacity of hot water in the boilers is rather high, in order to meet requirements of peak consumption times. All together there are 4 boilers each with a capacity of 3.000 liters as they have to feed more then 30 showers.
The temperature in the boiler has to be at least 60°C, to avoid a possible growth of legionella in the water system. In the daytime there are fewer customers in the pool using the showers. Then there is only a low flow rate in the boiler. As a result the heat bundle has a high tendency of furring up. The raw water is not treated chemically for cost reasons.
The boilers need to be cleaned regularly which means disassembling the heat bundle and removing the deposits. This has to be done more often than in industrial heat exchangers due to the low flow rate.
4 hot water boilers (each with a capacity of 3000L) are all in one room, very close to each other. So we have installed only one 3″ Merus Ring at the common feed pipe for all hot water boilers.
We decided to check the performance during the regular down times when the service is done. When the heating bundles were disassembled there were these pictures taken.
We can see that there is only a soft layer of limescale on the heating bundle and only in the upper part of the heat exchanger. The few chunks of limescale couldn't block the pipes anymore. They occur while the heat exchanger is active and settle when it is disassembled. The deposits are so soft, they will just fall off the heating bundle when it is put on the floor.
This means that cleaning is far easier and cheaper. Some water is sufficient.
Installing one 3" Merus Ring is a small investment compared to the costs caused by long downtime due to cleaning. Therefore the investment pays off in short time.
As the heating bundles work more efficiently without incrustations energy for the heating is saved. These savings can only be estimated roughly as there is not enough data from the past. The customer and we assume that the savings are substantial as even one millimeter of limescale at the surface of the heating bundle reduces the heat transfer by 14%.


Dolorous — Meet the Model from the Dolorous Jewelry FW16 Campaign! Our first ever interview!
We'd like to introduce you to Dani!
Welcome to our first ever 'Meet the Model' Interview! We're so excited to be kicking this new project off with Dani from our FW16 Lookbook shoot, we're pretty sure you're going to love her as much as we do!
: I am a model, college student, MMA coach, Brazilian jiu jitsu competitor, and an avid baker. (Laughs) I know, it's quite the interesting combination!
: My first shoot was when I was 15 years old and I was on a family vacation in the Dominican Republic. My sister and I were taking photos of each other and we were approached by a photographer from the UK who was also on vacation. He asked if I wanted to shoot the following day so I agreed! It was a very fun shoot, especially with my dad watching the photographer's every move (laughs). He was a great photographer though and helped me to realize that I had a knack for modelling.
: Sporty yet refined and feminine.
: The behind the scenes! Its crazy to see how much work goes behind just one photo, and being the model in the shoot walks you through all that work. From the hair and makeup team, to the set team, the photography, the lighting... It gives you a great perspective of what really goes on behind that one photo you see as the result. Plus I think we are hilarious, you'd be surprised how non-stereotypical the entire crew is off the set.
: There is this amazing place in Markham called Beiruti Grand Café that I love to go either on my way back from a shoot or from training. The food is a fusion of Mediterranean and French, and no matter what you choose on the menu, you will be happy. My favourite right now is their ham brie and roasted apple sandwich on a warm pretzel bun, served with an aioli dipping sauce and garden salad. And try their fresh orange juice!
: I am a fan of both DC and Marvel, but my favourite movie has to be Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. I love the humour and sarcasm mixed in with a Superhero / Group of Misfits movie, and I love the 70s and 80s cultural references!
: My ideal Saturday is going out with my team mates! We have all decided that we are not too old to go on field trips, so we will always find different things to do. From axe throwing lessons to trampoline parks... This month, we are planning on going to a comic convention to cosplay and even LARP, also to an indoor parkour place, rock climbing, camping, cliff diving... the list just keeps getting longer!
Other than modelling, I also work as an MMA coach at Rumble Martial Arts, teaching Muay Thai Kickboxing, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Women's Self Defence, and Youth classes. I also compete in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, so I have to train quite often.
I am also in school right now for cake design, so if I am not in class I am baking a bunch of stuff and decorating. You know that cupcake scene from Bridesmaids? That has my name all over it.
What items are always in your purse?
: Well, I try to have my keys and wallet in there but I am very forgetful of important things (laughs). The only beauty supplies I always have on me is my hairbrush and foundation. My friends are going to laugh at me when they read this, but I also keep my mouth guard in my purse, so I can always remember where it is when I am training.
If you were an emoji which one would you be?
: (Looks through phone) I want to say the Happy Sun emoji. I will always say "Good Morning Sunshine!" to my friend and they will call me Sunshine back, and the name has kind of stuck now.
I'm pretty certain at that time I wanted to be a firefighter. I think I have always liked the idea of being a hero, or at least helping others. I feel like I help others quite a bit when I am teaching self defence. I have had students come up to me and tell me how they had someone try to hurt them and they were able to successfully defend themselves, or tell me about the success that they are having with their fitness or even confidence and assertiveness. Hearing that is extremely rewarding, and I think my 10-year old self would be very proud of what I am up now.
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A Rotherham couple have been arrested by South Yorkshire Police following a 7 year old suffering horrific burns when his parents left him in the care of others.
Owen Atkins was horrifically scalded with boiling water. Dad Paul has spoken up about the moment his son was shouting not to let him die after being scalded with the water which left his son in pain described as excruciating which left him distressed.
Owen was in hospital for more than a week when his face and head was burned so badly that medics did not know if his hair would grow back.
South Yorkshire Police have now said two men and a woman have been arrested in regards to the incident which occurred 27 May 2018. Police said they arrested a 31 year old woman and a 33 year old man, both from Rotherham. They were arrested on the suspicion of neglecting a child. A man of 18 was also arrested on the suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm. All three were released on bail.
The father of Owen said they had left their son in the care of someone else in Sheffield when he suffered the horrendous injuries. The burns and scalds were the result of being covered with the contents of a kettle that had just boiled.
It was said that Owen has continued to have nightmares about the incident and is still in pain.
Police asked for anyone with any information to call them and quote the incident number 34 of 27 May.


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Jon Andrews
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A lifelong resident of the Wa-Nee system. Jon and his wife, Alison, live in Elkhart, Indiana, where they are raising their three children: Preston, Presley, and Palyn. Jon earned his bachelor's degree in history from McPherson College in McPherson, Kansas where he was a member of the Bulldog football team for three years. He currently serves as a Regional Director for Love Justice International while pursuing his Masters Degree. Jon has served alongside people on five continents and serves on several nonprofit boards. He is an avid reader and enjoys coaching his children. He is currently writing his first book.
Jon has served the football program in many facets since the mid seventies when he would help set up and tear down at old Memorial field. His childhood dreams came true when it was his turn to run out of the tunnel for the 84-86 seasons when the Panthers compiled a record of 31-5. As a senior he was the starting center and long snapper for the 1986 State Runner Up team. Following his on the field career he served as an assistant coach at Nappanee Junior High for two years.
In 1992-1994 Jon served as an assistant coach on Andrews Field Highlighted by being part of the 1993 State finals run with his cousins Trevor and Nate. In 1995 he then moved from the sideline to the press box for two years doing the color commentary alongside Dan Caskey on 102.7.
Jon returned to the Panther gridiron after an almost 20 Hiatus in 2014 to serve as team chaplain, team historian and Coach Wilson's seatbelt on Friday night - roles he continues to serve in today.


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Film Music on the Organ
The Great Reformed Church of Debrecen invites you to an extraordinary organ concert, but not one with the typical works, written for classical organs. Instead, well-known melodies of popular films that are almost never played on an organ – the queen of instruments, provides an incredible richness to these works!
The show includes Pirates of the Caribbean, which explodes with great vigor, famous themes from the Mission Impossible series, the theme song of the Battle of the Thrones, iconic melodies from old great movies such as Once Upon a Time in the Wild West or Pro, but the latest captivating melodies from more recent movies as well, such as The Avengers.
Date: September 25th, 2021 7:00 p.m.
Venue: Debrecen Reformed Great Church
At the organ: Gergő Csorba
Full to price ticket: HUF 2,500 / person
Student / pensioner ticket: HUF 1,500 / person.
Tickets can be purchased in advance in person at the Kölcsey Center or the Tourinform Ticket Office, or online atjegy.hu.
Reservations are possible (first come first served)
Gate opening: 6:30 p.m.
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Q: sqlite3 merge two tables fields into one, remove duplicates I have two tables which needs to be merged into one.
Tables have different number of rows.
table1
      att1     rel1

      1954WM   1699AC, 1847BC

table-2
      att2     rel2

      1954WM   1699AC, 1331, 1649A
      1499DD   1891, 9951A

Above is e.g. of structure.
What I would like to have is if table1.att1 == table-2.att2 then table1 would look like this:
table1
      att2     rel2

      1954WM   1699AC, 1847BC, 1331, 1649A
      1499DD   1891, 9951A

if theres no match for table-2.att2 in table1.att1 then add table-2.att2 with rel2 into table1.

A: IF you don't mind duplicate items in rel1 (i.e. merg duplicates refers to the att? columns) AND IF att1 column has a UNIQUE constraint then :-
WITH a AS(SELECT att1,rel1 FROM `table1` UNION SELECT att2 AS att1,rel2 AS rel1 FROM `table-2`),
         b AS (SELECT att1,group_concat(rel1) AS rel1 FROM a GROUP BY att1)
INSERT OR REPLACE INTO `table1` SELECT att1,rel1 FROM b;

Will result in

IF you don't mind duplicate items in rel1 BUT the att1 column does not have a UNIQUE constraint then :-
WITH a AS(SELECT att1,rel1 FROM `table1` UNION SELECT att2 AS att1,rel2 AS rel1 FROM `table-2`),
         b AS (SELECT att1,group_concat(rel1) AS rel1 FROM a GROUP BY att1)
INSERT INTO `table1` SELECT 'ADDED-'||att1,rel1 FROM b;

DELETE FROM `table1` WHERE instr(att1,'ADDED-') < 1;

UPDATE `table1` SET att1 = substr(att1,instr(att1,'ADDED-') + 1 + length('ADDED'));

or :-
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS att1ix ON `table1`(att1);
WITH a AS(SELECT att1,rel1 FROM `table1` UNION SELECT att2 AS att1,rel2 AS rel1 FROM `table-2`),
         b AS (SELECT att1,group_concat(rel1) AS rel1 FROM a GROUP BY att1)
INSERT OR REPLACE INTO `table1` SELECT att1,rel1 FROM b;

Will provide the same result.

A: Here's a side-effect-free SQL statement for computing the desired table:
WITH remnants AS (SELECT * FROM table1 WHERE att1 NOT IN (SELECT att2 FROM table2))
SELECT * FROM (SELECT att1 as att2, rel1 as rel2 FROM remnants)
              UNION SELECT * FROM table2;

If you want to overwrite table1, you could use the following, but of course the result will retain the column names:
DELETE FROM table1 WHERE att1 IN (SELECT att2 FROM table2);
INSERT INTO table1 SELECT * FROM table2;