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KENNEY IGNORES LOCAL DECISION-MAKERS, PRESSES AHEAD WITH DISCREDITED PLAN TO CENTRALIZE AMBULANCE DISPATCH
EDMONTON - Jason Kenney's government quietly informed municipal leaders on a Friday afternoon that the UCP would ignore their objections and proceed with taking local control of ambulance dispatch away from Fort McMurray, Red Deer, Lethbridge and Calgary.
"Jason Kenney and Tyler Shandro have refused to look at the evidence, and refused to listen to four mayors and fire chiefs from across Alberta," said David Shepherd, NDP Opposition Critic for Health. "There's a real chance these changes will make service levels worse in these communities. Jason Kenney is rolling the dice with Albertans' lives to pay for his $4.7-billion corporate handout."
Kenney's plan to take away local control of ambulance dispatch was previously rejected by the Notley NDP government, as well as three previous PC health ministers. The plan was harshly criticized by MLA Prasad Panda when he was a Wildrose MLA, and two current UCP MLAs, Tany Yao and Drew Barnes, have recently urged Kenney to drop it.
"This is not a partisan issue. It's a public safety issue," Shepherd said. "It's reprehensible that Jason Kenney is refusing to listen to four elected mayors, four fire chiefs, members of his own caucus, and the many Albertans who have studied this plan and rejected it. If lives are lost as a result of this decision, Jason Kenney will answer for them."


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Archive for January 6th, 2014
Emotions Prime Reason II
EugenR: " Patrice, I agree 100%, emotions are the prime reasons driving the human acts and also human history. And since human emotions are unpredictable and uncontrollable …
I do agree that human emotions have been, mostly unpredictable, to this day. However, the whole interest of studying Systems of Moods is that emotions follow systems and thus are much more predictable than has been asserted in the past.
For example, after I saw Obama associate with the miscreants from the Clinton era (Summers, Clinton plutocratic ex-chief of staff, Eskerine, or whatever his name is, etc.), hyper plutocrats (Buffet), banksters (Dimon), and go work at an hedge fund, November 5, 2008, I had an ominous feeling.
That feeling got ever more ominous, considering particular family events that happened after that. At that point I got depressed, and was depressed for two years. Now I am grim. I will bear witness to that period, hopefully. Perhaps, like Plutarch, it's my version of events that will enlighten the future about the present reign.
The amusing thing about Greco-Roman history is that few writings and authors were preserved. Perhaps 95% of Aristotle was lost.
Tiberius is described as a monster by the few surviving Roman authors. Yet, careful analysis of the facts reveal otherwise: although he may have done horrible things (as alleged), we have very few hard facts justifying this.
On the facts strictly, it's hard to attribute to Tiberius a single fully unwarranted execution (although his son Drusus was poisoned by conspirators, and it took seven years for this to be revealed. Maybe, much earlier, his other very popular son Germanicus, also the topmost general, was also poisoned, by the same assassins, with a very determined agenda of self-aggrandizement).
Compare with the assassin in chief. The one who selects civilians to kill by drone, worldwide, on tiny grainy pixelated screens. Naïve, ignorant, unwise, poorly advised creature, soon to be excoriated as a debris of history (see above).
Why was Tiberius so hated by later thinkers, that they dragged everything about him in the mud, even accusing him of private torture sessions in his Capri villa?
Probably because, after Augustus died, nobody knew what the status of the state was. Tiberius was the top general and heir apparent. But heir to what? Nobody knew.
The Senate waited, Tiberius waited, Rome waited. It lasted months. At this point, Tiberius could have cleared his throat, and declared that one would try to make the Res Publica more democratic.
Instead, when finally the Senate begged him to take action, Tiberius progressively, insensibly, stepped in Augustus' shoes. Thus definitively not solving the problem of the non-defined nature of the Roman state, and of the problem of succession of the Princeps (technically just the "first" in the Senate).
Tiberius made a stealthy coup, in ever slower motion… To avoid any adverse emotion, that could have precipitated a confrontation between him and the partisans of a return to a full and real Republic. Tiberius was a cancer of the soul, slowly smothering democracy.
Emotions everywhere.
We do not know what the future is made of. But the present tells us what the future could be made of. By deciding not to re-establish the Republic's government, Tiberius veered to dictatorship. The first republic to be re-established would be Venice, about 750 years later, under the protection of Roman emperor Carlus Magnus ("Charlemagne"). So, yes, it could be done.
That was all the more meritorious, as Venice had a huge fleet, a low hanging fruit.
Venice was soon followed by several other republics, and countless de facto independent cities or counties, often under local democratic government (Genova, Firenze, and other Italian republics, but also Dauphine', Escartons, Toulouse, the Swiss Cantons, etc.).
When Obama decided to kill apparent civilians by his personal fiat, and drone, all around the world, he set the conditions for the sort of future depicted in the movies "Terminator". Hopefully, history will remember him as an incomparably worst monster than Tiberius.
Obama crossed a moral Rubicon that Tiberius was careful never to be even seen to approach.
I say: "Hopefully", because, otherwise, the abominable state of affairs we have presently when an autocrat, Obama his name, go kill civilians around the world, and everybody respects him, will endure, and that's the gate to the worst emotional hell.
Pontius Pilatus did not know if Jesus was innocent or not. He just allowed a judicial process to proceed. We all do know that these people in that wedding were all innocent. And we know who ordered their assassination.
Tiberius did not try to bring back the Republic, Obama does his best to lose it. This is the emotion of the thing. Comparisons are not always flattering.
Eugen R: the break-out of WWI. Nobody predicted it and there was no rational reason to start it.
Quite the opposite. I have described in excruciating details, that the attack of World War One had been planned officially (yet, highly secretly), from December 10, 1912. See my "Plot Against France 1912-2013". In it you find:
Here is the report from Admiral Georg Alexander von Müller (the chief of naval operations):
"His Majesty Kaiser Wilhelm II said: …if we attack France, England will come to France's aid, for England cannot tolerate a disturbance in the European balance of power. His Majesty welcomed this message as providing the desired clarification for all those who have been lulled into a false sense of security by the recently friendly English press.
His Majesty painted the following picture:
'Austria must deal firmly with the Slavs living outside its borders (the Serbs) if it does not want to lose control over the Slavs under the Austrian monarchy. If Russia were to support the Serbs, which she is apparently already doing…war would be inevitable for us. But there is hope that Bulgaria, Romania, and Albania—and perhaps even Turkey—will take our side. …If these powers ally themselves with Austria, it will free us up to throw our full weight behind a war against France. According to His Majesty, the fleet will naturally have to prepare for war against England…'
As I explained, the German plutocracy was stuck between Russia (democratizing and modernizing fast, thanks to French help and capital), France (a democracy, republic, and world empire, whose economy was improving by leaps and bounds) and the German Socialist Party (SPD), which dominated the German Reichstag, and wanted out with the plutocracy.
In June 1, 1914, the envoy of the president of the USA, himself, Colonel House, proposed a satanic alliance…against France (!)
Thus the attack of 1914 was not irrational. The plutocrats knew it would neutralize the socialists. And it did. It worked, as anticipated. Oh, OK, it's the American based plutocrats who mostly profited. Well, big crocs eat little crocs.
Now, a century later, the French republic, has lost her empire, but has won… Europe. Germany is a sister republic governed by the … SPD.
The attack of 1914 was perfectly rational for the monsters who ordered it, just as killing innocent civilians by robots is perfectly suitable to enact the climate of worldwide terror those who order it wants.
However, the emotions that guided those monsters were, and are, all wrong. That's why, history did, and will, hopefully, vomit them, again and again.
Tags:Assassinations, Drones, Emotions, Obama, Plot, Terror, Tiberius, World War I
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Jon Hayman, Contributor
John Wilkes Booth Exclusive
02/19/2013 12:36 pm ET Updated Apr 21, 2013
Last week, the National Geographic Channel aired the premiere of Killing Lincoln. Why it wasn't on the History Channel is anyone's guess although they were in the midst of their mini-series Doomsday Pawnbroker Preppers' Housewives. Be that as it may, I had a chance to catch up with John Wilkes Booth in his dressing room in the afterlife to get his reaction to the Tom Hanks-hosted program.
HP: Thanks for giving us some time. I know you're very much in demand since the Killing Lincoln, premiered last week.
JWB: Yeah, I haven't done as many interviews since my performance in the Cracker Players production of Richard lll at the Mechanicsville center for the performing arts in 1863. Variety called it, "the type of performance that just blows you away." Ironic ain't it?
HP: Um, yeah. Speaking of the deformed King, what do you make of the recent discovery of his body?
JWB: I was surprised he was found under a parking lot. What's a parking lot?
HP: It's where they park...let's move on. What did you think of the docudrama?
JWB: Docudrama? What in tarnation is a docudrama?
HP: A hybrid presentation combining two forms.
JWB: Oh, like a bromance?
HP: Exactly.
JWB: At least it wasn't a biopic. They get everything wrong. I saw one on Stonewall Jackson that claimed he died of a drug overdose.
HP: That was Michael Jackson. A singer. But speaking of accuracy, how much did Killing Lincoln, get right?
JWB: Most of it, but of course they completely whitewashed the involvement of the CIA and the mafia.
HP: But neither of them was around in the 19th century.
JWB: Yeah, right. And we didn't curse or have sex back then either. I'm telling you, I was just a patsy.
HP: Explain.
JWB: As you know, both the CIA and the mob are wholly owned subsidiaries of Halliburton. So, I get a message from Dick Cheney...
HP: Now just a second, Dick Cheney may be old, but...
JWB: But what? Never heard of a pact with the devil? From what I hear, the devil got fucked on that one.
HP: You have my attention.
JWB: So Cheney lets me know in no uncertain terms that the end of a war in which Halliburton is supplying both sides is bad for business and it would be quite beneficial for all concerned if hostilities could be continued. So I figure, I'll whack Abe, chronic alcoholic Andrew Johnson takes the reins, goes on some drunken, misguided jihad against the South and the war would begin anew, and Cheney promised I'd get the lead in Our American Cousin Part 2.
HP: But you plotted to kill Johnson too.
JWB: Nah, That was just a McGuffin. The guy I sent, George Atzerodt was a worse drunk than the Veep. I knew they'd just end up getting hammered together which is what happened.
HP: But it didn't work out. The war didn't continue and you got shot.
JWB: As Cassius says in Act ll scene lll of Julius Caesar: "Excrement happens."
HP: Do you hold a grudge against the Union troops who found and shot you?
JWB: Not at all. Remember there was a $50,000 dollar bounty on me. By killing me, the soldiers were merely acting in a fiscally responsible manner in saving the taxpayers' dollar. I'm all about reducing government expenditure and waste. That's just how I roll.
HP: I have to ask you this before we conclude. What do you think of Obama?
JWB: What about him?
HP: You know, being the first Black president and all.
JWB: Don't shit a shitter.
HP: I'm totally serious.
At this point, Booth leapt from his chair, aimed an imaginary derringer at this reporter, screamed, "sic temper interviewius," and fled, albeit with a noticeable limp.
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<?php

namespace PamiModuleTest\Listener;

use PamiModule\Listener\ConnectionStatusListener;
use Zend\EventManager\Event;

class ConnectionStatusListenerTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    public function testAttach()
    {
        $events = $this->getMockBuilder('Zend\\EventManager\\EventManagerInterface')->getMock();

        $events->expects(static::atLeast(4))
            ->method('attach')
            ->withConsecutive(
                ['connect.pre'],
                ['disconnect.pre'],
                ['process.pre'],
                ['sendAction.pre']
            );

        $listener = new ConnectionStatusListener();
        $listener->attach($events);
    }

    public function testOnConnect()
    {
        $listener = new ConnectionStatusListener();

        $event = new Event('connect.pre');
        $listener->onConnect($event);
        static::assertFalse($event->propagationIsStopped());

        $event = new Event('connect.pre');
        $listener->onConnect($event);
        static::assertTrue($event->propagationIsStopped());

        $event = new Event('connect.pre');
        $listener->onConnect($event);
        static::assertTrue($event->propagationIsStopped());
    }

    public function testOnDisconnect()
    {
        $listener = new ConnectionStatusListener();

        $event = new Event('disconnect.pre');
        $listener->onDisconnect($event);
        static::assertTrue($event->propagationIsStopped());

        $listener->onConnect(new Event('connect.pre'));

        $event = new Event('disconnect.pre');
        $listener->onDisconnect($event);
        static::assertFalse($event->propagationIsStopped());

        $event = new Event('disconnect.pre');
        $listener->onDisconnect($event);
        static::assertTrue($event->propagationIsStopped());
    }

    public function testOnProcess()
    {
        $client = $this->getMockBuilder('PamiModule\\Service\\Client')
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->setMethods(['connect'])
            ->getMock();
        $listener = new ConnectionStatusListener();

        $client->expects(static::once())
            ->method('connect');

        $event = new Event('process.pre', $client);
        $listener->onProcess($event);

        // Should receive a connect event
        $event = new Event('connect.pre');
        $listener->onConnect($event);

        $event = new Event('process.pre', $client);
        $listener->onProcess($event);
    }

    public function testOnSendAction()
    {
        $client = $this->getMockBuilder('PamiModule\\Service\\Client')
            ->disableOriginalConstructor()
            ->setMethods(['connect'])
            ->getMock();
        $listener = new ConnectionStatusListener();

        $client->expects(static::once())
            ->method('connect');

        $event = new Event('sendAction.pre', $client);
        $listener->onSendAction($event);

        // Should receive a connect event
        $event = new Event('connect.pre');
        $listener->onConnect($event);

        $event = new Event('sendAction.pre', $client);
        $listener->onSendAction($event);
    }
}

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Hormone-mimicking chemicals harm fish now—and their unexposed offspring later
Fish exposed to harmful contaminants can pass on health issues such as reproductive problems to future generations that had no direct exposure.
Brian Bienkowski
Fish exposed to endocrine-disrupting compounds pass on health problems to future generations, including deformities, reduced survival, and reproductive problems, according to a new study.
The study, published in Environmental Science and Technology, is the first of its kind in a fish that can live in freshwater, brackish water or salt water, and suggests that compounds in pesticides and birth control that pollute waterways are not only harming fish living there now, but their offspring and the subsequent generation as well.
The results are troublesome as the negative effects seen in fish offspring—including reduced survival and reproduction problems—could lead to population level declines over time.
"These effects can carry over into indirectly exposed fish and those not exposed at all," Bethany DeCourten, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral consultant at the University of California Davis' Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, told EHN.
The research offers the latest evidence of the deeply embedded biological problems for humans and animals exposed to endocrine-disrupting chemicals—which mimic natural hormones—that are pervasive in our environment.
"These findings suggest that single-generation toxicity testing may not be adequate to determine the effects of these chemicals on long-term population viability," the authors wrote.
Low levels lead to generational impacts
Researchers exposed inland silverside fish to bifenthrin, levonorgestrel, ethinylestradiol, and trenbolone to levels currently found in waterways.
"Our concentrations were actually on the low end" of what is found in the wild, DeCourten said, adding that it was low amounts of chemicals in parts per trillion.
Bifenthrin is a pesticide; levonorgestrel and ethinylestradiol are synthetic hormones used in birth controls; and trenbolone is a synthetic steroid often given to cattle to bulk them up.
Such endocrine-disruptors have already been linked to a variety of health problems in directly exposed fish including altered growth, reduced survival, lowered egg production, skewed sex ratios, and negative impacts to immune systems. But what remains less clear is how the exposure may impact future generations.
For their study, DeCourten and colleagues started the exposure when the fish were embryos and continued it for 21 days.
They then tracked effects on the exposed fish, and the next two generations.
They found:
The exposed fish had impacted gene expression and DNA methylation, increased deformities, and decreased egg production;
The first generation, which was indirectly exposed within their parents, had reduced hatching success, and deformities in developing larvae;
And the second generation, which had no exposure, had the largest decrease in survival rates, and altered DNA methylation.
In looking at two subsequent generations, the study roughly corresponds to three years in the wild, DeCourten said. "We saw impacts on survival in the second generation," she said. "This definitely could impact populations as a whole. Right now, we just don't really have an idea of exactly what that could mean for wild populations."
Senior author of the study Susanne Brander said it's reasonable to think that other fish species would be similarly impacted, especially other estuary and marine fish, as the salt content in water can change the way fish respond to different stressors, including pollution.
Brander, an assistant professor at Oregon State University, has been working with inland silverside fish for a little more than a decade.
In addition to her work, the silverside has been used for decades in wastewater effluent testing across the country.
It's a "model organism for estuary and marine and coastal habitats," she told EHN.
Inherited problems
DeCourten said the altered DNA methylation is one of the plausible ways that future generations would experience health impacts from previous generations' exposure. Hormone-disrupting compounds have been shown to impact DNA methylation, which is an important marker of how an organism will develop.
"Methyl groups are added to specific sites on the genome, [the exposure] is not changing the genome itself, but rather how the genome is expressed," she said. "And that can be inherited throughout generations."
In addition, Brander said there are essentially different "tags" that exist on DNA molecules, which tell genes how to turn on and off. She said the exposure to different compounds may be "influencing which methyl tags get taken on or off as you proceed through generations."
The researchers said the study should prompt future toxics testing to consider impacts on future generations.
"The results … throw a wrench in the current approach to regulating chemicals, where it's often short-term testing looking at simple things like growth, survival, and maybe gene expression," Brander said.
"These findings are telling us we really at least need to consider" the next two generations, she added.
Banner photo: Inland Silverside fish from a U.S.Fish and Wildlife Service beach seining operation at Liberty Island in the San Joaquin-Sacramento Bay-Delta. (Credit: USFWS)
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Q: How to fill dictionary from wcf ksoap2 response I have a wcf ksoap2 service that returns Dictionary<ArrayList, List<byte[]>>. Now at android side I want to fill my Dictionary<String[], ArrayList<Object>> diction; from wcf response. I am new to wcf and android/java, I don't have idea how to do this. Please provide me some better example of filling Dictionary with wcf.
Thanks in advance
This is my wcf code
public Dictionary<ArrayList, List<byte[]>> getImages()
        {
            Dictionary<ArrayList, List<byte[]>> image_Name = new Dictionary<ArrayList, List<byte[]>>();

            DirectoryInfo directoryInfo = new DirectoryInfo(@"C:\Users\Yakhtar\Desktop\abc");
            arr1 = new ArrayList();
            foreach (FileInfo fi in directoryInfo.GetFiles())
                arr1.Add(fi.FullName);

            list = new List<byte[]>();
            for (int i = 0; i < arr1.Count; i++)
            {
                img = Image.FromFile(arr1[i].ToString());
                ms = new MemoryStream();
                img.Save(ms, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg);
                list.Add(ms.ToArray());
            }

            image_Name.Add(arr1, list);
            //image_Name[arr1 as ArrayList] = [list as byte[]];
            return image_Name;
        }

A: Well I am not sure about that but have you thought about JSON parsing instead of ksoap2 ??
Here is a tutorial on how to work with array of complex objects with KSOAP. I found out by countless hours of debugging. Hope this hepls
also try this
SoapObject countryDetails = (SoapObject)envelope.getResponse();
System.out.println(countryDetails.toString());

ArrayList list = new ArrayList(countryDetails.getPropertyCount());
lv_arr = new String[countryDetails.getPropertyCount()];
for (int i = 0; i < countryDetails.getPropertyCount(); i++) {
    Object property = countryDetails.getProperty(i);
    if (property instanceof SoapObject) {
        SoapObject countryObj = (SoapObject) property;
        String countryName = countryObj.getProperty("countryName").toString();
        list.add(countryName );
    }
}

A: Do something like this..
list = new List<byte[]>();
            for (int i = 0; i < arr1.Count; i++)
            {
                img = Image.FromFile(arr1[i].ToString());
                ms = new MemoryStream();
                img.Save(ms, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg);
                list.Add(ms.ToArray());
            }

            image_Name.Add(arr1, list);
            //image_Name[arr1 as ArrayList] = [list as byte[]];
            return image_Name;
        }

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Synopsis from the publisher- "Can the nerds handle the high seas? It's anchors away for this motley crew of middle grade, video-gaming heroes. In the exciting third book of the Nerdy Dozen series, Neil Andertol and his friends are in for their toughest mission yet!
Neil and his crew have reunited at Reboot Robiski's video-game convention in order to try the brand-new underwater game, Captain Jolly's Shark Hunt. Except that their win only leads to trouble.
What I Thought-I really like this series. Mr. Miller has a fun writing style that really gets into the minds of young tweens, making the story pretty believable. And this has nothing to do with the fact that I am a nerd. 🙂 The story is at the same time possible, yet completely wacky. It is neat how the characters are changing from book to book. They slowly become more mature and developed as characters. I like that there is a subtle message of forgiving your enemies, because in all the books, the characters make friends with the "villain" – in a completely plausible way. I really enjoyed how it makes video games into a pretty important thing, seeing as they have helped save the world several times. The action is realistic, spot on for Miller's audience and makes a great story.
I love stories like this that bring science, gaming, and kids into a fantastic setting, and also tell a fun story! Fun illustration style, too. Thanks for the review, Erik!
Looks like a funny book for boys!
Hi Erik, I'm not a nerd either 😉 but this looks great. Sounds like a good series!


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We relocated the doorbell to a higher and more functional place for our split level home which also keeps any paws away! The clear and robust chimes can be heard throughout the house.
An ElectraChime doorbell is at home with treasured art and family photos.
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THE END OF THE KARA WALKER EXHIBIT AT THE DOMINO SUGAR PLANT: The Complex Relationship between the Collective History, Memory, and Lived Experience and Those Unwilling to Share the Burden
Sometimes demolishing the past doesn't change the present.
At the behest of Creative Time Kara E. Walker has confected:
A Subtlety
or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
an Homage to the unpaid and overworked Artisans who have refined our Sweet tastes from the cane fields to the Kitchens of the New World on the Occasion of the demolition of the Domino Sugar Refining Plant
In the time that has passed since writing my article on Kara Walker's "A Subtlety" (WHEN ART DEALS WITH THE DISTASTEFUL: Kara Walker at the Domino Sugar Factory) more articles have come forward critiquing the exhibit.
On June 30 "Why I Yelled at the Kara Walker Exhibit" was posted in The Indypendent. This powerful article touched on several issues that I felt needed to be addressed. I applaud the writer, Nicholas Powers, for punctuating the space with an action that wasn't a planned intervention or a performance piece. It was a unprompted visceral response – an appropriate (re)action.
In his article he asked a very important question – what is the role of the curator? I ask – when the curator knows that they are putting out work that is loaded, even potentially volatile is it acceptable for them to just step back and let things play out? Do curators have an obligation to facilitate dialogue and create a safe space for emotional release?
Many people found their experience in the physical space to be quite painful "Black Pain, White Laughter" as Nicholas puts it. The online experience provided an almost unchallenged area for people to act ignorantly – even racist and misogynistic.
Should Creative Time (the team behind "A Subtlety") have immediately stepped in to address the racism and misogyny? In both spaces they could have intervened. There was an opportunity for a whole other dialogue to take place that would perhaps have lead to more understanding and empathy therefore more respectful behavior.
"It was like a sleeping beehive had been kicked over"
Nicholas called out people for the types of photos they were taken at the back of the sphinx, the location where much of the problematic behaviour has occurred. A Creative Time curator, in an effort to distance the organization from his spontaneous intervention, asked him to tell people he was not part of Creative Time. He writes:
" A friend cut in, saying loudly that I didn't have to say shit. They got into a debate that heated up into a verbal fight. Visitors came up to me, some saying I was wrong; others saying I was right.
…It felt great to confront the "white gaze," the entitled buffoonery of the visitors. But why did we have to?…wasn't the job of Walker or at least Creative Time's staff to curate a racially charged artwork? Yes, Walker has the freedom to express herself. Yes, Creative Time has the freedom to organize it. But what do you expect will happen if you put a giant sculpture of a nude black woman, as a Mammy no less, in a public space.
…Instead of challenging the racial power dynamics of white supremacy, Walker and Creative Time, in their naivety or arrogance, I don't know which, simply made the Domino Sugar Factory a safe place for it."
For me, that is where the installation failed. The safe space that was created was for those who needed to be challenged the most. The historical dirt, literally baked to the walls of Domino Sugar Factory, was sanitized – much like the process of whitening sugar, a process that requires crushed up bones to do the bleaching. The act of allowing people to document the art with cell phones, cameras and a hashtag also allowed people to mitigate their experience of the work by not being fully present to what was in front of them – the ugly truth and the shadow side of sweet consumption. Instead, the Sugar Sphinx became a tourist trap; like flies to sticky paper people got stuck to the spectacle but emotionally never moved beyond.
This work should have been about collective mourning of a disturbing past and collective consideration as to how our current lifestyles still support modern day slavery.
Malik Thompson writes in his piece "Kara Walker's Desecrated Cemetery for Blackness":
"One of the worst things about my experience with the Kara Walker exhibit in Brooklyn was the lack of space available for me to mourn the devastation of Blackness, nor appreciate its power. There were white bodies everywhere I turned; white bodies laughing, white bodies posing for pictures, white bodies giving me strange looks as I solemnly shuffled around the warehouse, white bodies overflowing the space, white bodies spilling into my physical and mental space…
I became uncomfortable, realized that even though this was obviously a cemetery, a place of remembrance and mourning for how Blackness has been distorted and destroyed throughout history, the pain I felt would always take a backseat to the comfort white people seek in lies. In that moment, I began remembering what violation felt like."
Malik and two friends decided they needed to intervene in the space between the mammy's breasts in an attempt to reclaim it.
"I suggested to my friends that we pose in front of the mammy sphinx holding up the Black Power fist, with a picture of us doing so to be taken by our white chaperone from our youth organization.
As we stood there, with our fists defiantly raised to the ceiling, the mostly white people in front of us became much quieter, they seemed offended even. Khadijah says she heard people whispering, "It's not about that…". One white man gave us a look of bemused indignation, rushing to the space we had just claimed as our own after our picture had been taken, only to pose for yet another smiling portrait in front of the mammy sphinx. Perhaps he did that to prove a point, a point sprung from the murky waters of privilege and ignorance.
And my spirit sank lower into my gut; I could feel it dragging me down towards the molasses-resembling-blood splattered ground."
The lightness of whiteness and a burdenless history
When one reads the comments in Stephanie Wyatts "The Audacity of No Chill: Kara Walker in the Instragram Capital" the good ol' 'reverse-racism' argument starts to bubble up. She called out white people in her article and that, is just not socially acceptable, even in the context of art speaking on Black Slavery. If this is not an appropriate time when is it?
Stephanie, a Black woman, had to bear witness to jokes about "sugar tits", "big ass" and "sweet lips" as her racialized body stood in front of sculpture of another racialized body. The sexualized talk directed at a lifeless sphinx (as her own physical presence was ignored) was talk also aimed at her. As the human being standing next to the the ones saying such things she should take it personally.
"I stood in front of a sugar boy carrying a huge basket oozing what began to look more like blood than molasses. I looked to my right and a white kid was licking one of the boys while his parents stood there unfazed. I walked over to get a full-on, yet still-distant view of the giant sphinx. Two seconds later, my eyes exploded and I was crying all over myself.
I obviously didn't expect to start crying, but it happened and I let those tears run free. I was snapped out of my sob by a white guy yelling, "This is boring!" Tears for my ancestors turned into hot, angry tears. "
Stephanie's response to all of the callousness, built up upon other times she has had to bear witness to people acting with insensitivity, lead her to write:
"…I'd gotten the sense that deep reverence may not be white people's spiritual gift. But where's the respect? How do you not realize that you are currently standing on sacred ground and staring the sickness of our country dead in the face?"
All of these articles are written by African Americans. I didn't come across any other articles of this type, speaking to a visceral and painful experience, written by anyone that wasn't Black.
Whiteness / 'lightness' is a privilege. It gets you a pass in a lot of places. It shouldn't get you a pass on ignorant behaviour. The Mammy Sphinx and Sugar Babies speak to a mutual history, slavery exists in the collective memory(s) and the weight of it should be shared. Unfortunately "A Subtlety" demonstrated that many people still see it as a burden belonging only to Black people.
Whether we like it or not, history has intimately intertwined us all and the unknotting shouldn't have to be done solely by the people who can trace their ancestry back to those who survived the Middle Passage.
Both the physical and online spaces that "A Subtlety" provided were spaces where white people could have at least helped to carry the burden. Instead the actions of many led to the piling on of more weight.
"A Subtlety" exposed that the not so subtle expressions of racism exist even in places created for homage to its impact.
The Black female body is never neutral. She can never rest.
"Experiencing Kara Walker"
"I walked into the exhibit feeling alone and I walked out of the exhibit feeling lonely. To be a parody and a parent. To be a black woman and pun.
It is here when I decide that I will bring my daughter next weekend. She should know how to arm herself against a world that never considers her skin, her ancestry, her people. She should know her body is always up for discussion, whether she initiates the conversation or not. She should know her pain will always be greeted with a whimsical patronizing hand.
She should know how to celebrate, defend and demand her own song and rich history be acknowledged and honored."
~ Chelcee Johns
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Surely the word "the" should be in there somewhere? But I get the feeling I've heard things like "US President Barack Obama" instead of "The US President Barack Obama", so I'm curious if this is actually a valid construct.
There's actually a difference (or at least a distinction) between US President Barack Obama and The US President Barack Obama. In the former, the job title is being used as an attributive adjective phrase, similar to Six-foot-tall Barack Obama. The latter should strictly have a comma (The US President, Barack Obama) to show that the reference is to the holder of the office,and the name is just for identification. But it's very easy, particularly in journalism, to blur the distinction.
Yes, it should. That is either a misprint, or written by somebody who is not a native English speaker.
The other example you give is different: it is referring to an individual, and there is the choice between treating "US President" as a modifier and treating it as part of the name.
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Dr. Reuwer has been studying, teaching, and practicing alternatives to violence for over 30 years. He has lectured at Radford University, Virginia Tech, Champlain College, and the US Army's War College in Carlisle, PA, as well as lead communication and conflict workshops in numerous churches and public venues.
As an emergency physician for 30 years treating patients for injuries they inflicted on one another and themselves, he developed a keen desire to understand why violence is so prevalent and what can be done to mitigate it. His journey lead him to focus on the work of King, Gandhi, and Sharp as examples of engaging political enemies, and the work of Marshall Rosenberg on language as a major determinate of how interpersonal conflict is managed.
His experience includes actively challenging violence in conflict zones while deployed with Christian Peacemaker Teams in Colombia, Haiti, Palestine, and Washington, DC. He has adapted the principles of nonviolent communication to the promotion of physical and mental wellness, helping people find hope and growth in conflict, even within themselves. He recently completed a sabbatical in Harrisburg, PA partnering with residents to challenge the culture of street violence in the inner city, and continues to serve on the Cure Violence Harrisburg task force, whose mission is to implement a public health intervention to complement standard law enforcement.
John Reuwer, adjunct professor of peace and justice, was serving with the Nonviolent Peaceforce in South Sudan for four months this past winter and spring. South Sudan, Africa's newest nation, has seen civil war for more than five of its eight-year existence, following its 60-year involvement in the Sudanese civil war, which has left the nation impoverished and traumatized, with the highest rate in the world of children out of school. Since September of 2018, there has been a fragile peace agreement that has given the nation its longest rest since 2013, and brought a wary hope to much of the nation …. Reuwer hopes to learn from the people of South Sudan about the human potential for resilience under extremely traumatic circumstances, the methods they have devised to survive prolonged warfare, and how grassroots efforts can contribute to lasting peace. He expects this will enhance the material in his course on nonviolent conflict, and hopes to share lessons learned about war and peace with the Saint Michael's community.
John Reuwer, adjunct professor of peace and justice, gave a lecture at Elizabethtown College in southeastern Pennsylvania on Wednesday, Oct. 17, .entitled 'Lecture on Nonviolence: Power for Peace and Justice." The event was sponsored by the Elizabethtown Center for Global Understanding and Peacemaking (CGUP). John is a member of the Physicians for Social Responsibility.
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"NVC gives us tools to minimize conflict and make unavoidable conflict constructive, even in verbally hostile circumstances. NVA gives us tools that allow us to act in integrity with our highest values, even when dealing with those who may physically harm us. Together they give us a sophisticated understanding of nonviolent power that provides hope in situations that seem intractably hostile or dangerous."
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In the book, Sheryl Hutchison chronicles Ascani's life from childhood, to West Point and through his many accomplishments within the field of aviation.
Born Alfredo Ascani in Beloit, Wis., in 1917, Ascani held an interest in flying from an early age, but when he saw the Charles Lindbergh fly over his house, his fate as a pilot was sealed. Over the course of a 32-year career in the U.S. Army Air Force and the U.S. Air Force, Ascani would fly 53 World War II missions, become a pioneer in the field of flight testing and break the world speed record in 1951.
Hutchison served on active duty with the United States Air Force before retiring in 2006. She earned her bachelor's degree in speech communication from the University of Washington and her Master of Science in administration from Central Michigan University. Mentor Inbound is her first book.


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These four phases merge during an execution into a single lightning fast and harmonic motion.
There are other views that e.g. Tsukuri is the general preparation of the throw and includes eg push or pull of TORI in a certain direction and that it represents the first phase of throwing. I represent the view, that any throwing technique begins with breaking balance of UKE and after this the appropriate preparation for execution of the throw follows.
It is also frequently the opinion of the last phase; Nage (The end phase of UKE´s fall) is actually not an extra throwing phase. I see this differently, however, because dropping UKE, there is an appropriate response from TORI required. TORI controls the fall of UKE to prevent injury. It is also extremely useful for TORI to accompany the fall of UKE. Especially in competition, if the throwing technique is not for immediate victory (Ippon) TORI often has to go over into a ground position to control UKE (pinning technique, strangulation or armlock).
During the execution of throwing techniques the laws of physics play a significant role. Whether it is the lever laws, static, or even the torque, while all phases of the execution they are always present. The knowledge of these physical principles make it easier for the judoka to perfect his technique.


Just over £2m will help fund clinical palliative and end of life care at 18 independently-run hospices throughout Wales, with the remaining £1.9m being spent on NHS palliative care services.
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The organisation's chair, Emma Saysell, said some hospices had received extra funding, some had seen a fall, and others had remained the same.
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(New York, May 1, 2017) – New evidence supports the conclusion that Syrian government forces have used nerve agents on at least four occasions in recent months: on April 4, 2017, in a chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun that killed at least 92 people, and on three other occasions in December 2016 and March 2017, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.These attacks are part of a broader pattern of Syrian government forces' use of chemical weapons. The attacks are widespread and systematic and in some cases have been directed against the civilian population. These two features mean the attacks could meet the legal standard required to characterize them as crimes against humanity. As part of the evidence showing these attacks have become widespread and systematic, the 48-page report, "Death by Chemicals: The Syrian Government's Widespread and Systematic Use of Chemical Weapons," identifies three different systems being used to deliver chemical weapons:Government warplanes appear to have dropped bombs with nerve agents on at least four occasions since December 12;Government helicopter-dropped chlorine-filled munitions have become more systematic;Government or pro-government ground forces have started using improvised ground-launched munitions filled with chlorine.


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Michael David Doe (born 24 December 1947) is the Preacher of Gray's Inn and a former Bishop of Swindon.

Doe was born in Lymington, Hants, and grew up on the Highfield Council Estate there.  He attended Brockenhurst Grammar School and went on to Durham University (Bachelor of Arts {BA(Hons)}). After studying at Ripon Hall, Oxford, he was ordained priest in 1973 in Southwark Cathedral. He was a curate on the St Helier Estate in South London, after which he was National Youth Secretary at the British Council of Churches.  He moved to Oxford in 1981 to be Priest Missioner in the Blackbird Leys Ecumenical Partnership, and also served as Rural Dean of Cowley from 1987-1989. During this time he co-presented the weekly religious affairs programme on BBC Radio Oxford: "Spirit Level". He was then Social Responsibility Advisor to the Diocese of Portsmouth and a canon residentiary (later, Acting Provost) at Portsmouth Cathedral, before his ordination to the episcopate in 1994 when he became the first Bishop of Swindon, in the Diocese of Bristol. After ten years in this post he was appointed, in 2004, the General Secretary of the mission agency United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel   On retirement in 2011 he became Preacher to Gray's Inn, one of the four Inns of Court in London. He is an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Southwark, and an Honorary Minor Canon of Southwark Cathedral.   He chaired the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility from 2012 to 2015. In 2002 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bath. His publications include "Seeking the Truth in Love - the Church and Homosexuality" (DLT 2000), "Today!" (USPG 2009), and "Saving Power - the Mission of God and the Anglican Communion" (SPCK 2011).

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Cross-border e-commerce startup Buyandship raises $2.2M
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Hongkong based Buyandship, a cross-border e-commerce shipping services has secured $2.2 million in pre-Series B funding round led by existing investor Infinity Venture Partners.
Other investors include Asia-focused VC firm SQ Capital and unnamed strategic angel investors, besides Buyandship's key management. The money will be used to improve operational efficiencies and for market expansion.
Wilson Chan, Co-founder, and CEO of Buyandship, says, that Asian e-shoppers are primarily motivated by the enormous difference in prices: "Buying a latest Dyson product on Indian online store costs around US$800, but less than US$500 from an overseas online store. At a discount rate of nearly 40 percent, customers naturally prefer to shop from overseas stores."
In operations, Buyandship will streamline its logistics and shopping experience with an advanced warehouse automation system, simplified shopping procedures, and a new "one-click buy" tool. In market expansion, Buyandship will look to solidify its market presence in existing markets, including Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, India, and the UAE, as well as develop new markets in Southeast Asia.
Founded in 2014, Buyandship provides global shipping services for e-commerce customers. They can choose the firm for international shipping and deals, products, and exclusives from overseas merchants. Customers can pay US$6 per pound in shipping fees, and receive parcels at home. Using the service, the parcels are fully tracked from end to end with an average delivery time of 8-10 working days from the arrival to the warehouse.
It currently operates collection and export warehouses in Japan, South Korea, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the US, the UK, Italy, and Australia. Scheduled flights from these warehouses back to HK are arranged on a weekly basis, while the delivery fee will be based on the parcel's actual weight (not parcel size).
After closing its Series A funding in mid-2017, it has expanded into Mainland China, Macau, Taiwan, Japan, India, Malaysia, Singapore, and the UAE. It boasts of more than 320,000 users.
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As per a 2018 report by OECD, B2C cross-border e-commerce is growing fast as Asian e-shoppers look to buy directly from overseas brands rather than settle only for local options. B2C cross-border e-commerce to Asia should reach US$900 billion in value by 2021, with a CAGR of approximately 18.8 percent. Demand from China alone will account for nearly two-thirds of this total, but Vietnam and Indonesia will show higher growth rates.
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We all wonder how people dressed, traveled, and behaved in generations past, and we need only to look to quilts to find out. Since quilts were made, not by artists, but by ordinary women whose lives they closely reflect, they are founts of information about the people and periods they represent. In this episode we will explore the quilt's unique ability to preserve, not only our own family histories, but the history of America beyond the reach of memory.
You think you know art when you see it, but this episode of "Why Quilts Matter" may make you think again. Turns out the quilt is the perfect test case for a dozen theories about what makes art, well…art. Take the art verses craft debate: As a domestic object made by women for a practical purpose, the quilt falls squarely into the "craft" category, and a humble one, at that. But do some quilts become "art" when exhibited like paintings, on a museum wall?
In this episode we look at the quilt's historical and current roles as an avenue of personal expression, a sly medium of social and political opinion, and a building block of financial security for women. Curators, quilt makers, and scholars discuss the surprising number of ways in which the quilt has been and continues to be, woven into the histories and psyches of our mothers, our sisters, ourselves.


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This virus can be a catalyst to change, if we organize like our life depends on it
By Ron Hayduk and Anthony Pahnke
Ron Hayduk and Anthony Pahnke are Professors at San Francisco State University. Ron can be reached at rhayduk@sfsu.edu, and Anthony, at anthonypahnke@sfsu.edu
Sounds odd, right? How could the coronavirus, which has killed thousands around the world and thrown the global political and economic system into crisis, be considered an ally? Instead, shouldn't it be seen first and foremost as the common enemy that we all face and that needs to be defeated?
Of course, the virus needs to be controlled and we need to inoculate ourselves from it. Those objectives, we do not question.
Yet, the virus can also help bring about significant change with the right kind of push from grassroots movements. That is, if we recognize the nature of the political opening that the virus has provided.
First, think about the standard organizing strategy, popularized by struggles such as the civil rights movement. The goal, as MLK wrote about in his famous Letter From Birmingham Jail, was to create tensions, and in the process, force elites to negotiate.
How? By filling the jails. This way, public services would be paralyzed and elites would have to sit down and discuss the issues that movements sought to address. Or workers strike, stopping the gears of production, and thereby, leverage their power to bring the bosses to the table to negotiate.
Compare this idea — disruption — with what we are facing now: experts fear that hospitals will be overrun in just a matter of weeks; the crashing economic system has thrown millions into unemployment, placed businesses on the verge of bankruptcy, and made financial markets seize.
Just look around, the pandemic has done the work of thousands of committed activists in causing disruption and bringing elites to the table to discuss wide-sweeping policy changes.
Such openings are reflected in the debates and controversies surrounding the stimulus legislation, the largest aid package in U.S. history, as well as in discussions of additional relief measures that will soon follow.
But, isn't the stimulus essentially a corporate bailout, which actually may total more than $5 trillion, if you count the underwriting of banks and large enterprises? Isn't it an outrageous betrayal to working and middle-class taxpayers akin to the 2008 stimulus scam?
Yes. But to denounce it merely as such may suit people with the privilege to "shelter-in-place" and work from home, but for many working people with real needs, there are lots in the legislation of value. For instance, there's immediate relief for workers and families, provisions for non-profit organizations and the unemployed, student debt relief, and funds for Native Americans. It also provides critical funds to state and local governments who are also racing to meet mounting need, as well as funds to conduct this year's elections safely. To be sure, none of this is nearly enough. And the slush fund to corporations is scandalous and shameful.
Still, why not think of these relief measures as a downpayment on what is really needed, as a foot in the door to leverage future action?
Yes, the bailout package contains billions dedicated to the airlines and other corporate behemoths, and too many workers—particularly the undocumented—are left out. And healthcare workers, state and local governments, elections officials, and many others need much more support fast.
Yet, the legislation prohibits stock buybacks for one year, as well as sharp limits to CEO pay for entities that receive the funds. More importantly, the legislation opens the door for government to have a stake in some of the world's largest companies and industries.
This point is huge, so don't scoff at it. We can hear the naysayers now – isn't this an opportunity for Steve Mnuchin and the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies to sit around awash in hundred dollar bills, setting them on fire to light their cigars as they laugh at the rest us who wait desperately for those $1,200 checks to arrive?
Maybe, but it doesn't have to be that way – these provisions allow the government to make essential changes in businesses that accept its assistance. And because so many businesses need relief, this provision could help achieve a huge leftwing goal – massive restructuring of private enterprise.
In effect, the virus has created this opening for us to transform the economy. The question is – who will get into it and what will they do?
Think about the 2007/2008 Great Recession and the restructuring of General Motors. It wasn't in Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act but came about later as part of a joint plan between the government and the automobile manufacturer that had filed for bankruptcy. Under their agreement, the Obama administration replaced executives, passed new industrial standards, and influenced production decisions.
But neoliberal errors were made – the government failed to assure effective safety measures in vehicles and workforce downsizing continued. Similarly, in 2008, the housing and financial sectors were ripe for massive reorganization but in 2009 Obama and company essentially gave them a pass. Occupy Wall Street came to life in its aftermath, largely because the promise of "hope and change" delivered neither. Worse still, the fallout of the Great Recession essentially led to an even more unequal recovery.
Still, the example of General Motors shows that government takeovers can take place in our current time. It also shows that we cannot rest assured that the government will do the right thing for working people when the opportunity presents itself—we need to take action strategically to take power, or at the very least, to affect its exercise in decisive ways, shaping its direction more effectively.
This is why in addition to relentlessly demanding transparency and pressuring political elites to provide oversight, we need to push for the breakup of large firms into smaller ones with new leaders, or nationalization of sectors. Movement members and leaders should have a stake in making such decisions, as many argue.
We need deeper changes to the political economy, that hue to values of transformative solidarity, with new arrangements and institutions. Such changes occurred during the Great Depression, albeit short of a fuller transformation advocated by the millions of poor and working people, socialists, and communists of the time, or along radical lines many seek today.
In the 1930s, a host of massive and unprecedented New Deal spending programs aimed at reviving the economy and providing relief to the most vulnerable were created, largely propelled by the unemployed and striking workers. From the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) and the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), to the Federal Housing Act (FHA) and Social Security Act, to the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) — the federal government enacted a host of new programs to meet a myriad of needs in remarkable and far-reaching ways that has had lasting impacts.
The USDA, for instance, created what were known as the Greenbelt communities. These settlements were experiments in collective living, where unemployed people were selected to live and work together. The housing and economic arrangements were set up as cooperatives.
The Greenbelt communities, for the most part, have been swallowed up into other growing metropolises. Yet, social security remains an integral part of our lives, as do the various programs that were part of the AAA – including food assistance and agricultural subsidies—and housing programs such as the FDIC.
So, what's the strategy now?
First, popular movements – including revived unions, as well as immigrant rights groups, racial justice organizations, a resurgent women's movement, and a radicalized environmental movement – need to recognize how the virus has essentially cracked the state and economy open, providing resources and access in ways that were unthinkable just a few months ago. Today, Instacart workers—the largely immigrant food delivery workers ineligible for relief funds—are planning a strike, as are Amazon workers, and adjunct lecturers — the super-exploited proletariat of higher education– plan sick-outs.
Bernie Sanders' campaign was fed by these movements, and in turn, has fed these movements. The energy and infrastructure created by Sander's campaign could still serve as a vehicle to help organize for political and policy changes. He's not giving up and neither should we.
If popular movements and progressives recognize this opening and take concrete strategic actions to organize in ways to shape the next relief package(s), then we can use this historical moment to make more profound, structural changes, including new institutions, new policies, in short, a new economy. Call it a "Better Deal" or the "Real Deal."
Naomi Klein is partially right to elevate Milton Friedman's idea – that during a crisis, the direction of response and change depends on the ideas laying around. But, in crafting responses and making change during such times, the task is not merely to raise awareness about issues; its about power.
People already know that inequality exists, healthcare is inadequate, the rent is too damn high, and climate change is a real, big problem. And even if they don't, or don't care, or deny that such issues are in fact social problems, fast-changing facts on the ground can snap them into awareness. Nearly everyone has been directly or indirectly affected by this crisis — or will be soon — in profound ways. The burning question is can we act collectively and decisively to win the world we want and need?
MLK had to rely on a coalition of students, religious people, and poor and working people to put pressure on elites. In our current situation, the virus has been a catalyst, bringing elites to the table. It has created a crisis on a scale that screams for massive and multiple remedies.
This gargantuan crisis is not going away anytime soon. Already, it has led to surprising and rapid gains that organizers have long sought. Walmart, Uber, and others quickly enacted sick leave policy; healthcare insurers are covering patients; the state of California has blocked landlords from evicting tenants thrown out of work. Who would have thought Trump and the GOP would send unemployed people $1,200 checks?
There's no better time than now for movements to demand resources, as well as power. This means organizing like our lives depend on it, to restructure our economy, create new institutions, and gain power over private enterprise. Imagine a version of the Meidner Plan down the road?
The moment is filled with peril and possibility; it's up to us to seize it.
Author: Ron Hayduk
Ron Hayduk is a professor at San Francisco State University.	View all posts by Ron Hayduk
Author Ron HaydukPosted on March 31, 2020 April 6, 2020
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The American upper class is a social group within the United States consisting of people who have the highest social rank, primarily due to the use of their wealth to achieve social status. These criteria differ from those of the traditional "upper class" in Britain and Europe which favor landed gentry and aristocracy (although such class distinctions have been deteriorating in recent times).
The American upper class is seen by some as simply being composed of the wealthiest individuals and families in the country. Some would add that people within this social class need to make themselves socioeconomically distinguishable from other classes by demonstrating their greater wealth, influence and power. The American upper class can also be broken down into two groups: people of substantial means with a history of family wealth going back centuries (called "old money"); and those who have acquired their wealth more recently (e.g. since 1900), often referred to as "Nouveau riche" (borrowed from the European aristocratic system, though often without its derogatory historical connotation). In a CNBC Millionaire Survey it can be observed that a majority of millionaires polled, representing the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans, described themselves as middle class (44%) or upper middle class (40%).
Many politicians, heirs to fortunes, top business executives, CEOs, successful venture capitalists, those born into high society, and some celebrities may be considered members of this class. Some prominent and high-rung professionals may also be included if they attain great influence and wealth. The main distinguishing feature of this class, which is estimated to constitute roughly 1% of the population, is the source of income. While the vast majority of people and households derive their income from wages or salaries, those in the upper class derive their income from investments and capital gains. Estimates for the size of this group commonly vary from 1% to 2%, while some surveys have indicated that as many as 6% of Americans identify as "upper class." Sociologist Leonard Beeghley sees wealth as the only significant distinguishing feature of this class and, therefore, refers to this group simply as "the rich."
Functional theorists in sociology and economics assert that the existence of social classes is necessary in order to distribute persons so that only the most qualified are able to acquire positions of power, and so that all persons fulfill their occupational duties to the greatest extent of their ability. Notably, this view does not address wealth, which plays an important role in allocating status and power (see Affluence in the United States for more).
In order to make sure that important and complex tasks are handled by qualified and motivated personnel, society offers incentives such as income and prestige. The more scarce qualified applicants are and the more essential the given task is, the larger the incentive will be. Income and prestige which are often used to tell a person's social class, are merely the incentives given to that person for meeting all qualifications to complete an important task that is of high standing in society due to its functional value.
It should be stressed... that a position does not bring power and prestige because it draws a high income. Rather, it draws a high income because it is functionally important and the available personnel is for one reason or another scarce. It is therefore superficial and erroneous to regard high income as the cause of a man's power and prestige, just as it is erroneous to think that a man's fever is the cause of his disease... The economic source of power and prestige is not income primarily, but the ownership of capital goods (including patents, good will, and professional reputation). Such ownership should be distinguished from the possession of consumers' goods, which is an index rather than a cause of social standing. – Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore, Principles of Stratification.
As mentioned above, income is one of the most prominent features of social class, but not necessarily one of its causes. In other words, income does not determine the status of an individual or household but rather reflects upon that status. Income and prestige are the incentives in order to fill all positions with the most qualified and motivated personnel possible.
If... money and wealth [alone] determine class ranking... a cocaine dealer, a lottery winner, a rock star, and a member of the Rockefeller family-are all on the same rung of the social ladder... [yet most] Americans would be unwilling to accord equal rank to a lottery winner or rock star and a member of one of America's most distinguished families... wealth is not the only factor that determines a person's rank. – William Thompson, Joseph Hickey; Society in Focus, 2005.
Members of the upper class in American society are typically knowledgeable and have been educated in "elite" settings. Wealthy parents go above and beyond to ensure their children will also be a member of the upper class when they grow up. Upper class parents enroll their children in prestigious preschools and elementary schools leading to private middle schools and high schools, and finally elite, private colleges. Often graduating from schools such as those in the Ivy League, upper class members have traditionally joined exclusive clubs or fraternities. Students at Yale University created the Skull and Bones social club. The Skull and Bones was a secret society that had members such as George H. W. Bush and John Kerry. These members obtained valuable social capital by joining the club.
One 2009 empirical analysis analyzed an estimated 15–27% of the individuals in the top 0.1% of adjusted gross income (AGI), including top executives, asset managers, law firm partners, professional athletes and celebrities, and highly compensated employees of investment banks. Among other results, the analysis found that individuals in the financial (Wall Street) sector constitute a greater percent of the top income earners in the United States than individuals from the non-financial sector, after adjusting for the relative sizes of the sectors.
A study by Larry Bartels found a positive correlation between Senate votes and opinions of high income people, conversely, low income people's opinions had a negative correlation with senate votes.
Households with net worths of $1 million or more may be identified as members of the upper-most socio-economic demographic, depending on the class model used. While most sociologists estimate that only 1% of households are members of the upper class, sociologist Leonard Beeghley asserts that all households with a net worth of $1 million or more are considered "rich." He divides "the rich" into two sub-groups: the rich and the super-rich. The rich constitute roughly 5% of U.S. households and their wealth is largely in the form of home equity. Other contemporary sociologists, such as Dennis Gilbert, argue that this group is not part of the upper class but rather part of the upper middle class, as its standard of living is largely derived from occupation-generated income and its affluence falls far short of that attained by the top percentile. The super-rich, according to Beeghley, are those able to live off their wealth without depending on occupation-derived income. This demographic constitutes roughly 0.9% of American households. Beeghley's definition of the super-rich is congruent with the definition of upper class employed by most other sociologists. The top 0.01% of the population, with an annual income of $9.5 million or more, received 5% of the income of the United States in 2007. These 15,000 families have been characterized as the "richest of the rich".
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^ a b c d e Thompson, William; Joseph Hickey (2005). Society in Focus. Boston, MA: Pearson. ISBN 0-205-41365-X.
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^ Confessore, Nicholas; Cohen, Sarah; Yourish, Karen (October 10, 2015). "The Families Funding the 2016 Presidential Election". The New York Times. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
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^ McCutcheon, Chuck (December 26, 2014). "Why the 'donor class' matters, especially in the GOP presidential scrum". "The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
^ a b Levine, Rhonda (1998). Social Class and Stratification. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-8476-8543-8.
^ a b c Doob, B. Christopher (2013). Social Inequality and Social Stratification in US Society (1st ed.). Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education. ISBN 0-205-79241-3.
^ B. Drummond Ayres Jr. (2011-12-19). "The Episcopalians: An American Elite with Roots Going Back to Jamestown". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-08-17.
^ Davidson, James D.; Pyle, Ralph E.; Reyes, David V. (1995). "Persistence and Change in the Protestant Establishment, 1930–1992". Social Forces. 74 (1): 157–75 [p. 164]. doi:10.1093/sf/74.1.157. JSTOR 2580627.
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^ Based on Larry Bartels's study Economic Inequality and Political Representation Archived 2011-09-15 at the Wayback Machine, Table 1: Differential Responsiveness of Senators to Constituency Opinion.
^ "The Richest of the Rich, Proud of a New Gilded Age", article by Louis Uchitelle, The New York Times, July 15, 2007.
^ a b Phoenix Marketing International Research Shows Steep Decline In Millionaires in U.S.
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Race for survival as South Sudan's children struggle in forgotten crisis
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One-year-old Godfrey was treated for acute malnutrition in the UNICEF supported Al-Shabbah Children's Hospital, in Juba, South Sudan.
JUBA, South Sudan, 11 March 2016 - Humanitarian funding for the world's youngest country has collapsed, UNICEF said today, putting the lives of tens of thousands of children at risk.
Despite an urgent request by UNICEF in South Sudan for US$155 million in 2016 to support lifesaving interventions such as malnutrition treatment, health care and clean water to support the over 5 million children affected by the crisis, just $27 million – 18 per cent of the appeal - has been received to date.
The gap – some $128 million – will mean 3.3 million children will not be vaccinated against measles, 260,000 children affected by conflict will not be supported to return to school, and efforts to reunify 7,300 separated children with their families will be halted. Essential nutrition supplies will run out in August.
"This forgotten emergency is threatening the lives of tens of thousands of children," said Jonathan Veitch, Representative, UNICEF South Sudan. "The reality is that without adequate support we will simply not be able to provide the services that are needed to prevent children dying from malnutrition, diarrhoea, malaria and vaccine-preventable diseases."
UNICEF's 2016 appeal includes funding for the treatment of 166,000 severely malnourished children, education for over half a million children and the release and reintegration of the 16,000 children believed to have been recruited and used by armed actors. Nearly 100 partner groups rely on funding and support from UNICEF and will be forced to scale back their services in the most vulnerable and hardest to reach communities. This includes most nutrition and child protection partners.
South Sudan's violent crisis is now in its third year and fighting has spread to previously peaceful areas in the west of the country, including Wau and Western Equatoria, where UNICEF did not plan to have to provide a lifesaving emergency response. Meanwhile, the peak of the lean season in May will bring with it the threat of famine to over 40,000 people in central Unity State that have been heavily affected by violence.
In addition to these urgent needs, there is also alarm over the growing number of poor, urban families that are struggling to eat even one meal a day as a result of skyrocketing food prices. In the capital city Juba, child malnutrition rates are three times higher than in surrounding rural areas.
"For the first time since this crisis began, children are being threatened not by a lack of access or capacity, but by a lack of funds," added Veitch. "Humanitarian aid is now the only thing standing between survival and total destitution for many families. Funding is needed now if the youngest members of the world's youngest nation are to have a future."
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When I'm talking about a "good design", I'm not only talking about a good graphical design. So, I have highlighted some web designs "features" you might think are cool or good but really should be avoided.
In conclusion, let me remind you that as a web owner your job is to make sure your website does what it's meant to do – effectively. Don't let some minor mistakes stop your site from functioning optimally!


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"Vo sadu li, v ogorode" (; English translation: In the grove or in the garden) is a Russian folk song. It is likely one of a number of songs formerly used to encourage crops in Spring. Various verses are written to parsley, corn, potatoes, and sunflowers, which are personified. It is, because of its simplicity, usually the first melody learned by balalaika students, but balalaika/mixed folk instrument ensembles embellish it considerably. Played as an instrumental, it usually accompanies a solo male dancer.

John Field composed a piece titled Fantaisie sur un air favorit...avec accompagnement de l'orchestr based upon this song. According to the Library of Congress Citations entry for this, it was published as a piano solo by Wenzel, Moscow, ca. 1823.

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  John Field (1782-1837) : Library of Congress Citations

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