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Laurie Abraham
Mr. Obama Goes to Washington
Ed. note: In the summer of 2006, ELLE's Editor-at-Large Laurie Abraham traveled with Barack Obama on a two week tour of Africa—almost a year before he announced his candidacy for president. In our December issue of that year, ELLE published Abraham's 6,000 words foreshadowing his historic run, including her exclusive interview with and keen insights about the man who was elected on November 4th to become our next president.
We're sitting in the closed compartment of a ferry, churning across Table Bay off Cape Town, South Africa, to the island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for nearly two decades. Our party includes a clutch of newspaper reporters, two documentary teams, and the man we've all flown 9,000 miles for: Barack Obama, the U.S. senator from Illinois— though the "from Illinois" part seems off, an unnecessary afterthought.
With the constant chatter about his presidential potential, Obama, a Democrat, already seems like the country's man, too big to be fenced in by the silly parochialisms of a single state. This visit is part of his effort to become the world 's man. Obama's domestic bona fides are pretty solid, but a contender for the presidency needs to be equally fluent in international affairs.
Obama doesn't come out and say all this. He's been in the Senate for only two years, and he says he's embarking on this two-week, four-nation tour of Africa in late August in service to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. His purpose is to highlight the problems of the continent: diseases such as AIDS and malaria, and genocide in Darfur, Sudan. He doesn't want to forget Africa's successes, he's quick to add: the robust free press in Kenya, the first free elections in 46 years in Congo, in July, and South Africa's ongoing peaceful transition away from apartheid. Finally, Obama wants to see what America can do to assist Africa, out of compassion and self-interest: "Ungoverned spaces" are a breeding ground for terrorists, Obama pointedly warns, citing the Bush administration's apparently belated recognition that Somalia is in the process of being taken over by Muslim extremists loyal to Al Qaeda.
When asked about his designs on the White House, as will happen repeatedly even here, Obama will deflect the question with something like, "I'm focusing on my job as a senator from Illinois." But then, he has a new book out, The Audacity of Hope, which addresses, in his words, the nation's "most pressing policy challenges…and how we might begin the process of changing our politics and our civic life." And he signed up for the keynote speech at an Iowa political confab in September that is mandatory attendance for would-be presidential candidates, in the run-up to which an Illinois state politician kicked off a "draft Obama in 2008" movement. The question among the nation's politicos seems to be not if Obama will run, but when: If Hillary falters, will he emerge to rescue the Democrats in 2008? Alternatively, could he be Ms. Clinton's running mate, or will the senator who calls "chronic restlessness" one of his vices nonetheless bide his time, build up a record in the Senate, and go for it in 2012?
As for the latter approach, a lengthy legislative record can be as dangerous as it is beneficial, and why mess with your image when the celebrity buzz is already crackling? Handsome and loose-limbed, with a winning smile that routinely reaches his eyes and large Opie ears that keep out the chill of physical perfection, Obama has appeared on Oprah, twice, cracked up Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, and scored a mention on the sitcom Will & Grace (he was "Baracking" Grace's world). He gets 300 speaking invitations a week, according to his office, and he has been feted by Warren Buffett, put on the cover of a men's fashion magazine, and compared to Bobby Kennedy countless times—including by none other than the Democratic deity's widow, Ethel.
Right now, though, he's listening intently to Ahmed Kathrada, a confidant of Mandela's in prison who will be Obama's personal guide on Robben Island. Peppering Kathrada with questions, Obama looks like he's concentrating hard, at one point putting his chin in hand, elbow on knee—The Thinker—and I wonder if he's working overtime to block out the reporters arrayed around him. We're trying to keep a respectful distance, but each of us is poised to jump, to slide into the seat next to him, if Kathrada would just unglue from his side.
How could Obama really ignore us, though? Ignore the furry gray boom mike hanging over his head? How irritating it must be. My Barack hates all this hoopla, I think. My Barack just wants to have a heart-to-heart with this noble freedom fighter, this hero. My Barack is different from all the rest of the politicians.
Obama first entered many Americans' consciousness when the self-described "skinny kid with a funny name" made his instantly legendary debut at the 2004 Democratic Convention: "There is not a Black America and White America and Latino America and Asian America…there's the United States of America…We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States, and, yes, we've got some gay friends in the Red States." Ring a bell?
Who is Your Dream President?
My Barack, however, first turned up in the 400-plus pages of his first book, the 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father, which sold more than a half-million paperbacks after the speech. Scribbled in the margins of my copy are countless effusions of astonishment and joy. The United States of America might have a president whose African father propelled himself from herding goats in rural Kenya to Harvard's doctoral program in economics? We might have a president with a white mother so detached from our racial caste system—or determined to challenge it—that she married the aforementioned black African in 1960, at the age of 18, and then, when that relationship failed and Obama Senior decamped for Kenya, chose for her second husband an Indonesian who promptly moved her and her six-year-old son to Jakarta?
We might have a president who's sufficiently introspective to tie himself in knots over questions of race? Who was smart and smooth enough to become the first black head of the Harvard Law Review but was willing to admit that as an activist on Chicago's mean streets in the 1980s he was preoccupied not with his safety but with being black enough? Who dared write that while he believed black nationalism would never improve African-Americans' material lot, he wasn't sure whether the country's blacks could ever empower themselves without hating whites? (This despite the fact that his love and respect for his white mother—and for the white grandparents who helped raise him once he returned to the United States, to Hawaii, at age 10—thrum through his book.)
We might have a president with a past—one, that is, who'll cop to having a past? Whose book included mention of "trying to get laid" in college, of smoking pot, of doing, even, "a little blow?" In other words, the United States of America might have a president who hasn't airbrushed away his youthful indiscretions to present his own story as a triumphalist's fait accompli? We might have a president who traffics in complexity and ambiguity, a man who sometimes doubts himself? What messiness, what worldliness, what realness—what a relief.
My dream president, of course, is not everyone's. A predilection for the searching, self-conscious type who's a little angry (not to mention one who dabbled in drugs as a teenager) isn't universal. More to the point, neither is the predilection for a Democrat. For half of America, George W. Bush is the dream, or at least he was the dream for a considerable time. But though I didn't immediately realize it, starting that morning on the boat, the Barack of the memoir was in part the man I was pursuing across Africa. Was that Barack, my Barack, still "in da house"—a phrase I'd hear Obama gleefully holler during a speech in Kenya, displaying his much-commented-upon habit of moving effortlessly between the King's English and black slang? Or had he left the premises?
Khayelitsha, South Africa
For what Obama's staff called his "AIDS day," the senator is traveling to a vast tract of corrugated-metal-and-wood-scrap shacks outside of Cape Town, home to an estimated 700,000 black South Africans. If Americans think anything when they think of Africa these days, they think AIDS. What's less recognized is that the infection rates in South Africa, the richest, best-governed major nation on the continent—our swishy hotel and the attached mall at Table Bay evoke Baltimore's Inner Harbor—dwarf those of most of its much poorer, more chaotic neighbors.
What's bedeviling South Africa in particular are the "lunatic-fringe" views of its leaders, as the United Nation's special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa has recently charged. South African president Thabo Mbeki has persistently questioned whether HIV causes AIDS; the country's health minister set up a booth at the International AIDS conference in Toronto touting garlic, beetroot, and lemons as treatments for the disease; and presidential aspirant Jacob Zuma testified in a rape trial this spring that while he did have unprotected sex with an HIV-positive woman, he took a shower afterward to avoid contracting the virus.
In Khayelitsha, Obama steps into, or around, this fray. He's supposed to meet Zackie Achmat, the country's leading AIDS activist, but Achmat is late, and his young followers are sitting around a conference table, badgering Obama. As 24-year-old Belinda Madliwa puts it: "What is it your country can do to get the minister of health fired or to step down?" "Well, you know, it's not my country's job, or my job, to decide who can be an official for another government. That's not an appropriate role for me to take. I'm here to listen and learn," Obama says. He's right, but as he talks on, he sounds almost cringingly pedantic. On the other hand, it's impressive that Obama isn't huddling with his advisers until Achmat arrives.
At other times, Obama will more directly criticize the South African government, but here he's unwilling or unable to conjure the indignation the group is clearly agitating for. It reminds me of a passage in The Audacity of Hope: "When Democrats rush up to me at events and insist we live in the worst of political times, that a creeping fascism is closing its grip around our throats, I may mention the internment of Japanese Americans under FDR, the Alien and Sedition Laws under Adams…and suggest we all take a deep breath." In contrast to the community organizer and college antiapartheid activist in Dreams, the 45-year-old Obama portrays himself as allergic to heated overstatement.
Then, suddenly, Obama offers, "When I go to Kenya, I'm probably getting an AIDS test myself, in front of the cameras, just to encourage people to see there's nothing stigmatizing about getting an AIDS test." It's as if Obama's trying to prove his righteous heart, or maybe just short-circuit the harangue; the public HIV test has been in the works for a while, though not the plan to mention it today. "A lot of times I think leading by example can be very helpful, and that's something that I'd like to do."
An anonymous-looking industrial park is the incongruous headquarters for the world's other antiapartheid icon, former archbishop Desmond Tutu, who emerges from his office to collect Obama wearing sweatpants, a sweater, and a jaunty black leather newsboy cap. He's teasing and charmingly blunt. "I don't know if you saw the headlines from the Sunday paper, Blacks are the Biggest Racists," Tutu says, referring to a banner headline above a story about how South African blacks said in a survey that other blacks were more likely than whites to discriminate against them. "I hope I would be equally nice to a young white senator." Tutu cackles.
After the two men banter about golf ("I never played. I was just a caddy—a very bad caddy," is Tutu's line), the former archbishop cuts to the chase. "You're born to be a credible presidential candidate," he says, grinning.
"Now, don't get me into trouble," Obama replies, laying his hand companionably on the shorter, stouter man's back.
"He's shy," Tutu says. "Fortunately, since he has my complexion, we won't see him blushing."
It's disappointing how guarded and careful Obama seems so far on this trip. I should have expected the tight control; I've read the countless articles about his short tenure in the Senate, the consensus being that his star is still rising in part because he has played it safe, legislatively and rhetorically.
Obama has sometimes denied that characterization—"I don't think I've been constrained in what I say," he tells me—and at other times has cited the limits of power for a junior senator of the minority party. His agenda as delineated in his book is standard Democratic stuff: phased withdrawal of troops from Iraq (with no specific timetable); extension of health care to more of the uninsured; increased spending on education, including retraining for workers eliminated because of global competition—and to pay for such things a "fiscal discipline…[that] may mean scaling back tax breaks for the wealthiest." May?
More specifically, furthering his oft-stated goal of "energy independence," he has proposed that the government pay part of the health care costs of the Big Three automakers in exchange for their agreeing to increase gas mileage on vehicles. He's also cosponsoring ethics reform and—at the Senate Democratic leadership's request—he became the lead spokesman on the topic (which got him into an extraordinary spat with Republican presidential hopeful John McCain, extraordinary because, as The Chicago Sun-Times noted, it represented "the first time any senator—or any local, state, or federal official of note from either party—has publicly criticized Obama"). In September, teaming with Oklahoma Republican Tom Coburn, he passed his first bill, which sets up computer databases of government contracts and special-interest spending (otherwise known as "pork") that anyone can use to track government spending.
Obama bends over backward not to be too provocative or partisan in the endless capital press conferences and position papers that are the everyday work of a senator. As a result, he often sounds more scolding to Democrats than the other side. In The Audacity of Hope he waxes almost nostalgic about Ronald Reagan, how he "offered Americans a sense of common purpose that liberals no longer could muster," and just a few pages later, today's Democrats are quot;just, well, confused, he writes, "bereft of the energy and new ideas…the party of reaction."
He describes a breakfast meeting with our current president in which, when switching from chitchat to laying out his policies, George W. Bush's eyes "became fixed; his voice took on the agitated tone of someone neither accustomed to nor welcoming interruption; his easy affability was replaced by an almost messianic certainty." Next, however, Obama is saying how he finds "the President and those who surround him to be pretty much like everybody else….I still found it possible, in talking to these men and women, to understand their motives, and to recognize in them values I shared." Okay, Bush isn't the devil—even with those scary eyes—but somehow my reaction is, Who cares? The President may be a great guy to have a beer with, as the tired trope goes, but as for his values, they're different enough from Obama's, I assume, that the similarities might as well be irrelevant.
"Now we're really in Africa," more than one of us remarks as we trail into the airport. It's a politically incorrect way of saying what's immediately apparent: Kenya isn't nearly as Western as South Africa was, not nearly as spiffed up or predictable. The airport in the capital, the country's largest city, consists of low-slung, shabby concrete buildings, and one of the camera crews, it seems, can't get through customs without paying a large bribe.
Loitering outside, waiting for the cameramen to cut a deal, I notice people gathering along the road leading from the airport. We're going to be here when Obama arrives! He flies separately, mostly in military jets, and in the weeks before we left the U.S., we kept hearing about the enthusiastic reception in store for the hometown boy, whose father grew up outside of Kisumu in the rural province of Nyanza, several hours west of Nairobi by car.
Because policemen with nightsticks have cordoned off the small building where Obama is being welcomed by Kenyan officials, the several hundred onlookers have stacked up two or three lines deep along the road. They're strangely hushed, almost as if they've sucked in their breath in anticipation, and before they have a chance to let it out, Obama is gone, hustled into a white U.S. embassy van, tires literally screeching as a convoy of one, two, three, four—count 'em—UN, police, and Kenyan security vehicles race out of the airport.
Now, this seems presidential, I think.
From Nairobi to Kisumu and Back
"Why would you show up for a daylong trip with no petrol?" U.S. embassy press attaché Jennifer Barnes is screaming at the driver of the rickety bus that is supposed to transport the press contingent—which has nearly doubled in size in Kenya—through Nyanza. Because of confusing embassy rules governing Obama's visit, Barnes isn't supposed to be babysitting the media, but she has seemed estranged not just from us, but from her assigned country. Yesterday in Nairobi, all she could talk about was the city's (admittedly bad) crime, and as for the man of the hour, "Our biggest concern is he'll be trampled," she volunteered. "Of course we're concerned about being shot at"—you are?—"but in Kisumu, trampling is more of a concern." Man.
All that matters is staying with Obama. On fumes, we speed off a few vehicles behind his, and, after a quick pit stop—"Fill this f–king thing up!" an Obama staffer screams. "Don't lose him!"—we hurtle toward Obama's first destination of the day.
At first we don't see it. Turning into the hospital where Obama and his wife, Michelle, who joined him two nights ago, have arrived for his-and-her HIV tests, we jump down from the bus. We start walking forward, then a little faster, and then a few of us are jogging, because laid out before us on the dry grass are thousands and thousands of men (and a smattering of women). They're chanting, singing,and clapping, piled on top of each other in trees, their legs coiled around the branches like vines, so precariously perched that somebody's sure to get shoved off, a tree will surely snap. Pushing into a clearing in the middle of the crowd, where Obama waits in a white medical van, I ask a Kenyan radio guy about the rhythmic cries of "Obama." The language is that of Obama's Luo tribe, he says, and the song comes from their 2002 election, which ended the 25-year rule of autocrat Daniel arap Moi. Instead of "Everything is possible without Moi,"it's "Everything is possible with Obama."
Obama steps out of the van, and the crowd erupts anew, surging against the unarmed police, as if trampling isn't out of the question. "Hey, hey, no pushing,"Obama yells into a microphone. "Hey, no pushing, no pushing. Everybody relax over there." Surprisingly quickly, the men begin to comply, settling in for his short talk on AIDS.
Ordinary Kenyans' infatuation with Obama remains on awesome display throughout the Kisumu area, where, near his grandmother's homestead, a school is named for him—and, in the days to come, back in Nairobi. In Kibera, perhaps the largest slum in the whole of Africa—a place without running water or regular electricity, where the stink of raw sewage fills the air—Obama will again attract thousands, who alternate between singing praises to him and to a new political party that is only days old.
What's remarkable to an American eye is how politically aware the poorest Kenyans seem to be. Nairobi has four newspapers, and people who can't afford the cover price pay five shillings to page through them at roadside stands. Equally remarkable is the unabashed urgency of their need. "Who will feed me, Obama, who will feed me?…Who will clothe me, Obama, who will clothe me?" sing AIDS orphans who live with their grandmothers as part of a CARE project to which Obama donated $14,000 of the $1.9 million, three-book advance he received in 2004. Over and over again, the children sing these sweet, beseeching lyrics: "Sen-a-tor, we love you, who will care for me?"
The Kenyans' ardor does not cool even when Obama sternly rebukes their country's leaders for the rampant corruption and "tribalism"(ethnic patronage times 100) that persist despite the election of a "reform" government in 2002. America has its own problems with corruption, he tells an audience of students at the University of Nairobi, "but here in Kenya, it is a crisis."
Richard Leakey, the white paleontologist whose parents found in East Africa some of the earliest relics of human life, was born and raised in Kenya and has been in and out of the government as a corruption fighter. He lost his legs in 1993 when his plane went down in a suspected assassination attempt. "Usually, when an American comes and mentions [Kenyan corruption]," says Leakey, a tall, rotund 62-year-old with a swath of gray hair and a twinkle in his eye, "we cough gently and ask them if they know we're a sovereign country. With Obama, we're like, 'Hit me again.'" He laughs heartily. "We take off our shirts: 'Strike me.'" "
It's very unusual for anybody to get such adulation, almost hysteria, from the crowds, except the pope, maybe," he continues. "This country is so desperate for a role model, given all our leaders are rotten to the core, that when we have a man who's one of us in such an eminent position, we grab at it. It's a reflection of our own disillusionment."
In addition to his wife and daughters, Obama is traveling with his half-sister, Auma, and her little girl. A gracious, insightful woman who lives outside London and works for a child-welfare agency, Auma grew up in Kenya with her and Barack's father, who had four wives and nine children, and who, after returning to Kenya, suffered a number of bitter disappointments, including being ousted from his position as a government economist for not toeing then-president Jomo Kenyatta's line. A heavy drinker, Barack Obama Sr. died in a car accident in 1982, having visited his son only once, in Hawaii, when the boy was 10.
As told in Dreams From My Father, Auma was Barack's friend and guide during his homecoming visit to Kenya in 1988, and her take on the attention her brother is commanding 18 years later here is much more personal than Leakey's. "There were thousands of people shouting, demanding, and asking for him," she says, "and this is just him as a junior senator, so you know, it's just—you worry." She hesitates. "Not to be offensive, but there are crazy people in America as well, with crazy ideas. And at the end of the day, what matters is that he's a black man. The history of America is quite violent." I startle when Auma invokes the specter of Martin Luther King Jr.; I shouldn't, but the role of race in American politics is complicated, contradictory, suitably peculiar for a nation shaped by its struggle with the peculiar institution. Overarching everything is the idea that Obama "seems white," as we Americans crudely describe a black man who speaks standard English and wears suits. (Michelle Obama recalls first meeting her future husband, when he joined her law firm as a summer associate: "I had lowered expectations because people were so enthralled by this guy. And I was, 'Yeah, sure, he's probably just a black man who can talk straight. You know how people say, 'Oh, he's so articulate.'")
One of the more disturbing theories about Obama's appeal to whites is that we trust him more because he's African (sort of); social scientists have found that white Americans believe blacks of immigrant stock are harder working, better educated, and less likely to be dangerous than locals descended from slaves. As Noam Scheiber wrote in The New Republic, "The distinction between 'good' and 'bad' blacks has a rich pedigree in the United States."The big problem with that hypothesis is that most Illinois voters probably didn't know about Obama's African father. He did garner an eye-popping percentage of the white vote in 2004, in a primary in which his main opponents were a white millionaire and the white scion of a Chicago machine family (the general election doesn't really figure in because he ran against another black, the floridly weird Republican Alan Keyes), but until his almost mythic convention speech, his ancestry had not been highlighted in his campaign. And it may have yet to be absorbed by many Americans. En route to Africa, I talk to a well-informed South African photographer who's been living in the United States for 24 years and adores Obama but is surprised to hear about the Kenyan connection. "I thought he'd just changed his name as an adult, like Muhammad Ali," he says.
Obama definitely doesn't present himself as a race man. (For the record, he says that these days he believes blacks can empower themselves without hating whites. "We've seen progress on that front," he says.) As a senator, he has insistently filtered his progressive goals through a prism of class, not race. After Hurricane Katrina, he stood out for refusing to pin the Bush administration's bungled response on racial prejudice, preferring to cite the White House's long-standing disregard for the poor. "I think there was a set of assumptions made by federal officials that people would hop in their SUVs and top off with a $100 tank of gas and [get some] Poland Spring water,"he told The Chicago Sun-Times.
While Auma is no doubt someone who's acutely mindful of the color of her brother's skin, she says it's not in his makeup to take anything other than a "colorless" approach to politics. "I'm sure Barack doesn't go around saying, 'I'm a black guy, I'm going to talk about this to make my black brothers and sisters feel good.'"
Obama has had one run-in with the Congressional Black Caucus—who wanted him to pledge to filibuster a conservative judge—but it got very little public attention. And from a cold political perspective, the "not black enough" label probably wouldn't be so bad for his career, anyway—as a senator and presidential hopeful, Obama must attract heaps of white votes. (In a twist on how Obama's heritage might appeal to whites, black Newsweek correspondent and author Ellis Cose tells me that the senator's personal story helps mute any "not black enough" sentiment because blacks identify with the romance of going to Africa to find their roots.)
Still, Obama is sensitive to the widely batted-around notion that he's an avatar of a brave new "postracial" world. Yes, he writes in Audacity of Hope, he's "witnessed a profound shift in race relations in [his] lifetime….But as much as I insist that things have gotten better, I am mindful of this truth as well: Better isn't good enough."
There are two scenes in the book that get at the special chord Obama touches with whites. In one, Obama is listening to a black colleague in the state legislature, "John Doe," give "a passionate peroration on why the elimination of a certain program was a case of blatant racism." Seated next to Obama is a white lawmaker, a Democrat, who turns to him and says: "You know what the problem is with John? Whenever I hear him, he makes me feel more white"—the plain subtext being that Obama doesn't have that unsettling effect.
Then there is Obama's encounter with West Virginia senator Robert Byrd, who blocked civil rights legislation early in his career but is now among the more progressive and admired old bulls in the Senate. Soon after Obama's arrival in the Senate, he called on Byrd in his office. The two talked about Senate rules, the Constitution, and the history of the Senate that Byrd wrote. It's "remarkable" the senator had time to write, Obama commented, followed by this exchange:
"Oh, I have been very fortunate," [Byrd] said, nodding to himself. "Much to be thankful for. There's not much I wouldn't do over." Suddenly he paused and looked squarely into my eyes. "I only have one regret, you know. The foolishness of youth…"
We sat there for a moment, considering the gap of years and experience between us.
"We all have regrets, Senator," I said finally. "We just ask in the end, God's grace shines upon us."
He studied my face for a moment, then nodded with the slightest of smiles.
This passage, I swear, brought a tear to my eye. Absolution from our sins, our own and our forefathers' sins against blacks, that's what many whites yearn for, those who aren't outright bigots, anyway. And Obama—raised by a bookish, sensitive white woman who always had to be on alert, on the lookout for the wrongs people might commit against her son, who liked to tell him, "Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet"—instinctively knows how to give it.
Masai Mara National Reserve
"Everything is possible with Obama…. Everything is possible with Obama"—the lyrics keep replaying in my head as the trip winds down. Pretty naive of these Kenyans, I think, pretty unrealistic.
It's Obama's wife, Michelle, who gets me pondering more deeply my own—and other Americans'—high expectations of her husband. Michelle is only a few inches shorter than Barack's 6'2″ and attractive without seeming to have to work at it; a vice president for community affairs at the University of Chicago Hospitals, she has become almost a caricature in the media—the ballbusting wife who keeps her husband's ego in check, the working mom who demands that her man share the care of their two young daughters (the three days a week that he's in Chicago, that is, where Michelle and the girls live). The caricature isn't exactly wrong ("I'm not one of those wives who just says, 'Do what you need to do,'" she tells me. "I'm like, 'You've got to be present in our children's and family's lives'"), it just misses her sophistication, warmth, and palpable respect for her husband.
Michelle says she's "suspicious" of the adoration Barack receives, which has gone so far that one political consultant labeled him the Democrats' "black Jesus." "I would just caution people to believe in Barack Obama not because it makes them feel good," she says, sitting in an open-air restaurant at the ecotourism lodge where we're staying, "but because he's someone who's worth believing in, which means you have to believe in him when he makes mistakes, or when he falls."
But Barack does make people feel good—there's nothing she can do about it. My "wow" moments in Africa came when I heard him extemporize on, say, the ins and outs of tariff protections in the United States versus the European Union versus Africa. Incredible, I'd think, standing under a tree at a small press conference (Obama as village elder), his knowledge of this arcane matter is so layered and lucidly expressed. It's not that I'm all wonk—or that he is—it's just that this trip was a better forum to showcase his omnivorous mind than the talent that most distinguishes him from other politicians on the U.S. stage: his ability to move large audiences, to appeal to peoples' better selves and give them that thrilling take-charge feeling: We can change the system. "
He's an amazing speaker; he connects with an audience like no one else in the Democratic party," says the left's current guru, cognitive scientist George Lakoff. "He understands that empathy is what's behind progressive ideas, and that it is universal—it's what this country's been about in its best form.quot; Go to YouTube, and you can witness Obama's power—hear the crowd at a Louisville, Kentucky, stadium, for instance, whooping at his stump-speech mantra "I've had enough," as in, "I have had enough of tax cuts for the rich and service cuts for the poor, and the middle-class squeeze for working families—I've had enough!" Stalking the stage, microphone in hand, Obama feeds off the crowd's emotion, reveling in what he's told me is the "animal pleasure" of the experience, gesticulating in the air like a riled-up orchestra conductor. "There are times when you know you've just got 'em," he says. "It's like call-and-response in the black church."
Part and parcel to the "feel-good" effect is that people of all colors and creeds find themselves strongly identifying with Obama—a phenomenon he's well aware of. "I do have a lot of different pieces, different people and cultures in me,"he says. "My mother told me toward the end of her life, 'I didn't leave you a lot of wealth, and I didn't leave you a fancy title, but I left you a really interesting life,' and she's right."
That rapport is obviously a huge advantage for a presidential candidate, but his wife isn't the first one to hint at the possible danger of the promiscuous identification Obama engenders. As the former treasurer of his political action committee, Valerie Jarrett, told The American Prospect, "Because he can click with so many different kinds of people, the expectation is that because I clicked with him, he's going to agree with me."
Embarrassingly, what was nagging at me was that Obama wasn't literally more like me. I identified with the brash, discontented guy in Dreams from My Father so much that I forgot that person was much younger, less formed. "I certainly had more of an edge when I wrote that book," he tells me. "You know, you get older, and you're more forgiving of yourself and other people."
More crucially, I forgot that Obama has what it takes to be angling for the highest office in the land. In his new book, he writes about the impact of the media scrum on senators. When "a single ill-considered remark can generate more bad publicity than years of ill-considered policies, jokes got screened, irony became suspect, spontaneity was frowned upon, and passion was considered downright dangerous. I started to wonder how long it took for a politician to internalize all this, how long before the committee of scribes and editors and censors took residence in your head."
Obama suggests he's not yet so stunted, but in small scale, when he's not working a crowd, he can seem so sublimely cool and confident that his manner veers toward haughtiness. Unlike the other great Democratic politician of the past 20 years, Bill Clinton, Obama's intelligence isn't softened by a desire to please, to be liked by everyone he meets. (Granted, Clinton's beguiling neediness is likely wedded to his tragic flaw, the sexual grasping. It's not a quality Obama shares, says Michelle, and watching her husband in action for a couple of weeks, I completely buy it. "I dated men who were unfaithful types,"she says. "The hole in themselves they have to fill is filled by [sexual conquest]. Barack has holes, but that's not what feeds whatever's missing—that's just not his issue.")
The other risk for someone who people believe is "just like me" is that when he inevitably isn't, he'll be judged inauthentic. As for my category error, it's foolish to confuse spontaneity and naturalness with sincerity. Relatedly, there is grumbling from the left wing of the party, as represented by the boisterous blogging set, that the conservative positions Obama has taken—on withdrawing from Iraq, say, or his vote against capping credit card interest rates—bespeak inauthenticity, or just an unacceptable move to the center to improve his chances at the presidency.
But what is an authentic politician, anyway? How is it that John McCain—who, despite his overall conservatism, has taken up a number of so-called Democratic causes and then tacked toward the religious right in the run-up to 2008—is considered the genuine article, while Hillary is deemed a manipulative, ambitious fake for supporting the war in Iraq and for talking about the need to minimize abortions while still strongly supporting women's right to choose? I don't know.
Maybe it's in our nature—American, Kenyan, human—to irrationally sanctify politicians, then punish them for failing us. "As soon as a head goes too high here," Leakey said, "it gets lopped off." Is it possible to bring a little of the wisdom of parenting to American civic life, to be satisfied with the "good enough" politician? At the risk of agreeing with Obama's wife, I'd say it's in our country's best interest to let him keep the very large and sensible head he has on his shoulders.


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Gauchos Sees Top Competition in Las Vegas
November 21, 2013 at 5:00 am by Martin Cobos
The UCSB Swim and Dive Team will face its toughest challenge yet heading to Nevada for the Las Vegas Invitational today. This three-day invitational will be held on the campus of UNLV and will feature some of the top collegiate swim teams in the nation.
The Gaucho men enter with a record of 2-1 after a victory over UC San Diego in their last meet. Opponents for the UCSB men's team will include No. 5 Stanford (2-0), Arizona State (1-3), BYU (1-1), Northern Arizona University (3-1), Wyoming (4-1) and No. 25 UNLV (2-2).
The UCSB women's swim and dive team stands at 5-1 on the season following victory over UC San Diego in its previous meet. Opponents for the women's swim team are No. 1 California (4-0), No.17 UCLA (5-1), Arizona State (2-2), BYU (1-1), Colorado State (2-2), Northern Arizona University (3-1), Oregon State (0-3), Wyoming (3-1) and UNLV (0-4).
"This will be a very big test for us," Head Coach Gregg Wilson said. "It will be a wonderful opportunity to see how our team stacks up against some of the best in the country."
With so many schools competing, there will be no shortage of talent on display. One of the most notable swimmers will be California's four-time Olympic gold medalist, freshman Missy Franklin. UCSB senior captain Sophia Yamauchi will be given the task of holding her off in the 200-yard individual medley.
"I am excited to race against her," Yamauchi said. "I always look forward to competing against one of the top swimmers."
Also featured for the UCSB women is senior Allie Knight, who will lead the team in the backstroke events. The backstroke, coupled with the 100-yard and 200-yard freestyle swims, will be some of the most exciting of the invitational due to the great depth of competition in these events.
Swims to look for on the men's side will be the breaststroke events, highlighted by UCSB sophomore Andy Castilleja, and the sprint freestyle events. In addition, Senior Randy Aakhus and sophomore Mickey Mowry will serve as centerpieces for the Gauchos in the individual medley events, which are sure to produce some of toughest races of the invitational.
Important absences for the Gauchos include senior Andrea Ward and junior Katie Records for the women, and junior Wade Allen and senior Ryan Hanni for the men. These swimmers will be resting and preparing for the Texas Invitational on Dec. 5.
"It will be a challenge leaving two of our best men's sprinters, and top two women swimmers here," Wilson said. "[However] this gives everybody an opportunity to step up and that is very exciting."
The Las Vegas Invitational will begin today and end Saturday.
This article is an online exclusive and did not appear in the print edition of the Daily Nexus.
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by That Shelf Staff | July 2, 2013, 4:55 pm
We here at Dork Shelf sincerely hope that despite the summer you are prepared to go back to school in the fall. With that in mind and to get you back into the swing of things, Dork Shelf and eOne Films have teamed up to send ten lucky winners in TORONTO, OTTAWA, HALIFAX, CALGARY, EDMONTON and WINNIPEG pairs of passes to the raucous new comedy THE TO DO LIST.
Toronto screening is on Thursday, July 18th.
Ottawa, Halifax, and Winnipeg screenings are on Monday, July 22nd.
UPDATE: JUST ADDED, screenings in CALGARY and EDMONTON on JULY 22nd, as well!
Please note: The red-band trailer below is most DEFINITELY NSFW.
Loosely inspired by the real-life adventures of first-time writer/director Maggie Carey, The To Do List is a heartfelt comedy about close friends and a special summer project. Set in 1993, valedictorian Brandy Klark (Aubrey Plaza) wants to shed her uptight image before college, so she assembles a to do list of all the "activities" she missed out on in high school. Quickly realizing that she's way out of her depth, Brandy solicits her best friends (Alia Shawkat, Sarah Steele, Donald Glover, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Johnny Simmons), older sister (Rachel Bilson) and burnt-out boss (Bill Hader) for their help and advice. If the group is going to complete the list by September they'll need plenty of imagination and very open minds.
The To Do List hits theatres everywhere on Friday, July 26th, but here's how you can catch it first! Simply email [email protected] with THE TO DO LIST and YOUR CITY in the subject line. Please only one entry per household. Multiple entries will be deleted. For additional chances to win, simply like the contest announcement on our Facebook page and/or re-Tweet the announcement from our Twitter! Deadline for entries in Toronto is 11:59pm on Monday, July 15th. Deadline for entries in Ottawa, Halifax, and Winnipeg is 11:59pm on Thursday, July 18th.
Good luck and remember to keep Dork Shelf at the top of your to-read list all summer long for the latest news, reviews, interviews, features, and more killer contests!
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What Is a Video Producer? Plus Salary and Career Outlook
Television and online publishers are often looking for people who have the creativity and skills to produce quality videos. For those who love movies and enjoy the artistic process of making movies, becoming a video producer might be an attractive career option. Before applying for work as a video producer, it may be helpful to know what the job entails. In this article, we review what video producers are, what they do, the kind of skills that are useful to video producers and the average salary and job outlook a prospective video producer might expect.
Related: Media Producer: Definition and Skills
What is a video producer?
Video producers are audiovisual professionals who manage the process of making videos from pre-production to post-production. They might work on a variety of video projects including instructional videos, commercials, documentaries and entertainment videos. The video producer normally works behind the scenes determining budgets, hiring talent, writing scripts, finding locations and performing other managerial or administrative tasks. If the production team is very small, the video producer may have a more practical role in the creation process.
Related: Director vs. Producer: What's the Difference?
What does a video producer do?
The video producer is usually the person who coordinates and manages all aspects of a video or movie project. Because of this, their job responsibilities can be both numerous and varied. They may include:
Hiring talent: A video producer is responsible for hiring all the people needed for every aspect of each video project and setting each person's salary. The number of people needed may vary according to the size of the project, but they could include camera operators, sound and lighting technicians, editors, software specialists, actors and writers.
Scripting or storyboarding: The video producer usually has the initial vision for the video project. Part of their job may be to provide a first draft of a script or a rough storyboard that presents their video idea to the team who can then help refine that idea and create the video.
Budgeting: Even if the video producer is making the video alone, there may be costs involved such as travel and accommodation, equipment, props, scenery, actors, meals, costumes and make-up. It's the video producer's responsibility to allocate the necessary funds for each element of the project and try to keep the overall expenditure within the limits of that budget.
Talking to clients: Some video producers work with clients to make films or videos for specific client needs such as product or service advertising, instructional presentations or special events, like weddings or concerts. The video producer is responsible for meeting with the client and other stakeholders to understand the project requirements and scope, negotiate the budget and establish a delivery date.
Meeting deadlines: Whether the video is a client project or the producer's own creative endeavor, each video project should have a deadline to help you stay within budget and fit within a release schedule. One of the duties of the video producer is to establish that project deadline and meet it as closely as possible.
Making creative decisions: During the video creation process, the video producer is responsible for making many creative decisions. These could include selecting the best format for the final video, making edits to both the audio and video, choosing appropriate music and sound effects and approving graphical elements such as titles or animation.
Planning shoots: There's usually a lot of planning behind a video, including deciding where to shoot the video and managing the logistics of location shooting. It's the job of the video producer to find the best location for the video, obtain any necessary permissions to film in that place, make reservations, pay any required fees and determine how to make the best use of the site in the video.
Problem-solving: Situations often arise on a video project that may require problem-solving skills, such as an unexpected change in weather in an outdoor location, equipment failures, problems with a script or a lack of funds. It's normally up to the video producer to find solutions to such issues quickly to keep the project within budget and on schedule.
Where does a video producer work?
Video producers might plan projects, write scripts and perform other administrative tasks in an office. Once filming begins, the video producer normally follows the production to wherever the filming takes place, whether in a studio, at an outdoor location or even in another country. Post-production work might take place in an editing studio, a music studio or in the video producer's office, depending on the size and scope of the project.
Related: Everything You Need To Know About Becoming a Movie Producer
Skills for a video producer
There are many skills that can be useful to a video producer. If you plan to have a career in this field, these are some of the skills you might want to cultivate:
Creativity: Producing videos is an art that involves requires creativity in a number of ways such as your vision for the video's story, the script you write or the design decisions you might make.
Communication: Good communication skills can help you as you interact and negotiate with clients, discuss the project with potential investors, manage actors, technicians and other talent and promote the project to the press and general public.
Leadership: Your leadership skills as the video producer are important for making the final decisions on all aspects of the project and providing supervision and guidance to those working for you.
Time management: Video producers usually have many responsibilities to manage including the project budget, crew and client communications and project deadlines. Your ability to manage time well can help you make sure the project stays on track while you attend to the needs of all those involved.
Patience: Working to a deadline, and the unpredictability that is often a part of creative work, can sometimes result in stress and anxiety for the video producer. Your ability to stay calm and be patient while under pressure can help you stay focused and be better able to problem-solve.
Flexibility: The video producer normally has a plan for the video project, but may also need to change that plan as situations arise outside your control. Being flexible is a useful skill at times like these since you can change directions or make quick decisions as necessary to complete the project on time.
The career outlook for a video producer
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects a very healthy career outlook for producers and directors. According to their data, they project job growth through 2030 to be 24%, which is a much faster rate of growth than other occupations. Part of the demand could come from vacancies due to workers changing careers or retiring out of the industry. They also expect the current demand for video content for television and for online platforms to continue increasing.
Related: 15 Careers in Video Production To Consider
The average salary for a video producer
According to BLS, the average salary for producers and directors is $76,400 per year. Location can be a significant influence on your salary as a video producer. For example, many films are produced in California and New York, so producers who live in these states tend to earn more than those who live elsewhere. Also, your experience level, the quality of your previous work and your reputation can all factor into the salary you may receive.
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My experience at a Christian Liberal Arts institution was a transforming experience for my faith, life, and future. Many of those transforming moments occurred as a result of staff and faculty investment in and outside of the classroom. Realizing the role they had on my life served as an impetus to teach traditional undergraduate students. As a result, not only do I have the opportunity to teach, to engage, and to learn alongside these students, I also have the opportunity to mentor multiple students through intentional relationships for the cause of Christ.
Recently, I completed my Ph.D. and examined the humanity of Jesus in Matthew and am in prayerful and practical consideration of how to be a good steward of this degree. When not serving students, or teaching, I enjoy spending time with my wife, Cathy, and kids, Hannah, Tyler, and Mackenzie. If there's any time remaining, I like to run and play golf.
The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing by Jonathan T. Pennington. Journal of Evangelical Theological Studies. July 2018.
The Imitation of Christ by Thomas Á Kempis. CCU Review of Books, Culture, Media and Life in the 21st Century.Summer 2018.
Justification: Five Views by James K. Beilby & Paul Rhodes Eddy, eds. The Pneuma Review. Spring 2014.


I'm sure you're sick of hearing about it but today is officially our one year houseiversary!
This time last year my boyfriend, his brother and I were in the process of figuring out how to Tetris all of the belongings from our condo + everything in our full storage unit into a 17' U-Haul which is surprisingly smaller than it sounds. We got 90% of it to our new house in one trip and only had to make a few more trips by car to get the remaining fragile things like our TV, large artwork, and our dogs.
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Barr's battlers so close to grabbing win
Reading came within a whisker of recording only their second Home Counties League Division 2 West win of the season on Saturday.
Wokingham's Sunny Grover goes on the attack during his innings of 152 against Finchampstead at Wellington Road on Saturday
Having been bowled out for 262 – with eight of the wickets falling to spinner Khalid Zagar Malik – the Reading bowlers then had Falkland on the rack, but the home side managed to hold out for a draw at 201-9.
Skipper Dave Barr felt his side should have won, as Falkland's Tom Heath was dropped before making 59, and they thought they had caught last man Mohammad Khan off the penultimate ball of the day, but the umpire kept his finger down.
Falkland must have been relieved to escape with a draw after deciding to bowl first on an unpredictable wicket.
Neil Saker and Danny Housego gave Reading a good start with an opening partnership of 73 before Saker was caught of 26. Tom Fray (22) and Housego lifted the total to 117 and three runs later Housego was trapped lbw by home skipper George Trewby when two short of his half-century.
His 48 was the highest scorer of the innings, with six of the other batsmen all being dismissed when in the 20s or 30s.
They were pinned down by the spin of Trewby and Zagar, who made full use of the infrequent but startling vagaries of the pitch.
Reading were all out for 262 in the 59th over with Malik finishing with impressive figures of 8-93 off 23 overs.
Barr's men than had Falkland reeling, with Saker dismissing opener Will Chaloner and his replacement, Jon Chandler, without a run on the board.
Falkland recovered to 104-3, but then lost three wickets in quick succession, all to Amardeep Sing Dosanijh. Among his victims was top scorer Heath for 59.
Neil Gunter (36) offered some stiff resistance, but when Saker had him caught behind by Sukhi Kang with the total on 181 it looked odds on a Reading win.
But the last pair Nigel Trumper and Khan managed to hold out and deny Reading the victory they deserved.
Saker finished with 6-69 off 18 overs and Dosanijh 3-43 off 13.
Reading, who visit unbeaten leaders Beaconsfield next Saturday, drop down to third from bottom in the table.
Wokingham moved above them by beating third-placed Finchampstead by six wickets at Wellington Road.
Their hero was Sunny Grover, who made an unbeaten 152 as his side reached 290-4 off just 43.4 overs.
Finchampstead had earlier made 289-9 off 59 overs, thanks largely to Arron Todd, who made 91 and Sam Taylor 61.
Henley extended their lead at the top of Division 1 to 39 points over Banbury with a six wicket win at High Wycombe.
Chad Keegan took 5-31 as Wycombe were bowled out for 246 and Henley reached their target off 56 overs, following excellent knocks from David Barnes (70) and Michael Roberts (68).


I know it's odd to be following up a post tiled Holiday Cheer with this but there's a good reason, I promise. The Influenza Virus has been playing musical chairs with my family members the past few days and has finally landed on me. The girls were surprisingly good sports and mustered through first, second and third Christmas, only one of which was in our own home. See? That's what happens when your extended family is spread all over the place. And yes, I know I could've asked them all to come to us, but then I would've had to clean. And do laundry. And dishes. Jon was a pretty good sport too and drove us here & there without much complaint. But then he pretty much didn't move from his spot on his brother's couch in Chicago for 2 whole days. Me? I thought I was safe (I may or may not have mocked the situation) but now I feel like my body's slowly dying from the inside out and I will soon wake up as a flesh-eating zombie. Ok, so maybe I've been watching a little too much TV.
Now I'll leave you with these cute pix of Sophie, Sydney and their cousin Asja at the St. Louis Zoo last week. Oh, what fun they all had!!
In case I don't pop back in here... HAPPY NEW YEAR, everyone!!!
The "other" Patty here (Mary's friend). Feel better. The flu is the worst! Hope to see you at the next fall market. I'm doing my best to make sure I can go. Love the new line, patterns, all that jazz. Happy New Year!
LOVE the scarves!! are they a sneak peek from your book?!?!?!?!?
I'm a little late in reading this, so I'm sure you are feeling better already, but just in case, GET WELL SOON! Oh, and Happy New Year to you too!!
Thanks for the well wishes. I *am* feeling much better already... it's all upper-respiratory at this point but I'll make it through.
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A study carried out by researchers at the Gemelli University Hospital (Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS) in Rome led to an important discovery. Heart arrhythmias in 75% of Brugada syndrome cases were caused by an abnormal state of inflammation in the heart muscle. This discovery aids the diagnosis of high-risk patients.
Brugada syndrome is a rare, inherited cardiovascular disorder. The syndrome affects approximately 5 in10,000 people and is more common in men than in women. Brugada syndrome is one of the main causes of sudden infant death syndrome, but usually manifests in adulthood. This syndrome can cause fatal heart arrhythmias that can lead to sudden death. Even though these extreme cases are less prevalent than before, cardiologists still face the challenge of identifying which asymptomatic patients with Brugada type 1 ECG are "high-risk" and should receive an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator. This new discovery has radically changed views about the disease, which has always been considered a disturbance affecting the electrical system of the heart, but not pertaining to alterations in cardiac structure or the cardiac muscle. The recent study demonstrated that the majority of Brugada syndrome patients present important alterations in the cardiac muscle that cause fatal arrhythmias. Furthermore, this study puts a whole new perspective on Brugada syndrome, demonstrating that the disease in not only caused by alterations in DNA, but also by a state of inflammation in the cardiac muscle.
The study, published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, was coordinated by Professor Antonio Oliva from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart- Institute of Public Health- Section of Legal Medicine, Gemelli University Hospital. The study finally shed some light on the biological mechanisms that determine the risk of fatal arrhythmias in patients with Brugada syndrome. During the study, researchers performed ECGs to diagnose Brugada Syndrome on patients, highlighting all areas showing functional cardiac abnormalities. Samples of cardiac muscle were then taken from the same patients and analyzed under a microscope. Interestingly, 75% of the samples taken revealed that the muscle was affected by an inflammatory condition and that the greater the state of inflammation, the more extensive were the functional cardiac abnormalities. According to Prof. Oliva, this discovery makes it possible to predict which patients with Brugada syndrome are at a higher risk for heart arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death, especially in young patients who seem perfectly healthy. The study will also probably lead to new therapeutic solutions. In the United States, the effectiveness of anti-inflammatory therapies that use cortisone in addition to traditional therapies to eliminate serious forms of arrhythmias have already been tested in patients with Brugada syndrome.
This discovery is another important element to add to the many innovative therapies that have been developed as a result of advancements made in medical scientific research.
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Eugene Ormandy, who conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra for 44 years, died today at his home, the orchestra association announced. He was 85.
The cause of death was listed as pneumonia, a complication of a longstanding heart condition. At Ormandy's side when he died was his wife, Margaret.
Ormandy had led a major world orchestra longer than any other conductor when he retired in 1980.
He was born in Budapest on Nov. 18, 1899, and made his debut as a concert violinist at age 7. Three years later, he was performing for the Royal Family of Austria-Hungary.
He came to the United States in 1921, seeking fame and fortune, but found himself without work. While playing in the last seat of the Capital Theater Orchestra in New York, he got a break when Major Edward Bowes, who later was known for his amateur hour, asked him to conduct.
His biggest break came in 1931, when he was asked to fill in for the ailing Arturo Toscanini as guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1936 he was asked to succeed Leopold Stokowski, who had resigned as conductor in Philadelphia following a dispute with the orchestra board.
Ormandy recalled that his father, a dentist, had dreamed of a violin career for his son.
"My father was a most disappointed man when I became a conductor," Ormandy told a reporter. "The fact that I had not become the world's greatest violinist broke his heart."
Ormandy said he hated his autocratic father every time the father struck him for practicing badly, "but only when I was older did I realize I owed him everything."
Under Ormandy, the Philadelphia Orchestra recorded hundreds of albums, three of which topped the $1-million sales mark. He also arranged concert tours all over the world and developed the great musical catalogue for which the orchestra is now famous.


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25 April 2015, 10:27 | Updated: 25 April 2015, 10:28
Detectives are investigating an incident in which a man received a serious stab wound in Haverhill.
Police were called at 12.30am this morning (Saturday, April 25) after the 35-year-old victim was found in Camps Road.
The victim was attacked in the High Street by a group of three males and a female.
He then walked from the High Street to Camps Road, where he collapsed and was assisted by members of the public.
The ambulance service attended and took the man to Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, where he has undergone surgery for a laceration to the abdomen. He is in a stable condition.
Police have cordoned off an area of the High Street and Camps Road as they continue with enquiries.
Anyone with information is asked to call Bury St Edmunds CID on 101.


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The Henteleff Park interpretive signage colour scheme was based on the Henteleff Park logo design.
Flip books were adhered to some signs giving further details about the park and it's interesting history.
A beautiful shelter building with a picnic area was constructed for visitors to enjoy while reading signage about the park's history.
Two samples of over-sized interpretive signage.
Samples pages from the outdoor 'flip books'.


When it comes to buying or selling a property, home inspections are of the highest significance to all parties involved. Homeowners and homebuyers often wonder why home inspections are important and how to find a good, trustworthy home inspection company, so we've prepared a basic guide to explain some key aspects of the process.
As you've probably noticed in recent years, home prices fluctuate dramatically in the modern housing sector. To put it simply, a home sold in today's market may not be worth the price at which it is listed at. A home inspection can be a homebuyer's best friend, as it can protect them from paying too much for a home with faulty construction or facilities that only a trained inspector can identify and document thoroughly. For a homeowner who wants to sell their property, they may want to make sure that the price is as fair and competitive as possible so that they don't sell their property below its true value.
So when it comes time to get a home inspection, you may wonder how you can find a good and trustworthy inspection company to get you the most accurate inspection report and value. First, start with experience. We strongly recommend choosing an inspector that has spent more than 15 years as a general contractor. We know firsthand that having this much experience means the inspector has pretty much seen it all, just as we have at Bay Area Home Inspections. Also, a good home inspector will take about two to three hours and can give you a thorough, in-person explanation of all findings and answer any questions you may have. A good inspector will compile a detailed report complete with high definition photos, whether each problem has a safety issue, major or minor defect, which items need replacement or repair, and which items are suitable in the near term but should be monitored carefully.
It's important to know the prices for repairs of the items mentioned on the inspection report. Since Bay Area Home Inspections is also a general contractor, we will provide you with approximate prices for repair of items noted on the inspection report – it's part of the service, all you have to do is ask.
Exterior Walls – The inspector should check for damaged or incomplete siding, cracks, excessively close soil to the bottom of the house that can be inviting for pests.
Foundation – The inspector will not be able to directly examine foundations that aren't visible, but can check for cracks or settling that may be secondary evidence of foundation problems.
Grading – Grading should slope away from the house, and the inspector should let you know if this is the case, or will otherwise warn you if you need to change the slope or drainage to prevent water from flowing towards the house.
Garage or carport – The garage door, framing, ventilation to prevent carbon monoxide risks, and any water heaters present should be inspected.
Roof – Roofs should be checked by the inspector for damage or poor installation, including loose or missing shingles, loose bitumen connections, problems with drainage, issues with flashing installation, termination waterproofing and cracked or damaged mastic near vents. Gutters condition and slope should also be checked.
Plumbing – This includes faucets, showers, leaks, sinks and water pressure. Also, the type of piping should be identified if they are visible, and the location of the home's main water shutoff valve should be located.
Electrical – The type of wiring in the home should be identified and all outlets should be tested and confirmed for functional ground fault circuit interrupters. The electrical panel should also be checked for safety issues.
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) – The HVAC system should be inspected and the age of appliances like the furnace and air conditioner should be estimated. The inspector can also provide insight into the home's ducting, whether it has leaks, and if your home has sufficient insulation and if there is asbestos insulation.
Water heater – The inspector should tell you how old the water heater is and determine if it is properly installed and secured. They should also let you know how many years it has left and what condition it's in.
Kitchen Appliances – These are not always part of inspections, but sometimes the inspector will test kitchen appliances to make sure they are functional.
Laundry room – The inspector will ensure the laundry room is properly ventilated for fire safety.
Fire safety – If the home has an attached garage, the wall should be checked for the proper fire rating and to identify any damage. Smoke detectors should also be tested and checked for proper location and installation.
Bathrooms – Leaks, properly secured toilets, adequate ventilation and other issues should all be checked by the home inspector.
Home inspections can make a huge difference in the valuation of a house, so be sure to only entrust them with experienced inspectors. Remember that Bay Area Home Inspections has more than 15 years of experience in the field, and is always ready to help answer your questions. Don't hesitate to call us if you need help with your home inspection needs.


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Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals
OMIA
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals (OMIA) is a catalogue/compendium of inherited disorders, other (single-locus) traits, and genes in 218 animal species (other than human and mouse and rats, which have their own resources) authored by Professor Frank Nicholas of the University of Sydney, Australia, with help from many people over the years. OMIA information is stored in a database that contains textual information and references, as well as links to relevant PubMed and Gene records at the NCBI, and to OMIM and Ensembl.
Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre
Microbiology, Virology and Immunology
Epidemiology, Medical Biometry, Medical Informatics
We are a leading international centre for genomics and bioinformatics research. Our mandate is to advance knowledge about cancer and other diseases, to improve human health through disease prevention, diagnosis and therapeutic approaches, and to realize the social and economic benefits of genomics research.
KRISHI - Knowledge based Resources Information Systems Hub for Innovations in Agriculture
KRISHI
KRISHI Portal is an initiative of Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) to bring its knowledge resources to all stakeholders at one place. The portal is being developed as a centralized data repository system of ICAR consisting of Technology, Data generated through Experiments/ Surveys/ Observational studies, Geo-spatial data, Publications, Learning Resources etc. For implementation of research data management electronically in ICAR Institutes and digitization of agricultural research, KRISHI (Knowledge based Resources Information Systems Hub for Innovations in Agriculture) Portal has been developed as ICAR Research Data Repository for knowledge management. Data Inventory Repository aims at creating Meta Data Inventory through information related to data availability at Institute level. The portal consists of six repositories viz. technology, publication, experimental data, observational data survey data and geo-portal. The portal can be accessed at http://krishi.icar.gov.in. During the period of 2016-17, input data on latitude and longitude of all KVKs under this Zone was submitted to the concerned authority to put them in geo-portal. One brainstorming session was organized at this institute for all scientists on its use and uploading information in portal. As per guidelines of the council, various kinds of publications pertaining to this institute were also uploaded in this portal.
MolTable
Molecule table
Chemical Solid State and Surface Research
MolTable: An Open Access (Molecule Table) Portal for "Advanced Chemoinformatics Research, Training and Services"
Animal QTLdb
Animal Quantitative Trait Loci
This Animal Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) database (Animal QTLdb) is designed to house all publicly available QTL and trait mapping data (i.e. trait and genome location association data; collectively called "QTL data" on this site) on livestock animal species for easily locating and making comparisons within and between species. New database tools are continuely added to align the QTL and association data to other types of genome information, such as annotated genes, RH / SNP markers, and human genome maps. Besides the QTL data from species listed below, the QTLdb is open to house QTL/association date from other animal species where feasible. Note that the JAS along with other journals, now require that new QTL/association data be entered into a QTL database as part of their publication requirements.
AmoebaDB
AmoebaDB belongs to the EuPathDB family of databases and is an integrated genomic and functional genomic database for Entamoeba and Acanthamoeba parasites. In its first iteration (released in early 2010), AmoebaDB contains the genomes of three Entamoeba species (see below). AmoebaDB integrates whole genome sequence and annotation and will rapidly expand to include experimental data and environmental isolate sequences provided by community researchers . The database includes supplemental bioinformatics analyses and a web interface for data-mining.
ToxoDB
Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology
ToxoDB is a genome database for the genus Toxoplasma, a set of single-celled eukaryotic pathogens that cause human and animal diseases, including toxoplasmosis.
Organelle Genome Megasequencing Program
OGMP
The Organelle Genome Megasequencing Program (OGMP) provides mitochondrial, chloroplast, and mitochondrial plasmid genome data. OGMP tools allow direct comparison of OGMP and NCBI validated records. Includes GOBASE, a taxonomically broad organelle genome database that organizes and integrates diverse data related to mitochondria and chloroplasts.
FlyReactome
a curated knowledgebase of drosophila melanogaster pathways
----<<<<< This repository is no longer available. This record is out dated >>>>>----- The aim of FlyReactome, based in the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, is to develop a curated repository for Drosophila melanogaster pathways and reactions. The information in this database is authored by biological researchers with expertise in their fields, maintained by the FlyReactome staff.
a curated pathway database
Reactome is a manually curated, peer-reviewed pathway database, annotated by expert biologists and cross-referenced to bioinformatics databases. Its aim is to share information in the visual representations of biological pathways in a computationally accessible format. Pathway annotations are authored by expert biologists, in collaboration with Reactome editorial staff and cross-referenced to many bioinformatics databases. These include NCBI Gene, Ensembl and UniProt databases, the UCSC and HapMap Genome Browsers, the KEGG Compound and ChEBI small molecule databases, PubMed, and Gene Ontology.
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) has a long-standing mission to collect, organise and make available databases for biomolecular science. It makes available a collection of databases along with tools to search, download and analyse their content. These databases include DNA and protein sequences and structures, genome annotation, gene expression information, molecular interactions and pathways. Connected to these are linking and descriptive data resources such as protein motifs, ontologies and many others. In many of these efforts, the EBI is a European node in global data-sharing agreements involving, for example, the USA and Japan.
Database of Genomic Variants Archive
DGVa
The Database of Genomic Variants archive provides curated archiving and distribution of publicly available genomic structural variants. Direct submissions are accepted as well as published data. The DGVa is the primary supplier of data to the Database of Genomic Variants (DGV) (hosted by The Centre for Applied Genomics in Toronto, Canada).
HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee
The HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) assigned unique gene symbols and names to over 35,000 human loci, of which around 19,000 are protein coding. This curated online repository of HGNC-approved gene nomenclature and associated resources includes links to genomic, proteomic and phenotypic information, as well as dedicated gene family pages.
Ensembl Metazoa
e!EnsemblMetazoa
Metabolism, Biochemistry and Genetics of Microorganisms
Ensembl Metazoa is a genome-centric portal for metazoan species of scientific interest.
UniSave
The UniProtKB Sequence/Annotation Version Archive (UniSave) has the mission of providing freely to the scientific community a repository containing every version of every Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL entry in the UniProt Knowledge Base (UniProtKB). This is achieved by archiving, every release, the entry versions within the current release. The primary usage of this service is to provide open access to all entry versions of all entries. In addition to viewing their content, one can also filter, download and compare versions.
NCBI Protein Clusters
The Entrez Protein Clusters database contains annotation information, publications, structures and analysis tools for related protein sequences encoded by complete genomes. The data available in the Protein Clusters Database is generated from prokaryotic genomic studies and is intended to assist researchers studying micro-organism evolution as well as other biological sciences. Available genomes include plants and viruses as well as organelles and microbial genomes.
JASPAR
JASPAR is the leading open-access database of matrix profiles describing the DNA-binding patterns of transcription factors and other proteins interacting with DNA in a sequence-specific manner.
the BIMSB database of posttranscriptional regulatory elements
doRiNA is a database of transcriptome-wide binding site data for RNA binding proteins and microRNAs
Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center
VBRC
Databases of viral genomic information (genes, gene families, and genomes), and software to perform comparative genomics analyses
SilkDB
Silkworm Genome Database
SilkDB is a database of the integrated genome resource for the silkworm, Bombyx mori. This database provides access to not only genomic data including functional annotation of genes, gene products and chromosomal mapping, but also extensive biological information such as microarray expression data, ESTs and corresponding references. SilkDB will be useful for the silkworm research community as well as comparative genomics
Deutsches BioBanken-Register
German Biobank Registry
Biobanks are a key prerequisite for modern medical research. By linking samples and clinical data they make it possible to clarify the causes and the course of diseases. The German Biobank Registry pools the medically relevant biobanks in Germany. The German Biobank Registry provides an overview of the medical biobanks in Germany; increases the international visibility of German biobanks; facilitates the networking of biobanks; promotes an exchange of information and samples between research teams; supports the use of existing resources; provides information for investments in biobanks and promotes transparency and trust in research where human samples are used. Searching for samples in all biobanks is possible at the project portal (P2B2) https://p2b2.fraunhofer.de/ after registration.
A comprehensive and functional compendium of Next Generation Sequencing experiments.
CODEX is a database of NGS mouse and human experiments. Although, the main focus of CODEX is Haematopoiesis and Embryonic systems, the database includes a large variety of cell types. In addition to the publically available data, CODEX also includes a private site hosting non-published data. CODEX provides access to processed and curated NGS experiments. To use CODEX: (i) select a specialized repository (HAEMCODE or ESCODE) or choose the whole compendium (CODEX), then (ii) filter by organism and (iii) choose how to explore the database.
European MassBank
MassBank
Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Limnology, Urban Water Management, Water Chemistry, Integrated Water Resources Management
Database of mass spectra of known, unknown and provisionally identified substances. MassBank is the first public repository of mass spectral data for sharing them among scientific research community. MassBank data are useful for the chemical identification and structure elucidation of chemical compounds detected by mass spectrometry.
Cancer GenomeAtlas Data Portal
Cancer Genome Atlas Data Portal
The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Data Portal provides a platform for researchers to search, download, and analyze data sets generated by TCGA. It contains clinical information, genomic characterization data, and high level sequence analysis of the tumor genomes. The Data Coordinating Center (DCC) is the central provider of TCGA data. The DCC standardizes data formats and validates submitted data.
Human Proteinpedia
Human Proteinpedia is a community portal for sharing and integration of human protein data. This is a joint project between Pandey at Johns Hopkins University, and Institute of Bioinformatics, Bangalore. This portal allows research laboratories around the world to contribute and maintain protein annotations. Human Protein Reference Database (HPRD) integrates data, that is deposited in Human Proteinpedia along with the existing literature curated information in the context of an individual protein. All the public data contributed to Human Proteinpedia can be queried, viewed and downloaded. Data pertaining to post-translational modifications, protein interactions, tissue expression, expression in cell lines, subcellular localization and enzyme substrate relationships may be deposited.


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Top 10: The most circulated young adult novels of 2021 at CCPL
CHARLESTON, S.C. - These days it seems like all young adult books are great reads for everyone, but these are the ones that got the most attention from teens and adults alike this year at CCPL.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. - Whether they're how you survive that long commute on I-26 or what keeps you moving in the gym or on a long run, audiobooks are great, hands-free entertainment. And it turns out listening to an audiobook is just like reading a bo...
Top 10: Check out the most downloaded titles at CCPL in 2021
CHARLESTON, S.C. - We're closing out the year with Top 10 lists, and today we're focused on downloadables.
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Top 10: Which children's author visit fueled 2021's most popular kids books?
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Top 10: A look back at 2021's most popular travels in the Charleston Time Machine
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Each week we take a trip through time in the Charleston Time Machine, traveling from point to point through history to examine the lesser known stories and the tales behind major events that helped shape Charleston.
Top 10: Mystery and drama shine in most circulated DVDs of 2021
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Charleston County Public Library patrons have been in the mood to solve some mysteries in 2021.
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MANILA, Philippines — With only less than a month before May's midterm polls, only a few national and local candidates have complied with the Commission on Elections (Comelec) requirement for candidates to register websites and social media accounts.
The compliance rate was only about 3 percent among national and local candidates, according to a report released by the poll body.
Under Comelec Resolution No. 10488, all candidates, political parties and party-list groups must register the website names and addresses of their official blog and/or social media pages.
Failure to do so shall be considered an election offense, which carries the penalty of one to six years imprisonment, removal of right to vote, and disqualification to hold public office.
As of April 4, only 1,473 of the 43,554 candidates had registered their websites and social media accounts, the Comelec reported.
Of the 62 senatorial candidates, only 29 have been compliant.
For party-list groups, 69 of the 134 groups had complied with the Comelec requirement.
Of 633 congressional candidates, 58 had registered their websites and social media accounts.
Among candidates for governor (273) and vice governor (185), only 14 and 10, respectively, had done so.
Eighty-five candidates for provincial board members of the 1,733 candidates had registered.
For candidates for mayor (3,986) and vice mayor (3,618), 152 and 112, respectively, had followed the Comelec rule.
Among candidates for councilor, only 944 out of 33,064 aspirants had complied.
The Comelec has said that since social media in the country are unregulated and distribution of campaign materials on the internet is largely free, it can monitor only expensive websites or those with well-produced videos or have celebrities as endorsers.
Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez earlier assured the public that the new rules would not regulate the content of social media but only their cost.
"Social media will remain a free market of ideas, but within the context of keeping the elections orderly, such as reporting of expenses and reporting of costs," Jimenez said in an earlier interview.
"What we will do is to ensure whenever you put something out [on] social media, it will be regulated in terms of cost and platform used," he said.
Also allowed are paid advertisements — whether broadcast, internet, mobile, print or outdoor media — which are compliant with election regulations.
Election watchdog Kontra Daya urged the poll body to assess the low compliance rate.
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Q: Pandas: Filling column in dataset with data from another dataset based on matching columns in the two datasets I'm having trouble trying to figure out this problem.
I have two datasets, dataset_1 and dataset_2. I am trying to create a new column in dataset_1 called 'name' by matching the 'id's from Dataset_1 and Dataset_2. Essentially mapping the names to their corresponding ids.
There are around 10 other columns in each dataframe, but they're not necessary for this question.
Examples of the columns in the datasets:
Dataset_1:
id:
1234
3267
12
1234
15

Dataset_2:
id:         name:
12          jimbo
899         jim
3267        jimmy
1234        jimbob
899         jim

Resulting dataframe:
Dataset_1:
id:        name:
1234       jimbob
3267       jimmy
12         jimbo
1234       jimbo
15         jahad

(assuming the name 15 - "jahad" is further down in Dataset_2)
Any help is very much appreciated.

A: You could create a dictionary from the two columns in df2 and use to map the values in df1:
print(df1)
    id
0  1234
1  3267
2    12
3  1234
4    15

print(df2)
     id    name
0    12   jimbo
1   899     jim
2  3267   jimmy
3  1234  jimbob
4   899     jim

mapper = dict(zip(df2.id, df2.name))
# {12: 'jimbo', 899: 'jim', 3267: 'jimmy', 1234: 'jimbob'}

df1.loc[:,'name'] = df1.id.map(mapper)

    id    name
0  1234  jimbob
1  3267   jimmy
2    12   jimbo
3  1234  jimbob
4    15     NaN

A: You could do the left join(pd.merge) in one line of code:
import pandas as pd

df1 = pd.DataFrame({'id': [1234, 3267, 12, 1234, 15]})
df2 = pd.DataFrame({
    'id': [12, 899, 3267, 1234, 899, 15],
    'name': ['jimbo', 'jim', 'jimmy', 'jimbob', 'jim', 'jahad']
})

df = df1.merge(df2, on='id', how='left')

print(df)

Results:

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In the Brigels ski area you will experience over 75 kilometers of perfectly groomed slopes, enjoy the winter sun on our terrace or dare an exciting winter hike on well-signposted trails. With the snowboard you practice on medium-heavy slopes or try ice skating or curling on the ice rink.
With the nearby ski lifts of the Flims-Laax-Falera ski area, you will experience a huge winter sports area that invites you to all typical winter activities. And if you are drawn into the warmth, enjoy the thermal bath with its pleasant atmosphere in the nearby spa resort of Vals.
The winter in Brigels lures you into the late spring, which then already again with special offers into an equally special region.