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Moderate Drinking - Health Benefits or Risky
Author: Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research
Moderate drinking of one to less than three drinks per day linked to a decrease in mortality in middle-aged and older adults.
Moderate drinking: Health benefits or not
There is disagreement about the health benefits of moderate drinking.
A new study has examined drinking and mortality during a 20-year period.
Findings confirm an association between moderate drinking and reduced mortality among older adults.
While moderate drinking - one to less than three drinks per day - is linked to a decrease in mortality in middle-aged and older adults, there is also concern that the health benefits of moderate drinking have been overestimated. A new study of the association between drinking and mortality during a 20-year period, which controlled for confounding factors such as previous problem drinking, confirms an association of moderate drinking and reduced mortality among older adults.
Results will be published in the November 2010 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research and are currently available at Early View.
"Although alcohol misuse is linked to many medical conditions, considerable epidemiological evidence indicates that moderate alcohol use is related to reduced total mortality," explained Charles J. Holahan, a professor in the department of psychology at The University of Texas at Austin and corresponding author for the study. "We expected that a substantial part of the health benefits associated with moderating drinking were due to confounding factors associated with alcohol abstention. For example, abstainers may include former problem drinkers with health problems and individuals who are atypical in terms of sociodemographic and social-behavioral factors that may increase health risk."
"None of the studies that have examined the association of drinking and mortality and cardiovascular disease have been experimental studies in which a group of people was randomly chosen to drink a particular amount of alcohol or to not drink alcohol," observed Alison A. Moore, professor of medicine and psychiatry in the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. "All have been observational studies, meaning those in which persons who consume varying amounts of alcohol are compared with those who don't. Because conditions in these observational studies are not controlled and the characteristics of persons who choose to drink varying amounts of alcohol or not differ quite a bit, it is impossible to prove that alcohol consumption causes reduced risks for coronary heart disease, diabetes or mortality."
For this study, using data gathered from a larger study of late-life patterns of drinking and related problems, researchers followed 1,824 older adults (1,142 men, 682 women) between the ages of 55 and 65 years of age - who were former or current drinkers - for 20 years. The information collected included: daily alcohol consumption, sociodemographic factors, former problem-drinking status, health factors, and social behavioral factors. Death was confirmed primarily by a death certificate.
"Controlling only for age and gender, mortality was highest among abstainers and heavy drinkers and lowest in moderate drinkers," said Holahan. "Controlling for former problem drinking status, existing health problems, and key sociodemographic and social-behavioral factors substantially reduced the mortality effect for abstainers compared to moderate drinkers. However, even after adjusting for all covariates, abstainers and heavy drinkers continued to show increased mortality risks of 49 percent and 42 percent, respectively, compared to moderate drinkers."
"In other words, the association of moderate drinking and reduced mortality among older adults is reduced but still present when taking into consideration factors that affect both alcohol consumption and mortality," said Moore. "For example, socioeconomic status has been a consistent factor in the link between alcohol consumption and mortality. That is, those with higher income and/or education are less likely to be abstainers and to die."
Thus, the health benefits of moderate drinking ae complicated because a number of underlying health risks are correlated with later life abstention, Holahan noted.
"Our findings demonstrate that abstainers were significantly more likely to have had prior drinking problems, to be obese, and to smoke cigarettes than moderate drinkers and scored significantly higher than moderate drinkers on health problems, depressive symptoms, and avoidance coping," he said. "In addition, abstainers were significantly lower than moderate drinkers on socioeconomic status, physical activity, number of close friends, and quality of friend support and significantly less likely to be married than moderate drinkers. Moreover, all of these factors that were associated with abstention significantly predicted mortality."
Both Holahan and Moore reiterated that any health benefits are linked to moderation. "Older persons drinking alcohol should remember that consuming more than two drinks a day exceeds recommended alcohol consumption guidelines in the U.S. and is associated with increased falls, a higher risk of alcohol use problems, and potential adverse interactions with medications," said Holahan. "Moreover, nondrinkers should not start drinking to try to enhance their health, and individuals who are or plan to become pregnant, or have alcohol problems or medical conditions that could be worsened by alcohol should not drink."
Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research (ACER) is the official journal of the Research Society on Alcoholism and the International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism. Co-authors of the ACER paper, "Late-Life Alcohol Consumption and 20-Year Mortality," were: Kathleen K. Schutte and Penny L. Brennan of the Center for Health Care Evaluation at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System; Carole K. Holahan of The University of Texas at Austin; and Bernice S. Moos and Rudolf H. Moos of the Center for Health Care Evaluation at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System, and Stanford University. The study was funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. This release is supported by the Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network at www.ATTCnetwork.org
Journal: Disabled World. Language: English. Author: Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. Electronic Publication Date: 2010-08-25. Last Revised Date: 2010-08-25. Reference Title: "Moderate Drinking - Health Benefits or Risky", Source: Moderate Drinking - Health Benefits or Risky. Abstract: Moderate drinking of one to less than three drinks per day linked to a decrease in mortality in middle-aged and older adults. Retrieved 2021-01-16, from https://www.disabled-world.com/fitness/moderate-drinking.php - Reference Category Number: DW#230-5058.

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Behavioral Genetics
Severi Luoto, Michael Woodley of Menie
Centre Leo Apostel
In this introductory chapter, we discuss the nexus between evolutionary theory and behavioral genetics, using it to elucidate the biological origins of human behavior and motivational predispositions. We introduce relevant behavioral genetics methods and evolutionary theoretical background to provide reader swith the necessary conceptual tools to deepen their engagement with evolutionary behavioral genetics—as well as to help them take on the challenge of building a scientifically and evolutionarily more consilient account of human behavior. To demonstrate the utility of behavioral genetics in evolutionary behavioral science, our analytical examples range from personality, cognition, and sexual orientation to pair-bonding. We conclude by presenting a few recent landmark studies in behavioral genetics research with a particular focus on two aspects of sexual behavior: assortative mating and same-sex sexual behavior. This chapter considers behavioral genetics methods and their connection with evolutionary science more broadly while providing a succinct overview of recent advances in understanding the evolutionary genetic underpinnings of human sexual behavior, mate choice, and basic motivational processes. It is a sine qua non of scientifically principled evolutionary behavioral scientists to acknowledge the distal evolutionary and proximal genetic processes which, interlinked, underlie the psychobehavioral predispositions that form the variegated fabric of human societies and, more broadly, the diversity of life found in nature. These evolutionary processes operate from distal selection pressures acting on genetic material through hundreds of millions of years of natural selection—and from individual and population differences in genotypes to their manifestations in complex behavioral phenotypes and life outcomes in contemporary humans—which, in turn, enact concomitant selection pressures on the genetic material underlying and arising from them.
The Cambridge handbook of evolutionary perspectives on sexual psychology.
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Luoto, S., & Woodley of Menie, M. (2022). Behavioral Genetics. In The Cambridge handbook of evolutionary perspectives on sexual psychology. (pp. 405-429). University of Cambridge.
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'The Boyfriend' musical to be revived at Menier Chocolate Factory
Sandy Wilson's musical The Boy Friend will return to the London stage this Christmas in a revival by director Matthew White.
White's production is the first major revival of the musical in 10 years and sees the director return to the Menier following previous productions of She Loves Me, Candide and Sweet Charity.
The Menier has had a string of hits with musicals over the last few years including the current production of The Bridges of Madison County starring Jenna Russell, Trevor Nunn's revival of Fiddler on the Roof which is now playing in the West End and a production of Funny Girl starring Sheridan Smith.
Set in the carefree world of the French Riviera in the Roaring Twenties, The Boy Friend is a comic pastiche of 1920s shows. The musical premiered in 1953 in the West End where it ran for over 2,000 performances before transferring to Broadway with a young ingénue called Julie Andrews, who subsequently went on to land the lead role in the Broadway production of My Fair Lady.
The show will have choreography by Bill Deamer, set & costume design by Paul Farnsworth, lighting design by Paul Anderson, sound design by Gregory Clarke, hair & wig design by Richard Mawbey, musical supervision/direction by Simon Beck and orchestrations by David Cullen.
Casting to be announced in due course.
The Boy Friend runs from 22 November 2019 until 7 March 2020 at the Menier Chocolate Factory, London.
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A delegation of deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) from the Czech Republic, Belgium, Serbia, and Italy and the State Duma of Russia led by PACE President of Pedro Agramunt has arrived in Syria, Channel One Russia has reported.
The State Duma deputies are reported to have arranged this visit despite the fact that Russia has been deprived of voting rights in PACE and does not participate in sessions of the European Parliament.
Read alsoPACE condemns Russia for terrorist activities in Ukraine - LohvynskyThe report about PACE President Agramunt's visit to Syria together with the Russian Duma members has caused a wave of outrage in Ukraine.
Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe Dmytro Kuleba wrote on Facebook that PACE was destroying its credibility by such actions.
Ukraine's envoy to the humanitarian subgroup of the Trilateral Contact Group on the Donbas settlement in Minsk, First Deputy Speaker of Ukraine's parliament Iryna Gerashchenko wrote on Facebook that there was no announcement about Agramunt's visit to Syria on the PACE website.
"I think the Ukrainian delegation should send a letter to PACE today, demanding clarification of the status of this visit, especially since Russian MPs are not PACE members because the Assembly did not confirm their authority. So, was this a private visit of Agramunt and his Russian comrades? We should receive an official response from PACE," she said.
When the Russian parliament endorsed Russian President Vladimir Putin's annexation of Crimea in 2014, PACE stripped it of voting rights. In response, the Duma immediately suspended support for PACE and has demonstratively missed the last two January deadlines to ratify its delegation, leaving its seats empty since 2016.


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Sarah's story is evidence that nothing is too hard for God. Ask Him to show you one thing you can do to increase your faith in Him.
My prayer life ramped up significantly the day I became a parent.
As the single mother of two adopted children, I feel both tremendously blessed and incredibly challenged.
Like any mother, I want my teenage girls to launch well, to know that they will reach adulthood as people who can take care of themselves and relate well to others.
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Sarah's joy is so strong and wild that nothing can stop it. "God has brought me laughter," she says, "and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me"(Genesis 21:6, NIV). And so she named her son Isaac, which means laughter.
I love learning about Sarah because it gives me hope for the story God is telling with my life and the lives of my children. Like her, I want to become a woman who has learned to laugh, not because she's perfect or her life is easy, but because she finally gets it — that nothing in this great big world is too hard for God.
Like Sarah, I haven't a clue as to how the future will unfold. But instead of allowing myself to dissolve into that big blob of worry when difficulties arise, I can express the truth that God will help my children and me, regardless of whether or not He does so according to my timeline. From a practical standpoint, I've found my faith growing stronger as I've learned to fill every prayer request with praise and thanksgiving.
I expect that learning to laugh in the midst of life's challenges will be a process rather than an event. It may take the rest of my life. But as I've added more praise and thanksgiving to my prayers, I've discovered my anxiety receding and my joy increasing.
Lord, thank You for the way You've surprised me with so many good things. Please help my faith to grow stronger so that regardless of circumstances, I will always find joy in You. May my laughter be like a song of praise to You. In Jesus' Name, Amen.
Spend 10 minutes reflecting on the positive surprises God has brought into your life.
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Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement
DOI link for Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement
Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement book
Reclaiming control
ByPriscilla Claeys
eBook Published 9 January 2015
Subjects Environment & Agriculture, Environment and Sustainability, Geography, Global Development, Law, Social Sciences
Claeys, P. (2015). Human Rights and the Food Sovereignty Movement: Reclaiming control (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315761633
Our global food system is undergoing rapid change. Since the global food crisis of 2007-2008, a range of new issues have come to public attention, such as land grabbing, food prices volatility, agrofuels and climate change. Peasant social movements are trying to respond to these challenges by organizing from the local to the global to demand food sovereignty. As the transnational agrarian movement La Via Campesina celebrates its 20th anniversary, this book takes stock of the movement's achievements and reflects on challenges for the future. It provides an in-depth analysis of the movement's vision and strategies, and shows how it has contributed not only to the emergence of an alternative development paradigm but also of an alternative conception of human rights.
The book assesses efforts to achieve the international recognition of new human rights for peasants at the international level, namely the 'right to food sovereignty' and 'peasants' rights'. It explores why La Via Campesina was successful in mobilizing a human rights discourse in its struggle against neoliberalism, and also the limitations and potential pitfalls of using the human rights framework. The book shows that, to inject subversive potential in their rights-based claims rural social activists developed an alternative conception of rights, that is more plural, less statist, less individualistic, and more multi-cultural than dominant conceptions of human rights. Further, they deployed a combination of institutional (from above) and extrainstitutional (from below) strategies to demand new rights and reinforce grassroots mobilization through rights.
The right to food sovereignty
The rights of peasants
The right to food
The challenges of using rights
Transforming the right to food


WHATEVER the outcome, there will be some new faces on Macclesfield borough council when the election for councillors in one third of the borough's wards takes place on Thursday, May 3.
WHATEVER the outcome, there will be some new faces on Macclesfield borough council when the election for councillors in one third of the borough's wards takes place on Thursday, May 3.
A round-up of the candidates standing will be published in the Wilmslow Express one week before (Thursday, April 26) election day.
This year, the seats for five wards in the district are being contested and three councillors are stepping down.
In Wilmslow's Fulshaw ward, councillor and former mayor Joan Barnes is bowing out after 19 year's service.
Conservative David Mowat, Green Party candidate Mark Norman and Liberal Democrat Helen Baker will be battling it out to take the seat.
At Dean Row Liberal Democrat Mark Toombs will stand against councillor and current Mayor of Macclesfield Jim Crockatt.
The borough's youngest councillor Andrew Stephenson will step down as Wilmslow's Hough ward councillor to pursue his parliamentary ambitions.
Conservative Party candidate Rod Menlove, who was pipped to the post by one vote in the Handforth ward last year, will go head to head in the polls with Labour candidate Jon Kelly and Lib Dem Richard Duncalf in a bid to be elected as councillor for the Hough.
In Morley and Styal, Conservative candidate and former county councillor John Fraser will contest the ward seat from incumbent councillor and Liberal Democrat Colin Shepherd who is re-standing.
As Handforth Independent Ratepayer councillor Tom Scanlon stands down in the Handforth ward, Conservative Party candidate Gary Barton, Labour candidate Ashley Pettifer and Independent Ratepayer David Pincombe will be looking to take his place.
While the election is three weeks away, the deadline for receipt of applications for postal votes and changing existing absent vote records is 5pm next Wednesday, April 18.
This is also the last date for new applications to be received for inclusion on the electoral register in time to vote.
The closing date for new applications to vote by proxy is 5pm on Wednesday, April 25.
To obtain postal votes, proxy application forms or for advice on how to be included on the electoral register, contact Macclesfield Borough Council on 01625 504226.
Voting takes place at polling stations in the relevant wards across the borough from 7am until 10pm.
The count will be held after polls have closed at Macclesfield Leisure Centre.
Information on candidates standing for election can also be obtained from the council's website: www.macclesfield.gov.uk .


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Since the last time I wrote my update, I have been translating the usual stuff (which I like a lot) — technical, legal, IT, and creative marketing content — but there have also been some new brands and fields I worked on.
First, I had much fun working on a toilet cleaning product (Domestos) TV commercial that required creative and out-of-the-box thinking to convey the idea in the target language*.
In the automotive translation, I added a new brand (Subaru) to my portfolio. This was interesting and challenging because it required the knowledge of electrical circuits, engines, continuously variable transmission (CVT), suspension, wheel alignment, oil check, and various car maintenance routines.
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Lockdown life doesn't seem so tough to returning Wigan hero John Bateman after spending seven months in the NRL's unforgiving playing bubble.
The England international – who has rejoined the Warriors after standing toe-to-toe with Australia's best at Canberra – spent over half of last year restricted to contact with his Raiders team-mates and his girlfriend.
So strict were the rules, that after a mid-season shoulder operation that saw him stay overnight at hospital, Bateman wrongly presumed he was temporarily outside the bubble and went to a cafe. When a supporter took a picture of him and sent it to the club, Bateman had to quarantine for two weeks, was handed a A$10,000 (£5,600) suspended fine and forced to front the NRL Integrity Unit.
It means that being back home with his family in Bradford and closer to 11-year-old daughter Millie has superseded the latest restrictions in this country. Bateman explained: "It was pretty full on in Australia. You were stuck by yourself for a long time, and because I was injured for a lot of the season, it was a long year.
"They had to do it to get the game up and running there but it was tough. There was 52 people in our bubble with players, staff and a couple of admin people, and even the training ground was split up into areas that people could and couldn't go. Whoever you lived with at home had to be screened every week, and if you lived with somebody who worked in a hospital one of you had to move out of the house, so a couple of the boys had to move in with each other.
"Outside of that, you were allowed to go to the supermarket or if you needed to the doctors or hospital, and that was it. Even if you went to hospital they had to check if there'd been any positive cases there – one of the lads had a baby and was stopped going to a couple of the scans. It took him two or three weeks to get permission to be at the birth.
"People say we were doing what we love and don't get me wrong we were. But it was tough, the players didn't get much say in it and everyone in the league had a 50 percent wage cut on the second half of the year's salary. There was no testing – if you had any sort of symptoms you had to ring the doctor and then stay away until you got a test.
"My family were supposed to be coming over in March and when the international travel ban kicked in, that took its toll on me – I knew I wanted to come back. Lockdown is a lot different when I'm at home with my family, I've enjoyed being at home again."
The cafe incident was a measure of Bateman's standing Down Under after a 2019 season that saw him voted the best second rower in the competition. From his well-told story as a schoolboy dad to a combative on-field style prominent from the moment he feigned throwing a ball at an opponent on his NRL debut, the Australian media took to Bateman from the start.
What that also meant was his long-term future was last year the subject of back page headlines only a Premier League star would command in England when it emerged he could leave Canberra. He said: "It got blown out of context massively for what it should have been and what it worked out to be.
"It got reported that I'd asked for four releases and I can still remember the day. I was stood doing rehab in the gym with one of the conditioners Ryan Clayton, and a Fox Sports notification popped up on my phone saying 'Breaking, John Bateman asks for four releases'.
"I was stood there laughing and just then Ricky (Stuart, Canberra coach) walked over and I showed it him and it went from there. Looking back now I laugh, and to be fair I was laughing at the time. All of a sudden there was ex players coming out saying 'he's being greedy' and one week there was a story every single day. It started to annoy my missus a bit, and my mum, who has the pop-ups as well. She rang me and was a bit upset about what they were saying. I told them not to worry about it and it was part and parcel of what it's like in rugby league over there.
"I released three or four statements myself and I always told the truth, I had nothing to hide. I've been as straight up as I can about everything that happened, but especially over there people need to write stories.
"It's full on over there but I don't care what people say, who doesn't like attention? People like to be liked and known in sport. The first year I went over I did a few TV shows and people seemed to like my character, and me having a laugh and a joke. Then suddenly people think they know you and I didn't mind that, but I do want to have a private life. I understand people need to write stories. It was no bother really and I've always said if anyone wants to write a story then just ring me up."
Now Bateman is focused on a new start at Wigan, where he spent five successful seasons before heading for Canberra. He has been handed the club's iconic no.13 jersey, worn by only Sean O'Loughlin and Andy Farrell in the 25 years of Super League.
And having treasured one of Farrell's shirts given to him when he spent a year with the Warriors' as a teenager, he is under no illusions about the weight that carries. Bateman added: "When I first went to Wigan's scholarship at under-13s I got given Andy Farrell's number 13 shirt and it was absolutely massive for me. I kept it in my cupboard and drawers for ages and I used to grow up thinking I wanted to try and fit into it – it got to the point where I never thought I would.
"Then going back to Wigan and signing at 19 to play alongside Lockers for as long as I did – for me he goes down as the best player I've played with for sure. With the people that have worn it before it's a great honour for me and I'm looking forward to pulling it on.
"I haven't got my head round it because I haven't started training yet and got all my gear with the number on. Once I get that and start walking around in it every day it'll be crazy and surreal. But I'm looking forward to it, I feel like a little kid at Christmas to be honest. When the club brought my first shirt with the name and number printed on it and Rads (rugby director Kris Radlinski) was stood there, it was a pretty good moment."
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An arbitration court has ordered Israeli-held Trans-Asiatic Oil (TAO) to pay US$1.2 billion to Iran for oil that the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) had delivered to Israel before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the online edition of Israel's Haaretz reported on Monday.
Lausanne-based Swiss Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Iran in the case which Israel had appealed.
In May 2015, Israel said it was refusing to comply with an order by a Swiss court that it pay US$1.1 billion to NIOC. The complex dispute stems from 1968, when Shah Reza Pahlavi ruled Iran. The Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Co. (EAPC) was created as a joint venture between TAO and the NIOC to supply Iranian oil to Europe.
After the Islamic Revolution of 1979, however, Iran and Israel severed diplomatic ties. Iran has pursued arbitration to force Israel to pay up. The combined sum in dispute in the courts is estimated at around US$7 billion.
According to Monday's online edition of Haaretz which quotes Global Arbitration Review, NIOC had been removed from the sanctions list against Iran and therefore, there is no legal obstacle for Iran to receive its payment.
Iran has won two arbitrations demanding that Israel pay for the oil supplied to it, with the primary bone of contention over revenues of the partnership still awaiting ruling.
Iran's crude output hit a five-year high in June 2016 as the country is eager to reclaim its number-two OPEC exporter spot after Saudi Arabia.
And last month, NIOC director of international affairs, Mohsen Ghamsari, told Bloomberg that Iran had regained 80 percent of the market share it had before the oil sanctions were tightened in 2012. Iran is currently pumping 3.8 million barrels a day, of which it exports 2 million barrels, the manager noted. The country wants to raise its daily output to 4 million bpd by the end of this year and to pump 5.8 million bpd in crude and condensates combined by 2021.
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Not a fan of Iran by any means, but had to have a chuckle at this news. People are going nuts over the 400M the US owed Iran. Can only imagine what people in Israel think of this.


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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has stated his opposition to the historic non-discrimination law.
On Friday, November 7th, the U.S. Senate voted to pass the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, a bill that would outlaw discrimination against LGBT people in the workplace. The vote passed by a wide two-to-one margin, with 64 Senators voting in favor and 32 opposing the bill. Currently, only 21 states have legal protections for their LGBT workers, and advocates have been fighting for legislation at the national level since the bill was first introduced almost two decades ago.
As the bill moves to the House – where Speaker John Boehner recently claimed the legislation has "no basis or need" – here are five things you need to know about ENDA:
1. This is the first time in history a transgender employment non-discrimination bill has passed in the Senate.
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An earlier version of the bill made its way through the Senate in 2007, but that version lacked protections for transgender workers. According to Rick Garcia, senior policy advisor for The Civil Rights Agenda, this was due to hesitancy from advocacy groups like the Human Rights Campaign. "They thought it had a better chance of passing if you took gender identity out," says Garcia. In 2007, the Daily Kos referred to the compromised bill as "throwing trans people under the bus."
Chicago House CEO Rev. Stan Sloan argues that transgender people should be the highest priority in non-discrimination legislation. "LGBTQ people generally earn less than their straight counterparts," says Sloan, "but in particular, one in five trans people have been homeless." Statistics from the National Center for Transgender Equality additionally show that 26 percent of trans people have been fired from their job because of their gender identity and 97 percent have been discriminated against.
Rev. Sloan argues that prejudice particularly faces those who have been made "invisible" in the movement, particularly transgender people of color. "We're becoming a more tolerant nation toward diversity, as long as it's the right type of diversity," says Sloan. "We need to be inclusive of the full sum of our rainbow and say that we won't pass this unless all of us get the benefits of it."
2. It wasn't just Senate Democrats who went for ENDA. The bill passed with a bipartisan majority.
Ten Senate Republicans voted in favor of ENDA, including Illinois Senator Mark Kirk, former presidential candidate John McCain and Arizona's Jeff Flake. Flake, who also voted for the bill in 2007, had allegedly been concerned about gender identity language in the bill and only solidified his decision on Thursday. "While I had concerns about expanding protections beyond those House provisions," says Flake, "after consideration, I believe supporting this bill is the right thing to do."
Ian Thompson of the American Civil Liberties Union argues that the bill's bipartisan consensus is indicative of the wide popularity of non-discrimination laws among the general public. According to Thompson, internal polls conducted by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign showed support of over 57 percent in each of the 50 states. It never dipped lower than that, even in Republican strongholds like Texas and Mississippi.
"On issues of LGBT equality, the American public has far surpassed our elected officials," says Thompson. "We're bringing our federal laws up to where the American people already are."
3. Despite Republican support in the Senate, the legislation will face a tough battle in the Boehner-led House.
"Our biggest challenge is opposition from speaker John Boehner and the Republican leadership," says Thompson. "In the House, the leadership gets to determine what comes to the floor for a vote. When the leadership is opposed to something, they can just kill it."
Boehner has claimed that "People are already protected in the workplace." He believes that the legislation would lead to "frivolous lawsuits" for businesses and "cost American jobs, particularly small business jobs."
Dr. Raechel Tiffe, a visiting professor at Merrimack College, says that's "absurd… To say that these lawsuits are unnecessary implies that the rights of LGBT people don't matter." Unfortunately, Tiffe adds, "That's in John Boehner's hands now."
Rick Garcia is similarly pessimistic about ENDA's chances in the House: "Unless [House Democrats] have a miracle up their sleeve, I don't see it happening."
4. Whether or not the bill passes, Obama has the opportunity to make a statement on LGBT discrimination.
Thompson notes that President Obama has the ability to pass "an executive order to prohibit workplace discrimination by federal workplace contractors." Says Thompson, "This would put in place binding LGBT workplace discrimination laws in all 50 states, providing the same protections as those based on race, sex or disability." UCLA's Williams Law institute estimates such a measure would affect over 16 million workers.
"President Obama and his administration have been real champions for LGBT equality," states Thompson. "Taking a step like this is very consistent with other actions that they have taken, and this should be such a no-brainer. This is something that President Obama has previously committed to doing and something he needs to get done."
5. The bill won't pass without public mobilization.
While Garcia believes in the ability of advocates and politicians to further ENDA legislation, he argues that the people will make the difference. "It comes down to the people in the districts who call their legislator, go to their legislator and tell their legislator what's important," says Garcia. "That's how it's going to get done. That's how it's always gotten done."
"It's going to be long and hard, but it doesn't mean we stop trying," says Garcia. "It means we keep pushing along."
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Carolina Sports Thoughts: Bill Murray to be guest picker on GameDay?
Famous actor Bill Murray will be the guest picker for College GameDay this weekend at Clemson as they play the Florida State Seminoles. This is the likely choice, even though it is not confirmed.
Eric Stonestreet of "Modern Family" was guest picker at the Georgia game.
Lee Fitting, producer at College GameDay, gave a clue earlier this week when he said this on his Twitter account.
Celeb picker locked and loaded for @CollegeGameDay at Clemson. Think fun.
With Bill Murray being known as the Director of Fun at the Charleston RiverDogs, and Murray having a son at Clemson, this is a logical choice.


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Tomorrow is the funeral for Steven Odom, a thirteen-year-old African-American from Dorchester who was struck down last week by a bullet not meant for his body. Odom's murder has galvanized the city, horrifying Bostonians in a way few murders seem to do. It's a horror that will linger–but unfortunately, it will only linger for a limited time.
Yesterday, Odom's death became a politicized event, as Odom's parents held a press conference demanding that Governor Deval Patrick play an active role in stemming inner-city violence. The grief of Odom's parents is understandable–but sadly, their argument is absurd. There is little that Gov. Patrick, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, or any other state or local public official can do to reduce the bloodshed in Boston.
One cannot avoid viewing the Odom tragedy against the backdrop of political and cultural changes that have destroyed Boston and other major cities in this country. Conservatives (and even some non-conservatives such as Bill Cosby) are shouted down when they criticize the lawlessness, disdain for education, and illegitimacy that has plagued America's urban regions–and because their criticisms are demonized as thinly veiled racism, their proposed solutions are ignored, and the violence continues unabated.
The "root cause" of inner-city violence in Boston and other areas must be laid squarely at the feet of LBJ's so-called Great Society–that deranged idea designed to keep poor people poor and black people trapped in the 'hood under the guise of helping them deal with life's difficulties. The Great Society was a great scam and hoax perpetrated upon inner-city blacks, a deceptive deal that convinced too many that a life of handouts and dependence was preferable to a life of hard work and diligence.
The Great Society encouraged fatherlessness and triggered the anti-education mentality that has gained far too much prominence among the urban underclass. With the rise of the Great Society came increased poverty, increased despair, increased hopelessness–and increased violence.
The liberal instinct is to shut up anyone who rightfully blames the Great Society for its cancerous contribution to urban sorrow. It is time to tell those liberals to shut up.
However, while it's said to be impolite to "blame the victim," there are times in which the victim must in fact be blamed. The "victim" in this case is not Odom, but the folks who have repeatedly voted for the same liberal politicians who created and contributed to the destruction of the inner city.
Odom happens to be a minister's son, and thus one can't help thinking about this tragedy in religious terms. Odom was let down by the members of his community–the ones who repeatedly voted to advance the destructive liberal agenda, the ones who ran to the polls every election day to express support for the likes of Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, Michael Dukakis and others who either caused the destruction of the inner city through their support of dependency programs or who had no solutions for the problems facing urban areas.
I've long been mystified by the phenomenon of supposedly religious African-Americans putting their faith and trust in secular politicians who believe that the state is God. I've never understood how folks in depressed urban regions can continually vote for the likes of Kennedy and Kerry, how they can revere them as God-like figures.
Thus, I can't help wondering if, on some level, those who put their faith in these destructive politicians are not reaping what they have sowed. If members of Boston's inner city voted for those who either created or perpetuated the plight of the 'hood, it will be virtually impossible for these residents to receive much public sympathy when innocents are struck down as a result of the circumstances created or perpetuated by those wayward politicians.
It's sad that Steven Odom had to die. It's sad that so many promising young men and women died on the streets of inner-city Boston before they had a chance to reach adulthood. However, it is time for all of us to confront the truth: that inner-city Boston and other inner-city areas of this country were destroyed years ago by the Great Society–and that the politicians who created or perpetuated the Great Society, as well as the folks (including residents of these inner cities) who kept returning these corrupt politicians to office, have a hell of a lot to answer for.
We'll hear a lot of sound and fury over the next few years from Bostonians demanding that the violence be stopped, a lot of calls for men and women in inner-city Boston to be soldiers in a war against urban violence. However, if these men and women voted for the Kennedys and Kerrys and Dukakises and other fools who either created or perpetuated the suffering of the inner city, then these men and women will be, for all intents and purposes, phony soldiers.
My heart breaks for Steven Odom. However, my heart turns cold when I think of the sadistic solons who destroyed inner-city ambition with the horribly misnamed Great Society, and the folks who kept these politicians in power all these years. Steven Odom did not die in vain. However, it's clear that he died because of other people's sins.
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Low income residents will soon have a new option for safe and affordable housing.
On Friday (Feb.8), the province announced that it's investing $6 million toward a new apartment building in Fort Saskatchewan.
The development is expected to provide around 83 one- and two-bedroom units for families and seniors with low income.
"Our government believes that every Albertan has a right to a safe, affordable home regardless of their income," said Lori Sigurdson, Minister of Seniors and Housing. "Having a place to live is not just a nice to have — having a home is the foundation for a better life."
The four-storey building will be built on land donated by the city, located adjacent to the new Dr. Turner Lodge.
Currently in the design stage, the project will aim for energy efficiency and feature some accessible units, along with modern fire-suppression and safety systems.
"It'll give seniors an opportunity to interact with families who also need some help with affordable housing," added mayor Gale Katchur.
The Alberta government's $6 million contribution is part of their $1.2 billion commitment in the Provincial Affordable Housing Strategy to build and restore 4,100 affordable housing units.


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Feature: Nathan O'Donnell - action: printing
By Nathan O'Donnell
When I uncoupled the bike for the first time in months from the lamppost outside my house I could see the tyres were flat. It was a sunny afternoon, mid-lockdown. I had to go to the print shop in town to print copies of a zine I'd put together but I wasn't in any huge hurry. There was time enough for me to walk my bike up to the bike shop on Aughrim Street. I was thinking a lot, at this time, not so much about the work – the work wasn't happening, or it wasn't happening in the customary way – but the actions that surround the work, the actions that are also in some ways part of the work. When I got to the bike shop there were three people standing outside already, waiting, all holding bikes – serious bikes, racers, with detachable water bottles and proper lights and helmets and shinguards. I figured they were queuing. There were queues outside every shop now. I pulled my bike in and stood behind them. The actions that surround the work. They didn't turn or acknowledge me or say anything, just carried on their conversation. I was there maybe three or four minutes when, from across the road, a woman and a young girl, maybe nine, approached the bike shop, both in shorts and flipflops, both with bikes, though their bikes were much less serious than the other people's bikes, their bikes had big frames wrapped with floral-patterned vinyl and big white saddles and, on the young girl's bike, golden tassels hanging from the handlebars. The older woman and the girl who may have been grandmother and granddaughter walked past the other people with bikes and went straight to the door of the bike shop. A man came out to serve them. The other people with bikes didn't say anything. I realised then that these other people with bikes were not queuing after all. But what were they doing, these three people with bikes, standing outside a bike shop? Were they waiting on a friend? No one was allowed to enter the bike shop so I didn't understand how that could be. Maybe they knew the owner or one of the people working in the bike shop, though they were not interacting with anyone but themselves. They seemed to be completely disconnected from the bike shop, like they had just casually happened to run into one another on the street and it was a simple coincidence that all three of them had bikes and they had met outside the bike shop. Or else they had decided to meet at the bike shop, even though they had no need of the bike shop, simply because they all had bikes and liked bikes so this was a way of expressing their general approbation of bikes and bike shops. But why had they not done me the courtesy to let me know they were not queuing, when I was obviously queuing behind them? I had been leading an online discussion group with other artists, during lockdown, and we'd been talking about this. It was one of the other artists, Sarah, who put it in my head. She was talking about how all these actions that surround the work – going to the supply shop or to the post office, doing studio visits, just fucking meeting people, in your mask, getting shit printed – have become so pronounced now in ways that are unlike anything we remember: magnified and vigilant and fraught. The grandmother pointed to the wheels of her and her granddaughter's bikes. Both sets of tyres were completely mangled, the thick plastic casing burst, sagging, grinding on the ground. I wondered how they had both managed to blow both tyres so spectacularly. The woman turned to the assembled cyclists, and me, who she had skipped in the queue, and commented on the closeness of the day. 'I'm sweating,' she said. The other cyclists ignored her as they had ignored me. She had skipped me in the queue so I ignored her too. She said it again. Again no one responded. The guy who worked in the bike shop took their destroyed bikes inside and told them to come back Tuesday. The zine was just a reassembly of things I'd written before. I took parts at random, or mostly random, and cobbled them together with images from my phone. I couldn't make anything new. Under the conditions, I couldn't bring myself to make anything new. Once they were gone, I pushed my bike toward the guy at the bike shop door. I said I'd just taken it out of the shed even though I don't have a shed. It was rusty, with cobwebs on it, and I wanted to somehow explain that away. I had actually been mildly fixating on this on my way up Aughrim Street. You see I knew the tyres probably just needed a pump. I knew that was all that was wrong. But I didn't have a pump and it was easier to bring it to the bike shop than to go and find and buy a pump and bring it home and do the work myself. So I pretended to not know the tyres just needed a pump, I said I wasn't sure, could it be a slow puncture or something, and then I acted surprised when he said no, they probably just need air, and then he went to get the pump and do this very easy minor job for me. I pretended to be surprised that it was so easy to fix, like I could have just fixed it myself had I realised – even though I had realised, and I hadn't fixed it. When he was done, he handed the bike back to me and I made as if to pay, knowing he wouldn't take payment, and he shook his head and said, 'look, if you have any problems, bring it back to me here'. I guess you get used to it, a certain kind of either deeply impractical or constitutionally entitled city cyclist who can't even be bothered to pump their own tyres. He didn't seem to mind. He was smiling. I imagine lots of other people do the same. I imagine many of these other people are also gay men. I imagine this as an 'unmanly' thing to do; like if I were really invested in my own masculinity I'd have been ashamed to ask this other man to do this simple practical thing I could easily have done myself. Was I performing this shame a little, in acting surprised at the ease with which the problem could be solved? When the truth was I knew and didn't care because ultimately this was easier. Maybe I was overthinking it. In any case I was grateful to the bike guy, as I cycled away, down Manor Street and toward the city, for maintaining our little fiction. On the first page of the zine, I wrote: 'I made this zine in April 2020. I couldn't think. I wasn't writing anything new. I was in this state of suspension, I couldn't understand how anyone could write in this state of suspension. All I could think to do was to find new ways of circulating things that already existed.' When I got to Nassau Street there was a man from the council, or at least I think he was a man from the council, with an implement, he was holding it like a camera but I don't think it was a camera, he was pointing it at a large steel structure protruding from the ground, a steel frame with a digital panel in the middle on which was an ad for a chain of petrol stations, like he was measuring it, with his camera or not-camera. There are several of these steel structures pitted around Dublin; I know I had seen them before but had never really stopped to take them in. When I looked it up later, I saw that these structures were referred to by the advertising company who produces them as 'digipanels'; they are part of 'Dublin's first one-street digital network', with structures across the city, all stamped with the Dublin City Council logo. This company also manages the advertisements on the city's bus shelters and tram and rail hoardings, and a network of digital billboards, as well as what are referred to on the website as 'Europanels' and 'digipoles'. I was trying to lock my bike at one of the bike stands near the digipanel, next to the entrance to the building within which the print shop was located, but I couldn't get my lock to work. It was one of those U-shaped locks which is straight at one end but with a little curl at the other where the U is supposed to be fixed back into the handle. I had managed to open it and hook it around my bike but now I couldn't get the key to turn and close it again I couldn't get the curly bit to go back in the handle. The actions that surround the work. I was standing there, fiddling with it, getting exasperated, while the man from the council stood nearby, regarding the digital advertising, pointing his camera at it and then putting it down again. At one point the lock fell on the ground and I shouted 'O for the love of fuck' and the man from the council turned around and laughed like he felt it too, like this sense of frustration was a common and ever-present form of feeling available as if on tap, like an underground current or something, like water that's always flowing, always there. I laughed as well. With the assembled artists' group, on Zoom, we had a discussion about our work, kind of, though we didn't really talk about the specifics of our work. Instead we talked about the challenges we were facing – the incapacity, now, to think in terms of the longer-term generative self-sustaining processes which we all seemed to feel was our most important work. We were all just focusing on commissions, or throwaway things, fragments, parts. And this was liberating in one way but it was also fucked. We turned away from each other, then, the council man to carry on documenting the digipanel or whatever it was he'd been doing before I interrupted and I to go on wrestling with my lock.
Nathan O'Donnell is a Dublin-based writer and researcher, and one of the co-editors of the Irish journal of contemporary art criticism,Paper Visual Art. He has published in several magazines, journals, and has written exhibition texts and worked collaboratively with other artists and writers; he has also delivered a number of public art projects and educational initiatives. His first solo exhibition,The Centre for Indisciplinary Research, opened at the Illuminations Gallery in Maynooth University in March 2020. He has been a research fellow at the Irish Museum of Modern Art since 2017 and he will be writer-in-residence at Maynooth University 2020–21.
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