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Dean John Hammond (born 7 March 1983) is an English retired footballer. He previously played in the Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion, Leyton Orient, Colchester United, Leicester City and Southampton.

Football career

Brighton & Hove Albion
Born in Hastings, England, Hammond began his career at Brighton & Hove Albion when he was eleven years and then started in 1998 on YTS forms  and started to progress at the club's development squad. Hammond made his Brighton & Hove Albion debut on 6 December 2000, in the first round of the Southern Section of Football League Trophy, in a 2–0 win over Cardiff City. This turned out to be his only appearance in the 2000–01 season.

Following this, Hammond returned to the club's reserve for the next two seasons before signing his first professional contract on 11 May 2002. Following this, Hammond was promoted to the first team at the start of the 2002–03 season. Hammond made his league debut for the club on 14 September 2002, coming on as a late substitute, in a 4–2 loss against Gillingham. Ten days later, on 24 September 2002, he scored his first Brighton & Hove Albion goal, in a 3–1 loss against Ipswich Town in the second round of League Cup. After the match, Manager Martin Hinshelwood praised Hammond's performance, including his first goal for the side. Under the new management of Steve Coppell, Hammond struggled to regain his first team place and never played again for the rest of the 2002–03 season.

In the 2003–04 season, Hammond was loaned out to lower league teams, starting with Aldershot Town during September. After making seven appearances at Aldershot Town, he returned to his parent club despite intending to extend his loan spell at the club. Following this, Hammond was loaned out to Leyton Orient shortly after. After extending his loan spell for another month with Leyton Orient, and went on to make nine appearances for the side. At the end of the 2003–04 season, Hammond was offered a new contract.

He was given a six-month ultimatum at the start of the 2004–05 season by then manager Mark McGhee. However, Hammond suffered an injury in the pre–season friendly that saw him sidelined at the start of the 2004–05 season. After returning to the first team from injury, Hammond was given a handful of first team appearances and making a huge impression, resulting him signing a contract until the end of the next season. Despite being on the substitute bench between October and March, he became a first team regular as a midfielder for the rest of the season and then scored his first league goal for the club on 16 March 2005, in a 4–2 loss against Wigan Athletic. Hammond scored again on 16 April 2005, in a 1–1 draw against Burnley, followed up by scoring twice, in a 2–2 draw against West Ham United on 23 April 2005. At the end of the 2004–05 season, Hammond finished the season making 30 appearances and scoring 4 times in all competitions.

At the beginning of the 2005–06 season, Hammond was handed the vacant number 11 shirt at the club, and became a first-team regular, either playing on the left hand side of midfield or in his preferred natural position of central midfield. He then started the 2005–06 season well when he scored the opening game of the season, in a 1–1 draw against Derby County and then scored again a week later, in a 2–2 draw against Crewe. For his good form at the club led him to sign a contract extension, keeping him until 2008. By the end of 2005, he went on to score two more goals against Ipswich Town and Millwall. However, Hammond received two red cards this season, with both of them came as a second bookable offence. Despite suffering setbacks from injury and suspension, Hammond went on to make 41 appearances scoring four times in all competitions.

In the 2006–07 season, Hammond was handed the captain's armband at the club after injuries to both Richard Carpenter and Charlie Oatway. He started the 2006–07 season well when he scored his first goal of the season, in a 2–2 draw against Brentford on 12 August 2006. His second goal then came on 12 September 2006, in a 2–2 draw against AFC Bournemouth. By the end of 2006, Hammond went on to score four more goals against Bradford City, Cheltenham Town (twice) and Oldham Athletic. After being sidelined with injury and suspension, Hammond became the new official club captain after Carpenter was released by Brighton at the end of January 2007. Weeks after being appointed as a new captain, Hammond scored two goals in two matches between 13 February 2007 and 17 February 2007 against Leyton Orient and Nottingham Forest. However, he suffered a hamstring injury that ruled him out for the rest of the season. Hammond also scored three times in cup competitions, with two came from Football League Trophy against Boston United and MK Dons, while the other one came from FA Cup against Stafford Rangers. Hammond finished the 2006–07 season making 39 appearances and scoring 11 times, making him the top–scorer both in the league and in all competitions. For his performance, Hammond was named the club's player of the year this season.

Ahead of the 2007–08 season, Hammond returned from injury in the pre–season. At the start of the 2007–08 season, he started the season well, scoring on his 100th league appearance start on 18 August 2007, in a 2–1 win over Northampton Town. Two weeks later, on 1 September 2007, Hammond scored again, in a 3–2 win over Southend United, followed up by scoring in a 3–0 win over Millwall in the next game. Two weeks later, on 22 September 2007, Hammond scored his fourth goal of the season, in a 2–1 loss against Yeovil Town. It wasn't until on 20 November 2007 when he scored again in the FA Cup round, in a 2–1 win over Cheltenham Town. On 15 December 2007, Hammond scored his fifth league goal of the season, in a 3–0 win over Swindon Town. However, as the 2007–08 season progressed, with Hammond having one-year remaining on his contract at the Withdean, manager Dean Wilkins was keen to offer Hammond a new deal, with the club and representatives for the player beginning talks in October 2007. During January 2008, it was revealed that Hammond would only sign a new deal for the club if they showed the ambition of returning to the Championship. In the final months to his departure, Hammond was sent–off on his last appearance for a straight red card, just ten minutes into the game, in a 1–1 draw against Oldham Athletic. When the £300,000 capture of striker Glenn Murray from Rochdale failed to change Hammond's mind, the club placed him on the transfer list with little more than a week of the transfer window remaining.

Colchester United
On 30 January 2008, Brighton accepted an offer of £250,000 plus add-ons for the player. Hammond completed the deal the following day, moving to Colchester United.

However, Hammond suffered a setback since moving to Colchester United, as he suffered a calf injury, delaying his Colchester United. It wasn't until on 23 February 2008 when he finally made his Colchester United debut, coming on as second-half substitute, in a 2–1 loss against Bristol City. Since making his Colchester United debut, Hammond established himself in the first team there at the club, but subsequently unable to help the club survive relegation and went on to make 13 appearances.

Ahead of the 2008–09 season, Hammond dismissed suggestions that he would leave Colchester United following their relegation and stated that he was given an opportunity to play. Nevertheless, Hammond continued to be a first team regular at Colchester United and then scored his first Colchester United goal on 25 October 2008, in a 5–0 win over Carlisle United. Following Chris Coyne's absent from the first team, Hammond was appointed captain in December for the rest of the season. Weeks after being given the captain role, Hammond scored again to give Colchester United their first ever win against Leeds United at Elland Road. It wasn't until on 17 January 2009 when he scored his third Colchester United goal, in a 3–1 win over Cheltenham Town. After missing out for one game, due to injury, Hammond scored on his return from injury, in a 2–2 draw against Huddersfield Town on 3 March 2009. Following the match, Hammond's return was praised by Manager Paul Lambert, describing him as "terrific". For the rest of the season, Hammond continued to be a first team regular, resulting him being named the club's Player of the Year and Gazette Player of the Year award. At the end of the season, Hammond finished his full season at Colchester United making 43 appearances and scoring 5 times in all competitions.

In the 2009–10 season, Hammond found himself in the transfer speculation when Colchester United accepted a bid from Southampton, having previously turned down two bids from them. Amid to the transfer move to Southampton, Hammond made three appearances in all competitions, including a 7–1 win over Norwich City in the opening game of the season. Hammond made 63 appearances during his time with The U's, scoring 5 times in all competitions before his move to St. Mary's.

Southampton
On 19 August 2009, Hammond signed a three-year contract with Southampton for an undisclosed fee. As a result of moving to Southampton, his former club, Brighton, received a 20% of any profit as part of the clause following his move to Colchester United a year before.

Hammond made his Southampton debut on 22 August 2009, where he made his first start and played the whole game, in a 1–1 draw against Brentford. Since making his Southampton debut, Hammond became a first team regular. It wasn't until on 17 October 2009 when Hammond scored his first goal against Oldham Athletic, and made the scoresheet again a week later, against Milton Keynes Dons. In November 2009, it was announced that Hammond was appointed as the new Southampton captain, succeeding goalkeeper Kelvin Davis. A week later, he scored again in the second round of the FA Cup, in a 2–1 win over Northampton Town and then scored a week later, in the league, in a 3–1 win over Walsall. However, during a 1–1 draw against Millwall on 16 January 2010, Hammond suffered an Achilles injury in the first half, resulted him being substituted and after the match, it was announced that he would be out for several weeks. After returning to the first team around mid–February, Hammond scored again, as well as, setting up one of the goals, in a 5–0 win over Huddersfield Town on 2 March 2010 and then on 1 April 2010, Hammond scored in a 2–2 draw against his former club, Brighton & Hove Albion, where he celebrated in front of the Brighton supporters by "running along the touchline cupping his hand to his ear, angering them". Although Southampton finished seventh place and having failed to reach the play–offs, having started the season with 15 points deduction, due to the club's financial problems, Hammond finished his first season at the club making 49 appearances and scoring 6 times in all competitions.

In the 2010–11 season, Hammond continued to be the club's captain and after a slow start in the first two league' matches of the season, Hammond set up one of the goals, in a 4–0 win over Bristol Rovers on 28 August 2010. It wasn't until on 13 November 2010 when Hammond scored his first goal of the season, in a 3–2 loss against Carlisle United. Two months later, on 5 February 2011, Hammond scored again, in a 4–4 thrilling draw against Peterborough United. Then on 5 March 2011, he scored the second goal with a drive from the edge of the area against former club Colchester United to complete a 2–0 away win, and one week later on 12 March 2011, he, once again, scored an important second goal against AFC Bournemouth in a 3–1 away win. Despite suffering setbacks on three occasions from injuries during the season, Hammond eventually helped the club reach promotion to the Championship after two seasons at League One following a 3–1 win over Walsall on 7 May 2011. At the end of the 2010–11 season, Hammond finished the season making 47 appearances and scoring 4 times in all competitions.

Hammond started the season when he scored the first Southampton goal of the 2011–12 season, a 25-yard effort in a 3–1 victory over Leeds United, in their first game back in the Championship for two years. The season also saw Hammond found himself in a competition over the central midfielder position, which he described it as "take it to a new height". On 22 September 2011, Hammond then signed a contract extension with the club, keeping him until 2014. However, in a 1–1 draw against Reading on 22 October 2011, Hammond was sent–off in the second half and served one match, which came in the League Cup game. However, as the 2011–12 season progressed, he continued to be a first team regular despite being on the substitute bench on several time, which "he has adapted well to the style Saints have adopted." On 29 April 2012, Hammond gained promotion with Southampton to the Premier League. At the end of the 2011–12 season, Hammond went on make 48 appearances scoring once in all competitions.

However, in the 2012–13 season, Hammond struggled to regain his first team place in the Premier League and even lost his captaincy to Adam Lallana. Despite this, Hammond made his only appearance of the 2012–13 season, captained in the second round of the League Cup, in a 4–1 win over Stevenage.

Brighton & Hove Albion (loan)
On 31 August 2012, Hammond re-joined his former club Brighton & Hove Albion on loan for the remainder of the 2012–13 season. Upon re–joining the club, Hammond stated his aim is to win over his fans, having previously upset them when he scored against his former club, whilst at Southampton.

Hammond re–debuted for the club on 14 September 2012, where he made his first start and played the whole game, in a 3–0 win over Sheffield Wednesday. From that moment since re–debuting for the side, Hammond began to established himself in the first team at midfield position under Gus Poyet management, alongside Liam Bridcutt. It wasn't until on 28 November 2012 when he scored his first goal for the club since 2007, in a 2–0 win over Bristol City. His second goal then came on 1 January 2013, in a 2–0 win over Ipswich Town. Despite being on the substitute bench on numerous occasion, Hammond went on to make 39 appearances scoring two times in all competitions in the 2012–13 season. Following this, the club allowed him to return to his parent club after it came to an end.

Leicester City
On 30 August 2013, Hammond joined Leicester City for an undisclosed fee, signing a two-year deal. Upon joining the club, Hammond said Leicester City move would benefited him to play in the Premier League one day.

Hammond made his Leicester City debut, coming on as a late second-half substitute, in a 2–0 win over Wigan Athletic on 14 September 2013. It wasn't until on 23 November 2013 when he made his first start for the club, in a 2–0 win over Ipswich Town. Hammond scored his first goal for Leicester with a late, headed equaliser against Wigan Athletic on 1 April 2014, helping the Foxes extend their lead at the top of the Sky Bet Championship to seven points. However, since his move to Leicester City, Hammond appeared on the substitute bench, due to strong competitions from central–midfielders duo Danny Drinkwater and Matty James. Hammond played 29 times as Leicester won the Championship en route to promotion to the Premier League.

In the 2014–15 season, Hammond made his Premier League debut as a substitute for the injured Danny Drinkwater in the opening day 2–2 draw with Everton. Since making his Premier League, Hammond cemented his place with impressive performances against Chelsea, Arsenal and Stoke City. However, Hammond began to suffer a setback when he injured his calf and was out for a month. After making two more appearances in January, Hammond, again, suffered a calf injury that kept him out for another month. Although he returned in May, Hammond went on to make 12 appearances in the 2014–15 season. Subsequently, Hammond was offered a new contract by the club.

On 2 July 2015, Hammond signed a one-year contract extension until the summer of 2016. However, Hammond's first team opportunities became further limited under Claudio Ranieri following the arrival of new midfielders Gökhan Inler and N'Golo Kanté. As a result, Hammond was told by the club management to be loaned out in order to get a regular first team football. At the end of the 2015–16 season, which saw Leicester City win the English top-flight for the first time, Hammond was released by the club.

Sheffield United (loan)
On 20 October 2015, Hammond joined Sheffield United on loan until the end of January, rejoining his former manager from Southampton, Nigel Adkins.

Hammond made his debut the same day in a 3–0 victory over Fleetwood Town. It wasn't until on 24 November 2015 when he scored his first Sheffield United goal, in a 4–2 loss against Shrewsbury Town. From that moment on, Hammond became a first team regular for the rest of the season and extended his loan spell until the end of the season. Hammond then scored his second goal for the club on 30 March 2016, in a 3–1 loss against Southend United. Hammond went on to make 34 appearances scoring twice for the side. During his time there, Hammond was considered by Manager Adkins as an 'unsung hero', due to his commitment at Sheffield United.

On 20 May 2016, Hammond activated his option of a permanent contract with the club which had been inserted as part of his loan move. However, new manager Chris Wilder was seemingly less keen on the services of Hammond and instantly placed him on the transfer list. On 2 July 2016, Hammond left the club by mutual consent.

After leaving Sheffield United, Hammond went on trial at Coventry City in January 2017. However, the club decided against offering a new contract to Hammond following a trial.

Return to Leicester and retirement
Hammond returned to former club Leicester City in the spring of 2017, featuring as an over age player in under-21 matches, whilst assisting with coaching.

Hammond featured for Leicester City in a pre season friendly match against Leamington in July 2017.

In August 2017, it was revealed that Hammond had moved back to Sussex, and has retired as a player but is keen to remain involved in football in some capacity.

As of March 2018, he was still involved with Leicester City, as 'Loans Manager' within the academy setup.

Worthing
On 22 March 2020, it was announced that Hammond would return to football to play for Isthmian League Premier Division club Worthing in the 7th tier of English football. However, the COVID-19 pandemic halted football across the nation before he could make an appearance.

Career statistics

Personal life
Growing up, Hammond revealed that his ambition was to become a professional footballer, stating that he wanted to play as best he could, and at the highest level.

During his early Brighton & Hove Albion career, Hammond lived in a four-bedroom house in Hastings. Hammond began dating his then-19-year-old girlfriend, Rachel, who studied property surveying at Oxford Brookes University. They were married and together, the couple have three children, a daughter (born in 2009), a son (born in 2012) and another son (born 2016). However, their first son was just three weeks old when he was diagnosed with meningitis.

Honours

Southampton
Football League Trophy winners: 2010
Football League One runners-up: 2010–11
Football League Championship runners-up: 2011–12

Leicester City
Football League Championship winners: 2013–14

References

External links
Dean Hammond player profile at www.lcfc.com
Dean Hammond player profile at www.premierleague.com

1983 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Hastings
English footballers
Premier League players
English Football League players
Association football midfielders
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players
Aldershot Town F.C. players
Colchester United F.C. players
Southampton F.C. players
Leyton Orient F.C. players
Leicester City F.C. players
Sheffield United F.C. players
Leicester City F.C. non-playing staff

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Another summer in the garden starts .... and it starts late, thanks to massive disorganization on my part, major life changes at home, and generally too much to do in too little time....just like everyone else reading this.
Took two days to get all the seedlings potted, waterplants moved out of the greenhouse, hanging plants hung, and seeds spread.
This year I have calendula - the flower petals go in my comfrey salve (but can be eaten fresh too).
Along with the Boxwood Basil and Greek Basil..
And the Magic Michael Basil with the fuzzy fragrant purple tops.
Nessie was suppose to have her own water garden this year - that's not going to happen, so instead she's guarding pots of sage, rosemary and jalapeno peppers. I use the jalapeno peppers to make non-toxic insect spray for the vegetable plants later in the summer.
The larger pots of sage and rosemary are thriving, but the sage I wintered over (the red pot)got very spindlely last month and had to be cut back - it lasted all winter, and produced enough leaves to keep me in sage rinse from October to March. Now that its outside I've cut it way down, and new sprouts are already coming out.
Right next to the Magic Michael Basil are the tomatos, two plants to a large pot with several pots. And in spite of my plans, I ended up planting two rows of tomatos and peppers out in the yard gardens - along with a large area of ground covering gourds (noticed today the gourds are up - dipper, nest egg, and apple gourds).
Remember when I bought these last fall? Finally got them together, and as of this week planted. They were meant to go inside over the winter, and this next year will do just that. But the trial run this summer is outdoors, and includes tomatoes planted upside down..
Top trays have green peppers, rosemary, and blue sage. Since this was taken, the top trays have been mulched with straw to keep moisture close to the roots.
These were the recommended plants, but I'm wondering exactly how the watering will accomodate the water-thirsty tomatos and peppers as well as the sage and rosemary that prefer drier soil.
My ancient oregano plant is popping back out - wasn't really sure it would make it again this year.
This is my fourth year lavender - it winters over in the greenhouse and usually blooms a second time in February.
More sage, more oregano, more rosemary.... I use large amounts of each of these in homemade Italian Seasoning, sage rinse, and comfrey/rosemary salve (rosemary is an antibiotic).
At the very top of the Swing Garden, next to the spiral evergreens, is the Monarda Jacob Cline, probably the Monarda variety with the biggest blooms. This plant will be approximately three feet tall, covered with large red flowers and the butterflies that love them.
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These last few, what has it been? days? weeks? is it a month yet? I've been wide awake, even when I don't want to be. It's been hard to relax, hard to lay down and keep my eyes closed. Because someone's living it, someone's talking about it, and someone's denying the world that imposes on me exists.
We think that strength comes from not caring what other people think. I don't see how that's true. We were created to be relational beings, even if we don't all execute that in the same way. I'm not sure what the stoicism that says I'm not upset or I don't mind what other people say or think would gain me. What kind of person would it make me, if that were true? More than that, why is the expectation that it could be true?
I am a socialized being (albeit an intentionally re-educated one, by the grace of God which I mean quite literally). I'm an American, and I'm Black. I've gotten messages all my life as to the value system of the culture into which I was born. I don't say this to absolve any other country of their scarred history, but to say that because of ours, the answer to our questions and our issues and our homegrown terror must take them into account. If I've been told all my life – on every conscious level and whether I agree with it or not – that the White American voice is required for all manner of validation, shall I be held wholly responsible then for dismantling all of the privilege that is therein implied, denying its destructive impact and cultural capital, by simply denying that a single voice does harm when it's declaring injustice to be a lie, accusing us of "attacking western civilization", saying that "white people are being demonized" (because there is no way for someone to be wrong without being undone entirely…) or any of the willfully blind and unapologetic other things being said? On my own, I should just be the bigger person when someone tries to rewrite the definition of racism, which – if I can be – somehow means it won't feel the least bit deflating? I won't be discouraged or disappointed or further disillusioned, not ever or least only by admission long after the fact?
But if these are your countrymen, and that means anything, why wouldn't I be? It *isn't* enough for *me* to know the truth. People who look like me were the enslaved and then the segregated and then the scorned and mocked and antagonized and still the oppressed, but I should today in 2014 because ostensibly time heals all wounds brush off that so many people still refuse to acknowledge the truth? Why would I want to do that? How would that not grieve me?
I don't *want* to live in a world where everyone looks like me or sounds like me or only knows the things that I know. I don't want to go our separate ways, stick to our "own" kind, because where and when did that ever work? And, because it matters to me, how does that please God?
It does bothers me that you don't get it. It just doesn't change my mind. It doesn't make me think maybe I've got it wrong. It doesn't mean I'll let myself be shut up, even when I don't want to have this conversation all over again, even when I'm tired of having my heart race waiting for the other shoe to drop, waiting to be completely disregarded. I'll never stop knowing what I know about you, about me, about us, about respectability politics and the fact that anyone would find murder justified whether a boy had stolen cigars or not. I'll never stop knowing that criminalization and oppression and self-loathing and crime are related, even if you don't know. I'll never stop knowing how – before I can show my talents – I must first disprove a prejudice.
I just know it should bother you, too.
People don't buy books with people of color on the cover.
People don't read books with people of color as narrator or MC.
First of all, one of the best things about that collection of quotes explaining racism is that it calls us out for not identifying who is being racist. Because of the way we police our speech, there are no racists, right? Just racist things that are happening all on their own. Just a machine already in motion (which is true) that no one is controlling (which could be true but that doesn't negate) that someone is benefiting from. So s/he is responsible for shutting it down.
And while others have already eloquently spoken on the fact that the thing about diversity is that white people shouldn't have to be able to relate to everything in the marketplace – which I will sum up as follows: Diversity in literature is having something for everyone, not everything for someone – what I wanna talk about is how that's baloney. That whole can't-relate dealie. Is baloney.
Because the thing is: none of us fell out of the womb relating. We were *taught* how to relate to the default voice. From the first reading assignment through to the last, by whom we were assigned to read, by the way we were taught to decipher it, we were taught how to relate to literature.
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Frost, Atwood, Wharton, and everyone else we read. We were taught how to read them. We were socialized to identify and identify with the style, the imagery, the pentameter, the allusions, the themes. We were taught.
Which means you can learn. Anyone who wants to. Everyone. Because – instead of trying to edit out the minority voice – the standard response should be, lemme stretch myself so I can hear the things I'm not hearing. Let me learn a new way to read, just like all of the western world was taught to hear the white, (mostly) male voice.
White is an ethnicity as well. Which is why you can't take a white character, slap a skin color on, and say, "Tada, now you're (insert race)!" Because your character, depending on what race and background they have, isn't going to look at white things the way a white person would.
And I'm keeping my voice.
This is where I started to write a hilarious (to me) post about how when elected, Diverse Author will make the world a better place in general, a la Homer Simpson's Sanitation Commissioner campaign.
Like any passionate politician, I was going to promise the moon – or at least a doing away with the new PRH logo.
If one can really call it that. I feel like they were going for clean and minimalist, forgetting that they'd gone with PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE as a name. When we all had already decided on Random Penguin.
When you choose to support Diverse Author, you get my personal guarantee that I will fight for the PRH logo we deserve. The one where the penguin is wild-eyed and wearing one sock, possibly brandishing an umbrella. You know, something you'd be proud to have on the spine of your book.
But it would go well beyond rebranding. Diverse Author promises to increase your daily word count by combining things the internet assumes every writer has to begin with. A cat. And a laptop. Using a cat's innate desire to sleep on your keyboard, I will help you produce record-breaking and experimental content without ever plotting or world-building.
I was totally gonna write that post. And then I worried that the joke might be lost on many, if a joke is what we could call it. The strange expectation then that seems to constantly accompany diversity hires – POTUS included – which dictates that we must be The Living End. That which shall set right all the things and purify every iniquity.
The expectation that makes such hires and initiatives unsustainable.
Because the thing to realize is that the world is improved precisely by our having a voice, simply by righting the wrong. Not if we exceed sales expectations with a single bound, not if we surpass our cultural icons and heroes. By taking our place.
Can we replace "diversity problem" with "delusion"? Google's mostly white-male staff underline Tech's delusion sounds more honest. Let's call it what it is. It reflects a clear and persistent and almost inspired inability or unwillingness to operate in the real and actual world. Concurrently, it reflects a system so lopsided that there is an overrepresentation of white men in the corporate world which, if scrutinized even slightly, would point to significant problems with the socio-educational-economic-everyinstitutionever complex that makes up our nation.
Click-bait titles for self-aggrandizing, pseudo-radical-social-revolutionary stories that in no way challenge the foundation, you've done it again.
How do you get Latino children into classical music, NPR? Really?
Somehow get people out of the ethno-social class that is historically and perpetually marginalized. Give them a break from chaotic and desperate circumstances which perpetuate the comparatively high percentages of academic under-performance and criminalization and thereby allow them a longer scope and vision. Give them access to all the things you have access to while doing away with the institutionalized barriers and negative expectations and baggage that inhibit upward mobility and create self-fulfilling prophecies. Because we know that "classical music" is code for something else entirely.
But we also know that no one was genuinely asking in the first place.
We Are The People That You'll Never Get The Best Of.
But this is a reminder: any and all campaigns dedicated to increasing diverse representation have to be constantly self-regulating. Sometimes finding a solution isn't the first order of business. The first order of business is resetting the way we all think.
Yep, #WeNeedDiverseBooks. But that means #WeNeedDiverseAuthors to write books that reflect the actual reality. This is my story.
Now that I've described the mental process of writing as a writer of color (or tried to, anyway), on to what I want to write. Presently, anyway. It evolves and I'm glad for it.
My broseph-in-law, Andy, is actually the person who asked whether I was going to post this somewhere. Having edited gently to remove indicators of to whom this was originally submitted, here is a recent essay about My Story and why it's being told overwhelmingly in speculative literary form.
I've long been conscious of what is inaccurately regarded as merely a Black predicament – and that such consciousness isn't a characteristic of being Black – so, a devourer of gorgeous general fiction, I bared my soul in short stories and novels where the only character more important than language itself was the overwhelming social commentary. Overwhelming because it seemed inherently more aggressive in my present-day settings than the commentary in the work I adored.
My father was born a Black man in the Midwest in 1944 and when Affirmative Action debuted it wasn't a dig, it was a divine intervention. His isn't my story.
As much as I love whatever brought us Lupita Nyong'o, the Academy most honors PoC stories sub-titled: When We Were Slaves – but that's not my story either.
I adore them but I'm not Toni Morrison's Denver, whose safety and wholeness is most possible in a world necessarily away from white people, or Octavia Butler's Dana, whose engrossing tale is untellable without reliving the past. I am closer to Elsie in my novella, Keepsake – a clone born of a memory extraction who doesn't live (and die) as she's expected, who straddles two worlds, who's not real but isn't a Mem, who wants her loved ones to tell her who and what she is until she understands: they don't know.
It's not a story I could satisfactorily tell when I was writing purely general fiction. The characters kept getting reduced to their Blackness, to their remarkable ability to express themselves and decode the world. They were all poets and writers and professors, none of which is bad, but it was the "exceptional voice" all over again. It took place in the real world with a decided default class and therefore automatically became an "issue book" from which I shielded loved ones. They wouldn't understand; they weren't ready to hear; they'd reveal their own prejudices and I'd be faced with how to respond.
Because my story is having had to choose between the token – a story wherein the Black protagonist is inevitably the only PoC – and the exception – wherein a) the Black character is "not as colored as she seems" and her wavy hair, her green eyes, her lighter-shades-of-coffee skin are incessantly described, or b) every Black character is a genius, a master, a far cry from being average. My story is living in a post-movement world where a "normal" story is what we're disallowed; we earn a story either because we're victims still destructively reeling from the world we never made or because we're noble pantheons of bootstrapping achievement. Society taught me I must be one or the other. But fighting that in black and white sometimes felt reductive, too.
Science fiction lets us hold the truth just far enough away to see it in our world. To speak directly while outfoxing those among us who refuse to acknowledge it or care. Should people need such coddling? Of course not. But if internet comments prove nothing else, privilege cripples. That's never more obvious than when we call for diversity in the genre, not just on the page but behind the typewriter.
I'll keep writing it because only after finishing Keepsake did I hear it speak to the way oppression and identity policing aren't safely in our past, but are woven into a sometimes beautiful world that, yes, can knock the wind out of us when discrimination catches us off-guard.
Abrupt finish, I know. The last (omitted) sentence referred, you may have guessed, to the scholarship for which I was applying.
Final thought – which I hope won't be too big a distraction to my above point: the chasm between genre fiction and the respectability of general fiction is particularly unfair to writers of color. And I say that as someone who didn't know I'd end up on this side.
While my experience of feeling burdened and caged in cannot be applied to everyone else – because there are clearly too many writers of color writing beautiful and contemporary and yes sometimes historical works of art in general fiction (that give.me.LIFE) – I can't escape the feeling that by writing anything else, my work is even further from ever being seen as capable of universal truth. I resent the feeling that I'm not writing "important work" anymore. And I disagree. (And heaven forfend, because that steampunky story I keep referring to? It's YA to boot!) But just in case anyone else is in the same place as me, I wanted to let you know.
I've been applying for a lot of fellow/scholarships for writers of color or diverse literature. For these, I've written a few essays, one of which I'm going to share with you tomorrow. I'm not looking for it to blow your mind. I'm hoping it can do what diverse, or rather realistic, writing can do – speak back to somebody who thought no one else knew.
The essay is about who I'm writing and how writing speculative literary fiction has been expansive for me. But today – before that – I want to tell you what the actual writing is like. Because while I'm making up these other worlds, I'm living in the real one.
I've observed that privilege is largely what you don't have to know. For those of you who don't, here's a glimpse into things I think about when presenting a character.
Scratch that. Necessarily first, lemme give you a glimpse into how my brain works when I want to tell you anything.
Then I think about how I shouldn't have to tell anyone that.
And before, during and after having said something, I will wonder if the way I said it will keep you from hearing what I said. Because privilege is precious. It is aggressive and yet easily threatened. I must be calm (rational) and gracious. Passion = rage, if you're a person of color. Ask …any human. The hardest part about telling people what things are really like is knowing that you're supposed to care most about what it's like for them. Even the telling. Discomfort might be a way of life for you but you've got to make the telling of it palatable. Or you've got to set it so far in the past that it doesn't threaten them now…but that's a separate story.
when C) there are so many ways I already *shouldn't* introduce her. She can't be brown like anything that is in reality brown because comparison offends. So I must somehow and without politicizing my story tell you she's a Black girl except she isn't because this is a story set on a different world so the entire predicament that brought about who I am does not exist.
And then, inevitably, someone will ask why it matters what color she is. And the exhale will feel as long and decisive as a final breath because sometimes you have to know what is just a brick wall. But this is my blog and everybody deserves some corner of sanity, so let me answer: if it didn't matter, you wouldn't default her to one specific race of people.
If it didn't matter, innumerable stories with white protagonists would seem like overkill before two stories featuring people of another race did.
That story about the Asian-kid-at-summer-camp book getting rejected [because one already exists] brings to mind how unpleasantly editors and publishers tend to react to the idea of instituting racial (and/or gender) quotas as a mechanism for diversifying their lists. But, as that incident and so many others reveal, informal quotas are already in place.
They got it so right, Sarah and Jennifer.* There is already a quota, it just doesn't work in my favor.
And newsflash? I don't want it to matter either! I'm not fighting to keep this system of injustice in place. (Feel like I need to throw in a how-dare-you for that one, y'all.) Talking about a problem and acknowledging that it is a problem is not the same as creating the problem.
I'm ready to be done with the diversity that means, "Showcasing Marginalized Groups in Order to Provide Colorful, Enriching Cultural Experiences for White People" (Jennifer Pan).
I promise. I want to be past that at least as much as you do.
Be careful that while we mourn a great orator, poet, activist, VOICE, we don't send the message to younger women of color to keep quiet.
*Read the article, if you haven't already. And comment if you've got something to say – I did! And to see descriptions of my writing, check out my Writing page.
You would think I haven't had much to say. And you would be wrong. The problem is moreso that there hasn't been a brain-to-blog plug-in yet that works. Get on that, nerds.
First ribs of the season. If we facebook, you've already seen this but I mean… can you ever see this picture too much? Montreal does this thing where she waits until you're pretty sure you cannot handle cold any more and then she keeps it cold for about three months longer and then when it lifts, you have never loved a city so much. She's a cunning little minx.
And then Mother's Day happened, which was awesome and I'll post a picture at the end because there's this one other thing that got in my craw (assuming that's how you spell that) and I want to end on a high note.
So, pre-picture honest time: the worst thing you can do during a campaign about needing diversity in literature is be the guy/gal who – blinded by the privilege of having a voice (see Orange Is The New Black for more examples) – is completely ignorant to the fact that a problem which involves an overrepresentation of white writers is not also going to be solved by white writers writing about diverse people.
Like…why would that be your go-to plan A?
Don't be the person who has to interrupt to say diversity isn't just what I'm writing about either. (Have you noticed this??) The "what about ___" response? To which I always answer: one story isn't enough. MY story isn't enough. Why would it be expected that ALL the diversity need be in one place? The imperialism is staggering. We this way, you that way = stop it. There's room in here, guys. You just might have to give up some of yours.
And where I could link to the individuals who have tweeted something that made me shake my head, I'm just gonna say: it happens or I wouldn't be mentioning it. Instead of trying to justify or explain or point out that you don't do that – as though I'm incapable of appreciating that not all people of a demographic are the same (hold for indignant snort at all the ironies) – maybe go further out of your way to not just tweet the real solution, but to also support diverse authors. Support presses dedicated to supporting diversity. And if you're in doubt, listen to what #diversityisnot. Ask questions. Just make sure you respect the reality enough to not make your questions about you. Don't ask immediately whether you should write diversity, don't ask how you should go about it, don't interrupt to tell us that you did. You are not being called upon to save the day. The whole point of this is every story isn't yours. It's true of everyone else and we survive. You'll be fine.
Now this is not a link round-up because we all have fingers and search engines and book stores and seriously, feed yourself or you'll starve. Here instead is a place to start supporting.
And you know what, understand diversity isn't the same as multiculturalism. I think I may have mentioned this before. My story is not safely segregated from the mainstream and it won't make you feel enlightened and worldly to read it. It's not about the past (not the one you're thinking of anyway) or some far away place of my own developing world. It's about a black girl, right now, in the same space who has the right to lead the story.


Physical damage on rail-tracks can threaten the safety of a railway system as a whole. Current damage detection methods are costly and usually only performed on a yearly basis. The PARTS system is a compact, laser-based light source combined with an on-board digital camera that makes it possible to visualise rail profiles. The system can take images or videos to help its control computer determine whether a rail is in good shape or shows signs of wear. Images of detected damage are reported along with precise track positions thanks to an embedded GNSS system. A combination of Galileo and the EGNOS support system is the GNSS service of choice of the PARTS project. For underground operations, it can be supported by the Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) system or a dead reckoning inertial positioning system. The PARTS system is a cost-effective solution that reduces the costs rail operators incur through track inspection. It can be installed on existing or new rail vehicles. Train builders can thus provide vehicles suitable for both transportation and maintenance inspections to meet the current high demand from train operators. The benefits are clear: reduced maintenance costs, reduced maintenance time, and constant monitoring of rail conditions during normal train operations.


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Freight Market Update: April 15, 2020
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Satellite Tracking Increases As companies require new types of information to gauge the health of their supply chains in the era of COVID-19, Bloomberg reports satellite tracking is revealing where food and raw-material suppliers are struggling to meet demand, so that companies can respond with alternatives as quickly as possible.
US Preps New Air Cargo Guidance Following the lead of foreign aviation authorities, US air-safety regulators plan to lift restrictions and provide guidelines for US air carriers to convert passenger areas of airplanes to hold cargo, according to the WSJ.
US-Mexico Trade Could Be Faster A team of researchers is compiling data and making simple suggestions, like truck-only lanes and expansion of pre-clearance programs, reports Freightwaves, in order to expedite freight transport between the US and Mexico. Approximately 85% of goods transported between the two move by truck.
Meanwhile, this week, Flexport Chief Economist Dr. Phil Levy noted the following economic highlights:
An oil deal was struck after months of a price war spurred by a disagreement between Russia and Saudi Arabia. A broad weekend deal promised to restrain production by 9.7 million barrels per day.
The initial reaction in oil markets was modest. By some estimates, global oil demand has fallen by 15 million bpd since the start of the year as the COVID-19 pandemic slowed the global economy.
Brent crude, which traded over $68/barrel in early January was trading just under $33 after touching a low below $25 at the end of March. Such prices put enormous strains on oil producers and have resulted in substantial stockpiling of oil.
US unemployment claims came in at 6.6m after a revised record 6.9m the week before. This means that more than 10% of the US labor force has filed an unemployment claim in the last three weeks, amid reports that more have tried but been unable to file.
The French GDP contracted 6% in the first quarter, the worst since WWII, per a report by The Bank of France. The survey showed factories at a record-low 56% capacity, down from 78% in February.
The WTO foresees a sharp trade decline. After a -0.1% decline in 2019, its new forecast is for a 2020 world trade volume decline between -12.9% and -31.9%. A rebound of 21% to 24% is expected in 2021.
USTR Extends Some List 1 Section 301 Exclusions The USTR issued a notice that it will grant extensions to eight specifically prepared HTS numbers from the first list of Section 301 tariffs scheduled to expire on April 18. The 13 specifically prepared HTS numbers on the original exclusion, but not on this notice, will expire on that date, when the duty rate will return to 25% for Chinese-origin goods.
WCO Revises HTS Guidance Document The WCO and WHO have amended their document with recommended HTS codes to use for COVID-19 medical supplies. New items have been added to the updated release.
COVID CBP Website CBP has created a COVID-19 site to help answer questions from importers or brokers on importing PPE or related materials.
For a roundup of tariff-related news, visit Tariff Insider.


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Priorities & Plans
Soil Health & Greenhouse Gases
Resources & Talks
New York Soil Health Roadmap
New York has been at the forefront of the soil health movement for over three decades, and now has an ambitious level of activity on multiple fronts. One challenge has been capitalizing on this momentum, and fully developing opportunities for collaboration and synergy among the many individuals and organizations involved. The recent New York Soil Health effort is a start, and demonstrates how organization and establishment of communication channels among stakeholders and with policy-makers can keep us moving forward.
New York State is a recognized leader in soil health research, outreach, and policy, with effective stakeholder partnerships and demonstrated success at promoting a strong and dynamic agricultural and forest economy, protecting natural resources and biodiversity, improving resilience to extreme weather, and contributing to climate change mitigation.
The biggest challenge is addressing barriers to adoption of soil health practices by farmers and other land managers. While many soil health "pioneers" in our region can attest to the benefits from a business standpoint, adoption is not widespread. Lack of clarity on the timeline for reaping benefits from investment in soil health practices is a barrier for many farmers. In addition to economic concerns, other constraints to adoption include:
Increased management complexity
Lack of technical assistance
Policy disincentives
Logistical challenges, such as establishing a fall-winter cover crop with a relatively short growing season
Much of the research on soil health, particularly at the national level, has focused on large-scale conventional corn-soybean systems prevalent in the Midwest. While these are important crops in New York, mixed animal-crop dairy farms dominate our agricultural landscape, and acreage and economic importance of relatively high-value fruit and vegetable crops are also substantial. Our soil health policy, research, and outreach efforts need to be expanded to reach these and other underserved audiences and regions, such as apple and grape growers, organic farmers, and managers of grasslands, pastures, forests, and urban landscapes.
A Positive Example
Dairy farms in New York can serve as positive examples of coupled animal and crop production. While manure is often viewed as an inherent environmental problem, this "waste" is rich in organic matter and nutrients. New York has a unique opportunity for developing and demonstrating ways in which manure handling and land application can be optimized to minimize negative environmental impact and improve soil health. New York can also lead the way in innovations to produce value-added manure products for application to degraded soils, and addressing economic and policy constraints to energy generation from manure.
Looking Beyond the Farm
Initial soil health programming in New York has focused primarily on sustainable food production and farm profitability. While this remains a high priority, interest in quantifying and incentivizing the environmental and other off-farm benefits of soil health has been expanding. There are policy, as well as research and outreach needs for better integrating soil health with environmental issues of concern to all citizens of New York, such as climate change resiliency and mitigation, and water and nutrient management. These and other issues indicated above are addressed in the Roadmap Goals and Priorities.
Roadmap Goals & Priorities
Institutionalize a stakeholder network and organizational framework for soil health collaboration, communication, and priority setting
Identify and take steps to overcome barriers to wider adoption of soil health practices
Integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation research, outreach, and policy with soil health programming
Integrate water and nutrient management research, outreach, and policy with soil health programming
"The Roadmap identifies key policy, research, and education efforts to overcome barriers to adoption of soil health practices by farmers. It also identifies strategies to integrate soil health goals with state priorities focused on environmental issues such as climate change and water quality."
-David Wolfe, professor of plant and soil ecology at Cornell University and NYSH program lead
Use this online interactive flipbook to view the complete Roadmap.
Roadmap Contributors Include:
Farmers and Farmer Organizations | Researchers | Agriculture Service Providers | Policymakers | Representatives of state and federal agencies: NYS Dept. of Agriculture & Markets, NYS Dept. of Environmental Conservation, USDA – Natural Resources Conservation Service | Non-profit organizations: New York Farm Viability Institute, American Farmland Trust, The Nature Conservancy, New York Farm Bureau
info@newyorksoilhealth.org
School of Integrative Plant Science, CALS Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
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Townsquare Media High School MVP: Avery Gibbs, Thompson Valley High School
Maddie Warren
Maddie Warren Published: October 13, 2021
Brooke Gibbs
Each week, Townsquare Media, sponsored by FNBO, will be highlighting a Northern Colorado high school athlete as part of Townsquare Media's High School MVP program. Each of these athletes has had an outstanding presence on the court or field and has been submitted or selected as our MVP of the week.
With a 15-5 start to their season, the Thompson Valley Varsity Girl's Volleyball team is on a mission: reach their full potential and win state.
And in a dominant presence at the net? Freshman hitter Avery Gibbs. Making varsity for any sport in any year is an incredible feat, but to come in as a freshman and dominate the competition the way Avery has? Incredible.
In the Eagles' two matches last week, Avery hit for a total of 19 kills. In both matches, Avery led the team in kills. With that kind of swing, it'll be amazing to see how she continues to improve in her next three years of high school.
Avery, who also happens to play basketball, has such a clear love for her sports and a drive to continuously improve and be her best self on the court, both for her and for her teammates.
We asked Avery a couple of questions about how it feels to sit in such a prevalent role as just a freshman, what the team is striving towards, and what her future in volleyball might look like.
Q&A With MVP Avery Gibbs, Varsity Volleyball
Categories: High School Sports, Sports


The European manufacturing industry is facing challenges in terms of adaptability, flexibility and vertical integration. The SYMBIO-TIC project adresses these important issues towards a safe, dynamic, intuitive and cost effective working environment were inmersive and symbiotic collaboration between human workers and robots can take place and bring significant benefits to robot - reluctant industries, where current tasks and processes are thought too complex to be automated.
Simulation project at Avenctics Hungary Ltd.
Our laboratory has a long-term and fruitful partnership with the Aventics (former Bosch Rexroth) company. The factory, located in Eger (Hungary), produces pneumatic components and systems. Within the partnership our laboratory provides support to the introduction and application of advanced decision making tools in the manufacturing and logistics areas of the company.
"6ásos mérnök" in the application stores (Google Play és Apple App Store).
Existing research mostly focuses on pre-optimising algorithms, which are not applicable to already available VM images. With its VM synthesiser, ENTICE will extend pre-optimising approaches so that image dependency descriptions are mostly automatically generated. The project will also introduce new comprehensive post-optimising algorithms so that existing VM images can be automatically adapted to dynamic Cloud environments.
Based on the APIS project, with extended goals: "To study, define, analyse a new system concept for implementing and demonstrating ISAR imaging capability in a plug-in multistatic array passive radar finalized to target recognition."
The aim of the project is to extend the information services provided by the Municipality of Törökbálint Township. The mobile contents follow the updates of the database of the Web page of the town thanks to the data synchronisation. Introduction to the sights of the town, interactive map that can be downloaded in advance and thematic festival and event recommenders belong to the basic functionalities of the application.
Simulation analysis for Festo-AM Gyártó Ltd.
In cooperation with Festo-AM Gyártó Ltd, simulation expert colleagues of the laboratory participated several simulation-oriented projects, aimed at analysing the production systems of the company according to various criteria. In most cases the purpose of the analysis were the early-stage evaluation of the production and logistics systems', simulating dynamic and real production environment based on the criteria provided by the engineers of Festo.
MTA SZTAKI prepares a complex training material in water management as a subcontractor of domestic TAMOP project "Academic cooperation for the water sector". The training material covers 20 subjects and contains several thousands of multimedia elements (pictures, videos and animations) and a huge amount of mathematical formulas. It complies with the international standard SCORM and consequently, open source standard Learning Management Systems (LMSs) such as ILIAS and Moodle can load and display it.
The Budapest Museum of Fine Arts and the Hungarian National Gallery opened an exhibition of 25 international masterpieces from their collections on large outdoor digital displays in the centre of Madrid. The exhibition dubbed "Art on the Street from Budapest", featuring works by the likes of El Greco, Leonardo, Raphael and Munkacsy, will be on show near the Prado Museum until August 9.
The show is meant to draw attention to the rich collection of internationally important works in the two Budapest museums that merged two years ago.
The Hungarian Scientific Bibliography (MTMT) is a comprehensive national bibliographic database of scientific publications and citations. Since 1999 MTMT collects data from researchers and institutions, and serves more than 30 thousand users. Furthermore, MTMT also provides national and educational institutions with scientific statistical data. The quality of the bibliographic records and the management of institutional data are supervised by a country-wide network of MTMT administrators.


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Plastic, underemployment, and socialism: a review of The Evergreen State College commencement ceremonies, 2015
Enrique Quintero on July 10, 2015
A festive event (on multiple occasions)
During Evergreen's commencement ceremonies this year, I happened to be seated next to a young Italian mother, her two kids and her South-American husband. It was her first time observing an American college graduation and she was surprised by the festive tone of the event manifested in the funky music played by the band, the multiple food stands touting hot-dogs, lemonade, or healthier vegan edible merchandise, as well as the casual irreverence of the sartorial statements of some of the graduates. Not willing to engage too much in a cultural studies type of conversation I offered a blanket evasive statement: "Hai ragione, ma questa é l'America." (You are right, but this is the United States).
Of course she knew our geographic location and the cultural implications of the territory; nonetheless, she continued to point out the differences between the unctuous formality, or in some cases complete lack of eventfulness (some universities just mail your degree on completion) of European or Latin American institutions versus the casual cheerfulness we were witnessing at Evergreen's Red Square. But most importantly, besides the celebratory elements of American graduations, our European observer was shocked by their frequency. Just the previous week she had attended her own daughter's kindergarten graduation ceremonies, as well as another graduation ceremony for a junior high class in Seattle.
Commencement ceremonies from kindergarten to advanced degrees do seem to occur in the United States at a more frequent rate and at shorter academic intervals than in other countries around the world. Perhaps this cultural need for continuous celebration—or 'acts of nurturing'—as noted by the New York Times critic Heather Havrilesky discussing Julie Lithcott-Haimes' "How to Raise and Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare your Kid for Success", is due to the tremendous insecurity of "global capitalist culture, with its unbending fixation on prosperity and the future". Americans, according Havrilesky, seem to understand success in life as one continuous chain of tangible accomplishments. If these events do not happen, then life will culminate in failure. Consequently, we do celebrate graduations in America as often as we can, as if each ceremonial act, independently of the age of the student or academic complexity of the degree, will provide us some reassurance that a new accomplishment is in place, paving the way to financial prosperity and therefore the avoidance of what is perceived as an existential catastrophe. This delusion is aggravated by an educational system that particularly from grades K-12 presents no major difficulties for continuous promotion to the next grade regardless of academic qualifications.
Plastics and the end of poverty
In 1967, the year the iconic American movie The Graduate was filmed, Lyndon Baines Johnson, then president of the Unites States, noticed in his Economic Report to Congress that "in purely material terms, most Americans are better off than ever before", and in the section called "Helping the Disadvantaged" he pointed out that "The United States is the first nation in the history of the world wealthy enough to end poverty within its borders". Needless to say, within the current optic of massive inequality in the nation, neither of those two statements holds true. 98% of Americans are in a precarious condition especially when compared with the wealthy 2%. Although it is true that the Unites States remains wealthy enough to end poverty within its borders (and beyond), poverty has not ended but continues to grow as does economic and social inequality in the nation.
The optimism of American capitalism during the Johnson administration is pathetically reflected in one of the scenes of The Graduate when the character (Benjamin) played by Dustin Hoffman, after finishing college, is given a welcome home/graduation party by his upper middle class parents. Mr. McGuire, a close family friend and business partner, offers the perplexed Benjamin the following unsolicited advice about the future post- graduation:
Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
Benjamin: Exactly what do you mean?
If plastics symbolized the favorite child of technology at the time, and also the materialist values transmitted from one senior member of a class to an upcoming junior, then, in as a point of reference, what where the values transmitted by the Evergreen Authorities and keynote speaker to the large group of Evergreen Graduates during this year's commencement ceremonies? What ideological messages were permeating their speeches?
The Evergreen College as reality
It is safe to assume, although there may be significant exceptions, that the latest cohort of Evergreen Graduates is less perplexed and disoriented about the future than Benjamin was in 1967; if anything, first due to their economic background (68 percent of students during the academic year 2013-2014 received some form of financial aid in the form of loans, scholarships, and grants), added to the factor that a large number of students belong to the Evening Program (near between 400 and 500 students who work during the day and/or have family responsibilities) and therefore have eaten of a different tree of knowledge; and finally, the academic experiences like the ones described by professor Lawrence Mosqueda in this issue. All these place Evergreen students in a more advantageous position to understand social reality and elucidate their future—to the extent that the future allows itself to be elucidated.
Parallel to this, nationwide, those who graduated from college in the last decade or so lack the 'cultural optimism' of previous generations regarding the possibilities of getting hired in their area of expertise and being paid accordingly. According to the Wall Street Journal, the Class of 2014 has the 'discouraging distinction'' of being the "most indebted class ever", having to pay back an average of $35,000. This fact acquires a deeper and gloomy dimension when the same journal reports that currently over 70% of students nation wide are taking on debt in order to afford the costs of higher education. Overall, student debt has increased by 40% when compared to graduates in 2005, while the average income of graduates compared with the same group has fallen by 5 percent. If there is any perplexity and disorientation among our new graduates it may be about how this democracy—'wealthy enough to end poverty within its borders'—does very little to solve the entwined problems of student debt and under-employment.
There is a tendency to 'idealize' higher education institutions as if they exist beyond the 'good and evil' of the rest of society. Quite often they are described as possessing 'unique' attributes that set them apart. In fact, each higher education institution is unique by definition—just as is the case for individuals. Yet it is more important not to focus on the real (or imaginary) unique attributes of colleges and universities, but to try to understand them as part of the vast network of ideological apparatuses of the state (and in this sense responsible for reproducing the hegemonic ideology of society), susceptible to conflict, struggle, and social resistance. In other words, educational institutions represent the plurality of situations present in society and are shaped by human action. Within educational institutions, the critical demarcation lies between those who consciously or unconsciously perpetuate the dominant ideology and those willing to challenge it. What this means at present is that students, faculty and staff adopt particular positions with respect to neo-liberal cultural politics in higher education, subordinating themselves to or opposing the logic of submission and consent favored by the system.
Kshama Sawant, socialism, and the austere silhouette of life
It is not accidental that Kshama Sawant was the guest speaker at Evergreen's commencement ceremony. Her presence represented the tendencies of social resistance and challenge to ideological submission actually present in a certain number of students at Evergreen. Ironically, the speeches of both the president (Thomas L. Purce) and the provost (Michael Zimmerman) were closer to irrelevancy, the former acting as a perky MC with pointless cheerfulness, and the latter as a disaffected cultural producer interested solely in counting degrees.
It is worth mentioning that this is not the first time that Evergreen has invited guests identified with radical politics. (Last year the guest speaker was environmental activist Winona Laduke.) Besides being a member of the Seattle City Council, Kshama Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative, a national organization fighting in work places, communities, and campuses against exploitation and injustice. She was a former computer software engineer in India and earned a Ph.D. in economics after immigrating to the United States. According to the official Evergreen program "she accepts only the average worker's salary, and donates the rest of her six figure salary to building a social justice movement."
As expected, Kshama Sawant's message to the new graduates did not portray the future nor the present of American society as a pastel colored existential canvas in which having a degree is somehow a guarantee of success, or a passport to the safe arrival at the soporific American dream. Hers was a sobering message that described America as a nation marked by racism, social asymmetry, and economic inequality. She illustrated this last point by indicating that the average CEO makes $7,000 an hour compared to the national average minimum wage for workers which fluctuates between $7.25 and $8.25 dollars an hour. Her message to the graduates was also posed in the form of a question and a call to action: What would you do to change the world? Kshama Sawant highlighted among other things the importance of getting involved in the Black Lives Matter Movement, with Climate Change actions, against the de-humanization of the poor and minorities, and the struggle for $15 dollars minimum wage.
Sawant was also critical of romantic ineffectual solutions for change such as the political futility of shopping choices or writing letters to your congressperson. For Kshama Sawant the difficult social conditions (the austere silhouette of life) currently experienced by most Americans under the actual circumstances of capitalism can only be changed by building a successful movement. If 'plastics' was the code message given to the upper middle class graduates of 1967, socialism and building the party of the 99% was the message delivered to the Evergreen Class of 2015.
Enrique Quintero, a political activist in Latin America during the 70's, taught ESL and Second Language Acquisition in the Anchorage School District, and Spanish at the University of Alaska Anchorage. He currently lives and writes in Olympia.
Emily Lardner July 31, 2015
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Richard Roe, who once lived near Lower Falls of Old Man's Cave has been greeting visitors in the park with his dogs for over a hundred years. His dogs have been heard baying in the night deep in the bowels of Old Man's Cave.
In the 1800s, Rockhouse Hotel was located where the shelter house is now. The spirit of a young woman named Mary who was found dead in her room roams the area.
Conkle's is in Hocking Hills State Park. Native Americans once living in the area would rob settlers traveling through the area and hide their loot in the caves and hollows that are now along the trail. Several of the thieves were caught, but not before they could hide their treasure in Conkle's Hollow. They were hanged in a hollow and to this day, it is said you can see their shadows roaming up and down the trails.
Old Logan Cemetery is haunted by a girl in white.
In August of 1887 while driving a load of wheat to Logan, newlyweds 19 year-old Clara and 29 year-old Johannes Bensenhafer began to cross Scotts Creek, only to have their wagon slip into what is known as the "Death Hole", a 15 foot pool with undertow. Tragically, they both drowned. After, people swore they heard the sound of ghostly chatter of the couple along Scotts Creek Road and the creek itself. Then, they would hear the horses screaming in the area and saw a woman walking by the water.


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First Destroyers
Bainbridge Class
Hopkins Class
Lawrence Class
Truxtun Class
USS Truxtun
USS Whipple
USS Worden
Flivvers
1000-tonners
World War I Divisions
Truxtun.
The second USS Truxtun (Torpedo Boat Destroyer No. 14) was laid down on 13 November 1899 at Sparrows Point, Maryland, by the Maryland Steel Co.; launched on 15 August 1901; sponsored by Miss Isabelle Truxtun; and commissioned on 11 September 1902, Lt. Archibald H. Davis in command.
Upon commissioning, Truxtun was assigned to the 2d Torpedo Flotilla, and her commanding officer was appointed commander of the flotilla. She conducted trials out of Norfolk until 14 January 1903 and received her final acceptance on 24 April. Torpedo boat destroyers were a relatively new type of warship and Truxtun prepared for her mission of escorting warships and attacking fast torpedo boats through the summer. In August, she participated in maneuvers off Frenchman's Bay, Maine, in the Presidential review by Theodore Roosevelt at Oyster Bay, and in a joint Army-Navy exercise off Portland, Maine.
On 26 September, the 2d Torpedo Flotilla became a unit of the Coast Squadron, North Atlantic Fleet. Truxtun joined that squadron in target practice off the Massachusetts coast before returning to Norfolk later that fall for repairs.
For the next four years, Truxtun operated along the Atlantic coast and in the West Indies. In December 1907, she and five other destroyers assembled in Hampton Roads with the battleships of the Atlantic Fleet. President Roosevelt reviewed the fleet once more before this "Great White Fleet" passed between Capes Charles and Henry to embark upon its famous round-the-world voyage.
Truxtun escorted the fleet on the first leg of its voyage, going as far as the West Coast. Along the way, she visited ports in Brazil, Chile, Peru, Panama and Mexico. The fleet reached San Francisco in May 1908, and the destroyers were detached and reassigned to the Pacific Torpedo Fleet. After repairs at Mare Island Navy Yard that summer, Truxtun joined her sister destroyers in a training voyage to Hawaii and Samoa. She returned to the West Coast at San Diego, her new base of operations, early in December. She began her duty along the Pacific coast of North America with a voyage to Alaskan waters, visiting Seattle, Sitka, Seward and Juneau.
Truxtun made several cruises with the Pacific Torpedo Fleet out of San Diego over the next four years, though Navy-wide manpower shortages and financial stringency saw her transferred to the Pacific Reserve Fleet on 1 June 1912. Though technically in reserve, she remained somewhat active, periodically putting to sea to check her machinery and to maintain herself ". . . in constant readiness for sea."
Truxtun's reserve status was short-lived in any case, as she was placed back in full commission on 12 October 1912 and resumed normal activity along the coast. On two occasions, in the summer of 1914 and again in the summer of 1916, the torpedo boat destroyer steamed to Mexican waters to protect American interests during the series of political convulsions that plagued that nation. By July 1916, she had returned to semi-inactivity as a unit of the reserve division of the Coast Torpedo Force—later re-designated Division 2 (Reserve), Coast Torpedo Force. As before, however, she conducted sporadic cruises along the California coast to maintain herself in a state of readiness.
On 18 February 1917, Truxtun was returned to full commission for the third and final time, Lt. James G. Ware in command. Initially, she was assigned to patrol duty in the area of the Panama Canal. On 6 April 1917, the day the United States entered World War I, she departed Colón Harbor and headed south to Puerto Colombia, Colombia, where she watched the German ship SS Prinz August Wilhelm, which was anchored in the harbor. She was relieved by Stewart (Destroyer No. 13) on 14 April and returned to Colón the following day.
For almost three months, Truxtun patrolled the Pacific coastal waters of Panama and Colombia, periodically doubling as a submarine tender. On Independence Day 1917, she transited the Panama Canal and, the following day, departed Balboa in company with Stewart, Preble (Destroyer No. 12) and Whipple (Destroyer No. 15). The four destroyers reached Hampton Roads on 13 July. Through the end of August, Truxtun patrolled Chesapeake Bay and conducted maneuvers off the coast. She made port calls at New York and Philadelphia, on one occasion acting as escort for Texas (BB 35).
On 31 August, Truxtun departed Philadelphia for duty in the Azores. After a short stop-over in Bermuda, she arrived at Ponta Delgada on 16 September. The destroyer operated from Ponta Delgada until early December. She and Whipple met SS Caproni on 30 September and escorted her into Ponta Delgada on 3 October. In mid-October, she made a short voyage to Funchal, Madeira Island and back. Later that month, she participated in a search for the survivors of a torpedoed ship. Truxtun cleared Ponta Delgada on 6 December and headed—via Gibraltar—for France. She reached Brest on 15 December. Operating from that port, the destroyer convoyed merchant ships and conducted patrols against German U-boats for the remainder of World War I.
During the ensuing 12 months, she experienced two adventures. The first came on the night of 17 April 1918 when the munitions-laden steamship SS Florence H. exploded into flame in Quiberon Bay. For steering his destroyer into the flaming seas surrounding the stricken cargo ship and helping to rescue many of her crewmen, Truxtun's commanding officer, Lt. Ware, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal.
Her second scrape involved the enemy. At about 0900 on 18 May, while escorting a convoy, she sighted an underwater disturbance and immediately charged to the attack. The warship dropped several patterns of depth charges and fired several rounds from her guns. However, many of the depth charges failed to function properly. The U-boat, believed to have been UC-56, made good her escape and Truxtun returned to the convoy at about 0930.
Just over a month after the Armistice ended World War I, Truxtun bade farewell to Europe. Departing Brest on 18 December in company with Flusser (Destroyer No. 20), Stewart, Whipple and Worden (Destroyer No. 16), she steamed, via Ponta Delgada and Bermuda, back to the United States. She entered the Delaware River on 3 January 1919 and was decommisioned at Philadelphia on 18 July. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 15 September 1919 and she was sold to Joseph G. Hitner of Philadelphia on 3 January 1920 for conversion to mercantile service as a motor fruit carrier.
Source: Naval History & Heritage Command including the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.


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Another local radio host attacked in Brazil, 5th this year
TV Jangadeiro
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Brazilian authorities to react to the now systematic violence against local radio hosts after a presenter in the northeastern state of Ceará last week became the fifth to be attacked this year. Three of them were killed.
"This is so you will shut up and stop talking nonsense on the radio," Sandoval Braga Junior was told by the two gunmen who burst into his studio on 21 September and pinned him to the ground. They then shot him in the leg, shattering his tibia, and left.
The manager of Radio União FM in Jaguaruana, a small town of 30,000 habitants in Ceará, and head of the Ceará State Radio and TV Association (ACERT), Braga Junior often criticizes the local authorities and Ceará's politicians during the radio programmes he hosts
He underwent an operation for the gunshot injury to his leg and is now out of danger. But three of the four other radio show hosts to be the targets of shooting attacks this year – Marlon Carvalho, Jefferson Pureza and Jairo Sousa – were killed. The fourth, Hamilton Alves, miraculously escaped an attack in the northern state of Rondônia in April.
"Three radio presenters have already been murdered this year in Brazil and two others have narrowly escaped death," said Emmanuel Colombié, the head of RSF's Latin America bureau.
"How many other journalists will have to be gunned down in cold blood or physically attacked before the local and federal authorities realize that this kind of violence is unacceptable in a democracy? Action by the authorities is all the more urgent because of the upcoming general elections. The attack on Sandoval Braga Junior and the previous attacks must not go unpunished."
Local radio stations play a key role in Brazil, especially in small and mid-sized towns in the interior, where they are a popular source of news – often the only one – about local politics and the activities of local authorities.
The journalists who host these popular radio shows are often described as "polemical." As well as being exposed to this kind of attack, they are also often threatened and subjected to intimidation campaigns, which tend to become more frequent in the run-up to elections. The polling for Brazil's next general elections is due to take place on 8 and 28 October.
Brazil is ranked 102nd out of 180 countries in RSF's 2018 World Press Freedom Index.
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