The good news about public education is everyone's talking about, and fighting over it these days. For a long-long time it was mighty quiet out there. Those were the good old days when the white collar working classes could afford private school and Harvard or Yale too. Not so much now with lay-offs, credit card debt, out-of-control mortgages, and rising college costs. Public education is now an attractive and affordable option in these downsized times.
Washington, DC has for decades been a testing ground, even battleground for the rise or yet another fall for public education reform. The media soundbytes from this month's DC primary elections for Mayor (City Council Chair Vincent Gray winning over the incumbent Mayor Adrian Fenty), framed the vote on whether or not DC residents wanted education reform. Are they with smart or stupid. To put any and all outcomes of education reform on the shoulders of one individual, Chancellor Michelle Rhee, was from the beginning a risky proposition for the city and public school students. Kryptonite always lands somewhere. The reactions to the election outcome became part of an inaccurate narrative of the school reform movement. And, in its on-going reach for conflict, colorful characters, and controversy, what better media frame than race to put the election and its implications for school reform in a simple and polarizing box. Because no one with the mic can have a sane and meaningful discussion about race, it's the conversation that keeps on going without going anywhere.
As someone who was educated in DC Public Schools from pre-school through high school, I've got stories that would fit into any narrative of what good schools and teachers can inspire in a student; and bad schools and teachers can inhibit. But there were no debates about it during my enrollment. Magnet schools were gaining traction, and I qualified to attend one. Private schools saved the rest. The majority of DC's students had no other choices. We made the most of it. And most of all, parents filled in and made sure we didn't fail in what was labeled a failed system. I went on to college at a prestigious private institution. I have a lot to say on DC's public education, but I want to bring attention to three op-eds that addressed the city's election, education reform in DCPS, and the misinformed narratives circulating among the uninformed. I would also add, there's a lot the Obama administration can learn from the DC election as they set their sites for 2012.
Education reform must also be about communities, because in our country, education is subject to the democratic process. Whether schools are under direct mayoral control or governed by a school board or board of education, voters have the ultimate say. If they aren't persuaded that education reform is in their best interests, or if the tribunes of reform institute their changes in ways that alienate the people who vote in city elections — even if they are the people who stand to benefit from those changes — the reformers will find their mandate to reform abruptly terminated. That is what Fenty and Rhee discovered.
Natalie Hopkinson, Washington writer and author of the forthcoming Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City was featured in The Atlantic online, the day after the election. Here's an excerpt.
As a former DCPS PTA mom, I am among the many DC voters who had grown weary of the endless churning in the system. The D.C. public school my child won an out-of boundary "lottery" to attend in the early 2000s had passionate teachers and dedicated families, but inept administration and a dangerously neglected building forced us to leave after three years. We enrolled in a private school just as Rhee came into office in 2007 when the school board was abolished and the mayor was given control of the schools. But we've been shopping for a reason to come back into the system ever since.
And columnist Colbert King, responded to the race hysteria in this weekend's Washington Post which got a thumbs up on DCist.
….among mayoral and council candidates, the person pulling the most votes citywide was [Phil] Mendelson, with 71,704. Gray came in second with 66,526. Fenty, with 54,424 votes, registered fourth behind Kwame Brown, who garnered 62,837 in his winning bid for the council chairman slot.
People pontificating about race in this city, based on parachute jumps into black neighborhoods where they conduct two or three interviews and then scoot back to file reports on what black folks are up to, don't know what they are talking about.
Phil Mendelson is white and won the primary vote for Councilmember-At-Large.
So before you write DC off, do some homework, hang out with some people who've actually attended and graduated from DC public schools. College basketball scholarships expanded in DC thanks to a Harvard-educated physical ed teacher named Edwin Bancroft Henderson. Parents marched for better conditions in schools that were separate and unequal in the 1950s. They went as far as the Supreme Court with several other cases. And Warren Buffett graduated in 1947 from a DC public high school, Woodrow Wilson. And, "yes," people who've been through it can be sensitive about this. There are some gems worth cheering about including a long history of reform in DCPS. But this may not be the time for the city to rest on its laurels. There's work to be done today from this point forward. But it's going to require a tremendous investment by the city's community at large who are willing to see the benefits beyond just personal interests.
Remember, the $50 ticket price includes open bar and food—another $20 covers the price of Alice Walker's new book HARD TIMES REQUIRE FURIOUS DANCING. The $150 VIP ticket includes a special reception with Ms. Walker, a signed copy of the book, food and premium bar.
I've been kind of slipping on updating this blog. It's not that my belief that creative minds and voices have much to contribute to the civic dialogue has diminished. It's just that creative minds and voices are also preoccupied with activities that are part of that engagement. Last week was a big Hill week for the Hispanic Congressional and Congressional Black Caucuses. I was involved with a Hill screening and briefing for the documentary film Pushing the Elephant to support a bill that addresses violence against women around the globe.
It's that old life happens between plans thing.
When I clicked on the President's Weekly this weekend, I thought it was a repeat about the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. Hardly so. What it is is a reminder about the crippling impact anonymous campaign financing on the democratic process. It's not that the Citizens United decision opened a new frontier in the U.S. political culture. It just sanctioned the bag of dirty tricks by law; and those who benefit are trying to keep it that way. Obviously it's a sticking point for the President this year. If people are demanding transparency in government why can't that apply to persons and interests, private, foreign and otherwise that influence government, policy, and governing?
As November's mid term elections approach, the President's message unintentionally brings up a discussion about media literacy in the political sphere. What is fact. What is fiction. What is opinion. What words, images, and messages persuade, manipulate or just fall flat. There was a time media literacy was viewed as a retreat by educators from a losing battle in reading literacy. But not so now. Messaging is a constant for anyone who has access to a audio and/or video device, space, public transportation, consumer packages.
Whereas media literacy asks us to be critical thinkers, the President's weekly asks us to scrutinize the source, i.e. follow the money trail.
Of course, without the benefit of laws that require full disclosure, all we can do is talk to the invisible hand.


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Hoodiecrow [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/tanx/hoodiecrow.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/tanx/hoodiecrow)
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[Hoodiecrow](https://hoodiecrow.com) is a community supported fork of [Whiteout Mail](https://github.com/whiteout-io/mail) an easy to use email client with integrated OpenPGP encryption written in pure JavaScript. Unlike Whiteout, Hoodiecrow focuses on providing an optimized user experience for Google Mail users via the [REST based Gmail api](https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/), instead of supporting all standard mail servers via IMAP/SMTP.

![Screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tanx/hoodiecrow/master/res/placeit.png)

### Privacy and Security

We take the privacy of your data very seriously. Here are some of the technical details:

* The code has undergone a [full security audit](https://blog.whiteout.io/2015/06/11/whiteout-mail-1-0-and-security-audit-by-cure53/) by [Cure53](https://cure53.de).

* Messages are [encrypted end-to-end ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption) using the [OpenPGP](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy) standard. This means that only you and the recipient can read your mail. Your messages and private PGP key are stored only on your computer (in IndexedDB).

* Users have the option to use [encrypted private key sync](https://github.com/tanx/hoodiecrow/wiki/Secure-OpenPGP-Key-Pair-Synchronization-via-IMAP) if they want to use Hoodiecrow on multiple devices.

* [Content Security Policy (CSP)](http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/security/content-security-policy/) is enforced to prevent injection attacks.

* HTML mails are sanitized with [DOMPurify](https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify) and are rendered in a sandboxed iframe.

* Displaying mail images is optional and opt-in by default.

* TLS is used to protect your password and message data in transit.

* The app is deployed as a signed [Chrome Packaged App](https://developer.chrome.com/apps/about_apps.html) with [auditable static versions](https://github.com/tanx/hoodiecrow/releases) in order to prevent [problems with host-based security](https://tankredhase.com/2014/04/13/heartbleed-and-javascript-crypto/).

* The app can also be used as a [Progressive Web App](https://infrequently.org/2015/06/progressive-apps-escaping-tabs-without-losing-our-soul/) from any modern web browser using the new Service Worker apis. **Please keep in mind that this mode of operation is not as secure as using the signed packaged app, since users must trust the webserver to deliver the correct code. This mode will still protect user against passive attacks like wiretapping (since PGP and TLS are still applied in the user's browser), but not against active attacks from the webserver. So it's best to decide which threat model applies to you.**

### Reporting bugs and feature requests

* You can just create an [issue](https://github.com/tanx/hoodiecrow/issues) on GitHub if you're missing a feature or just want to give us feedback. It would be much appreciated!

### Testing

You can download a prebuilt bundle under [releases](https://github.com/tanx/hoodiecrow/releases) or build your own from source (requires [node.js](http://nodejs.org/download/), [grunt](http://gruntjs.com/getting-started#installing-the-cli) and [sass](http://sass-lang.com/install)):

    npm install && npm test

This will download all dependencies, run the tests and build the Chrome Packaged App bundle **release/hoodiecrow_DEV.zip** which can be installed under [chrome://extensions](chrome://extensions) in developer mode.

### Development
For development you can start a connect dev server:

    grunt dev

Then visit [http://localhost:8580/dist/#/account?dev=true](http://localhost:8580/dist/#/account?dev=true) for front-end code or [http://localhost:8580/test/unit/](http://localhost:8580/test/unit/) to test JavaScript changes. You can also start a watch task so you don't have rebuild everytime you make a change:

    grunt watch

## Releasing Chrome App

    grunt release-test --release=0.0.0.x
    grunt release-stable --release=0.x.0

## Deploying Web App & Selfhosting

The App can be used either as a Chrome Packaged App or just by hosting it on your own trusted web server. You can build the app from source.

### Build from source

Clone the git repository

    git clone https://github.com/tanx/hoodiecrow.git

Build and generate the `dist/` directory:

    npm install && grunt

### Running the server

To test the server, start it in development mode (without SSL):

    node server.js --dev

Navigate to [http://localhost:8889](http://localhost:8889) (or whatever port is set using the `PORT` environment variable).

To start the server for production use (this automatically redirects to `https`)

    npm start

**A note on security: The app should not be used without SSL so it's best to set up a reverse proxy or Loadbalancer with your SSL certificates.**

To start the server in development mode (no forced HTTPS, iframe loads http content), run `node server.js --dev`

## License

See the [LICENSE.txt](https://github.com/tanx/hoodiecrow/blob/master/LICENSE.txt) file.

### Third party libraries

We work together with existing open source projects wherever possible and contribute any changes we make back upstream. Many of theses libraries are licensed under an open source license. Here are some of them:

* [OpenPGP.js](http://openpgpjs.org) (LGPL license): An implementation of OpenPGP in Javascript
* [email.js](http://emailjs.org) (MIT license): IMAP, SMTP, MIME-building and MIME-parsing engine
* [Forge](https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge) (BSD license): An implementation of TLS in JavaScript

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NewsGroove Uk > Health > DR ELLIE CANNON: Why do I always feel such nausea when I wake up?
DR ELLIE CANNON: Why do I always feel such nausea when I wake up?
HealthDecember 5, 2021
Why do I always feel such nausea when I wake up?
A few months ago I started to wake up feeling sick, and this lasted about an hour before passing. More recently, I've been suffering the same nausea intermittently during the day.
My GP ordered blood tests, but these came back normal. The GP is now stumped. Any ideas?
I can't emphasise enough that any new and persistent symptom, particularly if you're over 50, should always be explored thoroughly by a doctor. For most people, nausea is a transient symptom lasting only a few days.
It is not usual to feel nauseated every morning and regularly through the day.
Blood tests give us a general overview of health and can sometimes point to serious causes, but they do not provide a complete picture.
Regular nausea could be caused by acid reflux, gastritis, migraine, anxiety or, much more rarely, pancreatic cancer. None of these would necessarily be flagged up in a routine blood test.
DR ELLIE CANNON: I can't emphasise enough that any new and persistent symptom, particularly if you're over 50, should always be explored thoroughly by a doctor. For most people, nausea is a transient symptom lasting only a few days (file photo)
Nausea is a common side effect of medication, and this should always be considered as a possible cause.
It can also be related to particular foods, as well as alcohol – particularly in excess.
With any new symptom, especially when persistent and significant, further investigation may be necessary. For ongoing nausea, this may involve stool tests or an ultrasound, as well as tests such as an endoscopy. This involves a tube with a camera attached being passed down the throat and into the stomach, which is uncomfortable.
For 25 years I have been on a daily pill called venlafaxine for anxiety. It works, but at times I feel I'm in a bubble, and my marriage has suffered due to my total lack of libido. Is there an alternative without this effect?
Venlafaxine is an antidepressant prescribed in the UK for generalised anxiety disorder – the name we give the mental health condition that means people feel anxious constantly, rather than in response to specific events.
More from Dr Ellie Cannon for The Mail on Sunday…
It's a type of medication known as a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, or SNRI. These work by boosting levels of chemicals called serotonin and noradrenalin in the brain, which are linked to mood and energy.
They were developed to be more effective than selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, and while there's been mixed evidence that they are in terms of treating depression, they have been shown to be effective for anxiety.
As with all medications, they have side effects. For many people, the benefits outweigh the downsides. But when the side effects are so significant that they impact on quality of life and relationships, it is right to explore other options.
The most common side effects from venlafaxine are nausea, sleepiness, constipation and a lack of energy. It is also known to increase blood pressure and affect blood sugar levels in people with diabetes.
Sexual difficulty is a recognised side effect of antidepressants and many drugs used for mental illness.
Other medications are available to treat anxiety, including those from the SSRI group such as escitalopram. It may also be that side effects are lessened with a lower dose.
After 25 years, any change to medication needs to be taken incredibly slowly. Withdrawing from medication in a case like this would take months, before a slow introduction of a new tablet. Any trial of new medication needs to be supervised carefully by a GP or psychiatrist.
I have developed a prickly itch on my thighs, bottom, arms, neck and chin – with no rash. It all started when I had a Covid jab and has got worse since my booster. Could it be an allergy to the vaccine?
Itching might sound trivial but it can be a distressing symptom. It's also often self-perpetuating, as when we itch, we scratch, which makes the itch worse.
Itching in sweaty areas such as underarms, the inner thighs and neck could indicate a couple of things. Warm, moist areas are ideal places for a fungal or yeast infection such as thrush to develop. There may be no clear rash, but it would be worth trying an anti-fungal or anti-thrush cream for a few weeks to see if it helps you.
The other possibility with itchiness in these areas is urticaria – itchy, red, raised patches or spots that develop due to high levels of a chemical called histamine in the skin.
Histamine is released as part of the immune system response, but it can also be triggered by eating certain foods, by exposure to heat or cold, as a result of an infection or as a reaction to medication.
Whatever the cause, it's a good idea to try an oral antihistamine tablet regularly to reduce the itch. It also helps to calm the skin as scratching is reduced. Antihistamines can be taken at night and in the daytime on the advice of a pharmacist.
Skin reactions are listed in the official advice as being common side effects of all vaccinations. This should therefore be reported by the doctor as a potential side effect to the Covid jab, using the MHRA 'Yellow Card' reporting scheme.
Are you a struggling new mum cut adrift by the NHS?
In my opinion, the NHS has never been particularly good at post-natal care for women.
For instance, it's long been known that as many as a fifth of new mums develop depression or a similar problem, yet it is only relatively recently that we were told to ask about mental health during the six-week check.
And I've had patients left with serious pelvic issues following childbirth, who then suffered in silence for years after being told by (often male) GPs that they should 'watch and wait' – as if these problems were par for the course.
DR ELLIE CANNON: In my opinion, the NHS has never been particularly good at post-natal care for women (file photo)
Recently I've received a few reports that worried me. One new mum with suspected pelvic organ prolapse – when one or more of the organs in the pelvis slip from their normal position and bulge into the vagina – was told she should go private if she wanted to be seen any time soon.
Yes, services are stretched more thinly than ever. But it is unacceptable that women are being cut adrift at such a vulnerable time.
Have you or has someone you know been left without medical help after giving birth, or been fobbed off or told they can't get treatment? I'd like to hear from you so we can investigate. Write to me.
Covid rules hit children – again
I was on BBC Newsnight last weekend, talking about my dismay at the return of restrictions that seem to be targeting children and young people before anyone else.
Do you have a question for Dr Ellie?
Email DrEllie@mailonsunday.co.uk or write to Health, The Mail on Sunday, 2 Derry Street, London, W8 5TT.
Dr Ellie can only answer in a general context and cannot respond to individual cases, or give personal replies. If you have a health concern, always consult your own GP.
Facemasks have been reintroduced in shops and on public transport – something I welcome. While many adults sadly don't comply, we are insisting children wear them at school. Meanwhile, pubs are packed with Christmas revellers, again unmasked, but Nativity plays are cancelled.
At best, this feels unfair. But I'd also suggest it's pure Covid theatre, designed to look as if something is being done, but in reality fairly pointless and non-evidence-based.
I was a little worried I'd be accused of being 'anti-mask' or a Covid denier, but in fact I found that many of my colleagues agree. Schools are not the hubs of Covid: there's a lot of evidence to suggest that school rates are merely a reflection of what is going on in local communities. If Covid is sky-high everywhere, it's going to be in schools too.
We have to remember that restrictions have drawbacks as well as benefits, and children have endured enough disruption and loss to protect adults.
newsgroove December 5, 2021
Dementia: Popular sandwich could increase the risk of brain disease by 44 percent
Hindu gods, Aztec rites, Blondie hits … why the heart is our eternal symbol
Covid live news: pressure grows on Boris Johnson over lockdown parties; Djokovic to spend night in detention
Nightmare 'hidden' Omicron symptom that only the sufferer can hear – and there's no cure
Hypertension: The hot drink linked to 'dangerously high' blood pressure – limit intake
How to beat the insomnia epidemic caused by Covid anxiety, PROFESSOR GUY LESCHZINER writes

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Open Sky Appoints New Senior Vice President
Erica Robert uses two decades of experience to strengthen community services
Open Sky Community Services Appoints New Senior Vice President
(Worcester, MA – July 25, 2019) Open Sky Community Services has announced its new Senior Vice President of Community Services, Erica Robert. Open Sky provides services for adults, young adults, and youth with mental challenges, developmental disabilities, brain injury, substance abuse disorders, homelessness or other complex challenges. Robert will be responsible for overseeing more than 100 programs and approximately 2,000 individuals per year.
"My goals in this new position include ensuring that we provide excellent services, support our staff teams, work towards common goals, and make decisions in consideration of the needs of our individuals and programs," said Robert.
Open Sky Community Services is an affiliation of The Bridge of Central Massachusetts and Alternatives Unlimited, Inc., which came together in 2018. Robert previously served as Vice President of Community Services at The Bridge of Central Massachusetts and has been with the agency for 22 years. She is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (UConn School of Social Work), a Certified QPR Gatekeeper Instructor, and has a certificate in Quality Behavioral Competencies as a coach for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports.
Prior to her appointment, Robert served as Vice President of Mental Health Services at Open Sky. Among other accomplishments, she was instrumental in developing and implementing Adult Community Clinical Services across three Department of Mental Health-funded projects in Central Massachusetts, and led the process to open two new Department of Mental Health-funded respite programs.
For more information about Open Sky Community Services, please contact Lorie Martiska, lorie.martiska@openskycs.org


In preparation for their Common Entrance next year, boys in the 6th Form wrote essays on the subject of "My Best Wildlife Experience". The essays were of such great quality that they were entered into a competition run by the Royal Geographical Society. We are excited to announce that Alexander P was chosen as a runner-up with his piece about swimming amongst the coral reef and seeing the wonders of the ocean.
As well as being runner-up, Alexander also had the opportunity to visit the Beyond Steppes Travel Festival at the Royal Geographical Society. Alexander, along with his parents, had a great time at the event and managed to meet and hear Steve Backshall talk about his latest trip to Antarctica. A wonderful experience for all.
Alexander's essay is below to read.
Sweat soaks my body, I can smell the danger. The sun is silently glaring down, while the lively sea is talking to me. The water is pale, almost white: as I wade in the shallows, I can feel the tidal pulse of the water. Waves slap at the seashore, the sand is unhurriedly being submerged. Further up the beach, the tide is further out and the sun-bleached sand is still warm on my toes like a soothing mug of hot chocolate. There is a peppering of towels—from above it must look like the most bizarre of patchworks.
I fight to put my wetsuit on, feeling lethargic from the humidity, but eventually I wrestle it on. The experienced diving instructor straps on my oxygen tank, and nearly falling backwards, we start to walk down the beach together. I splash into the sea. As the water seeps into my wetsuit, I get a cool and refreshing chill on my body. The goggles are on and we start to swim out. All I could see was plain old colourless sand, miserable sandy water. Suddenly, a splash of colour….
Beautiful, elegant, extraordinary. The coral senses us and puts on its best show, just for us. All colours from dark black to luscious green emerald. I start to enter a watery kingdom. A trumped fish swims causally past us like it was listening to its all-time favourite song. A clam fish relaxing on the dazzling seabed with a grandmotherly air, sleeping or waiting stuck like a huge tree. I swim around a corner, words can't wield what I see. Ruby, sapphire, transparent stones like glass. All kinds of fish swimming in and out, never stopping, just knowing, knowing that they are amazing creatures. A turtle extravagantly flaps its arms slowly as if bidding us "good day". A beautiful castor coloured fish glides near us, making my hairs on my neck stand up like tiny razor-sharp needles. I feel calm, but aware just in case I miss something. I float near an indigo palace, the home for the clown fish, living in paradise.


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Beau Steward
Pushing Brands They Don't Believe In
Many years ago I listened to the radio more than I do now, as it was the best way to get more variety of content due to lack of streaming content and the infrastructure to handle it. This was back when The Russ Martin Show was still good, and it was one of my favorite radio shows to listen to. Russ said something, though, that mattered to me: he won't push a brand he doesn't believe in. He understood that his fans will trust him on his recommendations and if he pushed a bad brand, that would violate that trust, and he would face the problems with that. Additionally, he worked with the brands that he pushed, and if someone did have a problem, he pushed the brand to make it right.
I've given money to many of his brands. I'm a customer, to this day, of the auto leasing company that he's advertised for well over a decade.
Fast-forward to today where much of my media is consumed via online streaming. YouTube is probably the number one platform I use that has a lot of content creators with advertising to help with their revenue. YouTube doesn't support their content creators well so many of them have their own brand deals. However, I have yet to find a content creator that seriously considers the brands they're pushing. Some have shown disdain for certain brands and refused to push them, but it's clear that probably most of these creators only care about the paycheck from the brands and don't care about how their viewers feel about them.
How do I know this? I've personally bought from 2 common brands pushed by many content creators, and used an app that is also frequently pushed.
Raycons markets themselves as high-end audio products without the high-end price tag. However, the products they want you to believe they are punching up to are actually substantially better. Equivalently priced products are better in many ways. You can even get better products for cheaper. Raycons are branded cheap garbage with no actual expert audio tuning, and they sound like garbage if you listen to styles of music other than a specific style. Not only are they heavily bass tuned, they're poorly bass tuned.
dbrand is a maker of vinyl phone skins and cases. Their marketing mentions things like materials and quality. However, their materials aren't special. Anyone can develop vinyl phone wraps using 3M's materials, and there are companies that do, with a huge amount more variety. I actually bought from a dbrand competitor long before I knew dbrand existed. dbrand is also very expensive, and very opaque in the purchase and shipping process. My order sat in a pending state for weeks and I couldn't get the info I wanted on why. I gave up and cancelled my order. In a fast moving online world, I shouldn't be able to cancel my order weeks later. I've only been able to do that with less reputable companies.
Raid: Shadow Legends is a mobile game. It's a style of game referred to as a gacha, or gachapon game, which is a game centered around lootboxes. It's, technically, free to play, but you will hit a hard wall pretty quickly if you don't pay. I did play this for a short period, up until I hit that wall, at which point I deleted the game. Gacha games prey on the gambling addiction tendency in people and there are, currently, pending litigation around lootboxes in other styles of games. The thing is, those other games are centered around a specific concept, but lootboxes are in addition. Gacha games are built purely around the lootbox mechanic. To get the most out of gacha games, you must be participating in the gacha component, and that comes at a cost. The funny thing is I never found the place to put in a creator's referral code, yet I still got the bonus items.
These are brands hocked by numerous content creators. They all have required talking points so if you hear an ad spot from 5 different creators for the same brand, they will sound almost exactly the same. None of them have genuine interest in what they're pushing. Not a single one. None of them believe in their brands, and none of them care if you have a problem with them. But that 5 figure paycheck is certainly motivation to at least pretend to be excited.
My advice to fans of online content creators is to take their recommendations with a grain of salt. Look for unpaid reviews. Look at what people are saying that don't have those brand deals. Don't let a discount code sway your decision because there's still a monetary transaction being performed, and you could be out whatever money you put into it, and it encourages those brands to maintain those brand deal relationships. These creators don't actually believe in these brands, but they certainly do believe in that revenue.
I'd like to think if we could make these brand deals fail that maybe these creators would consider focusing on brands they actually believe in.
The Assault On The Capitol Is Worse Than You Think
Wednesday, January 6, 2021, a large group of people gathered in Washington DC, marched on to the House and Senate, and assaulted the capitol. Let's not mince words: This was an assault. This was not a
Intel's Superiority Is Built On Lies
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*A maximum of 6 people will be allowed upon one reservation.
※Shuttle tickets to the observation deck are not included in this course.
Please pick up your ticket at Takayama Bus Terminal ticket office no later than 15 minutes before departure.
※Please pick up your ticket as soon as possible since the ticket counter will be very crowded on that day. The ticket office will be opened at 6:00 am.
Take 60 minutes bus ride and arrive Shirakawa-go at 16:40.
Shuttle tickets to the observation deck are not included in this course. Not only will you be able to see the Shirakawago illumination display from the view from the observatory but you will also be able to see the lights closely from within the village.


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Q: Custom font works locally but not on server? I have a @font-face defined in my site's cascading style sheet. This font loads fine when I browse to the site locally (served by IIS Express). However, when loading my application from my remote server (IIS 7.5) the reference to this font causes an internal server 500 error. Why does the below style work locally, but not on the server?
@font-face {
    font-family: DejaVu Sans Mono;
    src: url('../fonts/DejaVuSansMono.ttf');
}

header h1
{
    font-family: 'DejaVu Sans Mono';
    font-size: 3em;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
}

A: If you check you will discover that the DejaVuSansMono.ttf file is not being copied to your server. Since it's not being copied the font file is not there for IIS 7.5 to provide. It works locally because IIS Express is able to find the file in the local directory.
File types that Visual Studio does not recognize have their BuildAction Property set to None by default; font files are one such unrecognized type. Having a BuildAction of none means that Visual Studio will ignore this file when building your application. There are several out of the box options for the BuildAction Property:

*

*None - The file is not included in the project output group and is not compiled in the build process. An example is a text file that
  contains documentation, such as a Readme file.

*Compile - The file is compiled into the build output. This setting is used for code files.

*Content - The file is not compiled, but is included in the Content output group. For example, this setting is the default value
  for an .htm or other kind of Web file.

*Embedded Resource - This file is embedded in the main project build output as a DLL or executable. It is typically used for resource
  files.

The most appropriate BuildAction Property setting for DejaVuSansMono.ttf is Content. By setting the BuildAction this way the file will be copied to your remote server. Unfortunately, this manual process will have to be repeated for each file with an unrecognized file type which sets developer's up for a tedious an error prone process. Thankfully, Andre Loker has a great blog post on setting the default build action for non-default file-types in Visual Studio.

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BIS adds new statement to validated export licenses
Chris GillisTuesday, December 9, 2014Last Updated: Saturday, March 2, 2019
The U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security said it will include a new statement to exporters on all validated licenses, effective Dec. 8.
The notice, which informs exporters of the scope of the license authorization, states:
"Unless limited by a condition set forth below, the export, reexport or transfer (in-country) authorized by this license is for the item(s), end-use(s) and parties described in the license application and any letters of explanation. The applicant is responsible for informing the other parties identified on the license, such as ultimate consignees and end-users, of the license's scope and of the specific conditions applicable to them. BIS has granted this license in reliance on representations the applicant made in the license application, letters of explanation and other documents submitted."
BIS, in coordination with other U.S. export control agencies, is making this change "as part of our ongoing effort to rationalize and make more consistent the use of conditions on BIS licenses," the agency said. "The purpose of the change is to eliminate, to the greatest extent possible, the inclusion of requirements and prohibitions included in the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) as conditions on validated licenses."
BIS is also eliminating conditions specifying requirements and prohibitions included in the EAR from licenses because the EAR's conditions and requirements are applicable to all exports, reexports and transfers (in-country) of items subject to the EAR as a matter of law; "inclusion of such conditions on licenses is redundant," it stated.
The agency said the change should "eliminate the confusion caused by the negative implication of some, but not all, EAR requirements and/or prohibitions' having been specified as license conditions, which erroneously suggested that the requirements not specified were not required specific to the license and that prohibitions not specifically listed were not prohibited."


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Review: Adventures Of The Super Sons #12
"Gang War" – Conclusion
Writer: Peter J. Tomasi
Artists: Carlo Barberi and Matt Santorelli
Color Artist: Protobunker
Letterer: Rob Leigh
Review by Adam Ray
Adventures of the Super Sons #12 is a fitting conclusion to what has been a raucous journey. We've followed these young heroes across space and their adventures have been the after school treat I didn't know I needed.
Last issue we left the boys in dire straits, trapped in an unfamiliar space with Rex – the tiny Lex Luthor – ready to use an ultimate weapon. A penultimate episode should always make us wonder if the heroes will make it and how they'll get out of this predicament. This fun, feel-good, title did that perfectly.
These 12 issues are something I'd drop into the grabby hands of anyone as young as 7 or as even as "mature" as 14. I cannot think of a more fun, more light-hearted, but well contained and attention grabbing story as this one. On the surface, we have the roaring action and galactic set pieces to draw younger readers in, but, dg a little deeper, and the genre twists of several issues – including this one – could makes us all wonder what is real. The stories have jumped from psychological thrillers in haunted houses, to space operas with robot cowboys. All these are smash hits, giving us many of the things comic books excel at, and would rightly blow any young reader's tiny mind.
When you tie that all together with Protobunker's vibrant colors and the punchy action from Barberi and Santorelli and most readers will be pulled right in.
This series may not go down as a great turning point in the landscape of comics, but that was never it's job. That's a lofty ideal for two superhero boys. Adventures of the Super Sons #12 would be a successful doorway into the medium for any new reader I defy anyone to pick up these issues and not have a cosmic ride. I look forward to their return to shelves with more antics for all readers in the future.
Images Courtesy of DC Entertainment
(This review was originally published on the Dark Knight News website July 3rd 2019)
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Our Fantastic Feature this month focuses on Batman, as we celebrate his 80th anniversary. We also talk about our highlights from TV, Film, Comics and more.
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Review: 'Doom Patrol' Season 1 Episode 5 – "Paw Patrol"
Writer: Shoshana Sachi
Director: Larry Teng
Starring: Diane Guerrero, April Bowlby, Matt Bomer, Brendan Fraser, Joivan Wade, Timothy Dalton, Mark Sheppard, Alan Tudyk, Ted Sutherland and Ezra Buzzington. Featuring Riley Shanahan and Matthew Zuk
This show is barking mad... and I love it. We left last week's episode on a cliffhanger, with the Decreator - a huge disembodied eyeball - high in the sky, disintegrating everything that met its gaze. Had our band of misfits failed, was Cloverton and the world doomed? Again?
It's Snow JokeWith Jane and Cliff stranded in a magical realm inside a snow-globe (yes, you read that right) Larry, Cyborg, Rita and Kipling (guest star, Mark Sheppard) are left in a world that is slowly being, well... de-created.
Arch villain Mr. Nobody still has the Chief in his clutches, but how can his plans for world domination succeed, if there's no world left to dominate? Can this evil, bonkers, jigsaw-puzzle of a man put his …
Review: 'Game of Thrones' Season 8 Episode 3 "The Long Night"
Writer: David Benioff & D.B Weiss
Review by: James Stone
"The Long Night" was arguably the most impressive episode in the history of T.V. I don't know what the budget or production time was for this episode, but it delivered a theatrical quality finish that has completely blown my mind.
There have been many movies over the years that failed to deliver close to the action or suspense we have just been witness to. Game of Thrones has grown into one of the biggest most popular franchises in the world, but let's not forget this is still a T.V. show. This is entertainment.
The Night King and his Army of the undead where at the gates of Winterfell by the end of last weeks episode "A Knight of Seven Kingdoms." With this knowledge it's not a spoiler to assume this episode was going to be all out war. What I wasn't expecting was how much of the battle we were going to see, and from so many different points …


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Q: Space of $L^p$ functions not in $L^q$ for all $q\neq p$ Fix $p\geq 1$, and consider the set $S$ of all $f\in L^p(\mathbb R)$ with the property that $f\not\in L^q(\mathbb R)$ whenever $1\leq q\leq\infty$ and $q\neq p$. For example, the function $f$ defined by
$$f(x)=\begin{cases} (x\log^2x)^{-1/p}, & \mbox{if } 0<x<1/2\:\text{ or }\:2\leq x; \\ 0, & \mbox{otherwise}  \end{cases}$$ is in $S$. I am curious about the size of the set $S$ as a subset of $L^p(\mathbb R)$. In particular, can we determine whether $S$ is of first or second category in the complete metric space $L^p(\mathbb R)$?

A: Let $T=L^p(\mathbb{R})\setminus S$. I claim that $T$ is of first category, and therefore $S$ is of second category.
By interpolation of Lebesgue spaces, if $f\in L^p\cap L^q$, then $f\in L^r$ for all $r$ between $p$ and $q$. Therefore, $T$ is the countable union of sets $L^p\cap L^q$ where $q$ runs over all rational numbers in $[1, \infty)\setminus \{p\}$.
For each $q\ne p$, the set $L^p\cap L^q$ is the countable union of sets
$$
A_{p, q, k} = \{f : \|f\|_p\le k\ \text{ and }\ \|f\|_q\le k\}
$$
Thus, it suffices to show $A_{p, q, k}$ is closed in $L^p$ and has empty interior.
Closed: If $f_n\in A_{p, q, k}$ and $f_n\to f$ in $L^p$, then a subsequence converges to $f$ a.e., which by Fatou's lemma implies $\|f\|_q\le \liminf_n \|f_n\|_q \le k$.
Empty interior: pick some $g\in S$. For any $f\in A_{p, q, k}$ and any $\epsilon>0$ we have $f+\epsilon g\notin L^q$, hence $f+\epsilon g\notin
A_{p, q, k}$. This shows $f$ is not an interior point of $A_{p, q, k}$.


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Year of Production: 2006 Genre: Crime / Drama Cast: LANCE REDDICK (Fringe, The Siege, Don't Say A Word); NUTZA KUKHIANIDZE (The Good Thief); MICHAEL McGLONE (The Bone Collector) Director : BRUCE TERRIS Festivals & Awards: N/A Synopsis: Dirty Work tells the story of four unrelated characters - a maid, a cop,...
Dead Awake
Year of Production: 2010 Genre: Thriller Cast: NICK STAHL (In the Bedroom, The Man without a Face); ROSE McGOWAN (Nip/Tuck, Scream, Black Dahlia, Grindhouse); AMY SMART(The Butterfly Effect, Road Trip, Interstate 60, Crank) Director: OMAR NAIM Festivals & Awards: N/A Synopsis Dylan, a young man working at a funeral parlor,...
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Dating Games People Play
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Dark Moon Rising
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3:07 PM EDT On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 277 - 140 (Roll no. 131).
3:07 PM EDT Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
3:19 PM EDT DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5563.
3:19 PM EDT Mr. Miller, George moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
March 10, 2008 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.


Now he's not the most articulate guy in the world, but come on, it's obvious he didn't literally mean Nelson Mandela is dead; killed by Saddam Hussein.
Anyone who thought this, like most of the enlightened commentators on youtube, ought to ask themselves how biased they are. Of course, that won't happen.
Usually he's just too easy a target to bother posting on his many gaffes, and after almost two full terms you'd think you'd get used to this president, but unfortunately George Bush still conspires to surprise with another incredible dose of the stupid.
This isn't stupid. Hussein DID kill anyone capable of establishing a Mandela-like profile against Hussein's dictatorship.
And that's supposed to make it sound better Tim? Oh, and I thought Chalabi and the exile de jour was supposed to be Iraq's "Mandela"? Sorry buddy, that don't cut it.
"That don't cut it"? Touche.
Of course it's already on heavy rotation on You Tube where the WTF! impact strikes even harder.
Maybe he's been using Miss Teen South Carolinas [sic] map of the Iraq as a guide.
BTW, I'm astounded that the flying monkeys have read a quick and simple post about Bush's poor public speaking and mangled and inarticulate use of language (hence the Miss Teen Sth Carolina linkage) as they have, it should have been pretty obvious that I fully understood what Bush was on about in my response to Tim.
Of course more interesting to me was how inarticulately (?) he made his point, but it looks like that got lost in translation.
No. You were perfectly clear. You said Bush was stupid in the original post. Then, on finding out you were stupid, you claimed you actually meant he is inarticulate. Now you are not only stupid, but a liar as well.
Phil and co's attempted rationalisations remind me of a conversation I heard involving people stuck down a deep hole they'd dug. Instead of digging up, perhaps you could have just said: "Doh!"
Still. The comments from people who get their news from a comedy take it to another (lower) level.


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Q: How to bulk extract personal certificates on Windows? We are upgrading computers to Win7 and I've found a computer with 300+ personal certificates and we need to save all of them. Is there a way to bulk export them?

A: http://www.wintools.com.au/certexport.php provide a tool: certmig
for example running:
certmig -e c:\temp\certs -all
puts all certificates as individual files in the above directory, with subdirectories of the actual source stores

A: I believe you can find all the personal certificates under:

%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto

so you can write a batch file which can copy these files. If you got access denied, you need to reassign the Administrator account the full access.


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FPCs often advocate the ecological and human health benefits of local food markets and the growth and consumption of fresh, chemical-free food. (3) Though addressing these issues is critical to advancing food sustainability, FPCs may miss critical opportunities for structural change to food systems by advancing agendas in which equity and justice are not central objectives. By adopting principles of environmental justice and food justice, FPCs can advance their goals without reproducing the same inequities perpetuated by the current food regime.
Environmental justice refers to equity in the distribution of environmental benefits and in the prevention and reduction of environmental burdens across all communities. (4) Food justice is equitable access not only to healthy, culturally appropriate food, but also to the benefits of food production and distribution for all communities. (5) By working at the intersection of environmental justice and food justice, FPCs can create a profound opportunity for the integration of two parallel social movements that are distinguishable from their mainstream iterations--traditional environmentalism and the sustainable food movement--and demand the inclusion and empowerment of minority and low-income communities in the process and outcomes of improving food and the environment.
This article makes two main arguments. First, environmental justice and food justice, social movements defined by ideals of equity and justice in environmental and food production practices intersect at three critical points--public health and safety, ecological health, and social justice. These movements would benefit both in increased capacity and influence by greater integration. Second, FPCs are ideal institutions to integrate the environmental justice and food justice movements, not only because they share concerns for the ecological and health consequences of the industrial food system, but also because they are localized forums with a great capacity for democratic participation and equitable social change. In the aggregate, FPC successes at local, state, and regional levels have the potential to make system-wide impacts to the food industry from the ground up, fostering a national food democracy.
The remainder of this article will proceed in four parts. Part II will provide definitions and brief histories of the environmental justice and food justice movements. Part III will discuss the possibilities for movement integration at the three intersections mentioned above. Part IV will discuss how food policy councils can provide an institutional framework for the integration of the food justice and environmental justice movements. Part V will offer some concluding implications for food democracy of an integrated environmental and food justice movement within food policy councils.
Publication information: Article title: Food Policy Councils: Integrating Food Justice and Environmental Justice. Contributors: Purifoy, Danielle M. - Author. Journal title: Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum. Volume: 24. Issue: 2 Publication date: Spring 2014. Page number: 375+. © Duke University, School of Law. COPYRIGHT 2014 Gale Group.


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China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM), in a preliminary ruling September 23, said the U.S. was dumping distillers dried grains in China, damaging the domestic industry and will require them to pay a duty. Starting immediately, importers are expected to provide a deposit to the customs in accordance to each company's dumping profit margin, which stands at 33.8%.
U.S. Grains Council (USGC), the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) and Growth Energy issued the following statement shortly after the announcement:
"We are deeply disappointed that China's Ministry of Commerce has issued a preliminary determination claiming that U.S. dried distiller's grains with or without solubles (DDGS) are being dumped and have caused injury to China's DDGS industry.
"As part of our three-decade long partnership with China, we have worked closely with government agencies, industry associations, and the feed and livestock industries in China to educate stakeholders about the benefits of both imported and domestic DDGS as an alternative feed ingredient.
"We are proud of the role that U.S. and Chinese DDGS have played in helping China's animal feed industry to produce high-quality animal feed products to supply China's rapidly growing meat industry, and in ensuring that Chinese consumers continue to have access to safe, affordable and nutritious protein products.
"As the council asserted at MOFCOM's hearing, U.S. DDGS have not caused any injury to China's DDGS producers. Instead, DDGS play an important role in protecting Chinese feed producers and households against unpredictable swings in global commodity prices.
"We welcome opportunities to work together with the Chinese government, Chinese feed producers and consumers to continue to meet China's growing feed demand in a mutually beneficial way for all parties as China implements market-oriented agricultural pricing reforms.
China announced its first anti-dumping probe against the U.S. on December28, 2010 and Chinese importers immediately suspended all purchases of U.S. DDG, creating havoc in the market at the time. In June of 2012, eighteen months after it was initiated, the investigation was terminated by Chinese officials. As for the most recent ruling, the ministry didn't say when it would issue a final decision on this latest case.
As of late Friday, September 23, U.S. DDG prices had been slow to react to the announcement, likely due to expectations that there would be a duty imposed with some DDG traders expecting it to be as high as 40%. Also, since this case had been in the works since January 2016, many exporters had already slowed or stopped their DDG shipments to China since the start of the investigation, expecting a duty that would be retroactive to shipments in route when decided. U.S. DDG exporters have found alternative markets since the first case in 2010, which could prevent the large drop in DDG prices seen back in 2010.
USGC added, "Our industry deeply appreciated the support that we received at the recent hearing in China from our Chinese customers, and we remain hopeful that MOFCOM will find in its final determination that continued access for U.S. DDGS is in China's interest."
"We are confident that U.S. DDGS are not being dumped and are not causing or threatening injury to Chinese producers."
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Expanding Africa's story through photojournalism
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The Uganda Press Photo Award (UPPA) ceremony, held November 8th, gave a unique platform to tell a multitude of stories through photographs, in doing so changing the role of photojournalism to both viewers and participants. Serubiri Moses reviews the exhibition and writes about the practice of photojournalism.
By Serubiri Moses
Walking through the city of Kampala can sometimes be disturbing—just as any modern city—due to traffic hours, congestion and crime, but what one realizes is that the people of Kampala are quite sociable and agreeable.
Unfortunately, this is not the most prevalent angle told by international media who are more interested in human rights abuse, the anti-gay issue, riots, children dying of poverty, and young mothers dying in labor.
The international press has more or less defined our country like this to the world: Uganda is a place where hundreds of gays are killed every year, and where the average Ugandan does not have any human rights, especially not during riots. Photographs depict us crying with tear gas, caned by the Kiboko squad, or as lesbians who are excluded from the outside world with plans of going into exile.
2nd place News Single. Photo by: ONYAIT ODEKE. All rights reserved.
One must always ask the question: Is this the only story available?
Chimamanda Adichie, the Nigerian writer and winner of Orange Broadband Prize for Half of a Yellow Sun, notably spoke out against the dangers of a single story.
The premise of much of the photojournalism in Uganda is to enumerate a story that has already been told thousands of times: Ugandans are very chaotic people. Which may be true to an extent, but it is one-tenth of the entire spectrum.
Contrary to this assertion, Uganda is actually a country of breathtaking landscapes, such as were captured in the Rwenzori Mountains photography exhibition at MishMash last month. These images showed beautiful vistas in the so-called "Mountains of the Moon", landscapes that seemed too exotic and serene to be in this country, but this is once again another uncommon story.
Why doesn't the international media for example focus on the part nationwide celebration of the month of imbalu, the season of manhood, where Kampala, Mbale, Jinja, Mukono and Kamuli people go out on the streets to support these young men's journey of initiation into manhood; a spiritual and colorfully vibrant celebration.
These are after all the important stories to not only individuals but to entire communities. Stories like that occasionally make the national news, but they also sometimes arrive on the wrong programs, like Eco-talk, a feature series on NTV about the environment.
Simpler, fresher stories
I found working as a feature photographer for the New Vision very tiring. Mainly because all the contrived feature stories blocked out any other simpler, fresher stories that were not deemed necessary to be alloted print space, either by design or political environment, within the media house.
Luckily, such simpler, fresher stories ended up in the Uganda Press Photo exhibition at the Makerere Gallery.
I realized while looking at the entries that there seemed to be a general lack of neutrality. Many of the photographs were the extreme types, which you can find on the front cover of a major newspaper in Uganda. And some others were salient and restrained even, except in specific instances where the photojournalist was probably overwhelmed by the scene, choosing to stay faithful to representing it as he had seen it.
Overwhelming scenes
One such photograph was the winning image by Daniel Edyegu Enwaku, a New Vision stringer based in Mbale. The image is about the much talked about landslides in Bududa earlier this year as a result of heavy rains. It shows a woman moaning over a heap of earth, which we assume are buried family members. Enwaku, like any other watcher at the scene, is overwhelmed by the woman's helplessness.
1st place Overall Winner. Photo by: EDYEGU DANIEL ENWAKU. All rights reserved.
Another photographic essay showed the riot police releasing teargas on a football field, with the players lying on the ground crying, others rushing to collect water nearby. Also here, it showed that the photographer was simply overwhelmed, and chose to capture this hilarious moment, just like anyone else would. In this series, however, we fail to see a precise moment out of all this madness that truly captures the story, you fail to see the photojournalist's eye for details.
1st place News Story. Photo by: RICHARD MPALANYI SSENTONGO. All rights reserved.
Same old story
Going back to my previous argument of the single story, it seemed to me looking at the various entries into this competition that they had been influenced in someway to tell the same story over and over again. They had been tragically pulled into the cycle of thinking that there was only one story to tell: The shocking story that you can sell readily to a buyer like the photo editor at the Red Pepper.
Photojournalists must make a living, and they do this by giving in to the demands of the media houses who are all about sensationalizing events, creating fiction and thereby losing a position of neutrality.
"The true mark of a photojournalist is neutrality in storytelling."
– AFP Chief Photographer and judge, Carl De Souza.
In my opinion, the taste for the extreme in Ugandan photojournalism is notable, as there is a sense of nothing in between sensationalism and banality. The images churned out of the Red Pepper every other day are extremely vague and trite images that are superimposed with outrageous captions to captivate the tabloid market.
A few months ago, the New Vision and NTV distributed an equally trite image showing FDC Women's League leader Ingrid Turinawe being grappled on the breast by the riot police. Many people on social media took to making jokes about the police's act of grabbing the leader's breast.
Such photographs have the ability to ruin the seriousness of photojournalism, which is the ability to make statements using journalistic and photographic techniques. The act of storytelling, is turned into something contrived, misleading and untrustworthy.
Photos that work
Unlike the blatantly shocking image of the riot police grappling Turinawe, the public got to see some more subtle images at the 'Art at Work' pavilion curated by Simon Njami this past September. These were so straight to the point that the Monitor printed an article which declared that this exhibition told the story of Africa.
The exhibition put some seriousness back into the act of picture making, photojournalism as well as visual art. Through image after image the exhibition showed decent, statement-making photographs which kept the viewer engaged, and which were not biased by media politics.
Curator Simon Njami at the Art at Work-pavillion in Kampala, September-October 2012.
Simon Njami, novelist and international art critic, challenged Ugandan art practitioners to escape their small boxes and to awaken to the greater dialogue of modern contemporary art in Africa and the world.
Many were hesitant to heed his words. Many accused him of being a fake. But wasn't a "fake" really 'telling the story of Africa' as the newspaper had said?
Perhaps because the Ugandan fine artists found the exhibition too simplistic in its approach to the fine arts, as well as its sense of journalism. They probably believed that Njami was misleading them to think that fine art could be equated with journalism; a similar debate happened in the conference attached to the exhibition, in which artists complained about how architects look down on painters.
"The relationship between art and photojournalism is difficult."
– Carl De Souza.
Fusing fine arts and photojournalism
In the end, those who succeed in fusing fine art and photojournalism are always the most original practitioners of photojournalism. Their photographs make more of an impact on the greater audience, simply because their stories are told with such profound artistic techniques.
In the UPPA exhibition, Joel Nsadha, who won first place in the portrait category, had attended and graduated from Margaret Trowell School of Fine Art, an institution which stresses the skills of classical portraiture. Much as this was a strength, it became a weakness in that Joel compromised storytelling for his fine art background to create visually stimulating but boring photographs.
1st place Portrait. Photo by: JOEL NSADHA. All rights reserved.
At the other end of the spectrum were photographers who submitted underexposed images, poorly cropped and with bad contrast lacking any artistic merit; in these cases the editing skills of the judges were absolutely necessary, turning sometimes mediocre images into outstanding shots.
An intimacy between the photographer and the subject
I discovered that Ishmael, the subject of the photograph by Santu Mofokeng (exhibited in Art at Work) was actually his own brother, preparing to deliver newspapers to white neighborhoods in winter time.
'Raflaga Matau Batong' by SANTU MOFOKENG (South Africa) ca 1986. All rights reserved.
In an interview from 2004, Santu talks about another image of Ishmael that had made his children cry, which even as it showed very little of the subject revealed much more of the struggle his brother faced dying from HIV. It started to occur to me that Santu's photographs were about a specific intimacy with his subject.
"I don't usually subscribe to taking pictures of misery." – Santu Mofokeng.
Here, Santu talks about some of the images which he highly protested against in the 80s; of the Somalia famine, with children with their rib cages showing, as well as the Biafra civil war in Nigeria.
These images aimed to shock the viewer into accepting the reality that the photojournalist created, which unfortunately cemented the history of photojournalism in Africa in depictions of AIDS victims, rioting against governments, endless civil wars and famines.
Santu's photographs tell the same story of Africa as other international photojournalists he has protested against in the 1980s, whose images generalize Africa in Somalia's famine as well as the effects of Biafra in Nigeria. But the major difference is in focusing on the intimacy between himself and his subject, in order to tell a unique and powerful story.
Stories with a twist make powerful photographs
Because of this lack of artistic maturity in the submissions for the UPPA, the judges could not base their selections on artistic merit. Instead, they chose photographs that could tell some important stories.
An intriguing story was in the photo essay on street theatre, which provided a twist by showing strangely dressed actors—a rare sight—out on the streets of Kampala. Actors walked and performed on the sidewalks and beside Pioneer buses to a stunned audience.
1st place Daily Life Story. Photo by: ABDUL KINYENYA. All rights reserved.
The huge flock of migrating birds that covered the majority of a winning environment shot was extraordinary in its approach to detail. Birds; chickens, turkeys and marabou stalks are often seen in Ugandan newspapers, but the twist in this was the huge mass of them migrating; their collective color shimmered off the print.
2nd place Environment Single. Photo by: MATTHIAS MUGISHA. All rights reserved.
The winning environment photo, showed a man seated underneath a tree. It was such a universal image, but the fact that the tree was dried up with sandbags and sheets of cloth in place of leaves for shelter was an interesting twist. The semi-arid environment seemed to be alas bearable and relatable.
1st place Environment Single. Photo by: EDYEGU DANIEL ENWAKU. All rights reserved.
Stories with a twist make powerful photographs; like the freaks by Diane Arbus in the 1950s and 1960s New York, which created a stir in the world of photography for the unconventional depictions of happy midgets at parties. Her work also utilizes very skilled artistic techniques and the relationship between object and surrounding. In doing so, her photographs not only make statements about New York, but the greater world and a life little known exists.
The winning images, Edyegu Enwaku in 1st and 2nd place and Simon Naulele in 3rd, were contrasts of one another.
Whereas one depicted a crying woman hugging the earth after a landslide that buried her home and family, another showed a disabled man riding to first place in a tricycle competition.
In showing a variety in the stories available about Africa, these contrasts are what create the power of photojournalism.
The competition will open again next year in August.
2nd place Overall Winner. Photo by: EDYEGU DANIEL ENWAKU. All rights reserved.
3rd place Overall Winner. Photo by: SIMON NAULELE. All rights reserved.
Serubiri Moses has been published in The New Vision reviewing live music. As a poet, he is featured on the pan African website, Badilisha Poetry Exchange.
To see all the winners, please visit Foreign Correspondents' Association of Uganda. All photos by courtesy of FCAU. A special thanks to Anna Kucma, organiser of UPPA.
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Serubiri Moses writes regularly for startjournal.org. Read also some of his recent articles:
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Visionary Africa: "Glass Boxes are a disaster"
To Die a Martyr: The story of a Ugandan Tragicomedy
Questioning 'Salable' Art at WAZO
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Nudity? It is Artistic Expression and Free Speech (part II)
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If you are pregnant and reading this, my first advice is RELAX!!!! Yep, just relax...it will be very beneficial for you once baby comes if you sleep as much as humanly possible now. Why, you ask? Because most, not all, but most babies don't sleep for very long stretches at a time. Which can be very stressful and tiring for a new mom and dad. Also, by relaxing, you can help get you body into maximum position for birthing...stressing over pains, due date, childbirth and anything else is not optimal for you or baby.
I want you to get on your computer and "Google" peaceful homebirths. Now, you may not be planning a homebirth, but, these are the best videos of calm, non screaming, non scary, unmedicated births I have ever seen for great examples of how it can be. You can also watch "The Business Of Being Born".Envision your own birth in this way. Do NOT watch anything about birth on tv. No "Baby Story", no "one Born Every Minute"...NOT AT ALL!!! Those are over-sensationalized for ratings.
I want you to make a birth plan. Bear in mind that your birth may not go like you plan, but, if you have taken the time to write out a detailed plan, then, I know that you have researched and know all of your options. The more you know, the better you do. I also fully believe that the more you know, the more confident you will be going in and less likely to just cave or follow blindly. Hire a Doula to help you stay focused and she can also concentrate just on you and help you to stay in charge of your birth. Research non -medicated pain relief options to try out. You'd be surprised how much you can endure if your mind is in the right place and you stay in charge.
Whether or not you want them to offer meds or wait on you to ask.
Who you want in the room.
Whether or not you want babies cord cut immediately or delay until it receives all of the precious cord blood.
Whether you want baby placed directly on your chest or allowed to be cleaned and wrapped first.
Whether or not you want baby to be allowed to breastfeed immediately.
Whether or not you want baby to room in with you or go to the nursery.
Do you want to avoid an episiotomy?
Do you want to be allowed to push when you feel the urge instead of being coached to "Purple Push".
Whether you want to avoid induction or get a second opinion when doc wants to induce.
Do you want to avoid vaccines or eye goo while there?
You may have more to add, but, I believe you understand where I am going with this. Think out EVERY little thing you can imagine so that you can be prepared.
Now, let's talk about baby. Keep in mind, babies stomach is the size of a marble until about 3 days old. A marble. That is 5-7mL, NOT even a half of an ounce...and that is true for ALL babies. It doesn't matter if they were 16lbs 4oz or 10oz , the smaller baby has a smaller stomach, but, the larger baby does NOT have a larger stomach. It is a myth that babies need 2, 3 or 4 oz bottles from birth. Or that they need supplement if your milk isn't in the next day. As your baby grows, it's stomach capacity will expand slightly, but, never more than their fist if no one has been overfeeding. Babies are designed by nature to take small amounts of milk often. Not to take large volumes every 3 or 4 hours. So, if you are nursing, BM digests VERY easily and colostrum(the first milk) if VERY high in calories and fat and baby will eat very often. The more baby is put directly to breast, the more likely you will make enough for baby. The minute you replace a nursing session with a formula bottle, that signals the breast to make one bottle less milk. It's all supply and demand. Yes, you WILL nurse a lot at first, but, around 6+weeks, baby should be slowing some after a major growth spurt and feeding frenzy. If you are formula feeding, do NOT start out with more than an ounce. Feed that bottle slowly mimicking BF in order to ensure baby doesn't gulp it all down before his stomach has a chance to register fullness. Feed tiny amounts often.
Invest in a wrap or wide seated carrier and wear baby soon and often. This not only will help you calm baby, but, baby will feel involved and secure. You can nurse in the wrap/carrier and baby can develop core muscles through being worn. Wearing baby most of the time instead of having baby lay flat on it's back is also a great deterrent for "flat head syndrome".
Look into a convertible carseat that rearfaces to a high weight and height. Kids are safer and able to rearface until past age two if possible. "One and 20" is a very minimum and "Two and 30" is recommended at the very least. Sweden rearfaces until age 5. There are very few car deaths of kids under age 5 there.
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