Rather than overbearing, the Church desires to guide us in every aspect of our lives because God cares about every aspect of our lives. Jesus is Lord over all, even the parts of our life we struggle to give to Him. Especially those parts.
The Church isn't trying to artificially insert itself into the different facets of life. As the Bride of Christ, she seeks to be where Christ wants to be, which is everywhere. It could be easy to convince ourselves that Jesus doesn't care much about business ethics or our literary choices or who shares our bed. We can separate those from that hour on Sunday as if Jesus can only see what happens in "His house." Jesus, however, wants to be involved in our work, leisure, relationships, and daily habits because He wants to transform those areas into means of sanctification.
We want to give Jesus the areas of our life that are easy to surrender. Jesus wants the areas of life that we struggle to admit aren't flawless. He wants them, flaws and all. When He spoke about taking up our cross and following Him, it wasn't simply the cross of getting up Sunday morning and making our way to Mass. It was about allowing Him into every part of our lives–our thoughts, our dreams, our free time, our business practices, our interactions with other people, and, yes, our sexuality.
The Church is the Body of Christ and we are members of that Body. If one part is ill, we need to tend to it, for the sake of that part, but also for the sake of the whole. As members of the Church, we should embrace the fact that the Church desires wholeness and healing for all. Whereas most of us would be willing to accept medical attention when we are ill, we are often quick to refuse spiritual attention when our souls aren't healthy. We become defensive if there is any indication that we are falling short of what God wants.
But the truth is so often we do fall short.
Instead of a jailer, the Church desires to gently correct us and lead us to the path we are to follow. And if that seems difficult to imagine or believe in the midst of our indignation, we should consider how people responded to Jesus.
Large crowds gathered, certainly. But sometimes people wanted to drive Him out of town or off a cliff. It is because He challenged them and called them to something to which they could only aspire by the grace of God. When the old Law said don't murder, Jesus said we should not even speak angrily to others. When the old Law said don't commit adultery, Jesus said don't look at another person with lust.
These controversial words sparked anger and hated in the hearts of some who listened. It should not surprise us that the path the Church calls us to follow also provokes the same response at times. An angry heart, however, does not make the truth less true.
Christ did not come and reject the material world. Instead, He came and He sought to sanctify this world. He encounters us in our lives; He seeks after us. It should not surprise us that He means to make Himself known in every facet of our lives. From the bedroom to the boardroom, Christ is Lord over all. And His Bride is there, too, providing wisdom in moments of difficulty. If that concerns us, we should spend some time reflecting on why it does.
Each rule is provided out of love. How is the Lord seeking to reveal His love in the midst of difficult teachings?


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• Centuries of world-wide cruelty now unveiled as "monumental" aspect of the Shadow: lacking faith in our capacity to include dark impulses, we project and enact them in the physical world. TV, etc., speeds the unveiling and also the word of Spirit. Need for right relationship among all creatures. Guardians support us but only we can be accountable. View Section
• Events in Eastern Europe: A "wedge" toward freedom; the result of prayers and dreaming "down through the centuries and forward into time." Before healing there will be more chaos. View Section
• Cycles of activism: The planet's incarnations, rhythms of change, "great ages." "Great plans enfolded in dreamtime and then enacted." In prayer we can draw all knowledge of healing into this realm. Mid-'90's will see "upheaval" in the U.S. View Section
Micciah: We greet you, dear friends.
You are, in this time, in the midst of the eternal Now — which appears to you as moment after moment after moment.
And you are in the midst of having unveiled to you much of the cruelty that has existed for centuries and centuries, as if the mass of unconscious pain, represented through compulsive action back through the ages, is revealing itself to you as the monumental — sometimes seemingly overwhelming — aspect of the Shadow.
We have said before that the Shadow is that in which you have no faith. When there is no faith that you are large enough to claim all of your impulses, including those that are cruel, dishonest, maiming, both toward self and others; when you do not experience yourself as large enough, or the family circle or the cultural circle or the spiritual circle as large enough to acknowledge that and face it, then it is enacted: it is acted out, expressed, in the physical world.
And you are feeling the impact so strongly because this is a great time of healing and of choosing. And you are able to see the violence not only in your own community but because of what you have created in terms of the media, in terms of instant communications world-wide. You are aware, if you allow yourself to be, of the monumental cruelty, reflected everywhere on the screen, interspersed with advertisements, which are like — many of them, not all — but like the fangs and the claws of greed flashing back and forth, in between videotaped images of destruction and unbelievable violence.
It is as if this physical time, this piece of the larger cycle, is a pool, a — (a cache?), to allow you to see what your potential for violence and cruelty is. And it is resonating up through the ages: we want to emphasize this. There have been times long before this one of insanity in the form of violence. The Children's Crusade was not in the minor leagues in its expression of violence through the distortion of religious principles, of cruelty, of greed. But you, now, have agreed at the larger level to witness — this is an important word — to witness it ... for other times as well as your own.
This is a time of speeding up — everything is faster and faster. At the same time, the potential seeds of the healing are being cooked in this chaos. At the same time, you have drawn into the earth realm many powerful beings, many all at the same time, who are strongly aligned with Spirit; and you are also, because you are in an age of such rapid communication, able to see, to read, to communicate much about Spirit — just as quickly as you can communicate about cruelty. The hundreds of books available; the possibilities to communicate peace through the media.
And right now a kind of cracking apart, in an uprush of violence; and also a yearning, at a very intense vibratory level, for peace. The paradox — the dichotomy — is getting stronger and stronger. It is less and less possible to go back into hiding and ignore what is transpiring. And the eventual well-being of this planet must include a better balance between all species: right relationship between human creatures and all other creatures, and the water spirits and the tree spirits, the rocks, the mountains, the grasses.
You are also attended, as we have said before, by guardians. You are not left all on your own to do this! You have support; yet no one can make the choices you need to make to move toward Spirit and the celebration of the union of the self with that love that is large enough to heal everything — no one can be responsible and accountable for that — except you yourselves. So although you are attended by guardians, and you have support beyond what you allow yourselves to conceive of, we encourage you to open yourselves continually to the conception of a power greater than you can imagine. You have that support, but there is nothing that will swoop in for you and save the day.
So! Please, what are your questions?
Mary Anne: I wanted to ask about the movement of peace and healing that's going on in Eastern — the Communist countries, the opening there. We always thought the domino theory would go the other way, and it appears that the domino theory is now moving towards peace, towards an opening to freedom.
Micciah: [Whisper.] Yes.
Mary Anne: And, um — I suppose my question is: is that a forerunner to a greater opening that's going to be happening on the whole planet, in terms of healing?
Micciah: Yes; it is a wedge. What happens is — first of all, you must understand that you experience life in a linear context, yet truly it all is happening in nonlocal time, in the eternity of Now. And what is happening in the Eastern European countries and in Russia is a product not only of the consciousness of those people there but of all the healing prayers everywhere, which appear in that location as this opening wedge toward greater freedom of choosing. It will bring with it its own problems; yet it is a bursting apart. It is like a seed pod — [unvoiced] PAH! — that is ready to open. And all of the prayers, down through the centuries and forward into time which you have not yet experienced, support the changes toward peace.
We would like to comment that, ah — ah — there are going to be difficulties that come from the changes, that also will reflect some of these same schisms. The change itself does not mean that all of the people are healed of their — ah — separation from Spirit, any more than it means that people in the United States, because they have freedom of government (more or less — and, relative to the rest of the world, more), that you are all free of difficulties.
However: what happens is that there is — let's see, how to explain this ... there is a vibrant upsurge, both in yearning for peace ... and a dream willingness, a willingness in — in the time, in dreamtime. You plan a lot of planetary activities in dreamtime. You don't only dream for yourself; you dream (and particularly some people who are designated to do that) — dream — the plans are enfolded in dreamtime that then appear in the physical world.
So — the time is ripe for this change, and the yearning for it is very intense. And when it reaches critical mass, then change appears in the physical world.
But you say, "Well, why is there no yearning in the places where suffering is so prominent?" Because the yearning for peace is not yet strongly enough present in every individual for it to affect each situation, everywhere; so there are some that are ripe, as we said, like a seed pod, ready to shift, and others that are still caught in the — the mirroring of your cruelty.
And we have said this before, as well: cruelty tends to be projected outward. "We are not cruel. It is only other, bad people who are cruel." Cruelty is not — [sharp sigh] — the enacting of cruelty will change as each person can look at his or her own unacceptable portions.
Not with further cruelty ("Oh! I am a cruel person! Good! I will beat myself because I am cruel!"), but with compassion to look at the Shadow. Cruelty is based in fear.
You are living in a violently dichotomous time, and one out of which great healing will emerge — but not without further chaos. We would like to say you are at the end of the chaos, but you know that is not so.
Michael: I have a related question, concerning political change and social awareness. It seems like everything is happening now in Eastern Europe and nothing's happening here, and I can only think of the 1960's in this country, where there was a lot of activism toward change. And I'm wondering if these things happen in cycles; and if they do, is the cycle going to come full turn in this country, and/or are we going to have a return of more activism?
Micciah: Yes. We don't like to make predictions, but — there are — there are cycles within cycles within cycles, all existing in the simultaneity of time. Some of the cycling, as we have just mentioned, relates to the formulation of great plans — plans that are communicated amongst many, many beings, that are enfolded in dreamtime and then enacted — sometimes to the surprise of the people who are enacting them, as it was a surprise that all of the changes in Eastern Europe happened after so much resistance. The change simply — was a melting, overnight. There are people who are not surprised, but there are those who find themselves participating and are startled by their own actions. And this is connected to the enfolding in dreamtime. It is like a code. And when you reach a certain point in the song of the code, change begins to manifest in the physical world.
(Of course, you perceive the opening in Russia and so forth as highly desirable from your own political standpoint. In the greater sense, other things are true. However; we are not saying it isn't desirable, but it is conceived in America as particularly desirable.)
So — there are rhythms of change that are beyond what you control individually, that are group or mass agreements in consciousness. There are incarnations of the entire planet which have been described in other cultures — the Indian culture and beliefs, and many of the Native American beliefs, where the earth and all of her creatures are understood to go through incarnations. The earth itself goes through cycles, with all the creatures in this dimension participating: cycles of peace and cycles of war, cycles that represent what are called "great ages." And in this teaching you are in the age of destruction, at the end of a great world age, which is what we are referring to with the enormous speeding up and, ah — instant mirroring of violence as well as the desire for peace.
So, there are vast cycles within which are smaller rhythms; and every one of you — every one of you — knows all of the cycles that exist and have always existed. And you can draw upon all knowledge for healing when you pray and affirm. When you do that, you open the window to everything that has ever been in prayer [sharp inhalation], and you pull that through yourself and into this realm; and it — if two people do it, it is magnified far beyond the two, and if three, far beyond the three, and so forth. You must be mindful, particularly in this cycle, to stay connected — not to be — not — not to not have your feelings, but not to be swept completely into the vastness of despair, which is so potent because there is so much suffering.
By the middle of the 1990s you will see upheaval and ferment in the United States: economic change, some continued change of the land, racial tensions that burst in various places. It will be more like, in your lifetime, the '60's: people [loud handclap] being awakened out of self-absorption and the trance of greed, which is a kind of — of desperation and loss of Spirit.
And remember that you are always held by Spirit. You experience the dance ... of the sundering! The dark and the light seem to oppose each other. The more you individually yearn for union and ask for the grace of that union (however you conceive of it), the more transparent the situation becomes, so that you are truly free to work for peace without being sunk in the despair.
Is this clear so far? It feels very convoluted. Are we being clear?
Students: Yes ... yeah ... yes.

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2. Cut the shallots in half-length ways, remove the 'leaves' of the shallot, then cut into bite sized pieces of about 1 cm squares.
3. Cut the bread in to bite sized pieces, place on an oven tray with a little olive oil and season with salt and pepper then bake at 200c for 5-7 minutes or until just toasted then remove.
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The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot Billy Whitehouse Rating: 4.0 out of 5
The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot
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Title: The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot
Release Date: February 8th, 2019
Studio: Epic Pictures
Director: Robert D. Krykowski
Release Format: Limited Theatrical, VOD
This review will contain spoilers. I will be discussing some major themes and speculating on the nature of events that occur in the plot. This may affect your first viewing of the film. I highly recommend seeing this movie knowing as little as possible. Go ahead. I'll be here when you get back.
At first glance, The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot sounds like a campy romp in the vein of Snakes on a Plane. But as anyone who watched the trailer knows, this movie promised themes as deep and rich as Sam Elliott's sultry bass.
Like biscuits and gravy for your ears
The plot of The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot occurs in two eras; World War II and present-day. In the movie, these two are interwoven through flashbacks. In the name of simplicity, I'll run down the two parts separately in chronological order. In the second half of the review, I'll circle back and discuss the way the movie presents its events and what that could mean.
The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot focuses on Calvin Barr (younger version is played by Aiden Turner of The Hobbit with the present-day version played by Sam Elliott of Road House). Barr is a U.S. Secret Agent on a mission to cross behind enemy lines and assassinate Adolf Hitler. He meets with a band of vaguely eastern Europeans who provide him with his cover then gains access to Hitler. Using a makeshift gun, he shoots Hitler in the chest and then the head.
Before going to war, Barr courts Maxine (Caitlin Fitzgerald of Masters of Sex). He continually tries to propose to her before he leaves, but can never quite seem to get it right.
In the present day, Calvin Barr is alone except for his dog. After an evening drinking alone at a bar, he gets mugged by three men. One of them burns a picture of Maxine, which causes Barr to take out all three of them and destroy their gun. He is, after all, The Man Who Killed Hitler.
And Then The Bigfoot
After the mugging, Barr throws out his medication. Shortly thereafter, he is approached by two government officials, one American (Ron Livingston of Office Space) and one Canadian (Rizwan Manji of The Dictator). They arrive unannounced at his home one night and tell him about a threat they would like him to eliminate. The Bigfoot is spreading some sort of super-plague through the Canadian wilderness and heading toward the American border.
Livingston's father (forgive me for not using his character name, which is listed only as "Flag Pin") had told him stories about a hero who killed Hitler. They believe Barr is the right man for this task as well. Barr kicks the two out of his house and the next day, he goes to consult with his brother, Ed (Larry Miller of Ten Things I Hate About You). There's some soul searching, then Barr decides to take the mission.
Following a short "getting armed" montage, the movie cuts to Barr in the wilderness taking a shot at The Bigfoot. After winging the creature, Barr flees through the woods and falls and breaks his finger. He fixes himself, has a short conversation with Livingston, then tracks The Bigfoot to a cliffside where it lays seemingly dying. Rather than take another shot at it, Barr allows the creature to die peacefully.
Barr creates and lights a funeral pyre for The Bigfoot, which awakens when Barr lights the fire and flees. Barr chases it down and engages The Bigfoot in hand to hand combat. After a brutal fight, Barr triumphs and kills The Bigfoot, then seemingly lays down to die himself, alone in the wilderness.
There's a funeral, Barr returns to go fishing with his brother and take in a school play.
Let's get this out of the way real quick: I do not believe the second half of the events of The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot actually occur in reality. To me, this is a movie about a man dealing with guilt, regret, and loss in his twilight years.
Every line of dialogue in The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot is dripping with meaning. One thing this movie does not do is deal in vagueness. If writer/director Robert D. Krykowski wants you to know something or make a connection, he puts it right on-screen. A lot of times this kind of hand-holding can be off-putting in a film, but somehow the tone and subject matter of The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot make this work. I think it also has a lot to do with the Western movie earnestness of both the film and Elliott himself.
The clues are all there that this is a fantasy in Barr's head. First off, the agents show up to recruit Elliott literally one scene after Barr tosses his medicine. As someone who takes a fair share of meds for everything from blood pressure to depression, I can tell you throwing those daily doses away would be more likely to send me into a downward spiral of angst and pain than turn me into a reluctant action hero.
The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot also plays with time in an interesting way that suggests unreality. Barr's swastika watch (the film's one major conceit to its Inglorious Basterds-esque subject matter and tone) could not possibly be an effective chronograph. There are moments where it should clearly be night from the events of the film but the sun is out and vice-versa. And the jarring time jump from Barr standing outside a ring of fire to staring down a scope and shooting The Bigfoot. This all sets a tone of dreaminess and also speaks to the way that time can become jumbled for people in their later years.
The biggest hint (well… less "hint" and more "giant flashing billboard") to Barr's fantasy is the painting. Barr has a painting of a landscape with a river and a mountain hanging on his wall. This painting is the centerpiece of several shots in the film. Later, as Barr is tracking the Bigfoot, he is walking through a landscape that *is* the painting.
Barr feels powerless both about his inability to end World War II and his inability to have been with Maxine. He feels guilty about killing a defenseless man "even if he deserved it". This Bigfoot fantasy is a way for him to cope, as killing The Bigfoot did, in fact, stem a tide of destruction in a way that killing Hitler could not.
I could frankly write another 10,000 words about the subtext and symbolism of The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot, but for the sake of brevity, I'll stop here.
Technical Feats
The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot looks beautiful. This comes as no surprise as its visual effects crew includes giants like Douglas Trumbull (Blade Runner, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, 2001: A Space Odyssey) and Rocco Gioffre (Robocop, Watchmen). The shots are great and I loved the syphilitic Bigfoot design.
The performances by Sam Elliott and Aiden Turner are fantastic. I wish I could say the same about Caitlin Fitzgerald and Larry Miller, though they do light up the screen when they appear. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't give them much to do. To be fair though, outside of Barr himself, this film doesn't develop a lot of characters. This is very much a movie about one single character's arc, and everyone else is there just to give him something to react to.
Verdict: The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot is a movie everyone should watch but not everyone will like. Some people will find the dialogue and symbolism too hamfisted. Some will not understand why this story is being told. Some people will see this as just another in a long line of "old white man coping with his feelings through violence" movie. I think all of those would be valid critiques. But those of you who like this movie will REALLY like this movie. It's the kind of film that works on both the level of pure awesome entertainment and can make you go back and think about it for weeks afterword.
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While the NYCRC has been around since 1993, they did not have a website and had established minimal visual identity. The NYCRC needed a modern online presence to reach and build trust in potential clients while providing information for current clients and job applicants.
Interview: I met with a NYCRC employee to discuss the organization's vision and needs for this project. She informed me that NYCRC clients tend to be low-income parents from The Bronx and Brooklyn - I suggested a mobile-friendly design, since many low-income families have mobile-only internet access. She also indicated a need for a website that can be updated regularly by staff who have little to no technical skills.
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The website needed to (a) provide vital information about the NYCRC services easily readable via a mobile device and (b) be easy enough to update for a person with limited technical skills. Tasks performed by NYCRC staff would include editing pages, updating a calendar of events via a sidebar widget, and adding photos to a gallery.
Documentation & Training: I drafted a reference document with general information about Wordpress, the NYCRC site, and specific tasks as determined in the Interview phase. I met with an NYCRC employee for 30 minutes and gave a brief tour of the Wordpress admin dashboard and answered remaining questions not covered in the reference document.
The end product is a mobile-responsive site that puts the NYCRC's mission at the forefront and allows easy access to the Center's brochure. Most importantly, the NYCRC can independently manage the site going forward.


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Chia Youyee Vang (left) interviewing Hmong residents in Argentina.
An Immigrant's Journey
Chia Youyee Vang's refugee experience sparked her passion to explore the lives of Hmong people worldwide.
By Jennifer Morales February 26, 2018
She was 9, new to the United States, new to its culture and the English language, and new to such taken-for-granted things as school.
It was 1980, and Chia Youyee Vang was a Hmong refugee from Laos. Her family had been displaced for months, the result of an attack on their village during the aftermath of the U.S.'s involvement in the Vietnam War. Neither her village nor her refugee camp provided a formal education. Now, in her new hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota, she had classmates.
"All the refugee kids were piled up in these classrooms for English as a second language," Vang recalls. "Even though we were 9 years old, we were still learning our ABCs."
Today, she's a long way from ABCs. A UWM professor of history, Vang is one of the world's leading experts on Hmong refugees. She's also one of the first people of Hmong descent to become a full professor at a major research university, a position earned in 2017 after her groundbreaking efforts to document experiences within the Hmong diaspora.
Vang pays particular attention to the ways different refugee populations have adjusted to their new communities and what factors affected those adjustments. "I've always been really concerned with people being displaced," Vang says. "I think about not only what has happened to Hmong people – being forced from our homes and what has happened to us over 40 years – but also the millions of other powerless people around the world."
In addition to being deeply personal work, her research on Hmong communities informs policymakers attempting to address new refugee crises, such as those in Yemen and Myanmar. It offers lessons in how to better preserve refugees' cultural and family connections. It's an academic journey that began in earnest at St. Paul's Johnson High School.
Vang was one of some 170,000 Hmong displaced to the Western hemisphere in the post-Vietnam War era. About 145,000 of those Hmong refugees found a home in the U.S., while other Hmong communities landed in France, Canada, Argentina and French Guiana in South America.
As a teenager, Vang became an officer in the Hmong student club at Johnson High School, which taught a large Hmong population. "We still had new refugees coming in 1990, new kids who reminded me of me," she says.
Newly confident in her language and leadership skills, she was an advocate for fellow Hmong students, especially the newcomers. "When I learned how to speak," she says, "I spoke." She asked the principal to provide a room during lunchtime so more established Hmong students could help newer arrivals.
Vang became a multisport athlete and played in the school band – all with her parents' spirited support. Her dad faithfully attended her swim meets, but he still struggled with English. He'd have to wait for one of Vang's siblings to translate the announcer's commentary before jumping up to cheer for his daughter.
When she was a high school senior in 1990, Hmong students organized to win a spot in the Homecoming court, and Vang was elected lady-in-waiting. When the queen was dethroned for disciplinary reasons, Vang ascended to the role.
"The next year, I got to go back to crown the new king and queen," she says. "That's my American story."
She earned a bachelor's degree from Gustavus Adolphus College, which included spending her junior year abroad in France, then attended graduate school at the University of Minnesota. There, she earned a master's degree in public affairs and a doctorate in American studies. Some 40 members of her extended family traveled from California to attend a celebration after her doctorate was awarded.
"I've been able to do well because it isn't just for me," she says. "They get to claim it, too."
Chia Youyee Vang interviews members of the Hmong community in Cacao, French Guiana. (Photo courtesy of Chia Youyee Vang)
Vang poses with Hmong youth in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo courtesy of Chia Youyee Vang)
Vang provides many students with opportunities to work as research assistants on trips abroad. Here, they are in Cacao, French Guiana. (Photo courtesy of Chia Youyee Vang)
Vang joined UWM's history faculty in 2006 and established a certificate program in Hmong diaspora studies in 2009. Her current research focuses on Hmong refugee experiences in South America.
"We know what has happened to our community in the U.S., but very little about those around the rest of the world," Vang says. She seeks "lessons on different ways that people manage to survive and rebuild their lives."
Vang is joined on her South American research trips by UWM students. Through extensive interviews, they've explored the experiences of Hmong refugee communities in French Guiana and Argentina.
"Not only has Chia's research expanded both scholarly and popular understandings of diasporic Hmong communities," says fellow UWM historian Rachel Buff, "but she also has mentored a new generation of scholars in the field she helped invent."
Vang's research discovered a divergence in the former refugees' ability to build community and develop a sense of belonging, circumstances affected by political and economic conditions as well as the sizes of the Hmong population. The findings suggest that resettling people in larger groups and providing support for family connections, cultural preservation and economic stability could improve the long-term well-being of other refugees.
In French Guiana, French missionaries led the resettlement of 1,000 Hmong refugees from 1977 to 1979. "They had to cut down the jungle – just like they did in Laos – and build their own homes," Vang says. Locals resisted having the refugees there. "There were protests in the streets."
But because they are French citizens, the Hmong Guianans thrived. Hmong farmers dominate the fresh produce market – a privileged position facilitated by the French government. This relative prosperity has raised educational ambitions for the younger generations. "They don't send kids to high school in the village," Vang says. "They send them to the capital or to France."
The Hmong population that settled in Argentina in the late 1970s was much smaller than the Guianans, only 21 families, and new arrivals were not relocated as a community. Instead, individual families were dispersed to farms to work as laborers with no way to communicate.
Over the years, families found each other, and some congregated in Rio Negro, a province in the country's southern region of Patagonia. "They were able to have small Hmong New Year celebrations," Vang says. "There was a little bit of social support."
Family reunification has made it possible for some of the Hmong Argentines to immigrate to the U.S., French Guiana or Germany. "The rest are stuck there," Vang says, and the economic success of their Hmong Guianan counterparts has eluded them.
Today, only about 100 Hmong people remain in Argentina. They are scattered across the country, living mostly as farmers on rented land or laborers in construction or other menial work.
But there are other strands of their legacy. At an academic conference, Vang met a descendant of the Hmong Argentine community. She was an education undergraduate student, and the two struck up a conversation.
On Vang's next research trip to South America, she had a new interpreter and research assistant.
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North Carolina Governor says boycott over anti-LGBT law is 'politically-correct hypocrisy gone mad'
Nick Duffy August 22, 2016
North Carolina's Governor is now actively attacking businesses and employers who choose to opt-out of his state over its discriminatory anti-LGBT laws.
North Carolina lost a string of big investment ventures over Governor Pat McCrory's decision to sign the contentious HB 2 – which voided all local ordinances protecting LGBT rights, banned transgender people from using their preferred bathroom, and permits businesses to discriminate against LGBT people on the grounds of religious belief.
McCrory continues to insist the anti-trans rules are "common sense", but the state has faced a string of lawsuits, as LGBT groups believe HB 2 to be a clear violation of the US Constitution.
The NBA recently confirmed it would be moving its 2017 All-Star Game out of the state over concerns that LGBT players, employees and fans would be left without protection under the law.
But in the wake of the decision, McCrory has decided the sensible way to attract investment to his state is to lob abuse at people who have decided to leave.
In a statement, his office fumed at Adam Silver, Commissioner of the NBA.
It says: "Commissioner Silver has no credibility in telling America that he's more 'comfortable' playing a basketball game in the People's Republic of China with its oppressive human rights record, rather than the 9th most populous state in the U.S.A.
"This is another classic example of politically-correct hypocrisy gone mad."
It added: "We are proud that Louisiana has joined 21 other states that are fighting for basic privacy expectations for our children and families in school restrooms, locker rooms and shower facilities."
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Man, I just can't believe it. Summer is almost here. I swear I just put away my Christmas tree and finally rid my house of all of the Mardi Gras beads. I guess time really does fly when you're having fun! And the spies and I have been doing just that. Don't worry! We've been jotting down everything we've "observed" along the way. And I have arranged it and inked it on this page just for you, so please enjoy!
If anyone brought any babies to St. Mary's annual Casino Night extravaganza this past weekend, they were definitely kissed. The "celebrity" dealers for this year's event leaned heavily on participants in the upcoming judicial elections.
Boozie's spies said it was fun people-watching, as some of the would-be judges clearly had more experience with the cards than others. But it was also very collegial, as demonstrated early in the evening when District Court candidate George Zoghby was dealing to a table full of jovial judicial candidates, some of whom were running against one another.
The slate of dealers also included radio star Uncle Henry and FOX10's Jason Smith. Making the event even more festive were all the ladies in their fancy Kentucky Derby hats. The Run for the Roses was over shortly before the festivities began, but there was still plenty of Derby-inspired partying. All for a good cause, of course.
On his HBO show "Last Week Tonight," host John Oliver loves to point out the silliness that sometimes occurs on local TV newscasts, especially the way on-air talent celebrates (or is forced to celebrate) holidays. Our own FOX affiliate made it on Oliver's show one Halloween showing "Studio 10" hosts Chasity Byrd and Joe Emer dressed up for the occasion.
This past Sunday night, FOX10 made it again, as morning news anchor Sarah Wall was shown reading something about breaking out the guacamole for Cinco de Mayo. She was just a small part of a montage of news folks from around the country referencing Cinco de Mayo, sometimes with bad Spanish or wearing sombreros. Sarah's was not nearly as "loco" as some of the other newscasters, but I definitely think the show's researchers have an eye on our market for material. Probably the whole Crichton Leprechaun thing. Just a guess. Thanks, WPMI!
Last Thursday night, Phil & Foster played at Callaghan's. Yes, I said Thursday night, not their regular Wednesday night gig at the Irish Social Club in the OGD. This delighted many of their fans, including one precious little girl celebrating her fifth birthday. This darling wasn't about to celebrate alone either. She offered cupcakes to all of the patrons who were there, making for a very sweet occasion in more ways than one. Awwwwww!
One of my mystic spies said the Knights of Revelry may be getting a new den and float barn soon. Word on the street, Broad Street, specifically, is the mystic organization may be moving into the old Naman's Grocery location on Broad. This seems to be the trend lately, with the Infant Mystics renovating Cotton Hall on Dauphin Street, the Mystics of Time gussying up the American Legion Hall on Government, among others. What a great way to bring these buildings back to life!
Well, kids, that's all I got this week. I am looking forward to covering all of the summer shenanigans. Bikinis and misbehavior go together like peanut butter and jelly, so I am excited. So just remember, whether rain or shine, dramatic or scandalous or some plain ol' politickin' while partying, I will be there. Ciao!


Bidvest Group, the diversified industrial company, has acquired Seafood Holdings Limited, from Tony Baxendale, founder of the company, and Risk Capital Partners, a private equity firm, for an enterprise value of US$69.25 million.
Seafood Holdings is UK's leading supplier of fresh fish to the food service sector. Principal activities include the procurement, preparation and distribution of fresh and frozen fish, shellfish and other seafood to hotels, restaurants, pub chains, contract caterers, sports stadiums, schools and government buildings.
Bidvest, based in South Africa, is a diversified industrial company, and is one of the largest global food service distribution companies. Bidvest food service interests include 3663 First for Foodservice, one of the largest distributors in the UK, and Bidvest Logistics, the leading logistics supplier to national UK food service operators and fast food chains. Additionally, Bidvest owns national distributors in Australia, Belgium, greater China, Czech Republic, Dubai, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia and South Africa.
Oaklins Cavendish, based in the UK, advised Risk Capital Partners and Tony Baxendale, Seafood Holdings' founder and Chief Executive, on its successful sale to Bidvest Group. The team ran a structured competitive process, which was specifically developed to accommodate a number of international trade purchasers, including acquirors from South America and the Far East. The transaction was concluded with Bidvest within two weeks of agreeing terms. The sale followed a two-year exit planning review conducted by Cavendish. Key to the success of the transaction was the involvement of Oaklins' team in South Africa, which used its strong local network and standing in the South African business community to introduce the target to Bidvest at a senior level.


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Berlin on a Budget isn't too hard to manage because there are so many free things to do in Berlin. One of those is to visit one of the many museums that have no cover charge to get in. Visiting a free museum is a perfect way to utilise your budget whilst still learning about this wonderful city. Below a list of the free museums in Berlin, PLUS a note about which of the mainstream ticketed museums have free entry days!
Museums with FREE ENTRY
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Alltag in der DDR: Everyday Life in the GDR - The Kulturbrauerei hosts this wonderful free museum all about life in the times of the German Democratic Republic. See our video here to learn more.
Young People Museum - In Schöneberg lies this permanent interactive museum, It's called The Young Peoples Museum but it is for young and old, celebrating Berlin's past and present.
Anti-War Museum - At this interesting museum in the suburb of Wedding, you'll find photographs, documents, and objects from the World Wars.
IMAGE: Tränenpalast
Tränenpalast - Otherwise known as The Palace Of Tears, this was a well-used border crossing from East to West Berlin, the place where people said goodbye to their loved ones. Steeped in history and now used as a museum about the popular crossing and the DDR. See our video here to learn more.
Daimler Contemporary - At Potsdamer Platz you'll find this exhibition of artists from South Germany. There are 1800 pieces, by 600 different artists.
German-Russian Museum - A little outside of the city, but worth the trip, here you'll find Soviet propaganda, uniforms, documentaries. (closed Mondays)
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Silent Heroes Memorial Center
This permanent exhibition, (Gedenkstätte Stille Helden) is about the persecution and plight of Jews facing imminent deportation, the stories when some of them decided to resist the threat by going underground, and the actions and motivations of the men and women who helped them.
Plattenbau Museumswohnung
The best way to see how people lived in the DDR (GDR) is to walk into this fully preserved DDR 3 bedroom apartment in Hellersdorf.
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Museum Blindenwekstatt Otto Weidt
Hidden away in Hackescher Markt is the story of Otto Weidt and how he hid Jewish employees in his workshop for the blind and deaf. The exhibition is in the old factory where it all happened.
Allied Museum
The Alliierten Museum runs a permanent exhibition about the political relationship of Western Allies between 1945 and 1994. A great museum to see original pieces of the Berlin Wall and a guards tower and other historical artefacts.
Forum Willy Brandt Berlin
Willy Brandt was one of the most outstanding statesmen of the 20th century. This museum is an informative exhibition about Willy Brandt and the political developments of the 20th century.
Museums with FREE DAYS
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Hamburger Bahnhoff - Free every first Thursday of the month from 4 pm - 8 pm
The Famous Hamburger Bahnhoff: a comprehensive collection of contemporary art, which it presents in a variety of permanent and temporary exhibitions.
KW Institute for Contemporary Art - Free every Thursday, 6 to 9 pm, and every first Sunday of the month. This museum approaches the central questions of our times through the production, display, and dissemination of contemporary art.
Ceramic Museum Berlin - Free every last Monday of the month. The KMB consists of around 8,000 objects plus extensive data, document archives and includes ceramics from the German cultural area.
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Deutsche Kinematek -Museum of Film and Television - Free every Thursday, 4 pm to 8 pm. Deutsche Kinemathek has everything related to film and television history and also houses the Filmhaus, one of the largest specialized libraries in Europe.
Bröhan Museum - Free every first Wednesday of the month (free guided tour at 5 pm). Berlin's museum for art nouveau, art deco, functionalism, and the art of the Berlin Secession.
Museum Ephraim-Palais - Free every first Wednesday of the month.
Museum Nikolaikirche - Free every first Wednesday of the month.
Düppel Historic Village - Free every first Wednesday of the month.
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EC_POINT_add, EC_POINT_dbl, EC_POINT_invert, EC_POINT_is_at_infinity, EC_POINT_is_on_curve, EC_POINT_cmp, EC_POINT_make_affine, EC_POINTs_make_affine, EC_POINTs_mul, EC_POINT_mul, EC_GROUP_precompute_mult, EC_GROUP_have_precompute_mult - Functions for performing mathematical operations and tests on EC_POINT objects

=head1 SYNOPSIS

 #include <openssl/ec.h>

 int EC_POINT_add(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *r, const EC_POINT *a,
                  const EC_POINT *b, BN_CTX *ctx);
 int EC_POINT_dbl(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *r, const EC_POINT *a, BN_CTX *ctx);
 int EC_POINT_invert(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *a, BN_CTX *ctx);
 int EC_POINT_is_at_infinity(const EC_GROUP *group, const EC_POINT *p);
 int EC_POINT_is_on_curve(const EC_GROUP *group, const EC_POINT *point, BN_CTX *ctx);
 int EC_POINT_cmp(const EC_GROUP *group, const EC_POINT *a, const EC_POINT *b, BN_CTX *ctx);
 int EC_POINT_make_affine(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *point, BN_CTX *ctx);
 int EC_POINTs_make_affine(const EC_GROUP *group, size_t num,
                           EC_POINT *points[], BN_CTX *ctx);
 int EC_POINTs_mul(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *r, const BIGNUM *n, size_t num,
                   const EC_POINT *p[], const BIGNUM *m[], BN_CTX *ctx);
 int EC_POINT_mul(const EC_GROUP *group, EC_POINT *r, const BIGNUM *n,
                  const EC_POINT *q, const BIGNUM *m, BN_CTX *ctx);
 int EC_GROUP_precompute_mult(EC_GROUP *group, BN_CTX *ctx);
 int EC_GROUP_have_precompute_mult(const EC_GROUP *group);

=head1 DESCRIPTION

EC_POINT_add adds the two points B<a> and B<b> and places the result in B<r>. Similarly EC_POINT_dbl doubles the point B<a> and places the
result in B<r>. In both cases it is valid for B<r> to be one of B<a> or B<b>.

EC_POINT_invert calculates the inverse of the supplied point B<a>. The result is placed back in B<a>.

The function EC_POINT_is_at_infinity tests whether the supplied point is at infinity or not.

EC_POINT_is_on_curve tests whether the supplied point is on the curve or not.

EC_POINT_cmp compares the two supplied points and tests whether or not they are equal.

The functions EC_POINT_make_affine and EC_POINTs_make_affine force the internal representation of the EC_POINT(s) into the affine
co-ordinate system. In the case of EC_POINTs_make_affine the value B<num> provides the number of points in the array B<points> to be
forced.

EC_POINT_mul is a convenient interface to EC_POINTs_mul: it calculates the value generator * B<n> + B<q> * B<m> and stores the result in B<r>.
The value B<n> may be NULL in which case the result is just B<q> * B<m> (variable point multiplication). Alternatively, both B<q> and B<m> may be NULL, and B<n> non-NULL, in which case the result is just generator * B<n> (fixed point multiplication).
When performing a single fixed or variable point multiplication, the underlying implementation uses a constant time algorithm, when the input scalar (either B<n> or B<m>) is in the range [0, ec_group_order).

EC_POINTs_mul calculates the value generator * B<n> + B<q[0]> * B<m[0]> + ... + B<q[num-1]> * B<m[num-1]>. As for EC_POINT_mul the value B<n> may be NULL or B<num> may be zero.
When performing a fixed point multiplication (B<n> is non-NULL and B<num> is 0) or a variable point multiplication (B<n> is NULL and B<num> is 1), the underlying implementation uses a constant time algorithm, when the input scalar (either B<n> or B<m[0]>) is in the range [0, ec_group_order).

The function EC_GROUP_precompute_mult stores multiples of the generator for faster point multiplication, whilst
EC_GROUP_have_precompute_mult tests whether precomputation has already been done. See L<EC_GROUP_copy(3)> for information
about the generator.

=head1 RETURN VALUES

The following functions return 1 on success or 0 on error: EC_POINT_add, EC_POINT_dbl, EC_POINT_invert, EC_POINT_make_affine,
EC_POINTs_make_affine, EC_POINTs_make_affine, EC_POINT_mul, EC_POINTs_mul and EC_GROUP_precompute_mult.

EC_POINT_is_at_infinity returns 1 if the point is at infinity, or 0 otherwise.

EC_POINT_is_on_curve returns 1 if the point is on the curve, 0 if not, or -1 on error.

EC_POINT_cmp returns 1 if the points are not equal, 0 if they are, or -1 on error.

EC_GROUP_have_precompute_mult return 1 if a precomputation has been done, or 0 if not.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<crypto(7)>, L<EC_GROUP_new(3)>, L<EC_GROUP_copy(3)>,
L<EC_POINT_new(3)>, L<EC_KEY_new(3)>,
L<EC_GFp_simple_method(3)>, L<d2i_ECPKParameters(3)>

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2013-2018 The OpenSSL Project Authors. All Rights Reserved.

Licensed under the OpenSSL license (the "License").  You may not use
this file except in compliance with the License.  You can obtain a copy
in the file LICENSE in the source distribution or at
L<https://www.openssl.org/source/license.html>.

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/ Home / Press office / Plymouth and New York exchange ideas on inter-professional learning in dentistry
Plymouth and New York exchange ideas on inter-professional learning in dentistry
Dental educators at the University of Plymouth and New York University College of Dentistry have met to exchange ideas on inter-professional teaching
The entrance to New York University College of Dentistry
Three educators and clinicians from Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry have visited New York University College of Dentistry to exchange ideas and experiences of inter-professional learning – where students training to be dentists do so side-by-side with other dental professional students (such as dental nurses, dental therapists and hygienists) and other health care professionals such as nursing.
Jane Collingwood and Clare McIlwaine went to New York University College of Dentistry thanks to a Santander Internationalisation Scholarship, a grant awarded to help build collaborative relationships for research, skill sharing and career development among Santander universities.
Their colleague Louise Belfield travelled separately and joined Jane and Clare at NYU to complete the multi-professional team and gained experience of integrating clinical and basic science education among multiple undergraduate programmes.
Both the University of Plymouth and New York University have renowned reputations for inter-professional learning. Plymouth leads the way in a completely new and innovative programme which trains future dentists and dental therapists and hygienists side-by-side from the very start of their programmes. Jane and Clare shared experiences and learned best practice with their colleagues in New York. They are also hopeful that this visit will lead to joint projects in the future.
Jane commented:
"There is a growing acknowledgement that oral health is part of overall health and so we need to take a whole body approach to health care delivery. At NYU they have been developing inter-professional education between students of dentistry, nursing and other professionals for a number of years. We could see how this could create healthcare professionals who were not only confident in their own roles, but could also liaise with each other to create a patient-centred care environment. There was a lot we could bring back to Plymouth – especially given the breadth of health professions courses at this University – but it was also heartening to see where our trailblazing approach to the integration of dental and dental therapy and hygiene students could give inspiration to New York University in the future."
Dental therapy is a relatively new profession in the US and has recently been utilised in Alaska with the hope that this will become the case further across the US. Here in the UK, dental therapists are beginning to be recognised as an integral member of the dental team and are trained across UK dental schools.
What was common between the two countries were the barriers within the profession to inter-professional activity: "We believe that training dental health professionals alongside one another enhances individual roles, and we found that this was the case with NYU's inter-professional education model too,'' said Clare.
Louise added:
"I was particularly interested in how NYU incorporated the life science components of their courses across the integrated programmes. It was inspiring to see how they used their extensive research record to inform their teaching."
Clare, Jane and Louise were all full of praise for the welcome they received from colleagues at New York University, and for the visits and tours they put together – "more than we expected." Clare and Jane are also grateful to Santander for funding their trip.
Professor Christopher Tredwin, Head of Plymouth University Peninsula School of Dentistry, commented:
"Clare, Jane and Louise have brought a wealth of information and experience back with them from New York, all of which will help us to develop our offering still further. It was heartening to hear that our colleagues at New York University were also impressed by what we have achieved so far. As a School we constantly strive to forge relationships with colleagues around the world and the potential for collaborative working with New York University is immense."
Stephen Thatcher, University Relationship Branch Manager at Santander Universities, added:
"We are very proud of Jane and Clare, our Santander Scholar Recipients, for their innovative work both locally and internationally. It's great to see them deepening University relationships and actively collaborating with New York University; these values are what Santander are very passionate about. If you also share these values and would like an international experience like Jane and Clare, you will be able to apply to become a 2018 Santander Scholar later this year."
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All / Features / February 19, 2019
"Ragtime" Remains Timely at the Pasadena Playhouse
By Ed Rampell
E.L. Doctorow's 1975 novel Ragtime is a panoramic political period piece featuring fictitious and real characters in early 20th century New York. Doctorow's progressive panoply of Americana is interspersed with historical figures, including anarchist immigrant Emma Goldman (played in this production by Valerie Perri), banker J.P. Morgan (Tom G. McMahon), educator Booker T. Washington (Dedrick Bonner), capitalist Henry Ford (Ryan Dietz), and escape artist Harry Houdini (Benjamin Schrader). Ragtime "follows three families: An upper class white family [in New Rochelle]; a Black musician in Harlem; and a Jewish family passing through Ellis Island. Their three worlds collide," notes Danny Feldman, Producing Artistic Director of the Pasadena Playhouse, which is launching the first major revival in 20 years of the musical based on Doctorow's page-turner. The production is directed by David Lee.
The Bronx-born Doctorow's landmark work of historical fiction was turned into a musical in 1996 that debuted at Toronto, had its U.S. premiere at Los Angeles' Schubert Theatre in 1997, and opened on Broadway in January, 1998. Ragtime: The Musical was nominated for a dozen Tony Awards, winning in four categories, including Terrence McNally for Best Book; lyricist Lynn Ahrens and composer Stephen Flaherty for Best Original Score; plus Audra McDonald as Sarah for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical. (Miloš Forman adapted Ragtime for the cinema in 1981 as a non-singing drama, boasting Jeff Daniels' movie debut and James Cagney's film farewell.)
When mounting works written to transpire during a specific era and at a particular place, theatrical producers have different options available for staging the play and attracting audiences. How does one make sure a play is a blockbuster revival, instead of a lackluster retread?
Photo by Nick Agro / Pasadena Playhouse
In order to make its revival of the musical iteration of the 1931-born Doctorow's novel about turn-of-the-last-century America accessible and timely for a contemporary audience, Pasadena Playhouse is embarking on a different path intended to provide historical and cultural context for Doctorow's enlightening and entertaining brainchild to 21st century spectators.
Ragtime deals with themes of prejudice and injustice in the U.S.A. According to the Playhouse's Feldman, "In season planning last year, I was exploring shows that were socially relevant at the moment. I was listening to Ragtime and… it is more relevant today than when the musical came out in the late '90s, but also when Doctorow's novel came out. It's a story about America at a time of defining itself, going through a great moment of change, of conflict, and a unifying force trying to bring itself together… But America trying to define itself out of the conflict, and talk about its own values, and who we are as a country. I think that's wildly relevant today."
Dionna Michelle Daniel, Pasadena Playhouse's Community Engagement and Learning Programs Manager, believes the early 20th century and 2019 "are both times that look at what's happening in the United States and with radical change. Different groups coming together and being at the nexus of what it means to move forward and build together a better America."
Acting singer Clifton Duncan, who portrays Ragtime's pivotal character Coalhouse Walker Jr., believes "what's relevant about this story, especially right now, is it's a story about multiculturalism and the question of whether or not it works. Here in the U.S. there's lots of division along lots of lines – not just racial, but political lines… In Ragtime there's the question: What does it mean to be an American? All of the major characters in this story are shooting after the American Dream – whatever that means to them. It leads back to questions of American identity," stresses Duncan, who was born in Germany and spent much of his youth overseas, the son of U.S. Army personnel.
One of the complex work's storylines follows an immigrant from Latvia "named Tateh [Marc Ginsburg, who was Ovation Award-nominated for playing Che in Evita at Cabrillo Music Theatre] who is Jewish, and his young daughter [Iara Nemirovsky, whose credits include the First National Tour of School of Rock], their journey and struggles coming through Ellis Island," recounts Feldman, who – like Doctorow – is also Jewish. "He works in a sweatshop and lives in a tenement in [Manhattan's Lower East Side] in pretty horrific conditions. We watch his American Dream become realized… We see that in conjunction with Coalhouse's journey in the show."
Daniel sees a relationship between what befalls Ragtime's lead African American character and acts of racial violence in contemporary America. "Going into this idea of gun violence and gun control and what it means to seek justice in a world where it feels like there is no justice. That is the similarity between Coalhouse and the Black Lives Matter movement," states Daniel, who wrote Gunshot Medley: Part I, which Rogue Machine Theatre presented in 2018.
Duncan describes Coalhouse as being "from St. Louis… a man who created himself, he's very educated, speaks, extraordinarily eloquently… Through his love for Sarah [Bryce Charles, whose credits include The Book of Mormon's national tour and Blues in the Night at the Wallis Annenberg Center] he transforms himself into an intellectual and creative force, one of the most respected figures in the Harlem scene at that time."
However, Duncan goes on to say the "Black entertainer has his car destroyed. And all the legal means by which he tries to have that rectified are turned off to him and eventually… he becomes a vigilante," says Duncan, who traveled to Pasadena from New York, where he appeared on Broadway in The Play That Goes Wrong and Off-Broadway in Carmen Jones. (The astute Duncan adds that Doctorow "pretty much lifted the Coalhouse plot from a[n 1810] German novella by Heinrich von Kleist entitled Michael Kohlhaus" and – as Laurents did with West Side Story – added an explosive ethnic dimension to Doctorow's "genius adaptation.")
When Doctorow died (about a month after Trump declared his candidacy for president in 2015), The Nation observed: "Ever since Ragtime made a literary and commercial splash in 1975, he has given us highly original novels that slyly subvert our received ideas about the American past and offer a radical critique of contemporary culture." A pianist, Coalhouse plays ragtime music, from whence Doctorow derived his novel's title – and the play's polyphonous style with multiple storylines and cultures.
Ragtime: The Musical is being performed from February 5 – March 9 on Tuesday-Friday evenings at 8:00 p.m.; Saturday at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.; Sunday at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. (no performance on Sunday, February 24 at 7:00 p.m.) at the Pasadena Playhouse, 39 South El Molino Avenue, Pasadena, CA 91101. Info: (626) 356-7529; www.pasadenaplayhouse.org.
Read the review in Stage Raw here.
Oh My God!: Ed Asner Plays the Title Role in "God Help Us!"
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The 2020-21 schedule is released, Nikita Kucherov sidelined for the season, plus a roundup of the latest notable signings and more in today's NHL morning coffee headlines.
NHL.COM: The league released the schedule for the 2020-21 season. It begins on Jan. 13 with five games, including the Tampa Bay Lightning raising their 2020 Stanley Cup championship banner before facing off against the Chicago Blackhawks at Amalie Arena.
The other four games see the Pittsburgh Penguins visit the Philadelphia Flyers, the Montreal Canadiens face off against the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Vancouver Canucks squaring off against the Edmonton Oilers, and the St. Louis Blues tangling with the Colorado Avalanche.
The league also announced the postponement of the 2021 Stadium Series slated for Feb. 20, 2021, featuring the Carolina Hurricanes.
Hip surgery will sideline Tampa Bay Lightning winger Nikita Kucherov (NHL Images).
SPECTOR'S NOTE: All timings for those games have yet to be announced. Those will likely be revealed after the locations for the Canadian games are determined.
TSN reported last night the five Canadian provinces hosting NHL teams released a letter calling for increased testing of players, staff and close contacts as well as enhancing the schedule to group game into blocks to reduce inter-jurisdictional travel. The other option is reinstating a bubble model similar to the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs, which the league and the NHLPA aren't keen to implement.
TAMPA BAY TIMES: Lightning winger Nikita Kucherov has hip surgery scheduled for next week and is expected to be sidelined for the entire regular season. The club hopes to have him back in time for the 2021 playoffs beginning in May.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: This is a big blow to the Lightning's scoring punch but they will receive $9.5 million in salary cap relief by placing the former Art Ross Trophy and Hart Trophy winner on long-term injury reserve. That should free up sufficient cap space to sign restricted free agent Anthony Cirelli. However, that doesn't mean they don't need to make a cost-cutting deal. I'll have more about that in the Rumors section.
The Lightning also signed forwards Mathieu Joseph and Alex Volkov to short-term, one-way contracts. Joseph inked a two-year deal worth $1.475 million while Volkov inked a one-year, $700K deal.
NJ.COM: The New Jersey Devils signed goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood to a three-year, $8.4 million contract. The annual average value is $2.8 million.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: An affordable deal for the Devils. Blackwood will be their starting goaltender entering this season. A solid performance on his part over the course of this deal will ensure more lucrative terms on his next contract.
SPORTSNET: The Nashville Predators signed forward Erik Haula to a one-year, $1.75 million contract.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: This signing comes on the heels of the Predators bringing back winger Mikael Granlund. It's a good, cost-effective depth addition. Haula has an injury history but when healthy is a speedy, versatile two-way forward with a decent scoring touch who can skate on the wing or at center.
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER: Goaltender Ryan Miller is returning for another season with the Anaheim Ducks, inking a one-year contract worth $1 million. He's served as their backup netminder for the past three seasons.
SPECTOR'S NOTE: No surprise here. Miller and his family live in the Anaheim area and he doesn't want to relocate at this stage of his career.
MONTREAL GAZETTE: The Canadiens added more experienced depth to their forward links by signing winger Michael Frolik to a one-year, $750K contract.
WGR 550: The Buffalo Sabres signed center Casey Mittelstadt to a one-year contract worth just over $874K.
SUN-SENTINEL.COM: The Florida Panthers inked goaltender Sam Montembault to a one-year, two-way deal.
NBC SPORTS CHICAGO: Blackhawks forward Kirby Dach suffered an apparent injury to his right wrist during Canada's 1-0 win over Russia in a tune-up game for the upcoming 2021 World Junior Championship in Edmonton. Dach left the game, underwent X-rays and is undergoing other tests to determine the severity of the injury.
Meanwhile, Blackhawks forward Alex Nylander recently underwent knee surgery and is expected to be sidelined for four-to-six months.
SPORTSNET: The Vancouver Canucks hired Jason King as their new assistant coach and Chris Higgins as their new skills and development coach.
Pengy	on December 24, 2020 at 9:37 am
To all here who celebrate as I, to you and your families, have a very Merry Christmas
To all here of other faiths; wishing you and your families a wonderful and festive holiday season
To all… good health and happiness
Pengy and family
Iago	on December 24, 2020 at 10:11 am
Same to you Pengy. Merry Christmas to all, and Happy Holidays to those who do not celebrate Christmas. Peace on earth, goodwill toward men !!!!!
Ray Bark	on December 24, 2020 at 12:03 pm
We celebrated Festivus yesterday, wish you guys were there so I could have aired all the grievances I have with you folks.
Especially Wendel.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays etc boys!
Pengy	on December 24, 2020 at 12:15 pm
Hoping your meatloaf was served to perfection 😄
Francis S.	on December 24, 2020 at 1:37 pm
That happens when your holiday dinner doesn't include alcohol—you need some one to hear you when you complain.
Re " as enhancing the schedule to group game into blocks to reduce inter-jurisdictional travel. "
I fully agree
I posted about this before…. e.g. Leafs…
4 games in 6 in Ed (2 B2Bs with two days off in between ) ; boot To Cgy two days off b4 a B2B; 2 days off B2B ; that's 8 games in 14; then home for 4-5 days off
Then host Ottw then Mon … same … 8 in 14 …. then 5 days off
Then off to Van then off to Winn…. same format
That's 24 games in 52 days…. almost half the schedule
Reversing the above pattern (home vs away) with 5 days in between the two reversed cycles….
48 games in 103-107 days
Leafs only have taken 9 flights; and have only done 6 separate hotel stays
Add a game in 2 of those road trips; and 2 games to another road trip; and spread out 4 more games to the 3 long home stands …. in each trip/home stand extend 2 – 4 days timing… gets 56 games in within the window… still only 9 flights ; still only 6 hotel stays…. it's like 6 mini-tournies ….. weird but mitigates a ton of travel (and cost) and massively reduces exposure
ed vanimpe	on December 24, 2020 at 10:14 am
Kucherov's surgery does not give the Lightning sufficient cap room to sign Cirelli … do the math … unless he signs for less than he's worth … and that ain't happening.
Joe	on December 24, 2020 at 10:28 am
According the Jimmy Murphy of Boston Hockey Now Cam Neely told him a day or two ago the Bruins are ready to jump into the NHL trading frenzy that's about to begin ….. Who the Bruins could trade and get what they need in return will be interesting…..
True that Joe.
Need to know what's going on with Chara, is the silence telling?
If not back would like a veteran LD. Need at least 8 NHL quality D men to get through a season if you want to contend. Zboril will be #7. Vatanen if he is capable playing his off side is an option.
Joe	on December 24, 2020 at 2:10 pm
I did think at one time Chara signing back with Bruins was a given but that's seems to fading … Bruins need 2 players a LD and a 2nd line winger with some size even with Brad & Pasta back & with not much cap space it's going to have to happen thru trades
Ron Moore	on December 24, 2020 at 4:51 pm
It's weird how we even haven't heard from the teams that can weaponize their free cap space. Wonder if prices are being set and time will tell who will be a hero or heel.
Hey Lyle any changes to your format for the upcoming season?
PS Happy Holidays
Lyle Richardson	on December 24, 2020 at 6:09 pm
Hi, Ron. No format changes planned for now, though that could change over the course of 2021. Right now, the focus is on the upcoming season. Happy holidays!
Wendel17higgins	on December 24, 2020 at 1:09 pm
Merry Christmas everyone, especially to Hab fans who just added another bottom 6 forward in frolic to go with their 10 other ones. Their only 2nd liner Gallagher is gonna have to carry some "heavy water" this year until the Habs pres realizes the disaster unfolding and goes with the nuclear option.
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The Demography of the Territory's 'Midtowns': Katherine
Huw Brokensha, Andrew Taylor
This research brief is part of a series on the changing demography of the Northern Territory's 'Midtowns' – Tenant Creek, Katherine, Jabiru and Nhulunbuy. This brief is on the major characteristics and changing nature of the resident population of Katherine from 2006 to 2011, based on Census data and population estimates. We compare and contrast the changing resident population of the town of Katherine, the surrounding Roper Gulf and Victoria-Daly regions to other jurisdictions.
Darwin, Australia
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I think this adorable kitty is getting ready to……POUNCE!
Check out the eyes on this beautiful Siamese cat…..
Me neither, but I can't say the same for my kitties!
We haven't had a big cat pic for a while so here's six of them all in a row!
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THE INDEPENDENT (UK) – Chile looks set to decriminalise cannabis after the country approved a bill to allow its people to grow small amounts of marijuana for medical purposes.
The public gallery in the lower house of congress erupted into cheers and applause as 68 members – compared with 39 – voted for the bill.
The announcement has been praised as being a 'big step forward' in the usually socially conservative country's stance on drugs.
Until now, planting, selling or transporting marijuana in Chile has been a punishable offence which could have resulted in up to 15 years imprisonment.
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Dr. Ralph Gonzalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines recently told an audience on St. Maarten that CARICOM should really consider legalizing GANJA allowing persons to use the herb for medical purposes, while persons should have a small quantity for recreational use. According to him, if we continue to drag our feet on that issue, we will soon be exporting GANJA from the outta world. Other nations are moving rapidly to legalize the herb and yet, the Caribbean with the exception of Jamaica, are lagging behind.
There is a reason why the Eastern Caribbean is dragging it's feet. Yes, they are benefiting from the black market and in the legal system to increase the number of criminals in the society.
ST.LUCIA SHOULD ASK THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT TO GIVE US SOME TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE UNDER A BACKYARD MARIJUANA PROJECT.


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EXECUTIVE ORDER B-32-15 | Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.
WHEREAS future investments to upgrade freight vehicles and infrastructure should utilize technologies, energy sources, and fuels that enable greater transportation efficiency while reducing community and environmental impacts.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Secretary of the California State Transportation Agency, the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency lead other relevant state departments including the California Air Resources Board, the California Department of Transportation, the California Energy Commission, and the Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development to develop an integrated action plan by July 2016 that establishes clear targets to improve freight efficiency, transition to zero-emission technologies, and increase competitiveness of California's freight system.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this action plan identify state policies, programs, and investments to achieve these targets, and that the plan be informed by existing state agency strategies, including the California Freight Mobility Plan, Sustainable Freight Pathways to Zero and Near-Zero Emissions, Integrated Energy Policy Report, as well as broad stakeholder input.
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IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that agencies under my direct executive authority cooperate in the implementation of this Order, and it is requested that other public and private entities assist in its development and implementation as appropriate.
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Last week we had an appointment I dreaded potentially having from Baby Girl's first pediatrician visit. She had a heart murmur and her doctor said it likely would resolve itself, but that we needed to monitor it until she was six months. At that point if it was still present we would be referred to a pediatric cardiologist. My fears were slightly eased knowing that J had a murmur as a child that went away on its own, but I was never fully relaxed about it. How could I be…there could potentially be a problem with my sweet girl's heart. At each well check I was hoping and praying that her doctor would no longer hear the murmur, but alas, it was still present at the six month appointment. So, Thursday J and I took her to the cardiologist not knowing what to expect. We were beyond nervous. After a very thorough appointment with an amazing doctor including an electrocardiogram and echocardiogram we had a diagnosis. Her murmur is caused by Pulmonary Valve Stenosis. Basically it is a heart disorder that includes the narrowing of the pulmonary valve causing a decrease in the flow of blood from the heart to the lungs.
Luckily her case is very mild and her doctor believes it is not causing any strain on her heart. We have a plan to continue to monitor it to make sure she does not experience any additional narrowing of the valve. Though no parent wants anything to be wrong with their child, I'm beyond grateful to have a diagnosis and a great prognosis.
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