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Nxlevel Lifestyle & Entertainment Group is an event planning company that provides nightlife experiences and festivals for college students and young professionals.
One of the company's signature events is THE WAVE: a massive waterpark pool party held annually. This website was created to advertise for the event, share key details, and serve as a secure, central location for ticket purchase.
© 2018 WIGGINS MEDIA, LLC. All Rights Reserved.


Romantic Laura is the perfect apartment for a couple visiting Florence, its elegant and classy rooms, the numerous comforts and the central location will make your stay unforgettable!
The apartment consists of a beautiful double bedroom, a bright living room, a well-equipped kitchen and a very modern full bathroom with shower. A beautiful house with parquet floors and frescoed walls that combines a classic taste with all the comforts needed for a relaxing holiday.
This is the ideal apartment for your romantic getaway in Florence, a delightful house located in a quiet street in the heart of the historic center, very close to many monuments in an area well served by public transport.
From Florence Central Station, you can take a bus such as the 6 or the 14 Alternatively, near the station you can take a taxi.


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Ilya Somin reviews the areas of agreement and disagreement among participants at this month's Cato Unbound.
Parent Issue: Is Smaller Government Smarter Government?
Sean Trende concludes that Ilya Somin's new book is an important one, despite some weighty objections.
Jeffrey Friedman concludes with an outline of the research program social scientists must conduct after the fall of rational ignorance theory.
Ilya Somin argues that political ignorance has real costs, in that voters choose policies that are ineffective and against their interests.
Ilya Somin defends rational ignorance theory again, arguing that voters see a small chance of influencing outcomes as nonetheless worthwhile.
Sean Trende argues that voters know well enough to make good decisions, particularly when compared to elites, who make their own share of mistakes.
Jeffrey Friedman explains how rational ignorance theory is contradicted by both voters' actions and their stated beliefs.
Ilya Somin replies to Jeffrey Friedman: Most political ignorance is indeed rational, which makes such ignorance much harder to correct.
Ilya Somin replies to Sean Trende: Voters don't know enough to make good decisions.
Ilya Somin responds to Heather Gerken on federalism, voting with your feet, and voter ignorance.


For a period of six years between 1993 and 1997, Twenty Twenty Television was the UK's largest supplier of independently produced current affairs shows.
A peaktime, 25 minute weekly Current Affairs Series, commissioned by Carlton TV for the ITV Network. This series is building on the success of STORYLINE and is being presented by Dermot Murnaghan. 22 half hour shows were transmitted during 1993. The show was re commissioned by the network for 1994-5, and again for a run of 20 shows in 1995-96. The Fourth and final series ran in the 96-97 season.
A weekly hard-edged international, single subject investigative series presented by Dermot Murnaghan for the UK's ITV Network in the end producing 85 half hour editions of the series.


Irefrea - Health and safety problems in recreational nightlife in the Island of Mallorca.
Health and safety problems in recreational nightlife in the Island of Mallorca.
Calafat, A. and Juan, M.
(2004) International Journal of drug Policy , 15 (2),157-162.
Objective: To examine data on public health problems in recreational life, particularly those associated with conditions of clubs and bars in Mallorca. The hypothesis is that context creates conditions that promote and/or prevent the problems that can arise with drug use. Methods: Data related to emergency healthcare provided during weekends were examined, complemented by qualitative research to evaluate the environmental conditions in the most popular clubs in Mallorca and to assess their possible relationship with public health problems.
Results: A systematic epidemiological study of health and safety problems was difficult because of the lack of systematic information collected by health services about their intervention in emergency situations. However, direct observation in the clubs has highlighted a lack of public transport operating to recreational venues, overcrowding, broken glass on the floor, lack of first aid management, high price of drinking water, excessive heat, obstructed emergency exits, the general consumption of alcohol and other drugs and poor availability of contraceptives. The emergency health services reported attending to traffic accidents, drug overdose, aggressions, traumas and drunkenness. A preventive policy is urgently required to reduce the incidence of such problems.


In another Instagram post, Hudson, who gave birth to a baby girl a few months ago, mentioned a goal of losing 25 pounds before shooting a movie in the spring.
Reaction to Hudson as the newest face of the brand — WW's other celebrity spokespeople have included Jennifer Hudson and DJ Khaled — was met with skepticism.
The global wellness industry hit $4 trillion this year, reports Quartz, so WW's shift is understandable. But it runs the risk of alienating longtime members who aren't fans of its new approach.
Is having Kate Hudson as an ambassador supposed to be relatable? Because it's not.
Overall, consumers have become skeptical of diets and their associated products: Research firm Mintel has found that 77 percent of consumers feel diet products are not as healthy as they claim, and 61 percent believe most diets aren't healthy.
Low-fat and fat-free have fallen out of favor as more consumers turn to high protein or probiotics, while society has begun to embrace body positivity and healthy coming in different shapes and sizes.
"People are changing … the age of dieting was all about society imposing what you 'should' look like, and people telling you what to eat. And now we are moving into an age of wellness," Gail Tifford, WW's chief brand officer, told MarketWatch.
The Washington Post points out "diet" and "weight" are absent from WW's current vision statement.
Researchers have found the majority of people don't see sustained weight loss or health benefits from dieting; for some, it only leads to an eating disorder, per The Washington Post.
With wellness in mind, there are other changes in store. WW, which has more than 4 million members, has partnered with fitness app Aaptiv, so WW Freestyle members can access digital workouts and sync them with Fitpoints, per Cooking Light. The revamped FitPoints 2.0 encourages activity that's most beneficial for each member, according to a WW news release.
The company also is working with mediation and mindfulness app Headspace, "to help members maintain a positive mindset," and Connect Groups, that offer a social element with other members via the app.
"Our new partnerships and digital innovations will revolutionize the way people experience WW Freestyle, allowing for a more personalized, holistic wellness ecosystem. The products, experiences and programs we continue to provide help people build healthy behaviors that fit into their lives and advance our goal of making wellness accessible to all," Mindy Grossman, president and CEO of WW, said in the news release.
WW isn't alone in shifting its focus. Tivity Health Inc. is buying weight loss company Nutrisystem — which owns the South Beach Diet brand as well — for $1.3 billion. Tivity runs fitness program SilverSneakers.
"We believe combining our two companies will create entirely new value propositions for our health plans, fitness partners, members and consumers," Tivity Health CEO Donato Tramuto said.
South Beach Diet has announced it's launching a new keto-friendly program in 2019, capitalizing on the trendy high-fat, low-carb diet.
The $69 billion CVS Health/Aetna merger will add health services that focus on chronic conditions to some CVS stores, and the company's CEO, Larry Merlo, has said customers can expect to see a greater focus on more data-driven and individualized healthcare, reports CNBC.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports Americans are getting fatter. More than 97 million people are obese, which is expected to increase by almost 3 percent each year on average. New drugs to combat obesity are expected to hit the market in 2026, per CNBC.


Blog Home › Data Visualization › Tableau Python Forecasting: Increase Your Accuracy!
With Tableau's rise to prominence came a growing demand for data science integration. Back in Tableau 8, R functionality was introduced, and now recently with 10, Python has finally made its way into the space with Tableau Python forecasting. For the unenlightened, Python is an incredibly powerful programming language that can solve nearly any data related problem. It is the most actively used and developed language, and while it is used by the top industry professionals and academics, it has always lacked a solid visualization foundation. As a Data Scientist and Tableau Consultant, I'm so excited to say that that has changed!
Python is an incredibly powerful programming language that can solve nearly any data related problem. Click & Tweet!
This blog post will share some information to help you get started using TabPy to do non-trivial tasks like ARIMA modeling and take advantage of Scikit-Learn's various machine learning libraries. Since we can now implement things like Random Forests and neural networks from within Tableau, we can do everything we need from within the Tableau environment. This means we can do things like track and predict Customer Lifetime Value (CLV), figure out churn rate and predict its drivers, or in this case, apply highly dependable forecasting models and then turn around and graph those results with a few clicks.
Python has some great packages for visualization, yet I know I've spent hours tuning a graph to make it look how I need it to. With the introduction of TabPy, many of my troubles have been put to rest (at least from a visualization standpoint).
Forecasting is an integral part of the goal setting process, so it is important that it is done correctly. Traditional forecasting is usually carried out by simply drawing a line in the general direction of the graph's point. Some more advanced techniques will use moving averages, but even these are based off of assumptions around a relatively recent collection of points. With Python's forecasting, you will not only be able to capture general trends in the model, but also capture things like seasonality, correlation between recent points, and growth trends that may adversely affect the accuracy of your forecast. With these more accurate forecasts, it becomes feasible to set data-driven goals and make business decisions with more confidence.
With these more accurate forecasts, it becomes feasible to set data-driven goals and make business decisions with more confidence. Click & Tweet!
As a quick aside, Tableau prediction and forecasting does exist, but Tableau forecast accuracy is low — it is more or less a black box in implementation. When looking at Tableau forecast vs. actual values, the performance of Tableau pales in comparison to the results produced by R and Python, which makes me think they are simply using moving averages or other basic models. In my experience, Python can be up to 20x better than Tableau's native forecasting tool, even when the Tableau model is well optimized.
To give credit where credit is due, I am going to outline how to make a simplified, yet still equally as effective version of the program made here. The linked page can also get you set up with downloading and installing TabPy. In this Tableau Python tutorial I am going to focus on actually running the analysis, and then I'll address some of the issues I encountered when following the linked example.
I will be making a customizable ARIMA model, that is not only easy to interpret, but also easy to adjust and tune.
We'll be using the Dairy Production Dataset, (download page), as it is already cleaned up, and contains things like seasonality and trends which will emulate business data. We'll be performing analysis that will use past dairy production data to make future predictions. Instead of dairy, your business may be interested in using something like revenue data to see what kind of numbers you can expect next quarter, and conveniently enough, this model will work in both contexts.
We're first going to load in and format the data. Select "Text File" in Tableau's connect menu, and find your file.
Once connected, we're going to quickly reformat our dates to be Python compatible. What's that? They're already Python compatible!? Yea, so Python datetime, and most dates in the data world, use the format of year-month-day. Assuming our dates needed fixing, one could quickly do so by right (control) clicking on the "Date Dimension," changing its type to Date, then right clicking on the date object and selecting Default properties > Date Format > Custom. Here one can format the date to be something like "yyyy-MM". I'm also going to quickly rename our values column to not be astronomically long; we'll call it "milk".
Now we're going to make some parameters that'll serve as our model customizers. ARIMA modeling is a fancy term for using the past to try and figure out the future. It uses past data, as well as adjustments for stationarity to make a prediction about the (near) future. You could try and use this for a really far out projection, but as with anything, uncertainty gets crazy the further out you look. As mentioned above, AR, I, and MA are parameters for the ARIMA model.
Once we've made those parameters, we're going to make some dimensions that will be handy for graphing our Python projections. Essentially what we're doing is shifting our dates by the amount we want to forecast. So if our original calendar says the first day is Tuesday, and we're forecasting 2 days, now it says our first day is Thursday. Not quite as cool as a DeLorean, but still pretty neat. What this did is give our prediction data a date column to identify with.
Now for the fun stuff. What Tableau does with Python is pretty cool. You give it a string of Python code in a calculated field along with some measures and parameters, it sends those over to your local Python server, runs the string, and returns an output. The output, at least from what I've gathered, needs to be a singular thing, so this is where many, including myself, get tripped up. No use crying over spilt milk. What we can do is have Python send a list over, which makes both parties happy.
Note: You may have noticed some weird MIN ()s in the code. These are present because when we pass a parameter, Tableau can't pass just one, it has to pass all that are present in the selection. Min grabs the lowest one in the selection.
I've typed out the script for this TabPy tutorial that should work if you did all the previous steps. It's crucial that your variables have the same names as mine have or else you'll have to do some tinkering. Open up a new "Calculated Field" by clicking "Analysis" on the top tool bar, and navigating to "Create Calculated Field." You can then copy and paste this code into the calculation box.
Here's a basic run-through of this code in layman's terms.
We bring in our dates and amount of milk (as "milk") and make a dataframe out of them.
We make "milk" a float, and make our "dates" datetime (Python's native time format).
We'll then make our row indexes the dates and get rid of any NaNs.
We then instantiate our ARIMA model, and plug in the parameters we passed into this python instance, using the min() function to get the lowest value in each parameter list. In this case, I'm creating a new list that relies on our model to predict all of the values for every day in the original list, plus the amount we asked it to forecast out. Voila, this is now a working ARIMA model.
Note: If you do try and tinker with this code at all you may need to pay close attention to the length of the list you return. I'm not going to go into too much detail here, but just be mindful of that.
Drag your calculated fields over to the shelves, and watch things happen. You can do some nifty comparisons by using dual axes and such.
As a little bonus, we can add our AIC score, which is one of the methods these models are scored on. We'll basically copy all of our code from the ARIMA part, but change a couple lines at the end.
And then add [AIC Score] to our title and our measures shelf.
Your Tableau Forecast Accuracy Has Improved!
As you can see from the graph above, when all is said and done, our model does a really good job at simulating the data series. In blue, the actual values are present, and in green we have data generated completely from our model, as well as a forecast past the original data's values.
While Tableau does provide a very easy 3 click solution to forecasting, if you are relying on forecasts to determine business decisions, it is a good idea to use something that captures all of the nuances that exist in time series data; an ARIMA model is just the model for that job.
…if you are relying on forecasts to determine business decisions, it is a good idea to use something that captures all of the nuances that exist in time series data… Click & Tweet!
This new integration has boundless potential, and I think it will really bring Tableau and Data Science together for the better. Thanks for reading, and feel free to reach out with questions in the comments!
Jack is a Data Science Analyst at Blast Analytics & Marketing, where he helps clients understand and use Machine Learning and Data Analytics to answer their business questions. He holds a Masters degree in Economics from Rice University and a Bachelor's degree from the University of the Pacific in Engineering. Jack Dwyer has written 2 posts on the Web Analytics Blog.


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Authorities have denied a French expert on jihadists entry to Lebanon and accused him of links to extremist groups, diplomatic and security sources said Tuesday.
Romain Caillet, a researcher with the French Institute for the Near East, is a specialist on jihadist movements including the Islamic State group and had been based in Lebanon for five years.
A French embassy source said Caillet was "turned away on Sunday... at Beirut airport when he tried to return from Morocco.
"No explanation of the reason for his expulsion has been provided to us," the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
A high-ranking source at the General Security said Caillet was suspected of involvement with extremists.
"Under the cover of his work, this individual was suspected of being linked with terrorist organizations," the source aid.
Caillet could not be immediately reached for comment.
But on his Twitter account Tuesday he suggested Hizbullah was responsible.
"What do they accuse me of? Daring to speak of the influence of Hizbullah and its pro-Iranian allies on all of Lebanon's institutions," he wrote.
"The murderers of researcher Michel Seurat and Rafik Hariri wanted me to leave Lebanon so my work will continue elsewhere."
Seurat, a sociologist, was kidnapped in Lebanon in 1985 and died in captivity. His abduction was claimed by the Islamic Jihad group, a branch of Hizbullah.
Five members of Hizbullah are being prosecuted by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon for the assassination of former Prime Minister Hariri, who was killed in a Beirut bomb blast in 2005.
Abbas Ibrahim and his General Security are tools of hizballah. The man is right...!
has anyone seen + oua nabka + he's usual pops in to defend freedom and democracy and telling us who "il est" on a given day.
strange, I thought he looked like a typical hizbollah MP.
It's all for the best, the people he criticizes have a nasty habit to assassinate or kidnap their critics.
Sounds just like Takfiris to me, how dare you claim your are better.


2. It never gets old.
3. What are your go-to can't stop dancing songs?
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Not necessarily well known, but I dare anyone to listen to this without moving!
@ryan – nice one! i've never heard this. it reminds me of pink martini.
@anna: i LOVE this one too! thanks for playing along.
Oh, what are my can't stop dancing songs?
Actually, I think I'll stop there. That's the only song I need.
@lelil: nice one. granny (me) had never heard this one. thanks for sharing.
I was just reminded of another one last night (we had some really excellent music) — "One Nation Under a Groove" by Funkadelic.
@leili: seriously, huh? l.o.v.e. it. can you believe this song was new when i graduated from high school?


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Community mourns anti-Muslim violence in India
Brown 'Holi Against Hindutva' demonstration joins 25 other institutions
By Maisie Newbury
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The demonstration, "Protest Against Anti-Muslim Violence in India and the CAA" began with the lighting of candles.
Thursday evening, Providence residents and University students and faculty gathered on the steps of the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center to take part in the "Holi Against Hindutva" demonstrations, joining other colleges and universities that demonstrated nationwide.
Holi, a widely-celebrated Hindu festival, welcomes the transition from winter to spring and acts as a thanksgiving for a good harvest. But "the festival is also associated with the oppression of certain minorities in India, such as Muslims," said Anchita Dasgupta '21, one of the event's organizers. "Today we are not celebrating Holi, but mourning it. This is why instead of wearing bright colors (a custom typical of Holi) we will be dressed in black at the protest," she added. This mourning is a response to the recent violence in Delhi, India, in which at least 42 were killed and hundreds injured.
The demonstration, "Protest Against Anti-Muslim Violence in India and the CAA" began with the lighting of candles. "It's truly heartening to see everyone come out here," said Rhythm Rastogi '22. "Today we stand in solidarity with the victims and with the nationwide Holi Against Hindutva movement. Right now as we demonstrate here, there are 25 other campuses also demonstrating," she added.
Rastogi went on to discuss the "damaging anti-Muslim rhetoric" put forth by the Indian government, including the Citizenship Amendment Act, which draws a path to citizenship for religious-minority refugees from Muslim-majority countries. The act has been criticized as anti-Muslim and has been met with protests around the globe. In India, violent riots, such as the recent one in Delhi, have frequently confronted these protests.
The demonstration therefore included a moment of silence for the victims in Delhi, after which Rastogi invited the attendees of the protest to "share their stories and a few words of love and hope."
Associate Professor of History Vazira F-Y Zamindar and Assistant Professor of Anthropology Bhrigupati Singh spoke at the protest, emphasizing the long-term impact of the Muslim-Hindu partition in India and its global relevance. "I think I inherited this generational trauma of partition," Zamindar said. "I wanted to ask all of us to think about ways (in) which we need to begin unlearning partition." She went on to discuss how partition impacts India today. "We cannot live together. … It makes the Muslim difference an incommensurate difference." This difference, she added, "invokes violent hostility," such as that seen recently in Delhi.
"On my way here my daughter asked me what the purpose of this protest was. … How can we help when we are here, and they are in India?" Singh said. "But in the winter when I went back to Delhi, (I saw) how much it matters. One of the first things they told me was, 'Oh people do care. There's a protest all the way in Boston!'" he added.
"It's really important for universities in the United States to show solidarity with India because Indian media outlets pay a lot of attention to how the government is perceived internationally," said Aryan Srivastava '22, another organizer of the event. "Every protest matters," Singh added.
"I was born in 1947, the year India got its independence," said Nashad Siddiqui, an attendee of the protest, speaking to India's history. "Back then, Hindus, Muslims, all people — we were all united because we were so happy to have thrown the British out of the country. We never had any kind of hostility against each other," she added. "This is such a surprise to me that this kind of thing is happening in India. … It tears my heart apart because I loved my country, India, and I love my country, the United States, for giving me the freedom of speech and safety that was once (but is no longer) possible for me in India."
Others followed Siddiqui, telling stories, reading poems and offering their perspectives and condolences. "I have been very critical of this government since it came to power," said Kushagra Agarwal '22, an international student from India. "I used to be the person to share three posts against this government on my social media every day." But recently, Agarwal explained that he has been doing this less. "The reason behind that is the reign of terror that this government has instituted. They are taking away (the citizenship) of journalists who are critical of them. … They are doing everything in their power to ensure that there is no opposition."
Agarwal added that he had a ritual of "cleansing his social media" before returning home. "I was scared of being stopped at the airport and being denied entry into my own nation. I was scared of my citizenship being taken away." He went on to acknowledge his relative privilege as a "Hindu Indian citizen who is studying abroad in the United States." Yet he is "still fearful to post something on social media. … I can't even imagine the courage it takes to go out and protest in the streets in India," he added. "So if you have the courage, … please talk to the people around you and post on social media. If there is any way to go against fascism, it is by creating a larger movement."
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Oman: Female trail runner promotes sport among women
BY Muscat Daily
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Published 06 Mar,2021 via Muscat Daily - Trail running is no mean feat and covering 50km under nine hours is a rare achievement for a sportswoman in the sultanate. Suad al Nasibi, a student and an adventure enthusiast, completed the 50km trail and won the recently organised Himam Trail Run in Dakhliyah.
The trail began at Bait al Rudaydah in Birkat al Mauz, proceeding to Seeq Village in Jebel Akhdar, and returning to the starting point. Suad won the first place in the women's category by covering the distance under nine hours.
The inaugural Himam Trail Run, with the local Golden Tulip Hotel as its Gold Sponsor, was an initiative under the umbrella of Nizwa Club. The run aimed to provide a competitive atmosphere for all, where experienced runners attempted personal best timings and podium places.
Speaking to Muscat Daily, Suad said, "I have gained experience on how to pace the 50km race and that has been a big learning for me. Now, I don't go too fast at the beginning and slow down towards the finish. I maintain a balance between going at a fast pace and slowing down. It is a very big achievement for me to successfully cover the 50km distance in under nine hours."
The ongoing pandemic affected her preparations, but with determination and persistence, she found a way around it, Suad said.
"I trained daily running 5-15km in preparation for the race," she said.
"I did this for multiple reasons. First of all, to improve my level compared to last year. Second, to support Omani women who are interested in trail running; I would like to inspire them with my efforts. But most Omani women don't practise any sport, so we are trying to educate them."
In 2018, Suad started adventure sports, exploring Oman's nature and hiking.
"In 2019, I participated in the Al Mouj Marathon and got 50th place after covering 21km in two hours and ten minutes."
She added, "I dedicate my victory to Omani women and invite them to practise sports. I will continue to represent the sultanate in local and international competitions to promote Oman as a tourist destination and raise high the sultanate's flag."
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Nerve Injury Treatment
Coping with Surgical Nerve Injury
by Nerve Injury Team | Jan 18, 2018 | Psychological Support
Surgery, even under the best of conditions, carries some element of risk. Despite every precaution, there could be an unforeseen development or human error. That's certainly the case with spinal surgery, where the operation is occurring very close to the spinal cord. The last thing any doctor or patient wants is for the patient to leave with more nerve damage than he or she had before.
But it does happen. Sometimes, due to accidents, a nerve can be cut or crushed during surgery. Let's look at how surgical crushing of a nerve might happen, how it could affect the patient, and what can be done to repair the damage afterward.
How Nerves Send Signals
The nervous system is split into two parts: the central nervous system (CNS), which includes the brain and spinal cord; and the peripheral nervous system (PNS), which are the many nerves that branch out from the spinal cord and carry signals from the CNS to the limbs and organs. It's a vast, important, near-instantaneous electrical network that regulates everything from walking to digestion to the heartbeat.
The peripheral nerves are comparatively unprotected, so a severe blow, impact, or deep laceration can damage them. When that happens, the signal coming from the CNS is impaired or even completely blocked. That results in pain, tingling, or numbness in the affected area.
Some injuries to the nerves are relatively minor and recover fully in time. For instance, neurapraxia (the failure of peripheral nerves to conduct signals) can often be treated with rest, ice/heat therapy, and possibly some anti-inflammatory medications.
In the case of other, more serious nerve injuries, there's damage to either the axons (nerve fibers) or myelin sheath (a fatty, conductive substance that surrounds the fibers), part of the nerve is cut or even severed. Surgery may be necessary to reconnect the damaged nerve endings and restore at least partial function to the affected muscles or limb.
Risks in Spinal Surgery
As mentioned above, any type of spinal surgery comes with some risks. With traditional open spine surgery, the surgeon makes a large incision and detaches some of the muscles around the spine in order to get better access. This procedure involves the cutting and tearing of muscles and ligaments, and so there's a chance that one of many nerves packed into the spinal area could be accidentally cut or compressed.
As a result, a surgery that was intended to relieve painful symptoms of nerve injury ends up causing more damage. This surgical crushing of a nerve is called neurotripsy.
If a nerve near the spine is compressed during surgery, some of these symptoms could manifest and last for quite a while after the surgery:
Pain, including neuropathic pain – an extreme burning or stabbing sensation that doesn't fade away
Tingling or numbness ("pins and needles") in the neck, shoulders, arms, hands, lower back, hips, legs, and feet
Weakness in one or more limbs
Difficulty walking
In more extreme cases, the disruption of signals to major organs, such as the heart, lungs, or stomach, which can lead to serious health complications
Although uncommon, nerves can also be damaged if the tissues around them become inflamed during surgery. In rare cases, post-surgical pain has been linked to anesthesia, although anesthesiologists and surgeons are still puzzled by the cause. One possible reason is the positioning of the patient during a long surgery, where a nerve on a limb may be inadvertently compressed or crushed during the operation.
Treating Post-Operative Pain
If you experience increased pain after spine surgery, you should talk to your surgeon to figure out whether or not you suffered additional nerve damage. Depending on the cause and severing of the injury, medications may be able to deal with the symptoms while the nerve regenerates:
Anti-inflammatory drugs for mild to moderate pain
Opioids for more intense pain
Anticonvulsants to help with nausea that often accompanies chronic neuropathic pain
Nerve blocks or epidurals for severe pain
Physical therapy, massages, and acupuncture are other options. If, after a few weeks or months, you feel no improvement, then another surgery may be required.
Fortunately, the vast majority of spine surgeries go as planned, although many patients do still report chronic post-operative pain. As surgical techniques and knowledge improve, we continue to move further away from traditional open spine surgery toward less invasive procedures that require only minor incisions.
By reducing the risk of the surgical crushing of a nerve, surgeons will improve the chance that spinal surgeries will do exactly as intended: restore a better quality of life for their patients.
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Baton Rouge, La. – The Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center will host its 45th Annual Horse Show and Trail Ride, April 10-11 at the Maurice A. Edmond Livestock Arena in Baker, Hwy. 61 N. Trail riders from as far away as Texas, Mississippi, and North Louisiana will gather in Baton Rouge for the event. Gates open at NOON on Friday, April 10, 2015 to welcome riders and on Saturday, the kids' horse event starts at 10:00 am as well as the trail ride. Leon Chavis and the Zydeco Flames will perform at 7:30-11 pm.
The event will move into full gear on Saturday, April 11 at 7:00 am, with the Kids Horse Event following at 10:00 am, and a Trail Ride from the Arena promptly at noon and returning at 3:00 pm. The horse parade with participating riders of all ages will race around the Baker area with different horse riding associations. First and second place winners will be selected by judges to receive various prizes.
Geno Delafose & Fench Rockin' Band will perform at night from 8:30 PM - 1 AM.
This family-friendly event is open to the public and a ticket will cost $15 for the weekend, or $8 per day. Vendor booth rentals are available.
The following rules will be strictly enforced: No dirt bikes or 4-wheelers will be allowed on the Show grounds. Open containers or double-riding are Not Allowed on rides. Youth riders must be accompanied by adults. There will be no horse riding on the grounds.
For further detail, please contact Christie Monroe at 225-771-4350 or via email: christie_monroe@suagcenter.com; Skeeter Davis at 225-235-5568; Evelyn Jackson at 225-603-2787 or any SU Posse Members near you!
OPELOUSAS, LA – Do you want to make Living Healthy fun for youth? The Southwest Center for Rural Initiatives "Supporting Physical Activities (SPA) for Youth" event is doing just that on Saturday, April 11, 2015, from 8:30 a.m. – 1 p.m. at 1209 Diesi Street, Opelousas, La 70570.
The SPA program is a worthwhile event to make youth find new alternatives towards achieving healthy lifestyles in a fun and exciting way.
· Spa goodie bags and more!
This FREE program is open to youth ages 7 – 18.
Please note: Pre-registration is required for event participation to help with proper preparation.
All participants must bring comfortable workout attire, and be ready to have a Spa Day experience! Parents are welcome to stay and have fun too.
Baton Rouge, LA - The 11th Annual Procurement "CONNECTING BUSINESSES TO CONTRACTS CONFERENCE" will be held at Southern University's Smith Brown Memorial Union, April 9, 2015 on the Baton Rouge campus. The goal of the conference is to stimulate the economy by aligning existing and potential business owners, small contractors, non-profit organizations, and others with contracting officers, and purchasing agents, as well as providing an outlet to network and exchange information and ideas.
Pre-registration is required by April 1st for all exhibitors and participants. Registration form can be faxed to (504) 589-2339 or e-mailed jo.lawrence3@sba.gov no later than Wednesday, April 1, 2015.
Visit www.suagcenter.com and click on "Events" for more information or call 504-589-6690.
Baton Rouge, LA – Leodrey Williams, Chancellor of the Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center officially announced his retirement during the Southern University Board of Supervisors' meeting today. His announcement comes after serving for the past 50 years, working with both Southern University and LSU in Baton Rouge, as well as Washington DC at the national level, in Cooperative Extension Service. Over the past 14 years, he has served as the first and only chancellor of the Center. His retirement from the university will be effective June 30th 2015.
Williams was hired as an agriculture specialist 50 years ago. Five years later, he went to LSU and served as associate state agent, director of Equal Employment Opportunity and associate professor in the Department of Extension and International Education, positions he held for four years. In 1980, he became extension director at Southern University. Soon after, Williams would move to Washington DC where he served as the national director of the Cooperative Extension Service, making him responsible for funding extension programs at 104 land-grant universities around the country. Williams returned to Southern University and resumed his previous role as Extension Director in 1995. Then, in 2001 Williams was asked to head the newly-formed Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center.
The SU Ag Center, the 5th campus of the Southern University System was established on July 1, 2001. The mission of the Center is to conduct basic and applied research, and disseminate information to the citizens of Louisiana in a matter that is useful in addressing their scientific, technological, social, economic and cultural needs.
Friday has exciting and dynamic activities lined up, including Health Symposium, Undergraduate and Graduate Research Poster and Oral Contests, Graduate/Professional Workshops, National Written Essay Contest, National Public Speaking Contest, Research Discussion Contest, Agriculture and Science Photography Contest, and Career Fair.
Last year, SU students brought home top prizes and this year, Professor Patricia Meyinsse in Agricultural Economics has eight students under her supervision to present in the oral and poster categories. We are rooting for them to do great again this time around.
Baton Rouge, La – The Louisiana Housing Alliance will host a state Housing Conference themed, "Home Matters: Promoting Growth and Sustainable Neighborhoods" where exciting and dynamic content is lined up. The conference will take place at the University of Phoenix, 2431 South Acadian Thruway, Baton Rouge, from March 31 to April 1, 2015. The event will begin at 8:30 am each day and the agenda is available online. Click here to view and download the agenda. You are invited to attend!
Also on the Agenda are Mr. Clarence Hawkins from USDA Rural Development, Representative from LISC, Mayor Robert Myer of New Roads and the Louisiana Housing Corporation will all be participants to discuss important affordable housing topics.
Make sure to register if you haven't already!
PS: Also, if you're attending from another part of the state and need hotel accommodations, we've got discount information available on our website.
Baton Rouge, La. – The Southern University Ag Center touts the success of the five events hosted March 19-21 for the 5th Louisiana Small Farmers Conference. The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the Sustainable Ag Urban Demonstration Farm was the perfect beginning to a wonderful series of events. Two local schools attended the ribbon cutting along with 20 farmers and all of the dignitaries to include Hon. Mike Strain, Commissioner, LA Dept. of Agriculture and Forestry; the Hon. Melvin "Kip" Holden, Mayor-President, EBR Parish; Representative Dalton Honore, District 63; Dr. Monique Winfield, Vice President, SU System; Mr. Flandus McClinton, Interim Chancellor, SUBR; Dr. Adell Brown, Jr., Executive Vice Chancellor and VC for Research, and Dr. Gina E. Eubanks, Vice Chancellor for Extension, SU Ag Center.
One of the students from Martin Luther King Christian Academy told his teacher that he was planning on attending college at LSU, but now he has to come to Southern for college to check on the plant he planted in the raised bed in the farm. (That's cute and speaks volumes to the innocence of children). We already have six requests for other school groups to tour.
"The evening ended with a reception that everyone enjoyed," said Dr. Dawn Mellion-Patin, event coordinator.
On Friday, the conference moved into full gear with moderators and presenters working as a team, followed by the Louisiana Living Legends Banquet at night. The three legends honored were: Dr. Bobby R. Phills, program director for the Science Center and professor in the College of Engineering Sciences, Technology and Agriculture at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee; Mr. George Moody accepting the award for Ms. Freddie Johnson, his aunt, a retired Southern University food and nutrition professor; and Mr. Elvadus Fields, former county agent and farm management specialist at Southern University, now retired, of St. Joseph.
Terrence Marshall, Extension Agent, East Baton Rouge Parish, was the speaker and shared the history of the 2nd Morrill Act, the legislation that created the 1890 land grant institutions in an outstanding fashion.
The conference concluded with Louisiana Small Farmer Agricultural Leadership Institute Graduation Ceremony, held on Saturday morning with 14 participants graduating, including Extension Country Agents, Odis Hill, Morehouse & Union Parishes; and Thomas Legiandenyi, East and West Carroll Parishes. Terry Washington, Rapides Parish, graduated in the previous class.
The graduation speaker was Felicia Bell, graduate of Class II of the regional leadership class. And the highlight of the event was Miss Christina Gary, a seven-year old 3rd grader performing an excerpt from a sermon by Bishop Eddie Long and another from Maya Angelou's poem, "Still I Rise." Her renditions were the best tributes to our new leaders.
An article entitled Three new members join Southern U's agricultural 'legends' features the Louisiana Living Legends Banquet and is available on the LSU AgCenter website.
The event was organized by Dawn Mellion-Patin, Ph. D., MBA, Specialist, Agriculture, and Project Director, who can be reached at (225) 771-2242.
BATON ROUGE, La. – Three individuals were recognized as Louisiana Living Legends during the fifth annual Louisiana Small Farmer Conference at the Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center on March 20.
They are Bobby R. Phills, program director for the Science Center and professor in the College of Engineering Sciences, Technology and Agriculture at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee; Freddie Johnson, a retired Southern University food and nutrition professor, of Baton Rouge; and Elvadus Fields, former county agent and farm management specialist at Southern, now retired, of St. Joseph.
These three join 15 others who have been honored with this distinction since 2005.
"The Louisiana Living Legends Award is an opportunity to honor heroes with ties to the Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center for their years of selfless service," said Dawn Mellion-Patin, agricultural specialist and organizer of the small farmer conference.
Dr. Phills is the former dean and research director of the College of Agricultural, Family and Consumer Sciences at Southern. In this role he created the Beginning Agricultural Youth Opportunities Unlimited (BAYOU) Summer Enrichment Program, which exposed hundreds of high school students across Louisiana to the broad array of careers in the agricultural sciences.
"This program was responsible for placing hundreds of student interns at major research universities, in private industry and with the USDA," Mellion-Patin said.
Ms. Johnson served for 36 years in the Department of Human Nutrition and Food at Southern. Before that she was supervisor of food service for the state Department of Education. Her activities included sensory evaluation and establishing a staff sensory panel, design of a food research sensory evaluation area and a home economics space utilization study. Her research included the palatability of "rabbit nuggets" and other alternative food products for limited resource families.
Mr. Fields was a county agent for the Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service for 32 years and then became a farm management specialist for Southern. He has been a supporter of the SU Livestock Show and was responsibility for bringing more than 150 youth to show animals for more than 50 years. He was a founding member of the Delta Livestock Enterprise and Northeast Louisiana Black Farmers and Landowners Association.
During this year's small farmer conference, the 125th anniversary of the establishment of the 1890 land-grant universities was also celebrated, said Gina E. Eubanks, vice chancellor for extension at the Southern Ag Center and program leader for nutrition and food sciences at the LSU AgCenter.
Southern University is one of 19 universities across the country with 1890 land-grant status. In 1890, Congress passed the Second Morrill Act with the stipulation that African Americans were to be included in the land-grant university system. The first Morrill Act was signed into law by Pres. Abraham Lincoln in 1862. There is an 1862 land-grant university in every state including LSU in Louisiana.
The other 15 Living Legends include Bernestine McGee, Floyd Jenkins, Elsie Cyrus, Samuel Donald, Alonzo Chappell, Sara Sims, Pecola Scott, Willie T. Sensley, Owusu Bandele, Leodrey Williams, James McNitt, James Archie, Solon Marshall, Kirkland Mellad and Wesley Crawford.
Baton Rouge, La.-The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Louisiana has planned a series of soil health workshops across the state during the first week of April. Farmers and ranchers are invited to participate and learn more about the importance of soil health, cover crops and forage management in pasture and row crop production. Pre-registration is not required and there is no cost to attend.
Guest speakers will include Ray Archuleta, Conservation Agronomist from the NRCS East National Technology Center in Greensboro, North Carolina, as well as several soil health and cover crop specialists with the LSU AgCenter. NRCS will also demonstrate the benefits of improving soil health and cover with a rainfall simulation trailer.
If you have any questions or need more information about the workshops, please contact Michael Lindsey at (318) 473-7757 or by e-mail at michael.lindsey@la.usda.gov.
The NRCS provides reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. To request special accommodations(s), contact Terry Barron at (318) 473-7815 at least ten days prior to the date of the meeting or event.
New Orleans, La. – The "Y.E.S. Evening with the Pelicans" vs the Minnesota Timberwolves will be held on Sunday, March 29th. By purchasing tickets to this game, Youth Educational Support (Y.E.S.) after-school program, participants will have exclusive access to Pelican Fest. Each student will also get a Pelicans key chain, available during the festivities. The Pelican Fest will include games, activities, pictures, autographs, and much more! During half-time, the Y.E.S. Program will be recognized for its community efforts in Tangipahoa, St. Helena & Orleans Parishes.
For more information, please contact Nicolette Gordon in St. Helena Parish on Tuesday and Thursday at – 225-222-4136 and in Tangipahoa Parish on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at – 985-748-9381, or Krystal Sugulleh at - 504 - 658-2900.
Baton Rouge, La - Small farmers from across Louisiana have gathered at the Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center today for the 5th annual Louisiana Small Farmers Conference. The event was kickoff with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Sustainable Urban Ag Demonstration Farm, a "show and tell garden." The grand opening event was graced with the presence of the Hon. Mike Strain, Commissioner, LA Dept. of Agriculture and Forestry; the Hon. Melvin "Kip" Holden, Mayor-President, EBR Parish; Representative Dalton Honore, District 63; Dr. Monique Winfield, Vice President, SU System; Mr. Flandus McClinton, Interim Chancellor, SUBR; Dr. Adell Brown, Jr., Exec. Vice Chancellor& VC for Research, Dr. Gina E. Eubanks, Vice Chancellor for Extension, SU Ag Center.
The three-day conference, themed "Showcasing Louisiana's Small Family Farms," is designed to educate, provide expanded awareness of educational opportunities, USDA programs and services and other resources to help small farmers stay in business.
This event will also assist individuals interested in starting an agricultural business while sharing resources for others who are interested in urban farming.
The conference will also include a presentation on the 2014 Farm Bill and the opportunities it provides to small farmers; the Louisiana Living Legends Banquet, which honors individuals who have made significant contributions to Southern University in the area of Agriculture, Family and Consumer Sciences, and will end with the graduation ceremony of the Louisiana Small Farmer Agricultural Leadership Institute on Saturday, March 21.
The conference is coordinated by Dr. Dawn Mellion-Patin who can be reached at 225-771-2242 or via e-mail at dawn_mellion@suagcenter.com.
Baton Rouge, La. – The Southern University Ag Center celebrated National Ag Day 2015 with the nation. The celebration was in observation of the value of agriculture in our daily lives. Students from the College of Sciences and Agriculture at Southern University; and Broadmoor, Glen Oaks, Tara, and Zachary High Schools in Baton Rouge were joined by Zachary Career & Technical Center and St. Helena College & Career Academy for the event. They were urged to continue the great legacy by preparing themselves to be the future faces of agricultural leadership. In addition to interacting with faculty, staff and administrators, the college students presented posters based on their research, were judged and awarded prizes for their posters. Participants had an opportunity to watch the 1890 video to remind them about their impact on the next generation in keeping with the theme of the 125th Anniversary of the Second Morrill Act.
Among those who welcomed the students to the National Ag Day celebration were Dr. Ronald Mason, President SU System; Dr. Adell Brown Jr., Executive Vice Chancellor/Vice Chancellor for Research; Dr. Gina E. Eubanks, Vice Chancellor for Extension; and Dr. Andra Johnson, Associate Professor, Urban Forestry. The event was coordinated by Dr. Renita Marshall, Associate Professor, Animal Science and Dr. Kenyetta Smith, Associate Specialist, Community & Economic Development.
Baton Rouge, La. - Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., said, "In an effort to safeguard our commercial producers and backyard poultry enthusiasts, we've increased our surveillance of poultry in the state. We are also enforcing all Louisiana Board of Animal Health entry regulations."
Louisiana is taking precautionary measures following the recent confirmed presence of the highly pathogenic H5N2 avian influenza (AI) in commercial turkey flocks in these six states: Idaho, Minnesota, Missouri, Oregon, Washington and most recently Arkansas.
No live poultry or poultry products may enter Louisiana from an area designated as a Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) infected zone until the official quarantine has been released; Poultry includes chickens, turkeys, quail, pheasants, peafowl, guineas, chukars and other partridge, grouse, ratites and domestic ducks; Poultry products include hatching eggs, chicks, poults, table eggs, litter, and offal, but do not include processed poultry meat for human consumption; All poultry entering Louisiana must originate from a National Poultry Improvement Plan (NPIP) AI clean flock or must be tested negative for AI within 7 days of entry (by antibody or antigen capture methodologies recognized by NPIP); All poultry shipments into Louisiana must be accompanied by an Interstate Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (ICVI) and proof of NPIP certification for Salmonella Pullorum/Typhoid (P/T) clean status with NPIP Form 9-2 or NPIP negative testing within 30 days of entry; ICVI must state origin of shipment.
Late Wednesday, the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission confirmed the infection of H5N2 AI in a commercial turkey flock in northern Arkansas. The flock is currently quarantined. The Arkansas Livestock & Poultry Commission will follow strict U.S. Department of Agriculture protocols to depopulate the affected flock so that no affected birds will enter the food supply. Additionally, surveillance and testing procedures will be implemented at properties near the affected facility to insure that the virus has not spread. The virus is not known to cause disease in humans.
These virus strains can travel in wild birds without them appearing sick. People should avoid contact with sick/dead poultry or wildlife. If contact occurs, wash your hands with soap and water and change clothing before having any contact with healthy domestic poultry and birds.
Greensburg, La – The Southern University Agricultural Research & Extension Center in conjunction with the Outstanding Mature Girlz Organization will kick-off the Prom Edition of "Keeping on My Tiara!" This tour will start on Thursday, March 12, 2015 at the St. Helena College & Career Academy in Greensburg, making its last stop in April at Kentwood High Magnet School.
This tour targeting girls will feature local Hairstylists, Makeup Artists, and Nail Technicians. These professionals will teach the Outstanding Mature Girlz the importance of caring for their hair, skin, and nails. Sashika Baunchand, Regional Advocate for Aids Healthcare Foundation, will be onsite to educate the young ladies on HIV/AIDS.
For more information on the tour, contact Nicolette Gordon in St. Helena Parish on Tuesday and Thursday at – 225-222-4136 and in Tangipahoa Parish on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at – 985-748-9381.
Baton Rouge, LA - A new video on "Garden Using Apps" is available via our YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/YyWpOX-9RjU. The video was produced in partnership with LPB, the YMCA and the SU AgCenter. This is the fourth of six videos being produced through the "Plant It, Grow It" project.
Baton Rouge, LA - The Southern University edition of the 125th Land-grant video is available on the SU Ag Center website and can be accessed via the 125th Banner on the site or via our YouTube channel.
Baton Rouge, La. –The Southern University Ag Center is inviting small farmers and business owners to a conference that will discuss ways to improve access to information. The event will take place on Tuesday, March 17, 2015 from 8:00 am-2:00 pm at A.O. Williams Hall.
Participants will learn how to access available information in a timely manner for managing and marketing crops, livestock and small businesses. Information sources will include SU Ag Center, USDA, local and state agencies as we celebrates National Ag week.
This event is open to the public and funded by USDA/NIFA 1890 Capacity Building Grant Program.
Dr. Gina E. Eubanks, VC for Extension.
Baton Rouge, LA - The Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center concluded its 72nd Annual Livestock Show with more than 350 participants from across the state on March 7th. During the two-day event, young farmers and ranchers from across the state had the opportunity to display animals that have been showcased or have won in-parish competitions. After the show, judges named state champions in various breeds of beef and dairy cattle, hogs, sheep, lamb, and goats. The all-time favorite mini-farm, featuring a variety of small farm animals, was held for school-age kids from the local schools. In addition, tours were provided to discuss different animals, their food sources, farming, and how agriculture affects everyone's life.
Showmanship was judged in different categories for awards. Winners received premiums, rosettes, ribbons, and banners. An awards presentation for exhibitors of champion market animals was held, followed immediately by the Junior Auction Sale.
This year's show honored Chancellor Leodrey Williams for 50 years of dedicated service to the SU System and commitment to the Livestock Show.
Livestock show organizer, Christie Monroe, Livestock Show Program Director, can be reached at (225) 771- 4350.


High-pitched voices, squealing with excitement, call out to Sergio, as he enters the room; changing the atmosphere circling the open room. His voice, full of joy, greets the enthusiastic children. The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade children climb on Sergio like he is an old oak tree in the front yard; each child crying out for his attention, to gain the coveted opportunity to talk with him about their day.
Because of his volunteer efforts, Lance Cpl. Sergio Carrillo, an administrative specialist assigned to Manpower, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina was recently honored as the John C. Bietz Service Person of the Quarter, during a John C. Bietz Awards Luncheon at the Morehead City Elks Lodge in Morehead City, North Carolina, Aug. 12, 2016.
The Military Affairs Committee of the Carteret County Chamber of Commerce honors service members from the Marine Corps, Navy, Coast Guard, and Army Reserve four times a year during a luncheon. Each honoree is presented with a folded flag inside of a triangular wooden case, showcasing a commemorative brass plate, stating he/she is the service person of the quarter.
Carrillo was nominated by his command, based on his volunteer work and military accomplishments; such as training, schooling, and his professional development.
Carrillo was nominated for this award after completing 160.5 volunteer hours in a three month period from May to July 2016. The large number of volunteer hours stood out among the other Marines and Sailors volunteering through the Single Marine Program, aboard MCAS Cherry Point.
Organizations Carrillo volunteers for are the Boys & Girls Club of Coastal Carolina, Young Marines Program, Carteret County Animal Shelter, Chicod Elementary School, Havelock Middle School, and Camp Corral.
Leading comes in many forms for the 24-year-old Springfield, Virginia native. Whether it's leading Marines throughout the work day or leading the youth at the organizations he volunteers at, Carrillo said he sees each situation as an opportunity to make a difference.
Volunteering with youth organizations is an opportunity to test his leadership skills, said Carrillo.
Carrillo shows his love and compassion when volunteering, which the kids pick up on and they are drawn to him due to his openness, said Gerrod Green, the Boys and Girls Club of Coastal Carolina club director.
Recently the young Marine was selected for Marine Security Guard duty. He will be attending school in September 2016.
Even when stationed abroad, Carrillo said he plans to volunteer in the surrounding community where he is stationed. Volunteering helps him understand the area and makes him feel a part of the community.
Carrillo joined the Marine Corps in September 2014, he began volunteering in 2015. His motivation for joining, alongside making a difference, is to see the world and to do something different with his life.
Challenging and improving himself is what Carrillo said he constantly does. Whether it is a better marksmanship score on the rifle range, improving his physical fitness test score, or bettering himself throughout areas of his personal life, Carrillo is constantly seeking self-improvement; professionally and personally.
Following his MSG duty, Carrillo plans on returning to administrative work. Upon being promoted to staff sergeant, he plans on submitting a Marine Corps Enlisted Commissioning Educational Program package, or MECEP, to go to college and become a commissioned officer in the Marine Corps.
For the young lance corporal, the Marine Corps is full of opportunities. Opportunities such as improving oneself, volunteering within the local community, and traveling; opportunities he continues to take advantage of and loves.
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Derrick Bell, Barack Obama, and Andrew Breitbart: Breaking Kayfabe
The latest figure to arise from the president's past is a controversial Harvard Law prof, captured in grainy video by PBS and popularized by the late provocateur Andrew Breitbart. Bell was indeed radical—but he spent most of his career in conflict with liberals. In lies a much more rich tale than a few minutes of pseudo-scoop tells.
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Andrew Breitbart's great talent was a stubborn, Barnumesque willingness to trumpet anything he had at his disposal as the Greatest Scandal on Earth. Sometimes it was genuinely compelling (Wienergate); sometimes it was a cruel illusion (Shirley Sherrod); sometimes it was smoke and mirrors (a shocking Michael Miner column). So it is with his posthumous masterpiece: archival video of young Harvard Law student Barack Obama speaking about—and hugging!—faculty member Derrick Bell.
A short history to bring you up to speed. At his final CPAC appearance, Breitbart promised videos of Obama's college years that would "show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008." One of these, apparently, was a 1991 video of Obama addressing a Harvard Law protest, speaking highly of Bell, the school's first tenured black professor. Buzzfeed broke Breitbart's "exclusive"; Breitbart.com's Joel Pollak said the video had been "selectively edited"; and then PBS's notorious yellow-journalism outlet Frontline posted the full video—which had previously aired as part of the program's 2008 election coverage.
So it wasn't exactly an exclusive. It wasn't exactly a scoop, either; the protest, and Obama's role in it, was mentioned in David Remnick's Obama biography, for which Bell was a source.
But it would be naïve to assume that Breitbart, his writers, and fans are delusional to call it shocking or exclusive or a scoop, any less than it is to assume Rush Limbaugh doesn't know how contraception works. It's like professional wrestling: of course it's ludicrous. Of course it's a circus of hostility. The point isn't a reasoned narrative; the point is to watch someone get hit with a chair. It doesn't work without kayfabe.
And it does work. The video spilled out into yet another circus on the cable scrematoriums. The late Harvard and NYU prof, like Alinsky and Sherrod before him, was immediately turned into a caricature as menacing and real as the Undertaker.
Which is a shame: Bell was a storied veteran of the civil-rights movement and a fascinating legal scholar. And he was radical. I happen to have Mr. Bell right here… come over here for a second, tell him:
[Critical race theory] is often disruptive because its commitment to anti-racism goes well beyond civil rights, integration, affirmative action, and other liberal measures. This is not to say that critical race theory adherents automatically or uniformly "trash" liberal ideology and method (as many adherents of critical legal studies do). Rather, they are highly suspicious of the liberal agenda, distrust its method, and want to retain what they see as a valuable strain of egalitarianism which may exist despite, and not because of, liberalism.
There is, as this description suggests, a good deal of tension in critical race theory scholarship, a tension that Angela Harris characterizes as between its commitment to radical critique of the law (which is normatively deconstructionist) and its commitment to radical emancipation by the law (which is normatively reconstructionist).
That's from "Who's Afraid of Critical Race Theory?", a paper published in the Illinois Law Review and adapted from a 1995 lecture Bell gave at the University of Illinois. Put in its historical context, Bell was addressing in part the success of Murray and Herrnstein's infamous The Bell Curve… with considerable, typical heterodoxy: "while The Bell Curve, as published, is condemned as a perversion of truth and a provocation for racial stereotyping, we should view it less harshly for what it is, and more sympathetically for what it might have been."
"Highly suspicious of the liberal agenda"? Quite. Before Bell was adopted this week as a specter of black radicalism, his most charged battles were fought within the academy, against establishment liberalism and its proponents in the legal community, both black and white. Long before critical race theory was a movement, over a decade before he met Obama, this veteran of the civil rights movement's legal arm caused a stir with his Harvard Law Review paper "Brown v. Board of Education and the Interest-Convergence Dilemma," in which he critically revisits the battles he fought as an attorney.
[The] principle of "interest convergence" provides: The interest of blacks in achieving racial equality will be accommodated only when it converges with the interests of whites. However, the fourteenth amendment, standing alone, will not authorize a judicial remedy providing effective racial equality for blacks where the remedy sought threatens the superior societal status of middle and upper-class whites…. Racial remedies may instead be the outward manifestations of unspoken and perhaps subconscious judicial conclusions that the remedies, if granted, will secure, advance, or at least not harm societal interests deemed important by middle and upper-class whites.
Of these societal interests, Bell mentions three: "provide immediate credibility to America's struggle with Communist countries to win the hearts and minds of emerging third world peoples," an argument used by both the NAACP and the federal government; offer "much needed reassurance to American blacks that the precepts of equality and freedom so heralded during World War II might yet be given meaning at home"; and that state-sponsored segregation was a barrier to the South in making a "transition from a rural, plantation society to the sunbelt with all its potential and profit."
It is not a full-throated condemnation of Brown, which Bell calls "the Supreme Court's most important statement on the principle of racial equality." Instead, it was an argument that where the "interest convergence" of Brown stopped, so did its real-world progress in addressing racial disparities. And Bell pushes this further: in concentrating on separate, no progress was made on equal.
A preferable method is to focus on obtaining real educational effectiveness which may entail the improvement of presently segregated schools as well as the creation or preservation of model black schools.
Civil rights lawyers do not oppose such relief, but they clearly consider it secondary to the racial balance remedies authorized in the Swann and Keyes cases. Those who espouse alternative remedies are deemed to act out of suspect motives. Brown is the law, and racial balance plans are the only means of complying with the decision. The position reflects courage, but it ignores the frequent and often complete failure of programs which concentrate solely on achieving a racial balance.
Desegregation remedies that do not integrate may seem a step backward toward the Plessy "separate but equal" era. Some black educators, however, see major educational benefits in schools where black children, parents, and teachers can utilize the real cultural strengths of the black community to overcome the many barriers to educational achievement. As Professor Laurence Tribe argued, "[J]udicial rejection of the 'separate but equal' talisman seems to have been accompanied by a potentially troublesome lack of sympathy for racial separateness as a possible expression of group solidarity."
No matter your view of this, it's clear that Bell was playing with fire:
Policies necessary to obtain effective schools threaten the self-interest of teacher unions and others with vested interests in the status quo. But successful magnet schools may provide a lesson that effective schools for blacks must be a primary goal rather than a secondary result of education. Many white parents recognize a value in integrated schooling for their children but they quite properly view integration as merely one component of an effective education. To the extent that civil rights advocates also accept this reasonable sense of priority, some greater racial interest conformity should be possible.
Bell's interest-convergence critique of Brown—which includes his own considerable role as a lawyer in school desegregation—was preceded by a more arcane yet similarly radical critique, his 1976 Yale Law Journal paper "Serving Two Masters: Integration Ideals and Client Interests in School Desegregation Litigation," a section of which addresses "civil rights litigation and the regulation of professional ethics."
In it, Bell discusses NAACP v. Button, the NAACP's challenge to Virginia legislation that forbid "the solicitation of legal business by 'an agent for an individual or organization which retains a lawyer in connection with an action to which it is not a party and in which it has no pecuniary right or liability.'" The legal principle at stake was the prevention of "barratry, maintenance, and champerty"—all essentially meant to prevent lawyers from filing malicious, unwanted, or vexatious litigation by ensuring they have a real stake in the matter. The NAACP correctly perceived that the legislation was targeted against school desegregation, and the Supreme Court shot it down on First Amendment grounds.
Justice Harlan dissented, finding that, as Bell writes, "NAACP policy required what he considered serious departures from ethical professional conduct," beginning with the fact that "NAACP attorneys were required to follow policy directives promulgated by the National Board of Directors or lose their right to compensation," which included "many subjects relating to the form and substance of the litigation."
In other words, Harland feared that the NAACP, as an organization, held more power in the litigation than the plaintiffs themselves. This concerned Harlan not just on abstract ethical grounds, but also in real-world terms; he argued that (and these are Harlan's words, as quoted by Bell) "after authorizing action in his behalf, a Negro parent, concerned that a continued frontal attack could result in schools closed for years, might prefer to wait with his fellows a longer time for good-faith efforts by the local school board than is permitted by the centrally determined policy of the NAACP." The parent could withdraw, but the lawyer, as Bell suggests in his title, was "serving two masters": the plaintiff and the organization.
Bell concluded that, in some particulars, the majority was right, but he also concurred with Harlan on several counts: "although a plaintiff could withdraw from the suit at any time, he could not influence the primary goals of the litigation." Keep in mind, this is a former NAACP counsel, who directed more than 300 school-desegregation cases, concurring in substantial part with the dissent in a case that made the NAACP's work possible.
He did not recommend stepping back from Button, describing the possibility as "a disaster, not an improvement," though in the same breath as saying that Justice Harlan "accurately prophesied the excesses of derailed benevolence," and concluding that the divided allegiance "has developed in a far more idealistic and thus a far more dangerous form." He pleads not for further legal remedy, but for civil-rights lawyers to exercise their judgement more on behalf of their clients, even when that diverges from post-Brown integration strategies:
[T]o the extent that civil rights laywers have not recognized the shift of black parental priorities, they have sacrificed opportunities to negotiate with school boards and petition courts with judicially enforceable educational improvements which all parents seek. The time has come for civil rights lawyers to end their single-minded commitment to racial balance, a goal which, standing alone, is increasingly inaccessible and all too often educationally impotent.
Radical? Yes. It would do Bell a disservice to claim otherwise.
Not all of his battles stayed within the confines of academic legal journals; his most public conflict with his peers came shortly after his appearance with Obama at Harvard Law. In 1991, Bell published "The Law of Racial Standing" in the Yale Journal of Law and Liberation, an essay on Louis Farrakhan:
Personally, I am glad to see Farrakhan's return after about a two year absence from the national T.V. scene. Very smart and super-articulate, he is perhaps the best living example of a black man ready, willing, and able to "tell it like it is" regarding who is responsible for racism in this country.
Bell's desire to praise and not to condemn Farrakhan stems from his concept of "racial standing":
The law grants litigants standing to come into court based on their having sufficient personal interest and involvement in the issue to justify judicial cognisance. Black people (while they may be able to get into court) are denied such standing legitimacy in the world generally when they discuss their negative experiences with racism or even when they attempt to give a positive evaluation of another black person or of his or her work.
The usual exception to this rule is the black person who publicly disparages or criticises other blacks who are speaking or acting in ways that upset whites. Instantly, such statements are granted "enhanced standing" even when the speaker has no special expertise or experience in the subject he or she is criticising.
[T]hose who decide that, despite all, they must speak out against blacks who are threatening to whites, must not be surprised when blacks subjected to public criticism, cry 'Foul.' And when the black critics are later criticized themselves, this is not intended to—and certainly does not—silence the black speakers, as is claimed by Professor Stephen Carter. After all, they now have enhanced or super standing. White people want to hear their views, almost ad nauseam. Rather, some of the rest of us are saying, 'Now, see what you have done. Knowing the consequences, you should have communicated your criticism in some other way.'"
This argument is problematic enough as it is, and caused Bell a considerable backlash; Randall Kennedy, a frequent opponent of Bell, called it "an egregious toleration of bigotry." To make matters worse, Bell not only refuses to condemn Farrakhan on tactical grounds—say what you will, it at least has a logic behind it—he tries to free Farrakhan from accusations of anti-semitism:
Thus, when Farrakhan attempts to explain that his statement [that Judaism is a "gutter" or "dirty" religion] was aimed at Israel as a state and not at Judaism as a religion, his explanation is rejected out of hand.
Rejected, yes; out of hand, no.
The year after Bell's article was published, Henry Louis Gates Jr. wrote a New York Times op-ed warning black scholars from irreparably damaging a vital civil-rights-era alliance:
The strategy of these apostles of hate, I believe, is best understood as ethnic isolationism — they know that the more isolated black America becomes, the greater their power. And what's the most efficient way to begin to sever black America from its allies? Bash the Jews, these demagogues apparently calculate, and you're halfway there.
James Traub, who profiled Bell for The New Republic in 1993, asked him to respond to Gates's call to "denounce black bigots." Bell responded that "the only thing it does is serve as a comfort to whites who are upset."
How did Bell, who played such a crucial role in the civil-rights movement, end up there? In an excellent essay on critical racial theory—a movement that was not named or led by Bell, but which grew out of his work—for Lingua Franca, "The Color of the Law," Larissa MacFarquhar summed up the approach in a manner that suggests how it could have evolved from his legal theory:
For the first generation of critical race theorists — the ones who have tenure now and came of political age during the Sixties — the story of their evolving thought is about the reevaluation of liberal principles that took place after the ebullience of the civil rights movement gave way to a more pessimistic assessment of the country's willingness to reform. By the mid- to late-Seventies, it had become apparent to them that racism was too ingrained, widespread, and subtle a feature of American life to be neutralized by laws addressing only its more obvious manifestations. Thus, the traditional ideals of integration, color blindness, and equality came to seem inadequate and even counterproductive.
Bell's interest in moving beyond those "traditional ideals," in the realm of law, led him to ask some challenging questions, and to take unusual (if widely criticized) routes there—such as his adoption of fables and narratives as legal arguments, which Macfarquhar discusses at length, and which resulted in a HBO movie that should be notorious for another week or so. In the case of Farrakhan, it took him well beyond the point of logic, always a danger when moving beyond the strictures of the academy and into the world of media and politics. Beyond it to a point where outcomes outweighed equality—even when fairness would dictate backing down.
A year after his death, Bell is back in that troublesome place. What rubbed off when the radical legal scholar hugged Obama? Nothing, it would seem, that resembles Bell's politics or political strategy. Charles Ogletree told David Remnick that, while Obama's speech "stood out for its eloquence and emotional force," Obama "wasn't the most vocal and central advocate in that debate." Bradford Berenson, a classmate of Obama's who went on to serve as associate White House counsel in the early George W. Bush administration, dismissed the significance of the video to NPR, and in an interview for the Frontline documentary Dreams of Obama, described Obama's approach to the highly-charged atmosphere at Harvard Law as conciliatory, moderate and ably political:
I think Barack took 10 times as much grief from those on the left on the Review as from those of us on the right. And the reason was, I think there was an expectation among those editors on the left that he would affirmatively use the modest powers of his position to advance the cause, whatever that was. They thought, you know, finally there's an African American president of the Harvard Law Review; it's our turn, and he should aggressively use this position, and his authority and his bully pulpit to advance the political or philosophical causes that we all believe in.
He had some discretion as president to exercise an element of choice for certain of the positions on the masthead; it wasn't wide discretion, but he had some. And I think a lot of the minority editors on the Review expected him to use that discretion to the maximum extent possible to empower them. To put them in leadership positions, to burnish their resumes, and to give them a chance to help him and help guide the Review. He didn't do that. He declined to exercise that discretion to disrupt the results of votes or of tests that were taken by various people to assess their fitness for leadership positions.
He was unwilling to undermine, based on the way I viewed it, meritocratic outcomes or democratic outcomes in order to advance a racial agenda. That earned him a lot of recrimination and criticism from some on the left, particularly some of the minority editors of the Review.
At the time, Bell had walked out on his position at Harvard, taking a leave of absence and threatening to quit if a black woman was not appointed to the faculty. He proposed that the school hire Regina Austin, then a visiting professor; in an example of how Bell could conflict with likely allies, Traub writes that he "wound up taking more heat from feminists, who viewed his chivalry as chauvinism, than from conservatives," and that—at least in 1993—"Bell concedes that Austin has never forgiven him for the public humiliation she endured." (Austin refused to speak about the matter to Traub.) When his leave of absence ran out and he refused to return to work, Harvard revoked his tenure.
Obama spoke warmly of Bell during his walkout. But he was leading the Harvard Law Review in a much different direction than that suggested by his professor's protest.
This now-infamous video of Barack Obama and Derrick Bell, the future president and the civil-rights vet passing each other in time, is not a scoop. But it's not nothing, either. In the context of history—Bell's, Obama's, and ours—it's an evocative moment as part of a larger narrative. And it's much greater, and more interesting, than the one Big Government is selling.
Related: Jonathan Chait on Bell, Obama, Romney, and Ron Paul.


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