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October 26, 2020 October 26, 2020 matthewschmitt13 Podcasts & Interviews, Stories, Videos
Dialogue Across Geographical Divides
Last week, co-founder Matthew was asked by the Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice to participate in a panel about the current realities of Michigan. Sr. Simone Campbell, from Nuns on the Bus, brought together urban and rural Michiganians working in housing, community development, journalism, and social justice to establish contrast and dialogue. Interestingly, more points of commonality were discovered than anyone expected! Along with Matthew, panelists included Bankole Thompson (Op-Ed Columnist at Detroit News), Carina Jackson (COO of Mariner's Inn), Joan Ebbitt (Associate, Adrian Dominican Sisters), Lynne Punnett (Former Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity of Lenawee County), and Laura Negron-Terrones (Adrian Dominican Sisters, Immigration Office).
April 29, 2019 thetablesetters Stories
Are White People able to Respect and Follow Leadership From People of Color?
Saturday, May 18, 2019, 10am-3pm
Fort Street Presbyterian Church, 631 Fort Street, Detroit, MI 48226
Are we only comfortable with the optics of diversity, seeing a picture that shows multi-culturalism? What happens when we actually try to create and effect change with people that have different perspectives from different upbringings and approaches to conflict?
Why is there still such disparity when it comes to CEO's and other executive level roles held by people of color?
What happens to white Christians when they are asked to trust the leadership, pastorship, direction, or spiritual counsel of a person of color? Do they freak out, do they accept it, do they act polite in person, but quietly show disrespect in other ways?
When Marvin and Matthew co-led mission trip teams at DOOR Los Angeles, white Christian leaders often avoided taking directions from Marvin…why?
Co-Founder Matthew's father, a retired medical doctor in suburban Detroit, noticed that his black female colleagues were sometimes assumed to be custodial staff at the hospital. Why is this?
The Presbytery of Detroit and The Table Setters are coming together to set multiple table events in 2019. Like many organizations in our country today, the P.o.D. is grappling with how to transform an appreciation for multi-culturalism into active steps towards anti-racism and healing.
Marvin and Matthew will share stories about the real challenges of working through biases, microaggressions, and systemic racism within the evangelical Church context. It is not always Kumbayah, but they believe their hard-forged friendship is an example of iron sharpening iron, and something God calls us to do with a heart for justice and reconciliation.
Please join us for this by registering here, and invite friends and family
And if you plan to come and can spare 5 minutes, we'd also appreciate you taking this anonymous survey: https://forms.gle/j7j33tEZ4DZSzbS89
November 29, 2018 thetablesetters Stories, Videos
Turning The Other Cheek = Resilience
Co-Founder Matthew sharing a story about when he learned that turning the other cheek is actually an act of resilience and resistance, not cowardice. But he also asks: who is getting the most slapped in the face? It's certainly not him….
From Just Speak, Incorporated's Starting Point Event at Red Bull Radio, Detroit, November 27, 2018.
January 4, 2018 thetablesetters Podcasts & Interviews, Stories, Videos
What Is Christianity? On #LeadingQuestions with Calvin Moore
Matthew was asked to join a dynamic group of panelists tonight on Leading Questions with Calvin Moore at Podcast Detroit. Hear Rabbi Glenn Harris of Shema Yisrael, Bloomfield Hills; Cheri Wellman, former Pastor of 37 North in Southgate; Singer-Songwriter Steve Phelps; Travel Agent Gaye Bri Moore (who also happens to be Calvin's Mom); Matthew and hosts Calvin and Kent weigh in on what it means to be a follower of Christ today. From the personal to the political, from the aspects of finding a personal relationship with Jesus to the call for racial and social justice, this panel covers it all. Parts 1 & 2 below:
August 16, 2017 August 16, 2017 matthewschmitt13 Stories
It's Not About Guilt, It's About Hope – by Matthew, #TheTableSetters #DismantlingWhiteousness
Charlottesville. The United States of America. 2017. What follows is a collection of some of my Facebook posting, along with some friends who inspire me, in the after swirl.
In Christ's family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we are all in a common relationship with Jesus Christ. – Galatians 3:28, The Message
"We are not born with prejudices, they are made for us by someone who wants something…to break us into small (and conquerable) groups."
If a politician or a pastor doesn't call out the hatred of #WhitePower, maybe we should ask, might it be serving them?
We know what fascism is. We know what racism is. We must resist and we must wake up.(The clip above is from an anti-fascism film made by the US Government in 1943 called "Don't Be A Sucker.")
Dear European-American Christians: I take this moment to remind you that following Jesus and claiming Christianity are two very different things. Jesus called out the religious elite of his day for being in collusion with political and economic power as opposed to trusting the truth of God.
If your church does not make reference to the hatred on display last night and today, if someone tells you it is just the "fringe" of the Republican party, be very suspicious. #UniteTheRightRally is meant to divide and conquer.
If you're happy that your church doesn't bring it up, I implore you to read Isaiah. Read Jeremiah. Read any one of the four Gospels from start to finish. Take notes. Pay attention to how the leaders and kings lead and how they are confronted. Pay attention to who Jesus singles out as the protagonists in His lessons and the antagonists. Pay attention to the overall arc of justice that plays out.
I'm going to say it: 45 is a golden calf. Made by the white people, made for the white people, made as a substitute for God. We are witnessing a worship of a golden calf.
Reddit user Reagente created this map.
Awaken. There is hope in the Bible. It's real to me and it's being cheapened by politically powerful white America to a sickening degree. Jesus invited us all to the table. None of us are over or under welcomed, and none of us deserve it any more than another. #BlackLivesMatterwas a reflective response to the dominant #OnlyWhiteLivesMatter reality we've been subjected to since this country's founding. As Andre Henry says: there is not room for argument here. You either accept that reality or you live in delusions.
Please, now, open your eyes and your ears and your hearts. I pray for the Holy Spirit to guide us all.
(Original post, including comments, here.)
(I stepped back and listened this day. Here's the best of what I found.)
The incredible poet, activist, minister, Diane Ujiiye
I called this the post of the century. Seriously, hilarious and chillingly spot on.
Follow Donna Givens, Executive Director of the Eastside Community Network in Detroit, Here.
Follow Pastor Mike McBride, Director of People Improving Communities through Organizing, Here
Seriously, super stress-relieving.
The passive and excuse-laden comfortability with the ongoing legal, social, and nationally supported systems of White Supremacy, both the overt and riotous, as well as the more insidious and hidden daily aggressions from well meaning white people (like myself, I admit), makes me want to knock shit over today. Thank God I've still got Angry Birds on my phone.
How in the hell do we move past this with integrity, equity, and effective consequences? How do I, as a Jesus-follower, contain my anger and find love for my current enemies to "heap burning coals" upon their passivity and reveal that God meant what he said when he challenged us to love our neighbors, and that heaven will be hard to get into if we are spiritually diluted by our privileges here on earth? People: I believe this tension is what it's all about. Do we trust God enough to actually love and fight for our neighbors?
I am not against white people. I am against white dominance, and anything that seeks to support white dominance as "all-powerful" or "most preferable" is deeply problematic. I actually grieve for white people who are consumed by maintaining "whiteness." I have seen this destroy more white people than I can bear to mention. It has caused me depression and anxiety. I believe it is because it was never God's intent for any one group to believe themselves better than any other. This is not about guilt. It's about hope.
Yes white people have had to work hard. I've never denied that. But why is it so challenging to accept what I've seen, from years of teaching in European, African, Asian, and Latino-American school contexts: the kids I've taught with browner skin have had to work much harder to achieve similar levels of success, than their lighter skinned peers. I am not making that up, it is real and it is a problem. Why is that so hard to accept and so tempting to dismiss as "emotionality," or "playing the race card," or whatever else has been said to discredit what those of us who've crossed boundaries know to be true?
I lament the fear of "the other." I believe when Jesus challenged us to trust God and love all our neighbors, he meant that. In my life, I have found that learning from people in races and cultures and socio-economic classes other than the one I was born into has given me an ever-clearer picture of the kingdom of God. The diversity helps to paint a fuller rendering of how amazing God is. So I strive to learn more, and I trust the experiences of first hand stories more than news stories framed and reframed for profit and ratings.
I may be using social media more than is healthy at times, but social media, for me, is a way to generate dialogue that is hard to have on a daily basis. Of course, it's easy to get stuck in a loop, so we all must encourage one another to take these important conversations into our face to face interactions. We don't have a precedent for how to best use this medium, so we are all learning as we go.
I believe people do change, when confronted with the right stories in the right contexts. I've also seen great hope in my family and my friends. I mean, isn't that what the entire walk with Jesus is meant to be? A place to continually move your life more and more in line with His? If we don't believe people can change, then it's a pretty shallow Gospel.
I make mistakes all the time. Some kind old friends recently pointed that out to me. I've been guilty of trying to save all the poor black kids and I've gotten my ass handed to me over a warm cup of Gumbo. I've engaged in fights that should've ended in more prayer and walking away. I've been called the "white devil" as well as "racist against white people." But let me assure you, these are not the worst things that can happen. These are survivable.
What is not okay to me: turning a blind eye to actual suffering, especially when doing so out of convenience or uncomfortability. True, we can't fight every battle and it would be arrogant to think otherwise. But I've been deeply troubled by the lack of concern for the ongoing systems that support one group's pursuit of life and liberty over another's, especially from within the Church when there are ample passages decrying economic structures of oppression. I feel we must stand strong. Whiteness is the problem with race, whiteness invented the current structure of racial hierarchy in this country, and it works hard to support itself. It wants to rule economically, morally, and culturally. It is the distraction that I feel called to stand against. It is not the only problem we Christians are expected to combat, but it's the one I feel God asking me to focus on, through how I was made and how life has shaped me along the way. (Original post, with comments, here.)
With love, hope, and peace by peace,
Come along side our work at The Table Setters. We'll pass the gumbo.
August 15, 2017 August 15, 2017 wadlowmarvin Stories
The Truth About the Movie DETROIT! – by Marvin #theTableSetters #Detroit
The Truth is:
Everything from our physical being to our intellectual prowess of street culture, medical innovations that were tested on our persons without our permission, to breeding us for selling. All this for the financial gain of others, mainly Anglos. Moreover, from the "Ghetto-izing" (Ghetto-*) of our culture, to overtly gobbling up everything we had the boldness to wear in the ghetto. From our style of hair, dress, music, dance, and other abilities that were stolen in some form and sold. So now we come down to history, our history as African-Americans. It is American History. So who gets to tell it? We live in such divided communities (redlining*) that it is a sensitive subject when it comes to, yet again, exploiting our stories for financial gain. The gap between the everyday experience of black and white people in this country is as broad as a suburb of Detroit with all white people and a great educational environment due to property tax dollars in wealthy areas and the struggles of a large amount of minority youth who are not in school in Detroit (and other urban cities) with high levels of crime in most areas due to lack of education and unemployment. Cities like Chicago (less in Detroit) is so out of sorts that having less than eight murdered on a weekend is considered a low number. Also, Detroit, even though it is starting to address there situations and have honest conversations with representatives from all areas included in the discussion still struggles with their narratives of what really happened. But honesty is not always represented well, or the full story told in narratives that involve telling "our stories". And frankly, it pisses me off.
The film Detroit, as timely as it is, is a narrative that misrepresents black folks based on who was allowed to tell the story of one of many American Tragedies when it comes to the African-American community. Is it timely, yes? Well done, I am sure it is. Accurate, in some instances, yes. Creative license taken? Of course. However, I believe, just like Selma (Ava Duvernay re-wrote 60% of script, no credit given) that from a perspective of an African-American filmmaker (like myself) the story would have been vastly seen through a different lens. However, that was not the case. Due to the extensive racism that exists in the Hollywood "studio system" of who gets to tell their cultural stories, or any story for that matter, this was not a productive film that forwarded any of those discussions. Nor did it forward the conversation of who has the power to approve who tells the story. The black narrative is not only under represented in film and television (and in all narrative areas), but it is also unrepresented with perspectives from filmmakers who are black, or for that matter of Latin or Asian backgrounds. So yes, it is a sore spot with me. I do not subscribe for anyone to see the film. Also, the market place is bearing that out. Let me be very clear, it's not the full responsiblity of the actors. An actor relys on the director for performance. An actor accepts a role. And considering the horrible path of blacks in cinema, they stand unscathed in terms of my disappointment in the filmmakers.
Mojo Film Tracking
Domestic Total as of Aug. 13, 2017: $13,421,464 (Estimate)
Distributor: Annapurna Pictures, Release Date: July 28, 2017
Genre: Crime Drama, Runtime: 2 hrs. 23 min.
MPAA Rating: R Production Budget: $34 million
( film must double its production cost to begin making money)
I believe it is unfortunate that people of color do not trust our narratives with Anglos. I believe in working together, but the scales are beyond unbalanced. It is going to take a long time to balance the scales, which I doubt will happen in my lifetime. Seems like every endeavor when it comes to people of color will "take a long time." Why? Because, once again, and my Asian and Latino and Latina people of color will back me up on this, it has been the entire history of this country (and continues to be in so many ways) that this obstruction of the narrative has taken place since 1776. Who tells the stories, who writes the books, who teaches in schools, who is the majority, and who is the minority? Even when the majority are the minority, when it comes to stories, it never works out for the minorities unless we are in charge of our own narrative. It actually saddens me to make that statement, but The truth is, it's true.
As someone who has a non-profit that preaches sitting at The Table, this subject tests me the most. However, we need to continue to try and talk and discuss at length who gets to tell our narratives as people of color, who gets to decide that, and better yet; how can we get people of color to step up and not be dismayed by the powers that be and still tell their own story? I can tell you personally that the frustration in not being heard is overwhelming to the point of not wanting to even attempt to be heard. However, I am personally committed to telling my story, my way. I am determined to stand at the gates of financiers, independent film companies, foreign film entities, and domestic studios to pitch and tell my story and to have an opportunity to tell my story my way. I do expect and welcome collaborators with me of all ages, race, and genders to join me in telling those stories that I deem significant. Also, hopefully, someday, someone in power (that looks like me and doesn't look like me) to see it that way. I am optimistic. So then Detroit throws me for a loop. I am sure it has thrown Kathryn Bigelow, the only woman to win an Oscar for directing, for a loop as well.
If you're not a person of color, it is a hard and awkward position to understand, and most Anglos simply don't! Mainly due to a lack of conversation about why we, as black folks (and others of color), would feel the way we do. Also, there is a fear of saying the wrong thing which also stops the conversation from happening. Fair? To some extent, it is not fair, but neither was the Transatlantic slave trade, auctioning of human beings, breeding and selling people (my ancestors), centuries of murdering our brown bodies, followed by Jim Crow, and many other forms of systemic racism (school to prison pipeline). Life is not fair, we all learn that. Black folks did not cause this, but we do have a responsibility to change this narrative. How?
We must metaphorically act as if we were at The March on Washington where Dr. King gave his speech. Or Bloody Sunday on Edmond Pettus Bridge (Selma) with all those people marching. In other words, we must flood the streets with story tellers in all forms. From filmmakers, authors, photographers, orators, and teachers, who stand at studio offices, TV executives, and publishers doors and demand to tell our stories ourselves with manuscripts, scripts, photographs, art works, speeches, and poems ready to go. So lest you think this is an exaggeration, it is not. The gap is wide as miles 1–14 in Detroit!
Here are the numbers that prevent narratives from being told by people of color concerning the film and television business. I have not even discussed numbers for my Latin and Asian folks. Without even looking I can tell you they're worse.
The Numbers:
Film Directors: 8–1 white, Writers: 3–1 white (that gap is closing, thank goodness), Film Studio Heads 94% White, 100% Male. (same, if not worse for film studios)
For more on this, View the Hollywood Diversity Report, 2015
This brings me back to Detroit, the movie. It is uncomfortable in so many ways. How ironic that a town that somewhat balanced out the middle class by creating jobs (the auto industry) that evened the playing field without it being a sport where brown skinned people could be treated a little bit fair. Most families, even if they didn't live in the same areas (and they didn't because white people would not allow it) could at least have somewhat equal pay, a good job, and put their kids through their schools in their area of 8 miles or below. So why has this movie got me riled?
Detroit Poster, 1942
Well, the fact is, we could see it coming 8 miles away. The movie posters plastered all over every major "urban city" depicts cops standing off against brown folks, with the tag line, "It's Time We Knew." It's time we knew what? That "some police" (not all, as I have friends and family that are officers) have been brutal murderers and abusers to people of color? And who's time is it to know? Certainly not people of color, we've been knowing! And I'll dare you to actually put in a voice over in the trailer for this film that "we will reveal the truth!" That misrepresents the blood spilled by my ancestors who made it a point to discuss every incident that seemed to mostly fall upon deaf ears. The Detroit tragedy, as awful as it is, sits in a line of many since the inception of this country which racism was truly The Birth of A Nation called The United States of America!
A small list of atrocities:
Slavery itself, Tulsa Town Burning, Rosewood Town Burning, Emmitt Till murder, hangings, draggings behind trucks, seven Nation of Islam people shot in Los Angeles, Black Panthers murdered in Philidelphia, Watts Riots, LA Riots, Rodney King….
Still photo from movie, Birth of a Nation
America does need to know the truth. I call all story tellers of color and people who want to help us tell our story with us in positions of leadership and power to affect the viewpoint of the story; it is time! Detroit proves it. Even in comedy, a film like Girl's Night is a prime example of great collaboration. Yes, I saw the movie, it is a riot, and the box office reflects it. Go see it!
Girls Trip:
Domestic Total as of Aug. 13, 2017: $97,139,980/Foreign Total, $9 Million & Counting. Predicting 120–150 million domestic, 15–20 million foreign=Total 135 to 170 million. Production Budget: $19 million
A must See Interview, then watch the trailer:
https://youtu.be/7jE61BzKmgQ
*Ghetto Etymology-
The word "ghetto" comes from the Jewish area of Venice, the Venetian Ghetto in Cannaregio. However, there is no agreement among etymologists about the origins of the Venetian language term. The various theories trace it to: a special use of Venetian getto, or "foundry" (there was one near the site of that city's ghetto in 1516);[3] Yiddish get, or "deed of separation"; a clipped form of Egitto ("Egypt"), from Latin Aegyptus (presumably in memory of the exile); or Italian borghetto, or "small section of a town" (diminutive of borgo, which is of Germanic origin; see borough). By 1899 the term had been extended to crowded urban quarters of other minority groups.
**Redlining-
A HOLC 1936 security map of Philadelphia showing redlining of lower income neighborhoods.[1]
In the United States, redlining is the practice of denying services, either directly or through selectively raising prices, to residents of certain areas based on the racial or ethnic composition of those areas. While the best known examples of redlining have involved denial of financial services such as bankingor insurance,[2] other services such as health care[3] or even supermarkets[4] have been denied to residents (or in the case of retail businesses like supermarkets, simply located impractically far away from said residents) to result in a redlining effect.[5] Reverse redlining occurs when a lender or insurer targets particular neighborhoods that are predominantly nonwhite, not to deny residents loans or insurance, but rather to charge them more than in a non-redlined neighborhood where there is more competition.[6][7]
May 12, 2017 May 12, 2017 thetablesetters Photos, Stories
The Pastor as Spiritual Guide Recommendation
Table Setters are doing critically important yet hard work seeking to foster integration by bringing together peoples from different cultures and ethnicities to that common, universal experience of eating together at the table. Integration is, humanly speaking, hard because it creates personal anxieties, power struggles, losses, and calls forth spiritual disciplines such as surrender, openness, and trust. At the same time, it invites wonderful gains, such as joy, peace, freedom, love, laughter, understanding, and most especially belonging or community. Those of us affiliated the with PSGP pray God's blessings upon The Table Setters and encourage them as well as our represented communities to invite their leadership and modeling of The Kingdom of God. – The Pastor as Spiritual Guide
May 9, 2017 May 9, 2017 danselock Stories, Videos
Ubuntu, by Dan Selock of #theTableSetters
I am who I am because of who we all are…I am because we are
I have learned much about the essence of being human through Tom Logan, co-founder of Marion Medical Mission. He and his wife, Jocelyn, have directed the Shallow Well Program for the last 25 years, helping to install about 27,000 shallow wells in Malawi, Tanzania, and Zambia, Africa. Those wells have enabled three to four million villagers to have safe drinking water. Only a small number of them have ever had safe drinking water, "since the beginning of mankind," according to one of the village elders my wife, Susie, and I met in Malawi last fall. We are proud to have assisted with 144 wells of the 2,754 installed in 2016, and we are planning to return to Africa in the future.
Notice I said "assisted." Tom was very clear that the wells belonged to the villagers; we were only there to assist. They located the subsurface water source, dug the 15 to 25 foot well, formed and baked the clay bricks, laid the brick walls of the well, and created the concrete cap to keep the water clean and apron to drain away excess water. We Americans raised the $450 needed to pay for the cement, pipe, pump, and wages of the African field officers, well building supervisors, and installation supervisors. We Americans drove Toyota Land Rovers loaded with well parts over rough terrain to remote villages. Once there, we recorded the GPS location and construction data on an android, checked the quality and safety of the well, and celebrated the completion of the well with a dedication ceremony.
Only together, Africans and Americans, were we able to be who God created us to be. Only together did safe drinking water become available to thousands of villagers. Together, people of color and white people actualized a dream, became friends and established relationships, and served one another. Together, we sang songs and praised God for His goodness. The attached video is a gift of song to my wife and me for coming to their town in Malawi and assisting with wells. The verses are, "Who will enter into Heaven? Our father is there. Only the holy will enter. You are holy. Enter into Heaven. Our father is there." Susie and I felt we had entered into Heaven for those moments of the song. I still tear-up when I watch that video. Gestures of love from God's children are powerful. The people of Malawi have such open and warm hearts.
I write this story to illustrate how people who are different can effectively come together and achieve a dream. In this land the "American Dream" is at stake. The only way people of color and white people can actualize that dream is to become friends, establish relationships, and work together, as we did in Africa. The time for such an encounter is now; it is long past due. And, if we do not succeed today, what kind of world will our children and grandchildren inhabit tomorrow?
Ubuntu, I am who I am because of who we all are. Invite the Table Setters to your church, school, business, or community organization and allow them to facilitate relationship building. It's diversity training on a personal level. Many of us know very little about people who are different. Come to the table; share at the table; stay at the table; and come back to the table. Only through relationship building can we learn who we all are and, as a consequence, learn who each one of us are. I am because we are.
May 8, 2017 May 9, 2017 matthewschmitt13 Stories, Videos
Displacement and Gathering: #DismantlingWhiteousness with #TheTableSetters
It's been 11 months since we displaced ourselves from Los Angeles to Detroit. But yesterday, I got to come back to Hollywood, thanks to an incredible exhibit called "Displacement and Gathering" at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood which featured a live artistic performance of a Table Setters gathering around a table to discuss race, politics, the idolization of all things white. We talked about what we might learn from other cultures, other perspectives, and other people with whom we might expect to disagree with, be afraid of, be opposed to meeting. We talked about why God created diversity to begin with, if it wasn't to learn how to appreciate God's love for beauty in variety.
Marvin's All-American photos and videos with quotes by Frederick Douglass and Andre Henry were featured alongside original artwork by Hyung-in Kim, Maria Fee, Anne Baumgartner, Andrea Kraybill, Brian Fee. I want to let you have a glimpse of that work below.
For me, personally, I felt "gathered," after being displaced. I was invited to play piano again during the worship service. I was invited to dinner with old friends. I got to hang out with the old team of Discerners from the Gregory avenue neighborhood, kids I knew since they were kids, and now they are all hovering around 21. It was great to be gathered back. But I also thought of how many people get displaced and are never able to return to glimpses of home. I think of Native Americans pushed off their land. I think of people living homelessly in Hollywood who get shuffled along, especially during the Oscars, every year. I think of warriors snatched out of their homelands to come build a country for white men. I think of refugees fleeing impossible situations, either economically or politically, to do right by their families, to survive.
I think of all the many people in Detroit who've been told their house is not worth the cost it would take to fix the roof, so they just have to slowly let the water seep in. I think of what it might mean for us to turn back that tide. I think of what it might take. I pray to God we have the strength and courage to dismantle the walls that divide us, and I think Whiteousness has always been one of the most formidable. Like the forcefield blocking entrance to the planet with all the secret codes in Rogue One…..
This week: we moved into a new house. Another displacement and re-gathering. We are trying to buy this house, but are facing challenges because, like many of our neighbors, it is not being valued as high as the seller is hoping to sell it. What is value, and who decides? The nature of this post is understandably scattered and questioning, which I think fits well alongside the artwork to follow. Let it speak to you too.
What if we could allow everyone to be considered, "white?" Of course, i think that would be a terrible idea, as whiteness is the problem. But, what if we could truly understand each person as a beloved child of God, as beautiful as God intended?
But first, listen to the incredible Diane Ujiiye deliver an opening prayer of sorts through spoken word:
Displacement and Gathering
"Remembering for Refugees" by Hyung-in Kim: the interlacing strands were produced in art workshops. In these educational venues the artist directed participants in the shared activity of braiding bands as a pedagogical tool to raise awareness of cultural diversity and to build empathy. Her project also commemorates the 25th Anniversary of the LA Riots.
"Pourous Wall" by Maria Fee: a wall is erected as a barrier: it can contain, or it can keep things at bay. Boundaries are necessary to create distinction. Yet when a wall is impenetrable, how can relationships occur between what's inside and outside? When a wall is too high, how can the strange draw nearer to become more familiar?
"Alienation" by Brian Fee: to exist is to struggle. In attempt to elevate the self, someone else may be pushed away. This brings about a double alienation: the one who is cast off, and the offender left alone.
"Gather and Embrace" by Anne Baumgartner: welcome can function in many ways, both literal and symbolic. Through words, expressions, and physical space, God utilizes the particularity of place to gather the many in order to embrace them. How can we create room for each other and also the Holy Spirit?
"Interwoven" by Andrea Kraybill: the multi-layered bands installed above the church's entrance, found near the intersection of two streets, further speaks of hospitality. It provides an alluring invitation for passersby to enter into a meditative space for renewal and refreshment.
March 25, 2017 March 25, 2017 matthewschmitt13 Stories
Heartbeats in the Heartland: #TheTableSetters in #Illinois and #Indiana
Spring has arrived now.
Will we blossom once again?
Healing could happen.
I'm writing from Carmel, Indiana as we are concluding our time with leadership of The Synod of Lincoln Trails, the Presbyterians of Illinois and Indiana. It has been such an encouraging moment of togetherness, while the rest of the country is celebrating or pointing fingers over the future of healthcare. Thursday, we spent time with brave pink-skinned people in a community center of Olney, Illinois, where our new friend, Beau Brown, serves as a Presbyterian pastor. From there, we met with a slightly more diverse group (some African and Asian Americans, some with Native heritage, some with biracial children and grandchildren) of Presbyterian leaders in Carmel, Indiana, just outside Indianapolis. Our friend Beau was then installed as the new moderator for the Synod of Lincoln Trails, and he is passionate about working towards moments of racial healing from his corner of Christianity.
We talked about the pain that exists, the feelings of animosity that are deeply held, when we've been hurt by someone from another race. While these are personal examples, like the black bully I had in middle school (who later apologized and meant it!), they matter. Of course, my pain on this level is relative to the pain that my friends of color experience, because I only have a handful of personal pain stories. Marvin has luggage, as he calls it, involving both personal stories of being intentionally hurt, alongside the everyday ache that systemic racism causes.
And it wasn't a time of presenting solutions. But a time to hold in each other's pain. These steps matter, and are often overlooked to jumpstart towards solutions.
Trust is needed. And trust takes time, repeated positive experiences, to build. Then, and only then, when we know we have each other's backs, or more pointedly, when people of color know that white people aren't going to cut and run when the going gets tough, only then can we start to dream up anything close to solutions.
Thank you brave souls of Olney and Lincoln Trails. You have encouraged us and we hope to set more tables with you and your communities soon.
Peace by peace,


Whether you call her cool, funky or lobster chic, there's no denying that Natalia is effortlessly stylish. We're so used to seeing her plying scruffy wildling Osha in Game of Thrones that her Molotov Jukebox music videos are a breath of fresh air.
Natalia shared her top fashion tips with me, and her secret is her DIY approach.
Click here to read the full interview on Flecking Records.


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We are back with the written update of Sony Television named "Indian Idol 12". This is the most popular and amazing singing reality show. The TRP of the show is raising high and high every week. The upcoming episode of the show will be very entertaining and interesting as the two legends are coming on the show. The iconic director Subhash Ghai and the most talented and famous music director will arrive on the show. Tonight's episode is going to be very thrilling and mind-blowing. The contestant of the show will give an extremely outstanding performance.
AR Rahman will give his wishes to Subhash Ghai on his Birthday. They both will recollect their memories of the time which they spend together. AR Rahman is a great musician, singer, and music director, and producer. Subhash Ghai is the most talented Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter. The contestants of the show will sing the songs of Subhash Ghai films. Subhash Ghai will get so emotional after seeing the tribute by all the contestants of the show. Subhash Ghai will share the moments behind the scenes of which they shoot.
Contestant Danish will deliver an awesome performance as he sings the Subhash Ghai film song, "Ek haseena thi" as trbute. After his performance, Shubhash Ghai will praise him for his absolutely amazing performance. He will say that after seeing your performance, I will just do one thing "hats off" to you. After that, Danish will show his acting talent on the show. Vaishnav Girish will also give a very entertaining performance. After his performance, AR Rahman will give a surprise as he made a special appearance on the show, to wished Subhash Ghai.
Contestant Arunita delivers a heart touching performance as he sings "Bada Dukh Dina O Ramji" song. Her performance will change the atmosphere of the show. After that, Subhash Ghai will act on this song with Arunita and all contestants and judges of the show will get amused to see him. Overall, the episode is going to be very outstanding and entertaining. All the contestants will deliver soulful and nostalgic performances. So, don't forget to watch "Indian Idol 12" on Sony Television at 8:00 pm.
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There was so much b/s in your earlier posts that even if it is true, no one will believe you.
I'm going with carbon fiber headlights.
The way I see it, if you're not gaining 100hp or signifigantly improving handling, it's probably not worth waiting so long for, and paying so much for. I'm guessing it's expensive from the down payment.
Turbos and whatnot are readily availible over here, and you don't have to put up with making it fit US standards. I'm guessing a motor, but hoping not. You were just saying how much money you've sunk in this car, and if you're doing what I think you are, you're just making things worse. Keep in mind this is my , I hope you end up liking whatever you do.
Straigh liner? Correct me if I'm wrong here, but I'm betting that stock vs stock his F-body would leave you in the dust in the corners.
Also, if you don't know what he's talking about, why are you assuming he is making a corner carver? A good drag car requires A LOT of suspension work.
People always says that car wont do anythign but go straight, if that was true they still have no idea what it takes to drive or even set up a suspension to get a High HP car to stick.


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Майкл Джозеф Арантес Ситон (; родился 1 мая 1996 года в Спаниш-Таун, Ямайка) — ямайский футболист, нападающий кёльнской «Виктории» и сборной Ямайки.

Клубная карьера
Ситон — воспитанник клуба «Ди Си Юнайтед». 11 августа 2013 года в матче против «Филадельфия Юнион» он дебютировал в MLS. Для получения игровой практики Майкл дважды на правах аренды выступал за клуб USL «Ричмонд Кикерс». В начале 2015 года он также на правах аренды перешёл в шведский «Эребру». 8 апреля в поединке против «Гётеборга» Ситон дебютировал в Аллсвенскан лиге.

Летом того же 2015 года Ситон перешёл в «Портленд Тимберс». Остаток сезона он провёл в фарм-клубе «Портленд Тимберс 2» в третьем дивизионе. В мае 2016 года Ситон был отчислен из «Портленда», так и не сыграв и минуты за основную команду.

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16 ноября 2013 года в товарищеском матче против сборной Тринидада и Тобаго Ситон дебютировал за сборную Ямайки. 5 март 2014 года в поединке против Сент-Люсии Майкл забил свой первый гол за национальную команду. В том же году он помог сборной выиграть Карибский кубок.

Летом 2015 года Ситон принял участие в Золотом кубке КОНКАКАФ. На турнире он сыграл в матче против сборной Мексики.

Голы за сборную Ямайки

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  Карибский кубок — 2014
  Золотой кубок КОНКАКАФ — 2015

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Игроки сборной Ямайки по футболу
Игроки ФК «Ди Си Юнайтед»
Игроки ФК «Ричмонд Кикерс»
Игроки ФК «Эребру»
Игроки ФК «Портленд Тимберс 2»
Игроки ФК «Хапоэль» Рамат-Ган
Игроки ФК «Хапоэль» Тель-Авив
Игроки ФК «Маккаби Ахи»
Игроки ФК «Ориндж Каунти»
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Q: UFO movie from 60's or 70's Maybe set in Mexico Saw this on US broadcast TV back in the late 60s or early 70s. Set in that time frame. Some kind of flying saucer had landed, possibly in Mexico. Possibly crashed. Scene I particularly remember, alien had trapped a woman,(investigator?) on it's craft. Used a ray-gun type device to begin to disrobe her. Didn't get far before she was rescued. Besides it was TV.
Discharge from the device looked like 'sparkler' fireworks.
Very short skirt, coordinating jacket.
I suppose it could have been an episode from some series.
Thanks for your help!

A: Thanks to Handsome Jim for his comment above. I did finally get a chance to watch the movie, and that is the one I was thinking of: The Ambushers (1967)
ADDED: This is technically a Spy movie. With Dean Martin playing Agent Matt Helm (he stared in 4 Matt Helm movies)
An American made flying saucer is brought down on its test flight by an unknown enemy. Matt Helm and its former very attractive test pilot, track it down to Central America to find it and discover who brought it down.
No Aliens involved in the movie. As with all 4 Matt Helm movies, just lots of scantly clad women.
The four movies were based some of Donald Hamilton's 27 Matt Helm novels. [The movies are campy and comedic. The novels have a more serious tone.]

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Qatar Airways has marked its first foray into the Australian Football League (AFL) with a three-year sponsorship of the Sydney Swans, signing with the team until the end of the 2019 season.
The carrier was named Official International Airline Partner earlier today at the iconic Sydney Cricket Ground, home of the Sydney Swans.
Officials in attendance included: Qatar Airways country manager for Australasia, Mr. Adam Radwanski; Sydney Swans chairman Mr. Andrew Pridham; chief executive and managing director Mr. Andrew Ireland; coach John Longmire; and co-captain Kieren Jack.
As part of the deal, Qatar Airways will receive prominent branding at the Sydney Swans' home games and training ground, and will engage the players in marketing and promotional activities.
Qatar Airways Group chief executive officer, His Excellency Mr. Akbar Al Baker said: "Qatar Airways has long supported some of the best sports clubs and events in the world.
"We strongly believe in connecting with our global travellers through their passion for sport, and have been looking for the right partner for Qatar Airways in Australia's sports arena.
"Since we first started serving Australia in 2009, Qatar Airways has received tremendous support from the Australian community. This partnership with Sydney Swans, one of the country's best-supported and most elite sporting teams, is a reflection of our ongoing commitment to Australia.
Sydney Swans chairman Mr. Andrew Pridham said, "Qatar Airways is a global brand and leader in international air travel, so we're delighted to have them join the Sydney Swans as our Official International Airline Partner.


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Halloween! Part One
Posted by GIRL'S GONE CHILD | Monday, November 03, 2014
Oh, Halloween. How I love you. Hal and I actually decided not to dress up this year because neither of us were really in the mood and then, all of a sudden, it was Thursday and the kids were mad at us because I told them we weren't going to dress up this year and I had this realization that our crazy costumes are a part of THEIR experience, now, too, and that WE HAD TO RALLY! FOR THE CHILDREN! WE HAD TO DRESS UP AND BE TOTALLY BONKERS BECAUSE THEY LOVE WHEN WE DRESS WEIRD AND THAT IS SOMETHING I DON'T EVER WANT TO CHANGE!
I prayed to the Patron Saint of Couples Costume Ideas and the night before Halloween, received a flash of inspiration and went out into the night to purchase two matching blonde wigs. (More on that, tomorrow.)
The kids chose their costumes early last month. Fable knew FOR SURE that she wanted to be something dark this year which I love because we all have that side of ourselves and on Halloween, if we so desire, we get to explore that... We get to show a little of that darkness in a way that's... fun. As a kid, I loved to wear masks for that reason. The scarier, the better. (Meanwhile, I had never watched a scary movie in my life. I was petrified of them.) BUT ON HALLOWEEN, I WAS A MONSTER! A SCARY SCARY VERSION OF MYSELF! And it felt totally awesome and fun and awesome.
Fable designed her own black-lipstick-sequined-face-makeup situation which I thought was genius. (The adhesive jewels are from the craft store and look incredible on faces. She wore them last year as well and they ruled.)
Fable was a "Bride of Darkness" and when I asked her who she was marrying, she said, "THE NIGHT! WUAH HA HAHAHAHAHAH!"
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Archer, too, was a scary creature. A ghost... a ghoul... a dark and stormy knight...
Archer + Fable's rainbow pumpkin which we bid on at the School Auction and WON. YEAH!
Bo and Revi, after flipping through catalogs and sitting on my lap to look at 9798917289217 costumes, decided they wanted to go as a King (Bo) and Queen (Revi.) SO! I purchased a king and a queen costume. About a week later, when Bo's costume arrived, she threw it across the room.
"I don't want to be a king anymore," she said.
I told her that I had already purchased her costume and that, once you decide that's kind of it.
"However," said I, "If you want to be something else for Halloween, you can put something together with what we have here at home. A King Spider Dragon, perhaps? A Princess Elmo Goldfish? Cousin Itt? (We have so many wigs.) A ghost? A BO...st?"
At first she was going to be a dragon. And then she was going to be "a three amigo." And then she wanted to be a bathroom, but I already wrote about all of that.
Fast forward to Halloween night, when after three costume changes, Bo settled on being a spider. And then Revi, who was a queen, burst into tears because she wanted to wear the same thing as her sister.
And so she disappeared into her bedroom and reemerged as a spider, just like Bo.
This moved us all to tears, of course, because Revi (whose world is princess dresses and who was the MOST excited of anyone to dress up in her fanciest princess dress ever this Halloween) would rather be in sync with Bo than clad in velvet and a crown. Twins, man. TWINS!
As for our evening, it was magical. Something about a bunch of families walking around in the dark, pretending to be things... there are few things more fun. My parents came up this year and that was really special, too. My mom rocked some Little Red Riding Hood action and my dad wore my Elmo costume from years ago and looked extremely creepy and weird.
The kids each had a few pieces of candy before we said goodbye to their stashes, "switch witch" style, and I know that to some it may sound awful and totally cruel to take candy away from kids who have just spent hours walking around asking their neighbors for it, but we've been doing this every year since our kids were tiny, so they don't know anything else. We collect candy and trade it in for cool stuff like art supplies, sticker books, Legos... And everyone's cool with it. I mean, HELLO! Toys are the coolest! And new paints! And sidewalk chalk!
... and pumpkin "BOOterflies."
How about you!? Did everyone have a good Halloween!? What did everyone dress up as!? I LOVE HALLOWEEN, YOU GUYS. I wish Halloween was every day and we all wore costumes like clothes and every week we got to be different characters and bathroom costumes were available for purchase c/o a variety of Etsy vendors. xoxoxo
ED: Fable and Revi's costumes were purchased at Chasing Fireflies. The spiders were from Amazon. Archer's costume was purchased at a local shop.
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Interview With Christie Scheele
The colorist on over 100 issues of DAREDEVIL speaks about her work at Marvel, and why she has no regrets about leaving the comics industry.
Kuljit Mithra: Before we begin, I just wanted to say thank you for this opportunity. I consider yourself and Joe Rosen to be Daredevil's unsung heroes who worked on so many issues without getting the attention the writers or pencilers received. Your name is credited in so many issues in Volume 1. Do you remember your first issue of Daredevil? This must be early 80's I'm talking about, so I'm curious how you started at Marvel as a colourist, since you have a fine art background. Not interested in pencils, inks, etc.?
Christie Scheele: I was just about to graduate from college, BFA in painting, BA in Spanish language and lit, planning to move to NYC. I needed a job, of course... usual artist's conundrum... where to find a job that didn't tie me to a 9 to 5, so I could have time to paint? Well, my apartment-mate had this older hippy boyfriend (Steve Skeates), who had written comics, back in the day, with Denny O'Neil. So I looked at comics for the first time -- a Plastic Man, as a matter of fact, that Steve had written. I loved the tongue-in-cheek, and thought... hmmm... what could I do here, kind of quickly?
Cut to NYC, some months later (August, 1980), Denny (who I remained friends with forever) passing me to others for the colorist's instruction lecture, to which I really listened. Since I always was developing my painting as well, I had no problem leaving my artist's ego at the door and focusing on being a (somewhat subservient!) colorist. Then, as coloring got more complex, I was delighted to be able to bring my more subtle abilities into play.
Daredevil was one of my two favorite characters/books to work on (Moon Knight with Bill Sienkewicz came earlier). Since I'm big into color composition and tonalist hues (in my painting as well) the characters with one solid color and lots of night scenes were great. Combine that with the gorgeous drawing ability of Bill...and then many Daredevil artists, starting with my first issue, a Frank Miller/Klaus Janson issue. I always loved artists who composed the page as a whole, not only thinking of the panel by panel narration, and I always looked at my palette in terms of the page and the duration of a scene. I did think about learning to do writing, inks and pencils at one point, but understood that these skills are so advanced and specialized that I would not have the time to learn them and be a fine artist as well, so I opted to stick with my original plan -- colorist as my job, painter as my passion and career direction.
Mithra: To this day, there are still people who don't know "Max" Scheele is you. Is there a story behind the nickname, or was it something you always had?
Scheele: I got my hair cut short, punk-style, one day, (1982?), and when our most loved Danny Crespi caught sight of me, he said -- "You got your hair cut! You look like a boy -- I'm going to call you Max." And he did. When he died several years later, I asked my editors to use a Max Scheele credit that month, and many just continued to do that. Yes, I had folks later say things to me like... "Well, Max is a good colorist, but not as good as you!". Funny.
Mithra: Did you work in the Marvel bullpen, or at home? Was there much collaboration with the other creators on the books you worked on?
Scheele: I always worked at home, except in the early years when I sometimes filled in for George [Roussos] when he went on vacation. Colorists were early on considered the potential nemesis of inkers, so I would sometimes get color notes, but rarely any real sense of collaboration. Later, as coloring got more sophisticated, and I became known as a mood colorist, that changed, but I think that in general writers/inkers/pencilers felt nervous and cut off from the coloring process, and of course didn't see it until it was too late to do anything anyway. Colorists, in turn, were always anxious about the separations, which could kill a good coloring job. So, when the team was happy with the printed coloring, they were often VERY happy/relieved/grateful.
Mithra: Some things I see from time to time on eBay are colour guides to various comics, which look like watercolors or marker work. But I've also seen pages which have arrows pointed to various sections that have colour codes (CMYK? is that the right term?). Were these mutually exclusive ways to "colour"? Also, did you ever do colouring with computers? There are several issues where you are credited with "Malibu" on colours. I believe you were still on the book (late 90's) when Marvel was upgrading its paper stock etc. If so, how did you find that transition? If not, why not?
Scheele: Early on, we coded everything, since there were only 64 colors available (all created from percentages of CMY), and the pages were separated by hand (under sweatshop conditions, practically). VERY special books got "full color" -- which means that we could paint it, still with Dr. Martin's watercolors, and it was photographed and printed under the B&W art, more or less as a painting in an art book would be. Later , as computer seps came into being, we could use any multiple of 10% of all colors, airbrushing, and K (grey). Finally, we could just color it, without coding, and it would be separated, with varying results, without codes. (Papers did vary, along the way, though the glossy ones were kind of the opposite extreme from the newsprint, and not always an improvement, if you were going for any subtlety.) From there, it was an easier (and cheaper, of course) step to go to colorist/separators, a step that I declined to take. I had good seps from Malibu and Heroic Age, towards the end there, and at the VERY end worked as a team with Krista Ward, who had been with Heroic Age. We were a good team, but inefficient, compared to just one person doing the whole thing. I had been building my career as a painter all along, so I made the decision not to invest in working on the computer (my back was already wacked out from years of coloring), and to invest instead in doing my own work. Many people shook their heads, but I didn't just leap -- I had already reached a certain price point with my paintings, and was showing and selling in multiple galleries.
Mithra: What does a separator do?
Scheele: This is getting technical, but basically a separator prepares the color for printing by, in the old days, separating the color into its individual components. So... that meant that each of the 64 colors being used (say, 25% blue) needed a sheet where that color was selected on an acetate with the B&W art printed on it, painted in goopy opaque red paint (don't ask me why). It was tedious and underpaid work, not performed by folks with an art background, and mistakes were common. (This was contracted out to companies that did just this, so I only witnessed it once when I visited one.)
You'd have to ask someone else how it is done now on the computer, since I have never done that. When I worked with Heroic Age or Krista Ward, I sent them guides with notes about special effects that I knew they could do.
Mithra: Was there any difference in your methods and thinking behind your colours with this new paper stock that didn't bleed like regular newsprint?
Scheele: I think that at first we had only the 64 colors when the glossy paper came in, and wow, you needed sunglasses to look at those jobs. Then with more color range available, the strategy that I discovered was to not oversaturate, and use small amounts of grey on many colors, especially background. The single most important rule was to make your action visible at a glance (everything at the service of the narrative), so I was always working to get that contrast... but still, as subtly as possible, creating mood.
Mithra: I'm curious to know your opinions on some of the stories you coloured, namely the ones by Miller/Romita Jr., O'Neil/Mazzucchelli, Nocenti/Romita Jr., Chichester/Weeks/McDaniel, Kesel/Nord and Kelly/Colan/Olivetti etc. That's quite a range of styles you got to work on.
Scheele: I really did like them all, but I have always loved best styles that use chunkier shapes, where the figure works as a dynamic composition within each panel, and inks with lots of blacks and a line quality with variation and movement. I did get to do just a few issues over Klaus, before he left the book, and you can't beat that! And Romita Jr. was always a pleasure.
Mithra: I imagine you were working on several titles alongside Daredevil over all those years. What were some of your other favourites?
Scheele: Just to name a few... Walt Simonson's Thor was a blast to color, of course... Spider-Man, the Lost Years with Romita Jr. and Klaus Janson... Man-Thing with Liam Sharp (hey Liam...weren't you going to give me one of those pages??)...the Elektra Miniseries...there were always very specific styles that I found easy and fun to color, and then others that just didn't gel for me... not always even a question of good or bad art, though you can't argue with the art of any of the above!
Mithra: Do you remember what your last Marvel comic was that you coloured? Was it just time to switch gears and try something new?
Scheele: I think that the last ones for Marvel (I did a few for DC after that) were the Starlin series that I worked on, one after the other, in partnership with Heroic Age and Krista Ward. By then I was laying in the color composition and indicating light sources, and they were embellishing.
I colored comics for 20 years, way longer than I ever expected to, being primarily a painter. I was working on my fine art career all along, first creating bodies of work that were gallery-ready, and then beginning to build my exhibition resume and sales track. By the time comics had downsized, Marvel had changed drastically, and coloring went to computer (which I did not want to do, my back/neck already suffering from holding the same position while coloring for so long), I was well on my way. Folks mostly shook their heads when I said that my best bet for employment was to work fulltime on building painting as a business, because it is a very hard business to make a living at, but I was already two thirds of the way there. Now I mentor other artists to teach them how to engage (with a good attitude!) in the whole process of career-building, which is very fun, along with all of my exhibitions and of course, work in my studio.
Mithra: And finally, When I got in touch with you, you mentioned that you were working on a gallery show. How has life been for you after Marvel? Do you still get an itch to do comic work? Do you even follow what's going on in the comic industry?
Scheele: Life is great, post comics, because I am doing what I always set out to do. An artist just wants as much time to make art as possible, so the whole point to earning a living at is that you get all of those lovely studio hours each week. I even enjoy the business end (within reason!) because it requires different kinds of problem-solving than making art, and involves contact with other people.
Coloring comics was a fabulous job for me. I don't miss the process, but I do miss the camaraderie that existed at Marvel in the 1980's, and the crazy hijinks (performance art, really) of Mark Gruenwald and others. That is no more, I am afraid, but through my husband, Jack Morelli (and now through Facebook) I get some updates and get to see our old friends from time to time (the Carlin-Cohen wedding that just happened, for example, a bit of performance art itself!). All good...
Be sure to visit Christie Scheele's new website...
(c) Kuljit Mithra 2011


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Dean speaks of presidential campaign mistakes
By Steve Zind | April 26, 2006
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(Host) Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean says his presidential campaign was hampered by inexperience and key tactical mistakes.
Dean who now heads the Democratic National Committee made his comments during a panel discussion yesterday evening at the University of Vermont.
VPR's Steve Zind reports:
(Zind) Monday's discussion was entitled "The Media and the Public Trust: the Making and Breaking of Political Heroes." It provided Dean with an appropriate topic and a friendly audience for his analysis of what went wrong in his presidential campaign. In the past, Dean has been reluctant to dissect his 2004 candidacy.
He says the so-called Iowa scream wasn't the reason his campaign faltered. Instead, Dean says the biggest problem was lack of experience – his own as a national candidate, and his campaign's – as he became the Democratic frontrunner.
(Dean) "Had I been much more experienced, I think we would have withstood the barrage. But we simply weren't prepared. We came up so fast that we weren't able to make the adjustment."
(Zind) Dean says he made a key tactical mistake by failing to recognize that he had to make a transition in the voters' minds from political rebel to presidential material.
(Dean) "In order to get voted for President, people have to see you as President. I never really was able to successfully shift gears from the willingness to challenge the establishment, which got us there in the first place, to a mode where people were able to see me as President of the United States. You have to be able to do that or else people are not going to be President of the United States."
(Zind) Despite the intense media attention and the bitter partisanship of some political campaigns, Dean refrained from pointing fingers. He said as difficult as it may be for candidates, the process for selecting a president works pretty well.
(Dean) "And the reason it's not a bad process, as tough as it is, as ugly as it is, if you want to be the head of the free world, then you probably ought to go through a pretty grueling process. As Gary Hart once said to me, no wimps ever get to be President of the United States."
(Zind) The journalists and political consultants on the panel credited Dean's campaign for being the first to effective use the Internet to create a nationwide grassroots political campaign. But they pointed out that the Internet also hurt Dean by continuously recycling and magnifying an event like the Iowa scream until even the mainstream press was forced to give it extensive coverage.
For Vermont Public Radio, I'm Steve Zind.
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Gregg colorfully describes his tours in Japan, Burma, Vietnam, and South Korea. His four years dealing with the Vietnam War illustrate clearly the difficulties of speaking truth to power with sharp-edged encounters with Robert McNamara, Curtis LeMay, and various generals. Gregg worked effectively against torture when encountered in both Vietnam and Korea.
In the White House, Gregg was impressed by Vice President Bush's value as "the rudder on Reagan's sailboat," unseen but imperative. He recounts his travels with Bush to sixty-five countries with both humor and discernment–– Thatcher at the top, Mugabe at the bottom.
Gregg served both as CIA station chief in Seoul, 1973–75, and as U.S. ambassador to Korea, 1989–93. He later made more than fifty trips to Seoul as chairman of The Korea Society. Now, as chairman of the Pacific Century Institute, the former diplomat, once feared and disliked by North Korea, has visited that secretive nation six times, as recently as February 2014. Gregg always stresses dialogue over demonization in dealing with the North Koreans.
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Sprouts Token Pouch Activity April 29!
Jessie (and her mother) from Crafted with Some Crazy will be setting up a sewing station on Saturday, April 29 at the market to help Sprouts members make a token pouch to keep their market money organized!
There is no cost for the pouch activity. Thank you to Jessie for donating the supplies, as well as her time and expertise for this event!!
Sprouts Club starts on Opening Day!
The popular kids club at the market, Sprouts, will be in operation for the entire market season in 2017. Last year was the first year for the kids club, and the program began in June. Thanks to the support of sponsors, the club will start on Opening Day (April 8) for 2017!
Online Pre-Registration will be accepted until Thursday, April 6. Participants not pre-registered will need to sign up at the Sprouts table at the market on Saturdays. The Sprouts registration/check-in table will be open each week from 8 a.m. until 12 noon.
· Parents register children to be members of the Sprouts Kids Club.
· Children check-in at the Sprouts table each market day and receive $2 in sprout tokens, which can only be used for fresh produce from a market vendor. Tokens can be spent immediately, saved for a larger purchase, or combined with siblings' or friends' tokens for a larger purchase.
· Purchases can only be made by the Sprout member. Adults cannot make purchases with the tokens and may not pick up tokens from the Sprouts table for children.
Sprouts will still earn two tokens (eligible for the purchase of fresh fruits and veggies only) each week when they check in. On each 5th visit, club members will now earn two bonus tokens, which can be used on any item at the market!
Another part of the program we are excited to expand is the education component. We will have presentations and hands-on activities scheduled throughout the year on market days as well. You can stay up-to-date on the special events at the market by watching the Market website and Facebook page. Information will also be sent in the Farmers' Market e-newsletter.
We are always looking for volunteers to help at the registration/check-in table. We need two volunteers for each 2-hour shift at the table. This is a great way for local youth to get their community service hours for scholarship/school requirements! If you are interested in volunteering at the market, please check out our available time slots and sign up!
If you have questions about the Sprouts Club, including volunteer and sponsorship opportunities, please contact Amanda at the Chamber Office (636-239-2715 x106).
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The blog has been silent all fall, but I have been anything but inattentive. I have been working on a holiday surprise for all my loyal readers & knitters.
The twelve days in the song are the twelve days starting Christmas day, or in some traditions, the day after Christmas (December 26) (Boxing Day or St. Stephen's Day, as being the feast day of St. Stephen Protomartyr) to the day before Epiphany, or the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6, or the Twelfth Day). Twelfth Night is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "the evening of the fifth of January, preceding Twelfth Day, the eve of the Epiphany, formerly the last day of the Christmas festivities and observed as a time of merrymaking."
Although the specific origins of the chant are not known, it possibly began as a Twelfth Night "memories-and-forfeits" game, in which a leader recited a verse, each of the players repeated the verse, the leader added another verse, and so on until one of the players made a mistake, with the player who erred having to pay a penalty, such as offering up a kiss or a sweet. This is how the game is offered up in its earliest known printed version, in the children's book Mirth without Mischief (c. 1780) published in England, which 100 years later Lady Gomme, a collector of folktales and rhymes, described playing every Twelfth Day night before eating mince pies and twelfth cake.
The song apparently is older than the printed version, though it is not known how much older. Textual evidence indicates that the song was not English in origin, but French, though it is considered an English carol. Three French versions of the song are known. If the "partridge in a pear tree" of the English version is to be taken literally, then it seems as if the chant comes from France, since the red-legged (or French) partridge, which perches in trees more frequently than the native common (or grey) partridge, was not successfully introduced into England until about 1770.
The song was imported to the United States in 1910 by Emily Brown, of the Downer Teacher's College in Milwaukee, WI, who had encountered the song in an English music store sometime before. She needed the song for the school Christmas pageant, an annual extravaganza that she was known for organizing.
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So check back every day until Christmas for a little holiday cheer and fun, from me to you!
Today's special is a free pattern.
You can wear it in a long loop, or wound twice around the neck for a cozier feel.
The pattern is available for free download on the sidebar or on Ravelry.
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Peyote!
By Keva Hoffmann Boardman – "Peyote!" in muffled but gleeful voice shouted the Comanche medicine man. Two other Indians sprang from the sedan which had been parked on the shoulder of the road. Carefully the two crawled through the barbed-wire fence and hurried to where their fellow aborigine was standing.
Famous in a small town
By Tara V. Kohlenberg — In small town America, getting your name, or better yet your picture, in the paper is one way to ensure your fame. "Famous in a Small Town," words by Miranda Lambert in a chart-topping country song, touts the little things that bring fame, including cheering
Many trails converge in New Braunfels
By Myra Lee Adams Goff The Greater New Braunfels Chamber of Commerce sponsors an amazing brochure titled "New Braunfels, Texas Culture & Heritage (Kultur und Erbe)." The brochure invites you to take a peek inside with the words "Open to see trails & explorations involving New Braunfels, Texas." Just inside
The good old days?
By Myra Lee Adams Goff How easy we ladies have life today compared to the old days in the 1850s. "You've come a long way, baby" is the understatement of our time. A woman's role in society has changed dramatically due to not only modern technology but changes that occurred
Agricultural Society of Fischer's Store history sometimes violent
By Myra Lee Adams Goff Rural communities in Comal County outside of the City of New Braunfels formed mostly around land for farming and ranching. Stores, post offices and dance halls sprang up around these farming communities. Around Comal County roughly 30 of these small settlements developed. One of those
Slumber Falls on the Guadalupe
By Myra Lee Adams Goff We know a lot about our Comal River but not so much about the Guadalupe. Did you know that the Guadalupe is 226 miles longer than the Comal? It's a tumultuous and erratic river. The Comal, on a flooding rampage, affects New Braunfels; the Guadalupe,
New businesses develop during Reconstruction
By Myra Lee Adams Goff Before we say goodbye to the Civil War, let's look at what the period immediately after the war known as Reconstruction, brought to Comal County. When the war was over in 1865, many did not return home, putting a terrible hardship on the families. Many
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Belfast to host Routes Europe conference in 2017 which will boost economy by £1.3 m
The three-day conference will attract more than 1,200 European and international delegates
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Belfast is set to host a major three day air routes conference which will give the economy a £1.3m boost.
Routes Europe is a major international event bringing together decision makers from airlines, airports and tourism authorities to negotiate and build relationships that will shape the world's future air route networks.
In 2017, the three day conference will be hosted in Belfast, Enterprise, Trade and Investment Minister Arlene Foster announced today.
It will bring an economic benefit to Belfast worth over £1.3 million as more than 1,200 European and international delegates flood into the city.
"Hosting Routes Europe in Belfast in 2017 provides us with a rare opportunity to bring influential decision makers into the region and showcase Northern Ireland's tourism and business potential," said Mrs Foster.
"This conference has the potential to accelerate route development for Belfast and Northern Ireland, with previous hosts of Routes Europe confirming up to six new routes after hosting the event. This will benefit business, tourism and the aerospace sectors.
"The three-day conference will attract more than 1,200 European and international delegates bringing an economic benefit to Belfast worth over £1.3 million. Longer term benefits will come from the extensive international PR coverage for Belfast and Northern Ireland that it will generate, which will enhance our profile as a tourism destination and as a location for hosting large-scale international events.
"The winning bid was prepared by a partnership led by Invest Northern Ireland and Visit Belfast, supported by tourism organisations and our two main airports. It is an excellent example of the power of organisations working together for the good of Northern Ireland."
Gerard Brown, Head of Future Hosting, Routes UBM EMEA added: "We are delighted to announce that Belfast will be our host city for the 12th Routes Europe in 2017. Delegates will be exposed to the business and tourism opportunities that exist in Northern Ireland and our hosts will have the opportunity to showcase the unprecedented £300m tourism infrastructure investment of recent years to the Routes community.
"To have our audience of over 1,200 of the European aviation industry's most senior decision makers attend Routes Europe 2017 in Belfast will help to deliver on the ambitious air service targets within Northern Ireland's economic growth strategy. Belfast has shown that it can deliver on world-class events and the Belfast partners demonstrated a highly unified and aligned approach in their bid to host the event. We look forward to working with them towards Routes Europe 2017 and are confident that our delegates will enjoy the unique and genuinely warm hospitality for which the city is renowned."
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How ProEst helped estimators transition from Excel to the cloud
Launched in 1991, Cincinnati-based Oswald Company provides construction, development and design-build services for corporate, commercial, healthcare, senior care and institutional clients throughout Ohio and surrounding areas. With an employee base of 45 and goals for higher annual revenue, the company prioritizes process efficiency and waste reduction, and employs a number of Lean-inspired tools and technologies throughout the lifecycle of their building projects. Revenues are projected to reach $110M within the next three years.
As a mid-size company that maintains a 4-6 member pre-construction team, Oswald Company was eager to make a change to their estimating and pre-construction management platform—improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their in-house estimating activities. While they ultimately selected ProCore as their project management solution, estimators were still relying on Excel spreadsheets as their primary estimating tool. The result was a lack of consistency that produced inefficient reporting and delayed results.
Transitioning From Excel:
Bryan Riehle, Director of Preconstruction for Oswald, was well aware of the need for an improved estimating solution. "The largest problem with Excel was its lack of consistency," he said. Over the course of 6 months, Riehle and the estimating team evaluated seven estimating products that integrated with their Procore management solution, and from there, narrowed it down to two. Ultimately, ProEst was chosen for its flexibility and reasonable cost. An in-house "soft" implementation of ProEst followed toward the end of 2017 and the first part of 2018, at which point the company transitioned away from Excel almost entirely, using ProEst for the majority of their estimates. For Riehle and his team, the impact was immediate—and game-changing. "It was a completely different way of setting up projects," he said.
"The integration of Procore and ProEst has helped us eliminate a lot of the double, triple and quadruple entries of costs between platforms."
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Riehle was similarly impressed with the ProEst implementation and training process, which, he said, was smooth and trouble-free. Multiple training sessions, conducted live at the company's offices, helped ensure that his estimators were fully aware of ProEst features and functions and felt comfortable with the platform as a whole. He also has high praise for the ProEst technical team. "With any software, there are going to be glitches or issues that arise," he said. "ProEst Customer Service would give me a call in less than 24 hours and say, this is what we're experiencing, it's in the queue, or we fixed the problem."
"With ProEst, we know that when we enter a number or make a change, that the bottom dollar will always be accurate."
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Most notable, says Riehle, is how much time is saved through ProEst and ProCore integration. "It's not an hour, it's not two hours, it's not a multi-day process," he said. "It's literally within seconds of sending data from ProEst to ProCore that they can start using that data in their system." And because the platform is cloud-based, data is accessible to anyone, from anywhere, so informed decisions can be made "on the fly" without unnecessary bottlenecks or delays. The bottom line for Riehle? The new-found confidence he has in the accuracy, efficiency, and competitiveness of the company's estimates. "If you compare us now to where we were five years ago, we're doing a lot more volume," he said. "We've grown exponentially." With a forecasted growth of 20-25% by 2025, Oswald Company found the perfect partnership—at the perfect time—with ProEst.
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Q: Magento show empty grouped product I want tot display the grouped products in magento(version 1.9.1.1) even if they don't have a active simple product attached to them.
It's possible for me to view the grouped product on the frontend if i visit the product by using the direct url, but when I use the search form or check the category page I don't see the product.
If I activate the simple product that is associated to the grouped product the grouped product does appears in the category page and search form.
Thanks in advance!

A: This is due to a bug in Magento's grouped product price indexer (Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Product_Indexer_Price_Grouped).
The indexing process only takes into account grouped products that have simple products associated, see Mage_Catalog_Model_Resource_Product_Indexer_Price_Grouped Line 118:
if (!is_null($entityIds)) {
    $select->where('l.product_id IN(?)', $entityIds);
}

This needs to be changed to
if (!is_null($entityIds)) {
    $select->where('e.entity_id IN(?)', $entityIds);
}

to make it work. Also, the mass indexing of product prices (via admin interface or via shell) fixes the problem because the reindexAll() function of the named class does not limit to grouped products that have associated simple products either.
Please note that you shouldn't make those changes within the core file but overwrite the class instead.
The issue has also been reported to Magento.


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