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Many Black Churches Miss Opportunities To Discuss HIV/AIDS
By Andrew Belonsky August 19, 2008 at 2:08pm · 11 comments
Contrary to what some believe, all black opinion is not informed by what is discussed in houses of worship and barber shops.
However, it would be foolish to deny that black churches, especially in the south, yield a lot of political and social power.
That power could be used to help fight HIV and AIDS in the black community, but, by many accounts, the church is not doing its job in that arena.
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To read the rest of this article, we are taken to another site, Stereohyped which has the e-mail address of [email protected]. Really? Snitch? Makes you wonder who is profiting off this bombardment of racial and religious postings? I never click on the Advertisers either.
August 19, 2008 at 3:08pm
When African American churches decide they love their daughters and son MORE than they hate queers, then they'll give their kids the BEST scientific information in reducing this pandemic. QUIT wishing and hoping your kids will miracuously do something their grandparents and parents NEVER did, abstain from sex until marriage.
CHURCHILL-Y
"the church is not doing its job in that arena"
Ain't that the truth they rather spend their time spewing hatred against us and their money paying for the defense of homophobic homicidal thugs such as those in the post entitled:
""Bloods" Members Murdered Gay Mate, Say Baltimore Police"
Praise the lawd and the black hypocrisy,(now do a back flip in the air and throw yourself trembling into the floor)Hallelujah!
GoodBuddy
White churches wield a lot of power and influence too. It seems to me you are trying to hold black churches to a different standard. What's the word for that?
White churches care about stopping AIDS spread by heterosexuals in third world countries as a means to raise money from the gullible or to get grants from Bush's "faith based" fraud.
No one cares about gays infected with AIDS, except in our own community.
Once again Churchill-Y says: Praise the lawd and the black hypocrisy
This girl just don't stop.
Whenever anything negative of Blacks comes to Queerty. She is within 1 of the first 10 people who post to the subject!
But Churchill-Y question for you. The post on here where the WHITEguy was sentence to life in prison for his homophobic murder.
reference:http://www.queerty.com/perversion-killer-gets-life-for-gruesome-gay-slay-20080815/
Why didn't you respond to that?
But yet and still you told me how can I see your prejudice???? That's PLAIN AND SIMPLE
It's a murder of a Gay Man from heterosexual who is WHITE…..
Where's your anger girl???? OOPS I said WHITE When it should have been other…
Like I thought it's just HATE and anger from you when it's reported that Blacks do it……PATHETIC
Now back to the issue at hand. There are many Black churches that do have HIV/AIDS Ministries. I am actually supporting one this year in my local AIDS Walk fundraiser.
And we must always remember it's a 2 party fold. While alot of churches IN GENERAL have issues about dealing with homosexuality and AIDS. There are some Black churches doing something about it and credit should be given for that. But the people must seek the help in order to get services provided for them.
BTW,Does the Catholic,Presbyterian, Sothern Baptist Churches have any HIV/AIDS ministries???
And I'm still suspect of Queerty of being subliminally vicious about posting so many BLACK,BLACK,BLACK community issues to a predominately non-Black audience.
Here in the south I'm suspect of all of these "Christians". Usually the best piece of trade can not be found in the bars or on the sites, but in the church. As far as Queerty, I've been closely monitoring ever since the post about the Blacks in CA. being the reason why the marriage ban might pass. Way to divide…
This post and the post about blacks in California did come from Stereohyped, Queerty's sister site. I'm the editor of the blog, which is geared toward a majority-black audience in the same way that Queerty is geared toward a gay audience. It's largely about race and racial topics… hence the racial postings. When I cover anything specifically LGBT-related, albeit from the perspective of a straight black woman, Andrew sometimes highlights the posts verbatim on Queerty. Simple as that. In the marriage-ban post, I was actually supporting the argument that the black community is not exactly cornering the market on homophobia, even though the stereotype is that we are totally anti-gay. It's an unfair and untrue characterization of an entire race of people. I believe you might have understood this if you had read past the introduction. Knowing the tone and general position of Stereohyped would have also helped to clarify the entire thing. The purpose of the two posts was definitely not to divide nor to inspire the "my excuse for hating all blacks is that I'm convinced all blacks hate me" contingent.
"the black community is not exactly cornering the market on homophobia, even though the stereotype is that we are totally anti-gay"
Really Lauren?
Then what do you call the innumerable daily news concerning homophobic and violent/murderous acts committed against us by black people? Or perhaps just like your so called 'gay' black brethren who post here regularly you would like Queerty to overlook such incidents and not blog about them.
That would be a great way to whitewash and undo the so called "unfair and untrue characterization" about blacks in this country.
I'm sure Steven Parrish would've sided with your line of thinking, that is before he got stabbed and stomped to death by his fellow black brothers after they found out "gay" text messages on his phone. He would've probably had a worst more agonizing spiritual and physical death in one of your lovely black churches.
""my excuse for hating all blacks is that I'm convinced all blacks hate me" contingent."
So what type of "contingent" do you expect there to be on the face of such persecution by your people against us? As another poster wrote on the Parrish story, do you people show us any respect and considerations in your houses of worship, organizations in your daily lives? I say most certainly not you don't. Quite the opposite and yet you have the gall of telling us when we make our voices heard against your hatred and vitriol that we are the ones instigating such violence and bigotry!
Wake up Gay people, aligning ourselves and being sympathetic to african Americans has gotten us nothing but their sheer disrespect, disdain and hatred so far what more are you expecting from them in the future? More bullshit that's what.
Once they finish using some of you to get into more powerful positions they'll turn against you and start unabashedly killing us in mass as their Jamaican and continental african brothers do without impunity. Then and only then will some of you see who really was "vile" but sadly it will be too late.
Once again this ignorant excuse for a human being Chittyshitty-Y says:
Really Chittyshitty-Y ,What Gay people align themselves and fight for African Americans? Please tell me an organization who has done such. Because GLAAD, HRC hasn't done SHIT for the Black Gay Community.
So your little 20 something year old ignorant ass needs to just SHUT THE FUCK UP!.
Once again from another post I commented referencing you.
It's OBVIOUS WE SEE YOUR HATE then you try to to flip it back on Blacks like you're really smart.
But another question for you. Why does this same HATE you have regarding us with such issues.
Why you don't question
1.White Evangelicals
2.Southern Baptists
3.Catholics
Simple becuse it's OKAY for you and yours to hate. But OH NO Not them. When it is WRONG for all who hate! UGH!!!!!
You are one IGNORANT,ABHORRENT, AND RABID QUEEN
Not even God could help you!
Apostle Shada Mishe
THE CURE for HIV/AIDS…….AMBUSH
THE IDEA that AMBUSH cures AIDS
is being proven by the more than 400 individuals who have taken a dose of 60 ml three times daily for 21 days. The result is that AMBUSH 'KILLS' the virus by causing the protein envelope to rupture and the viral particles are discarded by the white blood cells. AMBUSH is able to 'KILL' the virus that are 'hiding' in the lymph system by its 'natural radioactive' properties. This process allows the body to 'return to normal health' with a corresponding immunity to that or those strains of the virus.
What is AMBUSH ?
AMBUSH is a radioactive isotope of uranium that is found in the 'palm' plant of which there are more than 3000 species. When ingested, AMBUSH causes the body temperature in the trunk area to rise to about 102 degrees when the individual is sleeping. The preparation takes four hours per batch, which is then given to the individuals for consumption 60 ml three times daily for 21 days. AMBUSH is a herbal preparation in this form but it contains an active ingredient which is a 'NEW' crystalline substance, a drug from the 'palm plant' similarly to ASPIRIN originating from the willow tree bark
After 21 days on AMBUSH, ALL the individuals experienced a decrease in viral load to undetectable, an increase in cd4, increase in RBC, an improvement in general health such as more color to the face, decrease in Buffalo hump, an increase in gluteal muscles, a decrease to having no joint pains whereby individuals can bend to touch their toes, and walk up steps are but a few examples. There is also a dramatic increase in their sexual appetite beginning after the first week of therapy
In any plant concoction such as percolated 'tea', there are 30-40,000 compounds, whi ch would take the scientific community twenty years to isolate one particular ingredient if they knew what they were looking for. The LORD GOD has given me seven steps to isolate the active ingredient, which is soft and metallic in nature and has a carbon- uranium-sulfur-(classified)-phentolamine configuration or structure. This is similar to Federick Kekule and the discovery of the benzene ring where he dreamt the structure.
As an antiviral and 'natural radioactivity' producing agent, AMBUSH is also effective against leukemia, lupus and HPV. Here I am saying that I have 'GIVEN' AMBUSH in the same 'strength' and dosage to patients with leukemia, lupus and HPV. A 35 year old male with HIV found it difficult to impossible to urinate was put on 'green tea' and water while the doctors contemplated prostrate surgery. One of the doctors gave him my number , I sent him a supply of AMBUSH an d he has not been given any more ARV's, since taking AMBUSH 18 months ago, is in 'good' health and has expressed a willingness to be examined by HIV investigators like many others who have taken AMBUSH.
I have sent this 'IDEA' to most HIV research agencies, scientist of the field, universities, hospitals, clinics, politicians and news agencies to which it is REJECTED because the name of THE LORD GOD is mentioned. He has steered me scientifically through the processes such as which plant and how to produce the active ingredient. What are the odds of a Florida Pharmacist picking a plant would contain the CURE for HIV/AIDS ?
I have never charged any of the people for their supply of AMBUSH but a life saving has been spent on the project with NO renumeration from any sources because AMBUSH falls outside the walls of modern medicine and research.
My proposal is that I PROVE that AMBUSH CURES HIV/AIDS by giving it to a number of END-STAGE or DRUG-RESISTANT people and the scientific community watches their recovery. This proposal addresses the problem in that I have already outlaid the results to be obtained.
This IDEA is unconventional in that the scientific community has rejected AMBUSH because I say it is GOD given. Secondly if I wrote it according to certain standards, then it might be peer reviewed. However, THE LORD GOD has also shown me that there are five enzyme systems associated with the virus, reverse transcriptase, protease, fusion and two more of which causes the virus to be AIRBOURNE. This means that without DIVINE intervention mankind and ALL warm- blooded mammals will be extinct in a number of years.
The PROOF of what I am saying is found in scientific papers wherein it is found that when the protease cuts the viral strands, it cuts it at DIFFERENT lengths EVERY time, to which it should always be a valine at the end but is a different amino acid every time. This is why it is IMPOSSIBLE to produce a VACCINE.
Since this is NOT a hypothesis but there are about 400 individuals who have taken AMBUSH, here lies a vast area in which to check, recheck and confirm that AMBUSH CURES AIDS. Let it be mentioned that during the HIV reproductive cycle, reverse transcriptase converts viral RNA into DNA compatible to human genetic materials. Thus the human DNA has been 'hijacked' and since each person has a DIFFERENT DNA, then the new viral copy is unique to that person which shows that each individual has a DIFFERENT STRAIN of the virus. Consider two HIV positive people swapping viral strains and increasing its complexity with multiple partners.
It can also be proposed that they be revisited as proof that the strain or strains that they had were 'killed' at the time of taking AMBUSH considering that a person can catch as many different strains as there are people who are infected by HIV.
I am also willing to work with the scientific community in identifying those individuals who took AMBUSH and wish to be identified with this process notwithstanding that some are stigmatized while others are jubilant,
Once AMBUSH is verified as being able to accomplish that which is aforementioned then the next stage might be the natural and artificial synthesis of the substance.
Finally, if this is accepted or not, believed or not, THE LORD GOD always wins and this is the heavenly truth to which AMBUSH was divinely given to mankind for the CURE of HIV/AIDS and it will be here forever. Apostle Shada Mishe.
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NBA, MLB using data to chase better deals with sportsbooks
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For NBA and MLB executives, a cut of sports betting revenue is pretty much a no-brainer. The wagers wouldn't even exist, they argue, without their teams playing the games, so they should be paid and sportsbooks should be required to use their data to determine the outcomes of bets.
The problem for the leagues has been convincing anyone else in the sports betting world.
They've been rejected by lawmakers in at least 10 states on both payments and the use of official stats, weakening their positions for private deals with sportsbooks beyond the benefits of vast marketing muscle.
But giving casinos a taste of official data this season has given MLB and the NBA new confidence as they attempt to negotiate agreements under deadlines. The newest argument: Pay us up front or give us a cut of what's bet on our games, or lose our data feeds and good luck setting and settling in-game wagers at the speed of sports.
The NBA ended its data services for some sportsbooks during the playoffs, when interest in pro hoops is at its highest. The MLB could follow suit later this season, hoping for new deals with sportsbooks by the All-Star break next month and cutting off anyone else without an agreement.
Gleefully or begrudgingly, some sportsbooks are signing up, less for the logos and more for the data, which they can use for a wide variety of live wagers — a type of betting expected to expand in the coming years as betting shifts toward smartphones and away from physical lounges. In-game bets for baseball, for example, may include which team has a lead after the sixth inning or the total runs in the first five innings.
While neither league nor several sportsbooks would discuss the financial specifics of the agreements with The Associated Press, the NBA is pursuing deals that require sportsbooks to pay either a percentage of handle to the league or a fixed fee.
"The fee that we are charging for that bucket of rights, and again it's not just for the data, it's relative to the size of the operator's business," said Kenny Gersh, MLB's executive vice president of gaming and new business ventures. "So, we are not going to charge somebody who is a small operator the same as somebody who is a large operator."
The fees could be reworked, league officials tell sportsbooks, if the payments ever become enshrined in law. Gersh said the MLB would net the legally required payments against the fees in the private agreements.
Fans can currently place wagers in eight states after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled a year ago that states were free to legalize sports betting, ending Nevada's monopoly. Four more states and the District of Columbia have passed laws for sports wagering but haven't begun taking bets yet.
The ruling last May quickly gave way to leagues chasing a piece of the action, with the gambling industry quickly balking at effort by the leagues to bake a 0.25% cut of all bets into laws.
The commercial agreements have been more successful, tying data with rights to use recognizable logos and trademarks, advertise on league broadcasts and market sports bets without the generic touch seen for years in Las Vegas, where sportsbooks often try to convince gamblers to bet on the "Big Game," the Super Bowl.
FanDuel, a household name in fantasy sports competitions but a relatively new player in the sports betting market, gained access to the NBA's official data, marks and logos after becoming an "authorized gaming operator" of the league. Kip Levin, president and chief operating officer of FanDuel Group, said the data was a key driver of the partnership, citing that more than 50% of the action the company has seen in New Jersey during this NBA season has been in-play betting.
"To do that well, it's really important that you have real-time stats feeds and data feeds that are sort of input into your models that sort of then help you efficiently and effectively price all the in-play odds," Levin said. "So, working in conjunction with the league, being able to get access to their official data feeds, just creates a better end consumer product."
Levin declined to provide financial details of the agreement with the NBA.
The NBA allowed its data distributors to give access to all operators this season while it negotiated deals, but it ended the service to those with which it didn't reach an agreement. MLB is using a similar strategy, hoping to reach deals well ahead of its playoffs in September and October.
"We provided a season-long grace period for other betting operators to have access to official NBA data while we discussed partnership terms," said Scott Kaufman-Ross, NBA senior vice president and head of fantasy and gaming. "While that period is ending — something distributors and operators have known since the start of the season — we remain committed to securing additional sports betting partnerships."
While the commercial agreements are customized to each sportsbook, some longtime operators disapprove of the approach by the leagues and would rather go it on their own. Their viewpoint is that sports betting is already a low-margin business, and revenue specifically from live betting — the only version for which near-real-time, official data is truly useful — is a tiny sliver of the national market. Sportsbooks often set low limits on those wagers or don't offer them at all, and leagues have been asking for a cut of wagers even for bets where their data doesn't make a material difference.
"We respect the leagues; we want to work with the leagues," said Jay Kornegay, vice president of race and sports books operations at the Westgate Las Vegas. "There are marketing deals to be made. When it comes to revenue sharing, we just don't have the room for that. … If we just pay one league, we are in the red. That's how it's so minimal on in-progress betting."
Longtime oddsmakers say sportsbooks in Nevada have been in business for four decades without having to rely on league-licensed data. They also point out that data suppliers are lining up for opportunities to enter the market.
"My database in my brain is just as much or more than the database that they can send out," said Jimmy Vaccaro, who is now the director of sports relations for Rivers Casino Pittsburgh after working in Las Vegas for decades. "People like me have been doing it for their entire life and it always comes out about the same, we hold about the same percentage wise. … We don't need help. What are they going to offer me that I can't already see? We don't need their database that bad."
Some oddsmakers believe in-game betting could end or never flourish in some markets if the leagues continue to push the issue.
The NBA and MLB have offered various reasons for their intentions to profit from the legal betting market. They have argued that they have to take steps to ensure their games are not manipulated and have invested millions in technology needed to track data.
League officials have also said the data is a matter of intellectual property. Courts, however, have disagreed, holding in previous cases that fantasy sports operators weren't required to pay for the use of statistics that are widely known.
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Now it is summer and in this season, kidney failure need to be very strict on their diet. Kidney patients need to be careful in choosing fruits. There are some tips for patients to choose fruits.
Pear is in cold nature. It is easy to cause diarrhea so kidney failure patients need to eat less pear.
Kidney patients need to take less orange to prevent abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Pineapple contains protease. Some patients can have allergy after eating pineapple and suffer from abdominal pain, diarrhea, facial flush and itchy skin, etc. Thus, before eating pineapple, you can cut pineapple into slice and put them into salty water for 20 minutes to break down protease and reduce the risk of allergy.
Patients with heart failure and severe swelling should not eat a lot watery fruits. If you eat lots of watermelon or drink much coconut juice, it can worsen your heart failure and swelling.
Kidney patients can choose low but high quality protein foods like egg white, fish, lean meat, chicken and so on.
3. Take plant oil but there is no restriction of fat.
In daily life, due to different condition, diet is also different. Kidney failure patients need to follow a proper diet plan based on their illness condition.


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Q: Script to run a command at 10 o'clock I would like to know how I could run a script that will run a command on my PC if the time is equal to x. I have heard of the at command and some others but I'm trying to make mine a bit unique.
The problem is when I try my script, when my computer is on and I run it, it checks the hour but if I turn my PC on at x:36 or something, then my refresh will occur at an hour after x but with 36 minutes, advice please!
My script
time="$(date +%H)"
echo $time
if [ $time != "22" ]; then
    sleep 1h
else
    zenity --title="asdf" --text="asdf" --info
fi

A: You don't want to sleep 1 hour, you want to sleep until 2200. With GNU date, you can use
now=$(date +%s)
t=$(date +%s --date 2200)
sleep "$now"
zenity --title="asdf" --text="asdf" --info

A: If you want to run the command at 22:00 only, output and compare both hours and minutes:
time=$(date +%H:%M)
if [ $time != 22:00 ] ; then
    sleep 58
...

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Sun., Jan. 27, 4 p.m. 2013
Local chef Ryan Hidinger, who has played an integral role as a leader in the evolution at Muss & Turner's as well as the conception and infancy of Local Three, has been diagnosed with Stage IV Gallbladder Caner. The good news is Ryan and his wife, Jen, have an incredible assembly of people, called Team Hidi, who have stepped up to support them every step of the way. Support Ryan and his fight with a dinner featuring participating restaurants Abattoir, Floataway Cafe, Bacchanalia, Muss & Turner's, Local Three, and many, many more. There will also be a live auction and entertainment provided by Frank Dux Fighting Academy Orchestra and Yacht Rock Revue.
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In San Antonio, Nation's 7th Largest City, More Than 100K Lack a 9th Grade Education
Lily Casura, Contributor
Public policy grad student, journalist, IWMF grantee, NASW award winner
10/09/2017 04:03 am ET Updated Oct 13, 2017
Lily Casura
San Antonio's impoverished West side has a vibrant mural scene, as depicted on the side of this building and many others.
As San Antonio, the seventh largest city in America, claims its place on the national stage, it will need to address one of its most chronic and persistent issues, the exceptionally low graduation rates of some of its hardest-hit ZIP Codes. Almost 300,000 people — or roughly 20 percent of the population — have not graduated from high school, split almost equally between those who have not passed ninth grade, and those who have spent some time between ninth and twelfth grade, but left before receiving a high school diploma or a GED.
Using a "Hardship Index" on recent U.S. Census Bureau data, according to a formula established by Brookings Institution researchers in the 1970s as a way to compare U.S. cities, four ZIP Codes — two to the east and two to the west of downtown San Antonio emerge as the highest-hardship areas of the city. Of the almost 110,000 people who live in those four ZIP Codes — 78202, 78203, 78207 and 78237 — more than half have not completed ninth grade. In 78207, a ZIP Code historically associated with high hardship, that figure rises to more than one in four residents. (See graph below.)
Can we pause a moment to talk about the implications?
To see figures that high, in 21st century America, is to be profoundly shocked, at almost a cellular level. A modern American city — one of the top 10 in the country — where almost ten percent of the population hasn't graduated from ninth grade?! It's pretty much unthinkable.
"There's a moral imperative to address this," says Matthew Martinez, Ph.D., a Rice University demographer who grew up in San Antonio's urban core. Martinez has studied how San Antonio's areas of chronic hardship have persisted over time, and how their historical "dropout legacy," attached to place, influences dropout rates of students who live in those same neighborhoods today. (Martinez wrote his doctoral thesis in applied demography at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) on this topic, and worked closely with associate professor and department chair Johnelle Sparks, Ph.D., in developing the theory.)
Education researcher and policy advocate Camille Farrington notes that dropout rates are historically higher in Black and Hispanic neighborhoods, and that "urban high schools typically lose about half their minority students prior to graduation." In her book Failing at School: Lessons for Redesigning Urban High Schools, she compared the 68.8 percent national norm for high school graduation in 2007 with the rates for:
Native Americans (51 percent),;
Blacks (54 percent);
Latinos (56 percent);
Whites (77 percent); and
Asians (81 percent).
In predominantly Hispanic San Antonio, across all ZIP Codes, the overall high school graduation rate obscures the dangerously low figures from the highest-hardship areas. (There's also the factor of San Antonio's high concentration of active-duty and veteran-intensive ZIP Codes, which tends to skew those figures higher, since more within have high school diplomas — and in other metrics, stable incomes. Shall we call this "the 'Military City' Effect"?!)
The façade of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, in ZIP Code 78207, on San Antonio's predominantly Hispanic and historically economically depressed Westside.
These low graduation rates harm earning powers. As discussed in a previous article, when compared to the U.S., San Antonio has lower educational attainment at every level; and with that, lower income at every educational level. Over the course of a lifetime, that translates to high school dropouts earning at least a quarter of a million dollars less, on average, than their peers with high school diplomas or, according to Farrington. (Of course, those with less than a ninth grade education are consigned to earn that much less.) Societally, these costs add up to "approximately $192 billion in lost income for every new cohort of 18-year-olds that doesn't complete high school," says Farrington, whose figures are from 2005 and are likely higher today, as a result of inflation.
Add that to the other economic costs of under-education. Limited education has been linked to a broad spectrum of negative outcomes, from difficulty finding employment to poor health, even involvement with the judicial system. An in-depth look at any of these factors, evident from the series of maps of population characteristics about San Antonio, proves this point. In addition, many of the "costs" from low educational attainment are societal as well as individual. Martinez sees this as baked-in residential segregation and income inequality, visible over multiple decades in a geography of poverty attached to place.
How this fits together
We began this series by talking about the need to broaden the so-called "equity lens" that San Antonio has committed to using with its $2.7 billion budget for 2018. Located far away in the Pacific Northwest, with a very different population and based on very different economic realities, Seattle, Washington (population 704,358) went first with the idea of using an equity lens, and San Antonio to a certain degree is following in its steps. But San Antonio is a very different city, and any comparison starts to fall apart immediately. (For example, on ninth grade completion rates, or ninth to twelfth without achieving a diploma, you'd need to scroll all the way down on either graph to get to Seattle's comparatively very healthy rates of 3.2 and 3.4 percent respectively.) The next article in the series, "The Geography of Poverty," introduced the "Hardship Index" as a way to quantify highest-need areas in a city known for having some of the highest income inequality and residential segregation in America — and as a way to anticipate being able to triage limited resource more effectively to areas of need.
But after what amounts to about 800 hours of looking at data and creating hundreds of maps and bar charts comparing populations characteristics by ZIP Code, it's the distressingly low educational attainment rates in the city's highest-hardship areas that concerns me the most.
To get a sense of just how bad those numbers really are — and to see whether anything else might explain them — I took a look at some initially obvious items, like percentage of immigrants and level of language proficiency in the affected areas. Residential mobility, especially past year mobility, is another indicator of problems. But while the results were always "interesting," nothing was as illuminating as simply comparing those rates against the benchmarks of other cities, resulting in the two graphics above, about less than ninth grade, and less than ninth through twelfth grade, completion rates.
The cities included as comparables fell into the three categories:
The rest of the "Top 10 Cities" by population, according to recent Census information;
Other Texas cities, such as El Paso and Corpus Christi, which have also have significant Hispanic populations; and
Just for fun, the list of cities where Southwest Airlines flies, because it's a large and diverse list of cities.
You can see the results above, in the paired graphs about education levels. You can also view a data visualization here on the Southwest cities only, across every level of educational attainment. It's instructive as well, but the other graphics are more powerful regarding the four ZIP Codes' particularly distressed numbers. And the maps regarding citizenship, naturalization, and levels of English language proficiency are here. They weren't as conclusive as they might have been, even though structural poverty and institutional racism are a thing.
Educators talk about a "ninth grade bubble," which is outside the scope of this article to communicate fully, but it has to do with how ninth grade ranks swell with attendees, far more percentage-wise than grades on either side of them, and for a reason. Ninth grade is a pivotal time for students, a "make it or break it" year where class credits needed to graduate start accumulating for the first time, and even good students can find it hard to make the transition to what is being expected. (Not to mention, overlap with puberty, peer pressure, school changing, and many other significant factors.)
Ironically, says Farrington, "the '9th grade bubble' phenomenon is seen across all races but appears particularly pronounced for African Americans and Latinos," coinciding with racial and ethnic populations present in San Antonio's four most distressed ZIP Codes. "Minority students were significantly more likely than White students to be retained in 9th grade and/or to be stuck there for multiple years," she says. (The goal isn't simply keeping ninth graders in school, but setting them up for success earlier on — and during. But again, that's outside the scope of this article.)
But back to our story
Farrington talks directly about disadvantaged neighborhoods as indicators of poor educational success when she writes:
"The U.S. Department of Education (DoE) estimates that students in the lowest-income families (of six income brackets) drop out of high school at six times the rate of students in the highest-income families," according to DoE's own figures. "Students from low-income families also tend to be concentrated in high-poverty districts," she adds.
And Martinez, who worked with UTSA's Sparks to develop the concept of "dropout legacy," sees something similar:
"Neighborhoods initially lacking adequate resources to educate their residents then become self-(re)producing systems of disadvantage," he warns. (I learned about Martinez's work from University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)'s Richard Harris, Ph.D., a sociologist and professor of social work, who provided statistical support for the landmark court case, Edgewood ISD v. Kirby, which challenged unequal school funding.)
When it comes to just San Antonio, Martinez has studied how persistently high dropout rates serve as "the strongest indicator of poverty across time," all else being equal, in models using decennial Census data from 1980 to 2010. He further sees approximately the same neighborhoods by the Hardship Index — the immediate Westside and Eastside areas — as being more strongly correlated to poverty on a census tract-basis than all other census tracts in Bexar County, where San Antonio is located — areas which historically have also had the highest poverty rates in the city. In addition, his research has shown that poverty increases over time in Bexar County neighborhoods.
Martinez sees the connection to residential segregation and the lack of a unified school district, which further fragments attempts to address dropout rates in a holistic, integrated way. While the idea of a unified school district for San Antonio — most of its counterpart big cities function on this model — has been floated in the past and shot down for short-term economic reasons, Martinez expands the lens to include future social costs for not addressing the issue. But we're getting pretty far afield. . . The most important finding of his work to date is that neighborhoods carry a legacy of place, for our purposes a dropout legacy, that independently reaches back from the past and affects current educational outcomes of students who live in those neighborhoods today, even when controlling for other variables.
Another vibrant and beautiful Westside mural.
In Houston, Martinez is part of an independent educational research consortium, planning for that city's growing future. It's likely that San Antonio needs to establish one as well, on a par with the new housing commission that began meeting October 4th. As San Antonio strives to cope with anticipated surge in need for housing as the population dramatically increases over the next few decades, it seems appropriate to make an equal effort addressing low educational attainment in the city's most depressed areas as well.
Additionally, from a humanitarian perspective, it seems important to learn who the almost 150,000 people are in San Antonio who lack a ninth grade education(!) — or the more than 27,000 in just the four highest-hardship ZIP Codes alone. Who are they, how are they getting by (if in fact they are), what sort of low-wage service industry jobs have they been absorbed into, if they're able to find work at all. What sort of challenges do they experience, and how are they able to overcome given how few resources are available? These are perfect questions for social workers to ask, or anyone else trained in culturally competent interviewing.
A warning, or an encouragement, to appreciate Westside murals, painted by residents for residents.
Concentrated disadvantage, such as we talked about in the first article, has repercussions in people's lives, creating barriers to success across multiple domains. Farrington describes it this way:
Dropouts earn less money both because they earn lower wages and because they are more likely to be unemployed. Consequently, dropouts are much more likely than high school graduates to depend on public assistance to survive. . . . Perhaps because they have a harder time earning a living in the legitimate economy, dropouts are also much more likely to commit crimes and be incarcerated than their peers who complete high school. . . . These outcomes hold true even when researchers control for factors such as race, prior academic achievement, and family socio-economic status.
They're also less likely to vote, their life expectancies are shorter, and of course there's a good chance that negative consequences are passed on to their children, who also grow up suffering from generationally entrenched disadvantage, according to Farrington and others.
The Adverse Childhood Experiences study (ACEs), often described as "the largest public health study you've never heard of," with a measurement instrument available in English and translated into Spanish, reinforces this concept by quantifying the impact that abuse, neglect and household dysfunction in childhood have over the course of the lifespan, including long-term effects on physical and mental health. In areas of the city characterized by chronic and persistent poverty and hardship, ACE scores are having an impact on residents, whether we recognize it or not.
And what about literacy? How is the illiteracy rate connected to low educational attainment, since reading is so crucial to educational performance? San Antonio's illiteracy rate is second highest in the state at 25 percent, according to the San Antonio Public Library, and 71st on a list of 77 major U.S. cities, according to one national study conducted in 2014. (An earlier article in the series showed how the distribution in San Antonio of those who graduate from high school and those who achieve bachelor's and graduate degrees mirrors the distribution of third graders who are able to read at or above their grade level. See below.)
Lily Casura / Compilation
Third grade reading levels vs. educational levels high (green) and low (red) in San Antonio, via P16+ Council of Greater Bexar County (3rd grade) and U.S. Census 2010/American Community Survey 2015 data (educational levels).
It feels like there is so much more to explore about who San Antonio's least educated citizens are, how they got that way, and why there are several hundred thousand of them in a city of 1.4 million. Doubtless no glib or easy answers will emerge, like the prejudicial, pejorative narratives that would seek to assume that "they're all immigrants" (they're not) or that "they don't speak English" (many do).
But number one, let's stop ignoring that this problem exists. Let's start talking about it and what we can do to improve it. And number two, let's make sure we enlarge the scope of the equity lens to include education, not just housing and infrastructure — because all residents deserve to be part of San Antonio's brighter future.
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Naomi Behrens, 18, of Winsted has experienced the flavor of 35 different countries in two weeks.
Behrens spent about two weeks recently as a volunteer on the Anastasis, one of three vessels known as the Mercy Ships.
The Mercy Ships operate hospital ships that travel to developing nations, bringing free medical care, and the Gospel, to the poor. It has been in existence since 1978.
The fleet of three Mercy Ships serves all people without regard to race, gender, or religion.
• and Good News (the nature and character of a loving God) is proclaimed among the poor.
There are people speaking different languages all over the ship, representing 35 different countries.
"All have to know some English or it would be chaos," Behrens said.
Behrens initially learned of the Mercy Ships about 10 years ago when she picked up a brochure about the organization along with her parents, Dave and Mary Behrens, from Jimmy's Pizza in Winsted.
She more recently learned of the charity when a nurse who volunteered on the Mercy Ships came to the school to speak about Mercy Ships and conveyed that more volunteers were needed. The nurse was also a former student of Dave Behren's, who teaches at Lighthouse Ministries.
Behrens, a senior at Lighthouse Ministries at the time, decided to become a volunteer.
Good Shepherd Evangelical Free Church of Cokato, where Behrens is a member, financially supported her with half of the money she needed to work for Mercy Ships.
Behrens served as part of the crew service, which cleaned the ship daily, which was no small task.
Nine people on her crew – representing the United States, Europe, Africa, and Korea – cleaned 13 different levels and eight different decks.
Along with the crew services, there are about 10 different departments responsible for running the ship.
Engineers, mechanics, carpenters, cooks, deck hands, computer specialists, and personnel relations are among the volunteers needed to make the ships run smoothly, Behrens said.
Presently Mercy Ships has three different ships running: the Anastasis, which goes to Africa and usually to Sierra Leone, the poorest country in the world, and eventually to Asia; the Caribbean, which travels to Honduras and other islands in the Caribbean; and the Africa, which is presently being refurbished in England for $1.2 million, and will be back in action in 2005, Behrens stated.
"The Anastasis was built in 1953. It was in a ship graveyard when it was bought in 1978 and refurbished as a Mercy Ship," Behrens explained.
"I initially applied to be on the Caribbean, but there were no openings, so my application was sent to the Anastasis," Behrens said.
Volunteers have to pay crew fees to defray the costs of living on the ship.
Short-term volunteers can participate from two weeks to a full year with Mercy Ships, while others may choose to serve in a career capacity.
Behrens knew of some people that have been volunteering for 18 years. Crew fees are less if the volunteer signs up for more than one year.
"I had to pay $115 monthly, but crew fees have recently almost doubled," Behrens said.
Besides crew fees, companies, hospitals, businesses, and individuals provide donations to run the ships, Behrens stated.
"It's very expensive to be on sea. It's pretty much a house on water. Satellite costs $12,000, and it's expensive to make telephone calls," Behrens said.
There is a laundry room, kitchen, Internet café with more than 100 computers on ship, three operating rooms, a dental room, a hospital ward that holds at least 30 people, and an intensive care room, Behrens explained.
"The medical part is actually a small part considering everything that goes on behind the curtains," Behrens said.
Behrens was part of the PR, public relations outreach phase, which lasts about three months out of the year.
During this phase, the volunteers raise support including food, medicine, and money.
"I went alone, got on ship and arrived in Liverpool, England, where it docked for two weeks to raise support," Behrens said.
Behrens explained that the ships dock at different cities where tours and dinners are given to get support. About 1,100 people toured the Anastasis while Behrens was on board.
"Even though I was on a ship for two weeks, we were never at sea," Behrens said.
The outreach phase occurs during the other nine months. During this phase, the ships are docked and approximately one time weekly people and their medical conditions are screened to determine which people can be treated.
At a screening, there may be more than 3,000 people waiting in line to get free medical care according to Behrens.
"Word travels like wild fire when the Mercy Ship docks," she said.
"A little boy had a massive facial tumor, and it was too big and too advanced for the doctor to do anything about," Behrens said.
After the screening, appointments are scheduled, and patients are treated. There are doctors, nurses, medical technicians, dentists, hygienists, eye doctors, and dental technicians who work with patients.
Some medical operations that are performed include cleft lip and palate surgery, cataract removal, straightening of crossed eyes, and orthopedic and facial reconstruction. Dental treatments are also performed. Medical procedures available are limited to the equipment available onboard.
"They see a lot of medical issues that we wouldn't see in the United States because these conditions are taken care of at earlier stages," said Behrens.
There are more than 850 career staff and crew, and more than 1,600 short-term volunteers on Mercy Ships each year, providing service to people in 95 ports in 53 developing nations.
More than 800 surgeries are performed on an outreach phase.
Mercy Ships has completed close to 350 construction and agriculture projects including schools, clinics, orphanages and water wells, as well.
Gospel outreach is also a part of the Mercy Ships' purpose. When the ships dock, different teams go out and do outreaches on land, such as vacation Bible School, Behrens said.
"Everyone who is taken care of medically also hears the Gospel. The medical part comes first and everything else follows. The Gospel is shared through treating patients," Behrens said.
"There was one chaplin onboard from Nigeria and one from the United States," Behrens said.
"Christ is the center. You have to be a Christian to be a volunteer on the ships. You have to give a testimony to be a Christian on your application," Behrens explained.
"You don't have to be a great evangelist to help. You don't have to have your Bible memorized. The love of Christ shows through your actions. Christ is shown though life-changing operations," Behrens said.
"It's not a big political debate between countries, it's bringing people together," Behrens stressed.
Behrens would like to go back to Africa in the future.


ISLAMABAD: AGAHI, Pakistan's leading institution for futures research and the country partner of the Millennium-Project, a Global Futures Studies, research participatory think-tank and the co-founders of Pakistan's premier annual Journalism AGAHI Awards, created a scholarship for Journalism Excellence in Pakistan. The scholarship has been created in collaboration with the Centre for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) at the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), Karachi.
Puruesh Chaudhary, Founder & President of AGAHI stated "Pakistan has one of the largest youth populations in the world, and they are the future of the country; it is vital that we invest in them by facilitating them in gaining meaningful skills that will help them prosper". She further said, "We hope this industry-academia partnership would improve the state of journalism and supports the vision of AGAHI in shaping the future of journalism in Pakistan and beyond." The joint scholarship will support a top scholar for two years of the Master's in Journalism program who will be called the AGAHI Scholar at CEJ.
The Centre for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) is an initiative for the professional development, training and networking of Pakistani journalists and media professionals. The Centre is closely linked with the Pakistani news media industry and works under an advisory board comprising of some of Pakistan's most prominent and experienced editors and media professionals. Independent journalists and media professionals are also invited to participate. The CEJ actively hosts talks and panel discussions that are free and open to the journalism community.
AGAHI is a not-for-profit organization established in Islamabad in 2011 under the Society Registration Act 1860. Its primary function is to create non-paid communication strategies, content intelligence structures, development collaterals and tools for diverse sectors and organizations. AGAHI encourages and advises individuals and institutions in pursuing and supporting initiatives to improve the state of development in Pakistan. It works on developmental frameworks facilitating information and knowledge sharing platforms on understanding challenges in global perspective. Its research work mainly focuses on national and international security, ICT, competitiveness, human security, and governance. AGAHI in association with several leading national and international partners focuses on creating shared spaces for interactive learning, collaborative thinking, and knowledge sharing. It is at the forefront of devising foresight research and future scenarios work in Pakistan. AGAHI works with highly motivated and qualified professionals who have substantial experience in learning and leadership development.


London, 24 April 2002. The average British person is able to name just three continents of the world and nearly a third of us (32%) cannot name even one, reveals a UK survey released today by online travel service Opodo.* With only 15% of us able to name all seven continents the survey conducted by independent research organisation ICM, would suggest that British geographical knowledge is somewhat limited.
Jenny Taylor, UK country manager at Opodo, comments,"The results are surprising considering that many people in the UK now travel more than 2 or 3 times a year. However we do know from our site that around 90% of visitors focus on the top 10% of destinations. People like to stick with firm favourites such as New York, Paris and Amsterdam and probably don't even consider which continent they are visiting.
However at Opodo part of our philosophy is to open up a new world of possibilities for our customers. Because we are able to offer such low fares, destinations that were once seen as too remote or too expensive are now really within most holiday budgets. By combining these great fares with inspirational travel information we are seeing places like Penang and Mauritius becoming as popular as the best-known Caribbean destinations.
In the survey, the most frequently cited continent with 58% of respondents was Asia. Europe was a close second with 56% and third most named continent was North America with 50%. The least known continent was Antartica which was mentioned by only 26% of respondents.
Opodo.co.uk is the new online travel service that launched in January in the UK offering fares that are cheaper than the UK average online fare for 85% of top destinations from the UK**. Opodo launched its first site in Germany in December last year and has just launched its 3rd site in France on 17th April.
including interactive maps, guides and daily weather updates - all on an easy to view and use site - covering more than 80 per cent available capacity in every market.


MONTICELLO, AR (January 16, 2017) -– SeaArk Boats is thrilled to announce the opening of registration for the 7th Annual SeaArk Boats Owners Invitational Catfish Tournament. SeaArk will officially begin accepting entries at 5:00pm CST on January 16th. Teams may download the entry form here.
This year's tournament will be held April 21st-22nd, on Lake Wheeler, Ingalls Harbor, in Decatur, AL. Due to the popularity of catfishing in the area, this will be the third year Lake Wheeler has been chosen to host this event.
Teams will start arriving throughout the week prior to begin pre-fishing and mark their targeted locations. On Friday teams will check-in at the mandatory Captain's Dinner where they will be given the final rules and any pertinent information. The tournament will kick off Saturday with livewell checks at 4:30am followed by an organized blast off at 6:30am. Teams will fish all day with the final weigh-in at 3:30pm.
SeaArk National Sales Manager Chris Yaney stated, "Our Owners Invitational is unique as it's the only manufacturer hosted catfishing tournament, and more importantly, it's the only tournament with a SeaArk ProCat 200 up for grabs!" "Teams only need to catch and check-in one legal catfish to be entered into the drawing for a chance at taking home a new ProCat 200," Yaney added.
The tournament originated as a way to show appreciation to our loyal customers and their response has been incredible as participation has steadily increased throughout the years. There's no better way to celebrate our owners than to give away nearly $40,000 in cash and prizes.


Red Cow's sister restaurant offers pizza, pasta and oysters in the North Loop.
Red Cow restaurateur Luke Shimp has opened his next concept, an upscale pizza restaurant and bar dubbed Red Rabbit, which joins his burger restaurant in the North Loop.
Former Parella chef Todd Macdonald, who left the shuttered Uptown restaurant to work for Shimp, leads the Italian-focused Red Rabbit, located in a 116-year-old building that was last home to an auto repair shop at Washington & 2nd. The concept, which opened right before the holidays, also features a vast cocktail program from Red Cow mixologist Ian Lowther.
Macdonald's lunch and dinner menus feature a handful of scratch pizzas ($9-$13), fresh and dried pasta dishes ($13-$15) and oysters, which come fresh, wood-grilled or paired with wine. A small selection of sandwiches, shareable appetizers, salads ("rabbit food") and wood-grilled items round out Red Rabbit's offerings.
Shimp told The Journal in December that he plans to add brunch about six months or so after opening the restaurant.
In the bar, Lowther offers a literal book of cocktails, spirits and wine. The house cocktails ($9-$11) cover a lot of ground, from the Drunken Latte ($10) with rye whiskey, amaro, espresso, steamed milk and coconut whip cream, to the Zen and Now ($9), a tap nitro cocktail with match-infused vodka with lemon, honey and mint flavors. There's also a classic cocktail menu with a French 75, Daiquiri and more, in addition to selections of aperitifs, spirits and a few dozen wines by the glass.
"I think this will start a new conversation about [Lowther] and his cocktail program even if he's done it at Red Cow," Shimp said.
The restaurant seats about 125 and will have an approximately 70-seat patio in the back called The Greenhouse — named because it will resemble a greenhouse. Like Red Cow, which now has three locations, Red Rabbit will likely grow beyond the flagship North Loop restaurant. Shimp recently announced that the fourth Red Cow will occupy Uptown's longstanding Green Mill space this summer. Red Cow also has two stands at Target Field.
Red Rabbit, located at 201 N. Washington Ave., is open for lunch daily from 11 a.m.–3 p.m. and dinner from 3 p.m.–midnight. The bar closes at 1 a.m. Red Rabbit's happy hours are from 3 p.m.–6 p.m. and 10 p.m.–close.