Few others understand Illinois State Government as well as Donne Trotter, a veteran of the General Assembly for over two decades.
Born in the southern Illinois town of Cairo, Trotter was raised in Chicago where he has lived throughout his entire life. He attended the University of Arizona and Chicago State University where he earned an undergraduate degree in History and Political Science. Trotter also attended Loyola University School of Law in Chicago where he earned his Masters of Jurisprudence in Health & Policy.
Trotter was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1992 after spending two terms in the House of Representatives. Senator Trotter is also one of the Democratic caucus' leading experts in state budgeting. As chairman of the Senate Appropriations I committee, he has worked to reduce unnecessary spending, encouraged streamlining of state services and earned a reputation for evenhandedness in difficult negotiating circumstances.
As one of the longest serving legislators in Springfield, Trotter has built commendable record on health care and public health issues. He was one of the key leaders in helping to create the state's KidCare program, which is designed to provide health insurance for low-income children. Additionally, he has been a tireless advocate for funding critical health care investments including the FamilyCare program, which provides medical coverage insurance to the parents of children enrolled in KidCare.
In an effort to combat the spread of deadly diseases, he authored initiatives permitting adults to purchase sterile syringes from pharmacies without a prescription. He has passed legislation that allows an individual to file a petition asking for his/her personal police records to be sealed, after which no one would have access to the records except law enforcement agencies, giving individuals a second chance at contributing to their community.
In 2001, Senator Trotter sponsored and passed the law that created the Abandoned Newborn Infant Protection Act. The legislation provides that birth parents may legally leave a newborn at a hospital, fire station or emergency medical facility. If neither child abuse nor neglect is suspected, no questions will be asked.
In order to help Illinois' elderly pay for long-term health care, Senator Trotter has advocated a Elder Care Savings Bond program that would be similar to the state's pre-paid college savings program, allowing Illinois residents to pay into a fund to avoid higher nursing home and other long-term health care costs in the future. He also has co-sponsored legislation to protect seniors and the developmentally disabled who rely on assisted living arrangements. Under Trotter's proposal, the Illinois Department of Public Health would license assisted living and shared housing facilities to better protect consumers of these services.
Senator Trotter introduced legislation creating a prostate-screening program within the Illinois Department of Public Health. Noting that African-American men have a higher risk of developing prostate cancer, he led the effort to create an income tax check-off to fund research aimed at finding a cure for prostate cancer, an awareness program on the dangers and importance of early detection.
The Senator and his wife, Rose, have four children.


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Teams face uphill battle for state berth
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DAVENPORT—If either NE2B softball team from Lincoln County is going to make a state tournament run, it will take a string of upsets and players across the board to step up.
Reardan enters the NE2B district tournament as the No. 7 seed, while Davenport will have to win a pigtail game for an opportunity at the league's top seed.
Davenport finished last in the league with a league record of 2-12 and an overall record of 3-13 after splitting a pair of games with Lind-Ritzville/Sprague on Senior Night Tuesday, May 10.
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Q: How do I prevent video buffering on client device when delivered from IIS7 Background:
a. Running IIS7 on Windows 7 (MIME Type set up for mp4 as video/mp4)
b. Using Premier Pro I have exported a short video as H.264 with YouTube Preset 1280 X 720, 29.97fps
c. Resulting MP4 file is hosted on my IIS Server as A.mp4
d. I upload A.mp4 to YouTube; once processed, I then download both a medium quality and high quality version back and store it on the same IIS Server as Med.mp4 and High.mp4
e. Accessing the three videos via PC (Chrome), and two Android devices (Samsung Galaxy SII, and Samsung Note 8) A.mp4 consistently stalls during playback (I assume buffering) on all three devices whilst no such stalling occurs on Med.mp4 and High.mp4.
f. A.mp4 and High.mp4 comprise the following:
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Can anyone advise what it is I am missing here? The files A.mp4 and High.mp4 seem to be identical in format and encoding and yet A.mp4 keeps stalling on all client test devices.
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The Devonshire Dock Hall shipbuilding complex, which belongs to the British defence giant BAE Systems, is home to the manufacturing facilities of the Astute-class nuclear-powered submarine.
BAE Systems has released a statement saying that "nothing suspicious was found" at their Devonshire facility "following an extensive sweep" of the facility. The company said the decision to evacuate the facility was "purely precautionary," and based on employee safety being the company's "first priority."
— Lucy Fisher (@LOS_Fisher) 10 април 2019 г.
Earlier Wednesday, a BAE Systems spokesperson said that its shipbuilding facility on Barrow Island in Barrow-in-Furness had been evacuated following media reports of a bomb on a nuclear submarine.
"As a precaution, the Devonshire Dock Complex has been closed," the spokesperson said, according to Reuters. "Staff, contractors and local residents are being kept informed," she added.
The spokesperson also confirmed to The Independent that BAE Systems was liaising with local police, who were said to be investigating the incident.
A police spokesman cited by The Guardian confirmed that "police are on site at BAE and assisting staff". The North West ambulance service said it received a call at 9:18 am local time. "We are currently on the scene but there are no known casualties," a spokesperson said.
Earlier, an unidentified source told local newspaper The Mail that hundreds of staff had been evacuated from the Devonshire Dock following a warning about a bomb on board an Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine.
Media reported that police and ambulances were on the scene at the dock.
— Henry Jones (@hthjones) 10 април 2019 г.
— Eddie Tofpik (@EddieTofpik) 10 април 2019 г.
— Emergenza24 (@Emergenza24) 10 април 2019 г.
Another mini update: @DefenceHQ say they hadn't yet been made aware of the situation.
For those speculating about security, I understand it's not military police that are responsible for Barrow.
BAE Systems manage the security of the facility themselves.
Located in northern England, about 95 km northwest of Manchester, the Devonshire Dock Hall is one of the largest indoor shipbuilding facilities of its kind in Europe. The site is home to the construction of the Astute-class submarine, a 1.4 billion pound ($1.8 billion) nuclear-powered attack submarine in service with the Royal Navy. Four Astute-class submarines have been completed, with three under construction and another seven planned.
The facility is also responsible for the manufacture of a Dreadnought-class submarine, a new generation of ballistic missile subs set to replace the Vanguard-class which carries the UK's Trident nuclear deterrent.


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August 6, 2017 August 8, 2017 vinitjain 0 Comments cults, gurus
Cults seem an enigma. We all know of their existence, or have heard of their more extreme measures such as mass suicide or even violence. Yet most cults are quite innocuous. But still the mystery remains.
How do we draw back the curtains of non-understanding? Well without doubt the most important factor in a cult is the guru himself. And it is to him we must turn to really understand what is going on. Some examples.
MARK PROPHET
In 1958, Mark Prophet was announced as a Messenger of the Masters by Ascended Master, El Morya. Just whether this character actually existed is unknown, but soon Mark began lecturing around America that God exists. In us all is the female presence, and we must all raise our feminine principle to wed the soul to the universal Christ consciousness.
Soon, Mark married Elizabeth and they formed the Summit Lighthouse. In 1973 Mark died but was said to continue to appear to Elizabeth to dictate his wishes. This led to the Church universal and Triumphant in 1974.
The Church was headquartered in a ranch near Livingstone, Montana, which housed a commune. Elisabeth married again, to Ed Francis, who was charged with holding illegal weapons at the ranch. The Church is convinced Armageddon will come through nuclear war. To this end, by 1990 they had sold thousands of places in their shelters for $6,000 a time.
DIVINE LIGHT MISSION
The Divine Light Mission began in 1930 under Sri Hans Maharaj Ji in India. He died in 1966, the religion only operating in India. His eight year old son, Prem Pal Singh Rawat, took over, directed to do so by a 'divine voice'.
Taking the title, Maharaj Ji, he converted some Americans touring India, who invited him to America. News of the boy wonder spread, and thousands turned out to meet him when he arrived in 1971.
In 1973, he held the Millennium 73 event in Houston to declare a thousand years of peace, but it was a flop. Meanwhile, his family ousted him as leader so he returned to India to sue them. He remained in control of his Mission everywhere except in India, and successfully converted followers in South America, Southeast Asia and other regions.
GRIGORI RASPUTIN
A typical cultish guru was the 'mad monk', Grigori Rasputin. Born a peasant in Siberia in 1872, he became an alcoholic womaniser – traits that never left him. However, after the death of his son he had a vision of the Virgin Mary and went on a pilgrimage to Mt Ethos, Greece.
This turned him into a charismatic healer. Eventually arriving in St Petersburg, he gained favour with the Czarina Alexandra when he seemed to help her son, Alexis's, Haemophilia.
Gaining political hold over the Czar Nicholas, a virtual cult formed in the Russian hierarchy, with Rasputin declaring the End Times for Russia if his ideas were not followed. However, by Decemnber 1916, plots were afoot to kill him. He was invited to a small party where he was poisoned, twice shot, and finally thrown into a river by Prince Feliks Yusupov.
His End Times prediction then came true, with the Russian Revolution the following year and execution of the Royal Family the year after that.
Elements of the guru can be found in founders of some movements growing into major religions. A typical case was Joseph Smith, the son of poor Vermont farmers, born in 1805, and founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, better known as the Mormons.
Caught up in the spiritual revivals of the 1820s, Smith agonised over his faith, leading to a vision of a pillar of light telling him to begin a new Church. Many visions followed, culminating in the appearance to him of an angel in September 1823, telling Smith that he was the descendant of Israel, and his people had lived in America.
Smith was sent on a quest to dig up a number of plates made of gold. He claimed to do this four years later. Translating the hieroglyphics on them, the result was the Book of Mormon.
By 1830 his Church was set up, but persecutions led them to move. In 1844 Smith stood for President, but following a conspiracy, he was charged with treason. Whilst in prison a mob attacked and killed him.
Brigham Young became the new Mormon leader and took them into the wilderness, settling on Salt Lake, Utah, in 1848, and advocating the policy of polygamy, for which the Mormons are famous.
LIFE PATH OF THE GURU
Rasputin and Smith seem to be very different gurus. However, whilst this may be true in a cultural sense, how close was their psychology? Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Storr studies many gurus in his book 'Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus', and he built up a picture of the archetypal cult leader.
In early life they tend to have lonely, isolated childhoods. This leads to introversion and narcissistic tendencies. As they grow older, they find friendship difficult to handle. They tend to have acquaintances rather than friends.
This lifestyle eventually leads to a psychological crisis point, leading to acute mental instability. The way out of such a crisis comes with a spiritual realisation; a unique and particular way of understanding the world. And once this realisation is complete, a guru is born.
Building absolute faith from such a realisation, confidence and missionary zeal propel the guru on, formulating the embryo cult through contact, not with friends, but acquaintances.
Most gurus go through these stages of life, argues Storr. For many, the eventual cults are essentially good. Jesus himself shows echoes of this process, his mission beginning following the resolution of his psychological traumas in the wilderness. To the people of his time, his view of the world was different, and his initial cult had only twelve members.
The essential goodness of this new cult went on to birth Christianity, where it ceased to be a cult, and eventually became a system lived by a large proportion of humanity.
The problem with such cult formulation lies in the guru who retains his essential narcissism. It is a natural element of growing up for a child to seek love and attention, both of which are narcissistic demands.
Yet for those who do not find fulfillment in life, such impulses do not go away. Thus, writes Storr: 'Those who remain narcissistic in adult life retain this need to be loved and to be the centre of attention together with the grandiosity which accompanies it'.
Thus we have the essential characteristic of a guru who goes off the rails. And as his cult formulates, this weakness in the guru feeds off the adoration of his disciples, whilst the essential religion-seeking of the disciple compels him to follow the guru. The end result can be a cultish system that is unhealthy, childish and destructive.
THE SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE
The 'mechanics' of the spiritual realisation can be equally important. Brought up a loner without friends, frustrations can come to the fore which lead, in effect, to a psychological illness which masquerades as a spiritual event.
This can cause an over-reliance on a specific spiritual philosophy, such as the Bible. Such an experience is essentially a delusion, but causes the future guru to build his own spiritual philosophy with himself as the centrepiece.
This 'truth' turns the inadequate loner into a charismatic, who gains total control over all those who come under his influence. Such processes can be seen in Rasputin and Smith, and can be found in virtually all cult and founding religious leaders. And a similar process laid behind Mary Baker Eddy.
Born in New Hampshire in 1821, Mary Baker Eddy became founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist. With many physical and mental disabilities in early life, she turned to the Bible, becoming a healer and preacher, and going on to establish her own Church in 1875. Her sect became official in Boston four years later.
We can see, with Mary, a specific theology emerging based on her own experiences of illness, with illness only being combated by prayer, shunning orthodox medicine. To her, physical suffering was an illusion to be conquered by the spirit-filled mind – the main tenets of her Church continued this belief.
As to her general mental health, Mary eventually fell out with her own ministry, and when her third husband, Asa, died, she blamed her detractors who, she argued, had killed him by psychic warfare. Further, there is evidence that she, herself, was affected by another guru, a mental healer called Quimby, from whom she is said to have taken her own philosophy.
EXTREMELY NORMAL
It is easy to see the psychology of such gurus as different from normal behaviour. But to Storr, we can learn much about cults and their relation to normal life by going a little deeper. He argues that the process through which the future guru approaches mental illness and is saved by spiritual enlightenment is similar to normal thought processes in both the arts and science. Both involve a degree of fanaticism where the artist thinks of an idea or the scientist attempts to grasp a theory.
This can often lead to a degree of delusion. When the idea finally comes, it is most likely to come as an inspired thought following relaxation, from the deep unconscious. But the problem with the guru is that the inspiration can, due to mental instability, appear to come from some spiritual being.
Further, whereas the scientist will be kept from delusion by the critical responses of his peers, the guru has no peers to keep his inspiration in perspective. Thus, his delusion is enhanced – fed, even – by his disciples.
Such similarities between delusions and normal thought processes have led Storr to conclude: 'the dividing line between sanity and mental illness has been drawn in the wrong place; the sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.'
Such a view reminds us of Sigmund Freud's assertion that society itself ls not as sane as we would like to think. He asked: 'May we not be justified in reaching the diagnosis that, under the influence of cultural urges, some civilisations or some epochs of civilisation – possibly the whole of mankind – have become neurotic.'
Psychotherapist R D Laing had similar intuitions when he said that our collusive madness is what we call sanity.
Looking at modern life and its failure to cater for our religious instinct suggests that, in the modern world, the above may be true. If life is not self-fulfilling, it is natural that psychological imbalance in some form will naturally occur.
Hence, it could be argued that it is modern life itself that is responsible for throwing people into cult lifestyles. And, according to Storr, it is the gurus themselves who suffer this lacking the most.
The similarities between a cult and society thus become increasingly obvious. A cult is not some aberration, but simply a more extreme variation of normal social behaviour. An urge towards, say, Armageddon is not some paranoid influence, but simply an extension of frustrations and idiosyncracies within us all.
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Miss Jessie's Miko Branch on Going Natural and Staying Independent
When hair stylist Miko Branch and her sister Titi began concocting treatments for naturally curly hair, they had no idea their kitchen experiments would be the beginning of a successful beauty line, let alone an entire movement.
By Chavie Lieber Apr 15, 2015, 11:58am EDT
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Fast forward 20 years, and Branch now presides over a family-owned empire: Miss Jessie's, a line that's won multiple awards and is stocked in shops and department stores across the country. Her autobiography, out this week, details Miss Jessie's rise. In Miss Jessie's: Creating a Successful Business from Scratch—Naturally, she shares motivational stories on how she and her sister, who passed away late last year, built their company.
Racked caught up with Branch to talk about the rise of natural hair on television, increased competition on store shelves, and acquisition offers.
What's your background in hair care?
I'm a stylist. Before I started my own business, I worked in the industry at a few salons, apprenticing and learning my skills. One day I decided I wanted to work for myself, so I partnered up with my sister Titi, starting with a one-chair salon in our house in 1997. We focused on curly, kinky, and wavy hair. We used our own products because there weren't products that really performed the way we needed them to.
"In the nineties, there was hardly anything available for women who had curls, kinks, or waves."
What were natural hair care products like when you started?
In the nineties, there was hardly anything available for women who had curls, kinks, or waves. Not a lot of women were wearing their hair in its natural state. There were some products on the market, but they focused on a looser curl, nothing for a tighter or kinkier curl, a highly coiled curl. The default styling products for curly hair were gel or mousse. There are limitations to gel—sometimes it's too heavy or too crunchy— and there are limitations to mousse too, in that it doesn't have enough hold or it might make hair look stringy. We mixed and matched until we came out with Curly Pudding in 2004. It addressed a lot of the hair issues women had, and allowed them to embrace their hair in its naturally curly state.
What inspired the name and labeling?
Our grandmother, Miss Jessie, was our strongest inspiration. She passed in 2001, and we grew up seeing her mix fresh batters and icing for her cakes, doing it all by scratch. That inspired us, and so our products have food references. The packaging was also inspired by her. It has that old world charm and looks was prescriptive, like something you might find in a store back in the day.
When did you turn the products into a full line?
We were using Curly Pudding as something that would help us to perfect our salon business; we wanted something reliable. Our customers kept asking to take it home. It wasn't anything packaged, it was just our little secret weapon. Finally, my sister and I decided we had to package it, put it in jars, give it a name, and make it available. We started selling Curly Pudding in 2004 on the floor in our salon and on PayPal. But the PayPal orders were just out of control. We had no idea that that kind of interest was there. We had to graduate our mixers from small KitchenAids to big, industrial pizza dough mixers.
Titi and Miko Branch. Photo: Getty Images
How did you get the word out?
You know, we came out at a time when the Internet was really picking up speed. We used our website to show before and after [photos] that really got girls with curls, kinks, and waves excited because we showed what the possibilities were. We also had customers sharing experiences on websites and chat boards.
How did you product make its way to stores like Target?
We had gotten an overwhelming response from our customers, so very early on we hired PR. They put put Miss Jessie's on the minds and brains of editors from magazines like Lucky, Elle, Oprah, and eventually Target. Target found us from magazines.
Do you think that your customer has changed over the years?
When we first started out in curls, there was no race or ethnicity connected to wanting to really master curly hair. And as you know, not only African American women have curls. Latina women have curls and so do Jewish women.
"I'm confident that curly hair is not a trend. It's here to stay."
One thing that I love about Miss Jessie's is we aim to make a product that addresses just about every hair scenario possible. We have products specifically for wavy hair, for curly hair, for a tighter coiled hair, for kinky curls. With that in mind, that range of products really addresses a little bit of everyone. So at the end of the day we're hoping everyone can be happy and they'll stay really focused on their hair and texture. It's less about excluding or alienating anyone, it's more of an inclusive statement. Texture is the focus.
Have you fielded many acquisition offers?
My sister and I have been approached by many different people and partners who wanted either to join ranks with Miss Jessie's or wanted to buy it outright. But we were not willing to give up control in exchange for what the potential partner was offering. We didn't understand the value and the proposition. Why we would need to partner with an investor to get us in front of other retailers if we were already in Target? We also weren't sure what that reality would be like, so we decided to keep it private and grow organically.
Miss Jessie's is not just a product company for my sister and myself, it has a heartbeat and it cares about people. If we were to ever do a sale, we would like to feel that we sold to someone who shares the same values.
What were some of the early challenges?
We didn't have a lot of money...we actually didn't have any money! It took us longer than others to create money to build our business from scratch. That slow build was challenging. My sister and I [have lived together] for most of our lives, but we lived together then to save money.
How do you feel about the natural hair market in general?
The market has definitely grown, but there has been a lot of change. At one point it was new, it was different, and then it got a little crowded. Now there are so many [natural hair care brands], and shelf space is limited. After my sister and I decided to bring our specialty business to the masses, it opened up the doors for other brands to make their products. So there's going to have to be a bit of a shake out. Not everyone can be on the shelf. I imagine that it's going to go through a few more phases, but I'm confident that curly hair is not a trend. It's here to stay.
How do you feel about natural hair in popular culture—TV, film, magazines? Have things changed?
Oh absolutely. Back in the early 2000s, we didn't really see women of color sporting their natural curls. There were a lot of relaxers. [But now,] I'm seeing fewer weaves and more texture and it's a good sign. For example, on TV, there's Tracy Ellis Ross and Yara Shahidi. Also, we're seeing professionals like musician Jill Scott and BET CEO Deborah Lee embracing natural curls.
"Miss Jessie's is not just a product company. It has a heartbeat and it cares about people."
What's the most common question you get?
Anything about moisture. Moisture is key for anyone who has curly, kinky, or wavy hair. How do I retain moisture, how do I lock in moisture? It's all about deep conditioning.
What has the business been like since your sister's passing?
She was such a wonderful woman. She was amazing and her contribution to this beauty industry and hair care industry has been tremendous. We miss her. We're experiencing a huge loss. But we are able to carry on Miss Jessie's. One wonderful thing about Titi was that she had solid principles she left the business with so it's easy for me to pick up where she left off.
What inspired you to write a book?
Titi and I had been working on the book for a good two years. Because what we did was huge: to be able to start a business with no money, and contribute to building the self-esteem of women. We wanted our store to inspire other people and we want to send a message that anyone can do it too.
What do you hope readers learn from the book?
Trust your gut. Trust your gut and don't be afraid to make mistakes. There are valuable lessons and wisdom in your mistakes, so don't be discouraged. Your mistakes are your building blocks, they're going to be your stepping-stone for your successful business and that's right there waiting for you.
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Coronavirus circumstances are climbing once more within the South and the West. Will crowded protests spark greater outbreaks?
Jun 05, 2020 covid19
For months Americans were cooped up at home, doing their part to slow the spread of the coronavirus. But in recent days tens of thousands of them have filled the streets in at least 380 cities and towns across all 50 states to protest police brutality and systemic racism — threats they believe are even more dangerous to people of color than COVID-19.
They are marching shoulder-to-shoulder for hours on end. They are chanting, shouting and singing, often without masks. Meanwhile, police officers are spraying them with cough-inducing tear gas, herding them into tight corners and loading the hundreds they arrest into buses, vans and holding cells.
The question now is whether this apparent recipe for COVID-19 disaster will spark a resurgence right when the United States seemed to be getting its epidemic under control.
Experts and epidemiologists say that we won't know the answer for weeks. After infection, symptoms can take up to 14 days to present; testing positive or requiring hospitalization can take even longer. Today's data is a window into the past.
Yet today's data, it turns out, is worrisome enough.
People at a rally in Columbia, S.C., on Saturday protest the killing of George Floyd. (Sam Wolfe/Reuters)
While the country has shifted its attention from the pathogen to the protests, and while COVID-19 infections have continued to decline in some of America's hardest-hit cities, cases have been climbing elsewhere — especially in the South and the West, and most of all in states that moved to reopen early.
More than a month has passed since the first wave of reopenings — enough time to start to gauge the impact of looser restrictions, increased interaction and more relaxed attitudes toward social distancing.
The fact that infections already appear to be increasing in places that have taken these relatively tentative steps back toward normalcy suggests that the coronavirus may start to spread even more rapidly and widely as a result of the tinderbox-like conditions at today's mass protests.
Last Wednesday this column singled out South Carolina as an example of one of the 17 or so states where coronavirus is on the rise. It's worth checking back in to see how the situation has evolved since then.
At the time, the Palmetto State had just posted the country's biggest increase in new COVID-19 cases: 42.4 percent, according to the Reuters coronavirus database, which measures and compares the total number of new cases each week.
For the week ending Sunday, May 31, South Carolina saw an additional 37.9 percent jump in new cases — the fourth-highest in the nation and the state's highest weekly total since the pandemic began.
And while South Carolina has conducted more testing in recent weeks, testing alone does not account for the uptick in COVID-19 infections there. In fact, the state conducted more tests per day between May 12 and May 19 than it did between May 27 and June 2 — 150 more, on average — yet it found 663 more new cases during the latter week than the former.
Meanwhile, the percentage of positive COVID-19 tests in South Carolina has more than doubled over the last two weeks, rising from about 3 percent to 7 percent, according to the state's Department of Health and Environmental Control. Hospitalizations have increased as well, remaining above 400 for three straight days. And the state's Rt — an epidemiological statistic that represents transmissibility, or the number of people a sick person infects at a particular point in an epidemic — is now estimated to be 1.08. An Rt below 1.0 indicates that each person infects, on average, less than one other person; an Rt above 1.0 indicates that an outbreak is growing.
South Carolina officials are "partly blam[ing]" the rising number of infections on "poor social distancing," according to a story Wednesday in the Greenville (S.C.) News. Over the last week, Greenville County reported more new COVID-19 cases (412) than any other county in the state. That weekly tally was roughly a quarter of the total reported there since mid-March, which suggests a growing outbreak.
A rally on Wednesday at Cesar Chavez Park in Laveen, Ariz. (Ross D. Franklin/AP)
"The virus thrives on people coming in contact with other people," Dr. Eric Ossmann, chief of preparedness and mobile integrated health care for Prisma Health, told the paper. "That is how it gets transmitted. So as social distancing is relaxed, as we see very limited mask-wearing in various locations where people cannot social distance, I do think this is to a certain degree a result of that."
Beyond testing, added Greenville Mayor Knox White, the "bigger issue is just people's day-to-day activity, letting their guard down, and I would plead guilty to that certainly myself."
State Rep. Neal Collins of Easley told the Greenville News that he had heard about people who tested positive for COVID-19 "going to public events or going to parties," sharing drinks and "the whole group becoming positive."
"It should be a wake-up call to too many people who are letting social distancing lapse," White warned. "It should get everyone's attention."
"If these gains are sustained over the course of next week, then yes, I think you are probably looking at potentially a second wave," predicted Ossmann.
South Carolina is not alone in this. Last week Arizona experienced a bigger increase in COVID-19 infections (49.8 percent) than any other state, according to Reuters. On Monday, the state recorded more than 1,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations for the first time. The next day, health authorities there reported 1,127 new cases, the highest daily number since the outbreak began.
"We are seeing some indicators that cases in Maricopa County are starting to rise beyond the increase from additional testing," public health officials in the state's hardest-hit region said Tuesday. "We will watch to see if this represents a trend or an anomaly."
In Virginia, cases were up 42.8 percent week-over-week. In Alabama they were up 39.9 percent. In Kentucky they were up 28.3 percent. In Utah they were up 21.8 percent. In Texas they were up 18.2 percent. States that also saw double-digit increases included Mississippi, Arkansas, Wisconsin and North Carolina — which was scheduled to host the Republican National Convention in August, until President Trump balked at Gov. Roy Cooper's insistence on measures to prevent it from seeding a new coronavirus outbreak. Even Washington (up 9 percent) and California (up 28.9 percent) — two early-to-lockdown states that were among the first to bend the curve — saw weekly infections rise.
More up-to-the-minute data from Johns Hopkins — which averages new daily cases over the last five days — hints at additional states that may soon join this list, including Tennessee, Alaska, Montana and Missouri, where shirtless, maskless, spring-break-style revelers were filmed packing into a pool at the Lake of the Ozarks over Memorial Day weekend.
Revelers celebrate Memorial Day weekend at Osage Beach of the Lake of the Ozarks in Missouri. (Lawler50/Twitter via Reuters)
Perhaps this is the inevitable cost of living with the coronavirus: the unavoidable, even acceptable trade-off for leaving home, for returning to work, for aspiring to some semblance of normalcy. For now, the increase in infections across the South and West is modest. It seems manageable. Rural South Carolina is not New York City. It never will be. Hospitals have not been overrun. Treatment has improved. Nearly all of these states have the ICU beds they need. Death rates — admittedly a lagging indicator — are still going down.
But if infections start to climb in as many as 20 states when people simply start to return to normal, then what will happen after they gather in conditions that could be far more conducive to the spread of COVID-19?
We'll know more in a few weeks.
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For quite some time now, the Fourth of July holiday has been ranked as the deadliest holiday on U.S. roadways. On average, close to 140 people are killed on this day alone, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
The United Press International (UPI) reports that car accidents also continue to be the number one killer of residents under the age of 34. Teenagers are about four times more likely to die in these incidents.
Our Wellington car accident lawyers understand that teenage drivers account for close to 10 percent of the driving fatalities we see on the Fourth of July. They're highly susceptible to these kinds of accidents because of distracted driving and other poor decisions behind the wheel. As a matter of fact, officials with the Allstate Foundation report that about 75 percent of teens claim that they read and respond to texts while driving. That's a number that's up close to 50 percent since 2009.
"Putting down the phone, never texting while driving and always wearing a safety belt can help make sure that everyone returns home safely after their Independence Day celebrations," said Sanjay Gupta from Allstate.
This is where the parents come in. It's important that you're always practicing your safest habits behind the wheel to help to steer younger, learning drivers in the right direction.
Drunk drivers are another serious problem we're facing out there on our roadways. Unfortunately, booze, barbeques and fireworks all go hand in hand. But what many Americans are forgetting in this equation is a designated driver. We want to remind you that officers will be out in full force looking for intoxicated drivers.
Remember that drinking and driving could not only throw you into a fatal accident, but it could also land you in jail.
As a matter of fact, alcohol-impaired drivers are the cause of about a third of all traffic fatalities. Someone is killed on our roadways in these kinds of accidents, on average, about every 45 minutes.
There's never a reason to get behind the wheel after you've been drinking. And that's why we're asking drivers to take the pledge to drive drug and alcohol-free.
Remember, there are ways to get home safely if you've been drinking. You should make sure you've got yourself a designated driver before you head out. But if those plans fall through, you can always call a cab, a friend or a family member to come pick you up. There's even public transportation to fall back on. When those options aren't available, you're better off just staying put and sleeping over. A hotel room is a heck of a lot cheaper than a drunk driving conviction.
If you or someone you love was injured or killed in a car accident, contact Freeman, Mallard, Sharp, & Gonzalez at 1-800-561-7777 for a free and confidential consultation to discuss your rights.


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Recipient Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Antigen 4 +49 Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Is Not Associated with Acute Rejection after Liver Transplantation in Chinese Population
Zhijun Jiang, Ying Chen, Xiaonin Feng, Haiyang Xie, Lin Zhou, Shusen Zheng✉
Division of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou Zhejiang 310003, P.R. China.
✉ Corresponding author: Prof. Shusen Zheng, Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310003, P.R. China. Telephone: +86-571-87236570, E-mail:shusenzhengedu.cn, Fax: +86-571-87236567. More
Jiang Z, Chen Y, Feng X, Xie H, Zhou L, Zheng S. Recipient Cytotoxic T Lymphocyte Antigen 4 +49 Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Is Not Associated with Acute Rejection after Liver Transplantation in Chinese Population. Int J Med Sci 2013; 10(3):250-254. doi:10.7150/ijms.5511. Available from https://www.medsci.org/v10p0250.htm
Objective: Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in Cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4) gene have been detected and proved to associate with the incidence of rejection after transplantation. However, previous studies gained inconsistent results about the association between CTLA-4 +49 single-nucleotide polymorphism and susceptibility of allograft rejection. Therefore we sought to clarify whether CTLA-4 +49 SNP influences the incidence of acute rejection after liver transplantation in Chinese population. Methods: Genomic DNA from 335 liver transplant recipients was genotyped for CTLA-4 +49 SNP by DNA sequencing. Acute rejection was confirmed by pathologic evidences. The association between CTLA-4 +49 SNP and incidence of acute rejection was then analyzed by dominant, recessive, codominant and overdominant models. Results: The incidence of acute rejection within the first 3 months was 11.9%. In acute rejectors, the frequency was 45% for G/G, 10% for A/A and 45% for A/G respectively, compared with 47.5% for G/G, 10.8% for A/A and 41.7% for A/G in non-acute rejectors. And no significant difference of allele distribution between these 2 groups was detected. Conclusions: This study suggests that CTLA-4 +49 SNP is not associated with acute rejection after liver transplantation in Chinese population.
Keywords: Cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4, liver transplantation, Single Nucleotide Polymorphism.


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Written testimony CBP Commissioner for a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing titled "Preparedness and Response to Public Health Threats: How Ready Are We?"
Written testimony CBP Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske for a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing titled "Preparedness and Response to Public Health Threats: How Ready Are We?"
342 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Chairman Carper, Ranking Member Coburn, and distinguished members of the Committee I appreciate the opportunity to discuss U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) role in the Federal government's Ebola response.
The 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the largest in history – mainly focused on Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. In the midst of this crisis in West Africa, it is important to remember that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stated that the risk of a widespread Ebola outbreak in the United States is very low. CBP, as part of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) overall strategy, is engaged on a daily basis with DHS interagency partners to prepare for and respond to Ebola and other potential threats to public health.
As you know, DHS is responsible for securing our nation's borders and assisting the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in safeguarding the American public from communicable diseases that threaten to traverse our borders. In doing so, DHS is committed to ensuring that our responses to the Ebola epidemic are conducted consistent with established civil rights and civil liberties protections. DHS's Office of Health Affairs (OHA) is at the intersection of homeland security and public health, better known as health security. OHA provides medical and health expertise to DHS components and senior leadership, and is helping to coordinate with components and provide them with medical advice regarding the Department's efforts in preparing for and responding to Ebola. In today's remarks, I will provide an overview of the Department's efforts to protect the American people from Ebola, and CBP's specific efforts within ports of entry to identify and respond to travelers who may pose a threat to public health.
As the Nation's unified border security agency, CBP is responsible for securing our Nation's borders while facilitating the flow of legitimate international travel and trade that is so vital to our Nation's economy. Within this broad responsibility, CBP's priority mission remains to prevent terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States. CBP also plays an important role in limiting the introduction, transmission, and spread of serious communicable diseases from foreign countries.
Targeting, Screening and Observation Protocols
Although we have recently seen a very small number of Ebola virus cases in the United States, the CDC believes that the U.S. clinical and public health systems will work effectively to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus, and CDC has provided support to those systems to prevent the further introduction, transmission and spread of communicable diseases into the United States. DHS has executed a number of measures to minimize the risk of those sick with Ebola entering the United States, and we take a layered approach to ensure there are varying points at which an ill individual could be identified. To this end, DHS is also focused on protecting the air traveling public and taking steps to ensure that travelers with communicable diseases like Ebola are identified, isolated, and quickly and safely referred to medical personnel.
CBP developed targeting rules that analyze advance passenger travel to identify travelers whose travel originated in or transited through Ebola-affected countries. Additionally, CBP collaborates with our international partners, to identify individuals traveling through key international gateways whose travel matches predetermined risk factors. This international engagement provides valuable opportunities and mutual benefits to expand our knowledge of individuals whose travel originated in, or transited through, an Ebola-affected country.
It is important to note that the CDC has worked closely with affected countries, and CBP has provided support and assistance, to ensure that all outbound travelers from the areas affected by the West Africa Ebola outbreak are screened for Ebola symptoms before departure from those countries. CDC provides "Do Not Board" recommendations to CBP and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) regarding individuals who may be infected with a highly contagious disease, present a threat to public health, and should be prevented from traveling to the United States via commercial aircraft. TSA is performing vetting of all airline passengers coming to, departing from or flying within the U.S. to identify matches to the "Do Not Board" list and flag matched individuals' records in the Secure Flight system to prevent the issuance of a boarding pass. TSA is also supporting CDC requirements to identify all passenger reservations on flights where it has been determined that one or more passengers present an Ebola risk, such as when passengers have traveled from the affected African areas and have exhibited Ebola symptoms.
CBP and the CDC have closely coordinated to develop policies, procedures, and protocols to identify travelers to the United States who may have a communicable disease, responding in a manner that minimizes risk to the public. These pre-existing procedures – applied in the land, sea, and air environments – have been utilized collaboratively by both agencies on a number of occasions with positive results.
As a standard part of every inspection, CBP officers observe all passengers as they arrive in the United States for overt signs of illness, and question travelers, as appropriate, at all U.S. ports of entry. Officers look for overt signs of illness and can obtain additional information from the travelers during the inspection interview. If a traveler is identified with overt signs of a communicable disease of public health significance, the traveler is isolated from the traveling public and referred to CDC's Border Health Public Health Officers or state public health authorities for medical evaluation.
On October 21, DHS announced travel restrictions in the form of additional screening and protective measures at our ports of entry for travelers from Ebola-affected countries in West Africa. As of October 22, all passengers arriving in the United States who are identified as having recently traveled to, from, or through Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea are required to fly into one of five airports – New York John F. Kennedy; Washington Dulles; Newark; Chicago O'Hare; and Atlanta International Airport. On November 17, Mali was included in the list of countries for which recent travel is being identified. CBP utilizes advance passenger information to identify those individuals who may have traveled to, from, or through an Ebola-affected country and are attempting to travel to the United States through a non-designated airport. In the event that such an individual is identified, CBP works closely with the airlines to route the traveler to one of the five designated airports with as little travel disruption as possible.
At these five airports, all travelers from the affected countries undergo enhanced screening measures consisting of targeted questions and a temperature check, through the use of non-contact thermal thermometers, seeking to determine whether the passengers are experiencing symptoms or may have been exposed to Ebola. Detailed contact information is also collected in the event the CDC needs to contact them in the future. If there is reason to believe a passenger has been exposed to Ebola, either through the questionnaire, temperature check, or overt symptoms, CBP refers the passenger to CDC for further evaluation. The CDC has surged staff to these airports to support this mission requirement.
In addition to these measures, CBP officers are asking all passengers traveling on a passport from Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Mali, regardless of where they traveled from, whether they have been in one of the Ebola-affected countries in the prior 21 days. If the traveler has been in one of these countries in the prior 21 days, he or she will be referred for additional screening and, if necessary, CDC or other medical personnel in the area will be contacted pursuant to existing protocols.
The U.S. Coast Guard is also monitoring vessels known to be inbound from Ebola-affected countries, and is providing information to the Captain of the Port, District, and CDC representatives.
The CDC maintains Federal jurisdiction to determine whether to isolate or quarantine potentially infected arrivals. DHS personnel may be called upon to support the enforcement of the CDC's determinations, and we stand ready to help.
Information Sharing and Training
DHS has prioritized sharing information and raising awareness as important elements in combating the spread of Ebola, and CBP has a unique opportunity to deliver critical information to targeted travelers from the affected countries in ports of entry. Secretary Johnson recently directed CBP to distribute health advisories to all travelers arriving in the U.S. from the Ebola-affected countries. These advisories provide the traveler with information on Ebola, health signs to look for, and information for their doctor should they need to seek medical attention in the future.
CBP and TSA have posted messages from the CDC at select airport locations that provide awareness on how to prevent the spread of infectious disease, typical symptoms of Ebola, and instructions to call a doctor if the traveler becomes ill in the future.
We also share information with our nongovernmental and state and local partners. TSA is engaging with industry partners and domestic and foreign air carriers to provide awareness on the current outbreak, and has issued an Information Circular to air carriers reinforcing the CDC's message on Ebola and providing guidance on identifying potential travelers with Ebola.
OHA, through the National Biosurveillance Integration Center, is continuing to monitor the outbreak to coordinate information in response to the event. These reports on biological events are disseminated to more than 15,000 Federal, State, and local users, many of whom work in the public health sector or support 78 fusion centers across the Nation, helping to ensure that the most up-to-date information is available.
DHS is committed to ensuring that our own employees have up-to-date and accurate information. We have provided our own personnel with background information on the current outbreak, information on the regions of importance; symptoms of the virus and mode of transmission; and operational procedures and precautions for processing travelers showing signs of illness. CBP field personnel will be kept up to date on national, regional and location-specific information on Ebola preparedness and response measures through regular field musters.
All CBP officers and agriculture specialists receive public health training, which teaches personnel to identify symptoms and characteristics of ill travelers. CBP also provides operational training and guidance to frontline personnel on how to respond to travelers with potential illness, including referring individuals who display signs of illness to CDC quarantine officers and assisting CDC with implementation of its isolation and quarantine protocols. CBP officers are trained to employ universal precautions, an infection control approach developed by the CDC, when they encounter individuals with overt symptoms of illness or potentially contaminated items in examinations of baggage and cargo. Universal precautions assume that every direct contact with body fluids is infectious and requires exposed employees to respond accordingly.
DHS and CBP are implementing additional precautions and deploying additional personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect personnel at ports of entry. OHA and CDC have provided guidance to field personnel on the requirements of PPE, including proper procedures for putting on, taking off, and wearing PPE (which is available for employees at these airports along with instructions for use). CBP has provided guidance to the field on baggage inspection for international travelers from impacted countries, proper procedures for inspection and handling of prohibited meat products, and proper safeguarding and disposal of garbage from all inbound international flights.
Enhanced Ebola screening training, required of all CBP officers and agriculture specialists, includes a web-based video course on the proper use of personal protective equipment differences in PPE requirements when in proximity of symptomatic versus asymptomatic travelers. CBP senior medical advisors, U.S. Public Health Service Federal Occupational Health, and CDC officials are providing onsite training on inbound enhanced screening for Ebola at select ports of entry. TSA also ensures that its employees are adequately trained and, where appropriate, are provided personal protective equipment. CBP is continuously engaged with CDC and other agencies involved in Ebola prevention and stands ready to meet future training needs as they arise. The health and safety of CBP employees is also our priority as we carry out this critical mission.
The Department of Homeland Security has worked closely with its interagency partners to develop a layered approach to identifying ill travelers and protecting the air traveling public. DHS and CBP are always assessing the measures we have in place and continues to look at any additional actions that can be taken to ensure the safety of the American people. I look forward to working with you to address this problem collaboratively. I will continue to closely monitor the Ebola developments, and will evaluate additional measures as needed.
Thank you for your time and interest in this important issue. I look forward to answering your questions.


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Q: Exposing Spark Worker (stdout stderr) logs in Kubernetes I have a Spark Cluster with one Master and 4 Workers running in a 3 Node Kubernetes Cluster.
The Spark UI and Master are exposed through Ingress/NodePort and is hence accessible from outside the Kubernetes cluster.
But, the worker ports are not exposed.
Due to this, the Worker logs (stdout and stderr) are not accessible through the UI.
The logs URL is getting redirected to <Worker1_Pod_IP:8080> , <Worker2_Pod_IP:8080> and so on.
My setup is such that there are two worker pods running on the same machine. So even if I NodePort expose the workers, there will be a conflict in ports as the same port will be assigned for the two workers on the machine.
Spark History server only provides Event Logs and not Worker logs.
How can this be solved? Is there a way the NodePort value can be dynamically assigned for the workers

A: I believe you are talking about the SPARK_WORKER_WEBUI_PORT and not the SPARK_WORKER_PORT as described below since that its assigned a random port.

This is a bit tricky because you can only expose a single port per node. If you have two spark workers per node you could create two deployments for your nodes, one that exposes the SPARK_WORKER_WEBUI_PORT on 8081 and another on 8082 and also make sure that only one pod is scheduled per node.
You can pass these values in the container environment varialbles


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No Border Wall Walk- Day 7 or A Day of Thanksgiving
Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Progreso, like so many other churches along our walk, absolutely saw the sojourner in us and welcomed us like a Good Samaritan. We came asking only shelter, and Yolanda and Father Thomas fed us snacks. We were looking for a place to lay our head, and they provided us much-needed showers and our only laundry services of the whole 9-day walk. As tired and beleaguered wanderers, we were welcomed wholeheartedly by this faith community, and one gets the feeling that an extralegal immigrant and his family might find the same welcome at the doors of Holy Spirit. Surely they are living the call of Leviticus 19:33-34 which calls peoples of faith to embrace immigrants, stating, "The strangers who sojourn with you shall be to you as the natives among you, and you shall love them as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt."
Day 7 was at least 99 degrees, and by some accounts as hot as 102. Many of us got burnt, I suffered heat hives, and all of us slowed our 2-3 mph pace considerably in the sweltering sun. It was hotter than a human heart, the organ this entire walk has targeted. Believing that people are innately good, we feel that they simply must not know the wonderful people and beautiful places which a wall would destroy and immigration legislation could enhance. As members of the walk give interviews with local news stations or national newspapers, we are laying out the facts of the immigration debate and the logic as to why the United States should not build a wall. The real story, the story we pray is reaching the hearts of the world, is on display behind us, in the gorgeous palm groves and birding preserves and in the single-story homes and land grant ranches which will be devastated by the building of any wall.
One of the most historically fascinating parts of the trip came at the Rio Rico historic landmark. Sipping some much-needed Gatorade (donated by yet another church), we learned that when the international boundaries were moved from the Nueces River to the Rio Grande and everyone to the north was given citizenship status, some people took their rights into their own hands. The people of Rio Rico dug a canal in the 1800s, changing the course of the river so it would flow south of them and give them certain "inalienable rights." Though this met with some opposition, all 200 of them were finally given full citizenship status and are now proud to be called Americans. People have been subverting unjust immigration laws for a long, long time…
This Friday's march was another great opportunity to dialogue with the amazing people who have pledged 9 days of their lives and 120 miles of their feet to speak out against the Secure Fence Act of 2006. Some new recruits to the group were discussing political figures who have let down the American public, either through faulty promises or mismanagement or the profit motive. Hearing this rhetoric, though, I could see many of the through-walkers bristle at its negativity. We are not waging a campaign against people, because people are never beyond redemption. In his speech "Loving your Enemies," our hero and mentor Martin Luther King said,
…This simply means that there is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies. When we look beneath the surface, beneath. the impulsive evil deed, we see within our enemy-neighbor a measure of goodness and know that the viciousness and evilness of his acts are not quite representative of all that he is. We see him in a new light. We recognize that his hate grows out of fear, pride, ignorance, prejudice, and misunderstanding…
We are working to change oppressive and unjust systems in our nation and in the world, but our struggles can never be directed at a single person because it becomes hate and cyclical violence. So, I spoke up to him as he was bashing a man who has waived 19 different environmental laws in order to build the wall in Arizona. I said that it is fruitless and ultimately violent to direct anger at people. If we have a problem with someone, we should not even say their name. Our conflict is not with them but with their actions. On the other side, however, when someone deserves praise, we should use their names in the most intimate way. Praise should always be extremely personal and direct; critiques should always be directed at fixed systems or established actions rather than people, because people possess the power to change.
With that in mind, I would love to praise Laura and Jonathan Loveless for their generous providence of another homemade lunch today in the tiny town of Santa Maria – your surname is clearly a misnomer. I wish to praise the heedless horseman Vince for riding his horse Tocallo and enlivening us with his sage vaquero wisdom and his cowboy guitar-playing. I would like to thank Gene for riding his bike from Brownsville to join us for most of the day's walk. Jose, your calm discussion about the border region and your work with UTPA students kept me walking when I was most affected by the heat. To all the ladies at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Las Rusias, God bless you for your tambourines and noisemakers as we hobbled home to your fish dinner and your old-time Spanish praise songs. God bless you Nenna for sharing the lives of your eight children, your land along the levee and the site of the proposed border wall, and the encouraging shower at your house. Father Albert – we are so grateful for our kind reception at your church. You and Father Thomas from Progreso, both immigrants from the Congo, illustrate the beauty and the love and the potential immigrants can and do offer if only given the opportunity through our immigration system. Thanks to all 250 of you who have walked even a step of this march thus far; your footsteps give us the faith that we are not alone.
Continuing in the same vein of praise, I would also like to thank the individual members of this walk. These people have dedicated nine days of their lives, 126 miles of their feet, and 24 hours of every single day to the purpose of protesting the injustice of the Secure Fence Act of 2006, supporting the sanctity of all border regions, and respecting the divine spark of humanity in every single immigrant. I am eternally grateful to Mike and Cindy Johnson, both educators from the Brownsville school system who devoted their entire spring break to an issue in which they believe. Mike's endless energy has uplifted our spirits on many a long day, and Cindy's heart for each house we pass reminds me of why we are walking. Thank you Cindy for talking with each of these landowners, informing them of their legal rights, and encouraging them with the faith that "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
Thank you Matt Smith for your love of the communities on both sides of the river. Your work in the maquiladora factories in Mexico prove that you are willing to work at righting injustice, and you bring that same moral indignation to this No Border Wall Walk. Your guitar-playing and IPOD-blasting have kept us dancing and singing and positive all 100 miles so far, and they are sure to see us all the way to Brownsville. Thank you also Domingo Gonzalez; your offer of transportation has been invaluable, and your happy car honks always seem to lift our spirits. Cesar Chavez, your fellow UFW mate, would be proud.
I have to thank Crystal Canales for her limitless energy, her youthful idealism, and her passion for people. Crystal is the only UTB student who sacrificed an entire spring break to protest a border wall in the Valley she has always called home. Her words of support and positivity, both in Spanish and in English, have been truly profound and have made the most cynical of us act in love.
Elizabeth Stephens, we owe you so much thanks for your organizing skills in Progreso and your understated leadership on the march. Bearing blisters since Day 2, you have found a quiet reserve of strength and managed to "mount up on wings of eagles" when others would be plummeting like sparrows. Perhaps it has something to do with your button which states, "I am loved." We all pray you will continue your activism here in Brownsville and the greater Rio Grande Valley for many years to come.
Nat Stone, every single member of this walk is grateful for your constant encouragement and your affirmation of our work. Your daily documentary film-making reminds us that our protest is not here in the Valley but in the hearts of our nation. We all pray that your talented filmography manages to prick our country's conscience. Seeing you leap-frogging us again and again has kept us walking when we would just as soon take yet another water break. We also thank you because no other documentary makers would be calling the Obama campaign office everyday, nor would they be handing out legal information to local residents, nor would they stop and be a first responder at a car accident. You make us all proud to live on la frontera.
Jay Johnson-Castro – your 600 miles of walks before March 8 made our march possible. Your guidance from walks past, as well as your teeming knowledge about this issue, have guided our thinking and our planning on this walk. You have brought media attention to the Valley and to the issues we confront, and we pray you will continue to nonviolently campaign for justice on the border.
Kiel Harell, how can we ever thank you for the days and days of accumulated time you spent on the phone rallying support for this March Against the Wall. Your quiet strength, your welcoming persona in your down-home overalls that harken back to the SNCC days of the civil rights movement, your conversational tone with reporters and recalcitrant locals, your well-read understanding of nonviolence and your recent exploration of faith – we are thankful that you canceled your plane ticket home and are campaigning for the homes of thousands along our nation's southern border.
Brother John Moore, this walk was your dream some two months ago. You have lived in San Diego, El Paso, and now Brownsville, and your triangulated perspective on the border gives purpose and far-reaching unity to our efforts here. We are not alone, nor are we simply campaigning for the rights of these people within a 120-mile stretch of this snaking Rio Grande. Our efforts are for the 5,000 mile Canadian border, the largest international border in the world, just as much as they are for the Mexican border. Thank you for directing our anger into purposeful, nonviolent ways; thank you for reminding us of the power of redemption and the promises of our God. Thank you for turning me on to nonviolence and its application to every part of my life.
The thanks could go on indefinitely. We have been brimming with gratitude for the opportunity to hear the stories of this Valley and the opportunity to participate in a story of redemption here on the border. Contrary to the opinions of many, this border wall has not been built yet, and although it is a law right now, so was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the 1924 Immigration Quota based on nation of origin. The Secure Fence Act of 2006 is not inevitable; it has only as much mandate as we give it. Please write your Congressman and convince them to vote for the Grijalva Bill which begins to bring the border wall discussion into environmental accountability, and also urge them to vote against the other bill which would set a certain date for the beginning of construction on this destructive symbol of division. Any prayers and support you can offer this march in its final days would be precious.
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Presidents on Immigration – Past, Present, Future
On this President's Day, let us recall our long and storied past Presidential stances on immigration. The Fourteenth Amendment of 1868, which codified national citizenship policy for "all persons born or naturalized in the United States and of the State wherein they reside," has allowed many immigrant children to live with rights for which their parents must win the "lottery" (quota system). Countless children I teach each day have the Fourteenth Amendment to thank for their status in Brownsville, Texas. President Andrew Johnson dragged his heels against this and all the other Civil Rights Bills, much to his Republican party's dismay; however, the bills were passed and continue to stand as some of the most important immigration legislation today.
The literacy test, which was first introduced in 1895 by Henry Cabot Lodge and which took twenty-two years to finally pass, was vetoed by a myriad of presidents such as Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson, and William Howard Taft. Cleveland's reason for the veto was that the terrific growth of the United States up until 1897 was "largely due to the assimilation and thrift of millions of sturdy and patriotic adopted citizens" (Roger Daniels' Coming to America, 277) He also declared that immigrants of the not-so-distant past were some of the nation's best citizens. In his steadfast veto, Cleveland addresses the issue of citizenship requirements and ends with a conclusion that may be very insightful to our nation's current preoccupation with national security and terrorism. Cleveland said,
It is infinitely more safe to admit a hundred thousand immigrants who, though unable to read and write, seek among us only a home and an opportunity to work than to admit one of those unruly agitators and enemies of governmental control who can not only read and write, but delights in arousing by unruly speech the illiterate and peacefully inclined to discontent and tumult" ( Roger Daniels' Coming to America, 277).
Perhaps our country's leadership could come up with smart background checks which do not discriminate so much on nationality but criminality and past employment.
Taft's relentless veto was based solely on the economic necessity for a large and constant immigrant base. His reasoning echoes the reasoning of the Bracero Program, worker visa programs, and short-term migrant labor initiatives. Taft's rationale was that, "the natives are not willing to do the work which the aliens come over to do" ( Roger Daniels' Coming to America, 277). The beauty of immigration is that few immigrant families stay in these entry-level positions – the steady influx of immigrants who are upwardly mobile is a dynamic, short-term phenomenon for new immigrant families.
Woodrow Wilson, in 1915, spoke out on the ethical the cause of immigrants. His veto to the literacy test rested on the fact that the bill would reject new immigrants "unless they have already had one of the chief of the opportunities they seek, the opportunity of education" ( Roger Daniels' Coming to America, 277). Again, this same argument holds true and needs to be taken up by so many groups opposed to a physical border wall. One step into a school on la frontera will reinforce the fact that so many immigrants come to these United States seeking a better education for their families. The DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act), which has failed to pass in several bills both in 2006 and 2007, would ensure that all schoolchildren who are high-achievers in our nation's classrooms would have the opportunity, regardless of income or citizenship, to study at institutions of higher education and apply themselves to becoming skilled workers. Had he lived another 93 years, Woodrow Wilson would be one of the staunchest advocates of the DREAM Act, which could have proved one of the most empowering and inspiring legislations of the second Bush administration.
The literacy test passed in 1917, and was soon followed by Calvin Coolidge's Immigration Act of 1924 which set the first nation-based quota system for all incoming immigrants (the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 only applied to "sojourners" from the largest country in the world). This Act also marked the beginning of the first official Border Patrol.
Arguably the last President to be extremely pro-immigrant died with a couple bullets in 1963. His dream was to revamp immigration legislation to "base admission on the immigrant's possession of skills our country needs and on the humanitarian grounds of reuniting families" (John F. Kennedy's A Nation of Immigrants, 80). JFK firmly believed that the quota system was discriminatory at a time when Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement were also making strides toward a Civil Rights Bill. Kennedy goes on to write that,
The use of a national origins system is without basis in either logic or reason if neither satisfies a national need nor accomplishes an international purpose. In an age of interdependence [read "globalization"] any nation with such a system is an anachronism, for it discriminates among applicants for admission into the U.S. on the basis of accident of birth (John F. Kennedy's A Nation of Immigrants,75).
Had he lived longer than 46 years, perhaps the United States of America would not still have a quota system which permits only 24,000 people from any country to migrate to our land, regardless of whether their sending nation has a population of China's 1.3 billion or Monaco's 32,000.
One of the last substantial pieces of immigration legislation was the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Signed by Ronald Reagan, this has since been decried as an act which only worsened problems and which amounted to scotch-free amnesty. While neither of these are the case, IRCA did not ultimately address the true problem. By treating the symptom of illegal immigrants rather than the immigration legislation which criminalized them, Reagan departed from Kennedy's lead and opted for the easy, immediate solution. While IRCA did make a substantive difference in the lives of 2.7 million people, it did not address the real problem which finds our country with 12 million residents on the wrong side of current immigration laws.
The final "immigration law" on the books is one which physically, socially, economically, and ethically affects our nation's immigrants, citizens, and borderlands. The Secure Fence Act of 2006, supported by President Bush and, sadly, both Democratic candidates Obama and Clinton, paved the way for a 700-mile fence along our 2,000-mile southern border. This "secure fence" would reroute extralegal immigrants to the most dangerous desert sections of our border; it would be an affront to American immigrants past, present, and future; it would be a tremendous waste what some estimate to be $5 billion while border communities such as Brownsville and Hidalgo County continue to be the poorest in the nation; it would serve as a severe distraction from the necessity for comprehensive, compassionate immigration reform; it would strand extralegal residents on this side of the border; it would separate loved ones; it would cripple border economies which thrive on the influx of international business; it would destroy precious and rare ecosystems and wildlife which cannot be found anywhere else; and it would cause our young nation of immigrants to wall ourselves off from our neighbors and the globalizing world at large.
Let's pray that true immigration reform will come with the next Presidency. If protest is prayer in action, then please join your prayers with ours, put your feet to the street, and join the Border Ambassadors and concerned citizens in the March Against the Wall as we walk 120 miles from Roma to Brownsville, Texas, this March 8-16.
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Rio Grande Valley Tactical Infrastructure EIS Document Response, or The Difference between 1907 and 2007
2007 marks the centennial of the United States' peak year of immigration. 1907 marked a year where, despite awful discrimination against Asians in the ongoing Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the introduction of the Japanese Gentleman's Agreement, America drew well over a million to its shores to participate in our thriving economy. The centennial of that year finds a very different attitude towards immigration in the polis of America. With the inhibitive and overly restrictive immigration laws and lottery system, we have no real concept of how many migrants, sojourners, asylum-seekers, refugees, and visa over-stayers "immigrated" this year. We do, however, know that some 12 million extralegal citizens currently reside in the continental United States, as defined by the Mexican-American War; in addition to these teeming extralegals, there are millions of other Americans complicit in this immigrant labor and success in our nation.
While positive, concrete immigration reforms stalled in a staunchly partisan triumvirate political system last year, the only significant immigration legislation in recent years is the Secure Fence Act of 2006. This legislation is slowly, imperceptibly creeping along the Mexican-American border, attempting to replace the natural Rio Grande with the inefficacious Muro Grande. the 538-page U.S. Army Corps of Engineers report entitled "Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Construction, Maintenance, and Operation of Tactical Infrastructure Rio Grande Valley Sector, Texas," detailing the border barrier and its efforts was just published to the public this past week. Having read these words with an eye to its impact on my own backyard of Brownsville, Texas, it appears to be a shameless show of smoke and mirrors. The purported aim of this barrier, in keeping with the same goals of this present administration which has already brought us to the desert of Iraq and the shores of Cuba, is first and foremost to counter terrorism, presumably being trucked across our Southern border as you read this. In addition, though, the border wall is also supposed to deter drugs (to help our healthy black market "just say no") and stymie the flow of illegal immigrants in ways that legislative reform cannot.
Preexistent in this lengthy document, however, is its own unstated downfall. The document brings up token dissent as a means of disproving "all" alternatives to a border wall stretching some 70 miles through the Rio Grande Valley and up to 700 miles along the entire border, but the criticism undoubtedly ricochets back at the wall. The report states that a natural hedge would slow crossings and promote nature, but that it regrettably would not be a foolproof deterrent and would need constant reparations. Such criticism could be directed at the border wall itself. Its staunchest supporters admit it will do littler more than slow down illegal crossings. The report itself states that, because the wall is not continuous, it will probably just shift illegal activity to other, arguably more treacherous, crossing zones.
The document also proposes that the wall is a "force multiplier" to aid in stopping immigration. Intriguingly, this has been the rallying cry for American businesses so desirous of cheap immigrant labor. Additionally, this report ignores the fact that providing more legal means to citizenship, as opposed to vindictive threats of deportation and Catch-22 scenarios for extralegal aliens already here, would do more to reduce illegal immigration. Just as providing CHIP and family assistance does not serve as an incentive for the impoverished to have illegitimate children, neither will this sort of immigration reform open up the door to illegal immigrants. Rather, it will provide a way and means for qualified individuals to forgo a cruel lottery system in order to officially enter the ranks of the Americans they work alongside already.
The border wall espoused in this document, replete with its treatment of dissent, is politically little more than a token gesture that both Republicans and Democrats are "tough on immigration," though hardheaded and medieval in their means. Tokenism is, as Martin Luther King, Jr. writes in his "Bold Design for a New South,"
not only…a useless goal, but…a genuine menace. It is a palliative which relieves emotional distress, but leaves the disease and its ravages unaffected. It tends to demobilize and relax the militant spirit which alone drives us forward to real change.
Socially, ethically, morally, and economically, the Secure Fence Act which is now being treated as inevitable, is a negative, self-defeating gesture which will cripple our workforce, legislate nativism, forgo and delay meaningful immigration reform, and sap precious resources from our nation's poorest. This wall will brutalize the fragile ecosystem and cultural legacy of La Frontera and will set up a racially-suspicious immigration which leads heavily in favor of Western European countries with its emphasis on numbers, irregardless of population size. This lengthy literary exercise in bureaucracy will soon disappear in the vaults of the Library of Congress, but if we erect a barrier in this Western Hemisphere and ignore real legislative reform for immigration, its legacy will be that of 1924 and 1882, rather than that of 1907, the biggest year yet in immigration. Future generations will peer inquisitive at our contemporary history, befuddled by the ways in which a country so in love with globalizing technology and overseas production could be so obstinately opposed to a globalizing populace.
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Forgetting what makes us strong
It's been a long time since we lived the idea that people are innately good. Just laws, the kind of legislation our country was founded upon, enable and protect the innate goodness of the individual against the circumstantial evils of a few. Unjust laws, however, demean this innate goodness by making criminals out of innocents. The country with the most laws is the most corrupt.
Unjust laws of citizenship can be explained by the fixation of American culture on the unpredictable, "evil" nature of people rather than the more common goodness of the individual. Fear, or terror, born out of a single event one September, has come to shape not only our war policy but also the way we internally police our nation and stalk our borders.
It's been a long time since we remembered that people are good.
King writes it this way: "We have allowed our civilization to outdistance our culture…Civilization refers to what we use; culture refers to what we are…" America needs, has in fact always needed, immigrants and new citizens to keep its economy and culture vital. But throughout our history, from the Alien Act of 1798 and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the citizenship literacy test of 1917 and the first nation-based "emergency" quota system of 1921, our country has operated in a schizophrenic manner, not wanting or welcoming the very immigrants which made it great. The Know-Nothing party, created for the sole purpose of opposing my immigrant ancestors the Irish Catholics, lives on in the Minutemen and now the inglorious border wall. We have consistently despised the very things which make us strong. It was only the innate goodness of man, coupled with divine Providence, that these opposing forces never gained the upper hand and tyrannically ended immigration
"The great problem confronting us today is that we have allowed the means by which we live to outdistance the ends for which we live." As a nation, America is materialistically wealthy but spiritually poor, full of knowledge but too often without wisdom. Capitalism, with its unseen hand of the marketplace, does whatever it can to keep the prices down and sales up; as a result, low-wage labor provided by immigrants has become an integral part of our national GDP. American citizens defend their rights as consumers but too often lose sight of the ends for which we live. As King writes, "As long as there is poverty in this wold, no man can be totally rich even if he has a billion dollars." In the same vein, no one can be a citizen if there is someone living within our borders who is denied the basic rights of other residents.
It's been too long since we made legislation which affirms the fact that man, made in God's own image, is good and deserving of certain inalienable rights, alien or not.
IN this world of globalization, we must realize that the tenets this country was based upon do not apply merely to the continental U.S. but to the world at large. Globalization must have regulations, indeed, but we are hopelessly interconnected now so that the fate of one "illegal" immigrant is the fate of so many others. This new concept of the world begs a revised definition of the term "citizen;" how much longer can our nation exist with its double-standard for citizenship, with its 14 million right-less residents working to sustain the rights and wealth of the rest of our nation. We must come to terms that the way our nation stands right now, my rights are secured because someone else's are denied; my paycheck is buoyed by the sub-standard wages of illegal immigrants we economically need and legislatively condemn.
It's been too long since we recalled the goodness in our fellow man, in the global community, in our bordering neighbors, in all our residents of this great land.
"The American dream reminds us that every man is heir to the legacy of worthiness." And so, we must conclude that a nation which holds tight to restrictive, antiquated quote systems has forgotten the worth of the individual. We must reason that a nation which closes Ellis Island, hunts immigrants, and deports workers must not view people as an asset any longer, but as a burden. Far from being overpopulated, our nation's immigration legislation heralds the arrogant notion that we already have everyone we need within our borders. But we know better than that. We must "in-source" ideas from Gandhi's India, ideas about the importance of man and nonviolence. We must remember that people are good, not goods or commodities or without rights.
It's been too long since we remembered the goodness of which we are capable and the means by which every one of us arrived at our blessed rights.
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1. For the Sumac Glaze: In a medium saucepot, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Sweat the garlic for about 1 minute. Add the sumac and Aleppo pepper and toast in the hot oil for 30 to 60 seconds until fragrant. Pour in the molasses, brown sugar, vinegar, salt, plus 3 Tablespoons of water and bring to a simmer. Add the lemon peel and remove from the heat, allowing the mixture to steep for 30 minutes. Strain the glaze.The glaze will hold refrigerated for up to a week, bring to room temperature before using, as the mixture will thicken when cold.
2. Preheat a grill with two zones of heat: medium and medium high.
3. For the Charred Herb Vinaigrette: Combine the ingredients for the dipping liquid and set aside in a 2" half hotel pan, large enough to fit your bundled herbs. Trim any large stems from the herbs. Using butchers twine, bundle the herbs together. Place the herbs on the grill over medium heat and allow the herbs to char. Every few minutes, dunk and roll the herb bundle in your dipping liquid and continue to cook on the medium grill until nicely charred and the scallions are fully tender. Remove from the heat, unbundle and once cool, remove all the tough stems from the mixture and chop the charred herbs. Whisk together the ingredients for the vinaigrette base, as well as any remaining dipping sauce mixture. Fold in the chopped charred herbs and reserve.


to silence the loud beeping.
Slumbering senses come alive slowly.
The muddy hue and the faint smell of vanilla, inviting.
Pens stand in a vase, at the ready.
A light burns low and calming.
The pages rustle softly as angel's wings.
the story of the Prince who left the castle to claim me.
cannot compare to knowing Him fully.
I have slipped the bonds of the temporal and into the eternal.
These moments - this hour - is sacred.
It shadows all others to come.
The day intrudes, brash and demanding.
Chores beckon and duty calls.
I crash back into the boundaries of time and flesh.
And I count the hours until we will meet again.
I feel the intimacy in the meeting. There is none like it, until we get all the way home. Thanks for this beautiful poem, Melissa. You express the longings in my own heart too.
I love this! You put my experience and emotions into words like I could not! Beautiful...Thank you!
"The pages rustle softly as angel's wings.
What a beautiful poem! So intimate! I love it! Saying hi from Walk with Him Wednesdays.
i love this...i have always the sweetness of those morning hours spent in His grace. thanks for sharing!
What a stunningly beautiful poem! Thank you so much for sharing it!