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>The New Yorker: "What You Do Out Here, When You're Alone" by Philipp Meyer
June 23, 2010 Cliff 3 Comments
This story reminds me of a T.C. Boyle story in Harper's earlier this year. Max, a Porsche mechanic with a successful business, is married to Lilli, trailer trash who, with the help of his money, as cleaned up her act. They've moved from Huntsville to a suburb of Huston that he hates, and now she's ashamed of him. There's already tension, but the story begins when they're dealing with the aftermath of what Max thinks of as "the Accident"—their son having had his skull mashed during a night in jail after a cocaine bust.
Max is making plans, though, and that's what the story is all about. Moving on. Resisting the temptation of the next-door neighbor. Coping. I don't quite understand Lilli or her motivation, but Max I like.
And I like the ending, too, with Max having a clear vision of where he's going. Whether he'll actually go there is another question.
It's a good story. Not great.
[available online only to subscribers, but here's a Q&A with Philipp Meyer]
"What You Do Out Here, When You're Alone" by Philipp Meyer
Posted in: New Yorker 2010
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3 thoughts on ">The New Yorker: "What You Do Out Here, When You're Alone" by Philipp Meyer"
>I thought of TC Boyle too, as I read this, but I was remembering a NY-er story from maybe five years ago.
Ann Graham says:
>I found the suspense the most exciting part, at first, because I was anxious to find out exactly what happened to Harley. However, the marital problems and life decisions are more thought provoking while we watch Max grapple with them.
F. Escobar says:
>I agree that Max was an interesting character. But I found the story far too slow. There are several reasons for this. Forgive me for going into some detail, but I just want to exemplify these points.
The language is rife with problems. For instance, there are unnecessary explanations. When "the goths" come up, the author explains: "teen-agers who wore their clothing stuck with safety pins and white makeup on their faces" (p. 78). That's a tepidly straightforward description of goths, which makes it unnecessary in the twenty-first century. It would be akin to stopping a story to explain that an elephant is "a grey, thick-skinned, four-legged creature with a trunk capable of curling." Not needed.
There are unnecessary explanations in another sense. Since we are following Max's consciousness, things that are obvious to him should not show up as comments. Take this one, when Max lies down next to his wife: "She was small and delicate; she looked like a pixie, like something from the movies. Even now, at forty-two, she seemed to glow in the dim light" (p. 80). Doesn't Max know that already? Would he really go through all that in his mind when he sees his wife that evening?
There are descriptions that deprive us of sense-based experiences, making the text too telly rather than sufficiently showy. Here's one: "He was surprised he'd said it, and so was Lilli. He could tell it knocked her right off her tracks, and he could see her mind working to catch up" (p. 84). This offers us no sense whatsoever of Lilli's reaction. We're forced to grope our way from the abstraction to the concrete images Max perceived.
Often, the symbolism is embarrassingly obvious. For instance: "Lilli had not noticed the flowers either, just the overgrown lawn" (p. 78).
Some devices also slow down the story, and they are not strictly a matter of language. There's a standard, and thus trite, mirror scene on page 81 ("looking at himself in the mirror […]").
The son's Accident is hyped up and then allowed to fade into an indeterminate account in which we really don't know what happened.
But, above all, there are the flashbacks. The story is flashbacked to a standstill. Max's ruminations shoot us out of the narrative present of the story and force us to dwell in past episodes and drawn-out, past-imperfect explanations that make the narrative march of the story almost nonexistent. Almost all of the information presented through flashbacks could've been integrated into a couple of powerful scenes, without the need to digress and explain.
The framework of the tale is also fairly conventional: it reminds me of the flashback-as-you-wait model, which came up, for instance, in Ryu Murakami's "At the Airport" published in Zoetrope last year.
All in all, it's not bad. It could've improved a lot in a couple of drafts and a more engaging choice for the narrative present of the story.


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Last July, with the ink on our business school diplomas still drying, we left corporate jobs in investment banking and real estate for what we call greener pastures and healthier liquids. We had no background in beverages, but we did think we were keen about what people wanted and how to build a brand around it.
We researched the available tea bases, looking for one that embodied what the market wanted: antioxidants, energy, vitamins and minerals in an organic, low-calorie form. On a trip to Argentina, we learned about yerba maté, the novel tea base that fit what we were looking for but hadn't been taken mainstream. It boasted 90 percent more antioxidants than green tea, 24 vitamins and minerals, 15 amino acids, and "calm" energy from compounds that offered a sustained boost without a crash. So finding a base as exotic as yerba maté solved our formulation problem, but it created another big one: what would we call it? We couldn't brand the product too exotically and still bring maté to Main Street with much success. Over a two-month period, we worked through lists of variations on the name, with "Maté Tea" surfacing as the proper choice. I'm not sure who to credit with the idea, but we now appreciate it as a make-or-break decision for us to call it Maté Tea —and that really hadn't been done before.
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RFIB Group (RFIB or the Group), the international Lloyd's insurance and reinsurance broker, today announces the appointment of Simon Foreman as Divisional Director in RFIB Marine. Simon takes up his new position on 23 October 2009.
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#include <aws/devops-guru/DevOpsGuru_EXPORTS.h>
#include <aws/core/utils/memory/stl/AWSString.h>
#include <utility>

namespace Aws
{
namespace Utils
{
namespace Json
{
  class JsonValue;
  class JsonView;
} // namespace Json
} // namespace Utils
namespace DevOpsGuru
{
namespace Model
{

  /**
   *
Metadata about the detection source that generates proactive anomalies. The
   * anomaly is detected using analysis of the metric data
 over a period of
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See Also:
   AWS
   * API Reference

   */
  class AWS_DEVOPSGURU_API AnomalySourceMetadata
  {
  public:
    AnomalySourceMetadata();
    AnomalySourceMetadata(Aws::Utils::Json::JsonView jsonValue);
    AnomalySourceMetadata& operator=(Aws::Utils::Json::JsonView jsonValue);
    Aws::Utils::Json::JsonValue Jsonize() const;

    /**
     *
The source of the anomaly.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetSource() const{ return m_source; }

    /**
     *
The source of the anomaly.

     */
    inline bool SourceHasBeenSet() const { return m_sourceHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The source of the anomaly.

     */
    inline void SetSource(const Aws::String& value) { m_sourceHasBeenSet = true; m_source = value; }

    /**
     *
The source of the anomaly.

     */
    inline void SetSource(Aws::String&& value) { m_sourceHasBeenSet = true; m_source = std::move(value); }

    /**
     *
The source of the anomaly.

     */
    inline void SetSource(const char* value) { m_sourceHasBeenSet = true; m_source.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The source of the anomaly.

     */
    inline AnomalySourceMetadata& WithSource(const Aws::String& value) { SetSource(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The source of the anomaly.

     */
    inline AnomalySourceMetadata& WithSource(Aws::String&& value) { SetSource(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The source of the anomaly.

     */
    inline AnomalySourceMetadata& WithSource(const char* value) { SetSource(value); return *this;}

    /**
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The name of the anomaly's resource.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetSourceResourceName() const{ return m_sourceResourceName; }

    /**
     *
The name of the anomaly's resource.

     */
    inline bool SourceResourceNameHasBeenSet() const { return m_sourceResourceNameHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The name of the anomaly's resource.

     */
    inline void SetSourceResourceName(const Aws::String& value) { m_sourceResourceNameHasBeenSet = true; m_sourceResourceName = value; }

    /**
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The name of the anomaly's resource.

     */
    inline void SetSourceResourceName(Aws::String&& value) { m_sourceResourceNameHasBeenSet = true; m_sourceResourceName = std::move(value); }

    /**
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The name of the anomaly's resource.

     */
    inline void SetSourceResourceName(const char* value) { m_sourceResourceNameHasBeenSet = true; m_sourceResourceName.assign(value); }

    /**
     *
The name of the anomaly's resource.

     */
    inline AnomalySourceMetadata& WithSourceResourceName(const Aws::String& value) { SetSourceResourceName(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The name of the anomaly's resource.

     */
    inline AnomalySourceMetadata& WithSourceResourceName(Aws::String&& value) { SetSourceResourceName(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The name of the anomaly's resource.

     */
    inline AnomalySourceMetadata& WithSourceResourceName(const char* value) { SetSourceResourceName(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The anomaly's resource type.

     */
    inline const Aws::String& GetSourceResourceType() const{ return m_sourceResourceType; }

    /**
     *
The anomaly's resource type.

     */
    inline bool SourceResourceTypeHasBeenSet() const { return m_sourceResourceTypeHasBeenSet; }

    /**
     *
The anomaly's resource type.

     */
    inline void SetSourceResourceType(const Aws::String& value) { m_sourceResourceTypeHasBeenSet = true; m_sourceResourceType = value; }

    /**
     *
The anomaly's resource type.

     */
    inline void SetSourceResourceType(Aws::String&& value) { m_sourceResourceTypeHasBeenSet = true; m_sourceResourceType = std::move(value); }

    /**
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The anomaly's resource type.

     */
    inline void SetSourceResourceType(const char* value) { m_sourceResourceTypeHasBeenSet = true; m_sourceResourceType.assign(value); }

    /**
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     */
    inline AnomalySourceMetadata& WithSourceResourceType(const Aws::String& value) { SetSourceResourceType(value); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The anomaly's resource type.

     */
    inline AnomalySourceMetadata& WithSourceResourceType(Aws::String&& value) { SetSourceResourceType(std::move(value)); return *this;}

    /**
     *
The anomaly's resource type.

     */
    inline AnomalySourceMetadata& WithSourceResourceType(const char* value) { SetSourceResourceType(value); return *this;}

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    Aws::String m_source;
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    Aws::String m_sourceResourceName;
    bool m_sourceResourceNameHasBeenSet;

    Aws::String m_sourceResourceType;
    bool m_sourceResourceTypeHasBeenSet;
  };

} // namespace Model
} // namespace DevOpsGuru
} // namespace Aws

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In fact, she's at the root of a lot of my angst. When she first moved into town, believe it or not, I was thrilled. I thought we might partner on some events, pool our resources, and so on. She'd have none of that. Right from the start, she started spreading brochures around town claiming Irish dancing was better for children than ballet. Well, I never! And I can't believe I'm losing student over this. So am I stressed? Am I? Hell, yes. But my friends and family don't need to treat me like a child. I'm a grown-up and I will survive. It sure is nice to have so many people caring about me, but they just need to give me a little space. Do you know what I mean?
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Our Illinois accident attorneys saw an article that Time online posted focusing on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study that we briefly covered a few days ago. The article states that driving and texting simultaneously has increased close to 50% over the past year and 20% of all drivers say that they have used text messaging or emailing while driving. However, the use of headsets has increased along with the amount of people who are using hand-held devices.
The survey continued on to show that the majority of drivers on the road will not hesitate to answer a phone call while operating a car, and will not pull over, but continue driving once already on the phone. Even though many states have worked to ban texting while driving statewide, despite those efforts there was still an increase in texting while behind the wheel.
The Governors Highway Safety Association acknowledges that simple educational efforts are not going to change drivers' behaviors. What the GHSA does believe will be helpful is stronger enforcement of the texting while driving laws. A spokesperson for the GHSA believes that drivers need to be in fear of receiving a ticket for texting while driving, and until then, they will continue to partake in those behaviors.
Our Chicago car accident lawyers also saw that Wired.com responded to the NHTSA study by saying that enforcing the laws that are already in place against texting while driving is the best place that states can start. Pairing reinforcement of these laws with the aggressive educational campaign would help to instill in drivers' minds that texting while driving is an unacceptable behavior.
The Washington Post also covered the NHTSA study, noting how distracted driving is one of the biggest contributors to highway crash fatalities, with close to 3,100 deaths last year alone. It is up to state legislatures and police forces to enforce the current laws, and decide if total cellphone use in automobiles should be illegal as well. New technologies, such as a Smartphone application that disables mobile devices automatically in moving vehicles, are available but not taken advantage or easily enabled. Hands free equipment does free up the drivers' hands, but the article also states that it does not make the driver less distracted than they are if they are holding the phone.
Our Illinois car accident attorneys encourage our readers to stop using cell phones while driving to avoid all distractions possible. Distracted driving takes a driver's eyes, minds, and hands off of the road, which can prove to be dangerous and even fatal for not only themselves, but also other people that they share the road with. We hope that all states will start enforcing texting while driving laws more vigorously to reduce texting related motor vehicle fatalities.


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Dubai: 4 accused get six months in jail, to be deported for detaining man, demanding Dh800
The victim had borrowed the money from his friend who called him to her place and refused to let him leave until he handed over the amount
Afkar Ali Ahmed
Published: Mon 23 Jan 2023, 7:49 AM
Two African women and two men of the same nationality were referred to the Criminal Court by Dubai Public Prosecution for detaining a person in an apartment in the emirate.
Last August, an African filed a report saying that his friend had been detained in an apartment and that he had received a call from him asking him to deliver Dh800 at a separate location.
He added that he went to the location and met one of the convicts, who had asked for the money in exchange of his friend. On meeting the accused, the man declared that he did not have the amount and rushed towards the apartment where the victim was being held. He then informed the police.
A team of investigators then arrived to the location, where they found the complainant who informed them of the apartment's location. The police then found the victim and arrested the convicts.
The victim stated that one of the two accused women (his friend) had asked him to come to her residence. She then proceeded to ask him for the money he borrowed. However, he told her that he did not have money, which is when her friends held him and they called the complainant to bring the amount. The complainant was told that he would have to give the amount in order to free his friend.
During investigations, the convict said that the victim had borrowed the amount from her and did not respond to her when she asked for it back. So, she called him over and detained him with the help of her friends.
The Court condemned them and sentenced the convicted to six months in prison. They will be deported after they serve their sentence.
Dubai: 2 jailed for stealing cash forgotten by a passenger in taxi
Dubai: Man gets 10 years in jail for trying to smuggle drugs into UAE
Dubai: Driver jailed for stealing Dh60,000 from hospital, gambling with it
afkarali@khaleejtimes.com
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Customers are informed that drivers may be delayed due to waterlogging and traffic on the roads
Ramadan, Eid in space: UAE astronaut talks of fasting, sharing Emirati meals with colleagues
He says that since he is in the category of 'traveller', fasting is not mandatory while he is on the ISS
Children's toys, photos: UAE astronaut reveals personal items he will carry to space for 6-month mission
Dr Sultan Al Neyadi says that these items will help him keep connection with people back home
Dubai: Sheikh Maktoum blessed with baby girl; royal siblings take to social media to wish him
The Deputy Ruler also shares his birthday with his first daughter Hind
UAE: Emirati astronaut to conduct at least 20 science experiments on International Space Station during upcoming mission
The endeavour will put the nation on the list of only 11 countries that have sent their astronauts on long-term space missions
The UAE is a role model for gender balance, says top official
A total of 56 local and international companies have joined a nationwide initiative to raise percentage of women occupying senior leadership positions to 30%
Sheikh Mohamed visits Pakistan: Leaders to discuss economic, trade and bilateral issues
High-profile visit signifies strong relations between the two governments
Heavy rains in Dubai: Global Village announces temporary closure due to unstable weather conditions
The decision has been taken in consultation with relevant authorities, and means tonight's planned performance of Mahmoud El Esseily is cancelled

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Catholic Virtues
True & False Paths to Happiness - XXVII
Catholics Should Make Exercises
of Transcendence
Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira
What is transcendence? How does one transcend? As explained in the previous articles, (here, here and here) the search for the absolute consists in seeking in varied ways how creatures and things participate in the infinite perfections of God. Therefore, it is to seek something that transcends them.
And so, the questions arise: What is it to transcend? How does one transcend?
The focus of our attention will now be on this transcendence. That is, how to transcend the sensible and merely physical aspects of a being until we come to sense in it the Transcendent Being par excellence, that Being that transcends us infinitely, which is God.
The scale of transcendence
Imagine a particle of granite so small that its size can be compared to a grain of dust, and then suppose that the Pão de Açúcar (Sugar Loaf Mountain) is composed entirely of the same material. What would be the relationship between this tiny stone fragment and the Pão de Açúcar?
The massive granite mountain of Pão de Açúcar
in Rio de Janeiro
It is the relationship of something insignificant to something else of the same nature that has an overwhelming quantitative disproportion. The mass of granite in the Pão de Açúcar is immense; the one that exists in the tiny particle, insignificant.
With regard to quantity, the disproportion is colossal; however, regarding quality, there is no disproportion as both are made of the same material. There is a huge – but not transcendent – difference, since the Pão de Açúcar cannot be said to have a qualitative difference in matter from the small particle.
Going up the scale, a vegetable, whatever its type, transcends a stone, which has a mineral nature. And, just as a plant transcends a mineral, an animal transcends the plant. And man, a rational animal, transcends the simple animal.
Transcendence assumes the existence of a type of superiority of one thing over the other regarding the factor of quality.
However, certain analogies can be found in all categories. Consider, for example, purity on the ladder of transcendence. Besides the candor of a crystal, there is the purity of the lily which, as a being, transcends the crystal. Likewise, the purity of the dove transcends that of the lily, as it belongs to the animal kingdom. Finally, there is the purity of a man who, as a being, transcends the dove. The notion of purity is, therefore, analogously applicable to various beings.
The lily & the dove, both symbols of purity but on different scales
The same is true of the notion of distinction. The distinction existing in a pearl, a rose or a pheasant is different in each of these beings and is becoming more refined as it passes from one kingdom of nature to another. But superior to all of them is the distinction of a princess. Distinction is, therefore, an attribute that applies analogously to beings of different categories.
What if a crystal were able to think? It could imagine the existence of a being of a nature superior to its own. It would be able to know the purity of the lily, and it would understand what it has that is similar to itself, but it would be dazzled by the candor of the lily because, compared to itself, it is qualitatively much superior.
Likewise, if the lily were able to think, it would be enthusiastic to know the purity of the dove. And if the dove could reflect and know the purity of a human soul – as, for example, that of a St. Maria Goretti – he would be much more enthusiastic.
What is the reason for this? It is because the quality that a being possesses is realized in a creature of a higher category in a more eminent, fuller and more brilliant way, in another sphere of reality.
Exercises of transcendence
We depart, therefore, from the consideration that beings transcend one another and it is necessary to love this relationship: The plant transcends the stone, the animal transcends the plant, man transcends the animal; and in another sense of the word, one man can transcend another. Unimaginable, mysterious, unfathomable superiorities exist, and we must be enthusiastic about them.
Contemplating the night clouds
can be an exercise in transcendence
In life it is normal to see the ocean, a mountain, certain clouds or a very beautiful moonlit night. But these things can encompass great beauty and great values, to which man must pay attention for they have a latent meaning.
So it is that, in man, there is a kind of insatiable thirst for something ever more perfect, more elevated, more transcendent. He is able to envision through intelligence other worlds, realities, perfections and firmaments that he normally does not have before his eyes.
Hearing the sound of a bell, someone might consider it something routine, or even banal. But it is possible to transcend the mere sounding of the bell. Anyone who has ever heard a recording with the bells of the Abbey of Solesmes in France can hear in it all the aspirations for glory represented there, as well as all desires for intimacy, all the impulses for action, as all the yearnings for contemplation.
Every ideal of the fight receives an incentive in those bells, as does every yearning for peace. All the harmonic contraries of which the human soul is capable find, in these chimes, their expression.
Seeking what is transcendent in a splendorous oak
While one person might perceive only a beautiful sound, another would ascend to something that speaks of glory, action, contemplation, struggle or peace. That is, it transcends the mere sound. A multitude of other objects lend themselves to a similar ascension. A simple garden tree can be an object suitable for a transcendent reflection.
Looking at a certain tree, I can see what, according to reason, is good in it: lightness, elevation, elegance. Thus, my senses lead me to an act of love; from this I am led to desire eternal life, where I will see, face to face, in its ultimate perfection, unfathomable and eternal, the uncreated elegance, elevation and lightness.
Doing this, I would have made an exercise in transcendence.
Why would we call this progression upward transcendence? Because the created thing that was the object of my contemplation was transcended and I moved into something absolute.
I was able to reach the idea of an Absolute Being that has all perfections – therefore, also the lightness, elevation and elegance that we distinguish in a simple tree. That absolute Being is God.
The chiming of bells can awake certain sensations in a man that cause him to transcend
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Happiness & Our Final End - 2
Happiness of an Idealistic Child - 3
The Concept of First Innocence - 4
Calmness, an Integral Part of Innocence - 5
The Fight Is another Dimension of Innocence - 6
Innocence Reaches its Plentitude as One Matures - 7
Innocence in Centuries Past - 8
Is It Possible to Recover Innocence? - 9
Fulfilling Our Own Model Ideal - 10
Sacral Contemplation, the Antidote to Secularism - 11
Finding the Sacral in the Temporal Sphere - 12
A Well-Ordered Temporal Society Is a Symbol of God - Part 13
Relativism Destroys the Opposition between Good & Evil- Part 14
Admiring the Superior & the Inferior - Part 15
We Assimilate What We Admire - Part 16
The Link between Reality & the Symbol- Part 17
The Search for the Profound Meaning of Things - Part 18
The Symbolic Character of All Aspects of Reality - Part 19
Nausea of Normalcy & Thirst for the Absolute - Part 20
Different Ways to Seek the Absolute - Part 21
False Absolutes that Lead Man Astray- Part 22
Awakening the 'Roar' of the Absolutes in Man - Part 23
The 'Fourth Way' of St. Thomas Wakens Thirst for God in Men - Part 24
The Pyramid of Archetypes that Lead to God - Part 25
The Essential Role of Archetypes - Part 26
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"Do something!" "Do something!" But Americans disagree about what
Tom Baxter August 5, 2019 7:32 pm
By Tom Baxter
On a day when President Trump has addressed the nation to condemn "racism, bigotry and white supremacy," it might not seem appropriate to begin with Champ Bailey's Pro Football Hall of Fame induction speech on Saturday.
But the former Georgia Bulldog great spoke about that very subject with expertise, as he put it. It's something, he said, which black men "have more expertise in than any aspect of our lives."
"I'm a firm believer that if you want to create change you better start with your friends and your family, so I'm starting here today," Bailey said in the closing minutes of his speech. "The first thing people see when they look at me is not a Pro Football Hall of Famer, or a husband or a father. They view me first as a black man.
"So on behalf of all the black men that I've mentioned tonight and many more out there who've had the same experiences that I've had in my lifetime, we say this to all of our white friends. When we tell you about our fears, please listen. When we tell you we're afraid for our kids, please listen. When we tell you there are many challenges we face because of the color of our skin, please listen. And please do not get caught up in how the message is delivered."
This is a black man who has succeeded in white America in a way few do. He's worked closely and had friendships with white agents, coaches and teammates. He's been cheered by mostly white throngs at Sanford and Mile High stadiums. When someone like this gets choked up talking about his fears for his kids, imagine the fear level among those who have been less fortunate in their encounters with white America.
Bailey was right, that real change involves a long and patient conversation. But the racially-motivated shooting in El Paso Saturday, followed so shortly by a deranged shooter's brief but deadly rampage in Dayton, made it incumbent on Trump to take some kind of decisive action, or to seem to.
"Do something! Do something!" a crowd in Ohio chanted at Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine when he spoke at a memorial service Sunday. What that something is, to different Americans, is the great knot of our politics.
Trump in his speech promised to defeat the "sinister ideologies" of racial hatred, which largely seems to mean authorizing the FBI to go after potentially violent white nationalist networks like the one on which the El Paso shooter posted a statement ("Manifesto" is beginning to sound too grandiose for these recurring rants.) before his murders.
The website 8chan, where the shooter allegedly posted, has already been shut down by its service provider, but Trump's words on this subject seem at least as noteworthy as his grudging use at last of the word "white."
"The perils of the internet and social media cannot be ignored and will not be ignored," Trump said. Critics will immediately point out the president's near-constant tweets, but he knows the voters who cheer him on social media also fear the "perils" they can encounter online. Where this new-found concern might go, administratively and legislatively, is one of the big questions to arise from this speech.
In a pre-speech tweet, Trump floated the idea of a compromise involving gun sale background checks and immigration reform, but in his speech he voiced support only for the concept of red-flag laws that would allow guns to be confiscated from people considered to be dangerous.
"Mental illness and hatred pull the trigger. Not the gun," Trump said.
The latest round of mass shootings comes at a time when the National Rifle Association is reeling from internal problems, but it could not have been more pleased with Trump's formulation of the problem.
"Evil," "wicked," "twisted monster." There was a lot in Trump's speech that was intended to distance the president from the perpetrators, and quell the idea that his rhetoric helped to incite their acts. There wasn't so much that seemed aimed at truly comprehending how some got so twisted. As Champ Bailey said, if you want real change, you better start with your friends and your family.
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Tom Baxter has written about politics and the South for more than four decades. He was national editor and chief political correspondent at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and later edited The Southern Political Report, an online publication, for four years. Tom was the consultant for the 2008 election night coverage sponsored jointly by Current TV, Digg and Twitter, and a 2011 fellow at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. He has written about the impact of Georgia's and Alabama's immigration laws in reports for the Center for American Progress. Tom and his wife, Lili, have three adult children and seven grandchildren.
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What we need are much saner laws concerning firearms.
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. | According to the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit research organization, it reckons that so far this year guns have killed 4,764 Americans, including 873 teenagers—and 196 children. Every day 109 Americans die from guns. Other advanced industrialized countries show us solutions everyday to this grave problem.
Furthermore, we can see what a democratic country like New Zealand does after a terrorist attack on Christchurch. They voted immediately to eliminate assault rifles, a measure that passed in about four weeks. This was record time in their parliament of 120 members, with only one opposed.
Any attempt to control firearms is something that our state and national representatives are afraid to do, even though most American citizens, according to reliable polls, would not object to reasonable solutions. This is also true of many National Rifle Association (NRA) members. Again, the NRA has strayed from its original goals. It is in the iron grip of gun manufacturers and paid lobbyists that feed off membership dues created by fear. This is something some of their members are becoming aware of, as the recent dissension in that organization proves.
Consequently, we should ban assault weapons, close loopholes that allow domestic abusers to buy guns and prevent the bulk sale of firearms. Accordingly, we need to create a national licensing program. This would require prospective gun-buyers to undergo an extensive background check by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, entailing fingerprinting and an interview, to obtain a five-year gun license.
Moreover, a study from 2015 that shows gun deaths in Connecticut dropped by 40 percent after the state introduced a gun licensing program. Massachusetts, which requires buyers to obtain a permit—a weeks' long process involving an interview and a background check—has one of the lowest gun death rates in America. In 2016 it had 3.4 gun deaths per 100,000 people. Nearby New Hampshire, where buying a gun is a much simpler process, had 9.4 deaths per 100,000.
Of course, any comprehensive legislation would have to pass Congress. While the Republican Party remains controlling the Senate, that is unlikely to happen. In March, having taken control of the House, Democrats passed a universal background check bill, the first major gun control bill since 1994. Though such a step is backed by a majority of Americans, it has not gone anywhere in the Senate, controlled by Republicans. If you agree, then let us all work together make these important changes in our gun laws which will make America much safer again.Report


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A Chicago park advocacy group asked the Supreme Court to block construction on former President Obama's presidential library, on the same day that shovels broke ground on the project.
Protect Our Parks and several other plaintiffs made the 11th hour plea to the high court Monday over environmental concerns, according to The Hill.
The group asked the court to issue an emergency halt on construction in the city's Jackson Park on the South Side, claiming that federal, state and local governments broke the project into smaller pieces to sidestep a full environmental assessment, according to the report.
The emergency request said that construction would reportedly "demolish significant parts of Jackson Park, its historical resources, parkland, and trees, which will, in turn, adversely affect the human environment, the historic landscape, wildlife, and migratory birds."
A 2018 legal push from Protect Our Parks to halt construction on the $500 million project was blocked by a federal judge.
"We await word from the Court as to next steps," an Obama Foundation spokesperson told the outlet.
Advocacy group Protect Our Parks have previously attempted to stop the construction of former President Barack Obama's presidential library in 2018.
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The fully digitized presidential library will be built near the University of Chicago campus, commemorating the area where the Democrat began his political career.


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THEORY Debuts Title Track Of New Album 'Say Nothing'
Jimmy Fontaine
With a little more than a month before the release of its new album Say Nothing, THEORY has debuted the title track.
The emotional song is about a relationship destroyed by a breakdown in communication.
"A big issue in a lot of relationships is a lack of communication, myself included," lead singer and songwriter Tyler Connolly said, in a release. "'Say Nothing' delves into the maelstrom of a breakup and how frustrating it can be to not tell someone how you really feel."
The track follows the release of "History of Violence" and "Strangers."
Say Nothing, recorded in London with producer Martin Terefe (Yungblud, Jason Mraz), is THEORY's first studio album since 2017's Wake Up Call.
THEORY will mark the album's release on Jan. 31 with the first of two nights at The Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver, before heading out on a cross-Canada tour that wraps up Feb. 29.
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I Knew Taylor Swift Was Trouble When She Walked In
By Christiana Paradis
It's never been a secret: I dislike Taylor Swift. Unfortunately, in a world where it appears everyone loves her, I for the most part, keep quiet because it really isn't worth the fight. However, her latest video, which was brought to my attention by a wonderful friend, has infuriated me to the point where I need to say something. And "haters gonna hate, hate, hate" about that — and quite frankly I don't care.
Regularly in the media domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault is presented and normalized (Has anyone seen the new Maroon 5 video?). It is seen more as a given and normalcy in our society than an atrocity.
Often when this happens we see a male perpetrator of domestic violence and a female victim. Working in the domestic violence field, very rarely do we talk about female perpetrators and male victims because our statistics don't support that it happens very often. 85% of domestic violence victims are women (Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime Data Brief, Intimate Partner Violence, 1993-2001, February 2003). But it is important to remember that statistics are only as good as what is reported and quite often, cases of domestic violence against men, when the perpetrator is female, are not reported. The reason for this is simple: gender stereotypes are still very prevalent in our society. Not many men feel comfortable reporting to the police, hospital or domestic violence shelter saying "my significant other hit me," because to say that is presumed emasculating.
This has to stop. Anyone can be a victim of domestic violence and anyone can be a perpetrator. We need a society where everyone feels safe to report regardless of gender.
The same as domestic violence against women has become normalized in the media, domestic violence against men has become comical. (Remember the social experiment of domestic violence of men versus women in public?) Taylor Swift's new video for "Blank Space" is no different.
The video begins depicting a very common theme in domestic violence relationships – the honeymoon phase – where everything is wonderful and the person expresses a lot of love early on in the relationship. In this video the victim has found Princess Charming, aka Taylor Swift. However, this relationship quickly turns unhealthy as some domestic violence relationships do when a perpetrator may accuse a victim of cheating with little to no evidence. This is apparent in the video when Taylor sees Sean texting someone else and automatically assumes it is another female. She even expresses this excessive jealousy as she screams (emotional abuse), hits, and pushes (physical abuse) Sean in fury. We then see Taylor throw his cell phone in a fountain, cut up his clothing, and destroy his car — all things that are done to intimidate, threaten, and embarrass the victim. Frequently working in the field of domestic violence, I see cell phones are destroyed because it makes it impossible for the victim to call for help and destroying property in an effort to threaten and terrorize the victim are signs of further emotional abuse.
Taylor's messed up world and perceptions are evident not only in this video, but in the song lyrics themselves —"boys only love it if it's torture." First, this statement is extremely emasculating towards men; similarly to when men call all women girls, in an attempt to infantilize us. This statement emasculates all men into boys and makes a sweeping judgment about what men like and don't like. Let me clear this up for you, Taylor. NO ONE likes torture. NO ONE likes to be made to feel less of a person by another person, no matter what your gender identify. Maybe I am over rationalizing? You were just trying to make a statement about men liking relationships that are difficult. Guess what? I still don't buy it. What frustrates me further is that this video came from someone who recently proclaimed to the world that she was a feminist. Perhaps I should explain that feminism is about gender equality. We do not achieve gender equality by emasculating men, but thank you for furthering that stereotype.
We see the cycle begin all over again at the end of the video as a new victim comes to Taylor. I don't care if you're Taylor Swift or a person just sitting at home on their computer watching Taylor Swift, we need to stop presenting domestic violence against men as funny or less serious than violence against women. Violence against anyone is not okay.
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Is there anything these days more retro than the idea of a door-to-door salesman? With Amazon.com taking over the world and pulling the leases out from under shopping malls across North America, it seems almost quaint to think this profession was once a manner in which folks routinely browsed consumer goods. Not to mention a means that could provide a livelihood for a husband, wife and their family of eight boys.
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From women's suffrage, to progress towards gender equality.
Above: Photograph of women working in the New York Life field training department, 1953.
Below: Photograph of the women of New York Life operating a switchboard in the 1930s.
To mark Women's History Month, we celebrate great women—from the activists of the suffrage movement to the present day—and reflect on our own role in female empowerment.
Over the past year we've been proud to support an exhibition at the New York Historical Society entitled "Women March." Created to commemorate the centennial of women's suffrage, the exhibition celebrated 200 years of women's collective action, while also featuring biographies of 54 key figures who helped galvanize the movement. These individuals kickstarted the progress towards full and equal rights for women that continues today in the "Me Too" movement and the election of our first female vice president.
The fight for suffrage
One of the most famous figures in the women's suffrage movement is Susan B. Anthony. Originally drawn to politics through the abolitionist and temperance movements, she became an avid women's rights activist after meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the early 1850s. In 1868, the pair became the editors of the political magazine Revolution, and in 1869 they founded the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). Originally part of the broader suffrage movement, their feelings of betrayal when gender was omitted from the 15th Amendment (which declares that U.S. citizens' right to vote "shall not be denied or abridged . . . on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude") precipitated a split from the broader movement. Anthony continued to press for suffrage her entire life and was arrested for attempting to vote in 1872.
On August 26, 2020, to mark the centenary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, a 14-foot-tall bronze statue of Anthony, Stanton, and Black women's rights pioneer, Sojourner Truth, was unveiled in New York City's Central Park. A live-streamed ceremony included recitals of suffragist writings by actors Viola Davis, Meryl Streep, and America Ferrera, while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an in-person address.1 New York Life is proud to have made a significant contribution to the fund that paid for the statue.
New York Life has an intriguing connection to Anthony, in that both her father and her brother were employed as New York Life agents. In fact, Anthony herself was one of New York Life's first female policyholders, using the cash value of her life insurance policy as collateral to help get women admitted to the University of Rochester in New York for the first time in 1900.
Among the many other interesting figures in the women's suffrage movement are the five Rollin sisters, Frances Ann, Katherine, Charlotte, Marie Louise, and Florence. Born into a free Black family in Charleston, South Carolina, the Rollin sisters became staunch activists for equal rights across race and gender during the Reconstruction period. In 1869, Charlotte Rollin made a remarkable speech on the floor of South Carolina's statehouse in which she declared, "We ask suffrage not as a favor, not as a privilege, but as a right based on the grounds that we are human beings and as such entitled to all human rights."
A legacy which is relevant today
From the perspective of the advancement of women, 2021 has already secured its place in history with the swearing in of Kamala Harris as the first-ever female vice president of the United States. Yet, while there can be no doubt women's rights have come a long way in the past 200 years, the events of 2020 have highlighted that there's still much to do. The recession caused by COVID-19 has led to nearly one million more job losses for women than for men, mainly due to women being overrepresented in the worst hit sectors.2 At the same time, pressure on the childcare sector threatens to have a severe detrimental effect on the progress of women in the workforce, as the pandemic has caused many women to become the primary source of childcare in their households; a report by the Center for American Progress found that 4.5 million child care slots were in danger of being lost permanently, at a potential cost to the US economy of $64.5 billion.3
Our commitment to gender equality
As a business, we have a long tradition of supporting the rights and advancement of women. In 1885 Winifred Supple became the first woman to work for us, just one of many female trailblazers at New York Life. Nine years later we became the first US provider to offer life insurance to women at the same cost as men—at a time when married women still didn't have the right to own property in their name.
Fast forward to today and we're still setting standards for gender equality in the workplace. As well as naming us one of their 100 Best Companies overall for women in 2020, Working Mother magazine included us in their list of Top Companies for Executive Women and their Best Companies for Multicultural Women. Meanwhile, campaigner for women in technology AnitaB.org named us as a 2020 Leader on the list of Top Companies for Women Technologists.
This year to celebrate Women's History Month, New York Life's women's Employee Resource Group is hosting Michele Buck, Chairman, President & CEO of the Hershey Company and New York Life's Board of Directors' Lead Director. There will also be a panel with Monumental Women's President, Pam Elam, sculptor, Meredith Bergmann, and Kinshasha Holman Conwill, deputy director of the National Museum of African American Culture and Heritage (and a jurist for the statue competition). There will also be opportunities for networking with senior leaders and learning about colleagues' experiences volunteering.
The legacy of Anthony, Stanton, Truth, and other activists serves as a powerful reminder of the progress that's possible when people stand together. We're proud to be a part of that movement, today as in the past.
1McGreecy, Nora. "Why the First Monument of Real Women in Central Park Matters—and Why It's Controversial". Smithsonian Magazine. Published 08/26/2020. Accessed 02/04/2021. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/monument-controversy-women-pioneer-central-park-180975662/
2 Boesch, Diana; Phadke, Shilpa. 'When Women Lose All the Jobs: Essential Actions for a Gender-Equitable Recovery'. Center for American Progress website. Published 02/01/2021. Accessed 02/04/2021. https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/reports/2021/02/01/495209/women-lose-jobs-essential-actions-gender-equitable-recovery/
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