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This is really messed-up
Michael L. McKee	Uncategorized	 November 22, 2020 January 16, 2022 10 Minutes
Seven day moving average positive test rate for Covid-19 in Kansas
'Picking-up after an Apocalypse' is a brief mini-series of themed posts.
So, "after" is a bit of a misnomer
Yes, we can begin cleaning-up this mess, however, the mess is ongoing and expanding.
Recall, my premise is that Covid-19 has been an American Apocalypse. I wrote so here: Covid-19 Apocalypse? and here: Easter Apocalypse.
Sadly, it's going to be a minute before Covid-19 is finally in our rear-view mirror. So, we are still working our way through the live-virus-transmission, community-spread, pre-vaccination phase of the coronavirus pandemic. That does not diminish the revelations that Covid-19 has exposed—hopefully leading to the "picking-up" part. I don't feel it is too soon to consider the injustice and brokenness that has been exposed. However, with news of vaccines coming soon, the Thanksgiving holiday, flu season, and alarming trends in new Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, perhaps it's a good time to take a minute to assess where we are in the pandemic-arc and in our understanding of Covid-19.
Image by Daniel Roberts from Pixabay || CC0
VERY DIFFICULT from the beginning
Recall, the SARS Cov 2 coronavirus is respiratory. It infects new hosts and increases across the population by airborne aerosol transmission. If that were not troubling enough news, sixty percent (60%! per, Dr. Leana Wen) of Covid-19 transmission occurs through asymptomatic spread. So, Covid-19 seems to have a fourteen day incubation window, and, along with asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic airborne aerosol contagion, these factors make it a very difficult public health problem.
The kinds of disease caused by infection with Covid-19 and the duration and degree of disease are highly variable from short to long term, from none to mild, to moderate, to severe, to fatal. Some people are totally asymptomatic, and, other people experience death as a result of this disease. Some experience little to nothing for a short time while others experience serious, or even grave, illness for extended periods. We still don't know the long-term effects of having been infected with Covid-19—like chickenpox, and then later shingles, both resulting from the varicella zoster virus, for instance.
Add to all that the difficulty in trying to offer tight messaging nationwide regarding such a fast moving target. Of course, we didn't know it then, but in March and April the entire nation didn't need to react the same way New York City needed to react. Only in the last few weeks has the degree of seriousness that New York experienced early-on been coming to the remainder of the country. Now in November, even more overwhelming assaults by the virus are hitting the Great Plains where medical care situations across very broad areas have little to no capability for anything like this and little to no resilience built into what capacity that does exist.
My experience went something like this: As I said, we didn't know it yet, but, in the springtime when we were asked to respond to the pandemic here in Kansas with the same measures those in New York were responding with, well, it was an overreach. Most Kansans are rather pragmatic and so many recognized that we were over-reacting to the conditions we had then by behaving as though we, too, were a New York-like red-zone. The different pace the virus moves through urban/suburban vs. rural environments was far underappreciated (or flatly missed) in the national messaging last spring and summer. Initially, the whole one-size-fits-all idea did not really apply, it is beginning to now.
"I always preferred to downplay it" –DJT
What with President Trump's consistent downplaying of the pandemic, and the president's lack of a national strategy, I feel a good bit of confidence in the government's ability to lead in this pandemic was lost early on. Obviously, one thing we have been taught in this pandemic is how the life conditions on the ground must help determine an appropriate and adequate response. A red-zone response is an imposing overreach in a green-zone. Then, too, now we realize that knowing these key things hinges on effective testing. We still don't have an effective testing strategy.
I remember, back in early March, Dr. Fauci describing the task of an epidemiologist in the context of an approaching pandemic: "To move intervention mitigation along at such a pace that everyone thinks we're doing far too much." Rain-maker makes a tempting comparison. Add the messaging problem of a diverse nation of people all experiencing the pandemic differently. Well, that really multiplied the difficulty.
Now, with Scott Atlas as the president's go-to advisor, the administration is in full "Let 'er rip!" mode regarding Covid-19, e.g. using social Darwinist ideology. It's the dualist logic of a transactionalist. Advocating death is reprehensible. Tangentially, the president's approach is unconscionable, forms significant trauma, and reflects an abuse of health care workers. The president's approach is simply evil on several counts.
New. Previously unseen. A "novel" coronavirus.
The plain truth is there have been many false starts and a good bit of confusing messaging with regard to Covid-19 this year.
This doesn't mean that science is defective, really just the opposite. The SARS II Coronavirus is a new and never-seen phenomenon. Actually, if the science on Covid-19 were not growing and evolving at a brisk pace we would correctly be suspect. This evolving-knowledge reality does, however, make consistent tight messaging impossible over time. Best to think in terms of evolving episodes leading deeper and deeper into a more full knowledge.
One way this dynamic worked in the Great Plains is the way in which new things often come to the Heartland, e.g., rather slowly. I remember as a kid, long before Amazon, we all felt it was so unfair that both the East and West Coasts got the latest big thing (the, usually, new thing that everyone just had to have) months, if not years, before we did here in fly-over country.
In the case of this pandemic, our initial lack of experience with the present new big thing (Covid-19) made it easier for many people to discount and dismiss the growing tragedy as a hoax. In general that worked against our recognizing and helpfully responding collectively to the pandemic. Our over-reaction early on by those who were watching New York and took the pandemic seriously, worked as a catalyst for pandemic fatigue.
So, to the group who didn't really take the pandemic seriously anyway we have added the group who did take it seriously but are experiencing fatigue and who are now burnt out on mitigation compliance.
All this in the face of what is now an alarming/explosive wave of infection that we here in the Great Plains are finally experiencing along with the rest of the nation. The preexisting condition that may get us all killed by Covid-19 and it's societal side-effects is our twenty-first century addictive need to politicize (read polarize) every issue in America.
Setting records
We have finally met Covid-19 full force from coast to coast. The positive-rate for Covid tests in Kansas has sustained a daily moving average of over fifty percent for better than a week now.
So, record numbers of new Covid cases are being detected daily. The numbers are generally escalating.
Hospitals are already full.
Death rates for Covid are beginning to spike-up now as well.
We recall, sadly, hospitalizations and deaths are lagging indicators.
Problem Areas
For many people the pandemic has been little more than an inconvenience. If that is you, then good on ya. For many others Covid-19 has been a complete and total disruption of life. If that is you, then I'm praying for you, please hold on. The pandemic Apocalypse exposed the fact that the way our systems are set up works in the same way, the same socially-constructed blessing—curse dynamic, only as our routine way of life.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair." —Charles Dickens
The opening line of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities has never seemed more apropos. The pandemic has been an economic boon to quite a few and an existential bust for many more. Covid-19 affirmed in the early going that, as per usual, it would be the poor and vulnerable who would pay the greatest price for the pandemic. The Apocalypse dimension of the pandemic clearly indicates the scope of systemic distress for the poor and marginalized. A reckoning time is indicated.
Short straw?
This virus does seem to let the vast majority of those infected pass by rather easily and mostly free of illness. The 64,000 dollar question for every person who becomes infected with Covid-19 (and those who love them): Did I (or, my loved one) draw a short straw?
Scott Atlas and the president have made it plain that their leadership consists of proudly claiming social Darwinist ideology on the short straw question. To them, 'short straw' is another way of saying 'loser.'
Make no mistake, the administration's stated 'plan' is to just let the coronavirus rip and allow the chips to fall where they may.
If you draw a short straw, well, sorry for you and yours, but, then, the herd ("mentality") will be thinned of another loser.
Home/family?
Peoples' home/family are, of course, effected by Covid-19 through their intersection with all the other systems being effected: e.g., school, employment, business, and health. A recent report said that eight million people in America have slipped into poverty since May. There's an example of something that is rather hard on "home/family."
At this point in time my chief "home/family" concern in the Heartland is the priority that families place on annual rituals like Thanksgiving. With family values and pandemic-fatigue seriously eroding good judgment in this case, the holiday could be the mother of all super-spreader events.
Risk assessment regarding gathering with others
Here's a tool that allows you to make informed decisions. This map (here) shows the risk level of attending an event, given the event size and location.
Hospitals?
In the Great Plains (and many other areas) most rural hospitals do not have the capability to offer medical care for acute Covid-19 patients. Now that the infection and community spread of the coronavirus has moved to nearly all rural areas, regional hospitals are being overrun with patients from rural areas. As I write on Friday [11/20] the trend-lines are all pointed up with almost daily records in new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. Today hospitals are already full (see article here) and the number of beds needed will only be growing as hospitalization and death are lagging indicators a couple weeks behind the record number of new cases. In other words, the further overwhelming of medical systems is already baked-in now and will only grow worse if we aggravate the situation further by ignoring public health guidance. On Friday I Tweeted:
I heard one emergency room doc remark: "We are on the cusp of moving from the ugly to the horrific."
I agree, and I feel the pattern has established that the dreadfully horrific is already baked-in. The medical care delivery system is going to be dreadfully overwhelmed. The only question now is: Just how horrific will it get in the interim before the vaccines have an opportunity to factor in? Will the entire hospital system collapse? This will be determined by how we respond to our situation as it develops, and just how compliant with public health guidance we are able to be.
Schools?
I feel that this is one of the most heart-breaking aspects of the pandemic. Setting aside the ways in which remote learning greatly exacerbates the inequality already endemic to our education system, this situation is most definitely traumatizing our children in ways that we will only grow to fully appreciate as we go forward.
I feel very strongly that all public school teachers and staff ought to be priority one, right there at the head of the line (along with front-line docs and nurses) to get the vaccines as soon as they roll out. This ought to be a top-priority so that all children may safely return to their classrooms for in-person learning as soon as possible.
Rebekah Jones, former Florida health data expert, has partnered with Google and nonprofit FinMango to create a website called The COVID Monitor. It aims to track cases in schools across the nation, from kindergarten to college.
As I wrote above, this pandemic economy has been a windfall for a few, a boon to some more, but devastating for a very significant number of business owners. Obviously, businesses that are in any way high-touch, face to face—like personal services, travel, and most hospitality—have been decimated. The Apocalypse has revealed the scope and degree of privilege and inequality intrinsic to our economic system. Going forward we have much to consider about the practical expressions of our economic approach, and how we might redeem it from the civilization-destroying level of inequality that it has developed.
'Employment' ties in here and good news is a bit scarce. Through the experience of Covid-19, business has learned that it can get by without nearly as much real estate, and, worse, it can get by without several kinds of labor that previously engaged many people in the economy. The extraordinary cost-cutting potential that business has recognized through the Covid economy will be leveraged and realized even further going forward and this does not bode well for lower and middle working-class Americans.
Frankly, I am unclear on how President Trump could have screwed-up the leadership on the pandemic any more than he actually did. So, I am hopeful about the new leadership we will have in the White House on January 20.
Vaccines coming soon is hopeful. What will actually make that news great is if vaccines can be translated into vaccinations. The conundrum is that the vaccine strategy is most effective if universal, and, yet, making vaccination against Covid-19 mandatory generates sabotage against the entire initiative (anti-vaxxers, etc.). Again, hopefully teachers and school staff are first in line along with nurses and docs for vaccination.
Next week: We'll continue in our "Picking-up after an Apocalypse" mini-series. Come and see.
'Picking-up after an Apocalypse (part 1),' ~ Election debrief
'Picking-up after an Apocalypse (part 2),' ~ "Racial anxiety"
Other Covid-19 related posts:
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, hush
Covid-19 Apocalypse?
Grief revisited
Easter Apocalypse
Grief revisited (part 2)
Science and predictability
Mary's Magnificat and UBI
Masks: a shibboleth?
TL;DR on coping with Covid-19
Covid-19 — Eucharist online?
Teachers in the center ring
[this post approx. 2,575 words (11 min. read + media)]
From my post, TL;DR on coping with Covid-19… "Interesting interview done recently in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic with John Barry who wrote the book, "The Great Influenza" about the 1918-19 pandemic." ….
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David Watkins says:
Excellent, just excellent. As a Kansas native with lots of family in Kansas, this gives me a perspective of how things are there that I don't get from most sources. It is an Apocalypse and it is unfortunate that those who most need to get the message probably aren't reading your insightful report.
Michael L. McKee says:
David, I appreciate your kind words.
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Q: Does there exist a programming language specifically designed for dependency injection? Many general programming languages are flexible enough to allow you to support dependency injection.  Even without library or framework support.   But even if a language is Turing complete enough to solve any programming problem, a language makes choices that impact what is easy and what is hard to do in them.
Is there any language that was specifically designed to make dependency injection easy, and conversely, make creating hidden dependencies hard?
Clarification:
Due to limitations of some languages (looking at you Java) many people regard assistance with wiring and construction as part of dependency injection.  Here I only intend a language designed for DI to mean that dependency's are not easily hidden in side effects.  Having a convention over configuration system as well would only be added gravy.
I'm not looking for a language recommendation.  It's a historical question.  Has any language author ever explicitly set out to do this?

A: The Wake Programming language is designed to use dependency injection. Basically, it has the equivalent of a dependency injection framework baked into the language itself. Classes define the parameters they need and provide and the compiler hooks everything up.

A: It's not a practically useful language, but the system described in this paper.has an interesting effect: it allows you to write an abstract class using abstract classes/interfaces (including instantiating them) Your class can then be made concrete by substituting a subclasses of each abstract class you've used at the point of instantiation. Doing so removes the need for dependency injection in at least simple cases, for example (using a hypothetical version of Java extended with this feature) we could take this code:
public interface I {
    void something ();
)

public class Concrete implements I {
    public void something () { ... }
}

public class Client {
    I myI;
    public Client (I injected) { myI = injected; }
    ...
}

...

    Client c = new Client (new Concrete());
    ...

and replace Client and its usage with:
public class Client {
   I myI = new I();
   ...
}

   Client c = new Client { I -> Concrete } ();

Note that this simplifies the point of use of a dependency, rather than creation. It also allows us to avoid the Factory pattern (as a new I can be created on demand whenever we want).

A: Yes, there is indeed. Sort of.
Newspeak has no static state and no global state. This means that the only possible way to get access to a dependency is to have it explicitly injected. Obviously, this means that the language, or in the case of Newspeak more precisely the IDE needs to make dependency injection easy, otherwise the language will be unusable.
So, the language is not designed for DI, rather the necessity for DI is a consequence of the language design.
If there is no static state and no global state, then you cannot just "reach out" in to the ether and pull something out. For example, in Java, the package structure is static state. I can just say java.lang.String and I have myself the String class. That is not possible in Newspeak. Everything you work with, has to be explicitly provided to you, otherwise you just can't get at it. So, everything is a dependency, and every dependency is explicit.
You want a string? Well, you have to first ask the stdlib object to hand you the String class. Oh, but how do you get access to the stdlib? Well, you have to first ask the platform to hand you the stdlib object. Oh, but how do you get access to the platform? Well, you have to first ask someone else to hand you the platform object. Oh, but how do you get access to that someone lese? Well, you have to first ask yet another someone else to hand you the object.
How far down the rabbit hole does this go? Where does the recursion stop? All the way, actually. It doesn't stop. Then, how can you write a program in Newspeak? Well, strictly speaking, you can't!
You need some outside entity that ties it all together. In Newspeak, that entity is the IDE. The IDE sees the whole program. It can wire the disparate pieces together. The standard pattern in Newspeak is that the central class of your application has an accessor called platform, and the Newspeak IDE injects an object into that accessor that has methods which return some of the basic necessities of programming: a String class, a Number class, an Array class, and so on.
If you want to test your application, you can inject a platform object whose File method returns a class with dummy methods. If you want to deploy your application to the cloud, you inject a platform whose File class actually is backed by Amazon S3. Cross-platform GUIs work by injecting different GUI frameworks for different OSs. Newspeak even has an experimental Newspeak-to-ECMAScript compiler and HTML-backed GUI framework that allows you to port a fully-featured GUI application from native desktop into the browser with no changes, just by injecting different GUI elements.
If you want to deploy your application, the IDE can serialize the application into an on-disk object. (Unlike its ancestor, Smalltalk, Newspeak has an out-of-image object serialization format. You don't have to take the entire image with you, precisely because all dependencies are injected: the IDE knows exactly which parts of the system your application uses and which it doesn't. So, it serializes exactly the connected subgraph of the object space that comprises your application, nothing more.)
All of this works simply by taking object-orientation to the extreme: everything is a virtual method call ("message send" in Smalltalk terminology, of which Newspeak is a descendant). Even the superclass lookup is a virtual method call! Take something like
class Foo extends Bar // using Java syntax for familiarity

or, in Newspeak:
class Foo = Bar () () : ()

In Java, this will create a name Foo in the static global namespace, and look up Bar in the static global namespace and make Bar Foo's superclass. Even in Ruby, which is much more dynamic, this will still create a static constant in the global namespace.
In Newspeak, the equivalent declaration means: create a getter method named Foo and make it return a class that looks up its superclass by calling the method named Bar. Note: this is not like Ruby, where you can put any executable Ruby code as the superclass declaration, but the code will only be executed once when the class is created and the return value of that code becomes the fixed superclass. No. The method Bar is called for every single method lookup!
This has some profound implications:

*

*since a mixin is basically a class that doesn't know its superclass yet, and in Newspeak, the superclass is a dynamic virtual method call, and thus unknown, every class is automatically also a mixin. You get mixins for free.

*since an inner class is just a method call that returns a class, you can override that method in a subclass of the outer class, so every class is virtual. You get virtual classes for free:
class Outer {
  class Inner { /* … */ }
}

class Sub extends Outer {
  override class Inner { /* … */ }
}

Newspeak:
class Outer = () (
  class Inner = () () : ()
) : ()

class Sub = Outer () (
  class Inner = () () : ()
) : ()

*since the superclass is just a method call that returns a class, you can override that method in a subclass of the outer class, inner classes defined in the superclass can have a different superclass in the subclass. You get class hierarchy inheritance for free:
class Outer {
  class MyCoolArray extends Array { /* … */ }
}

class Sub extends Outer {
  override class Array { /* … */ }
  // Now, for instances of `Sub`, `MyCoolArray` has a different superclass
  // than for instances of `Outer`!!!
}

Newspeak:
class Outer = () (
  class MyCoolArray = Array () () : ()
) : ()

class Sub = Outer () (
  class Array = () () : ()
) : ()

*and lastly, the most important for this discussion: since (apart from the ones you defined in your class, obviously) you can only call methods in your lexically enclosing class(es) and your superclass(es), a top-level outermost class cannot call any methods at all except the ones that are explicitly injected: a top-level class doesn't have an enclosing class whose methods it could call, and it cannot have a superclass other than the default one, because the superclass declaration is a method call, and it obviously can't go to the superclass (it is the superclass) and it also can't go to the lexically enclosing class, because there isn't any. What this means is the top-level classes are completely encapsulated, they can only access what they explicitly get injected, and they only get injected what they explicitly ask for. In other words: top-level classes are modules. You get an entire module system for free. In fact, to be more precise: top-level classes are module declarations, its instances are modules. So, you get a module system with parametric module declarations and first-class modules for free, something which many, even very sophisticated, module systems cannot do.
In order to make all of this injection painless, class declarations have an unusual structure: they consist of two declarations. One is the class constructor, which is not the constructor which constructs instances of the class, but rather the constructor that constructs the environment in which the class body runs. In a Java-like syntax, it would look something like this:
class Foo(platform) extends Bar {
  Array  = platform.collections.Array
  String = platform.lang.String
  File   = platform.io.File
| // separator between class constructor and class body
  class MyArray extends Array { /* … */ }
  // Array refers to the method defined above which in turn gets it from the
  // platform object that was passed into the class "somehow"
}

Newspeak:
class Foo using: platform = Bar (
  Array = platform collections Array
  String = platform streams String
  File = platform files ExternalReadWriteStream
) (
  class MyArray = Array () () : ()
) : ()

Note that the way a Newspeak programmer is actually going to see the class(es) is like this:
I can't even begin to do it justice, though. You'll have to play around with it yourself. Gilad Bracha has given a couple of talks about various aspects of the system, including modularity. He gave a really long (2hr) talk, the first hour of which is a thorough introduction to the language, including the modularity story. Chapter 2 of The Newspeak Programming Platform covers modularity. If you skim Newspeak on Squeak – A Guide for the Perplexed (aka Newspeak-101), you get a feel for the system. Newspeak by Example is a live document (i.e. it is running inside the Newspeak-on-ECMASCript port, every line of code is editable, every result is inspectable) demonstrating the basic syntax.
But really, you have to play around with it. It is just so different from all mainstream and even most non-mainstream languages that it is hard to explain, it has to be experienced.

A: I haven't used it, but the Plastic programming language's official tagline is "What happens if you take dependency injection and bake it into a programming language?". It seems pretty interesting

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Q: Using NuGet makes project incompatible with .NET FW 4 and lower Project is written in VB .NET in Visual Studio 2013 and targets .NET Framework 4.
I've used NuGet to download two .dlls: AngleSharp and NHunspell. NuGet adds its own reference to System.Runtime and System.Threading.Tasks. The path is
D:\Development\MyProject\packages\Microsoft.Bcl.1.1.8\lib\net40\System.Runtime.dll
Although the project targets .NET Framework 4, the dlls in question show runtime "v4.0.30319" in the details pane, and a regex search has revealed no reference to a Framework higher than 4.0 in my entire solution, I still cannot reference my dll from a project that targets 4.0.
If I compile my .dll and then reference it from another project that targets Framework 4 I get the following warning:
The primary reference "MyOtherProject, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, processorArchitecture=x86" could not be resolved because it has an indirect dependency on the framework assembly "System.Threading.Tasks, Version=2.6.8.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" which could not be resolved in the currently targeted framework. ".NETFramework,Version=v4.0". To resolve this problem, either remove the reference "MyOtherProject, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, processorArchitecture=x86" or retarget your application to a framework version which contains "System.Threading.Tasks, Version=2.6.8.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a".
I get the same warning for System.Runtime.
If I target 4.5 or higher from MyOtherProject it compiles perfectly. I need it to be 4.0 though because it needs to work with a legacy system.

A:
Using NuGet makes project incompatible with .NET FW 4 and lower

You should also add the NuGet package AngleSharp and NHunspell to the project which reference the project "MyOtherProject".
According to the AngleSharp, you can notice that that package have a Dependencies for .NETFramework 4.0 but no dependencies for .NETFramework 4.5:

After installed those two packages to the project, the references System.Runtime and System.Threading.Tasks will added to the project, but when we add this project as reference to other project, those two references will not add. That why you get the error "could not be resolved because it has an indirect dependency on the framework assembly "System.Threading.Tasks"".
To resolve this issue, you should add the NuGet packages to the project which reference the project "MyOtherProject".


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Skinner North Community Newsletter - April
Asian, Asian American, Asian Pacific Islander Support and Allyship
I wanted to take a moment to recognize that the pandemic has created increased racism, violence and harassment toward Asian Americans. You may have seen this in the news or may have personal experience with this. The recent event in Atlanta further demonstrates this heartbreaking trend. This has affected me personally because I care about Skinner North's AAPI students and families, and because of a racist attack on the Chinese American father of my close friend.
These events reinforce the importance of our belief as a community of the imperative of inclusion, anti-racism and support for one another. This includes actively interrupting any racist, anti-Asian, Asian American, Asian Pacific Islander and xenophobic narratives. These narratives and attacks have a direct effect on the mental health and wellness of our students and families. We stand in support and in solidarity with our students and families who identify as Asian, Asian-American, Asian Pacific Islanders.
We encourage you to talk to students and others about this. Below are some resources to help this or find support. Please reach out to me if you or your family members need support.
To learn more ways to interrupt and respond to Coronavirus racism go to:
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/how-to-respond-to-coronavirus-racism.
Learn More about the Historical Context of Anti-Asian American Racism (Resources Reshared from Diversity Committee Summer Workshops):
Asian Americans and Racial Justice: Historical Context Slides
Problematic Statements and Questions
More Allyship Resources:
For Grown-ups:
Anti-Racism Resources to Support Asian-American, Pacific Islander Community
Suggested Children's Books:
Young, Proud, and Sung-Jee: A Children's Book on Fighting Anti-Asian Racism During Covid-19 (PDF version of the book + helpful caregiver tips at the end)
The Name Jar
A Different Pond
Lailah's Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story
They Called Us Enemy
Step Up to the Plate, Maria Singh
Resources from the Asian American Psychological Association:
Stop AAPI Hate Reporting: https://stopaapihate.org
Asian Americans Advancing Justice Tracking Hate Stories: https://www.standagainsthatred.org/
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) Hate Crimes Task Force and Pro Bono Legal Resources: https://www.napaba.org/page/HateCrimeResources
Infographics and accompanying videos for helping AAPI families talk to children and teens exposed to anti-Asian bullying and harassment (developed for COVID-19 but also relevant now): https://division45.org/division-45-task-force-on-covid-19-anti-asian-discrimination-and-xenophobia/
Asian American Mental Health Collective directory of APISAA therapists: https://www.asianmhc.org/apisaa
AAPA Division on Practice list of COVID-related mental health resources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GrseILJlOFiNOzeQT3X3aizokL-M4NvXp7vCP4W-jm8/edit?ts=5e88c7b1
Free bystander intervention training to stop anti-Asian/American and xenophobic harassment: https://www.ihollaback.org/bystanderintervention/
Diversity Discussions
Our Month's Diversity Discussion Topic is Teaching Kids to be allies. Talking about issues of race is important to do with students. These resources help give guidance on this. Thank you to the Diversity Committee for putting together this information.
Teaching Our Kids To Be AlliesMany of us want to be allies to our friends, neighbors, and families who are Black and Brown, but it can be overwhelming to know where to start – and what is an ally anyhow? Explained simply in this article, "An ally is someone who is willing to stand up for what is right and has your back if you're being treated unfairly because you are different."
While there's a whole lot more unpacking about what goes into being an ally on all levels, this is a good place to start for kids. Aim for your book selections to reflect the diversity of our communities and be inclusive of other cultures. When doing arts and crafts, be intentional about the array of skin tone crayons, markers, and construction paper that you make available.
For more ideas about allyship, please check out the links below:
How Kids Can Be Allies
How to Raise Kids to be Allies
What White Children Need to Know about Race
Skinner North Update 3/15/21
Good morning! Please see below for a few updates. In addition, we have gotten some questions related to travel and COVID like symptoms and school attendance. Please read below for the guidance. We appreciate everyone understanding and following the guidance.
4th Quarter In Person Opt In - Please remember to complete this survey sent to you by the district. You do not need to complete if your student is already opted into in person learning. If you have not received the survey or are having any issues please call our main office. CPS is also having an Elementary School Town Hall on Tuesday, March 16, from 5-6:30 p.m. You can register HERE. (We will send a survey after this survey closes to ask about pod preferences. We cannot guarantee preferences, but want to try to coordinate with families where possible. Students already assigned pods will remain in those pods.)
LSC Agenda - Please see this link for the agenda for our upcoming LSC meeting, which is on Wednesday, March 17 at 5PM. The virtual link is on the agenda.
Progress Reports - Progress reports will be mailed out by the district starting the 16th.
Staff Lot - The lots west and south of the school are reserved for staff. Please do not use this lot to park or drop of students. Thank you for your assistance in ensuring our students are safe. The lot across from the school or Target's lot is available for parent parking.
Diverse Needs Committee - As some of you may know, we began a new committee last school year called the Diverse Needs Committee. The committee was born out of the desire to bring together families with children who have diverse needs as well as to create a space for school initiatives that focus on students with diverse needs. We have been hibernating some while virtual learning has been underway but we would like to invite any parent and staff member to join us as we meet again.
To get a taste of what has already been accomplished in the committee please visit the NEW website. https://sndiverseneeds.org/
Our next meeting will be: Tuesday, March 23 at 8 am
Google Link: meet.google.com/dnu-ezby-jpf
CPS Travel Guidance - Please see this helpful document for the current travel guidance and CPS policy related to travel.
Sick Policy with COVID-like Symptoms - The following symptoms are considered COVID-like:
Fever (100.4°F or higher),
New onset of moderate to severe headache,
Shortness of breath,
New cough,
Sore throat,
Vomiting, diarrhea, or abdominal pain from unknown cause,
New congestion/runny nose,
New loss of sense of taste or smell,
Nausea,
Fatigue from unknown cause,
Muscle or body aches.
All students and staff sent home with COVID-like symptoms should be diagnostically tested.
CDPH requires that students and staff isolate and test for COVID-19 prior to their return to school.
Students and staff MUST remain home from school until they receive the test results.
If negative, they can return to school following a negative test. They may be asked to produce the test result for review.
If positive, please report their results to the Office of Student Health and Wellness cps.edu/COVIDresults.
If they do not test, they must stay home for 10 days.
If they received a vaccine in the past 48 hours this may be a vaccine side effect and would not require testing to return to school. However, they must not have a fever for 24 hours before returning to school.
Students and staff who are confirmed cases of COVID-19 must complete 10 calendar days of isolation from the date of first symptom onset and be fever-free for 24 hours without use of fever-reducing medications and other symptoms have improved before returning to school.
Students and staff returning to school after experiencing COVID-like symptoms but were diagnosed with a non-COVID illness must meet the criteria for returning to school for the illness with which they have been diagnosed.
At a minimum, the individual must be fever-free for 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication and have had no diarrhea or vomiting in the previous 24 hours. Other diseases have specific criteria for when a student or staff member can return to school.
A doctor's note documenting the alternative diagnosis or a negative COVID-19 test result should accompany a student or staff member returning to school with an alternative diagnosis after experiencing COVID-like symptoms.
Schools should assist families in locating free or reduced-cost medical clinics for assistance where needed by providing them with the Healthy CPS Hotline 773-553-KIDS for assistance.
In the winter months, as people transition from cold outdoor temperatures to warmer indoor temperatures, some runny nose and sniffles are expected. If these symptoms are persistent and do not resolve within one hour of being inside, these are to be managed as COVID-like symptoms and acted on accordingly.
Travel Guidance for Families
Good morning! It has been wonderful welcoming students back into the building over the last week and having some of our 6-8th students back today. We have had some individuals reach out about opting into in person learning for 4th quarter and wanted to make sure everyone saw this information sent out by the district. Please read below for more information.
Pandemic Electronic Benefits Transfer (P-EBT) - Please see attached for a document with further details to access P-EBT. (We previously sent out information in our newsletter.) P-EBT is a food assistance benefit for students who get free or reduced-price meals in schools under the National School Lunch Program, but – because of the pandemic – the school is not providing meals to the students at school. P-EBT benefits will help Illinois families buy food during the COVID-19 pandemic. The attachment provides further details.
4th Quarter In Person Opt In - Beginning today, all CPS families, who have not yet returned to schools in-person, will be able to opt-in for a return later this year. The opt-in window will be available to students in all grades (grades Pre-K through 12) and will remain open for two weeks. Opt-in forms will be sent directly to parents, and this will be the final opportunity to choose in-person learning this school year.
Opt-In for Students in Pre-K, Elementary, and Cluster Programs: As promised earlier this year, families who have not yet returned to classrooms will be able to return Monday , April 19 — the first day of the 4th-quarter. Families who are already enrolled in classroom-based learning will not need to fill out the intent form to remain in-person.
Opt-In for High School and Academic Center Students: For the first time, families in grades 9-12, as well as students in high school academic centers, will also be asked to decide if they want to return to classrooms this year.
The district is actively meeting with the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) to establish a plan for the return of high school students and staff, and we will be engaging students and families in the days ahead. No return date has been set and the specific learning model used in high schools remains under discussion, but we hope students will be able to return to school as early as mid-April. We are asking families to tell us their learning preference now so that we can ensure we have the necessary staffing and classroom models in place to safely support all interested high school students.
Just like in our elementary schools, CPS high schools will follow a strict set of health and safety protocols, upon reopening, including required face-coverings and social distancing. Our high schools will also be provided with the air purifiers, hand sanitizer, and enhanced cleaning practices that have allowed CPS to safely reopen our elementary schools for in-person learning.
To give families additional opportunities to learn about our plans and provide input, we are scheduling two virtual parent townhalls — one for elementary and one for high school— in the next two weeks:
High School Town Hall: Wednesday, March 10, from 5-6:30 p.m. (Register HERE)
Elementary School Town Hall: Tuesday, March 16, from 5-6:30 p.m. (Register HERE)
We will also be engaging students in the weeks ahead to ensure their perspective is heard as our planning moves forward.
We look forward to seeing you at our town halls and thank you for your continued support as we work to provide all students with the high-quality education they deserve, no matter where they are learning.
Janice K. Jackson, EdD LaTanya D. McDade
Chief Executive Officer Chief Education Officer
Chicago Public Schools Chicago Public Schools
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Global Reset, Multipolar World, White House
Mass Arrests vs. Deep State Operatives Imminent
December 23, 2018 GeoPolitics101	49 Comments
Various events leading to the US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw an estimated 2,000 US troops from Syria and at least half of the 14,000 from Afghanistan are creating a very positive picture about the long sought mass arrests of people involved in the systematic destruction of resource rich countries, and the overall deterioration of the quality of life all over the planet.
The rest of these current events are merely smokescreen to "stabilize" the long and precariously untenable situation that the Deep State is in, ever since the internet infrastructure came online.
If one remembers a post on this website that the "intel cowboys" worldwide have integrated their efforts to undermine the abusive Elite's unwarranted power to subjugate all of humanity, or at least what would remain of it after a Great Holocaust via mass vaccinations and the elaborate poisoning of the food systems, under an AI-based slavery known as the Technocratic dictatorship,
Global Intel Cowboys Unite to Bring Down Organized Crime Cabal
… there is now a conclusive body of evidence that Donald Trump was indeed hired by these intelligence cowboys to take on their battle right into the open through the White House, while they remain under the cloak of what is now known as the QAnon revelations, which are now being actively suppressed by tech giant Google and even the Mozilla Foundation[?].
Snapshot of Google's suppression vs. QAnonPosts.com
Kinetic WW3 Averted?
On January 13, 2018, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency system sent out a message about an incoming missile…
… which plunges everyone there in panic. That was just one of many attempts at starting open WW3 this year alone.
All throughout the early part of Trump's term in office, he was always fee with false information about chemical attacks in Syria, yet all Trump did was to give instructions to bomb specific targets in the country with the least damage. Such measures, of course, raised all defense related stocks in various exchanges.
But, for the first time in the US Naval history, all US Aircraft Carriers are now docked at their home ports [here].
Snapshot of the US Aircraft Carriers current location, as of December 19, 2018.
This runs counter to the constant shadow skirmishes in the South China Sea during the time prior, and into the first few months of the Trump administration.
So, what is really the reason behind the recent Canadian arrest of a Huawei CFO all about?
If we closely examine the Chinese response to the event, they are hitting hard, not on the Americans, but on the Canadian operatives right inside China instead, and this fiasco was initiated right after Xi Jinping and Donald Trump had a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit 2018 in Argentina, where Macron and his much older wife descended from their plane without the courtesy of a proper welcome except from airport ground crew.
Yes, there's still the issue of the "Chinese hackers stealing US tech," but then again, all of these are merely smokescreen as there are no arrests made against these so called hackers. Not to mention that everyone is continually spying and stealing from everyone else, a standard staple since war was turned into an art form.
Indeed, the ongoing US-China trade war is sending the Deep State global stock markets in tatters.
As the Dow Jones Industrial Average confronts its ugliest December loss since 1931, the time of the Great Depression, there is another notable way to put the severity of this persistent bout of losses into historical context.
If current conditions hold, it would mark the worst average daily moves for the Dow DJIA, -1.81% the S&P 500 index SPX, -2.06% and the Russell 2000 index RUT, -2.56% since October of 1987, according to Dow Jones Market Data.
In market lore, October of 1987 is a period that remains infamous. On Oct. 19, the Dow sank 22.6% in a single session, marking its steepest percentage drop ever, with trading during that period under pressure all month until the final crash.
There's a similar downtrend that is taking hold in December, despite the seasonal tendency for that month to enjoy a pre-Christmas updraft, typically known as a Santa rally, with institutional investors finding the month a good time to buy looking ahead to the new year.
Here's how the December moves have shaped up:
The S&P 500 has had an average daily move of negative 0.80%
The Dow has had average daily move of negative 0.78, as of 2:30 p.m. ET trade Friday
The Russell 2000 index has had an average daily move of negative 1.05%
For those equity benchmarks, that is the worst performance since that dreaded month more than 30 years ago, based on market levels at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-brutal-stock-market-rout-mirrors-the-1987-crash-in-1-important-way-2018-12-21
In that regard, Trump is reportedly contemplating of firing Federal Reserve Chair Powell, another Deep State stooge, for being "too aggressive" in hiking interest rates that are causing the market's recent slump further. This is a complex issue for the White House, of course, considering the historical foundation of the entire Western financial system.
Aside from the well-documented historical assets of Indochina being used to constantly prop up the Deep State banking system, the Chinese may be impatiently holding the $1+ trillion bag for the Americans, but it is the Philippines, which is unwittingly foregoing its rightful place in the sun when it lent to the Vatican and the US its historical assets primarily in the form of gold under the threat of force, more than a hundred years ago.
It was too painful indeed for Sec. of DOD Mattis to accede to the instruction of President Trump to finally return the Balangiga Bells where it belongs, and to acknowledge the genocidal action of the US against the inhabitants of Samar Island, Philippines, at the turn of the 20th Century.
One of the Balangiga Bells was rung as a signal for the Philippine patriots to start the ambush against the American occupiers, which led to the latter's deaths that precipitated in the countermeasure aimed at turning Balangiga, Samar Island into a "howling wilderness."
The Philippines fought the Americans after the latter immediately assumed occupation of the islands when the Spaniards were losing their battle against local revolutionaries.
Duterte's specific request for the return of the bells was delivered in his State of the Nation 2017, to the shock of the US Ambassador in attendance.
To see and administer the ending of American occupations worldwide is too much for Mattis to bear.
What's behind the latest accelerated scramble for disclosure and the end of US hostilities worldwide?
For almost two years, US President Donald Trump tried to use conventional methods to deal with the Deep State Congress and State Department, but all he got was constant failures and the now infamous Russiagate.
The latest decision for a complete withdrawal from Syria by Trump was brought about by the direct confirmation of Turkey President Erdogan that ISIS is already 99% neutralized, a fact reluctantly admitted to by Bolton, Pompeo, and Mattis — the threesome insisted that US forces still needed to prevent an ISIS resurgence in the region.
It must be said that the US withdrawal from Syria is inevitable due to the US bankruptcy, and obviously was also part of what was agreed upon by Trump and Putin during their "candid and useful" one-on-one meeting in Helsinki last July 16th, 2018.
Another turning point for Trump is the California Wildfire, which was very unique in its speed and coverage, prompting those who have a functioning gray matter to doubt the mainstream narrative of just another proof of "global warming."
California Wildfire: Another Directed Energy Weapon Attack?
The directed energy weapon's attack on Paradise, California, is now reported as a desperate Deep State attack on off-world beings, who have been living among us for decades in order to guide humanity in the proper use of nuclear technology, immediately in the aftermath of the last World War where several atomic bombs of increasing intensity were detonated in some Pacific atolls and inland elsewhere.
Trump was made aware of off-world technologies very early on from his own uncle, John George Trump, who was a known physicist in his time.
John George Trump (August 21, 1907 – February 21, 1985) was an American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist. He was a recipient of U.S. President Ronald Reagan's National Medal of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.[3][4][5] John Trump was noted for developing rotational radiation therapy.[3] Together with Robert J. Van de Graaff, he developed one of the first million-volt X-ray generators. He was the paternal uncle of the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump.
The National Academy of Engineering described Trump as "a pioneer in the scientific, engineering and medical applications of high voltage machinery".[4] James Melcher, Trump's lab director, is quoted as saying: "John, over a period of three decades, would be approached by people of all sorts because he could make megavolt beams of ions and electrons – death rays. … What did he do with it? Cancer research, sterilizing sludge out in Deer Island [a waste disposal facility], all sorts of wondrous things. He didn't touch the weapons stuff."[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Trump
So, when Trump peppered his inaugural speech with "technologies of tomorrow" he does know what he was talking about.
We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow.
https://geopolitics.co/2017/01/21/america-first-president-donald-trump/
As for the Russia-US "deteriorating" relationship due to the unilateral abrogation of the INF treaty by the US, it's just another smokescreen to feed the warmongers and the military industrial complex one last time, before it is transformed into an agent of positive, significantly advanced infrastructure churning out free energy and gravity defying transport systems that will end the petrodollar/perpetual war-based economy.
The US military withdrawal from Syria will turn out to be the watershed event that will pave the way for lasting peace worldwide, where not a single element of the Deep State can have a piece of the action.
The sealed indictment for the month of November alone totaled 5,233, bringing the overall figure to 66,568 between October 30, 2017 and November 30, 2018, according to pacer.gov data.
No, it's not 2 months from now, but on New Year's Eve, Trump wants Mattis to go…
I am pleased to announce that our very talented Deputy Secretary of Defense, Patrick Shanahan, will assume the title of Acting Secretary of Defense starting January 1, 2019. Patrick has a long list of accomplishments while serving as Deputy, & previously Boeing. He will be great!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 23, 2018
… and the White House expressly underscored the point that it's not going to change its decision to pull out from Syria.
The Syrians are already celebrating the good news…
Another tsunami attack against Indonesia should grab the headlines, at the very least, away from the US pullout in Syria.
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49 thoughts on "Mass Arrests vs. Deep State Operatives Imminent"
You can only hope thatt the message in that envelope at the evil funeral of bush just said … YOU ARE NEXT.
kznwatch says:
Thumbs up! Enjoyed and relished every word … Good will overcome evil at long last, because its time and nothing can stop it.
Thank you all for your dedication and hard work and warmest wishes for a wonderful and blessed Christmas and a joyous festive season!
With God's grace, mercy and endless love, maybe next Christmas, bells will ring out across the World in celebration of peace and unbridled happiness … pray Lord they do!
wolvenwood says:
Before I came across this article, I had already figured that something like this was going on, good to know I have some confirmation and good to know that Trump has trumped the bad actors in the military! They have no idea what he is up to and can only guess his next move but they are always wrong in those guesses. I do know that the objective of world peace is very much on Pres Trump's mind and is one of his major goals. I'm elderly. and I remember the prez campaign between Nixon and JFK in 1960. Ive followed every election since then but I have never seen a president like DJT, I love this man he is amazing! Thank you President Trump for getting us out of Syria!!!! Merry Christmas to all! Thank you for this article!
K. Chris C. says:
The puppet of the Khazarian fifth-column, Trump, is doing nothing except what he has been told to do.
The withdrawals are an expected action in the lead up to the Khazarians' planned war with Iran. Notice that the no occupiers from the Iraq warcrime and occupation next door to Iran, and right at the door of Iran's oil and gas fields, are being withdrawn.
It gets worse from here. Expect a horrendous blamed on Iran false-flag to rival the Z/11 false-flag–A sunk aircraft carrier; Bombed city?!
One is not a true American until resident in the ADL's database.
Herman Snerd says:
KC, you are living in the leftist fantasy world. Wake up and see what is really going on in the world.
Spud2u says:
Q sent me – THIS IS FREEDOM FROM DARKNESS FOR THE WORLD !!!
I STOPPED listening or Viewing ANYONE who doesn't have the COURAGE Identify by REAL Name when addressing US.
Waaaaaaaaaay to MANY "Courageous Beings" have paid with their very Lives to SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER…to bother listening to nameless cowards.
Mark J. says:
KennyBoy is your Real Name ?
I find it REDICULOUS that there are people who STILL believe the TRUMP isn't PART of the so-called "Deep-State" (LAUGH!!!)
HE WORKS FOR THE SAME EVIL "PARTNERS" IN CRIME…LUCIFERIAN/SATANIST/VATICAN BACKED ZIONIST…THE "CHILDREN" OF THEIR "MOTHER CORPORATION"…WTFU!
That's Ridiculous…. eh,
I find it Ridiculous that anyone would think that Donald J.Trump WAS part of the Global NWO.
He worked for himself until the day he threw his hat in to the ring to go the whole 12 rounds against the Tyranny of world dominance by any means at the hands of a few.
Spelling counts when you type it in all caps…lol
@MarkJ
Either You are Naive or "Still living inside the Box" of disinformation still being peddled around MSM sources.
NOBODY,, ever gets ELECTED into the office President,..They are SELECTED into that office…By the so-called "Deep-State".
Don't you Know about our Fake Political System, and HOW it Really operates???
You NEED to watch: "Government is an Illusion", OK?
That's just for starters!
The guy is ONE, of the so-called "One-Percenter's" (Billionaire)…THAT Alone Assures that he was SELECTED, Understand???
There are pictures All Over the Internet PROVING he is an "Associate" of the Deep-State…Not to mention LOADS of Video evidence!
Gar says:
Calm down Frances…
https://quantum-bank.world/who-we-are/
Russell-Jay: Gould rendered all Vatican control obsolete as he captured the in the truth , NOW, jurisdiction from the Vatican in 1999 when the USA Inc came out of bankruptcy. Motu Proprio declared the pope in 2013.
https://federal-postal-court.org/federal-postal-judges/russell-jay-gould/
There are many, many intelligent people working at navigating through the maze of commerce that contracts connect with on many levels:
https://m.facebook.com/groups/181623855716320?src=email_notif
Then NOW you can explain WHAT is going to happen with the VATICAN and its "Incorporated Religions and Government"
I'M ALL EARS Darren.
Within David-Wynn: Miller's presentations are his claims of childhood ET abduction and his being a 90th degree Freemason. His mom is a member of Freemasonry's sister organization of the Eastern Star. This is in addition to his dying for 9 minutes and having a code blue revival – so he was a walk in.
You can watch Russell's videos at War Castles where he visited military HQs as commander in chief and had people recognize him. Hey, the flags in Congress are not correct. So they are pirates. 85% of communication is nonverbal. So the Law of the Flag is very important. There are 11 systems governing flags according to Miller, Russell put this info into his Reno seminar videos.
Miller claims his grammatical math interface is used in the upcoming judicial system of courts replacement by a computer. Just like banking.
Honestly Ken I make no claim to being a Nostradamus I'm really just trying to survive – as many people are. I like the writings of Lisa Renee and I often cite the book series Anastasia from Ringing Cedars when exploring the question , What are people for?
When people lose their function depression sets in . Happiness is found in activity.
Even though we live in accelerating change people cling to what they're used to – burning coal, fraccing for oil worshipping celebrity. 1.2 billion Roman $aturnian cult members. How to shift these structures?
Russell speaks of a debt jubilee, we're well overdue for it. Our global situation reminds me of a western movie. A frontier town without any law except might is right until some principled realists show up to set things right.
Nature abhors a vacuum
A movement will start.
let us hope that this article can come true, but in these times, words are the only action taken against evil.
@James
And that's ALL They have doing for the last two decades…TALK A LOT…NO NOTHING.
ASK: How LONG has it been since 9/11, that all we have given is WHAT..HOW…and WHERE IT HAPPENED…ALMOST NO WHO DID IT, AND …NO ACTIONS TAKEN AGAINST THE ORIGINATORS OF THESE ATTACKS…GET-THAT???
Even far longer than that Kennyboy as an extract from An American History below concludes;-
Whether called the Doctrine of Discovery or Manifest Destiny, the principles that stimulated U.S. thirst for land have been disastrous for Native Americans, African Americans, Mexicans, and many others both in North America and abroad who lost life, liberty and property as the result of U.S. expansionism. The history of Christian law helps us to understand how our leaders-many considered heroes and role models today-undertook monstrous acts in the name of liberty. This insight into the prevailing ideas of the day, however, does not excuse their behavior. Some may have truly been misled by the ideals of Christian discovery, but others acted knowingly out of self-interest, greed and bigotry. Even as far back as Columbus, however, there were religious and political leaders, as well as ordinary citizens, who knew better and worked against racism, colonization and slavery.
As far back as columbus there have and will continue to be those individuals dedicated to a free society for all. The resistance is in the brainwashed masses.
@Darren
A rather Long-winded answer that didn't address the question I asked, but never mind…I already KNOW "Religions & Governments" Fate.
They are NOT about ONENESS with the "Creator" Their very Story has been RECORDED as an Example of What NOT to become…In the "Cosmos".
Dear Ken , what is your view on Bruce Fenton's book/website concerning the "Into Africa" theory of evolution that explores Aussie Aborigines as an origin to man?
http://brucefenton.info/into-africa-theory/
well who knows but we do have this pic:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/756874/Donald-Trump-Illuminati-or-not-New-World-Order
And ALL of those images being LUCIFERIAN/SATANIST hand signs too!
If you go to the 3:15:00 mark in this lengthy interview you will see Keith Hunter show an image of the cube structure within Earth that the MIC has their facilities over top:
Makes me wonder about past civilizations and their megalithic structures left, like these in Montana: https://www.galacticfacets.com/
Santa Satan $aturn, the $aturnalia. Forget the personality worship of the copywritten bible please. How come the US Treasury Dept building is just like Rome's treasury – A temple to $aturn? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Saturn
and the USA Inc version:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasury_Building_(Washington,_D.C.)
The 8 pillars represent the 8 vertexes of a cube. That's gnomonic projective synthetic geometry.
If you thought THIS was Great, Wait till you SEE and READ about OUR-Story in place of HIS-Story…witch has OUR Origins based off the Ancient Civilization KEMET,Founded in AFRICA…55,000 years ago…Witch morphed into Egypt = then Ebo = Califian = Ancient South & North America =Ancient China & India!
Its ALL available on line
Maybe Trump is a good satanist, who is not religious and doesn't participate in satanic events. .. Bad people are against him, which makes me think he is good. I assume Trump is good, and I don't get a contradiction. If I assumed he was bad, I would be surprised why he bombs Syria without causing any damage. Most people in my current location, inlculding most of the best and smartest, think Trump is bad. Some think that way because he is leader of an imperialist power, others think that way because he is republician so he is wright wing. All total nonsense. "Trump is good " theory is consistent, "Trump is bad" theory is not.
Time will tell Mike.
The words GOOD being associated with SATAN are Opposites to each other, and SATANIST…Absolutely HATE Hu-Mans…What is GOOD about THAT???
Very true Kennyboy.
Satan means – the opposer.
Our animus and the anima come to mind. Opposition only exists in duality grounded in 2D, black and white imagination. Sadly, our military institutions called schools only teach the zero centered masculine-Linear, left brain memorization system called hierarchical thinking. Look around, is anything flat???
Or black and white?
Only writing on paper.
0 is a powerful lie to create separation. That's why going to the Jesuit institution of Catholicism is called Separate Scool. I'm a protesting intellectual-a protest-ant.
Nature means neter/number, there is no zero in nature.
When a posting includes a copy of Contact, the Phoenix journals transcribed using some super resonant crystal communication system it brings in the off world, Pesh Meten, as the source is an 8 1/2 ft tall reptilian from the Pleiades – Commander Hatonn.
Even Russell hyphenJayfull colonGould has info from Contact at his quantum Banking website. Donald Trump just committed 1.2 Billion to quantum computing.
My one very awake friend new a previous transcriber/publisher couple from Canada. He swears he's valid. My friend took David Icke on cross Canada tours numerous times. All I can say is look into Han Purple.
I honestly don't believe in this reptilian stuff Darren. I cannot believe how these creatures have built better craft, machines etc using their claws to hold screwdrivers etc. And if they were 'mind' powerful then why would they be even living in physical houses as we do?
Sir, is physical ( that word means phi-cycle ) really solid?
No, just standing wave patterns. Never trust ETs that fly heavy metal. The external light energy vehicle was central to the Luciferian Rebellion. Noah, a hybrid shocked his sons when they saw the scales on his chest. Nephilim means no phi in them – their DNA is not fractal. Repetitious Tiling is a math function just as serpentine describes a mathematical curve. These characters use our collective attention to birth stars in our cosmic drama. Right in the Orion Nebula the most productive nursery in our galaxy.
Sir, please do a Black's Law Dictionary on the word belief or believe. It is synonymous with suspect. Second hand info that is heresay.
There are so many stars that the possibility of evolved advanced biology is very real. Maybe all the Dino's didn't perish 60 million years ago. Maybe some went underground and went through an evolutionary jump. People have claws we just call them nails. My own physiology changes depending on the work I'm doing and the environment I'm doing it in. I used to commercially dive for octopus ( sold for halibut bait ) . They are incredibly intelligent. Two hearts. Huge optic nerve. Shapeshifting camouflage control.
And you already have DNA modification going on in our world. Spider goats for kevlar is old hat.
Elizabeth means from lizard born. We live in a big experiment of multiple ET involvement to stop a lengthy cosmic war. Read your Dan Winter please. Shapeshifting has always been possible.
Thank you for your reply, It all is very interesting indeed and I will follow up on those leads that you have kindly shown me. I have noticed in another comment on this post that you may 'believe' that you swum through the waters from Saturn? Do you believe in the flat earth theory?
Online etymology has this to say about belief(N) and obviously believe is the verb of this…
belief (n.)
late 12c., bileave, "confidence reposed in a person or thing; faith in a religion," replacing Old English geleafa "belief, faith," from West Germanic *ga-laubon "to hold dear, esteem, trust" (source also of Old Saxon gilobo, Middle Dutch gelove, Old High German giloubo, German Glaube), from *galaub- "dear, esteemed," from intensive prefix *ga- + PIE root *leubh- "to care, desire, love." The prefix was altered on analogy of the verb believe. The distinction of the final consonant from that of believe developed 15c.
If reading about Thoth's inception onto this wonderful planet it will be noted that the peoples were put under a vibration. This same 'demon' had slaughtered the giants of that time. Giant people's and animals. Of course there is the belief that these giant persons were the fallen ones, the Nephilim that co habited the planet before the deluge.
Going on that theory Thoth's head is representative of an Ibis whilst the body is human in form – no claws as such. The wisdom or mind feats that are displayed by this individual show how much can be achieved by the use of one's mind even if the head is portrayed as being small.
Many believe that we the human race actually has 12 strands of double helix's to our DNA make up. We are still educated to the two strand chain. The full working compliment would enable us to venture into twelve different dimensions, however it is said that on the fourth there is an UNNATURAL seal?
There are many false teachings that continue and should be stopped in its tracks and that should also be our jobs.
Seems You are still going over some of the stuff I USED to look at until I found out HIS-Story is almost ALL LIES.
That is another version called OUR-Story where in the TRUTH is being told about OUR Creation.
I no longer TRUST the White man's version called "HIS" Story…WAY to MANY Lies and distortions in it.
I've since learned WHERE those Stories Really came from…The "Fallen Ones", or Luciferian/Satanist.
Dear Ken, Sir I realize fully that the black Al-Khem-ical origins to Egypt and the Americas is fascinating.
http://realhistoryww.com/world_history/ancient/Olmec_the_Americas. htm
I have Scandinavian roots , I'm a blue eyed blond and I can't go out into the sun. Melanin. Maybe I swam in from Saturn in the water?:
https://www.davidicke.com/article/512330/blockbuster-saturn-earth-connection-confirmed
The Old Testament is not nearly as old as the stones. I strongly support Michael Tellinger and the UBUNTU movement. I post to this forum with a majority black membership too:
https://m.facebook.com/groups/2142635926020527?src=email_not-if
Yeah…I USED to read all the "Phoenix Journals" years ago…Hanton BS too…I even like David Icke's views for a time too…UNTIL I LEARNED about "OUR-Story"!
I've since found evidence that those "Creatures" calling them selves the "Pleiades" are the SAME folks working for the so-called "SECRET Space Program" and their so-called "Alliance", witch seem to NOT able able to FIND or Terminate all the Evil going on Here …Even with Their "ADVANCED" Technologies??? Its like an old quote made in an old Movie: "THEY couldn't find a Hooker in a Whore House"!
AND!..My Gosh THEY seem to NEED "Weapons"?! as Tool?! Turns out the whole batch is all working for VATICAN interest and the NWO!
By the way Darren, It seems you must know Santos Benacci???
Geepers Darren…I don' t SEE a "Reply" icon after you make a post…WHY???
I would love to reply IF you ALLOW me too, OK?
You made a VERY interesting statement about "Melanin" and WHY you cannot pass through the SUN (Son)
Please explain WHY?
Ken I didn't censor replies. I don't know why the reply link isn't there. I like Santos Bonacci very much!
I also respect the contributers to this page:
I have been anxiously waiting for Santos to post about his Promissory Note strategy to dismiss his $130,000 debt.
The UCC came in in 1959 so there must have been remedies before.
Ken, if you put some links to information about the ancient past or melanin I'll read them.
The melatonin serotonin melanin connection to the pineal is very interesting!
Here's a link to the quantum computing funding:
https://www.geekwire.com/2018/trump-signs-legislation-back-quantum-computing-research-1-2-billion/
Google around Quantum Financial System or hypercube algorithm programming – FINCEN's holographic processor called 'the cube' has been running all $aturnian financial actions, all of them, flawlessly since 1989.
JEEPERS! Darren…They have been writing about this so-called Quantum Financial System as if its already working for months…NOW you post THIS HIGHLY probable LIE here?..As if it hasn't even STARTED Research YET???
Write off the "Operation Disclosure" BS site!!! (Laugh!!!)
The QFS will short circuit the holographic processor within $aturn that the elites feed through sacrificing 2000 people per day on the Military Industrial Complex controlled Earth Grid. Fear is what they feed into their control system. Our 60 Hz electrical system is not fractal. Neither is 50 in Europe. 55 is though.
The masons perform their rituals on a 64 square, 2D plane of inertia. This is resonant to the legal land system of 640 acres in a section of land that is 1 square mile. A township is 36 sections . 36 factorial is 666.
I'm revealing hyperdimensional physics so I'm very aware that many don't like math.
This website is called Covert Geopolitics so it is very important to grasp that whoever controls the Earth Grid controls commerce. Location, location, location.
Why are churches built over temples from previous cultures. Location.
Please check out the free Ebooks at http://www.human-resonance.org and http://www.interferencetheory.com
Geometry is the root metaphor to all subjects as the alphabeta we think with is geometric in origin. All letters are waveguides as the universe is mental and the letters are shadows of a torus. The quantum financial system used a double torus .
Why is Apple hq'd in a torus in Cupertino? Why is MI6 listening hq in a torus?
Why is there a dicone, the perfect merge of circle and square at the core of a double torus. http://Www.ralphring.com used this geometry in his UFO.
Remember, zero is the trick programmed into us. A zero is a mirror. A negative is a mirror reflection of a positive. The reflection IS there, but it is not real. Study your Vortex Based Math please. Our right brain is feminine-Nine and VBM is the math our right brain uses. 5 is how many feeder streams go into a Vortex as 5 is the Center of mine.
I don't mind people arguing with me , Occam's Razor applies. Elegance is simplicity.
Beauty is symmetry. Time is art.
117 years of friendship with the people of the Philippines? Is the secretary of defence living in a dream world? They took over 'ownership' of that place after the spaniards had a hard time milking it for everything they had and naming towns in honour of the american generals. And when the Filipinos had enough and wanted them out they were slaughtered on their own door step.
It further amazes me how the colonialist turn the indigenous folk into allies to help their further conquest of the planet. The aboriginals never knew of the Japs before the world wars and nor did the Filipinos.
Another part of the speech which I found absurd in this day and age was when he mentioned that he mentions that this convention took place in the great state of Cheyenne where the young folk built america and whereby the indigenous people's are looked upon as equal citizen's – WHAT???? To make a comment like that in the year 2018 shows that the USA is very much in a racial turmoil.
This 'retreat' is just another disguise for a 'new' invention that is taking place. The puppets worldwide are in place now and a far more covert war is going to take place.
The Syrians are already celebrating Xmas in their father Xmas outfits, surely this was a staged event to fool the rest of the populace there and the world. They have also been converted now.
Jeremiah 10 ( About Gods and Idols)
And jingle bells and silent night will be the new Xmas anthems that Syrians will be singing. The star of david will be put on the very top as they will now start to unknowingly worship satan.
THEY "WISH" IT COULD HAPPEN THAT WAY…UNFORTUNATELY, FOR THEM…IT WON'T….SOMETHING ELSE WILL THOUGH.
THE NWO WILL NEVER SEE LIGHT OF DAY.
Interesting. Hope something good happens!
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param, because it's obvious. This looks similar to me.
> > > results and then how to start a new search).
> > I've added a paragraph explaining how a normal search would be done.
> more than once and how we can detect that the search is done.
> > > Actually having a simple demo app in examples/client could be useful.
> > freeze is in ~ 1 week, and it's blocking on this.
> Sure, just opens a bug so we don't forget.
Will do when this is merged.
> > > > DBus tests and I couldn't really understand how that stuff works.
> > > Yeah you have to write a server side channel object to test your API.
> > I'm not familiar with this dbus test stuff.
it for the Empathy contact search dialog, and it works fine).
Sure. Thanks for all your comments!


Kain-Knight » Part 36 prizes in provisional assessment: does CPR 47.15(5) prevail over Part 36.17(4)?
Part 36 prizes in provisional assessment: does CPR 47.15(5) prevail over Part 36.17(4)?
The scenario: the receiving party serves a bill for £75,000 and commences proceedings for detailed assessment under CPR 47. 6. In view of the sum involved, the bill is referred for provisional assessment under CPR 47.15 and Practice Direction (PD) 47.14.1. The bill is assessed by the judge at £72,000. Sealed offers lodged under PD 47.14.3(d) are subsequently considered. They reveal that the receiving party offered to accept £71,999, so the offer has been beaten by a whisker.
Given that since 1 April 2013, under CPR 47.20(4), the provisions of Part 36 apply to the costs of detailed assessment and that it is trite law that "a near miss" makes no difference to the offeree's liability to pay (Carver v BAA PLC having been overruled), what are the consequences?
The answer is to be found in CPR 36.17(4)(a)-(d). Unless it is unjust to do so, the court must award under (a) interest on the costs allowed at a rate not exceeding 10% above rate base rate, under (b) costs of assessment on the indemnity basis from the date on which the time for accepting the offer expired, (c) interest on those costs at a rate not exceeding 10% above base rate and (d) an additional amount of 10% of the costs allowed, not to exceed £75,000.
"The rule was introduced not only to provide an incentive to a claimant to make a timely realistic Part 36 offer, but also to penalise the defendant for not accepting such an offer".
It follows that, on the facts of the scenario, the receiving party is entitled to be paid by the paying party interest at a rate not exceeding 10.5% on the costs allowed, costs of the assessment on the indemnity basis from the date on which the offer could last have been accepted, interest on those costs at a rate not exceeding 10.5% and an additional sum of £7,200 being 10% of the assessed costs.
The costs of the provisional assessment. What will they be? Under CPR 47.15(5), the maximum that the court can award if the provisional assessment is accepted by the parties is £1,500, together with any VAT thereon and any court fees payable. However, in the scenario, the receiving party has been awarded costs on the indemnity basis. Does that mean that the costs of provisional assessment are no longer limited to £1,500 so that the lid comes off and the sky is the limit (subject to assessment)?
Accordingly, W Portsmouth & Co, and any other paying parties fixed with liability for provisional assessment costs due after a successful Part 36 offer since Laing J's decision, have thus been lumbered with "sky is the limit" costs rather than the £1,500, which has remained unchanged since the rule was implemented on 1 April 2013, nearly five years ago.
"… whether a cap on the amount of costs which can be allowed in respect of the costs of a provisional assessment of costs under CPR rule 47.15(5) applies where the receiving party is awarded costs on the indemnity basis because she has beaten her own Part 36 offer or whether Part 36 entitles the successful receiving party to costs assessed on the indemnity basis, without being subject to the cap".
That was law-speak. It simple terms that meant: did CPR 36.17(4) "trump" CPR 47.15(5) as Laing J had found, so that receiving parties would not be stuck with the capped costs of £1,500, or should she have decided the case the other way, with the result that the victorious receiving party would be limited to the fixed costs, even though they seldom, if ever, cover the actual outlay of expenditure on provisional assessment?
Unanimously, the Court of Appeal accepted W Portsmouth & Co's submissions that, in the trial of strength between the two rules, Part 47 beats Part 36. The reason for that is because if it had been intended that CPR 47.15(5) was not to apply in the case of an assessment of costs on the indemnity basis under CPR 36.14(7)(b), there would have been an express reference to it in either or both of the provisions or in CPR 47.20(4). Nothing in any of those rules contain anything to suggest that CPR 47.15(5) should be dis-applied, or modified, as had been done in the court below, so Ms Lowin would have to be satisfied with £1,500 for her costs of assessment after all.
So in the end, the paying party in Lowin may have won the day, but paying parties who fail to accept a Part 36 offer when they should have done still remain at risk of paying out hefty sums if the receiving party is allowed more in costs than the amount which they had earlier offered to take.
Article written by Colin Campbell. First appeared in Thomson Reuters Practical Law blog on January 11th 2018.


Discussion in 'Konoha Ad Board & Job Center' started by GaaraRed, Sep 26, 2006.
After much contemplation, discussion and planning, we decided to create a forum that is centered on Anime and Manga. The primary focus, at least at this time, is the manga, Bleach, by Tite Kubo. More sections on several other manga and anime can be expected, officially including that of Naruto. The forum itself includes, at this time, news and updates on the manga and anime Bleach, as well as a variety of sub-sections based around this specific manga. A main site is being constructed, to heavily detail the workings, plans, and the what?s-what of Bleach. At this time, as has been said, the focus is primarily Bleach. The forum is small, but that is to be expected of something new. We are hoping that, with support from you, we can continue to grow and prosper.
Just to give you a sense of what to expect from the staff of the Shinigami Society, I?ll be detailing each of the current members of it in the following sentences. I?ll start with myself. On the Shinigami Society, I?m known as GaaraRed, and I am the administrator for the forum.
Hien is the forum leader for the RP area. He is always looking for more people interested in roleplaying to drop by?and stay, of course. We can never have too many. If you?re interested in becoming a part of the staff, for instance, gaining the title of Bio Approver alongside myself, all you really have to do is show a dedication to the section and be of obviously capable skill in the area of roleplaying. We of the staff do truly share a goal in this section, which is to make it grow. As of now we don?t have many roleplayers, but those that we do have are dedicated to that field and all of us are open to newcomers.
The title of Bio Approver is not the only position open on the staff. Moderators for the general sections of the forums are always welcome, encouraged, and though at the present time they are not as significant due to the lack of members in general, the significance?we hope?will grow with your support. Naturally, one in this position would be required to have a capable sense of logic, and not be afraid to get harsh with other members when something unnecessary is done. The most common thing a Moderator would be required to look for is Spamming, a term practically every forum is familiar with. We hate Spam. You should too.
And now, last but absolutely not least, the people that brought about the Shinigami Society, the Administrators: Darkstar and myself. While Darkstar toils endlessly on the upcoming Main Site, I regulate the forum itself. We appoint positions in the staff of the Shinigami Society. Moreover, I have been making GFX for people for quiet some time and am open to try any requests you may have in that area. Darkstar, while not openly admitting that he may be proficient in another area?he?s a very sneaky person?is highly skilled in the technicalities that go along with his position and his focus, which is the main site.
But do not think that being a staff member of the SS is the only fun thing about it. Being a member is just as rewarding, and less tedious in the long run. You can do virtually anything you wish to on the forums, aside from the obvious unnecessary actions, so long as you cooperate with the rules. They aren?t difficult to follow. We do hope that you come to join us here in the Shinigami Society, with the promise that it will not be a waste of your time, and the open admission that we are a small forum looking to expand and grow in a positive light.
Sounds pretty interesting, I'll join.
Ill look and think about it soon, however don't depend on me to be there all the time.
Meh, I'd rather just stick to the one's here. But thatnks for the info anyway.
Thanks guys. Oh, and FoxHime, that's not a problem at all.
Our latest push is for RPing. A new RP has developed known as The Riot. In this, mod souls are rioting throughout Karakura...but for what reason? However, this is merely extraneous to the Soul Society, as their only focus is stopping the riots as fast as possible. But will they be successful? Or, will the mod souls take control. YOU DETERMINE IN THIS NEW RP.
Make your own mod soul or shinigami, and play as him/her.


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Catherine is the founding Director of Cultural Partnerships Australia established in 2010 and has held the position of Director Special Projects at Red Gate Gallery since 2009. She is a member of the prestigious International Association of Art Critics (AICA)
She has 25 years experience in the initiation, facilitation and management of multi faceted events and complex community cultural development projects which under her leadership promote cross cultural awareness and bilateral cultural exchange
From 'Working with Indigenous Communities' in the Top End of Australia to 'Ribbons of Steel' at BHP Newcastle, Catherine has been instrumental in the establishment of theatre companies, national festivals, galleries, art prizes and cross cultural exchange programs
Her work has gained widespread recognition both in Australia and China and Catherine is highly respected by her peers for her leadership, courage and enthusiasum
Since 2006 she has focused her skills upon developing bilateral relations between Australia and China through long term cultural exchange projects including:
'From Mao to Now' Sydney Olympic Park, 'Coming Home' Linda Gallery Beijing, 'Hard Sleeper' Chinese Provincial Tour (Pinyao, Xian, Chengdu, Chongqing, Wuhan, Shanghai) and Exhibition, Beijing and 'On the Edge' New Media & Hybrid Arts from Australia (Beijing, Chengdu and Chongqing), 'Two Generations – 20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art' (Australian Tour and Cultural Exchange Program) and 'Yiban Yiban Yellah Fellah' (Guangzhou, Kunming and Chongqing)
Catherine continues to work closely with government agencies, cultural organisations and educational institutions in Australia and China to initiate strategic partnerships, establish new markets and audiences and build cultural exchange and touring networks between Australian and Chinese artists and arts managers
She has had an extensive career in the areas of community capacity building, brokering partnerships between local government, arts workers, volunteers, non profit organisations and business sponsors both in Australia and China:
Catherine is the producer and presenter of 'An Australian Photographer in China' exhibition at the Dali Photography Museum, Yunnan. This collection of photographs presents an important historical archive of images captured by generations of Australian photographers who visited South West China during the past 125 years.
Catherine is also working closely with the Wangkangurru elders in Munga Thirru on a community repatriation project designed to reconnect story with place across the Simpson Desert Region.
Catherine managed 'In the Spirit of George Rose' a bilateral cultural exchange between Australian and Korean photographers including Mr William Yang and Mr Bohnchang Koo.
This project included a number of large exhibitions which Catherine curated at the Korea Foundation Gallery, Seoul and the Korean Cultural Centre in Sydney.
Catherine was recognised for her contribution to the Australia-China relationship in the field of "Arts" through her selection as one of four finalists in the inaugural Australia-China Achievement Awards announced by the Australian Prime Minister during the visit of the Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Catherine was the facilitator and manager of Yiban Yiban Yellah Fellah《一半,一半:黄色人种 》This cultural exchange program bought a group of Australian contemporary artists who were exploring their mixed Indigenous and Chinese heritage to Guangzhou, Kunming and Chongqing in June / July.
Catherine was the manager & curator of 'Crossing Boundaries – A Celebration of Asian Australian Art' held as a key feature of the City of Sydney Chinese New Year Festival celebrations at Sydney Town Hall. The exhibition featured work by 37 Asian Australia artists including those with Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Indonesian, Malay and mixed Chinese Indigenous Australian heritage.
Catherine was a finalist across three categories in the inaugural 'Australian Arts in Asia Awards' (Individual, Visual Arts & Indigenous) in recognition of her innovative work in establishing and managing the "Australia China Curatorial Exchange Program".
Catherine was the manager and curator of '蛇 rắn 뱀 A Celebration of Asian Australian Art' held as a key feature of the City of Sydney Chinese New Year Festival celebrations at Sydney Town Hall 2013. The exhibition featured work by 45 Asian Australia artists including those with Chinese, Vietnamese, Thai, Korean, Indonesian, Malay and mixed Chinese Indigenous Australian heritage.
Also in 2013 Catherine assisted Waringarri Arts with 'Our Living Land – Leading artists of the East Kimberley' (我们生生不息的土地 澳大利亚金巴里东部顶尖艺术家联展). This exhibition of work by 24 Indigenous artists was held at the Salvo Hotel and OFOTO Gallery M5o, Shanghai during April 2013.
See Cultural Partnerships Australia for more details
Catherine was the manager and curator of the 'Two Generations – 20 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art' Australian National Tour and Cultural Exchange Program which opened at Sydney Town Hall on January 16th as part of their Chinese New Year Festival and continued to Taree, Newcastle, Melbourne and Perth.
As part of this tour Catherine initiated a cultural exchange program which has bought 14 Chinese artists and curators to Australia to work alongside her and meet with Australian artists, gallerists and representatives of cultural organisations and educational institutions
Catherine was employed by Asialink to coordinate an exhibition of Australian fashion and Design work at the Opposite House in Beijing ,'Abandoned Boudoir' . This involved the refurbishment of an entire penthouse suite with Australian fabric's, table settings and furniture including samples of jewelery and wardrobes hung with unique Australian fashion items
Catherine was also the only Australian (and only woman) photographer invited to participate in the documentation of 'China – The New Long March'. This project, funded by the Ministry of Press and Publications saw 8 Chinese and 4 International photographers retrace the route of the 'Long March' documenting the change and development that has occurred since 1935/6. The resulting large format book was launched at the London Book Fair in April 2012 and will be published in Australia by Harper Collins in September 2012
Catherine independently initiated, researched, marketed and managed two ambitious Australian Chinese cultural exchange projects as a part of 'Imagine Australia' – The Year of Australian Culture in China:
The first: 'Hard Sleeper' saw a group of 8 Indigenous and emerging Australian artists under take a month long tour of provincial China which included studio visits and artists forums in Xian, Chengdu and Chongqing prior to taking up an arts residency at Red Gate Gallery in Beijing. Catherine then managed and curated the resulting exhibition 'Hard Sleeper' which was opened by the Honourable Kevin Rudd (then Foreign Minister) in November 2010
The second: 'On the Edge – New Media & Hybrid Arts from Australia' a tour by 10 of Australia's best young New Media artists, musicians, web designers, filmakers and engineers to Beijing, Chongqing and Chengdu where they undertook a series of skills exchange workshops with local designers, artists and film makers and presented large interactive public performances to enthusiastic audiences
Catherine was employed as the Manager/Curator of the Sydney Olympic Park Traveling Exhibition – Coming Home – Featuring the work of 37 Chinese Australian Artists, this exhibition was held at the Linda Gallery – 798 Art District Beijing during May 2009.
On October 20th 2009, the China Daily ran the following story about her work:
How Sweeping Strokes can Link Cultures
Catherine was also the Manager of the Randwick City Council – Mayors Public Art Project, designed to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Randwick being declared a city in 1859. A panel comprising; Tony Bond (AGNSW), Scott O'Hara (Resident Representative) and the Mayor of Randwick, Bruce Notley Smith assessed applications from a short list of 5 artists with Ruark Lewis being awarded the contract.
From Mao to Now invitation
Catherine was employed as Manager/Curator of the Sydney Olympic Park Authority From Mao to Now exhibition which featured the work of 80 Chinese Australian artists and other contemporary Australian artists who had studied or worked in the People's Republic of China.
Catherine spent 3 months traveling 'solo' through remote areas of China's Yun'nan, Sichuan and Fujian provinces, prior to taking up a 6 week residency at the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing.
Catherine received a professional development grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to: Research and document traditional Chinese cultural practices and the ways in which those practices are being interpreted in contemporary arts. She traveled 'solo' overland through China for 3 months, culminating in an exhibition of her work titled Catherines Great Adventure, at John Paynter Gallery – Newcastle.
Previous Professional Experience
In 2004/5 Kate traveled to the Northern Territory to interview representatives from the key arts organisations and indigenous arts cooperatives from Katherine to the Tiwi Islands. Using the data gathered she developed and delivered an intensive training course for Top End artists called 'Working with Communities'.
In 2001, Kate was responsible for the artistic design and construction of the Hunter Region Float for Centenary of Federation Parade. She was then seconded as Parade Coordinator for Zone 1 (Botanical Gardens to Oxford Street) which involved the recruitment and training of hundreds of volunteer marshals to assist in the coordination of thousands of performers and oversee the event which saw 500,000 people line the streets of Sydney.
Catherine Croll with her Exhibition – Catherines great Adventure
In 2000, she was seconded from Arts Hunter by SOCOG (Sydney Olympic Games Organising Committee) to assist with the management of volunteers at the Sydney Olympic Games 2000. In this capacity she was responsible for over 2,000 volunteer performers in the Awakenings and Fire Sections of the Opening Ceremony and 8,000 performers in the Closing Ceremony.
As Principle Trainer for CCD NSW (Community Cultural Development NSW) from 2000 until 2008, she conducted 'Assessment and Workplace Training' Certificate IV for facilitators from across NSW, Tasmania and the NT and facilitated the 'Creative Volunteering – No Limits' training course offered by Regional Arts Australia to community organisations, volunteers and local government staff.
She is also the author of Australia's first online Diploma in Community Cultural Development offered annually through CCDNSW from 2003 to 2008
Catherine Croll can be contacted email or her Australian mobile +61 (0) 419 427 002
Tammie Reid says:
what a fabulous journey, such courage and creativity