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Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 600m 43.5mm with 1:1 Case Dimensions and Blue Dial. 43.5mm wide, 16mm thick full 316F stainless steel case with brushed finish and polished edges. Platinum plated 2836-2 automatic movement, heavily modified to resemble the original Omega Caliber 8900 movement. 28,800 vibrations per hour, updated black balance wheel. Blue dial with stick hour indications. Super-lume has been applied to the indications and hands. The minute hand and the circular bezel indication have green lume, and the indications and hour hand have blue lume as per the original. Includes plastic inner box set and warranty cards while supplies last. 316F stainless steel bracelet with deployant clasp. Display caseback with random serial number and detailed engravings. Blue ceramic bezel. Movement has hack feature. Date indication at 3:00 position on dial, adjusted via the crown. Water resistant to 30m. If you have further questions about this Omega replica watch, or any Omega replica watches featured on this page, please contact us. Price INCLUDES SHIPPING world wide via Express Mail where available.
Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 45mm Volvo Racing Chronograph, Orange 7750. **From the best Omega producer. 45mm wide, 17.5mm thick full stainless steel case with thick black PVD coating. Correct 22mm lug width, slight update over previous models. Black dial with bar hour indications. Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating. Asian 7750 automatic chronograph movement, with fully functional stop watch and sub-dials. Movement has been completely re-worked to resemble the original Omega Cal. 9900 movement. Top pusher starts and stops the main seconds hand and sub-dials, bottom pusher resets them. Fully functional second time zone sub-dial at 3:00 position, adjusted via the crown. Solid caseback with detailed engravings. Rubber/nylon hybrid diver's strap with deployant clasp. Correct black background date wheel. Uni-directional bezel (orange). Water resistant to 30m. If you have further questions about this Omega replica watch, or any Omega replica watches featured on this page, please contact us. Price INCLUDES SHIPPING world wide via Express Mail where available.
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Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 45mm Chronograph, Orange 7750. **From the best Omega producer. 45mm wide, 17.5mm thick full stainless steel case with brushed and polished finish. Correct 22mm lug width, slight update over previous models. Black dial with bar hour indications. Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating. Asian 7750 automatic chronograph movement, with fully functional stop watch and sub-dials. Top pusher starts and stops the main seconds hand and sub-dials, bottom pusher resets them. Solid caseback with detailed engravings. Stainless bracelet with deployment clasp. Correct black background date wheel. Uni-directional bezel (orange). Water resistant to 30m. If you have further questions about this Omega replica watch, or any Omega replica watches featured on this page, please contact us. Price INCLUDES SHIPPING world wide via Express Mail where available.
Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 45mm Chronograph, Blue 7750. **From the best Omega producer. 45mm wide, 17.5mm thick full stainless steel case with brushed and polished finish. Correct 22mm lug width, slight update over previous models. Blue dial with bar hour indications. Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating. Asian 7750 automatic chronograph movement, with fully functional stop watch and sub-dials. Top pusher starts and stops the main seconds hand and sub-dials, bottom pusher resets them. Solid caseback with detailed engravings. Stainless bracelet with deployment clasp. Correct black background date wheel. Uni-directional bezel. Water resistant to 30m. If you have further questions about this Omega replica watch, or any Omega replica watches featured on this page, please contact us. Price INCLUDES SHIPPING world wide via Express Mail where available.
Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 45mm Chronograph, Black 7750. **From the best Omega producer. 45mm wide, 17.5mm thick full stainless steel case with brushed and polished finish. Correct 22mm lug width, slight update over previous models. Black dial with bar hour indications. Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating. Asian 7750 automatic chronograph movement, with fully functional stop watch and sub-dials. Top pusher starts and stops the main seconds hand and sub-dials, bottom pusher resets them. Solid caseback with detailed engravings. Stainless bracelet with deployment clasp. Correct black background date wheel. Uni-directional bezel. Water resistant to 30m. If you have further questions about this Omega replica watch, or any Omega replica watches featured on this page, please contact us. Price INCLUDES SHIPPING world wide via Express Mail where available.
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Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 45mm Stainless/Blue with Cal. 8900 Style Movement. 45.5mm wide, 16.5mm thick full stainless steel case with polished and brushed finish. Nickel plated 2824 clone movement modified to resemble the original Cal. 8900 movement, 28,800 vibrations per hour. Blue dial with stainless markers. Correct lume applied to hands and markers (blue on hour markers and hour hand, green on bezel and minutes hand). Correct Helium valve position. Serial numbers on back of lugs. Stainless bracelet with deployment clasp. Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating. Uni-directional rotating bezel. Water resistant to 30m. If you have further questions about this Omega replica watch, or any Omega replica watches featured on this page, please contact us. Price INCLUDES SHIPPING world wide via Express Mail where available.
Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean 45mm Stainless/Black with Cal. 8900 Style Movement. 45.5mm wide, 16.5mm thick full stainless steel case with polished and brushed finish. Nickel plated 2824 clone movement modified to resemble the original Cal. 8900 movement, 28,800 vibrations per hour. Black dial with stainless markers. Correct lume applied to hands and markers (blue on hour markers and hour hand, green on bezel and minutes hand). Correct Helium valve position. Serial numbers on back of lugs. Stainless bracelet with deployment clasp. Sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating. Uni-directional rotating bezel. Water resistant to 30m. If you have further questions about this Omega replica watch, or any Omega replica watches featured on this page, please contact us. Price INCLUDES SHIPPING world wide via Express Mail where available.
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SPASM 'cramps' and micro color acupuncture!
Posted on 19 Jun 2017 Author Dr. Dinesh kapur	No Comments on SPASM 'cramps' and micro color acupuncture!
Spasm or cramps a sudden involuntary muscular contraction or convulsive movement, if painful means excessive and prolonged contraction of muscle. When it occurs in involuntary muscles of internal organs such as gut, than pain is called colic. The most common cramps that affect voluntary, consciously controlled muscles are exercise induced cramps, heat cramps and night-time leg cramps.
Clonus spasms; are fast-alternating contractions and relaxation of muscles manifested by stereotype movements of some body parts or another occurring with various range of motion.
Hiccups (spasms of the diaphragm muscles), Stammer (spasms of speech motor muscles), Nodding spasm of the sternocleidomastoid muscles, paralysis of gaze (oculomotor muscles spasm).
Exercise induced cramps occur during or after strenuous or unaccustomed exercise, and are a warning that muscles are exhausted and blood supply is not keeping up with the needs for oxygen and glucose and removal of waste products.
Heat cramps result from loss of too much salt due to excessive sweating from exercise and or from the hot weather. This is especially so in people unaccustomed to hot, dry climates where sweat is not noticed because of the rapid evaporation. Heat cramps often affect the hands and feet first. That can be prevented and relieved rapidly by drinking fluids or eating foods containing salt. An individual's appetite tells how much body needs.
Night cramps in legs and feet are a common problem. It is estimated that people over 40 suffer them from time to time and they become more common with age. The calf muscles are affected most and you can often feel the hard, knot like muscle at the pain site. The cause of night cramps is usually not clear. Night cramps happen more often in hot weather, so low salt may contribute.
A plausible explanation is that sleeping in same position for a long time slows down circulation to parts of leg and reduced oxygen supply makes muscles more sensitive to any stimulus that would make them contract.
Another theory is that minor ageing changes that could cause the cramps which affect the longest nerves and most distant muscles first which accords with the higher frequency of cramps is older people and their foot and calf muscles.
Occasionally cramps can be a side effect of certain medications. If you get a cramp the best way to relieve it is by stretching the muscles.
Lean forward, keeping heels on the floor and using your hands and arms to regulate the tilt, until you feel a moderate but not painful fulling sensation in your calf muscles. Hold for 10 seconds then relax for 5, and continue for 5 stretches. Repeat this.
Tonic spasm is longer lasting, characterised by sticking of the body parts in forced postures.
Spasm develop in infectious and degenerative disease of nervous system, developmental defects and injuries of brain, disease of other organs and systems accompanied by cerebral hypoxia and impaired metabolism (intoxications, poisoning, hyperbilirubinemia and others) and in neuroses.
Truisms or lockjaw, graphospasm (occupation-related spasm of finger and hand muscles found in certain jobs such as musicians, hairdressers, telegrapher, shoemakers, tailors, dressmakers, milkmaids, typists, blepharospasm (spasm of orbicular muscle of eye in watchmakers) systremma (kind of spasm often occurring in ballet dancers).
SPASMS: spastic response may develop in a quite healthy individual during a short time increase of the brains readiness for convulsions due to stressful events, infection, intoxication, overstrain etc. External causes are less significant for development of spastic syndrome. It occurs in an active pathological process in nervous system characterised by formation of congestive excitation foci in cerebral cortex and is manifested by recurrent spasmodic attacks.
Stretching the muscles, rest, massage, rubbing the affected area and drinking plenty of fluid, such as water may be helpful in treating simple muscle cramps and relieving in cramps. With exertion heat cramps, due to electrolyte abnormalities (primarily sodium loss and not calcium, magnesium and potassium, appropriate fluids and sufficient salt improves symptoms.
The traditional theory of color ACUPUNCTURE TriOrigin energy concept of eight ki focus that vital energy is animating force behind life, the cosmic forces of Nature, and is the root of all things. It is said that if one stays in touch with the vital energy, one's life will be healthy in all its phases irrespective of condition of body, emotions, psychology or neuro! The concept itself a powerful medicine, helped many who were not successfully treated through conventional western medicine. Several conditions can be dramatically improved or remedied in full including cramps, spasm! One could find the difference in case of hiccups and night spasm in initial few sessions.


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Download Koreatown Full eBooks in PDF, EPUB, and kindle. Koreatown is one my favorite book and give us some inspiration, very enjoy to read. you could read this book anywhere anytime directly from your device.
Author : Deuki Hong,Matt Rodbard
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
A New York Times bestseller and one of the most praised Korean cookbooks of all time, you'll explore the foods and flavors of Koreatowns across America through this collection of 100 recipes. This is not your average "journey to Asia" cookbook. Koreatown is a spicy, funky, flavor-packed love affair with the grit and charm of Korean cooking in America. Koreatowns around the country are synonymous with mealtime feasts and late-night chef hangouts, and Deuki Hong and Matt Rodbard show us why through stories, interviews, and over 100 delicious, super-approachable recipes. It's spicy, it's fermented, it's sweet and savory and loaded with umami: Korean cuisine is poised to break out in the U.S., but until now, the cookbooks have been focused on taking readers on an idealized Korean journey. Koreatown, though, is all about what's real and happening right here: the foods of Korean American communities all over our country, from L.A. to New York City, from Atlanta to Chicago. We follow Rodbard and Hong through those communities with stories and recipes for everything from beloved Korean barbecue favorites like bulgogi and kalbi to the lesser-known but deeply satisfying stews, soups, noodles, salads, drinks, and the many kimchis of the Korean American table.
Koreatown Los Angeles
Author : Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Publisher : Stanford University Press
The story of how one ethnic neighborhood came to signify a shared Korean American identity. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Los Angeles County's Korean population stood at about 186,000—the largest concentration of Koreans outside of Asia. Most of this growth took place following the passage of the Hart-Celler Act of 1965, which dramatically altered US immigration policy and ushered in a new era of mass immigration, particularly from Asia and Latin America. By the 1970s, Korean immigrants were seeking to turn the area around Olympic Boulevard near downtown Los Angeles into a full-fledged "Koreatown," and over the following decades, they continued to build a community in LA. As Korean immigrants seized the opportunity to purchase inexpensive commercial and residential property and transformed the area to serve their community's needs, other minority communities in nearby South LA—notably Black and Latino working-class communities—faced increasing segregation, urban poverty, and displacement. Beginning with the early development of LA's Koreatown and culminating with the 1992 Los Angeles riots and their aftermath, Shelley Sang-Hee Lee demonstrates how Korean Americans' lives were shaped by patterns of racial segregation and urban poverty, and legacies of anti-Asian racism and orientalism. Koreatown, Los Angeles tells the story of an American ethnic community often equated with socioeconomic achievement and assimilation, but whose experiences as racial minorities and immigrant outsiders illuminate key economic and cultural developments in the United States since 1965. Lee argues that building Koreatown was an urgent objective for Korean immigrants and US-born Koreans eager to carve out a spatial niche within Los Angeles to serve as an economic and social anchor for their growing community. More than a dot on a map, Koreatown holds profound emotional significance for Korean immigrants across the nation as a symbol of their shared bonds and place in American society.
Los Angeles s Koreatown
Author : Katherine Yungmee Kim
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Koreatown, located in the Mid-Wilshire district of Los Angeles, is the heart and nexus for Koreans in America. In the early 20th century, a small Korean community--many of whom were active leaders and supporters of the Korean independence movement--initially settled around Bunker Hill. The community migrated in the 1930s toward Jefferson Boulevard, near the University of Southern California, to an area known as Old Koreatown. By the late 1960s, following the freeway construction boom and the Hart-Cellar Act of 1965, Korean markets, restaurants, and businesses began to blossom along Olympic Boulevard. Today, Koreatown is a thriving urban center where Koreans, Hispanics, and Bangladeshis coreside in one of the most densely populated and diverse sections of Los Angeles. Its boundaries were officially designated by the Los Angeles City Council on August 20, 2010.
Koreatowns
Author : Jinwon Kim,Soo Mee Kim,Stephen Cho Suh
Publisher : Lexington Books
This collection defines Koreatowns as spatial configurations that concentrate elements of "Korea" demographically, economically, politically, and culturally. The contributors provide exploratory accounts and critical evaluations of Koreatowns in different countries throughout the world. Ranging from familiar settings such as Los Angeles and New York City, to more unfamiliar locales such as Singapore, Beijing, Mexico, U.S.-Mexico borderlands, and the American Midwest, this collection not only examines the social characteristics and contours of these spaces, but also the types of discourses and symbols that they exude.
Legacies of Struggle
Author : Angie Y. Chung
Since the 1992 Los Angeles riots, Koreatown has become increasingly fractured by intergenerational conflict, class polarization, and suburban flight. In the face of these struggles, community organizations can provide centralized resources and infrastructure to foster an ethnic consciousness and political solidarity among Korean Americans. This book analyzes the role of ethnic community-based organizations and the dynamics of contemporary Korean American politics. Drawing on two case studies, the author identifies diverse ways in which community-based organizations negotiate their political agendas and mainstream ties within the traditional ethnic power structures. One organization promotes middle-class ethnic goals through accommodation to immigrant leaders, while the other emphasizes social justice through alliances with outside interest groups. Both cases challenge the traditional assumption that assimilation undermines ethnicity as a meaningful framework for political identity and solidarity in immigrant groups. Legacies of Struggle reveals how community-based organizations create innovative spaces for political participation among new generations of Korean Americans.
Deflecting Immigration
Author : Ivan Light
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
As international travel became cheaper and national economies grew more connected over the past thirty years, millions of people from the Third World emigrated to richer countries. A tenth of the population of Mexico relocated to the United States between 1980 and 2000. Globalization theorists claimed that reception cities could do nothing about this trend, since nations make immigration policy, not cities. In Deflecting Immigration, sociologist Ivan Light shows how Los Angeles reduced the sustained, high-volume influx of poor Latinos who settled there by deflecting a portion of the migration to other cities in the United States. In this manner, Los Angeles tamed globalization's local impact, and helped to nationalize what had been a regional immigration issue. Los Angeles deflected immigration elsewhere in two ways. First, the protracted network-driven settlement of Mexicans naturally drove up rents in Mexican neighborhoods while reducing immigrants' wages, rendering Los Angeles a less attractive place to settle. Second, as migration outstripped the city's capacity to absorb newcomers, Los Angeles gradually became poverty-intolerant. By enforcing existing industrial, occupational, and housing ordinances, Los Angeles shut down some unwanted sweatshops and reduced slums. Their loss reduced the metropolitan region's accessibility to poor immigrants without reducing its attractiveness to wealthier immigrants. Additionally, ordinances mandating that homes be built on minimum-sized plots of land with attached garages made home ownership in L.A.'s suburbs unaffordable for poor immigrants and prevented low-cost rental housing from being built. Local rules concerning home occupancy and yard maintenance also prevented poor immigrants from crowding together to share housing costs. Unable to find affordable housing or low-wage jobs, approximately one million Latinos were deflected from Los Angeles between 1980 and 2000.
Re presenting Koreatown
Author : Anna Joo Kim
Publisher : Unknown
Download Re presenting Koreatown book written by Anna Joo Kim, available in PDF, EPUB, and Kindle, or read full book online anywhere and anytime. Compatible with any devices.
Handbook of Research on Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship
Author : Leo Paul Dana
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Professor Dana and his colleagues have carefully and successfully put together a collection of chapters on ethnic minority entrepreneurship from all parts of the world. The book comprises eight parts and 49 chapters. Undoubtedly, given the massive size and content of a 835-page book, it is fair to ask, is it value for money? The answer is unequivocally yes! A further comment on the content of the book should probably reassure potential readers and buyers of the book. . . This collection is undoubtedly rich, creative and varied in many respects. Therefore, it will be of great benefit to researchers and scholars alike. . . I will strongly recommend this book to researchers, students, teachers and policy-makers. Aminu Mamman, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research The volume presents an impressive panorama of studies on ethnic entrepreneurships ranging from Dalits in India to Roma entrepreneurs in Hungary. B.P. Corrie, Choice From a focus on middle-man minorities in the 1950s, the study of minority ethnic entrepreneurship has evolved into a vast undertaking. A major ingredient in this expansion is the massive population movements of the past thirty years that have created ethnic minority communities in almost all advanced economies. From New York to San Francisco, from Birmingham to Hamburg, from the Chinese in Canada, to the Turks in Finland, to the Ghanians in South Africa to the Lebanese in New Zealand, more than twenty chapters in this volume treat small-scale ethnic entrepreneurship and the cultural and institutional resources which support it. At the other end of the spectrum, the ethnic Chinese have created ever larger multi-divisional enterprises in the host societies of Southeast Asia. At the mid-point of the spectrum, analyzed in an elegant paper by Ivan Light, is the recently identified transmigrant entrepreneur accultured in two societies but assimilated in neither whose special endowments have provided the lynchpin for for much of the international trade expansion in the global economy over the past decade. And Dana and Morris provide us with much more Afro-American entrepreneurship, caste and class, the theory of clubs, women ethnic entrepreneurs, minority ethnicity and IPOs. In the quality of its contributions and in the reach of its coverage, this Handbook attains a very high standard. Peter Kilby, Wesleyan University, US The new Handbook of Research on Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship, edited by Léo-Paul Dana, constitutes a major contribution to the literature on ethnic enterprise. Unlike previous work, which tended to focus on one country or one region of the world, this book is global in scope. You will find chapters on America, Europe, and Asia, as well as integrative essays that review important principles and concepts from the literature on ethnic entrepreneurship. I particularly appreciate the historical and evolutionary framework within which the contributions are situated. This book belongs on the shelf of everyone who has an interest in immigration and entrepreneurship or ethnic entrepreneurship more generally. Howard Aldrich, University of North Carolina, US This exhaustive, interdisciplinary Handbook explores the phenomena of immigration and ethnic minority entrepreneurship in light of marked changes since the mid-twentieth century and the advent of easier, more affordable travel and more open and integrated national economies. The international contributors, key experts in their respective fields, illustrate that myriad ethnic minorities exist across the globe, and that their entrepreneurship can and does significantly influence national economies. The contributors go on to promote our understanding of which factors make for successful entrepreneurship, and, perhaps more importantly, how negative political consequences that members of successful entrepreneurial ethnic minorities might face can be minimized. This extensive collection of current research on entrepr
Blue Dreams
Author : Nancy ABELMANN,John Lie,Nancy Abelmann
Publisher : Harvard University Press
No one will soon forget the image, blazed across the airwaves, of armed Korean Americans taking to the rooftops as their businesses went up in flames during the Los Angeles riots. Why Korean Americans? What stoked the wrath the riots unleashed against them? Blue Dreams is the first book to make sense of these questions, to show how Korean Americans, variously depicted as immigrant seekers after the American dream or as racist merchants exploiting African Americans, emerged at the crossroads of conflicting social reflections in the aftermath of the 1992 riots. The situation of Los Angeles's Korean Americans touches on some of the most vexing issues facing American society today: ethnic conflict, urban poverty, immigration, multiculturalism, and ideological polarization. Combining interviews and deft socio-historical analysis, Blue Dreams gives these problems a human face and at the same time clarifies the historical, political, and economic factors that render them so complex. In the lives and voices of Korean Americans, the authors locate a profound challenge to cherished assumptions about the United States and its minorities. Why did Koreans come to the United States? Why did they set up shop in poor inner-city neighborhoods? Are they in conflict with African Americans? These are among the many difficult questions the authors answer as they probe the transnational roots and diversity of Los Angeles's Korean Americans. Their work finally shows us in sharp relief and moving detail a community that, despite the blinding media focus brought to bear during the riots, has nonetheless remained largely silent and effectively invisible. An important corrective to the formulaic accounts that have pitted Korean Americans against African Americans, Blue Dreams places the Korean American story squarely at the center of national debates over race, class, culture, and community. Table of Contents: Preface The Los Angeles Riots, the Korean American Story Reckoning via the Riots Diaspora Formation: Modernity and Mobility Mapping the Korean Diaspora in Los Angeles Korean American Entrepreneurship American Ideologies on Trial Conclusion Notes References Index Reviews of this book: Blue Dreams--a poetic allusion to the clear blue sky that Koreans see as a symbol of freedom--is a welcome exploration by outsiders into the vexing and largely invisible Korean-American predicament in Los Angeles and the nation. [Abelmann and Lie 's] colorful interview subjects offer sharp observations. --K.W. Lee, Los Angeles Times Reviews of this book: An informed and thoughtful examination of Korean immigration to the United States since 1970...[Abelmann and Lie] show that even in a period as short as twenty-five years, there have been successive waves of differently motivated, differently resourced Korean immigrants, and their experiences and reactions have differed accordingly. --Michael Tonry, Times Literary Supplement Reviews of this book: [The authors'] transnational perspective is particularly effective for explicating Korean immigrants' behaviors, activities, and feelings...Interesting and readable. --Pyong Gap Min, American Journal of Sociology Reviews of this book: Beginning with a poetic book title, the authors recount in depth as to how the 'Blue Dreams' of the Korean-American merchants in East Los Angeles had shattered in the midst of [the] 1992 riot that turned out to be 'elusive dreams' in America...The book not only portrays the L.A. riot surrounding the Korean merchants, but also characterizes diaspora of the Koreans in America. The authors have also examined with scholarly insights the more complex socioeconomic and political underplay the Koreans encountered in their 'Promised New Land'. --Eugene C. Kim, International Migration Review
Author : Pyong Gap Min
Publisher : Pine Forge Press
"Compared to many existing texts on this subject, which tend to take a rather historical approach, this book focuses on more contemporary Asian experiences. Thus, Min has provided a new tool for those of use who have looked for adequate material to teach current Asian American trends in advanced undergraduate courses in the sociology of race as well as in ethnic studies. Encompassing a variety of perspectives from prominent scholars makes this book a valuable device to examine the less visible aspects of Asian Americans' lives. Students and educators alike would certainly benefit from diligent study of this text." --TEACHING SOCIOLOGY, reviewed October 2006 by Etsuko Maruoka, SUNY-Stony BrookOffering a broad overview of the Asian American experience, Asian Americans provides an accessible resource for all students interested in the expanding and important Asian American population. While historical information is provided for each group, the main focus is on the variables and issues that impact Asian American life today. The scholars who author the chapters look at topics such as labor force participation and economic status, educational achievements, intermarriage, intergroup relations, and settlement patterns. Photo essays help to enhance the presentations.Key Features:Covers the Asian American population as a whole as well as individual ethnic groups, i.e. Korean Americans, Indian Americans, etc. Covers theories as well as providing sociological data to illustrate issues for Asian Americans as a whole and as individual groups. Visual essays on the following topics provide powerful illustrations of the text content. Filipino Americans Japanese Americans Korean Americans Chinese Americans South Asian Americans Southeast Asian Americans Economic Adaptation Second Generation Experiences Updated to not only include information derived from 2000 Census data, but also has a focus on the second generation experience.
Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Author : Parminder Bhachu
Many nations invite foreigners to work within their borders, but few welcome them. Those countries that do receive a torrent of immigrants create pressures that analysts expect to intensify as population growth and social unrest mount in the less developed countries of the world. Immigration and Entrepreneurship, now in paperback, offers a comparative analysis of worldwide immigration issues while focusing more specifically on the emerging influence of entrepreneurship as a potent factor in the economic and social integration of immigrants.In linking the common immigrant and settler experiences with the upsurge in self-employment, the contributors to this volume use California as their base of comparison. The state has both a huge and varied immigrant population and an entrepreneurial economy that has facilitated the formation of immigrant-owned firms. The Los Angeles riots of the nineties indicated the volatility of the mix. Aided by ethnic and familial networks, such firms have served as a route of economic advancement.Immigration and Entrepreneurship offers a comparative perspective unique in the literature of immigration by broaching the topic from both global and local perspectives. Whereas most studies examine the experience of a single group or groups in a particular destination economy, this volume emphasizes variations in the way different nations receive immigrants as causes of differences in immigrant behavior. Among the innovative themes discussed by a range of international scholars are the entrepreneurial efforts and tensions in the garment industry in Los Angeles, Paris, and Berlin; Koreans' enterprise and identities in Los Angeles and Japan; and U.S. immigration policies. The result is a genuinely global methodology.
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America s Changing Neighborhoods An Exploration of Diversity through Places 3 volumes
Author : Reed Ueda Ph.D.
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
A unique panoramic survey of ethnic groups throughout the United States that explores the diverse communities in every region, state, and big city. • Provides educators and researchers with a useful guide to the diverse ethnic and racial minorities of the United States that describes their geographic location and their local community life • Serves journalists and scholars needing quick, convenient access to accurate information for research on places like San Francisco's Chinatown or Little Italy in Manhattan • Presents statistics based on the U. S. Census of ethnic and racial diversity in each state
Handbook of Gentrification Studies
Author : Loretta Lees,Martin Phillips
It is now over 50 years since the term 'gentrification' was first coined by the British urbanist Ruth Glass in 1964, in which time gentrification studies has become a subject in its own right. This Handbook, the first ever in gentrification studies, is a critical and authoritative assessment of the field. Although the Handbook does not seek to rehearse the classic literature on gentrification from the 1970s to the 1990s in detail, it is referred to in the new assessments of the field gathered in this volume. The original chapters offer an important dialogue between existing theory and new conceptualisations of gentrification for new times and new places, in many cases offering novel empirical evidence.
Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora
Author : Sherry S. Yu
Publisher : UBC Press
Media for diasporic communities have emerged in major cities and reflect a multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual reality. But do these media serve their respective communities exclusively, or are they available and accessible to members of greater society at large? Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora explores structural and institutional challenges and opportunities for these media and suggests policy directions with the aim of fostering broader intercultural dialogue. Using case studies of Korean media in Vancouver and Los Angeles, Sherry Yu examines the potential of an intercultural media system for culturally, ethnically, and linguistically diverse societies.
The SAGE Encyclopedia of Economics and Society
Author : Frederick F. Wherry,Juliet B. Schor, Consulting Editor
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Economics is the nexus and engine that runs society, affecting societal well-being, raising standards of living when economies prosper or lowering citizens through class structures when economies perform poorly. Our society only has to witness the booms and busts of the past decade to see how economics profoundly affects the cores of societies around the world. From a household budget to international trade, economics ranges from the micro- to the macro-level. It relates to a breadth of social science disciplines that help describe the content of the proposed encyclopedia, which will explicitly approach economics through varied disciplinary lenses. Although there are encyclopedias of covering economics (especially classic economic theory and history), the SAGE Encyclopedia of Economics and Society emphasizes the contemporary world, contemporary issues, and society. Features: 4 volumes with approximately 800 signed articles ranging from 1,000 to 5,000 words each are presented in a choice of print or electronic editions Organized A-to-Z with a thematic Reader's Guide in the front matter groups related entries Articles conclude with References & Future Readings to guide students to the next step on their research journeys Cross-references between and among articles combine with a thorough Index and the Reader's Guide to enhance search-and-browse in the electronic version Pedagogical elements include a Chronology of Economics and Society, Resource Guide, and Glossary This academic, multi-author reference work will serve as a general, non-technical resource for students and researchers within social science programs who seek to better understand economics through a contemporary lens.
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Author : Rachel Ida Buff
Publisher : NYU Press
Punctuated by marches across the United States in the spring of 2006, immigrant rights has reemerged as a significant and highly visible political issue. Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of U.S. Citizenship brings prominent activists and scholars together to examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement. Contributors place the contemporary immigrant rights movement in historical and comparative contexts by looking at the ways immigrants and their allies have staked claims to rights in the past, and by examining movements based in different communities around the United States. Scholars explain the evolution of immigration policy, and analyze current conflicts around issues of immigrant rights; activists engaged in the current movement document the ways in which coalitions have been built among immigrants from different nations, and between immigrant and native born peoples. The essays examine the ways in which questions of immigrant rights engage broader issues of identity, including gender, race, and sexuality.
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Publisher : Lerner Publications
Examines the history of Korean immigration to the United States, discussing why Korean immigrants came, what they did when they got here, where they settled, and customs they brought with them.
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Home to immigrants from more than 140 countries speaking over 180 languages, Los Angeles is a microcosm of the world. While Los Angeles' ethnic enclaves have been the subject of study by researchers from a wide range of fields, these enclaves remain under-researched from a linguistic standpoint. Multilingual La La Land addresses the sociolinguistic landscape of the Greater Los Angeles (GLA) area, providing in-depth accounts of the sixteen most spoken languages other than English in the region. Each chapter introduces the history of the language in the L.A. region, uses census figures and residential densities to examine location-based and network-based speech communities, and discusses the patterns of usage that characterize the language, including motivations to maintain the language. How these patterns and trends bear on the vitality of each language is a central consideration of this book.
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Plan for Arts Education:
The Artistic Literacy Consortium
Creatively Innovating Alabama's Future
Created by the Arts Education Leadership Team,
a partnership between the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the Alabama State Department of Education.
The Alabama State Council on the Arts
The Alabama State Department of Education
Alabama A+ Education Partnership
Alabama Arts Alliance
Alabama Institute for Education in the Arts
Alabama Public Television
Alabama School of Fine Arts
SHARED MISSION
To provide fully funded high-quality arts education that enlightens, inspires, and develops in every Alabama student the creative and innovative thinking necessary to ensure college and career readiness.
1. Build expectations for the arts to enhance economy, community, and quality of life.
2. Provide both virtual and actual access and equity to quality arts learning for all students.
3. Advance arts education opportunities to facilitate college and career readiness.
4. Employ the arts as a catalyst to create and maintain an engaged school and community environment.
MULTIPLE STAKEHOLDERS
This plan calls for the participation of multiple, diverse stakeholders, working locally and statewide, to make measureable progress toward the mission and goals of the Artistic Literacy Consortium. Members are asked to align efforts and track progress through participation in a shared evaluation system.
STRUCTURE FOR IMPACT
The proposed structure requires a robust partnership between the State Department of Education and the Alabama State Council on the Arts in regional collaborative centers, providing grass roots support that maximizes the availability of resources from cross sector stakeholders at every level. Centers should be strategically placed to ensure equity of access and quality. The ability to work in collaboration with established in-service centers, higher education, and other forms of academic support will strengthen the impact of these centers. The use of these resource centers should be open to all regional schools and community organizations seeking support for arts education programming and initiatives.
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#ifndef CXXLAPACK_INTERFACE_TPCON_H
#define CXXLAPACK_INTERFACE_TPCON_H 1

#include <cxxstd/complex.h>

namespace cxxlapack {

template <typename IndexType>
    IndexType
    tpcon(char                  norm,
          char                  uplo,
          char                  diag,
          IndexType             n,
          const float           *Ap,
          float                 &rCond,
          float                 *work,
          IndexType             *iWork);

template <typename IndexType>
    IndexType
    tpcon(char                  norm,
          char                  uplo,
          char                  diag,
          IndexType             n,
          const double          *Ap,
          double                &rCond,
          double                *work,
          IndexType             *iWork);

template <typename IndexType>
    IndexType
    tpcon(char                        norm,
          char                        uplo,
          char                        diag,
          IndexType                   n,
          const std::complex<float >  *Ap,
          float                       &rCond,
          std::complex<float >        *work,
          float                       *rWork);

template <typename IndexType>
    IndexType
    tpcon(char                        norm,
          char                        uplo,
          char                        diag,
          IndexType                   n,
          const std::complex<double>  *Ap,
          double                      &rCond,
          std::complex<double>        *work,
          double                      *rWork);

} // namespace cxxlapack

#endif // CXXLAPACK_INTERFACE_TPCON_H

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namespace installer {

// This method tries to delete a registry key and logs an error message
// in case of failure. It returns true if deletion is successful (or the key did
// not exist), otherwise false.
bool DeleteRegistryKey(HKEY root_key,
                       const std::wstring& key_path,
                       REGSAM wow64_access);

// This method tries to delete a registry value and logs an error message
// in case of failure. It returns true if deletion is successful (or the key did
// not exist), otherwise false.
bool DeleteRegistryValue(HKEY reg_root,
                         const std::wstring& key_path,
                         REGSAM wow64_access,
                         const std::wstring& value_name);

// An interface to a predicate function for use by DeleteRegistryKeyIf and
// DeleteRegistryValueIf.
class RegistryValuePredicate {
 public:
  virtual ~RegistryValuePredicate() {}
  virtual bool Evaluate(const std::wstring& value) const = 0;
};

// The result of a conditional delete operation (i.e., DeleteFOOIf).
enum class ConditionalDeleteResult {
  NOT_FOUND,     // The condition was not satisfied.
  DELETED,       // The condition was satisfied and the delete succeeded.
  DELETE_FAILED  // The condition was satisfied but the delete failed.
};

// Deletes the key |key_to_delete_path| under |root_key| iff the value
// |value_name| in the key |key_to_test_path| under |root_key| satisfies
// |predicate|.  |value_name| may be either nullptr or an empty string to test
// the key's default value.
ConditionalDeleteResult DeleteRegistryKeyIf(
    HKEY root_key,
    const std::wstring& key_to_delete_path,
    const std::wstring& key_to_test_path,
    REGSAM wow64_access,
    const wchar_t* value_name,
    const RegistryValuePredicate& predicate);

// Deletes the value |value_name| in the key |key_path| under |root_key| iff
// its current value satisfies |predicate|.  |value_name| may be either
// nullptr or an empty string to test/delete the key's default value.
ConditionalDeleteResult DeleteRegistryValueIf(
    HKEY root_key,
    const wchar_t* key_path,
    REGSAM wow64_access,
    const wchar_t* value_name,
    const RegistryValuePredicate& predicate);

// A predicate that performs a case-sensitive string comparison.
class ValueEquals : public RegistryValuePredicate {
 public:
  explicit ValueEquals(const std::wstring& value_to_match)
      : value_to_match_(value_to_match) {}

  ValueEquals(const ValueEquals&) = delete;
  ValueEquals& operator=(const ValueEquals&) = delete;

  bool Evaluate(const std::wstring& value) const override;

 protected:
  std::wstring value_to_match_;
};

// A predicate that compares the program portion of a command line with a
// given file path.  First, the file paths are compared directly.  If they do
// not match, the filesystem is consulted to determine if the paths reference
// the same file.
class ProgramCompare : public RegistryValuePredicate {
 public:
  explicit ProgramCompare(const base::FilePath& path_to_match);

  ProgramCompare(const ProgramCompare&) = delete;
  ProgramCompare& operator=(const ProgramCompare&) = delete;

  ~ProgramCompare() override;
  bool Evaluate(const std::wstring& value) const override;
  bool EvaluatePath(const base::FilePath& path) const;

 protected:
  static bool OpenForInfo(const base::FilePath& path, base::File* file);
  static bool GetInfo(const base::File& file, BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION* info);

  base::FilePath path_to_match_;
  base::File file_;
  BY_HANDLE_FILE_INFORMATION file_info_;
};  // class ProgramCompare

}  // namespace installer

#endif  // CHROME_INSTALLER_UTIL_REGISTRY_UTIL_H_


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Home » Topics » Digital Transformation » A decade of disruption: how technology transformed the workplace
A decade of disruption: how technology transformed the workplace
by Ben Rossi 27 August 2015
For many decades nothing much really changed in the office. We had our typewriters, telephones, maybe a fax machine if we were really advanced. Then, suddenly, everything exploded at a rapid pace.
The 1990s can be called the catalyst of office digitisation. It used to take an entire room to house a single computer – then, the microprocessor took everything to entirely new level.
Phones used to be the size of a small house brick – now, they are smart and functional. Despite its slow 'whining' start, can we now imagine life without the 'World Wide Web'?
Suddenly, in the space of a decade, the world of work turned on its head. That change has only accelerated as the years roll by. There are now hundreds of smartphones, tablets, laptops, wearables, apps and gizmos that 'help' people do their jobs better.
However, no amount of 'smart' gadgets will enable people to truly work smarter. They still need good old-fashioned collaboration in order to foster a team spirit that enables companies to gain an edge in the competitive world. But marrying the competing expectations of Millennials, Baby Boomers and Generation Y'ers can be a challenge in itself – people working in the same office have very different approaches to how they work and collaborate.
>See also: Technology and the workplace of the future
A report from the Office of Communications (OfCom) in the UK in August this year showed that mobile phones had overtaken laptops as the primary way of accessing information online. It is confirmation, if any be needed, that we are now a 'smartphone society'. Its annual Communications Market Report monitors the UK's habits and shows that adults spend an average of two hours a day accessing the internet on the phones.
Tellingly, young people are ten times as likely as older people to say their mobile phone is the device they would miss the most. It stands to reason that they bring these habits to the way they conduct work too.
To initiate or force a step change in the way employees come together, business leaders need to implement systems that support the use of these new innovations to foster a more collaborative workforce.
The first content management systems also appeared in the late 1990s, followed by the growing popularity of cloud computing in the 2000s. This helped reshape the use of IT services between staff and opened up computing resources to serve multiple users even across international borders. Enabling staff to get the resources they needed, no matter where they ware, boosted collaboration and helped businesses run more efficiently.
Today, these tools have evolved to support organisations even more. Employees are able to spend less time doing administrative, repetitive, time-consuming tasks and can dedicate more time on more productive outputs. Documents can now be automatically processed, filed and stored where they should be and with easy access to the right people, either inside or outside of the business.
By putting the right processes in place, businesses can support workplace collaboration. If the structure is right, the adoption of new gadgets and applications becomes much more feasible. The adoption of 'disruptive' technologies in businesses, such as BYOD, becomes a competitive advantage rather than a hindrance.
This will cater for organisations now and in the future, developing as they grow and allowing for individualised working practises. It also substantially helps in the battle to improve productivity – automating many of the manual tasks that are arduous and repetitive. This also has the added benefit of creating a happier and more fulfilled workforce, which again feeds into higher productivity gains.
Sourced from John Newton, founder and CTO, Alfresco
What's the role of the CTO in digital transformation?
The role of the CTO is often all-encompassing when it comes to digital transformation. Simon Wakeman explains how they can achieve success.
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In 1684, a 12-year-old Maratha boy was installed as ruler in Tamil Thanjavur, not long after the region's older Nayaka dynasty came to an end. The event was emblematic of India in this bustling age, with Tamil Nadu alone attracting Afghan horsemen, Bundela Rajputs, Telugu warriors, and diverse other groups of adventurers. Our adolescent prince, Shahuji Bhonsle, however, came from a family that was of especial significance for the country. Ten years earlier, his half-uncle, the celebrated Shivaji, had crowned himself king of the Marathas, and theirs was a clan that would seek power over distant reaches of the subcontinent.
Shahuji too was a king worth his elaborate titles, but even as he tackled matters of state, he cultivated a reputation as a patron of the arts. Going out of his way to attract as many as 46 men of letters to his court, he conferred on them an endowed agraharam (settlement), named (with typical princely modesty) after himself.
Interestingly, Shahuji, who reigned till 1712, was also a poet—his Panchabhasha Vilasa Natakam reflects the plurality of influences around him, featuring Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Sanskrit, and even Hindi verses. He was obsessed with Shiva of the Thiruvarur temple, and many were the plays and songs composed with his blessings eulogizing this deity. Some credit him as the composer of the Thyagesa Kuravanji dance drama, centred on the adoration of the lord by a woman. The theme and story is more or less conventional here and fits into the larger tradition of Bhakti literature. What is perhaps more remarkable—and has been described by scholars as "a work of extreme, deliberately outrageous provocation"—is another play from his time: the Sati Dana Suramu (Take My Wife). While some suggest it might have been composed by one of his poets, the text itself names Shahuji its creator, adding casually that he composed it "to outlast the sun, moon, and stars".
The Sati Dana Suramu is a hugely entertaining parody of social conventions. The setting is the Vishnu temple in Mannargudi, where a Brahmin ("Morobhatlu the Magnificent") arrives with his disciple for a festival. What upsets this pilgrimage—and, by extension, the correct order of things—is the Brahmin's infatuation with a woman he unexpectedly encounters. Not only is his pupil scandalized ("My teacher has gone crazy"), but the woman comes from the other end of society—she is an untouchable. When the student warns his guru to protect his reputation, the teacher retorts that greater men had succumbed to lust and survived. When the disciple reminds him that the female is a demon, the older man responds, "She's no demon, she's a woman." Frustrated, when the pupil appeals that he focus on the "Vedas and Puranas and Sastras" which promise eternal bliss, the Brahmin sniffs that he has "no use for insipid, eternal bliss".
Soon, the Brahmin approaches the woman, declaring, "Your charm has reduced me to ashes." The lady is polite but reminds him of the rules of caste and tradition. "We eat beef, we drink liquor.... Don't talk to me." Morobhatlu does not care. "We drink cow's milk," he replies, "but you eat the whole cow. You must be more pure," he exclaims. Clearly startled, the lady decides to lecture him on the impermanence of desire, the permanence of dharma and other pious philosophical principles, hoping this would make him go away. She also warns Morobhatlu that she is married, and that it would be best for everyone involved if he stopped "this incoherent prattle".
But the man remains immovable. "We Brahmins have made up all the rules, and invented religion. There is no better dharma than satisfying a Brahmin's need," he giggles. Perhaps, he adds, she could look upon the act as simple charity. "Give me your loins," he coyly suggests, "like offering (a Brahmin) land."
In the end, the woman's husband arrives, and, after an initial attempt to beat up his wife's high-born stalker, he demands, "Haven't you read the Sastras?" Irony, in fact, is writ across the entire composition, where the low-born out-Brahmin the Brahmin—and so is great comic effect. When the woman's husband reminds Morobhatlu about the godly path, the Brahmin responds: "Final freedom is that state of no pain, no pleasure, no qualities, nothing—or so some idiot said. But when a ravishing young woman…is free from her clothes—that's freedom for me." At long last, then, the husband agrees to present his wife to the Brahmin, only for the latter to belatedly heed his pupil's voice ("Have a little detachment; think of the subtle meaning of Vedic words"). In the course of events that follow, the husband is upset, the wife is bewildered, and finally Shiva arrives and liberates everybody from this hilarious, singular quandary.
The Sati Dana Suramu is, on the face of it, a simple parody. But viewed in its context, Shahuji, we find, was making a comment on society itself. As the scholar Sanjay Subrahmanyam notes, "the play was written…for public performance" at a major festival, which meant its irreverence was consumed by large numbers of pilgrims and locals. Not only does it combine on one stage Brahmins and untouchables, it also cleverly exalts Shiva (Shahuji's preferred deity), who swoops in to save the day at a site associated with Vishnu. Questions are raised on ethics and morality, on lust and the role of women. But the larger point Shahuji wished to make—and make with much mirth and laughter—was that asking questions and turning some tables was not such a bad idea. As this Maratha prince in Tamil country asks us at the end of this Sanskrit-Telugu production: "You, who have seen this play, decide for yourselves and tell us: Who, among these four, is the best?"


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Oregon and the Injustice of Mandatory Minimums
Members of America's political left share far more concerns in common with the armed protestors than many apparently realize.
Jim Urquhart / Reuters
The activists who began occupying government buildings in the Oregon wilderness over the weekend say that they're protesting how federal authorities treated rancher Dwight Hammond, 73, and Steven Hammond, his middle-aged son.
Federal authorities charged the Hammonds with arson after they set a series of fires that spread to public land. A 2001 fire accidentally burned beyond their property line, according to The New York Times. The Department of Justice says it was set to cover up an illegal deer hunt, while the men say that they were burning away an invasive plant species on their land. Years later in 2006, "a burn ban was in effect while firefighters battled blazes started by a lightning storm on a hot day in August," the newspaper reported. "Steven Hammond had started a 'back burn' to prevent the blaze from destroying the family's winter feed for its cattle." It was reported by Bureau of Land Management firefighters in the area, and the Justice Department notes that they "took steps to ensure their safety." It burned about an acre of public land, causing less than $1,000 in damage. Charged with a number of crimes related to arson, the father was convicted of just one count of arson while the son was convicted of two counts for the wilderness fires. The government used an anti-terrorism statute to secure its convictions.
The statute imposed a mandatory minimum sentence: 5 years imprisonment under the Orwellian-sounding Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996. U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan felt that five-year sentences were "grossly disproportionate" and would "shock his conscience," given the context of the case. He sentenced the older man to three months in federal prison and the son to concurrent one-year sentences. Those punishments inspired no radical activism.
What happened next, did. The Department of Justice appealed the sentences, won in the 9th Circuit, and is forcing the men to return to prison after they thought they had done their time. Both will now serve the mandatory-minimum sentence.
When HBO's John Oliver broadcasts a polemical monologue, its subject is invariably something that America's Blue Tribe—Americans whose place on the cultural and ideological left forms a core part of their identity—regards as idiotic, evil, or both. Last Week Tonight helps its audience indulge in collective outrage.
Earlier this year, Oliver skewered mandatory minimums. The laws "require judges to punish certain crimes with a minimum number of years in prison, regardless of context," he explained, "which is a little strange, because context is important." He added that "they're partly responsible for the explosion of our prison population," noting that many judges oppose them because they hand power over sentencing to prosecutors, who frequently "use the threat of long mandatory minimums to convince defendants to take a plea bargain or cooperate by giving information."
The segment even highlighted the sort of people given mandatory minimums that Last Week Tonight's target demographic was likely to find sympathetic: men and women, some with children, given long sentences in a drug war the blue tribe regards as unjust and pointless. Most every major media outlet on the center-left has run some version of that story over the last several years, and liberals and progressives eagerly shared Oliver's takedown and its predecessors on social media.
I loved the segment.
Mandatory minimums really are objectionable as a matter of principle, as a policy that has resulted in countless individual injustices, and as a significant driver of over-incarceration.
In theory, those on the left who care about vanquishing mandatory minimums could have used the news story about the Hammonds to broaden awareness and opposition to the practice among members of the Red Tribe. Libertarian intellectuals oppose mandatory minimums. Why not the populist right, too? Some folks in rural areas who've never known about the laws, or think that they only affect people in cities, might change their minds if they were to find out that what happened to the Hammonds is routine; that many Americans have suffered far more egregious sentences; and that mandatory minimums affect all sorts of defendants.
Yes, the Oregon protestors have a larger agenda about the management of federal lands in the West and the degree to which they ought to be under local control.
Still, in their opposition to mandatory minimums, they share common ground with the left.
As Jacob Sullum explains, the judge who tried to impose lesser sentences on the Hammonds chose punishments "within the ranges recommended by federal sentencing guidelines that would have applied but for the statutory minimum." In doing so, he argued that mandatory-minimum laws run afoul of the Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments, legal reasoning that surely appeals to at least some leftist opponents of mandatory minimums.
Sullum helpfully summarizes the 9th Circuit's logic in imposing the five-year sentence on the Hammonds, which many longtime opponents of mandatory minimums will find perverse:
In rejecting Hogan's conclusion that the mandatory minimum was unconstitutional as applied to the Hammonds, the 9th Circuit noted that the Supreme Court "has upheld far tougher sentences for less serious or, at the very least, comparable offenses." The examples it cited included "a sentence of fifty years to life under California's three-strikes law for stealing nine videotapes," "a sentence of twenty-five years to life under California's three-strikes law for the theft of three golf clubs," "a forty-year sentence for possession of nine ounces of marijuana with the intent to distribute," and "a life sentence under Texas's recidivist statute for obtaining $120.75 by false pretenses." If those penalties did not qualify as "grossly disproportionate," the appeals court reasoned, five years for accidentally setting fire to federal land cannot possibly exceed the limits imposed by the Eighth Amendment.
In other words, since even worse miscarriages of justice have passed constitutional muster, this one must be OK too. Given the binding authority of the Supreme Court's precedents, the 9th Circuit's legal reasoning is hard to fault. But it highlights the gap between what is legal and what is right, a gap that occasionally inspires judges to commit random acts of fairness.
This might have served as a rallying cry for opponents of mass incarceration.
"While federal management of public lands is legitimate and occupying a federal facility is unjustified," a left-leaning publication might have editorialized, "it's easy to see why the Hammond case struck some observers as unjust. The notion that judges are there to exercise discretion based on context––that it's odious to force them to give severe sentences even when they judge them to be 'grossly disproportionate'––is exactly what criminal-justice reformers have long argued. There have been bipartisan reforms on this issue before. Let's abolish all mandatory minimums for good through the civic process, not counterproductive armed protests."
Instead, many left-leaning commentators are savaging the protestors in ways that can't be exaggerated. Take David Atkins, who labels them terrorists in the Washington Monthly:
I don't want to dwell too much on the rationales and motivations for these domestic terrorists any more than I would for the people who fight for ISIS or Al Qaeda. It's always the same thing: a group of armed, angry men believe that the Big Bad Western Government is infringing on their right to do whatever it is they very well please—whether it's to the environment, or to minorities, women, people of different religious groups, etc. Undereducated, armed angry men are often upset at Western governments for upsetting their private power apple carts because in their small, solipsistic worlds they're very used to being lords of their manors and local enforcers of bigoted frontier justice. That's as true of Afghan militants in the Taliban as it is of rural Montana militiamen. The only difference is in the trappings, the external presence of the rule of law and the degree of violence involved.
The blogger Scott Alexander once argued with more detail than I can quote here that "if you're part of the Blue Tribe, then your outgroup isn't al-Qaeda, or Muslims, or blacks, or gays, or transpeople, or Jews, or atheists—it's the Red Tribe."
The Washington Monthly article continues:
What's more interesting to focus on is the response to the incident so far. As with ISIS, the Bundy clowns are actively seeking a confrontation with the big bad wolf of Big Western Government. They believe that an active confrontation will spark a movement that will lead to the overthrow of Big Brother. So far, especially after the incidents at Ruby Ridge and Waco, American leaders have been disinclined to give those opportunities to the domestic militiaman terrorists. Cliven Bundy and his miscreants got away with a wide range of crimes due to the forbearance of federal officials.
But the problem with taking that hands-off approach is that the treatment of left-leaning protesters is far different. Occupiers and Black Lives Matter protesters aren't met with hand wringing and gentle admonishments. They're met with batons and tear gas. If Black Lives Matter or Occupy protesters started arming themselves and taking over federal buildings, you can guarantee that police would start using live ammunition and people would die. So on the one hand it's understandable that federal officials would not want to make martyrs of the right-wing domestic terrorists who are actively seeking to engage in a confrontation and make themselves appear to be downtrodden victims of the federal beast. But on the other hand, it's infuriating that they receive special kid glove treatment that would not be afforded to minority and liberal activists.
The article concludes, "As much as restraint is the better part of valor when dealing with entitled conservative crazies, principles of basic justice and fair play also need to apply. What's good for one type of terrorist must also be good for another." That's a call for the use of violence against specific Americans, framed as a demand for equality! It is bizarre that the author name-checks Ruby Ridge and Waco as he argues that white-male extremists in the Red Tribe get "kid glove" treatment––and seems stranger still with new information trickling out each month about how many bikers in last year's Waco shootout were hit by police bullets.
Blacks and Hispanics do suffer disproportionately from police violence. I've written repeatedly about the egregiously unfair treatment of some Occupy protestors and the scandalously militarized response to street protests in Ferguson. But there are lots of examples of Occupy protestors who were met with no more than "hand wringing and gentle admonishments" even as they violated the law. Lots of Black Lives Matter protestors have engaged in civil disobedience without arrest.
I don't know if there's a double standard that causes Team Blue's activists to be treated more harshly by authorities, but if there is, it would be no excuse for calling on police to use live ammunition more often rather than demanding that they evenhandedly exercise more restraint. "Self-proclaimed people of conscience interested in reducing and even eliminating excessive state violence should not make exceptions just because government violence might satiate their sectarian desires or partisan agendas," Ed Krayewski persuasively argues. "...those exceptions easily become the rule by being exploited by other sectarians and partisans."
Alas, the Washington Monthly author is hardly alone. "The Oregon men are domestic terrorists," a CNN opinion article declares. On Twitter, folks on the left have dubbed the Oregon activists "Vanilla ISIS," "Y'all Qaeda," and "YokelHaram."
Criticizing the armed occupiers is perfectly fine. They are acting irresponsibly, illegitimately, and based on some bad premises. They should abandon their counterproductive, doomed protest right now before they do harm to innocents or themselves, and instead pursue their grievances through civic persuasion. But all they've done so far is occupy a federal building in the wilderness when no one was using it. It is at least possible that in doing so they are calling attention to real misbehavior by the federal government. No tribe that customarily extols civil disobedience should first condemn them without taking the time to investigate the accuracy of their claims about that misbehavior.
And likening them to mass murderers amounts to irresponsible, indefensible demonization. It is unimaginable, save for the fact that the targets of state violence in this case are rural white men from the Red Tribe.
Thankfully, more responsible voices on the left are meeting tribal illogic and demonization with reason. "I understand the gut satisfaction of fantasizing about a Bonnie & Clyde style shootout that leaves the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge soaked in terrorist blood, but that's really not what any of us should want," Kevin Drum writes at Mother Jones. "These guys aren't terrorists, anyway. They're just as misguided as real terrorists, but they haven't taken anyone hostage or threatened to blow up an airplane." I don't actually understand why a shootout is appealing even as fantasy, or how someone can be "just as misguided as real terrorists" without committing any acts of terrorism, but I'll take it.
"What we must not do," Margaret Corvid writes at Jacobin, "is call for the police to move in with the tear gas and rubber bullets of Ferguson and Baltimore, or the live rounds of MOVE or Wounded Knee, because equal injustice is not justice done."
We'd all do better to focus on forging red-blue alliances to address injustices of common concern rather than behaving as if it is either useful or morally righteous to denounce, demonize, and dehumanize the members of opposing ideological tribes.
Proponents of using civil disobedience to draw attention to government injustices ought not conflate those who engage in that tactic with ISIS, Al Qaeda, or the Taliban. Opponents of mandatory-minimum sentences should oppose them in this case, too, even though there are far more egregious cases to highlight. Opponents of over-incarceration should look askance at sending an elderly man to prison for five years––two years more than Mike Tyson served for rape––even if he did set a fire to hide an illegal deer hunt. And opponents of overly broad domestic-terrorism laws should object to how the ranchers were prosecuted under them for non-terroristic acts. Why is cooperating on those concerns so hard for so many who share them?
Conor Friedersdorf is a California-based staff writer at The Atlantic, where he focuses on politics and national affairs. He is the founding editor of The Best of Journalism, a newsletter devoted to exceptional nonfiction.


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Nef The Pharaoh
Nef the Pharaoh (born January 11, 1995) is an American rapper from Vallejo, California. He went to Inderkum High School in Sacramento,California. He mostly collaborated with fellow hip hop artist E-40. In 2014 he was selected by fans as the "Bay Area Freshman of the Year" in a yearly contest held by Thizzler.com. In early 2015, his track "Big Tymin'" became a regional hit, with a music video released shortly after Nef the Pharaoh signed with Sick Wid It Records. "Big Tymin'" was remixed by YG and Ty Dolla $ign in July 2015, and his self-titled debut EP was released on Sick Wid It on November 6, 2015.
Charlie 2 (feat. DaBoii & Nef The Pharaoh & Mike Sherm)
Second Hand Smoke
Toss It (feat. Too $hort & Nef The Pharaoh)
Neva Left
Moxie Java
Father Figure