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On the Navajo Nation, "putting seeds in the ground is our greatest act of resistance," Fort Lewis students learn
Internship program hones lessons taught by parents and grandparents as students learn the role food, housing, language and ritual play in contemporary human rights struggles.
Joy Martin
4:25 AM MDT on Sep 15, 2021
Updated at 9:56 AM MDT on Sep 17, 2021
With all travel, lodging, and food costs covered through the Native American Agricultural Fund, Fort Lewis College student Kalyn Kervin has access to Sixth World Solutions' summer internship program. "I would like to find a career back on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to help my community [confront] the health issues plaguing them today due to a lack of access to healthy food." (Ben Brashear, Special to The Colorado Sun)
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SHIPROCK, NEW MEXICO — From foraging sweet berries in slickrock canyons to harvesting corn and fresh veggies from manicured fields and gardens, Kayla Yazzie learned about land from her great-grandmothers. Her childhood memories span the eastern portion of the Navajo Nation, from Tocito and Shiprock in New Mexico with her mother's family, to St. Michaels, near Window Rock in Arizona, where her father's family is rooted.
"Their little lessons taught me a lot about the life skills of agriculture that I should know because it's a part of every tribal nation," says Kayla, a senior majoring in environmental science at Fort Lewis College in Durango. "I view agriculture as important as our language, and I want to help get more people involved to bring back those teachings because we use plants and food to survive, and for ceremonial purposes."
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This summer, Kayla joined three other Native American women from the University of Arizona and Fort Lewis for an internship program with Sixth World Solutions, a grassroots consulting firm on the Navajo Nation. The organization was founded in 2010 by Janene Yazzie (no relation to Kayla) and her husband, Kern Collymore, with a mission to identify and implement rights-based, regenerative solutions for communities across the reservation.
Kayla and the other interns, Alex Trahan, from the University of Arizona, and Fort Lewis students Jade Slavin and Kalyn Kervin, worked with Janene and Collymore for two months during the height of the planting season. While manual labor honed their skills and strengthened their muscles, other lessons blossomed from their work with regional farmers, listening to stories from Navajo elders, and piecing together the complicated fabric of the Indigenous foodscape.
Two of the paid internships were funded by the Native American Agriculture Fund, the result of a lawsuit settlement for Native American farmers who applied for loans and were discriminated against in the 1950s. The NAAF was founded out of the settlement to promote Native American students' involvement in Indigenous community gardens, food distribution and agricultural systems.
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"Yes, we're getting degrees to students, but we're also fulfilling a larger mission to recognize that learning happens through exposure to the wisdom and knowledge of people like Janene and Kern, and a ground-up organization that listens to what communities need," says Becky Clausen, associate professor of sociology and human services at Fort Lewis and the school's NAAF coordinator.
Kalyn Kervin (Fort Lewis College), Alex Trahan (University of Arizona), and Jade Slavin (Fort Lewis College) enjoy a break at the end of a days' work on Kingsley Gardens in Lupton, Arizona, overlooking the Painted Cliffs. (Ben Brashear, Special to The Colorado Sun)
Sixth World Solutions is based out of Lupton, Arizona, overlooking the Painted Cliffs, a sweeping wall of sherbet and rose-colored sandstone bluffs known by the Navajo people, or Diné, as Tesesi'ani' (Setting Rock) and Tsedijooli (Round Rock).
Clouds swirling above the bluffs rarely deliver rain, Collymore says, so the upkeep of Kingsley Gardens, their small plot of plants and vegetables, provides a great space to learn about small-scale agriculture in the desert. The interns spent much of their time managing the irrigation of the grounds, where they paused between digging and watering to discuss their motivations for choosing the program.
Trahan, a graduate student at the University of Arizona, also studies the more technically focused environmental sciences. The Louisiana native first came to the reservation to learn about water rights, weaving through the Navajo Nation's intricate web of dirt roads with Darlene Arviso, a Diné woman famous for driving a 3,500-gallon tank to deliver water to remote homes. Trahan says she left the experience forever changed.
"I said, 'Oh Darlene, what can I do?'" Trahan recalls. "I realized I needed to listen and learn more about the real histories and realities of our country and relearn the paradigms I look through by being mentored by wonderful minds, like Kern and Janene."
Slavin and Kervin are pursuing degrees in environmental studies, which Slavin says is more about social issues tied to environmental issues. Her career goal is to create a program that would provide free meals to tribal communities using food grown in the nations' gardens. Kervin, a member of the Lakota nation on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, also chose the SWS program to learn more about restoring Native American food systems. She plans to one day return to her home and help combat health issues plaguing her community due to a lack of access to healthy foods.
"We see a rise in diabetes, heart problems, high blood sugar, etc., and when people are not well physically, it becomes a lot harder for them to prosper spiritually and mentally," Kervin says.
Throughout her internship, Kervin also produced content for SWS' social media, which the interns see as a powerful storytelling tool for helping Indigenous peoples and outsiders alike to understand the challenges facing tribal nations.
"This internship is a great opportunity for my future career because I want to show communities that tribal nations are capable of providing for themselves," Kayla says.
The fight for self-reliance goes beyond politics
Like these young women, Janene and Collymore are also focused on strengthening self-reliance for the Navajo Nation, which spans 27,000 square miles across Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. While the Navajo Nation has technically been an independent nation within the borders of the United States since 1868, the Tribe struggles to govern itself as a state, strapped by U.S. government and surrounding state processes and regulations. The timeless toil of acquiring land, mineral and water rights in their own backyards makes their journey to true sovereignty a neverending story.
"These endless problems weren't created by the Diné people," Collymore says. "Food security deals with land restoration and jobs, and everything ties together. We're not here because people aren't educated. There's just all this red tape that makes it hard to do anything."
With so many challenges and only so many days, there's no linear sense to how SWS chooses which quandary to confront first, so Collymore and Janene focus on community-led projects.
They write grants and business plans. They host workshops on sustainable housing alternatives and how to be an engaged parent. They work with farmers, nonprofits, schools, youth and a network of Indigenous peoples around the globe. The SWS difference, and why students like Kayla, Kervin, Slavin and Trahan want to learn from their work, is that their decisions are guided by Indigenous wisdom and traditional knowledge.
"The United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples was developed to recognize that Indigenous Peoples have the right to inherent self-determination and inherent collective rights, regardless of whether the states recognize them or not," explains Janene. "It's based on human rights, but they also created a new level of collective rights that really holds the unique worldviews, cultures, practices, protocols, sciences and languages that Indigenous Peoples have in connection to their land base."
Since graduating from Columbia University with a degree in international politics more than a decade ago, Janene has become a radical voice for the Diné, and Indigenous people around the world. Regional organizations seek her expertise on infrastructure policy, while her experience in equitable food systems is considered in the United Nations' High-Level Political Forum on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. In 2010, after the UN released its Economic & Social Council report assessing the impacts of climate change on Indigenous people, Janene and Collymore decided to move from New York, where they met and married, back to Lupton on the southern end of the Navajo Nation.
In 2010, Janene Yazzie and Kern Collymore moved to Lupton, Arizona, where Janene grew up, to build a homestead and a life centered on the essence of Navajo philosophy, Hózhó, the idea of living in harmony, balance, and beauty. Kingsley Gardens, pictured, is their working community garden nurtured by Collymore, Janene, and a crew of paid student interns each summer. (Ben Brashear, Special to The Colorado Sun)
While bountiful in all its desert glory, this land is viewed as inhospitable to many. As a desert, it's also already parched, without the challenges of a changing climate. The UN's assessment holds that Indigenous communities, like those on the Navajo Nation, often are in places that are vulnerable to the worst effects of a warming planet, from drought to heat waves. The UN also maintains that international law and policy makers should listen to the wisdom of these Indigenous people, who hold knowledge for mitigation and adaptation measures that can combat climate change
"There is an emergence of connections among people with experiences of colonization," Janene says. "No one is obsessing over revenge, but instead there is profound love. We're focusing on how to create a world for future generations that isn't so disconnected. It's a beautiful and interesting time to be alive. But time is of the essence; we had to move back."
As they investigated housing options, the couple, then in their 20s, immediately ran into roadblocks accessing basic utilities like clean water, a resource that nearly 40% of Navajo Nation residents must haul over rough roads or wait for delivery by trucks, like Darlene Arviso's, to to their homes. So, they immersed themselves in the politics of local water rights and were struck by the numerous, but siloed, efforts to confront the monumental crisis.
"Coming home and looking at the landscape we're working in, we figured everyone would be working on these things," Janene says. "But no one was talking about climate change. Part of the reality we face is that so many of us measure success by personal success and making good money. But this kind of individualist thinking makes movements weak. So, we jumped in feet first and tried to see where we could be the most help. That quickly grew into having to do a little bit of everything."
Gardens, rainwater catchments, earthships
And SWS has done a little bit of everything over the last 11 years. They've constructed rainwater catchments and, in collaboration with the University of Arizona, worked with Diné solar technicians to design and build solar filtration systems. In 2019, Collymore gave up waiting for a home from the Navajo Housing Authority and kickstarted the Sustainable Housing Initiative. He hired an architect and started building an earthship — an energy-efficient shelter constructed with recycled and natural materials.
The Sustainable Housing Initiative tackles two problems at once by providing employment and turning trash into treasured homes. Within 15 miles of the building site near Kingsley Gardens, Collymore and a crew of locals also interested in learning how to build their own houses have collected more than 500 old tires and countless bottles and cans that are being integrated into the earthship structure. While it might take a few years to complete, Collymore's house will serve as a blueprint for more efficient and accessible housing alternatives for other families on the Nation.
"Too often, fancy organizations and initiatives come in and give the community things only to leave without anyone knowing how to work it or fix it," he says. "We understand the importance of opening up these technical spaces for local people. It's one thing being a good idea on paper but how does it work in the real world? If the people can't access it, then it's not helpful. If it's not accessible to the people, then it's not revolutionary."
Kern Collymore, cofounder of Sixth World Solutions, takes a break from moving dirt around the base of his family's earthship. Collymore launched Sustainable Housing Initiatives to create a blueprint for more efficient and affordable housing alternatives on the Navajo Nation. (Ben Brashear, Special to The Colorado Sun)
SWS also launched the Little Colorado River Watershed Chapters Association, a people-powered watershed planning organization focused on citizen science, land restoration techniques, water harvesting, and the renewal and protection of traditional food systems.
"These projects around water and land help erase borders and show that what really matters is where the water is going," Collymore says.
"You can't have food security if you don't have water," says Janene.
If food security begins with water, then it's little wonder that many Diné instead look to packaged, processed goods instead of their own gardens for sustenance. Geographically the largest Indian reservation in the U.S., this desert expanse has fed Indigenous people for millennia. But the art of cultivating wild plants and traditional foods is in danger of being lost among the aisles of the 13 grocery stores serving the reservation, and in the diners touting dishes such as fry bread and Navajo tacos as "traditional foods."
Outsiders designate the Navajo Nation a food desert, meaning a low-income community with limited access to healthy and affordable food. But food-justice leaders, like Collymore and Janene, argue that the term desert implies a natural occurrence, rather than something imposed on the Diné. They offer "food apartheid" as an alternative label that shifts the focus to the systemic barriers that keep the Diné from accessing land, water, employment, housing and health care.
"I would love to be a part of the movement to decolonize how we have been conditioned into viewing food in America," Kervin reflected in her application for the internship with SWS. "Food sovereignty is one of the best ways to do this because it provides Native people the right to decide what food they consume. To do so, we need to provide Native people with the knowledge of how to grow healthy foods by teaching it in education systems, then on local, state and national levels, pushing elected officials to provide the land and resources needed to start farming sustainably."
"That's an important lesson we learn from our elders, who continue to live off the land in this way and do this work with such integrity," says Janene, as she drives the interns to the breadbasket of the Navajo Nation in Shiprock on an unseasonably cool day in June.
Duane "Chili" Yazzie moves dirt on his farm ., while Sixth World Solutions' cofounder Janene Yazzie (center), University of Arizona student-intern Alex Trahan (kneeling), and Chili's grandson prepare tomato transplants. (Ben Brashear, Special to The Colorado Sun)
She wants them to meet Duane "Chili" Yazzie (no relation to Janene or Kayla), former president of the Navajo Nation's Shiprock chapter. Like Janene, Chili envisions a future where Diné people eat Diné-grown foods, instead of produce from California or Mexico. As coordinator of the Shiprock Traditional Farmers' Cooperative, which formed in July 2020, Chili sees protecting and strengthening Indigenous seed systems as one way forward. This work, he says, starts on his own 110-acre property in northwest Shiprock, where Janene parks next to a tractor in front of Chili's house.
A 73-year-old activist with "an ego the size of the sky," according to his wife, Betsy, Chili is a prolific writer and a bridge between Navajo elders and the next generation. He's also a founding member of XIT, a 1970s Native American rock band. Smeared sunglasses sit atop his peppered hair pulled back in a low ponytail tucked beneath a faded headband. Instructed by Chili, the interns move weathered plastic chairs into a circle in a dirt lot, warned to keep two chairs stacked together for sturdiness. Chili adjusts a frayed camp chair for himself and sinks in, waiting for the group to settle. And then he speaks.
"Yá'át'ééh is our greeting," he begins. "I say that it means everything is good under the universe, and that you understand your part in it."
There is no agenda for this circle meeting, so the interns relax into Chili's stream of consciousness that drifts from Navajo creation stories to physics and the sacred knowingness of his dog, Ginger, who is nosing around in the dust. Infused by the spirit of the Creator, who is everywhere and in everything, the earth lives in a reciprocal relationship with all beings, Chili says, something believed by all Indigenous peoples.
Chili speaks sympathetically to the interns, two who are phenotypically light skinned but are in fact Native American. He says their white ancestors — no one corrects him — came from across the Big Pond, leaving them forever unattached to the land. For this reason, he says, they'll never understand what it's like to be Indigenous. He pauses. And then he extends an invitation for them to see the land as he does, to learn how to understand the land as Native Peoples understand it.
It's time to work, he says, introducing Betsy, his wife of 42 years, as the leader of the farm and fellow director of the Shiprock Traditional Farmers' Cooperative. Betsy, who graduated from Fort Lewis College in 1985 with a degree in sociology and later earned her master's in social work and educational psychology, guides the interns over to the garden plot that serves her family and neighbors. Four additional rows grow produce for local schools as part of a community effort launched in the last year to promote the return of traditional foods to lunch programs. The interns place tomatoes, Big Jim chilies, and a few wild melons between green sprouts that Betsy's been tending to throughout the planting season in preparation for harvest in September.
Lunch follows, with squash and bean stew prepared by Betsy's son, another round of stories from Chili (including how he lost his arm to a gunshot wound inflicted by a hitchhiker he picked up 32 years ago), and a corncake treat leftover from a recent Kinaaldá, a four-day puberty ceremony held for one of Betsy's granddaughters.
During a visit to Beverly Maxwell's farm in Shiprock, a group of student-interns mended fences, planted tomatoes, and freed a goat from barbed wire tangled in its dreadlocked mane. (Ben Brashear, Special to The Colorado Sun)
As heavy raindrops plop on the windshield, the van rolls to another female-run farm down the road from Chili and Betsy's. Despite the swelling mud, the interns help the farmer, Lula, connect irrigation pipes across her property that overlooks Tse Bitai, Shiprock's namesake and iconic volcanic formation marking the horizon.
From Lula's, the van splashes through puddles down another dirt road to Beverly Maxwell's property. Maxwell, also a director in the Shiprock Traditional Farmers' Cooperative, typically runs the farm by herself and is grateful to have the interns' help. She presents a laundry list of tasks, from mending fences to transplanting tomatoes. Like Betsy, Maxwell is a graduate of Fort Lewis College with a degree in environmental biology. She's currently working on a master's thesis project with Harvard University developing a database of ant species present in the Four Corners region.
The rain subsides to a sprinkle as Janene moves between the interns' planting in the field and clipping a strand of barbed wire tangled in a goat's dreadlocks. Booger, a blonde mutt tied to a cottonwood tree overlooking the property, barks wildly at the constant activity on these Shiprock farms that are slowly trying to grow enough food to feed a Nation.
"People want healthy food, but no one can find focus or the magic formula for trying to crack the access," Janene says. "Small food systems will feed the world, but we can't get married to just one strategy. We can't come up with solutions to the problems we're facing within the same way of thinking that created them. There are different pathways for everything. But we agree that putting seeds in the ground is our greatest act of resistance, and that we need to keep protecting those seeds and the languages and knowledge that come with them. That's where we'll build our power going forward."
"Small food systems will feed the world… we agree that putting seeds in the ground is our greatest act of resistance," says Janene Yazzie, cofounder of Sixth World Solutions, as she plants tomatoes on Duane "Chili" Yazzie's farm in Shiprock. (Ben Brashear, Special to The Colorado Sun)
With students like Kayla, Trahan, Slavin and Kervin leading the next generation of resource management, the future looks promising. The three Fort Lewis students are currently in their first semester of courses for a regenerative food systems certificate that will further solidify their expertise and confidence to step in where their elders left off.
"We have all this land and we're not using it," Kayla says. "I want to help spread that awareness, but my family wants me to go explore first, and then bring the knowledge back here."
CORRECTION: This story was updated Sept. 17, 2020, at 9:56 a.m. to correct the spelling of Alex Trahan's last name.
Joy Martin is a writer and editor based in Durango, Colorado. When she isn't collecting stories of the Four Corners, Joy is probably eating popcorn or riding bikes with her 2-year-old daughter, Jolene, and mustachioed husband, Nick.
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Since its dawn, cinema has been a place of escape, desire and entertainment. There are websites, television shows and magazines such as this one that devote themselves to the glory that is film. Movie nerds bicker and argue all the time – "Should Forrest Gump really have won best picture in 1994?" "Which Godfather movie is better?" "Should Adam Sandler just retire?" – but they always take pleasure in the practice of film discussion, itself. However, there is another realm of cinema that many fans live in: the "bad movie" circuit.
It shouldn't seem uncommon that people love to watch bad movies. Films like Sharknado and its sequel have gained much popularity and have achieved commercial success on TV. Conan O'Brien even swallowed his pride to appear in a self-deprecating role in the Syfy Channel movie, Sharktopus vs Pteracuda. But neither of these films scratch the surface of the cult phenomenon maintained by bad movies like Troll 2, Plan 9 From Outer Space, and of course, The Room. Fans of these films bask in the humor of the dialogue, cinematography and acting. Some equate it to the idea of watching someone trip and fall.
It seems the first place to look when examining bad films is the dialogue. Dialogue is one of the main sources of information when following a film narrative. For a comedy film, the jokes are mostly translated through dialogue and its delivery. One of the key moments in Plan 9 From Outer Space is the famous line, "Inspector Clay is dead, murdered, and somebody's responsible." Disregarding acting here, this line is quite absurd. There is always the fair point that one must maintain a suspension of disbelief during a movie, but lines like these are really asking for a lot. In his article, "How Not To Be a Clever Writer" for io9.com, Charlie Jane Anders writes, "Sometimes the more quotable the dialogue, the less it sounds like the way people really talk". The silly tone this line carries makes the murder seem comedic. It is then that the viewer realizes the incompetence of the line and laughs at it as if it were an awkward quip at a dinner with friends.
But then one has to question the actors' delivery of these lines. A prime example of this is the much-parodied line from Troll 2, "They're eating her – and then they're going to eat me! Oh my god!" Now, this dialogue does break the rule that Anders points out in his article, but it is not the writing that is remembered so well, but the facial expressions, half-hearted delivery, and absurd shouting done by actor, Jason Wright. Billy Wilder famously had to repeatedly scorn Jack Lemmon for doing too much. Unfortunately, Wright was never given this advice and instead opts to deliver a performance more catastrophic than that of the soldier strapped to a bomb in Dr. Strangelove. And while the whole movie may be considered campy or some other negative adjective, it is the screenshot of Wright's face and the cataclysmic scream that people associate with the film. The delivery of lines can go a long way in making a film have higher quality, and this is absent from Troll 2.
It is important not to forget the actual process of making a film as disastrous as some of the films that are deemed the worst ever made, and one of these terribly crafted movies is Birdemic 2: The Resurrection. In this sequel, the filmmakers dared to take a step up from flash animation for their special effects. The film is sprinkled with abysmal effects that make it nearly impossible to take any part of it seriously. In one scene seemingly shot with a webcam plugged into Apple's Photo Booth, a cartoon jellyfish too ludicrous for clipart stings a woman in the ocean. Linked with a cheesy score and sound effects that may or may not have been made by a child blowing into a glass of milk through a straw, this scene is funnier than the whole of Adam Sandler's much-derided "comedy," Jack and Jill. And yet, none of these films eclipse what is considered to be the best worst film ever made.
One of the most cherished cult films ever made is Tommy Wiseau's The Room. The film focuses on a love triangle between Johnny, his fiancée, Lisa and his friend, Mark. Wiseau wrote, produced starred in and directed the film – an important note to make, as he manages to be incompetent in every position. His passive aggressive acting makes it very difficult to follow the random and unintelligent dialogue. In terms of production value, the green screen backdrops of San Francisco stand out as a particularly laughable example of the movie's technical quality. And even with the noticeable lack of production value, the eccentric director desired even more. Wiseau's co-star and best friend, Greg Sestero, writes in his book, The Disaster Artist, that Wiseau wanted the film to end with his lead character flying his Mercedes off the roof of his house into the sky over San Francisco. Unfortunately, viewers weren't graced with that pleasure. And even with this cockamamie movie, a huge cult following has emerged in favor of The Room, leaving one question: Why do people love these movies so much?
In an article on The Dissolve titled, "What Makes a Bad Movie Enjoyable," Matt Singer points out that most bad movies are shown at midnight screenings, arguing that it is the group experience commonly sought out by fans of these films that makes them such an adventure to watch. This is true of The Room, as its screenings are events where viewers bring spoons to celebrate the odd amount of spoons used in the film's mise-en-scene. Sometimes, Wiseau and Sestero even show up to the screenings. These experiences are something that any fan wishes to take part in (and I look forward to someday taking part in it myself).
The midnight showings and fanfare are a part of why these bad movies live on. But the popularity goes beyond midnight showings. Personally, I have only watched these terrible films with my friends at night. We've watched everything from Plan 9 From Outer Space, to the Little Cars series (a Brazilian rip-off of Pixar's Cars). Together, we can laugh about the terrible animation, quote the god-awful dialogue and have a good time.
That kind of good-natured riffing is what Ithaca College's own "IC Bad Movies" stands for. Every Thursday, the group screens a bad movie for anyone who is interested. The president of the club, Walker Dowd Whipple, says, "Watching with a big group is a lot more enjoyable. I guess it's because everyone is going through this piece of crap together."
Indeed, it is fun to be part of the bad movie circuit. They are nothing to strive for, but the best worst film can still find a place in the heart of any bad movie fanatic and foster that sense of community that makes cinema (good or bad) so wonderful.
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Iowa county might delay more solar energy projects for a year
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Cheniere announces executive promotion
A promotion for Cheniere Energy's Corey Grindal means leaving London to work in Houston, Texas.
The company announced his promotion to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer effective January 2, 2023.
As Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Grindal will lead the Operations, Engineering and Construction, Shared Services and Worldwide Trading organizations within Cheniere. In his new role, he will continue to report to Jack Fusco, President and Chief Executive Officer. Grindal will also serve as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Cheniere Partners.
Grindal will relocate back to Houston from London, where he has served as Executive Vice President, Worldwide Trading since 2020. Grindal joined Cheniere in 2013 and led the Gas Supply organization for the Company, which today is one of the largest holders of pipeline capacity and purchasers of natural gas in the United States.
"Establishing a Chief Operating Officer is another important milestone as we continually enhance our operations through improved coordination, communication, and alignment," said Jack Fusco, Cheniere's President and Chief Executive Officer. "Corey's contributions have played a significant part in Cheniere's success, most recently as EVP of Worldwide Trading, and previously SVP of Gas Supply. His experience, dedication and demonstrated commitment to Cheniere's core values ideally position Corey for continued success as Cheniere's Chief Operating Officer."
"I'm excited to apply my experience from across Cheniere to make us more efficient, effective, and better coordinated across the platform," said Corey Grindal, Cheniere's incoming Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. "It is a critical time for the company, with our operations and LNG production in focus across global energy markets, and I look forward to helping reinforce Cheniere's reputation as the leading supplier of flexible and reliable LNG in the world."


A few cool things in the land of Tendenci clients and open source users internationally to share.
Kudos to www.hapl.org and the developer Jaime Lossada who created this application for the iphone and android on top of Tendenci. This was completely the work of Jaime so if you have questions please reach out to him directly.
We just think it's cool to see what "Open" software enables people to do versus closed-old-world-options.
And we've had a few requests lately for translations via Transifex as well as new languages to add. Transifex it integrates with github and Open Source Projects like Tendenci.
You can check our our Transifex project for Tendenci. It's crowd-sourced translations for open source projects.


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The Uk's Finest Tribute to Johnny Cash, June Carter & The Tennessee Three
The U.K's favourite Johnny Cash tribute band. The Johnny Cash Show has been established for many years and provides you with a great night of Johnny Cash classics.
Going back to the original Sun recording days & songs like Cry, Cry, Cry, through the duets with June Carter, Jackson, Help me make it through the night.
The Late American Recordings such as Hurt & Delia's Gone, and of course all the hits from the vast career of Johnny Cash, Ring of Fire, Folsom Prison Blues, Boy Named Sue, to name a few.
Check out our sound clips to get a taste of our Johnny Cash tribute sound,
unlike any other show front man Stu "Maverick" Edwards actually becomes the man in black with the show opener "Hello I'm Johnny Cash". This is not just a tribute to the music of Johnny Cash, or a tribute to the story of Johnny Cash, this is Johnny Cash with June Carter & The Tennessee Three as if there were actually there. It truly is a mastered performance presenting as closely as possible a show that can only be compared by anyone who was lucky enough to see the original live!
Lead vocalists Stu Edwards & Arwen are available for duo performances using high quality backing tracks most recorded by the band themselves, although a live band holds that extra punch. We also understand this may not be suitable for all venues so the duo can work as a smaller version of the live show.
"CLOSE YOU'RE EYES, OPEN YOU'RE HEARTS & YOU WILL BELIEVE JOHNNY CASH IS IN THE ROOM"
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"Conversion of historic former ice cream factory to Milwaukee central city apartments nearly done" - JSOnline.com
"It was nearly four years ago when plans surfaced to convert a long-vacant, historic building on Milwaukee's north side into housing. Now, the redevelopment of the former Blommer Ice Cream Co. into affordable apartments is almost complete — bringing a $13.9 million investment to the central city. 'This project has had a lot of challenges,' said David Block, of Chicago-based Evergreen Real Estate Group LLC. Evergreen partnered with Milwaukee-based Legacy Midwest Renewal Corp. to develop the apartments..."
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Q: shopping cart price rule - Free Gift at spend level (3 different spend levels) How would I go about creating a shopping cart price rule/rules by which if a customer spends over 500 they receive a free item, then when they spend 1,500 they receive a different gift?
The problem will be making sure the 500+ gift doesn't apply to a 1,500+ basket as well as the £1,500+ gift and the same with the £3,000+ gift - At the same time making sure there's a choice of gift for £1,500+ and £3,000+ baskets.
My current rule has the following conditions and actions:

A: I'd say you have to make a rule for each gift. And you should use two conditions on price to define a range of prices as condition. You might have to do some duplicate work but this is how I would do it.
Rule 1: If price is greater than 500 and smaller than 1500, add gift 1
Rule 2: If price is greater than 1500 and smaller than 3000, add gift 2
Rule 3: If price is greater than 3000, add gift 3

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Q: Hide text via CSS? Is it possible to hide the string Last Name inside a th by using CSS?
It is important that table's background color, font size etc will not be affected.

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add this class on "th" and "td" like
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Hope this will help you.

A: You can realize that by giving the  element an ID or a class and adding styles like
display: none;

for this ID/ this class in your css file.

A: You can try this:
.hidden-text {
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}

A: You can hide by using CSS pseudo selector.
th:nth-child(3) {
  display: none;
}

A: Using nth element you can do it.

th:nth-child(3) {
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Refer this link.

A: You could make the text the same colour as the background although this would still mean the text was there and selectable, it would preserve all other aspects of the layout.  Or you could put the text in a span and make that visibility hidden.

A: Also you can use visibility property.
th:nth-child(3) {
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A: You can change the color of your text if don't want to affect table (use rgba properties).
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If you use display property, you will hide all 	 (and not just the text).
Good luck,


Farmworkers could use a proper introduction. Although they represent the most numerous and actors in specialty coffee supply chains, they remain mostly invisible.
Researchers at the labor rights organization Verité estimate that tens of millions of people worldwide seek employment every year on coffee farms, a population that includes many different categories of labor — workers who arrive at the coffee farms where they work in different ways, and stay for different durations of time.
The most basic division is between permanent workers who labor on coffee farms year-round, and temporary ones who perform a narrower range of tasks during a limited period of time, often working just a few months a year during harvest. Due to the seasonal nature of farm work and labor demand on coffee farms, there are vastly more temporary workers than permanent ones. Each of these broad categories, in turn, can be broken down further across multiple sub-categories.
Permanent workers, for example, include workers who live near large farms and report to work each day the way many of us report to an office or a roastery or a café. They also include a shrinking class of workers, known in Latin America as colonos, who live permanently on the farms where they work, often with little to no land of their own to cultivate.
Seasonal labor is generally comprised of local workers and migrants who come from other parts of the country or may come from other countries altogether — sometimes with required work permits, and sometimes without them.
In addition to differences in the duration of coffee farmworker employment, there are important differences in the ways those workers are contracted. Some are hired directly by a farm owner or manager, while others are recruited, hired and supervised by third-party agents called labor brokers — an approach that offers convenience and efficiency to farm owners, but may be a source of some risk. Verité has identified unscrupulous labor recruitment practices as an important source of risk of labor abuses.
There are plenty of reasons for coffee companies to engage more intentionally with farmworkers and farm labor issues, some perhaps better than others.
The most urgent reason most coffee companies see for engagement on labor issues is arguably the least compelling: to protect their brands, and the collective brand of specialty coffee, from exposés of poor working conditions in coffee supply chains. Naturally, no one wants the negative attention that comes from reports like this one, but a brand-centered approach can privilege looking good over doing good.
A "zero tolerance" policy may resonate in the marketplace among consumer, but it does little to change conditions on the ground at origin among suppliers. In other industries where labor concerns have been at the forefront of responsible and sustainable sourcing efforts for years, like the garment industry, remediating problematic relationships — not terminating them — has emerged as a standard good practice.
That happened partly because the textile sector understands what the coffee sector still doesn't — that price-based competition exerts pressures on labor that are structural. We can't outrun those pressures by shifting our sourcing from one region or country or supplier to another — we have to address them within the context of our supply chains. And we can't do that if we aren't actively engaged with farmworkers and with farm labor issues.
In recent years, lawmakers around the world have raised the bar on supply chain transparency. In 2010, California Transparency in Supply Chains Act introduced compulsory reporting on efforts to eradicate trafficking and slavery from global supply chains for companies doing business in California with over $100 million in annual global revenues.
In 2015, the UK Modern Slavery Act adopted similar requirements for companies doing business in England, but added some important measures, including a requirement for corporate executives to sign off on annual reports and assume personal liability for non-compliance.
And in January 2016, the Obama administration signed into U.S. law the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, which ends coffee's 85-year-old exemption from the U.S. ban on imports of goods produced using unfree labor.
Compliance with all of these measures — and a host of new initiatives in committee at the federal and state levels in the United States — will require coffee companies to bring labor issues into clearer focus as part of improved supply chain management practices.
Perhaps the best reason for industry to engage with farmworkers is this: the future of coffee may depend on it.
Farm labor in the coffee sector is hard work that is not particularly well-compensated. As economies in coffee-growing countries expand, they are creating new opportunities for rural employment that are less grueling, better-paid or both. As a result, coffee growers in some origins have been coping for years with perennial labor shortages. In traditional coffee-growing regions in Colombia, news media regularly report seasonal labor shortages during the coffee harvest numbering in the tens of thousands of workers.
Farmworkers are field-based quality control agents. One farm labor union leader has suggested that farmworkers are "field baristas." Their management and harvesting practices go a long way to determining the quality frontiers of our coffee. But their role in the quality assurance process has not been the source of as much recognition, celebration or investment as that of baristas on the other end of the supply chain. Direct, coordinated engagement with growers and workers holds real promise to drive new efficiencies through the supply chain or create added value through innovations to improve quality, reduce losses or both.
What is the SCAA Doing?
Last year, the SCAA was compelled for all those reasons to lean into farm labor issues in a way it hadn't before. In June 2015, the SCAA Sustainability Council created a Farmworker Committee. I have had the privilege of serving as chair of that committee, whose volunteer members include senior leaders drawn from diverse organizations throughout the Americas: Ben Corey-Moran, Director of Coffee Supply at Fair Trade USA; Kim Elena Ionescu, the SCAA's Director of Sustainability; Vanusia Nogueira, Executive Director of the Brasil Specialty Coffee Association (BSCA); Angela Peláez, Director of Sustainability at Expocafé in Colombia; and Miguel Zamora, who currently chairs the Sustainability Council and leads the work of the certifier UTZ in the Americas.
The SCAA's decision to create a farmworker committee was the cause and effect of farmworker education focused on the coffee industry. The decision was precipitated in part by a campaign of awareness-raising focused on SCAA leadership, and the SCAA's commitment to the issue has driven significant increases in awareness and education of SCAA members. To date, the SCAA Farmworker Committee has generated an impressive number of publications and presentations that begin to frame labor issues for industry audiences and hold up practices worthy of careful consideration, if not widespread replication.
They include: a white paper on the issue of farmworker inclusion; original field research on farm labor conducted by the Dutch aid organization Solidaridad; articles in The Specialty Coffee Chronicle and Roast Magazine on issues of farm labor; a webinar featuring grower, industry and research perspectives; a panel at The SCAA Event in which a worker, a grower and a roaster discussed issues of labor scarcity and farm work with representatives of a coffee institute and a certifier; and an hour-long, three-part session on farm labor at Re:co Atlanta (videos coming soon to the Re:co Symposium YouTube channel).
These resources are informing the emerging conversation on farmworkers in the coffee sector and constitute an important source of decision-support for SCAA members. They are necessary — but not sufficient — to foster constructive engagement and gradual improvements in farmworker inclusion in the coffee sector.
To achieve that goal, members of the Farmworker Committee are working collectively on behalf of the SCAA and individually as part of their "day jobs" with SCAA member organizations in the industry.
Ben is continuing to support the innovative work Fair Trade USA has catalyzed on the La Revancha estate in Nicaragua and FTUSA's ongoing efforts to refine its estate certification standards and farmworker empowerment program.
Photo by Oscar Leiva for CRS.
Kim Elena continues to work tirelessly on behalf of the SCAA, engaging with members and leaders on labor issues outside the coffee sector, to generate actionable information for membership and to identify opportunities for concrete steps members can take related to farmworker inclusion.
Vanusia is supporting dialogue within the BSCA on farm labor in the specialty coffee sector in Brazil, whose government has implemented some of the world's most progressive labor protections and whose private sector has engaged in one of the world's most creative and celebrated cross-sector campaigns to eradicate slave labor.
Angela is leading a pilot initiative at Expocafé in Colombia in which select U.S. roasters engage directly with growers and workers and create incentives for increased collaboration for quality improvement on the ground.
Miguel Zamora represents UTZ in a coalition of certifiers seeking to develop a living wage initiative for agricultural workers while also personally leading UTZ in its leading-edge engagement with issues of slave labor in Brazil.
For my part, I continue to support the efforts of Catholic Relief Services to foster deeper understanding, dialogue and constructive engagement with farmworkers and farm labor issues in the coffee sector. That effort prioritized research at origin designed to push the frontiers of our understanding and identify handles for action.
All of these initiatives are open — each of our organizations is actively seeking industry collaborators for every one of these initiatives.
The Farmworker Committee will carefully track these ongoing efforts. We will continue to seek examples of good practices related to farm labor. We will monitor activity the policy space for new developments. And we will report out regularly on everything we learn in the belief that action requires a steady stream of information.
Michael Sheridan leads the Coffeelands Program at Catholic Relief Services and serves as Chair of the Farmworker Committee on the Specialty Coffee Association of America Sustainability Council.


"So I'm leaving to do the liberatory memory work that drew me to archives in the first place because I cannot co-create the transformation in which we are desperate need within the archival profession. Let me reword that: the archival profession will not allow for this sort of transformation. No profession will. Professions are the problem."
'We should be clear, however, that true neutrality is an impossible aspiration, because we as archivists are individual practitioners called upon to distill the historic record through the inescapable lens of our personal worldviews" and the harmful legacy of "archival neutrality."
"Polish Culture Minister Piotr Glinski has led the charge to merge the museum with a newer one that hasn't even been built yet, something his opponents say is a way for the government to take over the Gdansk museum and change the exhibits. Machcewicz says every invitation he's extended to Glinski to visit the museum has been declined."
"I think what Alan Duff is trying to say here, and throughout this scarcely comprehensible column, is that being quiet always speaks volumes and modesty really is a virtue UNLESS YOU'RE A BLOKE AT THE RUGBY OR A BLOKE WITH A FIRM HANDSHAKE OR A BLOKE WRITING A COLUMN ABOUT HOW WOMEN SHOULD BE QUIET."