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Posted in activism, Africa, African American Literature, Caribbean literature, children's literature, conferences, equity, feminism, historical fiction, history, LGBTQ, minority issues in publishing, multicultural literature, race & gender, self-publishing, Yari Yari Ntoaso on May 17, 2013| Leave a Comment »
There's a reading tonight hosted by the Pan-African Writers Association (PAWA) but I was simply too tired to attend; I think jet lag is finally setting in so I opted to stay at the hotel, order room service, and work on my presentation on "configuring the past and present." I can hear a preacher screaming "Hallelujah!" outside—there must be a church nearby. I'm watching Ghana TV and a women's show, The Standpoint, just ended—the Oprah equivalent Dr. Gifty had guests and experts on to discuss life after your husband's death. This has been a day of death, in a way—today's program ended with an emotional tribute to Jayne Cortez, OWWA co-founder who passed suddenly last December. I only met Jayne twice but it was clear to me that she was a formidable woman. I was surprised to find myself shedding a few tears during the tribute; I watched Ama Ata Aidoo being helped to her feet—someone holding her cane, someone else holding the mic so her hands were free to hold the bowl—and then she spoke in Fante because she knew Jayne wouldn't want a libation prayer to be said in English. She had to pause midway to pull a kerchief from her blouse and it was very moving to see this elder weeping for her lost friend. They met in the 1970s so that's a friendship that lasted nearly fifty years, and I couldn't help but think to myself, "That will be us someday." I feel so blessed to be here with my close friends—my life has been enriched and enlarged because of these incredible black women who don't have the anxiety issues that make me too risk-averse and too content to stay at home. Would I have come to Ghana without them? Maybe, but I'm grateful that they continue to "lift me as they climb."
I don't think I can do justice to the four panels I attended today. The first was on getting your work out into the world, and moderator Tara Betts (right, with Camille Dungy) drew rich insights from the three panelists. Latasha Diggs (below right, with Gabrielle Civil)reminded us that it's not *always* about the book—having one doesn't make you legitimate, doing the WORK and getting it out there (by yourself, if necessary) is what matters most along with building community. How can you ward off competition between you and your fellow writers? Hang with musicians and other artists working in different media. Kadija George Sesay, publisher of Sable magazine, urged self-publishers to register their publications and get an ISBN/ISSN; that means your work can be catalogued, archived, and then you can be certain that you're leaving a record behind.
During the brief break Michelle Martin and I went down to the book vendors and did a bit of shopping. No more books! I think I've bought ten so far, mostly for my nieces and nephew, though I got a couple of novels for myself today. It's so wonderful to have the authors sign their books, too. I had lunch with Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro and was thrilled to get an English translation of her novel, Carapace. She and her partner Zulma also wrote out a list of Afro-Latino women writers whose work is available in English. I want to add more Latina content to my Black Women in the Americas class. I was disturbed to learn that Yolanda and Zulma were harassed and threatened in the Osu market earlier this week, but it was wonderful to learn that their homeland of Puerto Rico recently passed legislation protecting the rights of LGBT people. Maybe the jetlag is making me emotional or maybe it's just being in the presence of so many amazing women—I feel protective of everyone! Protective and powerless at the same time. I should switch gears and go work on my talk because these are the issues I want to address: is it enough to rewrite history, to write black women back into the historical record through art and/or scholarship, or must we MAKE history ourselves? I feel like history is made by women who are bolder than me, but maybe that's just what I want to believe…
The afternoon panel on Africa, the diaspora, and children's literature was great. One Ghanaian panelist talked about the need to ensure that girls on the continent have access to education—whether it's in a traditional school, via cell phone, or on the radio. Another Nigerian panelist, Akachi Ezeigbo, talked about her decision to write girls as heroines in her books for young readers, and Michelle Martin captivated the audience with her slideshow and talk on hair politics in children's picture books. Deborah Ahenkorah doubled as panelist and moderator and had a chance to share her innovative strategies for getting books into the hands of Ghanaian kids. "If we can send a man to Mars, we can ensure that Ghanaian children have culturally relevant, quality books!" Stay tuned for an interview with Deborah in the next day or two…
The fourth panel was intense; four writers talked about their activism and the ways they channel the ancestors in order to better serve their community around issues like environmental justice and domestic violence. You can learn more about the important, community-based projects coordinated by Angelique Nixon's nonprofit Ayiti Resurrect. Moderator (and friend!) Ira Dworkin moderated and gave us all an update on the challenges facing women writers in Egypt. You can learn more about the threats facing Mona Prince here.
Ok, time to turn in. I haven't actually left the hotel compound yet so I'm looking forward to tomorrow's lineup, which includes a performance by Wura-Natasha Ogunji, Rosamond S. King, and Gabrielle Civil. We start here and then finish at the seashore…
returning the favor
Posted in African American Literature, Brooklyn, Canadian writers, Caribbean literature, children's literature, creative writing, education, fantasy, interview, kidlit blogs, libraries, minority issues in publishing, multicultural literature, race & gender, self-publishing, speculative fiction, urban fantasy, young adult novels on April 10, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Last week I interviewed Kelbian Noel, a YA spec fic author that I met while I was up in Toronto. Yesterday Kelbian returned the favor by featuring me on her blog, Diverse Pages. Here's one of the questions I was asked to consider:
DP: Have you always written about characters of color? What challenges (if any) have you faced in doing so?
ZETTA: When I took a creative writing class in high school, I wrote a picture book that featured white characters. Fortunately, I was failing that class and so wound up dropping it. In college I had my first black professor and he introduced me to the work of Jamaica Kincaid; that changed my academic focus and as I discovered more black authors, I began to write about people of color. I went through a process of "decolonizing my imagination" and it did take some time for me to develop authentic characters that came from the community where I lived. For a while I worried that readers would feel my characters weren't "black enough," but the more I traveled and the more widely I read, the easier it became to create credible, diverse black characters.
On Monday I met with a group of amazing young poets at the Brooklyn Public Library and one young writer showed me a picture book she had self-published–all her illustrations showed white children. I hope she finds a "mirror" for her black female self in my books. You can read the entire interview here.
meet Kelbian Noel!
Posted in African Canadian literature, Brooklyn, Canada, Canadian writers, creative writing, fantasy, kidlit blogs, mixed-race identity, multicultural literature, religion & spirituality, self-publishing, speculative fiction, urban fantasy, young adult novels on April 1, 2013| 3 Comments »
Kelbian Noel was born on a warm June night in Moncton, New Brunswick. From a very young age, she loved to read. She found herself engulfed in novels by Janette Oke and L.M. Montgomery, but never seemed to find herself in the pages. At the age of 11 she declared she would simply have to rewrite them and become the youngest author in history. Decades later, having studied writing in college and pursued it as a career, she rediscovered her hobby. She is excited to introduce The Witchbound Series to the world with hopes readers will love the beginning of this saga as much as she does.
Kelbian lives in Toronto, Ontario with her two children. She is the founder of Diverse Pages and blogs there often in the company of some pretty cool people.
Kelbian's first two novels are available *now* under special pricing. On April 1, Sprung will be available for $0.99, and Roots will continue to be free until the end of the day! Visit the author's website for more information.
1. Your Witchbound Series is quite ambitious—can you tell us about the first two books and what we can expect from the other three?
Witchbound tells the story of four very different girls. The five-book series follows each character as she discovers the truth about her magical destiny, how it affects her and the people around her. What I love most about writing this series is that it focuses on people with very different backgrounds and outlines how, despite those variances, they're exactly the same.
Re-released on March 15, 2013, ROOTS (book one) introduces Baltimore Land, a biracial (African American and Native American) girl who, for the past two years, has lived in Utah with her Wiccan parents. She's deeply averse to her parents' religion and believes the only purpose Wicca serves is to make her life miserable.
After she receives a message from her twin brother, who disappeared prior to the move, she runs off to find and ultimately rescue him. But she soon discovers her exile to that small Utah town was the direct result of who she is, what she can do, and the danger it could bring to her and the lives of her family and friends. Baltimore must learn to embrace her identity in order to keep herself safe, but it may mean letting her brother go for good.
SPRUNG (book two) will be released on April 1, 2013. In Solana Beach, California we meet Skye Jackson, a seventeen-year-old girl who believes everything Baltimore never did. Ever since she was introduced to it, magic has come easily to Skye. She uses it for everything from extending her curfew to her personal GPS. But when she decides to teach a guy a lesson in order to avenge her friend, she comes to the realization that there's a lot more to her powers than she bargained for.
In a race to fix her mistakes, Skye stumbles across a family secret which reveals a twisted destiny that may mean giving up magic forever.
SMOLDER (book three) is set for release this coming August. At least that's my hope! Currently, there is a contest taking place on my website. Readers can take a stab at guessing the name of the next Elemental. So I won't reveal it here, but I will tell you a little bit about Elemental #3.
She's a Latino orphan from Brooklyn, New York. After graduating from high school, she decides to spend the summer learning more about her family. Her magical journey leads her to a historical building, a long-lost family member, and a destiny that makes her more than she ever believed she could be.
The fourth book in the series is entitled SURFACE, and takes place in Hawaii. The fourth Elemental is a bit of a know-it-all. Well versed in the girls' destiny and purpose, she leads them to their final battle.
The fifth book is still untitled but recaps the first four stories from the point of view of Ramon, a character readers will come to know well throughout the series.
2. Tell us about your childhood in the Maritimes. How did you evolve into the writer you are today?
I like to think of the story of my life as both unusual and interesting. I was born in Moncton, New Brunswick to Guyanese immigrants. My father was a Baptist minister who first settled in New Brunswick to study at St. Thomas University and what is now known as Crandall University. We lived there for the first few years of my life.
I fondly remember, and still visit, the tiny town of McKee's Mills, but vaguely remember time spent in Turtle Creek, New Brunswick and then on Ben Jackson Road in Nova Scotia. One of my earliest memories is when we lived in Scot's Bay, Nova Scotia. I can still recall that little house on the hill, with a mile long driveway, tire swing, and cows in the pasture beside it. I was four or five when we moved.
We ended up in Lockeport, Nova Scotia after that, where Dad was called to serve at the Baptist church in the middle of town. We were the only black family in Lockeport, as far as I knew. Those were some formidable years, but still filled with great memories. Our house overlooked the harbor and had a huge forest of bamboo-like plants we called Roman Sailors in the back yard. We'd go crashing through those in the summertime, playing "scouts" after hours of riding our bikes around town. It was that time (mid-eighties) and that kind of town where kids could pretty much roam free.
Memories of Lockeport are still firmly engrained in my mind: the "haunted" house just up the street, my first teacher (Ms. Nickerson), first best friends (Sarah and Gina), the beach, the waves, the smell of the salt water. Of course,those are accompanied with some less desirable ones. Like the first time I was told I was different from the other kids. My lips were bigger, my skin darker, and my parents talked funny. I was called the "N" word on the first day of school. I was five and didn't even know what it meant.
Like most ministers' kids, I had to learn to adjust and adapt to new surroundings very quickly. The years from age eight to fifteen were spent in rural Nova Scotia. In the small town of Morristown in the Annapolis Valley we were again the only black family around for miles. And there were still formidable experiences to be had. But, for the most part, the people in that town were accepting and I felt like I belonged. This is where I first discovered my love of writing. I spent hours in a cow pasture adjacent to our house, behind the church and right next to a graveyard. There was an oak tree in the middle of the field and I'd sit under it with a blue writing folder, loose leaf paper, and a pen.
My mother had been selling Christian books through one of those mail order companies. That's when I discovered Janette Oke "Christian" romance novels. My sister introduced me to L.M. Montgomery. Every Anne of Green Gables book she brought home, I read too. I also read The Babysitter's Club and R.L. Stine (my first intro to Speculative Fiction). But in all of those series, except for one (thank you for Jessi, Ann M. Martin!), there was no one who looked like me. I decided I'd just have to write those kinds of stories myself.
After we moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, I was excited to finally be around people like me. Only after years of living like and amongst "the other half," I didn't fit in. I was the Black girl who acted like she was white. That was fun. But I didn't let it get me down. I was who I was and I liked it.
My first job was in the Halifax North Memorial Public Library where my love of books was fed on a weekly basis. I couldn't get enough. But for years I forgot about my writing endeavors until I started studying it in college. In my first year, I was introduced to the works of Octavia E. Butler (who quickly became my favorite author) and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Still, it wasn't until my final year during a Literary Theory class that I picked up a pen again and started writing a story, based on a dream, about werewolves in San Francisco. Since then, I've never stopped.
ABOUT KELBIAN
Name: Kelbian Noel
Hometown: Toronto, Ontario
Education: B.A. Professional Writing & Communications Studies
School: York University
Major: Professional Writing
Minor: Communications
Occupation: Author & Freelance Writer/Editor
Books: Kindred, Blood and Chocolate
Writers: Octavia E. Butler
Quote: "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." ~ Maya Angelou
sweet snarl
Posted in activism, African Canadian literature, book festival, Canada, Canadian writers, children's literature, equity, fantasy, minority issues in publishing, multicultural literature, racism in publishing, self-publishing, speculative fiction, urban fantasy, young adult novels on March 31, 2013| 4 Comments »
It actually feels like spring here in Toronto—for once I'm not shivering through my visit, though I am wearing a hoodie I borrowed from my cousin. She's out having Easter dinner with her in-laws so I thought I'd take a moment to blog. I've got way too much sugar in my system; in addition to Easter chocolate we've been snacking on English toffee and vintage candy from our youth, and yesterday I had the ultimate butter tart (no raisins!) at a cafe where I met African Canadian author Kelbian Noel. I'll be posting an interview with Kelbian tomorrow to coincide with the release date of her second speculative YA novel, Sprung. Despite my sugar consumption, right now I'm feeling bitter and here's why: Kelbian and I spent most of our time together bemoaning the difficulty of getting published while black in Canada. We also tried to develop some strategies for breaking through the color barrier, and one idea was to propose a panel to the coordinators of an established literary event. There's an annual book festival in Toronto called Word on the Street and these are the stats they proudly share in their brochure.
2012 Festival Demographics
65% Female, 34% Male
63% of our visitors have an annual household income of $50,000 and greater
28.3% of our visitors have an annual household income of $100,000 and greater
Our visitors come from a range of age demographics (total number of visitors 215,000):
Under 17 – 18% of visitors
18-24 years – 14% of visitors
55+ years – 20% of visitors
72% of our visitors have completed college/university
33% of our visitors have completed postgraduate studies (This is up from 30.9% in 2011)
73% of our visitors are from Metropolitan Toronto
27% of our visitors are tourists from outside the GTA
80% of our visitors describe themselves as avid readers
85% of our visitors consider The Word On The Street a key cultural event
Now, close your eyes and imagine what this book festival looks like. A third of the visitors are middle-aged; the vast majority of visitors are college-educated and a third have advanced degrees; nearly two-thirds are middle class and one third of their visitors make more than a hundred grand a year. Kids account for a fifth of the visitors, but if they're brought by these highly educated, wealthy adults, chances are they aren't struggling with literacy. In case you don't know the city of Toronto, let me share some other stats:
Toronto is one of the world's most multicultural cities. In 2004, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) ranked Toronto second, behind Miami, Florida, in its list of the world's cities with the largest percentage of foreign-born population. Miami's foreign-born population is dominated by those of Cuban and Latin American descent, unlike Toronto's foreign-born population, which is not dominated by any particular ethnic group.
The 2006 census indicates 46.9% of Toronto's population is composed of visible minorities; 1,162,630 non-Whites, or 23% of Canada's visible minority population, live in Toronto; of this, approximately 70% are of Asian ancestry. Annually, almost half of all immigrants to Canada settle in the Greater Toronto Area. In March 2005, Statistics Canada projected that the combined visible minority proportion will comprise a majority in both Toronto and Vancouver by 2012.
2006: 46.9% (South Asian: 12.0%, Chinese: 11.4%, Black 8.4%, Filipino 4.1%, Arab/West Asian: 2.6%, Latin American 2.6%, Southeast Asian 1.5%, Korean 1.4%, multiple 1.3%, not included elsewhere 1.0%, Japanese 0.5%)
Poverty is also on the rise in Toronto, with almost 25% of the population living hand to mouth:
Toronto's poverty rates are higher than the provincial and national average. Overall, recent immigrants fare the worse with nearly half (46 per cent) in poverty. One in three children (under age 15) is living in poverty and 31 per cent of youths (15 to 24). Housing costs is the big driver, with almost 47 per cent of all tenants paying more than 30 per cent of their income on rent. Another 23 per cent pay an astonishing 50 per cent or more on rent.
So. Let's revisit the stats for Word on the Street. I've never attended or presented at this event, but feedback from attendees seems overwhelmingly positive. Yet does this literary event accurately reflect the 21st-century city of Toronto? Are they actually achieving their objectives if their attendees represent such a small (and privileged) slice of the population? Do you think their featured authors reflect and/or are likely to appeal to people of color (who make up 50% of the city's population)?
The Word On The Street Toronto is a non-profit organization that celebrates Canadian reading and writing, and champions literacy, primarily through a free, annual outdoor festival.
To ensure that the people of Toronto know about the annual festival, and value it as having the best and broadest offerings within the Canadian publishing industry.
To ensure that The Word On The Street helps Toronto become 100% literate through its effective support for literacy awareness and programs.
To ensure that The Word On The Street Toronto is a valuable and vital event for the Canadian publishing industry and a top choice for Canadian authors, publishers and booksellers.
Right now I'm thinking it's not worth my time to approach the organizers of this event. I may send them an email, however, and hip them to Pop Up—a nonprofit in the UK that brings literature to communities that are too often ignored by big splashy book festivals…
farewell, Coretta
Posted in activism, African American Literature, Canada, Canadian writers, children's literature, Coretta Scott King Award, creative writing, equity, fantasy, historical fiction, history, minority issues in publishing, multicultural literature, racism in publishing, self-publishing, speculative fiction, young adult novels on January 30, 2013| 16 Comments »
My grandmother was an ardent admirer of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A "colored" woman raised in Canada to pass for white, my grandmother proudly displayed a framed copy of Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech on the wall of her home. As a teenager in Toronto I took a class on American history in order to learn more about the "Negro" ancestors my grandmother so often discussed, and I was devastated when she made a gift of the speech to my frivolous older sister. I was the one teaching the Civil Rights Movement to my high school classmates; I was the one who could recite portions of the speech by heart. My grandmother did give me her carefully preserved copy of Life magazine and though I admired Mrs. King's sorrowful yet elegant profile, I still harbored resentment over the allocation of the speech. That piece of parchment went from a place of honor in my grandparents' manse to the wall of my sister's apartment; it hung next to the stereo, which blared lyrics by Jay-Z that would have made Mrs. King blanch. It took years for me to realize that my grandmother gave Dr. King's speech to the granddaughter who needed it most. I wrongly thought that my investment in social justice entitled me to inherit the framed speech, but my grandmother knew that I was ready for something more and she was right—by my last year of college I was critiquing the "I Have a Dream" speech in the campus newspaper.
Since penning that editorial twenty years ago I have worked to develop my skills as a black feminist cultural critic. In 1994 I reversed the migration that brought my African American ancestors to Canada in 1820. Unfortunately my grandmother passed in 2002, months before I earned my PhD in American Studies from NYU; my dissertation, which focused on representations of racial violence in African American literature, was dedicated to her. I currently teach courses on race, gender, and sexuality in the Center for Ethnic Studies at BMCC, a community college in lower Manhattan that serves mostly immigrant and working-class students of color. Many are reluctant readers and so I've had to develop innovative ways of introducing them to black literature, which they wrongly expect to be irrelevant, outdated, and uninteresting. In addition to my teaching I've published scholarly essays, short fiction, and poetry in various anthologies, and my plays have been staged in New York, Chicago, and Cleveland. I've also published three books for young readers—one of which, BIRD, won numerous awards after its publication in 2008, including a Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent for the illustrator, Shadra Strickland. Though she hoped at least one of her grandchildren would follow in her footsteps and become a preacher, overall I think my grandmother would approve.
I speak to hundreds of school children every year and my author presentation always begins with the shiny stickers on the cover of BIRD. Here in the US, children always know who Coretta Scott King was and they know that, like her husband, she believed in justice and equality for all. We talk about the way awards draw attention to a particular book and often ensure that it won't go out of print. Then I ask the children to guess how many books are published in the US each year. Once we settle on the figure (about 5,000), I ask the children to guess what percentage of those books have black authors. They're natural optimists, children. Most of the students I meet attend majority-black schools—urban schools that are just as segregated as those that predate the Civil Rights Movement—and it's not uncommon for them to have black-authored books in the classroom. So there are always gasps of amazement when I hold up three fingers and inform them that less than 3% of all the children's books published each year are written by authors who look like them. I add that Asian American, Latino, and Native American authors each represent less than 1% of the total, leaving 95% of all books for children written by members of one racial group. "Does that sound fair to you?" I ask and invariably I hear a chorus of indignant NOs in response.
When I saw the list of CSK Award recipients on Monday, I wondered what Coretta Scott King would think. I never had the privilege of meeting Mrs. King and all I know about the award is what I've read on the ALA website. I know that in 2009 the CSK Book Award celebrated its fortieth anniversary, and I do believe that black authors and illustrators are better off today than they were in the "all-white world of children's books" of the 1970s. But when we look at the small number of authors and illustrators who seem to win a CSK Award year after year after year, are we looking at a picture of real diversity? Is the award helping to increase the overall pool of black authors and illustrators, or is it merely upholding the status quo by feeding a few big fish in a very small pond? Publishers no doubt realize the committee's seeming preference for books about Dr. King and Rosa Parks and (a few) other historical figures. Does an editor's desire to win yet another shiny sticker deter her from publishing other authors of other kinds of books that also "demonstrate an appreciation of African American culture and universal human values?"
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
Self-published author and quilter Kyra Hicks has conducted an analysis of the award recipients and her findings indicate that the past four decades have produced a sort of winners club, an African American artistic elite whose insider status affords them creative opportunities too often denied their emerging and/or aspiring peers. It would seem as if the John Steptoe Award for New Talent, "occasionally given for young authors or illustrators who demonstrate outstanding promise at the beginning of their careers," was developed to help remedy this situation and yet it was not given out in 2011 or 2012, which puzzles me. The African American authors and illustrators at The Brown Bookshelf annually publish a list of 28 contributors to the field of black children's literature. Is it possible that the CSK Book Awards Committee found no one worthy of recognition for two consecutive years?
Perhaps it is easier to look backward at the past, which is familiar and safe, than it is to look forward where new possibilities—frightening to some—extend across the shifting terrain of the future. Yet the recent presidential election revealed the danger (and ultimate futility) of holding onto a romanticized version of the past, and the 2008 election of Barack Obama demonstrated that eventually the old guard must yield to the new. The publishing world is gripped by upheaval right now and many steadfastly cling to old models for fear of embracing innovation and developing new traditions that will respond to and reflect the realities of the twenty-first century. With so-called minorities expected to make up the majority of the US population in thirty years (minority babies already constitute the majority), what can the CSK Book Awards Committee do to ensure that equity—an ideal cherished by Dr. and Mrs. King—is not undermined by the children's publishing industry? If 95% of children's book authors were men, white women across the country would mobilize to create change. But where is the outrage over racial dominance in the children's literature community?
In the past I have defended the CSK Award against claims that writers of all races should be eligible. With less than 3% of the publishing pie, though we constitute 13% of the US population, I felt that black authors and illustrators deserved something to call their own. Today I am less convinced of the relevance of the CSK Awards and wonder if I ought to revise the portion of my author presentation that claims the award reflects the values of Dr. and Mrs. King. The award-granting process is often controversial and generally shrouded in secrecy, though a 2010 article in School Library Journal lifted the veil on the Caldecott Medal. The CSK Book Awards Committee considers all genres, I believe, but the Caldecott focuses on one genre illustrated books only and still jury members can expect to review more than 700 titles each year. I am not entirely convinced of the link between quantity and quality in books, but there is something to be said for competition and I think creativity truly flourishes when more (and more kinds of) people are invited to the drawing table. As television's numerous talent competitions demonstrate, the US has a deep pool of gifted individuals who are simply waiting for an opportunity to shine.
Last year I received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to write a family memoir about my African American ancestors; I am anxious to explore the social pressures that first led them to flee slavery in the US only to further escape into whiteness in order to avoid racism in Canada. In my country of origin, an average of two black authors manage to publish a book for children each year, making a race-based award like the CSK impossible. Things are better here in the US, which is why I chose to relocate, but after more than a decade trying to publish my twenty manuscripts for young readers, I'm ready to throw in the towel and move on. I am close to completing two young adult novels, both speculative fiction, and once they're done I plan to leave the world of children's literature behind. I am disappointed by the complacency of so many individuals and institutions that claim to have children's best interest at heart, yet I am encouraged by the fact that a small group of activists is currently in the process of reviving/reinventing the Council on Interracial Books for Children. I will do what I can to assist with the launch of this endeavor, and I hope its emphasis on social justice will truly honor the transformative vision of Dr. and Mrs. King.
Posted in African Burial Ground, Brooklyn, children's literature, fantasy, historical fiction, kidlit blogs, middle grade novels, minority issues in publishing, multicultural literature, racism in publishing, self-publishing, slavery, speculative fiction, young adult novels on September 29, 2012| Leave a Comment »
This past summer I had the chance to share my beloved Brooklyn with the amazing educator/blogger/author Ed Spicer. Filming in Prospect Park was a bit of a challenge (we're in the flight path of 2 major airports) but Ed still managed to make a great short film—take a look!
Posted in book festival, Canada, children's literature, family, libraries, multicultural literature, Nevis, self-publishing, the Caribbean on July 29, 2012| 4 Comments »
That's how I feel. Not because I attended church at 8:30 this morning for the first time in…ages. Not because my aunt keeps the TV tuned to a Christian station, so while eating the delicious black-eyed peas and rice she made especially for me, I actually heard 3 additional sermons. Not because I slept through the night without being woken by a barking dog or crowing rooster. I feel blessed because when I went for a run yesterday morning and wasn't sure just where I was, I saw a sign that said Craddock Road and instantly oriented myself because I knew that was where my step-grandmother grew up. I feel blessed because when I step out on my terrace, I have a stunning view of Nevis Peak (and a flamboyant tree)—but am not overcome with guilt when I choose to spend the afternoon indoors working on a novel set in Brooklyn. I don't feel rushed this time around; nothing feels as urgent (because I know I'll be back soon) and more things seem possible. Last night, after I facilitated an informal workshop for parents at the Prospect Community Center, one of the participants thanked me for coming and concluded her remarks with, "Welcome home!" And I blurted out that this trip has truly made me feel at home here in Nevis—I'm still an outsider, I'm still learning the history and the culture and the customs. But I'm also being myself. And when you can be who you are—your true self—and feel that you are accepted by others, that's when you know you're home. In that community center, when I was surrounded by mothers who formed a book club in order to learn how to develop a love of books in their children, I felt like I had something to offer. I brought the books I purchased in NYC and spread them out on two tables; then I asked each person to take no more than one minute to look the books over and select one that jumped out at her. It was so interesting to see their selections—and flattering, too, since three of them selected books I'd written and self-published! We talked about how to extract meaning from a book cover or title in order to attract a child's attention, and we talked about how to read so that the child's curiosity is piqued. Then I handed out copies of Ship of Souls and read part of a chapter aloud. The women then voted to make SoS their first book club selection (bumping The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to September)! I think I'm going to start a book drive. I'm hoping all my author-friends out there will be willing to donate a copy of their book to the fledgling children's library at Prospect Community Center. We need art up on the walls, and shelves installed, and books to put on the shelves…and a few computers couldn't hurt. Sunday is a day of rest but tomorrow there will be work to do! I'm giving three presentations at the credit union across the street from my guesthouse. Even if only a couple of kids show up, I'll still feel blessed because I've found a way to be useful to my new community. [Photograph of the Nevis Book Fair by Ryan D. Maynard/ Refined Digital Media]
Posted in African American Literature, book festival, Canadian writers, children's literature, historical fiction, middle grade novels, multicultural literature, poetry, race & gender, self-publishing, speculative fiction on July 22, 2012| 1 Comment »
I try to avoid crowds as much as possible but it's hard to stay away from a book festival—especially when it's in Harlem and the street is filled with black folks who love to read, write, and talk about literature! I watched some of the Schomburg panels on C-Span before hopping on the train to give my own presentation at the Young Readers Pavilion, which was once again expertly run by the Hudsons. I read from Ship of Souls and took some questions from the young readers in the audience, and then had time to catch the second half of the panel on getting black boys to read, which was moderated by Wade Hudson. I don't like crowds, but large gatherings do increase the likelihood of meeting folks you haven't seen in a while. It was great to catch up with Carol-Ann Hoyte, poet, librarian, and editor/publisher of the forthcoming anthology, And the Crowd Goes Wild! Carol-Ann shared some of the sports poems with kids at the Young Readers Pavilion and she'll be back in NYC this fall for an official launch party so stay tuned. I also met Donald Peebles, author and librarian-in-training; we talked about the importance of male role models, the need for more black male voices in YA lit, and the many different family configurations that make black boys LOVE to read. That was an issue that came up in the panel: what's the link between fathers and better literacy among boys? I'm not a fan of the "just add MAN" remedy to what ails the black community, though I absolutely believe that fathers are important to boys and girls. But the mere presence of men doesn't solve any problem—it's their involvement in the family that matters and their commitment to promoting literacy by reading with and around their kids.
Later that night I had a Skype conversation with my cousin and we realized that our "fun" summer reads actually reflect our scholarship…I just finished a novel on racial violence in the post-Emancipation South, and she was reading a novel about the body's memory of trauma. I'd been planning to self-publish my novella about black children and AIDS this fall, but somehow that conversation gave me a sharp nudge. I worked on it past midnight and ordered a proof this morning. There is a major AIDS conference in D.C. right now, and a Canadian friend sent a team from her Toronto clinic, Women's Health in Women's Hands. When I visited that clinic a couple of years ago, one of the researchers asked me why I didn't write about the impact of HIV/AIDS on the black community. I assured her that I *had* written about it but couldn't find a publisher. Well, what am I waiting for? The community is still in crisis and waiting ten years hasn't helped matters any. I hope to have An Angel for Mariqua out by my birthday in late October. This is just a demo cover I made with the CreateSpace template.
Christmas is coming, but nine-year-old Mariqua Thatcher isn't looking forward to the holidays. Mama's gone and Gramma doesn't know what to do with her feisty granddaughter. Almost every day Mariqua gets into a fight at school and no one seems to understand how she feels inside. But things start to change when a mysterious street vendor gives Mariqua a beautifully carved wooden angel as a gift. Each night Mariqua whispers in the angel's ear and soon her wishes start to come true! Mariqua begins to do better at school and she even wins an important role in the church pageant. But best of all, Mariqua becomes friends with Valina Patterson, a teenager who lives in Mariqua's building. Valina helps Mariqua learn how to control her anger, and reminds her pretend little sister that "everyone has a story to tell." Their friendship is tested, however, when Mariqua discovers that Valina has been keeping a secret about her own mother. Can the magic angel make things better?
A touching story about love, compassion, and the gift within every heart.
For children age 8+.
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I need to reboot my brain. On Thursday morning I submitted my chapter on magic in NYC parks—it still needs work, but it was time to let go so that I could turn my attention to the five other projects I hope to complete this summer. On Thursday afternoon I ordered a final proof of One Eye Open and started the e-book conversion process. I've had "coming soon!" on the Rosetta Press blog for over a year now, and I think it's finally time to let the book live, warts and all. That night I started working on my slideshow for The Hummingbird's Tongue; I've been invited to attend the inaugural Nevis Book Fair on July 27, and this time I'll be presenting before children and adults. The director of library services kindly helped me find a guesthouse in town, so I'll be spending another week in Nevis at the end of the month. That got the wheels turning—I'm supposed to be working on The Deep (Nyla's story), but instead I've been designing a logo and blog for Black Dog Arts. Ultimately I hope to open an arts center in Nevis, but for now I think maybe I'll start a nonprofit and try to collaborate with existing institutions on the island. Yesterday I heard from the SKN Culture office and my request to participate in the UNESCO Slave Route Project has been forwarded to the minister of education. Maybe I can meet some administrators while I'm in Nevis later this month. Once I get my letter of good conduct from the NYPD next week, my citizenship application will be complete—another thing I can do while I'm there. And since my friend Rosa will be in Antigua at the same time, I may be able to fly over from Nevis and inquire about my grandmother's alleged institutionalization there. More digging…
Now I think I'm ready to turn my attention back to The Deep. Though I just started reading Leonard Pitts Jr.'s Freeman, so maybe it makes more sense to work on Judah's Tale. The summer ends in six weeks! I was fussing and fuming about that fact yesterday, but it makes more sense to just get busy and make the most of the time that's left. And accept that everything I hoped to accomplish this summer may get done later rather than sooner.


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What are the implications of Britain leaving the EU on the Third sector?
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A Brexit from the EU is causing a split in opinion across the UK, is Britain stronger out of it? With politicians on both side of the divide campaigning tirelessly to win votes before the referendum on the 23rd June, we have a look at what impact the result of the referendum will have on Social Enterprises and Charities throughout the UK.
In 2014, according to the 'Britain Stronger in' Campaign around 249 charities received over £217m in funding from the EU, and this funding would run the uncertain risk of not being renewed if Britain were to leave the EU. A few charities have also stated that leaving the EU would not only have a finical impact on the Third Sector but an environmental one too. RSPB NI have told the BBC that a Brexit could lead to a negative impact on Wildlife Preservation as the EU Agreements have been key in providing protection to birds and habitats in the British countryside.
So how does the Third Sector feel about the EU referendum? Social Enterprise UK have run a survey to find out they key concerns of Social Enterprise Leaders:
74% of people running social enterprises will vote to stay in the European Union. This is compared to 1 in 7 (15%) who will be voting for an exit.
67% expressed concerns about Britain leaving the EU as it could potentially restrict access to European social funds at a time where funding in the UK is difficult to obtain.
Following from the above 54% are worried about ease of access to European markets.
43% said they would be nervous that the Scottish Government (who are advocates for Britain to stay in the EU) would call for another referendum for independence leading to a potential break up within the UK.
1 in 8 (16%) were not troubled about Britain leaving the EU.
Two thirds of social enterprise leaders surveyed (63%) said there are no advantages for their social enterprises if Britain decided to leave.
However, as with all campaigns positives were recognised. 24% believed there would be less "red tape" (Social and Environmental regulations) which would be beneficial to social enterprise and charities. 21% said that they would have more direct access to global markets (compared to 54% above who believed it would be harder). The survey also found the following key findings:
58% Social Enterprises leaders said their future would not be at risk if Britain left the EU in comparison to 22% who said it would be.
18% of social enterprises export to the EU, while 15% export to countries outside of the EU.
36% or respondents said that their social enterprise would not grow if Britain left the EU, 40% said Brexit would make no difference to their growth and 10% said their social enterprise would continue to see growth.
There are some clear differences in opinion in terms of access to funding, however in terms of growth there seems to be no stand out winner. How will you be voting?
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Only In Malaysia – PM Najib Stole People's Money, Spy Chief Stole His Money, Anti-Corruption Officers Stole Her Money
September 23rd, 2021 by financetwitter
Everything appeared to be rosy after the Barisan Nasional government was stunningly defeated in the May 2018 General Election. For the first time in 61 years since independence in 1957, the extremely corrupt coalition had lost power. Prime Minister Najib Razak, plagued with 1MDB scandal, could not believe the results as his advisers and surveys said he would win.
Momentarily, there was fear that Najib would resort to emergency rule, refusing to concede defeat. Mahathir Mohamad, the 92-year-old former premier who ended the ruling coalition's 6-decade in power, told news media that he cannot seek an audience with the King without an official election announcement, which the corrupted Election Commission was ordered to delay indefinitely.
The despicable Najib, in his attempt to cling to power, had offered US$6 million (RM20 million) to opposition candidates willing to switch sides. At the same time, Najib had tried to swing Warisan, a local party of Sabah that won 8 parliament seats. There were also reports that the King and Malay Rulers, who were notoriously anti-Mahathir, was refusing to swear him in.
It would take hours for the Palace, after interviewing all leaders of the opposition parties, to finally agree to swear Mahathir into office – the oldest leader in the world. The Pakatan Harapan government was formed with a majority of 122 seats out of 222. The Election Commission's delay tactic to facilitate Najib's desperate attempt to bribe opposition candidates failed spectacularly.
With Mahathir in power, all eyes were on Najib, who was expected to face corruption and money laundering charges for his role in 1MDB scandal, where US$681 million (RM2.6 billion) was discovered in his personal bank account. Najib's wife, Rosmah Mansor, known as the Imelda Marcos of Malaysia, has long been suspected of using stolen money to fund her jewellery spree.
The U.S.-DOJ investigation results says that over US$4.5 billion was misappropriated from the 1MDB fund, with some of the money used to finance Hollywood films, and buy hotels, private jet, luxury Equanimity superyacht, Picasso paintings, jewellery and real estate. Najib has claimed money found in his private bank was "donation" from Saudi Arabia royal family, a claim that could not be fully proven.
A leaked flight schedule sparked speculation that Najib and Rosmah were trying to flee the country on May 12, 2018 – four days after they lost power. Based on the flight information, a private jet owned by Indonesian businessman Peter Sondakh would fly the former Malaysian leader from Subang Airport in Malaysia to Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport in Jakarta.
Billionaire Sondakh, the owner of conglomerate PT Rajawali Corp., was working hand-in-glove with Najib when the former Malaysian premier ordered Felda to invest 37% stake in PT Eagle High Plantations (EHP), an ailing palm oil company owned by Sondakh. The "forced investment" of US$505 million (RM2.3 billion) was inflated by more than 300% when the stake was worth only US$114 million.
Najib and Rosmah had to abort their mission after hundreds of angry people scrambled to the airport to stop them from fleeing the country. Denying that they were trying to run away to Indonesia, Najib claimed his family just wanted to take a short holiday. However, PM Mahathir gave the orders to the immigration to blacklist him from leaving Malaysia.
On the night of May 17, 2018, police raided three luxury Pavilion Residences condominiums in Kuala Lumpur owned by Najib Razak's children. Besides RM117 million cash and RM1 billion worth of 12,000 pieces of jewellery, an eye-popping 567 handbags consisted of luxury handbags from 37 different designers – including Chanel, Prada, Hermes and ultra-luxury Bijan – were confiscated.
Less than 2 months later, Najib was finally charged on July 3, 2018 with multiple counts of criminal breach of trust (CBT) and corruption for graft involving transfer of RM42 million from SRC International Sdn Bhd (a subsidiary of 1MDB) to his personal bank account. He was arrested at his residence in Jalan Langgak Duta and had spent a night at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) detention facility.
The next month (August 2018), Najib' spy chief – Hasanah Abdul Hamid – was arrested and charged for helping herself to election funds from the prime minister's office (PMO). The former director-general of the Malaysian External Intelligence Organisation (MEIO), along with six of her officers, had stolen US$12.1 million (RM50.4 million) while transporting the election funds.
The disgraced 62-year-old Intelligence Chief, who siphoned the money between April 30, 2018, and May 9, 2018, had instructed her boys from the "Research Division" of the Prime Minister's Department to purchase six luxury watches. The Najib's Bond girl also made payments to third parties and transported the remaining monies out without handing them over to the division nor the government.
May 9, 2018 was the day after Najib stunningly lost the election. As chaos erupted after Barisan Nasional was defeated, 17 security personnel were also helping themselves to some RM3.5 million cash in the Prime Minister's Office. Apparently, Najib's office was loaded with tons of cash and his defeat had prompted former spy chief Hasanah to steal the money from his boss.
Hasanah was previously exposed to have had committed the highest degree of treasonous and treacherous act when she wrote to invite a foreign power to interfere in the sovereignty of Malaysia. Her letter dated May 4, sent just days before the May 8 general election, was addressed to CIA Director Gina Cheri Haspel soliciting for the spy agency's help to maintain Najib Razak as prime minister.
Unfortunately, the democratically elected Pakatan Harapan government collapsed in March 2020, some 22 months after the historic May 2018 General Election. Bersatu president Muhyiddin Yassin, together with PKR deputy president Azmin Ali, betrayed their own government when they conspired and plotted with defeated UMNO and PAS extremists to form a backdoor government.
Not only backdoor Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin ordered his newly appointed Attorney General Idrus Harun to discharge Riza Aziz (in May 2020), the stepson of Najib Razak, but also dropped all 46 criminal charges against former Sabah chief minister Musa Aman in June 2020 involving corruption and money laundering relating to timber concessions in Sabah.
Riza Aziz was initially slapped on July 5, 2019 (under Pakatan Harapan government) with 5 charges of money laundering involving US$248 million (RM1.25 billion), which were misappropriated from sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB). Musa Aman was freed so that he could help the power-crazy Muhyiddin snatches Sabah state government.
On June 28, 2020, Najib, who walked the corridors of power from 2009 to 2018, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for abuse of power, and 10 years in jail for each of six counts of money laundering and breach of trust (CBT). Additionally, Najib was fined RM210 million, and will serve an additional 5 years if he fails to pay. However, he is free pending appeal.
Make no mistake. Muhyiddin's refusal to help Najib was not because the former was interested in fighting kleptocrats, but because Najib will compete with Muhyiddin for the prime ministership once acquitted. Therefore, by hook or by crook, Mr Muhyiddin had to ensure his former boss remains convicted, pretending that he would not interfere in judiciary to help crooks.
Interestingly, some RM114 million cash confiscated during a dramatic raid at Pavilion Residences condominiums in 2018 have been returned to Najib Razak in August 2021. Muhyiddin regime, in a strange move, decided not to appeal the High Court's decision. Clearly, the prosecution under A.G. Idrus Harun had deliberately screwed the case to help UMNO.
In yet another disappointing decision, Najib's former spy chief, Hasanah, was granted a discharge not amounting to an acquittal (DNAA) in April 2021, despite overwhelming evidence – including 69 CCTV video clips – of RM50 million thefts from her former boss' office. Again, the prosecutors under orders from Attorney General's Chambers have, for some strange reasons, decided not to further prosecute her.
But in the land of crooks and pirates, the story did not end there. If you think it's incredibly jaw-dropping that a convicted criminal like former PM Najib could get back the stolen RM114 million cash, wait till you read how former spymaster Hasanah had gone to the MACC to also claim her stolen RM50 million, only to discover a huge amount of the money were fake notes.
Exactly why the stolen RM50 million must be returned to a crooked spy chief, and not directly to the government, is absolutely mind-blowing. But the best part was how three anti-corruption officers helped themselves to the stolen cash, stealing half of the dirty money – RM25 million – which had been stolen by Hasanah from Najib, who in turned stole it from the people.
It's equally breathtaking how the MACC officers could replace a large portion of the RM25 million with counterfeit currency. The three suspects were part of a "special team" assigned to investigate the abuse of power and criminal breach of trust involving the former spy chief. In fact, the MACC crooks have a close relationship with the MACC Chief Commissioner – Azam Baki – who was promoted by Muhyiddin in March 2020.
The joke continued when the MACC said it will investigate their own officers, attracting criticisms of cover-up and conflict of interest. More stunningly, neither the Prime Minister's Office nor the Finance Ministry (owner of 1MDB) nor any agency of the government was interested in lodging a police report, until it was voiced out publicly by Opposition MP Gobind Singh Deo.
Now that the police said it will summon the three MACC suspects and the "owner of the money" – spymaster Hasanah – for an investigation, will the authorities insult the people's intelligence again with a declaration that the entire episode was nothing but a huge "misunderstanding"? After all, the MACC would have stacks of files of corruption involving top police officers and politicians.
This is not the first time that the MACC has found itself plagued with scandal involving its own officers. In June, 41-year-old MACC officer Shahrul Izuan Mohd Zin was charged for conspiring with Teoh Peng Sin to receive RM100,000 in cash as an incentive not to conduct investigations under the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Act 2001 (Act 613).
In April, two MACC officials were among 12 enforcement officers arrested by the police for their involvement in criminal activities linked to Malaysian fugitive businessman Nicky Liow Soon Hee, the founder of Winner Dynasty Group who is wanted for money laundering and organised crime activities. Nicky is said to have ties to convicted Hong Kong triad boss Wan Kuok-Koi.
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Comment by Mokhtar on September 24, 2021 at 1:27 pm
You do realise, don't you that:
1. Since Anwar was released from jail in April 2018, the Anwar-faction in Pakatan Harapan have been actively undermining their own government, with the primary aim to make Anwar prime minister in place of Mahathir. Every other day, there are statements, interviews, broadcast talking about when will Mahathir hand over to Anwar. There was even a PKR bash in Melaka with the entire venue decked in "Anwar PM ke9" decorations, remember?
2. In late January 2020, Anwar and Pakatan Harapan tried to force Mahathir to step down as PM and give way to Anwar. This 'coup' was in breach of the understanding that the changeover should happen at the end of 2020, after the APEC meeting in KL. Anwar was unsuccessful.
3. Around the same time, in reaction to the attempted 'coup' by Anwar & team, the faction in the government that did not like Anwar, led by Muhiyiddin and Azmin launched a 'counter-coup'.
4. Mahathir objected to the counter-coup, but eventually quit as prime minister because he had lost support of both factions. His resignation was THE moment that Anwar & team has always wanted; it was a golden opportunity for Anwar to claim the pm-ship.
5. And history has shown that Anwar failed to capitalised on the opportunity and lost to Muhiyiddin / Azmin.
6. Anwar and his faction started to blame Mahathir for resigning! And calling PN the back-door government!
7. All the current problems that you have highlighted would not have happened IF Anwar had been patient and did not launch the 'coup' in late January 2020.
8. And the irony is that had Anwar been patient, and wait until Mahathir hand over the reins in late 2020 per the understanding from both sides, Anwar would have already become prime minister!
Comment by Mohandas on September 26, 2021 at 7:44 am
This country is already in the drains.what we need is a strong clean govermentgoverment to wipe out all the stupid corrupted ministers.
This is what happens with ketuanan melayu.but the malays
Seems to be happy because of the little financial help like
Bpr given to them.as long as the money is stolen by malays
It's OK with them.the malays have long way to go.they are
Like parasites depending on the government.
Comment by Paul Wolfobitch on September 27, 2021 at 5:54 am
The great supposed Islamic propagator Fakir Naik, bullsh*t-merchant to others, fraud and terrorist financier to yet others, taught us it is better to vote into gomen a corrupt politician who is Muslim than a non-Muslim who is not.
That makes our job of choosing quite easy as there are quite many Muslim politicians who most see as fcuking unbelievably corrupt. Politicians who are either Muslim or non-Muslim who are not corrupt are just too few. They may not even exist in most Malaysian dreams.
Whatever Najib and Rosmah own or not should be settled in court. Till that is done, nothing should be disposed of – even chocolate from the fridge.
Anybody else who thinks he is Muslim or non-Muslim and not corrupt should not help himself to anything belonging to even a corrupt person.
We have to find out from that ugly fcuking arseh*le Fakir whether it is fair game a corrupt Muslim can steal from another corrupt Muslim.
But don't get over-excited just yet. Anyone corrupt or not should still wait to find out from the courts who is the rightful owner of whatever you want to steal or maybe have already stolen.
Problem is, if corrupt Muslim politicians establish with corrupt courts what is or is not corruption, who owns what, who can steal what from whom, then Bolehland is pretty much fcuked, anyway.
Oh, hang on! Our religious and pious politicians who are Muslims and who should be elected because Fakir says that is preferable to upright honest non-Muslim politicians, have been stealing from us for fcuking decades and more, Alhamdulilah!
Not only politicians, the police, etc etc etc and even religious pious and holy preachers are corrupt as fcuking hell and have been stealing from us probably since Adam helped himself to a durian somewhere in Mesopotamia or thereabouts.
It is even sayeed that the pig-faced Fakir is himself an embezzler and financial fraud. Among many other crimes.
But I shouldn't go into all that, any old pig who claims it is Muslim are still more Muslim than the next upright, decent, and honest person.
So the holy message is, if you complain, and you are not Muslim, all the rules don't apply.
I would still like to know who are the kiasu cheapskate thieves who stole the chocs.
There are thieves and thieves, but nothing like fcuking Bolehland Muslims and thieves!
Comment by Wong wan choy on October 26, 2021 at 10:49 pm
All of us are sinners.
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"""
Given a list of Cellomics files, this script produces prints a report to stdout of any files
that are missing. A well will be flagged as missing if any of the individual channel files are missing.

Usage:

check_cellomics_files.py <file_list> <number_of_fields>

file_list - The path to a file listing each Cellomics tif/TIF file. Each file should be on a new line.
number_of_fields - The number of fields used to capture each well.

Example:
$ python check_cellomics_files.py my_cellomics_files.txt 9

The above command will check the list of files in my_cellomics_files

Example output:

If there are two plates: 123, and 421 and 421 has missing files in well A03, the output will be:

Plate 123
OK!
Plate 421
Missing A03: [11, 12, 13]

This suggests that plate 421, well A03 has missing files for fields 11, 12 and 13.
"""

from microscopium.screens import cellomics
from cytoolz import groupby
import numpy as np
import sys

INPUT_FILE = sys.argv[1]
FIELD_START = 0
FIELD_END = int(sys.argv[2]) - 1

def parse_input_file():
     with open(INPUT_FILE) as file:
         for line in file:
            line = line.strip()
            if line.endswith("tif") or line.endswith("TIF"):
                yield line

def get_plate_well(fn):
    sem = cellomics.cellomics_semantic_filename(fn.strip())
    return sem["plate"], sem["well"]

def get_field(fn):
    sem = cellomics.cellomics_semantic_filename(fn)
    return sem['field']

def check_missing_fields(fns):
    # get fields present in list
    fields = list(map(get_field, fns))

    # find any missing fields in this channel
    start, end = np.min(FIELD_START), np.max(FIELD_END)
    missing = sorted(set(range(start, end + 1)).difference(fields))

    return missing

if __name__ == "__main__":

    group_files = groupby(get_plate_well, parse_input_file())
    sorted_keys = sorted(group_files.keys())

    plate0 = sorted_keys[0][0]
    print("Plate {0}".format(plate0))
    missing_from_plate = 0

    last_plate = plate0
    for key in sorted_keys:
        current_plate = key[0]
        current_well = key[1]
        current_files = group_files[key]

        if(current_plate != last_plate):
            last_plate = current_plate

            if(missing_from_plate == 0):
                print("OK!")

            missing_from_plate = 0
            print("Plate {0}".format(current_plate))

        missing = check_missing_fields(current_files)

        if len(missing) > 0:
            missing_from_plate = missing_from_plate + 1
            print("{0} missing: {1}".format(current_well, missing))

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Zakome need a urine test during pregnancy?
Urinalysis during pregnancy is an extremely important study that allows to evaluate the work of the kidneys and the urinary system as a whole. This is a simple study that does not require much effort from a pregnant woman, but provides very valuable information for the doctor, who, based on the results of tests, selects and adjusts the tactics of pregnancy.
In the multidisciplinary medical center GMS Clinic in Moscow, you can pass any urinalysis and get a qualitative interpretation of the analyzes.
Usually, a general urine analysis during pregnancy is taken at each visit to the gynecologist (at least once a month), starting from the moment of registration and up to the birth itself. For a general urine test, you only need to collect the morning medium portion of urine in a dry clean container and take it to the laboratory for research. After 20-30 minutes, the results of the analysis will be known.
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An analysis of urine during pregnancy also helps not to miss the warning signs of a specific pathology of the prenatal period – late toxicosis (gestosis), which can pose a threat to the life of the mother and child. In conjunction with certain complaints and symptoms, a general analysis of urine is important in identifying the severity of gestosis and directing the efforts of doctors to prevent this formidable pathology.
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On the eve of collecting urine for a general analysis, it is not recommended to drink plenty of mineral water, alcohol, medicinal substances (vitamins and anti-inflammatory) to eat spicy, sour, salty and overstrain – all this may affect the result of the study and give inaccurate results.
The required volume of urine is 100 ml.
It is better to collect urine for analysis in pharmacy sterile containers.
Urine should be collected immediately after waking up from sleep. Nighttime urine is more concentrated, so it is best to detect any changes in the work of the urinary system.
It is necessary to collect a medium portion of urine, previously washed with soap.
The faster the urine is delivered to the study, the more accurate the analysis will be. It is usually recommended to provide urine for analysis with prescription of collection not more than two hours.
The presence of a "bad" urine test during pregnancy may indicate asymptomatic bacteriuria of pregnant women, gestosis, pyelonephritis of pregnant women, cystitis, urethritis and other diseases. In most cases, intense proteinuria, micro- and gross hematuria, detection of bacteria, a large number of leukocytes and cylinders in the urine require additional diagnostics (ultrasound, urinalysis according to Nechyporenko, urine culture for the detection of antibiotics) and observation of a pregnant woman in the hospital.
In the later stages of pregnancy, gestosis, that is, toxicosis of the second half of pregnancy, poses a particular danger to the mother and the fetus. When detecting increasing edema, protein in the urine, high blood pressure, a woman needs urgent hospitalization in the hospital. Launched cases of preeclampsia lead to eclampsia: the progression of edema, hypertension, the development of pain in the epigastrium, the appearance of intense headaches, passing to seizures and loss of consciousness. In some cases, even an emergency delivery does not save the fetus from death.
In addition, poor urine tests combined with high body temperature, general weakness, and lower back pain indicate an infectious disease of the kidneys or urinary tract. And the treatment of infection, as is well known, is the prescription of antibacterial drugs. In order to rule out the development of dangerous infectious complications, it is also necessary to be treated in the conditions of the obstetric department.
Therefore, if a gynecologist ascertains a "bad" urine test during pregnancy and insists on additional examination and inpatient treatment, the recommendation of a specialist should not be ignored.
Complete diagnostics of the urogenital system, including ultrasound, identify the causes of violations of the urinalysis, and not only get advice from an experienced obstetrician gynecologist and other doctors at the GMS Clinic Medical Center in Moscow.
Decryption of urine analysis during pregnancy can only be performed by a medical practitioner. Despite the obvious indicators of the overall analysis, only a specialist with clinical thinking can evaluate the results of the study, not abstractly, but in combination with complaints, inspection data and additional diagnostics.
Urine is known to be formed in the kidneys by filtering blood plasma in the kidney glomeruli. Such a glomerular filtrate is the primary urine and contains all the components of blood plasma, except proteins: water (96%), dissolved mineral salts, a small amount of the urinary tract epithelium and cellular elements of the blood, the final products of metabolism, such as pigments, uric acid and urea. Next, the renal tubular epithelium is reabsorbed, that is, reabsorbed into the blood of 98% of the primary urine.
Interpretation of the general analysis of urine includes an assessment of odor, color and transparency, volume, acidity, relative density, microscopic examination of urinary sediment.
Colour. Urine in healthy people has a straw-yellow color, due to urochrome pigment. The urine may acquire darker coloration during edema and fluid loss, as well as in the presence of a large concentration of bile pigments in the urine (cirrhosis, hepatitis, obstructive jaundice), hemolysis. Redness of urine can be associated with the use of certain drugs and colored vegetables, as well as serious diseases of the kidneys and urinary tract, in which a large number of red blood cells (nephritis) enter the blood. Whitish urine gets color with a large concentration of phosphates or fatty inclusions.
Transparency. The urine of a healthy person is usually transparent. Pathological clouding of urine appears when a large amount of salts (oxalates, urates, phosphates) or pus is excreted.
Smell. Normally, urine does not have a pronounced unpleasant odor. When there is a large amount of ketone bodies (diabetes mellitus), the urine acquires the smell of pickled apples, and the pungent smell can be associated with the consumption of large quantities of garlic and asparagus.
A significant drop in blood pressure and blood volume during bleeding, shock, dehydration.
Blockage of both ureters with stones or a tumor.
Reaction of urine. The reaction of urine is normally weakly acidic or acidic pH 5-7. The use of plant foods shifts the acidity of urine in the alkaline side, and the use of meat food – in acid. When kidney function is abnormal, the temperature rises, diabetes mellitus, the reaction of the urine shifts to the acidic side, and vomiting, inflammation of the bladder and the edema of the edema, the reaction shifts to the alkaline side.
The number of leukocytes in the urinary sediment is normally in women up to 5 in the field of view, and in men up to 3 in the field of view. An increase in the content of leukocytes in the urine (leukocyturia) is observed in inflammatory diseases of the kidneys and urinary tract, less often in tuberculosis and amyloidosis of the kidneys, acute and chronic glomerulonephritis.
Cylinders are formed in the tubules of the kidneys from protein under the influence of acidic urine. Therefore, cylinders appear only parallel to the appearance of protein in the urine and for the same reasons.
Epithelial cells line the urinary tract and appear in the urine during inflammatory processes in the mucosa. Normally, they are allocated units in the field of view.
The number of bacteria in the urine in healthy people does not exceed more than 2 thousand per 1 ml, and in patients with inflammation in the urinary organs reaches 100 thousand in 1 ml.
The urine analysis during pregnancy is normal and does not differ from the average statistical norm. But, given all the features of the functioning of the urinary system in pregnant women, any deviations from the norm can be interpreted differently.
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Possessive when using a title
Which is correct:
Mary Queen of Scots birthplace
Mary Queen of Scots' birthplace?
possessives
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Why would one not use the possessive with a title? – TaliesinMerlin Jan 11 at 14:37
In this example, the birthplace relates to Mary or Queen, not Scots. To put the apostrophe after Scots suggests it's the birthplace of Scots (plural). – Pamela Thornton Jan 11 at 14:42
Ah, I see. I'll try to answer why that's not the case. – TaliesinMerlin Jan 11 at 14:44
If you wish to make a possessive of a longer title — grammatically a noun phrase consisting of a noun and an appositive — you may attach an 's to the end of the phrase. Since Scots is plural, however, you only add an apostrophe:
Their demands were equally uncompromising, including the restoration of traditional Catholic worship, the trial of Cecil, the release of the Duke of Norfolk and the recognition of Mary, Queen of Scots' title to the throne. — J. Derek Holmes, Bernard W. Bickers, A Short History of the Catholic Church, 1984, 158.
The comma after Mary really shouldn't be there.
A surprising number of publications grammatically reduce Mary's sovereignty to a single Scottish subject:
These allies lost and Mary Queen of Scot's future was apparently to be the daughter-in-law of Henry VIII. — Gerard Lacey, The Legacy of the DeLacy, Lacey, Lacy Family 1066–1994, 1994, 88.
Needless to say, this is the wrong way to form a possessive of Queen of Scots.
Whether Mary Queen of Scots' birthplace or (the) birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots is a better stylistic choice depends on how you're using it in a sentence. If it's clear you're only talking about the ill-fated queen, you'd probably be better off with Mary's birthplace or some such.
KarlGKarlG
Isn't Mary entitled to her comma? The British convention is that women who are former holders of titles who no longer hold them, e.g. because they are widows, divorced, etc are known as FirstName [comma] Former Title, thus Diana, Princess of Wales, Sarah, Duchess of York. Mary abdicated in 1567 and spent very nearly 20 years as an ex-queen. – Michael Harvey Jan 11 at 18:43
@MichaelHarvey: Either Mary gets no commas or she gets two (bracketing a nonessential appositive), but not just one. – KarlG Jan 11 at 21:17
Pls provide example. – Michael Harvey Jan 11 at 23:19
@MichaelHarvey: example of what? It's either Mary, Queen of Scots, or Mary Queen of Scots. One comma makes no sense. – KarlG Jan 11 at 23:31
OK you misunderstood me. You said there "should be no comma after Mary". I said that convention in Britain requires one. Other ones may be demanded by punctuation. – Michael Harvey Jan 12 at 9:15
Use "Mary Queen of Scots' [or Scots's] birthplace."
When a title is integral to the name, it still takes a possessive case. Hence:
Alexander the Great's horse
Catherine of Aragon's husband
The King of the Britons' [or Britons's] retinue
There's at least one example of a writer's guide from the early 20th century prescribing this usage for Mary Queen of Scots. This combination makes sense since in each of the cases the title (whether referring to a people or not) is a part of the identifying proper noun. (See rule 5 on compounds here.)
The concern you express in the comments is interesting. What if you need to distinguish the people (the Scots) from the title (Mary Queen of Scots)? First, I'd suggest this shakes out from usage and context: seldom would one say "Mary Queen," since "Queen" as a title by itself usually precedes the name, as in "Queen Mary" or "Queen Elizabeth." Second, if ambiguity were a worry, there is a great way to avoid the possessive case:
The birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots
Finally, I've been putting an alternative in brackets. Because the total name is a singular name, some style guides would insist that one use the singular possessive form ('s) rather than the plural ('). However, some guides allow for the use of (') alone when the singular name ends in "s." As someone who has an "s" name who vacillates back and forth between the usages, I leave that up to you.
TaliesinMerlinTaliesinMerlin
Yes, and grammatically, I'd take [Mary Queen of Scots'] as a shortened form of [Mary Queen of Scots's]. – Greg Lee Jan 11 at 15:23
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from __future__ import absolute_import
import os
import subprocess

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    ]
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    )
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    if stdout and stdout.startswith("fatal:"):
        raise IOError("{}".format(stdout.strip()))
    else:
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    os.chdir(cwd)

except:
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they were banned from my discord but the lore stuff they staid in my discord and not on here.
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@Jitnaught they were deleted by another mod when it was reapproved. i cant delete comments on here. it was mod BigDogg who said he received reports that the mod was stolen.
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Lorena B was an Israeli electronic band, whose music is a fusion of soft Icelandic sounds and harsh electronica. Today Yoav and Roi are working with Johnny Sharoni on their new band "Garden city movement". Adi continued solo.

Biography
Lorena B combines vocals, electronic beats, and a unique sound. Since its inception, the band has created a live show with a variety of sounds, mixing rock and electronica. With the release of their self-produced debut album, Siblings, Lorena B went on their first tour in the UK. Songs from the album were played on the Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service show on BBC Radio 6 Music, London's XFM, and on many blogs around the net. The first single, "Swallow my Gum" released a music video that received media comment, and has been played on MTV IL. Since the band's conception, Lorena B has cooperated with DJs, such as dubstep producer Borgore; they have also played as main support for the American rock trio Blonde Redhead and for the Canadian electro duo, Junior Boys.

Siblings

Siblings (Released 30 April 2011) was self-produced by the band in a process that took over a year. The album's personal and warm sound has been described as a rich and colourful musical experience, taking the listener seamlessly through different musical landscapes from delicate to violent emotions.

Track listing
 "Flamingo Pink" – 1:32
 "Intro" – 2:00
 "Swallow my Gum" – 5:01
 "Swallow my Gum 2" – 3:31
 "The Queen's Speech" – 1:28
 "I'm Not Intro Anything" – 4:19
 "Limbo Love" – 4:04
 "I am Something" – 3:33
 "Bonus Track" – 2:53

UK tour
During the last few days of the band's UK tour for their debut album, they stumbled upon Jarvis Cocker in Central London, in a friendly encounter, they gave him a copy of their album, not knowing that he will play their track "Intro" on his radio show "Sunday Service" on BBC Radio 6 Music the following day. Cocker introduced the song by amusingly mentioning that it's not the first track of the album.

EP
The self-titled EP was released in mid January 2012, "UR" and "ReFeel" from the EP have premiered online and performed live on stage in late 2011 which made it clear that the musical direction has developed into a new electronic-based, Post-dubstep sound.

Track listing
 "UR" – 5:06
 "Jelly Pen For Jelly Words" – 3:22
 "Safe Steps" – 2:44
 "Waste" – 3:29
 "Golden Crown" – 2:34
 "Re-Feel" – 3:47
 "Waste (Chopped & Screwed)" – 4:54

Music videos
Lorena B is known for its emphasis on visual and experimental components associated with their musical productions.

References

External links

  Lorena B on Bandcamp
  Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service (Sun 22 May 2011)

Israeli electronic music groups
Israeli musical trios
Israeli alternative rock groups

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