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« A coincidence of days
The GRP of Montpelier VT »
It's come around again
(Consider the topic before reading on.)
That would be National Masturbation Day, May 7th, today — launching National Masturbation Month, lusty May:
(#1) From my 5/4/18 posting "Then, if ever, come lusty days"
(#2) "Black Solo" (from the Porn for Women TV site), cropped
Specifically, self-lust, self-pleasure. A regular topic on this blog — write about what you know, they say, and I've been practicing this one for about 67 years — also an occasional hook for movie comedy.
The back files for the chirosexual holidays (cf. chiropodist, lit. 'hand-foot-ist'):
– from 6/2/13 "A holiday I missed": National Masturbation Month (May) and Day (May 7th); attitudes about masturbation
– from 5/13/16 "stroke": masturbation and its vocabulary; masturbation sleeves
– from 3/24/17 "Hand jobs"
– from 3/24/17 "The invention of the X job", taking off from the idea that the hand job was an invention
– from 5/13/17 "Months and days": why May for National Masturbation Month?
Masturbation at the movies. Four picks. Masturbating oneself, rather than another. Male masturbation, specifically. And comedies, though the Comedy category embraces a wide range of approaches.
1 Spanking the Monkey (1994). From Wikipedia:
Spanking the Monkey is a 1994 American black comedy film written and directed by David O. Russell. The title is a slang phrase for masturbation and is used in the film by one of the teenage characters.
Frustrated masturbation; prostitutes; incest; suicide attempts. But somehow funny.
2 There's Something About Mary (1998). From Wikipedia:
There's Something About Mary is a 1998 comedy film, directed by the Farrelly brothers, Bobby and Peter. It stars Cameron Diaz, Ben Stiller and Matt Dillon and it is a combination of romantic comedy, slapstick, and gross-out film.
In 1985, high school student Ted Stroehmann (Ben Stiller) lands a prom date with his dream girl Mary Jensen (Cameron Diaz), which is cancelled after a painful and embarrassing zipper accident.
Ted gets his dick caught in his zipper. And then there's the hair gel clip:
(#5) With cum on Ted's ear
3 American Pie (1999). From my 10/22/15 posting "From shirtless Monday: Seann William Scott", on the actor as Stifler in 1999's American Pie:
[Wikipedia: The title is borrowed from the pop song of the same name and refers to a scene in the film, in which the lead character is caught masturbating with a pie after being told that third base feels like "warm apple pie".]
… Even from the poster — with its slogan "There's something about your first piece" — you can see it revels tastelessly in teen sex. And so it does, hilariously. But with many very sweet touches.
4 Don Jon (2013). From Wikipedia:
Don Jon is a 2013 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Produced by Ram Bergman and Nicolas Chartier, the film stars Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, and Julianne Moore, with Rob Brown, Glenne Headly, Brie Larson, and Tony Danza in supporting roles. The film premiered under its original title Don Jon's Addiction at the Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2013, and had its wide release in the United States on September 27, 2013.
Plot: Jon Martello is a young Italian American and modern-day Don Juan living in New Jersey, with a short list of things he cares about: "my body, my pad, my ride, my family, my church, my boys, my girls, my porn." Though he has a very active sex life, he is more sexually satisfied by viewing pornography and masturbating, which he claims allows him to "lose himself."
Another theme from the masturbation literature: that it's so satisying, and so easy, that it can supplant desire for sex with a partner.
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2 Responses to "It's come around again"
Robert Coren Says:
And then there's the "peach" scene from Call Me By Your Name.
arnold zwicky Says:
Indeed, and scenes from other movies that are not comedies. But I restricted my focus to make the task of choosing a few examples manageable — and also light-hearted.


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Circus, Clown, Performing Arts, Photography
Circus Fans – Come Celebrate World Circus Day ~ Washington DC
FROM SMITHSONIAN BLOG!
2017 FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL, CIRCUS ARTS, COMMUNITY, WORK LIFE
Happy World Circus Day! This year's theme is collaboration and cooperation for the future of circus, making today an ideal opportunity to announce our Circus Arts program at the 2017 Folklife Festival. As part of our fiftieth anniversary celebrations, Circus Arts will take people behind the scenes of circus life to explore the culture and artistry of one of America's most important and historic performance art traditions.
We are proud to present a program that celebrates the circus because it reflects the incredible diversity of people, history, and creative energy in our country and our world. Like the Folklife Festival, it provides a way for people from all over the world to share their arts, foods, languages, rituals, and other customs. For many Americans in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the circus brought glimpses of a wider world through dazzling sights, sounds, and stunts—a living antecedent of the internet.
After weathering a period of some decline, circus arts are now experiencing a grassroots revival focused on live human performance and creativity. Circus arts are bubbling up once again all over the country through new circus schools and community-based organizations created by veteran artists. Their collective stories and recollections comprise a very important part of the American experience.
Our program will highlight the five major circus disciplines: acrobatics, aerial skills, equilibristics, object manipulation, and clowning. It will showcase the occupational culture of circus artists but will not involve exotic animals.
Artists and coaches, costume designers, makeup artists, musicians, lighting and sound technicians, prop and tent designers, riggers, poster artists, wagon builders, cooks, and many others whose collective work brings the circus to life will come together on the National Mall to share their experiences.
Focused on human physicality and performance finesse, the program will bring veteran and retired circus greats together with a new generation of artists who are now pushing the craft toward new directions and limits. We hope that circus artists from past, present, and future will enrich us all with their collective artistry and skills.
Join us to experience a flight on a trapeze—or the discovery of a hidden clown personality. Learn the basics of concentrated juggling and acrobatics—or what it takes to walk a high wire. Easy? Not exactly!
We look forward to sharing more information about this exciting program and about the traditions, artistry, and skills that keep the circus arts alive and engaging.
Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date on this program, and join us in Washington, D.C., June 29 through July 4 and July 6 through 9, 2017, to celebrate the circus arts at the 2017 Folklife Festival. Together, let's ensure a vibrant future for circus.
Preston Scott is the curator for the 2017 Circus Arts program and a resident of Sarasota, Florida—historical headquarters to many circus artists and organizations.
Tags: 50th Anniversary, Acrobatics, Aerial Skills, Circus Arts, Circus Culture, Clowning, Coaches, Cooks, Costume Designers, Culture, Equilibristics, Folklife Festival, Lighting Designers, Makeup artist, Musicians, National Mall, Object Manipulation, Poster Artist, Prop Designers, Riggers, Smithsonian, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Sound Technicians, Tent Designers, Wagon Builders, Workshops, World Circus Day
Circus Dramaturgy Panel Discussion @ NYU Skirball Center
Vaudevisuals Interview with Gary Ray - "Darinka"
Jim R. Moore April 15, 2017
James Taylor – "Spiel on the Peale" – A Talk given at The Southern Sideshow Hootenanny
Jim R. Moore May 15, 2020
Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Show – Quarantine Edition – April 13, 2020
Vaudevisuals interview with Poncili Creacions – 'Bending Endinning'

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Cathedral of St. Mary The Theotokos
Orthodox Syrian Church Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)
St Thomas – The Apostle of India
The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
Catholicos of the East
Madras Diocese and Our Diocesan Bishop
Our Vicar
Our Assistant Vicar
Podcasts & Church Songs
Service Timings
His Holiness Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II
Early life and ordination
His Holiness was born on 30 August 1946 as the second son of K. I. Iype of Kollannoor house, Mangad near Pazhanji in Kerala, India. His mother Kunjeetty belongs to Pulikkottil family.
H.H was named as Paul after his grand father and was baptized in Pazhanji. H.H did his preliminary education at the Mangad Church School till his 7th standard. His high school education was conducted at the Pazhanji Government High School, which was established by Pulikkottil Joseph Mar Dionysisus II. His Holiness attended church services regularly and became an altar boy at a young age.
From his childhood, His Holiness showed keen interest in spiritual matters. His parish church, St. Marys Orthodox church was the nerve center of his spiritual growth. At the age of 13, H.H was selected by his parish priest to participate in the 'washing of feet' service, celebrated by His Grace Paulose Mar Severios Metropolitan. When the Metropolitan invited him to join priesthood , it marked a turning point in the life of young His Holiness. The influence of his parents, especially that of his mother who hails from the famous Pulikkottil family, played a great role in molding his early life. Even from his childhood, H.H use to learn Syriac chants and prayers and was very keen in attending the church service.
His uncle Iyyukkutty also inspired him for the priestly services. The affection bestowed by him encouraged His Holiness and inspired him to dedicate himself for clergical services. His Holiness studied for pre-university and B.Sc. in Physics at St. Thomas College. In 1969, His Holiness enrolled at the Theological Seminary in Kottayam for his theological studies under the discipleship of Dr. Paulose Mar Gregorios, Fr. T J Abraham Malpan, and Fr. Koruthu Malapan. H.H completed theological studies in GST from Orthodox Theological Seminary and BD from Seramboor University. After accepting the holy orders, H.H joined C.M.S College, Kottayam and took his M.A in Sociology.
In 1972, His Holiness was ordained for the first stage of diaconate in Parumala Seminary. H.H was ordained as a full deacon at Koratty Zion Seminary. On 21 June 1973, Dn. Paul was ordained as a priest. Fr. Paul celebrated the first Holy Qurbana at Mangad St. Gregorious Church, served the Mooleppat Mar Basalios Mar Gregorios Church for a short while.
On 15 May 1985 Ramban Paul was ordained as a Bishop with title Paulose Mar Milithios at the age of 38 at Puthiyacavu St. Mary's Church by Baselios Mar Thoma Mathews I. H.H is the first Metropolitan after Parumala Thirumeni and Puthenkavil Geevarghese Mar Philexinos to be ordained to Bishopric below age of 40. Four other Bishops, Mathews Mar Epiphanios, Philppose Mar Eusabius, Geevarghese Mar Ivanios and Thomas Mar Athanisius were also ordained along with Mar Milithios.
A new diocese for the Church, Kunnamkulam was formed on 14 April 1985 with some of the churches of Talappally Taluk of Kochi diocese and some neighboring churches. The newly ordained Bishop Mar Milithios was appointed as the diocesan Metropolitan of the newly formed diocese of Kunnamkulam. When H.H took over the charge on 1 Aug 1985, there was no diocesan headquarters or any Aramana. Initially the new Metropolitan lived in an annexed room of Arthat Church. With determined efforts and cooperation of his fellow believers of his diocese H.H was able to construct a beautiful diocesan centre with a chapel in the vicinity of Arthat church for Kunnamkulam diocese within five years.
Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan
The Holy Episcopal Synod and the Managing Committee nominated him as the successor to the Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan on 27 Sep 2006. Paulose Mar Milithios was enthroned as the new Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan at a solemn ceremony at the St. Peter's and St. Paul's church at Parumala on Monday, 1 November 2010. Thomas Mar Athanasius was the chief celebrant for the Holy Qurbana of the ceremony. H.H succeeds Baselius Mar Thoma Didymus I who abdicated office at the age of 90. H.H is the eighth Catholicos of the East since the establishment of the Catholicate in India in 1912 and the 21st Malankara Metropolitan. The enthronement came almost a year before the Church officially launched the centenary celebrations of the establishment of the Catholicate in India (in 1912), an assertion of the Church's nationality, autonomy.
To contact the Catholicos' Office
Catholicate Aramana
Devalokam P.O, Kottayam
Email: catholicos@mosc.in
Facebook: www.facebook.com/BaseliosMarthomaPauloseII
"At the inception of Catholicate in Malankara the first Catholicos was named as Paulose I. Now at the centenary of the Catholicate the Catholicos is again being called Paulose, precisely Paulose II. This is not a coincidence, but a great plan of God"
– Fr. Dr. K.M. George, Principal of Orthodox Theological Seminary
Full List of 'Catholicos of the East'
First Catholicos of the East: His Holiness Baselios Paulos I (15th September 1912 – 2nd May 1913)
Second Catholicos of the East: His Holiness Baselios Geevarghese I (30th April 1925 – 17 December 1928)
Third Catholicos of the East: His Holiness Baselios Geevarghese II (15 February 1929 – 3 January 1964)
Fourth Catholicos of the East: His Holiness Baselios Augen I (22 May 1964 – 8 December 1975)
Fifth Catholicos of the East: His Holiness Baselios Marthoma Mathews I (27 October 1975 – 27 April 1991)
Sixth Catholicos of the East: His Holiness Baselios Marthoma Mathews II (1980 – 2006)
Seventh Catholicos of the East: His Holiness Baselios Marthoma Didymos I (10 September 1992 – 1st November 2010)
Eighth Catholicos of the East: His Holiness Baselios Marthoma Paulose II (current Catholicos and Malankara Metropolitan) — (1st November 2010 onwards)
Adapted from:
(Click links to read more)
http://mosc.in/holysynod/h-h-baselios-marthoma-paulose-ii
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baselios_Mar_Thoma_Paulose_II
https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2013/september/documents/papa-francesco_20130905_chiesa-sira-malankarese.html (A letter from Pope Francis to the Catholicos)


August '99: I recently dropped my car off at the Merchants in Reston VA for a new alternator and an oil change. When they called to tell me the car was ready, the total cost included a "general disposal fee" of 25.00 to dispose of parts. I was not notified of this extra fee until AFTER the work was done. I called the general customer service number found on their web site. The woman who answered my call said it was the manager's problem and she would not do anything for me. Thanks Merchants for the great customer service! NOT.


The partners at AIM Strategies saw potential in the historic Pennant Café building in downtown Topeka, Kansas. They imagined a modern reboot to the vintage café and diner that served members of the state Capitol for decades. Located just a block from the Capitol, the 23,000 sf building is now a hip hot spot that builds on the downtown revitalization efforts underway in Topeka. The Hufft design team integrated a restaurant, bar, beer garden, bowling alley and arcade into one multi-functional zone. These programmatic zones allow The Pennant to transition from the daytime lunch rush to a bustling happy hour to an energetic evening hang out. The design team integrated various vintage elements with a modern twist like the classic lunch counter and a throwback videogame arcade. Hufft also designed the graphics and branding elements including the signage, interior wayfinding, and custom pennant installation above the bowling alley.


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Serenity is the fifth album by Blood for Blood, and was released on June 22, 2004.

The cover features a building in the Bunker Hill Housing Development. It is the largest housing project in the City of Boston, and it is located in Rob Lind's home neighborhood of Charlestown.

Track listing
 A Prayer to the Night Sky
 Serenity
 Hanging on the Corner
 Live the Lie
 A Rock 'n' Roll Song
 My Jesus Mercy
 Runaway (Del Shannon cover)
 City Boy
 Serenity (Reprise)

References

2004 albums
Blood for Blood albums

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package config

import (
	"bytes"
	"crypto/tls"
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"
	"reflect"
	"testing"

	"encoding/json"

	"gopkg.in/yaml.v2"
)

// LoadTLSConfig parses the given file into a tls.Config.
func LoadTLSConfig(filename string) (*tls.Config, error) {
	content, err := os.ReadFile(filename)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	cfg := TLSConfig{}
	switch filepath.Ext(filename) {
	case ".yml":
		if err = yaml.UnmarshalStrict(content, &cfg); err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
	case ".json":
		decoder := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(content))
		decoder.DisallowUnknownFields()
		if err = decoder.Decode(&cfg); err != nil {
			return nil, err
		}
	default:
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("Unknown extension: %s", filepath.Ext(filename))
	}
	return NewTLSConfig(&cfg)
}

var expectedTLSConfigs = []struct {
	filename string
	config   *tls.Config
}{
	{
		filename: "tls_config.empty.good.json",
		config:   &tls.Config{},
	}, {
		filename: "tls_config.insecure.good.json",
		config:   &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true},
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		filename: "tls_config.tlsversion.good.json",
		config:   &tls.Config{MinVersion: tls.VersionTLS11},
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		filename: "tls_config.empty.good.yml",
		config:   &tls.Config{},
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		filename: "tls_config.insecure.good.yml",
		config:   &tls.Config{InsecureSkipVerify: true},
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		filename: "tls_config.tlsversion.good.yml",
		config:   &tls.Config{MinVersion: tls.VersionTLS11},
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func TestValidTLSConfig(t *testing.T) {
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		got, err := LoadTLSConfig("testdata/" + cfg.filename)
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		}
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		}
	}
}

func TestStringer(t *testing.T) {
	if s := (TLSVersion)(tls.VersionTLS13); s.String() != "TLS13" {
		t.Fatalf("tls.VersionTLS13 string should be TLS13, got %s", s.String())
	}
}

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So ditch the idea of buckwheat as a fasting day food and go make these indo-blinis. I topped mine with a red pepper and walnut pesto and a dollop of whipped feta, ending with a sprinkle of pink pepper and dried mint. But truly, any creamy topping of your choice will do. The parantha recipe follows.
In a bowl, mix together buckwheat flour, mashed potato and salt. Add ghee and rub together until the potatoes are mixed through the flour and the mixture looks crumbly. Add enough warm water to form a dough. Knead lightly until the whole thing comes together.
The dough is quite a tricky one to work with so your standard rolling techniques won't work. Instead, take two sheets of parchment paper. Take a golf ball size piece of dough and put it in the middle of one parchment sheet. Top with the second parchment sheet and press the dough until it is rolled into a thin layer. Remove the top parchment sheet and use a cookie cutter to cut out small paranthas.
Heat a non stick pan. Brush the top of the rolled parantha with ghee and plonk it, ghee side down, on the pan. Cook on a low heat so it's fully cooked through. Then brush the other side with ghee, turn and cook until both sides are brown and crisp.
Once you have enough mini-paranthas, arrange them on a plate and add toppings of your choice. Make sure you have something creamy (cheese, labneh, sour cream) to cut through the dry nuttiness of the paranthas.


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By Legal Support Service · On January 6, 2020
UK and the UN
The OUP blog has posted the top eight developments in International Law in 2019.
The Tipping Point? UNA- UK's Latest Magazine Takes Stock of our Global System
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, the first woman to become president of Chile in 2006, talks about her experiences as a woman in politics and her work realising human rights around the world to Chatham House. Her interview is available here.
A UN official has accused the UK and US of torture over treatment of Assange and Manning.
The UK in Strasbourg
The European Court of Human Rights has ordered the UK government to reimburse mother and daughter forced to travel to England for an abortion.
UK's post- Brexit relationship with the EU
Following the Conservatives election win in December, Boris Johnson has said that the UK is on the verge of a "new chapter" in its history and has promised to "finish the job" by delivering Brexit within weeks.
Investigating Violations of International Humanitarian Law
21 January 2020 – 5:30pm to 7:00pm
Chatham House | 10 St James's Square | London | SW1Y 4LE
Middle East and North Africa Energy 2020
The energy transition and implications for the region
27 January 2020 – 9:30am to 28 January 2020 – 1:30pm
Chatham House, London
The view from outside- the week in review 16 December 2019- 23 December 2019


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Q: jQuery Validate : container and HTML validation I'm using jQuery validate, with the container fonctionnality: all errors are shown in a ul>li structure, at the top of the page.
It is working well, but the generated code is not valid HTML. Here is the initial HTML:

And my javascript code:

The problem is that the  tag is not valid. I tried to overload some methods of jQuery validate to add this ul wrapper automatically when errors are displayed, but it's so hard to read that I failed.
Do you see any solution?
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bude se pokracovat se stavbou?
Greetings! I've tried to start the activites, but it requires certain trains and consists, so none of them is working. Do you have a pack or something? The route is working well, the activites are unpacked smoothly, so it seems the missing trains and cons cause this problem. Please help.
dobri den ja by som chcel opytat ci nebudu nieake nove katualizacie ?


Silent (non-verbal) messages communicated through the sender's body movements, facial expressions, voice tone and loudness, etc. In social psychology, all behavior in presence of another person is considered communication. Also called kinesic communications. See also non verbal communication.
Dateless Carl was desperate and had a habit of misreading the body language of women he interacted with, which created some uncomfortable and sometimes even felonious moments at the singles bar.
When you are in a negotiation keep good body language so that the other party doesn't see you are getting frazzled.
Two of John's roommates had an increasingly bad relationship, and it began to show through the body language they used while talking to each other.


According to Anime News Network, Wolf's Rain is probibally coming to Cartoon Network's Adult Swim segment in April.
The next four episodes will air in Japan starting in December. The fan-subers are usually a week behind.
Also, the region coded DVD's are available from www.cdjapan.co.jp.
Yea i heard about those but i heard they were goin to be on dvd only.


OKLAHOMA CITY (Nov. 26, 2015) -- GPS trackers have been used for all types of businesses over the years and fleets have become better than they ever were as a result. With that said, there are still a lot of business owners that haven't bought into the idea of GPS trackers yet. It may due to one of the frequent misunderstandings about GPS trackers. Managers stuck in the decision making stage, may need a little more information. US Fleet Tracking discusses 3 frequent misunderstandings about GPS trackers. Perhaps, identifying them and knowing why they are false claims will help management clarify their position on GPS trackers.
The fear of upsetting employees is one the top arguments against GPS trackers, but the truth is that the majority of employees come to realize that the benefits outweigh the fear. GPS trackers provide planned routing, automatic timekeeping and added security with several types of alerts features for drivers.
Upfront cost has a lot of fleet managers questioning the worth of GPS trackers. It should be known that most business owners see a return on investment pretty quickly; sometimes hundreds of dollars within the first month. GPS trackers help out in so many ways to save money on fuel, vehicle maintenance, labor costs and even lower insurance rates.
Many fleet managers believe GPS trackers will be too difficult to install and use. The truth is that professionals can install them the correct way, making getting them in the vehicles a breeze. Using them is pretty simple as well, but if drivers need extra help they can count on ongoing training to teach them more.
Many business owners have the wrong idea about how GPS trackers will influence their business. As discussed in this article, there are many benefits to having GPS trackers. US Fleet Tracking hopes that by reading up on the truth about these devices that the decision making process may be a little easier. When fleets implement GPS trackers, most are surprised at how much better they become.


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Western Intervention, Western Politics
Paul Craig Roberts: The Rise of the Inhumanes
Posted by KPomeroy ⋅ September 3, 2015 ⋅ Leave a comment
Filed Under David J. Barron, Jay Scott Bybee, John Yoo, Paul Craig Roberts, Rise of the Inhumanes, William C. Bradford
The Rise Of The Inhumanes
Guest Article by Paul Craig Roberts
Stratetic Culture Foundation
David J. Barron (–salon.com/AP/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
America's descent into totalitarian violence is accelerating. Like the Bush regime, the Obama regime has a penchant for rewarding Justice (sic) Department officials who trample all over the US Constitution. Last year America's First Black President nominated David Barron to be a judge on the First US Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston.
Barron is responsible for the Justice (sic) Department memo that gave the legal OK for Obama to murder a US citizen with a missile fired from a drone. The execution took place without charges presented to a court, trial, and conviction. The target was a religious man whose sermons were believed by the paranoid Obama regime to encourage jihadism. Apparently, it never occurred to Obama or the Justice (sic) Department that Washington's mass murder and displacement of millions of Muslims in seven countries was all that was needed to encourage jihadism. Sermons would be redundant and would comprise little else but moral outrage after years of mass murder by Washington in pursuit of hegemony in the Middle East.
Barron's confirmation ran into opposition from some Republicans, some Democrats, and the American Civil Liberties Union, but the US Senate confirmed Barron by a vote of 53-45 in May 2014. Just think, you could be judged in "freedom and democracy America" by a fiend who legalized extra-judicial murder.
While awaiting his reward, Barron had a post on the faculty of the Harvard Law School, which tells you all you need to know about law schools. His wife ran for governor of Massachusetts. Elites are busy at work replacing law with power.
America now has as an appeals court judge, no doubt being groomed for the Supreme Court, who established the precedent in US law that, the Constitution not withstanding, American citizens can be executed without a trial.
David Cole (–acslaw.org)
Did law school faculties object? Not Georgetown law professor David Cole, who enthusiastically endorsed the new legal principle of execution without trial. Professor Cole put himself on the DOJ's list of possible federal judicial appointees by declaring his support for Barron, whom he described as "thoughtful, considerate, open-minded, and brilliant."
Once a country descends into evil, it doesn't emerge. The precedent for Obama's appointment of Barron was George W. Bush's appointment of Jay Scott Bybee to the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Bybee was John Yoo's Justice (sic) Department colleague who co-authored the "legal" memos justifying torture despite US federal statutory law and international law prohibiting torture. Everyone knew that torture was illegal, including those practicing it, but these two fiends provided a legal pass for the practitioners of torture. Not even Pinochet in Chile went this far.
Jay Scott Bybee (–nydailynews.com)
Bybee and Yoo got rid of torture by calling it "enhanced interrogation techniques." As Wikipedia reports, these techniques are considered to be torture by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, medical experts who treat torture victims, intelligence officials, America's allies, and even by the Justice (sic) Department. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Bybee
Others who objected to the pass given to torture by Bybee and Yoo were Secretary of State Colin Powell, US Navy General Counsel Alberto Mora, and even Philip Zelikow, who orchestrated the 9/11 Commission coverup for the Bush regime.
John Yoo (–pogo.org)
After five years of foot-dragging, the Justice (sic) Department's Office of Professional Responsibility concluded that Bybee and his deputy John Yoo committed "professional misconduct" by providing legal advice that was in violation of international and federal laws. The DOJ's office of Professional Responsibility recommended that Bybee and Yoo be referred to the bar associations of the states where they were licensed for further disciplinary action and possible disbarment.
But Bybee and Yoo were saved by a regime-compliant Justice (sic) Department official, David Margolis, who concluded that Bybee and Yoo had used "poor judgement" but had not provided wrong legal advice.
So, today, instead of being disbarred, Bybee sits on a federal court just below the Supreme Court. John Yoo teaches constitutional law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Boalt Hall.
Try to imagine what has happened to America when Harvard and Berkeley law professors create legal justifications for torture and extra-judicial murder, and when US presidents engage in these heinous crimes. Clearly America is exceptional in its immorality, lack of human compassion, and disrespect for law and its founding document.
Hitler and Stalin would be astonished at the ease with which totalitarianism has marched through American institutions. Now we have a West Point professor of law teaching the US military justifications for murdering American critics of war and the police state.http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/29/west-point-professor-target-legal-critics-war-on-terror Also here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42758.htm The professor's article is here: http://warisacrime.org/sites/afterdowningstreet.org/files/westpointfascism.pdf
William C. Bradford (–West Point Military Academy)
William C. Bradford, the professor teaching our future military officers to regard moral Americans as threats to national security, blames Walter Cronkite for loosing the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War by reporting the offensive as an American defeat. Tet was an American defeat in the sense that the offensive proved that the "defeated" enemy was capable of a massive offensive against US forces. The offensive succeeded in the sense that it demonstrated to Americans that the war was far from over. The implication of Bradford's argument is that Cronkite should have been killed for his broadcasts that added to the doubts about American success.
The professor claims to have a list of 40 people who tell the truth who must be exterminated, or our country is lost. Here we have the full confession that Washington's agenda cannot survive truth.
I am unaware of any report that the professor has been censored or fired for his disrespect for the constitutionally protected right of freedom of expression. However, I have seen reports of professors destroyed because they criticized Israel's war crimes, or used a word or term prohibited by political correctness, or were insufficiently appreciative of the privileges of "preferred minorities." What this tells us is that morality is sidetracked into self-serving agendas while evil overwhelms the morality of society.
Welcome to America today. It is a land in which facts have been redefined as enemy propaganda, a land in which legally protected whistleblowers are redefined as "fifth columns" or foreign agents subject to extermination, a land in which America is immune from criticism and all crimes are blamed on those whom Washington intends to rule.
Barron, Bybee, Yoo, and Bradford are members of a new species—the Inhumanes—that has risen from the poisonous American environment of arrogance, hubris, and paranoia.
Paul Craig Roberts (born April 3, 1939) is an American economist and blogger. He served for one year as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan administration. He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. Roberts is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He was a postgraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, and at Merton College, Oxford University. (–Wikipedia)
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The awards show season is bearing down on us, and VIP Concierge is bearing down on it, too. We're happy to announce that we have tickets to the Independent Spirit Awards and after party taking place on Saturday, February 23, 2019 in Santa Monica, CA. The FISA was the first event that honored independent films exclusively, and it has earned its reputation as the premier awards event for the independent film community.
Winners are chosen by those who know what they're talking about--Film Independent Members and Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) members. Voting members have the opportunity to attend free screenings of all the nominated films before choosing the winners. Film Independent is a non-profit arts organization. Since 2006, winners have received a trophy depicting a bird sitting atop of a pole with the shoestrings from the previous design wrapped around the pole.
This year's nominees include the following and many other categories and nominees.
This is really among the most exciting and fun festivals every year. If you've ever attended one of the shows, you know what we mean. If you haven't, you should make it a point to get your body and some of your BFFs and make the scene. It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience, unless you go frequently. Then it's probably the highlight of the year. Contact us soon, before all the tickets are snatched up. They don't last long. If you don't make your move, you'll be as sad as a dog without a ball.


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Tragic Facts About Bessie Smith, The Empress Of The Blues
Eli Artman
Singers come and go all the time, but few leave as great a mark as Bessie Smith did. Then again, few people had her brilliant, tragic life. As one of the first Blues stars, Smith changed the course of American culture forever—but in the end, her fame came at a heartbreakingly high price. This is the unforgettable story of Bessie Smith, the Empress of the Blues.
Bessie Smith Facts
1. She Had Humble Beginnings
Bessie Smith was born sometime around July, 1892 in Chattanooga, Tennessee to William Urie, a Baptist preacher, and his wife Laura. Yes, this might sound like the beginnings of a rustic fairy tale, but don't let those details fool you. Within just a few years of her birth, little Bessie was baptized into unimaginable tragedy.
2. She Suffered an Early Tragedy
When Bessie was still just a little girl, her whole world suddenly fell apart. In less than a decade, her father, mother, and one of her brothers all passed, leaving Bessie an orphan before she even hit the tender age of 10. The remaining siblings had to raise themselves—and soon enough, Bessie was pushed into desperate measures.
Bessie (2015 TV Movie), HBO
3. She Fought Tooth and Nail
In order to support her failing family, Bessie quit school and started busking on the streets with her brother Andrew. They took the White Elephant Saloon as their stomping grounds, and it was here that Bessie began to develop her signature dancing and singing while Andrew accompanied her on guitar. Only all was not well in the little brood…
4. Her Brother Abandoned Her
In 1904, when the 12-year-old Bessie was just settling into life as a working woman, her brother dealt her a heartbreaking betrayal. Her oldest brother Clarence snuck out of the house to join the travelling Stokes troupe without telling Bessie; he didn't want the young, stubborn girl following him. Then, almost a decade later, he came back with an electrifying proposition.
5. She Had the Audition of Her Life
Clarence never forgot about his little sister and her talents, and in 1912, when Bessie had blossomed into a vivacious young woman, he brought his troupe managers to see her for an audition. She must have nailed it, because the Stokes troupe signed her on immediately and rocketed her all the way to stardom. However, there was just one catch.
6. She Had a Powerful Rival
Bessie Smith had an undeniable talent and a once-in-a-lifetime voice—but she didn't get to use it. See, the Stokes troupe already had a singer, the wildly popular Ma Rainey, AKA "The Mother of the Blues," and they didn't want too many divas on the stage. Instead, they relegated Smith to the role of a dancer. Do you smell a rivalry? Well, keep reading.
7. She Had Stiff Competition
When Bessie first met Ma Rainey, Rainey was only a few years older but already at the top of her game, with a full-blown stage presence that could knock the doors off of the nosebleeds. Rainey wore massive wigs, gigantic jewels, and flashy outfits on stage; she even had capped gold teeth. It was enough to make anyone insecure—but Bessie Smith knew exactly what to do.
8. She Learned From an Icon
Bessie Smith hadn't made it through the mean streets of her childhood without learning a thing or two, and she was one smart cookie about Ma Rainey. Instead of starting a cat fight, Smith began to study the more experienced woman's performances, and many people believe she learned her legendary stage presence from Rainey. Except, well, that wasn't all she learned…
9. She May Have Had an Illicit Affair
According to rumors, Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith were more than just friends. Rainey herself was already known to like men as well as women, and some people believe their mentor-mentee relationship turned steamy while they were on the road together in the carousing troupe. Then again, there's a darker version of events…
Wikimedia Commons, Peter Salanki
10. She Might Have Been Kidnapped
One persistent tale about Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith is less lesbian utopia, more terrifying nightmare. According to this version of events—which their families insistently deny—Rainey grew so attached to Smith that she actually kidnapped her and forced her to join her own troupe, the Rabbit's Foot Minstrels. Whatever the truth, Smith's formative years went out with a bang.
11. She Had Secret Vices
Smith never lost the appetite for fun she learned under Ma Rainey's ample bosom. Throughout her career, even at the heart of her stardom, Bessie loved to visit "buffet flats," houses of ill-repute where the parties went on all night long, every night of the week. As we'll see, these temptations would get her into a lot of trouble later in life.
12. Audiences Went Wild for Her
When Smith started to make a name for herself on the club circuit, she did it in style. Soon enough, word got around about her amazing voice, so much so that appreciative audience members would often throw money at her on stage, and studio heads began eyeing her up for recordings. The Age of the Empress was just around the corner…until she hit a mortifying roadblock.
13. She Flopped an Audition
One day, Smith auditioned for the prestigious Black Swan Records, which counted famed Black sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois on its board of directors. Well, Bessie didn't read the room quite right. While singing in front of the snooty executives, she paused her song to spit, earning herself a dismissal for being "too rough." Ugh, the people who mind don't matter, Bess.
14. She Had a Stunning Victory
Eventually, Columbia records took a chance on our unpolished girl, signing her up for a record deal in 1923. They were not disappointed: Cemetery Blues came out at the end of the year and quickly transformed into a hit. The best part? The uppity Black Swan Records were utterly flabbergasted at her success. But as her career rose, Smith's personal life got very messy.
15. She Had a Strange Taste in Men
Right around the time she put out her first record, Smith met Jack Gee, a security guard who was nothing like the dramatic entertainers she hung out with. Smith must have liked what she saw, though, because she married Gee just a handful of months after meeting him, tying the knot in a ceremony on June 7, 1923. Sadly, they were doomed to a scandalous end.
16. Her Marriage Was Very Rocky
Things didn't even start out well for the newlywed couple. Gee, being a humble nightwatchman, was dazzled by Smith's fame and money, but he also had difficulty understanding her months on the road as well as the other stresses that came with life in show business. This was enough of a strain on the lovebirds, but an even bigger one was yet to come.
17. She Had Extravagant Tastes
Within no time at all, Smith was a household name all across America, and she became the highest-paid African-American entertainer of her day. Did this fame go to her head? You bet it did. After a lifetime of poverty, Bessie wasted no time blowing through the money, even buying her own custom-made, 72-foot railroad car to travel in. And oh, the things that railroad car saw.
18. She Was Unfaithful
Having a successful marriage in the spotlight is a hefty feat, but fame seemed to turn Bessie and Jack ugly overnight. Jack cheated on his wife constantly, and Bessie went and had illicit trysts right back, until they were trading partners like they were on a merry-go-round. And then there was the little matter of who Bessie was having an affair with…
19. She Liked Girls
As complicated as Smith's romantic life might already seem, there is still more to the story. See, Smith never quite forgot the "lessons" she might have learned from Ma Rainey, and she kept up a string of relationships with women throughout her marriage to Gee. The traditional, humble Jack could barely stand this…so it's good he didn't know half of what comes next.
20. She Manipulated Women
Smith had a type: Young, impressionable, and totally under her sway. She loved to take up with the dancers in her own shows and flex her power—and the results were disturbing. One day, when her latest chorus girl refused to kiss her in public, Smith sniped, "I got twelve women on this show and I can have one every night if I want it. Don't you feel so important."
21. She Made a Great Escape
When it came to his wife's Sapphic tastes, Jack got one rude awakening. One night, he paid a "surprise visit" to Bessie while she was touring with her chorus girls, only to find her in bed with one of them. Reportedly, the two women jumped right out of the sack, with Bessie taking refuge in a neighboring room until her furious husband went away.
22. She Struggled With Personal Demons
For all that Smith loved to engage with her sensual side, she had a different and much more destructive vice: drinking. Ever since she was a teenager, Smith had started downing glasses at an alarming rate, and by the time she became a star, her habit had become a serious problem. She struggled with the addiction for the rest of her life, and it brought nothing but trouble.
23. She Made a Desperate Attempt to Fix Her Marriage
During her less-than-stellar marriage to Gee, Smith somehow decided there was only one thing that would fix their union…adopting a child. Sometime in the relationship, they started informally caring for a six-year-old boy they renamed Jack, Jr. Anyone could tell you that this was not a good idea, but as we'll see, Bessie had to learn that the hard way.
24. She Was a Horrific Girlfriend
If you're getting the sense that Bessie was about as good a girlfriend as she was a wife, you'd be right. She was terrified that Jack would find out more about her philandering with her underlings, and she often threatened to fire the girls if they ever spoke a peep about their midnight bedroom romps. This cruelty eventually reached a terrifying climax.
25. She Attacked Her Husband
During the time that Bessie was sleeping with her chorus girls…Jack was also sleeping with her chorus girls. When Bessie found out that he'd seduced a latest mistress, she tracked the girl down, beat her up, and threw her off the stationary railroad car. But she wasn't done yet: Smith then picked up a gun, tracked Jack down, and fired at him until he ran off the tracks.
26. She Faced Down a Terrifying Enemy
Sometimes, Smith's rough personality came in handy. On one occasion, members of the Ku Klux Klan showed up at one of her shows and surrounded the tent she was staying in to try and intimidate her. Smith's response was legendary. She simply charged out of the tent and yelled, "You just pick up them sheets and run!" That's exactly what they did.
27. Her Husband Mistreated Her
Everyone could see that Smith and Gee were headed nowhere fast, but no one predicted just how dire things would get. They'd always been sinful mirrors of each other, and Gee was just as violent with Smith as she was with him. Eventually, things were so bad, domestic conflicts made their way into her songs, something that was unheard of at the time. And then the final straw came.
St. Louis Blues (1929), RKO Radio Pictures
28. She Had a Violent Breakup
In 1929, Smith discovered that Gee was having yet another affair—but this one cut deep. The lucky girl was one of her rival singers, Gertrude Saunders, and hell hath no fury like Bessie Smith. Smith attacked Saunders not once but twice, sending her into a nervous breakdown. When the dust settled, Smith finally walked away from Gee and never came back. But Jack had other plans in mind.
29. Her Husband Took Cruel Revenge
You'd think that once the couple split up and they both moved on, there would be no hard feelings between them, right? Not even close. Gee held such a grudge against his ex-wife that he turned her beloved adopted son Jack into the authorities. But that's not even the worst part. To justify the move, Gee claimed Smith mistreated the boy, and demanded she lose custody. Unfortunately, this story doesn't have a happy ending.
30. She Lost Her Son
The courts agreed with the good-for-nothing Gee, and they tore the boy from Smith's side, initially placing him with her older sister Viola. Perhaps Smith thought he could have had a good life there, but it wasn't to be. Later on, a ruling put Jack, Jr. back with his biological father, a neglectful man who often forgot to even feed his son. Smith's life was on a downward turn, and it wasn't stopping any time soon.
31. Her Marriage Haunted Her
When Smith and Gee split up in 1929, they made a strange decision. Despite their mutual hatred and all of Gee's machinations, they never actually divorced or made the split official. Whether this was out of personal pain or just an aversion to paperwork, it was still a big mistake. As we'll see, this decision came back to haunt Smith in the worst way possible.
32. She Had a Brutal Downfall
In the midst of Smith's personal heartache, the Great Depression changed everything. The public largely stopped spending money on records, and the-once extravagant singer soon found herself out of a recording job. Smith tried to grind out live performances in clubs and capture that old magic of the Roaring 20s, but a very different chapter of her life had already begun.
33. She Met a New Flame
There were bright spots in Smith's life around this time, including a new romance. Around the 1930s, she reconnected with her longtime friend Richard Morgan, eventually living with him and entering into a common-law marriage. By all accounts, this was finally the relationship that Bessie deserved…yet in the end, she had precious little time to enjoy it.
34. She Was Missing Something
When Smith was starting out, she didn't put any fanfare into her performances at all, not even when she was performing in flashy vaudeville acts. If she was lacking stage presence, though, it's easy to see why. The poor girl didn't have so much as an outfit to perform in, and she would just get up on stage in her street clothes.
35. She Was a Film Star
Today, we have something very precious to remember Bessie Smith by: A single film. In 1929, she made the film St. Louis Blues, a dramatization of the song of the same name. Today, it is the only footage of Smith in existence, and gives us a window into her electric performances. Given her tragic and untimely end, footage like that is absolutely priceless.
36. She Had Ulterior Motives
Sure, Bessie's custom train let her engage in a life of delicious sin across the 50 states, but it also had a secret purpose that was much different than revelry. During Smith's fame, America was still in the throes of segregation, and having the train meant that she would never have to degrade herself and pay attention to the white man's laws. Heck yes.
37. She Made Strange Demands
Smith was an incredible performer with a whole arsenal of tricks up her sleeve, but there was one simple thing she refused to use. She was so confident in her own voice that she rejected the use of a microphone when creating her music, since she had no interest in letting anything interfere with the natural sound of her voice.
38. She Caused a Controversy
For all that she's a legend now, Bessie Smith caused absolute scandal wherever she went back in her day. Her lyrics, which dealt with social issues, racial struggles, and female sexuality, scandalized "polite" white society at the time and earned her more than a few protests when her songs came out. Hey, if you're not making someone angry, you're not doing it right.
39. She Sang With the Greats
Trust me when I say that Bessie Smith went toe-to-toe with the greats. As much as she could come to angry blows with her fellow performers, she could also collaborate with genius like no one else. Over the course of her career, she played with jazz musicians like Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, and Fletcher Henderson, just to name a few.
40. She Almost Had a Different Name
Today, Smith is famous as the "Empress of the Blues," but her nickname could have been much different. When Columbia records gave her the iconic moniker, they initially considered naming her "The Queen of the Blues" instead. Obviously, they eventually decided to give her a promotion, which was definitely the right choice for the pampered, headstrong Bessie.
41. She Almost Made a Comeback
Despite the rough years that she went through, Smith was no quitter. In the late 1930s, she began preparing to make her big comeback. She worked on new material, signed a new recording contract, and began to discuss the possibility of appearing in a second movie. The future was looking bright for Smith—until one tragic incident changed everything.
42. She Got Into a Fatal Crash
On September 26, 1937, Bessie was driving along the road with her partner Richard Morgan at the wheel. Out of nowhere, Morgan misjudged the speed of a truck and side-swiped the massive vehicle on the passenger side—exactly where Bessie was sitting. In the aftermath, Morgan realized he was completely uninjured, but the same couldn't be said for the Empress of the Blues.
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43. She Became Unrecognizable
When a doctor arrived on the scene of the accident, he witnessed a horrific sight. Smith was lying in the middle of the road with unspeakably grave injuries. Her right arm had been almost completely severed by the impact, and she was losing a deluge of blood and descending into shock right in front of his eyes. He had to do something fast.
44. People Tried to Save Her Life
Frantic, the doctor transferred the singer over to the shoulder of the road in an attempt to keep her safe from oncoming traffic. He then asked another bystander to go call an ambulance, all while Bessie Smith's soul hung in the balance. The next moments of her life were crucial—but they also nearly caused another fatality.
45. She Got Supremely Unlucky
For all the Providence she'd received in her life up until that point, God was not on Bessie Smith's side that day. Just as the bystanders moved her over to the shoulder of the road and went to get help, another car came speeding by and crashed into the wreck, just narrowly missing Smith's body. By the time help came, she was stubbornly clinging to life.
46. She Met a Controversial End
Here we come to the most contested and tragic seconds of Bessie's Smith's fate. Because two ambulances actually arrived—one from a Black hospital, and one from a whites-only facility. According to an urban legend, Smith went to the whites-only hospital and they turned her away, causing her to lose precious seconds of her fading life. This is likely untrue—but her last moments on Earth were even more tragic.
47. She Fought for Her Life
Attendants rushed the Empress to G.T. Thomas Afro-American Hospital in Clarksdale, Mississippi, where she spent the entire evening fighting for her life with her trademarked determination. Doctors even amputated her right arm in the battle to save her…but it was all for naught. Bessie Smith passed the next morning without ever having regained consciousness.
48. Her Death Shocked the World
When the news hit, it devastated Smith's adoring fans. An estimated 10,000 grieving mourners showed up for her funeral; so many that they had to move the service to a larger venue than they originally planned. Although Smith had lost favor with the public throughout the 1930s, they never truly forgot her. But that didn't mean she had a peaceful rest.
49. Her Husband Gave Her One Last Insult
Despite the outpouring of love for Smith after her tragic end, she came to rest in an unmarked grave not good enough for a pauper. The reason for this is chilling. Jack Gee was still her official husband, and he refused to buy a stone to mark her burial. Even worse, he went so far as to pocket the money her friends raised to honor her. Don't worry, though: Bessie eventually got what she deserved.
50. She Had a Famous Admirer
None other than Janis Joplin was a huge fan of Bessie Smith, and I do mean huge. Joplin honestly believed she was the reincarnation of Smith, and she went to great lengths to prove her devotion. Over 30 years after the car crash, Joplin put up her own money and finally got Smith a gravestone. Its epitaph now reads, "The Greatest Blues Singer in the World." Rest in Peace, indeed.
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Children from Lilongwe's Soul Savers Church have donated assorted items including soap, sugar and flour to Mponela Hospital last Saturday.
Speaking during the donation, Soul Savers Church overseer, Pastor Steve Wingolo, said it is one of his Church's vision to encourage children in as far as the spirit of sharing is concerned.
"We always teach our children to love one another that is why they came here to share the little they have with their friends who are sick in this hospital," said Wingolo.
Mponela Hospital officer-in-charge, Frank Linzie, thanked the children for the gesture saying the donation was timely.
One of the kids making a donation to a mother in the ward.
"I would like to thank these children for choosing to donate to this hospital. The donation has come at a time when we are lacking a lot of things including food, and so we are very happy because this will take us a long way," said Linzie, appealing to other well-wishers to emulate the gesture.
Linzie also appealed to churches in the country to borrow a leaf from soul savers church and reach out to the needy.


The modern human experience places a large emphasis upon the material world. From the day of our birth to the day we die, we are frequently preoccupied with the world around us. Whether struggling to feed ourselves, occupying ourselves with modern inventions, interacting with other people or animals, or simply meditating on the air we breathe, our attention is focused on different aspects of the material world. In fact only a handful of disciplines—certain subsets of religion, philosophy, and abstract math—can be considered completely unrelated to the material world. Everything else is somehow related to chemistry, the scientific discipline which studies the properties, composition, and transformation of matter.
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POPZILLA has a launch date on MTV: Monday, September 28th at 6:30PM. Make sure you set it up on your TIVO, DVR, Boxee, Torrent, iTunes, or your plain ole TV to catch the show because a new episode will air every day at 6:30PM.
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Pretty much everyone hates spam. The Canadian government has decided to do something about it. CASL is their answer. It is their newest, and most powerful, weapon against spammers. It sets out specific rules (and consequences!) for what commercial electronic messages (CEM) can include.
A CEM is any commercial message sent that encourages people to do something in relation to their business. These messages can be sent by email, phone, instant messaging, or text.
Yes—if you send email or text to or from anyone in Canada. This means that the law is not limited to Canadians. So if you're in the USA (or anywhere else in the world) but sending an email to a Canadian computer, CASL applies.
What should I ask myself before sending a CEM?
Did the patient give either express consent (opted-in) or implied consent (you can prove that you have a relationship and that the patient provided their contact information to you) to receive your CEM?
Did you clearly identify yourself?
Did you provide a way the patient can easily contact you?
Did you include an unsubscribe option that is free, takes effect immediately, and works for at least 60 days?
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Where can I find more info on compliance?
Want to understand if you have implied consent? Wondering if your unsubscribe link is compliant? Do you think your messages might be exempt? The Canadian government has set up a website dedicated to understanding CASL. Please review this site at length to answer any additional questions you may have.
What does this mean if I am a Solutionreach client?
If you have not seen a patient since July 1, 2014 (and the patient hasn't given express consent to receive CEMs), you should not send messages to these patients. Our system will automatically stop sending messages to these patients.
Any patient who has been seen will have deemed to have given implied consent for two years. Our system automatically applies the two year consent.
If a practice has received express consent from a patient and marked it in the system, our system will continue to allow them to communicate with the patient as normal.
With Solutionreach, you can rest easy that we are watching your back when it comes to compliance. So sit back, grab some food, and enjoy your day. Happy Canada Day!


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During the past school year, I tutored math and language arts in a local fifth-grade class, so when Public School Success Team (PSST), the homegrown non-profit that ran the tutoring program, decided to encourage a continuing flow of student enthusiasm over the summer, I volunteered to lead a course. Conducted al fresco in my backyard, it consisted of six weekly sessions in close textual analysis. I called it Curious Readers.
My plan was to use accessible poetry and short-short flash fiction to stimulate thought. I began with:
In these sessions we will discover that some things we read are like icebergs. But when I say that, do I mean that these written works are frozen and floating? Of course not. What I mean is that, like an iceberg, there's more than meets the eye. And if a writer refers to a "lonely cloud," does he mean that the cloud feels some kind of emotion?
We started easy. I gave them Humpty Dumpty to read and asked, "Who was Humpty? And did he fall or was he pushed?" None of the participants—six to ten came each week—had any experience in this sort of intellectual challenge. Many of my questions (and that's all I did…ask questions) got I-don't-know's, to which I responded, "I don't know is the ONLY wrong answer."
It only took one week for the students' responses to become almost uniformly interesting and enthusiastic. Hands were shooting up. Over the next several weeks we did Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, Percy Shelley, and many others. A sample of their comments about a one-sentence story by Bruce Holland Rogers illustrates their intellectual insertion into the process. (I have changed the students' names.)
He left the village of his birth, crossed the mountains, crossed the seas,
saw great cities, learned a few words in a dozen tongues, met the high
and the low, and returned after years of wandering to the village of his
birth where for the rest of his life he suffered nostalgia for his village as
it had been when he left.
Q: Why did he leave his village?
…Santiago: To get a job.
…Cesar: To travel, and the mountains means challenges, and it wasn't easy.
Q: Why does the writer mention that he "crossed the sea"?
…Corazon: Because that means he went very far away.
Q: He left a village and "saw great cities." Why mention that?
…Corazon: Cities and villages are very different.
…Ariela: A village is small. A city is big…like Denver.
…Cesar: Or across the sea…like Paris.
Q: What makes a city great?
…Corazon: Restaurants, hotels, landmarks, different languages.
…Ariela: National parks.
…Cesar: Size, museums.
Q: What does it mean that he "learned a few words in a dozen tongues"?
…Cesar: He went to lots of places and learned the same words in different languages.
…Coco: It's a big job to learn how to talk the language.
Q: Who were the "high and low"?
…Cameron: Royalty and servants.
…Ariela: People of different size.
Q: He "returned after years of wandering." So what?
…Arcadia: He visited lots of places.
…Santiago: He was walking around everywhere.
…Cesar: But when he got back the village had changed.
Q: He "suffered nostalgia." Why?
…Ariela: Because his village changed, and he liked the way it used to be. He missed the good old times.
Q: Was his journey a success or a failure?
…Leon: Both. Might have fun when he went to the other places, and when he came back the village had changed, and he liked it better the way it was.
Basho (1644–1694)
After reading and discussing haiku written by Basho in the fifth week, the final session was devoted to analyzing haiku written by the students. Here's Arcadia's poem and the discussion that followed:
My small wings
I am forbidden to fly
I'm a flightless bird
…Cesar: Forbidden is the most interesting word in the poem. It means you can't fly…not that you are not able, but someone or something has stopped it.
…Leon: It's forbidden because there is a hunter out there, and it has been prevented.
Q: Why does this bird have small wings?
…Cesar: We had a cockatoo and had its feathers clipped. Maybe that.
…Coco: It could be deformed. But that would not mean forbidden. It would mean unable.
…Arelia: Maybe this is about a person who thinks of herself as a bird.
…Leon: I think it's about a young girl who is not allowed to leave her house and go out with boyfriends.
The candle is lit. PSST's goal is to get these kids to graduate from high school. They have promised each a $2,000 college scholarship if they do and gotten a commitment (with a certificate suitable for framing) from Sonoma State University guaranteeing admission if they graduate and meet the minimum entrance requirements. If the kids, the large majority of whom are children of Hispanic immigrants, succeed (and PSST will work with them continuously through middle school and high school), almost all of them will be the first in their family to go to college.
Paying forward.
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These are fifth-graders? Wonderful.
PSST sounds like a good organization, and you've made a meaningful start with these kids.
This makes me so ridiculously proud of my Pop.
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What an amazing opportunity for those kids! What a great way to learn.
I had a creative writing teacher in high school who taught in a way that really changed what I wanted to do in life. I am a journalism major now, and I could not be happier in my choice!
Keep doing what you are doing…it makes a difference!


FOR a small Swedish car company, Saab is having a busy year, introducing not only the 9-5 luxury sedan, but also a largely reworked high-volume line, the 9-3 coupe, sedan and convertible.
Although the 1999 9-3 looks much like the 900 it replaces, Saab has made more than 1,000 changes and improvements. Virtually every system has been made better, particularly the new wraparound bucket seats with automatic head restraints; the ventilation system; the anti-theft security system, and the audio system. The front and rear ends are rounder and more aerodynamic.
I know the new 9-3 intimately now, because I was one of six drivers -- three journalists and three amateur racers -- who drove a pair of turbo-charged models on the longest drive you can make across the United States, from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Key West, Fla.
In four days of continuous driving, as we tried to break the time record for such a trip, we put 5,800 miles on the odometers of each of the two 9-3 sedans. The effort was sponsored by Saab and Michelin, which provided two sets of prototype snow-ice tires.
Both Saabs were fitted with roof-mounted cargo boxes stuffed with spare parts, spare fluids, five gallons of gasoline, tools and luggage for six. The cars had citizens' band radios, radar detectors, cellular phones, a compass, a Timewise 797 rally computer showing time and mileage to the hundredth, and a secondary readout that would show us, based on a 60 m.p.h. target, how much ahead or behind schedule we were.
On Monday morning, March 16, with the temperature at minus-13 Fahrenheit and the wind-chill factor at minus-42, we set the Timewise computer to the time in Florida and turned south. Three to a car, we alternated driving, navigating and resting, gassing up at intervals of about 270 miles or four hours, with five minutes to stretch, make pit stops and buy road food.
We turned left out of Fairbanks and spent the first night getting to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory. We traversed the Canadian Rockies to Fort Nelson, British Columbia, and turned south toward Calgary, Alberta. After crossing into the United States again at midday Tuesday, we traveled interstate highways across Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida.
By the time we crossed the bridge into Key West and shut the timers off, we had set a new record for the 5,782.34-mile distance: 96 hours, 23 minutes and 22 seconds, breaking the old mark (held by a team driving Ford Explorers) by 2 hours, 36 minutes and 38 seconds. We averaged exactly 60 m.p.h. for the entire four-day trip. It was 77 degrees in Key West, or 90 degrees warmer than Prudhoe Bay when we set off.
The new 9-3 ran through ice, snow, gravel, axle-deep mud, sleet, glare ice, fog and rain, and it never missed a beat. We particularly got to know and love the comfortable, supportive seats (we sat in or lay on all four during the trip); the headlamps, which threw a great beam pattern; the washer and wiper units front and back, and the cars' gutsy 2-liter, 4-cylinder turbo-charged engine, which not only pulled us up and over some mile-high mountains, but managed 21 miles per gallon for the entire trip, according to the on-board computer.


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Harlem Week
Date Observed: August
Location: Harlem, New York
Harlem Week takes place in Harlem in New York City's borough of Manhattan. In past years, festivities took place over a week's time, and the celebration was called "Harlem Week." The name has stuck even though, in recent years, a wide range of events have been scheduled throughout the month of August. Harlem Week celebrates the past, present, and future glories of Harlem, as well as the people who comprise the community.
During the 1600s, the Dutch settled in a rural area of New York that they called New Haarlem, named for a Dutch city. The settlers imported African slaves to work the farms, and the area was primarily farmland and country estates until the late 19th century (see also Pinkster). It became rapidly urbanized with the construction of housing and elevated railroads.
During the first decade of the 20th century, blacks began to move into Harlem in large numbers, and the neighborhood became an African-American cultural hub. The area earned worldwide fame with the advent of the Harlem Renaissance - a literary and artistic flowering that occurred from the late 1910s through the mid-1930s. Luminaries of the movement included poets Langston Hughes (1902-1967) and Countee Cullen (1903-1946), and writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960). Other notable residents were labor leader A. Philip Randolph (1889-1979), singer and actor Paul Robeson (1898-1976), and businesswoman Madame C. J. Walker (1867-1919). (See also Paul Robeson's Birthday and Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities; for more on Harlem, see also African American Day Parade).
Creation of the Festival
In 1974 a group of residents organized Harlem Day in order to celebrate and preserve Harlem's cultural history. The festival proved to be so successful that, over the years, organizers added new activities. The festival's growth prompted "Harlem Day" to become "Harlem Week."
Harlem Week's schedule of events offers a great variety of activities. There are musical and dance performances, a film festival, a food festival, special children and family events, a health fair and sports clinic, a fashion show, an auto show, basketball and tennis classics, the National Historic Black College Fair and Exposition, and more. Near the end of the month, the National Black Sports and Entertainment Hall of Fame holds its annual induction and awards ceremony.
Contacts and Web Sites
Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce 200A W. 136th St. New York, NY 10030-7200 212-862-7200; fax: 212-862-8745
"Harlem, 1900-1940, An African-American Community, An Exhibition Portfolio from The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture" Cultural Heritage Initiatives for Community Outreach School of Information University of Michigan 1085 S. University Ave., 304 West Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107 734-763-2285; fax: 734-764-2475
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture New York Public Library 515 Malcolm X Blvd. New York, NY 10037 212-491-2200
Banks, William H., Jr. Beloved Harlem: A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, From the Classics to the Contemporary. New York: Doubleday-Broadway/Harlem Moon, 2005. Cunningham, Michael, and Craig Marbarry. Spirit of Harlem: A Portrait of America's Most Exciting Neighborhood. New York: Doubleday, 2003. Harris, Leslie M. In the Shadow of Slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626- 1863. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Osofsky, Gilbert. Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1996.
Sponsored by the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce, Harlem Week is the largest cultural festival in the United States. Participation in Harlem Week and its associated events is estimated to exceed two million people. The festival honors the unique history and importance of the Harlem neighborhood in New York City. This area was the site of an important flourishing in African-American culture known as the Harlem Renaissance during the early 20th century. The Harlem Renaissance marked the emergence of African Americans into the mainstream of the nation's art, music, literature, and culture while simultaneously proclaiming the unique vitality and character of the African-American experience.
When it originated in 1974, Harlem Week was conceived as a single day's celebration of the area's cultural contributions, and sought to revitalize interest in and recognition of the neighborhood's important past. Though the activities have expanded to encompass a wide range of sports, music, and educational events, Harlem Day remains the most important and event-filled day of the month-long celebration. A street fair, including performance stages, marketplace booths, and food vendors, is located on West 135th Street, and the rich musical heritage of the area is commemorated in numerous performances featuring swing, jazz, Latin, gospel, hip hop, reggae, R&B, and blues music. In addition, the festival includes history tours, fashion shows, an all-star basketball game, a youth tennis tournament, a college fair, a health fair, a children's festival, a senior citizens' party, and an auto show.
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Harlem specialists Faith Hope Consolo, chairman, and Joseph Aquino, executive vice president, along with Arthur Maglio of Douglas Elliman's Retail Group arranged the deal ahead of the month-long Harlem Week 40th Anniversary celebrations.
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5 SUMMER IN THE CITY, August 17 & 18 THE annual uptown celebration known as Harlem Week began in the 1970s as Harlem Day, but the name is still misleading.
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Modeled after Southern Christian revivals, Seele organized the first Harlem Week of Prayer in 1989.
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The annual Harlem Week celebration began modestly but has burgeoned into an international happening for members of the African Diaspora.
Harlem Week 2008: here's to Harlem! Annual summer celebration focuses on Black health
Cuba was able to leave a nursing facility and get treatment at home, which affords him the ability to make special appearances, such as the one to pick up his Harlem Week 110th Anniversary award at City College in October.
Joe Cuba: legendary conguero and bandleader still manages to swing!
The festival, held in conjunction with the 32nd anniversary of Harlem Week, included its inaugural Red & White Ball Uptown Saturday Night, which featured an awards ceremony that saluted the Legends of Cinema at the Potamkin Cadillac of Harlem in New York.
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Charles Rangel and Lloyd Williams, founder of Harlem Week, praised the festival, which attracted such celebrities as producer/actor Warrington Hudlin and actor Philip Michael Thomas.
'Hollywood in Harlem[TM]': the second annual Ebony film festival takes a step forward
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Wang Yi in Africa: Two More Nations Sign On to the Belt and Road Initiative
January 8, 2021by David Dobrodt in General
Continuing his trip to Africa, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has added two more African nations who have signed an MOU on cooperation with the Belt and Road Initiative, namely, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Botswana, bringing the number of African countries who are part of the BRI to 46. Wang Yi also visited Nigeria, which has already benefited from its participation in the BRI. And during the visit, Wang Yi signed a series of agreements with Nigeria and promised to aid in helping the country fight the COVID epidemic. China and Nigeria have a lengthy and multifaceted economic relationship with cooperation in railway construction, free trade zones, currency swaps, satellite launches, and other fields.
Speaking at a joint press conference together with his Nigerian counterpart, Wang Yi said, "We will set up an intergovernmental committee to be led by the two countries' foreign ministers that will coordinate and advance mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields; we will deepen the Belt and Road cooperation by closely aligning China's new development paradigm with Nigeria's new national development plan; we will vigorously promote the construction of key projects in Nigeria so as to help Nigeria accelerate industrialization and improve its independent development capabilities; we will continue to extend cooperation into areas including digital economy and green economy so as to achieve diversified development." China is also cooperating with Nigeria in the realm of military security.
In the DRC, China agreed that, given the COVID epidemic, the DRC did not have to repay the loans to China that were due at the end of 2020. China is also prepared to work with the DRC in order to help them overcome the pandemic. The DRC will also hold the chairmanship of the African Union this year.
Then, in his visit to Botswana, Wang Yi signed an additional BRI MOU. In his comments, Wang said, "The joint construction of the BRI will provide new opportunities for the two countries to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, expand new fields, open up new prospects, help Botswana's infrastructure construction and national modernization process, and better benefit the two peoples."
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My first PIFing post was December of last year, rereading it the other day brought back fond memories of the moment described and then brought on the cold realization that I don't do nearly enough of what I say I'm going to do – like PIFing: "Paying It Forward". So, this post is more for me than you, but since you're here . . .
You see, the small things really do count, and there is no better time than the holiday season to reach out to others in teeny, tiny wonderful ways. Not only is PIFing a nice thing to do, it feels good, and studies show that altruistic behavior is a great stress reducer. (Anyone stressed at this time of year?) And, the positive effects of PIFing last far beyond the energy expended.
So this holiday season hold a door; pass-up the primo parking space by the mall; share a table; make the coffee or the copies; surprise a friend; call your mom; let the one-item guy go ahead of you; give up your seat; pay an extra toll or two; shovel the driveway; babysit; bake or buy the cookies; or even better – sit with, hold or listen – really listen to someone at little longer than you normally would. The options are endless; PIFing is fun, and in most cases free – or at least extremely inexpensive.
The only rule to PIFing is you can't PIF and expect anything in return. The goal is to PIF and let it go!
If you like the idea of PIFing, share this post on FB or email it to friends – the goal is to making PIFing an everyday event in 2012 for as many folks as possible and the best way to do that is to keep it in front of as many people as possible. I really believe the nicer we are, the nicer the world becomes. I'll be posting PIF reminders throughout the year, so I do not forget!
3. A hug from an anonymous coed holding "Free Hugs" sign in the center of Tbilisi, Georgia!
Happy PIFing. Get started today, and let us know what you are up to.
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Teachers accused of sexually abusing Balto. students
A math teacher at a middle school in Pikesville, Maryland, and a basketball coach and hall monitor at an elementary/middle school in East Baltimore were charged this month in connection with the sexual abuse of 13-year-old students in separate and unrelated incidents, the Baltimore Sun reports.
Let's be clear: Having sex with a 13-year-old is a crime in all 50 states. (New Orleans Office of Public Affairs / Flickr CC)
At the Northwest Academy of Health Sciences in Pikesville, known until last year as Old Court Middle School, Chadwick Zamarron, 35, stands accused of writing hall passes for a female student to excuse her from class so the two could engage in sexual contact in his classroom. At Collington Elementary/Middle School, Carl Trusty, 26, is said to have engaged in a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old student, who told police the sex was consensual.
"A consensual relationship is not something that a 13-year-old girl can offer," the Sun quoted TJ Smith, a police spokesman, as saying. "A 13-year-old girl cannot consent to a sexual relationship with an adult. That's a crime."
He's been charged with second-degree rape, while Mr Zamarron, who has worked for Baltimore County Public Schools for about 10 years, according to a schools spokesman, is being held without bail in the Baltimore County Detention Center.
Age of consent laws for teens
Laws on the sexual behavior of teens vary from state to state. The age of consent in Maryland is 16, so 16-year-olds may legally consent to sex. In Illinois, the age of consent is 17. In many states, including Maryland, there's also an age-gap provision that allows consent by minors, provided the two people are close in age. In addition, some states—but not Maryland or Illinois—allow the so-called "age mistake" defense, where a defendant would be found not guilty upon proving the minor misrepresented his or her age.
In most US states, the age of consent is automatically 18 whenever one person has a position of authority over another, such as a teacher over a student or a doctor over a patient. This provision applies in both Maryland and Illinois.
So, what this means is that a 30-year-old teacher who has consensual sex with an 18-year-old student couldn't be charged with a crime anywhere in America. But that teacher should be fired and should probably try to stay away from schools. Students need to make it known that they're in school to learn, not to pick up a husband, wife, or one-night stand. At least I hope that's the case.
I'm not so naïve to think that all sex grows out of loving relationships or that predators feel any real love for their victims, now or ever. But the fact is, students are a captive audience: they really have no other choice but to be in school. When a woman goes with a friend to a bar, that's one thing. One can presume and then test that she's there to meet people for possible relationships. This is not the case in schools, and people who can't figure that out need to remove themselves from schools permanently. I just wish there were some test we could give people to see if they can tell the difference between a student who is really connecting with them as a teacher and a person in a singles bar who is testing the waters of a possible relationship. But so far, we don't have anything.
Finally, some people argue that this type of crime doesn't really hurt anybody, and from a physical perspective, I guess that's pretty accurate. But as most people know, there's a lot more to students in a school building than just their physical safety. There's also the "social intelligence" factor, and harm is definitely caused to that, not just for the victim but for others who may have felt a connection with the perpetrator.
If you would like to help stop statutory rape of students by teachers, or even by older students, you need to educate yourself first about statutory rape, experts say. Sometimes this involves "remembering what it was like" as a teenager in these circumstances.
"Adolescent years are filled with physical, mental, and emotional changes. Adolescents are no longer children and are not yet adults. Educate yourself on how teens communicate and think. Although each teen is unique, the underlying causes of frustration, communication, and decision-making derive from the physiological and emotional development of adolescence," says the website for a cooperative project of the Office on Violence Against Women and the Minnesota Center Against Violence & Abuse at the University of Minnesota.
The majority of advice intended for adults, though, says to learn the law and provide resources for teens so they properly understand the law. Many states publish campaigns about statutory rape or sex with individuals who are too young to give legal consent. These programs, such as ShesNotOldEnough.com from the Nevada State Health Division, provide posters, pamphlets, and other educational materials that deal with prevention.
Rape is a crime. It is not justified by entitlement or participation as an educator in some high school student's life trajectory. There's a reason pretty, young girls are known as "jail bait." Please, learn the law, and teach it to others!
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