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Rejection rate on the rise for Canadians at U.S. border
The growing number of stories about Canadians turned away at the American border is more than just an anecdotal trend: Statistics show the United States is turning away visitors from Canada at an increasing rate. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly is scheduled to meet with members of the Trudeau government in Ottawa on Friday in an encounter likely to be dominated by the growing issue of asylum seekers walking into Canada from the United States. But numbers compiled by The Globe and Mail from agencies in Canada and the United States show the border is becoming a escalating problem for southbound Canadian travellers. (Globe and Mail)
Canada-US border in spotlight before Secretary Kelly visit
A series of recent incidents at the US border has led to questions in Canada over whether people are facing more scrutiny and tougher measures at the international boundary. The answer is not entirely clear. Canadian Fadwa Alaoui had planned a quick trip to the United States in early February for a day of shopping in Vermont. She did not expect to be turned away after a four-and-a-half hour ordeal. Ms Alaoui's case is one of a handful of reports of Canadians facing border troubles in recent months. (BBC)
Stateless U.S. residents claiming refugee status in Canada expected to increase, lawyer says
Canadian immigration lawyer Richard Kurland says he expects to see an influx of refugee claims in Canada from stateless residents who have been living in the U.S. for decades. "We expect to see a rush in Canada of a very large number of people from the United States with immigration problems," said Kurland. (CBC)
Federal plan to fast-track foreign talent could capitalize on Trump's crackdown
The federal government will launch a new program to fast-track "low-risk, high-talent" foreign workers to Canada this June. The plan sets a two-week turnaround for processing visas and short-term work permits to give startups faster access to highly skilled workers. "Canada certainly could benefit from some of the international talent affected by the actions in the U.S. recently," said Patrick Snider, director of skills and immigration policy for the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. "That being said, we have to expect other countries will also look to capitalize on this moment as well." (CBC)
Senate proposes major amendment to Liberal citizenship legislation: 'It goes a long way'
The Liberal government's update to immigration law is poised to be changed by the Senate after a major amendment was introduced Thursday. Elaine McCoy, who acts as a "facilitator" for a de facto caucus of independent senators, tabled the amendment during debate over the third reading of Bill C-6. If someone is served notice their citizenship is being revoked due to fraud or misrepresentation, the amendment requires the immigration minister to inform them of their right to appeal that decision in Federal Court. (National Post)
Why are thousands of refugees to Canada still waiting to be processed?
Canada's response to the Syrian refugee crisis has received international praise, however some critics are putting the spotlight on where the federal government may be falling short. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was applauded at the UN General Assembly in September when he spoke about how Canada has welcomed Syrian refugees with open arms. But in Middle East countries neighbouring Syria, an estimated 5,000 refugees are still waiting, despite being already matched with private sponsors in Canada. (CTV)
Manitoba premier says Ottawa has not replied to request for refugee aid
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has yet to respond to Manitoba's call for help in dealing with an influx of asylum-seekers crossing the border from the United States, Premier Brian Pallister said Thursday. Pallister said he wrote to Trudeau more than a week ago to ask for money for housing, welfare, language training, legal aid and other services for border-crossers. "We have limited resources like, frankly, all provinces, but more so because of the financial situation we've inherited. And it is unfair to stand by and watch … while others are doing the heavy lifting," Pallister said. (680 News)
CSIS ordered to hand over secret records about recruit paid to infiltrate an ISIL network in Ottawa
An Ontario Superior Court judge has ordered Canada's spy agency to reveal its secret records — including financial dealings — about a prized agent who was paid to infiltrate an ISIL network in Ottawa. It's a decision that could give the public rare insight into the inner workings of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service — from how they recruited an informant, to how they tested his reliability, to how much they paid him for his intel. (National Post)
OTHER STORIES (Domestic and International)
Former CSIS official, foreign affairs critics urge Liberal government to fight for release of Canadian citizen from Egyptian prison
Politicians, activists and a former top CSIS official are calling on the federal government to demand the early release of Canadian citizen Mohamed El Attar from an Egyptian prison. "The fact that I'm here speaks volumes to the fact that Mr. El Attar is innocent," Andy Ellis, former assistant director of operations for the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, said in Ottawa Thursday. "Mr. El Attar is a Canadian like we're all Canadians. He's a human being like we're all human beings. He deserves the mercy and support of all Canadians, and he deserves, frankly, the mercy and support of the Egyptian government." (National Post)
She was left at his door as an infant but immigration officials say she's not his daughter
Refugee Zuan Zhong tried to bring his wife and daughter to Canada and was thwarted when the daughter's DNA didn't match her either of her parents. The parents have cared for her since 1997, when she was left as an infant at his door. (Toronto Star)
Haitian migrants hope to make it to Canada, as Toronto seeks help to deal with refugee influx
Hundreds of Haitian migrants who travelled to Tijuana, Mexico hoping to cross the U.S. border and be granted asylum say they're now setting their sights on Canada. Radio-Canada went to the border city to speak with dozens of migrants, who have the support of several groups that want to bring them to Toronto. However, this city is already feeling the pressure of an influx of would-be refugees in its shelter system. (CBC)
Trudeau says he will succeed on energy where his father and Stephen Harper failed
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used his speech to the CERAWeek conference in Houston, Texas to say he will succeed on the energy file where his father and former prime minister Stephen Harper failed. Trudeau said the National Energy Program hurt both growth and jobs while the Conservatives failed to understand that the economy and climate change are linked. "Our immediate predecessors tried a different route for 10 years, to ignore the environment. It didn't work, any more than the NEP of the 1980s worked. They couldn't move forward on big energy projects," Trudeau said. (CBC)
The case of the Canadian with eight citizenships, and why the world's rich covet 'backup' passports
Lesperance said his client didn't start out Canadian; he was an American-born businessman. But at the end of his citizenship spree, he had collected a portfolio of passports via economic citizenship and residency that spanned both sides of the Atlantic, from Belize to Britain. Along the way he became a Canadian, too, and renounced his US citizenship. (South China Morning Post)
Refugees who sheltered Edward Snowden seek Canada asylum
Refugees who sheltered rogue National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden in Hong Kong are seeking asylum in Canada. The three families' lawyers have filed claims on their behalf. Some city legislators say two Sri Lankan nationals have been targeted by police from their own country who have travelled to Hong Kong. (BBC)
US immigration: 50 extra judges to help tackle backlog
The US Department of Justice is deploying 50 judges to immigration detention centres to clear a backlog of more than half a million cases. The judges will boost President Trump's push to toughen enforcement of the law on illegal immigration. In January he issued an executive order aiming to speed up deportations and hold migrants in detention centres until their cases can be heard. (BBC)
Two die in protests after South Korean president removed from office
South Korea has been plunged into a period of political uncertainty after the President, Park Geun-hye, was forced out of office by a corruption scandal. The country's Constitutional Court upheld a parliamentary vote to impeach Park over allegations of corruption and cronyism. She becomes the country's first democratically elected leader to be forcibly removed. (CNN)
Trump travel ban: More US states launch legal challenges
Several US states have joined Hawaii in a legal challenge against President Donald Trump's revised travel ban. Mr Trump signed an executive order placing a 90-day ban on people from six mainly Muslim countries on Monday. New York maintains the new directive is a ban on Muslims while Washington says it is harmful to the state. Oregon and Massachusetts later also joined. (BBC)
EDITORIAL AND OPINION PIECES
Chris Selley: The Trudeau Liberals' weirdness managed to get even weirder on International Women's Day
I am clearly not Justin Trudeau's target audience. I don't mean his policies: I support some, oppose some, worry many are undeliverable and will collapse in a cynicism-breeding heap. I mean the way he carries himself. When he delivered his "because it's 2015" zinger, I wondered why he would be so glib; why not talk up some of his very accomplished female cabinet ministers? Then I noticed a fair chunk of the Canadian population had collapsed in an appreciative swoon. Maybe it was a pretty good line, I thought. Maybe I'm just a crank. (National Post)
Terry Glavin: This is Canada's real refugee problem
It's good to know that with all the shouting about refugees that's been going on lately, most Canadians seem to be keeping their cool. The federal government's latest tracking poll on attitudes toward immigrants and refugees, released March 1, shows that fewer than a third of us think Canada's refugee intake is too high. Two of every five Canadians think what Canada's doing about refugees is just about right. But a confluence of misapprehensions in both Canada and the United States could quickly jinx things. (Macleans)
Don Martin: Parks Canada's bizarre political correctness blocks movie in Banff
There is a visceral connection between Canadians and our 40 national parks. Almost 2.5 million of us have already snapped up free passes to visit them during our 150th birth year.
But while we trust and need Parks Canada to keep those wilderness jewels pristine, we do not need its bureaucrats vetoing movie productions asking to use Rocky Mountain scenery as a backdrop. They did just that this month, icing an application to shoot a film called Hard Powder in Banff because the plot had an aboriginal gang leader murdering the son of a snowplow driver, who then sets out for revenge. (CTV)
Stephanie Levitz: Are asylum seekers walking across the border into Canada actually breaking the law?
Since the start of 2017, there's been a marked increase in the number of people arriving in Canada from the U.S. to seek asylum. More than 1,000 people have filed refugee claims at the Quebec-U.S. border since January, compared with about 200 during the same time last year. In Manitoba, at least 107 people have filed asylum claims at the border since January, compared with 45 in the first two months of last year. (Global)
Paul Wells: War is hell and Chrystia Freeland has nothing to be ashamed of
The news this week is that Chrystia Freeland's maternal grandfather worked on a Nazi-operated newspaper in Krakow during the war. Canada's foreign minister would prefer not to say so. When first asked about it at a news conference on Monday, she bobbed and weaved. It's "public knowledge that there have been efforts, as U.S. intelligence forces have said, by Russia to destabilize the U.S. political system," Freeland said. "I think that Canadians, and indeed other western countries, should be prepared for similar efforts to be directed at us." (Toronto Star)
Michael Harris: From Russia with loathing: Freeland and the media
This week, one of the true stars of Canadian journalism, Bob Fife, published a story in the Globe & Mail that made waves. And for good reason. It hit all the hot buttons from bygone wars. According to Fife's story, Freeland had known for 20 years that her maternal Ukrainian grandfather was the chief editor of a Nazi-controlled newspaper in occupied Poland. (IPolitics)
John Robson: Niki Ashton isn't afraid to confront the 'elites,' except the one in the mirror
MP Niki Ashton is the latest populist seeking to save us from "the elites." In announcing her bid for the federal NDP leadership she said "We need strong leadership to stand up to the elites in Canada and the elite politics … that are holding us back." Drat those elites. Incidentally Wikipedia says Ashton is the daughter of a provincial cabinet minister who studied at the Li Po Chun United World College in Hong Kong as well as Carleton for an MA and the University of Manitoba, where she is getting her PhD, and speaks four languages fluently and is learning five others. Drat those elites. (National Post)
REPORTS, COMMITTEE HEARINGS, LEGISLATIVE UPDATES
Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development met yesterday to study the Situation in Eastern Europe and Central Asia 25 Years after the End of the Cold War (Public)
Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration met Wednesday to meet with Immigration Consultants and discuss the Modernization of Client Service Delivery (Public)
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Short Story: Hadaly's Day Out (Part II)
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Without another word she burst into motion and ran—at the fairly restrained rate of about the speed of a sprinter—up the length of Cady Mall towards a heavy clustering of college students all standing around a single orator.
Elaine almost dropped her phone trying to grab Hadaly's arm—several feet too late. "Oh fsck," she said.
Frog looked at Elaine, her expression actually looked to be the conjunction between amusement and concern. Together they ran after the quickly fleeing android girl who now had a good thirty feet on both of them and counting. Unaccustomed to running, Elaine didn't expect that she'd catch up very quickly, so when Frog touched her arm and nudged her to slow down she paced down from a sprint to a jog.
Elaine caught Hadaly's arm and looked up at a tall, blonde male student whose stance made it look as if he'd been conversing with her for the entire time it took them to catch up. "You shouldn't have run off like that," Elaine subvocalized, knowing that the android's audio pickups had enough gain to hear her even if nobody else could.
Frog sidled up next to her and looked up at the nearby preacher curiously.
"…his name's Brother Jed," the student was in the middle of saying. "He apparently visits campuses all across theU.S.and he comes around here every year or so."
"We should go," Elaine said aloud.
"You must be her friends," the boy said to them. "My name's Adam. Hadaly said the one with green hair would be hot and her friend would be a cute geek girl."
"Spot on," Frog said. "As usual."
"He's fun," Hadaly said. "Can I keep him?"
"Absolutely not," Elaine said.
Standing on the peach-colored stone embankment in front of the Hayden Stacks, the mall preacher, Brother Jed, concluded a tirade that involved long declarations and swift thrusts with his hands. The preacher's attire looked back in time to when men wore dark suspenders and vests over light shirts and tan pants. His broad glasses sat on a nose browned and leathered by the sun and below heavy, bushy eyebrows graying with age.
As he shouted, would sit in a folding chair or stand suddenly in order to punctuate his words. Adding to his costume, he carried a long, smooth wooden cane-like staff from-appearance carved from a single branch with a crucifix affixed to the top—the bronzed countenance of Jesus, spikes through the hands and feet crucified. The preacher swung it about with dire emphasis and stamped it on the ground as he prowled around his chair.
"You see, girls, the boys on this campus only see you as a piece of A-S-S," Brother Jed shouted, pacing back and forth with his staff. His voice warbled in strange inflection as he spoke and he overemphasized the spelling of the word "ass." Elaine looked up momentarily from her smart phone programming to track his movement as his shadow crossed her, but quickly returned to her work. "But you are more than that. You also have brains. However, you sorority girls would rather have an orgasm than a bright idea!"
"Why I can't I have both?" Frog shouted back.
"He's extraordinarily annoying," Elaine said, folding her arms.
"Well, when you dress like that, one of these boys here might be willing to help you with that," replied Brother Jed in a slightly quieter tone. "I see that you know well enough to dress like a lady, in a skirt—" He leaned down a little and cupped a hand as if to whisper something not lowering his voice at all. "—but your bosoms are showing.
"Perhaps you should speak with one of the Muslim girls here about how to dress. Their men, at least, know how to keep their women in line. Neither of them would be out here with green hair, like you, what does your father think about that?"
Frog snorted, placing her arms akimbo and smiling rakishly. "He helped me dye it the first time."
"Ah he did…did he." The dark eyes roving underneath bushy eyebrows found Elaine tapping away at her phone and his voice boomed out once again. "Are you trying to be a boy or a girl, young lady? Are you a student here?"
Elaine's gaze snatched angrily up from her work on the Android—she'd managed to shut him out for most of his bellowing at Frog, after all her friend could hold her own against one such as him—but she wondered what he had against a video game shirt and cargo pants precisely.
"Undergraduate and I am the Secretary at Arms of the ASU Godless Society," she said.
"Are you with the secular society over there?"
"No. We're not exactly related."
"And you belong to a group of atheists?"
"I am, but much of the group isn't," Elaine said. "Most of them are some form of Christian, a few Jews, a Buddhist, and several Wiccans."
"If you're not atheists," Brother Jed said, rumbling out the word with a stern emphasis, "why would you call yourselves the Godless Society?"
"That's easy, it's because we've killed one."
"Young lady, you should know that you cannot kill God," the preacher man said, shaking his head. "Even Nietzsche only said, 'God is dead.' Now, there have been those who have thought that did. But they were dopefiends and under the influence of L-S-D!" He punctuated each letter of the acronym with a pointed thrust of his index finger.
"Lysergic acid diethylamide?" Frog said. "Why would I go with that when I can make far more interesting pharama in my lab?"
"H-E-double-L awaits you if you don't give up your druggie, sinful ways," replied Brother Jed. "Turn from your sin or you will end up in the lake of firrrrre-uh, where there will be screaming and wailing and gnashing of teeeeeeth-eh!" He mimed the actions of gnashing teeth as he did so, running his jaw side-to-side. "You seem pretty smart, young lady," he added. "Surely you know in your head that you shouldn't do drugs."
Elaine shook her head. "And you can know this 'hell' with your brain?"
"Yes, the Lord gave you a brain so you could know this," Jed said.
"Your hypothesis is already disconfirmed, then," Elaine said. "If brains are the only mechanism by which we can access this 'hell' and must first die to do so. Brains cease to perceive when they die, meaning there's no logical connection between any brain and 'hell.'"
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Black Hat Magick is a serial webfiction occult magick and cyberpunk story set in Tempe, AZ at Arizona State University. It features the strange happenings that occur all around campus–unbeknownst to many of the students–a socially challenged but brilliant computer geek named Elaine, a ex-cheerleader now Chemical Engineering major named Frog, and an android named Hadaly. The Black Hat Magick Detective Agency–Elaine's brainchild–acts as both a source for technical computer help and a supernatural clearinghouse for even the weirdest problems that ASU students might run into.
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With more than 30 years of experience in commercial real estate, Loschiavo is an accomplished advisor to office users. His wealth of market knowledge and signficant transaction experience will enable him to help clients find solutions to complex real estate occupancy challenges. Some of his most notable clients include Citrix Systems, Brown & Brown Insurance, MCNA Dental, Life Extensions, Republic Services, Ryder Corp. and Fairfield Communities.
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Antibiograms of selected mastitis pathogens, performed during the decade 1995–2004, were retrospectively analysed in order to evaluate antimicrobial resistance and determine whether resistance changed over time. Results of 2763 strains of Staphylococcus aureus, coagulase negative staphylococci, Streptococcus uberis and Escherichia coli, against penicillin, ampicillin, oxytetracycline, kanamycin and streptomycin are discussed. Strains were isolated in clinical milk samples from sheep suspected of mastitis. The evolution over time of resistance was evaluated by means of logistic regression analysis. The resistance of staphylococci to penicillin appeared to be lower than those usually reported (4.1% of resistant strains in S. aureus; 15.3% for CNS). Higher rates of resistance were observed for aminoglycosides, relevant for S. uberis (84.5% for kanamycin and 92.5% for streptomycin) and S. aureus (14.6% for kanamycin and 63.3% for streptomycin). Overall resistance appeared to confirm the lower resistance in ovine pathogens than in bovine ones. Logistic regression highlighted no trends to increase for resistance over time.


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Duke professor William Darity Jr. is leading the conversation about reparations
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By Stefanie Pousoulides and Mona Tong
July 11, 2019 | 2:59am EDT
Current U.S. politicians are considering paying reparations to black descendants of American slavery at a level they haven't since the Reconstruction Era. And a Duke professor is at the helm of the discussion.
William A. Darity Jr., Samuel DuBois Cook professor of public policy and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, has been researching reparations for more than 30 years. He was asked to testify about his research for a recent House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on slavery reparations. Although he was unable to attend in person, he submitted written testimony.
This historic hearing comes after a bill, known as H.R. 40, was proposed in the House of Representatives as the "Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act." If passed, it would approve $12 million for a commission to develop proposals confronting the consequences of slavery and accordingly deliver recommendations to Congress.
H.R. 40 was first introduced in 1989 by former Congressman John Conyers, who subsequently reintroduced without success every year since until his retirement in 2017. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) reintroduced the bill in January.
Considering how long he and his colleagues have been conducting research on reparations, Darity told The Chronicle that he is "surprised at the attention that reparations is getting at the present moment."
He noted three key considerations to keep in mind as to why the issue has become so pertinent now—the first of which is police brutality.
"It may have something to do with the extent to which people have been able to see in a quite visible way police violence against black Americans, particularly police execution of unarmed black Americans," Darity said. "The capacity for people to actually see these things in real time is quite extraordinary. It's disturbing, but it's also extraordinary."
Another factor could be "the powerful structure of social media influencing people's conversations and ideas," such as the work of podcast figures like Antonio Moore, Darity explained. It also could be the policies of the Trump administration.
"There's also been a reaction to the horrendous attitude and outlook of the Trump administration on many fronts and has just led folks to think about—in a much more serious way—much bolder policies than typically that have been under consideration," he said.
Darity's testimony
Darity claimed that of all who provided testimony for the House hearing, he was the only one to significantly critique the text of the bill.
"My written testimony is the only one in some significant way that talks about the text of H.R. 40 and how it may be revised," Darity said. "The text of H.R. 40 needs to have modifications for it to be really, really effective."
One reason Darity critiques the bill is because he believes black descendants of slaves have claim for restitution starting with the beginning of the American republic, not the colonial period.
"The window that is relevant to the American black claim for reparations is 1776 to the present, not 1619 to the present, as the bill currently reads," he wrote in the testimony. "Since the eventual claim for legislative redress must be made on the United States government, the beginning date must be associated with the founding of the Republic, not the landing of enslaved persons at Jamestown."
In addition, he recommended that the commission issue a report within its first 18 months, and that the commission be appointed by Congress.
Those appointed to the commission, he argued, should all have expertise in areas such as the history of slavery and Jim Crow, criminal justice, housing inequities and a "detailed knowledge about the design and administration of prior reparations programs as guidelines for structuring a comprehensive reparations program for native black Americans."
Another key suggestion Darity makes concerns revising certain sections of the bill for historical accuracy. The bill incorrectly states that 4 million people were enslaved. This figure refers to those who were emancipated when the Civil War ended.
"Many more than 4 million persons were enslaved in the United States between 1619 and 1865," Darity wrote in the testimony.
Darity asserted that reparations for black Americans must be provided to those whose ancestors were enslaved in the United States. Having black reparations should strive to eliminate the racial wealth gap, design a systematic way to remember why reparations were needed and hold the United States culpable for allowing a system that "sanctioned slavery, legal segregation in the United States, and continues to permit ongoing racist practices."
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If Democrats take back the Senate and keep the House in 2020, Darity predicts there would be "a reasonable possibility" that H.R. 40 gets signed into law."
"I'm pleasantly surprised and somewhat optimistic about the prospect of H.R. 40 becoming a reality," Darity said.
The bill has the support of dozens of Democrats in the House and at least 11 Democratic presidential candidates, according to The New York Times. These include Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and candidates Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.).
Booker was the only presidential candidate to testify during the June 19 hearing. He talked about the disparities and injustices he experienced living in a "black and brown community below the poverty line." He also highlighted the urgency of addressing reparations now.
"We as a nation must address these persistent inequalities or we will never fully achieve the strength and the possibility," he said. "Hope is the act of conviction that despair will not have the last word."
However, one person whose support is critical for the bill's passage remains vehemently against it—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). McConnell told the press last month that he didn't think "reparations for something that happened 150 years ago, for whom none of us currently living are responsible, is a good idea."
An NBC News report revealed that two of McConnell's great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves combined. When asked July 9 about whether that changes his stance on reparations, McConnell told reporters that it had not.
"You know, I find myself once again in the same position as President Obama," he said. "We both oppose reparations, and we both are the descendants of slaveholders."
McConnell, who was alive during the Jim Crow Era, claimed that America has already tried to deal with their "original sin of slavery" through the Civil War, passing civil rights legislation and electing the first black president.
Darity opposed this idea in his testimony, emphasizing that the program would not be merely reparations for slavery, but reparations that "encompass the harms imposed throughout American history to the present moment—both slavery and post-slavery, both Jim Crow and post-Jim Crow."
Racism against black Americans can manifest itself in various forms, Darity explained to The Chronicle, such as police shootings of unarmed black Americans, mass incarceration and—the most important him as an economist—the racial wealth gap in the United States.
The average black household's net worth is $800,000 less than the average white household, Darity noted.
"That's staggering. It's unconscionable," he said. "But I think it's the consequence of an accumulation of effects, a host of injustices that find their origins of slavery."
The last time there was a significant discussion about making restitution to former enslaved people, Darity said, was approximately 150 years ago when former slaves were promised 40 acres of land after the Civil War.
That promise never came to fruition.
"There is a basis of restitution that's anchored in the failure to provide 40 acres, and I would also say that failure perhaps is one of the key factors why we have the enormous racial wealth gap that we have today," Darity said.
Editor's Note: This article originally said the U.S. government was considering reparations for black Americans, but it has been most recently updated to clarify that reparations are being considered for black descendants of American slavery.
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This app would not let me move on until I selected one of 3 ways for The App (not me) to select which location I want IT to chose. None of the 3 are how I want to place an order. I would prefer to manually select a store each time because if I'm picking up I am out for work and may want to pick up either close to a location I will be, close to my office or home. None of the 3 options will let me do this. AND mark my words I guarantee I will place an order, glance over it and miss something because I'm in a hurry and the order will be sent to a store I did not intend (because I have done this before on similar apps). I know that's ultimately my fault but it wouldn't happen if I could manually select the store location I want. Also the app should tell us if the location is out of something or the team should have a way to update it to remove options they don't have. I order crunchy tacos only to get there and discover their fryer was down and had to make a different choice. Clearly not the end of the world but i didn't find out until I went up to the counter to pick up so obviously the order wasn't ready, the point of the app is to save time when I'm in a hurry and if that can happen it would have been faster for me to just go through the line and place an order the regular way. That way it easy to say light salsa too.
This is just negligence on Chipotle's part.
I have ordered through your app 4 times since delivery became an option. Each time something was left out of my order. I have contacted the store that made the food each time this has happened. Each time they have claimed to be out of a certain item, I have asked why they didn't call me to ask if the substitutions they made were okay (some have not been because I have dietary restrictions). None of the employees I've spoken to, including shift managers and even the GM have been unable to explain why they are chronically out of items, why they leave items out of orders even when they are not out of stock, and why the employees in charge of making my order are incapable of calling me to make sure the substitutions they have to make are okay. The store I'm referring to is a Restauranteur store in Ellisville, MO. Having worked for an RT store myself, I know the standards they are supposed to be held to. The constant problems with making orders correctly and management's inability to supervise the store in a way that prevents constantly running out of food are not acceptable and are definitely not being addressed, as no improvements have been made for delivery customers. Feedback to the store has fallen on deaf ears. As such, I will no longer be a patron of this store, possibly of chipotle as a whole.
The app just doesn't seem to want you to use gift cards. There has been a problem for weeks of it not showing any gift card balance, which support told me was going to be fixed. Still not fixed. The bigger issue for me is that I can't load multiple gift cards. I LOVE Chipotle, so family and friends often give me gift cards for birthdays or Christmas. But when I have a $5 balance on a card thru the app (when it was actually working!), I can't load another gift card to get it high enough to actually make the purchase, and there is no ability to split the payment between the gift card balance and credit card. The "response" to this is to use the small gift card balance toward a purchase in store...which makes the app pretty pointless! If I can only make 50% of the orders I would like to via the app, and the app itself is apparently unreliable, what is the point of the app? It is not a tall task to add the capability to load multiple gift cards or split the payment between a gift card and credit card (in fact I think the early versions of the app HAD that ability), so why is this still not a thing? I will eat Chipotle either way, but the point of the app is the convenience, and I find the continued neglect of the payment portion of the app supremely disappointing.


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MY FOOT/MY EGO............
MY FOOT/MY EGO
I just came from MONTANOS SHOE STORE. For a month I have been hobbling unable to step down on my right foot. Finally I called and my brother Anthony said, "Come on down to the store." And within a half hour , he had diagnosed the issue, did the correct shoe treatment and I walked out of there "healed". My little bro helped me walk again. Once someone said to me in admiration, "You are Linda Montano?" when I told them my name!!!! I puffed up and was about to tell them about my 40983736 performances, so egoed and proud I felt. And then they said, "You are from MONTANO'S SHOE STORE??" I laughed so hard. I am proud to be associated with this healing center where THE ART OF LOVING SERVICE is practiced by all.
LINDA IN SWEDEN WITH IMAGE OF MARY IN THE TREE...WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE STORY THE VIRGIN MARY APPARITION: SWEDEN
It had a been a struggle for months:
1. Translating the plane ticket language from European time/info to NY time and info.
2. Quieting thoughts of flying and then returning to NY on Sept 11, the memorial day of the Twin Towers Fall.
3. Wondering what it would be like to perform not only outside for 5 days but also from a moving train for two of those days.
4. Hoping I had enough left-over chops to reach/communicate to a mixed audience of non English speaking children and elders in their outside plaza.
5. Wishing my costume were flashier so that I could successfully make myself performatively visible and still be a dignified 74 year old elder!
Those were just a few of my concerns.
But one of my more pre-journey pressing 3 AM worry-concerns, the one about getting from the airport to the hotel using THEIR MONEY/exchange, always an issue for me in foreign lands, must have been communicated subliminally to the gracious European Curator-host, because at the last minute he sent me a text saying, "I'll meet you at the airport." And another boon-statement, ..."and we are going to give you a private room at the hotel." This news was almost equivalent to my winning an appearance on the Jimmy Fallon show, accompanied by Bob Dylan. And of course I would be doppleganging Bob...that is, with me, disguised as Bob since we Do look alike! That's how happy I felt for a few hours!
It is curious that sharing a bathroom and bedroom had never been an issue previously, but now, a new awareness of age-related impermanence with the resulting body odors absconded with my once always there courage which, when I was a mere youth, allowed me to defecate on demand, burp with a smile, pass gas with confidence and act as a deserving Natural Homo-Erectus-evolved animal at all times. But now my 7 score cells were showing/smelling of slowly decaying wear and tare; something that a Dollar Store room deodorant spray could hardly handle or hide. But not to worry, I was told that I would live alone. Natural and solo. Yayyyy.
Besides the worry, the real reason for my visit was to participate in an International Performance Art festival with 20-somethings/millennials who I "thought" didn't speak my art-language which is: the language of Arte Povera; the language of LESS IS MORE; the language that says that the body is the ONLY material for art and action; the language that declares that every action is sacred and healing. I'm not saying that their performances did not include my prejudices, I'm just saying, these are my game changing opinions about what performance art IS & ISNT. But despite my first judgment that we even had aesthetic differences I discovered that we were communally united by the fact that we were housed in a more than 5 star feng shui hotel which included a see-through swimming pool, cantilevering over the street, 8 floors in the air. We were the rowdy, sloppy, loud, disheveled, rebellious artists, often dripping with post-performance detritus ...but for a week, we rested and lived in the lap of beauty and luxury. This respectful treatment softened my mental hijacking and helped me defer my pre-performance focus from what about me, me, me and my always incessant internal blah, blah, blah which precedes my performing in public and allowed me to seal the "intention" to one of doing art, not for applause, but for healing and service to all, the intention I religiously cull most of the time. And as a friend said, before I left the US, "Have a good pilgrimage," a kind, send-off wish that became etched in my memory bank of words to live by, affirmations to remember, things to always do. That is, enjoy the pilgrimage (divineness) of these very brief days in this beautiful country you are visiting on this rotating/ever moving earth-ball, no matter what! Performing or doing dishes on a blustery cold morning in the Northeast are both pilgrimage worthy activities I would imagine, no? His words shifted everything, even before I left the US because I decided to go there to be blessed, not to wow them with my 74 year old brilliance that age had afforded me . Not to impress anyone with the wisdom I had accrued from my 40 year performance career/chicken shenanigans, as if I could!!!
After a luxurious bath in the healing, non lead-laced waters in this eco-friendly, non-Monsantoed, unfracked fairytale safe zone, I devoted my mind and time to hearing and reading spiritual teachings thanks to a gratis WIFI connection on my new repurposed/gifted from my brother's IPhone. For hours I studied at the school of Google:
1. How to be really still.
2. Why be silent?
3. What is suffering and why do we suffer?
4. What is my method to cessate my own suffering?
5. What do I need to do before I die, now that I have stopped making videos?
6. What is my soul's work?
Because of these jet-lagged hours of retreat and study, I birthed a new courage and surprised even myself when I "performed" saying a Catholic Rosary publically while fingering the beads/moving my lips in prayer on the train, during our public "train performance", which afforded us a chance to improvise, interrupt, radically alter our own minds and the minds of the sleepy/sedate/non-confrontive early AM passengers who were nudged out of morning sleepiness to include our wonderfulness, our creative antics/actions, our strangeness, our trespassing into their "What is this nonsense?" minds. And I thank the wee young one's for inspiring me to break my pattern of , "I only do 948 hour performances, inside, on stage, for audiences of 390 thousand. Not on moving trains!!!!"
Obviously eating well at the 40 itemed breakfast smorgasboard, taking approximately 45 baths a day, learning from 10 other committed and passionate performance artists, listening to profound internet teachings and being included in this lively art-tribe lovingly cared for by curators from the best possible scenario of respect, mystically massaged into me an atmosphere of focused retreat, readying me for miracles the most dramatic being an almost blinding tree apparition of the Virgin Mary outside of the Catholic church, one mile from the festival. I saw her, really I did, because the day before I left, I was pulled by I don't know what? Was it the smell of the Canadian artist's expressed Mother's Milk which I dreamt I drank or really did drink after her public 4 month old infant inspired performance which actually included said liquid? Did that make me find Mother Mary in the tree? A mother-to-mother happening? I wasn't going back to the church expecting anything like this, but to visit the wooden statue of Mary with the gargantuan hands, the Mary with the big blond hair (a Nordic meme?), the Mary statue inside the church, the Mary holding an oversized light haired, big footed Infant Jesus in her muscular, carved wood arms.
But at the entrance to the church I was stopped by Her. Outside, in the freedom of air and trees, she was ecologically/ naturally present and her light stopped me cold because there, right there next to the front door to the church, she called and said, " You don't have to go inside, I'm right here, beaming light, wearing
a blue cloak, white dress and I'm flashing you with a Transfiguredesque light show! Stop, look, listen. AND I'm NOT A PERFORMANCE, I'm REALLY me! "
Luckily I had been using my brother's gifted IPhone for a month and as a result was able to take a photo, preserve the miracle and like all folks who snap, snap, snap and refuse to see, I fell into the trap of documenting and refusing to experience. As a result, I captured the prayer instead of praying but because I did have proof of the miracle, that did allow me to get a holy imprimatur and ok from Orthodox-minded, pious Catholics and non Catholics back home who had had similar Visitations. And they all said, "Yes, that looks like Mary!" By then, everything seemed non-ordinary and liminally supported by Delta Brain waves stirred by my new artist-friends' luminous performances and our mutual excursions into creative hive-mind.
A day later I flew out of fairy land, knowing the dream had just begun.
THE PERFORMANCE OF MONTANO'S SHOE STORE WITH GPA PHOTO
THE PERFORMANCE OF MONTANO'S SHOE STORE
THE PERFORMANCE OF MONTANO'S SHOE STORE: LINDA MARY MONTANO 2000/2016
Years and years ago my Compobosso-Guardielfiera Italy-born grandfather immigrated to NY State via Ellis Island to repair and eventually sell shoes. I remember him well: a large, silent, gently commanding and charismatic presence who visited our home a block away from his in Saugerties NY. Every Sunday he came and I performed the ritual of getting his approval as he sat in the side room with me while I stumbled through that week's piano lesson. It ritualistically ended when I would turn around, face him and try to gauge how much he liked my "concert." Getting Grandpa Montano's blessing was a good thing and his response was never over effusive, patronizing or boundary breaking....just kind attention with the promise of a continuation of his weekly listening and caring presence. The 50 cents he always gave me and his mantra that he always said, " Could do better," something he said a lot about a lot, were incidental to his being there and his support but admittedly important components to the whole experience which was a fine introduction to my learning the art of performing, a genre and vocation that I continue even now, 50 years later. Everything was there: good attention/focus/audience/continuity/challenge/support/culture/feelings and the irony of the same response repeated every time. And MONEY! put them all together and you've got excellent training for a performance art career. Thanks Grandpa.
But back to the shoe store. Grandpa was nine when his mother died and he and his father lived with his aunt. He was the only surviving child of five siblings, had three years schooling and started shoemaking when he was 9, a practice that he continued for 10 years in Guardielfiera-Compobosso. School was in the morning and work in the afternoon. The pay was food.
When he came to America at 19 ( the Italians came after the Irish, just something sociological to think about) he lived with distant relatives in Hudson NY and worked there to repay his fare which they had shipped to him so that he could come here. He stayed in Hudson three years repairing and selling shoes, paid off his debt, then tried to find a place in Coxsackie and couldn't so he moved to Saugerties NY ( it says Friendly/Historic Saugerties on the sign as you enter the village) which is on the west side of the Hudson River. There he opened Montano's Shoe Store, made enough money for Maria Chioco's fare and sent for his wife to be who also came via Ellis Island and was as spiritual, silently dignified, stalwart and devoted as her husband to be. Grandma and Grandpa raised their family here, not in Glasco, the village 15 minutes south where all of the other Italians lived, but here, in Saugerties, where the "business" is/was. Another sociological fine point.
Montano's Shoe Store continues, some 94 years later, changing only locations( moving one store north) but never the "look" or intention to serve or the outstanding quality of their products. Oh, yes, there is one change: absent from the store is the wood-paneled five foot high machine which we visited daily as kids when we went to see my Dad. We would stick our feet inside the two slots so that we could see our foot bones, never realizing the foolishness of frequent x-rays (nobody did in the 50's). It disappeared from the store in the 60's. Question: what are we inadvertently doing today that will be verboten tomorrow?
My dad and uncle ran Montano's with their father along with my other uncle who worked in the bank and would come and help out at emergency full-force times. These days had designated code names , for example: back to school; Christmas; rush; no tax week; new spring line. We all knew this secret language and were alert to what it meant: Montanos rushed through lunch or didn't eat at all; Montanos focused fiercely and their eyes went from feet to shoe box exclusively; and everyone was on call, children included, especially my mother who actually seemed happy to be summoned from housewifery to another kind of interaction, one more adultly public. Even though Mom was an accomplished painter and volunteered for several committees in town, she was absolutely loyal to Montano's Shoe Store. Her dyed shoes for weddings were legendary and demanded accuracy and an artists sensibility, one she had in overabundance.
My fascination has never waivered for the actions which the Shoe Store people perform. It's the place where everyone who enters is bowed to, in a way. Customers sit and their feet are touched, felt...toes are gauged as to their position in the shoe about to be sold (the very famous Montano trademark) and the art of shoe fitting is a reliable and professional rite of passage performed on everyone who comes through the door. Since visiting India and witnessing the foot touching rituals of respect performed there, I am again left with comparisons that I would like to peruse, but this is not the place for this anthropological dialogue.
The shoe store is the place where a whole lot of kneeling and a whole lot of healing happens. For isn't the foot one of the most important places in the body? If the foot isn't comfortable and well-soled, the body cant maneuver through life smoothly. We need support to defy the pull of gravity and walk well in this mysterious and ever-moving-turning planet earth with its daily challenges and calls for discriminating sure-footed compassion.
Montanos Shoe Store is in a village which is gentrifying as we speak and filling to the brim with antique stores, a biscotti bakery, a many "starred" NY Times best restaurant and a few Soho-like gourmet coffee/lunch spots. It's here in Saugerties, a somewhat best kept secret village, where Grandpa Montanos Shoe Store sells womens, childrens and mens: boots, sneakers, clogs, slippers, shoes, shoelaces, shoepolish and laces. Just like it did in 1906. Orthodics is new and a 90's addition as Grandpa's initial vision continues.
For 94 years, all of the Montanos who have worked there and do work there( too many to list) and an incredibly supportive staff have been kneeling down at their customer's feet and fitting/healing:
the lame
the pronated
the drop footed
the metatarsalgiaed
the foot splayed/slew footed/out toed
the dystoniaed
the bunioned
the arthritically reconfigured
the hammertoed
the ingrown toenailed
the mallet toed
the warted
the post stroked
the tibial torsioned
the new hip/new kneed
the blistered
the flatfooted
the gouted
the swollen footed
the high arched
the heel spured
the claw toed
the fat pad dimished
the corned
the calloused
the plantar fasiatused
the parkinsoniaed
the ligament bruised
the one leg length compromised
the polioed
the club footed
the metatarsal-compromised
the toeless
the diabetic foot infected
the Raynauds-cold footed
the one foot bigger discrepancied
the broken toed
....as well as the tri-athletes, the dancers, the walkers, the first graders, the carpenters needing steel toe shoes, and as Joan Reinmuth reminded me...... "the sandals, shoes and boots for the children....and the nurses shoes, hunters shoes, firemens shoes, electricians shoes and party goers shoes." And I most happily add: the cowgirl/cowboy boots! Now you see why people walk out of the store after a shoe treatment from a Montano, dancing and crying with gratitude and no-pain joy!
For 94 years Montano's Shoe Store has seasonally and tastefully decorated their front windows to reflect the seasons and the new styles in stock.
For 94 years three generations of Montanos, their families and staff have been supported financially; food, clothing, schooling, cars, from Montanos Shoe Store.
For 94 years sons and daughters and sons of sons have worked there. Now third and fourth generation sons are owners.
For 94 years the reputation for providing a good fit, good service, and the respect of a family atmosphere continues the tradition.
Recently three of the staff were not at the store and with only three others there during "back to school" rush, they needed someone to answer the ever ringing phone. I "performed " that duty, watched from the back room and observed an incredible , living performance:
Their performance of focusing on the task at hand with daily, supreme patience-9-5
Their performance of service to all people all day long, 9-5
Their performance of ordering/shelving/stocking/sending/adjusting/building up/putting supports in shoes, 9-5
Their performance of accommodating squirming children, tremoring elders, undecided/picky boomers, returnees, 9-5
Their performance of seeing every kind of unmentionable foot, sock, foot condition imaginable, 9-5
Their performance of maintaining a traditional look so long that its back in style again and has become retro, 9-5
Their performance of family business being well done with dignity and caring service, 9-5
Their performance of healing disguised as business, 9-5
The performance artist in me is in awe! The ENDURANCE ARTIST in me applauds!
Thanks Grandpa and Grandma Montano. Grandpa, I know you would say, "Could do better," but I am looking at the picture of you in the front window and hearing you say, "I BLESS YOU ALL."
WWW.MONTANOSSHOESTORE.COM
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Q: I'm getting different results on 2 pieces of code that I thought would give the same results Here's an example:
library("data.table")

set.seed(12)

table201901 <- data.frame(ID = as.character(paste0(sample(LETTERS,5000, replace=TRUE),sample(0:9,5000, replace=TRUE))),
                 EID = paste0(sample(LETTERS,200, replace=TRUE),sample(letters,5000, replace=TRUE),sample(1:9,5000, replace=TRUE))
                 )

set.seed(15)

table201812 <- data.frame(ID = paste0(sample(LETTERS,5000, replace=TRUE),sample(0:9,5000, replace=TRUE)),
                          EID = paste0(sample(LETTERS,5000, replace=TRUE),sample(letters,5000, replace=TRUE),sample(0:9,5000, replace=TRUE))
)

table201901 <- as.data.table(table201901)
table201812 <- as.data.table(table201812)

setkey(table201901, "ID")
setkey(table201812, "ID")

table201901[!table201812]

fsetdiff(table201901, table201812)

setkey(table201901, "ID","EID")
setkey(table201812, "ID","EID")

table201901[!table201812]

fsetdiff(table201901, table201812)

My goal is to get a table that has line items that are in table201901, but not in table201812.
I thought fsetdiff(table1,table2) and table1[!table2] would give me the same output, but they don't.

A: The following examples demonstrate both approaches. For simplicity, two small dummy data.tables are generated with partly overlapping rows:
library(data.table)

(dt1 <- data.table(
    col1 = rep(c(1, 3, 3), each = 2),
    col2 = rep(c("only dt1", "match col2", "match row"), each = 2)
))
#>    col1       col2
#> 1:    1   only dt1
#> 2:    1   only dt1
#> 3:    3 match col2
#> 4:    3 match col2
#> 5:    3  match row
#> 6:    3  match row

(dt2 <-  data.table(
    col1 = rep(c(3, 4, 5), each = 2),
    col2 = rep(c("match row", "match col2", "only dt2"), each = 2)
))
#>    col1       col2
#> 1:    3  match row
#> 2:    3  match row
#> 3:    4 match col2
#> 4:    4 match col2
#> 5:    5   only dt2
#> 6:    5   only dt2

## keep all rows in dt1 not in dt2
dt1[!dt2, on = names(dt1)]
#>    col1       col2
#> 1:    1   only dt1
#> 2:    1   only dt1
#> 3:    3 match col2
#> 4:    3 match col2

## equivalent output with fsetdiff
fsetdiff(dt1, dt2, all = TRUE)
#>    col1       col2
#> 1:    1   only dt1
#> 2:    1   only dt1
#> 3:    3 match col2
#> 4:    3 match col2

## keep unique rows in dt1 not in dt2
unique(dt1[!dt2, on = names(dt1)])
#>    col1       col2
#> 1:    1   only dt1
#> 2:    3 match col2

## equivalent output with fsetdiff
fsetdiff(dt1, dt2, all = FALSE)
#>    col1       col2
#> 1:    1   only dt1
#> 2:    3 match col2

## keep rows dt1 not matching in dt2 only by "col2"
dt1[!dt2, on = "col2"]
#>    col1     col2
#> 1:    1 only dt1
#> 2:    1 only dt1

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