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A Virginia state senator found headstones on his property. It brought to light a historic injustice in D.C.
1 year ago Terry L. Kramer
A search for headstones from the Columbian Harmony Cemetery that had been pulled up and used as riprap along the shore of the Potomac River in King George, Va.
The Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood Metro Station was built over what was once the Columbian Harmony Cemetery.
Nathan Burrell, a deputy director with the state Department of Conservation and Recreation, examines a headstone in the riprap.
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KING GEORGE COUNTY, Va. —Richard and Lisa Stuart were walking beside the Potomac River when they noticed an odd rock in the riprap on the water's edge.
"I think that's a headstone," Richard Stuart remembers saying to his wife that day four years ago.
Once they started looking, they saw another. And another. With horror, Stuart discovered that a two-mile stretch of erosion control along the riverfront farm he had just purchased was full of grave markers.
A state senator, Stuart enlisted Virginia historians to figure out where they came from. The trail led upriver to the nation's capital, and illuminated a dark truth about how Washington became the city it is today: The headstones were from Columbian Harmony Cemetery, a historic African American burial ground that was dug up and relocated in 1960 to make way for commercial development.
Now the site of the Rhode Island Avenue-Brentwood Metro station and surrounding shops and condos, Columbian Harmony had been the final resting place for a century's worth of D.C.'s most illustrious Black citizens. Among them: Elizabeth Keckley, confidante of Mary Todd Lincoln; Philip Reid, who helped create the statue of Freedom atop the U.S. Capitol dome; and scores of Black Civil War veterans from the Union Army.
But it wasn't just famous names. Some 37,000 people were laid to rest there between 1859 and 1960. Columbian Harmony is among at least five major African American cemeteries in D.C. that were obliterated in the past century for the sake of development.
Even in the annals of such destruction, it is unusual to find a trove of so many headstones discarded like scrap, said Michael L. Blakey, director of the Institute for Historical Biology at William & Mary.
"It is dehumanizing," said Blakey, who has studied historical Black cemeteries around the country. He draws a connection between destroying cemeteries and the police brutality against African Americans that has triggered protests this year. "Racism is about dehumanizing people so that they can be dealt with without empathy. . . . This is just another manifestation of a knee on a neck for eight minutes or a body left in the middle of a street for four hours."
In this case, at least, there is an effort to atone. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) has stepped in to help Stuart, and the state has enlisted a nonprofit group to remove as many headstones as possible from the river. Through a tentative deal with Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), there are plans to send many of the headstones to the relocated cemetery in Landover, Md., and create memorials in both Maryland and Virginia.
For descendants, the discovery solves a mystery and reveals an indignity that some had never known existed.
"When I was told, I was very angry. I'd never even heard about this," said Tarence Bailey, 45, of Talbot County, Md., whose five-times great-grandfather was buried at Columbian Harmony by Frederick Douglass, who was his younger brother. "I knew about moving the cemetery, but as far as taking the headstones and chucking them in the river — that's a level of disrespect that goes beyond. That's desecration of graves."
'Devastating'
Old pictures of the Columbian Harmony Cemetery show a pastoral landscape of trees and rolling lawns dotted with headstones.
Columbian was the District's first burial society for free Blacks when it formed in 1825. Its original cemetery was bounded by Fifth, Sixth and S streets and Florida Avenue NW. Those graves were moved to a larger location at Ninth Street and Rhode Island Avenue NE around 1859, according to city documents.
Those roughly 30 acres were the city's busiest Black burial ground between 1880 and 1920, the D.C. planning office said in a report on the city's cemeteries.
Owned by several families, the burial society had fallen on hard financial times by the 1950s. A developer named Louis Bell tried for years to buy the acreage. By 1960 he finally succeeded, promising to relocate all the graves to a new cemetery in Prince George's County, Md.
Headstones, though, were hauled off as scrap. A former owner of Stuart's farm in Virginia bought several truckloads to build up his shoreline.
Apparently some of the burials didn't make the move, either. The city bought the property from Bell in 1967, according to news accounts of the era, and when Metro began construction in the early 1970s, the work unearthed human remains. Newspaper articles described at least five coffins at the site, piles of dirt containing bones, and — during work on a parking lot in 1979 — "pieces of dark cloth, fragments of coffin and bones."
Today, a small metal plaque at the Rhode Island Avenue Metro station is the last reminder of the lost cemetery. Commuters rush past toward buses and parking lots or head to the upscale shops nearby. On the pedestrian bridge that swoops over the train tracks, someone has spray-painted "Black Lives Matter."
The graves were relocated to what is now National Harmony Memorial Park in Landover, where many remain unidentified. National Harmony's current owners — a national network based in Texas with more than 2,000 locations — say the original handwritten records can pinpoint the location of some bodies, but not all.
National Harmony covers more than 100 hilly acres in the shadow of FedEx Field, a manicured oasis barely visible from suburban roadways. Atop the cemetery's highest point, the dome of the U.S. Capitol and its statue of Freedom mark the distant skyline.
Violetta Sharps Jones, 72, has been coming to National Harmony for much of her life to pay respects to her deceased family members, though she has no idea where the earliest ones lie. Until she learned the truth late last month, Jones said she always assumed her ancestors were too poor to afford headstones.
"You see how devastating that is?" she said.
Righting a wrong
Stuart's farm is an unlikely solution to the mystery of the missing headstones.
A former plantation, the property had been in Stuart's family for generations until it was sold during the Great Depression. John Wilkes Booth stopped nearby during his escape after assassinating President Abraham Lincoln, but Stuart's great-great-great-uncle, Dr. Richard Henry Stuart, refused to treat the suspicious fugitive's wounded ankle.
Today, most of the farm's 1,400 acres are covered by a conservation easement that prevents further development. Stuart, a lawyer, bought it in 2016 and moved there with his wife and children. The passage of years had done little to harm the Stuart family's own historical burial ground on the property, which features elegant marble tombstones behind an iron fence near the home.
"It was an incredibly special time for me to be able to buy back the property where my people came to America, literally, in the 1600s," Stuart said. His discovery of those other grave markers — broken and muddy — was a sharp contrast. "If I were the descendant of those folks whose stones landed on the shoreline of the river, I would be angry. The dead are supposed to be revered and respected," he said.
A Republican whose state Senate district starts along the Potomac near Montross and stretches through Stafford and western Prince William counties into Loudoun, Stuart turned to state officials for help with his situation.
He and Clyde Cristman, who heads Virginia's Department of Conservation and Recreation, consulted with historians who traced names on the headstones to Columbian Harmony. After two years, the officials were still figuring out what to do about them when a part-time historian named Lex Musta showed up with a plan.
Musta, 48, says he specializes in "restorative justice." He had known about the abandoned headstones since 2009, when someone kayaking on the Potomac posted pictures of them on a blog.
After working to restore historical African American burial places in South Carolina, Musta had moved to the District and begun volunteering at the African American Civil War Museum.
Haunted by the photos of the abandoned headstones, Musta resolved to assemble a group of volunteers and rescue as many of the markers as possible. Because the shoreline was adjacent to Caledon State Park, he called Cristman to see about getting permission.
Cristman said that the state couldn't hand over tombstones to a private individual but that if there was a nonprofit willing to take on the job, state law might allow Stuart to donate the grave markers. Musta took the idea to the History, Arts, and Science Action Network (HASAN), a group formed by historian Kelley Fanto Deetz and adventurer/filmmaker Justin Fornal. The two had met years earlier on a National Geographic film about the insurrectionist Nat Turner.
"We're trying to fix these broken bits of our past," Deetz said, describing how the project fit with her group's goals. "I'm getting goose bumps right now thinking about this."
It took roughly a year of planning, but work got underway in mid-September. Northam went to the site to see the first few headstones that had been reclaimed from the river.
"People need to hear about this," Northam said to the group assembled for the work. "Anything that we can do at the state level working with you and telling the stories — it's a powerful story."
Northam's chief of staff, Clark Mercer, has coordinated efforts with his counterparts in Maryland and the District. A draft memorandum of agreement calls for transferring as many headstones as possible to National Harmony, which has agreed to take them, and creating a memorial garden for those who were buried at Columbian Harmony inside the cemetery's entrance. Mercer said he's hoping to line up National Guard troops to escort the stones in their travels.
"It's an incredible story connecting the three jurisdictions," said Hogan spokesman Michael Ricci, who said his office is working with Northam "to make sure the headstones are appropriately returned where they should be."
The District hopes to be involved in researching the history of the people who were buried at Columbian Harmony, said Andrew Trueblood, director of the D.C. Office of Planning. "Especially at this particular moment in time, given the Black Lives Matter movement and other things, it is obviously an incredibly important and resonant story," he said. "We can't change the past, but we can commemorate it better."
Stuart and Northam both said they intend to create a parklike memorial along the Potomac shore atop any headstones that cannot be removed — an effort that might involve the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers because of its effect on wetlands, Mercer said.
Costs remain unclear, but Mercer assured those gathered last month for the first day of work that funding would not be an obstacle.
"We have money, and budgets reflect [our] values. We're going to pay for this. I don't want to hear about having to fundraise to do what's right," he said. "This is a collective shame that we should feel, but also we can do the right thing."
Finding family
For several days, Fornal and a small group from HASAN slept in tents at the nearby state park and went out in kayaks in the early morning to survey the shoreline, marking headstones by GPS coordinates. Wading into waist-deep water, they used heavy machinery on shore to slowly extract blocks of stone that could weigh as much as 1,000 pounds.
"They're covered with all kinds of debris — big pieces of driftwood, other big pieces of concrete that have really locked them in," Fornal said. "A lot of them were face down. So I'd have to dig my hand into the dirt and then stick my hand underneath it and then you feel — you start to feel the writing. And you're like, 'Okay, stop everything, we found one.' "
The group recovered about 50 — an initial batch, with more to be retrieved later. Stuart donned a pair of overalls and drove a tractor to haul the headstones to a gathering place at the state park.
Musta had contacted several families with connections to the cemetery and invited them down for a look. The stones were laid out on wooden pallets in neat rows.
"Just amazing," said William D. Hart, 61, of Oxon Hill, Md., who came with his wife and two adult sons. His great-grandfather, William Henry Harrison Hart, was a trailblazing lawyer and professor who helped establish the first law school building at Howard University.
In 1904, Hart tested Jim Crow laws by refusing to move to a "colored car" when his train crossed the Mason-Dixon line into Maryland. He was arrested, and he pursued the case until a federal appeals court ruled that Maryland's racist law could not be applied across state lines.
The professor died in 1935 and was buried in Columbian Harmony Cemetery. Growing up, the younger Hart revered his ancestor and often visited the relocated grave at National Harmony, though he wondered why such an accomplished man had no headstone.
"The story always was, nobody knows. It was a big mystery," Hart said. About 15 years ago, he bought a stone bench and had it placed there in commemoration.
Learning that the original marker might be out there, somewhere, is reassuring, Hart said. One tangible connection has already surfaced: A dredged-up stone bore the family name Terrell, and Hart has found that name repeatedly in his ancestor's correspondence.
"I'm way beyond anger and sadness. The feeling evoked most in me is elation that [the headstones] even exist and that there's a connection to my great-grandfather," he said. "This is incredibly restorative for us."
Others were struggling to process the revelations.
"I'm filled with mixed feelings," said the Rev. Jerome Plummer-Fowler, 73. "Families spent exorbitant money to pay for these memorials. And for them to just be discarded as they were. . ."
Plummer-Fowler had numerous ancestors in the old cemetery. He doesn't recall visiting it as a child, but does remember the news stories about bones being found when the Metro station was built.
"It was scandalous," he said. "It's disgraceful."
No one is sure how many headstones might lie out in the mud — probably hundreds, possibly thousands. The older ones made of limestone are worn almost smooth by 60 years in the river, but the granite stones often look brand new.
At least one weathered stone is shaped similarly to those that mark graves of U.S. Colored Troops — the Black soldiers who fought for the Union in the Civil War. More than 400 such veterans are thought to have been buried in Columbian Harmony, including at least two Medal of Honor winners, according to Frank Smith, director of the African American Civil War Memorial Museum.
Musta has been researching names as the stones emerge from the river. "Each of these stories is so incredible," he said.
Benjamin and Maggie L. Whipps were the parents of William W. Whipps, an early Black pharmacist and co-founder of the Washington Association of Colored Druggists.
Harry Clinton Lee, born in 1864, was one of D.C.'s first Black police officers.
Mercer Alexander was the son of Sandy Alexander, a Civil War veteran who founded several churches in Washington. The father was also buried in the cemetery, but his headstone has not been found.
Even without knowing the backgrounds, each stone carries quiet power. "A loving husband, devoted father and faithful friend," reads one. "Our beloved father," reads another. A giant stone scroll, broken off above the name, is inscribed with a poem: "Who took me from my mother's breast/ And rocked me when I could not rest/ Who now is by the angels blest/ My grandmother."
Kevin Douglass Greene, 59, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., has gone to the site several times since learning about the headstones. His great-grandfather was a son of Frederick Douglass and was buried at Columbian Harmony, as was Greene's grandfather.
Standing on the shore one day last month, Greene said it was hard not to fantasize about turning over a stone and finding a familiar name. But he knew that was unlikely.
Instead, he said he took comfort just knowing something connected with his family was out there. Wearing black rubberized gloves and steadying himself on a pile of driftwood, Greene tilted an obvious headstone in the riprap toward the light: "Annie Wells," it said, the date of death worn away.
"At least we're finding someone's family," Greene said. "I can't walk away disappointed."
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The 2 of Pentacles shows the trickster God Mercury showing false visions of home to the sailors awash in the boats upon a storm-tossed sea.
It signifies false promises, deliberate miscommunication, trouble in journeys.
Pamela drew upon her admiration of the artist Edward Burne-Jones and used his design "False Mercury" within the Flower book published by Burne-Jones and circulated to his circle of friends.
The book was donated to the British Museum in 1909, the year Pamela visited the museum to view the Sola-Busca deck and the same year in which she designed her Tarot with A. E. Waite.
You may be surprised to know that this is the first time – here, on this page – this source and design has been revealed, despite a century of people guessing about the card in hundreds of books and thousands of websites.
This image is not just certainly the source because there are few other images in the world specifically of "a strange-hatted figure with a mercurial serpent-belt and infinity symbol (also on the Mercurial Magician) sporting two disks in the exact same pose in front of a boat on a wavy sea" (if there are, prior to Burne-Jones and Pamela, please let us know!) but because several of the other images in the Flower Book are also virtually identical to Pamela's cards.
The influence on her design is absolutely unmistakable, whether it was conscious or unconscious – and we believe it conscious given the correspondence between the original flower book meanings and Pamela's use to illustrate the ideas of each tarot card.
… but it is read also as news and messages in writing, as obstacles, agitation, trouble, embroilment. Reversed: Enforced gaiety, simulated enjoyment, literal sense, handwriting, composition, letters of exchange.
So now you know why the figure has a strange hat, a snake-like belt, and what he is doing! And for the first time, why a juggling figure has anything at all to do with Waite's description of news, writing, messages, etc. all of which are attributes of Mercury.
Pamela's version is a quick character-sketch of False Mercury – she was really working very fast; the whole deck was created by her in just five and a half months, with little or no correction or editing of the finished and delivered images!
There are a number of typos and errors in the original Key to the Tarot by A. E. Waite. One is that in his description of the Strength card he says of the woman that "over her head there broods the same symbol of life which we have seen in the card of the Hierophant" when he means the Magician. This was corrected in later versions.
Another error is that he missed the reversed description of the 2 of Cups from the very first version of the Key to the Tarot, which has never been provided.


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Saints Open 2018 Season at N.C. Wesleyan on Saturday
N.C. Wesleyan
Thomas More (0-1) 0 7 7 14 28
N.C. Wesleyan (1-0) 14 7 0 14 35
Pa: Nate Gardner - 338
Ru: Jeff Black - 108
Rec: Trey Lancaster - 210
Pa: Justin Post - 238
Ru: Hjavier Pitts - 121
Rec: Logan Winkler - 76
(CRESTVIEW HILLS, Ky.) – The Thomas More College football kicks off the 2018 season on Saturday (September 1) when it travels to Rocky Mount, North Carolina to take on North Carolina Wesleyan at 12 p.m. at the Rocky Mount Athletic Stadium.
THE TEAMS: Thomas More, an independent, finished last season with an overall record of 6-4. The Saints won their last five games of the season. N.C. Wesleyan, a member of the USA South Athletic Conference, was 3-7 last season with a 3-4 mark in the USA South.
THE COACHES: Trevor Stellman is in his first season as the head coach at Thomas More. He is no stranger to the Saints as he is a 2010 graduate of Thomas More and has been a Saint assistant coach the previous eight seasons. Jeff Filkovski is entering his sixth season as the head coach of the Battling Bishops. Prior to his time at N.C. Wesleyan he served as the head coach at Marietta College in Ohio.
THE OFFFENSE
THOMAS MORE: The Saints averaged 38.9 points per game last season. Thomas More had 479.9 yards per game in 2017 as it had 278.9 yards per game on the ground and 201.0 yards per game passing. Junior quarterback Justin Post will start under center as he played in eight games last season and was 13-of-27 passing for 180 yards and two touchdowns and also rushing the ball six time for 103 yards. Senior running backs Hjavier Pitts and Luke Zajac will split time at running back in 2018. Pittsh carried the ball 178 times for 1,132 yards and 11 touchdowns last season with, while Zajac had 136 carries for 801 yards and eight touchdowns. Senior Logan Winkler is the top returning receiver as he had 19 catches for 466 yards and five touchdowns.
N.C. WESLEYAN: N.C. Wesleyan averaged 27.3 points per game in 2017. The Battling Bishops averaged 360.2 yards per game as they had 157.1 yards per game rushing and 203.1 yards per passing. Senior quarterback Nate Gardner returns under center as he was 58-of-141 passing for 968 yards and seven touchdowns. The Battling Bishops top returning rusher is senior running back Adrian Minondo, who had 92 carries in 2017 for 318 yards and seven touchdowns. Senior wide receiver Trey Lancaster is the top returning receiver as he had 47 catches for 766 yards and seven touchdowns.
THE DEFENSE
THOMAS MORE: Thomas More held its opponents to 19.7 points per game in 2017. The Saints' opponents only rushed the ball for 124.5 yards per game and 175.1 yards passing for total of 299.6 yards per game. Thomas More returns it top tackler as junior linebacker Adam Guard returns after registering 76 talckles, including 5.5 tackles for a loss and a half sack. Junior linebacker Cody Coffey also returns as he had 49 tackles, including eight tackles for a loss and 4.5 sacks. Junior Thomas Williams is the top returning defensive back after he had 45 tackles and four interceptions.
N.C. WESLEYAN: In 2017, the Battling Bishops held their opponents to 36.4 points per game and 429.9 yards of total offense. N.C. Wesleyan's opponents averaged 169.0 yards per game rushing and 260.9 yards per game passing. The Battling Bishops' defense returns junior linebacker Antonio Johnson, who had 95 tackles, including 13.5 tackles for a loss and four sacks and junior defensive back Eddie Graham, who had 41 tackles, including one tackle for a loss and six interceptions.
SERIES HISTORY: This is the first-ever meeting between the two colleges on the gridiron.
BROADCAST: N.C. Wesleyan will provide a LIVE video webcast and LIVE stats of the game and links to each of those can be found at the top of this page or on Thomas More's football scheduled page on www.thomasmoresaints.com.
UP TO DATE INFORMATION: For all the up to date information on Thomas More athletics visit the Thomas More athletic webpage at www.thomasmoresaints.com.
UP NEXT: Thomas More will travel to Hanover, Indiana on September 8 to take on traditional rival Hanover College. Kickoff is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.
HOME BROADCASTS: For the Saints three home games, Thomas More will provide a LIVE video webcast starting 10 minutes prior to kick-off. Nate Metz and Brady Laber will bring you all the action from BB&T Field.

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Frank Zingrone is an editor of The Essential Marshall McLuhan (1995) and of Who Was Marshall McLuhan? (1995) as well as a Canadian poet who has so far published two volumes. The author of this book (which is one of a number of recent works aiming to move beyond McLuhan) is consequently a well-qualified scholar and critic of McLuhan. As a poet, he approaches his subject with sensitivity and a strong respect for language, as well as for the written word. But before turning to the way that his vision joins that of John Durham Peters and others who stress the spiritual, psychic, and poetic aspects of any contemporary understanding of communication, it is important to realize that The Media Symplex is a devastating report on our current media-manipulated society.
Zingrone's analysis lays out the way that the corporate-dominated media culture has affiliated itself with the categorical imperative of electric technologies to maximize the potential within individual electric media. This convergence is then utilized to entrance the audience to such an extent that they become helpless victims of managed modes of communication that oversimplify their society, leaving them with virtually no guide to understanding their life worlds. The very possibility of any potential vision is systematically reduced both through the manipulation made possible by electric media, but also by the effect of personal attachment to any one medium - such as TV - since an exclusive preoccupation with a single medium tends to eradicate any sense of the total complexity of their lived experience. Essentially, electric media's primary activity is to impose major simplifications of, and consequently huge distortions of, reality. By now, it is argued, electric technology has brought about the situation in which advertising, journalism, and electric media are establishing ever new "virtualities." So rather than having what we might have anticipated as the complex world of media and electric technology, we have a situation in which these media actually generate a state of "symplexity," namely, a simplification constructed from their complex technological and formal nature.
Although this might seem rather far from McLuhan's presumably amoralistic analysis, Zingrone actually is probing the dark side of McLuhan that viewed media in just such a manner. McLuhan concealed this within a mode of satiric commentary and wit used to support his avowed non-moralistic analysis. Zingrone moves beyond McLuhan in his explicit concern with the moral implications of our brave new world. Basing his argument on aspects of cognitive theory, psychiatry, aesthetics, and sometimes on the history of gnosticism and spiritualism, he builds a vision of contemporary society in which people co-operate with the media world in suppressing and inhibiting the true complexity of reality. The titles of the five chapters reveal the argument that is being unfolded: "The Media Symplex," "The Myth of the Electric," "Inhibition," "The Preconscious," "The Edge of Meaning," and an unnumbered conclusion, "Telegnosis: The Deep Meaning of the Electric Process."
Zingrone's explanation of inhibition, partly borrowed from Freud, is crucial to his argument, since, in his words, "as electric media simplify human experience with increasingly complex techniques they suppress and inhibit the true complexity of reality" (p. 106). Using von Bksy's theories about inhibition - desensitization is the surest way to save ourselves from a complete schizophrenic breakdown - The Media Symplex can simultaneously demonstrate how inhibition is necessary to human survival. And by suppressing the complexity of electric media, it can eventually make reality virtually disappear. This, of course, is with the complicity of the media itself, since "most media completely sever intrusions from other modes of communication" (p. 114) for "the first effect of electric media is in-depth training of the user in sensory inhibition" (p. 115). What he calls the cartoon effect sets in, since the nature of these media is to "promote crude one-dimensional thought in a multi-sensory mode" (p. 119).
In The Media Symplex, the preconscious is a crucial concept, a version developed from Schelling's, Fichte's, and Freud's use of an analogy withthe photograph in explaining the relation between the unconscious and the preconscious. The preconscious plays a central role as the source of suppressed materials or peripherally remembered events such as those experienced in dreams. But it also operates in the interests of inhibition, serving as a repository for that which is being suppressed. Zingrone illustrates the negative operation of the preconscious through advertising. "Advertising is already in preconscious form" (p. 178). So it is possible to conclude that "Advertising for all its entertainment value is mainly the pseudo-ideational, pseudo-symbolic presentation of pseudo-events" (p. 179). The only way out of the contemporary dilemma is to bring the unconscious, the preconscious, and the conscious mind together in active interplay, a function which Zingrone argues is best achieved by poetry and music. Surely this is an argument that McLuhan would have endorsed.
It is the balance of preconscious and unconscious in Coleridge's theory of creative imagination and fancy that must be invoked in this conflict with our addiction to inhibition through one-dimensionality (p. 248).
To achieve this balance, Zingrone articulates two principles concerning form and content. First, to have useful knowledge of forms (and hence media), "It is necessary to consider both the form of the medium as well as the form of the content"; and second, there is a form/content relationship that governs all media: "Content consumes form." How could The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, or La Dolce Vita be imagined apart from the medium's form, which has entered and become fused with the content (p. 246)? His discussion of these relationships clearly shows why an understanding of modes of cultural production (including art and poetry) is crucial, since new aesthetic forms are created in response to a new medium. What matters is transcending the electric trap in which the one-dimensional media viewer is caught. The Media Symplex argues for a new "gnosis," essentially a Platonic "telegnosis." McLuhan, who was immersed in poetry, the arts, and the history of communication through the history of the liberal arts and the trivium was himself "fully aware of the deep hermetic, or gnostic, base to communications theory" (p. 253). McLuhan's fascination with conspiracy theories is also noted. Not surprisingly, the importance of McLuhan's reading of Finnegans Wake is stressed as a way of confronting his role as "a Catholic of the future, yet esoteric in the knowledge of the true Church" (p. 257).
Although the spirit of McLuhan permeates it, The Media Symplex is quite distinct from McLuhan's work in its vision and some of the solutions to which it points. There are some differences from McLuhan, such as the absence of any extensive discussion of Wyndham Lewis, McLuhan's counter-balance to Joyce. But the problem of satire and comedy is crucial, for the book does not confront McLuhan's own sense of himself as a learned, Mennipean satirist, nor does it raise the role that satire might play in the envisioned potential renewal. This is even more telling, since Joyce's Wake is frequently cited as a work forcing "meaning to the edge of awareness," in the absence of the carnivalesque.
The dark vision with a glimpse of escape that The Media Symplex presents fits well with McLuhan's cynical Menippean satire, but the future must find a way of synthesizing not only the conscious, the preconscious, and the unconscious, but also the everyday carnival with which the electric media play as well as a genuinely playful and comic, yet learnedly satiric, critique. Yet this book is important since it does capture the essential schizoid struggle and the deep respect for gnosis, spirituality, and art that permeated McLuhan's work and on which Frank Zingrone builds his newer vision.
McLuhan, Marshall. (1995). The essential Marshall McLuhan. Edited by Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone. Don Mills, ON: Anansi.
Nevitt, Barrington, with Maurice McLuhan (1995). Who was Marshall McLuhan?: Exploring a mosaic of impressions. Edited by Frank Zingrone, Wayne Constantineau, & Eric McLuhan. Toronto: Stoddart.


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Marine City Police Chief resigning
Tillery's resignation effective Oct. 11
Marine City Police Chief resigning Tillery's resignation effective Oct. 11 Check out this story on thetimesherald.com: http://bwne.ws/1KIK7F6
Times Herald Published 12:44 p.m. ET Sept. 29, 2015 | Updated 4:09 p.m. ET Sept. 30, 2015
Don Tillery is resigning as Marine City's chief of police.(Photo: Times Herald)Buy Photo
Don Tillery is resigning as Marine City's chief of police and deputy city manager.
In a letter addressed to the city commission dated Sept. 25, Tillery said his resignation will be effective Oct. 11.
Tillery was recently selected as the Milan police chief, said Elaine Leven, city manager of Marine City.
Leven said it is too early to say what will happen next.
"It's too early to really make a decision," Leven said on how the city will move forward with filling the position. "I am sure at some point it will be a topic of discussion. Whether that's Thursday night or not, I'm not sure."
Tillery's resignation is on the agenda for Thursday's commission meeting.
The letter named Lt. James Heaslip as the department's top-ranked officer upon Tillery's resignation, and recommended Jim Jones, a part-time officer with the department, be considered for the chief position. Jones retired from the Port Huron Police Department as a captain and also teaches criminal justice classes at St. Clair County Community College.
"It is with a heavy heart that I leave my friends and co-workers for this next chapter of my life," Tillery wrote in the letter. "Over the past eight years I have made many friends; we have worked hard and succeeded in transforming the Marine City Police into a professional and respected police force, we have laughed, cried, practical joked, buried family members and co-workers, and become inexorably intertwined into each other's lives. I will miss this ... all of this."
Mayor Ray Skotarczyk and Commissioner Lisa Hendrick said Tillery's departure could serve as a good opportunity to re-evaluate the city's police department and its funding.
Earlier this year, Marine City sought a proposal from the St. Clair Sheriff Department for law enforcement coverage, citing the potential for cost savings. But the sheriff's department declined to offer a quote.
It was not clear if the city would approach the sheriff department again.
"Maybe now we can get things done in the police department," Hendrick said. "It's not been a happy point with the community."
Skotarczyk said he wasn't surprised by the announcement and that some officials were aware Tillery had sought job opportunities in other communities.
Skotarczyk said Tillery has led a professional police department and that he is sorry to see him go. He was hired by Marine City in 2008.
"I know he's been looking for a better contract from us for a while and we haven't been able to provide one to him," Skotarczyk said. "With our budget constraints, we're just not in a position to pay him what he's worth."
Skotarczyk said it's been several years since significant changes were made to the part-time chief contract.
Tillery was paid $34.65 an hour at 32 hours a week, and Skotarczyk said he received no benefits.
His contract in Milan stipulates an annual base salary of $77,000.
But for nearly a year, Tillery hasn't acted only as police chief in Marine City.
He filled in as acting city manager after John Gabor left in January. He was also temporarily named deputy city manager in August to help Leven transition into her role, continuing his $2,000 weekly manager compensation for six months.
Tillery has also sought employment with at least one other Michigan community aside from Milan. He was named a finalist in the search for a Davison police chief in February.
Contact Jackie Smith at (810) 989-6270 or jssmith@gannett.com. Follow on Twitter @Jackie20Smith.
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Emeli Sandé Features In Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Video
Nordoff Robbins, the UK's leading music therapy charity, has released a short animated film about the power of music therapy, featuring Emeli Sandé, who is an ambassador for the organisation.
Video: Nordoff Robbins Christmas Appeal - Ed's Story #MusicIsMedicine
The film is the centrepiece of the charity's Christmas appeal, which hopes to raise £100,000.
The film, which is set to Emeli Sandé's track Mountains, tells the story of 22 year old Edward Buckley from Hertfordshire. In January 2012, Ed, who was studying to be a pilot at Leeds University, was hit by a speeding taxi when he was 20. His parents were told to expect the worst, but against all odds, Ed survived.
After his accident, Ed spent three months in hospital in Leeds and was then transferred to the Regional Rehabilitation Unit at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, one of the country's leading specialist rehabilitation units – which also meant he was a lot closer to home.
After six months, when he woke from his coma, he was unable to speak, walk or carry out even the most basic tasks and the brain damage he suffered left him with profound memory loss. During his time at Northwick Park Hospital, Ed underwent an intensive programme of rehabilitation which included working with Nordoff Robbins music therapist, Jessica Atkinson, as well as a team of nurses, doctors and other therapists. Music therapy is a part of the team that helped Ed recover his speech and memory and even helped him learn to walk again.
Ed said: "Despite being wheelchair-bound and in a fog which meant at times I struggled to remember even daily tasks, when I sat at a piano, I could remember chords I knew how to play before the accident. I could be pushed up to the piano and I would bang out 'Let It Be' by The Beatles. I remembered the chords for that, but I had no other memory.
"Music makes me feel different. During my rehabilitation, I spent most of the week concentrating on walking better and thinking better but when I put my fingers on the piano keys, I just let it go and concentrated on other stuff. That's what unlocked my brain.'
"On leaving the hospital, I presented them with a plaque which said 'Arrived unconscious. Walked out singing'.
"For me, music really was my medicine".
Emeli Sandé said: "Ed's story is an incredible example of how powerful music is. For the people Nordoff Robbins work with every day, music is their medicine.
"I'm proud to support this project and I hope my involvement will help raise awareness of music therapy.
"Please take a moment to watch the film and then give as generously as you can. Every penny will really make a difference to Nordoff Robbins."
Ed's music therapist, Jessica Atkinson, who has been with Nordoff Robbins for 15 years, has worked in hospices, special needs schools, care homes and now at the Regional Rehabilitation Unit at Northwick Park Hospital.
Jessica said "Like many patients with a severe brain-injury, Ed struggled to speak, at first saying the few words he could manage in either a high-pitched tone or flat monotone. I used the piano and my own voice to model phrases that changed pitch, which Ed could copy. Ed was then able to go away and practise without me, taking the initiative in his own rehabilitation. This method helped him learn to speak again.
"When he was ready to come out of his wheelchair, working alongside his physio and occupational therapists, I used a drum to help Ed regain a natural walking rhythm that gave him balance and momentum. The simple effect of a marching beat gives the body a natural rhythm to copy. And I worked closely with other members of Ed's clinical team to work on improving his finger control, using the piano keys as a tool."
Dr Marcus Stephan, CEO of Nordoff Robbins said: "Ed was fortunate to receive treatment in a hospital which had a Nordoff Robbins music therapist. The therapy helped to recover his speech, his memory and even helped him learn how to walk again. For Ed, music was his medicine.
"But there are thousands of people across the UK just like Ed who do not have access to a music therapist. This Christmas we need to raise £100,000 to provide more music therapy across the UK. Please help us and please be as generous as you can. Just £25 can make a difference to someone like Ed.
"We are proud to be working with Emeli Sandé. As a musician and a former medical student, she is very well placed to understand just what a difference music therapy can make."
Lynne McDowell, Senior Communications Manager at the BPI, which helped to fund the short film, said: "This touching documentation of Ed's story demonstrates the importance of the ground-breaking music therapy work carried out by Nordoff Robbins on a daily basis.
"Thanks to their trained music therapists, we know that thousands of people have been taken on their own musical journey which has helped them to overcome struggles or live better lives with the illnesses they face.
"BPI, alongside our charity The BRIT Trust, will continue to support the work of this unique charity and we hope that this Christmas others will too."
The film has been directed by Ali Assaf (talltale.org.uk) and illustrated by Adam Cruft.
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Taking place at 7pm on Tuesday 14th Dec 2021 at St Luke's Church, Chelsea, the welcome return of the Nordoff Robbins Carol Service showcases a star-studded line up including Sir Rod Stewart – one of the most important and best-selling artists of all time, the magnetic Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May and chart-topping saxophonist and presenter Jess Gillam. More →
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I take it back. Captain Ron Johnson (like too many good brothas) appears to have been co-opted.
Saturday noon, 8/9 – Unarmed black teenager is killed in broad daylight by a white police officer.
Saturday afternoon, 8/9 – Interracial protests form in response to the killing, the way the body is being treated and the lack of information being shared with the family of the victim by the authorities.
Saturday evening, 8/9 – Before the black teenager's body is secured, the white Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson secures the riot support of 15 additional law enforcement departments, even though no one was rioting.
Saturday evening, 8/9 – Violent policing ensues, with the use of rubber and wooden bullets as well as tear gas and military assault weaponry being trained at protestors.
Sunday evening, 8/10 – As peaceful protestors continue to take to the streets, opportunistic looters take advantage of the heightened emotions and misdirected attentions of law enforcement. Police show of force remains primarily directed at protestors.
Monday, 8/11 – Looting stops, but Police Chief Jackson as well as the news media continue to talk about it throughout the week as if it is still happening in the present. Overly aggressive, yea even violent, policing continues throughout the week directed at protestors.
Mon – Thurs, 8/11 – 8/14 – The white governor of Missouri Jay Nixon acts clueless about the whole situation until Monday, but it takes until Thursday before he engages the people of Ferguson. Meanwhile more and more images surface of black people staring down the business end of assault weapons wielded by white police officers in military gear.
Thursday afternoon, 8/14 – white Governor Jay Nixon finally steps in to take responsibility for protest security from the Ferguson PD and giving it to MO State Troopers. Instead of having to relate to authority being exercised over them by white Police Chief Jackson, the predominantly black Ferguson citizens were given 1 day to relate to black Captain Ron Johnson who lives in Ferguson.
Thursday evening, 8/14 – Tensions immediately abate. Interracial protestors and interracial law enforcement in regular uniform are in the street walking and talking and taking pictures with one another all Thursday evening. Protestors are told by Captain Ron Johnson they can be out as long as they would like. No arrests or injures are reported the one night black Captain Ron Johnson got to call the shots in a way that was respectful of the citizens of Ferguson.
Friday morning, 8/15 – Six days after the killing, Police Chief Jackson finally releases the name of Officer Darren Wilson who perpetrated the fatality, but instead of accompanying the announcement with a photo of white Officer Wilson, white Police Chief Jackson releases video footage alleging that the black shooting victim Michael Brown robbed someone 10 minutes before being shot. Four hours later Jackson clarified that the stopping of Michael Brown had nothing to do with him being suspected of robbery. However, by releasing the video in conjunction with the officers name without releasing the officer's photo, Jackson ensured that every Google search of the officer's name in the first 24-48 hours would bring up the video.
Friday evening, 8/15 – Even after the press conference shenanigans of the Ferguson PD earlier on friday when everybody in support of the brown family got mad, young black males protestors rally to protect local store from the handful of opportunists trying to loot. Police concern and displays of force remain directed at protestors.
Saturday afternoon, 8/16 – White Gov. Jay Nixon announces in quite the paternalistic tone a return to the heavy-handed tactics from earlier in the week: enforcement of a now official, previously de facto, curfew for protestors. Black Capt. Ron Johnson is ordered to enforce the curfew by any means necessary. The military weaponry returns to the streets–a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Monday early morning, 8/18 – After 2 nights of RENEWED UNREST THAT WE NOW SEE COMES IN RESPONSE TO the use of rubber bullets as well as tear gas and military assault weaponry and black Capt. Ron Johnson having to explain each morning his execution of the orders he has been given (not the tact he would have taken), white Gov. Jay Nixon calls in the national guard who arrive a little later Monday morning.
Why not call in the national guard in the middle of last week when Police Chief Thomas Jackson was failing so miserably for days on end?
Why install Ron Johnson just to give him the orders to go back to what hadn't worked all week?
How can there ever be different results if we allow authorities to keep following the same old racial script?


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Q: Non-existent user defined runtime attribute I have a simple Mac application that receives the following error when opening a document:
Failed to set (allowsDragging) user defined inspected property on (PKMPDFView): [ setValue:forUndefinedKey:]: this class is not key value coding-compliant for the key allowsDragging.
If I intercept the "set" attempt, I see that it originates from the method -[NSIBUserDefinedRuntimeAttributesConnector establishConnection] during nib loading.
Full trace:
0   PDFApp                              0x0000000100003592 -[PKMPDFView setValue:forUndefinedKey:] + 49
1   Foundation                          0x00007fff309b8dde -[NSObject(NSKeyValueCoding) setValue:forKey:] + 331
2   AppKit                              0x00007fff2c08af15 -[NSView setValue:forKeyPath:] + 394
3   AppKit                              0x00007fff2c00d029 -[NSIBUserDefinedRuntimeAttributesConnector establishConnection] + 637
4   AppKit                              0x00007fff2bdd9719 -[NSIBObjectData nibInstantiateWithOwner:options:topLevelObjects:] + 1430
5   AppKit                              0x00007fff2bdd0991 loadNib + 435
6   AppKit                              0x00007fff2bdcfeb5 +[NSBundle(NSNibLoading) _loadNibFile:nameTable:options:withZone:ownerBundle:] + 696
7   AppKit                              0x00007fff2c005aba +[NSBundle(NSNibLoadingInternal) _loadNibFile:externalNameTable:options:withZone:] + 150
8   AppKit                              0x00007fff2c005893 -[NSWindowController loadWindow] + 322
9   AppKit                              0x00007fff2be18cf5 -[NSWindowController window] + 84
10  AppKit                              0x00007fff2bfd8134 -[NSWindowController showWindow:] + 36
11  AppKit                              0x00007fff2be18c7a -[NSDocument showWindows] + 116
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16  CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff2e87a973 __CFRunLoopDoBlocks + 275
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18  CoreFoundation                      0x00007fff2e879867 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 487
19  HIToolbox                           0x00007fff2db59d96 RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 286
20  HIToolbox                           0x00007fff2db59b06 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 613
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22  AppKit                              0x00007fff2be09a73 _DPSNextEvent + 2085
23  AppKit                              0x00007fff2c59fe34 -[NSApplication(NSEvent) _nextEventMatchingEventMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 3044
24  AppKit                              0x00007fff2bdfe885 -[NSApplication run] + 764
25  AppKit                              0x00007fff2bdcda72 NSApplicationMain + 804
26  libdyld.dylib                       0x00007fff56848015 start + 1

What confuses me is that PKMPDFView is a direct subclass of NSView and has no user defined properties associated with it in the .xib file being loaded.  This view also has no outlets defined in the .xib, just a referencing outlet (contentView) from its document.  Running find/grep through my development directory finds no instance of "allowsDragging" anywhere.  Likewise, using the strings utility reveals no "allowsDragging" in the built app.
I've tried all the standard project cleaning with no change in symptoms.
At the moment, I'm tempted to simply override setValue:forUndefinedKey: and forget it but I'm still curious.  Does anyone have information or good guesses about where this would be coming from?
(This is Xcode 10.1 on macOS 10.13.6, in case that matters.)

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Author: Mensch, Barbara S.
1. Mensch, Barbara S.
Kandel, Denise B.
Do Job Conditions Influence the Use of Drugs?
Journal of Health and Social Behavior 29,2 (June 1988): 169-184.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2137056
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Drug Use; Job Satisfaction; Occupations; Self-Reporting; Working Conditions
The relationship between job conditions and use of four classes of drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana and cocaine, are investigated using data from the NLSY, a nationally representative survey of the labor force experience of young adults aged 19-27 in 1984. Indirect measures of job characteristics, based on Census-based classifications developed by Karasek, et al.,1987 and the DOT (Miller et al., 1980) were supplemented by limited self-reported measures. No clear epidemiological patterns emerge regarding the distribution of drug use either in general or on the job across occupations and industries. Similarly, specific job dimensions, whether assessed from job titles or from the respondents themselves, showed very low correlations with recency/frequency measures of drug use. Individual factors indexing lack of commitment to social institutions, such as having dropped out of school, participation in delinquent activities and not being married are much stronger predictors of drug use than specific job conditions. This study concludes that substance use by workers is not due as much to conditions of the work place as to attributes of the work force.
Mensch, Barbara S. and Denise B. Kandel. "Do Job Conditions Influence the Use of Drugs?" Journal of Health and Social Behavior 29,2 (June 1988): 169-184.
Dropping Out of High School and Drug Involvement
Sociology of Education 61,2 (April 1988): 95-113.
Keyword(s): Drug Use; Event History; GED/General Educational Diploma/General Equivalency Degree/General Educational Development
The relationship between dropping out of high school and substance use is explored using the NLSY, a national longitudinal sample of young Americans aged 19-27 in 1984. Cross-sectional data indicate that high school dropouts are more involved with cigarettes and illicit drugs than graduates, and those who go on to obtain a GED are the most intensely involved. Event history analysis indicates that, controlling for other important risk factors, prior use of cigarettes, marijuana and other illicit drugs increases the propensity of dropping out and that the earlier the initiation into drugs, the greater the probability of premature school leaving. Preventing or at least delaying initiation of drug use will reduce the incidence of dropping out in our nation's high schools.
Mensch, Barbara S. and Denise B. Kandel. "Dropping Out of High School and Drug Involvement." Sociology of Education 61,2 (April 1988): 95-113.
Drug Use as a Risk Factor for Premarital Teen Pregnancy and Abortion in a National Sample of Young White Women
Working Paper, New York: School of Public Health, Columbia University, January 1992
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keyword(s): Abortion; Adolescent Fertility; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Deviance; Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Pre/post Natal Behavior; Pre/post Natal Health Care; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Religion; Self-Esteem; Sexual Activity; Substance Use; Teenagers
Mensch, Barbara S. and Denise B. Kandel. "Drug Use as a Risk Factor for Premarital Teen Pregnancy and Abortion in a National Sample of Young White Women." Working Paper, New York: School of Public Health, Columbia University, January 1992.
Demography 29,3 (August 1992): 409-429.
Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/2166r53270u1987u/
Keyword(s): Abortion; Adolescent Fertility; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Contraception; Deviance; Drug Use; Event History; Pre-natal Care/Exposure; Pre/post Natal Behavior; Pre/post Natal Health Care; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Pregnancy, Adolescent; Religion; Self-Esteem; Sexual Activity; Substance Use; Teenagers
The relationship between adolescent drug use and premarital teen pregnancy and abortion as a pregnancy outcome among sexually active women is investigated in a sample of white women from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Event history analysis is used to explore whether prior drug use has a unique effect on premarital teen pregnancy. with controls for personality, lifestyle, and biological factors. Logistic regression is used to estimate whether drug use affects the decision to terminate a premarital teen pregnancy. The results show that the risk of premarital teen pregnancy is nearly four times as high for those who have used illicit drugs other than marijuana as for those with no history of any prior substance involvement. Furthermore, illicit drug use increases the likelihood of an abortion by a factor of 5. Policy implications of the findings are discussed.
Mensch, Barbara S. and Denise B. Kandel. "Drug Use as a Risk Factor for Premarital Teen Pregnancy and Abortion in a National Sample of Young White Women." Demography 29,3 (August 1992): 409-429.
Underreporting of Substance Use in a National Longitudinal Youth Cohort: Individual and Interviewer Effects
Public Opinion Quarterly 52,1 (Spring 1988): 100-124.
Also: http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/content/52/1/100.abstract
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Keyword(s): Data Quality/Consistency; Drug Use; Longitudinal Surveys; Self-Reporting; Substance Use; Underreporting
The quality of drug data in the 1984 wave of the NLSY is explored. Comparisons with other national surveys indicate that underreporting of use of illicit drugs other than marijuana appears to have taken place, and that light users of these drugs are under-represented among the self-acknowledged users. Comparison with marijuana use reported four years earlier indicates that experimental marijuana users are much less likely than extensive users to acknowledge involvement. Even after controlling for frequency of use, underreporting is more common among terminal high school dropouts and minorities. Not only individual characteristics but field conditions also contribute to underreporting. Familiarity with the interviewer, as measured by number of prior interviewing contacts, depresses drug use reporting. The authors speculate that interviewer familiarity increases salience of normative standards and that participants respond not only in terms of their past familiarity but also their subjective expectations regarding the probability of a future encounter with the interviewer.
Mensch, Barbara S. and Denise B. Kandel. "Underreporting of Substance Use in a National Longitudinal Youth Cohort: Individual and Interviewer Effects." Public Opinion Quarterly 52,1 (Spring 1988): 100-124.
Rosenbaum, Emily
Drug Use as a Risk Factor for Premarital Pregnancy in a National Sample of Young Women
Presented: Toronto, Canada, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1990
Keyword(s): Abortion; Adolescent Fertility; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Contraception; Deviance; Drug Use; Hispanics; Pregnancy and Pregnancy Outcomes; Racial Differences; Religion; Self-Esteem; Self-Reporting; Sexual Activity; Teenagers
This study explores the relationship between adolescent drug use and premarital teen pregnancy with data from the 1979-1985 waves of the NLSY. Event history analysis is used to specify the effect of prior drug use on premarital teen pregnancy with controls for seemingly shared personality, lifestyle, and biological factors. Among white young women illicit drug use is the second most important predictor. The risk of premarital teen pregnancy is nearly four times higher for those who have used illicit drugs other than marijuana compared to those with no history of any prior substance involvement. Illicit drug use has no effect on premarital pregnancy for blacks and Hispanics. Alternative explanations may account for the ethnic differences. One possibility is that premarital pregnancy is more normative for nonwhites and therefore less likely to be determined by prior deviant activities. Another possibility is that greater unreliability of self-reports by blacks and Hispanics may alter the observed effects.
Mensch, Barbara S., Emily Rosenbaum and Denise B. Kandel. "Drug Use as a Risk Factor for Premarital Pregnancy in a National Sample of Young Women." Presented: Toronto, Canada, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1990.


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Friday's Sport: Last chance saloon for Frank Lampard
bet365 News Team 06 Jan 23
Everton head to Old Trafford on Friday for an FA Cup third round clash against Manchester United with Frank Lampard's position as manager looking increasingly unstable.
A seven-game winless run across all competitions has put the strain on the former England international and an early exit from the 142nd edition of the oldest football tournament in the world could spell the end of his Goodison Park reign.
There is also Premiership Rugby to take in on Friday, as leaders Saracens travel to fourth-place Gloucester, while the PGA Tour action continues with round two of the Sentry Tournament of Champions which you can follow on bet365's Live Golf Tracker.
Ludlow, Southwell, Kempton and Dundalk also provide the racing action across the day and, as always, you can follow every race on our Sports Live Streaming platform.
FA Cup: Red Devils to pile misery on Everton
What Manchester United v Everton, FA Cup third round
When 20:00, Friday 6th January
How to watch ITV
Odds Man Utd 4/9, Draw 10/3, Everton 13/2
Everton's woeful run of form has seen them slip to 18th in the Premier League and another defeat on Friday, albeit against in-form opposition, would heap even more pressure on Lampard.
The former Chelsea boss has struggled to turn around the fortunes of the club since being appointed at the end of January last year and patience is said to be running thin with the board, who may decide to pull the trigger on the young English coach.
A victory at Old Trafford looks like a tall order for the Toffees, especially given the fact they are facing a United side enjoying a six-match winning run across all competitions.
Erik ten Hag's troops have won their last seven home assignments - six of those coming without conceding - and they are 5/4 To Win to Nil.
Rugby Union: Saracens looking to cement top spot
What Gloucester v Saracens
Where Kingsholm Stadium, Gloucester
When 19:45, Friday 6th December
How to watch BT Sport 1 & BT Sport Ultimate
Odds Gloucester 13/8, Tie 20/1, Saracens 8/15
Saracens have been the dominant force in the Premiership this season and they head to Kingsholm Stadium sitting top of the standings, 10 points clear of second-place Sale.
With 10 wins and just one defeat in the league, it looks like the Sarries will be difficult to stop in their quest for silverware this term and they will be eyeing another victory at Gloucester on Friday.
The Cherry & Whites are fourth in the table, 18 points behind their opponents, but they have won their last four home assignments and could pose a few problems to the visitors.
Saracens edged out Gloucester 41-39 in a thriller when they met back in September and there is the hope another entertaining contest will be witnessed in South West England.
PGA Tour: Action continues in Hawaii
What Sentry Tournament of Champions
Where Kapalua Resort, Hawaii
When 5th-8th January
How to watch Sky Sports Golf
Odds Jon Rahm 23/10, Collin Morikawa 6/1, Scottie Scheffler 7/1
The battle for victory in the first PGA Tour event of the season continues on Friday with the star-studded field taking to the Plantation Course for round two.
Three players share the lead after the first round, with Jon Rahm, Collin Morikawa and JJ Spaun all on nine-under par.
Each of the trio managed to card a first round 64 to commence their PGA Tour seasons in a positive way.
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Native American legend believes there are 13 ancient crystal skulls that are the size of human skulls and are said to have spoken or sang. These skulls contain important information about the origin, purpose and destiny of mankind. It is said that this information is vital to the survival of this planet and the human race. This legend has been handed down through generations of many different Native American tribes over thousands of years including the Mayan, Aztec, Pueblo, Navajo, Cherokee, and Seneca. The Cherokee version of this legend says that there are 12 planets in the cosmos that are inhabited by human beings and that there is one crystal skull for each planet. The thirteenth skull has information that is vital to all the others. The one belief that is common to all tribes is that the human race must be morally and spiritually ready before the information contained within the crystal skulls is made available.


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Резолюция Совета Безопасности ООН № 457 — резолюция, принятая всеми пятнадцатью государствами-членами Совета Безопасности ООН 4 декабря 1979 года в связи с захватом посольства США в Тегеране и работавших в нём дипломатических работников в заложники после исламской революции в Иране.

Основные положения
 ООН призвал правительство Ирана незамедлительно освободить персонал посольства США, задержанный в Тегеране, предоставить ему защиту и позволить ему покинуть Иран;
 ООН призвал правительства Ирана и США принять меры для мирного решения ещё не урегулированных между ними вопросов;
 ООН призвал стороны проявить максимальную сдержанность в существующей обстановке;
 ООН просит Генерального секретаря ООН оказать добрые услуги для немедленного осуществления настоящей резолюции и принять с этой целью все надлежащие меры;
 ООН постановляет, что Совет безопасности будет в дальнейшем активно рассматривать вопрос освобождения заложников.

Также данной резолюцией члены Совбеза ООН напомнили всем государствам-членам ООН о необходимости уважать Венскую конвенцию о дипломатических сношениях и Венскую конвенцию о консульских сношениях, в которых содержится призыв к странам уважать неприкосновенность дипломатического персонала и помещений их дипломатические миссии.

Голосование

Последствия
Принятая Советом безопасности ООН резолюция и предпринятые правительством США переговоры не привели к разрешению дипломатического кризиса, заложники освобождены не были. В связи с этим было принято решение о проведении вооружёнными силами США специальной операции по освобождению заложников. Операция «Орлиный коготь», проведённая 24 апреля 1980 года вооружёнными силами США на территории Ирана с целью спасения заложников из посольства США в Тегеране, закончилась полным провалом.

После смерти иранского шаха Мохаммеда Реза Пехлеви 27 июля 1980 года и начала 22 сентября 1980 года ирано-иракской войны иранское правительство инициировало в переговоры с США с посредничеством Алжира и Великобритании.

По результатам подписанных 19 января 1981 года Алжирских соглашений заложники были освобождены, а США гарантировало невмешательство во внутренние дела Ирана, разморозку счетов страны и снятие торговых санкций. 20 января 1981 года дипломаты по истечении 444 дней нахождения в заключении были освобождены.

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См. также
 Американо-иранские отношения
 Захват американских заложников в Иране
 Орлиный коготь
 Текст Алжирских соглашений на английском языке

Примечания

Двусторонние отношения США
Двусторонние отношения Ирана
Резолюции Совета Безопасности ООН

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Award Winning AIDS Documentary 'How to Survive a Plague' to Become ABC Miniseries
March 2, 2013 Entertainment, FeaturedABC, Act Up, AIDS, How To Survive A Plague, VideoWill Kohler
David France's 2012 documentary "How to Survive a Plague" has been optioned by ABC Studios, which is planning to develop the film into a dramatic miniseries.
The film, which was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Documentary Feature Film category, chronicled the early days of AIDS activism by the coalitions ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group).
France, who wrote and directed the film, will executive produce the miniseries project, along with Howard Gertler (who produced the film) and John Lyons.
In addition to the Academy Award nomination, "How to Survive a Plague" was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award and was an official selection at the Sundance Film Festival.
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The mini-series will delve into more of the personal stories characters in the film and much like the film, — will offer unfettered access to an array of never-before-seen footage from the 1980s and '90s. "These activists may have had to train themselves for the battle, but they were incredibly media savvy and were constantly filming everything," explains executive produce John Lyons. "So there's this treasure trove of this archival material, which we think can be cleverly introduced into the storytelling"
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Edgar Prado. Photo by Dottie Miller.
Thus far in the young Laurel Park spring/summer meet, veteran jockey Edgar Prado has been making the most of limited mounts. As a result, he tops our first alternative jockey ratings of the meet. With 283.35 points, Prado sits well ahead of Steve Hamilton (232.82), Feargal Lynch (217.87), Weston Hamilton (208.79), and J.D. Acosta (207.13), who complete the top five.
This rating system is designed to highlight individuals who win frequently, and score in major races. Our stats have been applied to each jockey at Laurel Park who has made at least 10 starts during the meet and won at least once.
Weston Hamilton leads all riders with nine trips to the winner's circle, two wins ahead of Lynch, who has seven. There is a five-way tie for third, among Acosta, Horacio Karamanos, Jorge Vargas Jr., Daniel Centeno, and Sheldon Russell, who each have six wins to their name.
Prado's win percentage of 36.36 percent gives him a strong advantage over his fellow riders at Laurel Park. Steve Hamilton is next, with a strike rate of 22.73 percent. Acosta comes in next, with a win percentage of 20.69 percent. Lynch and Forest Boyce complete the top five, with win percentages of 19.44 and 17.65, respectively.
Prado also leads the colony in terms of earnings per start, collecting an average of $8,739 per outing. Hamilton moves into second with earnings per start of $7,298. Completing the top five are Karamanos ($6,329), Julian Pimentel ($5,965), Lynch ($5,863), and Centeno ($5,551).
Tais Lyapustina has the early strong lead in terms of wagering ROI. Her lone win at the meet was the 60-1 Derecho, resulting in a $2 ROI of $7.68. Jorge Ruiz jumps in at number two, returning an average ROI of $3.76 to his backers. In third sits Prado, with an average ROI of $2.98. Once again, Steve Hamilton is not far behind Prado, and sits in fourth with an ROI of $2.40. Rounding out the top five is Jevian Toledo, with an ROI of $1.86.
The rankings include all races run at Laurel Park through June 21, 2018.