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"Systemic Racism" is Caused By Tribalism, Not Capitalism
by Richard M. Ebeling | Jul 22, 2020 | Racism
If the ideology and policies of "systemic racism," identity politics, and cancel culture win out in the arena of American politics and cultural acceptance, it will be the end of America.
Have you stopped beating your wife? Yes or No? This is the classic question that condemns you as a wife beater, regardless of your answer. Now, welcome to the new world of "systemic racism." Are you still benefiting from your "white privilege" oppression of others? Yes or No. Either reply unmasks you as a past or present racist. You are now branded with the letter "R" forever more.
Systemic racism has become the catchphrase under which all the evils of the world are now collected. It does not matter that slavery in America ended over 150 years ago. Nor that the post-Civil War segregation laws of the South were removed from the statute books well over half a century ago. Nor that social, educational and employment opportunities for many members of the black community in America have never been greater. Racism, it is asserted, continues to rule.
History Leaves Its Mark on Society
Of course, this does not mean that the legacies of history do not leave their trace on people and societies, sometimes long after a series of events or institutional arrangements of the past. The failure of the Turkish siege of the Habsburg capital of Vienna in 1683 halted the extension of Islam deeper into the center of Europe. But a continuing presence of Turkish control over large parts of the Balkans in southeastern Europe until the eve of the First World War left a legacy of differences among peoples in the region that helped ignite the civil wars of the 1990s following the political disintegration of Yugoslavia.
From the late 12th century to 1922, Ireland was ruled as a part of Great Britain, with resulting resentments, angers, and sometimes rebellions on the part of the Irish against British rule, and contempt, arrogance, and racial prejudices against the Irish by many in England. This was compounded by the division between a majority of Catholics and a minority of Protestants, the latter especially clustered in the northern part of Ireland and loyal to the British crown. Yet, in spite of Irish independence in the larger southern portion of the island nearly a century ago, "the troubles" in Northern Ireland have persisted over the last 100 years, sometimes in extremely violent and deadly forms, and all more than 800 years after the Norman invasion of Ireland.
The Japanese Empire ruled over Korea for half a century from 1895 to 1945, with the Koreans contemptuously and sometimes brutally treated by their Japanese masters. Over that half century Korean immigrants came to Japan, and today their descendants number over 700,000. Yet, in spite of all the generations separating the original arrival of those Koreans and their descendants today, many in Japanese society still do not view or treat them as "really" Japanese because of their ethnic classification.
It should not be surprising, therefore, if after almost 250 years of slavery in colonial and then independent America up to the Civil War, and then nearly a century more of Jim Crow in the Southern states and various discriminatory attitudes and actions in the North, that racist biases and tacit behaviors have persisted among some people as a legacy of that long period of United States history. History leaves its residues, whether we always fully realize it or care about it.
America's Progress Out of a Racist Past
But the present is not a carbon copy of the past, since history is made by human actions, and people's attitudes, beliefs and values have and do change over time. Orlando Patterson, professor of sociology at Harvard University and recognized scholar on the history and impact of slavery in America, has recently explained in articles and interviews the serious problems that he still sees in race relations in the United States. But even with all of these, he made the point of emphasizing how far America has come in the last half century, when looking at the actions and attitudes of white Americans toward their fellow citizens.
In a recent feature article on "The Long Reach of Racism in the U.S." in The Wall Street Journal (June 05, 2020), Professor Patterson said:
"The despair of so many Americans in this moment of naked exposure of racism's persistence in the U.S. should not lead us to deny the successes of the civil rights revolution. Black Americans are now included in the public domain of the nation. They form an integral part of its political life and an important component of its military, and they play an outsize role in its intellectual and cultural life. The black middle class is real, however tenuous its economic base and downwardly mobile its male children. The majority of white Americans have also undergone a radical transformation in their racial views, especially the young, who are arguably the most racially liberal group of whites anywhere in the world."
In an interview with The Harvard Gazette (June 4, 2020), when asked about the recent protests and demonstrations in the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd by a policeman in Minneapolis, Professor Patterson expressed his many worrying concerns about persistent racism in America, but he made a point of also stating:
"I've argued in my writings that there has been extraordinary progress in the changing attitudes of white Americans toward blacks and other minorities. As late as the early '60s, a majority of whites openly said they saw blacks as inferior, and now there is an acceptance of equality, at least in their views. I've always said that this may be the great majority, but there's still 20, 25 percent of whites who still embrace white supremacist views.
"I don't want to use the term 'white people' in general terms because as I said before, what is special about these recent protests is the participation of whites in it, many of them young. But I also see middle-aged and some people my age. I want to emphasize that I think white Americans have gone through quite radical changes in their attitudes, and that we're talking about a more likely 25 percent of Americans who are hardcore racist, but I think most Americans have quite decent views about race."
(Due to the peculiar times in which we presently live, it seems necessary to observe that Professor Patterson is black, because of the possible response by some of the more uninformed who might immediately conclude that this must be the rationalizations of a white racist.)
Attitudes Have Changed for the Better in One Lifetime
Some attitudes stand out about how people of one ethnic or racial group feel about those in another group. One such attitude, surely, concerns interracial marriage. In a 1969 Gallup poll, only 17 percent of white Americans approved of interracial marriages between whites and blacks. However, 50 years later, according to a Pew Research Center poll in 2017, 91 percent of whites responded positively, saying either it does not matter (52 percent) or it was a good thing (39 percent).
Half a century ago, 52 percent of black Americans approved of interracial marriages, while in 2017 that number had increased to 82 percent, with 46 percent saying it did not make a difference and 36 percent replying it was a good thing. In that 2017 Pew Research poll, 95 percent of Hispanics expressed approval of interracial marriages, with 60 percent saying it did not matter and 35 percent saying it was a good thing.
Between 1980 and 2015, again according to the Pew Research Center, the number of black Americans in interracial marriages increased from 5 percent to 18 percent. For whites, the number in interracial marriages between those same years rose from 4 percent to 11 percent. In 2015, 27 percent of Hispanics had entered interracial marriages, and for Asian-Americans, that number stood at 29 percent.
Not too surprisingly, matching this has been the number of interracial babies in two-parent households. The Pew Research Center found that that number had increased from 5 percent of babies in 1980 to 14 percent in 2015. The largest number of such small children in 2015 was between whites and Hispanics, representing 42 percent of that 14 percent total. There were 10 percent with white and black parents, and 14 percent with white and Asian parents. Babies with multiracial parents made up 22 percent of that 14 percent out of the total baby population in the country.
Racial Differentials Often a Product of Government Policies
Critics insist that this is all "on the surface," that serious disparities still exist and persist among whites and blacks in terms of income, education, employment, and a variety of other life opportunities. It would be absurd to categorically deny this situation in these and other facets of life.
For decades, for instance, black youth unemployment has been especially far higher than that of white youths, for instance. The finger is pointed, with the immediate accusation of racism behind the failure of young blacks to find gainful employment. It should be noted that white youth unemployment rates have long been above that of adult unemployment rates, as well.
The reason for this, as many economics studies have explained, is primarily due to minimum wage laws. The young have fewer skills, less on-the-job work experience, and are often with lower levels of education as a starting point for entry-level employment. This means that the productive value of the young, in general and on average, is less than older members of the workforce with more time on the job.
As a result, if someone in this category is worth, say, $5 or $6 an hour in terms of their value to an private employer's efforts to produce a good or supply a service consumers will be willing to pay for, it should not be surprising that mandating a legal minimum wage of $7.50 or $15 an hour has the effect of pricing many of such young hopefuls out of the chance for a job.
But why does this impact young blacks more than whites? May it partly be due to remaining racial biases in American society? Of course, it might. But it is also the case that far too many young black men and women live in neighborhoods with public schools that too frequently pass them on to the next grade with fewer of the necessary writing, reading, speaking, or math skills to qualify for starting employment.
It is not as if government spending on schooling has been suffering from a severe "austerity." Tax-funded per-pupil expenditures have increased over the last 50 years by nearly 300 percent, from $4,720 in 1966 to more than $13,847 in 2016 (in constant 2018 dollars). They have increased by 32 percent just since the beginning of the 21st century, from $10,458 (in constant 2018 dollars) in 2000, to that of $13,847 in 2016 (again in constant 2018 dollars).
Due to federal educational funding, studies have shown that disparities in school spending per pupil is more or less fairly equalized in many cases, regardless of local property and other revenue levels for public schools. In fact, in Baltimore, Maryland, for instance, with a black majority population of over 61 percent, per-pupil spending in the school system was $15,161 in 2016, or 9 percent above the national average.
What is lacking is not the funding, but the pedagogy and the content of what is taught. If the right knowledge is not being conveyed and presented in attractive ways to inspire learning; if too many students end up dropping out before high school graduation; and if educational competition in the form of private or charter schools is fought by teachers' unions and public school administrators who are afraid of rivalry in the pursuit of teaching excellence, don't expect those entering the workforce to do so with the essential skills to obtain a job, especially when, at the same time, they're being priced out of the labor market by minimum wage laws. (See my article, "Freedom and the Minimum Wage".)
Some Universals of Human Betterment
But besides teaching methods and content, there is the social environment in which too many American blacks still grow up. That is, are education, learning, and making sacrifices in the present for noticeable gains and benefits in the future sufficiently emphasized within families and among friends? However, even to raise such questions is considered to show one's implicit racism; that is, to judge blacks and black society in America by "white" standards.
I grew up mostly with my mother's side of the family. Her parents, my grandparents, had come from the Russian Empire as small children in the first decade of the 20th century, escaping from the frequent pogroms against Jewish villages and communities. When they arrived in America, they did not know the language; their origins were mostly from rural areas in Jewish parts of Ukraine and they had to adapt to urban life in New York City in those years before the First World War.
They faced anti-Semitic prejudices and discriminations. Some professional and occupational doors were difficult to get through due to biases against Jews. Careers sometimes had to be the second or third best. My mother's father wanted to go to medical school and had the grades, but there were implicit quotas for Jewish applications in many places at that time. So, instead, he went to pharmacy school and ended up owning his own neighborhood small drugstore in Brooklyn. My mother told me about want ads in New York City newspapers in the late 1930s, when she was looking for her first job, that still had phrases to the effect that Jews need not apply.
I grew up with my grandmother drumming two things into my head, over-and-over again: First, get an education, and then you have a skill to get ahead, and if it is a skill that the gentiles may need, you have a better chance they won't kill you! The other one was, the world doesn't owe you a living; you were on your own, and you needed to be both a free and responsible individual making his way. Yes, be charitable, and think of others and empathize with their misfortunes, because your Jewish ancestors have known enough of those. But you shouldn't expect a handout, and you should think it an embarrassment to put your hand out for one.
So, is self-responsibility and self-control good and right for some ethnic and cultural groups, but not for others? Is pursuing an education and planning for the future in reasonable and disciplined ways cultural attributes that might be the right thing for one segment of the society, but not another? Taking family seriously, and trying to be good role models for your children is right and proper among some, but would be a misguided and inappropriate "cultural appropriation" by another part of society?
Essential Keys: Education, Planning for the Future, and Self-Control
We are all human beings – or have we reached a point with the new "progressive" identity politics racism that is a misplaced and wrong presumption? – and, as such, there are universal truths and verities that we all share in common. They are not the "white man's" truth or verities; they are the discoverable insights for all human beings to understand and follow, if we are interested in certain types of improvements in the general human condition.
If you don't think about tomorrow; if you are unwilling to make a variety of "sacrifices" in the present for desirable gains in the future; if the value and importance of an education – "book learning" – is not cultivated and fostered within the family and the household; if certain fundamental truths about ethical behavior are not highlighted and insisted upon when growing up. If these practices and rules of life are not taught, learned and followed, then no one should be overly surprised when those brought up in such social environments do less well than others who are raised in families and communities that have emphasized and insisted upon them.
Have we really "outgrown" the practical and universal educational wisdom that Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) shared with the young incoming black students to his Tuskegee Institute more than a hundred year ago, such as the following:
"I do not believe it is possible for a student to accomplish very much, certainly not the most, while he is in school, unless he learns to be happy in all his relations in school life . . . The Bible teaches over and over again that freedom, without which happiness is impossible, is self-imposed restraint, that to be really free we must live within the law. He who lives outside the law is a slave. The freeman is the man who lives within the law, whether that law be the physical or the divine. All life is governed by law, and the student must acquire freedom by obedience to law.
"The ability to do hard methodical work is one of the prizes which every school worthy of the name offers to its students. The years at school not infrequently give bent to the whole life. The student who does slipshod work at school is more than likely to lack direction in his subsequent career . . . No one gets much out of life who does not make his education a real, vital part of himself.
"The student who leaves undone immediate duties because of bodily laziness is leaving happiness far behind him. Sins of commission and sins of omission alike tend to weakness. Our ability to make the world better depends entirely upon our ability to use every opportunity to make ourselves better. A largeness of life, a variety of interests and breadth of view axe among the prizes which a school offers to its students. These qualities the ignorant man does not possess. Largeness of life and breadth of vision give faith in the future; that largeness makes one person take the long view when the other is taking the short view; that largeness lifts the educated person far above the temptation to gossip about little things, above the temptation to get down into the mud and slime with which weaker individuals are smeared.(From: Booker T. Washington, Putting the Most into Life [1906], pp. 5-8)
Systemic Racism Insists Upon Tearing "the System" Down
No, this all seems to be passé, because the disparities between whites and blacks are caused by and reducible to "systemic racism," and nothing or little to do with attitudes, values and personal actions. But what is systemic racism? It is the claim that it does not matter what individual human beings think, believe, or try to do; they are all perpetrators or victims of racial injustices and oppressions due to the nature of the socio-economic and political system in which they live.
In other words, white racism is embedded into society, and the implication is that it has always been so and will remain so unless and until the very structural design of the social order is radically transformed. What are some of the manifestations of such systematic and institutional racism?
We are told that it shows itself in disparities in earned incomes between whites and blacks, qualities of schools in predominantly differing racial neighborhoods, the qualities of the food offered in local stores, the availability of medical facilities and care within different racial communities, and differential treatments within the legal system.
So "the system" is rotten, and what makes it worse and difficult to change is that the people "in" the system often do not even know or understand that they are participants in its workings, receiving its benefits or its burdens. But how can this be said when there are whites who are in the lower income brackets, who live in far less than middle class neighborhoods, and who are not "invited" into the "better" social networks for advancement. In other words, how can you say that "poor, white trash" are not victims of that system?
Supposed "White Privilege" and a Mental Experiment
As far as the systemic racism proponents are concerned, just being white does the trick. Says Zinzi Bailey, a social epidemiologist at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine's Jay Weiss Institute for Health Equity at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, specializing in problems of "systemic racism:"
"It's an advantage conferred to white people in a range of different structures that privileges their worth and reception differently than a person of color. The advantage that is conferred to those folks regardless of their individual economic status or history. All else being equal, there is an advantage to being white. Yes, you may have had a lower social economic status, but a black person will encounter structural disadvantages that you will not. Yes, you worked hard, but our society has also valued you more."
Not only do whites have this inherent advantage that by definition those not in this "in-group" do not possess, but consciously or unconsciously, race-based policies isolate and segregate blacks from opportunities and avenues of a better life. Thus, for instance, in Ms. Bailey's view, racially separate communities are "planned" by realtors and others to victimize blacks, so they have fewer grocery stores and bicycle lanes, lower home values, and other neighborhood amenities!
It's all an institutional conspiracy caused by the simple fact that some are "white" while others are not. Let's do a mental experiment. Suppose that there is a community in which all those living in it are of the same ethnic or racial background. They speak the same language, share mostly the same likes and dislikes in food, hair styles, and clothing fashions, as well as entertainment and leisure activities. In other words, they are all part, in the sociological, cultural sense, of a fairly homogeneous group.
But . . . some are wealthier than others. Therefore, some individuals and families live in nicer and more spacious homes and neighborhoods than others, due to those wealth differences. These wealth differences mean that some have more expensive and newer model cars than others, can go out to restaurants more frequently, and can afford to stay at more costly vacation resorts and can more often fly first or business class getting to holiday destinations while traveling.
Systemic Biases Caused by Politically Based Privileges
So how might we describe the reasons behind the standard and quality of living differences between these two groups in such a fairly homogeneous society? Now it could be the politics of such a society that has established and imposed systems of privilege and favoritism to the benefit of some that others are denied and are made to subsidize through various government regulatory policies and redistributive programs. This could be considered a society suffering from systemic economic "oppression" of some for the advantage of others.
But now suppose that a spirit of (classical) liberal enlightenment emerges and gains increasing support within this community, such that a great reform movement arises demanding and finally bringing about the dismantlement and abolition of this system of privilege and favoritism for some at the expense of others.
Now, all are equally free to enter any profession or occupation they may choose to follow, they may open businesses and freely compete as entrepreneurs on a free market, and search out and apply without legal restriction for attractive and preferred salaried employments. The legal barriers to entry and opportunity, with their resulting politically generated inequalities of outcome are gone.
But . . . suppose what had been the "mark" of difference between the two groups in this society and which had made it easier to distinguish one from another under that regime of systemic privilege was that some were blond haired and blue-eyed, while the "disadvantaged" were brunettes with brown eyes, though all of them were racially "white."
In a free market, the only color that ultimately ends up mattering is the color of your money; that is, can you offer someone a better product at a more attractive price than a rival also interested in gaining the same consumer business? And as a potential employee, can you contribute to an enterprise's economic success better than another also looking for gainful employment?
The consumer who refuses to buy from the lower-pricing and better quality-providing seller because he has the "wrong" color hair, sees his hard-earned income go less far in terms of his overall standard of living when compared to his neighbor who is more interested in hair color-blind "value for his money." And the employer who chooses to not hire the better skilled worker because he does not like the color of his eyes loses out on a competitive advantage to a supply-side rival who either has no such prejudice or assigns it less importance than the more cost-efficient production he can undertake with more skilled employees.
Yes, in a free society, the hair and eye color bigots in this imagined society could practice their prejudices, but they cannot escape the costs of doing so (higher prices paid for some consumer goods, less productive workers employed with the loss of a larger profit opportunity). As time goes by, the tendency would be for the tradeoff of lost real income and foregone profits to be earned, so to indulge one's "biases" will seem too great, with fewer and fewer people doing so.
America's Melting Pot Due to Depoliticized Human Relationships
Those on "the left" normally roll their eyes and either by the smirk on their face or the words with which they reply to this, consider it all a fairy tale. But it is the history of America among the waves of European immigrants who came to the country's shores. This was seen and emphasized, for instance, already by the Frenchman, J. Hector John de Crevecoeur, who settled in New York State in the 1760s, and wrote his famous, Letters from an American Farmer (1782) in which he told his readers in Europe:
"[T]hat strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a man, whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations.
"He is an American who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, wrests new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lao of our great alma mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted in a new race of man, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world." (p. 46)
In Europe, at the time that Crevecoeur wrote these words all the way up to our own times, these different national groups have fought wars among themselves, plundered each other's lands, killed each other in untold numbers – even though they were all "white."
So, what happened in America? Did national prejudices and ethnic biases just "disappear" once the air was breathed or the water was drunk on the American side of the Atlantic? Far from it. European bigotries and rivalries and dislikes did not just evaporate; this "old world" baggage often accompanied the arriving immigrant.
Various immigrant groups first clustered in certain parts of cities like New York, which had its Polish or Irish or German or Jewish neighborhoods. But soon over a generation or two, at the most three, people moved on to other parts of the country, blended in with the descendants of other European groups, intermarried, and lived side-by-side simply as "Americans."
The legal foundation for group "privilege" and social prejudice was not formally here to use and abuse due to personal dislikes and the desire to use political power to the same plundering and discriminatory ends as in too many parts of Europe.
In addition, the country preached and (not always perfectly) practiced the underlying philosophy of individualism, personal freedom, and economic liberty. Most people coming here wanted to join in as a member of this "new land" based on the new, indeed, revolutionary idea of human freedom, equality of rights before the law, self-responsibility, voluntary association, and a government that was to protect your life, liberty and honestly acquired property, not to plunder it or redistribute it for your or another's benefit at the expense of someone else.
Slavery and Jim Crow Needed Government to Survive
Did "America" or Americans always live up to these ideas and ideals among themselves who were of European ancestry? Alas, no. And they certainly failed to do so toward others not of the same European background, most infamously in the form of Africans transported into slavery, especially and for the longest time in the Southern states.
But notice, the most egregious manifestations were made possible precisely because a segment of the population was kept in bondage through the use of political power for the benefit of those who claimed ownership over their "human property." Racial segregation could persist in its most visible forms following the American Civil War only because the Southern states, when free of Northern occupation, legalized compulsory separation among whites and blacks through Jim Crow legislation.
Yes, personal bigotry and social pressures most certainly have their influences in any society, but the fact that racial segregation in the South needed the power of the state to assure its preservation strongly suggests that if those laws had not been in place, racial divides socially and economically would have been undermined, reduced, and been on a path to fuller racial harmony and integration that was kept on hold for a century after the Civil War.
If people "naturally" want to separate themselves on racial lines, if they "naturally" do not want to associate or do business with each other, or share common goals and visions simply as "Americans," then why did the Southern legislatures have to impose the segregation laws in the first place? Why did they have to so forcefully and sometimes brutally enforce them?
The answer is: without such laws and auxiliary "pressures," the race-separating walls and biases would have come tumbling down. Overnight? Of course not. Human beings far too often can be stubborn creatures, but faster or slower, in an environment of traditional American preaching and practicing of individual liberty and freedom of association inside and outside the marketplace would have cured the racial scares and attitudes that were able to persist for so long because of what lasted for an additional one hundred years in the South.
In Freedom, People Discover Their Common Humanity
But what about social bigotries and racist attitudes? How would communities be desegregated in terms of housing, employment, social life and networks? Do any of us hear about "redlined" Irish neighborhoods, or Polish "ghettos," or isolated "inner city" Italians? Those prejudices were certainly present in an earlier America. Do we belabor divergences in Irish-American relative income versus Italian-American or Polish-American relative incomes? No, though once discrepancies in income and status did exist among Americans of differing European ancestry.
Freedom and enlightened thinking, at the end of the day, made more and more people reflect on and realize that "they" are really not very different from "us," in all the essential ways, regardless of the church they go to, or the ethnic foods they eat and customs they practice at home or with some neighbors, or even the way they look; it really does not matter. "Under the skin," we are pretty much all the same.
After all, a blond-haired Swede can look very different from an olive-complexion Italian from Sicily, let alone a practicing Jew from Russia compared to an "enlightened" French sophisticate originally from Paris, both living in New York. America was, has been, and still is a "melting pot," far greater and with amazingly good results compared to virtually anywhere else in the world. And the same has been and can continue to be no less true between white and black Americans, regardless of history's legacies.
The danger with this new notion of "systemic racism" is that it insists that people have not and cannot think about themselves and others other than in collective tribal terms defined by the color of your skin. It may be considered rhetorically "impolite" to say it, but it is nonetheless the case that this is an attempt to impose Nazi-like thinking on America.
"Systemic Racism" Theory is the New Nazism
You are who you are based on race. You cannot help thinking outside of your racial group as oppressor or oppressed. Your race, alone, determines and dictates your position and status in society. Here is the new eugenics. The old eugenics said you are your genes, and these made you "superior" or "inferior" in a variety of mental and other ways from which no one could escape. It was in your "blood."
All that could be hoped for to preserve the best in the society was "racial hygiene" by limiting the breeding of the inferior races and their polluting of and bringing down the superior races. What about the new eugenics? You can't help being racist, it's in your social DNA. All that can be done is to "bring the system down," to end the white racism that is inherent in being a white person.
There is no common humanity, no shared humanness, no capacity to understand "the other" in spite of us all being human beings. Just as the Nazis said the "Jewish mind" is fundamentally different than the "German mind," including in logic, science, and the human experience, so, now, the systemic racism proponents insist that a white male can never know the meaning of being non-white or female or any number of genders in-between.
A female novelist chooses to "voluntarily" withdraw her new work from publication, because as a "white woman" how could she ever think that she could understand the thinking of southern blacks in another period of time? Only a black woman can ever write such a book. How could a white man presume to be the voice of a television cartoon character of a different race or ethnic group? Only a person of such a group can be considered a reasonable choice to play such a cartoon voice.
And both of them, and a publicly growing number of others, verbally grovel and beg forgiveness for the presumption, the hubris, the insensitivity, to think that they could ever know and feel what a black person has or ever can feel. Yes, they are really saying, we live in racially different universes, with no common humanity, understanding, empathy or sympathy. Just please, please forgive me for thinking that we are all human beings. I did not appreciate that we are merely fate-determined elements in hierarchies of power and privilege determined by the colors of our skin. Thank you for raising my consciousness to that "higher level." There is no individual and personal "me." There is only the tribe, the "we," into which I was born.
Systemic Racism Means a Return to a Crude Tribalism
All a white person can try to do is accept collective guilt and collective punishment by having their group "privilege" taken away by other races controlling the powers of government to redistribute what whites as a group do not deserve and should not have. The state must be used to apportion new privileges and burdens among different tribal groups. What is implicitly impossible in this mindset is a future society beyond race. Race is always with us; it's just a matter of who oppresses who.
"Social justice" comes down to whether your tribe is politically in power rather than some other. Enter a world of war and conflict of tribe against tribe, race against race, collective against collective. Peace, harmony, mutual respect, and common betterment through free association? All a "white man's trick" to get you to accept your inferior and oppressed place in society. It's either his race or yours. Thus, ends any sense and hope of a common humanity. The darkness descends, and humankind goes backwards.
If the ideology and policies of "systemic racism," identity politics, and cancel culture win out in the arena of American politics and cultural acceptance, it will be the end of America. Because America has been and is that unique, special, and highly successful "experiment" in human freedom. A freedom not based on race, nationality, language, or religion, but on an idea of the unique and valued individual who is at liberty to live his own life, peacefully in voluntary mutual association with others. A society that, more than any other, has done more to do away with the tribe and liberate the person, and bring peace and prosperity along with it.
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Institutional Racism in America's Universities
"Anti-Racist" Racists
Dr. Richard M. Ebeling is the recently appointed BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel. He was formerly professor of Economics at Northwood University, president of The Foundation for Economic Education (2003–2008), was the Ludwig von Mises Professor of Economics at Hillsdale College (1988–2003) in Hillsdale, Michigan, and served as vice president of academic affairs for The Future of Freedom Foundation (1989–2003).
On Martin Luther King Day–and every day–we should focus on the antidote to racism and alternative to racial thinking: individualism.
Some of the confusion in thinking about matters of race stems from the ambiguity in the terms that we use. I am going to take a stab at suggesting operational definitions for a couple terms in our discussion of race.
"Facts don't stop being facts if you are Black — and you are wrong."
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Report: WWE "Very Upset" About Snoop Dogg Appearing On AEW: Dynamite
The company isn't happy...
All Elite Wrestling announced their holiday schedule yesterday and three special editions of Dynamite will take place at the end of 2020 and start of 2021. Holiday Bash will be on December 23 and New Year's Smash will follow on December 30 and January 6.
Special guests have been advertised for the two New Year's Smash events and Snoop Dogg is slated to appear on Dynamite on January 6. What Snoop will be doing on the show hasn't been announced, but he is a judge on the Go Big Show alongside Cody Rhodes.
Bryan Alvarez reported on Wrestling Observer Radio that people in WWE are "very upset" about The Original Gangsta's upcoming appearance on Dynamite.
Alvarez said: "January 6 is New Year's Smash 2 with Snoop Dogg. And regarding Snoop Dogg, I do know there are people in WWE very upset that Snoop is appearing on this show."
Snoop Dogg has collaborated with WWE in the past, most recently ahead of Survivor Series 2020 where he interviewed The Undertaker and released a collection of clothing with The Phenom. He is also a WWE Hall Of Famer.
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In Pictures: 38th Anniversary of St. Janani Luwum Memorial
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President Museveni Pays Tribute to St Janani Luwum
Born in Kitgum district in 1924, Archbishop Janani Luwum was murdered on February 16, 1977 by then President Idi Amin Dada, during what is historically referred to as 'The Dark History of Uganda.' This followed a period of great tension, agitation and ugly showdown with Amin and his regime from the world at large.
The Grave of St. Janani Luwum at Wii Gweng in Mucwini Primary School
Today, Uganda is celebrating his legacy of reconciliation at a memorial which has brought together persons from different walks of life.
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President Yoweri Museveni and The Archbishop of York, His Grace Dr John Sentamu are joining thousands of pilgrims for the historical event.
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Ecumenical Choir during the St. Janani Luwum Memorial Prayers
Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu after blessing the Congregation
Members of Parliament During the Memorial Service of St Janani Luwum
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The quickest way to reach Lake Como, Italy is by flying. Nowadays with prices more accessible than ever before, air travel is as common as travelling by car. Many airlines allow you to check-in online as well as print out your boarding pass, you can avoid waiting in numerous long queues at the airport.
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Nyagondo is a small market centre in Gem Constituency, Siaya County, in the Republic of Kenya. It is located along the Kisumu Siaya tarmac road, approximately 70 kilometres to the west of Kisumu town and 17 kilometres to the east of Siaya town. The people of Nyagondo are members of the Luo community and speak the Dholuo language.

Nyagondo is home to the Nyagondo Catholic parish, which sponsors the Nyagondo Primary School and Mixed Secondary Schools.
Nyagondo is about 7 kilometer from apuoche market which borders River Yala on the way to the Akala market which is a border to other major places such as Seme, Asembo, and Bondo.

Social background and set up

An interview with one elderly man revealed that men in the older generation married many wives. As such, clans and sub-clans have been named after these wives. For example, Thomo, who was a great-grandson of Gem, had many wives, namely Awidi, Achar, Aluoch, Awuor and Adhasi. The clans living around this area have thus been named after these wives and hence Kachar, Kaluoch, Kawidi, Kawuor and Kadhasi. Nyagondo is located within the Kadhasi sub-clan but serves as an economic hub for all the other sub-clans.

Socio-economic activities

Peasant farming is the predominant economic activity with locals majoring in subsistence crop cultivation and domestic animal rearing. Popular crops grown include maize, beans, millet, cassavas, sweet potatoes, cow peas, tomatoes and kales. The animals kept include cattle, sheep and goats. Some farmers are also involved in small-scale cash crop farming, majoring in sugar cane, which supplies the local jaggeries in Luanda, Panyako and Uhembo.

Nyagondo recently benefited from the Rural Electrification Programme, which has helped to boost economic activity and living standards in the area. The area also has a health facility that is funded by the government, both directly and indirectly, from the LATF and CDF programmes.

The main economic challenge remains youth unemployment and poverty as most residents of Nyagondo, like many Kenyans, live on less than a dollar a day.

Religious beliefs

The people of Nyagondo practice Christianity, a large number being Catholics, with many being Anglicans or adherents of other Christian denominations including Legio Maria, Roho and also Evangelical followers. Very few people practice traditional African religion.

External links
 Nyagondo local map

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October in the Mountains might be a bit of a risk weather-wise. Fortunately, this risk totally paid off. The day was sunny, bright and unseasonably warm. Given the outdoor ceremony and dinner reception, the bride and groom and all their guests were very happy. And there's nothing quite as beautiful as a sunny afternoon in the mountains for a perfect wedding day.
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Let's Gain New Appreciation for Officials During Down Time
Posted bywporter1231	 April 8, 2020 Leave a comment on Let's Gain New Appreciation for Officials During Down Time
Dr. Karissa L. Niehoff, NFHS Executive Director
During this shutdown of normal life in our nation, we are learning to deal with a new challenge – how to handle the unexpected time on our hands at home. Simply keeping up with the days of the week is a major accomplishment!
While we anxiously await the re-opening of schools and a return of high school sports and performing arts, this down time can be used in positive ways to take advantage of educational opportunities. And kudos to some individuals who already are seizing those opportunities – men and women who officiate high school sports.
Two weeks ago, we began to offer the 11 officiating courses on the NFHS Learning Center (www.NFHSLearn.com) free of charge, and the response has been nothing short of amazing. By the end of March – merely a week into this new opportunity – more than 5,200 courses had been taken.
In addition to veteran officials fine-tuning techniques in one or more of the seven sports featured in these courses, this has been a great opportunity for individuals interested in officiating to take a free course to determine their interest level.
Those of us in leadership positions are so appreciative of these individuals who give freely of their free time to officiate high school sports or adjudicate music contests. We would suggest that everyone – student-athletes, coaches, parents and other fans – use this down time to do the same.
At various times this year before the shutdown of schools, officials have been the victim of verbal and physical abuse. Inappropriate behavior by parents and other fans was causing officials to quit before they even reached two years on the job.
And yet, in the past three years, more than 35,000 individuals have signed up to become officials through the NFHS' #BecomeAnOfficial campaign and 5,200 courses that have been taken in the past couple of weeks by men and women who want to give back to high school sports. These are good signs more people will continue to be involved in officiating when the games return.
But what about the parents and other fans in the stands? Will their behavior be changed upon return? The conclusion of the New Mexico Activities Association's state basketball tournament last month provided an interesting perspective on the impact of fans to the atmosphere at high school sporting events.
After completing the first two days of its state tournament with fans in the stands, the NMAA conducted the final three days without fans because of concerns about the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Dana Pappas, commissioner of officials for the NMAA, noted the following about the final three days of competition:
"Officials would make a call and if coaches had a question about it, they asked – calmly and respectfully. In huddles during time-outs, coaches just talked to their players, without raised voices. The behavior of coaches on the sidelines from Thursday through Saturday was in stark contrast to what we witnessed on Tuesday and Wednesday. Perhaps they did not feel the need to be overly emotional for the benefit of their fans.
"My hope is that the absence of sport throughout the world gives us all a moment to gain perspective and do a 'gut check' as to the kind of fans we are at contests. If the quality of the game is unchanged (or even better) without fans there to scream at the coaches, officials and players, then is that behavior really necessary when the games resume?"
The message here is that while the games can continue without fans, the ideal situation is for stands full of fans positively cheering for their teams.
Online link to article: https://www.nfhs.org/articles/let-s-gain-new-appreciation-fo-officials-during-down-time/
Dr. Karissa L. Niehoff is in her second year as executive director of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) in Indianapolis, Indiana. She is the first female to head the national leadership organization for high school athletics and performing arts activities and the sixth full-time executive director of the NFHS, which celebrated its 100th year of service during the 2018-19 school year. She previously was executive director of the Connecticut Association of Schools-Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference for seven years.
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Gabbert doesn't pass the eye test........at all. He's innacurate. He takes unnecessary sacks. Henne's problem is he's inconsistent. When Henne is on, he's pretty easily better than Gabbert. But there's always a time in the game where Henne is off, and he either throws a pick or just misses throws for an extended period of time. But Henne, when on, is better than Gabbert. Neither are good, but Henne is the lesser of two evils.
Gabbert completed 4.4% more of his passes, and coming into yesterday, their sack rate was exactly the same 7.3%. Henne now has a 8.3% sack rate.
There's a difference between taking sacks and taking unnecessary sacks though. Henne gets hit when he has free rushers coming at him, and you'll notice that Henne is on his back after a hit on almost every play. Sometimes he'll hold onto the ball too long, but usually he is sacked because of a collapsing O-line. There's a reason Henne is rushing so much, and it's not because he's fast.
Henne is more inaccurate than Blaine, also takes unnecessary sacks, stares down his receivers like there is no tomorrow, extremely careless with the football and wears footsie pajamas.
Could have been picked 7 times yesterday because #LOCKONHENNE was in full effect.
He is rarely ever "on". I'd take Blaine over Chad any day.
He does lock on. That's an issue. His decision making is by far his biggest problem.
Well that's not really true. And cool, take Blaine. Neither are going to get us anywhere. Chad is just slightly better.
There's a difference between taking sacks and taking unnecessary sacks though. Henne gets hit when he has free rushers coming at him, and you'll notice that Henne is on his back after a hit on almost every play. Sometimes he'll hold onto the ball too long, but usually he is sacked because of a collapsing O-line.
I don't have the stats for the second Indy game or second Houston game (and he wasn't sacked in Houston, so it doesn't matter). The average time from when Gabbert got the snap to when he got hit with a sack was 2.51 seconds. Only 4 QBs in the entire NFL averaged less time up to that point in the season.
There's a reason Henne is rushing so much, and it's not because he's fast.
Percentages are based on total drop backs; attempts+sacks+rushes, as opposed to the normal sacks+attempts.
Henne is better than Gabs, but wow do we have an awful QB situation.
Not that this argument is going anywhere.
Present your case as to how Henne is better than Gabbert. I don't understand how anyone could make it. Gabbert passed the eye test better than Henne and the numbers back up Gabbert and that's with the conservatism during his run as QB this year, B14ckmon coming on mid-season (which favors Henne), and a career game for Henne.
Henne doesn't pass the eye test........at all. He's innacurate. He throws unnecessary passes resulting in INTs. Gabbert's problem is he's inconsistent. When Gabbert is on, he's pretty easily better than Henne. But there's always a time in the game where Gabbert is off, and he either throws a pick (lol jk) or just misses throws for an extended period of time. But Gabbert, when on (or off), is better than Henne. Neither are good, but Gabbert is the lesser of two evils.
Or you're just wrong. If you watched every game this season and truly believe that then I'm at a loss for words.
I think the exact same way. Except the opposite.
I'm not sure how you could watch what happened with Gabbert and come to the conclusion that he was taking stupid sacks from holding the ball too long. There were free rushers coming from LG and RT at him constantly, and the 2.51 seconds stat backs that up.
You're the only one with this opinion and you only have it because of Henne's performance against the Texans.
No, I'm not, it's a majority opinion.
And Henne's game against the Texans wasn't even his best performance this season.
A majority opinion? You're literally the only one in this thread stating it. iPwn, KYID, and myself are all opposed to it. I don't care if some randy from the Browns or wherever thinks because he watches ESPN or NFL Network that Henne > Gabbert btw.
What was his best performance? I really want to hear this.
Only one in a thread=minority? Okay.
Henne played best in the first Tennessee game.
I'm fairly indifferent when it comes to Gabbert vs Henne. They both have plenty of issues.
In terms of the 'eye test', i'd say Henne's willingness to be aggressive with the ball is the biggest advantage he has over Gabbert. Blaine so often looks afraid to fit the ball into tight windows, and everything about his play gives off the impression that he's not entirely confident in what he's doing. Of course, Henne's swagger and attempts to fit balls in tight windows is also one of his biggest downsides...as he doesn't really have the accuracy or talent to make it work without racking up INTs. Henne also gets the edge in terms of standing in there and making a throw when he's about to get decked, and i think it's foolish to attribute Blackmon 'getting it' entirely to Blackmon alone. I do think that some chemistry with Henne played into that in some measure. Though it's impossible to say how much.
Gabbert's biggest advantage is his youth. He's still got a lot of time left on the clock as far as development goes. And he has some of the natural talent to be a much better QB than Henne.
At this point, gun to my head, i have to choose...i'd say Henne is the marginally more effective QB right now. But that could change fairly easily.
To me, this is just as big an issue. Our O-Line is trash, outside of Monroe. Few QBs are going to put up good numbers in terms of avoiding sacks behind that group. And building a top-tier O-Line is one of the best ways to get the most out of a mediocre at best QB imo. And never a bad idea for the future.


A person's health depends on the strength of his immune system. Vitamin supplements used to maintain health are nothing new on the landscape, but yeast supplements are starting to garner attention from health enthusiasts.
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is used in beer breweries, bakeries and is an additive in animal feed. Yeast supplements contain dried, nonliving versions of the microorganism and are a source of chromium, Vitamin B and protein.
Epicor is a supplement made from brewer's yeast formulated according to a specific recipe. It was first discovered at an animal feed fermentation plant that recorded unusually low instances of illness and sick leave when the plant became self-insured.
Investigators found that employees at the feed production factory were consistently exposed to an ingredient that actually improved digestion in the animals that consumed it. The yeast-based product produced by a multi-stage fermentation and drying process is touted as an immune system booster.
It increases the efficiency of phagocytes, or natural killer cells, which are the body's first line of defence against infection. Phagocytes were able to dispatch bacteria, viruses and abnormal cells more efficiently, even in significantly decreased numbers. There is also less inflammation and tissue damage.
Total salivary secretory immunoglobulin A (IgA) also increased with Epicor consumption. Salivary IgA is found in the eyes and nasal and oral passages, often the first points of entry for pathogens. As such, it can reduce the chances of developing respiratory illness while resolving illnesses more quickly.
This compound is found in the cell wall of baker's yeast. Its commercial form is a highly purified and patented carbohydrate extract. Most beta glucans, whether from yeast or fungi, are good for human nutrition but may negatively affect beer-brewing processes.
The use of beta-13D glucan as a supplement is an exciting prospect as yeast-derived beta glucans are noted for their ability to improve the immune system. The insoluble beta-13D glucan form is also more effective than the insoluble form.
Phagocytosis increases after consumption of beta-13D glucan. Additionally, the number of phagocytes available to resist a bacterial challenge increases together with efficiency. This results in a quicker reaction to infectious challenges, representative of enhanced natural immunity.
Beta-13D glucans also demonstrate anti-cancer properties. In intravenous form they are assistive treatment to chemotherapy in Japan. FDA approval for anti-cancer use in the US hasn't been granted, although Phase III trials are being conducted. Due to its effect on insulin response and effective glycemic indexes, beta glucans are promoted as aids for weight loss.
Both Epicor and Beta-13D Glucan are yeast extracts promoted as immune system enhancers. However, Beta-13D Glucan has an apparent edge over Epicor in that the number of phagocytes does not decrease with its consumption, the opposite of which seems to be true with Epicor consumption.
Overall, Beta-13D Glucan appears to be a more attractive supplement thanks to its anti-cancer properties, which is something Epicor does not lay claim to. Both supplements, however, can also prove helpful to efforts in losing weight.
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Blue Waters is one of the shafts that ZIMASCO allegedly left open after mining chrome in the golf course. Sources said that the shafts are not protected.
Shurugwi district schools inspector Jameson Machimbira confirmed the death of Ndigo and encouraged parents to be more alert on the whereabouts of their children since Shurugwi has many dangerous unclosed shafts.
Shurugwi environmental management authority officer Severino Kangara confirmed that the dangerous pits were left behind after ZIMASCO operations.
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Various types of robotic telescope networks are described. These include local site, regional, global, and Earth-space networks. Two ways of managing networks are also discussed. Networks of automatic telescopes offer great promise for observations of astronomical objects.


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Due to the tragic and heart breaking events in Heolgerrig, Merthyr Tydfil, we have decided to cancel the production of OMG! at the Coliseum Theatre on Friday 8 & Saturday 9 September.
Our thoughts & prayers are with Paul, Gemma and their family at this awful time. We hope that all patrons and supporters will understand that comedy and laughter would be difficult for us at present.
If you have purchased tickets please contact the Box Office on 03000 040 444 for a full refund.


Percent of blood samples taken from women aged 15-24 that test positive for syphilis by Rapid Plasma Reagin (RPR) testing during routine sentinel surveillance at selected antenatal clinics.
STIs are transmitted in the same ways as HIV, and will be prevented by the same safe behaviours being promoted by HIV prevention programmes. Because bacterial STIs are curable, STIs will usually reflect more recent risk behaviour than HIV, which stays with an infected person until death. All the more so because HIV prevention programmes aim to increase recognition and treatment of STIs besides HIV. So measures of STI prevalence are a relatively good guide to recent trends in sexual risk behaviour.
Most countries regularly test pregnant women attending antenatal clinics for syphilis with RPR tests in order to treat those infected and prevent neonatal syphilis infection in infants. Indeed it is blood taken for the purpose of routine syphilis screening and treatment of pregnant women that provides the ethical justification for unlinked anonymous HIV testing of leftover blood. Syphilis screening, therefore, ought to be conducted throughout the year in all antenatal clinics nation-wide. However, reporting systems can be erratic and testing quality difficult to ensure. Linked samples must be tested for syphilis so that a woman can be appropriately treated. However for the purposes of constructing this indicator, it is recommended that blood samples sent to a central laboratory for unlinked anonymous testing of HIV are also re-tested for syphilis. This ensures consistency between data sets regarding site selection and sample collection period, and facilitates quality control. In calculating this indicator, countries with strong health information systems may wish to include data on syphilis prevalence from a wider selection of antenatal sites than just those included in the sentinel surveillance system for HIV. It is strongly recommended that two separate figures be reported for syphilis prevalence: one for women aged 15-24 and one for women across the whole reproductive age range of 15- 49. The indicator is the number of blood samples from women aged 15-24 testing positive for syphilis divided by the total number of blood samples from women aged 15-24 tested for syphilis.
Since syphilis is curable, infection tested by RPR probably reflects relatively recent infection. It is therefore recommended that it be measured for women across the whole reproductive age range of 15-49 to give an idea of ongoing risk behaviour. It is, however, recognised that the indicator will be biased to a certain extent by the association between syphilis and infertility. For programme purposes, especially in order to track changes in risk behaviour among young people, the data should also be disaggregated by age group and presented for 15-19, 20-24 and 15-24 as well as for the entire 15-49 year age range.


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package com.github.inarabr.conditions;

import com.github.inarabr.validation.utils.Joiner;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
import java.util.Set;

public class HasValue<T> implements ValidationCondition<T> {

  private final Set<T> validValues;

  private HasValue(Set<T> validValues) {
    this.validValues = validValues;
  }

  @SafeVarargs
  public static <T> HasValue<T> hasOneOfTheValues(T valueOne, T... otherValues) {
    Set<T> values = new LinkedHashSet<>();
    values.add(valueOne);
    Collections.addAll(values, otherValues);
    return new HasValue<>(values);
  }

  public static <T> HasValue<T> hasValue(T value) {
    return hasOneOfTheValues(value);
  }

  @Override
  public boolean isValid(T objectToValidate) {
    return validValues.contains(objectToValidate);
  }

  @Override
  public Collection<?> validValues() {
    return validValues;
  }

  @Override
  public String toString() {
    if (validValues.size() == 1) {
      return String.valueOf(validValues.iterator().next());
    }
    return this.getClass().getSimpleName() + " [" + Joiner.join(", ", validValues, new Joiner.ToString<T>() {
      @Override
      public String apply(T input) {
        return input.toString();
      }
    }) + "]";
  }
}

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Bodies of 2 children, 2 adults found in minivan in parking lot of Garden Grove drugstore
By Marc Cota-Robles, Anabel Munoz and ABC7.com staff
2 children, 2 adults found dead in minivan in Garden Grove
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (KABC) -- The bodies of four people -- two young children, a man and woman -- were discovered Thursday evening in a minivan parked in a Garden Grove parking lot, authorities said.
The grim discovery was made about 8:45 p.m. after a homeless woman noticed a strange odor coming from the white Honda and notified authorities, according to the Garden Grove Police Department.
"She said she's seen this van here in the parking lot before and believed that the family that was in the van may be homeless or in between places," police Lt. Carl Whitney said.
The victims were not immediately identified. According to police, the children, a boy and a girl, were under the age of 2. The children were in their pajamas.
The white van had been backed into a parking space and its windows were covered with blankets and a sunshade.
The father was later identified as Phunyouphone Kanyavong, 41, of Garden Grove. The woman was identified as Emma Ha and their two children were 2-year-old Nikki and 8-month-old Mone, according to a GoFundMe page.
Police are investigating whether carbon monoxide poisoning may have been the cause of death, adding that there were no obvious external signs of trauma to the deceased.
A small memorial was set up at the site where the bodies were found, with candles, stuffed animals and flowers adorning the curb.
Autopsies will determine the exact cause of death.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Garden Grove police detectives at (714) 741-5704.
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From half a day to two days, choose the formula that suits you.
This is the ideal little trip with family or friends!
Consider a distance of 8 km to be made in 1 hour and a half … slowly! Non stop Departure from 8h to 16h … return at fixed times from 11h to 18h (except at 1.00pm).
Clearly, take as long as you want! A bus will bring you back from the arrival area No. 5 (on the left bank of the river) to your car.
ATTENTION: Depending on the water level, this route may not be accessible according to the regulations in force.
Neither too long nor too short, with or without picnic, this two-sections canoe trip will let you enjoy this activity, with an average sportiness level .
Our shuttles will take you to the starting point upstream of the Ardèche, to the Sampzon bridge.
The first part of the trip takes place on a calm river, punctuated by 4 canoe slides (called canoe pass) before joining the the mini-canoe descent … with its passage under the Pont d'Arc.
Consider 3h paddling time to reach the arrival … Our buses return every hour from 14h to 18h from the arrival station No. 5 (on the left bank of the river).
Departure every half hour from 8h30 to 10h30 maximum (duration 5h) – Do not pass under the Pont d'Arc.
As the name suggests, it delights all nature lovers!
Our shuttles take you to the starting point n°5 at Châmes where the Ardèche engages in the gorgeous Gorges whose cliffs reach in some places near 300 meters high.
You will be amazed by the beauty of this Reserve that we strive to keep wild.
The sooner you leave, the more you will enjoy … and even more with the children!
Sunscreen and a little sportiness are required.
After 5h paddling time, without breaks, your will return by bus from the arrival area of Sauze betwen 16h and 17h. Count 45 minutes of transport, to travel back to the departure place where you left your car.
Fixed departure from 8h to 9h (duration 6h30) – Pass under the Pont d'Arc.
The Pont d'Arc and the Natural Reserve together: it's time to test your sporting skills with more than 6 hours of canoe … without breaks!
Departure 8am at the earliest of the day you will be the first on the river.
See the nature wakes up, pass under the Pont d'Arc, a 60 meters high natural arch , navigate along the entire nature reserve and enjoy a few rapids.
Without losing your pace, the last part before arriving in Sauze can be tiring, if the water level is low.
Our shuttles ensure your return, between 4.00 and 5.00pm.
Attention, the night of your bivouac is not included in our formula.
You've heard about it for so long, it's the opportunity to live two days of adventure in canoe or kayak in Ardèche, at your pace, with family, friends or lovers!
Finally, the possibility of disconnecting from the daily routine with a real return to nature by carrying the strict minimum.
Departure "à la carte", towards one of the two bivouac areas: Gaud (1/3 of the way) or Gournier (half of the descent). Do not forget to book your tickets!
Unique and convivial evening around a barbecue, in all simplicity.
The next day, enjoy the happiness that nature offers. The idleness of this descent ends in Sauze, where our shuttles are waiting for you between 4.00 and 5.00pm.
For this course, a deposit of € 20 per person is requested before your first boarding and will be returned to you after your second day.
The first day is half of the complete descent: 16 km of peaceful ride to the bivouac Gournier.
Consider a 45 minute vertical walk, with your equipment, to reach the road where our buses can pick you up at the end of the day around 18h.
You will have free choice for your night (Not included in your reservation) and enjoy a Vallonnaise evening.
The next day, let's go back! Walk down the way to the bivouac to find your boats left the first evening and navigate through the second part for an arrival in Sauze from 4.00 to 5.00pm.
As I want and when I want! The tailor-made descent of the Gorges de l'Ardèche.
We add a day of 8 km to another day of 24 km and we get the 32 kms.
"Today, I arrive late … I chose the short MINI-DESCENTE … tomorrow, I would make the whole day trip "The gorges of the Ardèche". " I'm on vacation, Monday I discover the mini descent of Ardeche … .and Tuesday with my friends for the Reserve," it is possible!
With the Easy way formula, 2 days, 2 different ways to discover our river.
The only thing left to me is planning my night to spend an excellent stay.
Life is so beautiful in Ardeche!
It's a day that will remain etched in your memory!
Come celebrate your bachelor party on the Ardèche for an unforgettable memory!
We offer two days of adventure and celebration, "à la carte", via our EASY WAY formula!
And to celebrate this event as it should, LA VERNEDE offers an exceptional rate and offers the activity to the future groom for groups of minimum 10 people !
Plastic shoes or old tennis for example, flip-flops or other non-closed shoes should not be used.
Sun protection of all kinds (cream, glasses, cap, etc …).


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Q: What would be the most efficient solution to syncing stopwatch timers between the back-end and front-end? This question isn't meant for a specific stack, but more of a general question.
I have a front-end application where users are able to create multiple stopwatch timers and run those timers simultaneously to keep track of their tasks. I need to sync the stopwatch data from the front-end to the back-end. What would the best way be to achieve this?
I'm looking for a solution that keeps the front-end and back-end timer attributes in sync as much as possible while consuming as few resources as possible.
I'm able to think of 2 solutions:

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*HTTP requests based on events and polling, for example, if the user pauses the timer, a PUT request gets sent to the back-end with the updated timer attributes. And for the timers that aren't paused, a PUT request gets sent every minute.
An issue with this is that if there are 1000 users and each of them has multiple stopwatch timers running, this will be a lot of requests.
Another issue is that if the page gets refreshed before a PUT request, then the timer information will, of course, be lost until the last put request.

*Web sockets- I haven't worked with web sockets before, so I'm not sure how viable it is for my scenario. But from what I understand the timer table on the database can be updated in real-time from the front-end once a connection is established to the back-end. Currently, I'm unaware of any downsides to this. If there are any downsides to web sockets, please let me know.
In summary, I'm trying to update multiple timers from the front-end to the back-end, however, I'm not sure if web sockets or HTTP requests would be the best approach for minimizing the resources being used while also keeping the timers as accurate as possible.
I'd like to hear some opinions from other developers on which the better approach would be better, and possibly other solutions.

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Orangeboy
Patrice Lawrence
(Hodder Children's Books)
448pp, 978-1444927207, RRP £7.99, Paperback
Buy "Orangeboy: Shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award 2016" on Amazon
This explosive novel set around vicious London boy gangs peddling drugs is not for the faint-hearted. Sixteen-year-old Marlon, its narrator, starts as an innocent caught up in an ongoing legacy of escalating violence handed down over time by older family members. Early on he has enough evidence to go to the police who might have got at least some of all this settled. Instead he chooses to sort things out for himself, a decision that leaves him, his home and his long-suffering mother prey to more violence. From Enid Blyton onwards telling the police early on about suspicions is not a popular thing to do in fiction, with young sleuths anxious not to spoil the fun they hope to be having themselves following up clues or apprehending villains. But gangland London is no fun place to be, and the author while sympathetic to Marlon's inadequacies does get the message across that he is signally neither cool nor clever enough to be acting on his own like this.
It takes Marlon a long time to realise this himself, perhaps a little too long. The beatings-up he keeps receiving meanwhile get nastier and nastier and the patience extended towards his general obduracy at home and by his contemporary companion Tish living opposite become increasingly hard to believe. This girl and lifelong friend remains the voice of tough common sense throughout, trying usually without success to make Marlon see the error of his ways. He does survive, but it is a close call and some of the violence he experiences is little less than sickening. But readers with strong stomachs can expect to be entirely hooked into a story that is well written, pacey and within its own terms horribly convincing.
Nicholas Tucker


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PDP To Rent Out 8 Floors In Abandoned National Secretariat For Revenue
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Iyorchia Ayu, on Tuesday, disclosed that eight floors from the party's national secretariat in Abuja will be commercialised to generate revenues.
"The idea that I understand is that PDP will occupy three floors, and the rest will be commercialised to generate revenue for the party, " Mr Ayu told journalists while he led members of PDP National Working Committee on a facility tour of the uncompleted 11 storey building in Abuja.
"The briefing I have is that work has actually got to finishing stages, and most of the critical components were on the ground, they have been moved to another location for safekeeping.
"Therefore, after so many years, we have lost a lot of revenue," he said, listing components of the building as 11 floors; two underground floors, and nine floors off the ground.
"As a party at Wadata House, we are challenged by lack of adequate office space. So the party will now discuss with all stakeholders of the party and will explore the necessary avenue for completing this edifice," he said.
Mr Ayu added: "We believe that apart from the critical stakeholders of the party, we will look for other ways including advice from experts to look into commercial considerations.
"It is a building that must be completed, it must never be allowed to remain wasted as it is. So the next way forward is to explore all possible avenues to complete this building."
The construction of the secretariat was conceived in 2008 by a former National Chairman, Ahmadu Ali to address inadequate office space at the present secretariat, Wadata Plaza, in Wuse Zone 5.
The contract awarded to BNL Construction and Engineering Company was reviewed upward from N11.5 billion to N16 billion.
Though the project was billed for completion in 126 weeks, the company withdrew from the site in 2014 due to the inability of the party to raise money for the work.
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The ice plant and heating ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems at Munn Ice Arena that were original to the building have been replaced and are now capable of year-round operation. In addition the ice rink surface, dasherboard system and glass were replaced as part of the project.
Munn Ice Arena is located on Birch Road south of Kalamazoo Street in the Athletic and Recreation District.
Construction for this project was completed in August 2014.
Interactive detour map with current closure information for motorists and pedestrians.


Well, I am escaping again!! This is yet another long sleepless night.
Google search reminded me yesterday that it was the birthday of the author of my favourite book -> The Little Prince. Since when did I start liking the book? Hmmm, long long long time ago.... the lines and pictures are so simple and yet so inspiring.... I am definitely going to read it again after I submit part of my thesis draft to the supervisor tomorrow!!! thinking of that gives me lots of motivation to continue my work!!
A phrase from the book that I really like is this: "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." Although it is very "unengineer" and "unscientist", I believe that it is the heart that defines human being and differentiate us from the animals. (Well, I am definitely not a Darwinian advocate).


Lewis Moore's Page - .
world. As we work together we can accomplish much for the kingdom of God.
I received Jesus Christ as my savior and Lord in 1972. I graduated from Auburn University in 1977 with a degree in Music Education. After graduation I became worship leader at Trinity Community Church in LaGrange GA. I recorded my first album in 1978 and doors opened to share my ministry of music to churches and coffeehouses throughout the US and the UK and later Canada. I have a vision also to work with youth in developing their God given musical talents to use for the kingdom of God.
Greeting Lewis Moore,thank God for your life and your family and your ministry and thank God also for the faith.we are a small Church(Faith in Christ ministry) at the buduburam refugee camp here in Ghana with the aim of spreading the good news of the lord and his words to people who need them,teaching the found and finding the lost.we also also help children who are orphans that lost thir parents during the war back home.w help them to know the word of God and to be strong in him.i hope God will divinely inspire you and give you the revelation so we can be partners in doing God's work.
Hello Lewis, how are you? What a great blessing you are! We are Isaac and Grace from Ghana, praying for you,visit us at www.amazinggracegospel.org for details. Love you, Isaac and Grace.
Yes I was there for 9 years. Did you check out www.buddybelllive.com ?
OFM-TV EX-VISITORS GUESTBOOK to the network man of God. Stay bless and share your ministry gift with many please!. Together with my wife,we just arrived from Breman, Humburg, Berlin etc. in Germany after more than two weeks mission work in Netherlands.
Good work being done to expand the lord's kingdom.
Why did yo pick me as a friend?