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On the True Face of Hermes, by Tim Pendry
March 18, 2012 § 3 Comments
Trying to pin down the archetype of Hermes is, by its very nature, absurd. Hermes in his many manifestations is Heraclitean flux turned into psychological form. Loki and Legba are analogues from other cultures. Quicksilver is the metallic analogue, a metal that behaves like a liquid and appears to be neither fully.
What is this archetype? – one of gaps and silences, shape-shifting, the hidden, movement, the flow of music, thought and being, exchange and acquisition, chance and the fleeting moment of decision or indecision, the momentary, the instinctual and so persuasion, illusion and trickery.
He/She is also the androgyne or hermaphrodite, median and mediator of opposites, specifically of sexual opposites, of that dominance and submission, sexually potent but immediate and sudden in its sexual choices which result in acts where after is never quite the same as before.
Hermes is the liminal, the guide into the unconscious at the borders of consciousness. He is who we may see at the moment of death or at the death of one's old self and the creation of another and so transformation through the effect of words. This is why he is seen by many in dreams.
If we follow Jung, Hermes (Mercurius) is the entire inner life of a person – the microcosm operating with symbols and imagery derived from the external social and material world (macrocosm). This is a clue to an intellectual error in alchemy that makes it irrelevant to many.
Alchemy has created an untenable system of correspondences by which symbols are separate yet related to the material world when, in fact, symbols are (as social constructions) part of an integrated world of social interaction and matter, one universe into which we are thrown.
The inner life of the imagination is the microcosm that makes use of this more expanded vision of the macrocosm. We can ditch the early modern view of exact relationships between a limited palette of colours, planets, plants, metals and so on for a far richer universe of possibilities.
In a universe of exo-planets and science fiction, chemical dyes, Attenborough documentaries and the table of elements, the creative symbolic opportunities are vastly larger than anything that could be imagined in previous ages.
No doubt this imaginative palette of possible correspondences will continue to expand with social complexity and material discovery for aeons to come. The hermetic is thus not just the inner life but the appropriation of all reality by the inner life.
In a unification much sought by many people, we see the bringing together of all reality through its constant recreation in the perceiving and creating mind. It is, literally, the creation of the world moment by moment. We are, in this sense, gods.
This, in turn, leads Hermes into being the trickster of the text, the founder of the illusion that words can ever be truth, ends rather than means. In short, he is precisely an archetype without intrinsic meaning but only and always a means to meaning, a facilitator or catalyst.
The Symbolism of the Hermetic
Hermes is to be found everywhere and nowhere, unless invoked. An analogy with the mystic Judaeo-Christian God is also clear here, another trickster through texts, an illusion that is the means to meaning rather than holding any comprehensible meaning within its non-existent self.
The final trick is thus that Hermes, also, is not. It is Existence which is 'not' until we bring it to life by existing. All existence is potential rather than actual.
It requires Hermes (that is, Existence becoming aware of itself) to become existent. Yet this awareness can come only from the fact of it and our being embedded in matter and in the social, the symbological mediators between awareness and existence.
It is no wonder that the God-believers and essentialists sought to crush hermetic thought and then turn it in on itself, subjecting it to an alien theology of world-soul that made it acceptable to Judaeo-Christian hegemony.
The true hermetic experience lies in the soul of the person, the creative flash of awareness in oneself, often libidinous and 'erotic'. Analogically, mercury, the metal of Hermes, represents mutability, absorbing a purifying gold, the most noble and aspirational of metals
Gold symbolises a state of perfection – or rather that fixed state of being to which humans always aspire but can never or only ever momentarily attain, perhaps perfectly only at the moment of death.
The symbol of Hermes is the 'caduceus', the rod used by the herald who would announce the news of what is to come or of what has happened – two snakes entwined around the penile and erect rod. This is definitely a male archetype and may speak to the male more than the female.
The snakes will swallow each other as the ourobouros, opposites that are one thing, the rawness of being. Symbolism surrounding Hermes is a gallant attempt to use imagery to try and create some rational understanding of a transformative process that is beyond all such understanding.
The 'Scientia' of the Hermetic
The mythos has one go deep into the bowels of the earth, into one's own metaphysical bowels where all things are pitch dark but where the precious metals that one wants are only to be found. Only Hermes is presented as able to guide you through the shit of one's own mind safely.
The mythos grounds us always in matter, analogically in lead, in a process that has a natural bent towards differing degrees of self awareness, at any one of which we may become 'stuck.
The medium of change of course is always fire which is mythologically various – not a single fire but many types of fire, each of which have their purpose in personal transformation. The mythos itself drifts into theology but we really have no need of God to understand what is going on.
This is where we depart from the traditional alchemical. The idea of an Anima Mundi, a Soul of the world, takes the make-believe too far. So far, the mythos accords with our experience of the world, thrown into it as Heidegger would say.
However, the invention of the Anima Mundi takes a symptom of transformation, an experience within the process of transformation, and stops us long before we can reach beyond the analogical silver to the analogical gold.
Here, we have to be careful of pseudo-scientific or vitalist explanations of the process. We are certainly in dispute with Frater Albertus about it being a science of the 'raising of vibrations'.
A theory of vibrations suggests an invocation from within all matter each in its own form rather than just the invocation of the specific matter underpinning an evolved and individuated consciousness.
Theories of the Anima Mundi and of a world of vibrations are poor substitutes for mainstream scientific investigation of the material substrate under individual or social (or herd) consciousness. Adding quantum physics to the mix is just grasping at straws,
This is not to say that there are not connections between individuated things but only that only the individuated thing in itself can 'know' or invent those connections. Theories that postulate the simple urge to exist, though, are far from foolish.
This 'will to be' is the 'quintessence' within matter that drives individuated beings through the will to survive and maintain their existence and then build on that existence in order to know. It is the Will that drives us forward and it is the Will that invokes and seeks to command Hermes.
Traditional hermetic thought would have Hermes be the Will that penetrates a passive, receptive matter whereas an alternative would be that it is the conscious Will, operating beyond reason, which invokes the Hermetic (with all those confusing attributes outlined above).
The hermetic then works on and changes our own matter – alchemically. What is true in the theory of vibrations is its analogical understanding of 'difference'. There are certainly no fixed conditions under which transformation takes place.
The Hermetic as Art
The presence of Hermes as all and everywhere means that each process of transformation is utterly different from the last or from that of another. This is why alchemy is not and never can be science – that is, involving the use of scientific method.
No particular experience can ever be a repeatable one, no universal laws are applicable or can be deduced from the operations. The spiritual alchemist adjusts his operations entirely to the conditions of his time of invocation.
But all operations have a common purpose – the acquisition of the Self's own life force as consciously and immediately understood so that it can then be further refined through the process of 'beyond thought-beyond -reason', an internal experience on which we cogitate rationally.
This is the Hermetic Fire which is always existent within matter but which we spend most of our lives avoiding. Early scientific psychologists understood these strategies which included denial and displacement.
Later psychologists added the psychology of default thinking, the group-think that organises death camps, wars and tyrannies – as well as maintains more benign political, cultural and economic forms of organization.
Hermetic Fire is precisely where we should concentrate our energy because Hermetic Fire is the inner cogitation, personal revelations and intuitions that actively transform the spiritual alchemist. It is Hermetic largely because it is as slippery as Hermes.
The spiritual alchemist is exacting in his analysis because instead of seeing persons as alive simply by being human, he would see persons as being only a little more alive than the nearest higher animals (not that they do not have rights within their range).
We come more fully alive only through self-awareness, dissolving denial, displacement and default thought. The whole is often cast as a journey, maybe a dream journey, during which the inner psyche emerges, sometimes in terrifying form, to take over consciousness.
It is not so much that reason is stripped away (though that might be a temporary aspect of the case) but all learned modes of expression are brought up to scrutiny, the socially inherited modes of thought and habit questioned.
This may be very frightening because the questioning process may involve a loss of control and it is control that keeps our Self in order. To let loose our inner Self may show us a path in opposition to the social (if it is in opposition to the material, we are going mad).
The dissolution (we refer to the 'nigredo' below) may be, in effect, a brutal dismemberment by oneself of one's own Self or rather by dream-projected agents of the Self – so much will be familiar from shamanistic practices. What is important though is the 'putting back together'.
The crisis is that, if we defy the 'given' in society, there will be an attempt, depending on the nature of society's own controlling system, to define us as mad or as the enemy. This will bring us back to 'discretion' later in this Note.
The Hermetic Process as Symbol
The stages of early modern alchemy are perhaps not to be taken too seriously but there are truths in the process represented analogically by creatures.
The Dragon of Material Existence on which we all subsist and rely.
The Raven of the 'nigredo' of decay and dissolution, of rotting and the bowels – this is the process of understanding that what we took to be true is not true and it can result in a 'dark night of the soul' of staggering pain which will deter all but the most determined.
The Peacock – the sudden appreciation of a complete new world in which everything is seen in a new and positive light.
The Swan – the stability of a new consciousness, a transformed awareness (but with the hidden danger of accepting the experience for the reality and not going on to the final stage).
The final stage is represented by the myth of the Philosopher's Stone. It requires a patient observation of one's own condition in order to slough off the final illusions that have accreted through the process of transformation.
It is this last stage that shifts a person from the inward to the outward, able to trigger the transformation of others by example because all desire for power or dominance over others (a sign of deep neurosis and anxiety) is lost.
Attention can now be given wholly to extending the Great Work from oneself to one's community. The creature for this stage is the Phoenix.
The transformation when finally effected (and it may require many iterations and may never be entirely completed) begins to renew itself, spreads through the alchemist's environment, triggering change at a personal and then higher levels of complexity.
Ultimately, limited only by the Dragon's return as death, the five creatures are subsumed into the snake eating its tail, the ourobouros again.
The Instability of the Process
The literature is clear that, if achieved, this state is not one to be boasted about. Historically, this has been interpreted as fear of the authorities but I think this overly paranoid.
The 'authorities' are generally not collectively bright enough to understand what is going on until a Giordano Bruno arrives to face them off – then they will burn him.
The real reason is that the Phoenix state is unstable. It requires constant further processing so that any claim of stability and success indicates (another paradox) that no success or stability has been achieved.
An associated reason is more practical – the process can only be spoken of (as here) in terms that are philosophically difficult or analogical, and so as obscure, because they are not entirely logical or repeatable under all apparently similar conditions.
If the Phoenix state exists in one person, it is unlikely to be recognised as such by another person, perhaps even one in a similar Phoenix state appropriate to them.
Being circumspect is simply the avoidance of argument and enables the Phoenix to spread the opportunity for transformation by a form of osmosis based on personal conduct.
The point is critical here that no man or woman can be another's transformation so alchemical thought is not and can never be the basis of a religion or a political movement.
Spiritual alchemists may play dynamic roles in both religion and politics – and business – if such institutions are not entirely crushing of the human spirit or have sufficient enclaves of freedom but that is a pretty tall order, given the human condition.
The very complexity of the process and the ethical duty not to drive any person into a process that cannot avoid the 'nigredo' state requires that spiritual alchemy does not preach but simply makes itself available.
Indeed, perhaps to an excess, this mode of thinking and the fact that it may disrupt traditional bonds and beliefs (and so integration into an existing community) sets up barriers that oblige those searching for transformation to show sufficient will that they will have to work to find it.
Personally, I think the barriers are too high, the history has added too much obscure symbolism, and a large amount of the accretions of two thousand years could be wiped away or perhaps simply enjoyed as a distinctive and rather beautiful engraved art form.
Pseudo-science is also no longer required even symbolically. Our societies are not only relatively free (certainly culturally). Few cannot have access to some form of education (if only through the internet and social media) while existential philosophies have created new mental frameworks.
Obscurantism can often be a form of exercise of power in its own right, a neurotic attempt to make believe that the 'adept' knows more than they really do when, in fact, they have been stuck in their ways without having gone very far through the 'blood and shit' stage themselves.
Thinking as Fire
But it is true that the alchemical and analogous way of thinking is also one step (like magickal ways of thinking) from the huckster. Discretion is often wise for this reason alone.
The symbolism begins to dominate a reality which is much simpler in its purpose than it appears – a process of internal reflection to be more than one was before. There are many searching, lonely and despairing people out there who fall prey to 'quick fix' occultists.
The honest alchemist is often deeply torn between wishing to assist and the knowledge that some people will simply not be able to cope with the first stage of 'gnosis' or will want the solution without the work.
This brings us back to fire, Elementary Fire, which is fire as you and I know it most commonly at one level but which is analogous to simple reality, the ordinary reasoning of men using the symbols given by their culture.
Education within one's culture still keeps things grounded and logical and creates the framework for the inner imagination to work its magic.
Thinking starts slowly as a small spark but it grows with experience until it become an intense and warming blaze, creating the conditions for our ability to go beyond hackneyed thought into new territory.
The mastery of fire is analogically and symbolically the mastery of symbols, text, image, body language, cultural signs. Only with mastery of symbols can any 'spiritual alchemist' move beyond the symbols owning him or her into a higher level of creativity and existence.
This requires dedication, persistence, patience and an intensity of effort. The process cannot be rushed.
It is no accident that the alchemists refer to the ideal warmth of fresh dung. This is the creativity of a continuous and life-giving warmth, more than a spark but less intense or dangerous than a blaze.
This is the temperature of one's own bowels, the analogical centre of one's own self where one lives and where one's self is situated. One's true self can only grow out of the actuality of the body's own material nature, its blood and shit.
I speak throughout, of course, of the true Hermetic and not that of would-be priests and philosophers seeking to obscure messages for the sake of their own authority and power.
The alchemical is always the paradoxical, attempting to fix the unfixable, requiring reason to liberate the mind from enslavement to reason. But mining is dangerous and the gold may never be found. Men and women generally also have other fish to fry. Life is short.
A Caution
There is no absolute moral value to this business, just a preference or a need. Spiritual purity is a meaningless concept, an overhang from the God-thing dumped on alchemy by the priests, but a will to gold, greed, a very disreputable concept to the Judaeo-Christian mind, is essential.
One must not just want but be driven by the hunger for gold. Hermes is nothing more or less than the whole process of transformation from first will to death itself.
The inward flash of knowledge or 'gnosis' is what the spiritual alchemist is trying to hold on to and make permanent, to invoke the fleeting Hermes to stay a while and transform us through his archetypal and analogical presence.
Hermes being everywhere, the spiritual alchemist can invoke him everywhere and anywhere so long as he is allowed to follow his own practices.
He can of course be invoked sexually where the earth (our bodies) is used as a vessel for its own impregnation by hermetic experience and thus as vehicle for transformation.
But, however invoked, it is not invented from the world outside the person but comes from the uncovering, the discovery or unfolding of what is already there in persons. In this sense, the hermetic is ultimately egalitarian.
This makes it a profound threat to the existing order. A teaching assistant may have far more to uncover than a Prime Minister, an IT consultant than a priest.
No judgment can be made by one person on another about an inward process that is imperfectly communicable and often only through art, analogy and symbols. It may not even exist.
Tim Pendry, has been cited as an 'astute observer' in the British Journal of Politics and International Relations [BJPIR 2006 Vol.8 234]. His experience has included senior communications advice in some of the most significant takeovers & mergers in British corporate history as well as an advisory role during the Russian Mass Privatisation programme.
Since the mid-1990s, he has dealt with reputational issues arising out of private sector collateral damage during the 'war on terror'.
He was a Founding Director of the British-Syrian Society, is a former Director of the Middle East Association, and currently acts as a non-Executive Director of the online investigative journalism website Exaro.
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Jessica Johnson says:
An thought provoking analysis of the nature of Hermes in the Great Work. I like the idea of the hermetic archetype – the "gaps and silences…" so analogous to the field of quantum physics though later on the author rejects quantum theory as "grasping at straws" in terms of the theory of the anima mundi.
I would take issue with the rigid take on the caduceus as a penile symbol. It connects directly the concepts of ida and pingala (Hindu), the ren and du channels (TCM) that embrace the sushumna/chong mai or middle channel that runs within the spine and channels the life force throughout the body, linking heaven and earth.In TCM this channel is the source of Blood, the magical mixture that is animated by the qi. ("Blood is the mother of qi; qi moves the Blood). it is important not to forget Hermes' role as archetypal healer. The author is quite right that alchemy or true healing can never be a science. This is where the quantitative rational mind has to open up to the grace of the qualitative experience.
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Building trust is now a critical part of health care
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In a video clip, a hospital patient turns away in protest as a physician enters the room. "Why do you all keep coming in my room!" she asks in frustration.
The physician moves a chair out of the way and sits down at eye level with the patient. "You've had to see so many people," he acknowledges.
"And I'm tired of it!" she yells. "I already know I have to get both of my legs cut off. That's what they keep saying. I don't have a choice!"
"You don't feel like you have a choice," he repeats back to her.
"I know I don't! The doctors already said I don't!" she retorts, relaying more of what they've told her. He listens patiently, acknowledging that the hospital's doctors have said things about which she is angry.
Then he does something entirely unexpected. He asks the patient, "What could we do to make you feel safer?"
The patient and doctor are O'Nesha Cochran, who is a certified peer recovery mentor in Portland, OR, and Dr. Andy Seaman, an assistant professor at Oregon Health & Sciences University. The two are role-playing how they teach medical residents about the nuances of building trust with patients who have experienced childhood adversity. The interaction took place during an ACEs Connection webinar in May 2018. Cochran knows firsthand about the difficulties of building trust. When teaching medical residents, which she'll be doing again with Seaman in the coming weeks, she gets right to that point.
O'Nesha Cochran
"My mom sold me to her tricks and her pimps from when I was three to the age of six," she says. "I could remember these grown men molesting me and my sisters. I have three sisters and we all went through this."
What Cochran's background and role-play with Seaman show is that trauma-informed practice in the medical profession requires different knowledge and a new set of skills. Specifically, it requires these three critical components:
awareness of how trauma from childhood and adulthood plays out in an individual's life,
that the relationship between a doctor and her patient is key to what keeps a patient healthy,
that it takes time for a relationship to develop.
A recent study of the Women's HIV Program at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) showed that the relationship that physicians build with their patients is key to their health. The study appeared in the June 2019 issue of the Journal of Women's Health Issues.
Using a survey known as the Engagement Health Care Provider scale, patients were asked to rate their health care providers on 13 items such as "My health care provider listens to me," "respects my choices," "engages me in my care." Patients selected a 1 for "always" to a 4 for "never," with a lower score showing that patients have better relationships with their providers. Researchers found that among the 104 patients who participated in the study, "ratings of patient-provider relationship were very high, with a mean of 1.2," according to the study.
Dr. Edward Machtinger, the director of the Women's HIV Program, has seen clear evidence of how that trust has changed his day-to-day encounters with patients.
Dr. Edward Machtinger
"The other day I had three patients in a row who openly discussed their crack cocaine use with me," Machtinger says. "I see that as a huge victory and so exceptional, because crack cocaine use tends to be so stigmatized, because they're ashamed, because nobody wants to be a crack cocaine addict. And there's a ton of fear that we'll punish them. We'll take away their pain medicine, judge them and love them less, confirm their own shameful understanding of crack instead of seeing it as a way to cope, and a way to deal with impossibly difficult feelings that are a threat to them. The fact that there were three of them — and there are others — who were willing and felt safe enough to be open about their substance use, to me was an indication that we have changed the culture in our clinic significantly."
Trauma looms large in the lives of those who participated in the study.Of 104 participants, 58 percent had ACE scores of 4 or more,and those patients with higher ACE scores were also more likely to have experienced a traumatic incident in the preceding month, according to the study.
Yvette Cuca
"I think this is one of the first times that people have measured ACEs among women living with HIV and shows trauma does not always start in adulthood, it often starts in childhood," says Yvette Cuca, the lead author of the study, and a researcher and project director at the UCSF School of Nursing.
ACEs is a term that comes from a landmark study that showed how widespread childhood adversity is. The study known as the CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experience Study of more than 17,000 adults linked 10 types of childhood adversity — such as living with a parent who is mentally ill, has abused alcohol or is emotionally abusive — to the adult onset of chronic disease, mental illness, violence and being a victim of violence. Many other types of ACEs— including racism, bullying, a father being abused, and community violence — have been added to subsequent ACE surveys.
The ACE Study found that the higher someone's ACE score — the more types of childhood adversity a person experienced — the higher their risk of social, economic, health and civic consequences. The study found that most people (64%) have at least one ACE; 12% of the population has an ACE score of 4 or higher. Having an ACE score of 4 nearly doubles the risk of heart disease and cancer. It increases the likelihood of becoming an alcoholic by 700 percent and the risk of attempted suicide by 1200 percent. (For more information about how this works and about the full complement of ACEs science, go to ACEs Science 101. To calculate your ACE and resilience scores, go to: Got Your ACE Score?)
Because of their realization that the relationships among patients, the clinic's providers and staff are so central to healing, Machtinger and his fellow providers and staff were able to identify other, less visible issues that get in the way of healing for their patients. Front and center is the need for social support, says Machtinger.
"I've become aware of how isolated [my patients] are, how common it is for them not to leave their places for days," he says. "I had a patient say to me: 'I have friends on television and I have friends here.' This patient has the TV on all of the time and she never leaves her apartment because her neighborhood is chaotic, because it is dangerous…and it's startling how many of my patients are that isolated."
Even if they don't have an appointment, patients often come to the clinic for a meal, to engage with other patients and get services, explains Machtinger. "That opportunity to leave their home and come some place where they feel safe and accepted is one of the most basic aspects of their care, and one of the most powerful," he says. "It's the connection and the attachment that is going to be the solution. Most of health care is looking at something that is completely different than what I think is necessary and what we have to offer."
It took time for patients at the clinic to feel comfortable opening up to their doctors. In 2017, the clinic's healthcare providers wondered how to ask patients about substance use without stigmatizing them. "They said: 'We don't want you to ask us about our substance use,'" recalls Machtinger. "That was hard to hear. We really felt like we needed to ask about substance use, because in many circumstances it was obviously killing the person."
But, says Machtinger, further conversations with patients revealed that they didn't mind being asked about it. "They just wanted to be asked about it in a conversational way," he says, "without judgment by a provider they trusted, not while they were being checked in." (For more on how the clinic began transforming into a trauma-informed clinic, see this story, and another one here.)
And getting feedback from patients brings up another point that Machtinger and others stress as central to any effective trauma-informed practice — asking patients for their input in what a trauma-informed practice should look like and include them in the process of shaping how it works. At the Women's HIV Program, for example, patient representatives participate in ongoing clinic-wide decisions about the clinic's trauma-informed practices, according to Machtinger.
Robyn Robbins
Robyn Robbins, who has been a family representative for the Pediatric Campus at Santa Rosa Community Health Clinics for 12 years, agrees that the patient voice is at the heart of what makes a trauma-informed approach work. "My first suggestion is always ask families what they need and listen to the answer and have them involved in every decision-making change, every creative part of the policy or practice, or systems change that you're working on," says Robbins, who now speaks nationally as a constituent consultant for the Casey Foundation. (For more information about the Pediatric Campus read this story about their trauma-informed practices journey.)
Dr. Priscilla Dass-Brailsford agrees that involving patients in decision-making is central to medical practice. And as part of relationship-building to address the fallout from trauma, she worked for years on the other side of that relationship educating doctors to reconsider their assumptions.
Dr. Priscilla Dass-Brailsford
"As a trainer, I trained physicians about trauma and how trauma destroys trust and relationships, so expecting a patient to believe and trust you in a first meeting is likely not going to happen," says Dass-Brailsford, a professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical School in the Center for Trauma and the Community.
Dass-Brailsford made that point to resident physicians she and colleagues trained at Georgetown, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Howard University and Providence Hospital in 2009 to examine the feasibility of trauma training. The training included six sessions focusing on four ingredients for building trust between provider and patient. These ingredients are mutual respect, information sharing, connection, and hope — all elements of the Risking Connections curriculum developed by the Connecticut-based Traumatic Stress Institute.
The reason for the training and research about it, explains Dass-Brailsford, was that patients — especially women — were not showing up for appointments. "The idea for the training was to teach physicians how to be more valuing of patients and more attentive to the possibility that they might have a trauma history," she says.
But documenting how building trust and improving relationships by teaching and learning trauma-informed practices may be nuanced so that it's not easily captured by data alone. That was one of the realizations Dr. Robert Whitaker and colleagues had when they were gauging the impact of training pre-school teachers about trauma, trauma triggers, ACEs and how to de-escalate a child who has been triggered. Ninety-three teachers who teach 3- and 4-year-old preschoolers in the Philadelphia School District participated in the study that appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Half of the teachers received the 15-hour, 12-week trauma training entitled Enhancing Trauma Awareness and half were put into a comparison group that did not receive the training.Based on scores of the teachers who were surveyed to capture their perceptions of conflict that existed with the preschoolers, there were no significant differences before and after the training,
Dr. Robert Whitaker
However, focus groups among the teachers and trainers revealed an entirely different picture, says Whitaker. "As you read through the teachers' testimonies about the transformation of their inner experience of the course, it was very evident to us that the qualitative findings showed a significant impact on the quality of teacher-children relationships," he says.
In particular, says Whitaker, the teachers showed how they could remain calm to help soothe a child who is triggered and that the training had entirely altered their perceptions of what the children were experiencing.
"How it has changed for me is, you always hear the statement 'You never know how someone is until you walk a mile in their shoes' and I feel like there is a lot of truth to that because if you can learn how to retrain your mind to think of how somebody else might be feeling, it helps you maybe not to approach that person in a negative way," wrote one of the teachers.
"If we had just done questionnaires, we would have certainly missed a powerful effect that was going on from the intervention that I think would have slowed progress in the field," said Whitaker. "If people wish to do relationship-transforming interventions, they should do qualitative assessments to get at the shifts in people's perspectives, beliefs, and behaviors," he said.
The point about empathy is also something that peer mentor O'Nesha Cochran tries to convey when training medical residents about trauma.
"The [residents] have to find a time in their lives where they have felt so desperate that they would do anything to get what they wanted," Cochran suggests. "And if they have felt that desperate, then multiply that by a thousand and imagine that's how you lived every day of your life."
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What a hopeful article, thanks for sharing the journey. This shift takes time, attention, resources, dedication and belief that we are...
Attached is a powerpoint I put together which has been helpful to get folks engaged in the CA Surgeon General's on line ACEs training.
Thank you Jim for this article. It is exactly what we need to address health care providers and community concerns regarding ACEs work.
Do you all role out SEEK. I think it had a greater evidence base than Screening for ACEs. Thanks.
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When it comes to the Great Lakes region of Africa, 2008 was an interesting year. Once again the Democratic Republic of the Congo was in the crosshairs of militias. But one militia was given the chance to sign a peace treaty but has chosen to remain elusive.
Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) troops in action. Picture by Africom.
On two separate occasion the LRA (Lord's Resistance Army) was scheduled to sign a peace treaty with the Ugandan Government. This was to end an insurgency that has plagued the central African country for 22 years. Two attempts to sign the Accord failed.
The first round of talks brought an attempt to renegotiate the accord. The second attempt has led to a series of violent attacks.
At the end of November 2008 the second attempt to sign the Peace Accord had an interesting caveat. If this attempt to sign the document failed then regional governments would launch an attack against the militia to bring them back to the bargaining table. Sadly this course of action was the route taken by the insurgents.
In mid-December 2008 the armed forces of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Government of Southern Sudan launched a wide ranging series of attacks against the LRA. Although the main base of the group was destroyed during an attack by the Ugandan Air Force it has been made clear that the LRA still had means to conduct operations.
While most people were celebrating Christmas in the region, the insurgent group launched an attack. The Group hit three villages in the Congo killing at least 500 people. Some of those who were killed were actually in Church. It is believed that several people were kidnapped as well. Other towns along the Sudanese-DRC border have been attacked.
One of the reasons given by the LRA for not signing the Peace Accord is that they want the warrants that have been issued by the International Criminal Court rescinded. Senior leaders have been indicted for crimes such as recruiting children to fight in armed conflict.
The reaction by the regional actors indicates that they felt a threat of the resumption of military action would be enough to compel the LRA to return to the negotiating table. This was a gross misunderstanding. Although lacking supplies, the LRA feels comfortable in the field and believe that they can resort to old tactics to regain the momentum.
The United Nations has requested that its peacekeeping mission in the DRC (MONUC) have a Special Forces Capability. Such element could prove beneficial in apprehending the leaders of the LRA and other militias that permeate the region. The fear that the LRA has instilled in the region may be second only to Laurent Nkunda's CNDP in the Congo. This is a situation that needs to be resolved quickly.
As chaos reigns in Somalia, U.S. Army Rangers of the Regimental Special Troops Battalion conducted a moral run to commemorate the six Rangers who were killed in Mogadishu, Somalia Oct. 3 – 4, 1993.
72 Rangers ran in combat gear, simulating the Mogadishu Mile that was run by American Rangers and Delta Force Soldiers from a helicopter crash site to the Pakistani Stadium during the Battle of Mogadishu Oct. 4, 1993.
During the 1993 Mogadishu mile, the soldiers were originally supposed to take cover by running alongside a convoy of Humvees and armored personnel carriers. When the convoy outpaced them they were forced to run without support and with very little ammunition. No one was wounded on the 48 minute run but the convoy and soldiers on foot were attacked with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire.
Former 3rd Battalion commander, retired Col. Danny McKnight, was the guest speaker at the end of the run. McKnight and his wife Linda began a pilgrimage last month to visit with the families of the six Rangers that were killed 15 years ago.
"I cannot tell you how much it means to me to be here on this day with the Rangers," said McKnight.
There was jubilation within Kenya's security circles last Friday after the army killed the commander of a militia outfit after a three month campaign.
Killed SLDF leader, Wycliffe Kirui Matakwei. Picture by Nation Media Group.
Wycliffe Kirui Matakwei, commander of the Sabaot Land Defense Force (SLDF), was ambushed and killed in the Mt Elgon forest on Friday morning. The killing of Matakwei was a major morale boost for the army just a day after the Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KNHCR) condemned the army's counter insurgency tactics in Mt Elgon.
According to KNHCR, an estimated 600 people have died in Operation Okoa Maisha (Operation Save Lives) since it was launched in February. The army denies the claims, blaming the killings on the SLDF. Hundreds of men in Mt Elgon within the 13 – 50 age bracket say they have been tortured by Kenya Army officers trying to gain intelligence about the SLDF. A number of women have accused the army of sexual violence.
Mr Matakwei is a high school dropout who became the face of the SLDF. The militia outfit was founded in 2006 by a sub-clan of the Sabaot ethnic group. The Sabaot are in the same ethnic family as the Kalenjin. According to media interviews, Matakwei wanted to restore his clan to their former ancestral lands which, today, are occupied by other clans of the Sabaot community. Mr Matakwei claimed that his clan had been pushed to the higher reaches of Mt Elgon where it is too cold for agricultural activities.
The current problem in Mt Elgon was sparked off by allocation of land in the Chebyuk settlement scheme between 2004 and 2006. The land allocation was bungled by former Mt Elgon Member of Parliament, Mr John Serut. The various clans within the Sabaot community felt they cheated, sparking off tension that led to the formation of the SLDF.
Since then, other clans have formed their own militia outfits such as the Progressive Defense Forces, Moorland Defense Force, the Political Revenge Movement, among others. In its report on Thursday, the KNHRC accused the Kenya Army of fomenting conflict in Mt Elgon by arming militias to fight the SLDF.
Meanwhile, as the Kenya Army celebrates its latest victory, disturbing accounts of torture continue to emerge from the Mt Elgon area. The KNCHR has written to the United Nations in New York advising the expulsion of Kenya's military from international peace keeping operations.
The request is not likely to be granted but the Kenya Army will suffer major embarrassment in coming months as more evidence of excessive force comes into the limelight.


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The Tyranny at Standing Rock: The Government's Divide-and-Conquer Strategy Is Working – John Whitehead
Divide and conquer. It's one of the oldest military strategies in the books, and it's proven to be the police state's most effective weapon for maintaining the status quo.
TND Guest Contributor: John Whitehead
How do you conquer a nation?
Distract them with football games, political circuses and Black Friday sales. Keep them focused on their differences—economic, religious, environmental, political, racial—so they can never agree on anything. And then, when they're so divided that they are incapable of joining forces against a common threat, start picking them off one by one.
What we're witnessing at Standing Rock, where activists have gathered to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline construction on Native American land, is just the latest incarnation of the government's battle plan for stamping out any sparks of resistance and keeping the populace under control: battlefield tactics, military weaponry and a complete suspension of the Constitution.
Militarized police. Riot and camouflage gear. Armored vehicles. Mass arrests. Pepper spray. Tear gas. Batons. Strip searches. Drones. Less-than-lethal weapons unleashed with deadly force. Rubber bullets. Water cannons. Concussion grenades. Arrests of journalists. Intimidation tactics. Brute force.
This is what martial law looks like, when a government disregards constitutional freedoms and imposes its will through military force.
Only this is martial law without any government body having to declare it.
This is martial law packaged as law and order and sold to the public as necessary for keeping the peace.
These overreaching, heavy-handed lessons in how to rule by force have become standard operating procedure for a government that communicates with its citizenry primarily through the language of brutality, intimidation and fear.
What Americans have failed to comprehend is that the police state doesn't differentiate.
In the eyes of the government—whether that government is helmed by Barack Obama or Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton—there is no difference between Republicans and Democrats, between blacks and whites and every shade in the middle, between Native Americans and a nation of immigrants (no matter how long we've been here), between the lower class and the middle and upper classes, between religious and non-religious Americans, between those who march in lockstep with the police state and those who oppose its tactics.
This is all part and parcel of the government's plan for dealing with widespread domestic unrest, no matter the source.
A 2008 Army War College report revealed that "widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security." The 44-page report goes on to warn that potential causes for such civil unrest could include another terrorist attack, "unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters."
Subsequent reports by the Department of Homeland Security call on the government to identify, monitor and label right-wing and left-wing activists, military veterans and sovereign citizens as extremists (the words extremist and terrorist are used interchangeably in the reports).
These reports indicate that for the government, anyone seen as opposing the government—whether they're Left, Right or somewhere in between—is labeled an extremist.
What the government has figured out is that as long as its oppression is focused on one particular group at a time—inner city blacks, gun-toting ranchers, environmental activists, etc.—there will be no outcry from the public at large.
The liberal left will not speak up for the conservative right.
The rightwing will not speak up for the leftwing.
The economic elite will not speak up for the economically disadvantaged and vice versa.
The ranchers will not speak up for the environmentalists, and the environmentalists will not speak up for the ranchers.
The Democrats will not criticize endless wars, drone killings, militarized police, private prisons, etc., when sanctioned by their candidate. Same goes for the Republicans.
Are you starting to get the picture?
What we're dealing with is a full-blown case of national hypocrisy.
For too long now, the American people have allowed their personal prejudices and politics to cloud their judgment and render them incapable of seeing that the treatment being doled out by the government's lethal enforcers has remained consistent, no matter the threat.
The government's oppressive tactics have not changed.
The same martial law maneuvers and intimidation tactics used to put down protests and muzzle journalists two years ago in Ferguson and Baltimore are being used to flat-line protesters and journalists at Standing Rock this year.
The same infiltration and surveillance of ranch activists opposing the Bureau of Land Management in Oregon and Nevada over the past several years were used against nonviolent anti-war protesters more than a decade ago. That same mindset was embodied in the use of surveillance against those who gathered for Barack Obama's inauguration eight years ago.
The same brutality that was in full force 20-plus years ago when the government raided the Branch Davidian religious compound near Waco, Texas—targeting residents with loud music, bright lights, bulldozers, flash-bang grenades, tear gas, tanks and gunfire, and leaving 80 individuals, including two dozen children, dead—were on full display more than 50 years ago when government agents unleashed fire hoses and police dogs on civil rights protesters, children included.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The sticking point is not whether Americans must see eye-to-eye on these varied issues but whether they can agree that no one should be treated in such a fashion by their own government.
Our greatest defense against home-grown tyranny has always been our strength in numbers as a citizenry.
America's founders hinted at it again and again. The Declaration of Independence refers to "one people." The preamble to the Constitution opens with those three powerful words: "We the People." Years later, the Gettysburg Address declared that we are a "government of the people, by the people, for the people."
Despite these stark reminders that the government exists for our benefit and was intended to serve our needs, "We the People" have yet to marshal our greatest weapon against oppression: our strength lies in our numbers.
Had 318 million Americans taken to the streets to protest the government's SWAT team raids that left innocent children like Aiyana Jones or Baby Bou Bou dead or scarred, there would be no 80,000 SWAT team raids a year.
Had 318 million Americans raised their voices against police shootings of unarmed citizens such as Alton Sterling and Walter Scott, there would be far less use of excessive force by the police.
Had 318 million Americans stood shoulder-to-shoulder and rejected the ruling oligarchy, pork barrel legislation, profit-driven prisons, endless wars and asset forfeiture schemes, government corruption would be the exception rather than the rule.
Had 318 million Americans told the government to stop drilling through sacred Native American lands, stop spraying protesters with water cannons in below-freezing temperatures, stop using its military might to intimidate and shut down First Amendment activity, and to stop allowing Corporate America to dictate how the battle lines are drawn, there would be no Standing Rock.
Unfortunately, 318 million Americans have yet to agree on anything, especially the source of their oppression.
This is how tyrants come to power and stay in power.
Authoritarian regimes begin with incremental steps. Overcriminalization, surveillance of innocent citizens, imprisonment for nonviolent—victimless—crimes, etc. Slowly, bit by bit, the citizenry finds its freedoms being curtailed and undermined for the sake of national security.
No one speaks up for those being targeted. No one resists these minor acts of oppression. No one recognizes the indoctrination into tyranny for what it is.
As I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, historically this failure to speak truth to power has resulted in whole populations being conditioned to tolerate unspoken cruelty toward their fellow human beings, a bystander syndrome in which people remain silent and disengaged—mere onlookers—in the face of abject horrors and injustice.
Time has insulated us from the violence perpetrated by past regimes in their pursuit of power: the crucifixion and slaughter of innocents by the Romans, the torture of the Inquisition, the atrocities of the Nazis, the butchery of the Fascists, the bloodshed by the Communists, and the cold-blooded war machines run by the military industrial complex.
We can disassociate from such violence. We can convince ourselves that we are somehow different from the victims of government abuse. We can treat news coverage of protests such as Standing Rock and the like as just another channel to flip in our search for better entertainment. We can continue to spout empty campaign rhetoric about how great America is, despite the evidence to the contrary. We can avoid responsibility for holding the government accountable. We can zip our lips and bind our hands and shut our eyes.
In other words, we can continue to exist in a state of denial.
Whatever we do or don't do, it won't change the facts: the police state is here.
"There comes a time," concluded Martin Luther King Jr., "when silence is betrayal."
The people of Nazi Germany learned this lesson the hard way.
A German pastor who openly opposed Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in a concentration camp, Martin Niemoller warned:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
The people of the American Police State will never have any hope of fighting government tyranny if we're busy fighting each other.
When all is said and done, the only thing we really need to agree on is that we are all Americans.
So if this isn't your fight—if you believe that authority is more important than liberty—if you don't agree with a particular group's position on an issue and by your silence tacitly support the treatment meted out to them—if you think you're a better citizen or a more patriotic American—if you want to play it safe—and if don't want to risk getting shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton, thrown to the ground, arrested and/or labeled an extremist—then by all means, remain silent. Stand down. Cower in the face of the police. Turn your eyes away from injustice. Find any excuse to suggest that the so-called victims of the police state deserved what they got.
But remember, when that rifle (or taser, or water cannon, or bully stick) finally gets pointed in your direction—and it will—when there's no one left to stand up for you or speak up for you, remember that you were warned.
John W. Whitehead is an attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights. Whitehead's concern for the persecuted and oppressed led him, in 1982, to establish The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization whose international headquarters are located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Whitehead serves as the Institute's president and spokesperson. His full bio can be read by clicking here.
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The 1989 Australian motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 1989 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on the weekend of 7–9 April 1989 at Phillip Island and was the first ever World Championship Motorcycle Grand Prix to take place in Australia.

500 cc race report
Green light on the 5-row grid sees Wayne Rainey, Tadahiko Taira and Kevin Schwantz head into the first turn in front of the field, with Wayne Gardner in 4th. Second lap in 2nd place, Schwantz gets on the throttle while looking behind him and highsides out of Turn Ten; as he walked away from his Suzuki, he looked like he wished he did not know the guy who just binned it so foolishly.

Rainey pulled out a lead of more than a second, followed by Kevin Magee, Taira, Gardner, Mick Doohan and Eddie Lawson. Eventually, Gardner got past Magee at Turn Four, and Pierfrancesco Chili crashed out for the second successive race. Gardner caught Rainey and began to swap the lead, while Magee, Christian Sarron, Freddie Spencer and Lawson closed in. Sarron caught and goes to the front, with the leaders, while Magee hung on in 4th spot. Spencer fell off and did not finish.

Last lap: Gardner, Rainey, Sarron and a small gap to Magee. Rainey's early break may have cost him rubber, because he seemed desperate to find a different line that will get him to slide his way past Gardner, but nothing works, with Gardner winning the race, followed by Rainey and Sarron.

Rainey: "Gardner ran into the back of me twice, and didn't even notice. He was one of the sloppiest guys I ever raced – he reminded me of a bulldog on a bike. When he was on a good day, he could ride that thing right out of the saddle. He was a bit like Kevin, but more out of control. Not a thinking racer: he rode by the excitement of the crowd. If nobody was there I think he wouldn't do much".

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Indira Group of Institutes celebrated a huge milestone of its completion of 10 Glorious Years of Indira Engineering & Architecture Awards by organizing the "10th Indira Engineering and Architecture Excellence Awards 2017" on Wednesday, 18th January, 2017. The event was graced by Lt. Gen. A K Singh, (Retd.), PVSM, AVSM, SM,VSM ,Ex GOC in C, Southern Command and Ex- Lt Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Puducherry . The culmination of this event witnessed a live concert by India's Superstar Rapper BADSHAH.
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Marc Santo-Roman (Tolosa de Llenguadoc, 13 de setembre de 1960), és un jugador d'escacs francès, que té el títol de Gran Mestre.

Força de joc
Segons Chessmetrics, en el moment àlgid de la seva carrera, l'octubre de 1991, la força de joc de Santo-Román era equivalent a un Elo de 2557, i era en aquella data el jugador número 317 del món. La seva millor actuació individual fou al Campionat de França celebrat a Angers el 1990, on hi va fer 11 de 14 possibles punts (un 79%) contra una oposició mitjana de 2462, per una performance de 2644.

Resultats destacats en competició
Santo-Roman va guanyar tres cops el Campionat de França, a Angers 1990 (en un torneig en què hi participava l'excampió del món Borís Spasski, que fou 4t), Montpeller 1991, i Chambéry 1994.

Participació en olimpíades d'escacs
Santo-Roman va participar, representant França, en tres Olimpíades d'escacs, totes les edicions celebrades entre els anys 1990 i 1994 (amb un total de 14½ punts de 26 partides, un 55,8%). A totes les edicions hi participà com a MI.

Partides notables
 Marc Santo Roman vs Benoit Lepelletier, FRA-ch 1997, defensa siciliana: variant Scheveningen, atac Keres (B81), 1-0
 Suat Atalik vs Marc Santo Roman, Cappelle la Grande 1999, defensa holandesa: variant semi-Leningrad (A81), 1/2-1/2

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Enllaços externs
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 Partides de Marc Santo-Roman a
 Fitxa de Marc Santo-Roman a la FIDE
 Posició al rànquing mundial i evolució Elo de Marc Santo-Roman
 Estimació Elo de Marc Santo-Roman a
 Fitxa de Marc Santo-Roman a OlimpBase

Grans Mestres d'escacs francesos
Jugadors d'escacs francesos de la dècada del 1980
Jugadors d'escacs francesos de la dècada del 1990
Jugadors d'escacs francesos de la dècada del 2000
Esportistes tolosans
Competidors en les olimpíades d'escacs representant França


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Position: Senior Research Fellow
Areas of expertise: Fathers; fatherhood; parenting; gender inequalities in work and care; gender division of (paid and unpaid) work; work-family reconciliation; cross-national comparative research; quantitative methods
Email: H.Norman@leeds.ac.uk
Website: Involved Fatherhood project | Twitter | Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID
I joined Leeds University Business School as a Senior Research Fellow in January 2020. Previously I worked in Sociology at the University of Manchester as a Research Fellow (2017-20) and, prior to that, as a Research Associate (2011-16). During my time at Manchester, I was the Principal Investigator on a project funded by the ESRC's Secondary Data Analysis Initiative (SDAI) (2016-17), which was awarded to develop my doctoral research exploring fathers' childcare involvement using longitudinal data, in partnership with Working Families. I was also the course leader for a core postgraduate taught module on research design (2014-18). My PhD in Social Statistics was funded (with a quantitative stipend) by the ESRC and was awarded by the University of Manchester in 2011.
I currently advise the European Commission on gender equality policy as a member of its Expert Network on Employment and Gender Equality (2012- ) and I am on the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) advisory board for their evaluation of Shared Parental Leave (SPL) (2019- ).
My research interests focus on fathers and fatherhood, the gendered division of labour and gender inequalities in work, employment and family life.
Much of my work uses quantitative analysis to explore how policy regimes, gender role attitudes, socio-demographics, employment hours and other employment related factors affect unpaid work (childcare and housework), work-family reconciliation and the working-time of men and women. My ESRC SDAI funded project conducted cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses on the UK's Millennium Cohort Study to explore what influences paternal involvement in childcare and housework as children age from nine months to eleven years old. I am also interested in mothers' and their work-care trajectories after having children, as well as cross-national variations of gender inequalities in work, employment and care practices and policies across Europe. I am currently one of three Co-Investigators for a project funded by the UKRI (ESRC) Covid-19 Rapid Response funding scheme (2020-22), led by Dr Kate Hardy (PI), exploring the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on early years childcare across England and Wales.
I have collaborated on several funded international research projects for the European Commission, the United Nation's International Labour Office, the Korea Labour Institute and the European Trade Union Institute. In addition to the research areas outlined above, my publications address the effect of paternal involvement on parental relationships, men and gender equality in family roles and social care jobs; the barriers to quality part-time employment; flexible working; working time; and reconciliation policies to support childcare and eldercare in the UK and across Europe. I have also written blogs and briefing papers on these issues for organisations such as Working Families, Policy@Manchester, Fathers Network Scotland and Workingdads.co.uk, and the findings from my ESRC Fatherhood project were written up as an Impact Case study for the UK Data Service. My co-authored submission to the Women and Equalities Committee 2017 'Fathers and the Workplace' inquiry, which set out how policy can better support fathers to be more involved in their children's care, was published and cited in the Women and Equalities Committee first report recommendations to Government. This led to an invitation to join the Department for Business and Industrial Strategy SPL advisory board.
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Wow Your Friends With Turkey Poblano Gumbo By Famous New Orleans Chef Paul Prudhomme.
Chef Paul Prudhomme has propelled the distinctive cuisine of his native Louisiana into the international spotlight and this Turkey Poblano Gumbo is one of the many reasons why. Chef Paul continues to push the limits by creating exciting and new American and international dishes.
In 1983 Prudhomme created his own line of all natural (Kosher supervised) herbs and spices. Today, Chef Paul Prudhomme's Magic Seasoning Blends® are distributed in all fifty states and in more than 25 other countries.
This Turkey Poblano Gumbo recipe is another example of his creativity with food and demonstrates why he is right when he says "Life's Too Short for Dull Food"™.
Make a roux: To the pot add the flour and whisk the mixture constantly until it is red-brown, about 6 to 8 minutes. To the roux add the onions, bell peppers, poblanos, andouille, and the remaining seasoning mix. Stir well, reduce the heat to medium and cover.
Cook, uncovering to stir and scrape every 2 to 3 minutes to prevent burning (as there is no liquid in the pot), for 18 minutes. Add the seasoned turkey meat and 3 cups of the stock. Stir and scrape the pot completely. Cook stirring and scraping every 1 or 2 minutes, for 8 minutes, then add the remaining stock. Reduce the heat to low and simmer until the gumbo is thick and golden, about 10 minutes. Serve over hot white rice.
*If using leftover turkey, simply add it in the very end with the remaining stock.
Makes 14 appetizer servings or 7 main course servings.


For generations, a high quality public education has been the pathway into the middle class. And for generations, our public education system fulfilled that promise for students and parents. Now, at a time when inequality is worsening and ordinary people are having a harder and harder time getting ahead, we're called upon to redouble our commitment to that promise. Today we know that a good education is a lifelong education, starting with preparing the youngest children to learn and continuing with ensuring that every high school graduate is college or career ready.
The current administration wants to privatize education, making it more difficult to obtain a quality public school education and increasing the gap between the wealthy and poor. I will work to ensure public education remains a public good. Tom McClintock has voted to take away funding for after school and enrichment activities, resulting in the National Endowment for the Arts grading him an "F." I will fight to ensure all schools have the resources to provide full day activities for children, including sports and arts programs which experts agree are integral to a quality education, regardless of the economic status of the families they serve.
Education can no longer begin for children at 5 or 6 years old. Overwhelmingly, research demonstrates the necessity of early education, beginning well before traditional kindergarten age. Tom McClintock has voted against increasing funding for early childhood education, solidifying it as a private good for only his wealthy friends. However, we know that investing in early education is investing in our future and studies show that the return on investment not only pays for itself financially, but also insures that all children, regardless of economic status, earn the opportunity for success later in life. I will support funding Universal Pre-K for all, investing in our children and our future.
California has led the way towards demonstrating that community college is a pathway to 4-year universities as well as strong vocational and technical careers. Our state has been celebrated for our university system, and for how affordable we have made it for our residents. I will take our plan to Washington and work to ensure that those who want to go to college have the resources to do so, but I will also ensure that technical and vocational options remain promising programs available to students for whom a 4-year degree is not the path.
Student debt is a major problem in America. I don't think that students wishing to attend college should be required to encumber crushing debt, Tom McClintock thinks the opposite. Tom McClintock just voted to remove federal funding for students to help pay for college, including Pell grants, generally accepted as the foundation of a financial aid package for undergraduate students. I also support a public service debt forgiveness plan, contrary to Tom McClintock and his friends. If students want to serve America in repayment for college assistance, I want to support them.


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Jack Thompson Biography (1940-)
Original name, John Hadley Payne; born August 31, 1940, in Sydney, New SouthWales, Australia; married Leona King; children: Billy. Addresses: Agent: International Creative Management, 8942 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA90211.
Actor, television producer, writer
Flunky, That Lady from Peking, 1970
Dick, Outback (also known as Wake in Fright), United Artists, 1971
Ken, "The Family Man," Libido, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/BEF, 1973
Tony "Jock" Petersen, Petersen (also known as "Jock" Petersen), AVCO-Embassy, 1974
The Taking of Christina, 1975
Title role, Scobie Malone, Cemp/Regent, 1975
Foley, Sunday Too Far Away, South Australian, 1975
Ted, Caddie, Atlantic, 1976
Detective Manwaring, Mad Dog Morgan (also known as Mad Dog), BEF, 1976
Reverend Neville, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, New Yorker, 1978
Simon Morris, The Journalist, FJ/New South Wales/FJF Promoters/Edgecliff, 1979
Major J. F. Thomas, Breaker Morant, New World, 1980
Laurie Holden, The Club (also known as Players), Roadshow,1980
Ross Daley, The Earthling, Filmways/Roadshow, 1980
Stanley Graham, Bad Blood, Rank Film Distributors, 1982
Clancy, The Man from Snowy River, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1982
Group Captain Hicksley-Ellis, Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Universal, 1982
Robert O'Hara Burke, Burke and Wills, Hemdale, 1985
Hawkwood, Flesh and Blood (also known as The Rose and the Sword and Los senores del acero), Riverside, 1985
Party guest, Short Circuit, 1986
Trebilcock, Ground Zero, Hoyts, 1987
Ralph Hamilton, The Killing Beach (also known as Turtle Beach), Warner Bros., 1991
Jack Neville, Wind, TriStar, 1992
Mr. Wilson, Resistance, 1992
John Ricketts, A Far Off Place, Buena Vista, 1993
Ed, Deception (also known as Ruby Cairo and The MissingLink: Ruby Cairo), Miramax, 1993
Harry Mitchell, The Sum of Us, Samuel Goldwyn, 1994
Mike, Der Flug des Albatros (also known as Flight of the Albatross), 1995
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Broken Arrow, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1996
The governor, Last Dance, Buena Vista/Touchstone, 1996
Alexander T. Hope, Excess Baggage, Columbia/Sony Pictures, 1997
Harry, Under the Lighthouse Dancing, 1997
Sonny Seiler, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Warner Bros., 1997
(Uncredited) Magazine vendor, Feeling Sexy, 1999
Voice of Buncle, The Magic Pudding, 2000
Yolngu Boy, Beyond Films, 2001
Alan Jordan, Original Sin (also known as Peche originel), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 2001
Cliegg Lars, Star Wars: Episode II--Attack of the Clones (also known as Star Wars II), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2002
Also appeared in The Man from Snowy River II.
Maxey Woodbury, Waterfront, 1983
Nick Stenning, The Last Frontier, CBS, 1986
Tom Campbell Black, Beryl Markham: A Shadow on the Sun (also knownas Shadow on the Sun: The Life of Beryl Markham and The Beryl Markham Story), CBS, 1988
Sam Garner, A Woman of Independent Means, NBC, 1995
The judge, The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years, ABC, 1996
Bernard Brewster, My Brother Jack, IO Network, 2001
Ariel, A Woman Called Golda, syndicated, 1982
Robert Crosbie, The Letter, ABC, 1982
Special Bulletin, NBC, 1983
Aubrey Dubose, Kojak: The Price of Justice (also known as Kojak: The Investigation), CBS, 1987
Bernard O'Reilly, The Riddle of the Stinson, 1987
Jake LaFontaine, Trouble in Paradise, CBS, 1988
Irvine, The Rainbow Warrior Conspiracy, 1989
Fireman, After the Shock, 1990
Jack McLeod, McLeod's Daughters, 1995
Captain George Brackett, South Pacific (also known as Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific), ABC, 2001
Wally, "Hagan's Kingdom," Riptide, 1969
Ted, "Flight of the Curlew," Riptide, 1969
Jack, "Boney and the Strangler," Boney, 1973
Red Kelly, "Boney and the Kelly Gang," Boney, 1973
Detective Sergeant Jack Beck, "Time and Tide," Homicide, 1974
Himself, The Ray Martin Show, 2001
Tully (also known as Armchair Cinema: Tully), 1975
Geoff, Because He's My Friend (also known as Love under Pressure), 1978
Living in America (special), VH1, 1991
Appeared in a continuing role on an Australian soap opera; appeared as Richard, The Dwelling Place (series), and as Erskine, Spyforce (series).
Stagecoach, CBS, 1986
(Associate producer) Sandy in Disneyland, 1974
(Associate producer) Featherstone's Nest, 1979
The Best Little Special in Texas, 1982
The Winning Hand, syndicated, 1985
(And creator) The Door Is Always Open, syndicated, 1985
Television Specials
The Door Is Always Open, syndicated, 1985
Also writer for The Best Little Special in Texas, 1982.


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Google Play Store lists Mobile Office App by Microsoft.
Microsoft brings the known Microsoft Office Suite with Word Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile and Excel Mobile on Google's mobile operating system Android. However, a condition is that you own a smartphone running Android, because tablet pcs are not (yet) supported by the Mobile Office App from Microsoft.
The Android user also needs an Office 365 subscription in order to be in a position to download and use the Microsoft Office Mobile App for the Android operating system on his phone. Although Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and PowerPoint Mobile make give a good impression, not many Android users will currently be in the position to use the new Mobile Office Suite by Microsoft on their smartphones running Android.
With Microsoft Office Mobile for Android, the users are now able to view and edit Word documents on their smartphones or to create spreadsheets and presentations with PowerPoint or Excel Mobile. However, for the download and use of the Mobile Office Suite by Microsoft for the mobile operating system Android by Google, the user will need a paid subscription for Office 365 in addition to the Mobile Office app for Android.
The cheapest subscription for MS Office 365 is around 99 euros a year. At least, the user also gets a desktop version of the Microsoft Office suite with such a subscription of Office 365 and now also the access to the Mobile Office suite for Android by Microsoft.
The Mobile Office Suite by Microsoft at the Google Play Store provides the access to the documents of a user from anywhere and on the go, of course. However, one should not expect the same functionality in the Mobile Office app for Android on his smartphone like he knows it from the desktop version of Microsoft Office.
In addition, the files and documents are synchronized by SkyDrive or SharePoint and the edition of documents, spreadsheets and presentations is also possible when being offline with the Android device.
It is to mention that the actual editing options are limited to a minimum in the new Mobile Office App by Microsoft for Android. Larger documents, spreadsheets, or bigger presentations are a problem. However, the most users are probably not interested to edit larger documents on their smartphone and as mentioned, the Mobile Office App by Microsoft for Android is not yet really available for tablets running the mobile operating system by Google.
At least, the Mobile Office app is useful for the correcting, editing, or commenting of documents and spreadsheets.
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NYPD: Karina Vetrano Murdered After Evening Run In Queens
August 3, 2016 /0 Comments/in Crime /by Joe Levin
A Queens woman was found slain in a marshy area near Howard Beach after she went out for her evening jog Tuesday, law-enforcement sources said.
Karina Vetrano, 30, was reported missing by her father when she didn't return from her regular run along the Belt Parkway's bike path at about 5 p.m., according to the sources.
Shortly after her worried dad, a retired firefighter, called 911, police found the body of the St. John's University graduate in the high-weeded area off 165th Avenue and 78th Street at about 10:30 p.m., the sources said.
Sources said a cause of death has not been determined, but she appeared to have been strangled and her jogging pants were pulled partway down.
Vetrano's father, who neighbors say retired from the FDNY on disability, was called to the crime scene as sobbing neighbors gathered outside his home on 84th Street.
Even before the remains were identified as those of Vetrano, neighbors feared the worst. One young girl on the block collapsed in tears while police investigators descended on the neighborhood.
"She had a routine jog," one neighbor said, describing Vetrano as a "pretty girl."
Another neighbor, who would identify himself only as John, said that Vetrano went jogging with her father nearly every night before he suffered an injury.
"He asked her, 'Don't go in there,' " John said referring to the weeded area.
"They found her phone over here [on the path] . . . If these weeds weren't this high, we would have seen her," John said, adding that "all girls know not to walk along these weeds."
Another neighbor said that "hobos and bums" typically lurk in the weeded area.
Vetrano's Instagram account is filled with photos of her enjoying her summer sipping cocktails, traveling and soaking up the sun with friends.
In a recent photo with her dad on his 60th birthday, Vetrano called him her "hero" and said, "I'm so blessed to have a father I can call my best friend."
Vetrano, who was an avid runner, posted an image online that showed her wearing a medal from the Spartan Race at Citi Field 15 weeks ago.
Sources said that police were investigating whether the victim had been sexually assaulted.
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Izmir or Old Smyrna City Center;
Konak Square and Clock Tower
Kemeralti Bazaar
Kadifekale Castle,
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Day 1 Izmir: Old Smyrna City Center, Konak Square, Kadifekale, Agora, Izmir Archaeological Museum
Old Smyrna City Center, Konak Square, Kadifekale, Agora, Izmir Archaeological Museum
The crown of Izmir: Kadifekale. After a long period of silence, the castle, which became invisible in the 20th century, surrounded by buildings, has the distinction of being the calmest and most beautiful place in Izmir with the partial repairs and landscaping works carried out in recent years. Kadifekale, which was established at a point that dominates the gulf in the centre of Izmir, was built by Lysimachos, one of his generals, on the instructions of Alexander the Great in the 3rd century BC. Established at an altitude of 186 meters above sea level, Kadifekale is located on an area of 6 kilometres. The north and east walls and five towers of the castle, whose east and south walls were completely destroyed, survived. The height of the towers is 20-35 meters. There is a large arched cistern from the Byzantine Period and the remains of a mosque in the castle. The heart of Izmir beats in Konak, the centre of the city.
It covers the areas that form the core of Izmir centres, such as historical Kemeralti, Alsancak, Basmane and Konak Square. At the same time, it is the main source of culture, art and entertainment for the entire Izmir centre. Kemeralti Bazaar, which is one of the first places to come to mind when talking about places to visit in Izmir, dates back to the 1600s. It has continued to be one of the most important trade areas that has not lost its importance since ancient times. Kemeralti Bazaar consists of 15 thousand workplaces spread over an area of 5 km. This feature makes it the world's largest open-air shopping area.Agora means city square, bazaar and market place, meeting area. Smyrna Agora was built as a rectangular shape. There is a very large courtyard in the middle. There are columned galleries around it. Stoas found in the north and south were unearthed during the excavations. These stoas are located on the basement floor. The north stoa was built in basilica style. The Agora of the new Smyrna, which was moved to Kadifekale by Alexander the Great, welcomes its guests with all its splendour and beauty, right next to today's commercial life. Remains of ancient Smyrna can only be reached at a few points today. The most important of these points is the Smyrna Agora, which is known as the Agora Ruins.
Having hosted many civilizations throughout the ages, Izmir is ready to take you on a breathtaking historical journey with its museum as well as its historical buildings! The traces of the life that started in and around Yesilova Mound in Bornova, then continued at the ruins of Symrna - Tepekule and later in Kadifekale can be seen in the city today. Artefacts reflecting different cultures, unearthed through excavations in ancient cities in the city, today transform Izmir into a museum city. We shall visit the Izmir archaeological museum in the city and discover the galleries that are an integral part of the city's culture and art life to follow the traces of the city's 8500 years of history. Overnight in Kusadasi.
Day 2 Izmir: Ephesus Ruins, The House of Virgin Mary, Ephesus Archaeological Museum, Temple of Artemis (Diana)
Ephesus Ruins, The House of Virgin Mary, Ephesus Archaeological Museum, Temple of Artemis (Diana)
The Temple of Artemis, a religious building where the people of Ephesus presented their faith to the goddess, was also the meeting point of the people used as a market place. The Temple of Artemis, which only has its basic ruins and a marble column, is one of the most important places to see in Selcuk. The temple of Artemis, the temple of Temenos, the religious section, had the appearance of a small city with public buildings and residences. Far from the sea, surrounded by fertile land, the temple was used as a commercial enterprise. Because it was a safe place, it also functioned as a bank. What a magnificent structure the Temple of Artemis was once; It is clear from the words of the Macedonian General Antipatros, "When I saw the house of Artemis built on clouds, all other wonders lost their shine and I said," Here! Except for Olympus, the sun has never looked at such a big thing". After Ephesus Tour, Transfer to Izmir airport.
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One could live a hundred lifetimes in New York City and still not have enough time to take in every bit of its rich arts offering. World's best museums, galleries and outdoor exhibitions compete with Broadway extravaganzas, jazz greats and stand-up comedy for attention and ticket sales. Do and see as much as you possibly can; sleep is for other, lesser, cities.
Broadway, of course. Musicals and plays to thrill, inspire and amuse. Expect to see major movie stars on-stage (Hugh Jackman, Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley recently) as well as the great theatre veterans as they tread the boards for the world's most demanding audiences. For the most popular shows (hello, Hamilton), secure tickets in advance through your travel agent.
After you've visited the must-see museums – the Met, the MoMA, the Whitney at its new downtown location – explore some of the city's other gems. The Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side compellingly recreates the living conditions of past residents from different eras in an authentic tenement apartment building. Museum of the City of New York goes deeper into the city's history and psyche with always on-point exhibitions and discussions. At the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, blockbuster exhibitions have covered a re-creation of the Mad Men sets and an in-depth look inside the world of the Muppets.
There's always something fabulous happening at Lincoln Center, home of the New York City Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic and various theatre productions. Don't miss Midsummer Night Swing, a summertime outdoors dance program that brings together hundreds of dance-enthusiasts with big band swing, disco and salsa sounds.
Get your laugh on at one of the city's leading comedy clubs, including the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, Caroline's Comedy Club and Gotham. Famous funny faces – Tracy Morgan, Louis CK, Amy Schumer – have been known to stop by for an impromptu set or to try out new material.
Jazz is as integral to New York as hot dogs and yellow cabs. Enjoy the world's greats in historic basements (Village Vanguard), slick modern spaces (Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola), in midtown (Birdland) and downtown (Smalls). In Harlem, considered the birthplace of modern jazz, the good vibes play on at Cotton Club, Bill's Place, Paris Blues and Minton's.
Immersive, interactive theatre experiences are popular in New York City. Not for the shy or fainthearted – audience members often become part of the show – they range from the disturbingly dark (Sleep No More) to the saucily sensual (Queen of the Night) and more.
NYC is one of the world's great dance cities. Silent disco, Rockette high kicks, expressive jazz, aerial ballet, classic tap. You name the style, you can watch it or participate somewhere in the five boroughs. Catch Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in concert if they're not away on tour; their classic performance piece, Revelations, is unforgettable. The company's dance school offers classes in many styles including beginner ballet, hip hop and Afro/Brazilian moves so, if you're feeling inspired, drop in for a lesson.
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Study Finds One Per Cent Rise In People Who Identify As LGBT Across America
By Troy Murphy
According to new research released this week by The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, there are more adults than ever who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.
4.5 per cent of 11.3 million the country identifies as LGBT, found that most are younger and poorer than the rest of the population.
The Williams Institute reported that LGBT people had a less nutritional diet and had incomes of below $24,000.
In-depth analysis of the Gallup Daily Tracking survey found Washington, D.C., had the highest percentage of LGBT people at 9.8 percent and North Dakota had the lowest at 2.7 percent.
"Younger people are more likely to actually live as LGBT and to identify that way because they are growing up in a time when it's more acceptable to acknowledge those feelings and to act on them," explained Kerith Conron, research director at the Williams Institute.
From the last survey in 2011 there has been a one-percentage-point increase in the LGBT population.
Researchers attribute this rise as a result of more people feeling comfortable responding to questions about their sexual orientation.
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