How Researching D&I Led Me Back to Episode 648 of "This American Life"
The moment we began to discuss Diversity and Inclusion, I had a flashback to when my friends and I took a road trip to Chicago over the Summer. In the car, we started playing an episode of This American Life. The first act of episode 648 is titled All the Caffeine in the World Doesn't Make You Woke, and it details Kelefa Sanneh's experience while sitting in on one of Starbucks' anti-racial bias classes in a corporate office that took place following the incident in Philadelphia involving the arrest of two young black men. The format of the class was created with help from the Perception Institute, a group that does this kind of anti-bias work. He gives the listener a lay of the land and explains that the class is primarily self–directed with no official leader, they each have a 68 page booklet, there are iPads with preloaded videos and there is an opening statement which Sanneh describes as the "racial equivalent of a surgeon generals warning." In addition to this, only two of the people in the room are black.
We are given an opportunity to listen in on a few conversations, one of which is between Whitney, who is white, and Rodney, who is black. It takes them ages to even get close to a point where they talk about race, and when they finally get there, they drop it. They instead discuss things like where they're from or how many siblings they have. Sanneh explains to us that this is what every discussion is like. No one is talking about race, yet. One problem with this could be that at the beginning of the class, it was only ever implied and never stated that the act in Philadelphia was racist. It wasn't until later on that we find out that they all watch a video that argued that African Americans have been systematically excluded from public spaces.
We hear from her again after they listen to a pre–recorded story from a store manager talking about how he refused to give an older black man a refund without a receipt when he, and other partners in the store, had violated that return policy before for other people. She says, "I think what bothers me is that this guy we're talking about with the coffee said he had broken the rules before. For some reason, he didn't do it for an older black man. That's what bothers me, is that you purposefully were like, there's a black guy that came in here. I'm not going to do it this time. This is the one time I'm going to let the rules work for me. That's the type of stuff that I just don't understand." This was a point in the training that prompted the response of Whitney as they respectfully discussed whether or not that situation involved unconscious or conscious bias and why. Still one of the few and far between moments during the class that felt like they were getting somewhere.
Sanneh ends the story with explaining that during "the day of the training, May 29, while the group had been impaneled, the national conversation about race had been proceeding in the real world, although not in a way they would have predicted. While they were watching their videos and filling out their workbooks, Roseanne Barr, unbeknownst to them, was being condemned for a tweet in which she compared an African-American woman to an ape." Hearing this for the first time really jarred me because it really made me think about how much work still needs to be done before we reach a point where it feels like these classes actually make a difference. Having this more first–person perspective into what one of these trainings is like really opened my eyes to how these experiences can be improved upon to better the lives of everyone involved. Why do we teach these classes in what feels like a roundabout way? Why do the black people in the room become the de facto discussion leaders? How can we design better solutions that produce more important impacts?


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After Video Emerges, JPD Investigating Officer Over Rough Treatment, Threats
Jackson patrolman Myron Smith is on administrative leave pending an investigation into a May 22 incident where he held a young man backward against a car, possibly by the throat while threatening to do more. Onlookers kept pleading, "he can't breathe." Photo courtesy Facebook
By Kayode Crown Tuesday, May 26, 2020 6:15 p.m. CDT
A Jackson police officer, captured by video Friday pinning a young man by the neck backward to the top of a car, is on administrative leave pending an Internal Affairs investigation. In the video that started circulating Friday night, the officer is pressing the young man's neck as he sounds like he is gagging. A young woman wearing a safety mask next to them keeps saying, "he can't breathe."
Jackson Police Department Public Information Officer Sam Brown said in a telephone interview today that the patrolman's name is Myron Smith.
"When the video surfaced, it got to Chief James Davis, and he immediately placed (Smith) on administrative leave and turned it over him to Internal Affairs," Brown said.
On the video, the officer stood over the young man, very close to his face, bending him backward onto the top of the car, seeming to hold him down by the neck and preventing his movement. More than one camera recorded the incident, while some passersby pleaded for the officer to let him go.
"What did I tell you to do, what did I tell you to do? When I told you to leave, what are you out here doing?" Smith shouted, as captured in the video.
The young man struggled to break off the hold, but was overpowered by the officer who kept shouting at him and making a scene on the road. A parked police car can be seen in the video, possibly belonging to the officer.
As he pinned the young man, Smith dared the young man to "make" him do something more, but it was unclear what he meant.
"Make me, make me, I say, make me," the officer, visibly angry, repeatedly said.
The Jackson Free Press viewed a video lasting about two minutes. It showed the woman attempting to push the officer's hands off the young man, with Smith not treating that act kindly. He shouted at her, saying: "Get off me, get off me, I say get off me."
When told by the woman, "he can't breathe, he is not able to breathe, he is shaking sir, he can't breathe," Smith responded, "Ma'am, do you see my hands? I am not even choking him" as he continued to hold him down on the black Toyota.
Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba's office released a statement in response to the incident. He said his administration is focused on engendering a positive relationship between the police and the people of Jackson.
"This administration is clear that we are trying to build an approach to public safety that is about trust, collaboration, and integrity. Any actions that do not reflect those principles have no place in the City of Jackson," Lumumba said in the statement.
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The Way She Was: Writing Eve Merriam's Life Story
October 22, 2019 Sarah Schuster	Leave a comment
By Sarah Schuster, HI Graduate Research Assistant
The Faculty Fellows seminar on September 26th was led by Julia Mickenberg, Professor in the Department of American Studies. Building from her previous work on leftist and radical politics in children's books, Dr. Mickenberg presented a collection of materials that represents her work-in-progress: a book on American writer Eve Merriam. Merriam published a wide range of work from the late 1950s into the late '70s, including plays, poems, essays, children's books, and more, with surprising speed.
Indeed, the breadth of interests, topics, and expressive forms found in Merriam's work is part of what makes her so fascinating to Mickenberg. Across her career Merriam participated in a number of different literary and political circles, tying together a number of Mickenberg's own interests, for instance in radical cultures, feminism, children's literature, and the children's liberation movement. (These interests are explored in Mickenberg's books, Learning from the Left: Children's Literature, the Cold War, and Radical Politics in the United States (2005) and American Girls in Red Russia: Chasing the Soviet Dream (2017).) According to Mickenberg, Merriam is likely best remembered as a children's poet, but her influence was felt through a variety of contexts, and a variety of genres. Her legacy was further complicated by the 1973 Barbra Streisand film, The Way We Were. Merriam partially inspired screenwriter Arthur Laurents' take on the Streisand character, Kate Morosky, providing Mickenberg an unexpected inroad to writing about Merriam herself.
Participants in the seminar were amazed at the amount of ground Merriam covered over the course of her life, creating unexpected communities through her work and presaging the feminist work of Betty Friedan in her political essays from the late '50s. Many suggested that readers might similarly want to engage with the fascinating diversity of Merriam's work, and advised Mickenberg to consider collecting some of Merriam's writing into a separate edited volume. As Mickenberg noted, Merriam's "The Diary of a White Liberal Racist" seems remarkably relevant to discussions today about some of the subtler forms that persistent racism takes, including institutional racism, implicit biases, and the benefits that even liberal or progressive white people often enjoy at the benefit of people of color.
Mickenberg's own project is still taking shape and she is exploring different approaches to telling a life story, including the question of to what extent she wants to focus on narrating and analyzing Merriam's own life and work and to what extent she wants to use Merriam as a lens for discussing some of the broader historical and cultural developments in which she participated. An enticing facet of Merriam's story is how many major figures in diverse fields across a long stretch of time she had dealings with, ranging from W.E.B. DuBois to Norman Lear!
Seminar participants, including several who had written biographies or, in the case of Paul Stekler, made biographical films, brainstormed with Mickenberg about approaches she might take to organizing her materials and deciding upon a through-line for the story she wants to tell. Participants suggested focusing individual chapters on different genres Merriam had written in or on particularly resonant creative experiences she'd had. One participant suggested that a chapter might be devoted to the community created around The Club, her Obie award-winning play, which debuted in 1976. Mickenberg has interviewed the play's producer Mary Silverman, and through the interview, she discovered how tightly knit the cast became during the play's premiere at the Lenox Theater in the Berkshires. The actors bonded over a mutual connection with Merriam's script, a satirical take on men's clubs featuring an entirely female cast. Mickenberg closed the seminar by showing a series of clips from Merriam's work in television, including a TV spot for the bicentennial anniversary of the American Revolution, and All That Glitters, a 1970s TV sitcom, directed by Norman Lear, parodying men and women's roles by entirely reversing them. Seminar participants also discussed how writers include themselves in their scholarly work as narrators and as characters. Though including oneself in a biography or paper can be prove risky, participants agreed that Mickenberg's reference to her research process added something valuable to her paper.
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Talking Power and Narrative Control: Language as a Human Project
October 2, 2019 Sarah Schuster	Leave a comment
The September 12th Faculty Fellows seminar featured guest speaker and seminar leader Robin Lakoff, Professor Emerita in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a pioneering figure in the study of language and gender. Dr. Lakoff presented the Faculty Fellows group with a series of articles past and present, including a series of unpublished "snorts," or short articles on a variety of different topics relating to linguistics, politics, and current events. Dr. Lakoff's appearance at the Faculty Fellows seminar was one of three events she offered across campus during her visit to Austin. Lakoff participated in a moderated conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Keating, professor in the Department of Anthropology at UT-Austin, and later lectured on "Narrative Control and the Human Project" as part of the Humanities Institute's Distinguished Visiting Lecture series on "Narrative and Social Justice."
In the seminar, Lakoff expanded on many of the themes she discussed in her lecture, including a shift on the part of the media from political candidates' personal stories to a focus on who is "controlling the narrative," or the cultural conversation. Many in the seminar discussed the breakdown of communication in politics as a whole, examining the ways in which cultural narratives around American civility have shifted to narratives of control. Others pointed out the ways in which these narratives appear in the classroom, brainstorming methods of teaching students to identify bias and model analytic skills.
Responding to questions about how she came to her more recent interest in political rhetoric, Lakoff described both her current interest and her development as a scholar in linguistics. As she explained, she began her undergraduate studies at Harvard as a classicist, studying languages, philology–everything but classical literature itself, which she said was at that time typically left as the last step in a long path. Lakoff told the group how she had found herself becoming impatient with the pace of her program, and how she eventually began visiting Building 20 at MIT, the province, she said, of the "not-quite-academic" fields. There, she began to work with students in linguistics, who were in the active process of building the field from Noam Chomsky's principles. They had thought, she reminisced, that they would eventually get a universal grammar through their work, but eventually linguists such as herself came to recognize the improbability of that task. Her own interests turned towards pragmatics, and her interest in gendered language began in that context.
Participants discussed the difference between Lakoff's and Chomsky's turn to politics (his pursued apart from linguistics, hers within it). Lakoff admitted that she did not consider herself a feminist scholar at the beginning of her career, but noted that a shift occurred when she began to delve more deeply into gendered semantics. She became fascinated by the way language represented intimacy and power dynamics through its more performative aspects.
The seminar participants discussed Lakoff's assigned readings at length, including pieces discussed during Lakoff's public talks. Participants pored over Lakoff's article examining the concession and acceptance speeches of candidates during the 2000 presidential election. Some noted their surprise at speeches' success, given the fraught state of affairs surrounding the Florida recount. Yet Lakoff asserted the importance of each speech act in reunifying the country, covering over the election's drama with "business as usual." Lakoff evoked again her concluding paragraph in the final minutes of the seminar, noting that the candidates headed off a constitutional crisis through a call to inaction–a prizing of social nicety over alarm, or action.
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Dialoguing Across Borders
February 3, 2017 Clare Callahan	Leave a comment
On Training Young Israeli and Palestinian Women to Be Peacemakers in their Communities
By Suzanne Seriff
Sometimes, various aspects of our lives intersect in unexpected and enriching ways. This was the case when I learned that the University of Texas at Austin's Humanities Institute and Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies, along with the Jewish and interfaith communities of Austin were hosting a week-long visit from four young women leaders—Palestinian and Jewish Israeli—who are part of a Santa Fe-based organization called Creativity for Peace. The events take place from Feb 12-16, 2017.
Creativity for Peace (CfP) is in its 18th year and "prepares young Israeli and Palestinian women to be peacemakers in their communities and across borders with compassion, friendship, and courage." I am an active member of each of the Austin-based host communities, and I also have a collaborative relationship with Creativity for Peace in Santa Fe. Each has unique qualities but all share an openness to new experiences, and a desire for change toward social justice. Some exercise the mind; others the capacity for human connections. Dialogue is the active link that binds me to each of these organizations' endeavors, and which catalyzes our conversations across borders.
I truly look forward to interacting with all of them on my home turf, a rare opportunity to bring so many resources to the task of promoting peace though dialogue, art, and action.
As a publicly engaged folklorist, I divide my time between Austin, where I teach in the Department of Anthropology and the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies here at UT (including Difficult Dialogues courses on immigration through the Humanities Institute), and Santa Fe, NM, where I direct an experimental lab at the Museum of International Folk Art called the Gallery of Conscience (GoC). The GoC is devoted to the exploration of social justice and human rights issues through the lens of folk and traditional arts.
Established in 2010, the mission of the GoC at the Museum of International Folk Art is to serve as an agent of positive social change by engaging and connecting individuals and communities around social justice and human rights issues, using the power of folk arts to address historical and current events; to catalyze dialogue; and to promote personal reflection, communication, and action. Since 2012 the GoC has operated through a "prototyping" process, in which exhibitions evolve organically over time in response to visitor input and community engagement, ever a work in progress.
Dialogue is at the heart of the GoC's mission and it was the spark that generated our multi-year collaboration with CfP and two award-winning folk artists. During two successive summer workshops, CfP's Israeli and Palestinian campers came together with local New Mexican young women at the Gallery to work with master-level folk artists. They explored mutually relevant themes of home, belonging, place and displacement which were mirrored in the GoC exhibition, Between Two Worlds: Folk Artists Reflect on the Immigrant Experience, which was on display at the Museum of International Folk Art between spring of 2014 and spring of 2016. Both workshops were held in conjunction with CfP's annual three-week summer camp intensive for Palestinian and Jewish Israeli girls, age 15-17.
The issues affecting immigrants, refugees or displaced persons can be difficult to directly confront, either because of stigma, taboo, language barriers, stereotypes, or conflict. The GoC and CfP collaboration gave participants not only the opportunity to engage directly with the words and works of master-level traditional artists who speak out through their arts, but also the chance to share their own stories and personal experiences evoked by the art; to enrich their understanding of different points of view surrounding questions of home and belonging for people who share contested spaces; and to identify how they can respond directly to needs they see in their communities.
By the time the exhibition officially opened in the summer of 2014, the Gallery was perfectly—if inadvertently—positioned to respond to what national headlines—and President Obama—were billing as an "urgent humanitarian situation" in the United States (Washington Post June 2, 2014) involving thousands of unaccompanied children arriving in this country seeking asylum. Several of the artworks uncannily mirrored the reporting on these very current events, even though the artworks had been created years—sometimes decades—before. Two of the most evocative artworks include a painting by Cuban artist Cenia Guttiérez Alfonso, depicting an unaccompanied young girl crossing the Atlantic Ocean on her journey to a new land (Menina con Gallo/ Young Girl with Rooster), and a three-part sculpture by Peruvian-American retablo maker Nicario Jiménez (provocatively titled Immigration: The American Dream) which illustrates the differential receptions of three groups of undocumented Latino families–Cubans, Haitians, and Mexicans–arriving on our nation's shores and greeted, respectively, either by refugee assistance agencies, detention centers, or border police.
That summer also coincided with the outbreak of renewed conflict between Jewish Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza, rendering Between Two Worlds themes all the more compelling for CfP workshop participants. The works on display sparked dialogue about some of the exhibit's core themes which resonated with all of the young women– the struggle to belong in a place where you may or may not feel welcome, and the experience of living between two worlds. These works included textiles, wood carvings, beadwork, paintings and poetry by Cuban, Mozambican, Hmong, Mexican, Hispanic New Mexican, Brazilian, Lakota, Polish, Navajo, Tibetan, Nigerian and Peruvian artists. Following this exercise, the young women were introduced to the exhibit's featured immigrant artist—Nigerian Yoruba indigo dye artist Gasali Adeyemo; (Year One) and Mexican immigrant papel picado (cut paper) artist, Catalina Delgado Trunk (Year Two). These artists introduced the young women to the cultural background of their art and work.
For the remainder of the workshop, participants were encouraged to reflect on their experiences of home, belonging, and displacement, and to express their ideas through the artists' medium. In the first year of the collaboration, the young women were encouraged to create a quilt block representing some artistic representation of "home" using the batik dying technique introduced by Gasali. These blocks were later sewn into a quilt for the Gallery, and represented some of the profound sentiments that were sparked by the exhibit's themes. For example, a young Palestinian woman, far from home for the first time, depicted a house aglow with the lights of a traditional wedding. An Israeli portrayed the Jewish Friday-night Shabbat (Sabbath) dinner, when her family gathers for stories and prayer. In the second year of the collaboration, the participants created symbols of home, peace, or family using the cut paper technique of papel picado represented in Catalina's award-winning work, which were bound into an illustrated book for the Gallery's dialogue lounge. Both workshops resulted in original works of art, and stories from the CfP campers, that were subsequently featured in the exhibition itself.
Gasali Adeyemo with Creativty for Peace participants, Museum of International Folk Art, July 2014. Photo by Laura Marcus Green. Photo courtesy of Museum of International Folk Art
Many of these campers have gone on to become young leaders of the Arab-Israeli peace process. They have undertaken intensive leadership training in their home regions on how to facilitate groups, organize projects, serve as spokeswomen and take other actions to help achieve peace. The result has been a steady stream of speaking engagements at conferences both at home and abroad, attending global summits, meeting with government leaders, and even, in some cases, returning to Santa Fe to serve as junior counselors at the CfP summer camp. Their trip to Austin is part of a national tour in which four of these young leaders, along with CfP executive Director Dottie Indyke, will meet and hold workshops with high school and college students throughout the United States to talk about the process that brought them together and answer questions from the audience.
As I prepare to welcome the young leaders of CfP to Austin next week, I realize that one of them, Deema Yusuf, was a participant in our initial workshop with Gasali Adeyemo when she was a first-time CfP camper during the summer of 2014. Writing about the quilt block she created at the time, Deema reflects on the importance of language as both a tie that binds and a spark for dialoguing across difference:
Deema Yusuf, Gallery of Conscience workshop with Gasali Adeyemo and Creativity for Peace, July 2014. Photo by Laura Marcus Green. Courtesy of Museum of International Folk Art
. . . I wanted to write something. Especially in Arabic because I feel like Arabic writing is like an art. And it's very beautiful—even for people who don't know how to read it . . . So I decided to write 'Palestine' in Arabic because that's where I'm from and . . . it's very important for me.
I look forward to welcoming her—and the other representatives from CfP in Santa Fe, and Israel and Palestine—to my Austin home! We live lives in so many time zones, so many dimensions these days that it is rare for things we love to come together. Their visit is a great opportunity for dialogue, engagement, and action.
The Humanities Institute is hosting its Spring 2017 Difficult Dialogues Public Forum with Creativity for Peace on Monday, February 13 at 7pm at the University of Texas at Austin. To learn more about this event, visit us here.
Dr. Suzanne Seriff
Dr. Suzanne Seriff is a folklorist and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also received her Ph.D. Her research focuses on Mexican culture, immigrant arts, and public culture. She is Director of the Gallery of Conscience (GoC) at the Museum of International Folk Art in Sante Fe, NM.
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Not Just a Game
October 31, 2016 Clare Callahan	3 Comments
By Shannon Sun-Higginson
Publicly identifying oneself as feminist isn't always easy. Being openly feminist in the world of gaming—a world where misogyny, harassment, and objectification are the norm—is even harder. As a feminist filmmaker, I always thought I knew what it was like to work in a male-dominated and often casually sexist field. Even though I considered myself a no-nonsense feminist, I still thought I could roll with the punches and was cool enough to "hang with the guys." But I couldn't imagine the challenges that many women in gaming experience on a daily basis, and how their brand of feminism was often so different, so much deeper and stronger, than what I could even conceive. While I was worried about how to balance having a sense of humor with being taken seriously in the film industry, women in the parallel space of gaming were worried about threats to their personal safety.
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Of course, the next morning always comes and I find myself in my clinic again, the exam room speaking aloud in all of its blatant metaphors—the huge clock above where my patients sit implacably measuring lifetimes; the space itself narrow and compressed as a sonnet—and immediately I'm back to thinking about writing. Soon enough, my patients start to arrive, and the way they want me to understand what they are feeling only immerses me more deeply in language's compelling alchemy: "The pain is like a cold, bitter wind blowing through my womb," murmurs a young infertile woman from Guatemala with what I have diagnosed much less eloquently as chronic pelvic pain. "Please, doctor, can you heal me?"
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Not long ago, I studied medicine.
It was terrible, what the body told.
I'd look inside another person's mouth,
And see the desolation of the world.
I'd see his genitals and think of sin.
Excerpt from "What the Body Told" by Rafael Campo, poet, essayist, and physician. Dr. Campo will deliver a poetry reading on April 21st at 12pm at the Blanton Museum of Art, sponsored by the Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies, with support from the Humanities Institute. See our calendar on the left sidebar for more information.
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The character of Ben Grimm in Fantastic Four was played by American actor, television producer and director Michael Chiklis. He has often been praised for his work in the film. Recently he can be seen in the movie Don't Look Up and the Winning Time TV series. He has also appeared in video games such as Fantastic Four and The Shield.
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Julian was cast as Victor Von Doom in Fantastic Four. The actor is 53 years old now and can be seen in many films such as Bait 3D, Fire with Fire, You're Not You, and many more. Recently he did the FBI TV series, FBI: Most Wanted.
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He played the role of Leonard in the film Fantastic Four. Hamish is best known for his roles as Matthew Kimble in The New Adventures of Old Christine, Clark Debussy in Legion, and Andrew Keanelly in The Crazy Ones. He is now 45 years old and will be seen in the Gaslit television series which will be released in 2022.
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Kerry was seen as Alicia Masters in Fantastic Four. She is an American actress, director and producer. Kerry achieved worldwide recognition for her role as Olivia Pope in the drama series Scandal. She will be seen in Little Fires Everywhere as Mia Warren.
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NOC calls on Presidential Council to give needed funds to revive oil production
BY Libyan Express	 Aug 14, 2016 - 12:47
Libya's plans to increase oil output to reach 1 million barrels per day (bpd) by the end of the year will remain out of reach until the government allocates funds to repair the damage to oil infrastructure, the National Oil Corp's chief told Reuters.
"If we receive around $1 billion, we can do a lot," Mustafa Sanalla said, adding that the corporation submitted its budget to the Presidential Council, the OPEC member's government, on July 3 and is still waiting for the funds.
Libya, which holds Africa's largest oil reserves, has seen it production hobbled to 207,000 barrels per day (bpd) this week from a peak of 1.6 million bpd before it descended into civil war.
It relies almost exclusively on oil revenue for its expenditure and faces a serious cash flow problem due to the disrupted oil exports, but Sanalla said money going to NOC would multiply the country's revenue by generating more in oil sales.
The NOC, which recently united rival eastern and western factions, is aiming to boost oil output to over 900,000 bpd by the end of the year and to 1.2 million bpd within a year.
But the company has bumped up against both security and cash flow problems.
Sanalla said the storage capacity at the Es Sider oil terminal had plummeted to 750,000 barrels, from 6 million barrels, due to repeated attacks on export terminals over the course of the revolution, civil war and attacks from Islamic State.
Sanalla said NOC also owes tens of millions of dollars to international oil service companies, and warned earlier this week that a looming clash between Petroleum Facilities Guard forces and the Dignity Operation forces, which are loyal to the eastern government, threatened to more oil infrastructure damage.
He said NOC owes one service company alone $80 million, declining to name it.
"They were thinking of closing shop in the country, but after my meeting with them, they decided to stay. They've been in Libya for 50 years."
Still, Sanalla said the united NOC was working. He planned to personally visit the eastern city of Benghazi in two weeks to smooth tensions. He added that clear support from the international community, with western powers expressing support for the NOC, would help keep various factions on board.
"They [the international community] recognise NOC as a neutral body that is trying to unite and to save the country," he said.
Sanalla said it would not be safe to send repair crews to Es Sider and Ras Lanuf, two major terminals that are set to reopen under a recent deal with guards who had been blockading them, until force majeure from the two ports is lifted.
But he said that the El Sharara and El Feel fields could add 200,000 bpd to production within weeks if a deal to reopen them were reached.
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This looks amazing! We love to go places as a family and this is the kind of fun we are looking for! I can't wait to check this out.
OH wow. It looks like you guys had an amazing time. I know my family would love that. We'll have to go there the next time we take our trip.
What a fun place to go with your kids, I need to add this in my bucket list. Kids will surely love this place.
Looks like you guys had a blast! My hubby and kids would love to go there! Definitely check this out some day!
This looks like such a fun place to spend the day with your family. We have something very similar to us called Santa's Village.
It sounds like you all had a blast at Bush Gardens. I have never been there but would love to go some day. Pompeii Germany and the Curse Of the Dark Kastle would be so much fun to see. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
This place looks like absolute so much fun! I should ask my husband if he'd be willing to go here... it looks fantastic!!
I used to love going to Busch Gardens when I was a teenager. We used to live close by one so it was really convenient.
That looks like such a great place to be. I'd love to bring my kids there. I know we would all really enjoy it too.
I have always wanted to go back to Germany. This looks like it was a great trip for your family.
That sounds like such a fun place to go! I bet my kids would be all over going there! Thanks for sharing.
This looks like so much fun. I have been to the Busch Gardens in Viginia a few years ago. Now I can't do roller coasters, I am fearful of hurting my back.
It looks like you had a blast despite the height requirements. It's below zero where I live right now, so I would love some warmer weather, but I know how miserable I have been at theme parks in the heat so I feel your pain as well.
My Dad went to Germany a few years ago. It would be amazing to see..But I'm like you and Bush Gardens would be my only place to see Germany for a while. It looks like you all had a great time!
Wow this place looks amazing. Looks like I will have to add it to places to visit in 2017 with the kids.
This looks like a fun trip to take with the kiddos. I can't wait to start taking vacations with them, I think they are all finally old enough.


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Congressman: The Military's Burn Pits Screwed Our Soldiers
Author: Katie DrummondKatie Drummond
A few months after he came home from Iraq, the Sergeant started having trouble breathing, and noticed numbness in his feet and hands. The military doctors he saw blamed his smoking habit: At 27-years-old, he'd been indulging in half a pack a day for five years. The Pentagon swore that the noxious smoke emanating from the military's open-air burn pits – massive heaps of household trash, computer parts and even human waste that were used at bases in Iraq until last year, and are still being used in Afghanistan – weren't at all responsible.
"We all knew that huge plumes of smoke going into the air, all the time, can't exactly be good for you," says the Sergeant, who requested anonymity because he fears reprisal from his commanding officers.
Now, one congressman wants the Pentagon to start paying attention to the accumulation of ailments. Rep. Todd Akin today announced a new bill that'd create a database of military personnel afflicted with health conditions they blame on burn pits.
"I have worked with a number of my constituents who were exposed to burn pits while serving in the military," Rep. Akin, a Republican from Missouri, said in a statement. "The health consequences have been severe."
Indeed, the Sergeant, who has since been diagnosed with a degenerative neurological disorder and chronic respiratory infections, isn't alone: Thousands of recently returned troops are coming down with myriad ailments, including respiratory problems, cancer and neurological defects, that many suspect were caused by the pits.
Akin's announcement comes only three days after the publication of a new federal report, issued by a committee at the Institute of Medicine, that should have shed some light on whether the substances in the burn pits were responsible for a host of health ailments, including respiratory problems, neurological conditions and even increased rates of cancer, that are afflicting recent veterans.
Instead, researchers came up empty-handed: They detected 53 toxins in the air around Joint Base Balad, home to the military's largest pit, but couldn't determine which came from the burn pits and which were from other sources, including toxic dust storms and local industry emissions – largely because, they noted, the military had compiled so little documentation on the burn pits, such as what was burned and when, that it was impossible to generate any meaningful conclusions.
"The committee requested but did not obtain documentation from the DoD [Department of Defense] on the volumes and types of materials burned specifically at [Joint Base Balad]," the report reads. "Insufficient data [means] it is not possible to say whether these emissions could cause long-term health effects."
That thousands of soldiers were breathing in hazardous chemicals now seems to be a given – even the Institute of Medicine report acknowledges that, whether from burn pits or elsewhere, toxins clouded much of the air overseas. But whether or not subsequent illnesses are because of burn pits remains a mystery, and that's largely because the military doesn't have any data on who was stationed near the pits and whether or not they're now suffering any ailments.
Akin's database would change that: He wants the registry modeled after that created in 1978 for soldiers exposed to Agent Orange, and operated by the Department of Veterans' Affairs.
And because much of the necessary data can't exactly be obtained retroactively, a database of soldiers, their deployment dates and locations and their symptoms is the last chance for researchers to collect any tangible information – and, by monitoring health ailments and looking for patterns, someday determine exactly what caused the soldiers' various conditions.
The bill has already garnered widespread support: Senator Tom Udall, a Democrat from New Mexico, will introduce a companion bill in the Senate. Veterans advocacy groups, including the American Legion and the National Military Family Association, are also endorsing the database. John Wilson, a volunteer with the Disabled Veterans Association, called it "an opportunity to do what we didn't for Agent Orange."
"For those in Vietnam, we could have saved a lot of suffering, a lack of health care, a lack of compensation, if we'd had this kind of rigor earlier on," Wilson tells Danger Room. "We don't need another generation of vets to experience what they did."
Unfortunately, the passage of the bill doesn't exactly guarantee that today's troops will fare much better: The registry wouldn't include regulations on compensation or treatment, which, more than three decades after Vietnam, remain unresolved points of contention in Congress.
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VATICAN - First celebration of the liturgical memory of Blessed Pauline-Marie Jaricot
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Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - "Today, January 9, 2023, we celebrate for the first time the feast of the foundress of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith and inspiration of all the Pontifical Mission Societies, Blessed Pauline-Marie Jaricot, beatified in May 2022.
Pauline dedicated her life to announcing the Gospel to the ends of the earth. Her secret was her deep union with Christ Jesus. With her, we renew our call to holiness," said Father Tadeusz J. Nowak, OMI, Secretary General of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith, during the mass celebrated this morning in the chapel named after John Henry Newman, in the Palace of Propaganda of the Faith, seat of the Dicastery for Evangelization and of the International Secretariats of the Pontifical Mission Societies.
Father Nowak recalled with joy that "for the first time in history, this memory will be celebrated in the universal Church, and in particular in the Archdiocese of Lyon, where our foundress is buried". Pauline, he continued, "is an example of total dedication to the mission of the Church, confirmed by a life of holiness and joyful abandonment to the Lord". "Let us not hesitate to imitate the quality of her life and to pray for her intercession, especially when we are faced with formidable challenges in our service to the missionary Church", he hoped, expressing his gratitude "for the privilege of working and serving by continuing the work and the spirit of the Blessed" who lives today in the Pontifical Mission Societies.
Pauline-Marie Jaricot (1799 -1862) was a woman of profound faith and charity. Coming from a wealthy family, she chose to renounce the wealth in which she was born to live, in simplicity, a radical adherence to the Gospel.
Having heard and known the testimonies of the missionaries, she was struck by them, and the Holy Spirit suggested in her heart a way of accompanying them: in 1822, Pauline gave life to the Association for the Propagation of the Faith, which involved all baptized in the support of missionaries, then supported only by her own congregation, relatives and friends. She thus cultivated a community dimension, founding small circles that supported the missionaries with prayer and financial contributions.
One hundred years later, in 1922, Pope Pius XI raised the society to "pontifical" status, welcoming and recognizing this form of popular participation by the Christian community in the mission. The initiative, born from a consecrated laywoman in a given context, became a pastoral proposal valid for the whole universal Church. In 2022, the Pontifical Mission Societies celebrated the beatification of Jaricot (on May 22, 2022 in Lyon) and the anniversaries of the foundation of the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith, and its pontifical recognition. (PA) (Agenzia Fides, 9/1/2023)
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Hell Is Donald & Melania
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Welcome To Hell, Donald & Melania Trump Will Be Your Guides
Natalie Gontcharova
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There are several places rumored to be entrances to the underworld, like the fiery crater that has been burning in Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert for over 40 years. There are also various artistic interpretations of the plunge into the abyss: Inspired by Dante's Inferno, sculptor Auguste Rodin created a pair of bronze doors to symbolize the gates of hell, a reference to Dante's famous warning, "Abandon every hope, who enter here."
If these seem like apt metaphors for our current historic moment, you're not alone. And if you've ever idly wondered what lies just beyond the gates of hell, or what it's like to indeed abandon every hope (provided you haven't already), the White House is here for you with a cursed image helpful preview trailer.
On Tuesday, the administration staged a photo op in which President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump stare menacingly at the camera as they stand side-by-side while touring a major Catholic shrine. As is their long-held custom, their body language looks like that of strangers and they are completely avoiding touching each other. Keeping with the theme, they wear all black, he with a red tie. They stand in front of a crucifix, surrounded by pews and religious iconography — like other-worldly visitors in a setting that is meant to be beautiful, comforting, and awe-inspiring, but that is instantly turned terrifying by their presence.
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— Connie Schultz (@ConnieSchultz) June 3, 2020
.@POTUS & I honored the life & legacy of Saint John Paul II at @JP2Shrine today. His passion & dedication for religious freedom is a legacy that we must protect for people around the world. pic.twitter.com/XsgrIc7QnC
— Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) June 2, 2020
"Hello, and welcome to eternal damnation. We are Donald and Melania Trump, and we will be your guides," they seem to say with their narrowed eyes. If you've read this far and you think we're being too mean, may we suggest a few slightly more charitable interpretations of this photograph: The worst Wes Anderson film. The Shining. Guardians of a crypt rather than hell itself. Date night?
Viewed out of context, the photo is undeniably creepy. But in context, it's even more so. According to the White House, the photo shoot documented the Trumps as they observed a "moment of remembrance" and laid a wreath during a visit to the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C. The White House "originally scheduled this as an event for the president to sign an executive order on international religious freedom," according to the shrine, and he did later in the day. But religious figures criticized Trump for abusing religious symbols for partisan purposes — for the second time this week.
Washington Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, the first Black person to hold his position, said he was "baffled" by Trump's visit to the shrine, adding that it is "reprehensible that any Catholic facility would allow itself to be so egregiously misused and manipulated in a fashion that violates our religious principles, which call us to defend the rights of all people even those with whom we might disagree."
The visit happened the day after Trump, after declaring himself to be the "president of law and order," walked to St. John's Episcopal Church across from the White House, held up a Bible — without letting anyone at the church know that he was coming or why — and encouraged military and police violence against protestors. To make way for himself and his aides, he sent federal troops to tear-gas and shoot rubber bullets at the protestors assembled in front of the White House, causing traumatic injuries.
As the nation roars with anger over police killings of Black people, such as George Floyd in Minneapolis, Trump's cosplaying of solemnity and mourning in a place of worship is particularly unforgivable. While millions grieve, over Black lives lost to police and over the 109,000 Americans who have lost their lives due to coronavirus — who are disproportionately Black — and as police unleash unprecedented violence against protestors and journalists, Trump ignores the grief and pain in his "religious" appearances. And as he continues to assert power he doesn't have and threatens violence, the White House communications department is working overtime to create fear-provoking imagery. These photo ops are not about compassion and solidarity with a grieving and wounded nation, they are about his dreams of Trump 2020 and beyond.
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Two projects in running for community grants
Emma's Acres and Waterfront Educational Eco-Centre part of cross-country competition
Emma's Acres is among two Mission projects in the running for the Aviva Canada community fund.
Two Mission projects are among 385 which are part of Aviva Canada's community fund competition.
Voting for the 2015 Aviva Community Fund ended on Saturday, with people voting online for the projects, designed for positive change in communities all across Canada. The ideas each fall within at least one of the three categories: community resilience, community health, and community development. There are two funding levels: under $50,000 and between $50,000 and $100,000.
Finalists will be announced on Nov. 3.
The two Mission projects are Emma's Acres and Waterfront Education Eco-Centre on Hatzic Lake.
Emma's Acres is an agricultural social enterprise business located in Mission that is managed by the LINC Society (www.lincsociety.bc.ca). LINC employs victims and survivors of crime, ex-offenders and offenders. Vegetables, herbs and fruits are grown naturally without the use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers on property leased to LINC by the District of Mission.
With 4.5 acres cleared thus far and two 95-by-36-foot heated greenhouses in place, Emma's Acres will be the first small lot farm growing year-round in the community. It sells locally at the Mission City Farmers' Market, the Deroche Farmers Market and to local businesses.
Some produce is also donated to non-profit societies in Mission including the food banks and the community kitchen. The proceeds of the sales at Emma's Acres goes towards funding the LINC Society's work in the community, in particular its work with survivors of serious crime.
Emma's Acres wants to upgrade its drip irrigation and get electricity to the site, so it can build a cold storage facility. The soil needs to be amended with lime, compost and manure to boost production. This will cost approximately $45,000.
The Waterfront Educational Eco-Centre is proposed at Camp Luther on Hatzic Lake. Camp Luther has a long history of running summer children's camps, events and hosting guest groups since 1950.
"We value getting people into the community while enjoying the natural world. Unfortunately, while the facility sees thousands of visitors each year, the property lacks an outdoor sheltered area for people to utilize and take in the nature and its surroundings during poor weather," the submission to the competition says.
The goal of the project is to build an enclosed waterfront educational eco-centre shelter as an important step in educating and promoting wildlife and the environment.
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These are the latest dates for Taunton town centre pedestrianisation
Part of the scheme has been delayed while safety concerns are considered
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Pedestrianisation in East Street in Taunton is expected to be delayed following safety objections (Image: Laura Linham)
Efforts to pedestrianise Taunton's town centre have hit a further snag.
Taunton Deane Borough Council has been working with Somerset County Council to remove traffic from St James Street, Hammet Street and East Street, in a bid to make the town centre safer for pedestrians and cyclists and more attractive to visitors.
The closure of a small section of St James Street will go ahead in early-2019, pending the completion of planned roadworks in the area.
But work on Hammet Street and East Street has been pushed back after the county council objected on safety grounds.
Taunton Deane deputy leader Mark Edwards confirmed the state of affairs at a full council meeting in Taunton on Tuesday (December 11).
He said: "Phase one, covering the permanent closure of St James Street between North Street and Lower Middle Street, will begin in the new year.
"Phase two, which will see an 18-month trial closure of Hammet Street and East Street to all vehicles except buses and cyclists, will follow."
A former swimming pool in St James Street was demolished recently (Image: Google Maps)
Martin Pakes, who lives in the Coal Orchard area of town, said the closure of this section of St James Street would "divert traffic along some pretty circuitous routes".
He added: "The traders have had a pretty tough time with the demolition and are likely to have a tough time next year. Surely this is not the time for an experiment like this?"
Resident Roger House asked the council to go further, stating: "I welcome the proposed traffic restrictions to St James' Street, but is also time to close North Street - for a properly pedestrian town centre.
"North Street is a natural point to bring tourists. The cost would be less than the East Street proposals. Even with lower levels of economic trade in the future, we could still capture coach traffic if we're quick."
Feedback on the St James Street proposals can be registered on the county council's website - www.somerset.gov.uk - until December 31.
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Councillor Richard Parrish, portfolio holder for planning policy and transport strategy, confirmed the closure would be implemented early in the new year if feedback was positive.
He said: "Should it pass we will be looking to implement the closure from late-January or early-February next year.
"This is subject to discussions with the county council as there are roadworks planned on East Reach and Bridge Street in the new year, so an exact date is yet to be fixed."
Mr Parrish said implementing the trial on Hammet Street and East Street at the same time was "not achievable" because of concerns raised in a county council "safety audit".
He elaborated in his written report: "Hammet Street will be put back to August or September 2019, along with East Street.
"Both streets will be subject to further public consultation, which is scheduled for May 2019."
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Half dozen medical colleges in Tamil Nadu lose MCI recognition
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The past few years have witnessed a soaring rise in the demand for medical seats in Tamil Nadu. Students are vying unyieldingly over availability of medical seats with every possible means to secure their position in any medical college. This crisis of medical seats has been efficaciously utilized by new medical colleges propping up in several parts of the state. As a result the state has witnessed an exponential growth in the number of colleges which has helped to increase the state's capabilities of providing education to medical aspirants.
While increasing the number of medical seats in the state, it seems as if the government as well as the regulatory bodies have missed some obvious flaws and defects in the constitution of the state's medical education framework. Amidst complains of sub-standard education being provided to the medical students in many colleges and production of inefficient medical graduates, as many as 6 medical colleges in Tamil Nadu have lost their affiliation to Medical Council of India (MCI).
MCI has withdrawn their previous recognition of many colleges besides completely refusing recognizing the other colleges to be under their flagship. As a matter of fact, none of the tainted colleges have so far been able to overturn the decision of MCI as they filed lawsuits in the Madras High Court. This will reduce the state's tally of medical seats by an astounding 700 students or even more.
The ironic part of the story is that the Supreme Court had earlier set 15th July as the deadline for granting MCI recognition which in fact has already gone by. "With the Madras High Court lacking sedulousness in its actions, the said colleges have no other option but to forget about this year's academic session unless the Supreme Court relaxes or extends the deadline for their sake. Even MCI is helpless in this case as it lies under the sole jurisdiction of the Supreme Court," said a senior advocate of the High Court.
The tainted college's list which were refused renewal include Melmaruvathur Adhiparasakthi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research; Madha Medical College and Hospital; Tagore Medical College and Hospital; Shri Sathya Sai Medical College and Research Institute; and Sri Devi Kurumariammam Educational Trust. All the aforesaid colleges were vying to get renewal or new recognitions for themselves to induct 150 students each respectively.
This list is incomplete without Asan Dental College and Hospital of Chennai and Mookambiga Dental College and Hospital in Kanyakumari District which have been refused recognition by the Dental Council of India to admit 100 students each in the current academic year. Moreover, Mahatma Gandhi medical college and research institute has been disallowed from increasing its intake of 150 students to 250 students in this academic session.
Interestingly, Adhiparasakthi Institute and Sathya Sai Medical College featured in a CBI case following which they were subsequently derecognized BY the MCI. In retaliation, the college authorities challenged the order in the High Court. The matter now lies at the disposal of MCI's ethics committee.
The colleges are usually successful in getting interim stay orders in such complicated cases after which they start admitting students. But to their frustration, this has not happened due to the High Court's defiant stand. Time is surely running out for the colleges and this academic session seems to be a sordid one for these colleges.
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Which KUB customers are included in first phase of broadband plan
by: Blake Stevens
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The new year may include new, faster internet service for many Knoxville Utilities Board customers.
KUB crews have started work on the first phase of the board's major planned upgrade to their network. That plan, approved by city leaders earlier this year, includes improvements to their grid as well as running hundreds of miles of broadband fiber to their more than 210,000 electric customers.
Some of those customers could begin using KUB's broadband service as soon as fall 2022.
Phase one will include between 30,000-45,000 customers. Jay Miller, marketing manager for KUB, said it will include a large portion of East Knoxville, Park City, stretches of Magnolia Avenue and Riverside Drive, then further north in Inskip, as well as northwest portions of the city and county, and parts of Union and Grainger counties.
"Some people are what we call underserved," Miller said. "They just don't have the speeds necessary, that we believe, they need to work from home or school from home."
Tennessee receiving $163 million from USDA to improve rural infrastructure
The first phase is set to be completed by fall 2023. However, the more than $700 million dollar investment is set to take eight years to complete.
KUB pledges those who sign up will see an upload and download speed of 1 gigabit per second, no data caps, and local customer support for $65 a month. When it comes to people working from home, dealing with data or large files, Miller noted their symmetrical broadband will take seconds to download the critical files.
KUB's long-term plan includes offering TV and phone service for fiber internet customers. The utility will also be hiring as their broadband plan continues. They're holding a job fair Jan 13-14 at Pellissippi State Community College's Magnolia Avenue campus. To register, go to kub.org/community-job-fair.