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During the anemic Carter administration, Crag Hill kicked the "i" out of his first name. Continuing to be underwhelmed by his elected leaders, he threatens to kick out the last vowel, too soft, too soft, he says. Until recently he edited SCORE, one of the few journals dedicated exclusively to concrete/visual poetry. His creative and critical works in progress can be found at Crg Hill's Poetry Scorecard. He teaches future teachers of English at Washington State University.
New York poet Douglas Rothschild's book Theogeny is out this year from Subpress Books. Says poet Anselm Berrigan: "This is a book of tremendous clarity, and I'm grateful for its existence." Pierre Joris has called it "My favorite book of poems for 2009 so far." Douglas Rothschild's life has been one long miasma of failure, disappointment, coffee, & overarching desire. Though he has not yet accomplished anything of note, Mr. Rothschild intends to continue on for some time yet.
Hear distant shouts, the indefensible cries of a shipwreck. The arguments twisted her arm. She fought him off. I think that one shouted in silence again, lifted her off the air for an instant with her pathology or developmental space. The bad news brought mountains. One part of him grew directly contrary to observations. He imagined himself (it was all he could afford).


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"The Secrets to J Dilla's Production Style Revealed in a Fantastic New Video" (AFH archive)
First published at Ambrosia for Heads, 6 December 2017 read the article on the AFH site
For anyone wanting to understand why Detroit producer J Dilla is so revered more than one decade after his untimely death, a new video by journalist Estelle Caswell in the Vox "Earworm" series offers the perfect starting-point. This mini-documentary takes a close look at Dilla's radical re-invention of drums, his passion for "low-end texture" and his highly creative, even eccentric interest in extending sounds. The Slum Village and JayLib member did it with some hardware.
The machine in question is Dilla's Akai MPC 3000, currently on display in the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Not unlike Jimi Hendrix's guitar, or John Coltrane's saxophone, Dilla's MPC 3000 was an "extension of his self," Caswell argues and a key to understanding his rare gift as an artist.
The first MPC (beginning with the 60 model) was released in 1988. It is, as Caswell notes a "holding station for all kinds of samples" with 16 touch-sensitive pads and able to take the role of the "musical brain of the studio." But even though the idea of creating music from pre-recorded sounds goes back to the 1930s, Akai's MPC ushered in a new era because of its portability and price.
"The MPC was a different beast because it really put you in the driver's seat in terms of the sonic texture that you want it to have," Brian "Raydar" Ellis, MC/producer and professor at Berklee College of Music explains in the video. Unlike previous drum machines, the MPC is "a fully customizable machine" allowing producers to manipulate sounds to fit their preferences.
By the mid-'90s, the MPC 3000 was an instrument of choice of the era's top producers, such as Pete Rock, Dr. Dre and Q-Tip. And of course, J Dilla was also on that list.
One of the best parts of the video is The Roots' Questlove doing a demo at a drum-kit. First, he does a traditional drum-pattern, but then he twists it into something more Dilla-esque, where drums typically sound as if "the kick-drum was played by a drunk three-year-old." Questlove recalls how when he first heard Dilla drums, he wondered, "Are you allowed to do that?" But then adds, "That to me was the most liberating moment."
Whereas many of Dilla's contemporaries quantized their beats to make the drum sounds follow a perfect pattern, Dilla preferred to switch off this feature. In doing so, he created "a discography full of incredibly off-kilter drums." But this was only part of it. Dilla was also known for his "signature low-end texture" which came from cutting all high-end frequencies of the sample: see here, the drums in The Pharcyde's "Runnin'" from 1995's Labcabincalifornia.
Caswell also spends time unpacking Dilla's interest in extending sounds, see "Don't Cry" from 2006's seminal Donuts instrumental LP released on his birthday three days before his death. "Instead of chopping to the melody," she begins, "He chopped up a handful of kicks and snares from the entire song regardless of the melody on top of it and like little puzzle pieces he re-sequenced these kicks and snares to an entirely new, dream-like song."
Elsewhere in the video, Caswell sums up the extraordinary talent of the quintessential Detroit beat-maker this way: "[J Dilla] internalized every possible technique in Hip-Hop and expanded upon it." And he did this "with an intense love and curiosity about sounds and a lot of patience."
In the end, this video is not just for music-nerds wanting to learn more of the intricacy of what makes Hip-Hop production such a special beast, though they will surely like it too, but for anyone interested in learning what made J Dilla unique.
Tags: J Dilla, Detroit, Music, Producers, Instrumentals, 21stC
"I'm my own competition," an interview with Black Milk, following the release of FEVER
November 16, 2018 in Hip-Hop
First published at Passion of the Weiss, April 5 2018
Rather than stay wedded to the early-career production style that made his name furnishing beats for Slum Village and other Detroit artists (Royce da 5'9, Danny Brown, Elzhi) and provided the soundtracks for his solo albums from the mid-2000s on, Black Milk has always preferred the more adventurous route.
His 2014 EP, Glitches in the Break, for instance, sounded like little else he'd done to up until that point: deconstructed, driven by bass-lines and disembodied vocal samples, with each track offering sharp contrast to the next. Accordingly, the impressionistic portrait of hometown Detroit, that same year's If There's a Hell Below…, similarly marked a new direction.
In the four years since, Black Milk has been pretty quiet, aside from his near-constant touring with his live band, Nat Turner and the group's 2015 release, The Rebellion Sessions. After an extended period living in Texas, Black Milk is now based in Los Angeles, where he recorded his most recent LP, FEVER, along with additional sessions featuring local musicians back in Detroit.
Many of Black Milk's core lyrical interests return on FEVER, with the MC expressing concern about the way social media dehumanizes and distorts relationships ("Laugh Now, Cry Later"), schools churning out ill-educated fools ("True Lies"), racism and police violence ("Drown"); but FEVER never dips into the raw, more experimental style of past releases, preferring instead to play with a late '70s jazz-funk sound, which imbues the album with an air of chic refinement and definite cool.
Related article: Interview with Black Milk on his "If There's A Hell Below …" album (published 4 July, 2015)
Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Detroit, USA, Black Milk, Producers, 21stC
'Nocturne'/Nocturnes, Yusef Lateef (Suite 16, Atlantic Records, 1970 & Nocturnes, Atlantic, 1989)
Nocturne, Suite 16 (Atlantic Records, 1970)
Flute, Flute [Pneumatic Bamboo], Flute [Bamboo], Saxophone [Tenor], Saxophone [Soprano], Oboe, Bells, Tambourine – Yusef Lateef with Chuck Rainey, Bass; Jimmy Johnson, Drums; Neal Boyar, Vibraphone.
Nocturnes, Atlantic, 1989
Personnel: Yusef Lateef: Flute, Alto Flute, Tenor Sax, Piano, Christopher Salvo: Clarinet, Hugh Schick: Flugelhorn, Patrick Tucker: French Horn
'Nocturne' (1970) from Suite 16 - wistful turning to bombast, almost military-style, just after 1'13" funk/electronic elements. Nocturnes (1989) an album that has been celebrated as mood music, but I find disturbing in the best possible way. This music offers a sense of depth, of spatial dimensions where sounds indicate both what is heard and suggested, creating a nimbus-effect transposed into music, an impression of a deep background. This captures the essential, defining quality of jazz (even though Lateef rejected that term, see below) of longing, reaching out, desire distilled, at times.
Remembering Yusef Lateef (born Chattanooga, TN 10/09/20, died Shutesbury, MA 12/23/13). Music for the new year.
Here is the AllMusic review, I found nothing else on the album, the author isn't named:
'Yusef Lateef has always sought to extend the boundaries of musical expression. Continuing his quest for new vistas in jazz, Yusef Lateef's 1989 release Nocturnes is a subtle, even brooding, musical project that uses sound colors and stark musical landscapes to create, above all else, a sense of darkness and nighttime. This music is largely programmatic. In fact, Nocturnes is probably best summed up as a modern tone poem. The writing is gloomy and ominous, dissonant and angular. Yet, each track retains a distinctly gentle and placid disposition. Trumpeter Hugh Schick plays with a rich, full bodied and legato approach throughout and Lateef's own flute playing is often quite heartrending as he soliloquizes over his own piano and keyboard playing.
Nocturnes is a perfect CD for late nights or dreary afternoons, Lateef and crew challenge our ears to enter into a world that is at once desolate and austere, yet pretty and serene. In short, this is mood music at its best. Highlights include 'Compassion Duration' and 'Warm Intensity.'
To mark the passing of Yusef Lateef, the New York radio station WKCR played his music for 33 hours non-stop from the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2014.
"JazzWax: What do you remember most about your childhood?
Yusef Lateef: My passion for nature. I was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1920. Two years later my family moved to Lorain, Ohio. Then in 1925 we moved again, to Detroit, where my father took a job in a bedspring factory. I was an only child, so I spent many hours by myself. Growing up alone made me more sensitive and more aware of nature—butterflies, the sky and trees. I was actually entertained by flowers and grasshoppers and ants. They drew my attention. At the time I didn't' realize that those things were the phenomenon of creation. I still marvel at nature. "
Interview with Marc Myers, JazzWax 2008
Interview with NPR, John Rogers:
'(Lateef) was guided by a desire to develop his own brand of "autophysiopsychic" music — he disdained the term "jazz," and saw his own art guided by physical, mental and spiritual realms — as well as his devout Muslim faith.'
Yusef Lateef and Adam Rudolph interview, LA Weekly, 12/18/03, by Greg Burk
'Rudolph: Low sounds carry more overtones, so high is embedded in low, in a way that low is not embedded in high. Like a drum especially, you strike it and there are very complex overtones — that's what gives it its character and its richness. So inside of that are all the other tones. But it's also tension and release — so you control the low, and that controls the motion. Low to high is tension, and high to low is release. In Middle Eastern music they have a concept called usala, and that's how they structure their rhythm. Also, Yusef and I were talking about Michio Kaku, the theoretical physicist — he wrote this book Hyperspace. He postulated 11 dimensions that could exist, and as you get into the higher dimensions, the laws of physics become simpler and simpler. So rather than thinking about a stylistic milieu, we look at music in the higher dimensions — it becomes simpler and simpler.
What has made you evolve?
Lateef: It was my nature.
Who were examples to you?
Lateef: Uptown from where I lived as a youth was Lucky Thompson. He wanted a saxophone, but he couldn't afford one. So he got a broomstick and carved notches on it, and practiced on the broomstick until he got a saxophone. John Coltrane, every time he'd come to Detroit, we would get together and study. And he was always looking for what he didn't know. He always asked me, "What have you been following?" And I asked him the same question. He said, "I found the secondary dominants" [the fifth degree above a note other than the tonic], which were in Europe years ago, but no one had used them in improvisational music, and John told me he knew his secondary dominants backwards.
What moved you away from the blues and toward avant-garde and classical music?
Lateef: I think the basis of it is the moments that I spent sitting in the library in Detroit, and taking classes at Wayne State University in classical music, finding out what it involves — Mozart, Beethoven, and the Russian composers, Borodin et cetera. And I realized that to be a musician, there's much territory to look into. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies — I'd like to write nine, too. I've written one symphony, I've got eight more to go.
Both of you have spent considerable time in Africa. How has that changed your attitude?
Lateef: It's more compassionate. You see somebody who needs help, you got to help.
What attracted you to Islam?
Lateef: There was a mosque in Chicago, and I went and got some literature. It said through prayer and deeds one's natural tendencies are directed to the proper channels. The only virtue is in your actions — that's what Islam teaches. And it spoke about respect of parents and of neighbors, and I already believed those things from my Christian upbringing. I joined Dizzy Gillespie in Chicago, and when we got to New York, a mosque was there, near Art Blakey's house. I started going to the meetings, and I said, "I better try this." I thought I ought to change my name, and the reason I did was because Lateef means gentle and amiable, and Yusef means Joseph after the prophet Joseph. And Abdul Lateef means a servant of the gentle and amiable, a servant of God — that's one of God's attributes, gentle and amiable. And I said, "That's something for me to try to live up to."
Is nature an inspiration?
Lateef: Nature is a prototype for painters, for musicians, for writers. We didn't create that, it's beyond us. We observe it, and I think when we reflect on nature, it gives us ideas how to synthesize whatever we're doing. It's a great teacher. It's reflections of the higher power. And we're part of nature ourselves. This is something I believe: When we observe something that's beautiful, it's not the thing that creates the beauty. The force that created that beauty is really what's attracting us. So that means a thing of beauty comes in pairs. There's the thing itself, and there's the thing that makes it.
Rudolph: That's why I feel music is about something greater than music itself. Music is just a medium through which something is passing. It's all ultimately in service of something else.'
Tags: Yusef Lateef, Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Art Blakey, Detroit, Chicago, Jazz, USA, Music, 70s, 80s
In praise of: 'Terrorist Threats' Ab-Soul, feat. Danny Brown, Jhené Aiko (Control System, Top Dawg Entertainment, 2012)
The song itself is popular - almost 20-million views and the first result when you put Ab-Soul's name in a search engine; this is where the irony begins. Two wealthy, successful rappers in branded clothes, with money to burn (even if it is done ever so carefully, so delicately) giving voice to the marginalised.
Personally, I think this is one of the best political songs in recent hip-hop for two reasons. First, for many of the ideas conveyed. The way the lyrics, delivery, mood and music coalesce, allowing space for interpretation even if some of the lyrics are so clean and direct and memorable – catchy even. Some of the words could be used as slogans, worn on a T-shirt, or unfurled on a banner, held high above people's heads:
"Peep the concept
You've got progress, you've got congress
We protest in hopes they confess
Just proceed on your conquest
I ain't got no gavel, I ain't finna fight nobody battle
I just wanna be free, I ain't finna be nobody's chattel"
And second for the way, Danny Brown's verse conveys something of poverty as a felt experience, rather than something abstract, or described as a narrative about someone else in a story that is being told.
In this extract from the Ab-Soul's verse above there is some nice word-play with the repetition of "pro" and "con" ("for" and "against"), some listeners claim this reflects Ab-Soul's belief that this is how the system operates, as a series of mediating and opposing forces. Lyrically Ab-Soul's verses are super-dense, I won't unpick them, as that goes against the spirit of it – for me – to read the track's lyrics and interpretations, go here.
It's also hard to dislike a mainstream hip-hop/rap track that opens with a reference to Selassie, making connections to another radical Black musical/cultural tradition. The hook is great, so concise and powerful: "Wish I could see out of Selassie' eye/Maybe my sovereignty would still be mine/If all the gangs in the world unified/We'd stand a chance against the military tonight."
Maybe there is some kind of connection here with the Mos Def/Massive Attack track from 2003 (and then Bad Brains' track of the same name released back in 1986) even though there is a long, maybe unrecorded history of MCs and producers making such links between the genres.
There's also other stuff going on at the start, with direct references being made to the key sample used by producer Dave Free: Jay-Z's "Ni**a What, Ni**a Who" that originally came out in 1998 (this is the j-version, not sure why, of the same song).
Danny Brown gets a mixed response critically and among hip-hop people, with some turned off by his "insane in the membrane" antics. But his verse here is genuinely affecting, stops you. And for this reason it's political. His words and delivery convey something of how it feels to be poor, the relentless and mundane reality of struggling to get by when you don't have enough money to feed yourself or your children: "Feel my pain, goin' insane, I'm ashamed
'Cause I ain't got shit but an EBT card
From a fiend that owe me and it's in her daughter name
How the fuck is they 'posed to eat?
How the fuck am I 'posed to eat?
Got a nigga in the streets, no health care
Tryna slang weed just to put shoes on his feet
So fuck you! You don't give a fuck about me
Can't get a job if they drug test me
Got a ni**a stressed, depressed
Got a feelin' in his chest
And the world's stripped of happiness
I ain't got no gavel, I ain't tryna fight nobody battle
I just wanna be free, I ain't finna be nobody's shadow."
(I'm not sure if the final word is correct, if it should be "chattel" as before). There's nothing heroic or remotely Romantic about any of this. Nothing noble, it's soul-destroying. That makes this true: "Feel my pain, goin' insane, I'm ashamed."
Tags: USA, Hip-Hop, Politics, Music, 21stC, Ab-Soul, Danny Brown, Mos Def, Yasiin Bey, Jay-Z, Los Angeles, Detroit
Gentleman Ruffin: writing on the 'forgotten' soul legend, David Ruffin
Of course, there are multiple measures of success and recognition, but on the most basic level when thinking about an artist's status - and as someone writing on them as a journalist - it often comes down to how much material there is on them (interviews, reviews, essays, memoirs and the like). How are they talked about, how are they remembered after their deaths.
Here, the former leader of the Temptations David Ruffin is badly served; even if, in this, he is not alone. It's something that unites him with other black musicians (and perhaps others too) who, while famous when alive, after their deaths frequently fall into a kind of intellectual abyss.
And yet despite the relative vacuum with the fans/music aficionados Ruffin isn't really forgotten. Far from it. Remembered certainly with affection by most as the lead singer with The Temptations of some of the most important songs of the 60s, 'My Girl' ...
(I love this video, slowed down, the voices unaccompanied adds to the atmosphere and makes it very moving; likewise, this marvel, 'I wish it would rain' – also in the acapella version that shows off the glorious range of Ruffin's voice alongside its quicksilver character and intensity. This is another nice version of 'My Girl' as well - the original video from 1964).
And he isn't forgotten on this site, either.
Over the past few months my appreciation of Ruffin's David has seen a real bounce and been the most shared individual piece of music-related writing that I've published to date (the essays on Borges and Houellebecq are still out front in terms of the overall content). I noticed that this piece was shared on a British group devoted to all things culturally mod not so long ago: fantastic.
So, in the spirit of keeping memories of this amazing singer alive, here's some new writing on Mr Ruffin; first, a piece on the psychedelic Soul gem, 'I saw you when you met her' (prod. Norman Whitfield) and a celebration of Ruffin's skill as an interpretative artist, comparing his version of '(If loving you is wrong) I don't want to be right' with other notables from his era.
Thanks again to you all; your ongoing support of my work means a lot to me.
Here's an interview with David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks, date unknown, published on a blog where the artists talk about their position in the business and their roles as 'entertainers':
'Neither gentleman has much to say about their reunion stint with The Temptations other than that the experience "was successful to the end of the tour, we enjoyed some of it and then we went our separate ways". David and Eddie spent almost a year on the road with that situation but then, touring has been a constant factor for both men since their early days with The Temps. They still enjoy the chance to travel "except when we have to fly and make stops all over the place. But being able to get out there and perform before the public is still a great opportunity and," says David, "I'm just glad that we can give so many people so much joy through music."
Eddie confesses that when he started out with music as his career, "I thought it would be much easier. But I've weathered the waters," he states candidly. "I never knew that I'd still be doing this so many years later," says David, "but I knew I always wanted to sing." "That's because you couldn't do nothin' else!" Eddie chirps in. "Well, I'm a pretty good cook and I'd have made a good mechanic too!" responds his partner. (…)
Asked what they'd like to achieve in the future, David says that "a starring role in a movie" would be very satisfying. Eddie is a little more philosophical, reflecting that "I've done everything I wanted to do and it's like a 360 degree turn to me now. I can clean up some things, mistakes I've made and I know I won't do them again."
David and Eddie see themselves as "trendsetters rather than followers in this business, we're good singers and we do good music" but when it comes to defining exactly what they see themselves as in relationship to the business, they're not exactly in accord!
"We're singers first, then entertainers," says Eddie.
"Naw, man, we're entertainers, not just singers!" David responds. "There are a lot of 'singers' in the business who shouldn't be in it, frankly. If you want my opinion, they give this business a bad name."
Tags: USA, Music, Soul/R&B, David Ruffin, 60s, 70s, Detroit, Motown
Detroit Project
July 14, 2016 in Hip-Hop
Not so long ago the UK newspaper, The Guardian published a story about an American artist 'bringing a Detroit family home' (to the Netherlands). Unsurprisingly the sarcastic Brits commenting BTL enjoyed the ambiguous headline. What, they asked, the artist had adopted an entire Detroit family and took them home, as if they were pets for Christmas?
No, the artist and newspaper subs were forced to reply (and later change the headline): the artist had moved a 'family home' from Detroit which was then rebuilt in Rotterdam.
When thinking about this so-called 'Detroit project' I thought about this artwork and how deep the association between Detroit, decay, dispossession (what some call 'ruin porn') is now among outsiders and how all other aspects of the living city - and the people who live there - are overlooked in the process.
If I'm honest, when I think of Detroit I have zero visions in my mind. And yet the city intrigues me, mainly because such intractable (musical) genius has emerged there, despite or maybe because of what one of the interviewees here described as 'the struggle'. This idea sustains me.
If I think about the music that matters to me personally - Alice Coltrane, Stevie Wonder (circa 1972-1980) ...
and when I was younger, Patti Smith, The Stooges - everything of real importance musically from the US somehow seems to come from Detroit. Interestingly, this then continued with hip-hop, in that the track that brought me back to the genre was Black Milk's 'Everyday Was' from his landmark 2014 record If there's a hell below ...
When I first heard that piece of music, it was as if air divided in my chest.
First up/featured is the gifted MC Nametag Alexander who burst into my consciousness with one of my preferred hip-hop tracks of the past few years, 'Hookless' (feat Mahd, prod. by Nameless).
Then there's an interview with Detroit record label boss, Jay 'Pauly' Lovejoy from BenOfficial Music; a composite interview - a Detroit mix - between Nappz Julian, Maj James and NateOGDetroit and to finish a very cool conversation with Loe Louis from Detroit's Laswunzout - one of the seminal, pioneering hip-hop acts from the city that soldered the so-called Detroit sound.*
*Been around enough hip-hop journalism/culture to note the competitive edge - it should be noted that none of this is a 'hot picks'/a top-5 (flashing lights, flashing lights) or anything else: my mind doesn't work that way, some of this is friend-related, some of it is related to chance.
Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Detroit, USA

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Ceremonial keel laying event for Canadian Navy's first Joint Support Ship held at Seaspan
David Pugliese • Ottawa Citizen
Jan 16, 2020 • January 16, 2020 • 1 minute read
Artist's rendition of JSS at sea. (Image courtesy Government of Canada)
A ceremonial keel laying event for the first Joint Support Ship was held Thursday at Seaspan's North Vancouver shipyard.
The vessel, to be the future HMCS Protecteur, is scheduled for delivery in 2023.
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"Today's ceremony marks another critical milestone in the renewal of the Royal Canadian Navy Fleet via Canada's National Shipbuilding Strategy," Vice-Admiral Art McDonald, Commander of the Royal Canadian Navy said in a statement.
Seaspan says it will be the largest naval ship by length ever built in Canada.
The keel laying event is seen as a significant milestone in a ship's construction. A newly minted coin is placed near the keel where it will remain for the duration of the ship's life. The coin is said to bring good luck for the builders and all those who sail in the vessel.
Construction of the early blocks of the ship began in June 2018. Currently 16 blocks are complete and another 37 blocks are under construction, according to Seaspan. The first "grand block" was assembled in November 2019. A "grand block" is formed when four large ship blocks comprising more than 160 tons of steel are joined together. Three "grand blocks" are currently assembled.
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The future HMCS Protecteur, will be the first of two joint support ships to be built by Seaspan as part of the National Shipbuilding Strategy. The ships will have a length of 173.7 metres and a breath of 24 metres, according to the company.
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Peer Engagement for Navigating HIV Care
By Contagion&reg Editorial Staff
Conference|Association of Nurses in AIDS Care Conference (ANAC )
Representatives from the AIDS Care Group discuss the racial disparities that exist in the HIV/AIDS care continuum for women of color, as well as how a peer engagement and retention program can help.
Segment Description: Mo Wahome, MPH, co-principal investigator and data manager at the AIDS Care Group, and Allison Byrd, a peer navigator with the AIDS Care Group, discuss the racial disparities that exist in the HIV/AIDS care continuum for women of color, as well as how a peer engagement and retention program can help.
Interview Transcript (modified slightly for readability):
Wahome: Some of the racial disparities that have existed for women of color especially have been housing or lack of stable housing. Some of the women that we have worked with come from low-income communities and so then seeking HIV care, staying in care, becomes not high on the priority list when they have to worry about where they're going to live. Some of them
living in a low-income community, then it means sometimes they live in a food desert, so then access to good food is also a big issue. So that affects their day to day lives and if they take the medication or not, and so that's how they end up falling off the care continuum.
Another thing is transportation. We've had women who have to take 2 or 3 buses to get to clinic. Or if they have competing priorities like low-income jobs, and they have to work more than 1 job, so then making time to go to a medical appointment becomes a challenge.
Some of these challenges have become more apparent to us. And so while we're trying to address these disparities, we have to collect all the information on housing and transportation, whether they have social support or social networks, because that also impacts how they fare in their treatment and accessing care.
We've had a group of women who also come from Africa, and they have different set of challenges with disparities. Having language barriers, not knowing how to navigate the US medical system, changing medication from what they were getting back home to what is now in America, that also plays a role in disparities. And so when we're talking about HIV disparities, it's important to have a deeper understanding of upstream causes, why do disparities exist, and how to better systematically address them instead of just looking at the clinical aspect.
Byrd: That implementation was women of color who have been out of care for over six months, newly diagnosed. Clients who were newly diagnosed, we tried to get them into care, you had to see a case manager, you had to least get 2 doctor visits, try to help as far as getting housing and stuff later on.
We tried to make sure that the clients no matter what got their medical appointments, see the doctor, if they had any mental or any kind of drug abuse, we sent them to some of our offices to meet with our physical therapy people and different things that they really need help with.
For example, for newly diagnosed clients, being scared, especially going to a new doctor. And finding out the doctor is just a doctor, somebody that's not like them dealing with HIV. To have that person that is, that's been living with HIV, to be able to help them and talk with them and show them that it's not the end of the world, "here, I've had HIV for 19 years and look at me," I can't say the same thing will happen with you but to let you know that there is somebody that loves them and cares for them.
Wahome: In addition to the peer navigation part we also administered baseline interviews and follow-up interviews. And so part of the interview was also collecting the data on
the social support networks, barriers to care. When we followed up with them in 3 months and 6 months, then we're able to see if some of these barriers had been addressed or it was still an issue, and so that information also helps guide our clinicians on how to best treat the whole person.
Ann Ferguson, MSN, RN, chief operating officer of AIDS Care Group, and Gwen Verlinghieri, MSN, CRNP, AAHIVS, ACRN, nurse practitioner at AIDS Care Group, share the key findings from a peer engagement and retention intervention to enhance the HIV care continuum among women of color.
Ferguson: So this was a HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) sponsored program that was part of a special projects of national significance initiative. And they were replicating a grant that had been done several years ago. And what we found, we enrolled 80 women of color that had, as Allison said, had been out of care for six months or more, or were newly diagnosed and all had virus when they first came in.
I think we achieved 77% viral suppression within the first three months. We linked a lot of people to care and services, particularly housing and transportation, and got insurance for people when we could, that kind of stuff.
We definitely learned that having a peer on staff who's able to integrate into all aspects of the clinic was really, really helpful. So we're going to keep that program around.
So what we're going to do is integrate Allison into our already established outreach program. We are a fully funded Ryan White AIDS service organization, we get Ryan White parts A, B, C, and D.
And so Gwen, as our lead clinician, with the women, can speak to how keeping Allison on staff as part of our outreach team, helping women navigate their services will be a huge help, particularly for women's health care.
Verlinghieri: If it wasn't for Allison to come with the patients to the visits, they probably wouldn't come. It's real hard to get women to stay in care. And these women are already fragile, with the stigma attached.
Our clinic is fabulous to have Allison on staff come in. So it's a team effort. We're all in the exam room together. They feel comfortable already because they they've met her. She introduces them to me and the rest of the team. And every visit that she comes with them, if they have to go to a specialist we refer, she'll go with them, she'll help them get their appointments, transportation. It's just a continuum of a of a team effort.
Ferguson: She documents the services that she provides in our electronic medical record. She's a part of our case conferences, case management and outreach meeting, so it's really been integrated and we will definitely continue with Allison and down the road probably will hire another peer navigator as well.
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Cross-border agonies: Dhaka's middle-class Hindus lead a dual life
Claudia News January 11, 2016
Photo Credit: Shoaib Daniyal
It is often glossed over that in 1947 there were not one but two partitions, each with its own drivers and outcomes. The partition of the Punjab was brutal, as both sections set upon their minorities and carried out the largest, most efficient ethnic cleansing in modern history. The Punjab batwara has come to typecast Partition, as the word is often represented in India, the capitalisation representing its importance. In India's central narrative, Partition means the western disturbances, from the bitter realism of Saadat Manto to the handpump-ripping rush of Sunny Deol.
The other partition, in Bengal, though, was very different. Unlike Punjab, there was no all-consuming fury. In fact, the year 1947 did not see any large-scale transfers of population in Bengal at all. The partition in the east was a long drawn-out process and, in many ways, it is still continuing. The division led to the creation of a unique community of middle-class Hindus in East Bengal with deep connections, both familial and commercial, in West Bengal. In the age of the nation state, they still somehow straddle two nationalities, balancing a Bengali identity between the twin poles of Bangladesh and India.
Drib-drab migration
In 1947, Bengal was divided as per a scheme whose genesis lay with a Malayali civil servant called VP Menon. The partition had the support of the Congress high command, which saw in it a quick scheme of transfer of power. It was also backed by the Hindu elite in Bengal who held "the hope of restoring their privileges and reasserting their dominance in a new homeland" of West Bengal, given that experiments with democratic rule started in India in 1935 had meant a loss of power for the bhadralok in Muslim-majority united Bengal. Naysayers such as the stalwart Bengali Congressman Sarat Chandra Bose, who opposed this and argued that it was "not a fact that Bengali Hindus unanimously demand partition", were brushed aside by the Congress high command.
The population in Bengal reacted very differently to Partition than in the Punjab. Firstly, the migration from the east to the west took place gradually, rather than in one fell swoop.
Pinaki Bhattacharya, the director of a pharmaceutical company in Bangladesh, a doctor and environmental activist, explains that his paternal uncles started to leave for India in 1956 and the process continued till 1975, which is when his last uncle left along with his paternal grandfather. "Mujibur's Rahman's assassination in 1975 was the last straw for my uncle, who was a member of the ruling party," Bhattacharya said in his home in the upscale neighbourhood of Dhanmondi in Dhaka. "When I asked him later on why he left, he simply said 'bhay pai' (I'm scared)".
Bhattacharya's father, who was a government engineer, didn't leave Bangladesh but all his paternal uncles and aunts did. "I used to go to Kolkata a lot, because there were a lot of relatives there but nowadays when I visit India, I go to Chennai since my favourite cousin lives in the city."
A sense of fear
Historian Joya Chatterji in her excellent work The Spoils of Partition estimates that around 60 lakh Hindus crossed over from East to West Bengal up till 1967. The reverse flow of Muslims during the same period was 15 lakhs.
The reason this wasn't a one-time flash migration like Punjab was the lower degrees of violence seen in Bengal's partition. In fact, outright violence was only one of the reasons that Hindus left East Bengal. In a landmark study carried out in the villages of Nadia district, West Bengal, less than 5% of East Bengali refugees identified actual violence as the cause for migration. The most common reason was harassment by Muslims, which included theft of harvest and livestock to complaints that "the way Muslims talked to Hindus became rough", reflecting the sudden overturning of caste norms.
Even though outright violence was low, East Bengal's post-Partition climate created what Meghna Guhathakurta called a "systemic, pervasive and inevitable sense of fear", pushing middle-class Hindus to migrate. Guhathakurta teaches International Relations at Dhaka University and her own family has mostly left for India. She teared up as she recounted the story of her niece who, in the 1990s during a viva voce exam for a medical degree, was taunted with India's conduct in Kashmir by her examiners, rather than being asked questions on medicine. "Middle-class Hindus really can't make it here as Hindus," she said with resignation. "They are a sieged community."
Land and jobs
After the 1965 Indo-Pakistan War, all migration of East Bengalis into India became illegal. This means that middle-class Hindus, who often leave behind land or white-collar jobs in East Bengal, have had to make a significant sacrifice in order to make the journey. In spite of this, informal arrangements for Hindus coming into West Bengal are fairly smooth. "The CPI(M) and especially Jyoti Basu were always great supporters of East Bengali Hindus," said Guhathakurta. Once refugees reach West Bengal, often with the help of a relative already living there, getting Indian citizenship documents illegally isn't very difficult.
Land was, of course, the main factor tying middle and upper class Hindus to East Bengal. This was shaken up by a law known as the Vested Property Act, promulgated by united Pakistan in 1965. It allowed the authorities to confiscate the land of any person it deemed to be an "enemy of the state". As could be expected, in East Bengal, the law was used almost exclusively against Hindus. A seminal 1997 study by Abdul Barkat, a professor at Dhaka University, found that an overwhelming 40% of Hindus in Bangladesh have had their property confiscated using this law, including the ancestral estates of Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen. Naturally, this law has been a major driver of Hindu migration from East Bengal. Interestingly, India has a near identical law, which was used to target the Muslim elite of north India.
Manosh Chowdhury, anthropology professor at the Jahangirnagar University in Dhaka, says that the Vested Property Act made the financial position of landed Hindus in East Bengal tenuous. "Anyone could accuse you of running away to India if you tried to sell your property, which meant the government could simply confiscate it," Chowdhury explained. "The net result was that Hindus would be in a very weak position to bargain whenever they wanted to enter into a property transaction. And no one wants their children to be in that situation, so everyone looks to buy land in West Bengal instead."
The post-1990 phase
Starting from 1990, political factors in Bangladesh fuelled violence against the poorer classes of Hindus. Hindus were seen as firm supporters (or, to use an Indian term, "vote bank") of the "secular" Awami League, a fact greatly resented by the Islamist Bangladesh Nationalist Party. "1991-'92 was when Hindu migration saw a spike, driven by both the movement to demolish the Babri Masjid in India and the fact that the BNP had taken office," said Sukriti Mondal, journalist and Hindu rights activists. 2001-'02 saw another spurt as the BNP came back into power, with its cadre looking to punish Hindus for voting Awami League.
However, by the time this new wave of violence started in the 1990s, most East Bengali Hindu middle-class had migrated to India. Almost all of Manosh Chowdhury's family, for example, with the exception of his father, had moved to West Bengal. "My father was a respected school teacher, so he had no reason to migrate," said Chowdhury. "But when he retired in 1997, he found that he had almost no relatives left in Bangladesh. So he went to Kolkata just to be with his sister, who had married there as a young woman."
Dual existence
The few middle-class Hindus who remained behind lead a kind of dual existence between two nations, residing in Bangladesh but having most of their extended family in India.
"All my relatives are in India and I'm always dying to visit them," said Meghna Guhathakurta. "So I go crazy for a multiple-entry visa to India, which is very difficult to get."
The close association of Bengali Hindus with India, of course, lays them open to the charge of being Indian sympathisers in Bangladesh – the brutal logic of majoritarianism first alienating a minority and then, paradoxically, blaming the victim for its own predicament. "Hindus are looked at as having divided nationalities," said Pinaki Bhattacharya, shaking his head. "Muslims say we can leave for India anytime, as if it's a voluntary choice we make."
Bhattacharya, however, refuses to migrate. "I will never go to India. I will never like it anywhere else but my desh, country. Friends, family, business, it's all here. How will I implant myself anywhere else?"
Although Sukriti Mondal is an out-and-out supporter of Narendra Modi – he even had a picture of the Indian prime minister doing yoga as his laptop wallpaper – he also makes much the same point about Hindus belonging to Bangladesh. "We are also Bengalis and this is Bangladesh, country of the Bengalis. No Hindu will leave for India anymore and even the ones who migrated need to come back," he said, with enough bravado to show that he really doesn't believe that completely himself.
Modi Wave
Narendra Modi has, for almost the first time since Partition, made the predicament of East Bengali Hindus a topic of discussion in Delhi – and this naturally has had an impact on the community. The issue of Bangladeshi Hindus being able to settle in India, for example, was a part of Modi's 2014 general election campaign. Guhathakurta acknowledges Modi's appeal amongst Bangladeshi Hindus but denies he has had any actual ground impact. "An Indian visa is more difficult to get than an American visa," she said, smiling wryly. "But yes, for a besieged community like ours, it feels nice to have someone in India – which has a lot of influence in Bangladesh – speaking up."
Not everyone is so enthused, though. Pinaki Bhattacharya said, "Modi's politics actually harms Hindus in Bangladesh; makes them even easier to paint as having Indian loyalties. This is not what we need."
Said Manosh Chowdhury, "At the end of the day, we will have to handle our own troubles. India or Modi will only play their own politics. My father had to go to Kolkata but he doesn't like it there, and especially so when people ask him patronisingly about Hindus back in Bangladesh. He once snapped back at a busybody at the Sunday market: 'How are your Muslims doing in Gujarat? How would you feel if I asked you about that?'"
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The last time I saw Derek Prince was at a service at Christ Church, Jerusalem in August 1995. I was there to attend the International Conference of the Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism. That Sunday morning the church was packed with visitors from around the world as is often the case at CMJ's historic church in Jerusalem's Old City.
On a recent trip to Israel, I walked with a friend who serves as a caretaker at the Christian cemetery in Jerusalem to see where Derek Prince is buried and to pay my respects. His books and teaching influenced an entire generation of believers. It is good that they are still available to readers today. His love for the Jewish people and his understanding of their place in God's plan of salvation ran deep in his life and were expressed wonderfully in all his books.
Appointment in Jerusalem was a book which blessed me greatly as a new believer. I recommend you read it on this 40th anniversary of its publication. It is a story out of the Book of Acts as our friend Charles Gardner points out. The book was re-printed in 2005 as a 30th anniversary edition. To order, see http://www.impactchristianbooks.com (and type "Appointment in Jerusalem" in the title search field).
Amidst an increasingly secular Western world where God is assumed to be dead, or a figment of one's imagination, it's time to celebrate a book published 40 years ago.
Appointment in Jerusalem charts the incredible story of a young schoolteacher who had an encounter with Christ every bit as dramatic as the Apostle Paul's and went on to fulfill her destiny in a city she knew nothing about, allowing the Holy Spirit the guide her every step.
Lydia Christensen was in her mid-thirties, living very comfortably in her native Denmark as her local school's head of domestic science. But she was searching for God, whom she couldn't find in her Lutheran surroundings. She even turned down a marriage proposal for fear it would detract from her determined quest to discover whether Jesus was real. And when He appeared to her in a vision, her remarkable journey of faith had begun.
Other visions followed, she began to speak in a language she had never learnt and was soon baptized in the sea by a Pentecostal pastor, sparking much ridicule and scorn from her colleagues and pupils.
It was through a vision of people in Middle Eastern dress that she felt a call to Jerusalem. She gave away her possessions and set off, in 1928, for the 'City of the Great King', as the psalmist describes it (Psalm 48.2). Like Abraham, she didn't know where she was going to stay or how she was going to make ends meet, especially as she had no work permit. She only knew God had called her there. At one point she was down to her last 86 cents and went without food for four days, but it only deepened her trust.
Her first task came as quite a shock. A Jewish man, having heard that she was a kind woman, came to ask her if she would look after his dying baby daughter. Initially protesting her inexperience, she took her in and anointed her with oil as she prayed for her healing in Jesus' name. Tikva (meaning 'hope' in Hebrew) made a remarkable recovery, so much so that her parents wanted her back, by which time Lydia had grown to love her as her own. But she realised she had to offer her up as a sacrifice, as Abraham had done with Isaac, and just as in the biblical narrative, she did receive Tikva back as it turned out her parents were unable to cope.
And when serious riots broke out between Jews and Arabs in 1929, she was forced to run the gauntlet of no-go areas in order to fetch water, which had been cut off by the fighting. When she struggled to get over the barricades with Tikva on her shoulders, suddenly – out of nowhere – a man came to her rescue. When she told her friends what had happened, they were all convinced it must have been an angel!
Others were leaving the city because of the tension, but Lydia believed God was calling her to be a "watchman on the walls" (Isaiah 62.6), praying for the peace of Jerusalem. And in the ensuing years she continued to mother scores of abandoned Jewish and Arab children. She also realized the city held the key to the world's future and that Christians need to do all they can to help Israel.
Perhaps if such calls had been heeded on a wider basis, millions of Jews could have been saved from the Holocaust which was to come.
At the end of World War II, Lydia married Derek Prince, the well-known Bible teacher, and Appointment in Jerusalem was published by Kingsway in 1975 [Chosen Books, in the US] with Lydia Prince as author "as told to her husband Derek". Together, Lydia and Derek adopted and raised nine Jewish and Arab children in Israel. They were saints in our midst and left great blessings in their wake.


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As part of the Term 2 Learning Journey class at Bentleigh Secondary College the students have been volunteering their time at the Highett Bowls Club to help give the building and grounds a little revamp. From weeding to painting and even designing a new alfresco area there's been lots of hard work done.
Our students have loved working with the club's volunteers and gained a real respect for the game and the clubs importance in our local community.
The Highett Bowls Club was opened in 1956 and holds a lifetime of memories. If you're in the neighbourhood drop by and say hi to the wonderful volunteers running the club and enjoy a game or two.


The second Project's meeting took place in the Bruder Grimm Schule in Gottingen – Germany from the 18th to the 22nd February 2013.
The week's work was planned millimetrically by our German partners, which contributed to an unforgettable, intense and productive meeting in all dimensions.
The assignment of a German teacher, as a welcoming host, to each delegation, turned a small yet brilliant idea into a warm, inclusive and decisive welcome to Gottingen and the week's work.
Most of the partner schools introduced new teachers that are working in the Project in their classrooms, fact that diversified our discussions with new perspectives, angles and opinions, enriching the Project and setting out new objectives and goals.
One aspect to enhance is the fact that 75% of our partner schools (6 out of 8) have been represented by their directors or coordinators which revels the importance this Project has assumed in their schools and communities by the thematic it addresses and interactions it provides, not only amongst students and teachers, but also with grandparents, parents and the local community.
The week was superbly organised. Bearing in mind the fact that we took students with us for the first time, it must have constituted a big and new logistics challenge to organizers. Activities in the school were carefully prepared to answer the needs of all students with diversified interests and motivations.
The proposed ateliers have answered to the most required needs and were full of interest, fun and learning opportunities in a very playful and relaxed classroom environment.
Visits and participation in routine class times were also very interesting and well organised.
Most of the normal school activities have been preserved in order to give the visiting students and teachers an experience of the German's school daily routine.
Interaction between partner school's students and local students were enriched by songs from each country. Students felt as part of the same project with the "Tell me how it was in your time, grandfather" Comenius Project song written and played by Moritz and sang by all the school community.
The visit to the school facilities and educational offers, complemented with the explanations given by the director Ines and other teachers, introduced the group to the German Educational System and particularly to Bruder Grimm Schule enriching reality.
The scheduled visits to other educational institutions enriched the knowledge about schooling in Germany, fulfilling one important objective of Comenius Projects.
Foster families have been carefully chosen which provided to our students a home ambience far from home, contributing to a closer interaction with the immigrant community and a better insertion in the week's works and society.
Moments of social interaction between teachers were fulfilled with a cohesion feeling, joy and motivation. The group felt united and turned this moments into cultural "voyages" trough their countries costumes and traditions, letting everyone present flavour the scents of each reality.
One of the week's highlights was the visit and presentation at the Pro-Seniore Residenz, where participants spend a magnificent afternoon with the residents and staff, presenting their countries songs and interacting during the relaxed moment of the afternoon coffee and cake.
The dissemination of the project was not disregard and interviews to a local newspaper were given by the school director and project's coordinator.
Visit to former east/west Germany borders and museum which constituted a time journey to the grandparent's time.
The visit to the nature reserve Heinz Sielmann Foundation in Herbigshagen constituted a very educational experience not only because of the visit to the didactic interactive museum but also trough the farm's visit and the "learn how to do" proposed ateliers.
While students were attending ateliers or classes, teachers gathered together in order to work on the Project methodology, discussing and reflecting about the work and results of the first theme and launching innovative ideas to the next ones.
Over all, participants were happy with the results achieved with the first theme and with the materials produced.
The Skype interactions should contain some presentations prepared by the students like a traditional song or story in order to make them more attractive and pedagogical.
Doubts were explained and discussed namely the moodle platform layout and how to reach the posted information.
New ideas were submitted to the group in order to enrich the project and turn each theme into a more challenging one.
For the second theme was proposed and accepted that each country should compile a traditional/popular story in order to, after being translated to English, elect the best one and publish in the booklet.
All the events of the second meeting went very well and were fruitful. The agenda was very well balanced between moments of intense work, visits and relaxing pauses. The ambience amongst the participants was of a great complicity and the interest and motivation for the Project's works was highlighted by all. The group show cohesion around the main aspects of the Project, namely the materials produced, the activities scheduled to future themes and interactions with the community.
Motivation was a strong factor as participants had a "brain storm" on suggesting new ideas for the Project. This new ideas turned into adopted "sub-projects" within each theme implementing new goals in order to exceed the designed objectives of the Project.
German partners are to be congratulated by the extensive work they went through in organizing a meeting that, I'm sure, we all remember.


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This marks the first of what will be a long-running series of reviews of products sent to me by my pen friend Carmen. She spent some time in Europe this summer, and sent me an envelope packed to the gills with pens when she got back. Thanks so much Carmen!
This Uni-Ball Sign pen was one of the first that caught my eye, mainly because I had never seen a product like this from Uni-Ball before. In fact, I am hard pressed to find any information online at all, including browsing through a half dozen country sites via UniBall.com.
I am very impressed with how Uni-Ball is pushing their Super Ink technology across several different product lines, not just the Signo 207 line. Seeing the Super Ink logo on this type of pen is pretty cool. The other big selling point of this pen is that it is not supposed to bleed through the page. I have to say, I wanted to see some results before I actually believed it, but it performs exactly as promised. I have an extra photo of the back of my Doane Paper page below where you can see there is no bleed, including the area where I scratched out a word on the page.
Did I mention it is eco-friendly as well? It is, with the barrel being made from 88% recycled materials. Never did I think I would find a sign type pen with this much going for it, but the Uni-Ball Sign Pen packs quite a punch. Hopefully we will see these in the States before too long.
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'Never write him off' – Andy Murray's former coach backs the Scot to shine in 2021
Andy Murray's former coach Dani Vallverdu believes the former world No.1 can defy his doubters and make a successful return to the tour in 2021.
Murray struggled to find his form and fitness in a disjointed 2020 campaign that was heavily disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic, yet Vallverdu believes the Scot has the desire and passion to get back to the top.
Vallverdu was working with Murray when he won his first Grand Slam titles at the US Open in 2012 and Wimbledon a year later and he is hoping to see the best of his former charge in the new year.
"It's pretty amazing what he's doing, coming back from the type of injury that he's had," Vallverdu said. "We're all very lucky to still be able to have him around and not only in the locker room but to see him compete.
"As long as he's able to keep himself fit and I wouldn't say pain-free but with not so much pain and physically fit, I wouldn't be surprised if Andy has some very good results next year.
"What they're going to be is difficult to say but I do believe that he if he manages to keep his body fit, he will be competitive against the top guys and in the big events as well. I would never write him off."
Vallverdu has worked with high profile male and female players since his working relationship with Murray came to an end and he suggested a bond between coach and player is the key ingredient for a successful partnership.
"Obviously having a good personal relationship helps, but the base of it is making sure that as a coach I'm getting the best out of the player and I help the player maximise his potential," added Vallverdu.
Australian Open boss defends 'better deal' for the likes of Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams
Big-name players self-isolating in Adelaide.
Rotterdam Open boss reveals delight as 'one of his all-time favourite players' Rafael Nadal joins field
Rafael Nadal will return to Rotterdam.
Roberto Bautista Agut says quotes comparing quarantine to 'jail, but with WiFi' was 'taken out of context'
Roberto Bautista Agut issues an apology.
More coronavirus cases linked to arrivals for Australian Open
Australian Open boss said the safety of the Victorian community will not be compromised.
Big boost for LTA's innovation drive as it signs deal with UK distributor of the Slinger Bag
LTA signs deal with Framework Sports & Marketing Ltd.


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Burke Neurological Institute, formerly Burke Medical Research Institute, was created in 1978 to foster the development of new approaches to cognitive and motor rehabilitation, and has enjoyed a
long-standing synergy with Burke Rehabilitation Hospital
and Weill Cornell Medicine.
The strong tie between Burke Rehabilitation Center and Weill Cornell Medicine has been apparent from the founding of the Burke Rehabilitation Hospital in 1915. Dr. Lewis A. Conner, a founding member of the medical college, urged his patient and friend, John Masterson Burke, to establish the Winifred Burke Relief Foundation. Dr. Conner, who served as president of the Burke Foundation and medical director of the Burke Rehabilitation Hospital had a strong interest in applying laboratory findings and clinical research to advance medical treatments.
World-Class Research for Rehabilitation Medicine
In the early 1970's, Dr. Fletcher McDowell became the director of the Burke Rehabilitation Center. Dr. McDowell was an associate dean at Weill Cornell Medicine and an expert in stroke and Parkinson's disease. Dr. McDowell understood the importance of world-class research for rehabilitation medicine and for training future leaders.
Fletcher McDowell, M.D., established Burke Neurological Institute, formerly Burke Medical Research Institute, in 1978 as one of the nation's preeminent, independent research organizations focused on furthering scientific research in the area of rehabilitation for neurological disabilities induced by stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. His decades of service led to the pioneering of novel rehabilitation therapies and development of innovative clinical programs and clinics.
Burke Neurological Institute & Weill Cornell Medicine
Dr. McDowell also established a close connection to the Department of Neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine, which was and still is among the best departments in the world. This tie was critical for recruiting outstanding scientists/physicians to Burke and for providing the intellectual enrichment necessary to maintain quality faculty at Burke. The Burke/Cornell relationship has laid the groundwork for the creation of an outstanding research/training program oriented toward patient rehabilitation.
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The "Two Version" Miami Marlins strike again
For one third of the MLB clubs this season, it's going to be easy to identify what were 2012 jerseys in the years ahead. 10 of the 30 teams are wearing commemorative patches including the newly named Miami Marlins, and as usual when it comes to jersey patches, the now 20-year old Marlins are in a league of their own.
Debuting snazzy Marlins Park is certainly reason enough to celebrate with a jersey patch in the current era of MLB marketing, but as is their history, the Marlins have two versions; an orange background for home jerseys and the black alternate, and a black background for the road jerseys and orange alternate.
When the then Florida Marlins became the first team to wear a World Series champions patch in 2004 for winning the title over the Yankees the previous fall, no…they weren't content with one patch style, they had to have two; both white and gray versions for home/away jerseys.
Back in 1997 when all (then) 28 clubs wore the Jackie Robinson commemorative patch honoring the 50th anniversary of trailblazing Brooklyn Dodgers' MLB debut, while it was understandable there was a French version for the Expos, and the adding of the Dodgers name on top of the version they wore that season, it was the Marlins who insisted on a customized Robinson patch that incorporated their team colors, better to match the teal and black with orange trim.
(Side note: the Florida Marlins wore the Robinson patch in the 1997 World Series against the Cleveland Indians, instead of a World Series patch.)


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