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Name: Nellie
Background: Nellie has two sons aged 5 and 2 with her partner. She lives in a large city and comes from an Anglo-Australian background.
About Nellie
Following the birth of her first baby Nellie experienced severe breastfeeding problems. Together with sleep issues and lack of support Nellie suspects she was at risk of getting postnatal depression. Fortunately things were resolved, and her experience with her second child has been easier.
Read excerpts from Nellie's interview
> Labour and birth experiences - Nellie described feeling like a 'failure' and out of control during her labour and birth after being induced because her son was overdue
The baby was 13 days overdue and I remember feeling really disappointed that I had gone - you think the baby might be a few days' overdue but you're still going to be able to have this great birth that you had in your mind. But anyway, I ended up getting it induced and I felt before the induction I felt really like a bit of a failure that my body hadn't done it. But at the same time my sister-in-law rang me - my sister-in-law who'd had these two perfect births and who was pregnant as well and due, you know, around the same time as me with her third. So, you know, was probably going to have another perfect birth, rang me and she said "Don't worry. No matter what happens tomorrow, at the end of the day you will have this beautiful baby in your arms". And even though she had the perfect birth, her saying that made me feel a whole lot better about the birth. It was pretty yucky. Like, just ended up having the Syntocinon and injection and stuff so I just felt out of control during the whole birth.
> Experiences of health and allied health professionals during labour and birth - When Nellie's first baby was overdue she resisted a caesarean but had to be induced. One midwife who attended her labour was 'officious' while the other was 'lovely'
I went through the hospital and I had midwife-based care. I didn't understand with the first one that midwife-based care meant you still have an obstetrician-led delivery. So everything with my son in the antenatal care was really great, really supportive until the point when I started to go post-dates and they were really pushing - I started to get very actively pushed towards caesarean. They were saying, "You're just going to have to have a caesarean, you're just going to have to have a caesarean". And I'm quite stubborn. So I really wanted to - I didn't consent to having a caesarean before I went into labour which I feel is what they were trying to push me at. And I was at a public hospital so I was surprised by that.
I had the induction so I had this nurse who was so happy to put that needle in my hand and then push the button really high for the induction and she spent the whole time there. And she just kept pushing it harder and harder so there's no gap between the contractions and it was really awful. And then the shift changed about four hours before [my son] was born. And then the midwife came in and said, "There's no need for this, we'll just turn it down; everything's progressing okay. It's alright".
So I just have this memory of this officious nurse who was just so happy to push the button. And it just made me feel - 'I hate you, I hate everything about this'. But then I had this lovely midwife later. So even though it was an instrumental birth, I had to have the ventouse and episiotomy in the end which I think is all related to that cascade of interventions. By the time he came it was fine and she was really lovely in terms of letting him stay on my tummy for a while, doing all that attachment-centred approach to meeting the baby and things so that was really good.
> Caring for a baby - feeding and sleeping - Nellie's experience at sleep school with her first baby led to her accepting she had a 'wakeful' baby, and deciding she needed to find a way of parenting that fitted with her 'personality and values'
There was a point [oldest son's] sleep got really bad at four months and I booked in for sleep school. But in the interim then my friend's child who was 2½ died and her funeral was the day before I went to sleep school. And so I went to the funeral and the next day I was at sleep school and they don't do controlled crying but you leave your baby to cry for a long period of time. Because he never cried much except when I was trying to do sleep training. I found that really distressing. They say, "Oh you just leave him for 10 minutes and then you go back in". And I just couldn't - I know other people can do it but I found it personally incredibly difficult.
And I couldn't do it. So in the end after about an hour-and-a-half of my poor little baby screaming his head off, just wanting to be fed to sleep, I picked him up and I fed him and he fell straight asleep. And the routine that we had - we had a sort of routine by that point. And a structure to the day. The sleep school totally disrupted it. It didn't actually get us any further and when I was sitting there after I'd failed to get him to sleep in sleep school strategy - so when I'd failed to do these sort of normative things I just did the thing that felt right for me.
So I guess I've been thinking a lot about this need to find an authentic way of parenting which is a way of parenting that resonates with your personality and your values. And for some people that is using crying techniques and for other people it's not. And for me, it just wasn't. [Just] because the Maternal Child Health nurse tells us and all the people in my mums' group are following Save our Sleep which is what the big thing was at that time.
So I finally picked him up and I fed him and he fell asleep in about two seconds. And I just was sitting there in this sort of institution room with the baby asleep on my lap and it was quiet. And I just was reflecting and thinking, 'There are so many worse things in life than a baby that doesn't sleep very well'. And it wasn't that he was difficult to get to sleep. He just woke a lot and would want a little - a comfort feed or a proper feed and then would just go straight back to sleep.
And at that point I just totally made peace with the fact that I've got a wakeful baby but he's healthy and he's alive. And I'd just seen this like a year of agony that my friend had been through with - constantly with hopes and then ultimately losing the baby and completely devastated. And I just decided that this is not so bad, this is what's happening.
And I think that was really at the point when I think all that maternal identity stuff came together for me. I think it was at that point when I just sat there and I thought, 'Well, obviously my parenting involves different things to what the Maternal Child Health nurse is telling'. And I found that at that point the whole parenting experience got a lot easier.
So anyway now when I talk to people who are having babies, I just say I really think that the biggest challenge of the early parenting is not related to the baby. That's physically demanding but I think the emotional stuff is all around identity. And then I noticed with my second baby, I think I'd dealt with all that identity stuff. And so nothing was such a problem.
> Experiences of paid work and childcare - Nellie described her employer's expectation that she was 'always available', even on days she wasn't working. She felt guilty towards both her job and her children
But I think work being a huge determinant of it. Just that each time - after I had [oldest son's name] I had people wanting stuff from me. With [youngest son's name] I was getting emails demanding me to do work when he was like five or six weeks old. So what would happen next time? No. Technically on leave but still expectations about performance and production and stuff. So I think that decision about when the family is finished is also a tricky one. And the idea of being 'behind' is just stupid. I think it's something that I constantly struggle with. So I got this grant and I had some career coaching as part of it. And one of the really great things from that was about being okay about valuing my values and around family and trying to develop strategies to resist those pressures.
I find the guilt for me is that I'm technically part-time but I get emails all day every day and phone calls and text messages whether it's a work day or not a work day. So I guess that pressure - I'm constantly - I feel like I'm not working enough and then when I get messages when I'm home with my children, I find that colleagues or students don't respect my non-work days. They expect me to respect it for them, especially the male colleagues who I collaborate with and stuff. But they don't respect that for me. And I find that really difficult. You know, if they're not at work, they're not at work. Whereas if I'm not at work it's seen as something that's somehow negotiable.
I think there's an expectation about always of being available. I think smartphones don't help at all. And I think in academia [...] it's all about the career and that it's - and also this idea that it's not actually about the money whereas seriously, part of the reason why you work is for financial security. You might get - it might be personally rewarding but a lot of it's about the money. And if I'm not paid - given the importance of that economic imperative behind work, then I think that that makes them contacting me on those non-working days even more shitty. It still doesn't take away the guilt though. That I'm not doing the job properly even though I am doing my job properly. I was working until three o'clock this morning. And then that I'm not - because I'm answering emails or text messages, I'm not doing my parenting job properly. And it's like it can only be a lose/lose situation. Nobody's going to win except for the organisation that you work for and I think that's shit.
> Experiences of depression and anxiety before becoming a parent - Nellie's partner began 'self-medicating' to deal with difficult emotions and memories triggered by her pregnancy
Before that I'd been fairly ambivalent about the whole idea of having children. But all of a sudden I just had this urge and so my partner and I talked about it a lot and he was quite anxious about the whole idea of having a baby because in 2000 he'd had a child with a previous partner and it was an unplanned pregnancy in that he wasn't aware that no contraception was being used.
And that whole pregnancy had been very fraught in terms of the relationship and it basically culminated in their baby being born with a chromosomal abnormality and he lived three days and died. And my partner ended up feeling really fucked up. Sorry, but yeah he ended up really having lots of alcohol and drug issues as a result of just trying to self-medicate for the trauma. So it really had a profound negative impact on him.
So then when I wanted to have a baby, he liked that idea but it was really tempered by this previous experience of the baby dying of Trisomy 18. And it had been a really awful experience because he was delivered and they had no idea that anything was wrong with the baby. Yeah, just really, really awful.
So that was sort of the background to the decision to have our first baby. And then, at about the 12-week scan with my eldest everything was fine and it came back like 1:52,000 that the baby would have Trisomy 18 which is a particular type of abnormality that his first son had. So that alleviated a lot of my partner's stress. But then as we got closer to having our son, so from the time when I was about seven months pregnant, he started to get a bit stressed at work and one of the guys he was working with was a bit of a party animal and a bit of a dickhead.
So my partner started hanging out with him and he'd be drinking all night and then going out partying all night and not answer his phone. And I think it was just him trying to deal with his - in hindsight, five years' later, him trying to deal with his anxiety. But at the time it was profoundly distressing and I was thinking, 'Oh my God, I'm at the point where this baby is going to be born. Like it's not a point where I can say, oh, the relationship's terrible and I could have a termination'. I know that sounds terrible but it was also at a point where I felt that his behaviour wasn't enough - I was too pregnant to make a decision, a sound decision about leaving or anything. So, anyway, he kept doing this and to the point, like, two weeks before my due date, he did the same thing. So he was doing it like every two weeks; staying out until nine o'clock in the morning getting totally off his head. But then when it came to the time of the birth, he was a real trooper and he got it together for the few weeks around the birth and that was really great.
And I really think that part of what was going on for him was just they had lots of backpackers working with them who were living this sort of itinerant back packer lifestyle and he's having this massive life change about to have a baby and all of this stuff. Anyway, he got it together for the birth and he was quite excited by the time the due date came around.
More about Nellie
Nellie was initially ambivalent about having children, however she decided she wanted a baby after being with her partner for two years. Nellie's partner was anxious about starting a family, as several years earlier in a prior relationship he had a baby who was born with a chromosomal abnormality (Trisomy 18) and died after three days. Nellie's partner developed drug and alcohol issues as a result of the trauma.
Nellie and her partner conceived, and the first scan revealed their baby was not at a risk of developing Trisomy 18. This alleviated much of her partner's stress. However, when Nellie was about seven months pregnant, he began regularly going out drinking all night. Nellie believes he was trying to deal with his anxiety about the impending birth. This was 'profoundly distressing' for her. However when it came time for the birth, she said her partner was a 'real trooper' and very supportive.
Nellie felt 'disappointed' she had to be induced, due to her baby being overdue, and 'a bit of a failure' that she hadn't gone into labour spontaneously. She felt out of control during the birth, and had a vacuum-assisted delivery and an episiotomy. However, Nellie said holding her baby for the first time was 'the most magic moment' of her life.
Nellie felt 'socially unsupported' in the early months of parenthood by some of her friends and family members. However, she said she was 'lucky' to enjoy supportive relationships with a neighbour and a few women in her mothers' group.
Nellie was determined to breastfeed, however she experienced recurring mastitis that led to an abscess when her baby was five weeks. Despite having the abscess drained twice and taking multiple courses of antibiotics, Nellie was feeling 'sicker and sicker', and developed nipple thrush and vasospasm. She felt undermined by health professionals suggesting she wean, and her partner was unsupportive due to his own stress and anxiety related to early parenthood.
Nellie was feeling exhausted and run down. The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) found she was 'borderline'. Fortunately, a breastfeeding medicine specialist referred her to a breast surgeon with experience in treating such problems. Nellie described this as 'transformative' and said if she hadn't started feeling better, she would have ended up getting postnatal depression.
Nellie's son started to wake a lot at about four months. Sleep school did not help, but Nellie 'made peace' with the fact that she had a wakeful baby who was otherwise healthy. She decided to do what felt right for her. This was part of a larger realisation that her parenting involved different things to what the 'professionals' were advising. As a consequence her experience with her second child has been much easier.
Her advice is that expectations in pregnancy often aren't realised and that life with a baby is 'less free.' She thinks it is important to 'find an authentic way of parenting' based on your personality and values, and that identity adjustment is a significant emotional challenge of early parenthood.

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Bronzeville was a short-lived African American enclave in downtown Los Angeles that replaced Little Tokyo during World War II after the United States government forcibly removed Japanese Americans from the West Coast into concentration camps.[1]
1 Great Migration
2 Bronzeville Life
2.1 Social Services
2.2 Crime
2.3 Health
2.4 Bronzeville Business
2.5 Breakfast Clubs
3 Return to Little Tokyo
4 For More Information
Once the U.S. government excluded Japanese Americans from the West Coast in early 1942, the Japantowns up and down the West Coast became ghost towns. Since Japanese immigrants, by law, could not own property, the large majority of building owners in these vacant Japantowns were Caucasians who had to find new tenants.
A July 12, 1942 Los Angeles Times article noted that Little Tokyo building owners were discussing the possibility of turning the area into a Latin American quarter, housing representatives from the Latin American consul generals' offices and trade organizations. However, before these plans were set into motion, thousands of African Americans, mainly from the Deep South, started flooding California to work in the war defense industry, which was facing a labor shortage. The more fortunate newcomers doubled up and lived with relatives or friends but for the majority of African Americans, the empty Japantowns became a port of entry since restrictive housing covenants barred people of color from living in white neighborhoods.
Before the war, Little Tokyo housed about 30,000 Japanese Americans. During the war, the Los Angeles County Health Department reported that the area had an estimated 80,000 people. The majority of these residents were African Americans with a few Latinos. Everything—vacant store fronts, temples, churches, garages—became makeshift living quarters. It was common for 16 people to live in one room or for 40 people to share one bathroom, and the term "hot beds" came into use, to describe the overcrowded situation where a bed was taken over by someone else as soon as another person got up.
After various meetings and protests, federal officials in late 1943 proposed building temporary war housing in the unincorporated City of Willowbrook, a then-white neighborhood next to Watts and Compton, which prompted predictable protests from residents of that area. Meanwhile, city officials embarked on a five-month campaign in 1944 to improve living conditions in Little Tokyo/Bronzeville. They served abatement notices where approximately 57 buildings were condemned as unfit for human habitation and another 125 buildings were ordered repaired or renovated. Of the evicted people, some 50 families were sent to the newly-constructed Jordan Downs public housing development in Watts.
At the same time, African Americans filed several lawsuits challenging restrictive housing covenants. During one unsuccessful lawsuit, Floyd Covington, member of the City Housing Authority and executive director of the Los Angeles Urban League, testified that only the Little Tokyo district and surrounding vacated homes of Japanese Americans had opened up to African Americans since 1940.
Bronzeville Life
Since the African American newcomers needed social service assistance, the Los Angeles Council of Social Agencies, under Los Angeles City's Department of Community Welfare Federation, formed a Special Little Tokyo Committee in June 1943. This committee formed Pilgrim House, a social service center that provided health, sanitation, education, housing and employment assistance to the newcomers. The committee secured space at 120 North San Pedro Street, which was the prewar Japanese Union Church building. During the war, the Los Angeles Presbyterian and Congregational Conference of Southern California held the building title and funded a part of Pilgrim House's budget.
The Rev. Harold Merrybright Kingsley, an African American minister from the Church of Good Shepherd in Chicago, was appointed Pilgrim House executive director in February 1944. Pilgrim House activities included a nursery school; Boy Scout Troop 731, sponsored by the Golden State Life Insurance which had an office in Bronzeville; a basketball team; ceramics classes; counseling; playground space; a toy loan program; a free immunization service through the city Health Department; play performances; and off-site camping activities.
One of the first African American churches to open was the Lily of the Valley Baptist Church at 121 Weller Street and headed by Rev. H. Dillard. His wife, Mrs. O.L. Dillard, was known to drive around, picking up Bronzeville children and bringing them to Sunday school.
In the spring of 1943, Los Angeles was rocked by a race riot, spurred in part by racially tinged articles in the mainstream newspapers. This incited Anglo servicemen stationed in Los Angeles to go after Latino youths in what is referred to as the Zoot Suit Riots since the servicemen targeted Latino youths wearing zoot suits, a style of clothing that included draped pants that were pegged at the ankle and a jacket with sleeves down to the finger tips. These clothes were considered extravagant during the war years when everything, including cloth, was rationed.
When the servicemen went on a rampage from the end of May to early June 1943, those in the Little Tokyo/Bronzeville were not immune. One of the more graphic incidents was reported in the June 17, 1943 California Eagle, where a mob attacked Lewis W. Jackson, 23, an African American resident of Little Tokyo/Bronzeville. He had moved from Louisiana that February and was working in the shipyards. The newspaper reported that a mob of servicemen severely beat Jackson and knifed out one of his eyes. He was not wearing a zoot suit. Racial tension continued to simmer in the months following the Zoot Suit Riot, and in the fall Mayor Fletcher Bowron called for a citywide race unity program.
The Little Tokyo/Bronzeville area also saw an increase in strong-arm robberies, rapes or attempted rapes, especially against female graveyard shift defense workers, and hit and run accidents. Minutes from an October 8, 1943 Little Tokyo Committee meeting also made note of the increase in shoeshine parlors, which were fronts for prostitution. Laura Long, who had been voted Miss Bronzeville in 1943, captured headlines in November 1945 when she stabbed Vivian Smith with a butcher knife in front of Long's barbecue restaurant at 354 East First Street. The victim had allegedly made unwanted advances towards Long's husband. She was acquitted in a jury trial.
Overcrowding in Bronzeville/Little Tokyo gave rise to health problems, particularly the spread of communicable diseases such as tuberculosis and venereal diseases. To combat this, various organizations and city offices offered free lectures and services. African American newspapers such as the California Eagle assisted by publishing educational cartoons on venereal diseases. It was also common to see advertisement targeting those with gonorrhea, syphilis or tuberculosis.
In an Aug. 10, 1943 mayor's meeting report, Dr. George Uhl, Los Angeles City Health officer, stated that in Little Tokyo/Bronzeville "much tuberculosis and venereal diseases discovered" and that they had two public health nurses and two sanitary inspectors assigned to the area. Uhl also noted that the city health officer had written up more than 140 evictions and abatement notices in the area so that substandard living conditions could be cleaned up.
Bronzeville Business
Leonard Christmas is credited with opening the first African American business in Bronzeville/Little Tokyo in early 1943 as the Digby Hotel, 506 1/2 East First Street, on the corner of Alameda and First Street. Christmas, a Special Little Tokyo Committee member, started his hotel business after learning that African American railroad workers needed housing. He secured a loan from the Security First National Bank and approached Little Tokyo building owners who were eager to have any business. Christmas became president of the East First Street Chamber of Commerce and later helped organize the Bronzeville Chamber of Commerce in August 1943. Other co-founders included Dr. A.E. Johnson, an investigator for the district attorney; C.W. Smith, a traffic officer in the "Little Tokyo" section; and Major Bowles.
The formation of the Bronzeville Chamber of Commerce received publicity not only in the African American newspapers but in the mainstream press as well. By January 1944, the Bronzeville Chamber of Commerce boasted 125 members, with an office at 111 North San Pedro Street. At an Oct 8, 1943 Special Little Tokyo Committee meeting, Christmas officially declared the area as Bronzeville.
Another notable African American business was the Crown Point Department Store, which opened its doors in September 1943. Crown Point was a cooperative venture of 19 African American women. Clara W. Brown, who headed the group, had run a successful retail store in New Orleans before moving to Los Angeles. The department store, on the corner of First and Los Angeles streets, sold groceries, meats, dry goods, medication and clothing.
Breakfast Clubs
With the defense industry demanding workers 24 hours a day, Little Tokyo/Bronzeville was a hive of activity with the mingling of day and graveyard shift workers, who found themselves flush with disposable income. This gave rise to a thriving night life in Little Tokyo/Bronzeville that competed with African American clubs around 42nd and Central Avenue. Many of these clubs stayed open well into the morning hours, giving rise to the term Breakfast Clubs. The Los Angeles City Council unsuccessfully passed several ordinances in an effort to curb breakfast club businesses.
Little Tokyo/Bronzeville's best known breakfast club was Shepp's Playhouse, which was on the corner of First and Los Angeles streets, the prewar site of the Kawafuku restaurant. Gordon Shepphard, an African American who had been a former Hollywood cameraman, opened Shepp's on Sept. 12, 1944. In 1946, Billy Berg, a well-known Hollywood club owner, purchased a half-interest in Shepp's. Many notable musicians performed at Shepp's including Coleman Hawkins, Herb Jeffries from the Duke Ellington band, and T-Bone Walker, to name a few. Gerald Wilson made his debut with his own orchestra at Shepp's in 1944 after he had left the Jimmie Lunceford band. Shepp's customers included the likes of Count Basie, Helen Humes, Judy Garland, and Gene Kelly, among others.
The Finale Club was most notable for booking Charlie Parker on March 21, 1946. This fly-by-night establishment closed and re-opened its doors at different addresses. While in Little Tokyo/Bronzeville, Parker stayed at the Downtown Hotel on North San Pedro Street. It was at the Civic Hotel that Parker had his infamous drug-induced breakdown where he set his bed on fire and walked out into the lobby naked. The Civic Hotel was also popular with other musicians such as the Lionel Hampton Band and African American railroad workers such as porters and cooks since it was close to the train stations.
The Cobra Room, the Linda Lea Theatre, and the Theatre Arts Building were among other nightspots in Bronzeville.
Return to Little Tokyo
As the war began to wind down, the government began allowing Japanese Americans to return to the West Coast in 1945. Japanese Americans were able to re-open businesses in Little Tokyo/Bronzeville when building owners did not renew lease agreements with African Americans or the returning Japanese Americans bought out the Bronzeville business leases.
On occasion, there were lawsuits. Some of the more notable lawsuits included the Nishi Hongwanji Temple and the New Olympic Hotel, both of which involved a dispute over ownership. In the case of the former, the temple—which was run by non-Japanese American Buddhist minister Rev. Julius Goldwater during the war—had rented space to a number of institutions including a Baptist Church, but refused to renew leases after January 5, 1945. The Baptist Association sued the temple, with the case being dismissed in September 1950.
The Home Protective Association, headed by California Eagle publisher/editor Charlotta Bass, pushed for racial harmony by passing a resolution in January 1945 recognizing the Japanese American right to their properties and requested that the government offer more housing opportunities.
When the war ended in August 1945, war industry jobs dried up and many African American war workers found themselves laid off. By 1947, fewer children were attending the Pilgrim House nursery school since laid off women workers had time to look after their children. By November 1947, the Los Angeles Presbytery and the Southern California Congregational Conference voted to return the building to Union Church members. Pilgrim House did not challenge this and contacted African American news media to quell any false perception that Pilgrim House was being forced out. On Sept. 1, 1948, Pilgrim House relocated to 150 North Los Angeles Street, which was also home to a Filipino center and church. No sooner had Pilgrim House made the move, however, when they received notice in 1949 that the 150 North Los Angeles building was targeted for demolition to make way for Parker Center. Pilgrim House closed their doors on Oct. 16, 1950, at their final location at 600 East First Street.
The fate of Pilgrim House mirrored what occurred to other Bronzeville organizations and businesses. As Japanese Americans returned to Little Tokyo, the African American newcomers moved out for other opportunities.
The longest-running business from the Bronzeville era was that of James Hodge, who opened a newspaper stand during the war on the corner of First and San Pedro, in front of the Civic Hotel, now the Kajima Building, and didn't close shop until the 1980s.
Authored by Martha Nakagawa
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Broussard, Albert. Black San Francisco: The Struggle for Racial Equality in the West, 1900-1954. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.
deGraaf, Lawrence, Kevin Mulroy, and Quintard Taylor. Seeking El Dorado: African American in California. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001.
Flamming, Douglas. Bound for Freedom: Black Los Angeles in Jim Crow America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Himes, Chester. If He Hollers Let Him Go. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co. London: Pluto Press, 1986.
Kurashige, Lon. Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History of Ethnic Identity and Festival 1934-1990. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
Kurashige, Scott Tadao. The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
Leonard, Allen Kevin. "Years of Hope, Days of Fear: The Impact of World War II on Race Relcations in Los Angeles." Ph.D dissertation, University of California, Davis, 1992.
Marmorstein, Gary. "Central Avenue Jazz: Los Angeles Black Music of the Forties." Southern California Quarterly 70.4 (Winter 1988): 415–26.
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Mazon, Mauricio. The Zoot-Suit Riots: The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilations. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984.
Murase, Ichiro Mike. Little Tokyo: One Hundred Years in Pictures. Los Angeles: Visual Communications/Asian American Studies Central, Inc., 1983.
Sanchez, George. Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles 1900 – 1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Sides, Josh. LA City Limits: African American Los Angeles From the Great Depression to the Present. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
Tang, Scott Harvey. "Pushing at the Golden Gate: Race Relations and Racial Politics in San Francisco, 1940-1955." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 2002.
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↑ The Bronzeville research was originally funded through a grant from the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program.
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Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) and Joe Bonamassa announced the release of Bonamassa's own signature amplifier: the '59 Twin-Amp™ JB Edition.
A reissue of the popular "high-powered" '59 tweed Twin-Amp, the new '59 Twin-Amp JB Edition combines Bonamassa's favorite features in a new model that is sure to appeal to fans, collectors and professional guitarists alike.
Priced at $3,499.99, the custom amplifier will be available in limited quantities exclusively on jbonamassa.com.
"The King of amps is back. It is one of the greatest amplifiers ever built, if not the greatest amplifier ever built," Joe Bonamassa said.
The new model recaptures the amazing tone, power and dynamic range of the original.
It excels across a wide variety of genres, live and studio gigs – bringing the tweed '59 Twin-Amp to today's players and collectors.
This re-issue is the first time in 60 years that Fender has released a "high-powered" tweed twin model since its original inception.
"The 1959 'high powered tweed' Twin-Amp is one of the most collectible guitar amplifiers of all time," Shane Nicholas, Director, Product Development, Electronics at Fender, said. "They sound amazing for almost any type of music, are rare, and highly sought-after by rock stars and collectors. We're proud to work with Joe Bonamassa on the '59 Twin-Amp JB Edition, as he is not only a great guitarist, but a fanatic collector of Fender guitars, memorabilia and amps – including the tweed Twin models he began performing with several years ago."
Designed and handmade to Bonamassa's specifications in Corona, Calif., the amp's key features include: a classic 80-watt Fender 5F8A circuit; hand-wired eyelet board and Fender vintage-style "yellow" paper-foil-resin tone capacitors for original tweed-era tone and nuance; three premium 12AX7 preamp tubes; a quartet of 6L6 output tubes that are matched and rated for high output; an internal bias pot; a 5AR4 rectifier tube; Bright and Normal channels with high- and low-gain inputs; custom Mercury Magnetics™ transformers; as well as two 12" Celestion™ JB85 speakers – exclusive to this amp – for high-powered rock guitar tone.
The amp is housed in a finger-joined solid pine cabinet for resonant tone and features a lightly distressed cosmetic treatment with a lacquered tweed covering, '50s-style grille cloth and steel-reinforced leather strap handle.
Subtle, '50s cosmetic touches, such as the serial number stamped with the original 1950s tooling and font from the era, complete the package.
To learn more about the new '59 Twin-Amp JB Edition, watch the demo video featuring Joe Bonamassa himself here: youtu.be/3z2gU8KOAE4.
As Joe Bonamassa enters his 28th year as a professional musician, he continues to blaze a remarkably versatile artistic trail, and amass an authentic, innovative and soulful body of work. Bonamassa's career began onstage opening for B.B. King in 1989, when he was only 12 years old. Today, he is hailed worldwide as one of the greatest guitar players of his generation and is an ever-evolving singer-songwriter who has released 26 solo albums in the last 18 years, all on his own label, J&R Adventures. He founded and oversees the non-profit Keeping The Blues Alive Foundation to promote the heritage of the blues music to the next generation, fund music scholarships, and supplement the loss of music education in schools. Most recently, Bonamassa has been nominated for his 2nd GRAMMY® for Best Traditional Blues Album for 2016's "Live At The Greek Theatre." His latest release in 2018 landed Bonamassa his 19th #1 Billboard Blues Album (more than any other artist) and Billboard has honored him numerous times with the Blues Album Artist of the Year Award. Already on hitting the road this year with a full tour and release schedule planned for 2018, there are no signs of Joe slowing down.
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Unison: the beauty of a choir, groups of animals, corps de ballet.
Contrasted by armies, conformism, mass weddings, mobs of aggressive fans.
Rambert Dance Company. Choreographer Patricia Okenwa, London 2008. Costume design / photography: Georg Meyer-Wiel.


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Why do you like the King George V?
It's an old-fashioned pub that looks like it should be in the country. The open fire helps in winter, it does my old bones good.
I always have a pint of Courage best bitter. It's the best pint in town here, and I have been to most of them.
I don't come in every day but sometimes my dog drags me in. I probably end up here two to three times a week. I sometimes come in on a Sunday lunchtime, but if you prefer it a bit rowdier you can try the back room. The young ones watch football there.
It had started to die a death but with new managers it's picking up and more people are coming in.
I haven't eaten here since it changed management but the menu looks good and the price of the food is reasonable too.
How has the pub changed over the years?
It used to be a lot different. They had around four bars, and a tiny one with a bar billiards table. There were just bottles and jugs then and there even used to be someone playing a piano in the back room.


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Then press and hold together the Volume Down + Home + Power button for a while.
After that, you should see menu with two options.
Afterwards choose Download mode by pressing the Volume Up.
Great job! You are right now in the expected mode.


Answer to Mystery Photos (1&2).
I put in days and days of research to try and find out just where these two pictures were, including following just about every possible Scottish railway on Google Earth. Also, at all the film shows I gave I showed them in the hope that someone would recognise the location - it seemed to be such a distinctive place. The answer eventually came via a show for the Festiniog Railway Society in Cheltenham where someone said he had a friend who was knowledgeable on Scottish railways. It is Rowantree Terrace, Lennoxtown and amazingly the person concerned - George Brown - used to live only a few miles away at Milton of Campsie. My downfall, as such, was that it never occurred to me that the entire row of houses had all been demolished - which is why I couldn't find them on Google Earth! George Brown sent this Google Earth link that if you click here will show you the location today. In the 3D version of Google Earth you can even achieve the same perspective as the original photos with the hills rising up in the background!
Many thanks to George Brown for his help.
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@org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir annotation can be used in order to annotate class field or a parameter in a lifecycle (e.g. @BeforeEach) or test method of type File or Path. Once this is done, the temporary directory will be be created. The directory with its contents created during test execution will be deleted once the test method or class has finished execution.
Based on the above example, we can see that each repetition of the test uses a new temporary directory (according to the standard test class lifecycle) hence the arrange section of the method executes with no error.
Please note, that arrange section of the test method creates unique file name per execution (using current repetition counter) as otherwise the FileAlreadyExistsException would have been thrown.
With @TempDir you get possibility to work with temporary directories in tests with ease. There is no magic here: you annotate Path or File objects and inject as you need them. The rest is taken care by JUnit for you.


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Ian Murray MP Working Hard for Edinburgh South
Edinburgh South
People's Vote and Best for Britain
Gift Aid Concerns
I recently wrote a piece for Third Force News on the charity sectors concerns over Gift Aid with the devolution of income tax to Scotland in the Scotland Bill.
With the Scotland Bill rapidly nearing its conclusion, the time has come to focus on how we can use the new powers being transferred in the bill to build a better, fairer Scotland. Part of that involves guarding against unforeseen consequences that may lead to negative outcomes for individuals, businesses and charities.
A number of charities, including the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), have raised concerns that the creation of a new Scottish income tax system may have an adverse impact on the provision of Gift Aid in Scotland.
From April 2017, the Scottish Parliament will have total control over the rates and thresholds of tax on all non-savings and non-dividends income. I fully support this. Having the power to adjust rates of taxation, for example by adopting Labour's plan of reintroducing the 50p rate for those earning over £150,000, will provide much needed funds to address the social and economic problems that continue to plague Scotland: child poverty; chronic health inequality; the gap in educational attainment between children from wealthier and poorer backgrounds.
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The SCVO and other Scottish charities have shown great vigilance in spotting this flaw in the bill and I am very grateful to them for bringing it to my attention
Gift Aid is worth over £1 billion a year to UK charities and over £100 million in Scotland. In the previous parliament, I successfully campaigned for charity bucket collections to be eligible for Gift Aid, leading to the creation of the Gift Aid Small Donations Scheme. This year's budget extended the scheme, and it remains one of my proudest achievements.
The problem is that Gift Aid is UK-wide, linked to tax paid, and predicated on a single tax structure. Should there be different rates of tax in Scotland and the rest of the UK, that link would be broken for Scottish taxpayers, as Gift Aid would continue to be paid at the UK rate.
This could lead to complicated negotiations between the Scottish and UK governments and difficulties identifying Scottish taxpayers for the purposes of Gift Aid. It could also cause considerable confusion among charitable donors and financial and administrative problems for charities.
Thankfully, this is all avoidable. Sound legislation takes account of unintended consequences by incorporating contingency measures, often in the form of reviews. I have tabled an amendment to the Scotland bill which would require a review of the operation of Gift Aid in Scotland after a set period of time. This would allow for the early identification and resolution of any problems in the way Gift Aid is operating under the new devolved tax regime. Gift Aid is too important for the sector not to ensure that it works.
The SCVO and other Scottish charities have shown great vigilance in spotting this flaw in the bill and I am very grateful to them for bringing it to my attention and working with me to amend it. To be fair to the UK government, they were also glad that I raised it as an issue. I am hopeful that they will support my amendment so that we can safeguard Gift Aid and concentrate on getting the best outcomes for Scottish charities.
Ian Murray is Labour MP for Edinburgh South and is the shadow secretary of state for Scotland.
Read more at http://thirdforcenews.org.uk/blogs/amendment-to-avoid-100m-charity-gift-aid-problem?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_content=Oktopost-twitter-profile&utm_campaign=Oktopost-2015-10+General+Campaign#qxGiCTZuWq0zx0qj.99
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Email: ian.murray.mp@parliament.uk
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US House To Vote On Iran Sanctions Act Renewal As Soon As November
World | Reuters | Updated: October 26, 2016 05:47 IST
Republicans control majorities in both the House and Senate.
Washington: The Republican leaders of the US House of Representatives plan a vote as soon as mid-November on a 10-year reauthorisation of the Iran Sanctions Act, congressional aides told Reuters on Tuesday.
The Iran Sanctions Act, or ISA, which expires on December 31, allows trade, energy, defence and banking industry sanctions over Iran's nuclear programme and ballistic missile tests.
Its fate is one of the major pieces of unfinished business facing lawmakers when they return to Washington on November 14 for the first time after the November 8 elections.
Congressional aides said a "clean" renewal, meaning unchanged from the current legislation, was likely to pass the House. Its fate in the Senate was less certain.
Republicans control majorities in both the House and Senate, and every Republican in Congress opposed last year's international nuclear deal, in which Iran agreed to curtail its nuclear programme in exchange for relief from crippling economic sanctions.
Some Senate Republicans want more than a clean renewal. They are trying to build support for more restrictive legislation that would renew the ISA and do more to punish individual Iranians and businesses over the country's ballistic missile tests and what they see as its support for terrorism.
Some senators have also pushed for a law that would eliminate the president's right to waive sanctions for security reasons.
White House concerns about the bill could generate resistance from Democrats in the Senate, making it more difficult for any legislation to garner the 60 votes needed to move ahead.
Because Republicans hold only 54 seats in the 100-member chamber, they would need Democratic support to move any bill.
President Barack Obama's administration had asked Congress to hold off on renewing the ISA, saying it has enough power to reimpose economic sanctions if Iran violates the nuclear agreement even if it expires.
Renewing the sanctions bill could also increase frustrations in Iran.
Iranian officials have been complaining for months that remaining US sanctions have frightened away trade partners and robbed it of too many benefits it was promised under the nuclear deal.
When asked to comment on the House vote, a senior Obama administration official said on Tuesday the White House remains focussed on ensuring Iran is complying with the nuclear agreement, known as the JCPOA. The official reiterated the White House's position that the ISA's expiration would not affect the administration's ability to continue to issue sanctions designations as warranted.
"We remain committed to working with Congress, however, and are willing to discuss how to further foreign policy priorities in a manner that does not jeopardise JCPOA implementation," the official said.
A House Foreign Affairs Committee aide said addressing the ISA before it expires is a "top priority" for the committee's Republican chairman, Representative Ed Royce. The foreign affairs panel oversees sanctions legislation in the House.
A House Republican leadership aide could not confirm the vote's timing. He said only that the chamber was "likely" to consider a 10-year reauthorisation when it returns to Washington.
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Q: Start multiple Selenium Nodes from Powershell I have a running Selenium Hub, but I want to start a large number of Selenium Nodes to run off it. I'm trying to do so in PowerShell, but I don't really care what tool gets the job done.
The command to do so is
java `-Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="C:\chromedriver.exe" `-jar selenium-server-standalone-3.13.0.jar `-role node `-hub http://localhost:4444/grid/register `-browser "browserName=chrome,version=67,maxInstances=5,seleniumProtocol=WebDriver"

So I've tried
start "Title1" java `-Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="C:\chromedriver.exe" `-jar selenium-server-standalone-3.13.0.jar `-role node `-hub http://localhost:4444/grid/register `-browser "browserName=chrome,version=67,maxInstances=5,seleniumProtocol=WebDriver"
start "Title2" java `-Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="C:\chromedriver.exe" `-jar selenium-server-standalone-3.13.0.jar `-role node `-hub http://localhost:4444/grid/register `-browser "browserName=chrome,version=67,maxInstances=5,seleniumProtocol=WebDriver"

This just gives me this error without starting a node
Start-Process : A positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '-jar'.

I suspect that part of the problem is all of the various quote marks in the command. I've also tried
$command = `-Dwebdriver.chrome.driver="C:\chromedriver.exe" `-jar selenium-server-standalone-3.13.0.jar `-role node `-hub http://localhost:4444/grid/register `-browser "browserName=chrome,version=67,maxInstances=5,seleniumProtocol=WebDriver"
start "Title1" java $command
start "Title2" java $command

along with a few other varients of that with different parts of the command as different variables.

A: From: Run Multiple Powershell Scripts Sequentially - on a Folder - Combine Scripts into a Master Script
Simply create a text file, using any code editor or text editor, and use the following example batch script:
start /min powershell.exe C:\your folder\script.ps1
start /min powershell.exe C:\your folder\script.ps1

Save it as a script.bat and open it. This will make two powershell scripts run at the same time.
The script itself just read
cd c:\
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Play as Steve and collect 8 golden Creeper skulls.
Minecraft Steve, a guy who loves to collect ancient artefacts.
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Steve & the Golden Creeper Skull is a fun game with excellent hand drawn graphics, and 8 levels that increase in difficulty.
Will you escape the cave?


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U.S. trade deficit surges to five-month high as imports soar
Posted: July 3, 2019 | Author: chankaiyee2 | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, trade war, US, US trade deficit | 2 Comments
July 3, 2019 / 8:39 PM / Updated 10 hours ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. trade deficit jumped to a five-month high in May as imports of goods increased, likely as businesses restocked ahead of an increase in tariffs on Chinese merchandise, eclipsing a broad rise in exports.
The Commerce Department said on Wednesday the trade deficit surged 8.4% to $55.5 billion. Data for April was revised higher to show the trade gap widening to $51.2 billion instead of the previously reported $50.8 billion. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the trade gap widening to $54.0 billion in May.
The goods trade deficit with China, a focus of President Donald Trump's "America First" agenda, increased 12.2% to $30.2 billion, with imports rising 12.8%. Trump recently raised additional import tariffs on Chinese goods, prompting Beijing to retaliate.
Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping last week agreed to a trade truce and a return to talks. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said on Tuesday talks were heading in the right direction, but it would take time to get the right deal made.
The U.S.-China trade tensions have caused wild swings in the trade deficit, with exporters and importers trying to stay ahead of the tariff fight between the two economic giants.
In May, goods imports increased 4.0% to $217.0 billion. Imports of consumer goods rose $1.4 billion, while those of motor vehicle and parts soared $2.3 billion to a record high. There were also big increases in imports of capital goods and industrial supplies and materials.
Goods exports rose 2.8% to $140.8 billion. Exports of consumer goods increased $0.8 billion and soybean exports advanced $0.7 billion. Civilian aircraft exports rose $0.5 billion. Gains are, however, likely to be capped after Boeing in March suspended deliveries of its fastest-selling MAX 737 jetliner. The aircraft was grounded indefinitely following two deadly crashes in five months. Production of the troubled plane has been cut.
When adjusted for inflation, the goods trade deficit increased $4.8 billion to $87.0 billion in May. The increase in the so-called real goods trade deficit suggests that trade could be a drag on second-quarter gross domestic product.
Trade contributed 0.94 percentage point to the economy's 3.1% annualized growth pace in the first quarter. The Atlanta Fed is forecasting gross domestic product rising at a 1.5% rate in the April-June quarter.
The wider trade deficit added to weak housing, manufacturing, business investment and moderate consumer spending in offering a downbeat assessment of the economy.
Reporting By Lucia Mutikani; Editing by Andrea Ricci Lucia.Mutikani@thomsonreuters.com; 1 202 898 8315; Reuters Messaging: lucia.mutikani.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net
Source: Reuters "U.S. trade deficit surges to five-month high as imports soar"
Apple moves Mac Pro production to China from U.S.: Wall Street Journal
Posted: June 29, 2019 | Author: chankaiyee2 | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: apple, China, trade war, US | 8 Comments
June 28, 2019 / 10:09 PM / Updated 4 hours ago
(Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O) is shifting manufacturing of its new Mac Pro desktop computer to China from the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The move comes at a time when the Trump administration has threatened to impose new levies to cover nearly all imports from China and pressured Apple and other manufacturers to make their products in the United States if they want to avoid tariffs.
Last week, Apple asked its major suppliers to assess the cost implications of moving 15% to 30% of their production capacity from China to Southeast Asia, according to a Nikkei report.
"If true, suggests to me that Apple has tremendous confidence that the U.S. and China will be able to solve their trade dispute and do so in the near-future," D.A. Davidson analyst Tom Forte said in an email.
China is a key market for Apple as well as a major production center for its devices. The company got nearly 18% of its total revenue from Greater China in the quarter ended March.
Apple's Mac Pro, a $6,000 machine used by creative professionals, has been facing waning demand, the Journal said here
The company does not break out sales numbers for its Mac Pro machines. The desktop is part of the company's Mac line of products, which accounted for less than 10% of Apple's total sales in 2018. In 2018, Apple sold about 18 million Mac products, compared with about 218 million iPhones.
"Like all of our products, the new Mac Pro is designed and engineered in California and includes components from several countries including the United States," an Apple spokesman said. "Final assembly is only one part of the manufacturing process."
Apple's decision coincides with the end of tax subsidies that it got for making the desktop in a plant in Texas run by contract manufacturer Flex Ltd, according to the Journal.
"(This) serves as a reminder that, relative to the U.S., manufacturing in China remains a lower-cost alternative and benefits from an existing infrastructure, versus having to, potentially, rebuild one in the U.S", Forte said.
The tech giant has tapped contractor Quanta Computer Inc (2382.TW) to manufacture the computer and is ramping up production at a factory near Shanghai, the report said here
Quanta did not respond to a request for comment.
Apple's shares were down marginally at $198.69.
Reporting by Akanksha Rana in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty and Anil D'Silva
Source: Reuters "Apple moves Mac Pro production to China from U.S.: Wall Street Journal"
Lawmaker: Human Problem at Pentagon Worse than Tech Problem
Posted: June 29, 2019 | Author: chankaiyee2 | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: human problem, Pentagon, tech problem, US | 4 Comments
Rep. Jim Cooper says Congress shouldn't accept a government topped by acting political appointees.
Marcus Weisgerber,
Defense Management
"For all of our love of technology, we could have a greater human problem than we do a tech problem, because you need Senate-confirmed people of ability, competence and vision," Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., chairman of the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee, said Thursday at the Defense One Tech Summit.
The position of Defense Secretary has been vacant since December, when Jim Mattis abruptly resigned. Then-Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan served in an acting capacity for nearly six months, the longest time that the Pentagon has gone without a Senate-confirmed leader. President Trump said he would nominate Shanahan for the position, but Shanahan withdrew his name from consideration and resigned as deputy defense secretary last week after details of a messy divorce became public.
Army Secretary Mark Esper is now the acting defense secretary. David Norquist, the Pentagon comptroller and chief financial officer has been performing the duties of the deputy defense secretary since Mattis' departure. Ryan McCarthy, the Army undersecretary is now the acting Army secretary.
"You can't have a government with 'actings'…and that's sadly what we increasingly have," Cooper said. "Our tolerance for that should be zero."
On June 21, President Trump said that he would nominate Esper, Norquist, and McCarthy to serve permanently. The White House has yet to send those nominations to Congress.
Heather Wilson stepped down as Air Force secretary last month to become president of the University of Texas at El Paso. Trump has said he would nominate Barbara Barrett for the top Air Force job, but the White House has yet to send a formal nomination to Congress.
Moving further down the chain, the vacancies and lack of political appointees has created a dominos effect where deputies are serving as principals. Below that, many underlings have essentially moved up one rung on the org chat. The Pentagon has an acting chief management officer since last year when Mattis dismissed John Gibson.
The lack of key leaders even extends beyond Senate-confirmable positions. Fred Kennedy, head the brand new Space Development Agency, abruptly resigned over reported disagreements with his boss Mike Griffin, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering. InsideDefense reports that Derek Tournear, who works for Griffin, has been named acting director of the organization tasked with making satellite buying more commercial.
Chris Shank, director of the Strategic Capabilities Office, the office known for modifying existing weapons with new capabilities, resigned on June 14, Breaking Defense reports. David Honey, a senior Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency official, has been tapped as his replacement, Inside Defense reports.
Source: Government Executive "Lawmaker: Human Problem at Pentagon Worse than Tech Problem"
Note: This is Government Executive's article I post here for readers' information. It does not mean that I agree or disagree with the article's views.
US might be the biggest loser in the tech war
Posted: June 29, 2019 | Author: chankaiyee2 | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, tech war, US | 2 Comments
Ko Tin-yau
Jun 28, 2019 10:01am
US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Wednesday that the United States and China were close to a trade deal, and that he believes the weekend talks between the two sides will help take the process forward.
"We were about 90 percent of the way there (with a deal) and I think there's a path to complete this," Mnuchin told CNBC.
He said he's confident that US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who will meet during the G20 summit in Japan, can make progress in the stalled trade talks.
"President Trump and President Xi have a very close working relationship. We had a productive meeting at the last G-20," Mnuchin said, adding that there could be a win-win situation for both nations.
"I think there is a good outcome for their economy and the US economy to get balanced trade and to continue to build on this relationship," he added.
Mnuchin's words and tone suggest that Trump may focus more on improving the trade deficit situation and put less emphasis on urging China to reform on matters such as cutting government subsidies, ending forced technology transfers, etc.
Some might question why Washington seems to have suddenly softened its stance.
The answer may lie in a New York Times report that outlined how some big tech firms have found a way to bypass the US government ban on selling products to Huawei.
By manufacturing outside the US, industry leaders including Intel and Micron can avoid labeling goods as American-made, New York Times reported, citing unnamed sources. Sales through this channel ares already said to amount to hundreds of millions of dollars.
If the US-derived content of a product is below 25 percent, they are not subject to the ban.
This underscores how difficult it is for the Trump administration to contain companies like Huawei.
More seriously, if this becomes a trend, Trump's intention to contain China's tech industry could backfire and the US may end up the biggest loser.
This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on June 27
Source: ejinsight.com "US might be the biggest loser in the tech war"
Note: This is ejinsight.com's report I post here for readers' information. It does not mean that I agree or disagree with the report' views.
US Stupid Plan on 6th Generation Fighter
Posted: June 26, 2019 | Author: chankaiyee2 | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 6th-generation fighter, China, integrated space and air capabilitities, space plane, supersonic warplane, US, Xi Jinping | 5 Comments
Know oneself and know your enemy, one will never in peril in war
–Sun Tze
National Interest says in its article "F-22, F-35, Stealth, 6th Generation Fighter, Stealth Fighters" that US Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment (CSBA) suggests the US to develop a sixth-generation fighter jet with penetrating counter-Air/penetrating electronic attack (PCA/PC-E) capabilities to attack both Russia and China at the same time.
The warplane shall be long-range and stealth with both the fighting power of F-22 and the electronic attack capability of an EA-18G Growler jamming aircraft to penetrate Russian and Chinese air defense.
Does the US know what capabilities Chinese air force has been developing? Chinese Central Military Commission Chairman Xi Jinping urged Chinese air force to develop integrated space and air capabilities for both attack and defense soon after he was elected. For that purpose, China has been developing supersonic warplanes that need not be stealth as it is too fast to detect in time or intercept when detected.
With such fighters US PCA/PC-E fighters simply cannot go near China even if the US is able to develop. Moreover US homeland will be attacked if the US attacks China.
The delay and excessive costs in developing F-35 make people doubt whether the US is capable of developing the 6th-generation fighter within 20 years. Test flight of China's space planes, however, are scheduled for 2035.
Comment by Chan Kai Yee on National Interests' article, full text of which can be viewed at https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/f-22s-and-f-35-are-getting-old-how-make-sure-6th-generation-fighter-dominates-64181
Chinese Economy Suffers Little by US Trade War Attacks
Posted: June 26, 2019 | Author: chankaiyee2 | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: China, Chinese economy, trade war, US | 2 Comments
SCMP says in its article "Not every economist thinks the trade war is a huge deal; 'look at the numbers', says CME executive director" that US tariff hikes has only reduced China's growth rate by 0.01 percent and its further tariff hikes to 25% on $200 billion of Chinese exports will only reduce China's growth rate by 0.033% so that IMF predicts only 0.1% drop to 6.2% in China's growth rate well within China's planned range between 6 and 6.5 percent.
That being the case, It will be Trump instead of Xi Jinping to make substantial concessions in their talks on the sideline of G20 summit. Will Trump do so? I doubt that; therefore, I am not optimistic about the outcome of their meeting.
Comment by Chan Kai Yee on SCMP's article, full text of which can be viewed at https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3015887/not-every-economist-thinks-trade-war-huge-deal-look
Asia Pacific trade pact can go on without India 'for the time being:' Malaysian PM Mahathir
Posted: June 24, 2019 | Author: chankaiyee2 | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: ASEAN, China, Mahathir, Malaysia, RCEP, trade war, US | 11 Comments
Published Sun, Jun 23 2019 • 6:00 PM EDT Updated 4 hours ago
Yen Nee Lee@YenNee_Lee
Mahathir Mohamad, prime minister of Malaysia, said he's willing to conclude the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) without India "for the time being."
A recent report by Nikkei Asian Review said China has grown impatient with the slow progress on the RCEP talks, and proposed going ahead with just 13 countries — without India, Australia and New Zealand.
Mahathir said Malaysia has gained from the U.S.-China trade war, but cautioned that those benefits may only be temporary.
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Saturday that he's willing to conclude a mega Asia-Pacific trade agreement without India "for the time being."
Mahathir was referring to the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, which involves 16 countries in Asia Pacific. Negotiations have been going on since 2013, with one of the major sticking points being India's reluctance to open up its markets.
A recent report by Nikkei Asian Review said China, growing impatient with the slow progress on RCEP talks, proposed going ahead with just 13 countries — removing India, Australia and New Zealand from the deal.
The 16 countries involved in RCEP are the 10 Southeast Asian nations and six of their large trading partners: China, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand. If the agreement is finalized, the 16 countries will form a major trading bloc that covers around one-third of the world's gross domestic product.
In an interview with CNBC's Tanvir Gill, Mahathir acknowledged the hurdles in reaching a deal among the 16 countries.
"I think we will work towards it. It's quite difficult because we are competing economies … we're competing with each other and from there, to go on to work together requires some radical change in our mindset. That will take time," he said in Bangkok, Thailand, where he's attending a summit for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
In the end, we have to stop this trade war and certainly not to escalate (it).
—Mahathir Mohamad Malaysian Prime Minister
The Malaysian leader added that RCEP participants will have to consider which framework works best: China's proposed 13-nation deal or the original one involving all 16 countries.
"But I think I would prefer 13 … for the time being," he said, suggesting he's open to having India, Australia and New Zealand joining the pact in the future.
Trade war escalation
Several participating countries of RCEP have expressed hopes of coming to an agreement by the end of this year, as they say the U.S.-China tariff fight has brought fresh urgency to wrap up talks in Asia Pacific.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to meet later this month at the G-20 summit in Japan. But Mahathir — like many who follow the developments closely — said he doesn't expect much to come out of that meeting.
Taking sides in the trade war will be a 'disaster for the world:' Mahathir
Malaysia has often been cited as one of the beneficiaries of the trade war as companies move production out of China to circumvent elevated U.S. tariffs. Muhammed Abdul Khalid, an economic advisor to Mahathir, told CNBC in May that the Southeast Asian nation's growth is set to gain an additional 0.1 percentage points due to the trade diversions to his country.
While that's good for Malaysia, Mahathir on Saturday cautioned that such benefits may only be temporary. He explained that if there's a change in government in the U.S., the new administration may have a new set of policies that could once again prompt companies to rethink where they want to locate their production and supply chains.
"In the short term, I think it is good news. But in the end, we have to stop this trade war and certainly not to escalate (it)," he said.
Source: CNBC "Asia Pacific trade pact can go on without India 'for the time being:' Malaysian PM Mahathir"
Note: This is CNBC's report I post here for readers' information. It does not mean that I agree or disagree with the report' views.


Fast of 10th of Tebet Tebet 10, 1413 January 2, 2348 B.C.
Fast of Esther Adar II 11, 1413 April 2, 2348 B.C.
Purim Adar II 14-15, 1413 April 5-6, 2348 B.C.
Passover Sacrifice (Pesach) Nisan 14, 1413 May 4, 2348 B.C.
Feast of Unleavened Bread (Passover) (Pesach) Nisan 15-21, 1413 May 5-11, 2348 B.C.
Feast of Weeks (Shevuot) Sivan 10, 1413 June 28, 2348 B.C.
Fast of the 17th Day of Tammuz Tammuz 17, 1413 August 4, 2348 B.C.
Fast of the 9th Day of Av Av 9, 1413 August 25, 2348 B.C.
Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) Tishri 1, 1414 October 15, 2348 B.C.
Fast of Gedaliah Tishri 4, 1414 October 18, 2348 B.C.
Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) Tishri 10, 1414 October 24, 2348 B.C.
Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) Tishri 15-21, 1414 October 29-November 4, 2348 B.C.
The Eighth Day (Shmini Atzeret) Tishri 22, 1414 November 5, 2348 B.C.
Molad of Tishri, 1414 Tishri 1, 1414, 9 hours, 905 parts October 15, 2348 B.C., 3:50:16.67 a.m.
Winter Solstice Tebet 16, 1413, 23 hours, 371 parts January 8, 2348 B.C., 5:20 p.m.
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"A Face in the Crowd!"
Associate Editor - Tom Palmer Jr.
After finishing my post-Crisis Captain Marvel 101 course, I figured I'd stay on the Shazam! train and check out the... um, post-Crisis (?) post-Zero Hour (?) post-Infinite Crisis (?)... er, let's just say pre-Flashpoint Captain Marvel's first meeting with the Man of Steel.
We open on the wizard Shazam as he recounts the many marvels (no pun intended) of the DC Universe including the usual suspects... Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, Batman and Superman.
Meanwhile, in Fawcett City a small advertising plane has lost control and is plummeting toward the crowded street below. Just as its about to "take a little off the top" for some Fawcett residents, Captain Marvel grabs it by the tail and keeps it in the sky.
At the Metropolis Museum of Natural History a heist is underway. As the man in charge shouts orders to some flunkies, he fails to notice that Superman silently snared them up. The big bad and some of his cronies draw magical canes from their holsters and summon a large gollum looking beast from the void.
Superman and the beast do battle with neither really getting the upper hand. Superman is somewhat surprised at how fast this creature is for its rather large size. The monster is finally knocked off of its feet, and when Superman attempts to lay in with a K.O. right, it vanishes... leaving only a tiny coin in its wake.
Back in Fawcett, Captain Marvel is readying himself for a battle with two large fire-breathing robots. During the fight, he takes them apart piece by piece and finishes one off by throwing a gas tanker truck into its face. The other goes down after Cap gives it the robo-version of a lobotomy. Dr. Bruce Gordon (hmmm...) is there to witness the event.
That night, Billy Batson and best buddy Scott Cooper are camping out. Scott shows Billy the newspaper, the cover story of which is a celebration of Captain Marvel's day-saving exploits. The paper also shows the story of the Metropolis Museum heist... and mentions that Russian Artifacts were stolen.
We take a break from the heroes to pop in on Dr. Sivana, who is the C.E.O. of Sivana Industries... and likely not Billy Batson's uncle at this time. It is revealed that he was behind the failed giant robot attack in Fawcett City. He asks his assistant to get Lex Luthor on the phone to get an idea on how to handle his "Captain Marvel problem".
Returning to Billy, we find him standing in front of the McKeon History Museum... where there is also, in Billy's words "a bunch of old Russian stuff". He Shazams! up, and enters the museum.
Inside he finds the same heist-guys from the Metropolis job. This time the baddies summon two beasties. Cap runs into battle, head first... only to get knocked all the way out of the building!
Wow, this was pretty to look at. I was first introduced to Joshua Middleton during the NYX miniseries (which, if I recall correctly introduced X-23 into the Marvel Universe proper). His art was so drastically different that you couldn't help but notice it. I enjoyed it there, and I enjoy it here.
Judd Winick runs hot and cold with me. When he's telling a comic book story, I think he's great... when he's standing on his oft-used soapbox, I have (less than) no interest. Here he writes a story... or at least the first chapter of one... and for what it is, it's quite nice. Keeping in mind that this is a current millennium book... which means it takes all of five minutes to read, and nothing much actually happens. This is clearly being written for the bookstore audience, and probably makes for a much more satisfying read in TPB format.
As a single-issue? Like I said, not much happens... and what does happen, at least as it pertains to the fabled (and promised) "first meeting" between the Man of Steel and Earth's Mightiest Mortal, is as predictable as can be. Even before I cracked this one open, I knew the two wouldn't meet until the final page... these kind of books are just a bit too formulaic.
Cannot recommend this one at its cover price, if we're talking about story... $3.50 is way too high. The art, does make up for a great deal... but, I'd still feel a bit ripped-off had I paid full-price. I paid 40-cents, and feel I got my money's worth. If you see this on the cheap, it's worth it for the art alone. If you come across the trade, maybe give it a flip through.
Never played this... but it looks awful!


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FACT CHECK: Does This Photo Show The Colorado Springs Shooting Suspect?
7:02 PM 11/28/2022 Anna Mock | Fact Check Reporter
A photo shared on Facebook allegedly shows the Colorado Springs Club Q shooting suspect, Anderson Lee Aldrich.
This claim is inaccurate. The mugshot shared in the Facebook post is of a person involved in an accident in North Carolina.
The gunman who is suspected of shooting five people at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is being held on charges of murder and hate crime, according to AP News. Democratic Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announced he would "take a hard look" at the state's "red flag" law to understand how the suspect was able to purchase a firearm despite a previous arrest, The Hill reported.
The Facebook post claims to show an image of the suspected shooter. The image features a mugshot of a white man in a hoodie. "THE CLUB Q SHOOTING," the caption reads. "THE SHOOTER ANDERSON LEE ALDRICH."
However, the image is not of Aldrich. The man in the image is Landen Christopher Glass, identified by AP Images. Glass lost control of a vehicle towing a parade float in Raleigh, North Carolina which resulted in the death of a girl participating in the event, according to police.
A mugshot of Aldrich was released by the Colorado Springs Police Department, showing the suspects face extensively bruised after being subdued and beat by patrons in the club, according to TMZ. (RELATED: No, This Image Does Not Show The Uvalde School Shooter Posing With A Transgender Flag)
Check Your Fact has reached out to the Colorado Springs Police Department for comment and will update this piece accordingly if one is received.
This is not the first time a false headline has been attributed to the wrong mugshot. Check Your Fact recently debunked a claim CNN published an article claiming a man used a nuke to power his home.
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