Thanks all for this conversation about Parkwood. Speaking as a dedicated twitcher who went out to Parkwood a couple of times in early Jan (I came, I saw, I ticked) and moved on, it's actually really interesting to think about exactly why those birds were all there and not so much in other places in the ACT.
I believe Michael's points are good ones.
I have yet to see a single herbivore, introduced or native, in the vicinity. I assume that farm management is a bit more vigorous than elsewhere in the ACT where the roos are eating grass down to a cm or so in height.
I have another suggestion. When I checked the pasture out Parkwood way it seemed to me that there may have been cropping some time in the past. This appears to have generated some (crop-related) weedy species (including wild oats) which in turn generate a more varied seed bank and a more varied grass layer structure than you get when, for example, a paddock is dominated by just one or two long-established pasture grasses.
Thanks Geoffrey for your piece on Parkwood Rd. Your collection of photos from the area in your latest and several earlier messages is certainly most valuable.
I have no doubt that drought conditions will have played a role in influencing bird numbers there. This may especially apply to the Brown Songlark. But a key reason for the abundance of grassland species at Parkwood may be that the area has only a very limited number to no livestock on it, nor is the grass cut for hay. During visits to several rural areas in COG's AoI this spring/summer I have not come across any paddocks that could match those at Parkwood. Most areas are either grazed to overgrazed or used to produce hay. The only sites that may match Parkwood for Bushlarks are some wheat fields near Lake George.
I have made 11 visits to this site, beginning on 14 January. While the occasional raptor sighting is of interest to some, to me these are not particularly unusual given the expansive vistas and the nature of the terrain. My interest has been in the grassland birds, here in exceptional numbers because of widespread drought conditions. Of particular interest is the number of Horsfield's Bushlarks, an uncommon bird around Canberra, and clearly breeding at the site. The number of bushlarks to be seen, with such close views, offers a spectrum of plumage stages, from plain worn-plumage birds to remarkably bright ones, with a few young birds.
A more common local species is the skylark, to be found at several spots around Canberra, but providing a steady background noise at the site with incessant song-flighting (becoming less frequent in the last few days, I think). When perched on a wire it shows its ridiculously long hind-claw. According to one book: 'almost certainly an adaptation to a cursorial existence, [but] its exact function is uncertain'. There you are then.
Then there are the conspicuous Brown Songlarks, with their loud skritchy-skratchy song. Apart from the song-flighting they let you know they are there by sitting on fence-posts with that brazen I AM SONGLARK pose. More difficult to find are examples of plumages other than the breeding male, but over several visits I have accumulated images of what might be about ten different non-BM individuals, mainly juveniles. Some of these have boldly striped underparts that bear no relation to any field guide illustration. I wonder whether the different plumages of this species are well understood. Certainly there is quite a degree of inconsistency in the books.
And the pipits. We all know the 'typical pipit', but there are some little chaps along Parkwood Road that would test the most experienced pipitologist. Without starting on the problems of bill, claw etc, I offer the below assortment from my 'query species' folder to see what you think.
I might add that I found a Rufous Songlark out there, to complete the grassland suite.
I do not have space here to start on the bird counters and bird photographers. Also seasonally abundant.


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El Mito Bolchevique (Diario 1920–1922) es un libro en el que Alexander Berkman describe sus experiencias en la Rusia bolchevique de 1.920 a 1922, donde pudo contemplar las consecuencias de la Revolución Rusa de 1917. Escrito en forma de diario, El mito bolchevique describe cómo el entusiasmo inicial de Berkman por la revolución se desvaneció cuando se desilusionó observando la conducta de los bolcheviques y su represión de toda disidencia política.

Argumento
La narración de El mito bolchevique comienza en diciembre de 1919, cuando Berkman y Emma Goldman fueron deportados a la Unión Soviética, junto con otros más de doscientos anarquistas, socialistas y otros izquierdistas. Berkman describe las condiciones a bordo de la nave de transporte, la Buford.

Berkman empieza con gran entusiasmo por la revolución. A diferencia de algunos de sus compañeros anarquistas, está dispuesto a pasar por alto su diferencia filosófica con los bolcheviques. "A partir de ahora todos estamos codo con codo en la obra sagrada de la Revolución", le dice a un comité de bienvenida. "Socialistas o anarquistas, nuestras diferencias teóricas se quedan atrás. Todos somos ahora revolucionarios."

El mito bolchevique describe la situación en Petrogrado y Moscú. La comida era escasa y las raciones iban disminuyendo. En la pensión de Moscú en la que residía Berkman las comidas se servían en un comedor comunitario. Berkman señala que los otros residentes contemplaban un asiento vacío en la mesa. "En sus ojos leí la esperanza sincera de que el ausente no apareciera: habrá un poco más de sopa para los demás".

En marzo de 1920 Berkman y Goldman se entrevistan con Lenin, a quien Berkman describe como alguien que habla "con un acento peculiar, casi judío". Lenin les dice que la libertad es un lujo que no se puede permitir durante las primeras etapas de la revolución. Lenin les asegura que los anarquistas no serán perseguidos por sus creencias, pero "no vamos a tolerar la resistencia armada ni este tipo de agitación".

En mayo Berkman se entera de que 45 anarquistas están encarcelados desde hace muchos meses, sin que se hayan presentado cargos contra ellos. Los prisioneros han comenzado una huelga de hambre para protestar por las condiciones en que se encuentran detenidos. Berkman intenta interceder ante la dirección bolchevique en nombre de los presos y diez de los anarquistas son liberados, pero el resto es condenado sin juicio a cinco años de prisión.

A Berkman y Goldman se les pide que reúnan material para un previsto Museo de la Revolución, lo que les da la oportunidad de pasar el resto de 1920 viajando por el país. En Ucrania se enteran de la insurrección de Nestor Majnó. Visitan un campo de prisioneros sometidos a trabajos forzados en Járkov.

En febrero de 1921 las huelgas estallan en Petrogrado, cuando los trabajadores salen a las calles para exigir mejores raciones de alimentos y más autonomía sindical. El malestar se extiende a la ciudad portuaria de Kronstadt, donde está atracada la Flota del Báltico. Los marineros de la flota apoyan a los huelguistas de Petrogrado; Lenin y Trotski acusan a los marineros de ser culpables de amotinamiento y piden una respuesta militar. Berkman y Goldman tratan infructuosamente de interceder. En la lucha que se produjo se dio muerte a miles de marineros y trabajadores.

Cada vez era más evidente que los bolcheviques perseguían a los anarquistas por motivos ideológicos. Golos Trudá, un periódico anarquista, es clausurado. Un número creciente de anarquistas es detenido. Nikolái Bujarin denuncia el movimiento anarquista en Rusia como bandidos criminales que libran una guerra contra la República Soviética.

El mito bolchevique termina en septiembre de 1921, cuando Berkman toma la decisión de salir de Rusia.
Grises pasan los días. Uno por uno los rescoldos de esperanza se han extinguido. El terror y el despotismo aplastan la vida nacida en octubre... La dictadura pisotea a las masas bajo sus pies. La revolución está muerta; su espíritu clama en el desierto... He decidido abandonar Rusia.

Consecuencias
Berkman y Goldman abandonaron Rusia en diciembre de 1921. Casi inmediatamente, Berkman comenzó a escribir una serie de folletos relativos a la Revolución Rusa. "La tragedia rusa", "La Revolución Rusa y el Partido Comunista", y "La rebelión de Kronstadt" se publicaron durante el verano de 1922.

Al mismo tiempo, Goldman empezó a escribir un libro sobre sus experiencias en Rusia, utilizando como fuentes material recogido por Berkman y con su ayuda editorial. Los planes de Berkman para un libro propio quedaron pospuestos.  Berkman le escribió a un amigo acerca de sus preocupaciones:Lo que más me preocupa es escribir y publicar mi diario y libro sobre Rusia... He consentido, de buena gana y con satisfacción, que EG [Emma Goldman] haga uso para su libro de todos los datos, materiales, documentos, etc. que he acumulado y traducido. Por otra parte, el fuerte de EG es la tribuna y no la pluma, como ella misma sabe muy bien. Por lo tanto mis días y semanas están actualmente completamente ocupados como editor. No es sólo que no tenga tiempo para mi propia obra, sino que mi diario y mi libro, si alguna vez llego a completarlos, necesariamente han de referirse a las mismas cosas, los mismos datos y documentos, incluso con exactamente las mismas expresiones, como en el libro de Emma Goldman, en el que las traducciones son todas mías. Como su libro se está escribiendo primero ¿qué interés podría tener el mío (o incluso el diario), siendo así que trataría del mismo tema, referido al mismo periodo de tiempo, narrando los mismos hechos en los mismos lugares? Incluso visitamos juntos los lugares referidos durante nuestro trabajo para el Museo de Petrogrado y, lo peor de todo, manejamos los mismos documentos, etc., etc.Goldman terminó de trabajar en su libro, My Two Years in Russia (Mis dos años en Rusia), en diciembre de 1922, y el libro se publicó en dos partes, con títulos que no se deben a ella: Mi desilusión con Rusia (1923) y Mi posterior desilusión con Rusia (1924). Berkman trabajó en El mito bolchevique a lo largo de 1923 y lo publicó en enero de 1925.

Según Nicolas Walter, El mito bolchevique fue perjudicado por haberse publicado después del libro de Goldman, pero no obstante recibió críticas positivas. El anarquista estadounidense Harry Kelly escribió una larga reseña en la que describía El mito bolchevique como "una gran obra literaria". El filósofo británico Bertrand Russell le escribió a Berkman que había leído El mito bolchevique "con el mayor interés" y agregó que "mi juicio sobre los bolcheviques es sustancialmente igual al suyo; yo pasé por el mismo desencanto, después de haber llegado con la mismas esperanzas".

Análisis
Según el prefacio escrito por el propio Berkman, El mito bolchevique fue "compilado" a partir del diario que llevó durante los dos años de su estancia en Rusia  y la mayoría de los lectores asumen que se trata del diario de Berkman. Sin embargo Nicolas Walter estudió los escritos de Berkman en el Instituto Internacional de Historia Social (International Institute of Social History) y descubrió que el formato de diario es básicamente un recurso literario. Berkman reescribió esencialmente el material de su propio diario para crear El mito bolchevique.

Véase también
 Anarquismo en Rusia
 Anarquismo y marxismo

Referencias

Notas

Los trabajos citaron
 Berkman, Alexander (1989) [1925]. The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920–1922). London: Pluto Press. ISBN 1-85305-032-6.
 Drinnon, Richard; Drinnon, Anna Maria, eds. (1975). Nowhere at Home: Letters from Exile of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. New York: Schocken Books. ISBN 0-8052-3537-X.
 Walter, Nicolas (1989). "Introduction". In Berkman, Alexander. The Bolshevik Myth (Diary 1920–1922). London: Pluto Press. ISBN 1-85305-032-6.

Otras lecturas
 Berkman, Alexander (1976) [1922]. La Tragedia rusa. Berkman, Alexander (1976) [1922]. The Russian Tragedy. Montreal: Black Rose Press. ISBN 0-919618-40-5.
 Goldman, Emma (1970) [1931]. Living My Life. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-22544-5.
 Goldman, Emma (1970) [1923]. My Disillusionment in Russia. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. OCLC 76645.
 Wenzer, Kenneth C. (1996). Anarchists Adrift: Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman. St. James, N.Y.: Brandywine Press. ISBN 1-881089-56-8.

Enlaces externos
 HTML en Anarchy Archives
 PDF en Anarchy is Order
 Múltiples formatos, incluyendo ePub, en la Biblioteca Anarquista (Anarchist Library)

Libros de 1925
Diarios personales
Anarquismo en Rusia

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This was probably my best summer's training ever. July and August were AWESOME, and I PR'd New Haven, breaking a streak of really, really tough runs. September started great.
September at the office turned into a zoo. After New Haven, I averaged one (1) run per week from Monday-Friday. And those were all about 3 miles, due to a combination of being time-crunched, on travel, or sore from the long run.
Long runs – I made about 60% of them, with an absolutely disastrous 20 miler 3 weeks before NYC. One of my Sunday Schoolers (High School Junior) mentioned to me that she almost stopped to give me a ride that day.
I mis-trimmed my left big toe about 2 weeks ago, and it's a nasty, sore, oozing mess. I'm tempted to put up a picture, but man, is it grooody and painful.
In the end, what put the nail in the 2009 Marathon coffin was coming down with the Flu a week ago Wednesday. I spent 3 days completely in bed, and still am not quite right. But, I decided to bag the race. I don't have the cool cancellation message, as it was the 29th by the time I was conscious enough to realize I wasn't going to run, and you can't withdraw electronically after the 28th. No huge deal – I think that I've realized that I need to do my big race focus in either early September or after the New Year from now on to allow training to mesh with work.
The flu kind of ended up being a relief. I could have finished NYC, but there was no way it was going to be a good race. Not having to go through with the race just 'cause I'd paid (through the noise) for it made life a bit easier.
But there are positives – I dropped the 5 pounds I'd put on over the summer thanks to 104+ degree fevers and not eating for a couple days. And I had an awesome weekend with my parents and kids – Ma and Pa Jank had come up from Texas to watch the youngn's, and I got to spend a delightful weekend with them, including a trip to Clyde's Cider Mill on Sunday for kettle corn, donuts, and hard cider.
So, RBF, there you go – true confession, I blew it for this race.
* I mention Danny only because we've been swapping emails with sob stories for the last week. Misery, turns out, really does love company.
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Sounds like there's a lot of positives here — not just the weight loss (heh) and family time. The awesome summer of training is in the long run more important than any one race, right?
Get better! I'm sure cider has healing powers.
That was the major suckage, Jank. Sorry you missed the big one. Can you get credit for next year?
And thank you for not posting the toe picture. I had an ingrown nail for years and the only thing that fixed the infection was Betadine. Soak the toe and wrap it with a bandages 24/7. Change the bandage once a day. Don't worry about the iodine stains. A vitamin C tablet makes them vanish instantly (cool chemistry demo for kids too, try to figure out the reaction!).
glad you're better, I hear the flu is very nasty. thanks for not posting the toe pic, hope that is better too.


All this talk of medals has got us in a metallic frenzy. Inspired by Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, and other impressive athletes coming home with a gold medal? Give your event the Midas touch and go for the gold from head to toe, ceiling to floor.


This point reminds me of Martha and Mary (Luke 10:38–42), and is so applicable to many facets of our lives. In particular, I'm thinking about the priority-setting that is so necessary for homeschool parents—especially at this time of year. What to teach, how to teach it, what other activities to participate in? "Etc., etc., etc.," to quote the King of Siam.
Most importantly, I note that it is a tool of the devil to make homeschool parents feel guilty that they are not able to teach some academic subjects at the same level that the public schools often can if they have "good" teachers.
I believe homeschool parents should try to break away from the modern public school curriculum models and decide what is truly good, necessary, and edifying for their children to learn, based upon their future goals in life.
We can also easily get so worried and bogged down with teaching academic subjects that are not really that important, or to a level of mastery that is not at all necessary, that we forget to focus on the priorities of teaching theology and the roles of sons and daughters in developing their understanding, learning, and practicing of their respective vocations in a biblical understanding of oikouros—keeping/managing the house (e.g., Titus 2:5).
And if this were not sufficient to admonish us to read the Catechism daily, yet we should feel sufficiently constrained by the command of God alone, who solemnly enjoins in Deuteronomy 6:6ff that we should always meditate upon His precepts, sitting, walking, standing, lying down, and rising, and have them before our eyes and in our hands as a constant mark and sign. Doubtless He did not so solemnly require and enjoin this without a purpose; but because He knows our danger and need, as well as the constant and furious assaults and temptations of devils, He wishes to warn, equip, and preserve us against them, as with a good armor against their fiery darts and with good medicine against their evil infection and suggestion. Oh, what mad, senseless fools are we that, while we must ever live and dwell among such mighty enemies as the devils are, we nevertheless despise our weapons and defense, and are too lazy to look at or think of them!
The primary goal of homeschooling should simply follow the biggest advantage of homeschooling: being at home with family, having time for theological discussions, and having the flexibility to teach according to the future goals and needs of each child. With few exceptions, we are raising Christian children to become husbands and wives, fathers and mothers. Preparing for the additional vocations found outside the home, while especially important for men, must remain secondary in priority to the teaching of these primary vocations.
As a homeschool father, I have found that the more we try to duplicate the entire curriculum menu of public education, the focus of our lives moved away from the home, church, and family, and into the self-absorbed attitude of simply creating another independent individual for the state.
The same can be said for over-indulgence in extracurricular activities for each child. Parents can easily become bus drivers for independent children who have little time for family meals and edifying family leisure.
While our English translations usually render this word as "nurture," "training," or "discipline," there is not really a fully satisfactory English translation of paideia. In founding a charter school in the late 1990s, I did extensive reading and research on various pedagogies. It was during this time that the concept of the Greek paideia became central to my understanding of education for the Christian family.
Paideia involves more than just the curriculum one uses. Paideia includes absolutely everything the child is exposed to in being raised. Certainly the formal aspects of education are part of this, but paideia also includes the culture of the home in which a child learns what it means to live as a family, to be a mom, to be a dad, etc. It includes the external culture the child is exposed to as well—everything from the television shows and movies he is allowed to watch to the extracurricular activities he participates in.
The various times of the day for prayer and devotions are a very important aspect of the paideia of the Lord. I have found that the best way to frame the day is praying the Catechism morning and night the way Luther suggested, concluding with Luther's morning and evening prayers. In short, paideia includes everything that shapes a person into who he becomes. Central to this is developing a distinctively and thoroughly Christian worldview and family culture.
Where to Find Good Advice?
Probably one of the best works I could recommend on the subject is Werner Jaeger's Early Christianity and Greek Paideia. Mortimer Adler's works on paideia can be helpful, too, but he tends to co-opt that term to describe his own particular brand of pedagogy.
Doug Wilson properly describes the concept of paideia in some of his books on education, but again uses it to justify his curriculum. Wilson's books are very informative, though saturated with a Reformed theology of covenant rather than a Lutheran theology of sacramental Gospel. As an apologetic for his Christian parochial school curriculum, Wilson's books may overwhelm the humble homeschool parent. Nevertheless, Wilson's article entitled "The Paideia of God" is quite instructive for those who don't have the time to read Jaeger.
So how do we raise a child in the paideia of the Lord? This means much more than simply taking your kids to church on Sundays and enrolling them in seventh and eighth grade catechism classes. It also means that we don't simply follow the public education model of schooling and extracurricular activities. The danger is that the public education model of curriculum and pedagogy leaves very little time for the paideia of the Lord that I am talking about.
Talk about the things of God—"theology"—with your children constantly, pointing them to Christ who forgives and restores. Be in the world, but not of the world. Make God's Holy Word the lens through which everything is seen, and let it inform everything you do. "Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect" (Romans 12:2).
To sum this all up in one sentence: Raising children in the paideia of the Lord means raising them in such a way that they see and do everything in and through the light of God's Word—both Law and Gospel.
Erich Heidenreich, D.D.S., a homeschool parent, manages the blog Lutherans and Procreation and serves on the advisory board of the Hausvater Project.
Suggested citation: Heidenreich, Erich. "Raising Children in the Paideia of the Lord." The Hausvater Project, January 2012. www.hausvater.org.


Every four to six weeks or so, I make my way from the UK to France (or from France to the UK), and always by train, as I prefer the train to the plane; as well travelling on the TGV, part of my journey is taken on the Eurostar. Last November 2014 saw the start of Eurostar's 20th anniversary celebrations, and it only seems like yesterday, well to me at least, that these sleek trains started their daily trips between London, Lille and Paris, as well as Brussels. I love the Eurostar, it provides me with regular transport between the UK and Europe and with less hassle than flying – you are allowed two pieces of luggage plus personal hand luggage, no need to cram all your cosmetics and liquids in plastic bags, no checking in your luggage with minute weight restrictions and then waiting to collect them at the other end, or sharing two toilets between hundreds of people, as well as cramped airline seats…….
……..the trains have three classes, Standard, Standard Premier and Business Premier; it's Standard Premier that I always travel on, with wider seats and individual power sockets, as well as complimentary magazines, newspapers and the all important light meal that is served with beer, spirits, wine and soft drinks, all of which are included in the price of the ticket. For me, this standard of class gives me what I require after a long journey either from the South West of France or North Yorkshire, and it's well worth the extra few £'s or €'s, especially if you are travelling alone with lots of luggage. I also appreciate the fact that there are more individual seats available in Standard Premier, which I prefer.
As part of the anniversary celebrations, those readers who live in London, or who like me travel on the Eurostar regularly, will have seen the #BETTERCLOSER posters on the walls of the London Underground, and all the other train stations that the Eurostar serves. As well as the normal routes between London St Pancras and Paris, Brussels and Disneyland Paris, as of May 2015, there is a direct route to the Provence in the South of France, stopping at Lyon, Avignon and Marseilles. And, as the new routes come into operation, the new e320 trains are starting to be rolled out too……with the original order of ten e320s now in the final stage of completion, this increases the number of new trains to seventeen in total.
For me, the Eurostar is an essential form of travel, mainly for work, but it has also opened up an easy, cheap and convenient way to travel to Europe (and the UK), for all, whether it be for business, leisure or to visit family and friends. As well as St Pancras in London, you can also board (and disembark) at Ebbsfleet and Ashford in the UK, and Calais and Lille in France. I always travel via Lille, (on the Brussels service) so I can change there to get a train to Bordeaux, which takes me to my home in France. My last return trip was paid for by Eurostar, so I could share my review here, and my journeys were comfortable and fast, with both outbound and return trains arriving at their destinations on time. My light meal comprised a bottle of rose wine, water, a fabulous cheese platter with assorted bread rolls, oat cakes, butter, salad, a delectable marmalade cheesecake, coffee and a chocolate.
Eurostar operates up to 9 daily services from London St Pancras International to Lille with return fares from £69. Fastest London-Lille journey time is 1hr 20 minutes. Tickets are available from eurostar.com or 08432 186 186.
Disclaimer: I received a free return journey travelling Standard Premier with Eurostar, and all views and opinions are my own.
I still remember my first journey on Eurostar. In those days there were promotions as they were still in competition with the ferries and I collected vouchers on Volvic bottles and got a couple of free tickets. Sadly those days are over but my family has enjoyed countless trips on the Eurostar. I love it.
I love love love the Eurostar! It really is so simple to travel on. Just yesterday we booked our tickets to Paris on the Eurostar. I always tell everyone I know not to bother flying into Paris because it's a waste of time. Why faff around at the airport, check luggage, etc, fly, land, collect baggage, struggle with customs, then make your way into central Paris on the train. It's so much easier just to take the Eurostar and go straight into Paris. I'm actually looking at booking a second trip somewhere using the Eurostar. What's Lille like? Not much of a fan of Brussels.
EXACTLY Made with Pink! That is exactly what I think too and why I travel by trains (TGV and Eurostar) and not planes…….it's easy, convenient, comfortable and as you say, NO FAFFING at airports that are OUTSIDE the centre of towns and cities.
Lille is a beautiful Northern French city, and as you can see by the photo in my post, with stunning architecture. The shops are also great and they have a wonderful Christmas market every year.
I am SO excited about the new route to the Provence GG and may jump on at Paris if it stops there!
I love traveling with the Eurostar. It is beyond easy and convenient.
It's super convenient and so comfortable Bintu – I am a frequent traveller with Eurostar – I have racked up well over 100 trips with them over the last few years!
Karen, it sounds wonderful! Next trip to England, I'd definitely like to give it a go!
It is the way to travel in my opinion Jean! So relaxed and with lots of leg room, as well as no need to check in your luggage etc!


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The NCT and its urban region have been given the special status of National Capital Region (NCR) under the Constitution of India's 69th amendment act of 1991. The NCR includes the neighbouring cities of Gurgaon, Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Neharpar (Greater Faridabad), Greater Noida, Bahadurgarh, Sonepat, Panipat, Karnal, Rohtak, Bhiwani, Rewari, Baghpat, Meerut, Alwar, Bharatpur and other nearby towns. A union territory, the political administration of the NCT of Delhi today more closely resembles that of a state of India, with its own legislature, high court and an executive council of ministers headed by a Chief Minister. New Delhi is jointly administered by the federal government of India and the local government of Delhi, and is the capital of the NCT of Delhi.
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Mary J. Blige recalls recording of 'My Life' album in new documentary
The Grammy-winner recounts her turbulent upbringing and heartbreak that inspired the creation of her 1994 sophomore album
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The ability to take pain, heartbreak, depression, frustration and turn it into something beautiful, uplifting, and empathetic is a power that Black artists and creators have possessed since the dawn of this nation.
Viola Davis pays tribute to husband Julius Tennon on 18th wedding anniversary
From field hands singing in the hot sun of Southern plantations to B.B. King lamenting about the thrill being gone all the way down to Janet Jackson calling for everyone to break color lines and join a rhythm nation, there has been no shortage of songs and albums that have captured the multiple obstacles that Black men and women go through every day.
Over the past three decades, very few artists have been as consistently successful as Mary J. Blige. With 20 Top 10 R&B hits, eight consecutive platinum albums, and nine Grammy Awards, the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul has taken her place among the most important artists in American music history.
However, it's her ability to connect with her fans that's been her most enduring virtue. Perhaps no other of Blige's 13 studio albums exemplifies this connection better than 1994's My Life.
Now, fans get to have a detailed look inside the making of that album with a brand new documentary, Mary J. Blige's My Life, streaming on Amazon Prime Video Friday. It is directed by Academy Award winner Vanessa Roth (Freeheld).
My Life holds a hallowed place in Blige's discography. While only her second LP, this project, featuring hits like "Be Happy," "I'm Goin' Down" and "You Bring Me Joy," was the culmination of a period of trauma, discord, and as Blige calls it in the film, "a cry for help."
Following the success of her three million-selling debut What's The 411 in 1992, Blige had to deal with the turmoil of an abusive relationship, the pressure of taking care of her family, and the pitfalls of her newfound stardom.
The film features Blige breaking down the origins of her discontent and self-consciousness, and how they stem all the way back to childhood. Blige, along with her family members, speaks candidly about the psychologically unhealthy conditions they experienced growing up in the Schlobohm Projects in Yonkers, New York.
Mary J. Blige attends the "Mary J Blige's My Life" New York Premiere at Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center on June 23, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
Blige spoke candidly about growing feelings of dejection and defeat, learning to push down her dreams and choosing not to ever smile because the people in Schlobohm were jealous of those with ambition and aspirations.
It's something to be said about how an environment can condition you to choke down any imagination of perseverance within you, just for the sake of survival; one of the greatest paradoxes in the life of a Black American.
In a clip of a teenage Blige singing Vesta Williams' "Congratulations," we see the foreshadowing of her iconic vocal delivery, as well as an illustration of how Blige was singing for escapism rather than stardom.
The cornerstone of the documentary is the album's title track, first heard in a cappella form as we see footage of Schlobohm and its residents. Blige fights back tears talking about the Roy Ayers sample that drives the song.
"Everybody Loves The Sunshine" the 1976 Ayers composition from the album of the same title, represented the simplicity of sunshine – brightness, hope, life, vibrancy – and how it was ultimately elusive to Blige during her time in Yonkers.
For that reason, it became the basis for the title track of My Life. The lyrics were the narrative motif of the film, with each progressive passage of the first verse representing a chronological chapter in Mary's story.
It tells the story of how the basic ideals of self-love, affirmation and awareness aren't readily available to everyone, and God is the key to retrieving inner peace.
Producer Sean 'Diddy' Combs and recording artist Mary J. Blige attend the ceremony honoring Mary J. Blige with a Star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame on January 11, 2018 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images)
A brilliant recurring component in the doc is an animation of Blige as a small child evolving into the young adult who sang hits like "Real Love" and "You Remind Me." It was great because it illustrated how much the child Mary and the adult Mary are one and the same.
What was also intriguing was Blige seems to still be triggered by the lyrics on My Life. Her reaction during the film after re-listening to songs like "I Never Wanna Live Without You," "Be With You" and the title track makes it seem that the sadness is just as fresh in her mind and soul now as it was over 25 years ago.
Not only was Blige trying to navigate years of emotional turmoil she was also in a volatile, abusive relationship with Jodeci singer Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, developing a growing dependency on alcohol and cocaine, and dealing with the success of What's The 411.
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What viewers also get to see is the trauma bonding between Blige and her collaborators that led to My Life's gestation and creation. Producer Sean "Diddy" Combs spoke of going through his own relationship heartache, while lyricist Big Bub had his own issues with fame and alcohol.
"We made a connection through the pain," Combs said.
Producer Chucky Thompson had the insight to create tracks that used gritty, funky 70s soul music samples from artists like Curtis Mayfield, Barry White, Isaac Hayes and Al Green that embodied the poverty and bleakness of the ghetto.
Once Blige heard Thompson and Combs' beats, she began writing her own lyrics of yearning, longing, isolation and desperation. The end result was a triple-platinum album that not only empowered millions of Black women, it became the sonic template for R&B albums for the rest of the 1990s.
The underlying theme of the My Life documentary is Blige's on-going battle with low self-esteem. Throughout the film, she makes it clear that it was her collaborators and fans who propped her up when she felt low.
The late Uptown Records fouder, Andre Harrell, told Blige's mother after hearing her sing for the first time at age 18, "Your daughter Mary is gonna sing for royalty."
But Blige still didn't want to believe it.
"They thought I was more talented than I believed," Blige said. "They believed in me before I believed in myself."
Ultimately, her fans became her backbone. Blige would tell TheGrio that What's the 411 started her "fanbase," but after My Life, it morphed into "a movement."
While said movement would spend the next 25 years telling Blige that My Life saved their lives, it was really them saving Blige.
"We're healing each other," Blige said of her fans in the film. "There's something about the sadness in that album that's very triumphant now."
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What Blige said she wanted to accomplish with this film was give listeners a more detailed explanation of "where did all this pain come from" that made My Life so potent.
"So, I had to go back to five years old and nine years old and 16 and my father not being there and my mother being single and struggling to raise us, you know, in the projects, in this environment," Blige told TheGrio. "So I had to let people see it. And I also had to let people see what it did for the fans."
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The ongoing search for a truth that holds up to all the reasoning, rationale, logic, and critique I can throw at it. The search for truth. That's my 5%. Above all else.
A truth resilient against all the scrutiny that should be reasonably expected of anything claiming that word. Even if the truth is, that we simply don't know.
I shouted and my horse immediately complied, rearing slightly at first, knocking my hat off, which allowed me to feel the hot desert wind in my hair as we hit maximum velocity down into a dip in the dunes and up the other side to the top of a sandy crest.
Something transcendent happens when a horse's gallop smoothes out so you no longer have to think about staying on it and are instead free to watch the Great Pyramids of Giza approaching you at furious speed. Getting larger and larger in hot silence.
At the top of the second ridge I reined the horse in and it obeyed nicely. From this ridge the land drops away smoothly, and there is no ridge beyond, so as you crest it, the whole picture of all the monuments on the Giza plateau comes into view. Still about a quarter mile or more away, you see the pyramids, the Sphinx, the causeways, the roads, the tour busses, the people, the garbage. Everything.
At this point, the fact that you are part of a millennia old continuum of people who have come to see these monuments suddenly hits you. You just plugged yourself into an outlet that goes back over 4000 years. The history is immediate. And the electricity is fresh.
I waited on this ridge for my wife and our guide to catch up.
Growing up, both my parents instilled in me an appreciation for beauty and attention to detail, but my father is also responsible for imparting to me knowledge of math, physics, and engineering. He was a racing car driver. Such things are very important to that discipline. As a result, I am able to appreciate both the aesthetic beauty of things and also the beauty that comes from understanding their underlying form and the artistry that went into how they were made.
The Pyramids are perhaps the grandest place for such an upbringing to bear itself out.
The Great Pyramid of Giza is made up of approximately 2.5 million blocks with a minimum weight of 2.5 tonnes each. Some go up to 70 tonnes. our guide, Sayeed, told me that most of the blocks were quarried from about 30KM away, while others, like the red granite in the Kings Chamber, were quarried from Aswan and transported 400KM to their current resting place at Giza. Put into position by men with ropes pulling them up a ramp on log rollers.
The height of the Great Pyramid is 453 feet with all side slope angles measuring a stiff 52 degrees.
Let's dismiss the 25, 40 and 70-ton blocks for a moment and pretend that all the blocks weigh only 2.5 tonnes or about the mass of a typical family car.
The standard view of Egyptologists states that the Khufu's Pyramid took 30 years to build and that building only took place for part of each year. For purposes of easy math, let's say building took place for half of each year. With only these factors in mind, it doesn't take very sophisticated mathematics to deduce that 2.5 million blocks worked over 30 years, 6 months a year, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, means that for the Egyptologists claim to be true, one two-ton block must have been put into position at Giza, without error, or tragedy, or failure, every 5 minutes during construction.
That alone is an astounding claim. Add to that the ramp theory and the manpower needed to do such a job, and it becomes an even more tenuous position.
To build a ramp to the top of the Great Pyramid at a slope as steep as it is humanly possible to drag a stone up without risking killing everyone below you if something were to go wrong, which turns out to be about one foot of incline for every 10 feet of length, would result in a ramp over a mile long, and indeed one which would require more building materials to construct than would the Great Pyramid itself. Yet none of these building materials remain at Giza and no materials fitting this description have ever been found on the Plateau.
Upon reaching the pyramid, we bribed the guard to let us climb it. This has been illegal for many years, but in Egypt, the right price, offered the right way, can acquire permission for just about anything.
As we climbed row on row of huge blocks, my wife very naturally expressed an obvious truth "This is hard." She said. And she was right. It wasn't easy. The sand made for slippery going in some places and in others the ledges weren't very wide. One wrong move could send you tumbling down a long, long way if you weren't careful. And that made me think.
With the 160,000 men some modest, but orthodox, Egyptological estimates calculate for the size of the work force required to build the pyramids, organizing a drop of a 2-ton block of stone into a precise arrangement every 5 minutes while perhaps hundreds of people all clamor around on the pyramid at one time, would be a nearly impossible task. Or perhaps, even actually impossible.
This is not the only issue. There are many questions to be asked in Egypt. Few are asking, and answers are elusive.
I came to Egypt for the same reasons I went to Cambodia, Peru, Mexico, England, Scotland, Chile, Bolivia, India, and others. To follow a trail of breadcrumbs that leads to the truth. The ongoing search for a truth that holds up to all the reasoning, rationale, logic, and critique I can throw at it.
The search for truth. That's my 5%. Above all else.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this inspirational article. It was beautifully written, well thought out, informative & accurate. You should write a book with photos of the places you have visited in your search for the truth. Also include Japan, Iceland, Germany, Costa Rica, Spain, France & The Netherlands.


Three international authors from Canada, the U.K. and France — @DianaStevan, @Roz_Morris and myself, @LizaPerrat — were very pleased to be invited to join the latest @Biblioboard Twitter #SELFeChat on Thursday, 21st April. Each of our books have been named among the top read SELF-e books of 2015, proving that, though many SELF-e authors submit through libraries in the United States, there is a strong and growing contingent of international authors.
Hosted by @PubPerspectives Editor-in-Chief @Porter_Anderson, some interesting questions and issues were raised.
SELF-e and Library Journal asked the authors why they decided to submit their books to SELF-e. "Increased exposure" proved a popular reason, as well as endowment and support from some best-selling indie authors.
The authors asked how they could track their own SELF-e book results, and how many times their books were borrowed.
In conclusion, the hour-long chat flew by, and I'm sure the other guest authors and participants came away knowing more about SELF-e and the way it can be used as a very useful discovery platform for international authors throughout U.S. libraries.


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Asja Zenere (* 13. Dezember 1996 in Bassano del Grappa, Venetien) ist eine italienische Skirennläuferin. Sie hat ihre Stärken in den Disziplinen Riesenslalom und Super-G.

Biografie

Jugend und Europacup
Noch vor ihrem 15. Geburtstag bestritt Asja Zenere in Pfelders ihre ersten FIS-Rennen. In den folgenden drei Jahren gewann sie mehrere Citizen- und nationale Jugendrennen. Anfang Februar 2015 gab sie mit Rang 33 im Riesenslalom von Innichen ihr Europacup-Debüt. Nach ersten Platzierungen in den Punkterängen nahm sie am Saisonende an den Juniorenweltmeisterschaften in Hafjell teil. Ein Jahr danach belegte sie bei ihrer zweiten JWM-Teilnahme in Sotschi als bestes Ergebnis Rang acht im Super-G. In den kommenden Wintern konnte sie sich nur langsam verbessern, ehe sie im November 2019 als Zweite im Riesenslalom von Trysil ihren ersten Podestplatz erreichte. Nur zwei Wochen später erlitt sie bei einem Sturz in Andalo einen Riss des vorderen Kreuzbandes und des mittleren Seitenbandes im Knie.

Anfang Februar 2021 kehrte Zenere in den Europacup zurück. Nach einer weiteren Verletzung gelangen ihr in der Saison 2021/22 bereits wieder einige Top-10-Plätze im Riesenslalom. Im darauffolgenden Dezember konnte sie in Zinal ihren ersten Europacupsieg feiern. Auch die beiden Riesenslaloms in Ponte di Legno gewann sie.

Weltcup
Mit mehr als zweijähriger Verspätung gab Asja Zenere am 6. März 2022 im Riesenslalom von Lenzerheide ihr Weltcup-Debüt. Wenige Tage nach ihrem ersten Europacupsieg konnte sie sich mit Rang elf in Sestriere erstmals in den Punkterängen klassieren.

Erfolge

Weltmeisterschaften
 Méribel 2023: 22. Riesenslalom, 26. Parallelrennen

Weltcup
 1 Platzierung unter den besten 20

Europacup
 Saison 2019/20: 9. Riesenslalomwertung
 5 Podestplätze, davon 3 Siege:

Juniorenweltmeisterschaften
 Hafjell 2015: 19. Super-G, 29. Abfahrt, 33. Riesenslalom
 Sotschi 2016: 8. Super-G, 15. Kombination

Weitere Erfolge
 4 Siege in FIS-Rennen

Weblinks

Einzelnachweise

Alpiner Skirennläufer (Italien)
Teilnehmer einer Alpinen Skiweltmeisterschaft
Italiener
Geboren 1996
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Q: Is there a reason to use the single quote instead of the double quote in Javascript?
Possible Duplicate:
When to Use Double or Single Quotes in JavaScript

In Javascript, you can either use double quotes or single quotes around strings, and it means exactly the same thing:
var a = 'hello';
var b = "hello";
alert(a === b); //alerts true

I was reading some of Douglas Crockford's code, and it looks like he usually uses single quotes around string literals.
Further, most of the high rep people who answer Javascript questions around here seem to use single quotes around strings (example).
Since I usually use double quotes around strings (mostly just out of habit), I'm starting to feel self-conscious about all the answers I've given here that use double quotes. I haven't heard of any particular reason why one should use one over the other, since, as far as I can tell, they are interchangeable.
Is there a reason why all of the Javascript ninjas use single quotes? Should I use single quotes too? Will there be some unexpected fatal consequences if I continue using double quotes?

A: Strings ideally are enclosed in double quotes. There are cases where you want to use single quotes when you're wrapping text that has double quotes within them like:
var txt = 'This "should" be escaped';

Without single quotes, you'd need to escape the double quotes which makes them bit ugly (matter of taste though).
If you're in ASP.Net world, usually to workaround the nastiness of DataBinder expression, you wrap strings in single quotes.
Plus I find single quotes easier to type.
Another place where you must use double quotes is constructing JSON objects:
var obj = { "a": 1 }; // valid
var obj = { 'a': 1 }; // invalid

Either way, being consistent is most important. Choose one style and stick to it throughout the code (except when you run into escaping issues).

A: I believe that is is a primarily stylistic choice, however when it comes to quote or string escaping it can affect your string.
Overall, ensure that you are consistent whichever method you chose.

A: You can choose either one, the main thing is to be consistant.
They can be used interchangably however most languges such as c# " needs to be escaped however ' does not so its slightly simpler to use '

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THE ORGANIZATION: The Diamond Valley and District Boys & Girls Club provides support services to children and youth in their community. 'At risk' youth are a special interest, and they run a homework club, especially for those kids who do not have access to computers, or who need extra help.
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La copa de los Pirineos fue una competición de rugby organizada por las federaciones catalanas de Cataluña Norte y Cataluña con clubes de esas regiones. Se disputó por primera vez en el año 1960 y dejó de celebrarse en 1968. En un principio el torneo se dividía en dos grupos de cuatro, con semifinales y final. A partir del 5º año se cambiaría el formato a sistema de eliminatorias para volver a los grupos (de 3) en el 1965.

De manera ajena a esta competición, pero igualmente con participación de equipos catalanes y del sur de Francia, se disputó en 1994 un Trofeu ciutat de Barcelona (Trofeo ciudad de Barcelona)  que ganó el Racing Club de París. En el 2000 también se organizó un campeonato con clubes de Cataluña y del Rosellón denominado Trofeu Dues Catalunyes (Trofeo Dos Cataluñas) que tuvo como vencedor el UE Santboiana.

Palmarés
 1960:   UE Santboiana
 1961:   UE Santboiana
 1962:  Toulouse At. Club
 1963:  Toulouse At. Club
 1964:  USAP
 1965:  USAP
 1966:  A.S. Pradéenne
 1967:  FC Barcelona

Referencias

Enlaces
 Palmarés en web oficial de UE Santboiana
 Página web sobre la sección de rugby del F. C. Barcelona

Rugby en Francia
Campeonatos de rugby entre clubes de España
Deporte en España en 1960


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L.E.A. Shier (134)
L.E.A. Shier (Sept. 28, 1854 - Sept. 10, 1859)
Perhaps one of the most poignant stories to be found in the former Bethlehem Baptist churchyard, which replaced the St. James Goose Creek Chapel of Ease after the American Revolution, is that of Miss L.E.A. Shier. Over the past century, her Christian names have been lost to history, but today members of the nonprofit group restoring this historic churchyard call her either Lea or, fondly, the Trillium Angel.
Lea was not yet five years old in 1859 when the Lowcountry was ravished by one of its frequent epidemic waves, this time with what locals called the "bilious fever." Though local physician Dr. O.C. Rhame did all that he could for her, Lea died less than a week after developing symptoms of a very high fever, nausea and dehydration.
The Rev. John McCullers, minister of Bethlehem Baptist, led her burial services the following day. Her parents, Aaron and Mary, were understandably inconsolable as were her sisters, Anna (11) and Alice (6), in addition to Agness (1). The Shiers had a distinctive headstone carved for her featuring a blooming trillium flower (image below inside left). Lea had loved the three-leaved perennials, which can still be found abundantly today in this churchyard in early spring. They inscribed her headstone:
Memory of
L.E.A.. Shier
Daughter of M.A.E. and A.T. Shier
Born Sept. 28, 1854
And Departed this Life
The 10th Sept. 1859
Age 4 years, 11 Mos., 13 Days
They then added a heart-felt epitaph:
Farewell Sweet Babe too Pure for Earth,
Transplanted by a Heavenly Birth.
You Bloom in Heaven, You're Free from Pain,
Nor would we wish you Back Again.
Aaron Shier joined the Confederate Army 19 months after Lea's death. He returned to his family in 1863 to continue his service as a road commissioner and member of the Soldiers' Relief Committee. And yet, some say, that's not the end of the story ....
In 1888, because of changing populations patterns that were transitioning from waterways to rails, the clapboard Bethlehem Baptist Church (image at right) was disassembled by its members and rebuilt about six miles away where it, and its members, were closer to the train station. One of the younger helpers in this relocation, 12-year-old John Simms, hailed his father late one afternoon, calling upon him to help a young girl in distress who he had spotted in the forest surrounding the churchyard. The men undertook an extensive search, but found no one. Since then, others have reported seeing the child in or near the churchyard. Among those are James (Jim) Rozier, former Berkeley County Supervisor and road commissioner, and his brother Robert, both of whom heard her cries at various times during their childhood and later saw her as an apparition while hunting as adults in 1957; Dale Barrineau Hutson, a resident of neighboring Spring Grove development, who saw her in March 2012 near a tree hollow where she hid when Ms. Hutson called to her; and George Dangerfield, a member of the St. James Goose Creek Chapel of Ease Historical Site Nonprofit Corporation, who has seen her on numerous occasions since he began working to restore the site in 2010. Since the spring of 2016, Dangerfield says, he sees the restless little soul more often, especially in late winter shortly before the trilliums bloom. Committee members, who hope to one day relocate Bethlehem Baptist (now renamed Groomsville Baptist Church) to its original location, wonder if bringing the church back might help quiet her soul.
Text adapted by Leigh Jones Handal of Charleston Raconteurs from The Chicken Trilogy: The Chicken Family Trials and Tribulations in the Carolina Frontier by The Hon. Michael J. Heitzler, Ed.D.
Photo at top from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66207314/l_e_a-shier.
Detail of trillium on headstone by Leigh Handal. Live trillium image within public domain on Wikimedia. Image of Groomsville Baptist Church by Jack Lynes.
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Date/Time: Thursday, February 22, 2018 / 7 p.m.
TULSA, Okla. – The Oral Roberts men's basketball team will travel to Omaha, Thursday, for the Golden Eagles' final game of the regular season.
Thursday's game will tip off from Baxter Arena at 7 p.m. and a video stream will be provided for a small fee through OMavs.com. Adam Hildebrandt's radio call of the game can be heard on The Franchise at 107.9 FM and 1270 AM, and online at TheFranchiseOk.com.
• ORU dominated the first meeting of the season against Omaha, winning 93-74 in the Summit League opener at the Mabee Center. Including that win, ORU leads the all-time series against the Mavericks 6-3.
• Zach Jackson leads the Mavericks offensively with 17.5 points per game, while Mitch Hahn, who missed the first meeting between the two teams, is the team's leading rebounder at 7.3 rebounds per game.
• A win Thursday would put ORU in position to finish as high as fifth in the league, and would ensure no lower than a seventh place finish.
• ORU leads The Summit League and is seventh nationally in total rebounds at 1,147 The Golden Eagles are also seventh in the nation in offensive rebounds with 13.97 offensive boards per game.
• ORU is getting more than 67 percent of its scoring (1,462 of 2,161 points) from its underclassmen this season, including 53 percent (1,159 points) from the sophomore class.
• Sam Kearns has hit a 3-pointer in 29 consecutive games. He failed to make a triple in the first game of the season, but has connected from long range in every game since then. In just one season, he already leads the team in career games with a made 3-pointer.


This is a series of photographs taken in and around north Manchester, England, which show the magical aspects of ordinary places, with emphasis placed upon natural forces working within the urban boundaries.
The cities of northern England have been photographed on many occasions, and the eye of the beholder has often been persuaded to see nothing more than the decaying remnants of the region's industrial past and present which have tended to clutter the collective consciousness of popular culture with regard to the North: grimy streets, dark buildings, satanic mills, rows of terraced houses etc. etc. etc.
Here, by way of contrast, the camera is focused on the detail, in preference to taking a more wide-ranging, panoramic, view of the region. These images reflect just a few of the multifarious instances of pure magic which lie waiting to be discovered in so many locations in any one of the post-industrial cities of northern England.
Each photograph is a record, pure and simple, albeit a record of pure magic - magic light, magic shapes, magic juxtapositions . . . Everything that can be seen here had a real existence in time and place and was not arranged in any way. This fact is in itself an intrinsically important part of their true meaning and their beauty.
I hope you enjoy seeing these images as much as I enjoyed making them.


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In September 2018, the California Online Branch held an email list discussion on the topic The Intersection of Racism and Sexism: Where Feminism Fails Women of Color featuring guest speakers:
Gloria Blackwell, AAUW Senior VP of Fellowships and Programs
Suzanne Gould, AAUW Archivist and Historian
Dawn N. Hicks Tafari, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Winston-Salem University (2014-15 AAUW Fellow)
Mary Phillips, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Lehman College, CUNY (2018-19 AAUW Fellow)
Amaka Okechukwu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, George Mason University (2017-18 AAUW Fellow)
Ashley D. Farmer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Texas-Austin (2016-17 AAUW Fellow)
The program looked at the issue covering four sub-topics:
History of the early 20th century (passage of the 19th Amendment)
History of the 1960s/70s (Civil Rights Movement and Second Wave Feminist Movement)
Current Events (Black Lives Matter, #MeToo)
Resources/articles shared during the program:
EARLY 20th CENTURY HISTORY (passage of the 19th Amendment)
7 Women of Color Who Fought for Gender Equality — August 20, 2015 post on AAUW website
Black Women & the Suffrage Movement: 1848-1923 — excerpt from One of Divided Sisters: Bridging the Gap Between Black and White Women by Midge Wilson & Kathy Russell, 1996
How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women by Brent Staples, NY Times July 28, 2018
AAUW's Long Road to Women's Suffrage — August 23, 2013 post on AAUW website
Celebrate Women's Suffrage, but Don't Whitewash the Movement's Racism by Tammy L. Brown, August 2, 2018
Women's Suffrage Leaders Left Out Black Women by Evette Dionne, August 18, 2017
Anna Julia Cooper's classic essay, "The Status of Women in America" (no link available)
The African-American Suffragists History Forgot by Lynn Yaeger, October 21, 2015
The Ballot and Black Women by Denise Oliver Velez, August 21, 2011
When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, a book by Paula J. Giddins (HarperCollins 2007) Chapter on Ida B. Wells and Mary Church Terrell is available to read for free.
Opening Membership and Minds, AAUW post about Mary Church Terrell, February 26, 2014
1960s/1970s HISTORY (Civil Rights and Second Wave Feminist Movements)
Video interview of Gloria Steinem by theGrio's Deputy Editor, Natasha Alford, June 29, 2017
The Unsung Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement Are Black Women You've Never Heard Of by Alia E. Dastagir, February 16, 2018
The Women of the Combahee River Collective
8 Historic Women Who Pioneered the Civil Rights Movement by Yohana Desta, February 5, 2015
Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers & Torchbearers, 1941-1965, a book edited by Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Barbara Woods (Indiana University Presss, 1993)
Sex and Caste: A Kind of Memo by Casey Hayden and Mary King, 1965. Written by 2 white women, black feminists agreed with some points, but felt that race mediated their experiences within the organization.
A black woman in the same organization as the "Sex and Caste" article (above) wrote from a black viewpoint: "We Started From Different Ends of the Spectrum" by Cynthia Washington, in the journal Southern Exposure, Winter 1077, pp 14-18 — no direct link available
The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement, a book by Winifred Breines (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980, a book by Kimberly Springer (Duke University Press, 2005)
Welfare is a Women's Issue by Johnnie Tillmon, 1972
Welfare Warriors: The Welfare Rights Movement in the United States, a book by Premilla Nadasen (Routledge, 2005)
Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty, a book by Annelise Orleck (beacon Press, 2005)
Coalition Politics: Turning the Century, a speech by Bernice Johnson Reagon reprinted in Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, a book edited by Barbara Smith (Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, 1983)
4 Big Problems With The Feminine Mystique by Ashley Fetters, February 12, 2013
Black Herstory: The Founders of the Feminist Party by Janell Hobson, February 9, 2012
Sisters in the Struggle: African-American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement, a book edited by Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin (New York Univ. Press, 2001)
Want to Start a Revolution? Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle, a book edited by Dayo Gore, Jeanne Theoharis, and Komozi Woodard (New York Univ. Press, 2009)
"The Interstitial Politics of Black Feminist Organizations" by Kimberly Springs, article in journal Meridians, Spring 2001, pp 155-191 — no direct link available
Chapter on AAUW and integration in Organized White Women and the Challenge of Racial Integration, 1945-1965 by Helen Laville (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
Yearning For a Unified Society in 1960s America, by Suzanne Gould on AAUW website, August 21, 2013
AAUW Coretta Scott King Fellows: Scholars and Women of Action, AAUW website post, January 16, 2017
Fellowships became a way for AAUW to expand educational opportunities for African-American women and add to the scholarship around black women, civil rights, history, race, and social movements: Nell Irvin Painter, Barbara Smith, Keisha Blain, Melissa Harris-Perry, Sherie Randolph, Patricia Bell-Scott, Faith Ringgold, Ruth Feldstein, and Kimala Price.
African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race by Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, 1992
CURRENT EVENTS (Black Lives Matter and #MeToo)
"The Urgency of Intersectionality" TED talk by Kimberlé Crenshaw, October 2016
Black Lives Matter website describing Guiding Principles and Herstory
Connect the Dots: For Korryn Gaines, Skye Mockabee and Joyce Quaweay, August 3, 2016
Police Kill Unarmed Blacks More Often, Especially When They Are Women, Study Finds by Gerry Everding, February 6, 2018
Unarmed Black Women Are At Highest Risk When Interacting With Police, Study Finds by Ashley Lisenby, February 12, 2018
Serena Williams and the Game That Can't Be Won (Yet): What Rage Costs a Woman by Rebecca Traister, September 9, 2018
Serena Williams Cartoon, Called Racist, Gets New Life on Paper's Front Page by Isabella Kwai, September 12, 2018
Serena Williams May Be Singled Out for Drug Testing. The Question is Why. by Kevin B. Blackistone, July 27, 2018
Murdered and Missing Native American Women Challenge Police and Courts by Garet Bleir and Anya Zoledziowski, August 27, 2018
The Health Care System and Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality by Theresa Chalhoub and Kelly Rimar, May 10, 2018
For Serena Williams, Childbirth Was a Harrowing Ordeal. She's Not Alone. by Maya Salam, January 11, 2018
NPR Series Lost Mothers: Maternal Mortality in the U.S.
How Hospitals Are Failing Black Mothers by Annie Waldman, December 27, 2017
Black Women Disproportionately Suffer Complications of Pregnancy and Childbirth. Let's Talk About It. by Adrianna Gallardo, December 8, 2017
Empowerment Through Empathy: The Birth of the Me Too Movement, a feature about social justice activist Tarana Burke's presentation to AAUW's National Conference for College Women Student Leaders (NCCWSL) in June 2018.
Black Women Are Waiting For Their #MeToo Moment by Renée Graham, May 15, 2018
What About #UsToo?: The Invisibility of Race in the #MeToo Movement by Angela Onwuachi-Willig, June 18, 2018. From last paragraph: "This work can't grow unless it's intersectional. We [women of color] can't do it alone and they [white women] can't do it alone . . . . Until we change [how we interact], any advancement that we make in addressing this issue is going to be scarred by the fact that it wasn't across the board."
Test for implicit bias (Harvard University, "Project Implicit") — AAUW International Fellow Mahzarin Banaji helped develop the research for this test during her Fellowship year at Harvard
What Is White Privilege, Really? by Cory Collins, Fall 2018
How I Discovered I Am White, blog post by Janelle Hanchett, December 9, 2014
Cracking the Codes: Joy DeGruy video "A Trip to the Grocery Store"
How White People Have Reacted to Black Success Over Time in the United States by Kim Reynolds, July 30, 2018
5 Ways White Feminists Can Address Our Own Racism by Sarah Milstein, September 24, 2013
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh, 1988
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, a book by Robin DiAngelo (Beacon Press, 2018)
A Sociologist Examines the "White Fragility" That Prevents White Americans From Confronting Racism by Katy Waldman, July 23, 2018
Tim Wise video on White Privilege
So You Call Yourself an Ally: 10 Things All 'Allies' Need to Know by Jamie Utt, November 8, 2013
Jane Elliot's Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Test (video "How Racist Are You?")
The History of White People, a book by Nell Irvin Painter
As a part of the program, we asked AAUW Archivist/Historian, Suzanne Gould, to tell us about AAUW's record in the intersection of racism and sexism. Here is what she shared with us:
Thank you for inviting me to participate in this important discussion. I can provide some background on AAUW history to give some perspective in response to Sandy's third question: "Did AAUW fully embrace equal rights for all, or exhibit some of the same racism that has been documented in other women's advocacy organizations of that era?"
While AAUW has always been an organization composed of predominately white women, the organization was forced to address the issue of discrimination in its membership policy in 1946. This was the year that Mary Church Terrell was invited to join the Washington DC Branch by a fellow Oberlin graduate. Some members of the branch opposed Terrell's admittance because she was African American. The irony is that Terrell was once a national member of AAUW, back at the turn of the century after she graduated from Oberlin, yet had let her membership lapse and decided to rejoin later in life. AAUW, 1949. On display at AAUW.
National AAUW told the branch they had to accept Terrell's application for membership or be dissolved. AAUW had never explicitly excluded women based on race in its membership criteria or bylaws. However, the branch sued AAUW in district court and won. AAUW then appealed the court's decision but lost. The president at the time, Dr. Althea K. Hottel, recommended that the organization should revise its bylaws to clarify its membership requirements to prevent exclusion by race.
At the 1949 National Convention in Seattle, AAUW members voted to revise the bylaws so that the only requirement for membership was to be a woman with a college degree from an AAUW-approved university. (Men weren't admitted until 1987. More on the AAUW approved universities later.)
This new wording clarified that was one and only one requirement for AAUW membership, and reaffirmed that women college graduates of all races were eligible for membership. The branch members that had opposed Terrell's membership quit AAUW and formed their own group, the College Woman's Club of Washington, D.C. The remaining AAUW members stayed on as the Washington branch.
It's important to note that although the bylaws did change to make it clear there would be no discrimination based on race, this opened up the organization only in theory. In practice, however, things were quite different and there existed significant barriers to membership. For example, AAUW still maintained a strict membership policy regarding its list of approved institutions. Until about 1965, in order to become a member, you had to have a degree from a list of AAUW approved institutions. Colleges and universities first applied to AAUW for membership, and when they were approved, at which point their graduates were eligible to become members. However, none of the HBCU's were ever approved despite having applied. The approved membership list remained full of predominately white colleges and universities. This clearly limited the number of women of color who were eligible to become members up until that point in time.
When asked about AAUW's role in the passage of the 19th Amendment, Gould added:
Many of our members did advocate for women's suffrage—both on a local and national level. The national AAUW (then the ACA) leaders at the time of course supported the passage of the 19th amendment, but were hesitant to devote AAUW resources to the issue because they deemed it outside the mission/scope of the organization which was focused on equity for women in higher education. They were also very concerned about losing membership since there were some women who opposed women's suffrage (hard to believe, but true) within the organization's ranks. The organization was still rather small during that time so maintaining and building membership was always at the forefront of their minds.
Of course there is a strong, natural connection between the issue of equality in education and women's suffrage, and the leaders knew this and debated it a bit in the records. But as far as ACA itself as a national organization advocating for women's suffrage, they came to support it rather late in the cause, around 1915, and then only as an issue to study and adoption of a resolution. There isn't much else as far as historical resources on suffrage in the archives. However, I know of many ACA members who were working on the issue in their own states long before then and then nationally up to the passage of the 19th amendment.
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I've always loved horses. When I visited Kentucky, I had to stop every few miles to see the thoroughbreds. The foals were so cute. I guess that's another reason I love zebras so much. I forget how many different varieties there are.
What a gorgeous animal. Beautiful photos.
Lovely stripped coat they have!
Zebras are so beautiful animals. They make great photo models. You did a good job with the photos!
Beautiful photos. It looks like he had a run in with that fence at one time!


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I cannot simply subtract 7 * 60 * 60 from the UTC timestamp, as everybody else seems to be suggesting when googling this issue.
How can I simply alert(); the current current PDT time using Javascript?

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Learn the valuable art of the one-page pitch.
What's the likelihood of getting your 45-page pitch read by an investor? Not very, considering he probably has a hundred pitches just like it on his desk already, says Patrick G. Riley, author of The One-Page Proposal (ReganBooks). Investors may not want to tackle a lengthy proposal, but, says Riley, "The person [can] read [the one-page proposal] on the spot--anybody can read for two and a half minutes."
The key to making a good one-page pitch is focusing ideas into a single vision. What do you want the pitch to accomplish? Be clear in asking for an action. Do you want to get new investors? Get people to write about your business? Entice a potential client to choose your service? Though your business is the same, you'll need to punch up different angles with different audiences, and write in the third-person voice. Venture fund executives want to know how your firm fits their needs, so research the VC's background before writing a pitch. Remember, investors want to see how you can improve their bottom line.
The brevity of the pitch, however, doesn't mean you do less research. You still need to have all the facts and figures on hand that you'd normally put into the 45-pager, and be prepared to answer the questions that your one-page proposal will elicit if you've done it right. "It's not a summary; it's not an introduction," says Riley. "It's asking for an action."


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RICHMOND — Gov. Ralph Northam, in his first interview since a racist photo from his medical school yearbook came to light a week ago, promised to pursue racial reconciliation as he defended his vow to stay in office despite widespread calls for his resignation.
Northam (D), 59, said he wants to spend the remaining three years of his term trying to ensure that black Virginians have the same opportunities as whites.
Northam seemed chastened and subdued as he described a week of grappling with what "white privilege" means, with the reality of African American history, and with the personal failing of growing up after desegregation and the civil rights era while somehow not realizing that blackface is offensive.
"It's been a horrific week for Virginia. A lot of individuals across Virginia have been hurt," Northam said Saturday morning, seated in the formal front parlor of the 1813 Executive Mansion. Northam's office restricted the interview to 30 minutes and stipulated that neither the audio nor a full transcript of the interview be released. Otherwise, there were no limitations on what could be asked or published.
He said he is monitoring the situation involving Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D), who is denying two sexual assault allegations, but that he has not made any decisions about who he might appoint as a replacement if Fairfax heeded calls to resign.
The governor still contends that he is not in the photograph of one person in blackface and another in KKK robes but could not say how it wound up on his yearbook page, nor why he initially took responsibility for it, other than to say that he was "shocked" when he first saw it on an iPhone the afternoon of Feb. 1.
He said that an "independent investigation" being conducted by Eastern Virginia Medical School is aimed at clearing up the facts around it.
Former Virginia Attorney General Richard Cullen, who has been engaged by the medical school to lead a team from the law firm McGuireWoods to conduct the investigation, has said that one of their goals will be to determine who is depicted in the photo and how it got on Northam's yearbook page.
Looking ahead, Northam said he has asked his Cabinet secretaries to come up with specific proposals to begin addressing issues of inequality, such as expanding access to health care, housing and transportation, and to begin reporting suggestions on Monday.
Northam has been in seclusion all week, using tunnels to shuttle between the mansion and the nearby building where he has an office. He has met with African American legislators and faith and community leaders, and has begun reading up on race — "The Case for Reparations," an article in the Atlantic by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a few chapters of "Roots," by Alex Haley. He said he has reflected on his own origins and tried to confront his lack of understanding.
Northam said he has had painful conversations this week with black lawmakers — who continue to call publicly for him to resign — about the issue of blackface, and why it was wrong for him to wear it to portray Michael Jackson in a San Antonio dance contest in 1984, as he has admitted doing.
Asked later what Northam meant by referring to things he did "back in medical school," spokeswoman Ofirah Yheskel said he misspoke and just meant San Antonio, where he did his residency.
"And the main point that this person told me is that at the end of the day, the white person — just as I was the white person that dressed up as an African American dancer — at the end of the day we can take that makeup off and go back to being white," but a black person continues to live in that skin and all that it represents.
Another black lawmaker, who he also declined to name, made a powerful point about white privilege, Northam said: That a white person who makes a mistake gets a second chance, while a black person might not. "That really helped put things in perspective for me to better understand why someone of white privilege has the opportunities that they have when an African American . . . doesn't," he said.
But his first example of action was modest.
Expanding Medicaid last year was a good start, he said, but state government needs to be aggressive about enrolling residents.
Northam said he has talked with Commerce Secretary Brian Ball about boosting affordable housing, fostering entrepreneurship among minorities and taking a look at whether minority-owned businesses are getting full access to state contracts.
He wants more resources for public transit to help those who don't own cars and need better access to jobs, schools and retail, he said.
Immediately following the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in August 2017, Northam suggested that Confederate monuments be moved from public property to museums. But later, Northam said the matter should be left to each locality.
On Saturday, he seemed to say he was willing to use his authority as governor to push the issue, if the monuments still prove provocative.
Northam pointed out that part of better understanding history is to have more context, more monuments of a broader swath of historical figures. He pointed to portraits in the Executive Mansion: civil rights lawyer Oliver Hill, for instance, and Barbara Johns, who fought to integrate public schools.
But earlier in the interview, Northam had also pointed out a portrait in the parlor of Henry Wise, who served as governor from 1856-60 and is the only other Virginia governor besides Northam to hail from the Eastern Shore. When it was pointed out that Wise was a staunch Confederate who defended slavery, Northam grimaced.
Raised near the small fishing village of Onancock on the Eastern Shore, the son of a judge and a nurse, Northam said he is proud of his origins but that he is working to understand the missing pieces of his education about race.
Asked why it's in the best interest of the state for him to work through these issues while in office, instead of heeding the calls to resign, Northam responded that he has a responsibility to the people who elected him.
Northam said that he is setting up a "reconciliation tour" that will take him around the state to engage in conversations about race and healing, but that he had no details yet.
"I really do believe there's a calling for all of us, and the fact that this happened this year" — on the 400th anniversary of the first Africans arriving in Virginia to be sold into slavery — "I think there's a reason for that," Northam said.


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Instagram thinks outside the Square
Instagrammers no longer have to crop their latte art shots to the app's creatively restricting square aspect ratio. Now users can choose one of two additional layouts—portrait and landscape—to add horizontal or vertical real estate to their images.
The move is the first major alteration to the photo-sharing, social media service since Facebook Inc bought it for $1 billion in 2012, and addresses the wishes of many of its 300 million users, who have been constrained by the square format.
"It boils down to giving advertisers and users more options," said Debra Aho Williamson, a social media marketing and advertising analyst. "You want people to be able to see more of your ad. It's something advertisers are definitely going to be interested in."
One in five photos and videos posted on the service do not fit the square format, Instagram said in a blog post.
"Friends get cut out of group shots, the subject of your video feels cramped and you can't capture the Golden Gate Bridge from end to end," it said.
Instagram's web-based service and its mobile apps running on Google Inc's Android system and Apple Inc's iOS will allow portrait and landscape formats, giving both users and paying advertisers more options.
The move should help Instagram in its battle with newer rivals such as Snapchat for users in the fast-moving messaging and media-sharing market.
At the same time, it should attract more advertising revenue for Instagram, which said in June it would open its platform to all advertisers by the end of the year, rather than just to select brands.
Instagram is expected to generate nearly $600 million in advertising revenue by the end of this year and $2.8 billion in 2017, according to projections from research firm eMarketer.
By comparison Facebook, the world's most popular online social network, generated more than $12 billion in revenue in 2014. The growing service hit one billion users in a single day for the first time on Monday.
To promote the new formats on Thursday, Walt Disney Co released exclusive footage of its upcoming film, "Star Wars, The Force Awakens," using the new landscape option, check it out below.
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School has begun, the trees are beginning to change colors, and the pumpkin spice memes are already taking over the internet. It's almost Fall, and we can't wait for the cool weather and hot drinks so that we can curl up with some hot cocoa and quality anime. Of course, all that chilling has to include anime memes, too.
You either love that it's back, or hate it. Either way, pumpkin spice everything has become a staple of the autumn market. Rinne, well, just doesn't have the money for that. It'll be an okay… kind of thing.
Have you heard of our savior Rory Mercury? This will give you a little insight into her glory.
While we're partial to the Chaika face meme, not to mention her eyebrow game, we still just love her little catchphrase so much! Her adorable speech patterns are one of her most endearing traits.
Akira Hayama's potent sense of smell and knowledge of herbs combines the research and support of scientist Jun Shiomi, making him a serious threat in the kitchen. When Ryo Kurokiba dons that red bandana, his appetite to win burns through his lethargic exterior and makes him a powerful contender. Of course, not many could trust their instincts and improv an entire cooking challenge like Soma Yukihira. Here in the Sentai offices, all teams are represented. What's your team?
Only Sakamoto could make avoiding a (misguided) thug with a bat look like a graceful dance… all while delivering an inspiring speech.
We compile a new Meme Monday every third week of the month, so stay tuned and rake in the memes like autumn leaves! What anime memes are your favorites? Let us know on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram and Google+.