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Allegations of Racism, Verbal Abuse Suspend CSU Football
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Michael Mason Published: August 8, 2020
Colorado State football operations has been suspended indefinitely after an investigation uncovered allegations of racism and verbal abuse in the football program.
The allegations of racism and verbal abuse come on the heels of a ongoing investigation into allegations that football players were being instructed not to report any symptoms of COVID-19 according to ESPN. CSU Athletic staff and players told ESPN that they were being discouraged from getting tested for the virus. They also claim that leaders in the athletic department are not "providing accurate information" to health officials and ignoring quarantine guidelines.
There is no specific information on the allegations or details on what might have been said at this time.
ESPN is reporting CSU athletic director Joe Parker said this Friday:
Colorado State University is committed to being an anti-racist university, and we will not tolerate any behavior or climate that goes against that core value. Moreover, CSU Athletics is committed to the health and well-being of student-athletes above all other priorities, and this includes their mental health. We believe it is our responsibility to make sure that all student-athletes feel welcomed and valued as members of an inclusive athletics community.
Anthoney Hill, the school's former player development coach and 90's quarterback expressed concerns about head coach Steve Addazio and a culture of toxic masculinity. Hill was hired by Coach Bobo and stayed with the team for about a month after Coach Addazio came in.
According to ESPN the former coach suggested he witnessed "racially insensitive comments" from Coach Bobo and was afraid it would continue under Addazio.
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This week's podcast features Chris Hogan, who is a part of the Dave Ramsey team.
Chris Hogan received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown College in Georgetown, Kentucky, where he was a star on the football team as he became an All-American. After graduating from college, he transitioned to the coaching side of football while completing his graduate degree. Chris found lots of success in the business world, as he climbed the ladder becoming the vice president of a prestigious company. However, Chris felt the call to do more than sit behind his desk, and watch clients struggle with their finances. Shortly thereafter, he connected with Dave Ramsey and a new career opportunity emerged. Now, Chris helps spread the message of financial hope to audiences all over the country. He is an expert on subjects like mortgages, healthcare, and investing. Chris Hogan is also considered one of America's leading voices regarding retirement, and has authored the book Retire Inspired.
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Imagine: you get an invitation to a wine tasting by email. Not just any tasting but a vertical tasting of the first twenty-five years the winery has been in existence. The last SIX of those vintages have not been released yet – just lying in the cellar slowly aging. You received the invitation because you visited the winery and only those who have are being sent invitations. You have a choice of going to New York, Chicago, or Los Angeles. What would you say? Oh, I forgot, the cost was $250 including dinner…hmm just $10 per vintage.
The winery is Clos de l'Obac (Costera del Siurana) in the Priorat region of Spain about 75 miles south of Barcelona in the town of Grattalops. It is a very small area that is encircled by the up and coming Monsant region, a DO (Denominación de Origen) since 2001, while Priorat is the gem and received its DOQ (Denominació d'Origen Qualificada), later upgraded to DOQa, (actually the same but the first was Catalyan, and the other Spanish, and is only one of two such designations in Spain, the other being La Rioja.
For the first three vintages, 1989–1991, the group of five wineries pooled their grapes, shared a winery in Gratallops, and made one wine sold under five labels: Clos de l'Obac, Clos Dofi (later renamed to Finca Dofi), Clos Erasmus, Clos Martinet and Clos Mogador. From 1992, these wines were made separately. There are several more wineries now but all are very independent of one another.
According to the owner, five people got together in 1979 – "crazy people" according to owner Carles Pastrana, and they bought and developed vineyards and a winery in Grattalops. The vineyards dated back over 100 years and were originally planted by the Romans and monks at the monastery of Scala Dei. Besides Clos de l'Obac, the wineries were Clos Erasmus, Clos Martinet, Clos Mogador, Clos Dofi. The first three vintages were made in then only winery in Grattalops, then they each made their own wine. Later Mas Doix, Scala Dei, and others appeared and some of the original five had name changes.
In 1995, Clos de l'Obac finished in the top four in a tasting in Stockholm. The four top were 1989 Clos de l'Obac, Chateau Le Pin, Cos d'Estournel, all tied and only surpassed by five points by Chateau Pétrus. Carlos then made the unusual decision to make the blend the same from that point on: 35% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% garnacha, and 10% each of merlot, syrah, and cariñena. His theory is that the grapes and wine have a personality, while the climate and weather provide the character. He has been criticized for this but to him, he is using the best formula he knows to make wine and the differences by year are only due to the weather. I tease him about being 'the lazy winemaker', but if that were the case his wines would not be so well received. More significantly, since they do not buy grapes or juice from other wineries, what happens if there is a light harvest of one of the 10% varietals? He cuts back production, which can hardly be called efficient, and sells the excess to other wineries. He also does the blending at the harvest, rather than after aging in separate barrels that are then 'assembled' to the desired proportions. The wine is fined using egg whites but never filtered. This is accomplished in his gravity flow winery by adding an additional tank by the bottling area. The wine goes into this and is left for a few weeks which creates a natural filtering when the wine is drawn off and bottled.
While there were distinct differences between the vintages (especially in the mid-2000's due to steadily warmer temperatures which caused the alcohol level to go from a steady 13.5% to 14.5-16%, but even then the wines did not taste hot, nor were they the fruit bombs so popular with critics and employed by California wine makers. These were all excellent food wines), but there was no oxidation or browning of any of the wines. They were all fresh and vibrant. By the way all of the wines were opened three hours before serving but not decanted. When it came to the final 1989 vintage, it showed no sign of age and fruit. It was very soft and pleasant, with very little tannin. I believe the tasting confirmed Carles' theory of personality and character and that the differences between vintages would have been far greater if the blend had been varied. I began, as and am even more so now, a fan of these excellently made wines.
As for the tasting and venue, it was perfectly orchestrated and the pairings were all unique and excellent. It was just over three hours and the time went by very quickly.
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Cryptocurrency is becoming apart of a small group of many people's investments. There are top industry leaders taking a piece of the pie, especially in the United States. Why? You may not know or heard that cryptocurrency is reliving the gold rush days. However, strong coins with a stable company like Hemp Coin, Pot Coin, Dope Coin, and Cannabis Coin are raking in higher sums for those investing in their cryptocurrency coins.
It's digital money where people can exchange transactions between each other. It's a blockchain that's computer software integrated into keeping a stable system where coins are found and used in place of actual cash. It was created by Satoshi Nakamoto to keep a decentralized system where the people are in control.
The common coin you'll see is Bitcoin. This is the very first digital coin created by Satoshi in 2009. Bitcoin is now worth $14,000 per 1 Bitcoin which is a higher value than USD. Since then there are new coins gathering attention worldwide.
How does cannabis come into play?
Cryptocurrency is becoming more and more popular, especially within the cannabis industry. Cannabis coins are now at play along with many other non-cannabis coins.
As you are aware there are financial concerns in the cannabis industry. These concerns prohibit cannabis companies to secure their money in actual banks or financial institutions. This forces them to always operate in "cash only" transactions and saving methods. Now there are world leaders investing in cannabis coins and very few companies now allow cannabis coin payments within their dispensaries.
Cannabis coins are attracting other countries to invest and utilize their digital currency. According to a news report, Israel takes a piece of the cryptocurrency pie while partnering with Canada organizations such as SciCann and Global Cannabis Applications Corp. (GCAC).
SciCann produces therapeutic cannabis products for ailments such as pain management, neurodegenerative diseases, and inflammatory disorders. When they agreed to partner with Global Cannabis Applications Corp, their mission was to utilize the cryptocurrency space for the cannabis industry.
Global Cannabis Applications Corporation provides SciCann the ability to utilize Artificial Intelligence and Cryptocurrency. The news report states the cannabis industry has its financial frustrations by not keeping cash into a secure banking system. Cryptocurrency offers them an opportunity to change the cannabis industry. In essence, SciCann creates and promotes the products while GCAC provides the more technical software part.
Israeli's iCan is also partnered with these two organizations as they launch their iCan Sleep insomnia formulation. However, the news report doesn't state whether iCan will use cannabis cryptocurrency to help their financial needs for their new formulation iCan sleep launch. We can predict they will utilize cryptocurrency to help expand their cannabis market nationwide.
These organizations see an opportunity to help the cannabis industry's financial conflicts that the people can take control of without the permission of government authorities.
In addition, companies within the United States like WeedMD are partnering up with Pot Coin to deliver a better payment method than traditional cash. This will help the industry keep a secure account within digital cryptocurrency accounts. The accounts will ultimately secure money rather than keeping actual cash at hand.
In a recent press release, Pot Coin announced their partnership with WeedMD. This will invite individuals to buy cryptocurrency coins to purchase grams of weed from WeedMD. Pot Coin hopes this move will enable vendors and suppliers to adapt faster toward cryptocurrency and resolve financial conflicts plaguing the industry. Although it's a fresh start for Pot Coin, time will only tell how the industry adapts to cryptocurrency.
Overall, digital currency is becoming more popular within the cannabis industry. There are large gains any investor can hope to receive by putting their money within cannabis coins. International countries like Israel and Canada are setting their eyes on high tech technology and cryptocurrency that will change the entire industry for the better. It's possible that cannabis cryptocurrency will evolve just like Bitcoin has in the next 5 to 20 years. If this continues to scale up as it does, then you can ensure you will receive large gains with the investment you made within cryptocurrency.
Always growing & learning! Great news & information.
This is the future of Cannabis Trade, if we can't use the federal banking system, we will make our own. World news worthy, well done.


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Valentine delivered to City Hall on Feb. 14Photo by Edward Neary
#BlackLivesMatter: the new civil rights movement
By Michael L. Jones
Growing up in the Highlands, Nate Jones never thought much about racial segregation in Louisville. He knew that the neighborhoods became poorer and predominantly black once you crossed 9th Street into West Louisville, but he never took the time to think about why that was. At Hampshire College, a private liberal arts school in Amherst, Massachusetts, he got involved with social justice groups working on environmental issues and lobbying for Palestinian rights in Israel. Then one day someone asked him why he wasn't dealing with the apartheid in his own country, so Jones decided to move back to Louisville to work on local social justice issues.
The 26 year old returned to Louisville in time to take part in the Occupy Movement, a 2011 campaign for economic justice that began on Wall Street but soon spread to cities across the country. Jones later joined the Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and the local Sierra Club, which was dealing with pollution problems in Southwest Louisville. He is now an organizer with Kentucky Jobs With Justice.
All of this explains why Jones braved the light snow and near single digit temperature on Valentine's Day to join about 20 other social activists taping colored hearts to Louisville's City Hall. Each of these Valentines to the local power structure bore the names of police shooting victims, their ages and some detail about the incident that led to their deaths. For example: "'I don't have a gun. Stop Shooting.' Michael Brown, 18. #Last words.'"
An African-American man sitting at a nearby bus shelter wandered over to ask Jones the purpose of the hearts. He answered, "They are to show love and respect for shooting victims. We don't want people to forget their names." As if on cue, two local television news cameramen showed up to record the impromptu memorial.
Brown's Aug. 14 shooting and the subsequent acquittal of his killer, Officer Darren Wilson, set off weeks of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, last year. But the impact of the incident is still being felt across the nation. Ferguson helped to politicize a generation that many older activists thought was too entranced by videogames and Facebook to care about the world outside of their phones and laptops. These millennials are using modern technology to stay connected, organize and change the face of the modern Civil Rights Movement.
The young activists at the City Hall event on Valentine's Day came from different backgrounds. Representing various local social justice organizations, they varied by race and socio-economic class. What they had in common was an urge to change the world and the Internet. Most of them were notified about the event by the Ferguson National Response Network (fergusonresponse.tumblr.com), a Tumbler page that lists opportunities for social activism across the country. It is where one goes to learn about a Ferguson-to-Philly Town Hall in Philadelphia, a Youth Assembly in North Carolina, or a candlelight vigil in Portland, Oregon.
Ferguson.liveuamap.com allows viewers to see a live map of active demonstrations around the world. The blog Ferguson2Louisville (ferguson2louisville.wordpress.com) provides a calendar of local social justice events focused just on the River City. Ferguson Action (fergusonaction.com) is another national informational site used by local organizers.
All of this Web surfing often leads to real life action in the streets of Louisville. The Valentine's Day event was a benign example of what activist Chanelle Helm, a member of the Kentucky Alliance and Women in Transition, calls "direct action." These are activities designed to interrupt the average citizen's everyday life and force that person to think about social justice issues. So far, the event that has received the most attention happened in December 2014 when Helm and other social justice activists blocked Shelbyville Road during Light Up Middletown to bring attention to the death of Eric Garner, a man who died after New York police put him in a chokehold. Garner's death spawned the popular "I Can't Breathe" campaign.
In November 2014, Helm led a group that interrupted a performance in the Mayor's Gallery to protest the lack of diversity among the artists invited to perform in the Mayor's Music Series. It led to promises of more inclusiveness in the future. Helm has also organized what she calls "Black Brunches," where she leads activists to a local restaurant and forces diners to listen to poems and information about social justice issues. This is supposed to be an assault on white privilege by forcing people outside their comfort zone.
"People have to turn their attention to us," Helm explained. "Of course there is going to be anger. There is going to be confusion. There is the 'Why are you here?' Then you are going to get the racist, 'If only you act right. If only you did this right.' Confronting these people is an interruption to their lives just like systemic racism is an interruption to our lives."
These direct action events are the descendants of the flash mobs and the meetups that were first-wave instances of Internet-based organizing. Cate Fosl, Director of the University of Louisville's Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, said the trend points to the way technology is transforming the social justice movement. "We are in the midst of a real paradigm shift," Fosl said. "Social media allows activists to share information across state lines and even across international borders. People can play a role by doing something as easy as just sharing a news article on Facebook. It is also an efficient way to organize activities. This has the potential to be a powerful tool."
An example of the power of social media is the #StopRush campaign. In 2012, conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh labelled college student Sandra Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute" after she testified before Congress in support of birth control. Soon #StopRush started as a campaign to boycott Limbaugh's advertisers. The campaign was joined by Boycott/Rush, #FlushRush and numerous Facebook pages. "Talk Radio's Advertising Problem," a Feb. 3 Wall Street Journal article, said the online campaign was having a negative impact on Limbaugh's wallet. According to the article, pure talk-station revenue fell from $217 million to $205 million in recent years. The number of talk stations shrank from 546 to 510 over that period. The paper says, "the erosion of ad dollars from talk stations was driven in part by a series of organized social media campaigns by liberal activists in early 2012 that scared away advertisers."
Local activist Tara Pruitt is not surprised by the success of the #StopRush movement. She said social media is a way for like-minded people to get outside the prism of the mainstream media to voice their true concerns. Pruitt used the phrase "Slackervist" to describe people who only participate in social justice online but don't actually make it out to the streets. This might seem like a lazy thing, but Pruitt said slackervists actually play an important role in the movement by getting the message to the people who ill actually take action.
"I think with the Internet, it actually tells the truth about the movement," she said. "A lot of times, the media likes to wrap it up in a bow. They focus on what's the most salacious or what will get the most hits. Ferguson would never have happened if not for social media. I heard about the shooting of Michael Brown online before I saw a news story. It might not have been picked by the mainstream media if not for the online reaction. That is the biggest difference for me. Social media lets me find out what's going on on the ground level versus a 10-second blurb on the nightly news."
Clinical social worker Samika Wheat agrees with Pruitt. Wheat has also taken part in a number of direct action events and she said the Internet allows activists to keep the focus on their issues when opponents try to take the discussion off on tangents. One of her pet peeves is when community leaders dismiss discussions about police misconduct with complaints about "black-on-black crime." Wheat said black-on-black crime is a meaningless category with no real definition. Is it only violent crimes? Does domestic violence or white-collar crime qualify as black-on-black crime? She said crimes of opportunity, things that happen because people of the same race tend to live in the same neighborhoods, are being passed off as pathology in the black community.
"It's that same old narrative," Wheat said. "Everything is so focused on how damaging our culture is now: how we dress, what we like, what we are doing. Black-on-black crime rates are about 93 percent. White-on-white crime is about 89 percent, but you don't hear people talk about white-on-white crime or Asian-on-Asian crime, for that matter. You only hear that when someone wants to take attention away from another matter. We're adults. We can focus on more than one thing at a time."
Helm complained that the public is missing the real story of the social justice community. "For the record, Ferguson has not ended," she said. "The media left but there are still demonstrations going on in Ferguson, and they have spawned other activity all over the country, over the world even. The media just wants to show violence, but this is about community. What happened in Ferguson is causing some people to take a hard look at what's going on in their own cities."
Many of the announcements on the numerous online Ferguson sites end with "#BlackLivesMatter." This became a popular signature in 2012 after George Zimmerman was acquitted of shooting Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teen, in Florida. But as the number of shootings of unarmed black men has continued to gain attention, #BlackLivesMatter has grown into a legitimate social justice movement with its own website, blacklivesmatter.com, and advocates all over the world. Local organizers of #BlackLivesMatter have some very concrete goals. They would like a civil review board for the Louisville Metro Police Department, the establishment of a national database of unarmed people killed by police and a reversal of the militarization of the police department.
Helm understands that most people find her direct action events annoying. But she wants them to think about how these minor annoyances compare to the problems poor people and minorities face every day. She pointed to a recent event where the LMPD SWAT team interrupted life at the Beecher Terrace Housing Project by showing up in force in camouflaged paramilitary gear. A witness to the event said that the SWAT team set off a stun grenade that had residents running for cover in fear for their and their families' safety.
Veteran photographer Bud Dorsey was walking out of the 10th Street Branch Library when he noticed the SWAT team. Dorsey has covered crime and community affairs in West Louisville for 40 years for the Louisville Defender, the city's only African-American newspaper. He noticed several strange things about this engagement. He said the police did not cordon off the street and that there was no helicopter overhead as he'd seen in past SWAT actions that he had covered.
"When the grenade went off it got really chaotic," Dorsey remembered. "There was an old woman who was carrying her groceries down the street. She fell when she was trying to run towards Chestnut. I stopped taking pictures and helped her. The guy that was giving orders was in a suit. He was not wearing a bullet-proof vest or a helmet. That's why I thought it was some kind of training exercise."
LMPD spokesperson Alicia Smiley said the unit was at the housing project to serve a felony warrant. She didn't have any other details. Helm said it is show-of-force events like this one that causes West Louisville families to have discussions about police power. She wants to stimulate similar debates in other neighborhoods.
However, the Internet can be a two-sided sword when it comes to organizing social activism. On Valentine's Day, before the City Hall event, Helm had also organized a direct action to take place at the Bristol Restaurant on Bardstown Road. Participants were supposed to assemble at Mid City Mall and make their way to the restaurant. Since many of the participants found out about it on the Internet they did not actually know any of the organizers. This reporter and his photographer showed up at the mall before Helm and found ourselves in the awkward position of showing people where everyone was supposed to line up. Eventually, the whole thing was called off because some of the participants were running late and they also had to make it downtown for the Valentine's ceremony.
#BlackLivesMatter is a cause in need of a traditional organizational infrastructure and focus, but it has certainly unleashed a lot of energy into the local social justice community. Helm has founded Stand Up Sundays at the Carl Braden Center in West Louisville, where interested people can learn about local opportunities to join the movement. She is also holding regular direct action training sessions to prepare activists for the situations they will face.
"There were people who were organizing actions and not briefing anyone, letting people know what to expect," Helm said. "We want to make sure we have a time for people to ask questions and to learn what direct action is about."
Although the movement is in its infancy, Jones reiterated that there is a great need for a #BlackLivesMatter movement in Louisville. He is especially concerned about revitalization plans that would move working-class people from the Portland and Russell neighborhoods. "Once the poor people and African Africans have been moved out of this area, just like New Orleans after Katrina, it will become ideal development territory," Jones said. "I don't think it is wrong to want to see development in business and job opportunities in West Louisville. Obviously that's a necessary thing. The problem is that the people doing the development have a different plan than the residents. They are not going to develop property that is affordable to the people who have needed development for decades."
#BlackLivesMatter has organized the Feb. 22 "Sea of Red," a nationwide vigil to remember victims of police shootings. It marks the three-month anniversary of the death of Tamir Rice, a 12 year old shot by Cleveland Police because he was holding a toy gun. There are three events planned in Louisville that day. There will be candlelight vigils in the Louisville Seminary Chapel, Newburg Park, and at the corner of 32nd and Greenwood in West Louisville. All of the events begin at 6 p.m.
Helm said three vigils are necessary because organizers want to reach every group of people in the city. "#BlackLivesMatter cuts across racial and economic lines," she said. "Poor whites and Latinos have the same problems as African Americans. Corporations and the government are deciding where and how we live. It's time to start pushing back."
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"In what ways do our artistic endeavors implicate responsibilities to each other and to our collective human identities?" We pose this question in our book, Artistic Citizenship: Artistry, Social Responsibility and Ethical Praxis. This provocation provides a point of entry for this symposium as we explore the notion of music education as/for artistic citizenship, challenging our purpose and praxis in and out of the classroom. Afternoon sessions address choral and instrumental ensembles, guitar, songwriting and technology in the classroom as we consider pivoting the discourse, expanding curriculum offerings, and democratizing the music space.
"Artistic citizenship" is a concept with which we hope to encapsulate our belief that artistry involves civic-social-humanistic-emancipatory responsibilities, obligations to engage in art making that advances social "goods." The terms artist, artistry, and artistic as we use them are not elitist. By "artists" we mean to include people of all ages (from youth to adults) and levels of technical accomplishment (from amateur to professional practitioners) who make and partake of art(s) of all kinds, in contexts ranging from informal to formal, with the primary intent of making positive differences in people's lives. Whereas artistic proficiency entails myriad skills and understandings, artistic citizenship implicates additional commitments to act in ways that move people—both emotionally and in the sense of mobilizing them as agents of positive change. Artistic citizens are committed to engaging in artistic actions in ways that can bring people together, enhance communal wellbeing, and contribute substantially to human thriving.
What does "citizenship" mean and how might these meanings relate to our understandings of the privileges and obligations that attend artistic practices?
How might "artistic citizenship" differ from (or resemble) citizenship in general?
In what ways and to what extent do art-makers and art-takers have responsibilities (or obligations) to deploy the potentials of the arts to advance social justice, human rights, and the like?
What personal, social, cultural, educational, political, therapeutic, economic, and health-giving "goods" can artistic engagements (amateur or professional) facilitate?
What ethical issues and responsibilities attend the concept of art making as force for advancing positive social and political change?
How might artistic citizens engage the "general public" in artistic projects designed to serve diverse public, social, cultural, political interests?
How can ethically-oriented artistry contribute to the mitigation of racism, sexism, ageism, classism, and ethnocentricism, and other forms of social injustice?
What abilities and dispositions of body-mind and heart do amateur and professional artists require if they are to engage in, develop, and expand the possibilities and potentials of artistic citizenship?
What historical precedents can inform and refine our understandings of the "why, what, how, who, where, and when" of artistic citizenship?
What are the most effective strategies and tactics that artist-activists (or "artivists"[i]) to confront problems like racial violence, poverty, disease, discrimination, and the like?
What are the specific or distinctive potentials of particular artistic endeavors for fulfilling the commitments and responsibilities of artistic citizenship?
How can school and community arts education programs develop young people's habits of heart and mind in and through socially responsible art making?
Additional questions and issues emerge from the chapters in the book, questions too numerous to list here. But the questions, discussions, and actions to which the book's essays lead will be the ultimate measure of this project's significance. We leave it to our readers, then, to carry these conversations forward—to follow the leads offered by contributors to this volume. Although we cannot know precisely the form those ideas may eventually assume, it is our hope that they will involve continuous critical dialogue across artistic disciplines about the ethical potentials of artistry, the nature of artistic responsibility, and the remarkable capacities of art to improve our neighborhoods, our societies, and our world.
[i] The concept of "artivism" and therefore "artivist" can be found in Rodney Diverlus' chapter (in this volume) and also Chela Sandoval and Guisela Latorre (2007). Chicana/o Artivism: Judy Baca's Digital Work with Youth of Color, in Anna Everett (Ed.) Learning Race and Ethnicity, (pp. 81-108), MIT Press.
Violent hate crimes have surged around the world, including the U.S., where disgusting racist, homophobic, and misogynist language has become normalized in political speeches and on social media, where violence has become routine, and where free speech and other democratic freedoms are under threat.
As the authors of the 27 chapters in Artistic Citizenship document, artists of all kinds around the world are putting their art-making to work for social "goods" by "calling out" and protesting anti-democratic and anti-human behaviors.
(Note: By "artists" we mean amateurs and professionals in all the arts, arts educators, and students involved in art-making for active social justice).
Guante is a hip-hop artist, a two-time National Poetry Slam champion, an educator, a writer, and a contributor to Artistic Citizenship. He has "performed for justice" widely in the U.S. and abroad—from the United Nations, to the Soundset Hip-Hop Festival, to countless colleges, universities, clubs, theaters, and rallies across the U.S. His performances have been featured on BBC Radio 6-Music, MSNBC, Upworthy, Everyday Feminism, and Button Poetry. And he facilitates community workshops that use the arts as jumping-off points for deeper conversations about identity, power, empathy, and agency.
Many other examples by Guante and his colleagues are available on his website.
Hopefully, such conferences will actually lead to "enacting" social justice in the sense of actual participation in public contention, acting for social justice, doing it, performing it, and creating "ethical spectacles" of/for social justice.
As David has emphasized in several articles and conference papers over the last 10 years—see "Socializing Music Education"; "Artistic Citizenship as/for Music Education"; and "Canadian Music Schools: Toward a Somewhat Radical Mission"—"raising people's consciousness about their oppression through reflection and talk is not enough: Physical and emotional support for actual participation in public contention is required" (Anyon). "Intellectualizing," does not, by itself, move people—physically and emotionally—to take meaningful action for social justice.
In 2016, the world lost three musical legends and LGBT icons: David Bowie (1947-2016), Prince (1958-2016), and George Michael (1963-2016).
George Michael represented a walking middle-finger-up in the faces of those right wing mouthpieces that would desexualize gay men, sanitizing our existence and barely concealing their disdain and, frequently, their outright disgust at the mere thought of gay men interacting sexually with one another.
People do a serious disservice to activist artists of all kinds—or what we call artivists—when they attempt to sanitize or depoliticize musicians' lives and legacies. Instead, let's celebrate all three men as musical-social icons: extraordinary people who made major differences in the lives of LGBT individuals and communities worldwide.
Granting this award to Bob Dylan signifies important things. First, songs and their lyrics are as much poetic devices as "pure" poetry. This thinking dates back to ancient Greek poets, who recited their poetry to music. In fact, and because of this, ancient Greek poetry is not so much thought of as collections of "poems," but as "songs." In Greek times, the culture of poetry was the culture of song. Bob Dylan is being recognized for carrying forward this ancient tradition.
Also, and while the Academy recognizes Dylan's contribution to the fields of folk, rock, pop music, and popular culture, this Nobel Prize signifies something important for artistic citizenship. Dylan's songwriting oftentimes took an activist stance. Indeed, Dylan felt that songs could and would change the world. As David Yaffe notes, once Dylan got involved with CORE (Congress for Racial Equality), "he began writing songs about Emmett Till, Hattie Carroll, and James Meredith." He created "words that would be belted out at the March on Washington by Peter, Paul, and Mary 'How many years can some people exist until they're allowed to be free.'" And while Dylan's musical "art-ivism" ebbed and flowed throughout his career, his songs remain and continue to powerfully engage and transform the world.
Equally important, the Academy's move shows that distinctions between so-called "high art" and "low art" are arbitrary categories that are no longer useful. Indeed, Dylan's poetic songs engage in/with the world and do worldly work. "The times they are a changing," sang Dylan. Yes, they have. Congratulations to Bob Dylan, poet of America for the world!
What is the role of architecture?
What do we need architecture to be?
What does the world need today?
There are many examples of architects who ask the above questions. One such architectural group is TYIN tegnestue. Established in 2008 by Yashar Hanstad and Andreas G Gjertsen and based out of Trondheim, Norway, the firm works towards social sustainability and pragmatic creativity, or, what they call their projects, "architecture of necessity." The young architects have been involved in diverse projects, from attempts at improving poor areas in Bangkok, to a Sumatran training center and original projects in Norway.
The architectural firm travelled to the Thai-Burmese border to create dormitories for Karen refugee children.
The main driving force behind the Soe Ker Tie House was to provide the children with their own private space, a place that they could call home and a space for interaction and play.
The arts are hubs of social, emotional, personal, and worldly interactions. Any values we derive from or experience through the arts occur because we engage in and feel the results/benefits of art making and art experiencing. So, "we make it true" that one or more values happen in/to us when we participate with the arts.
What values are possible? The chapters within this book yield a multitude of possibilities. And artistic citizenship is the concept we employ that connects and extends such possibilities. From illuminating public places to visionary activism through art-making to creating art that examines a world that isn't but could be, artistic citizenship shows itself in a variety of ways.


Nacho Libre has joined us to do a wrestling exhibition called "How to Wrestle Your Neighbor." We're having some stretchy pants fun at the end of the week. Here's what we've got cooking for you at the end of week: spaghetti and meatballs and blackened catfish with a beurre blanc crabmeat sauce over dirty rice.
Spaghetti with fresh marinara sauce and meatballs. Yes, it's the old stand-by, but ours contains homemade marinara sauce and hand-patted meatballs served over piping hot pasta, and it's just the right kind of pastalicious serving that makes life a little better as you head toward the weekend. One of our favorite movies stars Jack Black, played a wannabe luchador in Nacho Libre. One of the orphans where Nacho works as a kitchen servant catches him trying on his new luchador outfit. Nacho replies, "Chancho, when you are a man, sometimes you wear stretchy pants in your room. It's for fun." Well, you may need some stretchy pants after these meatballs — they are delightful, delicious, and scandalously good. Who knows, they might even inspire some luchador wrestling in the front room? Be sure to bring your wrestling mask.
Catch The Ides of March on Youtube playing, "Vehicle." For a live, less grainy version of "Vehicle," try this video from 2014 at the Chicago House of Blues.
Nacho and Sister Encarnación catch the orphans playing luchadores, something forbidden in the orphanage. Nacho instructs them (even as he's fighting the ring), "I know it is fun to wrestle. A nice pile-drive to the face; or a punch to the face; but you cannot do it because it is in the Bible not to wrestle your neighbor." Yep. Theology and stretchy pants sounds like a great combo to us because sometimes your neighbor needs to be wrestled, but in a very loving and caring way.
Hey Harris, thanks! Great to see you the other day. I just found a live version from the House of Blues that I added to the post, it's a lot of fun, too. Take care, and love to you and Mrs. Carolyn!


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Spring 2018 public relations intern Haley McDaniel is one of the few students who successfully made the most of her collegiate learning experience. Aside from being a full-time fashion student, Haley is also an assistant stylist at MGK style, a makeup artist and the president of Sigma Delta Sorority 2017.
McDaniel is graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in fashion styling this semester. Throughout her years at the Academy of Art University, she managed to build a strong styling portfolio. Her works have been featured in publications including 180 Magazine, Shuba Magazine, Photo Vogue IT, Spotted Magazine and Defuze Magazine.
Right before her graduation, McDaniel rounded out her fashion skillset by completing a public relations internship at the Academy, which she believes will be relevant to any job in the future.
Fashion School Daily: What brought you to the Academy of Art University?
Haley McDaniel: I was going to come to the Academy to play volleyball, but I fell in love with the fashion department after I toured the school of fashion. I just had the feeling that I'd found the right major, since I've always had a passion for fashion photography.
FSD: How was your experience moving to San Francisco?
HM: I grew up in Sonoma wine country, and I went to a private school my whole life. Going to a big art school in the city was a big adjustment, but I think it put me right in the industry. Here, I was able to start freelancing as a stylist by my sophomore year.
FSD: That's pretty early on your degree path. How did you get your start in your styling career?
HM: I was eager to do a photoshoot when I first started. In the beginning, when other stylists and any photographer wanted to do a test shoot, I said "yes" to everything. That's how I got my publications after my freshman year in the Defuze Magazine. I was doing a menswear shoot with my friend Branton Alexander. Ever since then, I just started building my network. I am also a makeup artist, and that helps to expand my connections. Sometimes they don't need a stylist, but they need a makeup artist; either way, I am set.
FSD: How would you describe your styling aesthetic in three words?
HM: Vintage, western and eclectic.
FSD: What was your most memorable shoot so far?
HM: It's an editorial for 180 Magazine's next September issue because I got to do something that I'm passionate about. The photoshoot was a tribute to the victims of the California fire, who were close friends and family to me in my hometown. I wanted to reflect the motion of the rebirth and how everyone came together through this shoot. I got to work with the Academy's New York Fashion Week designers Jelly Shan and Eden Slezin in this editorial.
FSD: What brought you to the public relations internship?
HM: I thought it was an excellent way to round out my fashion skillset. Public relations are relevant to any job that you have in fashion. Being able to network, communicate and to be organized at the same time at the back of the house is just as important as the work that you put in your portfolio.
FSD: What skills did you learn from this internship that you find most useful?
HM: I learned the meticulous process of organizing a runway show from School of Fashion Public Relations and Special Events Manager Elena Eberhard. I think people don't realize the amount of work that goes into throwing a big production like the Graduation Fashion Show. We've been working on the event all semester. This internship pushed my skills in InDesign and also challenged my writing skills. Being able to write press releases is very beneficial. Getting to know the designers who showed their collections, hearing their inspirations and seeing their design process gave me good insight into the production aspect of the industry.
FSD: What's your plan after graduation?
HM: I am going full time at my current job as a styling assistant for celebrity stylist Mary Gonsalves Kinney. Then I am going to relocate to either Nashville or Texas at the end of the summer. I want to be a stylist in the music industry. Eventually, I also want to start a sustainable, vintage fashion store and do all aspects of the marketing and styling for it.
FSD: How did you become a styling assistant at MGK Style and what're your responsibilities?
HM: After my junior year at the Academy, I was looking for an internship on LinkedIn. I found a job application at MGK, and I shot a cover letter to the operations manager. I got one interview appointment, and I was working the next day.
MGK has a real niche market; we only work with luxury client houses, so everything we are doing is strictly designer clothing from the latest season. It's a perfect opportunity to see how an established celebrity stylist puts these designer looks together.
My team and I run the MGK office out of the San Francisco Bay Area and some Beverly Hills appointment as well. We are in charge of pulling from designer boutiques, going to clients' homes for styling, doing returns and shipments, and doing social media for the press events.
FSD: What's one thing you'd never put a client in?
HM: Anything that's uncomfortable. With personal styling, you need to make sure that your clients feel comfortable and confident in what they are wearing. It doesn't matter if it's a cool Valentino dress, if the client can't walk straight in it then they won't feel (or look) comfortable.
FSD: You were also the president of Sigma Delta sorority last year; tell us a little bit about that.
HM: Being a part of a school organization brought me a lot of work-life balance. I was working two jobs, going to school full-time and doing the sorority at the same time, yet I wouldn't trade it for anything. I think that being in a community of women who are empowering each other is essential. To have a home and a network in a safe place in an art school like this is helpful since we are coming from different parts of the world and living here in the city by ourselves. We have fun activities, and we do philanthropy work. Just two weeks ago, we volunteered at the soup kitchen with GLIDE. We also collaborated with the Princess Project, which organized dress drives for high school girls who can't afford prom dresses.
FSD: How do you manage to do so much and still graduate on time?
HM: I like this industry, and I love school, which make things a little bit easier. I always take liberal art classes that I enjoy like history classes, so it's easy for me to get through the push of it. Also having a good support system helps the best. My family supports what I do, and they believe in me.
FSD: What advice would you give an up-and-coming fashion stylist coming to this school?
HM: Say "yes" to everything that comes your way. Even when you don't want to work with a particular photographer or you don't want to be a dresser at a runway show, I say 'do it'. Always be as friendly as possible and as personal as possible, because the people you meet are the ones who are going to take you far in the industry. Trying everything and finding what you are good at is what sets you apart from other stylists. It doesn't matter if you end up working for The Gap, Vogue, or yourself, because at the end of the day you are your own brand.
FSD: Do you have any networking tips for students?
HM: "Just go knock on doors; you are a student, so now it's the time to do that," is what my styling teacher Theresa Merenda said, which resonated with me.


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Universities Australia – Election 2016 – Statements
Keep it Clever: Policy Statement 2016
Australia is at an economic and productivity crossroads. In an era of sweeping change, other nations are seizing the future with investments in higher education, research, innovation and skills.
Australia now faces a stark choice: we either make our own investment—or we fall behind those nations that do.
Equipping ourselves for the dramatic economic transformation ahead is an urgent task. Indeed, our future prosperity depends on it. That's why we need a new contract with the Australian public—supported by political bipartisanship—that grasps the direct link between our national investment in education, research and innovation, and Australia's economic fortunes in the years to come.
26 June 2016 | Universities Australia welcomes the Coalition's commitment to lift science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) literacy and encourage more women into these national future-proofing disciplines.
The Coalition today announced $31.2 million for internships and post-school career advice to help support more women and girls to choose STEM careers.
Universities Australia Chief Executive Belinda Robinson said helping women to find their path in a STEM career was vital to realising the potential of Australian students.
Education enhances employability in a changing economy: new report
22 June 2016 | A new Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report released today confirms the important role that education plays in preparing people for the workforce and ensuring skills for ongoing employment and lifelong learning.
The ABS update on Qualifications and Work in Australia finds 9.4 million Australians aged 15-64 years had a qualification in vocational or university education in 2015, up from 8.7 million in 2014.
The data confirms that a university education is good for employability, with more than three in four people with a post-school qualification employed (82 per cent) – compared to 61 per cent of those without a post-school qualification.
The ABS figures also underscore the need in a rapidly changing economy for higher education to prepare people for career shifts and equip them with broad skills that can be deployed in a wide range of jobs.
Pledges to restore university research funding welcome
18 June 2016 | Labor's commitment … to restore university research funding acknowledges the importance of university research to Australia's future national prosperity.
The sector's pre-election policy statement Keep it Clever, made the case that a properly funded university research system was an essential prerequisite for Australia making a successful transition to an economy built on innovation, ideas and ingenuity.
Strong tertiary sector the engine room of Australia's prosperity
Opinion piece by Chief Executive Belinda Robinson, published in The Australian on 1 June 2016
Entwined in every successful global economy is a strong university system. This is no accident.
The work of universities creates wealth for nations because they build human capital and push the boundaries of knowledge that drives innovation and human advancement. Smart countries know this.
In a report released late last year, Deloitte Access Economics pointed out that productivity gains generated by university research had delivered economic benefits to Australia worth a third of the growth in average living standards over the past 30 years.
More recent modelling by Cadence Economics found that without the entry of new university graduates into the Australian economy, the growth rate in jobs for people without a university degree would have been zero over the past eight years.
Universities are essential to economic transition
Address to the FUTUREPROOF 2016 conference by Professor Barney Glover Chair, Universities Australia
16 May 2016 | I must say we are in a very different place than we were three years ago.
During the 2013 election campaign, I think it is fair to say that neither side of politics made higher education, nor for that matter research, a particularly prominent issue. Each of them went to that poll with relatively modest detail in their policy platforms.
And yet, during the last parliamentary term, we witnessed perhaps the greatest divergence for quite some time in the views of the two major parties on their policy objectives for higher education.
Having withdrawn their plans for the full deregulation of student fees in the recent Budget, the Coalition has now floated a series of policy options for consultation. However, cuts of $2.5 billion remain in the Budget papers from 2018 onwards.
Labor, meanwhile, is heading to this election with the most detailed higher education policy framework produced by an Opposition in quite a while. Despite the detail, there are still elements of their position that warrant discussion. The sector well remembers that Labor in Government also made sizeable cuts. Their current policy, however, pledges an increase on current funding levels.
Whatever the election outcome, Universities Australia will test proposed shifts from current policy settings against the major policy statement we launched late last year – Keep It Clever. It called for sustainable and sustained public investment in universities, measures to lift industry-research collaboration, and policies that will enable us to help Australia meet the workforce needs of the future.
Universities Australia welcomes Watt Review response
6 May 2016 | Universities Australia welcomes the commitment today by the Minister for Education and Training, Senator the Hon Simon Birmingham to address all 28 recommendations from the Review of Research Policy and Funding Arrangements, led by Dr Ian Watt AO.
Universities Australia Chief Executive Belinda Robinson said the implementation of several major recommendations was already underway in a swift but considered manner.
Abolition of Office for Learning and Teaching a loss
4 May 2016 | The Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) which delivers incentives to improve teaching excellence and innovation has been abolished in the 2016-17 Budget.
Universities Australia's Chief Executive Belinda Robinson said the decision to abolish the OLT would dismay many in the sector.
"The OLT was supported by a small amount of funding but was making a big difference for teachers and students, including projects to improve teaching excellence and retention of students," Ms Robinson said.
The scrapping of the OLT delivers Budget savings of $18 million and this is on top of a $16 million cut made in the 2015-16 Budget.
Budget cuts to university equity programme deeply disappointing
Universities Australia has criticised the 2016-17 Federal Budget's cuts to the Higher Education Participation and Partnerships Programme (HEPPP) which assists universities to support students from disadvantaged backgrounds to complete degrees.
The Budget cuts $152 million from the HEPPP which includes projects such as improving numeracy skills, providing work-integrated learning and mentoring to lift student retention rates.
Chief Executive Belinda Robinson said that all Australians with the ability to do so should have the opportunity to undertake life-changing higher education.
"Improving equity in higher education is not only fair, but an essential platform for building the diverse, skilled workforce of the future", she said.
Uni options paper key to resolving policy tug-of-war
3 May 2016 | An options paper on alternatives to full fee deregulation, a reduction in the size of funding cuts and a 12 month delay to the introduction of higher education changes has softened the blow to universities braced for substantial funding cuts.
However cuts worth a combined $180 million to university programs that support disadvantaged students and teaching excellence are fresh hits.
In a welcome move in tonight's Budget, the Turnbull Government has delayed the introduction of the proposed 20 per cent cut to 1 January 2018, and dropped the $1.2 billion efficiency dividend on legislated programs.
In scrapping previous plans to fully deregulate student fees, the Government has also released an options paper on alternative policy changes to secure a financially sustainable higher education system.
Uni investment is a tie breaker
Opinion piece by Universities Australia Chief Executive Belinda Robinson originally published in The Australian on 22 April 2016.
There is a scene in the movie Match Point when the tennis ball quivers for millisecond over the net. It could go either way – to win or lose the game. It's a metaphor for a turning point in the life of the main character, a tennis pro. And it is an apt image for our time and our place.
Australia is at a turning point. The economy is in transition and there are a number of balls in the air. Our future could go either way – ahead to a shining future, with knowledge-based high value jobs, start-ups and new industries or stuck in the slow lane.
Posted in ALP policies, Coalition policies, Higher education policy, Research, Science, The Scan, universities, Universities Australia, University budgets	| Tagged Election 2016, Fee deregulation, Higher Education and Research Reform Amendment Bill 2014, Research funding, Universities Australia, university admission, University affordability, university futures	|


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Stabbing prompts Cal Poly to probe fraternity
Cal Poly officials are investigating a fraternity that held a party associated with a stabbing that occurred near the San Luis Obispo campus earlier this month. [KSBY]
In the early morning of Sept. 18, Jay Hernandez, a 19-year-old Cuesta College student, allegedly stabbed a Cal Poly student and another Cuesta student following a fight at a fraternity party. The fight took place at a party hosted by Alpha Gamma Rho, which is now under investigation by the university.
Earlier in the night, an associate of Hernandez attempted to enter the fraternity party, but was turned away, according to San Luis Obispo police. Hernandez's associate then started a physical fight at the party.
About 30 minutes later, Hernandez and his associate approached the victims on Foothill Boulevard. They started a fight with the victims, whom Hernandez then stabbed in their upper torsos, according to police.
Cal Poly spokesman Matt Lazier said the university is working with police to investigate the incident.
Alpha Gamma Rho is currently on social probation due to a previous incident. Greek Life administrators are now determining whether students violated fraternity conduct on the night of the stabbing.
The fraternity must suspend all activities during the investigation.
San Luis Obispo police have not identified the alleged accomplice in the stabbing. Hernandez turned himself in to the Tulare County Jail after becoming aware of a warrant for his arrest.
Both Hernandez and the accomplice are believed to be from the Central Valley. Hernandez had been living in San Luis Obispo while attending Cuesta College, according to his Facebook page.
Subjects: Cal Poly Fraternities and Sororities Knives San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo Police Department Stabbing
Audit of Los Osos CSD finds errors and overpayments
Driver hits parked cars, cars hit Cayucos homes
godislanguage
irrelevant & prejudicial
If the university said that it was investigating the incident, that would be understandable. But they say they are investigating the entire fraternity. This normally means that they will interview each fraternity member, most of whom were probably unaware that someone had been turned away at the door, and then started a fight.
Looks like a witch hunt to me.
Besides, I thought Cal Poly wanted to contain the parties and didn't want fraternities inviting everyone in town to just drop by.
obispan
"What do you intend to do sir? Delta's already on probation." "They are?" "Yes sir." "Oh. Well as of this moment they're on double secret probation!" " 'Double secret' probation sir?"
Pelican1
This is why the President of the University is paid so much…to keep this stuff quiet.
indigo1955
Why are all the thumbs up or thumbs down missing at the bottom of the post?
achillesheal
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Thumbs up.. Was thinking the same thing.
Hi, the voting code had a issue/bug with our new web hosting environment and had to be temporarily disabled. Revised voting code is being worked on and the feature will return soon ™.
Good grief, Cal Poly. Another bungling decision.
Matt Lazier: If someone attempts to enter your house uninvited and you are assaulted, I wonder if SLOPD will investigate YOU as well?
isoslo
You should investigate the people who committed the crime, not the fraternity that hosted a party!
Reply to isoslo
The people who committed the crime apparently have no connection to the University. The fraternity does.
Isn't it prudent for the University to investigate how they were turned away from the party, meaning were they physically thrown out on to the lawn or threatened?
I tangled with frat boys many times during college (often when at their parties having been invited). They had a group mentality that they used to try and intimidate.
hijinks
If the frat was already on social probation, that means they weren't supposed to be having parties. Seems plenty of reason to "investigate," whatever that may mean.
Cal Poly lands former elite high school quarterback


ALBURGH, a parish in Depwade district, Norfolk; on an affluent of the river Waveney, near the Bungay railway, 3½ miles NNE of Harleston. It has a post office under Harleston, and a fair on 21 June. Acres, 1,512. Real property, £3,699. Pop., 587. Houses, 130. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Norwich. Value, £395.* Patron, St. John's College, Cambridge. The church has a large Norman porch. There are a national school, and charities £240.
Alburgh is now part of South Norfolk district. Click here for graphs and data of how South Norfolk has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Alburgh itself, go to Units and Statistics.
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Méry-Prémecy is een gemeente in het Franse departement Marne (regio Grand Est) en telt 62 inwoners (2009). De plaats maakt deel uit van het arrondissement Reims.

Geografie
De oppervlakte van Méry-Prémecy bedraagt 5,1 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is dus 12,2 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Onderstaande figuur toont het verloop van het inwonertal (bron: INSEE-tellingen).

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Happy Birthday, Dad
Posted: August 11, 2017 | Author: SportsLifer | Filed under: Baseball, Basketball, college football, Hockey, MLB, Uncategorized | Tags: Dad, Dad's birthday, Father, first televised college football game, Fordham, Joe DiMaggio, Monte Pearson, Roger Maris | Leave a comment
The first college football game ever televised, Waynesburg vs. Fordham in 1939.
On a steamy August Saturday afternoon in the summer of 1938, New York right-hander Monte Pearson, shown below right, pitched the first no-hitter in Yankee Stadium history. The Yanks beat the Cleveland Indians, 13-0, that afternoon to complete a doubleheader sweep.
Pearson, who was 16-7 that year and won exactly 100 games lifetime, faced the minimum 27 batters, striking out seven. Tommy Henrich and Joe Gordon each homered twice.
In the opener that day, Joe DiMaggio's third straight triple of the game plated two runs in the bottom of the ninth to cap a three-run rally and give the Yankees an 8-7 victory. A crowd of 40.959 was on hand as the Yankees increased their American League lead to 12 games en route to their third straight championship.
One year later come September, Fordham University defeated Waynesburg College of Pennsylvania, 34-7, at Randalls Island in New York. But that wasn't the story. NBC filmed the first college football game ever televised, as Bill Stern brought the play by play to viewers.
Waynesburg's Bobby Brooks made history with a 63-yard touchdown run, the first televised TD. Reportedly, there was no victory dance in the end zone.
The W2XBS broadcast signal had about a 50-mile radius, and there were about a thousand TV sets in the New York metropolitan area at the time. The signal didn't even reach Waynesburg, about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh. So who saw the game? Who knows?
Columbia Shocks Army
In October of 1947, Army was a huge favorite as the Cadets brought a 32-game winning streak into New York to face Columbia's Lions. Army had not lost since 1943; Columbia was coming off losses to Yale and Penn.
Army led, 20-7, at the half, but the Columbia combination of quarterback Gene Rossides and received Bill Swiacki brought the Lions back for a stunning 21-20 victory.
And in September of 1961, Roger Maris of the Yankees, pictured left, hit a long home run into the upper deck at the old Yankee Stadium against Baltimore's Jack Fisher. The round-tripper was Roger's 60th of the season, equaling the mark Babe Ruth set in 1927. Maris hit number 61 on the final day of the season, setting a record that many feel still stands.
These events, interesting in of themselves, have something else in common. My father was right there for each and every one. He was just 13-years-old at the Pearson no-hitter, a game he attended with other family members. The decision was made to leave once the Indians got their first hit. That never happened.
My Dad went to the Waynesburg-Fordham game with his cousin, who was at that time the manager of a powerful Fordham team. By the time Maris tied the Babe in 1961, my Dad was a father of four, two boys and two girls, including me, the oldest. Of course, my Mom had something to do that.
My Dad took me to my first Yankee game nearly 60 years ago. He also brought me to my first Giants game, also at Yankee Stadium, and to my first Knicks and Rangers games at the old Madison Square Garden.
He's always been there for me, whether it be cash, advice or a good meal. There's still nothing I'd rather do than talk sports with my old man. I treasure the times I spend with him always.
Happy Birthday. Love you, Dad.
(Note: My father turns 92 today. World War II veteran, engineer, lifelong Yankee fan, married for 67 years, father of our, grandfather of 13, great-grandfather of 10. He's the smartest man I've ever known.)
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Jabbar part of the conversation of best ever
Posted: August 6, 2017 | Author: SportsLifer | Filed under: Basketball, NBA, NCAA, Uncategorized | Tags: Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lakers, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, NBA best ever, Wilt Chamberlain | Leave a comment
Who's the best basketball player in history?
The most popular answer is Michael Jordan. Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain are popular selections. Larry Bird and Magic Johnson are certainly in the conversation. LeBron James is a favorite of the current generation and still climbing.
A name that rarely…if ever…comes up is Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Surprising, considering the big man's pedigree. Here are 10 supporting arguments for Kareem Abdul Jabbar as the best ever.
1. POINTS: He's the leading scorer in NBA history with 37,387 points. Karl Malone is second.
2. MVP: Kareem won the NBA MVP award a record six times. Jordan won five and LeBron is a four-time winner.
3. RINGS: He's won six NBA championships, one with the Bucks and five with the Lakers. Only Robert Horry and a bunch of Celtics have won more. Russell is the leader with 11.
4. DEFENSE: Kareem was selected to the NBA's All-Defensive team 11 times.
5. REBOUNDS: He's fourth all-time in rebounds with 17,440, trailing only Wilt, Russell and Malone.
6. ALL-STAR: Jabbar appeared in 19 NBA All-Star games, the most in history. Kobe Bryant is second with 18.
7. BLOCKS: Only Hakeem Olajuwon and Dikembe Mutumbo have more blocks than Kareem.
8. UCLA: Won three straight NCAA titles with UCLA in 1967,68 and 69, and made first team All-American each year.
9. GAMES: Only Robert Parrish played in more NBA games than Jabbar.
10. SCORING AVERAGE: Kareem averaged 24.6 points per game throughout his career.


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New Orleans Mayor Landrieu: Floodgates worked to hold off Isaac, Congress needs to 'get off the dime' and invest in US infrastructure
President Obama Continues his road to Charlotte tour today with a campaign stop in Virginia. Yesterday, he visited the New Orleans area to see some of the damage that was done by hurricane Isaac.
Most of the city's residents have regained power since that category 1 storm hit last week. More than 2,000 people, though, are still in shelters, because of flooding across coastal Louisiana. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu met with the president Monday, and he explains updates Soledad on "Starting Point" on the latest in the cleanup efforts.
"First of all, 97% of the power is restored, and we expect to get the other 3% up really, really soon," Mayor Landrieu says. "In New Orleans proper, we're doing fine. I think the big story is, number one, President Obama's team has really been fantastic. The White House has been involved from day one. Secretary Napolitano has been on it, Craig Fugate. And the cooperation between the federal state and the local agencies have been really good this time. And the levees held, which is the big story, I think, nationally. The floodgates held as they were designed. And that's been a good part of the story."
Landrieu did say there was some unexpected flooding in Plaquemines Parish ant St. John the Baptist Parish, but he says "every one of these storms brings something that you didn't expect."
Landrieu also says funding infrastructure projects and response efforts is critical to recovering from these kinds of weather events.
"We should never leave anybody behind in a storm or any catastrophic event, no matter where it is in the country. And so, it's really important that emergency funding is there all of the time. And that you don't have to go back into Congress to get appropriations during the middle of storms or in the middle of catastrophic events. That's a bad idea. But the bigger point here is whether or not Congress is going to spend the money necessary to build the infrastructure that protects these areas since you don't have an emergency," Mayor Landrieu says.
"Our request to Congress is to get off the dime and to invest and make America strong again so that we can protect ourselves," he says.
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How about the Fed investing in moving communities to ABOVE SEA LEVEL locations? If you dump more money into a swamp, you should expect that the next hurricane will do the same thing. A dyke is a temporary fix when we are talking about below sea level communities. The permanent solution is to relocate them. That is exactly what the Fed did with Nulato, AK. They kept getting flodded by the Yukon River ice melt, so, they moved the village to higher ground about 3 or 4 thousand feet away from its original location. Wow, how much money did I just save the Fed and the tax payers?
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Here is a great, and well researched article you should read.
http://thecaseforneworleans.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/the-case-for-the-greater-new-orleans-area-why-we-matter-and-why-we-should-exist/
Most of the areas that flooded are well above sea level, and flooded due to storm surge and wind driven water, which can reach heights of over 20 ft very easily and is a problem for any area along the coast of the US (Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Pacific). The residents in the areas which typically flood due to surge in Southeast Louisiana and wind driven water accept this problem and build to those realities. Some storms are worse than others... Isaac sat in place for basically 36 hours causing a significant amount of water to build into areas. Katrina was a failure of epic proportions by the floodwall and levee system constructed by the Army Corps of Engineers and neglected by decades of inept local leadership and oversight. Fortunately, those days seem to be behind the New Orleans metro area, and big steps are being taken to rectify years of abuse and neglect to infrastructure as citizens have demanded better infrastructure and proper funding froim existing taxes and offshore royalties.
Implying that it's irresponsible to provide preventative measures to mitigate problems caused by natural disasters is ridiculous. You build to code in earthquake prone areas, you build fire breaks in areas prone to wildfires and you build shelters in areas susceptible to tornadoes. Why would you not provide levees and flood control systems in areas that flood in the case of extreme circumstances?
To suggest that moving a community from the coast to an area further inland would solve the problem is not only short-sighted but flat out wrong and crazy. In the New Orleans metro area alone you would be talking about relocating over 1.5 Million residents and thousands of businesses generating Billions of dollars in revenue for the US economy; not to mention a port which provides a vast majority of imports and exports for the country. To compare the New Orleans area to Nulato, AK, a VILLAGE of 336 (2000 census) is asinine at best, especially when you include communities along the rest of the gulf coast from Houston to say Tampa. A few million dollars invested in infrastructure before Katrina could have saved the Fed and taxpayers over $20 Billion post Katrina. Your permanent solution would cost Trillions.
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DAY 01: SAT – Istanbul
Upon arrival at Istanbul Ataturk International Airport, meeting and greeting by our representative and proceed to Istanbul city.
Overnight in Istanbul.
DAY 02: SUN – Cappadocia
A short morning flight to Kayseri takes you into the heart of Cappadocia. Upon arrival, a 60 minute drive takes us to our hotel where we check in and get ready for an adventure.
Erciyes erupted millions of years ago, convulsing the surrounding landscape with a torrent of lava. We drive to an underground city, estimated to have between 18 to 20 floors below ground level. Continue with the Soganli Valley, an Open Air Museum in a wild natural setting near a typical Cappadocian village with its different style Rock-Cut churches and frescoes. Visit to Sahinefendi newly discovered (01 May 2002) mosaic houses & Archaeological excavation site. Continue with Keslik Monastery near Cemil. Our tour finishes with a visit to Mustafapasa (Sinasos), an old Greek town. Then we will continue to Zelve, the most important settlements and religious centers for the Christian community, afternoon return to hotel.
Overnight in Cappadocia – Meals: B, D
DAY 03: MON – Cappadocia
This morning, YOU can choose to rise early for an optional hot air balloon expedition over the Cappadocia's landscape. Soaring high above Cappadocia in the early light of dawn is an exhilarating experience! Marvel at the lunar landscape of Cappadocia: rock formations beyond belief in Devrent valley; a journey in the past with its troglodyte houses, visit to Pasabag "fairy chimneys" where the voice of wind mixes with the "songs of fairies" near Zelve. Continue to Avanos, centre of terra cotta work of art since 3000 BC. Afternoon, visit the famous Goreme Open Air Museum and see the best examples of Byzantine art in Cappadocia in rock-cut churches with frescoes and paintings (10th to 13th century). Continue to Uchisar Rock-Castle to have a panoramic view of the valleys of Cappadocia.
DAY 4: TUE - Cappadocia – Malatya (281 Miles)
After an early breakfast we set off on a scenic drive to the Southeastern Anatolian city of Malatya. This was the place where Muslims and Christians joined forces in an unsuccessful defense of their town against the attacking Mongol hordes. We travel on to visit Aslantepe (Lion Hill) Tumulus where the oldest palace of the world dates back to 5000 BC. It was the capital of the Neo-Hittite principality of Kammanu. Very recently two exciting rock reliefs, 3000 years old, have been unearthed, depicting the two eagle-headed kings offering each other a peace wand. We then continue to Eski Malatya (Old Malatya), a Roman / Byzantine walled town located several miles outside the new town.
Overnight Malatya – Meals: B, D
DAY 5: WED – Malatya – Kahta
After breakfast, we begin our ascent to the top of Mount Nemrut. While we travel part of the way by car, the actual summit is approached on foot, with a ten minute uphill climb. The tumulus of Antiochus is astounding; here atop the highest peak in the region, with panoramic views in all directions. Antiochus I had his peons drag blocks of cut stone to build twin terraces facing east and west and lined them with massive statues of his favorite gods Apollo, Tyche, Zeus and Hercules. After marveling at the sculptures and enjoying the view of the vast valley below, we descend to visit the village of Horik or Karadut at the foot of Nemrut.
Overnight in Kahta – Meals: B, D
DAY 6: THU - Kahta – Kahramanmaras
This morning we drive to Kasaba village and board a boat waiting to take us on our Euphrates cruise. The boat sets out for Rumkale (founded by the Assyrian king Salmaneser III in 885 B.C.) which looms into view as the highest point among the steep rock cliffs. Legend reveals this to be where the disciple John copied the drafts of the New Testament and hid them in this castle, where later they were said to have been carried to Beirut. As our boat plies the waters, the river too widens, as if to make way for the orange-yellow rock cliffs on either bank. When we reach Halfeti, dating back more than one thousand years and home to many early civilizations, it's as if we're in a coastal town of the Mediterranean. We say 'goodbye' to our captain and continue our journey towards the heroic city of civilization, Kahramanmaras, Turkey's ice cream capital! End the day with a leisurely stroll through the old streets and grand bazaar.
Overnight in Kahramanmaras – Meals: B, D
DAY 7: FRI – Kahramanmaras – Gaziantep
After breakfast in the hotel, we drive to Gaziantep. Gaziantep previously and still informally called Antep is a city in southeast Turkey and amongst the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. The metropolitan area in the entire Gaziantep Province had a population of 1.3 million making the city sixth most populous in Turkey. The city has two urban districts under its administration, Sahinbey and Sehitkamil. After lunch on your own, we'll visit the Mosaic Museum of Gaziantep, which houses relics from the ancient city of Zeugma. After a tour of the old city and castle district, we arrive at our hotel.
Overnight in Gaziantep – Meals: B, D
DAY 8: SAT
After breakfast, you will be transferred to the airport for your fly back home via Istanbul.


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Nestlé reveals global plan to make all packaging recyclable by 2025
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Nestlé headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland. Credit: Nestlé.
Nestlé has announced a series of sustainability pledges as it aims to meet its April 2018 commitment of making 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025.
The company's primary focus is to avoid plastic waste.
Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider said: "While we are committed to pursuing recycling options where feasible, we know that 100% recyclability is not enough to successfully tackle the plastics waste crisis.
"We believe in the value of recyclable and compostable paper-based materials and biodegradable polymers, in particular where recycling infrastructure does not exist."
The company plans to eliminate all non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle plastics for all its products across the globe between 2020 and 2025.
Starting next month, the company will start using alternative materials such as paper and phase out all plastic straws from its products to reduce litter.
It will roll out paper packaging for Nesquik in the first quarter of this year and for the Yes! snack bar in the second half.
Plastic-free Smarties packaging will be introduced this year and paper-based Milo pouches will be launched in 2020.
As part of its commitment, the recycled PET content in Nestlé Waters' bottles will be increased to 35% by 2025 at the global level.
Nestlé formed a global partnership with Danimer Scientific to develop a marine biodegradable and recyclable bottle for its water business.
The company's 4,200 facilities across the globe are committed to eliminating single-use plastic items that cannot be recycled, with plans to replace them with materials that can easily be recycled or reused.
Nestlé said in a statement: "For recyclable materials such as PET and aluminium, we will ensure that the proper means to collect and handle are available where consumed and our commitment to recycling is well-communicated."
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Between March and May, Makueni county, just like most parts of the country, experienced exceptionally heavy rainfall. The rains left a myriad challenges, among them a huge number of livestock health problems caused by waterlogged soils. Hundreds of animals in poor farming households in the county were affected and some succumbed to diseases as a result of the floods.
To mitigate these effects, an international non-profit animal welfare organisation, World Animal Protection (Wap), recently embarked on a monthlong mass vaccination, treatment and deworming of the animals.
Judy Kimaru, Wap's Africa disaster operations manager, while leading the team of doctors during the launch of the operation, said targeted animals were mainly domestic animals including goats, sheep, cattle, donkeys and dogs, which were vaccinated against worms, ticks, fleas and mites.
The planned total reach, according to Kimaru is 210,000 animals by the end of the campaign. Starting early this month, mobile clinics have been set up in disaster zones across the county, with emergency response teams meticulously working out how to reach as many animals as possible. The teams of veterinary officers are providing much needed vaccinations and treatment for the livestock.
Kimaru says the county relies heavily on agriculture to make ends meet and in this critical situation, the recovery from floods by mitigating its effects will provide stability for their future.
"This community depends largely on livestock for their livelihood — transport, food and security.
When disasters strike and the animals are not put in the equation, the people suffer," she says.
During the vaccination operation, which is being conducted in partnership with the University of Nairobi and the Makueni County Department of Veterinary Services, the team of veterinarians and Wap staff were overwhelmed by community members wanting to share their stories of devastating effects of the rains to their animals.
Patrick Muleli, a farmer in Kaseve sub-location whose 14 goats had been infected by a severe viral infection known as Contagious Ecthyma (orf) or scabby mouth that causes abrasions on animal skin, especially the mouth, could not hide his agony.
The infection is not common in the area and his herd of goats were the only ones affected by the disease, which according to veterinarians is synonymous with wet areas. "I have never seen this disease my entire life, neither have my neighbours. The infection started at the onset of the rainfall in April after my mother bought an ailing goat from the market and it spread the disease to the entire herd. Now I have been forced to herd my goats away from the neighbour's goats, so that they too don't catch it," he explained.
The goats are Muleli's only source of living, "I have a wife and two children to feed and take care of. We fully rely on these goats for milk, meat and we even sell them. I will be devastated if I lose them," he lamented.
Dr John Muthee, a veterinary lecturer from the University of Nairobi who attended to the goats, said the disease, which occurs mostly in goats and sheep is normally self-limiting, and clears without treatment within a few weeks. He said it could only be fatal if infants are infected, but rarely so.
Muleli's case is just one among many other cases that were diagnosed by the veterinarians. Other cases including pneumonia, wounds, lumpy skin disease, severe chest infections, abscess, mastitis and foot rot were also diagnosed during the exercise.
The University of Nairobi, in partnership with Wap, came up with a Veterinary Response Unit in 2010 consisting of veterinary students trained to respond to disasters effectively. This is the team that conducted the vaccination operation in Makueni.
The animal protection agency has worked in disaster zones for years and has been ramping up efforts to convince the government and the global humanitarian community that protecting animals should form a crucial part of aid efforts.
"Saving human life must be the priority, but the animals that people depend on for their livelihoods should come a close second," said Kimaru. She said it is important for the government to support such initiatives with finances, training and in kind (provision of drugs and equipment) to make the operations more effective.
Flagging off the campaign earlier, Makueni Governor Kivutha Kibwana acknowledged that this is a noble initiative and emphasised on the need to ensure secure food production through promotion of veterinary services, disease control and best practices in animal production.
He said the county's agriculture department is aiming at supporting food security in the county, a high percentage being livestock, which is the main source of food in the county. "Without animals, families lose one of their main sources of income and are often left with no way to rebuild their live; that is why losing animals can hinder our economy's growth," said the governor.
The treatment and vaccination exercise is a follow-up of one that was conducted last year where thousands of dogs were vaccinated against rabies. Makueni county has one of the highest rates of rabies in Kenya. The county government has mobised all its officers for the vaccination campaign being undertaken at designated points.
Vaccination for poultry against Newcastle and infectious diseases begins this week.