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Bienvenidos a mi pagina de casa! Hey, I'm a Caleb McCoy. I'm 16 so that makes me a TFOL. I'm no stranger to the online community, being a member of BZPower since 2005, but I never got a MOCPages until recently when my brother encouraged me too. The theme that most fascinates me would be Steampunk, but it is not my strongest suit.
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Thorium, The Betamax of Nuclear Technologies
Worthly has up a review of different technologies that are “world-changing”
and “just over the horizon.” Some seem pretty close by: self-driving cars, for
example. Others are new to me, others I’ve heard of, still, the real worth of
such round ups is that they allow us to dream of the future as a utopia. That’s
why it’s a dream not a nightmare, which could sum up a fair number of people’s
view of the present. Once the future becomes the present, the first
two self-driving cars in Ohio will crash into each other and all will be
normal again.
Nuclear power can easily solve all of our energy problems, and liquid
fluoride thorium reactors could be one of the most promising energy sources that
mankind has ever created. These reactors use thorium which is safer, more
abundant, and more efficient than current nuclear fuel options. You can fit a
lifetimes supply of thorium fuel in your hand, that’s how efficient these
reactors are. When we get the technology up to speed, we can realistically
create these nuclear power plants on a large scale. People need to get over
their fear of nuclear energy, as it is really one of the most important
achievements that mankind has ever made. It’s difficult to explain all the
details of liquid fluoride thorium reactors, but this video does a pretty great
job at hitting all the major details and it will also make you wonder why we
aren’t pouring money to fund this.
You can find the video at the link. A fascinating watch.
This is basically a molten salt reactor – which delivers uranium and thorium fuel using molten salt as the medium (thorium needs uranium to start a reaction) – and has been around since the 50s. Granted,
the technology hasn’t stood still, but what was known about thorium then is
still true now. We even know that the thorium fuel cycle scales up to industrial levels, a key
issue with technologies of its kind. But – that’s not the way the industry went.
Thorium became the Betamax of nuclear technology – perhaps superior to the
uranium fuel cycle in some ways and with a devoted fan base in the relevant
community, but still not the way forward when standardization entered the
mix.
Still, as someone who has frequently been a zealot for losing technologies –
Betamax, OS/2, HD-DVD - it’s a shame to lose what they offer, even if not
officially the “winner.” Sometimes, "losing" technologies prevail, sort of. Look at turntables. And who knows? This is about the future, where potential is limitless.
As always, the hub of the thorium community is the excellent Energy from Thorium blog – or former
blog, as it has lately morphed into a foundation dedicated to the element and
its limitless potential. If thorium fascinates you, that’s your web destination.
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It is most unfortunate that the current uranium fuel cycle nuclear technology, is not a smashing success in North America or Europe. This would seem to be a market failure. By switching to Uranium fueled Molten Salt Reactor, nuclear costs can be significantly lowered.
The crux here is the public is wary if not frightened of ANY nuclear reactor, no matter the type, so if you can't persaude them that current nuclear energy is safe and productive it won't matter beans if you tout the virtues of Thorium if the public doesn't want nuke-anything bullt. It's called the in-the-same-boat syndrome and Thor folks best share the PR oars promoting the record of current reactors if they want theirs to ever see light of day.
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I went to Barbara’s 90th birthday party the other day. She told me of the vivid dreams she still has of climbing the cliffs above her cottage in Wales and of the strange desolation of being reeled back into the aches of her waking body. Shakespeare’s Jacques describes extreme old age as ‘mere oblivion,/Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything’, but this remorseless subtraction doesn’t seem right. Surely, in fact, the older we grow, the more thickly these other, earlier dream-bodies teem in us; somewhere in that shuffling old man holding up the bus a boy still teeters on the top board.
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JEOPARDY! Slide Show Notes The font for the question & answer slides is “Enchanted;” a copy of this font in located in the “REAL Jeopardy Template” folder. (This font will need to be installed in the C:/WINDOWS/FONTS folder of the computer running the show.) In order to keep all of the sounds and fonts together, copy the entire “REAL Jeopardy Template” folder. To change the categories: –1. Go to “Edit” and “Replace…” –2. In the Find box, type Factoring (all caps) –3. In the Replace box, type the category in all caps (for example, PRESIDENTS) –4. Click Replace All... To use the Daily Double: –1. Choose which dollar values to set as Daily Double –2. Link that dollar value to one of the DD slides –3. Link the arrow on the DD slide to the correct question slide (so dollar/category match)
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Running the JEOPARDY! Slide Show On the game board with the categories on top, click on the desired dollar value. (The first game board is used only to blink in the dollar values like the show.) ICONS: –? Go to the answer screen. –House Go back to the game board. –Right Arrow (on Daily Doubles) Go to the question screen. –Turned-up Arrow Reload question screen after incorrect guess
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BLU today announced the G9 Pro, the company's latest higher-end phone in its lineup of affordable unlocked Android phones. Unusual features for its price class include wireless charging and triple rear cameras. The front sports an all-screen design with a 6.3-inch, full-HD display with a small notch. The glass rear has a shimmering blue/purple design. The main camera is 16 megapixel, assisted by a 5-megapixel depth camera for portrait mode. The third camera is a 20-megapixel module dedicated to night mode. The selfie camera clocks in as 24 megapixels. The G9 Pro is powered by a MediaTek Helio P60 processor paired with 4 GB of RAM. It comes with 128 GB of internal storage and supports an additional 128 GB via its memory card slot. It also has a large 4,000 mAh battery and supports 18W fast charging via USB-C. The phone also has a fingerprint reader on the back, 3.5mm audio jack, and FM radio. Included in the box are a clear case, fast charger, and 3.5mm earbuds. The phone is normally $250, but "lucky customers who are first in line will be able
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Obama claims Colorado for second time
USA TODAY, November 7, 2012
By Yamiche Alcindor
DENVER — When Gina Hartley cast her ballot to re-elect President Obama her personal health insurance and the coffee shop she owns came to mind.
A year and a half ago, she was paying $400 more for health insurance because her pre-existing condition meant as a small business owner she paid $500 for insurance coverage and another $200 for medications each month.
Then came Obamacare.
“I’m in a better position now than I was four years ago,” she said. “If I have to go back to the price I was paying, I wouldn’t be able to keep my shop open.”
Voters like her, who pointed to Obama’s health-care policies, social stances and government spending to kick start the economy are why the president won this swing state Tuesday and its nine electoral votes.
But it was close until the end. Obama and Republican Mitt Romney were neck and neck for weeks.
Across small towns, city centers and local bars, Obama supporters were as easy to come by as Romney supporters throughout Election Day.
Soon after Obama’s victory was announced. a mass exodus started at a watch party at Mile High Stadium in Denver hosted by the GOP of Colorado.
“I’m completely depressed,” said B.J. Jones of Denver, who was among those leaving the event. “I’ve been under-employed for two years. Obama has been terrible for business.”
Those casting their ballots in several swing counties — including Jefferson, Arapahoe and Larimer — had to wait in long lines as some poll workers double-checked voters’ registrations and transitioned from paper ballots to electronic systems.
Many voters said they picked their candidate based on who they thought would have a better plan for the economy, renewable energy, health care, foreign policy, and immigration. Differences in race as well as the fact that city dwellers tend to be more liberal and rural dwellers more conservative also played into how Colorado went, experts said.
Across town at the Jefferson County Courthouse, Laura Blackburn said she supported Obama based on social issues. The 30-year-old clothing store manager said she has several gay friends and wants a president who would allow them to get married, she said.
“I’m scared of Romney because I think he’s a homophobic woman hater,” she said.
In Byers, Colo., a small town of about 1,160 where many people make their living farming, the wait to vote at the American Legion Post 160 in Arapahoe was 45 minutes to an hour.
Krista Johnson, 41, with her daughter, Grace, 5, waited about an hour to vote while workers figured out the new system. She didn’t mind and said once she got to casting her ballot for Romney everything went smoothly.
This election is all about the economic future of the country, said Johnson, an attorney from Strasburg.
The Centennial State, home to 5.1 million people, used to be reliably red in presidential races. But in 2008, Obama took the state. Before that, the last time voters here went for a Democrat was in 1992, when Colorado went to Bill Clinton. That was regarded as an anomaly.
Changes in the population — including the addition of large numbers of Hispanics and transplants from other states, especially California — have led to a political transformation, says William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution.
As of this year, 32% of Colorado’s voters were white white-collar Americans, 45% were white blue-collar Americans, and 22% were minority voters, Frey said.
“The fact that there is an increase in the minority population and there’s no decrease in the graduate population would, from a demographic standpoint, favor Obama,” Frey said.
Patrick Murphy, a politics professor at the University of San Francisco, said Colorado is a microcosm of the United States.
“Colorado has evangelical Christians who are strong on social issues, social liberals and fiscal conservatives,” Murphy said. “It is a swing state in the truest sense of the word.”
Months before the election, supporters of both Obama and Romney made pushes get out the vote. Volunteers for each candidate as well as non-partisan organizations knocked on doors, passed out flyers and took people to the polls.
In West Denver at an Obama campaign office, the results of hard work lay scattered about a mid-size room: cold mushroom and sausage pizza, highlighted maps of the Denver’s voting districts, and dozens of “Latinos for Obama” flyers.
Antonio Esquibel, 71, turned the garage in his West Denver home into a “staging area” Tuesday where he and others met before knocking on dozens of doors, and reminding voters of their polling places.
“We’re going to visit each home where a person hasn’t voted,” said Esquibel, a retired college professor who said he supported Obama because of his policies on immigration and government programs such as medicare and social security. “A lot of people who are characterized as the “47%” have worked and paid into social security.”
He added that Obama’s support of the Federal Pell Grant Program will help his three grand-daughters go to college and his stance on immigration will help many — including Denver’s growing Mexican-American community — become successful citizens.
Across town in Lakewood, Romney’s Colorado headquarters buzzed throughout Election Day. The city sits in Jefferson County, one of several swing counties targeted by both campaigns.
Dozens of Romney volunteers made calls to people who had yet to vote. Posters like “Ann for First Lady,” “Commit to Mitt” and “Every Town Counts,” looked down on peanut butter cookies, bacon pizza, and red, white and blue cupcakes.
Chase Harrington traveled from his home in Dallas to volunteer for the Romney Campaign in Colorado. “I wanted to be part of a swing state where I knew I was needed,” said Harrington, 29, who added that he paid for the trip himself.
For him, this race was about the economy and foreign policy. In both areas, Romney would do a better job because of his success in turning profits at businesses like Bain Capital and because of his demonstrated interest in the Middle East — including his trip to Israel during the campaign, Harrington said.
Both Obama and Romney spent time in the last week of the election trying to sway voters in Colorado.
President Obama spoke before 20,000 supporters at a rally Sunday in Aurora in his final stop in Colorado before Election Day. He mentioned the devastation from Superstorm Sandy and said Aurora knows about tragedy after this summer’s shooting at a theater left 12 people dead and 58 injured. Obama accused Romney of trying to hide his positions and pretending to be the candidate of change.
Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan appeared with his family at a rally Monday at Johnson’s Corner in northern Colorado. He urged voters to get the country “back on track” by electing his team. Romney capped off his Colorado campaign with a rally in Englewood Saturday night.
Voters in Colorado also passed Amendment 64 which legalized the use and sale of up to an ounce of marijuana for anyone over the age of 21.
Outside Columbine Library, just steps from the high school, Dennis Riley, 41, said he was most concerned with Amendment 64 and called the marijuana the “most valuable plant known to mankind.”
“I’m for anything that promotes the marijuana industry,” Riley said. “I’d like to see Colorado and California lead the way.”
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KIEV, Ukraine – Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he was abandoning a unilateral cease-fire in the conflict with pro-Russian separatists and sending military forces back on the offensive after talks with Russia and European leaders failed to start a broader peace process.
Poroshenko's decision, announced shortly after the much-violated 10-day cease-fire expired, raises the prospect of renewed escalation of a conflict that has killed more than 400 people.
A grave Poroshenko made a televised address early Tuesday vowing that "we will attack, and we will free our country." The cease-fire expired at 10 p.m. Monday.
There was no immediate sign of a response from Russia early Tuesday.
The idea behind the truce announced June 20 was to give pro-Russian rebels a chance to disarm and to start a broader peace process including an amnesty and new elections. Poroshenko, a wealthy candy magnate elected May 25, had already extended the cease-fire from seven days.
But rebels did not disarm, and the cease-fire was continually violated, with both sides blaming each other. Rebels called the cease-fire fake and did not yield to Poroshenko's latest push to get them to turn over key border crossings with Russia and permit international monitoring.
"The unique chance to put the peace plan into practice was not realized," Poroshenko said. "This happened because of the criminal actions of the fighters." He said the militants violated the truce "more than a hundred times."
Poroshenko said the government was ready to go back to the cease-fire "at any moment, when we see that all sides are keeping to the basic points of the peace plan."
"Peace is, was and will be my goal," he added. "Only the instruments of achieving it are changing. ... The defense of Ukraine's territorial integrity, of the security and lives of peaceful citizens, demands not just defensive but offensive action against the terrorist militants."
Poroshenko said he made the decision after a meeting of the national security council. "After discussion of the situation, I, as commander in chief, took the decision not to continue the unilateral cease-fire."
"Ending the cease-fire, this is our answer to terrorists, armed insurgents and looters, to all who mock the peaceful population, who are paralyzing the economy of the region ... who are depriving people of a normal, peaceful life," Poroshenko said in his speech.
Poroshenko's decision followed four-way talks in search of a solution with Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande on Monday as the deadline approached. He issued a statement after the talks ended, saying the key conditions needed to continue the cease-fire had not been met.
European leaders and the U.S. have urged Russia to use its influence with the rebels to ease the bloodshed and have threatened to impose another round of economic sanctions against Moscow.
While Putin has expressed support for the cease-fire, the West has accused Russia of sending weapons and fighters across the border into Ukraine. Russia says any Russians there have gone as private citizens.
Tension between Russia and Ukraine escalated in February when protests by people who wanted closer ties with the European Union drove pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych from office. Russia called that an illegal coup and seized Ukraine's Crimea region, saying it was protecting the rights of people there who speak Russian as their main language.
The insurrection in the eastern regions near the Russian border started soon afterward, with separatists occupying buildings and declaring independence.
Poroshenko said he meant for a cease-fire to be followed by an amnesty for fighters who had not considered serious crimes, and political concessions such as early local and regional elections, protections for speakers of Russian and, in the longer term, changes to the constitution to decentralize power to the regions.
The end of the cease-fire raises the question of what action the Ukrainian military can take. It has so far been unable to dislodge rebels occupying the city of Slovyansk or to retake control of three key border crossings with Russia. At one point, the rebels shot down a government military transport, killing 49 service members.
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Theoretical Foundations Organizational Learning Information and Knowledge: Differences and Relations This section begins by establishing the difference and relationship between the terms information and knowledge, for the principle of intelligibility in this document and considering that as Organizational Learning particular, this relates to the construction, implementation and knowledge management in organizations. In many cases there is a tendency to understand, use and believe that access to much information is the same as access to knowledge. Perhaps one reason for this confusion has to do that for many authors the ability to create knowledge is related to a large extent, access to information and confused the boundary between both concepts. For its part, Dretske (1981) argues that the information can be considered in two ways: syntactically (by volume it has) and semantically (by meaning you own). The semantic aspect of information is more important for the construction of knowledge, because it focuses on the meaning expressed. In this way, information is considered, a flow of messages and knowledge is created precisely for this flow of information, anchored in the beliefs and commitment of its holder.
This explanation emphasizes that knowledge is essentially related to human action, knowledge has been defined theoretically as true and justified beliefs acquired empirically. This is operationalized, to understand knowledge as a sequence, a continuum from data to information and knowledge thereof, which becomes with time and experience that grows up to become knowledge. For Nonaka and Takeuchi (1999), knowledge is similar to the information, other than her and are relational.
To manage our time, it is imperative that we know how important a clear distinction (the task that leads us to achieve our objectives) of the Emergency (the task is conditioned by the time factor), and that focus all our energy and effort into developing Important tasks are not urgent yet, as this will allow us to perform them with greater confidence, and therefore less pressure, tension and stress, facilitating its implementation with a higher quality and preventing them from becoming well-urgent tasks (ie, important and urgent). Certainly, no one escapes, it is not possible to foresee, plan, or program the full (100%) of the tasks, as many appear to unforeseen and unexpected.
However, it is very important that these are the exception and not the general trend that we assume that we are always acting as “putting out fires”, ie as “fire”, having to act on the important tasks that have become in Urgent and the consequent energy, tension and stress that would be created. Knowledge systematically and to establish our priorities right, in our daily tasks such as periodic, is critical to the success of our management. The use of any of the methods, successfully tested, which is already in the market (ABCDE, Pareto …) will help us greatly to achieve that function. The Art of Delegating will be no certainly one of our most important allies in our Time Management and much of our life. It is imperative to share the Rockefeller famously “Do not make yourself never what can be done by another.
This in turn composed of a series of competencies that determine how we relate to ourselves, this intelligence comprises three elements: self-awareness. Self-regulation or self-control. Self motivation. Self-consciousness is the ability to recognize and understand oneself one’s own strengths, weaknesses and moods, emotions and impulses, and the effect these have on others and on the job. This competition is manifested in people with skills to judge themselves realistically, they are aware of their own limitations and honestly admit their mistakes, which are sensitive to learning and have a high degree of self-confidence. Self-regulation or self-control is the ability to control our own emotions and impulses to adapt to a goal of taking responsibility for one’s actions, thinking before acting and to avoid premature judgments. People who possess these skills are sincerity and integrity, control stress and anxiety about compromising situations and are flexible to changes and new ideas.
Self motivation is the ability to be in continuous search and persistence in achieving goals by tackling problems and finding solutions. This competition manifests itself in people who show great enthusiasm for his work and for achieving the above goals simple financial reward, with a high degree of initiative and commitment. Interpersonal Intelligence ability to understand others, that things motivates them, how they operate, how to interact properly with them. Ability to recognize and react to humor the temperament and emotions of others. Empathy is the ability to understand feelings, needs and problems of others, putting in place, and properly respond to their emotional reactions. People are those capable of empathic listening to others and understand their problems and motivations, which usually have a lot of popularity and social recognition, which anticipates the needs of others and exploit opportunities offered by others.
Social skills is the talent in the management of relations are others, namely to persuade and influence others. Those with social skills are excellent negotiators, have a great ability to lead groups and to drive change. No matter how old and experts as we are, no matter how well trained academically we feel there is always a way for improve, to reevaluate, to restart, to redirect our life mission and our values into our work, our family, our profession and our society.
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New York (TADIAS) — Enkutatash is around the corner and so is the fourth annual Ethiopia Fest Chicago, a colorful September festival in the “Windy City” marking the Ethiopian New Year.
The Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago (ECAC), host of the weekend celebration scheduled for September 9th, announced that their holiday gathering this year features live music, food, fashion show, cultural performance and a gursha contest.
“We are really excited to see Ethiopia Fest continue to grow bigger and better each year,” said Dibora Berhanu, Events Director of the ECAC’s Auxiliary Board. “This year we have all five hours packed with great entertainment and an array of vendors.” She added: “It will be a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon [celebrating] the beautiful Ethiopian culture.” The program also includes traditional Ethiopian coffee ceremony and poetry reading by up-and-coming artist, Tigist Dadi.
The non profit organization said it’s expecting up to a thousand people to attend. “This Festival is a wonderful opportunity for Ethiopians in Chicago and other members in the community to engage in festivities to celebrate the New Year,” the press release stated. “The attendees include the Greater Chicago Ethiopian community, adoptive communities, the African and African Diaspora communities, as well as many people who travel from all over the Midwest.”
The press release notes that the festival organizers have partnered with Ethiopian Airlines and offering a raffle of a round-trip ticket to any Ethiopian Airlines destination in Africa. “We also have many local sponsors including The Wild Hare, New City Moving, The African Life, The Meeting Point, Safari Lounge & Ethiopian Cuisine, Ian Sherwin Gallery, and Selam Ethiopian Kitchen” states the press release.
—If You Go:Admission is only $5 and free for children under 5. You can purchase your tickets online or with cash at the door. For more information on Ethiopia Fest Chicago, please visit ethiopiafestchicago.com.
Yohannes Abraham served as Deputy Assistant to the President for the Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs under President Obama and as Senior Advisor to the National Economic Council. (Courtesy Photo).
Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff
August 15th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — Yohannes Abraham will be a 2017 Fellow at the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard Kennedy School. The prestigious institution announced that Yohannes “will guide students through discussions on how White House staff develop and advocate for policy priorities, advance nominations, and manage crises.”
“I can’t think of a more important time to invest in the next generation of public servants,” Yohannes shared in a statement. “It’s an honor to have the opportunity to join this community as a Fall Fellow.”
“Yohannes Abraham has not only had a front row seat, but was an active participant in the complex process of shaping national and international policy,” said Cong. Bill Delahunt, Acting Director of the Institute of Politics. “His willingness to share his White House experience with students will provide them a rare first-hand perspective on the challenges of governing.”
Yohannes served as Deputy Assistant to the President for the Office of Public Engagement & Intergovernmental Affairs and Senior Advisor to the National Economic Council during the Obama administration. He is currently Senior Advisor to the Obama Foundation.
The press release states Yohannes’ White House experience put him “in the middle of many of the highest profile confirmation, legislative, and communications battles of President Obama’s second term.”
The announcement notes that “Abraham first began working for then-Senator Obama during his Iowa Caucus campaign in 2007. He went on to serve as Senator Obama’s Virginia Field Director in the 2008 general election, helping turn Virginia blue for the first time in 44 years. During President Obama’s first term, Abraham served in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs during the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and other key pieces of the President’s agenda.”
The Institute of Politics at Harvard University was established in 1966 in honor John F. Kennedy, America’s youngest president to be elected. According to its website: “Since its founding half a century ago, the Institute has used its programming and activities to ignite passion, appreciation and respect for politics and public service.”
Yohannes added: ““If there is a subset of students that leave my study group more likely to pursue a career in public service, I will consider my time as a Fellow a success.”
Prevail: New Film in the Making About Ethiopia’s Resistance Against Fascism
The amazing story of Ethiopia's resistance against Fascist Italy's invasion. It's an epic tale of courage, betrayal, faith, love and a proud nation that refused to back down. (Photo from the book Prevail)
Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff
Updated: August 14th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — The recent publication entitled Prevail — focusing on rarely told personal stories from Ethiopia’s victory over fascist Italy during World War II — is now being converted into a documentary film. Written by Toronto-based journalist and author, Jeff Pearce, Prevail features profiles of heroes including Jagama Kello, Ambassador Imru Zelleke, Lekelash Bayan, Lorenzo Taezaz, African-American pilot John Robinson and Emperor Haile Selassie.
“This is our story and unless we tell it no one else is going to do it for us,” says Bereket Kelile of Sacramento, California who is helping to fundraise for the film project. “It was above-the-fold front page news in the New York Times and other big newspapers at the time, but today it’s not a very well known event. The really urgent part is that there are still people alive from that era, so we are kind of racing against the clock to get them on tape. Unfortunately, we have already lost valuable people in recent years such as Jagama Kello and historian Richard Pankhurst.”
Bereket, who was born and raised in the U.S., first learned about the book after reading the Tadias interview with Jeff Pearce three years ago. He later purchased the book and wrote his own review for the website Medium that led to an introduction and friendship with Pearce.
“Jeff has done his homework,” Bereket says. “It’s a well-researched book. In addition to narrating the story from the Ethiopian point of view what I like about what Jeff says is that from the non-Ethiopian perspective it’s a story that’s very much relevant even here,” Bereket explains. “It had an impact in this country as well. African-Americans were concerned about it and there were thousands of people in Harlem, for example, lined up to volunteer to fight for Ethiopia.”
The online fundraising page for the Prevail film project (www.gofundme.com/ethiopiawins) notes some of the few astonishing facts about the war including that “everyone from Gandhi to Trotsky, from Josephine Baker and Langston Hughes to Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw, had an opinion about it; a Broadway play was shut down over it; Marconi, a Fascist, was trying to build a microwave weapon to fight the British because of Ethiopia; about 20,000 Black Americans marched on one day alone over it on August 3, 1935, and there were other massive protests in America and around the world; It inspired a 17-year-old Nelson Mandela.”
The war was full of atrocities including the massacre of “tens of thousands of Ethiopians over a three-day period, and thousands more taken to concentration camps, where about half of them died.” And finally “it ended with an astonishing rescue against overwhelming odds. A true tale of underdog victory.”
Bereket shares that their initial goal is to raise $50,000 to cover the interviews that will be conducted in Ethiopia, England and the United States as well as to pay for archival footage.
Ethiopian Almaz Ayana destroyed the field to win the 10,000 metres at the World Championships on Saturday, finishing around 300 metres clear of her rivals in her first race of an injury-plagued season.
The Olympic champion began pulling away from the field after 10 laps, sweeping past back markers who were made to look sluggish in comparison.
She finished in 30:16.32 seconds, well outside the world record she set when she won in Rio last year but still enough to win by an astonishing 46.37 seconds, by far the biggest margin in championship history.
Ayana’s compatriot Tirunesh Dibaba, the former world and Olympic champion, added to her impressive collection of medals when he took the silver with Kenya’s Agnes Tirop in third.
“I am very happy to win this title, much more than when I won the Olympic gold because I have been sick this year and didn’t expect it. In fact, this was my first race of 2017,” Ayana told reporters.
A repeat of her world record-breaking performance in Rio was never on the cards after a slow, tactical start to the race in which the field crawled around the first lap in 81 seconds.
But the last two thirds of the race was reminiscent of Ayana’s extraordinary run last year where she also blew away the field.
Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new songs and videos — and anything else that strikes them as intriguing. You can listen to this Playlist on Spotify.
Kelela sings about a potential one-night stand in “LMK,” the single preceding her official debut album, “Take Me Apart,” due Oct. 6, after four years of sporadic releases. “LMK” isn’t a flirtation — it’s a negotiation, close to an ultimatum. Her potential partner can’t expect romance, can’t say the wrong thing and has to “let me know” fast: “I ain’t gonna wait if you hesitate,” she announces. The encounter takes place in the subterranean ambience of a production by Jam City with wavery bass tones, chattery percussion and countless layers of Kelela’s nonchalant voice ricocheting through the haze. “It ain’t that deep,” she shrugs, but it’s not exactly casual, either. JON PARELES
Julie Mehretu: Working on a New Towering Project in an Unused Harlem Church
Julie Mehretu, a MacArthur Foundation “genius,” is executing a monumental new commission for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Harlem, New York — The artist Julie Mehretu has been flying awfully close to the sun.
Soaring midair on a mobile platform inside an unused Harlem church, she has been working and reworking two towering paintings taking shape on opposite walls, a monumental commission for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
For the last 14 months the vaulted neo-Gothic nave has served as Ms. Mehretu’s temporary studio as she executes the most physically demanding, politically charged and collaborative work of her career. Later this month, her paintings will be installed in the museum’s atrium, where they will remain on view for more than three years.
“These are my most American paintings,” said Ms. Mehretu, 46, running her hand through her crop of dark curls as she contemplated the two radiant and complex canvases, each stretching 27 feet by 32 feet.
Ms. Mehretu made her first marks on the canvases in the days right after the November election. It was her shock that moved her to rapid action and she said the current “miasma” informed her improvisational language of roiling calligraphic brush strokes and erasures. She is interested in what “gestural abstraction” — her intuitive and personal expression — ”can conjure in this political moment,” she said, adding that the works “are trying to make sense of where we are in our country right now.”
Aminé: Joyful Rapper With Eye on Politics
Aminé’s parents moved to the United States from Ethiopia in the early 1990s, settling in Portland; his mother works for the post office, and his father has been a teacher and translator. (The New York Times)
PORTLAND, ORE. — There is a door at Portland State University that doesn’t quite lock, and one afternoon in early April, the rapper Aminé walked up to it and gave it a hopeful tug. It popped open with an easy exhale, and he smiled. A couple of years ago, when he was still a student here studying marketing but plotting a music career, he would sneak into this building, make his way to a nondescript beige room on the second floor, and, in the quiet of night, accompanied by no one, work on his songs.
Striving to be a rapper in this city better known for indie rock, roots music and “Portlandia”-level whiteness was “super depressing,” he said. The scene was dead. No one replied to his entreaties to collaborate. He couldn’t afford to pay for a real studio.
But there was this unassuming room, where, in the fall of 2015, Aminé recorded onto his laptop the vocals for “Caroline,” the goofy flirtation — “great scenes might be great, but I love your bloopers/and perfect’s for the urgent/Baby, I want forever” — that became a surprise breakout hit last year, and took Aminé from frustrated college student to ascendant hip-hop star signed to a major label, Republic Records…
Aminé with family members in Portland, Ore. (Photo: The New York Times)
It was one of pop culture’s first powerful responses to the election, and it marked Aminé as someone unwilling to be pigeonholed. “I had people that didn’t even congratulate me for the success of ‘Caroline’ saying, ‘Thank you for doing that.’” he said. “Trump as the president doesn’t make sense to me. Someone talking about the country and the people who live in it that way when this country is made up of immigrants, I don’t get how that can even resonate with people.”
New Deputy Director at Center for Science Diplomacy brings experience from academia, White House
About halfway through her PhD program in bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Mahlet Mesfin started thinking about connections outside the micro world of proteins to the macro world of science-society issues. Several years later – and with stints as a AAAS Science and Technology (S&T) Policy Fellow at the Department of Defense and working at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) – Mesfin has come full circle from the academic and governmental spheres, joining the AAAS Center for Science Diplomacy as its Deputy Director in May.
For Mesfin, the intersections of science, policy, and society stretch back to her time as a graduate student at Penn studying traumatic brain injury. For example, her PhD adviser had advised in safety standards for football helmet design, demonstrating the role that science can play in addressing societal problems – and, as importantly, proposing solutions.
“While doing my PhD, I started thinking about how S&T can help answer bigger questions, such as how it can be used in capacity building in low and middle income countries,” she said. “I also got more involved in my university community and advocating for the needs of underrepresented student groups, such as African-American students and women in science and engineering, which gave me my first experiences in policy.”
Her interest in policy led her to spending six months at the U.S. National Academies for Science (NAS) where she worked on projects related to advancing women in STEM in academia and girls in engineering. Her policy interests have been focused on the intersection of S&T and global issues. Mesfin was able to formally enter the science and diplomacy fields at the United States government level, beginning at the Department of Defense, which at the time was seeking to increase its coordination of international S&T efforts among each of its services. In this role, she interfaced with OSTP, which plays a key role in coordinating international S&T activities across the U.S. government. During Mesfin’s second year as a AAAS S&T Policy Fellow, she came on board at OSTP as a detail, and then stayed on to eventually become the Assistant Director for International Science and Technology.
During her time at OSTP she gained greater appreciation for how science, technology, and innovation (STI) make an impact in the world. “Other countries look to the U.S. STI ecosystem to try and model it to meet their national goals. In the current U.S. political environment, with potential cuts to S&T funding and disinterest in soft power, it is unclear how U.S. government leadership on these topics will change over time.”
PRESIDENTIAL SCIENCE ADVISOR JOHN HOLDREN AND MAHLET MESFIN LEARN ABOUT ANCIENT POLYNESIAN VOYAGING TRADITIONS ABOARD THE HŌKŪLEʻA AS PART OF THE U.S. DELEGATION TO THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATES HELD IN 2014 IN SAMOA | CREDIT: U.S. EMBASSY NEW ZEALAND
However, Mesfin is confident that the role of STI and its role in diplomacy doesn’t have to be led from a governmental level.
“AAAS is in an excellent position to advance the conversation,” she said. “It is a well-respected organization with a convening power able to bring a number of governmental and non-governmental voices together.”
Mesfin sees a part of her role at the Center for Science Diplomacy as helping to continue to define science diplomacy in the context of current events. “It is paramount that scientists have a seat at the table in relevant matters of foreign policy. I am excited to be a part of a team that is focused on these types of conversations.”
Spotlight: Wondwossen Dikran’s New Comedy ‘SNAP!’ Playing on YouTube Red
Producer Wondwossen Dikran on the set of the new comedy special, SNAP!, from All Def Digital and Dormtainment currently showing on the online film platform YouTube Red. (Courtesy photo)
Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff
July 17th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — Ethiopian-American filmmaker Wondwossen Dikran is the producer of SNAP!, a new comedy special released last week by Russell Simmons’ All Def Digital (ADD) and Dormtainment. The latter is one of the first sketch comedy groups to launch their video content on YouTube. Wondwossen was previously featured as director of the independent film Journey to Lasta released in 2004.
Speaking about his new venture, Wondwossen tell Tadias: “The Co-founder of Dormtainment, Amanuel Richards, is my first cousin and this brought back a lot of the JTL crew. Russell Simmons and All Def Digital are the Executive Producers.” SNAP! is directed by Olumide Odebunmi, Wondwossen’s business & creative partner.
According to Dormtainment, the short comedy SNAP! is “about the hottest Atlanta Snap Rap Group of 2006 aka Stacks-4-Daze. Now the band members are all broke working dead-end-jobs in LA, but when they accidentally go viral on Worldstar they get a second chance at fame. Can they bring the stacks back?”
Describing his cousin Amanuel of Dormtainment Wondwossen shares, “He is much younger than I am, and I have been kind of encouraging him to come out to this side of the coast.” Amanuel — who was born in the U.S. to parents hailing from Ethiopia and the Virgin Islands — is also the co-director and lead actor in SNAP!.
“Once Amanuel came to LA several years ago Dormtainment began to get a lot of buzz. They had a show on Comedy Central, and they were doing a lot of work for LOL network,” says Wondwossen. “So when the opportunity came and they were approached by the multi-channel network, All Def Digital, they asked me to develop and produce this half hour pilot.”
All Def’s Chief Executive, Sanjay Sharma, states: “We are thrilled to have partnered with Dormtainment, one of our earliest partners on the YouTube platform, to produce this unique, hilarious special. They have such a loyal fanbase, and their ability to create highly engaging short form content, long form premium content, and even sell-out, live stage experiences is truly special. We are excited to get this project out for our fans and theirs, and for the broader world to see, as we continue to expand and work with some of the brightest up-and-coming talent in the industry.”
Wondwossen Dikran and Olumide Odebunmi working on set of ‘SNAP!’ (Courtesy photo)
For Wondwossen the main focus has been developing and producing content for the digital space. “We have found opportunity because the business is shifting from traditional models to various digital platforms,” he says. “We’ve been working with several agencies in developing talent for feature films, music videos, as well as high-end commercials and other branded content.”
In order to become a regular series the success of this pilot “basically depends on how much people respond to it based on the numbers and algorithms”, Wondwossen explains. “We encourage people to watch the pilot and give us your feedback, a like, a review, or whatever you think about it.” He added: “We would love as much eyeball as we can get.”
New York (TADIAS) — The U.S.-based non-profit organization for Ethiopian health care professionals in the Diaspora, People to People (P2P), announced that it will be hosting its 9th annual Health Care and Medical Education conference on September 23rd, 2017 at the Residence Inn, Pentagon City, just outside of Washington, D.C.
“The central theme for this year will be ‘Cancer and Cancer Care,’ a topic you will agree, is gaining increasing importance in Ethiopia and beyond,” said Dr. Enawgaw Mehari, Founder and President of P2P in a statement.
The conference will address the current status of cancer care in Ethiopia and participants will “brainstorm on ways to support clinical care, education and research in this field,” Dr. Enawgaw shared in his letter. “To this end, we have assembled an impressive roster of speakers with wide experience in academia, and building and supporting fellowship programs in Hematology and Oncology.”
Dr. Enawgaw added: “P2P has been promoting the concept of triangular partnership since its inception in 2009. This model recognizes the pivotal role Diaspora Health Professionals can play in fostering partnerships between US and Ethiopian institutions of higher learning. The conference this September will provide further opportunity to network and meet Ethiopian and US institutions of higher learning who share the same mission and vision.”
A Bone Marrow Drive Underway at Ethiopian Soccer Tournament
New York (TADIAS) — A timely bone marrow donor drive is being hosted by the Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America (ESFNA) at this year’s annual Ethiopian soccer tournament and cultural festival that’s taking place this week in the Seattle suburb of Renton, Washington.
ESFNA announced that the bone marrow registry will be held in the vendor area of the tournament and festival in coordination with Be The Match organization, which is operated by the National Marrow Donor Program.
“Our hope is to offer a cure for the thousands of people diagnosed with life-threatening cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma each year,” ESFNA said. “Many of these people are of Ethiopian descent.”
Last month we featured Elsa, an Ethiopian-Canadian mother of two children, who is currently in urgent need of life-saving marrow transplant, and who has not yet found a match in the current International Registry of 29 million individuals.
Have Women Shattered the Glass Ceiling in Tech? Betty Abera on Fargo INC
Bethlehem Abera Gronneberg on the cover of the July 2017 issue of Fargo INC magazine. (Fargo INC)
Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff
July 3rd, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — The last time we featured Software Engineer turned Social Entrepreneur Bethlehem Abera Gronneberg she had just won the prestigious Bush Fellowship for her non-profit organization, uCodeGirl, whose mission is to encourage young girls to aim for careers in the high-tech industry.
This month Betty, who works and lives in North Dakota, made the cover of her local business magazine, Fargo INC, as one of five women invited to discuss female representation in the technology sector.
“It’s the question no one can seem to answer definitively: Why aren’t more girls going into high-tech fields?” asks Fargo INC introducing its July 2017 edition. “We assembled a panel of five FM-area women working in tech to try and figure out why.”
(Photo: Fargo INC July 2017 issue)
A mother of three boys, Betty is also the author of a children’s book entitled The Alphabet Takes a Journey…Destination Ethiopia. She was born and raised in Ethiopia and attended Addis Ababa University, later working at the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) before immigrating to the United States.
Regarding her non-profit, uCodeGirl, which strives to democratize “the technology sandbox with diverse voices as a result of increased participation of women,” Betty told Tadias that it was “inspired by the question — How can I see more people like me in the technology workforce?” She added: “I am engaging my vision and passion to create and foster an enrichment program that will inspire and empower young girls to be the driving force, the innovators of the technology they consume.”
On the Roof of Africa in Ethiopia, Amazing Portraits of a Christian Community
New York (TADIAS) — The following amazing photographs were taken by the legendary Brazilian social documentary photographer and photojournalist Sebastião Salgado and appear in the July 2017 issue of The Smithsonian Magazine.
The photographer was on “a 500-mile, 55-day hike through some of the most inaccessible passages in the Ethiopian highlands, a region known as the roof of Africa, where the elevations range from a few thousand feet to almost 15,000,” notes the Smithsonian Institution publication. “For him, the villages bespeak a continuity over millennia, and the landscape — with its blazing shafts of sunlight and a river-carved canyon deeper, at points, than the Grand Canyon — inspires a connection to eons past.”
Pictures of HIM Haile Selassie taken in Canberra & Melbourne during his State visit to Australia in 1968. (Photos: Pinterest)
Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff
June 28th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — Former Emperor Haile Selassie’s grandson, Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie, began a major commemorative tour of Australia on June 16, 2017 to mark the upcoming 50th anniversary of his grandfather’s State Visit to Australia. The International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA), where Prince Ermias is a Senior Fellow, is a major sponsor of the tour.
Prince Ermias, who works with ISSA in conflict resolution issues around the world, is the co-Patron of the ISSA Zahedi Center for the Study of Monarchy, Traditional Governance, and Sovereignty. The association states that in Australia, Prince Ermias “was being accompanied on the visit by ISSA Pres. Gregory Copley and ISSA Executive Director Pamela von Gruber, and a number of ISSA Senior Fellows would participate in the visit in various parts of the trip.”
“Prince Ermias’ Commemorative Tour embraces Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, and Perth, and will include similar activities to those undertaken by the Emperor in 1968,” said the announcement from the Washington, D.C.-based NGO. “Although the visit is a private one, Prince Ermias has been asked to address a significant number of groups in each city, including several black tie dinners.” The press release added that “a ministerial reception was scheduled for the Australian Parliament in Canberra, and a luncheon was to be held for him in the New South Wales Parliament. He will lay a wreath at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, accompanied by the Memorial’s Director (and former Australian Defense Minister) Dr Brendan Nelson. Former Head-of-State Michael Jeffery will also host a dinner for him in Canberra.”
Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie was quoted by the Financial Review Australia publication as stating: “People identify with Ethiopia – its resistance to colonialism, its long history, its sense of pride, sense of tolerance and the living together of all these different religions in peace.”
According to The International Strategic Studies Association (ISSA) “In Melbourne, Prince Ermias will plant a tree at the Royal Botanic Gardens, near the one planted by the Emperor in 1968. He will also meet with a number of Ethiopian-Australian community leaders.”
Watch: HAILE SELASSIE IN AUSTRALIA (AP Video)
Watch: Haile Selassie visits the Australian War Memorial – 14 May 1968 — No Sound
Spotlight: Marcus Samuelsson Brings Red Rooster to London
Chef Marcus Samuelsson at the new Red Rooster in London (Photo: Bloomberg)
Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff
June 27th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — Chef Marcus Samuelsson has expanded his popular Harlem restaurant business across the pond, opening a new Red Rooster in London late last month. The restaurant, which is housed inside the elegant Curtain Hotel in the East London neighborhood of Shoreditch, is the first Red Rooster location outside of New York City.
As Bloomberg News points out: “Red Rooster became a hit in Harlem thanks to chef Marcus Samuelsson’s take on Southern comfort food — and became internationally famous because former President Barack Obama was a huge fan. He even held a fundraiser there. The first foreign outpost of Red Rooster opens at the new Curtain Hotel in London’s hip Shoreditch neighborhood. About half the menu will be the same as the New York location: There will still be chicken ’n waffles for £10 ($13), fried yard bird (£19) and the Obama short ribs (£33), a recipe fit for a president. But he’s using some local ingredients and adding dishes to reflect his background, such as Uncle T’s herring (£8). Plus, there will be a taqueria called Tienda Roosteria.”
Why London?
The Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised celebrity chef and author says that like New York he is attracted to London for it’s multiculturalism. “New York is a world city, and so is London, but London has a different kind of diversity than New York and I thrive off that,” Marcus toldThe Globe and Mail. “We wanted to find a neighbourhood that matched the excitement of Harlem, and felt that Shoreditch and London, as a town, really matches New York.” He added: “It has incredible mystique, funk and coolness. I’ve been asked to open a new Red Rooster every week for the past four and a half years, and I always say no. When you walk into the restaurant, the first thing you’ll see is a taqueria inspired by the barrio. We have a huge Latin community in east Harlem.”
“Samuelsson, 46, became a star early in his career more than two decades ago, as he earned a three-star review from The New York Times as the chef at Aquavit. Now his brand and marketing empire has expanded to restaurants in Bermuda, Sweden, and Norway, and he’s a regular on shows such as Chopped and Iron Chef America.”
New York (TADIAS) — Last week the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. hosted an evening of painting and Ethiopian Jazz “under the summer skies” with Beteseb Center and Feedel Band.
We featured the Beteseb art program when it was first launched two years ago as a weekly Saturday painting session for amateur artists in a rental space on 18th street in the Adams Morgan neighborhood.
Beteseb founders Solomon Asfaw and Aleme Tadesse envisioned providing a creative outlet for individuals as well as groups not only to create art, but to also jumpstart a movement for youth to spend their time in more rewarding ways. Indeed the movement is underway and growing. The most recent event at Smithsonian on June 17th was “attended by 529 people while 189 people painted,” Beteseb shared adding “Thanks for Feedel Band making the evening super nice.”
Below are photos from the event:
Beteseb announced that it will host its next event in August and September, closer to the Ethiopian New Year. They will also “be opening up more weekly paint sessions in Virginia in addition to the current one every Saturday in Adams Morgan.”
New York (TADIAS) — Face2Face Africa has officially announced the honorees for the 2017 annual FACE List Award — a prestigious celebration of pan-African achievement in the U.S. — and this year the list includes Ethiopian American Mimi Alemayehou who is the Managing Director at Black Rhino Group, an investment firm focused on the development and acquisitions of energy and infrastructure projects across Africa.
“Ethiopian-born Mimi Alemayehou is one of the most influential and sought-after experts in African Business,” Face2face Africa said in a press release. She is Managing Director at Black Rhino Group, and also serves as an Executive Advisor and Chair of Blackstone Africa Infrastructure LP. Previously, she was Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC), under the Obama administration, and was one of the architects of the Power Africa initiative to increase energy access across the continent.”
Mimi is being honored along with Rev. Al Sharpton, Founder and President of the National Action Network; Beverly Bond, Founder of Black Girls Rock!; and Tuma Basa, Global Programming Head of Hip-Hop at Spotify.
“We are very proud of our 2017 honorees for their distinguished careers and achievements,” Face2Face Africa added in their media release. “Their impact and legacy will shape and influence the pan-African community for generations to come.”
—If You Go:
2017 Pan-African Weekend
New York City
Thu, July 13 – Sun, July 16More info at face2faceafrica.com.
Elsa Nega, Mother of 2 in Canada Needs Life-Saving Marrow Transplant
Because Elsa Nega is an Ethiopian, her chances of finding a donor on the international registry is slim and so her family is appealing to Ethiopians worldwide to help save her life by joining the registry at Match4Elsa.com
Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff
June 21st, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — Elsa (Elizabeth) Nega is an Ethiopian-Canadian mother of two children who is currently in urgent need of life-saving marrow transplant. Her family is searching worldwide to find a match for Elsa. “Her brother and sister in Ethiopia were her best hope but are not matches,” states a recent press release. “Of the 29 million people in the International Registry, no matches have been found.”
According to her family Elsa was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia after she suddenly fell ill earlier this year. A statement from the family said she walked into her local ER on February 8 and was rushed into an intensive care unit. The following day she was diagnosed with the acute form of leukemia (or cancer of the white blood cells). “She started on chemo immediately,” the statement said. “Unlike 90% of patients who go into remission after the first round of chemo, Elsa did not. Now, after 3 rounds of chemo, a bone marrow transplant is her only hope of recovery.”
Elsa Nega. (Courtesy photo)
Because Elsa is Ethiopian, her chances of finding a donor on the registry are slim, and so her family is appealing to Ethiopians worldwide to join the registry to help save Elsa and so many others like her. “Specifically, there is a great need for young adults, ages 18-35, of African descent. The younger a person is, the healthier their marrow is, which means more possible matches for patients like Elsa.”
—You can learn more and join the match registry as potential marrow donors at Match4Elsa.com.
Yonas Beshawred — an Ethiopian-American from Maryland -- is the founder and CEO of Stackshare, a developer-only community of engineers, CTOs, VPEs, and developers from some of the world's top startups and companies. (Photo: Techcrunch.com)
On Stackshare, Airbnb lists over 50 services in its “stack,” Slack lists 24, and Spotify lists more than 31; these stacks are collections of different pieces of software that each company is using to run their operations, and range from infrastructure tools to communications tools to container tools to email services.
Why are companies beginning to share the specific mix of apps that’s enabling their businesses to grow? Because they know it’s the missing piece of the puzzle for developers, many of whom struggle to learn which tools certain companies use and why, says Stackshare founder and CEO Yonas Beshawred.
In fact, Stackshare is quietly becoming a go-to platform for numerous players in the startup ecosystem for a few reasons, Beshawred argues.
The benefits are clearest for developers. “If you’re trying to build a new on-demand service,” he notes, “you can come to Stackshare and see all the tools that Instacart uses.” Stackshare also benefits companies; when big or small startups volunteer what tools they’re using, they have a better shot at attracting developers who are well-versed in those very same technologies.
Meanwhile, Stackshare is attracting the attention of SaaS vendors, a small but growing number of which are beginning to sponsor sections of the platform and that now have a new place for their communities to evangelize their products.
Certainly, something seems to be clicking. Stackshare, founded in San Francisco in 2014, currently features the “verified” tech stacks of 7,000 companies. More, it claims that more than 150,000 developers are now using the service, where they not only see which companies are using what but they’re also invited to (and do) comment on the tools, helping their peers understand what they should be using and avoiding.
Investors like it, too. At least, today, Stackshare is announcing that it had raised $1.5 million in seed funding late last year, led by Cervin Ventures. Other participants include Precursor Ventures, Square exec Gokul Rajaman, and former VMWare and Facebook exec turned VC Jocelyn Goldfein. The round follows $300,000 in earlier seed funding from 500 Startups; MicroVentures; Airbnb’s first employee, Nick Grandy; Heroku’s former engineering manager Glenn Gillen, and others.
Meklit Releases New Ethio-Jazz Album, Set to Perform in DC and New York
Meklit Hadero's album cover "When the People Move, the Music Moves Too" (courtesy image).
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By Tadias Staff
June 19th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — Ethiopian American singer and composer Meklit Hadero will be performing in Washington DC on June 20th and in New York City on June 21st as Six Degrees Records releases her latest album entitled When the People Move, the Music Moves Too. This past May we shared her video single “I Want to Sing For Them All” as featured on Vibe Magazine.
Meklit’s new album was composed after a chance meeting in Addis Ababa with Mulatu Astatke, the legendary Ethio-Jazz musician, composer and vibraphonist. “He was very pointed with me, saying several times ‘You keep innovating!’” she recalls. “He took me to task and.. it took me a while to digest that. It’s a big thing to have someone like that say that to you. I sat with it for a couple of years.”
Having first launched her music career in the mid-2000s, Meklit has since released five records, been named a TED Global Fellow and was an artist-in-residence at De Young Museum, Red Poppy Art House and New York University. She is the Co-Founder of the popular international group, Nile Project, which brings together musicians from 11 countries in the Nile Basin to tour and perform. She is also Founder of the Arba Minch Collective composed of Diaspora-based Ethiopian artists looking to collaborate with colleagues residing in their native homeland. Meklit performed at the concert inaugurating the UN Campaign for Gender Equality in Africa, and currently sits on the Board of the San Francisco Chapter of The Recording Academy, the organization that puts together the annual Grammy awards ceremony.
Meklit’s upcoming album, produced by Grammy-winner Dan Wilson, is also accompanied by the Ethiopian-born pianist Kibrom Birhane who is based in Los Angeles.
“I am an immigrant, so I guess you could say this is immigrant music,” Meklit says, speaking of her new work. “But I would not be who I am without Jazz, and Blues and Hip-Hop and Soul. This music is Ethio-American, just like me. I find joy in the bigness of that space.”
Art in NYC This Week: Julie Mehretu ‘Uptown’ at the Wallach Art Gallery
New York (TADIAS) — Last month Ethiopian-American artist Julie Mehretu was inducted into the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters. The Academy, which is chartered by the U.S. Congress, was established in 1898 “as an honor society of the country’s leading architects, artists, composers, and writers.” According to the organization’s website: “The Academy seeks to foster and sustain an interest in Literature, Music, and the Fine Arts by administering over 70 awards and prizes, exhibiting art and manuscripts, funding performances of new works of musical theater, and purchasing artwork for donation to museums across the country.”
This week Julie Mehretu and Jessica Rankin’s art works are also featured at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery. The exhibition, aptly titled “Uptown,” inaugurates the gallery’s new space in Harlem at 125th Street and Broadway.
Inside The Weeknd’s $92 Million Year–And The New Streaming Economy Behind It
Five years ago, Spotify was a fledgling music-streaming service only months removed from its U.S. launch and YouTube had just started its push into original programming; Netflix was a year away from doing the same, starting with House of Cards. For the members of the Celebrity 100–our annual accounting of the top-earning entertainers on the planet–meaningful streaming income was a distant dream.
But sometimes profound change happens quickly. Streaming is now the dominant platform for music consumption, and it’s growing rapidly–up 76% year-over-year, according to Nielsen. YouTube has birthed a whole new breed of celebrity: the YouTube star. And Netflix plans to spend hundreds of millions annually on original content.
“It’s not just about music–it’s about every form of entertainment,” Nielsen’s David Bakula says. “You don’t really have to own anything anymore, because for $10 a month you can do this: You can have everything.”
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The indirect spoils of streaming can be even greater. Abel “the Weeknd” Tesfaye parlayed his play count–5.5 billion streams in the past two years–into an estimated $75 million touring advance. To him it’s all part of the model he’s been following throughout his rapid rise, one that applies to all sorts of businesses: Create an excellent product, make it widely available and flip the monetization switch when the timing is right.
“I really wanted people who had no idea who I was to hear my project,” he says. “You don’t do that by asking for money.”
Steve Jobs would have been the logical choice to headline the launch of Apple’s eponymous streaming service, but by the time the tech giant rolled out Apple Music two years ago, he was busy putting dents into faraway universes. In his place was a pair of young musicians who walk the line between hip-hop, pop and R&B: Drake and the Weeknd. The latter stunned the crowd with the first-ever live performance of his new single “I Can’t Feel My Face,” which premiered on Apple Music and has generated more than 1.5 billion spins across all streaming platforms.
The Weeknd knows as well as anyone that streaming isn’t the future of music–it’s the present. As digital downloads and physical sales plummet, streaming is increasing overall music consumption–since their Apple appearances, Drake (No. 4 on our list at $94 million) and The Weeknd (No. 6, $92 million) have clocked a combined 17.5 billion streams–and that creates other kinds of monetization, including touring revenue.
“We live in a world where artists don’t really make the money off the music like we did in the Golden Age,” says the Weeknd, 27. “It’s not really coming in until you hit the stage.
Ready for the Weeknd: Boosted by the ubiquity of his music, he’s now grossing north of
$1.1 million per stop on his Starboy: Legend of the Fall World Tour. (Forbes)
Wayna Pays Tribute to Legendary Ethiopian Musician Bezunesh Bekele
Grammy-nominated singer Wayna will perform a tribute to legendary Bezunesh Bekele at Bethesda Blues & Jazz club on June 9th. (Courtesy photo)
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By Tadias Staff
June 8th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — Following her performance with the Stevie Wonder as a soloist and supporting vocalist, Ethiopian American singer Wayna is starting this summer with a one-of-a-kind tribute to Ethiopian music legend Bezunesh Bekele. Wayna’s upcoming concert is scheduled to be held at Bethesda Blues and Jazz Supper Club in Maryland on Friday, June 9th.
As a Grammy-nominated musician Wayna has previously performed at the Kennedy Center, the White House, Lincoln Center, and the Blue Note along with a 3-month performance residency in Ethiopia in 2016. Wayna also recently released a music video this past March in honor of Women’s History Month entitled You’re Not Alone, which featured images of Ethiopian women by photographer Aida Muluneh as well as photos of women that she encountered at the historic Women’s March on Washington in January 2017.
New York (TADIAS) — Last week Forbes Magazine featured Ethiopian-born Timnit Gebru among 21 incredible women behind artificial intelligence research that’s fueling new discoveries in the field. “You already know that artificial intelligence is transforming virtually every industry and function,” the business publication wrote. “But you might not have met the brilliant AI researchers and technologists driving the edge of innovation.”
Timnit Gebru, who came to the United States when she was 16 years old and is currently a PhD candidate at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, states “my main research interest lies in data mining large scale publicly available images to gain sociological insight, and working on computer vision problems that arise as a result,” adding that her “research is supported by the NSF foundation GRFP fellowship and currently the Stanford DARE fellowship.”
Forbes highlights that Timnit also “actively works to boost diversity and inclusion in the field of AI.” After noticing that she was the only black woman at a major AI conference, she co-founded the social community Black In AI to drive connection and participation in AI research. In addition Timnit returned to Ethiopia to co-teach AddisCoder, a programming bootcamp, to a diverse range of young students and to help them gain admissions into top U.S. colleges.
“This is the most diverse/inclusive classroom I have ever been in,” says Timnit regarding her Ethiopia experience. “All regions of Ethiopia were represented with many religions and at least 10 languages (there were 85 students). There were different income levels ranging from students working as shoe shiners to put themselves through school to kids who went to private middle schools. Some kids had never touched a computer before while others have programmed in Java. But all of them currently understand the basics of recursion, dynamic programming, graphs etc. And they only took this class for one month. I hope to one day see a computer science classroom in the U.S. that is this diverse.”
Forbes notes that “since AI affects all aspects of society, even being used to manipulate elections and identify criminals, Gebru cautions that “AI researchers should not be silent regarding the repercussions of their work. Only when technology creators tend to inclusion will the exponential benefits of artificial intelligence positively impact all.”
New York (TADIAS) – Mulatu Astatke’s seminal album Mulatu of Ethiopia was officially reissued on Friday, May 19th. The label, Strut Records, announced that the “official reissue of Mulatu Astatke landmark Ethio jazz album from 1972, including new interview and photographs, features previously unheard mono mix and session out-takes.”
The New York Times featured Mulatu’s album this week on their playlist, and noted: “The Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke studied vibraphone and percussion at Berklee College of Music in the mid-1960s, and a small label gave him the chance to record Ethio-jazz fusions. He made his funky, forward-looking, newly reissued 1972 album, “Mulatu of Ethiopia,” in New York City with jazz and Latin musicians, combining his African and American elements differently for each track. The melody of “Mulatu,” named for the composer himself, uses an unmistakably Ethiopian mode, while the track also has a crunchy wah-wah guitar, a steadfastly riffing horn section, a bullish saxophone solo and Mr. Astatke’s own vibraphone shimmering in dark spaces.”
Born in Jimma in 1943 the legendary artist is best known as the father of ethio-jazz. “At 73, Mulatu Astatke is as relevant as ever, and that goes for the music he made 45 years ago,” adds the music website Treble Zine in a recent highlight. “Mulatu of Ethiopia isn’t new, but every spin feels like a fresh discovery.”
Mahmoud Ahmed & Ali Birra Rock the Stage in Melbourne, Australia
Mahmoud Ahmed and Ali Birra played two concerts together to an enthusiastic audience in Melbourne, Australia on May 14th, 2017. (Photographer – Mario De Bari)
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By Tadias Staff
Published: May 16th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) – This past weekend, Mahmoud Ahmed and Ali Birra shared the stage for a rare and memorable concert held in front of a jubilant audience in Melbourne, Australia.
The Ethiopian legends played two shows accompanied by a local band, The JAzmaris, “to ecstatically exuberant audiences” reported the website Australian Stage.
And there was plenty of eskista and sing-along from Ethiopian concertgoers at the performance, which took place on Sunday, May 14th inside the Playhouse concert hall at Melbourne’s Arts Centre. According to the review by the Australian Stage: “the two most revered jazz singers of Ethiopia sang with the band at high voltage – the love in the room was immense with members of the audience leaping on stage to plaster money on the white-suited singers’ heads and in their pockets, sharing a moment of song with them.”
The concert featured Mahmoud and Ali’s most popular songs, but Ali Birra also sang a few songs in Somali, along with the song that originally made him famous: Birraa dhaa Barihe.
Both musicians who are in their seventies are considered Ethiopia’s cultural icons and two of the earliest voices of Ethio-Jazz.
G7 & Africa: Dr. Lemma Senbet on Why Growth Should be More Inclusive
Prof. Lemma W Senbet is the Executive Director of the African Economic Research Consortium. (Photo: ISPI)
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By Tadias Staff
Published: May 15th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — Ethiopian American financial economist Dr. Lemma Senbet, who is the Executive Director of the Pan African economic policy organization African Economic Research Consortium based in Nairobi, Kenya, was one of the presenters during a high–level panel held in Rome, Italy last week comprising of representatives and experts from the G7 and selected African think tanks. According to the announcement the conference “focused on Africa and addressed three key issues related to Agenda 2030: food security, innovation and mobility,” in preparation for the upcoming meeting of the G-7 Heads of State in Italy.
Prof. Lemma Senbet Says Africa’s Economic Renaissance Should Be More Inclusive and Sustainable
In the past few years “Africa has actually witnessed a growth syndrome,” says Prof. Lemma Senbet, who is currently on leave from the University of Maryland, College Park where he holds the William E. Mayer Chaired Professorship of Finance. “Some people call that growth renaissance and so moving forward growth has to be inclusive… and agents of those inclusivity are small farmers, women, youth and medium enterprises.”
Prof. Lemma added: “Technology and innovation is really key to leapfrogging and empowering these individuals and institutions. You need innovation not only in agriculture but also in finance. For instance in the area of agricultural innovation, which is actually linked to finance, is the idea of making our small farmers insurable and bankable so they will have access to credit because that’s a big constraint.”
Below is the full video of Prof. Lemma Senbet explaining his presentation at the G7 & Africa panel held in Rome on May 5th:
Teddy Afro ‘Grateful for the Love’ After New CD Ethiopia Ranks No. 1 on Billboard
Teddy Afro performing at SummerStage festival in New York on July 5th, 2014. (Photo by Tsedey Aragie)
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By Tadias Staff
Published: May 13th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) – Teddy Afro’s new album, Ethiopia, made the number one spot on Billboard’s World Albums chart this week as “the highest ranking debut” based on Nielsen Music’s tabulation of sales that measure weekly popularity of singles or albums worldwide.
I am “overwhelmed with your response,” Teddy Afro said on Facebook following Billboard magazine’s announcement. “Grateful for all the love and support.”
The 40-year-old pop star’s latest release, which so far has sold over half a million copies, builds on his previous record smashing albums including Tikur Sew (2012) as well as Abugida (2001), Yasteseryal (2005) and Yasteseryal Edition 2 (2005).
Teddy who has dominated the Ethiopian music scene for over fifteen years produces socially conscious lyrics emphasizing “reconciliation, unity, history, justice, and equality,” notes the online independent music distributor CD Baby. “These subjects have gained him the hearts and ears of millions of adoring fans.”
Later this month the iconic singer will also be honored with an award by the Society of Ethiopians Established in Diaspora (SEED) in Maryland. The the non-profit organization recognizes that Teddy Afro (Tewodros Kassahun) “is an accomplished and distinguished singer and songwriter who has endeared himself to the Global Ethiopian Community in general and to the Diaspora Ethiopians in particular.” The 2017 SEED award will be given to Teddy Afro on May 28th “in appreciation of his tireless efforts to preserve our history and culture through his thoughtful and meaningful musical composition and lyrics that make us feel proud as Ethiopians and inspire the new generation of Ethiopians around the world, in acknowledgement of his inspiring humanitarian support to the less fortunate among us as well as in recognition of his talent as a rising star that is loved and admired by countless Ethiopians.”
New York (TADIAS) — Ethiopian American Designer Jomo Tariku’s latest work, The Birth Chair II, was featured at Venice Design 2017 in Venice, Italy this week as as part of Venice Design’s Time, Space Existence exhibition. In addition, the exhibit highlighted four new designs by Jomo Furniture including “the incorporation of African textiles into modular backrests.”
According to Jomo “The Birth Chair II is inspired by African birthing chairs, which are still used in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. Like most home furnishings in African countries, it is both utilitarian and decorative as well as a functional furniture that is also a work of art. Jomo original model is modular, with swappable backrests featuring various designs. Spare backrests can be displayed as decor. The ultimate design is modern, though rooted in African history.”
The press release adds: “Jomo’s unique exhibition ushers in a new era of mainstreaming African design. Africa has been severely underrepresented in events such as Venice Biennale due in part to the ethnic, rather than nation-based identity among many in African countries. Mainstream events are typically organized around national representation.”
Spotlight: Interview With Solomon Kassa, Host of TechTalk on EBS
Solomon Mulugeta Kassa is the Producer and Host of the 'TechTalk with Solomon' television show on Ethiopia Broadcasting Services (EBS). (Courtesy photo)
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By Tadias Staff
Published: May 8th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — Long before Solomon Mulugeta Kassa launched his popular TechTalk televised show on Ethiopia Broadcasting Services (EBS) highlighting Ethiopian scientists, his friends used to tease him about his nonstop enthusiasm for the newest robot, space exploration, or digital gadgets. “I am always excited about the most recent human innovations in science and technology that impact our lives,” Solomon said in a recent interview with Tadias Magazine, noting that it was one of his buddies who suggested that he become a TV personality so he can free them from his constant obsession. “It was a jokester friend of mine who inspired me to do it,” Solomon recalled with laughter. “So I eventually contacted EBS and made a proposal for the show. They loved it. They said when can you start? That was in 2012.”
Fast forward five years later and Solomon — who works full time as a Senior Technology Consultant for Deloitte — has so far taped over 130 episodes of his show featuring fascinating guests including NASA scientist Dr. Brook Lakew, who is an Associate Director for Planning, Research and Development, Solar System Exploration Division at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, as well as Ethiopian American scientist Sossina M. Haile who is Professor of Materials Science & Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University and one of the leading green energy researchers in the world.
Solomon said his only requirement for the show was that the DC-based program conducted interviews in Amharic so as to avoid “any language barrier” for his target audience especially in Ethiopia. “We know that even in this age of the Internet there is a huge information gap that exists in Ethiopia,” Solomon said. “That knowledge gap has always felt like a burden to me, so this is my way of sharing a little bit of what I know with people who are both younger, older and much smarter than I am.” Over the years Solomon has won an enthusiastic following both in Ethiopia and abroad. He has even appeared as a guest on various national Ethiopian TV shows, and last year received the SEED award from the US-based Society of Ethiopians Established in Diaspora.
SEED said they recognized Solomon for “his extraordinary commitment in promoting the use and teaching of technology through his “Tech Talk” initiative on EBS, reaching millions in the Ethiopian community and doing so in our native language.” And his alma mater, The George Washington University, where he received his Master of Science degree in Information Systems Technology Management in 2011, was equally enthusiastic in a recent feature on their website profiling their former student as trailblazer in the Ethiopian community. In his episodes, “Solomon interviews subject matter experts who enlighten viewers on recent science and technology developments, applications, and uncharted areas of exploration,” the university wrote. “The more than 100 weekly sessions have covered such diverse topics as robotics, space exploration, industrial design, transportation technology, construction engineering, aviation, and futuristic innovations.”
TechTalk with Solomon on EBS. (Courtesy photo)
Like many immigrants Solomon shared that adjusting to life in the United States wasn’t necessarily a smooth ride for him. “It was more like a roller coaster,” he said. “I arrived in Washington in late 2003 (on December 31st to be exact) on a scholarship to attend the University of Jamestown, a private liberal arts college, located in Jamestown, North Dakota.” Solomon, however, never made it past the D.C. area. “When I came here I had only $120 in my pocket,” he recalled. “The scholarship I had was not 100%. It covered about 65% of my expenses. So it became immediately clear to me that I had to find a way to support myself and get my papers straight in order to finish school.” That included crashing at a friend’s studio and working for a while at a convenience store “shelving beers and mopping the floor.” After a while he found a job at a hotel as a front desk supervisor from 3:00pm to 11:00pm, which he said allowed him to attend school during the day, starting at Northern Virginia Community College where he earned another technology associate degree (his first associate degree equivalency was from a private software engineering school in Ethiopia). He also briefly attended George Mason University, but had to withdraw because “working full time, supporting family and going to school was not working out.” At the end Solomon, who is a father of one, graduated from DC’s Strayer University with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2008. Soon he landed a new professional job as a software developer working at the American Society of Clinical Oncology for five years prior to continuing his graduate studies at George Washington University and moving on to join his current position at Deloitte in 2011. And less than a year later Tech-talk with Solomon’ was born on EBS.
In addition, Solomon announced that he is putting the final touches on an upcoming new book aptly titled Science and Technology: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, which he says is “the first Amharic publication of its kind both in content and detail. “It will cover major science moments in history, its effect on the world and its relations to Ethiopia from the industrial revolution to the information age.” Solomon says. “The book will also contain a reflection about the future. Where are we headed? And what is our role? I am talking here about Africans in general and Ethiopians in particular. The fact of the matter is that we started civilization, but when it comes to modern technology we are still playing catch up.”
Asked about the ongoing debate on social media about Ethiopia’s fledgling space program Solomon said he is not as skeptical as some people although he has his own cautious opinions about what the priorities of the orbiters should be such as to “improve agriculture or provide useful weather data as opposed to focusing solely on communication,” he said. “Actually right now technology is the only solution to leapfrog and address some of our most pressing issues.”
“For example in the 1990′s people used to mock our entire continent saying what good is the Internet for Africa?” Solomon emphasized. “Well, look where we are now. So it’s not a luxury. Why should we be the last adopters? Why?”
Watch: Meklit Pays Homage To Ethio-Jazz
Ethiopian Jazz musician Meklit Hadero gives us an amazing tune that shows love to her musical roots, titled “I Want to Sing for Them All,” it features violinist and whistler Andrew Bird. The track is the latest single from her forthcoming album, When The People Move, The Music Moves Too.
“I Want to Sing for Them All” is a beautiful medley of lush and rich sounds from the African diaspora that inspired the song…Meklit’s beautiful visuals pay homage to every sound and artist that crossed her path since she was a child. Her soulful melody shows all of her cultural influences — from hip-hop, soul, and American pop music to Ethiopian jazz music, which shapes her stylistic range. The former TED fellow explains how “I Want to Sing For Them All” is her musical manifesto, and how she intertwines both of the music of American and Ethiopian heritages
She adds, “We came to this country when I was about two. I am an immigrant, so I guess you could say this is immigrant music. But I would not be who I am without Jazz, and Blues and Hip-Hop and Soul. This music is Ethio-American, just like me. I find joy in the bigness of that space.”
New York (TADIAS) -- Ethiopian entrepreneur Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu has been named one of the 2017 Most Influential People of African Descent -- in recognition of the International Decade for People of African Descent proclaimed by United Nation’s General Assembly resolution 68/237 to be observed from 2015 to 2024.
The awards dinner for ‘MIPAD Class of 2017’ will take place on September 26th, 2017 in New York City subsequently after the 72nd Session of the UN General Assembly closes. The press statement notes that "former U.S. President Barack Obama and current UN Secretary-General António Guterres are expected to attend as keynote speakers."
The 2017 honorees were announced during the World Economic Forum on Africa, which is being held in South Africa this week. The individuals are selected from the following categories: Politics & Governance; Business & Entrepreneurship; Media & Culture; as well as Religious & Humanitarian. Bethlehem joins Beyonce, Usain Bolt, Trevor Noah, Didier Drogba, Tiger Woods and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on the 2017 list.
"It is with great honor we unveil the 2017 Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) global list to recognize the positive contributions made by people of African descent in public and private sectors worldwide," the press release stated. "MIPAD is a unique global list that identifies, in total, 200 outstanding individuals under 40, with 100 inside Africa, 100 outside Africa in the Diaspora."
MIPAD described their mission as aiming "to build a progressive network of civil society actors to join together and support the implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent, 2015 – 2024, as proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 68/237."
Icons of Ethiopia US Exhibit at Museum of Russian Icons in Massachusetts
Ethiopia's ancient and storied history is explored in this exhibition at the Museum of Russian Icons, a non-profit art US museum located in Clinton, Massachusetts. (Image: Courtesy of Museum of Russian Icons)
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The Museum of Russian Icons
The Museum of Russian Icons is opening a new mini-exhibit, From the Vault: Icons of Ethiopia, on Saturday, May 20, with a special members-only reception on Thursday, May 18. This exhibit, which will run through August 13, features a mix of Ethiopian icons, silver hand crosses, and artifacts from the Museum’s collection dating from the 19th and 20th century. Many of the icons were purchased from Ikon Gallery in Berlin, Germany between 2011 and 2014 including a Mother of God fresco, from the late 18th century that had been removed from the wall and transferred to canvas. “This very rare icon is one of the great treasures of the Museum’s collection,” notes Museum Curator Kent Russell.
Ethiopian iconography, which didn’t appear until the 16th century, is easily recognized by the stylized and graphically bold figures with large, almond-shaped eyes painted in bright and vivid colors. These icons could be found in monasteries, churches, and the homes of the wealthy.
A newly acquired “magic scroll” will also be on view in the exhibit. This traditional Ethiopian art form is based on ancient beliefs that illnesses and other crises were the work of demons. A cleric of the Ethiopian Church would create the scroll, customized to the height of the patron and inscribed with healing prayers, and stories of saints and angels triumphing over Satan. They were written in Ge’ez, the liturgical language of Ethiopia. The scrolls were believed to have protective and healing powers, and were always carried by the owner. Russell says, “The practice of creating and using magic scrolls continues today, despite attempts by Church officials to eliminate what they see as a superstitious tradition.”
Family of Ethiopia’s Late Emperor Gives $700k to Haile Selassie School in Jamaica
Mel Tewahade and Gabe Christian, Emissaries of Prince Ermias S. Haile Selassie, presented a check in the sum of $700,000 to Haile Selassie High School in Jamaica, April 27th, 2017. (Courtesy photograph)
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By Tadias Staff
Published: May 2nd, 2017
New York (TADIAS) -- Family of the late Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie has made a donation of $700,000 to a high school in Kingston, Jamaica. The school was established by Haile Selassie as a gift to the people of Jamaica during his historic trip to the island nation more than fifty years ago. The financial contribution to Haile Selassie High School last week fulfilled a commitment announced last year by the former Emperor's grandson, Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie, during his official visit to the country that included a stop at the institution.
The $700K donation was presented on April 27th to the school's administration through representatives of Prince Ermias led by Gabe Christian and Mel Tewahade.
Prince Ermias described his visit to Haile Selassie High School a year ago as the highlight of his trip and personally moving. "It was emotional and overwhelming to visit the school that was donated by my grandfather," Prince Ermias told Tadias in an interview following his travel to Jamaica. "The school has been in existence since the late sixties," he said. "Many have graduated and many have gone on to become doctors, lawyers, teachers, government leaders, pastors. Some have migrated abroad and are serving their adopted home well." Ermias added: "My grandfather believed in education. Education enlightens and enriches one’s life and for society there is no better security than to educate its citizens."
On Tuesday, more than 14 million people around the world, including anxious applicants in the Washington area, will begin checking computers and smartphones in one of the strangest rituals of the U.S. immigration system. When the clock strikes noon in the nation’s capital, they will be able to visit a State Department website, enter their names, years of birth and 16-digit identification numbers. Then they will press “submit” to learn whether they have won one of the world’s most coveted contests: the U.S. green-card lottery.
Each year, the Diversity Visa Lottery, as it is officially known, provides up to 50,000 randomly selected foreigners — fewer than 1 percent of those who enter the drawing — with permanent residency in the United States.
The current lottery coincides with an intense debate over immigration and comes amid policy changes that have made the country less welcoming to new arrivals. President Trump has cracked down on illegal immigration and pressed forward with plans to build a wall along the border with Mexico. He has issued executive orders targeting foreign workers, refugees and travelers from certain majority-Muslim countries.
But he hasn’t said a word about the green-card lottery.
Its days may be numbered, nonetheless. The lottery appears to conflict with the president’s call for a “merit-based” immigration system. And at least two bills in the Republican-controlled Congress seek to eliminate the program.
Girma Berta is an award winning young artist based in the capital of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, whose work fuses street photography with fine art. Born in 1990, Berta is a self-taught photographer. In his Moving Shadows series, solitary figures are juxtaposed against vibrant backgrounds, creating truly unique artworks which exemplify the contrasting colours and personalities on the street of his home town
Leikun Nahusenay’s multidiscipline practice is based in Addis Ababa, where he works from the Nas Gedame studio creating exquisite mixed media works.
Abiy Solomon’s photography series, Primordial Modernity: The Raw Spirit of Lalibela, offers a meditation on spirituality and the profound interiority of faith, as he photographs monks in Lalibela exiting and entering the hushed, dark spaces within the ancient rock-hewn churches.
Addis Fine Art is pleased to announce the launch of Girma Berta’s new series, Moving Shadows II, at Red Hook Labs and Nataal’s second co-organized group exhibition: New African Photography II.
Girma will be joined by seven contemporary artists, whose work engages with present-day Africa. The selected artists are both emerging and internationally recognized, and will be showing new, personal bodies of work addressing issues of representation and celebrating fresh perspectives on the continent. Spanning documentary, fashion and portrait photography, as well as video and performance, the exhibition hopes to tell modern narratives that surprise, captivate and inspire.
New African Photography II follows the success of the inaugural curatorial collaboration between Red Hook Labs and Nataal in 2016. US Vogue called the exhibition “a journey into the rich visual culture of Africa” while i-D hailed the line-up as “the new generation of talent changing the face of African photography.” This latest show hopes to build upon these achievements by supporting a larger and more diverse roll call of exceptional image-makers.
New York (TADIAS) — Most readers of Tadias Magazine know Tseday Alehegn for her profiles of inspiring Ethiopians from around the world. But very few people knew that in addition to her tasks at Tadias she was simultaneously juggling many other responsibilities, one of which was pursuing her doctorate degree in Health Education at Columbia University’s Teachers College, which she successfully defended this week. In addition, Tseday also holds a Master’s degree in Neuroscience from Columbia as well as her BA and MA from Stanford University in Human Biology and Education respectively.
Dr. Tseday Alehegn’s research topic for the Doctor of Education focused on mobile-health best practices and an analysis of programs using mobile technologies for chronic disease management, disease prevention and health promotion that she hopes will become a book some time soon.
Tseday who also gave birth only a few weeks ago to her first daughter (Naomi Liben-Eabisa), says she will continue to edit Tadias for the foreseeable future “motivating the younger generation to follow their own dreams.”
New York (TADIAS) — Ethiopian artist Elias Sime’s second solo exhibition at James Cohan Gallery In New York opens this week. The exhibition entitled Twisted & Hidden features Elias’ latest works of “large-scale artworks constructed from a grid-like arrangement of panels encrusted with electronic parts.” The show will be on view from April 28 through June 17 at James Cohan’s Chelsea location.
Similar to his previous show in Fall 2015 Elias’ new works also employ components of scrapped modern gadgets most of which he buys from Merkato. The press release adds that his “work is a meditation on connectivity and transformation. His unorthodox materials include reclaimed cell phone bodies, Soviet-era transistors, computer motherboards, brightly colored electrical wires, sections of plastic keyboards with other e-waste that has been discarded and sent to trash heaps across the African continent. This technological flotsam eventually washes up in the open-air markets of Addis Ababa, where Sime repurposes it into artworks.”
The New York Times described Elias’ work as being “culturally specific,” and “universalist” adding that “although never without critical thrust — no one knows better the horrors visited on Africa by shipments of toxic Western e-waste — it is utopian.”
According to James Cohan Gallery the current exhibition is “part of an ongoing series entitled “Tightrope,” which refers to the contemporary balancing act between technology and tradition, humanity and the environment. Elias Sime achieves effects from dense narrative to austere modernist abstraction. Some works recall pure color-field painting while others refer to architectonic geometries, textile patterns and information flows. Figurative moments emerge in some – a human face, a bird wing, a frog leaping from a tree branch. The artist resists the collagist’s shorthand of using discarded objects as poetic stand-ins for individual lives and instead finds renewal everywhere, taking the greatest interest in new ways that objects and ideas connect. The emphasis is on the transformative power of human creativity.”
About Elias Sime
Elias Sime (b. 1968, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is a prominent name both in Africa and internationally. With the full cooperation of curator and anthropologist Meskerem Assegued, Sime founded and designed the Zoma Contemporary Art Center in Addis Ababa, an international art center described by the New York Times in 2014 as “a voluptuous dream, a swirl of ancient technique and ecstatic imagination.” His work has been shown internationally at the Dak’Art Biennale in Dakar, Senegal; the New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna, Austria; and in the United States at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and a survey exhibition that traveled from Santa Monica Museum of Art, California, to North Dakota Museum of Art. Sime designed various costumes, props and set-pieces for Peter Sellars’ production of Stravinsky’s opera Oedipus Rex, performed at the Sydney Opera House as well as in Los Angeles, Aix-en-Provence and London. An upcoming performance of the opera will be staged in Stockholm.
This portrait of Michelle Obama as an Egyptian queen was painted by Gelila Mesfin, an Ethiopian art student in New York. (@thick_east_african_girl/Instagram)
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When Gelila Mesfin first saw that her portrait of Michelle Obama had been made into a mural on Chicago’s south side, she was flattered.
“I thought it was pretty cool. I didn’t know anyone had taken credit for it. I figured someone was just inspired and put it up there,” Mesfin, a New York art student from Ethiopia, told As It Happens host Carol Off. “It was kinda cool to see your art work displayed in such a huge manner.”
The mural of Obama decked out as an Egyptian queen was unveiled Friday two blocks from the former first lady’s childhood home.
It bears a striking resemblance to a digital portrait that Mesfin made and shared on her own Instagram account in October 2016, based on a photograph by the New York Times’ Collier Schorr, whom Mesfin credits in her post.
“I just wanted to portray her as a queen,” Mesfin said. “She was just such a class act and she inspired a lot of black women, black girls, and women in general to be strong, be educated and to stand their ground, and you know, to fight for what they love.”
But her feelings of flattery quickly wore off when she read an article about the mural on the website DNA Info, in which the man who painted it appears to take credit for the concept.
“I wanted to present her as what I think she is, so she’s clothed as an Egyptian queen. I thought that was appropriate,” Chris Devins, a city planner known for his Chicago portrait-style murals, told DNA Info on Friday.
What’s more, she learned Devins had crowdfunded more than $11,700 US to make the mural, and offered up signed prints to donors.
“I realized that, ‘Wait a minute, this person is not giving me credit,’” Mesfin said. “I was very disheartened and I just felt like it was disrespectful.”
So Mesfin went back on Instagram to call Devins out. “How can you just steal someone’s artwork,” she wrote in a post that has since been liked more than 5,000 times.
New York (TADIAS) — Society of Ethiopians Established in Diaspora (SEED) marks its 25th anniversary this year with its annual awards dinners ceremony scheduled to take place in Hyattsville, Maryland on May 28th. The line-up of the 2017 honorees include social entrepreneurs, physicians and celebrity artists.
The U.S.-based non-profit organization, which aims to empower the Ethiopian American Diaspora in the areas of “academic excellence, professional development, and community service,” announced that its 25th anniversary award recipients include Ted Alemayehu, Founder and Chairman of U.S Doctors for Africa (USDFA); physicians Dr. Ambachew Woreta and Dr. Zaki Sherif, author and poet Lemn Sissay, as well as the founder of Sewasewe Genet Charity and Development Organization (SGCDO), Abba Kefyalew Abera, and musicians Mahamoud Ahmed and Tewodros Kassahun (Teddy Afro).
In addition SEED said it will posthumously recognize the late Dr. Maigenet Shiferaw, founder of the Ethiopian women for Peace, Democracy and Development (EWPD) and co-founder and President of the Center for The Rights of Ethiopian Women (CREW), “as a distinguished scholar, author and our venerated teacher; in appreciation of her lifelong dedication and struggle for human rights and women’s rights; in acknowledgement of the rich and positive contributions she has made in the Diaspora Community and legacy she has left behind by exemplifying the highest ideals and standards of our community; in recognition of her inspiring academic excellence and many other positive attributes.”
After more than a decade at a major architectural firm, designer Hana Getachew knew that she wanted to break out on her own. The turning point came in planning her wedding in 2014. “I wanted to have an element of Ethiopian design for my table linens” to reflect the vibrant patterns and colors of her native land. Her family had left Ethiopia when she was a child, but she still felt intensely connected to the culture. Her journey back home to source her table linens became the spark for a new business.
In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s sprawling capital, Getachew went looking for weavers. “I went to one location where one of my family friends sent me. I showed them my designs. It was kind of hilarious because I didn’t know about weaving, and they said it couldn’t be done. It took me a while to understand,” she said, that their traditional looms had their limitations. But the weavers offered their own version of her design that was even more pleasing, in such colors as pink, red, and fuchsia. The linens were a success. “The napkins were beige, with fuchsia and red diamond-shape patterning all around.”
What started with wedding planning is now Getachew’s own housewares firm, Bolé Road Textiles, based in Brooklyn and named after a bustling thoroughfare near her childhood home in Addis Ababa. Getachew designs the patterns in her home studio, then turns them into textiles for pillows, rugs, curtains, towels, and other products in a running conversation with master artisans in Addis Ababa. She sells about half her merchandise through e-commerce on her website and the rest through retailers, including Home of the Brave in Greenpoint and Collyer’s Mansion in Brooklyn Heights.
Meklit to Release New Album ‘When The People Move, The Music Moves Too’
Ethiopian-American artist Meklit will release her new album When the People Move, the Music Moves Too on June 23rd with Six Degrees Records. The record was produced by Dan Wilson, whose previous work with artists including Adele, Taylor Swift and John Legend – as well as fronting the band Semisonic – has earned multiple Grammy awards. The album also includes Andrew Bird on violin and whistling, as well as New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band horns. A vibrant and inspired mix of Ethio-Jazz roots along with American pop, R&B and folk influences, Meklit’s upcoming record crosses both musical and generational borders to create a unified artistic vision, united behind her unique and unmistakable voice.
When the People Move, the Music Moves Too is the result of a fateful encounter Meklit experienced in Addis Ababa with the legendary vibraphonist/composer Mulatu Astatke, who helped spark Ethiopia’s 1960s musical renaissance. She was deeply engaged with his music at the time, but he pushed her to think about how to bring her own experiences into her songs. “He was very pointed with me, saying several times ‘You keep innovating!’” she recalls. “He took me to task and he tasked me. It took me a while to digest that. It’s a big thing to have someone like that say that to you. I sat with it for a couple of years.”
Meklit has embodied multiplicity since she first started performing at San Francisco’s Red Poppy Art House in the mid-2000′s. Born in Ethiopia, she moved with her family to Iowa at the age of two, and spent much of her adolescence in Brooklyn, soaking up the sounds of hip hop on the street. After studying political science at Yale she spent several years in Seattle before moving to San Francisco, looking to immerse herself in the city’s thriving arts scene.
“I’m always thinking about America and Ethiopia, about how the hybridization is going to work in both places,” she observes. The lapidary orchestrations on her new record were created by Meklit herself, with the help of her bassist Sam Bevan. But Meklit is quick to credit Dan Wilson’s lithe musical mind with a major role in shaping the ultimate sound of the record, in addition to his contribution of co-writing two songs. A prolific songwriter, arranger and producer, Wilson seemed to know exactly which player to place where to accentuate Meklit’s sound. He brought in Ethio-Cali’s tenor saxophonist Randall Fisher, who plays a perfectly calibrated Ethio-jazz intro on “You Got Me.” And Ethiopian-born, LA-based keyboardist Kibrome Birhane’s spare piano work levitates “Yesterday is a Tizita.” Meklit describes how Wilson’s songwriting precision, and razor sharp, generous feedback helped to weave a remarkable clarity into the music, enhancing Meklit’s already vivid hues.
Family Seeks Answers in Police Shooting of Young Ethiopian Engineer in LA
Zelalem Eshetu Ewnetu, who was shot and killed by police in LA last week, came to the US 8-years-ago on a scholarship to University of Idaho, and worked as an engineer for the California Public Utilities Commission.
The details of his death are conveniently murky. According to the LAPD, officers were responding to a burglary when they found Ewnetu sitting in his car. Officers approached him after smelling marijuana coming from his vehicle. He reportedly refused to exit his car when asked. Authorities say that when they tried to remove him from the car, Ewnetu brandished a gun and aimed it at the officers.
The deputies then fired at Ewentu, shooting him in the torso and killing him on-site.
A statement from the victim’s family, says that the initial account of the incident varied from what’s been reported by authorities. Following the shooting, the detective on the case, mentioned that they gun was found in the back seat, says the press statement. A photo of the vehicle, published in the LA Times, shows what appears to be two bullet holes in the back windshield.
Cases like this are, sadly, all too familiar and the varying accounts of what took place, certainly raise suspicion. Ewentu’s family is currently seeking answer and have started a Gofundme to help with funeral and attorney costs.
Ewnetu came to the United States eight years ago on a scholarship to the University of Idaho, and worked as an engineer for the California Public Utilities Commission.
I’m no great singer, but Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou only really trusted me after I had sung to her. “Something from your country,” she instructed. So I found myself in the tiny bedroom of this 93-year-old Ethiopian composer-pianist-nun, croaking my way through the verses of a Robert Burns song.
Given she does not agree to most interviews, I felt I should do what I was told. The room, at the Ethiopian Orthodox church in Jerusalem, was cramped and sweltering. In it was a small bed, an upright piano draped in Ethiopian flags, stacks of reel-to-reel and cassette tapes, and a jumble of handwritten manuscripts. On the walls were portraits of Emperor Haile Selassie – Emahoy knew him in the 1930s – and her own paintings of religious icons. The door was propped open and, from the courtyard, came smells of food and the sound of monks chanting.
Emahoy is fluent in seven languages, but when I finished the Burns song (Ae Fond Kiss) she admitted the old Scots lyrics had been tricky to decipher. I gave her a potted translation – lovers meet, lovers part, lovers feel brokenhearted – and she gripped my arm and fixed me with one of her deep stares. “We can’t always choose what life brings,” she said. “But we can choose how to respond.”
If anyone is qualified to dish out such wisdom, it’s a woman whose choices were determined by religious self-exile, maverick gender struggles and Ethiopia’s dramatic 20th-century political history – and who became a singular artist in the process.
Most people familiar with Emahoy’s music come across it via her solo piano album released in 2006, as part of the Éthiopiques collection. That series put her poised, bluesy, freewheeling waltzes together with the Ethio-jazz that emerged out of Addis Ababa in the 1960s – and although she smiles fondly at the mention of fellow Éthiopiques musicians such as Mulatu Astatke and Alemayehu Eshete, she insists she’s not a jazz artist. Her training is purely western classical; her inspiration comes from the ancient modal chants of the Orthodox church. It’s a unique fusion and it sounds like nothing else.
Tesfaye, his brother, and his sister live with their adoptive father, Pat Joyce.
“As they are growing up, they’re–we’re realizing how important it is to keep their cultural connection, so they’re starting to go back to Ethiopia, and rekindle some of the long-lost relationships they’ve had,” says Pat Joyce.
New York (TADIAS) — Genet Lakew knows first hand the value of scholarships when it comes to completing your higher education in the United States. The Ethiopian-American student finished her undergraduate studies at Howard University in Journalism and a master’s degree from New York University focusing on Africana-Studies without incurring any debt. The 27-year-old who now works for the National Urban League as a digital communications professional has launched a personal initiative to establish the Mekonnen Family Scholarship that she says “will benefit college-bound students at Washington-Lee High School (W-L), a public high school in Arlington, Virginia,” her alma mater.
“I’m an Ethiopian American millennial woman passionate about empowering the next generation of changemakers,” Genet says on her online campaign page, explaining the purpose of the funds. “The scholarship is named in honor of the humble, hardworking immigrant family I come from, who poured their hopes and dreams into me. I want the names and memories of the souls who are no longer on earth to live on through this scholarship.”
Genet adds: “My working class Ethiopian immigrant mother emphasized education as a gateway to opportunity and success. But she did not have the economic and social access to help me apply to colleges, visit campuses, pay for application fees, tuition, and housing. And that’s where my community stepped in. The Minority Achievement Coordinator at W-L (Mr. James Sample) sent scholarships my way and I was able to start my freshman year at Howard University with a total of $8,000 in scholarships.”
Genet’s efforts are also attracting national media attention. In a recent interview with Vibe magazine Genet explained what inspired her to set up the scholarship. “I actually had this idea for a few years now. I’ve been out of college for six years this May,” she said. “So I’m kind of going through these milestones; I’m in my late twenties, and I was reflecting on my educational journey.” She added: “But it wasn’t something I really thought I could pursue. I just realized how lucky I am to not have that financial burden. So I kind of felt it was my responsibility to give back in any way that I can. I felt this was a great time to offer something that shows support to immigrant students, and their families — to let them know not only do you belong in this country, but there is support out there for you to make sure that you have a good quality of life.”
New York (TADIAS) — Next week an Art in FLUX exhibition, curated by Henone Girma, will open at ALOFT Harlem as part of the New York organization’s mentoring initiative. The exhibition entitled Woe-nderland features five NYC-based artists including emerging Ethiopian American artist Tariku Shiferaw whose work we highlighted here last year. Additional participants include Belinda James, Ben Ponté, Elan Ferguson and JaSon Auguste. Tariku’s work is currently part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial.
The show, which opens on Wednesday, April 19th, “presents works that evoke a collective feeling of world-weariness that saturates the current climate and paints an honest picture of lamentation apt for recent events,” states Art in FLUX.
According to the press release “the title Woe-nderland takes as its point of departure the 1996 single ‘If I Ruled the World’ by recording artist Nas that begins with “Life, I wonder, will it take me under, I don’t know” – a simultaneous testimony to the ills of society and contemplation of its potentials.”
The press release adds: The exhibition offers a rather satirical lens through which we may reimagine our current social construct – this perhaps creating a timely opportunity for relating and purging.
About the Curator:
Henone Girma has been a gallery assistant at Art in FLUX since September 2016. She also works as a Research Associate for the Arts of Global Africa department at Newark Museum in New Jersey. She is a recent graduate from New York University with an MA in Visual Arts Administration. Henone wrote her final thesis on contemporary Ethiopian art as it relates to the art market. She hopes Woe-nderland will be the first of many exhibitions she will have the opportunity to curate as she continues her career as an arts advocate and professional.
Like many new immigrants, Zekarias Mesfin came to Canada with hope for a better life.
But the road to get here was long, and included violence, hunger, but hope too, he said. So this year he travelled back to his native Ethiopia, where he partnered with a film company to create Ewir Amora Kelabi, a new film getting some high profile attention.
Mesfin wrote, produced and stared the film, which premieres next month at the African Film Festival in New York City.
Mesfin’s story of resilience is not that uncommon among fellow refugees—he left Ethopia as an orphaned 14 year-old boy, he said, and crossed the Sahara Desert to Sudan on foot. He eventually made it to Egypt, where he said spent two years in prison for illegal border crossing.
Finally, he made it to Canada nearly a decade ago, arriving in Vancouver first become moving to Edmonton.
But what is unique is Mesfin’s determination to archive his journey, along with the struggle for survival faced by thousands of fellow African migrants.
“My dream has come true, and now the cup is overflowing,” said 32-year-old Mesfin, now married with two young sons, Christian, 2, and Yeab, four months, and working at a barber shop on 118 Ave.
The entire family will attend the prestigious U.S. festival, “with hotel, limousine, meals—it’s unbelievable,” he said.
“I made this film because it’s important for the new generation of Africans to know what is happening, and for my children and the world to know too.
Ethiopian Hero Gen. Jagama Kello Who Fought Fascism Dies at 96
Jagama Kello, middle, left home at just 15 to fight Italian invaders. (Photo via BBC News)
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By Tadias Staff
Published: April 8th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) – General Jagama Kello, who passed away this week at the age of 96, was among the Ethiopian heroes whose unimaginable bravery and resistance helped to defeat the second Italian invasion of Ethiopia during World War II.
His daughter Yetmwork Jagema Kello made the announcement on Facebook Friday noting that her father will be laid to rest at the Kidist Selassie Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo cathedral in Addis Ababa on Sunday.
Jagama Kello’s remarkable story, which has been shared by various Ethiopian media outlets as well as through national literary works, was also featured in the 2009 BBC documentary entitled Africa’s Forgotten Soldiers highlighting “firsthand account of African troops including the Ethiopian guerrilla forces, known as the Patriots (Arbegnoch).”
“Jagama Kello, was at that time no more than a young man. He was the son of a wealthy landlord, who owned 900 acres of farms with his uncle, in [Ginchi], not far from Addis Ababa,” writes Journalist Martin Plaut who worked on the documentary. “Jagama had heard tales of his brave ancestors as a boy and hoped to emulate them. When the Italian invasion took place Jagama saw his chance. With his elder brother and uncle, he took to the bush, determined to resist. At first he had no gun – only his elder brother had one. But they ambushed Italian troops and gradually armed themselves. Peasants joined the struggle and by the end of the war they had over 3,000 fighters under their command.”
Jagama remembers the battle at Seyoum Mariam in the outskirts of Addis Ababa as the biggest of his many deadly encounters with Mussolini’s ‘blackshirts,’ as they were called. Jagama told Plaut “they were told by a woman fighter where to find the Italians and in a surprise attack broke through their lines. They killed 72 Italians in the engagement, capturing some 3,000 rifles.”
Jagama Kello as a Colonel (left) and Jagama and his brother. (Martinplaut.files.wordpress)
General Jagama Kello. (Photo: Facebook)
According to Plaut: “On 5th May 1941, after years in exile in Britain, the Emperor Haile Selassie returned to his capital. Jagama, who had received no British help during the 5 years of the war, refused to go to Addis Ababa for the ceremony. In the end the Emperor came to [Ginchi]. Jagama says he put his 3,500 troops on parade, to greet Haile Selassie. He was then driven in the Emperor’s own car to his palace, where he was awarded a gabardine coat and a gold watch. But the war was not yet over. Jimma was still under Italian control. The Emperor asked Jagama for help and he says he led his forces into battle. Reports suggest the area was ‘swarming with Patriots’ – many of whom may have been loyal to Jagama. He told the BBC that his forces captured some 500 Italian soldiers, whom he handed over to the British.”
The Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago Marks 33 Years of Service
(Photo: Courtesy of the Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago - ECAC)
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By Tadias Staff
Published: April 5th, 2017
Chicago (TADIAS) — The Chicago area is home to one of the earliest Ethiopian immigrant communities in North America. And so is the Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago (ECAC), which marks its 33rd anniversary next month, as one of the oldest Ethiopian American organizations in the country “serving as a cultural anchor of the Chicago-area Ethiopian community” for more than three decades.
The non-profit was established after “the tragedy of a car accident in 1984 which took the life of an Ethiopian immigrant in Chicago,” which “sparked ECAC’s founding members to establish the association.”
(Photo: Courtesy of ECAC)
Since 1984 ECAC has also served as an “open door for refugee populations” including from Asia, Middle East, and Eastern European nations “seeking its services in areas of advocacy, education, employment, healthcare, and community outreach.” Today ECAC is also home to the only Ethiopian museum in North America “with more than two thousand Ethiopian artifacts in its collection – made possible by the generous donation of the late musician, composer, choreographer, conductor and cultural expert, Tesfaye Lemma. This one-of-a-kind collection has not only impressed but educated hundreds of visitors on Ethiopian culture, history, and tradition.”
The Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago will host its 33rd Anniversary Benefit Dinner on Saturday, May 13, 2017 at ECAC’s Community Center (1730 E Greenleaf Ave). Organizers share that the festivities will feature guest speakers, live entertainment and an Ethiopian dinner.
Attempt to Escape: Sadly Ethiopian Maid’s Horrifying Kuwait Video is Not the First
A female employer and her children are accompanied by their domestic worker, back right, as they walk through The Avenues, an indoor luxury shopping center in Kuwait City. (Magnum Photos)
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Last week, a horrifying video of an Ethiopian domestic worker falling from what media report as the seventh floor of an apartment building in Kuwait went viral. The video appears to have been filmed by the worker’s employer inside the flat with the woman dangling outside the window. The employer tells the woman to come back inside. The panicked woman calls out for her to grab her, but within 12 seconds of the recording starting, the dangling woman loses her grip and falls.
The Kuwaiti daily al-Seyassah reported that the domestic worker is being treated at a hospital for a broken hand, as well as nose and ear bleeding. Al-Seyassah also reported that the authorities arrested her employer, on Wednesday, and charged her for failing to assist her worker. The employer contends she tried to help. Another daily, Kuwait Times, reported on Saturday that members of the Ethiopian embassy visited the worker at the hospital.
This is not the first time a domestic worker – someone hired to clean, cook, and care for a household – attempted a dangerous escape or suicide. The Kuwaiti press often report such stories as “attempted suicides,” as with this recent incident. They don’t usually question whether these were suicide attempts or, rather, attempts to escape. In 2009, Human Rights Watch spoke to eight women who were reported as having “attempted suicide,” but who said they had really fallen from buildings trying to escape abuse or were pushed by their employers. No one has suggested that the employer in this incident was responsible for such abuse.
I have interviewed hundreds of domestic workers in the Gulf region. Many said their employers locked them inside, forced them to work excessive hours, and beat them. Some scrambled down or jumped off buildings to escape.
In 2015, Kuwait took steps to provide migrant domestic workers with labor rights, but it has not reformed the notorious kafala system, under which migrant workers cannot leave or change their employer without the employer’s permission. As a result, while domestic workers now have rights to a weekly day off, daily limits to their working hours, and overtime compensation – they can still be arrested for “absconding” if they escape from their employers, even abusive ones.
Kuwaiti authorities should investigate the working conditions that lead to all such attempted escapes or suicides and refrain from charging employees with “absconding.” No one should have to resort to climbing out of tall buildings to escape their workplace.
Letter on Why US Should Review Its Foreign Aid to Ethiopia
The letter was written by U.S. Representative Mike Coffman of Denver, Colorado on behalf of his Ethiopian American constituents to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations. (Photo: Facebook)
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By Tadias Staff
Updated: April 2nd, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — This week in a letter to the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations and Related Program, Colorado Congressman Mike Coffman, whose district includes the vibrant Denver-area Ethiopian community, urged his colleagues to review the more than $500 million American taxpayers dollars for Fiscal Year 2017 in US aid program to Ethiopia. The letter comes the same week as the Ethiopian government announced the four-month extension of its strict emergency ban.
“I write to you today at the request of many of the Ethiopian-Americans whom I represent in Congress,” Coffman said in the March 30th, 2017 letter addressed to the subcommittee’s Chairman and Ranking member, Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky and Rep. Nita Lowey of New York. “These constituents have brought to my attention what they view as an ongoing campaign of human rights violations in their homeland of Ethiopia.” The Congressman continued: “They are convinced that these serious human rights violations are the result of an organized and concerted effort perpetrated by the Ethiopian government.”
The letter, which was shared with us by members of the Ethiopian American community, goes on to highlight the arrest and detention of journalists, students, activists and political leaders. Congressman Coffman noted that currently the amount of money that the United States gives to Ethiopia annually totals $514 million most of it allocated for “economic development, humanitarian assistance, health, education and social services.” Congressman Coffman pointed out: “While the goal of this aid is noble, numerous constituents and experts on the Sub-Saharan region tell me that this assistance may not be reaching those in Ethiopia who needed most, and maybe providing support and legitimacy to this regime”
“In light of these abuses and the United States’ stated strategy of strengthening democratic institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa, I believe it is important for you to review the current aid program to Ethiopia to ensure that the aid provided is not subsidizing a government apparently committed to the systematic abuse of its own citizens and reduction of the democratic space within its borders,” the letter said. “I respectfully request that the subcommittee include language ensuring the suspension of appropriations FY2018 foreign assistance for Ethiopia pending its government’s implementation of real, concrete and measurable humanitarian reforms as outlined in H.Res. 128.” Rep. Coffman added: I believe that doing so will communicate to the Ethiopian government how seriously the United States views these human rights violations.”
Jessica Beshir’s Ethiopia Short Film ‘Hairat’ and 2 New Releases
Directed by Jessica Beshir the film 'Hairat" documents one man's nightly ritual in Harar. (Courtesy photo)
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By Tadias Staff
Published: April 1st, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — In her short film Hairat, Jessica Beshir goes back to Ethiopia to the city of her childhood “to tell the story of one man’s extraordinary ritual that unfolds nightly in the outskirts of the walled city of Harar.”
Hairat, which was screened at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival this past January, will make its NYC premiere at the Lincoln Center as part of this year’s New York African Film Festival in May. The film was also shown this month at the Dallas International film Festival in Texas and the Rincon International film Festival in Puerto Rico. Hairat will premiere at the upcoming Arizona International Film Festival and the Pan African Film Festival in Cannes, France later this month.
“An Imam in Harar spoke to me about the meaning of Hairat at length, but in short it means, ‘You are where you need to be,’” Jessica says.
In addition to Hairat Jessica also has two additional short films, Heroin and He Who Dances on Wood , premiering at various festivals across the U.S.
In Heroin, which make its world premiere at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City on April 20th & 21st, Jessica grapples with the question of free will as she “explores the creative process, inspiration and alternative reality of an artist.”
The short film He Who Dances on Wood highlights tap dancer Fred Nelson. BRIC TV describes it as “one man’s search for joy..culminated in a constant experience of rhythm in the world around him. Something so simple, yet beautiful, found its way into Fred’s life in the form of dancing on an old piece of wood.” He Who Dances on Wood will make its NY premiere at BAM’s New Voices in Black Cinema series on April 30th, and its international premiere at the 2017 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto taking place in early May.
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New York (TADIAS) — It was almost a year ago that the legendary Ethiopian jazz saxophonist Getatchew Mekuria passed away at the age of 81 leaving behind a jewel of more than six decades of musical legacy.
The memories of Getatchew Mekuria’s life and work will come alive next week in Ethiopia’s capital during a tribute concert by Ethiopian and international musicians as well as a photo exhibition and a presentation of a 170-page photography book dedicated to his career.
The tribute to Getachew — organized by his longtime music partners, The Ex band from the Netherlands — is scheduled to take place on April 4th at the Alliance Francaise in Addis Ababa, which also features a performance by the Norwegian big band Large Unit.
The book is entitled ‘Getatchew Mekuria (1935 – 2016) – A Lifelong History in Photos.’
“The photobook is the result of what appears to be an unlikely collaboration between Dutch ‘underground’ band The Ex and Ethiopian saxophone legend Getatchew Mekuria,” the press release said. “The Ex fell in love with an old Getatchew cassette from 1972, and in 2004 they wanted to invite him for their 25th Anniversary Festival. The result was a fruitful 10-year collaboration with more than a 100 concerts worldwide, plenty of enthusiastic press and two beautiful CD/LP’s.”
According to the Ex band, “In 2014, because of diabetes, he developed serious problems with his legs and couldn’t travel anymore. The Ex at that point decided to organize a ‘Celebration of Getatchew Mekuria’ concert series in Ethiopia, at the National Theatre in Addis Ababa. It was sold out. 1500 people came and there was a standing ovation. A truly honorable farewell to a great musician. Getatchew passed away on April 4, 2016 at the age of 81 after a musical career of more than 68 years.”
Exploring Ethiopia’s Past and Future Through Body Painting
Aida Muluneh spent a peripatetic childhood in Yemen, England, Cyprus, Canada and the United States before settling in the States to study and become a photojournalist. She returned to Ethiopia, the land of her birth, about a decade ago, where her work addresses issues of women, African identity and the connection between heritage and homeland. Her photos feature decorative body paintings that reflect Ethiopian culture or traditional fabrics and baskets and reflect her own life’s journey.
“We exist between the anxiety of the unknown future and the nostalgia of the familiar past,” Ms. Muluneh said. “We bear the burden of our duality.”
She is among the artists in “Afriques Capitales,” which is on view from March 29 to May 28 in Paris, before it travels to Lille, near the French boarder with Belgium. The show — a subset of the “100% Afriques” festival — is a sampler of the continent’s contemporary artists, from Akinbode Akinbiyi to Hassan Hajjaj to William Kentridge. The works are exhibited within the iron-and-glass cultural center in the Parc de la Villette — once the site of a slaughterhouse — and outside, in the park itself.
Ms. Muluneh was born in in Ethiopia in 1974, but her mother soon took them out of the country after the ouster of Emperor Haile Selassie. They moved often in search of a beter place to live to provide a good education for Ms. Muluneh. At 18 years of age, Ms. Muluneh moved to the U.S. to study film at Howard University and, later, worked at The Washington Post. She moved to Addis Ababa a decade ago – fulfilling a wish of her mother’s – and led the biennial Addis Foto Fest in 2010. She is currently the managing director at Developing and Educating Society Through Art for Africa, which fosters cultural partnerships.
“It took me a long time to understand that culture is soft power,” she said. “Looking at activities in my city, the same issues that we deal with here echo across the continent, and at times across the world.”
Ethiopian Community & Nurses Group Hosts Healthcare Conference in San Jose
(Photo: Courtesy of Ethiopian Community Services in San Jose, California)
Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff
Published: March 27th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — Next week two Ethiopian American organizations are collaborating to host a timely healthcare conference in San Jose, California focusing on the prevention of diabetes, one of the top chronic diseases in the United States, which also affects many individuals in our community.
The Ethiopian Nurses Association of California (ENAC) is a non-profit organization that “aims to provide health education and awareness to the Ethiopian Community in the greater San Francisco Bay Area,” while Ethiopian Community Services (ECS) is a 20-year-old non-profit organization that is “committed to providing culturally-based adjustment and long-term services that enhance productivity and self-sufficiency within the Ethiopian Community in Santa Clara County (SCC).”
“Please join us as we come together to learn about diabetes prevention and management, and how we can empower ourselves to live happier, healthier lives,” organizers announced.
Sponsored by Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager & The Health Trust the event is scheduled to be held on April 8th at the Isaac Newton Senter Auditorium in San Jose.
Abaynesh Asrat, Founder & President of NNN, speaking at a training on solar energy at the College of Natural and Computational Sciences at Addis Ababa University on February 21st, 2017. (Courtesy photo)
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By Tadias Staff
Updated: March 24th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — What better place is there than Ethiopia, which advertises itself as the land of 13 months of sunshine, to utilize solar energy for basic household needs including cooking, boiling water and even charging your cellphone? A workshop held last month in Ethiopia — hosted by the U.S.-based organization Nation to Nation Networking (NNN) in collaboration with Addis Ababa University — demonstrated this untapped potential of abundant, clean energy with a long term goal of decreasing women’s backbreaking daily task of fetching firewood and coal for fuel. The solar energy program was led by NNN founder Abaynesh Asrat whose prior work included working to eradicate fistula, promoting youth ambassadors for health, and providing diversity leadership training programs.
“Themed ‘The way Ahead with Renewable Energy: A Role for Ethiopia,’ the recent training focused on the utilization of solar energy, solar cooking and water pasteurization,” Addis Ababa University shared on its website. “Nation to Nation Networking organized the training in collaboration with the College of Natural & Computational sciences of the AAU.”
In an interview with the Ethiopian Herald, Abaynesh noted that “solar energy helps families preserve food, saving scarce resources and keeping them healthy” adding the potential of dramatic improvements for the majority of the rural population in her native homeland.
“Young Ethiopians are working diligently to change their fate. Their enthusiasms tells me that Ethiopians have entrepreneurial acumen,” Abaynesh tells the Ethiopian Herald, stressing her hope that the training provided could be expanded as young engineers in the country join the effort and assist in the assembly of the necessary materials.
NNN’s Solar Energy workshop put together in partnership with Addis Ababa University was held from February 21-27th, 2017 at the College of Natural and Computational Sciences of the AAU. (Courtesy photo)
Abaynesh, who was among the 2014 honorees of the People of Distinction Humanitarian Awards, knows a thing or two about positively impacting disadvantaged populations. As a long-time board member of Hamlin Fistula USA foundation Abaynesh was at the forefront of the campaign to treat and prevent fistula, which is a childbirth-related injury affecting thousands of women in Ethiopia as well as various countries around the world. As the National Fundraiser Chair for the ‘Tesfa Ineste’ campaign Abaynesh successfully mobilized the Ethiopian Diaspora in the United States to contribute toward the building of a regional hospital, the Harar Hamlin Fistula Center, in 2009.
Likewise during her latest visit to Ethiopia in February, 2017 Abaynesh challenged Ethiopian scientists to think out of the box about solar energy and empower the new generation to improve their lives.
Abaynesh says she appreciates the assistance she received from Dr. Shibiru Temesgen, Dean of the College of Natural and Computational Sciences at AAU as well as the director of Office of External Relations, Partnerships and Communication of Addis Ababa University, Dr. Zenebe Beyene, in setting up the week-long joint workshop.
“I have lived in the USA for about 48 years,” Abaynesh told the program participants hailing from across Ethiopia. “I decided to come to Ethiopia to do something,” she added. “Moving beyond the rhetoric, improving the health of society supported by science and technology thereby creating jobs.. I hope fellow citizens second this.”
Antu Yacob’s Play “In the Gray” Featured at 2017 United Solo Theatre Festival
New York (TADIAS) — Antu Yacob has been selected to perform her one-person Ethiopian-American play entitled In the Gray next Fall at the 2017 United Solo, which is the world’s largest solo theatre festival annually held in New York City.
“It’s hard to put Antu into words. It’s even harder to put her in a box,” states the announcement. “Quirky, awkward, sometimes hot, sometimes lukewarm, this Ethiopian American woman, actor, daughter and mother explores her experience of being an outsider from deep within.”
Antu, who holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from Rutgers University in New Jersey, grew up in San Francisco and Minnesota. Her acting career includes roles in NBC’s Law & Order: SVU and the soon to be released Netflix series Gypsy. She played the lead roles in films Eminent Domain (DeepFreeze Media) and Walking In Circles (NYU Film/Elegance Bratton) and supporting roles in Conjure (TerraLuke Media) and Fine Art (Shannon Ousley/Zoe Munlyn). Her play entitled Mourning Sun, set in Ethiopia and New York, was performed at the West End Theatre in Manhattan in 2015 and at the 2016 Kampala International Theatre Festival in Uganda this past Winter.
“I knew that I wanted to write about my experience not only as an actor, but also as an Ethio-American professional in the entertainment industry,” Antu told Tadias in an interview last Summer. “It’s a point of view that I don’t see reflected in mainstream media, but it is something that I live with.”
Antu’s parents immigrated to the United States from Ethiopia when she was about five years old. “I constantly have this experience of being between two cultures,” Antu shared. “That’s why I call it In The Gray, because a lot of things are not black and white for me. I wrote it so that people who watch it and relate to it can feel they are not alone.”
As a playwright Antu says “she tries to experiment with social and political activism in an entertaining way” noting that “America is made up of so many different cultures, and there is room to honor that diversity without sacrificing the beauty of who we are as a people. As Ethiopian Americans we make up a part of the larger American experience.” She adds: “The best thing about In the Gray is that you don’t necessarily have to be Ethiopian to appreciate the play because it’s an American story. It’s for everyone.”
Antu’s show is directed by Celestine Rae with lighting & set design by Matthew Fick, show image by Anthony Artis and executive produced by Tadias Magazine.
All shows are staged at Theatre Row: 410 West 42nd Street, New York City. TICKETS, with a price of $35 (plus a $2.25 Theatre Restoration Charge) are available at the Theatre Row Box Office and online through Telecharge at www.telecharge.com. You may also call Telecharge at 212-239-6200. When placing your reservation, please provide: the FESTIVAL name (United Solo Theatre Festival), the name of THEATRE (Theatre Row – The Studio Theatre), and the specific DAY and TIME of SHOW you would like to see.
New York (TADIAS) — The second installment of the Addis Calling group exhibition curated by Addis Fine Art Gallery will open in Ethiopia’s capital city on March 25th. The exhibition promotes the works of contemporary Ethiopian artists and will remain on display until May 20th, 2017.
“Representing a new selection of local talent engaged in a diverse range of artistic expression, the exhibition is an exciting mix of painting, glass mono-prints and photography,” the gallery announced in a press release.
Addis Gezahegn (b.1978), a long-time artistic presence in Addis Ababa, is known for portraying the multifaceted characteristics of the city’s residents by detailing the external facades of their homes,” His signature piece in the exhibition, from his series Floating City, features a vast, dramatic night sky—a black expanse that towers above a shimmering horizon of urban homes that mostly appear rootless, blurred, and ephemeral. Over the years, he has taken an increasingly reductive approach to his work, rendering entire cityscapes as a flat patchwork of colorful doors and gates. Gezahegn is a 2011 graduate of Addis Ababa University’s Alle School of Fine Art and Design.
Mulugeta Kassa (b.1973), co-founder of the experimental collective Netsa Art Village, considers the singular nature of conception and fertility through his glass mono-prints. Embryo and phallus-like structures float by in a sea of neutral grays, greens, and browns. One of these is tweaked to reveal the outline of a woman carrying a mountain-like bundle of sticks on her back. Kassa graduated from the Addis Ababa School of Fine Arts and Design in 2003.
Abiy Solomon (b.1983), is a photographer and one of the most prominent graphic designers in Addis Ababa. In his photography series, Primordial Modernity: The Raw Spirit of Lalibela, he offers a meditation on spirituality and the profound interiority of faith, as he photographs monks in Lalibela exiting and entering the hushed, dark spaces within the ancient rock-hewn churches. Offset by the bright sunlight that pours in through the open windows and doorways, the images are imbued with a reverent feeling: a contemplation of light and darkness, as well as the inner and outer manifestations of religiosity. Solomon holds a degree in Animation and Visual Effects from Maac University in India (2008). He is the founder and Creative Director at Orangeswitch, a design company, and Partner at Africology Media.
Bezawit Wondwossen (b.1987) uses bold, thick strokes of blues, oranges, and browns to create an abstract yet vigorous cityscape, against which splashes of black silhouette. The black forms a meditative core—seemingly haphazard, yet controlled; ornamental, yet integral to the logic of the works. It pulls viewers in to contemplate its various weights, and the sense of angst it evokes—a feeling Bezawit, a 2003 graduate of the Abyssinia School of Fine Arts, ascribes to the travails of womanhood.
Spotlight: Wayna’s Facebook Video in Honor of Women’s History Month
Wayna (full name Woyneab Miraf Wondwossen) is a grammy nominated R&B/soul singer and songwriter who was born in Ethiopia and raised in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. (Courtesy photo)
Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff
March 14th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — As Wayna prepares a public tribute to Ethiopian music legend Bezunesh Bekele this coming summer, the Grammy nominated Ethiopian American singer and songwriter has just released a new music video on Facebook in honor of Women’s History Month. The video entitled You’re Not Alone (Live) features images of Ethiopian women by photographer Aida Muluneh as well as photos of women that she encountered at the Women’s March on Washington this past January.
The new song shows solidarity with “women and girls in my native Ethiopia, for reproductive rights, for equal pay, and to put an end to violence against women and girls everywhere” says Wayna via Facebook. “Today, I say to all my sisters, mothers and daughters: You are NOT alone.”
You’re Not Alone (Live) is performed by Wayna and Eli Staples; Written by Nicholas Zork, Mixed by Awthentik, and Directed by E-hab Abasaeed. Photos in Ethiopia were taken by Aida Muluneh and Photos of the Women’s March are by E-hab Abasaeed. Styling done by Alison Carney.
The Story of American Immigrants from An Ethiopian Perspective
Ethiopian American heart surgeon and entrepreneur Dr. Lishan Aklog, with his wife (R) as well as his mother, son and sister (L) rings the opening bell for his company's Nasdaq IPO, April 2016. (Courtesy photo)
Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff
Published: March 9th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — Who knew that when Dr. Lishan Aklog, CEO and co-founder of the publicly traded company PAVmed Inc., fled a brutal communist regime at age 13 and immigrated to the United States from Ethiopia nearly four decades ago along with his teenage sister he would one day become the youngest heart surgeon ever to join the faculty at Harvard University (his alma mater), or ring the opening bell in honor of his company’s Nasdaq initial public offering (IPO).
Like many of their peers in our community Lishan and his sister sought refuge as they ran away from a government sponsored deadly campaign called “red terror” in Ethiopia. Their father Dr. Aklog Habte-Michael was the first Ethiopian cardiologist serving in Ethiopia, while their mother Professor Almaz Eshete, who also attended Harvard, was Ethiopia’s first woman to receive a graduate degree.
Reflecting on his mother’s journey as a foreign graduate student in 1956 Lishan tells the women’s health website EmpowHER.com that “you can imagine what some of the issues in this country were to have this petite little African woman from the small, poor country in Boston and at Harvard to get a graduate eduction.” He adds: “I think about that and I am just absolutely amazed at what she has accomplished over the years, going back home and being again, the first woman to have her graduate education and to be one of the first professors at the university. She really became an international figure in child development..It’s an amazing inspiration for us.”
Regarding his father Dr. Lishan said: He “came from a very humble background. Earned his way through western school..just sheer work and brains and ended up getting a medical degree..and then he did his residency in the U.S. and then went back [to Ethiopia] and became one of the leading physicians for, you know, 40 years.”
In an article published this week in the Wall Street Journal, Lishan reflected on his immigrant experience in the United States amid the current backlash against refugees and immigrants in the Trump era. “Among the torrent of images in January after President Trump signed his first executive order on immigration, one photo resonated with me. It was a joyful scene: volunteers from a synagogue in Glencoe, Ill., cheerily welcoming a family of Syrian refugees — one of the last to be accepted — at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport,” Lishan wrote. “Thirty-eight years ago, a nearly identical scene played out at the same airport, perhaps in the same terminal. Pastor Gerald Nelson and congregants of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Naperville, Ill., welcomed two teenagers fleeing violence: my sister and me.”
Lishan added: “Two days earlier in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, dozens of members of a proud extended family had gathered at the airport as our parents, Prof. Almaz Eshete and Dr. Aklog Habte-Michael, tearfully told us farewell. Our family had suffered greatly under the Red Terror of the Soviet-backed tyrant, Mengistu Haile-Mariam. Fathers were imprisoned, sons were ‘disappeared’ or summarily executed, and children were roused from their bed by soldiers. Our parents had found a way to send us to a life of freedom in America… we arrived to a joyful welcome at O’Hare. Soon we were enjoying apple pie at Poppin’ Fresh Pies on the way to our new families. That’s how my American journey began — with a slice of apple pie.”
“After a rewarding career as an academic heart surgeon, I caught the entrepreneurial bug,” Lishan explained. “Two friends (descendants of Irish, East European and Filipino immigrants) and I founded five medical-device companies. Last April, that immigrant boy who peered out of the jet rang the Nasdaq opening bell with his immigrant family and colleagues at his side. Minutes later, we stood in Times Square, filled with awe and humility as images of our new company streamed on the sides of skyscrapers. I had just one thought: “This is our America.”
Dr. Lishan poses for a photo with his family and colleagues in Times Square, NYC, after he rang the opening bell in honor of his company’s Nasdaq initial public offering (IPO) on April 28, 2016. (Courtesy photo)
In addition to Dr. Lishan, PAVmed was founded and is led by two other successful medical device entrepreneurs: Dr. Brian deGuzman, a prominent Harvard-trained cardiothoracic surgeon and a leader in medical device innovation, and Michael Glennon a medical device industry veteran and former senior executive in outsourced medical device manufacturing.
Per Bloomberg: “Dr. Aklog has received numerous awards and is a perennial honoree in Castle Connolly’s, America’s Top Doctors. Dr. Aklog has taken a keen interest in health care policy and medical device innovation. As a member of President Obama’s National Finance Committee and Speaker Pelosi’s Speaker’s Cabinet, he has the opportunity to advise members of Congress on health care policy, focusing on cost effective, quality delivery of high-cost, high-technology therapies.”
Barack Obama is continuing to staff his post-presidency with top aides from his presidency, adding Yohannes Abraham as a senior adviser to the Obama Foundation.
He’s coming on for what’s expected to be an at least six-month stint as the top deputy to foundation chief executive officer David Simas, Obama’s former White House political director.
According to a foundation official, Abraham will help run day-to-day operations, focusing on building the structure and then recruiting and managing the staff. He’ll also work closely with foundation executive director Robbin Cohen, who previously worked for former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker’s private real estate interests.
Abraham was chief of staff to top Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett running the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs. He also served as a senior adviser to the National Economic Council.
“We always asked Yohannes to take on our toughest, most important projects, and he always always exceeded our expectations,” said Jarrett. “That’s why it’s no surprise that President Obama asked him to help lay the groundwork for his foundation. I have no doubt Yohannes will tackle this with his characteristic intellect, work ethic, sound judgment, and commitment to excellence.”
New York (TADIAS) — The new U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson failed to attend the State Department’s yearly release of its human rights report on Friday drawing condemnation from lawmakers and activists alike.
Regarding Ethiopia the U.S. “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” highlights that “security forces used excessive force against protesters throughout the year, killing hundreds and injuring many more. The protests were mainly in Oromia and Amhara regions. At year’s end more than 10,000 persons were believed still to be detained. This included persons detained under the government-declared state of emergency, effective October 8. Many were never brought before a court, provided access to legal counsel, or formally charged with a crime.” The report adds: “The most significant human rights problems were security forces’ use of excessive force and arbitrary arrest in response to the protests, politically motivated prosecutions, and continued restrictions on activities of civil society and NGOs…Impunity was a problem. The government generally did not take steps to prosecute or otherwise punish officials who committed abuses other than corruption.”
For his absence the top U.S. Diplomat “drew fire from some members of Congress and advocates who said his decision not to personally unveil the report suggested the Trump administration places a low priority on advancing human rights,” The Washington Post reported. Human Rights Watch Washington Director, Sarah Margon, adds that Tillerson’s non-involvement “makes it much easier for other governments to ignore its findings.”
Meanwhile, in a related story, U.S. lawmakers from both parties say any proposal to cut funding for the State Department and foreign aid will not see the day of light in Congress. “It’s dead on arrival,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said in an interview with NBC. “It’s not gonna happen. It would be a disaster.”
“If you take soft power off the table then you’re never going to win the war,” Graham continued in the NBC interview. “What’s most disturbing about the cut in the State Department’s budget is it shows a lack of understanding of what it takes to win the war.”
New York Senator and Minority Leader Charles Schumer added: “Democrats and Republicans are both going to run away,” from the Trump budget proposal. “His proposals are falling apart everywhere,” Schumer said.
New York (TADIAS) — This year marks the 121st anniversary of Ethiopia’s victory at the Battle of Adwa, which took place on March 1st 1896. This past weekend in Washington, D.C., Ethiopian guests and friends of Ethiopia from across the U.S. came together for the 6th Annual Victory of Adwa Commemorative Dinner — a black tie affair hosted by Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie, the grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie. The program was held both in celebration of Adwa as well as to recognize individuals who have distinguished themselves through their dedicated contribution to Ethiopian society at large.
New York (TADIAS)– Ruth Negga the first Ethiopian-born actress to be nominated for an Oscar made her presence felt during the 89th Academy Awards ceremony held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on Sunday evening, arriving with a stylish red Valentino dress decorated with an ACLU ribbon.
The 35-years-old Ethiopian-Irish actress earned the Oscar nomination for her highly acclaimed performance in the American civil rights movie Loving, which depicts the 1967 historic U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage in a case called “Loving v. Virginia.”
According to The New York Times “The A.C.L.U. took up the case and brought it all the way to the United States Supreme Court, which struck down miscegenation laws — those that enforced segregation in intimate relationships — in 1967.”
Oscar-nominated actress Ruth Negga. (Getty Images)
Ruth was born in Addis Ababa in 1982 to an Ethiopian father (a medical doctor) and an Irish mother (a nurse) and lived in Ethiopia until the age of four when she moved to Ireland with her parents. Ruth’s father died three years later in a car accident when she was only seven years old. Ruth grew up in Limerick, Ireland and has resided in London for the past ten years.
Spotlight: Ethiopia Habtemariam Honored for Black History Month
Ethiopia Habtemariam is President of Motown Records, President of Universal Music Group’s urban music division, and co-head of creative at Universal Music Publishing Group. (Photograph: Universal Music Group)
The #New28, a power dinner and ceremony, presented and sponsored by Walgreens and African Pride, recognized 28 influencers during Black History Month who are bold, brave, and brilliant in their approach at changing the world through their art.
New York (TADIAS) — Next week in New York City Ethiopian-American novelist and writer Dinaw Mengestu will be one of the featured speakers at a Pen America town hall meeting entitled “The Role of the Writer in Trump’s America.”
“The role of the writer is being tested in an era of new and intensified attacks on the First Amendment, the discrediting of the press and journalists and efforts to obscure and distort the truth,” Pen America stated in a press release. “Writers have been at the vanguard of chronicling, interpreting and helping shape responses to fast-breaking developments that have the potential to remake essential aspects of our politics and society.”
Pen America added: “The last few months have seen so-called fake news and “alternative facts” challenge the authority of legitimate news sources, expertise and scientific knowledge discredited, and the value of arts and culture questioned. At the same time, millions of Americans are finding new ways to express their views in protest. These developments pose important questions for the role of the writer: Do writers have any unique obligations that derived from the political challenges of the day? Should the roles of writer, artist, citizen, and activist converge? How can the breadth and diversity of the literary community be reflected without detracting from unified efforts? What obligations exist within and amongst the literary community and its sub-cultures? Does the literary community need to evolve to meet the challenges of this moment, and how?”
TOWN HALL MEETING: The Role of the Writer in Trump’s America Opening remarks from Daniel Alarcón , Masha Gessen, Dinaw Mengestu, Salman Rushdie, Andrew Solomon, and more to be announced. (Pen America)
Following remarks from the featured writers an open mike discussion will be held among members of PEN America.
Photos: Feyisa Lilesa’s New Life in Arizona
Feyisa Lilesa, who has not been back to Ethiopia since his protest at the marathon finish in the Rio Olympics last August, on a training run in Sedona, Ariz., not far from his new home in Flagstaff. (Photo: NYT)
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The young boy was getting reacquainted with his father after an absence of six months and climbed on him as if he were a tree. The boy kissed his father and hugged him and clambered onto his shoulders. Then, when a protest video streamed on television, the boy grabbed a stick, and the lid of a pot to serve as a shield, and began to mimic a dance of dissent in the living room.
There is much joy and relief, but also continued political complication, in the modest apartment of Feyisa Lilesa, the Ethiopian marathon runner who won a silver medal at the Rio Olympics and gained international attention when he crossed his arms above his head at the finish line in a defiant gesture against the East African nation’s repressive government.
Afraid to return home, fearing he would be jailed, killed or no longer allowed to travel, Lilesa, 27, remained in Brazil after the Summer Games, then came to the United States in early September. He has received a green card as a permanent resident in a category for individuals of extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business and sports.
On Valentine’s Day, his wife, Iftu Mulisa, 26; daughter, Soko, 5; and son, Sora, 3, were reunited with him, first in Miami and then in Flagstaff, where Lilesa is training at altitude for the London Marathon in April. Their immigrant visas are valid until July, but they also hope to receive green cards.
NEW YORK, United States — Liya Kebede made her first Lemlem garment in 2007 as a way to give back to Ethiopia, where the successful model was born and raised; a crucial stop before starring in Tom Ford campaigns and walking Miuccia Prada’s runway. She found a group in Addis Ababa, her hometown and the sub-Saharan African country’s largest city, to produce garments handwoven in the traditional technique, with the gauzy white cotton she wore growing up but had since been replaced by more Western-style (and often second-hand Western) garments.
“When I created Lemlem it was about trying to create a solution to a problem,” Kebede says, smiling from behind her desk in a sunny office located in Manhattan’s Little Italy neighbourhood. “The market of the weaving had gone down a lot and there were all these artisans that were looking for jobs and not finding any. What can I do to help move the needle a little bit along?”
Kebede modernised the silhouettes and instructed the artisans to weave in stripes of fluo-coloured yarn, which soon became Lemlem’s signature. In that first year, she manufactured 200 units and secured three points of sale. Collaborations with the likes of J.Crew — including a successful kid’s line — followed.
In 2017, production will exceed 25,000 units, with 300 points of distribution across six continents. She now employs 250 weavers and craftspeople in Ethiopia, with salaries increasing five-fold in the past decade. In recent years, Kebede has expanded parts of her production to Kenya — where she produces trend-driven fashion items — and sources materials in Rwanda, Madagascar and Mali.
The success of the line has compelled Kebede to change her namesake non-profit to Lemlem Foundation, which has expanded its mission of promoting maternal health in Africa to supporting the economic empowerment of African women. (The for-profit business donates 5 percent of all of its direct sales and proceeds from one-off collaborations to the foundation.)
While Kebede declined to disclose annual revenue figures, her 2017 goal for Lemlem — other than to expand the label’s fashion offerings, with plans to host its first-ever live presentation during the Resort 2018 season this spring — is to raise capital in order to scale further. And she plans to do so in Africa, where she has managed to achieve success.
And yet — expansive production, especially at the higher end of the market — still seems extraordinarily difficult to accomplish on the continent — if not impossible — with commonly known challenges such as unstable infrastructure, the bog of bureaucracy and a lack of information on how exactly to do it.
Why Ethiopia’s Lalibela is Among Africa’s Great Civilizations
The Church of Saint George hewn into the rocky hills of Lalibela. (Photo by Chester Higgins, Jr.)
Tadias Magazine
By Tadias Staff
Published: Thursday, February 23rd, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — Long before the invention of photography and other media tools international visitors to Ethiopia had difficulty describing to the outside world the spectacular beauty of the ancient Lalibela church architectures in the event that their words might be interpreted as an exaggeration. “I weary of writing more about these buildings, because it seems to me that I shall not be believed if I write more,” declared a member of the Portuguese Ambassador’s delegation to Ethiopia, Francisco Álvares, in the 1520s.
Nearly 500 hundred years later African-American scholar and Harvard University Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr traveled to Lalibela with a documentary film crew at hand for a close look at the amazing 12 churches carved into and out of the historic town’s rocky highlands. The program will air on February 27th at 9/8c on PBS as Professor Gates takes “a voyage through 200,000 years of human civilization.”
Watch: Lalibela | Africa’s Great Civilizations (PBS Trailer)
Lalibela was built almost 1000 years ago and is said to symbolize a new Jerusalem. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared Lalibela a World Heritage Site in 1978 stating “Lalibela is a high place of Ethiopian Christianity, still today a place of devotion.”
UNESCO adds: King Lalibela “set out to build a symbol of the holy land, when pilgrimages to it were rendered impossible by the historical situation. In the Church of Bete Golgotha, are replicas of the tomb of Christ, and of Adam, and the crib of the Nativity. The holy city of Lalibela became a substitute for the holy places of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and as such has had considerable influence on Ethiopian Christianity. The Jerusalem theme is important. The rock churches, although connected to one another by maze-like tunnels, are physically separated by a small river which the Ethiopians named the Jordan. Churches on one side of the Jordan represent the earthly Jerusalem; whereas those on the other side represent the heavenly Jerusalem, the city of jewels and golden sidewalks alluded to in the Bible.”
Watch: Africa’s Great Civilizations | Official Trailer
According to PBS: “In his six-hour series, Africa’s Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of history, from the origins, on the African continent, of art, writing and civilization itself, through the millennia in which Africa and Africans shaped not only their own rich civilizations, but also the wider world.”
Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu — the pioneering and enterprising creator of the SoleRebels footwear brand — believes the future of a truly sustainable specialty coffee market can be found in coffee’s birthplace, her native Ethiopia.
After more than a decade of building SoleRebels into a global footwear and leather goods brand that combines traditional Ethiopian craftsmanship and materials with fresh new designs while also paying top dollar throughout the supply chain, Alemu late last year launched an equally ambitious coffee venture called Garden of Coffee.
The company has just opened its first branded roastery café in the Bole area of Addis Ababa, occupying approximately 10,000 square feet that serve as something of an immersive shrine to Ethiopian coffee culture and craft. Alemu described the facility as far more than merely a new retail storefront; her company’s goal is to completely redefine the seed-to-cup coffee journey by promoting what she calls “Origin Trade.”
Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu. (Courtesy photo)
“It goes way beyond commodity pricing , Fair Trade or direct trade. It’s a total realignment of the value chain,” Alemu told Daily Coffee News. “If ever there was a category ripe for a radical realignment and, yes, disruption, the coffee market is it. Does it make sense for Ethiopia, the producer and in fact the originator of the finest, most legendary Arabicas on the planet, to ship our magical raw green beans thousands of miles for roasting when we can produce the absolute finest roasts right here using our own talented roasting artisans? We think everyone would agree it does not.”
In DC, Diaspora Ethiopians Receive Royal Medals at Adwa Celebration
New York (TADIAS) — This coming weekend at the Army and Navy Club on Farragut Square in Washington, D.C., Ethiopian guests will gather for a black tie event hosted by Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie, the grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie and head of The Crown Council of Ethiopia. The event is both a celebration of Ethiopia’s historic victory at Adwa as well as to give out honorary medals to selected individuals who have distinguished themselves through their dedicated contribution to Ethiopian society at large.
This year the most prestigious award the “Grand Officer of the Imperial Order of Emperor Menelik II,” which was founded in 1924 during the reign of Empress Zauditu, will be bestowed on Elias Wondimu, the Editorial Director & Founder of Tsehai Publishers in Los Angeles, California. In a statement Prince Ermias shared that Elias is being honored for preserving “the national identity of Ethiopians and Africans, and contributing to a greater understanding of Ethiopia and Africa by people outside the continent.”
In addition Denver, Colorado-based businessman Mel Tewahade, among others, will be given the “Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Honor” (GOSE) during the private ceremony to be held on February 25,2017 at the Annual Victory of Adwa Commemorative Dinner, according to Gregory Copley, a Strategic Advisor to the Crown Council of Ethiopia.
The newspaper Negarit — The Journal of The International Society for the Imperial Ethiopian Orders — notes that the annual event, now in its sixth year, commemorates the victory of Emperor Menelik II over invading Italian forces at the Battle of Adwa on March 1, 1896.
Richard Pankhurst, the son of the British women’s rights campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst who became one of the world’s leading experts on Ethiopian history and culture, has died aged 89.
He first came into contact with Ethiopia through his mother, a ‘suffragette’ who also campaigned against the invasion of the Horn of Africa nation by Benito Mussolini’s fascist Italian troops in 1935.
He moved to Addis Ababa with her after World War Two and started teaching at Addis Ababa University, going on to write more than 20 books and thousands of articles.
He also inherited an activist streak from his mother and his grandmother, Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the suffragette movement, which helped secure the right for British women to vote.
Richard campaigned with his wife Rita for the return of piles of plunder taken from Ethiopia by invading British troops in 1868, and of a giant obelisk taken from the ancient city of Axum by Mussolini’s forces. Both were there in Axum to watch as Italy returned the obelisk in 2005.
Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry called him a “doyen of historians and scholars of Ethiopia”.
“Pankhurst was one of Ethiopia’s greatest friends during his long and productive life, and his scholarship and understanding for Ethiopia will be sorely missed,” it said in a statement.
Author and photographer Maaza Mengiste told BBC Africa: “I’ve discovered things about my country, just sometimes stumbling upon something that he’s written … a whole other window opens for me on how I understand my own history.”
One Ethiopian, Wondwosen Gelan, tweeted simply: “He was our history archive. We miss him so much.”
I have my doubts as to whether or not I could ever make it as a journalist.
I love to interview people, listen to their stories, and ask them the questions that open them up their lives to me like unfolding origami or blooming flowers. I am genuinely interested in what they have to say, but I am often shy about intruding on people’s time for information or interviews.
One person I greatly admired and had wanted to meet with while in Addis was Richard Pankhurst, the eminent Ethiopian historian, the founding director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, a former professor at the University of Addis Ababa, and the son of Sylvia Pankhurst.
In Spain Genzebe Dibaba Breaks the World 2000m Record
World 1500m champion Genzebe Dibaba added to her growing list of record-breaking achievements by breaking the world 2000m record* at the Miting Internacional de Catalunya in the Spanish city of Sabadell on Tuesday (7).
The three-time world indoor champion overtook the pacemaker just before the half-way mark, which was reached in 2:42.65, and continued to extend her lead over her younger sister Anna and Morocco’s Siham Hilali.
She went on to stop the clock at 5:23.75, taking almost seven seconds off the world indoor best set by Gabriela Szabo in 1998. Although the 2000m isn’t an official world record event indoors, Dibaba’s performance – pending ratification – can be classed as an outright world record as it is faster than Sonia O’Sullivan’s outdoor mark of 5:25.36.
As well as the outdoor 1500m world record, Dibaba now owns the fastest ever recorded times indoors for the 1500m, mile, 2000m, 3000m, two miles and 5000m.
Elsewhere in Sabadell, European champion Adam Kszczot won the 800m in 1:46.31 with Spanish record-holder Kevin Lopez taking second place in 1:46.58.
European 5000m silver medallist Adel Mechaal was a convincing winner of the 3000m, clocking 7:48.39 to finish more than two seconds ahead of Italy’s Marouan Razine.
Four Generations of Black Women Artists in California: Exhibition by Alitash Kebede
Kenturah-Davis. (Courtesy of The Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art)
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By Tadias Staff
Published: Wednesday, February 8th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — As part of the month-long nationwide celebration of Black History Month, Ethiopian American Alitash Kebede, owner of Alitash Kebede Arts, is the exhibition consultant for a show entitled “Enduring in Vision and Linked in Tradition: Selected Works by Four Generations of African American Women Artists,” which is being displayed at the Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art (RAFFMA) at California State University, San Bernardino. The exhibition will run from Feb. 11th – April 8th, 2017 with an opening reception on Thursday, Feb. 9th, 7-9 p.m.
The show is “an intimate yet captivating exhibition featuring works by thirteen highly accomplished artists representing four generations of African-American women in the art world from the first half of the twentieth century to the present,” the museum said in a press release. “The exhibition features two renowned Los Angeles artists, the city’s native Betye Saar and New Orleans-born, Samella Lewis. Highly regarded, celebrated and influential, both artists still live and work in Los Angeles today; during the second half of the previous century both were major force in the city’s vibrant art scene.”
The Guardian on How Diaspora is Helping to Build Modern Ethiopia
From chefs to musicians, talented ‘re-pats’ come back to build a modern Ethiopia
His dream is to show the world the glories of Ethiopian cuisine, to preserve its rich traditions and to make even his poorest fellow citizens eat better. That Yohanis Gebreyesus Hailemariam’s ambition recalls the aims of a slightly better known chef is no coincidence.
“I’m a big fan of Jamie Oliver. Many years back, my mum and I used to watch his shows,” he says. The 30-year-old is one of thousands of talented young Ethiopians who have chosen to return to their homeland after being educated or growing up overseas…Hailemariam grew up in Addis Ababa but spent years training with Paul Bocuse, an internationally renowned French chef, in Lyon before working at top restaurants in California. One of the highest profile Ethiopian re-pats, he has successfully tapped into a growing interest in cooking and gastronomy among an emerging urban middle class. His primetime TV show has an audience of millions, producers say. A key feature of every episode is a recipe specific to each region of the nation of 94 million.
One motive, he says, was to preserve traditions that are being lost as Ethiopia, the second most populous nation in Africa, develops. “I was working in California when I saw my chef using an Ethiopian spice. It struck me that as an Ethiopian I should know and use this product. I should know this … kind of craft, this art, that is being lost in an increasingly rapid and industrialised world,” he says.
“I wanted to come back to Ethiopia. I knew it would be a challenge to come from the diaspora and be seen as an Ethiopian chef. So I travelled all over the country looking to use knowledge that has a global appeal. And I noticed that Ethiopia has so much to offer. Because of globalisation, we are forgetting to look inside our own country.”
Boston Concert Honors Ethiopia-Armenia Connection
Nerses Nalbandian was an Ethiopian musician and educator of Armenian descent. He gained Ethiopian nationality in 1959. (Photo: MoA)
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By Tadias Staff
Published: Friday, February 3rd , 2017
New York (TADIAS) – One of the oldest immigrant communities in Ethiopia, Armenians, were welcomed to Ethiopia in the early 1900s after they escaped genocide carried out by the Ottoman empire. In addition to thriving as goldsmiths, carpenters, teachers and carpet makers, Armenian-Ethiopians have also greatly contributed to the emergence of modern music in Ethiopia. Kevork Nalbandian was an Armenian who composed the first national anthem for Ethiopia as well as served as the musical director of Arba Lijoch. His nephew Nerses Nalbandian was involved in the founding of the historic Yared Music School in Addis Ababa as well as led the Municipality Orchestra.
Nerses Nalbandian will be honored this month with a tribute concert entitled The Emperor, the Nalbandians and the Dawn of Western Music in Ethiopia, on Sunday, February 19, 2017 in Watertown, Massachusetts. The concert, which is organized by The Friends of Armenian Culture Society (FACS), features Boston’s world renowned and the Grammy-nominated Ethio jazz band the Either/Orchestra and multilingual cast of guest vocalists including Debo band’s Bruck Tesfaye.
“Born in 1915 in Aintab, Ottoman Empire, Nerses Nalbandian settled in Aleppo, Syria after his family escaped the genocide,” FACS said in a press release. “He worked as a music teacher and choir master at the Armenian Orthodox Church in Syria, before moving to Ethiopia in 1938 at the invitation of his uncle Kevork Nalbandian.”
The press release adds: “The program will include music Nalbandian composed and arranged during his tenure as Music Director of the Haile Selassie National Theater (1956-74). The event also celebrates the release of the E/O’s CD Ethiopiques 32: Nalbandian the Ethiopian, for which the E/O has reconstructed and interpreted Nalbandian’s music in live and studio recordings made in Ethiopia, the US and Canada. The E/O’s previous Ethiopiques release, Live in Addis (2005), was called “astonishing…monumental…the best live album of the year in any genre” by Paul Olsen, AllAboutJazz.com. Armenian scholar Dr. Boris Adjemian, the director of the AGBU Nubar Library in Paris, will deliver a short pre-concert talk.”
YEP Presents Dr. Menna Demissie of CBC
Menna Demissie, VP of Policy and Research at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation in DC. (Photo: YEP)
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By Tadias Staff
Updated: Feb. 1st, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — Dr. Menna Demissie, who is Vice President of Policy Analysis & Research at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, is the featured presenter at this week’s YEP guest speakers series in DC hosted by Young Ethiopian Professionals.
Menna who also teaches at the University of California, Washington Center specializes in public policy issues relevant to African Americans. Before joining the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Menna was an assistant to Congresswoman Barbara Lee and worked on unemployment legislation, poverty, and foreign policy. Menna “holds a joint doctorate in Public Policy and Political Science as well as a Master of Arts in Political Science and Certificate in African American, African and Black Transnational Studies from the University of Michigan” notes the CBC Foundation website. “She also earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Law and Society from Oberlin College. She has been interviewed on NPR and other media outlets and currently serves on the Alumni board for the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, on the advisory board of the Diaspora African Women’s Network (DAWN), and has served as National Youth Coordinator for the Society of Ethiopians Established in the Diaspora (SEED) since 2000.”
At the upcoming YEP program Menna “will share her journey from leading the CBC foundation’s policy initiatives in the areas of education, economic opportunity, and healthcare as it affects the global black community to serving as an adjunct professor at the University of California Washington Center where she teaches courses on U.S.- Africa Foreign Policy, Race and Ethnic Politics, and American Government.”
Lina Getachew Ayenew's inspiration for her guide, "Dalu: Introduction to Chinese for Amharic Speakers," came while teaching medical English in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province in south-east China. (FT)
Beijing’s skyline wowed Lina Getachew Ayenew when she arrived in the Chinese capital five years ago, but she was surprised to find the pedestrian bridges looked just like those in her native Addis Ababa.
It turns out the building materials used in Ethiopia’s capital were imported from China — one of many signs of the country’s impact on Africa’s developing economies. Ayenew has been building bridges herself, by creating the first Amharic-Mandarin language guide.
“I had this stereotype [of China] growing up, so this level of development is a part of China I discovered after I came here,” says 29-year old Ayenew, who was raised in Ethiopia, gained undergraduate and masters degrees at Yale University in the US, and moved to China in 2011 to teach medical English. “I don’t know how many Americans know the scale at which China has developed.”
Her fellow Ethiopians do, though. Hundreds of them now live in China, either on government scholarships or because their families pay for Chinese studies. A Chinese education is more attainable than going to the US and, for many, more useful.
Chinese investment in Africa has soared, reaching $26bn as of 2013, with another $60bn pledged in late 2015. Ethiopia’s educated workforce and leather industry have attracted Chinese manufacturing and textile investment.
At a welcoming party for 70 Ethiopian students in Beijing last year, Ayenew “noticed this collective thinking we need to bring knowledge back to our country. China has so much to teach us. There was a collective admiration of China that bounced from speaker to speaker.”
New York (TADIAS) — This weekend in Washington, D.C. renown photographer Chester Higgins, Jr. (formerly with the New York Times) and acclaimed filmmaker and professor Haile Gerima will hold a timely public conversation on the need to produce images that positively impact the connection between continental Africans and those residing in the Diaspora. The event is part of an upcoming documentary film on the life and work of Chester Higgens, Jr. by one of Gerima’s former students, director Patrick Yussuf.
Parts of this conversation, which takes place on Saturday, January 28th at Sankofa Book Store & Cafe, will find its way into the film.
“The discussion is on how the use of conscious visuals of Continental Africans are important for building constructive bridges to Western-born African people,” Higgins told Tadias.
“Chester Higgins Jr. has traveled to Africa every year since 1971 as a way to meditate, disconnect and examine his life,” The New York Times wrote in a feature entitled “Chester Higgins’ Homage to Ethiopia,” which highlighted his work from Ethiopia that was on exhibit in 2015 at Skoto Gallery in New York City. “Through the experience of photographing new people and places, his art both shapes and reflects his narrative. And nowhere is that truer for him than in Ethiopia, a place that has long enchanted him.”
Focus on Ethiopia: A Look at the New ‘America First’ Foreign Policy
New York (TADIAS) — What does the new “America First” foreign policy mean vis-à-vis Ethiopia-U.S. diplomatic, military and economic ties? No one really knows, but according to Richard N. Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of A World in Disarray, this kind of approach to international relations comes with a double-edged sword: “A narrow America First posture will prompt other countries to pursue an equally narrow, independent foreign policy, which will diminish U.S. influence and detract from global prosperity.”
Mr. Haass shared his concerns in an interview with the New York Times following President Donald J. Trump’s inaugural speech last Friday in which he “cast America’s new role in the world as one of an aggrieved superpower, not a power intent on changing the globe. There was no condemnation of authoritarianism or fascism, no clarion call to defend human rights around the world — one of the commitments that John F. Kennedy made in his famed address, delivered 56 years ago to the day.”
But there is a silver lining of sorts for opponents of past American policy in a sense that the new U.S. government may not have the political appetite to continue taxpayer sponsored USAID “development projects,” which critics say helps more to prop-up non-transparent and corrupt regimes than bring actual change.
In terms of promotion of civil society, human rights and good governance the Trump administration has indicated that it will not necessarily follow the long U.S. precedent articulated in “Kennedy’s most famous line: that America would ‘bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.’” As NYT points out: “The America that elected Mr. Trump had concluded that it was no longer willing to bear that burden — or even to make the spread of democracy the mission of the nation.”
“Mr. Trump views American democracy as a fine import for those who like it,” states the New York Times.
During his inaugural address, President Donald J. Trump laid out a vision for the
United States that focused on benefiting “American workers and American families.”
(Publish Date January 20, 2017/NYT)
“We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone,” Trump said in his inaugural address, “but rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow.”
The recently relaunched White House website further explains that “The Trump Administration is committed to a foreign policy focused on American interests and American national security.” The website adds: “Peace through strength will be at the center of that foreign policy. This principle will make possible a stable, more peaceful world with less conflict and more common ground.”
Regarding Africa, however, there is talk that one of the early collateral damages of the new era could be AGOA. “While its benefits have been uneven, the legislation has served as a key framework for U.S.-African relations,” says Witney Schneidman at the Brookings Institution’s. “It has led to trade and investment being at the forefront of U.S. policy in the region.” Schneidman adds: “AGOA has encouraged African women in trade and led to the creation of the African Trade Hubs (rebranded as Trade and Investment Hubs under Obama) to help African companies access AGOA. More recently, the Obama administration has been working to develop a new trade architecture based on reciprocity that would ultimately replace AGOA’s unilateral preference regime.”
And from the African perspective in an article entitled “It might not be the end of the world if Africa drops off Donald Trump’s map,” Qartz Africa notes the continent might just as well choose to turn off the U.S. and look inwards. “It’s worth remembering uncertainty isn’t all just about downside,” argues Yinka Adegoke, the Africa Editor for Quartz. “Less trade with the U.S. could force African countries to put more effort into developing stronger trade links with each other. And young Africans dissuaded from moving to the U.S. comes with one potential advantage: decades of brain drain can be stalled and Africa’s brightest can focus on problems at home.”
Pictures: Women’s March in DC & Beyond
The biggest US rally was in Washington, DC, which was attended by more than 500,000 people. (Photo: NYT)
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By Tadias Staff
Published: Saturday, January 21st, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — On Saturday, January 21st, in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington, millions of people in major cities around the world from New York to Nairobi staged a protest in support of American women.
Washington Post highlights that “millions of women gathered in Washington and cities around the country Saturday to mount a roaring rejoinder to the inauguration of Donald Trump one day earlier. The historic protests of a new president packed cities large and small — from Los Angeles to Boston to Park City, Utah, where celebrities from the Sundance Film Festival joined a march on the snowy streets. In Chicago, the demonstration was overwhelmed by its own size, forcing officials to curtail its planned march when the crowd threatened to swamp the planned route.”
Lawmakers Show Solidarity With Women’s March On Washington (The Huffington Post)
Huffington Post notes: “Several lawmakers turned out for the Women’s March on Washington Saturday. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) showed up to support the estimated half a million women in the nation’s capital.”
Huffington Post adds: “Some members of Congress shared the personal reasons why they marched, including Reps. Diana DeGette (D-Co.) and Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who marched with women from their districts. Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.) marched with his sister, and Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, the first Mexican-American congresswoman, said she marched for “all women..Others sent messages of solidarity to the marchers, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).”
BBC writes: “Millions of protesters have taken to the streets of cities in the US and around the globe to rally against the new US President Donald Trump..Larger numbers of demonstrators than expected turned out for more than 600 rallies worldwide.The aim was principally to highlight women’s rights, which activists believe to be under threat from the new administration.”
Ethiopia in Crisis: A Public Forum at Stanford Spotlights Problems & Solutions
Ethiopia In Crisis: A forum at Stanford University featuring scholars, human rights advocates, politicians, and media representatives is scheduled for January 21 – 22, 2017 in Stanford, California. (Courtesy photo)
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By Tadias Staff
Updated: Thursday, January 19th, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — This weekend a public forum will be held at Stanford University in California highlighting some of the most pressing and unresolved issues fueling the ongoing political and economic crisis in Ethiopia while currently under State of Emergency including “land and agriculture policy, property rights, human rights, democracy, and rule of law.”
According to the Ethiopian American Council (EAC), the program organizer, the gathering of scholars and activists include Mulatu Wubneh, Ph.D., Department of Geography, Planning, and Environment at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina whose talk is entitled “This Land Is My Land: the Ethio-Sudan Boundary and the Need to Rectify Arbitrary Colonial Boundaries.”
Other speakers are Mekonnen Firew Ayano, Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for African Studies, who is scheduled to address “Ethiopia’s Property Rights, Land and Agriculture Policy” and Felix Horne, a Senior Horn of Africa Researcher at Human Rights Watch, is set to discuss “Human Rights Crisis in the Amhara and Oromia Regions of Ethiopia.”
The Executive Director of The Oakland Institute, Anuradha Mittal, is also scheduled to discuss “The Risk of Land Grabbing From Ethiopian Villagers and its Impact on Food Security.” Additional presentation topics include “access to food, democracy, human rights, and the ethnic federal system in Ethiopia.”
The keynote speakers at the forum are Professor Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University, as well as Professor Richard A. Joseph from Northwestern University’s Political Science Department who is among the four inaugural Martin Luther King Visiting Professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
New York (TADIAS) — Members of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team are reportedly asking Obama administration officials questions regarding Africa policy with emphasis on business and the booming Chinese commerce on the continent.
“How does U.S. business compete with other nations in Africa? Are we losing out to the Chinese? asks one of the first questions in the unclassified document,” according to The New York Times.
The Times states: “A four-page list of Africa-related questions from the transition staff has been making the rounds at the State Department and Pentagon, alarming longtime Africa specialists who say the framing and the tone of the questions suggest an American retreat from development and humanitarian goals, while at the same time trying to push forward business opportunities across the continent.”
In a related article published today The Washington Post indicates that “Peter Navarro, who will lead Trump’s National Trade Council, provided his own answers in his book Death by China.” Navarro points out that it’s “part of China’s strategy to boost its factories back home and undermine the U.S. manufacturing base.”
The Washington Post adds “Jobs that once migrated from the United States to China are now offshoring to Africa. With low-end manufacturing on the way out, what was ‘Made in China’ is now ‘Made in Africa.’ The Huajian Group, one of the largest shoe manufacturers in China, employing 25,000 workers, opened a factory in Ethiopia in 2012; the company will invest $2 billion over five years to build a “shoe city” in Addis Ababa. Supply chains now span the United States, China and Africa: Huajian produces for U.S. brands such as Tommy Hilfiger, Guess and, ironically, Ivanka Trump’s eponymous shoe line.”
University of Toronto Starts Course in Ge’ez, A Step to Ethiopic Studies
The course in Ge’ez, which could be a first step to launching a larger Ethiopian Studies program, was helped made possible by a donation of $50,000 each from a prof, the school and the Weeknd. (Toronto Star)
A language that hasn’t been spoken for more than 1,000 years is being taught this semester at the University of Toronto, a step perhaps towards decoding rarely understood excerpts of history.
The ancient Ethiopian language of Ge’ez is written in a script that’s read left to right and has 26 letters. Letters have variations for the vowels that go with them, meaning students have to learn 26 characters in seven different ways.
The goal of the class, which meets twice a week, is to get students on their way to reading.
Milen Melles, a history major, said her parents immigrated to Canada from Eritrea in the 1990s and is taking the class as an opportunity to connect with her roots. She one day hopes to study texts from the region at a graduate level.
“This is a huge step for western academia to be exploring African languages, ancient languages, because they usually only study Swahili,” Melles said, noting that African studies often get lumped together at universities, differently than other regions where specific areas or countries are studied independently of one another.
CHICAGO — President Obama delivered a nostalgic and hopeful farewell address to the nation on Tuesday evening, but warned both the divided country he led for eight years and his successor not to shrink from the challenges of economic inequality, racial strife, political isolation and voter apathy that still threaten its ideal of democracy.
Mr. Obama returned to the city that nurtured his political career and his improbable journey from Hyde Park to Pennsylvania Avenue, just 10 days before he will leave the White House to Donald J. Trump. In his final speech to the nation, the president expressed his belief that even the deepest ideological divides can be bridged by an active, engaged populace.
“After eight years as your president, I still believe that,” Mr. Obama told a large crowd at McCormick Place, the cavernous lakeside convention center where he thanked supporters after his re-election in 2012. “And it’s not just my belief. It’s the beating heart of our American idea — our bold experiment in self-government.”
Tearing up as he concluded the final speech of a remarkable political career, Mr. Obama thanked his wife, his daughters, his vice president (“the scrappy kid from Scranton”) and the army of supporters who helped sweep the first African-American into the White House.
—President Obama to Give His Farewell Address to Americans From Hometown Chicago
President Obama will deliver a farewell address to the American people on the evening of January 10, 2017 in his hometown of Chicago, the president announced in an email to supporters on Monday. (Photo: WH)
Washington – In 1796, as George Washington set the precedent for a peaceful, democratic transfer of power, he also set a precedent by penning a farewell address to the American people. And over the 220 years since, many American presidents have followed his lead.
I’m just beginning to write my remarks. But I’m thinking about them as a chance to say thank you for this amazing journey, to celebrate the ways you’ve changed this country for the better these past eight years, and to offer some thoughts on where we all go from here.
Since 2009, we’ve faced our fair share of challenges, and come through them stronger. That’s because we have never let go of a belief that has guided us ever since our founding — our conviction that, together, we can change this country for the better.
In Time for Ethiopian X-mas, Drom NYC Presents Legend Girma Beyene
New York (TADIAS) — Just in time for Ethiopian christmas the annual Secret Planet World Music Showcase at DROM in Manhattan will present the legendary composer-arranger and vocalist Girma Beyene, who is scheduled to perform on Saturday, January 7th, 2017 accompanied by DC-based Feedel Band.
Girma who is one of the icons of Ethiopia’s “golden age” of jazz and swing has made a remarkable comeback recently after many years of absence from the music scene. His new album, which is entitled Mistakes on Purpose and recorded in collaboration with the French Ethio-jazz band Akale Wube, is set to be released on January 13th, 2017 as part of the 30th installment of the Ethiopiques CD series.
“This year’s Secret Planet’s lineup continues our tradition of showcasing new talent unlikely to remain secret for very long,” announced Barbès and Electric Cowbell Records, organizers of the NYC international concert.
The 2017 edition includes “artists playing their own version of music from Morocco, Puerto Rico, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, Tuva, Venezuela, Brooklyn, Cuba and Toronto.”
(Photo: DROM NYC)
The announcement highlights that “Girma is also the composer of “Muziqawi Silt,” the most covered Ethiopian tune of all time. There has been a regain of interest for Girma Beyene in Europe and now in the US. He will be backed by Feedel Band, a Washington DC-based group made up of former members of some Addis Ababa’s greatest musicians including the legendary Walias band and Aster Aweke.”
—If You Go:
Girma Beyene & Feedel Band at DROM NYC
Sat, January 7th
Doors 7PM
Show 7:30PM
Advance Price $10 GA / Free with APAP Badge
Door Price: Advanced online ticket sales stop at 5pm on day of show
If available, more tickets are available at doorwww.dromnyc.com
The Maigenet Shifferraw Fellowship is dedicated to promote scholarship on Ethiopian women as well as empower and/or advance women’s wellbeing in Ethiopia. (Photo: Center for the Rights of Ethiopian Women)
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By Tadias Staff
Updated: Monday, January 2nd, 2017
New York (TADIAS) — The newly established Dr. Maigenet Shifferraw Fellowship has announced calls for academic proposals on topics affecting Ethiopian girls or women worldwide. The U.S-based fellowship was set-up recently by Dr. Maigenet’s family in memory of the former president and one of the founders of CREW (Center for the Rights of Ethiopian Women) who passed away in 2016.
As administrator of the fellowship CREW states that its upcoming scholarship will “provide a one-time financial assistance, up to US $2,000.00, to an organization in Ethiopia that promotes the well-being and empowerment of women and girls in Ethiopia.” The press release adds: “research proposals can be submitted from all over the world but the research must focus on Ethiopian girls and women. Organizations who work on empowering or improving the situation of girls or women in Ethiopia must operate in Ethiopia.”
(Courtesy Photo: Center for the Rights of Ethiopian Women — CREW)
In addition, the guiding principles of the fellowship include documenting and researching the experiences of Ethiopian women and girls “so that we all can gain some knowledge and serve humanity better” as well as encouraging those individuals who “strive to protect women and girls’ rights and improve their situation.”
As we hope for better times in the years to come, we never cease to be inspired by the numerous talented Ethiopians around the world, both young and old, that we continue to profile and highlight in this magazine, who drive us all to imagine that through perseverance, unity, and creative thinking, a brighter, bolder, and more peaceful and prosperous tomorrow is still possible.
Mahmoud Ahmed performed live at Carnegie Hall in New York City on Sunday, October 23rd, 2016, becoming the first major artist from Ethiopia to give a solo concert at the world-famous venue. The 75-year-old Ethiopian cultural icon, who is one of Ethiopia’s most eminent musicians, played at Carnegie’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage and brought the audience to its feet for several songs. Read more and see photos »
34-year-old Ethiopian-born actress Ruth Negga has become the talk of Hollywood and Oscar mentions following her highly acclaimed performance in the new civil rights movie Loving, which depicts the 1967 historic U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage in a case called “Loving v. Virginia.” Ruth who was born in Addis Ababa grew-up in Limerick, Ireland and has resided in London for the past ten years. Asked by The Hollywood Reporter on how she became an actress, Negga replied: “You know when you’re a kid and you get to pick a movie every Friday? I watched everything. There’s no particular genre that was appealing. I just loved the idea that you could dress up and play.” This month Vogue magazine declared “the Irish-Ethiopian actress Ruth Negga has become a star for our time.” Read more and see photos »
Photographer Girma Berta, an instagrammer and artist from Ethiopia, was the winner of the 2016 Getty Images Instagram Grant. “Berta uses his iPhone to photograph vibrant, gritty street life in Addis Ababa, crossing street photography with fine art by isolating his subjects against backdrops of rich color,” Getty Images said. The grant is for videographers and visual artists who feature local stories and document “underrepresented communities around the world.” Read more and see photos »
Mulatu Astatke returned to New York City for a live show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 9th, 2016. The concert, which was part of the MetLiveArts program, was presented in collaboration with the World Music Institute. “Known as the father of Ethio-jazz, composer and multi-instrumentalist (vibraphone, piano, keyboard, organs, and percussion) Mulatu Astatke leaped to international fame in the ’70s and ’80s with his unique mix of Western traditional Ethiopian music and admirers like Duke Ellington and John Coltrane,” stated the announcement from The Met. “Known for his fearless experimentation, his music begins and ends with improvisation.”
Thank you again to everyone who joined us on Tuesday, August 9th, 2016 for a sold out Tadias Salon Series show at Ginny’s Supper Club as Lemn Sissay shared his incredible life journey & poems from his new book Gold From the Stone, and Grammy-nominated Ethiopian American singer and songwriter Wayna (@waynamusic) gave a soul-shaking music performance, along with DJ Mengie. Special thanks to Marcus Samuelsson and Ethiopia Alfred as well as our sponsors for making it happen.
Ethiopian Pianist and Composer Girma Yifrashewa at Ginny’s Supper Club in New York on Sunday, November 27th, 2016. (Photo: Tadias)
This year the Thanksgiving weekend program at Ginny’s Supper Club in Harlem, New York featured a special Ethiopia-inspired dinner menu prepared by Chef Marcus Samuelsson followed by a live performance by classical Ethiopian pianist and composer Girma Yifrashewa. Girma’s amazing concert on Sunday, November 27th, 2016 included his original compositions that evoke “Ethiopian melody making,” as he told the audience, “decorated” with sounds of the classical music tradition in combination with Ambassel, Bati, Anchihoye and Tizita based on Ethiopian music’s unique tone scale system. Read more and watch video »
Los Angeles, California, which is home to the only official Little-Ethiopia neighborhood in America, is also headquarters for Azla Vegan, a family-owned Ethiopian restaurant — located near the University of Southern California (USC) — that we featured in 2013 in an interview with owner Nesanet Teshager Abegaze as it first opened. This year, Azla Vegan was featured on the Food Network‘s television episode of “Cosmopolitan Comfort: Diners, Drive Ins, and Dives.” Read more and see photos »
Ethiopia-inspired furniture by U.S.-based Jomo Tariku, Founder of Jomo Design Furniture and Hamere Demissie of Actuel Urban Living was featured at the 2016 international Dubai Design Week festival in October. Jomo and Hamere’s works were selected as submissions from design weeks around the world including Design Week Addis Ababa, highlighting “the modern-inspired minimalist spirit of traditional Ethiopian design made locally by skilled artisans.” Hamere Demissie’s Actuel Urban Living previewed “a collection of furniture, rugs and textiles with a refined organic feel, while Jomo Design Furniture will display a contemporary take on traditional African chairs crafted in hardwoods, inspired by African hand carvings, baskets and traditional woven textiles,” according to the media release from Dubai Design Week.
Ethiopian American journalist Bofta Yimam was promoted as Weekend Morning Anchor at Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 Television in 2016.
Congratulations to Bofta Yimam who was promoted to Weekend Morning Anchor at Pittsburgh’s Action News 4 Television (WTAE) this year. Bofta received three Emmy nominations and won the Regional Emmy Award (Nashville/Mid-South Chapter) for excellence in the ‘Continuing Coverage’ category in 2013. “There are so many avenues of journalism that you have to put yourself out there, and have a kind of go-for-it type of mentality,” Bofta shared in a past interview with Tadias. “You gotta get the skill sets and be willing to hit the ground running.” Read more and watch video »
The new documentary film If Only I Were That Warrior — which chronicles the reactions of the international Ethiopian and Italian community regarding the recent building of a memorial for the Fascist General, Rodolfo Graziani (“The Butcher of Ethiopia”) in his hometown of Affile, Italy — has finally been released on DVD and is also now available for streaming online. Read more »
Renowned Ethiopian American artist Julie Mehretu returned to Ethiopia this Summer for her inaugural show at The Modern Art Museum Gebre Kristos Desta Center in Addis Ababa. The exhibition entitled Julie Mehretu: The Addis Show — which was jointly presented by the Gebre Kristos Desta Center and the United States Embassy in Addis Ababa — was opened on July 8, 2016 and remained on display through August 6, 2016.
“When chef Marcus Samuelsson opened Red Rooster on Harlem’s Lenox Avenue, he envisioned so much more than just a restaurant. He wanted to create a gathering place at the heart of his adopted neighborhood, where both the uptown and downtown sets could see and be seen, mingle and meet – and so he did, in a big way. Ever since the 1930s, Harlem has been a magnet for more than a million African Americans, a melting pot for Spanish, African, and Caribbean immigrants, and a mecca for artists. Named after a historic neighborhood speakeasy, the modern Rooster reflects all of that, from the local art showcased on its walls, to the live music blaring from its performance spaces, to the cross-cultural food on its patrons’ plates and the evocative cocktails in their hands.” Read The Times review at NYTimes.com »
What does it mean to be Ethiopian American? The answer depends on who you ask, but for Playwright Antu Yacob — whose parents immigrated to the United States from Ethiopia when she was barely five years old — the identity is not as clear-cut. In the Gray is the title of Antu’s latest one-person show, which explored precisely this question when it was staged in New York City as part of the Women in Theatre Festival by Project Y Theatre in Manhattan this past summer. “In the Gray” features Antu playing several engaging characters including herself, her 8-year-old son, as well as her muslim and Oromo activist mother who lives in Minnesota. “I knew that I wanted to write about my experience not only as an actor, but also as an Ethio-American professional in the entertainment industry,” Antu told Tadias in an interview following her show. As a playwright Antu says she tries “to experiment with social and political activism in an entertaining way” noting that “America is made up of so many different cultures, and there is room to honor that diversity without sacrificing the beauty of who we are as a people. As Ethiopian Americans we make up a part of the larger American experience.” Read more and see photos »
The film ‘Hairat,” which documents one man’s nightly ritual near Ethiopia’s historic city of Harar, is directed by Jessica Beshir. (Courtesy photo)
Last but not least, a big thumbs-up to Director Jessica Beshir whose documentary short film Hairat from Ethiopia was selected this year to be featured at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. “This is a visual and lyrical exploration of the nightly ritual between a man in Eastern Ethiopia and his feral companions,” the Sundance Institute wrote describing Hairat in a press release. In the film Director Jessica Beshir, who was born in Mexico City and raised in Ethiopia, “returns to the city of her childhood to tell the story of one man’s extraordinary ritual that unfolds nightly in the outskirts of the walled city of Harar.” Jessica’s short film is one of 68 works from around the world that will be screened at Sundance from January 19th through 29th, 2017. Read more »
“I am swimming in between Ethiopian tradition that I grew up with [and] American culture that I am experiencing right now,” Abebe explains in his artist statement. “My subject matters reflect the two cultures as well. It also gives me great opportunity to use different mediums to convey my deep passion. Beyond cultures, there is so much for me to learn; so many great artists to learn from, that I know only patience, persistence, practice and education will carry me to my goal.”
The title of Abraham Abebe’s new show Guzo, which means journey in Amharic makes use of “lottery tickets as a starting point then translates numbers from each ticket into visual forms using the metric system. The resulting visual data serves as the basis for the painting, mixed media, kinetic and screen-print that would define the four quadrants on the two-dimensional surface of the stretched canvases, papers and panels.”
Artwork Abraham Abebe. (Courtesy of the artist )
Abraham holds both an MFA degree in Studio Art and a BFA (Cum Laude) majoring in Graphic Design, Painting and Drawing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as well as an A.A. degree (with distinction) from Truckee Meadows Community College. He has held several solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows and is the author of Eggmel, a book of poetry written in his native language Amharic.
Interview with Yohannes Abraham: Reflections on Public Service, Civic Engagement and the White House
Yohannes Abraham, Chief of Staff of the White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs. (Courtesy Photo)
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By Tadias Staff
Published: Monday, December 19th, 2016
New York (TADIAS) — As the first Ethiopian American in a senior White House role, Yohannes Abraham is a trailblazer in both our community and within the larger African Diaspora in America. Since 2009, he has worked diligently inside the White House, only steps away from the Oval Office, helping to shape the Obama legacy while serving as Chief of Staff to Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama.
Reflecting back on the past eight years and the personal journey that led him to serve in the historic presidency of Barack Obama, Yohannes credits his parents first and foremost for his interest in public service and civic engagement.
“It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact time when I became interested in public service, because serving our community and country was always part of the family dialogue,” Yohannes tells Tadias in a recent interview. “Both my parents are proud U.S. citizens, and they wanted us to be engaged citizens as well.” His mother and father immigrated to the United States from Ethiopia in the 60s and Yohannes was born in Alexandria, VA and raised in Springfield.
“I attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology and was a Political Science major at Yale, focusing on U.S. foreign policy” Yohannes adds, noting that his parents raised him and his sister with a strong sense of service to community and the importance of helping people.
What solidified Yohannes’ choice to work in government and politics was a desire to give back. “I am lucky to have always had an extremely supportive family,” Yohannes says. “My parents gave my sister and me a great foundation and made clear to us that it was incumbent upon us to give back, reminding us that not everyone had the same opportunities that we had.”
Shortly after graduating from Yale, Yohannes secured a job with Senator Obama’s campaign in Iowa in 2007 with the assistance of a fellow Ethiopian American.
Like many young people at the time in this country, Yohannes points out that the inspiring moment for him came following the 2004 election, where one of the high points was the election of Obama as a Senator. “At the time I was in college, and I was captivated by his 2004 convention speech,” Yohannes remembers. “When he won the Senate seat I followed him more closely and realized that his values were very much aligned with my own, and that from a vision and policy perspective he stood for things that I was passionate about.”
For Yohannes, there are many highlights from his job organizing 14 precincts in Iowa for the President’s first campaign. “There were many memorable parts of working on the campaign, and it was especially interesting to be there early on in Iowa. We were a relatively small team. None of us went to Iowa because we wanted to work in the White House one day – that wouldn’t have been a smart bet at the time. We were there because we believed, and we worked hard to build support for the Senator, block by block, voter by voter. We became a part of the communities we lived in, and we built a sense of family with our teammates. It was not glamorous stuff…we would work all week to get a couple hundred people to come see him,” Yohannes shares. “It was pretty incredible going from those smaller events of a couple hundred people to events with tens thousands of people over time.
And what was the most memorable moment of working for President Obama at the White House?
“The night that the House passed the Affordable Care Act,” Yohannes fires back. “It was a moment that I felt we did something good to improve people’s lives. That’s the good stuff. Of course, I’m hugely grateful to have had the opportunity to do some very cool things, and I treasure those memories as well – Air Force One, formal dinners, those sort of things are once in a lifetime. But the best memories are either when we moved the needle in a way that did some good in the world, or simple moments of camaraderie with teammates. In fact the best part of my job is the team that he put around him that I have had the chance to work with, and became friends with. It’s a group of really talented, committed people.”
“As my Chief of Staff, Yohannes has been one of my closest and most trusted advisors,” his boss Valerie Jarrett shares. “He’s smart, passionate, hardworking, and most importantly deeply committed to helping people. It’s been a great joy having him by my side over the past four years, and I’ve enjoyed watching him grow into the talented leader that he is today. I have no doubt that he will continue to be a force for good in whatever he does in the future.”
Yohannes is also quick to point out that he is not alone in having served as an Ethiopian American in the current administration. “There are several Ethiopian Americans in the administration, some of them in very senior positions,” he shared. “If you speak with any of them and chart their path you’ll come up with a few common threads. You’ll see that there is a real commitment to education. I think you’ll also see that most of them followed their passion and raised their hand to be helpful. There’s no road map or secret memo that lays out the path to making a difference. If you see a cause or candidate that moves you, show up. Lend a hand. Don’t wait for a formal invitation.”
Among those making a difference is fellow Ethiopian American Henock Dory, a White House Staff Assistant and Policy Advisor, who reports to Yohannes.
“Working for Yohannes has been a truly invaluable experience,” Henock said in a statement sent to Tadias. “His dedication to serving both his country and the Ethiopian American community is driven by a passion and work ethic that knows no bounds. As a young Ethiopian American myself, I’ve been fortunate to find in him a role model and mentor that inspires me to emulate the integrity, intellect, and leadership he displays on a daily basis. I’m eager to see how the example he has set, the work he has executed, and his future accomplishments will carry our community forward.”
And what role did mentors have in Yohannes’ career trajectory? “First and foremost, it’s my parents who are my mentors,” Yohannes explains. “Over the course of my service for President Obama they were my constant rock, giving me wisdom and strength when I was frustrated or discouraged. Look, they came to the United States not knowing anyone, immigrating to a country where they barely spoke the language and had no family and little money. In the face of all that, they worked their way through college and graduate school and built successful professional careers. They did all that to build a better life for us here, and they are my inspiration. Now, in addition to my parents, I also have also had fantastic bosses who have helped me along the way. Over the course of these past years, Valerie Jarrett has been both a fantastic boss and friend; she is like a member of my family. She is a really strong and active force in my life. Another great mentor is Jeff Zientz, Director of the National Economic Council.
“Yohannes possesses a rare combination of intellect, drive, and leadership ability. He is one of the most effective individuals I have had the privilege to work with across my decades of experience in the private sector, and, more recently, in government,” says Jeff Zientz. “Most importantly, Yohannes is at his core a dedicated, high-integrity person. I look forward to seeing the good he will do for the world in the years to come.”
Of course, along with all the things Yohannes loves about his job come the challenges.
“Firstly, even when things are bad, even when things aren’t necessarily fun you never have to doubt that the work you are doing is important. What you do matters to people’s lives” Yohannes emphasizes. “It’s highly motivating to know that if you do a good job you help more people, and if you do a bad job you help less people. This is something that has kept me and the whole team energized. What I really enjoy about the job is being surrounded by people who are as committed to the work as you are, and are going the extra mile — it gives you the strength to do so yourself.”
“The challenges are varied,” Yohannes adds. “No two days, let alone two weeks are the same. Only a certain percentage of the day works out as you assumed, and the challenges range from dealing with a natural disaster to working in support of a priority item on the legislative docket; not having a template makes it exciting. There is also the challenge of losing time with family and friends. I definitely wish I had seen more of my family. Some of my younger cousins are now talking about driver’s permits — I blinked and now they are young adults.”
Asked to sum up his current motto in three words, Yohannes responds: “Try to Help.” He elaborates on this message a bit more to say: “this runs across both professional and personal life. It is a driving force in my life and it’s largely driven by my parents who stressed the importance of giving back. It’s part of my Christian faith. This is not to say that it’s unique just to the Christian faith, but I was raised to believe that it’s incumbent on me to help folks that might not be in a position to help themselves or go it alone.”
Yohannes encourages the broader Ethiopian community to remain engaged.
“I think it’s important for those of us who were born in this country to fully appreciate the sacrifices our parents made to forge better lives for us. That puts whatever challenges we face — however daunting they may be — into context. When I think about the scale of the obstacles my own parents faced as compared to my own, I’m both humbled by and deeply grateful for their incredible strength of character. I think an important way for my generation to honor our parents and the foundation they have created for us is to be active, engaged citizens here in America. Think about it. Our parents moved to a new country, in most cases knowing no one, having nothing, and speaking little English. They did so in the hopes of finding a better life for their families, and by and large they did. We are the beneficiaries of their choices, and we owe it to them to make the most of the opportunities they unlocked for us. We also owe it to our communities, and America writ large, to contribute to the diverse fabric of civic life. Doing so makes the country stronger, and it makes our community’s voice stronger within it.”
“In much the same vein, as a newer immigrant community, we owe it to those who fought for justice in the country before we ever got here — Latino farmworkers, civil rights organizers, foot soldiers in the women’s suffrage movement, and so on — to be good stewards of the duty of citizenship. If a civil rights organizer could risk their life for the right to vote, what excuse do we have to not be first in line at the polls? What excuse do we have to be unregistered or apathetic? What excuse do we have to ignore the plight of other communities that may find themselves in need of allies in the face of injustice? To my mind, none. That’s why I’ve been so happy to see a surge of civic engagement amongst younger Ethiopian Americans in the past few years. I hope it’s something that will continue.”
Last but not least, Tadias posed the question of a future run for Congress or Senate to Yohannes, and although he doesn’t yet know if he’ll run for office he certainly has “100% clarity” that he is going to stay involved in public service.
“I’ve seen firsthand many examples of how active civic participation can lead to change and I’m committed to being a part of that for the rest of my life,” Yohannes shares. “Big picture, I hope in the near future we have Ethiopian American Senators, Governors, and Mayors. That hope is not unique to politics — I also hope we have Ethiopian American Generals, Admirals, CEOs, union presidents, and news anchors. That’s what we should aspire to as a community. As for me personally, I’ve seen that there are a lot of ways to be of service without running for office, and so I plan to focus more on what I want to see get done than on where I want to be. That could lead me in a lot of different directions.”
From DC to Addis: Spotlight on Artist Abel Tilahun & His Ethiopia Show ‘Odyssey’
Abel Tilahun is an Adjunct Professor of Digital Imaging at American University in D.C. (Courtesy photo)
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By Tadias Staff
Published: Monday, December 19th, 2016
New York (TADIAS) — Ethiopian American artist Abel Tilahun teaches Digital Imaging at American University in Washington D.C., and for the past few years his thought-provoking multidisciplinary work including video art and sculptural installations has captured the attention of acclaimed Ethiopian curator Meskerem Assegued, founder of Zoma Contemporary Art Center in Addis Ababa, who is helping to stage his upcoming show, Odyssey, in Ethiopia’s capital next month at Alliance Ethio-Française from January 3rd to 24th, 2017.
“ODYSSEY? captures the excitement and paradoxes of innovation, with a birds-eye view on the gravity of the contemporary moment as well as the continuity and patterns within human history,” the media release states. “At the heart of his work remains the intrinsic value of the human experience across time and space.”
Art work by Abel Tilahun Gebretsadik. (Courtesy photo)
The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa will also host Abel Tilahun’s Artist Talk at the Alliance Ethio-Française Theatre January 5, 2017. “The event will showcase a retrospective of Abel Tilahun’s work in the video art medium over the past decade,” the announcement said. “The U.S. Embassy will host a follow-up with an Artist’s Roundtable inside the Alliance Alliance Ethio-Française Gallery on January 21, 2017.”
Abel Tilahun’s past shows in Ethiopia include Curvature of Events, which was featured in 2015 at the Ethiopian National Museum following its presentation a year earlier in Germany at the Dresden New Master’s Gallery. In 2013 Abel submitted a commercial for Dorritos ‘Crash the Superbowl’ contest and his exhibition entitled Interface Effect (2014) was highlighted at AEF.
Abel is a graduate of the School of Fine Art & Design at Addis Ababa University and obtained a Masters in Fine Arts from Adams State College in Colorado in 2010.
Electoral College Confirms Trump’s Win
Protestors fill the rotunda of the Michigan State Capitol in Lansing, Michigan before the state electoral college met to approve the results of this year's presidential election on December 19th, 2016. (Getty Images)
In Florida, a crucial swing state where Trump defeated Clinton by about a percentage point, Trump won all 29 electoral votes. He also earned all 16 votes in Michigan, another state that flipped to Republicans for the first time since 1988.
On the streets of Washington, D.C., two dozen protesters assembled outside Trump’s hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue, singing songs such as “We Shall Overcome.” Some held signs, including one that read, “Resist Putin’s Puppet.” The District’s three electors later gathered at city hall, just a block from Trump’s hotel.
In Albany, N.Y., former president Bill Clinton sat in the state Senate chamber as an elector and cast one of the Empire State’s 29 electoral votes for his wife.
“I’ve never cast a vote I was prouder of,” he told reporters after the meeting.
Despite the pleas of Trump opponents, most electors had said for weeks that they planned to cast votes reflecting the will of their home states.
In Theory US Electoral College is Not Rubber Stamp for Election Results
Washington state Presidential Electors Levi Guerra and Bret Chiafalo (right) speaking in front of the Legislative Building in Olympia, Washington. (AP photo)
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By Tadias Staff
Published: Sunday, December 18th, 2016
New York (TADIAS) — On Monday, December 19th, the U.S. Electoral College will meet in various states to approve the results of the 2016 presidential election. In the past few weeks the electoral college system has gained international attention as people around the world curiously observe that only in America can a presidential candidate lose the popular vote by nearly 3 million ballots and still win the general election. In addition, there is also the brewing high-tech spy scandal in which a foreign power, no less than America’s long adversary, Moscow, clearly messed with this year’s election in favor of the President-Elect, generating an intense public discussion in the United States as to the exact role of the Electoral College, which today is seen as a highly partisan process.
Although it’s unlikely to succeed “pressure on members of the electoral college to select someone other than Donald Trump has grown dramatically — and noisily — in recent weeks, causing some to waver but yielding little evidence that Trump will fall short when electors convene in most state capitals Monday to cast their votes,” the Washington Post reports.
The newspaper features a group known as the Hamilton Electors — whose members include Mark Hersch, a 60-year-old Chicago-based marketing strategist — “who have been organizing efforts to contact electors and change their minds. Rather than persuade an entire country, he and his allies must find 37 Republicans willing to vote for someone else, a tipping point at which the responsibility of picking the president would shift to the U.S. House of Representatives. No one knows for sure how many are considering alternate votes; estimates vary from one to 25.”
One of America’s renowned statesman and founding fathers, Alexander Hamilton, once famously explained “The Mode of Electing the President” in the historic Federalist Papers published in 1788, stating that the purpose of the Electoral College is to make sure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”
Hamilton also argued that another important purpose of the Electoral College was to safeguard against foreign interference in the United States election system and “chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.”
The Washington Post article also quotes a Republican operative and attorney from Massachusetts, R.J. Lyman, as emphasizing that the electoral college was “not intended to be a rubber stamp” and that otherwise “the Founding Fathers would have tasked the responsibility to a clerk or simply used the popular vote as a way of choosing a president.’”
“I’m reminding them of their duty to think about their choice in a way that’s consistent with their conscience and the Constitution,” Lyman told the Washington Post. “So far, Lyman said, he has identified 20 electors who might be willing to vote “other than their party pledge.” He couldn’t name more than one publicly but insisted that more were out there.”
Watch: How the US Electoral College works
According to Hamilton the electoral college was designed so that “we may safely pronounce, that the true test of a good government is its aptitude and tendency to produce a good administration.”
Obama: Russia Will Pay for US Hacking
President Obama said in an interview with NPR on Dec. 15, that, "we need to take action and we will, at the time and place of our own choosing," against Russia for its cyberattacks during this year's election. (Reuters)
President Obama said the United States will retaliate against Russia over its malicious cyber-activity during this year’s election, in an interview that aired Friday on NPR.
“I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections . . . we need to take action,” the president said. “And we will — at a time and place of our own choosing. Some of it may be explicit and publicized; some of it may not be.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman responded by suggesting that the president and his aides were casting aspersions on Russia without offering any proof.
In a statement carried by Russian news agencies, Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the U.S. government should “either stop talking about it or finally produce some evidence, otherwise it all begins to look unseemly.”
In the interview with “Morning Edition” host Steve Inskeep the president did not comment on last week’s Washington Post report, later confirmed by other outlets, that the CIA has concluded with high confidence that Russia intervened in the election specifically to help Donald Trump win the White House. Seventeen U.S. intelligence agencies publicly announced in October that they had concluded the theft of emails from the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta was undertaken by hackers working for Russia.
A Times Investigation: How Moscow Aimed a Perfect Weapon at 2016 U.S. Election
A filing cabinet broken into in 1972 as part of the Watergate burglary sits beside a computer server that Russian hackers breached during the 2016 presidential campaign at DNC headquarters in Washington. (NYT)
WASHINGTON — When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news about its computer network, he was transferred, naturally, to the help desk.
His message was brief, if alarming. At least one computer system belonging to the D.N.C. had been compromised by hackers federal investigators had named “the Dukes,” a cyberespionage team linked to the Russian government.
The F.B.I. knew it well: The bureau had spent the last few years trying to kick the Dukes out of the unclassified email systems of the White House, the State Department and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff, one of the government’s best-protected networks.
Yared Tamene, the tech-support contractor at the D.N.C. who fielded the call, was no expert in cyberattacks. His first moves were to check Google for “the Dukes” and conduct a cursory search of the D.N.C. computer system logs to look for hints of such a cyberintrusion. By his own account, he did not look too hard even after Special Agent Hawkins called back repeatedly over the next several weeks — in part because he wasn’t certain the caller was a real F.B.I. agent and not an impostor.
“I had no way of differentiating the call I just received from a prank call,” Mr. Tamene wrote in an internal memo, obtained by The New York Times, that detailed his contact with the F.B.I.
It was the cryptic first sign of a cyberespionage and information-warfare campaign devised to disrupt the 2016 presidential election, the first such attempt by a foreign power in American history. What started as an information-gathering operation, intelligence officials believe, ultimately morphed into an effort to harm one candidate, Hillary Clinton, and tip the election to her opponent, Donald J. Trump.
Like another famous American election scandal, it started with a break-in at the D.N.C. The first time, 44 years ago at the committee’s old offices in the Watergate complex, the burglars planted listening devices and jimmied a filing cabinet. This time, the burglary was conducted from afar, directed by the Kremlin, with spear-phishing emails and zeros and ones.
Did Moscow Install America’s Next President? US Launches Investigations
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded with “high confidence” that Russia hacked the 2016 U.S. presidential election to help Donald Trump win. President Obama has ordered full review. (AP photo)
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Updated: December 13, 2016
US Launches Investigations into Russian Election Tampering
Intelligence committees in both houses of Congress launched investigations Monday into accusations that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election to boost the chances that President-elect Donald Trump would win.
President Barack Obama also ordered a full review by the intelligence community into the allegations.
“The reason that I’ve called for a review is to really just gather all of the threads of the investigations, the intelligence work that has been done over many months, so that the public and our elected representatives going forward can find ways to prevent this kind of interference from having an impact on the elections in the future.”
The probes amounted to an early rebuke of Trump, who over the weekend said the Central Intelligence Agency conclusion was “ridiculous” that Russia engaged in cyberattacks to help him win. He continued to assail the finding Monday.
Even before he assumes power next month, the Republican Trump’s mocking of the CIA conclusion about Russian interference on his behalf put him at odds with both of the top Republican lawmakers, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan. They endorsed bipartisan probes conducted by the intelligence committees in each chamber of Congress.
“The Russians are not our friends,” McConnell said. He added that the investigation should be undertaken with the idea that “the Russians do not wish us well.” Ryan said the House probe “should not cast doubt” on Trump’s victory, but that foreign interference in a U.S. election was “entirely unacceptable” and Russian involvement “especially problematic.”
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the congressional review “is certainly warranted when you consider the stakes and the consequences.”
Trump’s election opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, has been silent about the Russian hacking allegations. But her campaign manager, John Podesta, on Monday demanded that the administration of President Barack Obama declassify and release all the information it has about Russia meddling in the election.
Clinton won the national popular vote against Trump but lost where it mattered, in the state-by-state contests that decide U.S. presidential elections. Podesta called for release of the intelligence data before electors in the Electoral College vote to formally ratify Trump’s victory on December 19.
In a pair of comments on Twitter, Trump questioned why information about the computer hacking was not widely known before the election.
He contended that if Clinton had won the election and Republicans “tried to play the Russia/CIA card, it would be called conspiracy theory.”
He added, “Unless you catch ‘hackers’ in the act, it is very hard to determine who was doing the hacking. Why wasn’t this brought up before election?”
But U.S. officials did in fact publicly accuse Russia of trying to undermine the presidential election in early October, saying intelligence agencies were “confident” Russia directed hacks of the Democratic National Committee that resulted in controversial emails being leaked before the Democratic nominating convention.
Obama spokesman Earnest said, “This was all material that was known by Republican politicians in the Congress that endorsed the president-elect. And how they reconcile their political strategy and their patriotism is something they’ll have to explain.”
Trump: I don’t believe it
Trump’s latest remarks came after he told Fox News in an interview aired Sunday that the CIA conclusion about Russian cyberattacks to boost his chances of winning was “just another excuse” by Democrats to explain his stunning upset of Clinton, a former U.S. secretary of state.
“I don’t believe it. If you take a look at what [the CIA] said, there’s great confusion,” Trump said Sunday. “Nobody really knows. They have no idea if it’s Russia or China or somebody. It could be somebody sitting in a bed someplace.”
Trump told Fox News that he does not oppose Obama’s order to review cyberattacks the CIA concluded came from Russia during the lengthy presidential campaign, but said, “You should not just say ‘Russia.’ You should say other countries also, and maybe other individuals.” The CIA said it had “high confidence” that Russia sought to help Trump win.
U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded Russia interfered in the final stretch of the presidential campaign to help Trump win the presidency, and not simply meddle in the U.S. electoral process as previously believed, according to senior Obama administration officials. The conclusion is based to some extent on a finding that Russians hacked the Republican National Committee’s computer systems, in addition to those of Democratic organizations, but disclosed only embarrassing emails from the Democrats, via WikiLeaks.
Reince Priebus, the head of the Republican National Committee and Trump’s pick for White House chief of staff, told ABC News the party was not hacked.
“The entire report is based on unnamed sources who are perhaps doing something they shouldn’t be doing by speaking to reporters or someone talking out of line about something that is absolutely not true,” Priebus said Sunday.
Trump’s rejection of the CIA conclusion came as Arizona Senator John McCain, the losing 2008 Republican presidential candidate, and three other senators called for the investigation into Moscow’s interference in the election, saying that it “should alarm every American.” McCain, along with Republican Lindsey Graham and Democrats Jack Reed and Chuck Schumer, said the United States needs to stop “the grave threats that cyberattacks conducted by foreign governments pose to our national security.”
New York (TADIAS) — Ethiopian American scientist Sossina M. Haile who is Professor of Materials Science & Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University was born in Addis Ababa and moved permanently to the US when she was ten years old. Today, Sossina is one the leading researchers in the United States whose work to find alternative sources of fuel has helped push the worldwide green energy revolution.
“If we are to use the sun as our primary energy source, then we definitely need to develop ways to store its energy for use on demand,” she told Tadias in a profile interview a few years ago when she was teaching at California Institute of Technology. “In my lab we have started to do this by converting the sunlight to heat, and then using the heat to drive reactions that create fuels like hydrogen and methane from water and carbon dioxide.”
In a recent highlight entitled Bottling the Sun: Sossina Haile’s Research Brings the World Closer to Liquid Energy Fueled by the Sun Northwestern University Mccormick School of Engineering’s magazine gives an update on her research explaining that “The solar reactor in Sossina Haile’s laboratory is respiring oxygen. And with its every breath, the world comes another step closer to bringing the vision of liquid solar fuels to life.”
“My lab does not have the total energy solution, but we do have a couple pieces of it,” Sossina told the publication. “I can give you two components that will help you get to the end.”
New York (TADIAS) — Next week the Ethiopian Jewish Holiday ‘Sigd’ will be celebrated at the American Jewish Historical Society in New York City (AJHS). Organized by AJHS in partnership with Chassida Shmella, the event includes “a special evening of music, artifacts, rituals and food on Sunday, Dec. 18th at 5pm in the Forchheimer Auditorium at AJHS (15 West 16th Street).”
“Sigd: An Ethiopian Jewish Celebration will feature a performance by Anbessa Orchestra, a display of items from the AJHS’ American Association for Ethiopian Jews collection, a ritual led by Ethiopian spiritual leaders and a feast of traditional Ethiopian foods” AJHS announced.
As a holiday celebrated by the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) community, Sigd has been recognized as a state holiday in Israel since 2008. “Sigd commemorates the giving of the Torah and the ancient communal gatherings on Mount Sinai,” AJHS notes. In Ethiopia, “thousands of Jews traveled on foot every year from Gonder Province to the village of Ambober, where the joyous celebration included prayer and fasting. Each year, the Sigd celebration offers a unique experience.”
Anbessa Orchestra. (Photo: Joan Roth)
Abay Mengist will perform a song during the celebration. (Photo: Joan Roth)
With her mesmerizing performance in Jeff Nichols’s subtly groundbreaking film Loving, the Irish-Ethiopian actress Ruth Negga has become a star for our time.
“I’m a rag of a woman today,” Ruth Negga says in her faint Irish accent. She is pointing to her chipped green nail polish and apologizing for her eyebrows. She cut her hair herself, she says, before asking a professional to tidy it up. Earlier today she went to get her passport renewed. “Maybe . . . you could—blend?” the photographer said, gesturing around his face. She took a look and realized she had been quite slapdash with her bronzer and powder.
By lunchtime, there’s no trace of this—with her huge, doll-like eyes and closely cropped hair, she is as glamorous as a thirties aviator in Paige jeans and an olive bomber jacket—but it’s easy enough to imagine Negga dismissing vanity as a fool’s game. Her gift for self-mockery and her appetite for the craic—an Irish expression for fun or gossip or high jinks—are matched only by her levels of propulsion: Her neat, tiny frame always seems to move forward at great speed.
New York (TADIAS) — Ethiopian-born actress Ruth Negga has become the talk of Hollywood and Oscar mentions following her highly acclaimed performance in the new civil rights movie Loving, which depicts the 1967 historic U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized interracial marriage in a case called “Loving v. Virginia.” The film Loving is scheduled to be featured on opening night at the Austin Film Festival on October 13, 2016.
New York magazine’s Vulture.com gives an Oscar shoutout to the Ethiopian-born star for Best Actress noting “first-timers with the likeliest shot at a nomination are Ruth Negga, the Ethiopian-Irish actress who slays a practically nonverbal role in Loving using her big, empathetic eyes.”
Ruth, who is 34-years-old, was born in Addis Ababa in 1982, to an Ethiopian father (a medical doctor) and an Irish mother (a nurse) and lived in Ethiopia until the age of four when she moved to Ireland with her parents. Ruth’s father died three years later in a car accident when she was only seven-years old. Ruth grew-up in Limerick, Ireland and has resided in London for the past ten years.
“Ruth Negga’s recent rise is one of those 10-year overnight success stories,” The Hollywood Reporterdeclared this past Spring featuring an interview with Negga. They asked: “Why has it taken Hollywood so long to really discover you?”
“I have not been aggressive in my pursuit of being a star,” Ruth responded. “I’ve never had a plan. Maybe I need to be more aggressive, because it’s quite tough!”
Ruth’s new film is set to be featured on opening night at the Austim Film Festival on October 13, 2016. (photo credit: Goss.ie)
Ruth-Negga. (The Hollywood Reporter)
And “Your parents are in medicine. How did you become an actress?, The Hollywood Reporter followed up. “You know when you’re a kid and you get to pick a movie every Friday? I watched everything. There’s no particular genre that was appealing. I just loved the idea that you could dress up and play,” Ruth answered.
The film 'Hairat," which documents one man's nightly ritual near Ethiopia's historic city of Harar, is directed by Jessica Beshir. (Courtesy photo)
Tadias Magazine
Tadias Staff
Published: Wednesday, December 7th, 2016
New York (TADIAS) — The documentary short film Hairat from Ethiopia by Director Jessica Beshir has been selected to be featured at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
“This is a visual and lyrical exploration of the nightly ritual between a man in Eastern Ethiopia and his feral companions,” the Sundance Institute wrote describing Hairat in a press release.
In Hairat Director Jessica Beshir, who was born in Mexico City and raised in Ethiopia, “returns to the city of her childhood to tell the story of one man’s extraordinary ritual that unfolds nightly in the outskirts of the walled city of Harar.” Jessica’s short film is one of 68 works from around the world that will be screened at Sundance from January 19th through 29th, 2017.
“Each year we see more short films from around the country and from more regions around the world, which is exciting as we want to discover new voices to support,” Mike Plante, Sundance’s Senior Programmer, shares. “This year’s crop captures the full spectrum of what short films can be: emotional, hilarious, horrifying and touching — sometimes all at once.”
Jessica Beshir has a Bachelor’s degree in film studies and literature from UCLA, and currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. She recently also released the short film entitled He Who Dances on Wood.
“An Imam in Harar spoke to me about the meaning of Hairat at length, but in short it means, ‘You are where you need to be,’” Jessica says.
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There are two 16th-century French jurists of this name. The older of the two is the author of De auctoritate sacri magni consilii (TUI 1584, t. 16) and De bigamia (TUI 1584, t. 9). J. studied law at Toulouse and taught there briefly. He may also have taught at Bourges around 1507–8. He served as councillor to the archbishops of Albi from 1510 to 1516. The De auctoritate is notable for its attempt to balance the power of the Grand Conseil with that of the parlements. The additiones to this work of Nicolas Bohier are more favorable to the authority of the Grand Conseil. We are unsure whether the Tractatus de parlamentis, et collatione parlamentorum, which appears as a separate treatise in TUI 1584, t. 16, also with additiones of Bohier, is a separate work or part of the original De auctoritate sacri magni consilii. We rather suspect that the latter is the case.
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Thursday, August 13, 2015
Helicopter Parents Create Fragile Adults
I was excited to see Lenore Skenazy in the Costco Connection magazine this month answering the question, "Is hands-off parenting a good thing?" Author of Free Range Kids, she has offered an alternative to the helicopter parenting style that has become the norm in America. "Free range" is how most Americans grew up before the advent of personal computers, cell phones and other technological gadgets. If you remember being tossed out the door with a "Go play!" from your mother, then you qualify as free range. If you spent the whole day roaming around the neighborhood, finding kids to play with and had no schedule or time table other than the direction to "be home by dinner," then you were free range. When I was growing up in the 1960's & 70's, it was just called "childhood."
So what happened? How did we become so obsessed with safety and stranger danger? Dr. Bruce Lipton has suggested that one cause was the advent of the 24-hour news cycle. The news, which is mostly negative and scary, puts a person on alert. It's stressful. As Bruce says, "Our bodies were not designed to be on constant alert." The result is that we are fearful and in a state of protection. Being in a state of fear is not a time for fun, it's a time for survival. In addition, now we get to see one incident of a horrible crime in another part of the country or world (kidnapping-rape-murder) over and over and over again. When really, on a planet with 7 billion people, most of us had a good day. But that's not news.
As a result of this safety obsession, parents have adopted what Lenore calls "worst first" thinking. You immediately imagine the worst-case scenario and then think that it will happen. Parents have confused "could happen" with "will happen." For example, I was watching a home improvement show. The four year old son went into the front yard and climbed a tree. The horror! The mother freaked out and rescued him. "What are you doing? Get down from there, you're going to get hurt." It was a smallish tree; he was three feet off the ground. But he could fall and break something. You know what my mother would have said? Nothing. In fact I used to climb an avocado tree in our back yard all the time. It was awesome. I survived.
In the aforementioned Costco magazine, there was a differing opinion from psychotherapist Karen Ruskin in which she states, "There is no proof that free-range wandering has any benefit."
Childhood has changed in many ways. One is that it's rare to see children outside, just playing. I know there are kids in the neighborhood; I see the stick families on the back of the mini-vans. In my old neighborhood, there was a community baseball diamond. I never saw kids playing there. It stood empty. What a luxury it would have been to have a real baseball diamond as a kid! Other adults would remark that when they were growing up, it wouldn't haven't been empty until bed time. But there it was, on a perfect summer day, wasted.
Instead of pick-up games and free play, children now have scheduled sports. But as Peter Gray points out, those don't count--unless a child enjoys it. Even then, these are organized and supervised by adults who tell children what to do and how to do it. There's no room for making up different rules, choosing teams, or playing a different game. And why would these be important? Here are some of the benefits of free play:
Children learn to negotiate and work things out. They don't rely on an adult telling them what to do. "It's our game. We get to decide the rules."
They practice making decisions. "Should we build a fort or play a game? Who gets to play the captain?"
They solve problems. I was watching my nieces play dress-up and they were all pretending to go to the "Grand Ball" on Saturday night. One of them pointed out, "Hey, it's Friday. We'll have to wait." The other one said, "No, we need to sleep and then it will be Saturday." Immediately they all dropped down on the floor and pretended to sleep for a few seconds, complete with snoring noises. Then they all popped up and magically it was Saturday.
Children learn they are not the center of the universe. No matter how special you are in your family, and what kind of special treatment you get, you are going to get treated as just another kid. And if you're too bratty, no one will want to play with you!
Self-control. If a child is too angry or mean, the other players can choose to stop playing the game. Or not to play with that kid. In order to continue the game, children have to learn to get along.
Children learn to take criticism. And they get called names. Their feelings get hurt and sometimes they hurt other kids' feelings. If it gets too unpleasant, they stop playing. They also learn to apologize.
They fall and they get back up. This sometimes hurts but they get better. But it also teaches them that perhaps it's not a good idea to push other children.
Empathy; being kind keeps the game going and makes other kids want to play with you.
They learn they have choices; who to play with, what game, for how long, where, etc.
It's fun and things that are fun release the opposite of stress hormones, which promote health, growth, and general well-being. Here's my 2 YO nephew jumping off a fridge.
Side Bar Rant on American Schools
Unfortunately, not only have parents limited free play, but schools have too. Many school districts have abolished recess as a "waste of time." In my own district, recess goes away after 5th grade. Add the current obsession with testing and you have a recipe for turning children into little office drones. Not only that, but testing requires one right answer, not multiple possibilities. It kills creativity and critical thinking skills and requires only memorization. In addition, the "zero tolerance" policies of schools has also removed the need for critical thinking skills and discernment. In Pennsylvania, a 10 YO boy was suspended for using an imaginary bow and arrow. Really?
This lack of discernment isn't relegated to elementary schools, it goes to the university level. Peter Shankman travels around the world, speaking about social media and customer service. Author of four books, he was an adjunct professor at NYU. Was. Some of his students asked if he would put the word out to his network inquiring about possible internships. In his own intern days of five different internships, he along with his fellow interns were affectionately called "slave labor." When he put out his post, he said something about slave labor which was offensive to some people. You can read the whole story on Peter's blog. It boils down to this: it was joke. Anyone doing an internship knows what it's like; free labor and grunt work. Yeah, I said it. Grunt work. Hope I'm not offending any grunts out there. Perhaps this is why Jerry Seinfeld won't perform at colleges anymore.
My concern for helicoptered children is who they become as adults. We're already seeing the first generations in college, now. For some parents, the solution is to move to college with their children.
When I saw Peter Gray speak, he put it very succinctly. Students are overwhelmed with seemingly normal situations. A young woman scheduled an emergency meeting with the school counselor because her room mate called her a "bitch." Two young men, living in off-campus housing, called 911 because they had a mouse in the kitchen. These kids were unprepared for dealing with challenges in their physical environment, or their social one. Kids who have been allowed to have free play would have been able to handle the situations without calling in an adult to mediate.
By supervising all their time, parents are essentially giving a message of "you're incapable." Incapable of making decisions, figuring things out, learning new things. Instead, of teaching that the world is dangerous, how about teaching discernment? If you really want to learn about how to protect yourself from dangerous situations, read The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker. Joe Navarro is another good resource for learning to read people and discern a potentially dangerous situation.
Free range parenting isn't about chucking your kid out into the world willy-nilly, unprepared. It's about trusting your child and giving them opportunities to explore. Bruce Lipton tells a story about encountering a snake in the back yard. One mother is a biologist and teaches her child about snakes. The other mother freaks out. Are snakes interesting or scary? Both, depending on your beliefs. "But what if it's POISONOUS?!" Another opportunity to discern between safe and non-safe. Is the world scary or fun? Both. Depending on how you've been conditioned. I choose fun.
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Future of NLL’s Rush is in doubt
The future of the Edmonton Rush of the National Lacrosse League appears in doubt.
“It doesn’t look very bright. It appears that it’s coming to an end,” Rush owner Bruce Urban told the Edmonton Journal. “It’s sad; it’s heartbreaking. I thought we had better value for the city, but apparently I was wrong.”
The team has had problems drawing fans for several years. Edmonton averaged about 6,500 fans in the regular season, which was seventh in the nine-team league.
The news comes shortly before the Rush plays Calgary on Saturday in the second game of the West Division finals. The winner of that game will face either Toronto or Rochester for the championship.
Urban said he would not make any final announcements until after the team is done with the playoffs. Urban visited Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, last month to look at the arena there. The St. Louis Blues of the NHL almost moved to Saskatoon in the 1980s.
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Bye Bye Cellulite! Part 1 – Lifestyle
We all have it, the dimpling on our thighs, bottom, tummy or arms. Wherever it strikes – that dimpling can be really annoying! Can anything be done to make it better? I’m happy to say that the answer is yes!
Before I explain the solutions – both short & long term – I want to take a step back. With 90% of women affected by cellulite – including professional athletes and models – this is something we all face. So first love your body as it is. Of course protect and care for yourself, but love yourself as you are. If 90% of us have it – then we are all in the same boat!
What is Cellulite
Imagine fat cells as lego blocks beneath the skin. Between the lego blocks are thin connective cords (tissues). As the lego blocks get bigger and push up against the skin, the connective cords pull down. This leads to an uneven surface, referred to as cellulite. The reason why 90% of women have it and only 10% of men is because for women their connective tissue are vertical, whereas for men they are in a criss-cross pattern. Therefore to give our skin a better appearance we need to strengthen our connective tissues (and lose a little fat!).
What makes it worse?
Sitting all day – at the office, in the car, on the sofa at home, not exercising, eating processed high sugary foods, and wearing tight restrictive clothing – so our really skinny jeans, leggings, tights etc. We need our blood to circulate and these things make it much harder for it to do so.
Lifestyle enhancements
In order to strengthen our connective cords there are a number of things we can do to enhance our lifestyle that will make a difference. The key is for more blood circulation and assisting our lymphatic drainage capabilities. The impact is to drain the connective tissue as well as to strengthen them.
Hydration: 8 glasses of water a day which is a must for your skin and general wellbeing as well as herbal teas such as green, mint, chamomile this all helps with lympathic drainage.
Food: Eat more fruits, vegetables, fibrous foods and stay away from processed food, saturated fats and foods with high sugar content (including certain carbohydrates) this helps with your health overall as they reduce inflammation caused by sudden sugar highs whilst assisting with lympathic drainage. Whilst fat isn’t the cause, having foods that increase your body fat will make the lumps more noticeable, so having a healthy diet and maintaing your fat levels will definitely help. But remember rapid weight loss can make it worse because of the sudden surprise on your connective tissues. So sudden weight loss or gains will have an impact. So keep the balance!
Omega 3: Omegas strengthen our connective cords, whilst helping will all sorts of other things – our brain, our skin, our hair! However you add this to your diet, be it Avocados, Salmon (or other fishes), Ground Flaxseed (has to ground/ milled/ flax meal to be absorbed) in your salad, Chia seeds (added to your breakfast or smoothy) or a supplement (make sure it is really high quality) – do it DAILY!!!
Exercise: The key is to do something every day to get blood circulation going. Brisk walking, Yoga (yay!), Swimming, Tennis, whatever you like doing – even if you just have a brisk walk at the mall – get out and get active!
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I know that some of you are already doing all of the above and probably more (and better) – and of course there can still be some cellulite. I recently saw a picture of a renowned tennis player with tough cellulite. So we need to take it up a notch.
Massage treatment at the spa
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A non-invasive treatment that I found really effective on cellulite were cellulite massages every other day for at least 6 weeks at the spa. At first it gets worse, but then there is a huge improvement that really lasts for months afterwards. Because it has to be done so consistently find a Spa closeby or a therapist who can come to the house.
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NBC‘s reality series Last Comic Standing resumes its search for America’s funniest comic on May 22 at 9 PM with new judges Roseanne Barr (Roseanne), Keenen Ivory Wayans (In Living Color) and Russell Peters (Notorious) and JB Smoove (Curb Your Enthusiasm) tapped as host. The network is promising innovative format changes, surprise celebrity guests and unexpected twists in 13-episode Season 8, which will open with invitation-only auditions. Last Comic Standing featuresthe top 100 comics in America vying for 20 spots. These 20 will then compete in a semifinal round and the best of the best will emerge, with the top 10 moving into the challenge rounds. In this phase, they will compete in different comedy disciplines, such as sketch, improv and stand-up, proving themselves both individually and in teams. The series will air Thursdays at 10 PM following the premiere. Wanda Sykes and Page Hurwitz of Push It Prods. executive produce for Universal Television through their deal with the studio, along with The Marriage Ref‘s Javier Winnik.
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Brain overgrowth has been noted among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Now, a new imaging study suggests that the accelerated brain growth appears before 2 years of life, offering new avenues for early identification and intervention of ASD. Investigators conducted a longitudinal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of 59 children with ASD and 38 control children. The children were evaluated at 2 years of age with behavioral assessments, and brain measurements were obtained through MRI. Both behavioral and MRI evaluations were repeated 24 months later, when the children were 4 to 5 years old.
Overall, the cerebral cortex of children with ASD was larger than the cerebral cortex of control children at all ages studied. The rate of growth, however, of the cerebral cortex was the same in both groups over the period of the study, indicating that the brain enlargement is due to accelerated brain growth before 2 years of age. Children with ASD also had an increase in white matter in the temporal lobe, compared to other children.
Brain enlargement is not a new finding in autism research. But, the onset and mechanism of brain overgrowth has yet to be accurately defined. Age-specific changes take place in the brain of children and adults with ASD, resulting from not only anatomic abnormalities, but also altered gene expression and molecular abnormalities. The brains of children with ASD appear to undergo accelerated growth early in life, followed by decelerated maturation. Several studies have noted that the brains of infants that will later be diagnosed with ASD are smaller than controls at birth, but experience an accelerated growth during the first year of life. Brain growth then slows, so that brain size is not different from controls by adolescence and adulthood.
ASD is most commonly diagnosed between the ages of 2 and 3 years, but symptoms can begin to appear as early as 6 and 12 months of age. As evidenced by the current study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, accelerated brain growth is already taking place or completed by the time the symptoms of ASD appear. If these patterns of brain growth are noted early, therapeutic interventions might be initiated early, improving outcomes for children with ASD. In the future, if genes are identified that control brain growth, they may become targets for additional therapy.
ASD is still an elusive disorder, often without clear-cut causes and diagnoses. Each clue that is uncovered offers new hope for understanding the biology and pathophysiology of ASD and directing future therapies.
Today recent neuroscience research provides evidence that blind people process the sense of touch faster than people with normal vision. When the brain looses one of its senses, it attempts to compensate with the strengthening of another, in this case touch. Neuroscientist’s research also discovered that each blind person’s tactile perception time was virtually equivalent to their average speed of their finger moving from one Braille character to the next. The brain is an amazing part of our bodies. Since neuroscientist have been able to collect and compare all this information through out the decades. This practice has evolved in great measures. Within the past year through neuroscience we have been able to see outstanding results. Neuroscience research in now looking into the future. Research has brought us hopeful cures for even the simplest of disorders such as erasing a bad memory. Researchers at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine claim they have successfully wiped out traumatic memories in mice. These researchers claim by removing a protein from the region of the brain responsible for recalling fear. This would allow anyone who is struggling to let go of a traumatic experience the ability to move on with their life. Naturally our brain tends to have a reaction with some horrific memories to block them out through repression. Neuroscience advances this natural process of repression one step further. Hundreds of thousands of people in the United States suffer from the debilitating and often embarrassing tics caused by Tourette Syndrome. Neuroscientists have made many advancements in research to look further into ever critical components of this disorder. Their research is uncovering new clues that may help predict which cases will become most severe and find effective treatment. One day, people with Tourette Syndrome might be able to train their nervous systems to diminish and minimize intensity of tics. Neuroscience research has also developed a chip which is strategically placed in the brain, that can help prevent epileptic seizures. Researchers have been able to decode brain activity for years using electroencephalography.
Jennifer Gibson, PharmD, is a practicing clinical pharmacist and medical writer/editor with experience in researching and preparing scientific publications, developing public relations materials, creating educational resources and presentations, and editing technical manuscripts. She is the owner of Excalibur Scientific, LLC.
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Dr. Janet Taylor, a clinical psychiatrist, contributing editor BeWell.com and mother of four daughters, recently appeared on “The Today Show,” with host Ann Curry and guest host Sarah Palin, to talk about the importance fathers play in helping their daughters feel confident in themselves.
“Self-esteem is a ratio of success to expectations,” Dr. Taylor said. “When we hear them talking and making comments about reality stars, we have to focus them back on their own strengths and their own values and we have to look at ourselves, as mothers, and what we teach them.”
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Enough with the photos from Mijas already. In total, there are now more than 50 pictures in the Gallery, 17 posts on the blog and I’ve received almost 40 comments, all of which were spam. This all since the site went live a little over two weeks ago. Also, over 3000 page views and more than 500 unique visitors. These numbers are OK, given that I don’t really do anything to draw people here, except maybe the odd Tweet.
Anyway, here are the first couple of photos from my latest medium distance travel adventure. I went to Iceland at the end of February for almost 2 weeks of photography. I took these photos on the third day of my stay, after I had arrived late at night two days before. Unfortunately, my bag didn’t arrive at the same time as I did, so I was extremely happy to be re-united with my tripod and immediately took it out on a late night trip.
After spending the evening floating around in the thermal baths at the Blue Lagoon, watching the sun slowly go down behind the rough volcanic rock landscape that is typical for most of Iceland, I grabbed my camera gear from the car and wandered of into the cold, dark, windy night. It was quite a difference to the 40°C hot water in the pools, but I had a good winter jacket. The footpath away from the Blue Lagoon was very small and dimly lit by a few LED spots here and there. And it was longer than I had anticipated.
As soon as I saw the illuminated steam getting close enough, I climbed onto a lava rock formation so I could get a better view. The steam came from the Svartsengi Geothermal Power Plant, the main reason I was in this area after dark. I had seen some photos of this place on the internet and, as with lots of the pictures I take, decided to have my own attempt at getting some photos. One problem was that this power station produces clouds around the clock, every day of the year, which means it is not visible on satellite imagery or Google Maps. This makes it harder to plan from where to take pictures, especially if you don’t want to put in a lot of effort finding the right angles by walking around on the ground – which is of course what you have to do to get the really good pictures.
However, once I saw the power station up close and personal and could see how the wind prevented the steam from drifting upwards, and instead wrapped most of the plant into clouds, I decided it wasn’t really worth the effort. I took some pictures with a long lens from where I was standing so I could capture a bit of the light and how it gave the steam and the different pipes and boilers a dramatic look, like some equipment in a laboratory in hell.
Once I was confident that at least some of the pictures I had were good enough, I decided it was time to embark upon the hour long drive back to my hotel in Reykjavík. There was some sleep I had to catch up on, because I was very stressed out about my bag maybe not arriving at all the night before. While I could have easily replaced most of the contents of that bag, Pentax batteries and chargers were not available in Iceland, a downside of shooting with a less popular camera brand. Lesson learned: next time, I’ll put at least one spare battery and the charger in my carry-on luggage.
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Using Docker Registries
This topic describes how to configure Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) to access Docker registries such as Docker Hub, by using either a root certificate authority (CA) certificate or by adding its IP address to a whitelist. It also explains how to configure PCF to access Docker registries through a proxy.
After configuration, BOSH propagates your CA certificate to all application containers in your deployment. You can then push and pull images from your Docker registries.
Use an IP Address Whitelist
If you choose not to provide a CA certificate, you must provide the IP address of your Docker registry.
Note: Using a whitelist skips SSL validation. If you want to enforce SSL validation, enter the IP address of the Docker registry in the No proxy field described below.
Navigate to the Ops Manager Installation Dashboard.
Click the Pivotal Application Service tile, and navigate to the Application Containers tab.
Select Allow SSH access to app containers to enable app containers to accept SSH connections. If you use a load balancer instead of HAProxy, you must open port 2222 on your load balancer to enable SSH traffic. To open an SSH connection to an app, a user must have Space Developer privileges for the space where the app is deployed. Operators can grant those privileges in Apps Manager or using the cf CLI.
For Private Docker Insecure Registry Whitelist, provide the hostname or IP address and port that point to your private Docker registry. For example, enter 198.51.100.1:80 or mydockerregistry.com:80. Enter multiple entries in a comma-delimited sequence. SSL validation is ignored for private Docker image registries secured with self-signed certificates at these locations.
Clean up disk-space once threshold is reached. If you choose this option, enter the amount of disk space limit the Cell must reach before disk cleanup initiates under Threshold of Disk-Used (MB).
Click Save.
Choose one of the following:
If you are configuring Pivotal Application Service (PAS) for the first time, return to your specific IaaS installation instructions (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, vSphere) to continue the installation process.
If you are modifying an existing PAS installation, return to the Ops Manager Installation Dashboard, click Review Pending Changes, and click Apply Changes.
After configuration, PAS allows Docker images to pass through the specified IP address without checking certificates.
Configure PCF to Access Proxies for Docker Registries
If you have proxies already set up for Docker registries, you should configure PCF to access your Docker registries through a proxy.
To configure PCF to access a Docker registry through a proxy, do the following:
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The Glory GuysThough written by Sam Peckinpah (he adapted the film from a novel by Hoffman Birney), the direction of The Glory Guys was entrusted to the competent but perfunctory Arnold Laven. Cavalry captain Demas Harrod (Tom Tryon) and his faithful scout Sol Rogers (Harve Presnell) are placed under the command of xenophobic general Frederick McCabe (Andrew Duggan), who hates Indians almost as much as his own men hate him. When not preparing to decimate every Native American in their path, Harrod and Rogers carry on a rivalry over the hand of pretty Lou (Senta Berger; another authentic Wild West type). The novelty of the film is that the Indians, rather than the cavalry, win the final battle. Despite a few bursts of cinematic creativity from Laven in the climactic scenes, it still would have been more interesting to see how Sam Peckinpah would have handled The Glory Guys. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Rabbi David Novak
Monday, January 23, 2017
One day an old Jewish man from Tiberias went out of his home and began to dig a hole.
Next to him was a seedling for a fig tree, a tree that is known to give shade and fruit when it matures, a time well into the future.
The Roman king was passing through Tiberias and noticed the old man.
Seeing him digging, the king stopped his horse and said:
“Old man.”
Startled, the old man looked up and saw the king.
“Why are you planting this tree?” the king asked. “Surely you won’t be around when it gives its shade and its fruit.”
The old man took a moment and replied:
“My ancestors planted for me and I reaped the benefit of their foresight. Now I am planting for the future generations that I will never see who will benefit from me.”
Satisfied with the answer, the king continued on his way.
A new seed was planted at 12:01 this afternoon as our country
inaugurated our 45th president.
Like past inaugurations, our incumbent president peacefully passed the highest office in our land to the new president.
The pride of American democracy is that power transfers from one person to the next with an oath, not by overthrowing the government, not by dictatorial takeover.
The presidential inauguration is our country at its best.
In times of trial and tribulation, after wars and assassinations, our country shines in how power transitions. This is how our country works, even in the aftermath of a brutal campaign, even when the outlook of a new president is vastly different from his predecessor.
Like the old man in the story, all of us hope that our new president will plant wisely for our future, to use the powers that he now possesses for the good of everyone in our country. Many hold this aspiration knowing that our new president has never held elected or appointed office before. We do not know what seeds will be planted and what the offspring will look like.
Still we all share the hope that our new president will reject the worst aspects of last year’s campaigning that gave raise to public expressions of anti-Semitic behavior in our country. These behaviors reflect what happens in other places in the world, not the United States.
The United States is historically the most stable democracy and among the safest places in the world for Jews. Our American Jewish community has prospered in the United States since the first Jews arrived in New York City from Brazil in 1654 even in the face of individual and institutional anti-Semitism. The seeds that our predecessors planted reflect their names, the institutions they created set the foundation for our extraordinary Jewish experience.
As a small minority, we Jews have greatly benefited by this freedom. We hope that our new president will act as his predecessor George Washington did in 1790 when he wrote these words to the Touro Synagogue in neighboring Rhode Island:
For happily the Government of the United States gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.
Our question now is where do we grow from here.
Rabbi Leo Baeck said:
Religion embraces both faith and action. The primary quality is action, for it lays the foundation for faith; the more we do good, the more readily do we grasp the meaning of duty and life, and the more readily do we believe in the Divine from which stems the good.
Faith and action.
For the majority of Jewish existence Jews have lived in the Diaspora, outside of Jewish sovereignty. The early sages condoned this by ordaining that Jewish life and Jewish prayer could be done anywhere Jews found themselves.
Wherever Jews found themselves, they always prayed for the welfare of the leaders of the civil government: kings, queens, presidents, prime ministers.
We do this to express our aspirations for the success of the leaders of the countries in which we reside. These prayers are often done when the Sefer Torah is out of the ark, a time thought to be especially propitious.
On this day of the inauguration, with the Torahs in the ark behind me, let us take a moment to uphold this noble tradition and offer this prayer together:
God of holiness, we hear Your message:
Justice, justice you shall pursue. (Deut. 16:20)
God of freedom, we hear Your charge:
Proclaim liberty throughout the land. (Lev. 25:10)
Inspire us through Your teachings and commandments
To love and uphold our precious democracy.
Let every citizen take responsibility
For the rights and freedoms we cherish.
Let each of us be an advocate for justice, an activist for liberty, a defender of dignity.
And let us champion the values
That make our nation a haven for the persecuted,
A beacon of hope among the nations.
We pray for courage and conscience
As we aim to support our country’s highest values and aspirations:
The hard-won rights that define us as a people,
The responsibilities that they entail.
We pray for all who serve our country with selfless devotion --
In peace and in war,
From fields of battle to clinics and classrooms,
From government to the grassroots:
All those whose noble deeds and sacrifice
Benefit our nation and our world.
We are grateful for the rights
Of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness
That our founders attributed to you,
Our Creator.
We pray for their wisdom and moral strength,
That we may be guardians of these rights for ourselves,
And for the sake of all people,
Now and forever.
Amen.
(CCAR Rabbi’s Manual)
“Pray as if everything depended on God. Act as if everything depended on you.”
“Pray as if everything depended on God. Act as if everything depended on you.”
A wonderful sentiment found before the Amidah in the new Reform prayerbook.
We have prayed: Now we turn to action:
What seeds we will plant. Remembering our old man: In digging the hole and in planting the seed, the man is acting in a way where he knows that the benefits will be derived down the road. He is performing an act of lovingkindness for those who follow him.
All of us have the opportunity to take inspiration from this man’s sagacity.
Ask yourself:
What are the seeds that you are able to plant, right here, right now?
What are you willing to plant in the days and weeks to come?
What will be your commitment to ensuring that people’s basic needs for food, heat and shelter are met?
As you leave Beth Elohim this evening and in the days and weeks to come, please think about these words and consider what your action will be.
Recommit to making the social safety net as strong as possible for the most vulnerable.
Know that even if you do not personally see the benefit of what your seed turns into, one seed many blessings may grow:
shade, food, wood, sustenance, even support to the other trees around them.
Let us use our humanity to seed a future where we pray that those who come after us will derive great benefit.
Of course a man who has made his career as a socialist mayor of Burlington, then member of the United States House and now junior senator from Vermont, running for president on the Democratic ticket and always speaking his mind is once again running on a platform that could only be called “Bernie-esque” We all know what that means.
It’s the kind of straight talk you’d expect from Bernie, and when you are talking about Bernie, that is probably the one thing that all of us can agree upon.
Still, this is not a campaign ad for him.
After all, it is not my job to advocate for any one candidate from the bimah of this congregation, nor would I do so.
What is interesting, though, is the fact that Bernie is Jewish and the campaign is getting some surprising traction in the national media because of his being part of the Jewish People.
The attention to Bernie is showing up in interesting ways for him and for the Jewish community.
First is what happened to him a little more than a week ago.
Bernie was on the nationally syndicated public radio Diane Rehm show, produced at WAMU in Washington, DC and heard in our region on New Hampshire Public Radio.
The Rehm show’s website says that it is heard by more than 2.4 million people weekly.
Before discussing what happened, just a word on how Diane Rehm sounds on the radio and in-person. Because of an illness that afflicted her, spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological voice disorder that causes strained, difficult speech, it makes her sound elderly,and strained. On first hearing her one might think that she is doing the show well into late life. That, however, is not the case.
Her show attracts national figures, including Senator Sanders. The day he appeared on her program it went like this:
Diane Rehm: Senator, you have dual citizenship with Israel.
Bernie Sanders: Well, no I do not have dual citizenship with Israel. I'm an American. I don't know where that question came from. I am an American citizen, and I have visited Israel on a couple of occasions. No, I'm an American citizen, period.
Rehm: I understand from a list we have gotten that you were on that list.
Sanders: No.
Rehm: Forgive me if that is—
Sanders: That's some of the nonsense that goes on in the internet. But that is absolutely not true.
Rehm: Interesting. Are there members of Congress who do have dual citizenship or is that part of the fable?
Sanders: I honestly don't know but I have read that on the internet. You know, my dad came to this country from Poland at the age of 17 without a nickel in his pocket. He loved this country. I am, you know, I got offended a little bit by that comment, and I know it's been on the internet. I am obviously an American citizen and I do not have any dual citizenship.”
Notice how Rehm persisted, first stating factually that Bernie had dual citizenship, then asking if there are members of Congress with dual citizenship.
For a woman who has been hosting a radio talk show from Washington these are some naive accusations to make, falling right into a worn-out trope that was once used on Roman Catholics Al Smith and John Kennedy that they would answer to the pope.
The ADL’s Abe Foxman, on the eve of his retirement, said in a statement:
“Diane Rehm’s questions were inappropriate, insensitive questioning without any minimal journalistic checking of claims. Such a statement is not only factually incorrect, but has no place in such an interview.
“It is deeply troubling to think that a well-respected media outlet like NPR would apparently rely on unsubstantiated information from the Internet in its preparation for a guest.
“Ms. Rehm’s description and follow-up question about whether other Senators have dual citizenship with Israel play into classic anti-Semitic charges of dual loyalty. Such charges have been leveled for centuries and have been a catalyst for scapegoating and vilifying Jews.
“Senator Sanders deserves a public apology, as do NPR listeners.”
Rehm published an apology the next day on her website and issued one on-air: “. . . instead of asking it as a question I stated it as fact. That was wrong. He does NOT have dual citizenship and Senator Sanders immediately corrected me.
“I should have explained to him and to you why I felt this was a relevant question and something he might like to address.
“I apologize to Senator Sanders and to you for having made an erroneous statement. However, I am glad to play a role in putting this rumor to rest.”
Interesting apology: she raised the dual citizen canard as a fact to put it to rest.
Foxman added after seeing Rehm’s statement:
“Her mistake was to not research it before she even stated it as fact. She shouldn’t have asked the question, period. Had she researched it, she wouldn’t have raised it at all. Because her question challenges not only his loyalty, but also Jewish loyalties to this country.”
Insulting it was to state it to Senator Sanders as a fact. And it was stupid for it not to be flagged by a woman of Rehm’s considerable talent. She should have better producers, at a minimum, and enough judgment to have asked the Senator off-air about the allegation before stating it as a fact on the air.
My hope is that this is the last we will hear on this subject, but I’m not holding my breath.
Then there’s Israel and where Bernie stands on Israel as a member of the United States Senate and over the length of his political career.
Most people with Bernie’s political proclivities are known for their less than firm support for Israel’s right to exist.
Which is why news coverage is beginning to examine Bernie’s relation to Israel as he is being taken as a serious candidate for president.
To know Bernie is to know that after college he lived on a kibbutz. To know Bernie is to also know that the majority of his father’s family were killed in the Shoah, and as above, his father came to this country, penniless, when he was 17.
Bernie’s politics vis-a-vis Israel were raised in an article in this week’s Forward. On his website under “Israel and Gaza” was this:
Sen. Sanders is deeply troubled by the outbreak of violence in Gaza. It is extraordinarily depressing that year after year, decade after decade, the wars and killing continue without any apparent progress toward the creation of a permanent peace. While the summer of 2014 was a particularly contentious time in the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, Sen. Sanders’ hope is that the United States will, in the future, help play a leading role in creating a permanent two-state solution. To achieve that outcome the U.S. must work with the international community to support a settlement that respects the legitimate claims and grievances of both sides, lifts the blockade of Gaza, resolves the borders of the West Bank, and allows both the Israeli and Palestinian people to live in peace.
“The bottom line is that Israel must have the right to exist in peace and security, just as the Palestinians must have the right to a homeland in which they and they alone control their political system and their economy.”
The article in the Forward cites a town hall meeting in Cabot last summer, available on YouTube.
First came a question about Israel’s ongoing bombings in Gaza; then an interruption from audience members angry at Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. Another interruption followed. And then, onstage, Senator Bernie Sanders, sleeves rolled to his elbows, shouted at a constituent to shut up.
But Sanders’ annoyed shut-down of the critic of Israel, and pieces of his lecture on the dangers of Hamas that followed, may mask a deeper trend in Bernie’s thinking: the asymmetrical nature of war between Hamas and the IDF meant that, at least at the time, it seemed that more damage was being done to Palestinian civilians under Hamas rule than to Israelis.
It was not for lack of Hamas’s trying. Israel benefited greatly from Iron Dome, Israeli-invented and American funded, to intercept many of the rockets that threatened Israeli population centers.
In the video of the August 2014 town hall, at the height of the Gaza conflict, Bernie asserted that Israel had “overreacted,” and that the bombing of UN facilities was “terribly, terribly wrong,” while also noting that Hamas was launching rockets from populated areas. In other words, yes, bombing of UN facilities is wrong, but, without saying it, what was Israel to do?
Throughout much of his political career Bernie has avoided talking much about Israel. Aaron Keyak, a Democratic political consultant and the managing director of Bluelight Strategies said, “I know he’s often rated as the most liberal senator, but when I see Senator Bernie Sanders, I see someone who is a typical pro-Israel Jewish Democrat.”
The article’s author searched the Congressional Record, finding very few statements about Israel by Sanders on the floor of the House or the Senate. In 2002, during the debate over the resolution that authorized President George W. Bush to use military force in Iraq, Sanders, then a House member, asked whether an invasion of Iraq would worsen the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And in 2008, Sanders was one of 100 co-sponsors of a Senate resolution to recognize the 60th anniversary of Israel’s founding. He also boycotted the Prime Minister’s recent address to congress.
Faced with what a somewhat enigmatic positions on Israel, I turned to Yoram Samets, a pro-Israel activist from Burlington. I asked him about his opinion of Bernie and Israel.
Samets wrote back saying: “He [Bernie] is a strong advocate of Israel. And [he is] deeply challenged by the Prime Minister and the right leaning government. But from my perspective he would be better for Israel than our current President. Bernie has a deeper understanding of the challenges Jews (Israel) face in the world. And he is very aware and concerned about what is taking place in the neighborhood.
“His Israel issues are about politics, economics and the impact on family. His American issues are about politics, economics and the impact on family.”
In other words, Bernie is being consistent in his criticism of the Israeli and the American governments about the issues that matter for people who may not be enfranchised in government. That’s Bernie.
So for Bernie the question is: Does what he advocates for us here at home differ from what he would advocate for Israel if he became president for United States?
I will give Aaron Keyak, the political consultant quoted above the last word:
“I think the people who find it surprising that Bernie Sanders is pro-Israel are some of the same people who are quick to paint progressives as anti-Israel. He prefers for Israel to have a left of center government, but he still fundamentally supports Israel.”
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
With Doris Bass you knew who she was because she always laid it out, and spoke exactly how she felt about any situation. This pattern of being carried Doris from her earliest days until Monday evening of this week when she left the world in exactly the way she had wanted to.
Unwilling to live in pain, unwilling to be restricted from the activities that were her life’s passions, our Doris said goodbye to the people whom she loved and died on her terms, in her own beloved Bondville home.
Doris began her life in Chester, Pennsylvania in 1928, the second child of Sarah and Nathan Lubin. Doris’s brother Hillard was born about four years before. That made the Lubin family of Chester complete.
There were one of the only Jewish families there, which was difficult for Doris.
Early in life, when Doris was 12, she lost her father to cancer. After this tragic loss for the family, Doris’s mother Sarah became a restaurateur. She soon remarried, to a lovely man named Joe Sharpe, who became Doris’s beloved stepfather.
You might think that Doris came to her activism later in life if you’ve known her from her Vermont years: you would be mistaken.
It was already during her teenage years that Doris was quite involved in the local Communist Party and social activism. One law in Pennsylvania struck her as particularly unfair: it allowed an African-American to have a seat at a restaurant only if he or she was accompanied by a Caucasian. Otherwise they would be denied a seat.
So Doris let it be known throughout the community that she was available to be the Caucasian that would take any African American to be seated at any restaurant.
After growing up in Chester Doris left for college, to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. What a huge difference from Chester. Up in the gorges of Cornell she found other Jewish people! A revelation!
There she met many lifelong friends, including Audrey Bloch, Barbara Howland, and many others. It was only last week, while a parade of people were visiting Doris, that Audrey and Doris reunited for what the last time. They hugged, they talked, they sang the Cornell Song Far Above Cayuga’s Waters:
Far above Cayuga’s waters,
With its waves of blue,
Stands our noble alma mater,
Glorious to view.
Without missing a beat, Doris and Audrey launched into the spoof version penned by folks at University of Pennsylvania, Cornell’s archrival in sports:
High above Cayuga's waters
There's an awful smell;
Some will say it's Lake Cayuga,
Others say Cornell.
It was a beautiful moment for two dear old friends. In one moment there was a beautiful tableaux, Doris holding court in her chair in her living room, while Audrey, having difficulty with her mobility, finally reached the position next to Doris as Doris, all 85 pounds of her, reached around to help steady her for a final photograph. There was not a dry eye to be had.
At Cornell, Doris met her future husband, Donald Bass of Brooklyn, New York. The day after Doris was graduated from Cornell in 1950 she married Donald in a ceremony back in Chester at her family's restaurant. By age 25 they had three children: Robin, born 1950, Steven in 1954; and Jonathan in 1956.
It was also in 1950 that the family house purchased a home on Lake Oscawana. It was at that house that the family spent many, many years.
You might not know this but while it looked to be happy on the outside, these years in the so-called “perfect” decade of the 1950s were personally taxing on Doris on many levels. On the outside she was playing the part, living in Queens, raising her family, trying to make her marriage successful. On the inside, though, she felt trapped by her in-laws and her life situation overall.
In the early 1960s, in response to Doris’s reflection on her life since marriage and children, she made an important decision that would determine the future contours of her life. She chose to go back to school to get a Masters' in Library Sciences at St. John's in Queens. Of course the decision was easy for Doris as she recounted to Working Women magazine in 1986: “It could just as easily have been secretarial school. I chose library science only because they would accept me immediately without a transcript.”
With her masters in hand, she went to work as a librarian in the Brooklyn Public Library as coordinator of young adult services. This was a natural fit for Doris, given how much we all know she loves books, reading and literature. She advocated this her entire life.
In 1974 her husband Donald died suddenly. Another loss, another change in her life’s situation.
Doris, now 46, made a major move: She high tailed it out of Queens to Manhattan where she really knew she belonged. She found an apartment on East 63rd Street and lived there until her move to Vermont full-time in the 1990s.
Those work years were happy and productive for Doris on so many levels. Once in Manhattan, the publishers came knocking. They were looking for a trained librarian to expand into the world of libraries. They wanted her skill set. Known for her commitment and unwillingness to take “no” for an answer, Doris was recruited in 1971 Random House to be director of library promotions. It was the perfect complement to her brains, her abilities, and what she loved.
In 1978 she moved to Bantam Books as director of school and library marketing and sales, where her career grew to include Doubleday, Dell, adult titles, supermarkets and airports. She then joined Scholastic in 1991 as director of marketing in the trade book group, where she worked until retirement.
Doris made an enormous impact on the people with whom she worked. Since Doris’s left us, Robin and Steven have been receiving emails from Doris’s former colleagues in New York who sing Doris’s praises:
Dear Robin and Steven,
Doris was my boss during the 1990s at the School and Library Department at Bantam Doubleday Dell, and she was an amazing leader. She had pulled an extraordinary group of people together on her team, and she got us to work hard, work smart, and have a fun time promoting and selling the books. She was a great teacher to me; she earned my admiration and my respect. I learned so much from her and will miss her very much indeed.
A wonderful side of Doris.
There was another side, one that many of us also know. This one we can charitably call polite irreverence.
Robin shares a story of a bracelet that was found in her mother’s bedroom. She did not know where it came from until she received this email:
“Dear Robin and Steve,I was saddened to hear about your mother's passing. She was one of a kind! Elegant, feisty, acerbic, and she knew how to laugh.I have a favorite Doris story. I design jewelry, and among my pieces was a sterling silver bracelet. Most people ordered them with children's names. I made a few pieces that were irreverent and funny. One of them had the letters WTF. Doris bought it immediately!!She was a special lady.”
All of us marveled at Doris’s athleticism, how she pushed her body, especially on the ski slopes. The family started skiing together back in the bad old days of skiing, in the 1960s. Then the equipment was horrible: the days of the lace-up boots, and skis that were sky high. In order to get your money's worth you needed to be at the slope at starting time and ski the whole day. Getting to and from the ski areas was not a pleasant experience, either. Still, the family loved to ski. Doris took to skiing...Doris and Donald traveled through Europe to ski.
Ultimately she made skiing one of her main activities so she relocated to Vermont. Upon Doris’s retirement from the publishing world she had to make a decision when she couldn't afford New York and Winhall. She would try living in Vermont to find out if she liked it. She said she'd give it a year, and she moved up here full time and fell in love.
She had a friend named Amber who started coming up with her quite often, and a great deal of Doris’s initial time was spent easing into Vermont because of Amber’s presence. Once Amber found herself in a relationship she stopped coming as much, but by then, Doris was firmly rooting herself in the community.
She made friends here, at Israel Congregation of Manchester, she started working on the mountain, she had met Fred Richter, and Norma Rosenblatt. She found her way to Trailblazers, a group of people over 50 who enjoy skiing and have other social functions. At one time she was an officer and on the board of the Trailblazers, contributing her time, effort, and good thinking on the mountain. She loved the Stratton Mountain community so much that she even worked there for many years. Her Vermont community increased exponentially over time.
Doris loved her community here, as we loved her.
Doris had other good experiences with male companions.
First was Al Solomon with whom Doris bonded over their shared dislike of Donald’s father. They, too, were together for many years: traveling and skiing together. They shared a house in Jamaica, VT, skied on Stratton, and were together for at least ten years before he, too, died.
She then met Fred Richter, a jeweler. Because of Fred Doris met another strong male presence in her life, Al Feldan. Doris and Al Feldan also had a nice relationship. When Fred was dying, and Doris was simply wonderful to him, Fred left Al a sizeable collection of jewelry to donate to charities in our area. Fred died in July 2006. At some point after Fred died, and the collection of jewels was growing low, Al Feldan said to Doris to go out and meet another jeweler. She replied, in typical Doris fashion: “Sure, Al. I will get a sexy new dress and take care of it right AWAY.”
Tragedy again struck Doris’s life in 2006 as her youngest son, Jonathan, died of cancer. He was first diagnosed while living in Paris in his late 20s. He moved back to New York with his then wife MaiLoan. For 17 years, Jonathan lived cancer free. Once it reappeared he lived another six years with second wife, Inez. When he died, in November 2006, it was devastating to Doris. He was Doris's baby.
Despite those tragedies Doris continued to press forward with her life.
As a lifelong traveler, Doris’s constantly curious mind meant that she loved being exposed to all the myriad of cultures that exist in the world. One famous picture of Doris shows her on her Africa trip in a Dashiki. On another trip to Scotland she said she was going to make sure to sample each pub with her six year old grandson with her!
Robin and her mother loved to travel together. . .including a special trip taken last summer, just before Doris’s health began its decline. This trip to Alaska with Robin was a bucket list trip. Not only did they make the trip, Doris hiked three miles in Alaska, and went kayaking. Robin expresses that it was such a special memory and how much Doris loved that trip. Robin treasures they were able to do that together.
As Doris' middle child, Steven was adored by his mother. She depended on him and knew that his special talents helped her navigate her life; always looked forward to his visits here and the time that he spent with her.
Doris also loved Steven's wife, Nancy, who became very close, and spent much quality time this past years here and in Maine when they drove back and forth to visit Doris' brother, Hilly.
Doris adored her grandchildren. . .Diana, Paul, Deborah, Donald, and Brett as her God-grandson. Each of them remembers stories about their grandmother; one as late as last week when Paul and his grandmother were having some scotch on her bed, and she quipped, "What are you doing getting an old lady drunk?"
Also late last week, when Diana crawled into bed with her grandmother, just to hold her as they both fell asleep. A moment.
Robin speaks of her special ed students from Brooklyn who grew-up knowing Doris, calling her "Grandmaw Bass." They learned to snowboard with the CHILL program. For five years, Doris would invite them up for the US Open Weekend stay with her for a long weekend of snowboarding. For many of these kids, it was their first time out of the mean streets of Brooklyn; for some, it was a life altering experience. That's our Doris.
Then there were Doris’s four-legged friends: Sasha, Joey and Samantha. Her two living dogs, Joey and Samantha, have found new homes. Samantha is now living with Steve and Nancy at their home.
Fortunately Doris received a great gift when she turned 85: a birthday party, put on at the home of Drs. Marisa and Allan Eisemann, with her great pals Al Feldan and Norma Rosenblatt. It was at this party, surrounded by family and friends that Doris was feted, each of us telling her what a tremendous person she is. Doris loved that party. She was the belle of the ball, in good health. It as a Doris-fest where all of the people who populated her life could be there and fete her and love her while she was healthy and in life. She quipped that it was better than attending your own funeral!
Marisa has been a close friend and confidante to Doris for many years. They shared a wonderful relationship.
Al Feldan calls Doris his "mountain wife" because they were always carousing around the mountain and throughout town.
And Norma always phoned Doris or Doris phoned her every morning for eight years to go over their days.
Other close friends include Jeannie and Lee Nemlich and Marilyn Rice who drove Doris to Bennington for her final hospitalization.
Being part of Israel Congregation was a huge part of Doris’s identity. She served on our board, and chaired our library and programming committees. She was a force of nature in ensuring that the library was organized as a true lending library, not a morgue for your old Uncle Max’s books. Her programming committee found ways to bring the community into the ICM building with many activities, including the winter film festival. Her publishing skills were legendary as she reviewed our newsletter and weekly publications. Her loss leaves a large hole in our congregation.
In recognition of Doris’s immense contribution to our synagogue community, the Board of Directors of ICM voted to rename our library the Doris Bass Library. I was able to tell Doris about this while she was still alive. This pleased her greatly.
To know Doris was to understand how hard she pushed her body. Two hips, two knees, a hip revision: she was bionic. She would always bounce back from any procedure until late last summer.
Over the last six months of her life, it became clear to Doris and many around her that her quality of life was deteriorating; it was under these circumstances that Doris made the decision to go home, be in home-based hospice, and begin the process of dying in earnest.
Many people captured a sentiment expressed by Wendy Bloch, Audrey’s daughter, who said that Doris shows us how to live and Doris was showing us how to die.
In Doris's last days, she enjoyed a parade of people who she loved and they loved her.
Doris, of course, was sitting up in bed one day and quipped, "What if it doesn't work?" We knew that Doris would never be happy as an invalid, that she expressed her desire to have her life end if she could no longer live the life she wanted.
Doris's leaving of us is what she wanted. She is at peace. For us, though, there is a large hole in our lives that Doris once filled. It will take many days, weeks, months, and years to begin to adapt our lives to a world without our Doris.
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When the playoff microscope gets rolled out next week and experts begin to dissect the Orioles — assuming they hold on to at least an American League wild-card spot — one of the primary criticisms is going to be the club's overall lack of postseason experience. No current Orioles player has won a World Series. Only four players on the current 40-man roster, not including those on the 60-day disabled list, have played in one — designated hitter Jim Thome in 1995 and 1997 with the Cleveland Indians, outfielder Endy Chavez with the 2011 Texas Rangers and pitchers Tommy Hunter and Darren O'Day with the 2010 Rangers. All told, the Orioles have 13 players on their...
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How To Change The Url In Clickfunnels When Directed To My Domain
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Prime Time's Political Sedatives
By Naomi Klein - May 17th, 2000
Is it strange to quote NBC characters at policy meetings?
A few weeks ago, I participated in a serious roundtable discussion at the University of Toronto's venerable Massey College. The subject was whether a guaranteed annual income could be a viable campaign for the left. A group of political theorists, economists and activists debated the question, divided over whether the idea was too pie in the sky.
Which is when the TV show came up. "Well, to quote a recent episode of The West Wing," one of the policy experts said, "we need to raise the level of debate in this country."
The West Wing,which had its season finale last night, comes up a lot these days. It's especially popular on the left, where it serves as a kind of hallucinatory vision of how politics could be if Bill and Hillary Clinton weren't such sellouts to the business lobby.
Writing in Salon, Jonathan V. Last has argued that The West Wing only works as drama because of its liberal bias. "There couldn't possibly be a Republican version," he writes, because conservatism, in its desire to preserve the status quo, is inherently undramatic.
It's an interesting argument, but it's not true: Conservatives do have their version of The West Wing -- it's called Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and it is as much a dramatic fantasy of conservatism as The West Wing is of liberalism.
The success of both these shows has to do with profound ideological doubts coming from either end of the political spectrum. Liberals are asking themselves whether their social policies are still viable, or whether all government becomes conservative once in power. Many conservatives, meanwhile, are looking at the current economic boom, and at the growing gap between rich and poor, and asking themselves whether the invisible hand of the market -- their most sacred economic principle -- can still be trusted.
And to both these soul-searching questions, The West Wing and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire answer with a triumphant, if wholly unwarranted, "Absolutely!"
For disillusioned progressives, The West Wing is an alter-White House, a place where married political aides don't sleep with prostitutes and get caught, but where an unmarried aide sleeps with a call girl "by accident" and then spends the rest of the season helping her get through law school. Besides the call- girl plot in the very first episode, The West Wing is remarkably sexless. The characters are so obsessively concerned with how potential relationships will affect their job performances, they usually opt for arguing flirtatiously about school vouchers instead.
The only married member of the cast is the president himself, and he has so few skeletons in his closet that the West Wingers often pile into his bedroom in the middle of the night for impromptu Waltonesque policy powwows. This White House isn't consumed with frivolity; it is too busy fighting all the good fights Bill Clinton won't touch: getting gays in the military, banishing racism from drug policy, radicalizing the Supreme Court, kicking soft money out of campaign finance.
The only issues on which The West Wing goes centrist are economic ones: current White House monetary policy is just fine, thank you very much, and free trade needs to speed up, not slow down.
But why should the dream White House bother itself with money matters? The West Wing is here to address our collective crisis of confidence in government and leadership, not in economics. That crisis is left to another show entirely, on a competing network.
As we all know, trickle-down economics is experiencing something of a drainage problem: No matter how much wealth is created, most of it is getting plugged up at the top, in the hands of merged corporate giants and their stockholders. But for three nights a week on ABC, money doesn't trickle down to the masses, it comes pouring onto their heads in great cash waterfalls. As the name of the show suggests, the mere act of wanting to be a millionaire is all it takes.
On Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, you don't have to be some computer whiz kid or a cast member on Friends to be one of the winners in our winners-and-losers new economy. All you have to do is just answer a couple of questions, and not hard ones either, but staggeringly easy ones.
This resurrection of the 1950s American Dream was rudely interrupted a few weeks ago during a battle between cable provider Time Warner and the show's parent company, Disney. Theirs was a fight over real money, not loose change, and it led to ABC's signal being pulled out of millions of households. The masses were thrown into darkness, their theatre of petty cash suspended, while the Great Gods of Consolidation hurled lightning bolts at each other. Finally, Regis, the capitalist wizard of the people, returned, and all was well.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and The West Wing play similar roles for their respective ideologies: that of political sedative. Two American lullabies, each perfect in its own way.
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The range of Pretzel Flipz used to be a Nestlé brand but is now owned by the DeMet's Candy Company. DeMet's have
introduced a number of new flavours to add to the original milk chocolate covered salted pretzels.
We're huge fans of all of them, though the original remains a favourite!
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The United States' newest lottery, Wyoming, is set to begin its first in-state lottery game in two months.
Cowboy Draw is a Pick 5 rolling jackpot game the gives Wyoming lottery players much better odds than the multi-state games that are available in the state.
"Being a Wyoming-specific game means more Wyoming players winning top jackpot prizes and more Lottery money staying in the Cowboy State," said Jon Clontz, CEO of the Wyoming Lottery Corporation. "I expect that the Cowboy Draw game will become an extremely popular addition to our game portfolio."
Cowboy Draw is a draw game that plays similar to Powerball and Mega Millions. Players choose five numbers ranging from 1 to 45. A player who correctly matches all five numbers is the jackpot winner.
Players can also match four, three and two numbers to win cash prizes of $1,000, $20 and $5, respectively.
Tickets cost $5 per ticket with two chances to win per ticket.
Clontz explained that the big attraction for the Cowboy Draw game, offered only in Wyoming, is that more WyoLotto players will win larger prizes. "The minimum jackpot will be $250,000, and it will grow until someone wins it. Someone asked me if the jackpot could realistically hit $1 million, and the answer is absolutely."
Cowboy Draw has an approximate payout of 68 percent, whereas Powerball and Mega Millions payouts are 50 percent. This gives our Wyoming players another great reason to play this game, said Clontz. Because Cowboy Draw is not a national game, all proceeds are retained in Wyoming.
In May 2014, the Lottery Board decided to explore the addition of new games to continue to expand the entertainment value associated with playing the lottery and increase revenue potential. In August 2014, Lottery conducted focus groups in Wyoming to evaluate player reactions to the new game concepts. After reviewing the research, the board decided to go with a Wyoming-specific draw game in the spring of 2015 and other games will follow.
The Cowboy Draw game will launch on March 15.
(Click to display full-size in gallery)The Wyoming Lottery's first in-state game is a Pick 5 game featuring a rolling jackpot.
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Not sure the exact odds, but a 5/45 game has odds of worse than 1 in 1 million of winning the jackpot, and odds of 2nd place is 1 in several thousand. For comparison, many Cash 5 games are 5/43, which are difficult as it is to hit. I'm surprised such a low population state would go with a 5/45 game, especially at a $5 price-point; $2.50 per play, since each ticket contains 2 sets of numbers - still a lot of money considering the lousy odds.
Overall payout of 68% is very good, but deceptive, since much of it is contained in the jackpot and 2nd tier prizes, both of which are difficult to hit. While a fair chunk of the payout being in the jackpot is expected, it's surprising the 2nd tier and/or 3rd tier prize isn't somewhat higher considering the price-point.
With all that said, it's still a better value than many other numbers games, but players may shy away from the game over time when most only win break-even prizes, and occasionally $20, on a $5 wager.
In regards to higher price-points, that makes sense given how little a dollar buys compared to the 1970s when many lotteries began. With $2 being the standard now for new numbers games, it seems $5 will be in the near future. Makes sense, but still lacks the allure of $1 games - most players don't think much of risking a dollar, or even two, on 1 in zillion odds; throwing away a buck isn't a big deal for most. It's a problem raffle games have run into - despite reasonable odds and prizes, many players are scared away by the $10-$20 price-point. It's easier to get a player to spend $5 on 5 $1 tickets than on one $5 ticket even if the odds are exactly identical.
Will be interesting to see how the Wyoming game goes, and what tweaks, if any, they make to it going forward.
They must be really proud of this game to charge $5 a tic even if it is for 2 lines. But that is the direction lotteries are going with new games. They can't sell more tickets, so they charge more per ticket to make more revenue.
The Wyoming lottery isn't allowed by law to sell scratchers. Ludicrous! Some state lotteries derive about 60% of their gross income from scratchers, and they're enormously popular with the players. Swing and a miss for the Wyoming legislature!
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Environmentalists say India's latest flooding disaster manmade
NEW DELHI, June 25 (UPI) -- Large-scale development along India's Ganges River is to blame for the high death toll from flooding and mudslides in Uttarakhand state, environmentalists say.
Roads are built willy-nilly, new hotel properties are erected along river banks and hydro dams proposed in the region's steep valleys combined to create the environment in which floods and mudslides have claimed more than 1,000 lives in the past week, CNN reported.
"You've heard of homicide, well this is ecocide," Devinder Sharma of the Forum for Biotechnology and Food Security told CNN. "The hills have been shorn of the forest cover, there's extensive mining taking place in this region and on top of that the roads that are being constructed are haphazard.
"And the hydro projects coming are phenomenal -- 70 hydro projects back to back," Sharma said. "Obviously there are tunnels being built, hills being blasted and everything goes topsy-turvy."
He said a huge, national road-building program includes routes planned through increasingly remote areas without adequate drainage.
A real estate boom also resulted in new developments proceeding without adequate planning, Sharma said.
Margareta Wahlstrom, a top United Nations official, said she hopes 2013 will be a turning point in disaster planning. Wahlstrom, the secretary-general's special representative for disaster risk reduction, pointed to disastrous flooding in Canada as well as the floods caused by heavy monsoon rain in southeast Asia.
"The shocking loss of life in India underlines how vitally important it is that we start planning for future scenarios far removed from anything that we may have experienced in the past," Wahlstrom said, suggesting that global warming is causing changes in climate patterns.
In India, most experts say unregulated development and tourism were responsible for the scale of the disaster, said Souparno Banerjee of the advocacy group the Center for Science and Environment.
"Development is important but we need to keep in mind the very delicate eco-system that you're working within," he said. "The Himalayas are the biggest mountain range in the world but they are also extremely fragile."
Uttarakhand's chief minister Vijay Bahuguna told the Times of India the floods set back development in the state by at least three years.
"My people are going to suffer because tourism is going to be affected. We have to put the infrastructure back on the rails," he said. "I have written to the prime minister that preliminary reports suggest there is loss of Rs 3,000 crore [$500 million]. This tragedy has broken our economy."
He said a balance must be struck between the environment and development and denied the disaster was manmade.
"This is a very childish argument," Bahuguna said, "that cloudbursts, earthquakes and tsunamis are caused by human factors."
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House Leader John Boehner Addresses House On Fiscal Cliff
House Leader John Boehner Addresses House On Fiscal Cliff
House Leader John Boehner Addresses House On Fiscal Cliff
Chip Somodevilla
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (C) heads to the House floor to address members on the 'fiscal cliff' negotiations with the White House and Congressional Democrats at the U.S. Capitol December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Boehner's office said he will announce that negotiations are making headway toward averting the automatic steep tax hikes and spending cuts set for the end of the year.
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (C) heads to the House floor to address members on the 'fiscal cliff' negotiations with the White House and Congressional Democrats at the U.S. Capitol December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Boehner's office said he will announce that negotiations are making headway toward averting the automatic steep tax hikes and spending cuts set for the end of the year.
House Leader John Boehner Addresses House On Fiscal Cliff
Win McNamee
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) walks to the House chamber to speak on the pending 'fiscal cliff' negotiations December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Congress and U.S. President Barack Obama's White House remain locked in a stalemate over the negotiations seeking a settlement to the fiscal crisis.
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) walks to the House chamber to speak on the pending 'fiscal cliff' negotiations December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Congress and U.S. President Barack Obama's White House remain locked in a stalemate over the negotiations seeking a settlement to the fiscal crisis.
House Leader John Boehner Addresses House On Fiscal Cliff
Chip Somodevilla
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (2L) heads to the House floor to address members on the 'fiscal cliff' negotiations with the White House and Congressional Democrats at the U.S. Capitol December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Boehner's office said he will announce that negotiations are making headway toward averting the automatic steep tax hikes and spending cuts set for the end of the year.
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (2L) heads to the House floor to address members on the 'fiscal cliff' negotiations with the White House and Congressional Democrats at the U.S. Capitol December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Boehner's office said he will announce that negotiations are making headway toward averting the automatic steep tax hikes and spending cuts set for the end of the year.
House Leader John Boehner Addresses House On Fiscal Cliff
Chip Somodevilla
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (C) heads to the House floor to address members on the 'fiscal cliff' negotiations with the White House and Congressional Democrats at the U.S. Capitol December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Boehner's office said he will announce that negotiations are making headway toward averting the automatic steep tax hikes and spending cuts set for the end of the year.
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (C) heads to the House floor to address members on the 'fiscal cliff' negotiations with the White House and Congressional Democrats at the U.S. Capitol December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Boehner's office said he will announce that negotiations are making headway toward averting the automatic steep tax hikes and spending cuts set for the end of the year.
House Leader John Boehner Addresses House On Fiscal Cliff
Chip Somodevilla
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) heads to the House floor to address members on the 'fiscal cliff' negotiations with the White House and Congressional Democrats at the U.S. Capitol December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Boehner's office said he will announce that negotiations are making headway toward averting the automatic steep tax hikes and spending cuts set for the end of the year.
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) heads to the House floor to address members on the 'fiscal cliff' negotiations with the White House and Congressional Democrats at the U.S. Capitol December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Boehner's office said he will announce that negotiations are making headway toward averting the automatic steep tax hikes and spending cuts set for the end of the year.
House Leader John Boehner Addresses House On Fiscal Cliff
Win McNamee
Followed by reporters, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (L) walks to the House chamber to speak on the pending 'fiscal cliff' negotiations December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Congress and U.S. President Barack Obama's White House remain locked in a stalemate over the negotiations seeking a settlement to the fiscal crisis.
Followed by reporters, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (L) walks to the House chamber to speak on the pending 'fiscal cliff' negotiations December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Congress and U.S. President Barack Obama's White House remain locked in a stalemate over the negotiations seeking a settlement to the fiscal crisis.
House Leader John Boehner Addresses House On Fiscal Cliff
Win McNamee
Followed by reporters, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (4th L) walks to the House chamber to speak on the pending 'fiscal cliff' negotiations December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Congress and U.S. President Barack Obama's White House remain locked in a stalemate over the negotiations seeking a settlement to the fiscal crisis.
Followed by reporters, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (4th L) walks to the House chamber to speak on the pending 'fiscal cliff' negotiations December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Congress and U.S. President Barack Obama's White House remain locked in a stalemate over the negotiations seeking a settlement to the fiscal crisis.
House Leader John Boehner Addresses House On Fiscal Cliff
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Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) walks to the House chamber to speak on the pending 'fiscal cliff' negotiations December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Congress and U.S. President Barack Obama's White House remain locked in a stalemate over the negotiations seeking a settlement to the fiscal crisis.
Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) walks to the House chamber to speak on the pending 'fiscal cliff' negotiations December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Congress and U.S. President Barack Obama's White House remain locked in a stalemate over the negotiations seeking a settlement to the fiscal crisis.
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Speaker of the House John Boehner heads to the House floor to address... News PhotoCapitol Building - Washington DC,Fiscal Cliff,Full Length,Horizontal,International Landmark,John Boehner,People,Politics,Speech,USA,Washington DC,White House - Washington DCPhotographer Chip SomodevillaCollection: Getty Images News 2012 Getty ImagesWASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 11: Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) (C) heads to the House floor to address members on the 'fiscal cliff' negotiations with the White House and Congressional Democrats at the U.S. Capitol December 11, 2012 in Washington, DC. Boehner's office said he will announce that negotiations are making headway toward averting the automatic steep tax hikes and spending cuts set for the end of the year. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Clinton’s unexpected new ally in the email investigation: Trump
WASHINGTON — After the “lock her up” campaign of 2016, President Trump’s administration has an unexpected message for those still investigating Hillary Clinton’s emails: Shut it down.
Trump made clear after the election that he had no appetite to go after Clinton legally, and on Monday his administration went further: His Justice Department went to court to fight those still going after Clinton.
Two conservative legal groups were in federal court in Washington on Monday morning to compel the release of more Clinton emails. And the Trump administration was on the other side.
“It is moot,” said Justice Department lawyer Carol Federighi, telling Judge James E. Boasberg of the administration’s plan to oppose requests for “discovery” by the two legal groups, Judicial Watch and Cause of Action. “Our principal argument is going to be mootness based on all the developments that have happened since the case was filed.”
Federighi was talking about legal mootness: It’s hard to claim that the government hasn’t been forthcoming when 55,000 pages of the former secretary of state’s emails have been made public and the FBI has completed an exhaustive investigation
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But the emails are also politically moot: Clinton lost the presidency, in part because FBI Director James Comey publicly reopened the Clinton email investigation on the eve of the election on what turned out to be dubious grounds. She has returned to private life, and her emails, never revelatory, are now irrelevant.
What’s interesting is that Trump’s DOJ essentially said so — even having Federighi, the same career lawyer who argued the case for the Obama administration, do the same for it.
“It’s incredible,” Tom Fitton, the head of Judicial Watch, told me after Monday’s hearing. “They’re taking the same position as the Obama administration on Clinton.”
Fitton said he suspects the administration sided against him Monday because there aren’t yet enough political appointees at the Justice Department to redirect prosecutors. “I don’t think President Trump would be pleased” with his administration’s defense of Clinton, Fitton said.
That’s one possibility.
Another possibility is the Trump administration will defend executive power like those before it.
A third explanation is the Trump administration finds the whole matter silly and has no wish to encourage legal Captain Ahabs in unending attempts to harpoon Clinton.
Fourteen months ago, Boasberg (whom I’ve known since he was in law school three decades ago) ruled against Judicial Watch, saying that the plaintiffs were on a “hunt for any kernel of fact” even if “marginally relevant.”
But in a surprising ruling released after Christmas, the D.C. Circuit overturned Boasberg’s decision. “Absent a showing that the requested enforcement action could not shake loose a few more emails, the case is not moot,” Judge Stephen Williams wrote. Though previous attempts to get Clinton’s emails released “bore some fruit, the Department has not explained why shaking the tree harder … might not bear more still.”
Some conservatives exulted that their vanquished foe had suffered yet another blow. “Trump gets green light to go after Hillary’s emails,” trumpeted WorldNetDaily.com.
But Trump, to the consternation of the Clinton critics, refused to hit the gas. “It’s good to be here during the Trump administration!” a disappointed Fitton told fellow lawyers at the plaintiffs table after arriving for Monday’s hearing.
Boasberg began the hearing by raising his hands in an exaggerated shrug, shaking his head and smiling. “Interesting decision,” he said of the appellate ruling.
Federighi, formerly of the Obama Justice Department and now with the Trump Justice Department, expressed her view that if the request for more Clinton emails wasn’t moot 14 months ago, it certainly is moot now.
“I thought it was clearly moot,” the judge concurred.
James Peterson, arguing for Judicial Watch, declared it “a surprise to us that the new administration continues the position that they don’t need to do anything else” in response to the demands for more Clinton emails.
And John J. Vecchione, representing Cause of Action, attempted the argument that “much of what we know … is from press reports, which is not evidence.”
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What Arizona can teach Republicans about immigration
Arizona became synonymous with hardline immigration policy in 2010, when legislators passed SB 1070, a groundbreaking law that deputized local police to investigate and report suspected immigration violators–a job previously reserved for the federal government. The bill was popular with Arizonans and national Republicans at the time, but the resulting backlash from Latino voters around the country helped spark the current national conversation over immigration reform. Now, as Congress considers whether to pursue Arizona’s hawkish path or the “Gang of Eight’s” legalization plan, the state could once again prove a bellwether for where the debate in Congress is headed.
Politically, while the bill ignited a firestorm, the GOP’s hold on the red-leaning state was largely unchanged. Governor Jan Brewer, who took over after her predecessor Janet Napolitano left to become Secretary of Homeland Secretary, rode SB 1070’s popularity on the right to dominate the Republican primary field in 2010 and cruise to her first election victory. Republicans still hold solid majorities in both the Senate and House of Representatives, although they lost some ground in the last election from their post-SB 1070 peak. And despite boasts from Democratic strategists that Arizona’s Latino voters could turn the state blue in 2012, the presidential race never became truly competitive; Mitt Romney won the state 53%-44%.
But the relative stability of the state’s partisan balance masks a sea change within the GOP itself. In the wake of SB 1070, major Republican constituencies grew uncomfortable with the direction the state was heading on immigration.
Among the business crowd, CEOs and investors became concerned that Arizona’s reputation as a harsh place for Latinos was affecting their bottom line. Groups opposed to the state’s immigration laws led successful boycott efforts against products, tourism, and conferences. In Phoenix, bookings for the local convention center plummeted, costing the economy as much as $132 million by one city estimate.
“Elected officials became Fox News superstars because they offered a lot of red meat,” Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton told msnbc in an interview. “But instead of looking at the overall impact for the economy, bills were passed to reinforce a point.”
Alarmed by the trend, businesses organized to push back. In 2011, SB 1070 champion and Senate president Russell Pearce introduced a new slate of legislation aimed at cracking down on immigration, including a bill that would require hospitals to report undocumented patients and another calling for an end to birthright citizenship. Fearing a new wave of embarrassing publicity from his agenda, 60 business leaders from Arizona’s largest companies signed a letter demanding Pearce back away from the issue due to the “undeniable fact that each of our companies and our employees were impacted by the boycotts and the coincident negative image.”
The Senate responded, voting down five immigration bills. But it didn’t stop there–a group called Citizens for a Better Arizona led a successful petition to organize a recall election against Pearce. Moderate Republicans united behind a Republican rival, Jerry Lewis, and defeated Pearce in an open primary. Pearce’s weakness wasn’t only business opposition–the local Mormon community, of which Pearce is a member, raised concerns that Arizona’s laws had made missionary outreach in Latin America more difficult. Pearce lost again in a 2012 comeback attempt to another Republican rival, Bob Worsley. Many of the state’s most prominent anti-immigration figures have faded into the background along with him.
As Pearce’s power dissipated, so did the popularity of his signature law, which was also severely limited by the Supreme Court. An October 2012 poll by Arizona State’s Morrison Institute found only 32% of residents believed the bill had benefited them, versus 41% who thought it had damaged the state. The political climate has become relaxed enough that Arizona’s two Republican Senators, John McCain and Jeff Flake, feel comfortable taking lead roles on the bipartisan “Gang of Eight” bill that would provide a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
Robert Graham, chair of the Arizona Republican party (Pearce is a vice-chair), told msnbc that “immigration is still a very hot topic” in the state and residents were especially concerned about border security. But he thought that the GOP had improved its “tone” in reaching out to Latino voters and that state lawmakers were more focused on pressuring the federal government to fix immigration.
“It’s possible other things could arise within our state legislature, but right now we’re keeping an eye on what’s happening with Congress,” he said.
But the GOP-led Congress is starting to sound more like the Arizona legislature in 2010, causing alarm among some immigration reform supporters. Recently Republicans overwhelmingly voted to oppose President Obama’s decision to halt deportations for young unauthorized immigrants, and the House Judiciary Committee is working on a bill that would encourage states to follow Arizona’s lead in enforcing federal immigration law.
It’s possible they could face similar consequences if they continue down Arizona’s path. The Chamber of Commerce is heavily backing the immigration bill, as are a raft of industries from hotels to agriculture to high-tech firms, in the hopes that it will help provide a steady source of labor and talent for hard-to-fill jobs. Religious leaders, including a variety of evangelical groups, are publicly lobbying for it as well. Republican donors and strategists are backing efforts to support immigration reform with radio and TV advertising designed to give political cover to wavering lawmakers. If the House goes the other direction, they could face a backlash from these constituencies akin to Arizona’s.
“We’re probably five years ahead of the rest of the country on immigration,” Nathan Sproul, a Republican strategist in Arizona who supported efforts to unseat Pearce, told msnbc. “Now the wave is going out here, but not yet nationally.”
Part of the reason Republicans are so concerned about getting it right–in Arizona and around the country–is that the political consequences are likely to be more severe the longer they wait. In Arizona, Republicans were able to weather the Latino surge better than nearby blue-tilting states like Nevada, New Mexico, and Colorado. Similarly, Latino voters–while a factor in President Obama’s 2012 win–were not on their own responsible for his healthy margin, nor did they make much of a dent in the House, where Republicans are insulated in safe districts.
But both Arizona and the national GOP are unlikely to be able to keep that feat up forever. That’s because the Latino population is not only growing, but disproportionately young, meaning it will take up a larger portion of the electorate over time as more residents turn 18. In Arizona, the median age for Latino residents is 25 while the median age for white residents, the GOP’s backbone, is 44.
“That population is going to disappear rather quickly and be replaced by a young Latino cohort being socialized in an environment that is telling them the Republican party does not want them,” Rodolfo Espino, an associate professor of political science at Arizona State University, told msnbc.
The combination of factors means that Republicans might easily be misled by short-term success into thinking they dodged a bullet. Arizona Republicans are starting to wake up to the threat to their future viability. Will the House GOP?
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Yankees honor son of church shooting victim on first day of HOPE week
The New York Yankees' Brian McCann, left, Chris Singleton and Brett Gardner talk outside the batting cage before the Yankees' game against the Minnesota Twins Monday, Aug 17, 2015, at Yankee Stadium. Singleton's mother, Sharonda, was one of nine parishioners killed in the Emanuel A.M.E. Church shooting in Charleston, S.C. Photo Credit: AP / Bill Kostroun
The three homers capped a whirlwind day for the 19-year-old, who was honored during the first day of the Yankees' HOPE Week (Helping Others Persevere & Excel).
His mother, Sharonda Coleman-Singleton, 45 -- a minister at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina -- was among the nine parishioners who lost their lives in a shooting at the church in June.
On July 22, the rising sophomore and baseball player at Charleston Southern University posted on Twitter, "The good outweighs the bad even on your worst days."
"Obviously, this is an amazing young man," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "He's had to deal with a lot of sadness recently in his life. But he's chosen the high road and the importance of love."
Singleton and his sister, Camryn, 15, and his brother, Caleb, 12, all threw out first pitches before the Yankees' game against the Twins.
On Monday morning, Singleton and his siblings, along with his college baseball coach and mentor at Charleston Southern, Stuart Lake, were surprised on the set of "The Today Show" by Brett Gardner, Dellin Betances and Alex Rodriguez.
Lake was an assistant coach at Charleston Southern while Gardner played for the school from 2003 to 2005. Gardner and Singleton shared an instant connection.
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"It's pretty special," Gardner said. "It's pretty evident that his mom was a special person and she did a really good job raising those three kids.
"His home and my home aren't too far apart," he added. "He definitely lived up to everything I had heard about him. He's an outstanding young man and I think he's got a bright future ahead of him."After he took batting practice, Singleton joined Gardner in leftfield to shag fly balls.
"He's been really awesome to me," Singleton said. "As soon as we met this morning on 'The Today Show,' he's been hanging around me the whole day. So it's been awesome."
Singleton's second stop of the day was at One World Observatory, where he received a private tour and lunch with Stephen Drew, Jacoby Ellsbury, Willie Randolph, Masahiro Tanaka, Justin Wilson and Chris Young.
When he arrived at Yankee Stadium, Singleton found his locker situated between Tanaka's and Ivan Nova's in the clubhouse. Tanaka walked over to his new friend for a fist bump, and Nova was quick to introduce himself.
Even players from the Minnesota Twins, such as Torii Hunter and Joe Mauer, made sure to meet Singleton during batting practice.
"[They] were just talking to me, saying how I've been such a role model and things like that," Singleton said. "So that was a real honor . . . People I would never have thought I would meet. I played with them in video games, so it's cool to actually meet them in real life.
"Honestly, I was in shock at first, but now it feels like a dream."
From the start, Singleton impressed the Yankees with his maturity, his compassion, his heart . . . and yes, his three home runs during batting practice.
"You never know," Girardi said with a smile. "Maybe he'll be here in a couple of years, on an everyday basis."
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Well in the final Olympic week we have our very own gold award. And we're thrilled and happy. The Green Tourism Business Scheme (GTBS) is the sustainable tourism certification scheme for the UK. Originally developed in partnership with VisitScotland, it is now the only national scheme to be independently validated by the International Centre for Responsible Tourism (ICRT) on behalf of VisitEngland. The GTBS has been running since 1997 and with over 2000 members across the whole of the UK and Ireland, it is the largest and most established scheme of its type in the world.
The criteria assessed are extensive and rigourously checked. To get gold you need to score over 80% from more than 100 items in 8 main categories, along with some mandatory actions and at least one score in each category. And then potential gold candidates are referred to the GTBS board for quality checking.
Well we scored 92%! And we gather it is unusual, to say the least, for a first time member to receive gold.
A membership of only 2000 across the whole of the UK is pretty small when you think of it, but as sustainability becomes a more important issue for more people, the GTBS scheme is growing fast and we hope will be a strong part of how accommodation and tourist attractions are chosen. You can visit their website to find what businesses in your area, or where you are visiting, have the award.
Anyway - no medal ceremony for us - but we will get a plaque and we will be proudly displaying that!
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So Donald Trump had a "greatest friend" called Roy Cohn.
The CIA arranged a lawyers job for Cohn in New York so that he could become the consigliere for the New York Mafia and be the de facto liaison between the CIA and the mob, which he was. Cohn was that powerful in those circles that he procured children for the CIA to abuse.
Through this very close relationship between Cohn and the New York mob, Donald Trump began to do 'business' with the mob.
In 1987 Trump bought the CIA/mob moneylaundering front Resorts International, and Trump hung out with the New Jersey mob, namely the Scarfos. Trump renames Resorts International as Trump Taj Mahal.
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3 Most Popular Wedding Gown Trends
3 Most Popular Wedding Gown Trends
These days, Christian wedding gowns are becoming very popular not just in weddings, but also for cocktail parties and the bachelorettes of course. Since they have become a bit hit in Indian weddings too, so we thought of sharing the most popular trends of wedding gowns with you.
Here is the list of different types of Christian wedding gowns to flatter different types of body shapes.
Mermaid or Trumpet Gown
For the women who are totally in love with their body curves, this gown is meant for you. Mermaid wedding dress helps to emphasize the curves and hence accentuates the figure. Even those who feel they have a straight-lined structure can get benefitted from this dress. These dresses should be preferred in certain fabrics like satin, silk, ruched material or organza. As they say without a good innerwear even an expensive dress can’t make you look good. Thus, it is important that you wear the shapewear under dress which would be-bodysuits, and seamless panties for the mermaid dress.
It looks best on women with following body frames-Busty figure, hourglass, tall and slim. Accessories that go with mermaid dress include-Tiara, watch chandelier earring or a crystal bracelet. Big No for women with body shape – apple shape, triangle shape, and bulky figures.
A-line wedding gown
For those women who are completely clueless about what is going to suit their body, for them, A-line wedding dresses are a big relief. Whether you have a busty top or a fatty tummy, A-line flare will help you look perfect in both cases. Special or we should say distinctive features about these gowns are they are very simple yet classy. They stand out and are known for their inbuilt elegance. The fabric in which A-line gowns should be ideally used is duchess satin or a taffeta raw silk. The main idea behind this is fabric shouldn’t cling to your body and hide your flaws.
It looks good on women with body frame- All especially pear-shaped, petite one or apple shaped.
Although tea length wedding gowns are not in trend these days, they would definitely be an ideal choice for destination weddings or even beach weddings. They have a shorter look than the usual Christian wedding gowns and hence give a chic look. If you are ok with dresses that have knee length or ends at your calves, then you must try tea length gowns. The best thing about these dresses is they help to reveal your perfectly toned ankles.
These gowns look good in fancy fabrics like net, satin, and silk.
It looks good on women with body frame- Voluptuous, short women and pear shaped women.
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The collaboration combines the strengths of artists and sisters Dana Kleinman, born 1974 (Boston) and Ruth Avra Kleinman born 1979 (Washington DC). Ruth graduated from Wisconsin-Madison with a focus on metal, while Dana was one of the first art majors at Carnegie Mellon to receive Phi Beta Kappa honors and later attained her MFA and taught art at the University of New Mexico. Accomplished artists in their own mediums, the collaboration began after personal struggles tightened the bond between them in 2006. With nature and nurture fueling them, this groundbreaking combination of metal and painting involves large scale 3D aluminum construction combined with oil on canvas. The work was swiftly put into the public eye with an invitation to represent the United States at the 2008 Beijing Biennale at the National Museum of China, running in conjunction with the Summer Olympics. They have also held solo exhibitions in Florida, New Mexico and New York. Since 2007, their work has been featured in numerous museums and galleries across the United States and abroad. The collaboration is based out of Hollywood, Florida.
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I woke this morning to the news of (yet another) Trump scandal. Despite the nastiness he’s been spewing about women on the record for the last 18 months, it took the nastiness he said off the record ten years ago to finally get Donny to apologize. Sort of. Not only him, but many members of his party.
So sorry, Mr. Trump, your apology is not accepted. Sorry senators and chairpersons and those of you so utterly desperate to garner votes or toe the party line that you’ve sat by like a bunch of wimps and let this person walk all over your human-ness. Your apologies are not accepted either.
Hey, Reince Priebus, guess what? Women have been telling you for two goddamn years that no woman should be referred to in this way, but your half-apology holds no water with me. This from the man who watched as Roger Ailes, a man accused of sexual harassment, multiple times, was hired to consult on a Presidential campaign.
Your apologies are not enough. Do you know why? Because they mean nothing. They mean nothing because none of you have a single plan in place to change this kind of systematic sexist bullshit backroom behavior from happening.
Instead of making boardrooms and Congress and life a more equitable place for women, your plans serve only to get women out ofthe boardroom and Congress all together so you can back to your cigar-smoking, back-room dealing, grab-some-pussy ways.
Women have been screaming about this crap for years. The overt and covert harassment and systematic, excused sexism that runs rampant through industry, politics, life. We’ve been talking and screaming and trying to fix it and you just send us off with a pat on the head telling us that women in Saudi Arabia can’t drive or that we need to get our priorities straight. We’ve been documenting it, recording it, writing about it, singing about it for years and what do you do?
You go and hire the very people who have done us harm to run your campaigns. Or run for president.
What.The.Actual.Fuck?
All of that and you still have no plan to do anything to change the dynamic. You have no policy that is going to do anything at all to help women. NOT ONE.
So that’s why your bullshit apologies don’t mean anything to me. You’re not sorry, you’re only sorry because Donald Trump got caught. You’re only sorry because it might influence your elections. If you were truly sorry, you would have distanced yourself from your crass, spray-tanned, clownish charlatan eighteen months ago. But no.
Perhaps it’s your deep-rooted fear of a pussy which is responsible for making us endure this buffoonish, disgusting, and yes, deplorable behavior from a PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. Not only that, but his “spectacular role-model” behavior has given legitimacy to large chunks of Americans who feel free to spew their own crass bullshit at the other PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. Not because she tries to ‘grab some pussy’, but because she is in possession of one.
So take your half-assed apology and shove it up half your ass. My eight year old has better sense and manners than the lot of you
You don’t need to grow balls. You’ve got plenty of those between you and you still screw it up. What you need to do is grow a pussy.
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What strikes me as kind of sad about this whole thing is that this is our culture, this is the way some men talk behind closed doors, this is what is in our music lyrics, this kind of stuff is not an aberration, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature. So,while there are certainly a whole lot of good men out there who don’t perceive women like this, far too many are simply virtue signaling, feigning outrage as if they’ve never heard such language, never thought it themselves. Trump didn’t just spring up in a vaccum, he is us, he is our darkness drug out into the sunlight. That has the potential to be very positive, to get people talking, taking a stand about what they believe in.
That’s just it. This is not just him, this kind of back-room talk is the accepted norm. They’re just pissed that it has come out in the open. But, I don’t want apologies. I want action. I want them to tell me exactly what their party is going to do to stop the virtue signaling and fix things. (That was very poetic language in your comment by the way. I hope that it is a premonition as well as poetic.)
Righteous rant. This isn’t new. It isn’t surprising. It is trump and they’ve known that all along, and they’ve accepted it and gone along with it and even endorsed the fucker. Which means they endorse his views and his words and his behavior. YOU CANNOT SEPARATE THOSE. It’s too late to back out now, and claim that somehow he finally went over some imaginary line. He went over the line, in the presidential race, when he announced his candidacy and said despicable things about Mexicans. THAT was the day he should have been renounced.
And this: “And screw you, women don’t need to be ‘championed and revered’. We need to be treated like fucking equals.” I was trying to articulate my sense of offense at the declarations of alarm by republican males yesterday. HE IS TALKING ABOUT SEXUAL ASSAULT. And that is just as outrageous regardless of the target. Violence is violence and is not acceptable. I don’t need to be protected because I am a woman. I need to be protected because I am human.
When pressed in 2005 as to whether he’d ever had sex with contestants in the Miss Universe contest, which he owned, and whether it might pose a conflict of interest, Trump replied: “It could be a conflict of interest, but, you know, it’s the kind of thing you worry about later. You tend to think about the conflict a little later on. . . . What you could say is that, as the owner of the pageant, it’s your obligation to do that.”
The sad part to me is not that he says/has said/will continue to say these kind of things, because we all know he is capable of these things. The thing that makes me most angry is that those people who publicly support him (the political arm) knew and NOW expect us to believe them that they are sorry. Bullshit. That’s what makes me the angriest!
Locker room talk? I’ve been in lots of locker rooms, this isn’t what men talk about. This is what a clueless 13 year-old thinks men talk about. I watched the last debate completely flummoxed. How did this clown reach the final round? Really, this is the best we can do?
The bigger issue, to me, is what this says about the people of the United States. We need a bigger basket of deplorables.
I read the transcript and honestly, as I said elsewhere it was like trying to read an essay written by a 6 y/o with ADHD. I think perhaps we need to start with a complete overhaul of the education system. Because there seem to be a lot of folks that don’t know anything about the way the government works, civics, history, or the ability to research and tell the difference between fact and belief.
I do believe the dumbing down of America is complete. We can get rid of the present participle. It’s now “Dumbed”.
One thought that has occurred to me in all THIS: I’m reminded of the furor over Janet Jackson’s bared nipple at the Super Bowl performance. All concern was focused on a woman being naked (and blamed for it), rather than the act of violence perpetrated by JT. The problem should NOT have been that she has a nipple; the problem should be that a man violated her. Now the problem is NOT that someone said “pussy;” the problem is the glorification of violent assault and the acceptance of it by a large swath of people.
Have I told you recently how much I’ve enjoyed watching your righteousness grow over the past year. It’s been a real gift to me. I mean that sincerely. I’ve been watching and reading as you found your voice, and you’ve found a sweet soprano. Keep using it. Keep roaring with it. D
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Man sentenced in ‘railroad puppies’ case
ALBANY — Admitted animal abuser Anthony Walker was sentenced Tuesday to six months in the county jail for aggravated animal cruelty.
The 30-year-old city resident abandoned three “railroad puppies” on the train tracks at North Pearl Street almost a year ago. The pit bulls were dehydrated, malnourished, hypoglycemic and suffering from infection when they arrived at the Mohawk Hudson Humane Society shelter in Menands where they were named Hudson, Pearl and Carina. Hudson received a prosthetic paw. Pearl, who was missing two of her toes, also survived, but their sister, Carina, died within 48 hours of being found by railroad workers near the Ida Yarbrough Homes on Sept. 8, 2012. Walker was arrested Jan. 14.
He pleaded guilty last month in Albany County Court to one felony count under Buster’s Law, which punishes the worst cases of animal abuse with up to two years in prison. Walker’s conviction also covers charges that he abandoned four pit bulls found Jan. 26 in a U-Haul parked outside the Super 8 Motel on Central Avenue in Colonie.
Hudson and Pearl, now about 11 months old, have been adopted as have the four older dogs.
Due to the fact that Anthony Walker has already served 8 months in county jail, he was allowed to walk free after today’s sentencing and will not have to serve any further jail time. Walker was also sentenced to five years of felony probation and will be added to the Albany county animal abuse registry so that he will no longer be able to purchase or adopt a pet in Albany county.
This is the perfect example of why a state wide registry is so important. Please take a few minutes to contact your legislators and urge them to support Bill S02305-A which would create a state wide registry of convicted animal abusers.
For more information on how to get involved and help create stronger laws for animals, please click here.
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America’s most miserable sports cities
Relax Miami. We are not near the top 10. And I don’t think we will be anytime soon.
This list was compiled of cities who basically have been eliminated from playoff contention or who have not had a team make the playoffs in a while. Basically, if several teams in your city have broken your heart, then more than likely they made the list.
The top 5; Atlanta, Seattle, Phoenix, Buffalo, and San Diego. The bottom 5 include Houston, Denver, Cleveland, Kansas City, and Cincinnati.
Jeff is a diehard Laker and Raider fan, but he supports the Canes, Marlins, Heat and Dolphins just the same. Jeff honed his radio skills as a host in the Bahamas on ZNS 3. After moving to Miami, he has also held it down on radio and in the club circuit, going by the name DJ Jeff Fox “In the Box”!
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Jeff is a diehard Laker and Raider fan, but he supports the Canes, Marlins, Heat and Dolphins just the same. Jeff honed his radio skills as a host in the Bahamas on ZNS 3. After moving to Miami, he has also held it down on radio and in the club circuit, going by the name DJ Jeff Fox “In the Box”!
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008
2007 was an excellent year.
January: I rang in the New Year in California with Chip and Sharyn and their international friends. I continued receiving a weekly massage from a neighbor, Michael Shumate, also developing a cherished friendship. I continued enjoying my monthly Book Club and the other three Tuesdays each month I participated in a support group on “Boundaries”. Henry Cloud and John Townsend have written some really helpful books and produced a filmed teaching series on this subject, which we watch and discuss.
February: I started another series of watercolor classes at the Watkins Institute. Though I arrived at class exhausted (6:00 pm on a weeknight), three hours later I was feeling exhilarated and inspired!
March: I did a recording session with a small group of singers from church and enjoyed being “back in the saddle” again. Friends who live on a farm hosted a wonderful potluck with music by an Israeli harpist and a Celtic guitarist and a wonderful big bonfire. It was great being introduced to all the farm animals.
April: A big month! What a privilege it was to share a Passover seder at the home of Sandra and Aaron Elkins. I enjoyed singing with the Nashville Choir at the new symphony hall, the Schermerhorn. It was a hymn sing sponsored by the Sparrow Foundation fulfilling a longstanding dream of Billy Ray Hearn. I loved seeing the movie Gypsy Caravan. (A documentary follows bands of gypsy musicians from four different countries as they travel and perform together.) I sang a David Foster-composed duet, The Prayer, with Courtney Schadt, a senior medical student, at the Fine Arts Recital at Vanderbilt – the first time I’ve sung a “big” (loud!) solo in public. Finally, I began having weekly creative meetings with my dear friend Carol Pigg. We’re each working on writing a book, hers about journaling, mine a romance.May: I traveled to Washington DC with a group of sixteen from the Nashville Choir to participate in a Convocation of the Arts sponsored by the Washington Arts Group. What a rich feast of fellowship, fun, creativity and challenge. The trip was like going back to high school or college –getting to talk and play non-stop with a bunch of great people, our only responsibility to sing (and fight the temptation to criticize the chaos). Gary Pigg and I also enjoyed having lunch with dear friends Marty and Vickie McCall and Carolyn Naifeh.
June: I finally began inviting dinner guests using the china, crystal and silver I inherited from my mom. I attended the Schermerhorn again and enjoyed Carmina Burana, performed magnificently by the symphony choir. With the Nashville Choir I had a great time recording for Michael W. Smith’s next Christmas album.
July: A life-transforming process began when Carol Pigg and I began doing one chapter each week from the exercises recommended by Julia Cameron in The Artist’s Way.
August: One of the dreams I listed in an exercise from The Artist’s Way was to sing in a Renaissance chamber music ensemble, and an email came my way mere weeks later announcing tryouts for such a group. I tried out and became a member of Collegium Vocale at Vanderbilt. Very challenging!
September: The C.S. Lewis Foundation put on a wonderful one-day seminar at Belmont University which I attended with my C.S. Lewis-loving friend Diane West. At our first Collegium concert I reconnected with the first guy who offered me a publishing deal in Nashville, Randy Cox. I was inspired by my neighbor the massage guy to begin a detox program with an amazing Christian nutritionist named Celeste Davis. If you’re local and you would like to be healthier, go to her website at http://wellnessworkshopcoolsprings.com
October: Jack Hayford spoke at a local church and it’s always a personal blessing for me to hear Pastor Jack, my spiritual father since 1973. I braved a Pepperdine alumni gathering for the first time ever and enjoyed meeting several new people and renewing a few previous connections. We were all grateful to hear that the fires had not damaged or injured any Pepperdiners. The most fun thing about October was rehearsing with Gary Pigg, Chris Harris, Cindy Hudson and Ric Simenson for a reunion of our group Fireworks, one of the groundbreaking early rock groups in contemporary Christian music.
November: Lead singer and songwriter Marty McCall has been battling cancer so we were not sure if he could join us, but he gloriously did, and we had a fabulous night singing at the Koinonia Family Reunion Concert on November 1. Other musicians included ‘70s groups Homecoming (Brown Bannister, Bob Farnsworth and Alan Robertson subbing for original member Mike Hudson) and Dogwood (Steve Chapman, Ron Elder and Ken Fletcher). We were all thrilled to hear Amy Grant, Billy Sprague and Jim Weber. Some of us did a promotional interview on Brian Mason’s Sunday morning radio show (photo below).
November also included two weeks in California. I enjoyed time with my brother and sis-in-law, Chip and Sharyn, as well as Thanksgiving Day with Sara and Sam Jackson, Helen Young, and their family. The Jacksons and Steve Stewart and I had a wonderful dinner with Janie and Mark Long. I had a great evening reconnecting with college friend Dan Hoard, who is the new minister at the Redondo Beach Church of Christ, where I also got to see Jimmy, Janice and Ramona Hahn, George Hill, the Smythes, the Grimeses – it was an old home week for long-time Pepperdiners.
December: The most amazing month to top a remarkable year – I connected with an eHarmony guy who has visited from Illinois twice. Ted and Jane-Anne Thomas (with whom I attended a family reunion last year) stayed at my condo while Jane-Anne had a medical appointment at Vanderbilt and later returned to receive a clean bill of health. After performing in an Advent concert with Collegium and a Christmas concert at church, I enjoyed being a part of the congregation at the Christmas Eve midnight service at St. Bartholomew’s where I love hearing Eric Wyse lead worship.
“Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power
that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and]
do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think
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Imran Khan can never become premier, says IM
Islamabad: Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb, while talking about Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan, has said that the later can never become premier of Pakistan opting for ways other than elections.
The information minister was referring to the PTI’s demonstrations and sit-in against the alleged offshore money of the Prime Minister Nawaz’s family.
Separately, she said that projects in fields of education, health, infrastructure and energy sectors were testament to the people.
She asserted that those preventing the development and leveling allegations will not succeed, referring to the PTI calls for the prime minister’s accountability in the case of the Panama Papers probe.
The premier is an elected prime minister with the votes and that people are completely backing his agenda of the country’s progress.
Taunting on PTI government, she said that Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) government can only prevail to rule the province if it respect the mandate of the masses of the province.
According to Maryam Aurnagzeb, construction of motorway, atomic explosions and China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) are meant nothing less than a revolution for the country.
Maryam Aurangzeb concluded that as to why no one other than the Nawaz government took such revolutionary measures. The prime minister has always carried forward his agenda of development of the country and the people, she added.
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Early Birthday Surprise
My Dear Friend, LOLS, has been on holiday for several weeks, so she sent me my birthday card early. She sent it all of the way from Malta (where she lives) so I don't think anybody thought it could get here to Ohio, USA this fast! Can you believe the beauty of this card!!? I never received one so special, and so LARGE! It is the most beautiful card I have ever held in my hands. Thank you so much Lols! She is sitting lovingly on the top shelf in my office. It has all of my favorite things, red ribbon, tilda, charms, layers, butterflies, glitter, embossing....oh the details. Even the flowers have been custom died. This must have taken her YEARS to make!
She also sent a Teddy bear, candy and a spiffy handbag for me. Oh my goodness! It was like Christmas! Here is my little boy in his new Hard Rock Cafe - Malta T! It says "My first Hard Rock Malta T shirt" I love it! Sorry the pic is a bit blurry, I am still learning how to use my iphone. ...and yes, that is Simon our dog and store namesake in the back corner, he is always lurking in the corner of our photos.
Thank you so much Lols. Although I am not in a hurry to turn one year older, it sure is nice to get such treats early! You are very thoughtful and I appreciate your friendship! It will soon be the thirteenth anniversary of my 21st birthday!
aww doesen't Jax look cute :-) Lovely to see Simon in there too :-) I should have popped a doggy chew in there for him eh !! Will do next time :-)Just to point out to Rosette, the Maltese are generous ( on the whole !! ) but I am in fact English :-)
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Thursday, May 31, 2007
My painting, Untitled #127 will be part of the Celebration Of Life And Art exhibit opening June 1st at the Troy and Dollie Smith Cancer Center. The Center is located at the INTEGRIS Baptist Medical Center Complex, Building D, 3300 NW Expressway, Oklahoma City, OK. The exhibit is a tribute to those whose lives have been touched by cancer. The show will run through July 13th. Opening reception is June 1st from 6 - 8pm. The reception is open to the public but you must RSVP at 405-951-2277 indicating the number of attendees. There will also be a luncheon on June 3rd to be held at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, 1700 NE 63rd Street, Oklahoma City, OK. The luncheon too is free and open to the public but you must make a reservation at the above number. The luncheon will include a presentation "Medicine, Marathons and Miracles: Turning a Diagnosis of Cancer into Personal Victory" by Roger and Kathy Cawthon. Roger is a former CNN sportscaster and Kathy is an award winning author and photographer. They are co-founders of the Cancer Crusade, an organization dedicated to fighting cancer with hope and humor. They were diagnosed with cancer within six weeks of each other. Their frankly hilarious take on the world of medicine blends seamlessly with a powerful message that energizes and inspires audiences to laugh, love and live in the moment, every moment.
All artwork is available for sale with the proceeds benefiting the Art Therapy Program at the Troy and Dollie Smith Cancer Center. There is a wonderful array of art, all by artists whose lives have been touched by cancer. Please stop by.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
This is a 5 x 5 x 1.5 inch painting done on gallery wrapped canvas. It's available for purchase in my Etsy shop. And speaking of Etsy, you are invited to a Virtual Card Party. Click here for all the details.
Friday, May 25, 2007
Why not select something from the WWAO Group of Artists on eBay. The WWAO is an international collective of women artists showing and selling our original art online. You are sure to find something to suit your needs no matter what the occasion. Happy shopping!
Thursday, May 24, 2007
My 30 year class reunion is coming up. Yes, 30 years. But it got me to thinking about what I wanted to be when I grew up. A lot of you have heard the stories about how I started drawing geometric shapes on notebook paper and then graduated to drawing fashion and how CoCo Chanel was my idol and how I transferred those geometric shapes to canvas when I started painting and how I wanted to be a Fashion Designer and how I started designing note cards after a friend asked me to design a card for her baby shower and on and on. But very few of you have actually seen any of those Fashion Illustrations.
I would cut out pictures from magazines and newpapers and draw them. I also would use the bodies as templates to draw my own designs. These drawings are from photos I cut out.
I went to a small art and design school and got an Associates Degree in Fashion Design. But then I couldn't find a job as a Designer. I was offered pattern making and sewing positions and my attitude was like "Are you kidding me, I Can Draw why would I want to sew or make patterns."
Thinking back on it, although I said I wanted to be a Fashion Designer I think what I really wanted to be was an artist. I hated sewing, and making patterns and all the other things that are part of designing, but I loved to draw. So in fact I may be doing exactly what I set out to do when I grew up and just never even realized it. How about you, are you doing what you wanted to do when you grew up?
Have a great day everybody, thanks for stopping by. Sorry I don't have better pictures, I just scanned what I could.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Hop on over to the Lazy Frog Company and see their newly remodeled, newly reartfilled location. There you will find art, jewelry, handcrafted bath and body products as well as hand made mosaics, mosaic tile and mosaic tile supplies plus much, much more.
Featured artists include Gina West, Vicki Smith, Sheldon Shapiro, Trent Lawson, "Stephanie," Minnie Pack and of course me. They are located in the Paseo Arts District at 2410 N. Shartel and are open Tuesday - Saturday from 3 - 9 pm. Whether you're looking for a gift or something special for yourself you're sure to find it at the Lazy Frog Company.
Monday, May 21, 2007
This is one of the first paintings I did years ago. I wanted to create something with texture as well as have the colors kind of intermingle. This is what I came up with. It's available as a print from Art.com.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
I started going to thrift shops years ago in the hopes that I would come across things that noone else noticed the beauty in. I usually came away with frames but then one day I found this duo. I have never found anything quite like this since but I still go just in case.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Yesterday morning we had rain for several hours and then for a short time the weather became severe with high winds, thunder and lightening. It lasted just long enough to knock the power out so Rose and I had to entertain ourselves for a time. One of the things we did were these ATC's. Artist Trading Cards or ACEO's - Art Cards Editions and Originals as they are also commonly known, are small works of art 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. They are considered an inexpensive way to collect art.
It's funny how you get into a routine and may not even notice. We were sitting outside when the gentleman from the power company came by and asked us to check to see if our lights were working. I checked and gave him a thumbs up and told Rose we had power. I headed for my easel and I could hear the sweet sound of music and finger popping coming from her room.
Have a great day everybody, thanks for stopping by. BTW for anyone who may not know, Rose is my sister and she has autism.
Saturday, May 12, 2007
This is another painting from the class I took a couple of years ago. For this exercise we were each given three sheets of paper, one black, one white, one grey. We were instructed to make three collages using only the paper we were given. Once that was done we had to vote on which one we liked best from each student and if we thought an element should be moved in their collage we could move it. Once all that was done each student had to paint their collage that received the most votes. Of course I couldn't paint the background grey could I?
Friday, May 11, 2007
I was part of a group show that was held at the Ft. Worth Community Arts Center from April 14 - 28th. The show culminated in an Art Auction and Cocktail Party on the 28th with the proceeds benefiting the North Texas Chapter of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services. Some of you may be aware of the fact that I lost my mother last June to Myeloma so this was a very important event for me. Myeloma is cancer of the Bone Marrow, it is very rare and only has a 30% survival rate. My hope is that future generations will benefit from their research so that someday if there is no cure the survival rate will be higher.
I was delighted to learn a few days ago that $30,000 was raised from this event. Over 200 artists participated some of whom along with the coordinator of the event are cancer survivors. These are a couple of photos from the exhibit. Have a great day everybody, thanks for stopping by.
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Although I had been painting for years I took my first painting class a couple of years ago. We did an exercise where each person was given two items and they had to use the shapes repeatedly in a painting. I got a square piece of paper and a straw and this is what I came up with. I intended for it to look like a wall hanging that had been created to compliment the wall treatment but everyone thought it looked like a robot. What do you think?Have a great day everybody, thanks for stopping by.
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
I just found out yesterday about eBay To Go so I just had to use it. These are some earrings I made. A portion of the proceeds go to the Komen Foundation. Have a great day everybody, thanks for stopping by.
Monday, May 7, 2007
This is a drawing by my sister Rose who has autism. It's pen, colored pencil and crayons on paper. This will be available on a note card in my eBay store.Have a great day everybody, thanks for stopping by.
Friday, May 4, 2007
Need Mother's Day Note Cards? These are two that I did. On both of the cards the artwork was done using pastels. The first bouquet is printed on 110# white cardstock. The second bouquet is printed on acid free photo paper and mounted to green confetti 80# premium cardstock. Both cards come with envelope in a clear cello sleeve. To purchase visit my Etsy Shop. Don't like any of the cards I have? Do a search for WWAO and Etsy Greetings and you will find lots more.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
My work will be exhibited at a new gallery that opens this weekend. The gallery is called Taina's Art Gallery and is located in Montgomery, Alabama. These are the pieces that will be exhibited there. Opening reception is Friday May 4th from 4-8 pm. The gallery is located at 2055 Carter Hill Road.Have a great day everybody. Thanks for stopping by.
About Me
I am a contemporary artist and caregiver for my sister who has autism. We lost our maternal grandmother to breast cancer and our mother to myeloma so I am always looking for ways to advocate for these causes. Visit my eBay store or my Etsy shop where a portion of the proceeds are donated to support these and other important causes.
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Achieve your Fitness Goals
This is Victoria she came to me a few years ago and wanted to compete in ladies body building.She had been told by a previous trainer that she would never be able to achieve her goals because of her body type.she was very disheartened by this but never gave up on her dream. She found me and we worked together and she achieved her goal.She now enjoys life as a successful competitive female body builder.
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Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said the government was in the process of addressing challenges posed by the economy which had seen “a little dip” in the last quarter.
Jaitley, however, rejected the opposition’s criticism that the economy had been adversely affected by demonetisation, which was described as a “severe attack on black money” by BJP President Amit Shah in his address to the party’s national executive.
Stating that the country’s economy was sound, Jaitley said macroeconomic data in the last three-and-a-half years had shown it was “sounder than ever before” except for the “little dip” in the last quarter.
“In the last quarter there has been a little dip in the GDP which I have already addressed,” he added.
“Whatever steps are required to change the (economic) environment we are certainly in the process of addressing them,” Jaitley said.
Taking on the opposition, the Finance minister said the Congress-led UPA had not “taken a single step” against black money and corruption and added that tackling graft and eliminating black money were never a part of the UPA’s political and economic agenda.
“It is obvious that any step against black money and corruption will never be supported by any UPA leader,” he told reporters after the BJP’s national executive meeting here.
In the last three and half years of NDA rule, the government had taken several steps, he said, adding that those at the receiving end would be “uneasy” about these measures.
He said despite a slowdown in the last quarter, the services sector had actually improved in the April-June period.
It is manufacturing which brought the GDP down, he added.
The minister attributed the slowdown to weak investment in the private sector that is dependent on banks’ ability to support growth and to destocking ahead of the launch of GST on July 1 this year.
Earlier in the day, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari told reporters that “teething problems” happen when major reforms such as the GST and demonetisation are undertaken.
The BJP in its resolution said the government consistently resolved difficulties faced by the people and traders during the initial period of the implementation of the GST.
Asserting that the economy was stronger under the Narendra Modi-led government than during the UPA rule, Shah talked about various benefits of both demonetisation and GST, including bringing more transparency to the system.
The BJP chief cited several figures to make his point about the economy.
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As I was emptying the dishwasher the other night, I marveled at all of the wondrous things in our kitchen. I have knives that actually cut. I have different mixing bowls for different purposes (don’t ask me what all of the purposes are). I have glasses for wine. Heck, I have a dishwasher. I am so lucky.
I remember buying a set of knives at a yard sale for a dollar. It was a wood block with four big cutting knives (that’s the technical term) and five or six personal steak knives. We used these knives for years. We should have bought new ones, but these worked…kinda. And new/better knives cost money. I remember cooking frozen pizza on a small square cookie sheet. You know pizzas are round, right? So then you can imagine the pizza flopping down around the edges of the cookie sheet, and the cheese sliding down into the danger zone at the bottom of the oven.
Why do I bring these things up? Conservatives like to defend the rich. They promote laws that raise taxes for the poor and lower taxes for the rich (flat tax). I think they don’t understand what it’s like to actually be rich. They don’t understand how easy it is to be rich and have things like a nice kitchen. I’m not even “rich”, I’m middle class – but life for me is pretty darn easy compared to a lot of people.
Sure, the kitchen example is a somewhat silly example. So, let’s talk about some bigger things. Most low paying jobs don’t offer sick or vacation time. If someone in a low paying job gets sick, they have to take time off work (smaller paycheck), and go to the doctor or a clinic (which costs money). And don’t even think about a vacation. For many low paying jobs, taking multiple days off work (much smaller paycheck) to go on vacation (which costs money!) isn’t an option.
Or, let’s talk about voting. If I want to vote, which happens mostly during the workday, I can come into work late. (Now that I live in WA, voting is by mail, but most states have in-person voting). Hourly people don’t always have the option to come in late. Or, they might be able to, but would then miss out on the money for that time they weren’t at work. They could go after work, but then they stand in line for hours, instead of taking care of their kids or going grocery shopping.
So all of this worry on the part of conservatives about the rich just dumbfounds me. There are so many people with actual problems. They can’t take off work when they’re sick. They can’t easily vote in elections! And yet, conservatives worry about the rich. People, the rich can take care of themselves. This isn’t Atlas Shrugged, this is Les Miserables. Can you hear the people sing?
So, as far as I can tell, conservatives don’t know what it’s like to be rich. Cuz if they did, they would know that the rich can and do take care of themselves. The rich can take off work to vote. The rich can pour money into elections to tip them in their favor (see: Koch brothers). The rich can do whatever the hell they want. I can do almost whatever I want. The poor can’t. So why help the rich? Why focus on the rich?
The only other explanation is that a majority of conservatives do know what it’s like to be rich, and all of their “it’s better for America” talk really is “it’s better for me” talk. That’s an even scarier thought.
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Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease characterized by gradual cognitive decline and memory loss. Although research has focused on elucidating the risk factors, pathophysiologic abnormalities associated with AD and on mechanisms of impeding disease progression, results indicate that a variety of factors may contribute to AD which makes treating this disease difficult. The neuropathological hallmarks of AD include senile plaques which are composed of extracellular deposits of amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide as well as neurofibrillary tangles, neuronal loss and inflammation. Microglia, the immune cells of the CNS, are abundantly found in the vicinity of neuritic plaques. It is believed that microglia become activated in response to Aβ leading to an inflammatory response and subsequent neuronal loss associated with AD pathogenesis. Modulation of the Aβ-induced intracellular signaling and functional responses of microglia could serve as a therapeutic strategy for AD.
Full length amyloid beta, Aβ₁₋₄₂, induced distinct intracellular signaling pathways in human microglia. Electophysiological studies indicated that Aβ₁₋₄₂ acutely applied to human microglia upregulated the expression of a novel outward K⁺ current, sensitive to the nonselective
K⁺ channel blocker 4-aminopyridine (4-AP). A similar outward K⁺ current was activated by intracellular application of GTPγS which suggests that Aβ₁₋₄₂ induces an outward K⁺ current in microglia via a G protein. Molecular biology studies indicated that the K⁺ channel upregulated by Aβ₁₋₄₂ was likely due to Kv3.1. Aβ₁₋₄₂ also caused a transient depolarization of microglia and increased the expression of the FcγII receptor. The FcγII receptor mediated this depolarization since antibody inhibition of the FcγII receptor inhibited the Aβ₁₋₄₂-induced depolarization.
In addition to its ability to block the outward K⁺ current upregulated by Aβ₁₋₄₂, several in vitro and in vivo assays indicated that 4-AP modulates Aβ₁₋₄₂-induced intracellular signaling and functional responses of microglia including neurotoxicity. Calcium spectrofluorometric studies indicated that Aβ₁₋₄₂ activated a calcium entry pathway which was blocked by 4-AP. Chronic exposure of microglia to Aβ₁₋₄₂ led to increased p38 MAP kinase expression and NFκB activation; in the presence of 4-AP, both factors were inhibited. Stimulation with Aβ₁₋₄₂ also led to the expression and production of pro-inflammatory mediators; 4-AP was effective in reducing the expression and production of these factors. Furthermore, 4-AP attenuated neurotoxicity induced by conditioned medium from Aβ₁₋₄₂ stimulated microglia. In vivo, injection of Aβ₁₋₄₂ into rat hippocampus caused neuronal damage and increased microglial activation. Daily administration of 4-AP was found to suppress microglial activation and exhibited neuroprotection. These results suggest that 4-AP modulation of Aβ₁₋₄₂-induced intracellular signaling pathways and functional responses in human microglia including microglial-mediated neurotoxicity serves as a potential therapeutic strategy in AD pathology.
The chemokine CXCL8 (IL-8) appears to potentiate Aβ₁₋₄₂ responses in human microglia. RT-PCR and ELISA studies indicated that CXCL8 potentiated Aβ₁₋₄₂-induced expression and production of pro-inflammatory mediators; the expression of antiinflammatory
cytokines IL-10 and TGFβ₁ remained unchanged from basal levels despite treatment with stimuli. Stimulation with CXCL8 itself was effective in increasing microglial expression of pro-inflammatory mediators however, had no effect on protein levels of all these factors. CXCL8 potentiation of Aβ₁₋₄₂-induced inflammatory mediators may have particular relevance to AD brain which exhibits elevated levels of the chemokine.
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Valley boy scores soap stint
Author: with James Joyce
Date: 02/07/1999
Words: 174
Publication: Newcastle Herald
Section: News
Page: 9
THE new spunk in Summer Bay is a Muswellbrook boy.
CameronWelsh, pictured right, who was born and raised in the Hunter Valley
town, joins teen soapie Home and Away from July 15 as Mitch McColl, a motherless
16-year-old `bad boy with a heart of gold' kicked out of home by his
stepfather.
Welsh, 22, was a keen drama and music student at school, wrote plays and even
had his own band.
He was 17 when he left Muswellbrook to pursue an acting career in Sydney but
wound up doing an apprenticeship as a chef.
`It is such a great opportunity to further my craft and it is steady work for
three years,' Welsh said of his hot TV role.
`That seemed appealing to me after having bit parts here and there. And, of
course, the idea of going to the beach to film with gorgeous women was also very
appealing.'
His hobby, playing the guitar, has been incorporated into the character, who
will quickly show an interest in Hayley (played by Rebecca Cartwright), Summer
Bay's resident angelic blonde.
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Generally, my cookie repertoire is fairly boring – chocolate chip, peanut bitter, an occasional oatmeal raisin. But sometimes, especially during the holidays, I like to mix it up a bit. These Double Chocolate Peppermint Cookies do just that and are quite festive as well! Of course, now I have a bunch of extra candy canes lying around the house, which will probably mean making some peppermint bark.
The original recipe called for the melted chocolate to be drizzled on top of the cooled cookies, but I think it makes much more sense to just spread a layer of chocolate on top – more surface area for the candy cane pieces to stick to. I also made mine about twice the size called for, (I used a small scoop that equals about two tablespoons), because bigger cookies are better cookies. Right?
Valentine’s Day Baking Tips & Tricks at Darigold in Seattle
I was recently invited to a dairy baking demonstration at Darigold headquarters in Seattle. And of course, when someone invites you to spend the day in Seattle tasting fancy desserts and pastries made with mountains of cream and butter, the correct response is, “Yes! Of course I will attend!”
Upon arriving at Darigold, we had a butter and sour cream tasting, learned a bit about the company and then it was time for the demonstrations and dessert tastings.
Chef Pierre Fauvet was on hand to take us through the creation of not three or even four desserts but five! Five dairy-rich, decadent desserts. Such a difficult way to spend an afternoon. In addition to Sour Cream Raspberry Chambord Cheesecake, we also sampled Salted Caramel Tart, Cream Puff Swans, Raspberry Cream Tart and Chocolate Eclairs.
I’ve posted the cheesecake recipe below. It would definitely make a wonderful Valentine’s Day dessert, but it does need to chill overnight, so plan accordingly.
This French Friday with Dorie pick, for me this week, was the perfect recipe. It was super quick and chocolatey and aside from the nutella, I actually had all the ingredients already. Perfect!
Instead of brioche, I used challah as the recipe suggested as an alternative. But not just any challah — I had some cranberry challah rolls in the freezer. This was the perfect excuse to defrost one, slice it up, and slather it with goodness. Plus, I thought the cranberries added to the overall flavor.
Notes:
1. I kind of wish the other side of the bread was toasted too. If I do this again, I’d probably toast the one side, flip it over and then spread the butter and toast up the second side.
2. I had no patience for a double boiler and just gave the nutella two 15-second cycles in the microwave.
3. I used chopped pecans for the top, as I didn’t have any hazelnuts.
I love this chili! I’ve made it twice in the past month. It’s really good…not mouth-burningly spicy (but it has a kick), very complex and if you are not from Texas, it’s perfectly appropriate to add beans, imho. Hooray! If you want your chili all meaty and Texas-like, just increase the meat to 3 pounds and loose the beans. How you prefer your chili is between you and your kitchen, that’s what I say. This is just how I like it.
The second time I made it, I actually grabbed a boneless rib eye steak from Trader Joe’s, cubed that up and used that for the meat. I think it was about $5 and I liked that better than the $12 worth of short ribs I used originally. Go figure.
Oh and this leftover chili makes EPIC NACHOS. Seriously. Just load some tortilla chips up on a baking sheet. Scatter some spoonfuls of (warmed up) chili on top, add cheese and diced red onions and stick in a 400 degree oven until the cheese melts and the chip get a little golden. Wow. Yeah. You’re welcome.
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Had a few rounds yesterday with my new Saints. Got a 169g Gl and a 165g sparkle opto. I max out at 350ft so I don't have a big arm by any means.
The Gl had a healthy bit of turn (like in Hag's video) but I wouldn't call it flippy. In slight headwind with a 350ft rip it hyzerflipped nicely, glided straight as an Dx Teebird and had minimal fade at the end.
The Opto Saint was more stable. Managed to get some nice sweeping low-line hyzers with it. The opto was definitely more wind resistant for me. I was comfortable throwing it into some headwind without fear of it turning and burning on me.
Had my friend's Dx Teebirds and my beat gummy star Eagle-X as a comparison. I'd say that the Saint has definitely more glide than the EX, it's also more workable than a Dx Teebird but I wouldn't use it as a distance driver like the TB. So the speed 9 is a bit off in my opinion. I think the Saint will be what Eagle-X's should've been: a true workable glidey fairway driver. I'm positive that it'll make a great pair with my PD's.
i got my first batch of saints in the mail this morning. disc feels good in the hand, and all 3 variations i ordered had a nice dome to them and the plastic was grippy. i ordered 2 169 red optos, 2 168 raspberry gold lines, and 2 174 yellowish green optos.
Had a few rounds yesterday with my new Saints. Got a 169g Gl and a 165g sparkle opto. I max out at 350ft so I don't have a big arm by any means.
The Gl had a healthy bit of turn (like in Hag's video) but I wouldn't call it flippy. In slight headwind with a 350ft rip it hyzerflipped nicely, glided straight as an Dx Teebird and had minimal fade at the end.
The Opto Saint was more stable. Managed to get some nice sweeping low-line hyzers with it. The opto was definitely more wind resistant for me. I was comfortable throwing it into some headwind without fear of it turning and burning on me.
Had my friend's Dx Teebirds and my beat gummy star Eagle-X as a comparison. I'd say that the Saint has definitely more glide than the EX, it's also more workable than a Dx Teebird but I wouldn't use it as a distance driver like the TB. So the speed 9 is a bit off in my opinion. I think the Saint will be what Eagle-X's should've been: a true workable glidey fairway driver. I'm positive that it'll make a great pair with my PD's.
So...it's sounding and looking like a Valk maybe? Less stable than a Viking/OLF? I should have mine in hand in mere minutes and it looks like I'll be able to give it a whirl tonight.
My Saints came today!!! Probably won't get them in the air until Saturday morning, but they look and feel very nice. Slight dome, but not huge. By eye the rim looks a little narrower than my Strikers. In the hand it feels a little TL or Eagle-like. I will chuck them this weekend and give a noodle arm report.
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Since we Aikidoka are the biggest practitioners of compliant partner practice, let me chime in here. Does alive training necessarily have to be 100% full bore speed and power? At what point, does compliant become alive, or are they two roads which will never intersect?
Case in point: While training in a compliant partner practice, I, as uke, look to see, first, if nage has successfully blended with my attack. This means, he avoided my strike, or neutralized my incoming force. If he hasn't, I let him know; by either making contact with him, or stepping out of the technique.
Second, he is in proper position and actively defending himself from a possible secondary attack. This means he is positioned in a way I have very little, if any, opportunity to strike him or take his balance, and/or has his off hand positioned in a manner to address any opening that is left. If he fails here, don't hit him, or throw him; but extend the would be strike or maneuver at an appropriate rate of speed so he can recognize the opening he left. I never do this faster than the technique is progressing. I do as to not actually hit him, or throw him but to make him aware so he can adjust his technique.
Third, as the technique progresses, I see if he has actually affected my balance and/or posture, and the amount of physical strength he is exerting to do so. If he isn't affecting my balance, or is using a lot of physical strength to, I again either strike, step out from, or maneuver to counter the technique, to make him aware he has not successfully affected my balance.
Fourth, I am aware if he continues to maintain the effect on my balance and posture. If he loses it, then the technique is over, till he regains it.
Fifth, When he throws or pins me, I check to see if he is on balance still and grounded, and whether he is using physical strength to pin or throw me, or if he is allowing me fall as I lose my balance or can no longer resist due to the positioning of my body. If he is trying to muscle me, I resist, or begin a counter; again just to make him aware that he is giving me an advantage by doing so.
Now throughout all this, I have to let him, complete the technique as best as he can. Of course he will be stumbling through it as he makes mistakes, but to just stifle the technique serves no purpose either. We usually take one concept at a time in this. Sometimes, as a higher ranking student, you need to help steer the newer student through the technique. This way he gets a feel of the idea of the technique, even though he isn't really completing it. As he fixes his errors as he goes, he will someday end up with a solid technique. The learning curve is slow in Aikido for this reason. Plus, if all you did was stifle the technique or put up road blocks, you end up in a tug of war impasse, and nothing gets learned for either nage or uke.
Now if we are training slow, and I am essentially stopping the technique at the points where the technique is failing, isn't that a form of being alive while training. I know there are many who just go with the flow in this style, and yes, it creates people who think they are doing something they are not. I have trained with many, who have really pretty techniques, when they train certain people, but can't perform the basic concepts, when training with others. Could this be due to the aliveness of the people they choose to train with?
While training, I try to stifle someone's first couple of attempts if I can. This way, I use human nature to try and ensure they try to do the same to me when we switch.
Since we Aikidoka are the biggest practitioners of compliant partner practice, let me chime in here. Does alive training necessarily have to be 100% full bore speed and power? At what point, does compliant become alive, or are they two roads which will never intersect?
Thank you for your post. Every Sensei I have trained with, encouraged this type training. I think the more dance like training, results from students wanting to emulate the smoothness and speed of experienced Aikidoka. It shows the value of being a good uke; and that being a good uke or harmonious doesn't mean just being able to fall when you are supposed to.
I have noticed, when visiting, or training at new schools, especially those where people have promoted rather quickly to third or second kyu or above, they expect you to just go with their technique because they are doing it and you're in the dojo. I know some who would rather not train with me, and others who seek me out as a partner, because of this. It is literally taking the ego of someone who is right around the corner to shodan, and busting it on the floor, when they discover their artsy technique fails on the basic level.
If you're confused look at some of the vids and examples others have posted. Hell, look at my example of the FMA drill from the op. You talked about drilling technique in BJJ, do you do any specific drills to train specific techniques? Like a guardpass drill? The armbar, triangle, omoplata drill? Any others? What do you like about the drills? What sucks about them? That's kind of what i'm getting at.
It's not a matter of liking the drills. It's a matter of, there's no other way to learn a technique other than to drill it first, then try it out in a realistic fashion. Learn the technique in a controlled, limited environment where you can slow down, make adjustments and learn the details. Then put it to practice.
Again, I have no idea what is so difficult about this. Drill technique, try it out against a resisting opponent.
It's not a matter of liking the drills. It's a matter of, there's no other way to learn a technique other than to drill it first, then try it out in a realistic fashion. Learn the technique in a controlled, limited environment where you can slow down, make adjustments and learn the details. Then put it to practice.
Again, I have no idea what is so difficult about this. Drill technique, try it out against a resisting opponent.
Nothing about this is difficult, you're just making it difficult for yourself I suppose. Who's saying there's no way to learn a technique other than to drill it then train it live? I think we both agree on that.
I think my OP may have been hastily written. I should have thought out what I was trying to accomplish with this thread a little more to better convey what I wished to discuss. As It's A Fake pointed out the initial tone of the thread starts out a little condescending. Most people who have been here for some time know both compliant and live training is necessary I was just trying start off and reiterate that, there's really no need for debate there. It seems some of the guys replying to the thread grasp what I was getting at with the OP and others don't.
To simply sum up and restate the OP. Lets talk about compliant drills!
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bathy·scaph
a deep-sea diving apparatus for reaching great depths, nearly 11 km (c. 6.8 mi), without a cable: it consists of a navigable, ballasted, submarine-shaped float filled with a fluid lighter than water, and a steel observation cabin
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This is not fiction by the way…
Religion & Brainwash
Call me crazy but what if we learn to love our brothers for nothing in return..reaching out to the ones who need help treating them as you would first treat yourself..now that would just be insane…
Today, I left the house late for work. Terrible. Really terrible. Apparently, this morning, I thought they had this “All Car Owners” meeting at Agungi bus stop because I could literally see all the car owners in Lagos at that Bus stop(if you are reading this, and you have a car, you bet I saw you too!!!) Seriously!!! Days like this, I just whisper a silent prayer of thanks to God for not owning a car….YET!!!
Anyways, I stood at the bus stop hoping to get a bus to Obalende.
My office is at Obanikoro o!!!!
Okay, let me explain. This week, I decided to patronize my Uncle. Spend the entire week at his house. Being judged for wearing my hair like Sambisa Forest, wearing Chuck Taylors ‘at my age’, wearing Red Lipstick and what again sef…practically being me..(#sigh# wetin man go do…can I be you please???)
I actually told you I’m patronizing my uncle because I now stay on the Mainland. Yes!!! Ojota to be precise. (Omo, that transition felt like doing the ‘big chop’ I tell you!!! Funny things have just been happening to me since I cut my hair!! Support me on this matter people!). Anyways, as I was saying, my float fare is usually less than #200 from my new ‘abode’ but from my uncle’s house, just to be scrutinized for everything, I spend about #300 which is actually not wise but that’s why it’s called Patronizing. I mean, I could spend less than that if he decides to drop me off at Obalende or something but he wouldn’t let me into his car as long as I have a red lipstick (which I don’t kinda wear regularly) or wear something like a dress that is straight or stops on my knees..see ehn, let me be frank I could go and on but I do love him (I’m his ‘anyway’ fan).
So, as I was waiting o, I saw this lovely lady pull over. Two other ladies were standing next to me. There was a dark one and a yellow paw paw(light skinned). The lady in the car said ” I’m going to Lekki Phase 1 just incase anyone is interested (TAKE NOTE). The yellow pawpaw quickly jumped into the car. Me, I was not going to Lekki Phase 1 o, but I got in anyways, after the dark lady. The sun of this morning can make you change your name if that’s the only requirement for not being smitten by it!! So, the fact that the car had a working A.C made me reconsider my location.
FOUR FAMILIAR STRANGERS
It may just be crazy enough to work if we could only loved. What if we somehow changed the world, it may just be crazy enough…
We began our journey.
The Nice car owner put on her radio.
The news was playing. A lady was reading the news. She said “another female suicide bomber invaded kinikan kinikan (I can’t remember)in Bauchi state” Everyone in the car froze. Then, the talk began.
“Bauchi!!!” Car owner said. I nodded.
“My God!!! I served in the North o!!! Thank God I’m done. The North is such a dangerous place”Yellow pawpaw said. I nodded.
” No, its not. North-East is peaceful” Dark one said. I nodded.
“Ahan!! I’m telling you the North is quite dangerous.” Yellow Pawpaw argued. I nodded.
“I’m from Borno. I’m quite familiar with the North” Dark one argued. I nodded.
” Ehen, you are from Borno? I lived in the North for 25 years. Do you know kinikankinikan(I can’t remember)? I’m friends with sososo and so (I can’t remember) family” Car Owner said. I nodded.
” Whao!! Really? I know them.” Dark one said.
Somehow, the conversation changed from bomb blast to regions then beliefs and then Religion.
“All these people will just be brain washing their people. Claiming violence is the way” Yellow Pawpaw said. I nodded.
“My dear every religion “brainwashes” That’s why I always tell my children to be careful about what they hear from pastors.” I nodded. “Let me tell you a story.” she continued. “I lost my grandfather, he lived in Festac; so I’m always at Festac. We invited a priest to come for the something something(I can’t remember) program. This priest came and started telling people that they should make donations. He started calling amounts. #100,000 thasand (thousand), #200,000. People were getting up; giving. At a point, he said everybody should empty themselves and give everything they came to the place with and see the wonders God will do in their lives.” I shook my head and said “whao!! that’s sad”. ” My dear, it was more than sad because I saw people giving, expecting magic to happen. I wanted to talk but I said if I talk now the thing I will be hearing from my family members is “this woman is trying God o!” And that’s what people are made to believe. They make God look so complicated but this God is so loving and understanding. He knows me.” And I said “True that”
“That’s actually true.” Dark one said. ” They’ll say don’t wear this or that (in my mind, I was like come and tell my uncle o!!!) “They will say you have to be like this or like that just to worship God. But Jesus is nothing like what I heard He was like” I nodded.
“My dear, I tell all these people ‘Dont pray for me. Pray with me. Is the God you know different from the one I know?’ Hmmmmm…we should sha see this God o!!! That is my own. Because I don’t understand why someone will donate huge amounts to the church just to be a stakeholder in the house of God. Stakeholder o!!! When people are hungry and begging. people are killing themselves for titles in church. What happened to the Love Jesus took His time to teach us?” Car owner said.
“Religion on its own is a brainwash…if one is not careful and learns to hold on to God.” Yellow Pawpaw said. I nodded
” So, my dear, I’m turning here. I’m sure you will see a bus that will take you to your location” Car Owner said. I smiled and said ” Thank yo so much ma. I’m grateful” and jumped out of the car. What a way to begin my day.
THE JOKE
I grew up in an Orthodox church. I loved it. But I always wondered why every sermon had to do with your neighbour who is a witch and desires to kill you and block your road more than receive his salary. I mean, I grew thinking all my neighbors were witches especially those who had strong strong faces.
Some weeks ago, a guy walked up to me and asked me for #200. He was no stranger to me. But, I remembered Mfon’s face when she was telling me that the boy’s mother looks like a witch and she does strange things. So, me, I funnily thought the boy’s mother sent him to come and collect the money from me so that she would use it to block my road and marital destiny..(#sigh# I know). Anyways, I shamefully admit. I didn’t give him. This destiny hustle is real abeg!!! But, in all fairness, I did wrong and I know some loyal people will defend me and say I was protecting myself but really, I was nothing but a big hypocrite that day. My religious belief had filled my heart with more fear than faith and that doesn’t look like the aim of religion.
I once attended a church where the pastor had red eyes. Mfon said its because the man is filled with the spirit of God. ‘He has the eyes of a man that has seen far” she would say. I never believed her. That man looked high to me. And o boy!!! I found out he was. I was the drummer in that church. This man led the praise session sometimes and every service, i often wondered why the tempo increased from medium to fast to very fast to the speed of light!!! Every Sunday, I walked out of church with severe hand pain. Some months after the man got a church member pregnant, and sent his wife and his child out of his house, he moved in with another church member who was a broke lawyer. One day, Mfon caught him getting high on weed on the roof of the church. She came home weak and said she doesn’t like people with red eyes. Me, I sha saw it!!! He had the eyes of someone who had seen far under the influence of weed!!!
Maybe I should continue this gist later…..tomorrow(I have more gists for you before we land on the conclusion of the matter)
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"Once upon a time, in a land far away,a beautiful, independent, self-assured princesshappened upon a frog as she sat contemplating ecological issueson the shores of an unpolluted pondin a verdant meadow near her castle.The frog hopped into the princess's lap and said:'Sweet Lady, I was once a handsome prince,until an evil witch cast a spell on me.One kiss from you, however, and I will turn backinto the dapper young prince that I am.Then, my sweet, we can marryand set up house in yon castlewhere you can prepare my meals,clean my clothes, bear my children,and forever feel grateful and happy doing so.'That night, dining on a repast of lightly sauteed frogs' legs,The princess chuckled to herself and thought:I don't f**king think so."
from I Don't Know How She Does Itby Allison Pearsonxxx
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That explains the frog on crutches outside the station.He swore he'd get even with the bitch who did that to him. I gave him a few coins to help him buy a ticket towards her home. Oh. And I gave him a machete too. I think he said he needed one for chopping..... was it firewood? potatos? no, I can't quite remember, but as I left him seemed happy, honing the edge on a piece of stone, and singing a song about a princess......
“There are two kinds of women: those who marry princes and those who marry frogs. The frogs never become princes, but it is an acknowledged fact that a prince may very well, in the course of an ordinary marrige, gradually, at first almost imperceptibly, turn into a frog. Happy the woman who after twenty-five years still wakes up beside the prince she fell in love with.” — Stephen Mitchell
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Harris compiled a 2.91 ERA in 61 relief appearances last year and followed that up with a good spring. Still, until Randall Delgado moved from the 'pen to the rotation following the injury to Patrick Corbin, it looked like Harris might have to start the year at Triple-A Reno.
Harris said he did not pay attention to the roster speculation during the spring.
"I've always taken the approach that if you pitch well and if you're good enough to pitch in the big leagues, you'll pitch in the big leagues," he said. "They'll find a spot for you. If you can help a team win, then you'll be here, and if they don't feel like you can help the team win, then you won't. I just try to do whatever I can to help the team win and I feel like the other will take care of itself."
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The truckers went on strike this time after the Russian government announced it would double the Platon [toll-collection system] tariff as of April 15… [The] government softened that blow in March, temporarily raising the fee by a lesser amount to about 3.4 cents per kilometer.
That doesn’t seem like much. But Ibragimov says he travels 100,000 kilometers in a year, which would add up to $3,400. His annual income, he said, is $6,500 in the best of times. Given fuel expenses and wear and tear, he is looking at a net loss.
The Washington Post has nearly destroyed its credibility with its feverishly biased coverage of Trump’s campaign and presidency. However this report raises no suspicions of bias: it’s not about Trump and it fits well with dispatches by independent Russian journalists. Check out Reading Russia for helpful translations.
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If you want to buy a repeater for use with a mixed network (wired or wireless), be sure to buy a repeater with wireless 802.11b / g standard. This standard should be the same as the standard modem, even if some transponders with several standard (check the paperwork with the repeater to find out) are compatible.
Click “Use the following IP address” and enter the IP address, subnet mask and default gateway. The IP address is the address that you allow your computer, would depend on the configuration of the router. If this address is 192.168.0.1, then you need an IP address in the format 192.168.0.x (x replaced with the value that you want to) to enter your computer.
The next step is useful for router users. If your computer or server connected to the router, it is not enough to get a static IP and add MX record. It is necessary, your router and configure.
Many computer network tools, including Linksys routers try their Internet Protocol addresses by default 192.168.1.1. For such cases it is possible to encounter some problems because it is very difficult, different devices use a single network address and Internet protocol use. In this case, everyone should remember to use the default addresses, the computer before you change to a single network.
Is just make sure that your modem and router are connected to the socket. See if all the lights lit on the front of them. If the modem and router have lights on the front follow the instructions below. If not, where we do not know.
Modem autonomous Please connect to the Internet via the WAN port on the router. Close CCTV DVR and computers available ports on the router as well. The router should now be configured to connect to the ISP and the connection.
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I can’t believe its December already! How did that happen?! December means that holiday season is upon us bringing with it lots of parties and excess amounts of food and alcohol. A lot of people treat the holiday season as a time to “go off the rails” and studies show that the average person gains between 1-5 pounds during the winter holidays! So I want to share my top tips to stay healthy during the holiday season. If you are going to be travelling over the holidays, be sure to check out my post of how to stay healthy while travelling here as some of those tips will overlap as staying on track is all about planning ahead!
1. Keep a Realistic Frame of Mind
Whatever your goals are, do not try and change them or become more strict about your eating habits during the holidays. It can be frustrating to try and lose weight, or cut out certain foods during this time and if you restrict too much you may throw in the towel and just binge. Instead of trying to make any change, just try to maintain.
2. Don't Skip Meals
If you try to "save" up your calories, you will be more likely to eat more than if you had stuck to your normal meals. If you're planning to attend a party and know that there will be lots of treats there, have a healthy snack or a small meal before you go so you can still sample some of the items, but won't be as likely to go overboard.
3. Take Control of the Situation
If you are attending a pot luck at work or going to someone's house, offer to bring a dish. Plan on bringing something that you know you can enjoy but that is still healthy.
4. Enjoy Your Food Slowly
Eat slowly, take small bites, and savour the flavours. It takes 20 minutes for the stomach to communicate with the brain that you've had enough to eat, so to take your time. Eat until you are satisfied, don't stuff yourself. If you stop when satisfied, you'll avoid that uncomfortable full belly and sluggishness.
5. Stay Hydrated
Drink plenty of water, as staying hydrated controls the appetite. It is not uncommon to confuse thirst cues for hunger, so before reaching for another holiday treat, try a glass of water first.
6. Eat what you love, leave what you like
Instead of piling your plate a mile high with everything from the buffet, pick only the foods that give you true enjoyment. If something doesn’t make you swoon, leave it on the sidelines.
7. Load your plate right
Load up on meat and vegetables first and then get smaller portions of the heavier foods that you don’t want to miss out on.
8. Go Easy on Alcohol
Alcohol is not only damaging to the liver but it is not calorie-free and its effects can lead to lowered inhibitions and increased food intake.
9. Get Active
The holidays are not an excuse to stop your regular exercise routine. Even if it's just a walk in the evening after a meal it will make you feel better in the long run.
10. Nix the guilt
Feeling guilty after eating foods you don't usually allow yourself to eat can breed more unhealthy habits. So abandon those negative thoughts and give yourself permission to enjoy the indulgence free of guilt. Then remember the importance of getting back on track with your normal eating routine the very next day.
I will be sharing healthy holiday treats throughout the month of December, so be sure to stay tuned to the blog or sign up from my newsletter to get notified when new recipes are posted!
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Dash-Cam Revelations In NJ Show Again The Importance Of Video As Evidence In Police Abuse
from the worth-a-thousand-words dept
Several weeks ago, Tim Cushing wrote about a case in New Jersey featuring an officer accused of abusing a cyclist who failed to engage his dash-cam during the incident. As noted in the piece, the value of having optional tape of any incident occurring between an officer and the public should be obvious. On the one hand, the public is already under a great deal of public surveillance, which can often times be used as evidence in any criminal proceedings. Tape featuring law enforcement action is valuable both ways, first in holding our public servants to account should they fail to behave appropriately and second to exonerate them if they are accused of wrong-doing.
In this latest story, also in New Jersey, we see an example of the former. Marcus Jeter was met by police at the home he shares with his girlfriend after a domestic violence call made to police. Once there, police reportedly spoke to Jeter, who says he left amicably after briefly talking to officers. It's worth noting that no charges were ever filed for that domestic incident. What happened next, however, is another matter entirely. Jeter was pulled over by officers shortly after leaving the site of his home.
The New Jersey DJ, 30, was arrested in a 2012 traffic stop and charged with eluding police, resisting arrest and assault. Prosecutors insisted that Jeter do prison time.
The plea deal offered to Jeter was five years of prison time, for resisting arrest and assaulting police officers. Those were the charges levied in the officers' report. Those charges, as would later be determined by an active police dash-cam, were utter bullshit.
The video, which prosecutors say they never saw before filing the initial charges, shows Jeter holding his hands above his head.
"The next thing I know, one of them busts the [car] door and there is glass all over my face," he told ABC News station WABC-TV about the arrest. "As soon as they opened the door, one officer reached in and punched me in my face. As he's trying to take off my seat belt, I'm thinking, 'Something is going to go wrong.'" Jeter says the cops continued hitting him, telling him not to resist arrest.
Oops. As it turns out, there wasn't any resisting of arrest and the only assault occurring was when the officers beat the hell out of Jeter. On top of that, the officers in question elected to omit surely-unimportant details of the arrest from their reports, such as when one of them careened over a median into Jeter's vehicle, which was also shown in the dash-cam footage. On top of that, police had their weapons drawn almost immediately, despite the fact that Jeter had pulled over to the shoulder as requested and remained in his vehicle, terrified.
Thanks to Jeter's attorney filing a request for records, which included the footage, the charges against Jeter were dropped and charges were instead filed against the officers. Those charges include aggravated assault, conspiracy, and official misconduct.
Now, we can and should respect law enforcement, but that respect doesn't come without the public's right to verify our public officials are behaving honestly and judiciously. Let there be no argument: the public has a right to the footage of officers in action.
I think my favorite part has got to be imagining the looks on the various thugs' faces when they realized that a camera caught the entire thing on tape.
They pull the guy over, beat the crap out of him and drag him out of his vehicle, try and frame him and get him thrown in jail for years, and then the video is presented. Oh the looks on their faces must have been priceless.
Nice to see the justice system working decently for once, what with the charges against the victim dropped and charges brought against the people who tried to frame him, hopefully the courts in that area are willing to actually go all the way in charging and punishing the thugs, and not just let them off with the typical slap on the wrist, 'don't get caught next time' type 'punishment' that happens far too often when an 'officer' finds themselves on the other side of the justice system.
These officers committed a terrorist act
Oh, and...
...do you think this is the first time that these pigs did something like this?
A competent and diligent AG would now be reviewing every arrest they've ever made where "resisting arrest" was part of the slate of charges. I'll bet these pigs routinely beat the crap out of people for no reason other than they could, then got them thrown in prison for "resisting arrest".
I wonder how many of their fellow officers knew about this but were too cowardly and weak to rat them out?
Re: These officers committed a terrorist act
Again, are police really that arrogant to believe they can continue doing this to people over and over with absolutely no repercussions? There are literally millions of "patriot" type people out there armed to the teeth and when the risk of giving up peacefully becomes to great, things will hit the fan all at once...I hate to say it but maybe that will be a good thing. In the meantime, personal surveillance is new concern I never thought I'd have.
Dash Cam Off? Then presume the officer is lying.
This happens often enough that it seems that we need something stronger than the presumption of innocence for the accused. If a cop has a dash cam and it is off when an incident occurs, the presumption should be that whatever the *suspect* says is true. That would get those cops to leave the cams on.
Re: Dash Cam Off? Then presume the officer is lying.
This is one of those rare cases when the police car's dash-cams don't inexplicably "malfunction" - and we all see the result. In a way it's sad that the cops didn't destroy the tape on the spot, since that means they probably felt they did nothing wrong and had nothing to hide.
If anyone wonders why police hate cameras so much, this should help answer that question.
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But that's a large part of the problem. Because cops in this country believe that everyone they come across just might be armed and planning to shoot them, it makes them more likely to use violence as a pre-emptive measure, just in case. Maybe people should ask why police in other countries (at least non-occupied ones) generally don't act this way.
I didn't know cycles had dash cams
Re: Re:
Because cops in this country believe that everyone they come across just might be armed and planning to shoot them
Except that's complete and utter bullshit. Shooting deaths of police officers last year were the lowest since 1887. Yes, that isn't a typo, 125 years ago when the population of the entire US was only a little over 50 million. Overall deaths were the lowest since 1957 and most of those were traffic accidents. So tell me again why the police agencies are arming themselves with military equipment and weapons?
and this sort of thing is not only happen ing more and more, almost on a daily basis, how can anyone have any trust in or respect for the law? the police are playing by a totally made up set of rules that they seem to think gives them the right to beat up and/or shoot someone, for apparently, the flimsiest of excuse. and people still think the USA isn't fast becoming a Police State? with this type of occurrence becoming a daily norm, you gotta be kiddin' me!!
Re: Re: Dash Cam Off? Then presume the officer is lying.
This is one of those rare cases when the police car's dash-cams don't inexplicably "malfunction".
I am not convinced that the "off" switch didn't work properly. If the officer testifies that the camera was supposed to be turned off, the recording might be considered to be made without permission and inadmissable as evidence.
Yes, this sounds totally bat-shit crazy. But since we are talking about the U.S.A., not bat-shit crazy enough to be sure.
Re: Re: Traitor Cops
Re: Re: Traitor Cops
It would be more appicable as a reverse insurrection. The State's instrument (cops) have effectively in some areas declared war on the citizens thereof, and are the predators, not protectors of their communities. In some places contact with police is downright hazardous to your regardless of context. Luckily my area is not yet like that.
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Mayor Says He`ll Slash Trash Crews
October 05, 1985|By James Strong.
Mayor Harold Washington and the union representing the greatest number of blue-collar city workers appeared on a collision course Friday after the administration announced plans to slash garbage collection crews.
Washington said he will implement two-man refuse collection crews and shift the displaced workers to street-sweeping duties, increase bulk refuse crews and eliminate the need to hire seasonal workers without any layoffs.
Ernest Kumerow, president and business manager of Local 1001, Laborers International Union, blamed ``our friends`` in the majority bloc for prompting the administration`s decision and warned that the union intends to fight for higher wages for those left on the reduced garbage collection crews.
Kumerow said he was given advance information on the changes and received assurances that the transferred workers would not suffer pay cuts. As a result, a Chicago street sweeper under the current budget without any pay increases in 1986 would be able to earn roughly $21,000 a year without overtime. The current hourly rate is $10.48.
In announcing the changes, scheduled for the 1986 budget, Washington said, ``The people of Chicago will see more workers on the street, cleaner and safer streets and better use of their tax dollars.``
John Halpin, newly approved Streets and Sanitation commissioner, said the plan calls for some 223 sanitation laborers to be assigned to street-sweeping duties, especially in shopping malls, commercial and high-density areas.
Halpin insisted that refuse collection would become more efficient with no service reduction. He said street sweepers would also clear snow from sidewalks and other heavily used areas.
Kumerow warned that the city will have to negotiate changes with his and other unions, including Laborers` Locals 76 and 1092, which are aligned with the Laborers District Council representing 5,500 to 6,000 city street workers. Sharon Gist Gilliam, city budget director, said late Friday that savings would be measured in service improvements and fewer worker compensation claims.
Gilliam said that to the best of her knowledge Chicago is the only major city with three laborers and a driver on refuse collection crews. She conceded that the issue still remains to be negotiated with the various unions because of the change in work rules.
Kumerow accused Ald. Edward Vrdolyak (10th) and Ald. Edward Burke (14th), leaders of the 29-member majority bloc in Cbicago`s City Council, of lending their support and prompting the city administration to cut crew sizes from three laborers to two.
Kumerow referred to a speech by Vrdolyak and interviews with Burke earlier this week in which the two championed experimental plans to shift the responsibility of garbage collections from the city to private scavenger companies beginning in five or six wards next year.
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Russian oil output dynamics
Russia remains one of the largest oil producers in the world with 13% of the global oil supply in 2014; it is very important both for consumers and producers to have a vision of the current state and the longer-term prospects for the Russian oil industry development, especially as the current oil price conjuncture creates huge uncertainties.The Russian oil industry is going through a tough time at the moment: natural depletion of the Soviet legacy fields and an unfavourable exploration regime which was formed in the last decade have been substantially limiting production growth since as long ago as 2006. In 2014-2015 these negative factors were compounded by the financial and technological sanctions which impacted the majority of the Russian oil producers, as well as a sharp decline in global oil prices. It was natural to expect a significant reduction in oil production in Russia in this situation. However, statistics show that has not happened.In this article, Enerdata aims to assess which drivers determine Russian oil production dynamics and what production would look like in the near future. Russian oil production dynamics would depend largely on companies’ ability to introduce new fields into operation in due time and the pace of introducing state-of-the-art technologies, which would maintain production levels at the existing fields. We believe that despite the many difficulties, Russia could maintain the current production level in the medium term, within the basic scenario. In the longer term, production decline is virtually unavoidable; however, the rate at which it will happen should not be catastrophic. Moreover, should Russia implement a number of measures, production could even be grown. However, it is important to account for a possibility of a sharper fall in production if the pressure and the sanctions against Russia were to be toughened.
Russian oil output dynamics in 2000s
The oil sectors was privatized and deregulated in the early 1990s, according to the concept of ‘‘market reforms’’ promoted by the liberal block in the government. By the late 1990s/early 2000s, following a very contradictory transitional period, all the key Russian oil production assets found themselves concentrated in the hands of private corporations such as Yukos, Sibneft, Lukoil, and Surgutneftegaz – which had become world-class vertically integrated oil companies (VIOCs). All regional markets were divided between these private VIOCs, while state-controlled Rosneft accounted for less than 5% of the country’s production and an even smaller share of the oil products market. In 2000-2005 Russian oil output demonstrated incredible growth – it increased by nearly 50% (Figure 1). This rise was due to a number of the following factors having an impact on the oil industry. Firstly, an increase in global oil prices, secondly, a change of the existing taxation regime away from several specific taxes towards Mineral Extraction Tax and export duties. And thirdly, a substantial expansion of the Russian oil producers’ resource base. The latter was achieved by additional exploration of the fields in the Far East and Eastern Siberia. A general improvement in Russia’s investment climate following the most difficult crises of the 1990s also had an important impact.
Figure 1 : Growth in Russian liquids output
Starting from 2006 the growth rates slowed down considerably. Over the past 10 years, in 2005-2015 almost no company (apart from Bashneft and of course Novatek on the gas condensate side) have shown any significant organic production growth. At the same time oil production has started to become concentrated in the hands of state-controlled companies such as Rosneft and Gazprom Neft, while just two major private companies (Lukoil and Surgutneftegaz) remained by the end of 2013. This process started in 2003 with the Yukos case when, for the first time, the government showed its increasing interest in controlling growing oil revenues. Introduction of the ‘‘strategic fields’’ concept in 2008 marked a new era in the Russian oil sector, with state-controlled companies getting priority access to the most attractive hydrocarbon resources. Industrial performance supported this paternalistic trend: all major investments are carried out by state-controlled companies, justifying the state’s perception that private companies are focused solely on their profits, rather than on supporting the economy of the country as a whole. This strategy was also strengthened by the personal ambitions of Rosneft’s CEO Igor Sechin, who has been consolidating assets in Rosneft since 2004, turning it into Russia’s national champion. This Executive Brief is taken from an 11-page long analysis. To receive freely the whole analysis please contact us at [email protected].
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Hundreds of members from every corner of the Baltimore community packed Nowchild Soundstage on Preston Street on June 4 to celebrate the life, work, and music of Derrick Jones, better known by his monikers “OOH” and “Yo Slick.”
The man that so many knew as a mentor, father figure, teacher, brother, and friend, passed away at the age of 38 on June 1, but not before leaving an indelible ma
rk on his beloved city of Baltimore.
“There’s a disconnect with knowing that I was told he has passed away and feeling like he’s still here,” said Ian Smith, better known as “Jahiti.”
The two had a friendship that began on the campus of Coppin State College and spanned nearly two decades.
“He was holding religious conversations on campus, and I was holding them in the dorms—not knowing that we were each doing the same thing,” Smith said.
The two finally connected when Smith noticed Jones coming out of a campus building with a copy of Anthony Browder’s “From the Browder File” in his hands.
“That was the beginning of our friendship: sharing knowledge and the understanding of the spiritual quest,” Smith said. “He was intelligent enough to know that we are spiritual beings having a human experience and the more intelligence you have the better you can navigate.”
Jones himself was a loyal member of the Five-Percent Nation, but his influence and mission of serving the community crossed over the barriers usually posed by religion. Evidence of this could be seen clearly near York Road and Belvedere Avenue, where members of the Pleasant Hope Baptist Church, led by Heber M. Brown III, changed their public display to honor the memory of Jones in the days after his passing.
“The Baltimore community got it right—he knew that he was loved and appreciated it,” said Smith, noting that most people usually get their recognition after they’ve passed. “OOH got that love while he was alive.”
“No matter how close I think I was to him, there are another 400 or 500 people that feel they had that same connection,” he added.
Through his music, Jones was the gritty lyricist who worked crowds into a frenzy with catchy lines that pushed boundaries while also encouraging listeners to break out of the “fishbowls” they are living in. Jones and Smith had a strong following across the city.
To his students, he was Mr. Jones, the caring teacher who went the extra mile to make sure those he served never went without.
A force in the classroom for 10 years before moving into the position of director for the Baltimore division of Youth Advocate Programs Inc., Jones’ influence was palpable to those in attendance at the candlelight vigil Wednesday.
The crowd listened intently as three of his former students took to the microphone. Tears began to flow as one of the young ladies told audience members how Jones stepped up with the necessities needed to take care of the child she had at age 14.
Though Jones’ time as a teacher was a success in its own right, his real legacy centered around the work readiness program he created to take at-risk youth off city street corners and put them to work.
The program, Save a Dope Boy, spawned off a song Jones titled “Dope Boy” which told the tale of an inner city youth trying to survive while stuck in a cycle of poverty with all the odds against him.
“He was one of those kids. Because he was intelligent he was able to break the mold and get out, but what about those other kids who can’t?” said Smith. “Those kids who say they are only doing it only because they need the money.”
To them, Jones offered at least six months of employment at a local business. His program was so successful that an entire movement began to sweep over the city as the song became more and more popular. Sales from tee shirts and hats with the slogan became fuel to help the program survive. In September, The White House came calling for the man raised in West Baltimore’s Poplar Grove and East Baltimore’s Somerset Homes.
Some anonymous supporters had nominated the Save a Dope Boy program for recognition by President Barack Obama himself. Jones used his Facebook account to take his followers with him every step of the way.
“When he died it was like Maya Angelou passing,” said Munir Bahar, leader of COR, the group that carried out last year’s 300 Men March. Bahar recounted how Jones selflessly worked to combat street violence and pull young African-American men off street corners.
“Half of us will go on Facebook and post pictures and comments—and that’s only half,” said Bahar. “The real question is who’s going to take his place on the battlefield? It’s going to take a lot of men to fill his position.”
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British Prime Minister Theresa May announced she is stepping down. And, President Trump's tough talk on China sounds a lot like his tough talk on Japan in the 1980s. Plus, how much does a kilogram weigh, really? The answer is more complicated than you might think.
US tensions with Iran are ramping up with no clear plan in sight. Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says that while Iran is acting belligerently, the US response is not helping.
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All eyes will be on the Netherlands and its exit polls Thursday night, where young and charismatic Thierry Baudet, leader of new far-right party — with plenty of controversial statements to his name — is hoping to gain seats in European parliament. Some say the rise of far-right Eurosceptic parties has fevered speculation that this week’s election results could determine the future of the European project.
A hydrodam in Turkey will soon flood a Kurdish town. But water is only part of the story. Also, what are the effects of US sanctions on Iraq? And, Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina was on the leading edge of gay rights in the country. He died on Tuesday.
It's one of three recent high-profile case where the US government has denied citizenship to children born overseas to a same-sex married couple because the child did not share biological ties with the US citizen parent.
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from detnews today .. damn don't wanna lose him, guess his family is still out in Cali?
Stuart lights lamp for family
After stating publicly this week that considerations of living closer to home will figure prominently in his decision to re-sign with the Red Wings for next season and beyond, Brad Stuart scored his first goal of the season Saturday.
I thought his family moved to Detroit last year or so? Hm...that sounds like he plans on leaving then, whichw ill suck. He's been a great fit and you'd think he would want to stop being a journeyman. Will suck if we have to replace Lidstrom and Stuart.
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Well, I would hope that if he does want to move closer to home next year he does one of two things, A. Tells the Wings early enough of his decision so they can trade him to LA at the deadline for Penner or 2. HE lets them know he wants to finish the year out with the Wings and THEN go home, so after the season he re-signs a sign and trade contract with the Wings that the Kings like and gets's traded to the Kings for Penner (who also does a sign/trade.) Of course there is always option C. I'd like to see him re-sign here and when/if Lidstrom retires and Holland gets Suter (or Weber via deadline trade(yes I am thinking positive)) he will still be part of the NHL's best defensive corps and help bring one or two more Cups here.... (positive thinking feels good this morning!)
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I'd keep him if the price was right. However if family being in Cali. Definitely seeing the Kings or Ducks maybe throwing some more cash his way. Oh well, thing with Stewy is that too many times these last few seasons it seems he takes night's off. :/ Having said that he's looked pretty good these last few games especially last night. So I might have to bite my tongue. I think he's replaceable though in the end and either way no worries it will all pan itself out...
Would love to see him stay, he knows the team, has good chemistry. The tiniest part of me is also saying, meh. He hasn't been great this year (which I know hardly any of the team had been during that streak), and at times seems a bit less physical - especially since he broke his jaw. I mean this is a guy who used to fight every so often, but now seems to avoid it at all costs.
That being said, think when Lids eventually goes, we will need him to pair with Kronner and continue that solid partnership.
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For the price we pay for Stuart, he brings a lot of value back, but I wouldn't be sad if didn't re-sign him because I think we could easily get an upgrade over him.
I don't know about 'easy'. There's not a lot of good defensemen on the market. Defensively, he's been our 2nd best defenseman since he got here, and steps up his effort in the playoffs. I think some of us are too spoiled by Nick to appreciate his defense, and he'll always be vilified for game 7. That said, his lack of offensive acumen limits his value in our system.
Ideally, Nick will come back and Kindl, Ericsson, or Smith will step up to take a top 4 spot, and we won't need Stu or any of the good FAs so anyone we do land will be like a bonus (or we can focus on fowards).
If Nick retires I think we'll need a top FA, plus the kids stepping up, and either Stuie or another good FA.
Trade Stuart, a couple picks (e.g. 1st + 2nd), and a prospect for Dustin Brown and Alec Martinez at the deadline?
Would be good IMO, yes we would lost out on defence but Brown is a great upgrade offensively and finally provides a winger that Datsyuk can rely on to bury the chances he gets. Martinez isn't bad and maybe they want something more for him, but I do think we need to at least grab some sort of Dman in the deal.
This trade is good for both teams IMO, gives LA a good dman to rely on (and maybe he'll perform better there - close to family etc), a couple good picks, and a prospect (e.g. Tatar) that could turn out to be great.
Outside of a few stretches while playing with Lidstrom, Stuart has been extremely average imo. I think this is an excellent opportunity and perfect time to unload him and not look for anything in return except the cap room. The Red Wings have a good group of young defensemen and a top 3 that are probably one of the best top 3's in the league. I really like the look of: Lidstrom/White, Kronwall/Commodore, Kindl/Ericsson, Smith next year. And if they dump Holmstrom, Hudler, Bertuzzi, and Stuart, then they gain about 9 million of cap room. I guarantee they can pull in a good defenseman like Matt Carle for 5-6 million a sesason if they want to. Brad Stuart has been consistent. That's the best attribute he's brought to this team. But it's time for him to move back home.
Sweet. This dude was brought here for one reason, to punch people in the head - every other thing that he can do, other Wings can do better. I like that we have a head-puncher. The league has other, better head-punchers, but this one is ours. Better than nothing. Good work, Kenny!
I don't know about 'easy'. There's not a lot of good defensemen on the market. Defensively, he's been our 2nd best defenseman since he got here, and steps up his effort in the playoffs. I think some of us are too spoiled by Nick to appreciate his defense, and he'll always be vilified for game 7. That said, his lack of offensive acumen limits his value in our system.
Ideally, Nick will come back and Kindl, Ericsson, or Smith will step up to take a top 4 spot, and we won't need Stu or any of the good FAs so anyone we do land will be like a bonus (or we can focus on fowards).
If Nick retires I think we'll need a top FA, plus the kids stepping up, and either Stuie or another good FA.
We also have Commodore who can provide cover, providing he signs another year (as far as I know it's only 1 yr?).
Trade Stuart, a couple picks (e.g. 1st + 2nd), and a prospect for Dustin Brown and Alec Martinez at the deadline?
Would be good IMO, yes we would lost out on defence but Brown is a great upgrade offensively and finally provides a winger that Datsyuk can rely on to bury the chances he gets. Martinez isn't bad and maybe they want something more for him, but I do think we need to at least grab some sort of Dman in the deal.
This trade is good for both teams IMO, gives LA a good dman to rely on (and maybe he'll perform better there - close to family etc), a couple good picks, and a prospect (e.g. Tatar) that could turn out to be great.
Gives us an elite scoring winger and a good dman.
Thoughts?
My thought is that the Kings are very unlikely to be in a playoff bind come the deadline; that they're very unlikely to trade away their captain; and that they don't need another defensive D-man.
Well honestly I cat blame him for wanting to go back closer to his family, it must be tough.
His play seems affected by it as well, he has seemed to be declining a bit in my eyes the last year or so.
Hello Tim Gleason, pending UFA after thisoffseason.
4 years younger, FROM MICHIGAN which could figure to be huge, capable of the exact same offensive output, a tough fighter and a very rugged physical guy much like Stuart is and plays witha legit mean streak.
Really if Stuart walks, I see Gleason as an upgrade by a decent margin and I think he is a more solid defensive defenseman. Stuart is a solid guy, and if he sticks around thats great but Gleason is basically a better version and that would be a great chance to improve the team
I wouldn't be upset if Stuart left after this year. I can understand that he wants to be closer to his family, and family ultimately overrides hockey. He's looked sluggish this year. He's been a big part of our defense since he was acquired in '07/'08, but I think there are better options out there. If Lidstrom retires after the season, and Stuart leaves to be closer to his family, and Commodore is let go for another #7 defenseman, the defense will look a lot different. Too early to accurately predict anythingobviously, but I'll throw this out there:
X-Kronwall
X-White
Ericsson-Kindl
X/Smith
Possible replacements for Lidstrom:
Ryan Suter
Shea Weber (Long-shot, but still)
Possible replacements for Stuart:
Tim Gleason
Sheldon Souray
Adrian Aucoin
Willie Mitchell
Cory Sarich
Possible replacements for Commodore:
Jim Vandermeer
Bryan Allen
Sheldon Brookbank
Shane O'Brien
Suter-Kronwall
Gleason-White
Ericsson-Kindl
O'Brien
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The Thomas Czarneck Photos Give a Twist to Fairytale Endings
The Thomas Czarneck photos are a mix of satire and macabre humour as he denies beloved fairytale princesses their happily-ever-after endings.
Many grew up with their favorite fairytales like Snow White and Cinderella, and adored the way their lives seemed to work out for the best regardless of all the struggles. But this series titled 'From Enchantment to Down' depicts the sad demise of each of the fairytale princesses like Alice, Pocahontas, Jasmine, Ariel and many others.
In addition, Thomas adds an eerie sense of humor in these dark and brooding images, especially with the tongue-in-cheek titles like 'Just a trap' for Alice, 'Not so romantic' for Beauty and the Beast and many more. It is quite upsetting to see the demise of the fairytale princesses who serve as idols for many women.
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Bitcoin Price Dominates as Altcoin, Ethereum Prices Trend Down
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The crypto markets retracted this week, with ethereum and many altcoins posting declines greater than 10%. The bitcoin price, however, swam against the current to return a weekly gain of 3%.
Chart from CoinMarketCap
Bitcoin’s climb was not enough to prop up the total crypto market cap. The total value of all cryptocurrencies fell from about $95 billion a week ago to $89 billion on July 31.
Chart from CoinMarketCap
Bitcoin Price Climbs Despite Impending Bitcoin Cash Fork
TheBitcoin Cashhard fork is just hours away, but the bitcoin price continues to climb. In the past day, the bitcoin price has risen nearly 5%, crossing the $2,800 mark to reach its present value of $2,802. Bitcoin now has a market cap of more than $46 billion and a commanding lead of nearly $28 billion over ethereum.
Bitcoin Price Chart from CoinMarketCap
One potential reason for the bitcoin price climb is that since Bitcoin Cash is forking the Bitcoin blockchain, bitcoin holders will receive a bitcoin cash “airdrop” correlating to their balance on the original blockchain. Bitcoin Cash futures are trading below $300, but it is not known what the price will be when the actual coin debuts. Investors could be looking to sell Bitcoin Cash for a quick profit, or they could genuinely believe the forked coin has a chance to disrupt the markets.
Ethereum Price Down 14% for the Week
July was not friendly to ether holders. The ethereum price posted a month-long decline, falling below $200 after entering the month above $280. In the past week alone, the ethereum price has declined by nearly 14% to its present value of $196. At $18.3 billion, ethereum’s market cap is now less than 40% the size of bitcoin’s.
Ethereum Price Chart from CoinMarketCap
Ripple Price Leads Widespread Altcoin Retreat
Normally, bitcoin price increases have a correlative effect on altcoins. This week, however, altcoin prices hemorrhaged even as bitcoin posted gains. Counting ethereum, six coins in the top 10 declined by more than 10% during the last week of July.
Altcoin Price Chart from CoinMarketCap
The ripple price led the retreat, sliding 2% for the day and 16% for the week. Ripple ends July with a market cap of just $6.3 billion after beginning the month at about $10 billion.
Ripple Price Chart from CoinMarketCap
The altcoin market pullback reduced the litecoin price to $39 for a weekly decline of 11%. Litecoin’s market cap sits just $54 million above the $2 billion threshold. The NEM price weathered the storm better than most coins, holding steady at $0.165 for the day and declining 2% for the week. The Dash price dropped to $171 for a seven-day decline of 16%.
Ethereum classic, whose market cap is just $15 million below that of Dash, could not capitalize on the opportunity to pass Dash in the rankings. The ethereum classic price fell 3% for the day and 14% for the week.
The IOTA price dipped by more than 5% on Monday, reversing the progress it had made earlier in the week. It currently sits at $0.254. Monero and EOS both experienced moderate declines, while the Stratis price plunged by 20% for the week.
Twelfth-ranked BitConnect was the largest coin other than bitcoin to post positive weekly returns. Bolstered by a 7% daily increase, the BitConnect price rose to $66.
Bitcoin Cash (Futures) Price Slides
The Bitcoin Cash hard fork has yet to take place, but futures have been trading on ViaBTC for more than a week. Traders could obtain BCC futures (this symbol is not standardized across all exchanges) by temporarily freezing BTC on the exchange.
Bitcoin Cash Futures Price Chart from CoinMarketCap
Since its listing, the bitcoin cash price has experienced a steady decline. The bitcoin cash price began the week at about $550 but has fallen below the $500, $400, and $300 thresholds. At present, CoinMarketCap lists the price of bitcoin cash futures at $278.
Bitcoin Dominance Crosses 50%
Bitcoin absorbed an additional 4% of the total market cap this week, increasing its share from 47.4% to 51.7%. Bitcoin dominance has now surpassed 50% for four consecutive days, a feat it has not accomplished since May.
BItcoin’s Market Share Now Surpasses All Other Cryptocurrencies Combined. Chart from CoinMarketCap.
Ethereum’s market share has declined from 22% on July 24 to 20.5% on July 31. Ripple’s slice, meanwhile, has fallen to 7%.
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On May 22, crypto enthusiasts around the world celebrate the anniversary of one of the earliest bitcoin purchases: two Papa John’s pizzas for 10,000 bitcoins. Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer, purchased the two pizzas in 2010 from another person in Jacksonville, Florida, according to The New York Times. In an interview with the newspaper in 2013, Hanyecz didn’t sound too broken up about the deal.
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The Superbowl as an American Holiday
The most American of holidays is upon us once again. No, I’m not confusing February with July or November (though I could go for a good Honey-Baked Ham right now). I’m talking, of course, about the Super Bowl. This weekend, millions of Americans will gather around their enormous televisions and equally-enormous bowls of queso to watch the New York football Giants take on the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI (the one time each year when I have to remember how to read Roman numerals). Storylines abound. Will Tom Brady win his 4th ring, extending the Patriots’ reputation as a true sports dynasty? Will little brother Eli eclipse the greatness of his big brother Payton? Will New England enact brutal revenge on the Giants for their bitter loss to them back in Super Bowl XLII? As a sports fan, I’m interested in all of these storylines.
As a sociologist, my thoughts are elsewhere. I’m currently teaching an undergraduate course in the sociology of sports for the first time. It’s been a fun course to teach. Few cultural institutions can shed as much light on American values as the institution of sport. In sports, we see our beliefs about character, competition, independence, masculinity, God, and country; we see various forms of social inequality; we hear political metaphors about sports as war; we see corporate power, sponsorships, and merchandising permeating every facet of sports, even amateur sports among teenagers and children. We get a glimpse into what Americans know to be important.
This NFL season has provided an arena in which the intersection of sports and religion has been more apparent than most years in the recent past. The emergence of Tim Tebow, not only as a skilled starting NFL quarterback (debatable?), but as an important symbol of Evangelical Protestantism, has received much attention (some supportive, some not). Because Tebow has received so much attention over the last few months, I won’t bore you with my take on his skill or on his status as an Evangelical poster child or on his very public faith. I won’t wade into the question of whether God cares about football, or whether the controversy surrounding Tebow deserves our scrutiny at all. I would merely like to point out the fact that sport serves as a hugely important venue in which values are packaged, sold, and consumed. What values are being sold, and whose values are they?
I have asked my students to watch the Super Bowl this weekend and look for some of the various themes that we have touched on in class. For example, in what ways are we presented images of masculinity and femininity? Do we receive themes related to politics, patriotism, and war? How do corporate sponsorships contribute to (or detract from) our enjoyment of the game, and what messages do we hear from these corporate giants? Broadly speaking, what do we learn about ourselves as we participate in this yearly ritual?
If any of you have any thoughts about these questions after the big game, I would appreciate it if you would indulge me by sharing in the comments section below.
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