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This is point of inquiry for Monday, November 24th, 2014.
Hello and welcome to Point of Inquiry, a production of the Center for Inquiry. I’m your host, Lindsay Beyerstein. And my guest today is Rachel Godsil, research director of the Perception Institute, a national consortium of behavioral science researchers and legal scholars who study how our perceptions of race affect every aspect of society. Rachel is the coauthor of The Science of Equality, Vol. one, addressing implicit bias, racial anxiety and stereotype threat in education and healthcare. It’s a new report about how implicit bias, racial anxiety and stereotype threat contribute to black people getting treated worse at school, at the doctor’s office and on the streets of a country where most people believe racism is wrong.
But where a lot of people still act racist, often without realizing it.
And do you guys do programing in addition to putting out reports and no knowledge on the Internet and that kind of stuff? I mean, do you go out and do workshops and that kind of stuff as well?
Yes. So I’ve actually been on a barnstorming tour through food, through various states, doing trainings with judges, the Delaware and campers coming up soon in New York, New Jersey and Cleveland.
And then we do work with health care providers, some educational institutions. We’re beginning to talk to those who are involved in against culture creation in the media.
Fascinating. What do you guys do with the judges?
So this is something that I’ve done in my kind of crossover role as law professor and director of the Perception Institute. What I have been doing is working with the National Association of State Court Judges, and they have a program of doing implicit bias trainings. And they invited me to be one of their implicit bias trainers. I’ve altered the training somewhat to include the concepts, racial anxiety, stereotype threat that we’re talking about in the report. And so I’ve been doing essentially three our interactive lectures with the judges that include some discussion of how to apply these insights to their particular context of the family court. Judges, for example, talk about the ways that implicit bias may be affecting their decisions. I help them think through what do the intervention point where they may be able to use these insights to alter the dynamics and prevent those racially disparate outcomes from occurring.
How long is that Perception Institute been around?
Perceptions Institute is actually a reach, kind of a renamed version of what that started in 2008 called the American Values Institute. And that consortium was founded in fall of 2008 while the Obama campaign was at a low ebb and racial anxiety appeared to be a significant potential feature in how voters might be making their decision in presidential elections. And our concern wasn’t partizan persay, but rather to bring social scientists together to think about the way that race be affecting people’s voting decision. And so it formed at that point. And we chose the name America Values Institute, because the basic idea that it’s for America value that race and ethnicity and perceptions of religion, etc. shouldn’t be undermining or sort of interfering with people’s decisions about who they’re gonna vote for, particularly in an important election like presidential election, but obviously in any election. So the main scientists were looking for ways to address what seemed to be this undercurrent of anxiety. And the implicit the idea of implicit bias seemed the most relevant, because in very few people would say very few people, I think, thought I’m not going to vote for Barack Obama because he’s black. And in fact, when some of the surrogates for the Obama campaign outright said to some sort of voters in Pennsylvania, in Ohio, in other states who if you’re worried about voting for Barack Obama because of his race, you think about his campaign promises and how hopeful he’ll be to all the issues that we care about. And that was a great affront to the people to whom that was said. Understandably so, because they felt like they were being called racist. And so what the implicit bias, a lot to do is to understand how people could simultaneously feel oddly ambivalent about Barack Obama and be worried that he might be of Özlem or feel like they didn’t know him, despite all the incredible amount of exposure he got in the course of the campaign and still be very affronted and upset if someone suggested that race was the reason for their ambivalence.
So tell me about the report.
So the report is a result of several years of work, and because the organization in some sense was created with the idea of sharing with the public how important this concept of implicit biases and by implicit bias. I mean the automatic associations and attitudes people often have toward different identity groups. So in other words, most of us are committed to getting equality and fairness idea that racism is wrong and committed to the idea that gender ethnicity shouldn’t affect you, who receives what job, etc.. But because we live in a culture in which race and ethnicity and gender and other identity categories continue to be associated with all sorts of stereotypes, our conscious commitment to those values is not often predictive of what we actually do. What’s fascinating is it turns out that our unconscious associations and attitudes in different situated to the attitudes, how you feel about someone, what you like them, whether you don’t like them, whether you feel warm or cold, and associations are sort of the traits that you associate with them. So our associations and attitudes of different groups tend to be more predictive of how we actually behave. So how we make decisions and how we relate to people interpersonally. So implicit bias seemed critically important and that was our initial focus of all of our work. But one of the coauthors of the report, Phil Goff, does a lot of work with police departments. And one of the findings in his research was police departments trying to identify the causes for excessive use of force with the implicit bias nor explicit bias actually predicted which police officers were most likely to engage in excessive force against African-American and Latino young men. Instead, whether or not the police officer had masculinity, ambivalence, whether or not the police officer was worried that he or she generally he would be seen as racist.
How did they measure uses a forest? They look at people’s records retrospectively.
Yes, a little bit looked at feel data, looking at records that were recorded retrospectively. And they also did this sort of in-house training modules that they use generally. But they designed these explicitly to test how people would respond to different people on the streets with varying racial identities. So that finding, which is not in this report. He’s still continuing his study and he’s still gathering his findings. And this report is obviously focused on education, health. But that finding sort of opened our eyes to the idea that just focusing on implicit bias was not enough and that, in fact, if we focus just that implicit bias and a lot of lawyers were sort of at the point of great excitement about this, about how relevant this idea might be and suggesting all jurors should take the pulse, that association test, which is a test that you can take if you go online and look and Google product implicit and you can take an actual kind of online test that measures your implicit biases against African-Americans, against Latinos, against mobile Americans, against all sorts of groups. The lawyers are starting to get excited about the idea. You know, let’s use the implicit association test for prospective jurors or for prospective employees, prospective teachers. And what Phil’s finding made us think about is, first of all, implicit bias may not be the determinant of things that are critically important, like which police officers are apt to be engaged in excessive use of force.
Can we take a step back and talk a little bit about the history of the idea of implicit bias where this came from within the science?
Yes. So the idea of implicit bias in some sense, you know, we can take all the way back to Freud and the role, the unconscious, but was absolutely different about our current understandings of how the brain works from Freud’s understanding is that Freud assumed that what was in our unconscious was individual and personal. And often, you know, sort of strangely sexual and neurotic. But it turns out what’s in our unconscious are all the social categories. And what scientists call schema of how the world operates that’s actually shared among us. So we learn about what an object is, for example, or we learn about what gender is as children. And that is locked in our brain and we don’t never think about it again.
So would we have biases that are true as well? I mean, I have a concept of apples and I associate apples with being delicious. Is that a bias as well?
That would be an association. I don’t think we call it a bias in basically when you use the word bias in the sense mean either a positive bias, a preference or a negative bias, which we prejudice. So if we’re neutral, then again, that’s sort of a valence or for an analysis of whether something is sort of good or bad. But an association doesn’t necessarily have to be a bad thing. And having implicit associations essentially allows it to operate in the world. But we have to have these categories and we likely are always going to have stereotypes or associations about categories of people. The question is whether or not the categories or schema are accurate. And sometimes they’re wildly inaccurate. Sometimes they’re reasonably accurate, and sometimes they’re somewhere in the middle. So we’re always going to have those because, again, our brain needs them to function. But the question is, where do they come from and what do we do with them? And it’s also. I think we’ll have a change over time.
I was just going to ask you about that.
Yeah. So the stereotypes that people in the beginning of the 20th century had about the Irish, for example, and I’m Irish, so I tend to use examples involving Irish quite a bit. The Irish were seen, you know, in England and some parts of United States as absolutely sort of savage and, you know, sort of uncultured. And Irish need not apply. In Boston, for example, in our present day, that idea seems kind of silly and quaint because it’s so far from our current reality. But in in its time, the stereotypes with the Irish were actually quite deeply held and very quite pervasive. So how we think about categories of people is cultural and again, can change over time. And it’s it’s interesting to see which categories have changed and which have remained much more intractable.
I mean, the idea of race itself is a relatively novel idea, as we understand it today, right?
Absolutely. Absolutely. In fact, it’s in some sense the idea of race as being kind of black or white. They do that. There only are a couple of races, you know, sort of black, white, Asian. That’s entirely new. And it used to be that earlier eras that each ethnic group in Europe was a different race. So race in some sense has become much more simplified and, you know, sort of more binary in our current time. But at the same time, it’s also more fluid. The one thing that’s kind of interesting about the way implicit bias is work, they tend to be much less significant just based on how someone self identifies and more significant. How much one can you be easily said to resemble the group? So someone who’s a light skinned African-American is gonna experience the world often quite differently now than some of the darker skin. Whereas that wouldn’t have been so true in the 50s. So again, that’s another way that all this has changed. The report itself had the idea of bringing together these concepts of implicit bias and why it’s important. But adding to it this idea of racial anxiety. And when we use the phrase racial anxiety, we don’t mean what social scientists call racial threats, as in the demographics are changing and whites have anxiety that they’re going to lose power. Social scientists call that racial threat. When we say racial anxiety, what we mean is something very, very different, which is the concern that people have either in anticipation of or during an interracial interaction that their race or the perceptions about them because of race are going to make that interaction awkward or difficult. And so people of color often will be concerned when they’re in interracial interactions that they’ll be subject to bias would not necessarily recognize as much as whites are often very concerned that they will be presumed to be bias or to be racist in an interracial interaction. And what’s important to understand is that anxiety often causes the interactions to go exactly as badly as people feared that they would. So if a person of color is words that could be judged by someone through a bias lens and a white person, whereas it can be perceived as bias, both will be more awkward, less eye contact, more distance cortisol goes up. Their stress, reaction and people’s bodies is heightened. They’ve cognitively they have a little bit of shut down because they’re anxious. We’re not able to behave the way we normally do. And so racial anxiety turns out to actually be really important in specifically the kinds of institutions that we focus on in the report. Schools and hospitals. Interesting. So that, you know, I guess we we are we give a lot of information in the report. That’s not entirely new about. Very, very otherwise seemingly inexplicable outcomes in health care. You know, African-American women are far more likely to die of breast cancer than white women, even when we control for insurance, even with control for poverty, even we control for college education rates. Why would that be so? Some of it may be implicit bias on the part of doctors, but but the social science suggests that some of it is also probably racial anxiety, which leads to the interaction between white doctors and African-American patients to be shorter, to not elicit as much information, and to be to elicit less trust on the part of the patient. All of which affect the ultimate success of care. So and then again, if you think about teachers and in a racially anxious teacher, as we describe in the report, is less likely to give the necessary critical feedback that students need to do well. And in fact, there’s a study that we describe in the report where teachers, middle school teachers were sent intentionally poorly written essays. And when they were given information about the race and ethnicity and gender of the supposed students, they were responding to the essay for Self MSA. The teachers who thought that their students were black or Latino gave less critical feedback than they did if his office. Student was white or Asian. It gave more feedback, critical feedback. You need to improve here. This sentence is awkwardly phrased that this idea needs. More elaboration. And that was so except for those teachers who felt like they had the support of their principals who felt supported in their institution. Those teachers gave the same level, the same kind of critical feedback to black students.
So did they measure the racial anxiety on the part of the teachers, too? Did they find that less racially anxious teachers were more likely to give the critical feedback in that study?
They didn’t use an instrument to measure racial anxiety. We know that there are areas where we need to do more research, and that’s definitely some research we hope to do in that study. The way the researcher and Kent Harber at Rutgers University was the lead researcher on that paper. His conclusion that the different levels of feedback were a result of anxiety about being thought of as racist. So it’s basically the same concept. His conclusion is based upon the fact that teachers who talked about their feeling of belonging within their institution and whether they would have support from their colleagues and principals, those teachers gave equal levels of critical feedback to black students as they did to white students, whereas teachers who didn’t feel like they had support within their institutions gave lower levels of critical feedback to black students. Both sets gave lower level of critical feedback to Latino students. So what that suggests is that teachers do have some implicit biases about kind of writing capacity of Latino students. And it wasn’t implicit bias that caused the teachers to give different levels of critical feedback to black students. It was worried that they would be seen as racist. And again, this is an extrapolation from the findings and more work needs to be done. But in a sense, that’s really the only explanation that makes sense. Yeah. If teachers feel like their principal, support them and backs them, respond differently to the same essay as teachers who don’t.
Can you see this sort of creating a spiral of of lesser achievement where teachers are not giving people the feedback that they need to improve and therefore they’re not improving as much as everyone would like them to and as much as they’re capable of?
Absolutely. And in addition to students not being given critical feedback and therefore not learning what they need to do to improve students, it turns out, are sort of genius at perceiving when they’re being given false praise. Mm hmm. Students feeling our concerns are getting false praise or that they’re not being given feedback when essentially they think they in some ways ought to be given feedback. Actually disengage from school as much or more than students who feel like teachers are biased. So, again, another reason why we think it’s so important to understand the role of racial anxiety and what we call white stereotype threat is implicit bias. And the good news is these are fixable. So teachers can be taught how to give effective, interracial, constructive criticism that will balance between triggering concern on the part of the student that the teacher is biased because there aren’t teachers who are biased and they know there are players who are bias. And the study describes an example of law firm partners who do, in fact find, you know, more typographical errors when they think a medal is being written by someone black. Maybe when someone is white and who actually perceived the memo to be less well written when they think the person is black and white. So bias, of course, continues to exist. And so it’s kind of, you know, you’re between a rock and a hard place if you’re a student of color or if you’re a person of color in the workplace. If on the one hand you’re wondering, am I getting this negative feedback because someone’s bias. On the other hand, if you don’t get a negative feedback on my not getting any critical feedback because this person has racial condescension. And so Claude Steele, who’s brilliant social psychologist, who’s done a lot of the work in identifying this idea of stereotype threat, what he has done studies on is essentially how those who want to give interracial feedback can do so to answer the concern that a person of color might have on either end. And the way that that’s done is to expressly invoke high expectation. So it’s a state very explicitly, very high expectations for you then to explain specifically why you think that person is capable of meeting those high expectations? Gift giving examples. And then give all the critical feedback that person needs to hear in order to improve. And when that kind of you know, what he calls wise feedback or wife criticism is given, students of color don’t have to worry that they’re being judged through kind of a bias lens because they’re being held to high expectations. And that feels good. They feel that they’re being respected, but they’re also being given all the critical feedback that they need to be able to improve and to avoid the negative spiral that you described.
There’s this conventional wisdom in social justice circles that those of us, you know, are, well, people, everybody in some sense. But, you know, people are more privileged, should be constantly reflecting on it and checking their own privilege and being really aware of the fact that they might be overstepping, they might be doing something wrong. In light of this research, is that actually a productive way to go about it? Absolutely not.
So it’s a great question. Does the idea of white privilege is complicated or the idea of class privilege? Because, of course, if you’re. Upper middle class white person. You have all sorts of privilege, and that’s absolutely true. You have the privilege of not ever being subjected to the bias on the streets of someone of color. Has you have the privilege if you’re upper middle class, of having all of the creature comforts that those of us who are upper middle class do? Know for some people, you can go through the exercise of recognizing that privilege and then move on and still be kind of authentic and not filled with crippling anxiety and guilt. When you interact with a person of color, but for a lot of people, the checks, the privilege of the white privilege idea either makes them feel resentful, particularly if they’re understood to have white privilege, but they’re lower middle class or working class where life feels pretty hard and it doesn’t feel like there’s a lot of privilege going on. So that can cause to trigger a kind of resentment among someone who doesn’t, in fact, have the class privilege, particularly when they see someone having class privilege and they don’t feel like that’s being recognized as much as white privilege. But even for someone who legitimately could be said to have white privilege, recognizing your privilege alone doesn’t really do any work. So ironically, when we’re told to identify white privilege, it’s so that we recognize what we have and that allows us to look beyond ourselves. But I think often it stops with ourselves.
And I feel the conventional wisdom also feeds into it that it’s not just that people are supposed to interrogate their own privilege intellectually and realize that they have all these unearned attributes and privileges and good things, but also to constantly be mentally referring to it and have that be a thought. That’s really foremost in your mind if you’re being a good social justice ally about constantly checking your privilege as an ongoing thing.
Right. And I think with this social science suggests is what’s more important than checking your privilege is actually like, as I suggested, looking beyond ourselves. And this is a wonderful set of interventions that Patricia Devine from the University of Wisconsin has identified called breaking the prejudice habit that this social science would suggest should be put in place of the sort of white privilege mantra. And instead, we should be focused on breaking our prejudice habit, because that’s very outward looking. We should be thinking about how our behavior and how our treatment essentially of the people around us, how it affects them. And what do these interventions do is they essentially give a really helpful set of steps that we can take in order to reduce our biases. And what they involve are a recognizing that we often carry these stereotypic associations with people of other groups and think about how our actions might reflect those. So an example might be a white woman who inadvertently or sort of, without even realizing it, know, holds her purse tighter or sort of flinches when an African-American man walks by her to realize that we’re doing that. So to be mindful of what our behavior looks like, our behavior is affecting someone else’s effort. You know, the guy who just walked by a Forsys flinched. His day is now clouded by it is very hurtful notion that he’s presumed to be criminal or dangerous in some way. Instead of checking your privilege. Check your behavior. And then doing the work of identifying counter stereotypical images and ideas and people hopefully from the world that you live in. But it’s not necessarily a lot. It’s a lot of whites continue to live in fairly homogeneous environments. So you might need to reach beyond your immediate environment and reach to other media figures or people you’ve read about or friends of friends. It turns out that racial bias can actually be reduced just by knowing that people that are close to have close relationships, people, other races then did contact, which is amazing.
Do you think it’s possible that the knowledge of having a black president has changed Americans in some measurable way for the better?
In that sense, though, that’s obviously the hope. There’s not a lot of evidence to suggest that it’s done that yet. I think among this generation of youth, it certainly may, because it will have been commonplace to think of a black president from the time that they were young. But the one thing and this is where the break in the president’s habits steps are useful. The one risk that we have in just sort of assuming that we have a black president and therefore that’s going to alter their typical associations about black men is there’s always been a sense of exceptionalism. And so it’s very easy for people to accept the idea that a person can be excellent and a person of another race can be excellent. But what sometimes happens is inadvertently in people’s minds, and this is all happening, you know, sort of implicitly is someone becomes the exceptional and they’re somehow put into a different category than everybody else of their race. And so this is whereas the work of breaking the prejudice habit requires two additional steps. You identify countersuits, images, ideas, people in your mind to have those available when you actually are interacting with someone who is a person of color. But then you also learn, instead of trying to be color blind, which is what we’re sort of what we’re supposed to be. We actually have to work to notice all the individual differences within people who fit within the big category of a particular racial group. So so another challenge that whites often have these individuating among people of other racial groups, because I think we’re afraid to actually look at people and see, oh, this person has sort of chestnut brown skin and this kind of hair.
This person has a lighter clothes can like we’re Paris even think that way in our minds because that seems like noticing race too much. But there’s nothing wrong with noticing someone’s race. That’s who they are. And they’re not embarrassed about it.
They’re generally have a lot of pride in who they are. That’s very much part of their identity. But for whites, that feels very uncomfortable. And so it’s Paravant breaking the prejudice habit is getting over the anxiety that noticing race is what makes us a racist. And then finally engaging with a culture of empathic perspective, taking what often happens now we think of is like stepping into someone’s shoes, as you think, well, what would I do if I were in that situation? Well, gee, if I were walking down the middle of the street and a police officer told me to get onto the sidewalk, I would just get onto the sidewalk. I understand why this person in Ferguson, he’s got the sidewalk. But that’s, of course, not being empathic. That’s thinking, what would I do given my life experience and how police history to be and what it’s always been like. If instead we have to work harder to really think about what has the person’s experience been like? What would it feel like to have had those experiences, to have had police officers hassling you regularly? From the time that you were 10 years old? Like, how would that change your reaction? Officers, what might feel different in that moment? That can really kind of help overcome the sort of very polarized way that people often see the same situation. And then finally having as much interracial contact as we can find in our own circles, in our own communities. And what Patricia Devine found is people who did all four of those things. So identifying when they were responding based on stereotypes, making more accessible images of the people and ideas than people who didn’t fit stereotypes, really working to individuals within a particular racial group, and then really engage in empathic perspective, taking where you really think about what someone’s life has been like that actually reduced people’s prejudice levels. And if you’re taking implicit association test, it reduced your bias score and people express more concern and awareness of discrimination. And most excitingly, really is the people who did that work were enthusiastic about having interracial interactions instead of anxious or avoidant. And so this is why I suggested, instead of this interrogating or privilege, let’s actually look at our behavior and then think about more consciously about how it feels to be in another racial group to the point that we can engage with people in another racial group without it feeling weird and awkward, because that weird awkwardness, the racial anxiety actually is meaningful when again, in a lot of context, particularly when there’s the power differential, when you have someone who is the doctor or the nurse or the teacher stereotype threat play into all this. So stereotype threat. The general idea is the worry or concern that one is going to confirm a negative stereotype about your group. So stereotype threat was initially identified in the context of academic achievement. It’s been looked at with African-American and Latino students in taking standardized tests and clubs. Deal and Josh Aronson, who were two of the first researchers to identify it because they couldn’t understand why these incredibly brilliant students they had at Stanford weren’t performing nearly as well as they would have expected on the jury and going to grad school and sort of achieving what they thought they would achieve. And so they hypothesized that when people are taking a really difficult test, if there’s a little anxiety in the back of your mind that you might confirm a negative stereotype, that anxiety makes inaccessible all of your academic and mental capacity. And it won’t matter if you’re taking AP tests, but it will matter if you’re taking something like the G.R., you the LSD of the cat or something that’s incredibly difficult and requires, you know, every ounce of mental ability and agility that you have. And so they tested it by having one group of students take a difficult portion of the verbal GRV, and they said that could be a student. This is a verbal Jerry. This tells you you can support capable you are. And likely you are to get to grad school and to be successful if you go into grad school. And they called it the diagnostic tests and they gave another group of students the exact same tests. But they said we’re not interested in what your score is. We’re interested in how it feels to be taking the test. In order for us to measure that, you have to do your best, because otherwise how you feel when taking the test is valid. Both groups were given seats at the end or something, you know, happy at the end. And they found that the scores of African-American students in the diagnostic group were significantly lower than the scores of African-American students in the. How do you feel when you’re taking a standardized test group, the non diagnostic group? And so these were people who otherwise had identical academic records. And the significant difference in performance could be explained only by one group thinking it’s measuring their capacities and the other groups not being worried that it measures their capacities. This has now been replicated with gender and with other racial groups, including white men. Who are taking a math test when they’re just taking a math test? And white men, we’re told, before they take him out test that they’re being measured against how Asian-Americans perform in the math test.
Can white people get stereotype threat regarding their beliefs about their own of an inability to function and do the right thing and be decent, functional people in interracial interactions?
That’s exactly right. That is what Phil Goff has called white stereotype threat. And that’s exactly what he identified in those police officers that I describe as the beginning of our conversation. So it was the police officers who were worried that they would be perceived as racist, who ended up when they were in encounters on the street with people of other races, finding themselves using physical force more frequently than implicitly or even explicitly biased police officers. And Phil Goff, explanation for why that concern about being racist, which would seem like it would have the exact opposite effect. Right. Because these are people who are worried about seeming racist. His theory is that police officers have two sources of authority, moral and physical. If you worry that someone won’t respect your moral authority because they think you racist and if you worry that your behavior essentially might confirm the negative stereotype that you’re racist and therefore that you weren’t known world, then you don’t have that moral authority to work with and that believes you only with the physical authority. And Phil Goff has actually been able to come up with interventions that have worked for police officers and have dramatically diminished the level of excessive use of force used by people who fit this profile by coming up with a set of actions that the police officers have to take. We call it the golf protocol, which will ensure that they are acting in a way that is not racist.
How does that work? Maybe with the teachers that are less willing to give feedback if they have stereotype threat about their ability to be just and consistent teachers. How might that affect their ability to give critical feedback?
Again, our hypothesis is that it is likely to have the exact same effect. And it’s something that we’re hoping to engage in more research and actually use some version of the diagnostic tools that Phil Goff use of police departments with teachers. There are some school districts were actually quite enthusiastic about potentially working with social scientists to identify this, because it would be obviously enormously helpful to help teachers figure out what it is that’s potentially preventing them from being their best selves or their students and then their students from being able to be academically successful. It could be. And the way that that protocol could easily be translated into the teaching context is simply to provide the tools that Claude Steele, who identified the phenomena of stereotype threat, has found to be very successful in providing interracial feedback. So essentially, if the golf protocol, the policing context is step one, make sure you’re stopping someone for a valid reason to articulate to that person why you’re stopping them. Step three, use a respectful tone. Step for use. No more force than is absolutely necessary. And step five, make sure the rhythm the right. So, you know, those are the five steps that could easily be translate with teachers with a it is crucial for students to know that you have high expectations for them. Communicate that openly and often. Step two. It is crucial that students know why you think they are able to achieve those high expectations. So notice what the student has done or said or written that suggests that they’re capable. Step three students need to receive critical feedback so they can improve. Make sure you communicate to the students wherever you see areas where they can improve and become even more successful. So it’s finding very specific actions that teachers can take that are validated to them as ensuring that they are behaving in a nonbiased way should provide. If your other research applies here with it seems quite clear that it will should provide the teachers the confidence that they’re behaving in a way that conforms to their ideals for themselves to be not racist and they communicate to them. You don’t have to worry that your actions will be perceived as racist, because if you do these things, you’re behaving in an unbiased manner. In fact, you’re being the best kind of teacher and your students will appreciate that. And even the unusual student doesn’t like the negative feedback. That’s OK. Individual students might not. But we’re telling you and again, often you’ll need to have a team that’s diverse to validate successfully with racially and teachers. And I think that’s an ideal in any event, that will be validated to them as a way to proceed. That will protect them from the fear or the anxiety that they might be engaging in typical behavior.
If someone’s sitting at home and listening and saying, you know, what can I do right now to get my behavior to be better? What would you tell him to do? Or their websites or their books, other things like that that people can pursue right now.
So Perception Institute Web site, our reporters on the Web site and our report goes into as much detail the first could possibly want. But our report does actually in the executive summary, summarize the reducing prejudice practices that Patricia Devine has identified. And so if someone really is excited about these ideas, and particularly if they’re in the house, if they’re. In the health care context, as educators, I would urge them to take a look at the report because all of this research is summarized and synthesized and translated so that it can be read and used and applied by someone immediately. And even if someone is interested who isn’t an educator, health care, the whole first section of the report just focuses on these dynamics. There also are groups who are beginning to merge. They are trying to create communities of people, all of whom are trying to reduce their bias. And so there’s a fairly newly formed network called Within Our Lifetime. And what they’re trying to do is to encourage people to understand and address implicit bias. They are encouraging people to take the implicit association test. I’ve been working with them and I’m encouraging them, of course, to help people also focus on these other areas. Because the one concern that I have, which goes back to our discussion earlier about white privilege, is I do worry if people get too caught up in just thinking about whether or not they have bias, they risk flipping over into the racially anxious category. And so while we do absolutely need to understand that we are likely to have implicit bias, Suzanne, I do encourage people to take the implicit association test, which can be found at Harvard Project from Pliss, its Web site. And that has a whole host of implicit association tests that you can take, as well as, again, for people who really want to understand the research. But I do want to make sure that people recognize that this is that the bias is one component. But to make sure that our behavior doesn’t inadvertently either look like bias, because what’s somewhat remarkable is the research describing how people behave when they are implicitly biased with someone of another race. It’s actually almost identical to how people behave when they’re racially anxious. So if what our focus is, what I think our focus should be, is changing our behavior so that our interactions with people don’t essentially cause them to feel as though they’re being subjected to bias, even if they’re not then being aware of the potential for racial anxiety to come into play. Important, too. And I think people who care enough who are listening to all of this and who then jump on some of these Web sites and start thinking about this work. And if people are willing to do the work of Patricia Devine describes in breaking the prejudice habit, doing all of that means that obviously a person cares a great deal about living their values and doing the work of individuating, doing the work of seeking interracial interaction rather than being worried about how it will go. And understanding that you may have to have some humility in those moments. And there may be moments where you behave awkwardly. And that’s okay so long as you kind of keep doing the work. All of that hopefully can minimize the sense of anxiety simply by affirming that the person is doing all that they can as an individual. So I guess a final point would be, I think it’s wonderful that these interventions exist that people can undertake as individuals. Ultimately, we will not be successful in addressing the role that race plays simply by lots of individuals doing work. It’s somewhat akin to dealing with air pollution by all of us having inhalers.
We do need to deal with a race that’s in the air more broadly.
And that’s that’s dealing with race portrayed in the media, that’s dealing with the way that race can be used as a wedge in political discussions and in creation, public policy.
So there is a sort of structural institutional component of all of this and changing the way our society creates differentials, like what percentage of people are in jail and a percentage of people are in poverty and that kind of effect.
But yes, the bad but I would add one thing that’s been very illuminating, but also extraordinarily distressing is to realize that the focus that the press often has and even frankly, those in civil rights equals social justice side of things. The focus we often place on finding the disparities, tribute to people’s association of those groups with the disparities. So if we look at the media, we see people of color, you polygraph’s, Americans, what he knows portrayed is poor at far higher rates than they are, in fact, poor. So it’s true that African-Americans and Latinos are more likely to be poor than whites, but there are actually more white people overall who are poor and black and less. Right. And the reason that’s important to realize is if we have these ideas of people in these racial and ethnic groups, as you know, poor and as likely to be incarcerated, then that creates the association of poor criminals. Right. So from a public policy perspective, we, of course, want to be aware of the disproportionality and trying to address them. But it turns out that just presenting that information and actually Jennifer Eberhardt, who just won the MacArthur Genius Award, did a study showing that when people are shown or are told about disproportionate imprisonment rates of African-American men, they are less likely to support changing the war on drugs and the laws relating to incarceration than if they’re not told that. So it doesn’t actually help us change policy to only focus or should focus so aggressively on the disproportionality in the media and in advocacy. Another insight from a lot of the social science of the mind. Sciences is doing advocacy work requires humanizing, challenging and complicating stereotypes, and we have to be very aware of the potential dangers of focusing on the most harmed of a particular racial identity group, not because we don’t want to do the work to actually help those who are most harmed. But if we only portray those are most harmed, everybody else is rendered invisible. And it actually even then becomes harder to help those who are most vulnerable.
So it would be better to talk more in terms of, say, greater socioeconomic equality as a principle rather than singling out the ways in which African-Americans or other groups are economically deprived in our system.
So I’m glad you asked the question, because we don’t agree with some on the left who say we should just quit talking about race. It’s talking about race that are causing the problems. We should just focus on class. Yes, we absolutely should have more accurate depictions of who’s poor. That will include and make much more salient. How many whites are living in poverty? How many white benefit from government programs? We absolutely should do that so that we, again, don’t fall into the trap of doing the racialization of these categories and exaggerating stereotypes. But because of implicit bias and because of these stereotypical associations, we do have to be aware that in some sense, if we just talk about the poor, if we just talk about economic equality, for a lot of people, that will trigger race because the ground has already been laid. So I think we have to simultaneously be much more accurate and forceful about noting the degree to which people from all racial and ethnic groups we all are benefiting from government programs. But at the same time, essentially not being purely colorblind in the way that we talk about that, because, again, if we do just talk about the poor, most people will think of people of color anyway. And that’s actually worse if race stays underground rather than being explicitly discussed as part of the picture, because people often learn most about people from other racial ethnic groups, through the media, through newspapers, through television culture, through Internet culture. We need to more accurately show the kind of broad array of what people’s lives are like and kind of humanize and essentially introduce a more accurate picture of different racial ethnic groups and not simply portray people when they’ve been arrested, when they’ve been shot in the street, or when they’re receiving government benefits or when they’re superstar, because those are sins to find that categories. But when we’re discussing public policy, it’s got to be a balance between keeping race as part of the conversation. So it doesn’t seem as though it’s actually just embedded to the conversation, but not leading with this personalities, because it turns out that doesn’t help.
Rachel, it’s been a fascinating discussion. Thank you so much for coming on the show. Thank you so much for having me. And the report is The Science of Equality, Vol. one, addressing implicit bias, racial anxiety and stereotype threat in education and healthcare. We’ll make a link to it available on our Web site.


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It is strawberry season again. Well, not in Oregon, but it is in California, which means we get truck loads of fresh ripe strawberries showing up in the stores.
I couldn't resist making this recipe a week or so ago. It was always my go to upside down cake recipe and I've used it for over 20 years. I modified it since we went vegan. If I remember right it is originally from a Betty Crocker cookbook.
I've never been a big fan of cooked pineapple but love upside down cakes. My favorite is to use fresh sliced peaches, but since they aren't in season and I had a few pints of strawberries in the fridge I thought I'd try them. They worked out really well.
** Strawberries are on the dirty dozen for pesticide residue, so please only buy organic.
STRAWBERRY UPSIDE DOWN CAKE
2 Tbsps vegan Margarine, melted
1/3 cup packed Brown Sugar
1 Tbsp Water
Fresh fruit such as Strawberries or Peaches
1-1/3 cup Flour
2/3 cup Sugar
2 tsp Baking Powder
1/2 tsp Cinnamon
2/3 cup Non-Dairy Milk
1/4 cup vegan Margarine, softened
1 Flax Egg (1 Tbsp ground flax seed + 3 Tbsp warm water)
1 tsp Vanilla
1. Preheat oven to 350˚F (176˚C) and coat an 8 or 9 inch cake tin with non-stick cooking spray.
2. In the cake tin, add the brown sugar and the melted 2 tablespoon of margarine. Use a fork to stir around to combine. Add in the 1 tbsp of water and stir again. It should level out on the bottom of the tin.
3. Place your fruit in a pattern over the sugar mixture and set aside.
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4. To make the cake batter combine in the bowl of an electric mixture the flour, sugar, baking powder, and cinnamon. Stir to combine. Add the softened margarine, flax egg, vanilla, and non-dairy milk and beat until well mixed about 1 minute. Batter will be fairly thick.
5. Pour batter over strawberries and bake for 30-35 minutes until toothpick comes out clean. Warning, if you use an 8 inch pan the sugar mixture may bubble out the sides while baking.
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6. Remove from oven and let cool for 5 minutes before inverting onto a serving plate. Let cool or serve warm with vegan ice cream.
**I find that this recipe is best when served the day it is made or the next day. It has a tendency to absorb moisture after that and can get quite dense. It is a fairly heavy cake to begin with to stand up to the fruit topping.
- Bon Appetit
" But how will I eat cake if my head is over there and my hands are over here?" - Marie Antoinette.

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In a league where offensive linemen are now the size of beer trucks, Hugh Douglas has always been a smallish defensive end at 6 feet 2 inches and 265 pounds. The pounding of a season has typically worn down his body. Last season in Philadelphia he played only four games as the wiring came undone in his left knee and the biceps muscle in his left arm peeled away like a sticker from the bone.
''I knew something wasn't right,'' Douglas said. ''I kept getting hurt. The trainer told me, 'Add a little more muscle, it will help you.' ''
Having packed on 15 additional pounds this season, pushing his weight to 280, Douglas fortified himself against the run, collected 15 sacks in defending the pass and earned a trip to the Pro Bowl. In last Sunday's playoff victory over Tampa Bay, Douglas had five tackles and two sacks, one of which forced a fumble, and he was named the National Football League's defensive player of the week.
In preparing the game plan for Sunday's divisional matchup against Philadelphia, both Giants Coach Jim Fassel and quarterback Kerry Collins said it was imperative to track Douglas at every moment as if he were a hurricane barreling up the East Coast.
''You have to game-plan against him,'' said Ernie Accorsi, the Giants' general manager. ''If you don't he's going to disrupt everything you do. A pass rusher is like a home run hitter. When they make plays, they make devastating plays.''Continue reading the main story
The Giants have kept everyone on the Eagles defense from making devastating plays this season. The Giants did not commit a single turnover in two games against the Eagles. Douglas is known for rushing straight up the field and Giants tackle Lomas Brown frequently used his strength against him, letting Douglas's momentum carry him wide while the Giants simply ran inside of him.
When throwing the ball, the Giants often used what is known as maximum protection, keeping the tight end and running back available as blockers. And Collins got rid of the ball quickly, not lingering until Douglas could run him down.
''Kerry is not going to hold onto the ball that long,'' Douglas said. ''That presents a problem. You just have to keep coming and coming. You never know when he might hold onto the ball a little longer and you can get to him.''
That is exactly what happened last weekend against Tampa Bay. The Buccaneers were ahead by 3-0 in the second quarter until Douglas brushed past running back Warrick Dunn and sacked quarterback Shaun King, knocking the ball loose and rattling some life into a somnolent Eagles offense. Donovan McNabb soon scored on a quarterback draw play and Philadelphia dominated the rest of the game and won, 21-3.
Since their second loss to the Giants this season, the Eagles are 7-1. Philadelphia's defense is allowing 50 fewer rushing yards a game than it was earlier, and it surrendered the fewest points a game among teams in the National Football Conference. The one thing it has not been able to do is stop Giants running back Tiki Barber, who has sliced and diced the Eagles like a Vegamatic with swing passes and cut-back maneuvers.
''We have to make plays,'' the Philadelphia defensive coordinator, Jim Johnson, said. ''We have to get some turnovers. We have to get field position for the offense.''
The player most capable of causing havoc is Douglas. Though he is hardly the biggest defensive end, he does possess enormous strength and leverage in his hips and backside, and he plays in the same nonstop, relentless way that he talks.
''He can be both a power rusher and a speed rusher,'' said Tra Thomas, an offensive tackle who lines up against Douglas daily in practice. ''Just when you settle back and wait for his speed, he has enough strength to bull-rush you.''
And he plays each game at maximum r.p.m., talking incessantly to his teammates, raising his arms and exhorting the crowd. Against Tampa Bay, cornerback Bobby Taylor said, Douglas broke out into an improvised rap song about the Eagles' refusal to be a one-night wonder.
''I don't need talking to get me going,'' Douglas said, referring to the many who doubted his capabilities when he came into the league with the Jets from tiny Central State in Ohio. ''Coming from where I came from, people not thinking I can do it, that's all the motivation you need.''
He prefers not to speak about his days with the Jets, which ended unhappily and with an ill fit into Bill Parcells's 3-4 defense.
''That's water under the bridge,'' Douglas said. ''I was bitter at the time. I've matured. I understand. He did what was best for his team. That's the end of it.''
What is best for his current team, Douglas said, was not to be content with simply reaching the playoffs after several despairing years.
''You don't want to be satisfied with making the playoffs; you want to go all the way,'' he said. ''Whoever loses this week is going home, and I'm not ready to go home yet.''Continue reading the main story


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The internet has changed our lives in both negative and positive ways. It offers convenience and convenience, but it is addictive and wastes our time. But things that were done manually in the past now require a few taps and clicks. For example, researching a particular topic online is much easier than going to a library and searching a particular book to get information.
Doing online research is a skill that everyone in the digital age needs to learn. Whether you are a student, a professor, a scientist or a marketer, online research is not just about extracting information, but also verifying its credibility. If you want to learn some skills to research online, follow the tips below. Let’s start.
Research on Wikipedia
Wikipedia is not always an authentic and reliable source of information, but you still get an idea of what the theme is of a certain subject. For example, if you are looking for types of yoga or books written by Shakespeare, Wikipedia will retrieve the information that is valid and authentic.
You can go through the information to see what other information can be added to it. For example, if you are looking for a biography of Shakespeare, Wikipedia will present you a very long article. Going through every word is not the right approach, but it can be helpful to get the snippets out of the article.
Use Google to find related keywords and searches
Google is the largest source of information on any subject. After going through an article on Wikipedia, you may have some important keywords related to your topic. Search for it on Google and open each result in a new tab.
Another great feature of Google Search is that it offers you automatic suggestions based on your search. The automatic suggestions can also help you decide which topics to include in your research. Don’t forget to look at the bottom of the page where you can find “searches related to your topic”.
Videos are a good source of information
Sometimes it is difficult to understand the subject through text. You can find a lot of material on websites like YouTube and other similar video platforms. As you may know, YouTube is the second largest search engine after Google.
Type in your main keywords and you will see thousands of results relevant to your results. To watch videos in high definition, you need to have fast internet at home. If you’re having trouble watching videos (buffering and pixelated videos), it’s worth considering Spectrum internet packages.
You can also use the same technique on YouTube as with Google. Autosuggestion is also available on YouTube, which can help you find relevant topics related to your research.
Access to educational websites and resources
In the current era, we are all blessed with the Internet that helps us to stay informed and provide convenience. If you’re working on your thesis or preparing for an important quiz, educational websites are a great source of information. Currently, many colleges and universities offer free course material on their website.
Websites such as archives.org provide access to a digital library where you can find podcasts and free-lending books. On this website you will find some gems and hidden treasures. If you are looking for new skills, there are also websites offering free and paid courses.
Use online tools to make research easier
You can find plenty of tools online that would make research easier. For example, some tools can help you organize your resources, while others can capture the snippets for later reference. There are some extensions offered in Firefox and Chrome to help you organize your topics, save web pages and take screenshots.
For example, Evernote is one of the most popular apps and extensions that allow you to organize your daily tasks, save clips and much more. Use these tools to assist you in the research process.
Doing online research can sometimes be difficult. But once you know how to do it right, online research will never be difficult. Hopefully, these tips will help you conduct online research in the future without any problems.

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Edward Jones National Airs
Edward Jones (1752-1824) was a Welsh harper, historian and composer. He published a total of 9 collected arrangements of national airs. His collections feature melodies from a broad range of nations and regions including Greece, Albania, Turkey, Persia, China, Malta, Denmark, Lapland and New South Wales. He also arranged the music of Celitic countries including Scotland, Ireland and his homeland Wales. Illustrated in the exhibition are images from his 1811 publication entitled Musical Curiosities. This publication contains a selection of national songs and airs arranged for harp or piano. They include melodies from the following countries and regions: Spain, Portugal, Russia Denmark, Lapland, Malabar, New South Wales, France, Italy, Switzerland, England and Scotland. A selection of music for 4 of these airs and melodies is included in this exhibtion.
This image illustrates music for a Spanish Bolero. Jones includes an interesting footnote, transcribed here; "The Spanish national Dances have been remarked by most travellers amongst their peculiarities. Of all these, the most elegant, scientific and peculiarly characteristic is the Bolero. It affords to the well-informed Female the most graceful display of person, as well as dexterity and agility of motion. The two dancers play the Castanets with their fingers in time to their feet, going through various interesting changes and postures, accompanied by the Guitar, and Voice; and is varied by both slow, and quick time."
This image illustrates sheet music for Russian National Melodies comprising a selection of variations and dances.
Jones includes the following explanatory note for this song: "A SONG of the NATIVES of NEW SOUTH WALES: which was written down from the singing of BENELONG, and YAM-ROWENY, the two Chiefs who were brought to England some years ago from Botany Bay by Governor Phillips. The subject of the Song is in praise of their Lovers; and when they sang, it seem'd indispensible to them to have two sticks, one in each hand to beat time with the Tune; one end of the left hand stick rested on the ground, while the other in the right hand was used to beat against it, according to the time of the notes."
This song, entitled Le Ranz des Vaches (The Herdsman's Lay) with English text is set to a Swiss melody. The love theme throughout is interspersed with pastoral references.
The above map illustrates all the locations associated with this source. Although the identity of the publisher for the source is unknown information on the title page confirms that it was printed in London.
Spain, Switzerland, Russia and Australia are highlighted in the map as countries from which Jones sourced melodies for the series. He looked beyond modern day Europe to source melodies for his collections. The British Library Music Collections include 6 editions of national airs arranged by Jones, all of which were printed in London between 1804 and 1813. Unlike the collections by Moore, Beethoven and Czerny featured in this exhibition, Jones’ collection includes both instrumental and vocal arrangements in the same publication.

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It is also important that dogs are socialised with people and other dogs from an early age. There are a range of activities dog owners and their four-legged friends can get involved in such as fly ball, agility and lure coursing. Consult your local council about activities available in your area. RSPCA training and information sessions on pet behaviour are also regularly staged at Burwood East.
The RSPCA recommends that you do not purchase a dog from markets or places where large numbers of dogs are kept for sale. Dogs sold from these establishments are very rarely examined by a veterinarian, and therefore may not be entirely healthy. Never purchase a puppy that looks unwell and if you are concerned about the welfare of the animal, contact the RSPCA Inspectorate.
Fleas are most common in warm humid areas, and while more prolific in summer, they are found year-round in many parts of Australia. Flea bites cause discomfort and distress through itching, and some dogs and cats can develop hypersensitivity or an allergy. Fleas also host tapeworms, infecting your pet if they eat them. Most dogs and cats need flea treatment – indoor cats may be an exception.
In PetCare Pet Insurance we have made claims easier, you just need fill out the form online and send us your vet bills. Your veterinary clinic may help you to submit your claims online. There is no contribution from your side , you will be reimbursed 100% of the cost less any excess, and can be claimed up to your policy limit per year ( Sub limits and waiting periods apply)
Dogs frequently suffer from infestations of intestinal parasites – commonly known as worms. The most common types are roundworms, hookworms, tapeworms and whipworms. Each different type of worm has its own specific lifecycle and can damage a dog’s health in different ways. Clinical signs of an excessive worm burden include: diarrhoea, vomiting, poor coat condition, weight loss and general lethargy. Some types of worms can remain in a dogs system and no outward signs of infestation will be apparent. Intestinal worms can be treated with anthelmintics (de-worming medication). Regular use of appropriate anthelmintics every 3 months is recommended.
As a dog owner you are fully and legally responsible for any harm or damages caused by your dog. If your dog bites a human, kills wildlife, damages property, causes a traffic accident, creates noise or other pollution, or is the direct cause of any other damage to the community, you may have to shoulder a substantial financial (if not legal) penalty. It is in your best interest then to always keep a vigilant eye on your dog in public and provide him with the obedience training and socialisation skills necessary to become a well-mannered and socially well-adjusted dog.
It’s important to maintain a healthy skin and coat, and dogs of any age can suffer from arthritis and joint issues. Calming aids can ease anxiety, whether situational or hereditary. It’s always good to have basic first aid and wound care items handy, and dental care products can make regular teeth maintenance easy. For long-term solutions, we even carry syringes and needles, pilling aids, and more to save you too many trips to the vet.
It is important to buy your dog from a reputable source. Purchase your dog from a reputable dog breeder, visit an RSPCA Adoption Centre or a local animal welfare shelter such as the RSPCA where lots of happy and healthy dogs are looking for loving new homes. If you are looking to adopt a dog from a breeder, make sure you read our Smart Puppy Buyers Guide.

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Make a statement in this signature wardrobe must have Marled Cadet Hat with Solid Brim. Made from 60% acrylic and 40% cotton to keep you comfortable all year. One size fits most!
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See Beyonce-Referencing ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Season Three Trailer
In the bubbly new trailer for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season Three, Kimmy (Ellie Kemper) plots her next major life move – after some wisdom from ever-eccentric landlady, Lillian (Carol Kane). “After high school, most white girls go to college.”
While pursuing her higher education goals, Kimmy continues to battle with her past. Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne (Jon Hamm), the protagonist’s former cult leader and technically current husband, calls from prison to check on the divorce papers he mailed over. “I haven’t had a chance to sign that thing – because nobody in New York uses pens anymore,” Kimmy responds defiantly. “Everyone just vapes each other now.”
The clip also features cameos from Bobby (Fred Armisen’s Robert Durst parody character) and Kimmy’s roommate Titus (Tituss Burgess), who hunts down a cheating boyfriend in a glossy fantasy musical sequence styled after Beyoncé’s “Hold Up” video from Lemonade.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Season Three premieres May 19th on Netflix. Guest stars will include Laura Dern, David Diggs, Rachel Dratch, Ray Liotta, Andrea Martin and Maya Rudolph.
'Gladiator' Sequel Crew Members Hospitalized After Stunt Accident
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How to Watch Every 'Fast & Furious' Movie Online
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A good partner can provide a generator set to a customer. A great partner understands the exact needs of the customer and provides the solution to meet those exact needs, along with 24/7 support.
When Cummins authorized distributor Orient Energy Systems (OES) was approached by a new customer, Ahmad Jamal Textile Mills, the customer came with a requirement of 50 kVA for their home’s power needs and 200 kVA for their manufacturing unit. After meeting with the customer, OES brought in their in-house expert to evaluate the load. The application and project engineer determined that the load in fact required 100 kVA of power for the house and 160 kVA for the manufacturing operations.
OES supplied and installed 1 x Cummins C110D5 generator set and 1 x Cummins C175D5B generator set at the Ahmad Jamal Textile Mills owner’s home and business in Faisalabad, Pakistan, providing prime power to keep the business and household operating at all times. A custom-built enclosure from OES fulfilled noise level requirements of 80-85 dB(A).
On-time delivery was a key requirement of the customer, and this was met by OES and Cummins with timely delivery at the site as per the committed time line. The customer was afforded extra value and peace of mind through Cummins extended warranty program.
“Backup power is considered the backbone of any business globally,” said Haider Khan, Sales Executive with OES. “Efficient and up-to-date technologies in power generation will be the cause of satisfaction for the customer, and Cummins is doing some great R&D in this field. Strong customer service and understanding the power needs of the customer led us to a successful project with Ahmad Jamal.”


Revenue eBrief No. 216/19
17 December 2019
Charities and sports bodies – new online application process
Tax and Duty Manual Part 07-01-06 has been updated to include details of Revenue’s new online application system for charities and sports bodies. This new application system is in place from 9 December 2019. The manual also summarises the different roles of the Charities Regulator and Revenue, and outlines the various exemptions and tax obligations of charities.


For the “first time in two decades, there will not be an NFL Experience during Super Bowl XLVIII next year in New York/New Jersey, as organizers could not find a space suitable to hold the huge festival that allows sponsors to interact with fans,” according to Terry Lefton in this week’s SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL. Super Bowl Host Committee CEO Al Kelly said, “The Super Bowl Boulevard will serve as that major fan engagement activity.” The NFL from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1 “will turn a 10-block stretch of Broadway into Super Bowl Boulevard, from 34th Street to 44th Street.” Kelly said that Super Bowl Boulevard will “be able to house much of the sponsor activity that occurs during the NFL Experience.” Kelly: “You can put some of it on the street. You can roll out a field on the street. You can put a concert stage out there. You can put the Wilson football factory out on the street.” Still, the lack of an NFL Experience “surprised many sponsors who said they were unaware of the decision as of last week in New Orleans.” But Kelly said, “We looked at every venue from Greenwich to Princeton, and there just are no places big enough.” He added that the “novel site of next year’s game led to the decision with the NFL to try a new approach on the Experience” (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 2/11 issue).
LOOKING AT OPTIONS: SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL’s Lefton, Kaplan & Ourand report the NFL will “have an extensive contingency plan in place to account for bad weather.” The league is “considering various options that include the possibility of delaying the contest several days in the event of a weather emergency on game day.” Sources said that the league “even could decide to play the game on Saturday if faced with an ominous forecast.” A source said, “We have to look at all the angles: storm arriving day-of-game, storm arriving prior to game, storm arriving after game.” If the game has to be rescheduled, a “host of complications would arise.” If the game were “played later than on Sunday, fans would have to reschedule flights, something that would become especially problematic considering potential airport closings.” Hotel accommodations also “would come into play, as fans would need to extend their stays” (SPORTSBUSINESS JOURNAL, 2/11 issue).
WEATHER REPORT: The AP’s Tim Dahlberg wrote the weather is “not something the NFL needs to be terribly worried about.” The league can “do no wrong, and that won't change just because the elements will intrude on the next Super Bowl.” The weather “might even make it more interesting for the 100 million or so people who will be watching in the comfort of their own living rooms” (AP, 2/9). NBC Sports Network’s Dave Briggs said of Winter Storm Nemo, which hit the northeast this past week, “The Super Bowl is a year out, what if this happens in a year?” (“The Crossover,” NBCSN, 2/8). Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio said of next year’s Super Bowl, “There could be major problems next year if a storm hits on Super Sunday. What do they do, move the game to Monday? Move the game to Tuesday? Move the game to the following Sunday?” Florio added if the Super Bowl is in a cold weather city, “you make sure there’s a roof over the place so you can still play the game even if it snows 20 inches, except in Minnesota where the roof could’ve caved in” (“PFT,” NBCSN, 2/8).
SECURITY BREACH? USA TODAY’s Chris Chase reports a “seven-minute video that appears to show two college students sneaking into the Mercedes-Benz Superdome” became a “viral sensation” this past weekend. The clip shows two men who are “students at Savannah State University, walking past police barricades, sneaking through tunnels, getting assistance from a helpful security guard and, in an anticlimactic finish, strolling into the Superdome without incident, just in time for Beyonce’s halftime performance.” The NFL yesterday said that it “was aware of the issue.” If the video is “the real deal, the league will be looking for answers regarding the lax security” (USA TODAY, 2/11).


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Relatives of war heroes named on the Helston war memorial are being sought so that every serviceman can be recognised at this year’s centenary commemoration of World War One.
Of the 59 names inscribed on the monument, the town has information, of varying levels, on 53 of them.
However, there are still six for whom they know nothing – and would like anyone who knows anything about these men to come forward, so that all can be remembered.
The names are: FC Angove, Charles H Newman, Leslie Richards, EH Smith, Leslie Stephens and George White.
Anyone with information about these men is asked to contact the Helston Museum World War One research group, which is working in conjunction with the town council.
Martine Knight, who is heading up the research group, said: “If we can find any relatives so much the better as they may have photos or artefacts that we could borrow/copy for the exhibition.”
An exhibition is being launched in the museum at 10am on Monday, August 4, honouring the town’s fallen.
While there is a degree of information about the remaining 53 names, Mrs Knight would still like to speak to any relatives she has not yet contacted, as the more the group knows about the men the better the tribute can be.
Mrs Knight can be contacted on 01326 564710.

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A 42-year-old man who could not cater for his eight children murdered one of his son.
The suspect, identified only as Ametoyome, reportedly murdered his son because he could no longer cater for his eight children.
A 42-year-old man who could not cater for his eight children has killed one of them.
The incident which occurred at Kpeyidorme, in the Volta Region, saw the suspect, identified only as Ametoyome, murdering his seven year old son with a cutlass because he could no longer of him.
According to Starr FM, he was picked up by the police following a tip off by a neighbor.
The suspect asks his son to accompany to a place, whiles on their way the father pulled out a cutlass and slashed out his (son) throat, police report.
After the act, a man who was also using the same route met him and saw his bloody cutlass and confronted him. After further interrogations they saw the boy’s lifeless body lying by and a report was filed to the police for his arrest


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Couple Charged With Break-In, Theft
A four-month investigation into a break-in and stolen truck has concluded in the arrest of a Honokaʻa couple, according to the Hawai‘i Police Department press.
In April, a local business in Honokaʻa that assists individuals who suffer from developmental disabilities with vocational rehabilitation was broken into. The suspects stole lawn maintenance equipment, took a credit card and stole a truck.
Police investigating the case discovered the stolen credit card was utilized at businesses in South Kohala, Kona and Hilo. The stolen truck was later recovered and returned to the business.
Hawaiʻi Island Police arrested and charged 39-year-old Brian Maltezo and 47-year-old Sriyani Anang, both of Honokaʻa, for offenses that include unauthorized control of a propelled vehicle, unauthorized possession of personal confidential information, credit card theft, theft, fraudulent use of a credit card, identity theft, possession of drugs and several outstanding warrants.
Maltezo is being held in lieu of $121,850.00, and Anang is held on $12,750.00 bail pending court appearances on set for Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019.
Police received tips from the community that assisted in the apprehension and extend thanks to the community involvement.
Police are still seeking tips on the whereabouts of some of the lawn maintenance equipment.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Honokaʻa Police Station at (808)-775-7533 or the police department’s non-emergency number at (808)-935-3311.
This information was provided by the authorities. All suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.


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NTSB: Gulfstream crash came during simulated engine failure test
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The ultra-high-speed Gulfstream GVI (G650) that crashed last week in Roswell, N.M., was running a simulated engine failure test during take off, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
NTSB on Thursday released its preliminary report on the April 2 crash that claimed the lives of four Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. employees who all lived in Savannah, Ga.
NTSB said the airplane was operating under a Federal Aviation Administration Experimental Certificate of Airworthiness and was performing a take off at Roswell International Air Center Airport with a simulated engine failure to determine take-off distance requirements at minimum flap setting.
The NTSB report noted wingtip scrape marks beginning on the runway around 5,300 feet from the end of the runway leading toward the final resting spot about 3,800 feet from the first marks on the runway.
Witnesses close to the scene told NTSB they saw the airplane sliding on the ground with sparks and smoke coming from the bottom of the wing, and said the airplane was engulfed in fire while still moving across the ground.
The airplane struck several obstructions and came to rest upright about 200 feet from the base of the airport control tower, NTSB said.
Officials with Savannah-based Gulfstream said the four who died were test pilots Kent Crenshaw, 64, and Vivan Ragusa, 51; and technical specialists David McCollum, 47, and Reece Ollenburg, 48. All were from Savannah, the company said.
Gulfstream has an order backlog of about 200 and a waiting list of five years for the big business jets, the Wall Street Journal reported last week.
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Anantnag: At least 150 persons have tested positive for hepatitis C in last fifteen days in Walarhama Pahalgam village in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district.
Officials said that a total number of 1673 people were screened in last fifteen days and 150 among them have tested positive for hepatitis C.
The tests were carried through “card method. “Now ElISAtest would be done to know which patient we have to treat. We are continuing screening in village,” the officials said.
However, the officials said that those who have tested positive need not to panic.


A special treat this week on the Hospital Podcast as we celebrate the release of the debut album from Unquote “Reverberation Box“.
The awesome new album is out now on Med School Music and well worth diving into. Listen to the podcast as Unquote takes you on a 30 minute journey through some of his favourite tracks and then go and pick up the new album HERE
For the latest goings-ons at Hospital and to keep up-to-date with all of our artists:
With his superb debut album “Perspective” dropping at the end of the month, Anile came down to the Rinse FM studios for this month’s Hospital takeover. Tune in for a sterling thirty-minute mix and a charming catch up with the Goose, alongside Mullett, spinning fresh cuts from Etherwood, Danny Scrilla, Ulterior Motive and more..... LISTEN BACK HEREListen now


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New Delhi: Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn plans to invest $1.54 billion in India, as the country doubles down on local manufacturing. In a stock exchange filing, Foxconn said that the investment will help it fulfill “operational needs.” The company, however, did not provide further details.
Foxconn is the main assembler of Apple iPhones and both companies are keen to move away from China and create alternative supply chains. (Also Read: Planning A Vacation Abroad? THESE Countries Allow Indians Without Visa)
Foxconn already has an iPhone factory in Tamil Nadu, which employs 40,000 people, and has signed an agreement to invest Rs 1,600 crore in a new electronics components unit in the state that will create 6,000 jobs. (Also Read: Making UPI Payments Via Rupay Credit Cards? Here’s Everything You Need To Know)
The company has also announced that it will be investing an additional Rs 3,300 crore in its manufacturing facility in Telangana. This will take the total investment of the company in the state to more than Rs 4,550 crore.
In September, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the government was “fully committed” to support Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn’s ambitious plans to double its manufacturing capacity in the country.
“Fully committed to support and facilitate,” Vaishnaw said on X in response to Foxconn India representative V Lee’s LinkedIn post to mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 73rd birthday in which he said the company was “aiming for another doubling of employment, FDI (foreign direct investment), and business size in India” by this time next year.
Foxconn chairman Young Liu visited India recently to attend the ‘SemiconIndia 2023’ event hosted for global semiconductor companies that was inaugurated by PM Modi in Gandhinagar.
Speaking at the event, the Foxconn chairman said, “I can feel the determination of the Indian government. I am very optimistic about where it’s headed.”


Framingham School Superintendent Stacy L. Scott announced Friday that John Haidemenos Jr. has been appointed as the new principal for Woodrow Wilson Elementary School.
“I have considered the input from the school staff, district staff, and the community in my selection of the next building leader for the school," Scott said in a written statement. "The candidate that best fits the school’s identified needs of academic advancement for all students to exceed our expectations is Mr. John Haidemenos Jr. He has a proven record of that ability in his current and former administrative positions with the Pawtucket School system."
Haidemenos serves as principal in Pawtucket, Rhode Island at the Joseph Jenks Jr. High and the Jacqueline Walsh School for the Arts.


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Andre Ingram never gave up.
The former American University basketball player spent 10 years in the G League waiting for his opportunity. His big chance would come Tuesday in a matchup with the Rockets and the 32-year-old Lakers rookie made the most of every second, proof provided by the good data editorial folks at Opta.
Ingram scored 19 points on 6-of-8 shooting with three rebounds and three blocks in the Lakers' 105-99 loss to Houston. But just how good was Ingram? Only as good as has ever been for a rookie 31 years old or older.
The 32-year-old (OK, actually 32 years, 142 days, to be exact) scored 17 more points than any player 31 or older making his NBA debut. He is one of only two players making his NBA debut at that late of an age to even score a point. Only Marcelo Huertas, who was 32 years, 156 days old when he made his debut with the Lakers in 2015, scored in his debut among those players.
Ingram is the third-oldest player to make his NBA debut, trailing just Huertas and Knicks point guard Pablo Prigioni, who made his debut at 35 years, 169 days old.
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|Pablo Prigioni||35, 169||Nov. 2, 2012||Knicks||16||0||0||.000||3||0||0||3||0||0|
|Marcelo Huertas||32, 156||Oct. 28, 2015||Lakers||13||1||2||.500||2||2||0||0||1||2|
|Andre Ingram||32, 142||April 10, 2018||Lakers||29||6||8||.750||3||1||1||3||1||19|
|Pero Antic||31, 93||Oct. 30, 2013||Hawks||8||0||1||.000||2||0||0||0||0||0|
|Antoine Rigaudeau||31, 33||Jan. 19, 2003||Mavericks||5||0||1||.000||1||0||1||0||2||0|
Note: Age is in years and days.


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Weather patterns that bring moisture to the southwestern United States have become more rare over the last 35 years, say scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.
The study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, found subtle shifts in weather patterns over the southwest, including most of the western half of Colorado. The patterns that tend to bring the most wet weather to the area are low pressure systems, and those have formed less often over the years.
“Drought in the southwest nowadays can occur easier, can last longer, and they are more intense than they were 30 years ago,” said Andreas Prein, a postdoctoral researcher who led the study.
Climate change could provide one explanation for this change, although scientists didn’t look at a direct link in their study, Prein said.

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Transparent purple vinyl.
On release in 1977, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers' L.A.M.F. had a mastering fault, widely condemned as a 'muddy mix'. Track Records went bust and the master was lost - so subsequent releases were compiled from outtake or re-mixes. Forty-four years later, the master has been found in an attic, and the classic punk album L.A.M.F. can at last be heard as the band and producers intended!


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Stayed in a 10 bed dorm. It was surprisingly quiet. The common room was nice and typically had a wide variety of people. I tried two of their pre-frozen dinners, One was pretty good. Typically noisy in the kitchen in the AM. Only 2 toilets for 10 people but it seemed to work out. Make sure you bring ...
Food was delicious and staff were friendly. Room was comfortable.
This facility is a private house where you only have limited use of a small bedroom. There is no lounge available in which you could relax so one must stay within their room or if the weather is suitable go for a walk or perhaps after a long days drive get back in your vehicle. If you just want somewhere ...
Très bien dans une petite ville de campagne avec une très belle plage
il était tôt dans la saison et le restaurant n'était pas ouvert 12 avril Le bar située contre le restaurant était ouvert , il fallait sortir pour y accéder , mais la nourriture et le service était super.
The Scottish Highlands is a destination that is not to be missed for anyone touring Scotland, whether you’re in search of historical sites, great golf courses, or outdoor adventure. Visitors who book a hotel room in this remote, wild, and stunning region will quickly discover that it is truly unique, and offers the opportunity to hike to the peaks of mountains like Ben Nevis, play golf on world-class links like Royal Dornoch Golf Club, ski down the slopes of Aviemore, and even relax along gorgeous white sand beaches. If you’re after the best place to stay to maximise your exploration, consider the village of Lairg, which provides easy access to Inverness, Thurso, and Wick, and is a great jumping-off point for a trip into nature.
There are plenty of great mountains to hike during your visit to the Highlands, and Foinaven, a Marilyn that rises to nearly 1000 metres is certainly one of them. Found in the far northwest of the region, Foinaven is part of the Moine Thrust Belt, which also includes the Glencoul Thrust, and is made primarily of Precambrian gneiss, one of the oldest rocks on earth.
To plan your exploration of the Highlands, try researching local attractions and accommodations with the help of the Expedia search tool now.
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Tyshawn Sorey – Koan – 482 Music 482-1069, 60:48 ****:
(Tyshawn Sorey – drums, cymbals, producer; Todd Neufeld – electric & acoustic guitar; Thomas Morgan – bass, acoustic guitar)
Drummer Tyshawn Sorey may be known to jazz listeners for his angular and driving rhythms and frenetic style as a member of the Fieldwork trio or collaborations with John Zorn, Steve Coleman, Dave Douglas and others. But on his sophomore release, Koan, Sorey devises a minimalist method that amalgamates ambience, sparse luminosity and quiet, but potent strength.
Over the course of an hour Sorey, guitarist Todd Neufeld and bassist/guitarist Thomas Morgan make use of restrained pacing, open improvisation and relatively structure-less musical forms to explore the way people perceive the movement of time, space and even silence. If a person can conceive of all three elements as being both physical and philosophical, then Sorey’s compositional thinking and performance will yield understanding.
Obviously the application of space in music is not unique: John Cage, artists on labels such as ECM or Clean Feed, and additional innovators have examined comparable territory. Cage and Morton Feldman are acknowledged influences, but Sorey also cites Wayne Shorter, Charles Mingus and non-musical inspirations including Zen Buddhism as well. To take the analogy further, Sorey’s open-form material shares a simplicity and sureness of design akin to Bonsai gardening, where every small gesture has larger implications to harmony and aesthetics in general.
The threesome start off with the appropriately-titled "Awakening," an almost 13-minute sound tapestry which moves with glacial grace and a haunting feeling of distance. Closer inspection, though, reveals cadenced complexity due to the result of layered rhythmic cycles. Sorey says in the album liner notes, "The tune’s mostly written in 4/4 time, but it’s not really in any time – depending on how you hear it." As Sorey establishes gradually more intricate drumming, Neufeld advances back and forth between austere chords and strums, often sculpting notes that dissolve to near disintegration before shifting onward. At the conclusion, Sorey and Neufeld disappear and Morgan extemporizes a dirge-like dialogue where bass notes melt away and decay.
Although songs can be heard as separate entities, the six tracks are best experienced as one suite, since the parts indicate a greater whole. There is a macrostructure similar to a cell in an organic mass or the grammar that regulates any language. That helps to clarify the brief, fragmentary twin-guitar duet, "Only One Sky," the CD’s shortest selection, which was not composed until postproduction, and was initially an outtake of the introduction for another tune. Here, Sorey steps away from the proceedings. Morgan switches to acoustic guitar and he and Neufeld – who also employs some underlying electronics – design a Pat Metheny-esque communication that suggests a wintry outlook. The twosome serve up another allied six-string pairing on Ralph Towner-like "Two Guitars," wherein nylon string acoustic guitar and delicately positioned electric guitar are used to incisive effect.
Keeping to the concept of an interconnected suite, "Two Guitars" drifts directly into "Embed," the most traditional – but still unconventional – work. While Sorey avoids any standard time signatures, Neufeld stimulates with his representative chords while Morgan provides discreetly dissonant bass notes. The trio progresses through lucent harmonics and longitudinal melodies. While there is no swing, there is momentum.
The project’s longest cut, "Nocturnal," has a cool demeanor related to "Only One Sky." The song has a careful transit and interactive spontaneity between Sorey, Morgan and Neufeld that exemplifies Sorey’s approach to having no front line. The trio, as a collective and on their own, adds to the mix with certainty and with no specific objectives. There is a meditative freedom that is harmonious and impulsive. Sorey utilizes mallets, cymbals and precisely placed percussion that often whisper and whisk rather than relinquish a familiar beat. Correspondingly, Morgan and Neufeld articulate a kindred noir-ish quality: Neufeld’s skeletal lines linger in the air while Morgan’s bass flows in a relaxed flux like an ebbing tide.
Engineer Richard Lamb and Sorey, acting as producer, have achieved a meticulous recording, which is important for the music on Koan, where there are all but silent instances, such as the nearly noiseless denouement to "Nocturnal," when an electric current is barely noticed. There are understated characteristics that cannot be absorbed at one time but which wait to be found on repeated listening when strict attention can be given to Sorey’s systematic viewpoints.
2. Only One Sky
3. Correct Truth
5. Two Guitars
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Bootleg Movie Posters from Ghana
In Ghana, when official movie posters can’t be imported for Hollywood films, local artists will bootleg them to the best of their abilities. Apparently this is a global phenomenon and countless ‘local’ interpretations of movie posters exist worldwide. These particular versions are from Ghana, and they are amazing. Some are even more interesting than the ‘official’ version IMO. For a giant archive of 70 bootleg movie posters from Ghana be sure to check out awesome-robo.com!
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So, with the support of willing companies, they set about creating the West Park Sundial and Planet Garden. The Sundial was completed at the end of 2014 and then the plants were carefully added to each section to create a unique planetary formation of flora.
The dedicated hard work has resulted in a truly beautiful area for all to enjoy plus the group has received an award from the Royal Horticultural Society and East Midlands in Bloom.
The sun dial will also be a popular attraction in a few weeks time when Winter Solstice is upon us – usually around December 21st. The shortest day and longest night of the year is a special event with West Park benefiting from a long shadow cast across the sun dial that will almost reaching the tip of the pyramid. (Top photograph shows the Winter Solstice last year).
Stanton Bonna were happy to help when asked to make and supply the precast concrete pyramid as part of the sun dial. Congratulations to The Friends of West Park for their award, well deserved.