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“White Skin Privilege” in Rittenhouse, Arbery Verdicts
Not guilty. Guilty. Those were the much-anticipated verdicts handed down last week by jurors in two separate high-profile cases, first in the Wisconsin trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, and then in the Georgia trial of Greg McMichael, his son Travis McMichael, and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan. Rittenhouse was acquitted of five charges after he fatally shot two people, and wounded a third, during protests against police misconduct in the summer of 2020 in Kenosha, Wis. The Georgia men were convicted of murder in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, shot in February 2020 while jogging through his neighborhood.
Themes of race, violence, and self defense all surfaced during the trials, and experts largely agreed with the verdicts, saying prosecutors had a much more challenging case to prove in the Rittenhouse case. But Boston University School of Law Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig acknowledges she was nervous that the jury might also acquit the men in the Georgia case. BU Today asked Onwuachi-Willig to reflect on both verdicts and whether there might be any long-term societal impact felt by either one.
BU Today: There was some thinking that the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse might signal that the men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery would also be found not guilty. But they were convicted of murder. Were you surprised at the different verdicts?
Angela Onwuachi-Willig: I was not surprised by the different verdicts, but I was definitely holding my breath as I waited for the verdict in the trial against Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and Roddie Bryan for the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, plus aggravated assault, false imprisonment, and criminal attempt to commit a felony. I was worried that jurors may acquit all three defendants. I was particularly worried given the lack of racial diversity on the jury. Defense counsel had used peremptory strikes to remove most of the potential Black jurors—eight total—from the jury pool. In the end, even though Blacks comprised more than 25 percent of the population in the county, only one Black person out of 12 people was actually seated on the jury. The remaining jurors were all white.
Judge Timothy Walmsley noted that “there appear[ed] to be intentional discrimination” by defense counsel during voir dire [formal examination of potential jurors], but then he explained that he could do nothing about it because of the low threshold set by the Batson standard for challenging jury selection discrimination. Batson is supposed to prevent discrimination during voir dire but, as a number of scholars have shown, Batson essentiallyhas no bite to it. So many judges have interpreted Batson in a way that basically requires an admission from attorneys saying, “I excluded this potential juror because of their race,” (which, of course, never happens) in order for a Batson challenge to be successful.
To give you an example, counsel have been able to defend removing Black potential jurors and survive a Batson challenge when they have asserted alleged, race-neutral reasons (unrelated to the case), such as a claim that the person lacked family values, seemed nervous, had “an angry look that she wasn’t happy to be here,” graduated with a theater arts degree, wore a nose ring, and many, many other examples.
Did the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse surprise you?
The Kyle Rittenhouse verdict did not surprise me too much. To my mind, five distinct factors made all the difference for Rittenhouse. One was the law of self-defense in Wisconsin. Wisconsin law requires the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant—here, Rittenhouse—was not acting in self-defense. In fact, Wisconsin law required such proof even if Rittenhouse were deemed the first aggressor. In most states, being deemed the first aggressor would, in many ways, waive a defendant’s access to a self-defense claim. Wisconsin is in the minority on this law, but it is not alone. It is one of approximately 15 states to place this burden on prosecutors.
Resources are the second factor that worked to Kyle Rittenhouse’s advantage. Supporters raised more than $2 million to support Rittenhouse’s defense, so he had the opportunity to hire the best defense that money could buy. Most defendants do not have access to the kind of defense that Rittenhouse did. Professor Paul Butler of Georgetown wrote a great opinion-editorial for the Washington Post that explains why money made a difference to Rittenhouse’s defense—from his ability to rehearse his testimony before mock jurors to the ability to hire one of the best jury consultants available.
The third set of factors that helped Rittenhouse get an acquittal was his youth, appearance, and race. Rittenhouse was a minor at the time of the tragedies. On the stand, he looked very young; in fact, he’s baby-faced. And, importantly, he’s white. To my mind, his youth made it easier for jurors to see him as a kid who found himself in a situation, as he said, where he needed to use his gun to survive. On videos from that night, he came across as naïve and confused, carrying both a medical self-aid kit to help people and an AR-15-style rifle, which, as we saw, could be used to kill.
At the end of the day, I suspect jurors saw him as a teenager who got in over his head, and from there, they believed that he found himself in a chaotic scene where he had to defend himself. And, of course, whiteness plays a big role here.
So you don’t think, if Rittenhouse was Black, a jury would have come to the same conclusion?
Though one would hope that race would not make a difference, I do not think jurors would have held the same empathy for a Black teenager. Just imagine if Kyle Rittenhouse had been a Black teenager. He never would have been able to even walk past officers with an AR-15-style rifle slung over his shoulder, especially after killing two people, much less make it home across state lines. Acting on negative racial stereotypes, police would have been unlikely to give a Black teenager the same benefit of the doubt that they gave Rittenhouse; the stop that likely would have occurred may have turned fatal for a Black Kyle Rittenhouse.
In fact, to see the difference that race might have made, all we have to do is consider the killing of Trayvon Martin. Many of the same people who supported Rittenhouse responded differently to Trayvon Martin and his right to defend himself against George Zimmerman. And, the facts were much more favorable for Trayvon Martin. Trayvon Martin was unarmed. He was not out on the streets during a night of unrest.
He was simply walking back to the house of his father’s girlfriend, where he was an invited guest, where he had a right to be. He tried to run away from the strange, white (and Peruvian) man who was staring at him and following him, but the man started to run after him. What teenager walking a neighborhood that they know they belong in would not think that the strange man staring at them and then running after them was not a danger to them?! Yet, some of the very same people who defended Kyle Rittenhouse proclaimed that Trayvon Martin had no right to defend himself.
You said five factors were keys to Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal, and you’ve named three (self-defense, appearance, resources). What were the other two?
The fourth factor that worked to Rittenhouse’s advantage is the judge in the Rittenhouse case, Judge Bruce Schroeder. Judge Schroeder has been heavily criticized for injecting bias against the prosecution and the victims in the case. For example, he did not allow the prosecution to refer to the two men who were shot and killed by Rittenhouse as “victims” (which I hear may be a practice of his), though the judge allowed the deceased men to be referred to as “rioters” and “looters.”
And, these word choices really do matter, because what trial lawyers do is tell narratives to juries about why someone should be convicted or acquitted. The words that lawyers choose to tell these narratives can make all the difference in legal outcomes. How one characterizes a subject in their story shapes how much the receiver empathizes with the person.
For example, if I call someone a “cheater” as opposed to, say, a “strategic thinker,” the people who are receiving my story will perceive that someone in one way (likely a very negative way) versus another, based on my vocabulary. The judge also heavily criticized the prosecutor in front of the jury, which can be prejudicial. Jurors look to judges for cues, and it seemed that the judge had disdain for the prosecutor, Thomas Binger in this case. The moment when he most heavily criticized Binger also seemed to be unfair; as some legal experts have contended, Binger seemed to be right that the door had been opened on Rittenhouse’s past statements about how he would use a gun to protect property. The judge’s reaction, however, made it seem like Binger was not being reasonable.
The fifth factor that worked to Rittenhouse’s advantage was that the prosecution had to rely on witnesses who were unlikely to be favorable to the prosecution. The prosecution had to rely on people who were present during the protests and who captured the videos of the events. The primary witnesses, from what I understand, were people paid by alt-right venues to film events.
These factors were different in the case of the men charged with killing Ahmaud Arbery, right?
The trial against Ahmaud Arbery’s murders, the McMichaels and Bryan, was different on all these dimensions. First, the judge was different. He was not injecting the same type of bias in the case. He seemed to be more aware of how racial bias could be creeping into the case, through jury selection, for example. He also rejected the defense counsel’s ludicrous and racist request to ban Black pastors from the courtroom.
Second, the McMichaels and Bryan also do not have the resources to pay for the kind of defense that Rittenhouse received. Travis McMichael’s testimony, while rehearsed (though not as much or with the same level of expertise), is very inconsistent from what he told the police right after the shooting, the murder. This fact is important, because it left him wide open for the prosecutor Linda Dunikoski’s excellent cross-examination. She skillfully highlighted all the inconsistencies between his statement to the police and his testimony on the witness stand.
Third, unlike in the Rittenhouse case, the prosecution here is able to describe Ahmaud Arbery as a victim. Additionally, the prosecutor was not being openly discredited by the judge in front of the jury. She did a beautiful job of presenting the case. She brilliantly played the 911 tape when the emergency, as declared by Travis McMichael himself, is simply that a Black man is running down the street.
The law of self-defense is also better here. The prosecution did not have to prove that the defendants were not acting in self-defense, though to my mind, she did. Also, the first aggressor law is different in Georgia. The prosecution witnesses were also better here. Importantly, the property owner whom the McMichaels claimed they were working to protect did not corroborate their story, noting that he never authorized them to act on his behalf or confront anyone about the property.
The defense counsel themselves also employed racist tropes that brought the racism underlying the tragic murder to the surface. Judge Walmsley already had to reject defense attorney Kevin Gough’s request to ban Black pastors from the courtroom, which was a dog whistle (or more blatant than that), on more than one occasion. Of course, defense counsel Laura Hogue’s closing comment and attack on the murder victim, Ahmaud Arbery, was atrocious. What she said about Ahmaud Arbery “in his khaki shorts with no socks to cover his long, dirty toenails” was stunning. It was downright shameful, but, luckily, the jurors saw through it.
Do you think there was one element to each case, more than anything else, that weighed on jurors the most in their verdicts?
It’s hard to isolate one element. If I had to choose one factor, I would say that the law of self-defense in Wisconsin was the most critical factor in the Rittenhouse case, because it placed the burden of disproving self-defense at the prosecution’s feet. That’s critical. As University of Wisconsin law professor Cecelia Klingele has explained, the Wisconsin law of self-defense required the jurors to resolve any doubts about whether Rittenhouse acted in self-defense in his favor.
Even assuming Rittenhouse as the first aggressor, the question before the jury was not even whether Rittenhouse had “exhausted every other reasonable means to escape from or otherwise avoid death or great bodily harm,” but instead whether he believed that he had done so.
In the case concerning the murder of Ahmaud Arbery by Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and Roddie Bryan, the one element I would choose would be Linda Dunikoski’s cross-examination of Travis McMichael, along with the video that the Bryan captured. Dunikoski did an excellent job of highlighting the inconsistencies between Travis McMichael’s police statement and trial witness testimony, particularly in showing that there was no threat posed by Ahmaud Arbery, that Ahmaud Arbery was simply trying to run away, and that McMichael had no probable cause to think a crime had been committed or that Ahmaud Arbery had committed one.
Will these two verdicts, in very different cases, have any lasting impact on conversations happening in this country around race and violence?
Yes and no. Yes, because the case concerning the McMichaels’ and Bryan’s murder of Ahmaud Arbery helps to place limits on what arguably seemed to be few limits on people taking the law into their own hands and killing Black people with impunity. This decision was highly critical in that way.
They also importantly reveal how white skin privilege functions in our society. For example, if we change the races of the three defendants who murdered Ahmaud Arbery and make Ahmaud Arbery a white man, could you ever imagine there be 70-plus days before there was an arrest in such a situation? There had to be a movement and protests for there to be simple arrests in this case. As I noted above, if Kyle Rittenhouse had been Black, would he have even survived that night? Could he have walked past police officers with an AR-15-style rifle? Would people have raised $2 million for his defense? Whether or not you think the right outcome was reached in that trial, one has to look at how whiteness functioned to his advantage on so many levels.
Time will tell. Depending on what happens in the future, the case concerning the conviction of the McMichaels and Bryan, along with the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, may be discussed as a turning point. Think about it. These men felt so safe doing what they did that they taped their murder of Ahmaud Arbery, perhaps expecting to be cheered on as heroes. It’s eerily reminiscent of past lynchings, which white people would bring their families to, grabbing body parts of lynched Black people as souvenirs and making and selling postcards and other products out of photos taken at lynchings.
That said, the answer is also no. Despite the progress we have made, we have a long way to go in our nation. I certainly pray that there are no more such tragedies, but if recent history repeats itself, new tragedies will replace them in this very sad conversation, which needs to change.
Lastly, in both cases, the defense attorneys tried to argue their clients were not guilty because they acted in self-defense. It worked in the Rittenhouse case but not the Arbery one. Why is self-defense so complicated to prove, or disprove, in cases like these, and do you think the current laws adequately protect the innocent?
In the Rittenhouse case in Wisconsin, self-defense was complicated to disprove because the burden of disproof was placed on the prosecution, even in the case of a first aggressor. The verdict may push legislators to act to try to change current self-defense law in the state.
The current laws are less likely to adequately protect the innocent when the innocent are traditionally marginalized people like Black people. Race complicates these questions even more because of racial bias, both conscious and non-conscious. We know from social science research that people are more likely to see the exact same act by a white person and a Black person and view the Black person’s act as more hostile and aggressive.
We know that Black people will not be given the same benefit of the doubt. We know that people are more likely to associate criminality and danger to Black people than white people. It’s why people have different instinctual reactions when you change the race of the actors in a case or scenario.

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Shahid Kapoor can work and interact with fans all day, all time. It's no big deal for an actor like him, you must be thinking. Well, that's what he says too. But the reality is a bit different, which the actor hilariously showcased in his latest post on Instagram. Shahid Kapoor, on Friday, posted a video of himself rehearsing for a live show performance on stage and interacting with fans in broad daylight. “Don't do this to me, I have to rehearse,” he says and the next shots feature him rehearsing for his performance with backstage dancers. While it all seems smooth at first, seconds later, the actor is seen panting and gulping water while saying ironically, “I can do this all day.” He then goes on to click selfies with his fans. In the caption too, Shahid Kapoor wrote: “I can do this all day” with a dancing man icon.
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Shahid Kapoor recently celebrated his 42nd birthday. Of course, the actor received heartwarming notes from his fans and industry colleagues. But it was Shahid's brother, actor Ishaan Khatter's birthday wish that stole our attention. Ishaan picked a major throwback moment featuring himself and Shahid to mark the day. Calling the birthday boy “elder tree”, Ishaan wrote, “My elder tree, I may grow taller or even bushier but it's all because of your shade and nurturing. Love you and trouble you always. Happy birthday bade miyan, Shahid Kapoor.”
Shahid Kapoor was last seen in the web series Farzi, directed by Raj and DK. It also starred Vijay Sethupathi and Raashii Khanna. In his review for NDTV, Saibal Chatterjee wrote, “In Farzi, set in post-demonetisation India, it sets off a spiral that pits the protagonist, an exceptionally skilled but struggling artist, against the law and an underworld kingpin. He prints his own cash, cocking a snook at a system at the mercy of the wealthy and the powerful. The battle of attrition that ensues forms the spine of a solidly crafted, superbly acted series.”

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The rebound queen and New Orleans native Big Freedia will be hosting a series of live outdoor cooking demonstrations from City Park in New Orleans every Thursday throughout July, starting this Thursday. While the (limited) number of tickets for the July 2 event are sold out, the weekly Garden Cookout with Big Freedia will be streamed live on its website and social media channels.
Big Freedia will host the barbecue-themed demonstrations at City Park Botanical Gardens in front of a small, socially distanced audience. A press release teased dishes like You Deja Know stuffed peppers, booty smac ‘n cheese and grilled fresh asparagus, all using edible garden herbs and vegetables.
Big Freedia has long been a tastemaker and influencer in the New Orleans foodie world, landing her own rosé in 2017 and developing plans for a cookbook. The New York Times released a list of his New Orleans restaurant recommendations last year, which included local favorites like Manchu, Neyow’s Creole Cafe and the newer Morrow’s. Since the start of her quarantine, she has been live-streaming two cooking shows, “Whatcha Cooking Wednesdays” and “Sunday Gospel Brunch.” Of the backyard barbecue, she said, “I’m so excited to bring people together in an outdoor environment. Partnering with City Park, which raises awareness about gardening and food, is an honor.
To purchase tickets for future events, see here, and check Big Freedia’s Facebook and Instagram for live broadcasts.
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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – United States President Joe Biden dispatched the nation’s top spy to meet the head of the Taleban on Monday (Aug 23), in the highest-level diplomatic encounter since the militant group took over Afghanistan’s capital, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
The Post, citing unnamed US officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said CIA director William Burns met Taleban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul on Monday as the Biden administration continued efforts to evacuate US citizens and other allies amid chaos at the airport in Kabul.
Reuters could not immediately verify the report.
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Why Parrot Feathers Turn Black – Causes and Cure
My Conure’s green wing feathers are turning black, otherwise he is healthy, eats good, bathes, plays. I inherited this bird from a neighbor who didn’t want him anymore. Whats wrong with him?
Sounds like “stress bars” or…
Sounds like “stress bars” or “stress lines.” These black bars occur as feathers are developing when a bird gets either emotionally or physically stressed.
Physical stress could be a health problem he or she was suffering at a time, such as an infection for example; or a significant deficiency of important nutrients (i.e. malnutrition).
Emotional stress would be caused by such events such as moving into a new home or when major changes are occurring in their environment (new family member or another pet.
Birds are also very sensitive and will pick up on stress that family members may feel (divorce, loss of a loved one, etc.). So this is the time to evaluate their diet and overall state of health; and – if stress is a likely cause – to keep stress at a minimum.
Once the root of the problem has been rectified, the feathers will usually grow in normal during subsequent molts. Sibylle

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Lipstick vs. The Ayatollah
by Monica Zandi
In a country that mandates veiling, Iranian women experience a myriad of constraints placed on them by both the state and society. But despite being denied the right to visibly express creativity or uniqueness, one way Iranian women continue to push for individuality and personhood is by expressing themselves outwardly through chic fashions. In an exhibit at the Bronx Museum entitled Iran: Women Only, images of Iranian women are presented from Randy H. Goodman’s press and freelance archives that challenges the essentialism pervading the Western image of Iran while generating discourse on the country’s culture of gendered resistance.
Goodman’s work, both early and later, is that of an outsider pursuing sociological inquiry and newsworthy events. In the 1980s, she captured mostly religious Iranian women belonging to a lower socioeconomic strata supporting the revolution. But in 2015, she captured modern women in everyday situations amidst the backdrop of U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations (2015). Inside the last two rooms of the exhibit, small and medium format photographs from 2015 show Tehrani women driving cars, laughing in museums, and wearing makeup. These photos hang alongside press photos from the Hostage Crisis (1979) and Iran-Iraq War (1980-88) that she shot while on assignment for CBS News and Time Magazine.
In the newer photos of everyday life, Goodman conducts an ethnographic exploration of the mundane ways in which Iranian women go about their daily lives. Mining her archive some forty years later, Goodman, whose motives are unstated in the actual exhibit, appears to be contrasting these pictures to her earlier photojournalism focused on scenes like mobs of supporters of the revolution which caters to a western audience’s stereotypes about veiled Muslim women. In an interview, Goodman noted that the exhibit was originally going to include post-cards and an audio component to provide greater context about the press photos from the 1980s, which at the time were taken to give audiences a view of how empowered and anti-colonial religious Iranian women felt during the Revolution.
The exhibit presents public life during three critical flashpoints in Iran’s history: the Hostage Crisis, Iran-Iraq War, and U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations. Photos from the past and present are juxtaposed with one another to present the viewer with a sense of change, thereby challenging their assumptions and entrenched worldviews about Iran. In Khomeni Supporter (1983), an aging Muslim woman in an all-black chador (the head-to-toe black veil) stares into Goodman’s camera while holding up a picture of Khomeni; next to it, Exercising (2015) features a smiling middle aged woman using a park elliptical, while donning lipstick, a tight unbuttoned beige coat, colorful veil, designer sunglasses, and striped pink sneakers. Both photographs engage with each other and the viewer. The viewer can thus reflect on his or her understanding of Iranian women in observing the stark differences. While the former image may evoke stereotypes about Iranian women as oppressed victims of Islamic patriarchy, the latter demonstrates the subtle ways in which Iranian women have subverted the constraints placed on them. When I conversed with Goodman, she noted that an American spectator from the state of Georgia told her after viewing the exhibit that she “did not know Iranian women were allowed to dress like that and presumed they all wore burqas.”
Although her early work emerged from a sincere desire to convey the anti-imperialist mood of post-revolution Tehran and understand the ongoing change there, Goodman sold these photographs without any personal input from the subjects, or context for audiences. She admitted this was a stake, noting that she still regrets it nearly forty years later. Herein lies the exhibit’s curatorial challenge—Iran: Women Only lacks her personal narrative or clues as to her motivation during hear early work. This omission lends itself to potential misinterpretation, particularly of the press photographs. Without this context and personal narrative, it is difficult to interpret Goodman’s role as a mainstream press photographer and her anti-colonial objectives during the Hostage Crisis. To the viewer, her press photos from the 1980s could easily bleed into familiar visual vocabularies about Iran that evoke the ‘terrorist,’ ‘Other,’ ‘radical,’ and a ‘backwards’ society. Goodman states her photographs were snapshots of newsworthy events (e.g., protests, demonstrations, prayer services) meant to show Iran’s political shift in the early 1980s. Her exhibit, she notes, is not intended to be viewed as an “art show” but rather as documents from Iran’s past and present historical canons. While she did not intend to create mediated narrative, the exhibit does not clarify these intentions, potentially leaving audiences confused as to how these images should be interpreted alongside the more recent photos in the exhibit.
These newer photos are the result of Goodman’s 2015 return to Iran. On this trip, she had no media backing or publication goals; but sought to produce new images featuring Iranian people in dialogue with her press photos. Goodman unequivocally demonstrates how Iran’s political atmosphere is different now through the exhibit’s dialogical and pedagogical register. By using women as evidence of Iran’s change, her exhibit tackles issues pertaining to them such as stereotypes about Muslim identity and compulsory veiling. In the 2015 images, the audience gains a greater sense of liberation felt yet in the 1980s images—lost due to lack of context. When one sees a chador-clad Muslim woman in a black and white photograph from a religious demonstration supporting Ayatollah Khomeni, the meaning of her presence is transmuted; in that moment, she was empowered, but forty years later, she is perceived as ‘oppressed’ or ‘radical’ by western audiences.
The positioning in Goodman’s freelance pictures from 2015 to press photos from CBS, Time Magazine, and Gamma Liason conjures mainstream media's habit of generating mediated visuals; where photographs are utilized by media institutions to fit a particular narrative or ideology. The press photos represent Iran’s history through the lens of geopolitical developments seen on popular television and front papers. While taken for historical documentation, Goodman’s press photos nevertheless evoke familiar graphics, ingrained in our collective memory since the Hostage Crisis. In Women’s Day Demonstration with Posters (1983) and Women’s Day March (1983), both photos feature hordes of black-clad, faceless, Iranian women holding posters of Khomeni. Again, the exhibit does not provide much context about these women or the moment they occupy—let alone any clear language, feminist or anti-colonial, in a way that breaks stereotypes about Iran while also highlighting how news organizations perceived these images through Western Eurocentric paradigms to prove an essential difference between Iran and the West, perpetuate Orientalist tropes, and further damage Iran’s identity as a result of the Hostage Crisis.
However, while the exhibit does not address how mainstream Western society ‘Othered’ and subordinated the chador-clad women of the 80s after their stories entered the canon, we see an attempt to counter Iran’s mediated treatment in the news with the newer series. In Women’s Taxi (2015) and Tehran Bazaar (2015), for instance, Iranian women appear exercising greater degrees of agency. Here, the subjects are active compared to their passive counterparts in Goodman’s press photographs, where the chador-clad women appear as having only an “Islamic” identity. When Khomeni rose to power, he used religion and state control to impose a conservative Islamic proscriptions of female identity on Iranian women. All traces of makeup or “Western” style clothing disappeared from public life. Over the years, women seeking such images would need to resort to illegal means such as satellite television and social media. Thus, by wearing make-up and showing strands of hair, the women in Goodman’s photos challenge both the official Iranian state-mandated female identity as well as Western assumptions that Iranian women are silent victims. Women’s Taxi shows a middle-aged woman, smiling proudly as she drives a women-only taxi cab, wearing makeup and a loose veil exposing locks of hair stiff from hair spray. Next to it, Tehran Bazaar shows a trio of Iranian women shopping for colorful accessories, wearing loose veils and colorful blue coats, sporting cosmetic surgeries. These images reveal women subtly opposing the regime’s mandate on veiling and expectations for women.
While the exhibit goes some distance in introducing nuance to the portrayal of Iranian women, there is room for a deeper exploration of western photojournalism’s impact on how iconic images inform the audience’s political awareness and cement stereotypes. Goodman could benefit from conceptually or didactically providing the audience with more personal knowledge about her travels to Iran, opinions on journalism, and how she developed her images. Further, while the exhibit picks up visual symbols of Iranian women’s resistance, e.g., colorful veils and makeup, it does not delve further into how, why, and what historical triggers or social forces made way for this resistance. Deeper dialogue with the subjects is also absent—what is the female taxi driver’s story? What about the exercising woman? These questions and gaps highlight what seems missing in an exhibit highlighting the agency of Iranian women: the participation, consultation, or inclusion on some level of Iranian artists or photojournalists. Goodman’s role as an American photojournalist in Iran on one hand wanted to present historical documents and newsworthy events from anti-imperial, empowered women in the 1980s. On the other hand, selling such images without her voice is an important tension related to the discourse about women in Iran in mainstream media. But in order to artfully navigate the nuances of Iranian identity, Iran: Women Only, would benefit from featuring the inclusion of creators closer to the subject—Iranians— in future reiterations.
 Michael Christie, et al, Putting transformative learning theory into practice. Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 55, 2015, 10-13.
 In a conversation with Randy Goodman (Monica Zandi 2018, oral communication, 1st November).
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 Marizeh Kaivanara, “Beauty in Iran: Paradoxical and Comic,” Beauty Demands, 2017.
Monica Zandi is a writer, educator, and artist by way of Iran. She has written for Sublet Projects, Kaltblut Magazine, and Feminist Wednesdays on a range of topics such as art from the 18th century and collage from local Brooklyn artists. Her current focus is on analyzing the impact of hyper-reality on contemporary Iranian feminist thinking and art.


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Christi Chabarria, RN
I am a registered nurse with 16 years of nursing experience. I have been a school nurse here at Barton for 5 years. I am married and we have 2 wonderful children. My husband is a cardiac nurse in Austin. We live in Mountain City and both of our children are students within Hays CISD. I stay busy with family activities, reading, and spending time with friends. I enjoy volunteering my time for American Cancer Society and Relay for Life.
School nursing has been very rewarding and challenging and I look forward to many more years. I thank you for the opportunity of caring for your children. I will use each encounter with your children to promote wellness, teach and provide my best care to the children. I am always available for questions, comments, or concerns.
School nursing is a professional registered nursing specialty that involves identification, assessment, prevention, and intervention to remedy or modify students' health needs. The nurse's goal is to promote the optimum health of students and the students' abilities to achieve their individual educational goals.
Nurses monitor required immunizations, perform mandated health screenings, track communicable diseases, plan for emergencies and provide direct care to students. Please use the links to the left to learn more about the Hays CISD District Health Services.
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Tips for health and wellness
*Start off with a healthy breakfast.
*Hydration is key to staying healthy, alert and attentive.
*Stay physically active. 60 minutes of daily moderate activity is recommended to stay fit.
*Maintain energy and focus with healthy snacks.
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*Wear appropriate clothing choices for temperatures. Wear comfortable and safe shoes for student activity while at school.
*Notify your school nurse of childs health concerns.
*Provide school nurse with needed documentation and medication for health conditions.
* Have regular checkups with pediatrician and stay current on all vaccines including annual flu vaccine.
News from the Nurse
It's flu season and allergy season. Below is information of when to keep your student home and also some tips for helping to determine if it is a cold or allergies vs the flu. Please keep your students home if they have a fever over 100. They must be fever free for 24 hours without the use of medication before sending them to school. Please encourage your students to wash their hands often and keep their coughs and sneezes covered.
Christi Chabarria RN, BSN
Barton Middle School Nurse

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Influence of thyroid status on intracellular distribution of cardiac adrenoceptors.
Previous studies have suggested that thyroid hormones influence the number of membrane-bound cardiac adrenoceptors, but their effect on the intracellular distribution of adrenoceptors has not been examined. A plasma cell membrane and a vesicular fraction devoid of membrane markers were prepared from hearts of euthyroid and hyperthyroid rats and were used to compare beta- and alpha-adrenoceptors. During daily injection of l-thyroxine, cardiac hypertrophy developed within 4 days and remained unchanged thereafter. The number of membrane-bound beta-receptors increased progressively and plateaued within 2 weeks of thyroxine administration. Vesicular beta-receptors, on the other hand, increased more gradually and to a lesser extent so that after 2 weeks of l-thyroxine injection, they constituted a smaller proportion of the total beta-receptor population compared to normal rats. In contrast, the number of cardiac alpha 1-adrenoceptors declined rapidly to about 80% of that in euthyroid animals and did not change further for the duration of the study. Membrane-bound and vesicular alpha 1-adrenoceptors were affected to the same extent in hyperthyroidism. During regression of cardiac hypertrophy following cessation of thyroxine administration, alpha 1-adrenoceptors rose rapidly (within 2 days) to normal values while beta-receptors declined more gradually to normal levels within 2 weeks. In hypothyroid rats, there was a significant decline in the density of both alpha 1- and beta-adrenoceptors, with a shift away from the vesicular fraction. These results indicate that both the total numbers of cardiac adrenoceptors and their distribution between the plasma membrane and vesicular fraction are influenced by the thyroid status.
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After releasing a strong trailer for the movie, the makers of Bhavesh Joshi Superhero released a teaser of the song from their upcoming film. Titled Chavanprash, the teaser features the lead Harshvardhan Kapoor and his cousin Arjun Kapoor. The first song titled Hum Hain Insaaf was released last week and now the second song will be released on Monday.
The eleven second clip has Harshvardhan unloading a few punches while Arjun Kapoor is seen sitting surrounded by a number of women. Written by Amit Trivedi, the song sounds like it will be a peppy track. Chavanprash is sung by Divya Kumar and is choreographed by Vaibhavi Merchant.
Bhavesh Joshi Superhero will be Harshvardhan’s second film after his debut with Mirzya where he starred beside Sayami Kher.
Bhavesh Joshi Superhero is being directed by Vikramaditya Motwane and is scheduled to release on May 25. Speaking to media about the role, Harshvardhan had said, “I don’t think when you will watch it, you will think of Imran Khan or Sidharth Malhotra. You will only think of Harshvardhan Kapoor as Bhavesh Joshi. Vikramaditya Motwane is a brilliant director. I don’t know why Imran and Sidharth did not do it. I thank God I got the chance to do it.”Read More

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Doubts Mount in Botswana Over Charity’s Claim of Elephant ‘Poaching Frenzy’
CAPE TOWN — It was a stunning story that attracted international consideration this month: A “poaching frenzy” in northern Botswana left 87 elephants useless, slaughtered for his or her tusks to feed Africa’s rising illicit ivory commerce.
But scientists and Botswana’s authorities now say that the variety of deaths attributed to poachers, whereas unknown, has been vastly overstated, and have accused the wildlife charity that made the declare, Elephants Without Borders, of peddling false data.
The authorities has not decided the reason for loss of life in all 87 instances, however a current go to by the authorities to a nationwide park surveyed by the charity discovered 19 useless elephants, with fewer than a 3rd killed by poachers. Scientists additionally faulted the charity for ascribing a reason behind loss of life after surveying the scene from the air.
Critics say that Elephants Without Borders exaggerated the poaching drawback to attempt to affect Botswana’s new leaders, who’re contemplating rolling again contentious searching bans and moderating the nation’s militarized strategy to conservation.
They additionally accuse the group of utilizing the report back to solicit funds, underscoring what they see as a pervasive battle of curiosity for donation-based animal rights teams. The charity declined to answer questions posed by electronic mail and phone.
“There’s no query that poaching is occurring in Botswana,” mentioned Kathleen Alexander, a wildlife conservation professor at Virginia Tech University, who has been working within the nation for greater than 30 years. “But it’s clear that the allegations of scale are imagined.”
The dispute has additionally revealed a deeper pressure in conservation administration, regarding how Western advocacy teams can steer debates in growing nations, even with out credible proof.
“There are some campaigns which might be pushed by feelings, rumour and unsubstantiated allegations,” mentioned Annette Hübschle, a researcher on the University of Cape Town’s Center of Criminology. Those centered on “charismatic megafauna,” reminiscent of elephants and rhinoceroses, have been “typically completely misguided,” Dr. Hübschle added, even whereas different teams did essential work within the sector.
Botswana is residence to the world’s largest inhabitants of elephants, with some estimates placing the numbers at greater than a 3rd of Africa’s whole. The nation has lengthy been thought-about a secure haven for wildlife, partly due to a “shoot to kill” coverage towards poachers by rangers and by Botswana’s navy, which patrols protected areas.
Col. George Bogatsu of the Botswana navy marking a useless elephant this month. The nation is residence to the world’s largest inhabitants of African elephants.CreditMonirul Bhuiyan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
But whereas conducting aerial surveys for the federal government this yr, Elephants Without Borders mentioned it had come throughout dozens of elephant carcasses, many with their tusks lacking.
In a report in August, the charity’s director, Mike Chase, wrote that he had by no means seen so many useless elephants without delay, although they’d apparently died over a interval of about three months. Mr. Chase attributed the deaths to a poaching surge, and the charity mentioned in an electronic mail on the time that it had reached out to the federal government however had been ignored.
But the federal government instantly disputed each the group’s numbers and the idea that each one the useless elephants had been hunted for his or her ivory, calling the reviews “false and deceptive.” Survival International, which advocates for the rights of indigenous peoples, agreed.
In a go to to Chobe National Park final week, officers counted 19 useless elephants, solely six of them killed by poachers, the federal government mentioned. The relaxation had died of pure causes or in conflicts with villagers, the federal government mentioned. Addressing reporters on the journey, Churchill Collyer, the deputy director of the wildlife division, mentioned, “We haven’t recorded any mass killing.”
In an announcement final week, Elephants Without Borders insisted that it was “fully apolitical in its work,” however mentioned that it had felt “an ethical and patriotic obligation” to report the excessive variety of elephant carcasses noticed throughout its survey, which started on July three and can end in October.
The assertion didn’t point out the unique declare of 87 carcasses or tackle the ensuing criticism, noting that the group was unable to launch any additional data till finishing its last survey report.
Even if Mr. Chase had counted 87 elephants, it was “merely not doable to attribute reason behind loss of life from fixed-wing plane,” Professor Alexander of Virginia Tech mentioned in a phone interview, besides within the situations the place poachers had tried to cowl the carcasses with brush.
In addition, claims by Mr. Chase that this represented “by far the most important” scale of elephant poaching he had “seen or examine wherever in Africa” have been known as into query. Annual totals gathered by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species document quite a few instances of poaching on a bigger scale, together with 225 elephants illegally killed in 2012 in a single recreation protect in Kenya.
Keith Somerville, a fellow of the Zoological Society of London and creator of the e-book “Ivory: Power and Poaching in Africa,” mentioned that it appeared Elephants Without Borders had used its report back to attempt to affect nationwide debates over trophy searching of wildlife, which Botswana’s authorities banned in 2013.
Although former President Ian Khama of Botswana gained reward from Western animal welfare teams for the choice, the ban was contentious at residence, seen as depriving rural villages of revenue and worsening human-wildlife battle.
Gaseitsiwe Masunga, a biologist on the University of Botswana’s Okavango Research Institute, mentioned that “at a time when native communities have been angered by the searching ban,” individuals had been additional incensed by Mr. Chase’s try to sway the talk.
The carcass of an elephant within the district of Chobe, in northern Botswana, this month. Reports of a mass killing of elephants within the nation at the moment are being questioned.CreditMonirul Bhuiyan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Dr. Masunga, who previously labored for Botswana’s nationwide parks division, harassed that poaching ranges “could possibly be very excessive” within the north of the nation, and that Mr. Chase’s figures might have been credible. “We have to attend till the ultimate report back to determine,” he mentioned.
Since Mr. Khama’s time period expired in April, his successor, Mokgweetsi Masisi, has opened a debate on the ban, in search of to win again alienated rural voters forward of subsequent yr’s nationwide elections, Mr. Somerville mentioned.
“In widespread with many conservation and animal rights teams, Elephants Without Borders is against searching,” he added. “They have been advancing their well-known advocacy place and determined to go public with it, as a result of clearly they don’t agree with authorities.”
In May, Mr. Masisi’s authorities additionally determined to withdraw navy weapons from its Department of Wildlife and National Parks rangers, which Elephants Without Borders later blamed for an increase in poaching. But Professor Alexander mentioned Botswana’s navy performed a far larger function in anti-poaching operations, and had not been affected by the choice.
“The authorized system in Botswana has by no means allowed non-policing brokers to hold assault weapons,” Professor Alexander mentioned. “If any ranger killed somebody with these weapons, they could possibly be held liable in addition to the federal government.”
Mr. Khama had been a detailed ally of Elephants Without Borders. Together with Mr. Chase, he serves on the board of the Tlhokomela Trust, an anti-hunting conservation nonprofit. Also on the board is Mr. Khama’s brother, Tshekedi, who’s Botswana’s setting minister.
At a strained information convention final week, Tshekedi Khama appeared to criticize his personal authorities for its dealing with of the poaching dispute, saying, “There is little doubt the disarming of anti-poaching items may have contributed to the excessive charges of poaching within the Chobe space.”
Speaking on the identical briefing, Unity Dow, Botswana’s worldwide affairs minister, mentioned that there had been a “fuzzing of roles” between authorities officers and the nonprofit sector, particularly referring to the Tlhokomela Trust.
“Elephants Without Borders clearly will not be used to competitors of views,” Ms. Dow mentioned, including, “We have governance points right here.”
Since Elephants Without Borders launched its figures, on-line petitions have proliferated, calling on Botswana’s authorities to take care of its searching ban and to rearm rangers.
“Botswana has a rising, wholesome elephant inhabitants exactly as a result of the federal government has completed such a tremendous job,” Professor Alexander mentioned. “For them to be accused of not defending elephants is ludicrous.”

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Couples Therapy Boston
What is Couples Therapy Boston services?
Nearly every couple goes through ups and downs, each with their fair share of relationship strain. How those moments—the good ones and the bad ones—are handled can make or break the relationship. Couples Therapy Boston service is a tool for mending negative interaction cycles that are causing an unhappy and unhealthy relationship. No romantic relationship is perfect nor immune to challenges. It doesn’t matter how you started off, people face moments of interpersonal conflicts, arguments, or find that they are just drifting apart from one another.
Despite your best intentions, conflict may arise from a busy and disconnected lifestyle. Like many couples, you could try to resolve the conflict yourself. But oftentimes, your own efforts can’t compare to that of getting help from a licensed couple’s therapist. With the guidance of an objective third-party, couples who decide to work with Omar A. Ruiz, LMFT (owner of TalkThinkThrive, PLLC) often see results within a couple of days or weeks, depending on the nature of the conflict.
Couples Therapy Helps Relationships with Weak Foundation
For some, marriage is a goal. For others, it’s their standard. Either way, there are a few important questions, issues, and grievances that couples should proactively deal with, especially if they plan to get married. As you build your relationship, topics such as finances, children, in-laws, housing, and responsibilities may not be on your to-do list. Maybe you’re worried that by talking about things you might come across as desperate, needy, or even clingy. However, by avoiding these conversations, you’re building a weak foundation.
Couples Therapy Boston Services Before Marriage?
Couples who haven’t had these important conversations tend to have more—and bigger—problems once they’re married. Premarital counseling (counseling for engaged couples) helps couples address differences and create a plan for managing conflict as they prepare for marriage. Omar offers couples therapy boston services as a tool to build conflict resolution skills to fall back on, when the inevitable issues arise after marriage. You’ll be better equipped to deal with challenges when you take the time to acquire the techniques for managing them from a licensed couples therapist, before you settle down with someone.
Is Couples Therapy Boston Services Right for my Relationship?
Now, what if you’re already married or you and your partner have no intentions of getting married? Life’s challenges are frequently part of any relationship, married or not
Which is why Omar designed TalkThinkThrive, PLLC as counseling service platform to be inclusive to relationships of all kinds. Don’t you think it’s worth trying therapy to build a solid foundation for your relationship that endures through times of disagreement or serious turmoil?
Top 3 Reasons People Start Couples Therapy Boston Services
Did you know? Couples Therapy Boston services isn’t just for marriages or romantic relationships that are in crisis. As a form of counseling, couples therapy serves a diverse community of clients who seek help for several reasons, but all with the goal of creating a healthier, happier relationship.
1. Sexual Issues in a Relationship
Sex is a major component of any healthy relationship. Each partner needs to have his or her sexual needs satisfied to feel an intimate bond. And whether you know it or not, the quality of your sex life has a tremendous impact on both your physical and emotional health. Partners complain of being deprived of this physical component and finding themselves in emotional turmoil. Others, too, become victims of their partners’ past sexual experiences, and find it difficult to resolve without expert help.
Omar developed TalkThinkThrive, PLLC with the use of a structured approach in mind to address each couple’s intimacy issues. Ideally, a combination of techniques is applied to identify exactly what is getting in the way of a healthy sex life. With this approach, Omar can find and administer the appropriate strategies, based on a set of counseling principles, that help partners achieve a mutually satisfying sexual relationship.
2. Communication Problems Between Couples
Multiple personal surveys and academic statistical research suggests that communication problems are a leading cause of divorce. In developing Couples Therapy Boston services, as part of TalkThinkThrive, PLLC, Omar has found that couples register a wide variety of complaints about their partners’ communication tendencies. Many clients have shared that they divorced their partner because of communication patterns that developed into consistent issues.
They’ve described the nagging and complaining that were the primary reasons their marriages ended. Others have said that they divorced because they felt unappreciated by their partners. Still, others complain of their partners’ failure to validate their opinions and feelings, leading to separation.
With proper communication being the fabric that holds together any romantic relationship or marriage, couples therapy has been designed to teach couples how to communicate with one another in a manner that works. Following counseling, you can make a conscious choice of communication style that works best for your relationship. This helps couples improve their communication, achieve better mutual understanding, and create a healthier and more stable relationship.
3. Finding Trust After an Affair
Relationships and marriages run into snags. Sometimes, it’s due to unfaithfulness and broken trust. Once trust is lost, suspicion sets in and it can be terribly difficult for couples to make it through to a resolution. Unfaithfulness in marriage or any romantic relationship can be extremely damaging and hurtful. Without expert help, couples may drift apart and end up separated. Even the most broken marriages can be saved, especially if the partners have reasons and willingness to make it work.
Couples Therapy Boston services provides a safe place to begin the conversations that lead to meaningful and practical ways to navigate the aftermath of unfaithfulness. For recovering couples, Omar offers a healing space on their journey toward resolution.
While attending therapy individually is an option, better results are achieved when both people attend couples therapy together, if it is safe to do so.
The couples therapy model Omar uses is the result of years of careful training and research. It’s intended to provide couples with a realistic chance of creating a better relationship, following an episode of infidelity.
If a couple decides that separation is the most prudent alternative, following the very last effort to make things work, counseling can help equip each partner with the right insights to make future relationships healthier and better.
Experienced in couples therapy, Omar can help couples minimize impact to loved ones, including children, and provide guidance and direction for navigating the new phase as a family. In such a case, therapy can be extremely instrumental in helping you end the relationship in the least hurtful and most respectful manner, so that you’re both happier thereafter.
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i was listening to this song by Priscilla Ahn called "i had a dream" [Link] it inspired me to do this pic. got my tablet halfway through lol. my sis did one of the windows, :). please rate and comment!
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The Jakarta Post
State-owned electricity company PLN has guaranteed electricity supply for the operation of 30 electric cars by Blue Bird taxi starting in May.
Blue Bird announced on Monday that it had allocated Rp 40 billion (US$2.84 million) to purchase 30 electric cars and to establish more charging stations.
“Currently, there are 12 charging stations, we will establish two or three more that could also be used by private cars,” said Blue Bird director Adrianto Djokosoetono on Monday as reported by kontan.co.id.
PLN western Java business director Haryanto WS said PLN and Blue Bird had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Oct. 26, 2018 on the electricity supply for charging stations owned by Blue Bird.
Under the agreement, PLN agreed to put aside 41,500 volt ampere (VA) or equal to 40,000 watts to guarantee the smooth electricity supply to the charging stations.
In addition, PLN has also given a 50 percent discount, about Rp 300 million, to Blue Bird for upgrading the power supply to the charging stations.
Adrianto said Blue Bird planned to operate some 2,000 electric cars in 2025. He added that the operation of the30 electric cars in May would serve as a reference for the operation of more electric cars in the future.
“After we confirm it’s feasible, we will know how much money needs to be disbursed,” Adrianto said.
The 30 electric cars consist of 25 BYD e6 A/T from China for Blue Bird taxis and five Tesla Model X 75D A/T from the United Kingdom for Silver Bird taxis. (bbn)

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Tanya Nolan is a soulful R&B/ Pop singer, songwriter, actor, fashion designer, entrepreneur, and producer known for her unique power vocals, original tracks, and cinematic music videos in multiple genres including R&B, Pop, and Dance Music to name a few.
Tanya arrived on the national stage with the release of her R&B record, “No Pressure.” The record landed on the TOP 40 radio stations across America including Music Choice and iHeartRadio. With the release of the dance remix, “No Pressure” (The Bruce Bang Remix), the remix charted on national Dance charts and was featured on C89.5 in Seattle, one of the top 10 radio stations in America along with KHTS, a Ryan Seacrest station in San Diego.
Tanya’s follow-up release, “Smile On My Face,” made its debut on national commercial radio in March of 2021. The song rose up the charts in less than 2 ½ weeks from 120 to #43. In April 2021, “Smile On My Face” also landed Tanya Nolan on Billboard’s most added records in the Top 5 under Jennifer Hudson’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.”
“Good Woman” is currently charting in the 20’s on Billboard’s R&B Charts with airplay on Sirius XM, Music Choice, PANDORA’s Adult R&B Playlist and multiple R&B stations across America. She recently was featured as a special in-studio guest at Houston’s #1 R&B station, Majic 102.1 with Funky Larry Jones and Ali Siddiq. She was also a special guest on Sirius XM’s Heart & Soul’s Top 20 Platinum Countdown with BJ Stone. Tanya Nolan has been featured in various media outlets including Singers Room, Voyage Houston, The Source Magazine, FOX, NBC, and ABC News. Tanya continues to build and expand her record label in the city of Houston with the zeal of a woman committed to creating music that is relatable.


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Brad Laabs: Water temps, food keys to finding early walleyes
We are setting up nicely for this year’s fishing opener that begins at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday May 10. We are already way ahead of last year as we now have open water. The rain this last week has also helped raise lake levels and should make getting in and out of area lakes much easier than the way we finished up last fall.
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‘Rubber’ (Original Mix)
I don’t think I could trust someone who doesn’t like Mr. Oizo. Not liking Justice or Ed Banger or Uffie is probably just common sense at this point, but Oizo is a special case. A coked-up genius who fell in with a bad crowd. The Eric Cantona of filter-house. And here he proves how ace he is once again on an collaborative EP with Justice’s Gaspard Augé showing off music they recorded for Oizo’s recent film, Rubber.
Everything great about Oizo (and Justice when they’re on form, to be fair) is showcased here. The shamelessness: just fourteen seconds into opener ‘Rubber’, you’re thrown down a hill of cross-firing lasers, squealing handbrake turns and drums that don’t just roll, they seem to ripple and corrode into each other on fast-forward. Oh, and hand claps. The beauty: the same track closes on a sample of some disco beaut that I’ve never heard of before being quickly filtered out. The ridiculous size of it all: the kicks on ‘Tricycle Express’ stomp like a city coming to life, lit up by absurdly Kraftwerkian synths shining overhead, and ‘Polocaust’ is so dramatic with its strings and flute that it makes Kill Bill’s soundtrack seem subtle by comparison.
Flying Lotus rounds off the EP with a remix of ‘Rubber’, and he does a good job at trying to match Oizo’s combination of the bizarre and the beautiful, switching between Carnival of Souls rave and twinkling pajama pop, but you don’t out-villain the villain on his own 12″.


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CreativeMornings/Raleigh launched successfully at 8:30am on September 14, 2012 in the educational classroom at CAM Raleigh. Folks from Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill claimed all 120 available tickets in only 25 hours to attend the inaugural speaking event.
What is CreativeMornings? A free of charge, monthly breakfast lecture series for creative types. Think of it as a local morning mini-conference and inspirational community boost before work. Nothing fancy, just good people and a great 20-30 minute talk (not to mention coffee and snacks!)
CreativeMornings was started by Tina Roth Eisenberg (aka swiss-miss) in September of 2009 out of the desire to create a casual, accessible event. Thousands of creative professionals attend CreativeMornings events around the globe every month. The individual chapters are run by volunteers that believe in the power of like-minded people getting together to meet, share and learn.
We applied to bring a chapter of CreativeMornings to Raleigh because we see the event as a delightfully simple, yet potent platform to connect at the local level while contributing to the international conversation around design and creativity.
With the success of our first event, we now have a better understanding of where we need help and how we can include more people on our team of volunteers—which is why we are reaching out to you and AIGA. I will be at the next monthly get-together to talk a little bit more about the event and what roles we will need to fill over the coming months.
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Fuoco amico is the Italian term for friendly fire. Those words appeared frequently in Italian newspapers last week as Rome buried a hero, Nicola Calipari, the Italian intelligence agent who was shot to death by American troops at an Iraqi checkpoint after he freed an Italian hostage earlier this month.
News accounts reported that the tragic death had increased anger toward America and toward Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for sending 3,000 troops to Iraq. As I was vacationing in Rome last week, I decided to go to where Calipari's funeral was being held. As an American, I wanted to thank Calipari for his sacrifice, and I wanted to hear for myself what Italians had to say.
As I arrived at the Piazza della Repubblica, I saw thousands of people who, like me, walked to the square in silence and alone, then found a place to stand and quietly thank a man they had never met. There were no chants, no shouts, only polite applause when the casket arrived, when they saw Calipari's family and when the entourage drove away.
I experienced the quietest two hours I have ever spent in a crowd of thousands.
When it was over, I asked an American journalist what folks in the crowd were telling her. They are really angry at America, she told me. I was surprised. In the two hours I stood there, I never once heard Italians muttering about President Bush, Estati Uniti, Americani. I had not seen one political sign. In fact, I saw only one sign, written by a woman who saluted Calipari as nobile and valoroso and placed him among the angels.
Several times, I overheard Italians use the word journalista, although my Italian wasn't good enough to figure out what they said about my profession.
The most relevant journalista wasn't there. Giuliana Sgrena, who became a hostage in Iraq as she covered what she called "that dirty war" for the communist daily Il Manifesto, was in an Italian hospital recovering from a shrapnel wound.
Be it noted, I saw only three copies of Il Manifesto at the piazza. This was not a gathering of Sgrena groupies -- despite the fact that Sgrena had spent the weekend posturing as Calipari's champion. She boasted that she told Calipari's widow she would get to the truth of what happened.
As soon as she returned from Iraq, Sgrena penned a piece for Il Manifesto on the incident -- La Mia Verita, or in English, "my truth" -- thus confirming my rule in life to never trust anyone who claims ownership of The Truth with a capital T. (Or V.)


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Fifteen young Americans, members of the Reform movement’s “Mitzvah Corps,” were hard at work today on a dramatic project to which they are devoting the entire summer–the construction of a community center for a tiny community of Indian Jews in this country. The community is located in the village of Venta Prieta, near Pachuca, about an hour’s travel from Mexico City.
In addition to building the new center, the youngsters are renovating and painting the small synagogue maintained by the community, called “Ha Negev.” They are contributing their services under the supervision of two adults, Albert Vorspan, of New York, and Rabbi Leo Abrahamee, formerly spiritual leader of the Bet-El congregation in Guatemala. All the youngsters come from comfortable homes in the United States. The architect for the new center is a Christian, living in Pachuca, who is also contributing his talent.


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Girls' Generation's Jessica revealed a photo taken with her younger sister.
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Jessica is showing a 'v' with her fingers, and Krystal is also showing a cute pose.
Netizens who saw the photo left comments, such as "Cute sisters", "What a great photo", "Their parents should be very proud of them", and "I love it".
The netizens have always been a fan of the sisters because of their charms and their beauty. They are also quite the personality bombs when it comes to variety shows. Growing up in the states has probably made them into the intellectual, witty beauties that they are today and it shows that many of that charisma is doing them well. Hopefully we will be able to see the two sisters work on something that combines their musical talents soon. The only times they have ever been on stage together is during their performances for SM Town. Hopefully they will develop something together apart from that and we'll be here to witness it. Until then, the pictures won't be so bad to glance at!


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Diane H. Quinn, PharmD, BCACP is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy (PCP). Additionally she is an Ambulatory Care Clinical Pharmacy Specialist at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz Veteran Affairs Medical Center. In this role she has practiced in several different pharmacist- run clinics such as pharmacoterapy, anticoagulation, and presently in endocrine.
Her academic and scholarly interests include- Interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional practice (IPP) activities as well as activities to foster student learning in innovative pedogoical approaches. Her clinical interests include disease management of diabetes, hypertension, anticoagulation, hyperlipidemia, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, COPD/asthma, tobacco cessation, and patient education to improve medication adherence.
Over the course of her academic career, she has grown to be a leader on IPE and IPP within PCP and her university. She has extensive experience creating, implementing, and assessing IPE activities. Additionally, she has experience on the PCP IPE team to incorporate IPE experiences within the competency-driven PharmD curriculum. These experiences are a mixture of face to face IPE experiences and virtual learning IPE experiences. She is the Team Lead of IPE for PCP and is the leader of the working group noted above and helping to build and maintain partnerships for IPE and IPP experiences.
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BCHC Welcomes Megan Thompson, MOT, OTR/L to the Therapy & Rehabilitation Department
BCHC is pleased to welcome Megan Thompson, OTR/L to the Therapy & Rehabilitation Department. Megan continues to advance the therapy department by providing occupational therapy services to patients of all ages locally and close to home.
Megan started her occupational therapy career graduating from Kirkwood Community College as an occupational therapy assistant. She then worked at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City for 6 years. Continuing her education, she earned her undergraduate and master’s degree in occupational therapy from Concordia University in Wisconsin. Prior to joining BCHC, Megan worked as an occupational therapist at Virginia Gay Hospital in Vinton, providing outpatient therapy, acute care, and home health therapy services. Megan’s clinical interests include orthopedic conditions of the hand and wrist, and geriatric care.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Doctors say any mask is better than no mask, but cloth masks may not be getting the job done well enough against omicron.
As cases surge, many are turning to N95 or KN95 masks to protect themselves.
The high transmissibility of the variant has led the California Department of Public Health to recommend avoiding cloth masks to protect yourself against omicron and UCSF's Dr. Peter Chin-Hong agrees.
"If you're wearing a cloth mask in a sparsely populated area, it's going to be fine probably, if you're outdoors in particular if you wear a mask at all," Dr. Chin-Hong said. "But indoors, if you're staying there for a long time and there's a lot of people, you kind of want to up your mask game."
The state suggests masks like N95, KN95, KF94 or a surgical mask paired with a cloth mask is the way you can do just that.
The fibers in the mask are created to prevent droplets of the virus from reaching your nose and mouth. While they can get worn out due to use, they are still good to reuse if not soiled, damaged or hard to breathe through.
With the omicron staying in the air longer than other variants, these masks can best protect you.
"Upping your mask game is important because you can go into the room and the person who has COVID could've left, but these dots, these virus particles are still lingering in the air," Dr. Chin-Hong said. "As you move around from place to place, you don't want anything to get inside of you."
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His shop keeps the doors open, clients distanced and now requires these same N95, KN95, KF94 or double surgical masks for anyone in the shop.
As Bruyn sees the omicron continuing to surge in the Bay Area and beyond, he believes the better masks will offer a safer experience.
"If the numbers were what they are now last year, we would've already been shut down," Bruyn said. "So we're doing everything we possibly can to make sure that we not only can we still have our livelihoods, but make sure our clients feel extremely safe."
Dr. Chin-Hong emphasized that any mask is still better than no mask.
The indoor mask mandate remains in place in California until at least Jan. 15.
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A Tree Grows in Space
Space platforms, typically called satellites or spacecraft, are generally complex to build on the ground, expensive to launch and obsolete in a decade or less. They typically end up as space junk, floating in orbit around the planet.
But is that the way it has to be?
That’s the question that David Barnhart, director of USC’s Space Engineering Research Center (SERC) and lead for the Space Systems and Technology group for the USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI), is contemplating. More specifically, what if we could “grow” spacecraft, repurpose a hybrid of inorganic and organic materials and even allow food to grow in space?
In a paper co-written with colleague and collaborator Nicole Livia Atudosiei of Bioterra Bucharest University, Barnhart discusses an alternative to creating space platforms with manmade materials, coupled with possibility of transporting food into space. He writes about what he calls “bioterran capability in space” or “growing the environment itself.”
This could mean growing a platform for a spacecraft in outer space and/or growing the food astronauts could consume. The paper, “Growing Life in Space: Sustainable Bioterra for Mankind’s Future on Earth and in Space,” was presented in September at the Institute of Agricultural Economics of the Romanian Academy at the Faculty of Management Agrotourism.
“If we can clone sheep and land humans on the moon, we should be able to solve the challenges to grow a tree in space,” Barnhart said.
But why? One issue is cost. While it may cost the same to put organic and manmade materials into space, Barnhart thinks the organic materials could be repurposed once in orbit as a source of food for astronauts or as additional physical platforms that could augment tomorrow’s satellites.
Barnhart, who has worked on such successful space enterprises such as designing satlets — essentially interchangeable, Lego-like pieces that can be used to create space platforms of any size, shape and volume at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems — manipulative robotic arms for spacecraft and the introduction of revenue streams for satellites, agrees.
“Peers might laugh at this idea,” Barnhart said.
Some other “out-there” ideas in their time: Airplanes. Personal computers. Cell phones.
For Barnhart, the idea to grow space platforms came out of an earlier project to rethink the manmade structure of satellites and how to assemble them. Currently, satellites and space platforms are monolithic, he said — that is, built out of pieces into a single entity. As such, there is no way to modify, change, adapt or fix them once in orbit. Barnhart thought a new approach was needed.
For that project, Barnhart found inspiration in biology, coral reefs and jellyfish in particular. It led to the design of satlets, or self-contained, connectable modules, that Barnhart said will see their first flight early this year. These satlets may enable some amazing new concepts, including incredibly large antennae farms and solar power stations for space.
Barnhart envisions a space platform that is grown in orbit with hybrid organic and manmade materials — for example, using a genetically modified Australian eucalyptus tree altered to withstand freezing temperatures. The idea combines various disciplines at the intersection of biology, mechanics and digital systems.
“Cells are beautiful and amazing. They have the ability to attach to each other without any preconceived structural configuration, and they self-aggregate into complex systems autonomously,” Barnhart said. “How do we make the outside of currently clunky mechanical spacecraft to something like a cell that expands and contracts seamlessly, to allow more cells to attach and grow to any size in space?”
While it may seem odd to consider growing trees in space, Barnhart and Atudosiei said scientists already imitate nature for satellite functions. Heat pipes in large satellites use fluid to transfer thermal energy similar to the ways trees do for nutrient transport, for example.
While actually growing organic material openly in the vacuum and temperature of outer space today is not possible, scientists could take initial steps toward that goal — one of which may be to grow existing species encapsulated by a material such as aerogel in a protected layer or cocoon to withstand the extreme conditions, Barnhart said.
Another idea is to engineer entirely new species of genetically modified flora and fauna that could exist in the extreme thermal conditions in space, with new methods to provide oxygen and nutrients.


Elizabeth A. W. Williams, Senior Vice President & Chief Communications Officer for Independence Blue Cross
As recently as last year, nearly 50 million Americans didn’t have health insurance. With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), this has started to change. Beginning January 1 of this year, millions of Americans, including hundreds of thousands in the Philadelphia region, have gained access to health insurance for the first time.
But the reform law is just a first step. The U.S. health care system still faces significant challenges — first among them, inconsistent quality and costs that continue to rise. These problems are so large and complex they cannot be addressed with yesterday's solutions.
In fact, finding sustainable solutions to raising the quality and lowering the cost of health care requires a level of change and innovation that the law simply does not provide. Fortunately, this region has all the right components to create the health care innovations needed to tackle these challenges: world class universities, renowned teaching hospitals, talented and dedicated physicians, a strong health and life sciences economy, and an active entrepreneurial community.
Elizabeth A. W. Williams, Senior Vice President and Chief Communications Officer, Independence Blue Cross
Earlier this month the federal government announced that the number of Americans who purchased their health insurance through the new federal and state Marketplaces more than doubled from October to November. It’s good news, but there are many more people still without coverage. According to a recent report, in southeastern Pennsylvania more than 276,000 adults don’t have coverage.
Having insurance is more than just a safety net if something catastrophic should happen. It’s about being able to go to the doctor for routine preventive care to keep you healthy. For example, women in our region with insurance are much more likely to have routine cancer screenings such as mammograms or Pap Tests.
So, for those who have been postponing shopping for health insurance, now is the time. The deadline is fast approaching. Consumers must sign-up by December 23 to have coverage on January 1. There are still a few challenges with the federal government’s website healthcare.gov, but it has improved and is getting better every day.


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After an illustrious special ops career ends in disaster, Alexander (Seagal) goes off the grid and attempts to lead a quiet life as a handyman at an apartment complex in Romania. But when one of his tenants and her family fall under the thumb of a local gangster, Alexander is dragged into an all-out war between rival Chinese and Russian gangs; forcing him to not only defend the family, but bringing him face to face with an old foe, and giving him one more chance to reconcile his past.Written by
Second film of the John Alexander trilogy is a competent vigilante actioner
An American action thriller; Steven Seagal plays John Alexander, a former U.S. Special Operations soldier who lives off-the grid in Eastern Europe after a covert operation ends in disaster.
This film is a prequel to "Force of Execution" which starred Ving Rhames and Danny Trejo, and a background story to Alexander's life as a gangster in New Mexico. Although this is a straightforward story about vigilantism, it develops the character motives succinctly and the pacing is good. The first installment had Alexander as a dark character without any redeeming qualities at all which involved a thug fest of barbaric reprisals. In this film the plot is adequate and the prologue sequences set the tone and provide meaning later in the story.
It hovers between toneless story and adequate action and gritty drama, and there's a plenty of well choreographed fighting. The final scenes raise it just a notch.
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I am drained; I just want to appreciate things today. It’s almost Sidewalk Days in Duluth. Makes me appreciate all I can walk to downtown. Today, I am gushing about music.
I was walking downtown enjoying the summer and stopped in to Electric Fetus. There, I picked up the new Jean Michel Jarre CD (a double-disc, actually), Electronica 1&2. On the set, Jarre collaborates with hip, exciting new artists I have never heard of, as well as Cyndi Lauper, Laurie Anderson, Edward Snowden, Edgar Froese, John Carpenter … an eclectic batch of voices. I look at the disc and see the Orb as a collaborator and realize the Orb is already “old school” to today’s music what my parents’ music was to me. The entire package is a reminder that I am (approaching) middle age. I said “approaching.”
But it also reminds me how lucky I am that the Electric Fetus is around. And it got me thinking hard about record stores in the Twin Ports.