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A new generation of Ethiopianists: the Universal Ethiopian Students Association and The African: Journal of African Affairs, 1937–1948
- Hillina Seife
- 23 June 2010
Abstract This paper explores the obscure Universal Ethiopian Student Association (UESA) and the journal that began as their organ, The African: Journal of African Affairs (1937–1948), as an example… Expand

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We round up our favourite mixes from 2018.
Feel free to share your favourite mixes from 2018 in the comments below.
- Yu Su
Truancy Volume 201
In an infinite pool of online mixes, Truancy Volume 201: Yu Su felt remarkably personal. The Chinese-born, Vancouver-based artist's mix references her classical piano training, the death of her mother and her love of Edward Yang films. In Yu Su's singular world, Liszt's impressionistic piano swells blend seamlessly into Terekke's deep dubs and the motorik optimism of Kraftwerk. The mixing and flow are remarkable.
- Nathan Micay
BIS Radio Show #946
Nathan Micay has long professed a love for trance and progressive house anthems, but few of his sets capture it as well as this radio session, which begins with the euphoric swell of Björk's "Big Time Sensuality," weaves through Paul Oakenfold remixing Smashing Pumpkins and Grooverider reworking The Stone Roses, with newer day-glo productions holding things up in between. If you're dying for an alternate future where '90s excess never ended, this mix is for you.
Akua is one of many young techno artists who aren't afraid to notch up the tempo, and she's also one of the DJs who does it the best. Full of throttling kick drums, careening synths and thrillingly broken rhythms, Akua makes you feel like you're hurtling through the air at Mach 3. It's a fast and skilled mix worthy of the DJ heroes—Claude Young, Mike Dearborn—that she names in the accompanying interview.
HNYPOT 291: Ode To The Queer Steppas
On "Ode To The Queer Steppas," their entry in Honey Soundsystem's excellent podcast series, CCL gives us tour through dubstep's strange outer reaches. Weaving together cuts from innovators like T++, Peverelist, Pinch and Shackleton, as well as newer bits from labels like SUED, the mix is balmy, psychedelic and utterly devoid of genre clichés. HNYPOT 291 exemplified that most difficult of DJ tricks: make a familiar style sound utterly different.
FACT Mix 667
LSDXOXO's journey from enterprising hip-hop producer to edit master to no-holds-barred DJ has been exciting to watch. This mix, jumping from old-school house and techno to Baltimore club to ghettotech to hardstyle and lots of subgenres in between, is no less of a rush. It's classic, it's new, it's queer and it's tough, and it's an example of the kind of flair that should help this New Yorker make waves in his new home of Berlin.
- Avalon Emerson
It's not exactly surprising that Avalon Emerson's Essential Mix is good as it is, but you still have to marvel. The mixing is slick, dynamic and bold. The tracklist is full of private edits and upcoming music by talented friends (Aurora Halal, Nathan Micay, Overmono), as well as curveball bits of shoegaze and synth pop. As for that bit with the Soul II Soul acapella played at the wrong speed over a rumbling Paul Woolford track—was there a better moment in any mix this year?
XLR8R Podcast 557
Recorded live at the debut edition of Orbits festival, you can almost feel the sweltering Portuguese heat emanating from re:ni's opening tracks. Everything is built from the same building blocks—precisely layered percussion, unconventional rhythms and airy pads—as the mix builds up from soft dub and trippy chuggers to psychedelic techno. It's a lesson in coaxing mid-afternoon revelers onto the dance floor.
"I don't think I've been ever very good at the chill thing," Peach admitted when her Discwoman mix was published in October. No matter: her sets happily exist in a space well outside the chill zone. DISCWOMAN 55 was as bright as it was tough, with dreamy breakbeats, 135 BPM rave, the odd dollar-bin oldie and loads of great new music. This was Peach doing what she does best.
- Ricardo Villalobos
What constitutes a good Ricardo set is one of dance music's enduring questions. This one, recorded at Amnesia in Ibiza, has been decried in some quarters for being too commercial. There are some bigger-room tunes in here, not least the Girada Unlimited rework of "Zapatac," but Ricardo's signature tightrope walk between hyper-precision and his famous no-fucks-given attitude is in full effect. And you know from those fader-flicks in the opening stretch that you're in for a treat.
MOJ mixes 15
Though currently based in Berlin, Omar comes from Uruguay, a scene where Nicolas Lutz looms large. No surprise then that he'd deliver such a stellar contribution to the podcast series of My Own Jupiter, a "multidisciplinary art platform" run by Lutz and Edurne. A high-energy trip through charismatic techno, electro and house, Omar's mix moves through a range of sounds and moods, strung together with the slick transitions associated with Uruguay's homegrown selectors.
If you're the type of person who delights in music that sounds like nothing that came before, Mumdance is your guy. Recorded as a free companion to the compilation he curated, this mix flirts with techno and drum & bass and swerves off the genre map altogether. Featuring tracks from Nkisi, Bambounou and Galaxian, Shared Meanings rounds up some of the most defiantly futuristic club tracks of the year.
- Kyle Hall and Jay Daniel
Live: Fundamentals @ Marble Bar Detroit
Despite their international acclaim, Kyle Hall and Jay Daniel are doing it for Detroit. Case in point: their Fundamentals party, a no-frills back-to-back session that's gone down over six years at bars, coffee shops and lofts in the D. This live recording from Marble Bar is a masterclass exploring the intersection of Detroit house, the jazzy '90s Chicago sound, UK broken beat and a whole lot of soul.
Slikback's first gig outside East Africa took place in a Kraków basement on a chilly night at this year's Unsound festival. That performance saw the Kenyan artist play an hour of trap, grime and deconstructed club music—all his own music and remixes, including a tune he'd made earlier that day. It was one of the festival's highlights, announcing the arrival of yet another exciting Nyege Nyege talent.
- Beatrice Dillon
FACT Mix 657
Unafraid of pauses, jitters or pivots in direction, Beatrice Dillon showcases her distinctive approach to DJing on this winding mix. She describes it as an hour of "complete tracks and cut up fragments of work by so many different artists," with credit given only to artists and no track titles. Carefully arranging tracks like a jigsaw puzzle, it's the way they interlock and sit together that reveals a bigger picture as the mix unfolds.
- Mx. Silkman
Beyond / Below 10
In less than a year, Hi-Vis's Beyond / Below mix series has established itself as a go-to for ambient mixes, thanks to an open-ended approach that emphasizes both patience and personality. This mix from Cleveland's Mx. Silkman might be the best of them all. It's peaceful with a hint of tension, and underlined with a kosmische-inspired sense of melody.
- Skee Mask and Zenker Brothers
Unsound Festival is ostensibly a showcase for music's cutting edge, but it's also earned a reputation for being a superb place to cut loose. Exhibit A: this three-way back-to-back from Skee Mask and Zenker Brothers, recorded early one Sunday morning in Hotel Forum's main room. The range of styles reflects the Ilian Tape sound, but its rowdy energy draws from jungle—from the spinbacks to the volatile, seat-of-your-pants mixing.
Blowing Up The Workshop 98
There are artists who stand out in their field, and there are artists who are their own field—like Yaeji. Not content to merely play 40 minutes of her favorite music, on Blowing Up The Workshop 98 she adds improvised vocals to create a kind of mix/mixtape hybrid. Yaeji hums, whispers, raps and sings over modern club tracks from the likes of Etch, Chevel and the late DJ Rashad, using her voice and effects to make stylistic jumps feel like natural transitions.
- Teki Latex
The Naked King
This guy doesn't call himself the "king of blends" for nothing. The third and final instalment in the French artist's mix trilogy might be the most hilarious and impressive of them all. Squarepusher into Lil' Flip? Sure. Crime Mob's "Knuck If You Buck" over Swedish House Mafia? Why not. Eurythmics into Daft Punk into DJ Deeon? Naturally. Every moment of this mix is so turbo-charged with energy and humour, it's like a roller coaster ride you'll want to go on again and again.
Sounds Of Sónar
Kampire set the tone for her standout set at this year's Sónar festival with this Sounds Of Sónar mix, released a couple of months before the main event in Barcelona. It was some calling card from the Kampala DJ, mixing up fresh sounds from Angola, Uganda, Nigeria and the DRC. Full of catchy pop hooks and booming bass, this one showed precisely why Kampire is one of East Africa's leading DJs.
- John T. Gast
UVC Roots & Destruction
John T. Gast's enigmatic druid dub creeps quietly out of London with little fanfare, but his fans are cult-like in their devotion to him. This year's instalment of the Roots And Destruction mix series for Bus Editions is more like a solo album than a mixtape, an extension of Gast's private universe that connects dub, knackered electronics and ambient, making heartbreaking paeans with MIDI instruments.
- Mama Snake & Solid Blake
Live: Dekmantel Festival 2018
Apeiron Crew cofounders Mama Snake and Solid Blake are formidable DJs in their own right, but this live recording from Dekmantel shows how phenomenal they are back-to-back. From the brooding electro to the Shepard tones of Ploy's "Garys," through wild cuts of breakbeat, electro, techno and trance, the duo's 90-minute set at Dekmantel's UFO stage is a reminder of the kind of synergy that a back-to-back makes possible.
Crack Mix 214
As founder of the record label Naive, cofounder of Rádio Quântica and a string of local parties, Inês Coutinho is a galvanizing force in Lisbon's music scene. She's also a sick DJ, as small clubs and parties around the world are beginning to discover, and as her Crack mix makes clear. Elegantly swerving through one raucous banger after another, never playing the saying type of track twice, Crack 214 shows a gifted DJ having a blast with her records.
BAR Radio #40
When she's not making bangers, Thessa Torsing, AKA upsammy, spends most of her time digging for bleepy curios. She's got a particular penchant for downtempo tracks in the 90 BPM range, a style she explores beautifully on BAR Radio #40. The mix is a slo-mo meander through golden ambient, IDM and other hard-to-define melodic jams. There's even a UK bass track played at the wrong speed. Together, they form one of the year's classiest and most adventurous mixes.
- object blue
Bandcloud Guest Mix
The Beijing-born, London-based artist object blue was a producer and live act before she was a DJ, and the way she mixes tracks has the arresting flair of a live performance. Her Bandcloud mix is a good example. Dizzyingly complex but intuitive, blending techno, breaks, experimental club and footwork, she bobs and weaves through angular, futuristic sounds with an ease that reflects her level of technique.
- Flo Dill
The aesthetic of Australia's Sanpo Disco mix series is leisurely—"Sanpo" is Japanese for "stroll," the series being inspired by its founder's love of long walks. NTS regular Flo Dill got the memo, starting out with some glorious Pat Metheny on ECM, before spending an hour sharing the wistful music that soundtracks her bus commutes around London.
- DJ Healer
In May, a few weeks after his his double-album release on Easter Sunday, DJ Healer released a free mix through his Soundcloud page called Planet Lonely. Except it isn't really a mix. Moments of silence separate its dozens of tracks, which dip through ambient, downtempo and something like drum & bass, their mellowness offset by themes of self-destruction and apocalypse anxiety. Released as an album, Planet Lonely would have been among the year's biggest records. And yet this oddly understated format seems fitting, if only within the strange logic of this artist's word.
- DJ Senior Vasquez
You probably know about the Detroit-Berlin connection, but how about the New York-Lisbon connection? New York master Junior Vasquez was a fan of the Portuguese tribal sound of the mid-'90s, and he often played tracks by Portuguese producers at the Sound Factory in Manhattan. DJs like Danny Tenaglia caught on too, and a musical bond formed between the two scenes. Lisbon's Photonz makes this sonic connection audible with this funky, smooth mix of Portuguese house from that era.
Mixmag - Kazakhstan scene
The proverbial electronic music map has expanded these last few years, with cities like Kiev, Tbilisi and Montevideo earning overdue recognition. Nazira's January mix for Mixmag turned our attention to Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, and her hometown. Capturing the sound of Nazira's ZVUK parties, its big basslines, razor-sharp synths and precision rhythms offer a thrilling glimpse into this small but lively scene.
- Evan Baggs
XLR8R Podcast 530
In the two years between Evan Baggs' RA Podcast and this mix for XLR8R, his focus on an acidic strain of vintage sci-fi techno has tightened. Baggs embodies excellence in this field, and the mix is a sort of mission statement for the vision he's built over the past three or four years alongside artists like Binh and DJ Masda. Without feeling remotely nostalgic, it's a history of dance music's forgotten corners that jolts the present with new energy.
- Olive T
Truancy Volume 205
On first glance, Olive T's Truancy mix feels like it's going to be a smooth ride through deep and melodic house. Then it starts to get more psychedelic, ratcheting up to a rude and heavy breakbeat section before settling back down again. That mid-section explores UK-inspired sounds, but there's something so American about the demeanor of the mix—its confidence, its soul—that reminds you why she's one of the country's up-and-coming DJs.
As a bonus, here are ten of our favourite RA mixes from the past 12 months.
- DJ Bus Replacement Service
RA Podcast 610
Doris Woo's RA Podcast, which includes a recording of a North Korean newsreader, an ode to Donald Trump sung by preteens, and a song called "'Roxanne' By The Police But Every Time They Say 'Roxanne' It Gets Faster," shows that her DJ-set-as-stand-up routine isn't just funny—it's downright innovative.
- Octo Octa
RA Live: Sónar, Barcelona
The New York artist's jubilant live set from this year’s Sónar festival covers a wider variety of sounds and genres than we’ve heard in her music before. Slipping effortlessly through bouncy breakbeat, shimmering trance and heads-down techno, Octo Octa's music has never felt more vibrant.
Version: RA Label Of The Month
Version is known primarily as Germany's preeminent dubstep outpost, but Orson's mix for Label Of The Month shows the impressive scope of their vision. Fusing Version dubplates with old records from rave heroes like Joey Beltram, Frankie Bones and Lenny Dee, the mix exemplifies Orson's knack for time-travelling blends.
Breaking Through: Violet
Through her record label, party and radio station, Inês Coutinho has emerged as a crucial voice in Lisbon's club scene.
The art of DJing: Vladimir Ivkovic
A singular DJ outlines his philosophical approach to the craft.
Label of the month: Basic Channel
On its 25th anniversary, we examine the roots and philosophy behind one of techno's most beloved labels.
Opinion: Why we're closing comments
Our comments section closed today. Here's why.
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The year in review
2010-19: Mixes Of The Decade
20 mixes that defined the past decade.
2010-19: Reissues Of The Decade
Demand for old music boomed in the 2010s. Here we list our top 20 reissues of the past ten years.
2010-19: Tracks Of The Decade
100 tunes that defined the 2010s.
2010-19: Reflections Of A Black Woman In Dance Music
Ash Lauryn on women in dance music, then and now.
2010-19: Albums Of The Decade
RA staff look back on the definitive albums of the 2010s.

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If you are on a diet, oh dear… You are going to have a difficult time visiting Portugal.
One of the strongest reasons to love this country is our gastronomy and, believe us… we know a lot about eating 🙂
You can find amazing gourmet restaurants and new age food but if you want a good advice, you must try our traditional dishes.
Spanish call it tapas, we call it “petiscos”: an amazing diversity of entries, snacks, and small dishes that will make your taste buds ask for more.
Portuguese gastronomy it’s included on the Mediterranean diet – Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO – but has also Atlantic roots.
Seafood, shellfish, cheeses, breads, olive oils and a variety of meat are everywhere combined with tasty vegetables cooked in thousand different ways.
To help you choose, we made a top list of the best Lisbon Food.
Here’s our 8 Must Try “petiscos“:
1. Pastel de Nata
In 2011, Pastel de Belém was elected one of the 7 Wonders of Portuguese Gastronomy.
This traditional delicacy it’s also known as “Pastel de Nata” and it can be easy to find at any coffee shop or supermarket.
If you are visiting Lisbon, before tasting any Pastel de Nata, give the original one try: Rua de Belém nº 84 .
As most traditional recipes created in Portuguese monasteries and convents, the Pastel de Nata is mostly made from eggs and sugar – ingredients that makes it taste like heaven!
The Portuguese custard tart is so famous that it’s probably at the top of “must-try” lists for anyone visiting Portugal.
And if you are wondering if it is something the Portuguese really eat, YES, it’s deliciously part of our diet 🙂
2. Pastel de Bacalhau
You know, codfish is our biggest crush.
We know one thousand ways of cooking this awesome Atlantic fellow and, we have to admit, “Pastel de Bacalhau” or “Bolinho de Bacalhau” is one of our favorite. You can find it everywhere, from restaurants to cafes or at any grandma house!
It’s made of potatoes, parsley, eggs and, of course, codfish. To get the shape, cooks usually use spoons – really interesting to see.
Here’s a curiosity: Portugal doesn’t fish codfish because we don’t have it in our seas. Our main supplier is Norway. Recipes are 100% Portuguese though!
The delicious “Pastel de Bacalhau” can be eaten as a snack or as a meal – it’s most commonly cooked with tomato rice.
Secret tip: if you are planing on visiting Baixa-Chiado, find the restaurant “Caneca de Prata” and ask for a red green wine with a “Pastel de Bacalhau“.
You can thank us by posting a photo on Instagram, tagging us (@foodiebookings)!
3. Amêijoas à Bulhão Pato
Oh, my! If you are a seafood fan you will fall in love with Portugal.
These clams are one of our favorite recipes in the Portuguese cooking art.
“Amêijoas à Bulhão Pato” has its origin from the western center of our country and the oldest told us that the name honors a poet.
It’s perfect to eat as an appetizer once it’s made of the extraordinary mix of clams, garlic, olive oil and white wine.
Our personal tip: Portuguese seafood is delicious when combined with green wine such as “Alvarinho” or “Loureiro“.
BUT, if you enjoy eating really fresh and delicious seafood and shellfish, we recommend that you join Ana on a day trip from Lisbon to Sesimbra, a fishing village at only 40 minutes from Lisbon.
Ana will teach you the history of Portuguese fishing, there’s a visit to the local market and to the museum. The best part is the lunch: you get to taste 9 different seafood and shellfish dishes.
4. Pica Pau
Meat lovers be like: “At last!”
Well, dear meat lovers, the Portuguese taverns have a special care for “Pica Pau“.
This beef dish is made of meat fried in small pieces with pickles. The sauce is so delicious that the Portuguese love to dip bread in it.
The traditional recipe has pork but it can also be made with beef.
Carmo restaurant in Chiado has the finest gourmet “Pica Pau“.
Now the real local tip: if you want to taste a (very!) traditional “Pica Pau” dish, you should go where the locals go.
Order this dish with a jar of red wine, bread and some french fries. You know how to welcome us 😉
This authentic, twentieth century, place serves other delicious traditional meat and seafood dishes.
It can get quite crowded by locals, so we recommend that you either go early or book a table.
5. Prego & Bifana
We have two favorite meat sandwiches: “Prego em Bolo do Caco” (in the picture) and “Bifana“.
“Bolo do Caco”, is a Madeira Island original. It’s a typical wheat bread that is served with pork meat and garlic.
In Portugal mainland, we combine this sweet bread with beef meat and call it: “Prego em Bolo de Caco”.
Visiting Funchal to taste the original bread (and other flavors) is always a GREAT idea. But since you are visiting Lisbon for now, we recommend the restaurant “Restaurante Típico Ilha da Madeira” in Campo de Ourique.
“Prego” (beef) can also be served as a dish. Without the bread, it has french fries and a fried egg to go with it.
One of the best restaurants to eat this dish is “Rui dos Pregos” (mentioned before for seafood as well).
“Bifana” is a pork sandwich. It’s very common to see Portuguese people eating this sandwich before or after a football match.
Beer is always a must when tasting this traditional delicacy.
The best place to get a “bifana” in Lisbon is “Casa das Bifanas” in Rossio.
6. Azeitonas Curtidas
“Curtidas” is a term for one traditional treatment of olives in order to become edible.
In order to be able to eat the olives, we have to tan it so they can lose their characteristic bitter taste.
It evolves simple ingredients such as water and salt and Portuguese people love it.
Oh, lupines…You are going to find them literally everywhere.
Portuguese can’t resist eating some well-cooked “tremoços” (lupins) while drinking beer, and that is for sure a native experience.
Before they are sold to the public, lupin beans need to be cooked and salted for days, so expect it to have a slightly strong flavor.
Probably the first question when you lupin beans for the first time is: “how do I eat this?”.
The instinct is to eat it with the peel, and that’s ok! But we usually take a small bite first to peel it off with their fingers, pressing the outside as the bean goes into your mouth.
There’s no secret places to eat “tremoços“.
Nevertheless, if you are looking to be amazed with some architecture, art and culture while enjoying a drink, “Casa do Alentejo” gives it for free if you buy a beer.
8. Chouriço Assado
If you like pork meat, Portugal will probably become your second home.
“Chouriço” is a roasted sausage. Usually it’s grilled in front of people which is a delight for photography lovers.
Looking to meet locals and to learn more about Lisbon and Portuguese culture?
This is our special recommendation, Filomena & Duarte are two local guides who have 4 fantastic foodie experiences in the city. They are very requested by international Chefs as well as bloggers.
Their knowledge on Portuguese food and history goes beyond the typical local guide, that’s why each experience lasts around 6h to 7h. “UAU” right?
We have selected a very special tour to display on this article: the Gourmet Lisbon Food Tour, one of the top sellers:
Here’s what to expect:
- 6h Gourmet Food Tour with Visit to a Local Market
- 10 Tastings of the most exquisite Portuguese delicacies (pastry, cheeses and ham, meat and seafood dishes)
- 2 Wine Tastings (soft Drinks are also included: water, juice and coffee)
Sounds fantastic right? You can book your seat with this foodie couple!
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Hungry travelers always ready to find and taste new cuisines. We love to explore a place through its gastronomic culture and to share it with other foodie travelers.

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COVID-19 and the flu aren’t the only respiratory viruses of concern this year
COVID-19 and the flu aren’t the only respiratory viruses on the loose this fall. RSV, respiratory syncytial virus, has been on the rise across Virginia in recent months — causing a surge in emergency room visits for young kids. The confluence of these viruses has some experts calling it a “tripledemic.”
“When we think about what we've been seeing most recently, we're talking about really young babies in the hospital for RSV infections,” said Elena Diskin, epidemiology program manager for the respiratory disease program with the Virginia Department of Health.
Premature babies and those only a few months old are at the highest risk of severe illness, she said, with the majority of RSV hospitalizations occurring in those 4 years of age or younger. People who are immunocompromised are also at a higher risk for serious RSV infections.
Dr. Shari Barkin, chief physician at the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU, said parents should keep an eye on their children for signs of serious RSV, including difficulty breathing and discoloration around the lips.
“If you see that they're breathing a lot harder than usual — and that they're really tired because of that — or if there's any color change around their lips … so it looks blue, dusky blue, or purple … that's when we want to make sure that we see you,” Barkin said.
At the Children’s Hospital of Richmond, Barkin said RSV cases are going down a bit. But combined with rising cases of the flu and parainfluenza viruses, the hospital is at 95% capacity.
“The wait time can sometimes be four or more hours,” Barkin said. “The combination of having things like RSV and the flu that are affecting vulnerable children results in us seeing a higher volume and higher complexity for those kids when they're in the hospital.”
RSV cases in Virginia are still elevated, Diskin said, adding it’s possible the virus has reached its peak for the season as emergency visits have started to come down a bit.
“However, the numbers are still really high,” Diskin said. “So, it is definitely something we're still keeping on our radar.”
Charlottesville, Central Virginia and Northern Virginia all recently had surge-level conditions of RSV. The Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association began asking area hospitals to track the number of available pediatric beds to assess the situation.
While there are some beds available now, there are still “considerably less than where it was prior to the surge,” according to Julian Walker, vice president of communications for the Virginia Healthcare and Hospital Association.
“We are not in quite the same sort of peak conditions as we were several weeks ago,” Walker said. “But that doesn't mean that it's still not an issue that we're monitoring or that it's not an issue that our members are concerned about.”
Diskin urged Virginians to take precautions this holiday season, including staying home when they’re sick and regularly washing their hands. Barkin said she advises parents to avoid crowded places, keep windows open during indoor gatherings or gather outside if possible, and continue masking.
“We know that by wearing masks last year, we reduced RSV by 98%,” Barkin said. “It's an easy thing that's in our toolkit.”
And she urged residents to get updated vaccine shots prior to holiday gatherings to protect themselves against COVID-19 and the flu.
“It doesn't necessarily mean you won't get either [COVID-19 or the flu],” Barkin said. “But it does mean that it decreases the severity such that you can reduce mortality by up to 50% in kids.”
COVID-19 and flu vaccines are available for children 6 months of age and older, while the COVID-19 booster has been approved for children 5 years old and up.


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CMS’s proposed rule would require nursing home staff to be properly trained on how to care for dementia patients and how to prevent elder abuse and would require facilities to consider the health of residents when making decisions on the kinds and levels of staffing a facility needs.
The rule would require facilities to improve how they plan their care, provide more food choices for residents and allow dieticians and therapy providers the authority to write orders in their areas of expertise when a physician delegates the responsibility and when state licensing laws allow it.
Nursing home facilities would also be required to update their infection prevention and control programs. The rule would force facilities to name an infection prevention and control officer and create an antibiotic stewardship program with protocols and a system to monitor antibiotic use.
The proposed rule also aims to strengthen the rights of nursing home residents by placing limits on when and how binding arbitration agreements can be used.

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Fighting Money Laundering with AML Regulations
Dirty Money, Terrorism Financing, Money Laundering & The Link In-Between
Illegal funds are introduced into the economy as clean money. The financial institutions have been turned into doorways for illicit funds. Terrorism is being funded, and weapons of mass destruction are being acquired. All of these were being aided by something called money laundering. This type of financial crime casts a shade on financial institutions’ integrity and threatens many nations’ peace.
The financial crime called money laundering is the process of whitewashing illegal funds and reintroducing them into the economy as legitimate funds. These funds could result from drug trades, human trafficking, corruption, bribery, tax evasion, and more. In some cases, the aim is to cover the illicit acts mentioned above, while in other scary situations, it is to finance terrorism or to purchase weapons of mass destruction.
Global financial regulators do not see money laundering just as a way of shrewdly transmitting illegal financial proceeds to cover possible traces. Instead, they see it as the enemy of the global economy and the sole untraceable financier of terrorism in many parts of the world. Money laundering is a battle that must be won to safeguard the world economy and bring peace to our nations. This fight against money laundering has lasted for decades, and there is no end in sight. This is why Anti-Money Laundering (AML) regulations were created. This article has been written to help you understand the rationale of AML and how you can be AML-compliant as a company or an organization.
What is AML?
Anti-Money Laundering (AML) policies and procedures are activities or processes to prevent money laundering through financial transactions and financial institutions. AML procedures monitor potentially fraudulent activities that seek to disguise criminally obtained proceeds as money from legitimate sources. Money laundering is a financial crime, and AML is the “technology” that fishes out this crime and the people behind it for proper punishment according to the law.
History of AML
The establishment of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) in 1970 was the beginning of the fight against money laundering in the USA through anti-money laundering legislation — the goal was to detect and prevent money laundering as early as possible. The Bank Secrecy Act has been amended and strengthened over the years, with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) being its designated administrator.
“The mission of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is to safeguard the financial system from illicit use, combat money laundering and its related crimes, including terrorism, while promoting national security through the strategic use of financial authorities and the collection, analysis, & dissemination of financial intelligence.”
In 1989, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) took the fight to a new level by starting a movement that has turned into a global regulatory body against financial-related crimes. Other bodies fighting money laundering include the International Monetary Fund (IMF), consisting of 190 member countries with a primary focus on ensuring the stability of the international monetary system. The IMF believes that money laundering threatens the strength and integrity of the financial sector and the general world economy.
Countries That Require AML
Through AML rules, the regulatory bodies keep tightening the cracks in the wall of the financial system that criminals exploit. Many countries have no option but to comply with these regulations for their safety against terrorism, the integrity of their banking institutions, and the global financial system. In all of these events, some countries are still high-risk zones and are at the peak of non-compliance with the BSA or AML standards. Below is the list of high-risk countries according to schedule 3ZA of the Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (High-Risk Countries) (Amendment) Regulations 2022:
Albania, Barbados, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Haiti, Iran, Jamaica, Jordan, Mali, Malta, Morocco, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Philippines, Senegal, South Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Recently, Zimbabwe was removed from this list because the country recorded measurable progress in AML compliance. At the same time, the United Arab Emirates was added for lack of due diligence towards AML.
Stages of Money Laundering
Financial institutions are expected to implement AML rules for their customers, financial partners & business associates to ensure they are not accomplices in the processes that lead to money laundering. While banks and other enterprises will mainly comply with these rules, there is no assurance that their customers & business associates will keep their side of the bargain by adhering to AML rules. Knowing this, banks and other financial institutions must properly know the steps and stages of money laundering that criminals employ.
Below are the three stages of Money Laundering:
This is the initial stage where the “dirty money” is placed into the financial system while ensuring that the source remains unknown. In general, this is done by breaking large sums of money into smaller amounts that can be deposited directly into banks or purchased as checks or money orders that can be deposited elsewhere. Other approaches to placement include false invoicing and adding the fund from the illegal activity to the legitimate takings of other businesses. Smurfing is another popular method to break down a large sum of money into smaller amounts that are usually below the AML reporting threshold. These smaller amounts are then deposited or moved to credit cards for electronic purchases or payments.
This stage is made possible after the illegal money has found its way into the financial system with the source untraced. The layering process involves moving funds around to isolate them from their source and make tracing the funds more difficult. These funds could be used in different investment schemes, and the money is scattered across various accounts and banks worldwide.
Layering in Cryptocurrency
This layering strategy is in use for crypto money launderers. The most common method is depositing fiat from one bank account to buy and sell cryptocurrencies and then withdrawing the funds from another. In chain-hopping, one cryptocurrency can be converted repeatedly into different types of cryptocurrencies on different blockchains. This makes following the money by a compliance officer a back-breaking pursuit. Mixing or tumbling is using the funds to perform several transactions across other exchanges and blockchains, making the transactions difficult to trace to a specific exchange and account owner. The goal is to make the money transaction so sophisticated that the complexity of tracking it exceeds the time and resources to do so.
This is the final step in which “the dirty money” is reintroduced into the economy as “clean money.” This money could be used to buy luxurious assets and invest in real estate and business ventures like legitimate investors without attracting the attention of authorities. Other methods to make money appear legitimate include paying fake employees in cash, giving out loans to shareholders, and paying dividends to shareholders who previously purchased the company.
These three stages of money laundering help compliance officers trace laundered funds systematically, but this doesn’t mean these three stages will be followed theoretically by a criminal. In some cases, only two of these processes are carried out. In others, these three processes are repeated over a long period to perfect the act and make tracing the fund a near-impossible mission.
Who Is Required To Have An AML policy?
The lack of compliance by concerned entities can attract various sanctions and monetary fines (ranging from $25,000 to $100,000 per transaction), including negative media publicity. This can affect the public perception of the indicted financial institution and damage its brand image. Financial institutions mostly grow their influence based on earned trust over many years of relationships with customers and the public. It won’t be wise to lose these earned social currencies over a lack of compliance with AML regulations. Below are some of the sectors that are expected to be AML-compliant:
- Banks: banks are the most common financial institution criminals use to move dirty money around. The first stage of money laundering, placement, starts mostly from bank deposits before other laundering stages are activated. This places banks on a high alert to be AML compliant to the highest level, including continuous KYC and Customer Due Diligence (CDD).
- FinTech: this is arguably a branch of the traditional financial institution that leverages technology and the internet to make financial transactions easier globally, but criminal actors have continuously used digital means of transactions to simplify their money laundering activities. One of the advantages of FinTech to the financial world is the ease of borderless transactions just with “a tap of a button on a mobile device”. Criminals have been reported to be misusing this, and these are more reasons why the government expects compliance and detailed KYC processes from FinTech startups.
- Cryptocurrency: cryptocurrency a powerful technology due to its uniqueness to the world, but the anonymity feature of this technology is believed to have aided money laundering. This has made cryptocurrency to be under strict scrutiny by regulatory bodies. However, more regulations keep targeting the industry even as significant cryptocurrency exchanges have no option but to do detailed KYC of users, which enables proper AML compliance.
- Capital Market Firms: market-based money laundering approaches have exposed capital markets to fraud over the years. This behavior misuses the financial market for exploitation and casts shade on the system’s transparency. Seeing this, capital market firms need to be AML-compliant.
- Insurance Firms: criminals use insurance companies to launder money by purchasing insurance packages over time, then making claims to get the insurance funds, indirectly making money return from a legitimate source. Situations like these are part of the reasons insurance companies are expected to do more diligence on customers & their claims and to be AML compliant.
- Real Estate Agencies: criminals usually select real estate because of its high value. A few real estate transactions can make laundering large sums of money more straightforward and faster. It is usually done through credit and mortgage, third parties, manipulation of property values, and disguised improvements and renovations to the property. Sometimes, real estate is used for the last stage of the money laundering process, known as integration. This requires the real estate industry, firm, or agents to do more background checks on potential clients (KYC) while remaining AML compliant throughout the process.
- Gaming Sector: the government has started paying attention to the gaming industry over the past few years. FinCEN talked about how it is currently looking into the money transmission going on in the gaming industry; this means more regulations in this direction should be expected. The gaming industry is an unregulated industry that experienced massive growth in 2020 due to the close of traditional gambling stores and the repeal of PASPA. Money launderers have heavily focused on this growing industry because it is relatively unregulated, and they use it for their illicit money transactions. The gaming industry is categorized under the traditional gambling industry, so the gaming sector is expected to abide by AML compatibility programs.
- Public Sectors: criminals or organized crime groups take advantage of different public sectors to perform transactions to whitewash illicit funds’ proceeds. The traces of these in recent years means public sectors must pay attention and seek to be AML compliant starting from the most basic measure.
The Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and FINRA Rule 3310
According to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), financial institutions, including national banks, federal savings associations, federal branches, agencies of foreign banks, insurance firms, broker-dealers, and other public establishments, are required to develop and implement AML compliance programs. Institutions or individuals like broker-dealers are also under the anti-money laundering rule in FINRA Rule 3310. FINRA is the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, a private corporation that acts as a self-regulatory organization that regulates brokerage firms and exchange markets in the USA. In line with the Bank Secrecy Act, FINRA Rule 3310 requires firms to at least, do the following:
- Implement policies and procedures that enable suspicious transactions to be detected and reported.
- Ensure compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and its regulations by developing policies, procedures, and internal controls.
- Annually conduct independent testing carried out by a qualified third party. Independent testing can be performed every two years if the organization has yet to transact with customers.
- Assign a person or a team to be in charge and identify the same to FINRA (by name, title, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, and FAX number). This person or team is responsible for implementing and monitoring the day-to-day operations and internal controls of the AML program and providing updates to FINRA about any change in the assignment or delegation.
- Provide ongoing training for appropriate personnel; and add proper risk-based procedures for conducting continuous customer due diligence, including:
- Developing a customer risk profile by understanding the nature of customer relationships
- Monitoring suspicious transactions continuously and reporting them
- Maintain and update customer information, including information regarding the beneficial owners of legal entities, on a risk basis.
What are the Five Pillars of AML?
The first step towards developing an effective AML program is first to analyze and characterize your potential risk as a company and the needed legal requirements. A company’s money laundering risk depends on the niche of the financial sector it operates in; for example, a casino’s peculiarities differ from an insurance company’s. Developing an effective AML program also involves looking into the applicable local & global regulations alongside the penalties for defaulting or non-compliance.
To simplify the creation of AML compliance procedures and prevent compromises, businesses should develop detailed recommendations. Below are the five AML compliance pillars that can further help in achieving this:
1. Designate A Compliance Officer (AML Officer)
The foundation of your firm’s AML compliance journey must be set up with the help of a compliance officer. Employ the service of an experienced compliance officer to evaluate your current exposures and the needed measures to put in place. This compliance officer oversees the day-to-day implementation and maintenance of the Internal Control Procedure to ensure continuous compliance.
The compliance officer must be experienced and familiar with your industry, enabling proactiveness to avoid exposures that bring about non-compliance and fines. Your compliance officer should be a communicator who can easily connect with staff, teach them the importance of compliance, and easily detect when things are not how they are supposed to be.
2. Develop and Implement Effective Internal Controls
Jointly develop internal policies and procedures with your compliance officer. These policies and procedures should detect and report financial crimes or suspicious activities to regulators like FinCEN. Your team should follow documented policies and procedures and not just take actions per case or situation. To accomplish this, all employees must know their roles in the company’s AML-compliance mission and learn how KYC procedures, due diligence, and other necessary procedures work. All of these will enable continuous compliance.
These developed policies and procedures should be reviewed periodically to ensure continuous compliance. In addition, the documentation of transactions, customers’ identity, currency transaction reporting, monetary instrument tracking, and preservation of records generally should be well accounted for in these internal control procedures.
3. Create Periodic Training For Employees
Your compliance officer and the team should periodically train other employees to ensure continuous adherence to BSA standards. All employees should understand AML compliance. Some staff (compliance team) monitor and enact the set guidelines. This training should be based on current trends in the financial industry and new development that can aid criminals to outplay the bank or your firm. It is not necessary for your compliance officer and/or compliance team to train your employees. Therefore, it is wise to bring in professional organizations to educate your employees on keeping AML standards top of mind and relevant to new trends & new government regulations.
4. Ensure Independent Testing & Auditing
An external eye can save you from an exposure that no one sees within your team; this makes independent testing and auditing crucial to the success of the AML program. While internal training and continuous monitoring are vital, a credible third-party testing and auditing service would achieve constant alignment with the BSA standards.
An independent audit should be performed yearly but more frequently if your firm operates in a high-risk sector. The purpose is to see if the AML program is working and if the internal controls are in place to protect you from any weak points in your policies.
5. Carry Out Customer Due Diligence
The Customer Due Diligence (CDD) rule mandates companies to carry out KYC on customers and to continuously perform monitoring to identify and report suspicious transactions and activities. This CDD rule was introduced into the AML procedure in 2018 by FinCEN to boost transparency and help organizations better assess the level of risk each customer poses to their operations’ compliance with the AML standards. A CDD implementation requires greater monitoring of high-risk customers to minimize fraudulent transactions, e.g., extra due diligence on customers from countries with a history of money laundering.
Benefits of 5-Pillars Compliance Program:
- Improved regulatory compliance
- Increased customer satisfaction
- Enhanced operational flexibility and effectiveness
How Often Should You Run AML Checks?
AML checks are not a one-time event activity. The process should be performed at least once a year; if your firm operates in a high-risk sector, it should be done more frequently. An independent and qualified third party running through your AML program periodically opens up your strengths and weaknesses. The corrective measures would be suggested to strengthen it; this protects your organization from defaulting and paying fines ranging from $25,000 to $100,000.
One of the procedures for being AML compliant is an effective KYC process. Identity.com can help you with this by providing hassle-free identity verification services to your customers. Identity.com is an open-source ecosystem providing access to on-chain and secure identity verification. Our solutions improve the user experience and reduced onboarding friction through reusable and interoperable Gateway Passes. For more info, please refer to our docs.

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McCabe cited her gratitude to the parents and community members in the crowd that day, on giving her the opportunity to work with their children in her classroom.
She stressed that the graduating class must think ahead like the Iroquois Tribe to the next seven generations and how their actions will affect those in the future—that their very actions and decisions in their lifetimes will affect their children, their grandchildren and their grandchildren’s grandchildren.
“Remember that when you go away from here, not only do you represent yourself and your family, but you represent Tuba City,” McCabe said. “I hope that you represent us well.
Tuba City’s graduating class had three very honored seniors this year representing the best of their class— Co-Valedictorian Charmayne Gene, Salutatorian Mildred Smith and Co-Valedictorian Crystal Dugi.
Top Ten Seniors included Natalie Begay, Charmayne Gene, Ronal Hardy, Marisa Husky, Ureseloria Hanuho, Wayne Klug, James Meyers, Maurica Nesmith, Mildred Smith, Heidi Tso and Crystal Dugi.
Chief Manuelito Scholars included Charmayne Gene, Ronelle Hardy, Marc Jackson, James Meyers, Rudy Preston and Mildred Smith.
National Honor Society Seniors were Jaime Begay, Charmayne Gene, Justina Jim, Wayne Klug, Mildred Smith, Jerilynn Yazzie, Crystal Dugi, Marissa Huskie, Urseloria Hanuho, Rudy Preston and Heidi Tso.
“Anything is possible as long as you have determination,” said Co-Valedictorian Gene. “It will really be up to you, how far you can push yourself. First, we must make sure we have the right tools, like a good education and our traditional teachings.
“To learn, to grow, to share, we will always be the class of 2003, from the home of the Warriors. We will grow, we will learn, we will seek, but for now, today, we will pause to celebrate.”
Tuba City High School Vice Principal Eddie Tuchawena formally presented the 2003 class to TC Governing Board President Marsha Griffin and three attending board members, Alvin Harvey, Priscilla Kanaswood and , Clerk of the Board Linda Honahni. These board members were joined by Adair Klopfenstein, senior sponsor and also teacher at TC High and Dr. Hector Tahu, superintendent of Tuba City Unified School District No. 15, to honor the graduating class.
As he introduced President Griffin, Vice Principal Tuchawena said to the seniors,
“Do something good for this generation. This class must work towards bringing peace and world harmony. Remember that you must do something good for the world.”
Upon acceptance of the graduating class of 2003, Griffin who clearly recognizes that Tuba City High has a cross cultural mix of students, said good morning to the crowd in Hopi, Navajo, Spanish and English. Griffin then accepted the formal endorsement by the TC administration to confer upon the class of 2003 the new status of successful completion of a high school education by Arizona state standards.
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Adopting Two Resolutions, General Assembly Reaffirms Political Declarations on Urgent Global Responses to Tuberculosis, Non-Communicable Diseases
The General Assembly adopted two resolutions containing political declarations on urgent global responses to tuberculosis and on accelerating efforts to address non-communicable diseases.
By the terms of the resolution “Political declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the fight against tuberculosis” (document A/73/L.4), the Assembly adopted the Declaration “United to End Tuberculosis: An Urgent Global Response to a Global Epidemic”, by which world leaders pledged to end the global tuberculosis epidemic by 2030 and acknowledged that the disease disproportionately affects developing countries. (For more information, see Press Release GA/12067.)
Following the adoption, delegates stressed that the resolution, drafted with the active participation of varied stakeholders, makes bold commitments.
“The Declaration is a historical opportunity to offer a concrete path towards eradicating tuberculosis,” the representative of South Africa said, explaining his delegation’s position. Calling for increased investment in research and development to develop new, affordable medications, she emphasized that it disproportionately affects poor communities, with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis being the leading cause of death in her country.
Elaborating on that point, the representative of Japan said the pact commits to targeting 40 million people with treatment and mobilizing $13 billion for response efforts, adding that the Declaration also highlights the need to pay special attention to vulnerable populations. “We must capitalize on this opportunity to accelerate our efforts to end tuberculosis in a way that synergizes with our efforts to address both communicable and non-communicable diseases,” he said.
The Assembly then adopted the resolution “Political declaration of the third high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases” (document A/73/L.2), containing a related political declaration. (For more information, see Press Release GA/12069.)
The representative of Italy, explaining her delegation’s position, said she had the honour to co-facilitate negotiations and that the Declaration is concise, balanced and builds on current opportunities. The resolution highlights the importance of healthy lifestyle choices in the prevention of non-communicable diseases, she noted, adding that the Declaration will guide national and international efforts.
In other business, the Assembly considered several issues on its agenda. Delegates took part in a joint debate on the implementation and follow-up of major United Nations conferences and summits, follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit, strengthening of the United Nations system and reform of the Organization. During discussions, many underlined a need to adapt the United Nations so it can better meet the needs of all people and assist Member States in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
A real contribution to enhancing United Nations effectiveness must include a dialogue between States and the Secretariat, said Andrei Rzheussky (Belarus), adding that “this will enhance its standing in the world”. Emphasizing that the Organization must continue to play its role in coordinating international efforts in myriad sectors, including peace and security and sustainable development, he said it is unacceptable to rush through timeframes when reaching agreements.
Meanwhile, Maria V. Frolova (Russian Federation) said disagreements remain regarding management reform and that any changes must adopt a comprehensive approach to improve the work of the Organization. When considering reforms, global human resources structures must be examined, she said, adding that all United Nations human resources capacities must be conducted by a single office in the Secretariat.
The Assembly also considered a note of the Secretary-General titled “Third Industrial Development Decade for Africa (2016-2025)” (document A/73/184) and reports of the Secretary-General on “Literacy for life: shaping future agendas and education for democracy” (document A/73/292), “The United Nations in global economic governance” (document A/73/356) and “Shifting the management paradigm in the United Nations: comparative assessment of human resources structures” (document A/73/366).
Also participating in the joint debate today were the representatives of Egypt (for the “Group of 77” developing countries and China) and Saint Kitts and Nevis (for the Caribbean Community), as well as the European Union.
Explaining their delegations’ position after the adoption of “L.2” were the representatives of Egypt (for the Group of 77), Austria (for the European Union) and Thailand.
The General Assembly will reconvene at 10 a.m. on Friday, 12 October, for the election of members of the Human Rights Council.


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New Orleans, La.- NOPD officers' tattoos won't have to go undercover just yet. The department will delay enacting a new policy that will require officers to conceal all visible tattoos until October 6.
The change was set to take effect August 1. The Fraternal Order of Police objected because of concerns about heat for officers who would have to wear extra clothing to obscure tattoos on their arms, necks or legs.
NOPD Spokesperson Remi Braden says the proposed revisions to the policy were sent by e-mail to the presidents of the various police organizations earlier this year and no one offered feedback at that time. Braden says the superintendent is willing to work with rank-and-file officers to develop a one-style arm cover for short-sleeve weather.
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The trend toward expanding expungement and sealing laws is continuing. In the last week of April, the governors of Maryland and Oklahoma signed bills enlarging eligibility criteria and reducing waiting periods, joining Florida and Utah with new record-sealing enactments in 2018. The provisions of these two newest laws are described below. Similar legislation is well along in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Vermont. Vermont S 173, enrolled and awaiting the governor’s signature, is of particular interest since it makes expungement automatic in some categories without the requirement of a petition or filing fee (“unless either party objects in the interest of justice”). We are tracking these pending bills and will add them to the Restoration of Rights Project if and when they are enacted.
More and more states are enacting new expungement and sealing laws, or expanding existing ones, some covering convictions for the first time. The first four months of 2016 alone saw courts given significant new authority to limit access to criminal records in four states, and bills have been introduced in several others that promise more new laws in months to come.
In April, Kentucky authorized expungement of felonies for the first time, while New Jersey reduced waiting periods for some offenses and made expungement automatic for some others. Also in April, Maryland’s Governor Hogan signed that state’s Justice Reinvestment Act, permitting expungement of misdemeanor convictions for the first time. Beginning in November, Pennsylvania courts will have new authority to seal misdemeanor offenses, and follow-up bills have been introduced in both houses to make sealing automatic for most non-felony records after a waiting period. There are also several pending proposals to significantly expand existing expungement laws in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Rhode Island.
We take a closer look at each of these new expungement authorities below.
The new laws evidence the growing momentum behind second-chance reforms. They also show how expansion of expungement and sealing mechanisms can be an incremental process. For example, the legislatures in Maryland and Pennsylvania first tested the waters by giving courts new authority to mitigate low-level conviction records in relatively limited ways, with both following up shortly after with proposals to increase both the availability and effectiveness of those mechanisms. Meanwhile, states with fairly robust expungement mechanisms already in place, like New Jersey, Missouri, and Kentucky, have taken steps to make relief available sooner and to more people. Relatedly, in the first four months of 2016, six more states enacted or expanded state-wide ban-the-box laws limiting inquiry about criminal records at early stages of the hiring process, bringing the total to 23.
The editors of the New York Times are critical of Maryland Governor Larry Hogan’s recent veto of a law that would have allowed anyone with a felony conviction to vote if they are living in the free community. See “A Bad Voting Ban,” June 1, 2015. Maryland’s law now disenfranchises anyone convicted of a “felony and . . . actually serving a court-ordered sentence of imprisonment, including any term of parole or probation, for the conviction.” The Times editorial points out that Maryland changed its law to restore voting rights automatically upon completion of sentence in 2007, and that disenfranchisement based upon conviction is generally a punitive relic of slavery.
So if felony disenfranchisement laws are punitive relics, why should they be applied to anyone, even people who are still in prison? The logic of the Times editors’ position would seem to support voting by prisoners, as happens in Vermont and Maine and in many parts of Europe. An argument against voting by prisoners based on disenfranchisement as an integral part of court-imposed punishment would apply equally to probationers and parolees. The notion that prisoners no longer have a connection to their communities is a self-fulfilling prophecy that runs against current policies of encouraging prisoner reentry. If there are practical reasons to bar prisoners from jury service and political office, they do not apply to voting when absentee ballots have become commonplace.
Earlier this month, Maryland governor Larry Hogan signed the Second Chance Act of 2015, 2015 Md. Laws 313 (HB 244), which allows eligible persons to petition a court for “shielding” (or sealing) certain misdemeanor records. This is the first time Maryland has authorized limits on public access to conviction records other than nuisance offenses and offenses that have been pardoned.
The new law, which goes into effect on October 1, is a significant step forward in the treatment of conviction records in the state. However, its effect may not be as sweeping as many would like. Only a handful of misdemeanor offenses are eligible for relief, and records that have been generally shielded from public access remain available to a significant number of employers and licensing entities. We take a more detailed look at the new law below.


I did not watch the 2015 Academy Awards ceremony.
I was disgruntled by the Academy diss, and certain media punditry about the film “Selma,” which I wrote about in “Black and female eye on the Oscars .”
No matter. Music carries a powerful message and “Glory” is simply glorious.
“Glory” is a song performed by American singer-songwriter John Legend and rapper Common. It was written by Legend, Common and Che Smith. The song was released on December 11, 2014 by Columbia Records as the theme song from the 2014 film Selma, which portrays the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. Common also co-starred as 1960s Civil Rights Movement leader James Bevel in Selma.
Commercially, the song peaked at No. 92 on the US Billboard Hot 100. A music video for the song was directed by Paramount Pictures and was released on January 12, 2015. The song won the award for Best Original Song at the 87th Academy Awards (2015) and the 72nd Golden Globe Awards (2015).
[Produced by John Legend]
[Chorus: John Legend]
One day when the glory comes
It will be ours, it will be ours
One day when the war is won
We will be sure, we will be sure
[Verse 1: Common]
Hands to the Heavens, no man, no weapon
Formed against, yes glory is destined
Every day women and men become legends
Sins that go against our skin become blessings
The movement is a rhythm to us
Freedom is like religion to us
Justice is juxtapositionin’ us
Justice for all just ain’t specific enough
One son died, his spirit is revisitin’ us
True and livin’ livin’ in us, resistance is us
That’s why Rosa sat on the bus
That’s why we walk through Ferguson with our hands up
When it go down we woman and man up
They say, “Stay down”, and we stand up
Shots, we on the ground, the camera panned up
King pointed to the mountain top and we ran up
[Bridge: John Legend]
Now the war is not over, victory isn’t won
But we’ll fight on to the finish, and when it’s all done
We’ll cry glory, oh glory, ohhh
We’ll cry glory, oh glory, ohhh
[Verse 2: Common]
Selma is now for every man, woman and child
Even Jesus got his crown in front of a crowd
They marched with the torch, we gon’ run with it now
Never look back, we done gone hundreds of miles
From dark roads he rose, to become a hero
Facin’ the league of justice, his power was the people
Enemy is lethal, a king became regal
Saw the face of Jim Crow under a bald eagle
The biggest weapon is to stay peaceful
We sing, our music is the cuts that we bleed through
Somewhere in the dream we had an epiphany
Now we right the wrongs in history
No one can win the war individually
It takes the wisdom of the elders and young people’s energy
Welcome to the story we call victory
Comin’ of the Lord, my eyes have seen the glory
[Outro: John Legend]
When the war is done, when it’s all said and done
We’ll cry glory, oh glory
The Oscar performance is notable not only for the song and performance, but for the staging and choreography, and then, after the song took the Oscar, for the acceptance speeches.
The cut-away shots of audience members with tears streaming down cheeks and watery eyes as the standing ovation took place said a lot about the power of this song, which will be remembered long after the controversy is but a memory.
From The Griot
The award was given to composers Legend and Common under their legal names, John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn.
“Nina Simone said it’s an artist’s duty to reflect the times they live,” Legend said, referring to the singer and activist. “Selma is now because the struggle for justice is right now.” Legend cited voting rights and the incarceration rates of black men.
Backstage, he said there was still a lot to be done. “When you think about equality and freedom and justice, we’ve got more work to do,” he said. Common, who also had an acting role in the film based on the historic 1965 march, said it was their duty to speak out, given the stage and setting of the Oscars. “How could you not say anything, especially representing a film like ‘Selma’,” he said.
Tears covered the face of actor David Oyelowo who starred in “Selma” as Martin Luther King Jr. and stood with the rest of the crowd for a standing ovation after the pair’s performance.
Common credited Oyelowo with ensuring “Selma” was made by getting director Ava DuVernay on board and involving Oprah. The singer said he had called up Legend while he was on tour in London inquiring about collaborating.
“That word really inspired me,” Legend said of “Glory”. “The song should sound triumphant.”
The mention of Nina Simone brought tears to my eyes. Here’s hoping that the younger generation will be curious and explore her music. I was shocked to find out my students had never heard of her, when I play some of her songs in women’s studies.
In his acceptance speech, Common linked the civil rights movement to similar movements in France and Hong Kong. “The spirit of this bridge connects the kid from the South Side of Chicago, dreaming of a better life, to those in France standing up for their freedom of expression, to those in Hong Kong, protesting for democracy,” he said. “This bridge was built on hope, welded with compassion and elevated with love for all human beings.”
John Legend got more explicitly political in his speech. “We say that Selma is now, because the struggle for justice is right now,” he said. “We know that the Voting Rights Act that they fought for 50 years ago is being compromised right now in this country today. We know that right now, the struggle for freedom and justice is real. We live in the most incarcerated country in the world. There are more black men under correctional control today then were under slavery in 1850.”
“We are with you, we see you, we love you and march on,” he concluded.


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Kangaroo Trail, Walyunga NP
About the Trail
Walyunga National Park covers 1,800 hectares of the Darling Range, tucked behind the Darling Scarp, covering both sides of a steep valley. Just to the east of the park, in the picturesque Avon Valley, the Avon River joins the Brockman River to form the Swan River which passes through the tree lined valley.
Walyunga contains one of the largest known Aboriginal campsites around Perth and was still in use by the Noongar people late last century. The area has been used as a meeting place for more than 6000 years. Walyunga is an Aboriginal name, but its meaning is uncertain. Local Noongar people believe the Swan River was carved by the Waugal, and greet the dreamtime serpent here by rubbing sand on their bodies and throwing it in the water.
The Swan River is the main attraction in the park as it thunders through in winter and meanders by in the drier months, lined with smooth granite boulders. The walk trail starts beside the lower pool in Walyunga and follows the river to Boongarup Pool. It then ascends high enough to give views to the opposite side of the river valley. It returns through marri and wandoo woodland to the lower pool. The trail markers are yellow triangles with a kangaroo and also green footprints. The markers are most visible when walked in an anticlockwise direction. Kangaroos can be seen in late afternoon along the riverbank.
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Music is a universal language that has the power to transcend cultural boundaries and connect people from all walks of life. It has the ability to evoke emotions, tell stories, and bring people together. While Western music has dominated the global music scene for centuries, it is important to recognize its limitations and embrace the beauty of cultural diversity in music. This article will explore the limitations of Western music, the beauty of cultural diversity in music, the importance of preserving traditional music, the rise of world music in the global scene, the power of music in building bridges across cultures, the role of technology in promoting global music, the challenges of navigating non-Western music genres, the impact of global music on local communities, the future of music in embracing diversity and inclusivity, and the need for music education to include non-Western genres.
The Limitations of Western Music
While Western music has undoubtedly made significant contributions to the world of music, it is not without its limitations. One limitation is its focus on a specific set of scales and tonalities. Western music is primarily based on the major and minor scales, which can create a sense of familiarity and predictability. This can limit the range of emotions that can be expressed through music.
Another limitation is Western music’s emphasis on harmony and melody. While harmony and melody are important elements in music, they are not the only ones. Many non-Western musical traditions place equal importance on rhythm, texture, and timbre. By focusing solely on harmony and melody, Western music can overlook these other important aspects.
Furthermore, Western music often follows a standardized structure and form. This can lead to a lack of experimentation and creativity in composition. Non-Western musical traditions often have more flexible structures and forms, allowing for greater improvisation and spontaneity.
The Beauty of Cultural Diversity in Music
Cultural diversity in music is a beautiful thing that enriches our lives in countless ways. It allows us to experience different musical traditions, styles, and instruments that we may not have been exposed to otherwise. It broadens our horizons and opens our minds to new possibilities.
One of the beauties of cultural diversity in music is the variety of rhythms and beats that can be found across different cultures. From the complex polyrhythms of African drumming to the intricate tabla patterns of Indian classical music, each culture brings its own unique rhythmic language to the table.
Another beauty of cultural diversity in music is the wide range of instruments that are used. From the sitar of India to the kora of West Africa, each instrument has its own distinct sound and character. By exploring different musical traditions, we can discover new sounds and textures that can inspire our own musical creations.
Furthermore, cultural diversity in music allows for the preservation and celebration of traditional music. Traditional music is often deeply rooted in a culture’s history, customs, and values. By embracing and supporting traditional music, we can ensure that these important cultural expressions are not lost or forgotten.
The Importance of Preserving Traditional Music
Preserving traditional music is crucial for several reasons. Firstly, it allows us to connect with our cultural heritage and maintain a sense of identity. Traditional music often reflects the history, beliefs, and values of a particular culture. By preserving and performing traditional music, we can keep these cultural traditions alive and pass them on to future generations.
Secondly, traditional music provides a window into the past. It allows us to understand how people lived, thought, and felt in different time periods. By studying traditional music, we can gain insights into the social, political, and economic conditions of a particular era.
Thirdly, traditional music is an important form of artistic expression. It allows individuals to express their emotions, tell stories, and communicate their thoughts and feelings. By preserving traditional music, we are preserving a rich and diverse artistic heritage.
Unfortunately, traditional music is at risk of being lost if not preserved. Globalization, urbanization, and the influence of Western culture have led to the decline of traditional music in many parts of the world. It is important for communities, governments, and individuals to take action to ensure the preservation of traditional music.
The Rise of World Music in the Global Scene
In recent years, there has been a significant rise in the popularity of world music in the global scene. World music refers to music that incorporates elements from different cultures and traditions. It often blends traditional and contemporary styles to create a unique and eclectic sound.
One reason for the rise of world music is the increasing accessibility of music from different cultures. With the advent of the internet and streaming platforms, it has become easier than ever to discover and listen to music from around the world. This has allowed artists from different cultures to reach a global audience and gain recognition for their unique musical styles.
Another reason for the rise of world music is the growing interest in cultural diversity and inclusivity. As people become more aware of different cultures and traditions, they are seeking out music that reflects this diversity. World music provides a platform for artists from marginalized communities to share their stories and experiences with a wider audience.
Furthermore, world music festivals and events have played a significant role in promoting global music. These events bring together artists from different cultures and provide a space for collaboration and exchange. They also allow audiences to experience a wide range of musical traditions in one place.
The Power of Music in Building Bridges Across Cultures
Music has a unique power to bring people together and bridge cultural divides. It has the ability to transcend language barriers and communicate emotions and ideas that words alone cannot express. Through music, we can find common ground and connect with people from different backgrounds.
One way that music builds bridges across cultures is through collaboration and fusion. When artists from different cultures come together to create music, they bring their unique perspectives and experiences to the table. This collaboration can lead to the creation of new and exciting musical styles that blend elements from different traditions.
Another way that music builds bridges across cultures is through its ability to evoke empathy and understanding. When we listen to music from different cultures, we are exposed to different ways of thinking, feeling, and experiencing the world. This exposure can help us develop a greater appreciation for diversity and foster a sense of empathy towards others.
Furthermore, music has the power to break down stereotypes and challenge preconceived notions. By experiencing music from different cultures, we can challenge our own biases and expand our worldview. This can lead to greater acceptance and understanding of people from different backgrounds.
The Role of Technology in Promoting Global Music
Technology has played a significant role in promoting global music and making it more accessible to a wider audience. The internet, streaming platforms, and social media have revolutionized the way we discover, listen to, and share music.
The internet has made it possible for artists from different cultures to reach a global audience without the need for traditional record labels or distribution channels. Artists can now release their music independently and promote it through social media platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. This has allowed for greater diversity and inclusivity in the global music scene.
Streaming platforms such as Spotify, Apple Music, and SoundCloud have also played a crucial role in promoting global music. These platforms allow users to discover music from around the world with just a few clicks. They provide a platform for artists from different cultures to showcase their work and connect with fans.
Furthermore, technology has made it easier than ever to access music from different cultures. With just a smartphone or computer, we can explore a vast library of music from around the world. This accessibility has opened up new opportunities for cultural exchange and appreciation.
The Challenges of Navigating Non-Western Music Genres
While the rise of global music has made it easier to access music from different cultures, navigating non-Western music genres can still be a challenge. Non-Western music often has its own unique set of scales, tonalities, rhythms, and structures that may be unfamiliar to Western ears.
One challenge is the unfamiliarity with different scales and tonalities. Western music is primarily based on the major and minor scales, which can create a sense of familiarity and predictability. Non-Western music, on the other hand, may use scales and tonalities that are completely foreign to Western ears. This can make it difficult to understand and appreciate the nuances of non-Western music.
Another challenge is the complexity of rhythm and timing in non-Western music. Many non-Western musical traditions have intricate rhythmic patterns and polyrhythms that can be difficult to grasp for those who are not familiar with them. This can make it challenging to follow along and appreciate the rhythmic intricacies of non-Western music.
Furthermore, language barriers can also pose a challenge when navigating non-Western music genres. Many non-Western musical traditions have their own unique languages and vocal techniques that may be unfamiliar to Western listeners. This can make it difficult to understand the lyrics and connect with the emotional content of the music.
The Impact of Global Music on Local Communities
The rise of global music has had a significant impact on local communities around the world. It has provided opportunities for artists from marginalized communities to gain recognition and share their stories with a wider audience.
One impact of global music is the revitalization of local music scenes. As global music becomes more popular, local artists are gaining exposure and recognition for their unique musical styles. This has led to a resurgence of interest in traditional and indigenous music in many communities.
Furthermore, global music has provided economic opportunities for local communities. As global music festivals and events gain popularity, they attract tourists and visitors from around the world. This influx of visitors can boost local economies and create jobs in the music and tourism industries.
Moreover, global music has helped to preserve and promote cultural heritage. By showcasing traditional music on a global stage, local communities can gain a sense of pride and appreciation for their cultural traditions. This can lead to increased efforts to preserve and pass on traditional music to future generations.
The Future of Music: Embracing Diversity and Inclusivity
The future of music lies in embracing diversity and inclusivity. As the world becomes more interconnected, it is important for the music industry to reflect the diversity of its audience. This means embracing different musical traditions, styles, and genres from around the world.
One way that the music industry is becoming more diverse and inclusive is through the rise of artists from marginalized communities. Artists from different cultural backgrounds are gaining recognition and success in the mainstream music industry, challenging traditional notions of what constitutes “popular” or “mainstream” music.
Furthermore, there is a growing movement towards decolonizing music education and curriculum. Many educational institutions are recognizing the importance of including non-Western genres in their music programs. This allows students to explore different musical traditions and develop a more inclusive understanding of music.
Moreover, there is a greater emphasis on collaboration and exchange between artists from different cultures. This can lead to the creation of new and exciting musical styles that blend elements from different traditions. It also provides opportunities for cultural exchange and learning.
The Need for Music Education to Include Non-Western Genres
Music education plays a crucial role in shaping the future of music. It is important for music education to include non-Western genres in order to provide students with a well-rounded understanding of music and foster a sense of inclusivity.
By including non-Western genres in music education, students can develop a greater appreciation for diversity and cultural heritage. They can learn about different musical traditions, styles, and instruments from around the world. This exposure can broaden their musical horizons and inspire their own creative endeavors.
Furthermore, including non-Western genres in music education can help to challenge stereotypes and biases. By studying music from different cultures, students can gain a deeper understanding of the social, political, and historical contexts in which music is created. This can lead to greater empathy and understanding towards people from different backgrounds.
Moreover, including non-Western genres in music education can help to create a more inclusive and equitable music industry. By exposing students to a wide range of musical traditions, they can develop a more diverse and inclusive understanding of what constitutes “good” or “valuable” music. This can lead to greater representation and opportunities for artists from marginalized communities.
In conclusion, it is important to recognize the limitations of Western music and embrace the beauty of cultural diversity in music. Western music has its own unique set of scales, tonalities, and structures that can limit the range of emotions that can be expressed through music. On the other hand, cultural diversity in music enriches our lives by providing us with a variety of rhythms, beats, instruments, and styles.
Preserving traditional music is crucial for maintaining cultural heritage and artistic expression. Traditional music provides a window into the past and allows us to connect with our cultural roots. However, traditional music is at risk of being lost if not preserved.
The rise of world music in the global scene has made it easier than ever to access music from different cultures. Technology has played a significant role in promoting global music and making it more accessible to a wider audience.
Music has the power to build bridges across cultures by fostering empathy, understanding, and connection. It has the ability to break down stereotypes and challenge preconceived notions.
The future of music lies in embracing diversity and inclusivity. The music industry is becoming more diverse and inclusive, with artists from marginalized communities gaining recognition and success. Music education also needs to include non-Western genres in order to provide students with a well-rounded understanding of music and foster a sense of inclusivity.
In conclusion, it is important for us to embrace the beauty of cultural diversity in music and recognize the limitations of Western music. By doing so, we can create a more inclusive and equitable music industry that celebrates the richness and diversity of musical traditions from around the world.
If you’re interested in exploring diverse global listening habits beyond Western genres, you might also enjoy reading about Deson Teninchy, a hip-hop artist who delivers an unorthodox album with conscious listening as its target. This article on MusicCharts24 highlights how Deson Teninchy’s unique approach to music challenges traditional boundaries and offers a fresh perspective on the genre. Check it out here.


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“It wouldn’t be so bit if it were a dry heat. It’s the humidity that does it.”
The only thing more annoying than a rhetorical complaint is an unwarranted response according to Social Ventures researcher, Jackie Marzden. While designing a new ‘annoy-o-meter’ for their social science research, they developed a system to test it, and came up with various scenarios that people find annoying.
“It’s very difficult to quantify how annoying someone or something is. Quite often the results are skewed depending on the environment, context, people and situations. For example, someone clicking their nails abstractedly might not bother someone on any other day but, given that they recently gave up smoking, their response can be overwhelming,” she says, “The scale is logarithmic in nature, which comes as no surprise. The real challenge lies in getting test subjects to feel annoyance.”
Jackie says that social niceties and politeness masks the true level of irritation a person feels. To mitigate these factors, her team lets the participants score their annoyance anonymously. The early results are interesting.
“The overall level of irritation is like a leaky bucket. The more refreshed, relaxed and comfortable a person is, the holes are in the bucket to allow irritation to dissapate. If someone is sleep deprived, undergoing major stresses or in an unfamiliar environment, their irritability increases exponentially, despite what their outward disposition is like.”
More than this, her team showed that annoying factors have a compounding effect and that ‘irritant-combos’ are exponentially more effective at annoying a subject than any single source of irritation.
Jackie explains, “We found that even the most severe irritants, such as being sneezed upon, scored a less than a combination of lesser irritants. For example and unhelpful complaint, such as those about the weather, scored about a 1 on our ire-scale, while an unhelpful response to that complaint drew an ire of 3, which is 100 times more annoying than the original irritation.”

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