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He is the first patient I see and he has the eyes of death. It’s my initial foray with Brahmavihara, the small Buddhist NGO who’s invited me here to help them raise awareness about the Cambodian AIDS crisis, the worst and least funded in South East Asia. I have no idea what I’m doing, but I’m in it now, flung into the orbit of this man’s suffering, almost ashamed to be holding a camera. There is a nagging unseemliness about photographing suffering — the Vulture Effect — despite knowing you’re there to help. By showing suffering, by showing the compassionate action of selfless individuals working tirelessly to alleviate it, perhaps it will move others to compassionate actions of their own.
Bennett Stevens is a freelance writer/photographer. More of his words and images can be seen at http://www.bennettstevens.com/ and http://www.theartichoke.org/.
More of the "facts" about AIDS in Cambodia, as I've gathered them:The great tragedy of Cambodia has been long and well documented, but is far from over. Genocides and the physical and psychological scars they leave behind take generations to overcome. Nearly 30 years after the end of Pol Pot’s murderous reign, even though a good measure of stability has returned, life is still cheap for too many.
My most recent, ongoing assignment work involves documenting the Cambodian AIDS crisis through the grassroots outreach of the Brahmavihara AIDS Project. This is part of a broader, long-term focus on Third World health and social issues and the effects of First World intercession. This focus includes Vanishing Zones, where traditional ways of life struggle to remain viable along the often turbulent borders of cultural evolution/devolution.
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In March 2021 the government released the cabinet paper Leading the way: Establishing a Carbon Neutral Government Programme. The paper states that the government “must show leadership to reduce its own emissions, in order to demonstrate what is possible to other sectors in the New Zealand economy.” This is one part of the government’s follow-up to its declaration of a climate emergency in November 2020.
Throughout I have used the acronym CNGP for the Carbon Neutral Government Programme, which is a bit of a mouthful.
The long-term work programme for public sector organisations has the following goals:
- measure, verify and report emissions annually
- set gross emissions reductions targets and longer-term reduction plans for the next decade
- introduce a phased work programme to reduce organisations’ emissions, and
- offset after gross emissions reductions are made to achieve carbon neutrality
Two important areas of ‘phase one’ of the work programme focus on non-transport segments of government. These are:
Fossil fuel boilers for heating – the aim is to phase out coal boilers, prioritising the largest and most active coal boilers by 2025, continuing to use the State Sector Decarbonisation (SSD) Fund to replace them with clean alternatives.
Office space – the government aims to implement an energy efficiency building rating standard over five years from January 2021 for all mandated property agencies who occupy single tenanted, co-tenanted or co-located government office accommodation over 2,000m2.
But of more relevance to those interested in transport is the section on petrol and diesel cars. Here, the programme
- requires mandated agencies to optimise their fleets with the aim of reducing the number of vehicles in the government fleet.
- requires mandated agencies to purchase battery electric vehicles (BEVs), or plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) if a BEV is not appropriate for the proposed use, unless their operational requirements or other circumstances require (following an approval process).
The Ministerial group governing the CNGP requires reporting on an ongoing basis, with reports from agencies needing to include an operational plan for how the vehicle fleets would be reduced and electrified, and how the proposed CNGP organisations will measure emissions, how they will manage and report on them, set gross emissions reduction targets and have credible reduction plans in place by December 2023.
An important report is due next month (June 2021). This will be on how carbon neutrality for the CNGP organisations could be achieved by December 2025 following further work by officials on the opportunities, risks and constraints around offsetting. Offsetting is an option, but any offsets need to be New Zealand based.
Which organisations does this include?
The scope of organisations covered in this initiative is very wide. Most are ‘directed’ and some ‘encouraged’ to be involved. Directed includes all the core public service, non-public service agencies including the police and defence force, New Zealand Blood Service and district health boards. Initially school boards were directed but there is on-going debate about this. Agencies encouraged include universities and the Reserve Bank. Excluded are SOEs, such as KiwiRail and companies that the government has a shareholding in such as Air New Zealand (52%). Through its operations, Air New Zealand is one of New Zealand’s highest greenhouse gas emitting enterprises.
What this means for Transport
Focussing on electrification of the car fleet, James Shaw announced (in May) there would be 422 new electric vehicles purchased, and charging infrastructure across the state sector would be established. As part of this there would be $5.1 million for the Department of Conservation to buy 148 electric vehicles and install charging infrastructure and $1.1 million to help Kāinga Ora buy 40 electric vehicles and install charging infrastructure. This was estimated to save 11,600 tonnes of carbon emissions over 10 years.
“Today’s announcement is a significant step towards our goal of carbon neutrality in the public sector within five years,” said James Shaw.
“The conversion of Government fleets also means more demand for electric vehicles, which will start flowing through into the second-hand market, making electric vehicles more accessible for everyone.”
Unfortunately on the same day there was a headline in Stuff stating Department of Conservation caught charging plug-in hybrid electric vehicle with diesel power.
As commentators such as Paul Winton have pointed out, electrification of the car fleet is only one part of decarbonising transport. Driving less and switching to public transport as well as biking and walking are more important. A significant number of Wellington’s public servants – and perhaps many in Auckland – will already head to work by bus or train. While policies to encourage wider walking, biking, catching trains and buses are not set out in the cabinet paper, changes that encourage this amongst the wider community will also help public servants with modeshift.
But surprisingly lacking in the body of the cabinet paper is the issue of aviation. Case studies are given in the appendix, for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, Auckland District Health Board, Massey University and the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority. This is where it becomes apparent that aviation needs its own workstream and reporting procedures.
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise
Auckland District Health Board (Including Auckland City Hospital, Greenlane Clinical Centre and community sites)
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority
All these examples show emissions from air travel are significant and need to be reduced.
Then in April 2021, marking another important potential turning point in the fight against climate change, the Minister of Transport released the New Zealand Rail Plan.
While short on detail at the time, the overall thrust of the report was that the government wishes to turn around the long-term underinvestment in rail. The report set out the clear climate change benefits of modeshift to rail especially for freight. But it had little focus on improving regional passenger rail services. There seems to be a gap between the need to decarbonise the public sector and a whole of government understanding of how rail might support this.
The 2021 Budget did provide more money for rail. But this was primarily to patch up the run down system and to support both freight services and urban rail. Lacking were any firm announcements on supporting a transformative re-build of long distance passenger rail, including the rapid rail promoted by Greater Auckland in 2017.
Nor was there any mention in either the Rail Plan or the Budget of the possibility of re-introducing a night train between Auckland and Wellington.
Heidi O’Callahan and I have written about the benefits of bringing back a night train.
The Main Trunk Line joins Wellington, home of the public service and Auckland, by far our largest city. A significant number of people live along this rail corridor. According to Statistics New Zealand data fifty seven percent of New Zealand’s population lives along the route. (42% in Auckland and Wellington, 15% in between.) It also spans five universities, home to many thousands of frequent flyers. For example, Massey University’s 3000+ staff flew an average of 18,000 km each in 2019.
In Europe, night trains were making a big comeback prior to Covid. As Europe emerges from the pandemic this growth is resuming. Showing government support, the French Prime Minister Jean Castex was on board the first overnight train from Paris to Nice on May 20th. Then on the 24th the first Nightjet train to Amsterdam left Vienna with the Austrian climate protection minister, Leonore Gewessler, a passenger.
The Nightjet operators stated:
This will enable our passengers to travel in a safe, relaxed and, above all, climate-friendly manner. Compared with an aeroplane, a single night train from Vienna to Amsterdam can save almost 100,000kg of CO2 emissions.
Along with buying electric cars, government support for a night train would assist the decarbonisation of the public sector. To help make the case for bringing back this service I have prepared a working paper.
The CNGP provides an opportunity to look at New Zealand’s inter-regional transport offerings with fresh eyes. A night train would help public servants travel around New Zealand with a much lower carbon footprint than driving or flying. It is important that this impetus is not lost: the aviation carbon footprints of each of the organisations must not be ignored as if they are inevitable. They are not. Initially, they can be radically reduced with investment in a night train. The night train can help build ridership and institutional capability in passenger rail, and be a useful step in building a low carbon regional transport system, that reconnects a nation-wide passenger rail network with regional buses. In time, this will enable the government organisations to bring down their transport emissions further.
And more importantly, if government takes these steps to lower their own transport emissions, they will be establishing a system that enables other people and organisations to follow suit. And this is exactly why leadership from government is important: it highlights – via scrutiny of their own carbon footprints – just what infrastructure the country needs. If in the process we can achieve a national public transport network, we will be bringing access, economic benefits, and safe, low carbon travel options to many New Zealanders.
That’s what investment in our wellbeing, our future and our economy looks like.

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After exporting COVID-19 vaccines to almost 70 countries, China is gearing up to push for its own vaccine passport to ease entry to foreigners and foreign residents of China inoculated with China-made vaccines.
Beijing hopes the vaccine passport will be an incentive for businesspeople, including Taiwanese citizens who travel frequently to and from China, to get Beijing-approved jabs. But many eligible for the program worry about the lower efficacy of Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines compared with that of vaccines made outside China, and they feel pressured to use Chinese vaccines to obtain entry to China.
China launched full-scale registration of China-made vaccines for foreigners in Beijing and Shanghai at the end of March. Similar provincial-level programs began in April for foreigners concentrated in the cities of Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hangzhou and Chongqing.
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- The teaching physician rules describe a payment method by which Medicare pays an attending physician or teaching physician for services performed jointly with an intern, resident, or fellow, in an approved graduate medical education program (GME).
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From the CMS manual:
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Liege, Belgium: Cadel Evans thinks one Tour de France title will make it easier to win another one. And he's ready to add that second championship right now.
Evans opens his title defense when the 99th edition of cycling's marquee race begins Saturday with a quick, 4-mile prologue in Liege, Belgium — an individual time trial expected to be dominated by specialists such as Fabien Cancellara of Switzerland and Tony Martin of Germany, or contender Bradley Wiggins of Britain.
The beginning of the Tour offers the cycling world a welcome return to racing after the sport's doping ghosts returned this month, with charges by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that Lance Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs en route to his seven Tour victories. He denies doping and notes he has never failed a drug test.


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EFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri senators have endorsed legislation that would allow contracts to sell food and beverages — including alcohol — at anniversary celebrations for the state Capitol.
The current state Capitol replaced one that burned after being struck by lightning in February 1911. The cornerstone was laid in 1915, the first government offices moved into the structure in 1917 and the building was dedicated in 1924.
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Telugu cinema, also known by its another name is Tollywood. is the segment of India cinema dedicated to the production of motion pictures in the Telugu language, based in FilmNagar a neighborhood of Hyderabad.
Telugu Film History
Since 1909 filmmaker Raghupathi Venkaiah Naidu father of Telugu cinema was involved in producing short films. In 1921, he produced the first Telugu silent film Bhishma Pratigna.
East India Film Company(1933) has produced its first Indian film, Savitri in Telugu the film was based on a popular stage play by Mylavaram Bala Bharathi Samajam, directed by Chittajallu Pullaiah is the father of “Telugu theatre“.
The first film studio in South India, Durga Cinetone, was built in 1936 by Nidamarthi Surayya in Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh.
The 1951 film Patala Bhairavi was the only South India film Screened at the first India International Film Festival, held in Mumbai on 24 January 1952.
CNN-IBN(Indian English-language news television channel) listed Patala Bhairavi(1951),Malli swari(1951),Devadasu(1953),Mayabazar(1957),Nartanasala(1963),Maro Charitra(1978),Sankarabharanam(1979),Sagara Sangamam(1983),siva(1989), among The 100 Greatest Indian Films of All Time.
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Atlanta, GA, November 9, 2017 — Bradley T. Harris Jewelers, a full service jewelry store, recently moved to a brand new, larger space within the same complex.. Their address is still 4360 Chamblee Dunwoody Rd, Atlanta, GA 30341, but now they are in Suite #160. It is conveniently located just inside the 285 Perimeter, in the Plaza Square North Office Building.
Store owner, Brad Harris, knew that he had to make some changes. His business had grown tremendously since he first opened and he basically needed more room. However, he was reluctant want to move because his current location was ideal and very convenient for his customers.
Harris said “I realized we needed more space to showcase our expanding jewelry selections and to also expand our jewelry repair back-room. My reluctance was that our current store was easy to find and convenient for our customers, so I didn’t want to move to a location that might not be as convenient to get to. As luck would have it, a much larger space became available in the same building! Even better was that it was on the ground floor with ample parking.”
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The Central Park Ice Festival is an annual event featuring ice sculpting, trivia contests and the opportunity to mold your own ice sculpture. Grab the littles and your mittens. The event is free, starting at 3 pm and going til 8. Food trucks from Uncle Gussy’s Greek, Crepe Crave & Wafels and Dingus (love their ice cream!) will be selling bites on site. There will be a silent disco in a multi-colored light-filled mall of trees starting at 5 with headphones powered by Quiet Events (Headphones will be given out on a first come, first served basis, and quantities are limited. A credit card is required to check out a pair of headphones. )
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Christmas and sleep
07 March 2011
It's the end of the year, Christmas and New Year celebrations nearly upon us and perhaps you are going to have a holiday or at least a break. I was going to write about diet but then I passed a news agency shop and read the front page of many women's magazines spouting the latest diet fads and I thought, Dieting over Christmas - are you kidding? So here's my healthy option: Catch up on sleep.
Sleep is very important for brain health. The brain is often overlooked when we embark upon a new health regime. We tend to consider diet and exercise, and it is not until we notice a decline in our cognitive functions, that we start to do cross-words and sudoku. However we can do a lot NOW to protect against memory decline and one is to get adequate sleep. (I can almost hear women crying out, What is sleep?) We have all experienced the detrimental effects from lack of sleep.
The good news is that we do make new brain cells (neurons) and these new neurons may replace damaged or dead neurons and may also assist in rewiring old sections of the brain. Our neurons do not divide, as is the case with most other cells in our body. Instead they possess various repair mechanisms that allow the majority of our neurons to last a lifetime. This process is called neurogenesis and while there are a number of factors that govern the success of neurogenesis, one is sleep.
Sleep appears to stimulate repair mechanisms for neurons. The brain undertakes repairs and replenishes reserves of neurochemicals involved in learning and concentration during sleep. Most of our knowledge is processed and stored into memory during sleep. While there is no guarantee from cognitive decline it makes good sense to think about brain health.
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FinTech is undoubtedly shaping the face of the healthcare industry. FinTech companies leverage powerful innovations blockchain, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to eliminate the inefficiencies and knowledge gaps endemic to most healthcare payment plans.
The COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted many of the inefficiencies and archaic processes across the current healthcare system. The healthcare industry witnesses several FinTech-driven changes including better engagement with customers, price or treatment cost transparency, patient financing, management of unplanned medical expenses, better claim settlement experience, professional and fast payment systems convenience in terms of better clinical care, digital payments, reimbursement methods, and customized medical loans, etc.
Here is a list of 5 U.S. FinTech startups reimagining the health care industry:
SmartHealth PayCard (2019)
SmartHealth PayCard – A Financial Cure for Healthcare, is a FinTech empowering individuals and families with financial solutions and resources to simplify the direction of care and healthcare expenses. Its SmartHealth PayCard Mastercard, a credit card dedicated to healthcare, provides members with affordable payment choices and unprecedented benefits to pay for urgent care, telehealth, high deductibles, copays, preventative care, dental, mental health, medicines, and more. The company’s complete solution includes a line of credit, cardholder website, secure online tracking, and record-keeping, SMS messaging, and email account alerts.
Cedar provides smart ways for hospitals, health systems, and medical groups to manage the patient payment ecosystem. It combines the best techniques of FinTech, ad tech, consumer, and healthcare to help providers understand and engage patients more effectively. Its platform delivers modern intelligence to alleviate collections challenges, improves billing operations, and ensure a personalized billing experience for patients. The firm has raised $151 million in funding to date.
WellPay is driven by the singular mission of building solutions that empower consumers to deal with rising healthcare cost responsibilities leading to skipped care and reduction in the efficacy of population wellness. The company in April has rolled out its beta to everyone to assist people burdened by medical bills brought on by the COVID-19 crisis and has plans to launch a national rollout later this year.
Wellpay’s FinTech platform is powered by machine learning, and it enables patients to secure their medical bills or upload medical bills they wish to pay over time. It then negotiates, facilitates disputes, or provides a zero-interest, zero-fees plan. The platform will manage payment plans, bill management, and communication.
Medxoom helps companies and their employees save 10% or more on healthcare through powerful pricing, payment & mobile CRM solutions. The firm brings comparative shopping, unified bill payments, and CRM to healthcare.
Medxoom helps bend the healthcare cost curve by continually analyzing & steering Members to the optimal doctors and facilities. It offers powerful payment features, plan to provider payments, integrated net due payments, payment card, and financing options. The FinTech enables both members and employers to save when consumers are empowered—integrating a variety of strategies, including member steerage, direct provider contracts, reference-based pricing, and paid-in-full payment methods. Medxoom is backed by leading venture funds Las Olas Venture Capital and TTV Capital.
Bend Financial (2017)
Bend Financial is revolutionizing health savings accounts (HSAs). The technology and services company provides HSA and financial wellness solutions to individuals, employers, and organizations in the group benefits distribution market. The FinTech offers automated, paperless HSA enrollment for employees and leverage the latest technologies, including Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, to offer an entirely new and truly unique approach to engagement, funding, saving, and payment.
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• Aleem Bandali, senior vice-president and director, MNP Corporate Finance Inc.
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text: CVE:ATM - Atacama Pacific Gold Stock Price, News, & Analysis Sign in or create an account to add this stock to your watchlist. Get Started C$0.68 +0.01 (+1.49 %) (As of 10/23/2018 04:00 PM ET)Previous CloseC$0.67Today's RangeC$0.67 - C$0.6852-Week RangeC$0.57 - C$0.86Volume15,000 shsAverage Volume114,654 shsMarket CapitalizationC$50.34 millionP/E RatioN/ADividend YieldN/ABeta-0.64 ProfileDiscussionChartEarningsInsider TradesHeadlinesOptions ChainSocial Media Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on StocktwitsPrint this articleShare by Email Atacama Pacific Gold Corporation, an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of gold properties in Chile. The company principally holds a 100% interest in the Cerro Maricunga gold project located in Region III northeast of the city of Copiapo. Atacama Pacific Gold Corporation was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Receive ATM News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for ATM and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange CVE Industry Gold Sub-IndustryN/A SectorBasic Materials Current SymbolCVE:ATM Previous Symbol CUSIPN/A Webwww.atacamapacific.com Phone+1-647-2873778 Debt Debt-to-Equity RatioN/A Current RatioN/A Quick RatioN/A Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E RatioN/A Forward P/E RatioN/A P/E GrowthN/A Sales & Book Value Annual SalesN/A Price / SalesN/A Cash FlowN/A Price / CashN/A Book ValueN/A Price / BookN/A Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)N/A Net IncomeN/A Net MarginsN/A Return on Equity-0.02% Return on Assets-0.02% Miscellaneous EmployeesN/A Outstanding Shares84,741,000Market CapC$50.34 million OptionableN/A Atacama Pacific Gold (CVE:ATM) Frequently Asked Questions What is Atacama Pacific Gold's stock symbol? Atacama Pacific Gold trades on the Canadian Venture Exchange (CVE) under the ticker symbol "ATM." Who are some of Atacama Pacific Gold's key competitors? Some companies that are related to Atacama Pacific Gold include Wesdome Gold Mines (WDOFF), Silver Lake Resources (SLR), Asanko Gold (AKG), Avesoro Resources (ASO), Midas Gold (MAX), GoldMining (GOLD), Corvus Gold (KOR), Pan African Resources (PAF), Belo Sun Mining (BSX), Rand Mining (RND), Alio Gold (ALO), Chesapeake Gold (CKG), TNG (TNG), Marathon Gold (MOZ) and Probe Metals (PRB). Who are Atacama Pacific Gold's key executives? Atacama Pacific Gold's management team includes the folowing people: Dr. Albrecht Georg Schneider, Exec. Chairman (Age 64)Mr. Carl B. Hansen, Pres, CEO & Director (Age 56)Mr. Thomas John Pladsen M.B.A., MBA, CFO & Sec. (Age 58)Antonio Barros, Gen. Mang. of Chile How do I buy shares of Atacama Pacific Gold? Shares of ATM and other Canadian stocks can be purchased through online brokerage accounts that support trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). Brokers that permit trading on the TSX include Fidelity, Interactive Brokers, PennTrade and Charles Schwab. What is Atacama Pacific Gold's stock price today? One share of ATM stock can currently be purchased for approximately C$0.68. How big of a company is Atacama Pacific Gold? Atacama Pacific Gold has a market capitalization of C$50.34 million. What is Atacama Pacific Gold's official website? The official website for Atacama Pacific Gold is http://www.atacamapacific.com/. How can I contact Atacama Pacific Gold? Atacama Pacific Gold's mailing address is 330 Bay St Suite 1210, TORONTO, ON M5H 2S8, Canada. The company can be reached via phone at +1-647-2873778. MarketBeat Community Rating for Atacama Pacific Gold (CVE ATM)Community Ranking: 2.1 out of 5 ( )Outperform Votes: 85 (Vote Outperform)Underperform Votes: 120 (Vote Underperform)Total Votes: 205MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about Atacama Pacific Gold and other stocks. Vote "Outperform" if you believe ATM will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote "Underperform" if you believe ATM will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days. This page was last updated on 10/23/2018 by MarketBeat.com StaffFeatured Article: What are the benefits of a balanced fund?

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Wembley Park tube station stalker slapped with restraining order
Court heard his victim endured him following her to work on a regular basis
A stalker who made his victim’s life a misery as she commuted to work has been banned from coming within 50 metres of her.
Paul Stark, 22, followed the 26-year-old woman as she travelled from Wembley Park tube station to central London on the Metropolitan Line throughout 2008 forcing her to change her route.
Brent Magistrates’ Court heard following her route change the woman did not spot Stark until November 29 last year when he resumed his stalking campaign by staring at her as she got off a train.
Four days later, the victim saw Stark again and he followed her on to a train and stared at her throughout the journey.
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He followed her as she got off at Farringdon station and entered a shop she went into, leaving only after she called a friend.
Stark continued stalking his victim by travelling in the same carriage as her as she commuted to work, staring at her during the entire journey.
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He was arrested on January 25 this year when his victim saw him standing on the platform at Wembley Park tube station and alerted British Transport Police officers.
Last week, Stark from Eastcote, Middlesex, admitted harassment and was handed an indefinite restraining order banning him from coming within 50 metres of his victim.
He was also ordered to pay his victim �1,000 compensation.
As part of Stark’s order, he is also banned from contacting his victim by any other means and is prohibited from standing on a platform in Wembley Park tube station unless he is catching a train.
PC Paul Franklin, investigating officer, said: “Officers attended the station and arrested Stark after he was pointed out by the victim.
“CCTV evidence which showed Stark purposefully following the victim across platforms and onto trains disproved his claim that they had just seen each other many times by coincidence.
“Stark’s behaviour was no doubt very frightening for the victim, who thought she had seen the last of him a few years ago.
“She will now no longer have to worry about him thanks to the restraining order handed down to him by the court.”


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Brian Jungreis, VanVleet’s agent, told Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium the deal will be worth $85 million over four years with a player option for the final season.
VanVleet steadily developed from a little-used reserve into an impact starter over the past four years with the Raptors. It was a growth process that included a key role off the bench during the team’s run to the 2018-19 NBAchampionship.
The 26-year-old Wichita State product is coming off his best statistical season. He averaged 17.6 points, 6.6 assists, 3.8 rebounds and 1.9 steals per game while shooting 39.0 percent from three-point range, though his offensive efficiency has room for improvement after he shot 41.3 percent from the field.
VanVleet said during an appearance on Sportsnet’s Tim and Sid in October he was hopeful of remaining with Toronto but wanted to keep his options open.
“I’ve been here. This is the team that gave me my chance, I think we understand that. I’m not gonna speak too much on free agency this year just cuz it’s a business and I have to do what’s best for me and my family,” he said. “But, I mean, I’ve been on record about how I feel about this place. This organization knows how I feel about this place. So in a perfect world, we know what would happen.”
His notable impact at both ends last season—he ranked 10th among all shooting guards in ESPN’s real plus-minus with positive offensive and defensive rating—put him in line to negotiate a new contract at a perfect time in his career arc.
VanVleet’s desire to remain with Toronto paired with the fact he emerged as a valuable contributor for the organization since going undrafted in 2016 made the new deal no surprise.
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Travel Dates 21st-23rd May 2011.
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I passed through London on the way to Paris, but I will mention that part of the trip later when I devote more time to my return to the UK a month later.
I deliberately planned this trip across Europe using trains and a boat, with minimal flights.
I have loved train travel since I was small, travelling across New South Wales and later Victoria by steam and diesel in the '50s and '60s. I wrote a little more about that when I described a nostalgic train trip on my Australian blog. Thus, the itinerary for this trip included the following:
Stansted Express from Stansted to London.
Eurostar, from London St Pancras to Paris Gare de Lyon via the Chunnel.
Lyria TGV, from Paris to Lausanne.
Swiss Rail, from Lausanne to Visp, changing for Zermatt.
Gornergrat, to the Alp from Zermatt.
Glacier Express, from Zermatt to Chur.
Bernina Express, from Chur to Tirano.
Trenitalia local from Tirano to Milan.
Trenitalia Intercity from Milan to Venice St Lucia.
Overnight Sleeper from Venice St Lucia to Zagreb.
Bosnia and Herzegovina local from Mostar to Sarajevo.
MS Lev Tolstoy from St Petersburg to Moscow.
In addition to those I used local metros whenever available in the towns I passed through.
I departed on time from Gare de Lyon, smoothly and without fuss at 8am. One of the pleasures of train travel is the difference in stress. Security procedures were less invasive, the queues were shorter, the whole experience more relaxed. But make sure you know which platform to go to and be on board when the train departs. It helped that I did some reconnaissance the day before. The old days of conductors calling “All Aboard” are long gone. The train simply glides quietly, almost imperceptibly away from the platform whether you are on board or not.
The Lyria TGV is a modern high-speed train but the speed is hardly noticeable until you pass under a bridge or close to a station. Occasionally I noticed we were swiftly passing cars on parallel motorways; most of those cars would have been travelling at over 110km/hr, but we left them easily behind. The seating in first class was spacious, the ride was smooth and the scenery pleasant; it became more spectacular as we left the rolling fields of France and entered the hills before Lausanne.
I changed at Lausanne and again at Visp, taking photos along the way from the carriage windows. The local trains in Switzerland were slower and less luxurious than the Lyria, but the scenery gradually became more spectacular. For photos it was an advantage to be able to slide down the top section of the windows for unobstructed pictures. I arrived in Zermatt around 4:30 pm after a very pleasant and comfortable trip.
Zermatt, apart from it's spectacular surroundings, is a small pleasant village in mid-May. Unfortunately the weather was unkind and my first two days were overcast and drizzly, including my ascent to Gronergrat which I'll describe in the next post.
The first thing I noticed was the lack of cars. It seems that the Police are the only ones allowed an internal combustion engine. All the other vehicles in Zermatt are electric. Even the Police use electric when possible; this is a Police car near the taxis and hotel minibuses waiting near the railway.
I took one of those cabs up to my pre-booked hotel to be greeted by a sign on the door saying the hotel was closed for renovations. Wonderful! But the sign also mentioned that I should go back down-town to the Best Western Butterfly Hotel, which had the same owners. It turned out to be a blessing; a better hotel in a better locality and they honoured the cheaper tariff of the original hotel. They also refunded the taxi fare. I must write a Tripadvisor review after this. I will be recommending the hotel.
The sun eventually came out on my final morning; that tiny white triangle at the top right of the second picture is the Matterhorn from my window.
Down-town is nothing special, but all of the necessities are available. Even in the "shoulder" season between winter and summer most of the restaurants were open with lots of choices of cuisine.
I enjoyed relaxing for a couple of days in Zermatt, despite the drizzle. The architecture of some of the older wooden buildings on their vermin-protection foundations and with their massive slate roofs was interesting, as were the various structures designed for avalanche protection and the other differences in the way the village was laid out to a town back home.
Next, the Gornergrat.
Cheers, Alan, Australia
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Chimbonda resigned to missing out on World Cup
Pascal Chimbonda believes being named in the Professional Footballers' Association's Team of the Year has come too late to land him a place in France's World Cup squad.
Chimbonda was last night honoured by his peers following a superb debut season at right-back for Wigan, earning his place among the PFA elite ahead of the likes of Gary Neville and Steve Finnan.
No-one had heard of Chimbonda when Latics boss Paul Jewell snapped up the 27-year-old last summer for what has since proven to be a bargain £500,000 from Bastia.
Chimbonda has endeared himself to the Latics fans with his all-action performances, to such an extent he has his own song, while there has also been a pie and a beer named after him.
Perhaps if Chimbonda had produced such displays for Chelsea, Arsenal or Manchester United, then he would be a certainty to be included in France coach Raymond Domenech's squad heading to Germany.
Chimbonda said: 'I have not given up hope. The window is still open, but the manager tends to look at the bigger players at the bigger clubs.
'Maybe he did not think Wigan would do as well as they have, so in that respect it will hardly be a surprise if I don't make it.
'I am sure the manager has made up his mind on the 23 he is going to take, so I don't think winning this award will make that much of a difference.
'But it's such a big honour. To make it into the PFA team means it has been a fantastic season, with a lot of pleasure derived from the fact the team have stayed up.
'To do so well has been a massive surprise. I was expecting a battle against relegation, so the way the season has gone, it has been far beyond my expectations.'
It is all a far cry from the July day Chimbonda arrived at the JJB Stadium as he admits he had no idea who he was signing for.
'When I arrived, I knew nothing about Wigan. I had never heard of them - I didn't even know where they were!' explained Chimbonda.
'I just wanted to play in the Premiership. Wigan were the team that approached me, and that is why I signed.
'I have had a superb time, and the fans have been fantastic. They have given me a buzz.
'Hearing them chanting my name is not something I have experienced before, but it drives me on to do even better. It has been a major factor in me doing so well.'
Which is why other clubs may yet take an interest in Chimbonda this summer, who has confirmed he has no verbal agreement with Jewell to leave should a big-money offer be made.
However, he is appreciably ambitious, and while he is not looking to leave, he added: 'If a big club comes in you don't turn them away, you discuss what might be on the table.
'Like any player my ambition is to one day play at a big club, so if something comes up you don't reject it out of hand.'
Jewell, who tonight faces Fulham with his team still in with a shout of clinching a UEFA Cup place for next season, believes Chimbonda has been 'a breath of fresh air'.
'He has come from virtually nowhere, and been a sensational player for us,' added Jewell, who has defenders Arjan de Zeeuw, Ryan Taylor and Matt Jackson out, while David Connolly continues to struggle with a hamstring problem.
'Since our first game against Chelsea he has never looked back. He has gone from strength to strength.
'He has bought into what we are trying to do here, and he has adapted, while the fans took to him straight away, which always helps.
'To then be recognised by your fellow pros is the biggest honour any player can get.'

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Characterizing interactions between multiple brain regions is important for understanding brain function. Functional connectivity measures based on partial correlation provide an estimate of the linear conditional dependence between brain regions after removing the linear influence of other regions. Estimation of partial correlations is, however, difficult when the number of regions is large, as is now increasingly the case with a growing number of large-scale brain connectivity studies. To address this problem, we develop novel methods for estimating sparse partial correlations between multiple regions in fMRI data using elastic net penalty (SPC-EN), which combines L1- and L2-norm regularization We show that L1-norm regularization in SPC-EN provides sparse interpretable solutions while L2-norm regularization improves the sensitivity of the method when the number of possible connections between regions is larger than the number of time points, and when pair-wise correlations between brain regions are high. An issue with regularization-based methods is choosing the regularization parameters which in turn determine the selection of connections between brain regions. To address this problem, we deploy novel stability selection methods to infer significant connections between brain regions. We also compare the performance of SPC-EN with existing methods which use only L1-norm regularization (SPC-L1) on simulated and experimental datasets. Detailed simulations show that the performance of SPC-EN, measured in terms of sensitivity and accuracy is superior to SPC-L1, especially at higher rates of feature prevalence. Application of our methods to resting-state fMRI data obtained from 22 healthy adults shows that SPC-EN reveals a modular architecture characterized by strong inter-hemispheric links, distinct ventral and dorsal stream pathways, and a major hub in the posterior medial cortex - features that were missed by conventional methods. Taken together, our findings suggest that SPC-EN provides a powerful tool for characterizing connectivity involving a large number of correlated regions that span the entire brain.
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cool but you forget his super belty XD
YOU FORGOT THE BELT THOUGH
best ive seen yet, i dont even have scouts lol
Interesting, I haven't seen level 52. Which game?
The use of shadowing and color is expertly done and really aesthetic. This time the proportion doesn't entirely matter (Like your Ryu drawing, which seemed a bit off to me...) because your original subject was an undefined cartoon and therefore easily changed... However, you still did a really great job, the work on the muscles is incredible and the proportion is accurate and amusing! Another great work of art! :D
Level 52 on Newgrounds. You know those weapons/fists that appear under your name in your forum posts? Those are NG levels.
The character was "Dad" from the Dad 'n me game on Newgrounds.
Well Hello There... XD
That's a funny pose for Dad. It looks like he's trying to be seductive to someone.
Great picture by the way.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 30: In view of recent reports and allegations of financial malpractice in the public sector it might be useful to remind ourselves that:
- Signs of criminality will be investigated by the Police, who will then put the facts to the Director of Public Prosecutions, who will decide whether to charge suspects to court. Anyone who witnesses suspected criminality is urged to report to the Police, for example any requests for bribes, or any knowledge of backhanders. Until and unless they have signs of criminality the Police will not investigate, and nor should they. When they have clear signs of suspected criminality they have shown, for example in response to Mr Bolden’s claims in court in 2011, and this week’s court case involving officials, that they will investigate and, if justified, give the Director of Public Prosecutions a sound case for prosecution.
- Other signs of suspected abuses of position by officials are matters for the Head of the Civil Service. An action may have breached the Financial Instructions which bind civil servants.
- Actions which may be regarded by most Bermudians as questionable, of questionable ethics, or even questionable morality, are not matters for the Police unless those actions break the law. And actions by officials are matters for the Head of the Civil Service only if they break Financial Instructions or other official Guidelines.
The Premier of Bermuda has done much to tighten the law and the official Guidelines; more changes are on the way.
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Welcome to the age of the designer baby! Now all you parents with deep pockets can make sure your baby has a sparkling pair of baby blues, gorgeous black hair, beautiful olive skin, and of course, determine what the baby’s gender is. All you have to do is head over to the Fertility Institutes in Los Angeles, where parents are offered the option of choosing their physical attributes.
The same technology that Fertility Institutes plan to use for made-to-order children was originally developed for the important purpose of screening embryos for fatal genetic disorders. This procedure is known as PGD — pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. This allows doctors to screen embryos soon after they are created in a petri dish and implant only the ones that meet certain criteria. The technique was invented to help high-risk families avoid or manage potentially deadly genetic traits, and to help women who’ve had multiple miscarriages conceive babies they can carry to term. Already, 42 percent of PGD clinics offer couples the option of choosing their baby’s gender, but Fertility Institutes is the first clinic to offer cosmetic choices as well.
The U.S. is one of few countries that currently do not have regulations in place to govern the uses of PGD. Many doctors who support PGD argue that using it to for non-medical purposes risks limiting human diversity and increasing societal discrimination. Imagine what Hitler would have done with this technology? “It’s technically feasible and it can be done,” says Mark Hughes, a pioneer of the PGD process and director of Genesis Genetics Institute, a large fertility laboratory in Detroit. However, he adds that “no legitimate lab would get into it and, if they did, they’d be ostracized.”
But not in L.A. at Fertility Institutes, where everyone in Hollywood has had a nip or a tuck in the quest for perfection. Why not just start at preconception? “This is cosmetic medicine,” says Jeff Steinberg, director of the clinic that is advertising gender and physical trait selection on its Web site. “Others are frightened by the criticism but we have no problems with it.”
In a recent U.S. survey conducted by researchers at the New York University School of Medicine of 999 people who sought genetic counseling, a majority said they supported prenatal genetic tests for the elimination of certain serious diseases. The survey found that 56% supported using them to counter blindness and 75% for mental retardation. More provocatively, about 10% of respondents said they would want genetic testing for athletic ability, while another 10% voted for improved height. Nearly 13% backed the approach to select for superior intelligence.
And the numbers are surely to rise as parents are offered the opportunity to choose to have more intelligent, more athletic, more conventionally beautiful children are likely to want that choice – and why should they feel guilty about the implications?
No current technology allows parents to order a baby like customers customize their Dell computers — at least not yet.
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A Lovely Sunday
by Raven Cassell
A tsunami of sun floods in through the wide glass wall. Lovely lies motionless resting in rumination. Yes, she’s awake. No, she isn’t tired. She is just collecting the sun in her heart, paralyzed by gratitude. Seventy-seven summers she’s seen. ‘What a gift of a day’ she breathed. The birds sound like they agree, cheepin’ and chattin’ away, like a gang of playground kids. After sitting in her smiles a while, Lovely delicately lifts her body from the bed and glides on over to the kitchen with the rhythm of a matriarch moving on over to brew her tea. It’s tea time. Her collection of herbs is comprised of leaves from her own garden, what her daughters drop off when they can and Gi’s farmer’s market pickings. Gi is her companion. He spends Sundays at the library teaching a writing class to the kids in the community.
“Weeeeeeeeeee!!” The teapot sang.
And she let the warm water rush into her big glove of a mug. This mug, a grainy sand-colored piece her grand-lady, she calls her, made. Like Grandbaby but Grand-lady. She’s a potter. Uses her hands just like her Grandma Lovely. Out of all, twenty-seven grandchildren, Grand-lady is the most Lovely-like. She’s a peculiar young woman, as sharp as the point of a blade. An astronaut. She’d been up in space for the last 3 years and made it back to Lovely about 4 months ago. She stops by on Sundays to eat midday with Grandma Lovely while they spit stories over their tea. She comes for the stories. She loves the garden too. Says one day she’ll have an Eden as well. That is, when she comes back to Earth.
“The little spacebaby, can’t keep that child out of the ether,” Lovely repeats to her girlfriends when she’s away.
But she loved her ethereal angel and loved even more that she came from her particles. Her Grand-lady.
Her tea warmed the parts of her the morning sun couldn’t reach. Even in the warmest weather, Lovely is with tea. At the breakfast table, there lives a pile of books, a cup of pens, some notepads, her pill dispenser, some loose paper and flowers from her flowerbed choked by another ceramic sculpture made at the hands of her grandlady. The paper, she always needed. She would jot down little messages, doodles, poems, jokes, questions for God, she’d scrawl the names of her six children, their twenty-seven kids and their three babies over and over. She’d record the names of her flowers, draw her house and its rooms, scribble Lovely + Gi = eternal love and seal it with a heart. She’d note things she needed to remember, things she remembered she’d done in her youth and things she wanted to live in the universe’s memory. Most mornings it was her tea and her paper.
Today, on this Sunday while her tea settles, she puts out a mug for the houseguest she’s expecting and heads outside with her fifty-year-old watering can so her plants can drink up too. She turned and opened the hose with her little body and began to sing to her succulents, prophecy over her flowers and pray for her plants. Garden of goodness, made with my two hands won’t you grow strong, won’t you grow green, won’t you nourish and won’t you please. They were to go on to live lives of beauty and healing. She pulled herbs and flowers for when the babies caught colds or when Gi’s hand cramps came back. Buried in a bunch of leaves, her mind heavy on healing and eyes filled with inspection, she heard a refreshingly familiar voice.
“Gram, you gonna come have this tea with me or what?” Her Grandlady, Zora said with some seduction followed by a hefty smile.
Lovely turned around to see her grandchild in the doorway draped in sunshine. She responded with just a smile. She wrapped up outside and she and her watering can made their way into Zora’s embrace.
“Look at you Ms. Lady, I sure missed you.”
She sat down. Zora poured her tea and joined her. They sat in the silence that fell, it was a rather intense week for Zora. She’d been preparing a presentation for Monday where she is to present to potential research sponsors. She’d spent the last five years studying mental health during and after space excursions. It was a difficult thing for her. Because her studies required her to voyage and she, herself would experience the effects she worked to investigate and cure. Earth is hard but there are a host of woes beyond the atmosphere, too. The space radiation wearing on her body, the zero gravity wearing on her physique, the drastic shift from the holistic diet she was raised on, the fear and anxiety around survival, dealing with the changes upon return, trying to realign with who she was before the excursion and really the ever-present the guilt that lingers from her absence in family, in life and from Lovely. This is why Lovelytime is so important. It was important to learn from the master healer, herself -- continue a familial legacy. This is why Lovelytime doesn’t get postponed or rescheduled. It is both an apology and a promise.
So they sat. And soon, her Grandlady was gently lying down her questions she so desperately held this week. This time, Zora was less curious about how Lovely reached the height of her world but more curious about how she dealt with the altitude up there. She framed her questions around this research project and less about her. But Lovely knew. Lovely knows.
Lovely began to set down a Sunday story.
“When it comes to the giving of self, Zora --” she started with great concentration. “It has to be accepted that by doing so, you are giving away bits of yourself, much like my flowers an’em back there. You think it don’t hurt a little for that aloe to break me off a piece to rub on a flaming rash? You think that for a moment, it too, ain't in crisis baby? It is, but the barrier gets together and closes back up to protect the juicy, fortifying, abundant flesh. That’s you, baby. Don’t go and turn your offering into a curse just ‘cause you got to do a little more work in protecting your flesh than most other folks. At the same time, know that part of protection is selection. You may not have it to give some days, some months or even some years.”
Zora sat up a little straighter on her seat cushion and lifted her eyes to her elder.
“Your Mama was 4,” she opened, “And I had a one-year-old AND was carryin’ ya heavy headed Uncle Boog. Your Aunty Nile was ‘bout 9 and caring for the five of them when the pregnancy had me down. Now remember, I had 5 and was boppin’ around, tendin’ to business and momin’, wa’n’t never a thing for me but this last one?! Showed me somethin’ I wasn’t too familiar with. My body, who’d carried me so far, told me to slow down. I have the highest respect for my body. So I shut down the shop for a whole 4 years, sold what I had in this garden just by folks comin’ to this house, talkin’ up with me at this little table. Ya Granddaddy taught those years, tutored -- sometimes right here at this table so our babies would know his face and know it well.”
“Picture this: I done built this business, only until after I came back from my leave did I have folks working for me ‘nough so I can step away without the walls fallin’. I had folks coming to me with their hopes of healing on my lap. I had all these babies (now I had them because I wanted them, wanted them deeply) but I had them and they needed tending to. They deserved to smile and to see their Mama smile. So I had to turn away a lot of the folks who poured into my business -- with hopes and with dollars. But then I came back. For thirty years, three shops, five books, one organization. I can’t say I believe my garden would be this green if I hadn’t closed the gates, then.”
She stopped. She took the concluding sips of her still-warm tea.
“I’m not saying to close your gates, but just know that you can.”
Zora held a cry in her throat. Lovely touched her hand as if she were hitting a button to release the tears. She didn’t believe in the reservation of inhibitions.
Now with all of this, all of the sleep Zora lost this week and the last showed up at her door and pulled down on her eyes. She excused herself and went into her Grandmother’s bed. The sunlight was in there too but was hush enough to let her sleep. By the time Lovely peeked in, she was far, far off. Likely in space. She took a few steps in to read her. She watched her, saw herself -- pregnant and worn with the weight of a whole community sewn into her skin. Lovely found some smiles in her belly and shut the door ever so gently. Her Grandlady, she thought.
Lovely set on her big orange sun hat and went out back to nest in her deep, orange chair. She watched the butterflies and the ants and the worms and noticed the shifts in the wind. She too drifted. Drifted from study to meditation, from meditation to sleep.
A Lovely Sunday.
In conversation Raven Cassell pertaining to the The Women That Raise Us:
"...We must move against not only those forces which dehumanize us from the outside, but also against those oppressive values which we have been forced to take into ourselves.” - Audre Lorde. Through experience, this concept has seemed to flow into our relationships with ourselves and our relationships with others, potentially, creating barriers and preventing us from building, supporting, and lifting one another. how can we transcend this construct?
I was raised by a mother who often felt like a single mother though she was not. My maternal grandmother has always been a mystical figure to me. My perception of her is purity and perfection and just so we’re clear, I am not interested in grounding that in reality. I have a big family, somewhere between 10-15 actual aunties, around 5 aunty-aged cousins and 20+ female cousins. I’m Liberian and so all of my Momma’s friends are, too, aunties. I found teachers and mentors always. I was raised by and around many women so my understanding of womanhood is not so calculated and political but rather innate, visceral and diverse. I can remember my great grandmother, Sis Charlotte, collecting an unholy amount of Dove suds on the washcloth washing our bodies with precession in the projects in NYC. I remember my mother finding roundabout ways to tell me not to sit on laps and where Uncle’s hands should and shouldn’t go. I was raised by family but I was also raised by the village. It was my best friends mother, a New York Sports Club trainer who introduced the world of health and wellness to me, that didn’t exist in my household. Ms. Weston, a counselor at my high school instilled professionalism in me in 9th grade — she taught me how to go out and get a job. I’m still being raised. By the Ella Fitzgeralds, the Nina Simones, the Adrienne Maree Browns, the Zora Neal Hurstons, the Ntozake Shanges and the Domonique Morriseaus. I have a spirit that attracts more feminine energy, surely. I have a wide circle of sisters and they, too, are my teachers. I possess a generous amount of masculine energy I like to believe. I’m very attracted to the merging of the masc and femme energies. There is limitless power there.
"I’m still being raised. By the Ella Fitzgeralds, the Nina Simones, the Adrienne Maree Browns, the Zora Neal Hurstons, the Ntozake Shanges and the Domonique Morriseaus. I have a spirit that attracts more feminine energy, surely. I have a wide circle of sisters and they, too, are my teachers."
In what ways can we, as a community, release the stereotypical negative perspectives and ideas of women of color and their roles? How can we transcend these constructs and deepen the interpersonal / intrapersonal relationships with women of color?
I think stereotypes are instilled in us through our education system where they only humanize a particular kind of person. That’s the private schools, the charter schools and most especially the public schools. By leaving out the images and stories of folks of color, we are planting fear and ignorance. Imagine if the material we teach presented folks of color, black folks as whole and dimensional? White kids too, need to grow up in that truth.
Some black kids are lucky enough to have had parents who had the tools and capacity to bring those images and conversations into their homes early on. I did not have that as a child of immigrants. There were other ways in which my identity was validated but the race conscious perspective didn’t exist in my home because my parents came from a place where everyone was black and they hadn’t had the African American experience. I went and found those things out in the world on my own. This is why I teach.
With that being said, I want to address stereotypes in art making. I personally am not hung up on stereotypes. I’m a writer. If I let myself get hung up on a stereotype I’d never write a word in fear of wearing stereotypes or dressing my characters in stereotypes. That notion is very insignificant to me now, I think because the most interesting nuggets can be found when you either go toward stereotypes or resist them. I do understand that may entrap some. I offer this ever so sophisticated advice: the practice of not giving a shit. Really. Any and everything one does can be perceived as stereotypical and so what does that mean? That means I won’t eat the entire guts out of my watermelon?! You must’ve bumped yo head! I will eat my watermelon and eat it whole. If I am on the other end of poor customer service, my Staten Island is exposed and I will advocate for myself whether and maybe someone perceives me as mad and black. On the other hand, oftentimes my behavior, my lifestyle and my capabilities shatter folks’ idea of who I should be. I am an African Spanish speaking, traveling, dramatist. Depending on where I am in the world, that’ll disrupt some folks’ containers they’ve put me in. And I too, stereotype, it is quite human but the key is to not be tied to the quick, face value assumptions and always be curious enough to allow people to tell you who they are. I think when it comes to releasing ourselves from stereotypes, being connected to spirit frees you — however it is you do so. I believe deeply you will truly know what you are to be doing in this life, in your existence and then: doesn’t the idea of being preoccupied with a stereotype sound trivial? I think to find transcendence one must not be in the frame of mind of those still on the ground. To transcend is to rise above in spirit-like fashion, beyond human understanding. So to try to relate to humanistic structures in a state of transcendence is regressive and contradictory.
What are your thoughts on women of color being hyper-visible and yet invisible (ignored, unheard, unfelt) in society and/or their own communities?
I don’t know that I believe black women are invisible. I seek out black shit. I think before we say things like we are invisible ask ourselves are we searching for black women’s material? And when we say invisible, we mean invisible to whom? I sees us! As we work to dismantle the education system, we also cannot wait for it. We must educate ourselves so we can educate our children. I do hope that the public school system is reformed but I also cannot wait for it. As a teaching artist my presence in the public school is fleeting but I will offer these seeds during my time. As an auntie, I have to offer the brilliance to our seeds. That is the responsibility.
When it’s time for me to find new dramatic literature I will type into Google “Black female playwrights” Then I will buy and study their work. I will watch their interviews and keep a list of the writers they mention and search, buy and study their work. We are here! Always been. We, and black folks that means you, need to stand behind that work, that’s how the work can advance and reach. Every time when we are in a position of power: spending our dollar, holding a mic or being a mentor, we must make ourselves seen.
There are also a heavy handful of Black institutions whose sole purpose is to preserve and foster black art and literature. To depend on a mainstream culture (that I don’t even identify with) to feed me is outrageous, irresponsible and contradictory. If we are ignored, disrespected, unheard or unfelt it only matters to me when it is done by the folks for which the work was made. I don’t know that I desire or expect whiteness to consume our culture or do so properly or responsibly. Here’s a list of resources I use often that house and produce work by brilliant black folks.
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture - Library and public programming
- Stony Island Arts Bank - hybrid gallery, media archive, library and community center
- Free Black Women’s Library - interactive mobile trading library and interactive biblio installation
- Black Market Vintage - a collection comprised of black curiosities, cast-off's and collectibles
- Weeksville Heritage Center - is a historic site, public programming at the intersection of history and art
- Sunu Journal - Journal of African affairs, critical thought + aesthetics
- National Black Theater - Theater institution
- Studio Museum of Harlem - American art museum devoted to the work of artists of African descent
- Nataal Media - New global media brand
How can we lift each other, while we still climb as individuals? How can this become an ongoing practice?
I mean first, we have to acknowledge the competitive nature of who we’ve capitalized and socialized ourselves to be and begin to practice other ways of being. There is only one teacher, one King and Queen, one Student of the Month. There is only one first prize. From very young we begin competing with one another. I am by nature, competitive. I am an athlete and if I am not competing with another person, I’m likely competing with self. I love that about myself and I think there can be healthy ways to exist in the spirit of competition. But at the same time I see that now, we are so desperately reaching to be the one at the top we are not realizing that there is no onward if we are lone up there, at the top. There is no one to ask for a hand, to keep company or to admire the view with. We must all ascend. It’s a hard thing to shake for me, you know. As glorious as people can be, the can also be a drag and so the quick fix for that is isolation. But that is not where I want to be, isolated. I long for a healthy community. The operative word: healthy. Adrienne Maree Brown’s glorious book, Emergent Strategy points out an example of biomimicry that speaks to this: that when one ant finds food, they do not keep it to themselves, they let the colony know where they found it so the whole community can eat. I like to look to biomimicry when I am pushing to imagine alternative ways of being. I’ve spent a great deal of time immersed in nature just watching and listening and trusting. It teaches you profound ideas that I don’t know if I could find looking at humans. She talks a lot about fractals, a never-ending pattern. Fractals are infinitely complex patterns that are self-similar across different scales, created by repeating a simple process over and over. From the small to the large. Micro reflecting the macro. So these really huge socio-political theories are weak and unsustainable if they don’t show up in your personal relationships. Show up for your people. The ones you know. Not just (fist up) your people.
Where were you mentally, physically, emotionally, when the piece was created?
I wrote A Lovely Sunday in search of a sense of light and warmth. It’s set in the not-so-far future. Grandma Lovely could be myself or one of my girlfriends 50 years from the now. I wanted to explore what it would look to be an elderly millennial. One who came upon self-care and self-preservation culture, what future is promised for us. What it may look like when a brown girl enters the work world truly having access to all in this universe? What new feats arise, now that we have reached the stars? We are not our race struggles and it brings me solace to imagine outside of that. I write these stories because my agency lies in the stories I decide to birth and the narratives I foster in my imagination. I believe the imagination is not out of our control. It is, in fact, fueled by what we feed our minds and how we challenge ourselves to push our thinking. I think that it is a very active and conscientious occurrence, that the imagination has to be trained and stretched like anything else. Very often I sit with myself drawing up possibilities of the world I would like to see and I forget all restraints in order to find another more harmonious world I can then sketch-up. This exercise has always shown up in my process and I use my teaching artistry to invite young people to do the same.
"We are not our race struggles and it brings me solace to imagine outside of that."
Raven Cassell: Rooted in the art and investigation of storytelling, Raven Cassell is an actor, writer, educator and explorer. Her short stories and plays call on history and step into the future in order to imagine and practice more harmonious ways of being. As a teaching artist, she uses theater to practice storytelling as therapy and is now exploring the intersection between anthropology and performance as a means to teach cultural preservation. Music and visual arts are aids in her process and she doesn’t go a day without practicing Spanish. Raven has an unending appetite for books, movies and TV. She’s a city gal with a jungle soul and loves a lengthy conversation.

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