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Biden promises millions in aid to Iraq, despite human rights abuses
According to the State Department, the Iraqi government fails to identify, arrest, or prosecute people who attack LGBTs.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi and President Joe Biden // Reuters
Earlier this week President Joe Biden met with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi primarily to discuss U.S. military involvement in the country. However, other promises were made as well.
During the first face-to-face talks between the two nations since he took office, Biden promised the U.S. combat mission will formally end by the close of 2021. U.S. troops will remain in the country, however, in an "advisory" role.
"Our role in Iraq will be … to be available, to continue to train, to assist, to help and to deal with ISIS as it arises, but we're not going to be, by the end of the year, in a combat mission," Biden said, according to Reuters.
There are currently 2,500 U.S. troops in Iraq and neither U.S. officials nor Kadhimi knows exactly how many will remain after the scale back, according to Reuters. Kadhimi reportedly claimed the number of troops would depend on "technical reviews."
Biden also promised to send 500,000 doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination to Iraq as part of the COVAX vaccine sharing program. According to the program's website, "COVAX is one of three pillars of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, which was launched in April (2020) in response to this pandemic. Bringing together governments, global health organizations, manufacturers, scientists, private sector, civil society and philanthropy, with the aim of providing innovative and equitable access to COVID-19 diagnostics, treatments, and vaccines."
The website also explains how some of the participating countries are paying for these vaccines. "In exchange for this firm commitment these participants will be required to provide a lower upfront payment of US$1.60 per dose, or 15% of the total cost per dose," according to the website.
According to Fierce Pharma, Pfizer originally charged $19.50 per dose of the vaccine.
This means that through the COVAX program, Iraq could pay anywhere from $1.4 million while the U.S. pays $8.3 million for that shipment of vaccines. However, since February, Pfizer has been eyeing an opportunity to increase the price per dose to three to four times as much. Therefore, the price tag may end up being significantly higher.
During their meeting, Biden further pledged $5.2 million to help fund the United Nations' commitment to monitor the upcoming elections in October and ensure they are fair and transparent.
The Associated Press reported that during anti-government protests in Iraq in 2019, more than 500 people were killed as they demanded political and electoral change. Kadhimi and the Iraqi government agreed to push up the timeline of the elections, but many citizens have no confidence it will be free and fair.
Al Jazeera reports that "many Iraqis are worried holding yet another election without major reforms, especially to laws that guide the electoral process, will not result in a free, fair and transparent vote in which independent candidates or new political forces would actually stand a chance."
All totaled, the Biden administration has promised at least $13.5 million of taxpayer money to go to help Iraq, a country in which homosexuality is still very taboo and people of the LGBT community have been murdered. In October of 2018, a young 14-year-old boy was brutally and publicly killed on video simply for seeming to be gay.
VOA News reported that in April the U.S. State Department under Biden released its annual Human Rights Report. The report stated that LGBT people in Iraq continue to face threats and claimed that the country's government failed "to identify, arrest, or prosecute attackers or to protect targeted individuals."
VOA News further reported that a gay man of that region said, "Every day when I step outside my home, I fear that this might be the last day of my life."
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#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <limits.h>
#include <regex.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

#define SOL_LOG_DOMAIN &_log_domain
#include "sol-log-internal.h"
SOL_LOG_INTERNAL_DECLARE_STATIC(_log_domain, "flow-fs");

#include "sol-flow.h"
#include "sol-util.h"

#include "fs-gen.h"

struct fs_persist_data {
    FILE *file;
    void *value_ptr;
    struct sol_flow_packet *(*packet_new_fn)(const struct fs_persist_data *data);
    int (*packet_data_get_fn)(const struct sol_flow_packet *packet, void *value_ptr);
    int (*packet_send_fn)(struct sol_flow_node *node);
    size_t packet_data_size;
    bool last_set;
};

static int
fs_persist_open(struct sol_flow_node *node,
    void *data,
    const char *path)
{
    struct fs_persist_data *mdata = data;
    struct stat st;
    int r;

    mdata->file = fopen(path, "re+");
    if (!mdata->file) {
        SOL_WRN("Failed to open file %s", path);
        return -errno;
    }

    r = fstat(fileno(mdata->file), &st);
    SOL_INT_CHECK(r, < 0, r);

    /* a zero packet_data_size means dynamic size content */
    if (mdata->packet_data_size) {
        /* by returning early, mdata->last_set continues as false */
        if ((size_t)st.st_size < mdata->packet_data_size)
            return 0;

        r = fread(mdata->value_ptr, mdata->packet_data_size, 1, mdata->file);
        SOL_INT_CHECK(r, < 0, r);
    } else {
        /* by returning early, mdata->last_set continues as false */
        if (!st.st_size)
            return 0;
        mdata->value_ptr = calloc(1, st.st_size + 1);
        SOL_NULL_CHECK(mdata->value_ptr, -ENOMEM);
        do {
            r = fread(mdata->value_ptr, 256, 1, mdata->file);
        } while (r > 0);
        SOL_INT_CHECK(r, < 0, r);
        ((char *)mdata->value_ptr)[st.st_size] = '\0';
    }

    mdata->last_set = true;

    return mdata->packet_send_fn(node);
}

static void
fs_persist_close(struct sol_flow_node *node, void *data)
{
    struct fs_persist_data *mdata = data;

    fclose(mdata->file);
    if (!mdata->packet_data_size)
        free(mdata->value_ptr);
}

static int
fs_persist_process(struct sol_flow_node *node,
    void *data,
    uint16_t port,
    uint16_t conn_id,
    const struct sol_flow_packet *packet)
{
    struct fs_persist_data *mdata = data;
    unsigned char value[mdata->packet_data_size];
    void *value_ptr = NULL;
    size_t size = 0;
    int r;

    if (mdata->packet_data_size) {
        r = mdata->packet_data_get_fn(packet, value);
    } else {
        r = mdata->packet_data_get_fn(packet, &value_ptr);
    }
    SOL_INT_CHECK(r, < 0, r);

    r = fseek(mdata->file, SEEK_SET, 0);
    SOL_INT_CHECK(r, < 0, r);

    if (mdata->packet_data_size) {
        r = fwrite(value, mdata->packet_data_size, 1, mdata->file);
    } else {
        size = strlen(value_ptr) + 1;
        r = fwrite(value_ptr, size, 1, mdata->file);
    }
    SOL_INT_CHECK(r, < 0, r);

    fflush(mdata->file);

    if (mdata->packet_data_size) {
        memcpy(mdata->value_ptr, value, mdata->packet_data_size);
    } else {
        if (!mdata->value_ptr || strlen(mdata->value_ptr) + 1 < size) {
            void *tmp = realloc(mdata->value_ptr, size);
            SOL_NULL_CHECK(tmp, -ENOMEM);
            mdata->value_ptr = tmp;
        }
        memcpy(mdata->value_ptr, value_ptr, size);
    }

    mdata->last_set = true;

    return mdata->packet_send_fn(node);
}

struct fs_persist_boolean_data {
    struct fs_persist_data base;
    bool last_value;
};

static int
fs_persist_boolean_packet_data_get(const struct sol_flow_packet *packet,
    void *value_ptr)
{
    int r = sol_flow_packet_get_boolean(packet, value_ptr);

    SOL_INT_CHECK(r, < 0, r);

    return r;
}

static int
fs_persist_boolean_packet_send(struct sol_flow_node *node)
{
    struct fs_persist_data *mdata = sol_flow_node_get_private_data(node);

    return sol_flow_send_boolean_packet
               (node, SOL_FLOW_NODE_TYPE_FS_PERSIST_BOOLEAN__OUT__OUT,
               *(bool *)mdata->value_ptr);
}

static struct sol_flow_packet *
fs_persist_boolean_packet_new(const struct fs_persist_data *data)
{
    struct fs_persist_boolean_data *mdata =
        (struct fs_persist_boolean_data *)data;

    return sol_flow_packet_new_boolean(mdata->last_value);
}

static int
fs_persist_boolean_open(struct sol_flow_node *node,
    void *data,
    const struct sol_flow_node_options *options)
{
    struct fs_persist_boolean_data *mdata = data;
    const struct sol_flow_node_type_fs_persist_boolean_options *opts =
        (const struct sol_flow_node_type_fs_persist_boolean_options *)options;

    mdata->base.packet_data_size = sizeof(bool);
    mdata->base.value_ptr = &mdata->last_value;
    mdata->base.packet_new_fn = fs_persist_boolean_packet_new;
    mdata->base.packet_data_get_fn = fs_persist_boolean_packet_data_get;
    mdata->base.packet_send_fn = fs_persist_boolean_packet_send;

    return fs_persist_open(node, data, opts->path);
}

struct fs_persist_byte_data {
    struct fs_persist_data base;
    unsigned char last_value;
};

static int
fs_persist_byte_packet_data_get(const struct sol_flow_packet *packet,
    void *value_ptr)
{
    int r = sol_flow_packet_get_byte(packet, value_ptr);

    SOL_INT_CHECK(r, < 0, r);

    return r;
}

static int
fs_persist_byte_packet_send(struct sol_flow_node *node)
{
    struct fs_persist_data *mdata = sol_flow_node_get_private_data(node);

    return sol_flow_send_byte_packet
               (node, SOL_FLOW_NODE_TYPE_FS_PERSIST_BYTE__OUT__OUT,
               *(unsigned char *)mdata->value_ptr);
}

static struct sol_flow_packet *
fs_persist_byte_packet_new(const struct fs_persist_data *data)
{
    struct fs_persist_byte_data *mdata = (struct fs_persist_byte_data *)data;

    return sol_flow_packet_new_byte(mdata->last_value);
}

static int
fs_persist_byte_open(struct sol_flow_node *node,
    void *data,
    const struct sol_flow_node_options *options)
{
    struct fs_persist_byte_data *mdata = data;
    const struct sol_flow_node_type_fs_persist_byte_options *opts =
        (const struct sol_flow_node_type_fs_persist_byte_options *)options;

    mdata->base.packet_data_size = sizeof(unsigned char);
    mdata->base.value_ptr = &mdata->last_value;
    mdata->base.packet_new_fn = fs_persist_byte_packet_new;
    mdata->base.packet_data_get_fn = fs_persist_byte_packet_data_get;
    mdata->base.packet_send_fn = fs_persist_byte_packet_send;

    return fs_persist_open(node, data, opts->path);
}

struct fs_persist_irange_data {
    struct fs_persist_data base;
    struct sol_irange last_value;
};

static int
fs_persist_irange_packet_data_get(const struct sol_flow_packet *packet,
    void *value_ptr)
{
    int r = sol_flow_packet_get_irange(packet, value_ptr);

    SOL_INT_CHECK(r, < 0, r);

    return r;
}

static int
fs_persist_irange_packet_send(struct sol_flow_node *node)
{
    struct fs_persist_data *mdata = sol_flow_node_get_private_data(node);

    return sol_flow_send_irange_packet
               (node, SOL_FLOW_NODE_TYPE_FS_PERSIST_INT__OUT__OUT,
               (struct sol_irange *)mdata->value_ptr);
}

static struct sol_flow_packet *
fs_persist_irange_packet_new(const struct fs_persist_data *data)
{
    struct fs_persist_irange_data *mdata =
        (struct fs_persist_irange_data *)data;

    return sol_flow_packet_new_irange(&mdata->last_value);
}

static int
fs_persist_irange_open(struct sol_flow_node *node,
    void *data,
    const struct sol_flow_node_options *options)
{
    struct fs_persist_irange_data *mdata = data;
    const struct sol_flow_node_type_fs_persist_int_options *opts =
        (const struct sol_flow_node_type_fs_persist_int_options *)options;

    mdata->base.packet_data_size = sizeof(struct sol_irange);
    mdata->base.value_ptr = &mdata->last_value;
    mdata->base.packet_new_fn = fs_persist_irange_packet_new;
    mdata->base.packet_data_get_fn = fs_persist_irange_packet_data_get;
    mdata->base.packet_send_fn = fs_persist_irange_packet_send;

    return fs_persist_open(node, data, opts->path);
}

struct fs_persist_drange_data {
    struct fs_persist_data base;
    struct sol_drange last_value;
};

static int
fs_persist_drange_packet_data_get(const struct sol_flow_packet *packet,
    void *value_ptr)
{
    int r = sol_flow_packet_get_drange(packet, value_ptr);

    SOL_INT_CHECK(r, < 0, r);

    return r;
}

static int
fs_persist_drange_packet_send(struct sol_flow_node *node)
{
    struct fs_persist_data *mdata = sol_flow_node_get_private_data(node);

    return sol_flow_send_drange_packet
               (node, SOL_FLOW_NODE_TYPE_FS_PERSIST_FLOAT__OUT__OUT,
               (struct sol_drange *)mdata->value_ptr);
}

static struct sol_flow_packet *
fs_persist_drange_packet_new(const struct fs_persist_data *data)
{
    struct fs_persist_drange_data *mdata =
        (struct fs_persist_drange_data *)data;

    return sol_flow_packet_new_drange(&mdata->last_value);
}

static int
fs_persist_drange_open(struct sol_flow_node *node,
    void *data,
    const struct sol_flow_node_options *options)
{
    struct fs_persist_drange_data *mdata = data;
    const struct sol_flow_node_type_fs_persist_int_options *opts =
        (const struct sol_flow_node_type_fs_persist_int_options *)options;

    mdata->base.packet_data_size = sizeof(struct sol_drange);
    mdata->base.value_ptr = &mdata->last_value;
    mdata->base.packet_new_fn = fs_persist_drange_packet_new;
    mdata->base.packet_data_get_fn = fs_persist_drange_packet_data_get;
    mdata->base.packet_send_fn = fs_persist_drange_packet_send;

    return fs_persist_open(node, data, opts->path);
}

struct fs_persist_string_data {
    struct fs_persist_data base;
    const char *last_value;
};

static int
fs_persist_string_packet_data_get(const struct sol_flow_packet *packet,
    void *value_ptr)
{
    int r = sol_flow_packet_get_string(packet, value_ptr);

    SOL_INT_CHECK(r, < 0, r);

    return r;
}

static int
fs_persist_string_packet_send(struct sol_flow_node *node)
{
    struct fs_persist_data *mdata = sol_flow_node_get_private_data(node);

    return sol_flow_send_string_packet
               (node, SOL_FLOW_NODE_TYPE_FS_PERSIST_STRING__OUT__OUT,
               (const char *)mdata->value_ptr);
}

static struct sol_flow_packet *
fs_persist_string_packet_new(const struct fs_persist_data *data)
{
    return sol_flow_packet_new_string(data->value_ptr);
}

static int
fs_persist_string_open(struct sol_flow_node *node,
    void *data,
    const struct sol_flow_node_options *options)
{
    struct fs_persist_string_data *mdata = data;
    const struct sol_flow_node_type_fs_persist_int_options *opts =
        (const struct sol_flow_node_type_fs_persist_int_options *)options;

    mdata->base.packet_new_fn = fs_persist_string_packet_new;
    mdata->base.packet_data_get_fn = fs_persist_string_packet_data_get;
    mdata->base.packet_send_fn = fs_persist_string_packet_send;

    return fs_persist_open(node, data, opts->path);
}

#include "fs-gen.c"

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An a day when Bell Canada is calling on people to open up about mental health, critics are calling on the company to fix its phones inside Ontario's jails, a system they say is contributing to feelings of isolation and despair among inmates.
Critics are calling on Bell Canada to fix its phones inside Ontario's jails, a system they say is contributing to feelings of isolation and despair among inmates.
Protesters stood outside Place Bell in downtown Ottawa on Wednesday, coinciding with Bell Let's Talk Day, the company's annual campaign to raise awareness of mental health struggles.
About 50 people braved the cold to demand the telecommunications giant lower the cost of outgoing phone calls for inmates in the province's jails, and allow inmates to dial out to cell phones. Right now, inmates can only make collect calls to landlines, preventing many from connecting with loved ones.
That issue came under the spotlight last year during an inquest into the death of Cleve Geddes, a mentally ill inmate whose family said was unable to reach them because they only had cell phones. Geddes died after trying to hang himself while in a segregated cell.
The inquest jury also called for an end to the landline-only phone restriction.
Here's what some of the protesters had to say.
Souheil Benslimane spent time behind bars from 2013 to 2018 for gun-related crimes. Benslimane said contacting his family during that time was costly, and worrying about that affected his mental health.
I think [Bell] might care about mental health of some people, but they don't care about the mental health of people that are incarcerated, people that are isolated, people who are often, you know, put away, far from sight.
I think that they have to address it, and if they do then I'll say that they care about mental health for everyone. For now, they're selective about their care.
Farhat Rehman is the mother of an inmate and a member of Mothers Offering Mutual Support (MOMS), a group that helps mothers whose loved ones are behind bars. Her son was deemed unfit to stand trial owing to mental illness for four years before he was found guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a friend and mentor.
It does take a toll, because if I don't keep in touch with him then he has a tendency to fear the worst has come to me because he does suffer from this sort of hallucinatory idea that I'm not well.... So that reassurance and that communication with him is so essential.
There are some voices that have been left out of the conversation, and there is a huge segment of society that is very vulnerable and very dependent on the service that [Bell] provides.
Sarah Speight is a volunteer with the Jail Accountability and Information Line, a hotline for inmates at the Ottawa-Carleton Dentention Centre (OCDC). She said she gets calls every day from prisoners who've been unable to pass on essential information to their families.
To tell them that they're in jail, that they have a court date, that they need bail. They can't contact their families to let them know that they're not not missing. And so we see every day the challenges experienced by prisoners.
It's an immediate thing that we know is causing serious harm to prisoners' mental health, to their well-being, and it's harming their families as well. Could you imagine sitting outside, wondering [where your] kid is because you don't know they're in jail?
In a statement, Bell Canada said that "rates for operator-assisted collect calls from Ontario correctional facilities are the same as Bell's public rates."


The most prominent features of the Armenian spring are the calm weather, fascinating landscapes and the warm, friendly atmosphere. It's the time of the year when the skies are their clearest, and the sunshine its brightest. Everything, starting from flowers to trees to people's minds and souls, is in full blossom during the spring.
The very calm atmosphere of the season is supported by the different shades of green and pink that the nature blossoms into. The colorful carpets of the flowers appear on each step of the rural areas and even in the center of the cities. The reason for this are the various wildflowers that grow in the Armenian foothills. As the trees prepare to for the harvest, their branches are decorated by different shades of pink and purple flowers. The flowers are later followed by juicy and rich in flavor fruits and berries. One of the most important fruits and a reason for many to visit the country is the Armenian apricot. The golden symbol of Armenia's culture and art.
The weather is also rather gentle, the temperature transitioning from 0 C up to 27 C throughout the entirety of the 3 months. It rains often, yet it's never cloudy or muddy outside. Rather the light rains are completed with the warm rays of sunshine and followed by mesmerizing rainbows.
The spring is believed to be the favorite season for the Armenian women. From March 8 to April 7 the whole country gathers to celebrate the intelligence, beauty and power of the women. The period between these two holidays is known as the women's month. Throughout this period each day is a celebration for women all around the country. It's not uncommon for men to confess their feelings or to simply show their admiration to women around them by gifting them flowers and various other gifts. So don't be surprised if you find yourself showered with flowers during this time of the season.
The answer is everything. The gentle warm weather allows for a huge range of activities and experiences, almost anything that comes to your mind is possible during this season. The activities for this season are best divided into 2 categories: for the lovers of adrenaline and for the lovers of inactive leisure.
For those who wish to simply relax, the country presents a big number of resorts and culturaland historical sites. Even a simple walk around the capital, Yerevan, has the potential to become a fulfilling experience. The streets are filled with the various aromas of flowers and freshly trimmed grass. People start leaving their houses more often due to the warmth and beauty that the spring brings forward. A huge number of cafes and restaurants attract people from all over the world, offering a taste of the Armenian cuisine and beverages to the visitors.
Spring is the right time to travel outside of Yerevan and get acquainted with Armenian historical treasures. It's time to engage in extreme sports and tourism. The country is full of things to try, including, but not limited to, off road driving, paragliding, ziplining, bungee jumping, jet skiing, hot air balloon riding and so on. The perfect dose of the adrenaline rush along with the beautiful landscapes presents a whole new way to experience the country.
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Lee is a middle class white male with no black female friends, rare interactions with black families growing up, and who states his interactions with black women only consist of work-related experiences. Yet, he expresses strong negative views of black women as unattractive and uneducated as the first thoughts that come to his mind.
This quote by Lee and several other white m ale respondents in this essay dispute notions that only a few highly identifiable, old, deep-south bigots hold strong deep seated racialized views of black women. These expressions by white male respondents are indicative of the consistent exclusion of black women as relationship partners by white men, and representative of a powerful mental processing at play that goes beyond the limited language of stereotype.
Census data and interracial dating studies show a longstanding persistent trend of black women as an excluded heterosexual relationship partner for white men and other men of color Quian and Litcher ; Phua and Koffman ; Yancey These trends exist in a society that today prides itself on colorblindness. Current research studies on interracial marriage decisions and the current hegemonic race discourse often le one to believe that racism Attractive professional white male seeks latina only within the hearts of a few bigots and that race encompasses a greatly diminished role in interracial relationship decisions Rosenfeld ; Yancey and Yancey Quantitative polls that measure racial attitudes of whites today show a marked decrease in racial hostilities, however, these polls do not for the complexities of frontstage and backstage racism, whereby whites manipulate racial performances for the settings that they are in Picca and Feagin Research by Pica and Feagin shows that when in frontstage settings around people of color or in social settings where racism is politically incorrect, whites are more likely to engage in racial performances of colorblindness, however, when in backstage settings around other whites, these same whites are likely to express or engage racially discriminatory thoughts and behaviors.
Hence, this essay critically examines the integral role of race, gender, and class in the consistent exclusion of black women as relationship partners for white men. Historically, dominant and influential white men have constructed black female bodies in raced, gendered, and classed terms. Attractive professional white male seeks latina construction of black female bodies has been that of sexual licentiousness, natural immorality, disease, animalism, prostitution, and masculinity; the opposite of hegemonic, white, femininity Collins ; Hammonds ; Jones and Shorter-Gooden ; St.
Jean and Feagin Black women, in the past and today, are considered everything that a white woman is not in terms of beauty, sexual morality, femininity, and womanhood. This global overarching construction of black female bodies has persisted throughout society through pervasive raced, sexed, and classed dominant narratives and visual discourses, including controlling images or myths, such as the jezebel, sapphire, matriarch, mammy, and modern mammy. The construction of black female bodies and the classed and gendered construction of whites as well as other racial groups have come to represent hegemonic edifices.
A deep frame represents our deep world view and mental infrastructure of our mind Lakoffwhich consists of cognition, knowledge, emotions Feaginand discourse used to make sense of our everyday world. The social construction of black female bodies as the abject opposite of white women is an integral component of the deep frame of whites as well as people of coloralong with other racialized, gendered, and classed elements. One hundred and thirty-four white males, ranging from the age of 18 to over 50 and representing 38 states, completed this in-depth online questionnaire.
Due to the framework of this study, including the sensitive subject area, the research technique best called for the use of online open-ended questionnaires as opposed to the traditional qualitative technique of face-to-face interviews or the use of phone interviews. By using a self-administered online questionnaire, I am able to eliminate the bias that I cause as a black female researcher asking white men questions on their views of black women in a face-to-face format.
Research shows that discussing sensitive subjects, such as race, drug abuse, or sexual behavior could lead to socially desirable responses, however, removing the interviewer and using self-administered questionnaires lessons the likelihood of this social desirability bias Kellner ; Sudman and Bradburn White male respondents may also be unwilling to share their honest racial thoughts with a white male interviewer that they perceive as having dissimilar views.
In short, most people in society, particularly whites, do not want to be perceived as racists. The internet; however, acts as a backstage setting, allowing white men privacy to reveal their deep frame of black women, including emotions, thoughts, and perceptions, without fear of reprimand. Moreover, embedded within the deep frame is the normalization of whiteness, or the white norm.
According to Foucault normalization is an instrument of power and plays a role in classification and hierarchization. Thus, the normative standard of whiteness continually inscribes white as the ideal entity, as innate superiority, and maintains white privileges and domination, yet in a more tacit fashion than in the Jim Crow era.
The ways in which many whites see, understand, and analyze society and the people in it isrooted in an understanding and interpretation of society as defined by whites. The white male respondents employed what I refer to as a discourse of racial comparisons. Some respondents reprimanded black women to strive for this norm, while certain others viewed black women as genetically incapable of meeting the white standard. In analyzing and interpreting the responses and in understanding the dyadic and hierarchical nature of how western thought has been constructed, it is readily clear that what goes unspoken as normal is whiteness.
However, at times Latina and Asian American women were used to represent this norm as well, as these groups are seen as being closer to the white standard than blacks. However, this classification is tenuous and always subject to change. Ultimately, whites place blacks the furthest away from the white ideal. It is important to note, that while southern respondents were attracted to black women at a similar rate as other regions, respondents from certain southern states, such as Texas and Tennessee, were generally more likely to engage in racially inflammatory language and less likely to use colorblind discourse.
This finding is representative of the historical differences in racial discourse and interactions across regions. However, some of the respondents that described themselves as attracted to black women stated that they were not attracted to black women with kinky hair, wide noses, and large body shapes, and some had preferences for black women with light skin and straight hair.
Alicia Keys comes to mind. Sexual attraction for me is a combination of physical and personal attributes. If that aspect is attractive, then their speech and intelligence level would have to be more representative of that found more prevalent in other races such as [C]aucasian or [A]sian - i.
Thus, he causally made the connection between whiteness and beauty.
Furthermore, he makes a causal connection between whiteness and intelligence. Despite admitting to having no close black female friends and few personal interactions with black women, outside of work and church acquaintances, he places whites and Asian Americans as naturally more intelligent than blacks, with his assumption that intelligence is not as prevalent in blacks. Indeed, there has been a long history of presenting black women with a multiracial background of white ancestry, formerly referred to as the derogatory term mulatto, as the ideal black women.
During slavery, mulattos and quadroons, the products of nonconsensual sexual relations between enslaved black women and white slave owners as well as overseerswere heavily sought after and paid handsomely for by white slave masters. For example, in the early s, the ideal black woman was of Egyptian type. According to the New York Age, this woman was defined as having:.
A well balanced and symmetrical head, full slender neck, the features clear cut, with the appearance of being chiseled rather than cast;…a fine Negro nose with a trace of the Egyptian and a slight aquiline curve; the mouth fairly small but well proportioned and a slightly pointed, round, firm chin…the marvelously fine curving eyelash of which the Negro race can be Attractive professional white male seeks latina proud Pp.
He described what he believes an attractive black woman to be:. There are some black women who are attractive. And they aren't full black. The only black women I find attractive are a mix of black and [E]uropean, black and [L]atino, or black and [A]sian. They end up with the tan complexion, and hair that doesn't look frizzled or like a brillo pad. Davis cited the racial hierarchy in his comments, ranking attraction as first Europeans, then Latinos, and then Asian Americans. Davis classified only mixed-race black women as attractive.
Another respondent, Brock, a lower middle class Nebraskan in his 30s, also categorized mixing with other racial groups, besides whites, as ideal. This reflects the placement of black women at the bottom of the race and gender hierarchy in the deep frame of many whites as well as some people of color. Dating back to early European travelers in various African nations, whites have defined what they perceived as black features in negative terms. This construction of beauty is firmly grounded in the racialized and gendered deep frame that whites and many people of color see, understand, and make interpretations from.
Consider Bob, a middle class respondent from Missouri over the age of He stated:. I think black women's features are too extreme; they are too dark, and they usually are much too large for my tastes. The black women I have know[n] are very aggressive and have terrible attitudes…The only black women I have found even marginally attractive are smaller, lighter-skinned black women with nice rear ends. I just think they are more attractive than women of other races.
Occasionally a black woman whose black features are less prominent will be attractive, but rarely. Most of the black women I find attractive…are of mixed ethnicity and appear more Attractive professional white male seeks latina than black. Levi, a white male in his 20s from Tennessee explained what he finds unattractive about black women:. Not attracted to the stereotypical hair or sometimes greasy looking hair and skin that i have seen enough on black women to associate with them.
Levi, who has had rare personal interactions with black women, expressed that he is also not attracted to features associated with blackness, including skin color and hair. He noted that he tends to specifically notice this on black women and not other racial groups, which is not necessarily surprising as there tends to be a preoccupation among whites with blacks, more so than with other racial and ethnic groups.
The important thing to realize here is that often what white men view as attractive and unattractive is rooted in how society has been socially constructed in racialized, gendered, and classed terms, a construction that privileges whites and makes it seem generally natural that blackness, such as black facial features, dark skin, or hair texture, is unattractive. Important findings of the study are that the predominantly white participants perceived black faces as more masculine than white faces, that participants had greater accuracy in guessing the gender of black men as opposed to black women, and white women as opposed to black women, and that participants perceived black men as slightly more attractive than white men and white women as more attractive than black women.
According to Lakoffthe frame is often used unconsciously, without people knowing it. Black female bodies were also constructed as the opposite of femininity so that black women would not be a legitimate source of competition for white women, because as masculine, a black woman is not a worthy and legitimate partner for a white man or even a black man, for that matter.
She can be desired behind closed doors by white men or experience rare circumstances of outward affection by white men, but in an open and legitimate sense, she is not an acknowledged body of competition to white women because she has been constructed as a body that does not compare. As with facial features white men engaged a discourse of racial comparison, whereby a white standard was directly or indirectly expressed in their thoughts on physical and sexual attraction to black women.
Drake, who is in his 20s and resides in Nevada, discussed his attraction for black women with a larger Attractive professional white male seeks latina. I am sexually attracted to most all women, but black women have a certain 'exotic' look to them, and I like that. Specifically, I really love black women with bubble butts and nice legs, and who are fit. They have beautiful skin and eyes. I also love that they have a generally fuller figure and more voluptuous.
I like a nice bubble butt. In high school I read and looked at King magazine, which is like Maxim but for a black audience, and all the models have really big butts. Clothing companies financially capitalize on this new desire for the protruding black butt. Not all white men have accepted the beauty of the black butt; for some it is too visible a or a reminder of blackness.
In order to be acceptable, the butt must be white-defined proportional; if not, it can be considered pathological, as it was during the days of Saartjie Baartman. I know lots of guys do. White in ethnicity, tan in complexion. Between 5'3 and 5'7 to lbs. Breast and ass should be well proportioned to the rest of the body. Long hair is good. And blue or green or grey eyes. Alicia Keys is very petite with gorgeous eyes. That is about as far as it goes with me being sexually attracted to black women.
Most black wom[e]n have fat butts and are ugly. In rarer circumstances, when a discourse of comparison was used by white males, black women were the standard, not white women, nor the achievement of a particular aesthetic akin to white women, such as fair skin, straight hair and aquiline features. Those respondents who engaged this oppositional discourse throughout the entirety of their questionnaire were more likely to have long-term dating relationships with black women, many personal interactions with them, and to choose black women or Latina women as the women they are most attracted to.
For example, Reginald, a North Carolinian in his 20s, stated the following:. Some things about trying to fit in to the "mold". I find that a black woman that accepts her beauty as a black woman, embracing her skin, hair, and form, is much more attractive than a black woman that tries to be a mass produced [B]eyonce. Women in the mainstream that are more appealing to me are singers [E]rykah badu and [I]ndia [A]rie, not the [B]eyonce prototypes.
Black woman that learn to work with the incredible tools they have are much more attractive. Reginald, who described himself as most attracted to Latina women and who had been dating a black woman for the last three years, said that he finds black women and the various attributes of black women more attractive than white women.
Both Beyonce and Alicia Keys possess a white normative aesthetic; Beyonce has a light brown complexion and wears her hair long, straightened and blonde, while Alicia Keys, who is multi-racial with a white mother and black father, boasts the aesthetics of fair skin, long, naturally wavy hair, and aquiline features. When asked if he could find his ideal woman in black women, he stated:. African traits are some of the "best" in my book.
I like black women, mixed heritage or not, who prefer locks, braids, or short hair to artificially straight hair. Also, full lips and dark skin are blessings to be proud of. I have to be honest here and say that women of African ancestry are often not lacking in the hips and "booty" either as many from other background sometimes are a bit….
Do not: Like unnaturally straitened hair…. Do: Like very dark skin.
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For years, health officials have been encouraging people to quit smoking and young people to not start. E-cigarettes have complicated their messages.
Share on PinterestThe Great American Smokeout starts November 15. Getty Images
For more than 40 years, the American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout has been encouraging people to quit smoking and reduce their risk of lung and other cancers, heart attack, stroke, and other conditions.
This, coupled with messages aimed at discouraging young people from starting to smoke in the first place, has had a big effect on smoking rates.
Between 1978 and 2014, cigarette smoking rates among American adults dropped from 34.1 percent to 16.8 percent. Rates among teens also fell sharply since the late 1990s.
However, the recent rise in the popularity of e-cigarettes — a product sometimes billed as a "safer" alternative to conventional cigarettes — has complicated how public health experts tackle smoking.
One oncologist has even called for e-cigarettes to be included in the Great American Smokeout, which takes place on November 15, to prevent current users of nicotine-filled vapes from becoming the "cigarette patients of tomorrow."
Vaping appears less harmful but not risk-free
In an op-ed on The Hill, Dr. Peter Shields, deputy director of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center, writes that "little is known" about the safety of vaping.
He also points out that millions of youth have tried vaping, putting them at risk of nicotine addiction and conventional cigarette use.
Not everyone agrees. Daniel Giovenco, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, cautions against lumping together vaping and cigarette smoking.
"Including vaping in the Great American Smokeout may perpetuate the common misconception that e-cigarettes are as harmful as cigarettes," he said.
The vapor from e-cigarettes contains far fewer chemicals than tobacco smoke, which has thousands of chemicals, including at least 70 known to cause cancer.
E-cigarettes may be less harmful than conventional cigarettes, but they are not risk-free.
Aerosol from e-cigarettes can contain nicotine, lead, cancer-causing chemicals, as well as very fine particles that may affect lung or heart function when inhaled.
Some studies have also found a link between vaping and an increased risk of heart attacks and lung disease.
More research is needed, and is ongoing.
This includes a study at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center that is using bronchoscopy to examine the impact of vaping on the lungs of e-cigarette users, smokeless tobacco users, and nonsmokers.
Vaping is not "all good" or "all bad"
Whether e-cigarettes are "good" or "bad" depends on the situation.
Giovenco said that for adult smokers, "completely switching to a vaping product reduces exposure to many of the deadly toxins present in combusted tobacco."
This kind of harm reduction approach helps people switch from a harmful activity to a less-harmful one.
But if people continue to smoke conventional cigarettes — even alongside vaping — the health risks remain.
"With adult smokers, if e-cigarettes help them quit smoking, then that's a win," said Shields. "But if e-cigarettes distract smokers and they stay smoking, that's not a win."
Some research also suggests that e-cigarettes may be a gateway to cigarette smoking for youth. So there's a concern that young people who vape will become addicted to nicotine.
"Youth should not be using any form of nicotine," said Giovenco, "so messages of abstinence may be appropriate for that population."
Giovenco said that the continued decline in smoking rates, even after the introduction of e-cigarettes to the marketplace, suggests that these devices aren't impacting the fight against conventional cigarette smoking.
But the high use of e-cigarettes among youth is still concerning, he added.
"The challenge now is finding a balance between reducing e-cigarette appeal to youth, while encouraging adoption among smokers who are unable to quit cigarettes using other methods," said Giovenco.
This may mean separate public health messages targeted at adult smokers and teen nonsmokers.
Doctors also need to be open to using e-cigarettes to help patients give up cigarettes.
"If a patient tells me that e-cigs are the only way they quit smoking, I'm not going to tell them to stop using them," said Shields. "But if the e-cigs aren't working, I ask the patient to call me so they can get on something that we know works."
Proven smoking cessation tools include nicotine-replacement therapy and prescription medications.
In spite of the drastic decline in smoking rates, cigarette smoking remains the leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for more than 480,000 deaths every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The ongoing toll of tobacco on the country's health may mean that health officials need to move beyond an "all good" or "all bad" view of e-cigarettes.
"Eliminating smoking should be our number one public health priority," said Giovenco, "and that may require being more receptive to tobacco harm reduction when complete cessation is not possible."
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Kostadince en serbe latin et Kostadincë en albanais (en serbe cyrillique : ) est une localité du Kosovo située dans la commune/municipalité de Kamenicë/Kosovska Kamenica, district de Gjilan/Gnjilane (Kosovo) ou district de Kosovo-Pomoravlje (Serbie). Selon le recensement kosovar de 2011, elle compte 48 habitants.

Géographie

Histoire

Démographie

Évolution historique de la population dans la localité

Répartition de la population par nationalités (2011)

En 2011, les Serbes représentaient 60,42 % de la population et les Albanais 39,58 %.

Économie

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Article connexe
 Localités du Kosovo

Liens externes
  Kostadince/Kostadincë sur fallingrain.com

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Localité du Kosovo à majorité serbe

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Damn Good é uma canção do gênero power ballad composta por David Lee Roth e Steve Vai e gravada pelo supergrupo The David Lee Roth Band como primeiro single do álbum Skyscraper, de 1987. Foi considerada pelo site Ultimate Classic Rock, como a 8a melhor música da carreira solo de David Lee Roth.

A canção atingiu a 2a posição da Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks.

Desempenho nas Paradas Musicais

Créditos Musicais
 David Lee Roth – Vocal
 Steve Vai – Guitarra
 Billy Sheehan – Baixo
 Gregg Bissonette – Bateria

Links Externos
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Singles de 1988
Canções escritas por Steve Vai
Canções de David Lee Roth


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In December it's all about the sprouts. The plot is looking very sparse at this time of year, but this crop thrives in cold weather. We've never grown sprouts before and I'm so chuffed with the amount each stalk has produced.
We wanted to eat homegrown sprouts on Christmas Day this year. Having an allotment means planning ahead, so we were thinking about the festive dinner way back in April when we planted the tiny plug plants.
It was so lovely to walk to the plot on Christmas Eve as a family to pull up our sprouts. They are tough plants and take some effort to get out of the ground. It's amazing to see the small seedlings transform into these tall, tree-like plants.
On Christmas Day my Mother-in-Law and Mum set to work preparing our homegrown brussel sprouts. Mr. M was in charge of cooking and he decided to lightly fry the sprouts with onion and bacon. I prefer this way of cooking them to the traditional 'boil 'em to death' method. They were delicious and couldn't have been fresher.
This is my final allotment post for 2016. I have written a blog post for each month of the year and gathered them all together over on the "Our Allotment" page. Looking back through the posts brings back so many fantastic memories. I love watching the seasons change and to see all we've achieved over the past twelve months. We don't have masses of time to dedicate to the plot due to work and home commitments. But even so, we've managed to harvest lots of tasty homegrown veg.
Back in January 2016, I wrote a post about "Five ways an allotment makes family life better". I still strongly believe owning an allotment gives you a better understanding of food production, contributes to health and well being, promotes a nurturing and patient attitude, you get to eat fresh produce with low food miles and you feel part of a community.
I love that you make your own veg and then eat it on Christmas Day!
I have so enjoyed watching your allotment grow and flourish with each month. December had to be about sprouts. They may have only been 19p in the supermarket wars this Christmas but they were not a patch on your home grown ones.
Thank you for supporting #CountryKids in 2016, Happy New year and I look forward to January on the allotment.
Wow - sprout-tastic! They look fab, and I bet they tasted brilliant. Happy 2017!


Attorney Kate Jordan is sent to broker the sale of Hollygrove Inn, but she is told that her appraiser has left because of a ghost. Sure enough, it's not long before she meets Daniel Forsythe…a man who mysteriously died 95 years ago. The two strike a deal—if she can help him discover the truth behind his death and why he is cursed to return to the inn for Christmas each year, he will leave and allow Kate to finish her job. As they work together, Kate can't help but fall for this dashing Christmas spirit, and a romance develops that will alter the course of both their lives.


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Royal West Academy is one of the most prestigious public high schools in Montreal, with a long and noteworthy history behind it. It's only fitting that, on the 70th anniversary of the school, we take a look back at some of this history.
Saint Philips Church
The first structure to be built on the land where Royal West Academy now sits was actually a church, the first Saint Philips Anglican Church built in 1891. This church acted as a school for many of the children who lived close by. The building quickly became too crowded, which lead to the creation of Aberdeen School.
Aberdeen School
Completed in 1894 and financed through a French Canadian Loan Company, the school had the capacity of 200 students. The second floor was actually used for a number of social functions until 1910, when the Town Hall was built. Classrooms were later installed on this floor. In 1913, the final wing of the school was attached and a gymnasium was built.
New Montreal West High School
In 1921 the school assumed the name of Montreal West High School. The school's population increased dramatically during the 1930's, to a point where the old school was no longer adequate. And so, in 1931, Montreal West High School was demolished, and its students temporarily relocated. A new and improved high school was built in its place, known as the new Montreal West High School.
The new Montreal West High School was top-of-the-line for its time. Unusual but beautiful architecture, durable building materials, wonderful interior decor, well equipped classrooms and laboratories, and a large and elegant gymnasium were only a few of the new school's many features. In 1951 and 1959, a number of extensions were added to the Montreal West High School. These extensions, now referred to as the "west wing" of the school, were to become the Montreal West Elementary School.
Unfortunately, the elementary school was closed in 1980 due to declining enrolment, and was amalgamated to become Royal Vale School. Later, in 1982, Royal Vale was also closed, again, due to declining enrolment. It reopened in 1983 under the current name of Royal West Academy. The name of Royal West Academy was actually a merger of Royal Vale School ("Royal") and Montreal West School ("West").
The emergence of Royal West Academy in 1983 is the final metamorphosis in the school's 70 year career. For the past 20 years, the school has acted as an alternative school for high motivated academic students. The school presently has just over 850 students in grades 7 – 11, many of whom come from as far away as Chateauguay and Brossard.
Royal West continues to occupy the original center block of the school as well as the "west wing" used in years past by the elementary schools. Plans are rapidly afoot for a large modification to the present school structure. This would include major additions and changes to the two school gyms, the auditorium, and the present library. For more information about the proposed changes to the school building, please check the R.W.A. Foundation page.
The images that are displayed below are taken from some of the earliest Montreal West school yearbooks.
Editorial Board from 1933
Montreal West High School Basketball Team from 1933
Montreal West High School fencing club from 1934
Special thanks to Mr. David Watson and his book "Montreal West: Looking Back – Montreal Junction" for supplying a large amount of information incorporated into this page.


The School Bus Tracking & Attendance Monitoring System contributes extensively to the transportation department. This mobile application compares real time vehicle information to planned driving/route activities such as driving paths, stop sequencing, arrival and departure times at user specified locations contained in the current routing and scheduling databases. This user friendly application tracks vehicles even when the vehicle is out of communication range and sends notification to school and parents until the vehicle is back within communication range. It requires no internal installation in bus and enables parents to watch the current location of the school bus wherever they are.


Stanford, Calif. - Junior pitcher Missy Penna has been selected as a member of the ESPN Academic All-District First Team, as announced by the College Sports Information Directors of America today. As a member of the First Team, she will appear on the ballot for 2008 Academic All-America honors.
Penna, a two-time All-Pac-10 pick who currently leads the conference in wins, is one of the top pitchers in the nation for the eighth-ranked Cardinal. Amidst the best season of her career, Penna owns a 1.05 ERA with a school-record 370 strikeouts. She has also posted a school-record 34 wins this season, and is on pace to break every pitching record in the Stanford books. In April, she became just the second pitcher in school history to hit 800 K's.
Penna's academic accomplishments are no less impressive. The Miami, Fla. native is a civil engineering major at Stanford with a 3.40 GPA. A 2007 Pac-10 All-Academic Honorable Mention selection, Penna was one of five Pac-10 players to earn a spot on this year's University Division District 8 First Team.
Penna is the eighth ESPN Academic All-District selection all-time for the Stanford program, and the first since Catalina Morris was honored in 2006. The Cardinal junior is now in contention to become the school's second Academic All-American. Sarah Beeson has been the program's only Academic All-American to date, winning the award in 2002.
To be nominated, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) for his/her career and have reached sophomore athletic and academic standing.


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Feast brings Saintes Maries and Sainte Sara to the sea in France
The feast for the Saintes Maries, two women who, according to medieval tradition, traveled across the sea to France following Jesus' death, features veneration of a reliquary believed to hold their bones, and procession of their images to the sea. A procession is also held for Sainte Sara, and unofficial saint of Gypsy Catholics who pilgrimage to the ancient seaside town for the feast.
Gypsy and Camarguaise Catholics in France honor women saints linking region to Jesus
Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, an ancient town in the marshes of the Carmargue, celebrates processions to the sea for Sainte Marie Jacobé and Sainte Marie Salomé, who according to medieval tradition, following Jesus' death, traveled across the sea by boat and lived out their lives in Carmargue, helping to bring Christianity to France. The May feast draws large number of Gypsy Catholics, who also come to venerate Sainte Sara, an unofficial saint who they believe is integral to the story of the Saintes Maries.
The feast of the Saintes and its meaning for Gypsies and other Gens du Voyage
Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population:
64,641,000 1
Urban:
79.29% 1
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Homicides:
1.58 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption:
23 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics:
17 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 7
Fertility Rate:
2.00 births per adult woman 5
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5:
Life Expectancy at Birth:
82 years 5
Internet Users:
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US$42,960 5
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These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church, 2015. Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2017. The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.
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1.United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World Urbanization Prospects, 2014.
2.United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
3.United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
4.Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
5.UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.
6.Statistical Yearbook of the Church, 2015. Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2017.
7.World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.


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Leaving West 83rd Street
Passover Then and Now
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Today, I know that walking is good exercise. When I am able, I do. In my days on the West Side there were many opportunities but I would not have called them exercise.
Most of my West Side life was confined to the area bounded by Riverside Drive, 76th Street, Central Park West and 86th Street. My independent walking began with going to school, PS9, on West End Avenue and 82nd Street. I only had to cross one street, Broadway, which as I've said before was often guarded at 82nd by Sam the cop with the size 13 shoe.
First, of course, there was navigating the halls and elevators of 222. Not a lot of walking involved here; to the elevator, sometimes across the lobby and from the elevator.
In those days, all lobby and elevator personnel were men; doormen and elevator operators. At 222 there were among them Big Eddie and Little Eddie. The two Eddies did everything in the building that was not the work of the handyman. They were doormen, elevator operators and garbage collectors. Every member of the building staff was male. Today, in my queens building there is often a woman covering the door duties. The first one was a notable addition, since then I barely notice.
On my side of the building there were apartment E, F, G & H. One had no backdoor. It was next to the service elevator which was used to move furniture and garbage and operated by the aforementioned men and the superintendent. On the other side of the building were A, B, C & D and a different arrangement of back doors and service elevator. Apartment living meant you did not have to walk far to put out the garbage. On Long Island it was different, depending upon where you lived.
When we weren't indoors or playing in the street immediately adjacent to 222 we would walk. By the time we got to junior high I was walking about 8 blocks to school every day. There was always plenty to see, people and stores along the way and of course the friends. And, we all carried brief cases, no backpacks in the 50s and 60s.
For play there was walking to friends' homes along West End and the side streets and there was the two block walk to Riverside Park. Walking to Central Park required an adult for many years; there were tough kids between Amsterdam and Columbus.
In Riverside Park we were pretty free to roam, just not too far, until we were teens.
My longest and most regular walking began in late high school and continued well into college. It was the stroll from 222 to 72nd and Broadway and back. This was the thinking walk. When there was something wrong I was having trouble working out I went for this walk. The process was to list everything I could think of that could be the source of my discomfort and wait for the stomach to start hurting. That was the issue that needed addressing. It worked for me.
My longest regular walk was my first real job on 61st and Broadway. Every morning in August 1972 I would start out walking South on Broadway and stop at Irving's for my NY Times. Although Mrs. Miller had taught me the correct way to fold the paper I often walked all the way with it spread in front of me. I rarely looked up at corners. The NY kid in me had the hearing in those days to know when to stop at the corner and wait for traffic pass. Although I started on the East Side of Broadway, I spent most of the walk on the West Side.
I guess I never really appreciated the ability to walk briskly and anywhere until recently when problems have developed. But I have now been reminded of the little pleasures walking brings and will work to get them back.
By leavingwest83rdstreet May 29, 2019 656 Words2 Comments
They say "kids will be kids". Mine certainly were and when I look back so was I.
Living at 222 amidst its 108 apartments afforded us many opportunities to do mischief. Some of us looked out on Broadway and some of us looked out on West 83rd Street. There were, I believe, 8 boys all within about 18 months of each other. So there was great potential for the seizing of opportunities to make mischief.
Hitler's house was a favorite of mine. And with two parents who smoked, there were plenty of matches around to play with. Imagine a matchbook standing up like an A frame house. It had to be a full book of course; and then the delight as a match was struck and placed under the A and the anticipation as we waited for the whole book to go up as we would want his house to have burned. {Don't try this at home)
Of course, this was performed in the bathtub; not very dangerous because of the siting but a heck of a lot of fun.
The bathroom in my apartment faced West 83rd Street and therefore provided a chance to try to make mayhem below with toilet paper bombs. These were wads of toilet paper soaked with plain water in the sink and then tossed out the 9th story window. As I recall we were trying to land them in front of people not hit them (we were good boys).
One mischief maker who did not live in our building was heralded for some time after he dropped an M80 firecracker in the toilet at his house to see if it would go out; it didn't and the reported mess was the thing that legends are made of.
And of course there was the time in 222 when I didn't do it but was accused. (In fact I still am accused of the dastardly deed.) Someone carved the initials MK on the metal intercom box in the elevator. Those are mine backwards and belong to another former resident in that order.
Most of the stuff we did at 222 was relatively harmless. Ringing doorbells and heading for the stairs was a big one. Calling for the elevator (in the days of a human operator) and heading for the stairs was another one.
We could be very annoying.
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By leavingwest83rdstreet May 9, 2019 396 Words4 Comments
This year Passover and Holy Week are once again together on the calendar and we are reminded that in many ways we are linked through history, ritual and faith.
The Passover Seder in apartment 9E at 222 West 83rd Street was a big deal. The living room was typically reset with a horseshoe table for forty. I remember it being crucial to my father that there be non-Jews at the table to hear the story of the Exodus from Egypt.
The kitchen was managed by Helen supported by her sister. My mother sat at the end of the table closest to the kitchen. Dad sat at the head of the table in the middle with me to his left. It was a production.
The blue paperback De Sola Pool Haggadah was marked up with red grease pencil like any script of a show my father directed: theater, radio and television. Pictured below is the markup of the page containing the ten plagues.
Like any seder, there was great singing at the end. Dad banging on the table to direct Dayenu (it would have been enough) and the song about the Only Kid.
Before getting married and moving to long island there were occasions when i led seder on West 83rd Street but the most memorable was with a small group of friends, also in 9E. The biggest mistake I made was walking into the kosher butcher downstairs and asking for a leg of lamb to serve as well as the shank bone required for the ritual seder plate. I was promptly educated that the hind quarter of an animal is not kosher (think about it).
I don't remember what I served but I do remember insisting that my friends have raw horseradish which sent them under the table I had set in the living room.
On Long Island we held the family seder in our home. It was known to have exceeded the length of the living room.
Where I had chanted the four questions now my children did so.
I directed too, but at our seders I assigned parts. Gramps was always the wicked son because he did it so well. Other parts changed players from year to year. Our seder also had non-Jews just like my father's table.
For many years Jean worked in the kitchen for days with her mom, then our daughters were added to the mix. It then became two generations and soon the granddaughters will join the fracas. These are wonderful meals and as many of us as can are present along with friends to retell the story of the Exodus and celebrate life and love.
Now, the daughters lead the seders and the reading goes around the table.
It's a tradition that traditions change.
By leavingwest83rdstreet April 16, 2019 469 Words6 Comments
What we thought was funny in the days of PS9 and JHS44 are perceived differently today I'm sure.
I think it was seventh grade. She was a substitute teacher and we were of course misbehaving. I have no recollection of what set us off other than her status as sub but we were apparently monstrous. I vividly recall this woman standing in the front of the room screaming "you're like monkeys swinging from the chandeliers". It was a wild time.
Looking back, that of course was not funny, even though at the time we thought it all pretty hilarious.
All the rage that year was the one about the elephant and the monkey in the bathtub. The elephant says, "please pass the soap". The monkey responds, "no soap, radio".
"What's funny about that" you might ask. Well, what's funny is that there is nothing funny. We would get hysterical laughing over that one.
In those years there were others:
Mommy, mommy where's little brother going? Shut up and keep flushing.
Mommy, mommy I don't like running around in circles. Shut up or I'll nail your other foot to the floor.
I agree, that's enough of those.
I do believe that my father's favorite joke in the 60's went like this:
A man is having an operation and dies on the table.
The doctor manages to revive him and when he's conscious looks down and says,
"you were dead, did you see God?" The man looks the doctor in the eye and says, "yes, she's black".
That was my dad…
Today you probably shouldn't tell that joke. And I'm sure back then, as well, some people didn't find it funny; probably different groups from now.
Humor sometimes brings us together and sometimes not. Kids hopefully learn from their parents and teachers what's appropriate and what's not.
The current state of affairs in the world and in the US have made humor all that much more important. Back in JHS 44 when we were swinging from the light fixtures and laughing about the monkey and the elephant without a care (most of the time) humor separated us from the adults who didn't get it and brought us together.
Some of that hasn't changed. There are jokes I just don't get.
By leavingwest83rdstreet March 26, 2019 397 Words1 Comment
Fifty years ago I was 19. On fiftieth street there was a penny arcade with a pool hall downstairs. Fifty dollars was a lot of money when I was growing up. Yes, this is my 50th blog post to Leaving West 83rd Street. Whether you read at www.leavingwest83rdstreet.com or on the facebook page by the same name or when I post them on my facebook page, twitter or linkedin, THANK YOU for coming this far on my journey back in time.
This post was something of a struggle to get started. I've decided on metamorphosis and time which happened to be the theme of the 1970 CCNY senior yearbook for which I took many photographs of timepieces around the city. I wanted to be part of the work that year because 1970 was supposed to be my graduation year but like so many others I was late getting out.
The theme applies to this blog post by being word pictures of the change of places near West 83rd Street over time.
You may recall that dad was a fire buff and that we spent many, many hours at the firehouse, built in 1888, which still stands between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. When we hung out there it was the home of Engine Company 56. As the FDNY changed, so did "56". It changed into Squad 6. No longer a pumper it was extra firefighters who arrived with different and less equipment. Today it houses Engine Company 74.
While "56" was still active there was a delicatessen with a counter in the corner of 222 West 83rd Street. One night it had a fire and went out of business. The fire was labeled suspicious. The fire site was never a deli again although many years later there stood a new delicatessen several doors south of the corner, where the Radio Clinic had offered radios, TVs, Stereos, and all sorts of things for the home. Among the friends we had there were Charlie and Ray.
East of 222 on the south side of west 83rd street stood the Holy Trinity School which is now the Manhattan Children's Museum. No more will local children play on the street to be tortured by the big kids coming out of that building. And no more will we look into the rear of the school to watch the Sisters rap the knuckles of miscreants in their classes.
On the west side of Broadway from 82nd to 83rd were a number of stores. Plymouth, for ladies lingerie, occupied the corner and Schrafft's restaurant (2285 Broadway) at street level nearby and lest we forget the ballet school upstairs (opened in 1956) and Florsheim shoes on the southwest corner of 83rd.
Plymouth is gone. Schrafft's first became the Red Apple Supermarket and later Barnes and Noble. The ballet school which occupied the second floor is now also Barnes and Noble; it was fun to watch the girls dance in the big windows that overlooked the avenue. Florsheim grew into Harry's and is still there.
On the northwest corner of 83rd and Broadway stood Bostonian Shoes, that's where we shopped. I remember that Shoe stores had the great smell of leather in those days.
I'm 2nd from the left and Jon Katz and his mom are on the left. Thanks for the photo with Bostonian behind us, Jon.
On the east side of Broadway stood a three story building, the Loew's 83rd Street and several small storefronts were found while moving north from the corner. That's all gone now replaced by a high rise apartment building. In my day that corner building housed unknown businesses. It was also the building you had to hit with the spaldine to get a triple or homer in stoop ball.
The small office building was also the site of a sad revelation about neighbors. A troubled young man once stood on the roof threatening to jump. Below, people were shouting "jump, jump". The fire department set up a net and eventually wrestled him from the edge. (I witnessed all this from my 9th floor window.) When they brought him downstairs, to my horror, people were screaming at him "why didn't you jump?"
Thanks Cinema Treasures for this photo
The first storefront north of the theater entrance was the driving school and tax preparation business. When I learned to drive it was Paul's business and a woman named Helen did the tax preparation.
The theater, in my childhood, had a matron in a white dress with a flashlight who monitored the children's section. It was 25 cents and then fifty for us to see double features. There was also the annual sojourn to see The Ten Commandments; the first movie I saw with an intermission. There is now a Loew's 84th.
Some of these changes occurred more than 50 years ago, others more recently. 222 is more expensive to live in but it is still filled with homes. The metamorphosis of West 83rd Street and its environs no doubt continues.
By leavingwest83rdstreet March 4, 2019 March 4, 2019 834 Words6 Comments
I was 11, in 1960, when Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union in his U-2 spy plane. In my eyes he was an American cold war hero. Like today, in other matters, Captain Powers had his detractors. He was called a traitor and many other names. He would not be released, in a trade, until 1962.
I was in 6th grade at the time and completed what for me was a huge project on Capt. Powers for Mrs. Miller. I remember it as quite elaborate. What we might call a "paper" today was assembled from colored construction paper, pages torn out of Newsweek or Time Magazine (Life was oversized and too big), and three hole notebook paper. The article pages and notebook pages were carefully affixed with glue when one sided and stapled along one edge if two sided. I was very proud of my work.
This was the time of shelter drills. The Soviets might attack at any time. We had to be prepared. Under our desks or out in the hallway away from windows we sheltered. These drills have never been forgotten, the fear faded but not until long after times began to change. I wonder how long my grandchildren will remember sheltering from domestic shooters.
1960 was also the year of the shoe banging incident when Communist Party Chairman Nikita Khruschev of the USSR removed his shoe and banged it on the desk at the United Nations General Assembly. This was very undiplomatic behavior, only five months after the capture of Francis Gary Powers and indicative of the state of world affairs.
These were bad times. It would be two years later in October 1962 that the Cuban Missile Crisis erupted. I was 13 in 9th grade at JHS 44 and we were all following events at home and in social studies. Soviet missiles 90 miles from Florida were unacceptable and President Kennedy took us to what we were sure was the brink of nuclear war when he faced off with the same Nikita Khruschev and forced the removal of the missiles. These were not only bad time but frightening times.
It was decades later that I learned that much of what we had been taught about the USSR was as false as what they had been taught about us. We were minor players in the cold war and indoctrinated by the propaganda on both sides by our governments. The big lie was a tool of both sides, like the big lie was used in the 1930s and is being used now.
By leavingwest83rdstreet February 10, 2019 421 Words4 Comments
What To Be?
When I was growing up everybody wanted to be something. My earliest recollections are of wanting to be a fireman. I even said it aloud in the film my father made for the fire department, FDNY. It changed many times over the years. I often look back and think that life happened to me rather than me controlling much.
I did not however want to become dentist even though there were some pleasant things that might have been designed to push me in that direction or not discourage to me.
My father's friend and my mother's boss, Dr. A., was a pedodontist; and apparently an important one because he was once president of the American Society in his profession.
Because of him, while others played with GIJOE which my dad objected to, I played with chalk molars and real dental instruments. I never filled the cavities I made but I do recall digging in the chalk.
Unfortunately, I got my mother's teeth. Dad smoked and drank to excess and had all his teeth. Mom had the same habits and eventually no teeth. I had a mouth full of cavities and tremendous amounts of dental work (still do).
I had the honor during a children's dentistry week to appear in the World Telegram and Sun with Dr. A. I treasured my celebrity for many years.
One of the structures at the World's Fair was the Singer Bowl (yup, as in sewing machines). The children's dental society held an event there that featured an icon of the times, Soupy Sales. I got to meet Soupy because of my relationship with the society's president.
You may recall the Thanksgiving Day brunch on Central Park West, this was also a benefit of the world of dentistry my family was attached to.
I worked in the "pedo" department at the NYU College of Dentistry sitting right outside Dr. A's office, he was "pedo' chair, while I was in college. I was collecting and processing data for a children's dentistry research project with the affiliated Bellevue Hospital.
With all these "encouragements" I never entertained dentistry as part of my future. I also never thought of becoming a writer like my dad, or a lawyer as was once suggested by the director of campus security at CCNY. I fell into sociology and social science research as a result of my love and admiration for Walter C. Bailey my professor and mentor. After his retirement I sat at his desk for my first real job at the New York State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission located then at 61st Street and Broadway which was happily within walking distance of West 83rd Street.
By leavingwest83rdstreet January 21, 2019 February 1, 2019 452 Words2 Comments


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Have you ever made someone you love a mix-tape? Forty years ago, a group of scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New York to work on the most important compilation ever conceived. It wasn't from one person to another, it was from Earth to the Cosmos.
Music writer and self-confessed astronomy geek Jonathan Scott introduces the Voyager Golden Record, a genre-hopping multi-media metal LP created by NASA and fixed to the side of Voyager 1 and 2 in the summer of 1977.
An aliens' guide to Earthlings, the Voyager Golden Record is a 90-minute playlist of music from across the globe, a sound essay of life on Earth, spoken greetings in multiple languages and more than 100 photographs and diagrams. It included music by J.S. Bach and Chuck Berry, a message of peace from US president Jimmy Carter, and facts, figures and dimensions, all encased in a golden box.
Join Jonathan, author of The Vinyl Frontier: The story of the Voyager Golden Record, and learn how each track, each sound, and every image has a tale to tell.
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He received his first telescope aged eight, using it to track Halley's Comet in 1986. Having followed Voyager's planetary fly-bys throughout his childhood, he first got to write about the missions in 2004. If he'd been in charge of the Voyager Golden Record, aliens would assume humanity had three chords.
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'Doctors' was probably the last production to finish recording at Pebble Mill, and decided to go out with a bang rather than a whimper. Taking advantage of the fact that the building was going to be demolished they staged a bomb blast in the Riverside Surgery and Lether Bar, on the last day of shooting.
Neil Roberts, who still edits 'Doctors' from its new site at Birmingham University, took these photos after the last shoot. Neil was the last avid editor in Pebble Mill, fine cutting 'Doctors' – it must have felt like being on the Marie Celeste! Chris Rowlands performed the last online edit at Pebble Mill, onlining the 'Doctors' episode which Neil offlined, the following day in VTA.


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Facebook blacks out ads in Thailand out of respect for late king
Facebook says the removal of ads is a "cultural custom."
By Patrick Kulp on October 15, 2016
Thai government supporters and royalists gather under a large portrait of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej in Bangkok. Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS/David Guttenfelder
In an unusual show of respect for Thailand's fallen leader, Facebook has opted to block all ads in the country for an undetermined length of time.
The social network said the move is in observance of a "cultural custom" as the nation mourns the late Thai King, Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died Thursday at the age of 88.
"Thailand is in a period of mourning due to the death of the King and removal of ads is a cultural custom," a spokesperson wrote to advertisers in a blog post. "We don't yet know the duration of the mourning period. We'll keep you posted of any additional details as they become available."
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A funeral for Adulyadej -- who was the world's longest-reigning monarch -- drew thousands of grieving citizens in the Thai capital of Bangkok on Friday. National media broadcasts went black as his body underwent a traditional bathing ceremony.
As part of his remembrance, many Thai citizens are wearing only dark colors this week, and several websites and television stations have gone completely black-and-white. Monochrome footage of the widely revered leader's life has dominated the airwaves.
Google Thailand dropped its familiar rainbow letters to honor the late king. Credit: google, screenshot
The decision to temporarily drop ads seems to be a first for Facebook, which has cultivated a sizable market in the country. The platform boasts an estimated 37 million Thai users -- mostly on mobile -- who tend to post three times more frequently than the average user worldwide, according to Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg.
Perhaps as a result, Facebook ads have proven particularly successful in the country, according to a report in Thai newspaper The Nation(Opens in a new window).
Research firm Emarketer pegged the yearly Facebook ad spend in Thailand at $81.7 million, meaning that the web giant could be forgoing as much as $6.8 million per month in the blackout -- though that estimate is rough.
The company opened its first office in the country last fall as part of an ongoing push to beef up operations in emerging markets.
Part of that effort involves helping brands tailor ads to fit country-specific cultural norms and adjust posts for different bandwidth speeds.
A campaign for Durex condoms in Indonesia, for instance, would load separate videos depending on the viewer's sex. Each was catered to the country's particular attitudes toward gender roles and cultural norms.
"The ability to tell a powerful story can connect people despite geographic, linguistic, technological and even cultural boundaries," Melissa Oppenheim, who heads up the program that handles such considerations, told Mashable in an earlier interview.
In this instance, Facebook's heightened sensitivity toward its users' various cultures means cutting off ads altogether.
The platform's worldwide expansion hasn't been without controversy, however. Facebook faced criticism in India over accusations that its "free basics" service violated net neutrality, and human rights advocates argued that its "safety check" feature, which lets users notify friends and family of their situation in the event of a disaster, was heavily biased toward western countries.
The company has since worked to make the tool's coverage more comprehensive.
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Patrick Kulp is a Business Reporter at Mashable. Patrick covers digital advertising, online retail and the future of work. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara with a degree in political science and economics, he previously worked at the Pacific Coast Business Times.


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The use of scenario-based training for this application is appropriate since many of the trainees are familiar with the approach, and it is far safer than live exercises where potential booby traps (e.g., fall-away ladders, oil on the floor) are not feasible because of potential injury.
The MIO facility consists of two rooms: a large room to house the 10 trainees, and a second smaller room to house the instructors. Each station consists of a high-performance PC with 3D accelerated graphics, large displays, headset and push-to-talk switch with keyboard and mouse.
The system provides training in team operations when boarding a vessel, including training two man groups in confined spaces with small arms such as handguns, small machine guns, and stun grenades as armament. Some team members may also have additional simulated equipment, such as gas masks or respirators.
A team of trainees can be split up into multiple groups for searching different parts of the ship at the same time. They are coordinated by communications, and communications protocols would be part of the training as well. In addition, there is training provided for the coordinator that stays on the navy vessel and communicates to the team. The instructor(s) are able to see the 3D position of the trainees on a bird's-eye or plan view.


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text:
<?php

namespace fm\erpBundle\Form;

use Symfony\Component\Form\AbstractType;
use Symfony\Component\Form\FormBuilderInterface;
use Symfony\Component\OptionsResolver\OptionsResolverInterface;

class proveedoresType extends AbstractType
{
        /**
     * @param FormBuilderInterface $builder
     * @param array $options
     */
    public function buildForm(FormBuilderInterface $builder, array $options)
    {
        $builder
            ->add('nombre')
            ->add('cif')
            ->add('telefono')
            ->add('email')
            ->add('ccc')
            ->add('observaciones')
        ;
    }

    /**
     * @param OptionsResolverInterface $resolver
     */
    public function setDefaultOptions(OptionsResolverInterface $resolver)
    {
        $resolver->setDefaults(array(
            'data_class' => 'fm\erpBundle\Entity\proveedores'
        ));
    }

    /**
     * @return string
     */
    public function getName()
    {
        return 'fm_erpbundle_proveedores';
    }
}