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Holly Golightly seemed older than her years from the moment she rolled into our listening lives in the early 90s with Thee Headcoatees. Her reach extended back to the wild, unruly rock of the 1950s and even further back to its roots in country blues, church music and unpolished country. Dappled with the pure pop confectionary pleasure of great 60s radio fare as well, Golightly's music never for a moment seemed to give a damn about what was hip or selling or anything of that ilk. It's music for the unbridled joy of it, songs scratching to the surface of her soul – she has that in abundance, too – often expressed in a most intoxicating way, an immediate reminder of how 2-3 minutes can be one's whole sweet, intense world.
Not much has changed with Golightly in the intervening decades. The music and the woman behind it remain steadfastly original – a sound both instantly appealing and original as all get out. In recent years she's been making music as a duo with longtime partner Lawyer Dave as Holly Golightly and The Brokeoffs, which shows off even more unvarnished rootsiness, though old 78s don't have a just-rough-enough, smoked honey voice like hers – if she'd been a young woman in the heyday of Phil Spector there's no telling what that loon might have done to get a hold of her. The latest Brokeoffs album is entitled No Help Coming (released April 26 on Transdreamer), and it's predictably a thigh slappin' corker. Seriously, if you don't amble around and reach for a mason jar of something strong, well, we worry for your health.
Dirty Impound puts Holly in the same line as Joan Jett, Poly Styrene and Wanda Jackson – take charge gals who cut their own musical swath – and we were tickled many shades of pink to get a slice of her time to discuss the nature of the music consumption, living on a farm and much more. Smart lady and a damn fine artist, so even if you're not up to speed we think you'll learn a few things from this chat (and subsequently dive into her back catalogue with undisguised gusto, we trust).
Thee Headcoatees 1991 Debut LP
You're a veteran in the music world and yet I get the sense that a lot of people don't know how long you've been doing this.
Well, it depends on how you present it, I think. If every record seems like the first one you've made, if that's how it's presented, then people aren't going to be any the wiser. I think perhaps a large plump of what I've done has gone completely under the radar. I haven't done anything that monumental in my own right. I think a lot of people know I did The White Stripes song ["It's True That We Love One Another" on Elephant] and some people might know I did some stuff on the Broken Flowers soundtrack, but for the most part, that's about as mainstream as it's got; everything else has been pretty underground. It's not surprising really, but sometimes I read something that says, "This is the third album by Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs," with no mention of anything that came before. And sometimes it says it's the 20th album by Holly Golightly!
Sadly, there's a lot of general ignorance amongst people who write about music, which is especially annoying with someone like you who has a rich depth of musical history in your work.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that, but I do think a lot of people who write about music's main reference point is something that happened in maybe the early 90s, so we're speaking at extreme cross-purposes because I can't make any comment on a band they ask me if I like since it's a small miracle if I've heard of them. So, the chances are one in a hundred I'll have any idea what they sound like. What can you do but laugh?
You throw your roots back a lot further, especially with the recent work with the Brokeoffs, where you seem to be going back to the music that inspired rock 'n' roll – early country records and raw blues sides that lead into rock.
The Rezillos
That's how my progress or regression rather has happened. I grew up in a time where the first records I bought were the first Buzzcocks records. That was what was current and happening and what I spent my pocket money on. Then, when I got to be 14 or 15 I went to see bands play. I remember going to see the The Rezillos, and I didn't really know what they were all about but they looked great. And they did "Hippy Hippy Shake" or something like that and I didn't realize it wasn't their song and would search out the original song. This was the days before the internet so it was a tenuous process, but you'd find the original and realize even they weren't credited with writing it. And often I'd find out that many of these tunes were just a rip-off of a church song! And that's how I got to the realization that all decent music came from church.
There's a quality and malleability to that music that can be changed into vastly different shapes decades down the line.
Rock 'n' roll is hymns, whichever way you pick it apart. That's where the formula is from, that's the parent of the formula.
Rock is as close to a church as many of us have anymore. Turning up our stereo or stepping into a rock show isn't far off from Sunday service for certain folks, myself included.
It's a form of human rejoicing, but we don't have a single deity at the top of it all. Anybody truly interested in music will see a common thread. There's always an element in all types of music that will connect with people. If music is an important part of your life, you'll eventually hone it down to something that reaches you, and I guess I did that at a very early age and that's what everything has come from. I did the research after growing up listening to punk rock music. It's all so subjective – talking about music or writing about music or even making it. It's only good to your ears isn't it? I started out collecting records and dancing long before I thought making music, so I came from a different place. I wasn't an aspiring rock 'n' roller, but I did find a formula I can relate to. I gravitated towards what literally moved me because I was a dancer.
Music begins with people dancing and chanting to a drum around the fire.
I'm not a music nerd by any stretch but as I get older I'm more interested in music before records were made, when one person on one side of the mountain didn't know what people on the other side of the mountain sounded like. Everyone had their own interpretation. Today, people are just swamped with choices. There's ALL this stuff available and nobody knows where to start. If they're just getting into something then the internet makes it easier, but also harder in a way. Before musicians would go from town to town and play and all people had to go on was what they remembered from the live performance. And then they'd rip them off and produce a million different versions. That's what really interests me, though that's more a sociological aspect than a sonic one.
That social aspect is important and it gets downplayed a lot in the era of recorded music.
People don't listen to music the same way they used to. The way they can carry a whole record collection around in their pocket and the way they flip through songs today is different. They don't have to listen to a whole album straight through or even a whole 45 single on both sides. People's attention span is getting shorter and shorter. So, I stick with the format that works for me, and three minutes is enough of any song. That's what I know and I'm going to stick with it [laughs].
There's a purity of form that comes from drawing inspiration from these older, original sources of music and bringing them into the modern era. I hear a lot of this in the Brokeoffs records, where that church connection is more readily apparent in your work.
That's because it's a collaboration with somebody who had a hideously oppressive religious upbringing. I didn't fortunately, so that element has probably been brought in by the other half. I don't have church to rail against. It doesn't really exist in my tunnel vision. It's not a world I know anything about and it wasn't enforced on me as a child, so I don't have problems with it. But since this is a true collaboration, this is how it manifests itself [laughs].
The cover shot on the new album has this Dust Bowl Depression imagery that plays into this element, too.
The first record we did together had a photograph on it and subsequent records had a painting and a little piece of artwork a friend had made for us. I was trying to get away from just having photographs on record sleeves because that's what I'd generally done for my own records. It seems to be important to everybody but me that a photograph was to be had. But for this lastest Brokedowns record, we used this photograph. And what you say about it is totally accurate but to me it's like a photo of my nan and granddad. I think it's my grandmother's apron I'm wearing. So, it works as a collaboration between us. We couldn't be from two more different worlds the two of us. There's something quite nice about the two of us glued together.
The back story spotlights the difference between reality and perception.
It was just something that represented both of us, and I was under quite a lot of pressure to come up with a photograph.
Sadly, that's our culture – driven by image.
It's bollocks really, and I don't like music videos either. I don't think music is for looking at. It matters to a lot of people – what somebody looks like – they need to feel some attachment to fashion or a fad, and I think that's really juvenile. When I was 15 it really mattered to me, but some people don't get beyond that and think it matters what clothes you wear.
The Beatles - Let It Be Sessions
Most real musicians make that journey away from surface impressions, like The Beatles, who were very conscious of image and dress when they began and eventually became a studio bound, disheveled bunch by the end.
It became very secondary. It was no longer THE thing they were being sold on. If you're fresh faced and you want to capture people's attention, it's the only way to do it now. They put up billboards of the latest, greatest boy band or young girl and it's so much a part of the package that the music is only small bit of it. That commerciality and pressure for people to look good has always existed but The Beatles were the first time everyone really cared about what musicians looked like, and it hasn't gone anywhere since. But the photograph on [No Help Coming] is just a snapshot and I thought it was quite nice. I like that it's anti-rock 'n' roll. It's like, "Here's what we look like," and it is. We kinda dressed up and I picked one of the chickens up and that's it.
You're actually set up on a farm.
It's something I did in the U.K. as well but it's made more possible here by having more space. It was Georgia by fluke. We were looking in Kentucky and Tennessee for more acreage but this was what we settled with because I couldn't bear to be more than a day's drive away from an international airport. We're northeast of Athens in the foothills. Everyone says it's such a music town but we've played Athens once since we lived there, and I go into Athens once a month, if that. If someone is coming to visit I'll show them Athens.
Does it change the kind of music you make living away from the big city?
Well, I never really have. I was born and bred in London but I've always strived very hard not to live in London [laughs]. But it's a lot more expensive to live outside of London in the country. It's the opposite of America. It hasn't really changed how I do everything. I just uproot everything and put it in a 40-foot container and set up shop somewhere. Aside from being in a different place geographically, I'm in the same place musically. I've always worked in isolation, and I haven't really regularly gone to see bands for 15-20 years. It's not something I'm hankering for; I just miss my friends really. I'm not a bar person and never have been. So, when I play that's my interaction with the world of live music.
Do you have any urge to go back to the garage rock stuff you're associated with earlier in your career?
The Brokeoffs was a side project. Dave's been my bandmate for about 13 years or so in the U.S. touring lineup. We'd talked about doing something with just the two of us for years, and the first album was done purely for fun. I used to live in a barn in the U.K. and we did it there. We did a tour afterwards that was really fun and easy, and we can travel really light and it's cheap to do. So, we saw where we could maybe do another tour, make another record, and so it went on. But I still play with the full band on occasion. So, it's not really a willful decision to do things differently. It's just circumstantial and it's gained its own momentum. I will, invariably, make another record when we're all in the same place at the same time.
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There's a direct line in your solo records that travels back to the music that inspired rock 'n' roll, the stuff that inspired Chuck Berry and Wanda Jackson, the people who made this music what it is and put it on the radar of people around the world through sheer force of will. I feel like you have the same stuff in you.
That's very flattering. It's funny you should mention Chuck Berry because someone once said that the way I trod the boards and pick up musicians around the world – "This is 12-bar in G. Okay, go!" – reminded them of him. It's a really old fashioned way of touring, just you and your guitar and whoever's in town and has some gear can be your backing band. I've done plenty of traveling around like that. I'd usually take Bruce [Brand] with me because as long as your drummer is good most things can be covered up. I'm still playing with the same people who played on my first record, sort of on rotation and as they're interested in doing it [laughs]. If I go back to England now, the three people I'd go to first are the three people who played on my first album, and that energy you talk about comes from that. It's playing music with a bunch of friends primarily. There's no bickering about how something should go or ego problems generally. This is just what we do and we do it really good and we enjoy doing it.
I've seen you many times over the years and your joy in what you do is infectious.
That's quite good isn't it? If I'm doing it 20 years later and I'm still enjoying it then I must be doing something right. That's the way I look at it. It's not a drag to me to get up and play. I do think if I was under any sort of pressure to sell records it might be a whole different story. If I'd jumped on the commercial bus, I don't think I'd still be doing it. I'm doing it because I do what I please.
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Q: Construct $f: X\to Y$ such that $f(p)=p$
Let , $X=[-1,1]\times [-1,1]$ and $Y=\{0\}\times \left[-\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2}\right]$. Construct an example of a continuous map $f:X\to Y$ such that $f(p)=p$ for each $p\in Y$.

I construct a function as below :
$$f(x,y)=\begin{cases}\left(0,\frac{1}{2}+y\right) & \text{ if }(x,y)\in[-1,1]\times\left[-1,-\frac{1}{2}\right]\\(0,y) & \text{ if }(x,y)\in [-1,1]\times\left[-\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2}\right]\\\left(0,\frac{1}{2}-y\right) & \text{ if }(x,y)\in[-1,1]\times \left[\frac{1}{2},1\right]\end{cases}$$
Is my construction correct ? Please check.
If wrong please tell me where my mistake.

A: According to your definition, $f(0,-1/2)$ is being mapped to two distinct points : $(0,0)$ and $(0,-1/2)$. So it's not quite a function.

A: Your function is a) not a function and b) is not continuous.
f(0,- 1/2) = {0, -1/2} and f(0, 1/2) = {1/2, 0} have two values so it is not a function.  It can be made a function by setting:
$f(x,y)=\begin{cases}\left(0,\frac{1}{2}+y\right) & \text{ if }(x,y)\in[-1,1]\times\left[-1,-\frac{1}{2}\right)\\(0,y) & \text{ if }(x,y)\in [-1,1]\times\left[-\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2}\right)\\\left(0,\frac{1}{2}-y\right) & \text{ if }(x,y)\in[-1,1]\times \left[\frac{1}{2},1\right]\end{cases}$
but then it would be discontinuous at $(x,1/2)$ and $(x,-1/2)$  The $\lim_{y\rightarrow\frac {1}{ 2}^+} = 1/2$ but $\lim_{y\rightarrow\frac {1}{ 2}^-} = 0$ s0 it isn't continuous.
Try $f(x,y)=\begin{cases}\left(0,-\frac{1}{2}\right) & \text{ if }(x,y)\in[-1,1]\times\left[-1,-\frac{1}{2}\right]\\(0,y) & \text{ if }(x,y)\in [-1,1]\times\left[-\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2}\right]\\\left(0,\frac{1}{2}\right) & \text{ if }(x,y)\in[-1,1]\times \left[\frac{1}{2},1\right]\end{cases}$
Or if you want to be clever:
$f(x,y)=\begin{cases}\left(0,-1-y\right) & \text{ if }(x,y)\in[-1,1]\times\left[-1,-\frac{1}{2}\right]\\(0,y) & \text{ if }(x,y)\in [-1,1]\times\left[-\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2}\right]\\\left(0,1-y\right) & \text{ if }(x,y)\in[-1,1]\times \left[\frac{1}{2},1\right]\end{cases}$

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Q: How to catch error 'Bitmap too large to be uploaded into a texture' My android application handles very large Bitmaps. Because of this, I turned hardware-acceleration off on the image views.
However, some users have set the Developer-Option 'Force GPU-Acceleration' turned on. This leads to the error 'Bitmap too large to be uploaded into a texture'.
If I check the view using isHardwareAccelerated(), it always returns false.
Is there any way to catch the OpenGL-Error 'Bitmap too large to be uploaded into a texture'?

A: Bitmap is Composed of Pixels  and you can count the number of pixels in the bitmap matrix ,, set a limit to your number of bitmap  pixels . In OpenGl i can't say , but in general we can easily handle them , also there is a method
    bitmap.inSampleSize();
if you assign
Bitmap.inSampleSize()= 1;

then the original bitmap pixel will be loaded.
Bitmap.inSampleSize()= 2;

then the pixels will become half of the original pixel.
Bitmap.inSampleSize() = 4

then the pixels will become 1/4 of the original pixel .
This way you can reduce the size of the pixels in the bitmap ,
I have done this thing in my program , hopefully it will work with you too.

A: I have not worked with OpenGL on Android and therefore dont know is there is anything special one must do to catch uncaught exceptions or error. You could try to register a global exception handler and check if you are able to catch the OpenGL error there.


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Q: Migrating Accounts I started with a gmail login, which I associated with a bunch of stackoverflow and stackexchange sites. Then I wanted to get into DNS, so I got myself a new domain and a google sites account.
The short story is I just changed OpenIDs, and I want to change them everywhere.
So for some respective stack-* sites, I've

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*added a second openid to the list (non gmail)

*logged in via this address, associated my new account (google sites' mail)

*logged back in with the openid I intend to identify myself with

I haven't found a way to move house with Carriers yet though.
It would be really cool if there was a way to propagate this through all my accounts.
There's already a way to associate account personal details, would it be possible to have something similar for login credentials?


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Army Completes Probe Into Bergdahl's Alleged Desertion--No Results Before Election
By Susan Jones | October 15, 2014 | 7:43am EDT
U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, right, stands with a Taliban member in eastern Afghanistan. On Wednesday, June 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Voice Of Jihad)
(CNSNews.com) - In mid-June, the U.S. Army began its investigation into Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's capture by the Taliban after he apparently walked away from his unit in Afghanistan in 2009.
Four months later, the results are now in, but not for public consumption -- something that angers Bergdahl's former platoon leader, Sgt. Evan Buetow.
"He deserted his post all on his own," Buetow told Fox News's Sean Hannity on Tuesday night. "And we're now still sitting here waiting for answers."
An Army spokesman told the San Antonio Express-News last week that the investigation into Bergdahl's disappearance (or desertion) is finished, but is now being reviewed by commanders, a process that is expected to be "lengthy," the newspaper said.
Army Spokesman Wayne Hall told the newspaper, "the Army's priority is ensuring that our process is thorough, factually accurate, impartial, and legally correct."
Buetow told Fox News that he was interviewed by lead investigator Brig. Gen. Kenneth Dahl, and he told the general that the day after Bergdahl disappeared, "We did hear over the radio that there was an American looking for someone who spoke English so he could talk to the Taliban."
Buetow said there's not one person in his platoon who disagrees that Bergdahl deserted. "I know. I have a list of the people that the general spoke to during this investigation. It's everyone from the platoon, and I know exactly what they said. There's no way that they could conclude this investigation without the truth."
But Fox News analyst Lt. Col. Ralph Peters said the results of the investigation will be withheld until after the election, "because no matter which way the report goes, Obama loses."
President Obama appeared in the Rose Garden on May 31 to welcome Bergdahl home. As part of the deal to free Bergdahl, President Obama announced the United States had exchanged Bergdahl for five Islamic militants detained at Guantanamo Bay. The swap prompted outrage.
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Whatever the findings of the Army investigation, they won't help Obama, Peters told Hannity:
"If the White House was able to exert sufficient pressure on the chain of command in the Pentagon to whitewash Bergdahl's actions, then there's going to be this huge outcry from those serving in uniform, from veterans, from conservatives," Peters said on Tuesday.
"But if it turns out that the Army, you know, got some backbone and really looked at what Bergdahl did, listened to people like Sergeant Buetow and his platoon-mates, and finds that, yes, he should be charged with desertion, then the Rose Garden ceremony looks like an even greater debacle.
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And then, I think the third most difficult part or the thing that makes SEO so difficult, at least for me, is the misunderstanding around what SEO truly is. Much more is coming. Whereas SEO gains traffic naturally, SEM does it by purchasing ads on search engines. The biggest and most obvious "no-no" is the buying of links. You should never pay for a link. Ever. These are old "black hat" link building tactics that were common in the past, but are now an immediate sign of trouble on the horizon. The simplest way of achieving this is by retrieving a list of existing documents that contain a group of words or keywords aligning to the core concept of the query.
One of the most important elements to building an online marketing strategy around SEO is empathy for your audience. Once you grasp what your target market is looking for, you can more effectively reach and keep those users. A social media following shows that the website has an audience who want to hear more. The website you are targeting would want to share their new posts to their audience on social media, promoting your website at the same time. What's more is that if you're in the same niche as the website, their audience are more likely to enjoy your content and start following you too. In the coming times, content from social media such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn will gain more importance on the SERPs A good trick is to dig into your Google Analytics to see the top visited pages on your site. A title should be 50-60 characters and a description should be 155-160 characters.
Common approaches to fixing this problem are to either canonicalize both to a single version or 301 redirect one version to the other. Very few businesses take a long, hard look at what their online competitors are doing first or think about what part of their business works best online. The unfortunate answer is – yes, it is a content issue. You can read an offsite SEO beginners guide here. The anchor text section clearly shows what text the links pointing to a website has. This is an opportunity to take a look and make sure that the website does not have a spammy anchor text profile. Sitemaps help Google understand your site. Anything that helps Google do its job will give you a boost, and these are no different.
Gaz Hall, a Freelance SEO Consultant from SEO York, commented: "Roundup posts are collections of content in a given topic within a certain period of time. You can see bloggers who curate content this way by simply creating monthly or weekly collections of great content related to their topic. The most important reason for creating roundup posts is to get extra shares on social media from the authors of the featured articles." Do your maths - its one of the primary resources for this sort of thing. Its as simple as KS2 Maths. Really! Whether ornot, you are familiar with the evergreen content; Your content is there to provide real, relevant information and encourage your user to trust you. You need to be placing backlinks to your site on other sites which not only have good domain authority, but you need to make sure your links are placed on high value pages on that domain as well. The sitemap tells search engines about all the pages on your site, even those that might not be easy to find. A sitemap is very helpful if your site is dynamic or if it has pages with images or rich AJAX that can be hard for bots to discover. It is also helpful for new sites with few links, or sites that have numerous pages not well linked. Sitemaps help search engines do a good job of reading your website and finding your site's content.
It also slows down the user journey and makes it harder for them to find what they are looking for. The cornerstone of a successful organic search campaign has always been technical SEO. Provide high-quality content on your pages, especially your homepage. This is the single most important thing to do. If your pages contain useful information, their content will attract many visitors and entice webmasters to link to your site. Using structured data, you can serve Google your address details in the most convenient way. If people like your content, Google automatically likes it.
.The concept of searcher's intent is no new. We have seen the focus shifting from SEO to understanding searcher's intent to provide better user experience. After the release of Google Panda and Google Penguin update, SEOs have started focussing on user experience rather solely on Search Engines. You can also include "no follow" tags on the internal links to these faceted urls to reduce the chances of getting them crawled. SEO is an art to increase visibility of website in search engine or we can say SEO is a method of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to a website from the free or organic search results. In March 2016, Google confirmed that it would no longer allow toolbars to use the PageRank checker in the browser, so a host of clones will likely pop up. Duplicate content that exists between an eCommerce website and other eCommerce websites (and potentially even content websites) has become a real pain point in recent years.


I used to be terrified of childbirth and actually burst into tears when I discovered I was pregnant with my first child because I realized I would have to give birth. Due to suffering with vulvodynia the medical staff advised me to have an epidural so after my daughter was born I still didn't really know what birth felt like.
After a forced episiotomy and complications that ensued, I didn't want another hospital birth but was told I had to because of the vulvodynia. With my second daughter I had another epidural and the third, a TENS machine that I later found out wasn't working because they hadn't realized the pads had come off my back!
So childbirth didn't really get my vote of approval and when I found out I was expecting my fourth child, I was dreading the whole experience. Through her birth, I discovered that childbirth is not always painful and doesn't have to take hours, either.
On the day of her birth I took my older daughter to toddler group and then I stopped at a sandwich shop to buy lunch. After I had eaten the sandwich, I started to feel nauseas and mistakenly thought my food must have been "off". I mentioned this to my husband who told me to sleep it off and said it was normal for a nearly 9-month pregnant woman to feel bad. He went to a DIY store to buy shelving units and I did as he suggested and fell asleep for two hours.
When I woke up at 4 p.m. I needed to go to the toilet urgently so I went and sat there waiting, but nothing happened. I also noticed I was spotting slightly. I was irritated. First I felt sick, then I was constipated and now I was bleeding!
I phoned my husband, who was still shopping, and told him about my symptoms. He said it was probably because the doctor had examined me the day before and was not at all gentle. He said she was probably "too rough" and that would account for the spotting. I accepted this as a likely possibility and wasn't worried about the baby because she was moving and active.
I went downstairs and had two mild contractions, no worse than period pain, so I called him back again and told him that we might be having a baby.
Well, my 9 year old says she will have home births if she has kids as she hates hospitals and needles and she was there, sleeping in the next room when her brother was born and she woke up and came in, in her PJ's and got to cuddle the baby when he was only a few minutes old. She's also breast fed for years and watched me feed her brother and always frowns at the formula milk adverts on TV and says the mothers shouldn't be doing that. So sweet. There's hope for my grandchildren then!
Thanks, that's really nice of you! My little girl that was born in 25 minutes is now 9 years old and I still enjoy telling people how she was delivered quicker than a pizza :) She now has a 4 year old brother who was born not quite as quick but still painless. I will post your blog to facebook etc.
Thanks Joanna. Greatly appreciated! You'll be able to educate all of your children on the wonders and sometimes complications, of childbirth!
Hi again Joanna. I've written my post in which I've included part of your article and the link to the rest of it (it's quite long, that's why I chose to add the link for the "rest of the story").
Hope it meets with your approval.
Yes of course you can, Jane!
Thanks so much! I'll let you know when I've done it and give you the link so you can have a boo!
What an incredible story and journey you've had. And the advice you have for women who will soon face labor is great too. I'll be sharing some of this on my blog: http://www.letstalkpregnancy.com if that's OK with you. I may link to your story so others can read it in full. I'd like your permission first though. I look forward to hearing from you.


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An Essay on Racism
Alright, let's address the elephant in the room. If you come on my tour, you will spend your time in Old City learning about the great things that the Founding Fathers did. Excellent! To quote our latest (last?) president: "We did great things. Super big things. We did a phenomenal job." (Trump, #twitter) Let's not pretend, however, that we were saints. Don't get me wrong, I love to be worshipped as a Demi-God. (I deserve it more than most.) But it's what we DID NOT do that is still causing problems 230 years later.
Slavery is that problem. We did not end slavery when we had a chance. In fact, we made it worse. During the Constitutional Convention, we gave the the southern slave states more political power by allowing them to count slaves into the population. More people represented in a region will mean more members in the House of Representatives. The north protested. The south lashed back. We ended up compromising and saying that each slave would count as three-fifths of a person.
By incorporating the 3/5 Compromise into the Constitution, we reinforced the horrible institution in two ways: 1) we strengthened the political power of the southern plantations; and 2) we established it as a fundamental institution.
Increased Southern Political Power
The Three-Fifths Compromise was supposed to be a compromise. (Compromise (n.) – Selling your soul to save your hide) Instead, we allowed more representatives for slaveholders because we included a large number of people who couldn't even be represented. We gave the southerners more power by giving them more seats in the House of Representatives and more votes in the Electoral College. This ensured the survival of slavery. The select few of us, First Generation Americans, who actually detested slavery, always figured that a war would be the only way to end slavery…. and we were right. But do you think, before the Civil War, the population as a whole would be willing to have a war if they knew it would kill 670,000 Americans? Hindsight is twenty-twenty, but the answer is "no". (73 years of failed compromises between the north and south proved this…)
"Canonized" Institution
Our Constitution established the three branches of government. It set term limits. It created the Electoral College. It understood the weaknesses in humanity and provided checks and balances to prevent consolidation of too much power. It became the blueprint for our republic, the most successful republic in world history. This document is worshipped in our country more than the Bible. The phrase, "that's unconstitutional!", has a stronger impact than the phrase, "that's un-Christian!" in this country. So anything written in it, is essentially American gospel… even if the gospel that is preached includes racism, sexism and prejudice.
Soooooo, basically, established a racist and oppressive foundation making it easy for future generations of white-privileged, American, men to defend and rationalize hypocrisy, racism, prejudice, injustice, oppression, enslavement, rape, and murder.
How does one defend the institution of slavery? The answer is: They cannot and should not. But sometimes the most indefensible mistakes can become the most valuable learning experiences. After all, how else will we curb racism unless we understand how one can rationalize and defend it? (Remember: History doesn't repeat itself; it paraphrases) Let's look at my own experience:
My Failures
I printed advertisements for slave sales in my newspaper. I owned two slaves. I am aware that fighting for liberty while denying it to others at the same time made us vicious hypocrites. Unfortunately, my mindset was developed, at the time, from a practical approach. I knew that the institution of slavery was so enmeshed in the fabric of our society that it was unlikely to meet its demise any time soon. Servitude was an institution that went as far back in human history as all others. I wrongfully rationalized that I would be unable to do anything to dismantle the institution; so I, instead, decided to take advantage of the rules it rewarded to me, a white man.
I recognized and argued that the idea of white racial superiority was only prevalent because we were treating them as animals. If the black population were allowed to be educated, I argued, then they would be just as successful as whites. But they were not allowed to be educated, and so I was unable to prove my point. So this artificial facade of racial supremacy stood firm. I was, of course, a "child of the times" and my "times" were waaaay racist and prejudicial. (Hell, I hated Germans!) Every cultural group despised each other. English vs. French, Christian vs. Muslim, Catholic vs. Protestant… hypocrisy and distrust were everywhere. This is not an attempt to defend slavery, but it does help to explain the mindset of humans. Geographic differences are common enough (Suck it, New Jersey!) without incorporating, distinct languages and cultures…. Let alone skin color. (Foreign = different = not normal) It takes a long time for change to occur in societal norms and expectations. (Think real hard about how many people were willing to argue and fight for gay marriage 10 years ago…) I did very little to attempt to break down barriers in my youthful years.
We had to tip-toe around the subject during the birth of our nation because the South was unwilling to join with the North unless slavery was untouched. Our only priority was to establish a firm union, so we let all other attempts at bettering the world evaporate.
It wasn't until the end of my life that I tried to curb the influence of slavery, but to little avail. (I joined a petition to support a bill in the House of Representatives to abolish the slave trade. When Southern slave owners argued it was their "Christian duty" to convert the heathens, I responded with satire. I wrote an essay as a Muslim slave trader who defended the enslavement of "heathen Christians" and convert them to the true religion, Islam. (Remember: those who rationalize oppression based on their religious beliefs are God Damn hypocrites.) Though clever, the essay produced far too little too late. I, like so many others, did not focus on attacking the subject when I was younger because I had everything to lose. Only when I was on my deathbed did I put any effort into it.
It's hardly the story of a martyr…
I will not defend myself. I genuinely repent for my wrongs and failures. I hope our mistakes, as the Founders of our nation, will be used as a guide into the understanding of human nature, and government as a whole. Let's consider the selfish nature of human nature….
Human Nature's Selfish Nature
I spent my entire life trying to figure out a formula that could measure, estimate, and explain human nature. What I realized was that it was impossible to compute humanity. Humans are, by nature, contrary and complicated. We say one thing and do the other. It can never be 100% determined when it will occur, but inconsistency can be consistently guaranteed. (Did that make sense?) Humans are not just beastly individualistic by nature, nor are they all socially civilized. Both are true some of the time; neither are true all the time. For example a person can be reasoned with, but a mob of people demand action not reason. The closest thing to certainty, however, is that humans reach their optimum level of compassion when their self-interest is not in jeopardy.
We all come from various experiences and relationships that shape our opinions and actions. We, as individual humans, can be incredibly generous and compassionate. We can be charitable and empathetic. Some are selfless. Most, however, only reach this level of "model citizenry" once they are sure that their own interests are taken care of. Survival, comfort, security for children… all are very natural variables which most humans consider of the highest importance. This fact can negatively impact the quality of compassion and empathy that a person gives to others.
Self-interest is not moral. Self-interest is not rational. Self-interest is certainly not charitable. And yet, everyone can relate to it. That is why the most genuinely selfless are hailed and canonized as heroes and saints… because they are the exceptions to this rule!
Taking that sentiment into consideration, it is easy to see why slavery became an entrenched part of our society. The value of a nation does not come from the land, but rather the productivity of people who develop it. Therefore, the more developed and productive your land and people were, the more value and power you had. Free labor was a commodity every person wanted; an increase in goods and productivity (with minimal cost) appeals to anyone who wants to increase their time and wealth. What started with indentured servitude built the backbone of slavery. After all, one only had their servant for seven years… what does one do when they've gotten accustomed to that type of "help"? . The threat of potentially losing that level of production and value than causes one to think about ways to keep a more permanent level of servitude… slavery is the most profitable.
In a cruel twist of irony, the Age of Reason, flourished in a time of rampant prejudice. One could easily rationalize a defense of slavery on the grounds of racial superiority…
All it takes is one generation for the institution to be so deeply entrenched in the society for people to be unwilling to change it. An institution where people can produce needed goods as cheaply and quickly as possible; while at the same time serving as motivation for others who want to achieve that kind of land, wealth, and power. This is the type of life most farmers wanted and many children grew up experiencing. One in which slaves are prevalent and considered a commodity, not a worker. Businessmen, both North and South, are seeing how popular and "free" this form of labor has become. They are motivated to invest and profit from this lucrative trade. Entire livelihoods are based on this institution. Compassion for the enslaved is lost under the profits and gains of the business world. Even those who would be willing to free slaves and pay them for their work, do not because they will be unable to compete with anyone who employs "free" slave labor. People have been willing to fight for their beliefs, do you really believe they would not do the same to maintain their livelihoods?
Thus the complexity of Human Nature: A person wants to do the right thing; yet when faced with the question of a person's value, they are selfish in nature.
But enough explaining… Now to the REAL purpose of this essay…..
A Brief(-ish) Message to Rational White People
Let's get something straight, rational white people: we need to seriously accept this fuck up. LET THE WHITE GUILT SINK IN. Own it. Let it make you feel sick and shameful. I am, to be honest, embarrassed at how much we, as a Caucasian collective, have NOT done this. We continue to reinforce painful ignorance, if not outright atrocities, towards minorities…
So listen up! I am reaching out to those good natured people who do not mean to be racist… yet still manage to pull it off ever-so convincingly… (We make it look so easy!) Let's summarize our "inglorious" track-record in a nutshell:
We kidnapped and stole a population of people from their homes in Africa
We put chains on them and took them to a far-off land, throwing away bodies of the dead in the ocean as if they were nothing
We spent 250 years raising their subsequent generations to be considered inferior creatures; treating them like animals
We fought a war that killed 650,000 men in it to abolish/maintain slavery (depending on which side we were fighting for)
We, the Northerners, shamelessly exploited the "rights" of the freed blacks in order to punish the Southerners, while putting little effort into trying to respect and repay the newly freed population
We, the Southerners, spent the next 100 years preventing the black population from the rights to run independent businesses, to own homes, to receive an education, to vote
We, the Northerners, spent the next 100 years denying jobs, housing, and a quality education to the black population because they were competing with what we already had.
We, the Southerners, maintained a consistent reign of terror on the black population through brutal violence, rape, and lynching as a method to maintain status quo.
We, the Northerners, did the same, but in a more covert way, encouraging blacks to stick to within their own culture or to become more white like us.
We were the bad guys in the Civil Rights Movement. We assaulted their heroes. We arrested their heroes. We sent the big bad FBI after their heroes. We murdered their heroes because at that time, they weren't "our" heroes
We all have maintained segregation despite the Voting Rights Act and Brown v. Board of Education through many ways, some of which include gerrymandered districts and the "White Flight" to the suburbs.
We maintained poverty in their communities, provided inferior education, and made it easy for drugs and guns to flow into the communities… and yet still remorselessly and condescendingly look down on these communities
We sent many of them to prison over petty crimes and then become shocked and horrified that they come out hardened… doing little to rehabilitate and educate them…
We built up this image of the dangerous young black man, terrifying all who are not one of them.
We allowed police to LITERALLY get away with murder…. all in the name of our "law and order."
We continue to exploit every aspect of their culture for the sake of "entertainment" while not realizing how ignorant we are of their history, struggle, joys, and celebrations which make up that "entertainment" …(Ignorant of ignorance… #ironic)
Oh, yea! We also treated our first black president like he was "un-American" for no reason other than just because he was colored and had a "weird" name…
In other words: WE, as a collective whole caucasian peoples, need to stop saying and doing just about everything and take some time to reflect.
We need to understand that "All Lives Matters" is exactly the tone-deaf response that members of the Black Lives Matter predicted we'd have. We missed the point that whites would be MORE sensitive if white people were dying in the same manner… because we were being too sensitive about ourselves first.
We need to stop saying "I don't see race" and "racism is done". We need to understand that we make these statements because we are PRIVILEGED enough not to know the feeling of being stopped and harassed for the color of our skin. We aren't reminded about race and their effects every day unless we go to seek it.
We need to stop complaining about Affirmative Action and start sending much needed suburban taxpayer money into poor urban school districts. It's called "equity". More resources need to be used to ameliorate the problems (which we caused) in order to maybe, just maybe, be able to provide a more equal playing-field in the generations to come.
Until we realize that we really don't know what it feels like to be a minority in this country, then we need to just sit down and shut the franklin up.
Sooooo, I know what you're thinking… I think…
I mean, you might have been waiting for the reading to get a bit more funny or sarcastic… or you could have stopped reading a long time ago… but in general you might be feeling overwhelmed with emotions like guilt, anger, annoyance, confusion, or hunger (it's a long essay…).
Let me help you and summarize the important take aways:
Us, Founding Fathers, reeeeeeeeally fucked up by maintaining and strengthening the institution of slavery; which means that white, straight, males are the cause of most (if not all) societal problems in America. Yea, I said it.
No matter the color of skin, all humans are capable of rationalizing prejudice and slavery because of a tendency towards self-preservation (FACT)
Regardless of the acknowledgement that all humans are capable of enslaving others, let me once again REITERATE that White Americans need to understand that we are to blame for the socio-economic problems within American society (#firstworldamericanproblems)
Whites are born with ZERO credibility to discuss race because our privilege blinds us to the prevalence of racism in daily life
Let me be frank…. -lin (BOOM! #puns): I don't expect any earth-shattering changes to come from this essay. I learned long ago that COMMON SENSE says that people do not want to be corrected…. even with COMMON SENSE. So my expectations are tempered, yet, if I managed to get you to walk away deep in reflection or more enlightened mind, then I did my job.
Remember, ignorance can be more dangerous and detrimental than outright hatred. Ignorance hides us from all forms of transgressions, robs us from our opportunities of growth and change, and allows us to maintain a status quo without feeling any sort of guilt. If White America can embrace the guilt, then we can begin to move in the right direction. If not? Well, then we will continue to grasp in the dark for that elusive objective that we, Founding Fathers, set out to create: A More Perfect Union.
May 29, 2017 May 31, 2017 Ben Franklin Tagged History, Memorial Day, Patriotism, Philadelphia, Politics, US History, USA	Leave a comment
Ben's Journal, Life and Times of the Philly O.G.
Introduction and F.A.Q.s
This might feel like a very odd and abstract concept for you to understand… but you are currently having a VERY one-sided conversation with Ben Franklin…
I understand that you have questions. I'll answer them shortly. But first let me say:
HEY! I'm back! Not newly back, though. I've actually been back for about 5 years now… soooo surprise!
I'm not old. I am 29 years old with a full head of reddish brown hair and a RAGING deficit of attention… wait that was disordered. BUT, I'm feeling crazy healthy and energetic. I got plans. I got goals. And I'm feeling ready to conquer the 21st century the way I dismantled the 18th century… like a total and complete BO$$.
But let's start with some FAQs:
Where have you been for the past five years???
It was 2012 when I was brought back, thanks to "science". Science was not being adequately supported and funded so the scientists couldn't afford to contain me. I had no time to acclimate to my new world. I was responsible for going out to make a living to support myself. They figured that, since every other 24 year old in the country was poor and in debt, I was on relatively equal footing. Their only condition was that, if I became successful and wealthy, I would turn around and use my wealth to fund and support Philadelphia education. I nodded and said, "Deal." And then I left…
After leaving the science laboratory, I wandered into my old stomping grounds, Olde City, or, as I called it, "Philadelphia". With no job, no identity, no passport, I needed money fast. Fortunately, I was able to quickly find a job, playing myself.
I stood at my grave, contemplating my future life. The printing trade was out of the question thanks to "computers". I had no applicable skills or experience to any business in this age. At that somber moment, a big rotund man in a brown colonial suit walk up with bifocals and a mullet… he was portraying Ben Franklin… me. He spoke with a muddled accent which was a pretty shitty impression, honestly… but as I listened to him regurgitate every aphorism and Poor Richards quote, it occurred to me: I could do the same thing he was doing, and make instant cash.
So I began giving tours. I did all types of tours in the city. Bus tours, walking costumed tours, neighborhood walking tours. Ghost tours. Beer tours. I played both "Ben Franklin" and an alias, mild-mannered "Anthony Nonymous" (NAWN-uh-MUSS). I was young, energetic, and… well I loved to learn. I remembered every question that I was unable to answer and would find the answer in my library. I was able to catch up on a lot of history and politics and culture this way… and my notebooks are extensive… like I could make money from my Franklin Notebooks. But I was excellent at tours. Every tour review for me was basically the same: "A. Nonymous is the best tour guide I've ever had. Seriously, the best tours come from A. Nonymous!"
After a couple years of giving tours, I had made connections with several schools whom I enjoyed working with. One school offered me a position as a substitute teacher. I said, "Of course!" Having mastered the tour industry, I was ready for a new challenge. Teaching students in Philadelphia seemed like a noble cause…
It wasn't. At least, not substitute teaching. Substitute teaching is not noble. Substitute teaching is battle. It's no-holds-barred. You walk in and show an ounce of fear, they know it… and they attack. I was NOT ready. I was a building substitute for a whole high school… this meant I didn't see students enough for them to respect me. Buttttt I still saw them enough for them to remember me and every mistake I made. And I made A LOT of mistakes. To be fair, if I were their age, I would've messed with me, too.
I felt like I finally had a noble challenge! I would educate these monsters until they respected and learned from me. It would be foolish to stay in the role of substitute; I needed my own classroom. I applied to schools around the city and was offered a position of senior English teacher at Franklin University Charter High School in Old City Philadelphia. It was FATE. I gladly took the position and spent the last 3 years learning how to teach. Nothing has been better for me to understand the current culture of my city than teaching.
(FAQ Continued Thursday…)
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Sights and Sounds from Steelers Practice: Cam Heyward, Defensive Line, Work on Hands
PITTSBURGH — Steelers defensive lineman Cam Heyward has been getting his hands on the ball a lot this season.
The Steelers' defensive captain has five passes defended this season, which is the most for a non-defensive back in the NFL.
But what big No. 97 really wants is to get and keep hands on the ball. Heyward has one fumble recovery this season. Heyward has never had two turnovers in a season in his entire NFL career.
He had one interception, in last season's opener against the New York Giants, but was unable to secure a second takeaway in 2020. Heyward has recovered six fumbles in his career, one each in 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and against the Buffalo Bills in this year's season opener.
Takeaways have been a theme for the Steelers defense when it comes to ways they can improve their play through five weeks. The Steelers as a team are averaging less than one takeaway per game, tied for 22nd in the NFL.
Friday at Steelers practice, Heyward and the rest of the defensive linemen — who are about the farthest thing from skill position players on the squad — nonetheless spent time working on scooping up fumbles and securing interceptions, in an effort to try to build up those numbers.
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When she started her job search in the fall of her senior year, Caitlin Strandberg '10 knew it wouldn't be easy. A history major from Orlando, Fla., she wasn't sure where she wanted to take her career. "I picked my major very, very late in the game," she says. At Cornell she had focused on classes and activities – particularly Slope Media, a student radio, TV and print organization she helped launch and run. When she did start looking for jobs, she set her sights on management consulting; but she quickly found that companies were hiring far fewer new graduates than they had in previous years.
"I never could have anticipated … how significantly the [economic] downturn had impacted the availability of entry-level jobs," she says. "You hear about it, but you think it can't be that bad – and then you go onto the [Cornell] Career Services website and you see all these companies that came last year and the year before, and it seems like it was slashed in half. Anything I was interested in was just not happening."
Two years after the financial crisis of 2008, and with the recovery from the Great Recession faltering, college graduates across the country are continuing to feel the effects of the 9.6 percent unemployment rate. Entry-level positions are scarce, and competition is fierce. With fewer companies actively recruiting, applicants have less opportunity to meet or talk to potential employers – and it's hard to make a strong impression through an online application. "It's really emotionally exhausting," Strandberg says.
But for Strandberg and many of her classmates, new vistas are opening up, and with them an unanticipated readjustment of expectations. With perseverance, creativity and a willingness to take calculated risks, the students are heading off on paths that are very different from – and, in many cases, much better than – the ones they had imagined for themselves just a few years ago. Some are finding themselves thrust into unexpected professional challenges, some are heading off to graduate school and yet others are finding inspiration in vocations, from Teach For America to the United Nations.
The economic climate is changing job searching in a positive way, says Rebecca Sparrow, director of Cornell Career Services. The new employment landscape is encouraging some graduates to take interesting side roads and explore areas that are less obvious, but that could ultimately turn out to be even more fulfilling.
"I think we're seeing a shift in the notion that you've got to be launching your ideal career leaving college," Sparrow says. "People are understanding that that's not the case. … In a way, the tough economy has opened students' eyes to reality a little bit earlier" in their lives.
Or as the now-employed Strandberg puts it: "The [economic] downturn kind of gives you an excuse to take a risk. And high risks reap high rewards. So why would you not use the excuse?"
The numbers reflect many of the changes affecting graduates' search for their first long-term jobs. Statistics show shifts that seem small when taken individually, but may be more significant from a big-picture perspective. Based on surveys of graduating seniors, 50 percent of the Class of 2009 (data from the Class of 2010 is still being collected) had found jobs by graduation or up to seven months afterward. That's down from 55.2 percent in 2008 and 56.4 percent in 2007. (Response rates are around 75 percent.) The lower figures in 2009 are partly because more graduates are staying in school for advanced degrees: 34.3 percent of the Class of 2009 went straight to grad school, compared with 32 percent in 2008 and 30.1 percent in 2007. And there is a small rise (15.7 percent, up from 12.8 percent in 2008) in the number of students who fall into the catch-all category "other endeavors," which includes short-term service jobs, volunteer positions, internships and fellowships; so-called "gap year" pursuits (ventures that allow graduates to explore new places or vocations for a year or so before entering either graduate school or a more permanent position, as well as those still looking for work.
"More students are looking at gap year opportunities – things like AmeriCorps or short-term fellowships that will help them build really excellent job skills but are not intended to be a long-term solution to the job puzzle," Sparrow says. "We are seeing a lot more flexibility."
The surveys also show that fewer seniors are relying on on-campus recruiting, which is greatly diminished. Instead, more are using networking and alumni connections. And colleges are reaching out to alumni more than ever. "We've had wonderful responses from alumni," says Mark Savage, director of the Office of Cooperative Education and Career Services in the College of Engineering. "There are jobs out there; they're just not going to be in your face like they were three years ago. You have to turn over some stones."
And harrowing as the uncertainty can sometimes be, it puts this year's graduates at an advantage in the long run, Sparrow adds. "When they have learned as undergrads about all these things – having a multipronged job search and doing networking – they're better able to manage their careers down the road. These students really are developing skills that will last. That's sort of a bitter lesson to learn, but down the road they'll be in better shape for taking the next steps in their careers."
In Strandberg's case, months of job searching led to some thorough soul searching. So when entrepreneur Scott Belsky '02 spoke about his New York City startup in one of her classes, something clicked.
She stuck around after the lecture and chatted with Belsky. The more she learned about his new company, which offers tools, products and information to help creative professionals organize their work online, the more she realized it was exactly the kind of job she was looking for.
On July 26 of this year, Strandberg joined the company as associate director of business development.
"In some ways, the recession prevented me from jumping into a role that wouldn't have fit my personality or been the best opportunity for me," she says. "This is exactly what I wanted, and in some cases I didn't even know that I wanted it."
She admits she is taking a risk by joining a startup company. But taking risks, job counselors say, can lead to valuable experiences at a time of life when job seekers are unencumbered by family responsibilities.
Stephanie Evans '10 has taken the lesson to heart. An applied economics and management major, she started her job search broadly, applying to various kinds of management training positions. She would have preferred employers to be attracted by her good grades and strong internship experiences, but as a peer adviser at the career center, she also knew that connections, persistence and creativity are what really count in this economy.
So she narrowed her focus to the industry she loves most: fashion. By early May, she was whisper-close to an offer that never came. But she persevered, and by June she was starting her first job as a merchandise assistant at Macy's. "People who are truly passionate about the work they do are the ones that are the most successful in their careers. And I want to be really successful," she says. "This is something I really want to do. I'm going to make something happen; it's just about staying persistent."
She notes the irony: Had the economy been better, "there would have been other opportunities in other industries ... and I would not have really looked into the fashion industry. I would not be following my passion."
Often that passion involves community service. Recently Larry Stevens '10 stepped back into the classroom – this time as a high school Spanish teacher in Washington, D.C., through Teach For America, a not-for-profit that trains recent college graduates and places them in teaching positions in underserved public schools.
Cornell is a major source of TFA recruits: Between 10 and 11 percent of graduating seniors apply to the program every year. Teaching wasn't what Stevens always imagined he would be doing after college. With a bachelor's degree in Africana studies, he had a long list of potential employment pursuits, including running his own company.
"But back in '08 when the economy got really bad, I started seeing the headlines. … I thought, teaching is something that I definitely should be doing now," he says.
That view was shaped by his early experience. Before winning a scholarship to a private high school, he attended public school in Jersey City, N.J. – one of the state's most troubled school systems. He remembers classes of 40 to 50 students and "an atmosphere of hopelessness."
"Teachers are there disciplining, not really investing personal time. You feel not loved; you feel unwanted. That sticks with you," he says.
He hopes to help change that mindset for the next generation, first as a teacher and eventually as a principal and administrator. "I want to go to D.C. and have black male students look at me and say, 'You did it; I know I can.'"
Beyond the chance to make a difference, TFA also offered something crucial for a family in which a grandmother and siblings count on Stevens for support. "Everything was definitely gearing me toward staying focused and making sure that I had a job, because I can't afford to not [have a job]," he says.
Helping to improve underperforming schools is appealing even for students who have a financial safety net, says Ian Hillis, director of recruiting for TFA at Cornell. The economy leads students to reflect on others who are not as lucky as themselves, he says, and to look for ways to help.
Ideals about helping fix society have a long tradition at Cornell. Between 25 and 35 Cornell graduates enter the Peace Corps every year, and this year many more students are seeking jobs with the federal government, both domestically and abroad.
"Since the financial crisis hit, I've seen a huge upswing in the number of graduate students interested in federal employment opportunities … and in working within the United Nations," says Thomas O'Toole, assistant director for professional development at the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs.
O'Toole attributes this to the decrease in private-sector hiring, to more projected government vacancies, as well as to a renewed optimism among young people about the power of government to effect positive change. "Cornell is well positioned to become an attractive target institution for federal employers," he says, which is only fitting for one of the original land-grant universities.
The Peace Corps isn't the only draw for Cornell students with wanderlust. Jonathan Soh and Jack Cao, both '10, headed overseas after graduation, but without leaving Cornell. The two are teaching assistants at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar – a gap year job they chose for the cultural and teaching experience.
Cao is a teaching assistant for Psychology 101 – a job he had held as an undergraduate and calls "the defining experience" of his college career.
"The one big regret I have during college is not studying abroad," he says. "I see going to Qatar as a way to fulfill that [goal] – to have that abroad experience while doing something I love."
And the paycheck helps, too, he says. "After my parents spending so much money for an undergraduate education at Cornell, it's hard to ask them to shell out more money for graduate school. I'd like to take on as much of that financial burden on my own as possible."
Soh agrees. "Given the dismal financial landscape, it was especially important that my time off from schooling wouldn't create an additional financial burden for me and my family."
For graduating law students, the landscape has changed dramatically just over the last year. Most large law firms have cut their hiring by half or more in the last two years, even as the number of new law graduates is rising. And because law students are usually offered jobs by the summer before their third year based on interviews that start a year earlier, the Class of 2009 was the first to feel the effects of the 2008 crash.
Last spring, the Law School added a staff member to its career office to help. "If you compare the number of law students in the United States generally to the number of jobs that are predictably available from one year to the next, there's a supply and demand problem," says John DeRosa, assistant dean for student and career services. "To say that this market is brutal, and will probably continue to be – if anything, that's an understatement. So we need to do everything we can possibly do to uncover every quality opportunity there is."
And the school is reaching out to alumni more than ever before, he adds. "The bad news is, the market requires us to do that. The good news is, the alumni have been incredibly helpful."
They have also expanded and redesigned an externship course to offer credit to students for summer internships, a step that allows employers not traditionally in a position to offer paid summer positions (such as judges, government agencies, nonprofits and corporations) to increase their use of law student talent during the summer.
"Historically, most of the students in [the externship course] worked for federal judges. This is the first year in which we've really tried to generate a private sector component," DeRosa says. By granting course credit, the program allows firms and companies to take on students as volunteers – a practice otherwise restricted by labor laws.
Overall, he says, the tough market is likely to affect graduates from schools with less prestige much more than those from Cornell.
"I'm biased, but I think the benefit of going to a very good, very highly regarded law school – as difficult as the market is, [it's] going to become more pronounced," he says.
And as with other Cornell students, members of the Law School's Classes of 2009 and 2010 are finding a few golden opportunities in the recession.
Like many of their classmates, Silvia Babikian, J.D. '09, and Rebecca Vernon, J.D. '10, secured positions with law firms in New York well before they graduated only to find their starting dates deferred for six months or more. In the meantime, their firms are paying them a stipend to work for a nonprofit or community service organization.
Babikian started work at the American Civil Liberties Union in Los Angeles last fall, gaining an opportunity to work on major cases that very few first-year associates get.
The first case she worked on, Salazar v. Buono, challenged the constitutionality of a religious symbol on federal land and was recently heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. "I honestly didn't expect that I would get this kind of experience," she says. "I like the sense that I really have an impact on someone's life with the work that I do."
Vernon's interim work also has national significance. Working with law professor Cynthia Farina, she's designing and testing a website to make the federal rulemaking process more transparent and accessible to the public.
Federal rulemaking is "an incredibly participatory part of our federal government's work," Vernon says. "Federal agencies are actually required by the courts to respond to citizens' comments. I'd like to make people more aware of that."
In the spring, the website project, which partners with the U.S. Department of Transportation, used the site to explain a proposed federal ban on texting while driving by commercial truck and bus drivers.
"This isn't where I thought I would end up," she says, "but I'm so happy to be where I am."


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package org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.solace.notifiers;

import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.api.APIManagementException;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.api.model.APIKey;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.api.model.APIRevisionDeployment;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.api.model.Application;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.api.model.Environment;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.api.model.SubscribedAPI;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.impl.APIConstants;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.impl.dao.ApiMgtDAO;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.impl.notifier.ApplicationRegistrationNotifier;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.impl.notifier.events.ApplicationRegistrationEvent;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.impl.notifier.events.Event;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.impl.notifier.exceptions.NotifierException;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.impl.utils.APIUtil;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.solace.utils.SolaceConstants;
import org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.solace.utils.SolaceNotifierUtils;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * This class controls the Solace Broker deployed Application Key generation flow
 */
public class SolaceKeyGenNotifier extends ApplicationRegistrationNotifier {

    protected ApiMgtDAO apiMgtDAO;
    private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(SolaceKeyGenNotifier.class);

    @Override
    public boolean publishEvent(Event event) throws NotifierException {
        if (SolaceNotifierUtils.isSolaceEnvironmentDefined()) {
            apiMgtDAO = ApiMgtDAO.getInstance();
            process(event);
        }
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * Process Application notifier event related to key generation related to Solace Applications
     *
     * @param event related to Key generation handling
     * @throws NotifierException if error occurs when casting event
     */
    private void process(Event event) throws NotifierException {
        ApplicationRegistrationEvent applicationRegistrationEvent;
        applicationRegistrationEvent = (ApplicationRegistrationEvent) event;

        if (APIConstants.EventType.APPLICATION_REGISTRATION_CREATE.name().equals(event.getType())) {
            syncSolaceApplicationClientId(applicationRegistrationEvent);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Syncing consumer key of the dev portal applications with applications on the Solace broker
     *
     * @param event ApplicationEvent to sync Solace applications with dev portal applications
     * @throws NotifierException if error occurs when patching applications on the Solace broker
     */
    private void syncSolaceApplicationClientId(ApplicationRegistrationEvent event) throws NotifierException {

        // get list of subscribed APIs in the application
        try {
            Application application = apiMgtDAO.getApplicationByUUID(event.getApplicationUUID());
            Map<String, Environment> gatewayEnvironments = APIUtil.getReadOnlyGatewayEnvironments();
            Set<SubscribedAPI> subscriptions = apiMgtDAO.getSubscribedAPIs(application.getSubscriber(),
                    application.getName(), application.getGroupId());
            boolean isContainsSolaceApis = false;
            String organizationNameOfSolaceDeployment = null;
            labelOne:
            //Check whether the application needs to be updated has a Solace API subscription
            for (SubscribedAPI api : subscriptions) {
                List<APIRevisionDeployment> deployments = apiMgtDAO.getAPIRevisionDeploymentByApiUUID(api.
                        getIdentifier().getUUID());
                for (APIRevisionDeployment deployment : deployments) {
                    if (gatewayEnvironments.containsKey(deployment.getDeployment())) {
                        if (SolaceConstants.SOLACE_ENVIRONMENT.equalsIgnoreCase(gatewayEnvironments.get(deployment.
                                getDeployment()).getProvider())) {
                            isContainsSolaceApis = true;
                            organizationNameOfSolaceDeployment = gatewayEnvironments.get(deployment.getDeployment()).
                                    getAdditionalProperties().get(SolaceConstants.SOLACE_ENVIRONMENT_ORGANIZATION);
                            break labelOne;
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
            // Patching consumerKey to Solace application using Admin Apis
            if (isContainsSolaceApis) {
                String consumerSecret = application.getName() + "-application-secret";
                for (APIKey key : application.getKeys()) {
                    if (key.getConsumerKey().equals(event.getConsumerKey())) {
                        consumerSecret = key.getConsumerSecret();
                    }
                }
                SolaceNotifierUtils.patchSolaceApplicationClientId(organizationNameOfSolaceDeployment,
                        application, event.getConsumerKey(), consumerSecret);
            }
        } catch (APIManagementException e) {
            throw new NotifierException(e.getMessage());
        }
    }

}

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Q: Volley How to order Requests i want to call 3 service methods (A B and C)  back to back. The important point is B must be called after response received from A and same situation between B and C as well. I add all of requests to queue using RequestQueue.add(...). But now request B is called before receiving response from A. Is it possible to manage this using volley library.
I know i can do request B after receiving response from A but i want to know can volley does this work.

A: You can implement your own Response listener so you can call A to B and B to C in the response callback method.
There is a simple example here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17278867/508126
Volley can't do it itself but it can do it if you implement Response.Listener and add your logic in it

A: You can't give request an order, but you can make them run one after another. For this you need to implement your own RequestQueue.
Here is sample which demonstrates how to make all your requests execute in the same order, in which you added them to queue, since it uses single thread execution.
// Copied from Volley.newRequestQueue(..); source code
File cacheDir = new File(context.getCacheDir(), "def_cahce_dir");

String userAgent = "volley/0";
try {
    String packageName = context.getPackageName();
    PackageInfo info = context.getPackageManager().getPackageInfo(packageName, 0);
    userAgent = packageName + "/" + info.versionCode;
} catch (PackageManager.NameNotFoundException e) {
}

if (stack == null) {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 9) {
        stack = new HurlStack();
    } else {
        // Prior to Gingerbread, HttpUrlConnection was unreliable.
        // See: http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/09/androids-http-clients.html
        stack = new HttpClientStack(AndroidHttpClient.newInstance(userAgent));
    }
}

int threadPoolSize = 1; // means only one request at a time
RequestQueue queue = new RequestQueue(new DiskBasedCache(cacheDir), network, threadPoolSize);
queue.start();


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