Chicago's MCA, one of the world's largest contemporary museums, engages audiences with new galleries of skillfully curated post-World War II pieces.
Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) first and foremost hopes to achieve what almost every museum strives for: an environment where the artist inspires audience engagement. That's why Director Madeline Grynsztejn told the Chicago Tribune in June 2011 that the museum would be employing a new artistic team and layout to reform its identity. Where it's not enough to just see art, but to experience it as well.
This monumental $16 million project by architects Johnston Marklee was completed just in time to celebrate the MCA's 50th anniversary in October 2017. The museum now boasts over 5,000 artifacts, most of which are thoughtfully dispersed throughout four floors. Additionally, visitors will get the chance to participate in gallery talks and book signings with the artists whose work is currently showcased. An equally artistic street-level restaurant accompanies the MCA. It's safe to say that every corner of the MCA is graced with new opportunities to engage; the museum has undoubtedly achieved its goal.
Enter the MCA and you will encounter the museum's permanent collection and emerging contemporary artwork. More than 2,500 art objects representing media and movements from the 1920s onward appear in rotating exhibitions. Among the pieces from the permanent collection are black and white twin DNA samples, post-World War II sentiments, humans as abstract concepts and bold geometric shapes brought to life with vivid colors and perspectives.
Integrated into the permanent collection pieces was the MCA's celebration of its 50th anniversary with the major three-part exhibition: We Are Here. This international selection, which contemplated human existence on earth, was curated by the museum's international team: Omar Kholeif, Naomi Beckwith and José Esparza.
While most of the We Are Here exhibitions have been taken down, there is still a magnificent range of artists and art objects available for viewing at the MCA. Nigerian-born artist Otobong Nkanga graced the main floor in March 2018 with West African pieces and performances in To Dig a Hole that Collapses Again. Here, Nkanga reminisces on the past, but through connecting art from memory and performance to postcolonial history. In particular, almost all of the artist's pieces shed light on capitalists' neglect of the world's natural treasures. Other works illustrate environmental shortcomings of Nigeria's oil industry through the use of textiles and canvased figures crafted with well-defined lines.
The pristine white spiral staircase leading to the third and fourth floors is greeted by a pale green, aquamarine and yellow web called Water Falls from My Breast to the Sky, one of the pieces from the Art in Free Spaces project. Constructed by Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, the crochet cotton spanning from the ceiling to an organic cushion is meant to stimulate the senses.
Joining the fourth floor in until May 2018 is Howardena Pindell's What Remains to be Seen. Pindell's work consists of abstract and concrete paintings covered in unusual materials, such as talcum powder, perfume and glitter. This artist, whose career has lasted an impressive 50 years, uses her art to recall life challenges, including struggles with identity and with recovering from a near-fatal car accident in 1979.
Installation view, Howardena Pindell: What Remains to be Seen. Photo: Nathan Keay. Courtesy of the MCA.
Many Tongues: Art Language and Revolution in the Middle East and South Asia (coming October 2019) is a comprehensive exhibition brought to the MCA by international artists of nearly all ages. Together, they retrace history from 1947 to the present from different perspectives. In a vein similar to other artists, the gallery of over 250 art objects focuses on postcolonial areas of the world and how the human race speaks to these societal changes.
The MCA does not forget that societal issues and feelings of nostalgia are worth dissecting as well. For one, is it possible to feel free outside the boundaries of our physical bodies? Paul Heyer presents his own interpretation of Chicago Works through July 2018. He draws from '90s rave culture and quotidian objects to explore the body's freedom outside of mortality.
Paul Heyer, FOREVER, 2015. Photo: Robert Heishman, courtesy of the artist, Chapter-NY and the MCA.
Visitors should also check out four other exhibits that will be showing well into this year. The exhibition I Was Raised on the Internet examines how technological advances and daily news, from Wikileaks to the 2011 Arab Spring, influence younger generations. Also available is Virgil Abloh's Not New, Now, in which the fashion designer extends his talents to the contemporary art world through modern day influences like Kanye West. Takashi Murakami is another artist who has worked closely with the musician and famed fashion designer Louis Vuitton. His pink exhibit, entitled Jellyfish Eyes, is currently on view.
Finish the tour by taking in the leafy gold ceiling lights radiating from the main floor's Commons, followed by a bite to eat at Marisol on the lower level. The Commons, known for its upscale take on foliage, was designed and unveiled by Chicago artist Edra Soto in October. Soto specifically encourages viewers to channel their thoughts about civic engagement on paper with writing stations and through performances held in the public space.
After a few moments in the free space, continue to the lower level for more fine art, coupled with food at Marisol. The restaurant is named after Marisol Escobar, who contributed the museum's first permanent collection item. It features artwork of its own from award-winning artist Chris Ofili, who experiments with vibrant colors across a variety of media in a floor-to-ceiling mural called The Sorceress' Mirror.
Marisol, Kendall McCaugherty – Hall+Merrick. Courtesy of the MCA.
Find more information about collection items, upcoming exhibitions, performances and ticket sales on the MCA's website.


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The Journal of Headache and Pain
Research article | Open | Published: 14 August 2018
Aggression and its association with suicidality in migraine patients: a case-control study
Sung-Pa Park1 &
Jong-Geun Seo1
The Journal of Headache and Painvolume 19, Article number: 67 (2018) | Download Citation
To identify aggression and its association with suicidality in migraine patients.
We enrolled 144 migraine patients who made their first visit to our headache clinic. We collected data regarding their clinical characteristics and the patients completes the Aggression Questionnaire (AQ) and other questionnaires. We also interviewed patients with the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview—Plus Version 5.0.0 (MINI) to identify their suicidality. The degree of aggression in migraine patients was compared to the degree of aggression in healthy controls. Major determinants for aggression and its association with suicidality were also examined.
The overall AQ score and anger and hostility subscale scores were higher in migraine patients than controls. For migraine chronicity, patients with chronic migraine (CM) had a higher overall AQ score and physical aggression, anger, and hostility subscale scores than controls. On the other hand, all AQ scores in patients with episodic migraine were not different from the scores of the controls. Although several factors were associated with the overall AQ score, major determinants were anxiety (ß = 0.395, p < 0.001), headache intensity (ß = 0.180, p = 0.016), and CM (ß = − 0.165, p = 0.037). Patients who had suicidality based on the MINI showed a higher overall AQ score than patients without suicidality (p < 0.001).
Aggression is likely to be a common feature in CM. Comorbid aggression may help to identify suicidality in migraine patients.
Migraine is a disabling neurological disorder due to recurrent attacks of headache and accompanying psychosomatic symptoms such as depression, anxiety, sleep problems, and fatigue [1,2,3]. These symptoms restrict daily activities, heighten mortality, impair quality of life and increase the social burden [1, 3, 4]. Migraine was a main cause of burden for the Korean public in a review study on global burden of disease in 2013 [5]. For these reasons, migraine patients should be managed appropriately to lessen those problems.
Aggression is a psychobehavioral symptom defined as overt, often harmful, social interaction that is intended to inflict damage or other unpleasantness on another people [6]. It places substantial burden and costs on human society [7]. Aggression takes a variety of forms including aggression-related feelings, such as anger or hostility, and aggression-related behaviors such as physical or verbal aggression [8]. Data from human and animal studies suggested that the amygdala and associated limbic structures, the frontal lobes, the periaqueductal gray, and the hypothalamus were responsible for the manifestation of aggression [9]. Aggressive behaviors have been commonly reported in psychiatric disorders, such as intermittent explosive disorder, psychosis, and substance abuse, and in neurological disorders, such as epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease [10].
Migraine patients have been reported to exhibit aggressive behavior as a specific personality traits, along with neuroticism and borderline personality disorder (BPD) [11]. Migraine patients showing neuroticism were more likely to experience depression, anxiety, fear, anger, frustration, and envy than ordinary people [12]. Moreover, patients with a high level of neuroticism were at risk for the development of psychiatric disorders [11]. The hallmark features of BPD are fluctuating instability in self-image, interpersonal relationships, and emotions [13]. Intense mood swings, impulsive behaviors, and extreme reactions can make it difficult for people with BPD to complete schooling, maintain stable jobs and have long-lasting, healthy relationships. Approximately, 10% of people affected by BPD kill themselves [13]. Due to these reasons, the existence of aggression is likely to be an important issue in migraine patients. However, the nature of aggression in migraine patients has been underrecognized and has not been examined systematically.
Aggression occurs in relation to physical pain. In the General Aggression Model, physical pain as a situational factor influences cognitions, feelings, and arousal, which in turn affects appraisal and decision processes, which in turn influence aggressive or nonaggressive behavioral outcomes [14]. Migraine patients suffer from recurrent severe headache as physical pain. In this context, it is important to understand the appearance of aggression in relation to the appearance of a headache. Aggression is a facilitator for aggravating suicidality levels up to highly lethal suicidal attempts in the atmosphere of unbearable mental pain including depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and distress [15]. Migraine has been known to be associated with depression, anxiety, and suicidality [2, 16]. Therefore, it is also important to acknowledge aggression in relation to suicidality in migraine patients because lethal suicidal attempts are associated with mortality. Therefore, the aim of our study is to investigate the clinical significance of aggression and its association with suicidality in migraine patients.
New patients with migraine who consecutively visited our headache clinic were enrolled from January 2017 to September 2017. Patients aged between 20 and 70 were included. Patients were diagnosed by the International Classification of Headache Disorders 3rd edition, beta version [17]. Patients who had illiteracy, mental retardation, serious medical, neurological, or psychiatric disorders, and history of alcohol or drug abuse that prevented them from cooperating with us during the study were excluded. Patients who refused to complete questionnaires and whose diagnosis was a probable migraine were also excluded. Initially, 163 new patients visited our clinic. Of them, 19 patients were excluded due to a probable migraine diagnosis (n = 8), refusal to enter the study (n = 7), younger age (n = 3), and illiteracy (n = 1). In the end, 144 patients were eligible for the study. The same number of age-, gender-, and education-matched healthy controls were also invited to participate. They were university students, office workers, teachers, or hospital employees.
This is a case-control study. The Institutional Review Board of Kyungpook National University Hospital approved the study. All participants gave written informed consent. SP Park interviewed each patient and collected demographic and clinical information. We collected data on their employment and household income, height and weight, age at onset of migraine, duration of migraine, type of migraine, migraine chronicity, family history of migraine, medication overuse headache (MOH), headache intensity, and associated symptoms including nausea and/or vomiting, photophobia, phonophobia, osmophobia, and allodynia. Body mass index (BMI) was calculated from height and weight. Headache intensity was measured by a visual analog scale (VAS). Patients were asked to describe the highest intensity of headache in the preceding 4 weeks. Photophobia, phonophobia, and osmophobia during migraine attacks were defined as hypersensitivity to light, sound, and certain odors, respectively. Allodynia was measured by the 12-item Allodynia Symptom Checklist (ASC-12) with a cut-off score of > 2 to define allodynic patients [18].
Eligible subjects completed several self-reported questionnaires, including the Aggression Questionnaire (AQ) [19], the Migraine Disability Assessment Scale (MIDAS) [20], the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) [21], the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) [22], the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) [23], and the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) [24]. A trained neuropsychologist assessed the suicidality of patients with the suicidality module of the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview—Plus Version 5.0.0 (MINI) [25].
Aggression questionnaire (AQ)
The AQ was developed by Buss and Perry; it measures aggressive behavior and consists of 29 items in four subscales: Physical Aggression (9 items), Verbal Aggression (5 items), Anger (7 items) and Hostility (8 items) [26]. Responses to all items are given on a five-point Likert scale ranging from 'never' (1) to 'always' (5); subscale scores can be summed to obtain an overall score. Higher scores indicate greater aggression. A validated Korean version of the AQ has been produced [19]. During the validation process, a decision was taken to omit two of the original items from the anger subscale ('Some of my friends think I'm a hothead' and 'Sometimes I fly off the handle for no good reason') because they related more to verbal aggression and hostility than anger. For this study, 27 items were used for the evaluation of aggression. Cronbach's a coefficient for the Korean version of the AQ was 0.86.
Migraine disability assessment scale (MIDAS)
The Korean version of the MIDAS includes a 5-item questionnaire to evaluate disability during the past three months [20]. Scores were used to measure the overall level of disability. Cronbach's α coefficient of this scale was 0.75.
Patient health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)
The Korean version of the PHQ-9 has been validated in patients with migraine [21]. It includes nine items pertaining to DSM-IV criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD). The overall score ranges from 0 to 27, with a higher score indicating a higher degree of depressive symptoms. Cronbach's α coefficient of this scale was 0.894.
Generalized anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7)
The Korean version of the GAD-7 has been validated in patients with migraine [22]. It consists of seven items pertaining to DSM-IV criteria for GAD. The overall score ranges from 0 to 21, with a higher score meaning a higher degree of anxiety symptoms. Cronbach's α coefficient of this scale was 0.915.
Epworth sleepiness scale (ESS)
The Korean version of the ESS has been validated in patients with obstructive sleep apnea [23]. ESS is composed of eight questions, each of them asking about the subject's likelihood of dozing off or falling asleep in a particular situation that is common in daily life. A higher score indicates a higher subjective sleepiness. Cronbach's α coefficient of ESS was 0.917.
Insomnia severity index (ISI)
The Korean version of the ISI has been validated in patients with sleep disorders [24]. The ISI is a seven-item questionnaire that measures patient's perception of insomnia severity. Its total score ranges from 0 to 28, with a higher score indicating a greater insomnia severity. Cronbach's α coefficient of ISI was 0.92.
MINI international neuropsychiatric interview—Plus version 5.0.0 (MINI)
The MINI is a brief, structured interview based on DSM-IV criteria [25]. For identifying suicidality, a neuropsychologist (JH Lee) conducted the suicidality module of the MINI. It is composed of six questions that are weighted differently, and include five questions asking about current suicidality (which includes suicidal ideation or an attempt in the preceding month; the questions were about a wish for death [weight 1], a wish for self-harm [weight 2], suicidal thoughts [weight 6], a suicide plan [weight 10], and a suicide attempt [weight 10], and one question asking about lifetime suicide attempts [weight 4]). If respondents said "yes" for at least one of the six questions, they were thought to have suicidality. The degree of current suicidality was estimated from the sum of the weighted score of the six questions, with low (1–5), moderate (6–9), and high (≥10) levels of suicide risk.
Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 22.0) was used for data analysis. Descriptive statistics are presented as counts, percentages, means, and standard deviations. Student's t-test or chi-squared test was applied to compare two groups. To determine the relationship between various independent variables and the overall AQ score, Pearson's correlation coefficient was determined. Dummy variables are used for categorial variables. Variables having significant correlation with the overall AQ score were then included in multiple linear regression analyses with stepwise selection using entry and exit probabilities of 0.05 and 0.1, respectively. Statistical significance was considered at p < 0.05.
Demographic, socioeconomic, clinical, and psychosomatic characteristics in migraine patients compared with healthy controls are listed in Table 1. Demographic and socioeconomic states and BMI in migraine patients were not different from those of healthy controls. Of 144 migraine patients, 56 patients (38.8%) had chronic migraine (CM) and 35 patients (24.3%) had suicidality.
Table 1 Characteristics of migraine patients and healthy controls
The degree of aggression in migraine patients compared with healthy controls is documented in Table 2. Mean scores of the overall AQ, anger, and hostility were significantly higher in migraine patients than the score of the controls (p < 0.05 for the overall AQ score, p < 0.01 for anger and hostility). In CM patients, mean scores of the overall AQ, physical aggression, anger, and hostility were significantly higher than the scores of the controls (p < 0.05 for physical aggression, p < 0.01 for the overall AQ score, anger and hostility). On the other hand, all scores of the AQ in episodic migraine (EM) patients were not different from the scores of the controls.
Table 2 Aggression in migraine patients compared with healthy controls
Factors associated with the overall AQ score by univariate analyses in migraine patients are described in Table 3. Patients with CM, a higher headache intensity, and a higher score on the PHQ-9, the GAD-7, the ESS, and the ISI were associated with higher overall AQ scores. Major determinants for the overall AQ score by multivariate analyses in migraine patients are shown in Table 4. The strongest determinants was anxiety (ß = 0.395, p < 0.001), followed by headache intensity (ß = 0.180, p = 0.016) and CM (ß = − 0.165, p = 0.037).
Table 3 Factors associated with the overall AQ score by univariate analyses in migraine patients
Table 4 Major determinants for the overall AQ score by multivariate analyses in migraine patients
Of patients showing suicidality (n = 35), 23 patients (68.6%) had a low level of suicide risk, 7 patients (20.0%) had a moderate level of suicide risk, and 4 patients (11.4%) had a high level of suicide risk. A lifetime suicide attempt was noted in 16 patients (45.7%). Regarding to migraine chronicity, the frequency of suicidality in CM patients (24 of 56 patients, 42.9%) was significantly higher than the frequency of suicidality in EM patients (11 of 88 patients, 12.5%) (p < 0.001). Mean scores of the overall AQ with respect to the existence of suicidality are illustrated in Fig. 1. Mean score of the overall AQ was significantly higher in patients having suicidality than patients with no suicidality (p < 0.001).
Comparison of the overall AQ score between patients having suicidality (n = 35) and those having no suicidality (n = 109). Mean score of the overall AQ was significantly higher in patients having suicidality than the mean score of patients having no suicidality (p < 0.001). Suicidality was determined by the MINI. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals. AQ: Aggression Questionnaire, MINI: Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview—Plus Version 5.0.0
Although migraine seems to be associated with aggression, there are a few studies to examine the clinical significance of aggression in migraine patients. In a hospital-based study, migraine patients and tension-type headache (TTH) patients had a higher degree of hostility than healthy controls [27]. Migraine patients and TTH patients showed a significantly higher level of angry temperament and angry reaction [28]. Difficulty in anger management with a tendency to hypercontrol was shown in migraine patients compared with healthy controls [29]. In a multicenter study, self-aggression in migraine patients compared to healthy controls showed a trend towards higher scores due to a small sample size [30]. It was correlated with the level of headache-related disability. For CM patients, the frequency of passive-aggressive personality disorder was higher than the frequency of this disorder in healthy controls, and personality disorders were correlated with the MIDAS scores [31]. Taken together, these results seem to suggest that migraine patients are more likely to have aggression and to experience disability than healthy controls. Although we reported a higher level of aggression in migraine patients than controls, this appearance was confined to CM patients. Moreover, the degree of aggression was not correlated with the MIDAS score. Therefore, we suggest aggression may be a specific feature for CM regardless of headache-related disability.
We found CM, headache intensity, depression, anxiety, daytime somnolence, and insomnia as associated factors for aggression. However, major determinants for aggression were anxiety, headache intensity, and CM. That means depression and sleep problems are not critical for aggression after controlling for anxiety, headache intensity, and CM. It is well known that CM patients are more likely to have depression and sleep problems than EM patients [4, 32], and severe headache can elicit depression and sleep problems [33]. The reason why anxiety was the strongest factor for aggression may be attributed to a common pathology underlying anxiety and aggression. Amygdala function is known to play an important role in anxiety [34] and is also associated with emotional control processes and aggression [9]. Therefore, it is possible to suppose that anxious persons can also be aggressive. The contribution of headache intensity to aggression can be explained by the General Aggression Model [14]. We presume that recurrent severe headache as a situational factor is likely to induce aggression in migraine patients.
We do not consider anxiety and headache intensity as migraine-specific factors for aggression. These factors can be associated with aggression in other types of headache. For example, patients with cluster headaches and accompanying severe pain have been reported to have aggression [30]. On the other hand, migraine chronicity is likely to be a specific situation for provoking aggression in migraine patients. Recently, a high-resolution functional MRI study demonstrated that the hypothalamus played a crucial role in the pathophysiology of migraine chronification [35]. Because the hypothalamus is also an important pathogenic substrate for aggression, we presume aggression is likely to be a phenomenon of migraine chronicity. Further neuroimaging studies are needed to clarify the relationship between aggression and CM.
Migraine has been known to be associated with suicidality. In a systemic review of the literature, a modest positive association between migraine and suicidal ideation was found [16]. We also observed through psychiatric interviews, a high proportion (24.3%) of migraine patients had suicidal ideation or attempt. Because suicidality is closely related to mortality in mental disorders, it is important to identify risk factors for suicidality to lessen mortality. We found the overall AQ score was higher in patients with suicidality than those without suicidality. That means aggression may reflect suicidal ideation or attempt in migraine patients. Actually, in a genetic study of women with CM, those with affective temperaments including irritability were more likely to exhibit suicidal behavior [36]. Therefore, asking about aggressive feelings or behaviors in migraine patients will be another option for identifying suicidality, especially if clinicians feel uncomfortable asking them about suicidal ideation or attempts directly.
Our study has some limitations. First, subjects in a single tertiary hospital were investigated. Therefore, our results cannot be generalized. Second, this was a cross-sectional study. Causal relationships between variables could not be confirmed. We already presumed aggression was likely to be a phenomenon related to migraine chronicity due to sharing of pathologic substrates. However, it is also possible that aggression affected by recurrent migraine attack may induce functional changes of the brain and subsequently elicit CM. A longitudinal study is recommended to verify the causal relationship. Third, the suicidality module in the MINI includes questions about suicidal ideation and harming oneself. These do not always reflect actually committing suicide and increasing mortality. However, because aggression is a facilitator for aggravating suicidality levels to highly lethal suicidal attempts [15], further studies should be conducted to elucidate a role of aggression in the mortality of migraine patients.
We found that the overall AQ score was higher in migraine patients than controls. Patients with CM had a higher overall AQ score and physical aggression, anger, and hostility subscale scores than controls. On the other hand, all AQ scores in patients with EM were not different from those of controls. Aggression is likely to be a common feature in CM. Major determinants for the overall AQ score were anxiety, headache intensity, and CM. Patients who had suicidality showed a higher overall AQ score than those without suicidality. Therefore, the recognition and proper management of aggression will be helpful for reducing mortality in CM patients.
AQ:
Aggression Questionnaire
ASC-12:
12-item Allodynia Symptom Checklist
BMI:
BPD:
episodic migraine
ESS:
Epworth Sleepiness Scale
GAD:
ISI:
insomnia severity index
MDD:
MIDAS:
Migraine Disability Assessment Scale
Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview
MOH:
PHQ:
Patient Health Questionnaire
tension-type headache
VAS:
Visual Analog Scale
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The authors thank Ju-Hui Lee, a neuropsychologist, for her help with the completion of self-report questionnaires and the psychiatric interview.
Part of the dataset supporting the conclusions of this article is available on request to the corresponding author.
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SPP took part in the design of the study and contributed to data collection. SPP participated in the writing of the manuscript. JGS contributed to data analysis. All authors agreed to accept equal responsibility for the accuracy of the content of the paper. Both authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Sung-Pa Park.
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Q: PyQt connecting signal from QComboBox inside the QTreeWidgetItem I've made a QTreeWidget where I have comboBox as a QTreeWidgetItem.  How do I hook up the signal correctly so that each comboxBox index changed will change the same row in the treeWidget ?

Say if I change the action in row itemB from Add to Remove.  It will change itemB backgroundColor to somethingelse...
data = { 'GroupA': [
                  {'itemA': {'action' : 'Add'}},
                  {'itemB':{'action' : 'Updates'}},
                  ],
        'GroupB': [
                  {'someOtherItemA': {'action' : 'Updates'}},
                  {'someOtherItemA':{'action' : 'Add'}},
                  ]

        }

class Window(QtGui.QMainWindow):

    def __init__(self, parent=None):
        super(Window, self).__init__(parent)

        self.treeWidget=QtGui.QTreeWidget(self)
        self.treeWidget.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(50,20,450,240))

        self.header=QtGui.QTreeWidgetItem(["Item","Action"])
        self.treeWidget.setHeaderItem(self.header)

        for group in data:
            groupItem=QtGui.QTreeWidgetItem(self.treeWidget)
            groupItem.setText(0,group)
            groupItem.setFlags( QtCore.Qt.ItemIsEnabled )

            for itemDict in data[group]:
                for item in itemDict:

                    itemWidget=QtGui.QTreeWidgetItem(groupItem, [item])
                    itemWidget.setText(0, item)

                    action = itemDict[item]['action']
                    self.action = self._actionCombo()
                    self.treeWidget.setItemWidget(itemWidget, 1, self.actionCombo)
                    slotLambda = lambda: self.actionChanged(itemWidget)
                    self.action.currentIndexChanged.connect(slotLambda)

        self.treeWidget.expandAll()

    @QtCore.pyqtSlot(QtGui.QTreeWidgetItem)
    def actionChanged(self, treeWidgetItem):
        treeWidgetItem.setBackgroundColor(0, QtGui.QColor(0,0,0))

    def _actionCombo(self):

        self.actionCombo = QtGui.QComboBox()
        actionLists = ['Add', 'Updates', 'Keep', 'Remove']
        for actionItem in actionLists:
            self.actionCombo.addItem(actionItem)

        return self.actionCombo

    def report(self):
        #construct the data back in a dictionary

        newData = {}
        return newData

The other question is how do I construct a dictionary based on the QtreeWidget data? So that I will get what the user chosen for the action on each item and report back as a dictionary like following?
dataReportBack = { 'GroupA': [
                      {'itemA': {'action' : 'Add'}},
                      {'itemB':{'action' : 'Updates'}},
                      ],
            'GroupB': [
                      {'someOtherItemA': {'action' : 'Updates'}},
                      {'someOtherItemA':{'action' : 'Add'}},
                      ]

            }

A: It's not really clear how you're creating each combobox (are self.action and self.actionCombo being set to a new combobox each time?).
Assuming you're just creating a new QComboBox for each item widget, the simplest way would be to just pass both the combobox and the itemwidget to the signal handler.
class Widget(...)
    ...

    def func(self):
        ...
        for item in itemDict:
            itemWidget = QtGui.QTreeWidgetItem(groupItem, [item])
            itemWidget.setText(0, item)
            # I'm guessing this creates a new QComboBox
            actionCombo = self._actionCombo()
            self.treeWidget.setItemWidget(itemWidget, 1, actionCombo)
            actionCombo.currentIndexChanged.connect(lambda: self.on_actionComboChanged(actionCombo, itemWidget)

    def on_actionComboChanged(self, actionCombo, itemWidget)
        if actionCombo.currentText() == 'Add':
            color = QtGui.QColor(QtCore.Qt.green)
        else:
            color = QtGui.QColor(QtCore.Qt.red)
        itemWidget.setData(QtCore.Qt.BackgroundRole, QtGui.QBrush(color))


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The Chills - Vigourous and Far-reaching New Zealand Tour
Sat 6 May 2017, 8:00pm–11:00pm
Where: Sherwood, 554 Frankton Road, Queenstown
General Admission: $40.00
Additional fees may apply
Banished Music
The Chills,
Anthonie Tonnon
Listed by: reubenfjp
Out on the tar sealed and gravelly roads this April and May, legendary Dunedin pop group The Chills have announced their embarkation on a vigorous and far-reaching New Zealand tour.
Stopping in major musical centres Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, as well as key outreaches such as Whanganui, Paekakariki, Queenstown, Napier, Raglan, Mount Maunganui, and a performance in Invercargill as part of the Southland Festival Of The Arts.
Fronted by the rare talent of Martin Phillipps, The Chills were originally formed in 1980 and had a revolving cast of band members with Phillipps remaining the only constant. His knack for writing fantastic pop songs led to chart hits back home and a cult following around the world.
With early releases via the legendary NZ label Flying Nun, The Chills produced a number of critically acclaimed recordings such as the single "Pink Frost" (their first hit) from the compilation album Kaleidoscope World and "Wet Blanket" from the LP Brave Words.
The energy of their live performances is the central reason why The Chills are remembered fondly in all thirty-nine of the countries that they have thus far visited. It's the combination of this and the consistent quality of their songs which have established The Chills as one of the most well-known New Zealand groups to date - particularly in the US, UK and Europe.
They are joined by fellow Dunedin alumni and SIlver Scroll/Taite Prize finalist Anthonie Tonnon, who's current live show combines a performance art-inspired approach to stagecraft, home-soldered technology, and dance moves.
Catch the band at a venue near you this April/ May:
Banished Music, Radio Hauraki and Undertheradar.co.nz present
The Chills Vigorous and Far-reaching New Zealand tour
With support from Anthonie Tonnon*
- April 26th - San Fran, Wellington
- April 27th - St. Peter's Hall, Paekakariki
- April 28th - The Cabana, Napier
- April 29th - The Royal Wanganui Opera House, Whanganui**
- May 4th - Blue Smoke, Christchurch
- May 5th - The Scottish Hall, Invercargill***
- May 6th - The Sherwood, Queenstown
- May 11th - Totara St, Mount Maunganui
- May 12th - The Raglan Club, Raglan
- May 13th - The King's Arms, Auckland
*Anthonie Tonnon plays all shows except Queenstown
** Tickets from www.royaloperahouse.co.nz
*** Tickets from http://www.ticketdirect.co.nz/
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Study: BPA, methylparaben block breast cancer drugs
Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sep. 13, 2011 Updated: Nov. 29, 2011 7:18 p.m.
1of3Dr. William Goodson III labels test tubes with a code, which is connected to the patient, and carries specimen, MOnday September 12, 2011, in San Francisco, Calif. Goodson is the lead author of a study that shows two chemicals common in consumer products -- bisphenol-A and methyl paraben -- cause healthy cells to grow and survive like cancer cells and can interfere with the effectiveness of anti-cancer drugs.Lacy Atkins/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
2of3Dr. William Goodson III, sits in the examining room at his office, Monday September 12, 2011, in San Francisco, Calif. Goodson is the lead author of a study that shows two chemicals common in consumer products -- bisphenol-A and methyl paraben -- cause healthy cells to grow and survive like cancer cells and can interfere with the effectiveness of anti-cancer drugs.Lacy Atkins/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
San Francisco researchers have discovered that two chemicals commonly used in consumer products - bisphenol A and methylparaben - can interfere with the effectiveness of drugs used to fight breast cancer.
The research by doctors from California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco is part of a growing body of evidence looking at the negative health effects of BPA, a plastic hardening chemical found in food containers, cans and even sales receipts, as well as methylparaben, a lesser-known preservative found in cosmetics and personal care products.
Scientific studies have linked the chemicals to hormonal problems and reproductive health issues, among other problems.
In the latest study, researchers took noncancerous breast cells from high-risk patients, grew them in a laboratory and found that once the cells were exposed to bisphenol A and methylparaben, they started behaving like cancer cells.
Tamoxifen, a drug designed to prevent or treat cancer, slows down the growth of both healthy and cancerous breast cells and ultimately leads to their death. But when tamoxifen was introduced in the lab, the cells exposed to the two chemicals kept growing and didn't die, said Dr. William Goodson, senior clinical research scientist at California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute and lead author of the study.
The results are being published online this week in the medical journal Carcinogenesis.
Signal to consumers
Jeanne Rizzo, chief executive officer of the Breast Cancer Fund, a San Francisco advocacy group, said the study shows that BPA and methylparaben have a triggering effect when it comes to cancer. The next step, she said, has to be for consumers to demand changes that reduce environmental exposure to these chemicals.
A bill sitting on the governor's desk would ban BPA in sippy cups and baby bottles manufactured or sold in California. AB1319 was authored by Assemblywoman Betsy Butler, D-Los Angeles. Similar legislation has failed in previous years.
The study looks at the fundamental mechanisms of how normal breast cells behave when exposed to BPA or methylparaben, said Dr. Mhel Kavanaugh-Lynch, director of the California Breast Cancer Research Program, which is administered by the University of California in Oakland and helped to fund the study.
Chemicals such as BPA and methylparaben mimic or interfere with the body's endocrine or hormonal systems.
"We have a lot of information that makes these endocrine disruptors appear to be bad things to be exposed to, but there are very few, if any, studies that show a direct causal link," Kavanaugh-Lynch said.
On a cellular level, Goodson and his colleagues focused on a gene - a critical pathway - that must be turned on for cancer cells to grow and work around the drugs designed to turn the cancer "off."
The study found that healthy cells exposed to BPA and methylparaben started figuring out ways to bypass drugs like tamoxifen.
Drugs decrease estrogen
Since most breast cancers are driven by the hormone estrogen, the bulk of the drugs used to treat breast cancer are designed to knock down estrogen. BPA and methylparaben not only mimic estrogen's ability to drive cancer, but appear to be even better than the natural hormone in bypassing the ability of drugs to treat it, Goodson said.
"There may be other routes of toxicity we're just beginning to understand," he said.
Scientists are increasingly looking at environmental causes for hormone-based cancers like breast cancer.
Breast cancer rates have been growing over the past 30 years. While some of the reason can be attributed to hormone-replacement therapies or other issues specific to women, researchers have noticed that breast cancer rates are going up by about the same amount in men as in women.
"It's mostly a women's disease, but when more men are getting more breast cancer, you have to wonder where the hormones are coming from," Goodson said.
Goodson said BPA and methylparaben are hard to avoid because they are used so widely and are even found in household dust. He said he does not know whether the effects of exposure to the chemicals are reversible.
"It's used so much. We kind of swim in it," he said.
E-mail Victoria Colliver at vcolliver@sfchronicle.com.
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Victoria Colliver has been writing about health for the San Francisco Chronicle since 2001, focusing on the health care industry, health policy and cancer. Before joining The Chronicle, she worked for the San Francisco Examiner, the Oakland Tribune and the Stockton Record.
A graduate of UC Davis, Colliver received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.


Removal at 6 years & 9 Months?
Discussion in 'Credit Talk' started by kingfish, Oct 2, 2003.
Does anyone have any items that have recently fallen off prior to the magic 7 year mark? I have an item (my last one, finally!!) that is due to come off in January '04, and was looking to hear from people to learn what to expect.
Have you had early removal, and if so, how far short of 7 years did it get removed?
The CRAs use software to routinely scan through the millions of reports and expunge outdated information (i.e. past the 7-yr limit). This software periodically cycles through all reports, looking for this old data, and when it encounters it, it expunges the record.
If the software reaches your account before the 7 year mark, but won't cycle through it again until after the 7 year mark, then your item gets deleted a few months early. They probably cycle through every four or five months, so you may get lucky if, say the next delete cycle isn't until 1 month after the 7 yr limit.
There really is no such thing as a "credit report" sitting around in their system waiting for someone to ask for it.
It's actually Billions of bits of information floating around in the universe of their massive storage systems. When a report is requested, the system searches everything, extracts those items that belong to you (meet the search criteria) and segragates all that info.. Then they run it through their scoring systems. AFTER that happens, it runs that data onto a report format and onto your report. In that process, it's helpfull to imagine a filtration system which excludes information which antedates the report date by more than 7 years, those are merely excluded from the conventional commercial or consumer report.
The FULL FACTUAL report is a different story. That's where ALL your info. is reported. That's why it's not deleted.
All very quickly, of course.
So your report is actually compiled every time one requests it.
But anyway to answer Kings question.
I'd just go ahead and dispute it. They probably won't waste their time.
I used the term "credit report" somewhat loosely. Yes I know that there is no single file, but rather a serious of relational data tables containing many bits of interlinked (joined) information. However, each recorded person has a data table with many data elements or codes which link or join to other data tables, say for instance, the tables containing Discover card records.
The data probably remains, it just isn't linkable anymore to the original creditor data file. This article states that the software updates the linkages every 6 months. If the next update cycle is projected to ocur past the 7 years, then it updates the linkages and the BK no longer gets linked to that data file when the "credit report" is compiled.
You must be in IT.
EXP is well known for removing negative items at the 6yr9month date. Not sure about EFX or TU however.


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Court documents shed new light on suspect accused of raping two elderly women
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Law enforcement, prosecutor kick off National Crime Victims' Rights Week
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Child advocacy center earns grant
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Hancock County works to protect victims of crime
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HANCOCK COUNTY, Ind. (WISH) — Hancock County is taking new steps to better protect women and children who may have been victims of crime. Officials have hired a new deputy prosecutor who will work on some of the most difficult cases in Hancock County — domestic violence, sex crimes against women and some sex crimes
Advocate beacon of hope for victims
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CONvergence Social Media Policy for Convention Committee Members
CONvergence Social Media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, and other social networking/media sites are a way to engage the CONvergence membership as a community throughout the year and cultivate a positive relationship between the membership and the CONvergence brand. CONvergence Social Media does not reach the entire CONvergence membership; it reaches members who have chosen to follow CONvergence Social Media and happen to be paying attention to it when something gets posted. Social media platforms should be regarded as a supplemental means of communication to emphasise messaging provided on the CONvergence website and via e-mail.
CONvergence Social Media refers to:
The CONvergence Facebook Page (facebook.com/CONvergenceConMN)
Facebook events created by the CONvergence Facebook Page
The CONvergence Community Facebook Group (facebook.com/groups/CONvergenceCon)
The CONvergence Connections Facebook Group (facebook.com/groups/convergenceconnections)
The @CONvergenceCon Twitter Account (twitter.com/convergencecon)
The @CONvergenceLive Twitter Account (twitter.com/convergencelive)
The @CVG_Reminders Twitter Account (twitter.com/CVG_reminders)
The @CONvergenceCon Instagram Account (instagram.com/convergencecon)
The CONvergenceCon Tumblr blog (convergencecon.tumblr.com)
Any other social media profile or space exclusively owned/administered by the convention
Although we frequently monitor them, the CONvergence Social Media Department does not have governance over:
Personal Facebook profiles
Facebook groups, pages, and events not owned by the convention
Twitter accounts not exclusively owned/administered by the convention
Tumblr blogs not exclusively owned/administered by the convention
Slack workspaces not exclusively owned/administered by the convention
The official hashtag (#CVG followed by the year, e.g. #CVG2018)
Unofficial hashtags
CONvergence Social Media may be used for:
Fun stuff designed to enhance the experience of CONvergence members
Supplemental communication channel for announcements and to facilitate information campaigns
Volunteer outreach and recruitment
Informal/anecdotal information gathering
You do need to go through the Social Media department to:
Request posts to be made on the social media profiles owned by the convention
Request Facebook events to be made on the CONvergence Facebook page
Get something problematic you see on CONvergence Social Media addressed appropriately
Get advice on how best to accomplish your CONvergence goals using social media
Contact the CONvergence Social Media Department by emailing [email protected]
You do not need to go through the Social Media department to:
Create an informal poll or ask a question about something related or unrelated to your department to the Facebook group, as long as you do not identify yourself as a representative of your department
Post fun stuff related or unrelated to your department to the Facebook group, as long as you do not identify yourself as a representative of your department
Post a call for volunteers to the Facebook group
Post reminders or information about things already on the CONvergence website to the Facebook group
Advise someone to email a CONvergence department to get an answer to their question
CONvergence Member Conduct Policies also apply for CONvergence Social Media…
CONvergence Social Media is considered virtual convention space. Everyone, including members of the ConCom are expected to comply with the CONvergence Member Conduct Policies when posting/commenting on or to CONvergence Social Media.
CONvergence Member Conduct Policies can be found at convergence-con.org/at-the-con/policies.
When you want to announce something on CONvergence Social Media…
If you have something you would like to communicate to the membership/public, email both [email protected] and [email protected] and we will figure out the best way to structure communication for what you are trying to accomplish.
Most announcements, information, and requests a department would want to make available to the membership and the public should first go out over the website and email list, and subsequently be posted to social media channels. Once the announcements are on the CONvergence website, they are considered official and public. The Social Media department can then publish them on CONvergence Social Media. Occasionally, a department may have a request for which it makes more sense to utilize only social media, but this is the exception. Contact Social Media/Web Team to discuss if you feel that this may apply to your request.
When someone asks a question on or to CONvergence Social Media…
There are two acceptable ways to respond to someone asking a question about a CONvergence department, process, or policy on or to CONvergence Social Media:
Link them to the public information on the CONvergence website
Advise them to email their question to the relevant department
Anybody may answer questions in one of the two ways.
If the information is not already publicly available, do not use it to answer questions on social media. Ask the poster to email their question to the relevant department instead, even if it is your own department.
If your department is often asked the same question, please consider having the answer added to the CONvergence website by emailing a request to [email protected] Doing so will save everyone time, including your own department, because that question will be answered with a link instead of a direction to email whenever it comes up.
Why we direct people to email…
There are several reasons we direct people on CONvergence Social Media to email departments:
Emails provide a permanent, easily tracked/documented digital paper trail. Since people can delete or edit social media comments, posting volumes can be high, and searching social media is difficult, social media platforms are unreliable and inconvenient for documenting interactions with members, which can be very important for CONvergence.
Not all departments have the time, resources, or willingness to consistently check social media, so we do not want to set the expectation that members can get any question answered through CONvergence social media.
People on the social media platforms have no way to verify who is an official spokesperson for a department.
Unofficial answers can be confusing, might contain erroneous or outdated information, or just be rumors and speculation, so we want to minimize their presence and influence as much as possible.
Emails are an official answer from a department…
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Julia Mantel (* 1974 in Frankfurt am Main) ist eine deutsche Lyrikerin.

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Julia Mantel studierte Angewandte Kulturwissenschaften in Lüneburg und nahm an der Textwerkstatt bei Kurt Drawert im Darmstädter Zentrum für Junge Literatur teil. Sie absolvierte zahlreiche Praktika, u. a. beim Magazin Titanic und in der subkulturellen, gegenkulturellen Szene (beim Musiklabel L'age d'Or und dem Kleinen Fernsehspiel / ZDF).

2005 gründet sie das Konzeptlabel "Unvermittelbar". Anschließend veröffentlichte sie in diversen Anthologien und publizierte eigene Lyrikbände: "new poems" (2008), "dreh mich nicht um" (2011), "Der Bäcker gibt mir das Brot auch so" (2018). Julia Mantel findet Erwähnung in Wolfgang Herrndorfs Buch Diesseits des Van-Allen-Gürtels. 2021 erschien ihr Gedichtband "Wenn Du eigentlich denkst, die Karibik steht Dir zu" bei Edition Faust. Einige ihrer Gedichte wurden als animierte Lyrik-Video-Clips veröffentlicht.

Sie ist Gründungsmitglied des Frankfurter Dichterkollektivs Salon Fluchtentier.

Julia Mantel lebt als Lyrikerin, Strickkünstlerin und Sprecherin in Frankfurt am Main. Seit 2020 ist sie die stellvertretende Vorsitzende des Hessischen Schriftstellerverbandes (VS).

Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)
 New Poems, Verlag im Proberaum 3, Klingenberg 2008
 dreh mich nicht um. Gedichte. Mit Illustrationen von Petrus Akkordeon und einem Vorwort von Jörg Sundermeier, Fixpoetry-Verlag, Hamburg 2011
 Der Bäcker gibt mir das Brot auch so. Gedichte. Mit einem Nachwort von Martin Wimmer, Edition Faust, Frankfurt am Main 2018
 Wenn Du eigentlich denkst, die Karibik steht Dir zu. Gedichte. Mit einem Nachwort von Alexandru Bulucz, Edition Faust, Frankfurt am Main 2021

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 Website von Julia Mantel
 Julia Mantel, Hessischer Literaturrat
 Julia Mantel bei der Edition Faust

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US Oil & Gas plc (LON:USOP) told investors that dialogue is continuing with regulatory agencies regarding its permit application for the hydraulic fracturing of the Eblana-3 well in Nevada.
The explorer added that it has undertaken a comprehensive study of local water resources, requiring multiple samples be collected over an extended period and be independently analysed.
A report has been submitted to the authorities, and additional data is now being collected.
"The company wishes to emphasise that the implementation of the fracking plan and the associated operational timetable is contingent on regulatory approvals," it said in a statement released on Friday.
It added: "The company views the results of these latest studies as highly encouraging, supporting the belief that its Hot Creek Valley lease area features a major oil system analogous to that in Railroad Valley.
U.S. Oil & Gas plc was formed to exploit the potential for substantial oil and gas finds in one of North America's most prolific oil producing regions, using the most advanced technology available.
U.S. Oil & Gas plc's core activities are in the USA, with exploration activity in Nevada where the company holds a lease acreage of 88 sq km.
U.S. Oil & Gas is currently seeking listing of its securities on a fully regulated exchange.


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How will Indigenous People be "Counted" in the U.S. 2010 Census?
Invisibilisation is one dimension of genocide. If Indigenous people are not "Counted" AS Indigenous, how will the U.S. and other governments even pretend to care about Indigenous people of the Americas? You first have to be regarded as existing in your own right, not under the label a government wants to give you to make you disappear even more.
I think this is a VERY serious issue for the coming white Christian Calendar year (ECD). This is a time when Indigenous people in the Americas need to be recognised, respected, and counted as human beings--Indigenous ones!
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Murders of women ignite outrage
By Sharon Danann
Published Dec 3, 2009 9:58 PM
Coalitions are forming in several Cleveland communities to address the murders of 11 Black women whose bodies were found in and around a house on Imperial Avenue in late October. Activists are holding rallies and vigils, meeting with public officials to present demands, developing better resources for women and the families of missing persons, and taking care of all the funeral arrangements for the 10 women whose remains have been identified.
Neighbors in the Imperial Avenue area had filed complaints about odors since 2007, but the sausage factory on the corner was blamed. Even women who battled alleged serial killer Anthony Sowell and escaped were not taken seriously by the authorities.
One such woman was Gladys Wade, who was bleeding and screaming in torn clothing when she fled Sowell's home in December 2008. The case was brought to Cleveland Chief Prosecutor Victor Perez. "Not credible" was handwritten on the prosecutor's review. (Plain Dealer, Nov. 14) Sowell, a convicted rapist, had been arrested and released without being charged. No attempt was made to collect blood from Sowell's steps or elsewhere in his house.
According to the coroner's office, five of the women whose bodies were recovered from Sowell's house died after December 2008: Kim Yvette Smith, Nancy Cobbs, Amelda Hunter, Janice Webb and Telacia Fortson. The fact that their deaths could have been prevented had Wade been treated as "credible" is a source of widespread outrage.
Only two of the 10 identified victims were officially reported missing. Media and blog commentaries against the families have been widespread, but the police department will frequently refuse to take a missing persons report without evidence that a missing adult is "endangered." This practice often means several days' delay in collecting crucial evidence.
The women who encountered horrendous deaths on Imperial Avenue were similar to many other missing persons in having histories of drug use or criminal records. (Plain Dealer, Nov. 15) These histories increased their vulnerability and their families' silence due to the fear that their loved ones may end up with a prison sentence.
Wall Street's economic Katrina has left Cleveland with high job losses and foreclosure rates and created abandoned neighborhoods and vulnerable people. Resources go to wars, prisons and bailouts, not drug treatment, homeless shelters, rape crisis centers and mental health.
Deaths spur anger, activism
A group at the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center is pressing Cuyahoga County Sheriff Bob Reid to set up a missing persons department and is writing a guide for women of resources that are outside the justice system.
A march on Nov. 21 dedicated to the 11 murdered women drew nearly 200 people, mostly young. It was the second of a series of marches initiated by media personality Basheer Jones to bring attention to the neglected neighborhoods and call for an end to violence. With the red, black and green Black liberation flag at the head, the march stepped briskly down East 79th Street to Hough Avenue, the site of major rebellion 40 years ago.
On Nov. 16, Black and white women activists from Imperial Women, a newly formed group, met with representatives from Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson's office to demand an investigation of Chief Prosecutor Perez, Cleveland Law Director Robert Triozzi, Chief of Police Michael McGrath, and Safety Director Martin Flask. They also insist an "Imperial Alert" be set up, similar to the "Amber Alert" system but encompassing missing adults as well as children.
Journalist Kathy Wray Coleman, an organizer of the group, told WW: "At least five of those women died in vain because authorities ignored reports of alleged rape or other violent crimes reported prior to the time they went missing. We believe they did so because of a disrespect of both women and the Black community. That's unacceptable and somebody should and will be held accountable."
A rally sponsored by Imperial Women on Nov. 24 brought together people from a variety of organizations at the house where the bodies were found. Imperial Women is calling for a review of all police reports marked "not credible" over the past 10 years and taking the position that no reports of rape should be deemed "not credible."
Women revealed their rape experiences for the first time in decades and spoke of being "raped a second time when reporting it to the police." The high-energy chants were "Woman power!" and "We're in the streets!"
Another group is sponsoring a march on Nov. 30 to arrive at Cleveland City Hall, where each marcher will sign in and write "Sowell 11" next to their name. The march is calling for a missing persons unit in the Cleveland Police Department and an increase of officers in the sexual offenders department.
All across Cleveland the words "racism" and "sexism" are being spoken loud and clear in relation to the neglect of poor Black women. Everywhere people are standing up and saying, "We are not throw-away people!"
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The Myth of the Level Playing Field
According to some white conservatives and moderate liberals, we've either reached or tipped beyond the point of there being a level playing field in "the war between the sexes" and with regard to racism in The United Rapes of Amerikkka.
First, bullshit. Second, let's assess what that might actually look like.
What "the level playing field" would look like is WOC cops, military officers, and FBI and CIA agents tapping phones, bugging homes, pulling over vehicles with privileged white men in them as often as they wish, to profile them for being white male supremacists, including sexual exploiters of women, girls, and boys, rapists, batterers, sexual harassers, procureres or pimps of women and girls, and genocidalists. And should any white man, through any level of investigation and collection of "information" be found to be in any way financing the pornography industry, the military industrial complex, corporate capitalism including mortgage banks and businesses, including racist/misogynist lawyers and their legal system, including patriarchal and racist religions and the practices that make them so, including not giving back stolen land, including destroying stolen land and poisoning land near or on Indian reservations, including causing women to "disappear" to be contolled in any way, including causing Native cultures to disappear in any way, including being part of institutions that contribute to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, including abiding by laws that allow for white men to rule in any way, any where, then white men would be under arrest and face felony charges, held without bail until such time a hearing could be arranged, or, on occasion, using brutal and sometimes lethal force to apprehend such men.
If women of color are approached to be harmed by any man, whether white or of color, why can't women lawfully take him out as an act of self-defense, and how would doing so make a playing field less level? Why does the rape or the next beating have to happen first?
I think one thing that would facilitate the end of patriarchy is to decriminalise any act of self-protection and self-defense--however lethal to men, according to anti-patriarchal understandings of what constitutes self-defense, not a white male supremacist State's understanding of it. The white male supremacist State is clearly going to oppose women taking systematic direct action against perpetrators of sexual violence against them. If this society want to pretend we have a level playing field, why are women not allowed to aggress against men at least as often as men aggress against women? Wouldn't that be a sign there's a level playing field? Wouldn't a level playing field imply that women of color control institutions in every sector of society, the way white men do now? Because if what we have NOW is "a level playing field" re: racist and sexist discrimination and violence, why would it cease to be level if WOC ruled?
When whites are considered dangerous and people of color clutch their children's hands when one of those people gets on an elevator, when white Christo-fascism, Christian fundamentalist terrorism, men's war against women, white's war against people of color, the U.S. government's war against the world, and white male god-worshipping white men are understood as devil-worshiping cult-leaders and cult-followers, will the playing field be level? Not quite.
When white men do not know what presiding over and contolling institutions feels like; when there are no white men serving on any boards of trustees; when the Academy has a White Atrocity Remembrance Month, and a Male Atrocity Remembrance Month, because those atrocities are all in the past; when people's identities are not named for them by a government; when male heterosexuality is, from time to time tolerated, but most of the time made illegal and shameful by queer-dominant society--because it (not the person) is a sin that'll send you STRAIGHT to hell; when white men are in no positions of power over anyone or anything; when every law supporting white male supremacy is wiped off the books; when angry white men are stigmatised as criminally insane or just plain crazy; when white men's stories of bravery and heroism are called out for what they are: savagery, massacre, plunder, murder; when anarchy is seen as peaceful, when gangs are defined only by how many white men are in them; when corporate capitalists and Western imperialists are seen as a the most dangerous bunch of out-of-control lunatics with no moral and no laws they live by; when white U.S. men are deemed illegal aliens who can and ought to be sent back to where they originally came from; when formerly rich white men are the ones walking miles every day to get unclean water; when formerly rich white areas are where all the nuclear and other toxic, cancer-causing waste is stored; when all women get away with doing to men what men get away with doing to women, with no social, legal, or punitive consequences; when lesbian women of color operate ALL the institutions that men now control, when today's predators become tomorrow's prey, THEN maybe, we might consider our playing field level.
Until then, the oppressed ought to officially and legally declare war against their terrorists: white Westerners, Christian whites, heterosexual men, and the rich who ARE THE GANG-BANGERS, PIMPS, AND TERRORISTS perpetrating their evil on the rest of us.
Because if you say the playing field is level NOW--or favors those of us who are marginalised and stigmatised in atrocious ways, with white men in charge of everything in and beyond the West, then surely it will still be level when women of color are in charge of everything, right?
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A Definition of RADICAL FEMINIST that I LOVE: WOMEN who feel ENTITLED to be ANGRY; WOMEN who want to be HEARD more than they want to be LIKED
In this blogpost is a bit of a piece of writing by an antifeminist man, Rudra Bhaumik from Kolkata, India. He is a system engineer (working in a private company) and states that he is "popular for my peculiar but effective thinking".
Peculiar thinking? Not really--it's rather normal (and annoying). Effective thinking? I hope not. Patriarchal thinking? Definitely. And if only it was just "thinking"... but no, he has to speak his patriarchal mind out loud.
The issue for the women in the image, assuming he posted an image that goes with his rant, is WOMEN SPEAKING OUT LOUDLY about a matter called "men's violence against women" which he sees as myopic and anti-male, because, well, you know, "What about all the violence against men?" (That men do.) When women speak out, there will always be at least one man to demonstrate public derision for such speech. (If it were just one man, that would help.) At least one man has to speak up, because, well, men are supposed to have the microphone and the bullhorn 24/7. Message to Rudra: SHUT UP!!
India :
[image of feminist protesters is from here]
"Unnecessary agitation is going to be created on 8th march on eve of women's day by some women organization in India. The radical feminists planned to block the roads and give some serious exercise of loudspeakers around India. We are already get so much irritation from rallies and 'lectures' of our politicians…now women organization are ready to flex their muscles. They will present some information based on their assumption and try to fool women." -- Rudra Bhaumik
Rudra goes on with his misogynist blather, but you get the idea. The title of his post is "Pointless activities of indian women organisation" and it was posted on 5 March 2009 ECD. He's so obnoxious I don't want to link to the rest of what he says. But if you must read it, the page is linked to below the image above of OUTSPOKEN, ANGRY feminist protesters.
It is a policy here at A.R.P. that I won't print misogynist terms without altering them in some way. Many radical feminist women I know find them personally triggering, and also not worth appropriating. Every woman (I hope) gets to decide how and when to use the terms that are used against women by men. These are also used by women against women for the benefit of patriarchy. And sometimes they are used by womanist and feminist women to reclaim power and diffuse the harm of some woman-hating terms.
I won't use 'em, and I won't let them appear here in ways that are visually intact. I've decided, due to one white lesbian separatist's input, to also do the same with the word "f*ck" from now on here. All of which explains the asterisks to follow.
For me the discussion below is also about men's systemic violence against women and centers around who ought to control law and bodies: U.S. women's bodies, in this case, in a context of white men's laws. I say, unequivocally, WOMEN. I believe WOMEN ought to control not only their bodies, but that radical feminist women ought to be in charge of societies where women life. And should there be societies where women don't live, I support women running those too. F*ck male supremacy, f*ck men's domination of women, in law and in life.
The political topic of focus in the blogpost below by B*tch Phd is abortion. And the issue here is men controlling women. And the issue here is RADICAL feminism, feminists who refuses to cater to men's needs, men's wishes, men's wills, men's power, and men's pre- and post-modern definitions of WOMEN. What follows are excerpts from a wonderful piece of writing by B*tch PhD. (Rather significant snippets, actually.) Her full post can be found here, and, imo, ought to be read by every man who reads English, including you up there, Rudra.
Do You Trust Women?
By B*tch Phd
This article was written in 2005 after the death of radical feminist, anarchist and spokesperson for the anti-pornography movement, Andrea Dworkin.
"Recently, elsewhere, there was a very long discussion in which someone argued that I had said men had no right to an opinion about abortion, and that men who object to abortion do so only out of a desire to control women. Now, I never said either of those things, but the beliefs I dohave could be interpreted that way, by an unsubtle or defensive auditor."
"The bottom line about abortion is this. Do you trust women to make their own moral judgments? If you are anti-abortion, then no. You do not. You have an absolute moral position that you don't trust anyone to question, and therefore you think that abortion should be illegal. But the second you start making exceptions for rape or incest, you are indicating that your moral position is not absolute. That moral judgment is involved. And that right there is where I start to get angry and frustrated, because unless you have an absolute position that all human life (arguably, all life period, but that isn't the argument I'm engaging with right now) are equally valuable (in which case, no exceptions for the death penalty, and I expect you to agonize over women who die trying to abort, and I also expect you to work your ass off making this a more just world in which women don't have to choose abortions, but this is also not the argument I'm engaging right now), then there is no ground whatsoever for saying that there should be laws or limitations on abortion other than that you do not trust women. I am completely serious about this."
(Julian's note: the first bracketed bit in this sentence is mine. The second more extensive one is the author's:)
"When [people] say things like, "I'm pro-choice, but I am uncomfortable with... [third-trimester abortion / sex-selection / women who have multiple abortions / women who have abortions for "convenience" / etc.]" then what you are saying is that your discomfort matters more than an individual woman's ability to assess her own circumstances. That you don't think that women who have abortions think through the very questions that you, sitting there in your easy chair, can come up with. That a woman who is contemplating an invasive, expensive, and uncomfortable medical procedure doesn't think it through first. In short, that your judgment is better than hers.
"Think about the hubris of that. Your judgment of some hypothetical scenario is more reliable than some woman's judgment about her own, very real, life situation?
"And you think that's not sexist? That that doesn't demonstrate, at bottom, a distrust of women? A blindness to their equality? A reluctance to give up control over someone else's decision?"
"I've found that Dworkin's death has crystallized a lot of things. As B*tch has gotten bigger--and particularly because a lot of its recent growth has come about because of some pretty pissed-off ranting directed at supposedly well-meaning men--I've started getting more troll behavior, more nasty emails, and I've seen some fair to serious b*tch-bashing. This, of course, is the price of fame, even ridiculous bloggy fame. It's not like I didn't know that there were people out there who hate feminism, feminists, children, and so on. And it's not like I didn't know--and this is more important--that there are people out there who don't hate women, but who do feel acutely uncomfortable around "b*tchy" women. That is, women who don't ask for permission before speaking; women who don't just state their opinion and then back off to let you decide if you want to hear it or not, but who insist on having their arguments acknowledged; women who feel entitled to be angry; women who want to be heard more than they want to be liked. Hell, one reason this blog is anonymous is because I have a hard time with that myself, sometimes: I can be just as ranty in person, but no, I don't generally take people on to their face. Here, though, I can and do.
[That portion in bold was emboldened by me, JR]
"In some ways, this Dworkin/anger/b*tch thing is, like abortion, a bottom-line issue. How do you react to women's political anger? Is it okay for a woman to have strong opinions as long as she doesn't make anyone uncomfortable? If she sounds angry, does that automatically invalidate what she's saying? Do you think that feminists would be more effective if they were nicer? If there's a disagreement between a woman and a man, do you instinctiively see "his side"? Do you mistake strong convinctions for personal attacks? Do you value civility over fairness? Because if so, then that, too, is a kind of distrust, hubris, a reluctance to cede control.
[Again, what's in bold was put in bold by me, JR.]
"I am not advocating a free-for-all; and I think that considering the rhetorical effect of one's words matters; and I value good manners as much as anyone. There is an important difference between private anger and public anger, and it is the latter I am talking about. It is important to recognize that the ability to remain "civil" about injustice is a demonstration of power, and, arguably, is itself a kind of violence--more subtle than yelling, and for that reason, far more damaging. Because it is easy to isolate the angry woman, to shun her because of her anger. Many people will not see past the anger, and therefore many people will find it justified; she is, after all, being "unreasonable." After all, just as with abortion, women are not supposed to make people "uncomfortable." But when that happens, that amounts to denying women the right to public speech: the angry woman's anger is taken personally, as an indictment of her character, rather than as a legitimate political expression. (And then, of course, men say things like "women don't feel comfortable arguing.")"
"If you're pro-choice, you have to give up the right to have a "say" in someone else's choice. If you're pro-feminist, you have to give up the right to expect your personal feelings to be more important than women's public rights--including the right to be unpleasant, if, in her judgement, unpleasantness is called for."
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