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Virgil Speaks
Ratfuckery & the Fog of Lies
This is a picture of Barack Obama with his white grandpa, the man who was married to the woman he is visiting today on what could be her deathbed: his beloved grandma. You see him here, cavorting on the beach in Hawaii with the man who raised him, at about the age when he was supposedly "working closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers to bomb the US Capitol." This blog is my personal flyer to the Republican National Committee and its endless wash of lies: Barack Obama is not, never has been, and never will be, a terrorist. You guys need to stop your brazen lying before you totally destroy my country.
The last lies told by the Republican Party gave us the Iraq War, whose consequences have been "of high moment," as Jonathan Schell writes in this week's issue of The Nation: "thousands of American deaths, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi deaths, one country smashed, another dishonored. Now in the last weeks of the presidential campaign, 'the gloves are off' again, fantasy and brutality are mixing in another context, and new streams of lies are being pumped into the public bloodstream from the campaign trail. What will the price be this time?"
I've received more of these ideologically offensive, invasive robocalls again this week. But it was the postal flyer that finally put me over the top. It came without a wrapper, and repeated the same brazen lie about Obama and terrorism. Deftly I put it into a brown envelope and today, while Barack sits at his grandmother's bedside, I mailed it back to the RNC. There was a message written on it from me. "I am returning this latest example of your ratfuckery (political sabotage or dirty tricks, as defined by Wikipedia). Please remove me from your mailing list. I do not want to receive this garbage."
Meanwhile McCain now claims, out on the campaign trail as he tries to salvage his moribund candidacy, referring to Barack Obama, "He'll say anything to get elected." A TV reporter in Missouri asked McCain about the flyer, and whether he was proud of it, to which McCain responded: "Totally." Many of McCain's supporters now believe Obama is a terrorist, and some of them at rallies have been seen to yell "Kill him."
Obama has said assassination is something he can't worry about, that there are too many serious problems he needs to focus on. He claims that what keeps him awake at night is not his personal safety, and it's not even the thought of losing the election. It is the idea of winning the election and then not being able to follow through with his promises.
Jonathan Schell calls Obama "a kind of Mozart of politics," and refers to him as a man of stature, even of greatness--a man who inhabits a degraded public realm with grace. But placed, as he now is, "at the center of the swamp that our political life has become, he has breathed deeply of the narcotic fumes that pervade it." I agree with Schell, however, that even if many of Obama's campaign promises should prove unrealizable in the compromised times he will inherit, his election is a necessity for any decent future for the United States.
People all over the globe are following this election closely, with their hearts in their mouths. As one anonymous blogger wrote from Australia, "The choice you Americans make this time will be felt around the world. Please make a good choice for the sake of all of us!" He clearly felt the best choice was Barack Obama!
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I was the recipient last Monday of one of those yuckky GOP robocalls, "alerting" me that Barack Obama had terrorist affiliations with William Ayers and was a danger to this country, and besides, he would raise my taxes. It came the morning after the final debate, in which Obama had squarely refuted both assertions publicly to John McCain, in front of millions of viewers. What's it gonna take, I wondered while I seethed, to get these liars off my back, hopefully forever? A big dose of truth serum laced with a jigger of Milk of Magnesia, maybe?
So you can imagine how pleased I was, having waited on the edge of my seat for "Meet the Press" on Sunday morning, to hear Colin Powell wholeheartedly and passionately endorse Barack Obama. He was blistering about the reasons he felt he had to abandon his old friend John McCain and, in less than seven minutes, managed to lay waste to the Republican Party and it's campaign tactics of fear-mongering and divisiveness. About McCain's negative ads, he said: "It troubled me. Those kind of images going out on Al-Jazeera are killing us around the world." Yow!
Powell never used the word "vile," but I will. About McCain's choice of Sarah Palin for his running mate, Powell left no doubt that she was not exactly presidential material. And he soundly reprimanded both McCain and Palin for their Muslim-bashing: "Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is no. That's not America. Is there something wrong with a seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing he or she could be president? Yet I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion that he is a Muslim and might have an association with terrorists. This is not the way we should be doing it in America." Bravo, Colin!
Sarah Palin, however, doesn't agree. When asked in an interview this weekend with CBN Senior National Correspondent David Brody, if she was still "okay with the 'pal around with terrorist line' or wanted to reign that back a little?" Palin responded: "No I would say it again, I would say it again because again it, it, according to the information that we have, the association that he's had with Bill Ayers wasn't just one or two time sitting on a board together where, No, there's been quite a few associations and events and meetings and discussion and emails and calls and to not disavow that too, I think is troubling." Whoever said Sarah Palin makes George W. Bush sound like Cicero was on the money--Sarah's syntax is iffy, to put it mildly. No wonder she needs fencing.
Another conservative, David Brooks, a columnist for the New York Times who has praised Obama lavishly at times, and not long ago declared Sarah Palin a cancer on the Republican Party, continues to play cat and mouse instead of offering his unequivocal endorsement of Obama. Brooks just can't seem to bring himself to go whole hog, like Powell did. After praising Obama's calmness under pressure, his current reservation is that Obama lacks fire and seems averse to risk.
Averse to risk? What about running as a relative unknown against the most powerful female candidate in the US, and winning against all the odds? What about that risky trip to Europe and the Middle East to meet with world leaders, with so many people watching and waiting for him to fall flat on his face? What about his decision to give a (history-making) speech on race, instead of throwing his pastor under the bus? What about the decision to rely exclusively on donations from his supporters instead accepting public funding for his campaign? Not risky enough? What about the choice never to attack Sarah Palin, and forbidding his staff to do so, no matter how vicious or sneering she became? It seems like maybe it is David Brooks who is averse to risk, not daring to leave the safety of his Republican Party niche and take the plunge into full endorsement.
But perhaps his reluctance has some good reason--given the avalanche of venom that came raining down on poor Christopher Buckley, a columnist for the National Review (conservative magazine founded by his late father, William S. Buckley), who got sacked from the magazine because of his wholehearted endorsement of Obama. "I haven't left the Republican Party," Buckley said. "It left me." What Buckley meant by that remark was that the party to which he has had a lifelong alliance was no longer recognizable to him. In good conscience he could no longer give its candidates his support.
Last week 20 national newspapers endorsed Obama. So did The New Yorker, whose editors should get the last word here: "The election of Obama--a man of mixed ethnicity, at once comfortable in the world and utterly representative of twenty-first century America--would, at a stroke, reverse our country's image abroad and refresh its spirit at home."
Now that's an endorsement which, together with Colin Powell's of yesterday, that I, because of their truth and goodness, can wholeheartedly endorse!
A Week of Stink Bombs and High-Wire Acts
The polls are climbing in Obama's favor, the economy is sinking at shocking speed, and John McCain's beloved sidekick continues throwing one stink bomb after another, to the point of inciting potential anti-Obama race riots. (Palin's cultivated malice almost makes the KKK look untutored.)
Article of the week goes to one of our local columnists, Rick Horowitz, for his great opening line:
"Let me see if I've got this straight: Sarah Palin is saying we don't know enough about Barack Obama?" THAT Sarah Palin, he queries, "who six weeks ago did not yet exist for 99 percent of the American people, and who made it through one vice presidential debate without spontaneously combusting right there on the stage, now [dares] to question Obama's background, character, honesty, and patriotism?"
Well, yeah. You betcha.
"Palin has been pressing the line that people don't really know 'the real Barack 'Obama," echoed Gail Collins in the New York Times, "and who could make the argument better than a woman who we've already known for almost six weeks? Really, she's like one of the family."
When someone, somewhere, asked Barack how he manages to deal with it all, especially the personal attacks and slurs that keep on spreading like an infectious disease, his response was mind-blowingly simple: "I don't mind having to work harder than anybody else." For all of Obama's touted eloquence, this is the comment, above all others, that makes me love him the most. When the following ruminations arrived on my email (written by a friend of a friend's sister, who sent it to me), my favorite comment, "I don't mind having to work harder than anybody else," took on new meaning:
"What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?
What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said 'I do' to?
What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife
after she no longer measured up to his standards?
What if Michelle Obama were a wife who not only became addicted to pain killers,
but acquired them illegally through her charitable organization?
What if Cindy McCain graduated from Harvard?
What if Obama were a member of the 'Keating 5'?
What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?"
"If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election
numbers would be as close as they are?
This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities
in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.
Don't forget: What if Barack Obama had an unwed, pregnant teenage daughter....."
This week I also saw the film "Man on Wire," about a French high-wire artist, Philippe Petit, whose dream was to string a cable between the two towers of the World Trade Center and walk across it, from one building to the other. Since he knew he would never get official permission, the artist took it upon himself to carry out this feat as an undercover job, somewhat in the manner of a bank heist.
It took a year of secret maneuvers and phony passes to get his equipment up to a storage room on the roof and figure out how to attach the cable. After a night-long operation to attach the cable with the help of a few compatriots in crime, slightly after dawn, the artist proceeded to walk out onto it, some 1,350 feet above the ground.
Seeing Petit out there doing knee-bends, even at one point lying down on the wire, and then poised on one leg in mid-air so high against the sky, is not to believe your eyes. But it did remind me of Barack Obama, and I realized how a similar kind of courage, sure-footededness, and equanimity of being has characterized his own extraordinary tight-rope walk through this election. No litany of disgraceful epithets issued by GOP pit bulls can ever rival either of these men's remarkable accomplishments.
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Another Round oF "Holiday with McCain"
The story about the "Holiday with McCain" letter that has been circulating on the Internet and has been the topic of my previous two blogs, took another turn when Mary-Kay Gamel, the UC Santa Cruz professor whose name is on the letter but who, as it turns out, is not its author, wrote me yet again stating that although she did not write it, the letter itself may not be inauthentic:
"Dear Ms. Gablik: I appreciate your sending around my disclaimer, but you don't need to take yourself so much to task. There is no proof yet that the story is false; Snopes.com has it under investigation.
But the main point is that there are many much more solid reasons to reject McCain, including, on the personal side, his shameful abandonment of his first wife, which is unquestionably true.
MK"
Thinking about this some more, I believe on further consideration that the experiences described in the letter ring true, and probably ARE an authentic account of SOMEBODY"S actual experiences with McCain. There is a telling article which describes McCain's personal history along similar lines in some detail, which you can find in Rolling Stone, at this site:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain/page/1
And now that McCain & his winking, lipsticked Barracuda have dedicated themselves to trying to establish Obama's credentials as a bonafide terrorist by association, you might want to check out this site as well:
http://www.conservapedia.com/Barack_Obama
The following is a very short excerpt of a huge documentation of outright lies about Obama, making the case for his being a Muslim. We've all heard about this kind of thing, but coming face to face with its despicableness is really quite shocking:
"Barack Hussein Obama, II (allegedly born in Honolulu,[1][2] August 4, 1961) is the 2008 nominee of the Democratic Party for president.[3] Obama has served as a freshman Democratic Senator from Illinois since 2004. On August 23 he chose Senator Joseph Biden as his running mate. In 2007, Obama was rated the most liberal Senator by the National Journal, who had rated Senator John Kerry the most liberal senator during his presidential run as well.[4] If elected, Obama may become the first Muslim President of the United States...
Obama and Islam
Obama is likely to be Muslim because:
Obama's background and education are Muslim
Obama's middle name remains Muslim, meaning "descendant of Muhammad," which most Christians would not retain[8]
Obama recently referred to his "Muslim faith"[9]
Obama uses the Muslim Pakistani pronunciation for "Pakistan" rather than the common American one[10]
Obama, in his autobiography "Dreams from My Father" (1995), descibes Muslim Malcolm X as his favorite black leader
Obama's claims of conversion to Christianity arose after he became politically ambitious, lacking a date of conversion or baptism.[11]
The odds of Obama being truthful in his claim that he converted to Christianity are less than 100 to 1 against it, as fewer than 1% of Muslims convert to Christianity.[12]
Obama claimed to have visited 57 states while campaigning for president of the United States, which of course has only 50 states.[13] He could never explain where the false number of 57 came from, but it has been observed that there are 57 Islamic states and Obama was educated at an Islamic grade school while he lived in an Islamic country.[14]
Obama downplays his Islamic background by claiming that his Kenyan Muslim father was a "confirmed atheist" before Obama was born, but in fact less than 1% of Kenyans are atheists, agnostics or non-religious.[15] There is apparently no evidence of any Christian activities or local church participation by Obama while he was in Massachusetts from 1988 to 1991. Finally, Obama abruptly left his church in Chicago in 2008 when it became politically controversial, without first finding another church to join."
But I wouldn't want you to leave this blog today with a rotten taste in your mouth, so now cheer yourself up with this nice story, from an anonymous blogger on Politico.com:
"The Norwegian newspaper VG has reported a truly amazing story about a newlywed trying to get to Norway to be with her husband, and the stranger who helped pay an unexpected luggage surcharge. It was 1988, and Mary Andersen was at the Miami airport checking in for a long flight to Norway to be with her husband when the airline representative informed her that she wouldn't be able to check her luggage without paying a 100 surcharge:
When it was finally Mary's turn, she got the message that would crush her bubbling feeling of happiness.
-You'll have to pay a 103 dollar surcharge if you want to bring both those suitcases to Norway, the man behind the counter said. Mary had no money. Her new husband had traveled ahead of her to Norway, and she had no one else to call. I was completely desperate and tried to think which of my things I could manage without. But I had already made such a careful selection of my most prized possessions, says Mary.
As tears streamed down her face, she heard a "gentle and friendly voice" behind her saying, "That's okay, I'll pay for her." Mary turned around to see a tall man whom she had never seen before. He had a gentle and kind voice that was firm and decisive. The first thing I thought was, Who is this man?
Although this happened 20 years ago, Mary still remembers the authority that radiated from the man. He was nicely dressed, fashionably dressed with brown leather shoes, a cotton shirt open at the throat and khaki pants, says Mary.
She was thrilled to be able to bring both her suitcases to Norway and assured the stranger that he would get his money back. The man wrote his name and address on a piece of paper that he gave to Mary. She thanked him repeatedly. When she finally walked off towards the security checkpoint, he waved goodbye to her.
Who was the man?
Barack Obama.
Twenty years later, she is thrilled that the friendly stranger at the airport may be the next President and has voted for him already and donated 100 dollars to his campaign:
He was my knight in shining armor, says Mary, smiling."
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Virgil's Boss Takes a Hit
I stand duly corrected and humiliated for my previous post "Holiday with McCain." It is a phony, an Internet decoy and like a sitting duck I fell for it and got my butt kicked. Rather than simply deleting the post, however (it's only been up for less than 24 hours), I am appending the rest of the story here as an object lesson, and as my public whupping for being caught out with my pants down. I ask for readers' forgiveness. From the alleged author of the essay came this email:
"Apologies for this general statement, but it's the best I can do. I have received thousands of emails and phone calls about the Turtle Island account. I spend many hours every day replying but still can't keep up.
I did NOT write that account, forward it under my name, or ask for it to be widely distributed. Nor did I make public an account by my "friend Ana Dubey." I don't know Ms. Dubey, or even if she exists.
I have never been to Turtle Island (which costs $2000/day), have never met Senator McCain, was a classics major, not an English Literature major, and never eat pancakes.
I have no way of knowing whether this story is true or false, and unless/until the real author comes forward we won't know. I regret any misinformation which is circulating. This is NOT an organized effort on the part of any political candidate.
How I think this happened: on 16 September I received this account fourth-hand and forwarded it, with full email trail information and the name of the purported author Ms. Dubey, to several friends with whom I discuss politics. It was further forwarded, and at some point I was identified as the author or as making the story public on behalf of Ms. Dubey. I suspect whoever did this thought that my name and contact information would make the story more credible.
Snopes.com is investigating the account; current status "undetermined." They have posted my disclaimer.
I hope you will pass this information on to anyone interested in this story."
MKG
p.s. see the article "Make-Believe Maverick" in the current ROLLING STONE
Mary-Kay Gamel
Professor of Classics, Comparative Literature, and Theater Arts
Cowell College
Santa Cruz, California 95064
831-459-2381 (office); 831-429-8803 (home)
mkgamel@ucsc.edu
And to the commentator who wrote me directly on the blog in the Comments column to point this out, if somewhat less kindly, my profound apologies. I have learned a forever lesson. You are absolutely right in what you said, and I am also appending that blog comment here:
"As usual, your hate blinds your judgment. This letter on which you have placed your imprimatur is a farce. Sadly, so are you.
You have no shame in surrendering reason for a dime-bag's worth of Turkish Delight - the sweet satisfaction of any vitriolic ranting against "the other side." Truth be damned.
I don't suppose you considered fact checking before proving you are no longer worthy of anyone's trust.
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/74vih/confirmation_mary_kay_gamel_did_not_write_the/c05ogqq
You have moved from the comic relief to a pathetic Iago wanna be.
You really need to turn your heart away from such debilitating hatred. Even your crocodilian confidant will tell you that."
Holiday with McCain
It seems that the McCain campaign has already announced its plans for a(nother) carpet-bombing month of attack ads against Obama. So get your barf bags ready. This guy is such a stinker--all I can think about is burying him in Yucca Mountain. But anyone reading this who still thinks he is an otherwise honorable, decent man stuck in the jungle of a tough campaign, doing whatever it takes to win at all cost--and merely playing politics-as-usual hardball--needs to check this out. It's a testimony written by a woman Professor of Literature and Theater Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and I presume it will circulate profusely on the Internet over the next few weeks. McCain's scuzzy behavior goes way back, and is hardly confined to the political arena. My nightmare scenario is not just McCain and Palin at the helm of this country, but the prospect of the other limbo men--Lindsay Graham, Joe Lieberman, Rudy Giulliani--all of whom will certainly be on board in key positions to assist them. Just think about it, and then read this:
MY HOLIDAY WITH JOHN McCAIN
It was just before John McCain's last run at the
presidential nomination in
2000 that my husband and I vacationed in Turtle Island
in Fiji with John
McCain,
Cindy, and their children, including Bridget (their
adopted Bangladeshi
child).
It was not our intention, but it was our misfortune,
to be in close quarters
with John McCain for almost a week, since Turtle
Island has a small number of
bungalows and their focus on communal meals force all
vacationers who are
at the same time to get to know each other intimately.
He arrived at our first group meal and started reading
quotes from a pile of
William Faulkner books with a forest of Post-Its
sticking out of them. As an
English Literature major myself, my first thought was
"if he likes this so
much, why hasn't he memorized any of this
yet?"
I soon realized that McCain actually thought we had
come on vacation to be a
volunteer audience for his "readings" which
then became a regular part
of each meal. Out of politeness, none of the
vacationers initially protested
this intrusion into their blissful holiday, but
people's buttons definitely
got pushed as the readings continued day after day.
Unfortunately this was not his only contribution to
our mealtime
entertainment.
He waxed on during one meal about how Indo-Chine
women had the best figures
that our American corn-fed women just couldn't
meet up to this standard. He
also made it a point that all of us should stop
Cindy from having dessert as
her weight was too high and made a few comments to
Amy, the 25 year old wife
the honeymooning couple from Nebraska that she should
eat less as she needed
lose weight.
McCain's appreciation of the beauty of Asian women
was so great that David
the American economist had to move his Thai wife to
the other side of the
from McCain as McCain kept aggressively flirting with
and touching her.
Needless to say I was irritated at his large ego and
his rude behavior towards
his wife and other women, but decided he must have
some redeeming qualities as
he had adopted a handicapped child from Bangladesh. I
asked him about this one
day, and his response was shocking: "Oh, that
was Cindy's idea I
didn't have anything to do with it. She just went
and adopted this thing
without even asking me. You can't imagine how
people stare when I wheel
this ugly, black thing around in a shopping cart in
Arizona. No, it wasn't
my idea at all."
I actively avoided McCain after that, but
unfortunately one day he engaged me
in a political discussion which soon got us on the
topic of the active US
bombing of Iraq at that time. I was shocked when he
said, "If I was in
charge, I would nuke Iraq to teach them a
lesson". Given McCain's
personal experience with the horrors of war, I had
expected a more balanced
point of view. I commented on the tragic consequences
of the nuclear attacks
Japan during WWII but no, he was not to be
dissuaded. He went on to say
that if it was up to him he would have dropped many
more nuclear bombs on
I rapidly extricated myself from this conversation as
I could tell that his
experience being tortured as a POW didn't seem to
have mellowed out his
perspective, but rather had made him more aggressive
and vengeful towards the
My final encounter with McCain was on the morning that
he was leaving Turtle
Island. Amy and I were happily eating pancakes when
McCain arrived and told
that she shouldn't be having pancakes because she
needed to lose weight.
Amy burst into tears at this abusive comment. I
felt fiercely protective of
Amy and immediately turned to McCain and told him to
leave her alone. He
became
very angry and abusive towards me, and said,
"Don't you know who I
am." I
looked him in the face and said,
"Yes, you are the biggest
asshole I have ever met" and headed back to my
cabin. I am happy to say
that later that day when I arrived at lunch I was
given a standing ovation by
all the guests for having stood up to McCain's
bullying.
Although I have shared my McCain story informally with
friends, this is the
first time I am making this public. I almost did so
in 2000, when McCain
announced his bid for the Republican nomination, but
it soon became apparent
that George Bush was the shoo-in candidate and so I
did not act then.
now that there is a very real possibility that McCain
could be elected a s our
next president, I feel it is my duty as an American
citizen to share this
I can't imagine a more scary outcome for America
than that this abusive,
aggressive man should lead our nation. I have observed
him in intimate
surroundings as he really is, not how the media
portrays him to be. If his
attitudes toward women and his treatment of his own
family are even a small
indicator of his real personality, then I shudder to
think what will happen to
America were he to be elected as our President.
Professor of Classics, Comparative Literature, and
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Visiting My Accountant
This week, amid all the financial turmoil, I went to see my accountant. Among other things, I asked him what HE was doing with regard to his investments? Was he moving things around? Bailing out of the stock market?
He said that so far, he'd done nothing. But he had taken a big hit that day, because he was heavily invested in Wachovia, which had just tanked, leaving stockholders in the lurch. Having ventured that far into the personal, I decided to risk more. I asked him who he was planning to vote for. John McCain, was the unfortunate answer.
I'm afraid I instinctively cringed, going into a crouch. But, but, but, what about Sarah Palin? I asked. Aren't you worried about her? No, he said, because I think she's the best of all four candidates. In that moment, my mind expanded to include the possibility of everything.
I suppose, I stammered weakly, that working in the field of finance, you inevitably vote Republican. I was trying to make this be okay. He's been my accountant for many years! Oh no, he said, I always vote the candidate! Yikes! At this point I just fell silent. There wasn't any place to go from here. If it's any consolation, my accountant then said, as if to reassure me, I think Obama is gonna win.
Were I moderating one of the debates, the first thing I would want ask is how, given an economy that is now on life support, can we possibly continue to wage wars that cost $12 billion a month? What is the plan for financing these astronomical sums, when our financial institutions are imploding, one by one, and credit is frozen? Then I'd want to know how and why the GOP is getting away with undermining the legislative probe in Alaska regarding illegal antics during Palin's gubernatorial tenure? In a replay of Washington, subpoenas have been issued, but no one is talking. Why isn't there a huge stink about this? And lastly, I want to hear the candidates' views on Armageddon. Sarah, it seems, has claimed she has a "special role," along with Alaska, in facilitating End Times. I want the whole story here too.
After the first presidential debate, I read something that interested me. Many people noticed, and commented unfavorably, on the fact that John McCain failed to ever look at Obama. Ultimately it lost him a lot of ground. A psychologist blogging on the Internet claimed it was because McCain was afraid of Obama. He based this assessment on his extended studies of monkey behavior. Low-ranking monkeys, it seems, never look at high ranking monkeys. "In a physical, instinctive sense," the psychologist wrote, "Obama owned McCain tonight, and I think the instant polling reflects that."
Someone else also observed that at the end of the debate, Obama walked towards Michelle, looked her in the eye and kissed her. McCain waited for Cindy to come to him, and it was Cindy who gave him a kiss. "To me," the man wrote, "this is very telling about how these two men see and treat women. Obama seems to be the type of man who sees their wife as equals, combining love and affection with respect. On the other hand, McCain seems to belong to the traditional sense of 'macho' men, head of the family type, who love their wife but at the same time expect a certain degree of obedience, like listen to me, come to me, do as I say."
I have to say I noticed a moment like this myself. After a campaign appearance, as shown on TV, McCain and Cindy were walking together down a corridor and he was accosted by a reporter. I was astonished at the way he just left Cindy behind, abandoned her, and walked on ahead talking with the reporter. I saw her stop dead in her tracks behind him for several seconds, with a "what am I--chopped liver?" kind of look on her face. I could almost hear the words inside her head: "Oh fuck, not again!" I can really relate to that look of absolute pique, because I've seen it on the faces of many friends whenever the name John McCain comes up in the conversation.
Suzi Gablik


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Nasir Hossain navigated a tricky chase for Abahani Limited as they prevailed in a tense three-wicket win over Mohammedan Sporting Club to remain on top of the points table. The traditional Dhaka derby lived up to some of its old glory as a handful of the two clubs' loyal supporters were present to watch the encounter.
When Abahani needed 44 from the last five overs, the match swung Mohammedan's way when Mashrafe Mortaza conceded just two runs in the 46th over. He mixed his pace with offcutters and that made it difficult to get away with. The moment he removed a slogging Mosaddek Hossain, Mohammedan found a way back it for some time. Abahani needed a further 42 runs off the last four overs after the two-run Mashrafe over, but Nasir stepped up.
In the following over, he hammered Afghanistan legspinner Rahmat Shah for three consecutive sixes - through long-on, midwicket and square leg - to wrest back the momentum in Abahani's favour.
Nasir battled cramps on his calf to complete the chase with two balls left in the final over, in which they needed seven to win. He was unbeaten on 82 off 69 balls with five fours and as many sixes. He came in to bat with Abahani needing a big innings after the 78-run third-wicket stand between Raqibul Hasan and Farhad Hossain was broken in the 28th over. Farhad was dismissed in the 33rd over but Nasir quickly added 49 runs for the fifth wicket with Chamara Silva and another 36 for the seventh wicket with Ziaur Rahman, who was dismissed on the first ball of the final over.
Mashrafe finished with 3 for 42 but Mohammedan's spin quartet produced just two wickets with Shah giving away 61 runs in 8.4 overs for his one wicket, and the other three left-arm spinners being mostly ineffective.
Earlier it was Subashis Roy who rocked the Mohammedan top order with three early wickets as they slipped to 38 for 4 in the ninth over. The pace bowler finished with 4 for 56 while Rahman and Nasir took one each as Mohammedan finished on 240 for 6 in 50 overs.
Their middle-order recovery was led by the 121-run fifth-wicket stand between Naeem Islam and Ariful Haque, who made his maiden List A century. He made 109 off 137 balls with eleven fours and a six, but it was the events that transpired later in the game that took his century out of the picture.
Otherwise it was a proficient innings from Ariful who regularly connected his sweeps and cuts, and later conceded three sixes and a four in Mashrafe's 27-ball 38.
Prime Bank Cricket Club's 84-run win over Legends of Rupganj kept them in the hunt as they remained in second position with 20 points.
Batting first, Prime Bank were aided by three half-centuries to put up 304 for 7 at BKSP-3 ground. Soumya Sarkar top-scored with 81 off 90 balls with five fours and four sixes, setting a solid base. Mahmudullah played the anchor role with his 58-ball 52, while Thilina Kandamby blasted four sixes and five fours in his 49-ball 71. Soumya and Saikat Ali added 82 for the first wicket and later Mahmudullah and Kandamby put together 99 runs for the fourth wicket.
Sharifullah and Ashar Zaidi took two wickets each but Shakib Al Hasan was hammered for 65 runs in his 10 overs, despite bowling two maidens.
Junaid Siddique was removed on the second ball of the chase and Jahurul Islam fell in the seventh over, but Abul Hasan, sent as a pinch-hitter at No. 3, held the innings together with his 72 off 80 balls with six sixes and three fours. But he got scant support from the rest of the batting line-up, as they were bowled out for 220 in 43 overs.
Farhad Reza took three wickets while Soumya and Shuvagata Hom took two each.
While all the attention was in the southern and northern parts on the outskirts of Dhaka, the match at the Shere Bangla National Stadium turned out to be a cakewalk for Prime Doleshwar Sporting Club, as they crushed Kalabagan Cricket Academy by nine wickets.
Chasing 263, Dholeshwar openers Rony Talukdar and Mehedi Maruf struck hundreds and shared a 214-run stand in 36.2 overs. Rony remained not out on a run-a-ball 132 with 14 fours and four sixes, while Mehedi made 106 off 113 balls with seven fours and five sixes.
Earlier, KCA made 262 for 9 in 50 overs with Nafees Iqbal's 70 and Sabbir Rahman hammering 75 off 53 balls. Pace bowler Delwar Hossain took four wickets for 41 runs in nine overs.


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Mike Sarton is an outstanding artisan who has been creating frames, flooring and furniture in the Arts and Crafts style for over 30 years.  The majority of his oeuvre, which includes frames for original artwork, dining tables, bed frames, grand floors, staircases, sideboards, armoires, jewelry boxes, butcher block, and more, is crafted with heartwood from black walnut trees.  His work is featured in private collections across the US.
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Katy Cowan is an artist and educator based in California. Cowan received her MFA in Studio Art from Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles, CA (2014) and her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA (2004). Her educational and studio background encompass drawing, painting, and sculpture both in the historical and contemporary context.
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Scott Cowan is a photographer and philosopher based in California. Cowan is currently pursuing his PhD in Philosophy from UC, Berkeley in Berkeley, CA (2022); he has also received an MA in Philosophy from UW-Milwaukee in Milwaukee, WI (2017), an MA in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, CA (2014), and a BFA in Photography from Columbia College in Chicago, IL (2012). His educational and studio background encompass photography and its historical and contemporary context.
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Dispatches from the road: Goodwill Ambassador Ashley Judd on conflict, abuse and healing in Ukraine
UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Ashley Judd looks at a shelled building in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. © UNFPA Ukraine/Maks Levin
This spring, humanitarian, writer, actor and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador Ashley Judd travelled to Ukraine. During her weeklong trip, she met with survivors of gender-based violence and internally displaced women and girls who have fled the conflict in eastern regions of Ukraine. Below are excerpts of her diaries from the mission.
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine – It's amazing to me, on this, my first trip to Ukraine, how beautiful it is, and how much ugly gender violence there is. Every fifth Ukrainian woman has suffered from physical and/or sexual violence. Between 2007 and 2014, the incidence of violence against women increased from 18 to 22 per cent.
Places that are pretty can hide ugly situations. To make my point, UN security told me yesterday that this area is a Zone 5. Yemen is a Zone 6. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a Zone 6. Other Zone 5s include Afghanistan.
Gender-based violence counselling, Kramatorsk
My first group today is a gender-based violence group.
Women attend a group workshop for survivors of gender-based violence, led by UNFPA mobile psychologists. © UNFPA Ukraine/Maks Levin
The psychologist succinctly described the cycle of intimate partner violence. Addressing first the core causes and systemic reasons, she and the group of five women listed the perpetrators' low self-esteem, unresolved child and adult trauma, an impaired family system.
The tension in the home builds. Then, maybe the partner comes home, and with the sound of the door knob turning, the anticipation and tension escalate. I said that, in English, we call this "walking on eggshells."
A typical scenario is that dinner is served and some little thing is "wrong with it." Anything, really, can be an excuse for the escalation into violence. The aftermath was also perfectly described: The cycle of blame, remorse, regret and, ultimately, most debilitatingly, the way we internalize the blame and shame, and come to believe it really was, somehow, our fault.
I was sitting as both an equal and someone who has been through this process many, many times. Recovery is about purging what never belonged to us, someone else's shame, which becomes our own toxic shame.
Intimate partner violence was already a pervasive social problem in Ukraine before the war began. UNFPA's needs assessment in January 2015 confirmed what was known: Conflict causes violence at home to escalate. The share of violence survivors during the conflict was three times larger among internally displaced women as compared with local women. Perpetrators act out social stress on their wives, girlfriends and children.
Returning combatants behave violently at home, including in reaction to their Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. It has been proven by research – 75 per cent of violence is caused by people women know. Women are even more separated from social support and their chances of even learning about services that can help them decrease. Gender stereotypes have no chance of improving. Boys and men have little exposure to gender equal attitudes and behaviour.
Gender-based violence is known to increase during humanitarian emergencies. © UNFPA Ukraine/Maks Levin
Home visit, Semenivka Village
Irina* is crying. I take her slick, soft cheeks into my palms and kiss them. I sense some of this crying is about the violence, the carried and the stored violence of her dad hitting her, hitting her 8-, 7-, and 3-year-old siblings, and her mom.
But it's equally clear she is a marvellously resilient girl. Speaking with Irina's mother, Tatiana, I offer that her six children behave very differently from most children who have experienced physical violence. They are neither withdrawn nor frantic. If Irina is anything like I am, and my many friends recovering from violence, she'll have her row to hoe. It will come up, it will come out, it will affect her choices, her boyfriend, relationships, and her self-worth. But for now, there is so much joy and connection. Connection heals, connection can save.
Tatiana speaks openly in front of the kids about the violence, because I have asked her what keeps her going: "The children. I live for them. I don't have a husband. Maybe someday I'll have another one. But these children are here; they are permanent."
It's been only since 29 April that she effectively, at last, kicked him out. He'd been hitting her off and on for years. But, as with so many women, so many mothers, there was one time he hit one kid one time too many, and she was able to do it. Get. Him. Out.
Tatiana mentioned the mobile psych social unit, and how they gave her tools, strategies, information about resources, and hope.
UNFPA's 21 mobile teams, composed of two psychologists and a social worker, have so far received more than 5,000 requests, operating in 307 locations. [Editor's update: As of 1 August, this number was over 7,400 requests.] Over 60 per cent of survivors of gender-based violence who approached UNFPA had not reported their cases before, or sought any medical care. The primary reasons were that they believed they could handle the situation on their own or they did not believe anyone would be able to help them. In addition to the lack of quality services, there is a tendency in Ukraine to silence such problems.
Now Tatiana knows she is not alone. She has filed for divorce. Her husband is allowed to visit the children only on Saturdays. He is paying some child support. The smallest child receives a stipend from the government. She shows me her bad knee, and says she has applied for some disability support. Her strength is an incredible power that comes from a deep well inside of her.
Tatiana and her four children are survivors of domestic violence. © UNFPA Ukraine/Maks Levin
Wild hydrangea grows here, just like in the Smoky Mountains at home. Everything is so familiar. If I looked at a picture of their battered cook pots, the over-tidiness of everything in spite of the makeshift nature of the shelter, I'd shrug and say, "Any poor country." But Ukraine really isn't just any poor country. Literacy is over 90 per cent; secondary school enrolment is over 80 per cent. There is piped water. There is a latrine. There is electricity.
And there is violence.
And there is help.
Along with the mobile teams, UNFPA has supported a 24/7 hotline for survivors of gender-based violence, with more than 6,617 calls received and addressed since January. [Editor's update: More than 16,000 calls were received between January and June 2016.] They have trained 600 health practitioners in the provision of health services to survivors, and trained over 600 police staff in affected regions on reacting to cases of gender-based violence.
To raise awareness among affected populations about gender-based violence and to support community-based prevention, UNFPA has given mini-grants to 18 NGOs serving violence survivors and has provided technical assistance to 21 social service centres for family, children and youth.
Art therapy, Sloviansk
Eighty per cent of girls and women who have come to UNFPA share that this is the first time they have ever told someone they are being hit. Fewer than 15 per cent of them report abuse to the police.
UNFPA mobile psychologists conduct an art therapy session for students and survivors of gender-based violence. © UNFPA Ukraine/Maks Levin
My new friends in art therapy today, for all of them it was their first time. I am rather amazed at that, given the explosion of hope that rang out in their voices and showed in the straight backs the moment we stood up.
Alina, the therapist, was great. The art therapy was wonderful, and worked in me as well as in anyone else. Today my new friends came in, bravely, to a therapy group for the first time in their lives, and got so much information and relief.
We shared dignity kits. Since the outbreak of the conflict in the east of the country, UNFPA has distributed over 24,500 individual dignity kits. They can include menstrual care stuff, soap, toothbrushes. It's jarring to be reminded by a box with the UN lettering that we are 40 kilometres away from heaving shelling, the daily deaths of soldiers and a war that is intensifying.
Someone mentions how the day was incredible, how everyone's hearts were so open. I am surprised when she says, "Thank you for sharing your wounds. Everyone is touched, including me."
The world gives so much to me. People give so much to me. As with Jordan, today I received gifts from those living in relentless hardship, with war inside and outside their homes, who have ostensibly so little to give. Yet give they did: An icon, peonies, wildflowers, laughter, hand-holding, children riding on my shoulders.
I begin to cry when Anastasia hugs me farewell at the airport.
I'm surprised; I didn't feel it coming. And it makes sense. I have loved it here in Ukraine. This trip has felt deep and rich. The level at which I have been moved, connected and affected is far beyond any number of days the calendar may say I was here.
I also take pictures, to have another handy way to remind myself of the fantastic work, the clever and targeted programming, the great number of vulnerable Ukrainians reached and helped.
I say I'll come back, if only to myself. And I will, in my imagination, in my memories.
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Moment clever bullock managed to find a way to cool down – by turning a tap on
Jake a clever Highland Cow who can turn on a tap using his horns at Mossburn Farm, Dumfries and Galloway.
This is the funny video of a clever bullock who was feeling the heat but managed to find a way to cool itself down – by turning a TAP on.
Siobhan Webster was taking a walk around the outdoor arena at Mossburn Farm until she heard the tap outside the centre go on last week (Thurs) at 12pm.
The 27-year-old rushed to turn it off but the third time it happened she noticed dehorned highland bullock, Jake, kept using his head to turn it on.
That was the moment Siobhan, from Dumfries and Galloway, took out her camera to video the amusing moment of the four-year-old cow attempting to drink the water.
The yard-keeper, from Mossburn Farm, Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, says "it was quite funny".
Siobhan said: "I heard the tap go on the first time and I turned it off.
"Then the second time the same thing happened and I noticed Jake had done it. But when he went to do it for the third time that's when I took out my camera to video it.
"It was quite funny, he didn't really want to drink it but I guess he wanted to cool himself down.
"When I turned it off for the third time he didn't put it back on. I guess he must have cooled down."
Juanita Wilson, centre manager of Mossburn Farm, says she did not know that Jake knew "how to turn the tap on".
Highland cows Jake (left) and his broth Joe in a field at Mossburn Farm, Dumfries and Galloway. Jake a clever Highland Cow who can turn on a tap using his horns.
She said: "His a dehorned highland bullock and he was born in 2014 so his 4-years-old.
"He's lived there since 2017.
"He lives with his brother. His brother's companion was taken away. Jake is a herd animal, so they like to live with their own kind.
"I think his very clever, it wasn't accidental that he turned the tap on. He walked straight to it and knew what he wanted to do. A pig didn't manage to turn it on but Jake did.
"He's such a big animal, very solid. He's not tall but very solid.
"Here at our farm we take in misused, abused, neglected and unwanted animals. We are a charity.
"I think if Jake wasn't here he would have been on a plate as a piece of beef. But his a living piece of beef now."
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Magenta is a 1996 film by Gregory C. Haynes.

Plot
Michael Walsh, a husband and father, falls for a girl named Magenta. The difficulty is that Magenta is his wife's underaged sister. Magenta is persistent in pursuing Michael, though, and this provides the drama in the story.

Cast
 Julian McMahon as Michael Walsh
 Alison Storry as Helen Walsh
 Marklen Kennedy as Craig
 Crystal Dillan Atkins as Magenta
 Fields Company as Dr. Fields
 Gedeon Burkhard as Roy

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FORTUNE — In what could be one of the biggest foreign takeovers of a Chinese company, Nestlé SA is in talks to buy Chinese candy maker Hsu Fu Chi International Ltd. Discussions are in the early stages and it's unclear whether the deal would include acquisition of the entire company or a share of it.
And yet, there's already skepticism circling any possible deal. Media reports have hinted that talks could take the path of a deal that went awry involving Coca-Cola (KO) and juice maker China Huiyuan Juice Group. In 2009, China's Ministry of Commerce rejected Coke's bid to acquire Huiyuan on grounds that the Atlanta-based drinks maker would unfairly dominate the market. Coke's bid also spurred a fury of nationalist opposition from Chinese who didn't want to see a successful homegrown brand land in foreign hands.
Nestlé, the world's biggest food company known for brands such as Haagen-Dazs and Nescafe, is one of many big Western companies that have been looking to increase sales in emerging markets amid slower growth in the U.S. and Europe. The company's interest in Hsu Fu Chi, which is worth around $2.6 billion, could very well go in any direction. And admittedly, large-scale takeovers are complex and rarely easy to pull off.
But it makes little sense for skeptics to bring the memory of Coke's failed $2.4 billion bid into the picture, says Shaun Rein, managing director of China Market Research Group. Whatever issues killed the Coke deal likely won't happen with Nestlé's bid to buy China's biggest confectioner.
For one, Rein notes, there likely won't be a monopoly at issue because Hsu Fu Chi's dominance in China's confection market is not as big as Huiyan's control of the fruit juice market. When Coke pursued Huiyuan, the Chinese juice maker controlled about 42% of the country's pure juice market. By contrast, Hsu Fu Chi commands about a 5.5% share of China's confectionary market. That's still a sizable chunk given that the market is very fragmented, but local and foreign players have been doing well.
"I don't see it getting the same scrutiny and raising the same red flags," Rein says about Nestlé's interest in Hsu Fu Chi.
The deal has been viewed as a way for Nestlé to tap into China's growing confectionary market. The Switzerland-based company is looking for ways to increase sales in emerging market from about 30% currently to nearly 50% within a decade.
At the other end, Hsu Fu Chi has been working to strengthen the company's brand and has been in talks with other companies. The Chinese candy maker, which makes chocolates, pastries and other sweets, was founded in Taiwan and has been operating in southern China since the early 1990s.
Depending on how serious talks with Nestlé gets, negotiations could ignite nationalist outcries just as it did with Coca-Cola's negotiations with Huiyuan. A deal would likely have to pass Chinese regulators if Nestlé or another company acquires all of Hsu Fu Chi, making it one of the biggest deals by a foreign company in China.
But the chance of Nestlé having to overcome nationalist fervor is unlikely, says David Hoffmann, North America director for InterChina Consulting, which advises companies doing business in China. Unlike Huiyuan, Hsu Fu Chi is not considered a key mainland Chinese brand but one more associated with Taiwan and traded in Singapore.
It remains to be seen how negotiations will pan out. So far, Nestlé has continued deepening its grab onto the growing Asian market. In April, the company said it planned to acquire a majority stake in one of China's best-known regional food groups, Yinlu, a family-owned company that makes ready-to-drink peanut milk and ready-to-eat canned rice porridge. Nestlé didn't disclose the purchase price, but analysts have estimated it to be $1.1 billion. The deal still needs China's regulatory approval.
Indeed, Nestlé is reaching far and wide. And it appears going after relatively smaller Chinese firms as opposed to the few big household names could put Nestlé in the favor of Chinese regulators.


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Home » News » Economic Development » BRINGING BILOXI BACK — City leaders hope their proposed 5-year plan will revitalize downtown area
BRINGING BILOXI BACK — City leaders hope their proposed 5-year plan will revitalize downtown area
By JULIA MILLER
For more than 50 years, downtown Biloxi has been facing a decline. Led by Biloxi Mayor Andrew "FoFo" Gilich, the city has partnered with the Southern Mississippi Planning and Development District to reverse that path with the hope that a revitalization of downtown will lead to economic growth for the area.
"The goals, incentives, tasks and projects recommended in this plan will improve the quality of life for both Biloxi's citizens and visitors throughout the city because implementation of the plan will dramatically increase the city's tax base in order to better fund public infrastructure, education and amenities throughout the entire city," said the SMPDD's public hearing proposal to the Biloxi City Council in July.
The five-year plan is currently in the final review phase. The goal of the plan is to present the city with a series of small projects that lead to the final vision of a restored downtown.
Over the past 20 years, the city has been focused on the waterfront districts, such as MGM park, but SMPDD Senior Project Manager Lindsey Ward said the turn toward downtown has been much needed.
"I believe it's beyond time for the City of Biloxi to take this on," she said. "We're taking downtown back and will restore it to its beauty."
The first stages will focus on the Saenger renovation and a conversion of Howard Avenue to two-way vehicular traffic. An architect has been hired for the Saenger renovation, and plans are currently under way to begin work on the exterior of the '20s-era theater.
"The Saenger is where I want to start the restoration and revitalization of downtown," Gilich said. "A good part of what people remember is the Saenger and Howard Avenue. You just can't let it go."
The construction on Howard Avenue is part of a reversal of the Urban Renewal project of the '70s that limited the roadway to pedestrian traffic and renamed it Vieux Marche. In the '90s, the city opened the roadway up to one-way traffic.
A nationwide study by the Downtown Fresno Partnership found that public streets converted to open-air pedestrian malls in the United States have an 89 percent failure rate. The majority of these have already been converted back to two-way vehicular traffic or otherwise repurposed.
The project will extend from the intersection at Reynoir Street to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. It will also include the addition of either a four-way intersection or a roundabout. Approximately 114 parking spaces will be provided through a mixture of angled and parallel stalls. The preliminary estimate is between $1 million and $1.5 million and is expected to take less than six months to complete.
Other focuses include implementing grant/loan programs to promote businesses opening in the downtown area, enhancing the Biloxi Farmers Market and encouraging multi-use buildings. One building in particular that the city would like to see as a home for both commercial and residential purposes is the Barq Building.
"Any major community has people living downtown," she said. "This restoration brings that back."
Ward said options for the funding of the grant/loan programs are still be explored. They are looking at a combination of regional, state and federal opportunities. The city is currently talking to other cities who have succeeded at downtown revitalization.
"We're not trying to reinvent the wheel here," she said. "We're just trying to maximize the opportunity for the City of Biloxi.
Originally, the city was looking at declaring the downtown area a tourism district, which would then allow the city to pursue a sales tax rebate through the Mississippi Development Authority. That plan is now being re-evaluated.
"We decided if we do it, we should do it city wide," Ward said.
The plan also calls for a downtown furnishings plan. This will allow the city to have a unified outdoor design that encompasses everything from seating to lights and plants.
"It keeps a specific look for an area," she said. "It helps create that cohesive feel and element of a downtown."
Going into any project like this, Ward said there's always a nervous anticipation about what the public's reception will be. Since the plan has been revealed, she said the supported has been phenomenal.
"People want to see downtown of Biloxi restored. They want to walk in their downtown. We're fortunate that Mayor Gilich and his vision has brought us this far."
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What does it mean to be a university on Aboriginal land?
It's all around us and throughout our campus
The University's Walanga Wingara Mura Design Principles guide the expression of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures in the very fabric of our University and beyond.
Did you know that many places on campus were designed to reflect our connection to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and Country?
For example, the planting of Gadi trees across campus, or the artwork on the façade of the Social Sciences building that displays the word garabara, meaning 'corroboree' or 'dance', or the sculpture of a dilly bag which recognises Aboriginal woman who gathered food and bush medicine for their communities.
From its earliest days, the University was proudly in and of this land. As Australia's first university, it is important to consider our social responsibility and leadership in embracing the values and principles of the world's oldest continuous culture.
The Walanga Wingara Mura Design Principles inform how the University belongs to this country, and what it means to be on and learn from lands that to Aboriginal people, have always been places of learning, knowledge exchange and wellbeing.
Here are more examples you might have seen around the Camperdown and Darlington Campus:
Gadi tree
Gadi, known as the Xanthorrea, or grass tree, have been planted at the front entrance of the University from City Road and throughout the campus to acknowledge the land and people of this place. Gadigal, meaning Gadi people, is derived from the word Gadi and they used the tree for a range of purposes. The Gadi are unique to this continent and not too long ago, Sydney's landscape was defined by their presence.
Garabara artwork
Garabara, an artwork in the new Social Sciences Building, is the first project in the University's history to integrate public art into the fabric of a building. The work, by Aboriginal artist Robert Andrew, acknowledges the Gadi peoples of this Land. The work displays the Sydney language word for corroboree or dance – Garabara, which is eroded into the surface of the building.
River plantings
There are Indigenous references in plantings across public spaces – for example, here illustrating the natural creek that once ran across what is now Eastern Avenue.
From gardens to monuments and institutions, what we do to the land tells a story. The narrative of landscape is something that Aboriginal people have always understood, it is our history, our present and our future. Our story of connection to Country is something that has and always will be present.
Arcadia Landscape Architecture
Spine 2 by Dale Harding
"The work is an acknowledgement of the Great Dividing Range – the sandstone country that rises and falls along the spine of eastern Australia. Many of the University buildings have been built from this sandstone." Dale Harding, artist, 2018.
Local flora around campus
Of more than 2000 trees, approximately 1400 are native. There are more than 500,000 native plants, shrubs and grasses. Landscape areas are developed using symbols and patterns to reflect Indigenous gathering places and original natural environments.
Transient garden
The Transient garden is an intercultural space that tells a visual story of Aboriginal peoples' past, present and future, and creates a space for deep listening, sharing and learning.
Celebrating NAIDOC Week
8–15 November
Dr Charles Perkins Oration
12 November, livestream
A brief history of the University of Sydney
Did you know that the University of Sydney is the oldest university in Australia? Founded in 1850, our Camperdown/Darlington campus was established on the land of the Cadigal people of the Eora Nation.
5 tips to be more sustainable at uni
From re-usable coffee cups to recycling old study notes, here's five simple ways you can become a more environmentally friendly human day-to-day.
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Why cultural competence is important
As Australia celebrates NAIDOC Week 2019, we talk to Rebecca Halliday, Sydney's new Director of Indigenous External Relationship Development, about why the University's focus on cultural competence is so important.


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Audrey Collins Legge
Date of Death: August 14, 2018
Audrey Collins Legge, of Punta Gorda, FL and formerly of Treasure Lake in DuBois, Pennsylvania, died on August 14, 2018, at Bayfront Hospital, Punta Gorda, Florida. She was the daughter of the late Isaac R. Collins and Beatrice Goodrich Collins of Bradford, PA. She married Thomas N. Legge on April 9, 1960 at the Hill Memorial United Methodist Church in Bradford. He survives.
She graduated from Bradford Senior High School in 1955 and attended Edinboro University where she received a bachelor's degree in early childhood education (1959). She did graduate work at Michigan State University and Edinboro University. She was an elementary teacher and had taught in Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio. Later she was a co-founder and director-teacher of the Presbyterian Preschool in Edinboro, PA for over 20 years.
Audrey and her husband retired to Treasure Lake in 1996. She was a member of Lakeside Methodist Church, Ladies of the Lake, Treasure Lake Women's Walking Club, the Round Robins Dance Club and the Country Line Dance Club. She enjoyed spending time with her family, reading, kayaking, and she loved to dance. Her great joy was working with young children.
She is survived by her husband, Thomas Legge of Punta Gorda; a daughter Lisa (Michael) Koeneman of Punta Gorda, Florida, a son John Legge (John Huebler) of Chicago IL, a sister Joyce (Marshall) Hudson of Westborough, MA, three grandchildren, Capt. Kelly Koeneman (Matthew) Shaffer of Fairfax Station, VA, Austin Koeneman (Meghan) of Westerville, OH and Molly Koeneman of Lynchburg, VA, two great-grandchildren, Levi and Lydia Shaffer, plus many nieces, nephews and friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, her brother, Edward Collins, and sister, Janet Proctor.
Services will be held in DuBois, PA followed by burial in Bradford, PA. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Lewy Body Dementia Association, 912 Killian Hill Road S.W., Lilburn, GA 30047 (www.lbda.org).
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Founders Room
Opera Council
Billed as Dorothy Chandler's "personal entertaining oasis amid the buzz and glitz of the pavilion," the Founders Room at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion provides an elegant setting for entertaining, celebrating, or visiting with friends and business associates.
Pre-performance dining
Intermission services
Spacious and well-appointed lounge facilities
Parking privileges
Membership to the Founders Room requires a $100,000 commitment, payable over a maximum of five years. Membership privileges extend to the Founders Rooms at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and Ahmanson Theatre.
THE FOUNDERS ROOM DESIGN
"Architect Welton Becket designed the Music Center's three buildings, working closely with Tony Duquette on the interiors. Legend has it, however, that Dorothy Chandler requested her personal designer, Leonard Stanley, steer the look of the Founders Room, according to the Music Center.
Over the years, most of the furniture has been replaced and fabrics freshened. But Chandler's original palette of emerald green and burgundy remains the same. A French tapestry from the 18th century,
depicting an equestrian scene, looms over the bar. Two 18th century Chinese red-lacquered chests and an 18th century Venetian secretary also adorn the room. Chandler's towering portrait, an oil painting by William F. Draper, hangs in the center, above an always-fresh bouquet of flowers.
Two of the glittering, Venetian glass chandeliers are actually film set props from the 1938 MGM musical "The Great Waltz." Duquette procured them from an auction. A third chandelier was custom made to match.
The Founders Room has hosted Grace Kelly and Emperor Hirohito of Japan. In 1983, Chandler entertained Queen Elizabeth II here. As they entered the reception, legend has it that Chandler turned to the queen and said: 'Welcome to my palace.'"
Source: LA Times "Founders Room provides inner sanctum for the serious Chandler patron"
To learn more about the Founders Room, get in touch at:
Patricia McLeod
Senior Director, Development
pmcleod@laopera.org


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Suspect in Kittery sex assault arrested in Florida
The former New Hampshire resident is accused of assaulting a woman he'd offered a ride to on July 10.
A man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman in Kittery on July 10 was arrested Thursday in Florida.
Kittery police said the woman had accepted a ride home from an evening out when she was attacked by the male driver. The woman was able to escape and ran to the home of a Kittery resident, who called police.
Alhassane Camara Kittery Police Department
Kittery police said their investigation led them to a suspect, Alhassane Camara, 43, of Rollinsford, New Hampshire, who had left New England for Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
U.S. marshals and Fort Lauderdale police helped arrest Camara, who has been charged with being a fugitive from justice. He will be formally charged with felony gross sexual assault when he is returned to Maine.
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January is the month of resolve, when Baby New Year arrives with a bigger to-do list than the one stuck on Santa's refrigerator. "Hereby resolved," it reads: "More hikes, hot tea, teddy bears, hugs and Justin Timberlake."
• Resolved: to lose weight. But some things just never go away -- fruitcakes and muffin tops.
• Resolved: to save money. But weight loss remains the first goal, and there's only one place to go with a jar of saved-up nickles and dimes. Waffle House.
• Resolved: to walk the dog. But does the dog look like he wants to be dragged out in the cold? Even for a waffle?
First Day hikes at state parks throughout Arkansas, including Pinnacle Mountain State Park near Little Rock, Devils Den near Fayetteville and Lake Catherine near Hot Springs. Details at arkansasstateparks.com.
The-British-are-coming alarmist Paul Revere's birthday, 1735.
2 National Hot Tea Month -- when Americans try again to understand the British passion for tea and crumpets, only to wind up with the same question as always: What's a crumpet?
JUNEAU, OR YOU DON'T KNOW?
3 Alaska Admission Day, 1959. Alaska admits after December's earthquakes, the state needs more Anchorage.
4 Percy Jackson musical The Lightning Thief through Jan. 5 at Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville. Details at waltonartscenter.org. Call (479) 443-5600.
5 Twelfth day of Christmas -- when the partridge climbs down to relax with a cup of hot tea and a merry olde crumpet, a flat cake traditionally served on a tuffet with curds and whey.
6 Be Kind to Food Servers Month: They feed the feederless.
7 English inventor Henry Mill patents the first "artificial machine" resembling a typewriter, 1714. But the world had to wait 130 years more for a typewriter that actually worked, and 30 years after that for the first author to peck out a book, namely: (A) H.G. Wells, (B) Mark Twain or (C) Jules Verne.
8 Elvis Presley's birthday, 1935.
9 National Take the Stairs Day, but down doesn't count.
10 Houseplant Appreciation Day -- when the doctor orders an ivy.
11 A priest and a nun fall for each other in The Runner Stumbles Jan. 11-12, 18-20 and 24-26 at The Weekend Theater, Little Rock. Details at weekendtheater.org. Call (501) 374-3761.
Tri-State Coin Show through Jan. 13 at Hot Springs Convention Center, Hot Springs. Details at hotsprings.org.
12 National Soup Month. Chicken soup may be good for the soul, but chili is better for January.
13 International Skeptics Day, also Make Your Dream Come True Day. Coincidence? We think so, yes.
14 How to tackle National Clean Up Your Computer Month: One byte at a time.
15 How to celebrate National Hat Day: To the brim.
16 International Creativity Month. At least, that's the idea.
17 Justin Timberlake, 7:30 p.m. at Verizon Arena, North Little Rock. Details at verizonarena.com. Call (800) 745-3000.
Ozark Mountain Music Festival with Hog Slop String Band, The Mighty Pines through Jan. 20 at Basin Park Hotel, Eureka Springs. Details at ozarkmountainmusicfestival.com. Call (888) 388-4776.
18 Winnie the Pooh Day celebrates the birthday of the Pooh Bear's creator, A.A. Milne, 1882.
"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day." -- Pooh.
19 Harlem Globetrotters, 2 p.m. at Verizon Arena, North Little Rock. Details at verizonarena.com. Call (800) 745-3000.
Fort Smith Symphony Orchestra concert, It's Time for Chaplin, features the film score from the silent comedian's classic, City Lights, 7:30 p.m. at ArcBest Performing Arts Center, Fort Smith. Details at fortsmithsymphony.com. Call (479) 452-7575.
• The Fall of the House of Usher: Increased mortgage rates scare off homebuyers.
• The Raven: More self-serve check-out lanes make people wake up screaming, "Unexpected item in the bagging area!" More of these torments, really? Quote the raven: "Ever more."
• The Pit and the Pendulum: It's tax time, already.
20 Metallica, 7:30 p.m. at Verizon Arena, North Little Rock, North Little Rock. Details at verizonarena.com. Call (800) 745-3000.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Is today your birthday? If so, tell the waiter yes, bring water. The water-bearer sign of the Zodiac favors office coolers, garden hoses and Adam Sandler in The Waterboy. Wade in with demon-possessed Linda Blair, 60 on Jan. 22, wild mustache-tamer Tom Selleck, 74 on Jan. 29, and recently-sighted-in-Arkansas Justin Timberlake, 38 on Jan. 31.
21 National Hugging Day -- could be worse, could be a pinch on the cheek, besides.
Squirrel Appreciation Day remembers the 1957 Disney feature, Perri (the little-girl squirrel), and its bad-advice song lyric: "If I could catch her, I'd give her a hug."
The Beach Boys hold tight, 7 p.m. at Robinson Center Performance Hall, Little Rock. Details at ticketmaster.com.Call (800) 745-3000.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the federal and state holiday.
22 Pound-the-keys quiz answer: (B) Mark Twain claimed he was the first to "apply the type-machine to literature." This made him also the first to cuss out the ancestor of today's word processor, and he gave it up for fear it was "degrading my character."
23 National Handwriting Day. No typing, please print.
24 Beer Can Appreciation Day. Canned beer goes back to 1935, but thirsty enthusiasts had to puncture the can with a "church key" opener. One day, tool-maker Ermal Fraze forgot to bring his opener on a picnic, which led him to invent: (A) Kool-Aid, (B) The pop-top can, or (C) Ability to open a can with his teeth.
25 Eagles Et Cetera Festival, eagle-watching tours and programming through Jan. 27 at DeGray Lake Resort State Park. Details at arkansasstateparks.com. Call (501) 865-5850.
Live horse racing through May 4 at Oaklawn Racing and Gaming, Hot Springs. Details at oaklawn.com. Call (800) 625-5296.
"I haven't seen so much mudslinging since the last election." -- Groucho Marx, A Day at the Races.
26 Arkansas Symphony Orchestra concert, "Chopin & Mendelssohn," 7:30 p.m. Jan. 26 and 3 p.m. Jan. 27 at Robinson Center Performance Hall, Little Rock. Details at arkansassymphony.org. Call (501) 666-1761.
27 How to celebrate National Mentoring Month -- like the Little Red Hen. Take a know-nothing under your wing, even if you wind up doing the whole job by yourself.
28 Pop! -- for Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day.
29 Kansas Admission Day, 1861. Kansas admits the only thing flatter than Kansas is flat beer.
National Puzzle Day -- when the jigsaw picture winds up short the last piece, and nobody can puzzle out what became of it.
30 Down-the-hatch quiz answer: (B) The pop-top, in 1959, and beer cans have been pop-pop-popping like bubble wrap ever since.
31 Last day of Get Organized Month. It's now or never, and never never sounded so right.
by Jan. 15 to suggest February calendar entries or how to celebrate February as Creative Romance Month, National Grapefruit Month and Canned Food Month, such as: Spoon, spoon, Spam. All entries require a web address and/ or phone number that is answered during business hours.