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One Community, Many Voices: 'There Should Be Flowers' by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Discussions
Sundays, November 1, 8, 15 • 4 PM
Free • Reservations required • Go to https://tinyurl.com/OneCommunityBookDiscussions
Discussion leaders:
November 1: Lucas Lopez
November 8: Kini Sosa
November 15: Serena Trujillo
How to participate in our Community Read:
Get a FREE copy of There Should be Flowers by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza. Reserve a copy at one of our participating public libraries (no library card required) and schedule a pickup. See below for locations and phone numbers.
Read the book and attend one of our Zoom public discussions of There Should be Flowers—Sundays: November 1, 8, 15 • 4–5 PM
Joshua Jennifer Espinoza is a trans woman poet living in California. Her work has been published in The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, and West Branch, among others. She is the author of I'm Alive / It Hurts / I Love It (Big Lucks 2019), and THERE SHOULD BE FLOWERS (CCM 2016).
It's not too late to join in and read the book!
• Call a participating library to make an appointment to pick up your free book.
• At your appointed time, drive to the participating library.
• Pick up at a designated pick up area (varies by branch).
• Face coverings required at all branches.
• No library card required to pick up your free book.
Riverside Public Libraries (Curbside Pickup)
Arlanza Library • 951-826-2217 • 8267 Philbin Ave • Riverside, CA 92503
Arlington Library • 951-826-2291 • 9556 Magnolia Ave • Riverside, CA 92503
SSgt. Salvador J. Lara Casa Blanca Library • 951-826-2120 • 2985 Madison St • Riverside, CA 92504
SPC. Jesus S. Duran Eastside Library • 951-826-2235 • 4033 Chicago Ave #C • Riverside, CA 92507
La Sierra Library • 951-826-2461 • 4600 La Sierra Ave • Riverside, CA 92505
Marcy Library • 951-826-2078 • 6927 Magnolia Ave • Riverside, CA 92506
Orange Terrace Library • 951-826-2184• 20010 Orange Terrace Pkwy • Riverside, CA 92508
Riverside County Libraries (Curbside Pickup)
La Quinta Library • 760-564-4767 • 78275 Calle Tampico • La Quinta, CA 92253
Palm Desert Library • 760-346-6552 • 73-300 Fred Waring Dr, Palm Desert, CA 92260
Sun City Library • 951-679-3534 • 26982 Cherry Hills Blvd • Sun City, CA 92586
Louis Robidoux • 951-682-5485 • 5840 Mission Blvd • Jurupa Valley, CA 92509
San Bernardino County Libraries (Counter Pick Up Inside)
Apple Valley Branch Library • 760-2 47-2022 • 14901 Dale Evans Pkwy • Apple Valley, CA 92307
Chino Hills Branch Library • 909-590-5380 • 14020 City Center Dr • Chino Hills, CA 91709
Fontana Lewis Library & Learning Center • 909-574-4500 • 8437 Sierra Ave • Fontana, CA 92335-3892
Hesperia Branch Library • 760-244-4898 • 9650 7th Ave • Hesperia, CA 92345
Highland Branch Library • 909-425-4700 • 7863 Central Ave • Highland, CA 92346-4107
This project was made possible with support from California Humanities, a partner of the NEF. Visit www.calhum.org.
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7:00 pm: The Flame: Something Wicked
October 29, 2020 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Something Wicked Thursday • October 29 • 7 PM
Registration required • Go to https://tinyurl.com/Wicked-TheFlame
"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." —Shakespeare
Celebrate the spooky season with Inlandia on Thursday, October 29th at 7 pm with "Something Wicked."
These true stories of the unusual, the unexplained, and the terrifying are shared by the people who survived them. Led by master live storyteller Stevie Taken, our Inlandia writers have honed their stories for your enjoyment. Creepy, kooky, and frightful, you'll have a spook-tacular evening.
Miss it at your own risk . . .
Stevie Taken is a theater artist, creator of the live storytelling event "Performance Anxiety" based on The Moth, which was held at The Menagerie in downtown Riverside. Today she is happy to collaborate with Inlandia on the ongoing live storytelling event: "The Flame".
This activity was supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov.
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1:00 pm: Crocodile & Hen
First Sundays with RAM and Inlandia@home
Sunday, November 1 • 2 PM
RSVP required: https://tinyurl.com/AroundTheWorldStory3
Crocodile and Hen (Democratic Republic of Congo)
Crocodile wants to eat that juicy little hen, but hen and others finally convince him that they are truly brother and sister.
As we shelter at home, join Inlandia as we take you to distant lands without ever leaving your living room. Master puppeteer Nicole Cloeren joins beloved storyteller Karen Rae Kraut for a powerful mix of interactive storytelling and puppetry. Karen's stories and Nicole's puppets will open your eyes to new ways of interpreting the world and open your hearts to a powerful form of play. In this series, we will travel to India, France, Mexico, Democratic Republic of Congo, Japan, and Kasakhstan through these universal stories of friendship and understanding.
Nicole Cloeren is the founder of Puppets a la Carte, where she uses puppets and techniques of improvisation to create a space of surprise and wonder in which we can all learn from one another. She is a resident artist at Riverside Film Studios, has performed with puppets at numerous indoor, outdoor, and online events around southern California, and loves partnering with other artists.
Karen Rae Kraut has been blending story, song and creative movement in schools, libraries, museums and theatres from California to East Tennessee since 1990. She has toured for the Smithsonian, and was commissioned by the McCallum Theatre to create a storyteller's version of Mozart's "The Magic Flute." Karen's CD, "Cooler Water Cora and Other Stories," is the winner of an iParenting Media Award for Audio Excellence and a National Parenting Publications Honors Award. She has performed for Riverside's First Sundays program since its inception in 1997.
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4:00 pm: One Community, Many Voices: 'There Should Be Flowers' by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza Discussions
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1:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN RIVERSIDE WTH CELENA DIANA BUMPUS
Virtual Fall Workshops on Zoom
Registration required.
Check back for Winter dates and availability.
Our Riverside Janet Goeske Senior Center workshop is on going for participants 50+. They meet every Tuesday from 1:00pm to 2:30pm. Zoom links will be sent by your workshop leader after registration confirmation.
In partnership with The Riverside Janet Goeske Senior Center.
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10:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH MAE WAGNER MARINELLO
November 4, 2020 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Virtual Winter Workshops on Zoom
Our Redlands workshop is ongoing for participants 50+. They meet every Thursday from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Zoom links will be sent by the workshop leader after registration confirmation.
In partnership with the Joslyn Senior Center and the City of Redlands.
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6:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN ONTARIO WITH TIM HATCH
The Ontario workshop meets every other Wednesday starting at 6:30pm. Zoom links will be sent by the workshop leader after registration confirmation.
In partnership with the Ontario Public Library.
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7:00 pm: Adventures in Chronologyland
A new virtual writing workshop with Dr. Carlos Cortés
Wednesdays • Every 2 weeks starting September 9 • 7 pm
To register email Inlandia@InlandiaInstitute.org
Inlandia Institute presents Adventures in Chronologyland, an exciting new series of virtual writing workshops in conjunction with the Riverside Public Library's new Humanities Hour series, a partnership between Riverside Public Library, Riverside Art Museum, Mission Inn Museum, and Inlandia Institute, sponsored by California Humanities.
This workshop will address the challenges and opportunities of drawing on chronology while writing prose and poetry. Topics will include integrating documents and memory, crafting chronologically parallel stories, connecting your life with major historical events, using flashbacks and flashforwards, dealing with changing and conflicting personal perspectives on the past, and addressing the complications of nostalgia.
Six sessions: September 9, 23, October 7, 21, and November 4, 7 pm on Zoom.
For more information or to register, email Inlandia@InlandiaInstitute.org
Dr. Carlos Cortés is the author of Rose Hill: An Intermarriage before Its Time (memoir; a Heyday) and Fourth Quarter: Reflections of a Cranky Old Man (poetry; Bad Knee Books). He is Professor Emeritus of History from the University of California, Riverside.
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7:00 pm: 2019 Writing from Inlandia Anthology Book Launch!
Reading • Book Launch
Free • Registration Required • Go to https://tinyurl.com/2019WFI
Thursday, November 5 • 7 PM
Join Inlandia@Home for a virtual Arts Walk presentation featuring contributors to the latest Inlandia creative writing workshops anthology, 2019 Writing from Inlandia. Learn more about Inlandia's writing workshop opportunities and listen to readings from featured contributors.
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11:00 am: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN CORONA WITH ANDREA FINGERSON
November 7, 2020 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
The Corona workshop meets every other Saturday starting at 11:00am. Zoom links will be sent by the workshop leader after registration confirmation.
In partnership with the Corona Public Library.
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3:30 pm: Reading from Slow Unraveling of Living Ghosts: by Johnny Bender and Cati Porter
November 7, 2020 3:30 pm | Free | Registration Required
Inlandia Institute Board President Johnny Bender and Executive Director Cati Porter to read from their pandemic-inspired collaborative chapbook, Slow Unravelling of Living Ghosts, as the closing event for the Moreno Valley Writers Expo. Purchase a signed copy of this limited edition chapbook for $10 here, while supplies last.
Free and open to the public but RSVP required: https://tinyurl.com/SULGReading
Also featuring readings by Larry Burns, S. Kay Murphy, Anna Christian, and more! Complete author lineup with registration links for each session are available on Moreno Valley Public Library's Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/MorenoValleyPublicLibrary/)
Poet and doghouse-bass player Johnny Bender follows the Beat tradition in attitude but also enjoys fiddling with form. He lives with his longtime wife, Rene, near the Box Springs Mountains in beautiful Moreno Valley. A short workshop he took with Allen Ginsberg at Naropa Institute in summer 1982 inspired Bender to start the poetry performance troupe "Poets in Distress" that same year.
Cati Porter is a poet, editor, essayist, arts administrator, wife, mother, daughter, friend. She is the author of nine books and chapbooks, most recently The Body at a Loss and Slow Unraveling with Living Ghosts, a collaborative chapbook with Johnny Bender and illustrated by Steve "Lu" Lossing. Her poems, and essays have been published in a variety of venues both in print and online. She now lives in Riverside where she has been sheltering in place since March 19, 2020.
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6:00 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP SAN BERNARDINO WITH ALLYSON JEFFREDO
The San Bernardino workshop meets every other Tuesday starting at 6:00pm. Zoom links will be sent by the workshop leader after registration confirmation.
In partnership with the San Bernardino Public Library.
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4:00 pm: One Community, Many Voices Book Discussion #2 led by Kini Sosa
November 8, 2020, 4 pm | Free | Registration Required
Join us for the second of three deeper-dive book discussions around Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's There Should be Flowers.
Upcoming discussion dates: November 8, & 15 from 4 - 5 pm.
A recent Creative Writing graduate from the University of California, Riverside, Kini Sosa is a queer and Latinx-Japanese American poet/visual artist from San Diego, CA. She has previous worked as a Graphic Text Residential Teacher at the UVA Young Writers Workshop and is currently an Academic Coach for at-risk high school students. Her work has been featured in Mosaic, Experiencing Comics, and other publications.
Have you picked up your book? Books available while supplies last. Full list can be found here:
http://inlandiainstitute.org/community-discussions-11-1-11-8-11-15/
This project was initiated by Inlandia Literary Laureate Rachelle Cruz as part of her 2018-2020 Laureate programming and is made possible with support from California Humanities, a partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information, visit www.calhum.org.
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6:30 pm: CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP IN REDLANDS WITH JAMES DUCAT
The Redlands workshop meets every other Tuesday starting at 6:30pm. Zoom links will be sent by the workshop leader after registration confirmation.
In partnership with the University of Redlands.
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11November 11, 2020
November 11, 2020 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
6:00 pm: Harada House Story and Civil Rights
Thursday, November 12 • 6 PM
Free • Registration Required
Go to : https://tinyurl.com/HaradaDiscussion
Join us as we collaborate to present a panel discussion and conversation about civil liberties and racial justice in the present moment, framed within the context of the Harada House as a symbol of dignity, perseverance, and social justice. The Museum of Riverside, which is steward for Harada House, is supported by the Harada House Foundation and Inlandia Institute in presenting this free program.
In 1916 in Riverside, Japanese immigrant Jukichi Harada was criminally prosecuted in a racially motivated attempt to deny the Harada family their own home. Panelists will consider what today would parallel this lawsuit and its effort to deprive people in the U.S. of their rights based on race? Questions at the heart of the discussion include "What is democracy? How does it work? Is the concept fixed or fluid? Are we getting better at it? How are our laws enforced? What must happen next?"
Against the backdrop of civil rights victories in Riverside—notably the Harada family's judicial triumph in 1918—a group of leaders will discuss peaceful paths to effect positive change, share indicators that the system can be improved, and highlight stories of persistence and choosing the greater good. One desired outcome is further recognition that Harada House serves as a symbol and beacon of hope in the continuing struggle for social justice.
Panelists include Jack Clarke (Best, Best & Krieger), Larry Gonzalez (City of Riverside Chief of Police), Kristen Hayashi (Director of Collections Management & Access and Curator at the Japanese American Museum, Los Angeles), and Michelle Magalong University of Maryland and President of the Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation). The panel will be moderated by Museum of Riverside Director Robyn G. Peterson.
Sign up for this online event here: https://tinyurl.com/HaradaDiscussion
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6:00 pm: Learning from the Harada Story
November 12, 2020 6 pm | Free | Registration Required
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Join Inlandia Institute and the Harada House Foundation as we host a conversational discussion about civil liberties and racial justice in the present moment, framed within the context of the Harada House as a symbol of dignity, perseverance, and social justice. Free and open to the public but RSVP required: tinyurl.com/HaradaDiscussion
In Riverside (1916), Jukichi Harada was criminally prosecuted in a racially motivated attempt to deny the Harada family their own home. What today would parallel this lawsuit and its effort to deprive people in the U.S. of their rights based on race?
What is democracy? How does it work? Is the concept fixed or fluid? Are we getting better at it? What must happen next?
Against the backdrop of civil rights victories in Riverside—notably the Harada family's judicial triumph in 1918—a group of leaders will discuss peaceful paths to effect positive change, share indicators that the system can be improved, and highlight stories of persistence and choosing the greater good.
Panelists to include Jack Clarke, Best, Best & Krieger; Larry Gonzalez, City of Riverside Chief of Police; Kristen Hayashi, Director of Collections Management & Access and Curator at the Japanese American Museum, Los Angeles; and Michelle Magalong, University of Maryland and President of the Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation. Moderated by Robyn G. Peterson, Director of the Museum of Riverside.
About the Panelists:
Jack Clarke has been an attorney at the law firm of Best, Best & Krieger LLP for over 30 years. He is engaged in a public agency / litigation practice and has been involved in multiple matters that concern diversity and inclusion in his law practice and within the community.
Kristen Hayashi is a public historian and Director of Collections Management & Access and Curator at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. She earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in History from the University of California, Riverside. Her dissertation research examined the return and resettlement of Japanese Americans to post-WWII Los Angeles.
Larry Gonzalez was named City of Riverside Chief of Police in January 2020, and has served the Riverside Police Department for nearly three decades. He has been an instructor at the Riverside Sheriff's Academy for over 20 years, specializing in Use of Force, Laws of Arrest, Defensive Tactics, and Civil Liability. He holds a B.S. in Workforce Education and Development from Southern Illinois University and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy.
Michelle Magalong, Ph.D., is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Historic Preservation at the School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation at the University of Maryland. Her research on social justice, community participation, and historic preservation in Asian American and Pacific Islander communities is drawn from her practitioner work as President of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation (APIAHiP). She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Urban Planning from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
(Moderator) Robyn G. Peterson, Ph.D., is Director of the Museum of Riverside. She has 35 years of experience in museum administrative and curatorial work from California to New York, specializing in interdisciplinary programming and the intersection where art, science, cultural heritage, and sustainability meet. Her degrees—from UCLA and the University of Wisconsin-Madison—are in design, art history, and archaeology.
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3:00 pm: Poetic Voices: Poems of Hope with Romaine Washington
Saturday, 3pm | November 14, 2020
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In this time burdened by pandemic, economic hardship, social isolation, racial injustice, and political strife, poet Romaine Washington shares a voice of hope in the face of struggle.
Open mic session: Bring an original or favorite poem of hope to share.
Romaine Washington, M. Ed. (www.romainewashington.com) is an educator and poet who grew up in San Bernardino. Her poetry has been featured in a variety of anthologies and periodicals, and she has presented her work widely, including in faith-based venues. Her book of poetry, Sirens in Her Belly, "zeroes in on the unique challenges women face in our modern world, and does it with unwavering strength" (Brit Middleton, BET, Editors' Must-Read Books for 2016). She is a fellow of the Inland Area Writing Project at the University of California Riverside and of The Watering Hole (twhpoetry.org).
Sponsored by the Humanities Program of the School of Religion at Loma Linda University. For more information, contact the LLU Humanities Program at (909) 558-7478 or at humanities@llu.edu.
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4:00 pm: California Burning Anthology Readings
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Join us us for a special joint reading from two important ecopoetry anthologies: Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, edited by Lucille Lang Day and Ruth Nolan, and California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology, edited by Molly Fisk.
Event hosts Ruth Nolan, Lucille Lang Day, and Molly Fisk have curated this special reading in response to recent and devastating major wildfire events.
Following the reading, there will be a discussion of California wildfire ecologies and the impacts of fire and water/flooding fueled in our state by climate change and other factors. Time will be set aside for for community-inclusive questions, answers, and input.
This reading is the second of a two part series, with the second part sponsored by Poetry Center San Jose on November 10 and featuring work by poets whose works focus on Northern California and Coasts.
Featured readers include:
Lisa Alvarez • Cynthia Anderson • Laure-Anne Bosselaar • Brandon Cesmat • Teresa Mei Chuc • Amy Davis • Kim Dower • Thea Gavin • Trina Gaynon • liz gonzález • Karen Greenbaum-Maya • Laurie Klein • Robert (Bob) Krut • Suzanne Lummis • Stephanie Noble • Cathie Sandstrom • Judith Terzi
About the Editors:
Lucille Lang Day is the author of seven full-length poetry collections and four poetry chapbooks. Her latest collection is Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place (Blue Light Press, November 2020). She has also coedited two anthologies, Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California and Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California, and published two children's books and a memoir, Married at Fourteen: A True Story. Her many honors include the Blue Light Poetry Prize, two PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Awards, the Joseph Henry Jackson Award, and ten Pushcart Prize nominations. The founder and publisher of Scarlet Tanager Books, she received her MA in English and MFA in creative writing at San Francisco State University, and her BA in biological sciences, MA in zoology, and PhD in science/mathematics education at the University of California, Berkeley. https://lucillelangday.com
Ruth Nolan grew up in California's Mojave Desert and worked as a wildland firefighter for the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service during the 1980s. She is coeditor of Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California, which placed as a finalist for the 2019 Eric Hoffer Book Award in Poetry, and editor of No Place for a Puritan: The Literature of California's Deserts. Her writing has been published/is forthcoming in Boom, California; Women's Studies Quarterly; KCET L.A.; News from Native California; Desert Oracle; Sierra Club Desert Report; Los Angeles Times; Desert Sun/USA Today. She is curator of the documentary project Fire on the Mojave: Stories from the Deserts and Mountains of Inland Southern California, which has been the recipient of grants from College of the Desert, Phi Kappa Phi, and the California Writers Residency/1888 Center program. Ruth is Professor of English and creative writing at College of the Desert.
Molly Fisk edited California Fire & Water, A Climate Crisis Anthology, with a Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. She's the author of The More Difficult Beauty, Listening to Winter,and Houston, We Have a Possum among other books and has won grants from the NEA, the California Arts Council, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Fisk lives in the Sierra foothills, where she teaches writing to cancer patients, provides weekly commentary to community radio, and works as a radical life coach. Visit her on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mollyfisk
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7:00 pm: The Flame: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Join us for another installment of The Flame, Inlandia's popular oral storytelling workshop and presentation series, organized by theater artist Stevie Taken. From holiday fiascos to winterland wonders, we invite both new and seasoned storytellers to share a personal true story that speaks to the theme. Have a story idea? Send to Inlandia@InlandiaInstitute.org. Just want to join the final event? Workshops: December 2 & 9 at 7 pm. Rehearsal: December 15 at 7 pm. Final event December 16 at 7 pm. RSVP here: https://tinyurl.com/TheFlame-Winter
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7:00 pm: 'A Short Guide to Finding Your Home in the United States' book launch!
Inlandia at Home presents a Riverside Public Library Virtual Arts Walk launch of a new anthology, A Short Guide to Finding Your Home in the United States, which seeks to highlight the stories of families who emigrated to this region. Join us for a lively reading and discussion on what 'home' means. RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/ImmigrantAnthology
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As a nation, we grieve. Even as the hours since the horrific attack on our country pass into days, and our society begins the slow but necessary return to normalcy, we grieve. We are hurt, we are angry, and we are determined to make sure that such evil never threatens our families and our homes again. And we feel this as a nation, feel it in every community, regardless of race, regardless of religion, as united today as any time in our history.
Several hundred members of the Sikh-American community attended a candlelight vigil at Los Angeles City Hall on Sunday.
Yet there is a community that feels the hurt, the anger, and the determination more acutely than any other. A community that was not only wounded by the events of last Tuesday, but now must live in constant fear that, because of the actions of a couple dozen psychopaths from half a world away, they will suffer the consequences.
I have been a baseball writer for over six years, and hardly a day goes by that I don't count my blessings for the opportunity to write about the most uniquely American pastime. But today I can't afford to think about our Great American Game, because I'm too busy thinking about what it means to be an American.
You see, I am a Muslim. I am an Arab-American. And right now I am scared to death that in a country I have loved all my life -- in the only country I have ever called my own -- I am no longer truly free. I feel imprisoned by the hatred of others, those blind to the difference between a sick, demented terrorist and a peace-loving American.
That's not melodrama. Hundreds of Americans whose only crime is to be of a different race or religion have been verbally and physically assaulted over the past week. A friend's mother had racial epithets hurled at her at a grocery store. Another friend rushed to pick up his son last Thursday after the Muslim school his son attended received a bomb threat. Mosques around the country have received so many threatening phone calls they've turned off their answering machines. A mosque in Chicago -- one I've attended in the past -- was set upon by an angry mob of 300 people; only police intervention prevented a catastrophe.
But not every catastrophe has been averted. Several mosques around the country have been firebombed. Cars were deliberately crashed into two mosques Monday. A Pakistani business owner in Dallas was murdered over the weekend in what police are calling a hate crime. A Sikh gas station attendant in Arizona (who, in a tragic irony, was neither Arab nor Muslim) was shot and killed.
Some Americans have a tremendous ignorance of Muslims and Arabs, and from ignorance can emerge fear and hatred. Many Americans have no idea that more than 7 million Muslims and another 3 million non-Muslims of Arab descent are in this country. Many Americans don't realize that the majority of Muslims in this country are not Arab, but African-American, and that the majority of Arab-Americans are Christian.
Many Americans are unaware that Muslims don't all look like Saddam Hussein or Osama bin Laden; I could pass as Mike Sweeney's brother. Or that Arabs can't all be identified because they have funny names. My buddy John Sickels covers the minor leagues for ESPN.com, and is one of the most patriotic Americans I know; he's also half-Palestinian. Or that Arab-Americans have been a part of the political process in this country for years. You might recognize names like George Mitchell, Donna Shalala, Ralph Nader, Helen Thomas and John Sununu. All are Arab-Americans.
Most importantly of all, I fear that some Americans are under the impression that terrorism is somehow compatible with Islamic teachings. So let me be perfectly clear about this: Islam does not condone terrorism in any way, shape, or form. Rather, it condemns it in the harshest possible terms. The killing of innocent civilians, no matter how desperate the plight of the perpetrators, no matter how meaningful their cause, is a capital sin. (Islam also forbids drinking alcohol, but that didn't stop one of the alleged terrorists from drinking at a strip club a few days before the attack, or another alleged terrorist from being arrested twice on DUI charges in the last year.)
A group of Muslims pray for the victims of the terrorist attacks at the Masjid Al-Islam Mosque in North Smithfield, R.I.
The men who committed these acts might have thought their death would bring martyrdom, but if there were any martyrs last Tuesday, it was the brave men and women of the NYPD and FDNY who lost their lives trying to save others.
To put it another way: the terrorists who committed this bloody act were Muslim in the same way that Timothy McVeigh or David Koresh were Christian.
Unfortunately, I'm afraid that many Americans aren't getting this message. In Monday's edition of USA Today, 49 percent of Americans polled supported special IDs for Arabs, including U.S. citizens. Half of our country today supports an idea straight out of Nazi Germany, which should give pause to every freedom-loving American.
Thankfully, millions of Americans have been vocal in their support of their fellow citizens. For every American who has approached a mosque brandishing a gun or a Molotov cocktail, there have been hundreds more who have come bearing roses. Thousands of Americans have embraced their Muslim and Arab neighbors in prayer vigils and interfaith community gatherings. But just as it took only a few terrorists to destroy our nation's sense of security, it takes a tiny number of racists willing to act on their anger to make millions of Americans fear for their safety.
Muslims and Arabs did not come to this country to destroy it -- they came to embrace it. They came, like every other immigrant group to land on America's shores, to escape oppression and discover freedom. They came to forge their own destiny. They came to live the American dream.
Tragically, many Muslims and Arabs who were living that dream perished in Tuesday's nightmare along with their fellow Americans. About 50 Muslims who worked at the World Trade Center are among the missing and feared dead, and dozens more were Christian Arabs. A Muslim couple -- who I just learned were friends of a friend -- were on Flight 11.
We all grieve together.
What do sports have to do with this? Nothing, and everything. Sports are a useless diversion at a time like this, a time when we need our useless diversions more than ever. And in sports, the common goal of winning ultimately renders a player's background irrelevant. When Jackie Robinson broke the color line, he proved he had as much grace and dignity as any white American -- helping to set the stage for the civil rights movement a decade later. Hank Greenberg's staunch patriotism in a time of war helped quiet the anti-Semitism talk in this country. Roberto Clemente's courage and unselfishness made him a quiet ambassador for the growing Hispanic population in America.
Today, I hope that the accomplishments of Muslim and Arab athletes in this country, both on and off the field, will help remind us of the basic humanity in people of all backgrounds. I hope that people might reflect on the charisma and genius of a Muhammad Ali, or the grace of a Hakeem Olajuwon, and understand that just as Muslim athletes are committed to the same goals, on and off the field, as their fellow athletes, so too are Muslims in this country as innately American as anyone else.
And I pray that those people who want to punish their neighbors for the actions of others will recognize that in lashing out at innocent people on the basis of their ethnicity or religion, they are committing the exact same sin that was perpetrated by the terrorists themselves.
May God bless America. May God bless her with the strength to defeat evil, the courage to defend the good, and above all, the wisdom to tell the difference.
Rany Jazayerli is co-author of the Baseball Prospectus, as well as a physician and a proud American. E-mail him at ranyj@baseballprospectus.com.
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As someone who was born and raised in this city, I gotta say, I love Brampton. It is such a vibrant and growing city with lots to do. I've seen Brampton change a lot in the past 34 years and I love that there are so many things to do in the downtown core of the city!
Here I'm going to share with you a bunch of things you can do in this city while you're pregnant. And this is the fun stuff… not pack your hospital bag or take a childbirth ed class… I have a post on that coming later. This is the fun, enjoy without baby, take in the culture stuff!
So without further ado… here we go!
The Rose has seen so many great artists and shows including Jann Arden, Rupi Kaur and Beauty and the Beast. I love the size of the theater, there is no bad seat in the house thanks to the theatre's smaller size. Even if your spot is in the back row you'll still have a great view and a great experience! What a great way to spend some quality time with your partner or other special person in your life before baby arrives.
If you plan to have dinner before your show, be sure to bring your ticket with you to the restaurant. Some restaurants in Brampton offer you a discount on your meal if you present your ticket. For the full list of participating restaurants click here.
Dining out becomes difficult for most after the arrival of a new baby. It can be overwhelming to even think of getting out to a restaurant with a new baby. It's also nice to spend time connecting with your partner before the birth. Some great places to check out are Vesuvios Ristorante and Freshly Thai. Both are family run businesses located in downtown Brampton.
Freshly Thai is a restaurant founded by three sisters and serves traditional Thai food. They are accommodating of all special dietary needs including allergies and vegan or vegetarian diets. They are located in downtown Brampton at the corner of Queen St and George St.
Vesuvios is one of the oldest restaurants in Brampton, opened in 1963 and serves traditional Italian food. It has recently undergone a total renovation and all the decor has been completely updated. The food is excellent and the service great! This is one to check out for sure if you love a great Italian meal!
Click here for a full list of restaurants downtown.
During the summer months there are weekly movies played at garden square downtown. The square is full of adirondak chairs, but if that's not your thing then be sure to bring your favorite chair from home. Grab a cool drink from Starbucks or a burger from the The Works and you'll be all set. These should be starting up again in a few weeks. The link to Garden Square also feature lots of other events held throughout the year including the Christmas Market.
October 4th from 4-8pm which is a great option for you if you work during the day.
Pick a park. Any park. Brampton has so many to choose from but my choice would be Kiwanis Park which is across from Shopper's World, just south of Peel Village Parkway. Kiwanis park is part of the network of trails that connect the Etobicoke Creek trail, and there is lots of shade and a beautiful bridge.
Of course this post wouldn't be complete without some pampering! Pay a visit to Charlene Borg at Rejuve Massage Therapy Clinic on Church street and you won't be disappointed. From start to finish the entire experience is relaxing and a welcome reprieve from the stressors of daily life. Massage therapy can be really helpful for coping with the complaints of pregnancy such as a sore back or headaches, and the services may be covered by your health care benefits.
Christine Massey is a local Reiki Master located in downtown Brampton who delivers a beautiful, relaxing and healing experience from start to finish. Reiki is a beautiful form of energy healing that can be especially helpful in processing emotions or fears that you are holding on to surrounding your pregnancy and birth.
Head on over to Kaulika yoga and pilates studio in the old shoe factory downtown to experience the wonder that is prenatal yoga. All levels of experience are welcome– you don't need to have ever practiced yoga to be able to enjoy the class. Prenatal yoga can be so invigorating, relaxing and healing. You will get to connect with other pregnant women in the community, share stories and practice yoga positions for pregnancy (these are called asanas). Prenatal yoga is good for you on so many levels- physically to help prepare for birth and make pregnancy easier and emotionally as you connect with other women and their energy.
9. Join a women's meditation circle.
Mindful Intentions- Women's Mindfulness Group is a great way to get started with mindfulness. If you are looking for mindfulness practice and community with women, then this is place to be. You get to connect and share with other women, participate in group meditation, and explore you potential and purpose. Group energy is an amazing thing to experience, and with meditation circles generally held on a monthly basis, you may be able to continue this practice during the postpartum period as self care and as a way to stay connected with yourself and your essence.
Founded by Linda Nguyen, Moms & Minis is a community for moms and moms-to-be and will be hosting a vendor market on Sunday June 24th from 10:00am- 2:00pm at the Brampton Fairgrounds. There will be plenty of local vendors who focus specifically on pregnancy, new motherhood and babies– I'll be there myself with a vendor table– come on out and "Meet the doula" and get sneak peek at my new breastmilk keepsake jewelry.
This is just a sample of all the things you can do in Brampton while pregnant. There are always exciting events going on that you can take in, whether free or paid. If you'd like to find out about more going on in Brampton then click here.
My suggestion: try choosing the things that will be more difficult to do once baby arrives such as dinner and a show and try to include some pampering and healing activities that soothe your soul. I've included a bit of both here.
What's your favorite thing to do in Brampton while Pregnant?
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As with many issues, people's economic outlook depended on where they fell on the political spectrum. Republican survey respondents were more likely to attribute their improved financial situation to Donald Trump (60 percent of Republican respondents said they were better off, 9 percent said their financial situation was worse and 31 percent said their finances were about the same). Meanwhile, 29 percent of Democrats said they were better off, 23 percent said they were worse off and 48 percent said their finances were about the same. Among those who said their financial situation had improved, 24 percent attributed the improvement to Trump, 3 percent attributed it to Republicans in Congress and 15 percent said both were responsible, while a notable 55 percent said neither were responsible.
Again, Republicans were more likely to attribute improved finances to Trump, at 39 percent. Five percent of Republicans attributed the improvements to the GOP, and 27 percent attributed improvements to both the president and the Republican Party, according to the survey. By contrast, only 7 percent of Democrats said their finances had improved because of Trump, Republicans in Congress, or both. Early this month Trump tweeted that the stock market had "reached an All-Time High during my Administration for the 102nd Time, a presidential record, by far, for less than two years." He also tweeted, "So much potential as Trade and Military Deals are completed." Economists warn, however, that a major fallout could result from the tariffs Trump has imposed on Chinese imports and other foreign goods.
The president is the billionaire head of a global business empire, and his mostly millionaire Cabinet may be the richest in American history. His opponent in the 2016 election was a millionaire. Most Supreme Court Justices are millionaires. Most members of Congress are millionaires (and probably have been for several years). On the other end of the economic spectrum, most working people are employed in manual labor, service industry, and clerical jobs. Those Americans, however, almost never get a seat at the table in our political institutions. Why not? In a country where virtually any citizen is eligible to serve in public office, why are our elected representatives almost all drawn from such an unrepresentative slice of the economy? This year, it might be tempting to think that working-class Americans don't have it so bad in politics, especially in light of recent candidates like Randy Bryce, the Wisconsin ironworker running for the US House seat Paul Ryan is vacating, or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the former restaurant server whose primary election win over Democratic heavyweight Joe Crowley may go down as the single biggest election upset in 2018. In reality, however, they are stark exceptions to a longstanding rule in American politics: Working-class people almost never become politicians. Ocasio-Cortez and Bryce make headlines in part because their economic backgrounds are so unusual (for politicians, that is). Their wins are stunning in part because their campaigns upset a sort of natural order in American politics.
Even in the information age, working-class jobs — defined as manual labor, service industry, and clerical jobs — still make up a little more than half of our economy. But workers make up less than 3 percent of the average state legislature. The average member of Congress spent less than 2 percent of his or her entire pre-congressional career doing the kinds of jobs most Americans go to every day. No one from the working class has gotten into politics and gone on to become a governor, or a Supreme Court justice, or the president. And that probably won't change anytime soon. The left half of the figure below plots data on the share of working-class people in state legislatures (which tend to foreshadow demographic changes in higher offices) and the percentage of members of Congress who were employed in working-class jobs when they first got into politics. This ongoing exclusion of working-class Americans from our political institutions has enormous consequences for public policy. Just as ordinary citizens from different classes tend to have different views about the major economic issues of the day (with workers understandably being more pro-worker and professionals being less so), politicians from different social classes tend to have different views too.
So why do so few workers run for office? I've been researching this question for the past decade, and I think the answer is right under our noses: campaigns. It is the thought of losing income or taking time off work that uniquely screens out working-class Americans long before Election Day. When the price of competing is giving up your day job (or a chunk of it), usually only the very well-off will be able to throw their hats into the ring. We've heard the same story for decades: If we could reform lobbying and campaign finance and get a handle on the flow of money in politics, the rich wouldn't have as much of a say in government. If we could promote broader political participation, enlighten the public, and revitalize the labor movement, the poor would have more of a say. The key to combating political inequality, in this view, is finding ways to make sure that everyone's voices can be heard — and the idea of giving workers influence inside government has never been a part of the mainstream reform conversation. That may change someday, and I hope it will — especially considering the practical and political roadblocks facing other reforms like increasing voter turnout and reforming the campaign finance system. Campaigns have a built-in bias against working-class candidates. Call it an unintended consequence, a glitch in an otherwise admirable system, a side effect. Whatever it is, it isn't a necessary evil, or an inevitability. Politicians work for you. If you don't like what the millionaires have done with your government, fire them.
Volcker discussed his upcoming memoir, "Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government," which will be released Oct. 30. The book's publisher moved up its release date by a month after Volcker fell ill, and the Times said the legendary economist has been sick "for several months." Volcker warns in his memoir, "There is no force on earth that can stand up effectively, year after year, against the thousands of individuals and hundreds of millions of dollars in the Washington swamp aimed at influencing the legislative and electoral process." He told the Times that the U.S. has "an enormous number of enormously rich people that have convinced themselves that they're rich because they're smart and constructive." "And they don't like government, and they don't like to pay taxes," Volcker said. "I grew up in a world in which good government was a good term." Volcker, who served as Fed chairman from 1979 to 1987, told the Times that Washington has lost the American people's respect and pays insufficient attention to bridging that divide. He blamed the influx of money into politics and a lack of attention on effective governance from elite public affairs colleges and think tanks.
Globalization strikes again. The latest target is entrepreneurship. For decades, promoting start-up firms through venture capital and other methods of business investment seemed a peculiarly American strength. It has nurtured countless tech firms, including titans such as Facebook, Google and Apple. Americans have been duly proud. It reinforced a sense of national exceptionalism, because other countries couldn't easily duplicate it, if at all. No more. A new study shows that the United States' capacity to foster high-tech firms is increasingly emulated abroad. The U.S. monopoly on entrepreneurship has been broken and almost certainly can't be restored. American venture capitalists are investing in foreign start-ups, and foreign investors are pouring money into U.S. start-ups. This adds a new layer to globalization. The know-how of creating new companies is spreading abroad. Earlier, manufacturing was globalized, as firms adopted worldwide supply chains. Portfolio investment — the buying and selling of stocks and bonds — was also globalized, as instant communication and new laws made it possible to shift funds rapidly between domestic and foreign stocks and bonds.
In sum, Trump inherited a strong economy, solid job growth and low unemployment. Rather than use the opportunity to make wise investments in the economy and/or pay down our debt, he delivered a huge tax cut primarily to the wealthy, grew the debt, started trade wars and added to international instability by picking fights with our allies as well as China. The economy might weather all of that, but there is an increasing chance (50-50, according to JPMorgan Chase economists) that we'll see a downturn in the next couple of years. If so, our options will be limited, in large part because of the policy choices the administration is making.
Democratic pollster Nancy Zdunkewicz said in an interview that aired Tuesday on "What America's Thinking" that Republicans look out of touch touting the economy ahead of November's midterm elections. "If you're in the real economy, people have not seen this benefit," Zdunkewicz, managing editor of Democracy Corps, told Hill.TV's Joe Concha. "They have not benefitted from this tax cut. They have not seen rising wages. This is every single day a struggle for them," she continued. "Republicans meanwhile are talking about how this is the best economy in history, that these are great jobs, and they look so out of touch," she said. While Republican candidates have largely stayed away from touting the economy on the campaign trail, Trump has repeatedly praised economic growth while stumping for candidates in competitive races. He recently started invoking a new campaign slogan, "Jobs not Mobs," as a means of promoting lower unemployment, as well as a way to attack liberal protesters. Despite lower unemployment and economic growth, voters in various regions of the U.S. are still insecure about their own financial situations. A recent poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that local economies and the opioid crisis topped rural Americans' list of concerns.
In these challenging, chaotic times, in which each day our president and his allies introduce more-divisive falsehoods into our national political debate, one must take solace where one finds it. I find it in the fact that the GOP tax cut has proved to be a huge dud for Republicans on the campaign trail. Essentially, they promised that their tax cut wasn't just a boon for the rich, that it would raise middle-class wages, juice business investment and pay for itself. Most people now recognize that none of these promises has come to pass, so Republican candidates on the stump tend to avoid raising the issue. As further evidence that the tax cut isn't selling, President Trump introduced a new tactic: promising yet another tax cut, one that this time is really going to reach the middle class. In a telling bit of candor about the target of last year's cut, he said about the imaginary new cut: "This is not for business. This is for middle." No one, including congressional Republicans, believes a word of it. As one Republican operative put it, "Nobody is taking [this proposal] seriously, but we'd rather have him talking about tax cuts than some of the crazy stuff he usually talks about." Figuring out how any of this plays in the midterms is above my pay grade, but if there's any lemonade to be squeezed from this lemon, it is this: Suppose you actually wanted to use the tax code, along with other policies, to help middle- and low-income people, many of whom have been left behind even as the U.S. economy closes in on full employment in Year Nine of the current expansion. Which policies would you pursue? I'll focus on three: expand refundable tax credits, raise the minimum wage and maintain full employment. But before I get into the details, here's a critical design point about economic policies intended to help lower-income people: If we want to be sure they work, they must be direct. No bank shots allowed.
The United States, by many measures, appears to be a sick society. It has one of the highest rates of wealth and income inequality in the world. Despite being one of the richest countries on the planet it has some of the highest rates of infant mortality. Poverty among the elderly is also increasing. As a whole, the country's health care system is inadequate; life expectancy is declining. The United States has the highest rate of mass murder by gun in the world and the highest rate of incarceration. American infrastructure is failing. There is a deep crisis of faith in the country's political and social institutions. The environment is being despoiled by large corporations who increasingly act with impunity. Loneliness and suicide are at epidemic levels. Consumerism has supplanted democracy and meaningful engaged citizenship. White hate groups and other right-wing domestic terrorist organizations have killed and injured hundreds of people during the last few decades. America's elites are wholly out of touch with the people and largely indifferent to their demands. Donald Trump is the president of a broken country, but he did not create this cultural sickness and pathology. While Donald Trump embodies almost all of America's problems in human form, in reality he is a symptom of our illness, not the cause.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges spent several years embedding himself in different communities across the United States investigating our social and cultural disease. In his new "America: The Farewell Tour," Hedges explores what went so wrong with American society over the last few decades that an authoritarian like Trump would be voted into office by tens of millions of the country's citizens. Can America be salvaged? Is the American experiment in democracy over? How did an unholy union of Christian fascism and unchecked corporate power combine to destroy the American dream and gut the commons? Are the American people fighting back to reclaim democracy and a healthier society? (For now) the situation is worse. Donald Trump was always a pretty frightening and repugnant figure. But even I wouldn't have predicted that he was this bad. He and this situation are completely unhinged. By virtue of every benchmark of a functioning democracy — including the debasing of the political discourse in the United States — Donald Trump has really accelerated the decay.
Artificially propped up by Deficits, is this a Strong Economy?
This is fiscal insanity. The federal deficit grew 17 percent to $779 billion in the fiscal year just ended, but that's not the worst of the problem. By the administration's own estimate, the deficit will increase almost 40 percent to nearly $1.1 trillion in the current fiscal year. With few policymakers batting an eye, this disturbing trend has no end in sight. The question now is whether the United States will see its economic future gradually damaged through the erosion of investments, jobs and growth, or whether there will be a financial jolt that results in abrupt, and likely painful, fiscal adjustments. Both parties have lost their moorings when it comes to fiscal policy. Through a lack of leadership, our nation's public debt — effectively the sum of our annual budget defitcis — has ballooned to $15.5 trillion, more than three-quarters of the entire U.S. economy. Policymakers have sacrificed long-term economic health for short-term political gain by putting tax cuts and spending increases on the national credit card. As we saw recently with the bankruptcies of Sears and Toys-R-Us, there is a limit to how much debt an entity can sustain. While the United States is not about to default and go into bankruptcy, sovereign countries are not immune from market and economic consequences.
The fastest-growing component of federal spending last year was also the least beneficial. It was not Social Security or Medicare or food stamps. In fact, spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — formerly known as food stamps — actually declined, signaling a growing economy that should result in reduced federal deficits. Rather, it was interest payments on our national debt that grew at an alarming 20 percent — to nearly $380 billion. The Congressional Budget Office projects they will surpass all U.S. defense spending by 2023. These hundreds of billions of dollars provide no direct benefit to the American taxpayer, and they squeeze out purposeful spending, whether for national security, domestic social programs or other priorities. Some spending needs can arise unexpectedly. Federal disaster relief remains essential to regions recovering from recent hurricanes — and shouldn't be hindered by an unmanageable debt burden. Similarly, when the next recession inevitably hits, the government may have fewer options to respond. And in the unthinkable event of a large-scale military emergency, choosing between paying debts and defending the nation is the last thing we'd want to face.
The growing debt has serious ramifications for our country and its economy. An out-of-control national debt can directly affect the household finances of millions of Americans by pushing up the interest rates they pay on mortgages, student loans and business debt. This would make getting an education or buying a home more expensive, and businesses would have a harder time expanding. By taking on more and more debt, the federal government is sacrificing economic growth and jobs for future generations. Instead of offering constructive plans to address the problem, each side blames the other. Some Democratic legislators tout "Medicare for all" and free college, with no realistic plan to pay for them; some Republicans push for extending the fiscally irresponsible tax cuts, which have yet again proved they do not pay for themselves. While raising taxes on the rich or making cuts to federal agencies (as the president proposed just last week) could be a small part of the solution, proponents of such moves mostly offer them as lip service to the deficit issue. Part of the blame surely falls on us, the pain-intolerant public, who quickly vote against lawmakers who dare to reduce our benefits or raise taxes.
It's time for both parties to face facts. Dithering only makes the necessary fixes look worse. President Kennedy famously quipped that the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. Yet in the tenth straight year of an expanding economy, we are instead partying like there's no tomorrow, running large and growing deficits. For every year that Congress and the president wait to act, we roll the dice again on the possibility of a major recession or other disaster tipping America's fiscal situation into deeply damaging territory. So far, luck has been on our side, but we cannot, and should not, count on that. There are many serious policy proposals from across the political spectrum that could contribute meaningfully to a solution, including Social Security reform, health care delivery system reform, curbing tax expenditures, and adding a carbon tax. Unfortunately, the latest round of fiscal warnings seems to have largely fallen on deaf ears in Washington. The consequences may not be here tomorrow, but they are coming. In the meantime, here's to hoping our luck holds.
President Donald Trump is sending 800 troops to the US-Mexico border in anticipation of a caravan of Central American migrants that is still a matter of weeks from arriving — and that could be a pretty small group of people by the time it arrives. It's already shrinking. The UN estimated the caravan at 7,322 migrants Monday, after thousands crossed from Guatemala into Mexico (evading Mexican authorities by swimming or ferrying across the Suchiate River). That estimate — the first, and so far only, by an intergovernmental body — has become the touchstone. It reflected the caravan's growth as it proceeded through Honduras and Guatemala since its departure as a group of 160 or so migrants on October 12. But a few days after the crossing into Mexico, it looks like the growth trend has reversed. The Mexican government stated Wednesday night that it believed 3,630 people were still heading north. On Thursday morning, the AP's Mark Stevenson estimated the number at "4,000 to 5,000" and said it was shrinking, due to exhaustion and worry about the dangers of the journey.


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The coronavirus pandemic response in the United States has been one of government-induced fear, said Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) Monday during a panel discussion in Washington, DC, titled "COVID-19: A Second Opinion."
Johnson hosted a group of internationally renowned physicians and scientists who offered their perspectives on the world-wide pandemic response, the status of early treatment and hospitalization, and vaccine efficacy and safety.
The senator introduced the discussion by stating he wished to thank "the courageous doctors who have shown the compassion to actually treat patients, to struggle to provide the information that has been kept from the American public, and suffer the vilification, the censorship, the suppression, the termination, the lawsuits, that come with their courage."
Johnson provided the following data in his introductory remarks:
We have endured two years of the pandemic, and COVID-related deaths have surpassed 5.6 million globally and 889,000 in the U.S. The U.S. ranks 22nd in deaths per million at 2,575. Sweden, you'll recall Sweden early in the pandemic was excoriated by the world press. Sweden ranked 63rd with 1,514 deaths per million. Again, the U.S. – we're 22nd at 2,575 – Sweden at 63rd, at 1,514.
Johnson described the human toll as a consequence of the economic shutdowns and lockdowns as "incalculable."
"The erosion of freedom and growing divisions in society exacerbated by vaccine mandates should concern us all," he continued. "The latest variant, omicron, is sweeping the planet as a weary public prays for it to be the last."
Why haven't we let doctors be doctors?
Dr. Paul Marik's experience treating Covid-19 patients is heartbreaking. pic.twitter.com/enM8tA7hd6
— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) January 24, 2022
The senator summarized that, early on, it became apparent COVID was "a disease that targeted the old and those with certain comorbidities." He further explained, however, the failure of U.S. and global health agencies to gain control of the disease:
Instead of using that information, public health officials pursued a one-size-fits-all response that relied heavily on creating a state of fear to ensure compliance. They also kept moving the goalposts. For example, we went from a two-week shutdown to flatten the curve to zero COVID; from masks weren't necessary, to a single mask wasn't adequate; from a vaccine that would prevent infection, to a vaccine that reduced severity of the disease.
And, as goalposts were moving, different viewpoints were being crushed, at the very moment when outside the box thinking was required. The internet could have been used by practicing physicians to share their experiences as they developed effective therapies. The internet was used instead to censor discussion, and vilify anyone with a different opinion. Until COVID, a fundamental principle of medicine was early detection, followed by early treatment, which produced better results.
Two years in the pandemic, the compassion-less guideline from the NIH, if you test positive, is to essentially do nothing. Go home, isolate yourself in fear, and pray you don't require hospitalization.
Perhaps one of the most alarming of cardiologist and early treatment pioneer Dr. Peter McCullough's comments during the discussion concerned the current state of hospital care for COVID-19:
To this day, we're two years into the pandemic, there is not a single hospital in America that is holding itself out as a center of excellence for the treatment of COVID-19. Yet those same very medical centers hold themselves out as experts in cardiovascular care or cancer care. There's still not a single academic medical center here in the United States today that has an early treatment program or even has continuity of care of patients going from the inpatient, outpatient to the inpatient, and back to the outpatient realm.
This.@P_McCulloughMD asks panel of doctors, medical experts and audience how many have been censored and silenced.
This is why this discussion is so important. pic.twitter.com/QA4CbpnmWo
During his remarks, ivermectin expert Dr. Pierre Kory, president of Frontline COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance, asserted he would be "calling attention to the corruption."
"If you look at these innumerable failed policies, there's only one way to understand them," he stated. "They are literally written by pharmaceutical companies. Almost every single policy serves the interests of a pharmaceutical company. However, if you look outside the United States, and look around the world, there have been numerous successes."
.@PierreKory says our COVID policies are putting profits ahead of patients. pic.twitter.com/IeQbFabgmW
Kory went on to describe some of these successes in cities around the globe, adding this information "is being suppressed across most of the world."
He explained further:
United States Health Agency structures and policies created over the last 50 years have tightly intertwined the pharmaceutical industry with public health institutions, resulting in repeated policies, placing pharmaceutical industry interests ahead of the welfare of U.S. citizens. The industry's capture of our health agencies, combined with their increasing financial control of most major media, social media, and medical journals has led to an ability to widely suppress, and/or distort, any information which supports the efficacy of repurposed low-cost off-patent medicines.
"The impacts of their disinformation war on repurposed medicine now constitute crimes against humanity, given the global morbidity and mortality and loss of social, societal, and economic liberties that could have been avoided if such information would have been widely disseminated," Kory asserted.
Doctors talking about their success with early treatment for Covid.
Here's Dr. Cole's story regarding his brother. pic.twitter.com/H1sX2aui5i
Johnson noted he invited federal health agency leaders, pharmaceutical company CEOs, and others who have taken part in the public response to the pandemic throughout the past two years, but all declined to participate in the discussion, including:
Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Janet Woodcock, MD, Acting Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, MD, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Chief Medical Advisor to the President
Dr. Lawrence A. Tabak, DDS, Ph.D., Acting Director of the National Institutes of Health
Jeffrey D. Zients, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator
Dr. Albert Bourla, DVM, Ph.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pfizer
Dr. U?ur ?ahin, MD, Chief Executive Officer of BioNTech
Stéphane Bancel, MBA, Chief Executive Officer of Moderna Therapeutics
Dr. Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, Dean of Brown University School of Public Health
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, MD, Former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Dr. Francis S. Collins, MD, Ph.D.,Former Director of the National Institutes of Health
#DoNotComply pic.twitter.com/FtffYTxjOn
— Children's Health Defense (@ChildrensHD) January 23, 2022
The panel discussion followed a "Defeat the Mandates" demonstration on Sunday in Washington, DC, in which thousands of Americans rallied and marched in support of freedom and individual liberties, and in opposition to vaccine mandates and passports and other pandemic mandates. Many of the doctors who shared their views at Johnson's panel discussion also spoke at the rally the day before.
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We're very proud of our environmental and sustainable credentials here at Bluestone National Park Resort. And this week we can reveal that work has started planting Wales' very first 'Diamond Wood' to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee next year.
The Diamond Wood project is part of a Woodland Trust initative to plant 60 woodlands throughout the UK to mark the royal occasion.
Bluestone has started planting 35,000 trees at our 500 acre countryside estate. The project, which will take 12 months to complete, will join together two parts of the ancient Canaston Woods for the first time in centuries, creating 60 acres of new natural woodland habitat.
Planting will continue throughout next year, involving guests and the local community throughout the project.
It is the first of possibly three Diamond Woods to start planting in Wales and one of the first to be revealed in the UK.
Sixty new Diamond Woods, each around 60 acres in size, plus hundreds of smaller Jubilee Woods are being created across the UK as part of the Woodland Trust (Coed Cadw's) ambitious Jubilee Woods project. The aim is to plant six million trees and to involve millions of people in the planting.
We are expected to be one of just three in Wales and we are one of the first to be revealed in the UK. "We're very privileged to have been chosen as a site for a Diamond Wood," said William McNamara, CEO of Bluestone.
"We're a guardian of our local environment and the natural habitat here at Bluestone. It is a fundamental part of why many of our guests come to enjoy time with us, taking in and enjoying the stunning natural surroundings, fauna, wildlife, walks and spectacular Pembrokeshire countryside."
They include Ash, Oak, Rowan, Hazel, Wild Cherry, Guelder Rose, Hawthorn, Crab Apple, Field Maple, Common Alder, Downy Birch, Blackthorn, Alder Buckthorn, Elder, Spindle and Aspen.


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June 2019 The Medium-Term Impacts of Girl-Friendly Schools: Seven-Year Evidence from School Construction in Burkina Faso
with Harounan Kazianga, Leigh L. Linden, Ali Protik: w26006
We evaluate the long-term effect of a "girl-friendly" primary school program in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design. The intervention consisted of upgrading existing three-classroom schools to six-classroom schools to accommodate more grades. After seven years, the program increased enrollment by 15.5 percentage points and increased test scores by 0.29 standard deviations. Students in treatment schools progress further through the grades, compared to students in non-selected schools. These upgraded schools are effective at getting children into school, getting children to start school on time, and keeping children in school longer. Overall, we find that the schools sustain the large impacts observed about three years earlier, with enrollment declining slightly from 18.5 t...
The Long-Term Impacts of Girl-Friendly Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso
with Nicholas Ingwersen, Harounan Kazianga, Leigh L. Linden, Arif Mamun, Ali Protik: w25994
We evaluate the long-term effects of a "girl-friendly" primary school program in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design. Ten years later, primary school-age children in villages selected for the program attend school more often and score significantly higher on standardized tests. We also find long-term effects on academic and social outcomes for children exposed earlier in the program. Secondary-school–age youths and young adults (those old enough to have finished secondary school) complete primary and secondary school at higher rates and perform significantly better on standardized tests. Women old enough to have completed secondary school delay both marriage and childbearing.
May 2012 The Effects of "Girl-Friendly" Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso
with Harounan Kazianga, Dan Levy, Leigh L. Linden: w18115
We evaluate the causal effects of a program that constructed high quality "girl-friendly" primary schools in Burkina Faso, using a regression discontinuity design 2.5 years after the program started. We find that the program increased enrollment of all children between the ages of 5 and 12 by 20 percentage points and increased their test scores by 0.45 standard deviations. The change in test scores for those children caused to attend school by the program is 2.2 standard deviations. We also find that the program was particularly effective for girls, increasing their enrollment rate by 5 percentage points more than boys', although this did not translate into a differential effect on test scores. Disentangling the effects of school access from the unique characteristics of the new schools, w...
Published: Harounan Kazianga & Dan Levy & Leigh L. Linden & Matt Sloan, 2013. "The Effects of "Girl-Friendly" Schools: Evidence from the BRIGHT School Construction Program in Burkina Faso," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 5(3), pages 41-62, July. citation courtesy of


Thailand, especially Phuket has earned a place for itself on the planet traveler delineate its various beautiful shorelines, tropical atmosphere, mouth-watering cooking and unmatched Thai cordiality. Phuket allures travelers of different interests and needs, including the well-to-do ones to its sun-kissed shorelines.
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Tonight on NBC their hit reality talent show AMERICA'S GOT TALENT returns for the twentieth episode in its ninth season where the Semi-Finals continue as twelve more acts compete for America's vote.
On the last episode, the votes were in and six acts from the previous night's performance show moved on to join the Top 12 acts of the competition; Mike Super, Sons of Serendip, Miguel Dakota, Mara Justine, David & Leeman and Emily West. Did you watch the last episode? If you missed it we have a full and detailed recap, right here for you.
On tonight's show, judging is turned over to the American viewing audience as the final acts perform live at Radio City Music Hall for the chance to be in the top 12 and ultimately win the $1 million prize and become the most talented act in America. The twelve acts performing tonight are Acro Army, Baila Conmigo, Blue Journey, Christian Stoinev, Emil & Dariel, Jaycob Curlee, Jonah Smith, Kelli Glover, Mat Franco, Quintavious Johnson, Smoothini and Wendy Liebman; Howard Stern's Wild Card pick.
RECAP: First up tonight is Jonas Smith, it's a great feeling for him to be back in New York City; he's played at a lot of places there and was doing well. Though things didn't keep going up as he wanted it to, eventually he became more dedicate and believes he's got no plans to letting this dream slip through his fingers.
Mel B says that she is so pleased, that's how you open up a show and that time after time Jonas delivers an amazing performance. Howie says it is the perfect show opener, the rasp of his voice and the passion is awesome. Heidi says that he did a great job tonight, Howard says that he wasn't sure this was the best performance but still an amazing job.
Next up is Baila Conmigo, this salsa group was very greatful to get to go through the next round; they have worked really hard to improve their dancing. It's very chaotic with how many people they have to dance, they have been dancing for years and even the children are very impressive.
Howie says that they are amazing and that he felt the kids were surely secret weapons; they steal the show with their talent. Howard says that they have to do something a little different, though believes the act might look better with just the kids; they need to change the energy up a bit. Heidi absolutely loved it and believes it's one of the best acts; she was smiling so much. Mel B says she saw different things and loved their act a lot.
Next up is Jacob Curlee and he got a lot of flak by the judges on his performance; he was let through by America and wants to prove to them and the judges that he deserves to be there right now. He believes it's a good lesson to learn, he's leaving his past behind and is going to move on with his journey.
Howard says that he believes Jaycob rose to the occasion and picked a very smart song choice; he felt the connection and believed it was his best performance. Heidi says that he has a great voice, though has to say that she doesn't feel the stage presence is there as he performs. Mel B says that he picked a risky song and believed that he didn't do it big enough. Howie says that Jaycob is all in the hands of America.
Next up is Mat Franco and he is driving all across the country to make ends meet, he's now in New York and loves magic so much. He even performs it in the streets, he love sharing magic to the world.
Howard says that first of all he compliments Mat getting rid of Mel's phone, though his act was super exciting and is impressed at how well magicians are this year; he works the camera perfectly with his close up magic. Heidi has no idea how he did, it's mind blowing; she can't believe how the phone got in the seat. Howie says that he was just blown away, he couldn't believe how amazing the act was; it was consistantly entertaining. Mel B says that she was so close to socking Mat, she loves her phone and that there is something about him that makes her act larger than life.
Next up is Acro Army and they are so happy they have been given a second chance to show the world what they can do; they are trying out some different moves and this means the world to them. They are willing to try whatever possible so that they can win this, they are going to blow America away.
Next up is Kelli Glover and she was so nervous with her last performance because this is something she has wanted all her life, her dad has always believed in her and knows she can do it; Kelli never felt like she was worthy for the big stage. Though she feels really good right now, she wants to show America she is ready for this.
Howie says that Kelli always starts it shaky, though brings it out full force between the performance; she is surely worthy. Howard says that each time he sees her, she looks like she could do a beauty pagent. Heidi says that she came up on top with her confidence and stage presence. Mel B says it's frustrating because she can sing, though she lost it tonight; she doesn't feel Kelli is giving it her all.
Next up is Howard's wild card Wend Liebman a female comedian who Howard felt got robbed because she is so funny; she felt bad when she had to go home; though she got a phone call from Howard so he picked her and she just can't believe he liked her act this much.
Howard is so glad to bring Wendy back and believes that she does something so different with her act; he hopes America appreciates how she brought her A game tonight. Heidi says this is the comedy she loves, it's intelligent and relateable and feels like it was great. Mel B loves how funny she is and showed how talented she is. Howie thanks Howard for bringing her back, he loved her performance and believes that comedy is the hardest form of entertainment; he's proud of her.
Next up is Blue Journey, they have been big fans of dancing since they were young; it was just something they never though they could do what they are doing now. The two are so happy to be here and dancing for America, they hope to impress them with their performance tonight.
Heidi says that they are perfect, she loved how beautiful their performance was and one of her favorite acts. Mel B says that the ammount of creativity was mind blowing and captivating; it was amazing and she loved it. Howard says that only one act can win and they have a good chance; he is very amazed with them. Howie says that they created their own entertainment, it's just so original and amazing; he absolutely loves it.
Next up is Emil and Dariel, the both play the cello, they have a passion for the instrument and it's their dreams are for them to be just as entertaining as a lead guitarist in a rock band; showing off their passion and energy through their music.
Mel B says she can't believe how they came out and smashed it; they had perfect energy and they had such a hot performance. Howie says that it was perfect, though it felt like Paul McCartney didn't show up at a concert; like they were a fill in. Howard says that it's mind blowing with how talented they are, he can see them doing something with a singer. Heidi says she loved it and would also like to see their grandfather perform with them on stage.
Next up is Smoothini, he started doing magic in the streets and he can't believe he made it through; he was so sure he was going home. This second chance makes him feel like he's got to do something much bigger; he's been practicing a lot by doing some basic things to impress people, he is now ready to do it and he's going to work hard for his family.
Heidi loves how he does this close up magic and keeps them so busy, she has no idea how he did it. Mel B says that she is trying to figure this out, she feels so mesmerized and does feel like he stepped it up and he is great. Howie says that he's a big fan, though he felt the room exploded tonight and that he made this night amazing. Howard says he likes Smoothini, he has a great personality and feels his act is a little small for it; though feels he needs to make a bigger connection with the audience.
Next up is Christian Stoinev and he has been practicing like crazy lately and Scooby is living the high life lately; he bought him a steak for dinner and took him shopping.
Mel B loves him and Scooby, though felt the act wasn't really enough; she wished there was much more to it tonight focusing on him. Heidi says she can watch him perform all day, though loves Scooby with a passion. Howard says that he knows he's good and that Christian got very relaxed and wanted a little more balancing than a dog act. Howie says they did a great job, though feels like there could have been more.
Last up tonight is Quintavious Johnson, he has got a lot of girls approaching him now with his new found singing passion; though he knows girls come after the dream. His grandmother and him sing all the time togeteher, he is going to dedicate this song to his grandmother.
Heidi can't believe how much of a powerhouse he is; Mel B says he's got it without a doubt. Howie says he's golden and truly talented. Howard says that he knows exactly how to sell a song and an act; he's obviously got the talent to move on.


Was there any talk with David & Dan about adapting your novella Princess and the Queen last night? It would be lovely to see it on screen with the two of them at the helm.
I suspect if that ever happened, it might have to be on film. Some of those dragonrider-on-dragonrider fights would be quite difficult to shoot even on GoT's generous TV budget.
But it'd be impressive to see them on screen.


Eyes health apparatus using infrared heating microcomputer chip control technology, through hot compress / vibration/ massage effect to eyes, and help eyes muscle do health sports. It has a gasbag inside, by the inflation and deflation process between the reasonable collocation, have kneading massage exercise on muscles around the eyes, at the same time with the internal vibration on the role of motor, and far infrared heating effect, make a full range of massage effect for human eye muscles.
Eye massager adopts microcomputer chip control technology to carry out the whole process of humanized simulation control. Eye massager successfully applies the new concept of air pressure to the eye care so as to make the product more humanized. Air pressure under the control of computer can make the eyes all-round humanized massage., and make full range of massage effect to the eye muscles.
5) Improve cataracts and presbyopia.