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Through Bankruptcy and Boom: What's Really Happening in Detroit?
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Written by Dario Goodwin
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After exiting bankruptcy at the end of last year, Detroit has suddenly become something of a boomtown in the eyes of the media. Discourse now talks about Detroit Rising, the "Post-Post-Apocalyptic Detroit". Rents are rising, private investment is flowing into the city, and institutions that left the city for the affluent suburbs are now relocating back into Detroit proper. Too long used only as a cautionary tale, the new focus on the reality of Detroit and free flowing money opens the door for architects and urban planners, not to mention the wider community, to begin thinking about how they want to rebuild Detroit, and who they want to rebuild it for.
It's the perfect opportunity to formulate plans that will genuinely aid Detroit, involve the community and create a revival that really achieves something. But as it stands, the "revival" forming in Detroit, aided and abetted by media coverage, will not improve conditions for the vast majority of Detroiters and will not create a sustainable platform for future growth, instead benefiting only the private investors and those rich enough to benefit from what is currently classic, by-the-book gentrification.
Renaissance Centre, a previous attempt to revitalise Detroit. Image © Flickr user paul bica
Between the demands of bankruptcy, the often-unsupportive state government, and surging private sector, the revival in Detroit has not only sidelined local government, but removed them from the equation entirely. Media coverage has praised investors for achieving what the government couldn't and heralds the rock-bottom prices in Detroit as removing the barriers for entry into investment. To this school of thought, removing elected government is a genuinely desirable outcome, but private investors will only ever do what can bring them profit. In Detroit, this involves a boom for the very center of the city, leaving an impoverished ring of the city between the center and the suburbs.
Racial segregation in Detroit according to the 2000 census. Each dot represents 25 people: Red for White, Blue for Black, Orange for Hispanic and Grey for Other. Image © Eric Fischer
Rents in the center have already soared, prompting evictions of the poor and elderly in desirable city center property, which is then refurbished and let out to wealthy tenants for whom rents are a bargain (yet still unreachable for the vast majority of Detroiters). As a result, in Detroit the movement of wealth which was characterized by the "White Flight" of the post-war decades is now running the other way in the city center, making the city center an increasingly wealthy enclave surrounded by the untouched, still collapsing middle ring of the city. In a classic Moses vs Jacobs problem, the freeway running between the rich suburbs and city center has been blamed for connecting only the city center and the suburbs, bypassing the middle ring of the city and helping siphon money and people away from the communities that most need it. Furthermore, this freeway is increasingly becoming the only way to navigate Detroit, as rich and independent suburbs have begun turning the political border between Detroit's middle ring and the suburbs into a literal boundary - blocking off access roads to Detroit with barriers (and, in one case, a farmers market) in order to keep the poor, often unsafe middle ring isolated. Much-vaunted transport projects serve only the wealthy city center, leaving the middle ring without transport and a density too low to attract private investment to an area where a large chunk of the inhabitants can't afford cars.
A rendering of the proposed M1-Rail Project. Image Courtesy of Eisbrenner Public Relations.
Bubbling underneath all the headlines about investments and blockbuster developments in the city center, though, the population of Detroit has continued to work under, alongside and behind the private boom to try and improve conditions for the bulk of Detroiters, rather than just those who can afford to buy in.
The central core of Detroit currently undergoing a boom. Image © Flickr user Barbara Eckstein
Cultural Renaissance
While the mainstream developers are focused on profit, a number of groups in Detroit are hoping to create a more "humanized" gentrification by (carefully) embracing the arts. Wayne State University is already a big draw for the city, and cultural groups have surged. Many of the people drawn to Detroit as it is now are coming from previously gentrified, heavily arts influenced neighborhoods in the bigger coastal cities; something that has forced developers to take notice and begin restoring buildings instead of demolishing them, in hopes of attracting younger, urban clientele. Creative workers can finally afford housing and community space in Detroit's cheaper climate, and Detroit gains a tax base and something very useful to the city's PR: an air of "cool."
Detroit School of Arts, using Knight Foundation Funding. Image Courtesy of The Knight Foundation
One of PowerHouse Productions homes. Image Courtesy of The Knight Foundation
At its best, the artist bloc in Detroit is a huge component of the community fightback against the new, private city in central Detroit. Power House Productions have been working in the poorest neighborhoods in Detroit's middle ring to show how art can provide a social and visual transformation of vacant areas and have bought several empty houses to make spaces for visiting a local artists to work, powered by sustainable means. It's the flipside to a larger national problem, as creative workers priced out of other cities follow Patti Smith's advice and "find a new city."
The Heidelberg Project, an outdoor art project inspired by and protesting the deterioration of the city after the 1967 riots.. Image © Flickr user Nic Redhead
But for every positive project in Detroit are another four wealthy creatives who, with the best of intentions and nowhere else to go, only push natives out of the city center. Mainstream art galleries and exhibitions have been booming in the city, with plans from large organisations to invest in museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art bringing rumblings of the Bilbao Effect. Even if community spaces are expanding, it may be a shame for Detroit's "radical" cultural scene to simply recreate Brooklyn in the private city center.
Overgrown sidewalks have become impassable. Image © University of Michigan School of Natural Resources & Environment
Eco Renaissance
While cheap building rents appeal to cultural groups, it's the lack of buildings that appeals to environmental ones, with a variety of groups taking advantage of the large expanses of empty land in the middle ring of the city and turning them into community-led agricultural projects. Some of this has fallen victim to the same private boom mentality, as with Hantz Farms' 10,000 acre private landgrab that has been accused of speculation for little public gain. But other, more radical farms linked to the environmentalist movement go far beyond using the land as a temporary solution. Instead, they use Detroit as an opportunity to advocate an alternative to the conventional idea of cities.
© Flickr user Matthew Berggren
This movement has taken off, with non-profit The Greening of Detroit estimating between 1,500 and 2,000 gardens and farms of varying size and intentions. Some of the most radical projects aim to create a self-sufficient and sustainable version of Detroit that doesn't require the kind of investment boom and new, private city in the center in order to be considered successful. For them, agriculture is a permanent part of the economy, providing jobs, green housing and alternative to corporate farms and grocery stores and has proved just as capable of attracting forms of money and employment to the city. This attraction, sadly, does present a problem. These radical environmentalist movements are often led by well-intentioned outsiders and appeal to people who view Detroit from the outside as an opportunity for them, rather than from the inside as a series of problems facing the existing population.
That said, exiles from San Francisco are far from the only people involved. The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, for example, was formed in 2006, as a response to the large number of well-intentioned newcomers who were creating a small eco-gentrification themselves. The Network has worked for nearly 10 years, gradually expanding their operations from a small community garden into a project offering education, growing space and healthy, sustainably grown food all led by members of the pre-existing community and serving their distinct needs. Where the realities of private investment has led to many local grocery stores closing, the Network filled the gap, providing a co-op store and the means for many members of the community to grow their own food.
Earthworks Urban Farm, which serves the Capuchin Soup Kitchen, a local farmers market and Gleaner's food bank.. Image Courtesy of A Healthier Michigan
The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network's D-Town Farm. Image Courtesy of The U.S Department of Agriculture
Community Renaissance
A small community garden on a vacant lot, maintained by a nearby church group.. Image © University of Michigan School of Natural Resources & Environment
This native-led ingenuity has led to some incredible innovation. Other community-based groups are literally taking the results of the private boom and using them for community gain. Recycle Detroit, for example, is taking the city-ordered demolition of vacant houses and making them into a resource for locals to use. Led by Christopher Siminski, the project grew out of undergraduate work classifying waste materials. Siminski set up a live map, still being populated, which highlights where the otherwise wasted materials from the demolished houses have been dumped and providing information on how they can be used for community construction projects. These materials are filtered back into projects across Detroit of varying sizes, often worked on by volunteers hoping to help Detroit and with Siminski's goal of sustainable solutions as a guiding philosophy. Providing community planters out of CMU blocks and bicycle parking from reclaimed tires is a very different approach to central Detroit's cycle of evict-refurbish-rent.
According to Siminski, reception from the local communities has been fantastic. "I find myself having random people come to help and volunteer their time" he says. "I am also involving schools in the area to bring volunteer help, and the response so far has been great. Most of the people who volunteer with me are those who care about Detroit and care about our environment." These local organisations are building trust and faith in the future of Detroit just as much, if not more, than private investment, and are essential to the city's comeback. "We see our goals as being positive to not just the neighborhood, but also a solution that could expand exponentially through the city," adds Siminski.
Detroit's Brush Park neighbourhood in Midtown. Image © Flickr user Stephen Harlan
Reclaim Detroit goes one step further, stepping in before demolition to deconstruct buildings piece by piece, directing materials to salvage yards and providing skilled employment for the local community. This focus on vacant buildings is common in Detroit's community groups - and understandably so, with around 78,000 homes and business standing empty across the city. As a result, planners and architects have often gone in treating the city as a blank canvas, assuming that demolition is both inevitable and the best outcome, an approach that goes beyond top down thinking right into offensive. Removing blight is all well and good, but there are rarely plans to replace the buildings with anything other than fields or even remove the rubble. Debris that is removed by these private contractors and developers often finds its way to illegal dumping sites, and the buildings often have tremendous architectural and cultural heritage, such as the old Tiger Stadium. All this neglect combined can, as noted by Siminski, be just as harmful to people: "People will evolve based on their exterior environment, and if their environment is designed poorly, or is not managed, or is left in disarray, then those people will regretfully respond in that matter." Getting a united community effort that acknowledges and attempts to tackle Detroit's crime rate and reputation would also go some way to soothing the fearful suburbs and correcting their often inaccurate perceptions and harsh, anti-Detroit policies.
Besides this, these empty buildings could be a tremendous asset if used properly, something that both the private boom and community groups understand; the city center's rocketing rents have been propelled by refurbished, not demolished properties. Community schemes in Detroit's middle ring plan to take advantage of this as well, with programs such as the Write a House project, which purchases and refurbishes vacant homes using local workers before giving the homes to writers who pledge to remain in the city for a given length of time. As Sarah Cox from the Write a House project says, "Any responsible neighbor is happy to see a vacant house become an occupied one. People committed to the neighborhood want there to be more responsible residents of any profession." In one swoop, this scheme sends money toward local businesses and brings vacant properties back into use, while giving Detroit an eventual tax base and providing a means for writers to write.
Siminski says that "the future of Detroit is that which we make of it" and, for all the innovation that the boom in central Detroit is credited with, it's these local groups that are creating truly innovative solutions to their issues. The investment-led boom may transform the center of Detroit without the consent of Detroiters, but the middle ring is creating its own, community-led and community-centric responses that actually help people, rather than profits. Alone these groups can't save Detroit - the city needs massive public investment, a tax base and most importantly the involvement of the wider architectural and urban planning community if it's going to compete with the gradual creation of a new city that systematically excludes such smaller-scale initiatives. But with the city government working in concert with the state government to remove residents and make way for the expansion of the private boom's new city, they're the only groups that provide a vision of Detroit to save.
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September 3, 2018 - 10:47pm
Photos: Labor Day parade in Oakfield
posted by Howard B. Owens in labor daze, news, Oakfield, parade.
To purchase prints of parade photos, click here.
35th 'Labor Daze' to be revived this year, held at original location
posted by Maria Pericozzi in labor daze, Oakfield, news.
This year's 35th annual Labor Days in the park celebration will last for three days from Sept. 1 to 3 and will be held in its original location at Triangle Park in Oakfield.
In prior years, the event has been held in Elroy D. Parkins Town Park in Oakfield, for one day of celebration.
The original Labor Daze was a one-time celebration of the town's anniversary. The community wanted to turn it into an annual event and a committee was later formed to keep it going.
At a certain point, there was a lack of volunteers, said Jamie Lindsley, the chairperson of the Oakfield Betterment Committee.
"That happens to a lot of volunteer organizations," Lindsley said. "They appealed to the community to get more volunteers, but that didn't happen."
The Town of Oakfield took over, they moved the location, and then the tradition continued.
"It was still a very nice event," Lindsley said. "We just never really saw the success and public participation at the new location."
Prior to Labor Daze last year, they decided they would move the location back to Triangle Park and have been working to plan the event ever since.
"We finally have the town and village government officials on board," Lindsley said. "We knew the first year moving it back, was going to be a lot of work so we were prepared for it."
Lindsley said there have been lots of volunteers from all walks of life, with the entire community represented.
After deciding to move the location back to Triangle Park, many people expressed interest in the event.
"In the '80s, they used to have a flatbed truck to block off the street and have the bands perform on those," Lindsley said. "The laws are a bit different now, so we have to go through a much more rigorous process of having the closure of the street approved. We have all of that in the works."
Also, a professional company will be providing stages, sound and lighting. They're nationally known, and Lindsley said they've really worked with them on the price.
The three-day event will have a magician, face-painting, a 5K race, car cruise, kids' games, dunk tank, a parade, arts and crafts vendors, a DJ, fireworks and more. A full schedule of events and entertainment will be posted on the website when the date gets closer, here.
All food vendors will be operated by nonprofit organizations, school and community groups. None of the volunteers stand to profit from the event.
"We don't have any outside people coming in to make money off of this event," Lindsley said. "It's all about community organizations and raising money for their needs."
Funds received from the Kiddie Fun Daze will be going toward a wheelchair ramp for the children's library.
"The children's library is on the basement level," Lindsley said. "We would like it to be accessible for everyone."
The gazebo in the middle of the park is also being revamped for the event.
"It's 30 years old and needs some attention," Lindsley said. "The electric in the park is going to be updated, and the stage, sound and lights will be updated."
The costs to operate the free, family-friendly, alcohol-free event are significant, and the Oakfield Betterment committee is looking for donations and sponsors.
In the late '80s, the budget to run this event was $6,000, Lindsley said.
"We are keeping it less than that, but it still costs a lot of money to run the festival," Lindsley said. "We welcome any and all support we can get."
Donations can be made by check to: Oakfield Betterment Committee, PO Box 2, Oakfield, NY 14125 with "Labor Daze" in the memo line, or directly to the GoFundMe campaign located here.
"The event is free, there's a great sense of community, you get to dance in the street, and support a number of great causes," Lindsley said.
Oakfield revives Labor Daze, mixes old with new
posted by Brittany Baker in Oakfield, Labor Day, Alabama, labor daze, Oakfield Betterment Committee.
Joni Mitchell's line in the song "Big Yellow Taxi" was spot on: "You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone."
So it was last summer, when the 26th annual Labor Daze celebration had to be cancelled. The reason given was too few volunteers to put together the holiday festival.
The locals did host a small event last year at the Elroy D. Parkins Town Park (Little League Park) with hopes of improving next time around.
Now the Oakfield Betterment Committee has revived itself -- and fully aware that it's going to take a village -- and a town -- to get Labor Daze back on track -- the group is doing just that.
It has enlisted some new volunteers with fresh ideas.
So marks those calenders -- Labor Daze will be at the town park again on Sept. 4 and 5. The celebration has gotten a bit bigger, according to Town Clerk Melissa Haacke, co-chair of the new Oakfield Betterment Committee.
"Well, of course, we're going to still have food vendors and crafters like usual, but we have really expanded our kids activities for this year," Haacke said. "We have two bounce houses coming and a local family that will be bringing in animals for a petting zoo and we contacted Genesee and Orleans County 4-H groups to see if they want to bring in some animals, too."
Since horse and pony rides were popular last year, they'll be offered again. Kids can also play on the playground at the park so parents can worry less about children wandering into traffic.
"We liked the idea that we don't have to close any roads for this," Haacke said.
She gave credit to her Co-chair Kate Manges for taking initiative dring the planning phases, saying, "She really took the bull by the horns."
She explained that in an effort to "get back to their roots," members of the Betterment Committee tried to keep everything as local as possible to showcase the village and town.
To highlight the 60th anniversary of the Oakfield Lions Club, the group will be the Grand Marshal of the parade. Also, the new Oakfield Historical Museum on Maple Avenue will be open to encourage everyone to walk around and visit local businesses.
People can also expect a fireworks display, a car show, Chinese auction and some great raffle items. Prizes include $1,000 cash, a four-pack of season tickets to Darien Lake, a laptop computer from Millennium Computers, a Nook and many more items.
To donate to the Chinese auction or raffle prizes or for vendor information, call Town Clerk Melissa Haacke (948-5835, ext. 20) or e-mail [email protected].
Oakfield Labor Days
posted by Melissa Haacke in Oakfield, labor daze, Labor Days, Oakfield Community Celebration.
Event Date and Time:
September 4, 2011 - 3:30pm to September 5, 2011 - 10:00am
The Oakfield Betterment Committee will be celebrating Labor Day on Sunday and Monday, September 4th and 5th, 2011. Come join us for two days of alcohol free, family fun. Sunday will run form 3:30 pm to 10:00 pm. Monday, September 5th will begin with a Parade down Main Street at 10:00 am. The parade will lead everyone to the Town Park on Drake Street where you will spend a day of shopping, eating, entertainment, an expanded children's area and community fun!!!
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Oakfield Community Celebration "Day in the Park"
posted by Melissa Haacke in Oakfield, Labor Day, labor daze, Oakfield Alabama, crafters, Village of Oakfield, Town of Oakfield.
June 19, 2010 - 6:20pm to July 15, 2010 - 6:20pm
The Oakfield Community Celebration Committee is looking for Craft Vendors and Parade participants for their "Day in the Park" celebration to be held on Monday, September 6, 2010. Please contact Melissa @585-314-4501 or Janette @ 585-704-3194 for vendor applications ($50 per 12X12 site) or parade participation. The deadline for craftor applications is July 15, 2010.
posted by Melissa Haacke in Oakfield, Labor Day, labor daze, Oakfield Alabama, crafters.
June 18, 2010 - 10:30pm to July 15, 2010 - 10:30pm
The Oakfield Community Celebration Committee is seeking craft vendors for the September 6, 2010 "Day in the Park" For more information, please contact Melissa Haacke @ 585-314-4501 or Janette Veazey Post @ 585-704-3194, we will gladly send you the packet. Deadline for crafters is July 15, 2010.
Oakfield's Labor Daze canceled for 2010
posted by Howard B. Owens in Oakfield, labor daze.
It should be no surprise to anyone -- putting together Oakfield's annual Labor Daze celebration is a lot of work.
Too much work for only five people to handle, according Donna Dwyer, last year's co-chair for the event.
That's why there will be no Labor Daze in 2010.
"We considered lots of options and people suggested ideas, but we've been at this long enough to know it was going to be just too tough for a small group of people," Dwyer said.
The event has been a 25-year tradition in Oakfield and is an important part of the fundraising calendar for many local charities, but Dwyer said with some key people stepping away for either health reasons or other personal commitments and the lack of new volunteers stepping forward, putting on the event for 2010 just wasn't realistic.
The Oakfield Betterment Committee will continue to try and recruit volunteers for 2011, but even if several people stepped forward now, it's just too late for 2010, Dwyer said. There is just too much work that has not been completed yet that should be done by this point.
"We would already be behind the eight ball," Dwyer said. "For example, we have to have all of the entertainment booked by the beginning of February."
Mark Colopy, another organizer who oversees the food booths said he was out of town Monday when the committee met and made its decision, but that it makes sense. The group just needs more help.
"We're looking forward with optimism," Colopy said. "This is an important event for the community. It's an important fundraiser for a lot of non-profit groups in the community and it's a great time to get out and see your friends and neighbors. We just didn't have the necessary support to carry it through for 2010."
Fun Evening at Labor Daze
posted by Robin Walters in Oakfield, labor daze, Care-A-Van Ministsries.
While walking around Labor Daze in Oakfield this evening, I had the wonderful opportunity of meeting so many great people. Everyone was having a great time whether they were partaking of the delicous food or listening and dancing to the great music!
I got to tell you, this PR director of Care-A-Van Ministries really did enjoy the band tonight! The parade was awesome. I was suprised for such a small town how big the parade was. Great job to all for an awesome week-end!
This gang was having a great time selling glow sticks
This young fella sure had big muscles to carry around the stick filled with bags of cotton candy for folks to enjoy
The Crowd was on their feet with the music!
Miranda, Lilly,and Addie Brown and Chase Peck had a super time!
Awesome job and thank you to all who made Labor Daze a great place of fun and fellowship!
September 7, 2009 - 5:40pm
Happy Daze in Oakfield as the annual festivities continue
posted by Brittany Baker in Oakfield, parade, labor daze, pie sale.
Watching the Oakfield Labor Daze parade today, I realized that I can identify the stages of my life up to this point by my memories of the annual festivities. I remember being the little girl afraid of the firemen who walked by in masks - being told not to run to the middle of the road for the "far away" pieces of candy.
I used to be the girl who was checking out which boys got cuter over the summer, trying to work up the nerve to go talk to them before school started.
I marched in the Oakfield Marching Band lead by Mr. John Mikulski, my favorite teacher of all time. He used to crack jokes to keep our spirits up as we marched down Main Street. Our town will forever miss the joy he brought us.
I also worked the stands selling salt potatoes for the our senior class, hanging out with the soon-to-be graduates while we chatted about where our lives were going to take us.
Now, I'm watching it all from a distance, taking it all in as the memories come back to me.
It was an eventful parade this morning. The usual tractors, clowns, candy and firetrucks were there. Bands played their jazzy tunes and marched down the street. Strange bikes and vehicles were driven.
Animals were part of the fun, too. There were dogs and two horses in the parade. I'm sure that no one who saw it will forget the graphic display of urination by the mini horse right in front of the post office - let's just say it was another memory for those of us who were there and leave it at that...
Pie sales were in full swing when I visited the United Methodist Church. Reverend Larry Eastlack was all smiles this morning, but admitted he wasn't the expert on pies.
"It's about how we share together. The fellowship of baking the pies and how we share them with the community is the best part..." said a woman from the church who declined to give her name.
"For a lot of people, the pies bring memories. How their grandmothers used to bake pies, which flavor they bought last year or making elderberry pies when they were younger..." she went on to say.
I'd have to agree. Every event at Labor Daze brings memories for me, whether it be ostrich burgers, deep fried Oreos, or even taking a turn in the bounce house. I'm certain that everyone who attends Labor Daze goes through the same memory lane experience each year. It's things like this event that make a small town a great place to live.
September 5, 2009 - 10:21am
25th Annual Oakfield Labor Daze kicks off at Noon
The 25th annual Oakfield Labor Daze gets under way at noon and will feature music, food, games and local arts and crafts.
The weather is expected to be as temparate and clear as a Southern Californian afternoon today and tomorrow (chance of rain on Monday).
Highlights of the weekend:
2 to 3:00 p.m.: Bed Races-Bennett Avenue
6 to 10 p.m.: Battle of the Bands-Triangle Park
Noon to 3 p.m.: Chicken BBQ-Methodist Church
1:45 to 3:45 p.m.: Charlotte Ritchie
6 to p.m. Joey T & The Formula
10:30 a.m.: Labor Daze Parade on Main Street
12:15 to 1 p.m.: O-A Jazz Band at Triangle Park
1 p.m.: Pie & Ice Cream at Oakfield United Methodist Church
2:45 to 4:45 p.m.: Craig Wilkins performs Johnny Cash Music
5:30 to to 9:30 p.m.: The Trolls
The weekend closes with a fireworks show at the school after the last performance.
For a complete schedule of events, click here.
Gay marriage controversy is reason Oakfield cans community worship service
posted by Billie Owens in Oakfield, gay marriage, labor daze.
Oakfield will not be holding a Community Worship Service this Sunday, normally a feature of its "Labor Daze" celebration, because the issue of gay marriage has caused a rift between churches there.
The Community Betterment Committee's Labor Daze officials, after discussions with Mayor Rick Pastecki and others, opted to cancel the 10:30 a.m. service at Triangle Park on Sunday to avoid any possibility of a "brouhaha," said festival co-chair Donna Dwyer.
The service has been part of the holiday weekend line-up for 24 years -- until now.
The situation devolved from a letter to the editor published in the Daily News on May 22 written by Rev. Larry Eastlack of Oakfield United Methodist Church. It stated that while most evangelical leaders are encouraging their congregations to oppose the "Marriage Equality Act," he differed. The legislation has been passed in several states and New York is considering it, too.
Eastlack's letter said that although most Christians believe homosexuality is incompatible with Biblical teachings, "I believe it is possible to stay true to your religious convictions, whatever they are, and still support legislation that would allow homosexual persons to enjoy all the rights and responsibilities that come with matrimony."
The reverend was unavailable for comment, but his letter created a veritable firestorm in the community and it's still smoldering.
The brigade against his views is led by fundamentalist pastors at Oakfield Community Bible Church, led by Bill Smith, and Mark Perkins, who leads the Oakfield Alabama Baptist Church. They've been coordinating the Community Worship Service for the past several years and wanted to exclude Eastlack from the Community Worship Service this year specifically because of his now publically known views on gay marriage.
(Leaders' "participation" amounts to sitting among other local church representatives and listening to a guest speaker's sermon. Cal Kern, president and general manager of a Christian sports team called Niagara Power Baseball, was scheduled this year.)
They asked to sit down with the reverend and Perkins said they, including Eastlack's associate Dave Phelps, discussed their views cordially and the meeting ended with Eastlack's decision not to participate if that meant creating more strife.
A letter prepared Aug. 10 by Perkins and Smith -- which amounts to an ultimatum to disavow gay marriage or else be shunned -- was given to Eastlack afterward "almost as an afterthought," said Perkins to emphasize the amiable tone at the meeting's conclusion.
The letter rejects the notion of gay marriage as a civil rights issue and the idea that homosexuality is determined genetically. It cites Scripture on the issue and urges Eastlack to change his stance, with this caveat:
"...our Elders have stated that having you take part (in the Sept. 6 service) would send a message to our community and respective congregations that 1. We are in agreement with your stance or 2. We are willing to pretend that unity exists."
The Labor Daze Community Worship Service was heretofore ecumenical in nature, according to residents. But Perkins said the public Sunday service is not supposed to be "a social feel-good message."
"It's meant to send a clear, Biblical Gospel message to people there who might not attend church or otherwise hear it," Perkins said.
The mayor finds the whole thing ugly.
"My personal feeling is that it just saddens me down to my soul," Pastecki said.


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Poetry student lives a life of rhyme
Ask Arda Collins why poetry is important, and the acclaimed poet will be the first to admit it's not a popular genre that will ever "fly off the shelves."
"I think of it as important in the same way as if you spent a day with someone going to the movies and you have some sort of magical day, or you eat something and it's delicious," Collins explains. "Maybe it's not so important, but … it makes life worth living."
Art — especially in the context of words — is something that makes life worth living for the second-year student in DU's creative writing PhD program.
For the 34-year-old Collins, what some may consider a dalliance has become a promising profession, not to mention the envy of most writers with similarly lofty aspirations.
Collins' poems have appeared in The New Yorker and American Poetry Review. She is a graduate of the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop and was one of hundreds of poets vying for acceptance into DU's creative writing program, the only writing program in the country that focuses exclusively on doctoral study.
Last year, Collins won the Yale Younger Poets Prize, the annual event of the Yale University Press that publishes the first collection of a promising American poet under the age of 40. Collins' It Is Daylight was published in April 2009 and garnered positive reviews from critics who called her work "dramatic," "mesmerizing" and "electric."
For Collins, writing is where "things I imagine become real." Take her poem "Low," for example, in which she writes, "It's not happiness, but something else; waiting for the light to change; a bakery. It's a lake. It emerges from darkness into the next day surrounded by pines." Her images are simple; her sentences short and sweet.
The New York native is finding solace in the "smallness" of DU's program.
"It's just a good place to work," Collins says. "I like what is happening here creatively."
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It was a strange moment in Poland when a man landed his helicopter at a filling station to fill up on gas before paying and flying off, the Daily Mail of UK reported on Thursday.
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A polder is, simply put, a space in fantasy literature protected from the outside (think Lothlórien, for example).
It is always interesting to me the way in which theoretical discussions of genre mirror debates about the legitimacy of generic fiction. For example, we might consider Literature a polder, artificially protected from the ravages of genre and history, frozen (as if by one of the three rings for eleven kings) in place and rendered incorruptible–except that Literature is presented as the world and generic fiction as something foreign to that world, which seems to me opposite how the polder tends to work (at least in Tolkien). This is the Generic at work.
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Fresh Research Detected the Oldest Planetary Debris in Our Galaxy
The remnants of the star's planetary system are 90 light years away from Earth and are thought to be older than 10 billion years
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UNITED KINGDOM: Astronomers from the University of Warwick have determined that one of the oldest rocky and icy planetary objects in the Milky Way is actually the oldest star in our galaxy. It is also accumulating garbage from smaller planetary entities that orbit it.
The remnants of the star's planetary system are 90 light years away from Earth and are thought to be older than 10 billion years. On November 5, the conclusions were released in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
A team of astronomers led by the University of Warwick created models of two distinct white dwarfs detected by the European Space Agency's GAIA space observatory.
The researchers next analysed the two stars, both contaminated with planetary material. The closest galaxy's neighbourhood contains two stars, one of which was discovered to be unusually blue and the other to be the weakest and reddest star ever discovered.
Astronomers used spectroscopic and photometric data from GAIA, the Dark Energy Survey, and the European Southern Observatory's X-Shooter instrument to determine how long the "red" star WDJ2147-4035 had been cooling.
They also learned that while the star is roughly 10.7 billion years old in age, it has also spent over 10.2 billion years cooling as a white dwarf.
Despite its reduced surface temperature, the research team concluded that WDJ1922+unusual 0233's blue colour is caused by its mixed helium-hydrogen atmosphere.
The WDJ2147-4035 red star's debris, which was discovered in its otherwise practically pure-helium and high-gravity atmosphere, is thought to have come from an ancient planetary system that endured the star's transformation into a white dwarf.
They assert that, as a result, this is the Milky Way's oldest white dwarf system that has ever been discovered.
"These metal-polluted stars reveal that Earth isn't unique. There are other planetary systems out there with planetary bodies similar to Earth," said Abbigail Elms, the study's principal author and a doctorate candidate in physics at the University of Warwick.
White dwarves are so common in the universe—97% of all stars will eventually turn into them—that it's crucial to comprehend them, especially those that are this fantastic.
Cool white dwarfs, created from the oldest stars in our galaxy, shed light on how planetary systems formed and developed around the oldest stars in the Milky Way. The red star WDJ2147-4035 is a puzzle since the accreted planetary components are lithium and potassium-rich and unrepeatable in our solar system.
Elms noted that this white dwarf is fascinating because of its magnetic nature, advanced age, shallow surface temperature, metal contamination, and shallow surface temperature.
Using the star's spectrum to monitor how quickly each metal is assimilating into the star's core, astronomers may also determine the quantity of each metal in the original planetary body.
By comparing these abundances to celestial objects and planetary material found in our solar system, we can infer the properties of those planets. However, in the case of WDJ2147-4035, that has proven challenging.
The cosmos was less metal-rich than it is now when these old stars originated more than 10 billion years ago because metals are created in evolved stars and massive stellar explosions, according to Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, a professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick
The two detected white dwarfs provide a fascinating glimpse into planetary formation in a metal-poor and gas-rich environment, different from the conditions under which the solar system first formed.
Most stars, including our sun, reach white dwarf status in their ultimate stage of development. A star that has used up all of its fuel sheds all of its outer layers and is currently cooling and contracting is known as a white dwarf.
The remaining material will be permitted to accrete onto the surface of the white dwarf, and any planets in orbit will be perturbed and, in some circumstances, destroyed during this process.
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Based on the current statistics and conversations with landlords, tenants and letting agents, rents across the UK are likely to move in one of three directions: stay the same, fall or rise. Areas which appear stable or are falling may see rents falling further this year, while areas which are showing growth may find that disappears over the coming months.
What is apparent is rents are not likely to continue to rise over the next 12 months as much as they did in 2011. This is due to the relationship with rental levels and wages. As people's pockets are being squeezed this year, tenants are struggling to afford higher rental payments, so any rental rises, even in London, are slowing this year. In some areas, they are even falling back towards the 2009 lows.
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Drug companies can't avoid including kids in certain clinical studies now that the FDA has finally closed a loophole within a pediatric research law.
The Food and Drug Administration has been emphasizing the need for kids to be included in drug trials since Scott Gottlieb took over as commissioner of the agency in May 2017. The Pediatric Research Equity Act (PREA), passed in 2003, requires drug companies to study some products in children. Drug companies have been skirting the requirement using certain exemptions. The biggest exemption revolves around so-called orphan drugs that treat small patient populations and rare diseases.
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Les Yeux fermés est un film français réalisé par Joël Santoni en 1972, sorti en 1973.

Synopsis
Un homme, marqué par un suicide, dont les yeux sont malades, se met à jouer aux aveugles et erre dans Paris et bascule dans la folie.

Fiche technique
 Titre : Les Yeux fermés
 Réalisation : Joël Santoni, assisté de Laurent Ferrier
 Scénario : Claude Breuer, Jeanne Bronner et Joël Santoni
 Photographie : Pierre-William Glenn
 Montage : Thierry Derocles
 Musique : Terry Riley
 Société de production : Delfilms
 Genre : Drame
 Format : Couleur (Eastmancolor) - Son : monophonique
 Pays :
 Durée : 118 minutes
 Date de sortie :  France,

Distribution
 Gérard Desarthe : Yvan
 Lorraine Rainer : Xénie
 Marcel Dalio : le vieux monsieur
 Jean Carmet : Raoul
 Lucien Raimbourg : Pépère
 Bernard Murat : un agent commercial
 Raoul Billerey : Bernard
 Pierre Nunzi : le prêtre
 Pierre-William Glenn : Léonard
 Jean Lescot : ?

Autour du film
 Première collaboration entre Jean Carmet et Joël Santoni. Ils se retrouveront en 1975 avec  Les Œufs brouillés.

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Françoise Audé, Jeune Cinéma, , ,
 Mireille Amiel, Cinéma 73, , ,
 Guy Allombert, La Saison cinématographique 74, ,

Liens externes

Film français sorti en 1973
Film dramatique français
Film réalisé par Joël Santoni
Premier long métrage sorti en 1973

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Meet the DEI Committee
What can Principal Investigators do?
The Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee leads the integration of diversity and equity informed practices within the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. We promote the positive impact of inclusivity and diverse leadership within the laboratory, inside the classrooms, and at the departmental level. The well-being of each member of the BCS department plays an important role for the prosperity of research and innovation.
Embracing diversity in academia means more than acknowledging the differences we like amongst each other. It means to ensure a space that acknowledges the valid and distinct boundaries, needs, strengths, and limitations of each person.
Scientific leaders who are conscious of and committed to issues regarding anti-racism, discrimination, and intersectionality provide highly effective research environments in doing so.
Lab Handbook
Creating a lab handbook to model healthy lab culture and advance diversity and inclusion goals
Writing and committing to academic practices informed by DEI-related issues is an important first step that is relevant for all members of the academic community, not only historically marginalized identities. One important way that faculty can establish healthy mentorship practices and encourage productive discussion around anti-racism in their labs is to create a lab handbook. We have provided several templates below, including from our own BCS faculty. We suggest that faculty consider trainees' feedback when writing and revising these handbooks over time.
By preparing a lab handbook, a Principal Investigator (PI) can:
Include a fun, accessible description of the PI's scientific vision for the lab
Include a mission statement including DEI goals and reflection
Provide resources for combating racism and other sources of bias in science (e.g., citation bias)
Make a commitment to be transparent and accountable when it comes to professional goals and personal boundaries
State expectations for how to interact with other lab members, as well as how to handle conflict, authorship issues, etc.
Provide guidelines for inclusive language (e.g., respecting pronouns)
Set the goals of different kinds of meetings within the lab
Have a "lab culture" page that describes common event such as "new lab member lunch", "game night", or a community service performed together
Set guidelines for a healthy work-life balance
Set priorities for recruiting and retaining diverse trainees, such as attending conferences for underrepresented minority scholars. Examples: Black in Neuro, Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS), Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
Provide tips for collaboration within and outside of the lab
Suggest the establishment of a personalized mentorship plan for trainees who would like more formal goal-setting
Lab handbook examples
Wei Ji Ma's Statement on Lab Culture and Expectations
Elise Piazza's lab handbook for the SoNIC lab (pdf)
Adam Snyder's lab manual
UCSF Guide for talking about race and inequity with your lab
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$23 million investment in the future of New Zealand manufacturing
The New Zealand Parliament has recently passed history-making legislation to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2050. Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern has expressed on numerous occasions that she believes climate change is the biggest challenge of our time.
The progressive attitude to sustainability and business in New Zealand is one of interdependence - each must be beneficial to the other. This is certainly the case with a number of Kiwi manufacturers including Asaleo Care in Kawerau, manufacturer of Tork Professional Hygiene products.
Nine years ago, the Kawerau manufacturing site replaced gas-fired steam production with naturally occurring geothermal steam through a partnership with local Iwi and Ngata Tuwharatoa Geothermal Assets. This has reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 46 percent.
In the latest commitment to local manufacturing and sustainable business, Tork has invested $23 million at the Kawerau site, decommissioning four old converting lines and replacing them with one new state-of-the-art machine. This investment will deliver improved efficiencies, improved product quality, reduce waste and will ensure continued reliable local supply of Tork products.
The new machine will produce a significant quantity of both toilet paper and towel, with top speed and efficiency. This new speed and efficiency obviously takes some powering. The good news is that life cycle analysis has calculated Tork products are produced with between 65 to 76 percent renewable energy at Kawerau thanks to the use of geothermal steam and the high percentage of renewables in the New Zealand grid.
A significant part of the project was to refresh the Tork conventional toilet roll range to meet customer demand. Conventional toilet rolls are the largest category in the B2B toilet paper market. At the end of 2019, Tork will be introducing a premium conventional toilet roll with 400 sheets and early next year will add an individually wrapped 700-sheet roll.
These new products will also feature a brand new emboss leaf pattern. After extensive research, the final design was chosen to lift the quality of the product and to clearly demonstrate the company's commitment to sustainability.
Rochelle Lake, Head of Marketing, B2B has been instrumental in the introduction of the new look. She said, "First responses from customers and potential customers about the stylish new emboss, have been overwhelmingly positive. Expect to see the new Tork emboss in high-quality establishments very soon."
Other environmental benefits from this project include a reduction in packaging. With a strong focus on packaging waste in the market, the most responsible thing businesses can do is to reduce the amount they produce. This project has enabled Tork to reduce packaging by a whopping 20 percent - creating 143 tonnes less packaging waste per year. Savings have come from all areas - cores, inner packs and outer packs.
Additional changes to packaging are the introduction of carry handles to the Jumbo, Mini Jumbo and Conventional Toilet Paper, Roll Towel and Centrefeed product ranges. Tork is the first in the B2B market to offer ergonomic carry handles which safeguard employee wellbeing.
Striking a balance between the environment and commercial enterprise is always a challenge. We need to have businesses that are willing to invest in the future in sustainable ways. Supporting these types of business is the next step.
For more information contact Sales & Support Centre free phone 0800 523 565
The new Tork converting machine:
• $23 million investment
• The machine upgrade project has been 4 years in the making
- 142 people were involved in the installation and commissioning of the new machine
- It took 37 shipping containers to deliver the new machine to Kawerau
• Will produce both toilet paper and towel
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Entry point for purchasing digital goods.
API that permits BlackBerry device users to initiate the purchase of digital goods from within your application. For example, this API can be used to allow users to purchase additional levels in a gaming application, music from a radio application, or any other digital good registered on the Vendor Portal for BlackBerry World. The digital good being purchased must be associated with the calling application in the Vendor Portal for BlackBerry World.
Purchases are initiated via the purchase method. The amount of time that elapses before a response is returned depends on how quickly the user completes the purchase process (which may include steps such as signing in to their BlackBerry ID account and setting up their preferred billing method). The purchase method dispatches a callbackOnSuccess on success, or dispatches a callbackOnFailure on failure.
When calling the purchase method only the ID or SKU of the digital good to be purchased is required; it is not necessary to provide both, and all other arguments are optional. If both the ID and SKU are provided, then the ID takes precedence; the SKU is only used if the digital good could not be located on the Payment Service server based on the ID.
If an application requires a list of its digital goods that have already been purchased by the user (for example, to avoid offering for sale a digital good the user already owns), such a list can be obtained with the blackberry.payment.getExistingPurchases() method. This method requires the same user interaction as the purchase method, so it can also be a long-running method.
Initiates a request to cancel a subscription for a digital good.
If successful the subscription becomes canceled and will not be renewed at the end of the current subscription period. The subscription will remain valid until the end of the current subscription period. The subscription to cancel is identified by a purchase ID that is returned at the time of purchase or queried by calling getExistingPurchases. The cancelation of a non-subscription digital good is not permitted.
purchaseID The purchase ID when the subscription was purchased.
Function to be balled on success.
True if the cancellation was successful.
Function to be invoked when an error occurs.
A PaymentError object containing details about the error.
Initiates a call to check whether the currently logged in BBID user has rights to the current app-level subscription. If the calling application is not a subscription app, this will return false.
Function to be called on success.
Whether the subscription to the application is currently active.
Initiates a call to check whether the currently logged in BBID user has rights to the provided digital good subscription at this time.
Contains information that describes the digital good. One of ID or SKU needs to be specified, and if both are specified, the ID takes precedence and SKU will be ignored.
Retrieves the previous successful purchases made by the user from within the calling application.
if the BlackBerry should be allowed to refresh the list of purchases from the Payment Service server. False if the current list of cached purchases should be returned immediately.
Function to be invoked on successful call.
An array of Purchase items.
Initiates a request for the price of a digital good. The request can be initiated using either the ID or the SKU of the digital good to be purchased.
ID of the digital good.
The data object of the success callback.
The cost of the digital good.
The number of days in the subscriptions initial period. This will only be present if the digital good represents a subscription item.
The subscription renewal price. This will only be present if the digital good represents a subscription item.
The number of days in the subscription renewal period. This will only be present if the digital good represents a subscription item.
Initiates the purchase of a digital good. Purchases can be initiated using either the ID or the SKU of the digital good to be purchased, but it is not necessary to provide both. To customize the name and icon that are displayed on the purchase dialog banners, provide the purchaseAppName and/or purchaseAppIcon arguments. If not provided, the name and icon that were registered with App World will be used.
SKU of the digital good being purchased.
Metadata associated with the digital good. Metadata offers the application developer a way to store information about each purchase on the Payment Service server.
Name of the application requesting the purchase.
Icon of the application requesting the purchase.
Set of extra parameters, in the form of key/value pairs, to associate with the purchase.
A Purchase object containing the details of the successful purchase.
Defines the development mode used in the application.
If development mode is set to true, the application does not contact the Payment Service server for any transactions. For purchases, a simulated purchase screen is displayed, allowing the user to choose the result of the purchase. For retrieving existing purchases, only simulated successful purchases are returned. This mode is useful for testing how your application handles the possible results without requiring network connections or currency. THIS MODE SHOULD NOT BE USED IN PRODUCTION CODE. If development mode is set to false, purchases and retrievals of existing purchases proceed normally, contacting the Payment Service server as necessary. This is the default development mode, and applications in production should not modify it.


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Raúl Castro in Havana, Cuba; November 8, 2010.
Last week, a friend in Havana sent me an uncharacteristically euphoric e-mail message: "What do you think of Raúl's strategic first strike? I told you he was worth keeping an eye on." What he was referring to was the news that Cuba's government had agreed to release fifty-two—or one-third—of its remaining political prisoners.
The deal was brokered after negotiations were held between President Raúl Castro, Fidel's brother; Cuba's Catholic Church hierarchy; and Spain's foreign minister, Miguel Angel Moratinos. Most of the prisoners—seven released this week and the rest in the next few months—are expected to emigrate initially to Spain, which has agreed to host them. (The seven arrived in Madrid today.) The fifty-two represent the last imprisoned members of a group of seventy-five independent journalists and political activists who were arrested in a crackdown in 2003 on charges of conspiring with the U.S. government to destabilize the state. But, most important, these prisoners are said be merely the first to go free. Moratinos has said that Raúl Castro told him he intends to free all of Cuba's political prisoners, presumably after further negotiations.
Maybe so. Then again, some things have changed. For one thing, Cuba's economic circumstances are dire and the country badly needs international financial assistance to get out of the corner it finds itself in. Ideally, it needs to be able to conduct free and open trade with the United States in order to survive economically.
Cuba's prisoner release is likely to improve relations with the European Union, which have been strained ever since the 2003 crackdown, and it could also lighten the tensions in its long standoff with the United States. The Obama Administration has softened the forty-eight-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Cuba by easing limitations that the Bush Administration had imposed on remittances and on travel to the island by Cuban-Americans. A new congressional bill has been introduced to lift all travel restrictions on U.S. citizens and to expand agricultural trade. But even if the bill passes when it is voted on later this summer, the Administration has made it clear that sanctions will remain in place until Cuba takes definite steps towards further democratization, and improves its human-rights record—a key element of which would be the freeing of its political prisoners.
So, does this week's breakthrough on prisoners represent a historic opportunity for a normalization of relations between Cuba and the United States? It could.
Castro may well have had in mind something along the lines of the fuss-free spy-swap conducted this week between the United States and Russia. The biggest reciprocal gesture the United States could make—short of unilaterally lifting the embargo—would be to free Cuba's so-called "Five Heroes," five deep-cover intelligence agents who have been held in U.S. prisons since their arrests in 1998. The agents were sentenced to unusually severe prison terms—ranging from fifteen years to double-life terms—in December, 2001, after a jury trial in South Florida found them guilty of espionage and other offenses.
Thus far, though, the reaction in Washington has been muted. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the prisoner release "overdue" but "encouraging." And this may be a good moment for the U.S. to demonstrate some of the "reciprocity" Raúl Castro claims to be looking for, and see what happens. Castro has made the first move. If Obama were to make the second—perhaps even by freeing the "Five Heroes"—it might not only get Gross out but also help bring about a historic watershed in the fifty-one-year dispute between Cuba and the United States.
Coinciding with these developments, Fidel Castro's surprise reappearance on Cuban state television—chiefly, it seemed, to warn of the risks of a nuclear war in the festering U.S. confrontations with Iran and North Korea—left most observers puzzled. Some have speculated that it was a bid by Fidel to grab back the limelight from Raúl and to remind everyone that he was not to be counted out. But the fact that Fidel stuck to foreign affairs and didn't mention the prisoner releases at all suggests that the Castro siblings were, as they have been for so many years, acting in concert, each in their latest agreed-upon roles, with Raúl in charge of the sweaty business of local politics and governance, and Fidel as Cuba's own Elder Brother oracle, looking, as ever, to the world's far horizons.


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