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by Andrew Goutman · September 12, 2018
David Corn is Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones.
There are countless sources of progressive political information on the web. I narrow it down by topic.
As you can see by browsing through this website (don't forget to click on the ads), I write a lot about politics. The writing part is easy and fun. I've written my entire life. As I noted in the "About" section, writing is an all-consuming passion that has to be settled up…constantly.
The politics part…well, that's not as easy. I do believe I have an instinctive knowledge of the workings of politics, having been closely involved in around a dozen campaigns of all sorts. At my zenith, I was regional director of a professional political lobby, naturally to the left of the spectrum.
The challenge is staying current with the most relevant issues that thrust the political battleground. There are the familiar, nationally known progressive publications, broadcasters and websites, handily summarized here. There are some strong titles on the list and I include a few of them below.
I present to you a list of some of my top "go-to" websites by topic or issue. The New York Times and Washington Post are essential sources but have "paywalls." The sites listed below do not. Every one is sent to me free daily or weekly by email. You can sign up, too.
Daily Kos is a well-known left-leaning political blog founded in 2004 by Bay area activist Marcos Moulitsas (the "kos" was the founder's nickname in the military).
Every weekday morning, I check my inbox for an email titled Daily Kos Elections Digest. It is without a doubt the best view of the daily US electoral landscape on the web. It delivers the latest accounts of Senate, House, gubernatorial and state legislative races. Special attention is paid to polling and its accuracy. There's always a list of fundraising totals by candidates. The email usually ends with about a dozen current YouTube ads of both Democratic and Republican contenders.
The inspiration for the title of Mother Jones.
Mother Jones, a magazine since 1976 and now on the web, was named for Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, an Irish-American trade union activist in the early 20th century with a special aversion to child labor.
The online version of Mother Jones (the magazine still thrives) publishes a weekly post called The Russian Connection. The articles, ably written by Washington bureau chief David Corn and Mother Jones reporters, keep track of all the players in this convoluted drama. It is the gold standard for reporting on all things Russia, Trump and the 2016 election. It's almost as if they have a recording device inside Robert Mueller's office.
Speaking of recording devices, it was David Corn who got a hold of the secretly recorded video of Mitt Romney's 47% remarks to wealthy donors that doomed his presidential campaign.
Non-profit newsroom ProPublica has come to define investigative journalism in the public interest since its founding in 2007. Now, it seems its 75 reporters are best known for digging deeply into the family separation crisis at our southern border.
It was ProPublica that located the shelters and foster homes housing immigrant children alone without their parents…the ugliest consequence of the president's "zero tolerance" policy. ProPublica's reporting is both detailed and passionate.
Media Matters for America mission is of "comprehensively monitoring , analyzing and correcting conservative misinformation in the US media." The group was founded in 2004 by David Brock, a former conservative journalist who switched sides.
Their weekly email (you can get it daily, too) is half-populated by the latest outrages from Trump TV, aka Fox News. But with conservative behemoth Sinclair Broadcasting Group gaining entry into media markets in strategic states and communities all over this country, Media Matters for America will have its hands full…and become more essential than ever.
Polling: There are many worthy players here, like Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball and the Cook Political Report, but FiveThirtyEight has a weekly email that virtually anticipates my top polling questions. Despite the 2016 election debacle, Nate Silver's candy store gets a lot of things right and has the awards to prove it.
History: It is often very useful to examine political issues from an historical perspective. The History News Network (HNN) does just that: a platform for historians to write about current events. Although HNN doesn't state it, the platform is very progressive.
Education: Well, there's Education Week and the online newsletters put out by the teachers' unions. My favorite is Education Opportunity Network, unabashedly progressive, which takes the best articles from other publications and collects them neatly in a weekly online newsletter. They seem to know what's on my mind…like any good educator.
Obviously, I didn't cover all the topics in my notes, like health care and inequality. Why don't you help me out? What did I miss? What did I get wrong? I don't usually use the Comments section, mainly because my posts fill Facebook threads.
In this instance, your comments below can be part of the record of favored progressive websites. Please go ahead.
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Journal of the Southern Orthopaedic Association
Effect of External Sequential Compression Devices on Femoral Venous Blood Flow
David C. Markel, MD, Gary D. Morris, MD
J South Orthop Assoc. 2002;11(1)
Abstract and Introduction
After appropriate institutional review board approval and patient consent, 7 patients (2 men and 5 women) were selected for study, fulfilled inclusion criteria, and had evaluation of the lower extremity venous system using advanced computed ultrasonography (Acuson 128XP/10, Acuson, Mountain View, Calif) with proprietary software (Acuson). Subjects were excluded from the study if the medical history revealed the presence of venous disease, diabetes, previous ipsilateral extremity surgery, or obesity. No subjects were excluded because of inadequate studies. Three right knees and four left knees were operated on. The average age of the patients was 66.4 years (range, 61 to 81 years). Duplex ultrasonography was done on the operative extremity at an average of 3.9 days postoperatively (range, 3 to 5 days). Timing was based on availability of the technologist and the unique proprietary software that allowed direct measurement of venous blood flow volume and velocity. Each patient was evaluated with each of the devices -- thigh-length, calf-length, and foot compression -- as well as active motion at the ankle. The femoral venous blood flow velocity and femoral venous blood flow volume were recorded at a site 1 cm above and 1 cm below the saphenous vein bifurcation on the operative leg. The bifurcation effectively divided the lower extremity venous circulation into superficial and deep components. By dividing the systems in this way, it was possible to independently determine the effect of the three pumps on blood flow in the two systems and determine what, if any, effect the compression cycles had on venous circulation.
A baseline value was obtained before initiation of the pumping cycle of each device on the supine patients. The value is computed by the proprietary software of the ultrasonography machine as a mean during the peaks and troughs of the blood flow velocity and volume flow pattern within the vascular system. The devices were allowed to cycle for several minutes to obtain recording equilibrium before recording measurements. A period of rest was provided, and a new baseline value was obtained before undertaking the next series of measurements with a different device. The order in which the devices were tested was randomized. The same ultrasonography technician performed all of the examinations, and one of us was present for each examination. The devices were placed on both extremities to simulate the postoperative situation, even though recordings were taken only on the operative extremity. In addition to the three external pneumatic sequential compression devices, measurements were taken after the patient flexed and extended the foot 20 times in rapid succession. This activity served to simulate the effect of active motion on the venous system.
In addition to the patients having total knee replacement, 6 young, healthy volunteers aged 18 to 35 (average age, 26.7 years) were evaluated with the same technique as described. This group served as a control group and allowed comparison of the effects of the devices on nonoperative, healthy, younger subjects vs older postoperative patients. Values for each device were compared statistically by univariate analysis and analysis of variance.
J South Orthop Assoc. 2002;11(1) © 2002 Southern Medical Association
Cite this: Effect of External Sequential Compression Devices on Femoral Venous Blood Flow - Medscape - Mar 01, 2002.
Table 1. Baseline Blood Flow Velocity (Measured Above and Below Saphenous Bifurcation) and Increase After Initiation of Pneumatic Pumps
Velocity (meters/second)
Ankle Motion
Baseline velocity
Above (superficial venous) 0.086 0.085 0.089 0.090
Below (deep venous) 0.070 0.069 0.064 0.070
Velocity after initiation
Above (superficial venous) 0.094 0.10 0.099 0.113
Table 2. Percentage Increases in Blood Flow Volume and Velocity Above and Below the Saphenous Bifurcation (Superficial and Deep Systems)
Change in velocity
Above (superficial venous) 9.3% 17.6% 11.2% 25.6%
Below (deep venous) 11.4% 21.7% .032% 21.4%
Change in volume
Above (superficial venous) 28.2% 62.1% 25.8% 40.5%
Below (deep venous) 11.5% 29.9% 32.2% 52.1%
Table 3. Baseline Blood Flow Volume and the Increase After Initiation of Pneumatic Pumps
Volume (mL/min)
Baseline volume
Above (superficial venous) 465 443 466 536
Below (deep venous) 400 364 295 338
Volume after initiation
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A New Tradition: 'There is absolutely room for women in this industry.'
Posted on Tuesday, March 27, 2018
EDITOR'S NOTE: The News and Press will be running several stories in a series on women who work in male-dominated industries. Sometimes called non-traditional workers, these women found jobs and careers that they love and didn't let gender stereotypes keep them from pursuing their passions.
By Melissa Rollins, Editor, editor@newsandpress.net
Taylor Armstead seemed destined to be a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), with both a love of science and family ties to the college. Now a 25-year-old Process Engineer at Sonoco, Armstead said that she couldn't be happier with her choice in school and career.
"I knew I wanted to go to Georgia Tech since I was three, probably earlier, because my whole side of my mom's family went there; that was a given," Armstead said. "When I was a kid I really wanted to be an engineer but didn't know a whole lot about what kind. My freshman year, I picked out Material Science. It was something that was really, really interesting to me and you can do a lot of different things with that too degree too, which I like."
With the exception of a short internship in France, Armstead said that she lived her whole life in Georgia. An opportunity to work at Sonoco in Hartsville was the perfect time to make a move.
"I haven't lived anywhere else, really," Armstead said. "When I graduated I wanted to move away; it was time for a change."
As a Process Engineer for Stock Prep, Armstead said that her days/weeks can vary a little but also have similar elements to them.
"Basically when we make paper, we are taking 100 percent recycled material and we're turning it into stock," Armstead said. "That is a giant pulpy mass that you eventually turn in to paper. I'm involved in the process of everything from unloading it to right before it hits the refiners."
Though her degree is in Material Science and Engineering, Armstead initially started college with another path in mind. One class changed her mind.
"I started college in Environmental Engineering," Armstead said. "I purposely took an undecided engineering course, which is just a one-hour course, no homework, where you just watch presentations from different engineers. It was really helpful."
During that course, presenters laid out what each branch of engineering looked like in college and after graduation.
"You got to see examples of what you do afterward, examples of classes you'd be taking. You get to talk with recruiters from each major. A big major like Mechanical Engineering isn't going to have a recruiter but Material Science is because it is so small. The Material Science presentation was really cool. They had a blowtorch and dry ice and you can't beat that," Armstead said, laughing.
Some of the classes she took were helpful in understanding metals and their compositions.
"I had a really good alloys class, so I was learning about metals and their properties, what you can add to steel to make it stronger and non-corrosive, Armstead said. "Bio-materials was really fun, learning about what materials you can put in the body that the body won't react to. They have some really groundbreaking research coming out right now, they have an artery made entirely out of polymers that you can put in your heart so it's not clogged up anymore."
Currently the only female Process Engineer, Armstead said that she has had to make a way for herself sometimes.
"There is definitely a Boys' Club mentality sometimes," Armstead said. "I steamroll over it sometimes and I'm just like 'Tough, I'm part of this conversation too', kind of thing. It really depends. There are some groups that I walk up and they act like 'Why are you here' but then there are other groups that are totally fine. So, there is some of that but it's not everyone."
Armstead that she would encourage other women who are interested in engineering to just so for it.
"There is absolutely room for women in this industry," Armstead said. "There is going to be a lot of support along the way, you just have to know to reach out and get that for yourself. Ask a lot of questions. That is so important. If a young woman is looking at manufacturing, you have to have a tough skin; people pick on you all day. Most of the time it's for fun but sometimes it will get under your skin. They will find that one thing eventually. For example, you're the only girl and you got your eyebrows done the day before; they notice like that and they have to comment on that. It is not just women though; the other guys get picked on too."
Though a portfolio full of science classes helped prepare for her work at Sonoco, Armstead said that that are a few things she'd change if she could do it over again.
"If I could go back and do it, I would have taken more computer programming classes in high school," Armstead said. "My high school didn't have a whole lot of options because it was small but we had a management class and I would have done that more. I don't know how I would have fit it in though because I took every science class they offered. I was trying to prepare myself but looking back I wish I would have joined the Business Club, something that then I didn't think would be that important."
Different opportunities are available now than when she was in high school, Armstead said, and she would encourage anyone interested in engineering to explore their options.
"My sister, who is thirteen now, is in a robotics club and that isn't something that was around when I was that age but I think it is really cool that she's in that. Any kind of computer classes or anything like that would really help. Get involved as early as possible."
After seeing that she had a love for engineering, Armstead said that her parents encouraged her to pursue it, even if it meant she would be one of just a few women, pushing her to keep going when the going got tough.
"My parents were really encouraging," Armstead said. "They pushed me to get into engineering because I was interested in it when I was young but the first year of college I didn't want to do it anymore. The first two years of classes are really hard and they are designed to make you think you are a terrible person or something. I am really glad that they made me stick with it because I don't know that I would have by myself. They were the biggest encouragement that I had."
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Atomized Intranasal Dexmedetomidine Shows Promise as Pediatric Sedative
Published May 1, 2018 | British Journal of Anaesthesia
Atomized intranasal dexmedetomidine has proven to be an effective sedation drug, but its pharmacokinetics have previously only been studied in adults. Its potential value during diagnostic procedures in children, with the inherent advantage of not requiring vascular access, was unknown. The risk of instability in heart rate caused by dexmedetomidine is challenging in the pediatric landscape, particularly in infants and toddlers.
A team of researchers from the divisions of Anesthesia and Clinical Pharmacology, joined by a physician from China who was a visiting scholar at Cincinnati Children's, examined arterial plasma concentrations of dexmedetomidine in 18 infants and toddlers. Unlike adults, children often need sedation for non-painful, diagnostic testing, including echocardiographs and radiological imaging.
Researchers saw that, within 20 minutes, the patients approached 100 pg ml-1, considered the low end for sedative efficacy, after being administered 1 mg kg-1 of the intranasal analgesia. Doubling the dosage reached the same concentration within just 10 minutes, and reached nearly twice the peak concentration. Peak plasma concentrations with both doses were achieved within 47 minutes, quantifying the drug's potential value. This could be crucial, because in infants, dexmedetomidine is one of the few sedatives believed to have minimal effect on neurodevelopment. Unlike most available sedatives, it does not depress respiration. Also, administration is painless.
"Our study provides the first rigorous data to give a pharmacokinetic understanding to guide pediatric dosage," says first-author Jeff Miller, MD, a retired pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist.
"The maximum plasma levels obtained after our dosage were in the low range targeted in ongoing multicenter trials," he says. "Consequently, we can consider higher doses of intranasal dexmedetomidine, which should provide faster onset of sedation and greater efficacy."
Jeff Miller, MD
Miller JW, Balyan R, Dong M, Mahmoud M, Lam JE, Pratap JN, Paquin JR, Li BL, Spaeth JP, Vinks A, Loepke AW. Does intranasal dexmedetomidine provide adequate plasma concentrations for sedation in children: a pharmacokinetic study. Br J Anaesth. 2018 May;120(5):1056-1065.


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Invente'22, the 2-day flagship Techfest of SSN College of Engineering and Shiv Nadar University Chennai was inaugurated
During his inaugural address, Mr. Nandakumar spoke about his company's flagship robot Maxio. He highlighted that robotic surgery is a new and exciting emerging technology.
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Invente'22, the 2-day flagship Techfest of Sri Sivasubramaniya Nadar College of Engineering and Shiv Nadar University Chennai held on 1st of December 2022 started off with our esteemed chief guest, Mr. Nandakumar Subburaman, CEO, Co-Founder of Perfint Healthcare Pvt Ltd.
During his inaugural address, Mr. Nandakumar spoke about his company's flagship robot Maxio. He highlighted that robotic surgery is a new and exciting emerging technology. He mentioned how technology changes the world of medicine with the mindset of being safe and beneficial to people.
Among the esteemed people on the dais were Dr. Kala Vijayakumar, President, SSN Institutions and Pro-Chancellor, Shiv Nadar University Chennai: Dr. Annamalai, Principal, SSNCE: Dr. Nallusamy, Registrar, Shiv Nadar University Chennai: Dr. Kavitha, Professor, and Head, Biomedical Engineering, SSNCE. This Technical Festival comprises 64 technical, 14 non-technical events, and 3 major workshops on state-of-the-art domains. Another flagship event is Hackinfinity which provides a platform for problem-solving enthusiasts. Invente'22 has a large participation from various parts of the country.
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On this edition of the Arts Section, host Gary Zidek visits the Uptown Underground. The Chicago venue has an interesting history and a unique take on programming. Later in the show, Gary catches up with the owner of Volumes Book Cafe to talk about the challenges of operating an independent bookstore in today's environment. Plus, he'll ask about some of this season's most popular titles. The Dueling Critics, Kelly Kleiman and Jonathan Abarbanel, will stop by to review Tracy Letts' world premiere, THE MINUTES, which is running at Steppenwolf. Gary also profiles, the Driehaus Museum's French poster exhibit and a Chicago-area program that helps adults with developmental disabilities engage with art.


This recipe has been in my family for decades. My mum got it from her mum, and grandma must have learnt all the details from her mother. It's a real tradition that runs in my family to bake it twice a year, once around Easter and then for Christmas.
I remember quite vividly that as a child I would sneak to the kitchen well after bed time and watch my mum mixing all the ingredients. She always liked to bake after me and my sister went to bed, which was adding a mysterious and quite magical appeal to the entire operation. Now I understand that it was mostly because when the house got finally quiet she could indulge in other activities than keeping an eye on us. However, the time of the day and all the proceedings seemed to be very special.
This cake was always made manually, with no help of electric tools. My mum would take a makitra, clay mixing bowl finely ribbed on the inside, and start from working out butter with sugar. The sound of wooden ball utensil rubbing butter and crushing sugar against the edges of the bowl will stay with me forever. After 20 minutes of vigorous mixing, the batter would gain desired, fluffy consistency. Trust me, to get to this point it was already quite an effort and achievement at the same time.
Next, all other ingredients would find their way to the bowl; flour, raising agent and the most important of them all- almond extract. Thanks to that fragrant liquid the cake gets truly irresistible aroma. And I mean it when I say irresistible. As a little girl I was enchanted by this transparent liquid to the point that I couldn't comprehend that something of such a divine smell could taste any different. Convinced of its delicious taste I downed entire phial at once. Let me tell you, that was very bitter experience.
When all the ingredients are nicely combined, it's not all over yet. It is time for baking. Hold on, this cake is not baked, it's cooked! This is a part of the show where a special baking/cooking tin has its 5 minutes in the spotlight. With all honesty I do not know whether they still produce such things. Our baking mould has its years and despite great effort my mum cannot find proper replacement for it. Most probably there are some new, smart inventions that ousted it from the shelves. However, I strongly believe that it's thanks to this mould that cake comes out so moist and spongy.
1. You can either do it manually or use electric mixer to make it quicker.
In a medium size bowl mix butter of a room temperature and sugar. Stir until well combined and smooth.
2. Sift flour, baking powder and starch in, add 2 eggs and whisk together. Once eggs are incorporated add another two and keep whisking for about 3 minutes.
3. Pour almond extract and stir the batter again.
5. Seal the mould with its lid and put into a big pan with boiling water. Keep on a medium fire (so that you can still hear the bobbles of boiling water) for an hour.
7. Decorate with melted chocolate and powder sugar- you can get creative! Enjoy!
I could say nothing but compliments about this cake. It's the taste of my childhood. And still, to this day, my favourite part of the entire making process is scooping the leftover batter with my fingers and eating it so that no-one can see.


LocalZine: Is there a special meaning to the name, happy campers?
Isaac: In anchient hebrew it translates to ...Crappy Band! It basically just means rolling with the punches, things could be better things could be worse so just take live as it comes.
LocalZine: Who are some of your influences/favorite bands?
Isaac: I Like Pennywise, Bad Religion, Green Day, NOFX, NoUse, Sicko, Ten Foot Pole, and lots others. Gene like sublime and Pennywise the most among others. Logan has been listening to a lot of Death By Stereo, and rap.
Isaac: None of us have ever really been in another band. I've been doing Happy Campers for almost 6 years, Gene started playing with me when he was our roadie, and logan was sorta in another vegas band for like a week but this is pretty much his first band too.
Isaac: Whoa! I don't really dislike any bands. I have my styles that I like and don't like. But I give it up to anyone in a band, it's not as easy as it may seem. I will say I don't like bands that are more worried about getting signed/big whatever rather than just having fun or just making music. But that's more the personalities of the people than the music which are two very seperate things.
LocalZine: What's the hippest show you ever played?
Isaac: We opened for the Offspring and Unwritten Law one time which was pretty crazy, weve also had big shows with the Vandals and Pennywise just to name a few. But those kids will go crazy for anybody. I would much rather play to a hundred kids that are going crazy cause they like us. That's cooler to me.
Isaac: I usually sell our merch after were done playing. I like to make sure people buy stuff or I beat them up. JK I like to hang out and talk to whoevers at the show and meet people, or watch the other bands. We usually party too unless we have to drive the next day then we party anyway and hurt in the morning.
LocalZine: What do you think of bands that are on MTV?
Isaac: What bands on MTV? I think they stopped playing bands. All I see is britney spears, and J-Lo. I'd rather look at them anyway. You can always just turn the tv down and put in a punk CD.
LocalZine: Do you have any releases coming up? If so, what can we expect?
Isaac: Sometime this year (probably summer or fall) We plan to put out the next full length. We don't know what label (if any) or where or when. But we have 10 or the 13 songs down that we want to do, and I think it will easily be our best CD. We have our strongest line up we've ever had and everythings looking roses.
LocalZine: What color socks do you have on?
Isaac: White as always. Don't mess with a classic. Gene always has ugly socks on though, but everyone else says there cool maybe I'm just getting old.
Isaac: Skittles, Snickers, Reeses Pieces, Milk Duds, etc. although I don't feel that guilty, In fact I look sexier with a pooch. Most punk band guys have a pooch, I'll just get mine from candy rather than excessive drinking.
Isaac: Nirvana, Green Day, NOFX, and Bad Religion. those are the last of my favorites that I havent got to play with yet.
Who's the pimpest mofo in all the land?
Isaac: Mr T. Don't front. He's had a mohawk longer than you've been alive.


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Rolf Peterson (Halmstad, Halland, 11 de maio de 1944) é um ex-canoísta sueco especialista em provas de velocidade.

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When Worlds Unite (Weltmeyer) is a Premium Oldenburg NA mare with impeccable bloodlines. She was sired by the legendary Weltmeyer. She has proved herself as an incredible broodmare by consistently producing high quality premium and champion foals. She passes on her wonderful type and excellent movement.
Rubignon (Rubinstein/Donnerhall/Pik Solo) is a beautiful black 16.2h Oldenburg stallion. Rubignon represents 3 generations of Grand Prix stallions: Rubinstein, Donnerhall, and Pik Solo. He was listed for the Swedish Dressage team in 2008 and 2009, and has 17 Grand Prix wins and placings including international wins in his name. He is approved with multiple registries and was tested in Sweden with 9's for his special jumping talent as well. Rubignon stamps his offspring with elegant uphill toplines, modern type with long legs, and excellent light springy movement with good lift in front and well carried from behind.
This filly, Royal Gem, carries the "Magic Trio" of the most famous dressage sires: Weltmeyer, Rubinstein and Donnerhall. This bloodline combination offers the most well rounded dressage pedigree, with proven performance generation after generation. This is a spectacular filly is black in color with white on her face and 2 hind white stockings. We are very pleased!!
CONGRATULATIONS TO LORI OF CANADA!!!
**NEWS FLASH ** ROYAL GEM WAS RESERVE CHAMPION AT HER OLDENBURG INSPECTION OUT OF A LARGE GROUP OF 11 FOALS!!! SHE WAS AWARDED PREMIUM STATUS AND WAS VERY WELL RECEIVED!


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Stephen Hawking has no plans to leave UK for UWaterloo
Famed scientist could collaborate with Canadian school
By Maclean's July 16, 2008
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has no immediate plans to leave his University of Cambridge posting to work in Waterloo, Ont.John Matlock, a spokesman for the Perimeter Institute, where Hawking was rumoured to be headed, says a report by a British newspaper suggesting Hawking was mulling over the move was exaggerated.
Matlock says Hawking will be visiting Waterloo, and the institute—a research centre for theoretical physics—is open to collaborating with the scientist. But it's entirely up to Hawking.
Matlock says interest from Hawking would not be surprising as pre-eminent physicists from all over the world conduct research in Waterloo.
Hawking's personal assistant has also confirmed the physicist will remain in England.
Hawking recently criticized the British government for slashing scientific funding after two science funding bodies were merged, jeopardizing hundreds of jobs.
– The Canadian Press


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Q: How to choose a application without using the mouse in Lion Mission Control? While using Mission Control and pressing Control ⌃+↑, I get the tiled view of all the applications in that particular desktop. Is there a keyboard shortcut to choose an application in this view?

A: No.  I haven't found any, but that's not surprising.  Mission Control was provided for mouse / touch interaction.  Have you tried using Command ⌘+Tab for app switching and Command ⌘+`for window switching?
They are much more efficient if you're interested in keeping your hands on the keys.

A: Try hyperswitch (https://bahoom.com/hyperswitch) - you can switch between windows only from current desktop.

A: You can type the name of the window (not the name of the app) and it will select the windows in mission control that matchs. What I don't know how to swicth between all the coincidences.

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Buchanan is located in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. This lake is 963 acres in size. It is approximately 42 feet deep at its deepest point. When fishing, anglers can expect to catch a variety of fish including Black Bullhead, Bluegill, Brown Bullhead, Largemouth Bass, Northern Pike, Rock Bass, Walleye, Yellow Bullhead, Yellow Perch, Pumpkinseed and.
Brown Bullhead
Rock Bass
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HISTORY AND STATUS OF FISHERY
Buchanan Lake is a 929-acre mesotrophic (moderately fertile) lake located in east-central Otter Tail County approximately two miles north of Ottertail, MN. The lake has a maximum depth of 42 feet; however, 90% of the lake is less than 15 feet in depth. The secchi disc reading in this assessment was 11.8 feet. Previous secchi disk readings have ranged from 3.0 to 11.0 feet.
Shoreline development is considered to be moderate on Buchanan Lake. A state owned public access is located on the northwest shoreline. The immediate watershed is composed primarily of agricultural land interspersed with hardwood woodlots. Shoreline substrates consist primarily of sand. Mucky areas are confined to the bays. Hardstem bulrush and common cattails are located in various locations around the lake. They provide valuable fish and wildlife habitat and are critical for maintaining good water quality. Emergent plants provide spawning areas for fish such as Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, and panfish. They also serve as important nursery areas for all species of fish. Because of their ecological value, emergent plants may not be removed without a DNR permit. To maintain the excellent water quality and angling that this lake has to offer, it is imperative to preserve the quality of the aquatic habitat.
Buchanan Lake can be ecologically classified as a bass-panfish type of lake and this is reflected in the assemblage of the fish community. Northern Pike, Largemouth Bass, Bluegill, and Black Crappie are the dominant gamefish species. Suitable spawning habitat for these species exists throughout the lake.
Buchanan Lake boasts an abundant Northern Pike population. Northern Pike ranged in length from 13.4 to 28.0 inches with a mean length of 19.2 inches. Northern Pike attain an average length of 20.6 inches at five years of age.
Bluegills are very abundant. Twenty-one percent of the Bluegills measured 7.0 inches or greater in length. Bluegills attain an average length of 6.3 inches at five years of age.
Age data indicate that Black Crappie reproduction is consistently good. Crappies ranged in length from 3.7 to 11.1 inches with an average length of 7.6 inches. Black Crappies attain an average length of 8.5 inches at five years of age.
A balanced Largemouth Bass population exists. Largemouth Bass ranged in length from 9.7 to 18.6 inches with an average length and weight of 13.5 inches and 1.5 pounds. Largemouth Bass attain a mean length of 13.9 inches at five years of age.
Walleyes are moderately abundant. Walleyes ranged in length from 14.3 to 26.3 inches with an average length and weight of 22.1 inches and 3.9 pounds. Walleyes attain an average length of 14.8 inches at four years of age.
Anglers can maintain the quality of angling by practicing selective harvest. Selective harvest encourages the release of medium to large size fish while allowing the harvest of more abundant smaller fish for table fare. Releasing the medium to large fish will ensure that the lake will have enough spawning age fish on an annual basis and will provide anglers with more opportunities to catch large fish in the future.
Source: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
NOTICE: Lake-Link Inc assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions of the information for Buchanan. Although we strive to provide the most accurate information as we can the information contained in this page is provided on an "as is" basis with no guarantees of completeness, accuracy, usefulness or timeliness.


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Q: SQL - Inserting into table with one row as select and another as same value I am trying to insert multiple rows into a table using a select statement for one value, with the other value being the same value in every row.
INSERT
        INTO INVTBL (invid, staticid)
        VALUES
        (SELECT invid from INVENTORYTBL
        WHERE invid in (select id from PARTS WHERE partcode like '%OEA'), 126)

New to SQL - thanks for any help to get me going.

A: Don't use the values clause if the source is a select statement:
insert into invtbl (invid, staticid)
select invid, 126
from INVENTORYTBL
WHERE invid in (select id from PARTS WHERE partcode like '%OEA')


A third fund worth up to $500 million dollars is being planned by Rabo Equity Advisors in the first quarter of 2019 to invest in Indian agriculture and food businesses, as well as in improved infrastructure and technology such as cold storage and water irrigation.
Executive Chairman Rajesh Srivastava told Agri Investor the fund is being introduced to respond to increasing demand fueled by population growth in India. It also addresses greater consumer demand for higher-quality products, organic produce and meat and dairy produce due to higher spending power in this emerging economy, explained Srivastava.
It follows the success of the second fund – worth $150 million, invested in the agriculture and food sector – which has almost been fully deployed and which is doing very well, added Srivastava. The first fund reached $120 million.
Investments for the third fund, expected to total between $400 million to $500 million, cover the whole chain from inputs to consumption, Srivastava said. New elements will also be introduced such as investment in infrastructure including water irrigation and new technology such as cold storage, which can significantly cut harvest losses for fruit and vegetables.
The third fund is expected to be launched at the end of the first quarter next year, in March 2019, and it should take six months for a first close. A second close is likely one year later and it will for between 10 and 12 years, Srivastava explained.
Rabobank is one of the sponsors and we are hoping to get many high-quality investors, he added. "I am encouraged by the way the market is growing in India and I think it will continue to be a good sector to be in," he concluded.


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Abdallah Al-Hakim has a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Dundee, Scotland. Currently he is a research fellow at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto where his research focuses on understanding how cells respond to the damage caused to DNA by radiation, chemicals and other factors. He maintains a personal website.


60x50: "For What It's Worth"
The . . . song . . . manages to warn of increasing polarization and violence in American society, without taking any stand other than that of acceptance of diversity and free speech. In other words, it comments on politics without itself being political.
The song was inspired by an event in November 1966, the year during which Buffalo Springfield started playing as the house band at the famed Whiskey A Go-Go on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. At the dawn of the psychedelic era, on Saturday, November 12, 1966, near a club at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Crescent Heights named Pandora's Box (pictured), supposedly 1,000 youthful demonstrators (I say "supposedly" as the number strikes me as dubiously high) erupted in protest against the perceived repressive enforcement of recently invoked curfew laws. As I understand it, these curfew laws were passed in order to get a handle on underage drinking going on at some of the Sunset Strip clubs catering to a youthful clientele (a painfully banal explanation, to be sure). Apparently some business owners wanted the authorities to pass laws that would help rid the Sunset Strip of vast numbers of loitering teenagers as well as the growing number of "hippies," the pan-handling presence of which were discouraging patrons from attending their drinking and dining establishments.
Referred to as the "Sunset Strip Riot"—inspiring the movie Riot on Sunset Strip (1967)—apparently the event was characterized by some rather typical youthful expressions of outrage: rock throwing (where did the rocks come from?), an attempt to set fire to a city bus filled with terrified passengers, and various other acts of destructive vandalism. The event was referred to in the L. A. press as a "riot," perhaps to link the disruptive moment to the more destructive and socially significant Watts riots of the year before. The net result was that within the year—by August of 1967—Pandora's Box was demolished and paved over to make an easy access road to Crescent Heights off of Sunset Boulevard. That's one way to solve a problem.
Although famous, and strongly associated with the decade of the 1960s, I find this a hard song on which to get a critical handle, especially as any sort of trenchant "social criticism." For one thing, what's the level of intellectual commitment to the so-called issue of freedom of expression (a value that is, of course, never actually named)? It seems more like a sum of commonplaces strung together rather than expressing any deeply felt social outrage. The title, especially, doesn't help: the colloquial expression, "For What It's Worth," offers only a minimal commitment to an idea; it seems a strangely noncommittal title for a song that putatively contains acute political insight. A better title might be, "My Two Cents' Worth," as that phrase more accurately suggests the level of extent of the emotional engagement with the issue(s). No doubt it was influenced by the overt political protest characteristic of 1960s folk music, but it lacks the clear statement of a political position that these songs make explicit. In this sense, we can see that it positions itself somewhere between outright polemic and disinterested social observation: "Nobody's right if everybody's wrong." The line reminds me of something a fence-riding high school guidance counselor told me in response to the Kent State campus shootings in 1970. If it is considered, narrowly, merely as a response to the so-called "Sunset Strip Riot," then it amounts to nothing more than an argument insisting that teenagers ought to be able to have fun when they want to have fun.
In retrospect, the whole song smacks of fence-riding. In Canto III of Dante's Inferno, the fence-riders—named "Neutrals" in J. D. Sinclair's translation to desribe those who never took a position in life—are situated in the vestibule to Hell, Hell refusing to let them in because they never made a decision on anything during their lives.
To properly understand the song, I think, we need to focus elsewhere than on politics, and recognize that it owes something to the ideas in Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), and Kesey's use of the mental institution as a metaphor for everyday life: "You step out of line, the Man come and take you away." Think of the 60s novelty song "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!"—that was, incidentally, released in July 1966, four months before the Sunset Strip Riot, and about five months before Buffalo Springfield recorded "For What It's Worth." One of the novelty song's lyrics refers to the "funny farm," which is, of course, a colloquial reference to an asylum. The narrator of Cuckoo's Nest, Chief Bromden, uses the phrase "the Combine" to refer to the large, invisible system of coercion that society uses to control and manipulate individuals. I've written a great deal, recently, about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, so I don't think that his fame and notoriety during this period in the 1960s needs rehearsing. The way authority is referred to only in the abstract--"man with a gun," "resistance from behind," "the heat," the Man"--also supports the idea that the song refers to the repressive operations of "the Combine."
If nothing else, a close analysis of the song warns against any attempt to transform pop songs into agitprop.


Sheldon "Shadow" Qualey, 78, of Middle River, MN, passed away Wed. morning, March 27, 2019, at his home.
Memorial services will be held at 2 P.M. Sat., April 6, 2019, at First Lutheran Church in Middle River with Pastor Bob Dahlen officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to the sservices at the church.
River at the age of 78 years, 10 months and 2 days.
He is survived by his wife, Diane; children: Jan (Lynn) Stenvik, Eric`, Jodi (Jalmer) Bernu, Cindy Davis, Marty Peterson, Connie Hipple, and Chris Peterson; grandchildren: Christopher (Jodi) Johnson, Joseph (Ally) Thompson, Kayla (Andrew) Landin, Lisa (Austin) Qualey, Sheldon (Krista) Qualey, Tasha (Jeff) Benton, Clint (Brianna) Berry, Matthew (Caitlin) Bernu, Anthony (Julie) Davis, Andrew Davis, Michael Peterson, Kristen Peterson, Brett Hipple, Jessica (Dave) LaRocque, Tom (Whitney) Stenvik, and Lindsey (Chris) Hennek; 30 great-grandchildren; one sister Janet (Mark) Kujava and several nieces, nephews and other relatives.
He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother, Richard, in infancy: four sisters: Marilyn, Kathryn, Gayle and Linda and nephews: Vincent Shambeau and Ben Demaskie.


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Whatever you think of Roxy Jacenko, she's delivered a masterclass in resilience this year.
Zara McDonald
Video by MWN
If there's one thing we know about social media, is that it's the brightest of highlight reels.
Pearly white grins, perfect bodies, faultless makeup and bubbly families populate our feeds, the happy news filtered to become even shinier, the bad news ignored as if it never happened.
A scroll through Roxy Jacenko's feed shows much of the above. Bunches of flowers. A set of particularly pronounced abs. A smile. Another smile. A hug from her two kids. A few more hugs. Work, and a lot of it.
Of course, in the last year, her husband, Oliver Curtis, has left a gap in her life while in jail for insider trading. But that is set to change following the news this morning of his much-anticipated release.
Roxy Jacenko, as a PR maven and social media aficionado, has quite a presence online.
And in the last 12 months – 12 months dictated by prison sentences, cancer and public shaming – watching Jacenko's activity online has been an interesting experience. Here's a woman with a fancy handbag, a fancier car, long-flowing blonde locks and two happy children, one whose visceral pain – physical and otherwise – has been documented in places that isn't her social media space.
Interviews – ones where the 37-year-old has openly questioned "what the f*ck [her] life has become" and revealed instances where she found herself "crying" in front of her children – have given us insight into the private struggle that's dogged the PR queen behind the blinding light of a smartphone screen.
And so, in the last 12 months, we've seen two kinds of Roxy Jacenkos: The Instagram Jacenko, full of lavish luxury and giggly families, and the other, the Publicly Private Jacenko. One who is candid and – all things considered – dignified when talking about how the world has worked against her a little bit lately.
Both versions deserve our respect.
One, for showing the world what it means to live through your pain, and the other one, for talking about it.
The force of public opinion demands we consider Jacenko polarising. A little unlikable. Feisty. Unapologetically wealthy. Her only crime, it would seem, is marrying someone else who committed one years before.
In the last 12 months, Roxy Jacenko has delivered a masterclass on resilience, and on the simple act of getting sh*t done.
Image: Instagram.
She could've disappeared from our radar, stepped back from her business, hidden from Instagram and unleashed with understandable fury at the propensity of the media to invade her space. And the way paparazzi snap photos with reckless abandon, and certainly little consideration of her five-year-old and three-year-old children.
But Jacenko did the opposite, leaning into her work and her family and definitely her social media activity. She has kept her anger to herself, giving us pieces of her sadness but certainly withholding most of the pie.
You can hold Curtis with a tinge of contempt, for he committed a crime. But Jacenko? The woman juggled a public profile, single motherhood, breast cancer, a handful of self-started businesses, being the centre of many a media storm and occasionally the target of public shame in a 12-month period.
On a day like today, a day that shuts a door on a year Jacenko will no doubt close with lock and key, we should be able to separate our contempt for crime and our respect for those who power on.
Best of all, I have the distinct feeling Roxy Jacenko doesn't want my sympathy.
And I think that's why I like her so much.
Roxy Jacenko and the Whole Damned Thing: Her interview with Mia Freedman's No Filter.
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After a week where critics accused Mamamia of only supporting wealthy white women, you'd think they'd give their Roxy cheerleading squad a rest.
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She lied to her son and told him they flew to China to visit his dad when they actually visited him in Cooma in jail. That level of deceiving her kids, where she could have taught them valuable life lessons, is simply deplorable. I wonder how her son's memories of 'China' will inform his perception of the world as he grows.. since the China he saw looks mighty like a jail..


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Episode 21: Visiting With Lisa Kumagai And Her Story, "You Are Allowed To Be Here."
Lisa Kumagai She Said Project
ANNOUNCER: Raising women's voices one story at a time. Welcome to The She Said Project Podcast.
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JENETTE: Well, hello everybody and you are listening to The She Said Project podcast. We are so glad you're here to join us today. I'm your host, Jenette Jurczyk, National Director of The She Said Project. And with me always in the Zoom Studio is Kerry Rossow, my co-host—one of the original founders and creators of That's What She Said and The She Said Project. So, Kerry. Welcome! Hi, how are you? It's been.. it's been a minute.
KERRY: Hi! It has been a minute and I feel kind of excited because I feel like we're creating something new again. Here we are: we took the podcast. We took Zoom. We took women telling their stories and sort of mushed it all together like a love child and—here we are..
JENETTE: We're having a zoom baby! (laughs)
KERRY: Whatever. (aside) I'm not too old. Ohh.. (laughing continues)
JENETTE: So we started That's What She Said as a way for women to get onstage, be bold, be brave and share personal stories. We launched The She Said Project Podcast as a way to share the stories with an even larger audience and then start combining stories from women from different communities, different cities. And the show has appeared in Champaign, Illinois—the show has appeared in Bloomington, Illinois, and it's actually in the works to appear in more communities live. However, I don't know if you've heard, that something happened in 2020 and live events are not really a thing. So we've had to pivot like many other people and organizations. And..
KERRY: Pivot!
JENETTE: Yeah, so instead of producing a live show in the second half of 2020, we went virtual. We actually launched full-on She Said Productions on the Zoom and it was a huge learning experience, but I'm so grateful we got to do that and one of the huge benefits was connecting women from different cities, in different states, and different communities coast-to-coast. We were no longer locked in to just where we physically were in our town.
KERRY: As usual and since the beginning of this project, I'm always sort of the one like, 'Mmm mm, can't do it!' 'Not going to happen!' and when you first came with this idea, of course, I was the first one to be like, 'hmm mm, no,' and then as I was watching these virtual events and seeing the connections of these women and our guest today (Lisa. Spoiler!) was one of them that, literally I was hiding in my garage from my rowdy crew watching it and I was so gut-punched by her story and when it was over I thought you know, yet again, I had to eat my words and I was proven wrong, you know, these stories connect women across all platforms.
JENETTE: And we set out to prove that we could still connect with women through the power of their stories, even if we were not in the same room with them. So, with that, let's introduce today's guest—from Torrance, California, please welcome Lisa Kumagai. Hi, Lisa!
LISA: Hi. Hello. Thank you so much for having me.
JENETTE: Thank you so much for patiently listening to Kerry and I…um, babble and introduce, you know The She Said Project Podcast. This is so cool and such an honor because you and I met via Zoom. We've never met in person and now through Zoom we're continuing our mission of sharing women story and recording our podcast this way. You are the first guest we've had on the podcast who actually appeared in our virtual show instead of our live showcase. So, it's an honor to have you. Thank you for sharing your time with us today.
LISA: Oh, it's an honor to be asked and that it was a wonderful experience. I thank you so much.
JENETTE: So, perfect. Tell us, you know, what you thought about, 'Oh my goodness. I've been invited to speak in this story sharing showcase.' What… what did you think when you were first invited to join and be part of the show?
LISA: I was excited. I was honored. I mean, when I heard about what The She Said Project is about it was just… it just resonated so deeply with me and just, you know, the idea of connecting women—and people, in general too—through stories and, and life experiences and just, you know, it's always been my belief that we are all more connected than we are separate and so, you know, to do it through stories and to hear other women's stories as I was able to do as well was very powerful and I'm just so honored and grateful that I had this experience and to be a part of this—still! So, thank you.
JENETTE: Yay! Now you shared a story on the virtual show that was really deeply personal about a tragedy in your life. Can you give our audience just a little overview of the story you shared and why?
LISA: Yeah—so my story is I was married for 14 years to a man who, you know, like we all start out—that was my forever after, my best friend in life and life kind of took a toll on us and he battled with mental illness towards the end of our marriage and five years ago he lost his battle and committed suicide. So my story showcase was about kind of the events leading up to that tragic day and sort of my healing journey since then. You know, we have two children together and having to parent, you know, single parent and really help my children as well get through all of that has been… has been a big part of all of our journeys and so I just wanted to share that because, you know, after it happened to me, I just felt so alone that I don't know of any other people that had gone through anything similar, but once I started looking around Facebook groups, all of that, like it really is more common, unfortunately, then we believe and so I really— I mean I still continue to want to share my story so that if there are other people like me who feel so alone through this process or are still in it may be trying to figure their way through that at least hopefully they don't feel isolated. Alone. Hopeless.
JENETTE: Yeah. Every time you remind me about what happened to you I feel a little pain in my chest like a little (inhaling) gasp. And I know that there's other women out there who need to hear what you have to say. Your story was so unique because of the way you wrote it: it was a letter to yourself.
LISA: Yes.
JENETTE: Yourself—before the tragedy—trying to talk you through it. So let's just go ahead right to the audio now and listen to your story and share it with our audience then we'll come back. This is Lisa Kumagai from the first ever She Said Story Sharing Showcase virtual show in August 2020 with her story, "You Are Allowed To Be Here."
LISA: Recently someone reminded me, 'you are allowed to be here.'
Those words sucker- punched me right in the chest. 'You are allowed to be here.'
For a few seconds I couldn't breathe, like I got the wind knocked out of me. And when I found air again, the tears just gushed out simultaneously with quivering exhale.
"You survived and you're still here."
Oh my gosh, the guilt. The conflicted emotions about still being here. I didn't even know I was harboring it all until she said it. You know, I've done the healing work. I've addressed what happened. I've talked about it over and over and feel like I processed every stage of feelings I possibly could.
It's been 5 years since my husband committed suicide. And until that one phrase was spoken, I had no idea that I felt guilty for being alive. I look back at this event that split my life in two. Who I was before and who I'm trying so hard to be after. How do I cope with knowing that I'm still alive and he isn't? So I did what felt natural to me and I started writing. I wrote a letter—to me. Before being a widow and a single mom. Before living in a new place, building a business, establishing a new normal. Before I had to figure out how to fall in love again. And before I felt guilty for being alive.
"I promise I see you. I see you in those weeks leading up to that tragic event. The one you sensed was possible, but couldn't quite pinpoint. Would violence be turned on you, the kids, him, all of the above? I remember your fears. I recall that frantic desperation as you tried to file a restraining order and the hopelessness because it wouldn't stop his cryptic verbal threats of, "Don't worry. You'll get your happy ending."
"I understand the rage and numbing loneliness knowing your marriage was crumbling and this imbalanced, unrecognizable person was yelling at you that it was all your fault. I want to run and catch you that fateful morning in December as you crumble to the sidewalk after handing the police officer the keys to your house. So they can go in and see if Steve followed through on his threat.
"I will never forget your piercing scream when the officer comes back out and said, "I'm sorry ma'am. It's too late."
"You wonder if you'll ever be you again. I get it. You wonder if you can come back from the paralyzing shock—the thick life fog that will follow you around for over a year. I regret those few weeks in June when you consider following in Steve's footprints—toying with the idea that maybe he had the right idea after all. Yes, it'll be terrifying. You won't recognize yourself in the dark places that your mind will take you, but I urge you to keep listening to that faint Voice of Truth and Reasoning that's desperately screaming, "Your kids need you! They don't deserve another dead parent and they don't deserve any of this."
"And please stay close to those core girlfriends who will fight for your resilience and threaten to camp outside your door every single night. Remember to love and appreciate those friends who will take time off of work to drive you to all your appointments to figure out will Prozac or herbs pull you out of your deep well of loss. And those friends and family who will laugh with you, but also take you seriously when you decide 'nah, I'd rather up my therapy sessions, work with the trauma specialist, meditate and yoga my way through this grief.
SPOILER ALERT for you: Those will actually work.
"I feel you. I get it. 14 years of marriage to a man who was once your best friend, before life and stress and God knows what internal imbalances hijacked that person you had vouched forever with, far away and long ago. And I applaud you for committing to those four months of weekly family therapy sessions that will prove necessary and beneficial for the kids. At 8 and 11 years old they'll grumble, of course, and learn at an early age that talking about feelings and memories and death is so hard. It hurts. I'm hugging you as you remain neutral in the challenge of hearing their adoring stories of their oppa—their dad. As you sit there reeling with anger at what he ultimately did to them: abandon them.
I'm so proud of you for handling it with grace though, because you do. Because they deserve to preserve those memories of their father—the one who loved him with all his heart and strived to create a loving, kind and fun-filled environment for them. And girl, I hold you up during the worst moments: the funeral. One of the most surreal days of your life. And that call with the organ harvest center on the day he died and you had to approve each and every body part and organ they had to check off the itemized list. Just know that you'll get through it. Know that unbeknownst to you, you are equipped from a lifetime of growth to handle this. Know that healing will come with time but most importantly with awareness. And gratitude. Yes, gratitude. For all the shit that happened and all the blessings that were always right there. It's hard to see that right now because you've stuffed down a lot of painful emotion for longer than you like to admit. You've given the finger to the gratitude and love you once knew cuz you're so hateful of him your life and the situation. This isn't the happily-ever-after you envisioned and the hardest part is having to accept there won't be—not in the way that you pictured it to be.
sdI'm here on the other side now writing this to ask you to please have faith. Believe in a happily-ever-after—just not this one. Hold onto hope and patience. To see it through to the peace, understanding and compassion on the other side. It's not perfect where I'm standing but it is brighter and better than where you are now. There's breathing space. There's growth. Sun is shining. People love you. You will relearn healthier love and what that feels like for you. Trust me: it's going to feel foreign at first, it's going to be hard. Friends make it easy and certain guys will retrigger all that shit, but we can laugh about it, you and I, on our journey together. The one that keeps going and evolving. So, please, don't give up. It's liberating to believe: you are allowed to be here! To have hope for a future without Steve it and to possibly find love again. Because of everything you are able to endure, I am allowed to live my life. In joy and uncertainty.
How empowering to know I am allowed to be here after everything that happened. So thank you. Because of you I am here. I am seen. I am safe. And everything will be okay.
I love you. You got this.
With all my heart, Lisa
JENETTE: Wow, Lisa—listening to that one more time takes me right back the personal show and that intimate, intimate moment in your life that you shared with our audience. First and foremost, thank you. What were some of the reactions that you got to, to being that vocal about your story?
LISA: You know, I had actually shared parts of my story ever since things had happened in different platforms and, you know, my closest friends knew most of all obviously what had happened, but for other friends who listened in on the Showcase to kind of hear my story more in its entirety they were really taken aback, but they were also very supportive and shocked. It was it was definitely a healing for me too—another level of healing to be able to have the space to, to express even deeper in more detail the things that had happened. I had written that letter maybe a couple years after it happened and then to have this place to be able to share it vocally and just you know from the heart and it just took it to a whole other level of just really feeling those words and living those words and sharing those words.
So it was, it was very powerful all around.
KERRY: How about your family? Were they supportive? Were they worried about the reaction or worried about how that would be for you?
LISA: No, they were very supportive. I mean my children don't know all of that, still. My son does, actually—he listened to it afterwards, and he was also shocked—he was like, 'Wow, Mom. I didn't know that some of those things had happened.' So that, that also together with him, it was a healing experience that we kind of talked through some things and he had questions and, you know, very open, so we talked about it. My daughter. She's 13. She still doesn't know all of it, and not quite ready to go there with her yet. So yeah, so she knew I did this Showcase, but she doesn't really know the details of it.
KERRY: So when I've watched it, and because I didn't know you beforehand, and then I subsequently, um, 'social media stalked' you—now following your story on social media and seeing this joyful life that you live, and I have a soft spot for sisters and families and, and seeing how joyful you are with your immediate family and your extended family—and I think every time I see you, it's sort of a testament to these tragic things that happened and then you still are able to live this joyful life and every time I see it I get sort of a, like 'YAY!'—like 'yay, you!'—it's still hard and you've still been through these really difficult things but you're carving out this joyful space in your corner of the world.
LISA: Yes. Thank you. I appreciate that. I'm trying. (laughter) I'm doing the best I can. (laughing)
JENETTE: Your joy is tangible. It's palpable. And my favorite moment was when you're reading this letter to your former self and you just take a moment to thank yourself—to show gratitude, because of everything that she—you—went through, that you are allowed to be here and have these experiences. And to keep finding joy in your life. I think that is such a huge lesson for anyone going through something so traumatic—that there is light on the other side and you are living proof of that. So I, I love the way you carved out your story as a, as an intimate portrait of, you know, a woman going through something but then we got to see it! We got to see it what happens on the other side and we got to celebrate with you. So thank you and I know that there's other women who need to know, who need to know. We're all in this together.
KERRY: Right. Right.
LISA: And ultimately, too, I think the letter to me signifies that it doesn't matter what anyone else tells you—how well you're doing or you know, 'you got this'—like you really, the only person that you're going to have to believe is yourself. And so it's just so important to have that connection and hopefully openness to to hear yourself, I guess. And I still struggle with it for sure. There's no way I'm I've mastered that in any way shape or form, but, but that's something I strive for, so… (laughter)
JENETTE: Well I'm honored that your performance and then she said showcase became a tool that you can use to open up some doors and some conversations with your son and your family—that means so much because we strive to create that environment where women can be a little bit braver and a little bit more vulnerable than they would be normally and create that that support.
What did you think about the women who were in the Showcase with you? Like what a what a great group of ladies? They were all so supportive.
LISA: They were all amazing. I… all of their stories were so powerful, it resonated with me and just—even though I never got to meet them in person yet, but just being on Zoom together. It was just this great energy and just proof that as long as you're somehow connected and you know, whether virtual or whatever, you feel it and it feels good and they were all warrior women. Loved it!.
JENETTE: (Exclaims) Woooo! I think we need that. We all need warriors in our lives. Right, Kerry?
KERRY: Absolutely. Absolutely. And I'm so, so happy that I got to virtually meet you and follow your story and I get to see these little glimpses into your life when I stalk you—sorry. I meant to say when I research you. Thank you, thank you so much for sharing and continuing to share, the whole story.
LISA: Yeah, and thank you both for having this amazing platform, this amazing organization. It's so inspiring. So anytime I can be a part of it. I would be so happy—but thank you.
JENETTE: We can certainly talk about how to make that happen. But, I feel like you're not done. I feel like there's more stories to tell and there's more sharing and more lives for you to touch. So thank you for touching ours. Thank you for being part of the She Said family. You are a sister forever!. We love you, Lisa Kumagai! All the way in Torrance.
LISA: Oh, love you, too! (laughing, kisses)
JENETTE: So that's all the time we have for today. I cannot thank our friends and fans enough for joining us on The She Said Project Podcast where we strive to raise women's voices one story at a time.
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In her story, "You Are Allowed to Be Here," Lisa Kumagai from Torrance, CA shares the heart-wrenching story of her husband's suicide and her own journey of healing and forgiveness. From our very first virtual She Said Story Sharing Showcase, she read a letter she wrote to her old self from "before", and we learn how she has coped with her tragedy to become a stronger version of herself.
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RANGOON, Burma — For Buddhists in Burma, even a quick scroll through Facebook's news feed provides fuel for hatred and nationalistic fervor.
An endless stream of provocative photos and cartoons claim that there is no "ethnic cleansing" against Burma's Muslim Rohingya minority. Instead, according to the posts, international news and human rights organizations are falsely accusing the military of carrying out atrocities against the Rohingya to help terrorists infiltrate the country, kill Buddhists and carve out a separatist Islamic province.
Burma was long closed off by a military regime, with centuries-old tensions between its Buddhist and Muslim communities leashed by strict control over traditional media.As the country transitions into democracy, those constraints have loosened and access to the Internet has expanded rapidly, most notably through a Facebook program called Free Basics that has catapulted the platform into prominence as a major source of news in Burma.
But the sudden proliferation of recently available technologies has accelerated the spread of ethnic hatred in Burma, stoking tensions amid a violent military crackdown that has sent more than 600,000 Rohingya fleeing across the border into Bangladesh.
Information-age Burma is defined by Facebook: More people have access to Facebook than have regular electricity in their homes. A recent study found that 38 percent of Facebook users in Burma got most, if not all, of their news on the site. And news feeds in Burma are rife with anti-Rohingya posts, shared not only by ordinary people but also by senior military officers and the spokesman for Burma's de facto leader, Aung Sang Suu Kyi.
"Burma is experiencing an ugly renaissance of genocidal propaganda," said Matthew Smith, the co-founder of Fortify Rights, a human rights organization working in Southeast Asia. "And it spreads like wildfire on Facebook."
Ruchika Budhraja, a spokeswoman for Facebook, said the company has been ramping up its efforts in Burma to curtail hate speech and has had a Burmese-language team in place to monitor posts "for several years." Facebook relies on users to flag content that might violate the site's complicated "community standards." Misinformation does not qualify for removal on its own but can be removed if it is particularly obscene or contains threats.
The most well-known purveyor of anti-Rohingya social media posts is Ashin Wirathu, an enormously influential hard-line monk who turned to Facebook after he was banned from public preaching for a year by the government. Wirathu likened Muslims to mad dogs and posted pictures of dead bodies he claimed were Buddhists killed by Muslims, while never acknowledging brutality faced by the Rohingya.
Facebook said in a statement that Wirathu's access to his account had been restricted in the past, and that some content had been removed, but would not say whether the company regularly monitors it for hate speech.
Other Buddhist nationalist monks also use Facebook as a recruiting tool.
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Seikta knows well that Facebook isn't just a place to share ideas but to mobilize followers, too. In April, he advertised a rally he was organizing outside the U.S. Embassy in Rangoon against the State Department's use of the term "Rohingya" and subsequently called for volunteers to intimidate Muslim shopkeepers who work near the golden-domed Shwedagon Pagoda.
Facebook said that Seikta's account was being evaluated based on information provided by The Washington Post.
Seikta said the Rohingya exodus to Bangladesh since violence broke out in late August made him happy. The Burmese military engaged in what it called "clearance operations" in Rohingya villages and said it targeted only Rohingya militants accused of attacking outposts of the security forces, killing officers and stealing weapons.
"Bengali people are the most dangerous people in the world," the monk said. "It is natural for them to go to their home place. If they come back, there will be more violence."
In Burma, which is also known as Myanmar, the term "Bengali" takes on pejorative connotations when used to identify the Rohingya. Much of the propaganda that spreads online reinforces the falsehood that the Rohingya are immigrants from Bangladesh, despite the group having historical ties to what is now Burma since before the British colonial era. And the first to perpetuate the use of "Bengali" and other falsehoods on Facebook are often government or military accounts.
A recent Facebook post on the page of the office of the Burmese military's commander in chief — which has more than 2 million followers — detailed the results of an internal investigation that exonerated the military of any persecution of the Rohingya and used the term "Bengali terrorist" 41 times.
An allegation that some Rohingya burned their own villages and then blamed it on Burmese security forces is also common. Zaw Htay, a spokesman for Suu Kyi, used his Facebook page to share the claim, along with images since proven to have been doctored. They remain on his page.
The deployment of Facebook by Suu Kyi's government "smacks of immaturity of governance," said David Mathieson, an independent Burma analyst formerly with Human Rights Watch. "The military has embraced this as well. The commander in chief [of the armed forces] is a slave to social media."
Facebook's reliance on users to flag questionable content means people like Maung Maung Lwin, 29, a waiter at a trendy coffee shop, are left mostly to their own wits to distinguish fact from fake.
Lwin works and lives in Sittwe, the capital of Burma's Rakhine state, home to most Rohingya before these months of upheaval. He flicked the screen of his Redmi Note 3, an inexpensive Indian-made cellphone, to show the news of the Rohingya crisis on his Facebook feed.
His friend had posted an anti-Rohingya cartoon that shows the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the United Nations pushing a Trojan horse full of Rohingya militants into Burma. Farther down, dated photos of dead Burmese soldiers are attached to another post. Lwin dismissed the first cartoon as "too political" and the second as obvious fake news.
Lwin said he could usually tell the difference between real and fake news. But for most, that kind of discernment comes only with experience, and Burma is just entering the digital era.
The Internet's power seems to have disturbed Burma's elected government, too — though not out of any apparent concern for the Rohingya. On Nov. 8, Burma's parliament approved a law that allows the government "to oversee and monitor the misuse of information technology which may harm the character and morality of youths and disrupt tranquility."
In a post for Facebook's "Hard Questions" blog, a company vice president wrote of the problem of catching and removing hate speech in Burma.
"We've had trouble enforcing this policy correctly recently, mainly due to the challenges of understanding the context; after further examination, we've been able to get it right," he wrote. "But we expect this to be a long-term challenge."


We got home pretty late tonight, so I had to make a quick dinner. I threw a couple of sirloin steaks in a skillet with a bit of olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic, and topped with a tiny bit of ghee. The result was so good that me daughter asked for seconds.
The salad on my plate contains some of the veggies from my Washington's Green Grocer order, and took only a few minutes to make. Unfortunately it doesn't freeze well, so I'm going to have to take it to the office to share with everyone there.
Chop and mix! It's that simple.


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