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Maine kids aged 5-11 getting vaccines mostly at in-school clinics
Officials hope to get as many kids partially vaccinated before Thanksgiving as possible.
Updated: 6:51 PM EST Nov 9, 2021
Kerry Brookes
PERCENT OF MAINERS HAVE RECEIVED THEIR FINAL COVID VACCINE DOSE. MAINE IS ROLLING OUT THE NEW CORONAVIRUS VACCINE FOR KIDS, WITH CLINI CS DESIGNED FOR CHILDREN 11- YEARS-OLD AND UNDER...MOSTLY AT SCHOOLS. WMTW NEWS-S 8'PHIL HIRSCHKORN IS áLIVEá IN BRUNSWICK OUTSIDE A VACCINE CLINIC CATERING TO THOSE NEWLY ELIGIBLE KIDS. MAINE CDC'S INITIAL ALLOCATION OF PFER'S IZ APPROVED CORONAVIRUS VACCINE FOR KIDS IS 34,000 DOSES. THERE ARE 96,000 5- TO-11-YEAR-OLDS IN MAINE...4- THOUSAND IN THE BRUNSWICK-BATH- TOPSHAM AREA...WELCOMED HERE FOR VACCINES. (VO 1: ARRIVALS) THERE WAS STEADY FOOT TRAFFIC TODAY AT THIS SPECIAL REGIONAL CLIC NI HOSTED AT THE COFFIN SCHOOL IN BRUNSWICK...T HE MAXIMUM 240 KIDS COMING,Y B APPOINTMENT, FOR THEIR FIRST SHOTS. DAYWO T OF TEN SESSIONS SCHEDULED ROTHUGH NEXT WEDNESDAY. (SOT MELISSA FOCHESATO, MIDCOAST HOSPITAL, 18:02:02) "WE'VE HAD TEARS OF JO Y. I'VE BEEN CRYING FOR TWO DAYS STRAIGHT." (VO 2: TWO SHOT) MELISSA FOCHESATO ("FO- KUH-SAT-TOE") IS COORDINATING THE CLINIC RUN BY MAINE HEALTH'S MIDCOAST HOSPITAL. (SOT MELISSA FOCHESATO, MIDCOAST HOSPITAL, 18:02:15) "WHEN I THINK OF THE KIDS THAT ARE QUARANTINED AND HOME, AND I JUST WANT NORMALCY FOR THESE DDKIOS." (VO 3: THREE SHOT) ERIN MANGALAM ("MUHN-GOL-LUM") SAID SHE WAS RELIEVED TO BRING HE YOUNTGEST OF HER THREE KIDS, 10- YEAR-OLD, VIVIAN. (SOT ERIN MANGALAM, MOTHER, 18:05:00) "SO, IT'S THE BEGINNING OF AN EXHALE, I THINK, TO GET HER FIRST DOSE ." (18:05:23) "WE HAVEN'T GONE INSIDE ANY RESTAURANTS SINCE MARCH 2020." (SOT VIVIAN MANGALAM, 18:03:55) (PH OFF CAM) "NO FEA" R? (VM) "UM, A LITTLE BIT." (SOT VIVIAN MANGALAM, 18:04:09) "I'LL BE PROTECTING OTHER PEOPLE AND MYSELF." (VO 4: CLINIC SHOTS LAST WEEK FALMOUTH) MAINE HEALTH AND NORTHERN LIGHT, THE STATE'S TWO LEADING HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS, ARE ADMINISTERING THESE VACCINES FIRST IN ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE HOSCOL CLINICS. MOST START NEXT WEEK. THIS WEEK TO CONFIRM SUPPLY, INFORM PARENTS EROV ZOOM TOWN HALLS, AND COLLECT CONSENT FORMS. (SOT DR. DORA ANNE MILLS, CHIEF HEALTH IMPROVEEMENT OFFICER, MAINEHEALTH, 1:05) "THE REASON WHY WE OFFER VACCINE IN THE SCHOOLS IS BECAUSE IT IS THE QUICKEST WAY TO GET VACCINE TO AS MANY CHILDREN AS POSSIBLE." (VO 5: MERCY HOSPITAL) MAINEHEALTH IS SCHEDULED AT 125 SCHOOLS; NORTHERNLIGHT AT MORE THAN 100 IN SOUTHERN MAINE. (SOT DR. JAMES JARVIS, INCIDENT CMAND, OM NORTHERN LIGHT HEALTH, 5:56) "THIS IS JUST ANOTHER Y WA THAT WE CAN KEEP MORE KIDS IN SCHOOL. THE MORE THAT ARE VACCINATED, THE LESS VIR US THAT'S OUT THERE, THE LESS LIKELY THAT SCHOOLS WILL NEED TO QUARANTINE STUDENTS OR EVEN SHUT DOWN." THE GOAL IS TOET G AS MANY KIDS PARTIALLY PROTECTED WITH ONE SHOT BEFORE THANKSGIVING AND F
Maine is rolling out the new coronavirus vaccine for kids, with clinics designed for children ages 5 to 11, mostly at schools. The Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said its first allocation of Pfizer's Food and Drug Administration- and CDC-approved vaccine for children is 34,000 doses. That's as 96,000 Maine children ages 5 to 11 are now eligible for the vaccine.There was steady foot traffic Tuesday at a regional clinic set up at the Coffin School in Brunswick. A maximum of 240 students arrived for appointments to get the first of two shots. More sessions, all run by MainHealth's Midcoast Hospital, are scheduled through Wednesday, Nov. 17. Ten-year-old Vivian Mangalam was among those who had their appointment today. Vivian admitted that she was a little scared to get the shot, but says she's getting the vaccine to protect herself and those around her. Vivian's mother Erin says Vivian is the youngest of her three children to get vaccinated. "It's the beginning of an exhale, I think, to get her first dose," she said. "We haven't gone inside any restaurants since March 2020."MaineHealth and Northern Light Health, the state's leading health care providers, are administering the vaccines first in Elementary and Middle School clinics, with most starting in the third week of November to allow officials to confirm supply and collect consent forms from parents. "The reason why we offer vaccine in the schools is because it is the quickest way to get vaccine to as many children as possible," said Dr. Dora Anne Mills of MaineHealth. Northern Light Health's Dr. James Jarvis notes that the clinics are another way to keep kids in school. "The more that are vaccinated, the less virus is out there, the less likely that schools will need to quarantine students or even shut down," Jarvis said.Maine's health officials are trying to get as many children at least partially protected with one dose before Thanksgiving, and get everyone fully vaccinated by the December holiday break.
BRUNSWICK, Maine —
Maine is rolling out the new coronavirus vaccine for kids, with clinics designed for children ages 5 to 11, mostly at schools.
The Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said its first allocation of Pfizer's
Food and Drug Administration- and CDC-approved vaccine for children is 34,000 doses. That's as 96,000 Maine children ages 5 to 11 are now eligible for the vaccine.
There was steady foot traffic Tuesday at a regional clinic set up at the Coffin School in Brunswick. A maximum of 240 students arrived for appointments to get the first of two shots. More sessions, all run by MainHealth's Midcoast Hospital, are scheduled through Wednesday, Nov. 17.
Ten-year-old Vivian Mangalam was among those who had their appointment today. Vivian admitted that she was a little scared to get the shot, but says she's getting the vaccine to protect herself and those around her.
Vivian's mother Erin says Vivian is the youngest of her three children to get vaccinated.
"It's the beginning of an exhale, I think, to get her first dose," she said. "We haven't gone inside any restaurants since March 2020."
MaineHealth and Northern Light Health, the state's leading health care providers, are administering the vaccines first in Elementary and Middle School clinics, with most starting in the third week of November to allow officials to confirm supply and collect consent forms from parents.
"The reason why we offer vaccine in the schools is because it is the quickest way to get vaccine to as many children as possible," said Dr. Dora Anne Mills of MaineHealth.
Northern Light Health's Dr. James Jarvis notes that the clinics are another way to keep kids in school.
"The more that are vaccinated, the less virus is out there, the less likely that schools will need to quarantine students or even shut down," Jarvis said.
Maine's health officials are trying to get as many children at least partially protected with one dose before Thanksgiving, and get everyone fully vaccinated by the December holiday break.


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MILLERS POINT
Saving Sirius
Options to Save Sirius
Sydney, 22 December 2015
According to the SOS – Save Our Sirius Foundation, there are many middle-ground options which may be explored so the Sirius Apartments in The Rocks are retained and all stakeholders including the State Government can achieve a win.
The Foundation is chaired by Shaun Carter, NSW President of the Australian Institute of Architects, whose glimpses of Sirius's unique stacking cubic components whilst crossing the Harbour Bridge at a young age originally inspired him to study architecture.
Mr Carter commented, "Rather than just sell the building, flatten it and build a luxury apartment tower, the State Government has an incredible opportunity to explore a middle-ground solution."
"This solution could allow the uplift of an adjacent site, capturing some value from the development of market housing to restore Sirius and add to its sinking fund for ongoing maintenance. Sirius could help increase the State Government's allocation of Key Worker accommodation whilst preserving some social housing on the site," he said.
According to Mr Carter, to preserve a significant piece of our architectural heritage whilst also adding the social benefit of affordable and social housing is a great opportunity to open the conversation around the meaning of value of development.
"That good development needs to provide a benefit to not only the inhabitants of the building, but also the society the building will serve. A value-led development has four bottom lines rather than just one; these being Financial, Social, Environmental and Cultural. This should be a minimum standard of development as we re-think and reshape our city, keeping some of the value of the uplift to make a better street, suburb, community or city," he said.
Sirius was originally built to house those social housing families and older people who were displaced during the controversial redevelopment of The Rocks during the 1960s and 1970s. Its construction allowed for the lifting of the Green Bans, which had halted work in The Rocks.
Sirius has a long and strong association with past and present residents of the Millers Point and The Rocks community, including descendants of maritime workers. It is seen by many as a monument to social struggle and the public voice.
Why demolish such an icon? Shouldn't we be looking at keeping buildings that really matter?
Rather than sell to a developer, the State Government could ask for submissions from consortia that would be a collaboration between the building and development industry, financiers, community housing providers, NGOs, and a range of other community support organisations.
One option is for a future owner to retain the building as social and affordable housing, operated by a community or not-for-profit housing provider. With development opportunities nearby, a new apartment building development would create profit for the Government and allow funds to be put into upgrading the Sirius building and its ongoing maintenance.
These ideas are in line with Minister for Social Housing Brad Hazzard's recently launched Communities Plus, which is a new generation of world-class social, affordable and private housing in New South Wales. The integrated housing developments will be delivered in partnership with the private, non-government and community housing sectors.
An additional opportunity is similar to the City of Sydney's transferrable heritage floorspace scheme, which has been in place for over twenty years and allows the retention of heritage buildings whilst transferring development rights to other sites in the city.
The NSW Government has made more than $116 million since it began selling off its public housing in August 2014. To date 47 government owned houses have been sold in Millers Point, with no commitment from the State Government to build new social housing inside the Local Government Area with the funds gained through the Millers Point sell off. All new reported housing is located in the suburbs of Sydney.
Myra Demetriou, an 89-year-old tenth-floor resident of Sirius said, "I can no longer negotiate steps and that's why I moved to Sirius. I have been very happy here."
Another Sirius resident, Cherie Johnson lamented, "You should see the inside of Sirius. It really is beautiful. It kills me to think it could be torn down."
Shaun Carter – Chairman
SOS – Save Our Sirius Foundation

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Written/Unwritten is out!…..STILL!!
I mean it is out and about where people can just walk into places and events and buy it
I had this cute idea that I would write a monthly update about how things are going with Written/Unwritten—as if the rest of the world would stop just because this book is out in the world.
That's not the way it works. Papers must be graded, forms must be filled out, walking pneumonia must be had, and, it turns out, if I'm going to a conference I still actually have to get myself there, with something useful to say.
But it's all the good kind of busy, and I'm thankful to be busy.
I wasn't sure what would happen when the book was published. I certainly had fantasies about what would happen (still waiting for the Brooklyn Public Library to add it to its shelves and for that one line from that one critic), but I didn't know what people would do it with. It also wasn't clear to me how people would read it after the election, or, to be honest, whether they would read it at all or not. I'm happy to report that they have read it. They are reading it! REALLY reading it! They're reading it on their own, in groups at colleges and corporations, and giving it to their deans and provosts. I heard a rumor that one dean bought copies for the 2017 incoming faculty at his college (BTW & FYI: for group discounts contact Dino Batista at UNC Press)
As I mentioned at the end of the first month, it was great to see The Chronicle of Higher Ed and Inside Higher Ed feature articles and reviews about it. Colin Dicky makes the case that in this particular political moment the narratives in Written/Unwritten or more necessary than ever in this interview we did for the Los Angeles Review of Books. Diverse Issues in Higher Ed's thoughtful review highlights an important, prescient point in the essay by Lisa Sánchez González: "Academic freedom has been and continues to be an endangered species in our post-9/11 era, which only compounds the risks that have always existed for the most vulnerable intellectuals in academe."
Monica Mercado hosted a live TwitterChat that left us both breathless. I paid her in books, but really her work for this could never be adequately compensated.
A wise friend has forbidden me from reading the reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, but if you look, you'll see that we have some stars, and I'm happy about that…thrilled. My dad and I went through the WorldCatalog together to see which libraries carry the book. You'd think I'd be happy to see how many libraries have it on their shelves, but I'm giving side-eye to the holdouts. #neversatisfied.
After Barnard hosted the book's first official event, I was asked to be this year's keynote speaker for Indiana State's annual recruitment webinar. I'm figuring this out as I go, but I've learned that the best talks and webinars are a result of a collaboration, and so I'm thankful to Josh Powers at Indiana State and my colleague Milton Fuentes at Montclair for brainstorming with me ahead of my talk. There's a lot packed in Written/Unwritten, so it's helpful in these talks to know what people find helpful.
Next up for Written/Unwritten is a June talk with the NEH's Next Gen Humanities PhD Consortium about doctoral education, diversity, and life outside/beyond the tenure-track, and in September I'll be at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, hosted by the Institute for the Arts and Humanities.
As for me:
I'm on to my next book (more about that soon). In June I'll be doing some work with the National Humanities Center and am on a panel talking Mary Shelley and Felicia Hemans at the British Women Writers Conference.
If all goes well, in July I'm planning to disappear with friends to work on the next books. Then in August, the week before my birthday (August 14th…and it's never too early to start shopping) I'll be one of the 2017 Fellows at the Digital Pedagogy Lab. I'm excited and nervous, but I'm also hopeful that my workshop will be a collaborative one with ideas and strategies and hope the participants can take with them.
These first months have been busy and more than a little dizzying, but the circle of people who care for me is strong and solid, showing up just when I need them. I'm so thankful to all of them, so grateful to have folks who celebrate with me, celebrate me, shake some sense into me when I need it, and travel with me as I go about this work.
More….when I next take a breath.
Filed under Diversity Reporting, Race and Tenure Op-Ed
Tagged as Digital Pedagogy Lab, diversity, higher education, Indiana State Univeristy, literature, Los Angeles Review of Books, National Endowment for the Humanities, writing
Written/Unwritten: The Contents
Responding to the Calling: The Spirituality of Mentorship and Community in Academia
Houston Baker, Jr with Ayanna Jackson-Fowler
Building a Canon, Creating Dialogue
Cheryl Wall with Rashida Harrison
Difference without Grievance: Asian Americans as the Almost Minority
Leslie Bow
In Search of Our Fathers' Workshops
Lisa Sánchez González
Tenure in the Contact Zone: Spanish is Our Language Too
Angie Chambram
'Colored' is the New Queer: Queer Faculty of Color in the Academy
Andreana Clay
Performative Testimony and the Practice of Dismissal
Jane Chin Davidson and Deepa S. Reddy
Talking Tenure: "Don't be safe. Because there is no safety there anyway"
Sarita See
Hierarchies
Still Eating in the Kitchen: The Marginalization of African American Faculty in Majority-White Academic Governance
Carmen V. Harris
Musings of a Lowly Adjunct
Activism(s)
Balancing the Passion for Activism with the Demands of Tenure: One Professional's Story from Three Perspectives
April L. Few-Demo, Fred P. Piercy, and Andrew J. Stremmel
"Cast your net wide": Reflections on Community Engagement When Black Lives Matter
Patricia A. Matthew
Talking Tenure Newsletter
Maria Coter, Paul Faber, Roxana Galusca, Anneeth Kaur Hundle, Rachel Quinn, Kirisitina Sailiata Jamie Small, Andrea Smith, Matthew Stiffler, and Lee Ann Wang
University of Southern California Analysis of Data on Tenure
Jane Junn
Making Labor Visible
Kim F. Hall
Filed under Gender, Race, Uncategorized
Tagged as Academic Hiring, diversity, race, race and higher education, Racism, Racism in Higher Education, tenue denial, women of color
From Theory to Praxis: Written/Unwritten at UC-Merced
All of my chatting and workshopping and tweeting and editing came together last week when I went to the University of California-Merced to talk about the anthology. At least that was the invitation—to talk about the book, and talk about it I did. I talked about how I came to add diversity work to an already fully and satisfying research agenda, I talked about why I wanted to pay attention to narrative instead of data, and I talked about each of the 12 essays in the book and shared moments from them that reflect the experiences of faculty of color around the country.
More than this, however, I listened and took notes…a lot of notes. There was just so much to take note of—listening to deans and faculty in dialogue with one another about the best ways to increase diversity in their candidate pools, listening to tenured faculty (most of whom were white) offer practical and applicable advice to their junior colleagues of color, listening to the way the staff, faculty, and deans work together to make the campus safe for all of their students.
As I was preparing my talk, I knew the thing I needed to make clear was that all the good thoughts and feelings about diversity are mostly useless without leadership and institutional willpower. I also wanted to offer small things that could be done without money and without too much time. Mostly I wanted to make as clear as possible to the faculty of color in attendance that the struggles they might be facing are happening elsewhere. The preface to Written/Unwritten is titled "It's not just us. This is happening everywhere," and my goal was to make clear what the "this" is that so many of us face.
My host was Tanya Golash-Boza, who you probably already know because of her work on immigration, Latin America, and human rights but who you should also know because she is working out how to build diversity into the fabric of her institution instead of just including it as an afterthought. Within minutes of meeting, our conversation was about the work of diversity:
How I'm wrestling with thinking about the difference between service and labor
The unintended consequences of trying to protect faculty of color from too much service
The importance of moving the conversation about diversity beyond microagressions and white privilege
The blind spots of diversity initiatives
It was exciting (and daunting because Tanya is NO JOKE) to wrestle with ideas that came to me as I was preparing for the visit. This was not a conversation with someone who has a vague sense that diversity is important and that microaggressions make things hard; rather, it was a dialogue with a colleague who is deeply engaged in the nitty-gritty work of diversity at an institutional level. That's a rare thing for me.
Over the course of my visit a few key things stayed with me that I'll be mulling over as I visit more campuses:
The challenges of "fit" when it comes to hiring
The importance of post-tenure support
The value of white academics who are willing to engage in this work
Listening and talking nonstop about diversity (even with my host at the irresistible Bear Creek Inn, or, as I shall call it going forward, Downton Abbey West), I'm more aware of the following than I was when I started this project:
Sometimes the hardest thing to know is the right question to ask and to whom to direct that question
It's not enough to know the problem (any problem) you have to have a plan
It's so important to have relationships with senior faculty of color outside of your institution
Duke's Summer Institute on Tenure and Professional Advancement should be replicated regionally
I've been invited to conduct workshops and give a talk or two, but I'm still relatively new to this part of being an academic. You hear horror stories of poorly planned trips and overbooked schedules, so I'm especially thankful for how easy Merced made my visit in every single way with easy travel, lovely lodging, and a schedule that was engaging but still left me time to reflect on what I was hearing. The deans I met—deans who took time out of overbooked schedules—were both gracious and wise and the faculty and students were incredibly open. I learned a great deal, and I'll be adding their perspective to my work going forward. If you ever get the chance to visit, do so. The energy there is great. Put more than two faculty members together in almost any setting and you'll hear talk about department politics, but here the talk was about research projects, community engagement, and teaching. I love that most about being an academic—the work, the teaching, and the service—and it was good to see that on full display for my entire visit.
For those who pay attention to such things, my introduction to Tanya was via twitter, and Tressie McMillan Cottom recommended me. I'm quickly losing track of the number of inquiries and invites I get that begin or end with "Tressie McMillan Cottom recommended you…" When I wanted to be her friend it was because I could see were both irritated by the same things and people, and I was hoping to have a short sociologist to chat with while watching "Scandal." We don't watch "Scandal" together anymore (apparently Cookie Monster holds more appeal than Fitz and Olivia), but I'm thankful for her generosity.
Hit me up if you want to see the power point (patricia.matthew@montclair.edu) but please be respectful of my work and my time.
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Tagged as Academic Hiring, diversity, feminism, higher education, race, race and higher education, women of color
Forthcoming!
In case you missed the news, the anthology is coming out Fall 2016 and it has a new and improved title:
Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure.
It works, right? Some of those hidden truths are depressing but other truths offer hope and promise.
We have a Facebook* page. I hope you'll join us over there for diversity news, ideas, and strategies.
*Many thanks to contributor Wilson Santos for our Facebook logo.
Tagged as diversity, race and higher education
Clicks and Cliques Part IV: The College Language Association Panel
"It is the nature of privilege to find ever deeper places to hide."
Elizabeth Spelman
I was in New Orleans last weekend to participate on a panel at the College Language Association's annual conference. It was magnificent in so many ways. I heard great papers and talks, met academic pioneers, sighed during Edwidge Danticat's keynote, and ate my weight in fried shrimp. I danced to someone named Trombone Black at a juke joint in the 7th Ward and wandered around the French Quarter in the rain. There were beignets.
CLA is not a conference I normally attend. You're more likely to find me at the British Women Writers Conference, the annual Narrative conference or, from time to time, NASSR. But when Janeen Price and Jenice Hudson, two doctoral candidates at Florida State University, asked me to participate on a panel about how women of color navigate the academy (Creolizing the Academic Space: A Roundtable), I said yes. I wanted the opportunity to put my posts and conversations about what I've come to think of as "Women's Studies Culture" into a more useful context and I wanted to talk about my ideas with a diverse group of women of color from different corners of the academy. We were charged with sharing our experiences as a way to offer perspectives and strategies for other women of color. I chose to focus on gender and diversity.
In my thinking about the challenges women of color face when working with white women in the academy, I've shifted away from talking about "white women" as a monolithic group and towards discussing Women's Studies Culture. Not only is this phrase a more precise description of the struggle, it points to a larger systemic problem—one that Jane Chin Davidson and Deepa S. Reddy discuss in their essay "Performative Testimony and the Practice of Dismissal" in Written/Unwritten. It allows for the fact that this struggle goes at least as far back as the eighteenth century when white women like Mary Wollstonecraft appropriated the abolitionist movement to forward their own causes. My brief comments focused on the larger cultural shifts outside the academy that trouble the waters within it. I titled my contribution to the panel "The Minefield(s) of Sisterhood: Women's Studies Culture and Diversity in the Academy" and framed my thoughts with a question from Audre Lorde and an exhortation from bell hooks.
Lorde's question is one I've been carrying around with me for the last year or so. She posed it to the attendees of the 1981 National Women's Association Conference in a talk titled "On the Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism." After recounting the various ways that white women place themselves and their feelings at the center of conversations about racism, she asks her sisters at the NWSA:
What woman here is so enamoured of her own oppression that she cannot see her heelprint upon another woman's face? What woman's terms of oppression have become precious and necessary to her as a ticket into the fold of the righteous, away from the cold winds of self-scrutiny?
I offered my advice, my exhortation from bell hooks in her essay, "Choosing the Margins as a Space of Radical Openness"–an idea I've written about here and am exploring more fully in an essay for PMLA:
Marginality [is] much more than a site of deprivation; in fact…it is also the site of radical possibility, a space of resistance. It was this marginality that I was naming as a central location for the production of counter-hegemonic discourse that is not just found in words but in habits of being and the way one lives. As such, I was not speaking of marginality one wishes to lose—to give up or surrender as part of moving into the center—but rather of a site one stays in, clings to even, because it nourishes one's capacity to resist. It offers to one the possibility of radical perspective from which to see and create, to imagine alternatives, new worlds.
Between Lorde and hooks, I laid out four shifts we need to think about in order to understand what is happening at what feels like a a particularly tense time for women of color and Women's Studies Culture in the academy:
Cultural: We have moved away from the Age of Oprah when the most popular black woman in America built an empire around telling middle-class and upper middle-class white women how to "live their best lives" (without really challenging them to question at whose expense those lives are lived) to a time when the most visible black woman in America challenges racial stereotypes every time she walks in a room. Whereas Oprah—attached to a man but not married and with no children of her own, with her history of sexual assault, and her public weight battle—could inspire white women without challenging their notions of white femininity, Michelle Obama has made the kinds of decisions, primarily to put her family before what many see as a traditional professional career, that make white feminists nervous or angry.
Economic: The fact that white women have benefited more from Affirmative Action than any other group means that despite broader social inequities, they have more power, particularly in the academy, than they have ever had before and the Anne-Marie Slaughter model of trickle-down feminism (what is good for those at the top will eventually be good for those at the bottom) can make it difficult for many to understand their own privilege.
Institutional: Women's Studies, or Gender and Women's Studies, is closer to the center of the academy than it has ever been before, and the closer it gets to the center the more aggressively it subscribes to the same hierarchies that it once challenged, and it does so under the veil of social justice. On this point, I was (and remain) curious to know if the increase of Ethnic Studies departments has meant more and more women of color opting out of Women's Studies Culture and building their own academic profiles, careers, and, most importantly, agency, largely without white women.
Social—Women of color have more outlets and opportunities than they have ever had before both to express their frustrations and their anger AND, most importantly, to build solidarity. I think that what was once seen as peer-to-peer dynamics has now been revealed to be part of a larger pattern and the narrative of the "angry black woman" who bullies white woman with her aggressive tone is being regularly challenged and the challenge is happening in public spaces.
If you haven't attended CLA, you might not know that it was founded 77 years ago when the MLA excluded black faculty (in practice if not in policy) from its membership. This is one of the reasons why it's a conference that matches the kind of papers, talks, and discussions we seek at these kinds of gatherings with an air of celebration. It is a conference that turned marginalization into a radical and creative act. Our panel include: Karla Holloway (Duke University), Judy Jackson (University of Kentucky), Theri A. Pickens (Bates College), Rhea Lathan (Florida State University). The room was pretty full. Every speaker, from the untenured assistant professors to the mid-career faculty to senior colleagues, shared experiences that resonated with others on the panel and those who spoke during the Q&A. Well, it wasn't actually a Q&A session. It was something else entirely. As the panel participants shared their thoughts, people moved beyond the academic knowing nod (you know what I'm talking) to actual exclamations and sighs. This spilled over into the Q&A in ways that surprised me and gave me concrete reminders about how important it is to articulate these challenges within institutionalized academic spaces.
I think that if you were to walk up to anyone in that room and asked them if racism and sexism was shaping how they moved through the academy, they would say yes and then inform you that water is still wet. But it's one thing to know a truth, to know that microaggression and systemic discrimination are real, and it's another thing to have your individual experience affirmed. I think it was that specific kind of affirmation that made this more than an academic, theoretical discussion. After the panel ended, some people came up to ask the panelists for advice. Most just wanted to hug us and tell us their stories. There are so many, too many.
I wanted to give folks a bibliography they could take back to their home institutions, either to read on their own or to read with whatever trusted colleagues they can find. Here it is:
Gender, Race, and Feminism
A Short Bibliography
Accapadi, Motwani Mamta. "When White Women Cry: How White Women's Tears Oppress Women of Color." The College Student Affairs Journal. 2007 (26:2): 208-215.
Daniels, Jessie."The Trouble with White Women."
hooks, bell. "Choosing the Margins as a Space of Radical Openness" in Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics. South End Press (1990).
Lorde, Audre. "The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism" Keynote: National Women's Studies Association (1981).
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity. Duke University Press (2003).
Ortega, Marina. "Being Lovingly, Knowingly Ignorant: White Feminism and Women of Color." Hypatia 21:3 (Summer 2006): 56-74.
Palmer, Phyllis. Marynick. "White Women/Black Women: The Dualism of Female Identity and Experience in the United States." Feminist Studies 9:1(Spring, 1983): 151-170.
Sandoval, Chela. "U.S. Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World." Genders: Journal of Social Theory, Representation, Race, Gender, Sex (1991): 1-24.*
Spelman, Elizabeth. Inessential Woman: Problems of Exclusion in Feminist Thought. Beacon Press (1988).
Williams, Patricia. The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of a Mad Law Professor. Harvard University Press (1991).
*I'm grateful to Annick T.R Wibben for pointing me to this essay.
Filed under Gender, Politics, Race, Resources
Tagged as College Langauge Association, diversity, feminism, gender, women's studies
Teaching While Black (Part III)
If you don't follow me on twitter you might not know that a third installment in my accidental series Teaching While Black is over at The New Inquiry
The folks over at Guernica, included it in ENDNOTES with a couple of other essays and articles, including a sharp, gorgeous essay in The New Yorker "Why is Academic Writing so Academic"?
Tagged as diversity, race, race and higher education, teaching
On "Merit," Processes, and Faculty Governance
The Iron Law of Meritocracy states that eventually the inequality produced by a meritocratic system will grow large enough to subvert the mechanism of mobility. Unequal outcomes make equal opportunity impossible. The Principle of Difference will come to overwhelm the Principle of Mobility. Those who are able to climb up the ladder will find ways to pull it up after them, or to selectively lower it down to allow their friends, allies, and kin to scramble up. In other words: "Whoever says meritocracy says oligarchy"—from Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy (Chris Hayes)
My favorite non-fiction book of 2012 was Twilight of the Elites. I liked it enough to brave the crowds at the Brooklyn Book Festival to see Hayes talk about it with a few other people. When I read Hard Times with my students, I urged/begged/challenged them to spend time thinking about the second chapter ("Meritocracy and its Discontents"). Just my summary of the chapter got them all worked up. Its arguments come to mind on a fairly regular basis (it's too soon to know yet, but it might eventually rival The Alchemy of Race and Rights in the space it occupies in my brain), so when I tweeted this last week:
and then this
I had it in mind. And I had it in mind when I read"The Tenure Code" a post about a tenure case that fell apart because the word "solid" was used by an external reviewer to describe the candidate's scholarship. Written by the ultimate insider, a 20-year veteran of an elite private school, the post both discusses and exemplifies the problems with twenty-first century notions of merit and shows just how absurd and arbitrary the tenure process, steeped as it is in the hocus pocus of meritocratic fantasy, can be. Ilan Stavans uses this tenure case to point out what is wrong with the process at Amherst College, and I would posit that what ails Amherst trickles down on the rest of us.
I'm particularly interested in a few claims Stavans makes.
He describes the campus committee (the C6) that reviews tenure files:
To be elected to the C6 they must have spent about a decade making themselves known in the community, which in turn makes them electable. By this time, the demands for tenure have changed from when they went for tenure. So they often demand of a candidate's record more—much more—than their own records are able to display. This means that by their own implausible standards they wouldn't receive tenure themselves.
Let's pause for a minute to unpack this. It takes about ten years to build the credibility required for election to the committee. On the one hand, this could be a positive. Having a sense of an institution's history and goals and a stake in its success is why tenure and faculty governance should matter. But the problem is that too many academics seek only to affirm their own experiences and ideas rather than judging the file in front of them. Stavan quips "Everyone knows the formula: Academics + power = mendacity" and he's right, but what I want to understand is how this formula stays in place.
I know how it was put in place. Those who devise the systems of evaluation in higher education are suspicious of their own notions of merit and so develop ever-absurd hoops for faculty to jump through. And jump you must. There's no use wringing your hands or shaking your fists at the system. You can, but they'll fire you and fill your place with an equally qualified adjunct,and then with a visiting assistant professor in a position that might eventually turn into a tenure-track position that will lead to a national search where there is little or no chance of the adjunct or the visiting assistant professor making the shortlist. Fighting pre-tenure is not a plan. But there are those who can fix. They have power.
By "they" I ultimately mean the upper administration, but it's also those committees like the C6 at Amherst. This is a committee comprised of tenured faculty from different disciplines who have no real understanding of fields outside of their own. The tenure track pushes new professors to hew to a fixed path, so part of being successful is not just maintaining an active research agenda but maintaining one approved by the institution. Straying from that can lead to problems and the strategy developed to gain tenure too often solidifies into practice."Academic freedom" becomes a banner to fly to protect speech and ideas instead of as a tool to dismantle unfair review processes.
In theory, the review process is supposed to protect a file from the benign ignorance of a committee like the C6 and external letters are a key part of that process, but as Stavans explains they can be used in ways their writers never intended, especially at places with an odd sense of what excellent looks like:
Exceptionalism at Amherst is such that the C6 expects—and the college community expects the C6 to expect—outside reviewers to use only exceptional language in tenure letters. If a candidate isn't "superb," "extraordinary," "unparalleled," "remarkable," and "at the top of her field," then the assessment is coded with mediocrity: Good isn't good enough.
Even when exceptionalism isn't the goal, tenure files can be torpedoed by poorly worded letters.
I shudder to think about what happens when the candidate works in a marginalized field that might not be taken seriously by her own department never mind a campus-wide committee like the C6. And, if you're thinking, "well clearly we need to put some people of color on the C6 committee, Tricia" I would answer that those committees need more than "some" people of color—more specifically they need people of color who have managed to gain institutional credibility–the kind that comes not just with tenure but with tenure in departments that have a firm footholds at their colleges and universities. So when UT Austin fires faculty working in ethnic studies, and UCLA has a program instead of a department of Afro-American Studies and Princeton offers certificates but not degrees in African Studies, Latino Studies, Latin American Studies, South Asian Studies** it is difficult and perhaps even impossible to build a coalition of faculty who have the credibility to make substantive contributions to personnel processes.
External letters are supposed to be part of a tenure file, but being a scholar in ethnic studies means that the pool for external reviewers (faculty who are senior enough to have credibility with the candidate's home institution) is not particularly deep and everyone in it that pool is overworked. I suspect many of them are doing the work of building majors, programs, and departments in fields that are largely undervalued. I would be curious to know how their request for external review stacks up with Stavans'
He writes.
Personally, I get an average of between six and eight tenure-evaluation requests a semester. Such is the volume, let alone my other commitments, that I regularly decline, often to all, unless the candidate is a former student of mine.
12 to 16 is a lot, so managing the flow is required, but I am particularly interested in who gets a yes from him, specifically his academic kin. To use Hayes as a hammer, perhaps more bluntly than he might want me to, even as Stavan is critiquing a system he is perpetuating it by only helping out his own. And who can blame him? He is right when he discusses the amount of work that goes into these reviews, though I'm hearing that letters from former professors are falling out of favor (I suspect that what happens is that external reviewers engage in some sort of you-write-about-my student/friend/ally-and-I'll-write-about-yours).
Near the end, he explains one strategy he and others use in the face of some requests for review letters:
I'm told that in some institutions, declining such invitations amounts to a rejection ending up in the candidate's files. For that reason, I do what I most dislike but others have suggested as the pertinent approach: I don't respond.
The reason I decided to title the anthology written/unwritten is precisely because of these silences, the gap between what is said explicitly and what is deliberately left unsaid, those unwritten moments that may speak more than anyone intends. In this case, silence does not mean lack of support for a candidate's work but lack of time to support a specific candidate (or perhaps it means both things at once). The unwritten goes beyond damning with faint praise. And when what is written includes words like "solid" in a place where everyone is exceptional and, (even though this is actually impossible), everyoneis above average there is no room for even the mythology of merit.
**To be fair to Princeton, they offer a lot of certificates in fields that some might find surprising. It's also worth noting that, at some point, someone thought it odd that Princeton is the only Ivy League University that doesn't offer a bachelor's degree in African-American studies
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Tagged as diversity, merit, race, race and higher education, Tenure
Lessons from the Collection; or, My 2014 Diversity To Do List
If you want a laugh or a giggle, check out my 2013 Diversity To Do List. I did exactly ONE thing from that list. Just the one thing. And it took me forever.
Of course, I did a lot of other stuff too and am beyond excited that I was invited to review Presumed Incompetent for Signs, but I didn't do much on the actual list.
I'm not letting that stop me from making another one. Because, apparently, my super power is that I am disgustingly resilient.
(NB:This facts means that at any given time at least one person in my circle of friends loves me deeply and would fight to the death for me but also wants to stab me in the neck and/or push me down the stairs because who the hell can be so perky so damn much of the time!)
So even though I did very little that I planned to do last year, I'm going to make another list for 2014:
I'll be reading Mentoring Faculty of Color.
I'm also participating on a panel at the College Language Association's Annual Conference about how women of color can successfully navigate the minefield that is the academy.
An essay about Mary Wollstonecraft, feminist movements, and complicated abolitionist politics is in the works—a project I've been mulling over ever since I wrote about the tensions between white feminists and women of color.
Based on this from bell hooks, I'll be writing an essay tentatively titled "Diversity from the Margins" for a fancy-pants brick and mortar publication. It will be a reflection on my shifting subject positions in higher education and the different—productive and unproductive—ways I've been angry over the years.
I can't wait to respond to this blost post about what Dionne Bensonsmith calls soft service. I had such a visceral response to it that I ranted on twitter for a little while. But it's an issue that I should pay more attention to, and I need to say something more productive than "THIS! THIS! THIS" and "boo white academics!"
For all that I didn't do this year, I am glad about the work I managed to get through because it meant I got to finally meet Kim Hall and Brittney Cooper and work with Michelle Moravec (and have a THATCamp pajama party with her!)
It brought smart new readers and writers to my twitter community and to the blog. According to WordPress, folks from 74 countries visited this blog, including at least one person who is in Russia (Snowden, you sly dog you*).
And it meant that I got to sit down with Tressie McMillan Cottom in the middle of Manhattan to talk with her about diversity and social media and everything else under the sun.
I'm enormously grateful to everyone who reads the blog, tweets about it, and shares the posts via Facebook.
My promise to myself when I finished my PhD and started on the tenure track was to make sure that I didn't let my quest for tenure keep me from doing what was right and ethical, even if it was inconvenient or professionally unwise. And when I got tenure I wanted to make sure that I put the privileges that come with it to good practical use, to use whatever institutional power I had to hold the academy to account for how it fails those who exist on its margins while also offering ideas about how it might improve. I'm looking forward to continuing that work in 2014.
*just kidding NSA! I love America. Pinky swear!
Tagged as diversity, feminism, higher education, Mary Wollstonecraft, race and higher education, Racism


Well, it has happened again. Unsecured API keys have lead to a major data breach affecting a broad swath of the web. This is not a fun post to write, and we do so not to pour salt in the wounds of anyone in the community. We do it to bring light to a often overlooked aspect of API security that more and more is becoming a common attack vector, and with the massive rise of the API economy, it is a problem that is not going to go away.
On May 31st, OneLogin, a leading service provider for authentication and password management was compromised by nefarious actor(s) causing the exposure to a massive quantity of user information. OneLogin provides services for single-sign-on (SSO) and identity and access management (IAM) to over 2,000 enterprises in 44 countries. From healthcare, financial services, legal services and large commerce, millions of customers have adopted OneLogin's products for management of credentials and web platforms. OneLogin is a leader in the field of identity management and security so they are no slouches when it comes to funding, technical expertise, and knowledge.
LET THIS BE A WARNING — IF IT CAN HAPPEN TO ONELOGIN, IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU!
So, what happened? According to the Company the entire US operating region was compromised when a, "threat actor obtained access to a set of AWS keys and used them to access the AWS API from an intermediate host with another, smaller service provider in the US.". With that access, the perpetrator was then able to create multiple instances which were then used for reconnaissance and accessing databases. While the Onelogin data was encrypted at rest, it appears that the keys for the encrypted data were also stored within the same infrastructure and possibly used to decrypt data.
OneLogin has contacted their customers and many are reportedly needing to rebuild their entire authentication systems, rolling keys, passwords, and tokens for their entire enterprise. The full impact and damage of this breach will only be fully accounted for in the months ahead, but the immediate costs (development, brand, security fees, data protection, etc.) are already significant.
Protect your keys! Most developers do not give API keys the respect they deserve. Great damage can be done with API keys and you should always use proper storage and chain of custody protocols for managing your keys; which includes using Lockr as a secure storage outside your infrastructure.
If it can happen to OneLogin, it can happen to you. Don't assume you are not a target or your business isn't susceptible because you are a small business. Likewise, as an enterprise you are still vulnerable due to the large number of APIs you consume. This can happen to anyone.
Be proactive. Don't wait until you have had a major security event to invest in the proper tools and protocols to protecting your data and credentials.
Ultimately, this is the main reason behind why we created Lockr, to prevent this type of event. Lockr keeps your keys under multiple layers of encryption in a location outside your infrastructure, no matter what cloud it is in.
We'd be amiss if we didn't talk about how this applies to us at Lockr. We created Lockr with the idea that API keys and access tokens are a vital aspect of application security, one that hasn't been addressed in a simple and universal fashion. With Lockr, we provide a simple way to store API keys and access tokens in a separate environment from the application which needs it. Additionally, Lockr encrypts the token prior to ever leaving the application environment to ensure no one, not Lockr or even a nefarious actor(s) can decrypt and use it.
Additionally, the separation of API key from ability to access encryption keys is critical. By storing not only API keys but encryption keys in Lockr, no longer would encrypted data be compromised when an API key is.
Learn more about Lockr here or contact us to determine how Lockr can address your specific needs.


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Recorded June 14, 2005 at Pilot Recording, NYC.
Mixed June 15, 2005 at Frank Booth, Brooklyn.
Mastered at Jigsaw Sound, NYC.
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It works well at keeping your shadow from slipping and creasing. Also controls shine. It's nothing too different from any other high end eyelid primer. It's slightly tinted so it works decently at brightening if you don't wear shadow.
I got this as a deluxe sample yesterday from Ulta and it is great! It is super smooth going on and my eyeshadow has not caked or rubbed off at all. I applied it at 7 am and have not seen a smudge or color out of place. I squeezed a tiny bit on an eyeshadow brush and rubbed and patted it over my entire lid and it seemed to dry instantly. My eyeshadow went on right over and it looks wonderful! Love this.
For some reason, I wasn't too fond of this eye primer. I found it didn't apply as smoothly as I would like. It tugs on my lids and dries out easily. It also made my eyeshadow look really blotchy. It has a slight whitish tint to it if you're into brightening up the eyes a bit. I don't like how the tube dries out too quickly so when I tried to squeeze out the product, it was a battle just to get the product out. This came with my Lorac Pro Palette so I was glad I didn't purchase it by itself.


As we prepare for the possibility of ice and snowy conditions starting this afternoon and through tomorrow, here are a few reminders to our families.
Buses may be delayed in returning your students home.
Our buses are prepared for snowy conditions and drivers receive training on driving in adverse weather conditions. Our goal and top priority is to ensure the safe arrival of your student back home. Thank you for your patience in the event of any delays.
If a decision is made to delay or cancel school due to inclement weather, CPPS will make every effort to announce closures or delays by 6:00 a.m. If conditions change or worsen after the decision is made to delay school, it is possible that the district may cancel school. We will try to make a final decision by 7:00 am.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO REFRESH YOUR COMPUTER FREQUENTLY FOR CURRENT SCHOOL DELAY AND CLOSURE UPDATES.
Athletics, After-School Activities and Other School Events. If school is closed, all out-of-district transportation, meetings, field trips, after-school activities, practices, and games will be canceled for the day unless otherwise announced. All evening meetings and events scheduled to take place in district facilities will also be canceled.


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In 2011 June DELTECLT company in Beijing with the gold coast of Changli BTV training center has launched 2011 yearsummary conference. All employees to attend the meetings of the general manager of DELTECLT, who chaired the meeting, the conference is main content includes the company first half of the year work summary, departmental staff are also respectively for their first half of the year to sum up the work, and in the second half of the work plan of. Theconference in the cheerful, orderly atmosphere smoothly.
DCLT holds the annual summing-up meeting on 15th Sep., 2006 in Zhangjiajie, Hunan. The leaders of all departments in the company take part in the meeting. All branches and departments of the company summarize the experience & lessons in the company's development in recent years, the whole developing strategy route and developing direction in future via this meeting. In recent years, the company is always in line with the developing policy "selling high-tech product, providing professional service"; endeavor to build the company an excellent team "of company image, of enterprise culture, of team spirit and of developing space". The company makes out its products, selling, staff and management, etc. in its development later.
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Jan Cetner herbu Przerowa (zm. 1735 w Gdańsku) – kuchmistrz wielki koronny, starosta kamionacki.

Był synem Franciszka Cetnera wojewody smoleńskiego i jego drugiej żony Anny z Tarłów wojewodzianki lubelskiej. W 1727 i 1730 otrzymał od ojca konsens królewski na oddanie w zarząd starostw kamionackiego i werbelskiego. Jeden z najbliższych współpracowników króla Augusta II Mocnego. Jako poseł na sejm konwokacyjny 1733 roku z ziemi lwowskiej był członkiem konfederacji generalnej zawiązanej 27 kwietnia 1733 roku na tym sejmie. Po obiorze Stanisława Leszczyńskiego w 1733 uszedł na Pragę do obozu wojsk rosyjskich. Ożenił się z Wiktorią Kątską wdową po Janie Stanisławie Katskim generale artylerii koronnej zmarł bezpotomnie.

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Bibliografia
 Władysław Konopczyński, Jan Cetner, w: Polski Słownik Biograficzny, Kraków 1937, t. III, s. 240.

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Członkowie dworu Augusta III Sasa
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Członkowie stanu rycerskiego I Rzeczypospolitej
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Posłowie na Sejm I Rzeczypospolitej (ziemia lwowska)
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 NIOSHTIC-2 Publications Search - 10001400 - Guidelines for Installation, Maintenance and Inspection of Mine Telephone Systems.
Guidelines for Installation, Maintenance and Inspection of Mine Telephone Systems.
This report reviews installation, maintenance, and inspection of mine pager telephone installations. Certain commercial telephone test equipment was modified and a tone source and switching circuit were developed for use in the testing of mine pager phone systems. Descriptions are included of the modifications to a commercial test set and of a tone source-switching unit.


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Lola, a saloon dancer arrives in the town of Sant'Anna with some other dancers. The town is however terrorized by El Diablo an outlaw who wants to sell the surrounding land to the railroad company. Lola helps the colonists rebel together with Rod, a youth who has fallen in love with her.


A Guide on How to have Fun in Las Vegas Without Gambling.
Gambling and weddings occasions are the main reasons many people visit Las Vegas. Here are other ways you can enjoy yourself in Las Vegas if you are not a gambling junkie.
You can enjoy your visit to Las Vegas by taking a helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon in the Nevada desert. The chopper ride is an opportune moment for you to enjoy the sight of the Grand Canyon an experience beyond the images you see on the internet. Vegas lights come to life at night and you can also enjoy these while on the chopper ride as it hovers above the city strips. The city lights can also be viewed from a vantage point on the grand canyon. For the best experience on your trip over Vegas, consider booking for a chopper ride from a professional pilot in advance.
The second way you can enjoy your trip to Vegas is by visiting the indoor garden settings at the Mirage. The scorching effect of the hot sun outside ca be evaded by visiting the garden at the Mirage. The experience as you walk these tropical set gardens is very relaxing and filled with aesthetic sites such as waterfalls and wishing pools for you to discover. If you are a nature enthusiast, and you find nature nourishing this is the best place for you to visit in Vegas.
The climate at Las Vegas is outstanding and always great to spend the day in the pool. Many hotels have their pools, but if the facility is not available, you can get a pass from outdoor space pool facilities in Las Vegas. To avoid an inconveniencing experience, carry a towel of your own and other important details.
A roller coaster or a gondola ride is also a fantastic way of enjoying your time in Las Vegas if you want to stay away from gambling casinos. Instead of losing cash on gambling tables, find value for it through unforgettable experiences. As an adrenaline or speed junkie the roller coaster is the place for you as you enjoy the cold breeze brushing by your face on the hot sunny day and enjoy the city lights whiz away at tremendous speeds. If you like your rides low key, and romantic, gondolas at Venetian are the thing for you. Come with your romantic partner for a gondola ride and get a Vienna experience with your partner on Las Vegas' fake river.
To conclude, another way of having fun in Vegas is by watching a show with your family. Different casinos show different shows at different times of the day, and all you have to do is choose the best show to go and watch.


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11 Photos That Show How Much Wedding Cakes Have Changed Over The Years
By Blair | Jun 10, 2022
I love cake so any celebration that calls for the sweet confection automatically becomes a favorite of mine.
This is one of the reasons why I also love going to weddings.
Sure, the bride's dress, the decor, and the exchanging of vows are all highlights of a couple's special day, but the biggest crowd pleaser at almost every wedding I have been to has been the cake.
For hundreds of years, it doesn't matter how big or small the reception is, cake has always been a part of the big day and it made it just that much more special.
Of course, the style and flavors have changed through the years, so let's take a look back at how wedding cakes trends have evolved over the last couple of decades.
Cakes from the Edwardian era were a lot more subtle than we're accustomed to today.
The bride's family would often be the ones in charge of making the treat, and they usually opted for a traditional sponge decorated with white icing and flowers.
The more affluent a family is, the whiter the cake will be because refined sugar was hard to come by.
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It was also common practice to place a vase filled with a bouquet of flowers on top of the one or two-tiered cake.
Lillies of the valley and orange blossoms were popular flower choices.
Former president Woodrow Wilson's daughter, Jesse, opted for this style of cake when she got married in 1913.
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The roaring 20s saw a huge shift in cake decorating trends.
Not only did the one tier become three or more, the cakes were also heavily influenced by the glamours and rebellious flapper culture (think The Great Gatsby).
The sponge layers were held together by lots of icing, and the outside featured bold and daring geometric shapes, art deco designs, jewel tones, lavish ornaments, frames, and feathers.
Cakes became more expensive because of the complex decoration techniques, so by the late 20s, boxed cake mix was introduced to the masses. This made it easier for lower class couples to also have a cake at their weddings.
When King George VI married Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923, the cake included lots of flowers, figurines, and intricate patterns made with icing.
The swoon-worthy confection was 10 feet high and weighed a whopping 800 pounds!
Bakeries took over the creation of wedding cakes in the 1930s, so more couples were able to afford them.
They started adding the mini bride and groom figurines that have graced the tops of so many cakes ever since. These cakes usually had multiple tiers.
The Lambeth Method, a style of piping icing in multiple rows, become the most popular type of decoration by the mid-30s.
Bakers also used a variety of materials, including wood, plastic and porcelain to embellish cakes.
It was during this decade that the brides and grooms started the tradition of cutting the cake together in front of their guests.
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The figurines continue to show up on the cakes during the 40s, but instead of a tux, the groom figure would be dressed in military uniform.
Since the Second World War was taking place, the recipes for the sponge were simplified and finished cakes had no more than three tiers.
The cakes were once again made at home but with less eggs, butter, and milk. People would add spices like cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves for flavor.
People would practice their piping techniques using mashed potatoes, so they wouldn't waste the actual icing.
To compensate for the lack of ingredients, the cakes would often be decorated using the Lambeth Method, then ribbons, flowers, and bows are added for extra oomph.
While the average person was worried about rationing, the British royals unveiled one of the most over-the-top wedding cakes for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip's 1947 wedding.
The fruitcake called for 60 lbs of butter, 55lb of sugar, 660 eggs, 75lb of flour, 80 oranges and lemons, 300lb of dried nuts and fruits, and three-and-a-half gallons of Navy rum;
The decoration was made using 150lb of marzipan and 110lb of icing sugar for the white royal icing.
Weighing in at 500 lbs and measuring nine-feet-tall, the cake took two weeks to complete.
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Now that many people did not have to worry about limiting the amount of ingredients they use, cakes started gaining more height and ingredients.
Couples were inspired by the royal wedding that took place just a few years prior, so it wasn't unusual for cakes to have four to six tiers.
Instead of relying solely on spices, bakeries started incorporating muscovado sugar, high quality fruits, and liquor into the mix.
Former president John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie O had simple yet elegant a four-foot tall cake decorated with intricate icing and fresh flowers at their reception in 1953.
Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III of Monaco took things up a notch for their 1956 nuptials. Their six-tiered cake included a plastic replica of Monaco's Pink Palace.
They cut through the cake using the groom's sword.
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Couples from this era's wedding cakes were mostly inspired by celebrity nuptials, and this meant that the cakes became taller and boasted intricate designs.
Bakers started to shy away from royal icing after discovering that boiled icing, also known as "seven minute icing" was much more versatile.
This quick icing is made by pouring hot sugar syrup over beaten egg whites.
Elvis and Priscilla Presley's lavish 1967 wedding cake is a perfect example of what the main wedding dessert looked like back then.
The iconic six-tier cake set the King of Rock 'n Roll and his bride back $3,000, which is about $22,000 in today's economy.
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Bakers were finally inspired to try something new for the hippie generation.
The cakes started to include more more color in the decoration, and people weren't afraid to experiment with other decorative elements by using almond paste, ribbons, edible flowers, as well as other plastic trinkets.
The use of buttercream to create elaborate designs was becoming popular, but royal icing was still the number one choice.
This is because it hardened easily and held the tiers together better, especially since outdoor weddings were becoming more popular.
Just like everything else in the 80s, when it came to wedding cakes, you either go big or go home.
They were made with dark fruit batter and decorated with fountains, pillars, and bridges that connect multiple cakes.
Hard icing really took flight because it supported the pillars well.
Sugar paste was also extremely popular because it was easy to roll out, shape and color. People used this to create colorful decorative elements, including flowers.
Those who mastered this technique started their own home-based cake businesses, and many were very profitable.
Prince Charles and Diana's wedding cake was the most-talked about of the 80s, and it's not hard to see why.
The five-foot-tall cake was designed by David Avery of the Royal Naval Cookery School and took 14 weeks to complete. It was decorated with royal family's coat of arms and flowers.
Today, the cake would've been worth $100,000.
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Some of the architectural elements from the 80s were incorporated into cakes in the 90s, but decade saw some new techniques that haven't been used before.
Edible flower decorations and sugar paste were still very popular, and couples added more personal touches to the cake by adding customized toppers that reflect their passions, sense of humor, occupations, or hobbies.
Confectioners started to use edible ink to create their masterpieces. However, despite all the color possibilities, couples in the 90s still preferred traditional icing hues like ivory and cream.
When comedian Eddie Murphy and his ex-wife Nicole tied the knot in 1993, their $25,000 multi- tiered ivory cake was covered in dozens of peach-colored flowers.
It was considered one of the most expensive cakes of the time.
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Couples who got married in the new millennium moved away from traditional tiered cake separated by exposed pillars.
People began to get more creative when it comes to shape and decorations. The cake would often complement the rest of the overall color scheme, decorations and even the bride's dress.
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Instead of simply sticking to the typical tiered cake, brides and grooms started requesting cupcake towers that match the main cake. According to multiple sources, a 2000 episode of Sex and the City is to blame for this trend.
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Rustic-themed celebrations have become insanely popular, which led to a rise in "naked" cakes, a decorating technique where the frosting is spread thin and the cake's layers are visible.
These cakes are often decorated with flowers, greenery, berries, burlap, and wood.
Instead of the traditional bride and groom figurine, toppers have become a lot more creative and personal. Couples are now opting for acrylic cut-outs with personalized sayings, banners, whimsical objects, and figurines modeled after their pets.
Cakes are no longer just about height, but more about art. Couples aren't afraid to ask for bright colors and bold designs into their cake.
In fact, the fabulous 1920s art deco theme has recently become one of the biggest wedding trends.
The age-old tradition of having two cakes, the main show-stopper and a groom's cake, also saw a resurgence in the 2010s.
Brides go out of their way to surprise their new husbands with cakes that match their personalities or reflect their interests.
Also, more and more people are now opting for other types of confections like donuts, cookies, macarons, and pies instead of a standard cake.
Dessert tables featuring all sorts of confections are becoming the main focus.
Which decade inspired your wedding cake? Let us know in the comments!
Blair isn't a bestselling author, but she has a knack for beautiful prose. When she isn't writing for Shared, she enjoys listening to podcasts.
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Is there little or no adhesive spraying? Are you having problems with low flow or abnormal adhesive delivery? If you're having any of these problems, there are several things that may have gone wrong.
If the adhesive delivery is abnormal, or not enough adhesive is being delivered, make sure that the valve on the canister and the adjustment nut on the gun are open. If this isn't the problem, it could be that the hose needs purging. Hold your gun over a scrap substrate, large piece of paper or a waste container, and spray until hose is purged and the adhesive delivery seems normal.
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Lie to your friends in Project Winter, the best bullshitting sim on PC
By Tyler Wilde 30 December 2019
Being a conniving bastard is rarely so much fun.
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Accompanying our team-selected Game of the Year Awards for 2019, individual members of the PC Gamer team will each discuss one of their favorite games from the last 12 months. We'll post a new personal pick, alongside our main awards, throughout the month of December.
You've got to suspend friendships to play certain games. Street Fighter can generate lasting resentments when players fail to temporarily turn off friend-mode, fume about whatever cheap-ass bullshit their momentary non-friend has put up, and then reactivate friendly relations once their scrub rage has passed. As a teenager, I stormed out of a friend's house over such a case of Street Fighter 2 bullshit.
Project Winter is much more insidious. It isn't cheesy move spamming that hurts you, it's the lies. Among your group of eight survivors—and I highly recommend playing with people you know—two are traitors. As a survivor, not only do you have to avoid being killed or set back by the traitors, you have to survive a frigid, moose and bear-infested wilderness, which is hard enough without liars among you.
It's another attempt at bringing the basic concept of party game Werewolf—you may know it by its Mafia variant—into a multiplayer videogame. It's a tough thing to do. For one, everyone has to play along. It's no fun if the secret traitors just say "haha, I'm a traitor" at the start. And two, the full experience of sitting in a circle trying to suss out liars among your friends can't be replicated in a game, at least until mainstream VR accurately reproduces facial expressions and body language.
When players are cut off from each other, stories begin to conflict.
Project Winter's adaption succeeds by replacing face-to-face communication with lots of subtle ways for the traitors to hinder the survivors, which also gives the survivors lots of subtle hints as to who the traitors are. The top-down view means that, if you can't see someone on your screen, they can't see you, giving traitors privacy when they want to open special, traitor-only crates that contain weapons, traps, and poisons. But if a survivor stumbles upon an open traitor crate, they may remember who it was that wandered up that way "looking for berries."
Or not. There's a lot to keep track of outside of sussing out rats. The survivors have to first get a power station up and running, which means looting or crafting materials to drop into it. The traitors usually help during this stage to avoid being found out. Meanwhile, hunger and cold are eating at everybody, and there's not much time to dedicate to interrogating your temporary non-friends about their whereabouts and intentions. And when players are cut off from each other—the area voice chat only carries so far—stories begin to conflict.
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In one game, as a traitor, I was called out by a survivor who noticed that I'd left valuable resources sitting in a crate instead of shepherding them to the power station. Rather than protest, I simply walked away and found two other survivors who'd gone on an expedition to find the next objective.
When I returned with the two of them, who'd seen or heard none of this, this nosy survivor was still on about how I was probably a traitor. I claimed not to have any idea what he was talking about, and accused him of being a traitor, since clearly I'd been helping these other two while he threw accusations around.
To my surprise, my party backed me up. It worked for a little bit, but I tend to crack under pressure given long enough. I'd make a terrible spy.
More often than not I'm the one being fooled. In one game, while warming up inside the starting cabin with two other players, we heard an argument outside. Two players were shouting toward the cabin that the other was the traitor. One had tried to kill the other. No, it was actually an accident. One had said he was the traitor. No, he was joking. Naturally, the three of us in the cabin figured we were witnessing two traitors trying to throw us off by feigning discord. We banished them, and let them kill each other in the cold.
Of course, I'd been warming up with the two real traitors the whole time. Bastards.
Traitors can sabotage access panels to loot bunkers, drop traps, play sneaky games with walkie-talkies—the only way to communicate over distances—encourage risky treks and then run back to the cabin claiming to have gotten 'lost,' and all sorts of other devious things. The best games see a combination of tricks. The worst see the traitors play it too safe at first, so that they have no choice but to pull out guns late in the game and chase the survivors around. That's still fun, though.
Project Winter is one of the few games where I don't mind spectating if I die early. As a ghost, I can teleport around the map to watch everyone else struggle—sometimes overhearing them wonder if I'm still out there, or if I died, or if I was a traitor. Sometimes I know who one of the traitors is—because she killed me—but can't tell them directly. I can only provide ghostly healing, heat, or damage according to what I think I know, and hope they observe my indirect communication. Watching the remaining survivors struggle while having more information than them makes for excellent drama.
I'm sure there's fun to be had with the right group of strangers, but so far I've only played Project Winter with people I know. The post-game chats ("Oh, that's what happened to you!") are one of the best parts of it—just so long as you're able to reinstate friendship-mode after being poisoned to death by a filthy liar.


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The Romans called peridot "evening emerald," since its green colour did not darken at night but was still visible by lamplight.
Peridot was later often used to decorate mediaeval churches, probably carried back to Europe by the Crusaders.
Peridot is a fabulous zesty lime green colour.
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Dani Dayan and Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israeli government's nomination of Dani Dayan as its next ambassador to Brazil, and Brazil's delay in approving the appointment, is heightening diplomatic tensions between the two governments.
One of the Brazilian government's main critics over the chosen Israeli ambassador is that Benjamin Netanyahu skipped all diplomatic protocols when announced Dayan's appointment: it was not preceded by any communication with the Brazilian Foreign Ministry nor any presentation of his credentials for an agreement.
Furthermore, it also does not see with good eyes the fact that Dayan is the former head of the Yesha Council, a representative body of illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, which Brazil considers as illegal and an impediment to the creation of a future Palestinian state.
Despite Israel's government efforts to maintain Dayan's appointment, on January 8, a group of 40 retired Brazilian diplomats signed a statement against it, re -stating discontentment with the way he was announced and with his role in the settlement movement.
-said a Brazilian government official with 20 years of diplomatic experience, who spoke to an American news outlet on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the subject publicly.
Meanwhile, in Brazil solidarity with the Palestinians against the Israeli illegal occupation and for a free and independent Palestinian State is growing, despite the national media's simplistic and overall biased coverage.
Recently, a BDS campaign was launched to alert two of the main popular singers in Brazil, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, who sang in Tel Aviv last year.
They traveled despite the campaigns, but later, Veloso published an article condemning the Israeli occupation, saying he would never go back to Israel, and received heavy criticism from a fraction of the Jewish community.


Situated in a quiet and private residential area, which benefits from on-site security, this spacious three bedroom villa is nestled amidst a mature garden with shrubs, flowers and immaculate lawns.
Situated in a quiet and private residential area, which benefits from on-site security, this spacious three bedroom villa is nestled amidst a mature garden with shrubs, flowers and immaculate lawns. The comfortable villa is wonderfully equipped for a relaxing holiday and offers spacious yet cosy living areas and plenty of space for outside living. Inside, the holiday home has been lovingly decorated with beautiful antique furniture and carefully selected paintings. Outside, there is a covered terrace area - ideal for alfresco dining - and a refreshing swimming pool. The villa is located on the outskirts of Mougins and an international golf course, and is well positioned for guests wishing to discover the glitz and glam of the French Riviera, with towns such as Antibes and Cannes just a short drive away. You may also wish to discover Grasse, the perfume capital of the world or explore the ancient village of Valbonne.
This beautiful villa is made from brick or stone. The agent has rated it as a five star property so it is one of their best villas - tastefully furnished and fully equipped. It is also great value for money. This villa has a private pool and is located in Saint-Martin-Le Miracle, only 1km from Mouans-Sartoux. It is set in a good location, 7km away from a sandy beach. There's also a restaurant only 750 metres away.


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Artificial sweeteners may be found in everything from breath mints and chewing gums to jams, jellies, and juices, and even nutritional bars and yogurts. Is one healthier than another?
The National Institutes of Health–AARP study, which followed hundreds of thousands of Americans for a decade, found that frequently drinking sweetened beverages may increase depression risk among older adults. Indeed, adding sugar to coffee may negate many of coffee's positive effects on mood, and adding the artificial sweetener aspartame (found in Equal and NutraSweet) or saccharine (in Sweet 'n Low) was associated with an increased risk of depression.
The controversy surrounding aspartame's neurological effects began in the 1980s when subjects with a history of depression seemed to experience such severe reactions to the sweetener that a study was halted prematurely. More recently, aspartame's neurobehavioral effects were investigated in a population free from mental illness. Healthy individuals were split into two groups with half given a higher dose of aspartame (the equivalent of about three liters of Diet Coke's worth) and the other half a lower dose (a single liter of Diet Coke's worth). Then the groups switched. After only eight days on the higher-aspartame dose, participants exhibited more depression and irritability, and performed worse on certain brain function tests.
Blackstrap molasses and date sugar may be the only two health-promoting caloric sweeteners. Other such sweeteners, such as honey and maple, agave, and brown rice syrups don't appear to offer much nutritionally.
And stevia? The World Health Organization considers up to 1.8 mg of stevia compounds per pound of bodyweight to be a safe amount, so having up to two stevia-sweetened drinks a day may be considered harmless.
The sugar alcohols sorbitol and xylitol may also be harmless, but they aren't absorbed by the body and end up in the colon, where they can draw in fluid and cause diarrhea. A related compound—erythritol—is absorbed and may have the harmlessness of xylitol without the laxative effect.
Erythritol doesn't cause cavities and hasn't been implicated in fibromyalgia, preterm birth, headaches, hypertension, or brain disorders like other low-calorie sweeteners. Erythritol may also have some antioxidant properties. As with any highly processed product, though, its utility should be confined to increasing your consumption of more healthful foods.
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Berlin is lively, colourful, crazy. Berlin parties, Berlin laughs, Berlin dances. Even now, especially now. Not to face reality with the bass-line of ignorance, not to suppress or to desperately demonstrate. Just for our own good and sometimes, for the good of others. Our friends from the Prince Charles are giving a party that perfectly combines zest and sense: refuge. Danceable electronic club sounds – by Avalon Emerson, Matrixxman and San Soda, amongst others – are going to bring Bechstein's former staff swimming pool to the boil. And give, by the by, refuge. Because all of the money spent by the party crowd that evening goes straight to those who invest it best. Without any deductions whatsoever, the dosh goes to the Berliner Obdachlosenhilfe for the benefit of the homeless, the social relief organisation Give Something Back to Berlin and the internationally operating Médecins sans Frontières. As we know from our charity concert within the framework of the Haitian Heroes photo exhibition, the Prince Charles has always been a good place to give beneficence a colourful face. Because conscious partying is more than just a catch phrase. We wish you a meaningful advent!