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Occasionally I wandered in where I was not wanted and gave truthful answers.
Sometimes I even did it deliberately. A little disruption now can prevent disaster later.

Handsome fellow

A cropped version of this handsome fellow is the lock screen on my iPod Touch.

I identify with bears. Not in the sexual sense, but it the spiritual sense.

A bear spirit was my first “totem.” She was there when life was pretty bleak. She convinced me to go on living at least for a while. She gave me wisdom when I was clinging to despair. And she may have stopped me from walking off a cliff into the river a few hundred feet below.

So yes, I really like bears. I have paintings of bears. I have bear statuary all over. And sometimes when I am falling asleep, I swear I can smell and hear a bear rummaging around.

I approve of the bear’s outlook. Most of the time, they’ll leave you alone if you leave them alone. And if you don’t have any tasty treats they can smell.

Bears are incredibly curious and very intelligent.

This picture is another from wandering the web.
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Dartmouth Events

Online Event: 2020 Neukom Literary Arts Awards Winners for Speculative Fictio

Winners Ted Chiang and Cadwell Turnbull discuss Speculative Fiction with award winning author and judge Sam J. Miller and Neukom Director Dan Rockmore

Wednesday, October 21, 2020
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Online Event
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Lectures & Seminars

Read more about the winners here...

Online event information here....

For more information, contact:
Christine Monigle

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

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Digital Industries Canada Webinars

Watch live and on demand content from our product webinar series

SINAMICS G120X: Master the Elements

Register and join this live webinar to see how you can master the elements!

Topics to be covered:

  • SINAMICS Drives portfolio and benefits
  • SINAMICS G120X solution

Future of Visualization: WinCC Unified

SIMATIC WinCC Unified is a totally new visualization system you can use to overcome the challenges of digitalization in mechanical engineering and plant construction. All thanks to the latest hardware and software technologies, both now and in the future. It offers proven engineering in the TIA Portal, the latest web technology, high power reserves for the coming years, so you can implement your ideas the way you imagine them.

Lifecycle Analysis Services

The goal of a product lifecycle analysis from Siemens is to show you where your Siemens products and systems are in the Siemens product lifecycle. The reports will provide product discontinuation dates, successor information and recommendations on spare parts. This will help you to make educated decisions on spare part management and migration timelines.

TIA Portal V16 Step 7 and Options

Totally Integrated Automation Portal (TIA Portal) V16 provides you with unrestricted access to our complete range of digitalized automation services, from digital planning and integrated engineering to transparent operation.

Join this webinar to find out how the new version shortens your time to market, increases the productivity of your plant, and offers you broader flexibility.

Industrial Remote Connectivity

In this uncertain time of travel restrictions and physical distancing it can be difficult for an OEM or service team to support their customers that are maintaining essential services, or for end users to access their systems from remote sites. Siemens offers industrial remote communication solutions using public communication infrastructures that will enable OEM, service, manufacturing and process industry customers to bridge the physical gap in a safe, secure environment.

SIMATIC ET 200: Distributed IO Systems

With SIMATIC ET 200, we offer you a multifunctional, modular, and precisely scalable system for distributed automation for solutions in control cabinets, without control cabinets directly at the machine, as well as for use in hazardous areas. All products can be integrated in the automation system via PROFIBUS or PROFINET.

Remote Services and SIPIX Tablet PC

Most companies today are battling the challenge of maintaining production and operations of their plants while managing their highest priority: keeping their employees safe. Many customers do not have remote access to their plants and/or have the tools they require to work efficiently and effectively to perform their jobs. Siemens can help navigate current challenges and be ready for the future with our products, solutions and services. With remote services we provide optimum, system-specific support for the SIMATIC automation system from a remote location. As part of the offered modules, customers will not only be provided with the secured remote infrastructure, but support and maintenance are already included.

SIMATIC Unified Comfort Panels

Siemens is introducing the new generation of high-end, 7–22-inch operator panels, part of the new SIMATIC WinCC Unified System, which boasts numerous improvements over the predecessor devices – including in terms of user-friendliness and visualization. Based on the new Simatic WinCC Unified visualization system in TIA Portal, the new Unified Comfort Panels also introduce the integration of Siemens Industrial Edge, thus allowing users to create/use apps on the device to simultaneously run other programs alongside the standard runtime.

Register to learn more.

SINAMICS S210 Motion Control Drives

SINAMICS S210 fully leverages its strengths when the application involves precise positioning and motion control. Even with the highest dynamic performance, all motion sequences are executed with the utmost precision. With its powerful performance, SINAMICS S210 is convincing in packaging machines as well as in handling systems, in woodworking and plastics processing as well as in digital printing.

Motion Control in TIA Portal

Sophisticated motion control doesn’t have to be complex and complicated. The world is constantly in motion and generates new challenges. How can you react to this flexibly, quickly and cost-effectively? We will look into the latest with the SIMATIC S7-1500 technology CPUs, and cover the highlights and new features available with TIA Portal V16 such as PLC Cross Synchronous Operation, and Kinematics with Conveyor Tracking. We will also dive into the Siemens portfolio of scalable Motion Control solutions from the controller, all the way down to the machine level.

SIMOGEAR: Precise and Powerful Drive Systems

This webinar covers the following topics:

  • Quick overview of Simogear Geared Motor Product Line, Features and Benefits.
  • SIMOGEAR Reluctance Geared Motor, new addition to the Geared Motor Portfolio.
  • Simogear Geared Motors for Electric Monorail Systems
  • Simogear Geared Motor for applications in Gas and Dust Loaded atmospheres
  • Simogear Gear Box combined with Crane Motor for Marine Conditions
  • Simogear Geared Motor for Cooling Towers, Agitators and Mixer Applications
  • Newly added SIMOGEAR KS adaptor for Siemens 1FK2/1FL6/1FK6/1Ph8 Servo Motors

SIMATIC Safety Integrated: The safety solution for today and tomorrow

Production lines not only have to be highly flexible and cost-efficient, but they also need to comply with the necessary safety requirements. There are many questions when deciding on which programmable safety solution to use. This 45-minute presentation provides you with 6 key capabilities which your programmable safety solution should support.

SIMATIC Safety Integrated is the seamless integration of machine safety in the SIMATIC automation system. The system, comprising both hardware and software, offers the advantage of having the safety functions already built in, so no second, additional system is needed. This genuine integration not only results in potential savings on hardware and engineering, but also gives you the opportunity to achieve the perfect match between safety and machine design.

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Can you imagine if you were using technology from 25 - 30 years ago in your personal life? No cell phones, personal computers, tablets or smart watches. It’s hard to picture. Yet so many plants are operating with outdated technologies. The field of process automation has been rapidly advancing and without the latest innovations, you’re missing out on efficiencies that could make your job easier, safer and more productive. Learn how distributed control systems will be equipped to help users address the plant requirements of today and tomorrow.

SIMATIC ET 200SP - SIWAREX Weighing and Coriolis Flow Technology

See how the innovative and compact IO system SIMATIC ET 200SP allows multiple technology modules to be used at any one time. It connects to industry networks using Profinet, Ethernet IP and Modbus TCP/IP. Together with SIWAREX weighing and Coriolis flow technology modules, the ET 200SP is the perfect IO solution for your process automation applications.


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‘These Tactics Must Stop’: Oregon DOJ Launches Criminal Probe Into Violence by Trump-Deployed Feds

Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum on Friday announced a criminal probe into violence committed against peaceful protesters by unidentified federal officials who President Donald Trump deployed to Portland earlier this month to quash Black Lives Matter demonstrations.

Rosenblum also said her office is suing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. Marshals Service, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Federal Protection Service, and their agents for violating “the civil rights of Oregonians by seizing and detaining them without probable cause” after video footage showed federal officials in combat fatigues snatching protesters off the streets and throwing them into unmarked vehicles.

“These tactics must stop,” Rosenblum said in a statement. “They not only make it impossible for people to assert their First Amendment rights to protest peacefully. They also create a more volatile situation on our streets. We are today asking the federal court to stop the federal police from secretly stopping and forcibly grabbing Oregonians off our streets.”

“The federal administration has chosen Portland to use their scare tactics to stop our residents from protesting police brutality and from supporting the Black Lives Matter movement,” Rosenblum continued. “Every American should be repulsed when they see this happening. If this can happen here in Portland, it can happen anywhere.”

The criminal investigation led by the Oregon Department of Justice and Multnomah County District Attorney Rod Underhill will center on a gruesome July 11 incident in which a peaceful demonstrator was shot in the head by an impact munition. The munition, reportedly fired by a federal officer, fractured the 26-year-old protester’s skull.

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), who demanded an investigation into the incident earlier this week, applauded Rosenblum’s legal actions as “necessary to shed light on the truth and hold Trump accountable for his authoritarian tactics on American soil.”

Late Friday, as the chilling conduct of federal law enforcement officers drew national outrage, Wyden joined fellow Oregon Democrats Sen. Jeff Merkley, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, and Rep. Suzanne Bonamici in demanding that Attorney General William Barr and Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf immediately withdraw all federal forces from Portland.

“These actions are out of control,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter to Barr and Wolf. “They are more reflective of tactics of a government led by a dictator, not from the government of our constitutional democratic republic.”

Read ‘These Tactics Must Stop’: Oregon DOJ Launches Criminal Probe Into Violence by Trump-Deployed Feds on Common Dreams

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Catholic devotees attend a procession early morning of Good Friday. Photograph by Veejay Villafranca
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LOOK! These 20 photographs show the rituals of Siquijor’s faith healers on Holy Week

The photographer Veejay Villafranca shares with his images of the healers’ congress in Barangay San Antonio, where most of the houses of healers are concentrated, a place which comes especially alive during Good Friday
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Siquijor becomes a popular destination for the curious during Holy Week. Every year, tourists and healing practitioners from all over come to this mystical island to witness its resident healers go through the ritual of looking for ingredients from sea and forest, cooking them into potions, and using these to cast spells or cure disease or bring ease to multifarious burdens of human life. Why Holy Week? It is believed this is the best time the healers get to test or recharge their skills. The photographer Veejay Villafranca has been drawn to the subjects of faith and religion throughout most of his young career as a documentary photographer, and he photographed the healers’ festival in Barangay San Antonio in Siquijor in 2006, following his work on the Nazareno and the Traslacion.

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While he has explored other subjects such as climate change (he released his first book last year called Signos) and the communities of Baseco, he continues to expand his coverage on this topic of faith. Currently, select pieces from this body of work are in a small show called Barrio Sagrado, at Purveyr Post in Don Pedro Street, Poblacion.

Here, Villafranca has chosen 20 pictures that will take us through the rituals of Barangay San Antonio in Siquijor, give us a glimpse of its esteemed shamans and various characters, and invite us to see what else in this island casts a magnetic spell.

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A view of the Lazi convent from the church across the street. Lazi town is one of the major attractions in Siquijor and the jump off point going to San Antonio where most of the healers congregate during Semana Santa.

Tatay Pedro, one of the famed healers in Siquijor, holds an amulet sold outside of his house to tourists and also devotees of their practice. He passed on last 2008 at the age of 80.

A healer awaits his customers outside his house in San Juan town.

An elder healer watches his grand daughter perform ‘bolo-bolo’ where the healer blows through a glass half-filled with water with their healing rock inside with the aim of purifying the patient of illnesses or ailments.

The famed Juan ‘Dako’ inside his house checking on his concoction for healing.

The late Juan ‘Dako’ outside his house in San Antonio, Siquijor.

Dried plants, herbs and other elements gathered from sea to forest await to be processed during Semana Santa as most healers believe Lent is the best time to test and recharge their healing skills.

A local healer checks on her plant haul from the forest.

Healers and practitioners of folk medicine hike up to the mountain to gather ingredients for their potions.

A faith healer who also has the ability to read through their clients, entertains one of her regulars who’s seeking her cousin’s lost husband. Most faith healers don’t accept fixed payments but it is mandatory to donate any amount after each session.

Catholic devotees attend a procession early morning of Good Friday.

Semana Santa brings a range of practitioners from all over the Philippines (mostly from Visayas and Mindanao) who congregate in Siquijor Island to purchase goods that they use in healing and rituals.

Local healers gather human bones from a cemetery in Siquijor Island. Human bones and other objects from the sea and forest are used in concocting potions healers use in their trade.

Noel Torremocha (L) sits by his late father-in-law Nong Pedro Tumapon, a revered folk healer from Siquijor.

A recipe for potions.

A folk healer cooks a concoction inside the forest during Good Friday activities in Siquijor.

Most elder healers gather deep in the forest in concocting a potion that is believed to be used for hexing.

A small church leading to San Antonio town.

Locals bath by the sea in Siquijor island as part of their preparation for Semana Santa activities.

Amidst all the folk beliefs, Siquijor still boasts of beautiful scenery and friendly locals that draw a stream of regular tourists yearly.

Photographs by Veejay Villafranca


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Arroyo: Congress to resolve budget row next week

Vivienne Gulla, ABS-CBN News

Posted at Mar 21 2019 11:45 PM

MANILA - House Speaker Gloria Arroyo said Thursday that Congress will seek to resolve the 2019 national budget impasse next week.

“The congressmen and the senators will be talking. I think, maybe, Monday,” Arroyo said.

Asked whether the House has set a target date for ironing out differences on the budget, Arroyo said “the sooner, the better.”

Senate President Vicente Sotto III refused to sign the budget after Sen. Panfilo Lacson claimed Arroyo realigned P25 billion to favor certain lawmakers, which she denied.

The House of Representatives on Wednesday said it will retrieve the budget books it sent to the Senate, but clarified it was not withdrawing the 2019 General Appropriations Bill (GAB) it approved.

House Appropriations Chair Rolando Andaya Jr. added that the Speaker has instructed them to form a 3-man team that will meet with their Senate counterparts to address contentious issues on the 2019 budget.

Meanwhile, Sotto said senators are open to potential "cure" to the ongoing standoff over the 2019 budget.

The government is operating on a reenacted budget and the Palace and finance officials have warned that remaining in this setup could affect the country’s economic growth for 2019.


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Bristol-Myers Squibb Announces Agreement Between Celgene and Amgen to Divest OTEZLA® for $13.4 Billion

Agreement Contingent on FTC Consent Decree and Closing of Pending Bristol-Myers Squibb-Celgene Merger

Pending Bristol-Myers Squibb-Celgene Merger Expected to Close by End of 2019

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) announced today that Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG), in connection with its merger agreement with Bristol-Myers Squibb, has entered into an agreement with Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) under which Amgen would acquire the global rights to OTEZLA® (apremilast) for $13.4 billion in cash. Bristol-Myers Squibb previously announced the decision to divest OTEZLA in connection with the ongoing regulatory approval process for the Company’s pending merger with Celgene. The closing of the acquisition covered by the agreement with Amgen is contingent on Bristol-Myers Squibb and Celgene entering into a consent decree with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in connection with their pending merger, the closing of the pending merger, and the satisfaction of other customary closing conditions.

“This agreement represents an important step toward completing our pending merger with Celgene. It also demonstrates the tremendous achievement of the Celgene team in establishing OTEZLA as an important medicine for patients with psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis and Behçet’s Disease,” said Giovanni Caforio, M.D., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bristol-Myers Squibb. “Together with the OTEZLA team, Amgen has the capabilities and infrastructure to continue to support this important medicine and ensure a seamless transition for patients and healthcare providers.”

Bristol-Myers Squibb now expects the pending merger with Celgene to close by the end of 2019.

Divestiture Terms

Under the terms of the agreement and subject to the closing conditions, Amgen will acquire OTEZLA and related intellectual property, including any patents that primarily cover apremilast, as well as other assets and liabilities related to OTEZLA. The agreement includes the transfer of Celgene employees primarily dedicated to OTEZLA.

Use of Proceeds and Capital Allocation

Bristol-Myers Squibb plans to prioritize the use of proceeds from the OTEZLA divestiture for debt reduction.

In the context of its overall approach to capital allocation, Bristol-Myers Squibb plans to focus on de-leveraging in the near term to maintain strong investment grade credit ratings and less than 1.5x debt/EBITDA by 2023. Beyond that, Bristol-Myers Squibb’s strategic approach to capital allocation remains unchanged with future business development and sourcing external innovation a priority, while continuing to plan for annual dividend increases and disciplined employment of share repurchases.

Today Bristol-Myers Squibb also announced that it is increasing its previously planned $5 billion accelerated share repurchase to $7 billion. The share repurchase will be executed following closing of the pending Bristol-Myers Squibb merger with Celgene, subject to Board approval. The additional authorization is based on strong business trends across both Bristol-Myers Squibb and Celgene, encouraging clinical developments across the pipeline of both companies and increased visibility into the closing of the pending merger with Celgene.

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is serving as financial advisor to Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Kirkland & Ellis LLP is serving as Bristol-Myers Squibb’s legal counsel regarding the divestiture. Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP is also acting as legal counsel on antitrust matters.

About Bristol-Myers Squibb

Bristol-Myers Squibb is a global biopharmaceutical company whose mission is to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases. For more information about Bristol-Myers Squibb, visit us at or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.

Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This communication contains certain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, regarding, among other things, the research, development and commercialization of pharmaceutical products and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company’s (“Bristol-Myers Squibb”) pending acquisition of Celgene Corporation (“Celgene”). These statements may be identified by the fact they use words such as “should,” “could,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “estimate,” “target,” “may,” “project,” “guidance,” “intend,” “plan,” “believe,” “will” and other words and terms of similar meaning and expression in connection with any discussion of future operating or financial performance, although not all forward-looking statements contain such terms. One can also identify forward-looking statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. Such forward-looking statements are based on historical performance and current expectations and projections about Bristol-Myers Squibb’s and Celgene’s future financial results, goals, plans and objectives and involve inherent risks, assumptions and uncertainties, including internal or external factors that could delay, divert or change any of them in the next several years, that are difficult to predict, may be beyond Bristol-Myers Squibb’s and Celgene’s control and could cause Bristol-Myers Squibb’s and Celgene’s future financial results, goals, plans and objectives to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, the statements. Such risks, uncertainties and other matters include, but are not limited to, the completion of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s pending acquisition of Celgene ( the “Merger”) may not occur on the anticipated terms and timing or at all; a condition to the closing of the Merger may not be satisfied; the completion of the OTEZLA divestiture by Celgene does not occur on the anticipated timing; the combined company will have substantial indebtedness following the completion of the Merger; Bristol-Myers Squibb is unable to achieve the synergies and value creation contemplated by the Merger; Bristol-Myers Squibb is unable to promptly and effectively integrate Celgene’s businesses; management’s time and attention is diverted on transaction related issues; disruption from the transaction makes it more difficult to maintain business, contractual and operational relationships; the credit ratings of the combined company decline following the Merger; legal proceedings are instituted against Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene or the combined company; Bristol-Myers Squibb, Celgene or the combined company is unable to retain key personnel; and the announcement or the consummation of the Merger has a negative effect on the market price of the capital stock of Bristol-Myers Squibb and Celgene or on Bristol-Myers Squibb’s and Celgene’s operating results. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed.

Forward-looking statements in this communication should be evaluated together with the many risks and uncertainties that affect Bristol-Myers Squibb’s and Celgene’s respective business and market, particularly those identified in the cautionary statement and risk factors discussion in Bristol-Myers Squibb’s and Celgene’s respective Annual Reports on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, as updated by their subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements included in this communication are made only as of the date of this document and except as otherwise required by applicable law, neither Bristol-Myers Squibb nor Celgene undertakes any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise.

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Google showed 10 layouts from one line of CSS

Google web development team has published layouts consisting of just one line of CSS. The layouts are easy to use on mobile devices, load quickly, and are ready to be embedded in web projects. Using layouts, the developers wanted to show what can be done with just a single line of CSS.

In particular, examples include layouts that adapt to mobile screens without using media queries.

Experts draw attention to the fact that the presented examples are "bare" layouts that need to be further developed.

You can see explanations of how to use layouts in the video below.

Recall that earlier, as part of the experiment, Google began to show thumbnails of images in the results.
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Soumya Sarala October 14, 2020

Cyber Secure Networks for teaching and learning

Todays children and young students have the innate ability to navigate the Web and use technological devices. They are digital natives, they were born into the digital age and have never known a world without the Internet. Kids and teens take technology classes every day, they surf the Web for their projects, and they use the Internet during their spare time too, playing online video games, sharing their experiences on social networks and doing all sorts of digital activities.

The digital environment is still surrounded by prejudices and concerns above all regarding its use by children and teens. Teachers play a key role in educating young students on how to use the Internet and technology in general in a responsible and safe way, in order to help them build a strong awareness of opportunities and threats of cyberspace.

In GIIS, Dubai, during the ICT classes, students of grades 5 and above were taught with examples about the importance of cyber safety, protection of technological devices, safe sites for learning and research, prevention of cyberbullying and guidelines to prevent and handle it. Students were also given awareness of the importance of self-image and educated on the importance of thinking before posting. In order to emphasise the same, many activities were done by the students like taking a quiz on cyber safety, creating documents and presentations on the importance of cyber safety and how to prevent cyber bullying and steps to handle it. Students also created surveys using Google forms on the topic Online safety.

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Students use the internet more and more whether it is at home, for e-learning, for doing research and projects, on their mobile phones or on a games console. With this in mind, internet safety and knowing how to protect them online is essential. The internet is a safe, fun and informative place at the same time caution is needed because the internet can also be dangerous. By getting into the habit of following good internet safety practices, students can protect their information and identity for years to come.

Parents play a critical role in ensuring their children have a safe and positive experience online but in order to do this, parents must be aware of how children and young people use the internet. Children today are connected in a multitude of different ways, but the foundation of their online experience typically begins with the technology they have at home. We encourage parents to establish rules, monitor use and discuss safety practices with their children as the best way to help them become safe and self-aware media users.

GIIS Dubai believes that school and parents are partners in paving the path for the childs future. As a result Cyber safety Awareness Pointers for Parents and Students was shared with the students and parents, this covered the importance of cyber safety, internet safety tips for parents and students, cyberbullying prevention and tips to handle the same. The official link for cyber safety and digital security of UAE was also shared. The details of the contact points for help and guidance from school were also shared through mail and also posted on Google classroom.

It is important to recognize that the online classroom is in fact a classroom, and certain behaviour is expected when students communicate with both peers and the teachers. These guidelines for online behaviour and interaction are known as netiquette. Good netiquette involves respect for the privacy of others, avoid doing anything online that will disturb or frustrate other people, maintaining discipline and respect during online classes.

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In GIIS Dubai, we use zoom for e-learning classes and google classroom as the e learning and content sharing platform. The orientation workshops for using these platforms were given to the parents and students as a part of implementation of online learning in the school. The teachers upload the contents, activities and resource links using google classroom and the students also can upload their work. The online classes include normal classes for the students, and the same is used for online competitions, workshops and for after school activities, assessments etc. Students also use these platforms for self and peer assessments. It is very important for the students to be responsible digital citizens and to respect and follow the class rules. The Student Netiquette for all the grades were shared through mail and also using Google classrooms and are uniformly followed by all the students in the school and is also ensured by the teachers before the class for effectiveness. With all these measures, we in GIIS Dubai follow a safe and secure cyber network , teaching and learning environment for the students and teachers.

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Leander ISD is proud to congratulate Cedar Park High School senior Aaron Lukenbill as the LISD Fine Arts Student of the Week.

In January, Aaron became a 2-time 6A TMEA All-State Bassoonist. Earning membership in the 6A TMEA All-State bands is the highest honor a high school student can achieve. Luke has also has been a finalist in the Cedar Park Young Artist Contest!

“In addition to competing well as an individual, Aaron is a model student in the Timberwolf Band for the past four years,” director Steve Wessels said. “Aaron is the type of student that shines as an example to all, both musically and in character.”

Congratulations to Cedar Park High School’s Aaron Lukenbill, the LISD Fine Arts Student of the Week!


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Mother with daughter and son, holding hands walking on the street, wearing home made face mask for coronavirus pandemic.

The CDC is recommending people wear cloth face coverings in public settings, including kids over the age of 2.

As children are experiencing many changes with the COVID-19 pandemic, from school uncertainty to not getting to see their friends, the Loma Linda University Children’s Health team wants to help parents facing the challenge of masking their children.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention currently recommends people wear cloth face coverings in public settings and when around people who don't live in their household. Regarding children, the CDC recommends kids over the age of 2 wear cloth masks.

Children’s Hospital Child Life Services team of child life specialists are experts in minimizing the fear and stress experienced by children, adolescents and families during hospitalization. Specialist Jamie Jones, MS, offers parents some easy tips to help their children adapt to wearing a mask.

1. Focus on normalizing the mask

Jones explains that kids often learn best by example. She encourages parents to introduce and normalize the mask by letting them see parents consistently wearing their masks.

2. Make it fun

Present the mask in a playful way at home by placing the mask on their stuffed animals or dolls. Decorate a mask with stickers or let your child choose a mask they like with a favorite superhero or character design.

3. Explain why

Some children may want to know why they have to wear a mask at all. Try to explain the necessity of a mask in easy-to-understand and positive language. She suggests a simple explanation of a mask stopping the spread of germs. Be open to answering their questions.

4. Validate feelings

If your child expresses frustration while wearing the mask, validate and acknowledge their feelings, but remind them of the need to wear a mask during this pandemic.

5. Practice makes perfect

Just like parents may have to remind their kids to wash their hands, gently remind them about the need to wear a mask, and practice wearing/adjusting it correctly before leaving the house.

Although it may take time for your child to adjust to wearing a mask, Jones encourages parents to stay patient while practicing mask-wearing with their children. Positive encouragement will go a long way, Jones says.

Visit the website to learn more about how Children's Health is supporting our community during this ongoing pandemic.


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Wearing a mask is the best way to slow the spread of the virus and keep your community healthy.

As society makes moves to reduce the spread of COVID-19, many states — including California — are now requiring people to wear face coverings in most public spaces. Guidance from both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization now recommend wearing masks in public, a stark difference from the original recommendations from the organizations.

“Advice is updated as we learn more about this new virus,” says Jennifer Veltman, MD, chief of infectious diseases at Loma Linda University Health. “The evidence is now clear that masks help slow the spread of COVID-19.”

In addition to the evidence that wearing a mask is effective in preventing COVID-19, Loma Linda University Health employees have additional reasons for wearing their masks.

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Fortnite active users on iPhone down 60%, Epic Games says – Business Insider
  • ‘Fortnite’ creator Epic Games filed a new legal challenge against Apple on Friday night, arguing it should be forced to allow the game back on the App Store.
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Epic Games, the creator of “Fortnite,” is still trying to force Apple to restore the game to the App Store while the two companies duke it out over whether Apple’s rules on in-app purchases are legal.

Epic in a new filing submitted to the court late on Friday said iOS usership had plummeted since Apple effectively booted ‘Fortnite’ off the App Store on August 27.

Epic wrote in its filing: “Daily active ‘Fortnite’ users on iOS have already declined by more than 60% since Apple began its retaliatory campaign.” The firm added that Apple’s actions will “wreak havoc on the existing Fortnite community.”

Epic also revealed in its filing iOS users make up the biggest chunk of “Fortnite” players overall.

Out of 350 million registered users, more than 116 million are iOS users — equating to a third. “Fortnite” is also playable on Android, the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PCs, and macOS (from which it has also been booted).

Epic claimed in the new filing that Apple has banned it for one year, and argues losing access to its iOS players will do irreparable damage.

“Epic may never see these users again. It will also be denied the opportunity to access even a single new user among the one-billion-plus iOS users for at least the next year,” the company wrote.

This new filing comes after Epic was partially denied a restraining order to try and force Apple to allow “Fortnite” back on the App Store, after a court found Epic had not demonstrated getting booted off the App Store would result in “irreparable harm.” The judge also said Epic’s position was “of its own making” and that it “strategically chose to breach its agreements with Apple.”

Epic’s fight with Apple began on August 13, when it updated its game for Apple and Android so that all in-app purchases were now via its own payment system. Apple and Google both took “Fortnite” off their storefronts citing guideline violations. In Apple’s case, developers are obligated to use Apple’s in-app payment system, which automatically takes a 15% to 30% commission for Apple on every payment made through it.

Epic argues this is anticompetitive, and it’s not the only developer to fight Apple over the rule.

Spotify lodged a complaint in the EU last year which has resulted in an antitrust investigation into the practice. Facebook also recently got into a spat with Apple over the fee after Apple refused to waive it for a new Facebook feature.

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Bengaluru Joint Commissioner of Police Sandeep Patil said in a tweet “Three more cases of cricket betting detected by CCB during ongoing #IPL2020. Betting done through online apps”.

Speaking to the media Sandeep Patil said betting was done in the city using applications such as Lotusbook, Cric365day and Falcon.

Raids were carried out at Puttenahalli, Konanakunte and Byatarayanapura police station limits.

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The four people involved in it were arrested and Rs 4.91 lakh cash and six mobiles phones were confiscated by the police.

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What worked for tigers in Madhya Pradesh

Suhas Kumar

Last year, on International Tiger Day, the Union Minister of Environment and Forests had announced the result of 2018 All India tiger and co-predator population estimation which made it clear that Madhya Pradesh now had the maximum number of tigers in India. Soon the Media began trumpeting from rooftops that Madhya Pradesh has regained its status as ‘Tiger State”.

Some naive people attribute the increase in tiger population in Madhya Pradesh to sheer luck and advocate that to sustain these number all the tiger reserves must open every inch of their territories to tourists. Such a view only highlights their ignorance of the issues plaguing Wildlife conservation in Madhya Pradesh and India.

The following four major actions taken by the Wildlife wing of M.P. from 2012 to 2017 are responsible for this success-

  • Large scale successful village relocation programme that provided much needed inviolate spaces for tigers
  • Improving the degrading grasslands of protected areas and transforming vacated village fields into productive grasslands.
  • Strengthening the protection and management capabilities of territorial divisions by training and equipping officers and staff for conservation of wildlife within their respective jurisdictions.
  • Revamping the Tiger strike Force to effectively control wildlife crime
    During the early days of Wildlife Conservation in Madhya Pradesh, despite the dearth of money and land for village relocation and rehabilitation, we were able to relocate some villages from Kuno, Pench and Satpura from Central government funding and mustered resources from state funds to shift several villages from Kanha and Madhav national Parks. Later in 2008, a reasonably better policy and package was launched by Government of India. (From 1978 to 2012 we could relocate only around 57 villages.)
The author (in maroon shirt) listening to the villagers at Janwar relocation site, Panna

But the problem didn’t end there as Government of India had little funds to spare. Here one of our most resourceful officers Jitendra Agrawal, who had joined as APCCF wildlife in 2012 (and later became the Chief Wildlife Warden), convinced the state government to allocate funds from surpluses in the Tribal department. The then CS and PS forest were quite helpful and soon we had enough funds to relocate villages from Kanha, Satpura, Panna,Bandhavgarh and Sanjay tiger Reserves and some of the sanctuaries like Ratapani, Kheoni, Nauradehi, Gandhisagar,and Orchha. The village relocation was thoroughly planned and executed. From 2012 to the present more than 100 villages have been relocated outside Tiger reserves and sanctuaries.

The managers kept a detailed record of all the aspects of relocation and ensured post-relocation hand-holding. Both Kanha and Satpura received international acclaim for their extraordinary work. And the end result was that the tigers of both reserves got extensive inviolate areas at their disposal and the prey responded to the additional areas as the sites were converted into flourishing grassland with the able assistance of Professor Muratkar.

We utilized the services of Professor Murtkar to revive degraded grasslands and create vacated farmlands into grasslands in several protected areas and even territorial divisions.

This way, huge additional habitats for herbivores were created and that helped tigers to disperse, occupy new habitats and breed freely. The surplus tigers began to move out of PAs and travel to the vacant habitats that were once inhabited by their forefathers.

The biggest issue before us was to protect tigers dispersing out from the safe confines of tiger reserves.
The central government was unable to provide sufficient funds for wildlife management outside PAs, where most conflicts occur and poaching as well as the retaliatory killing of wild animals takes place. Being intensely aware of this predicament the Wildlife Wing of Madhya Pradesh tried to persuade the state government to create a separate budget head under the state plan and this task was taken up by Jitendra Agrawal as the APCCF Development.

The initiative for creating a separate head in the state plan paid dividends and in 2011 we could succeed in creating a separate budget head for managing wildlife beyond PAs.

Sadly, when this budget head was finally created in 2011 some myopic officers, in the Wildlife Wing then, were not ready to own this head as the allocations were meant to be utilized by territorial divisions. It was only in early 2012 when I joined the Wildlife Wing and found that this important resource was not being utilized at all, I requested the CWLW to allow me to handle this budget head and he graciously agreed to it. We sat together to create a list of activities that territorial officers could use this fund for. Later after Jitendra joined me in later part of 2012 he further analysed and mapped the sensitive wildlife areas that helped in better allocation of funds to the neediest areas.

This additional resource came very handy in effectively combating wildlife crime, rescuing wildlife, erecting crop protection fences, organising skill training for territorial staff, compensating people for loss of life, injury and crop depredation expeditiously, experimenting with mass capture and translocation of problem animals to other suitable habitats and for funding research to create sterility vaccine that could be administered en masse to herbivores inhabiting farmlands.

The territorial officers, who were earlier reluctant to get into wildlife management and used to disown tigers that wandered into their jurisdiction, were now enthused into taking action, a series of training, supply of necessary equipment and timely availability of funds for habitat improvement and protection were the catalyst towards this change in attitude. Regular appreciation of excellent officers and field personnel through the State level wildlife Award given out yearly also provided motivation.

With my constant persuasion, in 2014, the State government ordered a mandatory six-monthly review of all territorial forest divisions to assess the efficacy of their efforts towards tiger conservation.

In 2008, to utilize a special central allocation of ten crores specifically for tiger conservation, I had written the concept note for creating the State Tiger Strike force at Bhopal with five field units located at strategic places that are the hubs of wildlife crime or transit points for wildlife trade besides the force there was a provision to establish fully equipped Tiger Protection Chowkies in the vulnerable ranges of territorial divisions adjoining Tiger reserves.

The tiger strike force was created from the special funds provided by the state by the Planning Commission for tiger conservation, two of these units were provided with dog squads (now more dog squads have been added). After my return from a two-year sabbatical, I was given the charge of Protection wing where during my field tours I realized that both the strike force units and tiger chowkies are in dire straits. I vowed to strengthen them. From the day I joined the wildlife wing in 2012 began working for infusing life into the strike Force and soon it became a force to reckon with.

These multi-pronged efforts contributed to the well-being of all wildlife in the state. It makes me giggle when I try to imagine how sheer luck compels tigers to breed more and shun poachers.

I am happy that there are wonderful officers manning the wildlife HQ and HOFF’s office now and they would ensure that the tempo continues and the entire FD as one unit works towards safeguarding wildlife and their habitats.

The author Suhas Kumar, is former PCCF Madhya Pradesh. Presently he is Members Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh State Wildlife Boards. He is a wildlife expert and has played a major role in devloping the Pench Tiger Reserve during his earlier stint as Park Director.

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  1. Wonderful article Suhas though you have left many a initiative like Wildlife forensic lab at Jabalpur, translocation of tigers from tiger dense PAs to deficient areas, translocations of cheetals, swamp deer, using tiger foundation kitty to undertake proactive measures for which there were no budgetary provisions etc, probably due to space limitation. In fact the article reminds me of karma yoga wherein you carry out your duties without waiting for the results but such efforts never go in vain. The nature rewards you with results which are beyond your wild expectations, as it happened in Madhya Pradesh. Congratulations to you and Jitendra for seeing your tireless efforts rewarded.

  2. Narendra Kumar Sir, thank you so much for appreciating my article. this piece was mainly focused on the new strategies that we pursued from 2012 to 2017, which resulted in the increase in tiger population in the state. You were our leader then.The other milestones mentioned by you are described in my story titlled ” Conserving Wildlife in MP : a long journey in brief’ .

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He’s now embroiled in a controversy over anti-Asian remarks he made a couple of months ago, but an attempt to mend fences with a community meeting today added some more fuel to the fire when he called Polish people “Polacks” — which is tantamount to calling Asians the “C-word” and African Americans, uh, you know, the “N-word.”

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In the decade since, he’s been dogged by other legal problems: charges that he failed to pay his taxes, various traffic violations and charges from a girlfriend that he was stalking her, and a special counsel’s investigation that found he had benefited from a contract he awarded the girlfriend.

In early April, Barry ignited the current controversy over Asian Americans by speaking at a victory party for his primary win for re-election to his council seat, about Korean grocers who operate small business in his ward. “We’ve got to do something about these Asians coming in, opening up businesses, those dirty shops,” he said. “They ought to go, I’ll just say that right now, you know. But we need African-American businesspeople to be able to take their places, too.”

He offered an apology of sorts over Twitter about his “bad choice of words” but stood by his point, that Asian store owners ran dirty operations and took jobs away from African Americans.

A couple of weeks later, Barry added fuel to the fire he’d started, by singling out Filipino service workers, specifically nurses: “In fact, it’s so bad, that if you go to the hospital now, you find a number of immigrants who are nurses, particularly from the Philippines,” he said. “And no offense, but let’s grow our own teachers, let’s grow our own nurses — and so that we don’t have to be scrounging around in our community clinics and other kinds of places — having to hire people from somewhere else.”

The comment elicited a strongly worded response from the Philippines’ Ambassador, which included this passage:

Councilmember Barryâ€™s penchant for blaming Asians, who only want to work for their American dream, fuels racism, discrimination, and violence. Such rhetoric does nothing but harm relations among community members, when the times call for developing relationships and finding solutions to common challenges. He owes Filipino nurses an apology for his recent tirade.

That apology came this week, but not because Barry suddenly had a change of heart. It’s because he suffered a blood clot and was hospitalized — and tended to by Filipina nurses. He tweeted:

“Got a blood clot while waiting on plane in Memphis” … “Taking blood thiner. I thank God it was caught. #thankGodALLthetime” … “I also thank outstanding medical staff, incl. kind professional Filipino staff. I stand corrected; I truly didnâ€™t mean 2 hurt or offend.”

So today, Marion Barry took the next step in his march to contrition, hosting a community forum in his ward with representatives of Korean, Chinese and Filipino communities so he could publicly and officially apologize.

Unfortunately, there were people in the audience who publicly echoed Barry’s original sentiments, and then Barry himself veered into new territory by asserting that this dialogue, albeit prickly, is a step forward, and that the US has been built on a long history of racial tension. Here’s the Washington Post on Barry’s latest verbal misstep:

“The Irish caught hell, the Jews caught hell, the Polacks caught hell,” Barry said, invoking a word that Polish people have viewed as disparaging. “We want Ward 8 to be the model of diversity.”

Phew. It’s hard to believe that Marion Barry is a political leader in a high position, with his penchant for speaking before thinking. And, it’s disappointing — and disturbing — that he’s so popular.

The anti-Asian theme is a long-running undercurrent in American race relations, that in some ways can be traced back to the 1960s when the term “Model Minority” was coined. It was created as a label for Japanese Americans at the time, who were held up as a population that had excelled and succeeded despite having been imprisoned in American concentration camps during World War II. (And, because Japanese Americans went to those camps willingly and largely without protest as a way to show their patriotism for the US.)

In a 1966 New York Times magazine essay, a sociologist used the term to describe Japanese Americans and the inference was that African Americans were a “bad” minority because of their demands and social unrest they caused. The same year, a US News & World Report article commended the Chinese American community for being hard-working contributors to the American dream.

By the 1980s and ’90s and into the 2000s, as economic forces led to Asians running businesses in mostly African American neighborhoods, those racial tensions broke out into the open.

There was a widely publicized protest by African Americans against Korean grocers in New York; black youth attacking elderly Asians in San Francisco, and of course, the most explicit, although it started as a protest against an unjust verdict: The LA riots that followed the acquittal of the cops who brutally beat Rodney King. The 20th anniversary of the LA riots were marked just a month ago, ironically amidst Marion Barry’s outrageous statements.

And you know what?

The words that come to my mind are from the vivid plea of Rodney King himself, during the third day of rioting: “People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?”

I wish we could all remember those words. Marion Barry’s carelessness and callousness shows he certainly doesn’t remember them. That’s unfortunate, because he’s in a position to influence his supporters and serve as a bridge between communities to make things right. But Barry seems to have forgotten Rodney King’s words.

They’re good words to at least try to live by.

Here’s the text of a press release sent late this afternoon by the OCA, one of the Asian American organizations who organized the event today with Councilman Barry:

WASHINGTON, D.C. â€“ OCA, a national organization dedicated to advancing the political, social, and economic well-being of Asian Pacific Americans (APAs), applauds Washington, D.C. Councilmember Marion Barry Jr. for publicly acknowledging and apologizing for his problematic statements previously made regarding the APA community.

In todayâ€™s joint press conference with the APA community, Mr. Barry publicly acknowledged his unfortunate statements with sincerity and directly apologized to the community. Taking an active role in advocating for APAs, Executive Director Tom Hayashi also participated in the press conference, touching on the importance of continuing the discourse that is crucial to moving forward. OCA is pleased that a community dialogue has been established in an effort to address Mr. Barryâ€™s concerns while we work in solidarity to improve economic and educational conditions of all citizens within his constituency. It is high time for APAs to stop being polite or deferential; having said that, this does not mean being disrespectful, rude, or inappropriate. The outcome of this event reflects the collective resolve of our community to stand up against insensitive, xenophobic, and unfounded claims.

While the dialogue between Mr. Barry and the APA community is symbolically important, this event must not be an end all or be all for race relations. This marks the beginning of an effort, and more importantly a commitment, to understand the deeper issues that plague our communities. Holding this press conference and the opportunity to express our hurt and concerns directly with the Councilman and members of the community is the easy part of our journey. As we had agreed to today, so much must and should be done in the months and years ahead to address how we can come together to move forward without the pitting and the blaming.

As we struggle as a nation with an economy in recession, issues of educational and economic opportunity continue to stress race relations. Our resolve locally in Washington, D.C., as well as on a national scale, is strong because leadership and relationship building between communities of color are pursued with integrity and solidarity. We must come to a fundamental understanding that we are all Americans; that APAs contribute to their community as much as everyone else. Moving forward is not about pointing to who is more oppressed or privileged. It is about addressing racism squarely for what it is and to overcome it.

Our next step, as an APA community, is to get beyond the personalities and to engage in crucial discussions on how we can address specific issues around economic development and educational opportunities through regularly scheduled meetings sponsored by the D.C. Commission for APIAs. As a national membership driven civil rights organization, OCA will continue to fight injustices and seek to build stronger relationships across communities locally and nationally. For their national collaborative effort, we would like to thank the ongoing support of the Japanese American Citizens League, Asian American Justice Center, Asian Pacific Americans for Progress, National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, and the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance. We would also like to thank all members, donors, and allies for supporting our work.


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What if the one thing that kept you from being a great writer was that you would have to tell the truth to the world?

This is the first in a series of online conversations between myself and interesting people taking place on Friday nights.

Tonight I spoke with Raquel, a writer/editor who is finishing her MA in Publishing, and Brooke, who is finishing her PhD in Visual Anthropology at Temple University. Her forthcoming essay “Grief: Reflections on Ethnography” will be published by Encyclopedia II.

As you may know, I am a writer with an MA in English, concentration in Literary Theory. My list of pubs can be found on my Write page.

I hope you will find some use of our conversation and if you have any thoughts to add, please comment.

Friday, May 9, 2008

9:17 PM me: okay, so can i explain why i have summoned you both here?
i’ll be brief
Raquel: um because we’re cool?
me: cute and cool
Brooke: bc you wanted to ruin our fri nights?
Raquel: teehee hee
Brooke: bc you liiiiiiike us?
me: oh give it up, you didn’t have an awesome friday night planned anyway
9:18 PM Brooke: uts true
me: lol
i heart you both
9:19 PM i don’t want to ruin the silly mood. but, i will.
i once was an ENGLISH TEACHER. It’s in my blood.
Raquel: and probably caused you to want to draw blood from your nimrod students
9:20 PM me: ok, i am having a crisis, so you can think of this a summons to counsel
Brooke: yes!
9:23 PM me: Okay, good. So, I could sum it all up like this: What if the one thing that kept you from being a great writer was that you would have to tell the truth to the world?
I am starting to despair that I will never be the writer I always wanted to be. And I am starting to think it’s because the material that I should be using, I am afraid to use.
Raquel: well i feel like many things keep me from being a great writer, so if that’s all that was in my way, i’d try to figure things out!
9:24 PM but, in all seriousness, i can understand where you are coming from. sometimes writing what you know can be terribly scary
me: haha, raquel. always with the quick wit
Brooke: overcome your fear, nina
thats prob an indication that your material is good
Raquel: the riskiest material is always the juiciest
9:25 PM but god, it can be scary to take that risk can’t it?
Brooke: fuck yes
9:26 PM me: i think that my problem is not baring my own soul, but baring the impressions i have of the world around me. family and friends. writing about my neighborhoods, my parents and siblings. i mean, how do writers do it?
Raquel: i haven’t been able to do it, in various aspects of my life, for a long time
me: risking these relationships like that?
Raquel: they have to be brave enough to not care if they end up alone perhaps?
9:27 PM Brooke: i think the key is to write with compassion
me: both good points
compassion and detachment. very buddhist
9:28 PM Raquel: hahaha wow…. who knew?
well nina you know that quote i have on my blog about how when a writer is born a family dies
Brooke: actually i would not sacrifice my personal relationships
9:29 PM Raquel: i don’t know what i would do because i haven’t written about my family in 6 years
me: i love that quote
9:30 PM see, it’s a complicated thing. no easy answers. that’s why i called you here from across the high plains
Raquel: it is complicated
9:31 PM my cousin is actually writing a memoir about our family now, and the “elders” in the family can’t understand why she would go and write about our business
me: i think what scares me is that writing with compassion, you can still make a person feel uncomfortable. i think writers sacrifice always everyone around them.
Raquel: she thinks it is an important story to tell to the world
9:32 PM me: you have elders? i love it. i don’t really have a tribe like that.
Brooke: in anthropology, we actually have a very strict, codified set of ethics for research, and by extension, writing ethnography
me: but i have a close nuclear family
Brooke: so i sort of envy writers who can forget what their subjects want
9:33 PM me: and we are all easily hurt by each other
Brooke: ah
want to give us a specific example of something youre thinking about writing about?
so maybe we can be more helpful?
me: Brooke, that was very interesting: tell us more
Raquel: yeah i feel vague and muddled right now, but that’s probably because i chugged a gin and tonic earlier tonight!
me: about the ethics of antro
Raquel: yeah that sounds really cool actually
9:35 PM Brooke: we are supposed to have our subjects review our work before we publish
i mean, ideally
of course, in my thesis, there were various people who wanted themselves portrayed in diff ways
9:36 PM and i only felt a loyalty to my main informants who were teenage girls, as opposed to the village leaders who were trying to restrict what i wrote about them
9:37 PM i would not publish something if one of my informants was uncomfortable with it
i might find a way to muddle her identity
me: what was your thesis about?
Brooke: but she would have to say it was ok
gender and secondary schooling
Raquel: wow
Brooke: but in practice, its not like i force them to edit my article drafts
9:38 PM i just keep in mind what i know about them
and dont say anything offensive
me: see, that would make for terrible art
9:39 PM Raquel: it’s interesting that you allow them to review what you write, because in the ethics course i took here (mostly focused on magazinesweb/news sources) we struggled with whether we’d ever allow a source to view an article before it went to print
Brooke: well i say many offensive things about their teachers
Raquel: and we came to the conclusion that we would not want to let our sources view our work generally
9:40 PM me: yes, that’s interesting, how in journalism your subject should not have any control over what is said
Brooke: i mean, youhave to look at the history of the disciplines. for us, we are trying to make up for decades of colonialism
9:44 PM me: absolutely. the major dialogue in the field of lit. theory, when i was in school in the early 2000s was the question of whose voice is spoke, or whose gaze is given dominance
writing the ‘other’ and what not. my masters thesis focused on these questions
9:45 PM i always found it interesting, especially regarding how much people in the west want to write about nonwestern people and how much we muck it up.
9:46 PM but there must be one ethos, i believe, over all, regarding the correct way to approach writing aboutthe world.
Raquel: well i guess people’s approaches to their writing vary by person
9:47 PM i mean, why was augusten bouroughs willing to write all that insane shit about his therapist’s family, much of which they claim was either untrue or family secrets?
9:48 PM me: Gertrude Stein wrote lies in the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and did so gleefully. It was a part of the art.
I don’t mind art that interprets the world through strange lenses, as long as there is a wink somewhere.
Brooke: but i think thats burroughs still wrote in an affectionate way
9:49 PM Raquel: i can’t say, i didn’t read any of his books. i just read about his case and the lawsuit he was embroiled in with the family
Brooke: oh then maybe they didnt think so!
9:50 PM Raquel: i think a lot of problems come in because all of us have our own notion of the “truth” or “Truth” of a story
9:51 PM me: I think that what is important to this matter is that those people who are sincere, who have stories to tell and are artists, not just slanderers or sensationalists, have to ultiately make a choice between being good children and good friends and their honest feelings and thoughts.
Raquel: we see ourselves written about and are like, that is not so
and i think people who do choose to write about family and friends and reveal things need to reflect on it and ask themselves why they’re revealing this stuff….
9:52 PM is it just for the sensationalism? or does the story have some genuine worth to others? or are they in need of exorcising inner demons?
me: Right, no one likes to be written about, even if it i flattering. So, would you say that the writer has to resign themselves to potentially upsetting people?
Raquel: mary karr wrote about her crazy family in a highly compassionate, yet honest, way
me: what is teh book called?
Raquel: liars’ club
Brooke: and she played with the notion of truth, right?
it was explicit
9:53 PM Raquel: i don’t know…. i think in the intro she discussed how she interviewed her mother and sister to check on things
and her sister was like, oh you definitely cried a lot more than you said you did in this story, or something
i read it a few months ago, it’s a little hazy.
9:54 PM Brooke: oh ok i read it yrs ago so never mind
me: i never read it, but maybe i’ll check it out.
9:55 PM Okay, well then, let me ask you Raquelita, about your novel.
9:56 PM Can you tell us what it was about?
9:57 PM Raquel: well it was about a cuban american girl who had a weird relationship with her mother because she was always trying to find out about her mother’s past in cuba
the mother was reticent
the girl felt like she was missing out on a big chunk of her identity
9:58 PM i based a lot of the characters and family dynamic on my own family
and as i started developing the plot, i started to feel this deja vous
and i was like crap
because i realized i was somewhat writing about my older cousin’s experience (the one with the memoir)
9:59 PM she is writing about how she met her half-sister in cuba for the first time when she was 23
so i felt like i had appropriated a story that wasn’t really mine to tell
it just got too hard… i would sit there and try to write and it was like this truth staring me in the face: you are stealing too much from life
10:00 PM me: stealing too much from life?
10:01 PM Raquel: like…. i took my cousin’s story
my characters were too much like my relatives
Brooke: but was your concern that you and her were writing the same book or that you were writing about her life?
Raquel: and i just felt like i couldn’t do it anymore
it was both
10:02 PM me: but why couldn’t you write about your own life?
Raquel: because my life is boring
and the stories aren’t identical
but it the same theme of finding lost family back in cuba
i did it without being conscious of doing so
10:03 PM me: AHA. There’s the rub. Okay, this is the problem of thinking that I am talking about.
10:06 PM Raquel’s life isnt boring. And as a writer, even the most banal daily existence is rich with internal life, so stories could weave in and out of reality, patch together whatever it is your imagination can glean. But writers get locked down because they don’t know how to ride that line between real life and fantasy. And I think this is my problem, too, because my life isn’t exactly action-packed either, but i have had many rich internal experiences that arose out of a rather normal life on the surface.
But I dichotomize the two and lose out on the best of each.
10:07 PM Raquel: i think for me i just lost the feeling of authority to tell the story
even though it was a fictional story
10:08 PM me: I think I am afraid to show the world how hurt I have been by the daily trails of my life. But that is where my truth has been and as long as I skirt it, i will not be writing my best work
10:09 PM Raquel: i don’t want to step on my cousin’s toes…. because let’s face it, even though i shouldn’t let it be this way, i still give more respect to the true to life story than my made up for-fun story
me: but what is all this bs about having authority to tell a story? did shakespeare have authority to patch together myth and other people’s work and make brilliant plays? this pomo pc bullshit is killing the imagination and the life of writers.
Raquel: i’m the first to agree with that
10:10 PM maybe it’s just an excuse, but it’s one i’ve found very convenient
Brooke: but nina why are you skirting it?
10:12 PM me: i love this article by Jeanette Winterson about Gertrude Stein and how upset Matisse and others were about their portrayal in her book. Winterson was like, these guys were getting lambasted by the public for paiting reality in ways that didn’t look real and then when Stein wrote reality in ways that changed it, they couldn’t stand it. I do think people expect a level of ‘recorded truth’ to stories and prize, especially these days, reality over fantasy.
10:13 PM To answer brooke’s question, i am afraid that if i told the truth about my childhood and high school years that my mother would look like a monster, my father like a ghost, and my friends would realize how little I liked them
not to mention my siblings
Brooke: is that how you want to portray them?
10:14 PM me: i would rather paint a more complete picture, but even with more dimensionality, there would be much said that i couldn’t take back.
10:16 PM Raquel: hmm
10:17 PM me: But there is so much here…where my philosophy and sensibility comes from…from growing up in mediocrity…I still havea lot of resentment and maybe writing it would just serve as catharsis, nothing more. But, I don’t know. I have real problems with the general sensibility of middle class white america and i am afraid that if i let myself go, i’d just skewer everyone except the very best of people (like you two 🙂
i think i am coming to terms, just these last months, with how i am not, at heart, a nice person, like i always thought i was.
and how maybe this is what i have to explore in order to grow as a writer.
10:18 PM Raquel: yeah i’m sort of a bitch 🙂
me: ❤
Brooke: nina i would say start writing and see where it goes
no use speculating beforehand
Raquel: nina it’s easy to hate people because so many of them are so stupid
10:19 PM have you already written something about your friends and fam?
me: well, i have written about the past and it turns into essay, not fiction. see, that is where i am stuck, trying to turn it into fiction. I wrote a short story about boys that kill each other in the woods and I used my memories of how I felt in high school for that one.
and it turned out pretty good, so yeah, maybe that’s the way to go.
10:20 PM It’s called AC/DC.
Raquel: i remember that story
i enjoyed it
it was creepy and very good
me: good !
Brooke: send it to me!
10:21 PM me: okay, well, then, i will try my hand at some fiction that calls forth those years and see what happens.
i’ll send right now.
10:22 PM Okay, I feel like that’s a good place to stop unless you want to continue on in different areas. It’s been an hour and a half. Didn’t mean to keep you so long.
0:23 PM Brooke: i hope this was somewhat useful to you

i apologize for being tired
and not contributing much
10:24 PM Raquel: yeah i don’t know if i said anything particularly useful
i’m not much of a writer these days
10:25 PM me: If you go to http://www.darkreveries.com/ and go to the archives for February 2007, two of my stories are published there, including AC/DC
You were both incredible.
I think there is a lot of food for thought here.

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NaVorro Bowman named most overrated 49er by CBS Sports

In what must be a miserable exercise, Pete Prisco of CBS Sports came up this week with the most overrated player for every NFL team. For the 49ers, he picked four-time All-Pro linebacker NaVorro Bowman.

Here’s what he wrote:

(Bowman) deserves a ton of credit for getting back on the field after his awful knee injury in January of 2013. He missed all of 2014, but came back to play 16 games last season. He wasn’t the same player, which is why he’s on this list. There are some who actually think he was the same type of player he was before the injury. That’s why he’s here. I think that might happen this year.

There aren’t many players on the 49ers that could even qualify for the label of ‘overrated’ outside of Bowman and perhaps Joe Staley. The 49ers roster is young and devoid of veteran talent after seeing so many key players leave over the last 24 months.

Bowman led the NFL with 154 tackles in his first season back from his career-altering knee injury and was named a first-team All-Pro. He’s received those honors every year since he became a full-time starter in 2011.

Tackles, of course, can be a misleading statistic. The 49ers often found themselves behind in games, leading to opponents running the ball to kill the clock.

Bowman had more opportunities to stop the run than fellow first-team All-Pro Luke Keuchly, who played in the heart of Carolina’s sixth-ranked defense en route to a 15-1 record. San Francisco had the league’s 29th-ranked defense.

During the offseason Bowman said his knee is far more healthy entering the coming season than in 2015. His knee required hours of stretching and strengthening before he could step on the field.

“I feel great. Adding on days on top of days,” Bowman said in June. “I feel it sometimes, but it’s nowhere near what I went through last year with the constant attention I had to put on it. This year, I’m able to wake up and ride. That’s definitely a better thing that it was last year.”

If Bowman can return to the player he was before in the injury in 2013, when he was a defensive player of the year candidate, it would be a significant boon for San Francisco in Chip Kelly’s first season.

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