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The Audrey Braille Display – LIVE!

It’s taken far longer than I wanted, but I am finally looking at a finished prototype for the Audrey Braille Display. Made of 3mm Acrylic laser-cut pieces (via the Victoria Makerspace laser cutter), it uses two stepper motors, connects to an Arduino (and LadyAda Motor Driver board), and displays 5 characters:

UM Audrey Model Braille Display

The goal now is to get this working smoothly, and thereby figure out what needs reworking. Hopefully, I can get to work on version 002 and have it ready later this month; in any case, as promised, here is the current design for this version, in Sketchup format:

Download Sketchup Model of Utopia Mechanicus Braille Display (Audrey Model) Version 001

Release under the Perl-Style Open Artistic License, the file contains the assembled model, with all parts as groups (and some collections of parts grouped as well, such as the motor mounts). This should make it easy to pull pieces out to see what they do, without damaging surfaces.

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  1. As the creator of the Natesan Braille Display, I am fascinated by Audrey
    I like the following points made by David :
    1.That he is allergic to high cost and compexity and considers them bad words.
    2. That he would like people to make Audrey-like units themselves.
    3. That the needs of a little girl in rural India is the typical image that drives him. and
    4. That ready-made solutions appear in his mind out of the blue is attributable to the Divine and not himself. This is exactly what keeps happening to me

  2. Great work! I remember how expensive the Braille displays used by the visually challenged were when I was doing desktop support in the 90s. I always wondered why those devices always seemed to 1) not benefit at all from cheaper tech 2) have poor support 3) were so darned proprietary – no interoperability between vendors. One has to assume that since government assistance was available they were going to gouge as much as possible – sad. Two big thumbs up!

    • Thank you for the thumbs! I agree, it seems odd that the prices and technology has stymied these devices. However, you have a point – where there are government subsidies, there’s little incentive to lower prices. As for businesses, if I was a CEO, I imagine it would be hard to tell my shareholders I’m lowering prices just to be nice – I think they can even be sued for doing that!

  3. As a contributor to the Natesan Display in its formative stages it’s now very interesting to see an Open Source project launched to extend the basic principle of a low-cost ‘braille encoder’ mechanism and display.

    I’m now wondering how we might keep track of questions asked, and the answers, for specific design details – on this website.

    Thank you for getting the ball rolling!

    • Thank you for your kind words – as for communication, I’m patterning much of my work here on the RepRap series of 3D printers (the projects are similar in quite a few ways) – they have a wiki there as well as a forum so I will be looking into setting those up eventually (depending on interest).

  4. Congratulations on your innovative design! I run an alternate project with similar principles (see the site for details). Myself, Keith Shaw and N. Krishnaswamy have been tossing ideas to and fro on both projects for some time, and its gratifying to see others come at the problem from the same social angles, as it were.

    Best of luck for development in the new year,

  5. Hi David,

    I am an 8th Grade student and am creating the first ever student designed Braille Computer. I have already set up and programmed the input part, only to stuck at the final part, the output. Was there any progress made after 2011-2012 on this project? I want my project to be affordable for all as the outrageous prices today do not seem fit or fair for the visually impaired.

    • There is some progress, but unfortunately time and money require me focusing elsewhere. All the best on your task however, as there is a need for a more affordable device!

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Is it possible to work while traveling quickly?

Hello Mellissa,

From my experience, I have found that it may be a mute effort to try to look for formal employment when traveling if you only want to be a places for few days: you will probably spend as much time looking for work as you would actually doing it. Though asking around for work never hurts. So every time you go into a restaurant, ask if they could use a temporary dishwasher; when going to bars, ask if they could use a couple of bartenders or wait staff. Ask around where ever you go on your regular rounds about towns, take whatever comes up. Post on Couchsurfing.org message boards, ask around the expat bars. Look as you go.

Though I would think that it may be a better strategy to work for yourselves as you travel, rather than always depending on finding work with an employer. If you could start a little business as you move about, then you have truly found the key to perpetual travel. You have a boat, so there are room for supplies. Maybe you could start a little mobile shop and sell jewelry or souvenirs in the streets, or perhaps you can offer the people that you meet little tours on your boat as a trade for food or for a little money. If your way of making money is self contained, as in your own mobile sort of business, it is my impression that your income could be a little more regular and dependable.

It is my impression that it would be your best bet to offer your services to the yachting/ cruising/ boating communities that you pass through. If you don’t already, I would advise that you learn everything you can about diesel engine repair, sail repair, refrigeration (especially!), painting, if you are SCUBA divers bring your gear with you so that you can fix under the boat problems for other cruisers. Basically, figure out what services long term boaters need, learn them, and then offer them to other sailors as you go. Every time you pull up to a port, a little harbor, a river docking, put up flyers all around the bulletin boards of the sailing community advertising your services. Talking shop around the sailor bars, and hanging out on the docks will probably be your best bet for finding employment to keep you afloat, literally.

It is my impression that this would be your best way of making the money to travel perpetually. You obviously know a few things about sailing, so if you could just do the dirty work for other sailors, you could probably make a decent living as you cruise around the world.

There are three things that a traveler needs: transportation, food, and shelter. As you are traveling on a boat, you have two of these necessities beat from the start. The money that you will actually need to travel — save repairs, supplies, and fuel for the boat — are almost nil. If you eat in markets and have cooking facilities on the boat, you are looking at $5 a day on food for the both of you. Stock up on beans, stock up on rice, noodles, textured vegetable protein, get a fruit dehydrator, think about food in terms of weight/ nutrition/ price ratios. Put solar panels and little wind turbines on your boat. Keep massive stores of bulk food on board, and you could probably eat for a penance.

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How to make money traveling by sailboat in Europe

Hi there Wade

Loving the website. Planning to travel round Europe on a sailing boat, we will be penniles and need to make some cash on the way round to pay for food and a few beers but obviously a bed is always available to us. We’ll be travelling down to the Med through the French canals and want to see if we can become perpetual travellers. We’re hard working but want to be on the move pretty much all the time at first.

So my question is, how difficult will it be for us to find work for just a few days/a week or 2 and then be moving on? Will it be best to tell potential employers of our plans to leave almost immediately?!

Hopefully you can give us a few tips on how best to go about this, cant let this dream slip away or have to return to the grey English skies having failed and in need of a few good meals!

Thanks for your time

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Whitney Tilson Short Wingstop Inc (WING) [Slides]

I gave a presentation at the Robin Hood Investors Conference yesterday entitled Why I’m Cautious, A Stroll Down Memory Lane, and My Favorite Long and Short Ideas,

In it, I:

  • Discuss why I’ve positioned my fund so cautiously;
  • Reviewed the 12 ideas I pitched at prior Robin Hood conferences, including three still in my portfolio: Spirit Airlines and SodaStream (longs) and Exact Sciences, my largest short today; and
  • Shared three current favorite ideas: Berkshire Hathaway (long), the Direxion Daily 20+ Year Treasury Bull 3x ETF (short; a bet on rising interest rates), and a new short idea, Wingstop.

Shortly after my presentation, I did a 19-minute interview with Bloomberg TV about these topics (and why I’m torn on whether to short Tesla), which you can watch here:

2) Despite being less than 40% long and 20% short, my fund had a +7.5% month, quite a bit due to Fannie Mae, which, after today’s 46% pop, is up 172% since election day. I’m pretty sure that surpasses Netflix for the biggest, fastest move of any stock in my fund’s nearly 18-year history…

The GSEs’ move is based on the (correct, I think) belief that the new Trump administration will strike a deal to liberate the GSEs from government control. Here’s an excerpt from an interview this morning that Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s appointee to be our next Treasury Secretary, did with Maria Bartiromo:

Maria:  “Would you move to have these privatized?”

Mnuchin:  “Absolutely. We gotta get Fannie and Freddie out of government ownership. It makes no sense that these are owned by the government and have been controlled by the government for as long as they have. In many cases this displaces private lending in the mortgage markets and we need these entities that will be safe; so let me just be clear we’ll make sure that when they’re restructured they’re absolutely safe and they don’t get taken over again but we gotta get them out of government control.”

Maria:  “This is a big deal. These are huge institutions. You think that…if we saw that as not complicated, wouldn’t that have happened already…that it would get out of government?”

Mnuchin:  “Well, I think with this administration [Obama] it hasn’t been a priority. If it had been a priority it would have. And in our administration it’s right up there in the list of the top 10 things that we’re going to get done and we’ll get it done reasonably fast.”

(No snarky comments please about the how thankful I should be to the guy who I tried so hard to prevent from becoming President — LOL! I have no regrets, as I am quite certain that my warnings will prove prescient (though I mostly hope I’m wrong)…)

3) Mark Spiegel of Stanphyl Capital gave an excellent presentation at the Robin Hood conference yesterday on why he’s short Telsa, which he’s given me permission to share so I’ve posted it at: tsla-spiegel-rh16. He also gave me permission to share his November letter (attached), in which has also discusses Tesla.

4) 17 years ago, near the peak of the Internet bubble in Nov. 1999, Buffett predicted stock market returns of 6%. The actual number? 5.9%! See: Surprise! Warren Buffett turns out to be more prescient about stocks than politics, by Carol Loomis ( Here are his predictions for the next 17 years:

Having proved his ability to handle crystal ball work, Buffett, 86, was asked by this writer—an 87-year-old friend of his—whether he might care to make a prediction about total returns over the 17 years starting now and ending late in 2033. He declined to name a rate of return, explaining “I have to be careful what I say because I have no doubt that you will be around then to write another follow-up report.”

Buffett did, nonetheless, proffer three thoughts about those coming 17 years.

First, he believes that an investor in a low-cost S&P index fund who reinvests all dividends will do better—very likely substantially better—than an investor who buys a 17-year government bond and reinvests all of his coupons in the same instrument.

Second, he suspects that amateur, “do-nothing” investors following the same index fund strategy will in aggregate end up with results superior to those realized by investors who choose to employ professionals charging high fees.

Third, he predicts that many professionals who fail their investors by underperforming the index funds will get very rich in the process of doing so.

5) It will indeed be interesting to see if the media can succeed in bringing down HLF (and its scummy peers) where regulators failed…

Clearly, John Oliver’s show affected Herbalife’s stock price more negatively than the FTC’s injunction. It might not make any sense, considering that the FTC’s ruling cost Herbalife loads of cash, and hobbled its business model, while Last Week Tonight merely turned Herbalife and other MLMs into a laughing stock for 30 minutes.

But that is the power of the media. Throughout history, the media has breathed life into entire industries such as the diamond industry in the 1930’s after The Great Depression (most engagements to this day are still consummated with a diamond ring) and has even influenced change in individual companies such as McDonald’s (remember Super Size Me? McDonald’s eventually scrapped the super-sized option from its menu.)

The market’s stark contrast in reaction to the FTC injunction versus Last Week Tonight‘s MLM episode is evidence of a primal force at work–people can shrug off losing money, but they can’t stand to be socially humiliated or isolated.

This sustained and increasingly brazen “media-battering” puts Herbalife at risk of “permanent brand impairment”–the risk that someday, it might become common household perception that MLMs are something to be viewed as repulsive, rather than something neutral or even positive.

6) I sure hope Trump, Mnuchin, et al have the good sense to realize how urgently necessary the CFPB is, especially to protect the very people who delivered the election to Trump. This article, Will Guys With Guns Replace the Agency Elizabeth Warren Created? (, highlights one of the many awful things likely to happen if the CFPB is eliminated or neutered:


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New treatment uses ozone and oxygen in hand-held device to treat herniated discs

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New treatment uses ozone and oxygen in hand-held device to treat herniated discs

An artist's rendering of the hand-held AO-1000 treatment device that uses an oxygen-ozone combination to relieve the pain associated with herniated discs.

Patients and radiologists at Vancouver General Hospital are the first in North America to test an ozone/oxygen injection treatment to alleviate the pain from herniated discs in the lower back, a condition affecting at least five per cent of adults.

The treatment uses a combination of oxygen and ozone gas because its oxidating effect has been shown to shrink bulging discs, reducing compression by pulling the herniated part away from nerve roots.

Dr. Peter Munk, the Vancouver radiologist who’s leading the local study and is head of the musculoskeletal division at the University of B.C. and VGH, said a 2010 meta-analysis looked at results from about a dozen studies involving 8,000 European patients.

“There was a strong suggestion that patients got better more rapidly with the treatment. What we’re hoping to see here is that through the ozone process, healing will occur rapidly and patients won’t need other interventions like repeated steroid (cortisone) injections and surgery,” said Munk, who is also editor of the Canadian Association of Radiology journal and has no financial interest in the new therapy.

“The disc is like a fibrous doughnut and you get a herniation when an inner part of the disc bulges out through a weakened area,” Munk said, adding that the vast majority (95 per cent) of herniations occur in the lower back (lumbar) area, where they cause pain in the back and legs by pinching on spinal nerves.

The main objective of the clinical trial, now recruiting 25 participants, is to assess the safety of a new Canadian-engineered injection delivery system for the ozone-oxygen therapy. Discs are like the shock absorbers between the vertebrae; the experimental treatment requires radiologists to use CT imaging so they can guide the needle precisely into the centre of the herniated disc.

The procedure takes 20 minutes and, as an outpatient service, should cost the health care system far less than surgery, according to Active-O, Inc., the company which is sponsoring the trial and owns rights to the AO-1000 treatment, developed by Toronto radiologist, Dr. Kieran Murphy, of the University Health Network.

The injectable gas treatment is widely used in Asia and Europe but Murphy’s invention is a new hand-held device which utilizes a special syringe to deliver the treatment. The conventional system is more cumbersome as it uses ozone from massive machines that can only be located in certain hospital settings. The new system involves an oxygen supply from a small canister. Oxygen is drawn into the syringe and with the flick of a button on the hand-held device, an electrical charge generates ozone that is then injected into the lower back area.

Surgery is usually reserved for the worst cases, and involves removal of a portion of the diseased disc and fusion of the vertebrae. Munk said the ozone-oxygen treatment is not meant for the worst cases. it’s intended for the most common types — bulging (contained) herniated discs.

Although infection, bleeding and embolisms are worst-case complications of the ozone treatment, previous studies have shown such risks are less than one per cent or one in 1,500 patients. Even though the new device is being used on humans for the first time (it was previously tested in animals) ActiveO says the design of the device and the use of imaging guidance should all but eliminate risks.

According to the meta-analysis of ozone treatments for herniated lumbar discs, published in the Journal of Interventional Radiology, Italians were the first to inject one to three ml of ozone/oxygen into herniated discs in the 1990s. The study was partly funded by ActiveO, and authors, including Murphy, declared direct or indirect financial relationships with the company.

While ozone therapy has been used extensively in other parts of the world for disc herniation treatment, it is still considered a toxic gas when inhaled and it is controversial as an alternative treatment for other diseases.

Alternative health practitioners have touted it as a remedy because it has been shown to deactivate disease particles in laboratory situations. But there’s a paucity of evidence to support the theory that ozone increases oxygen in the body and that cancer or other diseases won’t thrive in a high oxygen environment.

For more information on enrolment in the VGH disc herniation trial, call 604-875-4612. Munk said hospitals in Alberta and Ontario are also expected to participate in the trial.

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The Community R-VI cross county team earned three medals and an all-EMO honor in the October 15 EMO Conference meet at Elsberry.
Running against 25 others, Leah Mays finished in 8th place with a time of 23:59, shedding 15 seconds off her time at Elsberry last year and earning all-conference honors. Kaitlin Orr medaled with at 14th place finish and a time of 25:15. On the boys team, Ryan Kitchen medaled in 15th place at 19:47 and Lance Gibson placed 23rd with a time of 21:41. Kitchen and Gibson ran against 38 runners.
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Default Rustoleum from Home Depot

If you haven't tried the self-etching primer from Rustoleum sold at home depot and lowes you should. I found it to be much better in a number of ways.

It goes on smoother, sticks better and lasts longer. I've been using it on aircraft restoration projects for years. Some of the Sem and NAPA primers cause certain cover coats to wrinkle this one doesn't.

It works great on both steel and aluminium, drys fast and applies nice.

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but I have found some paints wrinkle when top coating SEM. I have not figured out what is causing this, but suspect application issues rather than a problem with the SEM itself.
Generally, SEM appears to be rugged and fast drying. I like it, and will continue using it for the interior as it is easy to touch up any areas that show wear.
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Strawberry Hedgehog’s Raven House Charity Soap Set (tea tree-rosemary facial soap, eucalyptus-lime, sweet orange-clove, and lemongrass-ginger) has some of Tracy’s best selling organic oils soaps, and as a bonus, you get to support a great cause! $20 of every $30 from this set sold between 6/8-7/10 will go to Raven House Animal Sanctuary!

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This mildly scrubby bar of organic oils glycerin soap is just as perfect for your face as our other bars are for your body! Whole rosemary provides strong antioxidant activity, peppermint refreshes and brightens skin and gently exfoliates while pure tea tree essential oil kills break-out causing bacteria! this gentle, cleansing, and balancing bar is great for all skin-types but is perfect for oily to combination skin!

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AS SEEN ON TV! This green beauty will open your eyes and your sinuses with healing eucalyptus, cheerful and uplifting lime and key lime, as well as a hint of lavender. Perfect for anyone with sinus issues or bombarded with pollution on a daily basis.

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PHOENIX (AP) - Jim Tracy and the Colorado Rockies are still searching for their usual late-season surge.

``I've talked a lot over the last few days about us trying to generate some momentum,' Tracy said after the Rockies' 12-3 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday. ``Momentum comes from consistency day in and day out from the mound. We are having our bouts falling short in the area.'

The latest to struggle was Jason Hammel (5-10), who was down 4-0 before he recorded his first out.

``It's almost comical to me because tonight was the best I felt all year,' Hammel said. ``You make a good pitch, it gets hit. You make a bad pitch it gets hit. From the get-go I was thinking no-hitter stuff tonight. It is pretty frustrating getting tagged for eight after that.'

Troy Tulowitzki hit his team-leading 19th home run and Wigginton added a two-run single for the Rockies, who have lost two of three.

Willie Bloomquist singled to right leading off the game and Gerardo Parra walked. Upton doubled just under the glove of a diving Ty Wigginton at third, scoring both runners for a 2-0 lead.

Upton moved to third when Chris Young singled to center and both came home on Montero's double to left to make it 4-0. Pitcher Josh Collmenter drove home Montero three batters later for a 5-0 lead.

Tulowitzki lined a home run just over the right-field fence to start the second and cut Arizona's lead to 5-1. But Montero hit a two-run homer into the Rockies' right-field bullpen in the bottom of the inning, his 12th, to put the Diamondbacks in front 7-1.

``It is somewhat of an insurmountable task when you spot the opposition seven runs in the first two innings of the game,' Tracy said. ``Actually, it's somewhat unacceptable.'

``In order to create momentum and get the ball rolling and keep the ball rolling in the direction we want to go, you can't do it with two well-pitched games, then you back up two days, then you get another one, then you back up for three days,' Tracy said. ``It is not going to get you where you have to get to.'

Colorado pulled to within 7-3 in the fourth on Wigginton's two-out flared single into shallow center. Hammel settled in somewhat after the tough start, lasting 5 2-3 innings and allowing eight runs on 12 hits with four walks and seven strikeouts. He left after loading the bases only to see left-hander Eric Stults walk Montero to make it 8-3.

Upton added a grand slam off Stults in the eighth and finished with six RBIs. Montero drove in five as the duo became the first teammates in Diamondbacks history to drive in five or more runs in the same game.

Arizona starter Josh Collmenter (6-5) allowed three runs on six hits with no walks and four strikeouts to record his second consecutive win and also added two hits and his first career RBI. He struck out four and didn't walk a batter for the second straight start.

NOTES: Collmenter had only two three-ball counts and has not walked a batter in his past 19 1/3 innings across three starts. Upton also drove in six runs on May 20, 2009 at Florida. ... Montero has three career five-RBI games. He leads NL catchers with 23 doubles and 36 extra-base hits. ... Collmenter's toughest moment came running the bases, when he was thrown out at home by Ryan Spilborghs trying to score standing up on a single by Parra. Collmenter wasn't helped by Upton, who signaled for his pitcher to come in standing and not sliding. ... Hammel has given up 14 runs, 12 earned, on 20 hits over 10 2-3 innings in his past two starts. The right-hander had not allowed an earned run in two previous starts against Arizona this season. ... Todd Helton hit his 547th career double in the fourth, tying Manny Ramirez for 24th place on the all-time list.

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The County of Vermilion River has a vibrant and active seniors population.  The 2015 County census indicated that there were 898 citizens over the age of 65 years of age living in the County.  This represented 11% of the total population.  There are several senior citizens organizations located in the Villages and Hamlets in the County that provide a facility for socialization and educational opportunities for our Seniors.

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The County of Vermilion River and the Town of Vermilion partner to provide a Seniors' Coordinator to liaise with the seniors residing in the County, Town and the Villages of Dewberry, Kitscoty, Marwayne and Paradise Valley.  Shirley McRobert has provided information, assistance, referrals and enlightenment to our senior citizens for many years.  If you are a senior (or a spouse, child or caregiver of a senior) and you have a question or concern please call Shirley at (780) 581-2414 - she is always willing to assist our seniors.  Shirley is renowned for her annual Seniors' Week celebrations that bring together seniors from across the County to be entertained and enlightened on matters of importance to their health and well being.

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FUNERAL PLANNING IN ALBERTA - information booklet for download

In recent weeks, many residents have been receiving threatening phone calls claiming to be from Revenue Canada - these are scam calls.  The Revenue Canada Agency will not make legal threats over the telephone - their first method of communication with you will be written. Be careful and do not give out any personal information about yourself.  Hang Up.  More tips from Revenue Canada here.

Senior homeowners seeking assistance in paying their property taxes may wish to consider the Seniors’ Property Tax Deferral (SPTD) program.  This program allows eligible senior homeowners to defer all or part of their annual property tax through a low-interest home equity loan with the Government of Alberta. This is a voluntary program that can free up funds for senior homeowners to use on other expenses such as home renovations thereby supporting them to stay in their homes as long as possible.

For more information on  SPTD program and other programs and services for seniors, visit or call the Alberta Supports Contact Centre at 1-877-644-9992 or 780-644-9992 in the Edmonton area.

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The Seniors Home Adaptation and Repair Program (SHARP) provides low-interest home equity loans to help seniors finance necessary repairs, adaptations and renovations to their homes. A maximum loan of $40,000 is available to seniors and senior couples with an annual total income of $75,000 or less and who have a minimum of 25 per cent home equity in their primary residence.

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A vile logic—Slavoj Žižek on Anders Breivik and antisemitism

Slavoj Žižek writes for the Guardian on the disturbing logic behind Anders Breivik's justfications for his actions in Norway. Comparing Breivik's ideology to that of Pim Fortuyn, Žižek argues that Breivik 'manifesto' fits into the growing intersection between right-wing populism and liberal political correctness.

Breivik's self-designation shuffles the cards of radical rightist ideology. Breivik advocates Christianity, but remains a secular agnostic: Christianity is for him merely a cultural construct to oppose Islam. He is anti-feminist and thinks women should be discouraged from pursuing higher education; but he favours a "secular" society, supports abortion and declares himself pro-gay.

His predecessor in this respect was Pim Fortuyn...a paradoxical figure: a rightist populist whose personal features and even opinions (most of them) were almost perfectly "politically correct". He was gay, had good personal relations with many immigrants, displayed an innate sense of irony - in short, he was a good tolerant liberal with regard to everything except his basic stance towards Muslim immigrants...

Indeed, he was the living proof that the opposition between rightist populism and liberal tolerance is a false one, that we are dealing with two sides of the same coin: ie we can have a racism which rejects the other with the argument that it is racist.

Žižek goes on to explore the paradox of Breivik's apparent antisemitism, which sits alongside support for Israel (as "the first line of defence against Muslim expansion"). Žižek compares this growing phenomenon amongst the far right to the "weird accommodation between Christian fundamentalists and Zionists in the US."

There is only one solution to this enigma: it is not that the US fundamentalists have changed, it is that Zionism itself has paradoxically come to adopt some antisemitic logic in its hatred of Jews who do not fully identify with the politics of the state of Israel. Their target, the figure of the Jew who doubts the Zionist project, is constructed in the same way as the European antisemites constructed the figures of the Jew - he is dangerous because he lives among us, but is not really one of us. Israel is playing a dangerous game here: Fox News, the main US voice of the radical right and a staunch supporter of Israeli expansionism, recently had to demote Glenn Beck, its most popular host, whose comments were getting openly antisemitic.

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Aesthetics were just as important as gameplay when developing El Shaddai, says Ignition

Tuesday, 17 May 2011 19:15 GMT By Stephany Nunneley

Ignition Entertainment’s Shane Bettenhausen has told Gamasutra, that the development team has a bit of fun basing El Shaddai on the biblical text of the Book of Enoch.

According to Bettenhausen, the game which mixes “Judeo-Christian iconography with fantasy elements,” has plenty of “art, narrative and music,” which he said is in some ways the most important part of the game.

“Fundamentally, for me, the art, the atmosphere, the story and the music are in some ways more important than the gameplay — it still has to have good gameplay; I think El Shaddai delivers both.

“When you see this game, you either like the way it looks, you like the characters; or, you’re like ‘what is that?’ You’re either confused and scared, or you automatically think, ‘oh, that looks fresh and different and quirky and neat’.”

Bettenhausemn goes on to assure the game “isn’t like playing a Wisdom Tree Bible game,” yet at the same time, it shouldn’t “offend people who do want it to be religious.”

You can view the latest screenshot for the game here, which are quit lovely.

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Minecraft PC passes 8 million sales

Monday, 12 November 2012 13:03 GMT By Dave Cook

Minecraft PC sales have surpassed the 8 million mark. That’s a lot of blocks, and a lot of money.

PCGamesN has reported on the sales stats, although exact figures have not been made available in the wild.

The initial alpha build launched in 2009 and quickly put creator Markus “Notch” Persson on the map. Word of mouth led to the notoriety of Persson’s studio Mojang and eventually spawned Xbox 360 and mobile versions. It has since become a cultural phenomenon worldwide.

Interviews with Notch are rare, but earlier this year the world was given a rare glimpse of Mojang’s studio when it was nominated for a Swedish award for one of the country’s best-looking offices. See the photos here:

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Ex-US Postal worker admits theft of 2,200 GameFly games

An ex-US Postal Service worker in Pennsylvania has admitted in federal court to five-fingering 2,200 rental games bound for customers of GameFly. Reginald Johnson, 34, of Germantown, faces 12 to 18 months in prison with sentencing set for January 13. The mail-processing clerk who loaded and unloaded tractor-trailers of mail stole approximately $86,000, worth of […]

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During the beginning of November, Disney announced that it was in the development stages of a sequel their popular 90s teen sitcom, Boy Meets World.

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Mams and Dads do your kids love to be photographed?
If they do then North East Portrait Photographer Village Photography who are based in Hebburn, need your help.
We have given ourselves a  huge huge challenge and we are looking for 125 models of all ages and sizes for our new studio portfolio album.
The new portfolio album is to display the work that I produce in my studio, including some of our themed shoots.
We want to include in our album as many different ages from babies to seniors, boys and girls, siblings, families, couples, families with pets, poses, props and backgrounds as we possibly can. A full page will be dedicated to one model  / shoot and we may use multiple images on a page as shown below.

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Your photoshoot will be free of charge and as a thank you for taking part you will receive as a gift an 8” x 6” mounted print of your choice (worth £25).
PLUS if any of your images are selected for our album you will also receive a 10 x 8 mounted print of the page once we go to print!
Pages throughout the album will be different, some with one image some with multi images max of 5 images to a page.

We expect this very limited availability challenge to be very very popular, upon booking you will be asked to pay a £10  booking fee.  Please note if you book in and fail to arrive for your shoot your booking fee will be non-refundable.  Once we have completed your shoot we will refund your £10.  (we are asking for a £10 booking fee to be paid purely to stop people booking in and then just not turning up).

To apply to take part please complete the entry form below putting studio challenge 125 in the subject box, and giving brief details of the type of shoot you would be interested in, and one of our staff will be back in touch as soon as we possibly can.

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Channel surfing: Avni Mustafaj believes public-access TV can "fill in the gaps for Albanian Americans."
Michael Sofronski

Last October, months before most Americans had even heard of Kosovo, a group of Albanian Americans tried to boost awareness of the simmering conflict by making appearances on the ultimate attention-getter— television. But not as guests on CNBC or Larry King Live: these TV novices put together their own news program and aired it on Manhattan Neighborhood Network, a local public-access cable facility that has grown into a thriving community outlet for alternative news and public-affairs programs.

"I was recognizing a situation where what we had to offer could really make a difference on a critical issue," says Anthony Riddle, executive director of MNN, of his commitment to getting the show into the lineup. Riddle believes public-access TV is one of this country's greatest forums for free speech, replacing the old town square where folks would congregate to discuss ideas and air grievances. "You've got a village like Manhattan," he says. "You don't know who your neighbors are, literally. So public access gives an opportunity for the community to say, 'Here's who I am, this is what I believe, and this is what I like.' To a great degree, that creates a lot of tolerance and understanding."

"It's programming that's highly personal," says Jed Sutton, producer of Channel Surfing USA, which features clips from some of the spunkiest shows. "It's everything from cooks who only use easy-bake ovens to talk shows hosted by transsexuals to guerrilla reporting on hard news stories that the networks won't touch."

The public access show Albanian-American Television began airing when Kosovo was still a blip on most network news screens. Avni Mustafaj, president of the National Albanian American Council, and a coalition of other Albanian Americans, produced the programs to spur American interest in the Balkan conflict and help the Albanian community better understand the dynamics and complexities of the situation. When Dutch peacekeepers stood by during a massacre at Srebrenica, for instance, Mustafaj says many Albanian Americans were perplexed and angered. The producers arranged for humanitarian aid workers to appear on MNN and explain the necessity of nonintervention by peacekeepers. They presented news in Albanian and an in-depth analysis of Slobovan Milosevic's rise to power. "We thought we were ahead of the curve as a vehicle to distribute information," says Mustafaj.

In the last month, the ad hoc coalition of 12 producers— all in their mid twenties to mid thirties— has splintered. Some have headed to Albania to work as translators. Others are finding their hands full just keeping track of family members— like Agim Gerbeshi, whose parents are still in Pristina and whose two sisters have fled to Macedonia. As a result, the program was suspended in January— with regret, says Mustafaj, because right now it could "fill in the cracks for Albanian Americans, keeping them updated on the negotiating process and the ramifications of changing the peace process."

Mustafaj has now turned his attention to the nonprofit Kosovar Relief Fund, which he hopes to aid through on-air fundraising on MNN— something he could never do on commercial television. The Kosovar Relief Fund has been collecting money, clothes, and nonperishable food items for Kosovar refugees, and helping Albanian Americans contact dislocated relatives. Mustafaj plans to air a fundraising program on MNN that highlights the relief effort taking place in New York City.

Many viewers surf past the public-access channels because of the clunky, homemade look that dominates the medium. Mustafaj admits it was a letdown when he realized his program didn't compare to the look of CNN, but thanks to MNN's free training classes he has learned how to operate a camera, edit a program, and produce a live talk show. Part of MNN's goal, says Riddle, is to help people "understand what the potentials are and how to use them. Not everybody can afford television equipment. But since things have become a little less expensive, we're in a position to offer training classes in how to use the equipment." MNN provides cameras and editing facilities to those who have completed the training.

The evolution of the video camera and editing and graphics software has had a direct impact on the progress of public-access TV. "[Video cameras] have become cheaper and easier to operate, and postproduction has been demystified," says Sutton.

Still, despite the training and the relative ease of equipment use, some public-access shows are "very poorly done," admits Riddle. But, as with much amateur experimentation with technology, "Sometimes the mistakes people make are more interesting than anything else. And you can make mistakes. You messed up this week. So come back next week and try again. Whereas, in network television, what do you get? Two strikes and you're out."

In many ways public-access television is the poor but proud bastard child of commercial television. Its operating costs are paid for by local cable providers in exchange for cable right-of-way within the municipality. So PAT is able to operate commercial-free and outside the ratings rat race. In fact, public-access programs air whether thousands of viewers are tuned in or just one. And you can't help but wonder how many have discovered the hundreds of obscure programs that run each week, like Antennaman, the celluloid home for a saxophone-playing homeless man who says he's on a mission from another planet to bring happiness to earthlings.

WPA Presents, a program sponsored by the Women's Prison Association, places cameras in the hands of incarcerated moms and their children, and encourages them to talk about the pain and stigmas associated with prison. One daughter documented the anger she felt the day she came home and discovered her mother missing and no one would tell her she had been sent to prison. "She thought her mother had just abandoned her," says program coordinator Linda Prout.

Tenants & Neighbors is another program that gives voice to the disenfranchised, encouraging tenants to call in for expert legal advice on resolving landlord conflicts. Riddle insists a program of this kind would never air on commercial TV. "Oh God, no," he says. "The people who own the buildings are the same people who own the television stations."

Public-access producers can be as radical in thought and speech as they want, provided they don't air obscenities or break the law. "We don't fancy ourselves thought police. We generally don't prescreen programs. We don't look at programs to see what should go on and what shouldn't go on," says Riddle, whose MNN airs approximately 65,000 tapes a year on a first come, first served basis.

Even hate groups like the KKK are legally entitled to equal play on the airwaves. When Riddle was program manager of Atlanta's public-access center, he was approached by a member of the White Aryan Resistance group who wanted to air Race & Reason, a provocative show advocating hard-line racist and anti-Semitic viewpoints. "I was frightened by certain ideologies," says Riddle, who is African American, "but what I found was, the answer to stupid speech is to allow them to speak. If you let people hear what they have to say, it's not that frightening because it's idiotic, basically. Whereas if you hold them back, then it seems there must be some power or mystique to it."

Now and then someone does go too far. Jed Sutton recalls the producer of a former MNN program, Sick & Wrong. "This guy was doing his best to offend and upset," says Sutton. "He showed autopsy footage. He showed his dead rat crucified. And he was ultimately arrested for beheading and barbecuing iguanas," although those charges were later dropped. When Midnight Madness, a talk show hosted by women in G-strings, was temporarily suspended at MNN for being too sexually explicit, the access center staff said the only calls they received were from disgruntled viewers who wanted the program reinstated. "I think people are hungry for stuff that isn't canned," says Sutton. "They want real people without the sugar coating or [who are not] hamstrung by the sponsors or the producers."

Riddle was recently watching a local news program that cut to footage of an Amadou Diallo march. But instead of reporting on the protest, Riddle says, the newscaster told viewers, "If you'll hold on we'll tell you how to avoid the march."

Eventually, even the Kosovo crisis will find itself replaced by a newer, hotter news event. But that doesn't mean the story has come to an end. Albanian producer Gerbeshi says after the war stops, it will be even more important to revive Albanian-American Television. "We need to keep it up and bring on the good stuff. Talk about what we should do to forgive and escape the hate."

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Jack Newfield in DC -- A Mess of a Vietnam Protest

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August 19, 1965, Vol. X, No. 44

Some Things Unite Them, Some Things Divide Them

By Jack Newfield

WASHINGTON D.C. On Sunday, August 8, in front of the White House, a young man, wearing a "Support the National Liberation Front" button, began to chant: "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many children did you kill today?" A few paces behind him walked a college sophomore wearing the button of a pacifist organization, CNVA, and carrying a picket sign that read: "What can war breed, but endless war? -- John Milton."

Between the two demonstrators there was an unspoken tension that seemed to dominate the Assembly of Unrepresented People held in Washington the weekend before last. All the contradictions and polarities within the new radical movement crystallized during the four picnic-like days of the assembly. The assembly, convened by 32 individuals associated with pacifist, religious, student, and civil rights organizations, was climaxed by the arrest on August 9 of 350 demonstrators who sought to "declare peace with the people of Vietnam."

There was tension between mindless militancy and reflective radicalism, between black and white, between those who came to bear religious witness and those who came to build a political movement with the Vietnamese war as the focus. There was tension, too between freedom and authoritarianism.

There was a subtle tension also between Mississippi and Vietnam, between the saintly and the unstable, between "community" and "movement," and especially between those who love the oppressed and those who hate the oppressor.

About 2000 people attended the assembly, although there were never more than 1000 present at any time. The New York Times described the participants as "shaggy and unkempt." But behind this almost militant shagginess was a human story of damage. Many of the people in Washington were really the first victims of the new student movement. There were a number of those front-line, full-time, community organizers who have been so damaged by conflict with society that they are now non-functional -- in the movement and in society. These victims, their health broken by frustration, rootlessness, poverty, personal hangups, and beatings, all converged on Washington for the assembly.

Most of those who came to Washington were not especially shaggy. They came mostly from the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), from religious groups like the Catholic Worker and the Quaker movements, as well as from the pro-Vietcong May 2nd Movement and the pro-Soviet W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs.

Judging from the workshops and the Quaker-style debates over demonstration tactics, it appeared that the Camus-Gandhi-oriented members of the new left were more influential in setting the tone of the affair than the hyper-militants and the authoritarians. The ultra-left participants were forced to perform in an atmosphere that was democratic and non-violent. Some of them seemed to have been affected by it. Certain Socialist critics, like Tom Kahn of the League for Industrial Democracy, who was critical of the assembly, always seem to fear that, inevitably, it will be the authoritarians who will influence the democratic.

But since the assembly was convened by people -- individuals, rather than by organizations -- it lacked organizational support and resources. It was opposed by liberal groups like the NAACP and the League for Industrial Democracy. There was much chaos, the goals were unrealistic, few of the "unrepresented" -- the poor -- were there, and the whole thing was generally ineffective. But, above all, it was incestuous. Most of the participants seemed to be veteran peace and civil rights activists. The assembly appeared to draw few new people. The occasional displays of irrational militancy probably would have alienated most of them anyway, unless they were already totally convinced that American policy in Vietnam was evil. The militants left no room for the uncommitted, such as liberals and middle-class people...

The climax of the assembly took place on Monday, the last day of the affair, when 350 demonstrators tried to convene their assembly on the steps of the Capitol. In doing so they confronted the Washington police.

When the line of march reached Third Street on the way to the Capitol, two members of the American Nazi Party hurled two cans of red paint at the front line of the marchers -- Staughton Lynd, David Dellinger, and Robert and Donna Parris. The paint splattered about 50 protestors and newsmen. Later the Nazis were jailed and fined $10. The non-violent marchers received fines of $25 and $50, and some were held on as much as $2,500 bail...

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…a U.K.-based online doctor service asked graphic designers from around the world to photoshop the model’s form by making him, in their opinion, more attractive to other citizens of each of their countries.

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“Our own research found that 40% of men in the UK felt pressure from television and magazines to have a ‘perfect’ body and this has negative effects on how they view themselves and others.

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Kate Spade decor is LITERALLY everything for an office supply aficionado.

Gold items? Yes. Tools with beautiful silhouettes? Of course. Polka dots and just the right hint of whimsy covering all surfaces? Check and check.

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2. Although TBH you can have a pretty great time with the tourists, too:

For all the hate the Riverwalk gets, those barge tours are pretty fun.

3. Because you’ll never have a better breakfast taco:

4. Or a more luscious puffy taco:

5. And you’ll never find a tastier chicken fried steak and giant cinnamon roll served together anywhere else:

6. Because there’s no better way to spend an afternoon than wandering around the Japanese Tea Garden:

8. Because there’s so much indie theater that you can’t find anywhere else:

9. Not to mention art:

And out in the open air:

These are just a couple of the many, many murals that you can find all around the city. Learn more here.

12. Or that giant granite dome called Enchanted Rock:

It’s about an hour and a half outside of the city. Get visiting information here.

14. Because the views from the Tower of the Americas are unbelievable:

Even if the food’s a little overpriced, the restaurant freaking ROTATES, what else do you want?

15. Because you can always find a cold glass (or can) of local beer:

16. Or wine blessed by the Hill Country sunshine:

17. Oh, and strong, delicious margaritas:

And it is so freaking gorgeous:

This is the Battle of Flowers parade, where you yell “Show me your shoes!” and the princesses lift their skirts to flaunt their crazy footwear.

19. Because ice houses are a way of life:

22. Because you can spend literally all day eating, shopping, and chilling at the Pearl Brewery:

23. And, okay, yes, you can also spend a few hours learning your Texas history at the Alamo:

It’s smaller than you think it is, but still pretty cool. Afterward, stroll over to The Esquire or Zinc Bistro for some mostly un-touristy food and booze.

25. And there’s no better place to be.

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On January 30th, I marked the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s death at a short memorial ceremony with the Indian High Commissioner at his statue in Tavistock Square.

This day gives us a great opportunity to remember the important values that the Mahatma has taught us. Peace, love and tolerance were at the heart of Gandhi’s philosophy and are values that are just as relevant today. Gandhi is still a profound symbol of hope, liberation, struggle and freedom having committed his life to his cause.

 At the heart of his activism was an unwavering and unshakable commitment to the universally shared values of truth, love, compassion and selfless service. His message should still be an inspiration and guidance for our lives.

 Mahatma Gandhi Martyrs’ Day gives us an opportunity, not only to celebrate the Mahatma’s life and activism, but reflect on how his values can have a deep and relevant meaning for each and every one of us.

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Kampong Thom provincial court on Friday released six people in a land dispute with forestry officials, charging only three with deforestation.

Math Sareth, 44, Thach Sarin, 44, and Po Kin, 24, were released on bail, prosecutor Ty Sovanthal said.

The court charged that the three had destroyed parts of a forest in Son Touk district across 16 square kilometers, but found no evidence to charge three others.

The six were arrested earlier this week by officials of the Ministry of Agriculture’s forestry administration, after they led hundreds of families in the development of Banteay Rongeang,a village for disabled people.

Villagers admitted no wrongdoing in building their village, but say they are being removed from land after a land concession was granted to a Vietnamese company to establish a plantation.


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Cambodia Not Ready for Munitions Pact: Official

Cambodiais not ready to ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions, due to stockpiles it is currently holding, a senior government official said Thursday.

Cambodia is still assessing the cost and means associated with finding a replacement to its current munitions, Prak Sokhon, vice president of the Cambodia Mine Action Authority, said, as a guest on “Hello VOA.”

We need more time to study the number of cluster munitions we have and if we need to replace them in order for us to sign the convention,” he said.

The government also needs to know “how much money and time we need to replace the munitions with the ones that are not banned,” he said. “Once we have these, we can then sign it.”

The UN took the opportunity on National Mine Awareness Day on Wednesday to renew an appeal for Cambodiato renew its commitment to the eliminating cluster munitions.

“We urge Cambodiato sign and ratify as soon as possible the Convention on Cluster Munitions to demonstrate its commitment to a peaceful and secure world,” the UN said in a statement.

Cambodiais peppered with landmines, remnants of decades of civil strife, though the number of mine- and ordnance-related fatalities has dropped over the past four years, falling from 450 in 2006 to 243 in 2009.

The decrease was due to better demining operations, law enforcement and coordination in identifying mined areas, Prak Sokhon said.


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In the United States, where skin cancer is common, a team at the University of Alabama Birmingham is trying out a cream that may prevent the disease.

Where spending hours in the sun is a daily summer habit, more and more sunbathers are using sunscreen. But researchers say they also are spending more hours in the sun, putting themselves at continued risk for skin cancer.

In Australia, more than 400,000 people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year; in the United States, it’s more than a million.

Doctors usually remove the cancers surgically.

A research team at the University of Alabama Birmingham is studying a new skin cream, hoping it may prevent skin cancers by repairing damaged DNA.

The team is testing the drug on patients who are taking immune suppressing drugs for other ailments.

Dr. Craig Elmets, a dermatologist at UAB, discusses the research. "These patients are placed on immune suppressing drugs and by suppressing the immune system it accelerates the development of cancer."

The medicine, dimericine, works to repair DNA and, it's hoped, can prevent new skin cancers.

Participants spread it on their arms and face and are examined later for new lesions.

Dr. Elmets hopes the cream will work on the general population. "What we hope is that by applying a bacterial enzyme that also repairs damaged DNA, we can reduce the number of abnormal cells and in doing so we can reduce the incidence of skin cancer."

In the meantime, the best way to prevent skin cancer is to stay out of the sun during the middle of the day, when the rays are strongest, and wear a hat or use an umbrella.

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Washington Post cites two Afghan teens who say they were beaten by interrogators

U.S. media reports detail alleged abuses that took place at a secretive U.S. jail in Afghanistan, seemingly undermining U.S. President Barack Obama's efforts to improve conditions at such facilities.

A report in The Washington Post published Saturday cites two Afghan teenagers who say they were beaten by interrogators while being held at the Bagram air base jail this year. They also say they suffered sleep depravation and sexual humiliation.

The Post says the detainees' claims cannot be independently substantiated, though human rights workers have reported similar abuses.

A separate report in the New York Times says detainees also were held, sometimes for weeks at a time at Bagram, without access to representatives of the Red Cross.

President Obama ordered the closure of secret CIA detention centers soon after taking office. However, the Bagram facility is run by military Special Operations forces, and is not subject to that order.


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VOCAL-NY Names Jennifer Flynn Executive Director; Alyssa Aguilera to Head Political & Lobbying Arm VOCAL-NY Action Fund

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VOCAL-NY Names Jennifer Flynn Executive Director; Alyssa Aguilera to Head Political & Lobbying Arm VOCAL-NY Action Fund

A Co-Founder & Former Director Returns, Bringing Significant Experience in Advocacy, Community Organizing and Coalition Building on HIV/AIDS, LGBT, Economic Justice & Drug Policy Issues

(Brooklyn, NY) VOCAL-NY announced today that Jennifer Flynn is returning as the Executive Director, while Alyssa Aguilera will serve as the Executive Director of the organization’s affiliated 501(c)(4) electoral and lobbying arm, VOCAL-NY Action Fund. VOCAL-NY is the leading grassroots organization working on HIV/AIDS, drug policy and mass incarceration in New York.

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Jennifer (on the right) with her partner Bela and their two kids, Flynn and Rock.

Jennifer co-founded the organization, then known as the NYC AIDS Housing Network (NYCAHN), in the late 1990s and served as the director for nine years. In the wake of highly effective new medications to treat HIV/AIDS, Jennifer steered the organization to address the root causes of the epidemic in poor communities, developing an innovative community organizing model and expanding the mission to encompass work to end the drug war and mass incarceration, always with an emphasis on promoting community leadership and a commitment to broader social justice goals. Most recently, Jennifer served as the Managing Director of Health GAP, an international advocacy organization working to ensure all people living with HIV/AIDS have access to life-saving treatment.

“From door-knocking in shelters to recruit new members to knocking down doors to government agencies and corporations to demand accountability, Jennifer has demonstrated a relentless focus on justice for marginalized communities,” said Wanda Hernandez, VOCAL-NY’s Board Chair. “She has the proven experience to manage a growing organization while maintaining grassroots leadership and uncompromising integrity in our goals.”

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Alyssa Aguilera

Alyssa joined the organization last year as the Political Director, leading campaigns to reform discriminatory policing practices, create alternatives to the drug war, and address the collateral consequences of mass incarceration. She also coordinated the Action Fund’s electoral organizing last year that helped produce our progressive-led City Council and increased the number of LBT Council members. She’ll continue serving as the Political Director for VOCAL-NY in addition to running the Action Fund.

“If policymakers make decisions about our lives and we’re not at the table, the results are usually bad for our communities,” said Bobby Tolbert, a Board member of VOCAL-NY Action Fund. “Alyssa’s commitment to citizen lobbying and electoral organizing will help ensure the voices of New Yorkers on the frontlines of the drug war, mass incarceration, and HIV/AIDS epidemic are heard and taken seriously.”

This past year, VOCAL-NY led the way to create an affordable housing protection for 14,000 homeless and low-income people living with HIV/AIDS, respond to the overdose crisis by expanding access to a lifesaving antidote called naloxone, improve access to hepatitis C testing, among other campaign victories. Jennifer and Alyssa will now lead VOCAL-NY as it pushes for a bold plan to end the AIDS epidemic in New York by 2020, statewide legislation to decriminalize marijuana and require racial and ethnic impact statements for future criminal justice policy proposals, a NYC law reducing employment discrimination against people who are formerly incarcerated, a health-based approach to ending overdose deaths, and more.

Jennifer’s first day at VOCAL-NY is September 1, and Alyssa has already taken her position at the VOCAL-NY Action Fund. The current executive director, Sean Barry, is stepping down to attend law school.

Contact: Jennifer Flynn, 917.517.5202, Jennifer (at) vocal-ny (dot) org | Alyssa Aguilera, 917.200.1446, Alyssa (at) vocalnyaction (dot) org.

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Jennifer Flynn will become the Executive Director of VOCAL-NY on September 1, 2014, returning to a role she held for nine years after co-founding the organization (formerly known as the NYC AIDS Housing Network) in 1998 and leading highly successful community organizing and grassroots campaigns to win affordable housing, welfare rights, harm reduction services and criminal justice reform. Jennifer continued on the Board of Directors at VOCAL-NY and has remained actively involved with fundraising, program oversight and staff development. She currently serves as the Managing Director of Health GAP (Global Access Project), an international advocacy organization that has led campaigns to deliver lifesaving treatment to over 7 million people living with HIV/AIDS in low and middle income countries. She has also been a Taproots Fellow at the Center for Community Change, a consultant for the Open Society Institute, and an outreach worker at the Lower East Side Harm Reduction Center.

In addition to VOCAL-NY, Jennifer sits on the Board of Directors for the North Star Fund, Met Council on Housing Education and Research Fund, QUEEROCRACY, and Health GAP, and she co-chairs the North Star Fund Community Funding Committee. She is a past recipient of the Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leadership Award, Union Square Award and New York City Council Hero Award, and was named one of the most promising AIDS activists by Poz Magazine in 2001 and one of the country’s 25 leading LGBT AIDS activists by HIV Plus Magazine in 2009. She is a former member of ACT UP NY, Fed Up Queers and other direct action groups, and was on the steering committee of the first US Social Forum and the Still We Rise Coalition.

Jennifer has written numerous articles on HIV/AIDS and social justice issues, including “The Drug Users Organizing Manual” (OSI, 2005) and a chapter in “That’s Revolting: Queers Strategies for Resisting Assimilation” (Soft Skull Press, 2004). She has been interviewed and quoted extensively in the media, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, New Yorker, CNN and the O’Reilly Factor.

Jennifer holds a MS from the New School for Social Research and was the first US-based activist selected for Columbia University’s Human Rights Advocates Training Fellowship.  She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her spouse, Bela August Walker, their 2 kids, and their 2 dogs.

Alyssa Aguilera

Alyssa Aguilera has been the Political Director for VOCAL-NY since March 2013, with primary responsibility for directing our issue campaigns on economic justice, mass incarceration, and police reform. While she will continue in that role, she will also become the Executive Director of our affiliated 501(c)(4), the VOCAL-NY Action Fund, starting in June 2014. Alyssa has already been serving as the Political Director for the Action Fund, where she coordinated candidate endorsements during the 2013 NYC elections and electoral organizing to build support for the Community Safety Act.

Prior to VOCAL-NY, Alyssa spent four years as a Community Organizer in the Health Justice Program at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), where she developed community organizing campaigns to improve access to quality health care for the publicly insured and uninsured, created community education efforts on patient rights and health disparities, and led policy initiatives through lobbying, earned media and coalition building. She has also worked for the Boston Workers Alliance and SEIU in Houston, TX. She serves on the Board of Directors for Brooklyn Perinatal Network and Communities United for Police Reform Action Fund.

Alyssa graduated from Harvard University cum laude with a BA in Government and a secondary in Latin American Studies. She was selected for the Coro Immigrant Civic Leadership Program in 2010 and the Fellowship for Emerging Leaders in Public Service at NY’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in 2011-2012. She is fluent in Spanish.

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