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Causes of Pelvic Pain: Have you heard of SIBO?

Causes of pelvic pain vary from STDs to cancer treatments, vaginal conditions and pelvic abnormalities. Yet SIBO is one cause you may not know about...

There are so many causes of pelvic pain, which might be making it tricky to pinpoint the reason for yours. Pelvic pain can be a result of various gynecological conditions, from sexually transmitted diseases to cancer treatment side effects and pelvic abnormalities. However, there is one often-overlooked condition that causes pelvic pain: SIBO.

Let’s take a look at what SIBO is. SIBO stands for Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, which results in a problem with movement around the small intestines. Your your small bowel will usually push bacteria, food residue, digestive enzymes and bowel secretions through every couple of hours, but this process can become compromised.

The bacteria that is meant to reside in the colon is stuck in the small intestine, which starts to harbour the bacteria. This then reproduces rapidly and creates an imbalance. We are supposed to have some level of bacteria in the small intestine, but the body usually keeps this in check.

Conditions that cause SIBO (which in turn causes pelvic pain)

  • Autoimmune disease scleroderma (which damages small intestine muscles)
  • Diabetes (which damages gut nerves)
  • Diverticulitis of the small intestine
  • Certain kinds of surgery
  • A fistula between the small intestine and colon
  • Bowel obstructions
  • Crohn’s disease
  • Conditions that reduce stomach acid
  • Excessive alcohol consumption or pain killer abuse
  • Food poisoning

SIBO symptoms that may be causing pelvic pain

Your SIBO symptoms will depend on which kinds of bacteria are trapped in your small intestine, but the following symptoms are commonly felt by sufferers of SIBO, and could be among the primary causes of their pelvic pain:

  • IBS (irritable bowel syndrome)
  • Bloating
  • Diarrhoea or constipation
  • Excessive gas
  • Distention

There are also other symptoms of SIBO that, although debilitating, do not cause pelvic pain. For instance:

  • Malnutrition (as the bacteria are consuming your nutrients)
  • Vitamin A, K and B12 deficiency
  • Deficiencies in iron, niacin, or thiamine
  • Brain fog
  • Fatigue

SIBO Tests and Treatments

You can diagnose SIBO by simply having a Doctor test your breath for hydrogen or methane gas–both byproducts of bacteria. The sugar breakdown in the gut can be detected in your breath.

Doctors will often take you off medications that might be causing SIBO, and put you on a course of antibiotics. They might also prescribe medication to encourage the small intestine to flush through every couple of hours, as it naturally would when not compromised.

You can address SIBO naturally through a liquid diet, which stabilizes the bacteria in the small intestine. You may need to cut down on carbohydrates and fiber, and especially sugar; instead you will introduce more protein to your diet. It may sound counter-intuitive, but probiotics have been known to worsen SIBO.

As we mentioned, there are various possible causes of pelvic pain, like pudendal neuralgia or even vaginal stenosis. If you’re not sure what’s behind it, it is worth getting a SIBO test. Suffering is not an inevitability – it is simply a question of pinpointing the reason for your pelvic pain and devising a realistic strategy to overcome it.

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Father of the Movement

How Al Sharpton Rose from ‘Racial Arsonist' to Racial Healer, and Changed New York City

It has been six hours since the Reverend Al Sharpton orchestrated the largest multi-ethnic sit-in of his 15-day campaign of civil disobedience in front of the New York Police Department headquarters.

On this evening of March 26, Sharpton’s mentor, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and 215 other people have been arrested protesting the police killing of West African immigrant Amadou Diallo, and booked and released. The throng of New Yorkers— choked with rage built up from the antiapartheid movement of the 1980s— pushed the number of demonstrators who already have been charged with blocking the building’s entrance over the 1000 mark.

Sharpton, wide-eyed and restless, is on an emotional high, pacing the second-floor office of his Harlem-based National Action Network, flipping channels and pumping his fists at reports highlighting the NYPD’s double standard for blacks and whites. The news is all good; it is beyond anything the man who is being propelled to the leadership of a growing civil disobedience movement had imagined could be possible.

There, on NY1, is the somber-faced Police Commissioner Howard Safir, grudgingly conceding that his predominantly white Street Crime Unit— four of whose members were expected to be arraigned this week on charges that they murdered Diallo in a hail of gunfire last month— perhaps had become a law unto itself and had to be corralled.

Sharpton’s phone rang consistently during an interview with the Voice. He took some calls and dismissed others. But when an aide announced that union leader Dennis Rivera was on the line, Sharpton grabbed the phone. Rivera and former deputy mayor Bill Lynch were on a conference call, congratulating Sharpton for bringing the hard-hearted Safir and Mayor Rudy Giuliani to their knees.

Consider what you have accomplished, Sharpton says they urged him: How was this pesky political pariah able to convince an ex-mayor, an Oscar-winning actress, scores of council members, congressional representatives, lawyers, students, academicians, blacks, whites, Jews, gays, lesbians, and antiwar activists to join his crusade?

Hadn’t Sharpton realized by now that his movement had a lot to do with Giuliani’s approval rating plummeting to an all-time low? Who could have forced the imperial mayor to rescind his racist policy of not meeting with black leaders he had not handpicked? Should Lynch and Rivera sponsor a resolution at a leadership meeting, calling on Giuliani to meet with his arch-nemesis?

“I don’t want a resolution,” Sharpton shot back in the presence of the Voice reporter. While he appreciated the proposed gesture, the last thing he wanted was for them to appear to be rallying around Al Sharpton, the personality.

“Giuliani is on the run,” Sharpton asserted. “If he can make this a personality fight between me and him, he gets away. I don’t want him to get away with this.”

Sharpton’s rejection of the resolution was a testament to how far he has matured in New York City politics. At 44, he seems to have finally attained what was denied him throughout a career as one of the nation’s most controversial civil rights activists: RESPECT. Gone are the tight-fitting jogging suits, dangling bronze medallion, incendiary sound bites, and alleged publicity stunts that sometimes landed him in jail for tying up traffic and disrupting subway service. Al Sharpton, in the opinion of a growing number of people, has evolved from “racial arsonist” to statesman.

After he got off the phone with Lynch and Rivera, Sharpton called Bobo Diallo, one of Amadou’s uncles, who had been waiting patiently among the throng of camera crews and reporters, into his office. He told Bobo that all the adulation meant nothing to him if Bobo did not get to Brussels by the weekend to finalize arrangements for Amadou’s mother to return to the United States.

A Bronx grand jury reportedly had indicted the four officers on second-degree murder charges, and Sharpton has learned that Bronx district attorney Robert Johnson will unseal the indictments this week. Earlier last week, Sharpton and Kadiadou Diallo had talked about plans for her to return. Sharpton suggested that this time Amadou’s teenage sister and two brothers should accompany their mother.

The last time he had seen the Diallo family was at Amadou’s burial in Guinea, when they were traumatized, not fully aware of what had happened. Sharpton told Mrs. Diallo that he would take them to the Wheeler Avenue apartment building where the cops had gunned down Amadou. “I can’t explain it,” he says. “They have to see for themselves, feel it. People need to hug and embrace them. They must understand the impact of their brother’s death and what it started.”

That, Sharpton says, was his “secret agreement” with Mrs. Diallo. In addition, Sharpton made her a promise.

“I promised her that these cops would be arrested,” he recalls. “I promised to take her and her family to the courtroom on that day. All I want is when those four cops walk out there and are indicted for second-degree murder, they are looking into the faces of African parents who believed in America and allowed their son to come here to chase the American dream that turned into a nightmare. I want them to go to sleep at night seeing Mrs. Diallo’s face. I want them to be haunted by the faces of his brothers and sister. I want them to come face-to-face with the reality of what they did to a human family.”

Nine months before the death of Amadou Diallo spawned the city’s most successful anti-police-brutality movement, Al Sharpton realized he could not exploit popular outrage over alleged police abuses all by himself. With prominent activists like attorney Alton Maddox, the Reverend Herbert Daughtry, and Charles Barron firmly behind him, Sharpton tried to reach out to whites. “Some would go so far, but none wanted to be seen with me in public,” he laments. “Privately, they said, ‘Al is cool.’ ”

Norman Siegel, the vociferous civil libertarian, noticed a change in Sharpton’s tactics and rallied to his side.

“We had some conversations, and it seemed to me that he was evolving,” recalls Siegel, executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union. Before they embarked on joint projects, however, Siegel says he felt compelled to clear his conscience. “I told him I think Tawana Brawley was a hoax. I think he made a mistake with Freddie’s. I think he made a mistake in Crown Heights.”

Putting their troubling disagreements aside, Siegel and Sharpton forged a formidable alliance. On Christmas Day, for the past two years, Siegel has traveled uptown to the headquarters of the National Action Network to assist Sharpton in feeding the homeless.

“I watched how he reacted and interacted with the homeless people when there were cameras around, but also when there weren’t cameras,” Siegal points out. “I mean, when you see that [people like Sharpton] empathize with people who are powerless, that’s important to me.”

Sharpton began to pick his battles more carefully. He surprised everyone when he testified on behalf of Joseph Locurto, a white cop who was fired from the NYPD after participating in a skit that mocked the white supremacist dragging death of a black man in Jasper, Texas.

“I thought he fully understood the issue of an off-duty police officer’s right to engage in First Amendment expression,” Siegel says. Sharpton continued to jump on the issues that generated headlines. When Governor George Pataki and Safir advocated DNA testing of felons for a criminal-justice database, Sharpton and Siegel screamed.

“We decided we would work together on that,” says Siegel, adding that he “took a lot of hell from people in my community.”

After Diallo was killed and Sharpton began to call for the arrest of the police officers involved in the shooting, Siegel publicly differed with his activist comrade.

“I still think it’s a mistake for him to call for the arrest of the officers [without due process],” Siegel explains.

However, as the movement grew around the Diallo killing, Siegel’s newfound faith in Sharpton seemed to be justified. Last week, Siegel listened intently as Sharpton told supporters that the movement should not be built around one person or group.

“One of the conversations I had with Sharpton in the last couple of weeks was over the concept of sharing,” Siegel remembers. “If you’re gonna build a movement, it can’t be one person riding on the horse; we learned that when they killed Dr. King. Sharpton told me over and over again he is into sharing.”

According to Siegel, “We gotta keep the egos checked at the door, and so far that’s been pretty good [in Sharpton’s camp].” He adds, “What I like about Sharpton in the last few days is that he has not allowed the attention that has been focused on him to go to his head. He has his feet on the ground.”

Even Siegel confessed to “flying high” after the protests attracted international attention and shook the political foundations of the Giuliani administration. “The scenes I have always dreamed of have become reality in New York City,” says the advocate, who has had flashbacks of himself as a young lawyer defending civil rights demonstrators in the South.

“Back then, I kept hoping that some day in my hometown of New York we would show that kind of strength. I was buoyed by the participation of Jewish and Asian students, everyone coming together and singing ‘We Shall Overcome.’ ”

Sharpton has warmed to the idea of recruiting civil rights activists from the South to buttress the front lines of the fledgling civil disobedience movement. “We have been joking about it,” Siegel says in a moment of levity. “We said, ‘If they think Al Sharpton is a rogue, wait till they see Josea Williams and James Bevel.’ ”

Siegel praised Sharpton for helping to assure white New Yorkers that the daily protests outside of One Police Plaza would be nonviolent. “There is a lack of real civil disobedience tension here because everything is orchestrated,” he notes. “This is 1999, and you have to recognize that you can’t repeat what happened 40 years ago.”

He said that as a result of Sharpton’s novel approach in the Diallo case, a whole new generation of activists is being better educated about the power of civil disobedience based on the nonviolent tactics of Gandhi and King.

“If you create a climate like we have been able to create in the last few days,” he declares, “everybody will want to play a role.”

Al Sharpton’s role in turning the tide of public opinion against Rudy Giuliani and the rogue cops seemed clearly defined from the outset of the political fallout in the aftermath of the brutal slaying of Amadou Diallo.

Since the reverend no longer “injects himself” into every potentially high-profile case that reaches his headquarters daily, he was wary of the February 5 phone call an aide received from Mohamed S. Jalloh, the head of the Harlem-based Guinean Community Association. Jalloh, according to Sharpton, told Moses Stewart, the head of the Network’s crisis-intervention center, that police were trying to cover up the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Diallo, and that this was a perfect case for Sharpton.

In the course of Stewart’s inquiry, a detective from the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau allegedly called Sharpton to assure him that the department would leave no stone unturned in its investigation, and that the reverend should convey that message to the African American community.

“They never call me,” Sharpton sneers. “That got me suspicious.” Sharpton felt himself being sucked into the maelstrom that now was swirling around the incident. He organized a vigil at the site where Diallo was killed and, after a minor uproar within the Guinean Community Association over Sharpton’s role, he got the green light to act as an adviser to the family.

On Monday, February 8, when it was reported that Mayor Giuliani had contacted Amadou’s father in Vietnam, and that he was on a plane to New York, Sharpton feared that City Hall would try to upstage him. “I said to myself, ‘Oh my God, the father may be persuaded by the mayor.’ ” He subsequently learned that Amadou’s mother also was headed to America. “Oh God, what are they trying to do here?” Sharpton asked an aide.

Sharpton devised a plan to wrest control of the distraught mother from Giuliani. “You and other members of the Association need to go to the airport and explain to the mother the politics of what’s happening because the city is gonna try to separate us,” he told Jalloh during a rally at Foley Square. That’s the plan, Sharpton insisted. If Giuliani gets hold of Mrs. Diallo, it will be a public-relations victory. Jalloh delivered his remarks and left promptly for the airport.

About an hour later, he called Sharpton on his cell phone. “They took the mother off the plane,” Sharpton recalls Jalloh saying nervously. “We can’t talk to her! The police have her!”

“My heart sunk in my shoes,” Sharpton says. “I went back to my office and waited for the other shoe to drop. I turned on the TV and there she was. Amadou’s mother had been taken to Wheeler Avenue by the police. TV captured her collapsing. I’m sitting there saying, ‘Well, they got them now.’ I don’t think the Diallo family is going to understand this picture; the city will feed them its version of the killing of their son.”

Around 5:30 p.m., Jalloh and Dr. Delois Blakely, the African American community’s “ambassador to Africa,” walked into Sharpton’s office. They said that Mrs. Diallo wanted to meet Sharpton. Miffed by what he viewed as Giuliani’s attempt to control Mrs. Diallo, the reverend snapped, “About what?”

“We don’t know,” Jalloh responded. Sharpton paused. Either Mrs. Diallo was summoning him to tell him to butt out of the investigation or to ask him to help her seek justice for Amadou. Sharpton accompanied the emissaries to the Stanhope Hotel on Fifth Avenue, where the city had put Mrs. Diallo.

He was greeted by a phalanx of cops and Karl Waters, an attorney who had represented Amadou. “The ranking officer looked at his men and said, ‘That’s Al Sharpton, should we let him in?’ ” Waters vouched for Sharpton and he was allowed past the cops. On seeing Sharpton, Mrs. Diallo reportedly pleaded, “Reverend Sharpton, I know who you are and what you do; would you please get these police away from me? They killed my son!”

“My heart came back to my chest and that’s when I knew she was with us,” Sharpton recalls.

For the next three hours, Sharpton consoled Mrs. Diallo, offering to move her out of the hotel, take care of her financial needs, and defray the cost of flying Amadou’s remains back to Guinea. Sharpton reached out to Reverend Wyatt Tee Walker and Frank Mercado-Valdez, two members of his board, asking them to raise money.

At about 11:30 that night, Mrs. Diallo called Sharpton at home. “Reverend Sharpton? Madame Diallo,” he remembered her saying. “I changed my mind.”

Sharpton’s heart sank again.

“I thought the city got to her,” he says.

But Mrs. Diallo wanted no part of Rudy Giuliani. “I don’t want to move tomorrow,” she cried. “I want to move tonight! Get me out of here! Now!”

Sharpton pleaded with Mrs. Diallo to spend the night at the Stanhope at the mayor’s expense; he still had not raised the money. “She was determined to leave then,” he remembers. The next morning, the reverend escorted Mrs. Diallo out of the hotel in the full glare of the cameras, denying Rudy Giuliani the photo op he was hoping for to diffuse mounting anger in the African American community, and the chance to send a message that Amadou’s mother had accepted his explanation of how her son was killed.

After Sharpton had checked Mrs. Diallo and her relatives into the Rihga Royal Hotel on West 54th Street, she reminded the reverend that her estranged husband was arriving that night. “You must meet him and warn him so that they don’t trick him,” she reportedly said.

The battle for the Diallo family began all over again.

“Me and Mohamed Jalloh go out to the airport that night,” Sharpton recalls. “The father lands. The city is there. They are inside Customs. We can’t go in. We’re unauthorized.”

Suddenly, an attaché at the Guinean counsel general’s office emerged from Customs and spied Sharpton and Jalloh, whom he ushered into the restricted area. Jalloh greeted Saikou Diallo and conversed with him in Fulani (the language of the Fulani tribe). Sharpton, not understanding one bit of what was said, kept nodding.

“The father looks at me and the cops and keeps on talking,” Sharpton recalls. “Finally, the father tells the police, ‘Thank you very much. I go with them’— and he walked out with us. The press went crazy. Now both the mother and the father was with Al Sharpton.”

Reverend Sharpton harbors no illusions that he’s finally won the approval of his critics. It is clear that he has become a threat to powerful lobbies, such as the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, which took out full-page ads in the city’s dailies on Monday, declaring that his crusade for justice was meant “to destroy the mayor politically and to railroad into jail unfortunate New York City police officers whose only motivation was to fight crime, protect the public and get home safely.”

Isn’t the bottom line of Al Sharpton’s argument that it was those very police officers who never gave Amadou Diallo the chance to return home safely? Sharpton, like many African Americans, believes that the PBA protects killer cops. The cop union’s media campaign, they insist, is a waste of money. It is because of Al Sharpton, supporters maintain, that the police siege of New York City appears to be finally lifting.

“Clearly, the demonization of Al Sharpton isn’t over,” says the father of the new movement, “but I am proud that I was able to achieve a level of acceptance without selling my soul. We united New Yorkers on our own terms.”

Additional reporting by Karen Mahabir

This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on March 30, 1999

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Do the White Thing

Some of the best white supremacist rhetoric is couched in the language of self-defense

Do the White Thing: Fear Eats the Soul
September 5, 1989

[Spike] Lee is cagey and talented, but he’s a classic art-school dilettante when it comes to politics … His film … is more trendoid than tragic, reflecting the latest rifts in hip black separatism rather than taking an intellectually honest look at the problems he’s nibbling around . … All these subtleties are likely to leave white ( especially white liberal) audiences debating the meaning of Spike Lee’s message. Black teenagers won’t find it so hard, though. For them, the message is clear … The police are your enemy … Whites are your enemy.
— Joe Klein, New York Magazine

I’D LIKE TO SHARE A STORY with Joe Klein. Though perhaps in light of the murder of Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst, its moral may have already occurred to him.

One summer afternoon in New Haven, a white friend went walking with her white boyfriend through the green across from Yale’s old campus. Most students had cleared out, leaving this economically depressed and predominantly black and Italian city to its own devices. Viv and Ned passed three young black men who were hanging out on a bench, cranking a radio, blasting a song called “Drop a Bomb On the White Nation.” According to Viv, the homies said nothing, maybe didn’t even notice them; but she sure noticed them. All of a sudden, she said later, she was convinced they wanted to kill her. Why? Because she was white.

Now, I understand fear and feeling endangered — that, unfortunately, is feminine intuition — but when this story was related to me I just laughed. It all seemed so obvious: Here’s this nice white student continuing on the road to economic ascendancy — a very complicated given predicated on a racist, classist system. (Forgive the revolutionary tone.) Here are these young black men — statistically, their stars are not rising. They were just listening to the radio. What was she thinking? Her racial anxiety didn’t just shift, it flipped: subconsciously, she concluded that if we black folks aren’t mad at white folks, we should be. Repressing this conclusion, she arrived at a blind sense of threat. Others go further: Some of the best white supremacist rhetoric is couched in the language of self-defense.

I’m not a fan of reading movies as ambiguous and nuanced as Do the Right Thing as agitprop, or even thinking that a director has the special handle on his film; Spike has said some iffy things. Even so, when Joe Klein wrote that the film might lead to riotous behavior on the level of the Central Park Horror, he turned reality on its head. Instead, why didn’t he envision this, more common scenario: in a city tense about race issues, a gang of white youths hunt down four black men and kill one of them.

Klein seems unable to accept that black moviegoers can become angry without rioting; he also ignores the possibility of backlash, of a reverse race riot. But while Klein is baffled by the complexities of what Lee put onscreen, the residents of Bensonhurst are unable to admit the simple reality of what happened on their streets. Witness the defensiveness of their responses: it wasn’t racism, it was a case of mistaken identity, or the age-old axe murder/rapist/molestor/batterer defense, “He couldn’t have done it, he was always a nice guy.” The fact is, you don’t know whether someone is racist until they come face to face with another race — or until they feel the need to justify the racist actions of a neighbor.

This past Sunday my brother, some friends, and I were having brunch. One person at the table was reading the cover of The Daily News, something about watermelons and a jeering crowd of young Bensonhurst residents out to rid the neighborhood of protestors. Watermelons and racist exhibitionists and another black death in New York City. Suddenly, it was all too cartoonish and hopeless. My brother just began to laugh his beautiful soft laugh, slightly hysterical. I joined in — our two friends, both white, just looked horrified. ■

Next: “This Land Is Your Land” by Joe Wood

This article from the Village Voice Archive was posted on July 9, 2020

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Some changes a brewin’

Up until this point, this blog has been largely a singular effort, all posts but one guest book review being written by yours truly (what the hell does that even mean? I can barely call myself “mine truly.”) But now it appears this may be changing, because I’ve invited a few people to do some guest posts, or even become semi-regular contributors, and that offer may soon get taken advantage of.

This is great, as far as I’m concerned – there is no reason for me to hog all this adulation, and this space isn’t dedicated to any particular set of pursuits. We all have our own personalities and interests, and now you may get the opportunity to sample some more without the effort of clicking more links.

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Book Review: Slog’s Dad by David Almond

Slog’s Dad by David Almond, illustrated by Dave McKean

Originally a short story, this small book is eerie, haunting and achingly sad.  Slog’s father is dead and he knows it.  But when he sees the scruffy man outside the butcher shop, he knows that it is his father who has returned to see him.  But Davie, his best friend, is just as convinced that this man is a fake.  The story explores the way that Slog’s father died, slowly and by tangible steps.  It is a story of grief but also one of hope that asks unanswerable questions and allows readers to stay in the in-between world where hope thrives but so does doubt.

Almond and McKean paired up for The Savage, an amazing work of fiction.  This story is gentler and hopeful.  It quietly explores grief, allowing the poignant moments to live, hover and hope.  It is a story of dreams and beauty, of the unexpected and the amazing.  Almond’s writing is at times so blunt that it is traumatic and unblinking.  At other times, it is eerie and bizarre.  And at still others it is haunting, hopeful and trembling.

McKean’s illustrations help bring the story to a new level.  From the almost photographic detail of some of them, where the warped faces are the only clue that you are not looking at a photograph to the line drawings that soar with greens and blues hovering above heads.  These are illustrations that explore the emotions of the book.  They are not concerned with a unified look and feel, but with the look and feel that is right for that moment in the story.

A gorgeous work of writing and art, this book is a testament to grief, hope and wonder.  Appropriate for ages 9-12.

Reviewed from library copy.

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2011 Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards

Roger Sutton announced the winners and honor books for the 2011 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards on his blog.

Here they are:

Fiction Winner

Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones

Fiction Honors

Chime by Franny Billingsley

Anna Hibiscus by Atinuke

Nonfiction Winner

The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery by Steve Sheinkin

Nonfiction Honors

Into the Unknown: How Great Exploreres Found Their Way by Land, Sea and Air by Stewart Ross, illustrated by Stephen Biesty

Can We Save the Tiger? by Martin Jenkins, illustrated by Vicky White

Picture Book Winner

Pocketful of Posies: A Treasure by Nursery Rhymes by Salley Mavor

Picture Book Honors

Dark Emperor & Other Poems of the Night by Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Rick Allen

Pecan Pie Baby by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Sophie Blackall


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Thomas Frank on Obama and the Dems' Mistakes

[Note: see also Thomas Franks on progressives, Democrats, and Occupy.]

Thomas Frank’s book “Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right” explains how President Obama and the Democrats mismanaged the major economic and health care policies of his first term. In particular, they mismanaged the messaging war.

Rather than fighting back against the anti-government, anti-tax ideology of the Tea Party, Obama and the Democrats turned rightward.  They should have educated the Americans about the role of government and taxation. Instead they parroted right wing talking points about markets and jobs and austerity.

Facing right wing criticisms of his health care plan at town hall meetings in the summer of 2009, the Democrats abandoned the public option.

In full retreat before the right-wing onslaught, the Democrats threw themselves in the arms of their corporate allies. They jettisoned the simpler, more popular, but more government-centric idea under consideration and settled on the “individual mandate…. Naturally, it delighted the private insurance companies.

That’s how a populist outburst from the Right caused the inarticulate Democrats to abandon the most populist element of their own plan and choose instead what we might call the elitist option, a crony-capitalist solution in which public choices would be diminished by corporate profits guaranteed.

“Democrats .. did little as their former best friends in organized labor with scythed down by organized money…. They have permitted nothing less than the decimation of the own grassroots social movement; the silencing of their own ideology. ”

Obama’s response to the economic disaster was to surround himself economic advisers who were responsible for the disaster in the first place, and to continue the Bush bailouts of  Wall Street.

The low point, says Frank, came in the debt ceiling debate. “Having nobly divested himself of bargaining chips some months before, Obama now declared that he would answer Republican demands by seeking some high minded ‘grand bargain.” He allowed that cuts to Social Security and Medicare, two of the proudest achievements of the Democratic Party, might well be necessary, and gave his ascent as Republicans

No wonder the Tea Party won big in 2010.  They were the one who professed a populist outrage at the bailouts and government corruption — even though, in fact, their Republican sponsors were the ones most responsible for the bailouts and corruption. The point, though, is that the Dems failed to be populist and progressive.  They seemed afraid to defend government and taxation, lest the Republicans accuse them of being socialist.

“Sometimes when I watch the Washington Democrats in action, my mind goes back to the tragically incompetent British general staff off World War I, ordering assault after gigantic assault, only to see their armies annihilated one after another. But still they keep at it, playing by their gentlemanly rules of combat, never doing anything remotely clever.”


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But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.
Hebrews 11:6

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“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.” Romans 12: 2

The Word of God (the Bible) was given to us by the Spirit of God – it’s God speaking to us. In this message Pastor Duane helps us to understand the importance of knowing what the Bible says, because when our minds are renewed we’re able to discern what God’s will is, and what God’s will is not.


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I want you to imagine that you are in one of my finance seminars right now. You are seated in the middle row and you are here because you want to understand how to grow your money.

As the seminar begins, and after I make everyone feel comfortable, I pause and look into the crowd and ask a simple question. “Can anyone tell me; is there a difference between Trading and Investing?”  A few hands go up and I pick one. “Sir, investing is putting your money into an asset and making it work for you”. “Good”, I say, “…and what about Trading?” “Well, sir trading is buying and selling”. “Very good, okay, how about you?” I point to another person. “Investing is long term, trading is short term”. “Fantastic! Thank you for your very concise answers, you are both correct, now let me summarize and simplify so that everyone understands: Investing and trading are both being able to place your money into assets and make it work for you, both of them are also buying and selling, the difference is, investing is buying and selling on a long term basis while trading is buying and selling on a short term basis.”

Then I joke around. “Of course many of the experienced investors in the room know that Investing is also known as ‘Buying and Praying’” Which elicits a healthy amount of laughter. And I continue “…And those of you experienced traders in the room also know that Trading is ‘Buying and Praying Faster!’” And the room gets hysterical. I continue with another question: “Okay, raise your hands, how many of you want to make money by waiting a few years (Long term) to see some returns?” About a third of the room raises their hands. “Great! Now raise your hands if you want to make your money even faster!” Almost everyone in the room, even those who said they wanted long term investments raises their hands. “Ah, greed is in the air today I see…Now let me ask you, why do you want to make money faster?” Someone shouts, “Para yumaman ng mas mabilis!” (“So that we can get richer faster”) And the room starts to laugh again as everyone has the same mindset. So I continue “Very good, I know exactly what  you mean, everyone wants to get rich as soon as possible.”

Then I ask a few more questions: “So, how long would it take for you to double your money in a long term investment?” The crowd begins to chatter and you can hear people saying certain investment types and attaching the amount of years it would take for that investment vehicle to double their money. Some say 5 years, others say 3 while others say 10 years. “And how long would it take to double your money in trading short term?” Then the crowd randomly mentions a few numbers, some say 1 month, 3 months, 1 year. “Okay guys, that’s great, now let’s just say, for long term investments, and for arguments sake, can we agree that if you pick the right vehicle and you invest at the right time, you can actually double your money in 1 year?” The investors in the room nod. “Okay then, now for the traders in the room can we agree that for short term investments, you can double your money in 1 month?” A person from the back shouts “Actually Sir, you can double your money in 1 week, especially if you time it correctly!” And I myself nod and continue “…That’s true, but let’s just say 1 month to be a bit more conservative, can we agree? Good, now let me ask you guys, if you can double your money in a long term investment in 1 year, can you also lose all of your money in 1 year?” The room unanimously agrees, Yes they say with a vengeance. “And for short term traders, if you can double your money in 1 month, can you also lose all your money in 1 day?” The room, especially the veteran traders, vigorously nods in total agreement. ‘Absolutely’ is what I hear some people say as I press on.

“Good! Now, do you still want to make money in the short term knowing that you can also lose money faster?” then suddenly the room starts to ponder and quiet down a bit, and I can see some people beginning to realize the ugly truth about trying to grow your money whether for the long term or the short term. Everyone wants to make money fast, but my question made them realize that they might not want to lose money –slow or fast.

So I look around the room and I speak to them as I am speaking to you right now.

“Well, if you ask me, I would still want to make money in the short term even if I know that I can lose money faster, because and remember this, if you lose money in a long term investment, you don’t just lose your money, you also lose something far more valuable, you lose time. Remember my example above? If your long term investment made you lose money in 1 year, you lost your money and you also lost 1 year of your life — something that you can never get back…. Now if I lost my money in the short term, say 1 month. I lost my money, but only 1 month, which means I still have 11 months in the year to decide on what to do with my life!” And the crowd laughs and smiles in unison as if they saw clearer into their future on how they might tackle how they will grow their money. They nod in simple agreement and like them, I hope that you now understand in more practical terms what the difference is between Trading and Investing.

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    • markso

      Hi Carlos, thanks for writing in, perhaps to control, temper and moderate greed. I don’t think anyone can totally eliminate it as it is the driving force to make you want to risk investing in the first place.

  2. Josephine Q. Yu

    Totally agree with what you said. Thanks for making me learn the difference between trading and investing. In summary, you would prefer trading than investing. One question i would like to ask is: What is your opinion about investing in condo units?

    • markso

      Hi Josephine, it depends on how you plan to make money out of it. Rental or to flip? Both are okay but do know that Condo’s unlike land will depreciate over time due to wear and tear so the money has to be made within the first 5 years, otherwise it becomes a liability after that time.

  3. Gleeko

    Just my opinion Mr. So. I’ve read articles that in the long run, stocks really go up so you definitely won’t lose when you invest unlike in trading, you gain faster but you lose faster as well. No wonder one of the billionaires in the world is the greatest investor, Warren Buffett, and not the greatest trader.

  4. fae

    thanks for publishing things like this for free. this i very helpful, especially for people like me who doesn’t want to pay YET for financial seminars, (coz i’m saving really hard) 🙂

  5. Matthew C. Kriner

    First of all I would like to thankyou for this wonderful and informative post. I was googling around and found your blog and liked it very much. I would also recommend this to other professional bloggers.

  6. Matthew C. Kriner

    You have done a wonderful job by sharing this blog post here with us all. I am impressed with the writing style and the presentation. I will definitely recommend your blog to other professional bloggers as well.

  7. JB Cabig

    Great post Mark 😀 so i guess if your gonna go into a long term investment it should be in a low-medium risk one 😛

  8. Thirdy

    Seems like lectures tend to be the same at a point… Feels like this is what happen at the beginning of the forex orientation I attended…

    But these part of the seminar is important and it is nice to be reminded in this blog…

    More power!

  9. Ronald

    This is such a timely reminder. Wonderful article! Yes, I agree, we learn by repetition. Simple things almost always got lost immediately. Good thing you and your wife are very unselfish in sharing your expertise. Great new site! Keep the very useful articles coming.

  10. Dennis Arnoldi

    Simply wanna tell that this is very useful , Thanks for taking your time to write this.

  11. Omar Kaggi

    Just wondering if you could tell me whats the ideal way to invest, stocks or Forex? I am an OFW worked as nurse but zero knowledge in investing albeit I already lodge 100k in stockmarket, my broker has not advice me yet which company shares to buy. I dont know which to choose, if blue chips or speculative, since am still planning to go abroad to earn for my retirement hopefully. Is Equity managed fund also good to invest in a certain bank? please advice, thank you so much!!!

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Place: Liverpool, UK

Dates: 10-13 November 2015

Venue: Open Labs next to the Astrophysics Research Institute

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The location of the Astrophysics Research Institute is marked in blue and the provisional Gaia 2015 venue is marked in red. To view in more detail goto Google maps.

Streetview shown below as viewed from Mount Pleasant. Building is directly ahead. Access from Great Orford St:

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There are two airports providing access to the city of Liverpool.

LPL - Liverpool John Lennon Airport

The principle airlines flying to this airport are easyJet, Ryanair, Blue Air, Flybe Wizz Air, Czech, Thomson and Aer Lingus.

There is no rail link at this airport but there are frequent bus services to Liverpool South Parkway railway station which is NOT in the city.
Liverpool South Parkway is a double railway station providing two separate rail routes to Liverpool Lime Street or Liverpool Central stations, which are in the city.
A combined bus/train ticket can be purchased at the airport.

The bus services from the airport direct to Liverpool are numbered 500 , 86A and 80A .
These are operated by Arriva. The 80A & 86A services go via Liverpool South Parkway station.

Journey time to Liverpool is approximately 30 minutes.

MAN - Manchester Airport

This airport is larger than Liverpool so a greater number of principle airlines fly to this destination.

The rail link at this airport is Manchester Airport [MIA] station. Trains operated by Northern Rail go direct to Liverpool Lime Street station every hour, see Timetable.
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Several train companies operate this alternative route. The journey time is approximately 1.5 hours.
Refer to National Rail Enquiries for train times. It accepts three letter abbreviation [TLA] station names.

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  • Liverpool Lime Street [LIV] is the main railway station located in the city. There are some trains direct from London Euston [EUS] but most require a change at Crewe [CRE] station.
  • Liverpool Central [LVC] station located in the city and is a local commuter destination
  • Liverpool South Parkway [LPY] station is located 10km from the city and 4.5km from Liverpool John Lennon Airport.

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There is no free street parking near the University and metered street parking, marked by blue and red lines, is expensive. Recommended parking close the venue is Mount Pleasant Car Park. This is a multi-story car park, marked P on the map and is a 5 minute walk from the Gaia venue. All day parking costs £4, it is open from 7:00am until 20:00pm Mon-Fri, motorcycles and disabled are free. The entrance to the car park is at the lower end of Mount Pleasant, marked by the green dot on bottom of the £4 symbol. The car park has a one way system and the exit is onto Brownlow Hill.

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To put it mildly, 343 Industries’ much-hyped Halo: The Master Chief Collection missed the mark late last year when it launched on Xbox One to a myriad of technical bugs and game-crashing server issues. It wasn’t a situation that could be rectified overnight, either, with early adopters left faced with a seemingly relentless onslaught of patches and game updates all in an effort to plug the holes of a compilation that essentially release broken.

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Regardless, 2015 marks a new start for 343 Industries, and though informed consumers are tapering their expectations for Halo 5: Guardians after The Master Chief Collection, Xbox Boss Phil Spencer has assured fans that the sequel won’t fall foul to the mistakes of yesteryear.

In an interview with GameSpot, here’s what Spencer had to offer ahead of Guardians‘ release in little over a month’s time, noting that it is the creative team at 343 that are more concerned about avoiding the same mistakes than anyone else.

“I know that of all of our teams, no team at their core feels the need to hit a great launch from a multiplayer and connection issues more than 343,” he explained. “That team took the issues around the launch of Master Chief Collection, it kind of hit them in the heart, because it’s Halo Nation. It’s the people who love these past Halo games.”

“Frankly, if I look at how Rare came out [with Rare Replay] and Gears [Ultimate Edition] came out, and now Forza, I feel good that the teams all up have taken the lessons of last holiday of some teams missing the bar that they wanted to hit,” Spencer said. “You’re always going to have issues here and there, and you kind of manage through it, but by-and-large, those releases have gone well. It’s really nice to see that the teams have taken an increased focus on making sure that launch goes extremely well for our customers.”

That’s not to say that Halo 5: Guardians will launch flaw-free in October, given its online nature, but the fact that Spencer has expressed his own confidence in the product does at least allay lingering fears that the title will launch headfirst into problems.

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Los Angeles County health officials reported 953 new cases of COVID-19 and 10 additional deaths Saturday, bringing the county’s totals to 288,136 cases with 6,863 fatalities.

Officials with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said the relatively low number of cases might be a result of several missing reports from Friday evening.

A total of 746 people were hospitalized due to the virus as of Saturday, up from 735 on Friday, 723 on Thursday, 720 on Wednesday and 692 on Tuesday.

Although coronavirus hospitalizations have been generally trending downward since July, health officials still fear a potential spike in hospital demand if the region experiences a severe flu season while the COVID-19 pandemic is still raging, and are recommending flu shots for all in hopes of avoiding a surge of hospital demand due to influenza and COVID-19.

The department continues to urge residents to learn and abide by new county and state guidance which allow limited private gatherings with three or fewer households. All private gatherings must occur outdoors. Attendees must wear a cloth face covering when they are together except when they are eating or drinking and keep at least six feet of physical distance. Food must be served in single-serve disposable containers, and the duration of the gathering should be two hours or less.

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Of the 10 deaths reported Saturday, two people were over the age of 80, four people were between 65 and 79, two were between 50 and 64, and one person was between 30 and 49.

One death was reported by Long Beach, which has its own health department. All nine deaths reported by Los Angeles County were people who had underlying health conditions.

The county’s top health officer, Dr. Muntu Davis, said Thursday the change in policy on gatherings — while originated by the state — was an acknowledgement that such small gatherings were already occurring, despite health orders barring them. Davis said changing the health order was a chance for county officials to at least establish some guidelines for such meetings in hopes of limiting virus spread.

But the change came at a time when the county has seen rising daily COVID-19 case numbers and an uptick in the transmission rate, indicating a likely increase in future cases barring major behavioral changes and stricter adherence to health guidelines such as wearing face coverings.

In order to move out of the most restrictive tier of the state’s four- tier coronavirus economic-reopening roadmap, the county needs to get its daily average new case numbers down to about 700. In the past week, however, the number has regularly topped 1,200.

Four new infections were reported among West Hollywood residents today, bringing the number of infections to date at 615. The number of people in West Hollywood who have died of COVID-19 related illnesses is still listed as five.

In Beverly Hills, the number of confirmed infections remains at 725. The number of COVID-19 related deaths in Beverly Hills to date 12. The number of COVID-19 infections confirmed among Culver City residents has increased by two to 408. The number of deaths to date is 28. The number of infections in Hollywood has increased by six to 1,320. The number of deaths to date remains at 15. The Melrose neighborhood’s number of infections to date is 2,051, a reduction of five from yesterday’s total count, which likely reflects errors discovered in the addresses of those tested. The number of COVID-19 related deaths remains at 75.

Public Health has a dedicated call line for confirmed cases of COVID-19. If you are positive for COVID-19 and have not yet connected with a public health specialist or need more information on services, call toll-free at 1 (833) 540-0473. Residents who do not have COVID-19 can continue to call 211 for resources or more information.

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Monteverde is an Italian restaurant that offers deep-rooted traditional Italian food while pumping out new flavors. Run by Head Chef Sarah Grueneburg, her list of accolades include the James Beard Foundation Award for “Best Chef: Great Lakes.” Monteverde is located in the West Loop neighborhood of Chicago and is known for some of the city’s most delicious and creative new restaurants. However, as soon as you step inside Monte Verde, you have transported out of the West Loop and into Tuscany, Italy. The interior of the restaurant is filled with Italian tiles, wood floors, a handcrafted wood bar, purple bar stools, and floor to ceiling bi-folding doors. There is both indoor and outside seating where you can relax and enjoy the ambiance. Looking around, you will see that behind the wooden bar is their hand-made Pastificio – an Italian pasta factory, where throughout the day the team is creating and displaying their hand-made pasta. Now, let’s get down to business. Normally, I battle between three dishes but Monteverde is a little different. We ordered a lot!

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  • Nduja Arancini with Sicilian rice fritters, manchego, and tonnato aioli. I mean who doesn’t want a fried rice ball filled with cheese and a spicy pork spread. Every time I bite into one of these, the first thing out of my mouth is “ Oh yeah that’s good” every single time.
  • Burrata e Ham with rosemary tigelle, culatta prosciutto, arugula, grilled cherry tomato, and toasted garlic. Tigelle bread originates from Emilia-Romagna and you rarely ever come across it in the states. It’s shaped like a hockey puck, crusted on the outside, and light and soft in the middle. Slice open and make a prosciutto sandwich.
  • Soppressata Meatball made with Mangalista pork, Pomodoro, and Pecorino Romano, and wild oregano. The first time I ever had a meatball made with Soppressata was right here at Monteverde. Initially, I was a little taken back coming from an Italian family. Meatballs were a weekly occurrence and meatballs with soppressata just weren’t a thing. But the flavors grew on me and grew on me fast. The soppressata adds a saltiness to the meatball that cuts through all the fat that gives it a unique and delicious flavor.
  • Artichoke & Sunchoke Crostino with house-made ricotta, shallot, fontina fonduta, and savini truffle. As you take a bite of this toasted crostino, you taste the flavors from the creamy riccota, the rich woodsy truffle, and the freshness from the chokes – a must have appetizer.
  • Meatball Ravioli with Pomodoro, Tuscan kale, Pecorino Romano, and wild oregano. Freshly made ravioli stuffed with meat, cheese, and herbs. Really one of those dishes you just can’t pass up.
  • Spaghetti al Pomodoro oven-roasted tomato sauce, basil, and oven-dried cherry tomatoes. Your classic spaghetti with red sauce. The one mom used to make and who doesn’t love an Italian mother’s cooking.
  • Gnocchetti con Pesto with house-made ricotta, basil, Tuscan pine nuts, and Sardinian pecorino. The creamy ricotta, saltiness from the pecorino, fresh herbs, and the smoky toasted pine nuts make this one unforgettable meal.

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When I come to Monte Verde is the Gnocchetti con Pesto.  We all have that comfort dish and this one is mine. It has all the flavors you need without trying to be over the top. It makes life not feel as complicated when I eat something so amazing with the simplest ingredients. Montverde in Chicago is one of those restaurants that never let you down.

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Curated by celebrated jazz pianist, composer, and visual artist Jason Moran and Whitney performance curator Adrienne Edwards, Jazz on a High Floor in the Afternoon is a series of live in-gallery performances presented over nine weekends. The series features cross-generational artists performing within Moran’s three mixed-media “set sculptures”—STAGED: Savoy Ballroom 1 (2015), STAGED: Three Deuces (2015), and STAGED: Slugs’ Saloon (2018). Each installation pays homage to an iconic New York jazz venue.

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