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Sektor (H8000)

Here you see three releases of the Edgemetal band SEKTOR. All these releases are on Sobermind Records.

  • The record in the middle came before the Sektor / Vitality split and the full length. It is their early work, called “Ultimate Treat” and I don’t know if there is a colorversion.
  • Above you see the tourpress, with paper sleeve and A4 format insert. But also on a different color: Brown
  • Then after the tour with Vitalty came the split 7″ with them. As you can see it exists on black and clear. It has one song that is exclusive for this release. As a matter of fact two in the time it came out but the song “In Crypts Of Darkness” was re-released on the full length. The numbers are unknown.
  • Finally you see the “Human Spots Of Rust” full length. Mine is on black vinyl but there is also a colorversion: pink colored.
  • Important is that Sektor also recorded songs exclusive to some legendary compilations. I’m speaking of the “Animal Truth” benefit sampler and the “H8000 compilation vol. 1”.

I would like to shout out to Hans Liar to set free the Sober Mind pressing info. This info seems to me like the best kept secret of the H8000 realm. And I have never found out the numbers. I can restore the disography and the release sequence through dates and interviews like I did in this post. But it is impossible to count them by collecting them all, haha!!

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  1. I recently managed to get hold of a black pressing of the split, I already have the clear version. I was just wondering if yours came with a lyrics sheet? My copy of the clear repress did not come with a lyrics sheet, but my black original pressing did.

  2. Nope, clear did not came with a lyricsheet here also. There is also a difference with the insert of the tourpress (=A4 format) and the insert of the black vinyl with blue cover. Maybe I'll put photo's on my blog once. You could also ask H8000 central for this…Interesting question, thanks

  3. Normally ALL 7″'s had a lyricsheet, it was totally not done back in the day not to have lyrics included in your release. And if there's a link with hc, it's still a not done thing in my opinion.

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The Things Held in the Body

I’ve been extra busy with these past couple of weeks, and I will be through the end of June (so apologies to my dear WP friends whose blogs I have not been keeping up with). Even with this business, I am trying to squeeze in something extra: the Healing Trauma Summit.  It’s an online conference consisting of conversations with 24 leading researchers and practitioners working in trauma healing, especially in the incorporation of the body in trauma healing.

Even though the primary intended audience is clearly clinical psychologists, I think there’s a lot of insight there for those of us working on healing from our own traumatic histories. At least there are a lot of titles and initial descriptions that spark my interest!

trauma summitIt’s set up this way: You can register for free, and you can listen to the talks live. That’s great. Then for 24 hours, you can also refer to the recorded broadcasts. If you want access after that, however, you can pay $297 for lifetime access to everything. If I were a practitioner, I might do it. Since I am instead a part-time freelancer, and this isn’t even my field, I don’t want to pay. So I feel this sense of urgency to pack in as much learning as I can within the first 24 hours of each presentation.

Today was the first day, with three presentations, each about an hour long. I’ll say right now, fitting in three hours of watching academic/psychologist types talking online is both kind of an overload and anyway would involve me not cooking, not going for my daily walk, and not getting my work done. So I didn’t make it.

But I did listen to brief portions of each of the three talks, and then this evening I listened to all of the recording of the first talk, with Peter Levine, the person who developed Somatic Experiencing as a trauma therapy.

“We can’t get rid of trauma by trying to talking ourselves out of it. It is the body that releases trauma and restores goodness. The things held in the body needed to be released in the body.”

–Peter Levine

Levine makes the argument that trauma is as much, or more, in our bodies than in our heads. It’s a sensory experience, characterized by tightened muscles, knots in the stomach, sweating, a wild heartbeat–you know the signs. We aren’t going to get better only by dealing with our cognitions, and not even with our cognitions and our emotions. At some point, we have to deal with the underlying sensations, learning to notice them and tolerate them. Obviously, this is terrifying at first, so it needs to happen slowly, gently. We need titrated experiences and we need to assisted in going back and forth between a little bit of frightening sensation and stabilization, a little bit more sensation, then back to safety.

He says he’s seen this process work with thousands of people. For people with a one-time trauma (such as a car accident), it can often work in one or two sessions. For people with early, developmental trauma, it takes longer. But he still said many people are better in six months. Six months! What?!? I’ve been at this for years!

(Then I think: I bet the people who get better in six months also went to a lot of other therapy first and have overall taken years to get better. Just like I did a lot of things before I finally started attended to being present in my body.)

Levine also spoke briefly at the end of his talk about chronic shame and how hard it is to heal from. This is something, he argues, we cannot heal alone. Shame originates in relationship, in a betrayal, and it gets healed in a relationship with a trusted therapist.

I heard only a few moments of Judith Blackstone (today’s second speaker) talking about The Realization Process: “a method for spiritual awakening and healing from trauma.” Her general point is that learning to be present in our bodies allows us to get to know ourselves as a part of the one undivided consciousness in the universe. I might have once thought that was New Age gobbledygook, except I feel like I myself have had this experience of spacious connectedness through yoga. So I no longer feel so inclined to roll my eyes about it.

Anyway, I heard too little of her talk to give you a good summary of what she said. However, I did notice a few things:

  • Like Levine, Blackstone thinks we get better by releasing the constrictions (what she calls the “bound postures”) of the body;
  • Like Levine, she notes that for severe trauma, the practitioner needs to go very slowly–we might just start with learning to be present with our feet, for example;
  • Also like Levine, she thinks that it is possible to heal from trauma, and so worth it, because we come out the other side able to live deeper, richer, more fulfilling lives.

It’s encouraging to see these parallels in their work.

The third presenter was Gabor Mate, known for his work in addiction and trauma research. You might know his book, In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts, which I first heard about in my yoga-teacher training. I heard the least of his talk but hope to go back to it tomorrow. This man really touched my heart. He did the conversation via Skype from what appeared to be his bedroom, with the bed messily made and books on the floor in the background, i.e. no pretentiousness about this guy. One of the first things he talked about how what happens to us in early childhood shapes the way we perceive the world. If we experienced trauma then, it constricted our sense of our own possibility and what the world had to offer.

Like the other presenters, he believes it is possible to heal from this kind of intense, early trauma, also by bringing us back into our bodies. We learn to separate from our bodies because the connection is too painful. But it’s never too late to reconnect. He says he knows this because it’s been true in his own life. He said–and this is the part that made me feel so much for him–that for years he would go around, doing trainings, teaching this method, and people would tell him how much he had helped them. At the same time, he continued to believe that others could be healed, but not him. He said, “You would be surprised how recently this has changed for me.”

I would really like to find an hour to go back and hear what else he had to say (before the talk disappears behind a pay wall). Otherwise, perhaps I’ll finally read his book, or maybe watch other videos of him speaking elsewhere online.

I am feeling a little uplifted tonight, knowing there are these smart people doing work from slightly different perspectives but all arriving at some similar recommendations. Furthermore, these recommendations resonate with my own experience of becoming (somewhat) stronger and healthier, in part through slow, close attention to my sensory experience and being present in my body.

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    • This morning I listened to Zainab Salbi (I’ve heard her before, but years ago). I felt inspired… braver, kind of. I took a lot of notes because I think I will want to come back to her words.

      Like the others, she also said that healing is possible–very difficult, but possible.

      I wish I had time to listen to everything.

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    • Now it seems to obvious to me, but honestly, even five years ago, if you said that, I wouldn’t have any idea what you meant. I would have said, sure the body needs nutritious food and some exercise, but emotions in the body? What are you talking about?

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April 27, 2014, Easter 2 – Not Seeing Can Be Believing

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Have you ever been to a play where you are just sitting and observing the action between characters, and suddenly one of the characters looks directly at YOU, and begins to address his words to you, rather than to the characters in the play? At once you are drawn in to the story in a new way; instead of watching from the outside, you have become part of the story, and the story takes on a new level of reality for you, because you are called upon to interact with that character. You can’t just sit and daydream or text your friend or work on your grocery list anymore. And if the actor caught you napping, you are suddenly wide awake. It might be embarrassing, but it’s also more interesting, because now the story includes you, personally.

In the gospel passage we just read, John does something very like that. We read the story about Thomas, the apostle we call “Doubting Thomas”, on the day he first encountered the risen Jesus, and then John turns to us. And he tells us, “You are the people I am writing these stories down for.” and he says: “Jesus did lots of things, and a lot of people saw him, but I’m writing these particular stories down for you, who are not here to touch the scars on the Lord’s hands and feet, who are not here to put your hand in the wound in his side, who are not here now to feel his breath as he gives us the Holy Spirit, so that you can know these things are true, that they really happened, and knowing, you can believe just as we do, and so that believing, you may have life in his name.”

When we read the Bible, it’s good to read carefully. It was written by many, many people over many centuries, and each book was written by a human being in a particular historical setting in a particular location for a particular purpose. Everything in Scripture is there to reveal to us who God is and what he is doing in our world and how much he loves this creation he made. But we can only really understand the Bible if we take care to recognize the human beings and the differences between our culture and theirs and our situation and theirs. All Scripture is important and valuable for us to read, but very few things are addressed directly to us. Very few, but not none, because here in the fourth gospel, John, the writer, tells us that this book was written for us. John wrote the stories of Mary Magdalene, and Peter, and Thomas, and Jesus (men and women whom he knew personally) And he wrote them for us – for all those who would come after him, from the first to the twenty-first centuries and beyond, so that even though we were not able to be physically present with Jesus and the disciples, we can still know Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and believe in him, and receive that life that comes from faith in him only.

When he had let Thomas feel the scars in his hands and feet and side, Jesus said to him, “Do not disbelieve, but believe.” And Thomas worshiped him at once, “My Lord and my God!” And then Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” We are those blessed ones Jesus was talking about, those who never had the opportunity to see or hear or touch him, but who are still believers in Christ. And I think it is very important to understand that believing means knowing.

People use the word “belief” in so many different ways, that it’s no wonder they don’t always understand what we mean when we say we are believers. I think one thing people mean by belief is that they mean they have a fervent kind of feeling about something. When I was little, I used to love to watch the movie “Peter Pan” when it came on TV every year. And if you’ve seen it you know there is a part where the little fairy Tinkerbell is dying, and Peter Pan, played by Mary Martin, calls on us – audience participation again! – to show that we believe in fairies, because that’s the only thing that will save poor little Tinkerbell. And every year I clapped my hands in a frenzy, earnestly displaying my belief in fairies so that Tinkerbell would survive once again. At any other time, I might or might not have any particular feelings about the existence of fairies, but at least once a year I believed with all my little heart. Well, that fervent feeling I had, however sincere I was while the show lasted, was not belief.

And yet for many people that fervent feeling is exactly what they mean by belief. We find ourselves moved by an excellent hymn or by the words of a psalm or by a really good speaker like Fr. Nigel or Bishop Love, and in that moment we feel that we believe. But then we go home and the dog had an accident on the rug and the electric bill comes and has nearly doubled and we try to read in the Bible and we end up in Leviticus reading about baldness or blood sacrifices and it leaves us cold. And that strong feeling we had seeps away; we leak, as I have heard someone say, and we feel that our belief is very weak indeed. We feel in those moments that we are “bad Christians” – I hear so many people say that. But belief is not a feeling; it is a knowing. And the ups and downs of our feelings and our spiritual fervor are distressing and frustrating, but they have nothing to do with whether or not we are believers in Christ.

Of course, not everyone puts such great store in feelings. A lot of people – a LOT of people – consider that being a believer should be all about what we do. After all, we call our sets of rules and regulations “beliefs”. So a believer is someone who does the right things – because didn’t Jesus stress over and over again that we must not only hear his words, but also DO them? And that has pretty much the same problems as basing our belief on our feelings, because even if we are able to be good people all day today, and maybe even tomorrow, it won’t be long before we mess it all up. We can avoid murdering someone generally speaking, or telling lies, or stealing things, but can we avoid envying our friend who just got a new car when our car is barely chugging along? Can we get through even a single day without calling our brother or sister a fool, or adjusting the truth a bit for convenience sake, or gossiping? Sooner or later, and usually sooner, we fail, and suddenly we are believers with a C- ranking, or worse.

The problem is that we have put the cart before the horse, because the life of the kingdom – living and doing the things that God would have us live and do – are not belief itself; they are the fruits of belief. We can never make ourselves good Christians by doing good things, even if we were able to always do good things, which we aren’t. That sort of Christianity would be – is – a pretty dry and uninspiring sort of life. The life that comes from belief in Jesus Christ is abundant, not holier-than-thou-ness, but joyfully abundant, free to give, free to love, free from fear or judgment. And that life is the result – it is the fruit – of belief in Jesus Christ.

And belief isn’t feeling or doing: belief is knowing. John says, “these things are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God.” Before we believe, we have to know, and before we can KNOW, there has to be something – or in this case, someone – to be known. We believe because there was truly a small group of men hiding away in terror in an upper room two thousand years ago. And even though they had the door locked tight, suddenly the man they loved and admired most in the whole world was standing right there in the room with them. And the weird thing about that was that they had seen him get arrested and tortured and killed. They had seen his dead body. But here he was, and not only Thomas, who kind of gets picked on as a doubter, but every one of them had to at least look at the scars on his hands and feet and the horrible gash in his side from the soldier’s spear, still there, but healed, glorified. They heard his voice and they felt his breath when he breathed on them; they ate with him and talked with him. And they wrote all these things down because knowing Jesus is the most important thing in the whole world, back then and now and forever. We can only believe because there is something real to be known and believed in. And when we believe, instead of being filled with gushy feelings or handed a set of rules to follow, we are filled with a life – Jesus’ own life – that begins to transform us from the inside out.

Peter, who knew Jesus as well as any human being on earth, wrote this to the new-born believers in the churches sprouting up like wildflowers all over the known world: “Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.” That confidence, and that inexpressible joy, belong to us as well, because our belief does not depend on our feelings or our good works, but on the solid reality of Jesus Christ, who was born a human being, who lived and died as one of us, and who burst forth from the tomb, fully man and fully God and fully and eternally alive, to share his abundant life with all those who believe in him. “Do not disbelieve, but believe.”

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December 4, 2016, Being People of Hope – Mtr. Kathryn Boswell

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This past Thursday morning there was a segment on public radio about a man in the Netherlands named Mark Langedijk. Last summer he chose to end his own life, not by suicide, but by euthanasia. He was 41 years old, and he had been struggling for many years with alcoholism. Finally, he had decided that he would never be able to overcome his addiction, and that the life he was leading wasn’t worth living at all, and he obtained legal permission to plan his death. His brother, Marcel, spoke on the radio about the day his brother died, surrounded by his family, his parents and a sister and himself, and he described their grief, how terribly painful it was for all of them. It was devastating even to listen to this man tell about his experience. It was just so sad, a portrait of this man who had lost all hope.

We use the word hope casually, pretty carelessly, really, much of the time. “I hope it doesn’t snow tomorrow.” “I hope you have a nice birthday.” I hope the pants I just bought at the Thrift Shop fit me.” – as if hope were no more than a kind of positive thinking. But the truth is, as Mark Langedijk’s story reveals, real hope is a matter of life and death. And the world we live in is in great need of hope – always, but never more than today, when people’s lives and choices are so often ruled by fear and anger and anxiety and despair. The American ideal of the “self-made man,” as admirable as it sounds, leaves more people in ruins than it does success and wealth. All around us people are living their lives without any hope.

But into the dark shadows of the world’s hopelessness, the light of Advent shines its rays of hope.

The people who walked in darkness

have seen a great light;

those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness

on them has light shined.

Today we read these words from Paul’s letter to the Romans: “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Advent, which is all about the coming of our God into the world, is specifically about the coming of the God who is hope, and who comes in order that all who are lost and confused in the darkness of the world, may not just find enough hope to keep hanging on by their fingenails, but that they may abound in hope.

Clearly, what Paul is talking about is very different from good wishes and positive thoughts. He is talking about hope that has some real muscle, hope that makes a difference, hope that is able to snatch a life right out of the jaws of death.

We know – though it is good and important to be reminded every year – that Advent is about our hope that Jesus will come back to us as e promised, and that at his coming back this whole broken creation, with all its violence and corruption and suffering, will finally be healed completely. We read the wonderful verses about the wolf snuggling up to the lamb and the leopard hanging out with the baby goat, and the tiny child playing without a care in the world beside the nest of poisonous snakes. We read the prophesy of Isaiah:

They will not hurt or destroy

on all my holy mountain

for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the Lord

as the waters cover the sea.

Those promises, that there will surely come a time when pain and cruelty will be no more, and when the whole dog-eat-dog existence that eats away at the souls of men will come to an end forever – that is joy and life and hope to us.

But we – and the world – need more than that. Like Mark, we all need hope for today. We need hope that when the darkness around us is so impenetrable that we just can’t go on; when we have run out of strength and fresh starts, even then there is light to be found. And that there is someone out there who cares enough to come to us in our despair, and who is big enough and strong enough to rescue us out of it. In the season of Advent, that is the hope we have to share with the world, hope that is able to pierce the blackest darkness and reach the lowest depths.

As Christians we proclaim that God, the God of hope, was born into ou world as a baby boy a little over two thousand years ago. And we proclaim that he will return in the course of time to restore to this creation all the goodness and kindness and beauty and joy it was meant to have. But we also proclaim that the God of hope is with us right now, because he promised us that he will never leave us or forsake us. We human creatures have not been left hanging, to muddle along as best we can, expected to follow the rules and be good people, desperately striving day by day to lift ourselves up by our own frayed and tangled bootstraps.

Because the truth is that when people feel helpless and hopeless in the face of something like alcoholism – or depression, or cancer, or divorce, or loss – it’s not because they are especially weak, it’s not because they aren’t wimps. And they aren’t wrong. The world really does burden the human race with things that we can’t deal with on our own. You always hear people saying that God never gives us more trouble than we are able to deal with. But that’s just the old bootstrap mentality wearing a Christian mask. The truth is that there are a lot of things that happen to people that they shouldn’t have to, or even that they can’t, face alone. And the great good news of Advent is that we are not alone.

We live in between the two great Events of human history:

Between the first coming:

Behold, a Virgin shall conceive

and bear a Son

and his name shall be call Emmanuel,

which means “God with us.”

And the second:

Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man.

He will dwell with them, and they will be his people,

and God himself will be with them as their God.

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,

and death shall be no more,

neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore,

for the former things have passed away.

Here we are, living in between those two great Events: God’s people, abounding in hope, because the Spirit of the God of hope has made his home with us. So what does that mean, what does that look like, for us to be people abounding in hope in the midst of a world abounding in despair? Well, we can actually know what it looks like because Jesus came to show us. He did it first; he lived it out for us. Clearly, Jesus didn’t bring hope to the world by offering us all nice gold-leaf Christmas card platitudes about hope. And he didn’t bring hope into the world by staying inside the four safe and quiet and holy walls of the synagogue like a respectable teacher.

Jesus took hope out into the streets. He took hope to his neighbors, and especially he took hope to people nobody else wanted to be bothered with. He struck up conversations with unsavory characters like women and Samaritans. He let his important grownup teaching time get interrupted by noisy little kids; instead of shushing them, he welcomed them and took them into his arms. He hung out in the bad part of town with poor people and sick people and prostitutes. He touched lepers – and nobody touches lepers. He gathered together an inner circle of friends that was made up of bumbling fishermen and political radicals and hotheaded young men and tax collectors – and a traitor. Jesus never once in his whole life “played it safe”. He certainly never worried about his reputation. He got his hands dirty. And hope spread out from Jesus like wildfire on a dry prairie.

As people abounding in hope, Jesus showed us that our job, is to take that hope out into the world, out to the hopeless. And we don’t have to go very far to find people in desperate need of hope: next door, down the street, in the checkout line at the grocery store, at the tables of our community dinner, in the waiting room at the doctor’s office. We have so much hope to offer: compassion, kindness, forgiveness, grace, a listening ear. Compassion brings hope to the poor and the suffering. Kindness brings hope to the lonely. Forgiveness brings hope to someone who is crushed under the burden of his guilt and shame. A listening ear brings hope to the lonely. Grace brings hope to those, like Mark Langedijk, like so many battling addictions and depression, whose darkness is truly more than they can face alone. Hope is a matter of life and death – and it is ours for the sharing, not by our human efforts but because we are bearers of his Spirit – but we have to get out there and share it.

This is no time for playing it safe. In this holy season of Advent, may the God of hope fill us all, with all joy and peace in believing, so that we may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. And, following the example of Jesus, our Lord and our Teacher and our Hope, may we bring the great light of his hope out into the world, to the people around us who are still walking in darkness.

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Shane and Jenny’s Wedding Weekend [8/18/18]

This weekend we celebrated Jenny and Shane’s wedding.  Needless to say, it was a jam-packed weekend!  A ton of family came in, so it was great to see everyone and just spend time together, albeit quick.

Here’s some pics from the weekend.  Check out how cute my kids are!

Layla was a flower girl and Ezra was the bible barer.  Right before the wedding, Ezzy fell asleep!

Luckily we got him up right before he had to walk down the aisle and he did a great job!  Surprisingly, Layla was shy and initially didn’t want to walk down the aisle, but she overcame the fear and did an awesome job as well!

Here’s some shots in the groom’s room.

And here’s a shot right after the ceremony!

The couple did a quick ring exchange in the hall.

Here’s the kids waiting patiently to snap a few pics after the ceremony.

And here’s the bridal party in the limo on the way to the reception.

The lovely ladies waiting to walk into the reception.

Here’s the mothers giving the couple milk back at Mom’s house.

Fun times!  Sheena and I took Monday off to rest and also take Ezzy to his 4 year old doctor appointment.  Since he had to get shots, we treated him to brunch at The Toasted Yolk.

Below is a video re-cap of the entire weekend.

We made a slideshow of old pics from both Jenny and Shane’s side, here’s a link to that:

Sheena did an amazing speech during the reception (as seen in the first video) and in between that speech, we played this little video:

If my re-cap video was too long, then check out Sheena’s edit!

Overall a pretty awesome weekend!  Congrats to Shane and Jenny on the wedding day!

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Public school teachers’ satisfaction with retention factors in relation to work engagement

Ronny Shibiti
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology | Vol 46 | a1675 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajip.v46i0.1675 | © 2020 Ronny Shibiti | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 29 March 2019 | Published: 27 February 2020

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Ronny Shibiti, Department of Business Management, College of Economic and Management Sciences, University of South Africa, Hammanskraal, South Africa

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Orientation: The quality of education is influenced by the engagement, well-being, retention and performance of teachers. Literature shows that teachers are exiting the teaching profession at an alarming rate, and there are various and intertwined reasons compelling teachers to leave their jobs.

Research purposes: The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of retention factors on work engagement.

Motivation for the study: Turnover among teachers is high, and many teachers are leaving the profession during their early years of teaching. An empirical investigation of the relationship between retention factors and work engagement and the results of utilising retention factors and work engagement to facilitate employee retention is needed.

Research approach/design and method: A quantitative design was used, and 278 questionnaires were collected from a convenience sample of teachers from public schools in the Tshwane Municipality.

Main findings: Correlational analysis revealed significant relationships between retention factors and work engagement. Multiple regression analyses revealed that retention factors significantly predict work engagement. The main practical contribution of this study is the way in which it has demonstrated that retention factors relate to and predict work engagement.

Practical/managerial implications: Organisations should provide their employees with improved compensation, training and development, and career opportunities as this may improve employees’ work engagement. Therefore, organisations should determine whether employees are satisfied with these retention factors as provided in the organisation.

Contribution/value-add: This study adds to the psychological attachment theory by suggesting that employees satisfied with retention factors in their organisations are more likely to be engaged.

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Wild Horses

Wild Horses

(two guys take a road trip)

1971 and counting…

The journey of a lifetime was being nixed at the first intersection. Boyd pulled up to the red light in the middle of our town.  He braked and the Caddy stopped dead.  There was nothing lit up on the driver panel – no “BATT” light, no “CHECK ENGINE” light, nothing. The Marantz stereo we placed on the back seat hump coasted to a stop.  As it did the Lizard King’s voice churned down Riders On the Storm with a demonic basso profundo until the needle stopped sucking sound.  Could a journey of a thousand miles end with a single stoplight?

Before the trip my mom had said “Go.” Boyd’s mom handing Boyd the Amoco gas card said “Go,” They both said, “Be careful.” So we went. So we thought.

 Boyd and I sat in the Caddy facing a green light with dashed hope silence. There was no crank of the engine, no radio, no stereo rush, just a mortifying silence a half mile into our road trip. We looked at each other and then over at the Saint Jude medallion dangling from the rear view mirror.  The “Pray for us” entreaty quickly came out of limbo. A horn blast broke our abject reverie and we jumped out of the car.

 Boyd popped the hood and looked into the vast Caddy cavern. The engine gave no indication of changing its mind. The emergency light wasn’t working so I stood behind the car and waved folks around. Boyd ran over to the library and made a call home: “Mom we are stuck at the intersection of Kennedy Drive and Lake Street.  The car just stopped dead.”

The Caddy was Boyd’s dad’s idea.  He thought we would be safer driving the massive armored vehicle instead of Boyd’s sporty cruiser, a Chevy Caprice.  But the journey of a thousand miles would restart with the Caprice.

Boyd’s mom drove the Caprice over to where we were stranded.  We unloaded our gear from the Caddy into the Caprice.  Boyd reconnected the AC cord of the Marantz to the dc to ac converter plugged into the cigarette lighter.  We were good to go musically.  Hope started charging the moment the Caprice cranked over.  We thanked Boyd’s mom and drove off leaving her to wait for the tow truck.

After a couple of hours driving we had left Illinois behind.  Boyd drove the whole first day and night of the trip.  No-Doz, Dr. Pepper and a BTO album kept Boyd’s hand thumping the dashboard for hours on end. We puffed on Dutch Master Panetelas as he drove us through Wisconsin and through Minnesota and then into South Dakota, clicking off mile after mile, ash after ash. While he drove I lay back in my seat, eyes half-open, as the day turned to night before us.  When it became dark I wondered if Boyd could stay awake the whole night staring at the two-lane monotony always just headlights away.   As DJ Denny I was soon charged with changing the records and keeping him alert. Bumps in the road and lane changes kept me busy returning the wandering needle to its groove.

South Dakota:  grasslands, vast open landscape, not a building in sight. In the early morning hours back-lit by the sunrise, the tall wheat grass looked like golden blond hair as it was brushed by the wind.  After fourteen hours we let the turn table go silent.  When we did I heard other music playing outside the open car window – ancient music streaming in the wind.  The cessation of all that I knew from a life in Chicago and the revelation of sights and sounds I never knew somehow caused ancient memories to stir up in me, a mystical vision of a boy running free – no shirt, no shoes, just earth and boy and wind.  Snap! A Wall Drug billboard appeared and then another and another. Burma Shave Lives on:  GET A SODA…GET A ROOT BEER…TURN THE CORNER…JUST AS NEAR…TO HIGHWAY 16 AND 14

What great wonder of the world awaited us?  Boyd drove us past the endless signs to that middle of nowhere – the town of Wall, South Dakota, home of Wall Drug.  The promise of free ice water noted on the drug store’s ubiquitous billboards along I- 90 had wetted our interest.

Wall Drug was just what my post card thought’s had pictured: Indian lore and artifacts packaged for tourists along with food, souvenirs, polished stones, rubber tomahawks, prescription drugs and the free bottle of ice cold water. When we got back to the Caprice a Wall Drug bumper sticker was affixed to the rear bumper – a billboard to go:

We set off with our free ice water and our newly labeled rear end and headed for the Black Hills, Mount Rushmore, the Badlands and the Corn Palace.  I queued up Paul and Linda McCarthy’s Ram album. Out came “Too Many People,” “Three Legs,” “Ram On.”   The Beatles were breaking up in our back seat.

“Looking for a home in the heart of the country….Heart of the country, where the holy people grow, Heart of the country, smell the grass in the meadow.”

We exited I-90 at Rapid City and drove south to Custer State Park.  After scratching our heads we left. We followed Iron Mountain road out of the eastern gate of Custer State Park.  The road’s corkscrewing “pigtail” bridges and three narrow honk-your-horn-through-the-rock tunnels wound us through the Black Hills to Mount Rushmore. As we drove out of one tunnel the chalk-white “Shrine of Democracy” appeared before us in the receding aperture.  We had come out of the rabbit-hole of the sixties and face to face with our forefathers. We sat up straight in our seats.

As we stood on Mt.Rushmore’s viewing terrace I was hoping to see Cary Grant or Eva Marie Saint but not James Mason.  I was in a North by Northwest latitude of mind.  With some intrigue in mind I did put some tokens into a telescope. I was hoping to catch someone hanging from the nose of a president but all I saw was a few eroded pores. Stone faces don’t do anything for me.

That night we decided to camp at Mount Rushmore National Park. Red – eyed and saddle-sore, we had been driving since 2:00 in the afternoon the day before.  It was now 7:30 pm Saturday.  Fortunate for us the gods behind the stone faces smiled down upon us:  we were able to get the last open spot on the campground.  After pitching our two-man tent on a floor of pine needles we crawled into our sleeping bags.  We let sleep overcome us – screaming kids, barking dogs and banging pots not withstanding.

The next morning’s commotion gave us a start.  Folks were packing kids and camping gear into their cars and leaving the park. We didn’t start a fire or make coffee.  We pissed, packed the tent and drove back to Rapid City where there was a Waffle house and breakfast.

After some scrambled eggs and toast and plenty of coffee we pulled onto I-90 heading northwest.  I put the needle down on BTO’s groove “Taking Care of Business.” Boyd again thumped the dashboard as we drove past Sturgis into Wyoming.  We drove past Sundance and then Gillette.  We turned south and headed to Casper passing the Hole-In-The Wall hideout.  We had heard that Butch and Sundance were out of the country so we didn’t stop and say “Hi.”

After an early supper in Casper we made the Grand Teton National Forest by twilight.  On a bluff that overlooked Jackson Lake’s Spalding Bay we set up our tent. The once-in-a-lifetime view: the cerulean blue lady of Jackson Lake had put on a string of diamonds that sparkled as the sun set.

The air that night was crisp and clean, full of promise. We slept like two bears in hibernation.  I finally woke the next day when I stretched out my legs and my feet touched the cool damp edge of the tent.  I poked myself out of the tent and found the same morning dew had been soaking the bottoms of my shoes. “Hey, Boyd wake up.  Look at this.”

With one last snort Boyd roused and fumbled out the tent, one leg in his pant’s the other caught in the tent.  “What?”

“Look!” I pointed.

Boyd’s jaw dropped.

All around our tent there were huge paw prints in the damp earth.  A bear had been stalking our campsite during the night.  “Whew!” –  our collective thought blurt out from our ashen faces. We were relieved that we had not been mistaken for food and that the cache of food we had brought with was safely packed in the car’s trunk ~ a two-week supply of beef jerky, spam and bottles of Dr. Pepper. As far as I was concerned, though, the bear could have the jerky.  GIGO, as they say.

Now Boyd liked to keep moving. He was not ADD.  He was ASAP. His mom told me one day that “you never know with Boyd.  Boyd goes wherever the wind takes him at the moment.”  Boyd was my Dean Moriarty. So every day, On the Road, wind at our backs, we drove like the world was holding out on us.

For the both of us movement meant music.  Boyd brought his LP and eight track collection and I brought my LPs: Boyd’s road tunes: Bachman Turner Overdrive (BTO), the Beatle’s White Album, McCarthy’s Ram, The Bee Gees, Barry Manilow (yes, Barry Manilow), Jefferson Airplane. Mine:  Chicago Transit Authority, Blood Sweat and Tears, Bill Chase:  Chase, The Doors, Sargent Pepper Lonely Heart’s Club Band, the Woodstock soundtrack, George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, Simon & Garfunkel’s Parsley, Sage, Rosemary And Thyme, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Green River, Moody Blues Every Good Boy Deserves Favour .  Mile markers, grooves, tracks and flashbacks – we let the RPMs take us.

Driving up to Yellowstone was a panoramic delight.  We “aw”-ed at the sight of Old Faithful, we laughed at the “blup blup” of the Mud Volcano erupting and pinched our noses at the rotten egg smell of the Sulphur Caldron – the bounty of good earth filled our senses.

From Yellowstone we headed south to Wind River Indian Reservation.  We set up our tent in the early evening in a nearby campsite and started a fire.  Boyd stirred up some Sanka.

We sat by the crackling pine needle fire until the reflective light of the moon flooded directly down onto us through the towering jack pines.  Branches scratched each other in the night breeze. After a while we decided to hike over to a treeless area we could make out at the edge of our forest canopy. As we did we came upon a creek bed lay that lay at an opening in the side of a deep ravine.

It appeared that a mighty river had once flowed through the rock, its torrent gouging a deep channel through the sandstone and later breaking out the gulch before us.  But now instead of a large swift river forcing it way upon the landscape, a shallow unhurried stream silently passed over a bed of smooth stones and sand. The desultory shimmer of wet stone offered teasing glimpses of the moon’s face from earth.  Boyd and I sat down near the stream on a fallen grey tree trunk. Our short shadows floating on the stream.

I saw her then, a silhouette of a young woman with waist length hair.  She was kneeling at a bend in the stream.  She looked to be a cutout of the Indian princess on the Land-O-Lakes butter package. (My fantasies always include food.)  Kneeling about twenty feet from where we sat she turned toward us.  I met her gaze.  The next thing I knew my legs were carrying me over to where she knelt.  Funny things, legs, but I guess when you are seventeen and having just graduated from high school the torrent of impulse is unleashed within you moving your legs before all else.

The moon,” was all I got out and I sat down next to her feet.  The moon’s ethereal light dappled our faces with faint glow. We sat silently for a while, my fearlessness now speechlessness. And while I waited for my impulse to catch its breath I hoped that she would say something.

 “I’m Anna.”

“I’m Denny. Hi.”  I looked over at her hoping to see more of her face but it was in shadow.

After a couple of awkward minutes she said, “My folks are taking us to California for vacation. I’m from Rapid City, South Dakota.”

“I’m from Chicago.”

“I can tell.”

“How’s that?”

“Guys from Chicago talk like Chicago. You know, like their chewing on meat and potatoes when their talking to you, like regular guys. That’s what my mom says about her dad.  He’s from Chicago.”

“I didn’t know I was regular until today. I do like my mom’s pot roast.”

“Regular is good.  It means you are who you are and not something else. I could sense it before I walked out here alone.”  She turned quickly toward the trees. “I am not alone.  My parents are right over there in the camper, so I am not alone. See?”

I looked where she looked and nodded.  “OH.  OK then. I am regular.” I said looking at her. “Regular is good. So be it.”

From behind me came the sound of a small rumble and then a loud splashing of hoofs followed by neighs and whinnies. A herd of wild horses ~ Mustangs ~ appeared out of the east ravine passage. They stopped right in front of Boyd to slurp up the clear water.

It was midnight and a dreamscape: wild horses standing in a quick sliver stream, my hand now in hers, the moon’s pale illumination casting a black and white surrealism onto the ravine walls and Boyd, a shadow, sitting alone on a log.  I shook off my dream.

I said good night to Anna telling her that I hoped we’d meet again in another dream and walked over to where Boyd sat.  He had been whittling a pine branch into what looked like a spear.  I sat down and together we watched the horses until they chased each other down the stream and out of our view. We returned to our tent for the night. The Dream followed me there.

One fine morning, girl, I’ll wake up
Wipe the sleep from my eyes
Go outside and feel the sunshine
Then I know I’ll realize
That as long as you love me, girl, we’ll fly

And on that mornin’ when I wake up
I’ll see your face inside a cloud
See your smile inside a window
Hear your voice inside a crowd
Calling, “Come with me baby and we’ll fly”

Yeah, we’ll fly-y-y, yeah, we’ll fly
We’ll fly-y-y, yeah, we’ll fly

Later, Boyd said he didn’t mind about me and the girl.  But he did begin to mind when I met another girl on our trip to England and then another on a trip to Miami and then another on our trip around the Great Lakes. I was happy when began to talk about a girl he liked at church.  I hoped she liked him.

Wyoming was a state of mind that I didn’t want to leave.  I vowed to return and make my home among the broncos.  Denver was next on our road trip.  Our former pastor lived in a suburb of Denver and Boyd decided that we should surprise him by showing up at his church office.  The pastor gulped when he saw us.

Pastor Renz greeted us and then invited us to his home for lunch. We ate PB & J sandwiches and drank lemonade.  His told us that his wife was out-of-town so we sat with him and his three sons on their patio. During lunch we chatted about our trip and about our home town and then we said goodbye.  This side trip was important for Boyd.  Years before I had brought Boyd to our church.  This pastor had led Boyd to the Lord.  Boyd wanted to see him one more time and thank him. As his mother said Boyd was impulsive in every way.  The high RPMs of his soul kept us moving quickly in some direction – a direction we’d figure out on the way.

After lunch Boyd’s compass pointed northeast and to Estes Park, Colorado.  We made our way to this mountain town where the bindle bums of the sixties had come to find a Rocky Mountain High – hippies and tie-dye shrines were everywhere among the polished stone and incense shops.  Guitars were being strummed by glazed eyed folk singers warning of the world’s destruction at the hands of the Man. We quickly left town after stocking up on a supply of beef jerky and Mountain Dew.  We soon found a campsite along Silver Creek.

Our rented patch of earth for that night was no more than six feet by five feet. It sat right on the edge of a small bubbling creek.  All the other campsites were taken for the night. With no space to build a fire and an itch to do something we left the tent and drove around until we found a sign for a drive-in movie theatre nestled within the steep mountain valley.  An hour before the movie began we bought our tickets. To pass the time we sat on the hood of the Caprice eating popcorn watching the sunset gild the mountain ridges.

By 9:30 the mountains had shuttered off light on all sides except for the corona of moonlight directly above us. The previews began to roll and then came the main feature:  Le Mans with Steve McQueen. There were Porsches and Ferraris burning up the track.  There were more wild horses, more RPMs. All good until the screen went blank after the credits.  Everyone had driven off except us.  The Caprice wouldn’t start. Then the drive-in manager shut off the food stand lights. Our race car wasn’t going anywhere.  Boyd wiggled the battery cable but the battery had been DOA.

After talking to the drive–in manager Boyd made a phone call, this time to AAA.  An hour later a tow truck chained our fate to its cantilever pulley and hauled us over to a darkened Amoco gas station.  The sign on the door told us the station opened at seven am.  We got back into the car and slept restlessly wondering if seven o’clock MST was ever going to show up like it did in CST.  I also began to realize that Beef jerky and popcorn don’t come together for your enjoyment.

At seven-o-five a mechanic pulled his pickup into the driveway of the gas station. He got out of the truck, dropped his mouth open at the sight of us and then spat some brown liquid twenty feet behind him.  He then walked over to front of the gas station and unlocked the garage door. He then set about brewing some coffee. When the muck he was brewing had finally stopped belching he offered it – an oily looking residue with islands of powdered cream floating on top – in a grimy Styrofoam cup. The lack of air at that altitude must have deprived my brain of needed oxygen. I drank the coffee.

While the mechanic installed a new battery we called home.  We wanted to let our parents know that we hadn’t fled the country to avoid the draft. We were “OK” we told them, “just more battery problems.”  We set out again confident that we were firing on all electrolyte cells.

“You ain’t seen nothing yet.” The drive through Rocky Mountain National Park lifted our spirits skyward but the dizzying drop offs and the struggling out-of-breath car are the things I remember. And the feeling of being at the top of the world with eagles, soaring.

After descending the mountains our trip began to take on a deliberate speed.  We had tired of sleeping on the hard ground and the endless ribbon of highway unreeling in our sleep. We drove across Colorado to a town on its western edge, the town of Dinosaur. This small town and its streets were so named because of their proximity to Dinosaur National Monument – the home of prehistoric fossil beds. The rocky ridges along the highway leading to Dinosaur gave the appearance of exposed dinosaur backbones.

After a brief glimpse in the direction of epochs and eras Boyd pushed the “Fast Forward” button on the floor of the Caprice.  From Dinosaur we drove into Utah so we could say that we had been to Utah. We found a campsite east of Vernal. In the morning we headed southeast to Grand Junction Colorado and then up and around Denver and straight for Kansas.  We camped that night outside Salina Kansas, under a large oak tree.  The next day I wondered if I would see Jim Ryan, the first high-school cross-country runner to break a four-minute mile, run past us as we drove through his home state.

Topeka came and went.  We drove into and across Missouri. We spent the night at a St. Louis West Route 66 KOA campsite.  After breakfast in St. Louis we sped a northeast diagonal across Illinois prairie up to our homes outside of Chicago. Even wild horses need their batteries recharged.

© Sally Paradise, 2012, All Rights Reserved

“One Fine Morning” lyrics by Lighthouse, © OLE MEDIA MANAGEMENT LP

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If you find yourself in need of new equipment, we will always provide you with a free estimate of the costs you can expect.

We service all air conditioning unit brands. Our $69 dollar service fee covers the diagnostics or the first half hour of labor.

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The energy service agreement (ESA) is a program designed to maintain your furnace & air conditioner. Maintaining your HVAC equipment will reduce usage cost, repair cost, & extend the life of your system.

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We are able to assess your HVAC system for the best possible air flow and perform any necessary repairs.

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An ode to the late Steve Jobs as part of the Tech Heroes series.
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Standard-cut T-shirt for men. 100% cotton. Brand: B&C
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A timeless classic. The world’s favourite garment in its purest shape. An essential basic for every day.

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‘Friends of Clara’ is a community outreach program for children with limited resources. Working with community service agencies including Transition House, CASA, CALM and Boys and Girls Club we provide complimentary tickets for young students and their families as well as an education program through which students learn about the music and history of the Nutcracker ballet.

‘Friends of Clara’ partners Santa Barbara Festival Ballet with individuals and businesses who share our vision to provide extraordinary performances opportunities to all. Through the generous financial support of many, an audience of over 600 children, students, and their families each year are given the full cultural experience of a trip to the historic Arlington Theatre for a presentation of the classic ballet The Nutcracker, while listening to Tchaikovsky’s magnificent music played by a live, full symphony orchestra.

We are grateful for the funding support we receive from these community members. Working together has allowed us to provide this holiday tradition to a very special audience in True Holiday Spirit!

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The Saratoga Chapel is a church-planting ministry of the East Glenville Community Church. We began meeting as a Bible study group in the summer of 1989. Worship services were added in December of that year. The pastor of The Saratoga Chapel is Rev. Jim Hale, a graduate of Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary, with a Master of Divinity degree. Jim has served locally in the congregations of the Bethlehem Community Church, Delmar, NY, and the East Glenville Community Church, in East Glenville, NY. We have adopted the Westminster Confession of Faith, and are part of the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference (CCCC).


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Yoga of Now is transformative, purifying, and healing the human energy system practice. It is a combination of asanas, pranayamas, kriyas, awareness, and continuation.
During this practice, specific attention is being placed onto the nervous system in order to train the body-mind mechanism to anchor more light frequency. Yoga of Now helps us to find peace with ourselves, unites the mind and body, awakens the spirit.

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This event is for beginners and advanced practitioners alike. This class is for anyone who would like to start a regular yoga practice that balances and strengthens the body, brings clarity to the mind and awakens the spirit.

About Renata

Renata is a Lithuanian born Yoga of Now and Tantra teacher who shares effective life transformational practices for raising one’s consciousness and bringing overall balance and harmony in relation to oneself and life. In 2014 Renata has been initiated into yoga and guided to start daily sadhana practices. Since then she has been on an intensive journey of awakening and self-discovery. Yoga has been a catalyst component of her life. In 2017 she completed the Classical Tantra Yoga Teacher Training Course at Shanti Yoga Ashram, Nepal in order to spread the knowledge and magnificence of this science. As passionately committed to deepening her knowledge, Renata continued her journey and in 2020 she was certified as Yoga of Now teacher at New Humanity School. Renata committed herself fully to enlighten every aspect of her life in order to live at the highest potential, sharing love and light. Renata’s mission is to offer a harmonious relationship with life and oneself by inspiring a deeper sense of joy and love. Renata offers group and private yoga sessions.

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Blue, white and yellow are the colours of the city. The side segments and chevrons evoke the historic locks of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal. The centre section also resembles the cross section of a steel girder, thus alluding to the steel industry that was an important part of the city’s history. The whitefish is a species found in great numbers in the St. Marys rapids. The lily is a symbol of St. Mary and thus alludes to the city’s name; it also pays tribute to the city’s French heritage.

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Following the pattern of other municipal police service badges, this includes the arms of the city, a trillium and a wreath of maple leaves indicative of Ontario and Canada, the Royal Crown as a reference to the Crown as the source of justice, and a motto based on a slogan used by the service.

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‘The Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill aims to make divorce less acrimonious – reforming our 50-year-old divorce laws – to ensure the process better supports couples to move forward as constructively as possible.’


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Why do we need orchestration?

As Federico Garcia Lorca once said, besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization. And though for some of you, the title of this article might sound like black magic indeed, I will do my best to give you a sense of what these concepts mean.

Human nature is not as complicated as it may seem. In general, we are not keen on repeating things over and over again. Our laziness naturally bringths us closer to the automation of everything that might be automated.

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Part of the success of modern application is targeting it globally – all over the world. It isn’t possible to run such application on a single machine, even with most powerful hardware.

Definitions like Distributed computing or Reactive applications were born in the process of IT globalization. Nowadays, applications run on multiple virtual machines distributed over multiple physical machines which are often spread around the world. Such applications aren’t easy to maintain.

Every service has different hardware requirements and dependencies, so it has to be deployed and upgraded continuously. In addition each machine has to be configured in such a way that allows communication within the cluster and with external services. Although Devops have helpful deployment tools like Chef, Puppet or Ansible, these tasks still aren’t easy, trust me. Read more


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FemTechNet Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Pedagogy Workbook

Out of Network Projects

This section highlights some existing projects that engage the intersections of race, ethnic studies, transnationalism, feminist studies, digital pedagogies, and/or technology. In pointing towards out of network projects, we hope to draw attention to the myriad ways ethnic studies and feminist scholars are thinking through questions of central importance to digital pedagogies. The breadth of projects being theorized, developed, and produced underscores shared affinities across the web, while also pointing to the important need for multiple strategies when engaging diverse histories, geographies, and power relationships.

The links below represent projects in Race and the Digital Humanities, a crowdsourced list initiated by Adeline Koh in response to the question "When you think of 'race' and the digital humanities, what are your favorite projects that spring to mind?" The list, later Storified by Koh, has been supplemented with suggestions by members of the FemTechNet Ethnic Studies Committee. We encourage you to share your own favorite projects at femtechnetcres@gmail.com.
African American Aids History Project
African American Intellectual History Society
African Diaspora PhD
Africa in Words
Africa Past & Present: The Podcast about African History, Culture, and Politics
AfroCROWD: Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia
AfroGEEKS 2005: Global Blackness and the Digital Public Sphere
Alien Bodies: Race, Space, and Sex in the African Diaspora
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in America: A Visual Record
Black Gotham Archive
Chicana por mi Raza: Uncovering the Hidden History of Chicana Feminism (1965‐1985)
CyberDiva Blog
Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog: History, Media, and the Digital Humanities from an Afro-Atlantic Perspective
Digging In: The Historic Trails of Nebraska
Digitizing "Chinese Englishmen"
Documenting the American South
Early Caribbean Digital Archive
Education in our Barrios

Every Single Word Spoken by a Person of Color in [Mainstream Film Title]
floating.sheep: The Geography of Hate
Hypercities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities

Invisible Australians: The Real Face of White Australia
LatiNergr@s Project
Latin@Mobility in California History
Left of Black: Black Studies for a Mobile Digital Network
Legacies of British Slave-Ownership
Lesbian Herstory Archives
New BlackMan (in Exile)
Nicest Kids in Town
NOLA Course Archive
Octavia's Brood

Of Another Fashion: An Alternative Archive of the Not-Quite-Hidden But Often Ignored Fashion Histories of U.S. Women of Color

Papakilo Database
PDUB Productions: A Youth Media + Civic Engagement Program in Historic Filipinotown
People of Color in European Art History
Performing Archive: Curtis + "the vanishing race"
Postcolonial Digital Humanities
Postcolonial Studies @ Emory
Queering Slavery Working Group
Reciprocal Research Network: First Nations Items from the Northwest Coast
Real Face of White Australia
Redshift and Portalmetal
Routes and Roots: Cultivating Filipino American History on the Central Coast
Save Wiyabi Project
Slave Narrative Name Database Project
Soweto '76 3D
Stockton Postcolonial Studies Project
Stz’uminus Storied Places Digital Atlas

Trading Races: A Historical Role Playing Game Set at the University of Michigan, 2003
Transborder Immigrant Tool: A Mexico/US Border Art Project
#TransformDH: This is the Digital Humanities
UC Latino Cultures Network
Umoho Heritage Project
VozMob: Voces Moviles/ Mobile Voices
Why I Need Diverse Games
Women Who Rock: Making Scenes Building Communities
Virtual Harlem Project
Voyages: Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
Credit: Race and the Digital Humanities: A Crowdsourced Project List by Adeline Koh
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Dr. Kaplan is a Philadelphia native. He received his bachelor’s degree in biology with honors from Franklin and Marshall College and his doctor of medicine degree from Rutgers Medical School. He completed his surgical residency at the Medical College of Pennsylvania (MCP), spending two years in basic research on cardiac bioenergetics and ischemic preconditioning. Dr. Kaplan completed a fellowship in surgical critical care at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and then joined the faculty at MCP and Hahnemann University, where he directed the surgical ICU and surgical critical care (SCC) fellowships. Seven years later he was recruited to Yale University to establish an emergency general surgery service for the Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care. He then resumed leadership in the Yale-New Haven Hospital ICU and the SCC and acute care surgery fellowships. During that time, he also established tactical emergency medical services for a local and then regional SWAT team, South Central SWAT, including deploying in the field with the team. Eleven years after moving to New Haven, he was recruited back to Philadelphia into his current roles.

His patient care centers around critical care as well as injury, emergency, and elective general surgery.  Research interests have blossomed to include acid-base physiology, mechanical ventilation, and surgical infection. His CV contains nearly 300 publications and hundreds of presentations. Dr. Kaplan sits on the editorial boards of major journals including Critical Care Medicine, Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, and Surgical Infections.

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Part 2

a flash!     & you were told

it was insight – intuition

satori  –  an idea?

it’s only one of the old doors

with its rusty hinges

swinging open for

a moment

in the universe

let this be written

on the invisible tombstones

you turned away

from yr infinite self

I have nothing to say to you

won’t listen to the sound of

the invisible ocean

continually questioning

its own existence and

laughing at its    own  fat   waves

(and the old tibetan lady

  who wrote the beautiful book

   is probably watching color t.v.

    at this minute)

what can I tell you

of re-opening those doors

I have nothing to say

you turned away

to pretend

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NRL scientists achieve high temperature milestone in silicon spintronics

(WASHINGTON) — Researchers in the Materials Science and Technology division of the Naval Research Laboratory have recently demonstrated electrical injection, detection and precession of spin accumulation in silicon, the cornerstone material of modern device technology, at temperatures up to 225 degrees Celsius. These results provide the first demonstration that spin accumulation in Si is viable as a basis for practical devices which meet the operating temperatures specified for commercial (85˚C), industrial (100˚C) and military (125˚C) applications. This is a key enabling step for developing devices which rely on electron spin rather than electron charge, an approach known as semiconductor spintronics that is expected to provide devices with higher performance, lower power consumption and less heat dissipation. The complete findings of this study titled, “Electrical injection and detection of spin accumulation in silicon at 500K with magnetic metal / silicon dioxide contacts” are published in the 22 March 2011 issue of Nature Communications 2:245 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1256 (2011).

The electron possesses an internal angular momentum called the spin. The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors has identified the electron’s spin as a new state variable that should be explored as an alternative to the electron’s charge for use beyond Moore’s Law, a projection named after Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore. Moore predicted in 1965 that the number of transistors per unit area in an integrated circuit would double approximately every two years as advances in fabrication technology enabled the devices to be made smaller. Although this approach has been remarkably successful, critical device dimensions now approach atomic length scales, so that further size scaling becomes untenable. “Researchers have been forced to look beyond the simple reduction of size to develop future generations of electronic devices,” states NRL senior scientist Dr. Berry Jonker. “Electrical generation, manipulation and detection of significant spin polarization in silicon at temperatures that meet commercial and military requirements are essential to validate spin as an alternative to charge for a device technology beyond Moore’s Law.”

Using ferromagnetic metal / silicon dioxide contacts on silicon, NRL scientists Connie Li, Olaf van ‘t Erve and Jonker electrically generate and detect spin accumulation and precession in the silicon transport channel at temperatures up to 225˚C, and conclude that the spin information can be transported in the silicon over distances readily compatible with existing fabrication technology. They thus overcome a major obstacle in achieving control of the spin variable at temperatures required for practical applications in the most widely utilized semiconductor.

To make a semiconductor spintronic device, one needs contacts that can both generate a current of spin-polarized electrons (called a spin injector), and detect the spin polarization of the electrons (spin detector) in the semiconductor. Because the magnetic contact interface is likely to introduce additional scattering and spin relaxation mechanisms not present in the silicon bulk, the region of the semiconductor directly beneath the contact is expected to be a critical factor in the development of any future spin technology. The NRL scientists probe the spin environment directly under the magnetic metal / silicon dioxide contact using the three terminal geometry illustrated in the accompanying figure. Demonstration of spin precession and dephasing in a magnetic field transverse to the injected spin orientation, known as the Hanle effect, is conclusive evidence of spin accumulation, and enables a direct measure of the spin lifetime, a critical parameter for device operation. The NRL researchers observed Hanle precession of the electron spin accumulation in the silicon channel under the contact for biases corresponding to both spin injection and extraction, and determine the corresponding spin lifetimes.

Electronic states can form at the contact interface and introduce deleterious effects for both charge and spin transport. These undesirable states can serve as traps which prevent propagation of either charge or spin in the silicon channel. In bulk silicon, the spin lifetime is known to depend upon the carrier density, and generally decreases as the electron density increases.. “In this study we show that the spin lifetime determined from our measurements changes systematically as one changes carrier concentration of the particular silicon sample used,” adds Jonker. “Our results were obtained for a number of different carrier densities and show this trend, thus making it very clear that we obtain spin injection and accumulation in the silicon itself rather than in interface defect states.” The result of this research rules out spin accumulation in interface states and demonstrates spin injection, accumulation and precession in the silicon channel.

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I spotted this gem of an answer to the question 'What do the symbols on the mummy's face mean?'

Highlights include;

Looks like the heretical language of Enochian (which has zero to do with the FIRST ENOCH of the Bible & the apocryphal book of Enoch) but is named after perhaps this gnostic elitist bullshit idea of the 2nd Enoch.

But yeah anyways looks like enochian to me, which wouldn't be surprising thats the same runic language you see on the Satanic Goat pentragram - which is fact. Which would perfectly fit aligned with Hollywood's obsession w all things occult & kabbalah & considering her character worships Set it would make sense that the language & message on her body in this film would be represenrative of that sick twisted but still very real belief system.

Lastly I find myself thinking the Rotschilds probably love this film, which is a great reason for me to dislike it & ponder purer positions.

In keeping with our "Be Nice" policy ("Bigotry of any kind. Language likely to offend or alienate individuals or groups based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. will not be tolerated. At all.") I flagged it as

Contains hate-speech against Kabbalah and low level anti-Semitic content.

And was quite surprised when it was declined by a moderator.

Is it now acceptable to call Kabbalah a "sick and twisted belief system"? Is it acceptable to make coded anti-semitic slurs against the (notably Jewish) Rothschild family?

In short, why was my flag declined?

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    The general tone and language in that answer could already be enough for a plain old "rude or abusive" flag to begin with. – TARS Jan 6 '18 at 20:21
  • @TARS - Sure, but in the event that OP decided to do it again, I wanted to have a record of the flagged question. – Valorum Jan 6 '18 at 21:17
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    It's not anti-Semitic to express dislike of some person or group of people who happen to be Jewish. If I say the Nazis were evil, does that make me racist against Germans? (Of course, the answer you link to is certainly a rant and worthy of deletion - indeed, it has now been deleted.) – Rand al'Thor Jan 6 '18 at 23:02
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    @Randal'Thor - No, but historically hatred of the Rothschilds (a high profile and wealthy Jewish family) has been considered to be "coded" anti-semitism. Everyone knows what you mean. Like if I said that I hated the sort of people who like musical theatre. – Valorum Jan 6 '18 at 23:06
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    Considered by whom? I've never heard of that. Many people's disdain for the Rothschilds and other super-rich banking families has nothing to do with their religion. – Rand al'Thor Jan 6 '18 at 23:30
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    @Randal'Thor - Sure, and if that was the only thing he'd said that was troublesome, I'd have probably just edited it out. But apparently he has a deep disdain for the Jewish mysticism associated with Kaballah also. Are you seriously trying to tell me that you think that he might just be using them as an example of wealthy bankers? – Valorum Jan 6 '18 at 23:58
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    The answer criticizes: 1) The Second Book of Enoch, 2) gnosticism, 3) Hollywood, 4) Satanism, 5) Kabbalah, and 6) the Rothschilds. Numbers 1, 5, and 6 are all explicitly Jewish, and number 2 also originated in out of Jewish tradition. Numbers 4 and 6 are also standard subjects of antisemitic attacks. – Buzz Jan 7 '18 at 7:02
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    I will say (as an aficionado of conspiracy theories) that while the inclusion of the Rothschilds in these theories definitely sprang from an anti-Semitic premise, they've become such a fixture that a number of conspiracy theorists with nothing against Jews mention them. That said, I'd give better than even odds of this particular individual having something against Jews. ;) – Adamant Jan 7 '18 at 17:26
  • @Randal'Thor - Required reading on the subject of the Rothschilds; thejc.com/news/news-features/… – Valorum Feb 23 '19 at 8:10

First things first: the offending answer has long been deleted, so this is all pretty academic now.

Regardless of the text of your flag, it was bringing problematic and delete-worthy content to moderators' attention and therefore should have been marked helpful. Sorry about that.

From a pedantic point of view, though, your flag seems technically invalid, at least at first glance without further research into the issues involved.

  • "hate-speech against Kabbalah" - well, the only explicit mention of Kabbalah in the answer was "Hollywood's obsession w all things occult & kabbalah". Maybe some of the things being insulted also equate to Kabbalah (the language of Enochian"? the "2nd Enoch"?), but moderators shouldn't need this sort of in-depth knowledge of esoteric topics in order to handle flags.

  • "low level anti-Semitic content" - again, there's no explicit mention of Jews or other Semitic peoples in the answer. You mention that they express dislike of the Rothschilds, but disliking someone who happens to be Jewish isn't the same as being racist against Jews (any more than, for example, hating the Nazis makes me racist against Germans).

Pedantry aside, of course, you were right to flag this answer. I'm not sure why you raised a custom mod flag - "not an answer" would have sent it to the review queue for swifter deletion, and "rude or abusive" is best for truly offensive content - but thanks for bringing it to our attention (even though it ended up being deleted without mod involvement). Sorry again for the declinature.

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    Arguably they're saying that Kabbalah is "sick and twisted." If they are, and they actually understand what Kabbalah (by no means guaranteed), then that would be decent evidence of anti-Semitism. – Adamant Jan 7 '18 at 17:29
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    It is not academic. If for no other reason than that they're free to continue posting and there's no flag record of their inappropriate content other than a declined flag. – Valorum Jan 7 '18 at 18:00
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    That wasn't the only mention of Kaballah. What do you think "that sick twisted but still very real belief system" was referring to? – Valorum Jan 7 '18 at 18:01
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    But why has it been declined? Was that just a misclick or a moment of lacking attention? It's perfectly understandable that such things happen, but it would also be good to know that this is what happened. Or was it declined for any of the "academic" counter-arguments listed herein? – TARS Jan 7 '18 at 18:12
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    @TARS - An excellent question. Are these arguments (that the post isn't actually that offensive) the reason it was declined? – Valorum Jan 9 '18 at 19:32
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    @Gnemlock - When someone makes an allegation of anti-semitic content and religious intolerance, you would expect the moderator to perform a quite thorough level of research on their own before declining the flag – Valorum Jan 11 '18 at 7:56
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    @Valorum, I have no idea how much work goes into moderating, I never flag with the assumption that the moderator will look any further into the matter than I have explicitly stated. – Gnemlock Jan 11 '18 at 11:05
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    @Gnemlock - Well, I'd like to think that a flag raised by the site's top user, alleging that a user has used offensive language would merit serious review. – Valorum Jan 11 '18 at 16:03
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    @Valorum, I would like to think that you do not have any such special treatment, top user or not. That's how flag abuse happens. I think your neglecting the fact that these are all volunteer moderators, who are human. They made a mistake. You clearly didn't make much effort to explain yourself, since you've made no such effort to reinforce that you had, even when queried – Gnemlock Jan 12 '18 at 0:22
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    Why are we unable to get a comment from the moderator who actually took the action? It always seems to be you having to "cover someone's tracks" – Edlothiad Jan 15 '18 at 6:31
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    @Gnemlock You don't need to be an expert on religion to understand that calling an actively practised faith "sick" and "twisted" is "likely to offend or alienate individuals or groups based on race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc." Additionally, I am extremely disappointed that no moderator has given a real apology or even seemed to truly grasp what the issue was. – Rogue Jedi Jan 16 '18 at 0:26
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    @Gnemlock They're describing a religion they believe is real as disgusting. I don't see how it isn't a clear violation of policy. – Rogue Jedi Jan 16 '18 at 13:02
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    @Edlothiad: I don't think playing the blame game is particularly helpful here. I would greatly prefer to treat this as a process and human factors issue. In that context, the identity of the declining mod is irrelevant. – Kevin Jan 17 '18 at 1:11
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    @Edlothiad: You're welcome to your opinion, but Rand obviously is acting as a spokesperson here notwithstanding your personal preferences. I don't care whose name is on the answer, I care about what the mod team is going to do about it so that this does not happen again. So far, it looks like the answer to that is "a whole lot of nothing." By demanding a mea culpa from the mod who declined the flag, you're drawing attention away from that reality, and reducing the likelihood that actual progress is made here. – Kevin Jan 17 '18 at 6:19
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    @Kevin, You too are welcome to your opinion. I personally feel that by knowing why a flag was declined we can discuss how to come to a community agreement on said topic. This isn't a witch hunt. Neither is the mod necessarily at fault as you seem to insinuate. Rand in this case has shown why it may have been mishandled which in this case doesn't put the moderator at fault, but the flagger for lack of being clear. The question isn't about "How do we move on from this rejected flag", it's "Why was this flag rejected". The best answerer to that, is the flag handler. Plain and simple. – Edlothiad Jan 17 '18 at 6:28

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Varun Part-3

Varun was still smiling. He wanted to talk but he couldn’t and I stood there with a decision to take- take counter 1 or 3 and stay silent, or take counter 2 and talk to the trans-woman with Varun by my side. My mind was clouded but my conscience was clear:…(excerpt)

Varun Part-2

His finger seemed to point at the egg shaped chocolate but his attention was somewhere behind it. Something interesting had caught his attention.

“What happened?” I asked lowering my head to his level.

“Who is that?!” he whispered holding my ears with one hand while the other still pointed beyond the chocolate…(excerpt)


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Linking hygroscopicity and the surface microstructure of model inorganic salts, simple and complex carbohydrates, and authentic sea spray aerosol particles

TitleLinking hygroscopicity and the surface microstructure of model inorganic salts, simple and complex carbohydrates, and authentic sea spray aerosol particles
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2017
AuthorsEstillore A.D, Morris H.S, Or V.W, Lee H.D, Alves M.R, Marciano M.A, Laskina O., Qin Z., Tivanski A.V, Grassian VH
JournalPhysical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Date Published2017/08
Type of ArticleArticle
ISBN Number1463-9076
Accession NumberWOS:000407763700080
Keywordsammonium-sulfate; atmospheric particles; boundary-layer; cloud condensation nuclei; glass-transition; ice-nucleating particles; marine; organic aerosols; phase-transitions; radiative properties; water-uptake

Individual airborne sea spray aerosol (SSA) particles show diversity in their morphologies and water uptake properties that are highly dependent on the biological, chemical, and physical processes within the sea subsurface and the sea surface microlayer. In this study, hygroscopicity data for model systems of organic compounds of marine origin mixed with NaCl are compared to data for authentic SSA samples collected in an ocean-atmosphere facility providing insights into the SSA particle growth, phase transitions and interactions with water vapor in the atmosphere. In particular, we combine single particle morphology analyses using atomic force microscopy (AFM) with hygroscopic growth measurements in order to provide important insights into particle hygroscopicity and the surface microstructure. For model systems, a range of simple and complex carbohydrates were studied including glucose, maltose, sucrose, laminarin, sodium alginate, and lipopolysaccharides. The measured hygroscopic growth was compared with predictions from the Extended-Aerosol Inorganics Model (E-AIM). It is shown here that the E-AIM model describes well the deliquescence transition and hygroscopic growth at low mass ratios but not as well for high ratios, most likely due to a high organic volume fraction. AFM imaging reveals that the equilibrium morphology of these single-component organic particles is amorphous. When NaCl is mixed with the organics, the particles adopt a core-shell morphology with a cubic NaCl core and the organics forming a shell similar to what is observed for the authentic SSA samples. The observation of such core-shell morphologies is found to be highly dependent on the salt to organic ratio and varies depending on the nature and solubility of the organic component. Additionally, single particle organic volume fraction AFM analysis of NaCl : glucose and NaCl : laminarin mixtures shows that the ratio of salt to organics in solution does not correspond exactly for individual particles - showing diversity within the ensemble of particles produced even for a simple two component system.

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