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Tavis Smiley (/ˈtævɨs/; born September 13, 1964) is a talk show host, author, liberal political commentator, entrepreneur, advocate and philanthropist.[1][2] Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Kokomo, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles. Smiley became a radio commentator in 1991, and starting in 1996, he hosted the talk show BET Talk (later renamed BET Tonight) on BET. Controversially, after Smiley sold an exclusive interview of Sara Jane Olson to ABC News in 2001, BET declined to renew Smiley's contract that year. Smiley then began hosting The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR from 2002 to 2004 and currently hosts Tavis Smiley on PBS on the weekdays and "The Tavis Smiley Show" from PRI. In 2010 Smiley and Dr. Cornel West have joined forces for their own radio talk show, Smiley & West. They were featured together interviewing musician Bill Withers in the 2009 documentary film Still Bill.[3]
Tavis Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, the son of Joyce Marie Roberts, a single mother who first became pregnant at age 18.[4] On September 13, 1966, just shy of his second birthday, his mother married Emory Garnell Smiley, a non-commisioned officer in the U.S. Air Force.[5] It would not be until a few years later that Tavis would learn the identity of his biological father, whom he identifies in his autobiography, What I Know For Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America only as "T."[6]
His family soon moved to Indiana because his stepfather had been transferred to Grissom Air Force Base near Peru, Indiana. Upon arriving in Indiana, the Smiley family took up residence in a crowded mobile home in the small town of Bunker Hill, Indiana.[7] Smiley's immediate family size was increased following the murder of his aunt, whose death left five children with no stable home. Smiley's parents agreed to take in and raise their five orphaned nieces and nephews. Joyce and her husband also had eight children of their own over the years, resulting at one point in 13 children and Mr. and Mrs. Smiley all living in the trailer-home. Smiley's mother was a very religious person, and the family attended the local New Bethel Tabernacle Church, part of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World.[8] The Smiley children were forbidden from listening to secular music at home and going to the movie theater and could watch television shows that their parents felt were family-friendly.[9] When Tavis Smiley was in seventh grade, New Bethel pastor Elder Rufus Mills accused Tavis and his siblings of "running wild, disobeying their teacher, disrespecting their teacher, disrespecting the sanctity of this building, and mocking the holy message being taught" during Sunday School.[10] According to Smiley's account of the incident, Smiley's Sunday School teacher became more confused as she was asking questions about the Book of John, and while other students "responded by giggling and acting a little unruly", he and his sister Phyllis "remained quiet".[11] Garnell whipped Tavis and Phyllis with an extension cord, wounding the two children.[12] The next day at school, administrators found out about the children's injuries.[13] The local newspaper in Kokomo reported on the beating and the legal proceedings against Garnell, and Tavis and Phyllis were sent to foster care temporarily,[14] Garnell told his children that the judge decided that he had "overreacted" and found he and Joyce as "concerned parents who were completely involved in our children's lives and well-being".[15]
Smiley became interested in politics at age 13 after attending a fundraiser for U.S. Senator Birch Bayh.[8] At Maconaquah High School in Bunker Hill, Indiana, a school that Smiley described as "98 percent white",[16] Smiley was active in student council and the debate team, even though his parents were "skeptical of all non-church extracurricular activities".[17]
In 1982, Smiley enrolled in Indiana University Bloomington (IU). Because Smiley's parents refused to complete financial aid papers, Smiley entered Indiana University with only $50 and a small suitcase.[18] Administrators let Smiley complete the paperwork to become a full-time student.[19] The summer after his freshman year, Smiley worked, attended summer classes, and lived off campus with Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball players, then being coached by Bob Knight.[20] Smiley was accepted into the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity during his sophomore year and became business manager of his dormitory, a member of the student senate, and director of minority affairs.[21] After his friend Denver Smith was killed by Indiana police officers who claimed to have acted in self-defense, Smiley helped lead protests to defend Smith, whom he believed had been wrongfully killed.[22] Those protests led Smiley to a work-study internship at the office of Bloomington mayor Tomilea Allison, where he was paid $5 an hour. Smiley wrote letters to local residents, researched for Mayor Allison, and helped write position papers on local issues. Mayor Allison rebuked Smiley for padding his time sheets and made him work off the extra hours without pay.[23] During his first semester of junior year, Smiley was under academic probation; he blamed his extracurricular activities for interfering with his studies.[24] When Smiley visited Los Angeles to attend a national student leaders' convention, the cousin of his roommate introduced Smiley to football star Jim Brown. Brown introduced Smiley to fellow football player George Hughley, who worked for Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley and connected Smiley to Mayor Bradley's staff.[25] Every week after meeting Bradley's staff, Smiley wrote a letter to the mayor's office asking for an internship and once flew to Los Angeles to appeal. However, by summer he received a letter from the city stating that all internship positions were filled.[26] Smiley then handwrote a letter to the mayor that he said represented his feeling "from the heart", and Bradley called Smiley to say that he had a position available for him.[27] Although it counted for college credit,the internship was unpaid, so the Bloomington Community Progress Council funded Smiley with $5,000 for living expenses in Los Angeles, and Brown allowed Smiley to live as a houseguest in September 1985. Starting the next month, Smiley lived in the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity house at the University of Southern California. At City Hall, Smiley worked at the Office of Youth Development on the 22nd floor.[28]
Twice, Smiley considered quitting college, first during junior year,[29] and then after finishing his internship with Mayor Bradley. Bradley successfully convinced Smiley to return to college.[30] Smiley took the LSAT twice, as he was considering attending Harvard Law School.[31] However, in his senior year, he failed a test in a computer class after being accused of copying another student's work, so he failed that class and several others and lacked nine hours of credit, so he did not graduate from IU.[32] Following a hiring freeze by the government of Los Angeles, Smiley served as an aide to Mayor Bradley until 1990.[33] A 1988 article in the Los Angeles Times identified Smiley as "a Bradley administrative assistant who works in South Los Angeles".[34] In 2003, Smiley officially received his degree from Indiana University in public affairs.[35]
Campaigning for a seat on the Los Angeles City Council in 1991 against incumbent Ruth Galanter, Smiley finished fourth among 15 candidates. Smiley became a radio commentator, broadcasting one-minute daily radio segments called The Smiley Report on KGFJ radio.[8] With Ruben Navarrette, Jr., Smiley co-hosted a local talk show in Los Angeles where his strongly held views on race and politics, combined with his arguments regarding the impact of institutional racism and substandard educational and economic opportunities for inner-city black youth, earned him attention on the Los Angeles Times. His commentaries focused on local and national current-affairs issues affecting the African-American community.[36] For six months, Smiley worked on a community news program on a local cable network and spent six more months working on television in Montreal.[37]
In 1996, Smiley became a frequent commentator on the Tom Joyner Morning Show, a nationally syndicated radio show broadcast on black and urban stations in the United States.[38] He developed a friendship with host Joyner; together they began hosting annual town hall meetings beginning in 2000 called "The State of the Black Union", which were aired live on the C-SPAN cable television network. Each of these town hall meetings focused on a specific topic affecting the African-American community, featuring a panel of African-American leaders, educators, and professionals assembled before an audience to discuss problems related to the forum's topic, as well as potential solutions.[39] Smiley also used his commentator status on Joyner's radio show to launch several advocacy campaigns to highlight discriminatory practices in the media and government and to rally support for causes such as the awarding of a Congressional Gold Medal to civil rights icon Rosa Parks. Smiley also began building a national reputation as a political commentator with numerous appearances on political discussion shows on MSNBC, ABC, and CNN.
Also in 1996, Smiley began hosting and executive producing BET Tonight (originally BET Talk when it first premiered), a public affairs discussion show on the Black Entertainment Television (BET) network. Smiley interviewed major political figures and celebrities and discussed topics ranging from racial profiling and police brutality to R&B music and Hollywood gossip. Smiley hosted BET Tonight until 2001, when in a controversial move, the network announced that Smiley's contract would not be renewed. This sparked an angry response from Joyner, who sought to rally his radio audience to protest BET's decision. Robert L. Johnson, founder of BET, defended the decision, stating that Smiley had been fired because he had sold an exclusive interview to ABC News without first offering the story to BET, even though Smiley's contract with BET did not require him to do so. Smiley countered with the assertion that he had offered the story — an interview with Sara Jane Olson, an alleged former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army — to CBS, which, along with BET, was owned by Viacom. Smiley ultimately sold the interview to rival network ABC, he said, only after CBS passed on the interview, and suggested that his firing was payback for the publicity he gained as a result of providing an exclusive interview to ABC.[40] Ultimately BET and Viacom did not reverse their decision to terminate Smiley's contract.
Smiley was then offered a chance to host a radio talk show on National Public Radio. He served as host of The Tavis Smiley Show on NPR until December 2004 when he announced that he would be leaving his NPR show, citing the network's inability to reach a more diverse audience.[41] Smiley launched a weekly version of his radio program The Tavis Smiley Show on April 29, 2005, distributed by NPR rival Public Radio International. On October 1, 2010, Tavis Smiley turned the second hour of his PRI program into Smiley & West co-hosted by his longtime collaborator Dr. Cornel West. Smiley also hosts Tavis Smiley, a late night talk show televised on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) network and produced in association with WNET in New York.[42]
Smiley moderated two live presidential candidate forums in 2007: a Democratic forum on June 28 at Howard University in Washington, D.C.,[43] and a Republican forum on September 27 at Morgan State University in Baltimore.[44]
Smiley appears on the Democracy Now! show.[45]
On April 11, 2008, Tavis Smiley announced that he would resign in June 2008 as a commentator on the Tom Joyner Morning Show. He cited fatigue and a busy schedule in a personal call to Joyner. However, Joyner, referring to several commentaries in which Smiley was critical of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, indicated otherwise on his program, stating: "The real reason is that he can't take the hate he's been getting regarding the Barack issue—hate from the black people that he loves so much."[46] Prior to the public controversy and being elected President, Obama had been on Smiley's PBS show six times.
In 2012, Smiley participated in a "Poverty Tour" with Princeton University professor Cornel West in promoting their book The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto. The stated aim of the tour was to highlight the plight of the impoverished population of the United States prior to the 2012 Presidential Election, whose candidates Smiley and West stated had ignored the plight of the poor.[47][48][49][50]
In March 2006, The Smiley Group and Third World Press published The Covenant with Black America, a collection of essays by black scholars and professionals edited by Smiley. The book covered topics ranging from education to healthcare. The book was a New York Times Bestseller.[51]
Smiley was honored with the NAACP Image Award for best news, talk, or information series for three consecutive years (1997–99) for his work on BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley.
Smiley's advocacy efforts have earned him numerous awards and recognitions including the recipient of the Mickey Leland Humanitarian Award from the National Association of Minorities in Communications.
In 1999, he founded the Tavis Smiley Foundation, which funds programs that develop young leaders in the black community. Since its inception, more than 6,000 young people have participated in the foundation's Youth to Leaders Training workshops and conferences.
His communications company, The Smiley Group, Inc., serves as the holding company for various enterprises encompassing broadcast and print media, lecturers, symposiums, and the Internet.
In 1994, Time named Smiley one of America's 50 Most Promising Young Leaders.[52] Time would later honor him in 2009 as one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World". In May 2007, Smiley gave a commencement speech at his alma mater, Indiana University at Bloomington, Indiana (the university recently honored Smiley by naming the atrium of its School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) building, The Tavis Smiley Atrium).
In May 2008, he gave the commencement address at Connecticut College, where he was awarded an honorary doctorate. In May 2009, Smiley was awarded an honorary doctorate at Langston University after giving the commencement address there.
On December 12, 2008, Smiley received the Du Bois Medal from Harvard University's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.
He would also be awarded the 2009 Interdependence Day Prize from Demos in Istanbul, Turkey.
Smiley would be named No. 2 change agent in the field of media behind Oprah Winfrey in EBONY Magazine's POWER 150 list.
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To prepare meringues, cover a baking sheet with parchment paper; secure to baking sheet with masking tape.
Beat egg whites with a mixer at high speed until foamy. Add cream of tartar and salt; beat until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar, 1 tablespoon at a time, beating until stiff peaks form (do not overbeat). Gently fold in almond extract and chopped chocolate. Drop batter by rounded tablespoonfuls onto prepared baking sheet. Bake at 200° for 2 hours or until dry. (Meringues are done when the surface is dry and meringues can be removed from paper without sticking to fingers.) Turn oven off; leave meringues in oven 1 hour or until cool and crisp. Remove from oven; carefully remove meringues from paper. Cool completely on wire rack.
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A father who arrived at a Chicago daycare nursery to pick up his one-year-old daughter found the building shuttered 15 minutes before closing on Monday.
Then Cornelius Jones heard screams through the locked door at the All Things are Possible for Kids centre and called 911. Firefighters forced entry, but couldn't find little girl, Journee, in the dark nursery. "I was wondering where is she, where is she?" Jones said. "I hear her, but I couldn't see her.
"And one of the police officers flashed a light to the left and flashed it back to the right and that's when I saw her crawling towards us screaming and my heart just dropped." Journee's mother, Quanesha Borum, said the day centre director apologised to her, but gave an explanation that she found unacceptable.
"She told me that they thought Journee was a doll, but she's not that little to be a doll, so it's some excuses," said Ms Borum. The Department of Children and Family Services is investigating the incident. Jones now wants the nursery closed. "If anything, it should be shut down. I mean nobody leaves kids behind, toddlers. I don't care how old they are, that's dangerous," he said.


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The Cypress Trap by J.C. Gatlin
ASIN: B010OPV1YE (Kindle edition)
Publication date: August 16, 2015
Publisher: Blurb Publishing, Inc.
When Rayanne commandeers her husband's weekend fishing trip, she knows it'll take work to adjust Owen's attitude. She has no choice. Since the tragedy, they lost so much. They need to reconnect.
Without her knowledge, Owen texts his best buddy, Daryl, to join the getaway. The three of them aren't alone in the backwoods of Georgia, though. Owen took something that didn't belong to him. Something that changed their lives. And now the owner wants it back. By any means -- including a posse led by a killer dog.
At first, Rayanne is clueless about the item and its value. One thing becomes crystal clear: If it's not returned, they might not make it home alive.
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Rayanne heard the kids' voices, and she looked again at the old cars in the bottom of the ditch. The first thing that came to mind was rattlesnakes. But she knew she couldn't think of that right now.
She got up and headed for the rusted jeep. The hood was gone and it looked like a corpse left to rot in the sun. She glanced at the other cars. There was a hatchback with no doors. A pickup was off to one side, on blocks. The wheels had been removed and the driver's side door thrown open and left to hang. There was a yellow Volkswagen Beetle half buried in the dirt.
Brown and yellow weeds sprouted up between the wrecks, but the ground was hard and Rayanne knew she had no choice. She raced past the rusting jeep, watching where she stepped.
She moved to the shell of a Volkswagen Beetle. It had two doors. She forced the passenger side open and looked into the dank interior. The overhead lining draped down like a misty shroud. Weeds had grown through the undercarriage and overtaken the floorboards. But two front seats and a long backseat remained. It could be a hiding place, she thought, and squeezed herself into the backseat. She cowered as low as she could.
She held her breath and prayed there was nothing living inside.
She shut her eyes and listened. The teens' voices grew louder. They sounded like they were coming down into the hollow and she could hear Scut—or was it Roddy—say something about the cars. He sounded excited.
Dru was farther away. Rayanne could hear her calling the dog. Perhaps she didn't want to walk down into the dump. It didn't matter. Rayanne knew Scut and Roddy already had.
Their voices echoed, slipping between the cars. One of them said something about the pile of tires and the other laughed. She could hear them moving about, throwing rocks on metal remains, until they stopped right in front of the Volkswagen.
Rayanne stopped breathing.
"She's hide'n here somewhere," Scut was saying. He threw another rock and it hit the bumper. The sound reverberated through the Volkswagen, and Rayanne shivered. "Naaaah," Roddy said. It sounded like he was walking away. "I don't think so. She's a woman. She ain't gonna come down here."
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They had to have climbed out of the hollow, Rayanne thought. She opened her eyes. She wanted to poke her head up, but didn't dare.
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I took a day off yesterday! I did… nothing! It was beautiful, but now it's back to work.
Today, I am going to reveal my slightly disappointing sales figures for June. I will pinpoint some of the factors in the decline.
But, I will also explain why I am not too worried, and why I think things will pick up this month. Finally, I have some other numbers which are very pleasing.
Full Breakdown for June
If You Go Into The Woods
Amazon US 33 (down from 88)
Amazon UK 3 (down from 15)
Amazon DE 0 (down from 1)
Smashwords 5 (up from 4)
Sub-total 41 (down from 108)
Amazon US 23 (down from 40)
Amazon UK 4 (up from 2)
Amazon DE 0 (no change)
Smashwords 10 (up from 3)
Sub-total 37 (down from 45)
June Total 78 (down from 153)
If You Go Into The Woods (on sale since May 4th) – 149
Transfection (on sale since May 21st) – 82
GRAND TOTAL – 231 e-books sold since May 4th.
Sales almost halved this month. There are a number of factors I can pinpoint, but some things are a mystery.
Tags disappeared for a couple of weeks. And at the same time, Amazon ran a sale called Sunshine Deals. 600 popular books from large publishers were slashed to prices as low as 99c.
This made it very difficult for a lot of indies, especially those like me who were selling short stories for that price. The sale ran for the first two weeks of the month, and it killed me.
Sales were around 4 a day going in to the month, but by the second week of June they had dropped to one every other day. All of John Locke's books were knocked out of the Top 100. Amanda Hocking had a big drop in rankings. Joe Konrath was down 15% for the month. If those guys were going to be affected, I had no chance.
As soon as the sale ended, my sales climbed back up to the old level. However, they just flatlined again for the last few days of the month. I have no explanation for that.
Additionally, I did very little promo this month as I raced to finish a new book. Writing comes first, so that doesn't bother me. I had some promo benefits – stuff I had set up in May, such as reviews – and that kept my numbers out of the fire.
Perhaps a far bigger factor than reduced promo was the lack of a new release. I had two books out in May, and two corresponding sales spikes (and in fact the second release raised the sale of the first release hugely).
Now I have (almost) two months of data. It's too early to make judgments on anything, but I can at least highlight some things I need to watch. Transfection is not selling as well as If You Go Into The Woods. That has surprised me. I thought it would be the other way around, for a number of reasons.
Having said that, my first title got all the promo love before I had to knuckle down and finish my book. It has received way more reviews (book blogs and Amazon), and was the focus of a more sustained push. The second one didn't get the same help at all, but I can address that this month.
Something else I need to watch: my UK sales. While the numbers are in line with the US, I have sold maybe one book there in three weeks. Not sure why.
That's all the negatives out of the way. And I'm not too disappointed with this numbers. I have sold 231 e-books in my first 2 months. I think that's pretty impressive. I have covered 75% of the costs of my first release, and paid off a chunk of the second.
Plus, I am now in the Smashwords Premium Catalogue, and the books trickled through to Barnes & Noble, and iTunes in the last few days. I know I have some sales there, but they are not included above – I won't get those numbers for a while.
Also, I didn't spend a dime in June, my Smashwords sales have doubled, and the blog is exploding in popularity.
I had over 11,000 views in June, with 4,000 of those coming in the last 7 days. Blog subscribers have tripled. On days where I don't post, I am hitting 400 views. When I do, it can be as high as 700. For a blog that is less than three months old, those are astounding numbers.
I'm starting to get a handle on Twitter. In June, my followers jumped from 180 or so to 1,800. This has been one of the biggest drivers of traffic to my blog. I have seen a few posts in the last couple of weeks go "viral" to some extent, and I am picking up 50 to 100 followers a day at the moment.
All of this is building nicely towards the release of Let's Get Digital. That's with the editor now, and my cover designer is beavering away; I'm looking towards a mid-July release. I have high hopes for it.
I think the combination of a guide to the nuts-and-bolts of digital self-publishing, with an overview of the publishing industry, plus all those success stories could be popular. When you add that to the PDF version being available for free, it has a chance of taking off.
It will be interesting to see if a new release in a completely different genre (and non-fiction rather than fiction) will lift the sales of my existing titles. I think it will, but even if it doesn't, I have some promo stuff planned for those too (especially Transfection). I will also be working on new stories, and my novel.
That's enough about me. I would like to highlight two new releases today from two friends.
Tony James Slater has released That Bear Ate My Pants! – a hilarious account of his wild adventures in Ecuador. I just bought my copy after reading the sample on his website. I think anyone that reads that excerpt will do the same.
I'm really looking forward to reading this one, and I think he will do very well. In fact, on his first day, he's already the #2 selling South American travel book in the US, and is just outside the Top 1000 in the UK. A phenomenal first day.
You can pick up a copy of That Bear Ate My Pants! for the bargain price of $2.99 from Amazon US and Amazon UK.
Last, but definitely not least, Shéa MacLeod has released Kissed by Darkness – the first in a paranormal series starring sexy, street-smart bounty hunter Morgan Bailey, and you can read the first chapter here.
Shéa doesn't let the grass grow under her feet – she has already picked up a five star review from werevampsromance.org, who had this to say:
"I found the book to be completely original and keep me guessing. I absolutely love the mix of the different type of magical influences. It was an awesome read, one I would recommend."
Nice work, Shéa! You can pick up Kissed by Darkness for the low, low price of $2.99 from Amazon, Amazon UK, and Smashwords.
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Hello, i am using Chilkat.Email2 (registered ) to LoadEml file, ok no problem in display the html/text body parts but if there are related items like images i can't display them on the html reading page, or if i display the related items the text/html body never is displayed . The related items are embedded as CID in the HTML body Can anyone help me please
I am using ASP classic, on windows 2008r2 server
Thank You
In HTML email, the images referenced from within the HTML (i.e. referenced from the SRC attribute of IMG tags), are contained within the MIME of the email itself. Within the MIME, the images are located under the "multipart/related" sub-part, and this is why Chilkat refers to them as "related items". If the URL in the SRC attribute uses a "CID" reference, then the image data is found within the MIME via the Content-ID header field. If the SRC attribute is a URL, which may be a full URL beginning with "http:/", or a path relative to the HTML file itself, then the image data within the MIME is found via the "Content-Location" header.
When HTML is extracted from the MIME and rendered by a browser, it is no longer within the context of the original MIME. The browser knows nothing about the MIME, nor does it have access to it. The browser is not capable of rendering "CID" references. If a reference is a URL (non-CID), then the browser will try to fetch the URL as it normally would.
The only solution I've found is to extract the HTML and related items to temporary files, and at the same time modify the SRC attribute of IMG tags of the HTML to point to the temporary image files. This is exactly what the emailObject.UnpackHtml method does.
Than you, But there is a problem with UnpackHtml that i don't know how to solve. If the sender uses outlook, hotmail, yahoo or gmail the unpackhtml works 110% but if the sender uses MAIL 5.3 (1283) from OSX and if it only attach images there is no problem the problem start when the sender attach for example a PDF i cant find why but unpakhtml assumes the TEXT body as HTML body and simply forget the html body format.
If you like i can send you an EML or an email from OSX Mail , the only thing i can figure is that when the email as PDF or other Attached the OSX Mail send the email as multipart/alternative and Outlook and others send as multipart/mixed. Is there a way to solve that " unstandard ", and i just find another problem, in MAIL, if the attached file is an image and if it as portuguese characters in the file name it loses the image, unpak saves it but ... not display it because of the name
Thank You
If you suspect a problem with UnpackHtml for certain emails, then do this:
1) Make sure you test with the very latest version of Chilkat. You first want to make sure it's not a problem that was already fixed.
2) If the problem remains in the latest version, send the .eml to email@example.com in a zipped attachment.
Ok i will, thank you
The problem is that PDF's are not "related items". The PDF is a true email attachment. It is located under the "multipart/mixed" sub-tree, and it is not actually referenced from within the HTML. Many email clients will render attachments marked as "inline" via the Content-Disposition header following. That's what you see when viewing the email in Outlook or Thunderbird. However, the browser has no knowledge of the PDF, and it's not referenced from with the HTML. To save the PDF, you would call the methods for saving "attachments", not "related items".
PS> This is the actual HTML within your test email. You can see that it does not reference the PDF:
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ok but take a look when is a pdf + image attached it gets only the textbody and not the htmlbody try it please i sent you 2 eml files


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Nearly 6,000 state legislators are up for election this year. Visit GOVERNING's Election Center 2012 to view our maps and data with seats and party control for each legislature.
Control of several state legislatures will soon be up for grabs as many states with narrow majorities hold contests in November.
Nearly 6,000 state legislators across the country are up for election this year, slightly less than the total in 2010.
With elections looming, GOVERNING has launched an interactive tool with up-to-date information on seats for all state legislatures and governor's offices. Click the map below to view totals and partisan breakdowns for each state legislature.
Republicans hope to continue adding to majorities in most states. Democrats aim to reverse some of their losses from 2010, when Republicans picked up at least 660 seats, according to ballotpedia.org.
Republicans currently control 31 of 49 state houses and 29 state senates. They enjoy control of both state legislative chambers and the governor's office in 22 states.
Democrats hold majorities in 17 state houses and 18 state senates, with complete majorities in 11 states.
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Having a majority of seats in play in a year when many states have newly-drawn districts could greatly change the composition of statehouses. Will Republican state legislators be able to hold and extend their reach? Could Democrats regain some of the losses handed to them in 2010? Governing's team of writers and contributors will monitor developments all the way up to Election Day and beyond.
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December 26, 2019 | By Paul Kelly, Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Editor's Note: This is the sixth of a series of 10 vignettes in which IMS Senior Communications Manager Paul Kelly picks his top 10 moments of 2019 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
The annual NASCAR weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has been on an upswing since it was moved to early September in 2018. The last two years have seen more enthusiasm, more community involvement, growing crowds, energetic live music from global superstars and excellent racing from the best stock car drivers on the planet.
But as the old song says, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
The Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard Powered by Florida Georgia Line and the Indiana 250 will enter a new, star-spangled era in 2020 when the 27th annual NASCAR showcase at IMS moves to Fourth of July weekend, Friday, July 3 through Sunday, July 5.
IMS and NASCAR officials announced the move March 26, creating a new marquee summer event in Indianapolis and on the national sporting calendar.
It's a bit of a case of back to the future for the Brickyard. The NASCAR weekend at IMS took place in late July or early August for its first 24 years.
All the events that have helped raise interest in the Brickyard weekend will return on the Fourth of July weekend next year, bigger and better than ever.
Along with FGL Fest, the Driven2SaveLives BC39 powered by NOS Energy Drink United States Auto Club (USAC) National Midget Championship event also will move to the new NASCAR event week in July 2020. The Speedway will also look to add special events and activations to the weekend schedule as part of its embrace of the holiday weekend.
A strong, generation-spanning connection between IMS and honoring America will be enhanced through this new event date. Starting in 2020, IMS will host major event weekends on two holidays that celebrate American values, patriotism and sacrifice – the Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge on Memorial Day weekend and the Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard Powered by Florida Georgia Line on Independence Day weekend.
IMS President Doug Boles perfectly summed up the excitement over the move.
"There's no better venue to throw a massive party for our nation's birthday than the Racing Capital of the World," Boles said. "Fourth of July weekend is a celebration of patriotism and getting outside in the summer with family and friends, and a Big Machine concert and NASCAR racing at the Speedway combine those two traditions, making for a special Independence Weekend celebration!
"A record 47 million Americans were estimated to have traveled on Fourth of July weekend in 2018, and we're confident that this new date and a host of fun activities on and off the track at IMS will help draw more fans to our venue and build on the buzz surrounding last year's enhanced schedule. We're looking forward to a can't-miss holiday extravaganza for Hoosiers and sports fans everywhere."
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Smeared in white, with good omen in eyes, fingers with grass to the right, with shUla and kapAla in the left lands, nice wear (pAduka) in feet, with dangling red matted hair, moon on the head, deer (mR^igam) in the right hand, a vessel for alms in the left, with bulged belly, that God, on bhikshAtana, we pray.
bhikshAtanar : The mUrti who asks for alms
The R^ishis in dArukAvanam forest, once thought that only the karma(deed, performing rituals) is supreme and it is not required to pray God at all. They stopped worshipping God. Whatever be the deeds, isn't there One Who provides the doer with the fruits ? How can the inanimate deeds automatically give fruit ? Not realizing these facts the R^iShis pursued their dogma of karma. To teach them the importance of worship Lord Shiva took the form of bhikshAtanar (begger) and mahA vishNu the form of mOhini (glamorous girl). In this form the Lord is naked and quite enchanting. So was the mohini. The Naked Lord came to the streets of the R^iShis to get alms. (Does the God, Who is the provider of all wealth, need to beg ? The playful Lord, while providing the supreme wealth for those who worship, went to beg as if He has nothing !) At the charm of the naked Lord Shiva the wives of the R^ishis lost their heart. They forgot what they were doing and started simply following the Naked God. Meanwhile the R^ishis also forgot the karmathey were strongly advocating and followed the glamorous mOhini.
When they got to see their wives - the followers of karmic discipline, lost their virtue and following a Naked Beggar, they got angry with Lord Shiva and vishNu and started targeting their power of the karmas towards the Lord, by performing the abhichAra yAgam which will produce bad effects. They directed the snakes, demon, tiger, fire and drum that came out of the fire against the Lord. What can hurt the Supreme Who is the Source of everything. He coolly made them his ornaments! Now the R^iShis realized their stupidity and realized that God is the supreme and not the karma.


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Thousands of soccer fans streamed into lower Manhattan's "Canyon of Heroes" on Friday to cheer on the World Cup-winning US Women's National Soccer on Friday. It was the first-ever ticker-tape parade for a women's team and the first parade for any female athlete since figure skater Carol Heiss was honored in 1960. Along the parade route, fans reflected on the historic event.
Five days after the USWNT defeated Japan 5-2, Carli Lloyd's booming goal from halfway across the pitch was still on fans' minds. Young and old fans at the parade remembered (and reenacted) the most memorable goal from the World Cup.


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- assessing the situation and the welfare needs of the animals
- determining the type of intervention required
- maintaining core resources such as trained and experienced personnel, equipment and response plans
- managing these events in a safe and coordinated way
Victorian Emergency Animal Welfare Plan
The Victorian Emergency Animal Welfare Plan (VEAWP) provides principles and policy for use in emergency planning, response and recovery phases for addressing animal welfare in an emergency. It defines roles and responsibilities of agencies and organisations and their operational interactions with the overarching objectives of:
- Contributing to enhanced human safety and community resilience through effective planning and management of animals in emergencies; and
- Ensuring animals are better considered and protected from suffering during and immediately following emergencies.
The plan is a joint responsibility of the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources (DEDJTR) and DELWP.
Under the plan, we are responsible for the coordination of activities relating to wildlife during emergencies and DEDJTR is responsible for coordination of activities relating to all animals other than wildlife.
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Wildlife in areas impacted by fire are often disoriented, smoke-affected, hungry and dehydrated. Some may also be suffering from burns and other injuries. Following a fire, it is expected that injured and uninjured wildlife will be seen moving through and near the fire ground. Motorists should watch out for displaced animals along roadsides.
During a fire, the Incident Controller will determine if a wildlife response is required. Once deployed, the wildlife assessment teams will be embedded in the Incident Management Team (IMT) established to manage the incident. These assessment teams will consist of trained and accredited agency staff. In some cases they will be supported by trained volunteers.
Volunteers deployed to wildlife emergencies are required to work within established emergency management structures which include prerequisite training and accreditation, registration, communication and reporting procedures, as well as the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) and the adoption of hazard specific safety measures.
Fire grounds are dangerous, even after the fire front has passed. Individuals, wildlife rescue and rehabilitation groups must not self-deploy to search for wildlife.
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Further information on volunteering can be found here.
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In the event of a major marine pollution emergency, a large number of wildlife may be affected. We coordinate the rescue and rehabilitation of wildlife impacted by a marine pollution emergency, with the support of agencies such as Parks Victoria and Phillip Island Nature Park.
Our wildlife response plan for marine pollution emergencies provides safe procedures and guidelines for the rescue, treatment and rehabilitation of wildlife affected by marine pollution. This plan specifies the operational structure and responsibilities in dealing with affected wildlife. The main aim of rescue operations is to safely return as many animals as possible to the wild.
Response plan activities include the search and rescue of affected wildlife, triage, rehabilitation and post-spill monitoring of populations and habitat. Impacted wildlife is generally treated at the Phillip Island Nature Park or by other wildlife rehabilitators with relevant experience. Wildlife rescue and rehabilitation groups must not self-deploy to search for wildlife.
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Coming off of one of the most contentious general elections in recent history, the life and health insurance industry was dealt a series of stinging defeats, most notably in the re-election of President Barack Obama, who goes into his second term with a substantial mandate and, critics fear, little reason to negotiate with Republicans. After all, the Obama administration oversaw the passage into law of both the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, both fiercely contested initiatives that would carry re-election fallout. Will a second Obama administration be even more eventful than the first? It is too early to tell, but as we go into 2013, however the dreaded fiscal cliff is dealt with will speak volumes about the political battlefield between the Democrats and the GOP. It will also set expectations for what may be accomplished — or inflicted — in the coming year. Let's take a look at some of the most important issues on the political front-burner for the life and health insurance industry.
See also: Infographic: 2013 regulatory landscape
1. DOL fiduciary standard.
Emboldened by President Obama's re-election, the Department of Labor will reintroduce its proposal to amend the definition of fiduciary under ERISA in coming months despite universal industry opposition. The original proposal was withdrawn in September. Phyllis Borzi, assistant DOL secretary and director of the DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration, said earlier this month that the "reproposal will be better, clearer, more targeted and more reasonably balanced" and that it will reflect the huge number of comments the agency received on the proposal. "We are facing a crisis of confidence and people need help," she said.
Image: Jamie Kalamarides, Prudential Retirement's senior vice president of Institutional Investment Solutions, right, and Phyllis Borzi, Assistant Secretary of U.S. Department of Labor shake hands on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday Mar. 7, 2012. (Jose Luis Magana/AP Images for Prudential)
2. SEC fiduciary standard.
A uniform standard for sale of investment products was mandated under the Dodd-Frank financial services reform law, but the issue has languished under current SEC chairman Mary Schapiro because of strong opposition, mainly from insurance agents, who oppose any change. They argue that they sell only a limited range of products and are captive agents, which could potentially create a conflict. Schapiro left this month, and even strong supporters of a uniform standard are not optimistic that a new chairman will invest much political capital on this project.
Image: In this Dec. 6, 2011 file photo, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Mary Schapiro testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Schapiro will step down as chair of the SEC next month after a tumultuous tenure in which she helped lead the U.S. government's regulatory response to the 2008 financial crisis. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
3. Report on insurance modernization from the Federal Insurance Office.
It had been expected that the report, mandated by the DFA for completion last January, would be released next month. That now appears unlikely, with signs emerging that the administration will delay release of the report until after a new Treasury secretary is confirmed sometime early next year. Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner has indicated that he is staying on only to help forestall the fiscal cliff. One reason for the apparent delay is that the administration doesn't want Republicans in Congress to use the report to embarrass the administration through the confirmation process if it contains proposals calling for greater federal regulation, a politically sensitive issue.
Image: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 26, 2012, before the Senate Banking Committee hearing: "The Financial Stability Oversight Council Annual Report to Congress." (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
4. Consolidated regulation of insurers that operate savings & loans.
The DFA mandates that the Federal Reserve Board serve as the consolidated regulator of insurers which operate savings and loans as successors to the Office of Thrift Supervision. However, members of Congress have made clear through recent hearings that they won't support strong oversight of these institutions, despite the fact that lax OTS oversight of AIG was universally blamed as the reason the federal government had to provide hundreds of billions in cash to AIG in order to save it from insolvency. Insolvency could have left all insurers holding the bag for paying claims from AIG policyholders even though state regulatory officials vehemently deny that is the case, and Congress decided not to hold state regulators accountable.
Image: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke presides over a meeting of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve in Washington, Thursday, June 7, 2012. Seated at table, from second left to right are Federal Reserve Board of Governors: Janet Yellen; Elizabeth Duke; Daniel Tarullo; Sarah Raskin; Jeremy Stein; Jerome Powell. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
5. Systemically important non-banks.
American International Group is expected to be designated as systemically important by the Financial Stability Oversight Council. Other insurers, for example, Prudential Financial and MetLife, are also being scrutinized for such designation, but no decision is likely until next year. However, what metrics will be used to by the Federal Reserve Board to provide consolidated regulation of these institutions is not likely to become clear until the Fed issues additional rules during the first quarter of 2013.
Image: In this Sept. 17, 2008 file photo, the AIG logo is shown in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
6. Taxes.
Tax rates will certainly go up in 2013, and estate taxes are also likely to be raised beyond current levels. Moreover, Congress will be working next year to limit tax deductions in legislation expected to take effect in 2014. Despite the likelihood that interest rates will continue to be very low for the foreseeable future, that is good news for the insurance industry. The Bush tax cuts, which went into effect in 2002, hurt sales of insurance products. The life industry can expect to pay higher taxes, certainly on earnings, and perhaps with some curtailment in the tax benefits allowed on some products. However, all of that will be offset by increased desire in general for such industry products as annuities, corporate-owned life insurance, and life insurance in general. Indeed, with the certainty likely to be generated by knowledge that the government is coming to terms with the need for increased revenue and lesser expenditures, the stock market is likely to rise, generating even greater demand for a key industry product, variable annuities.
Image: House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio is pursued by reporters as he walks to the House floor to deliver remarks about negotiations with President Barack Obama on the fiscal cliff, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2012, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner said President Barack Obama is slow-walking talks to avoid the fiscal cliff, and hasn't outlined spending cuts he's willing to support as part of a compromise. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
For a complete look at what's in store for the life and health industry over the next 12 months, visit LifeHealthPro's 2013 Outlook page.


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History of google
Everyone knows the name Google. Whether young or old, computer smart or not this name will pop up in any conversation about computers. Google has created some very impressive milestones of its time and continues to grow rapidly every day. It all started when Larry Page and Sergey Brin met in Stanford. Larry was 22 and a graduate of University of Michigan was there considering attending the school. And low and behold Sergey, who was 21, was there to show him around. Talk about a match made in heaven!
However, according to some they disagreed on just about everything during their first meeting. In 1996, now firm friends and both of them computer science grad students, began developing a search engine called BackRub. This search engine had operated on Stanford servers for just a little over a year when it started taking up to much bandwidth to suite Stanford. So they decided to switch servers and renamed the search engine in 1997, calling it Google. The name comes from a mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100 zero's. The use of the term reflects their mission to organize a seemingly infinite amount of information on the web.
In august of 2008, Sun co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim writes them a check for $100,000 to a company that didn't even exist yet. It was at this very moment that they realized what they had and went and incorporated the name Google Inc. Their knowledge was great, but not great enough to impress the money boys or the major internet portals. Oh how they wish they invested in them now! So they began struggling for financial support. Andy was one of the few to see true potential of what these boys had created. During their presentation to him, Andy said he had to duck out for another meeting and offered to write them a check. The check was for $100,000 and that indeed had got things moving for them.
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The Flowered Shield Topkapi Palace in Istanbul – Chapter 1,
In 1966 an exhibition called Turkey's Art Treasury was held in Ameri-ca. A shield from the period of Sultan Suleyman the Law Giver was taken. to this exhibition from Topkapi Museum. The shield is 65 cm. wide and shaped like a round tray. So that it would be light it was woven out of fine willow branches like weaving a basket, and then decorated with flower motifs such as tulips and carnations using silk thread. It is very beautiful.
Among the 282 valuable Turkish works of art on exhibit the one which drew most interest was this decorated shield. They could not understand why a shield should have been decorated with flowers in bright colors. and what most visitors visualized when they thought of a shield was something made of iron or steel. What was the point of a shield made of woven willow branches and decorated with silk embroidered patterns? At first, the newspapers wrote: "The Turks faced their enemies with flowers and willow branches in battle. This refinement of theirs is astonishing." The headline in another newspaper was very interesting: "The Turks besieged Vienna with flowers", then they proceeded to express their admiration for the flowered shield. An illustrated catalog for the exhibition had a picture of the shield on the front cover, and postcards depicting the shield were sold. The shield was the centerpiece of the exhibition.
In fact, it is because foreigners are not well acquainted with the Turks and Turkish art that they find it surprising that a shield should be decorated and if you visit the section of Topkapi Palace where the old weapons are exhibited you will find yourself in an art museum. Decorated shields, carved bows, and arrows, pistols inlaid with gold and silver, beautiful swords, daggers decorated with precious stones, spears, maces, golden armor…
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I decided to hit on some of my MCE issues today, so here's anyone you might have seen. I use MCE for music more then anything else. Being able to go through my rather large music collection via my remote from anywhere in the room is nice. My problem was however, that if you have the screensaver active and or monitor go into sleep then when you hit the remote or mouse again the Taskbar would be in front of MCE. Tapping a button on the remote, keyboard or moving the mouse would send MCE back to fullscreen. This is a pain and I have never seen a proper fix for it.
So, here's what you do. The fix is to check a rather dumb option in WMP and it will be fixed! Open WMP and goto Tools>>Options. Check "Allow screensaver during playback" under the Player tab. Now, it's fixed!
This needs to be something MCE does for WMP upon launch. Some people do not want this setting checked when they are just using WMP, but using MCE you really need it to be checked. The bad part is that a year or so ago there was an application developed to stop MCE from doing just this. It's in TGB Download Center and is called the "Screen Saver Prevention" program.


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Surprising Advice for Peninsula Planners
El Camino Real is the historic main thoroughfare from San Francisco to San Jose and continues to act as the key commercial corridor of activity linking all the 19 peninsula cities in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. While planners and civic leaders decry the auto-oriented, single-use nature that characterizes much of the road, John King sees it much differently. The Grand Blvd Initiative represents a regional planning attempt to revitalize the highway to make it more multi-modal and provide much needed housing opportunities for the two counties.
King sees El Camino Real as "a jumble of styles and scales, but the jumble is part of the allure" and "it's important that today's charismatic clutter be recognized for what it is: the Bay Area's best overview of mainstream American architecture of the past century."
King acknowledges that the initiative's "guiding principles...include a vow to 'preserve and accentuate unique and desirable community character', but believes that "the (Grand Blvd) initiative's underlying tone shows little appreciation for the energetic, if sometimes chaotic, architectural diversity that now exists."


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Over the past month, I have been organizing my house, my barn, my life. I cannot write poetry while organizing. Organizing and writing poetry require engaging different parts of the brain. Or I should say creating poetry. Revising poetry and organizing work okay together. While the straightened desk, stacked hay bale, or polished floor is a sign of outward control, there is nothing like the feeling of a poem rising. The absence of poetry is a sign that the inner self is floundering about, or worse, vacant. When a poem starts to rise, there's something going on inside.
Open Up Each Man's Basement Until All The Girls Are Found
We should not stop at three missing girls who saved themselves
by pounding at the door from the inside until a neighbor,
uneducated and ignorant enough, became involved,
investigated, and did something about it. Where are the others?
In the night I settle down on my belly on the sheets, arms raised
over my head in utter vulnerability, happy, so happy, to be here,
safe in my soft bed, looking forward to morning, to sipping coffee,
to…to…when those women I don't know find me, enter my mind.
I don't know them but I know of them. I don't know their lives
but I know of their lives, beaten, buried in a basement, spit on,
raped repeatedly. They've been bound and made to do whatever.
I see men. I see them. I open up to all possibilities. I'm too frozen
to sleep now unless I return to myself, here, in my bed, ignore
all that exists outside my quiet walls, ignore shrouds over living
bodies, ignore don't act like a girl, ignore all men's basements, ignore
everything outside my soft and safe body. Now, I can also sleep.
Content vs. Form
In the past week or so, I've felt several poems arise, have recognized ideas and/or moments for poems and started them on paper or at least recorded them for development later. The moment that "won out," so to speak, appears here today due to the essay I read this morning by Alice Fulton, "A Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge" found in Green Mountains Review: 25th Anniversary Poetry Retrospective.
Fulton addresses the form vs. content debate head on: "Should questions concerning meaning and structure come up, someone inevitably posits their indivisibility. In service to this belief, responsible discussions of content always invoke form. I've noticed, however, that interrelatedness does not work both ways: Discussion of form seldom include content." (94).
This is mind boggling to me. How does one write a poem without thinking that content is why we write the poem and form is the means of delivery? (This is not to say that the form doesn't/can't/shouldn't impact the meaning of the content). What am I missing here?
Fulton goes on to discuss the importance of focusing on content rather than form:
"If we refuse to consider the implications of our words, our poems will reflect rather than revise aesthetic and cultural norms. If, on the other hand, we focus on content, we might notice – and counter – the complacency and complicity within poetry. The dominant culture is as invisible as it is invidious: we partake in its assumptions unthinkingly. To write mindfully, however, we must disinter and interrogate its premises, revising or accepting as necessary." (97). This, of course, is also Audre Lorde's message in her essay, "Poetry is Not a Luxury" (the first four words of her essay, "The quality of light…" gave this blog its name). We must first write, not craft; we must be mindful of our message, not only of our words.
The title of Fulton's essay, "A Poetry of Inconvenient Knowledge," refers to the following paragraph, which I think is worth repeating here, in which she writes,
"Since the dominant culture is as omnipresent as air, subordinate groups learn about it simply by being alive. The divested also become unwilling anthropologists, studying the empowered in order to anticipate – and if necessary manipulate – their behavior. The enfranchised, on the other hand, do not inevitably learn about those on the margins; the culturally endorsed, if they are to know, must actively pursue awareness of the unendorsed. To approach otherness, not clinically but heartfully, is difficult; it takes humility. A poetry of inconvenient knowledge asks men to think deeply about women's historical and biological situation, a request that entails some empathy, if not self-effacement. And as a white woman, I am asked to think about race; as a member of the middle class, I must encounter poverty; as an American, I can't efface the third world." (100).
Yes, it is rather "inconvenient" to think about "the culturally unendorsed," and the knowledge we gain from experiences that link us to worlds beyond our own should make us, at the minimum, uncomfortable, and at the most, should spur us in to action. How many things do we keep from our minds in order to sleep at night? Unfortunately, way too many people sleep soundly in the world.
In the poem above, the content is what is mostly important, yet the form is intentional. To me, the topic of female subordination is not one about which I should mince words, and the long line, in addition to allowing more words, presses the issue, and presses on with the issue. Within the orderly quatrains is our un-orderly world in which girls are kidnapped and treated cruelly, horribly. Or, perhaps this reflects that this IS the order of the world.
Often, we don't know how ignorant we are. I share the following anecdote to show how woefully ignorant we can be of our ignorances: In a forum on female discrimination that was held at my MFA program, one male reminded us all how far we've come in America regarding our rights. "Don't forget how much better you have it here in this country compared to other countries," he made sure to add to the discussion. Did he want us to say, "Never mind! It ain't so bad for some of us, so we better stop complaining." The fact that it IS better for some of us is all the more reason to push on for others who are not as fortunate as us – or as "them."
The shear definition of a poem demands attention to both content and form. This is directly related to placing our lives in order. Gregory Orr, in his book Poetry As Survival, discusses how "The awareness of disorder generates in the human mind a spontaneous ordering response." (16). We want order in our lives and poetry is a logical means (to me) for making internal order. Poetry allows that "a sense of some patterns or enduring principles are at work in our lives." (16). It is a way of dealing with an otherwise overwhelming world.
RELATED LINKS (Poems, Places, Books, Videos, Events, etc.):
The Missing White Woman Syndrome – or the White Damsel in Distress sells the news.
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Terry Blamey, who has managed Kylie Minogue for the past twenty five years has put together a list of his favourite tracks including Massive Attack, Gotye and of course, Ms Minogue herself.
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