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The Today Show, Los Angeles, Feb. 11 – 22 – The LA Tourism Communication team worked with producers of the 4th Hour of The Today Show with Kathie Lee and Hoda to feature the destination for the 2 weeks leading up to the Academy Awards. Show hosts and correspondents explored a different aspect of LA every day including outdoor adventure, shopping, dining, arts and culture, Hollywood, and popular attractions. The show was taped at two locations, Santa Monica Place and Universal CityWalk. The two weeks of show coverage represented the equivalent of $2.5 million in advertising value.
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NTA's Travel Exchange, Orlando, Jan. 20 -24 – LA Tourism representatives attended the annual National Tour Association (NTA) Conference in Orlando to pre-promote the show's 2014 Conference in Los Angeles, Feb. 16 – 20. NTA is the leading business-building association for professionals serving customers traveling to, from and within North America.
Chicago Sales Mission, Jan. 21 -22 – LA Tourism Sales Representatives interacted directly with 104 existing and new customers during this two-day blitz of Chicago-area meeting planners. Among the planners were several from high-profile medical associations and from third-party conference planning company Smith-Bucklin.
RCMA, Minneapolis, Jan. 29 – Feb. 1 – LA Tourism participated in this conference attended by 800 diverse religious organizations responsible for booking 14,000 events.
SmartMart, San Francisco, Jan. 30 – LA Tourism participated in this one-day event to network with dozens of planners with confirmed upcoming meetings needs.
Travel Trade FAMS, Los Angeles, Jan. – The LA Tourism International Marketing Team hosted five FAMS in January from China, Japan, Australia and Europe (2).
Sales Calls, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, Jan/Feb – As a follow-up to Taiwan's new visa waiver status with the U.S., the LA Tourism China office conducted travel agency sales calls in this major city in south Taiwan.
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Routes Americas 2013, Cartagena, Colombia, Feb. 10-12 – LA Tourism representatives attended the 6th Routes Americas, the largest commercial aviation event for the entire Americas region as part of the ongoing effort to increase air support to Los Angeles.
MPI NCC Annual Conference & Expo, San Francisco, Feb. 21 – LA Tourism attended this top regional hospitality show.
AIME, Melbourne, Feb. 26 -27 – LA Tourism's Australia representatives exhibited at the Asia-Pacific Incentives & Meetings Expo, the largest travel trade show in Australia.
Anato, Bogota, Colombia, Feb. 27 – March 1 – LA Tourism International Marketing attended this popular Latin America show to share what's new in Los Angeles with attendees.
Smart Mart, Atlanta, Feb. 28 - LA Tourism participated in this one-day event to network with dozens of planners with confirmed upcoming meetings needs.
The Today Show, Australia, Feb. 25-28 – The LA Tourism Communication team worked with producers for the #1 morning show in Australia to showcase the destination the week following the Academy Awards. The show went live from The Grove.
Individual Press Trips, UK, Feb. – The LA Tourism Communication team hosted three national UK journalists during the weeks leading up to the Academy Awards as part of an "Awards Season" themed pitch.
Rudy Maxa Travel Radio Show, National, March 1– LA Tourism worked with #1 nationally syndicated travel radio show host, Rudy Maxa, in-town for the LA Times Travel Show, to dedicate his March 1 hour-long broadcast to things to see and do in LA. On-air guests discussed LA's thriving arts and culture offerings, growing culinary scene, variety of attractions and ways to explore LA via biking or hiking.


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Well Super Bowl 43 is just around the corner and you know what that means. Time to have a few beers, enjoy some buffalo wings and get ready to view some of the best commercials of the year. Oh yeah, I almost forgot about the football game itself!
It is pretty remarkable to think that a :30 spot for an ad will cost $3million dollars. With the economic troubles we are having and many companies cutting jobs and their budgets, one has to think is it worth it?
But this blog is not about the crazy amount of money being spent on ads. This blog is about the free publicity PETA has created through the use of a very steamy commercial entitled "Veggie Love". The ad was originally set to run during the big game, however NBC decided to remove it due to the very over the top sexual innuendos that appear in the clip. It features a slew of beautiful women who are doing some very inappropriate things with their vegetables and ends with a message the reads, "Vegetarians Have Better Sex. Go Veg".
The best part is, this ad has already created a ton of buzz for PETA and they did not have to buy into the ad spot. The yanked video has over one thousand views on Youtube and the blogging community has been debating whether NBC should have pulled it or allowed it to be running during the game. Just goes to show you that sex still sells and is a very strong driving force in business. I can't help but think, did PETA create this add to be so blatantly steamy and give NBC no other option but to pull the plug on it before it went live? This would be a genius move if it is the case because they have really capitalized on the power of Super Bowl ads and they are not even in it! PETA is also no stranger to having ads pulled or using guerrilla style tactics to spread the word about their organization. They have had about eight videos banned from television, however none have been on such a huge platform as the Super Bowl.
I definitely feel NBC did the right thing by not running the ad. The Superbowl is a family event and ever since the Janet Jackson fiasco, NBC likes to play it safe when it comes to hot button topics. For those of you who have not seen the too hot for T.V. ad I have included it below.
I hope you all enjoy the game and there are a bunch of good commercials. Be sure to check back here as I am sure some of us will have something to say about them and feel free to leave your opinion on whether you think the ad should have been allowed to run.
Just for fun, my Super Bowl prediction: Cardinals with an upset over the Steelers 24 to 21!
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Depression is widespread in football, new study reveals
Depression and mental health problems in football are widespread with more than a third of players reporting symptoms, according to new research.
International players' union FIFPro said 38 per cent of the 607 players interviewed reported having problems at some stage - especially those who had suffered serious injuries. In the general population, the figure is between 13 and 17 per cent.
Former PFA chairman Clarke Carlisle revealed this year he attempted suicide while suffering from depression.
FIFPro had carried out a pilot study in 2013 and the latest research shows the scale of mental health problems among players to be even more serious than was thought from the earlier research.
The findings showed: 38 per cent of 607 current players and 35 per cent of 219 former players sampled reported suffering from symptoms of depression and/or anxiety.
- Sleep disturbance (23 per cent and 28 per cent respectively), distress (15 per cent and 18 per cent) and adverse alcohol use (nine per cent and 25 per cent) were also reported.
- Among current professionals, players who had sustained three or more severe injuries during their career were two to nearly four times more likely to report mental health problems.
FIFPro's chief medical officer Vincent Gouttebarge said: "We hope that with this study comes increased awareness and commitment from all stakeholders in football to put supportive measures in place so that those suffering from mental health problems know they are not alone.
"The study is a necessary first step in ultimately proposing adequate preventive and supportive measures aimed at protecting and empowering the sustainable health of active and retired players.
"It is crucial to establish a body of work on this important topic. The findings in the current study might justify a multidisciplinary approach to a severely injured footballer.
"After surgery, the responsible team doctor and the orthopaedic surgeon should be aware of the potential occurrence of symptoms of mental health problems which may accompany a serious injury.
"This awareness might allow (i) the early treatment of such health conditions, (ii) a better and safer return to sports, and (iii) the application of supportive measures to prevent the development of severe mental disorders in the long term."
The new data was gathered from interviews with current and former professional players across 11 countries on three continents.
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Last week, a lady approached my husband and I with this question;
"You seem to have an amazing connection as a couple, how do you cultivate it?"
I looked at my husband. Then listened as he took time to share what has helped us over the years – building our friendship, conversation, enjoying each other, creating good memories.
Later as I reflected on our conversation, I marveled at how "easy" it is to create a great marriage. By easy I mean doable. After all, a great marriage is not a big mystery.
It's not something reserved for a select few. Deuteronomy 30:11 says "Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach."
Godly principles are not out of reach for the every day couple (that's you and I). His truth might not always be easy to live out, but it's attainable.
So here's what I'd share with this precious lady i..e the extended version, preferably over a cup of tea.
36 (not-so) secret keys to a uncommon marriage
1. Love God more than you love your husband
Allow God to tutor your heart to love. Love Him deeply, passionately, fully. When you love God more, you love your husband better.
We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19
2. Surround yourself with couples who have strong marriages.
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with, Jim Rohn said.
Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. Proverbs 13:20
Perfume and incense bring joy to the heart, and the pleasantness of a friend springs from their heartfelt advice. Proverbs 27:9
Don't be a reservoir, be a channel.
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. Hebrews 13:16
5. And yourself
You will fail. Extend grace to yourself. It will be a sweet aroma to your marriage.
6. Choose joy
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. Proverbs 17:22
7. Talk a lot. About the little things, about small things. Especially when you don't feel like talking
Relationship walls begin to build up when we stop talking about the little things.
8. Cultivate friendship
I'd say, its easier, more fruitful, to work at being a better friend than being a better wife. (It's tricking your mind, really.) There's nothing a man (or woman) wouldn't do for a friend.
Wounds from a friend can be trusted. Proverbs 27:6
Always and forever. No excuses.
10. Honor your husband
In the big things and the small things. Be intentional about lifting him up. Make it your ambition to bath your relationship with honor, even in the moments you disagree.
11. Pursue each other
Not just to the bedroom, but in life.
12. Dream together
13. And have your own dreams
Marriage is amazing but if it's all you have, you will drive your man to the roof.
14. Invest in making good memories
It's one of the few things you can take to the future.
15. Put on the mindset of Christ
See life and your husband through the eyes of Christ. A great marriage is only possible when we see and treat others as Christ does.
Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did. 1 John 2:6
16. Laugh often, loud and long
He might never make it to "the funniest man" list in town, but make him feel like he's the most entertaining guy in yours. Nothing blesses a guys heart like a happy laughing wife. And knowing he's the source.
A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit. Proverbs 15:13
Or at least try. Begin to try.
18. Speak up more
Instead of assuming he can read your mind
19. Be willing to "lose"
So you can win the relationship.
For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted. Matthew 23:12
But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble. James 4:6
20. Think more
Marriage thrives when we put a little more thought to it. It cannot thrive on left-over attention, you have to give your best effort.
21. Surprise him
With gifts, with notes, with attention, with meals, in bed. Cultivate a little mystery. Invite him for a life-long chase.
22. Cultivate a relationship normal
23. Don't try to be his Holy Spirit
Be his wife. That's all God wants from you. All the job He gave you.
Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan – John Bunyan
25. Call him, text him everyday
Let him know he's loved, thought of and cherished
26. Praise more than you critique
"You get more of what you affirm. Have you ever noticed that when someone praises you, you want to repeat the behavior that caused it? Notice the good things and affirm (your spouse). Call them out. Acknowledging your spouse is huge in terms of reinforcing the behavior and getting more of what you like." – Michael Hyatt
Outdo one another in showing honor Romans 12:10
27. Hold hands
In the car, as you watch TV, as you walk in town or the mall or grocery aisle, in church. Don't wait for him to reach for your hand, reach for his. Hook your arm through his elbow.
Constant physical touch is good for your souls and the soul of your marriage.
28. Try to tell him why you love him
It's not enough to say "I love you". Tell him why.
"He thought I only had 3 reasons (why I love him) and he was so happy (that I have 43) and that I am happily married to him. He promised to make marriage more fun." From a wife who decided to take the "Why I love my husband list" challenge.
29. Pray before you confront.
And continue praying during and after. Invite God into your heartache before you invite your spouse.
30. Admire him
Gush over how strong he is as he lifts and moves things around the house. Touch his body in wonder. Marvel at his thinking and ideas. Make him feel like the most amazing man on earth. Because he is. Or should be. To you.
31. Never take him for granted.
Thank him for what he does, even if it's his duty. Make him a big deal. Always.
32. Put down the phone, shut the computer
Peace and quiet. Give each other undivided attention.
33. Take care of yourself
Cultivate friendships with other women. If you don't have good friends, go out by yourself. Read a magazine. Paint your toenails. Start a hobby. Your happiness is your responsibility, not your husbands.
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34. Take a break from the mundane.
Start a new hobby together. Drive out of town. Take a walk in a new side of town. Explore a new city. Visit a museum. Take a vacation.
35. Always assume the best of him
Watch the story you tell yourself about your husband. Be alert and catch those "small foxes that spoil the vine" Song of Solomon 2:15
Don't make it hard for your man to please you.
And the Bonus tip? You don't have to be perfect at any of the 36. I am not perfect. Just keep working at them, don't quit. Keep celebrating gains. A great marriage is not about arriving at at a perfect state, it's about the journey, enjoying the process, rejoicing over the distance you have covered and looking forward to greater days ahead.
And that's my 36 tips to creating an amazing marriage.
{For a more in depth look at how to fan the passion and create the marriage of your dreams, please pick up my book, Blues to Bliss: Creating Your Happily Ever After in the Early Years. Buy it here.}
What would you add? Certainly there are more than 36 tips to creating a great marriage. What tips have made the biggest difference in your marriage? Lets chat in Comments!
A few things
- Meet ups!
Last week my husband and I met with an amazing couple in Texas. We had an incredible time, talking about marriage, sharing our journeys and messes and how God has redeemed everything. And I completely forgot to snap a picture to share with y'all! Thank you Sandy and Jeff for hanging out!
If you would like to meet my husband and I (couple-to-couple fellowship) or myself for some girl time, drop me an email here. We live around the Baltimore/DC area but can travel a little further out. If you live out of state, let me know too and I'll let you know if I am ever in your State! Pleas email us here. Update: We now live in San Antonio and are available to meet around Austin/San Antonio area.
2. Prayer Partner sign-ups
Thanks to everyone who has signed up to pray for the Marriage Conference and Community Outreach in Kenya, this August. My husband and are partnering with local church to host a marriage conference and reach the elderly within the community. If you would like to to stay updated with praise reports, prayer requests and other behind the scenes information I don't share on this blog, please sign up here. Thank you so much for praying! Update! We now have a fundraiser page, click here to read more and find links to donate
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Hey rust...Sorry it took a while to answer this. Since you are already in the Poetry Section...I guess you are referring to the specific categories of a poem that Hub Pages let's you define for distinction. (Doing this by memeory) I have researched each category myself. Let's see if I get it right. Really, I'm sticking to the simple expalnation for this:
Drama: for a dramatic presentation poem that expresses feelings.
Satirical: for those with a comical twist about someone or something.
Lyrical: My definition: Are Poems that a good musician could easily convert over to the words of a song...with out changing the lines up any.
Nonsense: Speaks for itself: See "Jabberwocky"
Epic Poems: By "Wiki-(Tiki)-pedia" definition...closest definition to what I like:is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. I like to use this for all War Poems and related-type Poems. (Your "Confederate Son" and Civil War Poems may fall under this.)
Prose: In my book...is any great poem that doesn't rhyme...each line.
Narrative Poetry: According to definition: is one that has a plot. But, that is asking a lot for all poems...so I just go with one that has a pretty good story or tale. Which is probably the same definition...but too complicated for this 'ol poetry man.
Ballad: Can't remember if this is a feature category on Hub Page: Poetry Section...Wait..."Ode" is though. Here's the definition's of each:
Ballad:Ballad Poems are poems that tell a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often have a repeated refrain. Well, that might go under Narrative...if not for the repeated refrain part. Recommend your best judgement call...as ballads seem to be more of a tale that could be handed down through time. Basic explanation on my part...as best I can describe!
An "Ode": An Ode is a poem that is written for an occasion or on a particular subject. They are usually dignified and more serious as a form than other forms of poetry.
Well, that is the only categories I can think of at the moment...and the definitions I use. Hope that helps!.


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By What Authority
Who Do We Think We Are, Anyway?
Self-Governance — Real Democracy
By Molly Morgan & Virginia Rasmussen
"Contesting the authority of corporations to govern." This is the short, snappy description of POCLAD's work.
"Right on," people cheer. "Go for it!" And then the inevitable question: "So what do you suggest instead?"
"Self-governance," we reply. "You know, real democracy, the likes of which we've never seen. Governing arrangements in which people make decisions about their values and culture, production, work, technologies, politics, food, and future. That's the most important piece of our work together on this planet, and it includes defining economic institutions and their privileges and responsibilities — not ineffectually regulating the harms they do."
At this point the doubters weigh in. And that's a lot of people. "It's not gonna happen." "Nice idea, but stop kidding yourselves!" "It's against human nature to share power and include everyone."
These are not idle grumblings. They draw on long human experience of the few controlling the many, experience that has stunted democratic imagination, consigned large numbers of people to a resigned servility and engrained self-limiting assumptions about who we are as human beings.
For many, these assumptions were reinforced by the events of September 11 and their aftermath. The knee-jerk jingoistic response to the horrific attack repeats a seemingly endless and spiraling violence.
Given this cycle of retaliation, there is a special need to examine the assumptions carried around from childhood about who we are, how we work, and what we need. They ooze right into people from the larger culture that shapes individuals, households, communities, and societies. Largely unrecognized, unmentioned and unchallenged, these assumptions condemn democracy to the impossible.
Let's drag them into the light of day. Many cultures, particularly "western," assume that human nature is primarily selfish and acquisitive, more singular and individualistic than communal, fundamentally competitive rather than cooperative and caring. This view sees humans as apart from nature rather than a part of the interconnected web of life on the planet. Autonomy is thus valued above connectedness and relationship. Centuries of war, genocide, greed, and brutal oppression convince many that this is our basic nature, even when we witness acts of generosity and compassion on a daily basis. Ironically, it is often the most mind-numbing disaster that brings forth the best of who we are, as we saw amid the wreckage of the World Trade Center and in blood banks throughout the country.
It is easy to create the conditions that "prove" these assumptions are "true." Hunger, pain, fear, injustice, and loneliness can elicit our most aggressive, brutish behavior in the name of survival and self-defense. Even when the harsh reality of these conditions fades, acquired social norms can ensure that the ingrained behavior remains. The world thus created is characterized by anti-democratic arrangements, individualism, and aggression without end. We need to ask who is best served in such a world.
Once people accept that our nature is more competitive than cooperative, it's a short step to agreeing that power over us is necessary to survival and essential for protection from one another and from nature itself. Where did these assumptions come from?
Today's nation-states and their predecessor societies in recorded history have in common a patriarchal worldview that by most accounts developed some eight or nine millennia ago, assigning to mere human difference an arbitrary and relative value. Skills and characteristics, whether or not useful for a particular circumstance, became the means to divide people and to establish hierarchy.
Such a system of power relationships requires those exercising dominance to have a subordinate "other." Overtime and in different places, "otherness" hinged not only on differences in gender, color and creed, but on property and ownership, an inevitable outcome of assuming that it is our nature to covet things and then to covet more and more of them. Through most of our patriarchal history only a few people "qualified" to own property, which came at the cost of vigilance and fear lest their own system be turned against them if the majority gained power.
The term patriarchy reflects the gendered roots of systemic domination and subordination. Some prefer gender-neutral terms, like Riane Eisler's dominator and partnership societies. 1 Others contend that the word patriarchy is apt so long as maleness is the most universal dominant characteristic, though "whiteness" is now running it a close second. This is not to say, of course, that only males exhibit patriarchal behavior. In the way of worldviews, especially one as deep-rooted and longstanding as this one, most people adapt their behavior to the prevailing norm, consciously or not— even social change activists! When people stoop to conquer, control or "manage" humans, other creatures and the rest of nature, they engage in the power-over pattern that also shapes state oppression and corporate dominance today.
Thomas Berry identifies the classical empires, the ecclesiastical institutions, the nation-states, and the modern corporation as the world's foremost concentrators of power, wealth and property. 2 The European conquest of the "New World" epitomizes the worldview that bell hooks calls "the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy." Its prime mover today is the multinational corporation and its primary superpower home is the United States.
Whether by royal decree, dictate, judicial fiat, or legislative vote, power-over gained legal entitlement. Thus has law facilitated patriarchal control. The promises of radical 17th and 18th century philosophies, particularly the stirring language of equality and freedom characteristic of the revolutionary period in the United States, were summarily undermined by men of power and privilege preaching one thing and doing another. "A nation of laws, not of men" persists as an appeal to egalitarian sentiments, while the few continue to write the law that serves their tyranny.
No patriarchal institution has acquired greater legal entitlement than has the giant corporation. When We the People try to eliminate the corporation's power over us, we are told we're taking away their "rights." And indeed, legislative and judicial establishments have given corporations a legal claim to such authority.
It becomes clear that we cannot strip the corporation of its sweeping powers without reinventing the culture and law on which these rest. And we certainly cannot create democracy without demolishing the worldview of assumptions out of which such dominating power comes to play the central role.
Extricating ourselves from patriarchal patterns and organization takes courage, is often risky, and for some, seems downright impossible. Catharine MacKinnon, a feminist legal scholar, points out that "one genius of the system we live under is that the strategies required to survive it from day to day are exactly the opposite of what is required to change it." 3 An extraordinary achievement of corporate patriarchy is that its imposed order and control is perceived by so many as a kind of freedom, even power. Seduced by consuming and the hope of material prosperity, they have bought a stake in their own subordination.
To build community, and a society worthy of the name democracy, we must put our institutions in service to the needs of our democratic nature, in addition to meeting our basic needs for survival. Nicola Chiaromonte, an anti-fascist, spoke of our need "to be and feel like 'somebody,' to have both rights and duties and to know what they are... And the coherence of the community must be confirmed by each person's way of being, ...contributing to its existence by bringing something new and better to it every day." 4
The most constructive aspects of our nature are reflected in these fundamentally communal, relational and cooperative needs for both rights and duties, for receiving and contributing, for being "somebody" in deciding how things work. This democratic nature allows us to be whole, to be fully human, to satisfy our spiritual as well as material needs.
"If I had to name one quality as the genius of patriarchy, it would be compartmentalization, the capacity for institutionalizing disconnection." 5 For millennia the dominator models of society have broken our humanity into steadily smaller pieces. Sewing them back together is the essential, hard work of democracy-building. It requires us to replace those long-held, self-fulfilling assumptions about ourselves with a faith in our basic democratic nature.
As C. Douglas Lummis tells us, "democratic faith is the true faith of which all other faiths are evasions; it is the faith of which all other faiths are imitations or indirect expressions or distorted forms; it is radical faith, at once the most natural and the most difficult." 6 We strengthen this fledgling faith by practicing the democratic elements of inclusion, mutuality, cooperation, and connection-making so easily eclipsed by the dominance and diversions of patriarchy. Power-sharing relationships between and among us are the heart of the democratic or partnership worldview. Creating and sustaining such relationships is at the center of our democratic labors. Our lives are the practice arenas: family and friends; the communities we live in and places where we work; our organizations and projects.
While the patterns of shared power and democratic processes are within our nature, the art and skills of democracy must be learned. The "democratic arts" need to be understood and valued, taught and practiced. The way we do our work is integral to the success of that work.
Doing democracy includes holding meetings that work for people; designing an engaging, relevant agenda; possessing skills to include everyone in the discussion and to place limits on any one person's participation; reaching decisions without the residue from winning vs. losing; using conflict constructively; taking time to understand someone's resistance or disagreement; organizing for action and planning for the future. This learning should be part of every educational and organizing opportunity we experience.
Those who would maintain their power over us are feeling the resurgence of democratic aspirations around the globe. Revolutionary rhetoric is in the air. This time around it's up to those who would be democrats to make it reality.
Riane Eisler, The Chalice & the Blade: Our History, Our Future, Harper & Row Publishers, San Francisco CA, 1987, Ch.6.
Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth, Sierra Club Books, San Francisco CA, 1988, p.145.
Catharine MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1987, p.16.
Nicola Chiaromonte, The Worm of Consciousness and Other Essays, edited by Miriam Chiaromonte, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1976, p. 223.
Robin Morgan, The Demon Lover: on the Sexuality of Terrorism, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, 1989, page 51.
C. Douglas Lummis, Radical Democracy, Cornell University Press, Ithaca NY, 1996, p.153.
Asserting Democratic Control of Food and Agriculture
By Dave Henson
Industrial agriculture wreaks havoc on human and ecological health. It has torn apart our rural communities and culture, and separated people from land, food and our ancient kinship with nature. How can the small but growing U.S. sustainable farming movement develop more potent organizing strategies to overcome corporate control of the food system?
The U.S. sustainable farming and environmental movements have for decades used a strategy of regulatory and administrative law to address the environmental and human harms caused by industrial agriculture. Organizations have focused on getting relief for small and organic farmers in the latest farm bill, limiting the levels of pesticides that can be put in our water tables and rivers, and facing the latest assault from the giant chemical and seed companies.
The environmental movement has won some major legislative victories, including a National Environmental Protection Act, an Endangered Species Act, a Clean Water Act, a Clean Air Act, and dozens of other laws that limit damage by corporate agriculture. However, the national and global environment remains in a state of severe crisis due to industrial agriculture: worldwide poisoning and endocrine system; disruption by chemical pesticides; catastrophic losses of biodiversity; widespread soil salinization and desertification of farmlands; and much more. Due to the dominance of industrial-scale agriculture, today less than 1% of U.S. people are farmers, down from nearly 50% a century ago. With global corporatization, we are witnessing the worldwide collapse of many traditional farming communities, and with them their seeds, cultures and biodiversity.
The strategy of regulating corporate harms has ultimately licensed an unsustainable and unacceptable level of ecological and cultural destruction, and has marginalized our most fundamental concerns. As activists resist corporate assaults against nature and communities one-by-one, corporations become evermore powerful under the regulatory regime, framing the arena of struggle and the terms of the debate, and limiting us to incremental compromises.
Corporate vs. Democratic Decision-Making
Consider the national struggle around federal organic standards at the end of the 1990's. Congress appointed a blue ribbon panel of organic farmers, nutritionists, scientists, organic product manufacturers, and retailers to propose a new law. After several years of research and hearings, the panel presented comprehensive recommendations to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
In 1999, however, the USDA rejected these and substituted draft "organic standards" proposed by corporate agribusiness and the "life science" corporations and written largely by Monsanto Corporation lawyers. It proposed that the U.S. certify as "organic" products with genetically engineered ingredients, food grown with toxic sewage sludge used as fertilizer, and products that have been irradiated.
It took almost two years of mass mobilization, including a record 275,000 letters to the USDA, to expose this hypocrisy and force the USDA to retreat from the worst aspects of their industrial agriculture agenda for organics. Did we "win"? What could we have accomplished in two years with 275,000 people mobilized to further the sustainable agriculture agenda, if we had not had to confront the corporate takeover of organics?
Important as the federal definition of "organic" is, the fundamental issue here is about public, democratic decision-making versus private, corporate decision-making on issues of food and agriculture. This is just one among hundreds of examples of legislatures, courts and regulatory agencies elevating corporate decision-making and corporate private property rights over individual or communal property, human and environmental rights.
Challenging Corporate Control of Food and Agriculture
The strategy of the industrial agriculture corporations is to establish their authority to control the food system through massive "corporate welfare" which enables them to under-price smaller scale agriculture, and by using a revolving door of corruption between corporate management and the very government agencies charged with enforcing regulations. Through vertical integration- from controlling farm credit, seed patents, chemical inputs and farm production to monopolizing product distribution, marketing and retail sales - this corporate strategy has enforced farmer-dependency worldwide.
Further, these corporations have appropriated our public educational and research resources, crafting so-called "private-public partnerships" with universities, governments and even the United Nations. Through immense influence on the TRIPS treaty (the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) and the WTO negotiations, multinational corporations have gained intellectual property rights for owning life forms and denationalized trade regulation and dispute resolution.
To fully control the global food system, corporations will continue to colonize and homogenize the remaining independent and resistant cultures around the world. Over decades, corporate managers have learned to use - and even create - international institutions and regulatory policies to insure that the economic bottom will not drop so low on any potentially resisting people that they "have nothing to lose but their chains" and will revolt.
Developing Effective Strategies
To effectively challenge corporate agriculture's control of the global food system, ownership of life, and control of economic decision-making, our movements must rapidly evolve new and more complex strategies. We need to do three kinds of activism at once:
Fight Fires: For the past 30 years our sustainable farming and environmental movements have focused on "fighting fires." We have built thousands of local and national groups to challenge thousands of corporate assaults on nature and people. After a long campaign, we may stop a clear-cut or dam, but the corporation will be back to retake the trees or river as soon as it can maneuver a change of judge or politician, or a lull in our vigilance. We have to resist harms forever; they have to win just once.
Of course we have to fight fires - people's lives and critical ecosystems are at stake. However, since this form of struggle alone rarely addresses root causes of ongoing corporate destruction, we will likely just chase the corporation to another community.
Create Alternatives: The ecological farming movement has grown steadily for the past 30 years. We have many models that provide vision and practices reflecting the values of ecological, economic and cultural sustainability. But in building alternatives which model "how it can be," we must remember that corporations can and will buy-out, make illegal, marginalize or destroy people's most successful efforts to get off the corporate treadmill.
Dismantle the Mechanisms of Corporate Rule: While we fight the fires forced upon us, let's not confuse reaction to a problem with proactive strategy. And while we build sustainable alternatives, we will create space for sustainable practices to become the norm only if we dismantle the mechanisms of corporate rule.
To change in law and culture the definition of who's in charge and to claim our rightful sovereignty over economic activity, we must choose appropriate arenas of struggle. Our most effective campaigns will be about what we put in our state constitutions, corporate codes and corporate charters, and about the laws we pass at the state, county, city and town council levels to define and enforce limits to corporate authority. In other words, about practicing democracy.
Taking Local Action
At the local level, we need to reassess the "us" and "them" and create new alliances. With regard to food and agriculture, we need to broaden "us" to include many local, appropriate scale, family-owned or privately held farms and businesses with local people at the helm. Conversely, "them" will most often be the large, non-local, corporate mono cropping resource extractors (mislabeled as "farmers") who structurally can have little concern for local human, ecological, economic, or cultural health, or for democratic process.
Building new strategic alliances means addressing appropriate scale, not just appropriate practices. Let's focus on local community, local economy and local culture. We may strongly disagree on pesticide use or farm animal practices, for example, but we can solve those issues over time, based on a united stand against the greater common threat of democracy-destroying corporate control. Such a strategy also helps dismantle the corporate-cultivated illusion that all "farmers" should be allied as a single class, and that "environmentalists" are the enemies of farmers.
To build organizing capacity for long-term work, we must address issues important to local people. Here are examples of city, township or county resolutions and initiatives that assert local democracy:
- Ban genetically engineered (GE) crops from being planted in your community. While many cities - including Cleveland, Boston, San Francisco, Austin, and Minneapolis - have passed resolutions against GE crops, they are largely non-binding. Boulder, CO has a policy that bans GE crops from city-owned land.
- Pass a new or re-write an existing "Right to Farm" ordinance, which many rural and semi-rural areas have. It should define agriculture in sustainable terms, mandating that subsidies and tax credits only go to ecological agriculture, and that unsustainable agriculture be taxed or disallowed.
- Pass a local Anti-Corporate Farm ordinance. The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (www.celdf.org) has helped eight townships in Pennsylvania pass these ordinances in recent years. They are now working on a statewide Family Farm Protection Act.
- Get elected to your local Resource Conservation District, water board, city council or school board. Sebastopol's city council in Northern California, with a Green Party majority, has banned all pesticide use on city-owned land.
- Organize local Food Policy Councils - forums for farmers and environmentalists to craft new policies that use local government resources to support sustainable agriculture. Pass directives at city councils and school boards mandating the purchase of ecologically farmed food in municipal institutions, like schools, hospitals and jails. The Berkeley Food Policy Council has pioneered much of this work (www.berkeleyfood.org).
Ultimately, we need to take our campaigns to the state level, including changes to our state constitutions - the most defining statements a people can make. For starters, we can ban non-family owned corporations from owning farmland. It's been done in Nebraska (Initiative 300 in 1982), South Dakota (Amendment E in 1998), and to some degree in seven other U.S. states (www.newrules.org/agri/banning.html).
Other future state initiatives or legislation might include: declaring that a corporation is not a person; prohibiting patents on life forms; instituting the "polluter pays" principle (100% corporate liability for long-term costs of corporate harm) and the "precautionary principle" (no public release of new technology until it has been independently proven safe); and reviving defining language in corporate charters and corporation codes.
When significantly challenging corporate rule on the local level, we will face legal attacks and economic threats. Corporate attorneys will say our measures violate their corporate "free speech" and their "property rights to do business". They will take their case to the WTO, asserting that our new local laws are "protectionist" and "unfair trade barriers" - WTO no-nos. They will say our local government is violating the U.S. Constitution's interstate commerce clause and constitutional guarantees to equal protection and due process for all persons.
These corporate attacks can create a crisis of jurisdiction, pitting one level of government against another. When this occurs, we must rethink our notion of "victory". If a federal court or WTO tribunal overrules our democratically produced ordinance, we have an opportunity to educate and mobilize a disregarded public. At this point the essence of our struggle can be made more clear than ever: Who is in charge of making the decisions in a democracy, and in whose interest - transnational corporations and the economic elite? or people and the common good?
Dave Henson is director of the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, an organic farm and education center in Northern California; firstname.lastname@example.com, (707) 874-1557 x204.


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Welcome to Dames of Dialogue, Morgan. Let's start with what everyone wants to know, information about your latest book.
Well, actually there are two, released within weeks of each other and both dealing with women in jeopardy. LA BELLA MAFIA is the astonishing true story of Bella Capo, a woman who has survived enough for ten lives and landed on her feet. The abused child of a power broker with mob ties, she became a power herself in the club and after-hours club life along Hollywood's Sunset Strip, later became a white woman boss in the Crips and now devotes her life to helping abuse victims and those in jeopardy through the online movement La Bella Mafia. An unbelievable read that I co-authored with true crime writer Dennis N. Griffin. Release date October 15.
Then, BETRAYED, a work of fiction inspired by events that really did happen in the late 1950s through the 1960s. The entire first part was inspired by those events, and the rest is pure fiction. However, the parts inspired by the true events are fictionalized and author's license is taken, unlike the true story of Bella Capo.
Laurel Murphy, a teenaged ballet protégé is kidnapped, sold into a high class brothel where she is severely beaten and left for dead. But she doesn't die and has to rebuild her spirit and her life, all the while harboring a desire for revenge and dealing with horrendous nightmares and flashbacks. She thought she had it all together with a new family and successful career in the theater. Then the unthinkable happened and a ghost from her past was seen by accident, forcing Laurel to face her demons. The Kindle is currently available on Amazon and the paperback will be released by the end of October.
I've read LA BELLA MAFIA and it's a powerfully written book. BETRAYED sounds intriguing as well. Can you share a little bit about what you're working on now or what's coming next?
I'm working on another true story with Dennis N. Griffin that is told by the daughter of a Las Vegas character who was a mob member and a favorite of celebrities. Those who knew his public personality thought he was a great lighthearted guy and fun to be with. Behind closed doors, his family knew different and were constantly exposed to his dark side. When one mentions his name to Las Vegas long-timers, a wealth of stories are told—some funny, some absolutely shocking.
Phyllice and I are also writing the fourth Silver Sisters Mystery, DIAMONDS IN THE DUMPSTER, and this time the twin's 80 year old mother and uncle, feisty former vaudeville magicians who love to dress in disguise and go undercover, have featured parts. So many readers told us how much they love Flossie and Sterling that we listened to them and cast the oldsters in the lead this time.
Well, you've got my interest with your next book! And for those who haven't read your Silver Sisters Mystery series, Flossie and Sterling are a hoot! What is a typical writing day like for you?
I watch the news while drinking my coffee and have a bit of breakfast. Sometimes items in the new will grab me and I mentally file those away for the future or if something really intrigues me I'll hit the record on the DVR. I usually go up to my office around 9:30 or 10:00 and tell myself that I'll write for an hour or two. Because I always have so many balls in the air, at least two or three projects in process at any given time, I generally forget to eat lunch and remember somewhere around 3:00. The writing is interspersed with Facebook posts, LinkedIn posts, Tweets and keeping my websites up to date, as that is one of the most time consuming things an author must do to keep their books visible.
Then I take a break and back to the computer. I'll generally work until anywhere from 5:00 to 7:00. I'm a very prolific writer and accomplish a lot. I've been asked for one word to describe me and I think if you look up "workaholic" you'll find my name.
Prolific certainly fits you! When you're writing, who's in control, you or the characters?
For the most part it is me because I'm an analytical person and like to see the road ahead of me. However, every once in a while a character will catch me unaware and literally lead me down the path they have chosen. For example, I won't give away what happened in this case, but the father-in-law in BETRAYED really took me by surprise. There I was tapping away at the keys and he revealed all kinds of things I didn't know about him and actually made the storyline take a turn that I believe truly improved it.
When they want to speak, you have to hear what they have to say.
Oh, I agree with that. How long have you been writing?
My first published magazine article was back in the late 1970s. I wrote magazine and newspaper articles until the mid 90s when my sister, also a published writer, and I decided to create our own mystery series and the Silver Sisters Mysteries and all of the zany characters who populate them, came into being. However, the first Silver Sisters caper wasn't published until 2006.
I still write many newspaper and magazine articles, and have written over 500 related to the writer's world about techniques and the people populating it.
I co-wrote a book with my sister Cyndi (aka Caitlyn Hunter) and it was such a great experience. We're presently working on the sequel and I love working with her. Since your series continues, I'd say it's the same with you. What do you consider the single most satisfying aspect of being a writer?
I love to share my ideas with my readers and make my characters come to life—not like paper doll cutouts but like real people. Many readers have told me they feel like they want to really know my characters and wish they were real.
Since I give workshops and appear on panels, I also love to share what I've learned through the years with both aspiring and published writers whether in person or through my articles in examiner.com or my book Writers' Tricks of the Trade.
I'm a strong believer in paying it forward and love knowing authors who do the same. Tell us a little bit about where you live.
Until February I had a foot in Marina Del Rey CA and the other in Las Vegas NV. Then after ten years of doing this, and practically considering the 15 Freeway my third home, Las Vegas became my full-time home. I've loved Las Vegas since I began doing business in Sin City in variety of capacities back in the mid 80s and actually did move here once in right at the time of Desert Storm. Unfortunately, business in Las Vegas was pretty devastated by that first Iraq war and I went back to L.A. with my tail between my legs and relatively broke.
Most people picture the Strip as being what Las Vegas is like, and want to know things like how I like living in hotels, etc. I live in a beautiful residential community about 20 minutes from the Strip that is just like any other planned community. The people are friendly and we really do have grocery stores, movie theaters, big box stores like Target and Costco, restaurants—you get the picture. In other words, once you leave the Strip it's like a big city with a friendly small town mentality.
I've never been to Vegas and that's good to know. What are your thoughts on the standard writing advice, "write what you know"?
It definitely helps. It is difficult sometimes to write about places or circumstances that you have not personally experienced. Why? Because it is easy to get it wrong if you don't research properly. Don't just rely on the internet, but speak to people who have either been to places you refer to or done the things you include in your stories.
For example, I spent many years as an interior designer and absolutely cringed when I read a mystery that was set at the Hi Point Furniture Market in Hi Point, No. Carolina. The author got so many things wrong I couldn't believe it. Someone who didn't know that business might have assumed that's how it is, but anyone who was savvy could only chuckle or shake their head while reading some of the bizarre assumptions and scenes.
Any family influences? Memoirs in the making?
Actually, two memoirs are "in the made." That is to say they are in publication. When my mom was 80 I encouraged her to write her memoir so we wouldn't lose all the wonderful stories about growing up in the early 1900s as the youngest and tenth child in a zany immigrant family. Laughter carried her through all of her nearly 97 years. She was proud of her manuscript but passed away in 2006 well before CAN WE COME IN AND LAUGH, TOO? was published. She missed her 97th birthday by about 4 months.
As for me, and I loved writing this one: CONFESSIONS OF A COUGAR is the mostly true story of basically coming of age at 42. A friend and I had three glorious weeks in England and during that time had some very fun adventures and met all sorts of young, luscious Englishmen. To find out more, you'll have to read the book.
So sad your mom passed before the book was published. Were books an important part of your household when you were growing up?
My father died when I was 17 and my sister was 12, but my mother was an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction and it rubbed off on both of us. When I was in the 2nd grade, I was reading at 8th grade level, and literally devoured books. I still read one or two books a week and listen to a ton of audio books while driving.
I can't imagine my life without holding a book or ebook in my hands. How do your characters "come" to you? Are they based loosely or closely on people you know?
Somehow people I know often creep into my characters. Sometimes I don't realize I've done that until I'm re-reading sections or proofing and recognize them waving at me from the pages. Other times I create composites based on several people I know.
In BETRAYED the character of Vince was inspired someone I adored for many years who passed away too soon. I memorialized him in the character of Vince with no parts of anyone else and captured as many of his traits and sayings as possible. And, yes, often your characters speak to you in your head. Vince said thanks, how did you know I was perfect for the part? Among the many things he did in his life the person Vince was modeled after was an actor at one time.
Oh, that's interesting. Any books on writing you have found most helpful? Or classes you've taken?
In 2005 I took a class called "Machete Editing" that forever changed the way I looked at editing in a fantastically good way. I used many of the things I learned in some of the chapters of Writers' Tricks of the Trade.
Books I've personally found extremely helpful are "Self-Editing for Fiction Writers," by Renni Brown and Dave King; "The Frugal Book Promoter," by Carolyn Howard-Johnson; "The Synonym Finder," by J. I Rodale; and "Don't Sabotage Your Submission," by Chris Roerden, just to name a few. I made it a point to put a bibliography in Writers' Tricks of the Trade of books I've personally used and learned from for more in-depth looks at many topics I touch upon in the chapters.
I devour Chris's books – they're well-written and informative. I was excited she used me as a sample in "Don't Sabotage your Submission". "Self-Editing for Fiction Writers" is a book I refer to quite often. And Carolyn Howard-Johnson is a great resource for writers. She's written several good books about writing.
Thanks for joining us today, Morgan. Here's a short bio about Morgan and her works:
MORGAN ST. JAMES – Author/Speaker/Columnist
Award-winning author Morgan St. James has ten published books to her credit and with the latest, La Bella Mafia, a true crime book co-authored with Dennis Griffin and Bella Capo (whose story it is), due for release October 15 she joins the authors at Houdini Publishing. http://labellamafiabook.wordpress.com
Also scheduled for release at the end of October is a haunting story inspired by true incidents. Find out more about Betrayed, at http://betrayedthebook.wordpress.com
In addition to books she has written on her own, Morgan's funny crime caper's include the recent government embezzlement scam Who's Got the Money? and the comical Silver Sisters Mysteries series co-authored with her real-life sister More information about these books can be found on www.morganstjames-author.com
She has written over 500 published articles related to writing and frequently presents workshops, appears on author's panels and moderates panels Her book Writers Tricks of the Trade launched a bi-monthly eZine for writers of the same name.
Visit http://writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.com


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I'm running OpenFOAM 1.7.x on Suse 11.3 64 bit platform.
I can run multiRegionHeater tutorial without any problem. I checked the log files and everything seems ok.
My problem starts when I run paraFoam. I can see U (velocity) and T (temperature) on a slice of the box for time = 0, but for times equal to 50, 100, 150 and 200 I can't see anything (the slice turns white and on the display menu, U and T are no longer there).
After having the problem, I used git to get the most recent changes to 1.7.x version and recompiled paraView just in case. The problem continues.
Suse 11.3 comes with gcc version 4.5.0.
Can someone please explain what should be the problem?
Well, in fact it is not a problem.
When I call paraFoam from within cht case, for some reason it opens only time 0 and when you try to access the other times, it doesn't show the data.
But when you open the .OpenFOAM files from within paraView, you see the data there.
from tool bar choose file the open, from directory of the case choose all files with extension .openFoam (bottomair.OpenFoam, heatre.Openfoam,....etc). and will work properly.
Thanks Ahmed,
your reply helped me some years after. =)
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Reunited and it feels so good! After a long few months apart, we got to reunite in Nashville for a long work week and wonderful evening at the Americana Music Festival. It's an event we so look forward to and we realize we're incredibly blessed to work with such a big client. AMA hosted events all week, but the highlight for us is always the Honors & Awards show at the Ryman. Bonnie Raitt, Alabama Shakes, Richard Thompson, Deep Dark Woods, and Buddy Miller. The talent doesn't get any better and each year outdoes the last. Sure do love us some music city!
After the last song was sung, we got back to work on wedding job. Stamping, stuffing, and sealing at the post office all morning long. Highlight was noticing this special guest included below!
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Fresh Food: The Latest Hong Kong Dining News
Published: 13th January 2015 in Fresh Food
Fresh Food, featuring the return of Patrick Goubier, a new craft beer bar in Mong Kok, and Korean-styled pizza in Causeway.
We're just a couple weeks into the new year, and already we're facing our second food-related controversy. We don't dare utter the contentious phrase in question, but FoodCourt would like to inform that we've now trademarked* the words 'restaurant', 'dining', 'eating' and 'food' – we'd appreciate it if all publications would avoid using them in the future. With that, let's get into this week's slightly slow Fresh Food.


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Philippines: Senate should vote to join International Criminal Court
|Amnesty International
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|17 August 2011
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|Amnesty International, Philippines: Senate should vote to join International Criminal Court, 17 August 2011, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4e4df6502.html [accessed 22 November 2017]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
Amnesty International today called on Philippine Senators to vote in favour of ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), helping the fight against impunity for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes worldwide.
If the bill is approved by the Senate on 22 August, the Philippines will join almost two-thirds of countries in the world which have ratified the Rome Statute.
"By ratifying this treaty, the Philippines will strengthen its commitment to protecting human rights on the international stage," said Marek Marczynski, Amnesty International's Campaign Manager on International Justice.
"Senators should seize this moment, and vote to ratify the Rome Statute," he said.
At present, the only ASEAN countries to have ratified the Rome Statue are Cambodia and Timor-Leste. In March 2011, Malaysia announced its intention to join the ICC.
"A vote for ratification will ensure that the Philippines becomes the first founding member of ASEAN to join the ICC," Marek Marczynski said.
In 1998 the Philippines played an active part in the drafting of the Rome Statute. On 28 December 2000, the government signed the treaty.
However, it was only in March 2011 that President Benigno S. Aquino III announced he would submit the treaty to the Senate.
Earlier this month, Amnesty International Philippines submitted a petition of more than 8,000 signatures by Philippine citizens urging the Senate to approve ratification.
The treaty, which must be approved by more than two-thirds of the Senate, has already passed two readings, including one by the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations.
The ICC was established in 2002 to investigate and prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, when the national authorities are unable or unwilling to do so.
States that ratify the Rome Statute commit to investigating and prosecuting these crimes before their national courts. They agree that, if they are unable or unwilling to do so, the ICC may step in.
These states also agree to cooperate fully with the work of the ICC in investigating and prosecuting crimes committed around the world.
To date, 116 countries have ratified the Rome Statute.


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Wandering the Destination Colorado, Living West, and Colorado Stories exhibits? Be on the lookout for Sydney Sayles, Luis Francisco Valdez, and Linda KaiKai Tucker.
Be wary of Sydney Sayles; he's a slick traveling tonic salesman who visits railroad towns on the high plains selling his own brand of healing elixirs. In the re-created town of Keota in the 1920s, Sayles makes a compelling pitch: By restoring people's ability to walk, he begins to convince the crowd of the power of his healing tonics. However, it's not long before the recently passed Food and Drug Act is brought up, and he quickly dashes out of town. Actor Hugo Sayles always draws a crowd in the Destination Colorado gallery, and light-heartedly explains the complexity of enforcing new legislation to protect customers and control product ingredients.
In Colorado Stories, actress Lonnie McCabe portrays Linda KaiKai Tucker, an African American woman who grew up in 1940s Denver. She draws attention to segregation in the city, and joyously proclaims the merits of Lincoln Hills, an African American resort community in Gilpin County. Tucker recalls childhood in Lincoln Hills as she stands by her cabin stove.
Stop by the irrigation gate in Living West and meet Luis Francisco
Valdez as he leads a community meeting about sharing water in the San Luis Valley. Actor Angel Vigil portrays the "majordomo" (or ditch rider). He will make you feel a part of the process as you explore the importance of water in Colorado and the history of Hispanic settlers in southern Colorado.
All theater pieces have a prominent position in the museum, and help bring the gallery stories to life.
Catch our Museum Theater performances in the galleries on weekends from August to June, select school holidays and daily from mid-June to mid-August.


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