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Ryder Cup Preview + Contest – The Dean Has Spoken
THP Radio is back with a bang in 2016 and today we are continuing with the show called The Dean Has Spoken. Tackling on demand audio for the world of golf like never before, each episode is filled with topics where both sides will be presented and the Dean of THP will sound off on them.
Five Topics
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About the Author (Author Profile)Dean DeCrescenzo is a THP staff writer that currently resides in upstate New York. He has been a member of The Hackers Paradise for over 7 years and been involved with a number of THP events. Dean is also one of the voices you on THP Radio.
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Garmin launch slimline G6January 9, 2012 Golf Equipment
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It is home to an impressive touch screen that is usable even when wearing gloves as well as a rechargeable battery that allows you to play a full weekend on one charge.
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The Story and The Song
- reviewed by Russ Breimeier Copyright Christianity Today International
- 2007 1 Apr
- The Forward
- White Lines & Red Lights
- The Way She Feels
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- The Greatest of These (A Little Love)
- Darlin'
- A Time for Yohe
- She Is …
- Fairweather
- The Fort
- You Cry a Tear to Start a River
When a band barely out of high school releases their debut album just two years after forming, you simply hope for competence and potential. Orlando, Florida's Between the Trees offers much more than expected with The Story and The Song, most notably skills and maturity. Even the band name reflects depth, representing the endpoints of human existence and what we do with the time given.
You'll first notice the sing-along anthems, with melodic modern rock that's neither too emo or indie. Lead singer Ryan Kirkland sounds like the missing link between The Cure's Robert Smith and Anberlin's Stephen Christian, and the same could be said of their respective bands. Polished and hook-laden, the sound also evokes Mae by relying on keyboards as much as guitars. And it's commendable that every song varies enough in sound and character to sound distinctive. Listening to the first and last songs alone, it's hard to believe they're from the same band, much less their debut effort.
More stunning is the band's songwriting scope. Lead single "White Lines & Red Lights" is a conventional love song, but "She Is …" is sincerely dedicated to Mom. "The Forward" is a fluffy rocker written with the audience in mind: "Before we were in your ears, we were praying for the crowd." And "Fairweather" touches on prayer life by noting we only cry out when things go wrong.
But the coup de grace is the trilogy of "The Way She Feels," "A Time for Yohe," and "You Cry a Tear to Start a River," all inspired by a girl who overcame cutting and depression by embracing the love of Jesus. Her powerful story is detailed further in the liner notes, as well as the To Write Love on Her Arms website, a non-profit organization sparked by these songs to assist others with similar struggles. To which I can only say, bravo to Between the Trees for a brave and uplifting debut that impressively engages listeners on multiple levels.


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Biomarkers in the Nose, Throat, and Lung Tissue of Smokers and Non-Smokers
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RATIONALE: Studying samples of tissue from smokers and non-smokers in the laboratory may help doctors identify and learn more about biomarkers related to cancer.
PURPOSE: This phase II study is looking at biomarkers in the nose, throat, and lung tissue of smokers and non-smokers.
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|Analysis of Intermediate Endpoint Biomarkers in the Respiratory Epithelium of Smokers Compared to Non-Smoking Controls
- Molecular and biochemical profiles [ Time Frame: Upon completion of trial ]Evaluation of both Molecular and Biochemical profiles of normal non-smokers, smokers with no apparent disease (no airflow obstruction or cancer), and smokers with airflow obstruction and abnormal sputum cytology.
- Occurrence of abnormalities [ Time Frame: Upon completion of trial ]Stratify abnormalities as to whether they occur frequently in normal non-smokers, smokers without disease, smokers with various grades of dysplasia, or smokers with lung cancer.
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- Define the molecular and biochemical profiles of airway epithelium of smokers with no disease, smokers with airflow obstruction and abnormal sputum cytology, and non-smokers.
- Assess the occurrence of abnormalities in non-smokers, smokers with no disease, smokers with various grades of dysplasia, and smokers with lung cancer.
OUTLINE: Patients are stratified according to smoking status (smoker vs non-smoker) and disease (no disease vs airflow obstruction and abnormal sputum cytology vs various grades of dysplasia vs lung cancer).
Biological samples are collected and analyzed for future research studies.
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- - Non-smoking (less than 100 cigarettes per lifetime) controls >50 years of age, to be age matched with a previously enrolled cohort with airflow obstruction (FEV1 < 75% predicted and FEV1/FVC < 75%) and moderate atypia on sputum cytology.
- - Current smokers with > 30 pack years, no airflow obstruction (FEV1 > 90% predicted) or lung cancer, >50 years of age, to be age matched with a previously enrolled cohort with airflow obstruction and moderate atypia on sputum cytology .
- - No prior history of a head and neck or bronchogenic carcinoma.
- - Patients must be fully informed of the investigational nature of this study and must sign an informed consent in accordance with institutional and FDA guidelines.
Exclusion Criteria:
- - Clinically apparent bleeding diathesis.
- - Cardiac dysrhythmia that is potentially life-threatening, such as ventricular tachycardia, multifocal premature ventricular contractions or supraventricular tachycardias with a rapid ventricular response. Well-controlled atrial fibrillation or rare (< 2/minute) premature ventricular contractions are not exclusionary.
- - Hypoxemia (less than 90% saturation with supplemental oxygen) during bronchoscopy.
- - Evidence of clinically active coronary artery disease, including myocardial infarction within 6 weeks, chest pain, or poorly controlled congestive heart failure, or any other serious medical condition which would preclude a patient from undergoing a bronchoscopy.
- - Acute bronchitis or pneumonia within 8 weeks.
- - Inability to give informed consent.
- - Current smokers with no airflow obstruction may not have a history of coughing more than two times /week.
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00897364
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00897364
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|University of Colorado Cancer Center at UC Health Sciences Center
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|University of Colorado, Denver
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P50CA058187 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
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|May 9, 2009
|First Posted:
|May 12, 2009
|Last Update Posted:
|August 31, 2017
|Last Verified:
|August 2017
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Keywords provided by University of Colorado, Denver:
non-small cell lung cancer
small cell lung cancer
squamous lung dysplasia
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Lung Neoplasms
Precancerous Conditions
Respiratory Tract Neoplasms
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Seffner (Fla.) Armwood two-way line prospect Matt Patchan is one of the top prospects in the country for the Class of 2008. With more than 35 scholarship offers, the 6-foot-7, 265-pounder has had a lot to sort through in terms of narrowing down his choices.
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Patchan plays to graduate early and enroll at the school of his choice for the spring semester, 2008. He currently knows of two programs that are shoo-ins as far as making his list of finalists.
"I think there are two schools that are definitely going to make it so far for sure," Patchan said. "I think Miami (Fla.) and Florida both will make it for sure. Those two schools are definitely going to be in the top seven."
Patchan's father, who also is named Matt, played football at the University of Miami.
"I think it's a great program," the younger Patchan said. "(New Canes head coach) Randy Shannon has taken it to another level in recruiting. He's recruiting quality guys now. They signed a very talented quarterback last year in (fellow Tampa-area standout) Robert Marve. People don't know how good he is. They are also doing very well with this class. Miami also has been known to put people in the NFL. I mean, they went 6-6 last season and still had three people taken in first round."
The defending National Champion Gators also caught Patchan's eye.
"Florida is a great program also," he said. "(Florida head coach) Urban Meyer is coming up with monster recruiting classes also. They put like nine in the pros this year that's remarkable.
"Both are pretty good schools."
During the spring evaluation period, dozens of schools have been by to check on Patchan, including Notre Dame, which sent head coach Charlie Weis to the Tampa area to get a look at him. The Fighting Irish have now offered Patchan a scholarship.
"The other day, coach Weis came to see me from Notre Dame," he said. "He's a very good coach and it was exciting to talk to him on the phone. It was a good thing. It's always an honor to meet famous head coaches like that that. I think Notre Dame is a great school and great college. They have a shot just like every other college to acquire me."
Several other coaches have been by or are scheduled to come by, starting with Miami on Monday.
"Coach Meyer is supposed to come down some other time," he said. "There have been a ton of recruiters coming from all over the country. I think we've had Nebraska, Iowa, Florida State, Florida (assistant coaches) and Ohio State among others. I can't even remember everybody that came."
Alabama, Auburn, Ole Miss and Georgia, among others, are actively recruiting Patchan and are in the mix.
Patchan played his junior year at Freedom High in Tampa before transferring to Armwood. The jumbo athlete has been timed as fast as 4.55 seconds in the 40-yard dash and has run a four second pro shuttle. He projects as a left tackle or a defensive end at the collegiate level.
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Oh my God how scary! My heart goes out to all of you. I cannot even imagine having my daughter go through this at 14! Even if it is benign, which chances are it is, it is just too scary for words in this case. You are all in my prayers and I am sending mega {{{{HUGS}}}} too.
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I just wanted you to know that I have a 14 year old niece that when she was 13, had a mammogram with a lump found. She had a needle biopsy and everthing turned out fine. BUT, no young girl should have to go through such a scare so early in life. It has had a lasting impact on her as she has three aunts that have been dx'd with bc, a grandmother that died of it, her mother had prophylatic masts due to her sister and two aunts having cancer. So much for such a young girl.
I will keep Ashley in my prayers that all will be fine and she can go on being a teenager.
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ATLANTA — Authorities say at least 12 students and five adults have been taken to hospitals after an Atlanta elementary school was evacuated amid concerns about carbon monoxide in the building.
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In this week's bulletin, the EU is moving to regulate biodiversity offsetting, just as UK stakeholders appear to be reaching consensus on the need for it to be introduced.
There is also news of practical use to readers: conservation bodies have published a free climate change adaptation manual while the DfT has launched its latest air quality grant round.
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Natural Capital Committee should be made permanent, say MPsThe body should be put in charge of developing and implementing a 25-year plan to improve England's natural environment, according to the MPs
Climate change adaptation manual for conservation launchedThe free manual, by Natural England and RSPB, explains how climate change could impact habitats and recommends responses. It will be useful for consultants, councils and land managers
Business leader to be new Environment Agency chairDEFRA has named Philip Dilley, who has held numerous senior roles at Arup, as its preferred candidate for the role. The news has been welcomed by stakeholders, especially those involved in flooding
Biodiversity offsetting gains support despite warnings from NGOsA major conference on biodiversity offsetting revealed a surprising amount of agreement between stakeholders that offsetting should be introduced in the UK, but it also highlighted the complexities ahead
DfT opens £5m air quality fundEnglish councils can bid for up to £500,000 to retrofit buses, taxis and other vehicles to cut NO2 emissions
More 'mystery' CFCs foundScientists have discovered three more new ozone depleting substances, but in quantities that will not provoke great concerns
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New campaign material from Candie's Holiday collection has been released. Sarah Hyland is the face of the new campaign, which features new work and casual pieces.
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MISSING: 45-year-old Vadnais Heights woman
VADNAIS HEIGHTS, Minn. (KMSP) - The Ramsey County Sheriff's Office is asking for help to find a missing 45-year-old Vadnais Heights woman, who was last seen two weeks ago.
Michelle Lee Newell was last seen at her apartment in Vadnais Heights on Monday, Aug. 29. Newell has a history of health concerns and usually never out of contact with family and friends for more than several days at a time.
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Newell is 5 feet 5 inches tall, weighs about 120 pounds and has long brown hair.
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I have my Bluetooth speaker connected as a A2DP sink by adding enable=socket in the file /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf (I've tried to connect the speaker directly without adding the line but always got "stream setup failed"; I can never connect to the bluetooth speaker without the line "enable=socket" )
However, the device cannot be automatically recognized by pulseaudio. It is shown in the pulseaudio hardware after connected. I have to type "pactl load-module module-alsa-sink device=bluetooth" to force my pulseaudio recognized it every time I boot.
Is some setting lacked?
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Bluetooth device connected but can't be recognized
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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — The Tuscaloosa Metro Homicide unit made an arrest on Monday in connection with a shooting that took place on Friday evening.
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According to a release from the Tuscaloosa County Homicide Unit, physical evidence and information from witnesses led to the apprehension of Hyche.
He is charged with one count of attempted murder, one count of assault and one count of discharging a firearm into an occupied building.
"Today, the homicide unit received information concerning the incident involving the shooting of a little 4-year-old girl. We were able to locate a person we had been trying to locate to talk to, and after talking with him and talking with witnesses and processing some evidence that we collected, enough information was collected and we were able to determine that we had enough to obtain an arrest warrant on a 23-year-old male," said Sgt. Dale Phillips with the Tuscaloosa Metro Homicide Unit. "It appears that his target is a young man that lives at that residence that was not there at the time. But our information tells us that he was the target of this act and we have known from the start that there has been some ongoing feuding between these two groups."
Sgt. Phillips says the investigation is ongoing and further arrests may be made.
"We anticipate that the investigation will continue," he said. "We feel that there was another person involved. We know who that person is. That person knows that we know. And we hope that we are able to bring some more resolution to this."
On Friday evening, at around 10 p.m., police received information about a shooting.
Upon arrival, authorities found a 4-year-old girl who had been shot twice while she was asleep in her home.
She was transported to Children's Hospital in Birmingham and is currently listed in critical but stable condition.
Hyche is being held at the Tuscaloosa County Jail on $120,000 bond.
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Knee injury blow leaves Foster facing nine months on sidelines
Just when Manchester United appeared to be in rude health, the Barclays Premiership champions' preparations for next season were dealt a significant blow yesterday when Ben Foster, the emerging England goalkeeper, was ruled out indefinitely with knee ligament damage. Foster will have surgery in the next two to three weeks and is likely to be out for up to nine months, although he could miss all of next season.
The injury constitutes a multiple blow for United, England and Foster, who had not only been expected to challenge Edwin van der Sar for the goalkeeper's jersey at Old Trafford, but also Paul Robinson for the position of England No 1.
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A U.S. Air Force staff sergeant has secured herself a big music deal when her military service is over after wowing Adele fans with her pitch-perfect rendition of Rolling In The Deep.
Over 900,000 people have checked out Angie Johnson's cover of the song with her military band Sidewinder since they posted the performance on YouTube.com last week (ends12Aug11).
Decked in desert army camouflage, the footage was shot at an undisclosed army base in southwest Asia.
The 10-piece group also cover tracks by Cee Lo Green and the Black Eyed Peas.


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Merchants fund points in exchange for market exposure.
As credit unions learn more about new technology, they are some of the institutions leading the nation in the issuance of payment cards that use embedded computer chips to validate identity and secure transactions.
Hispanic outreach firm CEO wins World Council honor, elected to Network of Latino Credit Unions & Professionals board.
The Members Group discusses how cardholders would be more likely to use photo debit card or cards with company logos.
Credit unions need to recognize that avoiding too much risk in a card portfolio is, in itself, a risky thing to do.
Affiliates Management Co., Coopera's parent company, announced that Miriam De Dios is Coopera's new chief executive officer.
De Dios, founding vice president of Coopera, takes over CEO role from the late Warren Morrow.
As the payment industry begins to move toward replacing magnetic stripe cards with cards that use embedded smart chips, credit unions and other card issuers will have to eventually decide whether they will issue cards that use personal identification numbers or signatures to validate transactions.
Add Citizens Community Credit Union CEO Paul L. Becker to the growing list of leaders who have retired.
Once again, credit card issuers across the country have begun to assess the impact of a significant card data security breach at a major card processor.


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Tuesday, October 31, 2017
October Cultural Roundup
Chinatown (U.S., 1974)
Valley of the Dolls (U.S., 1967)
Book Launch for The Unfinished Dollhouse at Ben McNally Books, October 5, 2017
Heather O'Neill at International Festival of Authors, October 24, 2017
Tartan Turban Secret Readings #5, October 26, 2017
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Saturday, September 30, 2017
September Cultural Roundup
Brian Regan at Massey Hall, September 8
Kodachrome (Canada/U.S., 2017)
Chappaquiddick (U.S., 2017)
What will people say (Norway, 2017)
Alanis (Argentina, 2017)
A Worthy Companion (Canada, 2017)
Film stars don't die in Liverpool (U.K., 2017)
The Butterfly Tree (Australia, 2017)
In a Lonely Place (US, 1950)
Custody (France, 2017)
Tigre (Argentina, 2017)
Battle of the Sexes (U.S., 2017)
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
I love Dick by Chris Kraus
Featured at the International Festival of Authors at Harborfront with Anne Hines, September 27th
Brian Regan at Massey Hall, September 8
Kodachrome (Canada/U.S., 2017)
Chappaquiddick (U.S., 2017)
What will people say (Norway, 2017)
Alanis (Argentina, 2017)
A Worthy Companion (Canada, 2017)
Film stars don't die in Liverpool (U.K., 2017)
The Butterfly Tree (Australia, 2017)
In a Lonely Place (US, 1950)
Custody (France, 2017)
Tigre (Argentina, 2017)
Battle of the Sexes (U.S., 2017)
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
I love Dick by Chris Kraus
Featured at the International Festival of Authors at Harborfront with Anne Hines, September 27th
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Wednesday, August 30, 2017
August Cultural Roundup
Get me Roger Stone (U.S., 2017)
The Trip to Spain (U.S., 2017)
Sesqicentennial Authors' Symposium in High Park, August 27, 2017
The Partially Cloudy Patriot by Sarah Vowell
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Monday, July 31, 2017
July Cultural Roundup
|George O'Keefe
Georgia O'Keeffe Retrospective, AGO, July 3rd
The Beguiled (U.S., 2017)
The Big Sick (U.S., 2017)
The Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibit, July 16th
Ryerson Image Centre, July 30th
Ties by Domenico Starnone
Nutshell by Ian MacEwen
Jazz on Jarvis featuring the Wintergarten Orchestra, July 17th
The Love Poetry Festival honouring Milton Acorn & Gwen MacEwen at Queen Books, featuring George Elliott Clarke, Patrick Connors, James Deahl & Norma Linder West, Karen Mulhallen, Charlie Petch, Robert Priest, Banoo Zan, with emcee Michelle Alfano, July 29th
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Sunday, July 16, 2017
The Love Poetry Festival
Until 2015, Michelle Alfano served as an Associate Editor with the literary quarterly Descant. She is the co-organizer of the Love Poetry Festival honouring Milton Acorn and Gwen MacEwen. Her novella, Made Up Of Arias, was the 2010 winner of the Bressani Award for Short Fiction. Her short story "Opera", on which the novella was based, was a finalist for a Journey Prize anthology. She is currently at work on two projects: a personal memoir entitled The Unfinished Dollhouse (Cormorant Books, 2017) and the novel Destiny, think of me while you sleep.
The 4th Poet Laureate of Toronto (2012-15) and 7th Parliamentary Poet Laureate (2016-17), George Elliott Clarke is a revered wordsmith. He is a noted artist in song, drama, fiction, screenplay, essays, and poetry. Now teaching African-Canadian literature at the University of Toronto, Clarke has taught at Duke, McGill, the University of British Columbia, and Harvard. He holds eight honorary doctorates, plus appointments to the Order of Nova Scotia and the Order of Canada. His recognitions include the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Fellows Prize, Governor-General's Award for Poetry, National Magazine Gold Award for Poetry, Premiul Poesis (Romania), Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, Eric Hoffer Book Award for Poetry (US), and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award. Mr. Clarke's work is the subject of Africadian Atlantic: Essays on George Elliott Clarke (2012), edited by Joseph Pivato.
Pat Connors first chapbook, Scarborough Songs, was published by Lyricalmyrical Press in 2013, and charted on the Toronto Poetry Map. Part-Time Contemplative , released last year, was his second chapbook with Lyricalmyrical. He is a manager for the Toronto Chapter of 100,000 Poets for Change.
James Deahl is the author of twenty-seven literary titles, the four most recent being: To Be With A Woman, Landscapes (with Katherine L. Gordon), Unbroken Lines, and Two Paths Through The Seasons (with Norma West Linder). A cycle of his poems is the focus of a one-hour television special, Under the Watchful Eye. His Red Haws To Light The Field will be published in September by Guernica Editions. He lives in Sarnia.
Norma West Linder is the author of six novels, a volume of selected short fiction, fifteen collections of poetry including Adder's-tongues: A Choice of Norma West Linder's Poems, 1969 – 2011, a memoir of growing up on Manitoulin Island, two children's/young adult novels, and a biography of Pauline McGibbon. Her sixth novel, Tall Stuff, was recently published. She also lives in Sarnia.
Karen Mulhallen has published a pile of books, lots of poetry, interviews, essays, and even some criticism. Her newest poetry book, Seasons In An Unknown Key, came out this year from Tightrope Books. She edited Descant magazine for 45 years and also was the Arts Features Editor of the Canadian Forum magazine and a columnist for the Literary Review (London). She was lucky enough to teach English and miscellaneous stuff at Ryerson University where her students changed her life and her thinking about nearly everything. Editing Descant and working with many marvelous writers and editors and designers was another stroke of luck and she is grateful for what life has given her.
Charlie Petch is a playwright, spoken word artist, haiku deathmaster and musical saw player. Their full poetry collection, Late Night Knife Fights was published with LyricalMyrical Press and they are currently touring their full length spoken word vaudeville show "Mel Malarkey Gets The Bum's Rush". They have been published by Descant, The Toronto Quarterly and Matrix journals. Petch is a member of The League of Canadian Poets and is the creative director of "Hot Damn It's A Queer Slam". Find out more at www.charliecpetch.com.
Bänoo Zan is an immigrant poet, translator, teacher, editor and poetry curator, with more than 120 published poems and poetry-related pieces as well as three books. Songs of Exile (Guernica Editions), was shortlisted for Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Letters to My Father was published in 2017 by Piquant Press. She is the founder of Shab-e She'r (Poetry Night), Toronto's most diverse poetry reading and open mic series (inception: 2012). Facebook and LinkedIn: Bänoo Zan
Twitter: @BanooZan & @ShabeSherTO
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Friday, June 30, 2017
June Cultural Roundup
|For Colored Girls ...
Riverdale Art Walk, June 3rd
For Colored Girls who have considered Suicide/when the Rainbow is enuf, Soulpepper, June 3rd
The Night of the Gun by David Carr
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
South and West by Joan Didion
My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
Things that can and cannot be said - Essays and Conversations by Arundhati Roy and John Cusack
Beatriz at Dinner (U.S., 2017)
Amazons of the Mediterranean, Black Swan Tavern, June 24th
Sandra Battaglini's Party Time Comedy Hour, June 27th
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017
May Cultural Roundup
|1920's film icon Sessue Hayakawa
Films:Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels (Canada, 1991)
The Mystery of Mazo de la Roche (Canada, 2012)
Out of Thin Air (UK/Iceland, 2017)
Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press (US, 2017)
Girl Inside (Canada, 2017)
Sweat (Canada, 2017)
Birth of a Family (Canada, 2017)
The Departure (Japan, 2017)
Mommy Dead and Dearest (U.S., 2017)
Strong Island (US/Denmark, 2017)
The Cheat (U.S., 1915)
OCADU's GradEx 2017 - Student Exhibition, May 6th
A Silent Storm by Nicholas Pye, Birch Contemporary Gallery
A Silent Storm by Nicholas Pye, Birch Contemporary Gallery
An Evening with Ira Glass, Massey Hall, May 14th
Elizabeth Strout: Painfully Human, The Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library, May 16th
Open Doors, May 28th
Elizabeth Strout: Painfully Human, The Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library, May 16th
Open Doors, May 28th
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
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Sunday, April 30, 2017
April Cultural Roundup
|Jean Harlow and Marie Dressler in Dinner at Eight
Dinner at Eight (U.S., 1934)
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (U.S., 2016)
Whitney: "Can I Be Me" (U.K., 2017)
The Genius and the Opera Singer (U.K., 2017)
Whitney: "Can I Be Me" (U.K., 2017)
The Genius and the Opera Singer (U.K., 2017)
Remembering Vimy Ridge, Munk School of Global Affairs, April 9th
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson
Seasons in an Unknown Key by Karen Mulhallen
Tightrope Books' 2017 Spring Poetry Launch at Glad Day Books, April 12th
Settling in Toronto: The Quest for Freedom, Opportunity and Identity, Market Gallery
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Monday, April 3, 2017
Black Like Rachel
|Rachel then ..
I can feel my husband's questioning glance when this particular topic arises: what to make of Rachel Dolezal (who has, in another phoenix like move, re-named herself Nkechi Amare Diallo)? And why am I so angry about it?
She has irked me - as she has irked many progressive people who have intensely disliked the charade of a woman, born white and of European descent, pretending to be black or, at best, permitting others to assume that she is black because she has done a number of things to suggest she is black including: colouring and curling her blonde hair into a dark afro; darkening her skin cosmetically; wearing afro-centric clothing such as dashikis and African-inspired styles. Whether by a sin of commission - she actively lied and distorted her personal history - or omission – she did not correct people when they assumed she was black or bi-racial - it has all just felt wrong.
I don't object to the fact that she loves black culture or identifies with black people. Her first husband was black and her children are bi-racial; her four adopted step-siblings are also black – three African-American and one of Haitian origin. Nor do I object to the fact that she has worked with civil rights causes and institutions to help benefit the black community. Some of us love black culture and feel an affinity to the black community. Some of us, as allies, have volunteered with similar organizations.
It's the consistent lying. And to what end? Stories that she traveled to South Africa (she did not). She said that she was born in a teepee. I can't even begin to explain that one – not many African Americans would dare claim that very specific circumstance. Stories that she was abused by her parents – specifically that she was whipped (what historical parallel does that bring to mind when thinking of the sufferings of black people?). She has since walked that back although she insists she was abused physically by her religious parents. Assumed to be black by the admissions office at her university when she applied - because her portfolio of art was full of African-American portraiture - she received a scholarship based on her presumed racial identity. She was also accused of plagiarizing the work of the artist J.M.W. Turner by closely duplicating his 1840 work The Slave Ship. The ... slave .. ship.
My problem with Rachel is not just the lying. My problem with Rachel is that I know exactly how she feels. As a woman who presents in a racially ambiguous manner – I have dealt with this issue for decades. In the town where I was raised, my very curly hair, olive skin and full lips invited curious remarks about my parentage.
What was my nationality? Was I truly Italian? Was there not something else mixed in there? Was I Italian on both sides? If you knew anything about the history of southern Italy (as I was later to learn and educate myself on), my looks would not have appeared so curious or strange upon reflection.
Why a person of southern Italian descent might resemble a person of African descent should not be much of mystery. Sicily – where my parents were from – is closer to Africa than to Rome and sometimes that was not just a geographic distance.
But then, when I was seven or ten or fifteen and I faced those questions – in that conservative, racially homogenous, racist environment where ethnic groups clung together with a rabidness that amazed and puzzled me – the questions about my parentage were not merely curious, they were rude, hostile and suspicious.
It made me look at myself in a new way – as an Other – and to seek out other people who might mirror my experience, and physically resemble me. In this case, it was other black people. So, in a sense, I was black like Rachel was black. Not truly black but perceived as black by some.
I, too, was drawn to people with whom I had been compared – people with afros and braids, people with café au lait or dark skin, people who may have been outside of the white mainstream. And there too, sometimes people would assume I was bi-racial. Some of the time. Some of the time, there was merely hostility as to just why this white girl was hanging around. I was not particularly welcomed or liked. I was just tolerated, tolerated at best.
Even in multicultural, tolerant Toronto where I moved to when I turned nineteen to attend university the questions were similar – but now I was exotic, interesting looking. For people that look like me – this is just politely worded code for "You ain't from around here, are ya pardner?"
But during that time, and afterwards, even though I felt an affinity with black people, loved "black" music, had black friends, read James Baldwin and Langston Hughes and Eldridge Cleaver and Toni Morrison voraciously, I never once said yes, I am black, when someone asked me. And I forbore the intrusive, mildly insulting questions from white people, "You don't mind me saying – I thought you were black?" I don't mind because I don't perceive it as an insult although apparently you do. That I do perceive as an insult.
I understand Rachel's confusion, her desire to escape what appears to be an unhappy family situation, the desire to identify with her four step-siblings, her black husband and bi-racial children. I understand her attraction to black culture and history. If you feel oppressed or victimized by your circumstances, it makes sense that you might turn to a like-minded group for comfort or strength. I know I have white skin but I have my sorrows too, you might think. I am like you.
|Rachel ... now
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Friday, March 31, 2017
March Cultural Roundup
Films:Anna Karenina (U.S., 1935)
Anna Karenina (U.K., 1948)
Get Out (U.S., 2017)
Women and Words, St. Michael's College, UofT, featuring: Michelle Alfano, Connie Guzzo McParland, Lucia Cascioli, Gianna Patriarca, Carmela Circelli, Domenic Cusmano, Darlene Madott, Silvia Falsaperla, Giovanna Riccio, Licia Canton, Terri Favro, Mary Di Michele, March 10, 2017
Books on Film: Zadie Smith talks about A Room with a View (UK, 1985) at TIFF, March 13thBooks:
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Thursday, March 30, 2017
The Flower that Vronsky Plucked
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and destroyed it.
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Originally published 1873 - 1877 in serial instalments; re-published by Penguin Group, 2000) translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, 838 pages
It pleases me to remember something that I read about Tolstoy during the writing of this book ... apparently Tolstoy did not much like his heroine when he began writing the book, finding Anna's infidelity disturbing but as time went on he grew to love her and accept her indiscretion and, perhaps conversely, her courage to act on that indiscretion.
We begin the book as Anna has come to Moscow to mediate between her brother Stepan (Stiva) Oblonsky and his wife Darya (Dolly). Stiva has had an affair with the governess and Dolly has just found out. Anna tries to persuade her sister-in-law to forgive her husband. Aside from introducing Anna to the story, this subplot serves another important function: it contrasts the repercussions of the infidelity of the brother, Stiva, with the repercussions of the future infidelity of the sister, Anna. Anna's fate is ultimately tragic while Stiva's infractions are seen as minor dalliances that, if Dolly were sensible, she would ignore.
The accidental meeting of the future lovers at the train station - where Vronsky has gone to
pick up his mother and Stiva has come to meet Anna - introduces the first element of tragedy with the gruesome death of a train station worker caught beneath the wheels of an oncoming train. The death sends a chill through Anna who sees this as a terrible omen. The novice reader will wonder at her fright; the seasoned reader will shudder at the reminder of the novel's denouement.
Alexei Karenin's prissy greeting to his wife Anna in the train station, "Tell me Anna, am I not a good husband?" cements our resistance to Karenin (I cannot envisage the husband without thinking of Basil Rathbone in the 1935 version of the film) who stands in vivid contrast to Vronsky, passionate, intense, quickly approaching to the train officials to give them money for the family of the worker who has been killed. The gesture may be false but it enthrals Anna and the reader, albeit momentarily. Or when he boards the train to St. Petersburg because he says, "I cannot do otherwise." Passion is the greatest aphrodisiac.
The train sets the stage for three key narrative points: the ominous death of the railway worker when Anna and Vronsky meet, the scene where Vronsky reveals his love for Anna when she returns to St. Petersburg on the train and the final scene in which we see Anna before her death.
Soon after, when Vronsky rebuffs Kitty, Dolly's sister, for Anna at the much anticipated ball, Kitty suffers a devastating blow to her ego, expecting a proposal but recognizing with shock that Vronsky has fallen for the much older Anna. The awkwardly sincere Levin, who has proposed to Kitty, shamefacedly retreats to his country estate, knowing that Kitty has fallen in love with Vronsky and has refused his proposal.
In my initial readings (this is my fifth time reading the book) I often wondered why so much time was spent on the Levin/Kitty relationship aside from the fact that Levin so very obviously stands in for enlightened aristocrat and landowner Tolstoy himself. I was frustrated by the minute accounts of Levin's activities versus those of Anna's lover Vronsky's more frivolous ones. Now I understand the need for this contrast. Levin cares for his land and his muzhiks (peasants) while Vronsky entertains foreign princes, mediates disputes between officers trying to seduce a third man's wife, socializing with fellow officers, squandering his fortune and squabbling with his overbearing mother.
Levin is stalwart; Vronsky is fickle. Levin is plain speaking, awkward, socially inept but
honest. Vronsky is charming and seductive but shallow. Vronsky is handsome and suave while Levin is misanthropic and moody. True, Vronsky's sexual passion initially overwhelms the reader. His passion for Anna is "like that of a man suffering from thirst." He turns our head ... after all, passion is the greatest aphrodisiac.
There are several keys to understanding how Vronsky feels about Anna, his married lover, and Alexei Karenin, the betrayed husband. When Vronsky first encounters Anna's husband Karenin he feels a sense of repulsion, as if someone has "sullied a spring that he thought pure". He wants something that is not rightfully his.
|Garbo and Frederic March as Anna and Vronsky (1935)
The other key scene is the death of Vronsky's race horse, Frou Frou, that Vronsky literally rides to its death. It is easy to interpret this as a metaphor for his doomed relationship with Anna. Anna is an object of desire - a beautiful, treasured object but an object nonetheless - who is destroyed when she is no longer desired. He has gone from a frivolous young man to a fully cognizant participant in the destruction of Anna's marriage and her life.
"For the first time in his life he had experienced a heavy misfortune ... " He speaks of Frou Frou's death but for us, the readers, we understand the import of what is to come ...
After Kitty recovers from her heartbreak at a German spa, she crosses paths with Levin again when she travels to Dolly's country house. Levin, whose love is both seemingly unrequited and unresolved, is both terrified and thrilled to find Kitty so close to home. Kitty has recovered fully and now sees Levin in a new light; she sees his worthiness and superiority to Vronsky.
Anna becomes more and more mired in scandal confessing that she is pregnant with Vronksy's child after her intense public reaction to Vronsky's fall at the races (where Frou Frou dies) and Karenin urges her to leave the races. Here, Karenin sees that the rumours he has been discounting are true. Anna and Vronsky's affair is opposed by high society not because he is not serious but because he is too serious. It is not "good form" to wreck one's career (and her marriage to an important government official) over a sexual passion. Pregnant, Anna confesses her state to Karenin and that she does not love him, forcing him to stipulate that she must conceal her affair or face the consequences.
At a crucial point, we see how Vronsky wavers in his love for Anna ... precisely when she confesses her passion to her husband. Vronsky quickly learns as his cynical colleague concludes, "It's hard to love a woman and do anything." She sees their passion as a life changing event that she would never forgo; he sees it as an impediment to his career. He has irrevocably destroyed her old life and while Vronsky can proceed with virtually all aspects of his life, Anna can proceed normally with no aspect of her life. Anna's image of Vronsky is romantically fantastic, literally: As at every meeting, she was bringing together her imaginary idea of him (an incomparably better one, impossible in reality) with him as he was.
And yet what Vronsky sees is closer to the truth: He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower in which he can barely recognize the beauty that had made him pluck and destroy it ... but now ... that he felt no love for her, he knew that his bond could not be broken.
When Karenin sees that Anna has defied his wishes and permitted Vronsky to enter their home, he moves forward with his plan to divorce Anna. She has a premonition that she will die in child birth carrying Vronsky's child. Anna's dream of the foul muzhik disturbs and haunts the reader as it does Anna. Frighteningly, her lover has a similar dream that he does not reveal to her.
|Vivien Leigh in the 1947 version
At the exact centre of the novel two pivotal events happen: the engagement and marriage of Kitty and Levin, and Anna gives birth to her daughter Annie, falls into a delirium and nearly dies. Levin, initially depicted as a well-meaning but bumbling lover, shines in his love for Kitty. This comes as a revelation to me - a middle-aged married women having read the book several times - I see Levin differently, now valuing his constancy and genuine love for Kitty.
It's as if Tolstoy is pointedly telling us that this is what true love brings (Kitty and Levin) and this is what misguided sexual passion brings as well (Anna and Vronsky).
Karenin and Vronsky reconcile somewhat - Karenin is abashed by Anna's humility and guilt in the delirium that follows the birth. Vronsky is also chastened by Karenin's magnanimity. Vronsky, finally shamed and horrified by his position, tries to kill himself but fails. Karenin is more than the set of cliched villainous characteristics that Anna despises - he feels the suffering of both his unfaithful wife, her distraught lover as well as the tiny infant who languishes without her mother's care.
After Anna's illness, Karenin agrees to let the couple travel to Italy with the baby Annie (whom Karenin, surprisingly, has come to surreptitiously love - another lovely nuanced scene that adds layers to the image of the emotionally constricted Karenin) and the couple leads a seemingly bucolic life but one that presents difficulties for both lovers.
Vronsky, no longer the passionate, illicit lover but now the common-law, dutiful husband, is bored and isolated; Anna is moody and fearful of losing Vronsky's affections. He takes up painting in Italy, she pines for something more but it is difficult to say what. Her son? Her lost respectability? Normalcy in their relationship?
The dutiful Kitty serves as a counterpoint to Anna in the narrative- forgoing a honeymoon to return to the country with Levin and then tending to Levin's irascible, dying brother while Anna is perceived as having abandoned her son Seryohza while in Italy.
When Anna and Vronsky return to St. Petersburg, Anna longs to see her son Seryohza (who has been told that his mother is dead) but must ask for written permission from the sanctimonious Countess Lydia Ivanovna who has taken over the despairing Karenin's affairs. Of course, she is forbidden access but Anna decides to enter the house despite the trepidation of the servants who do not dare refuse her. This scene causes more emotional anguish in me than all the other scenes combined. Each succeeding reading, more so. Firstly, I felt for Anna as the disgraced wife and "unfaithful" woman; now, I feel for her as the mother who has abandoned her child.
The dutiful Kitty serves as a counterpoint to Anna in the narrative- forgoing a honeymoon to return to the country with Levin and then tending to Levin's irascible, dying brother while Anna is perceived as having abandoned her son Seryohza while in Italy.
When Anna and Vronsky return to St. Petersburg, Anna longs to see her son Seryohza (who has been told that his mother is dead) but must ask for written permission from the sanctimonious Countess Lydia Ivanovna who has taken over the despairing Karenin's affairs. Of course, she is forbidden access but Anna decides to enter the house despite the trepidation of the servants who do not dare refuse her. This scene causes more emotional anguish in me than all the other scenes combined. Each succeeding reading, more so. Firstly, I felt for Anna as the disgraced wife and "unfaithful" woman; now, I feel for her as the mother who has abandoned her child.
Sophie Marceau in the 1998 film
Seryozha is shocked, delighted, to see his mother on his birthday. Anna is ecstatic but fearful. She flees only when Karenin, largely silent and impassive, enters Seryozha's bedroom and encounters them there. Anna leaves in shame and mortification, having forgotten to bring Seryozha's toys that remained in the carriage.
This disappointment engenders a sort of defiance in Anna ... the more she is scorned by society, the more determined she is to flout convention. She asks to be taken to the opera by one of Vronsky's friends. She is particularly beautiful this evening. Vronsky opposes this public outing knowing that Anna likely will be insulted by her former friends and acquaintances. He is not wrong. Deciding to join her at the last moment, he sees her being shunned and humiliated by a former acquaintance.
Something breaks in Anna. Now she fully realizes that she has reached a point of no return in Russian society.
This compels the couple to reside in the country where they can surround themselves with sympathetic family and acquaintances - largely those who profit from the couple like the German steward of their estate, a local doctor who is helping Vronsky build a hospital for the muzhiks, an architect and a parasitic and disreputable relation of Anna's - the Princess Varvara.
When Dolly comes to visit her sister-in-law Anna, she is initially filled with admiration and awe for their lavish lifestyle and Anna's still evident beauty, which seems have grown with her isolation and condemnation from society. Dolly compares her life of financial worry and anxiety about the children, her loss of looks, her worries about Stiva's fidelity with Anna's own situation. But this impression does not last. Whereas, Levin ceremoniously ejected one of Stiva's friends from his home for shamelessly flirting with Kitty, Vronsky seems to neither care nor notice the same behavior in his own home with Anna. Little by little we see the difference between the two men.
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By the time she is ready to leave Dolly feels that Anna's position is a lonely one, a false one, where Anna seems to have no real emotion for her daughter and is ever fearful of losing Vronsky's love. Anna now lives only to please Vronsky but her actions fail. He is determined that Anna will not restrict his "masculine independence":
Vronsky appreciates Anna's desire not only to please, but to serve him, which becomes the sole aim of her existence, but at the same time he wearies of the loving snares in which she tries to hold him fast. As time goes on ... he has an ever growing desire, not so much to escape but to try and see whether she will hinder his freedom.
When Levin and Kitty come to Moscow for the birth of their first child, Levin and Anna's paths finally intersect, introduced by Stiva. Initially, Levin is charmed by his encounter but when he sees Kitty's horrified face as she learns of their meeting, he fears that he has erred in agreeing to the meeting. Was this Tolstoy's feeling as well? That he had been seduced by Anna against his better judgment?
Anna's trust in Vronsky falters, eroded by her loneliness, isolation, unfounded jealousy and fear of the future. She finally agrees that she must have a divorce from Karenin, which she is resisting as it means that she will never have access to her son, and her brother Stiva is sent as an emissary. But Karenin has adopted a more vindictive stance, refusing to grant Anna one.
This insecurity propels Anna into a series of hysterical and irrational arguments with Vronksy who is hardening towards her. For the first time she entertains thoughts of death that not even the nightly doses of opium can assuage. Vronsky leaves for business with his mother and Anna decides to visit Dolly. With the presence of Kitty there, Anna turns mean-spirited - perhaps ashamed before, or chastened by, the innocent Kitty who still bears a grudge against Anna.
Some impulse drives her to take a train to meet Vronsky at his mother's estate (fearing that his mother is plotting to have him married off to Princess Sorokin's daughter) but Anna is inflamed and confused. Her thoughts are scrambled, hostile, addled. At the station, reminded of the incident with the doomed railway worker the day she met Vronsky, she makes a momentous decision.
Each time I read Anna Karenina, I have a remarkably different response to it. Initially, I was overwhelmed by Anna and Vronsky's passion. On second reading, I was chastened by Anna's surrender of her son to this passion. I could not imagine doing so. Upon further readings, I was angered and somewhat perplexed by the choices that Anna makes that bring her to her fate.
And yet she moves me enormously as do all the principals characters ... Vronsky, Karenin, Seryozha, Dolly, Kitty, Stiva. But Anna, my Anna, if only it was not so.
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Malignant Memory by Barbara Patterson
Malignant Memory, a new novel that not only tells the tale of the Canadian residential school system and its aftermath, but of trauma, suffering and the redemptive power of forgiveness. The novel was written by Manitoba nurse and researcher Dr. Barbara Paterson. All the stories of abuse at the residential schools and orphanages featured in Malignant Memory are based on real-life experiences patients had shared with Dr. Paterson during her career. Dr. Paterson generously offered to share the source of her inspiration for the novel on this blog.
How the Canadian Residential School System Inspired a Story Full of History, Heart and Forgiveness
My grandmother (whom I called "Nana") was kind and generous. But she was prone to rages that caused my sister and me to flee in terror. It was as if she had unleashed a monster living inside her. She screamed and threw things, calling us despicable names. The next day, she acted as if it had never happened.
Nana spoke of her early life only rarely. She altered the details when she relayed a story she had told before about her childhood. The only fact we knew for certain was that Nana's father had abandoned his wife when Nana was young. He took the oldest child, a boy, with him. No one in the family saw either of them again. Nana's mother died shortly after her huband left. Some of the older girls were taken in by family members. No family member wanted Nana.
I was an adult when Nana sent me a letter. Nana wrote that when she was very young, she had desperately wanted a mother figure in her life. She thought her oldest sister could be that person for her. She gave her sister a Mother's Day card. Her sister had reacted angrily, saying she was not Nana's mother, Nana's mother was dead, and Nana should come to peace with her lot in life as an orphan.
It was then that I learned for the first time that Nana had grown up in an orphanage.
In later years, Nana had ways of rebuffing my attempts to learn more about her orphanage experience. She died without us ever having a conversation about this subject.
After Nana died, many First Nations people introduced me to the horrors of residential schools. Their stories were gruesome. They were about sexual and physical abuse, starvation, forced labour, and the systemic devastation of culture, language and identity.
I began to draw similarities between what happened in residential schools and what I had read occurred in orphanages at the time (I do not want to imply that the orphanage experience is the same as that in a residential school; the systemic racism that was inherent in the residential school system is a profound difference).
I learned about eight years ago that one of Nana's friends was a Mohawk woman who most likely had attended a residential school. I began to imagine that in their shared pain and traumatic memory, they were able to discover the pathway to their healing. As wounded healers, they offered each other the redemptive power of love and forgiveness. This speculation was the basis of the book Malignant Memory, a story that deals with an orphanage, the Canadian residential school system and the aftermath of growing up in those difficult environments. It is also a story of trauma, suffering and the redemptive power of forgiveness.
Writing Malignant Memory has helped me to make sense of the terrifying yet loving nature of my grandmother. It has also helped me to wrestle with the aftermath of the residential school system and its manifestation in the destructive behaviors of some survivors, such as addiction and domestic violence. I now understand that memories of profound trauma, such as the experience of abuse in residential schools, are stored in the brain's limbic system.
These traumatic memories remain hidden, repressed, until some trigger makes them visible again. When those traumatic memories are triggered by events, anniversaries, or other things, survivors of trauma experience the memory in a flight, freeze, or fight response. They may seek ways of escaping the memory of the trauma. They may be abusive to themselves or others. I believe that Nana's fits of rage were the result of her trauma in the orphanage.
These traumatic memories remain hidden, repressed, until some trigger makes them visible again. When those traumatic memories are triggered by events, anniversaries, or other things, survivors of trauma experience the memory in a flight, freeze, or fight response. They may seek ways of escaping the memory of the trauma. They may be abusive to themselves or others. I believe that Nana's fits of rage were the result of her trauma in the orphanage.
Barbara Paterson, Ph.D., has an interdisciplinary doctorate in nursing, psychology and education, as well as a master's degree in post-secondary education. She served as a professor at the University of Manitoba, the University of British Columbia, the University of New Brunswick, and Thompson River University until her retirement in 2013. Dr. Paterson is the recipient of several prestigious awards, such as the 3M Teaching Excellence Award, the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal and Canada's Most Powerful Women Award for her work as a university educator and her research on chronic illness. Dr. Paterson speaks frequently on topics of education, health and Canada's aboriginal people, and has been featured on top media outlets like CBC Radio and in more than one hundred scholarly journals. She lives outside Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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We must NOT give in to Spain over Gibraltar, blasts ANN WIDDECOMBE
LAST week I made a flying visit to Gibraltar where there is still considerable alarm about Brexit and fear that the border with Spain may be closed in retaliation.
Britain must look after Gibraltar's interests after Brexit
I met a number of politicians and each had a particular view on what should happen as the UK negotiates its withdrawal from the EU. One wanted us to give a firm assurance that Gibraltar would be an integral part of any deal.
Another proposed rather more radically that Gib should become a devolved part of the UK. My own solution is simpler: that we should say to Spain that whatsoever it does to Gibraltar we will consider done to us. I assume that 12,000 Spanish residents do want to go on crossing the border every day in order to work and that Spain would rather this continue than have 12,000 of its citizens suddenly on the dole.
I assume that Spain also wants us to go on importing Rioja by the lakeload and that it wants its citizens able to live in the UK and to work here. We must make it clear that any deal to preserve that would be jeopardised by posturing against Gibraltar.
One Gibraltarian MP observed gloomily that Theresa May would always be tempted to put the rights of 65million Brits before those of 30,000 citizens of Gibraltar. I replied that we had never betrayed the small population of the Falklands even though it had cost lives and limbs.
Ah, he replied, but that was in the days of Margaret Thatcher. I dearly hope I was right when I said that I thought the current PM would be no less determined. Meanwhile the Spanish authorities make it up as they go along.
One day you just cross the border at will and the next join a huge queue. When our easyJet was diverted to Malaga and we had to get buses to Gibraltar, the official who met our aircraft proclaimed that nobody could leave the plane without holding a Schengen visa. Rot.
All we needed under EU law was an EU passport and most of us, knowing that, just carried on but some were reluctant, thinking they needed Schengen visas. It is all part of a silly, unnecessary game played by silly politicians in pursuit of a doomed territorial claim. It is in all our interests that it should stop now.
Chancellor Philip Hammond should have put pressure on insurance companies, not penalised pensioners
I yield to no one in my admiration for Philip Hammond, whose appointment as Chancellor should have come sooner in any just world, but he is wrong to have taken away the pensions freedoms initiated by George Osborne. The very essence of a Conservative government is that people are allowed to do what they like with their own money.
Socialists by contrast insist on state control. Now, under a supposedly Conservative Government, thousands of hopeful retirees have had their plans and ambitions swept away by a nanny state which insists they hold their funds in poorly performing annuities.
Why, oh why? Because it suits the pensions industry, that's why. The Chancellor should have stood up to it. I have no personal axe to grind, never having been eligible for the exciting new freedom of accessing my own money, but I feel anger on the part of those who had their hopes raised and now find them cruelly dashed for absolutely no good reason.
If insurance companies were dragging their feet in buying back annuities then the Chancellor should have put pressure on them, not penalised pensioners. I am disappointed, Philip Hammond.
The proposal to pardon all gay men of crimes when the law on homosexuality was different is nonsense
The proposal to pardon all gay men whether living or dead of crimes when the law on homosexuality was different is a nonsense. A pardon is granted only where a conviction is subsequently proved wrong in terms of the law applying at the time.
These days people are not prosecuted for blasphemy or sacrilege. The age of consent has changed as have laws on animal cruelty, abortion, divorce and smoking. Motoring law changes all the time. The very nature of law down the ages is that it changes as times, mores and perceptions change.
It is never set in stone but the law is always the law. If you violate it whether accidentally or deliberately then you have broken the law and that applies as much to yesterday's homosexuals or deserters as to anybody else.
Posthumous pardons based on anything other than an individual miscarriage of justice are political, not judicial statements and as such are legally meaningless.
How right was the judge who said that social workers should have used common sense when dealing with a mother who was bringing up her son as a girl. The child's father, school and GP all raised concerns but political correctness meant that social services defended the right of the mother to impose gender neutrality on a little boy.
The result is that the poor child at the age of seven has now been taken from the mother who put ideology before rationality and compassion. He is confused and getting used to a new school and having boys' clothes and toys.
Whatever the mother's motives she was cruel to inflict her views on an innocent child and one can only be grateful that the process has been stopped before the lad reached his teens and found even greater confusion. Yet social workers did nothing.
Perhaps they should have asked themselves whether they would have liked all that done to their own children.
Theresa May seems to carry less paper into Prime Minister's Questions than did David Cameron
There has been comment that Theresa May is carrying less paper into Prime Minister's Questions than did David Cameron. The fact is that it is rarely useful taking in anything at all. That great red folder is by and large a comfort blanket.
It has everything: facts and figures, bullet points, opposition failures, government successes, crunchy rebuttals etc. The problem is that in the second or so between hearing the question and standing up to answer it there is no time to locate the right place in the folder, absorb the information and distil it for immediate use.
I don't know why I took my file into Departmental Questions in any of the departments in which I served. David Hunt, who was my boss in Employment, never did. Once, when I was in Social Security, a sharp Labour member stood up and asked simply what was the rate of Income Support and immediately sat down.
Frantically the whole team tore its folders apart. We couldn't find it. Officials told us later it wasn't there because it was too obvious!
It seems that Sir Bruce Forsyth has not retired after all
It seems that Sir Bruce Forsyth has not, contrary to reports, decided to retire altogether. Yet his withdrawal from active work has been a model of good sense.
First he gave up the Strictly results show, then he reduced the number of times he did Strictly itself and he now appears to have given up even the odd Strictly special.
Too many approach retirement with an all or nothing attitude but a gradual winding down is a better way to preserve mental and physical agility.
So, Brucie, many of us will breathe a sigh of relief that you are still in the fray but we know that when you do give up work it will be a decision guided by common sense.


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NYT reported The government's efforts to help foreign nations cut off the supply of money to terrorists, a critical goal for the Bush administration, have been stymied by infighting among American agencies, leadership problems and insufficient financing, a new Congressional report says. More than four years after the Sept. 11 attacks, "the U.S. government lacks an integrated strategy" to train foreign countries and provide them with technical assistance to shore up their financial and law enforcement systems against terrorist financing, according to the report prepared by the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress.
So the Legislative Branch and the Executive Branch disagree; and is this something new?The findings expand on earlier concerns raised by that agency and others in the past few years about the government's ability to cut off money to terrorists. The report is to be released Wednesday, and an advance copy was provided to The New York Times.
Another leaked report; empanel a grand jury, and imprison the reporter if he does not tell who leaked the report.The findings produced sharp dissent from American government officials, who said Congressional auditors overstated the bureaucratic problems in curbing terrorist financing overseas and the level of dissension between agencies. They described the intergovernmental effort to cut off the flow of terrorist money as one of the hallmarks of the Bush administration's campaign to fight terrorism since the Sept. 11 attacks.
"No interagency process is without flaws," the State Department said in its official response. But it said "there is much evidence" that the working group set up by the administration to combat terrorist financing "is one of the most successful examples of interagency cooperation." The government has identified 26 "priority" countries that it considered particularly vulnerable to exploitation by terrorist financiers, who may take advantage of lax financial controls and loosely regulated or nonexistent laws to launder money in support of terrorist attacks, officials said.
But officials at the State and Treasury Departments cannot even agree on who is supposed to be in charge of the effort to shore up defenses in vulnerable countries, the accountability office report concluded.
The Treasury Department should prevail. There are too many bureaucrats in the State Department that are too close to the countries they work with, and that work contrary to the interests of the US.In at least one case, the State Department refused to allow a Treasury official to enter an unidentified foreign country last year to help with strategies to fight terrorist financing because of turf battles, investigators found. Because the country had recently been upgraded to a priority, State Department officials wanted to do their own assessment first before allowing the Treasury Department to conduct its work,
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Ocean Prime Executive Chef Sean Force prepares black truffle mac n' cheese.
6 oz. cooked macaroni noodles
½ cup heavy cream
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8 oz. grated American cheese
4 oz. grated cheddar cheese
4 oz. grated Swiss cheese
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1 pinch white pepper
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1 teaspoon truffle oil
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Way to go Kathy! Our relay is May 4-5th. Last year I participated in the Relay for the first time in a few years. The survivor's lap has been very difficult for me but last year was different. First I was awarded the "Life Spirit Award" at the relay and then came the dreaded lap. However, as I walked around the lake with my children now the 111 & 13 and my four year old granddaughter I remember my first lap when they were 2 and 4 -- It was such a blessing to laugh and talk. I then stayed up all night at the relay with the school kids I was teaching and had a blast but man did I feel old!!! This year I have become the county committee online chairperson in charge of the online site for our county, formed my own team and am getting close to $600 in donations so far.
In June I celebrate my 10th year of survival -- no . . not disease free but am still living life to the fullest.
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In fact, I read 2003 books!
806 picture books
423 Easy Readers
386 Children's Non-Fiction
81 Intermediate Chapter Books
73 Children's Comics/graphic novels
60 Children's Chapter Books
61 Young Adult Chapter Books
98 Newbery Award Winners and Honors
15 grown-up books
Compared to last year, it is interesting to see how similar some of the numbers are.
I did okay with most of my goals from last year also. Here are the goals I had set for this year:
Make a huge dent in the Newbery list by reading two a week! I fell a little shy of my goal of 104, would have made it if I hadn't went on vacation at the end. I am so grateful for my little MP3 player that allows me to listen to lots of these on CD while I am working my other job. Not sure if I could get through some of these otherwise.
Read 2000 books in the entire year. I know I can do it, I was close this year. As I listed above, I did read over 2000 books (barely).
Be a better more regular blogger. I read so many that I want to blog, it just doesn't always happen.Obviously not so good on this one. I will try again this year. I did join Goodreads late in the year so was able to at least rate books and maybe give a quick blurb there.
Oh yeah, and read more "grown-up" books! (Yeah right!) I did more than double my number from last year.
If you are at all interested in what I read, feel free to click HERE.
Goals for 2012:
- Read at least 2000 books again.
- Blog two books each week.
- Read at least 20 grown-up books. (If anyone has any suggestions for me, please comment on this post).
- Continue reading and reviewing for School Library Journal, Goodreads First Reads, and Netgalley.com.
- Read at least two Newbery a week. If I accomplish this, then I should be able to finish my goal of reading all Newberys in 2013.
- Get at least twenty more followers for this blog so I can start doing giveaways and such.


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Villa, whose boyfriend's mother was baby-sitting Kevin the day of the attack, said her friend is not to blame.
Campaign to save dog in Arizona mauling →
"It disturbed me at first that they placed more value on an animal than on a child, and that made me feel very bad," Vicente told The Arizona Republic through a Spanish interpreter. "If they don't care about (Kevin), well, I do."
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KAMLOOPS - Thieves cut through a closed up window to get into a building on Aviation Way where they allegedly stole property Sunday, but they made it easy for police to find them.
The same evening, police were told a suspicious person and vehicle was at the very same location and when Mounties arrived, they took two men into custody.
The following investigation revealed some of the property reported stolen might be located at a hotel room in the Aberdeen area. The Targeted Enforcement Unit searched the room and located the items along with property believed stolen from other break-ins. A woman was arrested in the hotel room, but later released.
The two men being investigated for trespassing at night and possession of stolen property were arrested and released on a promise to appear in court.
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The Archangel Michael is tired. He fought wars and shoved his brother Lucifer out of heaven all before the Dark Ages rolled around. His role as protector of Israel now encompasses all of humanity, and while he performs his job perfectly, there's little personal joy in it.
Until one night in a bar when he meets Asher.
Michael isn't sure what it is about the vulnerable, self-deprecating Asher that calls to him, but something about his restrained depths, gentle smiles, and encyclopedic knowledge of flowers tugs at Michael in a way that can't be denied. Too bad romance isn't part of his mission.
Facing an eternity of perfect submission to God's authority, rebellion stirs in Michael. Questions of free will, angelic vocation, and the role of love and lust demand answers that just might cost Michael his place in heaven.
Warnings: this novella contains urban fantasy, wings, angels doing unangelic things, erotic content, and playful blasphemy.
Okay, this is probably going to be an unpopular review, but because this is my review based on my interpretation of how I read the book I get to to say, without being rude or condescending of course, how I felt during and after this book.
First, I totally get that we are talking about Angels, Satan, saving someone. That's the basis of the book. My issue was that, for me the entire religious side of it, for me anyway. Got in the way of the story. The connection for Michael and Asher is lost. This is about Michael and his Fall from Grace. And I'm sure there are lots of ppl that enjoy having these two things mixed. I do not.
On to to the basics. The writing, of course is flawless. Witty when it needs to be, sad, sweet, fun.


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