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|Stargate SG-1 Season 5 Forum for the discussion of Season 5 episodes. Use spoiler warnings for all episodes because different parts of the world get the episodes at different times.
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|13th December 2001, 03:49 AM
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I think you're being a little harsh. One of the strengths of the series has been, I reckon, its ability to take a cliche and do something different. An asteroid, a bomb, a countdown... we've seen all of these a million times before. However, the asteroid was never artificial, the bomb never set by the good guys, the wires never the some colour through oversight...
Besides, I'm just happy to see an off-earth episode again. I was beginning to think they'd run out of money.
Oh, Jaxie: if you still haven't seen Armageddon, avoid it at all costs. It's hard to imagine a worse movie. I pray, in fact, that I never imagine a worse movie.
|13th December 2001, 08:12 AM
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so, we've established that i should neva see Amargeddon. okay
lets stick with Fail Safe shall.
Any shippy bits?
Whats with the bomb your talking about?
So how do they find out about this meaty asteroid?
|13th December 2001, 09:17 AM
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When Jack Said 'I've seen this movie' I sat there saying, yeah - me too ! and I was preparing myself for this to be a bit of a crap episode, but then it started to improve and the fact that the asteroid was created by the Goul'd as a sneaky way of trying to get around the protected planets treaty helped a lot there.
OK, there were some cliches (and we all know how we feel about those) but it had its moments. Loved the zapping through the earth bit.
And I agree wholeheartedly about Armageddon - didn't like it at all. Best thing about it was the Aerosmith soundtrack !. Now I love disaster movies - next to sci fi they are my fave, but of the two disaster movies that year - Armageddon and Deep Impact - I reckon Deep Impact was far superior
|14th December 2001, 10:06 AM
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I thought overall this was a pretty good solid ep. Yeah, it was a little cliche but I agree that they did do some pretty different things with it.
I think it would have been good if we could get a bit more on the backstory. It would have alowed the story to piece together more easily instead of being thrown together. Like Jack and Danny crashing the Teltak into the Tok'Ra home world. What was up with that? And why are the Tok'Ra on the run again?
It was excellent to see the whole team together again!!!
I especially enjoyed the repetitive:
"I'm confident"
"Me too"
"As am I"
Jack had some good humourous lines as always. The scen with the guys who retrofitted the Death Glider was funny. It was cute how Danny fell asleep on the MALP. Though I still don't think we're seeing enough of Danny.
Jaxie - there were a few little scenes between S/J. Nothing overly shippy. She gets zapped by some crystals and he touches her arm and stuff to see that she's okay, then later he touches her waist. But nothing overly shippy. There was this one scene where she's looking over his shoulder that was kinda cute though.
|15th December 2001, 09:37 AM
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THANK YOU altho you may not believe it, that will keep me going for a while:rolly2:
|16th December 2001, 09:50 PM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by ShelbyS
And I agree it was great to see the whole team together and off world...I was begining to think it was never gunna happen!!
|17th December 2001, 09:46 PM
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I was reading on Scifi guide last night that in fact this episode was shown out of order...it should have been shown in a few weeks time after summit/last stand double bill.
I think the two parter will explain the episode a whole lot better...
|18th December 2001, 04:44 AM
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i was just checking out the piccies at www.p3x595.com and i was wondering - when teal'c and jack get back from planting the bomb (i'm assuming thats what they were doing) sumthing is obviuosly up/wrong. whats is it?
|23rd December 2001, 02:13 AM
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stupid question 876: sam can sense naquadah, even the minute bits in a goauld. that's how she senses another symbiote (first ones) so how come she didn't notice that they were like parked of 50 tons of the stuff?????
|1st January 2002, 07:54 AM
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i beginning to think that the sgc should start doing what colonol maybournes black ops were doing and just procure what they need to defend earth against the gould because latley the allies of earth havent been helping out much.When ever the tokra need the earths help earth always helps out but when we need their help they've always got some excuse.The asgard may of helped earth become a protected planet but when sg1 tells them about the gould sending that asteroid to earth the gould will deny everything and the asgard will probably sit on thier grey butts and do nothing about it.
so what i think is that the sgc should take a page out of the NID book on how to handle aliens. beacuse the way things are going by the end of this season the earths allies arent gonna be able to help out much.
|12th January 2002, 01:44 AM
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I have to agree with Prankster. Actually I agreed with Maybourne in 'Shades of Gray'. When Jack said 'we don't need their stuff, we need them' I thought, "oh yeah, for what?". If they're not going to help us, what do we need them for?
About the episode:
1. Hammond was great.
2. It was nice to see them get off world for a change.
3. No X-Gate
4. No overt shippiness.
1. Hackneyed plot.
2. Why is it that Sam, who has spent her life in the physics lab suddenly is a bomb expert? Shouldn't ex-Special-Ops Jack, who has extensive experience with munitions in the field have been able to handle it himself? This is one more example of "Super Sam".
3. Daniel gets the 3rd choice idea, but, "Super Sam" butts in and says it for him.
4. Teal'c basically raised an eyebrow and said "Indeed" a lot.
5. Skydiver has an excellent point about the Naquadah sensing.
6. Is there some rule that AT has to gets her mug in the camera every 30 seconds?
Not the worst episode, but not a particularly good one.
|12th January 2002, 04:31 AM
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Honestly...... this eppy bored me to tears...... I ended up going back into my beta testing of an online game and stayed there throughout the rest of the eppy. It played away to itself in the corner.
Boring...... boring...... boring........
The smugness of SG1 is overflowing my crapometer at the moment. I can hardly wait for good old Danny to bite the dust....and what a shame they have inferred he might be 'ascending' or whatever....... I want one of them to go out in a blossom of blood and guts. Just so we can all see that they are NOT perfect...or saintly and that they CAN get killed. Or just once I would like to see Saintly Sam turn around in the middle of a crisis and say f***k this.....I'm off to get a life and get laid! God knows she needs it.... In the immortal words of one of the fanfic writers..... her legs are locked together tighter than Fort Knox!
Sorry but this eppy really gripped my guts!
|12th January 2002, 06:35 AM
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Gee Anni, tell us what you really think!
Anyway, as I said it wasn't the worst, that would be a tossup between Divide & Conquer and Entity, but it wasn't good. The best you can say for it is that the plot didn't rip off the X-files for a change (instead they ripped off Armageddon) and Sam and Jack didn't make googly eyes at each other.
|12th January 2002, 09:18 AM
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Yes, What happened that Sam can not sense Naquadah? HOW MANY TONS????? When your story (posted in fan fic) is the best part of the episode.. (just saw it on the tiny steal it screen) Showtime's schedule is the worst thing about this show... next to the major rip offs mentioned.... but the Naquadah thing really riled me!
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More than 1,600 attendees had walked through the doors of Marcus Pavilion by 2 p.m. The event lasted until 7 p.m. and usually attracts about 3,000 people.
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"Observational" vs. "historical" science? Pure bunk!
One of the recurring themes at the Feb. 4 debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham was Ham's continuously harping on a supposed distinction between "observational science" (science we can observe in real time) and "historical science" (science that must be inferred from the past). This strange distinction is almost unique to Ken Ham, although I'm sure he borrowed from older creationist writings somewhere, since I remember reading about it when I researched creationism in the 1980s. Nevertheless, Ham kept pounding on it again and again, refusing to talk about any scientific evidence that couldn't be witnessed in real time.
As many scientists have discussed, this distinction is complete bunk, and only Ken Ham and his followers seem to think that it makes any sense. Naturally, he pounds on this phony, self-serving, artificial distinction because it plays in his favor. Each time Bill pressed him on one point or another, Ham retreated behind his dodge of no one can know anything of "historical" past, then made the ridiculous assertion that the only reliable source of information about the past is the Bible. (Bill was too much of a gentleman to challenge him on this and ask Ken how he knows this. As Ham always says, "Were you there?"). Most of science tells us that the earth is old, that life has evolved, and so on. Ham wants to throw all this information away, so he creates a convenient but ridiculous distinction that serves his purposes—but bears no relation to what real scientists do or think. Continue reading…comments (16)


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ACL first began in 2006 (Previously known as Australian Console League) when a group of like minded individuals were frustrated with the lack of tournaments for Halo 2. They took it upon themselves to run the most nationally recognised Halo tournament ever held in Australia. With a qualifier organised in each state, the season culminated in a grand final event held in Sydney. In 2009, ACL received a kickstart when new CEO, Nick Vanzetti, injected a large principal investment to take the organisation to new heights.
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Kevin and Danielle had a beautiful wedding in May 2013 at Mesa Verde Country Club in Costa Mesa. DJ Dave with DJ Sota Entertainment was the DJ and MC. We helped them with their ceremony rehearsal, and of course with day of wedding ceremony as well. We also played all the music for their Cocktail hour and Reception. We provided purple up lighting and a custom monogram. Everyone had a great time and danced till the end!
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How much time do you spend each day thinking about your weight and your body? How often do you stand in front of the mirror, analyzing every inch of your reflection, studying every perceived flaw? How often do you weigh yourself and allow the number on the scale to determine the course of your day? So many of us struggle with negative body image and allow these negative thoughts and feelings to control the way we feel about ourselves in general.
Alarmingly, 8 out of 10 women are not happy with their reflection and 80% of girls in the U.S. are afraid of being fat. We spend over 50 billion dollars per year on diet and weight-loss products, services, and surgeries aimed to change the shape and look of our bodies. We spend more time and energy feeling bad about our appearance and putting ourselves down then we do focusing on our positive features and qualities. People struggling with negative body image also tend to embrace all-or-nothing thinking, such that if they dislike one aspect of their appearance, they are all "bad." In striving for the "perfect" body, we inevitably fall short. While we all may have "bad body" days, those struggling with significantly low body image may also struggle with feelings of unworthiness, sadness, shame, self-loathing, and risk for eating disordered behaviors.
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WEST MILTON — West Milton State Bank is supporting the Warrior Run Middle School with sponsorship of an award-winning educational program called the Stock Market Game.
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Eve Fashion Group Interview Part I
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Melbourne Fashion Takes on China
Models Show Off Australian Fashion Designs at the Beijing Jockey Club. Image: LMFF Last week as part of Australia's largest ever trade mission to China, five fashion brands from Melbourne including Cylk, Leonard Street, Limedrop, Kuwaii and Lui Hon were showcased at a gala dinner in Beijing. Supported by the Victorian State Government and in collaboration with the L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival (LMFF) the Australian designer showcase was the first of its kind to be held... Read More
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A versatile head accessory that morphs from hat to gaiter to balaclava to pony-tail holder
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Welcome back to Southeast-Brewster Patch's (SBP) business feature. We recently sat down and chatted about business with Anthony Palladino (AP), a Southeast resident who owns . He launched the business in the 1970s, and established the branch on Old Doansburg Road in 1990.
SBP: What made you want to open a shop in Southeast?
AP: Well I live here, and I also bought my own property. Prior to this I was renting, and I don't like to rent. We have three locations [Mahopac, Pawling and Southeast] ... This building used to be a barn, in the 1890s. We had to do a lot of work, it was pretty much falling down. We put a lot of money into it. Most of the locals wanted me to rip it down or rebuild it; I said "No, I like it. It's pretty. Isn't it a pretty building?"
SBP: So what's different?
AP: It's the exact same footprint. The exact same size. Nothing has changed. We left a lot of the old siding. We replaced the doors and windows—there used to be horse doors outside.
SBP: What sorts of projects do people bring to you?
AP: Well we're also remodelers. I own Palladino Building, Inc. We do anything, including building a complete house, which I've built 58 in my career—a couple down in Armonk, a couple here in Brewster, but mainly in Connecticut. Any residential construction we do.
SBP: Which location is your busiest?
AP: We opened up in Pawling in April ... That store up there is doing the best out of all of them. To get people to come to this location from Pawling and Mahopac is very difficult.
SBP: Would you say that folks in the community know you're here?
AP: I like to be off the beaten path. I don't want people to walk in here with plans from Lowe's or Home Depot and say 'Price my kitchen.' This is what we do. You always get care and consideration with me. Customers deal with me. They don't deal with sales people, they deal with the owner. I sign 18 paychecks a week, and yet when they come in, to any of the stores, the next person they'd meet at their home would be me. Not a salesperson. So really, the buck stops here. If there's a problem, I'm the first to know about it. We are a small, family business. My son, Nicholas, is with us now, too. He just graduated from Western Connecticut State University. He's actually the fourth generation of this business.
SBP: What's the process like when you begin a project?
AP: My guys have been with me for decades. Once we start the job we're there every day until we finish. We don't do one job here, one job there and bounce back and forth and take six months. I want to get in, I want to get out, and I want the customers happy.
SBP: Do you like your job?
AP: I love my job. I'm 60 years old and I still get as excited about a good design, and a client that appreciates it, just as much as the first day I started. I just finished this design for this kitchen here, I've got it all priced out, and I can't wait to make the presentation tomorrow. Now sometimes I'll make a presentation and people are completely thrown for a loop, because when I walk into a house, I don't live there. I see things completely different than they do. They're used to getting up in the morning with the coffee pot here, the dishwasher on the right side of the sink. I'm not attached to anything. Sometimes I throw people for a loop and they leave here confused, but then I get the call back, maybe even a year later. They went to other kitchen places and all they do is listen to what the customer says: 'Take out, put back in the same spot.' Boring. Why spend money if that's what you're going to do? For a little bit more, make it new and exciting.
SBP: What's the most exciting part of a job?
AP: The whole process, from start to finish. Making the presentation, getting people so excited along with me, because I'm excited. Then going through the design phase, picking out colors, stains, countertops and flooring, because we have all that here. Then doing it, and then, at the end, sitting down with them, either over a cup of coffee or a drink, and sitting in the plans. A lot of times I'll go back and bring the plans with me, lay it out, we'll sit there and look at it, and everything around you is now in 3D. It's so much fun. I have a blast, I really do.


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Ten Spooktastic Daily Show-Inspired Halloween Costume Ideas
Halloween! It's probably the best holiday ever invented (with the possible exception of Arbor Day), but it's just so hard thinking up an acceptable costume. If only there were some kind of multi-million dollar industry devoted entirely to providing low-grade clothing and props for this one day.
Until that day, here's a bunch of terrifying costumes ideas inspired by the scariest program on television, The Daily Show…
The Money Honey Bee
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'70s Dan Rather
Sexy Feminist Wonder Woman
Exasperated Hippie
Cap'n Trade
Unpopular Trick-or-Treating Pirate
Napoleon Complex Fake News Host
Featherwick the Unsuperable Wizard
19th Century Dickensian Street Urchin
Cash Cow
Please note: Any of these costume ideas can be modified into its "sexy" version with the simple addition of seventeen ounces of cosmetics and the subtraction of almost all of the costume. Remember, if people can almost see your nipples, your almost there.
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NYC Premiere! Yay! I got IN!!
I'm thrilled to announce that my play "Ungrateful Daughter: One Black Girls story of being adopted into a white family…that aren't celebrities" will have its NYC Premiere at the 2012 NYC International Fringe Festival in August!! I got in!!! YEEEEEEE! NYC here I come!
I will be posting fundraising, production updates, and the specific show dates as soon as I get all that information!
HUGE HUGE thank you again to ALL of my donors, both individual, organizational and foundations! Huge thank you to the adoptee community who has has my back from the beginning. I could NEVER have gotten this far without your support. Lets DO this!!
"Altar of Unknown" in River, Blood Corn: A Literary Journal
I'm thrilled that I'm featured in the January 2012 issue of River, Blood Corn: A Literary Journal!
I've been thinking so much about the incredible resilience of adoptees and fostered people. We move through our lives with so many things that are 'lost' or 'missing' or 'absent'. I put those words in parentheticals because the words themselves don't actually articulate well what it means to have these complete 'unknowns' drawn on pieces of our lives. Its not like I feel this 'loss' or 'absence' in a way that makes me sit around and bitch about it, I feel this loss in a deep, way that expresses itself as longing for something, or sometimes as loneliness, or sometimes as fear, sadness, grief. It is always there, like the impact of skin color or the death of a parent. Sometimes it overwhelms me and other times it is the barest register when someone asks, "where were you born?". I am thinking about resilience because I think about how heavy this load can become sometimes. This article speaks to a way of reconciliation for my spirit, a way I hold on to accepting, healing and being with these longings.
I'm featured on "Land of Gazillion Adoptees"!
Just wanted to share that I was recently featured on Land of a Gazillion Adoptee as a guest.
We had a great conversation. I hope you all enjoy it. I had a chance to talk about fear, activism and artistic work. I'd love to hear what you all think!
Oct 6, 7 & 8 – 8pm Berkeley, CA
Please come!!! BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW!
also – are you on my email list? Read my most recent update!
Fall Enters In
Its been a long, cold and busy busy summer. I just came back from visiting my parents in WA state and it was warmer up there than it has been in the Bay Area all spring and summer! I just hope we don't skip what is usually a warm fall for us and head straight into the rainy winter season.
I'm in full, unabashed production and promotion mode for the October 6, 7 & 8th shows of "Ungrateful Daughter: One Black girl's story of being adopted into a White family… that aren't celebrities" at La Pena Cultural Center here in Berkeley. I'm thrilled that for the first time, other than excerpts of the show, I'll be performing the entire piece for my East Bay family. I also have a history of producing work at La Pena, so I'm doubly excited that they believed in my work enough to commission and fund the piece to help me get it up.
There's gonna be stage, light and sound design – yeeee! I'm continuing my collaboration with local activist and visual artist Isaac Ontiveros for the further development of the multi-media aspects of the show and also with the talented dancer/movement artist Colleen "Coke" Nakamoto on choreography. There so much more, but ultimately, I just hope you all come out and check the full, finished piece. I hope this will be one of the final iterations before I do a full run in 2012 and head to festivals around the globe. Please let people know and buy your tickets here!!
What else is up? Well, its that time of year when AFAAD is in full swing planning mode for the Fourth Annual Gathering, November 11,12 &13th this year at the 2100 Building in Seattle, WA! For all of my supporters, all of you parents of black, brown and multiracial children, we continue to develop this organization for your child! and we continue to do this as an all volunteer board. Please spread the word to any Black/Multiracial/African/Caribbean – adoptee of African descent over 18 that you know and tell them to join us in Seattle!! Here is the Call for Sessions, so people can submit panel or discussion ideas and also so potential participants can understand the depth of the weekend! Finally, here is the full information about this year's Gathering. Don't forget, if you know any families or organizations in Seattle that support adoptive families and foster care alumni – let them know about our Education Event that is open to EVERYONE on Saturday night, November 12th!
In addition to spreading the word – WE NEED YOUR FUNDING SUPPORT!! Please, please DONATE TO THE FOURTH ANNUAL GATHERING! The only way we are able to continue our work is through generous donations from people like you. We need at least $15,000.00 to cover basic expenses, and what is especially important for this year, to cover special guest speaker travel, hotel and honorarium fees, to keep our Public Education event low cost and accessible to everyone in the adoption triad, and to provide scholarships to at least two Foster Care Alumni who otherwise would be unable to make it to join us and have access to the network and the activist space of the weekend. We have 28 days! Please help us spread the word.
Crazy busy my friends. School has started, teaching, students, academic work as well as balancing my creative work. You know how artists do. I have two or three other creative projects in the works and all I will say about that is one is adoption related and the rest, thankfully, are not! In academia, we call it "racial fatigue", I think we adoptee writers, activists, scholars need to come up with the right phrase for us. "Adoption fatigue"? I don't know. I've been thinking a lot about how much my personal life is part of my professional life, and its great, but its also very tiring. I look forward to the weekend of the AFAAD Gathering where we will spend time talking together about being and adoptee or foster care alumni and being a professional and ensuring we are engaging in 'self-care', so we don't burn out.
What seems contrary to what I just wrote, (ha!) I recently noticed that my subscribers to the blog have increased. I'm so excited about this – welcome to the blog. I look forward to engaging in conversation with you and answering questions! I'm here as a resource for parents as well as for my fellow adopted folks.
Finally, I have a special gift for the first 10 people who donate $50.00 or more to the AFAAD Gathering Campaign! I've recently finished a writing project that I want to share with folks who support AFAAD, its a secret, so you will be privileged to it before anyone! Donate, and I will get it to you in the mail asap!!
"My Grandmother" by Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay's work is a major part of my dissertation. While reading / researching her work, I found this poem written by her. I thought I would share it, as representative of the conflicting emotional and political relationships that many of us adoptees of color who are transracially adopted have with this weird thing, "National Adoption Day" that argues 'any family' is better than 'no family'.
and me? I remember the day, at my grandmother's 85th birthday party, she patted me on the knee and said, "you're just a little white girl, Lisa".
My Grandmother
My grandmother is like a Scottish pine
Tall straight-backed proud and plentiful
A fine head of hair, greying now
Tied up in a loose bun
Her face is ploughed land
Her eyes shine rough as amethysts
She wears a plaid shawl
Of our clan with the zeal of an Amazon
She is one of those women
Burnt in her croft rather than moved off the land
She comes from them, her snake's skin
She speaks Gaelic mostly, English only
When she has to, then it's blasphemy
My grandmother sits by the fire and swears
There'll be no Darkie baby in this house
My grandmother is a Scottish pine
Tall straight-backed proud and plentiful
Her hair tied with pins in a ball of steel wool
Her face is tight as ice
And her eyes are amethysts.
Jackie Kay is a black Scottish poet who was born in Edinburgh and raised in Glasgow. She has published her poems widely and her volume The Adoption Papers won an Eric Gregory Award in 1991. She has also written three plays, Chiaroscuro in 1986; Twice Over in 1988; and Every Bit Of It in 1992. Her television work includes films on pornography, AIDS and transracial adoption, and Twice Through the Heart, a poetry documentary for BBC2.
This poem was first published in 1991 in That Distance Apart, London: Turret Books.
Dont Forget! AFAAD 3rd Annual Mini Gathering / Screening of "Off and Running"
AFAAD's 3rd Annual Gathering (Mini)
Saturday November 13th, 2010.
Hosted by Georgia State University
in Atlanta, GA
3rd Annual AFAAD (Mini) Gathering for Adoptees and Foster Care Alumni of African Descent and screening of the film, "Off and Running" (co sponsored by PBS's POV films) in Atlanta, GA.
1-day event, 2 sessions for AFAAD members only, film screening open to the public
Saturday November 13th
10am-5pm, with some evening activities
Announcing the 3rd Annual Gathering of adoptees (transracial / international and same race) and foster care alumni of African descent in Atlanta, GA.
This year our Gathering is a 1-day Mini- Gathering, with two sessions for adoptees/ fostercare alumi and our main event, Film screening and discussion of the recent PBS POV documentary, "Off and Running" from an adoptee/ fostercare alumni perspective, which is open to the public.
"Off and Running" tells the story of Brooklyn teenager Avery, a track star with a bright future. She is the adopted African-American child of white Jewish lesbians. Her older brother is black and Puerto Rican and her younger brother is Korean. Though it may not look typical, Avery's household is like most American homes — until Avery writes to her birth mother and the response throws her into crisis. She struggles over her "true" identity, the circumstances of her adoption and her estrangement from black culture. Just when it seems as if her life is unraveling, Avery decides to pick up the pieces and make sense of her identity, with inspiring results."
"Off and Running" is a co-production of ITVS in association with the National Black Programming Consortium and American Documentary/POV and the Diverse Voices Project, with major funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
AFAAD's 2010 Gathering is being hosted by Georgia State University, ideally situated in the center of downtown Atlanta, GA, close to all forms of public transportation. Individuals visiting Altanta must make their own hotel reservations separately from AFAAD Gathering registration.
Events are held in the Urban Life Building, 10th Floor and the CineFest Film Theater at GSU
Please join us and share the info with the local adoption community in Atlanta!
Jackie Kay new autobiography "Red Dust Road"
I'm already a fan of Jackie Kay's book of poems, "Adoption Papers" so I was very excited to hear about a new autobiography from her about her search and reunion with her birth family.
from: The Guardian
Red Dust Road opens in the Nicon Hilton Hotel in Abuja. Jackie Kay is confronted by the man who is her natural father. He is a born-again Christian and self-styled faith healer who prays over her for two hours. He is disappointed by her failure to give herself to Christ, the condition required by him to acknowledge her publicly as his daughter. "I am sitting here," writes Kay, "evidence of his sinful past, but I am the sinner, the living embodiment of his sin." Kay resists. They do not meet again.
For the previous 40 years Kay's existence had been kept secret from the families of both her natural father and her birth mother. Kay was born in 1961 in Edinburgh to a Scottish nurse and a Nigerian student. Soon afterwards she was adopted. Red Dust Road is Kay's 20-year search for her birth parents and for her existence to be recognised.
From Abuja, Kay returns us to a 1960s Glaswegian childhood with her parents John and Helen, delightful people, communists who spend their summer holidays singing in the car, who cross Russia by train, and raise her surrounded by caring comrades. Her mother tells her the little she knows about Jackie's birth parents and imagines what she does not know: they were madly in love, but he was already betrothed to another, they were heartbroken to give her away. These moments are offered as shared reminiscences, and are interspersed with other memories taken from different times, mainly of Kay tracing and eventually meeting the real people behind her mother's fairytales.
Also, check this audio clip where she reads an excerpt from the book about meeting her birth mother for the first time.
What They Said
Since the CNN thing, I've found some pretty interesting analysis of the segment, but also a few newer folks who I think are doing some interesting thinking about transracial adoption.
Over at Womanist Musings, Renee has a great breakdown of her perspective of what happened with Dr. Walsh during the segment. I particularly liked the places where she attends to "hipster racism" and satire. As someone who produces comedians every once in a while, I get to see whats happening in comedy writing and how super sharp and conscious comedians of color are responding to this sort of 'new' way of talking about race that somehow ends up being just as racist as generations ago.
My favorite so far isn't even about the CNN thing, but is Whitney Teal's article, "Sandra Bullock, Transracial Adoption, and the Worship of White Motherhood", an amazing analysis of the way white privilege and white womanhood can get conflated to replicate what, (if we believed everyone who keeps telling us that racism doesn't exist, and if we would just stop talking about it it would go away) we would like to think are dated ideas about how the construction of white and black womanhood are created in opposition to each other and what that has to do with adoption and race. I love this analysis because i spent an entire chapter of my dissertation talking and theorizing about this.
Apparently some message boards and email lists are also discussing how crazy the segment was with the limited time, but also how interesting it was that the segment about TRA issues was put right before Soledad O'Brien's special report "Rescued", but there wasn't really any attempt to talk about the Haitian children who are being brought to the US to isolated, all white places. sigh.
I'm on CNN with Don Lemon!
Yesterday morning I got a call from CNN to participate in a panel commenting on transracial adoption, race and of course, Sandra Bullock. As a rule, I stay out of conversations that center around celebrities or that would seem to be looking at or critiquing one person's life personally. However, they ensured me I wouldn't be commenting about her directly, but was asked to come on as a scholar to comment on the overall climate in the web/ blogisphere. Supposedly everyone is all a 'twitter' and blogs are blowing up with comments from everyone who has something to say about her adoption of a black child. I had no idea people would care so much and also chose not to even really read anything around it, do you know why?
For many of us scholars who are adoptees / fostercare alumni, the questions that are raised by SB adoption, and that were asked in this interview / panel were the same questions people have been asking over and over since transracial adoption became more of a public issue politically and racially during the 50's when the Korean War adoptions began and the 1970's when the Vietnamese Baby Lifts happened. So for us, So Sandra Bullock is like one tiny bump in a long history of black and brown children being adopted by white families. The issues remain the same except now we have moved to a place where we aren't only concerned with domestic adoption but with the connections between child exploitation, paper orphaning, continued resistance to family preservation, devaluation of families of color and the entire economic market of children of color that continues to exploit unwed mothers who if they had the economic means, societal approval and support, would otherwise keep their children.
So regarding Sandra, its not really about her or her choices. Its unfortunate they have to be all over the media, but for us, its about an entire history and continue replication of a specific narrative around adoption and race and one that usually never includes adult adoptee researchers. So first, I have to hand it to CNN for taking the leap on putting someone, specifically an adoptee, who is a researcher and scholar on adoption issues who actually knows what they are talking about on their programming.
So. . . back to me. :) Personally, the whole day was super surreal, but I had a great time. I had my first 'superstar' moment when CNN 'sent a car' to pick me up. I actually found this incredibly important because everything happened so quickly, I really needed the time from my house to the studio in SF to go over notes, focus and stop giggling with excitement with my other AFAAD board member, Lisa Walker, who went with me for moral and technical support.
Talk back:
First, I couldn't see either Don or Wendy in while I was set up in the satellite room, so I had no idea what Wendy looked like. I don't have cable, so I don't even watch CNN, so I had no sense of what they were putting on screen while any of us were talking. Overall, I'm pleased with how it went down, I was nervous but it felt great when I was done. yay!
For the most part, I will let the video speak for itself. My only overall comment is that I think its incredibly important for us to recognize the distinctions between mixed race biological children who are raised by a white parent and transracially adopted children of color raised in white families. As much as adoptive parents want to act like race doesn't matter, sometimes they want to forget that adoption matters just as much.
Certainly for the mixed race person or adoptee, issues of struggling with the whiteness of your parent, the privilege of your parent who doesn't want to recognize you as a person of color is similar. But what people forget is how the negotiation of two family histories is always part of the adoptee history, whether or not that adoptee acknowledges it or not or has the support from their family to explore issues what it might be like to think about a connection to a birth family and how that connection changes the parent – child relationship. (its not a good or bad change, its just a shift thats important to recognize.) In other words, a mixed race person with a white mother IS connected to that mother in a way where they can see their origins, their heritage, their family history as DIRECTLY connected to them. In a TRA family where the parent or parents are white, that connection is NOT there. Its there because of shared memories, its there because of a shared history since the adoptive relationship began, but not because the adoptee can look at the family and say, oh, i look like Aunt Edna, my nose is my mothers, I look like my brother, or I understand how great grandpa came over on the Mayflower and that's a part of me. For and adoptee, that part is missing. There is no mirror of recognition in the faces of our families, or a history that spans back generation. Imagine how powerful it was for me to find out after 40 years that on the Filipino side of my family my grandfather came from the Philippines to work in the fields in Hawaii, and how amazing it was to find out that on my Black side of the family had a few active Black Panthers. Two tiny details that have given a kind of grounding to place my feet in. I am from somewhere.
Finally, I'm concerned about Ms. Walsh's comment regarding her and her daughters being a 'welcome racial curiosity'. Its this kind of language that forces me to remind parents of children of color that what is cool for you, is certainly NOT always cool for your kids. You may get off walking down the street with your beautiful exotic mixed race kid, who gets stares and comments. But how exactly do you think your child feels about being on display, about being stared at, about having people think that you dont really belong to your family. This is where the connection between mixed race children and adoptees DOES cross. Its not either or. Try to hold both at the same time folks.
Please comment and share. I'd love to get your thoughts on Don, Wendy and I. Lets talk folks!
What a great day. oh and to my OAKLAND folks. dudes, I'm SOOORRRY okay? I was looking at the reflection of myself in the screen with the picture of the GG Bridge behind me and SF just came out, I love and REP Oakland folks!! lol!
"Ungrateful Daughter" Extended! 2 Weekends in June! Yeee!
I am thrilled to announce that, after sold out shows and a demand from the audience — my solo theater performance, "Ungrateful Daughter" has been extended at StageWerx Theater in San Francisco! I'm so excited!!
Thurs – Saturday June 3,4 +5
Thurs- Saturday June 10, 11 + 12
Please come!!
Me on the Radio!
I was interviewed on Monday by Gus T Renegade from C.O.W.S. blogtalk radio. Well, maybe it was more me just talking my ass off, but I look forward to your comments. In this podcast interview, I talk a bit about my childhood, my own development of my black identity, the development of AFAAD, transracial adoption as a global phenomenon, the issue of adoption of children out of Haiti and its position in the history of white movement of children of color during times of war and disaster.
Here's the link to the video sketch i was talking about around 35:40.
Please download the interview here, check it out and leave me comments and questions here.
and by the way, here's another one I've done.. in case you wanna hear this too. :)
Me on NPR in 2007 after the Chad child trafficking scandal.
Haiti Statement by Adoptees of Color Roundtable
Please read and share this Statement on Haiti released by the Adoptees of Color Roundtable:
"This statement reflects the position of an international community of adoptees of color who wish to pose a critical intervention in the discourse and actions affecting the child victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. We are domestic and international adoptees with many years of research and both personal and professional experience in adoption studies and activism. We are a community of scholars, activists, professors, artists, lawyers, social workers and health care workers who speak with the knowledge that North Americans and Europeans are lining up to adopt the "orphaned children" of the Haitian earthquake, and who feel compelled to voice our opinion about what it means to be "saved" or "rescued" through adoption."
"We understand that in a time of crisis there is a tendency to want to act quickly to support those considered the most vulnerable and directly affected, including children. However, we urge caution in determining how best to help. We have arrived at a time when the licenses of adoption agencies in various countries are being reviewed for the widespread practice of misrepresenting the social histories of children. There is evidence of the production of documents stating that a child is "available for adoption" based on a legal "paper" and not literal orphaning as seen in recent cases of intercountry adoption of children from Malawi, Guatemala, South Korea and China. We bear testimony to the ways in which the intercountry adoption industry has profited from and reinforced neo-liberal structural adjustment policies, aid dependency, population control policies, unsustainable development, corruption, and child trafficking."
"For more than fifty years "orphaned children" have been shipped from areas of war, natural disasters, and poverty to supposedly better lives in Europe and North America. Our adoptions from Vietnam, South Korea, Guatemala and many other countries are no different from what is happening to the children of Haiti today. Like us, these "disaster orphans" will grow into adulthood and begin to grasp the magnitude of the abuse, fraud, negligence, suffering, and deprivation of human rights involved in their displacements."
"We uphold that Haitian children have a right to a family and a history that is their own and that Haitians themselves have a right to determine what happens to their own children. We resist the racist, colonialist mentality that positions the Western nuclear family as superior to other conceptions of family, and we seek to challenge those who abuse the phrase "Every child deserves a family" to rethink how this phrase is used to justify the removal of children from Haiti for the fulfillment of their own needs and desires. Western and Northern desire for ownership of Haitian children directly contributes to the destruction of existing family and community structures in Haiti. This individualistic desire is supported by the historical and global anti-African sentiment which negates the validity of black mothers and fathers and condones the separation of black children from their families, cultures, and countries of origin."
"As adoptees of color many of us have inherited a history of dubious adoptions. We are dismayed to hear that Haitian adoptions may be "fast-tracked" due to the massive destruction of buildings in Haiti that hold important records and documents. We oppose this plan and argue that the loss of records requires slowing down of the processes of adoption while important information is gathered and re-documented for these children. Removing children from Haiti without proper documentation and without proper reunification efforts is a violation of their basic human rights and leaves any family members who may be searching for them with no recourse. We insist on the absolute necessity of taking the time required to conduct a thorough search, and we support an expanded set of methods for creating these records, including recording oral histories."
"We urge the international community to remember that the children in question have suffered the overwhelming trauma of the earthquake and separation from their loved ones. We have learned first-hand that adoption (domestic or intercountry) itself as a process forces children to negate their true feelings of grief, anger, pain or loss, and to assimilate to meet the desires and expectations of strangers. Immediate removal of traumatized children for adoption—including children whose adoptions were finalized prior to the quake— compounds their trauma, and denies their right to mourn and heal with the support of their community."
"We affirm the spirit of Cultural Sovereignty, Sovereignty and Self-determination embodied as rights for all peoples to determine their own economic, social and cultural development included in the Convention on the Rights of the Child; the Charter of the United Nations; the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The mobilization of European and North American courts, legislative bodies, and social work practices to implement forced removal through intercountry adoption is a direct challenge to cultural sovereignty. We support the legal and policy application of cultural rights such as rights to language, rights to ways of being/religion, collective existence, and a representation of Haiti's histories and existence using Haiti's own terms."
"We offer this statement in solidarity with the people of Haiti and with all those who are seeking ways to intentionally support the long-term sustainability and self-determination of the Haitian people. As adoptees of color we bear a unique understanding of the trauma, and the sense of loss and abandonment that are part of the adoptee experience, and we demand that our voices be heard. All adoptions from Haiti must be stopped and all efforts to help children be refocused on giving aid to organizations working toward family reunification and caring for children in their own communities. We urge you to join us in supporting Haitian children's rights to life, survival, and development within their own families and communities."
Please contact the Adoptees of Color Roundtable by leaving a comment on the statement page if you would like to endorse this statement, and keep checking back as the site will soon be expanded.
Haiti Family Preservation Discussion
A few updates for you as I wade through all the Haiti and adoption information.
1. From the ISS (International Social Service) website – Their statement on Intercountry Adoption during disaster re: Haiti
2. Family Preservation Advocacy's list of alternatives to donate for direct support of children and families.
3. Bastard Nation's statement on Haitian Adoptions and BabyLifts.
Haiti, Adoption and Same ol Story
I'm working on a longer post that will clarify my thoughts and my position on the rising number of Haitian children in need after the disaster in Haiti. AFAAD is also planning to release a statement soon.
Overall, I have to say, what's happening for me is that the rhetoric of United States is reflective of the rhetoric they spouted during "Operation Baby Lift" in the Vietnam War. Its troubling and frightening, and its the same old story about the colonialist paternalism that appears whenever the US thinks they understand what a country and black people need better than the country knows themselves.
I continue to ask. Why is removal the only answer? I want to issue a direct challenge to the 'good intentioned', monied, Christian, white folks who are lusting after the "new crop" of Haitian disaster orphans.
Can you please, sit an rethink, can you TRY to re-imagine the discourse of 'orphan', 'savior' and 'adoption'? Can you think of alternatives that can address the immediate and dire needs of these children besides removing them from their country & culture. What about utilizing your adoption fee to rebuilding infrastructure of the country? or one town? or support existing organizations IN the country that support keeping families & communities together? Removal is not always the answer!
My colleague and adoptee activist, Outlandish – has written a post that reflects my deep feelings about the language of ownership that is already being thrown around, that is a language of potential adoptive parents who are only concerned with their desire to have a child, and not with the trauma of separation and loss.
"Whites Make Pact With God, Expedite Haitian Adoptions"
Organizations I know and have checked out to donate to:
Haiti Soliel and
Partners in Health
New Donaldson Institute Study of Korean Adoptees
New Study from the Donaldson Institute is here.
Adopted From Korea and in Search of Identity
By RON NIXON
Published: November 8, 2009
New York Times
"As a child, Kim Eun Mi Young hated being different.
When her father brought home toys, a record and a picture book on South Korea, the country from which she was adopted in 1961, she ignored them.
Growing up in Georgia, Kansas and Hawaii, in a military family, she would date only white teenagers, even when Asian boys were around.
"At no time did I consider myself anything other than white," said Ms. Young, 48, who lives in San Antonio. "I had no sense of any identity as a Korean woman. Dating an Asian man would have forced me to accept who I was."
It was not until she was in her 30s that she began to explore her Korean heritage. One night, after going out to celebrate with her husband at the time, she says she broke down and began crying uncontrollably.
"I remember sitting there thinking, where is my mother? Why did she leave me? Why couldn't she struggle to keep me?" she said. "That was the beginning of my journey to find out who I am."
The experiences of Ms. Young are common among adopted children from Korea, according to one of the largest studies of transracial adoptions, which is to be released on Monday. The report, which focuses on the first generation of children adopted from South Korea, found that 78 percent of those who responded had considered themselves to be white or had wanted to be white when they were children. Sixty percent indicated their racial identity had become important by the time they were in middle school, and, as adults, nearly 61 percent said they had traveled to Korea both to learn more about the culture and to find their birth parents.
Like Ms. Young most Korean adoptees were raised in predominantly white neighborhoods and saw few, if any, people who looked like them. The report also found that the children were teased and experienced racial discrimination, often from teachers. And only a minority of the respondents said they felt welcomed by members of their own ethnic group.
As a result, many of them have had trouble coming to terms with their racial and ethnic identities."
Cambodian Assembly debates adoptions
New law will fill legal void on foreign adoptions and help fight child trafficking.
Friday, 23 October 2009 Meas Sokchea from The Phnom Penh Post
A new draft law, part of which was passed today, will mean tougher regulations for adoptive parents.
THE National Assembly has begun approving a draft law tightening restrictions on the adoption of Cambodian children by foreign parents, responding to fears the previous lack of a regulatory framework allowed for the exploitation and trafficking of children.
"This law is an important part of the Royal Government's enforcement policy on intercountry adoption and a means of serving children's interests by finding them good families," states a declaration appended to the draft law, presented in an Assembly session on Thursday.
Around half of the law's 58 articles were approved by the parliament with little debate.
Towards a Sustainable Transracial Adoptee Movement
I'm headed to the Pedagogy & Theater of the Oppressed conference in MN this weekend! I've never been to MN, which i hear has one of the largest populations of Korean adoptees in the nation.
I'm presenting with the amazing folks – Jae Ran Kim, Dr. John Raible and Shannon Gibney
Our session:
Towards a Sustainable Transracial Adoptee Movement and Community: PTO Strategies + Experiments on Friday.
Friday night – the FIRST AFAAD dinner in MN. MN chapter here we come! oh yeah!
I'll keep you posted with photos and reports from the conference!
International Adoption and Operation Baby Lift
Video version of a presentation Kevin Minh gave at the Asian Adult Adoptee Gathering in Honolulu, Hawaii in October 2008. More about Kevin on his blog.
"Best Interest of the Child" – Go Malawi!
I woke up this morning to good news. I am so thankful that the best interests of the child are now being taken seriously! Im SO thankful, and for me this is a message that acknowledges adoptees, adoptee researchers and professionals who continue to aruge that we need to change the face and meaning of adoption! Why is adoption always about removal when someone thinks they know best for a child? This daughter of Malawi now has the gift of her grandmother, the gift of her culture, her country, her race, her community. I am thankful.
From CNN
Madonna's adoption rejected by Malawian judge
(CNN) — Madonna's petition to adopt a second Malawian child was rejected by a local judge Friday, an official said.
"The decision came down to residency requirement and the fact that the judge believes she was being well taken care of in the orphanage," said Zione Ntaba, a spokeswoman for the Malawi Justice Department.
"For the Malawians, the fact that the child is at an orphanage, is being taken care of and is going through the school education system, that does qualify as the best interests of a child," Ntaba added.
The 50-year-old pop star had filed a petition to adopt a girl, Chifundo James, 4, whose first name translates to mercy in Chichewa, the country's national language. She has three other children, including a son she adopted from the southern African nation in 2006.
"Adoption: Palimpsest of Identity" Art Exhibit
From the facebook invitation to the event! This looks amazing – when ya'll coming to SF?
"The Korean Cultural Service NY co-present the exhibition "Adoption: Palimpsest of Identity" with the AHL Foundation, Inc. from August 27th to September 24th, which features the works of six artists: Kate Hers, Jane Jin Kaisen, Mihee-Nathalie Lemoine, Jette Hye Jin Mortensen, Kim Su Theiler, and Maya Weimer. This exhibition is curated by Jeehey Kim. Exhibition goes through -Thursday, September 24, 2009 at 7:00pm
Through video installation and photomontage, the six artists deal with the identity of the adoptee, an identity that is barely discussed in identity politics. The artists demonstrate how the issue of adoption disrupts and disturbs the existing circuits of enunciation of one's identity. As a palimpsest shows both the overwriting text and the overwritten one beneath at once, the works in this exhibition reveal how one dimension, one nation, one dream, and one world bumps into another. Positing identity as hybrid and fluid, their works transform and challenge the established and fixed order of things.
Collage works of kate hers interrogate the construction of ethnic and cultural narratives in landscape and analyze the mythological power of the Other while engaging tropes of appropriation, allegory, and conceptualism. She is not just interested in a crude depiction or reduction of anti-colonial anti-sexist viewpoints, but rather the questioning and engaging of the complex and layered meanings of appropriation, colonialism and gendered narratives in a global art context. In the re-inscribing of narrative through phantom landscapes, she desires a re-contextualization of meaning through its original form, however she is uncertain whether it is feasible to resist contributing to the spectacle of cultural colonialism. Is it possible to destabilize and disrupt something in which one is an active participant?
In her video work "disadoption", Mihee-Nathalie Lemoin's sings a song "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" with transforming its lyrics into the following: avouerai-je, dis papa/ ce qui cause mon tracas/ tu me dis que mon agence/ d'adoption point ne vous ment/ par la rumeur surprenante que tu dis preoccupante: de deux familles appartenantes/ par le bon sens tu me commandes/ L'annulation de l'adoption/ que cela est ta solution/ a vous disais-je papa/ omma-deul-appa-deul isseulka ? (to tell you, dad/ what is my worry/ you tell em my adoption/ agency is not lying/ by the surprising rumor/ of two families I belong/ by the common sense you order me/ to cancel the adoption/ it's your solution/ to you, i was telling, daddy/ oma-deul (mothers) appa-deul (fathers) isseulkka (will be)?
Jette Hye Jin Mortensen often focuses on and debate adoption, family, nationalism, stereotypes, racism, and how we construct our identity from these structures through her videos and video-installation. In her video "My Great Grandfather," she talks about the Danish composer Carl Nielsen as her great grandfather in a split screen with interview and archival footage. In this mockumentary she writes herself as the Danish person "of color" into the national history to mirror cultural complexity. It caused a lot of e-mails and letters with the questions: "Is Carl Nielsen your real, biological great grandfather? "Are you adopted into the Nielsen family?"
In Kim Su Theiler's work "Hair Watch," a Korean woman with a short haircut is seen in time lapse over many days. An off screen dialogue reveals that the woman's hair length starts with the picture the adopted parents used to choose the child, and the end length of hair is the picture of the child taken for her passport so she could be transported to the United States to her new family. An off screen voice asks," How long were you in the orphanage?" Subject answers," For as long as it took for my hair to grow from the first picture to the passport picture."
Maya Weimer's groundbreaking video installation, "Untitled (K.H., S.H., H.S.)," gives voice to an important, but invisible, side of the adoption industry. Potential interviewees jeopardized their jobs and family statuses by coming forth to discuss their secret experiences and only with the promise of complete anonymity would a handful of women eventually agree to participate. The three women's voices presented in this installation are in their mid-20s, -30s, and -40s. The formal constraints established in order to realize this project prevented the possibility of producing a traditional documentary. Rather than reinscribing onto these women narratives of victimization, the artist's intention has been to highlight their resilience within a patriarchal Confucian culture.
Jane Jin Kaisen's video work "Tracing Trades" chases and traces the history of human trade and trafficking between Korea and Europe, starting with the investigation of the history behind the mysterious "Korean Man" by Peter Paul Rubens. Shedding light upon Korean-European relations, and particularly international adoption, the quest leads to 19th century emigration of Scandinavians to North America, especially to the state of Minnesota. A department of Alien Affairs starts investigating how the first East Asians came to Scandinavia. In their search, Denmark's prime tourist attraction, "Tivoli" keeps appearing in historical documents. Following these trades, they begin to look for traces that could help explain Scandinavia's colonial history, repression, and worship of certain exotic elements."
Chadian Children Reunited
An update on the Chadian children from last October in that Zoe's Ark debaucle.
"Kidnapped Chadian kids reunited with their families"
ADRE, Chad (CNN) — Nearly 100 children at the center of an international scandal that left them stranded at an orphanage in remote eastern Chad returned home after nearly five months Friday, and were being reunited with their families.
Some of the children who were nearly abducted by a French charity, pictured in Abeche in November 2007.
It was a six-hour bus ride from Abeche, in eastern Chad, to Adre, on the border with Sudan, where mothers and fathers gathered at the post office waiting for their children.
During the ride, the bus broke down when its radiator burst.
Those accompanying the children were concerned about rebels causing trouble along the way, but that concern turned out to be unfounded.
The 97 children were taken from their homes in October by a then-obscure French charity, L'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark), which claimed they were orphans from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.
(in my best beavis n butthead voice…"CNN said kidnapped.. heheheheh")
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AFAAD got some prop's in the SF Chronicle this week! yay! Reyhan Harmanci writes an alternative reading of the film Juno in her article, "Some not smiling over Juno's sarcasm on China".
San Rafael real estate agent Lo Mei Seh was shocked when she saw a theatrical trailer for the hit movie "Juno" in December. In one scene, the title character sarcastically tells the rich suburban couple hoping to adopt her unborn child, "You shoulda gone to China. You know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those T-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events."
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Seh, the mother of two adopted Chinese girls, noticed a young Asian girl sitting behind her getting noticeably upset and muttering, "That's so mean and unfair."
"I calmed myself down, saying these things are just going to happen, and as a parent I have to teach my children to be strong," she says. But after that particular scene was shown on televised award shows like the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild awards, she became angry all over again.


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1. Any scars?
2. Self harmed?
3. Crush?
4. Kissed anyone?
5. Coke or Pepsi?
6. Someone you hate?
7. Best Friends?
8. Have you ever done alcohol or drugs?
9. What's your dream job?
10. Ever been in love?
11. Last time you cried?
12. Favorite color?
13. Height?
14. Birthday?
15. Eye color?
16. Hair color?
17. What do you love?
18. Obsession?
19. If you had one wish, what would it be?
20. Do you love someone?
21. Kiss or hug?
22. Nicknames people call you?
23. Favorite song?
24. Favorite band?
25. Worst thing that has ever happened to you?
26. Best thing that has ever happened to you?
27. Something you would change about yourself?
28. Ever dated someone?
29. Worst mistake?
30. Watch the movie or read the book?
31. Ever had a heartbreak?
32. Favorite show?
33. Best day of your life?
34. Any talents?
35. Do you wish you could ever start over?
36. Any bad habits?
37. Ever had a near death experience?
38. Someone I can tell anything to?
39. Ever lost a loved one?
40. Do you believe in love?
41. Someone you hate/Dislike?
42. Are you okay?
43. Relationship status?
I will write about the following. Leave one in my ask box:
Dear person I hate,
Dear person I like,
Dear ex boyfriend,
Dear ex girlfriend,
Dear ex bestfriend,
Dear bestfriend,
Dear Santa,
Dear Mom,
Dear Dad,
Dear future me,
Dear past me,
Dear person I'm jealous of,
Dear person I had a crush on,
Dear [future] girlfriend,
Dear [future] boyfriend,
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From the series that aired during Fuji TV's noitaminA block 'Black Rock Shooter' comes a Nendoroid of the newly designed version of Strength, the character with glaring red eyes who always keeps her mouth hidden with a hood!
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[GoodSmile Co.] Nendoroid – Strength TV ANIMATION Ver.
2 More Days to WONFEST!
Here's a sneak peek at what will be seen in the coming Wonfest! I'll be doing a coverage of it as well so stay tuned!
Some of the items above are known to be as :
Nendoroid Mikasa Ackerman [?]
Nendoroid Saber Alter
Nendoroid BRS Strength -ANIME VER.-
Nendoroid Aegis
Nendoroid Yukari Tamura
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[GoodSmile Co.] Nendoroid Chariot with Mary – Black Rock Shooter TV Animation Preview
Update from Mika-Tan's blog and this little girl is the same one we saw in the recently concluded WonFest 2013! Presenting Nendoroid Chariot with Mary from the Black Rock Shooter TV Animation by GoodSmile Co.
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[GoodSmile Co.] Nendoroid Dead Master: TV ANIMATION Ver. Preview
From the popular Black Rock Shooter anime series with Blu-ray and DVDs already up for order comes a figure of BRS's rival, Dead Master, in her new design used in the anime series. She also comes with her huge weapon, the 'Dead Scythe' so you can pose her in dynamic poses and action scenes from the series!
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WonFest 2012 – Editor's Choice!
We've seen the majority of them. Now which ones do you think are worth the wallet busting purchase? To help you with that, here is the list of figures that I highly recommend any one to purchase.
[EVENT] Summer WonFest 2012 – Max Factory Figma Coverage -
This is the Max Factory Figma coverage of Summer Wonfest 2012
[GoodSmile Co.] Nendoroid Black Rock Shooter Insane
And the BRS bonanza is still ongoing and the rave is yet to die. This time around, after getting the Figma treatment, BRS Insane will get the Nendoroid release!
Wonfest 2012 Coverage ( Nendoroid Batch )
Its time for Wonfest 2012!!! Here are the upcoming figures that will rip the hell out of our wallets!
This is the Nendoroid Batch.
[Medicom] RAH Black Rock Shooter ~ White Ver. ~
RAH stands for Real Action Heroes and recently, Medicom released their RAH Black Rock Shooter. This time around its the White Ver. which is more enticing compared to the Black Ver. Read up for more details about this magazine preview.
Definitely enticing if you ask me. The White Version somewhat allows me to view BRS in a different aspect. More also on the part that she wields a hand-axe. Not many figures do make use of an axe or hammer which makes this one a bit special as well in the BRS figure line. Curious buyers should stay calm as price and release date are yet to be confirmed.
[ MAX Factory ] figma BRS2035 From "Black Rock Shooter THE GAME"
The last hope for mankind is here as a figma! BRS, the main character from the PSP Game, 'Black Rock Shooter: THE GAME' is joining the figma family!
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Online, Off-cloud and Private: Transporter is the "It" Thing in Storage
Just on Thursday, the Stage Two team brought you news about our client, Transporter, officially launching their Kickstarter campaign. Well, four days and over 300 backers later, Transporter is already more than halfway to its campaign goal of $100k!
As we mentioned in the last post, we also attended GDGT at the Metreon in San Francisco that same evening. Along with the Transporter team, we met a lot of great people. It was great to let so many folks get their hands on Transporter and get their direct feedback. It was such a success to see people come away genuinely impressed with a device that keeps your data synced online, while keeping it safe and private. It looks like people are ready for a hard drive that keeps your data online, off-cloud and private.
We're proud of the hard work the Transporter team has put in and results have followed. Their new product has already been featured in Engadget, SlashGear, Mashable and many others.
With 31 days to go and the funding goal within reach, we're excited and downright giddy for the Transporter. Well done guys; we'll see you at $100k and beyond!
Engadget – http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/07/hands-on-transporter-peer-to-peer-social-storage/
Engadget (Insert Coin) – http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/06/insert-coin-transporter-the-collaborative-cloud-storage-hub/
SlashGear – http://www.slashgear.com/transporter-kickstarter-summons-drobo-engineers-for-offline-sharing-device-06259870/
Mashable – http://mashable.com/2012/12/09/transporter/
Mashable (via Yahoo) – http://news.yahoo.com/video/share-private-data-backups-transporter-184703466.html


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Thursday - 8/1/2013, 2:00pm EDT
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Bounty hunters, black markets and hired guns are the new normal for the cyber world. Hackers are selling their services to the highest bidders and it's starting to make cyberspace look like a modern-day Wild West. And right now business is booming, according to a recent New York Times article.
Governments around the world are hiring hackers to look for so-called "zero-day" vulnerabilities — as yet unknown exploits in software.
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Tampa Police Department spokeswoman Janelle McGregor is looking for volunteers to participate in the creation of a YouTube video to promote the Neighborhood Watch program.
The TPD is teaming up with radio station 93.3 FM to create a video based on the latest craze, the "Harlem Shake."
"It's basically a flash mob where one person starts off doing a random dance and then the whole group joins in," said McGregor. "Don't worry, there's no choreography needed."
The video will contain a public service message on fighting crime.
"We thought this would be a fun and catchy way to showcase the Neighborhood Watch program and to hopefully get more residents like yourselves involved in the fight against crime," said McGregor.
The video will be filmed in the coming week in a neighborhood setting, she said. "We will figure out the time and exact location based on participation."
Those interested in participating should email McGregor at firstname.lastname@example.com.
About Neighborhood Watch
The Neighborhood Watch concept centers on the community and police working together for the safety and protection of a neighborhood. It is an organization made up of citizens concerned about their neighborhood, and is one of the most effective and least costly answers to crime, according to the TPD.
The city currently has 155 active Neighborhood Watch groups stretching from Davis Island to Tampa Palms, including Seminole Heights.
If you are interested in starting a Neighborhood Watch in your neighborhood, contact the neighborhood liaison for your area below:
If you live in west Tampa, the Tampa peninsula, or Davis Island, you are in TPD Patrol District 1. Call Maryanne Hunsberger at 813-354-6692.
If you live north of Hillsborough Avenue or in New Tampa, you are in TPD Patrol District 2. Call Lisa Timmer at 813-931-6541.
If you live south of Hillsborough Avenue and east of the Hillsborough River (East Tampa, Downtown, Channelside, Port of Tampa) you are in TPD Patrol District 3. Call Rebecca Jones at 813-242-3867.
After you contact your neighborhood liaison, a crime prevention officer will contact you and explain the program in detail. If you are interested in starting a Neighborhood Watch group and becoming a Neighborhood Watch coordinator, the crime prevention officer would like to meet with you in person at your home and provide you with an application.
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So… that improv from Sunday that was going to be a sort of Jit-esque, modal, contemporary thing and maybe a planet theme has decided that actually it's a Dissension-derived cool jazz theme for… Sn0wman? I think it has.
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Downsides: I don't know anything about jazz, or really any instruments besides piano, or how to make actually good music.
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Aug 5th @ 3:53 pm in News by Scott Staley
Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes said today he would lay off as many as 4,000 state employees if elected and force a showdown with the federal government over drilling for gas and oil. The Daily Sentinel says that those statements have prompted his opponent to question Maes' ability to be governor. Dan Maes told the Denver Petroleum Club he would cut at least 2,000 workers "just like that" from the state budget, with projected savings of $200 million. Maes did not particularly say which agencies would see layoffs. His opponent, Scott McInnis, says the state governor does not have the power to do that.
Source: Daily Sentinel (Posted 3:47p by Jim Kapp)
Delta County department heads are starting to compile lists of the essential services they offer to the public and are beginning to prioritize them in terms of budget impact and possible savings. The Delta County Independent reports that these lists could be used during the upcoming 2011 budget process as a tool for evaluating services and if it came to it determine which ones need to be cut. Looking at the county's available revenues that could be flat or declining over the next couple years the county is taking a closer look at the types and levels of services it provides.
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