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I've been writing this post over and over in my head all day. Mainly because I knew that it needed to be right. But also because I just couldn't quite find the right words to say what I wanted. I knew it needed to tell the right story. My story. The story I still tell when people look at me and ask, how and why.
Deep down, I know that it's a story about falling in love. Falling in love with the way the sun rises over the reservoir in Central Park, hours before many even roll out of bed. With the smell of bacon at 5 in the morning, push carts lined up on Columbus Avenue prepping for commuters. With the way the sun hits the buildings right around 5 or 6 at night, when the light bounces and refracts and glows in a thousand different colors. With the people I've met. With the way those people hustle. With the long walks, just because. With the million different coffee shops and bakeries and dive bars and food trucks and rooftop restaurants. With views like this one. And the way it makes you feel like you're on top of the world. I mean, come on.
I still remember that day, a year ago, like it was yesterday. The day I stepped on a plane with my first one way ticket. Ever. The huge pit in my stomach that reminded me just how big of a chance I was taking. How big of a bet I was making on myself. The day my parents both looked at me, wished me well, and did their absolute best to hold back tears (I'm sure) while they told me I'd be great. You'll be great. And don't you ever forget it. The feeling when the plane left the runway, a rush of adrenaline and that "don't look back know" feeling that's awesome and awful all at the same time. The few minutes right after we landed, as I was checking my email and confirming (for the second time) my interview that morning. The confusion that set in when I actually had to look for baggage claim at LGA (I'd never checked a bag before), and wandering around for half an hour before I finally found someone who'd help me find my bags. Lugging my bags to the curb. The two suitcases I brought with me, with as much home as I could fit while still keeping them under 50 pounds. The two suitcases that quickly became my entire life. My only New York possessions. That and a few hundred dollars. But they were mine. And it finally felt like my life. My choice.
The moments right after my interview. The feeling of uncertainty as I rode down the escalator, picked up my bags from the security desk, and hopped in a cab that took me uptown to an apartment I'd never seen in person. The hours I waited until my roommate finally arrived, handed me a set of keys and said, "nice to meet you." That first night.
But most of all, the butterflies. Those butterflies were unlike anything I've ever felt before. I'd do anything to feel those butterflies again. They're almost like the butterflies I feel every once and a while when I take a second to step back and pinch myself. To remember that I'm actually here. To take in a scene like this one.
Originally, I had planned for this post to spell out every single thing I've learned since moving to New York. But I quickly figured out that a list like that might just read more like a novel. And it didn't feel organic. So instead, I think I'll focus on just one thing. The one thing I'd tell my 20-year-old self if I was going to do it all over again. The thing that makes this city brilliant. The reason this city lives and breathes the way it does, makes people into something.
So here it is. Let it sink in. Breathe it in. Make it your own.
There are going to be people and things and jobs and places that put you down. That tell you you're not strong enough, not special enough, not smart enough. Don't listen. Take the criticism, sort through the useful stuff, and then tune the rest out. Focus on you. Spend time on you. Don't burn yourself out. Work hard, stay out late [full disclosure, I'm still working on this one]. Make full notice of the moments that steal your breath. Because those are the big ones. The ones worth remembering. Stay humble. Be nice to people, but don't let them walk all over you. Remember that at the end of the day, it doesn't mean a thing if you're unhappy. So if you're unhappy, walk away. But if you're happy -- truly happy -- cherish it. Make friends, make them fast. You're going to need them. Make a life here.
Don't, don't, don't be afraid to lay down roots.
Okay, so that might not count *exactly* as one thing. But I tried. It's the best I could do. I kept it to one paragraph, so that should count for something. I say those things with full acknowledgement that there's some stuff in there that I'm still working through myself. That I'm still learning and improving upon and thinking about. Stuff about breaking the rules and putting myself in uncomfortable situations, because I know it'll be good for me in the long run.
So to the city that's already taught me so much... happy one year new york-aversary. And here's to me for making it an entire year on my own, paying my own bills, keeping my job, and living to tell the tale. Here's to a year full of ups and downs and successes and failures and challenges and taking chances. I made a big bet on you, New York, and I'm so, so glad I did.
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Raine, a young British writer who has made a big splash with this prismatic play, is partly a satirist whose barbs will ring true to anyone who grew up in a household where discussions of semiotics accompanied the wine (the cheese being optional), or whose achievements never quite lived up to parental standards, or maybe (for those of us of humbler origins) who found themselves being grilled at an intellectually hostile dinner table after making the mistake of dating the child of such a family.
All three of the 20-something children of the family in "Tribes" still live at home with their parents, Christopher (Francis Guinan) and Beth (Molly Regan) — none of these arrested adults having fully or gainfully gotten their professional or personal acts together. There's Ruth (Helen Sadler), an aspiring musician in need of a boyfriend; Daniel (Steve Haggard), an ill-focused student who could do to get a job; and Billy (John McGinty). Billy has been deaf since birth. And McGinty is a deaf actor, forceful and unstinting.
The inciting incident in the play arrives when Billy, who has been raised by his family to lip read their speech, critical and otherwise, and not to use sign language, meets a young outsider named Sylvia (Alana Arenas), who is the child of deaf parents and who is slowly losing her hearing as well. Through meeting Sylvia, Billy becomes introduced to the politics of the deaf community. Wherein, she tells him and us, there is quite the hierarchy of deaf bonafides — those who have been deaf since birth trumping those who have gone deaf, much as a Roman Catholic by birth is perceived as having the edge over a convert. Sylvia, whose influence on Billy is complicated, also talks of the smallness of a community where everyone has slept with everyone else, and of her own ambivalence about her new identity. Nonetheless, Billy arrives at a more critical understanding of his parents' decision to, in essence, refuse to allow their son to define himself as deaf as the chief marker of his identity.
And thus "Tribes" shapes up as a battle between lip reading and signing, or, on a deeper level, whether it is better for a deaf child to learn to function in a hearing world using the rules of a hearing world, or whether his hearing family members actually have a moral obligation to communicate with their loved one using a language — sign language — developed primarily for the deaf and one that allows the deaf full linguistic control.
This moral conundrum works so well in the theater because Raine has shored up the arguments so well on each side. Weird and critical as it may be, Billy's family is loving. Indeed, the clear manifestation of that ramshackle familial love is the great strength of Pendleton's Steppenwolf production, especially in the very moving performances of Guinan and Regan, both of whom leave no doubt in the intensity of their affections for their needy kids — even as they are unsparing in showing us how their narcissistic characters mess up the very kids they love so much. Still, Raine's play honors Christopher and Beth's child rearing cause where deaf Billy is concerned: These very smart parents are convinced it is limiting for any kid to be defined by his or her disability, and thus they refuse to treat him any differently. On the other hand, Raine simultaneously charts a clear imbalance in one kid being constantly forced to sit at a disadvantage in familial debate: Even a great lip reader can't compute everything. Should the family members who claim to love him have not met him where he lives? Should they not have been willing to subsume their own damn egos?
One other admirable aspect of this script, which I came to admire yet more on my second viewing, is that the way these parents have raised their deaf kid is a metaphor for the struggles of Billy's hearing siblings. As Haggard explores with great veracity and intensity, Daniel has a stammer, and Sadler shows us a Ruth with cripplingly little self-esteem. Still, even as you sit there thankful you did not have these parents, you also understand their tough-love points of view. Victimhood is, ultimately, limiting. Why should kids with challenges be the objects of reduced expectations?
Of course, in the case of Billy, many would argue that sign language is not about reducing anything, but this play relentlessly debates assimilation versus separation, mainstreaming versus seeking the embrace of a particular community, imperfect as that community may be. "Tribes" also is very much about the perils of self-definition, just as much as it charts the great relief we all feel when, we meet someone, finally, who understands our junk.
If you are dealing with any of this stuff (handicaps, disabilities in your family, whatever), and you find open debate scarce in a world of politically correct tiptoeing around the truth, you'll likely find this an especially stimulating, smart and important play.
Pendleton's production has a few eccentricities. I found the last few minutes, leading into the bows, to be vague in their storytelling at Saturday afternoon's performance, greatly muddying the emotional climax of the play in a rather distressing way for me, frankly. It should get fixed, pronto. And the set, from Walt Spangler, features a strange upstairs room that never gets used. I suppose it's a visual symbol of Billy's isolation, which is fair enough on paper but, in theatrical practice, it turns out to be a distraction, especially since we see Billy and Sylvia coming from somewhere else together. It just doesn't track, and, as Cromer's simpler staging proved in New York, it's an unnecessary trick in the first place.
That said, the heart of this drama is dinner-table conversation, and those domestic realities really come to vibrant and strikingly compassionate life with Pendleton at the helm. I think there are a few moments when Arenas' natural sense of vulnerability works against the play's careful balance of Sylvia as part liberator and part a dangerously malcontent interloper in Billy's life, and the romantic connection between Arenas and McGinty is not all it could be nor all the play demands. But once this group gets around its kitchen table, and the very familiar family recipe of love and mutual destruction gets cooking, then "Tribes" works very powerfully. As a director, Pendleton invariably shows compassion for all the characters in his care, which makes him a good match for "Tribes." He just has a way of showing us struggles that feel so much like our own.
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This is a sticky question, and one I've struggled with.
- John Piper wrote in 2009 that a tornado in Minneapolis was a judgment on the Lutheran church for its stance on homosexuality.
- Greg Boyd disagreed.
- I was thinking of this after the April 2011 tornadoes in the United States, and the numerous churches damaged or destroyed, including:
- This Assembly of God church
- Alabama churches: Baptist and Methodist
- Church of God of Prophecy
- Several Southern Baptist churches
Were all of these churches somehow in need of judgment? Despite the Scriptures bandied about, I have significant problems thinking of all tornadoes (and natural disasters in general) as the judgment of God. I prefer the approach of C. S. Lewis: God has made this world a dangerous place in part because only in the context of danger do eternal issues of character come to the fore.
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Bosch's New VideoJet X Video Encoder series expands CCTV over IP applications
Product extends CCTV over IP coverage into the most challenging environments
Fairport, NY – Bosch Security Systems, Inc. a full-line manufacturer of high-quality security solutions, today announced the release of the new VideoJet X family of video encoders that combine high quality video, intelligence and ruggedness to extend CCTV over IP coverage into the most challenging environments.
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The possibilities (and limits) of lifts are the historical reason our cities are shaped the way they are – and now the UltraRope elevator cables promise to transform them yet again. (Guardian)
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In what sense is the 21st century world urban? In this lecture, Neil Brenner critiques contemporary ideologies of the "urban age." Excavating Henri Lefebvre's (1970) notion of generalized urbanization, Brenner argues that the geographies of urbanization can no longer be conceptualized with reference to cities, metropolitan regions or even megalopolises, but today encompass diverse patterns and pathways across the planetary sociospatial landscape - from Manhattan to the Matterhorn, from the Pearl River Delta to Mount Everest, from the Nile River valley to the Pacific Ocean. This variegated urban fabric must become the focal point for new approaches to urban theory, strategies of collective intervention and imaginaries of built environments.
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Technically, this isn't related to SPWF…but it is so worth noting!
Also known as the surprise gastro pub that I stumbled upon in New Brunswick, NJ when the husband and I needed a real dinner away from the convention. We had gone out in search of steak, and had only glimpsed at the menu enough to notice that they had burgers and what appeared to be pub food before walking inside.
Pre-prohibition cocktails (they had a Ward 8 on the menu!) and some really, really kick ass food!
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The Anti-Science Left: Equal Opportunity Science Denial
We know that far-right Republicans have a long-running reputation for, well … not exactly embracing good science when it comes to things like climate or evolution. This doesn't mean that all Republicans deny science, or that any of them are "dumb" or "stupid" (because very intelligent Republicans deny very good science).
But just as no one has a monopoly on truth, no one has a monopoly on untruth. The far left can be just as unscientific in their own ways. There is equal opportunity science denial out there, whether it's vaccines causing autism or wind farms causing cancer or the blanket dismissal of GMO foods.
If you're looking for something that might challenge your preconceived notions of what it means to be a science denier, take some time and watch this hour of great conversation.
Those of us trying to fight for science shouldn't succumb to the labels and polarization that create an "us vs. them" tribal battle. We should remember that one of humanity's great talents is being wrong. But that talent is only exceeded by our ability to learn why we are wrong, and figure out what's right.
I highly recommend watching this; it's a little long, but worth it, in my opinion.
Media Matters, Jill Fitzsimmons and Shauna Theel:
ClimateDepot.com founder Marc Morano has been called "the Matt Drudge of climate denial," the "king of the skeptics," and "a central cell of the climate-denial machine," and he revels in these descriptions. Although he has no scientific expertise, he is adamant that manmade global warming is a "con job" based on "subprime science." Morano gained prominence working for two of the most vocal climate deniers in the U.S.: Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), who notoriously called climate change "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," and Rush Limbaugh, who we named Climate Change Misinformer of the Year in 2011 for his steadfast denial of climate science and wild conspiracy theories about the climate change "hoax."
These days Morano is paid by anindustry-fundedgroup to run the climate denial website ClimateDepot.com. At Climate Depot, Morano serves as the de facto research department for the right-wing media's attacks on climate science, and mobilizes his readers to target individual scientists and reporters for telling the public about climate change threats. The site was instrumental in manufacturing the 2009 "Climategate" controversy, which Morano incorrectlyclaimedexposed "deliberate manipulation of facts and data" by climate scientists. Morano is a darling of the organization most committed to climate denial, theHeartland Institute. He regularly speaks at their conferences and defendedtheir controversial billboard comparing those who accept climate science to "murderers, tyrants, and madmen" including the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
Due to his history of smears and lies, Morano's media influence is usually confined to Rush Limbaugh, FoxNews, and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. But in December, CNN invited him to "debate" Bill Nye on climate science, and in doing so elevated his marginal views to the mainstream press for the first time all year. For all this, Marc Morano has earned the distinction of 2012 Climate Change Misinformer of the Year.
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Publishers set to remove examples of evolution from high-school textbooks.
Mention creationism, and many scientists think of the United States, where efforts to limit the teaching of evolution have made headway in a couple of states1. But the successes are modest compared with those in South Korea, where the anti-evolution sentiment seems to be winning its battle with mainstream science.
It's been almost a year and a half since I visited the Jenny McCarthy Body Count. In that time, it looks like over 250 unnecessary vaccine-preventable deaths and over 20,000 illnesses have occurred because of Jenny and her ilk spreading brain-meltingly frustrating misinformation about the safety of vaccines.
Sure, she's not the only guilty one, but she's the leader of a dangerous movement that's still quite active today.
This from a woman whose website has the following headline up today: 21 Benefits of Enzymes and Why You Need Them … oh I dunno, maybe to complete basic biological functions and literally BE ALIVE?!?!
A society that cares about science more will be a society that cares less about Jenny McCarthy. Keep up the good fight, and keep sharing science with your friends. Someone's life may depend on it.
People who strongly resist data indicating that human-induced climate change could spell catastrophe aren't ignorant about science or numerical reasoning. Quite the opposite, a new study finds: High science literacy actually boosts the likelihood that certain people will challenge what constitutes credible climate science.
Who will be receptive to climate science, the study found, depends more on cultural factors such as attitudes toward commerce, government regulation and individualism than on scientific literacy.
"Simply improving the clarity of scientific information will not dispel public conflict" over climate, the study's authors conclude online May 27 in Nature Climate Change.
There has been a prevalent view among scientists that skeptics of climate change and its ramifications would come around if they understood the facts, says Dan Kahan of Yale Law School. But studies by his group and others have shown that cultural factors can strongly influence what people accept as truth about certain technical issues.
For the new study, Kahan and his colleagues surveyed 1,540 American adults on science, capacity to comprehend and use quantitative information, political orientation, attitudes on the roles of government and commercial enterprises in affecting risks to society and risks posed by climate.
The survey characterized cultural outlooks along dimensions of individualism and egalitarianism. People with high degrees of individualism tended to have attitude that were pro-industry and skeptical of risks. People exhibiting a high degree of egalitarianism "tended to be morally ambivalent towards markets because they think that's what causes social disparities," Kahan says.
The data show that on climate change issues, "cultural identity is what is disposing people to find evidence convincing or not," Kahan says. And "the study shows this divide only gets bigger, for ordinary people, when they become better able to understand science."
The findings point to the steep uphill challenge for advocates of climate science and policy to broadly communicate risks, says political scientist Arthur Lupia of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In fact, some of the most science-literate critics will listen to experts only to generate compelling counterarguments, he says.
In America today, climate change has come to approach abortion in its cultural impact: "It's immediately polarizing," observes sociologist Aaron McCright of the Environmental Science and Policy Program at Michigan State University in East Lansing. "Hard-core deniers seem to be no more than 10 percent of the [U.S.] population — which in some ways is good," he says. "It means we might still reach the other 90 percent."
IDiots Once Again Justify Their Name
They go after me a lot at the Uncommon Descent website, a vehicle for intelligent design [ID] creationism, and I usually ignore them. But their latest tirade is so ludicrously ignorant that I have to single it out. Here it is in full:
She was Blossom. She plays Amy Farrah on The Big Bang Theory. She holds a real-life PhD in neuroscience. There's a lot to love about Mayim Bialik.
So I was disappointed to find out she doesn't vaccinate her kids. Refusing to vaccinate is not an individual decision. It affects the whole population. It's basic epidemiology.
Marziah had this to say on the Wired "GeekMom" blog:
Stop being responsible for the measles or pertussis revivals. Once you blog about it and talk about it on interviews, like the one you did recently for Science Friday, you're no longer just influencing your friends. It's no longer a private, personal decision. You're influencing everyone within earshot. Stop being a disease vector. Stop pretending like the only person affected by your decisions is you. Start acting like the role model you aspire to be.
Someone with Bialik's influence and credentials shouldn't be endorsing this kind of behavior. She plays someone very smart on TV, and she should start acting like that instead of sharing a pediatrician with Jenny McCarthy.
I say this because so many of my readers are fans of hers and of her show, and if you believe in science you know that this is wrong.
WTF, Blossom?
Here is a Science fair project presented by a girl in a secondary school in Sussex . In it she took filtered water and divided it into two parts. The first part she heated to boiling in a pan on the stove, and the second part she heated to boiling in a microwave. Then after cooling she used the water to water two identical plants to see if there would be any difference in the growth between the normal boiled water and the water boiled in a microwave. She was thinking that the structure or energy of the water may be compromised by microwave. As it turned out, even she was amazed at the difference, after the experiment which was repeated by her class mates a number of times and had the same result.
It has been known for some years that the problem with microwaved anything is not the radiation people used to worry about, it's how it corrupts the DNA in the food so the body can not recognize it.
Microwaves don't work different ways on different substances. Whatever you put into the microwave suffers the same destructive process. Microwaves agitate the molecules to move faster and faster. This movement causes friction which denatures the original make-up of the substance. It results in destroyed vitamins, minerals, proteins and generates the new stuff called radiolytic compounds, things that are not found in nature.
So the body wraps it in fat cells to protect itself from the dead food or it eliminates it fast. Think of all the Mothers heating up milk in these 'Safe' appliances. What about the nurse in Canada that warmed up blood for a transfusion patient and accidentally killed him when the blood went in dead. But the makers say it's safe. But proof is in the pictures of living plants dying!
the structure or energy of the water
what the fuck does that even mean you realize that a water molecule is made up of three fucking atoms and if you rearrange it it isn't water anymore and you would fucking notice
the problem with microwaved anything is not the radiation people used to worry about
Here is a handy diagram I drew of all the different types of radiation:
Microwaves != nuclear reactors, so calm your tits.
it's how it corrupts the DNA in the food so the body can not recognize it
…do you understand what DNA is and how eating works? DNA is a jumble of protein in the middle of each cell and it tells the cells in that particular organism how to make more cells. Your body does not care about whether your food has any DNA in it or not. The chemicals it cares about are things like vitamins and sugars, as well as inorganic shit like salt.
(You can denature DNA by heating it or using chemicals like urea. It is like what happens when you fry an egg, which is basically a big glob of protein—the strands break apart and it looks like tiny white strings. Very cool.)
Microwaves agitate the molecules to move faster and faster.
I…just…that is the fucking definition of heat, whether you're heating something over a flame or in a microwave or using the Sun. The difference is that microwaves mostly affect the water molecules in your food and they don't need to use as much heat. Water boils at 100°C, which is just about as hot as water can get before it just turns into steam; but that's like the lowest setting on your oven. Oven- or stove-cooked food tastes different partly because it uses higher temperatures and partly because heat is transferred in a different way.
This movement causes friction
That's not what friction is.
It results in destroyed vitamins, minerals, proteins and generates the new stuff called radiolytic compounds, things that are not found in nature.
Let's take these one at a time.
- Vitamins are classified as water-soluble or fat-soluble. So cooking things in water will dissolve the water-soluble vitamins (C and all the B's). Just plain heat doesn't do that, so microwaving veggies—which keeps the water in—is actually a healthier option.
- Proteins: Breaking the chemical bonds in proteins (denaturing) is a part of any cooking. However, denatured protein is still nutritious—that's why you can meet your protein intake with foods like fried eggs and baked chicken.
- Minerals are just chemical elements, like off the periodic table—sodium, iron, potassium. (Vitamins and proteins are very complex combinations of elements.)
Which brings me to the "radiolytic compound" bullshit. When you talk about breaking apart, say, iron—you're talking about breaking down the iron atoms themselves. Which is a whole lot different than breaking the bonds between atoms. It takes hella radiation. You need shit like gamma rays—the OOOH SCARY NUCULAR radiation—which we've already established do not come from your microwave.
things that are not found in nature
What the shit does that even mean? You all know radioactive elements occur in nature, right? In rocks and also in living cells. That's right, you have this radioactive kind of carbon INSIDE YOU. You get it by eating those delicious plants. We can tell how long ago something died by how much of it is left.
Tons of shit that occurs naturally is horribly bad for you. And tons of shit that never existed until we cooked it up is great for you—like the chemical compounds in a lot of medications.
LERN 2 SCIENCE. Think before you reblog. And microwave your veggies.
Bless this takedown of a bullshit reblog.
jesus thank you SO MUCH
someone I follow posted this the other day without commentary and I was was just like
loving this take down.
Whenever I think about doing bad science, I picture Bill Nye the Science Guy glowering at me with disapproval and then I do real science instead.
emphasis mine
Well said.
(Source: thinksquad)
I'm glad this climate change denial conference has been cancelled, but it upsets me that the Heartland Institute even exists. What is it that they're trying to accomplish? The suicidal element of this behavior is what I find so shocking. Even if these people believe climate change is not real, the evidence that it is, the scientific consensus supporting global warming, the catastrophic consequences of being wrong, none of these things matter?
It boggles the mind. There are times when the desire to prove these people wrong overcomes my desire for humanity to survive.
This is is an incredibly comprehensive list of the arguments made by climate change deniers, and the science that refutes these arguments. They even have different levels of description depending on how much of a science nerd you are (or aren't).
Go forth, my minions, and educate!!!
This article points out the difference between short-term and long-term trends, a point that is often lost to climate change deniers.


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By: Eden Hansom
Us naturals are not dumb.
We're a SPECIAL blend of black people. The kind you're not used to dealing with.
The kind that RESEARCH not just products to use on our hair, but the history of hair as well. And as history has taught us, you don't think too highly of our kind. You just want our money. You want our money SO much that when a BLACK entrepreneur would like to come up and own THEY'RE OWN hair supply store, you either refuse to sell hair to them or try and upsale to get more.
That ain't cool.
But alas, has there been a little dip in in your revenue in recent years? Obviously so, because against my better judgement I went into a store of yours to see natural hair products sitting on display. Yes, SOME black women (who don't know any better) may fall victim to your shit and buy from you….but not the rest of us. We all know too well not to invest anymore money into your greedy ass pockets. Us, the smart ones, know that not only can we MAKE products that are good for our hair but we can buy BLACK OWNED products straight from the creator.
I don't hate you all. I don't hate people. I'm just not for your shit. And the same way that you choose to only help your people, I'm going to continue to do the same for mine.
You think you're slick but guess what? You're fucking with an INTELLIGENT, PROUD, BLACK WOMAN. She may get pissed at her community from time to time but will continue to support those because we deserve it.
Eden Hansom
So you were THAT desperate and thought THAT lowly of us that we'd ACTUALLY buy the same products we can get offline or in a Black store?


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NIAGARA UNIV., N.Y. – (Niagara Release) The Niagara men's basketball team dropped an 87-70 contest to the Manhattan Jaspers in the National MAAC Game of the Week on ESPN3 on Sunday at the Gallagher Center.
"I really can't explain today," head coach Joe Mihalich said. "There are two things you deal with in life – failure and success and I don't think we are dealing with either one the right way."
Three Purple Eagles (9-14, 4-7 MAAC) were in double figures, but the Niagara offense was inconsistent against the one of the MAAC's top defensive team. An evenly played first half, which had eight lead changes, quickly turned in favor of the visitors when they went on a 9-2 run to build a 31-22 lead with 2:37 left; Manhattan (16-7, 9-2 MAAC) head into the half up 38-30.
A pair of free throws by Juan'ya Green cut the lead to 40-33 with 18:15 remaining, but the Purple Eagles were playing uphill for the rest of the game. Manhattan, shot 62 percent from the field and led by as much as 21 in the half, saw its lead trim to 11 after consecutive 3-pointers by Marvin Jordan at 8:44. However that would the closet the Purple and White would get on an evening when Niagara Athletics unveiled the new banners for Niagara legends Calvin Murphy (1966-70) and Phil Scaffidi (1975-80) during the game.
Juan'ya Green led NU with 18 points and went 9-for-11 at the free-throw line to set a freshman single-season record with 102 free throws, surpassing Garry Jordan's 99 free throws set in 1978. Antoine Mason had 17 points and had a game-high five assists, while Jordan added 16 points off the bench. Ameen Tanksley led the team in rebounding for the second straight game, bringing down eight boards.
"January is over...What we do around here is win in February but we won't if we don't change," Mihalich said.
Niagara opens the month of February with two road MAAC games, beginning on Friday, Feb. 3 to face Fairfield at 7:30 p.m.


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Voice & Verse, Evan Lucy's podcast, is back with episode number six featuring Mike Herrera of MxPx.
You can subscribe to Voice & Verse podcast via iTunes, or listen below!
MxPx, Allister, and Kris Roe of The Ataris will be playing some shows together next year. Check out the dates below after the jump.
Mike Herrera has posted a Live & Raw EP for fans. Stream it below after the jump.
Mondays mean BandsOnBands, and we're excited to be posting the PropertyOfZack feature today with Tyson Evans of Second To Last. The band just released a new split with Starters, so make sure to check it out as well.
In this week's feature, Tyson discusses his love for MxPx, which ended up being a huge transition for him into discovering legendary punk bands that have helped shape his life and his music. Listen to songs by MxPx here and check out what Tyson had to say about one of his biggest influences below!
I grew up in a small conservative town in Northern California called Lodi. I was raised in the church and went to private Christian school from K-8th grade. I remember my first encounter with anything remotely punk rock was seeing the music video for Green Day's "American Idiot" in 7th grade on VH1. I instantly fell in love with the band and more importantly their style of what at the time seemed to me as "punk". After hearing Green Day and buying nearly every record with in a week's span of time, I was ready and anxious to go see the band live. My parents wouldn't budge on taking me to see the band but my dad finally caved and bought me tickets to the American Idiot tour in 2005.
I could hardly contain my excitement about seeing the band. After about 10 songs or so into the set, my dad pulled the plug and said it was time to leave. My mother had heard from a friend that was at the show about how vulgar and offensive Billie Joe was as a front man and called my dad demanding we leave and come home. The next morning my mom threw away every Green Day record as well as merchandise that I had bought. She then took me to the local Christian book store to pick out a record that was clean and laden with songs about falling in love with Jesus and promoting positive faith based values.
Little did she know that the moment I got to the CD section of the store, my eyes had already met fate. I remember seeing the cover of MXPX's Life In General and resonating immediately and I had yet to even hear the content. On the front was a punk kid with dyed hair getting life handed to him by some butch jock with a mullet. Nothing resonated with me more at that time. The moment I stuck the record in my stereo at home and heard those first palm mutes on "Middlename" I was hooked. I don't think I took that record out for all of 8th grade. Songs like "Doing Time" and "My Mom Still Cleans My Room" had my life figured out. The one thing that I loved and really captivated me was Mike Herrera's ability to convey a positive message without over saturating the songs with lyrics about loving Jesus and going to church.
The Ataris are taking Mike Herrera of MxPx for their UK tour in April. Check out the dates below by clicking "Read More."
John Feldmann toured Goldfinger in Australia with members of MxPx (Mike Herrera), Reel Big Fish (Aaron Barrett), and D.R.U.G.S. (Aaron Stern) due to members of the band not getting along. Check out an interview with Feldmann discussing the rift below by clicking "Read More."
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After a very interesting evening in Worcester, MA (see part 2), we drove to upstate New York to our next gig at Water Street Music Hall in Rochester. We definitely noticed a drop in temperature once we got to town. When we arrived at the venue I walked in and saw the huge room/stage complete with another bands' gear, and immediately knew I was in the wrong place for a punk show! I walked down the hall through a dark doorway and entered another show room much smaller than the previous one. This was obviously our room. As it turns out the show in the larger room was a Sublime tribute band.
By this time in the tour, all the bands (Unwritten Law, Versus The World, FLF, and us) had gotten to know each other pretty well, and had figured out a good system for a smooth show. All the bands shared UL's cabs, so transition between bands was quick and smooth. UL and MxPx All Stars would alternate headlining each night, and tonight was UL's turn. The FLF guys were also doubling as our crew, so they helped us with set-up, tear-down, selling merch, etc. we were all one big well-oiled rock & roll machine.
The show went off without a hitch yet again, and was a lot of fun. Shane from FLF took this video of us covering "Another State of Mind" by Social Distortion.
After the show we ate at a local all-night diner that served something called a "garbage plate," which consisted of every kind of breakfast food (and lots of it) on one plate. Some of the guys couldn't resist, but I did my best to stay away from that.
The 7 of us got another cheap hotel room, and crashed hard.
We had the next day off, and Mike Davenport from Versus offered to buy us a hotel in Cleveland for two nights as a birthday gift for Mike Hererra. As if that wasn't enough, Mike D. got us all on the guest list for the Sum 41 show at the Cleveland House Of Blues that night! We got in town just in time to check-in to our room (15th floor view), grab a quick dinner at a Mexican place up the street, and walk to the HOB for the show.
Each of us armed with backstage passes, we could see the show from anywhere we wanted, so most of us hung out side-stage for Sum's set. I never really followed them much so I only knew a couple of songs, but they put on a very tight, and professional rock show. We were all impressed.
We had decided that since we had time the next day, we would go see the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, only a 20 minute (and quite cold) walk from our hotel. We also found out that touring bands get in for free. We spent about 3 hours in the museum, and still weren't able to see everything. We saw so many cool artifacts… Guitars once owned by Hendrix, Duane Allman, Pete Townshend, Muddy Waters, and so many other legendary pieces. So inspiring.


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Testimony and letters to lawmakers on school issues; other public statements
[I drafted the message below for Parents Across America, the national parent advocacy group of which MIPFS is a state affiliate. We thought it would also be appropriate to publish it here, as a reminder of why strong community-governed public schools are so important.]
As we think of the tragic death at police hands of Michael Brown of Ferguson, Mo., our first reaction must be as parents: sorrow and anger. Sorrow because a promising life has been cut so cruelly short, and anger because his death was both unnecessary and sickeningly predictable.
Watching from outside, however, we have also seen in Ferguson problems that plague our nation still.
Pres. Austin, Supt. Flanagan, and members of the Board:
Michigan parents value their local public schools and appreciate the hard work being done by all those who bring life to public education. No institution is perfect, and local public education is no exception. But parents are painfully aware of the struggles faced by our schools, driven in part by policy decisions at the state level - which have reduced our direct investment in K-12 education - and in part by changes in the Michigan economy, which have put our families and communities under tremendous stress.
Michigan public education is not "broken;" it has weathered tremendous blows over the last 15 years that have reduced its ability to serve all students as well as we want it to. Any proposals to change the structure and funding of our public schools must address this fundamental fact. >>>>Click below to read more
PAA Board of Directors Member honored
Steven Norton, executive director of Parents Across America affiliate Michigan Parents for Schools, and member of the PAA Board of Directors, was the 2014 recipient of the David McMahon Human Rights Award given by the Michigan Education Association. The McMahon award is given annually to recognize "individuals or groups outside the MEA which distinguish themselves by courageously accepting the challenge of moral and ethical leadership in the field of human and civil rights."
After a bruising vote in the House, the Michigan Senate is slated to take up the latest version of HB 4369, the state school takeover bill. Most people, including us, have been calling this the "EAA bill," but that's a misnomer. The latest version of the bill doesn't even mention the Education Achievement Authority by name, though it would allow the EAA to continue operating and even expand.
What the bill does do, however, is to cement in place a state school takeover system originally rushed into law over four years ago in a desperate attempt to win a share of Federal "race to the top" funding. (We didn't get any.) At the time, everyone agreed that the provisions being rushed into law were less than half-baked, and lawmakers promised to re-visit the provisions and replace them with sound policy. Naturally, that never happened.
But the EAA is still an important part of this story, mainly because of the lessons it - and other examples of state intervention - should have taught us about what happens under state takeover. What are some of those lessons?
This is how a legislator described a close colleague and dear friend of mine: "one rogue school board member." The school board member in question is Elizabeth Welch Lykins, trustee of the East Grand Rapids Public Schools, committed proponent of strong public education, and member of the MIPFS board of directors. Though she was not singled out by name, every person knew who was being described.
"One rogue school board member." The phrase itself is designed to belittle and marginalize. But it fails in that attempt, because it is so disconnected from the truth.
Existing law does not provide enough assistance to local schools in diagnosing and solving their difficulties. To compound the problem, the law provides for complete state takeover as the only remedy for schools which fail to improve. The parents' alternative is based on these core ideas:
He says that "it's not about partisanship, let's just do the right thing." We agree with those sentiments: support for strong, community-governed public education should not be a partisan issue, and we should definitely "do the right thing." We're still waiting for the governor to propose, and the legislature to pass, a budget that does right by the children of Michigan.
Gov. Snyder then goes on to say that people who argue he's been cutting K-12 education "have fact issues." But it is the governor's facts which need a second look.
Bottom line: Gov. Snyder's budgets took advantage of the depth of the recession to dig the hole even deeper in the first year to accomplish business tax cuts and other changes, allowing the weak recovery in subsequent years to look much better by comparison – but only if you ignore what things were like before or what things might have been like today had different choices been made. Between the end of earmarked school aid revenue from the Michigan Business Tax, and the diversion of funds to pay for colleges and universities, K-12 schools lost over $1.1 billion, or nearly $740 per pupil, each year because of the changes Gov. Snyder pushed through in 2011.
The evidence is piling up that the Snyder administration was closely involved in the effort to construct an alternative "education" system whose top priority is to minimize public school costs, not improve education. According to emails obtained by the Detroit News, top advisers to Gov. Snyder helped put the so-called "skunk works" group together or approved of its creation as early as September 2012.
From the parent perspective, one of the most disturbing discoveries was a statement by Gov. Snyder's chief of staff, Dennis Muchmore. "Frankly, there's nothing I enjoy more than seeing the education community in a fratz," Muchmore wrote not long after the "skunk works" story first broke.
Thousands of parents, educators, and other concerned citizens who care about quality public education expressed their outrage at the secrecy and narrow vision of the "skunk works" project. Since when did we become the enemy? What kind of distorted lens must members of the Snyder administration be using that they see in concerned parents an opponent to be overcome rather than a constituency to be heard?
Dear Secretary Duncan,
On behalf of Michigan parents and others concerned about public education here, I would like to welcome you to our state. Michigan is home to some of the best ideas and programs in education as well as some of the most serious challenges our schools, and communities, face. We welcome your effort to learn more about the hopes we cherish and the obstacles we confront in our local efforts to educate our children.
Unfortunately, I fear that your tour may leave you with an incorrect impression of what is in fact happening in our state. The current direction of state policy is not to offer an excellent education to all children. Instead, key Michigan policy makers have adopted an extremely narrow and barren notion of "education" and have focused on how to deliver it at the lowest cost possible. These proposals take us in precisely the wrong direction.
Drawing on the data we used in an earlier article about the Governor's budget proposal – Eleven percent increase in schools since 2009-10? Not so much. – MIPFS testified before the Michigan House Appropriations Subcommittee on School Aid earlier this week. Our purpose was to point out that the executive budget proposal did not represent an increase in funding available for school operations, despite rhetoric to the contrary. Funding levels were actually much lower than in previous periods, especially after taking inflation into account, despite the smaller number of pupils.
MIPFS called for a significant, real investment in preschool through secondary education so that our public schools could do the job we have asked of them.
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LEMONT, Ill. (STMW) - A 32-year-old Lemont man was electrocuted Friday while trimming a tree at his home in the southwest suburb.
The Will County Coroner's office was not releasing the man's name or address as of Saturday morning, pending notification of next of kin.
The man was on a ladder trimming a tree when the ladder made contact with an overhead high-voltage wire, the coroner's office said.
He was taken to Adventist Bolingbrook Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:01 p.m. Friday.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.- Punta Gorda Police Detectives arrested 64-year-old Joseph A. Tremblay on Thursday for Giving a False Report to Law Enforcement after claiming he was the victim of a robbery.
Tremblay called police and reported that he had been robbed by two unknown men outside of a local restaurant in Punta Gorda. He reported that while exiting his vehicle, he was beaten, kicked and one of the men reached into his pockets and took $360 in cash and his cell phone. Detectives responded to the scene and began their investigation.
It was later determined that Tremblay had been in contact with an adult escort service in Bradenton during the time of the alleged robbery. Further investigation revealed that Tremblay travelled to Bradenton to meet with a female escort that was advertising prostitution services online at www.backpage.com. Once there, Tremblay was invited inside. In what is believed to be a pre-planned set-up, the escort's boyfriend attacked Tremblay, beating and kicking him, and subsequently stole his money and cell phone.
Tremblay was arrested, transported to the Charlotte County Jail, where he remains on a $1,000.00 bond.