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OPINION: I was never dux of any school, but I wouldn't have minded. And right there is something that baffles me about our struggling education system.
Primary schools I've known have praised children lavishly for being "good helpers" or "making good progress" - but never handed out accolades for academic achievement.
The child who excelled at maths passed unnoticed by their peers. The child who produced outstanding art at home would be delegated to a group project where no individual could shine, and lost interest.
A teacher once told me that all children are talented, and right there is where we have a problem with teaching philosophy in state schools. That we are all equal is a lie, however much we may want to believe it. We are all different, and some of us are cleverer than others. That much should be obvious.
Anyone who works with kids year in, year out and sees them as an amorphous blob of same-ness should be doing something more amusing with their life and get out of teaching.
They're stifling real talent, the kind we need and that few people have, which is why there are groups of parents with gifted children demanding that they be noticed in the school system.
We are not all bright, good- looking, talented, or able to do handstands. That much is obvious. There will always be an elite - spare us the wicked thought - that can do all of these things, however, and if this attitude in teaching prevails they will continue to come from the homes of parents who are also high achievers, and who will be the only real motivators of their children.
In other words, what set out to be a policy with the aim of organising some sort of nebulous equality will do the opposite: it will foster and fast-track an elite social class with all the money, and the best jobs.
That's why people send their children to private schools, if they can afford it, and why state schoolteachers are furious that they do.
And it's this attitude, surely, that has led to secondary school students dropping hard subjects like science and maths, as they tell us now, and opting for easy options like fishing, life skills and hospitality.
Why would you do the hard stuff and get average grades if you could do the lazy ones and do well?
Bright kids work that one out pretty fast - and limit their future options.
We know that the consequence of this easy way out will be a future of young people skilled at hobby subjects, but hopeless at problem solving.
Yet we persist. I can't do maths, physics or chemistry either, which is no great reflection on either me or the school system of my time, and so the Higgs boson story, a matter of huge significance apparently, passes me by.
The brightest kids up the front of the class enjoyed those subjects while the rest of us passed notes, or fell asleep.
Years later I realised that physics explained how things work in the world, and finally got why people bothered with it.
As for maths, forget it. And this is embarrassing. It's like missing out on a language. I am grateful for the old school system, which wasn't perfect either, but at least streamed us into classes with others of similar basic ability. We had people to truly compete with, and classes could be challenging.
I didn't come from an elite background myself, but being placed in the same stream as people who did gave me nearly enough confidence to take full advantage of it.
Much was expected of top streams, which was not a bad thing in itself.
It should apply to all streams and all classes, actually, and where there are cultural differences to take into account, there should be appropriate ways of teaching so every kid gets a chance to do well.
But they don't, as education statistics for Maori and Pacific children tell us: decade after decade, year after year.
What with the many under-educated Maori and Pasifika kids, who soon enough feel like failures because they understand reality all too well, and a rapid decline in the number of kids studying maths, calculus, physics and chemistry, our doctors and scientists of the future will all have to be foreigners.
Our grandchildren will be washing their knickers and carrying out their rubbish for a living.
And presumably that'll be OK with many educators because hey - they'll all be equal.
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Another legal setback for Apple as the tech giant was ordered Wednesday by a U.S. federal court in Texas to shell out more than $US368 million for patent infringement, stemming from the technology behind FaceTime, the video call feature that is a mainstay on Mac computers, iPhone and iPad.
A Texas jury sided with security software firm VirnetX's arguments that the secured network connection governing the popular Apple offering was originally the handiworks of the Nevada-based firm's founder, who designed the communication tool for initial use of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Bloomberg reported on Thursday.
The favourable ruling came following a similar victory for VirnetX, which in 2010 forced a $US200 million settlement from software giant Microsoft, with the same technology as the point of contention. Next target for the little-known firm is Cisco, which it is set to meet in court hearings in early 2013.
Judging from the pattern of legal victories it has successfully scored against high-profile adversaries so far, it wouldn't be remotely surprising for VirnetX to include Cisco on its list of giant slays.
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Influence, the classic book on persuasion, explains the psychology of why people say "yes"—and how to apply these understandings. Dr. Robert Cialdini is the seminal expert in the rapidly expanding field of influence and persuasion. His thirty-five years of rigorous, evidence-based research along with a three-year program of study on what moves people to change behavior has resulted in this highly acclaimed book.
You'll learn the six universal principles, how to use them to become a skilled persuader—and how to defend yourself against them. Perfect for people in all walks of life, the principles of Influence will move you toward profound personal change and act as a driving force for your success.
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With the South American country home to some of the world's most established runway talents, we take a look at Brazil's hottest emerging faces. Here's our pick of the next generation of Brazilian models, and the Instagram accounts to follow them on.
Aline Weber
Raised in Santa Catarina in Brazil, the German-Brazilian model regularly treads the catwalk for the world's biggest brands and has bagged campaigns for A.P.C., Just Cavalli and Saint Laurent. Weber also appeared in Tom Ford's movie A Single Man as the ethereal beauty Lois.
Waleska Gorczevski
Having recently walked in shows for Valentino, Christian Dior and Chanel, as well as opening the Fall-Winter 2014 show for Marc Jacobs, Gorczevski is an emerging fashion phenomenon, spotted on the street in her home city of Florianópolis. The model's looks (and name) reflect her Polish and Portuguese heritage.
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One of Givenchy creative director Riccardo Tisci's closest friends and muses, Léa has become a fixture in the brand's shows and campaigns over the past five years. Her success is all the more exciting due to her trailblazing work for her fellow transgender models.
Thairine Garcia
The former face of Brazilian luxury brands Osklen and Alexandre Herchcovitch, Thairine Garcia has had a hugely successful time on the runway lately, walking in the Fall-Winter 2014 shows for Nina Ricci, Elie Saab and Anthony Vaccarello.
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Alright, first off, Now It's Overhead do not sound like the Cure. They don't sound like Depeche Mode, they don't sound like Spiritualized, and they sure as hell don't sound like My Blood Valentine. There can only be three reasons for critics to make such comparisons in their reviews:
1) They're deaf
2) They've never listened to any of these seminal bands
3) They used the Saddle Creek website as a cheat sheet
I'm guessing #3, primarily because the same comparisons are made in the band's promotional material. Likewise, about half of the web's reviews of this self-titled debut begin with the fact that Now It's Overhead is the first non-Nebraskan act signed to Saddle Creek. At least this promo factoid points us in the right direction, because Athens, Georgia is home to both Now It's Overhead and most of the Elephant 6 collective. They share a unique blend of psychedelic pop and indie rock, far from the darkwave and shoegazer tendencies you'd imagine from all those reviews.
Like the individual Elephant 6 groups, the Now It's Overhead project arises from the vision of a singular songwriter. In this case, the iconic bandleader is Andy LeMaster, who wrote most of the songs and played a lot of the instruments. The band is rounded out by Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor, more commonly known as the lovely duo Azure Ray. They provide gentle backing harmonies to LeMaster's lead and play an assortment of keyboards that mix nicely with Clay Leverett's versatile drumming. LeMaster is one-third owner of Athens' Chase Park Transduction studio, and his recording experience is evident in the unique production work throughout, a mysterious aura both high in fidelity and abstract in definition. But despite all they have going for them, I just don't like a lot of these songs.
Take the first, "Blackout Curtain," for example. It starts promisingly enough, with the soft patter of percussion and the faintest hint of Azure Ray-style sighing in the background. Then guest vocalist Melissa Etheridge steps in. Except it's not her; it's just Andy LeMaster's twangy whine. Don't get me wrong-- I don't have anything against southern accents. It's just that his voice in particular pierces with its almost unbearably desperate pitch. Worse, after the verse builds into a hopeful mix of keyboard and acoustic guitar, the chorus goes all gospel. The instruments drop out in one of those calculated radio-hit moments and the voices rise in harmony: "Don't ever go away from here, and I will never go away." If there's any soul at all here, it's streaming on down from Billy Joel's "River of Dreams."
Likewise, the second track lights up like an ELO epic, with the same "ah-ah-ah" electronic pulse. The lyrics might stab at your heart, though: "Your goddamn uncle changed you some/ When you were five, more than once." LeMaster narrates the runaway well, very Teena Brandon-esque; it's hard to mock a story about abuse. But this song is called "Who's Jon," you see, and LeMaster short circuits everything with the kind of pap sentiment that Boys Don't Cry had the sense to avoid: "Who's Jon anyway? What does it mean, what did you expect me to say?" If only Number Five could appear and start breakdancing. He'd have more personality than this Jon D'oh.
"Hold Your Spin" starts off nice with whispering keyboards that give way to a relentless, militaristic thump and LeMaster's distorted vocals. The song shifts suddenly to a bouncy Ben Folds-style bridge, accented by strange claps radiating from different spots in the speaker. But every incidence of pop decency seems spoiled by the goofy choruses: "Were you born sideways? Did you have to rotate?" In some ideal world, this music would be the catchy chatter on the radio. But I've realized that this is the same pop inanity I'd make fun of if it were all over the airwaves. Sure, "6th Grade Roller" is a great driving song, with its danceable beat, maracas and analog synth, but do you really need to hear, "Fly around a ring/ I fly around a ring," repeated ad nauseum? It's been trapped in my head all day.
The later songs lose the pop luster and gain lyrical sensitivity. "Wonderful Scar" links a childhood accident with growing up, and the simple electric guitar chords and cymbal crashes make it a touching vignette. LeMaster's twang softens as the album moves on, and his composition skills become evident. The sparse drums and piano on "With a Subtle Look" illustrate a painful absence as he sings, "We started off across the room, locking eyes and subtle clues/ Connection then devotion grew, closer than our mothers knew... Now all the words we saved return to curse your name." Voices spiral eerily in the background, a disembodied drone used again in the splintered percussion and humming ambience of the melancholy album closer, "A Skeleton on Display."
Now It's Overhead is a very personal album. If you enjoy Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel or Elf Power, add a point or two to this rating. You might enjoy the combination of surreal production and unconventional rock, as well as LeMaster's ability to write songs that delve between the black-and-white into emotional complexity. But to compare: if Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs illustrates its tale of relationships through a window into pastoral Americana, Now It's Overhead tells a fragmented tale of a boy's coming-of-age framed through some superficial tricks from popular radio. The moodiness is a pill that's sweetened to the point where I gag. So I can't help but warn: you might want to duck this one.
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Years ago, my colleague and friend Louis Midgley drew my attention to an anecdote related by the eminent Protestant church historian Martin Marty.
It conveys an important lesson.
Marie de Vichy-Chamrond (d. 1780), the Marquise du Deffand, was a famous 18th-century French hostess, as well as a friend of Voltaire, Montesquieu and other leading intellectuals of the day. She was also a notable cynic and skeptic.
Once, when she was discussing religious matters with the powerful Roman Catholic Cardinal de Polignac (d. 1742), he cited a purported ancient miracle. The martyr St. Denis, he told her, the first Christian bishop of Paris, had walked a hundred miles after his execution, carrying his head in his hand.
Madame du Deffand immediately replied that, "In such a promenade, it is the first step that is difficult."
Whatever one thinks of the tale of St. Denis and his supposed walk — for the record, I don't buy it — her response is very cogent.
She meant, of course, that it's not the claim that St. Denis walked a hundred miles that poses a difficulty. (Most sources describe a walk of only about six miles, incidentally, with the saint preaching all the way.)
The distance is immaterial, a historical quibble.
The fundamental question is whether, after his beheading, St. Denis walked at all. If he did, the rest is mere detail.
Martin Marty used the story to identify what is fundamental in the claims of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, particularly as those claims have come under the lens of what he terms "the crisis of historical consciousness."
This crisis, he said, has been caused by the skepticism and intense scrutiny of modern historical scholarship, which has been directed against virtually all traditional beliefs, religious and otherwise, around the world.
"By analogy," he wrote, "if the beginning of the promenade of Mormon history, the First Vision and the Book of Mormon, can survive the crisis, then the rest of the promenade follows and nothing that happens in it can really detract from the miracle of the whole. If the first steps do not survive, there can be only antiquarian, not fateful or faith-full interest in the rest of the story."
Whatever complaints there may be about women's roles in the church, same-sex marriage, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, attitudes on racial matters, church finances, the Indian placement program, imperfect leaders or any number of other topics that tend to distract us — matters on which (please don't mistake me) I'm confident that the church and its leaders can be adequately defended — the fundamental claims are really quite few.
But if they are granted, other issues are largely mere detail.
If — to borrow Martin Marty's two "first steps" — Joseph Smith's account of his First Vision is true, and if the Book of Mormon is genuine inspired scripture, many other important conclusions follow. There is, for example, a personal God. Jesus Christ is his atoning Son, who rose from the dead. The Bible is God's word. Life continues beyond the grave. We are morally accountable. Joseph Smith is a prophet, a credible and reliable witness to divine things. God's true church, accompanied by divine priesthood authority, has been restored to the earth. And so forth.
My strong conviction is that we fare quite well on the fundamental issues. We simply need to keep our eyes and — to the limited degree that it's possible, our critics' eyes — on the ball.
Not long ago, I reread the classic tale from the "Thousand and One Nights" commonly known as "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp." You may remember the story:
By means of the genie in his magic lamp, the impoverished young Aladdin has achieved unparalleled wealth and married the beautiful princess Badr al-Budur. But an evil magician from North Africa covets the lamp and, one day, while Aladdin is out hunting, comes to his palace disguised as a merchant who wishes to trade "new lamps for old." The princess, knowing nothing of the power of the lamp and regarding such a trade as an obvious gain, surrenders her husband's nicked old lamp for a bright and shiny new one.
We would, I firmly believe, be just as disastrously mistaken as she was to trade the lamp of the gospel for a different one that lacks its miraculous power.
Daniel C. Peterson is a professor of Islamic studies and Arabic at BYU, where he also serves as editor in chief of the Middle Eastern Texts Initiative and as director of advancement for the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. He is the founder of MormonScholarsTestify.org. He blogs daily at dcpsicetnon.blogspot.com.
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—By Molly Redden
For years, as lawmakers in other conservative states passed onerous restrictions designed to limit abortion access, deep-red Tennessee stood out as an exception—because the state's constitution forbade many of the harshest anti-abortion measures.
But that changed on Election Day. Last week, 53 percent of Tennessee voters approved Amendment 1—a change to the state's constitution that will allow lawmakers to pass a slew of new abortion restrictions. And Republicans, led by Beth Harwell, the speaker of the state house of representatives, are already working on three abortion restrictions to debate in 2015: One measure would set up a mandatory waiting period between a woman's first visit to an abortion clinic and the time of the procedure. A second would force women to undergo mandatory counseling, known as informed consent, before an abortion. And a third would add new, unspecified inspection requirements for abortion facilities.
As I reported in September, Amendment 1 was aimed at overturning a 2000 court decision that struck down a 48-hour waiting period, an "informed consent" law, and a requirement that all second-trimester abortions be performed in a hospital. Amendment 1 reads: "Nothing in this Constitution secures or protects a right to abortion or requires the funding of an abortion," including for pregnancies "resulting from rape or incest or when necessary to save the life of the mother."
Supporters of Amendment 1 argued that the new language was necessary because Tennessee was barred from inspecting abortion clinics. (In fact, the Tennessee Department of Health inspected several of the state's clinics within the past year before renewing their licenses.)
Amendment 1 detractors, on the other hand, warned that the measure was actually aimed at using strict new regulations to close some of Tennessee's seven abortion clinics. This tactic is popular with Tennessee's neighbors. It's part of why nearly 1 in 4 women who receive an abortion in Tennessee live in another state, such as Alabama and Mississippi, where highly restrictive abortion laws have closed all but a handful of abortion providers.
Abortion rights advocates also worried that the amendment would allow abortion opponents to spread misinformation about abortion through an informed consent law; South Dakota, for example, compels doctors to tell women that abortion can lead to an increased risk of suicide—an assertion that mainstream medical organizations say is false. All told, both camps poured $5.5 million into the fight over Amendment 1.
It's not as though Tennessee was abortion-friendly to begin with. Before Amendment 1 came along, Tennessee passed anti-abortion laws that limited insurance coverage for abortion, outlawed the abortion pill, and caused two abortion clinics to close because they could not gain admitting privileges with local hospitals.
The real danger of Amendment 1 is that the measure "will basically just open the floodgates for the General Assembly to pass any kind of restriction if the amendment passes," Jeff Teague, the president of Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee, said in the run-up to the election. "We think they probably have a long list of things they're going to pass."
Turns out he was spot-on.
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While students around the country join Emma Sulkowicz's fight against flawed campus sexual assault policies, a new song by popular duo Play-N-Skillz is glorifying rape culture to the catchy tune of telling women to quit resisting and drink up already. The video, which came out in late October, has already been viewed more than 600,000 times.
Sample lyrics include: "A shot of vodka? I can't. Tequila? I can't. After party? I can't. Girl-on-girl? I can't. Literally I can't. Literally I can't."
This back and forth banter is repeatedly met with a resounding: "Oh my god. Shut the fuck up!"
On the surface, "Literally, I Can't" is a weak, and late, attempt to poke fun at an internet-established joke about a woman's inability to utter concrete sentences to describe their unbridled excitement/disgust/horror/delight. But the result is an incredibly offensive mantra with an equally repugnant video starring fratty dudes in "STFU" varsity jackets, imploring the prude sorority girls of LIC to give in and let loose.
Lovely, no? As for a purely musical assessment, the song is just insufferable. Envisioning bros singing along to it, red Solo cups at the ready, is eye roll-inducing. But when you recall that Sulkowicz is still out there literally carrying the weight of the issue, that's when it gets truly heartbreaking.
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In a move strongly backing net neutrality regulations, President Barack Obama announced his plan to reclassify the internet as a utility in order to preserve the web's "basic principles of openness and fairness."
Net neutrality has been built into the fabric of the Internet since its creation — but it is also a principle that we cannot take for granted. We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.
Net neutrality has been built into the fabric of the Internet since its creation — but it is also a principle that we cannot take for granted. We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.
In the announcement, Obama urged the FCC to implement four "common-sense steps" to help protect net neutrality, including increased transparency and the prohibition of paid-priority gatekeeping by internet service providers.
The decision, however, remains up to the FCC, which has thus far proposed new changes to allow content providers to pay cable companies for so-called "fast lanes" of service. Net neutrality advocates say the proposed rules are a threat limiting access to the open internet.
"Simply put: No service should be stuck in a 'slow lane' because it does not pay a fee," Obama said in the Monday morning statement. "That kind of gatekeeping would undermine the level playing field essential to the Internet's growth."
Unsurprisingly, the GOP is not happy with the president's plan:
"Net Neutrality" is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.
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"Net Neutrality" is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government.
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Americans spend a colossal amount of money betting on the lottery, even when the chances of winning have always been near-impossible. In fact last year alone, lottery sales raked in a massive total of $68 billion, according to the latest Last Week Tonight.
"That's more than Americans spent last year on movie tickets, music, porn, the NFL, Major League Baseball, and video games combined," John Oliver explained. "Which means Americans basically spent more on the lottery than they spent on America."
It becomes even more bizarre when you understand it's our states governments profiting from the giant business, which targets lower-income families who have historically spent more on tickets than the wealthy.
One of the frighteningly successful ways governments accomplish this is by creating ads that essentially mask the lottery as some kind of mutual fund or "charitable investment." Watch below:
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Republicans had a pretty good night last Tuesday. They won control of the Senate and added to their already-sizable House majority. They now hold 33 governors' mansions and 69 of the 99 state legislative chambers. But even as they solidified their grip on state governments, they came up short in one red state they'd trained their sights on—Kentucky. And that's bad news for Sen. Rand Paul.
While the national GOP's resources primarily targeted the state's Senate race, Paul focused his attention on winning control of the Democratic-controlled Legislature in Frankfort. His reasons went beyond mere party loyalty—he wanted a GOP statehouse majority to pass a bill, written with him in mind, that would allow a politician to run for Senate and president in the same year. He's up for reelection in 2016, and is also seriously considering a White House bid. But given the depth of the GOP presidential field that year, he doesn't want to bet the house on winning the nomination.
For Paul, a.k.a. the best-dressed man in Washington, this is hardly a deal-breaker. He got some good news on Wednesday, when Sen. Mitch McConnell, whom Paul dutifully backed in the face of a tea party primary challenge, all but endorsed his presidential bid. And if Paul were to drop out of the race early (say, in the face of an unstoppable Mitt Romney wave), there'd be plenty of time to get back into Senate reelection mode. But the longer he stays in the hunt, the more difficult things will become on the home front.
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The recordings Bob Dylan made with The Band in the basement of a house in West Saugerties, New York in 1967 have long been the stuff of legend. Bootlegged in part as Great White Wonder before the end of the decade, released officially in truncated and doctored form in 1975, and repeatedly bootlegged in numerous permutations since, these remarkable recordings found Bob and friends in back-to-basics mode, tackling a mix of enticing Dylan compositions (including "Quinn the Eskimo" and "I Shall Be Released") and rootsy covers with the verve of a boozy roadhouse ensemble. With a mind-boggling 138 tracks on six discs, The Basement Tapes Complete lives up to the hype. The performances range from sketchy fragments to fully realized pieces, many with surprisingly good sound quality. (The lowest-fi bits are consolidated on disc six.) The tapes also include obscure Dylan originals such as "I'm Your Teenage Prayer" and "I Can't Come In with a Broken Heart," while the covers revisit songs associated with Johnny Cash ("Folsom Prison Blues"), John Lee Hooker ("I'm in the Mood"), and Elvis Presley ("I Forgot to Remember to Forget"), among others. Endlessly fascinating, often surprising, and essential listening for Dylan fans.
Reading between the lines, I gather that Republicans are starting to coalesce around a legislative agenda to celebrate their recent midterm victory:
Oh, there's still some desultory happy talk about tax reform and fast-track trade authority and other "areas of agreement," but that seems to be fading out. Poking a stick in President Obama's eye is very quickly becoming the order of the day.
And no reason not to, I suppose. Republicans won, after all. But they shouldn't be surprised if Obama continues to plan to poke back.
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We end today's broadcast in the Gulf Coast as the worst oil spill in US history is in its seventy-fourth day. On this holiday weekend, with families across the country celebrating July 4th, our thoughts are in Louisiana, where we broadcast several weeks ago. We visit Grand Isle, a community devastated by the oil spill. [includes rush transcript]
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AMY GOODMAN: We end today in the Gulf Coast as the worst oil spill in US history is in its seventy-fourth day. On this holiday weekend, with families across the country celebrating July 4th, our thoughts are in Louisiana, where we broadcast several weeks ago. One of the places we visited was Grand Isle, a community devastated by the oil spill.
AMY GOODMAN: We're on Grand Isle Beach, the place where people come to around the country and around the globe, beautiful beaches, now covered in little globules of oil. And this is after the cleanup. It's right around sunset. And if you look out to the horizon, well, that's not the Deepwater Horizon, because that exploded on April 20th. But you can see the horizon is dotted with deep sea offshore drilling wells.
It doesn't look so dramatic here, what has happened. It's what's invisible. Katrina, everyone saw. Hurricane Rita, everyone knew the houses were toppled. But here, everyone is aware that they don't even know what the poison is in the water, but they know they have to stay away. Both the oil that's killing the fish, the birds, could hurt people, and also the dispersants. Not even the company, supposedly, is clear. Not even the government knows what's in these dispersants. And they've been dumped in the water to a degree, well, that has never happened before.
Right down the road from us is a graveyard a family built of their memories of what makes a Louisiana summer great, like shrimp creole and camping and fishing. They don't know if they'll ever be able to do that again here in the coast of southern Louisiana, here in Grand Isle.
DONNA SHAY: Well, it's actually more than a graveyard. It's just the memory of all the things we are going to miss about Grand Isle, when Grand Isle no longer exists.
PATRICK SHAY: And this is not just from us. This is from our families and friends. These are a list we devised, that our family and friends in Louisiana have. "Hey," we asked them. "What are we going to miss?" So we started this list. In fact, we even started out in Home Depot when we got the wood. We asked — the first one was a guy helping us with the wood — "What are you going to miss?" He said, "Fishing," which is pretty simple, but it's everything for us. It's a way of life.
DONNA SHAY: My son's walking his dog on the beach or flying a kite on a Sunday afternoon. All of that, gone. Could that be gone?
DONALD SCHOUEST: This is a memory of all that is lost, courtesy of BP and the federal government. In other words, meaning that we object to this oil spill, that we are against this.
AMY GOODMAN: What's your name?
DONALD SCHOUEST: My name is Donald Schouest.
AMY GOODMAN: You Cajun?
DONALD SCHOUEST: I'm Cajun, Cajun French, born in Larose, Louisiana. And I'm seventy-six years old.
AMY GOODMAN: And what's your name?
RIVER SHAY: River Shay.
AMY GOODMAN: And is this your grandfather?
RIVER SHAY: Yes.
AMY GOODMAN: OK, tell us about some of these crosses, River. How old are you, by the way?
RIVER SHAY: Thirteen.
AMY GOODMAN: Thirteen.
RIVER SHAY: Sand between my toes. Beach sunsets.
AMY GOODMAN: This is what you'll miss?
RIVER SHAY: Yeah. The sandpipers on the sand. I used to have a fish fry with my grandpa, and I'll miss that. And summer fun.
AMY GOODMAN: Do you really think all this is gone?
RIVER SHAY: It'll be gone for a while. But I'm sure it might come back.
AMY GOODMAN: River and his family in Grand Isle, standing in front of the 101 white crosses they erected for their dreams that have been devastated on the Gulf of Mexico in Grand Isle. To see all of our coverage and listen to and read our coverage on the Gulf of Mexico, you can go to democracynow.org.
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