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With the exception of gas-rich Trinidad and Tobago, the 14 other countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are energy importers. In fact, 93 percent of the region's energy needs are met by oil imports, which average 13 percent of GDP. Venezuela is the main supplier of oil to the Caribbean through the PetroCaribe agreement, formed in 2005, which provides oil on attractive financing terms. However, declining oil production, deficient investment, and faltering leadership in Venezuela's state-run oil company PDVSA cast doubt on the future of the arrangement. The termination of PetroCaribe would further wreak havoc on their tenuous fiscal situations. In many countries, Venezuela's largesse has been a double-edged sword—affordable energy but increased reliance on imported oil.
Energy dependence and vulnerability are serious issues in the Caribbean, where residents suffer from high and fluctuating electricity costs, frequent blackouts and poor service. Electricity prices are some of the highest in the world, averaging US$0.33 per kilowatt hour compared to $0.09 per kilowatt hour in the United States. Oil reliance is stifling the Caribbean's economy and the region must work towards diversifying its matrix if it wants to be competitive.
Natural gas might just be the solution. The Inter-American Development Bank recently held a Caribbean Energy Conference where panelists called for a transition to natural gas as a cheaper alternative. While natural gas would not be able to compete with subsidized fossil fuels from Venezuela, the termination of the PetroCaribe program would open the door for expanding the natural gas market. Jamaica, for example, pays 60 percent of crude upfront at market prices ($103 per barrel), and finances the rest with 1 percent interest over forty years—essentially receiving a 40 percent discount on their oil imports. The price of natural gas in the region ($10 per million BTUs) is not competitive with this discounted price. But an energy market where buyers had to pay market prices would drastically change the game for natural gas.
European governments were unlikely to be pleased to hear the call for reparations issued by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of state last month. The Caribbean countries jointly released a statement calling for forward action on a plan to pursue reparations for "repairing the damage inflicted by slavery and racism."
Is this really the best path forward to encourage development and future investment?
Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer of Antigua and Barbuda seems to think so. He argued that "nations that have been the major producers of wealth for the European slave-owning economies during the enslavement and colonial periods entered Independence with dependency straddling their economic, cultural, social and even political lives." Based on that principle, the CARICOM nations have enlisted the counsel of a British law firm as they seek to gain reparations from Great Britain, France and the Netherlands.
The basis of the grievances leveled by the CARICOM states are hard to argue with, but the conclusion that they draw—that reparations are the solution for economic, social and political problems—would appear to be a non-starter. A primary argument against reparations is that CARICOM states already receive over $450 million per year in foreign aid from Europe, a good portion of which comes from the three nations being targeted.
Should CARICOM be successful in its bid for reparations, one unintended and likely consequence is a scaling back of foreign aid from the target countries. Another likely outcome is that European nations and the United States would pull back on their regular contributions to regional economic and social development.
Caribbean officials have yet to name the specific amount of money being pursued, but unless the desired payment was in the tens of billions of dollars, the whole push for reparations is unlikely to make financial sense.
Trinidad and Tobago, known more for Carnival and sandy beaches, is not often discussed in terms of its strategic importance to the United States. Yet there are several reasons that this small two-island nation appears on U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's itinerary for his trip to Latin America next week. After traveling to Brazil and Colombia, home to the two largest economies in South America, Biden will visit Port of Spain just over four years after President Barack Obama was in Trinidad for the 2009 Summit of the Americas.
The juxtaposition of this small island nation with the extremely large and influential nations of Brazil and Colombia may appear odd. However, Trinidad and Tobago is quickly becoming a much more important player in regional affairs and an increasingly important friend of the United States.
While it is not the oil exporter that Mexico, Canada, and Venezuela are, Trinidad and Tobago falls just behind Ecuador and Brazil, on average, as a Western Hemispheric supplier of crude oil. Additionally, Trinidad and Tobago is the largest supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the United States. Trinidad and Tobago's position as an energy exporter becomes even more significant in the context of the U.S. goal to reduce its dependence on Middle Eastern supplies of energy.
Over the last decade, proximity to the Venezuelan coast has also made Trinidad and Tobago a prime transit point for drug traffickers moving narcotics out of South America to markets in Europe and the United States. Incidences of violent crime and narcotics-related gang activity have peaked, leading the government to declare a state of emergency in August of 2011. To help combat drug gangs, the Trinidadian government has worked with the United States government through a variety of programs, including the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative.
The United States opens World Cup qualifying today against Antigua and Barbuda, a game described by the Washington Post as David versus Goliath and his two snarling brothers. There is little drama to the outcome or indeed purpose to playing the game. True, if the Faroe Islands can have a team in World Cup qualification (um, where ARE the Faroe Islands?), then certainly the micro-states of the Caribbean are entitled to contesting the tournament, too. And, also true, the game does mean that the country will receive some press outside of the travel section of the newspapers, albeit small articles buried in the sports section.
But, really? The entire population of the nation of Antigua and Barbuda is less than 100,000 and could fit comfortably into the Dallas Cowboys football stadium. In all of World Cup history, only four Caribbean nations have ever gone to the tournament itself, all of which, not coincidentally, are among the larger states: Trinidad and Tobago in 2006, Jamaica in 1998, Haiti in 1974, and Cuba in 1938. The Benna Boys effort is therefore not just quixotic, it is somewhat of a farce.
So here is a proposal for consideration next time: the Caribbean nations should band together to compete under one flag, much as the West Indies do within world cricket competitions. The West Indies, or "Windies," are a sporting confederation of 15 mainly English-speaking countries, British dependencies and non-British dependencies, and, although their fortunes have lately waned, in the 1970s achieved status as the world's best. Much sporting success has come to the islands by pooling their resources. More importantly, working together toward a common goal is one element that has contributed at least somewhat to broader regional integration efforts.
The comparison is not perfect: soccer and cricket are different games, of course, and not all of those involved in cricket are eligible to participate in World Cup qualifying. As well, nations including Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica have achieved recent World Cup qualifying success on their own and may have little interest in participating as a group.
Nonetheless, the time has come to reconsider regional qualifying. Why not put together the island nations of the Eastern Caribbean, as a start (with or without Trinidad and Tobago), and enter the next time as a group? There are no guarantees that the results will be different, although the odds would at least improve; even with pooled resources the countries would still likely struggle on the pitch. Ultimately, though, that is not really the point, because the real agenda has to do with economic integration in the Caribbean Basin which continues to be more aspirational than reality. Building a team to compete in the World Cup would contribute to this long sought goal.
Today is the 101st observation of International Women's Day, a time to shine the global spotlight on the economic, political and social achievements of women. From my perspective, although Caribbean women are still victims of sexism, machismo and other forms of discrimination—unfortunately as in every other region in the world—their successes have been remarkably profound. The right of a woman to education and political participation is hardly denied. A number of Caribbean women are parliamentarians and ministers; the current prime ministers of Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago are female.
International media are beginning to notice. The Independent (UK), in a ranking of "The Best and Worst Place to Be a Woman," announced that the Caribbean is the best place for women to be a journalist and that the region has the highest percentage of women—almost 60 percent—working in high-skilled jobs. The Bahamas is ranked the highest for economic participation and opportunity for women. This progress shows that more people are finally divorcing from their prejudices, stereotypes and misconceptions about the societal status of women. However, as we rejoice in this euphoria it is crucial to issue a clarion call for change in areas where basic female rights are still violated, the most glaring of which is reproductive health.
Women and girls must have access to all options of modern contraception to make informed and responsible decisions about the size of their families. But this is not so. Women and girls in the Caribbean are still marginalized and negatively impacted by antiquated laws such as Sections 56 and 57 of Trinidad & Tobago's Offences Against the Person Act, which fail to account for their sexual and reproductive rights. When I asked on Twitter about which reproductive rights matter most to women in the Caribbean, one follower noted the "need [for] access to affordable, safe and legal abortions for the pregnant poor teenagers as well as the 'successful' married women."
Listen to a series of interviews with stakeholders in three countries of the CARICOM economic zone: Guyana, Jamaica and St. Kitts & Nevis.
On a global scale, very few women hold leadership roles in decision-making processes. This unfortunate reality holds true especially at the regional and national levels. Didier Ruedin, a scholar on population studies, notes that "in free and partly free countries, the proportion of women in parliament is closely associated with other measures of women's status in society." As the argument goes, if more women are integrated into society—and are viewed as respectable and capable leaders, equal to the social standing of men—then their participation in the political system is more likely.
And since 1945, when the United Nations Charter was adopted, equal opportunity for men and women has become a fundamental principle of human rights. In the gender equality movement, there have been significant changes over the years—particularly in the areas of entitlements and women's roles in certain activities including decision making. In fact, the 1975 genesis of International Year for Women spawned international agreements benefiting women. Some such declarations include the 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the 1993 World Conference on Human Rights, and the Millennium Development Goals, and they have been enacted to highlight the need for countries to act against discriminatory practices.
Yet many inequalities remain. Statistics show that:
• Two-thirds of the world's illiterate people are female.
• Nearly 70 percent of the world's poorest people are female.
• Women represent a growing proportion of people living with HIV/AIDS.
• In only 16 countries in the world does female representation in national legislatures amount to larger than 25 percent.
June 1: This AQ-Efecto Naím segment looks at sustainable cities in the hemisphere.


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What do you think of L'Oreal's new "Miss Candy" by Glam Shine?
Looks fun!
I was watching TV this afternoon, when I saw a commercial for L'Oreal's Infallible 24 Hour Eye Shadow. I thought to myself, do we reeeealllly need a 24-hour eye shadow? Who keeps their makeup on that long? Don't we all know how horrible it is to go to bed with makeup on?
I have to say, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt. I haven't tried it. But I've also not run into any point in my life where I've said "Gee, if only my eye shadow lasted a FULL 24 hours!"
Here's what L'Oreal has to say:
I thought this was such a strange idea, I decided to ask you guys:
I was at the store last weekend, where I saw there was a sale on Rimmel London mascaras. Buy one get one free! Who could pass that up? Not me! So I grabbed two mascaras that I thought I'd like to try.
So I sit down, put all my other makeup on (foundation, eyeshadow, etc.) and I pull out Max Volume Flash, my new mascara. I pull the wand out of the tube – and immediately I HATE IT. It pulled out a TON of mascara, and the brush was all gooped up with black mascara. I scraped it off, and tried to put it on, and I swear I hated it in two strokes. It's awful. It doesn't do a darn thing that it says it will. I've tried a lot of mascaras, and this one might be one of the worst. Look at that packaging! 14X volume! Fast – no mess lashes! Collagen and Keratin enriched! Their biggest brush ever! Psht. No good. I put the lid back on – and tossed it in the trash.
Then I decide to open the next mascara I bought, Glam'Eyes. I should have known I wouldn't like it just by looking at the wand. I hate small brushes. I like a nice – thick brush. But I decided to try it anyway, and I didn't like it at all. Again, everything it promises on the packaging is complete BS. Talk about false advertising! It's practically the same exact mascara as Max Volume Flash – just in a different tube. Definitely NOT worth my money, and I won't be trying any more Rimmel mascaras any time soon. I know Erin has tried one that she likes – but I'd definitely tell you guys to skip these two. They're no good.
So I can't leave you with all bad news, can I? How about 1 mascara I think you SHOULD try?
I'm absolutely in love with L'Oreal's Millions of Lashes! I have looooong struggled with drugstore mascaras, because in my opinion, they can't stand up to some of the more expensive versions like Diorshow. Aaaand then I tried L'Oreal's Voluminous Million Lashes. It was love at first stroke.
I adore this mascara. For only $8, you're getting what you could get for $30+ on a more expensive brand. It goes on smoothly, it isn't clumpy, the brush is fantastic, it doesn't flake, it actually DOES make your lashes look longer and fuller. In my opinion, it's one of the few drugstore mascaras that actually live up to the hype. If you're looking for a new mascara to try – try this guy. You won't be sorry!
L'Oreal has released a new in-salon Professional Fiberceutic Fiber Filling Treatment. In other words, Botox for hair.
Celebrity stylist Negin Zand at Sally Hershberger's West Hollywood Salone is already using the product on her celebrity clients, and the response has been great!
Who in particular? "Everyone," she says, with a sly smile. And we know her list of clients includes Jennifer Aniston, Angelina Jolie, Sheryl Crow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kate Hudson, Reese Witherspoon, Kate Bosworth, Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett, Diane Lane, Meg Ryan, Evan Rachel Wood, Jessica Biel, Jane Fonda, Megan Fox, Carey Mulligan, to name just a few.
This new L'Oreal product finds the damage in the hair strands and smooths out the surface, hence the nickname Botox for Hair. Zand explains: "The product is really great for women with fine, dry or colored hair and hair that's gotten damaged from blow drying and flat-ironing. It makes the hair smoother, shinier, silkier. But it can only be professionally once applied every six weeks. Like everything, there can be too much of a good thing."
The active molecule — trademarked as Intra-Cylane — is currently only available through salons and must be applied by hair-dressers. It is washed into the hair using a shampoo, and then once the hair has been towel dried, more of the chemical is added in serum form. Inside word is that L'Oreal will soon launch a range of consumer Botox for Hair shampoos and conditioners to be used in between the salon treatments. The treatment costs $100 at the Hershberger salon, located at 760 North La Cienega Boulevard, West Hollywood.
This new miracle product is just in time for the 2012 awards season. We're gonna go on record predicting a major hair trend: shiny, silky hair on the nominees and presenters at the Critics Choice, Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, Independent Spirit Awards and the Oscars.
I would be happy to offer my hair up as a test dummy if anyone local is looking to try it out! This helps explain why most these female celebs have amazing hair!
So I Googled this product, and did find that you can buy it on Amazon, although that kinda scares me.

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Pirates of the Caribbean 4: Five great actors that phoned in iconic roles for terrible sequels
Johnny Depp gotta eat. And pay his mortgage. And Disney pays very well. Maybe that explains why he looks so thoroughly bored in the new Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, opening tomorrow. Captain Jack Sparrow was endearing because he felt, in many ways, like Depp's id run amok -- a swashbucking troublemaker that pretended to be far less capable than he was, Depp's portrayal of Sparrow scared the hell out of Disney execs. Upon the film's release, however, he was immediately granted the status of icon, giving everyone in the world a whole new character to do bad impersonations of (see: Austin Powers). Now he feels like a tired creation, hampered by studio choices (quick, prove he's not gay via a liberal application of Penelope Cruz!) and begrudgingly brought to life by a great actor going through the motions. Depp wouldn't be the first to do so, nor will be the last, and at least he can go to sleep at night comfortable in the knowledge that he's among (some) truly great company (and surrounded by money).This is the smug grin you make when you no longer give a shit.
The Actor: Pat Morita
The Character: Mr. Miyagi
The Film: The Next Karate Kid
People forget that Pat Morita got a heartily deserved Oscar nomination for his role in original Karate Kid. Half the battle comes from the fact that the key demographic for the 1984 macchiosploitation flick had never seen an episode of Happy Days and had no idea that Pat Morita didn't talk like that or know karate. Karate Kid is one of those '80s movies you see when you're young and never really watch again, leaving you with a hazy memory of the cheesiest moments and absolutely no recollection of the scene where Mr. Miyagi gets drunk and breaks down sobbing while telling his protege about the death of his wife and child in a Japanese internment camp that occurred while he was winning war metals in United States Army for killing the hell outta some Germans.
After enough time has passed, iconic moments become rote. But try to imagine someone living their whole life without hearing "Wax on, wax off." Maybe there's some natives in Papua New Guinea or something (they probably know "Paint the fence"). And while there were two lackluster cash-grab sequels to the original Karate Kid, the fun was in watching the relationship between Daniel and Mr. Miyagi grow into something that no longer needed catchphrases. In other words, Pat Morita was TRYING.
That's not so much the case in The Next Karate Kid, which attempts to turn the Karate Kid series into some kind of anthology wherein Miyagi travels around the country, never discussing (or even seeming to remember) his previous student/best friend, teaching teens with bad attitudes how to do really bad spin kicks. Apparently Miyagi has discovered that his original, mysterious ways of embedding techniques in his students was ineffective, and it's better just to drive them an hour out of Boston to the massive Buddhist monastery hidden in the New Jersey mountains. Miyagi says, "If must fight -- win." Pat Morita says, "If must buy new house, drag out Mr. Miyagi."
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Recipes in this Collection
Very Good 4.4/5
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Crispy Chicken Breasts Submitted by STARBERR1E Carbs: 12.2g | Fat: 1.5g | Fiber: 0.4g | Protein: 28.2g | Calories: 180.4
A quick and easy version of an Italian classic that can be finished in the oven or on the stove. Submitted by SORCHACULLEN Carbs: 4.4g | Fat: 13.5g | Fiber: 0.9g | Protein: 38.3g | Calories: 299.2
This recipe was passed down to me by my Chinese coworker. Tastes like it was made in a Chinese restaurant! Submitted by JMM1383 Carbs: 36.6g | Fat: 7.8g | Fiber: 3.7g | Protein: 6.5g | Calories: 243.2
Very Good 4.5/5
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Not only easy, but low in calories, too! Submitted by CAGRANNY Carbs: 2g | Fat: 1.5g | Fiber: 0.5g | Protein: 26.6g | Calories: 148.6
Very Good 4.7/5
(23 ratings)
Delicious, unbelievabely moist, and slightly sweet. Super easy and fun to make. Submitted by CJSMITH7948 Carbs: 12g | Fat: 5.8g | Fiber: 0.3g | Protein: 24.2g | Calories: 203.7
This is a simple recipe that tastes amazing, it is also better than any traditional chicken Parmesan I had tried. When you consider it's lower in fat, takes about 10 minutes to put together, it's no wonder why this is my new favorite recipe. Submitted by MDKIMIST Carbs: 11.9g | Fat: 16.3g | Fiber: 1.7g | Protein: 36.9g | Calories: 349.2
Very Good 4.2/5
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Submitted by MBCI0449 Carbs: 4.1g | Fat: 1.5g | Fiber: 0.1g | Protein: 27.3g | Calories: 147.9
Delicious Oregano Lemon Chicken! I found this recipe on www.allrecipes.com. It's healthy and delicious. I make it often for my fiance' ( who hates healthy- so he thinks!!!) Submitted by KBUTLER118 Carbs: 10.4g | Fat: 4.4g | Fiber: 0.6g | Protein: 16.7g | Calories: 147.4
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I love this recipe, I made this up to flavor up some chicken and eat it al the time since I have been dieting. It is so good! I hope you all think so too! I like this the best with the chicken cooked on the grill but you can do whatever method you like to cook the chicken. Submitted by SNAVELA1 Carbs: 5.5g | Fat: 8.2g | Fiber: 1.1g | Protein: 41.2g | Calories: 285.6
Very Good 4.6/5
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Submitted by POOHFRISKEY Carbs: 20.1g | Fat: 8.3g | Fiber: 1.8g | Protein: 20.7g | Calories: 235.1
Very Good 4.4/5
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A taco salad that's as easy to make as it is nutritious! Submitted by SSEJICA81 Carbs: 23.8g | Fat: 8.2g | Fiber: 3.5g | Protein: 11.2g | Calories: 208
Very Good 4.3/5
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Healthy and delicious Submitted by RKELLYWHITE Carbs: 21.5g | Fat: 9.3g | Fiber: 1.5g | Protein: 25.3g | Calories: 298.5
Very Good 4.4/5
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A wonderful recipe that takes minimal prep time. Submitted by HAPPYKAT71 Carbs: 0.5g | Fat: 3.5g | Fiber: 0.2g | Protein: 13.2g | Calories: 89.4
Very Good 4.7/5
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Submitted by SLOCREATE Carbs: 19.1g | Fat: 11.7g | Fiber: 1.9g | Protein: 29.3g | Calories: 300.4


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Standard Commuter 2.1 Laptop Bag
Overall rating based on 265 reviews
Mike W – Verified Buyer
Really love the bag.. Only small disappointing thing is that the included laptop sleeve is fairly small considering the bag dimensions. They use Mac Book Pro for the 15" laptop reference. I, unfortunately, dont have a Mac Book.
I had to purchase a 3rd party sleeve to fit my laptop. That sleeve fits great in the bag. Im considering adding velcro to make it a 100% replacement..
Jeremy Ramey – Verified Buyer
Researching products before I buy them - reading user reviews, watching youtube videos, researching ratings from professional companies - is fun for me. When I knew I wanted a new bag, I started with about 10 different brands and narrowed it down to 4 - Mission Workshop, Rickshaw, Chrome Buran and Timbuk2. I ultimately went with Rickshaw and couldn't be more pleased.
I love that the look of the bag is customizable. Picking the bag's fabric textures and colors was fun. My bag is mine alone and doesn't look like something everyone else has. It has tons of pockets to store just about anything you could need from pens to kleenexes to dental floss. There's a lot of storage. I'm a concert pianist, music director and conductor. Currently I have two scores - each about 400 pages - in my bag, and I still have room for my piano tuning equipment and iPad. It's very nice that it stands by itself without having to lean up against something. The magnets to close it quickly and quietly are very nice. The strap doesn't get twisted and has nice padding - it's quite comfortable to wear. It's American made, a big bonus for me. All that and it's just one nice looking bag.
As for customer service, I placed my order over the weekend failing to realize that I hadn't filled out the street address for where it was to be shipped. On Monday, I had received an email from Katie, their director of operations, pointing out my omission. I replied back with the proper address. By that afternoon, she had replied thanking me (!) for my quick response. Awesome.
I write reviews quite often and try to be fair and balanced in my experience with a product. I can tell you in no uncertain terms I couldn't be more pleased with my bag... I really couldn't. This bag and this company gets my highest recommendation.
Laurie Vogel – Verified Buyer
I love the look of the bag and the shoulder strap is outstanding. I really like that the strap doesn't get twisted. The bag is a little bit too spacious so I tend to overfill it which is not good for my shoulders. The one thing, I dislike is that the flap doesn't roll (or lay) back all the way when the bag is open. My preference too, would be for the front pocket to be one pocket that unzips rather than two pockets. I'm a teacher and I utilize the front pocket a lot. It isn't as handy for my supplies as I had hoped. Overall I'm happy with my new bag and love the way it looks.
Mark – Verified Buyer
This is almost the perfect bag. I travel pretty much every week, so my bag is really my lifeline, everything I need at a moments notice gets crammed into every possible spot. My Commuter 2.0 is a pretty solid bag, and I like it overall. There are definitely a few problems I've had, which prevent it from being perfect.
1) The key chain strap in the pocket broke fairly quickly, specifically the part that holds the keys to the strap. It's a minor thing, and easily replaceable.
2) The D rings where the main strap connects to the bag tend to shift around until the straight part is no longer aligned with the part that holds it to the bag. This puts the clip on the end of the main strap at the hard corner of the D ring rather than floating along the curve of the ring. This results in a clicking noise at every step when the metal rubs against metal.
4) The stop for the cinch on one of my water bottle holder pockets popped off one day and getting it back on seemed possible, but maybe with a tool, or some technique I couldn't figure out on the go.
3) The water bottle holders are slightly too small for some of the 1L water bottles I buy at various airports.
4) The pocket at the back where all the pens and stuff go isn't particularly well organized. The little pouches are various sizes, but some are too big, others too small. Stuff tends to pool up at the bottom, which is pretty normal, the placement of this along the back means that the pool of stuff at the bottom digs into your back and requires semi-regular readjustment. I would move some of these organizer functions to one of the front pockets.
5) the little wings at the corners of the bag where the big cover piece closes have decided that they want to close facing out instead of in. I ignored it the first few times and now they like going that way better.
6) The laptop sleeve is technically removable, but requires winning a significant battle with a large amount of velcro, not the kind of thing you can do at the security line. Some sort of quick release would be awesome here.
7) In an ideal world for me it would be a tiny bit thicker in the main pocket. Maybe .5 inches. I'm constantly just short of getting a laptop, charger, some documents, a book and an ipad in there.
On the plus side, the magnetic closures are awesome. It holds a decent, but not overwhelming amount of stuff. The materials used all feel good to the touch, and it's pretty lightweight. I like the front pockets placement and ability to access. It stands up on its own, unlike some bags that lose their form without stuff to harden them. Overall I'm happy with my purchase and would recommend Rickshaw products.


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Replacing a button on one of my customer-facing shirts this weekend motivated some thoughts on resiliency.
Why did the button fall off in the first place? It was sewn on by machine, a clever bit of automation that is based on interlocking threads from the top of the garment with threads from the bottom. It is fast, efficient, an inexpensive manufacturing process. It's a sort of leverage.
The downside of machine stitching is that it lacks resiliency. Once any part of the thread suffers a loss of integrity, the entire mechanism begins to unravel. The entire strength of the joint rests on every single link of the chain of fiber, which is under constant stress from motion and washing.
In contrast, when a human sews a button on manually, the same piece of thread is looped around and around. Unlike a sewing machine, a human can push the same needle down from the top, and up from the bottom. This is slow, inefficient, and expensive. The result is a highly robust join of button to shirt with no single point of failure.
The upside of manual stitching is that it maximizes resilience. Even if part of the thread breaks or is worn, the rest of the loops remain in place. The button cannot fall off unless every single loop fails.
No enterprise can afford to hand stitch every single one of its digital buttons, but critical applications need to avoid short cuts that introduce single points of failure.
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Make an entire holiday dinner (Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Passover, etc) from scratch on your iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch! From Maverick Software, the creators of the best food apps for kids.
Mix stuffing, stuff your turkey, bake it and carve it. Peel potatoes, boil them and then mash them right on the screen. Or make some green bean casserole or macaroni & cheese. All your favorite sides, breads, desserts and salads are there, with fun interactive mixing, shaking, and swiping to bake.
After you've made the perfect meal, head from the kitchen to the dining room to serve up a plate. Add as much or as little as you want, then share your plate on Facebook or via email, or eat it by taking virtual bites. And you can always go back for seconds!
Main Dishes
– turkey
– turkey with stuffing (cornbread, chestnut, sage bread, sausage, oyster)
– ham
– goose
– roast beef
– rack of lamb
– cranberry relish, jellied cranberry, carrot raisin salad, ambrosia salad
– mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, mac & cheese, five kinds of dressing
– dinner rolls, crescent rolls, cornbread
– pumpkin pie, apple pie, cherry pie, pecan pie, Christmas pudding, fruit cake
Plus all the extras you need to make a perfect dinner- veggies like corn, brussels sprouts, peas, carrots, corn on the cob, roast potatoes, collard greens, green beans, cream corn & more. And gravy to pour over anything you'd like.
– Retina display and iPhone 5/5th gen iPod Touch tall screen support
– Fully iPad compatible, both landscape & portrait
– Game Center achievements to discover and earn
– 8 holiday plates to choose from
– Share your dinner via email, save to your Photos album, or post on Facebook
– VoiceOver support for visually impaired
Post a review with your requests for your favorite holiday foods for future updates!


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5/29/2012 1:14:58 PM by Nancy G Collins PhD RD LDN FAND
Phone Apps and Tech Tools for Consulting Dietitians: Something for Everyone
By Phyllis Fatzinger McShane, MS, RD, LDN
Content provided by the University of Maryland College Park Dietetic Interns
University of Maryland College Park dietetic interns presented Smart Phone Apps and Tech Tools for the RD at the Maryland Dietitians Health Care Communities' spring meeting. The consultant dietitians in attendance agreed—tech tools and phone apps can make life easier or one's practice more effective. Excerpts of the presentations follow.
QR codes are found on brochures, pamphlets, flyers, handouts, name tags, and business cards to share information via smartphones. Busy consulting dietitians can exchange contact information at business meetings via smartphones rather trying to remember to collect everyone's business cards. This also is a backup for when you run out of business cards. Several types of formats exist, but many people prefer the v-card format. In the future, we may grocery shop or track items with QR Codes.
Dropboxis a free service that allows you to bring your photos, documents, and videos anywhere and share them easily on computers or smartphones. You never need to worry again about having an e-mail too large to send or forgetting the thumb drive that contains your presentation. You can use Dropbox instead. Shared folders allow people to work together on the same projects and documents in different sites in real time. Shared storage up to 2GB is free. This presentation used Dropbox, because the PowerPoint was huge, and 10 interns needed to access the material in real time to evaluate the end product prior to presentation.
Phone app Epocrates® allows busy consulting dietitians to access drug, disease, and diagnostic information via their smartphones. In addition to free (and paid) versions on smartphones, Epocrates also offers a computer-based version. Epocrates provides reference information on thousands of drugs, calculators, including body mass index and fluid needs, and a section on current medical news and research. What a great thing to read if you are waiting for a meeting to start or during the last 5 minutes until supper service starts. You also should expect that your customers (the residents' families) will soon use this site as well.
Phone app Fooducate claims that "Fooducate is like taking your own personal dietitian to the supermarket." This app, created by dietitians and concerned parents, provides information on 200,000 food products. Fooducate states that it is not funded or influenced by food manufacturers. Use of Fooducate requires a smartphone with camera to utilize a UPC bar code scanner. Fooducate scans barcodes for its information and only can provide information on food items with bar codes. After a food item is scanned, it appears with a grade using elaborate algorithms. While not perfect, consultant dietitians can expect family members to begin using this site and asking questions based on this information.
Phone App NutriGuides was created by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and is currently available on iPhone and iPad, with availability of Droid apps anticipated soon. NutriGuides provides access to portions of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Evidence Analysis Library, which utilizes only evidence-based research to make recommendations. It is available for purchase as an Apple app for a one-time fee of $1.99. As more material becomes available, this app will become an absolute must for consulting dietitians.
SignUp Genius, another tech tool to simplify your life, helps with "real time" scheduling of staff training or sign-ups for projects, project meetings, or even an office party. In the latter case, it reduces e-mails, phone calls, and office chatter, and guarantees that the event will have only one set of napkins, rather than three sets of napkins and no silverware. Only the organizer must sign up as a SignUp Genius "free" member in order to develop the list of needed items and the participant invitation list, and to monitor responses and determine whether to use text or e-mail reminders. Various template formats are available for business use.
I'm surprised that Evernote wasn't included. Evernote is fantastic for managing just about everything. When I'm teaching I keep lesson outlines, files, images and documents in one note that I can then access to put a class together. I use Evernote's Hello add on to manage contacts. Evernote is free and syncs automatically across my laptop, iPad and phone.
Thanks for sharing the info. Thanks also to the interns for gathering the info. Going to go try to make my QR business card now! Peggy Turner
Would love to see more of this type of information. It is difficult to stay up to date on all the wonderful technology out there!
Tube Feeding Calculator + is pretty good also if you are in clinical. I think it's on both iPhone and Droid.
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PG Cert Development
Postgraduate Certificate development through an HEA change programme in this area. An additional grant will be made available to those institutions demonstrating the most effective use of the change programme.
12 projects
Total available: up to £0.45m
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Open Materials for Accredited Courses (OMAC)
Projects will involve the release of high quality resources to support HEA accredited programmes or schemes of professional development that meet the UK Professional Standards Framework for Teaching and Supporting Learning in Higher Education (UK PSF).
15 projects, at a maximum of £20,000
Total available: up to £0.3m
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Embedding OER Practice in Institutions
The focus of these projects will be on whole institutional change, with outputs stated as reviewed change strategies addressing the development and use of OERs by teaching staff and students. An additional grant will be made available to those institutions demonstrating the most effective use of the Change Programme.
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OER Themes
All projects will involve the collection and release of OER. In addition, each will demonstrate the application of this activity in responding to identified opportunities and challenges for the sector.
Projects from £40,000 to £200,000
Total available: up to £1.6m
The deadline for receipt of proposals in response to this call is 12:00 noon UK time on Monday 5th September 2011.
Funding is available for projects starting from 3rd October 2011 for up to one year. All projects must be complete by 2nd October 2012.
A community briefing event was held on 17 August 2011. A recording of the briefing is available here and the presentation is available at the bottom of this page.The system used for this online briefing event was Elluminate Live! and attendees were advised to view the hardware and software requirements for this system.
Proposals may be submitted by Higher Education (HE) Institutions funded by HEFCE. FE institutions in England that teach HE to more than 400 FTEs are also eligible to bid provided proposals demonstrate work that supports the HE in FE agenda. HE and FE institutions in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales are not eligible to bid but may be involved as partners in proposals led by HE institutions funded by HEFCE or FE institutions in England which meet the criteria outlined above.
Proposals may be from single institutions or consortia unless indicated otherwise in the relevant terms of reference. Partnership arrangements may be developed outside the sector (for example with research council sites, publishers, commercial suppliers), but the lead partner must meet the criteria outlined above. Funds can only be allocated through the lead partner.


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TweakTown uses a different method for testing CPU heatsinks which allows for an even playing field across all product tests. We feel that by using the same ambient temperature and strict lab-like testing procedures we are able to accurately compare one product to another. More information on our testing procedure can be found in the T.E.C.C. article here.
While at idle, the Titan Fenrir did ok, but not great. It reported in at 52.1°, some five degrees behind the best on our list, but this is due to the idle fan speed as well. Then I ran the load test and was really surprised to see what the temperature was, a mere 56.5° Celsius. This is a really good performer in my mind. Taking an average CFM fan and getting that type of result with just one fan is an admirable accomplishment.
Titan's claim to a low noise good cooling solution has tested well in temperatures, but what about the noise required during operation? - The Fenrir did an okay job at both idle and load testing and while they aren't setting any records with this solution, they are doing a better than average job of keeping noise at bay.


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In the Rutledge Asylum, Dr Bumby is treating Alice for a severe case of the mentally ills. After her family were killed in a fire, her state has deteriorated to the point where she's haunted by dreams, led around by hallucinations, and deconstructing reality in a way that's charming in fiction, but would bore the tits off you in real life.
This world is harsh, with her family dead, and Alice tolerated mainly by people plotting to betray her. This gloomy, unfriendly London is one of Madness Return's strengths. Olde Lonnedonne Towne is looming and claustrophic. The oppressive buildings and the tight camera angle blot out the sky. The grotesque residents are a nicely stylised reminder that Americans think we're a race of buck-toothed horse-creatures.
These real-world moments between chapters are sadly brief. After a short, slow chase through narrowing corridors, Alice winds up in the clockwork chapter of Wonderland. The Cheshire Cat is waiting, full of portent and friendly, wise and utterly unhelpful banter - another of the game's strongest moments. The Cat might look like he's just pulled his face from a bag of narcotics, but these chats feel in keeping to the source material. It's slowly downhill from here.
Strip away the stylings, and Madness Returns is an simple, old-school platformer. And these days, that's only really a compliment if you're bringing an interesting tweak, and immaculate execution. All Alice has is the quirkiness of its locations.
You'll enjoy the first chapter, but after that, the game is far too content to rest on its laurels. Each of the five chapters simply reskins and recycles these opening ideas, to the point where every move becomes fatiguingly familiar. Chaper 1's clockwork valves become Chapter 3's hookah pipes. Same shit, different graphic. A moment where everything goes 2D is visually great - but there's nothing in the 2D platformer to challenge or take advantage of the new ideas.
Snicker Snack Attack
Alice begins with a multiple jump - she can double jump, billow out her dress to glide, and interrupt that ladylike descent two more times with more jumps. This extended range means that the levels can be open and large, and the platforms far apart. Unfortunately, the naturally shallow angle of the camera can hide the platform you're trying to land on. This makes the whole process feel grubby and unsatisfying.
Even though you'll rarely miss the platform - and if you do, the punishment is negligible - the extended platforming sections of Alice will leave you feeling agitated.
The Insanarium
Alice is defenceless in the real world. She's ignored, abused, and attacked. In Wonderland, however, she's a brutal serial murderess. She carries the Jabberwocky-slaying snicker-snacking Vorpal Blade, and a pepper grinder. A hobby horse gives her a heavy hammering attack, and her last weapon is the teapot, which fires a chargeable puddle of steaming, corrosive Darjeeling that's excellent for scalding large groups of enemies.
Defensively, Alice can deflect strikes with her parasol, and sports an elegant dodge that transforms her for a couple of meters into a cloud of invulnerable butterflies. You also have in infinite supply of clockwork exploding rabbits, who can also be used to weigh down pressure plates.
As you'd expect, different enemies react differently to different attacks - beating enemies in Madness Returns is not a matter of stringing together light and heavy combos, and it's definitely not a matter of fine timing and quick reactions.


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Phone registration is underway for Canton author, Charles Steele, to discuss his newest book, "Discovering God in Science." Did the Big Bang create the universe? Did life start by chance, all without a cause? Does God exist? Many scientists are putting forth the God Hypothesis as an alternate theory to the origin of the universe. If you are interested in a cutting-edge debate about science and religion, then Discovering God in Science is a must-read. Join new author Charles E. Steele as he offers insight into this ongoing debate on Thursday, November 19th at 7:00PM in the library Community Room.


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text: DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky. – The beach at Pennyrile Forest State Resort Park is now open. Damage from heavy rains temporarily closed the beach earlier in June. Repairs have been made and the beach is open every day from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. during the summer. The rustic wood and stone Pennyrile Lodge, with 24 rooms, sits serenely on a high cliff overlooking Pennyrile Lake. Open year-round, the park has 12 cottages in the wooded lodge area and on the lake's shores. The restaurant seats 200, including a private dining room for up to 80. The park also has an 18-hole golf course with a pro shop, riding carts, pull carts and rental clubs. The course is open year-round, weather permitting. The park also offers hiking trails, fishing, basketball, tennis and horse campsites. Call 1-800-325-1711 for information and reservations, or visit www.parks.ky.gov


text: Kruger View Lodge is situated within the upmarket resort of Ngwenya. It's position on the banks of the Crocodile River, overlooking the Kruger National Park give one a unique opportunity to observe the abundant animal and bird life of this area. The house is set aside from the main hub of the resort, yet full use of the Ngwenya facilities are right on hand. It is 4 hours from Johannesburg and 10 minutes from Komatipoort.


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An excellent art exhibit is happening in Greenville, South Carolina.
British artist Julyan Davis has painted the South for more than twenty yearsempty rooms in abandoned mansions, state fairs, vanishing scenes from the Outer Banks to the Delta.
The Greenville County Museum of Art showcases his exciting new focus on Appalachian love songs and murder ballads.This exhibit runs from May 5 through July 1st. It will continue to Morris Museum in Augusta Georgia.
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Has love ever made you want to throw yourself off a bridge, or throw someone else off a bridge? Davis asks. These paintings interpret some of the Souths oldest songs, placing them in modern day settings to remind us that nothing really changes. Lovers still fall prey to despair and suicide, or end up in the crime report.
Such music drew Davis to the South directly from art school in London. Hes brought its colorful culture and history alive on canvas ever since.
Sometimes it takes an outsider to draw attention to the strangeness of the everyday, Davis says, The British director Ridley Scott made telephone poles beautiful in 'Thelma and Louise.' Thats what I seek in my work: to find the sublime hidden in the familiar, the revelatory moment that comes at us without warning.
As for the ballad series, well, this music is close to my heart. I inherited an enthusiasm for it from my father. With their Celtic origins, these songs have provided my connection to the Southern landscape since my arrival here half my life ago.
Followers of Davis career describe his paintings as being haunted by a human presenceempty places that somehow told a story. With "Dark Corners" the power of his imagery, and the mystery of narrative are amplified in these large, cinematic canvases. I paint my life, Davis says, Whether we write songs or paint pictures, as artists we have a great gift an outlet for our emotions. I am grateful for that.
Julyan Davis received his art training at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. In 1988, having completed his B.A. in painting and printmaking, he traveled to the South on a painting trip that was also inspired by an interest in the history of Demopolis, Alabama and its settling by Bonapartist exiles.
His work has been exhibited from London to Los Angeles, and in many private, public and corporate collections including the Greenville County Museum of Art, the Gibbes Museum in Charleston and the Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, Georgia. "Dark Corners:The Appalachian Ballad," along with other work, can be viewed at julyandavis.com.


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But I do not seem to find it on my openSUSE 10.0 distro, nor is it listed as a core, graphical, management or 'other' application on Koffice's webpage and the FAQ does not mention it either.
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Island City, Union County, Oregon Lee Humphrey Passed Away William Lee Humphrey died last night at the Grande Ronde hospital, where he has been the past few weeks. The deceased was 65 years of age. On account of a severe accident a few years ago, Mr. Humphrey has been an invalid the most of the


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So much for local color. Elsewhere, there was no dearth of pomp and pageantry. To the delight of most Coloradans, the Nebraska Cornhuskers finished off an unusually dim 7-7 year with a loss to underdog Mississippi in the Independence Bowl, and Washington (home to generally despised ex-CU coach Rick Neuheisel) blew a seventeen-point lead to eventual winner Purdue in the Sun Bowl. Football fans with virtually nothing on their plates (except ham) flipped on the boob tube at 10 a.m. MST on December 31 to watch Boise State and Iowa State contest the ill-named Humanitarian Bowl -- direct from the tropical splendor of Boise, Idaho. The game was played on a blue-painted artificial field in a steady downpour of freezing rain, before a crowd of, well, hundreds. One of the TV announcers was suffering so badly from laryngitis that he probably needed a week of recuperation in, say, Grand Forks. Boise State (aka the Broncos) won. Wearing orange and blue, of course.
Minnesota, Wake Forest, Fresno State and Michigan all pulled off bowl upsets -- but you already knew that -- while Texas, Oklahoma and Georgia administered thrashings to their respective opponents, Louisiana State, Washington State and Florida State. Some of this we might never have known -- at least not first-hand -- had a fiscal dispute between Denver's Channel 7 and the AT&T cable-TV people gone unresolved. The ABC affiliate had threatened to yank its programming off cable on January 1. Alas, the beef was settled at the eleventh hour, and -- for better or for worse -- five big-deal bowl games were saved from local banishment.
In his way, so was O.J. Simpson. To the evident discomfort of university officials, the former Southern Cal running back and accused wife-murderer popped in, uninvited, at one of his alma mater's Miami practices for the Orange Bowl, grinning and hugging and -- if we don't miss our guess -- telling the current Trojan players to get out there and kill Iowa. In Pasadena on New Year's morning, a brief glimpse of the annual Rose Parade revealed a float the size of Rhode Island that looked like a rotating mechanical village atop a birthday cake atop Anna Nicole Smith's breasts. It had been awarded a trophy for "exceptional merit in multiple classifications."
There's more. Preliminary to the Biggest Bowl Game of Them All -- last Friday's Fiesta Bowl, Ohio State's freshman running back, Maurice Clarett, loudly complained that the university had failed to provide him an airplane ticket to attend a friend's funeral. But Clarett was on hand for the Buckeyes' unlikely, referee-aided upset of number-one Miami. And just in case you were snoozing in the recliner during the aforementioned Continental Tire Bowl -- you may want to know that West Virginia Governor Bob Wise demanded a post-game apology from University of Virginia President John T. Casteen. Never mind the score: Virgina: 48, West Virginia: 22. During the halftime show, a Virginia student pep band took dead aim at West Virginia's rep as a socially challenged backwater with a skit based on TV's The Bachelor: In the parody, the "contestant" from West Virginia was gotten up as a hillbilly complete with pigtails, bib overalls and a gift for square-dancing.
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As I wrote a few days ago, in anticipation of the demise of Open Salon, I installed a Firefox addin, DownThemAll, which promised to "batch download" most of my blog posts at the click of a mouse.
It did. And it also sucked all of them down from Open Salon permanent. I will be reposting them as they were that day, comments and all. What really hurts is that the stats they had--this one had reached over 30000 views--are now wiped out, too.
You may comment again, of course, 'way down at the bottom. But...the damage is done. I just want them all back up here for "history's sake." I do have copies and Google offered up cached versions that I could snatch the html code from.
So here's the Trayvon piece that landed me on Democracy Now, eventually...
Donna Summer does the "Working Girl Beep"
Me, back when I heard that beep 'way too often...
I'm not going to comment on the 911 calls, the police negligence or the firestorm that followed Trayvon Martin's death.
I'm just going to tell you why I'm not shocked that it happened or that the man who shot Trayvon Martin wasn't arrested. And why even knowing all that…hearing him screaming for help seconds before he was murdered made me cry bitter tears.
And brought back the memory of another dead black boy, whose mother I knew and still admire for the electrifying and unforgettable lesson she taught us in his name.
I'm just pouring out my soul here, so it's gonna be kinda ugly. But so is what happened to Trayvon.
"Walking While Black" has been an issue since…slavery. But if you're black woman walking in certain places at certain times…there's a little twist to that "offense". Here are my "walking while black" stories.
And every black woman I know has at least one or two just like them. The sole difference between Trayvon's story and ours is that we usually live to tell ours. But sometimes…we're too ashamed…
Working Girl—the gist of it all
This is the basic story. The better stories, variations on this theme, follow.
As a reporter for the Chicago Sun Times, I was often out late at night or in the wee hours of the morning covering stories or taking a late shift…whatever the job required. And I lived in a very popular and very congested area of Chicago at the time, where it was nearly impossible to park, even late at night.
So I tended to take cabs or buses—especially in winter when my car was invariably buried in huge drifts of snow. I always stood on relatively busy corners, but I was usually the only woman out so late/early.
But even if there was lots of traffic and people walking or even standing there with me waiting for that bus…I knew it wouldn't be long before I got the "working girl beep." Especially if I was well dressed for some sort of gala event or more formal setting…or, actually, even if I wasn't particularly well dressed.
Black men would beep and wave, or call out a hearty, "Go 'head, Shorty!" and keep going. Not one ever pulled over. Only white men did that.
If he was a young man driving what he thought was a hot car, he'd ease up to me and give me a little once over and a smile, waiting for me to tip on over and run down my "menu." IF I hadn't already started walking toward the next bus stop or back toward my building.
On occasion, I would just look away, and wait and see if I got the, "Oh, what? You too good for me? You think you're too good for me, (fill in any obscene or insulting racial epithet here)! F*** you, anyway!"
Sometimes, they went into a loud, livid diatribe about how maybe I only liked those big black…well…you get the picture. But whatever they said, I learned to take off running if the streets were really deserted, because they invariably came back to try again and cuss even more if I still ignored them.
Older white guys cruised me nervously and usually did not speak. I always felt as if they were married and either new to cruising or just had better instincts than the younger ones, and knew in their hearts that I wasn't really "in the life". So they usually sped off as soon as I turned my gaze away.
But aside from the cussing, I was never actually threatened…or, not with violence. And that leads me to:
The Beverly Hills Hotel incident—followed by another one just like it but 'way more serious
This first one is one of my favorites. The ones that follow still make my blood boil.
But the "funny" one first.
I was staying at the very famous Beverly Hills Hotel, the Pepto Bismol pink second home to sooooo many stars I won't even go there right now. Except to add that at the time I was there, wanna be stars used to have themselves paged in the pool area, just so that they could strut their stuff past all the agents and managers and directors and whatnot that hung out there.
It wasn't cheap, but it was a great place to stay if only because when you told someone you were staying there, they kinda freaked out a little bit. And this one time I was there just to be there—not working, just resting and having an LA adventure without a deadline to meet.
And while I was there, a huge mansion just a couple of blocks away had become the talk of the town. It had been bought by a Middle Eastern billionaire who had promptly painted it a garish green, and had all of the nekked statues around the grounds and fountains made more "true to life," with flesh colored paint and black pubic hair.
I wish I was kidding. But I'm not. I saw it with my own two eyes.
Because one day, having found out exactly where this house was, I decided to take a stroll and get a good look. And I got there without any problem. I did a slow stroll past the train wreck to get a good look, and then walked a up aways before crossing the street to walk back on the other side of the street, for one last look to confirm that I'd really seen what I'd seen.
And on my way back, I was followed and then stopped by an LAPD cop—I still believe it was because someone saw me and called 911.
He got out and stood in the street by his squad car giving me a pretty icy glare. And then he asked me where if I worked for someone "around here."
I told him I didn't.
So he asked me where I was headed.
I told him.
And then he smiled a little. A real smarmy, "NOW, I get it," smile. And I remembered that a lot of the women in the lobbies and bars of the best hotels were "on the take," so to speak.
I didn't smile back.
So he asked me if he called the front desk would they ring my room or…something like that.
I said, "That's a great idea. Give 'em a call."
And when his face turned to stone, I realized I'd made a big mistake.
He explained to me in a very serious voice that a "stranger" walking up and down the streets in that particular neighborhood was always "kinda suspicious."
And then he walked around the car and leaned against it.
"Can I see some ID?" he asked.
I thanked God then and there that I had brought my wallet along—why I had brought it, I have no idea, but it was in my pocket. So I produced, for his viewing pleasure…
My Chicago Sun Times press card.
Oh, snap.
He stared at it for a long time, his expression now rather befuddled. I think he was trying to figure out if it was counterfeit or something.
And then he looked up and said, "I call this number, they'll know you?"
I resisted the urge to roll my eyes and just said, "That's another good idea."
Which…was as bad as rolling my eyes would've been. And if I'd been a black male…I probably would've been thrown on the car or the ground and handcuffed right about then.
But he was turning really, really red in the face. And he started to explain, without the smirk, that it really was true that people didn't usually walk around a lot "over this way." It made people kinda nervous. And of course…it was a woman, walking up and down, so…
I didn't ask him to complete that thought. But he had another one for me.
"You're not gonna write about this, right?" he asked me. Sincerely rattled.
It was my turn to do the smirky smile.
I said, "Nah. Probably not."
The "probably" was just to rattle him a little more. It did.
"Seriously, I just was makin' sure, you know? These people around here, they get jumpy. "
I didn't respond to that.
So he said, "I mean…c'mon, you're not gonna call and tell 'em…"
I told him it wasn't that big a deal. And he exhaled...and told me to be careful about "that stuff" from now on, before rushing back to that driver's seat and pulling away. And even after all that, he went kinda slow until I strutted into the lobby.
Poor thing, I bet he waited a good long while for his boss to call him into his office and give him hell for harassing a reporter. But I kept my word about our little encounter. Until now.
A variation on that theme:
I'll cut to the chase. I was taking a short cut through a rather wealthy suburb of Chicago on the way back to the Sun Times after a concert, when I stopped at a light, and a squad car "whooped" and pulled up beside me.
The cop pointed to the curb, so when the light changed, I pulled up and over. And he got out, walked up to my window and told me it was kinda late for me to be out driving around. And asked me, with one of those smirky smiles, if I lived "in town here."
I said, "No," and he smiled a little more and said, "I didn't think so."
He kinda complimented me on my "real sharp" outfit. And then he sort of leaned down 'way too close to my face, and said, "You know…if you're nice to me…you can be on your way, no problem."
I was angrier than I could say or show at that moment. This was the kind of no-win situation no woman wants to be in. And that too many women of color find themselves in far too often.
That's when I decided not to wait for him to ask for ID. I said, "Look, I'm a reporter for the Chicago Sun Times and I'm reviewing a show--see that press thing on my dash there?"
He craned. And indeed, I did have a press parking pass that I could use to park almost anywhere I wanted when I was on the job.
I also showed him my press card. And given that this was very near Chicago…he got really, really scared. The Sun Times had a reputation for doing exposès on all kinds of corruption in the area. They had even bought a bar and put hidden cameras in it, to catch cops and government officials taking bribes.
So he was sure he was on "candid camera," too, I think. And he said almost the same thing the other cop had said.
"Aw Jeez. You're not going to write about this, are you?"
I didn't have time to play with this one—I had a deadline. So I said, "I've got bigger fish to fry, believe me."
And he was so glad I'd said that that he didn't even realize that I'd just sort of wised off to him. He told me to drive safely (I love that part) and took off. I checked my mirror a few times to see if he was following me, but he absolutely wanted no trouble.
Walking a dog while black
I should've seen this coming. The Oro Valley, AZ police had already questioned my ex-husband one day when he was sitting outside of our apartment waiting for our daughter to come out for a day with Daddy.
When I went outside to find out why Dad was being questioned, I was told that there'd been a few robberies around our way lately and--get ready, because they really do say this—Daddy "…fit the description. Hispanic male, kinda tall…thin…"
"He's not Hispanic. He's Hopi," I said. Which…didn't really matter since the cop wouldn't have known the difference, really.
But it caught him up short anyway. And after a few more lame excuses, he looked at our daughter who'd come outside to find out what was going on, and loped back to his squad car and left.
Again, this shouldn't have surprised me. A few weeks before that, a few of my Hispanic and black students started walking from the "snob school" a few blocks from our apartment hoping to escort me to the championship game they were playing.
They never got there. A cop followed and then stopped them. And when they explained who they were, he glared at them even harder.
But he turned around and headed back toward the school. And the boys were so mad that they played harder than I'd ever seen them play. And they lost because of a strange "problem" with the clock that nullified a final basket.
We did some serious discussions and essays about how males "of color" were treated in neighborhoods like that. They had some incredible stories to tell. And were relieved to be able to tell them to someone who wouldn't tsk and tell them they were "too sensitive" or too quick to play the "race card."
So….let me get to the point, finally. I told you this would be ugly.
One morning around 6 a.m., I headed out, as usual, to walk our beloved Pomeranian, now much missed and lovingly remembered, so that I could get back and get my baby up and ready for school and myself ready for work on time.
Because it was still dark at that time of year, I was wearing a t-shirt, baggy pajama bottoms, curlers and some sort of jacket—I don't remember what kind. And fuzzy slippers, too. Real "sharp outfit," right?
And about mid-block I was suddenly blinded by a very bright light.
I shielded my eyes and then could make out, in the street just ahead of me, a squad car that had stopped. The cop had turned that big light they have up by the rear view mirror on the driver's side.
I didn't stop. I was in no mood to deal with this nonsense at 6 a.m. a few feet from my house.
I let Bijou do her business, turned, and walked back to the house with the light and the car still following me. And then I went into my house and peeked through the blinds. He was still sitting there.
I guess some black woman with curlers, baggy jammies and a toy Pom on a leash had robbed a house recently—who knows?
But by the time I went out to the bus stop with my baby girl and all her pals, and Bijou, too…he was gone.
The Emmett Till connection
So, again, it was no surprise when I heard that a 17-year-old Black kid with a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea was shot by a neighborhood vigilante who followed him around the gated community because he looked "suspicious."
Or that the murderer hadn't been arrested, despite his history of overstepping his appointed duties—he'd made dozens of similar 911 calls before deciding, this once, not to heed the dispatcher's warning to stop following the "suspect" and leave it to the police.
His mother has asked the media to stop playing that the 911 call with Trayvon's terrified cries in the background. But I believe she should follow the lead of my my 5th grade teacher, Mamie Till-Mobley, who made an extraordinary and painful decision when she brought the battered, water-bloated body of her teenage son, Emmett Till, home to rest at last.
She kept the casket open. She wanted the world to see what had been done to her baby boy. Because she knew that one look at that ravaged, misshapen "thing" in the casket would say more about the world in which such things could happen to a teenage boy than any sermon or speech.
We need to hear those bone chilling screams and the shot that killed Trayvon seconds later.
Yes, it's a parent's worst nightmare come true.
But it might finally wake the whole world.
I hope this gets thousands and thousands of views.
It is shameful that ANYBODY is FORCED to write about this. How I WISH you got an EP for writing about some WONDERFUL DREAM but as you say "the whole world" needs to wake up from these nightmares now. May Trayvon's screams be THE screams that are heard around the world. How's that for a wish?
I must admit-
I just recommended "for review."
I lost a bit of boldness in translation.
now it seems like every generation needs to be taught how to pick up the struggle for equality and justice just where the previous generation left off...
This Trayvon Martin case is pivotal. There is no way they are going to get away with this miscarriage of justice because there have been too many of us who barely escaped the same fate. And I agree with you. While I can understand his mother not wanting to hear her baby's terrified screams for help before that gut-wrenching gunshot went off, it needs to be played over and over and over until all the so-called apologists for Zimmerman's behavior and for the unconscionable lack of action on the part of the police department can get it through their thick heads that this was a cold-blooded murder.
"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open."
Stories like yours help us see the truths. Mamie Till-Mobley's brutal truth reveals a world split open. You make a powerful Emmett Till/Trayvon Martin connection.
Rated for creeping hopelessness.
These stories may turn a white privileged or simply naive or ignorant or actually credulous reader into thinking how bad it was- well, I'm glad you were OK, but you were a credentialed reporter: the rape and forced oral sex that cops, particularly in the south, but also the white cracker cops of old Harlem and Oakland, well, those are stories so numerous as to actually be qualified for statistical analysis.
A very striking and highly instructive example was the Southern White Klan Haters response to, of all company's, Fox's (yes, they used to be socially conscious, if you can believe it :( classic film about Southern cracker haters, the highly regarded, "Pinky"- not actually incredibly, once you realize denial is a way of life for hating racist cracker KKK Tory Cavalier scumbag rape artists and murderous lynchers, they howled like crazed hyenas at the release of the movie as one scene had two cracker (yes, I use the word and won't stop- f'ing crackers!) cops about to rape Pinky, and slapping around another black woman (art imitates life) as the star of the film she was saved by the sudden appearance of a witness- well, this is the true story of hater cops and women of color, rape or forced oral sex in exchange for going on your way home.
Anyone with a problem with this needs either immediate truthful education or extensive psychological counseling to deal with their sheeple brainwashing.
I personally love lunching at the Polo Lounge, but, I always valet and then drive the hell out of there, not make the mistake of actually walking or even touring the "hood" by car.
Where are you OS right wing haters, how come you are suddenly the most silent cowards on the planet? Oh yeah, because here you'll get blowback for your hate and misogyny, while you can spew your cancer on Yahoo comments (read some, horrible cracker hate everywhere) or just go to red state dot com or, worse, some militia site, and listen to the goons say what a good job Zimmerman the coward hater did ... that is why we spell AmeriKKKa ... speak up haters!!! We want to see the real you.
I have only one thought "OMG!" It was a rising mantra as I read through your post. If any man pulled up to me on the street and basically asked "How much?" I would tell him, "Probably two years for soliciting."
But since I'm white, I could get away with that. I can't imagine the horror of keeping that bottled up, or worse, having to make a run for it.
I then understood the horror and pain African Americans must feel all the time. Most whites simply don't ever find out, and so not enough Americans will stand up. I too hope this story does not go away and I think your post helps.
The enemy here is the mountain of ignorance that we have inherited from tired, useless politicians, people with something to sell -- protect us. Well people, they did a real good job, the insurance that we bought here is costing us, now, that the flood of violence is rising ... The new leaders have no answer, other than to pass 'Stand Your Ground' laws, which protect no one, other than some politicians' chances for re-election. Imaginary self-defense is still braking the law. This fatuous creep that was Barney Fife with slower wit and a Glock, is being protected by bad people elected and bad law, all in the name of protection!
Who will protect us from such people?
When my husband got stopped for "suspicion of shoplifting" a couple of weeks ago, he assured me "nothing has changed." I argued that things HAVE changed. "We have a Black president, for Christ's sake," I insisted.
I want to believe things have changed.
I know he is right. And it makes me cry.
The end of this boy's life makes me cry the hardest. ~r
A change MUST come. And that young boy with the big doe eyes may be the sacrificial lamb who forces the whole world to finally "see" what so many young black, Hispanic, Asian and Native American and other children of color and of both sexes already have. I must add the LGBT kids who are preyed upon similarly, and perhaps even more vehemently in certain communities.
Trayvon is a symbol of all of the injustice suffered daily by millions. And I say, again, that perhaps his death be that "wake up call" we so desperately need.
"Go 'head, Shorty!"
I was never just a pretty face. But experience has given me a deep wisdom that shines soooo much brighter now. Still...it's a kick to look upon the younger me, and congratulate her for showing such poise under pressure...
I haven't heard anything about the case you've revealed to us. But...I wish I could say I was surprised. I just can't.
Now that I'm older and wiser, your horrific recountings affected me even more powerfully. I am flooded with anger and frustration that no matter what we did, what we do, it's never enough! Ignorance and blind fear and hatred stay too strong, just out of reach. At least we can all benefit from your courage and wisdom. It gives me hope.
My beau decided to see what would happen if he drove the car one morning. And almost immediately after getting on the highway, he was stopped. But when he got out of the car, the cop startled and then grinned.
"I knew this wasn't that boy's car," he said.
And my beau said, "What boy?"
"That boy from overseas somewhere. With the accent. Black boy."
And my beau said, "Ah, Vukile! This is his car. I'm just borrowing it for the day."
And the cop apparently gave him a blood curdling stare and said, "Boy, you got the wrong kinda friends..."
From then on he was very, very watchful whenever we went out in that area--very protective of me, most of all. We both had learned a valuable lesson about our new home state from that.
Each time, it took a part of humanity away from this world.
Again, sorry this happened to you!
One minor correction: it was not an LAPD cop. It was Beverly Hills PD, because both that house (oh, boy, did it twist the locals' knickers in a bunch! Here's a link to a representative story on it) and the "Hotel California" are in BH. The fact that he was alone is proof that someone called it in thinking you were looking for "business." (LAPD squad cars always carry two. Unless it's a sergeant out for a spin.)
rated with love
To the rest of you...I'm grateful and humbled by your comments and the experiences many of you relate are just more evidence that something is very, very wrong in this country, still, when we have to endure such injustice every day of our lives.
I really do believe that child's death is making a difference. I just wonder how long we'll continue to care. He's the "cause celebre" right now, but that may change as soon as a new outrage takes over the front page.
In those days the national headquarters of the Aryan nation was located in Ohio a little north of Cincinnati area. Pre 9/11 we had metal detectors set up and special security when Morris Dees spoke on campus, brought by NKU groups including Chase College of Law. There had been death threats.
It really is not an accident that the Underground Railroad Freedom Center is located on the river in Cincinnati. So much learning to do.
Too many children are buried in this country. All of our souls know it.
The eight-grade math of massively frisking New York City's minorities: After -- crime was reduced by 4X, stop-and-frisk went up by 6X = 24X as many frisks per reported crime.
This means -- either -- that those police officers and administrators responsible for reducing crime to 25% of what it was were totally remiss and neglectful in their patrol duties (wouldn't that be a contradiction in terms?) -- or -- that the Fourth Amendment has been totally suspended for New York City minorities (the mayor's intended victims?).
Could 24X increase in frisking be a move by Mad King Bloomberg* to reduce the numbers of the less affluent and minorities -- to make room for more of their opposite numbers? ???
3 reports of walking Blacks.
I KID YOU NOT! My father and I were appalled. My dad, who was a lawyer went to the association and threatened them with a lawsuit. His main argument was "should they crawl? and that would be ok?" Needless to say it didn't make him many friends but within a few years the neighborhood slowly became diverse so that by the time my kids were around it is now a completely diverse area. This was the early 70's but it still makes me cringe. When my daughter was in a different state because of Katrina she made me drive 400 miles to get her because the school she was in did not celebrate MLK Day because as was explained to her "do you see any blacks here?" I didn't want to drive 8 hours but I did and it was one of the proudest moments of my life.
I teach English at a large commuter university in the south, and I frequently assign Brent Staples' "Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space" in my freshman comp courses. This entry will (sadly) make an excellent companion piece. Thank you for teaching me something new (to me) today.
And if your name is George Zimmerman, what are you going to do if I decide you scare me (I'm an old man, and sick) and shoot you? Could happen if you come to my part of Florida...
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Sadly, I am surprised by none of this. Where I live as a white man, I hear prejudice regularly, and it is assumed that I agree, which of course, I don't. One of the those who responded here made reference to our country's mental illness, which I find sadly true.
Why do people celebrate hatred, when they could be celebrating life.?That is a question we must all answer. Critical thinking, and compassion seem to be unappreciated by far too many in this world.
Personally, I believe in modeling, and being the best me, I can be.
Let us love one another.
As a straight white male, I understand how others who look like me fail to see the racism still rampant in our country and the fact that we (I) benefit from white privilege.
But what I find interesting/disturbing is that whenever I bring up the fact that we benefit tremendously from white privilege (on comment boards or in person), I'm usually confronted with plenty of angry and defensive push-back.
I think a lot of white folks hear that and think I'm saying that all white people are racist and that we should be ashamed of ourselves. That's not it, of course, and I'm really proud of my background and who I am. Understanding white privilege doesn't mean wallowing in white guilt.
But anyway, thanks for giving me more stories to use as examples of white privilege.
PS as a kid and into my 20's I had a recurring dream. I would be in a plane crash, it was always Chicago, and after death, I was this cute little black girl dancing along some train tracks. Maybe that is the real essence of why i've always been color blind.
By the time I reached the end, I could barely see straight. Gotta get my coffee to try to calm down and some band-aids to cover my scars.


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Hi! We built our house in 2010 and left the front door white. I've been thinking about adding a color because the front of the house seems kind of blah.
Here's a picture from when we moved in. We have since added a Japanese Maple in front of that small window on the left side and the copper roof has aged to a bronze color. The siding is Hardie pre-finished in Monterey Taupe. The door is a Therma-tru door with 3/4 light Maple Park glass. I love the glass design and don't want to detract from it. I would paint the door, sidelights, and those vertical trim pieces between the door and sidelights all the same color. The Hardie site shows dark red as an accent color, but the house next door has tan siding and dark red shutters and door. I was thinking a bluish-green (maybe BM Yorktowne Green?) or dark brown, but I'm looking for other ideas. Do you think I should I paint it or leave it white? Can your recommend a specific color? If I leave it white, do you have any other ideas for sprucing up the front? Thanks |
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- Posted by design_wotcha (My Page) on Fri, Jul 27, 12 at 13:12
gorgeous house, first, i agree, love the glass detail and sidelights - but, i would definitely paint the door. but, maybe not the trim or sidelights - check out these doors I photographed in Ireland where the trim/sidelights were left white... its kinda dramatic. what do you think? second, your house looks smart, so I would choose a glossy black - try BM ImpervoÔŅĹ Alkyd Enamel High Gloss paints third, I love the copper above the window on the left. If you ever need to replace the shingle on the porch I would suggest copying this. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Colorful Front Doors
Awesome house, I also love the copper! I vote for a color on the door. You have such a great neutral look canvas that almost any rich color could work. Black is always a classy option, but so many people are stuck using black as a default (to match shutters or because nothing else really works). You have an opportunity to go a number of directions. If you really can't decide, find the feng shui recommendation for the direction your door faces:-) Might bring you some luck or wealth. I like the white sidelights and trim that design wotcha posted, I second that |
- Posted by bronwynsmom (My Page) on Fri, Jul 27, 12 at 15:33
Would you consider a rich glossy navy blue? I think it would look lovely with your body color. f you decide to try it, make sure to paint a sample in both the color and the gloss you are considering. Blue can look much brighter than you expect, and the gloss can lighten the less deep colors. B. Moore's Van Deusen blue is a pretty one - I used it on a house not unlike yours, mixed with a little black to navy it down a little more. Sherwin WIlliams Naval SW 6244 is a wonderful true navy. |
Thank you for the help. The photos of the doors with white trim were very helpful! There are a lot of black doors in the neighborhood and the side lites are typically painted to match. Drives me crazy though since most have divided lites that are still white! I really like the idea of a glossy navy blue. I think it would tie in nicely with our interior color scheme since our 1st floor is primarily creamy yellow (BM Cornsilk). There's a SW store on my way home from work so I'll try to pick up some samples next week. I might also try a few reds since its good feng shui for my South facing door :) Maybe something with blue or orange undertones since the neighbor's is very red-brown. Any suggestions? |
- Posted by jan_in_wisconsin (My Page) on Fri, Jul 27, 12 at 23:44
Beautiful home, and I think there are many colors that could work on your front door. I like the idea of the navy blue. I also think a deep, warm green could work, or even a dark chocolate color. The colors of our house are similar to yours, and we recently painted the front door BM Heritage Red. It is a beautiful, bright red. I know you said you are concerned about the neighbor's red door, but there are plenty of shades of red to go around. Here is a link to an image with a front door this color (not my house): |
Here is a link that might be useful: BM Heritage Red Front Door
If you do decide to paint the door, don't forget that copper ages. We have copper over a window, sort of like yours, and it's in the process of darkening with age. As the process continues, the copper will eventually turn to a verdigris color. I've always liked purple & green so...what about a rich purple, one that will coordinate with verdigris? |
- Posted by bronwynsmom (My Page) on Sat, Jul 28, 12 at 11:43
One caveat about your south-facing door. If your porch roof offers some shade most of the time (and it does appear to), you should be fine, but a southern exposure can generate a lot of heat on a very dark door if the sun beats away on it for hours. And that can be bad for a wood door. Red is particularly unstable in bright sunlight, and will fade some. The high gloss will help deflect some of that radiant heat, and since the sun is highest in the sky during the hottest months, your roof should do the job. Still, it's worth taking a look at various times of day, and think about how many hours of exposure you have on the door. On most houses, I'd say paint the door, the sidelights, and the vertical trim between them with the door shade, and keep the surrounding outer trim white. But since you have a window above with the same configuration, painting just the door might be best. What do the rest of you think about that? |
Great ideas, and bronwynsmom makes great points as always. I love the idea of a bright navy for the door - a classic feel. BM Hale Navy is a great navy blue. With the copper in the roof going verdegris eventually, the color of the japanese maple and the neutral of the siding, I also think your idea of a rich teal would be stunning. BM Olympus Green or Polished Slate might be worth a look. I almost always prefer the sidelights and trim in the same as the trim on the rest of the house, and the door gets its own distinct color. |
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